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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swaze:
Try this trick, it worked with my hero and works on my EVO as well.

From the dialer dial

*#*#4636#*#*

A window will pop up with some options

Choose Phone information (there will be alot of info and things you can change)

Click menu, and then change radio (You should get a force close which is fine)

Scroll down and change radio from GSM Auto prl to CDMA Auto Prl and hit home.

Thats it, you should see you percentage start to go down and eventually will hit 2-3%. For some reason the phone is automatically locked on GSM. The only catch is when you reboot your phone it resets to GSM, so make sure you redo the process if/when you reboot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbgotenks:
Thanks! I just did it and will report back with results.

I went into that menu earlier (*#*#4636#*#*) and under phone info it said CDMA Auto Prl, so I didn't think about it.

When I click menu and go into change radio that way it does say GSM Auto prl, and I changed it there.

I wonder why it locks to GSM? When we get full access to the system of the phone, can defaulting to CDMA Auto Prl be written into a rom?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swaze:
Im not 100% sure why this happens, but it seemed to be a hardware thing. There was a nice long post in the HTC Hero section about why it happens. Let me see if I can find it and ill post it back, might be some helpful info in there.

EDIT:

Thread from the Hero section

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=651848&highlight=cell+standby+time
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbgotenks:
I remember reading it in the Hero section. I never had the TWS issue with the hero so I didn't pay much attention to it.

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phobos512:
My EVO was already set to CDMA Auto (PRL)...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swaze:
It wasn't, thats just a visual glitch. Once you try to select new radio and it force closes, then you see its really on GSM Auto prl. Check the thread i just posted *Scroll up*
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbgotenks:
No go for me. I have plugged in the phone (to reset the counter) and the phone keeps going to 95% time without signal.

I know I have a weak signal, but other sprint phones appear to not have any problems. Oh well. I might exchange for a new evo to see if I get better signal with it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igobyzach:
So after I enter *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer what I entered disappears and NOTHING happens, I have pulled the battery and still nothing. What gives??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmodelli:
Your are running a modified rom that doesn't trigger the application. You can use CDMA Workshop to do the same, or re-image with a basic rom, like the rooted ota, which would give you access to the app.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3v:
Hi all!

Ok here goes. I bought on ebay a Hero G3 running windows mobile. I think this thing is a clone but it seems pretty identical to the htc, although this phone does not say htc anywhere on it. Behind the battery G3 Hero A6288 is listed.

link : (dropped the h, new users are not allowed to post links) ttp://desoons.en.made-in-china.com/product/yMYnVCGrgocJ/China-Hero-G3-Windows-Mobile-6-5-GPS-WiFi-MSN-PDA.html

It came with Windows Mobile 6.5. Although it's a clone, is it still possible that it could run android?

Hardware seems pretty much exactly the same. However from what i've seen from looking around I would need Android installed first off in order to update?

Also somehow last night (I was drunk) the phone has somehow set a password in Windows Mobile and I do not know what the password is and so i am stuck big time! Tried following instructions to do a hard reset but these don't seem to work unless i'm doing something wrong? Windows mobile just boots up.

Is there anyway around this? Is there any ROMs of Windows Mobile out there from this thing that I could put on it to get around the password?

Please help, I have been looking all day for a solution to this and it's driving me crazy!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3v:
new link

ttp://rofen.en.alibaba.com/product/304037216-209334738/HTC_HERO_G3_Windows_6_5_2_SIM_Smart_Phone.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chachi:
You _might_ be able to load one of the WM "android kits" onto it which are kicked off post boot up, but it is a China counterfeit handset and thus undoubtedly cannot run it natively
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hanser01:
Highly doubtful, the processors are most likely totally different

Sent from my HTC Hero using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eloydark:
Sorry for bringing back from the dead this thread.

I recently aquired a hero clone, an a6288 with the same specs as the one mentioned in this thread.

The phone after a few days of fooling around cannot boot. It hangs during boot up, right after it plays the windows opening sound. I am trying to hard reset it but I cannot find the correct key combination, can anyone help me with that?

