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PLEASE help me fix my half bricked EVO!

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).

[Q] I have no signal! Help! Please!

Ok, so I've been using Fresh 3.5.0.1 for a while now, and recently I noticed something odd. My signal stregnth would differ greatly from a stock evo. Mine would show no signal at times when the stock evo showed it had full signal. This was a minir inconvienience at times, but recently I screwed something up, and I don't know how to fix it. I used Fresh updater to update my phone to Fresh 4.0b3, and after the update I had no signal at all. I've tried everything I can find to try to fix this, and like an idiot I didn't do a nandroid backup before flashing. I'm really stuck here. I went back to 3.5.0.1, have radio 2.15.00.11.19, PRI 1.90_003. Does anybody have any ideas? What went wrong? As of now, I can't make or receive calls.

Update: I just opened up GMail, and I had 5 bars and 3G, and it checked for new email. about 20 seconds later, no signal, 3G is grayed out, and I can't make or receive calls.

Are you sure it's just your phone & not Sprint? From what I've heard they have had outages recently.
If it is your phone, try doing the fix mentioned here: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-tips-tricks/280082-major-solution-fix-your-slow-3g-speeds-evo4g.html
Also try downgrading your PRI. If that doesn't work, you can try flashing the stock rom or unrooting & returning to stock. If it still persists at that point, I would take it back to Sprint for a replacement.

I think Sprint may have something to do with it, I've had to call them to reset my profile once already, but my girlfriend has a stock evo, and she always has full signal in our area. I'll give the steps in the link you provided a try. Thanks for the help.

I had this problem twice before....each time I did a factory reset in settings then rebuilt with sprint lovers rom image then went back to the rom I was using at the time..hope this helps..

I don't know exactly what the problem was, but 30 minutes with tech support got it working again. I think I'm going to leave it as is for now, and wait until Fresh 4.0 comes out of beta. Or, I'll just wait until I get my hands on the EVO 3D
Thanks for the support, its comfoting to know that there is a resource (these forums) where people are willing to help others with their problems. I've done reserch using XDA, but never posted anything. Thanks for the help!

[Q] *HELP!*T-Mobile Galaxy S II Network Problem

OK guys i'm a complete noob here at XDA (registered yesterday) but i'm getting really desperate and confused and since i've seen XDA is such a great community i thought i'd give it a shot...
My GSII had been running BeastMOD ROM II v3.0 for about a month now and it worked like a dream but about 3 days ago i turned off my phone and then turned it back on a minute later and I HAD NO NETWORK!! Now, that i recall i didn't do anything to cause this. I called t-mobile and went through all their troubleshooting, no luck. I flashed BeastMOD ROM II v4.2, no luck. Re-flashed BMOD 3.0, no luck. I noticed i don't get ping to my network, I have no IMEI number(i get null/null), and no baseband version(unknown). I'm really worried and hopefully you guys can help me some suggestions ASAP as i haven't had network in three days.

restore a back up of your stock if you still have it.

and this will only get me back to stock and not undo root or will it? will try

Here's what happens. I try to do my first stock ROM restore and it says
"Checking MD5 sums...
MD5 mismatch!" <--Whats wrong? I'm currently doing a restore on a backup three hours after that one which i'm not sure which one it is (maybe the first backup after i installed BMOD 3.0) but hopefully it will do something.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325036
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433819
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336915
read up, they are different phones but might have common factor
to fix i think:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1462870

mrpagercao said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325036
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433819
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336915
read up, they are different phones but might have common factor
to fix i think:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1462870
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Hey thanx for that last link but the freakin person that made that method just bailed on me after his method screwed with my phone. I have stock now but i have a problem where my phone keeps rebooting until it gets network and even after it finds network and gets its IMEI and Baseband version back, that "fix" doesn't let me use data and for some actions the phone says the SIM card is not ready or available. and when i turn off the phone and back on it keeps rebooting until it finds network like i said. I don't know what the EFS is but that could be something that is making the phone malfunction. Please! Someone help!

i had almost the same problem.
My IMEI is still there, but it just won't connect to any network! All of a sudden, I woke up and it wont connect!
I'm getting a replacement sent to me from tmobile. weird.

