I have a problem every day when I boot up the phone for the first time it takes forever to get a data connection. I am less than 1/4 mile from a tower and have 5 bars (-89 dbm).
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Thanks Whiskeypawz. Maybe it is just becoming a lost cause. Sprint and HTC probably do not care anymore since the EVO will be out soon. They will probably just tell us to go buy one of those.
Ok i need to know if anyone else is having these issues. SInce upgrading to 2.1 on my hero I havent been able to open any app that uses the network without the phone rebooting itself, this happens around 50 percent of the time and its happened 5 or 6 times in a row after clicking DIFFERENT apps. Taking out the battery and restarting hasnt helped. Also, I keep losing network connections even thought the phone says i still have it. Ive found that turning airplane mode on and then off seems to solve that one temperarily. This has been so frustrating, especially when im on the road and trying to use the navigation or yellowbook for a phone number...any similar issues????
Yes, change the default Network connections using [How-To] Better battery life, reduce Time Without Signal. - xda-developers
Needs to be done each time the phone reboots
Did this and now I lost all my data connections....warning, make sure you tweek your phone through settings before you start farting around with the programing...
Does anyone have a fix for my no data, XDA hasn't replied to anyone with similar issues
It works from any screen. I do it all the time....
-I like that Home button feature which takes all the 7 sections and zooms them out, but its pointless if it only works when you have to be on the middle screen in order to do so...
There is. Widgets > Settings > GPS-why isnt there a turn on and off gps shortcut button?
-I like that Home button feature which takes all the 7 sections and zooms them out, but its pointless if it only works when you have to be on the middle screen in order to do so...
It works from any screen. I do it all the time.
-why isnt there a turn on and off gps shortcut button?
There is. Widgets > Settings > GPS
-Why is ther another navigaion app on it?
I have 4 major/main issues with the new 2.1 update.
MArket apps still dont auto-update or notify
Just thought I'd let you know I already contacted sprint about my bluetooth issues. the girl on the phone wasnt at all very helpful. she said that she had experienced a lot of new issues with her hero as well. She said about the only thing I could do was go to the sprint store to see if they could help. I told her the problem was with my panasonic home link to cell phone and I wasnt about to drag that in. Outside from a factory reset there isnt much they can do. I proceeded to ask her if i was wasting my time contacting sprint on this issues and she basically said yes, that it was up to HTC to fix the problem. she stated that whenever a call is placed about a problem people are having with their phones they are supposed to forward the complaint to HTC.I did finally get a response from Sprint, albeit not much of one.
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I will contact them later on this afternoon. I'm hoping for some answers but I'm expecting "Sorry, we can't do anything."
It is some consolation to me though, that it's not just Sprint that's having these issues. I have a friend that has the Droid Eris & experiencing many of the same issues we are. It's sounding more like an HTC/Google issue.
Speaking of HTC....I have still not heard anything back from them. It's Monday so maybe I will hear something today. Props to Sprint for answering me over the weekend!
@Hero_User 2010 - Before you did the complete reset and reload of 2.1, did you experience major lag when typing ANYTHING in landscape mode? And is that lag (if you had it in the first place) still present after the complete reload?
Honestly,
It was very laggy prior to the reloading of the software. After doing so, (I just tested just now to make sure I'm not incorrect), but honestly, after the reload, I feel as if it is just as good as it was when I had 1.5. There is still like a 3-4 second pause before swithing to landscape mode keyboard, but other than that, it's just like it used to be (to me).
Just thought I'd let you know I already contacted sprint about my bluetooth issues. the girl on the phone wasnt at all very helpful. she said that she had experienced a lot of new issues with her hero as well. She said about the only thing I could do was go to the sprint store to see if they could help. I told her the problem was with my panasonic home link to cell phone and I wasnt about to drag that in. Outside from a factory reset there isnt much they can do. I proceeded to ask her if i was wasting my time contacting sprint on this issues and she basically said yes, that it was up to HTC to fix the problem. she stated that whenever a call is placed about a problem people are having with their phones they are supposed to forward the complaint to HTC.
Good thing for me i decided to root my phone - not sure why but i did. this was the only reason i could go back to 1.5 and still use my home phone with the link to cell feature. I'm not happy that my phone is stuck at 1.5 because of this issue, but it better than not having the link to cell feature as i use my cell phone as my house phone.
So after reading this it really doesn't seem like the 2.1 update is worth the upgrading too right now or am I wrong.
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