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[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
seems all the carriers will be uping their fees. as i always say... the cost of living keeps going up and the wages are down the toilet.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Well considering that it's a planned upgrade, I doubt anyone has hit that yet. But once it is up, it'll be no different than any other theoretical limit whether it's AT&T HSPA, Sprint EVDO, Verizon LTE, or T-Mo HSPA. So it's no less "mumbo jumbo" than Sprint's WiMax upper limit. The number specifies it's potential and it'll be higher than anything Sprint has to offer (3G or 4G) AND it'll likely be free.
[EVO 4G General] kamiller42:
You do know that inflation has been averaging under 2%. In fact, it was negative for a good portion of 2009. This on top of the fact that components costs are always dropping.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/economics/inflation-cpi.aspx?Symbol=USD
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
2007!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
if im correct the premier change is changing your contract and you can leave sprint without eft's. im about to call them now to confirm.

the premier change is what really upsets me.
[EVO 4G General] matt2053:
I don't think you are correct. I don't think there's anything in your contract about Sprint Premier. It was a bonus perk you were given for free, and now it's being modified.
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
i dunno because my line is premier and my other is not. this is why im going to t-mobile next month, whether i have to pay ef'ts or not! im just looking for a free card here. ;)
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Some carriers will cover the ETF if you switch over.
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
really? ill have to check if t-mobile will do that for me.
[EVO 4G General] david279:
Let me know what happens.
[EVO 4G General] a1platnum:
K, u just made my point. Regardless, of how much it increased it did. So Sprint should keep their pricing unchanged because inflation increased at less than 2%? : confused:

Sent via HTC Supersonic: EVO 4G
[EVO 4G General] swaze:
Its the american way.....they want everything for free or almost free. And then as soon as companies change with the times (ie inflation, economy...etc), they complain and move on to the next carrier, where it starts over again. They complain when that company changes and then they move on to somewhere else. Its the american way...and also quite expensive paying these etf's all the time. *SMH*
[EVO 4G General] indagroove:
This seems pretty fair to me.
[EVO 4G General] abanh:
So is it a sure thing that Sprint is upgrading the network to evdo rev B? If I can consistently get 2+mb/s 3g I'd be happy. I rarely turn on my 4g radio because I don't get a signal in my house and it uses more battery having 2 radios turned on.
[EVO 4G General] hdad2:
This essentially makes sprints data rate $25/mo. 3g data has always been $15.

$25 is right in line with other carriers. But sprints is unlimited, maybe verizon as well. Still im not sure it is good for sprint to be in line with the big two when they have better devices and coverage (verizon anyway). So im holding out hope for feb 7th.

Id say they leak the bad news now so it has time to digest and doesnt dampen the event. Then they announce something big to make you forget all about the bad news. Free tethering...

Think about it. The take rate on the $30 hotspot has to be low. I dont know anyone who uses it. They know many users root and tether anyway. So they'll set the bar by offering it free with all premium phones and raise the fee on all users to make up for it.
[EVO 4G General] mrfyisms:
The plan doesn't include unlimited talk anymore but who actually talks on their phone. I use less than 20 minutes a month with unlimited nights and weekends and mobile to mobile. Most communication these days is done with text.
[EVO 4G General] Product F(RED):
I am super pissed off with Sprint as of today and here's why:

- This stupid 3G tax

- Possibly getting rid of Sprint Premier, which gets put on my account next month

- My Evo had problems after 5 months, and the replacement is worse

- I paid $35 for a "refurbished" phone that is not refurbished at all

- I have no confidence at all that I will receive a fully-functional phone

- An online rep promised me a new Evo and even put a note on my account and gave me instructions on how to get it. I escalated the situation over the phone until they told me that the rep lied to me and that it was impossible to give me a new one.

All of these horror stories about Sprint are starting to come together. On top of that, if and when I upgrade the phones, my rate will go from ~$180 a month to $210 a month (4 lines, 1 is an Evo). Seeing as how they're going to be as expensive as T-Mobile, I might just go over to them. Especially since they're GSM and I can take my phone around the world and to any network.
[EVO 4G General] Tilde88:
This^ (QFT)
[EVO 4G General] wingzfan:
I used to defend Sprint like they were gods gift to cell service...Until this month.

