JMusic
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I have not installed a single program and have not used it for anything but email, texting and phone calls. It still requires at least 3 or 4 resets a day.
You need to ask for a replacement phone.
I have not installed a single program and have not used it for anything but email, texting and phone calls. It still requires at least 3 or 4 resets a day.
Doing wrong? I have no apps on my phone that messes with config code such as startup editors, memory managers, app killers. When the reboots and lockup happen, I am normally not running any programs. My job restricts the use of personal phones to breaks and lunch. Almost every break and lunch, I pick up my phone and find it locked up so bad a battery pull is required (just learned the 3 button soft reset).
Took it to sprint where they blamed it on cookies and internet history which they cleared. Since then I have done a factory reset and cleared all programs from the phone. I have not installed a single program and have not used it for anything but email, texting and phone calls. It still requires at least 3 or 4 resets a day.
Whens the warranty up???
I laughed when I got to the part about Sprint telling you to clear your cookies to fix lockups. It's such a typical know-nothing minimum wage tekkie answer.
Last time I checked they won't replace the phone at the store. I have to wait for one in the mail. I assume I will be able to use my current one until the replacement arrives? Will i still be chargered the $30+ to activate a new phone?
Last time I checked they won't replace the phone at the store. I have to wait for one in the mail. I assume I will be able to use my current one until the replacement arrives? Will i still be chargered the $30+ to activate a new phone?
Sorry, I got here from Twitter and I have to bite:
1) Your EVO didn't play games faster than your Pre? I assume, then, that your Pre was overclocked, which means it ran hot and sucked the battery dry while trying to play games. I'll take even speed with 20 times the battery life on my EVO any day over that. Not to mention that the overall sluggishness of even an overclocked Pre meant that responsiveness in the game was poor, and then add the fact that you had to play it on a tiny screen.
2) The fact that the Epic doesn't even have 2.2 yet isn't a big a deal for the end users because of speed or battery life or even features, I'll give you that. It's a big deal because of the REASON Samsung hasn't upgraded the Epic yet. Samsung's APIs are so horribly developed on that phone in the first place that it's crushing them to try and upgrade to 2.2 (this comes directly from a Sprint source, which is why they can't get Froyo past Sprint in the first place). They basically wrote them to just barely function properly, while they should have written them PROPERLY. That's especially pathetic for a device that was delayed in launching in the first place several times because of lack of hardware availability. They had time to fix the software, but why would then when it's working... sort of...
3) Another reason the delay sucks is what is mentioned above: ROMs. Sure, you can put 2.2 on yourself, but having an EVO - the phone with the most custom ROMs available right now - I can tell you that even the best AOSP ROM developers can't get their ROMs to match the stability of a Sense ROM because they simply don't have the time and resources and access that HTC's own developers do. Samsung's in-house development team might be sloppy and pathetic, but they have those same resources and you ultimately will always get more stable ROMs based off of their stock kernels than you will from any custom developer out there.
When I first handled an Epic, I was truly stunned at the hardware. I even spent three hours in a training course presented by Samsung reps to learn the great features of the phone, and I thought it was about as perfect as a phone could get. Then the phone launched and people really got to use them, and all the errors started popping up. Device won't sleep because of the terrible design of their DRM manager software. GPS issues with all of their Galaxy S devices (another area their cheap GPS chips and poor software combined to create utter failure). Haptic feedback lag, especially on low-end Samsung devices. Sure, yours might work fine, but that doesn't counter the fact that they're poorly programmed devices.
The first and last Samsung device I would ever purchase is a Nexus S. You get the great Samsung hardware and keep Samsung's god-awful developers away from the software.
The Pre handles games MUCH better than the Evo. Side by side comparisons will tell you that. I've got the Pre, EVO and Epic all in my household. Speedwise...the Epic out performs the EVO. Theres really no debating that. Not saying the EVO is slow or a bad phone. It would work perfectly fine for me personally although I own an Epic. I wouldnt go to an EVO now though. My Epic is having NONE of the issues you just spoke of. So sure...I might be in the minority...but lets be honest...an Epic without the issues you've listed is better than an EVO on its best day.
The Pre handles games MUCH better than the Evo. Side by side comparisons will tell you that. I've got the Pre, EVO and Epic all in my household. Speedwise...the Epic out performs the EVO. Theres really no debating that. Not saying the EVO is slow or a bad phone. It would work perfectly fine for me personally although I own an Epic. I wouldnt go to an EVO now though. My Epic is having NONE of the issues you just spoke of. So sure...I might be in the minority...but lets be honest...an Epic without the issues you've listed is better than an EVO on its best day.
Yup. The Pre does. Some individuals are just unwilling to admit that. I wonder how the new processor or the Evo Shift will compare in graphics performance. Apparently, it should have Adreno 205, which is capable of a whopping 20 mt/s.
I doubt that you're in the minority. My EPIC 4G is also rock stable.
Sounds like the Shift is pretty good then.
How does the display compare to the Epic's? If there's one feature that's definitely won me over is the quality of the display. I still have 3 weeks left to decide if I'm keeping the Epic or returning it, so I could consider the Shift.