The new Jelly Bean update to the HTC EVO 4G started rolling out to anyone who checked for it yesterday, and in that time we’ve heard about a lot of bugs, and found a lot of features. In addition to what we’ve already mentioned here, I’ve put together another list of what I’ve had happen to me, and what I have read about.
- Beats Audio says it’s not available on the speaker. It never was before, but now it tells you.
- Beats bass is significantly boosted on headsets – so much so that it’s distorted on my headsets.
- Camera focus and shutter sounds cannot be disabled, even on silent.
- Changing background light colors forces a re-focus of the camera.
- Long-pressing home, then speaking the word “Google,” will bring up Google Now voice search.
- Google Now comes installed and functioning, although you will need to choose to participate in it before it will function correctly.
- Swype voice-to-text missing? Swype beta has it.
- Proximity sensor issues are causing the screen to be black and stay black until you press the power button. This is happening only on some EVOs (mine included).
- SMS is being reported as lagging.
- There are folder issues in which half of a folder cannot be touched.
- There are WiFi issues created on certain WiFi access points; the fix is to turn off DLNA.
- Quadrant scores are in excess of 6400.
- The battery seems to be slightly better.
- The dialer lag problem seems to have been fixed, although the lag issues did not appear until days into running any other ROM, so we’ll see.
- The power saver check button is persistently stuck in status bar.
- An application monitor was added to Power menu and claims to notify you when apps consume extra battery power.
- Fast boot is disabled by default.
- HTC Media Link HD has a video in the options now that shows you what you can do by giving your phone the three-finger salute.
- Sense doesn’t allow you to use “menu” to open settings.
- More developer options?
- The phone now mounts as HTC Sync installer by default.
There is an option to encrypt the storage card.- There are options on where to place data from Bluetooth, camera, voice recorder, and messages.
- Offline Google voice typing.
- More granular setting for flashing the LED for notifications.
- New HBOOT and radios (of course).
- The new radio seems to fix some LTE signal issues.
- The Rosie carousel is back.
- HTC Connections Optimizer appears during setup,
but does not appear to be visible anywhere else. - Sprint tethering claims to work, but 3G data will kick on and off over and over again. I’m uncertain if this is because I don’t have a tethering plan, or it’s busted.
That’s what I’ve found in a day of using a stock (but rooted) Jelly Bean EVO 4G LTE, but feel free to drop us a line with what you’ve found.
So far, I’m finding it a marvelously buggy update with issues that should have been stomped out before it was released, and are being stomped out in the root sector. It’s significantly better than ICS was on the EVO 4G LTE, however.
yea it has its ups and downs thats for sure..
some of the widgets are gone and HTC Hub is also missing. I really liked some of the other skins they had. Now they are gone for good. Wish they had added them to the ones we could choose from.
They still have skins under ‘personalize’. Where there more under their hub app? (I never messed with it)
Make More Space was already there before, FYI
I did not know that… I will cross that one off… that’s the problem when you don’t have an old one to compare to side by side…
There is an issue though with the “make more space”. If you click on the option to do that for your External microSD card, it only shows as much space as what is on the storage on the phone’s internal HD. At least it does on mine…
And also to add, I’m getting absolutely horrible battery life. Every 15 mins goes down 4-5 points, all while doing absolutely nothing. I was able to get 24-30 hours on a full charge before.
i also keep getting this message telling me google account manager is not getting permissions from my gmail. Not sure what that is all about or how to get it to stop other than tell it not to give me notifications. I get my mail so……..
did you setup your google now in google search? when i did that i stopped getting that notification.
great quick rundown and I hope most of those bugs will be worked out soon. I have another question tho when will HTC come out with another great mobile device. I’m still loving my 3vo but I’m ready to upgrade. Will there be another EVO in the future.
My battery life is maybe half what it used to be.
Does it take a couple cylces to get back to normal?
Did you update using the OTA or flashing a ROM?
If OTA, not really sure what the issue would be, if flashing a ROM it probably needs the radios
The face to unlock window now loads a lot slower then before.
