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[EVO 4G General] LordLugard:
Craptastic phones for the longest times until recently, horrid customer service, the Nextel fiasco didn't help as well. The Palm Pre was an abject failure.

Yes, the Everything Plans might be the "best value" in wireless now (according to Hesse) but forcing people who already had perfectly capable Vision plans (of different iterations) into more expensive plans based on a particular phone only helped in alienating some who moved on to the Jeebus-phone or Verizon or Tmobile.

Just consider that Tmo's Even More Plus plans give you 500 minutes and unlimited nights and weekend for $29.99 (no contract) and if you have jibby-jabber youngins who text like fiends then it's just $10 more. I personally know friends and folks who couldn't stomach minimum $69.99 starting point on Sprint when they didn't want any data or gps or crappy Sprint T.V and so forth, just talk and texting, and moved to T-mo. Coverage is on par with Sprint here in NYC.

Don't even get me started with MetroPCS. Times are tough and people are looking at their pockets and $40/month (tax included) for unlimited talk/text/web (no contract/credit check) is difficult to ignore even when the carrier has crappy coverage. Here in NYC i notice lot of folks signing up with them. My cousins all signed up and they're fine with it, bills are cut in half.

Now, the Evo might be helping to keep tetteering customers within the fold and enticing new signups but they need MORE cool phones. Launch the Epic already and be on the frontline to launch Win Phone 7 phones at the onset. On a side note, how many folks are holding off on the Evo or passed on it because of the $10 fee? Might not be much but some potential signups might be on that list..plus the dammed thing is "sold out" everywhere. Folks come in to buy and walk right out cause it's sold out.

The competition is getting tougher with all these prepaid options and the only differenciator seems to be that post paid plans have much cooler phones (which i think is a deliberate ploy). If Virgin Mobile (a Sprint company) can offer a Blackberry Curve with 300 mins, unlimited blackberry data/sms/pics for $35 no contract, they have to be making some profit off that low price. Makes you wonder...
[EVO 4G General] echoside:
Where I'm at (tacoma,wa) almost each store is in stock but if your already a customer the are "out" or if you need to get it replaced they are "out" but say your switching from a different company to sprint they magically have some...its amazing...always thought copperfield was fake...
[EVO 4G General] Aridon:
Nextel

Terrible phones until recently

Sigma of being inferior
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
To be honest, they're just not advertising right. Most people don't care about 4G speeds. However, if you explain to them, exactly like this: "Call anyone you want, whether they have T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, MetroPCS, or any other carrier without using any minutes, text anyone you want, whenever you want, however much you want, and download, watch, listen, or do anything on the web all you want, for just $70 per month. That's $40 less than AT&T or Verizon's comprable plans!" then maybe they'd get a LOT more people.

Oh, and also punch a hole in Verizon advertising by going, "'Droid? We've got that too. Nationwide 3G coverage, including all of Verizon's network for free? We've got that."
[EVO 4G General] echoside:
They have a ton of commercials running right now using everything you said but the carrier bashing.
[EVO 4G General] cloud858rk:
Sprint doesn't roam on Verizon's 3G.
[EVO 4G General] Hrshycro:
Because the EVO was their first phone worth having.
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Depends on your plan and your settings. ;)
[EVO 4G General] skantman69:
Guys almost all major companies lose money on paper, no profit, no taxes and with this idiot Obama and pelosi screwing up the tax law and this dumbass healthcare bill almost all of your major corporations are going to be showing a loss. Trust me they are making money you just don't see it.
[EVO 4G General] gatherman:
Well said sir. Loss is not always really a loss to us normal folks. Accounting practices are a little screwed up in the business world.

And for the record their purchase of Nextel was rather smart. Nextel owned bands Sprint needed + they owned WIMAX which is why Sprint owns 56+% of Clear. Regardless what anyone wants to think WIMAX (true 4g not Verizon or AT&T's bull) is the future.. 802.16 speed and latency on a phone!! Come on man that is the bees knees..
[EVO 4G General] apexi350z:
They should hire you instead :D

I'm sold!

