battery, eating emails, bluetooth

[prettypandas]

Any non-hyper technical suggestions would be appreciated. My Spring Epic 4G has been a problem from day 1. It intermittently eats my comcast.net emails when I click on them, and they are gone. The battery does not last the full day. And since some update a few weeks ago, the bluetooth connection with my car goes out and has to be redone each time I return to my car. Before I cancel my contract, I was hoping someone has some suggestions.

 

[Jinded]

For the battery issue, have you tried the basics, like reducing the auto-sync intervals, reducing display brightness, turning off WiFi/4G/GPS when not needed, and so on?

For the bluetooth problem, have you tried unpairing and repairing the phone with the in-car device? That has fixed my problem in the past about auto-connecting.

 

[rangers28]

Unfortunately, I don't think anything will help. It seems like a few people are having Bluetooth problems, myself included. Pairing in my car doesn't reconnect every time, and randomly cuts off, and it freezes my phone constantly and I think it's the reason why my TouchWiz launcher is now hosed. This "upgrade" was a big mistake. So glad we waited so long for it!

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Unfortunately, I don't think anything will help. It seems like a few people are having Bluetooth problems, myself included. Pairing in my car doesn't reconnect every time, and randomly cuts off, and it freezes my phone constantly and I think it's the reason why my TouchWiz launcher is now hosed. This "upgrade" was a big mistake. So glad we waited so long for it!

Oddly, I was having trouble with pairing my phone with the bone stock EC05. When I run a custom ROM with EC05, its better (Don't know why, I don't think the developers mess with the Bluetooth too much). Unfortunately, running one of the ROMs wouldn't let the phone pair at all with the car, forcing me to switch ROMs. As for the battery, that has been fixed running a custom kernel that has 1Ghz undervolted. Of course, when I'm roaming (in my apartment and at work), the battery dies much faster no matter what I do short of turning off the radio entirely. Might want to give it a shot, you can always go back to stock if you have a Windows PC and cancel your contract/sell the phone. I must admit, the Evo has a much larger developer following.