Going to lay my Hero to rest... - Hero CDMA General

Well, I have been wanting to upgrade to the Evo 3D but being a single dad of a 2 year old with a mortgage and all of lifes wonderful responsibilities it just has not been in the cards financially as the cheapest place I could find was $199 with a 2 year contract renewal (Been out of my 2 year contract for a month now on my Hero) but I received an email 2 days ago from WireFly for the Evo 3D for $49 with a new line or $99 with a 2 year contract renewal and after doing some more searching I am going to pull the trigger and order it first thing in the morning. I am so excited to get a phone with some horsepower compared to the Hero. Will I miss my Hero? Oh you bet I will. That thing has been a tank for me and so far the best phone I have ever had. And to think I went 2 years and not a single scratch in the screen and never once a screen protector. Dont worry, I will not get rid of it just yet. Going to use it as my iPod of sorts seeing as I am to cheap to actually buy an iPod.
Here is the link encase anyone else wants to jump on this deal. I don't know how long its going to last at that price - http://bit.ly/qdx5RG
Well, Im off to flash Jaybobs rom and try Firerats over data2ext and see if I can get this Hero going fast again. Been getting laggy on me lately and driving me nuts.

Try the liquidsense Rom with Jaybobs kernel instead It'll get you some practice on HTC sense before you get your new HTC lol. And its blazing fast
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Been a few months since I was on a sense rom. Ran NFX 2.1 for a long time and loved it but decided to jump to GB and I love that too but have been thing of going back to 2.1 lately but just not sure. Maybe I will just to brush up on my Sense skills. lol

Well, Its official on it way. They say I will have it Tuesday the 20th but as luck would have it I will be out of town for work till Thursday night or Friday morning so I will have to wait till then.
In the mean time I flashed Jaybobs rom with Firerats set up and v6 supercharger and this little Hero is blazin fast now and I dont know if I want to give it up now. lol I am sure going to miss it. I will keep it as my MP3 player and GPS Speedo for in the boat and stuff. Just wont be my phone anymore. Im going to miss it...
But on to bigger and better things! Now I will be able to play Angry Bird without getting angry that its so laggy.

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Who here is going to move to the EVO when its relesed or shortly there after?

With all the excitement over this device who here is going to jump **** and move to the HTC EVO? I love my little Hero but this phone is awesome! I will probably just give the hero to my lady, but I'm worried development will halt after this is released. This has been a great learning device as we got it rooted to quickly and customization came shortly there after. Id like to here your opinions on the Hero and EVO. Exciting times for Sprint users
Day 1 purchase.
Ceger
It's been fun... but good bye Hero, hello Evo!
I'm getting the Evo when it comes out!
Post root purchase.
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Post root purchase.
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My upgrade is October so hopefully it will be by then.
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My upgrade is October so hopefully it will be by then.
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Mine's in November, but I might bight the bullet to avoid a root-patch
Im not a fan of the size, So I will hold out for something better.
