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[EVO 4G General] nunyabiziz:
Im guessing it might be an issue with both signals from the towers and radio on the EVO. I have called Sprint to express my disappointment with the 4G service. I hope that HTC will make some magic happen with software upgrades. I also have tried the newer radio upgrade but still have issues once im inside of buildings.
[EVO 4G General] flexte:
just like when the iphone came out there were problems the same is happening now. i was getting good speeds up until a few hours ago here in NJ. my phone says 3G but im getting edge speeds
[EVO 4G General] robroy90:
Not Houston, but same for me...

I am in St. Louis, and although 4G isn't official here yet (last I heard was 6/21) I am seeing the same thing. Indoors, it is almost a crap shoot.

Outside, it will get one "bar" of 4G... sometimes. Never really solidly locks on 4G.

I think it is an issue with the EVO radio firmware, at least I hope so, because I have the luxury of testing it side-by-side with an Overdrive, and I can consistently maintain a 4G signal of 2-3 bars on the Overdrive, if I put it in the window of my office.

Sadly, the Overdrive is seriously outperforming the reception of the Evo in my experiences so far.

-Rob
[EVO 4G General] Grims:
I'm in Houston. After doing the PRL update I got great coverage, everywhere except my downtown office (15th floor...so thats to be expected)
[EVO 4G General] KERKEDAGAIN:
had connectivity issues the first day, here on the Northside, but if you update your profile, prl, and take your battery out a few times you may find a change..i did
[EVO 4G General] Antebios:
THIS NEEDS TO BE SETTLED! I think I have an objective view.

I'm in Houston, TX so we have 4G coverage with ClearWire. I got my EVO on Friday, along with everybody else. I went to Best Buy to look at some accessories, while I was there I was chatting with the ClearWire rep running the demo and trying to sign up new customers. He was inside with store with his Clearwire USB dongle and laptop. We decided to run some speed comparisons, so I downloaded 2 speedtest apps from the Android market, one of them being for Speedtest.net. The best speed I got on my EVO with 4G enabled (and 1 bar of 4g) was about 2.25 Mbit down, and 1.1 Mbit up. I ran this test multiple times with me standing next to him, then putting my EVO next to the USB dongle to make sure I was getting the same signal. The rep's laptop, again running the speedtest from Speedtest.net and us using the the SAME servers, he got at least 6 Mbit down and almost 2 Mbit up. The best he got that I saw was like 7.2 Mbit down. He said that earlier that day he got as high as 10 Mbit down.

This is just telling me that it's either the processor that is limiting the speed, or it's the 4G antenna in the EVO. I saw that his 4G signal was pretty good being a bit outside the city, in Katy at Fry Road and I-10. I live just outside downtown I do get 4G inside my home, but again 1 or 2 bars. With my limited investigation I'm going to have to conclude that the network speed is NOT ClearWire's fault, but more like a hardware limitation on the EVO. If someone modded the phone with a better antenna the speed might improve.

About the existing 3G speed and with EVO is WOW! 3G response is soooo much faster on the EVO that it was on my G1. Another comparison is my home AT&T U-verse: I get 5.71 Mbit down and 0.94 Mbit up. I'm trying to think of a way that I can get my TV another way and get ClearWire for home instead of U-verse.
[EVO 4G General] Grims:
More likely clear is capping us to maintain QoS for direct customers.

Sent from my EVO
[EVO 4G General] ironbloodus:
Hmm, I'm inside my house on Katy "Fry Rd. @ I10" and have 2 bars. Walk outside the front door no change. Typically outside around the Katy area I get about 2-3 bars.
[EVO 4G General] nunyabiziz:
It's not "Clear" but Sprint is capping for Qos.
[EVO 4G General] Grims:
Not you're just arguing symantecs :P
[EVO 4G General] nunyabiziz:
Just a little upset for the reason being that Sprint would state that their 4G is 10x faster than EVDO. Taking the lower results of EVDO(600Kbps) and comparing it to the higher 4G(6Mbps). I have yet to see 3Mbps downstream on their 4G network in Houston. I have tested Clear's and Sprint's usb side by side and ofcourse it's only capped on Sprint. So on that point its not the same.
[EVO 4G General] Grims:
I can see that, but even 3G on this phone seems way faster than other phones. I'm sure it has to do with the CPU beign able to render pages much quicker than previous devices.

