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I know that the sensation might not come to AT&T...so should I get an unlocked sensation our wait for the HTC Holiday that's coming to AT&T...btw is the sensation a LTE compatible phone?
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If I could turn back time I will go to the exact day that I order my sensation. The worst HTC device in history for me. Can't wait to get s-off so i can fix this s**t phone and make it amazing. It all depends on you if you want to wait but you will need to wait for s-off and a new firmware to solve all the problems in this phone wish are a big list.
loving my sensation ever since the day i bought it XD you could buy the one with the att frequencies if you wanted it on att but yet again you could also get the galaxy s2. i say get the sensation and just wait for s-off, itll be worth the wait
After reading all the problems the Sensation has like:
Dust under screen
Touchscreen unresponsive
reboots
Deathgrip
LED notification almost invisible..
I have decided not to buy it, I had the cash in hand, everything planned to go after work to buy it, but i decided to check XDA.... I postponed my purchase.
keeping my HD2 until iP5 arrives or issues with this phone are fixed.
robrob777 said:
After reading all the problems the Sensation has like:
Dust under screen
Touchscreen unresponsive
reboots
Deathgrip
LED notification almost invisible..
I have decided not to buy it, I had the cash in hand, everything planned to go after work to buy it, but i decided to check XDA.... I postponed my purchase.
keeping my HD2 until iP5 arrives or issues with this phone are fixed.
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Dust, Touchscreen, Reboots, DeathGrip, Led Notifications? The first 3 never happened.. Deathgrip only on Wi-Fi while in landscape, And Led notifications i dont use em so dont care =] Maybe i just got a good phone =]
robrob777 said:
After reading all the problems the Sensation has like:
Dust under screen
Touchscreen unresponsive
reboots
Deathgrip
LED notification almost invisible..
I have decided not to buy it, I had the cash in hand, everything planned to go after work to buy it, but i decided to check XDA.... I postponed my purchase.
keeping my HD2 until iP5 arrives or issues with this phone are fixed.
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issues reported on XDA are always overrated. I own 2 Sensations with no issues. I have four friends with Sensations who also have no problems. You must remember that people who have a phone that works great out of the box are not likely to start a thread saying "my sensation works great" but the people who have a negative experience will post my "buttons are stuck"...I can guarantee that more people have purchased a "problem free" Sensation than those who have purchased duds....Also if you are purchasing a Sensation for AT&T be sure to get the Canadian version so that you can use the 4G/3G otherwise you will be stuck with Edge
I've had the Ion, Nexus One, Droid 2, and Incredible. The Sensation is easily the best purchase I've ever made. Zero complaints and it's about to get even better with s-off.
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issues reported on XDA are always overrated. I own 2 Sensations with no issues. I have four friends with Sensations who also have no problems. You must remember that people who have a phone that works great out of the box are not likely to start a thread saying "my sensation works great" but the people who have a negative experience will post my "buttons are stuck"...I can guarantee that more people have purchased a "problem free" Sensation than those who have purchased duds....Also if you are purchasing a Sensation for AT&T be sure to get the Canadian version so that you can use the 4G/3G otherwise you will be stuck with Edge
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Humm
My issues :
Reboots that happens a few times a day depending how much I use my phone.
Glitches on widgets 3rd party ones makes me restart sense a few times a day.
Touchscreen unresponsive sometimes.
WiFi death grip.
I dont believe this is dodgy hardware its all too do with firmware so not everyone will have same experience since we don't all use same firmware.
People are free to speak there issues that why this is XDA so we can help each other.
My first 3 Sensations had various issues listed however out of the 5 I've seen in person, non have them have had dust under the screen. Eveb if it did, big deal. Return it for another. The one I'm using now is my 4th device and I have had it for 1 month with no issues at all. Not even the wifi deathgrip issue in landscape. My wife has a Sensation as well and hers has had zero issues as well. In the end, any device can have issues and if you get one that does, RETURN IT. I returned 4 G2X's until I got a bug free phone. Its really not that big of a deal.
That being said. The only thing I don't like about the Sensation is the new version of Sense. HTC is moving in the wrong direction and instead of making it less intrusive, there making it more intrusive. Another thing they did was add too much useless eye candy which clearly bogs down the device. It also seems as if they forgot to optimize it. I put ADW on my Sensation 1 month ago and haven't looked back. It has made my Sensation faster than my G2X which I thought was impossible. A phones UI really can't get any faster. Everything now is pretty much instant.
