Quick question
I just got a refurb evo with 2.1 loaded on it
Once I get RA Recovery back installed via TOASTS method - can I just restore my NAND Backup that I made before I took the other EVO in?
Thanks !
slag02 said:
Quick question
I just got a refurb evo with 2.1 loaded on it
Once I get RA Recovery back installed via TOASTS method - can I just restore my NAND Backup that I made before I took the other EVO in?
Thanks !
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Probably. You may run into issues if the two devices are different hardware revisions or something, I don't know. But it can't hurt to try.
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Just wanted to bump this to see if anyone else has actually tried this or not
Thanks
Absolutely have put my nandroid's on clients and friends phone. They liked my setup and was easier than flashing everything lol. Connect phone to puter. Disk drive obviously open nandroid folder. Move your saved nandroids individually from your computer to the very last folder of your nandroid folder on if SD card. Making sense, basically folders go nandroid, device number, backups. If you do not have a nandroid folder then after you do recovery do a quick backup and then u will have one on ur phone.
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I would like to thank both of you for your quick replies
So I went to the sprint store earlier.. got my EVO replacement.. 002 with the glitter back and 2.1
cool..
Got home found out the USB port was busted..like bad...
Drove back up...they apologized... and then the tech grabedd another refurb box off the shelf..
This time.. White EVO 4g.. Brand new.. sprint stickers on it and everything.. 2.2..build date printed on the battery cover... the first refurb did not have that
Just now got back to rooted 2.2 with RA Recovery.. going to try to move the backup from the other NAND folder to the new one.. and hope 4g wont break
Thanks
again!
Don't forget to check your radios, just in case.
Okay guys my Tilt 90 degrees detection is super slow
my 4g won't work (tries to scan forever) (I'm using CM but on 4gworking roms it doesn't work)
My GPS takes forever to lock on (known issue with new CM nightly)
My phone will not USB charge / transfer (I can use dropbox for file transfers I guess -_-) [never learned adb]
I want to reset to brand new and get my GPS and 4G working and forget CM and get a nice ROM maybe VaelROM or Fresh or Something.
Anybody help me out please? I have EVO with CM6 and Clockwork recovery
Do you have ROM manager?
wouldnt loading a shipped rom reset everything?
and isnt there a wipe for tilt?
When I could not connect to my computer I used one off the PCIMG files from the rooting process to reset everything back to stock.
Takes alittle bit off time
Yes I have the purchased ROM manager.
I don't get it - why not just flash a new rom that doesn't have those issues? Why go back to stock?
Because it doesn't fix it, or atleast 4G doesn't get fixed.
I'll try flashing a new ROM tommarow. In the mean-time i'll flash stock rom just incase it does fix it might as well. Then I'll flash Fresh Vael or something good.
amirborna said:
Because it doesn't fix it, or atleast 4G doesn't get fixed.
I'll try flashing a new ROM tommarow. In the mean-time i'll flash stock rom just incase it does fix it might as well. Then I'll flash Fresh Vael or something good.
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Well, if its any help, people have been getting good 4g results with bs.
Sent from my blah blah blah blah
Tips
Have you flashed the latest Wimax radios?
Have you used your purchase Rom Manager to flash Amon Recovery... because that will give you all kinds of options to reset your phone and wipe everything (including the tilt sensor or whatever its called).
If all else fails and if you have insurance, go wake-boarding and take video with your EVO while jumping the wake and maybe by accident your phone will fall into the water.
Just some thoughts.
i would like to do this too. My adb is acting up, i can't remount saying its not found and /or do not have permission. I want to go back to my stock froyo unrooted and go though the long rooting process by downgrading and using unrevoked 3 with unrevoked forever method.I found methods of doing so, but they are for hboot 0/76 and i have hboot 0.93.0000, so that's no help. Any help with this will be great. I have such a headache trying to find a solid way to do this.
