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[HTC EVO 3D] IRepTheKing:
My wife and I received the same deal. They guy even pushed up our upgrade date. Neither she or I were due for an upgrade until next year. But I'm happy I got one for $50. The crazy thing is: I wasn't going to Radio Shack for a phone. I was looking for a car mount for my Evo and the guy kept trying to get me into the 3D.
[HTC EVO 3D] pain-is-free:
cost out of pocke for me was 50 bucks, traded in a evo I built form parts... worked for me!
[HTC EVO 3D] CitySuperstar:
199-150 trade in = 50$
[HTC EVO 3D] blackroseMD1:
$54.22 after taxes. Full upgrade + $150 EVO trade in at the Sprint store. My freaking otterbox case cost more than the phone...hahaha
[HTC EVO 3D] housry23:
I traded some guy on Craigslist my Nexus S 4G and my EVO 4G for the EVO 3D. Okay, so I got ripped off, but I saved my upgrade for when the next Nexus comes out which I think will be a beast even if it's made by Samsung.
[HTC EVO 3D] dcyouknow:
Exactly what I paid. I was shocked that I was eligible for upgrade...I had only gotten my Evo in August of last year.
[HTC EVO 3D] netstat_EVO:
Did you have to give them your old Evo for the $150 credit, or did they apply the $150 Silver Premier upgrade credit on top of giving you the 2 year contract price?

If you walked out only paying $50 out of pocket without having to turn in your Evo 4G, I think Sprint will be crediting many of us $150 toward our accounts after this news.
[HTC EVO 3D] charnsingh_online:
$520 without contract straight out, including shipping to India
[HTC EVO 3D] anotherhawkeye:
Which carrier supports EVO 3d in India?
[HTC EVO 3D] derricks44:
$37.50!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] SITH16:
Full upgrade made my price $199....-$150 trade in, -$50 discount from a friend that runs the store, + $50 otterbox defender = my cost of $67 out of pocket.

For the phone I pretty much just paid the taxes on it...then the otterbox + tax. I couldn't be more happy considering I paid full retail for the Evo 4g.
[HTC EVO 3D] nextelfixer:
Paid $500 for mine, but being an indirect dealer, my $20 a month plan with 3000 minutes, free mobile to mobile and unlimited data, kind of makes up for it :):)
[HTC EVO 3D] dami00976:
i traded my evo=150 trade in lg optimus=50 plus a 50 credit dont remember for what and with that i bought the bodyglove case for 19.99 i was way happy
[HTC EVO 3D] :
$50

If you don't have an Evo 3D, well you don't have an Evo 3D.
[HTC EVO 3D] spencer88:
I paid the 199 upgrade price. I'll sell my OG EVO eventually to get at least 200 out of it, pains me to though as that's been my favorite phone yet so far.
[HTC EVO 3D] ?uestion31:
$106 and some change...traded in the Evo and got a credit from Sprint and they gave me bonus money so I got a defender case for free.

$50 gift card + $50 and change out the pocketm = Evo3D and defender case! #winning :p
[HTC EVO 3D] daktah:
+$550...no contract cost

- $350...contract extension discount

- $150...evo 4g trade in

+$ 18...upgrade fee

=$ 68...phone total

+$ 60...cab ride

=$128...grand total

+ 3vo...beauty, power and 3d

=$∞.....priceless
[HTC EVO 3D] mikebgb12:
216 cash oh wait bill to invoice:D
[HTC EVO 3D] jagjr86:
Score!

After a decade with T-Mobile, I decided it was time for a change of scenery. I did some research for phones my wife and I would potentially like. I liked the 3D, she liked the Evo 4G. After spending a day researching prices and comparison shopping, I walked into a Sprint store for the first time ever.

After 20 minutes of negotiating with the sales rep, I got them to match the price of the EVO 4G at 1 cent (Amazon Wireless) and got them down to $149.99 on the 3D. Since we were coming from T-Mobile, they gave us $125 each which will apply as credit to our accounts in 60 days. Lastly, I didn't want to give up my Nexus One as a trade-in for credit, but my wife gladly gave up her piece of sh*t Samsung Vibrant and got a credit for $136 (It origianlly was going to be $99, but we told them that phone was picking up 4G signal, so he gave us the price of a Samsung Galaxy 4g).

