Bulky? - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

After using a smaller phone, does this phone feel "bulky" when you use it? I have looked at the HD2 at the local wally world and it felt almost too wide for my hand and I know they are similar in size.

ElAguila said:
After using a smaller phone, does this phone feel "bulky" when you use it? I have looked at the HD2 at the local wally world and it felt almost too wide for my hand and I know they are similar in size.
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Get bigger hands.
j/k, I have large hands and the HD2 felt pretty good when I held it in BB so i'm not worried, but I can see how it may be too big for people with smaller hands.

imagine if you're that dude in the Burker King commercial with the small hands lol

MrDSL said:
imagine if you're that dude in the Burker King commercial with the small hands lol
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yeah that guy is at a disadvantage in life. big stuff, like womens........., just don't go well with him. A cups is a hand full, poor guy

Well if its too big I guess people can always have their friends hold it for them lol

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idea: Battery door with built in kick stand

I'm surprised that our 4" SAMOLED phone doesn't have this option.... or a case with a kickstand. I'd love one for the sheer fact that I can view media and have it as a clock by my bedside.
Maybe we can suggest it to samsung? anyone know how?
tranms said:
I'm surprised that our 4" SAMOLED phone doesn't have this option.... or a case with a kickstand. I'd love one for the sheer fact that I can view media and have it as a clock by my bedside.
Maybe we can suggest it to samsung? anyone know how?
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You stole that idea from my mind! I would rather see two small feet at one side of the case then the large feet.
cristorb said:
Hey guys check the link on my signature.
This is a stand that will fit any phone, with the case or without it.
It has multiple viewing angles, and you can rotate it to set the phone on any of its four sides.
You avoid blocking any ports with the rotation.
It is removable or you can keep it on the phone. It is also very small that u can bring it with you anywhere.
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I like it, how many different angles are there for viewing?
You could always find a really small hinge, a spare battery door and a straight thin piece of metal with teeth/notches that lock it in place when it's open or closed and make a prototype. And then sell it to Samsung
energyracing said:
You could always find a really small hinge, a spare battery door and a straight thin piece of metal with teeth/notches that lock it in place when it's open or closed and make a prototype. And then sell it to Samsung
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I think that it is a great idea, but I am hesitant to think that Samsung would use it for the Captivate. They may use it for the newer phones though.
if this happens i expect to see another patent war between HTC and Samsung.
If only those aftermarket creative directors would just sneak into these forums, I would buy one for sure. My arm gets pretty tired sometimes when lying in bed.
snguyen510 said:
If only those aftermarket creative directors would just sneak into these forums, I would buy one for sure. My arm gets pretty tired sometimes when lying in bed.
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I bet it does...
So I guess this idea is dead then?
Xero3g said:
I bet it does...
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Lmao, I don't think they caught that
wwcjr91 said:
Lmao, I don't think they caught that
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This guy gets it.
Can you post images about your project ? Thanks

