HTC EVO 4G :: Is Sprint Really Cheaper With EVO In Plans?
Jun 2, 2010
I just spoke to a rep and was told that for four people, the price was: $140 for first two lines (includes $10 EVO premium)$40 for two other lines.Wth tax, this is almost $200 and not counting any insurance you might want to add. The reps stated if you buy the EVO and more than one line, you must get the 1500 minute plan. My family of four rarely breaches 600 minutes of our 700 minute plan (my family are mainly text maniacs).Since I would be forced into a 1500 minute plan and pay the $10 premium, the Sprint plan would be about $40 more than VZW. If you use the minutes, it would be fine, but not only are you forced into $10 more, you also are forced into the 1500 minute plan- even if you do not need it.Is this what others are being told? I was going to get the EVO to test it out, but may just wait for all the testers here to report back, through the next few weeks.
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May 9, 2010
Just curious if it's the same with Sprint as it is with T-Mobile.EDIT: Please change the title > When you buy the Evo outright, would you get a cheaper plan?
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Oct 15, 2009
I've recently been looking for a case for my Hero, I found FlexiShield Skin For The HTC Hero - Black The flexishield, but this seems quite expencive, so I was wondering if anyone had any experience/opinions on the ones floating around on eBay:NEW FLEXISHIELD GEL SKIN CASE COVER POUCH FOR HTC HERO on eBay (end time 19-Oct-09 23:19:47 BST)FLEXISHIELD GEL SKIN CASE COVER FOR HTC G2 TOUCH HERO on eBay (end time 15-Oct-09 12:23:43 BST)Could these be the real thing or fakes that aren't as good?
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May 21, 2010
I'm really interested in buying a Desire although, unlike some, I intend to buy the phone outright with no contract as I already have a contract I am happy with.However, despite people saying this phone is cheaper than the iPhone, average prices are about 400 which is about the same price you can pick up a 16gb 3Gs. So, am I missing something? Whilst here, am I correct in thinking HTC offer a 2 year Warranty? For 400 I would like at least some safety in case it breaks through no fault of my own.
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Jul 30, 2010
Hey everyone! So i went to the V store today and was looking to get an Eris but they don't make them anymore and so we looked at getting an X and maybe an Incredible, but was a bit too much =(. But when we were leaving the worker said check back on thursday when the back to school sale is, she said it might be on sale. What do you think? Do you think that its to early for it to be on sale or will it be?
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Jul 29, 2010
I'm going to be in Japan for 10 days. I read that they put in a 3G network so I called Verizon and our phone do work there! Here's the catch, it's 1.99 per min! They have a Global Data Package that 64.99 unlimited data, so I'm putting that on for the 10 days I'm there. I just got my Dinc last week and I'm a total noob when it comes to it. Is there an app or way to use wifi to place calls cheaper? I've tried searching these forums but I can't find anything.
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Apr 22, 2010
Are there any benefits to having a family plan over 2 individual lines? If we are both used to using up to 450 minutes, that's going to bump us to the 1400 minute plan, which is more than 2 individual lines. either that or suck it up and try to use less minutes to save ten bucks. Anything I am missing here. For some reason I was under the impression that these were a good deal over having 2 individual lines.
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Mar 7, 2009
Alright, at the risk this has been discussed before, let me alert everybody that there are customers on metered data plans out there (metered as opposed to "unlimited"). This is the first time I've heard of it: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2... So heads-up when you use wake locks to keep data connectivity alive.
I develop with such a scenario in mind, but nonetheless will include a note in my manual(s) to not use my app on a metered plan, just to err on the safe side.
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May 20, 2010
Android 2.2 Froyo Update: HTC Release Date Plans in 2010 : Product Reviews Net. Hopefully this holds true and at the beginning of Q2 like June 4th!
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Jul 3, 2010
I have been finishing off the port of one of my games to Android, with the last two things being music and sound effects. I have implemented the music system now, using a series of MediaPlayer instances, and that all seems to be working fine (I only need to do limited things with music, just playing, pausing and stopping really). I am now trying to finish of the sound effects, but I am struggling.
