Hello,
I have spent a lot of time reading and studying rooting and working with my Evo. I have rooted clockworkrecovery, and I'm running Ava Froyo's 2.2 software.
When I tried to get 4g, I replaced the wimax and radio files, and I removed the root data/misc/wimax tree.xml file.
I did all of this on the way to Austin, Texas, and it repaired and worked great for the couple of days that I was out of town... Then, when I got home, it stopped. I tried to do the same thing again to fix it, but it would only scan, quickly find the 4g, turn it on, and then almost immediately disconnect it.
It feels as though my 4g mac address has been blacklisted in my home zone, but not away from home. When the mac address reloads, it replaces it with the same alphanumeric, but it just seems to have locked me out of the system locally in Houston, in my home.
Anyone have any ideas on what might be going on or how I might fix it?
Thanks,
Jimmy
Are you using Switchpro Widget to enable 4G? I had a problem with my 4G just turning off immediately and it was because of the widget. If you are using that try enabling it from the settings or from the Power Control Widget (stock).
I'm having a 4G battle of my own right now so I have to see if I can figure out how to fix my 4G on a Mac since the instructions around here seem to be for PC. Hopefully that helps.
Hi, thanks for your response...
No, I don't have Switchpro widget, but I actually DID figure out exactly what was going on.
When I got home, I turned on Wifi. Wifi seems to disable 4g engagement. Even after 4g is running already.
I was under the mistaken assumption that I needed Wifi running to wirelessly tether to my laptop. I turned off the Wifi, turned on 4g, and, finally, it came on!
Then I turned on the wireless tether without, still without the wifi running, and it WORKED!
This drove me around and around, but, now, it finally works.
At one point of my studies, I thought that I read that the wifi was required to be running while the 4g was running. I don't know what that was all about. I'm just confused sometimes, and I don't have any explanation for this other than the outcome.
Thanks for the help, I'm going to look at Switchpro, but it's working now. I hate to mess with it, if you know what I mean.
Jimmy
If it ain't broke....you know the rest. My 4G connects but I can't browse so I have to look into it tomorrow.
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I would recommend root explorer, saved me SOOOOOOO many headaches with dealing with root stuff and that pesky tree.xml in the data/misc/wimax folder... I tried for so long to do what it was supposed to do, only to have it all solved with one small purchase. Worth it to me! I would think that it would help you not have to deal as much with the Mac, especially code that differs from the PC.
Jimmy
I already purchased it. One of the best purchases you make.
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The issue: You go into menu -> wireless & networks and check the box for 4G. You watch it say "Turning on..." for a while, it looks like it does something for a split second, and then it turns off, and the box is no longer checked.
I just resolved this by accident (for myself anyway, ymmv) and I haven't seen this issue/resolution identified here yet, so here you go.
Are you using switchpro? Remember the issue where it would turn on 4g on reboot? Well, that was resolved in the most recent version, but it looks like the widget is still broken as it relates to 4g.
It looks like if you use the switchpro widget to toggle 4g on or off, it works fine and will scan for networks, and stay connected. But if you try to turn it on through menu and wireless networks, it turns off immediately. Also, if you turn it on through SwitchPro first, then you can turn it off and back on through wireless networks, and it will keep connecting fine,until you use switchpro to toggle it off.
Wierd, huh?
Thank you! I was having the same issue and couldn't figure it out. I don't have 4G in Denver so I've never seen it happen yet. I'm visiting in Orlando and was trying to test out 4G when I came across this issue.
holy cow thanks for posting I wish I would have got to a computer sooner to do a search I did a nand restore after flashing myn rc4, then still had issues, flashed again and it worked until I restored my apps and was getting ready to go through one by one. I am so relieved lol thanks a lot
I had this same problem before as well but for me it was System Info Widget causing the issue. It only happened when I restored it with Titanium. If I redownloaded it from the market everything was fine.
I had the same issue I did a nand restore and it fixed the issue than flashed to the rom I wanted.