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I have zero issues with my sensation. I get good wifi signal even in landscape. No dust, no camera issues, and the led notification is plenty bright for me. I can actually see it through the grill. Great touch screen and very responsive. I haven't experienced any lag in the sense UI, I admit its not as smooth as my cm7 n1 or my captivate and atrix on launcher pro but its plenty fast for what it is. I have no regrets buying the sensation (bought it outright too) to replace my atrix. I've had my share of bad luck with other phones being lemons too but it seems I lucked out with this device.
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robrob777 said:
After reading all the problems the Sensation has like:
Dust under screen
Touchscreen unresponsive
reboots
Deathgrip
LED notification almost invisible..
I have decided not to buy it, I had the cash in hand, everything planned to go after work to buy it, but i decided to check XDA.... I postponed my purchase.
keeping my HD2 until iP5 arrives or issues with this phone are fixed.
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Deathgrip is experienced in some fashion on all phones... But it is annoying especially on this "flagship"....
No dust under my screen
Ive only experienced screen freeze a handful of times.
Notification LED is nothing like BB, but iphones have none.... Just sayin..
Reboots... Random ones..? Zero.. But they are random my im sleeping when this happens. Atleast I'm not pulling the battery every two hours like BB...
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There are a few issues out there. I'm actually on my 4th phone. 1st one kept freezing and headphone jack was tripping. I would tap the headphone jack and it would randomly start calling people. 2nd one would freeze way too much and the 3rd one, well, and I just wanted one with a screen with no scratches I'm hoping most of these issues will be fixed with a future firmware update.
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No issues at all.. I have this phone for over a month now and yes, I'm able to reproduce WiFi deathgrip, but only if I hold it in landscape in a very uncomfortable way.. great phone!
Photos of dust under screen:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15968215&postcount=481
Death grip:
BT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaBKzcTp8s&feature=player_embedded#at=15
wifi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaSH2mK2hg
There was another video streaming music over wifi, I couldn't find it.
I think I may buy it and return it if these issues appear.
robrob777 said:
Photos of dust under screen:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15968215&postcount=481
Death grip:
BT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaBKzcTp8s&feature=player_embedded#at=15
wifi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaSH2mK2hg
There was another video streaming music over wifi, I couldn't find it.
I think I may buy it and return it if these issues appear.
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Yes, we are aware of the bugs/problems with the Sensation. Not all of them suffer from these bugs. If you don't want to deal with bugs, don't buy a smart phone.
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jrwingate6 said:
Yes, we are aware of the bugs/problems with the Sensation. Not all of them suffer from these bugs. If you don't want to deal with bugs, don't buy a smart phone.
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Nice one! Still, no offense, but it's madness that we let this happen by continuously buying 'flawed' smartphones.. Don't get me wrong, I've owned a few smartphones by now (touch pro, hero, desire and now sensation) but somewhere, it just nags me..
I second that. Being in Europe I should have bought an european Sensation. For 400 euros I got an asian Sensation (not the Hong Kong version!) and the only issues are Sense restarting once in a while and the phone getting hot from time to time while charging. I also have to nention that mibe us OC to 1512 MHz with On demand governor. Software: 1.35.707.1
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Sergio76 said:
... I dont believe this is dodgy hardware its all too do with firmware so not everyone will have same experience since we don't all use same firmware.
People are free to speak there issues that why this is XDA so we can help each other.
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I love my sensation. No problems at all except for the battery life but once I did the battery calibration a few times, my battery life improve and every once in a while the death grip with the wifi only in landscape mode. I don't regret the purchase at all. The best phone so far
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nccu_eagles said:
issues reported on XDA are always overrated. I own 2 Sensations with no issues. I have four friends with Sensations who also have no problems. You must remember that people who have a phone that works great out of the box are not likely to start a thread saying "my sensation works great" but the people who have a negative experience will post my "buttons are stuck"...I can guarantee that more people have purchased a "problem free" Sensation than those who have purchased duds....Also if you are purchasing a Sensation for AT&T be sure to get the Canadian version so that you can use the 4G/3G otherwise you will be stuck with Edge
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+1 also no issues with my sensation, just a MINOR thing with the back cover comming a VERRY little loose on the one side, but i put a tiny piece of paper underneath and its perfect now, no complaints, no dust, no death grip... im sure if everyone made threads of good working sensations we would have way more than the faulty threads... u just unlucky if u get problems
Buy Sensation. The only problem I ever had were random reboots, but it didn´t happen for the last few weeks so I think everything works fine now. Perfect phone simply doesn´t exist. I´m in s-off waiting club either and I´m sure devs solve most of the current issues.
