I installed the new ROM on Sunday.
It ran great Sunday and Monday.
V1640 died last night. First the data communications stopped working (GPRS/3G/ wireless) and then re-installing either the new ROM or even the old ROM would not work.
It has gone back to Vodafone.
Any idea if the new ROM killed it, or just bad timing.
Steve
I think you just had some bad timing to be honest, Ive never heard of of a rom killing a phone slowly.....
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Hey everyone, I looked around and didn't find anyone having my particular problem, but If I put this in the wrong place, or someone has already solved it, just let me know. Don't want to waste your time!
I got my DINC the day they came out in stores...the first one my local store sold in fact. It was working great, but I hated the bloatware and the fact that the Bluetooth stack was not up to date...couldn't connect with a new hands free speaker phone I just bought (Parrot mini-kit slim). I had occasional random reboots, but not too many. Once or twice a week maybe.
So when the unrevoked one-click came out I tried it. Worked great.
Then I started trying ROMs. With everything I've tried I get random reboots...a lot of them. Sometimes it reboots once and works fine for a couple hours. Other times, it will loop until I do a battery pull. When it loops it will sometimes make it all the way to the lock screen, sometimes it will only make it to the boot animation, and sometimes it won't get past the white HTC screen.
I've used a couple different nightly builds of CM6, with and without google apps. I've used Skyraider 1.8 and 1.9 with and without sense. I've tried "touch of photons". Same results and activity on all of them.
Last night I gave up and downgraded to unrooted 2.1 with sense...factory fresh. I reformatted my SD card with the phone, reformatted the phone storage, and I've done factory resets. It still isn't working right.
At this point, I'd be happy to get it back to pre-Unrevoked and just wait for the official OTA Froyo which is supposed to come out soon. Rooting and using a stable rom is fine with me too. I just need a phone that works consistently.
Any ideas? I'm pretty desperate.
sounds like you needed to return it and get a new one since it was doing random reboots from the day you bought it.
have you used any of the hydra kernels to try and OC it, the 1.15 OC would cause mine to reboot. a good stable rom that i tried was JagerRom, 1.7.4 is without sense, and chocolate is with sense. don't try the OTA one because that is for people who updated to the OTA leak and im going to assume you aren't one of thoes people. haha
http://incredibleroms.com/roms/jager/
hope this helps
Thanks Stroupified...
The weird thing is that the reboot issue wasn't that big of a deal before I rooted and started flashing roms. It happened, but not enough to be a problem.
Does the camera and camcorder work on Jager?
Does anyone know if there is something that could have gotten messed up with unrevoked or the roms I tried?
Is there another downgrade method I can use? I just installed the PB31IMG.zip you can find in a few places out there...is there a known reliable source for the downgrade zip?
If I can avoid fighting with Verizon on this I'd like to. I'm obviously outside my 30 days, and I don't want to wait a week or 2 or three or more for a new incredible (if I can convince them to get me one). I'm not even sure warranty or Asurion will do anything with this kind of a problem either...I fear I'm stuck with a $500 reboot roulette machine.
re
i have gone through 4 incredibles.
they all exhibited the same rebooting issues... completely stock with NO installed apps.
I have also tested the phones with 2 different batteries and with different sd cards and no sd cards installed.
I had done factory resets.
I get a ****ty cell connection where i live, -100 to -96 db.
Its looking more like a tower issue..
I also have had a reboot issue. I rooted the phone the day I got it and installed a senseless rom. It worked perfect the 1st day then started into a downward spiral of reboots till it went into a full boot loop. I did a nandroid back up of the original rom. No real issues since. Im still rooted and have only had one random reboot in about a week that I know of. I know the first issue was because of the rom but what causes the random reboots. Is it aloss of signal? Im a noob so Im just trying to get some insight.
Im on #2
I got my 2nd Incredible on Friday. Prior one would just get hotter and hotter (possibly due to signal issues) until it would enter a reboot loop. Hoping # 2 fares better.
johnsquared said:
Thanks Stroupified...