If the N1 drops on Sprint before the EVO even has a date and/or price then I will pick it up (the Nexus). If the EVO has a date and price when then happens, well, then it will depend.
I love all the cool phones dropping every 6 months anymore, but wow this is getting expensive!
If it were rooted and had real hardkeys, I'd be at Best Buy at 10am on October 9th to buy one & celebrate my 12-month anniversary. To be honest, I don't really like either the Nexus One or the Evo. The hypothetical phone I really want is an "Incredible" that's rooted and can take a minimally-tweaked N1 ROM almost straight from git and flash without drama. Then I could have my hardkeys, trackball, 850x480 display, enjoy SenseUI for now, but freely ditch it for NexusLand the moment I feel like it's getting in the way and limiting my upgrade options.
4G would be nice, but as it stands I barely have usable data service inside my house (if I disable 'hybrid' and try to force EV-DO, it flat-out doesn't work about 20% of the time, and is unreliable another 20-30%). Assuming WiMax propagation & signals are on par with Sprint's CDMA2000 service, I have every reason to suspect that my neighborhood will be as "urban fringe" for 4G as it is for EV-DO.
(edit)Actually, I take that back. I think part of my problem is the fact that my house shares a Sprint tower with a major regional mall 2 blocks away. Late at night, and in the middle of the afternoon on most weekdays, EV-DO works fairly well. But 4-9pm, and weekends... (((shudder))).
I plan to buy the EVO the day it hits the market. My Hero isn't eligible for the upgrade until December, but my wife and daughter are due April 1. I plan to have one of them delay upgrading so I can use their upgrade to get the EVO, then give them my Hero.
This is one nice benefit of having a plan with 5 phones. I usually have a phone ready for upgrade every 4 months or so.
Not me, I think it sucks.
Ohhh, I almost kept a straight face on that!
I live in Austin, which is crawling with WIMAX. I have been wanting a higher res vid cam. I kept playing with the HD demo here at the GDGT party a week ago (which has a similar sized screen). I've been seriously eyeing the Sprint Overdrive myfi hotspot. HDMI output??? Hello!!
There are just too many things that this phone has that I want. I am not rich but will be getting it even if I have to work nights to save up for it!
I'll be dropping it on my employee line ASAP. Hopefully they won't restrict it on us.
i wont give a shizz if my hero its able to upgrade or anything ill get it no matter what
Will you move to the EVO sub-forum with questions regarding a phone that's not labeled in this sub-forum when it is released?? (which was created 12 hours ago, and before this post?)
lol.. just playing
Since no large screen keyboard devices are coming ill most likely grab the evo.
What i really wanna know is if the great dev support we got for our heroes will be making the move to the EVO?
Flipz? Darch? Toast? etc?
I know Gbhil mentioned he will be switching between the Evo and the Hero due to size.
ill pass on it tbh...the thing is huge and i won't use half of the features. besides the fact i bet the price tag will be about $600+ without an upgrade fee applied.
im moving to the nexus.
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im moving to the nexus.
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Not being a ****, but have you done research yet?
You've seen the purple hue issues?
You've seen the hardware issues?(albeit 99% fixed)
Make sure you like this phone please... Try the **** out of it for your 7 days...
I just got my Hero less than 2 months ago, so I'll stick with it until upgrade time, by then they should have even more killer phones avail

