Hello everyone,
I live in Indy where we don't currently have 4G and don't anticipate on getting it anytime soon.
However, I keep seeing threads pop up where people have flashed a rom or done something that breaks the 4G capability.
Does anyone know how this is happening? I'd like to keep my 4G intact just in case I ever get the chance to use it. Have played with several roms already. Phone came with Froyo and did the downgrade root method.
Thanks!
mgalyan said:
Hello everyone,
I live in Indy where we don't currently have 4G and don't anticipate on getting it anytime soon.
However, I keep seeing threads pop up where people have flashed a rom or done something that breaks the 4G capability.
Does anyone know how this is happening? I'd like to keep my 4G intact just in case I ever get the chance to use it. Have played with several roms already. Phone came with Froyo and did the downgrade root method.
Thanks!
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there is no 4g support on aosp roms because the htc code for wimax is not open source. cyanogen only uses open source code in his roms and it is being reverse engineered at this moment. all the other sense roms should have working 4g w/ no problems.
mgalyan said:
Hello everyone,
I live in Indy where we don't currently have 4G and don't anticipate on getting it anytime soon.
However, I keep seeing threads pop up where people have flashed a rom or done something that breaks the 4G capability.
Does anyone know how this is happening? I'd like to keep my 4G intact just in case I ever get the chance to use it. Have played with several roms already. Phone came with Froyo and did the downgrade root method.
Thanks!
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Well, I'm definitely not "in the know" regarding the 4G, but I would assume ROMs do not have the correct drivers or settings for the 4G.
However, if you do not think you will be getting soon, why not simply "lose" 4G ? Should you get 4G in your area, wouldn't flashing to an official ROM "fix" the 4G again ? That would of course require you to reinstall all your stuff, and make all the settings the way you want them again, but that's only a few hours of work usually.
For example I saw a thread about someone who went from CM6 to Fresh and 4g won't obtain a MAC address. I did the same thing. CM6 to Fresh.
Someone responded and said he'd have to return the phone for replacing.
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mgalyan said:
Hello everyone,
I live in Indy where we don't currently have 4G and don't anticipate on getting it anytime soon.
However, I keep seeing threads pop up where people have flashed a rom or done something that breaks the 4G capability.
Does anyone know how this is happening? I'd like to keep my 4G intact just in case I ever get the chance to use it. Have played with several roms already. Phone came with Froyo and did the downgrade root method.
Thanks!
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Hey fellow Sprint Evo user from Indy. Lets not worry about 4G in Indy, that won't come anytime soon considering Sprint can't get 3G implemented across Indy.
Here's how it happened to me....
I had my first EVO and I played with 4g before I rooted and rom'd it. After flashing a rom (Stock 2.2 rooted) it worked fine.
Then I had to replace my evo... so the replacement came, I opened it, and immediately rooted it. It wasn't even activated yet, and I did not play with 4g. After flashing Fresh 3.1.0.2 I noticed 4g wasnt working. I checked my MAC address and it was the same as under the battery, but for some reason my phone would not get past the "scanning" stage.
So... here's what I did:
I flashed RA Recovery and wiped everything and flashed to the latest OTA (HTC 3.26.651.6) which can be found here. After that I started playing around with my 4g, and got it to work. Then I flashed Fresh 3.2 and my 4g still works.
Someone had recommended I delete my tree.xml file which I never tried... a complete wipe did that anyways.
Anyways... sorry to make this long. Just chipping in what I have found. I hope it helps.
Yeah I'm not entirely worried about 4G. I just don't want to do anything unknowingly permanent. I tend to sell my phones on eBay when I'm ready to upgrade and a 3G only evo wouldn't be worth much.
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the only permanent 4g damage you can do is to wipe the RSA keys. nobody seems to really know how this happens. it happened to my evo and i had never even rooted before.