That said, my 4G speeds are averaging about twice as fast as 3G
[EVO 4G General] SolsticeZero:
Drove down 45 from the medical center to Spring yesterday and got 4G all the way. As far as the downspeed goes, I agree, it's probably QoS since Sprint's 4G network is still in its infant stage.
[EVO 4G General] apexi350z:
Thanks for this info, I think you are right, something is capping our throughput. I hope Sprint come out with new firmware patch to resolve this. I am not happy with my less than 2Mbit download speed on 4G!
[EVO 4G General] rock99rock:
Well, I wish I was seeing the same coverage as everyone else. I can't get 4G inside at all. I got all the updates last week, but see there is yet another PRL update I was unaware of. *Finders crossed.
[EVO 4G General] Grims:
I don't think wimax will ever have good indoor coverage. The frequency it runs at is much too high.

Sent from my EVO
[EVO 4G General] Stericson:
Since I work for Clear, I can tell ya'll that we do not cap anything. Also, as far as Sprint goes, they just use and resell our service. I will, however, be willing to be that there may be something with the device that maybe a firmware upgrade may fix but honestly who knows.

I have yet to see anyone get above 4mbs on the Evo...I think it has something to do with the device.
[EVO 4G General] rock99rock:
The PRL upgrade did nothing for me. 4G looks like its getting the 2-3 bars in the street though, however it can still not pull down a webpage. This is pretty frustrating. I have also tried another radio found here: http://geekfor.me/evo/radio/radio139000531/

That did not fix anything for me either. Signal is just abysmal. I really, REALLY like this phone, but it is worthless to me if I cant even use the data connection.
[EVO 4G General] notmike:
I'm in the Heights and my 4g can barely get 1 bar, my 3g however is outstanding, averaging 2.5mb down.. I've been able to get full 4g bars around mid town and last night downtown, but speeds still never exceeded 2.5mb down.
[EVO 4G General] Antebios:
Something tells me we are just going to have to wait a bit while the bugs are worked out. BTW, that radio image was already on my phone. I didn't do anything, so it might be stock or came with the OTA update.

BTW, I live in Montrose and I get at least 1 4G bar inside my house. Driving along I-10 I have gotten all 4 bars light up while on 4G. I didn't do a speedtest while driving.

Also, I just did a 3G speedtest here in Katy, and I just got 2.06 Mbps down and 0.53 Mbps up. That's FAST for 3g. My G1 on T-mobile never got that high!
[EVO 4G General] mrbrandonscott:
4G- Frisco TX

With my Evo I was outside on the roof of a parking garage in Frisco Texas, with full bars (all 3). On the Evo I hit 8 Mbps down, and 2 up, with a 79 ms ping. Same results on a laptop after tethering with a usb. Sprint Hotspot only let through 25% of the speed. Inside buildings in the north Dallas area, I typically have 1-2 bars of 4g service, with downloads averaging between 3 Mbps and 5 Mbps. Noticeably MUCH faster then the 3G
[EVO 4G General] heygrl:
Clear does cap upload so lets split those hairs..
[EVO 4G General] rock99rock:
Are you an engineer with the company, or are you in contact with one? I would love to collaborate with someone regarding this issue, unofficially. It only makes sense, as Sprint is only reselling your network.
[EVO 4G General] Stericson:
Wellif you want to get technical :\ Every service provider caps upload speeds...hell evey service provider caps speeds to some limit or another, either by what they can provide or what they want to provide.

I am not an engineer...and sadly I dont know any of the engineers that woked with this device specifically, I actually work work in the porting department for Clear.
[EVO 4G General] rock99rock:
Well, i was mistaken with my earlier post. Apparently, I had not upgraded to the latest radio... i didn't see it fail, but I was still on the ....04.26. I had to clear cache and install the radio first, then install a new ROM on top of that to get to the ....05.31. I am currently running the Fresh ROM. (freaked me out when it said "FReshhhhh" instead of the standard sprint audio on boot)

With this radio, I can see 4g indoors at home albeit intermittently. This is still a step in the right direction, and I am pleased to see some progress. 4G outside is 1-2 bars and inside is 0 bars, but connected.