Happy Birthday, Hero

Well, the Hero's first birthday or release anniversary is next Monday. How long have you had your Hero for, and when do you plan on keeping it until? I got my hero on launch day, rooted it in December, and plan on dumping it next month.
Got mine back in march and it's just been getting better and better with the outstanding dev support and dedicated community we have here. This had been my first Android phone, and what a wonderful introduction it's been!
I'm in no hurry to replace it, but of course some of the new handsets out there are damn tempting..
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I've got mine since Oct. 8, 2009... from a Sprint store, I lucked out and was able to buy it two days before launch
I got mine in April when I came back to Sprint from AT&T. I dearly love my Hero, especially since I rooted, but those new phones are awful tempting. :-D
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo on Hero action here!
I got the Hero sometime when it started to get cold and dark here, ie October or November, and I didn't root the phone until early this year when I got tired of waiting for the official Sprint update (to 2.0? 2.1?).
That seems so long ago. The software updates from this community have been super but the phone is feeling old and underpowered. I get to upgrade in November.
I'd love to upgrade to one of the 4G android phones but wonder if I should wait a little longer until the next greatest phone is released.
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Well, the Hero's first birthday or release anniversary is next Monday. How long have you had your Hero for, and when do you plan on keeping it until? I got my hero on launch day, rooted it in December, and plan on dumping it next month.
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I'd love to upgrade to one of the 4G android phones but wonder if I should wait a little longer until the next greatest phone is released.
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This is the problem I'm facing. My one year upgrade is in April, but I'm unsure if I should upgrade or wait it out.
Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo on Hero action here!
Got mine in January. Rooted about a month ago due to wanting some froyo. My upgrade is in January. Thinking about waiting for the new mobile processors to be out to upgrade.
Got mine on launch day, rooted for some froyo a few weeks ago. I'll probably wait to upgrade till a new model makes me go "oh wow!" which nothing on the radar has done yet.
I will not upgrade until sprint has dual core phones next year... if you buy the evo or the samgsung your making a mistake.
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I will not upgrade until sprint has dual core phones next year... if you buy the evo or the samgsung your making a mistake.
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A lot of us are in the same boat. The companies like to keep us guessing so we can't plan too far ahead. I've Googled a bit and can't find anything definitive on new phones in the next few months.
Any clue when dual core phones might be released?
I can wait until January, but if it's gonna be say April, I might as well have an Evo 4G for as long as I can. My market has 4G now and the tether would be useful.
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A lot of us are in the same boat. The companies like to keep us guessing so we can't plan too far ahead. I've Googled a bit and can't find anything definitive on new phones in the next few months.
Any clue when dual core phones might be released?
I can wait until January, but if it's gonna be say April, I might as well have an Evo 4G for as long as I can. My market has 4G now and the tether would be useful.
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Yeah, I feel the same way. I don't like having outdated technology for too long, but I would wait it out if it wouldn't be too long. Some of the people at my Sprint store say that 4G comes around these parts (Jersey Shore) in December and something codenamed HTC Sabor, dual-core 1.5ghz is coming out in April. With the rate technology is advancing, doesn't seem to far fetched to me.
