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Official EVO Rumors and Speculation thread

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spar10 said:
is there any buzz in the rumor mill about any special service plan requirements for the evo or will an everything plan be enough? i really hope we don't have to change our plans to get this phone.
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That was already answered in this post I believe but if your on an everything plan 4G is free for you if you want to use the router capabilities it will be extra official price to be announced.
 
LatinP said:
No there is a 0% chance of bricking your phone because anything you did inside the Linux kernel in the first place will/can be totally erased by re-flashing your phone with a stock rom. There are lots of ways to irreversibly brick a phone but rooting it isn't one of them.

Let me try to change the terminology a bit, by gaining su access (su=super user) or "rooting" an Android phone all your really doing is changing your account type. Look at Windows for example I'm sure many of you are quite familiar with that.

You start as a typical user account and upgrade that account to admin that's all it really is, you may mess up somehow if you try to play around in a terminal bash prompt window but highly unlikely you would even try especially if you didn't know what you were doing. Even if you did you'd just re-flash and end up where you started.

Don't want to double post so I'll just add to this a bit here is a screenshot of my rooted (and somewhat modded) Samsung Moment:

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As you can see no silver tab at the bottom and even though you can't see it since my screen capture app doesn't snap it the top taskbar isn't silver it's a blueish black gradient with customized icons. Also this isn't an HTC made device and this device techically doesn't have Android 2.1 yet, although it is running a DD10 leaked 2.1 Eclair ROM build.
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I have been wanting to root and install whats on SDX but have been very hesitant. I think I may have to now. that looks awesome
 
LatinP said:
No there is a 0% chance of bricking your phone because anything you did inside the Linux kernel in the first place will/can be totally erased by re-flashing your phone with a stock rom. There are lots of ways to irreversibly brick a phone but rooting it isn't one of them.

Let me try to change the terminology a bit, by gaining su access (su=super user) or "rooting" an Android phone all your really doing is changing your account type. Look at Windows for example I'm sure many of you are quite familiar with that.

You start as a typical user account and upgrade that account to admin that's all it really is, you may mess up somehow if you try to play around in a terminal bash prompt window but highly unlikely you would even try especially if you didn't know what you were doing. Even if you did you'd just re-flash and end up where you started.

Don't want to double post so I'll just add to this a bit here is a screenshot of my rooted (and somewhat modded) Samsung Moment:

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As you can see no silver tab at the bottom and even though you can't see it since my screen capture app doesn't snap it the top taskbar isn't silver it's a blueish black gradient with customized icons. Also this isn't an HTC made device and this device techically doesn't have Android 2.1 yet, although it is running a DD10 leaked 2.1 Eclair ROM build.
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word kid your from staten island aka the rock and your a Yankees fan?? nicceeeeeeeeeeee
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Tommydaniel said:
I have been wanting to root and install whats on SDX but have been very hesitant. I think I may have to now. that looks awesome
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Yeah man it's pretty easy just make sure you install Joey's Recovery first so you don't have to redo everything after you re-flash that way you have a backup of everything before you flash your device. You'll find it on the SDX Developers site.
 
Supersonical said:
Drex that pic is sick!
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LOL...Thanks. I figured, if we were all going off topic, might as well connect it to the EVO somehow. I don't have photoshop at work (which I'm not great with anyway), but I used Paint and it came out pretty decent. Too bad the Lakers lost, so I probably won't do it again...hahahaha...yeah, I'm superstitious.
 
andddlay said:
I'm pretty sure the skin for the EVO is the same for the HD2, but I could be wrong)
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You are wrong. HD2 accessories will not fit the EVO due to different casing. They only share similar internal components and the same screen. The exteriors are different.
 
I feel sorry for the mod that has to clean all of your sports blather out of this thread. Try to keep it in the proper place, huh?
 
I know it's been said before, but It's getting really hard to keep up with this thread...*sigh*

I was gone for less than 12 hours and almost a dozen pages popped up. I don't really blame anyone because I'm sure I'm guilty of going off-topic as well, but I do believe if certain topics keep being repeated (such as the insurance matters earlier on or all the sports talk), they should probably go to their own thread.

