Slight issue after attempted Root.. - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Well, to make a long story short.. I wanted to do this YouTube!
on my wife's EPIC. I followed this guys directions and from what I read it is correct.. to the T..
After I got the clock work loaded I went to reboot phone and flash the Purple..
Phone would not go past the Samsung screen.. Nothing els at all.. Only way to get out of it was pulling the battery.. So I did This Another Link... and brought it back from the semi-dead.
Phone is fine, everything works like it did before my little debacle.. But there is one issue.. Damm 3G is slow as ****.. and I have to hear about it from the wife everytime she tries to upload a Freaking picture to her Goddam facebook.. (Sorry for the vent) So I decided to take a look.. Put my EVO 4G and her EPIC in 3G mode and there is a night and day difference.. (Her phone was just as fast as mine prior)
Any thoughts or suggestion short of Returning phone?
BTW.. Sorry for the not so short story...

PTheDevil said:
Well, to make a long story short.. I wanted to do this YouTube!
on my wife's EPIC. I followed this guys directions and from what I read it is correct.. to the T..
After I got the clock work loaded I went to reboot phone and flash the Purple..
Phone would not go past the Samsung screen.. Nothing els at all.. Only way to get out of it was pulling the battery.. So I did This Another Link... and brought it back from the semi-dead.
Phone is fine, everything works like it did before my little debacle.. But there is one issue.. Damm 3G is slow as ****.. and I have to hear about it from the wife everytime she tries to upload a Freaking picture to her Goddam facebook.. (Sorry for the vent) So I decided to take a look.. Put my EVO 4G and her EPIC in 3G mode and there is a night and day difference.. (Her phone was just as fast as mine prior)
Any thoughts or suggestion short of Returning phone?
BTW.. Sorry for the not so short story...
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my wife evo won't come on. not sure what to do

ok guys i'm lost, my wife evo rooted w/ s-off, its been rebooting alot today. she's on baked snacks 1.8. I just moved her files to the sdcard and uninstalled the hack adobe player for hulu and put the original on. I then rebooted the phone and now it shows the HTC EVO white screen, it then vibrates quickly 5 times, go to a black screen and w/ a green flash. I then went into recovery and clear the data, reboot but still 5 vibrate and nothing. I tried going into recovery again to do a nandroid, but it doesn't go into there either.
i think that might mean overheat. take out battery and put both under a fan for a while.
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/189650-evo-just-vibrate-5-times-not-come.html
lol...she must be pissed....
hope everything works out man...sorry.
DeLL116 said:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/189650-evo-just-vibrate-5-times-not-come.html
lol...she must be pissed....
hope everything works out man...sorry.
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lol surprisingly no but I was bracing myself. I see you found my other post. I had to show her that I was doing everything possible to find an answer It's been 7 hrs since this problem happen, I had her fully charge the phone last night and left it unplug (battery was still in) same thing is happening this morning.
I just took the battery out, I will leave it out for awhile, don't think that would do anything, but I will try anything.
Anyone know if this will be covered by the sprint insurance? my concern as well is that the phone has S-Off
This happened to my wife's evo while I was playing angry birds gonna bring it to the store tomorrow.
auky said:
This happened to my wife's evo while I was playing angry birds gonna bring it to the store tomorrow.
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hey my gf phone did the same thing its not turning on and she was just playing angry birds....did anybody find a fix?

3G PROBLEMS (donate for help if i have too)