Boondock *10/28/10* New Design Up

Check it out. Made it with some sold scrap metal I had around the shop. I will get more pics when I put some spray on it.
Here it is all finished. The bolts make it so I can tilt the phone more forward or back by loosening or tightening the jam nuts. Comes in handy when watching video. I put some VW lug covers on the head of the bolts to protect the case of the phone. Not bad for a days work.
Sweet!
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Thats pretty cool, good work.
Awesome lol, you people come up with some ghetto sh** for a $500 phone though
as a fellow auto tech i have to say good friggin job LOL. thats something i was looking to do with a box for the blue shop towels. i already made a ghetto ass subwoofer with one beats pretty well for a pc speaker LOL
Work must be slow....intuitive though.....
Thanks everyone.
dsimages said:
Work must be slow....intuitive though.....
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Yup. Slow as death.
That's awesome! Good job.
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Masterâ„¢ said:
Awesome lol, you people come up with some ghetto sh** for a $500 phone though
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wouldnt really consider that ghetto. have you seen the ****ers around here using the cardboard box the phone came in? or the guys using paperclips?
he could probably market this to iphone owners as some industrial steampunk phone stand, get "Made for iPhone" stamped on the box and sell these for $200 all day long.
turbosix said:
wouldnt really consider that ghetto. have you seen the ****ers around here using the cardboard box the phone came in? or the guys using paperclips?
he could probably market this to iphone owners as some industrial steampunk phone stand, get "Made for iPhone" stamped on the box and sell these for $200 all day long.
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You know, I was thinking the same thing. Im going to make another for my touch pro 2. I will post pics asap.
What case is that on the phone? I just ordered a Vibrant (it'll be here tomorrow. Can't wait!) and I'm looking for a good case to put it in. That one looks pretty nice. I was a bit disappointed to find that Otterbox doesn't make a case for the Vibrant.
YodaEXE said:
What case is that on the phone? I just ordered a Vibrant (it'll be here tomorrow. Can't wait!) and I'm looking for a good case to put it in. That one looks pretty nice. I was a bit disappointed to find that Otterbox doesn't make a case for the Vibrant.
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Its just a rubber case from the T-mobile store. I got it when I got the phone. It was only like $15 and it fits real nice.
Dan_Brutal said:
You know, I was thinking the same thing. Im going to make another for my touch pro 2. I will post pics asap.
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love to see it. i'm a car guy too. buddy of mine made some lamps out of old cams, cranks and turbine housings from some shot turbos he had in his garage.
i like to see stuff like this. lots of people dont have an open enough mind to figure stuff like this out.
Nice Job. Money tight? I hear ya.
New Dock
This is my new one, for my touch pro2. Same basic design as the first, but a little rougher around the edges. It also fits my vibrant really well. I think Im going to play around with fiberglass and see what I come up with. I did body work for awhile, and I can sling mud with the best of them.

The Epic 4G Touch is is huge, is it too big?

I was just at the Sprint store playing around with the device and it is very nice, but it is extremely large! I put my Evo up to it and the Epic dwarf's it but the screen is the same size I believe. Of course the Epic is very thin and light and does feel nice in your hand.
I happen to carry my Evo in my pocket sometimes and that is already too large, even in cargo shorts the Evo can be felt clunking around. Just thinking it may be too large, too bad they couldn't keep it closer to the size of the Evo all while keeping it as thin as it is.
I really loved the Epic Touch though, I can upgrade at any time but I may wait a month.
It's just a hair bigger than "perfect size" as far as I'm concerned...and that's exactly the size I want, lol. I love the absurd factor.
...and I'm a tall guy with big hands and big pockets, so, I don't even notice it in there...far less so than my E4G and E3D.
I believe it's screen is bigger than the Epic's. Our Epic's have 4 inch screens, and the Epic 4G Touch has a 4.5, which I think is the same size as the Infuse 4G is.
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I am 5'8 and I cant palm a basketball and the phone feels good to me. It feels like a mini Tablet
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its slight longer and wider than the evo, however it is SIGNIFICANTLY lighter than the evo, you probably won't even notice it in your pocket
I don't disagree that it feels good in your hands, I am just talking about when you transport it in your jeans/shorts pocket.
I can see that being a bit more difficult/uncomfortable to do.
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So far I haven't noticed a difference between it and my evo in my front pocket. I'm 5'7" and a buck fifty if that makes any difference. I do like that it is lighter, and somewhat less noticeable to me. However I can see either phone being a problem if I wore jeans, but i don't wear jeans here in Hawaii. If I was wearing jeans back home, chances are i'd be wearing a jacket, and would then use the jacket pocket. My two cents.
Howzit brah?!
killerbicycle said:
So far I haven't noticed a difference between it and my evo in my front pocket. I'm 5'7" and a buck fifty if that makes any difference. I do like that it is lighter, and somewhat less noticeable to me. However I can see either phone being a problem if I wore jeans, but i don't wear jeans here in Hawaii. If I was wearing jeans back home, chances are i'd be wearing a jacket, and would then use the jacket pocket. My two cents.
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Raistlin1 said:
I don't disagree that it feels good in your hands.
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Thats what she said...
Raistlin1 said:
I put my Evo up to it and the Epic dwarf's it but the screen is the same size I believe.
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You believe wrong. The EVO 4G is 4.3", the Epic 4G Touch is 4.52".
TurboFool said:
You believe wrong. The EVO 4G is 4.3", the Epic 4G Touch is 4.52".
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I was just going off of what I saw when I compared the two side by side. I could not notice the .22" difference in person...
JohnCorleone said:
I am 5'8 and I cant palm a basketball and the phone feels good to me. It feels like a mini Tablet
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Yeah its fine to me... But im 5'10" and still growing cuz im 15 lol..
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perfect for me, smaller hands i could see how it would be huge.
Mmm, going to have to go with NO. Maybe if it were an inch larger, but as it stands I think there's a little more room to grow without being 'too' big.
I don't feel like it's too big, in fact it feels like a nice (and very noticeable) upgrade from my Inspire's 4.3 screen.
But if it were any bigger, it would probably be uncomfortable to operate.
Too big for me, but only slightly. I'll manage but I was hoping for 4.3. Any bigger and that is a deal breaker as I will not be comfortable using it as a phone.
Typing takes me a little longer because I have more screen swype through.
Last edit: it makes up for the slower typing with much easier reading. I'll give up a little speed when typing to gain a huge improvement in reading at a glance.
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This thing is sweet!
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I think anything above 4.5" is crazy, but I like having "eye room" when I am playing games or texting.
Pocket Tanks for Android is on its way this fall.
That's what shes said!
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just converted a long time apple user in the funniest way ever.