Yeah my RSA certs got wiped; had an issue one night flashing a ROM and latest WiMax, things didn't wipe right and all hell broke loose, ended up flashing the WiMax radio twice and that seemed to do it. Someone else mentioned this here and that seemed to do it for me.
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conqu1stador said:
Yeah my RSA certs got wiped; had an issue one night flashing a ROM and latest WiMax, things didn't wipe right and all hell broke loose, ended up flashing the WiMax radio twice and that seemed to do it. Someone else mentioned this here and that seemed to do it for me.
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wait you got your rsa certs back? how????
Ahh sorry, no. I guess I see how that might have sounded like that. Meant someone else seemed to have the same issue, far as I know one cannot fix this themselves.
Sorry. New Evo coming from Sprint due to other issues, but that's how I ended up losing my WiMax.
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wait you got your rsa certs back? how????
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yeah, i read his post at first like that too. when he said "that seemed to do it", i think he meant that is what wiped the rsa keys. but can we get clarification?
sprint basically needs to create a tool that restores rsa keys for the evo. i understand they have this for their 4g data cards already. i'm hoping they do this so i don't have to return my phone (which is otherwise perfect) for some effed up refurb.
EDIT: oops, didn't realize a pg 2 had appeared. so no rsa key fix here...move on...
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Ahh sorry, no. I guess I see how that might have sounded like that. Meant someone else seemed to have the same issue, far as I know one cannot fix this themselves.
Sorry. New Evo coming from Sprint due to other issues, but that's how I ended up losing my WiMax.
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are you within 30 days of purchase? if not, how did you get sprint to send you a new one? the CSR i spoke with told me they don't have the option to order new and when a replacement is ordered you will get refurb if they have them and new if they have no refurb. also, do you pay the sprint insurance? i think that factors into this as well. i pay the $7 insurance.
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are you within 30 days of purchase? if not, how did you get sprint to send you a new one? the CSR i spoke with told me they don't have the option to order new and when a replacement is ordered you will get refurb if they have them and new if they have no refurb. also, do you pay the sprint insurance? i think that factors into this as well. i pay the $7 insurance.
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Yeah, I pay the $7 but going through Sprint, not Asurion. 30 days has come and gone but they've been quite helpful about it.
Having issues with the phone that falls under the 1 Year Manufacturers warranty.
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Yeah, I pay the $7 but going through Sprint, not Asurion. 30 days has come and gone but they've been quite helpful about it.
Having issues with the phone that falls under the 1 Year Manufacturers warranty.
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right, i agree that it falls under the manufacturers warranty and i am also dealing directly with sprint but they will not guarantee me a new phone as replacement. it's the hit or miss thing i described above. i called a corp store and they said the same thing. in fact, they said they had refubs in stock so i would walk out of the store with a refurb. i asked you about the $7 thing because i'm wondering if their systems treat the replacement differently depending on whether you pay it or not. i was literally told there is no way they could order me a new phone as replacement and as far as sprint reps go, this one sounded more "with it" than others. have you received the phone yet? is it really new?
Well, dude said it'd be new ... am waiting 2-4 business days as they didn't have any in stock at the store. He made it sound like if they had one in the back he'd hook it up, but they didn't. Am assuming it's going to be new. If not, I just hope I don't come up with some other issue if it is a refurb. Have had bad experiences with refurbished - uh - things in the past.
I didn't want to press my luck and ask if another Sprint store in the area might have any in stock, thus I could head elsewhere ... figured I'd just let it all play out. Time will tell though if it's new or not. As said, as long as I have a phone that works I wouldn't really mind a refurb. But I'd prefer a new one ...
right. i share the same opinion. prefer new over refurb. and i'm hard pressed to go the refurb route now with my only issue being non-functional 4g.
let us know what you end up with...
Yessir, will do.
Got the new phone, everything went swimmingly (do people really say that?) and it appears to be new, guy said it was new, not refurbished. Will have to check when I find the post that detailed the quick way of checking.
