Defective phone? - HTC EVO 3D

So after reading these forums I see some people experience lag while the majority don't. Also I see the same people who experience lag also complain of green hue/tint on their photos as well. Well I'm one of those people. No matter what I do my phone lags scrolling through homescreens, camera freezes every other time I use it.
I'm going by sprint today to play with the demo unit to see how it compares to mine. I don't remember it being laggy when I played with it on launch day.
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Try a hard reset to see if that fixes your problem.
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Try a hard reset to see if that fixes your problem.
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I did. But i posted a thread my first day about the lag. But its no better. The weather live paper locks my phone up after about a minute...and my screen is yellow. I'm gonna see how the phone on display at sprint looks. If its better , I'm going to swap it out for a new one
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no problem here.
I actually feel the stock rom could be a keeping. Everything just works and very snappy.

my camera doesnt even load. Its goes to a black screen, i did a hard reset, factory reset, and still nothing, i called and they are going to send me a brand new phone. i should be getting it today or tomorrow.

I don't have any green tints but i do get lag when scrolling in the market and some apps. Also the camera freezes sometimes after taking pics and i need to go and fc it.... Hope it's a software issue that can't be fixed by an ota.

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Verizon and Pixel question.. advice needed.

I just upgraded to TB today, and had to go to work before playing with it much. Now I'm home, and a stuck/dead pixel is driving me insane! It's in the middle of the screen, offset to the right a bit. I keep staring at it uncontrollably, and tried many times to wipe it away lol. Will I be able to replace the phone, or would I be better off returning it and just doing my upgrade again? I do not think it's acceptable for the value of the phone. Thanks for any input. This screwed up my rooting plans for now.. grrr.
Edit: I'm also having a hell of time trying to get the market to download apps, instead of auto failing immediately. Factory reset worked for a bit, but now I have tons of updates that won't download.. will not factory reset again.. I'm in a 3G only area.. it takes forever!! I'm coming from a DX.. so it's alot of apps I'm having trouble with.
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You got a bad one. Take it back and exchange it for a new one.
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Exchange it. It's a hardware issue and is covered by the warranty.
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Thanks guys.. just needed reassurance. Hope my luck is better next time.
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Try one of the pixel fix apps in the market. But you likely will have to return the device.
dead pixels can't be fixed unless they replace the screen, had the same issue with my 55 inch monitor, and they are replacing the entire led panel, just return it, you paid good money for it, everything should work 100%
I'm sure most people wouldn't even notice it, I'm just uber picky with my gadgets. It's really apparent on blue screens. The retailer I got it from is closed on Sundays.. so yet another day without rooting.. this blows lol
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Camera Freezing.

Love my Evo3d no complaints.. But recently It constantly freezes after I take a camera shot. I can't back out or anything I have to hit home screen in order to go back. I can task killer Camera app and do it again but constant freezing. Ofcourse i've reset the device but wth its a semi-known issue!
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/304064
I may go to Best Buy and get a new one if none of the xda guys here are having this issue...
so did you return the phone? if you did, do you still have the issue? mines still force closes so i might head tomorrow to get an exchange because i use the camera app a lot and this isnt fun for it not to work!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182469
This is my thread with a bunch of people reporting the exact issue. And nice of you to post that sprint community site, as I got my info from there also.
I really hope HTC fixes this.
Same issue here
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Same here also. My screen also becomes unresponsive and I have to reboot it to fix it...
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Phantom Touches (or just plain crazy!)

