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[EVO 4G General] sewhuy:
Just got off the phone with customer service and my free airave will arriving via ups next week. Make sure you speak to the reps nicely, took me about 8 mins max.

Reason for call: no cell reception at home.
[EVO 4G General] edozier:
I think it is their standard practice to provide them for free if you ask and are in a low coverage area. I just called them up and told them I spoke to a friend about crappy signal at the house and he told me to call a request a free airrave because it fixed all the signal problems he had. They sent one right out.

For the person talking about 3g and Wifi. You may still want to use the wifi. From what I have read the wifi chip uses less power then the 3g. Plus the wifi is faster.

I only wished they implemented 4g into these things, but then again 4g sucks the life outta my evo.
[EVO 4G General] pwnst*r:
Okay, but then why have both on? Why would I turn off 3G and only use Wifi?
[EVO 4G General] mattehww:
I know from experience wifi uses less battery than 3g, especially so when you're in a bad reception area. When you're connected to a wifi network, your 3g is automatically disabled. When people say turn off wifi when you're not using it, they mean turn it off so it stops unnecessarily scanning when you're away from home and what not.
[EVO 4G General] coldsweat:
I couldn't imagine having to actually pay for these POS Airaves. What a piece of **** these things are, having to reboot or restart em 3-5 times a week.

/rant

:D
[EVO 4G General] nomadicthoughts:
Just came in here to say how garbage Airaves are. Sure, at first you'll love them. Just wait til it starts sending literally 20 of the same text to people. Got so bad that I stopped texting at home. Thankfully I am now in a place where I can get 0-2 bars of service without the Airave.
[EVO 4G General] pwnst*r:
Do you have anything specific to back up that 3G is actually disabled? From what I've read, the phone will use whichever is stronger, that's it.
[EVO 4G General] pwnst*r:
That has happened to me, albeit once in 7 months, and between myself and especially my g/f who texts a TON, it's not been an issue.
[EVO 4G General] oesjmr:
I just discovered this thread yesterday and immediately thought of my uncle and brother-in-law, both of whom have horrible reception at their homes. My uncle called and had his free Airave on the way in less than 5 minutes. It took my brother-in-law about 10-15 minutes because he got someone who was new, but his free Airave is in the mail too!
[EVO 4G General] anti-up:
I was told I had to pay 130 for an airave because I was new to sprint. I threatened to cancel and they were more than happy to cancel my service instead of waiving the fee for me. I didn't cancel but they made me feel like they don't care about new customers only people who have been with the company for a while.
[EVO 4G General] pwnst*r:
Call again and hopefully you'll get someone else. You'll get one with a little bit of persistence.
[EVO 4G General] drrtydisko:
Hope you don't end up sending multiple texts. People were starting to complain about me texting them 20+ messages with the same content. Airave sucks.
[EVO 4G General] jimd144:
Keep the box. They own the airwave.
[EVO 4G General] youngpro83:
Thank you OP. After being on the phone with them for an hour and nothing but having them tell me I have to pay for it. I hung up the phone called them back and followed Ur instructions and BAM it was simple as that. I told them that I was on the phone with "some department" acted dumb, and said that they were about to process my order for my free airrave and they did as you said and asked how I got transferred to them. I told them the call dropped and I had to call back. The lady transferred me back to Acct Services and the rep came on and said that she was aware that I was in the middle of having an airrave sent out but the call was dropped. I said Yup you are absolutely right. BAM she put in the order and that was it.
[EVO 4G General] blackangst:
This is a known issue with Evo4G and Airave that supposedly Sprint will address this quarter. There's many threads on the Sprint support forum about it.

(Im affected by this bug also)
[EVO 4G General] cactusone:
Does the airwave also handle data?
[EVO 4G General] Toney Starks:
uhh all i did was ask for the airrave, no need for scheming :cool:
[EVO 4G General] blackangst:
Yes.

(This is filler because "yes" is too short :p )
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
I have an Airave 2.0 (I take it that's the Airvana) coming my way for free from Sprint.

My wife is the CTO of a rather huge company, and I bought my EVO4G through their corporate contract. My wife quickly realized that virtually non-existent Sprint service wasn't going to work for her at the house, so she moved on to AT&T and just recently switched again to Verizon (which is working perfectly, as it is on my two college kid's iPhone 4S'es on Verizon). I emailed Sprint CS, told them about my situation (definitely mentioning the decision making position my wife holds at her company), told them that waiting 4+ years for the promised tower in the area is long enough, and since I cannot use my phone at my home, I want to early terminate my contract without penalty. Sprint previously told both my wife and I that they were building a tower in the area with an ETA of 3+ years ago. The tower is actually built, but Sprint is not on it.

After two weeks of "dead air" (no response), the Director of Retension Escalations responded to my email, and offered me an Airave 2.0 device (completely free with all charges waived), and also claims that the texting issue has been resolved. We'll see.