1. I am targeting Android 1.6+ and therefore do not have access to the setOnLoadCompleteListener function. What is my best way to wait until all sound effects are loaded? I am thinking my best bet is to load all my sounds, then load a dummy (short, silent) sound, and then sit in a loop attempting to play that sound (and then sleeping for 1ms) until the play returns non zero. Does this sound reasonable? Would it be crazy to do this process for every sound effect I load, as the calling code expects the load function to stall as long as it takes for the load to complete - I am not interested in the sound pool trying to do any async stuff for me, all of my background loading is done in a separate thread, and this thread can stall as long as it likes, as long as it actually loads what I am asking it to.
2. Is there anyway I can find out when a sound effect has finished playing? The games I am porting might have code along the lines of 'play sound effect, wait for it to complete, then fade the screen out and load next context' which on other platforms is easy enough to implement. In OpenAL for example, at the end of each frame I check if the OpenAL state for a given SFX is now stopped, in which case I update the game side sound handle to let it know it's now in the stopped state. But I just can't seem to find a way to achieve the same thing on Android. I am beginning to think my only option would be to (somehow) work out the length of the sample, and then when play is called, set a timer to trigger 100ms after the sample time (100ms to account for any delay in the sound starting), and in the timer function set the game side sfx state to be stopped. Does this sound reasonable? Are there any better ways of handling this?
3. Will a sound pool run out of ids? It seems it have been designed so you have one sound pool per 'level' and after each level you release the pool. This doesn't really fit too well with all my code so I am trying to avoid it. But I notice the documentation states a lot of functions will work even after a sound id is no longer valid (it has stopped for example), the functions won't do anything, but they want break anything. This to me says that id's are never recycled. So are there limits? If so what are the limits?
4. Finally, are there any plans for improving the sound pool system? Ideally I'd like to see it work in a similar way to the other main sound APIs. The reason being I target multiple platforms on the engine side, and have 100% generic game code, so I need to establish a base level interface to the API which will work across the board. This is made very difficult by the SoundPool API being set up to work in a specific way, as opposed to just having reasonable low level functions, and allowing the end user to wrap this up how they see fit. I like the fact there are high level classes around to handle this work of work, and I agree these should remain, but I'd like to see something perhaps lower level exposed, which the SoundPool could wrap around perhaps.
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Jul 29, 2010
Would the process just require using the RUU to flash back to stock and waiting for the update? I am currently all the way rooted and running the Cyanogen nightly.
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Mar 19, 2010
Is there any plans to support the onGestureXXX set of events like the iPhone's webkit has?
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Jul 19, 2010
they are splitting the company. The making of wireless-telecom equipment is being sold to Nokia Siemen's Networks. Does that concern any of you who just purchased the Droid X?
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Jul 13, 2010
It's hard to believe that Android would be lacking the following features from its own creator:
-remote wipe
-backup
-file/photos sync
-lost phone tracking
-"itunes" sync
Just wondering if Google mentioned they would be making one.
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Sep 15, 2010
If I change my plans minutes, will I lose my unlimited data package I have on my Droid?
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Mar 10, 2010
Now that Google Earth has been released for Android 2.1, does anyone know what, if any, plans there are to extend the Google API's to support it in a future version?
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Sep 9, 2010
i don't want to pay much on apps, but many good ones are paid version. So who knows where i can get good free or cheaper apps, games?
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Jun 27, 2010
I know we got their Tetris and Bejeweled, but what about their other line of games like FIFA 10, NCAA, NFL. Any plans for EA Mobile to release more games for Android?
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Jan 7, 2010
I'm currently thinking about buying a Hero because it looks awesome I was thinking about it the other day and have come up with a much cheaper solution to buy it and thought I would share it with you guys As I am currently on 3 I will use this as my example however it will work with any network.For 35 a month you get unlimited texts, internet and 3 to 3 calls. You also get 750 minutes. Not the worst deal in the world except you stuck with it for 24 months.At the end of the 2 years you will have cashed out 840.OR For 356.43 you can buy a SIM free Hero on amazon UK. Then a SIM only deal for 15 gets you Unlimited Texts, Internet, 3 to 3 calls, voicemail and Windows Live Messenger. The downside is only 300 minutes but that would suit me fine. And on the plus side you arent tied into a contract and can 'upgrade' whenever you like.With this method you dont need to use it for 24 months but, just to compare, this comes to 716.What do you think?