Thanks in advance!:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
On the real hero, it's menu, call and end call

But the fake is likely completely different.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
Also based upon Windows not Android - so it could be anything - have you tried Ctrl + Alt + Del? :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eloydark:
That seems to be the problem. The combination is different, I've tried every forum I can find, in russian, chinese, italian and pretty much anything google can give but no key combination seems to work. The company I bought it from seems to be irresponsible on the matter, and every responce I got from them was wrong.

Is there another way I can force the phone to reset? Through a computer via windows or linux?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
No idea. Pull the battery for a while? I honestly haven't a clue about these fakes. They are cheap for a reason I'm afraid :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainstu72:
Try pressing every key and seeing what happens, try seeing if there is a pin slot as well and push that whilst trying all sorts of combos. Other the that, my only advice is to never buy a fake.

What did you do that broke it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldiro14:
You must use the button of ignition and the key Volume + and Volume-.

We touch the key of volume and simultaneously you ignite the cel and it was entering Hard Rest.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yannilupo:
i have the same china HERO G3 :)im newbie and i want to know if is possible to switch fro windows to android!thanks a lot
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
If it's a proper HTC Hero, it runs Android. If it's a fake, it runs WinMo.

So this doesn't sound to be a HTC Hero :( Which means no android for you afaik.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eloydark:
For those who want to know, after many emails with the company I bought it from, I came to understanding that even they don't know how to hard reset it. The final solution they provided was to return the product to them to fix it (if possible) or to replace it. So either way, I will do that, although I now have no trust on the device (it hanged for no apparent reason) and will probably never use it for anything more than a backup phone.

Final conclusion: Cheap chinese phones? NO-GO!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .:Kuku:.:
hello i have same phone with itallian language

i want move it into English ..

any one help how we can change this phone into english ?

Regards
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saykor:
Hi,

Anyone have a english rom for this phone?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cristsc:
home+menu+power on is the hard reset for this phone
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulfc:
volume down + reset button ( up ) and power
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Willuknight:
bumping a dead thread.

Trying to fix a friends phone, I installed a simple HTC cab and now the phone won't boot up.

It says Hero, but then doesnt start.

The hard reset keys listed so far don''t seem to be working.

Anyone know any other hard reset combos that might work?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonesy:
Have any of you tried pressing ALL of the keys available?

The counterfit market is ridiculous.People should research before buying...My wife-to-be nearly got me a nexus one (fake) for £50 thinking it was a real N1 they even call them the Nexus one and Hero so surely that's patent copyright breach?I think they even say HTC on them!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sukinn:
Hard reset

Please, how do Hard reset the phone Hero G3 A6288 from China, it is a clone.

He tried many combinations, but I do not know.

After turning me starts the Windows logo and then a black screen. After squashed Zoom button will appear a few icons, but nothing more. When connected to a PC, the phone does not appear, but only charging.

You do not have this problem with some experience on how to fix this?
[Touch HD General] sbl:
The HD has a Sharp "Smart" display in it which has to be initialized over a SPI interface before it can be used. I am trying to use this same display in another [linux/android] project and my question is this: When Android was ported over to the HD, did someone have to add init code to the kernel to talk to the display over the SPI bus and turn it on, or did the display "just work" (meaning HTC is doing it as part of the hardware init from an FPGA or something)? If it's the former, it will save me some time as I can reuse it; if it's the latter, I'll have to figure it out for myself...

TIA,

sbl

Edit: I realize that Android is coming up from HARET so the SPI init was already done from WM, but the same routine is needed to turn the display back on after going to sleep so it would need to be in the Android code if HTC is not doing it from an FPGA or something.
[Touch HD General] ASK768:
Maybe try asking on the dev's IRC channel? the name of it escapes me, but im sure you can find it without too much trouble :)
[Touch HD General] townkat:
my intuition tells me that you can really help this project, please don't hesitate to join