So i have rooted my phone a while back, and been flashing new roms back and fourth , but not sure why recently after a couple of weeks, i have seen my 3g signal drop without me doing anything, on the same places were i usually get perfect 3g signal,
i updated the radios to recent ones, update the profile , PRL profile etc so see if these was the problem that 3g drops all the time,
so i have flash myths , cya mods roms, MIUI , and evry other sense roms like HD SACS and fresh evo etc and i even try AOSP roms to see if the sense roms was the problem, but with AOSP Roms it even drops more,
example of what i mean:
i will be using the internet were it takes forevr to load cuz 3g dont kick in,
than out of no where 3g works perfectly for like 5 to 10 mins,
than after a while i try to use any application that uses internet like facebook, pandora, youtube etc, the 3g starts acting up and doesnt kick in , does this evry other 10 mins which its annoying the crap out of me.
PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME I WILL EVEN DONATE $20 TO 30 BUCKS FOR YOUR TIME BY PAYPAL.
NOT SURE WHAT OTHER OPTIONS I HAVE, AND I REALLY DONT WANT TO REPLACE MY PHONE AND IM PRETTY SURE I CANT BRING IT TO SPRINT TO FIX IT CUZ ITS ROOTED, OR CAN I?
THANKS
Here is the best thing to try for starters.
Start completely fresh.
Download this zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ikylelx99c49133/Calkulin's_FORMAT_ALL.zip
flash that zip from recovery and it will format everything without a doubt.
Then flash a rom like this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874251
stock rooted ruu - simple and no modifications.
If you are still having issues after this, then it is possible that you are having hardware issues.
It wouldn't hurt to try updating your radios as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485 - the combo one at the top should get them all.
+1 those are the best suggestions than I think can be given to help with your situation. I had the same problem on my hwd 003 evo sent it in and got a hwd 004 speeds were better I think it was a hwd problem cause I couldn't find a fix.
dills2214 said:
Here is the best thing to try for starters.
Start completely fresh.
Download this zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ikylelx99c49133/Calkulin's_FORMAT_ALL.zip
flash that zip from recovery and it will format everything without a doubt.
Then flash a rom like this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874251
stock rooted ruu - simple and no modifications.
If you are still having issues after this, then it is possible that you are having hardware issues.
It wouldn't hurt to try updating your radios as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485 - the combo one at the top should get them all.
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Any luck with this?
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Any luck with this?
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i just try this like 2 hours ago, its going fine for now but still dropping the 3g couple of times, i just want to see how it goes by the end of the day...because this phone that i have its a replacement cuz my original evo i lost it, hopefully i didnt get a evo that has a hardware issue even though it was working fine for the first months, till now.
thanks again for ur help and ill keep u updated of how it goes and test it for a couple of days.
so i use it over the weekend, and after a day it starting acting up again, i was happy when it work almost for a full day and than it starting acting up where 3g wasnt kicking in, thanks for ur advise and i guess i have to replace this evo.
you might wanna try going to a Sprint store with service center, maybe they can figure it out there, as you've basically tried everything one can do at home to try and fix it, and are still having problems.
miguelfp1 said:
you might wanna try going to a Sprint store with service center, maybe they can figure it out there, as you've basically tried everything one can do at home to try and fix it, and are still having problems.
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Here's one to accompany that. It may not even be your phone. Call *2 and ask if they are having network issues in your area. Mine was doing the same thing after a storm (we had tornaders...yes, tornaders...live with it). It was back up withing 48 hours, then again, I reported the issue.
I'm sure they have some pretty good monitoring systems in place; however, if the guys behind the NOC are anything like the guys here at my work...well I won't say anything, but you can piece together the picture.
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Here's one to accompany that. It may not even be your phone. Call *2 and ask if they are having network issues in your area. Mine was doing the same thing after a storm (we had tornaders...yes, tornaders...live with it). It was back up withing 48 hours, then again, I reported the issue.
I'm sure they have some pretty good monitoring systems in place; however, if the guys behind the NOC are anything like the guys here at my work...well I won't say anything, but you can piece together the picture.
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nobody else i know have 3g issues, because i have ask my friends with evo's and my roommate to let me see there evo and check if the sprint network just acting up, but is not cuz there phone is running good. but it seems like i start getting normal 3g signal when i first flash a rom, than after a couple of hours or a day it start acting up, its annoying as hell cuz i could be in the middle of doing something during the day and when i need my phone to work with 3g, it start acting up,
thanks though for the suggestion, not sure if rooting the phone would effect the signal problem,
aalopez10 said:
nobody else i know have 3g issues, because i have ask my friends with evo's and my roommate to let me see there evo and check if the sprint network just acting up, but is not cuz there phone is running good. but it seems like i start getting normal 3g signal when i first flash a rom, than after a couple of hours or a day it start acting up, its annoying as hell cuz i could be in the middle of doing something during the day and when i need my phone to work with 3g, it start acting up,
thanks though for the suggestion, not sure if rooting the phone would effect the signal problem,
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Just because you see it drop to 1x doesn't mean anything. That means that sense doesn't want you to know about it. so there is no icon for 1x since aosp is different and doesn't lie it tells you the truth. I thought things like this from time to time until I did this. Flashed stock. Speedtest... sat in the same spot flashed CM, speedtest. Both were about the same.. some tests were faster on CM then sense and some were faster on sense then CM. I get my email... and my market downloads never fail... So I can't really complain.

