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hoonchops posted:I understand how you could arrive at this conclusion, but how on earth could sprint cancel your account AND give your device a new number? Surely its more likely the port request would cancel your account and service. Then you're stuck with your google voice account using your former-sprint number, but no actual cell service to forward calls to.
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TLG James posted:It seems like the Nexus will be out by the end of the month. I really don't think I'd use most of the Evo's features and 4g is no where close to my city.
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Cozmosis posted:My biggest concern looking at the EVO 3D would be battery life. It does have a much, much needed 1700 mAh, but people are having battery troubles (albeit very few) with the Atrix occasionally, so HTC's track record bothers me in that regard. I hope it is adequate for the device. I was already burned by the Thunderbolt once.
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goku chewbacca posted:None of you are enrolled in automatic payments to avoid the $4.99 account spending limit charge? At what point between your usual bill issue date and due date does the payment charge to your card? I'm not in this group, but automatic payments happen on your due date.
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Apr 8, 2011 21:28
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jaku78 posted:Am I the only one having trouble imagining what the EVO 3D can do over the Nexus S in terms of power? Besides burning the battery without a clocking program (which, the EVO3D might unfortunately have no access to depending on root). I mean I've seen a samsung epic run even PSX games pretty stable. I don't see the point in having that much power unless you want to just impress somebody.
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Apr 13, 2011 02:12
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Mistikman posted:When left plugged into the charger, the charge lasts about 24 hours or so. It charges up to full then slowly starts draining, while plugged in. That's hosed up. Dump the task killer. Android is smarter than that crap these days. There's really nothing you can do about that battery life, though, short of getting an airave or going full-on black hat and prl swapping. You can follow all the niggling tips you like about widgets and screen brightness and whatnot, but when you're dropping in and out of coverage nonstop, it's the cell radio that's eating all that power. I have spotty coverage at home, too, and my battery life here isn't much better, but since my charger works properly, and it gets 3-4 times that out where there's coverage, it's not much of an issue.
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Apr 19, 2011 06:52
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My concern is that, while porting my cell # to gv makes for seamless integration now, it is only so through sprint-specific and android-specific capabilities. Switching away from either of those would be problematic.
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Apr 27, 2011 21:18
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jeeves posted:Stuck with contract questions: Of course AT&T allows porting. You're stuck signing a contract for a new account no matter what (save for one horrible plan), and I strongly doubt having been a customer 5 years ago will affect that. I'd consider the nexus s over the evo, too.
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May 2, 2011 07:31
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ninmeister posted:For anyone in the Buffalo NY area, some pockets of 4G service have come up in spotty parts of Niagara County and an area of east Buffalo. I hope it gets better. Its right in my neighborhood but doesn't work what so ever in my house. I'm not sure why I would expect that. Well, hot drat. Looks like those bastards will probably get me for a 4g phone this summer after all.
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Yeah, Google isn't helping anyone work with multiple GV accounts. I have a second GV number, and it won't let me attach my cell # to both unless neither has it listed as a cell (as opposed to home / work), and only cells can receive forwarded texts. (Of course, since those texts are pushed to my phone via both gmail and the GV app, it's not much of a problem.)
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May 5, 2011 21:16
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Matlock posted:Or $0.01/$17 activation at Wal-Mart.
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May 10, 2011 15:24
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ThermoPhysical posted:But Sprint corporate stores can touch the accounts, right? How would one find a corporate store? Use the store locater on sprint.com. Corporate stores will be listed as 'Sprint Store'. Third party will be 'Sprint Store by Whatever Wireless'.
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May 15, 2011 00:10
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Alman posted:Blogs are blowing up about some analyst's remarks about the next iPhone coming to Sprint and T-Mobile. I guess he's saying it's called the iPhone 4S, and it will ship without LTE support but will have HSPA+ enabled which gives AT&T and T-Mobile some marketing leverage over Verizon and Sprint. Either way, to those Sprint people who are jonesing for an iOS device, it may be coming this fall. This sounds sketchy as hell, but I'd be psyched to see it. "support for sprint and t-mobile" is an odd way to phrase that, considering they'd have to be different models, but this isn't vetted language. Not having 4g on a flagship device doesn't sound like apple or sprint, but then again, calling it the 4s instead of 5 would be the way to do that, and sprint would probably take anything apple gives them. Samsung 'Within'? That may literally be the worst product name I've ever heard. WoG fucked around with this message at 17:50 on May 16, 2011 |
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nate fisher posted:It was until I read the words Verizon "Function". That takes the cake. They can call it whatever they want as long as they don't change the look and form of the phone. If they market it as 'Galaxy Within', it's interesting and parses as language, but it's still bizarre for a product. 'Galaxy Function', though....
