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Hi all.
I currently have a galaxy s and I'm tired of all of the bugs (lag and gps). I've searched the www. And I don't see any complaints about the evo other than battery life.
Im thinking about switching to the evo becuase it seems like a pretty solid phone with great community dev support. But before I do, I thought I would check in with you all to see if there are any known issues/annoyances with the phone.
Thanks!
(Ignore mis-typed title. Damn auto-correct)
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the battery life has gotten a lot better over the past few months. Now 2 days on a charge is pretty easy. It sucks compared to dumbphones but considering this phone is more powerful than my original eeePC netbook which only lasts 2 hours on a charge 2 days is pretty phenomenal
The REAL flaw with the Evo is that the housing cracks. Pretty much all Evos develop hairline cracks/fractures at the power button and volume buttons. It's not going to cause the phone to fall apart but it's kind of a downer when you find the cracks in your phone. If you get a case that protects the phone and has its own buttons that press the power and volume buttons for you then you can likely avoid developing those cracks.
Other than that this phone is amazing.

All I can say is my wife and I got rid of our etch e sketches (iphones) and switched over to Sprint for the EVO and have never looked back.
With ROM/Kernel combo in my sig I am currently at Uptime of 11hrs 39 min and 50 min with Awake time while at 90% batt life. I stream a lot of music through bluetooth headset, watch videos, hulu tv, pull data thru apps from home computer, email etc.
The least I do is make phone calls and I dont have 4G here so I am sure battery life will get pegged somewhat when we do get it.
All in all I use between 8-9GB of data a month since EVO came out. I have also upped from 8GB micro sd to a 32GB and bought Sprints OEM extended battery.
When you see pics of cracked screens on the web you will learn not to drop it... Again, I think you will like it.

I made the switch from a vibrant and I love the evo. The only thing I miss about the vibrant is the amount of on board storage. Evo has no lag, perfect gps and great support so far
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You guys are awesome; thanks for all of the replies.
Metalfan, have you used the gps for navigation? Is the tracking much better than the vibrant?
Any of you happen to be from san diego? Im wondering how Spront's coverage is here. I Sony know anyone with sprint.
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Yea it tracks perfectly, its like night and day from the vibrant
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Phone Overheating

Well, I live in Arizona so it is pretty hot here, and my phone, as a result gets pretty hot as well. Anyway, after some lengthy use the phone gets to about 40 degrees centigrade and then after a bit turns itself off, and vibrated five short times. After that, I cannot turn the phone back on until I pull the battery and put it back in again. Is this normal? Or is this just a faulty EVO?
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I play a couple games that cause my evo to get very hot ie star legends, however it has never shut off on me. i never checked the temp, but it definitely gets very hot to the touch and even though I continue to play, it doesn't turn off..
This is just from my experience.

It's a faulty cpu temp sensor - the phone must be replaced. Search for my identical thread posted about a week ago.
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Jesus... Well i guess ill wait till 2.3 root is out
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My phone runs ok since this issue appeared, I just make sure to keep the battery < 40C.
I also cool the phone to approx. 30C on an AC vent before flashing any roms or mods - it struggles booting up when the temp is elevated but runs great once booted and under 40C. This will have to do until the 4g's true successor is released...I love my rooted phone running Evo Deck and SZ bfs
My Evo runs o
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I took mine in and of course they gave me a new one. Make that a refurb... However no way I am going to root it right now.. it has the newest firmware..

olemarc said:
I took mine in and of course they gave me a new one. Make that a refurb... However no way I am going to root it right now.. it has the newest firmware..
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I hate when you buy a electronic device that is defective and they give you a refurb as a replacement. Hope you guys get root soon.

It is kind of like a swift kick to the junk, furthered by the fact that they gave me an older refurb. Not a fancy 004 refurb... Anyway, patiently awaiting root, since I in no way shape or form have the skill to figure something like that out.. I gave up that career a while ago...

I am in AZ also. When I get high temps, my indicator lights flash an alternating red/green, usually while charging, but it has never turned itself off....
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Bricked or not bricked......

well I decided to mess around with cm7 once I saw that it had 4g.
I probably should have done some more research on the differences between mtd and bml before trying to go back to a bml rom from cm7.....
Now for the first time ever I think I bricked my phone since I can't even get it into download mode to restore with odin.
Just really wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions on something I might be missing before I take it back to sprint and probably have to pay something
Thank you

Hold the little pin down by the camera for 30 seconds. Cover has to be off to access it. Or try leaving the phone alone for an hour with the battery out, and then use odin, but do it with the battery out. The computer will power the phone for you.
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best way to know is take battery out and hold power + 1, while holding them down plug usb in

HumanXv2 said:
best way to know is take battery out and hold power + 1, while holding them down plug usb in
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This. Also take sdcard out
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Others have had success by popping the battery in and out a few times while attempting to get into download mode. But mostly try no battery, no sd card, connect to computer and try download mode.

