For some of you out there with a possessed HTC EVO there is a FIX!! it is not a touch sensor problem but a software problem (no it can't be fixed by wiping everything in recovery) it seems that even though we wipe our phones and flash new roms. Data from previous roms seems to be stored in NAND(yes I tried superwipe). I dealt with this annoying screen problem for months and I tried everything and even went to a Sprint repair center. If you have this problem and can't resolve it (I solved it this way) download the latest RUU and flash it .
LATEST EVO RUU(DOWNLOAD LINK):
http://www.filefactory.com/file/cd5....15.00.0808_NV_2.15_release_209995_signed.exe
MY wifes EVO seems to be posessed. I actually rooted it yesterday and put on a new ROM and the problem didnt go away. The phone is only like 1 month old and it keeps not necessarily freezing, but the touch buttons at the bottom of the screen rarely work and when they do they dont do what they are supposed to. Where do I get the latest RUU and does this sound like something that the new RUU would help?
Yes it will help a lot.
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ok thats perfect, where can I find it?
The link has been posted above
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checked your thank you button. This safe to do with my root? Wife will kill me if she has to backup and restore all her apps again lol!
No it will remove root but root can be so easily obtained once again .as for the apps backs them all up through Titanium Backup.
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Decepticaons said:
checked your thank you button. This safe to do with my root? Wife will kill me if she has to backup and restore all her apps again lol!
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Back up your apps and data with Titanium Backup, texts with SMS Backup and Restore. After running the RUU, you can simply reflash recovery via PC36IMG.zip through hboot and flash a new rom.
Whether or not this will actually work for you or not, I don't know. I would think wiping system & boot would get whatever issues that wiping data doesn't, but I have never experienced the issue.
Make a nandroid backup first, and if the RUU doesn't fix the problem just flash your recovery and restore the backup. If it does work, don't restore the backup, start fresh. Good luck!
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I would have returned the phone back to sprint before rooting since it could be a hw issue.
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Apparently its a pretty common issue. Her first EVO kept going wierd crap too. At this point she cant wait till her contract is up so she can switch to Tmobile like me and get the Hercules. Right now the only advantage her phone has is higher MP Camera and FFC. My phone is faster, better screen, better service, and smaller and lighter and i have a rooted and ROMd vibrant. Ive heard a lot of good about the EVO but at this point my Vibrant buries it. It seems to me like if this were a software issue then rooting it and putting on a new rom after the wipe would have solved it. Ill have to see if I can convince the wife to let me redo everything again even tho a lot of what I have read says that this new software version doesnt fix this issue. But I do see that it inscreases speed and battery life and that would be nice! Thanks for all the help!
What the heck is a ruu? In need of a super-developer!
Noob here (obviously from my title). I have the possessed evo issue (HTC Evo 4G Design) but don't understand the language on how to fix ('flash the ruu'). Anyone up for making this process idiot-proof? I use my phone for business so it would be a disaster if I screwed it up and had to wait for a new phone. It's only about 14 months old. : (
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So i rooted my brother's incredible and then he started installing system updates and now everything force closes. I put the zip onto the sd card but when I try to reboot into recovery, the screen blacks out with white lines down the sides...any suggestions? I told him that I would just probably have to find a way to take his phone back to stock...I'm a n00b myself so still trying to figure this out.
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So i rooted my brother's incredible and then he started installing system updates and now everything force closes. I put the zip onto the sd card but when I try to reboot into recovery, the screen blacks out with white lines down the sides...any suggestions? I told him that I would just probably have to find a way to take his phone back to stock...I'm a n00b myself so still trying to figure this out.
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It sounds like it's an slcd screen. Did you use the latest unrevoked? I think that comes with an slcd compatible clockwork.
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This is what i will guess happened...because it happened to me too.
1. when you rooted his phone, you never checked that recovery was actually worked.
2. It was when you tried to recover is when you discovered it didn't work.
As the previous problem is probably because of the slcd screen. Unrevoked 3.3 supports installing recovery to the slcd versions of the phone.
3. After you gave your brother the phone back, a few hours later the nagging "system update avaliable" pop-up well, popped-up and he in stalled it thus erasing the root.
you can simply unroot it again using Unrevoked, but you will simply continue getting the message unless u are familiar enough with adb or terminal to make it stop.
The first thing you need to do after you re-root it is download Rom Manager from the marketplace and BACK UP the current setup...
If your brother really likes the feel of the Sense UI then you can DL the Virtuous Rom straight from the app. Plus the Virtuous app includes the modded flash and hulu apps.
Or you can try many of the other avaliable Roms in the app. I reccomend buying the full app btw b/c its a life saver...or at the very least leave the ads on.
also..your phone is not "bricked". It is a simple matter of removing removing the battery and putting it back in to get you on the road to recovery...pun intended.
