Well I had a coworker of mine tried to root my flashed Epic 4g Touch. Needless to say he didn't really know what he was doing, at least on not on my phone(he flashed his galaxy Nexus). So my boot animation isn't showing, and i'm getting a yellow triangle upon booting up. Not only that , but my wifi is not working as well. and i'm getting a few service issues.
Is there a way to un-root my phone. I just want it back to stock, it was fine the way it was. He said when the official ics update comes out I can just update my phone and that would automatically unroot it. He says since he's never rooted/unrooted a flashed cricket phone, that when you unroot it back to stock I might have to reflash it to cricket. Is this correct? this would suck terribly as I don't really want to pay again to have it done.
PLz Help
I need this fixed, I NEED wifi. and want my phone back to normal
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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting here and I hope I can find some help on this issue that has been bothering me. I recently jumped on a great deal for an I/O HTC Evo for $300 on Craigslist that is still active on Sprint. I went ahead and decided to have a shop that I also found on CL flash my phone to a Cricket Wireless account I had.
The phone was flashed and the talk/text/and 3G data were all working, but not very reliable. Calls were dropping, texts took forever to send/receive and data on everything besides the browser was slow or not even working. I severely regretted going through with the flash at this point.
I've tried clearing the storage by holding the vol. down and pressing the power button in attempt to reset the phone back to factory conditions, but when it boots up, the phone is still associated to Cricket. The person at the Sprint store was also unable to get the phone working back with the HTC Demo account and said the phone was made to automatically associate itself to the sprint network but it wasn't doing it.
My question now is where and what do I look for in changing my phone back to Sprints settings? I'm thinking that they physically flashed some kind of firmware or flashed PRL file to the phone but I don't know how to update or revert this change.
What are my options?
Thanks for reading.
flashing a evo stock rom should do the trick. gives u all the settings. all the apps. basically everything if im not wrong
I'm gonna try this with the file posted at geekforme and see what happens. Thanks for this advice, didn't think of this.
So far I've rooted and unlocked nand then flashed the Stock EVO ROM but it's still associated with Cricket...
When I go to About Phone > Phone identity , its showing my current username @mycricket.com, how do I change this?
I wanna completely clear any cricket connection off the phone.. Is there any deactivation code I can dial?
I updated the PRL using techknowfiles 00001.prl with no luck. What else can I try to undo this cricket flash?
I've already flashed it with the stock Evo rom and it is still working through the cricket phone number.
Background:
I rooted my phone back in August using the method described in this video (http://androidandme.com/2010/07/phones/intro-to-rooting-your-sprint-htc-evo-4g-video/) I've flashed numerous ROMs to my phone without much issue. However I recently flashed the latest Fresh ROM and have no data connection. I know its not the ROM itself because I nandroid restored back to 3 different ROMs and still cannot connect.
I upgraded and downgraded my PRI and Radio to various versions but still no luck. So next I called Sprint and asked them to reactivate my phone thinking that it would reset the connection and fix my issue. They asked me to type in ##(somenumbers)## which rebooted my phone and brought me to the hands-free activation screen. Not only did this not work, but I fully lost all connectivity. Previously I had a 3G logo that wasn't lit up, but my phone was able to download "some" data at very slow speeds. Now no 3G logo and no connection.. (idk why I called sprint?!?)
I figure loosing root and installing the latest OTA should fix my problem. So I initially tried the method described in the forums (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743192), and got stuck at a black screen with an HTC logo. My HBOOT number changed to 0.93.0000 but im still rooted.
Next I downloaded the latest ota through my phone via wifi, but the install process fails about half way through. So now I'm thinking that if I downloaded the latest unrooted ota to my PC and flashed to the ROM I could lose root that way.
Solution?:
What are your thoughts? Do you think going back to stock unrooted android will fix my issue?
I truly appreciate ANY help you can give me. I'm completely "lost" without a working phone!
THANKS!!!
cjsph88 said:
Background:
I rooted my phone back in August using the method described in this video (http://androidandme.com/2010/07/phones/intro-to-rooting-your-sprint-htc-evo-4g-video/) I've flashed numerous ROMs to my phone without much issue. However I recently flashed the latest Fresh ROM and have no data connection. I know its not the ROM itself because I nandroid restored back to 3 different ROMs and still cannot connect.