But you are right, I think most people doesn't know that our Sprint phone/plan can call ANY mobile without using any plan minutes... I sure didn't know before I switched to EVO from T-Mobile, this was just a bonus!
[EVO 4G General] midri:
I almost guarantee that sprint's roaming agreement with US Cellular & Verizon prohibits them from brand association of that nature and probably even about mentioning that they can actively roam on those network.
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
I thought the Hero was well worth owning. I was very happy with it.. until i held an EVO for the first time ;)

Very interesting and thought provoking comment.. hmm...

Good point :)
[EVO 4G General] pecosROB:
Spot on. The adoption of Android (and good hardware) saved Sprint from extinction perhaps? When my family was on Verizon around 2003-2006 it seemed AT&T had the best phones. Then I switched on my own in Dec 2006 for a BB Pearl, then later got a Curve. From that I went to Fuze in 2008, then realized AT&T is getting behind on the phones and that Sprint (and soon after Verizon) started having great devices when they busted out with Android.

Agreed. I've only clicked on it to see what it does - and it's not impressive. A NASCAR nerdy fan would be very disappointed.

But hey, maybe for a redneck that lives and breathes NASCAR (and not technology) will think it's the hottest **** on the block.
[EVO 4G General] itmustbejj:
If anything NASCAR should pay Sprint to put that crapp on their phones.
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
What happens in the Sprint store when the salesman is talking to you, stays in the Sprint store... ;)

This.
[EVO 4G General] :
I actually work for Sprint (no not in the store...).

The company has spent a LOT on the network and customer service. Sprint CS used to be so bad that they used to recruit the people that were fired from other call centers. :eek:

That and everything else was outsourced completely to other countries. So you had ****ty Americans to deal with, or a nice foreigner who you couldn't understand. It was a total mess.

Then Hesse came along and decided to start bringing people back into the United States, changed who the company used for customer service hiring, and is now trying to clean up the mess left by his predecessor(s).

Thankfully he's done an excellent job so far, (if you've seen some of the changes I have, you'd be amazed) and is trying to get the company back on the right track.

~Jasecloud4
[EVO 4G General] exempt:
Dan Hesse is the man. Probably one of the better CEOs out there
[EVO 4G General] mrniceguy715:
Did anyone notice Verizions loss?? Sprint launch a new pre-paid brand and aquired iPCS wich was pretty expensive. When you buy out a regional you also assume thier debt. Also add in anything else that you can right off. Look at the amounts of free cash Sprint has at the moment!! The business is doing well, its better than the folks in the know thought. The ratings have been switched to a buy!
[EVO 4G General] ZachPA:
You all are pretty much right.

A loss on paper is not necessarily a real true loss. Because of the way corporations account for things (like for instance, amortization or depreciation), they can actually be socking money away while on paper show an enormous loss. They can then carry that loss over (or back) to other quarters. All in the name of keeping the tax man at bay.

When corporate profits are taxed at nearly 40%, there is no reason not to take that charge this quarter, or make that capital improvement now, or realize an actual loss on something and walk away. Growing businesses pay no corporate income taxes, plain and simple.

Next, Sprint has customers, though they were losing them at a record pace just two years ago before the Pre came out. They've made the changes they needed to make, and it seems to be working.

The biggest change they made was with customer service. Sprint CSRs made a horrible name for the company for years and years, so naturally it will take some time to clean up that image. The public is fickle though, and with the sorry state of affairs at the other major carriers, the public is VERY fickle. Just look at continued churn higher than most other industries as evidence.

If I had a sit-down with Dan Hesse today, I would tell him to hire the same advertising agency that did the Domino's campaign earlier this year. You know it; it's the one where Domino's said "we've been selling you cardboard and catsup for 20 years and you've been eating it. Sorry. Try this new thing now; we think its much better!" It worked, and how.

I've been a Sprint customer for only two months. The EVO was the first electronic device I've ever bought sight unseen, and I couldn't be happier with it. I came from VZW, and I pay $70 a month after taxes and fees for the same service VZW was raping me for $220. I'm definitely bullish on Sprint now.
[EVO 4G General] knives of ice:
except he sure as hell shouldn't be starring in commercials. the ads are just pathetic even for the Evo.
[EVO 4G General] littlerockant:
Bad customer service is one reason. They give a lot of different answers to the same question if call back a couple of times. There is a pattern of this. Customer service is huge within a customer's eyes.

