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[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
Im sorry but i need somewhere to blow of my mind.

Sprint sucks. I hate them. There service is getting worse and worse. I stick with them only because verizon credit fee is alot att has a 2gb dat plan and tmobile only has edge in most places. Sprints idea of service is by havijng no service with 2g and 3g... so there for my battery sucks no matter what phone i get because it is always searching for service.

So what's sprints answer to that? Build more 3g towers so we can get service or how about 2g so we can at least make phone call? No. They added another 4g radio that comsumes more battery then ever and has it in 18 cities originally about 8 and then we pay (which is understandable so they can get more money to build 4g) but is utterly stujpid how they are going about it.. at least tombile lit up most place with hsdpa before releaseing a phone and verizon im sure is going to do the same thing....

Now for the epic.

I had the evo for about a week and i miss the kick stand and stability and the brightness of the screen... i also miss the custom roms but that will take time i know.

What i hate about the epic is the screen is way to f ing bright that i can't look at it at night tikme. It honestly pisses me off. And then we you go to a white screen it gets even brighter. Wtf is the problem with that. I can't use my phone half of the time unoless i tur on a light cause my eyes burn me. Yes its better then the evo but the evo was muc more darker when needed.

I get even less service with this pphone then i did with my palm pre. My hero and my evo. and the phon us buggy as hell.

Im not trying to turn people away from the epic because i love it so much more then the evo. But sprints to fix this bugs fast or samsung.

They also need t fix the f up battery icon that you thbink your phone is fully charged and its really dying. Also the bug when let's say your phone is at 30 percent and you plug it in and leave in and reset it will boot back up at 70 percent. Then you have the phone charger that take 8 years to charge your phone and if you are using it forget it. It wont budge or may even die while charing.

Ill give it time for a radio update and a few patches to see what's good.

Also evo users or people scared to change or can't decide the evo was completely bugged when it first came out and the radio was worse then the epics one so don't think its cookies wth the evo either. They just updated it to tbere idea od pferection.

\rant
[Epic 4G General] chococrazy:
I understand it's a rant, but you're angry at sprint for expanding a newer service?
[Epic 4G General] ravizzle:
I think the bad connection has to do with where u live. Maybe sprint doesn't have good coverage where u live. I luckily an in a good coverage area and although I don't have 4g in my area I'm happy with my service. Perhaps u should call sprint and they will give u a free airrave and maybe that will help a bit.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
Im angry at sprint not finishing or perfecting there 3g service before moving on to 4g.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Sprint is a company..making towers to blanket the entire population is not economical...if anything 4g is good because wimax is cheaper to deploy thus more possibility of getting access once added. We all wish that Cellphone companies were like energy companies where there was only 1 network and you get to choose your provider... unfortunately that is not the case :/

I agree with the person above to get sprint to give you a free 3g airwave.
[Epic 4G General] ryanalan82:
Lol...... When I got half way through your rant, you reminded me of someone........ the jewish kid's annoying f ing cousin on south park that never shuts the f#?k up about anything.wow first person I ever could even imagine that would complain about a screen bring too bright as well...... Ummmmmm if you don't like it go into settings and turn it down......... or kill yourself

Swyped from my Evo
[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
Ill try to get a free 3g airwave from them. I dont the want edge one.
[Epic 4G General] redandblack1287:
Have you tried the airplane mode trick? Sounds like you may have the time without signal > 50% bug
[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
Yes i have and at saved alittle bit of my battery life. I don't know i have to see if they cone out with an update.
[Epic 4G General] sultan.of.swing:
That's strange. When i view a white page my screen automatically dims itself.
[Epic 4G General] xinginteg:
LOL, you been here for a while too and never post here either, did you feel inclined to do so.... I know I did.

Too bright of a display? go ahead and call Samsung and tell them that the main selling feature of the whole SAMOLED display isn't working for you. They will just tell you to buy a different phone. You do realize the screen is bright on the epic because the screen is incomparable between the two as far as quality right? You know 16777216 colors Samoled equal a more crisp vibrant/"brighter!" display VS a 65536 colors, TFT washed out mess the evo has.

Every carrier has dead spots, Sorry your in one but it happens. I have no service at my house, but neither does att and verizon and I am not at the point where I have a nervous breakdown when the phone has no data service.

On the battery, well working at a Verizon store and I would say 7 out of 10 customer with pda's come in complaining about battery life. I hear the famous "I have to charge my phone every night" complain in my sleep. Big processors, lots of ram, and big screens drain batteries.

While I been on xda I have had two vouge's, htc diamond, htc touch pro 2. Each one of those had a 65536 color display and was hell bent on getting an evo but every time I went to order one it was sold out. Went to a radioshack to buy a router and saw the tmobil galaxy on display and was mesmerized when I saw that display. It was like something I never tasted before, As an HTC fan I never looked into samsung. After seeing that thing, did some research and found it it best it in every way so I bought it, and yes the battery sucks even in good service just like every other phone I have had. Solution, car charger + extra/extended battery, problem solved.

