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What does this even do and is it safe? Or it it just for the newer evos?
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A radio is what communicates with the towers. Newer radios typically are more efficient and give better reception and quality and performance. It is safe as long as you follow directions. EXACTLY. Not all radios will give you better performance and quality a lot depends on where you leave.
For instance, when I had the HTC Hero I kept getting poor reception and battery with the newest radio they would put out so I flashed older ones and got better everything. I don't advise you to do this but on the Hero I actually used a Verizon radio because it gave me a crazy amount of improvement than the Sprint radios did. But what I mean here is experiment with radios in the Evo forums till you find one that gives you good everything.
Please don't go flashing Verizon radios. LOL.
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Thanks lol I like how you kept mentioning the verizon towers as if they were evil haha.
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jacoballen22 said:
Thanks lol I like how you kept mentioning the verizon towers as if they were evil haha.
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I just don't want you messing up your phone!
Yes, they are made of pure, concentrated evil. Don't even look at them.
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Make sure you have a nand backup in ra in case your rsa keys get messed up.
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Make sure you have a nand backup in ra in case your rsa keys get messed up.
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this is great advice. i lost my wimax rsa keys and the only way i got them back was thru an amon ra nandroid
I think I lost mine cause I have clockwork
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Hey all, picked up a epic 4g right before closing last night and I'm loving it. Considering rooting it and installing a custom rom. My brother owns a evo and I know with the evo you can lose your rsa keys on a bad flash and permanently lose 4g. Is this a concern for the epic? (I installed darky's rom on my gf's captivate last week and it was easy)
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Never once heard of this happening on an epic, I assume that the epic does not store that on a partition that can get wiped as the evo does. Maybe a dev can confirm with more certainty than me though
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Nope not on the epic. I modded my girls evo and I remember that step. What was your favorite rom for evo?
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Didn't mod it because my brother uses it as a business line and uses it as a hotspot. Losing 4g would have been really bad. I was leaning towards miui or maybe sprint lovers
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We don't have to reflash the 4g radio every time we flash a rom like the evo folks. No worries about rsa keys for us.
I have seemed to be missing my wimax rsa keys. I am not good with pushing codes and do not have a back up of my wimax. They musst have broke when I flashed the lastest version on the radios. What would happen if I flashed them again? would this fix it or no?
If you lost your wimax key and didn't back up, you my friend are up **** creek.
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How is there no way of getting them back?
No each key is device specific, so if you lost them with no back up they're gone forever.
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If its gone its done, because each key is unique to each phone.
What you COULD do is the following, another user tried this, but I don't know the outcome, and you try it at your own risk:
Get another wimax.img from another user, call like sprint tech support, give them your phone information and see if they will give you the wimax key, then try changing the key in the wimax.img.
That's just nonsense haha... Good thing I don't live in an area getting 4g anytime soon
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Try this. Remembered this from months ago.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936945
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That's just nonsense haha... Good thing I don't live in an area getting 4g anytime soon
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Search the forums my friend there a few threads on how to get your wimax keys back. Hope you still have the box and in the future nandroid is your friend.
Q - Did you back up your roms at anytime? If so did you back it up with your keys...Just a question?
I have 3 other roms backed up through clockworks.
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I am having Sprint send me a new EVO due a **** load or issues.. my mother is allowing me to use her upgrade after they begin to ship my replacements tomorrow. I'm going to best buy and they have 4G phones....
*HTC EVO 3D
*SAMSUNG EPIC 4G
*SAMSUNG NEXUS S 4G
HTC EVO 4G
HTC EVO SHIFT 4G
I am torn between them with the astriek marks.
Can someone please help me decide. I plan on rooting and what not.
My current EVO and hero will be traded back to bestbuy for around 189 bucks. So help me out peoples.
Thanks.
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Get the evo4g
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Me personally I have used all of them but the shift, I am planning on getting the EVO 3d in a couple of weeks the nexus is alright but I went back to my EVO I'm to big of a fan of sense the epic is straight crap
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simosezj said:
Me personally I have used all of them but the shift, I am planning on getting the EVO 3d in a couple of weeks the nexus is alright but I went back to my EVO I'm to big of a fan of sense the epic is straight crap
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I agree epic is crap.
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Well I already have an EVO and sprint is sending me another one in a few days once I order it tomorrow. I really do love sense but I have heard a lot of bad about the 3d. Like overheating, freezing, bad funny speakers and reception Nd WiFi issues. Now I'm usually always on WiFi and use bt. So Idk what will happen also I have literally no bars so reception might be even worse for me.
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Get the evo4g
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leo72793 said:
Well I already have an EVO and sprint is sending me another one in a few days once I order it tomorrow. I really do love sense but I have heard a lot of bad about the 3d. Like overheating, freezing, bad funny speakers and reception Nd WiFi issues. Now I'm usually always on WiFi and use bt. So Idk what will happen also I have literally no bars so reception might be even worse for me.
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That's y get a evo 4g
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Why exactly would I get the same phone I'm having shipped out to my house.?
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That's y get a evo 4g
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leo72793 said:
Why exactly would I get the same phone I'm having shipped out to my house.?
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Cuz the evo is more stable beside the shift...