I remember not that even that long ago, there'd be maybe 2-3 pages a day if even, I mean I enjoy reading a majority of the posts here, but when it takes hours to trudge it all, it's kinda rough XD.

I wish this could be a job in itself, what do you say, TS, need an apprentice?

Don't worry, I won't rise against you and strike you down with my lightsab- uh...I mean....

J/k.
 
LatinP said:
That's funny I assumed the same thing. So that's now 3 of us? Anyone else?
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My people are you with me where you at from the front to the back killer bees on attack!! LMAOOO

Nice to see we have a lot of locals here form the same place and rep NY!!!
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Let's go Sprint....Drop that 4G switch for us and light up the Big apple with 4G NOW network Love!!!
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I wanna use the EVO on mind blowing speeds!!!
 
Android 17 said:
I know it's been said before, but It's getting really hard to keep up with this thread...*sigh*

I was gone for less than 12 hours and almost a dozen pages popped up. I don't really blame anyone because I'm sure I'm guilty of going off-topic as well, but I do believe if certain topics keep being repeated (such as the insurance matters earlier on or all the sports talk), they should probably go to their own thread.
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Fast way to filter through:

1. Pick your favorite source person
2. Click on their name
3. Select "Find More Posts by_____"

For example, I just select Supersonical and look at all his posts for any new news or leaks. I do the same for other reliable sources here.
 
Lindseybp said:
For me the kickstand is great because I will have this phone on my desk at work all day and am hoping I can set it up to show the time, weather and have an RSS feed or something similar all going at the same time.
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I agree, how nice would that be. Or better yet, how nice would it be if you could have it set up as a digital picture frame, with an rss feed displayed towards the bottom along with the time / date / weather.

I hope we see car accessories with the EVO as well. I love the car mount idea, click it in and now you've got a gps unit you don't need to hold on to.
 
BeLikMike23 said:
Don't know why I assumed I was the only from Staten Island here. :rolleyes:
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This is going to have me sounding like a noob I'm sure, but I am so... how is it your background looks the way it does? How did you change it so display icons at the bottom like that? Can I do that on my Hero?
 
Hey everyone I currently use a HTC Hero and was just wondering if anyone knows where I could find a picture of the Leaves live wallpaper thats made by HTC. I don't want the live wallpaper and just want a regular one that not live but looks like it.
Thanks in advance.
 
Hey All,

We really need a new mod - name of Cliff. Would be awesome - every night - he (or she) could post Cliff's Notes, and Cliff's avitar colors are already yellow and black. That would be perfect. Wonder it that gives away my age??

Also - Awesome night for Philly Sports - Flyers advance, Phillies win in typical Phillies fashion, and the E-A-G-L-E-S!!! NICE!!

Back on topic. My upgrade isn't till September 1. Which I was OK with waiting - the key word being "was". I fried a number of BB Tours before the v5 OS Upgrade. Got tired, and actually downgraded to a Curve, which has been unspectacular - but - I'm still on my first one - so, there's somethig to be said for that. Maybe start to bug Sprint to see if I can get my upgrade date moved up.
 
DILands said:
Back on topic. My upgrade isn't till September 1. Which I was OK with waiting - the key word being "was". I fried a number of BB Tours before the v5 OS Upgrade. Got tired, and actually downgraded to a Curve, which has been unspectacular - but - I'm still on my first one - so, there's somethig to be said for that. Maybe start to bug Sprint to see if I can get my upgrade date moved up.
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Mine's not until August, and I was intending on contacting Sprint to see if mine could get bumped up as well. Others here have said that that should be possible.
 
Bek said:
Mine's not until August, and I was intending on contacting Sprint to see if mine could get bumped up as well. Others here have said that that should be possible.
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Well - they can sure see how many phones (devices, whatever), I burned through. Hopefully that'll work in my favor.
 
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