Got my hero last November and still love it to death. I don't plan on replacing it when my upgrade comes next month, I want to wait and see what's coming out next year first.
Running cm6 is my only saving grace really. If it wasn't for that rom I'd probably have dumped this for the evo by now.
My main use of the phone is email, rss, and tethering. As long as it continues to perform those well I should be able to hold out till the dual cores arrive. I hope heh.
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I got mine back in May this year. Rooted it, (thanks regaw!) and tweaked it with NfiniteFX's roms. It is my introduction to Android phone, and I've been impressed since day one. I'm keeping mine at least till my upgrade.
I got my first Hero in May..it lasted a 1-1/2 weeks..traded it in on a TP2..one of the worst mistakes in cell phones I ever made.I went through 4 of them before finally getting a Hero back last August. Rooted it on 8-26-10. This month Sprint broke my contract I had..and will be moving to a Galaxy S Captivate next week.
I can say it has been quite a bit of fun with them for the short time I've had them rooted.Too bad for the person buying it,since I will revert it back to 1.5 via RUU before shipping it in..( All 4 of my families is already sold and mine needs to be made stock so sad..) Hopefully the Captivate gets as much love from the developers as the Hero has..I've heard Cyanogen is considering porting CM6 over sometime..and if we can get the new Gold theme the Impaler and others have been working so hard on over..I'll be very happy..
I am not too worried about how it will fair against what is coming out.,and what is speculation.It has a very strong and quite separate CPU & GPU with gobs of storage and ram available,and when FroYo is out for it this quarter..will really come alive then. Being able to oc it as we have for the Hero will be a 2 fold job for the developers..one for the kernel..and one for the GPU..
I see faster and smarter phones with better themes on the horizon for everyone..
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I got mine six months ago. I'm going to keep modding it until it dies, or until the dual cores come out. Whichever comes first.
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i got my hero on launch day from best buy on the 8th of oct last year and i just upgraded to the epic 4g on the 8th of oct yesterday after getting a good deal from sprint
I got mine on release day. Had to drive all over the city to find a store that still had one in stock. I questioned it at the time but after I got the phone there was no such worry. It has been a great phone and I will hang onto until I find something else that can live up to the expecations I know have.
I am intrigued at what Palm might roll out. I had the Pre for almost a month before this phone and if it was for some bad hardware I would still be a Web OS owner. Android is great but Web OS was pretty awesome. So I will wait to see what else comes.
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I got mine on release day. Had to drive all over the city to find a store that still had one in stock. I questioned it at the time but after I got the phone there was no such worry. It has been a great phone and I will hang onto until I find something else that can live up to the expecations I know have.
I am intrigued at what Palm might roll out. I had the Pre for almost a month before this phone and if it was for some bad hardware I would still be a Web OS owner. Android is great but Web OS was pretty awesome. So I will wait to see what else comes.
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WebOS was so nice. If only WebOS would come out on a phone that has good build quality... One can hope, eh? But like most of you guys, I'm just going to hang onto my Hero until it dies or something ridiculous comes out.
i got my phone in july of this year rooted it the second week of owning it and been happy with it first smart phone i have ever owned. not planning on dumping it any time soon
I purchased my hero in june and rooted in the second week of owning it
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Would you still recommend buying an EVO?

