I hope this isn't a dumb question, but how is the 4g compared to the evo? Is it the same hardware in the phone?
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I'm getting a much stronger and consistent 4G signal. After I walked out of Radio Shack, I held up both my old EVO and the new 3D and the 3D had a full strength while the old one had 1 bar.
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Same here. much stronger. 3x the speeds that I was getting with the EVO 4g. Since I doubt the towers changed overnight, all i can say is that radio design improved significantly. I am getting 2x on my wifi as well. In contrast, I am getting two to three times as many signal interruptions (reconnects).
Thanks 4 the response! Now thats another reason to get evo 3d. Anyone else wanna have a response?
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Anyone else wanna have a response?
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Yes, I wanna have a response and I will when I once I receive mine on Monday.
My signals all around have not been that good. Im not sure if it's my area or the phone itself.
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My signals all around have not been that good. Im not sure if it's my area or the phone itself.
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Same here, but My 3g average, is higher than my 4g.
sent from my 3rd dimension capable device...
What about the battery life
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This thing has 4G? Huh.. I was too busy with all the other features. The simple fact that Sense 3.0 is fast as fark and the phone doesn't has been keeping me busy.
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What happened to the 3vo being able to talk and surf at the same time as many reports had stated prior to the release of the 3vo? Is this something to be added later or a never gonna happen type of thing?
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It works just fine, but only if your data connection is either via wifi or 4G.
Yes I know that same as the EVO but i meant over 3g not 4g or WiFi
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Poseidon215 said:
Yes I know that same as the EVO but i meant over 3g not 4g or WiFi
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Sprint has to enable svdo on their network. The 3d and the EVO shift have the chip set. They are just not activated.
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I hope they it asap... It would be very handy and good marketing against verizon too.
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codee said:
I hope they it asap... It would be very handy and good marketing against verizon too.
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would be better marketing against at&t really, since they are the only one with bragging rights at the moment to be able to do this, not even verizon can at the moment.
Actually the Verizon Thunderbolt can do it currently. Its been something that has been making me think about jumping ship, though at those prices, I should buy a flip phone for when my Evo is online...
The thunderbolt can only do it on LTE and the phone has no toggle to turn LTE off unless its rooted
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kingakuma said:
The thunderbolt can only do it on LTE and the phone has no toggle to turn LTE off unless its rooted
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He's right fellas
Bussin Caps n 3D
ktrotter11 said:
He's right fellas
Bussin Caps n 3D
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No the Verizon TB can do it over cdma without being in LTE area. Not all VZ areas support it yet but the phone deff can do it.
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Sprint has to enable svdo on their network. The 3d and the EVO shift have the chip set. They are just not activated.
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Don't think so. the way sprint is doing their voice+data will require a certain chipset on the phones that supports SVDO, which last I checked is NOT in the EVO3D nor the shift. The MDM9600 is the only one ive seen and confirmed to have this built in.
Also a lil note for people that are interested This post lays out some things for the future in sprint and are pretty reliable sources for those that do not know them.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14300011&postcount=63
Well people, after reading this thread I just had to put in my 2 cents about it. I live in a 3G area of upstate New York with NO 4G around me and can talk and surf on my Thunderbolt. That was the only reason I dropped the call dropping iPhone with at&t and swithed. I drive a truck "18 wheeler" and everywhere I have gone in the New England area that doesn't have 4G I have been able to do this.
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No the Verizon TB can do it over cdma without being in LTE area. Not all VZ areas support it yet but the phone deff can do it.
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He is right.
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He's right fellas
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No he's most definitely wrong. The Thunderbolt can do simultaneous voice and data on 3g in svdo enabled areas.
Talk and Surf on EVO and EVO 3D
The solution is not at all elegant and drain the battery pretty quickly.
What else is new here?
In any event, be it in 3G or 4G (irrelevant for 4G I guess):
1) activate the built-in hotspot (password protect it to prevent others taking
advantage of FREE Wifi draining your battery faster than Concord)
2) Activate the phone Wifi and connect to the newly created Wifi in Step 1
At this point, you should be able to talk and surf; an added bonus (already available thru the hotspot feature), is you're able to connect other devices to the Hotspot connection created in Step 1.
The new problem you will have now is to find yourself a lasting battery.
Just ran a speed test on my phone and im getting awful speeds. Around 300kb on average. Running stock rom ke5 radio and matrix kernel. Any idea why it is so damn slow with full service bars??