I have a new one. not sure if it’s just me.
Using Google Now, the music recognition service always “stops” and crashes. From Google Now, say “what song is this?” and see if it works for you.
Also, scrolling wallpapers are gone now
Not just you – *ALL* HTC sense devices: http://www.pocketables.com/2012/12/googles-new-music-id-service-isnt-compatible-with-htc-sense.html
Actually, Google Search now does ATTEMPT to listen to a song.. but instead of saying the service isn’t available, it actually Crashes the phone and says “Google Search service has stopped”
Expanding Notifications require a pinch and zoom, not just a swipe downwards
If you’re referring about the top notification bar, mine is working with a swipe down
New Connections Optimizer as well..
Connections Optimizer is found under Settings, Mobile Data, Automatic Connections.
My only complaint is when your loading Google now or texting, the keyboard is all scrambled.
I’m not seeing what you are? Which keyboard (swype, htc, etc) and scrambled how (can you get a screenshot?)
i dont like the way the buttons are arranged on the new keyboard, i’d like my old one back! and when are screenshots sent through mms going to stop being distorted and blurry?
I’ve had the scrambled keyboard but it seems to have fixed after a restart. Also, it seems less responsive overall. I’m having to touch things (icons, keyboard, etc) multiple times to get it to recognize.
I have screenshots but what’s the best way to post them here?
if you have a twitter, post them to twitpic, then post the link over here.
Scrambled keyboard: pic.twitter.com/xnn0iKN
Sorry, trying again. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-Gf1ZBCAAEP0O-.jpg
that I have never seen – has anyone else seen this?
That looks like it rendered incorrectly. I’m sure you have, but try rebooting the phone? (complete shutdown, then start).
That is the default keyboard, right?
Are you roasting your phone over a warm campfire? If so, please extinguish your campfire and reboot your phone.
I am getting better 4G connectivity. Seeing it in aeas that were 3G before the update.That maybe the batery drain issue.
so far a big improvement. I like the keyboard more, not so squished now. Any gripes I have can easily be handled in little updates. It shouldn’t take nearly as long to push out these updates. just maintenance at this point.
A few observations:
1. “USB File sharing” mounts automatically upon connecting a cable, defaulting to “HTC Sync Manager” which shows up in Windows as an MTP folder plus a virtual CD with HTC Sync installer software. There is no “Charge Only”, you can only switch between the Sync mode or mount as a Disk Drive. Not bad, but on my old Win XP machine it kept showing up as a camera device instead of an MTP folder, until I messed around with drivers and stuff. Don’t even quite know what fixed it.
2. Rosie will set itself as the default launcher upon opening, even if there’s a custom launcher installed. My Launcher 7 worked OK till I removed the default so I could look at the stock version. But then I don’t get a choice to select the default launcher, it’s set to Rosie.
3. I don’t notice the richer notifications which I thought would be there with Jelly Bean.
4. The new version of Swype leaves out the Mic button as mentioned, but you can jump into voice input mode from the notifications. Still, they could give us the shortcut like the stock keyboard does.
Oh, just noticed you can set the stock keyboard to allow Swype-like tracing, and also include the cursor keys. And it has the mic shortcut-to-voice button, so that’s my keyboard now..
If you shake your phone after going black the screen will coming back on … weird right .. HTC rep Said “well i grabbed one here and it doesnt do it.”
Thanks that’s like calling comcast and saying my internet is out and the rep says well i have internet here ..
The carousel is a deal breaker for me! I hate that unnecessary crap that has no use. Is there any way to disable it?
If by Rosie Carousel, he means the one you can spin, mine doesn’t do that. The only thing that I think it added, was the ability to scroll back to screen 1, one you scroll past the last screen. I think before, it would stop.
Ok. Thanks. I’m Ok with that.