The weird thing is that the reboot issue wasn't that big of a deal before I rooted and started flashing roms. It happened, but not enough to be a problem.
Does the camera and camcorder work on Jager?
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ya everything works in jager. but from what everyone else is saying it seems like it could be the signal (or lack there of) that's causing the reboots. have you tried the hybrid prl? it uses the verizon and altell towers instead of just the verizon ones. i haven't tried it because im in cali and there aren't any altell towers near me, but if your stuck with the phone you might as well give it a shot if you live in the supported areas. good luck man.
Link to PRL thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723829
If you don't have problems with signal don't bother with the hybrid prl... it kills your data speeds because it switches you from Verizon data network to Sprints data in most areas. I know in the Carolinas phones randomly reboot a lot because thats Alltel country and phones don't work properly without the hybrid. But down south its mostly Verizon. Out west Texas/Ok is mostly Alltel.
But man honestly - I have the same issue on custom roms. My stock Sense rom does fine though. Sometimes I'll be on a custom rom typing a text and the keyboard just freezes and its over. lol nandroid time to me - I can't take the reboots but hate not having the features of newer software.
re
i have tried the hybrid prl and it did not help my rebooting issues.
i have also tried switching to the the cdma codec to -b the higher quality compression... with no luck in fixing the reboots.
I have also made sure there was not an issue with an app causing it, i have tested mine with a clean / factory reset with absolutely no apps installed.
I have had 100% good luck with the leaked ota update, the one upped the camera to 720p recording as well as a hand full of other fixes, and not once did my incredible reboot or crash.
I'm pretty confident that htc has fixed this issue for me, once they drop the 2.2 update that everybody seems to be speculating will be released in a handful of weeks.
Thanks for the input everyone, and I'm sorry others are having the same problem.
I went by my local Verizon store (actual Verizon store, not a 3rd part dealer) and told them my phone was rebooting repeatedly. They didn't even touch my phone...I was out of there in 5 minutes with a FedEx 2nd Day Air confirmation number for a new handset. And my wallet is intact also. I'm rarely impressed by Verizon's customer service, but this time...man... Between the new handset and the impending 2.2 update, I hope to be in good shape.
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johnsquared said:
Thanks for the input everyone, and I'm sorry others are having the same problem.
I went by my local Verizon store (actual Verizon store, not a 3rd part dealer) and told them my phone was rebooting repeatedly. They didn't even touch my phone...I was out of there in 5 minutes with a FedEx 2nd Day Air confirmation number for a new handset. And my wallet is intact also. I'm rarely impressed by Verizon's customer service, but this time...man... Between the new handset and the impending 2.2 update, I hope to be in good shape.
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Same EXACT thing happened with me and telesales. No scripts, no hard reset, no task killer; NOTHING. Said "my phone gets hot and reboots" and they said (last Thurs), let's get you a replacement overnight so you can try the new one out of the weekend. No muss, no fuss. Got here 10:30AM the next day, and my evil super-heating 4-to-13-reboot-try prone phone is going back.
sprintrjm said:
i have gone through 4 incredibles.
they all exhibited the same rebooting issues... completely stock with NO installed apps.
I have also tested the phones with 2 different batteries and with different sd cards and no sd cards installed.
I had done factory resets.
I get a ****ty cell connection where i live, -100 to -96 db.
Its looking more like a tower issue..
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I don't believe towers/signal would have any effect on shutting down or booting. Basically once you're on a current PRL, you really shouldn't even have to update it. Unless you're having that poor service deal where an Alltell/Vzw hybrid would benefit you.
Has anyone else had this problem? Mine seems to randomly restart every couple of days. Most recently last night at 8:26pm. I had just hung up a phone call and pressed on another contact to dial someone else. When the screen was supposed to change to the connecting screen instead it reset and went through the Sprint boot screen. After 2-3 minutes it was back to normal.
I am on 2.2 (unofficial)
Looking for suggestions.
Ben
Are you on 2.2 or what? I know this was an issue when the EVO first came out, not sure if any OTA software updates fixed it (mine stopped happening when I rooted and went to another ROM)
Yep left that out. I am on 2.2 unofficial release.
wipe, wipe, wipe
It's your ROM/kernel. Simple as that.
