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The few guys I deal with at the local franchise store have always been up to speed and knowledgeable. In fact, most of them are on rooted phones themselves (except that poor bastard with a Photon). I was upgrading the wife/kids phones and was in the process of flashing a new ROM on my EVO, the sales guy looks over and asks what recovery I was using ! They also have a little easier time with discounts and rebates and such - the system didn't want to give me the $50 rebate because I was adding a new line but moving the phone for that line to an existing line - a few clicks and voila - rebate allowed. That's never happened to me at the corporate stores...In fact, I walked into a brand new, completely empty (except for employees) store, wandered over to the EVO LTE and started playing with it, downloading apps, running some benchmarks side by side with my 3D, streamed some tunes and not once in the half hour i was messing with it did anyone even approach me to ask if I had a question or to gauge my interest or whether I wanted to buy one....disappointing really.

wasn't even aware the EVO LTE supported 800MHz LTE, i thought it would do 800MHz CDMA only....??

My bad...it was the iPad3 new iPad or whatever those evil bastards are calling it these days. it was a stunning display and the VZW speed was cookin.

Holy crap you're so right. In my area the Sprint coverage maps are so far off! I remember their WiMax map showing coverage in my area only outside and it's not true unless you are just about line sight to the tower. Also my friends house is supposedly in the range of WiMax in his house but no go there either. Also the 3G maps are way off as it says my house I should get best signal, yet in my house I get 1 bar and even standing outside I only get 3! I wish there was a site that would have true coverage maps. I would rather get 3MB/sec UP/DOWN EVERYWHERE then 30+MB/sec down here and then none over there. I mean I'm only getting 200Kbps now on Sprint 3G in most spots but it has large coverage gaps in which my phone just returns no connection found even-though it says I have a connection. Does anyone else feel that way? I would rather get the same coverage EVERYWHERE, in an elevator, basement, etc and I would sacrifice speed to get it.

I just donated to see if I have to put up with this same crap for much longer. Sprint maps say I get 4G "on street" at my home...I don't even get 3G, in fact, in need the Airvana to even make a call or send a text. Without WIFI, I'd be switched to VZW by now unlimited be damned. I can barely get Sprint signals at my kids' schools let alone the 4G that's currently claimed. unfortunately, i live in an LTE dead zone for VZW as well it seems...not an issue at home with WIFI, but VZW LTE is all over where I live and work and spend 90% of my time and damn it's fast (at least on my friend's iPad2).

I said it, but all that happened is the dog looked at me, tilted her head slightly and walked away. Is it supposed to give me patience to wait in line longer? Should I repeat it while waiting in line?

Yep...but do it while whipping the dog with an iPhone cable

BTW, isn't Samsung the one making fun of the iPhone people for waiting in line in their own commercials? Is it subliminal envy that they'd love to have people lined up for their phones too??

no offense, but people who wait in lines to buy a phone (especially those sheep going from their iphone4 to an iphone4s!) should repeat the following....

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I'm surprised those jerk@sses from Apple haven't tried to patent the word "phone" or the "touch keypad" .... or have they?

If a user knows what they are doing, they can make it nearly impossible to prove that they rooted the phone. You can unroot and flash the stock rom, relock the bootloader and reset the flash count. You would have to work pretty hard to prove that the phone was rooted.

 

Now, if someone walks in to the Sprint store and says "the GPS on my phone heats up the phone, kills the battery in a few minutes and then shuts off the phone" and you pick it up and it is running a custom ROM that doesn't properly have the GPS configured, you have them red-handed. Did that specific user root the phone though?

i agree...i was merely commenting on the "no way" of knowing if a phone has been rooted.

I also frequent a store where the reps are mostly rooted. Saw CM on one guys phone, and many months back while I was buying my kids phones I was comparing a Mikrom on his EVO vs the one I was running on my 3D...

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"no way of proving" ?? That seems a lame - you mean to tell me when the tech powers on and Skating Andy bootscreen hits they can't tell? Or if it's on they can't look at the About Phone info and tell?

I had this one,

 

 

And we ended up returning it back. It had problems with text messages of around 90+ characters in length. People that I would send texts to got either part of the message or not at all. Plus it would send people multiples of the same message sometimes 10x in a row. Also sometimes it wouldn't ring my phone for calls.

 

LTE Airave might be good if it had SVLTE or SVDO support or something with it. However I am hoping for better coverage in my area with NV and not have to rely on a femtocell, eventually.

I have this same unit and get the same issues with multiple texts going out. I also notice that the GPS often drops the signal and takes forever and a day to reconnect, making it useless during that time. It's very frustrating and I'm certainly also hoping the NV upgrades will improve my connections at home, either directly or via this Airvana unit.