Yea I ended up remembering this from way back when I first got the phone, took the battery out for 15 seconds and put it back in and got into download mode and restored the correct tar thsi time not just the modem tar i had....

Thanks for all the quick replies though

b16flybye said:
Hold the little pin down by the camera for 30 seconds. Cover has to be off to access it. Or try leaving the phone alone for an hour with the battery out, and then use odin, but do it with the battery out. The computer will power the phone for you.
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Wow another "I believe in magical reset buttons" guy..... there's no button if you take it apart it was from leaving the battery out long enough that makes people believe this. Leaving the battery out usually drains the charge and resets the phone somehow....
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Biggoron said:
Wow another "I believe in magical reset buttons" guy..... there's no button if you take it apart it was from leaving the battery out long enough that makes people believe this. Leaving the battery out usually drains the charge and resets the phone somehow....
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No, no, no....if you listen, late at night, outside Sprint stores, the wind whispers tales of mythical Epics that have magical buttons that were installed by tiny technical elves. There have been sightings, those that will swear this has resurrected the dead...zombie Epics if you will....fact or fiction...you decide!

b16flybye said:
Hold the little pin down by the camera for 30 seconds. Cover has to be off to access it. Or try leaving the phone alone for an hour with the battery out, and then use odin, but do it with the battery out. The computer will power the phone for you.
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Lol... I love this... have you ever taken apart ANY epic that had this "button"? I've taken apart more than 50 and still haven't found not 1 button! Please somebody post a picture of this so called button if it is real... not the hole by the camera but the actual button on the board... its not there trust me...
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kennyglass123 said:
No, no, no....if you listen, late at night, outside Sprint stores, the wind whispers tales of mythical Epics that have magical buttons that were installed by tiny technical elves. There have been sightings, those that will swear this has resurrected the dead...zombie Epics if you will....fact or fiction...you decide!
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Hahaha that's too funny
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lol at least it gives faith to people who accidently soft brick! XD I use to believe so I'm not even poking fun lololol
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kennyglass123 said:
No, no, no....if you listen, late at night, outside Sprint stores, the wind whispers tales of mythical Epics that have magical buttons that were installed by tiny technical elves. There have been sightings, those that will swear this has resurrected the dead...zombie Epics if you will....fact or fiction...you decide!
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LOL ... LOL ......... That is CLASSIC !

When I saw this thread I was hoping it was a poll.

New EVO one X 2650 battery claim!?!

Who wouldn't be surprised if its a sealed 1650 mah , and how would anyone really know if its 2650 ?
They should do or have done a long @ narrow 3500mah
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You wish
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Of course I wish who wouldn't ...my point was how would we know ??
Would batt stats in settings show the mah rating and would it be the truth
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Do you walk around wearing tin foil hats?

You know there's apps that can tell you that, right?
And as a company, it would be a REALLY bad PR move to lie to the consumers. It would be very easy to test. Come on man.
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Someone will dissect the phone and show all the parts on a tech blog. They do it for most flagship phones.
If you don't feel like waiting, there are 4 easy steps to verify battery capacity:
1. Acquire hammer.
2. Smash phone.
3. Read battery specs.
4. Weep.
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kluster1999 said:
Someone will dissect the phone and show all the parts on a tech blog. They do it for most flagship phones.
If you don't feel like waiting, there are 4 easy steps to verify battery capacity:
1. Acquire hammer.
2. Smash phone.
3. Read battery specs.
4. Weep.
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lol classic will do

lojak29 said:
Who wouldn't be surprised if its a sealed 1650 mah , and how would anyone really know if its 2650 ?
They should do or have done a long @ narrow 3500mah
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It will never be a 2650 mah...2000 is confirmed..