#htc-linux @ freenode

good luck ;)
[EVO 4G General] Chriscic:
There are big threads on this on the Andrioid Central and HTC user forums. Many folks are experiencing terrible wifi performance. My experience is typical; right next to my router I can pull 13Mbps+ (via speedtest), but if I go into the next room or anywhere else in the house my signal drops to one bar and thoroughput plummets to <1Mbps. Both my iPhone and iPad work great around the whole house.
[EVO 4G General] ultron:
No problems here. In fact, I've been very pleased with the wifi, 3G, and 4G coverage I have here compared with the wifi and 3G I had with my Hero. My speeds are also markedly better. I was pulling 1.9Mbps with 3G yesterday and at that point, I don't think I have any reason to complain about service.
[EVO 4G General] rutter9:
No problems with mine either. Maybe Apple is trying to discredit other products while they are running... lol
[EVO 4G General] YoungAceAtlanta:
i thought i was the only one seeing this, i walk a few steps away from my router and it drops to zero or just one bar. i guess it works best with a wireless N router
[EVO 4G General] Mecha2142:
My Evo's wi-fi reception isn't as horrible as some claim it to be, but it is noticeably weaker than that of my Touch Pro. When I go downstairs, I drop down to one or two bars, where as my Touch Pro stays at a solid three bars.
[EVO 4G General] Grims:
Try and take your router out of dual/tripple band mode and run it on only G or N and see how it does.

I've noticed running with backwards compatibility messes a lot of phones up.
[EVO 4G General] berkmanmd:
i'm having the same issues...

running a linksys 802.11/b/g/n router

seeing the same issues with my ipad, but not with my old iphone

can this be remedied with a simple hack to the os? or would it be totally hw related?
[EVO 4G General] oreoOozZz:
Same for me man, its terrible. Mine isnt rooted or custom rom'd yet though so well see whats up when they start hax0rin the phone a lil more.
[EVO 4G General] SMARTPHONEPC:
Poor Wi-Fi performance would be a dealbreaker so how much of a reality:rumor is this?

I would have to take Sprint up on their 30-day Satisfaction Guarantee-return policy if this issue is not resolved..

BTW, N I've heard will not be supported until 2.2
[EVO 4G General] Chriscic:
I have a wireless N router. Someone on one of the other forums says that Android 2.1 only runs G wireless anyway, although I'm not knowledgeable enough on that yet to confirm that it's true.
[EVO 4G General] rickgomez2003:
Mine is also bad i get 10 to 15ft away and it drops to nothing.:mad:
[EVO 4G General] mrono:
mine drops to * to 1 bar when I go around the house, but it's still working and never disconnects so I don't really care.

-edit- our router sucks too btw so I'm not surprised.
[EVO 4G General] wfhowell:
Evo wifi

I just got my Evo as we were heading to Mexico for vacation. My whole family has (including me) and iphone but I had my Evo with me when we went to a restaurant to eat. The restaurant had wifi coverage but we had to get a password to access. Accessing the wifi with the EVO is a bit more time consuming than the iphone but I didnt care about that. What i DID care was everyone else was saying..CONNECTED as my EVO was still searching. It did find the signal about 15 seconds later. Now the frustrating part. My signal kept dropping while my family, with iphones kept bragging about their signal never dropping. Finally the signal dropped totally from my EVO and I had to use my wifes iphone. I love the EVO and want this phone to work for me. Im not an Iphone fanboy either. I feel like this is something that will be fixed with an update.
[EVO 4G General] SMARTPHONEPC:
If it isn't fixed I don't see how I can get-keep the EVO:eek:..please keep us updated on this issue..:cool:
[EVO 4G General] mrono:
aww, see I came from an android phone without wifi, so i'm used to not being able to rely on it lol.
[EVO 4G General] oubravs2b:
Mine's just OK. I do get coverage throughout the house, even 2 floors up (router in basement). But when I'm sitting right next to the router, literally 2 feet, I do not have full bars. (1 shy). Can't really complain too much, but I do wish it was better.

Speedtest

Next to router: 9438 down, 3996 up

1 floor up: 4492 down, 4102 up
[EVO 4G General] cloudyphiz:
Wifi reception for me is pretty awful, only the "dot" comes on with no circumferential bars when I'm at home and I get no signal at all when I'm at work (where both my laptop & iPhone 3G do fine). This is looking like a deal breaker for me.

