[Q] 4g mac address gone? - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So i just noticed my 4g mac address is blank in hardware information and 4g refuses to stay enabled.
all i've done with the phone was root using unrevoked 3.3 (was actually the beta rc2) i installed a couple different kernels, 2 from netarchy, and one from ms (sbc guy)
i also switched from clockwork recovery to amon ra 1.8 and then to amon ra 2.1.1
i have a nandroid from just after i started flashing kernels using clockwork. can't seem to get clockwork reflashed and working now. it flashes in rom manager but can't get into recovery at all, goes right to the bootloader.
i also flashed a couple things from calkulin, mms compression fix, and 4 in 1 boot menu.
oh and after i first flashed ms's kernel and saw my camera stopped working i downloaded the stock kernel and flashed thgat, which didn't work and eventually nandroided back to my original nandroid backup.
what, if any of those things could have lost my mac address?

little update, was able to restore my oldest nandroid from clockwork finally.
after some digging the xml file with my mac address is present in data/misc/wimax.
with my original nandroid i was able to keep the 4g radio enabled, however it wouldn't hold a connection. i don't usually get really good 4g at my house anyhow but usually if i stand near the front door i can get a weak connection, not the case now.
restored my most recent backup, xml file is there but when i turn on 4g it scans for a bit then shuts off. doesn't even keep the radio on.

I would go back to that nandroid and then try reflashing the setup with your 4g not working to see if that's messing up your 4g
Swyped From Eva Running Myn's RLS4.95!

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Wifi connects, but no internet (multiple ROMs)

Okay, I was using BakedSnack and everything worked fine. Switched to Fresh and everything worked fine. I did SOMETHING, though. No idea what. But my wifi isn't working correctly. I can connect to different networks, but there's no internet connection. I can connect fine though 3G/2G. But anytime I use wifi...no internet.
I flashed back to BakedSnack from a nandroid backup and wifi worked. Tried flashing CM6 on top of that and...boom...no more wifi.
Does anyone have any ideas?
and you have done a complete wipe? not just cache?
start with the stock 2.2 odex or deodex rom....
are you using clockwork or amon ra recovery?
if you are restoring everything with titanium bqck up after you flash then stop it....
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+1 on the titanium issue. Titanium can create a lot of trouble if used for more than just apps, and some system things, if done very selectively. When 2.2 first dropped, people were flashing to 2.2, then restoring all kinds of stuff from Android 2.1, creating much havoc.
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Yeah, I'm wiping cache, data, and davlick cache every time. As soon as I boot into CM6 from a working version of bakedsnack, I try connecting via wifi with no luck. I updated the radios last night on both (I have no idea if that would have helped or not. just a desperation move). Wifi worked no matter what on bakedsnack, before and after. On CM6 it didn't matter what I did.
I'm using clockwork recovery. I haven't touched titanium (I could never really utilize it when I was switching between a Sense ROM and a non-Sense. Never knew what I should omit from my restore process).
Switched to Amon recovery to see if that made a difference. No luck yet. (bump)
Flash a stock rooted rom and test your luck. If it still doesn't work after wiping + cache + dalvik then there is something wrong with your phone.
I'm trying to flash a stock ROM now, but I keep getting an error:
"write_raw_image PACKAGE...." installation aborted. something like that.
Limited research appears to indicate that the stock ROM is too big for my boot partition or somesuch.
I can install CM6 all day long. I can nandroid restore anything.
I don't know if this is relevant or not...trying to research. but my hboot version is 0.76.2000. I'm running all the latest radios/wimax.
You might try looking at your firmware settings in both a rom that wifi works and one where it doesn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733773
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=726877
Don't know how you could have inadvertently changed these but, who knows.
Try this in a terminal emulator
/ $ getprop persist.wimax.fw.version
That value should not change between ROMs.
Alogcat from market will display the status messages generated while you try to get on wifi. Start Alogcat then tap home tap wifi, tap home resume Alogcat select logs... look for red.
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Thanks for the tips, willy. I'll try these out later today after work or if things slow down.
I did have some progress, though. I was able to get wifi to work on the Fresh ROM. I had installed a "wiredtetherfix" from the Wired Tether for Evo is working/patched thread. That fixed my wired tether, but evidently broke the wifi. So applying his "wiredtetherrestore" fix got my wifi working again. Unfortunately, a fresh install of CM6 from that piont (with full wipes beforehand) didn't cure wifi for that ROM. That's the one I want most, CM6, so I can go back to a faster ROM that had all the tethering apps as native applications.
On FreshROM the wimax fw version is: 4.6.2.2v26023_
Will update later with CM6 wimax version.
Okay, I flashed CM6 again and tried to pull the wimax fw version. There is no wimax on CM6, though. I think that's the problem, anyway. When I run the command, nothing happens. When I run wimax_mtd, it says "not found."
CM6
wifi MAC: 38:E78:17:CB:**
android version: 2.2.1
Baseband: 2.15.00.09.01
Kernel version: 2.6.34.5-cyanogenmod
Build number: FRG83
bump. Anyone have any ideas?