I don’t have the black screen issue, but I updated my friends and upon opening Voicemail, Black screen appeared! Power button made screen come back…annoying!
the option to encrypt the storage card was already there on ICS as well
I’ve noticed repeated messages that I have no data connection the first time I try to load a webpage, or sync my Gmail (I don’t use push notifications, I do manual sync). This is usually when I take my phone out of my pocket, and *after* the 3G icon appears and both arrows light up. It’s getting quite annoying as there is clearly an active data session in progress but the apps don’t seem to notice it until I try to sync a few times or refresh a webpage.
I have noticed better 4G connectivity. When I pass the known towers in the Bronx that have LTE, it automatically appears now further away than it used to, and without needing to do airplane mode.
My battery tonight went from 9% to 1% in about two minutes. That was frustrating and I’m hoping it doesn’t happen again.
Though overall, I do like the update. I just hope they release a bug fix soon as from what we see here, there are many.
I’m also reading that FoxFi no longer works and attempts to start a Sprint HotSpot data session.
I have none of those issues so far and we had an option to encrypt the storage card before the update.
Have crossed out the encrypt data portion.
What hardware version are you running?
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I’m having a few bugs not mentioned above. I am on totally stock JB. Haptic feedback is all but gone on my device. When restarting the phone it will not save last volume/vibrate settings. Always defaults to ring only. Tried numerous volume locker apps with no luck. On reboot my folder are all black and blank for about 30 seconds. On Google now I can’t remove sport team cards. After selecting undesired card and selecting to remove it, it will disappear only to pop back up on restart. Anyone else having any of these issues??
When I am on Wifi at work, it tells me that I am in Las Vegas for many of the apps I’m using. The weather channel and the Weather Clock tell me that I’m in Las Vegas (I’m actually in Nashville, TN). My phone didn’t do this before the update, only after. The work around is to have it not use the current location, but I would prefer it to show my current location, and not Las Vegas!!!
In the messaging app if you to Menu>personalize> there are a few new options like adding a background image and changing message bubble options.. That’s really spiffy
This is so funny everyone was like where’s the update Wtf and now everyone is like I want ics back. Lmao. My phone has not one problem with jb I love it. The keyboard is great. And eveything eles. Pics are better as well. Quadrant I’m getting 7000 and above! I’m sure they will send a fix ota soon for all of you guys. So happy with jb on my EVO!!!!
Keep in mind, when Google released the source to the carriers, it mostly worked. Nearly all the bugs that have been introduced are HTC’s little special ones.
This morning, woke up, phone was dead. Pressing power for 3 seconds didn’t do anything, plugging it in didn’t do anything.
Pressed powered for 10 seconds and saw that it was not dead, it was on and running, just hardlocked. Booted and it’s been good since.
I noticed a dimestore red dot where a sensor is, possibly the sensor that detects light, the one that when you hold your phone to your ear the screen goes dim? Anyone else notice that?
I’ve seen the light, and actually got a pic of it too. It appeared for me after the phone crashed. After one ring the phone crashed. Power button didn’t work, neither did power & volume down. I tried plugging it in and saw the same results. It took 15 minutes to get my phone back on and working.
This has happened about every 6 weeks.
Google maps keeps forcing close every few min.
I do like that you can flip on power saver mode anytime you want. It can dial down the processor when you aren’t really using it. This should be a standard feature for all phones, just not custom ROMS. When I’m at work and don’t need it I just flip it on.
I’m wondering if this is just me or if anyone else is having this issue…. I did a clean install by re-locking, factory resetting and then updating to Jelly Bean. Then I re-rooted but now when I open SuperSU (or even the Superuser app) and update the binaries, the phone restarts. This happens every time I try to update the binaries (which is required before I can even go to the settings in SuperSU). Can anyone else see if they’re having this issue?
“There are WiFi issues created on certain WiFi access points; the fix is to turn off DLNA.”
Thanks for the heads-up on this! I was having this problem on both ICS and JB but didn’t know disabling DLNA fixes the issue. I am very happy now. I’ll only enable it when it is necessary.
