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Any suggestions for picking up a USB+Female AC Adapter package for less than what Sprint wants to charge? I'm sending back what I ordered from Amazon because though it looked real, it doesn't charge the phone. Now I'm worried that anything I try to pick up from other vendors is just going to be a rip off. Anyone else had success getting a new Cable+Wall plug set for their phone? I have an HTC Evo 3d if it matters.
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td4guy posted:The Hero only has 288MB. And it chugs like crazy.
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Nov 20, 2011 02:59
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The Ferret King posted:Any suggestions for picking up a USB+Female AC Adapter package for less than what Sprint wants to charge? It may be late and I am reading this wrong, but do you just need a wall charger? If so go to monoprice.com, they have the best prices on micro USB cables and their wall bricks are also ok.
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Nov 20, 2011 05:09
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Some phones and things are more picky about their chargers. My Kindle won't charge properly with a cheapo noname wall charger.
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Nov 20, 2011 07:41
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diospadre posted:And it chugs like crazy. Even on 1.5/1.6 it was laggy, let alone with GB.
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Nov 20, 2011 07:44
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I have a dedicated wall charger already. I wanted to get a USB data cable that comes with a USB to wall adapter. I bought one off amazon that looked authentic, but it didn't charge.
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Nov 20, 2011 07:50
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I looked on ebay for htc chargers, there's some dude selling tons of original htc chargers (brick only) for like 4 bux. You can pick up cables anywhere for like a dollar.
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Nov 20, 2011 11:22
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Did you have a good experience with a specific seller that I should check out? I'm looking at all these chargers and most of these sellers have 20+ negative feedbacks in the last 30 days for defective products. Seems like the business of reselling phone accessories is shady as hell. I'd be happy to buy from a goon recommended source before committing to another random charger that might turn out to be defective.
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Nov 20, 2011 20:55
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http://www.seidioonline.com/htc-evo-3d-multi-function-battery-charger-black-p/bd3-bcsi3hev3d-bk.htm This looks nice, and I've had good experiences with Seidio products in the past. And it seems specifically designed for the picky EVO 3D/Sensation 4G. Mentioning "specific power requirements" and all.
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Nov 21, 2011 00:49
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What's the deal with google talk lately, hitting back just cycles through my chats indefinitely instead of just backing out of the app. This happens in any ROM I try, so it can't be just my phone.
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Nov 21, 2011 02:36
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Can someone explain to me the appeal of cases that only protect the back/sides of a touch phone? The touch screen is the only part that is really sensitive to damage/drops and is expensive to replace. To me it's like buying a condom that only covers your balls.
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Nov 21, 2011 06:01
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scarymonkey posted:Can someone explain to me the appeal of cases that only protect the back/sides of a touch phone? The touch screen is the only part that is really sensitive to damage/drops and is expensive to replace. To me it's like buying a condom that only covers your balls.
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Nov 21, 2011 06:05
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People need to be able to see touch the touchscreen. They are also more careful about the screen itself. The case protects the rest of it from drops/etc.
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Nov 21, 2011 06:06
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The Ferret King posted:Did you have a good experience with a specific seller that I should check out? http://www.ebay.com/itm/150673183964
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Nov 21, 2011 11:27
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scarymonkey posted:Can someone explain to me the appeal of cases that only protect the back/sides of a touch phone? The touch screen is the only part that is really sensitive to damage/drops and is expensive to replace. To me it's like buying a condom that only covers your balls. To protect the back from scratches or to add a splash of color to it. I respect that more than I do a Otterbox case (unless you are in a warzone).
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Nov 21, 2011 14:15
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scarymonkey posted:Can someone explain to me the appeal of cases that only protect the back/sides of a touch phone? The touch screen is the only part that is really sensitive to damage/drops and is expensive to replace. To me it's like buying a condom that only covers your balls. I bought my TPU case so that may be able to put my E4GT on any flat surface without worry. I prefer to not have the camera lens or screen directly touching something like wood.
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Nov 21, 2011 14:24
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I'm giving up on my Moment finally and getting a new Sprint phone for Christmas. Is the Evo 3D still the hot poo poo phone to get, even if you don't care about 3D or 4G?