Hey guys,
I used to have an HTC Hero, but it died on me and I had to switch back to my several years old Blackberry 8330. I have the opportunity to get the EVO but I'm trying to do some research. I have seen a lot of reviews talking about poor battery life, but I can't really tell if that issue has been fixed since the launch with the new updates. The phone itself looks great compared to my old Hero. Thanks guys.
I would. I also put my money where my mouth is. I bought one 2 months ago and just bought my wife one last week.
Battery life can be fixed with rooting and a custom rom and kernel or just buy the ext. battery.
I'm running Ultimate droid 3.3.1 (GB AOSP) with the tiamat 4.0.4 SBC kernel and a 2200mha battery. I have no problems getting 24 hours out of mine ( I may get better but I'm used to plugging in a phone overnight because I had a Blackberry that had to be plugged in every night)
I had the EVO 4G for almost a year, wouldn't recommend any one to get one now. I'd tell true tech enthusiasts who want an android phone to get the Nexus S 4G now, and the average user to wait for the EVO 3D to come out in 3 weeks.
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Hey guys,
I used to have an HTC Hero, but it died on me and I had to switch back to my several years old Blackberry 8330. I have the opportunity to get the EVO but I'm trying to do some research. I have seen a lot of reviews talking about poor battery life, but I can't really tell if that issue has been fixed since the launch with the new updates. The phone itself looks great compared to my old Hero. Thanks guys.
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I've had the EVO since release. That following day.. seriously, I was heading to E3 with this phone the record and take pictures. knowing ahead of time what kind of battery life to expect (thanks to advanced reviews.) I not only bought a spare battery, but an external battery as well....
...I barely had enough juice to last me through a day.
Fast forward to now. (or yesterday... wait, what is today.. thursday?) And battery life isn't nearly as terrible. if I use the hell out of my phone, using an undervolted Kernel, not overclocked with brightness stuck at 40% and wifi turned on (not 4G) I might be able to squeeze 12hrs out of a single battery. MIGHT... that, again, HEAVY usage. like, lots of games, texts, checking facebook, pictures, etc. light usage, easily all day. definitely NOT a battery sipping phone by any means...but, it did get better.
if you have the chance to get an EVO for cheap, DO IT. it's a fantastic phone with a HUGE community. If this is through Sprint as an upgrade. Wait, there are a few phones over the horizon that, frankly, frightening me a little in that I think it might refuse operation and cut off oxygen supply to the living quarters (EVO3D and Galaxy S II, AKA: Galaxy Within. AKA: HAL 9000)
If I were you, I would probably wait for the EVO 3D which is just around the corner. The EVO is a great phone, and I will probably have mine another year because I'm still under contract. But since the EVO 3D is right around the corner, the EVO will lose support soon IMO. This can already be seen by the gingerbread update. Still sense 1.0...
Plus the 3D has dual core processors, among other things, which sounds pretty cool.
EDIT: Or wait for a different new phone, but as fast as technology improves I personally would not buy a phone that has been out for a year.
If your contract is up and you can get an upgrade, I'd go for the 3d. But if not and you're just buying the phone off someone, then you can't lose.
dude i would be on top of that evo like white on rice, i dont even think ill try to change mine for like another year, its just so customizable and overall complete, battery life is pretty good, not the best but its by no means bad. i get 12 to 30 depending on use
Hey guys,
Should have mentioned that I would not be buying this from Sprint. I bought my Hero in February 2010, and it died on me before the first year. I don't want to sign a new contract.
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Hey guys,
Should have mentioned that I would not be buying this from Sprint. I bought my Hero in February 2010, and it died on me before the first year. I don't want to sign a new contract.
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ok... then... froma friend? craigslist? what are you going to be paying?
$100? do it. $150? probably do it. $200.... ehh... that is where it starts getting touchy for me.
Personally, I wouldn't go above $150 just because there are other things coming.
If you can get one for a good price I say do it, its a great phone.
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I've had my EVO since release day and have never regretted it. I love this phone. I will be upgrading to the EVO 3D if everything is OK with it. (Unlocked bootloader, Developer Support, etc)
I bought my wife an EVO yesterday to replace her POS Samsung Moment. She is thrilled! Soon lots of people will be selling their EVOs to upgrade to the EVO3D or other Sprint Android phone. I got my wife's from a guy that was forced to switch to AT&T by his employer. Got a perfect condition Hardware version 003 EVO with a screen protector, Otterbox, 3 batteries (2 extended and the original), an AC battery charger, and an extra USB cable for $250.
If you are planning to buy an EVO and not upgrading, I'd go for it. Unless you want to wait for the EVO3D. Soon you will be able to find EVOs cheap!
Yea buddy its so customizable I don't even really see myself as having jus 1 phone cuz ima flashoholic n change roms pretty much every other week n some roms fit the mood I'm in like if I wanna watch netflix n I kno ima be bored going somewhere I flash back to a 2.2 rom so I can watch but if not I'm on mik g v1.0 anywho I'm mo in love with my evo now than I was when I 1st got it
Evo is the best phone you could ever ask for. Hands down will go down in history lol unless of course they top the evo n 3D in the future lol
"Perfect is almost good enough"
I just purchased my Evo off a friend for 100$ a few days ago, and i've been playing with it non stop ever since.(rooting, flashing all sorts of roms, updating radio and wimax)
If you get a good enough deal, i'd say it's worth it.
And I replaced a moment with it, dear god what an upgrade.
just do it
its a sweet phone, im rooted with a 3500mAh battery and I've been gettin 1 day+ on sense 2.1 & 3.0 Roms, 2+ days on stock. if you aren't trying to get the evo 3D then the EVO is the next best thing (I know the nexus is bad ass and all, but I'm a HUGE sense fan, so I couldn't go with stock android)

