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Official EVO Rumors and Speculation thread

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It's probably the styrofoam and the fabric grounding the phone and causing the the touch sensor not pick up our electrical impulses which is how the touch sensor works. Could have something to do with the backing on the phone or the AMOLED screen used. Who knows.
 
AM2 said:
what is the diff between a micro sd card, and a micro sdhc card? and which one do i need for the evo?
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The "hc" at the end stands for high capacity, I'm pretty sure. I don't think there are any 8gb or more micro SD cards that aren't "hc". I could be wrong though.
 
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yibrushn said:
a significant difference in what? If you don't want apps just don't use them and delete the widgets off of the screen.
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Deleting the widget and simply not using the app does not free up ROM. It's like having pics on your computer that you don't look at......they still take up space. What folks want to do is remove the apps they don't want to make room for those they DO want.
 
erikivy said:
Deleting the widget and simply not using the app does not free up ROM. It's like having pics on your computer that you don't look at......they still take up space. What folks want to do is remove the apps they don't want to make room for those they DO want.
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.....which isn't possibly without rooting your phone. so if you (not YOU in particular) don't want/plan on rooting your phone, then we need to drop this "oh i wish i could" bla bla bla crap.
 
mcbtrain929 said:
.....which isn't possibly without rooting your phone. so if you (not YOU in particular) don't want/plan on rooting your phone, then we need to drop this "oh i wish i could" bla bla bla crap.
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Pardon me if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but since we're on the topic, what risks are there for rooting? Are there security risks? I want tethering for only one device, not 8, and I don't want to pay an extra $30/mo. I understand I could use other software (PDAnet I think?), but rooting looks like it comes with a lot of other perks.

Thanks!

P.S. If sprint sees that it is rooted, will they not fix any problems with their phone insurance? or must I flash back to the normal ROM before requesting service?
 
erikivy said:
Deleting the widget and simply not using the app does not free up ROM. It's like having pics on your computer that you don't look at......they still take up space. What folks want to do is remove the apps they don't want to make room for those they DO want.
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I just mean that ROM space isn't at such a premium. those widgets and programs are each(for the most part) less then 1 mb. I think it's all much ado about practically nothing (sorry for the quote liberties) :)
 
andddlay said:
Pardon me if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but since we're on the topic, what risks are there for rooting? Are there security risks? I want tethering for only one device, not 8, and I don't want to pay an extra $30/mo. I understand I could use other software (PDAnet I think?), but rooting looks like it comes with a lot of other perks.

Thanks!

P.S. If sprint sees that it is rooted, will they not fix any problems with their phone insurance? or must I flash back to the normal ROM before requesting service?
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the risk you run is making your phone a brick...however if you follow directions and READ, you shouldnt have problems...u need to flash bk to stock whenever you take it bk to sprint
 
Jeph Ghost said:
I just tried this on literally every surface I could find and I can't recreate the issue the guy in the video had. Looks like we're OK.
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Hey Jeph,
Just to clarifiy, did you try it on styrofoam or a couch? Those were the only two surfaces I could get the Incredible to behave like this on. It worked fine on any table, shelf, counter, etc.
 
twospirits said:
You could say that's an incredible blunder. :D

Curious, I just tried duplicating that with the Sprint Hero and it does not have that problem. I wonder if its just his device.

TS out
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i have problems with mine, and other people i have talked to said they have this problem when they lay it down flat. idk if it is with certain surfaces but i notice it is unresponsive sometimes.
 
CA_SteelersFan said:
Anyone see this?

Sprint mulling LTE for 4G network

Interesting, though I won't worry too much yet:
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I would be 100% shocked if sprint did not release a lte/wimax modem in the next 10 years. I would also be 100% shocked if verizon did not. Wimax and lte are made to work together. LTE is for mobile device. Wimax is made for wireless broadband. Wimax will backhaul lte.

