ceopwong

The only thing that is really starting to bother me about this new phone is the heat issue. It appears as if the radios are getting extremely hot, especially when reception is low. I had the same reception issues with my old Evo but never the accompanying heat.

 

Sprint reception (voice and data) at my home is spotty at best. I normally keep my Wi-Fi radio enabled so when I get home it automatically connects. Yesterday I turned the WiFi radio off at work to test something and never turned it back on. I got home and started doing several things around the house and never even took the phone out of my pocket. After about an hour I reached into my pocket to grab the phone and it was HOT! It was hotter than I've ever experienced in a phone and it was centered under the glossy portion of the backplate. My battery temp widget was reporting over 42C. I immediately tried to shut the device down and it was really unresponsive. Of course I couldn't do a battery pull but I finally got it off and left it off for a couple hours. Everything seems back to normal.

 

But I do notice greatly increased heat if I am in spotty coverage. I also notice it if I am taking several pictures in a row or shooting video that immediately uploads to my Dropbox.

 

Is anyone else experiencing anything similar?

What you have to do is simply go to Dropbox & Turn off the auto camera uploads feature within the Dropbox app on the phone and possibly the site as well. I noticed the heat issue as well but I have not been experiencing it on the same level as you. You are more than welcome to PM me if you need help on anything.

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It is cool amigo! I am from the Lenexa area so I am close by and welcome to S4GRU. Welcome aboard and hope KC zone gets lit up with LTE soon! I am dying for my EVO 4G LTE and am dying for Saturday to roll around!

Patrick

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Thanks for sharing your nerdy evening with the forums! I am glad someone else is as nerdy and understands what we are saying!

There are a couple of times I've felt it would be useful for giving someone directions or looking up info on restaurants when making arrangements for dinner with someone, or just for surfing while I'm on the phone with someone while they drone on and on and on. But it's not a killer feature IMO.

I agree with this! Plus, it sounds tacky/unprofessional (to a client) whenever I am on the phoneand cannot do my remote support (LMI Ignition App) at the same time then have to call the customer a bazzilion (yes I know!) times to ask what could have been done in minutes versus an hour because I had to remotely fix then call several times when I could just chat and fix at the same time! Also another pain the rear thing in a world without simul Voice & Data is when you are in the urban areas and surrounded by tall buildings and Google Maps goes bonkers or be in downtown KCMO and be faced with a ton of one-way streets and not on a grid system with six names for the same street and has to "reroute" but cannot because Miss GPS says "Data connection lost" lol. I am not complaining but merely saying they're oftentimes cases where SVDO/SVLTE will truly come in handy (at least for me anyways). Sorry for my rant on here but just trying to lay out some very plausible reasons as to why one would need both data & voice at the same time and I believe it is not just a marketing gimmick (I am looking at you AT&T! ha ha) but an actual useful feature both from a business and personal standpoint.

Robert, you can delete my forum post but I thought I was going to be the first one to post about this new phone too! lol! This is going to be a sweet phone if the specs are true!

I spoke with a gentleman who works for the VM & BM side of Sprint. He said that information was not too leak but the phone information mentioned by marioc21 are pretty accurate and true. Why not repurpose existing WiMax phones to prepaid and get some more more money out of folks? This will help Clearwire's cashflow and get more money in their pockets as well and more quickly launch the TDD-LTE network. This is a win win for a lot of folks in my opinion.

Lawnmower man!