Feels like a ghost town

Wow this forum has really quieted down.. unfortunately my cash situation doesn't allow me the funds for my 3vo yet but it will be in my hands as soon as i can but has everyone jumped ship or is in my kind of situation and have to wait it out a bit?
Know this is another useless thread but what the hell right? Can't stand reading the 3vo threads and I know I'm not alone.
®patience is a virtue©
MattCrystal said:
Wow this forum has really quieted down.. unfortunately my cash situation doesn't allow me the funds for my 3vo yet but it will be in my hands but has everyone jumped ship or in my kind of situation and have to wait it out a bit?
®patience is a virtue©
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Same boat buddy......It'll just be the two of us before long I think. Blew my cash on my Nook a few months back when Sprint told me I couldn't upgrade until March.
I'm sitting here looking at some stuff I could clist to sell
®patience is a virtue©
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I'm sitting here looking at some stuff I could clist to sell
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Yeah, me too. Was just looking on Ebay to see if I could get anything for my old Windows Mobile iPaq and a few other things.
Im getting the 3vo in the am but untill root happens I'll be here as usual. This is like my android block I grew up on. Will always be here as long as the xda has the hero forums I'll be around.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
Go with an evo 4g, cheaper and still a great phone..
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Go with an evo 4g, cheaper and still a great phone..
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Neva lol. Evo3d all the way. Don't get me wrong the evo was a ground breaking device on many levels and received many great reviews but it doesn't have duals running at 1.2 and a gig of ddr ram plus 2 or 4 gb of internal mem. And when Cm7 get released for it man it will be one bad as device
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Neva lol. Evo3d all the way. Don't get me wrong the evo was a ground breaking device on many levels and received many great reviews but it doesn't have duals running at 1.2 and a gig of ddr ram plus 2 or 4 gb of internal mem. And when Cm7 get released for it man it will be one bad as device
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Couldn't agree more. I liked the evo but it still lacked. 3vo ftw
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I'll definitely be around. Not going to do the hero like that. Too much history.
im not going anywere, anytime soon i cant upgrade till later next year, but im grandfathered into one of the best contracts in cell phone history and if i early upgrade ill have to get a new one.
129$ a month for umlimted everything on 2lines you cant beet that.
so im more than happy with my hero as long as i have that lol.
I am here, my upgrade isn't until January so I will be here a while. FWIW if you did want to consider an EVO now, it is free at best buy as an upgrade.
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I'm sitting here looking at some stuff I could clist to sell
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ROFL. You better get on it!
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Go with an evo 4g, cheaper and still a great phone..
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$99 at Best Buy for upgrade. I was contemplating whether to get the 3D or the Evo 4G. I couldn't pass up the dual core processor with 3D camera. Now that I have the 3D I would have kicked myself for getting the Evo 4G
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I'll definitely be around. Not going to do the hero like that. Too much history.
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Come on! This phone is super fast.
My Hero is now lifeless! Poor thing.
Surprisingly, I didn't have many complaints with my Hero. But I do think a lot of people will end up moving to the Evo 4G that can't get the 3D, just because it is cheaper now. Just like when the price of the Hero went down, we got an influx of people in this forum.
Sent from 3D land!
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I am here, my upgrade isn't until January so I will be here a while. FWIW if you did want to consider an EVO now, it is free at best buy as an upgrade.
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I saw $99. Didn't look today though. That was on the 20th.
Think I should go sell a kidney
®patience is a virtue©
Wait... Does that make me a ghost?!?!
/me makes creepy ghost-like wailing noises
BANG! from my shooter...
I'll hang around here because this forum has character, and a few characters.
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Some random thoughts:
1) What's up with all these people who get the latest phone on launch day. I got my hero when it came out in fall of '09, so I'm not due for an upgrade, Much less an early upgrade, till September or so.
2) I thought I'd pick up a cheap used evo 4g for a while to tide me over till the next gen of dual cores in late fall but they're still expensive on Craigslist. Anybody want $100 cash for their evo ;-)
3) If I did get an evo, I'd have to pay the $10/mo 4g tax when we don't even have 4g in Milwaukee. That's like flushing $120 down the toilet.
So no, I'm not going anywhere. Frankly, I'm happy with my heroc running cm7.
I'm still here until October (maybe) but I'm sort of glad it's quieted down, I need to spend less time tinkering with my phone anyway.
I'm waiting for the next dual core after the 3vo or if rumors are true maybe an iPhone although I'm fully integrated with Google, I'm still a Mac user.
Plus I got hit by a truck so I'm not participating much anyway.
i only use cyanogen and mess around with random prls thats about as much tinkering i do lol.
serously cyanogen is all i need in a phone everything works and its up to date with software the only thing i ever use my phone for now a days since i got my laptop is tethering phone calls and texts lol.
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Some random thoughts:
1) What's up with all these people who get the latest phone on launch day. I got my hero when it came out in fall of '09, so I'm not due for an upgrade, Much less an early upgrade, till September or so.
2) I thought I'd pick up a cheap used evo 4g for a while to tide me over till the next gen of dual cores in late fall but they're still expensive on Craigslist. Anybody want $100 cash for their evo ;-)
3) If I did get an evo, I'd have to pay the $10/mo 4g tax when we don't even have 4g in Milwaukee. That's like flushing $120 down the toilet.
So no, I'm not going anywhere. Frankly, I'm happy with my heroc running cm7.
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Hardly a 4G tax anymore as they apply it to all new activations. It's a rate hike, but you'll be hard pressed to find better rates on a major carrier.
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No, I'm not happy to see you, that's a Shooter in my pocket.