People were extremely helpful, 4G is back baybaaaay but also soon to be gone. But, I noticed I didn't have an SD card, not sure if he was supposed to have taken mine out and put it in, alas I just walked out without checking. Sat down with a beer and noticed and had to go back up there. All is well in the world, all is well.
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I'm one of the idiots who decided to flash the 2.2 pre-release before even looking for a rooted version. I'm a dumbass, I know. Being new to the whole ROM thing, I figured I would just revert my last nandroid when I was down playing with it not realizing thinking that without root it's impossible. I want to return my phone to store where I got it from a week ago. Is their a credible reason that I can get them to exchange it for? Thanks!
* hangs head in shame *
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I'm one of the idiots who decided to flash the 2.2 pre-release before even looking for a rooted version. I'm a dumbass, I know. Being new to the whole ROM thing, I figured I would just revert my last nandroid when I was down playing with it not realizing thinking that without root it's impossible. I want to return my phone to store where I got it from a week ago. Is their a credible reason that I can get them to exchange it for? Thanks!
* hangs head in shame *
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Tell them it keeps turning off. Tell them you have had multiple drop calls and that it freezes.
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Tell them it keeps turning off. Tell them you have had multiple drop calls and that it freezes.
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+1, they're gonna get a good refurb out of it anyways
Sounds like a plan, thanks. Now I just have to explain how I am running FroYo. (It updated itself?)
bludragon742 said:
Sounds like a plan, thanks. Now I just have to explain how I am running FroYo. (It updated itself?)
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Are they actually going to check that? *shrugs* Think of a backup just in case perhaps, but idk.
You can always just tell them that you downloaded it from HTC's website. There's nothing illicit about that.
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Sounds like a plan, thanks. Now I just have to explain how I am running FroYo. (It updated itself?)
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Sprint sent out the update to some ppl Fri which is how the development teams here got it some how... so just say you checked for updates and it downloaded.. plus your phone is not rooted so you will be ok.
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Thank y'all for your tips!
I took it back to where I bought it today and explained to them that "I got this update the other day and ever since I have been having random issues with calls dropping out and haven't been able to maintain a stable 4g connection." The guy, who had sold the phone to me initially, took it to the back for five minutes and then came up and said he couldn't find anything wrong and that I would just have to "live with it" until the next update is released. I tried the whole I'm switching carriers threat but that did not work. He actually suggested I do that if I wasn't satisfied! Now, I understand that he was trying to do his job and reduce churn (I worked for another Sprint store and that was how we were trained), but to suggest leaving is just plain ridiculous (we would get fired for that)!
Having already been shot down and knowing the answer was still probably going to be no, I went to another store ~20 miles away. The guy there told me the same thing about not being able to return it if they couldn't find anything wrong. To my surprise, however, he said that with the last update they had a lot of returns and for that reason he would take it back.
I am now sitting here staring at a brand-new 2.1/1.47 EVO! I am getting ready to root and see if I can restore my last nandroid. Having learned my lesson, I think I will wait until someone comes out with a new rooted version of the final OTA.
I need someone to help me get my 4g to work again.all it says is scanning,connecting to Sprint then back to scanning
Can someone help thanks very much
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Get your RSA KEY game up...Kiesha
4G = Bad Mac
Read this
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Good Luck ! Hope you have a Nandroid backup with Wimax.img
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Have this same problem, I hope someone can create a rsa key retrieval tool
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ryohei47 said:
Have this same problem, I hope someone can create a rsa key retrieval tool
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It'll never happen. All you can do is do a nand backup using RA 1.8.0 to backup your wimax partition. The way keys are signed/encoded is a one-shot deal. Done at the factory. Though at the depot level they (HTC) reflash the phones with new everything during the remanufacture process.
I think I deleted my Android back up anyone have one I can use??
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I think I deleted my Android back up anyone have one I can use??