[Q] Phone Problems

It's a few to list.
1)Light leakage from almost the entire bottom of the phone alligned with the 4keys. The search key also have light leakage.
2)Charging port about to go out. If I'm transfering stuff to my computer or usb tethering it I softly bump my phone it disconnects then reconnect and ask the four usb options. I stopped using my usb and use the external charger.
3)Forced to use Verizon roaming lol my data speeds were always over 1mbps but later went to .2-.56 max even around 3am when data should be tops. Verison i get great speed but don't signal drops a lot.
4) Today my phone randomly shut off on a 80-86% battery no led showed up on when I put the charger in. I tried my OEM battery and my Extended battery and still a no go had to let the phone sit for like 10 minutes then try again. This isn't the first time my phone has done this and I wasn't even using it pick it up to send a text realized it was off.
That's the main prob should I call sprint or asurion. Sprint tries to give me a hard time like when i called in for my blackberry and my first evo that had software issues before I rooted they keep repeating if we don't find something wrong with your phone your going to be charged and would you believe they charged me :-( $100 for a phone that I didn't root and had problems with they did credit me like $50 back after me complaining. That's why I'm kinda trying to make up my mind about sending my phones back. I guess its cause I'm young lol jk but what should I do and I'm tired of that blackberry the phone can be off the charger for 3 hours and die with network off horrible battery they even gave me a new battery and the thing dies faster than me evo before rooting. They keep telling me the same thing over and over check your settings and talking about it might be the battery knowing they just gave me a brand new battery and the freaking phone heats up. What would you do in this case?
Strap a fake bomb to your chest and go into the Sprint store demanding a new phone.
Worked for me last time.
_MetalHead_ said:
Strap a fake bomb to your chest and go into the Sprint store demanding a new phone.
Worked for me last time.
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Lol I think I would have given you a phone to but raise your bill lol
Wow sprint didn't give me a hard time. They said my new replacement phone in 5-7 days there on back order and my other phone should be here in 2-3 days
Swyped From My Rom But I Will Always Be A Mynion!
nuggyunlimited said:
wow sprint didn't give me a hard time. They said my new replacement phone in 5-7 days there on back order and my other phone should be here in 2-3 days
swyped from my rom but i will always be a mynion!
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that cool. Way to go sprint.
1975jamie said:
that cool. Way to go sprint.
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Yea now I have to unroot and retoot 004
Swyped From My Rom But I Will Always Be A Mynion!
nuggyunlimited said:
Yea now I have to unroot and retoot 004
Swyped From My Rom But I Will Always Be A Mynion!
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Have you rooted 004 yet?
Swyped from my Evo running Dark Cocoa v.97
1975jamie said:
Have you rooted 004 yet?
Swyped from my Evo running Dark Cocoa v.97
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Yea the phone I have now is 004 got one the week they came out
Swyped From My Rom But I Will Always Be A Mynion!

No Signal or takes forever to get one

Ok i am not new at flashing and android, but i am stumped. Here lately I have been getting the dreaded circle with the line through it.. I have flashed radios through Odin and recovery, reflashed roms in both methods and even Kies... and also done a nandroid restore of a rom before this happened. When it finally gets connected (after 10 minutes, sometimes longer) i have not problems until i reboot and it and i have to go through the same process of trying to get signal.... any help would be appreciated. or point me in the right direction... i am currently running stock unrooted 2.3.6...
I have also tried my sim in another phone and my daughters sim in mine same thing with my daughters sim.. just throwing that out there..
*bump* no one have this problem?
hmm. flashed Darkside and it seemed to have an effect on it... took only 3 min to get signal... weird!!!!
going to reboot in a sec to see what happens
NVM did it again...
Which radio are you using?
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UVKL1
been dealing with this for awhile now. Its unbearable. Stock everything.
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UVKL1
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Strange... Just for fun, have you tried the blaze radio?
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well not since i have odin'd i will give it a shot...
web_ninja said:
well not since i have odin'd i will give it a shot...
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No go for me. Going to have to dump T-Mobile
nope still same problem.. i guess i will give them a call tonight...
web_ninja said:
nope still same problem.. i guess i will give them a call tonight...
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I have spoken to top tier support multiple times. The Field Engineering teams are involved now. Its unique here because on their coverage map I am in Excellent area. I'll have 3-4 bars show 4G yet I do not get a data connection. I called back and should be hearing back by the 17th. My ticket has been open for months... Afraid my device is defective or only works half the time. I am very low on apps and never install much. This is a bad situation for me. House phone and work device.
yes that does suck bad!!! but it is weird, in my case... just one day stopped after a reboot... my other devices work fine...
web_ninja said:
yes that does suck bad!!! but it is weird, in my case... just one day stopped after a reboot... my other devices work fine...
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Exact same thing here. Stopped randomly first day... totally intermittent after! It was ironic because I had held off grabbing the GS2 because of Samsungs GPS issues with the Vibrant and first week I had my GS2 I was extremely happy. Rest is history I guess. Hope yours starts working again.