Was using my dad's Desire (I have my own), and thought I would do him a favour by rooting it, so he could backup. I rooted using unrevoked 3.21, and did a backup using ROM Manager. I've heard this is a bad idea, but I never had a problem with my Desire using ROM Manager, and an older version of unrevoked.
Anyway, after the backup, I tried to restart, and it got caught in a boot loop, never getting past the pink circle. (My dad has a t-mobile, HBOOT 0.75, have since upgraded to 0.93 with android 2.2)
My old backup Roms that I did for my desire work fine on his phone, so I have been able to do the above, but I really wanna get his old system back.
I've wiped the cache, done a full wipe, re-rooted, loaded the backup from Rom Manager, and from recovery, and nothing seems to work. The best I can get is looping from the splash screen, but another variation is getting stuck on the pink arrow circle.
So, what is the deal with unrevoked and ROM Manager not working together, when they used to be fine with old versions? Do I have to now backup by recovery alone? But more importantly, is there any way to get my dad's backup back, or is it gone forever?
Please help,
I'm sorry I can't help but here is an advice, never ever use Rom manager. Gives me lots of problems and scared me badly so many times in recovery. Maybe the plain all recovery methods in the clockworkmod would do fine although it has never worked for me. When I use it I still go into boot loops. Try not to use it but maybe that's just for me. Maybe you could try to get the Rom your dad previously used, flash it and on your SD card, there is a folder called clockworkmod, in it there is a folder named backup. From there maybe you could recover your data. I am not sure how but there is always a possibility. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the reply. I've given the phone back to my dad now. He wasn't best pleased about the wipe, but I was able to pull out his contacts from the data.img, which was the most important thing.
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Ok so I fell on my evo (Hard) and completely smashed it. It does not turn on at all.
My Smashed phone was rooted etc... I did have Nandroid back ups on that phone.
I just got my new one and put my old SD card in it. I go into recovery and I get a back screen with a small pic of a phone and a red "!"
Is there anything I can do to image my new phone to the same as my old one?
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Ok so I fell on my evo (Hard) and completely smashed it. It does not turn on at all.
My Smashed phone was rooted etc... I did have Nandroid back ups on that phone.
I just got my new one and put my old SD card in it. I go into recovery and I get a back screen with a small pic of a phone and a red "!"
Is there anything I can do to image my new phone to the same as my old one?
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Have you already rooted the new phone?
1. You still need to root the new phone
2. If you made your nandroid with amon ra (which you should), make sure you delete the wimax.img from the old nandroid before you try to restore it on the new phone otherwise you will hose your 4G forever.
Finally, in the interest of minimizing issues, you're better off just setting up again from scratch in case there's some compatibility problem with your new evo and you'll end up having to work backwards to figure out what's wrong.
eyeballer1 said:
1. You still need to root the new phone
2. If you made your nandroid with amon ra (which you should), make sure you delete the wimax.img from the old nandroid before you try to restore it on the new phone otherwise you will hose your 4G forever.
Finally, in the interest of minimizing issues, you're better off just setting up again from scratch in case there's some compatibility problem with your new evo and you'll end up having to work backwards to figure out what's wrong.
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that's what I did....took all of 2 hours I think including the rooting process. Just start fresh or I bet you will run into some bugs.
Ok I just re-rooted the phone.
How to i delete the Wimax.img?
humminnboatin said:
Ok I just re-rooted the phone.
How to i delete the Wimax.img?
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Go into the nandroid folder and delete the wimax file.
Again, it's not recommended to restore a nandroid from a different phone, if you still want to, it's up to you, just make sure you delete the wimax file.
hmmm sounds like I might be playing with fire if I do this so I guess I will just do it manual. Thank you for the heads up!
Can I have your broken phone? I want to do a flip.
humminnboatin said:
Ok so I fell on my evo (Hard) and completely smashed it. It does not turn on at all.
My Smashed phone was rooted etc... I did have Nandroid back ups on that phone.
