Orion
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Yeah I'm starting to think June 1st as well.
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[Official] Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Pre-release thread - Sprint official launch is Saturday, June 2
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Yeah I'm starting to think June 1st as well.
burgertime
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emburybrett
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Im not sure whats going on but am i still the only one with no tracking number. Still Sprint wont tell me any thing about it, im about to walk in the store and tell them i want so kind of refund! They said on or around May 24 and they still dont have even a tracking number meaning its not going to ship till tuesday so with their two day shipping i wont get it till the end of next week! Any one else not have any shipping info that pre-ordered from a Sprint store...?
I got my phone on Thursday but just popped in this thread to say a couple things. Those waiting for you phone it will be worth it. I have had both the EVO and EVO 3D and this phone is way better than both of those.
Secondly me and my friend were talking about this whole messed up release. HTC should use this as a major advertising campaign. "THE PHONE APPLE DID NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE!!!!". What you guys think?
Secondly me and my friend were talking about this whole messed up release. HTC should use this as a major advertising campaign. "THE PHONE APPLE DID NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE!!!!". What you guys think?
You get a tracking number from ordering online.
So far as I know, no one buying from a Sprint store, anywhere, has gotten their phone yet.
If you ordered from a store and they're talking tracking numbers, I think that they're trying to buffalo you.
emburybrett
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I went in to the sprint store and i said i wanted it sent to my house... The reason i had to go in the store is because someone opened a Sprint number in my name in 2007 (I didnt know this till 2 weeks ago!) so after working out a deal with sprint since they did believe me the I didnt ring up a $1472.62 bill. I just had to pay a $100.00 deposit plus $199.99 for the phone.
I don't know what that store expected, but no store orders have been fulfilled anywhere in the country.
Having them place it for shipping to your home or not, you will have to wait until store releases.
Sorry.
emburybrett
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I don't know what that store expected, but no store orders have been fulfilled anywhere in the country.
Having them place it for shipping to your home or not, you will have to wait until store releases.
Sorry.
That kind of pisses me off that they didnt tell me this. I should have just stayed with verizon till i had this phone in my hands... I have not had a cellphone since May 10 because that was my last bill from verizon!
PattiCakeUS
Android Expert
I totally understand your frustration, but nobody expected the customs snafu to hold up shipments and delay the official launch. Try to stay calm, it'll be worth it.
It sucks that some people could get preorders from BB or RS and from the Sprint web, but not Sprint corporate stores.
But that was a Sprint decision, and people in other forums feel that it was unfair as well.
We're all trying to second guess why, but that doesn't help, other than our hope of understanding will illuminate when the phone will be available and end the pain.
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But that was a Sprint decision, and people in other forums feel that it was unfair as well.
We're all trying to second guess why, but that doesn't help, other than our hope of understanding will illuminate when the phone will be available and end the pain.
As I said elsewhere -
EarlyMon said:Inside Sprint Now, like s4gru.com, is one of our front-line sources for real information about this whole situation.
The public outcry was so great this past week that Android Central forums and XDA were locking threads over it (as I was told, apologies if in any inaccurate) and after that the traffic flood brought AndroidForums.com to a crawl (and we have nearly a million register members) when people turned to us.
Do people on DWLs (device waiting lists) have cause for complaint?
Personally, I think so. This is the fallout from a patent system that allowed a patent on the "bread freshing system" for making toast at high temperature - and allowed a patent application that Apple made in 1996 to be granted in 1999 after the patent standards changed in the dot com day to allow nonsense patents to be granted defying common sense (speaking as a hardware and software patent holder before that nonsense and intimately familiar with the old and new processes and standards).
HTC set resonable expections for inspection based on a long history of import/export experience in the face of an insane court ruling. Customs set reasonable expectations based on their backlog and knowledge base (these guys catch druggies and do us well, ok?) and Sprint set reasonable expectations based on what they knew as the end-point in the supply chain and having seen most everything already.
And based on that, consumers set reasonable expectations for their phone deliveries.
