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Many bugs: Evo week 1

Just wondering if others are still encountering the well-known Evo bugs (initial set up, radio interface shortage, unable to make calls, random reboots, 3g dropping to 1x, etc.).

In the first 6 days I've owned this phone, I've encountered each of these issues at least once, even after doing the most recent updates. And my evo is completely stock with the latest updates applied.

When I read through the many forum posts (here and elsewhere) that detailed these issues, I though that they were minor and isolated, and had probably been addressed by now (more than a year after release of the evo 3d). It seems I was very wrong.

Today alone, the evo dropped a call, failed during dialing, intermittently dropped from 5 bars of coverage to zero, dropped from 3g to 1x and stopped accessing the internet altogether, and then spontaneously rebooted after using the text-to-speech function in the stock messaging app.

The weird thing is that my wife's reverb has been completely problem-free. Initial set up was super smooth and brief (vs the hour and a half ordeal Virgin reps put me through for the Evo V) and not a single error message.

I'm starting to think I should've just sucked it up and bought the galaxy s2, even though it was double the price on cyber monday.
 
You can try rooting and going s-off and following Leslie anns turn your phone into an evo 3d thread. This might fix those errors and it might not. I switched from the evo to the s2 and I can say it was worth it. Just my two cents.
 
Just wondering if others are still encountering the well-known Evo bugs (initial set up, radio interface shortage, unable to make calls, random reboots, 3g dropping to 1x, etc.).

In the first 6 days I've owned this phone, I've encountered each of these issues at least once, even after doing the most recent updates. And my evo is completely stock with the latest updates applied.

When I read through the many forum posts (here and elsewhere) that detailed these issues, I though that they were minor and isolated, and had probably been addressed by now (more than a year after release of the evo 3d). It seems I was very wrong.

Today alone, the evo dropped a call, failed during dialing, intermittently dropped from 5 bars of coverage to zero, dropped from 3g to 1x and stopped accessing the internet altogether, and then spontaneously rebooted after using the text-to-speech function in the stock messaging app.

The weird thing is that my wife's reverb has been completely problem-free. Initial set up was super smooth and brief (vs the hour and a half ordeal Virgin reps put me through for the Evo V) and not a single error message.

I'm starting to think I should've just sucked it up and bought the galaxy s2, even though it was double the price on cyber monday.

get the latest update from virgin mobile... should fix radio interferance shortage error...

You can try rooting and going s-off and following Leslie anns turn your phone into an evo 3d thread. This might fix those errors and it might not. I switched from the evo to the s2 and I can say it was worth it. Just my two cents.

can I has your old evo??? but yeah.... switching is an upgrade but if you just bought the evo v, there is no point of wasting money on the s2 as it is an upgrade but just not the most significant in terms of hardware...
 
The signal bars on the evo have always jumped around from nothing to full, and anything in between. The update is supposed to make this a little better, but doesn't completely fix it. Your best bet is to get an app to read your signal strength in terms of dBm.
 
It's different for everyone, I never had any of the problems you listed but others who have, have reported improvement by flashing the newer radios/prl/pri.
 
re: HTC software updates, I had already done them and still experienced bugs. I even tried the ##CLEAR# reset but still received a random reboot.

I'm planning on installing Harmonia next week, so we'll see if that alleviates some of the issues.

I also have 2 anker 1900mah batteries and a charger coming, so I'm hoping I'll be getting a little more battery life.
 
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