Also if you are rooted just download msl reader from the market, that the easiest way to get your msl.

Remember that only works on HTC CDMA handsets

btw - ur in possession of an epic sig line.

Impossible. How can SQUARE feet be in a circle? That's crazy talk.

holy crap that was funny

Not even close. No handset is ever "future proof." Under the 18-24 month contract-subsidy system, by the time that you are eligible for a fully subsidized upgrade, no matter what handset you choose, it will be woefully outdated. A dozen years ago, I seriously thought that this would be just about the only cellphone that I would ever need. How naive was that?!

 

 

AJ

Is that badboy rocking ICS yet??

Any thoughts on the fingerprint attracting plastic surrounding the camera that I saw in a hands on demo?? Personally not an issue for me since I have used a silicon case to protect since my OG EVO...I'll take the added thickness since I've been known to drop a phone or two...

Yeah - it's here...

Specs look nice but not as good as rumored. If LTE lights up soon for me - I'm in...

http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-specs

http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-gallery

Not sure what all the crying is about the look of the phone in all the forums over there. Looks damn good to me.

Meh....4.0" WVGA sceren and Gingerbread are so 2011....LOL

Not a bad entry level device though.

I've heard good things about Anker, especially not being as expensive as Seidio and Mugen. Will have to try the charger and battery with my next phone.

Unless it's a OneX / EVO ONE with a non-removable battery

Here is a link with some info. http://forums.androi...d.php?p=1677212

I'm taking everything with a grain of salt until next week. If the amped up battery and SD slot are real, i'll be waiting on launch day to grab one....and then wait patiently for LTE to lite up in the OC LOL....

Yes. I have info about where all 97 markets are in the deployment schedule. But I am not publicly announcing 3rd and 4th round markets at this time.

 

Robert

You mentioned updates to the OC CA scheduling about a week ago in my intro post in the Welcome forum...did I miss them or still on deck?

sitting in my office (dreamin of the One XL / Jet / EVO HD LTE or whatever they gonna call it)...

ping 242ms

down 233kbps

up 121kbps

little better than the other day when i was topping out at less than 150kbps down...

my last 4G test was 5.6Mbps down...not the best but i'd be happy with that on a regular basis and not just on the one street in my city that seems to have a 4G tower

That's sweet...now if they could just hit my city with LTE and the Jet at the same time I'd be stylin!

Been lurking on the site for a while and finally registered.

I've got 3 of 4 lines that i'm paying for premium data on but getting virtually no "premium" service so the new 4G LTE is of serious interest to me. I'm in OC CA so hopefully we'll be lit up sooner rather than later.

My upgrade is due...but no new phone for me until I'm convinced LTE in my area is acutally a reality, unlike the seemingly single street coverage in my city for wimax.

I'm happy that LA, OC and now Riverside/IE are announced since that blankets the area I'm in 99% of the time.

Love the site and thanks for all the info!

Check out MeanROM - it's a modded stock ROM for the 3D that has that removed as well (with a flashable zip to restore if desired)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466362

I get great battery and it's stable...

New to the forum but lurking the site for some time - happy to hear that the OC is on the list for 2012, but I'm highly skeptical of what it really means. I bought into the whole 4G ballyhoo with the OG Evo and have been so disappointed in it that I've been pondering a move to Verizon.

Where I live is supposed to be covered by 4G according to Sprint's maps, but I require the use of an Airave just to get a semi decent signal in my own home (and I mean maybe 2-3 bars vs 0 bars). 4G in my city seems to consist of one major street and it's awesome when you are on that street. But I can barely pull a 3G signal inside the Denny's that is ON THAT STREET, even sitting in a window booth not 20 feet from the street itself. I watched a speed test go from 7MBPS down to timing out in a span of walking from my car in the lot to the restaurant. My office is barely any better, with zero 4G and a barely usable 3G signal (and forget trying to check FB from the cr_pper where my phone goes to ROAMING for crying out loud!).

Sitting at my desk right now i pulled this whopper:

877ms ping / 53kbps up / timed out...oops I dropped to 1X.

retest on 3G again

407ms ping / 124kbps up / 21kbps down.....how exactly is this premium data again??

4G was even non-existent in the Sprint Store where I upgraded my family's phones a while back and they guys there had no clue about when/if it would get any better. I plan to stop by the newly opened store which is right off the 4G street tonight to see if it's any better there.

My upgrade is due and I'm holding off for the LTE roll out to hit - and if it's anything like the current WIMAX fiasco I will absolutely be saying ta ta to Sprint and heading to Verizon. I feel like I've dumped hundreds of dollars down the drain for "premium data" that I basically can only access via WiFi in my home and 4G that's now obsolete before it was ever even realistic for use in my area.