To top it all of, the activation for both our new phones was waived due to my wife's employment with the county as a teacher. We look forward to a discounted bill every month for my active duty military discount.

All in all, switching to Sprint was profitable :) :D ;)

Last thing: The sales rep gladly gave us the MSL number to the phones.
[HTC EVO 3D] Vindic8ed:
I had the full upgrade from Sprint for being a Gold Premier member and Radio Shack bought my EVO 4G for $160. I paid $40 for the EVO 3D.
[HTC EVO 3D] theinternot:
Full upgrade for $199 - $150 (EVO trade-in) - $125 switch to sprint credit +$40 taxes = -$36!

Worth every negative penny ;-)

I have only been with Sprint for 4 months, but so far has been a good experience.
[HTC EVO 3D] squick:
I actually made $50 out of it.

I wasn't even due for my 1 year $75 upgrade much less the $150.

There's a thread talking about the great customer service, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093232 , and it gives a customer Service number that takes you straight to a rep, no hold at all. I told them that I was informed that I could call this number and ask to get my eligibility rest so that I could get the $150 upgrade credit as well as get the phone for the $199.99 promotional price for signing a new 2yr agreement. They reset it no questions asked.

I also asked them about the credit you can get for resigning a 2yr contract early, which is usually anywhere from $60-$90. Unfortunately I had signed early back in March to get a 10% credit on my bill each month for being members of a credit union so they couldn't get the credit again. However, I asked the girl if there was any kind of credit I could get, after all, my wife, who the account is actually under, has been with Sprint 10+yrs. After putting me on hold for a couple minutes, the girl came back and told me that she could give me A service credit, as she called it, of $100 just for being such a long time customer. WOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!

Then, when you trade in your old Evo, they give you $150. So, in the end I came out with an extra $50 to go spend on accessories :D

Break Down:

Reset Eligibility -

$199.99 for Phone

-$150.00 for trade-in

-$100.00 for service credit

Final Cost - $-50.01:D:D:D:D:D:D

So, if there's anyone out there who hasn't got an EVO 3D, call that number first to see what they can do.

Also, I just recently had called Sprint, just to see if there was anything we could do to get a discount on our monthly bill. Unfortunately there wasn't any monthly discounts so I asked about any credits we could get since we have been with them for so long. The guy came back and told me that he was showing that he was authorized to give me a $70 credit for each of my 3 lines if I resign for 2 more yrs right then and there. Hell Ya!!!!! We're not going anywhere.

So after making $50 on the phone, I just got another $210 to resign all my lines :D. Also, resigning for 2 more yrs doesn't affect your upgrade eligibility what so ever.

If I were any of you that read this, I would suggest that you call the number in the thread linked above- (877)775-4886, and just ask if there's any kind of credits you may be eligible for.

Hope this helps someone out! Good luck!
[HTC EVO 3D] Overstew:
I bought mine with a Zagg screen preinstalled. The Best Buy salesman offered me a one time $30 fee for the buy back program, I said no until he offered me $20 off the phone if I did it. So I went along with it. The total after taxes and everything came to $281? I had two $50 gift cards though, so in theory it was $181.
[Thunderbolt General] 2k10MBC300SPT:
Saw this over at tbforums.com and thought it was VERY important to share

Current Verizon Subscribers Get To Keep Their Unlimited Data Plan Afterall?

Jun 21, 2011 - 5:17 PM - by wicked

If you want to get in with Verizon’s current data plans but aren’t a current smartphone subscriber, you better hurry up an get with the program before the rumored July 7th change to tiered opricing. The date isn’t certain, but a Verizon spokesperson has confirmed that the new data plans uncovered yesterday will indeed go into effect this summer. If you are a current subscriber, you may be in luck, however, as DroidLife has uncovered some info that suggests your old data plan (unlimited data included) will be grandfathered in past the cut-off date. What’s more, those same data plans should even live on through contract renewals and upgrades for as long as you are a Verizon subscriber.

The writing is on the wall, but take it as a rumor for now. We won’t know exactly how Verizon’s new data plans will shake out until they become official.