My cousin is a hipster who's always loved the iPhone since it first came out, 4 days ago he picked up the 4s and was bragging about how smooth it was. I showed him that my lumia was smoother and he started swiping back and forth on his screen as fast as he could. Right then, he gripped his phone and it shattered, that might be an understatement, it exploded. It was just a mess. I am an opportunist so at this point I said "something else my phone can do that yours can't." I then pitched my phone and then let it crash to the ground unscathed. He was in awe. I've been letting him play with my titan since and he keeps asking "think I can trade my phone for this?" its amazing how people react once they try WP7.
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My cousin is a hipster who's always loved the iPhone since it first came out, 4 days ago he picked up the 4s and was bragging about how smooth it was. I showed him that my lumia was smoother and he started swiping back and forth on his screen as fast as he could. Right then, he gripped his phone and it shattered, that might be an understatement, it exploded. It was just a mess. I am an opportunist so at this point I said "something else my phone can do that yours can't." I then pitched my phone and then let it crash to the ground unscathed. He was in awe. I've been letting him play with my titan since and he keeps asking "think I can trade my phone for this?" its amazing how people react once they try WP7.
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oppotunist with a lot of money as well? Or maybe you are very well insured.
I woudn't drop mine on purpose.
My son threw his off a balcony unscathed. A 4 foot fall won't hurt it.
How hard or in what way was he gripping his iPhone that it shattered? That seems like some incredible brute strength
ScottSUmmers said:
How hard or in what way was he gripping his iPhone that it shattered? That seems like some incredible brute strength
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Either that, orrrrr it's not true in the slightest.
It doesn't take much to break the 4 or 4s. I probably see more people walking around with broken screens than with good ones. The ones with decent screens are often using otterboxes. When a phone's externals are mostly glass it's not hard to break.
z33dev33l said:
It doesn't take much to break the 4 or 4s. I probably see more people walking around with broken screens than with good ones. The ones with decent screens are often using otterboxes. When a phone's externals are mostly glass it's not hard to break.
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Yup, my mates sons both hav iPhone 4 and both have shattered/ cracked backplanes and one has a chip in the glass on the front, should be said, they are both early 20's and party a lot and the phones are about 6 months old.
you can smash an iPhone 4 by looking at it the wrong way..
I hear Steve jobs built it so that if you don't look at it with complete love and adoration in your eyes it will self destruct
scoobysnacks said:
you can smash an iPhone 4 by looking at it the wrong way..
I hear Steve jobs built it so that if you don't look at it with complete love and adoration in your eyes it will self destruct
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I hate the Iphone/Ipod/IToilet but this is one of the coolest things I heard
ceesheim said:
I hate the Iphone/Ipod/IToilet but this is one of the coolest things I heard
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Tell me more about the iToilet... haha
Without joking I also know some people who have a broken iphone screen because the phone only fell out of the pocket. So I always show them my OMNIA 7 where I never have put a screen protector. After 1 year of using the screen is still non-scratched...
Windows phone 7 is kinda awful though. I owned an HD7 for a couple weeks and it got old quick. The animations were annoying, I missed Google Apps (turn by turn nav was sweet!), really not interested in social networking, and the app selection is terrible. Also, I loved experimenting with all the roms that were available for Android.
If there is something that apple does right is, iTunes has a huge music selection, great app store, super smooth gaming performance, and great developers all around, and amazing responsiveness. Course, if he wants to trade a 4S for a Lumnia then I have a spare laying around here, tell him to call me up
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johnston9234 said:
