I just picked up a used EVO LTE and the back upper cover is cracked around the camera cover area and is loosely secured with tape. I am going to order another replacement one from ebay, but would that explain my somewhat weaker WIFI signal in my bedroom? My other phones had full bars of wifi but this one usually registers "poor" or 1 bar in my room. I go closer to the router in the kitchen and it's goes to 3-4 bars.
GPS is acceptable, usually gets a decent lock in a little bit of time.
Phone is rooted, S-OFF and a custom rom.
I have the same issue with my Wi-Fi signal. My girl's phone will shoebnetworks that aren't even showing up in my network list. I believe this phone has a weak signal
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Back plastic cover has all the antenas built onto it. No cover and all signals crap out. I had the same problem with my sisters EVO LTE when they left it on top of the car hood and it fell when they drove off. Poor thing got ran over and all! Idk how the heck it was still powering on with a broken screen. Replaced the screen and tried to use it like that till I find a back cover and I couldn't pick up Wi-Fi at all. Once I purchased the back cover signal skyrocketed. So definitely get a new back cover. I found it for 5 bucks on eBay but last I checked the seller brought the price up to $14.
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RayTrue04 said:
Back plastic cover has all the antenas built onto it. No cover and all signals crap out. I had the same problem with my sisters EVO LTE when they left it on top of the car hood and it fell when they drove off. Poor thing got ran over and all! Idk how the heck it was still powering on with a broken screen. Replaced the screen and tried to use it like that till I find a back cover and I couldn't pick up Wi-Fi at all. Once I purchased the back cover signal skyrocketed. So definitely get a new back cover. I found it for 5 bucks on eBay but last I checked the seller brought the price up to $14.
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I will definitely order one. And you are referring to the upper plastic back cover with the camera housing that you replaced for increased signal? Not the one that isn't removable right?
Nurmi_CEO said:
I will definitely order one. And you are referring to the upper plastic back cover with the camera housing that you replaced for increased signal? Not the one that isn't removable right?
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Yes I'm talking about the renovable back half. If you look at it you'll see the little strips attached that makes contacts to the connecters on the back of the phone. Once you get that you'll see the difference. My EVO LTE picks up more Wi-Fi connections than my Note 2 so it definitely doesn't have a weak Wi-Fi radio, it just depends on that cover heavily..
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Related
http://www.amazon.com/Battery-Samsu...6I/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1325220784&sr=8-13
Pretty neat, it's plastic and aluminum. For $13, its not a bad option.
This has been brought up before and i think it was found to kill gps signal damn near completely. I think a lot of the talk was in a aluminum taurus bumper thread. Also there are some better looking ones on ebay i think
Well my bad...I searched and nothing came up (as usual )
\/icious said:
This has been brought up before and i think it was found to kill gps signal damn near completely. I think a lot of the talk was in a aluminum taurus bumper thread. Also there are some better looking ones on ebay i think
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Wrong, some people have had GPS issues, not sure it was completely linked to the bumper itself. I have a Taurus on my phone and have never had a problem with GPS.
Though this particular battery cover accessory, looks to me more like a plastic back with an adhesive aluminum plate on it.
edit: "Plastic battery cover with metal accent panel. "
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
I bought this one before and i can said that : it very UGLY in real life . i'v never put it in my phone .
They have some cool ones on Ebay. I can't speak for their quality, but they are neat color options for about $11 shipped.
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highaltitude said:
Wrong, some people have had GPS issues, not sure it was completely linked to the bumper itself. I have a Taurus on my phone and have never had a problem with GPS.
Though this particular battery cover accessory, looks to me more like a plastic back with an adhesive aluminum plate on it.
edit: "Plastic battery cover with metal accent panel. "
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i didn't say the bumpers caused a problem. I said talk of the aluminum back covers could be found in the taurus bumper thread. There was also so talk about them in the i9100 forum
Wont work
This will screw up your GPS signal!
Dimatchka said:
This will screw up your GPS signal!
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You seem like a reliable source of information.
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i have it and it does kill GPS signal. I only get 1 satellite, the second i remove the aluminum backplate i have like 8 and instant lock.
I got the carbon fiber pattern mirror finish version of this battery door and I can tell you it does NOT kill the GPS reception at all. I've used GPS several times without an issue. I've even been able to get a GPS lock inside my home in less than 1 minute.
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This will screw up your GPS signal!
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Nope. I have the mirror finish version and I can get a GPS lock inside my home, in under a minute.
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I bought the Evo 4G LTE last Monday and when I got it home I noticed a light coming through the top of the screen. I took it back to the store the same day and they gave me a new one. They said the screen had a crack on the inside and the display was peeling away from the glass. A day or two after I had the replacement one I noticed a gap below the bottom microphone between the metal band and the back half of the phone. It's wide enough to slide a piece of paper inside. It's not been dropped.
I am wondering if I should take it back or live with it. I just worry about dust getting into the device, filling up with lint and eventually getting wider and wider.