I'll report back after I receive the Airvana and try it out. I have the gut feeling that I will be moving on to Verizon soon, though (not looking forward to the phone decision).
[EVO 4G General] th3gh05t:
I had absolutely one bar to no bars before Sprint sent me an Airave. I threatened to cancel because of the horrible signal coverage I had at my house. My phone would actually give me an alert saying it's transferred to "International Data Roaming".

They sent me the Airave at no extra cost to me.
[EVO 4G General] JDM Civic EG8:
They sent me a free Airave, All I did was call them up and tell them how I barely get any service in my house. Also I kept getting dropped calls left and right, The call even dropped while on the phone with them.

Also I told them I've only been with them for a week and was thinking about going back to T-Mobile. So they told me about the Airvana 2.0 and only thing I have to pay is the taxes.

Since then i've moved to a better location where I get full bars but crappy speeds so the airave comes in handy.

Sent From My Evo 4G Amped Up On Verizon Tower Power!
[EVO 4G General] Eddy315west:
They put a free one on order for me but with my luck it happens to be backordered
[EVO 4G General] kevlar3d:
I get 4 bars at home data is good and 4g exists but just barely. The retentions rep told me that I should have a good signal but couldnt explain all of the dropped calls I get when at my house although he was able to verify on his end.

Said that he could give me a free one and I could pay for service or i could buy one and he could waive the service. Seemed fair enough to me, i bought one for $10 shipped on ebay, got the one that I wanted (airvana instead of samsung)

So far so good, its been about 6 months now, havent paid the montly $5 service charge yet. Have 4 phones in the house which havent dropped a call since the airvana was hooked up.
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
Well, so far so good. It arrived very quickly.

I installed it as per their directions and quickly realized that method just wasn't going to work for me since the Airvana takes over routing duties for the entire home network, including DHCP, port forwarding, etc. Was killing my torrent ratio! I also have a pretty big house so I have a couple of WiFi routers used as WiFi extenders, and having the Nirvana wired before the main router messed that up for some reason. So I put the Airvana after the router, forwarded the appropriate ports, and everythings back to working like a peach.

I have 6 bars of voice in most parts of my house and 4-5 bars from the back porch. Don't really care about data since WiFi is more battery efficient (at least for me), but when I send an MMS I have to switch over to 3G (which is normal). I've tested the reported SMS/MMS bug several times, but I'm still just sending single texts -- no multiples (at least not yet).

Looks like I'll make it until my contract expires in the Fall. Then I can actually have better options about whether or not to stick with Sprint or move on to Verizon.
[EVO 4G General] lumbeendnking:
i tried to get one but unfortnuately for me i am within a mile of service that goes from good to bad. so doesn't quiet work for everybody just a few lucky indiviuals and how they are feeling that day when you talk to them.
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
I wonder what the law of diminishing returns is for this for Sprint? I'm in a relatively new 4-year-old neighborhood, but the short-term plans for this community is for it to become its own city. I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of other Sprint users living in my neighborhood alone. How many (free) Airaves = the cost for Sprint of putting an antenna on a tower that's already in my neighborhood?
[EVO 4G General] Eddy315west:
I finally got mines yesterday . Had problems getting gps light to stay green. Moved antenna to a different location . Now it works great. 6 bars everywhere in my house.
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
Sent mine back. Almost immediately started getting complaints from friends/family that I was sending them 10 copies of each text. It is absolutely ridiculous that they haven't fixed this known issue yet. Now I'm negotiating with Sprint for early termination of my contract without penalty. Normally I would just wait for this contract to run out, but Sprint promised me multiple times that they were putting an antenna on the tower in my neighborhood "any day now", and their coverage maps even USED TO to have the area labeled as "location of future tower", but then that just quietly disappeared. They shouldn't promise their customers things that they can't (or won't) deliver.
[EVO 4G General] Eddy315west:
So far so good with mines. Haven't had that multiple text problem.
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
How do you have yours installed -- right after the modem or behind your router? I think the problem with multiple texts has to do with installing it behind your router like I had to (or it borks my entire home network).
[EVO 4G General] JDM Civic EG8:
I have my Airvana setup like this Modem> Router> Airave I use to have the multiple text but it went away.. Now the only thing annoys me is gps says I'm in West Chicago which is no where near me fml

Sent From My Evo 4G Amped Up On Verizon Tower Power!
[EVO 4G General] Eddy315west:
Mines was a simple one since my modem is a modem/wifi router in one . Its a Motorola surfboard 6580 it just has 4 router ports in the back and none say wan lan or internet just numbered 1-4 so in 1 my ps3 is plugged in 2 my laptop 3 my airave just the wire from airave to the ethernet port. And so far its been great not a issue or reboot yet
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
Sprint Support finally replied back with a bit of attitude like it was my fault for having something more than the most basic home network. They seemed to be forgetting that the only reason they sent one to me was because they lied about getting their service on an existing tower in my neighborhood.