Morenicano wrote on December 16, 2012 at 3:12 pm -
“I’m wondering if this is just me or if anyone else is having this issue…. I did a clean install by re-locking, factory resetting and then updating to Jelly Bean. Then I re-rooted but now when I open SuperSU (or even the Superuser app) and update the binaries, the phone restarts. This happens every time I try to update the binaries (which is required before I can even go to the settings in SuperSU). Can anyone else see if they’re having this issue?”
I am getting this too. I performed the same procedure he did. Anybody else have this or know what’s going on?
After the update I was having Wifi issues and slow mobile speeds. A simple system restore did the trick and now my unrooted EVO LTE is smooth as butter. Thanks Sprint and HTC!
I’m having service proximity sensor issues which I had when I first got the phone but then the previous update fixed it, however it’s back with the Jelly Bean update. The little red proximity sensor dot stays on all the time after a call unless you put the phone on speaker before hanging up. I want to break my phone as sometimes if it’s dark my phone will not turn back on so that I can end my call or put someone on speaker or even answer another incoming call, ARG! It works better in super bright rooms but it worked fine before the update.
My battery life is worse than before and I have almost all of the Google apps disabled except maps. The power saver always kicks on automatically when your battery gets low, which is more than annoying and there is no way to disable it.
The 4X1 people widget is now gone and there is no way to make the other two fit to it’s old size. I don’t want to waste a whole or half a screen on people link access.
The background wallpaper no longer moves when you swipe between each home-screen like it used to. So the image always stays static in the background and old wallpapers which were made to scroll are messed up.
The new “Battery Use” power options are horrible. There is no real way to tell which apps are using your battery as the percentages don’t equal 100% and they removed the most important one, “Screen” which allowed you to see how long your screen has been on for?! They also removed standby usage option which would allow you to see how long your phone had no signal. So they basically handicapped the “Usage” power options and made them completely useless.
The HTC Hub is gone along with the tons of ringtones, sounds, themes, etc. How are users supposed to download the flashlight and other HTC apps like the different calculators, word of the day, stopwatch, battery widget, etc? They forced us to use HTC Hub and now they remove it permanently? WTF?! The new update is so eclectic with many greens left over from previous sense versions mixed with the new blue color scheme. Ugly.
Many times since I updated my text messages refuse to send or send much later or never. Even with perfect signal I still have issues. Offline Google voice typing never seems to kick in when I have a crappy signal or no signal. The only way I could get it to work was by disabling 3G and WiFi? So what good is it?
Typing always brings up a keyboard notification in the shade that keeps asking me which keyboard I want to use (input method), HTC Sense or Google Voice typing and it never goes away. Every time I start to type it pops up and then goes away when I’m done typing.
The new sense keyboard a lot of the time misses words and spellings forcing me to go back and do it. The smiles are huge and there is no way to make them normal sized. And sometimes the mic icon on the default sense keyboard disappears and you can no longer do voice typing?! Only a reset I’ve found brings it back? This is extremely annoying! Not to mention some people are having sever keyboard distortion in which the keyboard is unrecognizable and unusable!
The new voice-mail app is horrid and too bright. They constantly try to get you to accidentally click the monthly subscription to their transcription service. I want the old voice-mail app back. There is also a bug in which the screen goes black when listening to a message and all you can do is exit to get back to where you were?
Various other bugs and issues include: You can no longer mute the phone while taking pictures for the shutter sound even when the phone is in silent mode. WiFi doesn’t work for some, I personally haven’t had this one. Many Bluetooth functions are now broken and no longer working as they did before the update such as controlling your phone from another device via Bluetooth (car, etc). I can no longer view my SD card as a drive when I have my USB cable connected which makes it annoying to transfer files and such. I’ve had some touch screen issues with the screen not recognizing touches similar to the folder touch bugs many have had in which the screen doesn’t detect the correct position for onscreen item selections. Adobe Flash Player can no longer be updated and it doesn’t even appear in the market anymore? The USB Debugging notification is persistent when a USB cable is connected even if the option is off!