Mines like that as well, so I bet it's a manufacturing defect. I wouldn't say it is a bad one though. If everything else is perfect, I would say just keep it. Your replacement could be even worse.
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I was hiking this weekend and slipped on a loose rock and fell. My EVO 4G LTE was in my front pocket and I landed face down. I got up and pulled the phone out to see no visible damage. A little while later I wanted to snap picture of this tiny salamander and found my phone to be non-functional. There are white lines going up and down the screen and it appears to be stuck in a boot loop.
I just started to get some real love out of this phone thanks to CM10 and I have a tough choice to make if I can't pull out some miracle fix. Do I switch to AT&T and ditch Sprint's crappy service? Do I get a GSIII or wait for something better?
I would really like a Nexus phone but I don't know when the next one is to be released.
EDIT: It seems I was incorrect about there being no damage. I just discovered a small dent on the back of the phone just above the speaker hole.
this is why you need a case homie
Cool stor......
Nevermind.
Bring it into sprint. Pay the 35 bucks to get a replacement. I would consider that a manufacturer flaw.
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How is smashing your phone on to a rock with the full weight of your body on top of it a manufacturer flaw??
Do I switch to AT&T and ditch Sprint's crappy service?
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nice try ATT
I actually had my phone fall out of my pocket while on a carnival ride over 30 yards in the air. I was able to use a friends phone to log into my Cerberus account and track it. I could see a satellite view of the park and the tent next to the ride to be sure I lost it there, and not somewhere else. I went around to the back of the ride where the red dot indicated and saw my phone face down. I was sure the glass would be destroyed. To my surprise it was perfect, not a single scratch. The phone also operated 100%. There was a considerable chunk taken out of the right corner aluminum frame and a few smaller nicks further down on the aluminum. There was a bunch of paint on the top left corner (also aluminum) from the machine.
I think that's a testament to the aluminum body of the EVO LTE and to the gorilla glass. co-worker with EVO 4G dropped his from 2 feet off the ground. the corner hit the ground and the glass spidered out.
anyway, sorry to hear your phone is jacked now. Take it back to the store and see about replacement. Maybe you had the insurance?
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I actually had my phone fall out of my pocket while on a carnival ride over 30 yards in the air. I was able to use a friends phone to log into my Cerberus account and track it. I could see a satellite view of the park and the tent next to the ride to be sure I lost it there, and not somewhere else. I went around to the back of the ride where the red dot indicated and saw my phone face down. I was sure the glass would be destroyed. To my surprise it was perfect, not a single scratch. The phone also operated 100%. There was a considerable chunk taken out of the right corner aluminum frame and a few smaller nicks further down on the aluminum. There was a bunch of paint on the top left corner (also aluminum) from the machine.
I think that's a testament to the aluminum body of the EVO LTE and to the gorilla glass. co-worker with EVO 4G dropped his from 2 feet off the ground. the corner hit the ground and the glass spidered out.
anyway, sorry to hear your phone is jacked now. Take it back to the store and see about replacement. Maybe you had the insurance?
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That is an amazing story. I got a outer box defender case and have dropped it many times and it seems to be hanging in there.
I did not have a case. Never used them. That is neither here not there because what's done is done.
I do not have insurance as this phone is through work. They are trying to switch us to AT&T anyway and I'm one the last holdouts on Sprint because I really wanted the new EVO. I love the hardware of this phone but I can't justify getting another and being handicapped to low-grade DSL speeds when I don't have access to WiFi. It's no secret that 3G has sucked balls the last year or so and I don't see LTE coming to North Jersey (my area) any time soon.
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I think that's a testament to the aluminum body of the EVO LTE and to the gorilla glass. co-worker with EVO 4G dropped his from 2 feet off the ground. the corner hit the ground and the glass spidered out.
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The EVO LTE does not have gorilla glass.
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SquallLHeart said:
The EVO LTE does not have gorilla glass.
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I guess you're kind of right. It has Gorilla Glass 2.
To the OP, sorry to hear about the phone. Sucks when they go down hard like that, with all the work that goes into getting them dialed in.
We have an S3 and an EvoLTE in the family right now. Wife had to have Sprint do a hard reset on her S3 on it yesterday to see if it would fix some odd issues it's having. She's still inside the first 14 days and is thinking hard about swapping it to an EvoLTE. Her mom has the EvoLTE as well, and it's also been issue free, like mine has been. I'm not really impressed with the S3, FWIW.
snakecharmer23 said:
I did not have a case. Never used them. That is neither here not there because what's done is done.
I do not have insurance as this phone is through work. They are trying to switch us to AT&T anyway and I'm one the last holdouts on Sprint because I really wanted the new EVO. I love the hardware of this phone but I can't justify getting another and being handicapped to low-grade DSL speeds when I don't have access to WiFi. It's no secret that 3G has sucked balls the last year or so and I don't see LTE coming to North Jersey (my area) any time soon.