Has anyone suggested you wipe and reflash the rom/kernel yet?
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Mine has been doing the same thing at least once a day. I have tried Damage Control 3.5, Cyanogen RC1, and Sprint Final 2.2 Rooted. I wipe between each flash (factory, cache and Dalvik). I upgraded my recovery and even switched recovery because I read that one of them doesn't wipe Dalvik properly. Nothing seems to help. I swapped batteries tonight to see if maybe the stock battery was to blame, and it rebooted with the after market battery. I have been watching my temp closely thinking it might be overheating, but it will reboot at under 110 degrees. I reflashed the radio to the latest, wiped and reflashed DC 3.5 and it rebooted. I am now trying to run it without 3G on to see if it has anything to do with the 3G radio.
Not having much luck yet, but I will keep trying to isolate the problem. Any other suggestions besides wipe and reflash? I am running stock kernel.
are you oc'd? overclocking too high can result in random reboots.
Nope, no OC.
I just RUU'd back to stock, non-rooted 2.2 and it rebooted within 10 minutes of usage. I was actually trying to update the PRL when it rebooted. This is getting frustrating.
Flash the eng PC36IMG
I'm in the same boat as you, and I have also wiped and cleared everything multiple times.
I did notice it happens most when phones been locked and im going to unlock it, or when I plug it into the car charger.
also after it does this if I have the USB plugged in it wont go past the first boot screen until I unplug it /shrug I havent the slightest as to why.
Same
I actually had zero problems up until about the time that the official dropped, I was running multiple versions of 2.2 unofficial and out of no where (after flashing a rom based off of the 2.2 official) the phone randomly started but it was still usable, after some time went by and I re flashed back to nightly release 8/4/09 cm, it went back to only doing it about once a day, then literally out of no where it started constantly. It restarts 3 times in a row never getting past the htc screen, and then gets stuck at the htc screen. I have to pull the battery for about a day and then it will work for a few hours before doing it all over again. I tried multiple roms, multiple kernels, and both recoveries, after getting completely fed up with it, I relocked nand protection and restored back to stock 2.1......updated all the htc updates, and then its back to doing the constant reboots, called bestbuy(where I bought it from) and because I got it on release day and didn't purchase the N.E.W (insurance) at the time (it was 14.99 per mo) or the GSBTP their not willing to do anything. Fought it out with sprint until I got to a supervisor for account services (or something like that) he advised me that maybe rooting it would help, that I could drive 2 hrs to the closest sprint repair center, or contact htc. He said he would love to replace the phone but their sold out, I suggested maybe replacing it with the epic, but apparently they tried to pre-order that phone and their already extremely oversold their stock weeks before its release date and that the pre-order only lasted about 18 hours before they were 25% oversold on their stock. So I contacted HTC and they said they would be more than happy to have it sent in and repaired, but heres my issue, its most likely a software/radio/firmware/wimaxradio issue, so htc needs to figure out something or hopefully one of the dev. here will realize that this is a huge issue effecting a lot of supersonic users....so where do we go from here? I want my 200 dollar phone working again, please someone look into this and figure out whats going on with us that have no where else to turn, PLEASE i BEG you!!!!!
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So after battling it out with sprint i decided to drive 2 hrs to the sprint repair center in this area....they literally looked at it for 2 seconds and made sure that it wasn't rooted....and said a new one(manufactured) would be here in 3 days. This will be my third evo since launch date...so i expressed my concern to the manager at the sprint store, and she said that if this one still had problems she would authorize it to be exchanged for an epic (once the epic hype calmed down, and once it was released), just FYI if your experience the same hell i have, just make sure you unroot/relock the phone, google how to do this, and take it to your local sprint store/repair center....thanks!
A friend of mine has an Evo 4g running Fresh ROM. I have one as well but run anything from Sense ROMs to currently running MIUI. I have generally never had problems getting phone or 3g service while at work. He, on the other hand, goes days if not weeks with absolutely NO 3g or phone service while at work. The only thing that will work is 4g. We sit right next to each other so it isn't some office/structural interference. If he drives 2 miles away from the building everything starts working again. He says he doesn't have this problem ANYWHERE else.
