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[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
If using a retarded technicality makes you feel better, sure. We'll revisit this in another week. And you do know phone selection and service are the main two things that draw customers to a phone company right? That makes your argument look pretty dumb.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
wow.... if you wernt bein an ass, then they the supervisor definitely was. There is nothing wrong with asking.. I am positive you can get him in trouble for that. I think you need his name though...
[EVO 4G General] brownhornet:
Well from looking at my calendar, 2010 was last year. And I dont care how long it WAS on top.. that was then this is now.
[EVO 4G General] jimbobtexas:
Got my "Gold" letter yesterday. I've been a Sprint customer since...hell, I don't know how long - 1993?

Glad I get to keep the benefits of Premier, but I didn't see anything new that made me all warm and fuzzy.
[EVO 4G General] ktarian:
Waiting Patiently

I am waiting to see what my letter shows. I love the EVO but would like to know that I can change it out without having to pay the huge costs if/when I need. As far as coverage there isn't any better coverage in the area I am in. Heck Sprint has put in extra towers around the campus I work on to improve coverage even in the basements of the buildings around here.
[EVO 4G General] Vandelay007:
They tried telling me I signed up in 2007.....when in reality I signed up in 2002..... I had to get to two different reps to get to a supervisor that could view the "old billing system" to see that I have been a customer for much longer than their computer showed.....so if that happens to anyone, keep insisting they have a supervisor check the old billing system.....

.....sent from my pimpin' echo!
[EVO 4G General] cordell12:
I have bench with sprint since 1998. When I called they informed me I was only with them from Nov of 2006. Well I fished out my old checks and located 3 account numbers. When sprint and nextel became one I switched to nextel, then in 2006 back to sprint. I complained to Executive & Regulatory Services and provided the account numbers. They got me back to gold status within a few days :)

Here is the number 1-866-727-0665
[EVO 4G General] tgruendler:
Just got my letter today, silver? Called sprint, I joined in december in 2001. 9 months from gold status. Have a phone on my plan that is up for upgrade but the csr said if I don't upgrade by april 1st that I will have to wait another 9 months. How retarded is that?
[EVO 4G General] Razgriz:
Yes, because the best and only thing to do is to take each and every question directly to a hotline that was setup for completely different purposes.

These threads always turn into a pissing contest anyways.
[EVO 4G General] randyreed1971:
My calendar says 2011.......Im sure that sprint wasnt your first choice when your bought your first cell phone, And I see your with sprint right now..........And your fussing about upgrades and service? I think my main point is service, which should be number one with everybody. I don't think my point looks so dumb after all.
[EVO 4G General] dp92180:
Glad to be gone from this crap company...going down the toilet.
[EVO 4G General] Philyteach:
You Revived a year old Zombie thread for that?! When we wanted you to use the search button...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaywelcome:
So i've been searching for a few hours while trying to flash my cappy with speedmod kernel for 5 hours...

I don't know whats wrong but I can never get passed the galaxy s screen right after the opening at&t world phone screen. I am able to go into recovery mode and go through features but every time I reboot or turn my phone on it never gets passed the galaxy s screen. it seems like the kernel is running fine but then it stops right after the opening at&t screen. what am i doing wrong???? I have been at this for too long.

Can someone please help me with my problem... I can't seem to find anything about this and a lot of people aren't having much problem flashing this kernel. why can't I be one of those people... please! if you can push me into the right direction, that would be great!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaywelcome:
btw... it seems like its frozen on this screen but I don't think it really is.

how long does the first boot of a new kernel take? any adjustments in recovery mode that I need to make? I've also tried the older speedmod kernels and and I get the same problem. Am I using odin right, because I followed the speedmod tutorials word for word...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mengbo:
did you feel any vibration during your booting? like one vibration or three vibrations?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaywelcome:
I don't think there was any vibrations upon booting. if there was I believe it was only one. I could be wrong though. at this point I don't even want to put a custom kernal on my phone. I've been at this for a long time and it seems like I haven't gotten anywhere.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mengbo:
which rom are you on?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaywelcome:
im running stock everything but superuser permission root. stock kernal and what not also. I ended up using odin one-click downloader to flash back to stock. now my phone is back to stock and working.

the thing is that I want to flash speedmod on my phone but now I cant get into download mode or recovery mode. my phone is glitchy now too.

