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hello everyone today i took time and "toasted" part1&2 my EVO and at the part to restore my backup it said none was there. so i checked the sd and it wasnt even a nandroid folder there. i wonder if this is good or bad or did i really need to flash that restore back. any advice or consulting would be appreciated thanks.
riassan said:
hello everyone today i took time and "toasted" part1&2 my EVO and at the part to restore my backup it said none was there. so i checked the sd and it wasnt even a nandroid folder there. i wonder if this is good or bad or did i really need to flash that restore back. any advice or consulting would be appreciated thanks.
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As long as everything went well, you are fine. Just flash your custom rom of choice, I used Flipz.
If you need to revert to stock you can flash a rooted stock ROM from the wiki or you can just RUU if you want to undo the root.
the ruu from the original toast post for rooting? if i did that would it be the same way as the first part of the guide or second. basically so i could start over from a new phone basically. or can u suggest another route to get it back to fresh out the box? any input is appreciated. thanks
riassan said:
the ruu from the original toast post for rooting? if i did that would it be the same way as the first part of the guide or second. basically so i could start over from a new phone basically. or can u suggest another route to get it back to fresh out the box? any input is appreciated. thanks
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No, flash any custom ROM from recovery or pick one of the "stock with root" ROMs. You should try out the Flipz or Damage ROM in my opinion.
To get to recovery from your console type
Code:
adb reboot recovery
Otherwise, make sure you don't have any of the auto flashing image files on the root of your sdcard, then turn off the phone, turn on the phone while holding power down, wait a sec, arrow down to recovery, in recovery wipe data and davik, then flash from .zip, select the ROM .zip you download and let it run.
All custom ROMs are located here >> http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC Evo ROMs
As long as you are rooted and can boot your phone you could install ROM Manager from Market. The free version will allow you to download the Flipz or Damage ROM, then it will give you the option of installing for you. Be sure to select to wipe before the install.
You will be up and running a brand spanking new custom ROM after ROM Manager has its way with your phone.
sounds good yeah just getting use to this device, coming from a nexus
Hey Guys,
Newer user here. Been reading over all the info in the forums quite extensively and am attempting to upgrade my Incredible. I thought I had gotten a good understanding of what I'm supposed to do, but alas, I am slightly confused.
My ultimate goal is to prepare my phone so I can install Skyraider 2.5.2 so I can finally have Flash 10.1. I am absolutely sick of watching out-of-sync videos (the ones that actually play) and getting errors when I try to view other vids. I'd also like to have the 720p camera and so forth.
Here is my current phone info:
Firmware version
2.1-update1
Baseband version
1.00.03.04.06
Kernel version
2.6.29
root(at)Dell-Inspiron #1
(modified 'at' as vbulletin thinks I'm trying to post an external link)
Build number
1.22.605.2 CL161494 release-keys
Software number
1.22.605.2
Browser version
WebKit 3.1
PRI Version
1.28_002
PRL Version
51920
ERI version
5
So far, I have rooted the phone successfully with the unrevoked 3 method and have installed unrevoked forever. I can confirm that the phone says S-OFF at the top of the HBOOT page so I am assuming that install was successful.
I just tried upgrading my radio to 2.15 but it didn't appear to work. I clicked 'yes' to install the PB31IMG.zip and for a micro-second it seemed to initiate, then suddenly it went back to the main recovery screen. I rebooted, checked the baseband and found that nothing had happened.
At this point I found it best to just stop right where I am to avoid a brick and ask the experts. Looking at my situation, can someone please tell me exactly what I need to do to install Skyraider 2.5.2? I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks to everyone on this site for all the hard work and am sorry that I'm being a noob.
Try installing the 2.05 baseband
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Make sure you formatted the sd card you are using with fat32.