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It doesn't work that way unfortunately - you can't use someone else's nandroid backup because the RSA keys in their wimax.img are different than yours. They are specific and unique to each and every Evo. I sold my Evo because my WiMax RSA keys got hoses and purchased a brand new one. I'd suggest doing that if you don't have a nandroid backup that was made through Amon RA recovery.
Ok so Sprint said that to get it to work again they have to flash it will that brake the root?
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Ok so Sprint said that to get it to work again they have to flash it will that brake the root?
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Sprint cannot AFAIK replace your 4G keys. That has to be done by HTC, and HTC only since they are the holders of the master Verisign key(s). Also any reflashing by HTC, or Sprint will remove root.
Oh well that's what she told me lol
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Id trade root for 4g any day. Considering I'll.just root again when I get home
Does any one know of you can add issurance after 3 months? Or can I get it replaced free under warranty?
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ryohei47 said:
Id trade root for 4g any day. Considering I'll.just root again when I get home
Does any one know of you can add issurance after 3 months? Or can I get it replaced free under warranty?
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just unroot and take in for warranty swap. that's what i had to do.
furrelkt said:
just unroot and take in for warranty swap. that's what i had to do.
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Not a very honest thing to do... Please, this is not an attack on you, furrelkt. It's a message to everyone. It just seems more and more people are doing this. Everyone knows when you get into rooting/modding you are taking a risk. If you trusted some random person on the internet that you do not know and flash a radio and break your RSA keys, that is your fault. Giving Sprint the liability for your actions gives liability to all of Sprint's stakeholders. That includes everyone on these boards. We, as a community, need to start instiling a sense of pride and ethics into ourselves. Without it, we just corrupt eachother and take away from what this community is all about.
Sprint will simply backup and flash your phone and run it for tests. They will then look at your MAC and see that you have corrupted your Wimax files.
At this point if you have insurance, you will pay $100 as a warranty return.
Or with no insurance, they will offer you to buy a new phone. But remember that you still have a very functional phone just no 4G. Really 4G is patchy and uses the resources of your phone poorly. I use it but mostly don't.
Download CM6 for Evo, flash your favorite kernel and enjoy the experience.
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Not a very honest thing to do... Please, this is not an attack on you, furrelkt. It's a message to everyone. It just seems more and more people are doing this. Everyone knows when you get into rooting/modding you are taking a risk. If you trusted some random person on the internet that you do not know and flash a radio and break your RSA keys, that is your fault. Giving Sprint the liability for your actions gives liability to all of Sprint's stakeholders. That includes everyone on these boards. We, as a community, need to start instiling a sense of pride and ethics into ourselves. Without it, we just corrupt eachother and take away from what this community is all about.
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I agree and disagree at the same time.
I will agree that if you start flashing files of unknown origin to your phone without really knowing what you are doing then you deserve what you get.
At the same time though -- this particular instance is a 100% software issue that can be resolved in 5 minutes once an EVO is back at the factory. True cost to HTC or Sprint is next to nothing outside of some frieght and paying some kid 10 dollars an hour to run EVO's thru an automated restore process.
I hosed my 4G RSA keys, but have not gone to the sprint store to try and swap because my EVO is pristine and just like the day it came out of the package. I take care of it dearly. I have the fear that if I were to get a refurb and back to square one, whatever unit I get would smell like ass, be scratched or dinged up, and some other kid would get my flawless phone after it's reflash.
I was never a heavy user of 4G anyways, it's in DFW, TX however I live about a mile outside of the nearest bubble of 4G.
Either way -- yes it's sneaky, but it's not as costly or "evil" as one might think if you are returning a phone that is physically 100% good.
Trying to get a new/free phone because of physical neglect though? that's cause for an ass whoopin'
I just unrooted my phone back to stock because I'm thinking about taking it Back to Sprint to see if I can get a replacement for it, since my WiMax stopped working.. How will Sprint be able to tell if my phone has been rooted or not? By files on the memory card or something in the phone itself? Also, do I need the insurance plan to get a replacement? Hoping to get some answers from people with experience in taking back their Evo, after losing their RSA keys..