So - do consumers have reasonable cause for complaint?
I think so.
But where do the complaints go?
Sprint? I think they were following what they were told to expect.
HTC? I think they were following reasonable expectations - they had the patent-violating fix in updates and on other phones already.
Customs? I think they have bigger fish to fry than a phone.
Apple? I say yes. While others say it's not their fault for exploiting a broken patent system and we ought blame the government (and by extension - us voters), I will always blame the party that does wrong morally with a legal loophole that removes morality.
That all said - I am often wrong, and I don't mean that in any pithy or cute way. All of that is simply my opinion of where we all stand and what I think of who's to blame.
If it helps any, I don't have my phone yet and I simply tell myself that as long as it's before June 10th, maybe it's all good.
It's not much, but it is what it is.
emburybrett
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I only have one thing that i would like to know... Does it bug any one not having the search and menu button any more?
3vodroid
Android Expert
Yes... It is taking some getting used to....Alot of people will say that the search button was stupid and useless but I for one used it on a daily basis so yes not having it is weird I find myself going for it alot lol.... As far as the menu button its pretty cool that it's on screen but once again taking some getting used to as well
emburybrett
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yeah it looks cool with the menu on screen i just dont know how im gonna deal with the search i am the same way i used it all the time... If i had something pop into my head i would just google it for the hell of it... since you have the phone can you see if you can set one of the 4 lock screen apps to the google search? That would be a fix for me!
Waiting on my upgrade eligibility in June along with the Sprint store release.
All things in the fullness of time.
3vodroid
Android Expert
Waiting on my upgrade eligibility in June along with the Sprint store release.
All things in the fullness of time.
Nice well hey... June is right around the corner... I'm surprised.... No in store date yet..
While I wasn't a heavy user of the search button, I did miss the menu button when I first got my GNex on ICS. After about a week, you'll be loving the task switcher and will have forgotten about the two lost buttons.
Oh, and that was one of the first mods to come out for us was customizable soft keys. I'm not sure if the buttons on our devices are set up this way (I couldn't tell from the specs and honestly haven't read every thread here). If they are, you will see some cools 3 & 4 button mods shortly, colors, reflections, etc.
So has anyone heard from wirefly? My orders still says waiting for arrival.
Just thought I would ask.
I did not on XDA I think that the warehouse doesn't operate on weekends. So I guess maybe within the next two weeks.
thanks for all the great information that has been supplied by you all that have the EVOLTE. It has been great reading.
Just thought I would ask.
I did not on XDA I think that the warehouse doesn't operate on weekends. So I guess maybe within the next two weeks.
thanks for all the great information that has been supplied by you all that have the EVOLTE. It has been great reading.
Rose4uKy
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I also used it alot. Mostly when I needed to call a person or a business and I used it to say Navigate too and an address or business alot also. I miss it but am getting used to it. I have Ice Cream on my Transformer Prime tablet so I am familiar with the 3 dot menu thing and recent apps which on the phone you swipe up on my tablet it's across but that's the two things I keep wanting to do is use menu at the bottom and I keep pulling down my notifications to see my last used apps instead of the button at the bottom. I keep forgetting.
Rose4uKy
Android Expert
Can you do that I would love that? I didn't see it under apps but I thought on the 3D it was under voice. I have the widget on my screen but it's not the same. I have this app bluetooth launch I used on the 3D. I can set it up to where when I hold down my jawbone Voice search will come up and not the voice dialer but for some reason on my 3D voice search wouldn't work while driving. I would speak and it wasn't moving nothing would happen. But now I tired to use it whole driving last night and it worked so I am going to set up this bluetooth Launch app again and try it.
Granite1
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They're already working on these over at xda. I think they've either already got a mod, or they're very close. I'll have to check out that thread later today.
Also to anyone still waiting, I feel for yinz. It's a really cool phone, just remember good things come to those that wait!
hilker09
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Waiting on my upgrade eligibility in June along with the Sprint store release.
All things in the fullness of time.
It'll be here before you know it, and you will LOVE this phone!
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