Going to sprint repair center do i need to go stock/unrooted

I got an appt with sprint tech support or repair center whatever its called . I got to walk into one those stores in my area today in about 4 hours . Ive called sprint to many times about getting to many phantom voicemails, calls not going through, my phone not ringing when someone else calls me etc.. so they said to take it in . Im currently running Calks 3.0 GB rom EL29 and when you turn on the phone i have the yellow triangle show up..
Do i need to revert back to completely stock ?
or can i just take in like that and will they service it that way?
TIA to anyone that responds back with help....
MODS i know this has been asked before but i searched and didnt find the answer ..
Yes flash any stock rom before going.
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do i have to unroot as well?
also whats the best way to back up sms, mms ive tried TB but didnt work for some reason gonna give another try but wondering if there might be something else?
EDIT: so i odin'ed stock rooted EL29 rom that i had on my pc .. will that work or should i also unroot?
dont want to drive all the way to the sprint store for them to tell "OH your device is rooted and we wont work on a device that is rooted". or tell me oh the reason your device is not working could be cause its rooted....
EDIT 2 : installed stock rooted EL 29 and when phone booted it notified me of the update available "ICS" gonna actually let it install since i know stock ICS sucks. .
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do i have to unroot as well?
also whats the best way to back up sms, mms ive tried TB but didnt work for some reason gonna give another try but wondering if there might be something else?
EDIT: so i odin'ed stock rooted EL29 rom that i had on my pc .. will that work or should i also unroot?
dont want to drive all the way to the sprint store for them to tell "OH your device is rooted and we wont work on a device that is rooted". or tell me oh the reason your device is not working could be cause its rooted....
EDIT 2 : installed stock rooted EL 29 and when phone booted it notified me of the update available "ICS" gonna actually let it install since i know stock ICS sucks. .
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Just go with fi27 unrooted. Shoul have no issues.
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garwynn said:
Just go with fi27 unrooted. Shoul have no issues.
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Well i had odined back to stock rooted EL29 and then after reboot a minute later i got the notification to update so i did then that happen about 3 times till finally got to Fi27 and i dont have root...
I went into the Sprint repair center so they could look at it . THE Rep asked me "so whats wrong with your phone?" so i start telling her that i my phone wont ring some times and that some times it will ring till the callers phone has rang about 4 times and then she says" Oh thats normal the phone is set up that way its set up to have that delay" i was like WROOOOONNGGG no way any phone is set up to have a delay .. well we went back and forth and they didnt even touch my phone i could have been on any custom rom and they wouldnt have cared . she just put some notes in my acct for the next rep to help me....
I also to prove to her the problem grabbed one of the phones on display that is active it was a EVO 4g LTE and called my phone from it and my phone didnt ring till the 4th ring hanged up and then called the EVO phone back and the evo rang on first ring.. All she said was oh its our network theres a tower down went back and forth and figured she dont know what she's talking about....
Then called sprint and the rep did a RTN or something like that which included a full wipe and restore of factory settings and now during the day i have to see if it works or not.
Ma$etas said:
Well i had odined back to stock rooted EL29 and then after reboot a minute later i got the notification to update so i did then that happen about 3 times till finally got to Fi27 and i dont have root...
I went into the Sprint repair center so they could look at it . THE Rep asked me "so whats wrong with your phone?" so i start telling her that i my phone wont ring some times and that some times it will ring till the callers phone has rang about 4 times and then she says" Oh thats normal the phone is set up that way its set up to have that delay" i was like WROOOOONNGGG no way any phone is set up to have a delay .. well we went back and forth and they didnt even touch my phone i could have been on any custom rom and they wouldnt have cared . she just put some notes in my acct for the next rep to help me....
I also to prove to her the problem grabbed one of the phones on display that is active it was a EVO 4g LTE and called my phone from it and my phone didnt ring till the 4th ring hanged up and then called the EVO phone back and the evo rang on first ring.. All she said was oh its our network theres a tower down went back and forth and figured she dont know what she's talking about....