778 kbps 3g indoor

864 kbps 3g outdoor

260 kbps 4g indoor (when it could connect)

1016 kbps 4g outdoor

Above are the max speeds i saw after about 5 tests for each scenario. The lower end results saw about 200 kbps difference. I suppose I will be turning into a "radio watcher", waiting for that next upgrade to see if the situation improves itself. With a better radio, I will keep this phone no question.
[EVO 4G General] Whatnissan:
Yea I don't know has anyone had an issue when they leave there 4g on and it goes to 3g but it wont connect to 4g again unless you turn it off then turn it back on. Im on my second evo now and Ever scince the lastes ota update it wont connect automaticly. Just wondering if anyone else experences this.
[EVO 4G General] traslin:
I have the exact same issue in Houston. Is your phone stock? I didn't notice it until after I rooted my phone, but my wife's stock phone seems to exhibit the same behavior.
[EVO 4G General] CoolGui:
Both me and my wife have one. I can't really get 4G to work at all in our house here in the sugar land area. Outside I can sometimes get 1 bar. At my office in the galleria area on the 3rd floor I have gotten it to come up sometimes, but not at all consistently. But I haven't really spent a lot of time trying, the way it eats battery I don't even know what use it is really. I've just been using 3G mostly.
[EVO 4G General] nunyabiziz:
Can you please let me know how is it that Sprint capped upload to 1mbps and you are reporting 2mbps? Is there anyone else reporting more than 2mbps upload? Just wondering about your results. I do also am seeing that with the latest ota update leaving a 4g area, 4g will not see a signal again until 4g is turnt off then back on. This is with both a root and stock Evo. I haven't had a chance to call Sprint technical support to report this.
[EVO 4G General] asenduk:
im on the NW side of Houston.. i get way better results up to 2-3 times faster tethering than on the speedtest app.. i know the app is not accurate though
[EVO 4G General] mrbrandonscott:
I guess I just got lucky that day. I wish I had screen shots to prove it. I am now on Froyo, and hitting 12.5 Mbps download, and about 1 Mbps up
[EVO 4G General] om4:
wow....what area do you live in

...hah never mind i missed your previous post..gotta learn to read rather then skim
[EVO 4G General] om4:
i can say i've exceeded the cap in a test or two, you should keep in mind that speed test use a small shallow file to test down/up and because its a small file it doesnt show the consistency of the speed, im sure if given a little more time that 2Mbps would drop to 1 and hover around there

and about the 4g problem, its in both stock and rooted phones although a possible fix for rooted phones was posted awhile back
[EVO 4G General] om4:
im now willing to bet its a sprint problem, theres a street where 3g drops for just that four way stop then it kicks in again, my phone got extremely hot and when i looked at wireless settings it said 3g unable to connect, 4g unable to connect, had to restart them both
[EVO 4G General] faquedado:
Anybody have an idea what an Error 1012 on Update Profile means?
[EVO 4G General] chippillie:
It's a data error. It is not connecting for some reason. You can call Sprint and they can walk you through resting it. Buy the way if in walking you through it and they give you a unlock code write it down it's your MSl and might come in handy later.
[EVO 4G General] donatom3:
Run the Device Self Service app it should do this. I'm looking if there is a part in the menu to update profile only. I thought i found it before but I may be wrong.
[EVO 4G General] phobos512:
It happened while I was on the phone with a Sprint rep - a service related to either our phones or Android devices in general (with Sprint) went down.

I was calling about another issue and he had me run an update profile and that was the result; he recieved an instant message during the call that stated the above.
[EVO 4G General] phobos512:
Settings - System Update - Update Profile
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroMeng:
I want to know if it's possible to make a custom SPL that lets us flash splash screens (what comes before your rom's bootscreen) among other things.

Thanks,

HeroMeng
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Decad3nce:
Well regarding the Splash screen, you can actually do that yourself right now without a new SPL.

Find instructions on that here
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroMeng:
There are a few problems with that... I have no idea how to use git and I don't know how to make an rgb888 file.