This will be my last HTC phone as this amount of bugs in a final release is crazy bad. I love my EVO but these issues are just too plaguing and serious. And I bet we don’t see an update to any of these for at least a few months if not LONGER!
My evo lte is not doing well after JB. Phone numbers from the web and calender will not load into dialer, google nav and flight view freeze phone for 60s (complete lockup no buttons work), 3G data and initial connectivity seem even slower, keyboard would scramble up like post above althought haven’t seen it happen again, battery life slightly worse. Seeing if anyone else is having these issues. This is my second evo lte since first had broken GPS antenna. Also had issues where I had no data at all and getting sprint system texts that was gibberish numbers and words. I fixed that issue by going to sprint and telling them to flash drive with cellebrite laptop. I would like the phone if it didn’t take so much work to have it run well.
So angry about the horrible battery as compared to before the update! Does anyone know any fixes for JB battery woes? Like the comments above I also was consistently getting 24ish hours as much as 2 days with low use…so frustrated!
Did I read that doing a factory reset and then applying the OTA updates helps? Super disappointed with the battery drain since JB
Meh! This seems to happen to all phones after updates, it like the manufacturers didn’t quite test EVERYTHING before releasing the update. It was the same thing with the OG Evo, small bugs then a service update to fix them. I am experiencing some of the same issues with the update. Maybe not all but some.
Oh did you notice that you can change the background of the text app. Not just the balloons but the background
Never mind lol already been said
Paul, I was wondering if you could answer a question for me? I am getting a brand new EVO LTE tomorrow. If it does not have jellybean I will immediately update to jellybean. My question is will HTCDEV unlock work at that point? I want SU to use titanium backup and otherwise remain stock. Thanks for your time.
htcdev unlock worked for me…
yeah, get it, do minimal setup
update first
unlock / wipe second
flash recovery
flash superuser binaries if you want to keep stock, or flash a custom ROM if you want to do that.
Reason for updating is to get the new radios… however you may also want to not update and lazypanda or something if you want to get S-OFF… it’s up to you..
Thanks for reply. Im kinda newbie. You said that after update i should
unlock / wipe second
flash recovery
flash superuser
am i missing something or doesnt the htcdev ulock tool do all that automatically? i did this with a previsous evolte and ICS. Im just trying to make sure im not missing something..
Thanks Again
The HTCDev Unlock Tool just unlocks the bootloader which lets you flash the custom recovery (TWRP, CWM). You still have to actually manually flash the recovery to the phone and then from the recovery, flash SuperSU (which roots the phone). If you need any help, tweet me @Morenicano and I’m happy to help you with the process.
Sad to say but I will be getting rid of my Evo LTE in the coming days. Due to the LTE’s antenna issue never being fully resolved with this JB update I have called Sprint and they have agreed to send me a GSIII to replace my Evo. Though I will miss the superior screen and OS, I will not miss the piss poor reception.
So I bid adieu to a site that has been apart of my daily ritual for the last couple of years. Thanks G&E for all things Evo! Stay hard!
While we’re not happy to see you go, you do know that I review some GS3 stuff on pocketables (doesn’t show up in the G&E tab)… you’re always welcome to drop in and ask generic Android questions
Can you please describe how you got it? I want to do the same thing. I’m tired of the proximity bug on my EVO LTE again. I had it when I first got the phone and they fixed it in a previous update and now it’s back again. I know HTC and this won’t be fixed for at least a few months. That plus the LTE issues are enough to make me go. I love my EVO and I’ll miss it but I blame HTC 100% as when all is said and done it’s their phone. Sprint can always delay things and cause problems but HTC messed customized ringtones on the previous update and it wasn’t fixed for months! How do you mess up something so huge as custom ringtones and no one catches it? I’ll tell you how, HORRIBLE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS. Check out my bug list above for almost 20 other reasons to move on from an EVO.
