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[Epic 4G General] nyclio:
My best friend owns a few Sprint stores. So I have both the Evo Shift and the Epic4G sitting at my house and I've had both for about 2 weeks.

My non-technical real world usage out of both?

I had the Epic activated a week, and then switched it to Wifi.

The display on the Epic is much nicer, it "feels" snappier for some things (it will always get my google emails first on wifi) - it seems to boot up and shut down faster, it installs programs from the market faster.

My epic is rooted and running the unofficial 2.2. However, the 4G on my Epic doesn't work for some reason. Battery seems pretty equal on both to me. At the end of the day I have to charge them.

But the Evo Shift is quicker when switching from landscape to portrait, plus I like Sense much better than TW on Epic.

The LED on the Evo Shift also seems to sometimes have a life of its own.

Also, as for keyboards, it really drives me insane that the keyboard on Epic misses so many random keystrokes. The Shift keyboard is really well built and build quality on the Evo seems to be better overall.

The speaker on the Shift leaves something to be desired.

I am very confused on which phone I should keep. :(
[Epic 4G General] Electrofreak:
Wow, thanks for your unbiased perspective, it's worth its weight in gold around here! Let us know which one you settle on!

As for your Epic's 4G issue, have you tried this?
[Epic 4G General] running_the_dream:
Your 4g doesn't turn on at all? When you click the button to turn 4g on do you see a mac address or anything else populate in 4g settings? If not, I'm not sure Electrofreak's link will help. Although, I did go from 4mbps to 6.5mbps after utilizing it (but of course, my 4g already works).

Maybe your 4g radio just needs to be reset. I had that problem a while back. You might try *#147852# then scroll all the way down to WiMAXLineTest. Press Read MAC. It probably won't show anything or all zeroes if your 4g radio is the problem. Press Power Off, then Power On. That should turn your 4g radio on. Back out (either press home or the back arrow) and try to turn on 4g again. Check whether you now have a MAC address, etc in the 4g settings.
[Epic 4G General] nyclio:
Thank you for your suggestions. I tried them all and they didn't work. My 4G gets stuck at 'Obtaining IP Address' and then '4G network disconnected.'

I am not going to hijack this thread with my 4G issues though.

To stay on topic, each phone has its pros and cons. What good is a 5 row keyboard on the Epic if it drops so many key strokes?

http://androidforums.com/epic-4g-support-troubleshooting/259702-keyboard.html

It's obviously a widepsread problem that seems to be linked to the hardware according to that thread.

The widespread problem on the Shift is the way the SMS screen shifts up randomly when you switch it to landscape mode. A minor annoying problem that is fixed by switching to Handcent. (And I as I mentioned above, for me personally, the LED doesn't shut off even after all notifications have been cleared)

If you are a hardcore messager (is that a word?), I would probably avoid the Epic. I am coming from a Blackberry (and TP2 before that), so I am used to a fantastic keyboard.

However, the Epic makes for a better web browsing and gaming experience simply due to its display and GPU.

All that said, I am still on the fence. :-P

I haven't paid a dime for either phone and won't have to, so that makes the decision even harder for me. I will also get to keep the 16gb card with the Shift so that won't make a difference either.
[Epic 4G General] Electrofreak:
The Shift comes from Sprint with a 2GB SD card, right?
[Epic 4G General] boominz28:
lets hope that it gets viral , and maybe can catch on. :D
[Epic 4G General] boominz28:
I agree , i personally think the touch pro keyboard was top notched, i seem to always miss the keys, i actually think that the keys are placed weird. the touch pro had raised keys so it was just easier to type. I think it may take time to get used to
[Epic 4G General] Heelfan71:
yes, that is correct
[Epic 4G General] running_the_dream:
I don't understand how so many keystrokes are missed on the Epic. I know I'm definitely hitting the keys but they still don't register. Happens mostly when typing the same letters multiple times (i.e. apple, happen, umbrella, etc). It's pretty annoying because I think the 5 row keyboard makes typing so a breeze.
[Epic 4G General] nyclio:
I am fairly certain that I will be returning my Epic.

From a business perspective, my phone's primary function is to be a form of communication.

While I LOVE the display on the Epic, and the camera, and the gaming, there are other devices that are optimized for those functions and if I REALLY need to use them, I can get those.

(Camera for camera, laptop for browsing, any portable gaming system for gaming)

However, my phone is supposed to be optimized for communication, and if it fails at that (constant typos in my email to the point where I am too annoyed to type them), my productivity suffers.

