Help New maintenance update EVO 3d 08-26-11

rmonty · Aug 26, 2011

Led Zappa said:
My 4G speeds increased from 3M avg to 9M and my GPS on/off widget is toast as others are reporting on another site.

Yep, my GPS widget is screwed up too. Tried removing it and then putting it back on, but it does the same thing. Just replaced it with the new HTC battery widget.

Led Zappa · Aug 26, 2011

Also, I don't know if this is normal, but if I have 4G on and reboot it is off on restart.

zonehalo · Aug 26, 2011

EarlyMon said:
There's a temporary cache that clears on restart of the phone, as I recall.

If that doesn't work, try a battery pull to clear any stuck bits.

After that, all I can offer is that MyBackup Pro eases the pain of a factory data reset.

I did a few restarts and a battery pull. Crap. I saw two other people post about this in about a 10 post thread on another site. I was thinking this problem was a bit more widespread...maybe not.

Reset...ugh. Thanks for the help.

jdsingle · Aug 26, 2011

Brian360 said:
God I wish you'd stop making your font like that.

I had to LOL at this. The font throws me every time.

Info for those who are wondering, just click on attachment for picture.

dckidd · Aug 26, 2011

Was putting off the update in hopes of finding more info on it first... but, I went ahead this evening and my 4G speeds have increased significantly..

At home, with a "fair" connection according to the 4G settings screen, I was getting around 2000kbps, sometimes it would spike up to 3000kbps.
After update, same location in my house, same "fair" connection, but speeds are now consistently in the 9000kbps range down and ~1400kbps up.

Just thought I'd throw that out there, for those still wondering... Also, my GPS widget seems to still be working (I noticed some people saying that it was broken with the update). Atleast, I *think* the GPS widget is working.. it does seem to be clicking ON and OFF a *LOT* faster than before, but the GPS indicator on the top of the screen also switches, so I think it's working fine.
Haven't noticed any other changes, but haven't poked around much either.. -Bob

EarlyMon · Aug 27, 2011

I took the 2 updates in the OP, didn't bother my root at all - just an app update, not a system update.

Sorry if that widget was there before, guess I hadn't noticed.

kinetic · Aug 27, 2011

Yup, my GPS widget is completely broken as well.

atistang · Aug 27, 2011

dckidd said:
Was putting off the update in hopes of finding more info on it first... but, I went ahead this evening and my 4G speeds have increased significantly..

At home, with a "fair" connection according to the 4G settings screen, I was getting around 2000kbps, sometimes it would spike up to 3000kbps.
After update, same location in my house, same "fair" connection, but speeds are now consistently in the 9000kbps range down and ~1400kbps up.

Just thought I'd throw that out there, for those still wondering... Also, my GPS widget seems to still be working (I noticed some people saying that it was broken with the update). Atleast, I *think* the GPS widget is working.. it does seem to be clicking ON and OFF a *LOT* faster than before, but the GPS indicator on the top of the screen also switches, so I think it's working fine.
Haven't noticed any other changes, but haven't poked around much either.. -Bob

how did you manually get the update? I declined mine this morning until i could find out what it is, now i cant get it to download, i tried everything under the updates menu and nothing is pulling it back up

DonB · Aug 27, 2011

Menu/System Updates/HTC Software updates click check now, FYI since some were having issues with it, they make have pulled it to see what the issue is.

atistang said:
how did you manually get the update? I declined mine this morning until i could find out what it is, now i cant get it to download, i tried everything under the updates menu and nothing is pulling it back up

LBPHeretic · Aug 27, 2011

From what I can gather, it is either a new widget or an update to it and radio as I read here: Sprint HTC EVO 3D Gets OTA Update, New Radio And A Widget .

Has anyone seen an appreciable difference with the radio update? I have not applied it yet.