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thing is im getting a replacement in a few days. so im going to use that as a back up phone and im also getting an upgrade tomorrow. what should i get. and im not to keen on the shift cuz i cant really downsize the screen.
thats like asking a girl to reduce her breasts
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Cuz the evo is more stable beside the shift...
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Save the upgrade until another phone comes out..
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Because i am going to get a replacement htc evo 4g, i think ill go for the 3D, this way my local radioshack guy will literally buy it back for full price towards another phone
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Save the upgrade until another phone comes out..
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Get the 3d its money...makes sure you condition your battery
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Yup. I did that to my EVO and I get 30 or more hours of moderate use.
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Get the 3d its money...makes sure you condition your battery
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Just got my dad a new/ slightly used evo.. try to turn on WiFi and it says turning on for a few seconds then it says error....
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Cool deal. Sounds like your phone's wifi is borked. Now how about some information.
Stock
S-off/on
Htcdev unlock
Yeah, rooted or not? If its not, go into bootloader and try doing a factory reset and check again
May just be a corrupted system, so if you root it then you could try flashing another rom to see if that fixes it
My bad yeah its still stock.. I already did the factory reset twice.. talked to sprint customer care.. they said I need to talk to the local sprint store... I think if I root it and put a good ROM on it that it might fix it..
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Okay so a used or refurbished? If you have no warranty on it by all means root, s-off, and never look back. There are two things that can be your problem. Bad software on system or bad hardware on board. If it is hardware well no wifi but if it is software than you will then have a full rooted super fast evo.
50/50 odds wifi/nofi with no variables added yet.
Bad ota update would make it around 70/30
Next bad htc software 75/25 wifi/nofi
Sure I say go for it. I am doing one as we speak. While taking apart a cheesy Inspire to see if I can get the buttons working after it dived into a wall.
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Okay so a used or refurbished? If you have no warranty on it by all means root, s-off, and never look back. There are two things that can be your problem. Bad software on system or bad hardware on board. If it is hardware well no wifi but if it is software than you will then have a full rooted super fast evo.
50/50 odds wifi/nofi with no variables added yet.
Bad ota update would make it around 70/30
Next bad htc software 75/25 wifi/nofi
Sure I say go for it. I am doing one as we speak. While taking apart a cheesy Inspire to see if I can get the buttons working after it dived into a wall.
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I will root it after I talk to the guys at the sprint store...
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Go figure mom takes the phone to sprint and they pull the battery and the WiFi worked fine.... what the french toast......
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hondafreak513 said:
Go figure mom takes the phone to sprint and they pull the battery and the WiFi worked fine.... what the french toast......
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Lmao!!! That's how it usually goes
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Lmao!!! That's how it usually goes
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Yeah I know..
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Well scratch the fix, I just talked to my dad and it still doesn't work...
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hondafreak513 said:
Well scratch the fix, I just talked to my dad and it still doesn't work...
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Same error message or your dad just can't get it to work?
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Same error message or your dad just can't get it to work?
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Same error message...
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It may be his router causing the issue if it worked at sprint. If its hardware the radio is replaceable and fairly cheap these days. As long as you know how to work a screw driver and aren't a clumsy oaf, all you need to do is open it up extract the part carefully and order a replacement. Then replace it, button it up and give it a test run. Ifixit has the tear down to show you where and how to replace the radio
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It may be his router causing the issue if it worked at sprint. If its hardware the radio is replaceable and fairly cheap these days. As long as you know how to work a screw driver and aren't a clumsy oaf, all you need to do is open it up extract the part carefully and order a replacement. Then replace it, button it up and give it a test run. Ifixit has the tear down to show you where and how to replace the radio
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Its not the router all our comps work fine and my WiFi on my phone works fine... I will look into a new radio on ebay or something..
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Its not the router all our comps work fine and my WiFi on my phone works fine... I will look into a new radio on ebay or something..
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It could still be the router/phone combo. I know my sons kindle fire didn't like certain network types. It wouldn't even see ad-hoc and wouldn't connect to infrastructure with security. There could be a setting on the evo that isn't playing nice with the network settings or vice versa. Could be hardware, or software. Make sure sprint connections optimizer is off under network settings > more > mobile networks. You could also try reinstalling the firmware with an ruu and see if maybe the radios need updated or something in /system is corrupted
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It could still be the router/phone combo. I know my sons kindle fire didn't like certain network types. It wouldn't even see ad-hoc and wouldn't connect to infrastructure with security. There could be a setting on the evo that isn't playing nice with the network settings or vice versa. Could be hardware, or software. Make sure sprint connections optimizer is off under network settings > more > mobile networks. You could also try reinstalling the firmware with an ruu and see if maybe the radios need updated or something in /system is corrupted
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Something is fishy about it.. we took it down to sprint again a the WiFi worked again???????????? We have two other evo's in the house and the WiFi works fine... I'm gonna try the stuff you mentioned.. and report back..
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Supersonic evt3 ship son
Hboot- 2.18.0001
Microp- 041f
Touchpanel- A TMEL224-16ab
Radio- 2.15.00.12.19
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OK so I turned of the sprint connections optimizer and now the WiFi is stuck on scanning.. gonna pull battery and try..
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To heck with sprint I'm rooting this phone...
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Still no luck... I am going NUTS.....