(Hardcore windows user here, who is breaking apart roms that minute the phone comes out of the box I would tell you the EPIC is a great phone. Even with a crappy battery I will recommend this to everybody. Second day with it and cant put it down)
[Epic 4G General] Firon:
The battery life isn't even that terrible. With google talk + google voice turned on and reasonable usage, I can easily make it through the day without having to charge. I turned off automatic brightness and that pretty much did the trick for me.
[Epic 4G General] ryanalan82:
Yeah I felt inclined to post cause I get pissed at people that ***** like crazy....lol

Anyways, I got an evo and rarely have 4g,and barely have 3g at my place, but the evo gets better reception than any other phone I've had. And when I go to my cousin's for the weekend it is a dead area with barely any 3g, so what do I do while I'm there, go into wifi. I know he is going to hate paying the extra money for am epic and not getting the full befits. I never ***** and moan about it....ya know why, cause even in 3g I get what ever music I want, when I want for free. My first android device and I can pull in 26 cds in a day without 4g. Yeah ide say I know how to get my moneys worth. And if your wondering, tunee, and swarm coupled with just downloading the torrent file from stock broswer........ Yes I do love raping sprints data.

Swyped from my Evo
[Epic 4G General] xinginteg:
Its about the same as my rhodium, between 3/5pm have to charge it but I abuse my phone so thats normal.

@ the OP.... No issues on battery indicator/ charging here, even the gps is working fine for me...... Then again waiting for the gps to lock doesn't bother me......u know just like any standalone gps...
[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
This is what i mean by my battery percent it doesnt look like 49 percent and the battery icon looks like 75.

Im not some stupid look person trying to start something im 22. I have been with sprint for 4 years now. Did you see any of my thought process i put.into my thread. It sounded like i have a solid back ground.

And i wish my phone lasted a day. If it did. I wouldn't complain. I have plug it out at 6am and charge it at 11 then plug it out by 2 and charge it by 8 and its alot annoying because of the slow charge.

Don't jump at me like im stupid.
[Epic 4G General] dondadah88:
I forgot to add the picture.
[Epic 4G General] Six-Deuce:
I don't like to say anything if it's not nice most of the time, but seriously? Make up your mind, you hate a lot of the features but you love it so much. I can understand the bad signal pissing you off, I have virtually no signal at my job, so 8 hours of my day i go on random roam signals here and there, but at the same time as someone already pointed out, most companies have dead spots. Period.

Everywhere else I get 4 - 5 Sprint bars. Heck at some spots I have to turn Wi-Fi off to run off of Sprint's 3G cause it's better. Point being, most phones on most companies will do what they're supposed to most places. As mentioned again, batteries can only do so much. Think about what you do with the phone any given day, it's amazing a battery can even do what it can. I can use the phone moderately to heavy and still make it with about 20 - 30% left at the end of the day.

Lastly, do you even know what the biggest selling point of the Epic was? Besides the insane processor, and full keyboard, 4G and other nooks and crannies, the Screen was the biggest selling point. Do me a favor and switch to the Coral live wallpaper, and then play with that for a few mins, hopefully that helps make my point. Try the same on the evo if you can or any other phone without Amoled
[Epic 4G General] Dameon87:
The problem is you are making yourself sound stupid. This isn't the place for a crying and complaining thread. Honestly, no one wants to hear it, and it makes you look like a big baby. You are foremost complaining about the flagship feature on the Galaxy S phones (The screen brightness, SAMOLED). You know there are options and settings to control that the way you like? Stop throwing a fit, and acting like a child, and simply put; no one would treat you like one.
[Epic 4G General] J3ff:
I started laughing out loud. What a moron this guy is. Complaining that the screen burns his eyes because it's too bright! Something is seriously ****ed up with your head man. Everyone I show mine to says "WOW that's amazingly bright and crisip, what is it?"

I sometimes wonder about these types of people who will actually type out something so stupid and dumb and then press "post"!

Do they not realize that almost all of their complaints could be fixed if they actually put some effort into them?

1. turn the brightness down dumbass

2. call sprint and get an airave, or go to the store and get one.

Instead they want to come here and waste their time typing it out. 22 years old and sounds like my 12 year old bratty sister when she has pms.
[Epic 4G General] jim_1984:
I was thinking about swapping my Epic today for an EVO- it's a great phone, but I am very much over the whole physical keyboard thing. I can type much faster on an iPhone screen than any physical keyboard (probably just my lack of practice on a physical keyboard), and I'm about as fast using Swype and some of the other keyboard apps I've downloaded in the past week.