1. Make sure SD card is Fat32 format
2. place PB31IMG.zip on root of sdcard (do not rename)
3. turn off phone and press: vol dwn + power to enter HBOOT
4. It will ask to continue press vol up for Yes
5. reboot and done
You can do nandroid back ups in recovery to back up your entire phone. That way if you would brick your phone you can pull your battery open recovery and restore the nandroid. When the phone is off you hold volume down and the power button at the same time to get to recovery. Then find out from these guys how to upgrade your radio. Theb your ready to go to the skyraider thread or use rom manager from the market to download skyraider. After you download it. Boot in to recovery and wipe data. Then go to "install zip from sdcard" and find the zip you downloaded and select it to install. Then reboot. Good luck
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Ah, my SD card was formatted FAT16. I moved my files off, formatted it to FAT32, and moved them back. PB31IMG.zip is on the root of the card. Gonna try to upgrade the radio again.
Thanks to all for the quick replies. You guys are great.
Will report back in a few. *fingers crossed*
Success!
Baseband version
2.15.00.07.28.
Now, should I remove the PB31IMG.zip from the SD card?
Following the guide thread. PB31IMG.zip deleted.
I have downloaded Rom Manager and have performed a Nandroid Backup (I had done the backup previous to creating this thread).
I also downloaded Titanium Backup (per forum suggestion) so I can backup and restore my apps after the OS upgrade. Titanium Backup says it needs BusyBox installed to work. Gonna throw that on here and install it unless I shouldn't?
At this point is my phone ready for Skyraider 2.5.2? Also, is Skyraider the best, stable working version of Froyo out there? I've seen mentions of Cyanogen & Jager but can't really determine which one is the best.
I got my incredible last week and I've tried several ROMs. I made backups of each one and ended up sticking with SR 2.5.2 Vanilla based on my needs/wants. I also tried kernels and I'm very happy with KK's #2 kernel with SetCPU. CM6 has some issues with things I need (BT and no internal storage) but if those are worked out, that's where I'll be going. I had a Nexus One and ran CM for months.
Thanks for the opinion.
I'm currently downloading SR 2.5.2 Vanilla with optical joystick wake & social networking add-ons included from Rom Manager. Looks like I'd save alot of time by just downloading with the cpu and moving the rom to the sd card. But, is allowing Rom Manager to handle the install the safest method?
I've rooted, forever'd, and upgraded my radio to 2.15. I'm ready for SkyRaider, right?
Ya you are good to go. Make sure to wipe before flashing.
Success!
Now running SkyRaider 2.5.2 Vanilla!
Thanks to everyone to replied. I am so happy this went off without a hitch.
Question though -- when attempting to view a video on Facebook I got prompted to install an update to Adobe Flash. When I hit the link to install, I got an error saying nothing could be found.
Anyone else have this happen?
blakestiffler said:
You can do nandroid back ups in recovery to back up your entire phone. That way if you would brick your phone you can pull your battery open recovery and restore the nandroid. When the phone is off you hold volume down and the power button at the same time to get to recovery. Then find out from these guys how to upgrade your radio. Theb your ready to go to the skyraider thread or use rom manager from the market to download skyraider. After you download it. Boot in to recovery and wipe data. Then go to "install zip from sdcard" and find the zip you downloaded and select it to install. Then reboot. Good luck
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Uh no, you brick your phone, nandroid is not going to save you. Hence the term. Nandroid does not cover the radio either.
Success!
Now running SkyRaider 2.5.2 Vanilla!
Thanks to everyone to replied. I am so happy this went off without a hitch.
Question though -- when attempting to view a video on Facebook I got prompted to install an update to Adobe Flash. When I hit the link to install, I got an error saying nothing could be found.
Anyone else have this happen?
If you have Astro file manager look on your sd card under skyraider folder and install install_huluflash_player
You the Man!
Thank you to everyone. This forum ROCKS!
I'm one HAPPY Droid'er!
Hackenstein said:
You the Man!
Thank you to everyone. This forum ROCKS!
I'm one HAPPY Droid'er!
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Good job!!
Hackenstein said:
Success!
Now running SkyRaider 2.5.2 Vanilla!
Thanks to everyone to replied. I am so happy this went off without a hitch.
Question though -- when attempting to view a video on Facebook I got prompted to install an update to Adobe Flash. When I hit the link to install, I got an error saying nothing could be found.