I also HIGHLY reccomend using the search function.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855515
I hope this helps.
I didn't think the ota would work with a custom recovery.
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LoL, thats sorta the point...the OTA doesnt work. It frazzles the phone and removes the S-OFF
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LoL, thats sorta the point...the OTA doesnt work. It frazzles the phone and removes the S-OFF
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Maybe that's the case with a stock rooted phone, but installing the ota from skyraider doesn't work and doesn't break root or soff.
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I've been rooted with unrevoked3 (and I have verified that I have S-Off) for a few months now and I've gotten at least a decent feel for what you can do with a rooted evo. I've gotten used to a few adb terminal commands also. The next big thing that I'm trying to do is install a cyanogenmod 6 rom on it (and eventually update it to 7 after it's no longer a nightly). I've already done a nandroid backup, titanium backup, and I have a copy of my RSA keys. I've read through the installation instructions for cyanogenmod 6 (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Evo_4G:_Full_Update_Guide) and it mentioned flashing the radio. I'm not worried about doing that part, but I want to know if the changes that I make to it will be reversible or not if I decide that I don't like cyanogenmod. Finally, if there's anything that I'm missing, or if there's an easier way to do this other than the link I posted, any advice/tips would be great.
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I've been rooted with unrevoked3 (and I have verified that I have S-Off) for a few months now and I've gotten at least a decent feel for what you can do with a rooted evo. I've gotten used to a few adb terminal commands also. The next big thing that I'm trying to do is install a cyanogenmod 6 rom on it (and eventually update it to 7 after it's no longer a nightly). I've already done a nandroid backup, titanium backup, and I have a copy of my RSA keys. I've read through the installation instructions for cyanogenmod 6 (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Evo_4G:_Full_Update_Guide) and it mentioned flashing the radio. I'm not worried about doing that part, but I want to know if the changes that I make to it will be reversible or not if I decide that I don't like cyanogenmod. Finally, if there's anything that I'm missing, or if there's an easier way to do this other than the link I posted, any advice/tips would be great.
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Undoing it would be as simple as restoring that nandroud backup you made. It sounds like you're ready. Have fun!
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+1 sounds like you've done your homework.....you can go right back to your nandroid in the very small chance you don't like CM.... and when you restore your nandroid it will be as if you never changed anything in the first place...
The radio is a two step process. It will flash in recovery and then reboot and finish writing the radio. You have to let the second part complete or you will brick your phone.
Quick question based on the OP's question: Do we have to update radios when we flash a new rom? I was also looking to install CM7 as my first flashed rom today. I already have the most current radios, as my phone is only a couple weeks old, and has all the sprint updates. I am rooted just running the stock rom for right now, so do I have to flash radios even though they are the same version that I have now?
You don't HAVE to update the radios to the latest. I haven't updated either since I received my new Evo. "If it ain't broke ...." Could just give the ROM a go and see what happens. If you feel like it's necessary you can give it a shot. You can always go back if a new one doesn't appear to be working as well. It's not required, and it's not "un doable."
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Yea if you get slow internet or bad service a fresh radio flash can't hurt. But as it was said earlier, let the radios flash! I screwed up and pulled my battery because I thought it wasn't working but all I did was end up breaking my rsa keys.
Swyped from my Evo on steroids.
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Yea if you get slow internet or bad service a fresh radio flash can't hurt. But as it was said earlier, let the radios flash! I screwed up and pulled my battery because I thought it wasn't working but all I did was end up breaking my rsa keys.
Swyped from my Evo on steroids.
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Yea I believe only 3.70 requires you to have the new radios other than that just enjoy life nandroid and flash away. Like said earlier "if it aint broke" and since mine are working fine I have not updated my radios and the fact that I run Gingerbread and not one of these new 3.70 roms makes my decision easy.
Okay, I've got cyanogenmod installed, I'm doing a nandroid backup right now, and my big questions now, if I want to switch between cyanogen and what I had before installing it, can I just nandroid between the two? and can I use Titatium to reinstall all of the apps I had before installing cyanogen without problem?
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Okay, I've got cyanogenmod installed, I'm doing a nandroid backup right now, and my big questions now, if I want to switch between cyanogen and what I had before installing it, can I just nandroid between the two? and can I use Titatium to reinstall all of the apps I had before installing cyanogen without problem?
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If you made a nandroid before switching, the nandroid will save EVERYTHING, including your apps. So if you want to switch back and forth, make a new Nandroid for CM (make sure you know which one is which), then you can boot into recovery and restore the old one, and restore the CM one whenever you want. No need to use titanium once you have made a nandroid.
Awesome. I said what the heck and experimented and found out I could do that yesterday. The one last thing that I'm trying to do now is to backup all of my sms to the sd card so I can restore them in cm. I'm gonna search around for an app for now until someone points me in the right direction.