I just got my new one and put my old SD card in it. I go into recovery and I get a back screen with a small pic of a phone and a red "!"
Is there anything I can do to image my new phone to the same as my old one?
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I would not use a nand from another phone like others have said it will break your 4G FOREVER.
So I currently have a Galaxy note 2. I have to send it to Samsung to repair and plan to use my old Evo 4G as a backup.
So here is my issue. I am on sprint and will need a sense rom in order to update my profile to get data working. I thought it would be easy to flash to sense for 5 minutes and then go back to CM7. NOPE!
I have been working on this from noon and it is now 9:00. I rarely see a blue link in my google searches now.
One of the first few things I found was this page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865204
I went down to the part "How do I return to stock?" and clicked it. On that page, I downloaded the PC36IMG.zip
For some reason, hboot will just not flash it. When I go into hboot, it scans and starts reading PC36IMG.zip and after about 12-20 minutes, it just goes to another hboot menu where the only options are to reboot. It doesn't even give an error.
After a few hours of trying that and some clockwork mod flashing, nothing is taking.
I went back to digging through google and the forums here and came across http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...id#Android_Flashing_Guide_.28with_fastboot.29
I have adb working everywhere except in fast boot. As far as I can tell windows recognizes it perfectly fine. Adb just cant see it.
A few hours later, I have come across http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/HTC_EVO_4G_Downloads
This looks like it would be perfect, if all the links weren't dead
So Here I am. I am looking for a method to flash back to stock for just 5 minutes to update the stupid profile. I have exhausted google and the forum search and have not come any closer to my goal in 9 hours.
Here is all the info about my phone:
Sprint HTC EVO 4G
Hboot version: 2.10.0001
Radio: 2.15.00.11.19
S-OFF
Cyanogenmod7.2
I am trying to get to any sense rom via any method. Preferably a clockworkmod update.zip or backup even.
Am I missing something obvious?
I am not new to rooting at all, I just haven't done it in about a year.
Thanks.
You're working too hard.
Ignore any guide that refers to a PC3xxxx zip. That's the nuclear option. You don't need that (and you're lucky you didn't break anything trying it).
Just download any sense ROM.
Try the latest rooted stock ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26516892
If you can flash CM you can flash this.
Basic steps:
Download it (either odex or deodex doesn't matter)
Check md5
Put it somewhere on your SD card that's easy to find (any directory will do, but you don't want to have to hunt around for it all day in recovery)
Make a nandroid
Wipe everything *except* your SD card
If you are using clockwork, wipe everything again. [Editorial note: Clockwork sucks on Evos]
Flash the zip
Reboot
If it works, great; let it sit for awhile, then do whatever you have to do
If it doesn't work, nandroid back and ask for further assistance
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The only reason that the bootloader wouldnt recognize the PC36IMG.zip would be because your sdcard is not formatted to FAT32
But thats just info for you, use what the guy above said, its really not difficult because you can flash ANY sense rom, not just 100% stock
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that reminds me of the one thing i left out of my 1st post: Truly the *only* bad thing you can do that matters in this world is to erase pictures of your kid's first baby steps or other irreplaceable data from the SD card. the rest of it is just wasted money or time.
in recovery do *not* turn off your brain and wipe the entire SD card.
if you *are* going to nuke your SD card (for instance if you have to reformat it because it has the wrong filesystem ) obviously make sure you have a backup first.
the rest of the discussion is really unimportant in the cosmic sense of things.
you flashed CM7? you still have S-OFF? then don't worry. you got this. take a deep breath, have a drink, enhance your calm, flash a ROM.
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that reminds me of the one thing i left out of my 1st post: Truly the *only* bad thing you can do that matters in this world is to erase pictures of your kid's first baby steps or other irreplaceable data from the SD card. the rest of it is just wasted money or time.
in recovery do *not* turn off your brain and wipe the entire SD card.
if you *are* going to nuke your SD card (for instance if you have to reformat it because it has the wrong filesystem ) obviously make sure you have a backup first.
the rest of the discussion is really unimportant in the cosmic sense of things.
you flashed CM7? you still have S-OFF? then don't worry. you got this. take a deep breath, have a drink, enhance your calm, flash a ROM.