Droid -Life
[Thunderbolt General] mbrown3460:
Welcome to last week my friend
[Thunderbolt General] ddgarcia05:
Lol, damn this was so last week.
[Thunderbolt General] jumpman1229:
Apparently people already have their contracts or sign up before July 7th will be grandfathered into that plan. Even after our 2 years end, we're still allowed to keep our data plans. That is until they change that policy
[Thunderbolt General] 2k10MBC300SPT:
Welcome to a new Week!:rolleyes:
[Thunderbolt General] 2k10MBC300SPT:
And damn, this is a new week, I don't have the time to read EVERY Blog on EVERY site nor do I work for Verizon:rolleyes:
[Thunderbolt General] macdanif:
It was inevitable as more and more people are using smartphones especially for business that wireless service providers would find a way to make as much money as possible. Seems likely that unlimited minutes will probably become the norm and you pay for your data usage in tiers instead of the talk time.
[Thunderbolt General] danumber2:
wow verizon is already the most expensive " data package" out there... guess i got my phone just in time... i heard this before the TB was release that ppl with a TB will be grandfathered in the old data package pricing...
[Thunderbolt General] ddgarcia05:
Not dogging you just thought it was funny. Take a look at buzzbox in the amazon market it pulls android tech news from a handful of android sites and feeds them to your phone. No having to add sources just pick from the ones already listed. And it's free.
[Android Software Development] GZA1337:
Hi,

just developing my first app and I was wondering if there is something like a repository to download AVDs, so that I dont have to create them myself. I would like to test if my application is running properly on various devices (resolutions, density ... )

thanks in advance
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Lttlwing16:
Trying to put a theme to the new 1.6 FB app.

I have gotten most of it done, however, I have a problem of the list's (like newsfeed, photos, friends, etc) change from the themed black color I assigned, back to the default white when I scroll through, then back to black after I stop scrolling . Any ideas on why it behaves this way..

Thanks in advance
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Lttlwing16:
There are a number of XML doc's in the res\drawable folder..which I hadn't seen before, but I am new to this, so that may not be strange..

The line I think may be causing this..

<item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="@android:drawable/list_selector_background" />

does this mean it's getting the list_selector_background from the android UI?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] Lttlwing16:
here's the answer...

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/listview-backgrounds.html
[Epic 4G General] tyl3rdurden:
I definitely agree with Art3mis on this one. Its ridiculous that they are still allowed to have support threads (and more that they even have support threads instead of just having them all on their own private forums as they either, didnt follow the rules of XDA, or left at their own accord).
[Epic 4G General] jbadboy2007:
Yeah it annoys me that bonsai still has support threads here.
[Epic 4G General] Rodderik:
you are right and i agree 100% with everything except this:

hotlinking from other sites is how all the roms are posted whether it be private domains or sites like multiupload. there is an 8meg limit on xda attachments...so big 100+ meg rom downloads have to be linked from somewhere else to save xda's bandwidth. i personally like hosting my own files and giving direct links in threads because i can look at awstats and know how many times a file has been hit.

on that same note i agree there should be a direct link...and i mean a real direct link....not a redirect to sign up or a redirect to an ad page or anything like that...the rest of your article i agree 100% :)
[Epic 4G General] supafli:
Then don't click on the thread?? Is it really that hard?
[Epic 4G General] lynyrd65:
Get off your high horse. You are no dev (not even cut and paste) and no mod.
[Epic 4G General] nullghost:
XDA doesn't allow software that breaks the rules or off-site competition, but they allow discussion of said software. Kind of counter-intuitive, really.

I think he means other websites hotlinking to XDA.
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
All the Bonsai support threads are gone, and have been for a long while. The only thing left is the user discussion thread in the General section. It's for news and users helping other users. Everyone knows where to go for dev support when it comes to Bonsai.

But there are a couple reasons why the thread exists. First off, it doesn't break any XDA rules. They would have to break their own rules or create new ones to get rid of it. The other reason is XDA does not want to remove it. Anything that is considered controversial gets hits. The more hits, the better for advertising revenue . Every time someone tries to start a Bonsai hate thread of *****es about why it exists, people come along and either argue or agree with the OP. XDA does not care one way or the other, they get paid the same.