My line of work doesn't allow me to be constantly fiddling with and tweaking my phone to the point where it is taking up the majority of my day.

The Shift is the better communication device. It is secondary at everything else - which means it is available to me as a browser, gaming device, or camera in a pinch if I really need it.

I can always just buy a DS to kill time. Or play Angry Birds (or Fruit Ninja) on the Shift, as it plays fine on it (just doesn't look AS pretty but that's okay!)

Things I did to make the Epic Shift more bearable:

- Installed Visionary to root it at bootup.

- Installed Roam Control to lock it to Verizon's better signal.

- Installed Volume Lock on it since the volume rocker is awkwardly placed.

- Installed ADW with ADW notifier so I am aware of my emails.

- Installed Handcent to deal with the annoying shifting text message screen.

- Installed Pure Grid Calendar, Widgetsoid, Fancy Widget, Android Audio Profile, Google Voice, Tune In Radio and some games.

- Realized that it's better to deal with the LED headache than no 4G and a bad keyboard.

- A nice live wallpaper of course.

- I don't turn the phone off since it can take a while to boot back on (especially with Visionary)

- If I ever need a top dedicated row for numbers on the keyboard, I can just press FN twice.

- I will turn my head away and close my eyes any time I see a stranger on the street using an Epic.

I hope this can help some of you who may be in the same boat as me.

EDIT - I uninstalled Missed Reminder, and my LED seems to be much better.
[Epic 4G General] jbthom4:
No way...4 row kb instead of 5 row...no front facing camera...smaller lcd screen instead of larger amoled..down grade in processor...I'm good thanks
[Epic 4G General] Electrofreak:
That's too bad, but to each his own.
[Epic 4G General] Tahde:
Not for my Epic. But its going to be a great replacement for my Hero. :)
[Epic 4G General] jprocha101:
HHAHAHAHA Epic Shift...What is that????? I want one!!!!!
[Epic 4G General] InfDaMarvel:
The Shift and Epic are both great phones, I wouldn't rate one better than the other. I prefer to AMOLED screen but I could live without out it.
[Epic 4G General] nyclio:
Oh man! Four or five edits and proofreads and I missed that!
[Epic 4G General] thechicgeak:
I also find this extremely frustrating. Probably the single most frustrating thing about my phone now that I fixed my GPS in DK28. GPS lock in under 5 seconds, even indoors, FTW! Its way better than it was even when it worked in DI18.
[EVO 4G General] Jayzion:
ATLANTA -- John Garber, a six-year veteran valet was working at Halo Lounge in Midtown when he became the victim of a random act of violence.

Police said the shots were fired by a man who was asked to leave the club Wednesday night.

Two brothers were arrested in the shooting, Timothy and Desmond Wright. Desmond is now charged with aggravated assault and other crimes. Timothy for being party to a crime.

Garber told CBS Atlanta's Mike Paluska he was helping a VIP customer get his car when he heard five shots.

"When I turned, the shots occurred," said Garber "I had one go in through the back side of my coat come up through my coat and hit my phone, which was placed on my left chest right here. As it sets in more and more, I feel luckier and luckier. It is so surreal to think that a bullet came within a half an inch of going into my chest. It’s one of those crazy things in life. You just really count your blessings."

Garber works for National Parking. The company is paying to replace Garber's phone, an HTC Evo. "I would never use another phone again," said Garber.

Now Garber is waiting for endorsements, "Sprint can contact me whenever they would like or HTC."

Garber had no injuries from the bullet.
[EVO 4G General] _MetalHead_:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=902962
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
Your two threads too late!
[G Tablet General] jen139222:
i have the facebook widget on my homescreen how do i delete it off the homescreen i want the app but not displayed open on the homescreen right now i see a box where i can put a status and then the top status of the pple on my facebook....also i got launcherpro and when i try to move and delete facebook it says i should pay $2.99 for launcherpro...so should i? also how do i make my own wallpapers? and how do i add music when i go into the music app that came with it nothings there do i need to add the music to a specific folder? and is there a simcity game for it im running TnT...sorry im new thanks

update: i figured how how to delete facebook from my homescreen now tryin to work on everything else :-)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhoffy22:
I was recently running MIUI 12/24 with the whole updated radio/prl combo pack and having absolutely no problems at all and battery life was great.

I then switched to Myns RLS 5 yesterday and my battery life has been terrible. I have tried both the stock kernel that was included in the kernel and the Netarchy 4.3 kernel and both are giving me about 90% android system usage for the battery even while the phone is sleeping. I have hardly any apps installed at all aside from the ones that were already on the Rom.