Hi all,
Couldn't find a thread about this, sorry if it exists.
My EVO 3D has been experiencing what can best be described as phantom touches. I leave the phone alone with the screen on and it moves the home screens in a jittery fashion or randomly presses the screen. Approx middle, slightly to the left just below the centre of the screen and also closer to the home/menu soft keys. It's not a permanent issue, but it does go absolutely "mental" at times making the phone unusable until it settles down.
It also interferes with the lock screen, playing havoc with the pattern unlock.
Tried all the usual... factory reset etc etc but to no avail.
Has anybody else come across this?
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I've had mine do that albeit, rarely. He home screen goes sporadic or the app drawer scrolling is messed up.
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It used to do that for me when I had it plugged in to my car.
Video record it! Then take it to the sprint store and say that you're scared of your phone and get a new one. If it can work for my neighbor, it can work for you! ⊙īšâŠ™
Mine does this horribly when my phone is in cold air. My last 3d also had this issue and it was replaced when installing a new digitizer did not help.
It's getting more frequent.
I'm in the UK.. I'd have to be REALLY scared of it to go to Sprint in the US
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Lol Yeah, that would be a long trip. You ever thought about rooting it and installing a new ROM?
My Atrix does that when I set it down in certain surfaces, like a mattress out pillow, or carpet, but as long as I am touching the case of the phone, it doesn't do that.
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Lol Yeah, that would be a long trip. You ever thought about rooting it and installing a new ROM?
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Yep, tried that too... well I went from stock to a rooted version of a more up to date stock ROM.
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ashinsel said:
My Atrix does that when I set it down in certain surfaces, like a mattress out pillow, or carpet, but as long as I am touching the case of the phone, it doesn't do that.
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I took the screen protector (Martin Fields) off and was trouble free for two days. I suspect that was coincidence though as it's now worse than it was prior to that.
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Mine doesn't do that but there are times when I unlock it and it automagically goes to what ever app is in the lower right side of the screen. My wifes has started doing it also. Even replacements that I have gotten have done it.
i actually just had mine swapped out for the same reason.
did it on ICS, MIUI, and warm.
I say take a chance at running the newer OTA update combo pack that Xhausx put out. It does include some sorry of touch panel firmware update I believe. It's worth a shot just for the hell of it.
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i actually just had mine swapped out for the same reason.
did it on ICS, MIUI, and warm.
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Likewise. After a month of having my Evo 3D, the screen would act possessed. No matter what I flashed or did, nothing would make the slightest difference. It got so bad that I ended up returning it.
OP, return it. It's a common issue with these phones.
SAME PROBLEM! i have flashed viper, synergy, olympus, warm, and more im sure! Same problem every time ! Please let me know if anyone finds a fix without returning the phone! THANK YOU!
It is a hardware problem, changing the ROM isn't going to help.
My d1 did the same thing after a year or so. It actually still works as long as you can keep the phone at a certain temp, but as soon as it warms up from use it goes back to it.
My girlfriends started doing that today
downloaded touchscreen tester from the market and what do you know digitizer is jacked some spots show as multitouch with only one finger
ok that helps. so, do i have to actually return the phone to fix the problem? or can i get a touchscreen tester and find the problem and fix it? or is that not even worth the trouble?
Thanks for the help
Oddly I just started encountering the same issue two days ago and now can barely use this phone.
Bit of an update.
I did S-On and so far haven't had the issue reappear. Obviously since it is an intermittent problem, it's not definitely gone.
I'll give it a day or so and report back.
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animal7296 said:
Mine doesn't do that but there are times when I unlock it and it automagically goes to what ever app is in the lower right side of the screen. My wifes has started doing it also. Even replacements that I have gotten have done it.
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+1 on this.
Now I know it's not me being crazy. I've always had random apps opening up after preforming an action even though I was sure I never touched that app.

Hot random reboots after rooting?

Anyone know what causes this any way to fix it for good
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Hey... Me too!
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Anyone know what causes this any way to fix it for good
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I thought it was related to root but I've had these hot reboots even before rooting so it's not just root. Most likely an app.
Same problem here
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Same problem here
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Will take a while to hunt down the app but anybody else have 'LinkedIn' app installed? It just hot rebooted while launching that app from a fresh restart - quickest hot reboot I've ever seen.
It might not be that app but then I went to the Play Store page and there are tons of 1 star reviews because the last update failed on people's phones - more interestingly the most recent comment is from a GS2 user who says latest update reboots his phone.
I've uninstalled it and I doubt I can be that lucky that it's that app and I find it so quickly but crossing my fingers.
Mine rebooted after I opened the Navigation app.
Mine is random, many different apps
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Mine is random, many different apps
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Mine happened again. I've now uninstalled BetterBatteryStats. I'm going to start uninstalling stuff that uses root to roll that out. I've had these issues on stock but it happened rarely, lately it's been happening very frequently so something is going on.
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Anyone? Developers? Any input?
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Bump this thread!
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I've had the same on mine. I rooted mine day 1, so no idea if it would have done it without root. I've defrosted everything in TB and still no luck.
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Well I'm tired of the random hot reboots! Some people say it happened to them before rooting, but I don't believe it happened to me until I rooted and installed CWM touch......so I'm going back to stock to start all over again so I can try to narrow down the issue. I'll report back on my progress as it becomes available.
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hanfordrob said:
Well I'm tired of the random hot reboots! Some people say it happened to them before rooting, but I don't believe it happened to me until I rooted and installed CWM touch......so I'm going back to stock to start all over again so I can try to narrow down the issue. I'll report back on my progress as it becomes available.
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Happening often to me. The search continues. I've now uninstalled adfree. I'm positive this is an app since I had it occur on stock after two weeks of using the phone and installing crap.
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I had the same problem on my previous Captivate and am having it now on the GS III; no rhyme or reason to the reboots that I can see.
I still have heat problem but I played w/ different settings to see what it is.... I had att s3 which got really really hot... So returned it for Verizon s3. Verizon is better but learned that the data (lte/s3) makes it really hot and battery drain. Also the screen, of course.
If you're rooted then go get Phone info and disable lte. I tried CDMA auto for Verizon and it got much better... But at lowered download speed. I change it when I speed the speed... Doesn't require reboot so it's easy to change.
U can also under clock using setCPU.
I don't need it to be fast normally except when playing games... So just have it at 384min and 1024max... I find this helps allot w/ heat as well... U can try and find your setting that's acceptable speed and heat.
Just sharing my experience here.... So good luck.
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Happens here too with the T-Mobile GS3. I think they rushed their fabrication process to deliver a high volume and fubared a few hardwarewise. I've even had it lockup/freeze once when not even in the OS but just in the recovery menu's. But yeah, the usual is a totally random unpredictable hot reboot throwing out my resident programs, homescreen, ect. Starts with the screen being frozen and not accepting input, then a short vibration, then back to homescreen reloading and all regular apps and widges that are supposed to run at boot load again. It's as if there's a micro static short or something. Anyway, I'm sick of problem solving and looking through logcats. Going back in for warranty. This is a dream phone except for this ultra annoying bug that it seems not many people have.
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Happens here too with the T-Mobile GS3. I think they rushed their fabrication process to deliver a high volume and fubared a few hardwarewise. I've even had it lockup/freeze once when not even in the OS but just in the recovery menu's. But yeah, the usual is a totally random unpredictable hot reboot throwing out my resident programs, homescreen, ect. Starts with the screen being frozen and not accepting input, then a short vibration, then back to homescreen reloading and all regular apps and widges that are supposed to run at boot load again. It's as if there's a micro static short or something. Anyway, I'm sick of problem solving and looking through logcats. Going back in for warranty. This is a dream phone except for this ultra annoying bug that it seems not many people have.
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Are any of you have this happen purely on stock without rooting or anything else ?
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Are any of you have this happen purely on stock without rooting or anything else ?
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Happened to me once or twice (that I noticed) in the two weeks before I rooted (stock UCALEM), and a few more times after. It's just TouchPiz being pizzy. Maybe someone can catch the logcat, but there's nothing we can do about it (except install a better ROM )
How would anyone be able to diagnose this BS
"OK. My phone is hot. And it randomly reboots".
"Crap - u r out of luck buddy. Go change ur damn phone".
Provide ur phone model, ROM version, apps installed. Check ur battery stats.
As a solution - flash any custom ROM which removes bloatware.