Windows phone 7 is kinda awful though. I owned an HD7 for a couple weeks and it got old quick. The animations were annoying, I missed Google Apps (turn by turn nav was sweet!), really not interested in social networking, and the app selection is terrible. Also, I loved experimenting with all the roms that were available for Android.
If there is something that apple does right is, iTunes has a huge music selection, great app store, super smooth gaming performance, and great developers all around, and amazing responsiveness. Course, if he wants to trade a 4S for a Lumnia then I have a spare laying around here, tell him to call me up
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to each their own, I just came from android and aside from games this phone is a much better experience.
It doesn't feel like it's shoddily pieced together by 100 random people, it is coherent and smooth.
johnston9234 said:
If there is something that apple does right is, iTunes has a huge music selection, great app store, super smooth gaming performance, and great developers all around, and amazing responsiveness. Course, if he wants to trade a 4S for a Lumnia then I have a spare laying around here, tell him to call me up
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Itunes and right should not be in the same sentence.itunes is the worst piece of software anybody had ever created i cannot anybody would like this virus
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johnston9234 said:
Windows phone 7 is kinda awful though. I owned an HD7 for a couple weeks and it got old quick. The animations were annoying, I missed Google Apps (turn by turn nav was sweet!), really not interested in social networking, and the app selection is terrible. Also, I loved experimenting with all the roms that were available for Android.
If there is something that apple does right is, iTunes has a huge music selection, great app store, super smooth gaming performance, and great developers all around, and amazing responsiveness. Course, if he wants to trade a 4S for a Lumnia then I have a spare laying around here, tell him to call me up
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please don't this thread.
prohibido_por_la_ley said:
please don't this thread.
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Yep, would hate to have pro-Android sentiments on XDA, god forbid!
Anyway, When I was talking about iTunes I meant their music selection and the content, I do agree that iTunes is a terrible piece of software though! One of the big reasons I stopped using them.
it doesnt matter how many times an iphone user will drop his phone break than buy a new one. They will still buy an iphone again so it will take a LONG time till we will be able to break the isouls but with android i have converted quite a few people.
The weirdest people on the planet are the people who want to convert you to their preferred mobile operating system. I don't even know what I would do if someone tried to convert me by dropping their phone on the floor - run away screaming, perhaps.
I have an iPhone and a Samsung Focus S. If I drop either one of them, they'll break. Near as I can tell, Apple, Microsoft and even Google have yet to defeat gravity with their current offerings.
Poughkeepsie125 said:
The weirdest people on the planet are the people who want to convert you to their preferred mobile operating system. I don't even know what I would do if someone tried to convert me by dropping their phone on the floor - run away screaming, perhaps.
I have an iPhone and a Samsung Focus S. If I drop either one of them, they'll break. Near as I can tell, Apple, Microsoft and even Google have yet to defeat gravity with their current offerings.
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Having dropped my HTC 7 Pro a good few times now, the sum total of damage are a couple of paintchips, and the h on the back has gone missing. In summary, the same as my HTC Legend.
It isn't difficult to make a phone that can survive being dropped. The iPhone 4/4s is just incredibly fragile. I have made a small fortune out of replacing the glass on my friends shattered iPhones - HTC have made a few quid too.
derausgewanderte said:
oppotunist with a lot of money as well? Or maybe you are very well insured.
I woudn't drop mine on purpose.
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I dropped my HTC 7 Mozart on purpose a couple of times to demonstrate how solid it is. It has a few scuffs on the metal case, but the screen remains flawless and the device itself works fine. The only issue I had when dropping the phone was the fact that the battery cover flew off every time and the battery slid out
Awesome story!!!