Then called sprint and the rep did a RTN or something like that which included a full wipe and restore of factory settings and now during the day i have to see if it works or not.
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We had this happen to us during NV updates in the area. Not sure if that was it or another issue so I'll throw this out as well: Did you upgrade from an older phone and keep the phone? If so, make sure it's turned off. If it's still happening you'll probably want to see if they're doing NV upgrades in the area as we had all sorts of funky stuff happening. (Towers reporting wrong times, etc.)
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We had this happen to us during NV updates in the area. Not sure if that was it or another issue so I'll throw this out as well: Did you upgrade from an older phone and keep the phone? If so, make sure it's turned off. If it's still happening you'll probably want to see if they're doing NV upgrades in the area as we had all sorts of funky stuff happening. (Towers reporting wrong times, etc.)
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This is the phone i started sprint service with.. I have had this issue since i got the phone....Now that my contract with sprint is over and finally fed up with this issue and have the time to deal with it im trying to get this fixed by sprint....
Also i have three Business lines and on one (after that person lost, then broker the 2nd phone both Epic 4g ) i have a htc touch pro 2 . we were in a bad reception area and that phone was able to stream a movie on youtube and this phone couldnt even stream pandora .....
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This is the phone i started sprint service with.. I have had this issue since i got the phone....Now that my contract with sprint is over and finally fed up with this issue and have the time to deal with it im trying to get this fixed by sprint....
Also i have three Business lines and on one (after that person lost, then broker the 2nd phone both Epic 4g ) i have a htc touch pro 2 . we were in a bad reception area and that phone was able to stream a movie on youtube and this phone couldnt even stream pandora .....
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Unfortunately the antenna for this phone seems to be a big sticking point for a lot of folks. Now that NV is almost done around here I am doing better; the recent modem updates helped as well. But there are still some problems.... like a certain location I know I have to get off the phone because the tower handoff fails every time.
the radio on this phone sucks thats why im undecided on what phone to upgrade too.. I need to change phone cause of this problem but what phone should i get is the problem
SGS3 almost the same as this phone yeah i know it has some new features but i feel like since its a samsung it most likely will have the same issue : weak radio...
HTC EVO 4g LTE very low on memory . many complain about it having issues connecting to LTE (where LTE is available) but HTC does make good Radio's ..
Galaxy note 2 has many new features it is big in size but ill get used to it and ill use a bluetooth so i wont look crazy holding up to my ear but since theres no LTE in my area i cant be able to talk and surf the web (the evo and sgs3 could) its still a samsung and samsung makes weak radios ....
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the radio on this phone sucks thats why im undecided on what phone to upgrade too.. I need to change phone cause of this problem but what phone should i get is the problem
SGS3 almost the same as this phone yeah i know it has some new features but i feel like since its a samsung it most likely will have the same issue : weak radio...
HTC EVO 4g LTE very low on memory . many complain about it having issues connecting to LTE (where LTE is available) but HTC does make good Radio's ..
Galaxy note 2 has many new features it is big in size but ill get used to it and ill use a bluetooth so i wont look crazy holding up to my ear but since theres no LTE in my area i cant be able to talk and surf the web (the evo and sgs3 could) its still a samsung and samsung makes weak radios ....
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If you can convince them - honestly, whittle it down to 3-4 and then take them out to your regular work sites and test them.
Then based on how they perform where you need it to you can make a call.
Not sure how it works with Sprint but would think they should allow this kind of testing before you purchase - or upgrade in your case. (MVNO we use does this...)
what i know of sprint is they let you use the device for 14 days and you have to decide if you want it or not....
also i was thinking of trying tmobile out cause im tired of sprints slow 3g data.. I dont have Sprints 4g service everywhere i go... just want to see if anyone who lives in the inland empire California can tell me there experience with it...

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