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[EVO 4G General] ausch30:
A couple things you didn't mention:

Sprint's nights and weekends start at 7pm, Verizon is either 9:01 or 9:31 can't remember which

Another value added feature is Sprint navigation. I am aware that you can just use Google navigation but in many cases the Sprint nav is better. With Sprint it's included, with Verizon it's $9.99/month per phone. I realize you can get a Verizon plan that's only slightly more than Sprint but I feel that if you're going to compare, you should compare apples to apples.

I'll be at 10yrs Sept. 1 and I've gotten too used to yearly upgrades that I wouldn't consider going to another company. My question for the OP: Why didn't you just call them up and ask for an Airvanna for free? I have one even though I don't really need it, my service is good.
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
Oh and you will easily be paying $20-25 more a month, not $10-20.

Pocket posted...
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
If $120 a year is significant for you im hoping you're either in high school or college right now... not to sound like im on a high horse but thats less than a pair of tennis shoes for me.
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
It sounds like you're HOPING it wont last so you can validate paying only a few dollars less for slower data. And even if it DOESNT last, my line will be grandfathered so im good. I guess you think Sprint will offer unlimited data forever huh?:rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] crabjoe:
Does it make any difference if Sprint's idea of unlimited data is no data? In the last few months, my 3G connection is around 200K down... At times it's slower and it's driving me batty!
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Yea, and like I mentioned I rarely talk on the phone and text more than I type. My whole family and most of my friends have Verizon so the two hour difference doesnt mean anything to me. And Sprint navigation is garbage compared to google navigation.. which I use anyways. I didnt open Sprint Navigation not ONCE. And as far as the air rave thing, personally I think its quite ridiculous that you're willing to have to hook up your home internet to something just to be able to get decent coverage at home. I mean unless you live somewhere that no one else has good coverage. Otherwise that's never made much sense to me.

Bottom line is for me the positives outfar the negatives ($10.00 a month) by so far that its really not even a fair comparison. Especially considering the 4G was one of the main reasons I even bought the Evo to begin with considering how they were hyping up the mobile hotspot with it and negating the need for home internet. With the TB now, I really dont have a need for cable internet at home anymore.
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Umm, I already got my first bill. It was exactly $13.49 cents more than my Sprint bill.
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Exactly.. WTF does it matter to me if I get an unlimited data connection when im getting 200 kb/s? Thought I had lucked up and they fixed it this morning and it went right back to crap speeds within an hour and is actually worse than before.
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Im gonna stop now though before the "troll" thing starts getting thrown around but im just being realistic. Verizon simply is not that much more expensive than Sprint anymore. And honestly, if Sprint keeps adding customers with smart phones they're eventually going to raise their prices again. Watch and see.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
I get the feeling that a lot of posters are young here. I have two lines, one business and one personal. When you grow up and/or actually value good service, you pay for what you need. Right now, Sprint service is horrible.

I'm also on the edge of just going to Verizon and joining my AT&T/Sprint plans to a two family line Verizon plan. Sprint is still a great value but the service just isn't good enough in NYC anymore.
[EVO 4G General] ausch30:
Honestly, to each his/her own (unless it's designed be Apple). That's why there are so many products and so many retailers. I pay $78 and change a month after taxes. I have insurance and everything but I found a 25% off deal on slickdeals.net that ends up knocking $12-$13 off the monthly bill. I have good service, even without the Airave, so I really have no complaints. I was visiting my mom in south Florida over Christmas and at her house the data was beyond horrible so I do know what some people are dealing with. I am also in nursing school and on unemployment so going up over $100/month after taxes would make a significant difference. It really all depends on you and your situation and what's important to you. I just don't know how you can say the Telnav is bad when you say you've never used it. It's the same navigation that Verizon charges $9.99/month for and I've used it and in most places it's quite good.
[EVO 4G General] Darkmx2000:
Well i live in a area where Sprint and Verizon are both equal both have full service and both 4g works flawless for some reason though Verizons 4g here in Boston is not as fast as Sprints 4g that could be just this area though. I was thinking about switching till i heard the Evo 3d is coming out. I dont care much for the the whole 3d propaganda but my one dream ever since the Evo launched and i got was i wished it had a dual core, looks like the HTC gods heard my prayers. lol i believe they should have done the same thing with the Thunderbolt but i guess everyone was in a hurry to get a phone like the evo based on the success the evo has had so far. I really feel bad for the Iphone.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Why is that? The iPhone 4 is getting close to a year old and has probably outsold all post June 2010 high end HTC phones combined. It's single core but still feels faster than a dual core Android phone because of iOS and tighter hardware integration. The iPhone 5 will be released this year and will undoubtedly feature the dual core A5 with the impressive dual core PowerVR SGX 542 GPU.