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Move to question please can't do it from the app my bad.
although it probably won't get answered there.
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Yes you're right about wrong area... but keep in mind bars mean nothing.. I could have two bars on my nexus s and my friend could have full bars on his evo 3d and I'd still have better data speeds than him. As of late sprints 3G speeds have not been great.. 4G is where its at.
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Also if you were using the speedtest app itgives really inconsistent results. I use speakeasy.net on my phond
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Maybe try another radio? I mean data speed isn't a kernel issue
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Sprint sucks! I never have a service where I used to have before and 3g feels like 1x most of the time.
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Sprint sucks! I never have a service where I used to have before and 3g feels like 1x most of the time.
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I believe boost, virgin and the other Kroger pay as you go services are killing us.
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This is mine on 3g with 2bars. Oopppss can't really see it but its 1.8mbs crazzy
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update your prl/profile.
sometimes sprint's speed sucks, sometimes it's great. i get inconsistent speeds... sometimes i'll get 1.5mpbs on 3G, other times I'll get 300kbps...
Updated both prl and profile and i'm pulling down speeds of 199kb. Awful. My upload is faster than my download haha.
On wifi I'm pulling speeds around 16mb
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Known issue, wrong sub-forum, thread closed.
Bought my wife the EvO 3d the other day, up from a HERO CDMA. Noticing that without exception the signal on the 3d is dramatically worse than the hero was. The 3d is bone stock. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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this is a known issue htc needs to address. the evo 3d generally has a worse signal than other phones since the antennae is at the bottom (where u hold it). if u cant deal with it you might wanna get a different phone. im considering it
Have you updated your prl? Sprint pushed one that was super slow but fixed it. My 3d gets better coverage than any other phone I've owned. Hell I tether to my wifes nexus s 4g so she can speed up. Your prl should start with a 2 I think.
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yeah, she's on the most recent prl, must be the antennae problem, but signal is just rotten on this phone.
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I had this issue for a while but I am running 11115 prl and I have notice the difference... I am rooted and running Virus infected rom and I am happy for now... you could try rooting it and trying difference prl or roms it may make a difference...
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this is a known issue htc needs to address. the evo 3d generally has a worse signal than other phones since the antennae is at the bottom (where u hold it). if u cant deal with it you might wanna get a different phone. im considering it
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Really? That's a bit of bad news for me.
I'd be very interested to hear from any UK Evo owners regarding the phone signal, is it as much of a problem with GSM too?
Hello, I just got a new evil 3d becuase of the dual core processor because I thought that the internet would be faster. Is there a configuration needed? With my 4 g my speeds are in the 400 and now with the 3d "dual core" processor I'm in the 200's
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The processor has little to do with internet speeds. It helps, making things more responsive, but the signal effects the data speed. And the antenna on the 3D are at the bottom near where you'd hold the phone which could degrade the signal.
Is the phone faster than the 4G? Yes. Does that mean you'll get faster data? Not necessarily.
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The processor has little to do with internet speeds. It helps, making things more responsive, but the signal effects the data speed. And the antenna on the 3D are at the bottom near where you'd hold the phone which could degrade the signal.
Is the phone faster than the 4G? Yes. Does that mean you'll get faster data? Not necessarily.
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Nicely put...
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The processor has little to do with internet speeds. It helps, making things more responsive, but the signal effects the data speed. And the antenna on the 3D are at the bottom near where you'd hold the phone which could degrade the signal.
Is the phone faster than the 4G? Yes. Does that mean you'll get faster data? Not necessarily.
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Thanks!, understood 100%. Would you recomendar an antenna booster or something like that? I have the airwave coming on Monday, does that actually help?
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metro77279 said:
Thanks!, understood 100%. Would you recomendar an antenna booster or something like that? I have the airwave coming on Monday, does that actually help?
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Yes, it will.
Have the airave as well... Works very nicely
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You'll return it in a week, once you see how slow 3g is with sprint.
IF your lucky, you might get 100k up / down, but typically, only 25k
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You'll return it in a week, once you see how slow 3g is with sprint.
IF your lucky, you might get 100k up / down, but typically, only 25k
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This is dependant on location. I'm not doubting you are experiencing slow network speeds, but it's purely a matter of tower saturation, and your surroundings. I'm consistantly seeing downloads in the range of 1.0-1.7 mbs. Sometimes, at night, I can break 2.0 mbs, but that's because there isn't much activity. But, I'm in a major metropolitan area, with strong network coverage from the major 4 carriers. There was a blip for about 8 months where the speeds were really slow, but Sprint fixed the tower by my house, and now I'm back to normal.
