***Official*** HTC EVO 4G thread

[Elganja]

What a load of bullshit having to do all this stuff to get a good user experience

because the iphone is perfect and you have to make no changes at all (fyi, I owned the original, 3g and 3gs iphones)

 

[SAWYER]

I'm not sure what iphone has to do with this but whatever. I personally want the Evo and am on Sprint but I am not a fanboi

 

[Elganja]

I'm not sure what iphone has to do with this but whatever. I personally want the Evo and am on Sprint but I am not a fanboi

my apologizes... usually when someone says anything about the "user experience" in a negative way, i associate it with apple (i blame the apple fanboi at my work)

 

[yh125d]

side-note, anyone else find that Qik and Sprint Navigator seem to start by themselves randomly in the background? wish I could just uninstall them... I have no use for video conferencing ever.

Yes, as well as numerous other apps. They open themselves and idle for absolutely no reason. For example, I have done nothing but use the stock mp3 player for the last hour since I last task killed, and somehow, calendar, messages, mp3 store, and voice dialer are all running. If I used it long enough without task killing, qik, sprint nav, and a couple others would make their way up as well. THATS what I think is killing battery life. Can't wait to root and uninstall some of that junk

 

[JM Aggie08]

From Androidforums:

Press HOME, and bring up the dialer. Dial *#*#4636#*#* (Do not press "Call"). After a second, it should bring up the "Testing" menu.

Go into Phone Information, press MENU, and tap "select radio band." You should experience a Force Close, don't panic, this was supposed to happen. Scrolling down shows that the preferred network type is GSM auto (prl).

What this means is that even though you are connected to a CDMA network, your phone is trying to find a GSM network, preventing the radio from sleeping, and causing excessive battery drain.

Remedy this by tapping GSM auto (prl), and changing it to CDMA auto (prl).

Has increased battery life for me by alot.

Badass dude.

 

[mcvickj]

Badass dude.

Just checked on my phone and it was already set for CMDA auto (PRL)

 

[Krynj]

Just checked on my phone and it was already set for CMDA auto (PRL)

I've heard a lot of Hero owners say their phones were also plagued with this issue. And even though it says CDMA auto (prl), it's a visual glitch. Because once you do the 'select radio band', it force closes, and then when it comes back, it's on GSM.

 

[Elganja]

Mine was gsm.... curious how this affects my already good battery life

 

[DanDaManJC]

yeah i just changed mine from gsm -> cdma. im basically just running google chat atm too.. will be interesting to see how far this take the phone

a couple pages back people were asking about video. in short, anything encoded in mpg4 or h264 works. naturally there are practical limits on resolution and bitrate. but you can re-encode with handbrake (http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbrake/) -- nice easy gui.

 

[Elganja]

https://beta.swype.com/

Just started using it, confusing at first, but a hell of a lot faster to type with

 

[Soccerman06]

yeah i just changed mine from gsm -> cdma. im basically just running google chat atm too.. will be interesting to see how far this take the phone

a couple pages back people were asking about video. in short, anything encoded in mpg4 or h264 works. naturally there are practical limits on resolution and bitrate. but you can re-encode with handbrake (http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbrake/) -- nice easy gui.

That would work but I don't have access to a computer

 

[Headcase_Fargone]

I've done a few of the battery-saving adjustments mentioned over on some Android forums and at this point my battery life is comparable to what I was experiencing on my iPhone 3G.

Did the GSM to CDMA change.
Did the turn on and charge, turn off and charge trick.
Turned off auto-start function of the Talk app.
Set task kills to aggressive every 30 minutes.

Those four things got me to where I was on my 3G with Push turned on. Turning off Always On Mobile Data got me to where I was on the 3G with Push turned off.

Since I'm perfectly fine with it only checking my mail when I turn on the screen I'm leaving it like that. I've gotten two full days of use out of it with those settings.

 

[JM Aggie08]

I've done a few of the battery-saving adjustments mentioned over on some Android forums and at this point my battery life is comparable to what I was experiencing on my iPhone 3G.

Did the GSM to CDMA change.
Did the turn on and charge, turn off and charge trick.
Turned off auto-start function of the Talk app.
Set task kills to aggressive every 30 minutes.

Those four things got me to where I was on my 3G with Push turned on. Turning off Always On Mobile Data got me to where I was on the 3G with Push turned off.

Since I'm perfectly fine with it only checking my mail when I turn on the screen I'm leaving it like that. I've gotten two full days of use out of it with those settings.

I'm assuming you have task killer constantly running in the background?

Also, which tasks do you have it killing/which ones do you leave running?

 

[abaez]

I kill everything except superuser and the task killer.

Nothing else needs to be running, unless you have something like friendstream on all the time for instant updates (or google talk?).

 

[tatteredpotato]

https://beta.swype.com/

Just started using it, confusing at first, but a hell of a lot faster to type with

THANK YOU! I tried getting it last week but the beta was closed.

You definitely need a few hours to get used to it, but it makes portrait typing much better (I prefer the regular keyboard for landscape since you can use two hands, but android makes keyboard changes on the fly easy).

 

[JS80]

Does anyone keep accidentally activating "speak now google search"? When I put the phone down, the upper part of my palm below my pinky keeps rubbing on the search button and activates it inadvertently.

 

[Headcase_Fargone]

I'm assuming you have task killer constantly running in the background?

Also, which tasks do you have it killing/which ones do you leave running?

I leave Voicemail, Clock, Messages and Advanced Task Killer running. It kills everything else.

Does anyone keep accidentally activating "speak now google search"? When I put the phone down, the upper part of my palm below my pinky keeps rubbing on the search button and activates it inadvertently.

All the damn time.

 

[finbarqs]

Anybody having the light leak issue? I have the light leaking issue, and realized dust got in already! I couldn't clean this one piece of dust and that pissed me off! On top of that, Mine has crashed on me 3 times already (Random restart, frozen system). The capacitive buttons on the bottom pisses me off! I always accidentally hit the "search" or "speak now" on accident! No wonder they made these hardware on other devices as opposed to touch sensitive!

 

[Elganja]

Take it back and get a new one

 

[SAWYER]

White Evo

 

[rudeguy]

anyone know of any place that has these in stock?

Or if Sprint will let you go no contract if you pay full pop?

 

[abaez]

anyone know of any place that has these in stock?

Or if Sprint will let you go no contract if you pay full pop?

No. I'm finding this out the hard way.

They make you sign a contract for almost any plan. Officially though, if you have your own phone and sign up for the 200 minute (or 300 minute) basic plan, you can get on without a contract. I bought an old sprint samsung a900 from ebay for $5, but it's nearly impossible to get someone on the phone that will sign you up without a contract on this basic plan. I've only tried twice and they are like can't be done, when several people in another site said they did. I think it's probably because they don't get anything when setting up a non-contract plan (commission or whatever) and reps not knowing about this too.

 

[rudeguy]

I'm going to go to a mom and pop place tonite. If I can get them to throw in a free Hero or something close for my son, I'm doing it.

 

[JeffNY35]

Cant wait to get one. I called this weekend to switch plans and get an EVO but sold out. All I can do is call back sometime this week.

Sounds like there are some issues as with anything but for the most part sounds awesome.

 

[Elganja]

Sounds like if you touch it on the side with your pinky and you'll be fine. You'd have to be pretty careful to not ground the phone somehow.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/htc-has-fix-in-the-works-for-evo-4g-screen-sensitivity-separati/