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Not surprised I overthought it. I'll go through what you suggested.
Also no worries about the SD card, I havent used this phone for a while and took anything of value off of it long ago.
NxNW said:
that reminds me of the one thing i left out of my 1st post: Truly the *only* bad thing you can do that matters in this world is to erase pictures of your kid's first baby steps or other irreplaceable data from the SD card. the rest of it is just wasted money or time.
in recovery do *not* turn off your brain and wipe the entire SD card.
if you *are* going to nuke your SD card (for instance if you have to reformat it because it has the wrong filesystem ) obviously make sure you have a backup first.
the rest of the discussion is really unimportant in the cosmic sense of things.
you flashed CM7? you still have S-OFF? then don't worry. you got this. take a deep breath, have a drink, enhance your calm, flash a ROM.
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You rock! Thanks so much! I knew it had to be simple.
I nearly had a heart attack though, I booted into recovery and formatted everything, then noticed I never put the sd card in. Had a bit of panic before I realized that clockworkmod is not erased by formatting
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that reminds me of the one thing i left out of my 1st post: Truly the *only* bad thing you can do that matters in this world is to erase pictures of your kid's first baby steps or other irreplaceable data from the SD card. the rest of it is just wasted money or time.
in recovery do *not* turn off your brain and wipe the entire SD card.
if you *are* going to nuke your SD card (for instance if you have to reformat it because it has the wrong filesystem ) obviously make sure you have a backup first.
the rest of the discussion is really unimportant in the cosmic sense of things.
you flashed CM7? you still have S-OFF? then don't worry. you got this. take a deep breath, have a drink, enhance your calm, flash a ROM.
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Hmm actually, it looks like it only fixed half of my issues. For some reason it is unable to update the profile. Do you think I need up update my radio? I have never had to do that and am totally clueless about it
what's the error when updating profile? 1012?
is it absolutely necessary to update your profile to accomplish what you're trying to do? is data working? can you use wifi in the mean time?
that radio is a pre-gingerbread radio, it is true. note the only way to truly "brick" a phone is a failed radio update, so i might try everything else first.
if you simply must flash radio, then yes, you are *now* entering the world where you may need to place a PC36IMG.zip in the root of your SD card and run it from the bootloader.
check out http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?8477-Radio-Update-1-21-2012-2-15-00-12-19 for the appropriate files and maybe read a few pages at the beginning and end of that thread just to reassure yourself you know what you are doing.
but before i tried all that, i might just reboot, let it simmer for a bit, try again tomorrow. 1012 can be intermittent.
in a worst case scenario, find out your MSL (download MSL reader from app store or just call sprint and sweet talk a customer service rep. they'll usually tell you if they think you're not evil) and undertake the very serious step of blasting your phone back in to "hands-free activation" mode. this is accomplished by dialing ##72786# and then providing your MSL to reset. this really and truly wipes any knowledge this phone ever had of its previous relationship to sprint. then call sprint and re-activate your phone.
NxNW said:
what's the error when updating profile? 1012?
is it absolutely necessary to update your profile to accomplish what you're trying to do? is data working? can you use wifi in the mean time?
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Just tried again, it is 1012. Just wondering, but does the phone actually need to be active on the line for it to update right? I haven't had it switched over yet so that might be why...
Can I give you a little advice?? Please get away from Clockwork Mod. It's not a good recovery option for the EVO. I know it is for most other phones, but for the EVO, you want an Amon Ra based recovery. Specifically, I'd go with Smelkus Amon Ra style Recovery. That and the newest radios are in my dev-host.