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Awesome. I said what the heck and experimented and found out I could do that yesterday. The one last thing that I'm trying to do now is to backup all of my sms to the sd card so I can restore them in cm. I'm gonna search around for an app for now until someone points me in the right direction.
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You can use mybackup pro or titanium backup
Sorry, wrong thread.
After I root can I run a Nandroid restore if they are different hardware versions?
Not smart to do especially since it will over right your wiimax keys. Each key is reserved for one phone and account
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Good point
Yes dont restore nandroid from a different phone. You will overwrite your wimax keys, and may not even be able to make calls or use 3g.
You can certainly restore your apps via Titanium, but just dont use nandroid.
Start from scratch man. You flash that nandroid you might as well kiss 4G goodbye. I learned that the hard way. New phone new beginning.
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doesnt amon it ask you if you want to back those up?
See I didn't read anything prior to this but I just got a replacement evo two days ago and rooted it and just did a restore of everything. I've been using MIUI, but I didn't have any problems what so ever with anything, but maybe I was lucky....
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See I didn't read anything prior to this but I just got a replacement evo two days ago and rooted it and just did a restore of everything. I've been using MIUI, but I didn't have any problems what so ever with anything, but maybe I was lucky....
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If you did a full restore, then you definitely did overwrite your wimax keys.
I thought nandroid only backed up Wimax keys if it was specified? I'm using Clockwork (I know, i know) and it has a check box for wimax.
Need help fixing 4g. Dont know when it stopped working but I have tried other roms and no luck. I have updated the radio then the profile and then the prl, I rebooted and then did the wimax and profile and prl and deleted some wimax file like one of the post said to do. No luck at all
I then tried to unroot to see if sprint would swap it out. When I try to unroot it tells me my battery is less then 30% and the other ruus say they dont see my phone. I dont know how I rooted it but I think it was with unrevoked not sure.
4g says scanning then connecting and back to scanning thats it. I use mikrom 4.61 right now
Did you try restoring a backup that had wimax working?
This epic reply brought to you by none other than my roxx'd out Evo.
go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045&page=60 this is the site it may help scroll all the way down i lost my 4g i had to send my phone back to htc and wait a week it was horrible
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Need help fixing 4g. Dont know when it stopped working but I have tried other roms and no luck. I have updated the radio then the profile and then the prl, I rebooted and then did the wimax and profile and prl and deleted some wimax file like one of the post said to do. No luck at all
I then tried to unroot to see if sprint would swap it out. When I try to unroot it tells me my battery is less then 30% and the other ruus say they dont see my phone. I dont know how I rooted it but I think it was with unrevoked not sure.
4g says scanning then connecting and back to scanning thats it. I use mikrom 4.61 right now
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Did you check your RSA keys with the app from the Market?
Is your battery less than 30%? If it is, plug it in. If you want to unroot, just dl the s-on zip, flash that, then place the PC36IMG.zip on the root of your SD Card and go to hboot and let it update.
I got it unrooted. I did the unrevoke on patch and tried like 5 zip files and one of them worked. So its stock but I don't think 4g is working yet ill know tomorrow when I goto work.
Now what is this thing from the market for? Never mind I looked it up. So if my key is lost what do I do then? Send it in?
And no I didn't have any backups
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You should have to buy a new phone for being a moron. This is why every post about rooting reminds you to make a backup. You messed up live with the consequences. Sorry that is harsh, but this is preventable and all to common. People are way to over their heads messing with their phones like this. Now you will try to get your phone replaced and because of people like yourself replacement warrenties get more strict and costs go up. Sorry for the rant it just really annoys me that people keep ruining their phones because they are clueless.
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You should have to buy a new phone for being a moron. This is why every post about rooting reminds you to make a backup. You messed up live with the consequences. Sorry that is harsh, but this is preventable and all to common. People are way to over their heads messing with their phones like this. Now you will try to get your phone replaced and because of people like yourself replacement warrenties get more strict and costs go up. Sorry for the rant it just really annoys me that people keep ruining their phones because they are clueless.
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Your not being harsh at all... YOUR BEING A DINK,, And what would a backup do for me because I dont know crap right.. I did find my very first backup from when I first rooted the phone and that didnt help at all. So I unrooted it and its still not working. And thanks to the rest of you guys for the help and info, Im thinking the wimax key is gone but I didnt want to root the phone to find out. Sprint is doing a swap right now so Im all good..
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Your not being harsh at all... YOUR BEING A DINK,, And what would a backup do for me because I dont know crap right.. I did find my very first backup from when I first rooted the phone and that didnt help at all. So I unrooted it and its still not working. And thanks to the rest of you guys for the help and info, Im thinking the wimax key is gone but I didnt want to root the phone to find out. Sprint is doing a swap right now so Im all good..