[Q] 3G Not Working after Downgrade?

Hey all, long time lurker, first time poster....unfortunately....
So after sitting on MIUI for a good while, and having a blast with it, I decided to try out some other ROMs. I was interested in seeing Cyanogen 6, and so I went about attempting to get the latest stable, non RC ROM onto my EVO. I read into it seeing that I needed to downgrade my hboot, and found the image without a problem (running the .76 right now, had the 9something one before...)
Well, I downgraded my hboot without an issue, flashed the Cyanogen, and got into a splashloop. I figured out it was becaue I hadn't wiped my cache or data before flashing the rom, so I went into the Clockwork Recovery and wiped those, flashed once more, and it booted into Cyanogen perfectly!
Well, almost. I don't have 3G now.
For some reason, I am unable to connect to 3G no matter what I try. My nandroid's broke due to the hboot downgrading, rewiping the cache/data and reflashing cyanogen did nothing, and now for some reason, when I attempt to go back to MIUI, it still will not allow me to connect to 3G. I can send and receive texts, and make and receive calls, but alas, no data connection.
Should I get a fresh RUU and stock hboot, upgrade and restart from scratch? I just want to get back to MIUI at this point with a working, data enabled phone.....
If that's the case, that I do need to start over, where can I find a new hboot for the EVO that isn't .76? I'm pretty saavy when it comes to this stuff, but for some reason right now I just can't figure it out....
HTC EVO running MIUI v0.11 stable
.76 hboot w/ Clockwork recovery
Broken nand backup
whatdo?
Thanks in advance for the help
Sorry for the double post, but I resolved my issue.
I am unsure of what exactly went wrong, but I figured it was somewhere between downgrading my hboot, and flashing the CM 6 stable ROM that my 3G data got scrambled....
So! Using ROM Manager, I made a backup of my working (non 3G) MIUI image, and flashed the Odyxed version of the RUU found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836728). After flashing in Recovery, it booted into SenseUI, and worked like a charm!
My 3G hath returned, and issues have been solved. It's nice when you're able to fix things on your own, though I couldn't have done it without the help of that handy dandy search button, and the RUU keyword
Oh, yeah, and I guess xxbabiboi228xx as well.....maybe....^_~

[Q] Help please!! anyone.