Also, click the link for my guide in my signature and go over that before you do anything else. It's a little dated ,but for what you want to do, it'll help you out, a lot
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BrandonGlatz said:
Just tried again, it is 1012. Just wondering, but does the phone actually need to be active on the line for it to update right? I haven't had it switched over yet so that might be why...
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Yeah, I believe it does
NxNW said:
You're working too hard.
Ignore any guide that refers to a PC3xxxx zip. That's the nuclear option. You don't need that (and you're lucky you didn't break anything trying it).
Just download any sense ROM.
Try the latest rooted stock ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26516892
If you can flash CM you can flash this.
Basic steps:
Download it (either odex or deodex doesn't matter)
Check md5
Put it somewhere on your SD card that's easy to find (any directory will do, but you don't want to have to hunt around for it all day in recovery)
Make a nandroid
Wipe everything *except* your SD card
If you are using clockwork, wipe everything again. [Editorial note: Clockwork sucks on Evos]
Flash the zip
Reboot
If it works, great; let it sit for awhile, then do whatever you have to do
If it doesn't work, nandroid back and ask for further assistance
Sent from my PC36100 using xda app-developers app
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you say clockwork sucks on evo. what should I be running.? I'm using sensuASOP 2.55 but I'm not sure if I like it I need to update the prl and not. sure how to do it
What does updating the PRL get you? Sprint PRL's for the frequencies used by the OG Evo haven't really changed in most areas for a long time. Not sure why this is so important to everyone but maybe I'm missing something.
Anyways, as for recovery, it's not *required* to use a different recovery. If you have clockwork, go ahead, do what you need to do, just be sure to repeat any wiping steps one or two extra times because clockwork does not always wipe successfully on the first try. (Historical note: there was a brief time when Evos could lose their WiMax keys because of clockword mod, but that is not as likely to happen these days. Still, that plus the unreliable wiping thing is basically why Evo owners hate clockwork always and forever.)
The post immediately before yours gives a recommendation about alternatives to clockwork. If you will be keeping your Evo for any length of time, change your recovery to Amon Ra or SmelkusMod as soon as you have a convenient time.
can u tell me how to install smelkus? do I have to uninstall clockwork? and then install smelkus. could u point. me somewhere. Im running sensuASOP 2.55 with clockwork and I tried to El smelkus recovery but I use fastboot and it just stalls out on parsing pc36img there's a few different links on his dl. page I tried the Mason g.zip I tried flashing it in recovery and it says installation. aborted how do I get clockwork. off and smelkus on?
InSaNeO1488 said:
can u tell me how to install smelkus? do I have to uninstall clockwork? and then install smelkus. could u point. me somewhere. Im running sensuASOP 2.55 with clockwork and I tried to El smelkus recovery but I use fastboot and it just stalls out on parsing pc36img there's a few different links on his dl. page I tried the Mason g.zip I tried flashing it in recovery and it says installation. aborted how do I get clockwork. off and smelkus on?
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I told you already, click the guide in my signature. Read and learn, padowan
none of the links to amon ra work. does s off have to be off for this to work cause it was off then I partitioned my SD card and put sensuasop on and now S on
InSaNeO1488 said:
none of the links to amon ra work. does s off have to be off for this to work cause it was off then I partitioned my SD card and put sensuasop on and now S on
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Not that one. He means the "guide to everything evo 4G".
Sent from my PG06100
that's the guide I'm talking about none of the links work to amon ra. in the guide. and does my phone have to be S OFF?
InSaNeO1488 said:
that's the guide I'm talking about none of the links work to amon ra. in the guide. and does my phone have to be S OFF?
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http://d-h.st/tbF
For some reason my account at Dev-Host needed to be reactivcated
InSaNeO1488 said:
that's the guide I'm talking about none of the links work to amon ra. in the guide. and does my phone have to be S OFF?
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No, your phone only needs to be S-OFF to flash radios, and I dont think the evo is gonna be getting new radios anytime soon
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I change file to pc36img.zip put in SD root and the process gets stuck at parsing for 15 mins and I have to pull battery