That said, about a month ago he tried switching to stock, rooted which still wasn't working. He nandroided back to Fresh (the nandroid was made when the phone wasn't working) and miraculously everything started working fine. He was fine for about a month before he started having the problem again. He updated to the latest radios with no luck. He flashed the stock rooted rom again and tried updating PRL and profile but got errors that they couldn't be updated (maybe because he wasn't able to connect to 3g/phone?). Since none of that was working he went back to a nandroid he made the night before when his phone wasn't working. Again, everything started working just fine again.
There are 4 people in our office with Sprint (Samsung Galaxy, Evo Shift, Evo 4g) and no one else has problems like this.
Any suggestions on what could be causing this? Since the PRL and profile aren't changing between when the phone doesn't work and when the nandroid seems to restore function I am at a total loss.
EDIT: One last thing: He made both nandroids while at home where his phone works fine and restored those backups while at work. But that shouldn't make a difference, right?
Had he had any repairs done to it... My wife's phone had a data cable replaced and the technician accidentally put the antenna for the radio under the board she put back on...giving her almost no signal to speak of.... Had them open it up and fix it, and now her phone runs as good as ever.
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Had he had any repairs done to it... My wife's phone had a data cable replaced and the technician accidentally put the antenna for the radio under the board she put back on...giving her almost no signal to speak of.... Had them open it up and fix it, and now her phone runs as good as ever.
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No repairs. The really weird thing is he was running the same setup he had backed up hours earlier and the phone didn't work. All he really did was wipe and restore the nandroid and everything started working again. I was in the office with him and saw the whole process. He has done this twice with the exact same result. 48 hrs since the last time he did it and his phone/3g still work. I just don't get it.
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Been getting these ever since the phone was new...a lot like the E4GT did when the 4G was turned on running custom ROMs? It does this just enough to be anoying, not enough to take it in and complain...yet!
I'm rooted and stock ROM, but it did it on blazer ROM too. Also did it completely stock - no root! Back then with the shortages of phones I thought I'd wait to do something and hope maybe a software update might come in to save the day? lol
I guess it does it about once/day on average. Anyone else getting this?
Never happened to me thankfully in about 2 months of owning the phone.
This happened to mine as well... I guess its a TWiz glitch because it has not happened since I switched to CM10. Try an AOSP ROM and see if it helps. I used to get daily reboots just like you.
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I have had this phone for about 2 months now, runned a couple of custom roms, and I've never seen that.
ok, I guess I'll take it in to sprint store and see what they say...If they're feeling generous maybe they'll just replace it?
Well, I spent some time with a Sprint Technician last week trying to fix this "reseting" problem. The gal told me she'd call on Saturday to see if the phone had reset at all ...in other words to see if what she had done fixed my problem? Well she never called me back!!! So I phoned Sprint on Monday and told them it had reset twice on me in the time period
So, the gal I talked with created an "E-Ticket"? Then told me to take the phone to my local store and let them determine what to do next...My question is this:
I'm rooted and running stock right now (LI3) Both Modem and ROM.
Should I do a restore to stock before I go in?
Will they be able to tell that I was rooted?
Will they care?
Or should I just take the phone in like it is and be above board with them the whole way?
They prolly won't believe me when I tell them the phone did this when it was bran new un-rooted
Anyone?
This is probably not the response for which you are looking, but I have zero problems of any kind. I have been running the LIG leak since the day that it became available. I wish that I had some insight for you or could be of help.
I flashed the newest AT&T modem and no luck.
Tried several ROMs snd no luck.
Bad hardware?
Phone is barely a month old..
It was working great and suddenly quit.
I have dropped it once but it's been in a case since purchased.
Mehh..
Same thing happened to me and another guy. I'll be updating my progress.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923067
I actually just unrooted it, returned back to stock and exchanged it.
Pretty sure it was a hardware problem..
Those secret codes are sweet..