Posters sure love throwing in the iPhone in every conversation.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
i am glad you found what you were looking for.

but you just switched and got your bill.. it was only $14 more..

but it was a new service... so particial charges...
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
You again!!!

Apple should pay you for your advertisements.....
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
Exactly. And of course I don't expect Sprint to stay unlimited FOREVER. If your speeds were so bad and your coverage was so bad what took you so long to switch? Everyone rags on Sprint for this and that when they have a 30 day trial. Their service is just as good as everyone else's but in certain areas (just like the other carriers) their coverage is better or worse then the others. Not ONE carrier is for everyone!

Pocket posted...
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
I didn't bring it up, and he wasn't even the first one. Android fanboys are thristy to bring up the iPhone in completely unrelated threads - the insecurity over a consumer product can be see a thousand miles a way.
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
I don't see anything wrong with someone posting negative comments about an iphone in a android phone forum....

In 2007 I was amazed at the iphone for standing out, but I never jumped ship just to have it.when I played with the ipod touch I was not as impressed as they made the commercials make it out to be. I got the G1 on launch day and the positives out weighed the negatives when it came to the first sluggish android google phone. It felt refreshing to have a phone that did more than toss a bunch of icons on the screen and....not much else.

Android for the long haul, thanks apple for game changing but not game winning!!!!
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
im ready to leave sprint myself. if the t-mobile takeover doesn't happen that's where we will go. i heard they are letting people out of their contracts for free because of the 2 month tower outage here in grand rapids. horrid reception and my wife and i get alot of echo in our phones. even when we use the airave we do.
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
Cya
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
not leaving quite yet im afraid.
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
Welcome back.
[EVO 4G General] Roy Jovero:
If you didn't have reception in your house, why didn't you get a free Airave instead of canceling service?
[EVO 4G General] 2k4mach:
i guess you missed this post :confused:
[EVO 4G General] craigbailey1986:
Not trying to troll, but if you are on a family plan and you have no

service in your home and only roam wouldn't that constitute cancelling of your contract by sprint? Some one get dirtyskrooms in here to confirm this please... especially 10 years of roaming

Sent from my soon to be retired evo....
[EVO 4G General] Tahde:
I think that in finding the right carrier and what they have to offer depends on what you would like for yourself. Not anyone else. I think someone else had said, one carrier might be good for one, but not for the other. IMO every carrier has their flaws. Some more than others. I have had my issues with Sprint and my dislikes, but nothing I'm ready to "jump ship" over yet. I think Verizon is great. I have a couple family members (most have Sprint) and several friends with Verizon and they are very happy with their service. And if I was to go to any other carrier, it would be Verizon. I'm just good where I'm at right now.
[EVO 4G General] kamiller42:
It's not a router. It's a femtocell by Airave. It does not require a tower to operate. All it needs is a GPS satellite to initialize and a broadband connection to operate. It's like a having a cell tower in your house. Works great.
[EVO 4G General] Ryjabo:
I'm very happy with Sprint where I live (Utah).

I used to have T-Mobile and I *rarely* saw 3G. Edge was too slow to be usable.

