I'm coming from the EVO 3D. One of the things that always bugged me about that phone was the lack of 4g with AOSP ROMs. Does anyone know if this phone will have the same issues? Or is that just an HTC issue.
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WHY IS IT that gsm development is so far behind in every thing, I know the kernal hasn't been released but that still has nothing to do with status bar tweaks, themes, and any other mod. I'm not blaming or bashing the devs. Cause I need them more than they need me. Just wanna some insight on why were so far behind
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cause most of us have purchased cdma evo 3d's not gsm
Damn that's sucks
The evo 3d GSM hasn't even been released in some countries yet so it's behind because there aren't that many devices out there compared to the cdma. Patience is key.
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Reeonimus said:
The evo 3d GSM hasn't even been released in some countries yet so it's behind because there aren't that many devices out there compared to the cdma. Patience is key.
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Actually, far more countries have the GSM than the CDMA, as very few carriers anywhere in the world still use CDMA. The two big exceptions are Sprint and Verizon.
The main reasons the GSM is behind in development are that the EVO line is incredibly popular on Sprint, and so many people have upgraded from the original EVO 4G to the EVO 3D on that network, bringing the EVO 4G developers with them. Also, HTC screwed up when they posted the kernel sources for the GSM and the board files cannot be compiled. So until HTC fixes the problem (they have been made aware of it) there's only so much GSM developers can do.
Because the board files on GSM kernel are missing, as a result there is no custom kernel.
ps. I think HTC knows the problem a while back.
justj said:
Because the board files on GSM kernel are missing, as a result there is no custom kernel.
ps. I think HTC knows the problem a while back.
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Yeah. A number of us have bugged them repeatedly about it (I tweet their Twitter feed daily). They have acknowledged the issue and are working to get fixed kernel sources up for us.
Hi folks,
I don't own an Evo 3D at the moment but I am considering getting one, however one thing I'd like to find out, is if the Evo suffers from a weak phone signal at all? I'm asking as I've gone through 3 Incredible S phones that had issues here at home on the UK O2 network, I don't really want to find myself in the same situation.
Thanks in advance.
UKseagull said:
Hi folks,
I don't own an Evo 3D at the moment but I am considering getting one, however one thing I'd like to find out, is if the Evo suffers from a weak phone signal at all? I'm asking as I've gone through 3 Incredible S phones that had issues here at home on the UK O2 network, I don't really want to find myself in the same situation.
Thanks in advance.
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From experience, can only speak for the CDMA version of the EVO 3D.
There are many times occasions where I'm in weak signal areas for Sprint and this device, much quicker than my Nexus S, will roam onto another carrier's signal which is stronger. Personally, I think this has been overall positive as I'd rather have a strong roaming signal than a weak native signal.
Some might find this a disadvantage if their cell plan doesn't support roaming or simply prefer not to roam.
The only significant difference I've notice is this device seems to switch signals/networks much quicker than my previous EVO or Nexus S.
Hopefully somebody with the GSM version can also post up. Hope this helps!
I'm using GSM EVO 3D in low signal area. My first phone (Handspring) loosing signal in this are totally, with the second one (Nokia) I can talk in some home areas, with EVO 3D I can talk in most home areas - so at least the GSM EVO 3D sensitivity slightly better than Nokia premium phone (N900).
Thanks for the info so far. I'd very much appreciate some replies from UK users if there are any?
Hi all!
I'm new to the EVO 4G LTE family and I rooted my phone a few days back. I'm one of the lucky people and have 4g LTE in my area (near Chicago) and was wondering if the current ROMs have LTE working. I only ask this because I still have my 1st gen EVO and when I flashed to a sense 3.5 ROM, I was aware that there was no WiMax. But when I flashed it back to the MikG ROM, I could never connect to wimax even though roughly 90% of Chicago has WiMax. I only ask if anyone can please confirm LTE is working with most ROMs. Thanks.
All roms based on sense have LTE and most of the jb roms have LTE support as well. WiMAX was different because there was no official android support for WiMAX at the time. It wasn't widely adopted
MJ120394 said:
Hi all!
I'm new to the EVO 4G LTE family and I rooted my phone a few days back. I'm one of the lucky people and have 4g LTE in my area (near Chicago) and was wondering if the current ROMs have LTE working. I only ask this because I still have my 1st gen EVO and when I flashed to a sense 3.5 ROM, I was aware that there was no WiMax. But when I flashed it back to the MikG ROM, I could never connect to wimax even though roughly 90% of Chicago has WiMax. I only ask if anyone can please confirm LTE is working with most ROMs. Thanks.
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Yes, all custom ROMs I know of having working LTE. The reason you didn't have LTE on the 3.5 ROM is because the 3.5 ROM was ported from a devices that didn't have WiMAX, so even though your Evo had the hardware for it, the software wasn't there. All ROMs for the Evo 4G LTE (that I know of) aren't ports, so they should have LTE to begin with.
MJ120394 said:
Hi all!
I'm new to the EVO 4G LTE family and I rooted my phone a few days back. I'm one of the lucky people and have 4g LTE in my area (near Chicago) and was wondering if the current ROMs have LTE working. I only ask this because I still have my 1st gen EVO and when I flashed to a sense 3.5 ROM, I was aware that there was no WiMax. But when I flashed it back to the MikG ROM, I could never connect to wimax even though roughly 90% of Chicago has WiMax. I only ask if anyone can please confirm LTE is working with most ROMs. Thanks.
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All Sense-based roms should have working LTE. It is a toss-up for AOSP roms though CM10 is getting very close with some people having it work correctly
Hi,
Quick question considering evo 4g lte is similar to 1x. Can we load 1x rom with sprint radios?
No, you can never flash a rom made for a different phone. Even if they are similar there are too many little differences. A dev would need to port the rom to work on a different phone.
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Hi,
Quick question considering evo 4g lte is similar to 1x. Can we load 1x rom with sprint radios?
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The OneX is a very easy port. though i really dont see the point unless its a badass rom you have to have for the LTE. The UI is pretty much the same.
Does anyone know how to flash a Htc evo 4g lte to Ting?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060085
I saw the above post and hopefully it can be applied. Can anyone offer me some help? I am making the jump to ting, but I really don't want to have to purchase new phones when I have 2 perfectly good Evo 4g LTEs already.
Thanks
-Blue
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From my Evo LTE, yup.
I've been with ting since the beginning. Sprint will not yet allow them to BYOD an LTE device. As far as I know you can't flash lte devices either. Drove me mad trying to do it. No ting user has flashed an evo lte and I'm fairly active on the forum.
I know where your coming from. Ting is awesome and will be more so once they can BYOD lte phones.
I'm on a white ting evo lte now. You can buy mine if you want and I'll go back to my beloved s2.