In the future you will be with either sprint or verizon. You will move from lte to wimax to lte with out losing any signal. They will support each other.
Wimax has the bandwidth, hardware, and software flexibility to function 100s of times better in dense urban landscapes like new york or los vegas. It is so cheap to install and run that most people reading this post can afford it.

So in the future, you will use wimax when you are in the city. You can put 100's of base stations all over lapping each other and wimax will use them with out any problems.

LTE is a very young technology. But can not have 100 base stations over lapping each other. LTE has to keep the station spread out or you get some interference. This is all theory because a build out of lte has not really occurred that placed towers anywhere near close enough. But this is the current problems with 3g towers. If you place them too close they interfere with each other. But lte can cover a good area of low density suburan and rural areas.

Wimax mobile suffers in these areas, because it was design to be a spider web of towers. In the end, lte and wimax will share the burden of 4g. In high densty populated areas, wimax will be popular. In lower denisty areas, lte will. LTE will use wimax E towers as fiber lines from tower to tower, because the cost of installing and running them is a fraction of fiber.

The future is not one or the other, the future is both. LTE can not currently roll out with out a effective back haul, that I believe will be wimax E. I said it before and will say it again. LTE is like 3g and wimax is like wifi. They are going to be used in the future that same ways. LTE will before mobile devices and wimax will offer broadband.

So when sprint says that lte is an option, it always has been. It always had to be. You will be hearing soo that verizon saying that they need to use wimax.
 
I'm so pissed right now! I was at a sprint store helping a family member choose a phone because all 4 of our lines are out of contract and I'm preparing to call retentions to change our plan and negotiate discounts/free phones etc in exchange for renewing the lines.

My experience at the store was embarrassingly negative. First of all, the hero and moment on display didn't have the 2.1 update, and the touch pro2 didn't even have the 6.5 update. The guy said he doesn't know how to do an update. The hero was almost completely unresponsive because it probably had a million things running in the background and had no task killer installed. The guy joked that it probably hasn't been reset for weeks. I told him it's probably smart for their demos to be working properly so customers can get an idea of what the phone experience is like. He shrugged. I told him I pre ordered an Evo and that I've followed every single detail about it since the beginning, and he said he had one in the back. I got so excited that I was about to see one in person finally! ...but he wouldn't even let me see it! How frustrating is that?! I was about 20 feet away from an Evo and he wouldn't even let me see it?! If it's an official policy for an advocate for a new phone to not be able to even show it to an excited and enthusiastic customer, then I don't see the point of the advocacy program at all.

It was even "customer appreciation day" at the store! There were 4 employees standing around with lays around their necks, and no customers. It was pathetic. I will never go back to that sprint store, and I got a taste of why sprint is considered a joke to people with at&t and verizon.
 
mogulust said:
I'm so pissed right now! I was at a sprint store helping a family member choose a phone because all 4 of our lines are out of contract and I'm preparing to call retentions to change our plan and negotiate discounts/free phones etc in exchange for renewing the lines.

My experience at the store was embarrassingly negative. First of all, the hero and moment on display didn't have the 2.1 update, and the touch pro2 didn't even have the 6.5 update. The guy said he doesn't know how to do an update. The hero was almost completely unresponsive because it probably had a million things running in the background and had no task killer installed. The guy joked that it probably hasn't been reset for weeks. I told him it's probably smart for their demos to be working properly so customers can get an idea of what the phone experience is like. He shrugged. I told him I pre ordered an Evo and that I've followed every single detail about it since the beginning, and he said he had one in the back. I got so excited that I was about to see one in person finally! ...but he wouldn't even let me see it! How frustrating is that?! I was about 20 feet away from an Evo and he wouldn't even let me see it?! If it's an official policy for an advocate for a new phone to not be able to even show it to an excited and enthusiastic customer, then I don't see the point of the advocacy program at all.

