Why wait, call them up now and they won't ship it until Tuesday anyways, this phone is worth every Penny IMO
It is kind of a busy holiday weekend for me. I do not have patience to call multiple times to get them to upgrade both lines and give me the customer loyalty credit at the moment.
I know I am probably going to have to get escalated to retentions and have a manager override something to get what I want. It is best to do it when I have the time to do it, like this coming Tuesday. Not to mention, after I call and get the upgrade back for both lines, I will have to confirm that they actually went through, and then call back AGAIN to order the handsets. Good times.
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Sounds like your going to have fun on Tuesday, it will be worth it, love this phone.
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It is kind of a busy holiday weekend for me. I do not have patience to call multiple times to get them to upgrade both lines and give me the customer loyalty credit at the moment.
I know I am probably going to have to get escalated to retentions and have a manager override something to get what I want. It is best to do it when I have the time to do it, like this coming Tuesday. Not to mention, after I call and get the upgrade back for both lines, I will have to confirm that they actually went through, and then call back AGAIN to order the handsets. Good times.
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Fastest way is *2 and simply order, you can either pay on a credit card or they will add it to your bill. Once you received them you can either go online and activate it yourself or simply call them and it takes 5 minutes to activate
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I have never actually ordered handsets over the phone before. Do I just call them up and order them and they charge my credit card?
I suppose they send them to my house and then I have to call Sprint to activate them? I wonder if they will waive the activation fee.
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Fastest way is *2 and simply order, you can either pay on a credit card or they will add it to your bill. Once you received them you can either go online and activate it yourself or simply call them and it takes 5 minutes to activate
Thanks for the information, DonB. So, were you able to get the activation feed waived on your Sprint HTC EVO 3D?
If you did, was it something you asked for or did they just waive it automatically? I guess I will be calling Sprint a few times tomorrow.
I saw that there is an overheating and charging issue with some Sprint HTC EVO 3D handsets and HTC knows about it. I hope that this is something that can be fixed with an OTA update. I do not want to switch over to an unreliable handset after having such great reliability and battery life from my Sprint HTC Hero. That would be a darned shame.
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I have not had any issues, it is a little hot, but no different than the Hero, and i am also using a case, so I would not worry about it bro.
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I saw that there is an overheating and charging issue with some Sprint HTC EVO 3D handsets and HTC knows about it. I hope that this is something that can be fixed with an OTA update. I do not want to switch over to an unreliable handset after having such great reliability and battery life from my Sprint HTC Hero. That would be a darned shame.
Unfortunately, that eBay listing was removed, DonB. Do you happen to have another example of your case? I will probably want to pick one up before I purchase the handset. I like being prepared.
I played around with a Sprint HTC EVO 3D at a Sprint store today. I had a good twenty minutes to mess with it. It is a nice handset and really smooth in the UI department. The only thing that sort of bothered me about it was that the power button seemed super sensitive to being pressed and it was a bit mushy as well.
LBP - Spend the extra Money and get the Otter Box Commuter.
Nice and sturdy - NO over heat issues this far.
The Sensitive power button issues go away with a case.
My Phone took a 5 foot dive onto concrete over the 4th....crazy 3 yr olds....
And it is FINE!
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Well I was going to keep my HERO as a MP3 player and use if with WiFi, but someone offered me $100 for it today, so I think I will sell it, so I wanted to mention to RB, that this time I formatted the SD card and flashed the RUU from recovery and it worked like a charm this time, so good call and took 3 minutes. The guy interested is waiting on my decision tomorrow as I wanted to sleep on it incase I went into HERO withdrawals, lol
FYI Cat the reason why I got the case was because I wanted something quick as the OBox was not out yet, I may get the Ballistic case next thought, but I will compare to the OBox first to see, I do like this one I got as it is sleek and not bulky, so I need to make a decision of what I want, protection or looks, LOL
Thanks for the recommendations on cases for the Sprint HTC EVO 3D. I was looking at the Otterbox and Seidio cases. I figured a case would make it tougher for the buttons to get accidentally pressed. The fact that it was so sensitive just stuck in my mind after my visit to the Sprint store today.
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The Ballistic Box is sweet looking also
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Aww. Farewell to your Sprint HTC Hero, DonB.
Thanks for the recommendations on cases for the Sprint HTC EVO 3D. I was looking at the Otterbox and Seidio cases. I figured a case would make it tougher for the buttons to get accidentally pressed. The fact that it was so sensitive just stuck in my mind after my visit to the Sprint store today.
I just ordered my Sprint HTC EVO 3D today and got the month free credit for renewing early, which essentially made it $70.00. Hopefully it will arrive on Monday.
