Any evo lte owners in Houston?

**htc evo 4g** · 05-30-2012, 08:21 AM

Any evo lte owners that live In Houston wanna share their evo experiences....3g, 4g (if it exists here yet), etc...

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**houstonwino** · 05-30-2012, 08:46 AM

I'm in Houston (Clear Lake). No LTE yet as of about 8 am this morning.

**Lady_Evo** · 05-30-2012, 08:47 AM

I'm not getting any LTE signals either, but I'm getting a great 3G signal most places.

**creighton** · 05-30-2012, 09:04 AM

Nothing in Sugar Land, Missouri City, Galleria area or Downtown.

**jcthorne#ac** · 05-30-2012, 10:40 AM

I am in the energy corridor. No LTE yet but I can say the 3G is working far better than it did on the EVO 3D.

**htc evo 4g** · 05-30-2012, 12:11 PM

Im in the galleria, memorial park area. No 4g here but my 3g is intermittent. when i drive up/down 610, it cuts off and especially when im in my home it cuts off. Did i get a bad device?....hope not!

how is battery life for you all? Did any of you all root your device yet?

btw, where did you all pickup your device?

**ReaganDee** · 05-30-2012, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by htc evo 4g

Im in the galleria, memorial park area. No 4g here but my 3g is intermittent. when i drive up/down 610, it cuts off and especially when im in my home it cuts off. Did i get a bad device?....hope not!

how is battery life for you all? Did any of you all root your device yet?

btw, where did you all pickup your device?

I work in the Westchase area and my 3G has been cutting in and out all day. Pretty annoyed about it at this point too. I was in Jacksonville Florida all weekend and even with the tropical depression 3G speeds there were really good there. Hoping it is a temporary problem.

Outside of the service issue today I am loving the phone. Battery life is really nice so far. Did not root (yet)

Got my phone from Best Buy

**robwalte** · 05-30-2012, 03:26 PM

I was driving up Highway 6 from Sugar Land this morning to Westheimer and had horrible speeds. Google Maps wouldn't refresh or even add traffic. It was bad all the way to Eldridge/Briar Forest.

But, to contrast, 3g speeds seem to be better in my office than before.

**bgaskamp** · 05-30-2012, 03:29 PM

Live in West Houston and work in Westchase area as well. Phone cuts in and out of
3g service to the point I thought I had a bad phone. Interesting people are having the same issue as I was about to ask for a replacement.

Battery life is great and ordered online at Sprint

**jrcbandit** · 05-30-2012, 05:57 PM

My 3G was cutting in and out in Houston so I updated PRL and profile. I dunno if that has truly fixed the issue, but I haven't had trouble lately.

**creighton** · 05-30-2012, 08:22 PM

3G has been spotty for me as well. Of course it was never great with my OG Evo, SGSII or iPhone either. Batterly life, on the other hand, has been great. I have rooted, but still running the stock ROM.

**htc evo 4g** · 05-30-2012, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by creightoncarr

3G has been spotty for me as well. Of course it was never great with my OG Evo, SGSII or iPhone either. Batterly life, on the other hand, has been great. I have rooted, but still running the stock ROM.

when you rooted, did you do any special modifications to increase the battery life? Im fairle new to the android game so forgive me if this is a dumb Q.

care to send instructions on how you rooted?

**creighton** · 05-30-2012, 08:56 PM

I used the method described in the sticky in the Rooting subforum here. I have not done anything special to increase battery life. I'm not sure anything really needs to be done. With light usage I went 24 hours and still had 68% left. Today with moderate usage I went 13 hours and still had 70% left.

**htc evo 4g** · 05-30-2012, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by creightoncarr

I used the method described in the sticky in the Rooting subforum here. I have not done anything special to increase battery life. I'm not sure anything really needs to be done. With light usage I went 24 hours and still had 68% left. Today with moderate usage I went 13 hours and still had 70% left.

I think i got a defective phone or something. The only thing i can think of is that i have the ESPN app and turned on the notifications. I dont use live wallpaper although i wish. SO no other syncing that i know of.

**monteevoss** · 05-30-2012, 09:35 PM

I'm in Pasadena area an no LTE.has anybody seen a LTE coverage map of Houston?

**fatboy#AC** · 05-30-2012, 10:40 PM

My 3G is super horrible! My phone is constantly going into data roam. I did catch 4G for about a minute on the Hardy and BW8 today.

**guerolonghorn** · 05-31-2012, 07:48 AM

I'm at I-10 near Antoine, no LTE so far. I've had it a week now. 3G speeds are improved over my kids Epic Touch and Photon. Battery is amazing. There's a new PRL available as well.
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**htc evo 4g** · 05-31-2012, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by guerolonghorn

I'm at I-10 near Antoine, no LTE so far. I've had it a week now. 3G speeds are improved over my kids Epic Touch and Photon. Battery is amazing. There's a new PRL available as well.
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There's a system update but not prl for me. Btw, these system updates updates automatically right? Any way you can set to manual update?

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**shawneverett** · 06-02-2012, 12:39 PM

....still waiting for 4g....

**creighton** · 06-02-2012, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by fatboy

My 3G is super horrible! My phone is constantly going into data roam. I did catch 4G for about a minute on the Hardy and BW8 today.

I hope Sprint's LTE network ends up doing better than that in Houston when it comes live. While that d/s would be great for 3G, that's pretty poor for LTE. And if it's already that bad when nobody is using it...

**guerolonghorn** · 06-04-2012, 06:31 PM

Gotta agree on that, not good. We are getting close I hope...

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**ReaganDee** · 06-04-2012, 07:00 PM

In case none of you guys have heard ... here is an LTE timeline update for Houston

**jlo8720** · 06-04-2012, 08:45 PM

My parents have horrible coverage (voice and generally slow data) at their home in NW Houston (Cypress/Klein Area). They also have an airrave that seems to have fixed their voice issues, but idk how that affects data (if at all).

My brother was at their house this past weekend and said he hasn't seen any LTE yet.

**creighton** · 06-04-2012, 08:55 PM

FWIW, I was in a corporate store this afternoon and was told that they expect LTE to be live across the city on the 18th this month. I'm not holding my breath though, after all this is Sprint we are talking about.

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**truthteller10** · 06-04-2012, 09:28 PM

If you are thinking about getting this phone before Sprint fixes its network DON"T DO IT!!! Houstons data services are unusable and totally horrendous..Im getting the S3 on Tmobile which blows Sprint away when it comes to data..Yeah its capped at 5gbs but I don't use that much data.