Just like others have said, Sprint doesn't always have the best selection of phones. Hopefully they keep blessing us with phones that are on the cutting edge like the Evo.
[EVO 4G General] :
Sprint has excellent customer service. Especially when it comes to loyalty. They are very helpful.
[EVO 4G General] hakeem0996:
Because sprint rarely has a hot phone . Most consumers only care about how hot a phone is that's all case and point the iphone users even thought AT&T suck balls they stick with it bcz of the iphone.Most of them got a hot phone that can't make calls.

second reason sprint is terrible when it comes to advertisement

Verizon made android phones cool with their "DROID commercials" while sprint made two meh attempt at advertising the EVO.

word of mouth and youtube are responsible for the EVO's succes
[EVO 4G General] Rennat:
The best answer I have read yet!
[EVO 4G General] diomark:
The most under-rated carrier.

Having said that, Verizon's 3g tends to be faster (I tried out a droid incredible for a month.. was getting better speeds then my EVO gets.. BUT it's understandable considering they're rolling out 4g..)

-mark
[EVO 4G General] jpitt916:
Well Verizon was only $7 more a month than Sprint...they kind of lose the "saving money with us" bit thanks to the $10 premium that's "not for 4g".

Aside from that I'm ready to try some Domino's pizza.
[EVO 4G General] fatboypup:
they could start by giving all the freeloading SERO douchebags the boot ;)
[EVO 4G General] pb4life754:
Hey I'm a nascar fan and a nerd and I used to work for sprint in okc ats they lose money because they pay to train 40 people and only 10 make it thru training I worked there for a year and half and only 1 person was still there when I left the only reason I quit was fam issues
[EVO 4G General] Ranger093:
Last Time I checked verizon lost alot of money too...... ???
[Android Apps and Games] DatacomGuy:
I dont think it exists yet.. but would love to make folders in my app drawer for categories. Games, System Stuff, etc.

Such animal exist? I can't find one.

Any way to develop one? Developers?
[Android Apps and Games] blablum:
I have one of the home screens with 'Apps Organizer' folders which I find much easier to use than the app drawer since it is organized by app function. I even removed the launcher from the bottom of the screen since I don't need it. Functionally it is kind of like an iphone (I wasn't trying to emulate an iphone, just found it to be the most functional setup)
[Android Apps and Games] nolageek:
DxTop has this built it. It's one thing I miss about it after switching to ADW.
[XPERIA X10 General] murmeljenta:
Hi,

I have spent two evenings trying to reorganize my contact list and understand how the different backup solutions work. I have found a lot of advice, but none that seem to work on X10. I asked for help in SE support forum, but I doubt that they will answer.

So, what is the best option for backing up contact data?

SE sync:

+ contact photos are stored

+ keeps deleted contacts in the trashbin (nice when contacts have mysteriously disappeared from the phone)

- facebook and twitter connections are lost

- address entries do not seem to work (there might be more faulty fields, I didn't test all)

Google sync:

- does not seem to be able to sync entries/modifications from phone to gmail! :eek:

- contact photos are lost

- facebook and twitter connections are lost

Facebook sync:

I have matched my contacts, but can't see any effect of it on the phone, on facebook or on SE sync... But I'm a newbie on this one.

Edit: Does not work on 1.6, we need to wait for 2.1.

Backup to SD card, e-mail/transfer file to computer: (contacts -> settings -> backup contacts -> SD card)

+ reliable (?)

- seems to destroy contact images

- requires some manual efforts

- facebook and twitter connections are lost

Have you found any options that back up everything in a fast and reliable fashion?

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I can't believe that I've got this right. I found this commercial slogan on so many websites: "You don't need to sync Android. Ever."
[XPERIA X10 General] suzed:
I can only comment on one aspect of your query and that is that Facebook sync only works for Android 2.?? so won't help you whilst your phone is on version 1.6.