Why is my system usage so high and what can I do to fix it?

Thank you.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Hmm, this happens after a clean install before even adding ANY apps at all? Do you have facebook installed? Or are you signed in to facebook for HTC sense? I've read a couple posts showing that the fb for htc sense was holding a wake lock if it was set to sync live feed (change that from settings>accounts and sync>facebook for htc sense). If you use the actual facebook app, the chat feature will keep the phone awake unless you are in the chat part, and hit menu>go offline. It;s a place to start, if you do indeed have facebook. If you don't use facebook at all, can you use system panel to kill all tasks and see if you still have a wake lock after that? If I remember right from Myn's thread, did you say that you already tried changing your PRI back to 1.77? the 1.90 was giving me a wake lock for some reason, it was strange. If you didn't try that, even though the 1.90 was working fine for you on MIUI, I would still try rolling it back to 1.77 just to see if it makes a difference. What other apps do you have installed other than what the ROM came with? Any at all??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhoffy22:
I haven't tried reverting back to 1.77 because I was running 1.90 fine with no problems at all on Calkulins EVIO 2 Rom. This all happened when I flashed RLS 5. I do have facebook for android installed along with facebook for htc sense. I also have chomp, system panel, weatherbug elite, and watchdog lite. I have no new apps installed that are different from anything else that I have ever had installed so I don't think that it is an app that is causing the problem for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Hmm, I'm not sure then. I would still try downloading system panel, and killing all of your running apps. (the ones that need to restart will). After that, see if you are still getting your wakelock. Then restart the apps one at a time, and see if any of them are causing it. (apps can go rogue, I've had it happen. Deleted the app, reinstalled, and it was behaiving normally) So just to rule some more stuff out (process of troubleshooting), I would try that. At least you'll have a little better idea of which direction to go in. You can rule out a rogue app, or determine if that is indeed the issue. Things happen sometimes man.

EDIT: I've heard of many times of weatherbug causing a wakelock. People had to delete it and reinstall, and it was fine ( i dont get it, but it worked). So maybe try freezing it with titanium backup or os monitor, just for some testing. See if it changes anything. You'll figure it out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INebilim:
I dont think the PRI is the cause, I am now running 1.90 and havent noticed a difference in battery life. As for your awake time, flash Calk combo radio zip. youre probably not running the latest RAD.11.19. HTC 15 kernel wont work properly without it.
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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mumu_li:
I have a HTC desire with stock froyo ROM. I setuped my Exchange ActiveSync account and the canlendar can be syn without any problem but the contacts can't be synced to my phone.

I am pretty sure that the contacts exist on Exhange Server(I deleted the offline caches of contacts and synced again with server, all contacts can be restored). And the contacts can be synced with my old ROM.

Anybody experiences this issue?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] johno168:
Hey guys!

Ok heres my problem, i'm looking to flash my current o1 back to original F/w but i'm in darn New Zealand. My phone is unbranded and not rooted since fukn update so i need some one to help me get a English language F/w code from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865479 . I know there is a Vodafone NZ one but unless some one can test the F/w to see if it's branded i'd rather not test it since i am kinda new at this ****.

Please help!

Thx in adv.!
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Hi,

All the fw's in the link are original ones.... u can either port the NZ one or Australian version or Indian version or the UK one.... There are versions like 10A, 10B, 10C .... Go for either 10A or 10B because the latter one's can't be rooted.

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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
Hi guys,

I'm using Darkstone Froyo RAM and my phone always shuts down when battery reaches 12%. I've reconditioned the phone using guide from this forum. But when I reboot in Winmo, the battery went well under 12%. So this has something to do with Android or the build instead of my battery going bad, right? What do you say? Thanks.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hd2k10:
It's only Android, your battery is fine. Did you wipe your battery stats file? Delete /data/system/batterystats.bin after a full drain then full charge.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
as i said, i've reconditioned my phone, which means full charge, delete batterystats, drain.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jose makalolot:
I think it's the build. I used to have that problem but with another build. Try testing other builds.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
update: apparently using winmo the phone also dies prematurely, albeit at about 8-9%. is my battery defected?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LiFE1688:
Li-Ion batteries can safely discharge up to 10%.

After 10% it degrades.

When it reaches close to 0%, it requires extra charging.

Depending on the Operation System, discharge % is calculated differently.

Example:

If I reserve 10% in my OS, and do not include that, my 0% to 100% is actually from 10% to 100%. So when it says 0%, it means it still has 10% charge to protect the battery.