Androidalltheway · Aug 27, 2011

anyone dload this update? I am on my 28th day with my photon, the radio of the evo 3d was my biggest problem, so if this solves that, I may go back to it, just dont want to chance it because my photon has excellent reception and call quality, but I would be lying if I said I didn't miss htc sense

popularthinks · Aug 27, 2011

If this did in fact improve the radio...I wonder if those of us that did changed the vocoder settings need to revert back? Anyone have any ideas?

johnny124 · Aug 27, 2011

popularthinks said:
If this did in fact improve the radio...I wonder if those of us that did changed the vocoder settings need to revert back? Anyone have any ideas?

That is a great question... :thinking:

marctronixx · Aug 27, 2011

rule of thumb,

if your voice calls are still acceptable to you then there is no need to do anything.

if you are curious, then revert back to stock and test.

EarlyMon · Aug 27, 2011

There was no radio update here.

The GPS widget isn't broken per se, but some have likely tangled cache area(s) causing issues. More likely than not, the actual problem began with the system OTA and this is a symptom.

Hope this helps!

Led Zappa · Aug 27, 2011

EarlyMon said:
There was no radio update here.

The GPS widget isn't broken per se, but some have likely tangled cache area(s) causing issues. More likely than not, the actual problem began with the system OTA and this is a symptom.

Hope this helps!

From the link posted above:

Update:Apparently the update doesn't contain a new radio but a software patch that fixes the way the phone handles signal in general and 4G to be more specific, thus the improvement in signal.

I only got an average of 4M at home before the update. Since then it's been in the 9M range, so in the end I don't care what happened, only that it did happen.

My last test:

Eaglesfan9106 · Aug 27, 2011

Well i figured out that when u have 4G on and click the new widget it switches between corporate and Sprint 4G idk the difference tho

ironcast · Aug 28, 2011

got this too

kinetic · Aug 28, 2011

EarlyMon said:
There was no radio update here.

The GPS widget isn't broken per se, but some have likely tangled cache area(s) causing issues. More likely than not, the actual problem began with the system OTA and this is a symptom.

Hope this helps!

I'm not sure what you mean by this... are you saying there's a solution to fix the GPS widget?

Led Zappa · Aug 28, 2011

Eaglesfan9106 said:
Well i figured out that when u have 4G on and click the new widget it switches between corporate and Sprint 4G idk the difference tho

For me it says 4G is still on, but 3G shows up as live connection and 4G has an "!" next to it on left side of notifications and my speeds are that of 3G. Hitting it again gets me back to 4G.

RichboyJhae · Aug 28, 2011

My phone still hasn't received the update

jj14x · Aug 28, 2011

Is the 3G widget causing trouble for anyone? I performed the hard reset after installing the GB 2.3.4 update and these updates (and had to reinstall these updates again because the reset wiped these out). But now, the 3G widget has trouble turning 3G off.

When I go outside of my home's wifi range, I usually turn off wifi and turn 3g on using the mobile network widget. But for some reason, I'm unable to turn 3g off (or on) using the widget anymore. (I can go to settings, wireless networks and turn 3g off/on from there).
Has anyone else run into this issue? If so, any suggestions on how to fix this?

(I did try to remove the widget and reinstalled it from htc widgets - didn't make a difference)

wacko11 · Aug 28, 2011

U can turn off 3g, 4g, wifi, gps, bluetooth and hotspot in the notification bar.

jj14x · Aug 28, 2011

wacko11 said:
U can turn off 3g, 4g, wifi, gps, bluetooth and hotspot in the notification bar.

True, and that works just fine. I was wondering if anyone else had noticed the problem with the 3g widget? I noticed that it is having trouble even turning on the 3G too (using the widget). When I go to settings/wireless networks, it shows that it couldn't connect because service is unavailable?!? But right then, if I uncheck and check mobile network from that screen, it connects just fine.

(This problem started for me only after I did the hard reset and applied these two updates, and re-installed some of the apps that I already had. The only new app I added was gameloft's Nova. Other than that, all stayed the same)

Fbomb! · Aug 28, 2011

I did this update and home switcher stopped working...Sense was (changed to) the default and got FC when switching LauncherPro as default...Tried reinstalling, nope...Ended up going with HS for Froyo.

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