So far this month my wifes phone has been turned off 3 times. Theres no past due balance and the other 3 lines remain in tact. A supervisor last week admitted a service rep screwed up when removing charges that weren't supposed to be on my account and set the line to be disconnected on the 6th. We had it turned back on the 6th but on the 15th it was off again and then today it was off yet again. This ignorant supervisor starts screaming at me that theres a past due balance if its getting shut off so I tell him to look at my account and the idiot sees my bill isn't due till Feb 1st. He turned it back on and when I said "so how bout an apology" he tells me there isn't one necessary. I'm on hold right now with corporate explaining if something isn't done to make me smile I'm cancelling all 4 lines and since the supervisor decided to explain that I can cancel without any etf charges due to the change in service pricing Ill be leaving for free and porting my number to Verizon.

This companies gone to pure crap. Detroit's 4g has been shoved back a dozen times, my accounts been being billed wrong for 3 months, we're losing premier upgrades, getting charged more money per month for the same half-assed 3g speeds, if its cloudy out my signal and speeds go in the toilet and seeing how Im in Detroit thats daily since the sun rarely shines in this s#!@hole.

Don't even get me started on my wifes upgrade we did in November, the one that they're trying to charge me 600 for the phone when she hadn't had an upgrade in almost 4 years.
[Adam General] Crimton:
http://notionink.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/delayed/

Don't start cursing before you read...
[Adam General] Lynehammike:
You know, I read the NI blog this morning and didn't even notice the title of Rohan's post! lol. I think he is just trying to screw with out minds....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JWhipple:
Has anyone else noticed that when using NAND Desire HD/Z sense builds that their phone seems to run more smoothly after the 1st day or two running at stock speeds than it does when running overclocked?

I was getting a bit of lag here and there, and as expected after having streamed music literally all night via wifi the phone was a real dog first thing in the morning until the memory cleared out.

I noticed after a couple of days my phone would spontaneously reboot - I was overclocking to 1.5ghz using MDJ's 10.3OC kernel, so I figured that it was the overclock causing the reboot - sure enough the phone runs smooth as glass now that I've throttled it back to 1ghz (interactive governor).

Is it just my imagination?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nobnut:
It is hard to say really, as you will have different apps, widgets and syncs set up to me, plus we are running different builds, thus a direct comparison is very hard.

All that matters is what works for YOU.

FYI I don't find any meaningful benefit by overclocking. So I don't bother. I haven't really noticed a speed difference either way. If however it made a positive difference, I would.

Just for the record, benchmarking and Quadrant scores are nothing more than a waste of time and are only useful for arguments starting with the words "Mine is better than yours because...".
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JWhipple:
Curiousity always gets me to run Quadrant, but having seen varied phones with roller-coaster scores, I know the scores are not really any kind of valid gauge for real world performance.

I'm going to run my phone at stock speeds for the rest of the week and see how it does. I've got a feeling it will be running a lot smoother.
[Omnia 7 General] johnnymatrix:
Hi everyone,

I have an omnia 7 on contract with Optus here in Australia. I have had it for a few days now and I've found the data connection to be very patchy, even though I have full reception where I live.

I have noticed the connection icon switching between 3G and 3G+ pretty much constantly when I'm using it.

This is basically what is happening as I try it at the moment:

- Icon says 3G.

- Tried to load the Optus website and the icon changed to 3G+ and the progress bar is just hanging there, wont go any further.

- Icon has changed back to 3G, still hanging.

- Try to load again, now it has changed to 3G+ and the site loaded.

- Icon has changed back to 3G.

- Clicked a link on the website and the icon changed to 3G+, page loaded fine.

- Icon changed back to 3G.

- Tried to load the facebook app, "Unable to connect to Facebook. Please try again later.

- Trying to load optuszoo.com.au again, icon says 3G.. just hanging there again.

- Icon has changed to 3G+, still hanging.

- Icon has changed to 3G, still hanging.