Trying to install Vaelpak 3.0 and I am having 1 hell of a time. I'm thinking it has something to do with my radio wimax pri nv ect.... because earlier in the week I tried flashing the combo and everything went to hell on my phone. I since then had to flash back to the previous radio and then had vp 2.3 running fine again. After that I learned that it was kernel specific problems with older HTC kernels so I flashed netarchy's and then went back to the radio combo and had this problem with my CPU load at 100% and always running at near 1ghz. Then I learned if your rom is not based on the 3.3 that the newest PRL with continue to overload your CPU the entire time. I hadn't gotten this problem really fixed by the time I found VP 3.0 and figured flashing this would just fix my problem with the newest PRI because its based on the 3.3 update.
After a full wipe (data, 2x cache, 2x dalvik) I flashed 3.0 only to get stuck in a white screen boot loop. So I DLed the file from another link moved it manually to my SD and flashed that... same problem. Then I decided I would restore my 2.3 through RA install rom manager and change my recovery over to clockwork to try to install the rom. No go. Then I flashed a previous version of 2.1 used rom manager to put RA back on (I've found this more reliable but at this point who the hell knows). Went into recovery and restored my backup made as of this friday. Still having the problems with the CPU load so I went back to recovery and flashed the older radio combo but noticed this doesn't have NV on it(not sure what NV is either). But all seemed to be working fine for moment until 2.3 started randomly restarting on me. So now my 2.3 isn't working and can't get 3.0 to flash.
Next thing I thought to do was to wipe all again flash 3.0 and then flash netarchy's kernel over the htc #15. BAM!! I get it to run through the boot into the set up menu asking for my gmail account. I enter my account info and wait, wait, wait, then it says cannot get reliable connection to google servers (also I notice that my data instead of a 3g icon says EvDo). Well now this can't be good. I try to turn on my wifi it says that wifi cannot perform search. I enter my network manually cannot find network. I've tried updated profile pri and everything else from settings and always get same error with communications saying call sprint(don't wanna do this will immediately void my warranty I'm thinking). Now the last thing left for me to check is if I can get 2.3 up again and check my wifi ect... through that.
Wipe, Wipe, Wipe, flash older radio combo, flash previous NV that wasn't in combo as far as I could tell, restore 2.3. All seems to be going well until I try my wifi. Cannot search again. WTF?? then instantly black screen to no where. Pull battery try again, get into the settings and then black screen back to Vaelpak boot animation. I am completely lost here I could really use some help. Like I said in the beginning I have a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with the radios combo ect... but can't figure it out on my own.
Well in case this has happened to anyone else and it is likely to happen somewhere down the road from people upgrading to roms based of the 3.7 update. The quickest fix I found was.
1. DL Unrevoked Forever from web page and flash it
2. Find a stock ruu for the 3.7 or do what I did and just DL Sprint Lovers PC36IMG.zip place in root of SD card and boot into hboot. Install the ruu.
3. Go to settings>software updates and update the PRI and the Profile
4. Remove the PC36IMG.zip from root of your SD card
5.(only applicable if you used the stock ruu) take your recovery of choice name it PC36IMG.zip and place in root of SD card. Boot into HBoot and install
then remove that from root as well.
6. Flash the Rom you were wanting to flash. This will take care of all Radio, Wimax, PRI, NV, and other problems between 3.7 based roms, Kernels and Radios.
Hopes this helps someone along the way.