Sorry, but it's 2012 -- any company that isn't going to offer decent service/signal just about everywhere might as well just fold and get out of the business. It's like 20 years ago when you could actually move somewhere and not be able to get a land line phone. I mean, c'mon, we're remote piloting drone planes on the other side of the world, and I can't get one bar of signal at my house? Really?
[EVO 4G General] Febby:
I just got my Airvana... It works great but I got some questions.

1. Why are my data speeds via the Airvana still slow? I have a very good connection with my ISP (20mbps to 35mbps download, 3mbps upload).

Highest I get with the Airvana is 300 kbps to 500 kbps. I do though get full signal bars inside home. Thought I'd at least be getting a whopping 1.5mbps to 2mbps with airvana since it runs off my internet.

2. Do I still get unlimited mobile to mobile or is it using my family plan mins?

Thanks! =)
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
Since you're at home, I would just use WiFi for data -- you're always going to get a faster connection that way. Just remember that in order to send a MMS you need to be on 3G.

Don't know the answer to your second question. Sprint told me that my Airrave was actually considered an additional line on my account, which means it was sharing the minutes of my original phone plan, so I am not sure if the free mobile to mobile rates apply.
[EVO 4G General] Eddy315west:
To your first question . Data speeds are indeed limited on it cuz i have 100mbps download and 5mbps upload and i get about what u are saying also . That why i just use wifi for data
[EVO 4G General] munkybeatz:
Why would you use anything other than WiFi while at home for data?

I mean, even if you had perfect 4G reception at home, you're still going to get much better down/up rates with your home Wifi, especially with your speeds.
[EVO 4G General] lazer9:
Wait! So you're telling me if I get one of these that no matter if I am calling non landline phones, it is going to chew away at my minutes?
[EVO 4G General] internetpilot:
No, I'm saying that I don't know and passed on what Sprint told me. But you may want verify directly with Sprint about free mobile-to-mobile with an airvana before you call your entire contacts database this month. And you may want to get (and keep) that answer in writing. ;)
[EVO 4G General] lazer9:
Thanks for your input. The point is actually moot now. I've just officially re-ordered new phones and contract with Verizon. They ended up working with me both in reality (signal) and CS related discussions 100% better than Sprint unfortunately. ;)
[EVO 4G General] nyboy07:
Is this only for homes? I get horrible signal at work, even though there is a tower really close. I think it's the buliding.
[EVO 4G General] Febby:
You can get one for your home but take it out to your work office without any issus as long as it works in the area. I know people who do that. :)
[EVO 4G General] nrvlljr:
My friend just got one. All he did was threaten to cancel due to no signal at his house. The thing is it seems just to be a router. It has to be connected to the internet for it to work.
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[General Accessories] XGodOfModzX:
I don't need it because I know a way to use the wifi network to share your media libraries and stream the media to your phone. It's way better. I also can do it through Bluetooth.
[General Accessories] Whosdaman:
So it can access the files anywhere? Cause this would be awesome to use with my Epic. I got alot of videos and music on my laptop. So if I was on my 3G network, I can wirless stream my music and videos?
[General Accessories] XGodOfModzX:
No, wifi and Bluetooth only.
[General Accessories] The_Real_D/\SH:
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[General Accessories] XGodOfModzX:
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[General Accessories] The_Real_D/\SH:
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[General Accessories] XGodOfModzX:
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[General Accessories] chizzwhizz:
Dockstar for PC

It works as a virtual drive. I have one and it is very useful in the house since I dont have to connect my hardrive to anything in order to access it. another useful thing i do with is transfer files...my brother has the password to it so he downloaded the desktop plugin. Now whenever we want to show each other a movie or song...we just copy and paste the file onto the virtual drive like we would a folder on our computer and we have full access to the newly uploaded content...

the only draw back is in playback of your movies and music when not on the same network...it takes a while to load, and you have to deal with constant buffering.
[General Accessories] The_Real_D/\SH:
i dont have any troubles with buffering personally, i watch stuff at work from my hard drive at home without any troubles.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ThaDeanesta:
How can i take a cooked desire ROM, and port it to the htc hd2? (or use it as a base?)

I understand how to make a system.ext2 (make the image, not how to put anything in it) and i understand how to mount it -- but how can we make the build??? there are no tutorials on this at all, and i wish there was.

Any help would be extremely helpful! Thanks in advance!

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Oh and i noticed that nobody has ported any Evo 4G roms (even though the devices are pretty similar). why is that? Because it is CDMA?

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Update: What I KNOW

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kjeong3514:
Useful!