/noob
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroMeng:
Well, I followed the tutorial you posted and it didn't work. What I want is the SPLASH screen as in before Android starts.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroMeng:
Bump. I'm really interested to see if an SPL is possible. Darch, Decad, Jus1, you guys got anything?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Decad3nce:
You followed THIS?

You'll have to rip open the ramdisk, but the script esigned for extracting the ramdisk is different than ours, you'll have to use split boot.img and do the hex-editing yourself.

Anyways, I'll go mess with it a little bit since I'm finally done with classes for the summer. (THANK GOD)
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeroMeng:
Ahhh, lucky. I have finals week next week.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urushiol:
Got deep into this myself, created custom .rle files dropped them in the init.rc, I still get the stock 2.1 RUU green letters on white initial splash screen.

I got brave and tried a guide I saw for the G1 to flash the splash screen from fastboot, i get this

# fastboot flash splash1 /android/tools/mysplash.rgb565

sending 'splash1' (300 KB)... FAILED (remote: not allow)

I would love to be able to get it to work by playing around with the ramdisk, that way I could be made flashable, however I would settle for being able to change it from fastboot if we could get it to work.

to create the .rle is renamed mysplash.rgb565 to initlogo.rle and logo.rle. Not sure if this will work.

Links:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2877635#post2877635

http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_Splashboot_Images
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MichaelWestin:
I had all but given up hope on this topic, but I guess I'll ask.

The Samsung Galaxy S will play Divx/Xvid/MKV natively without a conversion. This is probably one of the best features I have ever heard, as I have hoped for it to be in some sort of mobile device I already owned, such as a phone, psp, or some other multi-purpose device, instead of having to buy a standalone media player which tends to play many formats.

All videos I watch are encoded in these formats (well mkv encoded in x264, with mkv container). Is there, or will there ever be a way to play these on Android 2.1 or 2.2 for other models? I have an evo, and would be EC-FREAKING-STATIC if I could just drag and drop videos to watch on it. Especially with the hdmi out!! I love the evo, I really think it is great. This one feature is the icing on the cake for me.

If it cannot be done, can somebody just give me a brief description as to why? The way I see it, when you need to play these files on a pc, you just install a video codec to decode it. Isn't there some way it can be added?

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer this.

P.S.- For anyone who thinks conversion isn't a big deal, I agree, it really isn't. The thing is, a lot of the time I find out I need to be somewhere, have to leave right away, and don't have anything converted to watch. I can't tell you how many times I wish I had this feature!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frifox:
atm there are not many options, at least as far as i know...

stock player (good baseline h264 playback)

rockplayer (good divx/xvid playback)

yxplayer (decent main/high h264 playback)

for everything else, i simply have "stream" folder on my PC, drop all other vids there, and play them using OrbLive while on the go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MichaelWestin:
Damn I have been living in the dark. Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabemeyers:
just finished playing with rockplayer, and its pretty darn good

im actually waiting for something bad to happen, and then i

remember... I'm not using a windows mobile phone anymore.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sgt. Schultz:
lol, see now that's funny!

:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaronb1980:
Wuzhenhua player maybe? I havent tried it out on the evo yet but it worked solidly on my other device.
[General Topics] deejayjmc:
Hi XDA,

I am in the process of choosing my MSc IT dissertation title, but need some help on what to choose! I'm very interested in where M(obile)-Commerce and Mobile Development is heading but I'm not too well researched in it as yet. Is there anybody who knows of any new areas which are worth researching, or any problems, gaps in the industry, things that should be developed or will be developed in the future. Does anybody think or know of any mobile technology which will be revolutionary in the future?

I appreciate any help for this!

Thank you,

J
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Bingoig11:
Hello,

I'm going to use my old Himalaya as an embeded GPS in my car, so I would like to customize the today screen so it displays nothing but my TomTom icon.

But I don't know how to do so.

The ideal result would be to remove both up and down trays and only have a TomTom and a File Explorer Icon.

Do you have any idea to do it?