can you provide some suggestion on how to flash right? I would ask in the speedmod thread but Im a new to the threads and it wont let me yet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrb123:
So, recently I saw a post that clear/sprint wimax/4g coverage suddenly appeared in toledo ohio. a couple days later I saw the coverage (although still minimal) had almost doubled. I lived in seattle and now chicago, and not too far from downtown in either place, yet I happened to have an apartment within 4g coverage that was "best outside" meaning that short of setting my phone on a window sill with the window open, I couldn't get a signal. I suppose that's beside the point, but what I'm wondering is... What is sprint thinking? I know sprint owns a significant portion of clear, but do they actually intend to switch to lte eventually? Are they currently deploying their new unified towers and don't mind adding wimax with them? Are they throwing money at clear, who I thought was nearly bankrupt? Can these wimax towers quickly and easily be converted to lte, or have lte added? What does clearwire do besides sell modems and annoy me at the mall? How long does it take and how much money does it cost to put a wimax tower somewhere? Will holes in chicago and seattle ever get patched or is indoor signal lower priority than new markets? Why does there not seem to be any information or leaked roadmap about their plans?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eeeeeeeeek:
Well For 1

I would be pissed if they discontinued clear/wimax expansion, it's the reason I bought my evo, with that being said I've seen articles that state they will be working out a way to carry lte and wimax, via tower conversions, which some people say isn't possible, others say anything is possible. There are many opinons, but just like any new technolog, money must be invested, and pushed forward. Plus maybe clear/sprint plan on selling the wimax off at a later date, or subcontracting the towers or something like that. If they fail to continue pushing wimax or fail to develop it then that outcome would be much harsher then pushing a technology that may be adpapted or replaced all together. But to push 4g so hard then discontinue wimax development would be suicidal for both companies
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrb123:
Yeah, I can see how they would need to stick with it now, it just seems to be very secretive. I know you want an upper hand on the competition, but if I were a stockholder id want to know the plan. If sprint wants to go hard with 4g, why not just throw several million at clear, give people some jobs, and put a ton more towers up. I guess I don't understand why, if theyre pushing wimax, they don't have a lot more towers popping up a lot more quickly then they are. Even with a recent appearance of a lot of new markets, you'd think they could tell us the next dozen cities, or light it up more quickly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
My guess is that this is the reason why all plans are getting the extra $10 charge for data. The added income will allow Sprint to throw more money at Clear and get more 4g towers up more quickly. More money means more workers which means more towers more quickly. Plus that'll give more money to the research and development team to get us quicker 4g.

It all makes sense to me. I think stockholders need to decipher current events and figure it out instead of making the company hold their hands through everything.

If they go LTE I'm going back to T-Mobile. I do not want LTE ever.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrb123:
What's wrong with lte? I know lte in itself isn't dependent upon a certain spectrum, but i also heard sprint could possibly decommission its iden/nextel frequency and use that for something, and if lte and wimax are approximately the same speed, and there is adequate coverage, who cares what technology is behind it? using the lower frequency for lte and phasing out wimax (or having them coexist) would be fine with me if it meant a lower frequency for better indoor reception. I think google and intel should throw some of their extra money at clear... or are they regretting having invested?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m4xwellmurd3r:
If you haven't read before, ltd gives carriers the ability to control data 100%. If they want they can make you pay to gain access to things like YouTube.

Sent from my evo 4g
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenfly:
Is there a page somewhere that states what areas are on the waitlist for 4g?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babyschmoof:
Sprint is planning on using new white space to penetrate into buildings. But I'm sure we will see the wimax / lte combo soon. Especially since Verizon wants to stop sprint from roaming on their census towers.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cutthroatamft:
There is a new technology that condensed 2G, 3G, and LTE into one base station and antenna ......and it's the size of a rubrics cube. Perhaps they would use those to add LTE.

more Info on phonescoop
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
WiMax can be fairly easily switched to LTE, with a "software update and push of a button" from what I've heard. So putting out new WiMax means they're putting out the infrastructure for LTE later.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
Outside of carrier controlled data (one of my greatest fears, as I use my wireless tether rather sporadically and for various reasons) I would have to go with that my Sprint phone doesn't have a LTE chip in it. If sprint switched to LTE exclusively then our Evos would drop back to 3g and we'd still have to pay for 4g. Or, if they switched to LTE/wimax combo, it would give them almost no incentive to upgrade wimax anymore and our speeds would be stuck where they are now.

Also, I've always been a huge fan of company competition. Sprint/Clear vs Verizon/LTE vs Tmobile, ATT/HSPA+ (if it did stay that way) would mean a plethora of options for us, the consumer. This would keep things like data rates low. What would stop all 4 carriers from charging $50 for data if they all ran off the same network?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drbadass:
I'm also curious if they're working at all on expanding coverage in markets that have some here and there but not all over. For instance Austin has it in a lot of the metro area but it is nowhere near as covered in residential areas.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrb123:
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2011/02/10...s-to-give-up-retail-without-giving-up-retail/
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neopolotin75:
From what a sprint rep told me was that they plan on having 4g to all their markets sometime early 2011. At first I thought she meant major markets but Ive noticed up here in Indiana even some of the smaller cities like Kokomo etc have weak 4g in some spots.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tgrgrd00:
Kokomo, Indiana has 4g? fml
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
a lot of subscribers would be very upset if they dropped wimax.

the lawsuits would be destructive to sprint.

my bbb complaints would get me free service for life. ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neopolotin75:
Yea believe it or not......you can get a test signal....its not full blown but its there....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirmx:
I'm in a best indoor/outdoor coverage area near Tampa, FL and can't even get 4G outside in the wide open.