I had to go back to using my Blackberry curve after using the Sensation 4G for about 7 months. There are two problems. First is the ring volume. With the volume turned all the way up I can't hear the phone ring if there is even moderate background noise. If the phone is in my pocket I can feel the vibration, but in the holster I can't.
The second is that the phone will sometimes just quit. It will not make or receive calls and I have to pull the battery to get it to operate again. T-Mobile replaced the SIM card and that didn't help. I rooted the phone and installed the Sensation XE ROM, but the problem still persists.
The last straw came yesterday when I missed three important calls. I'm not sure if I didn't hear it ring or if it had one of those black outs, but whatever the reason I can't afford to miss calls like that. So I got the old Blackberry out, changed my service with T-Mobile and put it in operation.
I've spent many hours on the phone with T-Mobile tech support and they are unable to correct the problem. I'm not going to send it back for replacement because I did that with a Blackberry 8220 Pearl flip and after 8 (yes 8) refurbished exchanges the phone still didn't work and I'm not going though that again.
Yay t-mobile
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Well since you're not going to be using it. You should send it to me I'll just use Volume+ for the sound issue. I'll pm you my address.
Contact HTC and get them to fix it
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I'll buy it off of you. My phone screen got cracked after 3 months...
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It might be easier to just repair the screen yourself. Definitely cheaper and worth trying it out. There are some videos on youtube. I can't post the link because I don't have enough posts, but go to youtube and type in "HTC Sensation Screen Repair".
I have absolutely non of the issues you have stated. I also use this phone for business/personal and never had a "blackout" of missed calls. Maybe u had a bad device. I love my sensation.
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Send it to HTC, they gonna fix it, BUT SAVE ALL YOU'RE DATA, they gonna change the mother board ...
My one is restarting some times but i'll gonna send it.... they told me that they gonna change the mother board or the cell
Id request a new one
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I have had issues with missing calls when I had headphones plugged in. I had to go to accessibility and turn tty off. Not sure why it was on.
Also having the same issues, low ring volume. The speaker is pretty weak but turning SRS on in the music app and turning on the hearing impaired function really helps.
Maybe you need a hearing aid instead? I can hear my phone from the next room.
No point in this going on...
Thread closed
Hi,
I've been having a lot of problems with my sensation, the most annoying at the moment is the fact that my alarm doesn't always bother going off in the mornings. I'm fairly sure it has to be a software bug, last time the phone went back to HTC for repair they replaced the motherboard and its still doing it every now and again.
Since nobody else I know of with a sensation is having the same problem i got to wondering if it is related to the Vodafone rom on my phone. My question is: Is there a way of removing the vodafone software from my phone and making it behave like a stock UK/European Sensation such that it will still receive any OTA updates etc directly from HTC?
Thanks
As you are still looking for the OTA updates, I recommend a factory data reset before you do anything esla
From stock then run the phone with no extra downloads for a week or so and If the alarm is OK, then sadly the problem was/is what you have downloaded/settings you have changed
TheMightyStu said:
Hi,
I've been having a lot of problems with my sensation, the most annoying at the moment is the fact that my alarm doesn't always bother going off in the mornings. I'm fairly sure it has to be a software bug, last time the phone went back to HTC for repair they replaced the motherboard and its still doing it every now and again.
Since nobody else I know of with a sensation is having the same problem i got to wondering if it is related to the Vodafone rom on my phone. My question is: Is there a way of removing the vodafone software from my phone and making it behave like a stock UK/European Sensation such that it will still receive any OTA updates etc directly from HTC?
Thanks
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Just super cid it and install stock UK ruu
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jasminthoria said:
Just super cid it and install stock UK ruu
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Just out of curiosity will that give me ota of htc?