Thanks OP. I didn't realize you had to exclusively use switchpro for 4g. It was driving me crazy the last day as I tried to figure out which one of my 96 apps was causing the issue!
Thanks OP.
Just had the same issue creep up on me. This solved it.
Hey guys, I have had a problem recently devolop on my phone, regarding 4g. First, I will start by saying that I have read just about everything I can read regarding broken 4g, but find nothing pertaining to my specific issue. Secondly, is there anyone is the Las Vegas area having issues connecting to 4g? Next, here is quick run down of the issue. I use 4g daily, all the time. I have never had an issue with it. I am currently using Myn's warm two point two, RLS2, on kings #11. Never had an issue with 4g, no matter what ROM i've used actually. I have NEVER flashed a wimax update. I have flashed a radio update, maybe a month ago or so. So I was tethering while on 4g, and I downloaded a modified "sexy" rosy, with the browser button on it. I then booted to recovery, wiped cache and davlik, then flashed the rosie zip and rebooted. Everything seemed fine, rosie worked, and all was well. Then I went to turn on 4g, and it won't connect. Just says scanning, connecting to sprint, disconnected, scanning, connecting to sprint, disconnected. After trying a billion times, once I got it to connect, for about 10 seconds, i had great 4g signal (as i always did prior to this) then it kicked back to 3g, and was continuing its scanning loop. So i restored my nandroid backup (which I made right before I flashed that rosie zip, while 4g was working) and I still have the same problem. So, my question is, is it possible to screw up the RSA keys, having not even flashed a wimax radio update? Or am i just experiencing some insane coincidence, that this started happening immediately after flashing that rosie zip. I am not sure how much troubleshooting i should put into this, seeing as I dont see how its possible that flashing that zip could've screwed up my 4g RSA keys. I am not sure how to figure out if it's my phone or sprint's network that is the problem. I have read some threads on how to check if the RSA keys are still in tact, which I will probably try to test that later, but I have never used a command prompt, or ADB shell before. I guess it's time for to read up on that and learn how to do it. I get confused about if I'm supposed to be doing these commands from the phone or my PC. Does anyone have any opinions, suggestions, ideas, insight? Anything? Any pointers would be super appreciated. Thanks fellas.
Sounds like 4g network went down. Can't be anything else if you were able to actually connect even though it was only for a brief moment.
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Thanks for the reply. That is certainly what I am hoping. I used root explorer to look at my MAC address, via data/misc/wimax and the number it provides me with matches the number under my battery, so I believe that is a good thing. One of the post's I read, regarding this issue, said to rename that number (xxxxxxx.tree.xml) to xxxxxxxx.tree.xml.old. I'm not exactly sure what that will do, or if I should try it. I am hesitant to play with things I dont know about (yet). Any further suggestions or opinions? If I were to call sprint, would they tell me if 4g was down in my area? We did have 4 straight days with some pretty insane and sporrattic lightning storms. Perhaps something got damaged.
thanks
So it turns out 4g is down near my house. I'm on 4g right now, just in a different part of town. Sorry for wasting the thread space. Thanks again
First off, yes, I have used search and have read any thread where people said they could not get 4G to connect. I have used google to search for a solution as well. I am posting this with that hope that someone may have an insight and if I can resolve my issues hopefully others will be able to as well.
The Problem: My EVO will not connect to 4G service. It turns on, goes to scanning, connecting to sprint, authenticating to sprint, obtaining IP address, disconnecting, scanning, connecting to sprint, …
The History: I have always kept nandroids of pretty much everything I do on my EVO. I have nandroid backups from the first time I rooted my phone still hanging around. I have used nothing but AMon-Ra 1.8 and later recoveries and made sure that the wimax partition was backed up. The week before last my EVO connected fine with 4G. Last week Myn updated to RLS5 and naturally I ran out and updated it. Unfortunately I don’t have 4G coverage (or 3G or 1x for that matter) where I live so I didn’t notice that my 4G stopped working until I got to Salt Lake City. I figured it must be something to do with the Wimax towers in the area so I wrote it off. I have had that happen in various places that didn’t have official Wimax roll-out yet. When I got to Seattle it was still doing the same thing, that is when I started to get concerned. So I sat in a parking lot where I knew there was great 4G coverage (my laptop has a wimax radio in it so I could see the good coverage from Sprint) and proceeded to roll back to a version that I know worked. No good, still no 4G connection. That is when I started digging through everything I could find.