Thanks for your time.
I would say the super user application but I honestly don't know.
from my EVO using XDA app.
The SuperUser whitelist app in the market?
If you have unrooted back to stock they won't be able to tell. They won't look at your sdcard, but if you are worried about it back everything on it up to your PC and then wipe it before going in. About the insurance thing, if you have TEP all repairs or exchanges are free, if not it will cost you $35 unless it is a lost or stolen, water or physical damage or something like that then you will need insurance or pay full retail.
Okay, so without the TEP, it'll cost me $35 to exchange it at a Sprint location?
nonpointtruth said:
Okay, so without the TEP, it'll cost me $35 to exchange it at a Sprint location?
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Correct sir.
Just make sure you turned you S back to S-On and flashed back to a stock RUU. So boot into your hboot and check to top for that S-On. Make sure you clean up your SD card just in case too, would be suspicious if they look and they see an rom zips or rooted app folder lol
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Just make sure you turned you S back to S-On and flashed back to a stock RUU. So boot into your hboot and check to top for that S-On. Make sure you clean up your SD card just in case too, would be suspicious if they look and they see an rom zips or rooted app folder lol
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Or just run the ruu.
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Or just run the ruu.
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The RUU won't turn the hboot back to s-on. You have to flash the unrevoked s-on zip and then run the RUU to fully unroot your phone.
So I've got a dilemma.. Like, I wanna go get a new phone, so I can have 4g back.. But I'm going over what I actually ever used 4g with in the first place.. It's not like downloading or streaming music over 3g is dial-up slow or anything.. And downloading apps from the market doesn't take forever either..
So this is kind of an unofficial poll..
Should I take my phone back and get it replaced by Sprint, and then root it, make sure to back up my WiMax Keys, and run the sweet CM6.1.2 with 4g?
OR
Just root my current phone again and cruise along on 3g?
Like I said, I hardly use my phone for anything other than taking pictures, or listening to music.. And thus far, I haven't noticed a quality decrease using Audiogalaxy over 3g..
So guys, what should I do?
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Okay, so without the TEP, it'll cost me $35 to exchange it at a Sprint location?
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Wrong!
You have 1 year warranty no reason to pay anything.
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nonpointtruth said:
So guys, what should I do?
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I have 4g and don't even use it
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Then that settles it.. I'm re-rooting my phone tonight, and rocking out with some CM6.1.2.. I might even try some others, like the MIUI.. I have noticed some stellar battery life with the newest stock update, though.. Of course, that could be because my 4g isn't always on anymore.
nonpointtruth said:
I just unrooted my phone back to stock because I'm thinking about taking it Back to Sprint to see if I can get a replacement for it, since my WiMax stopped working.. How will Sprint be able to tell if my phone has been rooted or not? By files on the memory card or something in the phone itself? Also, do I need the insurance plan to get a replacement? Hoping to get some answers from people with experience in taking back their Evo, after losing their RSA keys..
Thanks for your time.
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I think losing your RSA keys itself is a clue you were rooted. If you have a tech who knows what to look for, they'll know. If you're lucky, you'll get a tech who doesn't know what to look for, but my understanding is that if they diagnose it as missing keys, that's a problem that isn't happening to people who aren't rooted.
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So this is kind of an unofficial poll..
Should I take my phone back and get it replaced by Sprint, and then root it, make sure to back up my WiMax Keys, and run the sweet CM6.1.2 with 4g?
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Just root my current phone again and cruise along on 3g?
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4G's very nice to have available. Can you live without it? Sure. But you are paying extra for it (despite what Sprint tries to say). Also think about the resale value of the phone, if that's something you care about.