However, if I don't reserve that 10% in my OS, and it is actually included in the calculations, then my 10% is actually 10%, but the OS will shut down to protect the battery from getting physically damaged.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
sorry man, i don't get what's the correlation of that to my problem :confused:

it's simply that my phone shuts down before it reaches 0%, so there's something wrong.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LiFE1688:
It means all phone shut down when Li-ION battery gets to 10%, or batteries will die.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
really? because all of my previous phones died at 0%. and my hd2 too before i changed the build to darkstone superram.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] simax:
its darkstone rom's fault, i had that issue too, switch to another rom there are so much better rom's than his. i don't understand this darkstone hype, it's really not that good, it's bad. and i don't like darkstone himself ;)

move quickly, as you WILL damage your battery much quicker with his rom (when you go low on percentage)

if you want to use a good sd rom, switch to carbon remix by motoman, it was the best sd build i used.

for nand rom i really really advice you to use either nexushd2 froyo or nexushd2 gingerbread. those are really the best. (i tested EVERY)

battery management is excellent in those,.. i guess battery sucks in darkstones builds because of his custom kernel
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dan138zig:
well i'm changing to NAND build anyway but just want to make sure this is not my battery's fault
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] simax:
it's not ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] loganc58:
Hi all,

I was wondering if there was a way to get NAND by installing it through my SD card? My port on my phone doesn't work, I charge my phone by the process of taking my battery out and just putting it on an external charger.

The charging/usb port does work if you hold it a certain way, but it is very sketchy and wouldn't last the full period it takes to install the MAGLDR and other components. Which brings me to another question, would it brick my phone if i tried to install it and the usb connection was lost half way through?

So basically. What I am asking is, is there currently a work around I could take to get this on my HD2? And if not, how big of a risk would it be to try and hold the cord in the "sweet spot" to allow the usb connection to hold long enough for me to try and get it this way.

Thanks, Logan.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] buzz killington:
magldr is very small, less than 1mb if I remember correctly, so it flashes very quickly. It also does not replace hspl, so even if the flash goes bad you can go back to hspl and flash it again.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] loganc58:
Alright, thanks a lot. I will definitely try and get it on there then. I just hope I can keep it connected for the amount of time it needs!
[Desire HD General] Ratix0:
I just got my first Android which is the Desire HD, and I've been reading around the xda forums but I am still quite confused. Right now I am thinking of rooting it and installing other better ROMs. However, I am not very familiar with roms, and I see many different roms but I could not tell the big difference from the change list, they all seem to remove the same junk default apps and all, so what separates the different ROMs from each other?

Also, what sort of customisations can I make with it and other roms? I've read up but I can't seem to find much information, which I assume will be clear once I root and installed them, but I'd like to know what I'm doing and what I'm in for before I start doing it, to what extent can I customise the custom rom in terms of home screen and all?

Also one more question is about htc sense, what exactly is included in the roms saying that it includes htc sense? Does it mean it have the extra skins and widgets and the tracking thing online?

I've already read the intro to rooting thread in the other forum and is more or less clear, although I am still slightly confused about the difference between fastboot and clockworkmod, and I'm not very sure of the differences.

Also, I've read about

for the HTC Desire, does it work with the Desire HD? Should I attempt to try this?
[Desire HD General] PG101:
Go thru the Leedroid ROM...it saves you all the trouble :)
[Desire HD General] Ratix0:
Souds good I will give it a try considerong ffrom what I read it is a very popular rom in desire. But I am a little curious, what seperates this from other roms such as coredroid and android revolution, these other 2 looks complete too like leedroid so I am somewhat confused... I also want to ask a question regarding battery life, how would the battery life be affected if I use a custom rom?

I know its a lot of questions that would be answered after installing the rom but I want to know more about the roms before I flash them. Also, I don't see this really stated anywhere but how hard (or easy) is it to uninstall the roms and restore default without root? Just in case something happpens.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Latest Cyanogen rom (unofficial cm7) seem to have much better battery life, I personally don't trust Sense as all that visual bling must be affecting battery life adversly.
[Desire HD General] Ratix0:
What exactly is included in HTC sense?
[Desire HD General] sengork:
Check it out on youtube. It's mostly specialised widgets and app integration with various social networking providers.
[Desire HD General] Ratix0:
Hmmm so the "Facebook for HTC Sense" and several other HTC Sense widgets and stuff will be gone? Hmm alrighty, does that include the online thingie?

So all in all, everything covered in the youtube video about HTC sense is basically, that? Thanks!
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