My wife upgraded to a Sprint HTC EVO 4G today at RadioShack for $29.99. She is very pleased with it so far and I guess that means you will be seeing me more in that subforum, andygu3.
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I have noted this day in history, your Hero will not be happy, LOL , looking forward to your feedback when you get it
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I just ordered my Sprint HTC EVO 3D today and got the month free credit for renewing early, which essentially made it $70.00. Hopefully it will arrive on Monday.
My wife upgraded to a Sprint HTC EVO 4G today at RadioShack for $29.99. She is very pleased with it so far and I guess that means you will be seeing me more in that subforum, andygu3.
I have noted this day in history, your Hero will not be happy, LOL , looking forward to your feedback when you get it
I received the tracking for my forthcoming Sprint HTC EVO 3D already. It does not have any information yet, but I am still hoping for a Monday time frame.
Haha. Yeah, I will be keeping my Sprint HTC Hero though. It will definitely still get some love. If the developers can get Ice Cream Sandwich onto it, my handset will get that ROM flashed too.
When I first bought My hero,I kinda thought I had inferior product{the Evo first came out and hard to get and long waiting list},and after reading and doing some of the tips and tricks,I came away with whole different attitude.My Hero has been the best little phone I have ever had,I was getting signals in WY,AZ,UT,CO NM,CA,in some very desolate places.It might not have as many bells and whistles as some other phones,but for my usage,it was wonderful.I have upgraded to the Evo3D and am comparing and using the Hero as a measuring tape.If something should happen to this EVO,I wouldn't hesitate to put my Hero back in service.It's been a workhorse and pretty rugged and durable.
When I first bought My hero,I kinda thought I had inferior product{the Evo first came out and hard to get and long waiting list},and after reading and doing some of the tips and tricks,I came away with whole different attitude.My Hero has been the best little phone I have ever had,I was getting signals in WY,AZ,UT,CO NM,CA,in some very desolate places.It might not have as many bells and whistles as some other phones,but for my usage,it was wonderful.I have upgraded to the Evo3D and am comparing and using the Hero as a measuring tape.If something should happen to this EVO,I wouldn't hesitate to put my Hero back in service.It's been a workhorse and pretty rugged and durable.
A very nice post, indeed. I still love my Sprint HTC Hero and it continues to serve me as a Wi-Fi connected Internet device and one that I will continue to tinker with as newer versions of Android get released, as I know the support for older Android devices never truly goes away.
I also upgraded to a Sprint HTC EVO 3D and it is a great handset too. I can only hope that it lives up to the experience I had with my Sprint HTC Hero, and follows in its footsteps.
Aright, it is my turn to decide on which phone I should upgrade to. I have been holding off for awhile now but my gf have decided to buy me a new phone for my birthday. So here are three phones that I'm deciding on (what I like and dislike about it). If there are other phones I should consider, please let me know.
1. HTC Evo 3d - In general, I like this phone the most. The appearance and the feel to it is nice. I like Sense UI. Seem to have the most support in custom roms (I want the ability to tether my phone). I don't care much about the 3D part, but I do care about 2D picture/video quality (I wasn't too impress with my gf's HTC Evo camera). So if you guys can let me know how are the qualities like on it, I would appreciate it. And also, how is the battery life, that's another thing that really concern me. I want a phone that can last me the whole day with medium to heavy usage.
2. Motorola Photon - Overall, I wasn't very impress with this phone when I saw it in the store. I didn't like the looks of the phone, especially the corner edges. And the UI just doesn't seem to appeal to me like Sense UI. The one thing that makes this phone stand out is the worldwide capability. I travel to Taiwan occasionally, so having this feature might come in handy. And lastly, it has 8mp versus 5mps on the EVO 3D (I know mp doesn't mean everything. Does anyone know which one takes better pictures?)
3. Samsung Galaxy SII - Based on the videos I saw on the internet, the screen on this phone looks amazing. And the form factor is also very sleek and thin. But does Samsung phones have same amount of developers creating custom roms compare to HTC phones? And to my knowledge, the release date hasn't even been announce yet. So don't know how long I have to wait for this phone.
So what do you guys thinks? Are there other factors or phones that I should consider? Thanks
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If you want something now, go with the Sprint HTC EVO 3D or Sprint Motorola Photon 4G. I would go with the Sprint HTC EVO 3D, and I did, because of the hardware specifications and because the bootloader has already been unlocked by the development community.
If you can wait until September, then you can do a comparison of those two handsets with the Samsung Galaxy S2. That handset has quite a potent chipset as well, but it does sport a lower resolution than the Sprint HTC EVO 3D at WVGA versus qHD.
, looking forward to your feedback when you get it