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Lblitzer posted:I'm starting to lose control on my monthly bill and have quite a large outstanding balance that I'm having a hard time paying right now. My 2 year contract is up in February, but I'm wondering if it will be more beneficial to just try and jump ship (to my parents much cheaper plan on Verizon) and pay the outstanding balance over time. Can something like this be done or am I going to have to wait to port my number over after my balance is paid. I have like a $700 balance right now lol (I'm also a bit curious how the line is still active -- a few years ago, due to being broke one month and absent-minded the next, I missed two consecutive due dates, and got a nasty email very quickly threatening disconnection in 10 days. Maybe it was an empty threat, but oddly specific if it was.) So much chatter about the iphone 4s now. I was looking forward to the evo3d sometime this summer, but if the iphone's only 3 months away, that's a tough call. Now to hope they'll show off some hardware at wwdc in june, and not just ios5.
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OptimusMatrix posted:Why anyone would go with a slightly updated iphone over the Evo3d is beyond me. Unless you're already on an iphone and you've got lots of money tied up in IOS. Well, you're looking at pretty comparable hardware, assuming the rumored 4s specs are true. Higher res screen, better 2d camera, and slimmer, nicer design for the the iphone vs 4g, 3d, microsd, larger screen*, and faster proc** on the evo. If I'm missing something key, and your point isn't really just, "why anyone would go with ios over android is beyond me," let me know. *though how much larger is unknown, since since the 'prototype' iphone pics with edge-to-edge display might be the 4s, the 5, or bullshit. **there won't/can't be any real comparison between the snapdragon and the a5, but they're probably within spitting distance. I've had an android phone for about 2 months and an ios device (touch 4) for 5, so I have no major allegiance and similar (negligible) amounts of money tied up in their respective markets. Yes, potential upsides for me, personally, are that not having 4g would save me 10/mo, and flipping a touch would net a lot more money than an optimus, but this is all just hypothetical until we see anything concrete. WoG fucked around with this message at 16:26 on May 23, 2011 |
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OptimusMatrix posted:You're going to pay that 10 dollars regardless of 4g or not. It's added on to all smartphones nowadays. Also, yes, I should have added 4g to the evo's advantages. Clear did finally put up some token towers covering 2% of my area (nowhere near me, at the moment), but the coming months will also hopefully bring some new information on whether 4g might be usable soon.
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XenoWolf posted:So I just found something sneaky out. Apparently, Sprint charges $0.20/min for *incoming* forwarded calls. This means that if I forward my home phone to my Sprint phone, calls to my home phone cost me $0.20 on my Sprint bill. There isn't a way around this according to a Sprint rep I spoke to, not even with an Unlimited plan. What the hell, Sprint?
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Shady business going on in the Sprint thread. re: $900 world phone, if only businesses are gonna buy it anyway, why not tack on an extra few hundred?
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McPhearson posted:I could have sworn I read in the TOS that 4g is really unlimited, but 3g is capped at 5gb a month. But now that I go and read it again I cant find that anymore, maybe they changed it.
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pragan4 posted:What's the story with using my Airave's upgrade for a phone? Does Sprint allow that and will there be any unexpected surprises if I do? Duckman sez: I do recommend avoiding using the "upgrade eligibility" on the Microcell line to get you a new phone, its a bit taboo for Sprint and risks opening a can of worms at some point. Sounds to me like--even if it happens too infrequently for them to have put checks in their automated systems to stop it--if anyone ever took a close look at your account, you'd be in violation of some small print somewhere and get hosed.
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It's getting a lot of discussion here, so for the sake of reminding people of the oddly strict requirements, you need to go to the switch-to-sprint website and register for your credit within 72 hours of activating your new phone.
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So who's got predictions on how far that market value will tank when the 3d drops and every third evo's being flipped simultaneously?
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jaku78 posted:Most people hear 3D in the name and immediately say gently caress this phone it will burn battery life on an EVO to match and it will be a bitch to turn it off said feature without trying to find out more information.