I'm technically not paying for 4g(employee line).. So I'm not worried about that.. My main concern was someone finding out after the fact, and trying to bill me for the full amount of the phone.. Plus, I can always save up for one from Craigslist, or eBay.. Or just wait for the next big, awesome phone to come from Sprint.. I will say this, I like the feel of the Evo Shift, but it's still an inferior phone, even if it does have 4g.
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Wrong!
You have 1 year warranty no reason to pay anything.
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Well, if the reason his 4g isnt working is because he messed up his keys while trying to root or flash, the warranty wont cover that.
What is this root in which you speak of? That's not why I lost 4g.. Not at alllllllll.. *shifty eyes*
for all you 4g haters, try 4g again. i use it constantly. it covers about 1/3rd of my daily car circle through the city. i say get your keys back!
btw, you forgot to back them up didnt u
I definitely got mine backed up, on my phone, computer, external, AND dropbox! LOL!
It appears my 4g radio is broken. Anywhere I go and try to ue 4g , the icon won't fully light up in the pull down menu or the settings menu. Its just kinda faded looking and acting like its working sayin turning on. Then after a minute it will just say "Unknown". No matter where I'm at. From my research , it appears to be he actual radio is dead. Anybody have thishappen? I've had many Epics and its the first problem I've had of its kind. I do have TEP but I'm past my limit of exchanges with them and they charge you that damn $100 to send it to you wich is ridiculous for a failed 4g radio wich is no fault of my own. However I have had a local sprint repair store fix cracked screens and blown out speakers for free for me. When I took it in yeserday for the broken 4g thoughb they were very irritated and told me they think that part is sottered down to the board inside and that they have to repllace the whole cpu and to come in during a weelday when a better tech is there. Anyone know anything about the actual replacement of the 4g radio? Is this gonna end up being a pain?
I don't understand how they could refuse you if they gave you a faulty replacement. Its not like it was physical damage. I would go back when a different tech was there. My touchscreen went bad and I have insurance. The tech first said he wouldn't do anything because of a hairline crack in the plastic around my screen (apparently that's the accelerometer) but I calmly explained that it happened prior to that happening. He ended up replacing my screen,keyboard, and even back cover. I basically have a new Epic. I would try going back. If you have 4G coverage and can't use it, that's rediculous.
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He was just sketchy because he could tell i had previously rooted it because even though i returned it back to stock ec05 that update for ef10 from ef02 popped up while he was looking at it wich put me in an awkward postiion to explain why lol.........i guess this post is ireelevant now seing as ive bricked my phone completley with the leaked update from today
Eh, I've never had good luck with the local repair store. Best bet is to call Sprint and explain to them, and they should ship you a replacement for free. Happened to me with a previous phone that would brick itself (Samsung Exclaim. Terrible Phone) and I got it replaced 6 times, without paying a cent.
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He was just sketchy because he could tell i had previously rooted it because even though i returned it back to stock ec05 that update for ef10 from ef02 popped up while he was looking at it wich put me in an awkward postiion to explain why lol.........i guess this post is ireelevant now seing as ive bricked my phone completley with the leaked update from today
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Also, if you truly had returned to stock, you shouldn't have gotten a prompt to update modems from EF02 to EF10. Now if you used old CWM 3 with EB13 file, it would prompt you to update to EC05 but that's the last official release.
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Both me and my wife each had this same problem 2 weeks after the original Epic release date. They both were doing exactly what you refer to (this was ECLAIR DI18). Anyway, they caved on the fix and gave us 2 replacements (new since we only had them 2 weeks). There is no known fix yet that I am aware of for the "unknow" 4G problem except phone replacement.
yea from everything ive seen on the net the unknown thing seems to be just a literal broken radio inside the phone.......and ya i dont normally have luck at repair centers but i found like a third party place that kinda dont give a **** and they just do it........whenever i call on the phone they make sure to tell me about the $100 deductable wich im so Fn tired of......if im gonna do that i might as well just start a new cotnract somewhere else as far as im concerned especially now that my epic is bricked...........the mytouch 4g slider is lookin awfully nice lol..........dunno bout tmobile though?!?