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm giving up on my Moment finally and getting a new Sprint phone for Christmas. Is the Evo 3D still the hot poo poo phone to get, even if you don't care about 3D or 4G? The new hot poo poo is the Epic 4G Touch (Samsung Galaxy S II). Here's a hardware tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jsxB2NKJvM Here's a software tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96q6YCQvAdo ------------- On a side note Amazon is having a Black Friday deal, all phones for $0.01 for new activations: quote:Amazon Wireless, one of our favorite online mobile retailers, launched its Black Friday promotions a little early this year, and boy are they good! http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...-ii-evo-3d-etc/ scarymonkey fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Nov 21, 2011 |
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Nov 21, 2011 15:01
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm giving up on my Moment finally and getting a new Sprint phone for Christmas. Is the Evo 3D still the hot poo poo phone to get, even if you don't care about 3D or 4G? Evo 3D is my personal favorite buy to get on Sprint. Compare the 3D and the Epic Touch, either one is fine. I've been considering putting the Photon in the "do not buy" category, for some reason I now have been having customers return that phone due to weird problems.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm giving up on my Moment finally and getting a new Sprint phone for Christmas. Is the Evo 3D still the hot poo poo phone to get, even if you don't care about 3D or 4G? If you don't care about 4G or 3D, I would go with the iPhone 4S, and even if you did care I would still go with it. That said if you care about being on Android you can't go wrong with either the EVO 3D or the Epic 4G Touch. That said pretty much the only 3 phones I would even consider from Sprint right now if you are taking your smartphone purchase serious. Just curious how has the Epic 4G battery life been? The 3D has been pretty good battery life wise for my wife.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm giving up on my Moment finally and getting a new Sprint phone for Christmas. Is the Evo 3D still the hot poo poo phone to get, even if you don't care about 3D or 4G? You can't choose wrong between the Evo 3D and the GSII (used both, liked the thinner/lighter profile of the GSII better). However, if you're thinking of rooting, avoid the GSII. Too many problems right now when it's rooted. halokiller fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Nov 21, 2011 |
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Nov 21, 2011 16:31
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halokiller posted:You can't choose wrong between the Evo 3D and the GSII (used both, liked the thinner/lighter profile of the GSII better). However, if you're thinking of rooting, avoid the GSII. Too many problems right now when it's rooted. There's no problem with GSII rooting, maybe using some of the custom kernels, but you can stay with stock ROM/Kernel and still root with no problem, I've already done on it on two phones, and no complaints from the two people I did it for after a month+ of use. nate fisher posted:Just curious how has the Epic 4G battery life been? The 3D has been pretty good battery life wise for my wife. Battery life is great, even XDA members are pretty impressed with battery life. scarymonkey fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Nov 21, 2011 |
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scarymonkey posted:There's no problem with GSII rooting, maybe using some of the custom kernels, but you can stay with stock ROM/Kernel and still root with no problem, I've already done on it on two phones, and no complaints from the two people I did it for after a month+ of use. Which method did you use? I went with flashing thru ODIN to get CWM/root on stock and I got nothing but LOS issues since.
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scarymonkey posted:Battery life is great, even XDA members are pretty impressed with battery life.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm giving up on my Moment finally and getting a new Sprint phone for Christmas. Is the Evo 3D still the hot poo poo phone to get, even if you don't care about 3D or 4G? I'd say you should look into both the Evo 3D and ET4G. They're both great phones from what I can tell. I think a lot of it will come down to sense vs. touchwiz, higher res SLCD vs. slightly lower res but bigger/prettier SAMOLED+, and which feels better in hand. In the abstract I think that the ET4G wins if you're just looking at bullet points on a spec sheet (faster CPU, bigger/prettier screen, better camera, better battery life) but given Samsung's track record with android devices I'd always be a little hesitant to pull the trigger. For the record I own an Evo 3D and love it (I actually am a fan of sense which probably helps).
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halokiller posted:Which method did you use? I went with flashing thru ODIN to get CWM/root on stock and I got nothing but LOS issues since. I used an older convoluted method, this seems the best way now (no ODIN required): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
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halokiller posted:Which method did you use? I went with flashing thru ODIN to get CWM/root on stock and I got nothing but LOS issues since.
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berzerkmonkey posted:put it in airplane mode and it will last a couple of days. This is every Android phone. Hell, if I disable mobile network while at work, 8 hours later it's dropped maybe 2%.
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big mean giraffe posted:This is every Android phone. Hell, if I disable mobile network while at work, 8 hours later it's dropped maybe 2%. There is also the whole, A PHONE IS loving USELESS WITHOUT RADIOS thing. But y'know, whatever. I honestly thought the guy was being sarcastic? I hope?
