Heres the story.
I got my HTC desire a few days ago, and immediately rooted using unrevoked2 and then put the CM6 Rom on it.
I've noticed a few things:
- In 1 hr, with no IM programs, web browsing, or GPS my network usage meter said I used over 2MB of data.
-I can IM and search the Android Market with Wifi but can't surf or download from the Market. If I switch to network data I can.
-Ive had to do two battery pulls today. The first time the screen was unresponsive, and the second time my phone froze. I hit the "power button" and got a system error. When I hit ok, the phone showed no service. A battery pull fixed that.
In 5hrs my battery went from 78% to 32%. I did not surf or IM, or use any apps (other than network monitor apps), and made 1 30 second phone call.
-WIFI is on, BT is on, GPS is on. Network location is off.
Because of this I'd like to go back to stock and get a benchmark or at least see if the "issues" stick around. I'm running hboot .83 and the rom was 1.29. The phone has been unlocked, but was originally for Telus (not sure if that means its unbranded or not. I have absolutely nothing on the phone that I am concerned about saving. I did not make a gold card for this either. (Starting to think this was a bad thing.
If I revert back using the stock HTC rom, and then I want to go back to CM6 am I starting from scratch again? IE has it been unrooted, and is the bootloader locked again, or do I just have to reinstall CM6?
Thanks in advance. I know questions of this variety have been asked before but I can't find anything regarding my boot loader version and rom version specifically.
Can anyone help me with this?
FWIW once you rooted, you should've made a Nandroid backup of your original ROM which would have made it much easier to switch back, but that's by the bye.
Why not just install another Sense ROM from Recovery rather than go back to your original ROM?
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
FWIW once you rooted, you should've made a Nandroid backup of your original ROM which would have made it much easier to switch back, but that's by the bye.
Why not just install another Sense ROM from Recovery rather than go back to your original ROM?
Regards,
Dave
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Can you suggest one that is close to stock. I know it sounds crazy but basically CM6 is murder on my battery. Within 2 hours of powering up and very little usage (browsing and im'ing) im down to 80%. I'd like to go back to stock to benchmark it to see if its a hardware issue, or a software issue.
That said, I also liked the stock UI as bizarre as that sounds.
And just to confirm, its too late to make a gold card now?
I have a co-worker with Droid incredible and every time she turns the device on, it is stuck at the white HTC screen. Once in awhile, she'll be able to see the lock screen, but then the device will reboot again. I tried going into the recovery by pressing vol. down + power, but when I choose recovery, it gets stuck at the white screen again.
She does not have an insurance on the phone, is there a possible fix to this problem?
Thank you in advance.
Is it rooted or what? What did she or you do before this happened? Try to flash a rom or diff kernel?
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cheols46 said:
I have a co-worker with Droid incredible and every time she turns the device on, it is stuck at the white HTC screen. Once in awhile, she'll be able to see the lock screen, but then the device will reboot again. I tried going into the recovery by pressing vol. down + power, but when I choose recovery, it gets stuck at the white screen again.
She does not have an insurance on the phone, is there a possible fix to this problem?
Thank you in advance.
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Download this file
http://www.fourty.net/~berzerker/stockstuff/PB31IMG_3.26.605.1_RUU.zip
Rename that file PB31IMG.zip, put that on the root of the SD card, boot the phone into bootloader mode by pressing vol - & power. Let the update run its course, and she will go back to a TOTAL stock 2.2.
EDIT: She will lose all her texts, have to re-download all her apps, and set her homescreens up again, but I don't think you have any other option if it keeps getting stuck at the white HTC screen.
If it's stock already or if rooted and the PB31IMG from the above post doesn't work, she simply needs to do a warranty exchange. We are, after all, still within the warranty period.
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If it's stock already or if rooted and the PB31IMG from the above post doesn't work, she simply needs to do a warranty exchange. We are, after all, still within the warranty period.
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How would that not work? Its the stock rom, signed. I myself have done this before. Why go exchange it and get a crappy refurb (most likely SLCD )that, more likely than not, has problems? Why not fix the problem and keep the one that she has?
If they didn't want to do that they could go to shipped-roms.com and download the RUU from there and flash it back to stock that way also.
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How would that not work? Its the stock rom, signed. I myself have done this before. Why go exchange it and get a crappy refurb (most likely SLCD )that, more likely than not, has problems? Why not fix the problem and keep the one that she has?
If they didn't want to do that they could go to shipped-roms.com and download the RUU from there and flash it back to stock that way also.
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It ain't gonna work if it's a hardware failure, which seems a bit too common with the first run of Incredibles. No software is going to fix a problem with the SoC, which is why I said if the RUU doesn't work, she needs to do a warranty exchange.
