[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 10-Dee-Q:
hi, i just got the EVOLTE few days ago,

i have some question about it and i hope that all the pros here will be able some of it.

thx.

i'm quite a newbie in android

have been using iPhone and Blackberry in the past few years.

and i still use my Blackberry 9900 for my business line.

im starting to use android for my personal line few months back, after i purchased the motorola photon 4G

i've been quite impressed by it

however the battery life is quite bad so i ended up getting the extended battery from seidio and with that extended battery the phone only last me for 1 day of use.

anyway i love the photon but the screen and camera quality is very bad INMHO.

so i get this new HTC EVOLTE ( i don't like S3's design)

after fewdays of usage, all i can say is that it's been quite ok:

-the screen is superb , almost on par as my iphone 4s , of course the evolte win on the size but the 4s win on the clarity by a bit so no complain about it , i love the screen.

-the radio quality is good, i compared it with my photon, which have one of the best radios ever built on a phone and the result is quite similar. but of course the photon have the global capabillities :(

-fit and finish is very good the material feel sturdy unlike s3 but the top black cover , the battery cover scratches very easilly.

now this is my questions or minuses:

-the speaker on this phone is very weak, it sounded very thin and weak . i've tried to use it for listening to radio, watchingmovies, calling people with the speaker phone and i can say this is the tinniest speaker that i've ever have.

(is there any solution to this ? i believe or hope that it can be "modified" with an software update as the speaker quality is actually not that bad, only the volume that its lacking)

-theres a gap between the back bottom case and the metal frame. on the left side near the mic hole, is that normal ? the gapp is arround 1mm it doesnt effect anything but i'm ocd about this kind of thing and the right hand side is ok, only the left near the mic hole that have this problem.

-the camera, its much better than the 8MP shooter from photon, but still it can't touch the iphone 4s IMHO.

the sharpness is lacking , i've tied it side by side and the iphone 4's images always look better and sharper.

(i've noticed that there's a lot of camera mod for the EVOLTE but can anyone point me out to the best one ?)

-the battery is better than the stock motorola photon, but still it doesn't last me for a day of constant use

i've always turn on auto sync, auto backlight , and i use whats app chatting application, occasionally watchind video with MX player and it last me about 6-8 hours top

is there any setting to prolonged the battery life ? or is there any better ROM that i can flash ? i dont want the beta or alpha , i just want the almost bug free ROM that i can rely on everyday. and i very much like the rom that have SENSE as i really like Sense and this is one of the reason i bpught the EVOLTE rather than the S3, in the past i've tried every launceher , app, widget to replicate the look and feel of sense on my motorola photon, but nothing beats the original sense on HTC phone IMHO.

please give me some info on this

-the top of the phone , i mean the rear plastic cover that surround the camera get hot whnenever the phone transmit or recieve data.

it doesnt get hot when i call somebody, but when i browse or chatting, it gets hot.

(again is this normal ? is there any solution about this ? maybe putting some thing of layer or sticker beneath the plastic cover ?

-one of the reason i bought this EVOLTE is about the beats audio.

but whenever i plugged my earphone to listened to music, theres a static like noise .

ive tried several ear and headphones and they all do the same. the noise appear only when the phone is transmitting or recieving data only.

so far the solution for me is to turn the airplanne mode on when i listened to music

(is it normal ? is there any solution to it ?)

-please add if theres a must have app or mod for this phone

as i 'm really new to android

so far thats about it,

pardon me for my bad english.

this is the best android forum ever.