Alrighty. So I quickly opened up the box I got from Fedex this afternoon and slapped the battery in but didn't turn it on.
What I did was, Turn off my (now old) VM phone (The samsung intercept). So my Evo and Intercept were both off.
I went to the VM site and did the swap phone process.
It took about 2 minutes for the page to load then it told me to reset my Intercept.
So I turned on the intercept and reset it. Then I turned it back off.
I then turned on the HTC Evo and it immediately tried to do the hands free activation. It failed, because it would not connect via 3G (same problem with my Intercept).
Problem #1 - Activation.
I let it sit for a bit while fiddling around with it for 10 minutes. Then I pulled the battery, and turned it on again. Then it did the activation for about 3 minutes and eureka!, it self activated!
Then I went to work quickly. For my job, I drive around a lot, and go to random locations (I'm a pizza delivery guy
) so I heavily rely on the navigation app.
So, problem #2 - Cell tower handoff
Whenever my phone is handed-off to another tower, the cell signal goes completely dead and shows (no service). Cell service quickly returned about 30 seconds later, however, Only 1x instead of 3G appeared. And it refused to even utilize the 1x. I tried to use the navigation and I kept getting some SMS Error code (Which was odd.. I wasn't texting at the time..).
The phone then decided to halt and reboot. I was a bit irritated, because my phone was only 2 hours old and this was the first big problem.
But then, I'm not sure if I just never connected to another tower, but it never did that for the rest of the evening.. the handoff issue that is.
Problem #3 - Speakerphone volume
The speakerphone (and loudspeaker) volume is very weak. I was trying to hear the navigation directings and I had the media volume all the way up and I could barely hear it. Not a big issue, and I know there is a fix for that via Root and some software mumbo-jumbo i'll probably do later.
Problem #4 - Random Error messages (may be localized).
Then after work was done, I was texting a bit and kept getting random error messages on outgoing messages (but this happened on my intercept, I kept getting little red (!) on random texts, so I think it is a localized tower routing problem. And even though I got these errors, the texts always went through.. so I don't worry about it.
That's about it. And that's only around 7 hours usage today. Oh and the battery is fantastic as far as I can tell.. but it hasnt really been broken in yet so I may follow up later on this.
Any questions or anything, just leave a reply and I'll probably answer them all.
What I did was, Turn off my (now old) VM phone (The samsung intercept). So my Evo and Intercept were both off.
I went to the VM site and did the swap phone process.
It took about 2 minutes for the page to load then it told me to reset my Intercept.
So I turned on the intercept and reset it. Then I turned it back off.
I then turned on the HTC Evo and it immediately tried to do the hands free activation. It failed, because it would not connect via 3G (same problem with my Intercept).
Problem #1 - Activation.
I let it sit for a bit while fiddling around with it for 10 minutes. Then I pulled the battery, and turned it on again. Then it did the activation for about 3 minutes and eureka!, it self activated!
Then I went to work quickly. For my job, I drive around a lot, and go to random locations (I'm a pizza delivery guy
) so I heavily rely on the navigation app.So, problem #2 - Cell tower handoff
Whenever my phone is handed-off to another tower, the cell signal goes completely dead and shows (no service). Cell service quickly returned about 30 seconds later, however, Only 1x instead of 3G appeared. And it refused to even utilize the 1x. I tried to use the navigation and I kept getting some SMS Error code (Which was odd.. I wasn't texting at the time..).
The phone then decided to halt and reboot. I was a bit irritated, because my phone was only 2 hours old and this was the first big problem.
But then, I'm not sure if I just never connected to another tower, but it never did that for the rest of the evening.. the handoff issue that is.
Problem #3 - Speakerphone volume
The speakerphone (and loudspeaker) volume is very weak. I was trying to hear the navigation directings and I had the media volume all the way up and I could barely hear it. Not a big issue, and I know there is a fix for that via Root and some software mumbo-jumbo i'll probably do later.
Problem #4 - Random Error messages (may be localized).
Then after work was done, I was texting a bit and kept getting random error messages on outgoing messages (but this happened on my intercept, I kept getting little red (!) on random texts, so I think it is a localized tower routing problem. And even though I got these errors, the texts always went through.. so I don't worry about it.
That's about it. And that's only around 7 hours usage today. Oh and the battery is fantastic as far as I can tell.. but it hasnt really been broken in yet so I may follow up later on this.
Any questions or anything, just leave a reply and I'll probably answer them all.