With Sprint I get 1.7mbps speed tests at my desk at work, and no less than 1mbps at home. 4G just north of me hits 6-8mbps.
[EVO 4G General] skillzo1:
Sooooooo happy to be back on verizon with the tbolt. I came to sprint in june and all was good till nov...tyen today i cancelled and got my tbolt. Sprints service was just crap starting in nov. I loved my evo but the tbolts screen seems better and its def snappier in tesponse...and the LTE...HAHAHAHAHA ****in awesome. I was with verizon 10yrs prior to june.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Sure, but the $840 were saving a year is a decent amount... especially when you consider we have two more smart phones then we did on verizon.
[EVO 4G General] :
Also went to the thunderbolt. 700mhz LTE destroys 2.5ghz wimax. Unbelievable difference, $10 cheaper a month with google voice for texts :)
[EVO 4G General] spaziod:
Removed. Have a good one
[EVO 4G General] sling:
New T-Bolt owners don't forget to stop by EVO3D forums posting you wish you didn't leave Sprint lol

Are Strong EVO development community will be upgrading to 3D its going to be a monster leaving Bolt in the Dust.....Heck 3D stock leaves Bolt in the dust

Anyway you get my point don't forget to visit :)
[EVO 4G General] cnstarz:
could've just relocated your entire family to a heavily sprint-covered area. that's what i would've done.
[EVO 4G General] fierceeagle2003:
Guess im not the only one having problems with sprint. Its a shame my evo is great when im home on wifi but when u leave the house it becames useless! True shame sprint let this happen, my 10 years with sprint might be expiring! :(
[EVO 4G General] swaze:
Lol unless you are tethering there is no visible difference. My evo opens up web pages just as fast as the TB. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Sent from my HTC Evo running CM7
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
That is until you go inside of a building or fall out of the limited coverage area.
[EVO 4G General] sling:
I hear ya.

My data has been at crawl speed the last couple months but it will get better.

I spoke to level 3 tech this evening that told me network is getting major overhaul and to expect better speeds then I previously had.

His ETA was late April.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Ha! have you read the "data speeds wtf" thread? Try loading webpages with 30kbps down speed...
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
Haters gonna hate...

Pocket posted...
[EVO 4G General] fierceeagle2003:
Man i hope they fix my area, cause damm i luv this phone
[EVO 4G General] rstuckmaier:
I didn't say it was going to break me but it is still significant. If someone walked up to you and said, "here, having $120 for no reason, no strings attached" would you say no?

PS: do people still call them tennis shoes? or do you really play tennis?
[EVO 4G General] Flip35:
Woow u left sprint now that evo 3d is coming???
[EVO 4G General] skillzo1:
Heres a friendly lashback at you saying...new evo 3d owners dont forget to come into the tbolt forums saying my phone is awesome but i cant use it cause of sprints crappy data speeds. I should of went to verizon before they capped there 4g unlimited. :p

But the 3d will terd on the tbolt. I wanyed to wait but couldnt handle it anymore.
[EVO 4G General] skillzo1:
Then he will tell you we closed your ticket and it seems to be fixed...and you will reply bs. Then he will open up another ticket and later tell you the same first thing he told you and eta is now early june lol.
[EVO 4G General] sling:
Man Sprint must of ripped your heart out lol.

Ive been with them 7 years they get things right and wrong just like V.

Enjoy Verizon stop being so Sprint negative
[EVO 4G General] skillzo1:
Damn dude, dan hesse left a milk mustache above your lip.
[EVO 4G General] sling:
Skillz0 ridding high on Verizon crack lol

Take that high were its needed - http://verizarape.com/
[EVO 4G General] skillzo1:
Gargle it before u swallow it.
[EVO 4G General] sling:
Your still getting lost I'm trying to help you out.

http://verizarape.com/sort.php?type=new
[EVO 4G General] troyboytn:
Just have to add my 2cents here...I would sooner go to a no data prepaid service from Walmart than give a dime to rip off artists that is verizon or at&t......
[EVO 4G General] skillzo1:
Thats cool..your entitled to that. I felt like i was giving sprint $100 a month for nothing. I just use data...barely use it for calls...so when data crapped out...after 6 months i bailed.
[EVO 4G General] gpz1100:
With regard to google voice, what happens if someone sends a multimedia text (mms)? Do those go through properly?
[EVO 4G General] OnlyFair:
ThuNderbolt Ftw
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Yea... and soon after we'll see tons of "whats up with the data" threads when more and more smartphones are activated on sprints already bogged network. The 3D pretty much means nothing and the Droid Bionic will be coming out on Verizon this year also.. as well as 3-4 other super phones.
[EVO 4G General] asenduk:
i <3 Sprint

i also left Sprint for the Thunderbolt..