Was quiet the letdown getting my Evo and smashing the 4G button excited that Sprint finally had 4G in my area and getting 'Poor' signal and then disconnecting shortly after.

Verizon shows solid LTE around here, that's next on my list to try. Even if I have to pay out the ass for it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CODISDABOMB:
i heard about those, and they seem cool, but i only want wimax. i just want to get it where i live (LA county) so i can use it on my evo. i don't care what they do anywhere else. also how much does it cost to upgrade a tower to 4g? if the richer ppl (myself somewhat included) using sprint donate some $$$ can we get 4g faster? then they get more people joining sprint because they got more 4g, and we got some of our $$$ back? i just wanna get 4g out here ASAP. rumors going around that it's coming out here in march, anyone know where i can check? about to call sprint later and ask.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrb123:
I tried a T-Mobile hspa+ phone inside my apartment where 4g is mysteriously absent (bad frequency and bad building penetration) and on T-Mobile 3g it got 3000kbps+ consistently! really considering going to tmobile before the end of the day and getting a free g2, just paying the sprint etf and selling the evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CODISDABOMB:
really? 3mb/s? thats nice. but ill stick to sprint. plus i usually use data when im on wifi, which i have at home, friends' houses, grandparents houses, starbucks, hair place, etc. only places i dont use wifi is in dead zones like my school. barely any service in the older building, and no wifi for a few miles around.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
yeah im trying to decide if 5gb is enough data to use the phone as my tethering solution. i used to use more with sprint, streaming Netflix and other video and would have to stop doing that as much. but seriously sprint 3g/4g are both so bad in my apartment it isn't worth it to wait forever to buffer. get better speeds on T-Mobile and hit my data limit, or struggle to use truly unlimited data on sprint because its slow... hmm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CODISDABOMB:
im not sure. i use verizon for wifi for like 7 years now, and hardly tether my phone, but gonna use it when i go camping next weekend. i say stay unlimited for the moment, and donwload an app called network monitor. it shows your data through 2g/3g and a separate list for wifi, and its free.

it's a little glitchy if you switch roms alot, but otherwise its good. i got about 3-4 weeks ago, and only hit 900 mb. on 3g, and 1.4 gb on wifi.try and see if you hit over 5gb.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craine:
Some points to consider when thinking of WiMax, LTE, and coverage

Cellular tower sites, generally require a lot of permitting, planning, and in some states, environmental & other impact studies. Some places it can take up to three years to get approval and installation of a new cell tower. This is especially true in urban areas, and states such as California. That is why you see Clear expanding its rural and suburban coverage much more easily and quickly than it can patch holes in coverage in large cities like Seattle and San Francisco. It isn't simply a matter of throwing money or people at the problem.

As a network engineer, I can tell you that any provider of an IP-based data service (which includes WiMAX) can filter, throttle, or block any type of data they want. VoIP (voice), video, specific websites (by IP of the source or destination), specific types of content, can all be analyzed and dealt with on a case-by-case basis. If Sprint wants to stop you from accessing YouTube, Netflix, or Hulu, it can do that, even on WiMAX.

Having all the major US carriers on the same wireless standard would actually have a positive effect on competition and prices. If all the carriers were running LTE networks, consumers would have more choice and portability. LTE uses SIM cards similar to GSM, enabling subscribers to move from one carrier to another more easily. By enabling handset manufacturers to use the same chips, you get greater economies of scale and lower per unit costs, lowering the cost of a phone (though admittedly probably not by a whole lot). Finally, because customers have more choice in handsets and providers, service providers would likely have to offer lower prices, or improved services in order to differentiate themselves from the competition, driving prices down on the whole.

Craine
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
great post! appreciate all the info, especially about new towers in urban areas. is it possible to find information about which sites are potential wimax towers? maybe permits/applications for tower sites in the public domain similar to patent application info?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CODISDABOMB:
okay, the two above posts say california takes a while to get new towers, 4g is faster to get in suburban areas, and anything can be blocked. so a few questions on those.

1.) so can they block apps like PDAnet, and wifitether if they want?

2.) i live in la county (specifically antelope valley) and its 75% dirt lots, and ive hears rumors of 4g in march, but how do i know when we get 4g? and wouldn't it be easy hear? i step into my backyard and i see 20+ of dirt lots they can built on, and im sorrounded byy 200+ houses. so land ain't the problem. and we are the business and Christian city, with not too many people, and most people wouldn't care about any side effects on 4g.