Need support from Virgin Mobile, want to return to stock

I have an issue where everything works fine on my rooted Stock ROM except the 3g.
Previously I had rooted this device (before I activated), kept everything stock except I wanted to be able to make backups with TWRP and to run Adaway so I didnt have ads everywhere. Everything was working fine on my wifi connection.
My older LG phone started having battery issues so I decided it was time to switch to the rooted HTC One V. Activated it, all seemed fine (phone works and wifi works) then I discovered the 3g is intermittent. I suspect there is something wrong at VM with my account because when I bought the next month's service after swapping phones on their site it remained at the old rate of $25. (should have gone up to $35).
This seemed great until i realized my 3g only seems to work 30% of the time, so I put in a support ticket and waiting on a return email or call.
ANYHOW, I'm guessing I'd be better off if I returned this phone to its original unrooted state before I deal with support. Is it as simple as relocking the bootloader then running the RUU on it?
In other words:
1. `fastboot oem lock`
2. Run the RUU
3. I'm good to go?
Or is there more?
TIA

To return to stock yeah that works. Bootloader will say relocked instead of locked though so that may cause some trouble with support but this is the closest you'll get to the state your phone was in when you received it.
Sent from my One V using xda premium

You will also need to reflash the original stock recovery. I attached it for you (pulled from the RUU).

riggerman0421 said:
You will also need to reflash the original stock recovery. I attached it for you (pulled from the RUU).
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Ugh... It's not flashed when the RUU is run? I did have TWRP on there.
So far I:
-re-locked
-ran RUU
-booted into stock ROM.
So now I go into fastboot and:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img ??
HTC is confusing compared to my LG phone and my Kindle Fire Tablet Pardon my ignorance!

I think I resolved the issue myself, the email VM finally sent basically had me shut off wifi and run the stock diags for the 3g connection, which seemed to work about 20-30% of the time. It then had me manually do the ##847446# re-program which seemed to do nothing. it turned out it was all a waste and a silly SNAFU.
The errors I would get intermittently were:
Data Call Failure - Error Code 104
Data Call Failure - Error Code 129
Data Call Failure - Error Code 67
Mostly 104.
How did it get fixed? Well, it's now running 3g steadily for 30 minutes 6 hours now, before it was a minute tops before failure.
Apparently, I left the phone I had swapped out running, planning to use it around the house for various boring things. It had the same MSID and MDN obviously, and apparently this was causing conflicts whenever it tried to grab an IP address from Virgin Mobile. I fixed the issue by pulling the battery on the old phone I had swapped from.
Doh!
[edit] edited to verify it actually is fixed this time. So sick of fiddling with everything over the last 2 days.

Photo attached..."data screen" while using phone after Keis Recovery

I'll give you all the info I can as this has all happened since last night.
Yesterday I was bored, and decided to Root my SGH-I747M [Virgin Mobile, runs off Bell I believe] I used to jailbreak my apple products all this time, my S3 is getting old so I figured heck why not. I was curious about all the Kit Kat hubbub lol.
I Rooted it successfully, then installed the CyanogenMod 4.4 Nightly Custom Rom onto my phone.
That was also successful minus two things that happened, I don't like some of the features & I lost cell service [NOT due to and EFS/IMEI issues]
Decided to downgrade and unroot as the only reason for rooting was to install Kit Kat.
Unfortunately trying to Unroot something went wrong, after pushing start in Odin and my phone froze in Download Mode and Odin failed.
After rebooting my phone I got the typical "Firmware upgrade encountered a problem" so I hooked up to Kies, entered my phone model and s/n and did a full Firmware recovery.
Still had no cell service, could make calls but no SMS.
Found a post that said to take out battery, take out SIM card, boot, then take battery out, replace SIM and reboot.
I believe I have full service back with no issues.
But after the Kies recovery, I have this constant screen on my phone as picutred in the attachment!
I can use my phone, I can touch anything/everything it doesn't block anything thats behind it, but that screen stays. It goes away if I need to go into settings but it comes back shortly. My phone is also still set as "custom" in the info so I'm assuming it's still Rooted???

Update: A friend of mine suggest doing another Kies recovery. So I'm waiting for that now.
And I'm not sure if it's still rooted, Went to settings>More>About Device>Status> And Device Status reads Official.

Alrighty another update incase anyone reads this and can either help or point me to help lol, I am searching forums/google like crazy trying everything.... I figured out that the screenshot is showing me factory mode is on.
Turned it off, after re-rooting and installing SU/Root Explorer.
So factory mode is off, now my only problem is Mobile Network: Disconnected despite Service State: In Service and all the other stats seemingly normal?
It seems I can make calls, but I can not use data or send sms/mms.