As Randy stated here-

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15035075&postcount=1026

He has made every attempt to work things out, but it has been a one way process.
[Epic 4G General] bricky23:
Deleted. Counter productive.

Sent from me!
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
tl;dr
[Epic 4G General] icevapor:
I think this whole thing is kind of silly. The analygy given by the OP isn't even close. In xda, no physical damage was done and nothing illegal was done. You might as well been comparing a frog to a cow :P.

I am a huge proponent of open source, but as a business owner, I know that time is very important and good developers should be paid.

In other open source industries (I will use Drupal.org as my example), commercial and opensource get along just fine. There are many commercial companies (acquia.com) that's entire business is providing service and support for the open source products they use and promote. The commercial companies have made the open source community way stronger in these last few years. Another example would be Linux, Canonical the business backing Ubuntu.

Those industries have standards too and don't allow any non-GPL (back to the Drupal example) code to be committed in there repository. They still allow commercial companies with closed source to participate.

The "groups" (bonsai, etc...) that are talked about here are still contributing to the the community. They may not be doing it according to xda's rules, but that doesn't mean they aren't contributing.

I understand xda's motives for disallowing closed source stuff in the forums. But banning everyones ability to talk about sites outside of the forum is ridiculous. Thats like saying "we encourage and love open source" but "we hate open (source) communication".

Lastly, why you throwing PPCGeeks under the bus. Before my epic I owned 3 winmo phones. I could find way more CDMA winmo roms on PPCgeeks than I ever found on xda. Fixes were rolled out fast and the winmo community on ppcgeeks was very strong.
[Epic 4G General] art3mis-nyc:
This is more in relation to say i started a "forum" for Superawesomeroms.com and then i have nothing to post so all i do is post links to XDA threads all the while bemoaning and berating XDA for thier crap moderation and blah blah blah blah
[Epic 4G General] shane6374:
Well, I for one post my content here, ppcgeeks, and ACS. Obviously most of the traffic I get is here.

What I can say is that other sites linking to xda is how I found this site. I was on ppcgeeks a few months before xda, and found xda through a link off their site. I also link back to xda quite often when I'm trying to help other on another site. What that shows me is that other sites linking back to xda drives traffic here.

Traffic=revenue. Guess I don't see the problem with that.
[Epic 4G General] ptfdmedic:
As long as your calling everyone else out. Mentioning a competitive site, I do believe, is against the rules.

Guys, these are just phones and at this point why even bring this up? I'm not suggesting that the rules be ignored but everyone constantly getting bent out of shape over this stuff isn't productive or even healthy for that matter.

PLEASE, just let the Bonsai thing just die already. They made their choice and no matter how many people complain about it, is't going to change anything. All it does is start flame wars. If you have something to say to them I suggest you contact them directly and give them a chance to address the concerns directly.

Why can't we do something.......anything...but complain. Does anyone stop to think that Bonsai leaving for setting up their site the way they did has little to nothing to do with the direction the Epic forums are going in? It's bad attitudes and feelings of entitlement that are KILLING this forum, IMHO. Stop complaining and contribute to positive change. If we focus on the negative all the time that's all we are going to get.
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
If any threads should be deleted it is ones talking about other phones. There are forums for those. This is the Samsung Epic forum, that is the phone I have chosen for 2 years and only want to see threads about those. If an accessory or ROM is avaliable off XA for it, I want to know about it. I don't give a crap about the EVO 3d or Within or any otherstupid little phone that comes out. XDA has a general forum for that and most of these have their own forums. Don't clutter our threads with that garbage, or whiny kids saying "it's official our phone is a piece of crap"! This is the clutter that needs to be removed. Not a single thread for an offsite ROM.
[Epic 4G General] art3mis-nyc:
Not really it's a valid argument, and while you dont see it, BW useage etc is a hit when it supports items that arent on the site itself.

Some very fine work perhaps the best work as far as the epic goes, is from people that do it for fun and hobby, and dont ask for donations and in some cases dont even have a link for it, yet others believe as you do apperantly that they should be able to take the others work, rename it and change it and "sell" it(ie the Bonsai clockworkmod that they simply renamed and recoloured) as noted i'm fine with charging for support, it's the software i dont like the charging to exist for.