And, to the OP, I didn't notice any difference in download speed between my Evo 4G, and Evo 3D.
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This is dependant on location. I'm not doubting you are experiencing slow network speeds, but it's purely a matter of tower saturation, and your surroundings. I'm consistantly seeing downloads in the range of 1.0-1.7 mbs. Sometimes, at night, I can break 2.0 mbs, but that's because there isn't much activity. But, I'm in a major metropolitan area, with strong network coverage from the major 4 carriers. There was a blip for about 8 months where the speeds were really slow, but Sprint fixed the tower by my house, and now I'm back to normal.
And, to the OP, I didn't notice any difference in download speed between my Evo 4G, and Evo 3D.
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exactly it all matters were u are with any network. ive been with sprint forever and ive always seen consistent 3g speeds in my hometown ranging from .8-1.7mbps recently ive moved from the east coast to the west coast and im still seeing great speeds but not the same around .5-1.0 which still works and i somehow managed to move from the best 4g city to another great 4g city haha always see speeds of 5-12mbps
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Hello, I just got a new evil 3d becuase of the dual core processor because I thought that the internet would be faster. Is there a configuration needed? With my 4 g my speeds are in the 400 and now with the 3d "dual core" processor I'm in the 200's
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>evil 3d
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The Airave doesn't provide 4G Signals. It does however provide 3G Data Connection which is usually faster than what you'd get from a Sprint Tower. Also Depends on your internet connection that you'd be hooking the Airave up to.
I just hooked up the airave and I went from 0.2 to 1.3 . It's bad assets. I recommend everybody call Sprint and get it. It's freeeeee.
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I just hooked up the airave and I went from 0.2 to 1.3 . It's bad assets. I recommend everybody call Sprint and get it. It's freeeeee.
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Does the air rave not need to be hooked up to your Internet? LMFAO why not just use wifi?
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I just hooked up the airave and I went from 0.2 to 1.3 . It's bad assets. I recommend everybody call Sprint and get it. It's freeeeee.
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Or WiFi?
Edit.... Lol someone beat me to it....
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My evo 4G is actually a lot better about picking up a 4G signal, but the speeds are about the same with both. The 3G and 4G antenna are still on top with the 3D but the wifi and Bluetooth are indeed on the bottom of the phone.
If you're not getting at least 600kbps on 3G call sprint and let them know. That's the minimum speed they advertise do usually they'll credit your account for it.
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Does the air rave not need to be hooked up to your Internet? LMFAO why not just use wifi?
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The airave creates a voice signal and data..... But the data is useless if you have wifi...
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The airave creates a voice signal and data..... But the data is useless if you have wifi...
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Exactly... That's what thought..
I'm getting a 3d tomorow as a asurin replacement till the galaxy nexus comes out
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Does the air rave not need to be hooked up to your Internet? LMFAO why not just use wifi?
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The while point is the reception. If I use WiFi, sure It's even better than that. But hahaha lmao, lol
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Besides, there are some ROMs that dont have WiFi yet so this would be really helpful
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Is there a fix for the ultra bad reception for the new Evo? My 2year old OG evolution had much better reception overall...what's up with that?
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jamfreak said:
Is there a fix for the ultra bad reception for the new Evo? My 2year old OG evolution had much better reception overall...what's up with that?
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I'm had the same problem. My calls would sound garbled on both ends. I exchanged my phone and it still not 100%.
So today I wake up and try to send an SMS and no luck there either. Called sprint and they say it's intermittent problems with the LTE network and it only affects LTE phones. Sucks!
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Try updating radio ,profile and prl. like the avatar, G/D Steal your face, awesome man
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Yeah updated a few times already. I just think reception of this new 'ultra' phone really sucks. Like I said OG Evo beat it by far but I had to upgrade because my charging port broke and I got tired of constantly switching batteries
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Yeah updated a few times already. I just think reception of this new 'ultra' phone really sucks. Like I said OG Evo beat it by far but I had to upgrade because my charging port broke and I got tired of constantly switching batteries
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Cant argue with you there,lol Ive got all of the Evo's(OG,3D AND LTE). OG is by far my favorite. Reception on my lte is pretty pretty good in bigger cities but where i live it kinda sucks. Might be your issue as well. Im on sprint but at home im on verizon/at&t towers may be the problem
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