roids87 said:
Do you walk around wearing tin foil hats?
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Hahahahaha. I love it. Laughed out loud in silent room.
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i was looking forward to that phone, until i read that. i have 2000mah batteries for my evo, and they don't last. i have 4 of them and i use 2 a day. i was so excited that the evo lte looked awesome and had all the features i wanted, until i read that. i'll be looking elsewhere now. it really ****ing sucks that they would do this. if anything, i'll wait until somebody takes it apart to see if its soldered in and possible to swap out... i'll just throw a case over the back and keep it unscrewed if its an easy swap, but otherwise i'll pass... i'm not around chargers enough to justify not being able to swap a battery. might as well get an iphone, it'll at least last longer.

ou2mame said:
i was looking forward to that phone, until i read that. i have 2000mah batteries for my evo, and they don't last. i have 4 of them and i use 2 a day. i was so excited that the evo lte looked awesome and had all the features i wanted, until i read that. i'll be looking elsewhere now. it really ****ing sucks that they would do this. if anything, i'll wait until somebody takes it apart to see if its soldered in and possible to swap out... i'll just throw a case over the back and keep it unscrewed if its an easy swap, but otherwise i'll pass... i'm not around chargers enough to justify not being able to swap a battery. might as well get an iphone, it'll at least last longer.
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http://m.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x-battery-life-impressive-performance-after-three-weeks-use
The One X has a smaller battery then the EVO 4g LTE. That should give you an idea of how well the battery life is going to be.

roids87 said:
http://m.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x-battery-life-impressive-performance-after-three-weeks-use
The One X has a smaller battery then the EVO 4g LTE. That should give you an idea of how well the battery life is going to be.
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Yeah from what I read on their battery stats thread they're getting like 8-9 hours on average with what I think was a 1600mah.
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Wait a freakin minute if it is not removable what to do if the phone freezes I have done several dozen battery pulls on my EVO over the past two years...HELLO htc?? This may be an epic fail
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bng06 said:
Wait a freakin minute if it is not removable what to do if the phone freezes I have done several dozen battery pulls on my EVO over the past two years...HELLO htc?? This may be an epic fail
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Most phones have button combinations that will take care of this issue. if I remember Right there is also a combination for the evo as well. No battery pull necessary.
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THREESTRIPEBRAND said:
Most phones have button combinations that will take care of this issue. if I remember Right there is also a combination for the evo as well. No battery pull necessary.
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Press and hold volume up, down, and power at he same time. It takes 5 or 6 seconds. You can even get to hboot if you press volume down after it shuts off the screen.

Sealed Battery
I just canceled my upgrade. Swapping out the battery is important to me. And what happens after a year when the battery just doesn't hold a charge very well. I'm disappointed with HTC and we have 4 EVOs in our house. I'll have to see what else is available now. Samsung???

It may only be the need to open the phone, and remove a flex cable, peal the battery out, it may or may not be soldered in, or in a clip. Its very simple, and with ICS and the S4 in the EVO LTE, I am not worried at all, but that's because I also fix phones all day lately.

What LTE are you talking about? Like the 4G we were supposed to get? LOL

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What LTE are you talking about? Like the 4G we were supposed to get? LOL
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You never know!! Gotta think positive man! And actually, I had Wimax on launch day in STL. But LTE will take longer for me this time around. I only used 4g a few times at the start(20mb/s in class), but never really even attempted to use it after the first few months as I didn't get great 4g at my place, though I probably haven't tried in about a year...

Holy Sheet!

HTC EVO Shift 4G is red hot, leaves burn in the shape of the phone on woman's body.:laugh:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/HTC-...the-shape-of-the-phone-on-womans-body_id42542
Probably intentional.
It would have to be burning awhile b4 it'd leave that mark.
***** needs some cash.

I'm calling BS on this story.

Sounds like apple not android besides there's no way to get a phone that hot anyway
stare into oblivion
Fall into sleep

Mine has gotten hot a few times while streaming music and GPS, but never like this. Probably has gotten warm at best. Yeah...total BS. Why would she even let it get to that point?
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At about 70 degrees Celsius the phone would melt, then brick and not have any power at all. So yeah, she thought she had a get rich quick scheme.
And to be Honest 70C is the limit of newer phones, the HTC Evo 4G wouldn't live over 117F it would warp the board causing instant power loss....trust me my first OG made it to 120 once...shortly later I had a replacement.
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At about 70 degrees Celsius the phone would melt, then brick and not have any power at all. So yeah, she thought she had a get rich quick scheme.
And to be Honest 70C is the limit of newer phones, the HTC Evo 4G wouldn't live over 117F it would warp the board causing instant power loss....trust me my first OG made it to 120 once...shortly later I had a replacement.
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My hero hit 119 I think and its fine lol
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I call shenanigans