Anyone else fed up with the Locked Down 2.3.3? I'm about to trade for a Nexus.

I've been fighting with my phone for it to work properly ever since the 2.3.3 upgrade and I'm about to toss it out the window for a Nexus S. I'm just hoping someone on craigslist will be willing to trade. Any comments on this decision? What are your opinions of the Nexus S, especially compared to the Evo 4g...
Also, have any of you traded phones to save money? If I make this trade I will have made 7 trades in the last year, without paying a penny and using basically every high-end android phone sprint has/had to offer. (Also, someone was dumb enough to trade me their epic for my hero. I warned them about the downgrade they were making, but they wanted the phone for its size.)
I'm fed up as well. you might as well trade!
i just traded my Evo for a Nexus S4G...i love the phone, very fast and responsive...the screen is awesome...the radios suck...they just updated and tbh i havent noticed any difference...sum have and sum havent...i miss sense though...i have found all the apps to reproduce wat sense does for my phone...none work as good as sense though...easy to root/unroot...maybe 5 roms total available...lol will be a shock coming from the Evo to be sure...customizing isnt a priority for the devs in the nexus formums it seems...they like it pure...which is fine but kinda boring...
overall i am happy, just wish the radios were better...i only got the NS4G as a stop gap waiting on sumthing better to hit sprint to use my upgrade on...i put my Evo on craigslist and it wasnt in gr8 condition either, had 20 replys by morning...traded less than 16 hours after posting it...hope this helps, spend sum time on the xda forum for the NS4G before you jump though...wish i would have now...good luck
yeah i feel your pain, i had a rooted evo and it broke, so i had to return it for a new one and got one with the update already on it so im using my upgrade for the new motorola photon....i'm going to miss my evo....
I wouldn't even trade on CL. If you have tep you can just exchange it. The tep program allows for exchange of the Evo for the nexus or shift. I was on my first Evo refurb with the locked bootloader with screen separation and a week vibrator motor and I said f*#k it and asked for a nexus. They said sure, but were out of stock. So they're sending me a new Evo in the box to hold me over and then sending me the nexus in two weeks.. all free. And if you don't have tep, just talk nice with a Sprint rep and see what they can do.
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I'm sick of my camera locking up after 3 or 4 pictures and then rebooting. No root does make this phone just as boring as any other.
I'll sit tight and hold off. I'm thinking about it myself, but I noticed there's still someone working on it.
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Well I say let's all pack em up and throw em through HTC'S windows.
Sent from well, who gives a flip. It ain't rooted and running like a raped ape any more..... Thinks Sprint......
Ok I have been with sprint for less than a week. I came from att. Switched for lower price that's it! With att for just over a year and had a iphone 3gs, iphone 4, dell streak twice, samsung captivate twice, htc inspire, samsung infuse and motorola atrix. Damn that's alot. Anyways, I kinda know my way around a phone. If you guys and gals (I assume) got your hands on a htc infuse you would feel so different about a evo. I got 3 lines all with evos for free plus a port in credit of $375. I had my evo for 2 days! I am not bashing anyone that likes or has a evo at all. This is my opinion. I returned that and got a NS4G, granted I love me a big ol phone, but damn! I am running decks 1.3b with matr1x kernel oc'ed to 1.44 and uv'ed and get a quad of almost 3000! I know the test don't mean crap but I was blown away. No fc's or nothing! Its butter smooth and can get a day of moderate use easy. Plus the screen is so rich in colors. The one con I have is reception, buts it don't help where my house is. It is a very nice phone.
Honestly, if you can't live without sense don't do it cause you wont want to go back. If you don't care for sense, then you should pick one up cause bestbuy has them for free! Plus it is so flippin easy to root.
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ill jsut hold out for now, i am VERY tempted to just buy a rooted one off ebay in the meantime, but if im gonna change my evo i want it to be for a lte dual core beast next year, i wont use the upgrade now, id rather spend 150 bucks ona used evo on ebay for now, but we MIGHT get root eventually , agrabren seems to be working on porting the xploit but no such luck so far, so lets see what happens before christmas
The Nexus S was okay nothing like the N1 i got tired of it locking up and the video recording quality sucks id go to the Evo 3D. I been happy with that phone.
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I wouldn't even trade on CL. If you have tep you can just exchange it. The tep program allows for exchange of the Evo for the nexus or shift. I was on my first Evo refurb with the locked bootloader with screen separation and a week vibrator motor and I said f*#k it and asked for a nexus. They said sure, but were out of stock. So they're sending me a new Evo in the box to hold me over and then sending me the nexus in two weeks.. all free. And if you don't have tep, just talk nice with a Sprint rep and see what they can do.
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My evo is giving me a ton of F/cs on 2.3 and horrible battery life, do I go into a repair center and ask? I'm on my second evo replacement
I really love my evo to death but this replacement is killing me, hoping for root soon!
Roms are flying around like crazy in the 3d forums and its been s off for a little over 24 hours.
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I loved m EVO before it got replaced due to a routine test failing, now I'm stuck on 2.3 w/ no root. There is a problem with the vibration in the one they gave me however. How much is the Photon running..maybe I'll look into that or making the trade for the Shift.
Add me to the list, I walked blindly into this mess . My Hero finally croaked on me (had been limping it along for months on a intermittent digitizer + generally terrible performance due to getting wet 'why get insurance when you've never destroyed a phone before' Murphy's law? lol) and just bought an Evo 4G knowing it was already a year old, but still looked pretty well spec'd and they were willing to give me a much better early upgrade price on it vs. the Nexus S. First thoughts, holy crap this thing is fast coming from the Hero, but by the end of the work day Friday I was chomping at the bit to get home and start trying some ROMs, specifically the Synergy + Godmode, only to hit a brick wall before even getting started.
I love the phone, but not being able to get rid of all the crapware and mess with different ROMs sucks.

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