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EVO 4G gets 802.11n WiFi by changing two lines of code

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753227698 100614 evo4g 01 EVO 4G gets 802.11n WiFi by changing two lines of code

The EVO 4G has a lot of weight in the smartphone arena thanks to WiMAX and that 4.3-inch screen, but though its Broadcom BCM4329 silicon also technically supports 802.11n WiFi over 2.4GHz, the protocol was disabled for some reason. Thankfully it’s just a matter of ten characters to enable greater throughput, as the fine folks at xda-developers recently discovered. Better yet, you don’t even have to edit those characters yourself — if your EVO’s nice and rooted and the word “brick” doesn’t inspire fear, you’ll find instructions and flash-ready ZIP files at our source link.

EVO 4G gets 802.11n WiFi by changing two lines of code originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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