I would love to know if there is a way or instructions on how to do this. The desire has many great roms/modded apps I would like on my phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] corlygunnz:
I would love to know too. But I'm pretty happy with what the devs are doing so far with these roms.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thenotoriouspie:
Go look in the android dev subforum. you might find something there ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] erikvario:
search on COFFEESHOP
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] the_scotsman:
Yea, I too would LOVE to know more about this...

^^^That coffee shop is OLD and hasn't been updated in a long time...I wouldn't bother...

There is a good kitchen in the Android main dev thread, but it's currently not for WM devices running Android...

PLEASE someone share the secret! :o
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoangan12:
i want know too. who can share tool kitchen and to lead please! thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ThaDeanesta:
What I Know....

Well, from what i can see:

You can create a system.ext2 image from a folder in ubuntu (in terminal) using

[B][I]First, you need to change directory to your desktop:[/I][/B]
cd /home/[COLOR="Red"][USERNAME][/COLOR]/Desktop

[B][I]Then, make an image of a folder on your desktop:[/I][/B]
sudo genext2fs -d /home/[COLOR="Red"][USERNAME][/COLOR]/Desktop/[COLOR="Magenta"][FOLDER][/COLOR] 307200 system.ext2

Where [USERNAME] = your short ubuntu username, and [FOLDER] is the folder of which you want to make an image of. (the contents of the folder will be put into the root of your image).

This will make a 300MB image. If you want to change that, change the "307200" to the value that you want.

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If you extract an update.zip, there is a system folder,a data folder, and a boot.img.

I'm pretty sure that you can take the contents of the system folder, and put them in system.img. I'm not 100% sure on what to do with the data folder, but i think you can put the contents into data.img. As for the boot.img, i think that it may be rootfs.img but am not 100% sure.

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Now, if you want to look at an exsisting system.ext2 or a data.img, just open up terminal and tipe in:

sudo mount -o loop /home/[COLOR="Red"][username][/COLOR]/Desktop/system.ext2 /mnt

This is just an example for if your file is on the desktop, and will be mounted in /mnt.
Change the username to your username before entering this into terminal ;). The same
process works for data.img (just change system.ext2 to data.img).

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I know the way to create an image is correct, and i know the way to mount an image is correct, but i'd like to know exactly how to do the process from the start.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoangan12:
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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Antonioffaxii:
Thanks for the info! Should help a lot
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hoangan12:
i used : sudo genext2fs -d /home/[USERNAME]/Desktop/[FOLDER] 307200 system.ext2

but erro :

hoang@hoang-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo genext2fs -d /home/hoang/Desktop/folder1 307200 system.ext2

genext2fs: Too many arguments. Try --help or else see the man page.

i use : sudo mount -o loop /home/hoang/Desktop/system.ext2 /mnt

and modifed it and now i want create to ext2 file

how to create a system.ext2 , please help me ! thanks
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] David Balfour:
try using

genext2fs -d /home/[USERNAME]/Desktop/[FOLDER] -b 307200 system.ext2

also dont use the sudo command for this. If you use sudo then this will create it with root only permissions and makes it more annoying to edit.

Thats should help.

So looking at a Desire build the system folder in this is the same as our system.ext2 file and can see were some of the files fit but there are others in the desire build that look to belong in the kernel.

I am not bothered about building a new kernel as there are several fine people already working on excellent ones but i think we need a break down for rootfs and the intird.gz to find out a little more of what goes were when taking a working nexus/desire build apart to recompile for us.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ThaDeanesta:
Still not helping
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] smjfosho:
i cant move lost+found folder
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] David Balfour:
From where.....

Ok Lets assume that you have mounted the system.ext2 to /mnt

from terminal type chmod 777 /mnt/lost+found

see if this helps. You might need to preface the command with sudo if it does not work
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Hatefly:
This is pretty much what I was wondering too. Like, where do I put all of these Kernal and Module files and make them play nice with Android and then port it all so I can use it on my HD2.

Noob Question:

When you say mount the img, what exactly do you mean? Is it the same is being able to open the file and add/remove the files that make up the img?

Is there anywhere I can find like a cheat sheet of sorts for terminal commands?

Sorry for the noob questions, I have never used Linux before.

I was able to though within about 3.5 hours create 2 custom ROMS, flash my wifes G1 without bricking it, and use coffeeshop to create a System.ex2 file from a CM6 Desire rom I modified and added FRG33 radio too :) To bad I have no idea WTH to do with it :confused:

Sooo... I'm learning if anything!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Stephen:
I have managed to create the system.ext2 file haret loads and then starts to boot android but gets to cant find ipv6 and then loops with the battery percentage. I think I am not using the right image.

I downloaded a desire image from shippedroms.com Im wondering is there another source for downloading roms? I am looking for a rom compatable with the HD2 that has sense.