[Q] Flashed Myn's Warm 2.2 (RLS 5), 4G radio not working

I flashed the ROM a few nights ago and followed the instructions regarding flashing the new Radio pack but after noticing that 4G just wouldn't turn on I tried going back into recovery and flashing the .zip again. Still didn't work.
Eventually I restored the previous backup because of an unrelated data-loss incident. I restored the backup I made of Warm and tried re-flashing the radio .zip but it still wont work, anyone care to point out what I'm doing wrong?
I've tried searching the ROM's thread but "4g" must not be long enough to search for, and "radio" yielded no help either. I would've posted this there but evidently I need 10 posts before I can post to the Dev forum(A new rule?).
Thanks for reading!
What's your phone information(build,kernel,hboot)?
I thought that stuff was controlled by the ROM developer. It's on HTC kernel 15, build is warm 2.2 RLS 5.
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As it turns out, last night I was able to turn 4g on, but I'm no longer able to do it now. Anyone know what's up?
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I had the exact same problem as you. This just happened out of nowhere which is even more weird. The rom was working fine and then all of a sudden it just stopped allowing me to turn on 4g. I get the scanning then disconnect really quick. Or I get turning on and turning off over and over again. It shows really quick.
What I did was I flashed back to stock with an old nandroid. I went to a area without 4g and tried to let it connect. Of course it couldn't. I then updated my profile 4 times. I flashed back to another rom and it is working again. Still a little buggy but way better than not being able to connect at all.
Jjday7 said:
What I did was I flashed back to stock with an old nandroid. I went to a area without 4g and tried to let it connect. Of course it couldn't. I then updated my profile 4 times. I flashed back to another rom and it is working again. Still a little buggy but way better than not being able to connect at all.
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Did you go back to Warm? And what profiles are you talking about exactly, and what does that do? I like this fRom a lot so I'd hate to have to switch.
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motherboyxxx said:
Did you go back to Warm? And what profiles are you talking about exactly, and what does that do? I like this fRom a lot so I'd hate to have to switch.
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I have been bouncing back and forth between his and mikfroyo. You go into settings and go to system updates and update profile. When it's done hit ok. Do that a few times and restart the phone. See if that works. It took me days to get mine working again. I think it was from flashing from rom to rom all the time and updating and upgrading the radio's that caused the problem. I don't think it's his rom that is causing it in my case at least. Good luck
My standard process when flashing roms and kernels has always been and will be when im done with the flashing . Setup widgets and where I want them , apps , general settings etc etc etc . Then perform Update Profile followed by Update PRL . When those processes are done I usually let the phone settle down some then do a reboot . Again let the phone settle down from the reboot . Then check your 4G connection it should work . My only advice is to stick with roms running off the newest radios . That way you cut out flashing radios causing possible issues with 4G .
So i am having issues with this ROM and was wondering if anyone is having the same issue. Well i see that my awake and run time are the same and spare parts is showing 100% usage on the CPU.
ive tried using all the different kernels to no success.
any help would be appreciated.
Myn's warm 2.2 RLS 5
updated radios
kings 11
I've installed Myn and my 4G doesn't work. It switches between on and off really fast and then sometimes it'll go further and scan, connect, disconnect, and repeat.
Specs: myn's warm TwoPointTwo (RLS5)
Baseband: 2.15.00.11.19
Kernel: 2.6.32.25-netrarchy-toastmod-4.2.1-cfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass
PRI version: 1.90_003
PRL version 60674
NOTE!! I've already checked if my RSA keys have been lost and they haven't.
Any tips would be grateful, I'm going to flash Fresh tonight and hopefully it works.
Jj, and SouthernEvo, thanks for the tips! I cracked the glass on my phone and just got a replacement, when I flashed the radios I didn't get the images the dev said I would: "While the radios are flashing you'll see a little green arrow phone icon for a bit afterwords, Wait on this. You will then automatically be taken back to recovery."
If this time around it doesn't work again I guess I'll try flashing a re-downloaded Radio package!
running_onCode, seems that we might be having the same issues, did you notice anything strange while flashing the radio package? Like I said on this second Evo, when I flashed it I paid attention and didn't get any green exclamation points.
I have this problem as well. I've used the app that checks for the RSA keys and it says I'm good. I've also checked via a console app.
What happens is exactly like everyone else here. Once the WiMax radio is turned on it'll scan for 3-5 seconds, then it says connecting to Sprint for about .5 seconds, then it says disconnect, and repeats. I've flashed and reflashed with the latest radio pack at the top here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485 . I did that so I could run Myn's Wyrm RLS5. H boot has not been flahed ( think I have a really old version). I've tried different ROMs and there is no difference. I tried going back to my previous ROM and it still didn't work. I tried updating Profile and PRL 5x and doing a shutdown>reboot and there was no change. Any help would be great.
I tried
Standby time: 10
Scan Rate: 30
NAI: [YourMAC]@sprintpcs.com
User Name: your sprintpcs.com account
Realm: sprintpcs.com
Center Frequency: 2647000, 2657000, 2667000
Bandwidth: 10, 10, 10
NAPDIS: 000002
NSPDIS: 000004
Wimax_Scan_Attempt_Timeouts: 1
Wimax_Scan_Retrys: 15
Wimax_Idle_Sleeps: 10
Wimax_Entry_RX(RSSI): -98
Wimax_Entry_CINR: 4
Wimax_Entry_Delays: 0
Wimax_Exit_CINR: 1
Wimax_Exit_Delays: 15
Handoff Threshold: 0
Idle Mode Timer: 0
TLS: Enable
TTLS: Disable
and theres no change
motherboyxxx said:
Jj, and SouthernEvo, thanks for the tips! I cracked the glass on my phone and just got a replacement, when I flashed the radios I didn't get the images the dev said I would: "While the radios are flashing you'll see a little green arrow phone icon for a bit afterwords, Wait on this. You will then automatically be taken back to recovery."
If this time around it doesn't work again I guess I'll try flashing a re-downloaded Radio package!
running_onCode, seems that we might be having the same issues, did you notice anything strange while flashing the radio package? Like I said on this second Evo, when I flashed it I paid attention and didn't get any green exclamation points.
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Yeah, it seems like we do have the same issue. I'll flash Myn's rom when there is a fix for the 4G or maybe it's just our phones? I got tired of waiting so I flashed MikFroyo and everything is working. I was using 4G a couple minutes after leaving my house yesterday.
Yeah I'm thinking of just flashing another ROM, can't get much help without posting to the ROM thread itself and I guess I can't do that anymore!
It's too bad though, the first time around I had amazing battery life, but this time it's a lot worse
Are you using Titanium Backup? I had the same problem when I used TB, I would wipe everything, flash Myn's rom and them restore all my apps using TB and 4g would not turn on at all, RSA keys were intact but no 4g. I actually did a Nand backup before running TB and after using TB and trying to restore Nand 4g still would not work!
It actually took a while before I figured out it was TB borking the 4g (3-4 installs and reboots). I had to write down all my backed up apps and download them one by one
Hope this helps!
Jfree3000 said:
Are you using Titanium Backup? I had the same problem when I used TB, I would wipe everything, flash Myn's rom and them restore all my apps using TB and 4g would not turn on at all, RSA keys were intact but no 4g. I actually did a Nand backup before running TB and after using TB and trying to restore Nand 4g still would not work!
It actually took a while before I figured out it was TB borking the 4g (3-4 installs and reboots). I had to write down all my backed up apps and download them one by one
Hope this helps!
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Can anyone confirm this? I'd love to go back to Myn's Rom.
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Jfree3000 said:
Are you using Titanium Backup? I had the same problem when I used TB, I would wipe everything, flash Myn's rom and them restore all my apps using TB and 4g would not turn on at all, RSA keys were intact but no 4g. I actually did a Nand backup before running TB and after using TB and trying to restore Nand 4g still would not work!
It actually took a while before I figured out it was TB borking the 4g (3-4 installs and reboots). I had to write down all my backed up apps and download them one by one
Hope this helps!
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As a matter of fact I am using Titanium! So I should flash the rom and install the apps one by one or what? That's not really something I'm looking forward to
motherboyxxx said:
As a matter of fact I am using Titanium! So I should flash the rom and install the apps one by one or what? That's not really something I'm looking forward to
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I doubt it is titanium, I had the same problems with RLS 5 not getting 4g. Have used titanium on Calks, Mik, and Azrael without having 4g scanning / disconnecting issues. There was a fix for this a couple weeks ago, somewhere. Too much for me so I moved on. Ricsim said that battery life is 97% driven by the kernel, not the Rom.
Bump! Anyone?