The phone is completely stock.
She had to cut the line off and use company phone for about a month or two due to her personal problems. Now she's trying to get back on line with Verizon, but it's keep on rebooting itself so there's noway put it back on again..
Does Verizon/HTC do warranty on the phone even though she's not on the Verizon with the Incredible?
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The phone is completely stock.
She had to cut the line off and use company phone for about a month or two due to her personal problems. Now she's trying to get back on line with Verizon, but it's keep on rebooting itself so there's noway put it back on again..
Does Verizon/HTC do warranty on the phone even though she's not on the Verizon with the Incredible?
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I doubt they do, but you could just put it back on the plan, and take it into a verizon 30mins later. Tell them you hit *228 & #2 to update the prl and your phone rebooted and keeps doing so.
Thanks. If everything fails, I'll just go ahead and do that..
There's another version of recovery that lets you wipe the phone - you can search if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that instead of pwr<->vol down it was pwr<->touchball. There, you'll be able to wipe the phone.
I had a similar problem with a phone that I just sent back for warranty repairs. The upside was I did get past the white splash screen. The downside was a few days later, the phone finally kicked the bucket and wouldn't power at all.
This fixed my issue. I was able to retreive my pictures after everyone else was saying to forget about it including HTC and Verizon.. I think this is a pearl as so many Incredible users have posted the constant reboot issue. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
Another rebooting SLCD Incredible
Hi guys,
Just wanted to let you all know that this week, my wife's SLCD Droid Incredible started randomly rebooting. I had her on the Virtuous stock-based ROM and the SLCD ClockworkMod Recovery, and she had a TON of crap apps (pregnancy, game, live wallpaper, etc.)
I was able to back up the phone if I left the back cover off, but everything I did was time/heat sensitive. I wiped the phone and when setting it backup, got the bootloops after downloading only five or six market apps, not running any of them.
Last night I went back to stock (S-ON, Stock November PB31IMG.zip bootloader update). Again, after getting back to complete stock, it locked up after a few market apps were downloaded.
I called Verizon this morning from MY AMOLED Incredible, and they first had me describe the issues in detail (30 minutes), then try and repeat the issue (20 seconds after opening Google maps and starting a navigation session *quick heat*). She transfered me to "Level 2 Support", then he wanted to walk me through resetting to factory defaults on the phone via the SD card and storage settings. I noticed he wanted me to wipe the Internal storage, so I told him I needed to first backup the DCIM folder full of personal pics and videos to my SD card. He waited patiently while I backed them up (20 minutes). When finished, he had me wipe the phone+EMMC. I left the cover off so we could get through the initial setup, the put it back on after setting it up. He had me do *228 option 1, after the phone rebooted he wanted me to try and do "normal tasks" like downloading apps to get the phone to repeat the issue, if possible. I simply opened up Google Maps, started navigation and 1 second later, the phone went into bootloops. He promptly set up an "in-warranty" replacement to be overnighted to my house.
I do not have any monthly insurance on my phones, so I thought it was great deal that Verizon can issue an advance warranty replacement with return shipping, overnight, no less. Most companies would tell a customer to contact HTC directly. I am sure that is what Alltel used to do. I don't think VZW did it because we have corporate discount, I think this is standard service they provide for all their customers.
For any of you having this issue, here's what I recommend:
**If your phone is continually rebooting, pull your battery and let it sit out of the phone so they can cool for at least 20 minutes... Alternatively, you could probably put your battery in the freezer for 10-20 minutes and get a little extra "cold time" out of the phone before it bootloops**
1. Sync your apps with an app service like Appbrain to easily retrieve the list of apps you had.
2. Backup your call history and bookmarks using an app or two from the market. I have used free ones before, they should be easy to find.
3. Back up your Internal Storage and SD card to your computer (and preferably to a backed up location on your PC)
4. Revert to S-ON, and Stock ROM, if you are not already on one.
5. Set up only the basic functions on your phone (don't download any apps), then test that it is a heat issue by simply opening up Google maps and navigating anywhere.
6. Call Verizon and wait PATIENTLY on the phone as they walk you through their hoops. Expect this to take an hour or three. Just do as they say, as they have to make sure you indeed have a defective phone.
7. Profit.
Hope it helps,
jakewill
6. Call Verizon and wait PATIENTLY on the phone as they walk you through their hoops. Expect this to take an hour or three. Just do as they say, as they have to make sure you indeed have a defective device
jakewill
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Ditto I have always had a pleasant outcome talking to the phone reps. Remember they are just doing their job and they are probably doing this exact same long process all day..
Wish I could say the store reps we're just as good but it's pretty hit and miss.