but i will return once they put their 800MHz spectrum to use for 4G (whether that will be WiMAX, WiMAX 2 or LTE)..

i envy the EVO 3D :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
What amazes me is the fact that people are actually willing to deal with this just to save a few dollars a month. I mean I know times are hard right now but damn that.
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
I honestly dont care about it. Its like, buying a Corvette but only being able to drive it for 30 minutes out of the year. Hell, whats the point?
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
I guess I understand why people still paid for iphones even knowing that their were reception issues now. Some of you are just crazy. And why the hell are people loyal to phones, or companies? I'm sorry but if I have to spend money on something I want the best I can possibly get. So yes, people are ragging on Sprint and at this point they deserve it. People are switching, what do you expect? Are we supposed to wait them out to see IF its going to be fixed when they wont even acknowledge that there's an issue? So far all we've seen are people online claiming that there's some type of upgrade going on and an occasional rep thatll say it. Yet every other person you talk to when you call says its your phone or we'll open a ticket... oh well, we found no problem.

Sprint just doesnt see to know how to run a business. If you're doing upgrades, simply TELL people that. At least they'd be more willing to wait it out to see what happens. But when you refuse to even acknowledge there's a problem... which seems to be damn near nationwide, you put yourself right back in that hole of having terrible churn that you finally got yourself out of with the Evo. I just dont get Sprint... at all.
[EVO 4G General] engelsione:
Too bad.... the new EVo3d will eat that thundebolt!

from my HTC EVO UNLEASHED BLAKK3
[EVO 4G General] sling:
+1

I expect the Verizon humping bunny's to be a little pissed when network fixes are complete within next couple months & their without the most powerful android device available EVO3D
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
You mean before or after the Droid Bionic, which has a better processor than the Evo 3D.. and was announced BEFORE the 3D comes out? I mean it has the same 4.3 qHD screen and a better gpu. Some of you arent making any sense really. Unless the phone is coming with an upgrade for wimax.. I dont care.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
The GPU on the EVO 3D is likely to be marginally better. The Tegra 2 CPU should be faster though. The EVO 3D also has twice the RAM but the Bionic has multiple times more internal storage, and of course the super big (and most attractive to me) 1920 mAh battery.
[EVO 4G General] swaze:
Not according to the latest benchmarks. Marginally better is an understatement. IT BESTED the tegra in every category but one.

Sent from my HTC Evo running CM7
[EVO 4G General] OnlyFair:
Im gonna switch tonight..

If they let me.
[EVO 4G General] r916:
Thunderbolt is a cool ass phone, buddy got one, I really like the new sense, being able to skin it should have been on sense to begin with. Sense is by far the best UI implemented on Android.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
The Evo [and of course Evo 3D] are going to get sense 2.0.
[EVO 4G General] samsunghater:
i'd like to congradulate you for your stupidty have fun dishin out the ass for ****ty service customer service and outragious plans and charges been there **** them :)
[EVO 4G General] r916:
I'm aware of that lol, I'm just saying it's nice..

The FFC on the TB seems to be a lot better, back camera seems to take a tad better picture but it's marginal.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
I would hope so since it's competing with a device almost a year old :p
[EVO 4G General] culua:
I don't know about you guys I live in san Diego even when I'm on 3g with Sprint on my evo its realy fast. For the vary first time before i had t-mobile and ATt I actually I can hear much better I mean crystal clear talking without any static or mumbling. I guess its different with everybodys situation and opinion.
[EVO 4G General] adamantypants:
Dang man you should've let us know. I would've like that Gold account lol. I live in Vegas and have great coverage. I just wish I could have yearly upgrades too..
[EVO 4G General] xHausx:
Well no one has "real" 4G speeds yet but I do agree Sprints network leaves a lot to be desired. My speeds here went from good to horrible for about 6 months toward the end of last year, but once they rolled out 4G it bounced back. We only have maybe two active 4g towers but the 3G seemed to benefit from it too.
[EVO 4G General] clamknuckle:
I don't know about you guys, but where I live, I can get Sprint + a home phone line for cheaper than Verizon. If the OP's only problem was service at the house, maybe he should have gone that route.