[Q] Only 1x, cannot boot some ROMs..

Hey, complicated story.
I have been running a rooted + SOFF DInc for 6 months without problems (or no problem big enough that a factory reset IN CWM Recovery couldn't fix.
Until today. I was unable to send/receive MMS, so I followed a threat which told me to delete /data/data/android.telephony/database ... or something like that. So I did, booted back up, and only got 1x. Dang, I said to myself, better reflash C7, and still, 1x. Dang! I said again, and flashed OMFGB, again, to no avail...just 1x.
I *228 option 1 it, and reboot into recovery to fix perms, and nothing boots. NOTHING! Just infinite white HTC Incredible screen. So I try flashing C7 nightly, OMFGB, restoring Nandroids, nothing ... except for MIUI 6.17 and C7.0.3, which both got 3G! But...none of their GAPPS worked (I flashed them with known good GAPPS).
So I pull the battery, give it 5 minutes, and while in C7.0.3, *228 1 and 2. Reboot and restore from my C7.0.3 (with my old data on it, the one aforementioned was clean), and it works....weird. I update apps, run fix permissions (running really slowly), and it reboots, but now 3G is gone! I also cannot uninstall apps....
What is wrong with my phone? Why is 3G dropping all of a sudden??
It has to do with either that bogus tip I had to delete /data/data/com.android.telephony/database or whatever (but shouldn't that be fixed by restoring?), or something to do with my hardware coinciding (but I doubt that very much).
Help!!!!!
EDIT: File I deleted:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
Flash the ruu from dougpiston.com. It will reset your stock, but it will most likely fix your problem because it's definitely software related.
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Well, I had a stock Nandroid already. I did restore that, and 3G did work. The problem was, though, that when I restored a once 3G-ified CM7 (and nightly), 1x would show up. Something MUST have changed, but I still fail to see why it perpetually changes nandroids.......
Now, it looks like *228 on any ROM is necessary. Also, fixing permissions breaks 3G. This is NOT good. I still need help. Any takers?
Is the file you deleted present in your backups? Like the other poster said, it might be worth it to try flashing the RUU.
Well, I am in an interesting situation of having no internet ATM and only 1x...but:
While in stock, I did *228, and 3G was restored. I then restored custom CM7 from CWM, and ... 3G, as before. I am just going to chill out on crackflashing, and take it slow.
BTW: How do you look at restore images? I tried in Ubuntu and Snow Leopard, but I could not open the *.img.

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