But I wish the phone was a bit thinner, and I really wish it had more a solid feel when pushing the physical buttons on the side. Because of the slider, when I push the side buttons, it begins to slide on the track a bit, which is to be expected from a slider phone. It just lacks that nice solid feel of the iPhone or EVO. And the 4.3" screen just feels like the right size, whereas the Epic is a tad small in comparison.

The two main reasons I didn't switch to the EVO, besides the current lack of stock, is the battery life and the lackluster graphics chip. I could get over both of them- right now I'm very happy with the Epic in terms of battery life, and the phone flies compared with any other phone I've used, except maybe the iPhone 4.

Not sure if I'll keep the Epic or switch to the EVO before the month is out, but it is a nice phone, and I really can't see people complaining passionately about it- there really isn't that much to not like.
[Epic 4G General] dito33:
Well with all the brightness it can get on sunny outdoors you can't see the screen vs EVO able to make a call, and if you try to read at night with lights off when turning the brightness all-away down still bright if you have sensitive eyes, I don't complain but I understand the guy. As far as the signal Verz and Att have better coverage but in my case (one in a million) actually Sprint has better signal then those two combine so I say it is a luck too, and peace all.

dito33
[Epic 4G General] Blitzpwnage:
Sprint has much better service than att way better lol

Sent from P3X231
[Epic 4G General] radar5:
all the points have pretty much been made about dead spots and what not, so all I can add is that for 22 with a full qwerty keyboard, your English could be a little better.
[Epic 4G General] soccer1:
I'm just browsing here from the Captivate forums, but here's a couple of tips assuming our phones are similar enough:

Regarding brightness: Search the Market for "Curvefish Brightness Level". It will allow you to bring the brightness lower than the phone lets you. I find it useful for dark rooms or for saving battery power.

The battery meter: It's annoying. Download another one. I use "Battery Indicator", but there are others. Yes, it means having two battery meters. But this one gives the exact percentage as well as battery temperature.

Good luck!
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
The country is really big, and towers cost crap tons of money. Your really surprised that the rate at which the towers where being built and put up is slower than that of the change of technology? Someone doesn't under stand Moores law. Yes it applies specifically to transistors on an IC, but come on - that drives ALL digital technology. Stuff changes at this point faster than it can be built, pretty simple logic. Yeah it kinda sucks...I live in the sticks my self, but hey bigger badder faster is ALWAYS better for the majority. The few of us stuck in BFE - oh well...
[Windows Mobile Themes] Kameirus:
does anyone know how to change the font color for ezinput

Thanks
[XPERIA X10 General] mayamo:
so i've already posted a topic on my wifi not working at coffee shops or restaurants and i received some replies saying that i should do power cycle/flight mode, etc...

none of the options work for me.. and i've realized that it's not only the restaurants ,but it's everywhere...

my x10 works well with my home wifi router..but it doesn't work at

1) restaurant/coffee shop free internet

2) when my computer is made into hotspot using connectify

AND

3) my university wifi which doesn't need any wep password etc..

4) work wifi even though i had ssid, wep etc.etc.

the problem with my phone is that when connected it's supposed to take me to a page where i'm supposed to agree to some terms or sign in using my id/password (for univ)

but it just hangs and like 2 mins later says the page cannot be displayed..

now it's really really pissing me off because i thought this was supposed to be a smartphone and i cancelled my data plan because I was supposed to get internet 24/7 through school wifi!

but instead, i can't use my phone for anything other than just calling and texting.. it's no better than a regular phone.. just eats up more battery... etc..

i can't get any apps from the market, can't update any i've got already.. can't do anything with internet (cuz i'm not going back home for like another 4 mths)

i have a regular browser that came with x10... and i have 020 UK generic firmware installed on x10a

i really hope someone can help me out with my problem... :(
[XPERIA X10 General] mayamo:
i was researching and.. it's different from eduroam stuff..

cuz my university network, coffee shop/restaurant networks.. they are ALL open network..

i read on sgs forum that fennec allows loading those pages (login/click terms of conditions.etc) but fennec can only be installed on 2.0 or more.. and x10's still at 1.6 :(

so how do you all get your wifi??? i'm so mad with this phone :(
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tattooguy:
I've recently gotten a hero and I wanna know how to root it. Can anyone help me please.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
The easiest and quickest way...http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=747598

Mac
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tattooguy:
Ok so I used universal androot to root my phone, now what.every thing looks thee same.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] westicle:
you need to read the stickies in every part of the hero forum and do some google searches and you will see what you need to do. after about two weeks of reading and lurking here you will have all the info you need to make your phone awesome.

heres a good first step for you though

flash a custom recovery, then flash a custom rom.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ASimmons:
Rooting your phone wont change the way it looks... you just have root access, that gives you the ability to change any thing you want... like the way it looks.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mac11700:
Well you didn't ask to make it look different..you just asked how to root your phone.

