WiMax sure was short lived wasn't it, LoL.The Evo Design 4G phone has been around for awhile and isn't one of the models being blocked at customs. It probably won't effect Boost's planned release of their first 4G phone. Sprint can just as easily just move to another brand for their 4G LTE service so I don't think they would suddenly revoke Boost's access to their older WiMaxx system. Samsung no doubt has some to choose from by now.
Glad I don't have Sprint.
I agree the Marquee (stock) was quite buggy, and had a tendency to freeze. Though after the OCK, GPU Mod, and CTMod ROM, seems smooth as butter. The heating up can also be an issue. I have had my phone up to 40c, though it was usually due to charging and running a resource heavy application together. There is a setting in the LG hidden menu that can help with that. I'm just saying The Marquee had came a ways since stock with those issues..
I agree, probably 90% of new phones (New to your provider) will be buggy. And probably 60% of even a new device that is not new to your provider may be buggy. I think it is all bout money. The quicker they release a phone the quicker they see the $$$, so we the customer suffer in the end. I am just glad there are dev's that are willing to spend their time and effort on our devices to do what the companies wouldn't!
Just out of curiosity.. How did you get the Marquee for less than $100? Or the Galaxy Epic for that matter? Thanks.Im happy I never pay over a $100 for my phones just for that reason. I know that as soon as I get one I am going to want a new one..
I got the Optimus V, then the Triumph came out.
I got the Marquee (Flashed to virgin), then the new lineup of android phones came out.
I just got a screaming deal on a Galaxy Epic 4G (going to flash to virgin as soon as it arrives.), lets see what they come out with next. Maybe the Note
I just got the Evo Design and while the screen looks a tiny bit smaller, it has a higher resolution and over all the phone runs better for me. The 4G works good as well, though I have the unfortunate disposition of being in a house that gets poor 4G signal. Even with low signal it outperforms 3G a ton.
I also singlehandly discovered how to root the phone despite there not being an exploit for it yet. (since the latest update from Sprint blocks root and the Boost phone comes with the latest update preinstalled)
HTC was nice enough to allow users to unlock the boot loader. Thus it is possible to install ClockWorkMod without having root. I found a zip installer that installs Superuser/busybox and used that to root my phone. Teehee!
Yeah. It's better then the Marquee in most ways I can think of. Stock clock speeds are faster and it also comes with ICS. The screen while mostly the same size, it runs at a slightly higher resolution then the Marquee. Only thing the Marquee really beats this one on is that the Marquee is thinner and has a 2 mega pixel front camera while the HTC phone has a 1.3 mega pixel camera. The rear cameras for both phones are the same in specs though.
Thanks to zombu2 who edited the zip file I found, there is now a CWM installer that roots the phone without any hassle. Since it's not using an exploit, it's mostly update proof so long as the bootloader remains unlocked.
Heck I just installed the latest update they just released. It required stock recovery since ota updates won't install via custom recovery roms. So after installing the OTA update. Root didn't work anymore. But since the boot loader was unlocked, I just flashed CWM back, then re-ran the root installer zip and root was back to it's former glory.
I'm not sure if the Marquee even has a boot loader but the HTC one can be unlocked via the official HTC website. How nice of them.
You should think about trying to get into developing for this phone. We certainly need more dev members over there.
If you don't use Boost Mobile as your phone carrier, you will obviously have better phones to choose from. Perhaps a bad ESN Evo will show up on ebay one day and you can get it real cheap to play with.
lol Well you may want to hold off on getting the Evo.
Apparently a big flame-ware erupted over there over the CWM port I posted that would work on the Boost version and a whole bunch of misunderstandings and arguments occurred. The place was a ghost town when I posted that thread. How was I supposed to know that apparently the phone already has root? Well anyways, the rest of that forum knows how to get root now. Since if I hadn't posted about it, then only those lucky enough to have stumbled across a few threads at the XDA forums in the far off corners of the internet would have known. So I still think I helped some people out and save them from waiting for something that was already there.
lol Well you may want to hold off on getting the Evo.
Apparently a big flame-ware erupted over there over the CWM port I posted that would work on the Boost version and a whole bunch of misunderstandings and arguments occurred. The place was a ghost town when I posted that thread. How was I supposed to know that apparently the phone already has root? Well anyways, the rest of that forum knows how to get root now. Since if I hadn't posted about it, then only those lucky enough to have stumbled across a few threads at the XDA forums in the far off corners of the internet would have known. So I still think I helped some people out and save them from waiting for something that was already there.
I'll get a screenshot shortly. )
Rodger Dodger. As I recall, stock benchmark starts out at 3100s for me. I have a class 10 SD card though So with sub class 10, it will probably be upper 2000s/lower 3000s. I heard this phone can be overclocked to 1.8ghz once a custom kernel is flashed.
Another benefit is that since HTC officially supports unlocking the phone's bootloader, you will have a 99.9% of being able to root using ClockWorkMod no matter what kind of OTA update Boost/HTC pushes down the pipeline.
EDIT: Here's my latest benchmark: (note the higher resolution compared to LG Marquee's screenshots.
Hit 3321 that time. Haven't even removed any bloat ware yet.
Note that the scores I'm getting is higher then the overclocked Marquee at similar clock speed. Heck it even had the usb trick fix and oc to 1.3ghz and still doesn't quite get the same scores as this phone gets at stock. Just wait until someone gets a overclocked kernel ready. This phone will be blazing fast compared to the Marquee.
EDIT: Did another test with usb plugged in. No difference. So usb trick doesn't exist for this phone. (lolz it was actually a tad slower when USB was plugged in)
Rodger Dodger. As I recall, stock benchmark starts out at 3100s for me. I have a class 10 SD card though So with sub class 10, it will probably be upper 2000s/lower 3000s. I heard this phone can be overclocked to 1.8ghz once a custom kernel is flashed.
Another benefit is that since HTC officially supports unlocking the phone's bootloader, you will have a 99.9% of being able to root using ClockWorkMod no matter what kind of OTA update Boost/HTC pushes down the pipeline.
EDIT: Here's my latest benchmark: (note the higher resolution compared to LG Marquee's screenshots.
Hit 3321 that time. Haven't even removed any bloat ware yet.
Note that the scores I'm getting is higher then the overclocked Marquee at similar clock speed. Heck it even had the usb trick fix and oc to 1.3ghz and still doesn't quite get the same scores as this phone gets at stock. Just wait until someone gets a overclocked kernel ready. This phone will be blazing fast compared to the Marquee.
EDIT: Did another test with usb plugged in. No difference. So usb trick doesn't exist for this phone. (lolz it was actually a tad slower when USB was plugged in)
Yep. It comes with face unlock feature. I'm using that right now in fact.
As for as perflock...Not sure what that is. But there is a kernel already out for the sprint phone that enables the mentioned overclocking to 1.8ghz, but it's for the sprint version of the phone (may work on boost though), but it is outdated since the latest OTA update for the Boost phone is newer then the kernel he had enabled init.d support on and aforementioned overclocking.
Port that facelock