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ddogflex posted:There is also the whole, A PHONE IS loving USELESS WITHOUT RADIOS thing. But y'know, whatever. I honestly thought the guy was being sarcastic? I hope? I can play fruit ninja without a radio. Thus radios aren't essential.
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Fyi Evo 3D people: Warm 2.3 Final finally reached 1.0 last night. Yeah, the Sense theme is kinda ehhhh, but holy gently caress the battery life. I'm currently at 8 hours 37 minutes off charger, and the battery is still rockin at 79%. And I've been taking pictures, playing a little Sim City, dicking around on the web/SA, and being in and out of coverage dead zones all day.
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What you're talking about involves rooting the phone, correct?
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So.....ever since I've stopped working for Sprint back in July, I haven't really paid much attention to phones at all. I still have the original EVO that I got 2 weeks before launch, I'm really getting sick of it. How many people have gone from Android in general or the EVO specifically to an iPhone 4S? If you have, what's the verdict? What do you like/dislike? I can sell my EVO back to Sprint for $90 so basically I can get a 4S for $110. Should I do it? I'm just no longer impressed/infatuated with Android as I think it has gone about as far as its gonna go for the next year, Ice Cream Sandwich notwithstanding.
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datajosh posted:I would suggest backing everything up and using ODIN to flash the "EG31" build that just came out and then using scarymonkey's link to root it. (You can also flash this in ODIN to get CWM5 with that build.) I did that on Thursday and things have been probably the most stable they ever have since then. Gonna try this method now. I was still thinking at that time where can only have either root or CWM recovery (not both) on stock unless you used a custom ROM (which caused the LOS issue).
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halokiller posted:Gonna try this method now. I was still thinking at that time where can only have either root or CWM recovery (not both) on stock unless you used a custom ROM (which caused the LOS issue).
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Mahoning posted:So.....ever since I've stopped working for Sprint back in July, I haven't really paid much attention to phones at all. I feel the opposite, I'm enjoying my EVO much more than the first day I bought it. There are many more quality apps now available that simply didn't exist when I first got the phone. At this point Android surpasses the iPhone when it comes to apps, iPhone still wins in the games department but Android is no slouch either.
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nate fisher posted:If you don't care about 4G or 3D, I would go with the iPhone 4S, and even if you did care I would still go with it. scarymonkey posted:I feel the opposite, I'm enjoying my EVO much more than the first day I bought it. There are many more quality apps now available that simply didn't exist when I first got the phone. At this point Android surpasses the iPhone when it comes to apps, iPhone still wins in the games department but Android is no slouch either. Edit: Phones are hard. 
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Mahoning posted:Should I do it? I'm just no longer impressed/infatuated with Android as I think it has gone about as far as its gonna go for the next year, Ice Cream Sandwich notwithstanding. 6 months ago, I would have said I completely understand. Unless you really wanted the flexibility of Android or sideloading out of the box, iOS was a stronger choice. Since the ICS announcement, I really think Google has finally brought an OS on par with iOS as a whole with ICS. iOS 5 feels like they didn't do much more than copy Android notifications and got Siri. ICS feels like they really overhauled the whole OS in about every way they should have. Which is pretty much how I felt about the 4S/Galaxy Nexus announcements. The iPhone is the same tiny screen, same huge bezel, and some upgrades under the hood. The Galaxy Nexus is like what you want from the next generation of phones. All totally my opinion, but it felt like Apple was holding stuff back for iOS 6/iPhone 5 and Google is going all out.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Maybe this is wandering off-topic, but aside from the lack of 4G are there any obvious downsides to the iPhone? 3.5" screen is about the only downside that I can think of, but people rarely complain about it so I doubht it's much of a problem. My own personal reasons for not getting an iPhone, aside from screen size, is the automation stuff I can do with Android. I can have WiFi turn on when I get home, have notifications shut up at night, have my media volume silent unless headphones are plugged in, have the screen brightness increase and the lockscreen disable when plugged in, and other such things. I don't know if this stuff is possible on iOS but I don't think I've heard about it. On the other hand, iOS has far superior apps.
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900ftjesus posted:6 months ago, I would have said I completely understand...Since the ICS announcement, I really think Google has finally brought an OS on par with iOS as a whole with ICS. 900ftjesus posted:All totally my opinion, but it felt like Apple was holding stuff back for iOS 6/iPhone 5 and Google is going all out. Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Nov 22, 2011 |
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