Anyone else have this happen?
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i think you will need to install flash 10.1 from the market.
nevermind i think it should have been in the skyraider flash folder on your sd card.
Tinkering around with SkyRaider, I notice that when I go to set my custom ring tones/alerts my SD card doesn't show up under sound settings. I go in under Astro and I can see them. They're all still there. Their current path is
sd card/media/audio/ringtones
Do I need to make a new directory for the OS to pick them up?
I am a bit confused about what to do now. First off.. I have the Evo rooted with OS 2.1 but recently I just found out that 2.2 has been rooted. So now I just need to know what to do to get rooted 2.2. I read on some searches I did that I can just flash a 2.2 rom and that would be fine but I am a little concern about doing it that way. I was wondering if I need to UNROOT then download the over the air update that sprint has to get 2.2 then start my root process from there or is there a guide that someone can link me to in order for me to proceed? Thanks for your input.
Just find a rooted stock rom in the Development forums (or experiment with a custom rom. There are several that don't lose any functionality these days). Do a nandroid backup, and a Titanium backup of your apps and data before since I think you will need to do a data and dalvik cache wipe.
The alternative you proposed would probably take you all day and it would still wipe!
Think of it this way. All of the 2.2 ROMS you flash is just like an upgrade from Sprint. If you flash the 2.2 OTA ROM its the same thing as getting from Sprint, but you don't lose root user access. Hope this clears it up a little. No need to jump through all the hoops you referenced.
So its has been a while since I did anything with my phone so I had to youtube how to flash a rom. When I get to the part where I select recovery it goes to a screen with a phone image with a red ! mark on it. What does that mean? Maybe I might just take path of unrooting this 2.1 and upgarding to 2.2 then root from there? Can someone direct me which steps to take? thanks
Whatever you do.....DON'T FLASH YOUR RADIO AND WIFI. You'll be screwed. Has taken me 24 hours + to get my ability to tether wirelessly back on my rooted 2.2 (I'm not complaining. the rooted 2.2 ROM is freagin awesomeness!)Just in case you do by accident there's lots of info out there on how to try to dig yourself back out.
Don't unroot your 2.1 dude.
ROM's are ROM's. It doesn't matter if it's 2.1 or 2.2, you can flash either one and flash back and forth between the two at your own leisure. Back before 2.2 was officially out for the evo, I used to flash back and forth between working 2.1 and experimental 2.2 on almost a daily basis. They always booted fine, my phone did not explode.
Reboot with volume key down, select recovery, wipe everything, flash the new rom, reboot.
You don't have a custom recovery installed, do you remember if your NAND is unlocked?
If you need to check turn off your phone and then turn it back on while holding the volume down button. At the top of the screen it should say either S-ON or S-OFF and below it an hBoot version. If it is S-OFF and ver .76 it should be simple for you to update it.
Thanks for the input guys. So I guess the final word is to not unroot my phone and just flash. Now to my problem with recovery mode.
Haus, it says S-ON and hboot is veryson 0.79.0000. Is this a problem? Can you guide me on what steps to take or what should i search for? thanks again.
still wasn't able to find information on this. anyone can link me? thanks
can anyone link me to where i should start?
well your going to want to make sure you have a custom recovery, when your in the bootloader scroll to recovery and click on it, if anywhere it says clockwork or amon ra, your set and then you only need to flash unrevoked forever to turn your s-off and then you can start flashing 2.2 roms from the htc evo android development section
if you do not have a custom recovery just head on over to unrevoked.com and download their latest for the evo, it will give a custom recovery and flash your s-off for you and youll be ready to roll
I tried and the problem I am having is when I select the recovery option it reboots and then shows a phone with the ! sign. Doesn't let me flash anything. This is where I am stuck now.
As mentioned before, you need to install a custom recovery on your phone. If you are rooted, then perhaps you can download ROM Manager and installed ClockworkMOD?? You can also change to Amon_RA as well through ROM Manager. Otherwise, in the unrevoked forever wiki, they do provide PC36IMG files that should install a custom recovery on your phone (take your pick of either ClockworkMOD or Amon_RA).