Hope others can help you on the other side of things.
[XPERIA X10 General] TechGuru_x10:
Open contacts settings backup contacts
[XPERIA X10 General] murmeljenta:
Yes... Aka:

as mentioned in 1st post ;)

Have you found a way to keep pictures/facebook/twitter connections on this one?
[XPERIA X10 General] Mano1982:
MyBackup Pro :p
[XPERIA X10 General] proatiku:
i have to say your wrong about google sync not modifying changes from phone to google. you have to enable auto sync to allow it, if not you have to run the sync manually from time to time.

i have never used facebook or SE sync and i seem to have up to the minute modifications both on phone and web using google sync.
[XPERIA X10 General] TechGuru_x10:
Did you try logging in Facebook and Twitter and then running the restore... My Pictures from SD cards were there in contacts...... I will try today with Facebook and twitter after I reload 026 firmware.....
[XPERIA X10 General] murmeljenta:
Well, you're lucky. Auto sync is enabled. However, nothing moves from the phone to gmail - only the other way.

From what I have read on various forums, gmail only accepts contacts that were originally stored on gmail and then transfered to the phone. However, even such contacts are not synced back to gmail when I edit them on the phone. Perhaps my phone is buggy? I have specified the tests I have made (http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/6621#6621), but I'm not sure that anyone can help.

Facebook and twitter data are indeed stored in the .vcf file that the phone creates.

I don't want to risk losing my 500 contacts, so I haven't dared to import the whole file. I extracted one person and made a new file, but that file would not import. Please share your experiences!
[General Questions and Answers] t3rm3y:
howdy, as title says - im looking for a auto screen lock, wit hability to answer to the speaker while keeping screen locked. but havbe ability to see who is calling etc.

any apps out there for this?

thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
I'm trying to get the Droid X boot screen loaded up on my EVO, but no matter what I do, the audio doesn't play, and the animation itself is choppy (not just the first few frames, but the whole thing). I've tried placing the files (bootanimation.zip, android_audio.mp3, also tried SPC_animation_final.mp3) in these folders:

/data/local/

/system/bin/ (Don't know why, randomly heard it as a place to try, didn't work at all)

/sytem/media/

/system/customize/resource/ (Didn't work at all)

The boot screen worked fine for me on Eclair, so I guess the other question to go with this problem is, was there a change for boot screen requirements between 2.1 and 2.2?

Oh, and #CyanogenMod on Freenode has been... Less than helpful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
Bumpity bump.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
Yet another bump. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] asad510:
WORKS on htc hero Vanilla Eclair just flashed

just wipe dalvik cache

flash theme

reboot

if boot loop or any problem take out batery and reboot

LINK:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704209

=)
[Vibrant General] symbit:
I am trying to root my Vibrant, but when I hold down both ends of the volume rocker and power the device on I get stuck on a screen that says "Downloading..... Do not turn off Target".

Is my phone actually downloading something from the web? I left it on like this all night and nothing seemed to have changed.

If it is actually downloading something should I move to an area with better 3G reception while trying to root?

Any help on this subject is IMMENSELY appreciated.

Thanks!
[Vibrant General] Minker17:
It shouldn't be downloading anything. Unless I'm mistaken. The phone should just be installing the zip that's on the phone.
[Vibrant General] symbit:
Thanks for the reply Rick!

to quote the Root your Vibrant Guide:

"7. In Recovery menu select 'Reinstall Packages' (use vol_down then power to select)"

Does this mean I do not need to do this? I put the renamed file "update.zip" onto the phones internal memory....

Am I missing something?
[Vibrant General] bubonik:
Unplug the usb cable and try again.
[Vibrant General] phantasm714:
or alternatively, issue a "adb reboot recovery" command from ADB.
[Vibrant General] symbit:
Unfortunately Windows is not properly identifying the Vibrant, and it seems that ADB is not detecting it as a result either.... I'll keep at it.
[Vibrant General] phantasm714:
I'm assuming you have the correct drivers installed on your Windows box?
[Vibrant General] symbit:
I cant find any standalone drivers, but I am downloading this Samsung PC Studio crap. I hope that has them.
[Vibrant General] holysmokesbatty:
Did you turn on USB Debugging in the setting menu?