Now you want it to look different ? :D:D:D:D

Now you get to decide how

you

want it to look and operate. Your going to be the one doing this so you got some more work ahead of you... so you best get at it.( You actually didn't think it would be magically different by just rooting it did you ? ) That my friend is just the first step of the actual process..Now...go look at

all

of the different custom roms built for it and

all

of the different custom themes available..then... once you have a good idea of what you would like on your phone..start reading all you can about the rom & theme of your choice.Start at the beginning of the threads and read everything there..all of the issues and all the problems folks may have had and how they got fixed. This will save you a-lot of grief once your actually ready to make the switch.

I have found there are plenty of good folks here that will help you once you make up your mind of what you want to do to your phone..

Good Luck...& Good Reading to ya

Mac
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmancell:
So when I first got my HTC Desire and installing some applications I of course came across the annoying message telling me I am running low on space.

So I rooted and installed a ROM with AppstoSD, and was happy again. Now I am back to the same issue, keeps telling me I am low. Which is true because after rooting I installed a bunch more applications lol

So my phone says I have 147MB total to use for Applications and such. Currently around 13 to 16MB. Quite annoying.

So with future Android updates or even hacks will applications ever install and run and store everything from an SD card? Because this expensive device I am locked into for 3 years is going to get pretty crappy and annoying if I have to uninstall applications I want to install other ones...

Comments?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mortenmhp:
Well as a2sd just works by creating a symlink to the ext partition on the sd-card, yous should be able to simply create one for /data/data as well. Because those data foleders are still stored on the data prtition, and those are the ones taking up space.

I Found a guide at some point, but i can't seem to find it now, but try searching around. :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmancell:
I have been looking around, and no luck. Why I started this thead :)

Anyone else, ideas, know a way?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
to make app2sd work you need an ext partition. to do that download rom manager for free from market and create one. i suggest if use to install lots of apps select 512mb partition, set swap to 0mb. but keep in mind before creating the partition you should backup all data from sdcard because it will be formatted to create the partition.

and by the way please edit title cause this is Nand memory that you are refering to.

regards

Marios
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmancell:
Cant edit title.

And I clearly said I have AppstoSD working, it's just not enough.

My main question was simply, will in the future, apps2sd or whatever it will be called allow for applications to be installed, stored and run from the SD. If not my nice new phone is going to get quite annoying and useless.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
if you say that you started with 147mb and now have 13-16mb and have app2sd, it means that you have a rom that supports app2sd but not aproperly created ext partition. that is why you are running low.

for example if you have a working EXT and still having left only 13mb on phone it means that you have installed aboout 300to500 apps. that is because although apps get installed on EXT but always leave a trace in phone memory(something like a shortcut).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
It's not always just a trace!

/data/data is left on internal memory (for stability reasons) and some apps, for example Google Earth, take up an awful lot of space there.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmancell:
So you are saying I formatted wrong when I did created the ext partition originally?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] th3:
That's an exaggeration although on AOSP ROMs, same everything except HTC additions (mainly Sense), I have 35-40MB free while on HTC 2.2 ROMs I'm always juggling between 15-20MB free. I have A2SD fully working, 112 apps on. I don't see it as a big issue for me because I only need approx 85 of them from day to day, but to have the rest on and not have to worry and keep deleting things to keep the phone working would be very handy. Nearly all the quality apps with great features require much memory (don't even ask me about Rockplayers update). Most of them are still using a good chunk of the internal memory even after being "installed on SD card" for some portion but the killers are apps like Adobe Flash, Maps, HTC_IME, Earth, SMS/MMS, cache, emails, bookmarks, widgets and so forth. In fact, I only keep 2-3 emails and a few bookmarks stored in the default applications for this reason.

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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmancell:
So can someone show/link me to the correct settings with creating that ext partition, just incase I did do it wrong. Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
i have an aosp rom. about 120 apps and still have 95mb of free space in phone memory. i have an ext partition of 512 mb.

That's an exaggeration although on AOSP ROMs, same everything except HTC additions (mainly Sense), I have 35-40MB free while on HTC 2.2 ROMs I'm always juggling between 15-20MB free. I have A2SD fully working, 112 apps on. I don't see it as a big issue for me because I only need approx 85 of them from day to day, but to have the rest on and not have to worry and keep deleting things to keep the phone working would be very handy.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmancell:
So no ideas, anyway to edit an ext partition or something. Arg
[Vibrant General] geocepe:
I would just like to say thanks to all of the people on this forum who are nice enough to help out all of us that are kinda new to changing all of the mods on our phones.
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
You're a stupid idiot. GTFO

Jk. But prepare to get flamed. I was prepping you.
[Vibrant General] geocepe:
I figured i would but thats ok. Im still new to all of this and just wanted to say thanks. O well. lol
[Vibrant General] iwillkillyou:
Ironic lol