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If the job is providing phones then by all means, go for it. If it were coming out of your pocket then I'd say hold out, North Jersey is getting LTE this year:
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/...-sprint-network-visionlte-deployment-in-2012/
However you've got to get onboard with a "Just in case" case, preferably Otterbox. I don't use my Otterbox, unless I'm traveling or in a location with a lot of Marble.
SquallLHeart said:
The EVO LTE does not have gorilla glass.
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Might want to research before you post a false statement. All evos have had gorilla glass. But that doesn't mean they are indestructible
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84guy said:
Might want to research before you post a false statement. All evos have had gorilla glass. But that doesn't mean they are indestructible
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+1 they all do. Also gorilla doesn't mean it can't be scratched. Just means its more resistant
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I thought it was Corning's Gorilla Glass 2 lol
The glass wasn't an issue because the phone was in my pocket with the screen facing my leg. The aluminum body hit a rock when I fell and that's how it got dented. If anything, this is a good argument against the aluminum body construction. If it was plastic, it would have just bent a little or maybe cracked. The relatively soft aluminum bent and either shorted the motherboard or cracked it. In time I may find a torx screwdriver small enough to open it up and find out. In the meantime, I'm up and running on my OG Evo. It's really tough going back to gingerbread after tasting the sweetness of Jelly Bean.
Just got my defender in today $34 shipped on eBay
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The glass wasn't an issue because the phone was in my pocket with the screen facing my leg. The aluminum body hit a rock when I fell and that's how it got dented. If anything, this is a good argument against the aluminum body construction. If it was plastic, it would have just bent a little or maybe cracked. The relatively soft aluminum bent and either shorted the motherboard or cracked it. In time I may find a torx screwdriver small enough to open it up and find out. In the meantime, I'm up and running on my OG Evo. It's really tough going back to gingerbread after tasting the sweetness of Jelly Bean.
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The mother board is nowhere near that dent its actually very small and at the top.
All that is battery and the speaker. The board is about the same size as the shiny back top cover.
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tuscani1821 said:
The mother board is nowhere near that dent its actually very small and at the top.
All that is battery and the speaker. The board is about the same size as the shiny back top cover.
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That's interesting to hear. Maybe the battery or its contacts got screwed up. I'd love to get this thing cracked open but I can't find a torx screwdriver small enough.
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That's interesting to hear. Maybe the battery or its contacts got screwed up. I'd love to get this thing cracked open but I can't find a torx screwdriver small enough.
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I bought this tool kit for about $20 at a radioshack. It includes all the torx and Phillips needed for phone repairs.
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I wish this were a joke, but.....
I walked into a local Sprint Store today looking for a plain white case for my EVO LTE, and while they didn't have a "plain" one, they did have a white Body Glove that was nearly plain. Save for the gray rubber elements on the side and such, it wasn't a bad looking case. I also remember reading where people with all white cases get dark smudges over time and I figured this was a good compromise.
I've had an OtterBox Defender on my phone since the second week I bought it back in June of last year. I love the protection it gave, but I can no longer stand the bulkiness and the rubber surround stretching out almost immediately, even after I replace it almost a dozen times (yes, I've replaced the rubber surround 12 times) Thankfully OtterBox has sent me replacements for free, but it gets old after a while.
So, so far, I love the new case and the thinness of it and the fact that it is hard plastic with rubber elements in areas it shouldn't stretch.
Here's where the joke starts. As I walk into the Sprint Store I notice my phone has 1x service inside. I told the lady at the counter that you HAVE to be kidding me. We are in the middle of town - busy shopping area - and Sprint has 1x service? I told her this is a joke. Across the street IN the mall has 3G, and they have 1x. She said yup. I could tell by the exasperated way she affirmed that this wasn't the first time she heard this complaint and seemed like she wanted to add her own frustrations to that point.
For reference. I switched my phone to the 01337 PRL at the same spot and pulled a 2MB 3G connection.
Lol theres a 01337PRL with 2MB 3G? Imma hope on that
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That's kinda humorous that the PRL is "Leet", or better known as "Elite". Lolol
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Lol theres a 01337PRL with 2MB 3G? Imma hope on that
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Yup, Its a verizon 3g prl
I'm not sure if it's just my phone but there's a section just to the right and below the volume down button where the back cover doesn't feel like it's fitting well. If you touch that spot with much pressure, it's not as solid feeling as the rest of the battery door. It even makes a slight clicking noise when you press on it.
It's the only part of the fit and feel of this phone that doesn't feel very premium to me.
no i think thats just ur phone cause mines all premium
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Fine feels solid there
I bought a new back cover with NFC and Qi built in. It's OEM (but only has the LG logo on the back, no Verizon 4G) and it does not have this problem.
It feels much better than the one that came with the phone and looks better too since it's missing the verizon branding.
Now to finally get me a wireless charging pad so I can use it.