So last night I attempted to root my first Dinc 2. I followed the tutorial exactly using revolutionary to S-Off and the SU zip to root. Everything went smooth except I lost 3G signal. I then flashed several roms (CM7, virtuous, MIUI) and they all worked fine except still no 3g. I then tried a list of about 8 different radios incuding the newest 1.09.01.0622, still nothing.
At that point I decided to call verizon. They then informed me that my MEID was put on the lost/stolen list (crazy i kno), and that they could not help to activate it. They suggested I call amazon to get a new phone, which I did and it will be here tomorrow.
Naturally I still want to root but this issue is extremely frustrating and I want to make sure it doesnt happen a second time. So... does anyone have any suggestions for avoiding radio problems during the root?
Any help is appreciated... thanks!
Flashing a rom or rooting will not put your meid in the lost/stolen list. You confusing your radio issue with this. If your meid is on that list u cant ever get it activated ever.... No matter what. So basically u got bad phone from them. This is not a radio issue
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Flashing a rom or rooting will not put your meid in the lost/stolen list. You confusing your radio issue with this. If your meid is on that list u cant ever get it activated ever.... No matter what. So basically u got bad phone from them. This is not a radio issue
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I agree with you, 100%. The funny thing is that when i first got the phone yesterday morning I activated it and had 3g up and running just fine. It wasn't until I rooted and started flashing roms/radios that the 3g disappeared and I eventually had to call verizon.
I'm guessing the bad meid was a result of changing the radio so many times. So my primary concern is losing the 3G radio again when I go to root the new phone.
seekup241 said:
I agree with you, 100%. The funny thing is that when i first got the phone yesterday morning I activated it and had 3g up and running just fine. It wasn't until I rooted and started flashing roms/radios that the 3g disappeared and I eventually had to call verizon.
I'm guessing the bad meid was a result of changing the radio so many times. So my primary concern is losing the 3G radio again when I go to root the new phone.
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If I'm not mistaken someone has to report a phone lost or stolen in order for the MEID to be blocked by verizon. However it could have been someone doing just this and fat fingered the number.
Changing radio's multiple times or doing anything with root will not cause your meid to be blocked. Sounds like it was a mistake on the part of Verizon, in which case they owe you a phone right then and there.
Luckily Amazon is a great company and they made it right for you.
True, amazons support is amazing. I agree it must've been an error on verizons part but I also was thinking that I mightve rooted to quickly. I literally activated the phone and rooted like 2 mins later and my old phones service hadn't switched off yet. Idk, either way I'm waiting a day or 2 on the next one.
Rooting is like installing another version of windows on your pc. Its irrelivent from what verizon does. It just runs the phones hardware. I rooted all my phones like 10 mins afer i got em. Verizon cant see you have root remotly atm.. and they really dont care unless your sucking bandwidth with free pc tether. So rest assured u can root asap ur new phone.
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Good call man I just rooted phone #2 and everything's working great. Off to grab some roms. Thanks guys.
**** spoke too soon maybe? getting superuser force close when I try to flash clockwork recovery in rom manager. Tried to reset the phone, and reinstall rom manager but its still SU still isnt granting permissions. any ideas?
EDIT - NVM got permissions working just reinstalled SU
How in Gods name did you just get a dinc2 that didn't have 2.3.3? Just got mine today from VZ and the OTA got pushed to my phone before I even got of the store. Now I'm stock without Root. meh.
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Guys I would just purchase an XTC clip. I'm sure raskal is going to continue supporting new devices even though HTC is going to unlock them eventually. The thing with that though is that they do it wayyy too late, and you have to submit a bunch of info an void warranties. no thanks that's like christmas morning theres a bunch of presents under the tree but you can't open them until new years, maybe february.
All of the dinc 2's shipped by amazon right now have 2.2