Gary
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
Here in Puerto Rico the vast majority of houses are built in concrete... My EVO's WiFi seems to fare worse than my iPod touch's WiFi (which in turn fares worse than my netbook's). In the family room, with one room and one concrete wall in between me and the standard G router, I get a signal and it works fine.

With two concrete walls (one room and a bathroom) in between me and the router signal is borderline but it still seems to work, tho I'm often seeing just a dot. With three concrete walls in between me and the router (two rooms and a bathroom in between) I get no signal whatsoever.

Under those same conditions the iPod touch would ocasionally get a signal in certain corners of that room while the netbook's never had trouble getting a signal unless I go to the far end/corner of the room. I'm not terribly worried about it since I'd use the WiFi the most in the family room but it's a bit troublesome, hopefully it's improved w/an update.
[EVO 4G General] avalst:
I can confirm EVO wifi is much worse then my TP. I'm trying to move my router to a more central location now to accommodate it. :-\ hopefully we'll get N in 2.2 it's not a deal breaker, just an annoyance.
[EVO 4G General] Impulses:
You can always make a directional antenna focuser out of a soda can too, it sounds ghetto but actually works... There was an article about it on MaxiumPC about a year ago.
[EVO 4G General] SMARTPHONEPC:
I really hope they officially address this asap as I would need a handset that does not have weak Wi-Fi reception issues. I've got FIOS 20/20 at home+work but I want it to be functional at any access point that is beyond my management (since it is far faster than 3G&4GWiMax).

If anyone wants to try connectify with a Win7PC & their EVO let us know if it happens to help out at your home/work setting though I'm still hoping to be able to utilize the EVO itself as a true mobile hotspot at times:

http://download.cnet.com/Connectify/3000-18508_4-75024171.html

http://www.connectify.me/docs/supportedcards.html

What happened to quality control or are we still dealing with a beta test product?
[EVO 4G General] danknee:
I have a linksys wrt160n router that is running dd-wrt custom firmware. My TX power is set to 71 (max of 251), at this power I can use wifi on my Evo outside my house with the garage closed and five houses down before I drop the signal completely (my garage is opposite the side of the house the router is on). Cranking the TX up to 251 gets me further down the street a few houses, but degrades the quality of my signal in the house.

I have no drop in the Evo's speed within my house related to the distance from the router. Testing the speed varies with each test, but is not consistently higher or lower based on my in-house distance from the router.

Also, N wireless is built into the Evo chipset, but is not utilized in the current firmware. G is the best connection currently possible.

I recommend checking out the dd-wrt router firmware if you aren't familiar with it.. Also I just wanted to mention that I picked up my wrt160n linksys router for $30 refurbished about a year ago...I have had no issues with it, but please note if you buy the same router hardware version 2 is not supported, but versions 1 and 3 are.
[EVO 4G General] SeanFL:
one thing to consider is that it may have more to do with the calibration of the reported bars than much else.

In other words, two phone manufacturers can report different signal bars at the same signal level. What matters is can you use the signal that it gets. I'd suggest installing an app like wifi analyzer that will show you the signal strength in db. From what I've seen in my home, the evo is receiving similar signal strength to the hero...they are usually within 2 db of each other; sometimes the evo gets a better signal, sometimes the hero. I did notice the hero picking up a distant ssid better than the hero.

Overall, I'm quite happy with the evo wifi. in fact, I've found it downloads much faster than the hero would. Using the speed test app, the evo gets much higher results. The hero seemed like it tapped out at 2000 or 3000 kbps.