The difference between that and this is that the Opensource lives along side, doesnt require a signup and in most cases is "on par" with the pay version, again you're paying for support, which im fine with, but the software is available to all or none, not to who pays.(minus some features of course but rarely advanced beta copies etc)

I can't think of a single thing that has been contributed back, aside from the kernel fiasco for marcusants "psuedo rom"

ppcgeeks was the first site that i noticed it on and while it's not directed specifically at them, they are guilty of the above mentioned content links.
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
i'm not scared of negativity

and you shouldn't be either

if discussing negativity means thats all you will end up with

then ask yourself who is the real source of negativity?

deciding your fate...premonitions?

let it roll

if you never go there...you will never get it out of your system

and i'm sure thats why anyone would participate in this thread to begin with

so do it, and dig deep

just try and be as respectful as possible in your aims

dont cloud this life with misconstrued karma

if you cannot understand someones apparent stance and it appears ignorant or childish,

then try and be the bigger person and post something constructive they can actually do

otherwise you are just bickering for the sake of it

before i get too far off topic

if xda's main goal is truly web traffic...then thats what the userbase is going to comprise of...otherwise you are just out of place and belong elsewhere.

if you are just part of traffic then dont claim to be a leader with every post you make

and vise versa...dont get lost in the traffic when you know damn well you have something to offer the community that is truly valuable. Everyone has a part to play, dont care how many babies are born today.

If in fact this is truly xda's goal...who knows...the site is large...plenty of room for emotion to find its way in.

Life is useful. (dental dams are your friend)

And above all...hitler was nothing compared to billions the russians killed of their own people...

History...it owns people every day.

Stand for something better than the illegitimate use/abuse of people.

Especially when most of these things being created are not very reliable and designed to support jobs and sales and an economy and false hopes and everything that goes along with a society that throws its lives to the foothold of a dollar bill that is utterly useless in the reality of the universe.

Real answers are not easy...take the time as much as you possibly can.

LISTEN

and when you think you cannot take anymore without putting in your two cents

LISTEN SOME MORE

there are plenty of people just hanging around that have been through it all and seen it

and you can stop acting anytime like you are one of them

real life steps in before anyone could ever make a worthwhile decision

humans...making decisions for others since breakfast

tough titties?

we'll see who's talking then...when?

the sooner the sooner
[Epic 4G General] mkasick:
I can't say whether this is ideal or not. However, folks are going to ask about Bonsai whether discussion is allowed or not. Thus, it's arguably prudent to allow one thread for its discussion to avoid having it being asked about repeatedly in new threads.

This is perhaps the most important point of the thread. However it happened, xda became the definitive resource for phone hackery. If xda were to forbid off-site hotlinking, that would have the result, both direct (PageRank, robots exclusion, etc.) and indirect (through absence of news articles and other discussion) of sinking it in search results. At which point--at best--some other site would become definitive and discussion would move there, or quite possibly, no one site would emerge as definitive and discussion would become horribly fragmented.

To be honest, the primary reason I post patches here with lengthy technical descriptions is becuase, in 3-6 months time, I know someone Googling a similar problem will come across my threads and find an answer. The fact that it also contributes code to this community is a wonderful secondary benefit, but to be honest, discussion and ROM development is too ephemeral to make it worth the effort if Google wasn't around to archive the result. And it's far easier for me to do it here, and gets far more exposure and use, than if I were to run my own blog or something.
[Epic 4G General] art3mis-nyc:
yeah yeah, pedantic argument.

oh im not bent out of shape, that post would have been a lot more incoherent if i was.

it's called an example. Happens to be the most obvious so it's used.

btw i did contact them directly and thats how i came to the quote from randy stating that Bonsai is not a hobby it's a business.

and then the tired out saying of "i for one like to pay for good software rant" while touting the virtues of opensource.(<3 me some hypocrites)

this isn't negative unless you read it that way, i honestly want it to change, and to find out WHY it exists.

People commenting and saying we should "all get along" sadly contribute nothing(good nor bad) to a thread.
[Epic 4G General] art3mis-nyc:
You would think so, but the same can't be said towards heros' rom, many threads are started to talk about it are quickly killed and its poster banned.. so it's sort of a double edged.