The Troubleshooting process: First thing I thought was that maybe I had whacked my MAC address. So I ran to XDA forums, checked out the post on how to check if my MAC is still good. MAC address reported by fastboot oem wimaxrmac is the same as the one under my battery. Maybe I whacked my keys? Again, ran to XDA forums and found that I can run ‘cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 | grep RSA’ and see if my keys are there. Sure enough ----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY---- and ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY---- is there. OK, it doesn’t seem to be the keys, but lets check to see if the keys that are there belong to me and my EVO. So again, back to XDA. This time I find a post that shows how to extract the RSA key and the device certificate and then run an MD5 sum to see if they belong together. It also shows how to look at the cert to make sure it belongs to your evo. Sure enough md5 checks out and the cert has my mac in it in the proper places. OK, lets check on the tree.xml file. Sure enough it has the right mac. OK, delete it like the instructions say. Now, I restart 4g, it creates a new xml file, but doesn’t connect. That’s ok, the guide says it likely wont. I update profile/prl, reboot, turn on 4g and no go again. Lets do the profile and prl again just for good measure, same result. Hmm, look there is another way to do the profile update. ##data#, data profile, menu->restore. The phone reboots and runs through all the provisioning steps. Still the same results. Once more, back to xda forums. This time I find a post about checking your wimax partitions with wimax_mtd. Well, wimax_mtd thinks its all good too.
By this time I am really confused and figure maybe I can unroot and apply the RUU to dump it back to default config. Now my phone is unrooted and STILL doesn’t have 4G access. After rooting the phone again and going back to another sense based rom I ran a tail on the sequansd.log file, again found by xda / google searches. Here is where I have no idea what is supposed to happen. Here is the tail of the log file. http://pastebin.com/f2jL4MVF and here is a catlog from another attempt. http://pastebin.com/sZ2BiM9g
Here is where it gets odd to me. I changed my realm to clearwire by using ##data#, wimax, realm, clearwire-wmx.net, reboot. Sure enough it connects and gets redirected to the clear.com site. I ran a tail of the sequansd.log file and get basically the exact same things as I got when I ran the tail while on the sprintpcs.com realm. http://pastebin.com/0EU7Qh86
This is where I am stuck right now. Thanks for reading this far and sorry for the novel. Hopefully I gave enough information that this can get resolved and maybe it will help others.
Call Sprint.
I have never had this problem last this long, but I have had problems connecting to 4g before. MikFroyo 4.2 and Myn rls4 both had connection issues but it was usually a simple reboot before it was fixed.
I honestly have no clue. If your Mac Addy is fine and your RSA keys are there, then this is seriously a conundrum.
I'd suggest dropping your phone off a 3 story building and getting a replacement. That's just me though.
I called Sprint and went through about 5 techs. They ended up saying they don't know what is going on and that they cant see any errors on the tower I am connecting to. They set up an appointment for me to go into a local store.
landaile said:
I called Sprint and went through about 5 techs. They ended up saying they don't know what is going on and that they cant see any errors on the tower I am connecting to. They set up an appointment for me to go into a local store.
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Your welcome.
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I tried the latest Wireless tether app, it was a dud, not biggie
So then I tried the other stable version (2.06?) and it works.... For about 5-10 minutes. The app gives no errors, the phone gets no errors, the 3G icon doesn't go to 1x, or disappear, or anything like that. it is just... Not sure how exactly to describe it. It just. Doesn't. Work. Its almost like my connection is cut off without knowing.