Could this be a fault with my phone? I'm in an area of strong reception, it shouldn't have a problem getting a steady 3G+ connection (I used to have a HTC Diamond which always had a strong HSDPA signal). I can only guess that every time it switches from 3G to 3G+ it loses the connection, which stops things from loading & syncing. Is there anything I can try here before I take it back to the store? I do not have the new firmware, and don't particularly want to try messing with it if I have to return it.
[Omnia 7 General] Antiskunk:
Every Omnia 7 has this problem (as far as I'm aware). It's a connectivity bug with Windows Phone, hopefully it will get sorted in the coming update.
[Omnia 7 General] Cruzer1:
I've got the same phone and on the same carrier and I can't say I have experienced these problems. I've had my phone since october last year and its been working flawlessly when there's a good signal.

When it switches between 3G and 3G+(H), it usually just means the download speed is varying between those 2 standards (i think 3G = about 3Mbits/s, and 3G+/H is about 7Mbits/s).

Only thing I can suggest is turn off your phone, make sure your sim is inserted properly as well as battery, and turn it back on.

If you were on a different carrier with your old HTC, it might be Optus' coverage.
[Omnia 7 General] johnnymatrix:
I was on Optus previously, I dropped into the optus store yesterday and they had me on the phone with support. We tried my sim in a different phone and determined it's my handset that is the problem. As the poster above you mentioned, it's probably a firmware issue... but I'm not going to risk waiting for the new firmware to come out because I only have another week to be able to get a replacement.
[Omnia 7 General] c2d:
Had such issues but after I changed my Provider my 3G+ signal ist stable.
[Omnia 7 General] mei_liberi_fatali:
Hour handset is being 'elevated' to HSDPA when your using your connection.

When its idle, it will drop back to 'standard'

My handset does this, but i am not getting the data issues your experiencing.

In addition, both my old HTC handsets used to do this, tho the icon actually showed [H] for HSDPA (Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5)

Hard reset your Omnia And/Or send it off for repair/replace

(I am with Optus too)
[Omnia 7 General] samy galy s:
I'm having the same problem.

I've got a Samsung Galaxy s on Optus.

Constantly changes from 3G to HSDPA, looses connection every time, very hard to use apps that use the Internet.

Seem's to be an optus problem as this is happening with different types of handsets.

Maybe an option where you can select 3G or HSDPA only is needed, they have a GPRS or 3G only option so i don't see why they cant have this aswell.
[Omnia 7 General] johnnymatrix:
Yep I ended up taking it back and getting a replacement, but the replacement has the same problem... so it's either software related or network related.
[Omnia 7 General] Gp.:
I can confirm this issue too.

It's REALLY annoying.

Is there any temporary fix? I hate this device for the most part, but I love WP7.
[Omnia 7 General] frblckstr1:
I have less problems when I have the phone's sync set to hourly, then it happens maybe once a month that I can't connect with data.

When I had de sync set to manual I almost daily had to reset the phone to get the data connection back, now its on hourly sync again and no problems in the past week..
[Omnia 7 General] b_222:
I have the exact same issue with my HTC Mozart. The signal constantly keeps changing between 3G and HSDPA when I'm in an area that has stable strong reception.

This causes the same DNS issues as stated in IE in which websites fail to load until you refresh them a number of times.

To me it appears that its an issue with IE and the way WP7 calculates and handles the signal. Can anyone confirm if Microsoft have confirmed that there are issues with IE and the signal and when this will be fixed?
[Omnia 7 General] Syaoran:
I don't know if in my case it's related to the same problem, but on my operator's network it's mostly E and 3G.

After a few times of checking my email, getting the People Hub updated or surfing once in a while, I don't get a connection anymore, except when connecting via wifi.

This is a very annoying problem and the only way to get it back is turning the device off and on daily basis, sometimes even a few times a day D:
[Omnia 7 General] VonCrisp:
I have the same issue ever since I updated the firmware. At first I thought that it is broken internally but it seems to be a universal problem.