I upgraded and downgraded my PRI and Radio to various versions but still no luck. So next I called Sprint and asked them to reactivate my phone thinking that it would reset the connection and fix my issue. They asked me to type in ##(somenumbers)## which rebooted my phone and brought me to the hands-free activation screen. Not only did this not work, but I fully lost all connectivity. Previously I had a 3G logo that wasn't lit up, but my phone was able to download "some" data at very slow speeds. Now no 3G logo and no connection.. (idk why I called sprint?!?)
I figure loosing root and installing the latest OTA should fix my problem. So I initially tried the method described in the forums (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743192), and got stuck at a black screen with an HTC logo. My HBOOT number changed to 0.93.0000 but im still rooted.
Next I downloaded the latest ota through my phone via wifi, but the install process fails about half way through. So now I'm thinking that if I downloaded the latest unrooted ota to my PC and flashed to the ROM I could lose root that way.
Solution?:
What are your thoughts? Do you think going back to stock unrooted android will fix my issue?
I truly appreciate ANY help you can give me. I'm completely "lost" without a working phone!
THANKS!!!
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Do this first, update your PRL and Profile, always do this when you update the radio.
Then if that does not work, proceed with the steps below.
Do the nandroid restore, I would hope you are using ARMON RA b/c it backs up your WIMAX(wimax.img). Get you phone working again then focus on the the
radio(s).
I had rooted my Galaxy note 2 but kept stock rom on it. Everything was working beautifully, no problems with anything. Then I flashed the rom: 4.3 MK4 DN3. What I didn't realize at that time was that it wasn't for the sprint network (had pulled several all nighters studying for finals so I wasn't paying much attention to the roms details unfortunately). For obvious reasons, the phone was stuck at the samsung boot screen. So I tried to flash a stock rom back on, this time the rom loaded but I had no service to sprint at all. I then used Oden to put my phone back to factory rom/settings. I updated to the new 4.3 OTA and since then I cannot connect to sprint's data service. I went into a sprint store tech center and they said everything checked out hardware wise and software wise but for some reason still wouldn't connect to the network. Then they gave me some BS answer about how its probably the sprint network messing up. I know that somewhere between flashing the wrong rom and the update something went wrong.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this problem? I know sprint is going to be of no use in resolving this matter =/
Any help ASAP would be great as I rely on data for communicating with my professors as well as members of my National Guard unit on a daily basis.
Thank you!
Hi. I am hoping that someone is able to help me with this situation.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 d710 from Virgin Mobile, and I flashed it with all the info from my old sprint phone to use on Ting. I finally (after 15+ hours -_-) got it to work on Ting acting as my old crappy phone. I had flash back to a sprint rom because I could not connect with a modem connection (for dfs cdma tool thing) on cyanogenmod. After I got it to work, I promptly flashed back to cyanogen and pulled from a backup that I had made earlier. Boom. It seems like all the crucial pieces needed to make my phone connect to the network were erased.
Then I decided to flash back to the sprint rom. After spending another few hours (I kept having small problems and ended up calling technical support for some stuff) I got it working again. It is nice, I can text and call perfectly fine (haven't been able to try data yet) but I hate the stock roms with a passion. I NEED cyanogenmod back.
If anyone knows how to flash back without disrupting my frankenphone service, please help! Or, if you have info on how to fix it once it is flashed, that would also be sweet. Any help is veeeeeeery much appreciated!
Thanks,
Josh
Alright, well it looks like I found a fix. I had to completely wipe the phone and do a fresh start on cyanogenmod. It seems to be the only way to do it :/
I've got a lot of problems actually. I have a Virgin Mobile Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) with 4.4.2 that I rooted yesterday, but I didn't back up the stock ROM before trying to flash Cyanogenmod. I lost data, eventually I lost wifi, and then I think I bricked it trying to flash various things to fix it. I then tried to flash stock firmware but ended up with a phone that thinks it's on the Sprint network (still no mobile data). I haven't had any luck trying to find stock ROMs and kernels for Virgin Mobile (assuming that's what I need to fix it?). I'd like to be able to go back to the out-of-the-box unrooted ROM until I can do more research.
I'm completely new to the entire process and clearly got in over my head. I hope you guys can point me in the right direction.
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So I think my problem is resolved. I used Kies to update the firmware, which seemed to successfully return the phone to unrooted stock. I reactivated my network via the VM website. I can send and receive calls and texts. The only thing is that I don't see the VM logo screen at startup. Should I be worried?
If everything is working as it should then no worries about a missing splash screen... Sounds like you're good to go