dead wimax antenna... or something like that

[mmilord]

i live in atlanta and have 4g coverage basically every where ever i go, except my house. i played around with 4g alot for the first week (got my evo on launch day), but havnt touched it since. fired it up last night to see what kind of speeds i would get just for the hell of it, but it would not connect at all; it would go "scanning" then i would get the "4g network is available" notification, then "connecting to sprint" but it would never connect and it would just go back to scanning and repeat the cycle. i assumed it was location issues or something, so i didnt worry too much about it.

however this afternoon i took my evo to a corporate sprint store (since they have wimax repeaters) so i would be sure that there was actually a 4g signal, yet my evo still refused to connect. the display devices were getting max bars and working just fine but mine just refused to connect. talked to an associate and they did a couple of hard resets and it still would not connect, so they've agreed to exchange mine tomorrow when they get more evos in.

i honestly have no idea whats wrong with, my first guess would be a dead wimax antenna, but that wouldnt make since if it was able to determine that it was in a 4g area (unless that is done by gps or 3g signal routing?) and was able to try to connect to the network. anyone heard of anything else like this?

 

[Tyler Durden]

sounds like it's broke...........

 

[chaosrecords]

It sounds like you might just have to reprovision the data.

Call sprint tech support they will guide you through it.

( backup everything on your phone 1st)

Id try that before anything and they will prob do that 1st before looking into hardware failure