Varg Phone is Garbage

[motocrossmann]

Anyone else find that the Varg phone is crap at being a real phone? I installed a pre-paid sim. Mine constantly disconnects from Wifi, drains its own battery fast when not in the dock, and I get strange app issues for anything non-Varg related. The settings app says the last android update was April 5, 2023.

 

[UKLee]

Not tried it as a normal phone just geting it to work as it should with the bike would be good.
Got the Stark out early sunday morning to put it on charge but the phone would not connect to the bike, refused to do anything after many hours serching the internet with no chance of any help from stark we decided the only thing we could do was totally wipe the phone and start again. Eventully got it working, Seems one thing after another with this stark each time we get it out we are far from sure we will get any use out of it, now we always take a spare ICE bike with us so no one is left standing with a non working stark, To think one of the reasons for buying this was no pistons, valves, FI etc to go wrong but the ICE bikes are much more reliable.

 

[Philip]

I love the Stark's phone. Yeah, a Samsung with a better camera would have been better, but a functioning phone with a free data SIM card is hard to complain about.

 

[Chaconne]

Generally Blackview phones and electronics are pretty good. I have had no problems with mine on the Stark and it has taken some hard hits. Blackview makes hardened phones for this kind of application. A Samsung or iPhone are typically not good at all for the bumping, jarring, and crashing that we do on dirtbikes. I have a Blackview watch and the thing has taken a pounding and still works good.

I was thinking of getting a Blackview phone and getting rid of my regular use Pixel 7 which has not been good at all --and I have owned Google phones since they were Nexus. My Pixel 2 is still in use around my house and its performance is certainly no 5 models behind the 7. Google's own chip (Tensor) is nothing to write home about either unless you like poor performance and battery sucking inefficiency. I don't need all the AI shit just get the damn phone to not need a reboot like it is Microsoft product.

 

[Chaconne]

Not tried it as a normal phone just geting it to work as it should with the bike would be good.
Got the Stark out early sunday morning to put it on charge but the phone would not connect to the bike, refused to do anything after many hours serching the internet with no chance of any help from stark we decided the only thing we could do was totally wipe the phone and start again. Eventully got it working, Seems one thing after another with this stark each time we get it out we are far from sure we will get any use out of it, now we always take a spare ICE bike with us so no one is left standing with a non working stark, To think one of the reasons for buying this was no pistons, valves, FI etc to go wrong but the ICE bikes are much more reliable.

You must have gotten a lemon. My Stark and the phone have been rock solid reliable. The only things I have had to change were the tire tubes and I have gone through some grips due to crashes in the gnarl.

When I first got my bike I was careless with the phone holder and the phone flew out a couple of times and took some hard rock hits and also hit the pavement at about 20mph and still works good. I shipped my ICE 300 2T and 450 4T out to my brother out West I wasn't using them any longer.