Firmware: 2424.11.2.3

Radio: 2424.11.2.2

bootloader:5.2.1.4

Does anybody want to escalate this issue to MS and Samsung? (I understand that several countries are reporting this)
[Omnia 7 General] 3lliot:
Same problem - HTC One X on Optus.

My phone seems to spend most of its time deciding whether to use 3G or HSDPA, during which time my webpage downloads stop, I can't connect to facebook ("Connection lost - tap to retry"), I can't search Google, etc. etc.

I wouldn't mind if it got on with the job in the meantime, but while it's flicking backwards & forwards between networks I can't seem to get any data down (or up).

Really, really, really annoying. I didn't notice it on Telstra, but I had a different phone (HTC Desire). From the looks of this thread though it's network-related, not phone-related.
[Omnia 7 General] mrskotnjak:
Does anybody have problem while calling someone, and when line establishes, there is only silence and dropped call. I had that problem, and I solved it by forcing phone to use only 3G. To do this, go to Diagnosis, and enter *#2263#, then if you want only 3G enter ''WCDMA Band Preference'' - ''WDCMA All'', or for EDGE ''GSM Band Preference'' - ''GSM All''. Automatic speaks for itself. I use 3G all the time, and no more dropped calls. Maybe this could help with 3G -> 3G+ shifting. Only downside is that when there is no 3G signal, you wont get signal at all.
[Omnia 7 General] Tigress:
Same problem, and this give it to me lots of problems with the battery...
[Omnia 7 General] Necroer:
If you love WP7, you should see WP10.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
I was wondering if someone could make me a bootscreen that i can simply just flash over. I have clockwork mod 3 and im running aosp gigngerbread 2. Would a bootscreen be compatible with all roms right? Cause youre just flashing a diff screen not a rom. But either way, i would really like this image for a bootscreen

if you could zoom it to fill the screen that would be AWESOME, if you cant i understand

I would appreciate all help! thank you SO much!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
Try this!

Its a flashable, tell me how it looks. I call it psycho face.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
downloaded, about to flash, ill let you know :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
Opps I just realized I forgot to resize it, tell me if this is an issue. Ill resize it to fit the 320X480.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
if its not that big of a deal man sure! :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
Did that one work I don't have my Hero with me?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
Psycho Face Boot Animation

Here's the flashable 320X480 version.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
i didnt do it yet, i was about to backup (i always nandroid) but with the new clockwork 3 it keeps rebooting in the middle of a backup..hmmmm
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
I don't use clockwork mod, its always given me problems.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
it wont flash, it says

"Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported. Amend scripting was deprecated by google in android 1.5. It was necessary to remove it wihen upgrading to the clockworkmod 3.0 gingerbread based recovery. please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages. Installation aborted."

Anything you can do about that?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Kfunk:
I flashed this and I am getting flashes of white in between the actual bootscreen - almost like a strobe light. It's actually a cool effect, but probably not intended?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
i cant even get that far. See my previous post
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] il Duce:
3.0.0.5 isn't compatible with amend, only edify. Flash 2.5.0.1 and install the boot, it will still be fine on GB.

sent from my hero, which no longer sucks ass
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
i thought 2.5.0.1. wont even launch on gingerbread? Cause i couldnt get into 2.5.0.1. like normal after i flashed gingerbread. I had to adb push 3
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
hmmm well try this EDIFY Scripted install version . if this doesnt install just open the zip and goto syste/media/bootanimation.zip and copy to the same folder on your phone... replacing the old bootanimation.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
Yeah I think its going to fast, the animations is only 6 pngs. Maybe slow it down some more.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] user7618:
If you are having trouble flashing it, just extract the bootanimaton.zip and throw it into system/media with root explorer and reboot.

Edit: I need to lrn2read.

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
i didnt make the animation lol, i found it online. How can i make one? I have the video
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
Gimp... theres also I script I use called save all layers to pngs, I also use the gimps animation package.

These three tools allow me to turn a movie into a series of layers in a png image, then I can export those layers to individual pngs.

I can also take an animated gif and open it as layers and then saves those as layers.