Thanks for your help!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] aeroflyluby:
If you use wm6 you can go into settings -> personal -> today, and uncheck all but date (impossible to uncheck)
[myTouch 3G Slide General] wesgarner:
Just wanted to put this out there, this is an idea space

Couple ideas we may get going:

* Someone leaks a working Engineering / Test Build

* Find a leak in the HTC Sync software (it has to use root to do the internet sharing)

What's been tried:

* Writing to /cache or /data/local

* Mounting system as rw lol

* Anything and everything with Fastboot

* A few other things that I can't think of right now
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sino8r:
Has anyone tried flashing the engineering leak via gold card method? My guess is... our best bet is the internet sharing. The question is how to exploit it...

Personally, I gonna try via htc sync. I already tried fastboot with no luck too. I'm not as savy as you guys but may be dumb luck will be on my side today.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
Why does that internet sharing have to use root? pdanet and easytether dont?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sino8r:
Well I havent even figured out how to get it to share the internet. Sync works but no internet sharing yet. May be I can try something in adb... thta is a good point. I used to use pdanet all the time before root on my G1. Hmmm.... I guess we'll have to see. Im gonna keep trying. Maybe Wes might have better luck. Im not giving up. I need a good android phone w/ kb. Not returning yet...
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Jerzeeloon:
I believe the tmobile champions slide had a test build on it prior to slides launch,at least the guy at my tmobile store said his phone was running beta a week prior to launch,unfortunatly can't find any dumps.he was talking some crazy stuff about his friend already having a patch to oc the cpu to 800mhz.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sino8r:
That sounds about right. Oh god, champions slide?! Does that mean there are two different types of boards? This might complicate things a bit. I dispise when manufactors make two different types of boards for the same phone model. This is G3 and G4 all over again in the wizard subforums. I hate HTC sometimes, lol!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] brokensanity:
Don't worry sino8r, a champion is just the t-mobile term for a member of the marketing team that gets early access to a model to train the retail associates. They got a slide just like the to-market one, but it had a beta build of Eclair w/sense etc.

Not crazy 12 different boards for one phone.... At least I don't think that's the case.

~
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
I'm curious of this myself. I'll try it, F it, I'll send back if bricked. Where can I get the leaked build?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] setzer715:
Its a no go on the gold card boys. Was loading for a while, then checking for a while, then right back to boatloader with no options to flash. This is based off of this leak.

EDIT: If there is another image to try, i will, just let me know.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chadmd23:
Anyone try the method being used to root the Incredible?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] JHStarner:
This may sound silly, I haven't had the chance to really sit down and mess with stuff yet. However, with the adb shell, and the eclipse ide, is there anyway to make a mock version or virtual machine out of the slide, and then blast the hell out of it without fear of bricking?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] faylix:
In talks with hykuro he thinks the unrevoked method should work on all unpatched phones.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] MortICi:
Tried the unrevoked method, with 6 shells spamming adb, and rebooting for 30mins no go.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sino8r:
god I wish he'd help a bit. He knows his stuff. we need to offer him and Paul some donations or something.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] jereader:
I am willing to donate some cash to the cause.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] JHStarner:
If anyone is willing to handle the pool, I'd throw $10 at it.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] mtjnkee:
And i have a hot $20.... C'mon, if we all get on this it would be worth their while.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chrisinaz:
I got some chedda on it.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] bournefusion:
Yeah, I'd be in for $20. If we get root on this thing I'm going to be thrilled. I wish I could do some of the work, but I'm a complete n00b with development, so I'd not be much help.

But I'm good for some money.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] thomas.nelson4:
I definitely have another $20 on it if someone will get root.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] MrOtsKrad:
I got $20 on it
[myTouch 3G Slide General] marvinp:
I'd also contribute $20.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] sino8r:
it looks like paul is currently helping our devs with root now. I'd sugguest we donate to all 3 guys after root. just a couple bucks to each wouldn't be too expensive. i mean you could do more... its just what you can afford. check em out in the rooting the mts thread...
[myTouch 3G Slide General] bournefusion:
Are Paul or any of the other devs posting anything about their ongoing efforts? I usually follow these guys on Twitter and I don't see anything fresh from them in the rooting the mts thread. Am I missing something?

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] sino8r:
There was some stuff late night if you check twitter.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Jerzeeloon:
Can it be rooted through terminal like the g1