Cyanogenmod7 has a portable wi-fi hotspot feature unlocked. It sort of works. Then I try downloading a simple 20mb file. It will work up for around 8MB, maybe 15. Then, on the phone, the 3G icon turns white?? I guess that's a warning for the thing that happens next... Ok, so it turns white, then the bars turn white, then, omg, the f-ing 3G icon disappears!
Wtf???!?!!!? Does it go to 1x? Nope. It literally flashes from 3G, to nothing, then says 3G again, then nothing (while staying white) and it will do this until I disconnect from my laptop.
What the f is the meaning of this?? Has Verizon found some way to sniff in on what we're doing and somehow figured out that I'm tethering and cuts off my data until I stop my behavior?
I would also like to point out, I have barely downloaded 2GB of data so far for this month. So, I think that's about average for most people.
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I tried the latest Wireless tether app, it was a dud, not biggie
So then I tried the other stable version (2.06?) and it works.... For about 5-10 minutes. The app gives no errors, the phone gets no errors, the 3G icon doesn't go to 1x, or disappear, or anything like that. it is just... Not sure how exactly to describe it. It just. Doesn't. Work. Its almost like my connection is cut off without knowing.
Cyanogenmod7 has a portable wi-fi hotspot feature unlocked. It sort of works. Then I try downloading a simple 20mb file. It will work up for around 8MB, maybe 15. Then, on the phone, the 3G icon turns white?? I guess that's a warning for the thing that happens next... Ok, so it turns white, then the bars turn white, then, omg, the f-ing 3G icon disappears!
Wtf???!?!!!? Does it go to 1x? Nope. It literally flashes from 3G, to nothing, then says 3G again, then nothing (while staying white) and it will do this until I disconnect from my laptop.
What the f is the meaning of this?? Has Verizon found some way to sniff in on what we're doing and somehow figured out that I'm tethering and cuts off my data until I stop my behavior?
I would also like to point out, I have barely downloaded 2GB of data so far for this month. So, I think that's about average for most people.
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Have you tried the new Kernel?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905873
I can actually fix this... Maybe... my friend noticed something SUPER useful... when you wifi tether don't plug the phone into a charger... I used to get the 3g just all together disappearing and wireless tether crapping out all the time then I started tether with out it plugged in and now I tether for hours no problem what so ever.
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I can actually fix this... Maybe... my friend noticed something SUPER useful... when you wifi tether don't plug the phone into a charger... I used to get the 3g just all together disappearing and wireless tether crapping out all the time then I started tether with out it plugged in and now I tether for hours no problem what so ever.
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Hours? On a stock battery? Cool if you can but I know I can't...at least not for hour(s). Maybe for an hour or so lol.
Personally I would try and download a different wireless tether app from the market. I had an issue where I would make a connection, it would work for a minute or two and then just drop for no reason, even though both pc and phone said they were still connected. Uninstalled and then downloaded a later version and its been fine ever since.
Change Channel?
Have you tried changing the channel on the tethering app?
Open Wireless Tether App>Menu>Settings>Change Channel.
There's an article floating around on reported success changing the channel - I'll post the link if I find it.
Edit: Found article, channel change, and google vs market version(s) also come into play, as well as screen lock timing.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/35016-wireless-tether-4-root-fascinate-3.html
Have any luck getting it working better?
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Gahh Its Lee said:
I can actually fix this... Maybe... my friend noticed something SUPER useful... when you wifi tether don't plug the phone into a charger... I used to get the 3g just all together disappearing and wireless tether crapping out all the time then I started tether with out it plugged in and now I tether for hours no problem what so ever.
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Makes me wonder if the heat from charging, combined with the heat from running the two radios was just too much and the phone shut down the 3g as a precaution?
Maybe because the only time I've had luck charging and tethering was when I left my phone in aa window while it was ten degrees out but it stilled crapped out.
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Rofl, I switched to the super Z Rom, I'm bipolar when it comes to ROMs xD.
You know the stock tethering app (one that comes on factory DIncs), he managed to get it to work without paying (or someone did lol) o_0
Anyway, Same problem -.-
That kernel says for AOSP, so it won't work on Sense roms? :/
I guess... Also the way to get the stock tethering free is just dialing a number and changing some settings.