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I'm having problems with my phone shutting off randomly when the battery is below 50 or 60 percent. Saw a thread where someone sent it to HTC and they changed the mother board and it was fixed.
I called HTC and they are having this issue reported a lot lately and confirmed that the motherboard needs to be changed.
Should I bring this bad boy back to stock or does the software not matter because they will just be checking the hardware?
I would unroot it I were you. I wouldn't want them to say that they will not repair my phone because it has been rooted.
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ImHuge07 said:
I'm having problems with my phone shutting off randomly when the battery is below 50 or 60 percent. Saw a thread where someone sent it to HTC and they changed the mother board and it was fixed.
I called HTC and they are having this issue reported a lot lately and confirmed that the motherboard needs to be changed.
Should I bring this bad boy back to stock or does the software not matter because they will just be checking the hardware?
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Hey there. Yep I had this problem. Flash an official RUU and send it back. Thats what I did. They don't want to be seeing a custom recovery nor ROM, as they'll say it's your fault and void your warranty. I also went back so S-ON. They pretty much changed all the guts of my phone and it's been working sweet....So far so good =)
If you send off your phone they will repair it, they always do but with payment
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Just get one s and everithing is working fine except phone losing signal I mean am in same 4g area, but phone shows no bars, big X sign and that's it.
Restart phone or airplane mode on off is restarting connection.
I can't find any situation when this is happened so to me this is randomly
Sim card is changed for small one in T-Mobile store.
What's interesting bars going to 0 but 4g is still working, then big X shows and all gone
Access point setup to t-mobile
Thanks for any help.
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Same thing happens to me...
Same here sometimes, in Europa, losing signal for no reason.
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It was found that the fast dormancy feature is not compatible with all network carriers.
Therefore, fix for that (only for ROOTed phones) is available using a change to the build.prop file.
The needed change is detailed here:
ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=1
ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule=1 change to =0
I have just spend 2 hours on phone coping first HTC and T-Mobile.
In HTC they told me there is issue with towers in my area.
I call T-Mobile and after 1 hour 30 min they figure it out they have technical issue with towers I ask why my wife's wildfire S is doing great "my personal technician" it depends on witch tower, witch channel and finally witch device so hopefully they will fix floating signal in 72 hours and that's will close m y case. If not HTC this time will not get any reason to denide warranty and will send me new phone
Greetings Pawel
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pawel_podgorski said:
I have just spend 2 hours on phone coping first HTC and T-Mobile.
In HTC they told me there is issue with towers in my area.
I call T-Mobile and after 1 hour 30 min they figure it out they have technical issue with towers I ask why my wife's wildfire S is doing great "my personal technician" it depends on witch tower, witch channel and finally witch device so hopefully they will fix floating signal in 72 hours and that's will close m y case. If not HTC this time will not get any reason to denide warranty and will send me new phone
Greetings Pawel
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Standard CS BS. I think you'll find that the new phone will have the same problem. I believe it is a radio issue. I hear flashing the European radios helps but not brave enough to try.
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I'm also having this problem.
Just randomly the phone will just disconnect from the network. Takes it about a few minutes (1 to 5 minutes) then it suddenly reconnects.
I've heard changing the micro-sim was a fix but that didnt work for me. I thought maybe it was a ROM issue but I've been rooted for about 2 months now (the issue started happening a day later).
Has anyone actually tried the build.prop fix?
Well after yesterday phonecalls TO HTC and t mobile situation gets a lot better.
Usually was 10 15 times per day today only 2 times on lunch time.
I don't know maybe my phone get a better day or they really fixing something
We will see tomorrow
Ps
I don't won't to root mine until devs will not find other way to s off. I don't won't to lose warranty
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I think i read that's a prob with the US Tmo variant. Radio. Supposed to be fixed with latest RUU 1.84. If not, go bug HTC about it. Most likely their crap.
You could also try to flash the latest Radio from EU RUU 1.78 (0.16.31501S.17_2_10.23.31501S.10L) which is one generation ahead.
Check my MediaFire folder. Got the zip's in there. untested though. need be brave for this. And u'll need a custom recovery. and be unlocked of course.
pawel_podgorski said:
I have just spend 2 hours on phone coping first HTC and T-Mobile.
In HTC they told me there is issue with towers in my area.