I know it's a stupid question, and I'm not trying to call you stupid, but it is a commonly missed step in getting ADB recognition.
[Vibrant General] skater4690:
really dude there are plenty of answers you could have found for this with a little searching but your in download mode yellow triangle sign with the android guy digging right? well unlplug the charger from the phone hold both volume up and down and hold power while turning on the phone and then the recovery should pop up use the volume keys to select reinstall packages then select it with the power button then reboot and now your rooted.... you should have searched for this instead of posting a thread and this is not development it should have been posted in the general section and if you cant do this then you should try to root your phone in the first place but if you need a easier way to do i have a theory of a one click method using rom manager from the market that should work
[Vibrant General] symbit:
Thank you for correcting me. Was that meant to be one long sentence?
[Vibrant General] skater4690:
no it wasnt i just dont like using punctuation. Did it help you, or do you need me to put it in numerical order of the steps?
[Vibrant General] Minker17:
This is all starting to seem very similar to the dream forum.you guys need to all chill out.
[Vibrant General] skater4690:
i just left that forum lol its not as bad as this posting was usually in the right place
[Vibrant General] junkdruggler:
quoted from a guy with nothing good to ever say...

...literally this is the only thing good ever stated from this guy...
[Vibrant General] skater4690:
so what is this suppose to even mean? i already posted something towards helping this guy and what have you done? and how would you know what the only good thing i have ever said? have you read any of the 300 some odd posts ive had?
[Vibrant General] Jibreil:
Besides arguing why couldn't someone advice him to unplug the phone from the USB cable in order to enter recovery mode.
[Captivate General] wpb2:
How many of you have had dropped calls on the Captivate?

I haven't had any, and I got my Captivate on the 16th. (2 days before launch from BestBuy).

I am coming from an iPhone 3G/3GS/4 and had many dropped calls.

What I am implying is that AT&T's network isn't totally crap (as most people suggest). I believe it is due to the iPhone that people think at&t's network is crap.

So the question is:

1. Does the Captivate have an exceptionally great antennea?

2. Has at&t network suddenly gotten better(since July 16th)?

3. The iphone 3G/3GS/4 have a horrible antennae?

4. Any combination of the above 3?
[Captivate General] mymansionisabox:
I've been with AT&T since before Cingular bought the old AT&T.

AT&T does not have a bad network. They suffer from terrible PR, relatively poor customer support (due to their new training with the new AT&T as I didn't have problems with Cingular), and allowing Apple to produce its phone the way they did.

The iPhone has had a poor antenna design since the beginning.

The people who have problems with AT&T, I can guarantee 70%+ have iPhones.
[Captivate General] wpb2:
Thanks for confirming what I just learned. I have had iphones for a long time, and just dealt with the dropped calls thinking it was at&t sh**y network. I really like Apple products, but they don't know how to make a phone.

All my friends still think its at&t even though I tell them I haven't had a dropped call yet on this Samsung.
[Captivate General] mymansionisabox:
Yeah.. I try and tell my mother that all of the time.

She just got rid of her iPhone 2g.

Her eyes have just been opened hahaha
[Captivate General] max_warheads:
I have been with ATT/Cingular since .. oh.. 1998?

I've had many phones, some that would drop calls, usually from being out of ATT towers in massively rural areas, or driving past the towers too fast..

I got the eternity when it came out, killed 2 (6 months on the dot, both times) and they gave me an impression which I promptly notices it's screen starting to die at 6 months-ish. They dropped calls only when I was 1) out of decent service 2) driving too fast past a tower in close proximity as it tried to switch carriers.

This puppy? Not even a crackle.
[Captivate General] focalguy:
I had a Fuze (Touch Pro) most recently (new ROM, Radio, etc) and it dropped calls quite frequently.

I think I may have had one dropped call so far but it was in my office which gets poor signal anyways. I had many more on my last phone but I'm not quite ready to say AT&T is so great. Maybe this phone has a better antenna.
[Captivate General] wpb2:
Thanks for all the replies. I am trying to convert a few of my friends, but the general stigma is "Android Sux" They don't even know about the OS, all they know is their sister/cousin/friend has some crappy Backflip, so All android is crappy.

Oh well I will be plenty happy with my calls staying connected, while they complain about their dropped calls because of AT&T's network.

For me to leave the iPhone was exceptionally hard, because I have 3 Macs, and AppleTV, iPod Touch, and Airport Extreme. I have spent Thousands of dollars on apps from the app store along with Movies. I just had enough with the dropped calls.
[Captivate General] Maroon Mushroom:
I haven't had a single dropped call. Voice quality seems higher than on iphones. (Can't vouch for other androids)