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May 28, 2010
i've tried out all the radios to test out which is the best for me..and i devided on the one that was based off the verizon radio..so i got an error message saying "You must be a Sprint Customer to use this feature" so i changed to the newest radio out 2.42.01.04.27 and i still get the same issue..what could it be?
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Oct 29, 2010
I rooted my sprint HTC hero and installed CM6 on it the other day, and everything is working great... except voicemail. I was using the Sprint VVM app, and that worked, but I got that annoying SMS message with each new voicemail, so I decided to switch to Google Voice (for voicemail only). It seems to work, except when my friends (who also have Sprint) call, and I don't answer the call, they either get a fast busy signal or they hear a voice say something like "Call cannot be completed. Goodbye" and then it hangs up.
Calling from land-lines and other cells seems to work ok? I just enabled Google Voice today, so do I need to wait a certain amount of time before it works Sprint to Sprint, or? Has anyone else seen this before? I should mention, it only happens on unanswered calls. If i dismiss the call before it's done ringing, it properly goes to google voicemail.
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Feb 18, 2010
Is there a way to send text messages automatically when entering sprint network. Sometimes I send text messages while on the train. I set it to Sprint only to avoid roaming charges. My old phone would automatically send. This one I have to resend. Are there settings to auto send when entering the sprint network?
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Dec 4, 2009
I have had a lot of smart phones but never used bluetooth headsets and have a few questions.Can you get a bluetooth earpiece for answering phone calls that lets you answer from the headset once paired?
Do all the earpieces support streaming or playing music/sprint tv audio/Google listen?Are they all mono or do some single earpieces have stereo?Is there an industry standard for noise reduction that I should look for in the feature list? Any other tips if I just want to buy one and be satisfied its the right one?
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Jan 22, 2010
Im sure it is posted somewhere, but I just can't seem to find it.How does one go about uninstalling Sprint bloatware on a rooted phone?
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Oct 29, 2010
Not sure if you guys saw this but a poll at the Sprint Community is showing the Palm OS way ahead of android, thanks to support from some yahoos on the Pixie forums. Help set them straight: Sprint poll about best OS leaves Android in the dust; vote now | andrew | Androinica
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Apr 17, 2010
I went from a stock 1.5 to 2.1 using the Sprint 2.1 RUU and all is well. I understand it's a dev build and as such is already root but when I trying installing android-wifi-tether (both 2.0 and 1.6) it all looks well except when I touch the icon to start and it fails. The 1.6 version did report I didn't have root.
What do I need to do in ADB/shell to ensure the proper permissions are there for AWT? This is the last thing I want to get working and I'm happy.
Do I need to remount the filesystem as rw? Add superuser? Not sure what's needed.
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Aug 20, 2010
I have a rooted hero on sprint with unlimited data but I found out that o can tether my xbox but , I worry now Sprint may catch on to my tethering and may surprise me with a high bill since I haven't paid for mobile hotspot Not that I wouldn't but it is not available with my phone . So should I worry ?
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Mar 4, 2010
I am trying to turn off the Sprint coverage and just enable wifi so I can do some VoIP testing. Is this possible?
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Nov 19, 2009
Sprint has reportedly stopped charging $0.20 per min for call forwarding (Conditional only). See here:
Google Voice & Sprint... 11/08/09 Inside Sprint Now. I've read tons of forums, discussions, web sites, and there's a lot of conflicting information and some Sprint reps are getting confused on this, it's new.
However, here's my general understanding:.................
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Oct 15, 2009
Is anyone else interested in how Google voice will affect calling minutes? If you currently have your GV number set to call your Sprint cell and your incoming call is from another cell phone will you be charged for the minutes? If you setup your phone so GV is used to call all numbers that you dial will you be charged for calling other cellular number because GV masks the number? I have been through every level of support that Sprint offers and no one can answer me. Sadly tier 3 technical support told me "Google Voice is useless on a cell phone and you would not want to use this anyway". I had nothing more to say after that!
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