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Help Evo 3D Software Update Coming August 23rd (rolling out now)

jerofld said:
You do realize that wifi uses less battery than 3G, right? It's like a game of pitch and catch. When your friend is only a few feet from you, it doesn't take much effort to pitch the ball back and forth. But when both of you are 50 feet or so apart, it takes more effort to pitch the ball that distance. Same goes with wifi / 3G (4G, too). Your wifi router is in your house. The cell phone tower isn't. That is why wifi takes less power. It doesn't have to transmit at a high enough power to reach a cell phone tower that could be over 10 miles away. Your 3G radio does. 4G also eats your battery because, not only does it have to transmit to an antenna that could be miles away, but it has to support higher bandwidth.
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If I were only using wi-fi, sure. But seeing as I intend to be able to make or receive calls while using wi-fi for data, I'd be using both, which I presume uses more energy than either by itself.
 
Received a response from HTC on the shutter. Didn't really answer my question on how to fix the problem though. Not sure if they are going to release a fix or not.

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Dear Ryan,

I understand the importance of being able disable the camera shutter on your HTC EVO 3D. Upon review, I see that this option was removed from the device's operating system. I do apologize for any incovnenience.

To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

Sincerely,

Jeffery

HTC
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Enjoying the phone much more now, icons clearer on home screen, text messages acknowledge being read now, volume of music seems to have been increased, screenshot capability .... Last thing for me to do is try the vocoder changes. I am on the Airrave so vocoder tweak might be of no help unless 13k works.
 
Hec said:
If I were only using wi-fi, sure. But seeing as I intend to be able to make or receive calls while using wi-fi for data, I'd be using both, which I presume uses more energy than either by itself.
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Your 2G radio (used for calls) is always on (unless in airplane mode), whether wifi is or not.

So, your additional power draw for talking while on wifi will tie to signal strength for the phone, call duration, and processing intensity required by particular websites.

Hope this helps!
 
Hey all...I've spent the last 2 days looking for anything to get rid of the shutter sound, or at the least, enable us to turn it off WITHOUT having to root my phone and void the warranty. The ONLY fix that I found, was to download this Silent Snap app at this link: m.androidzoom.com/.../silentsnap-camera_gfij.html After I downloaded it, it took care of that annoying shutter sound, and even better, the app is FREE to download!!! I hope this helps!
 
Just letting you all know, that you don't have to use the app every time to make the Shutter Silent...

Just open the app once to turn the Shutter off...but please notice it also puts your phone on silent as well...But once you've opened the app, and exited out of it, you can now use your Volume Down Button to put your phone on Silent, and it will also turn the Camera Shutter off!

I recommend not staying within the Silent Snap App, because after taking about 3 or 4 pictures, it brings up ads, so just be sure to use your regular camera when taking pics to resolve this issue.
 
is the call quality any better that you notice? I had this phone, and debating on going back because I love htc sense 3.0, but my biggest concern was call quality, my evo 3d I had in June , the call quality was choppy, hows the sound approved?
 
anyone know of a place to download from a computer the update? It originally showed on my phone but I had to do a power down as my phone was freezing. Once powered back on the update has not returned. I've tried manually checking for it and the phone states no updates available at this time.
 
krayziejoe said:
Is the shutter sound that big of a deal lol

The phone is awesome after the update, they fixed a lot of little bugs and the phone seems faster too.
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I was wondering the same thing. The shutter sound isn't that loud, just a little click. The way some people complain you would think it was ear-piercing. I don't get it, unless someone is trying to take a picture without the subject knowing.
 
I admit I find the shutter sound a little annoying but it isn't awful. I can live with it, especially with all the other benefits the update gave us! :D
 
do a soft reset from the power down menu. boot back up and go search for it again.

make sure you have fast boot turned off.


popularthinks said:
anyone know of a place to download from a computer the update? It originally showed on my phone but I had to do a power down as my phone was freezing. Once powered back on the update has not returned. I've tried manually checking for it and the phone states no updates available at this time.
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My two issues since the update...


1) The screen timeout has twice magically switched from '1 minute' to 'never', and my screen will just stay on. I can manually switch it back to '1 minute', but it's very annoying.


2) My background image keeps going back to the out of box image. I choose and set my background image, and randomly at some point it switches to the factory default.

Any ideas?
 
so I am guessing based on the response the call quality has not improved, what is intresting to me is that some people say their call quality is excellent, and then I read other forums and they say it is choppy, have been debating going back to the evo 3d
 
Yeah have not heard much about the choppy call quality or dropped calls that I never seemed to have with my original evo. Anyone find this any better with the update?
 
updated my phone probably a day or two ago..now reading that it is best if i do a factory data reset? but i really don't want to do that..will there be negative consequences if i dont?
 
Androidalltheway said:
so I am guessing based on the response the call quality has not improved, what is intresting to me is that some people say their call quality is excellent, and then I read other forums and they say it is choppy, have been debating going back to the evo 3d
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Call quality is just as good if not better than my EVO 4G. My husband still uses it and side by side signal and reception are the same. I was extremely happy with the 4G and I initially wasn't certain if I wanted to upgrade or not. Having said that, I'm glad I did. Ymmv though, just thought I'd throw in my. 02. :)
 
Call quality for me is excellent now. Not sure if that is due to the change to EVRB (I think that is what it was) or this update. When I first had the call it wasn't great.

My buddy has this phone, but, when he went to update it, he accidentally clicked on only update over a wifi connection and he wasn't on wifi at the time so it dismissed the update. He's rebooted and tried searching for the update again while on wifi but no luck. Any ideas?
 
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