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Hi everyone,
My S3 would all of a sudden just turn off and I wouldn't be able to turn it back on. I've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in. The phone would turn on by itself, but once it flashes the S3 logo, it would go black and the power button would become unresponsive. Sometimes it would keep vibrating. The only way I was able to keep it on long enough to re-flash/do a hard reset was if I took the battery out and left it overnight. But when I managed to re-flash/hard reset, the problem would come up again after a few hours. I was wondering what might be the cause of this. The first time it happened I was just streaming music, the second time it was just charging. I just got it back from warranty because of a loose power button and this problem was never there before. I was wondering what might be the cause of the problem and how I can go about remedying it. Thanks!
Sounds like the battery is failing. To be sure though, you said you can get it up and running for a few hours, right? That should be enough, but first make a nandroid backup. Then recharge, then do a full wipe and odin flash the stock firmware. (Only do this if you are certain it won't die during the flash.)
Are you on a stock rom now? If so and you're not sure enough to use odin, factory reset, including internal sd, and see if it continues.
If it does go to a Tmobile store and see if they'll let you test with a known good battery.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sounds like the battery is failing. To be sure though, you said you can get it up and running for a few hours, right? That should be enough, but first make a nandroid backup. Then recharge, then do a full wipe and odin flash the stock firmware. (Only do this if you are certain it won't die during the flash.)
Are you on a stock rom now? If so and you're not sure enough to use odin, factory reset, including internal sd, and see if it continues.
If it does go to a Tmobile store and see if they'll let you test with a known good battery.
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I did a full wipe and odin flashed it with stock firmware after the first time it happened. I thought I was in the clear, but it happened again couple hours later. I've tried it with my spare battery but it does the same thing, it would turn on by itself, flash the S3 logo, then the screen would go black.
I'd take it to T-Mobile, let them see it happen do their thing, and ask them to note it on your account if they tell you to call support.
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i got the razor\flo, and this happens regardless of the rom \ kernel i choose, after a day or two of running it, i'll turn it on, and it'll take 30 minutes to boot up, and when it does, there's no app data, i have to sign into my google and basically it behaves as if it has been somewhat wiped. any ideas?
it's been booting for about an hour now lol i don't think it's gonna boot up all the way
i been trying to figure this **** out for days now, it's beyond stupid to have to resetup everything every few days for no apparent reason
i'm currently on silbean beta 1 with elementalX kernel, (this happened before on slim rom with another kernel)
masri1987 said:
i got the razor\flo, and this happens regardless of the rom \ kernel i choose, after a day or two of running it, i'll turn it on, and it'll take 30 minutes to boot up, and when it does, there's no app data, i have to sign into my google and basically it behaves as if it has been somewhat wiped. any ideas?
it's been booting for about an hour now lol i don't think it's gonna boot up all the way
i been trying to figure this **** out for days now, it's beyond stupid to have to resetup everything every few days for no apparent reason
i'm currently on silbean beta 1 with elementalX kernel, (this happened before on slim rom with another kernel)
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Return it if you can. Sounds like a software issue not able to be solved by wiping or a fresh rom install so there's nothing more you can really do.
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Hi all,
So I'm trying to do a nandroid backup in CWM 6.0.4.7 on my N7, and for some reason it takes FOREVER to finish.. when I do it on my One X it takes 5 minutes at the most, but with my N7 it doesn't even finish, it just seems to be either in an infinite loop or just backing up at an incredibly slow speed, so I can't backup my tablet. I just tried to do a nandroid and after 40 minutes of leaving it alone, it's up to backing up /data and still going and doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon.. (I only have about 2-3gb worth of apps, about the same as my One X and that completes in minutes..
What could be causing this?
DrRuckingFetard said:
Hi all,
So I'm trying to do a nandroid backup in CWM 6.0.4.7 on my N7, and for some reason it takes FOREVER to finish.. when I do it on my One X it takes 5 minutes at the most, but with my N7 it doesn't even finish, it just seems to be either in an infinite loop or just backing up at an incredibly slow speed, so I can't backup my tablet. I just tried to do a nandroid and after 40 minutes of leaving it alone, it's up to backing up /data and still going and doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon.. (I only have about 2-3gb worth of apps, about the same as my One X and that completes in minutes..
What could be causing this?
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I am facing the same problem with my flo.
Making a cwm backup takes around 45 minutes whereas it takes only 5 minutes on my nexus 4 (which has much more apps installed).
Did you find any solution to this problem?
I'm thinking of giving TWRP a shot although I prefer the ui of CWM.
EDIT : Switched over to TWRP and the backup took less than 5 minutes. I'll be sticking with it for my n7.
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