I don’t know why I didn’t learn my lesson last time when updating my HTC Evo resulted in breaking everything I use most often — Pandora, Rhapsody, GPS (wouldn’t resume music after an instruction), to name a few of the issues.
It’s like if every time you upgraded a room in your house with new paint then suddenly all the fucking furniture breaks. USELESS!
It took weeks/months to get those apps fixed and I finally had everything working correctly. My ONLY gripe was still battery life but I had started managing that by turning on Airplane mode at night and plugging it in whenever I would remember.
I ignored the update THREE times. THREE times! Then one day I thought, “Well MAYBE this upgrade will fix battery life?” So I installed it.
I don’t know why the fuck I thought a SOFTWARE update would fix a BATTERY problem. Software doesn’t magically create energy. If it did I’d be able to power the universe with all the code I’ve written in the last year.
So I installed it like a fucking idiot and went to take a shower.
Now I like to use my EVO to listen to music while in the shower. It’s great to have the external speaker, crank up a playlist and suds up. But this time all Rhapsody did was cycle through my songs — not playing a single note.
Pandora crapped out too. It started playing then hung, then got screwed itself. As I was closing Pandora, Rhapsody crashed completely and had the pop-up screen of death.
No music for me. I was stuck singing a capella and left to discover just how truly awful my voice was.
So I dried off and searched about the problem, naturally finding a few hundred posts about it only AFTER I added “2011″ to my search. If you don’t specify the year you’re likely to see the previous year’s issues which were more/less the same. Luckily I found this handy trick. It worked right away! (I actually am typing this in advance of installing the fix just for the sake of hope.)
FIRST — CALL SPRINT AND GET YOUR MSL CODE. IT’S NOTHING SPECIAL JUST ASK A REP.
1) Dial ##3282#
2) Choose Edit Mode
3) Enter MSL Code (Had to call Sprint to get this)
4) Choose Advanced
5) Change HTTP PD Proxy Port to: 0 (orig was 8085)
6) Change HTTP PD Proxy Address to: 0.0.0.0 (orig was pd.vog.sprintpcs.com)
Done! AND IT WORKED.
Now that my most pressing issue is solved I can go on to discover what else is broken. I already saw a sneaky Blockbuster app installed on there but I’ll be damned if I am going to spend $17.99 to download a movie to watch on a fucking 4 inch screen!