Sean
[EVO 4G General] SMARTPHONEPC:
Yeah I previously linked to a search that included:

http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-wifi-test-how-bad-it

I'm still seeing a lot of significant complaints on the Wi-Fi issue so I hope it is resolvable..
[EVO 4G General] donatom3:
After tweaking my router and doing a reset of it (I'm running dd-wrt on a WRT610n) I find my EVO does as good of a job with wifi as my iPad or any other device.
[EVO 4G General] RogerPodacter:
have you guys tested that your hand is not blocking the wifi antenna? the teardown of the evo shows the wifi antenna is in the bottom back of the phone. i know with the nexus, even close to the router, if i cover the wifi antenna the signal drops significantly. but the nexus wifi is at the top, so it doesnt ever get blocked. it seems all HTC antennas are more sensitive than most others.

just as a test, set the evo down on a table in one of the areas that its showing weak wifi signal, and see if it doesnt increase. at least then you will know the deal.
[EVO 4G General] martouf13:
I have great performance all around my house. Try updating your firmware to the latest build. I have had issuess before on certain devices being incompatible until I updated the firmware.
[EVO 4G General] SMARTPHONEPC:
Why would the EVO require router tweaking+reset? -What are you going to do when you're on a Wi-Fi network outside of your configuration capabilities?

Worth checking but what are we supposed to do hold it from the top all the time? -Doesn't sound like the smartest place for the the Wi-Fi..

Can anyone else confirm this as I don't have one yet (it would be nice if it were that simple)? I also wonder if anyone running 2.2 on EVO is seeing this resolved with N speeds-range?
[EVO 4G General] tatnai:
my evo is running a .6 based rom, and the newest firmware. I thought I was the only one with wifi problems until I looked here. mine is terrible. 1 to no bars at home or at work (only get more than than when within 10 feet of router), AND poor internet capabilities to go along with it. it is so bad that at work (where wifi is prolific and no one else has a problem), i've been turning off wifi and using 3G, with much better results.

this is horrible. definitely needs to be fixed by sprint. maybe this is a hardware version issue as posted in other threads . . .
[EVO 4G General] skantman69:
From across my house I am getting 5m down and 1m up on bright house 7/1 cable internet. Seems to be working ok for me. Tested numerous time on speedtest app.

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Sent from Sprint EVO 4g
[EVO 4G General] SMARTPHONEPC:
I'd like to see HTC & Sprint (who I assume would prefer users utilize Wi-Fi) address this issue asap..

Has anyone tried contacting them via about this issue?
[EVO 4G General] mrono:
what HW revision are you
[EVO 4G General] bradynapier:
For all of you having issues - I have confirmed the "covering of the antenna" trick..

If you are covering the bottom portion of the phone, I get 3 MBPS ... If I re-test in the same position without covering the bottom portion of the phone I get 10 MBPS.... quite a difference... im a few rooms away...

Good to know! I was upset about this but I def hold the phone to-where I am covering the antenna! Thanks.
[EVO 4G General] Chriscic:
I've realized that yes, laying it down and not touching it results in great wifi performance, but holding it nosedives performance in some locations (the ones with the weaker signal), to the extent it will barely transmit anything. Interestingly upload speed appears to be unaffected regardless.

Note that it doesn't seem to matter where I'm holding it. Even if I hold only the top edges same thing. So not limited to my finger touching the back bottom of the phone.
[EVO 4G General] :
Are you supposed to see signal bars when you have Wifi on? I don't have any bars or indicator that I switched Wifi on. When I have it on I don't notice any speed difference and the router is in the next room. My house isn't made of plaster or steel either. I end up just turning it off because when it's on I don't feel any difference in speed.
[EVO 4G General] Chriscic:
Look to the immediate left of the cellular-strength indicator bars. The wifi indicator used curved lines (curving downward over a dot) for strength. That is probably not a clear picture but that's where it is.
[EVO 4G General] jbr6700:
RE: EVO WiFi is terrible

Coming from a original Touch Pro to this, one thing I did notice quickly is WiFi strength. My TouchPro showed consistently better signal strength and seemed to load pages quicker than the EVO. I use a Belkin N+ router running dual bands for N as well as G. Haven't speed tested em to confirm, just stating my casual observation @ this point. One thing I can say as a plus is I have not lost the signal while in house on the EVO. Thats a plus here as I have to use a femtocell to back up my cellular signal when at home.
[EVO 4G General] :
Yeah there is no such icon when I turn on my WiFI and yes I entered the WEP in correctly.