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Good for you, hope you learned your lesson.
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Me? No I didn't. Everyone says to do a backup but when I found my backup it didn't help. Even the stock Rom didn't help. So if someone can tell me how to backup the wimax key that may help next time. But what I see is once its gone its gone, not even a backup will help. One thing I did learn is that I'm staying with mik's Rom lol.
I rooted my evo and now I see a wimax backup in the recovery. I have never seen that in the backup of the recovery before. But many things have changed so could it be something they added in down the road? I rooted the phone when it first came out. But now I see what you are talking about the backup. Maybe next time someone can fill me in on that and not be such a ass.
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i agree man chill out
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Me? No I didn't. Everyone says to do a backup but when I found my backup it didn't help. Even the stock Rom didn't help. So if someone can tell me how to backup the wimax key that may help next time. But what I see is once its gone its gone, not even a backup will help. One thing I did learn is that I'm staying with mik's Rom lol.
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It's easiest to do with Amon-Ra recovery, which you can find out about installing if you do a search for Amon-Ra 2.3. When using Ra, go to backup, and just check "Wimax." It'll backup just your wimax. Now, just go into your nandroid folder on your sd and add a "-wimax_key"to the end of the file name so you can remember it, and then put that backup in multiple safe places.
Are you sure it's your phone that is having the issue? Sprint could just have an outage. I've had some janky 4g coverage lately.
If it is your phone, what recovery and version are you running? All the new recoveries backup the Wimax keys. It's not true that "once it is gone, it's gone." I imagine you ran Unrevoked to root it which installs Clockworkmod recovery, so your original nandroid backup should have the keys backedup already. In that case you'd just need to wipe and then restore the nandroid. Upon doing that, it will also restore your Wimax key. DL the Wimax key checker from the market as previously mentioned and verify your RSA (Wimax) key is present. You are good to go if so.
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It's easiest to do with Amon-Ra recovery, which you can find out about installing if you do a search for Amon-Ra 2.3. When using Ra, go to backup, and just check "Wimax." It'll backup just your wimax. Now, just go into your nandroid folder on your sd and add a "-wimax_key"to the end of the file name so you can remember it, and then put that backup in multiple safe places.
Are you sure it's your phone that is having the issue? Sprint could just have an outage. I've had some janky 4g coverage lately.
If it is your phone, what recovery and version are you running? All the new recoveries backup the Wimax keys. It's not true that "once it is gone, it's gone." I imagine you ran Unrevoked to root it which installs Clockworkmod recovery, so your original nandroid backup should have the keys backedup already. In that case you'd just need to wipe and then restore the nandroid. Upon doing that, it will also restore your Wimax key. DL the Wimax key checker from the market as previously mentioned and verify your RSA (Wimax) key is present. You are good to go if so.
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Thanks for the info. It was the phone for sure and I must have had the very first recovery version because I never seen the wimax backup before. Now on my new phone I see the wimax and other things I can backup. So on this one I checked them all and did my backup So that must be why the backup I found didnt help me. I never thought about checking to see if the recovery had updates.
My friend installed some wallpaper thing on her rooted 2.3.5 EVO 4G.
Now none of the capacitive buttons work.
You can't slide screen around.
No pull-down works.
Power button doesn't do anything.
All you get is the desktop wallpaper.
I've already tried clearing cache & davlik.
I do have ADB access and CWM works.
Is there anything I can do to un-do whatever she f'd up?
Really need to get in there so I can back up all her apps and call log and texts, etc.
After doing a nandroid backup, I tried re-installing her ROM that I found on the SD card. But it wiped everything out. So I'm restoring the nandroid now.
What ROM and recovery? Which wallpaper thing?
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MikROM 2.3.5 with Revolutionary CWM recovery.
She doesn't remember which wallpaper thing.
Here is more info on what she did to screw up her phone:
Amy:
I went in and killed apps that were running because my battery was dying like every 4 hours and I am not sure what I hit, the last thing I remember forcing to stop was wallpaper so it may not have been that but that was the last thing I had seen
I had app2sd or something downloaded
does that help?
sorry eddie, I really appreciate your help
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Sounds like you're on the right track with the Nandroid restore. Go with a RA-based recovery instead of CWM. Read up on task killers for Android (or tell your friend to), as it's a mixed bag. I've used them in the past but currently I don't. It sounds like the problem started when she started using the task killer. She could have killed the launcher which might have led to the issues she encountered. I've used MikG before and it has a task killer baked in, but I've never had any issues with it. I'd also check into Apps2SD if you aren't familiar with it. Unless the phone's SD card is partitioned, Apps2SD won't work to begin with. Everything sounds fixable, though.
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