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever#reinstalling_an_official_recovery
Scroll down to "Reinstalling an official recovery" section and you will see the links for the PC36IMGs.
Alright so I just remembered what that phone icon with the red ! meant. I plugged it back into my win7 machine and ran windowrecovery.bat and I somehow managed to flash it to s=off. So now all I have to do is select the rom I want to flash?
Rom manager
if you have a custom recovery, then yes download a rom from the development section and move it to the root of the sd card. Boot into recovery and wipe your dalvik and data. Go bac and choose install .zip from sd card. Find the file you downloaded and flash it. Wait for it to boot up and your good. Orrrrr download rom manager from the market and you can do all this from there.
It stays stuck on searching for GPS and never finds signal. I remember a month or so ago when i flashed the MIUI rom I also went in with file manager and replaced the froyo GPS driver with the GB GPS driver so that be why, but I have no clue. I have to go on a long road trip in an hour and I have no printer here at home so a GPS would be nice. What are some fixes that I can try?
EDIT: I'm currently using Kushdecks latest rom.
backup your rom, install sense 2.2 rom. don't even login just skip it all, dial ##gpsclrx# then enter your msl, reboot, open google maps, wait for lock on your location, turn off phone and restore your backup
Thank you, and formally thanked. Trying this now. Crossing my fingers that this works. I didn't think that you could revert back to a 2.2 rom after having flashed a GB rom.
you can flash any rom, anytime. you said you had an hour and 2.2 roms are smaller
NewZJ said:
you can flash any rom, anytime. you said you had an hour and 2.2 roms are smaller
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Dang it, now when I try to create a nandroid backup it says "oops...something went wrong. Please check recovery log". I think it may be because I don't have enough space on my SD card. I have amon_ra recovery installed, not sure which version as I haven't updated in a while.
Try this! Unzip and place the attached file on root of sd. Using a file manager like Estrongs or Root Explorer copy and paste into /system/lib/hw over-writing the original file. Reboot and all should be good.
Man, I'm sorry!! I misunderstood your post...looks like you've already got that one.
Sorry bro
jhoffy22 said:
Dang it, now when I try to create a nandroid backup it says "oops...something went wrong. Please check recovery log". I think it may be because I don't have enough space on my SD card. I have amon_ra recovery installed, not sure which version as I haven't updated in a while.
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I had that problem a while ago, I was using v1.8 and I just upgraded to 2.3 and it fixed the problem. I could restore my previous nandroid backups without problem.
I obtained S-off but the phone tried to upgraded to the overr the air update. Everytime the phone tries to update it reboots and it fails to install but when i rest the phone with battery pull it loads back up to my homescreen but then it reboots itself to try to install the OTA update again. Can somone please help me in fixing this problem.
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I obtained S-off but the phone tried to upgraded to the overr the air update. Everytime the phone tries to update it reboots and it fails to install but when i rest the phone with battery pull it loads back up to my homescreen but then it reboots itself to try to install the OTA update again. Can somone please help me in fixing this problem.
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Boot into recovery wipe cache and wipe delvick. If its pops up after boot up just hit the back soft key.
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Take out your mini SD card from your phone, put it into a SD adapter so you can put it in your computer, then, open the SD card and there should be a file in there named p32.img or something like that, delete this file, also, do the cache and dalvik wipe like mentioned in last post, should be good to go, also, after u done all that, go into rmks gingersense thread, toward the end of it, one of the later posts, he posted up a zip file of this update Verizon is trying to push you, download it and flash it, if you are running a stock style sense ROM. Hope this helped.
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Oh yeah, are you even running 2.3 or are you still on 2.2 froyo, if on 2.2 download rmks gingersense 2.3 and flash it, and don't forget to flash the extra firmware to go with it found in the same post.
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Moved to proper forum.
ok i installed rmks gingersense but i says i dont have any signal i also updated the radio. Do you guys no what is the problem?
ok nvm its working it just took 30 mins for some reason.