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Jun 13, 2011 15:12
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IOwnCalculus posted:It made more sense back before all smartphones got the This isn't quite right. When sprint decided to apply the premium data fee to all smartphones instead of just 4g (a few months ago), that's the change that doesn't apply to sero. Sero is: $30 -- dumbphones/winmo6 $40 -- 3g smartphones $50 -- 4g smartphones I'm paying 40 for an optimus right now, and that's not a grandfathered rate (aside from sero itself, that is); I got it after all these changes went down. The replenish is 40, and the advertised 'green discount' is redundant for sero users, since that premium data fee is already waived for all 3g phones. 'Sero-Premium' is unrelated, predates the 'premium data' fee by a year or two, and no android phone is exempt.
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- you had $30 SERO for dumbphones / WinMo 6.5, $40 SERO-P for non-premium smartphones that actually do things, and $50 SERO-P plus Premium for the Evo and Epic.
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Stevie Lee posted:Both the keyboards on the 3D suck after using Swype 3.0 on the Evo...Anyone had any luck getting that beta installed? The swype beta does work better than the old version, but I don't see any advantages over flext9 (perhaps the most useful free amazon app I've grabbed). WoG fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jun 23, 2011 |
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diospadre posted:How can you even fit anything in your pocket along with an Evo? Unless It's 1997 and you're wearing cargo pants.
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MrDingleDangle posted:Sorry if this has been answered in this thread, I have done my best to look through a lot of the pages and read the first post, but its a long thread If you did break out on an individual plan, you could get eprp, but I doubt it's your cheapest option.
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chupacabraTERROR posted:I'm a Verizon customer looking to switch to Sprint soon and I have a few questions. 1. Only 2 year contracts. New customers have a 30 day no-questions full-refund guarantee, though, so you'll have a few weeks to test, and once that contract is up, you're welcome to stay off contract forever (I've been off contract for like 3 years), as long as you forgo upgrade discounts. 2. Assuming you're talking about getting an employer discount off your individual plan, and not signing up through some corporate account or something, the official answer is that you have to inform sprint that you've left, and they remove the discount. The unofficial answer is that you don't, and they don't, and enjoy your permanent discount. 3. No, there's no information. The premium data fee is supposed to head this sort of thing off, and all sprint's spectrum deals over the last few years have left it in a position to have shitloads of (theoretical) data capacity, compared to the other carriers, but come on -- they'll do whatever they want as soon as they think they can make more money that way.
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"d[-.- posted:b"] I don't think WwF crashing is the phone's fault. Maybe they've improved it since the first release, but that thing locked up my optimus more frequently and thoroughly than any application before or since.
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letsgoflyers81 posted:My biggest issue is the 4x4 grid on the homescreen. There's so much wasted space it's ridiculous. The layout hasn't been updated since the HVGA screen of the Hero. Use widgetsoid and make your own custom shortcut layouts, if you want to stick with rosie.
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traveling midget posted:Paid apps will be listed as "Purchased". Free apps you downloaded in the past won't appear. That's a limitation of HTC Sense.
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td4guy posted:Anything over 300MB of roaming and Sprint will likely terminate your service. But I think I once calculated that that would take 18 hours of nonstop downloading at the 1xRTT speeds you're limited to. So it's really a non-issue.
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f#a# posted:On topic and concerning my problem, however, I found this here pretty comprehensive comparison: PocketNow's Samsung Galaxy S II vs. HTC Evo 3D. I'm probably holding out for the nexus 3 either way, though.
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vwman18 posted:I'm looking to upgrade my Pre in the very near future. I'm really interested in the Arrive right now. Does Sprint tack on the $10 premium data fee onto my SERO premium for this phone?
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traveling midget posted:It's probably SD-card related. The guy at Sprint told me it needs to be at least class 6 (or 4?) (I can't remember which) for 3D to work properly but 4/6 aren't that particularly fast to begin with, especially with rapid-fire photos. Sure, saving large photos to a slow card will slow things down, but if the app allows that to cause lock-ups/FCs, that app is hosed up. I'd bet you could replicate the same issue with a class 10 if you went nuts with it.
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Doctor Claw posted:So, I took my phone in to get repaired and they just wiped it and did a manual Gingerbread install to fix my force close/battery life/connection issues.
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Myrddin Emrys posted:That's one of the richest areas in the country?
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noapparentfunction posted:I'm on Sprint and good for an upgrade so I'm diving headfirst into Android for the first time. The Nexus S is grabbing my attention because it's stock Android (first to get updates), nice specs, and it's on sale for $99. It even has that weird NFC stuff I'd be interested in tinkering with. I think this is the one I want. You already know the arguments for and against, what are you expecting to hear?
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