So back on topic: Did you call multiple times to complain about LTE issues? Did you go to a store? Multiple times? Did they want you to pay anything? Send your EVO LTE back? Did they first want to (or did) have you send your EVO LTE for repairs? Was it a hassle? Did you talk to different customer service reps to get it done? Did you have to talk to a manager? Did you have to agree to give your first born? lol. Please let us know as I know many others want to go this path too. Thank you and congrats on the new phone. I think I will miss the screen and Sense the most. I love Sense, unlike most people. Too bad HTC, things like this are truly examples of why they are in severe financial trouble.
Thanks Paul, I will check out the Galaxy side of Pocketables.
Fifth,
I have had the Evo 4G since day one so when I renewed my contract with Sprint I wanted to stay with the HTC line of phones. I picked up the Evo LTE day one at Best Buy but I immediately switched my service back to the Evo 4G because the LTE network was not up yet here in the Dallas area. I am a heavy data user (15-20gbs a month) so fast internet connection is a must. The Sprint 3G network is abysmal here in Arlington so I decided to stick with the 4G over the LTE until the LTE network launched in July. When that happened I switched my service back to the LTE, but to my dismay the launch was limited to about 10% of the towers in the whole Metroplex. So I called Sprint and complained and had my service switched back to my 4G. I found out about the antenna issue in August when a co worker had a GSIII and was able to pick up a LTE signal at work. I then reactivated my LTE to find that I couldn’t pick up and hold the same signal he was receiving. I called and complained again and had my 4G reactivated so I could continue to get the wimax data speed. After the first initial OS update (I believe in Sept) I again switched service back to my LTE to find the antenna issue still unresolved. I called Sprint to complain again about the antenna and they told me at that time that they did have a note in their computer system showing they acknowledged the problem back on August 15th. They gave me a $30 credit and said the issue should be resolved within the next few weeks. So I waited and waited. Once the JB update dropped I reactivated my LTE to find the antenna issue still not fixed. I called Sprint that night and demanded to talk to a supervisor so that I could have them send me a different phone that did not have this issue. The customer service lady was real nice and was able to handle everything and get Sprint to send me the GSIII. They charged me a $35 activation charge because I don’t carry Sprint insurance (I carry Best Buy’s) but she put a $35 credit to offset the activation fee due to all the crap I went through.
So I established a pattern of not accepting poor quality data speeds and always brought up the fact that they have record of the antenna issue documented August 15th in their system and have yet to fix it. I let them know that I watch movies, Tv, Youtube, and surf the net and that Sprint’s 3G network does not suffice any doing any of these things. Let Sprint know that their lack of support for the Evo LTE is unacceptable and you need another LTE phone. I did try to get a GNote 2 but she shot me down awfully quick. But I guess beggars can’t be choosers, right? LOL
I hope you can take away something from what I stated above to help you get a new phone. Good Luck
I noticed that split text messages are grouped as one when you receive them.
I received my GSIII and I’m very disappointed. Think I may just stick with my Evo LTE with its antenna problem and just pray for a fix. New GSIII lacks Flash player if it wasn’t previously installed before the JB update. Touchwiz doesn’t even compare to Sense (IMO) from intuitiveness to simplicity. Screen is over saturated, lacking true whites, shadow detail, and sharpness. Why the hell did Sprint not see the winner in their line up with the Evo LTE? Got my wish in a phone replacement but not the grass is definitely not greener on the other side! Oh, what shall I do?
Glad to hear that! I was so tempted to switch to the S3 but I found that they have similar issues and touchwiz sucks! I’m happy with my Evo, a quirks with Jb update but I think they’ll be fixed
I found flash for ICS on xda which appears to have fixed that issue but everything else holds true. Oh, and the GSIII will not allow you to move apps to SD.
As a heads up, I switched to SuperJelly…but it has the same response that my phone did on stock when I plug in USB.
I don’t get my SD card showing, instead I get 2 pop ups: HTC Sync (removed in later revisions of SuperJelly btw) and HTC Evo. Both ask what I’d like to do. if I browse the Evo, or browse it via Explorer, I clearly see internal and external SD card.
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