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Rofl, I switched to the super Z Rom, I'm bipolar when it comes to ROMs xD.
You know the stock tethering app (one that comes on factory DIncs), he managed to get it to work without paying (or someone did lol) o_0
Anyway, Same problem -.-
That kernel says for AOSP, so it won't work on Sense roms? :/
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In my experience, the phone basically freezes while being charged. Whatever the CPU load is just by plugging the thing in, it probably doesn't afford enough CPU cycles for something as timing critical as the wifi operation you are gunning for.
My data works. I'm getting 3G speeds (approx 2 mbps). There are NO other errors on this phone except the random Error 104 and only sometimes Error 67. I've updated my PRL to the 11115 version. I can leave my phone on and not touch it, the data connection randomly kicks out, goes stale, the sending arrow is active, but nothing responds. I have to cycle my data connection off then back on, and that usually fixes it.
It does this A LOT. So much so, I put a Mobile Data on/off widget on my home screen. The internet works just great when it works, how can I get the connection from basically stalling out ALL the time?
If you've had this issue, or are having this issue, please respond.
The donor phone was a w385 (which is a 1x phone I know, but again, I'm getting 3G speeds, guaranteed - when it works right, I can stream HD Youtube videos with no problem at all). How can I get this connection to go up and STAY working??
I'm pulling my hair out over this one...
Mine is doing the exact same thing. Started this morning, has been perfect for the month or so I have had it on boost. Its been driving me crazy all day.
Mine's been doing it since I got it. I was primarily in a wifi area, now I'm strictly on 3G and I can't stand it. I'm so desperate for a fix, especially if it's something I'm doing wrong...
Out of curiosity... have you changed anything, like a kernel or ROM? If it's a kernel, what did you change it to? Trying to see if we have any similarities in our setup and work backwards from there...
I haven't changed anything at all. Im running stock rom with nothing but factory updates, have done nothing to this phone except root it before it was flashed. Just went to sleep with it working fine and woke up next morning to this. I haven't been getting the error code today as much but still having to turn data off then back on a lot. im about ready to throw this phone out the window and go sign a contact lol
I'm having the same problem. I just flashed my phone over to boost mobile a few days ago and I had a hard time getting 3g data to work. I was getting 1x data only. So I got the different passwords that I needed and 3g started working. But for some reason, after about 5 min or so, the data would just become stale and nothing would work (web pages, twitter, etc) even tho the data icon and arrows were still present. Its been happening ever since I flashed. I'm not sure what's causing it but if anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate a response.
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It's your location. I moved from Haslet, TX down to Austin, TX, and I haven't had a single problem in Austin. Just to confirm, I went back up to Haslet, BOOM instantly started happening.
It's an error with the towers in particular locations. I confirmed it by calling up Sprint, and asking them to check in Haslet's zipcode for any issues, and they did confirm there are issues in that area.
I was sooooo ready to dropkick this phone. Sorry for the unfortunate news, but with Sprint's little network upgrade, it's causing these issues.
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It's your location. I moved from Haslet, TX down to Austin, TX, and I haven't had a single problem in Austin. Just to confirm, I went back up to Haslet, BOOM instantly started happening.
It's an error with the towers in particular locations. I confirmed it by calling up Sprint, and asking them to check in Haslet's zipcode for any issues, and they did confirm there are issues in that area.
I was sooooo ready to dropkick this phone. Sorry for the unfortunate news, but with Sprint's little network upgrade, it's causing these issues.
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Thanks for the update man. I was about to go crazy!! Well hopefully they can get this issue worked out pretty soon here because this is getting ridiculous
Yeah I had to update this to let those with the issue know. I couldn't stand it!
Well I'm in Atlanta and mine quite giving error codes but internet is slow as hell right now. it does it at my house, job, our wherever I'm at. 40 miles away and still does it.
That's cause you're still in the same market.