Of course gimp and GAP do sooo much more but it should be essential for anyone who wants to make a good bootanimation, without spending hundreds of dollars on ps and other progs. This is also how I made my animations in the past GAP allows you to take a video and convert the mpeg4 to a layered png, and then from there using gimp and GAP to alter frame and frame progression.

How did I learn this, trial and error and lots of gimp/GAP tutorials. I suggest the same if you would like to make your own.

But to slow it down just edit the desc.txt in the bootnaimation.zip and set it to say 5 or something (5 fps).
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
Heres like a 5 second clip. anything u can do with that?

http://www.mediafire.com/?gnm6bnyq9n3atc6
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
hmmm no dice? I appreciate all the work youve done for me so far though :). Thank you man

so i tried to flash the new one and it says installation aborted. Ill try the other method you mentioned
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
alright, flashed back to the older clockwork mod and it sucessfully flashed, when phone reboots, it stays on a black screen, the phone starts, and where i normally slide my finger on the screen to unlock it still works, but my screen isint there anymore, its nothing. and no bootscreen either, it didnt even work. Im not sure what do do now cause when i hold home and power to go to recovery, it starts but then the screen turns black immediately so i cant see what im doing
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] ASimmons:
oh man that sucks, I can assure you that the bootscreen wouldn't do that. It more than likey something with clockworkmod.

Like I said I don;t use clockworkmod, maybe someone like Duce can help with this issue.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
SCORE, i got it to work, its really stretched though, and it does do that flashing thing, but im gonna tweak till i can tweak no MOAR and try to figure it out :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
hmmm it wont let me change anything without it just flashing a black screen, including a slower framerate
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] aplacetorest:
ok so heres some png files i had extracted from the video, and i was wondering if you could make that into a flashable zip. framerate of like 5 would be cool. :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?7qrs8x49ax5wvei

i wont ask for anything else i promise haha
[myTouch 4G General] Jaskwith:
Thought I would start a thread, where people can see how their MT4G stacks up against others. People can post their benchmarks and say what ROM they are running, where they have their processor clocked, etc....

Anyways, I attached my screens, I am running cm7... the benchmark test I just ran, was clocked at like 1.4GHz on cm7.

The quadrant is back when I was running an alpha, clocked at 1.2GHz
[myTouch 4G General] Jaskwith:
Best Quadrant Score seen so far: Unknown(Looks like CM7)

Best LinPack: Iced Glacier v1.1.6 OC at 1.7ghz

Best SmartBench: Cm7, OC at 1.3ghz
[myTouch 4G General] jriv:
I don't have a pic but one time a month a go I was on miui and got 62 on linpack and 2900 on quadrant I was overclocked to 1.8ghz and managed to get a couple off before the phone froze up. You can see me on the high scores list on linpack website its Joe from bremerton

Sent from my icey cold glacier 4g freezing every phone in its path
[myTouch 4G General] Jaskwith:
Yea I see...haha nice. Too bad it was freezing up ;)
[myTouch 4G General] jriv:
Ya I knew it wasn't gonna be stable just wanted to see if I could crack the top 10

Sent from my icey cold glacier 4g freezing every phone in its path
[myTouch 4G General] HTCMDA:
Mine is just a regular factory MT4G. No root, no OC no hacks of any kind.

Still waiting to see someone else on stock/factory meet or beat this
[myTouch 4G General] Jaskwith:
That is nice for factory..if it truly is non hacked...very nice.
[myTouch 4G General] mgymnop:
Impressive with factory MT4G. I get 1700-1800.
[myTouch 4G General] bobsbbq:
Most of these bench mark tools have not been updated to cm7 or 2.3 GB. Quadrant does not run well at all and some times show a black screen on 3D test, or locks up. Linpack seems to be working though.

Just FYI if you are using cm7 Android 2.3
[myTouch 4G General] Jaskwith:
Yea, but I thought benchmark 2011 or whatever the name is, was accepted as a more accurate marker..?

EDIT: SmartBench 2010 is what app I am talking about.
[myTouch 4G General] brianphanz0r:
test was run at 1.6 and i stuck it in the freezer while running the test...