It was even "customer appreciation day" at the store! There were 4 employees standing around with lays around their necks, and no customers. It was pathetic. I will never go back to that sprint store, and I got a taste of why sprint is considered a joke to people with at&t and verizon.
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Things like that happen even at Verizon and AT&T stores as well. That's not just Sprint specific.
 
I really hope this phone comes with the swype keyboard b/c thats my favorite kb and I dont want to use anything else!!!
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That sucks. But I too have been in a sprint store like that in outskirts of Las Vegas, but the one In Las Vegas proper as well as the ones I've been in here in NYC are always busy and the staff generally knows what they are doing.

TS
 
mogulust said:
I'm so pissed right now! I was at a sprint store helping a family member choose a phone because all 4 of our lines are out of contract and I'm preparing to call retentions to change our plan and negotiate discounts/free phones etc in exchange for renewing the lines.

My experience at the store was embarrassingly negative. First of all, the hero and moment on display didn't have the 2.1 update, and the touch pro2 didn't even have the 6.5 update. The guy said he doesn't know how to do an update. The hero was almost completely unresponsive because it probably had a million things running in the background and had no task killer installed. The guy joked that it probably hasn't been reset for weeks. I told him it's probably smart for their demos to be working properly so customers can get an idea of what the phone experience is like. He shrugged. I told him I pre ordered an Evo and that I've followed every single detail about it since the beginning, and he said he had one in the back. I got so excited that I was about to see one in person finally! ...but he wouldn't even let me see it! How frustrating is that?! I was about 20 feet away from an Evo and he wouldn't even let me see it?! If it's an official policy for an advocate for a new phone to not be able to even show it to an excited and enthusiastic customer, then I don't see the point of the advocacy program at all.

It was even "customer appreciation day" at the store! There were 4 employees standing around with lays around their necks, and no customers. It was pathetic. I will never go back to that sprint store, and I got a taste of why sprint is considered a joke to people with at&t and verizon.
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Sounds like you had an interaction with a human, and unfortunately us humans are indeed imperfect. Sprint has grown leaps & bounds in recent memory (as a company) While i dont have anything personally invested in the Big picture, I would like to see the company that serves me become better & and offer more services.
 
and it has been said many times that the advocates are not allowed to show the evo's or even allow anyone else to see them. It is theirs to learn with so that when it is released they will be able to answer questions :)

I agree, the displays should be working but every time I go to any store I never expect a display to work LOL :D
 
mogulust said:
I'm so pissed right now! I was at a sprint store helping a family member choose a phone because all 4 of our lines are out of contract and I'm preparing to call retentions to change our plan and negotiate discounts/free phones etc in exchange for renewing the lines.

My experience at the store was embarrassingly negative. First of all, the hero and moment on display didn't have the 2.1 update, and the touch pro2 didn't even have the 6.5 update. The guy said he doesn't know how to do an update. The hero was almost completely unresponsive because it probably had a million things running in the background and had no task killer installed. The guy joked that it probably hasn't been reset for weeks. I told him it's probably smart for their demos to be working properly so customers can get an idea of what the phone experience is like. He shrugged. I told him I pre ordered an Evo and that I've followed every single detail about it since the beginning, and he said he had one in the back. I got so excited that I was about to see one in person finally! ...but he wouldn't even let me see it! How frustrating is that?! I was about 20 feet away from an Evo and he wouldn't even let me see it?! If it's an official policy for an advocate for a new phone to not be able to even show it to an excited and enthusiastic customer, then I don't see the point of the advocacy program at all.

It was even "customer appreciation day" at the store! There were 4 employees standing around with lays around their necks, and no customers. It was pathetic. I will never go back to that sprint store, and I got a taste of why sprint is considered a joke to people with at&t and verizon.
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Definitely not carrier specific, I've experienced the same at some T-Mobile stores. In my 8 years with them, their phone customer service has been great but there are some stores that I will not go back to. I hope you complained to a manager, because venting on here is cool and all, but it does more good if you actually follow through and file a complaint of some sort.
 
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