Evo lte camera problems

I think my evo ltes camera might be broken. Does anybody else have trouble getting pics to come out clear. Mine seems out of focus. Im waiting to replace it due to my otterbox screen protector. I dont want to dail in settings everytime i take a picture either. Ive read hundreds of reviews and its suppose to be a very good camera.
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This is how almost all of my pics come out. Not just a one time deal.
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Are you tapping the sceen to focus?Mine come out clear..
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Yes and no. I have taken hundreds of pics. Sometimes i hold the button down and take 20 bad pics in a row. Im leaning towards a hardware problem.
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I've got this too, after flashing a jelly bean ROM. I'm going to try flashing a different jb ROM and see if the camera improves. And probably go back to ics if it doesn't.
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Camera is now clear, just flashed a different jelly bean rom.
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Are you running stock Rom or a port?
Ports such as cm10, miui, skip, etc do not take good pictures due to pack of proper drivers
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Edit: nvm
Im unrooted stock...
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cajones42 said:
Im unrooted stock...
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I you power off your phone then remove the plastic back cover and clean the camera glass lense. It might have dirt, finger prints/ smudge on to it which causes your phone not to auto-focus when taking pictures.
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I took it to sprint and they cleaned it. I also hard reset it 2x. I think it might be back to normal now.
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I seem to only have an issue if I zoom in on something. If I don't zoom, they look fine.
Thats because zooming a digital camera does nothing, you're better off just taking a full picture.
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Camera is now clear, just flashed a different jelly bean rom.
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If I have just regular stock, I've only had it a week, and I don't know how to root or flash a rom or any of that stuff to a phone. So am I just out of luck, or Is there any way to fix these issues? I see that one person said they did a hardreset x2, but if I haven't done anything to the phone I'm guessing a reset wouldn't help me either?
I'm soooo disappointed, the camera is about 80% of the reason I upgraded to this pone. But my regular evo took better pictures very easily. I really wish I knew how to do all the stuff people talk about on these sites, but I'm just clueless when it comes to that.
If anyone has a suggestions I would be really grateful.
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I can tell you guys that, unfortunately, I am 99% sure its a hardware issue...I've researched this relentlessly after I purchased my basically brand spanking new EvoLTE (less than 20 calls on it, but it already had a bad esn, relationship gone bad lol I guess)..I got it off craigslist..guy had the receipt..box, everything and when I ##786#'d it I confirmed everything he was telling me. I checked everything, one by one..speaker, mic, outside speaker, ports, bootloader, powered on off, finally the camera..pics and vids...everything worked perfectly.....I thought, I never thought to check the auto focus. Once I got home with it(I often take pics of text on the computer screen while working) I went to do this and to my shock the camera wouldn't focus in on text..Or anything that was within 4inches of the camera..I did four or five hard resets, searched endlessly for a reason or fix..tried every non stock app camera in the market..Nothing fixed it, and It still does it to this day.
I worked with at least ten EvoLTE's since then, I always check the auto focus on them (lol glutton for punishment I guess) because every one of them works perfectly. Yet you can find lots of people with auto focus issues on the web. I also have updated Roms, on mine (I'm currently back on ICS) nothing effected it, and the ones Ive seen that have worked perfectly were on ICS, JB, custom roms..no rhyme or reason, which is why I have to believe it's some kind of hardware issue with the auto focus on these cameras. Luckily, for me it only effects super up close photos(completely blurred), while any other photo comes out perfectly. I would of all ready replaced it otherwise.

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