^i know im rambling on but heres all i wanna know WHEN THE **** DO I GET 4G? I WANNA USE AT SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY WHEN TETHERING IPODS TOGETHER TO PLAY MULTIPLAYER GAMES!!!!!!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtegg007:
Ok, more than fairly new to android. Ive ran on windows, windows mobile and blackberry for a very long time. Finally decided Android seemed like the hot ticket (cus f*** apple) and im trying to get into this stuff.

Im a geek whose been de-geeked (haven't spent much time on the computer in the last 8-12 months, comps currently unplugged and still packed after a move, currently at a library to post this.... you get my point), and so im limping into the android world. I bought and love my epic, but I didnt buy it to run it stock so im looking to upgrade. Things I really want in a rom/want my epic to do (i understand if not ALL are possible):

-Full Flash (10.1?)

-Preferred Froyo base

-I dont mind the look/feel of the stock Shell, but Ive never experienced any others so I guess Im open to suggestions and testing them out.

-For some reason, my images don't load in full quality, Ive been told some ROMs fix this. id like it fixed.

... My list is surprisingly shorter than I initially thought it would be when I started this post... so I may edit it soon as I remember other important things.

P.S. Ive done some searching around, don't flame me. It seems hard (extremely hard) to look at each one ROM individually, see its features and what is has to offer, compare and contrast and then pick one. Ive seen a few lists with random ones compared, but no list of all of them (I imagine that would be very hard to keep up to date). It seems more like, when someone makes a ROM they say what it is, what it does, what is has and if you miss the bandwagon then you miss it completely.

Thank you for all recommendations :D
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
I like bonsai rom on froyo. Its fast and very stable. It also has swap enabled. If you wanted to go to this froyo rom for flash support then you have to upgrade cause your on eclair now. The easiest way to get to this rom is to go into the dev. Section and find the one click root plus clockwork version 3. Not 2.5.5 but version 3. But before you do that you need use a program called Odin to flash your modem from di18 eclair to dk28 froyo. Then once you boot into cwm it will change your filesystem over from rfs to ext4 and then you flash the bonsai rom and your done. Sorry I don't have links for you I'm using tapatalk and its a pain in the ass to post links but go to the dev section and look its all in there. Good luck

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soundcheck863:
I've tried a few different roms but so far I like ViperRom's frozen 4.0.3 the best. It has flash and is very very stable. Its based on dk28 and the step by step instructions are a breeze on their thread. It uses cwm 2.5 and everything is available on their thread.

Sent from my [frozen] epic.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtegg007:
Thank you guys for the responces, ill check them both out when I get to a real computer. Odin sounds like fun ;D sorry it took me so long just to check up on my own thread, life is... life.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
One thing I've had aa question on for a while...do you HAVE to do the odin method? It ddoesn't really affect me anymore, but I installed 2.2 through an update.zip

I was wondering if there are any differences.

Sent from my Epic 4G
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
No there isnt, i updated via updatezip both 2.2 and the modem, i first flashed the modem, then tried to flash 2.2 but i had to flash the d118 stock rom unrooted then it updated and then i was able to ext my system then get on bonsai.

Since ive had my epic, ive avoided odin all together..
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rodriguez92:
I bought a n1 second hand will HTC still help me if the sleep button stopped working? Gunna be calling them tomorrow to find out for sure.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
So, for the first time since I got my WP7 devices I had to reset them. It seemed to be related to the new zune software they handed out because after plugging it in and syncing my phone would not let the music bar at the top disappear. After a reset it was gone and it hasn't come back since. I got the HD7 2 days after it came out and now own every US based WP7 device and this is my first reset. I think that speaks testaments about an OS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Hasn't happened with my HD7. Updated and sync'd with no issues.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Only happened with my focus of all devices...
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Beyond that issue, how is the Focus? I will be going over to AT&T in the next month when my T-Mobile contract is up and I have a boatload of options to consider. I'm looking at all of them. If you had to choose just one...the HD7 or the Focus...which would you rather have?
[Windows Phone 7 General] JamesAllen:
Focus

You really need to get both of them in your hands and play with them for a while. We all have our opinions. I played with the HTC Surround, LG and Focus. I went with the focus. I liked the large and brilliant screen, the fit in my hand and have liked it more everyday. The darn thing just works, I have been able to find the apps I like and no resets after a month and a half. The things that I find bothersome are the issues with the SD card (I haven't had them yet, (added a 16GB Class 2 DanDisk, the lack of Flash support in WP7, and the lack of customized ringtones. Other than that, C&P, multi-tasking etc. are non-issues for me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] orangekid:
this dude does not concur.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11243163&postcount=369
[Windows Phone 7 General] ElizabethEleanor:
So that's a good thing?