Or get an Airrave?
[EVO 4G General] jamyil:
with sprint, you just have a very nice paper weight. sprint service sucks. witch is why its so cheap.if sprint didnt cram so much money in nascar they could do somethin about the services.
[EVO 4G General] sling:
it doesn't suck for me.

The last 3 months were ruff data speed got pretty bad then greatly improved a few days ago

The last 2 reads slipped a bit in local shopping mall while visiting Radio shack.

NP though I lived through it lol
[EVO 4G General] r916:
lol true its still funny when people are still comparing the og evo to phones now and they say how much better the new ones are, well duh lol the evo is 8 months old

Sent from HTC EVO
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
10. ;)

char
[EVO 4G General] andy49510:
Wimax/4G has been down for months in my area and they haven't done anything about it.
[EVO 4G General] mattehww:
Sprint is quite fast and reliable for me in the Bay Area, but when I visit family in Sacramento and LA area, its a different story, so I can understand some of you guys.

However, Sprint is BY FAR cheaper for me. Does nobody here have SERO/EPRP? I used to have the $30/month unlimited texting, data, everything plan before going to a family EPRP line. 1600 shared minutes, 4 lines, with 2 Evo's is $170 after tax and fees a month for me.

700 minutes with Verizon is 240/month before taxes and fees..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
Guys quick question, runnning stock 2.1, or a custom 2.2, My navigation would use the default voice I set in settings, it also said street names.

Since using CM7 I notice Nav is using its own voice selection and not reading street names.

My GMAPS is upto date.

What is going on?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebone01:
In order to get the street names read to you, I always had to install a text to speech library from the market. It has always prompted me to do so the first time I started Navigation. It doesnt show up in my apps list, so I am not sure of the exact name.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
There's a CM7 sticky for this kind of thing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
GOT passed over
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slayp00n:
Never needed to with samsung based roms, even tho I have pico installed? Lets see what I can find.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
No excuse for double posting it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Clown:
Please do not double post.

Thread closed
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kittyrina:
My phone is an HTC Hero CDMA Sprint running the latest update. I was talked in to rooting my phone to delete un needed apps, so I agreed and let my friend do it. Everything went fine, no problems. But then I deleted what I thought were nonsense aps, but I think I deleted something wrong because now I can not download from the market, gmail errors out when it tries to sync etc etc. And my friend did not do a back up of my phone (doh slaps hand on head).

I just want to put the phone back like factory. Of course, factory reset didn't really work because the stuff I deleted did not come back...but I figured that would be the case. I just made it worse because now I don't have my file manager to access the SD card and I can't download one from the Market.

I know there has to be some way to download something with my pc to flash the phone back to original, but I can't find it I only seem to find "updates" and I am not sure those will really help.

Can someone please point me in the right direction so that I can get my phone working properly again? Thank you so much!!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] someonenewhere:
Flash a sense rom...that should fix everything..
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthony_s:
Search RUU under the hero development section or go to the htc site ( http://www.htc.com/us/support/hero-sprint/downloads/) and get the hero software from there. Running it from either of those will return you to stock.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthony_s:
Just remember that running the RUU will also remove root from the phone...completely stock again...which is what it sounds like you want.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gboyle84:
can you do this from your phone only, i.e. BT transfer an RUU flash img and flash it all on the phone, or do you have to USB connect to RUU?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] il Duce:
ineresting.... I think you could, but ONLY if you were s-off. You could download the s-off only RUU, bt transfer it, and flash the HERCIMG.zip from hboot.