I call T-Mobile and after 1 hour 30 min they figure it out they have technical issue with towers I ask why my wife's wildfire S is doing great "my personal technician" it depends on witch tower, witch channel and finally witch device so hopefully they will fix floating signal in 72 hours and that's will close m y case. If not HTC this time will not get any reason to denide warranty and will send me new phone
Greetings Pawel
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Don't let HTC fool you. Their ICS radios SUCK. Same issues with the Amaze 4G when it updated from GB to ICS. Its not the towers
I think I'm gonna flash the EU radio just because I've got nothing to lose at this point.
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The EU radios are not a problem for the device. They also work in the US. The problem is rather to get them flashed. I couldn't really swap radios. My device just didn't accept the flash.
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pawel_podgorski said:
Well after yesterday phonecalls TO HTC and t mobile situation gets a lot better.
Usually was 10 15 times per day today only 2 times on lunch time.
I don't know maybe my phone get a better day or they really fixing something
We will see tomorrow
Ps
I don't won't to root mine until devs will not find other way to s off. I don't won't to lose warranty
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I've also noticed it's gotten better so something is changing somewhere. But still the problem persists.
FWIW, I've rooted every device I've had since the G1 (6 devices[G1, N1, G2, MT4G, MT4GS and 1S]) and never had any issue initiating a warranty exchange or getting warranty service.
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Sneakyghost said:
The EU radios are not a problem for the device. They also work in the US. The problem is rather to get them flashed. I couldn't really swap radios. My device just didn't accept the flash.
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Just curious what issues did you see? I'm wanting to try flashing the EU radio but I use TWRP recovery.
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Just curious what issues did you see? I'm wanting to try flashing the EU radio but I use TWRP recovery.
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It flashed alright with success message but the radio didn't change. The chip wouldn't accept the write. Probably S-OFF required.
I've spent some two hours waiting at the hospital today and had enough time to check out the connection under bad signal conditions.
I must say, the HOS radio of the latest EU ruu is having severe problems with keeping the connection alive. Even my HD2 with gingerbread was a lot better. This phone suxx with bad signal. And this is not in the US where this problem has mostly been reported. This is in Germany.
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one. I really like this phone a lot but with the signal dropping so much I really want to change phones. I bought it off wirefly so in pretty much stuck with it for the next two years.
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It happens to me too sometimes. I just flashed the latest European radio and it worked fine for me.
I'm having the same issue. I've tried three different radios and several different roms and now i'm back to stock by using a restore I had before going crazy on my phone with the available roms... It seems that the stock rom drops signal as well. It just elegantly drops the connection and then reconnects whereas all the custom roms I've tried don't. Not sure what to do... I mostly purchased the One S for its hardware.
These are the radio's I've tried and they all have much of the same problem on my phone.
Radio from RUU_Ville_U_HTC_Europe_1.78.401.2
0.16.31501S.17_2_10.23.31501S.10L
Radio from OTA_Ville_U_TMOUS_1.84.531.2
0.16.31501S.16_2_10.22.31501S.10L
Radio from Stock T-Mobile US
0.16.31501S.02_10.18.31501S.08L
If anyone knows of a fix for this, I'd be more than happy to try it.
After hours with t-mobile personal technician they figure out they will replace my phone. Phone was bought on craig's list - something like e bay but free - and what's interesting T-Mobile will exchange for new one. We will see what's the story with new one
good luck to everybody
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I`m having signal issues, as well. Whereas my wife`s phone has very good connection whatever the places we`ve been to, mine was struggling. And strange ups and downs with full and suddenly no connection at all within same area. I tried several ROMs and flashed the latest radio but still suffers. Regardless I`m in an area with full signal, when I switch to 3G then the signal instantly drops some bars. Very annoying....
Hi @ll. To me subject is over. Im using new replacement phone for 3 days and none of previous problems appear. I have no clue what was a problem. HTC blame t-mobile and t-mobile blame HTC. After all I get replacement device and 3 days phone work without any problem. Battery life is now much better because phone is not looking for signal. Still signal is floating but it is not going under 2 bars and device is all the time login in network.
So good luck to everybody. Greetings.
Pawel
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So even if I flash the stock ROM and put a custom ROM (like CM9 for example), this problem will not be fixed ??!! Even if I update the radio ?