first fall to ground, the phone can't power on, bad quality LG

my phone (with a spigen hard case) fall to ground first time, the screen is fine, but I can't power on it anymore...
sent it to LG service, said need 3 days to check what's wrong..
my Nexus 5 fall to ground many times, and working well. and Nexus 5x just one... LG quality now is really bad.
Well, LG might say that user handling of devices nowadays it's very bad.
Hard cases suck for drops. They accept the drop instead of deflecting it like softer ones do. Just my opinion, buy a better case
hopesrequiem said:
Hard cases suck for drops. They accept the drop instead of deflecting it like softer ones do. Just my opinion, buy a better case
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my nexus 5 use spigen hard case too, it fall to ground many time when my son play it... but still working
ourfear said:
my nexus 5 use spigen hard case too, it fall to ground many time when my son play it... but still working
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You don't think anyone dropped their Nexus 5 and it broke too? It's just luck if it breaks or not, as with any phone in a drop.
My 5x fell onto tiled floor with no case or screen protector. Barely even a scuff on two of the corners. Good job LG!
BTW you shouldn't expect a case to help in a drop when it's not designed to help in a drop, isn't advertised to help in a drop, nor was it ever publicly tested in drop tests.
If a case doesn't have these things then it is for scratch protection, minor bumps, and aesthetics only. Don't be fooled by empty marketing promises. It's easy for any case or SP to type some words on their JPEGs "super resilient, shock and explosion proof, 9H hardness" but that doesn't mean it's true or was ever actually tested. They just want your money.
Couldn't the thread have been titled, "First unlucky drop and no power.." or something like that. Ya just gotta throw in the dig of "bad quality LG" as if it's their fault you dropped the phone. I just don't get all these threads that don't really ask questions so much as to get eyeballs on a negative depiction of a very capable phone. And I'm just as guilty, I read this crap.
Me too Bobby. I keep feeding the trolls. I can't help it. I feel bad for them.
Thing is it was happening in the 6P threads too. I had one for about a week until I realized it was just too large a device for me and I was definitely going to drop and break it due to the size and slippery back. "Super lag on the 6P", "awful camera", speakers terrible" things like that just the same as here. Some of them just Sammy fans and some iPhone heads but they came out of the woodwork. And same here, "5X-Hugely disappointed" over 45k views. I mean who goes on just to post something like that instead of taking the time to return the device and research another one? It just makes me wonder motivation.
Back on topic, I dropped my phone once and not a scratch. It was on the carpet, does that count?
The only thing lacking quality in this situation is your grip.
Mine survived a 4 foot drop to concrete.
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bobby janow said:
I just don't get all these threads that don't really ask questions so much as to get eyeballs on a negative depiction of a very capable phone. And I'm just as guilty, I read this crap.
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Me too Bobby. I keep feeding the trolls. I can't help it.
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bobby janow said:
Some of them just Sammy fans and some iPhone heads but they came out of the woodwork. And same here, "5X-Hugely disappointed" over 45k views. I mean who goes on just to post something like that instead of taking the time to return the device and research another one? It just makes me wonder motivation.
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Me three.
I have to say -- I always try to assume the best in terms of motivation, and just chalk up someone's different experience to use case, app selection, etc. But my 5X is so fast, and multitasks so well, that I have to question motivation as well.
today LG called me ... said the mainboard damaged....
change a new mainboard is expensive, so I 'd better to buy a new one
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today LG called me ... said the mainboard damaged....
change a new mainboard is expensive, so I 'd better to buy a new one
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That, I'm sorry to hear. Somehow in this day and age they can make a phone almost indestructible. At least from a toilet drop and 5 feet onto cement.
my 5 fell into the grand canyon, I wonder if the screen broke. still rang but no one answered. sad. love my new 5X

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