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hmm I was getting more experience with making a nandroid i successfully made a nandroid (of stock )flashed CM6 and flashed back last night. Tonight I did the same made a nandroid of stock and flash to CM6 I saw the announcement of CM7 and wanted to flash back and i get an MD5 mismatch error what do i do am i stuck with CM6 or can i recover? I'm just confused i follower the exact same steps i did last night.
 
though i am having irritating problems syncing my facebook & Twitter with my google contacts. Also syncing my FB calander with my phone calander

Edit: on CyanogenMod6.1.1 for clarification
 
Hello I been having trouble with rooting again. I use to have my phone rooted but last week I unrooted because I was taking it for a check up to sprint. However I been trying to root again but when I download unrevoked3 it downloads fine and everything but when I try to open it, it doesn't open, it just tells me "The application Reflash quit unexpectedly" does anyone knows what's wrong?

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help me!!
 
pegasus12 said:
Hello I been having trouble with rooting again. I use to have my phone rooted but last week I unrooted because I was taking it for a check up to sprint. However I been trying to root again but when I download unrevoked3 it downloads fine and everything but when I try to open it, it doesn't open, it just tells me "The application Reflash quit unexpectedly" does anyone knows what's wrong?

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help me!!
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delete your drivers reapply them, then run unrevoked.
 
Droidster said:
I was in the same boat and found a pleasant surprise!
I downloaded 3.31 the mac version. Clicked on it.... it does the rest!!
it will prompt you when to plug in the eve... the rest is 100% hands off... it was great... even tells you when its done
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Cool, thanks!
 
when i type
grep RSA /dev/mtd/mtd0
i get grep not found.
...
but when i try connecting to 4g. i will establish a connection. but within 3 min or so it will disconnect.
when i connect. i get a poor signal strength. which is what i always get at home. but usually it stays connected for a long while.

dose this mean i lost my wimax?

i just got to part 5. i havent loaded a rom yet?
 
reconunit said:
when i type
grep RSA /dev/mtd/mtd0
i get grep not found.
...
but when i try connecting to 4g. i will establish a connection. but within 3 min or so it will disconnect.
when i connect. i get a poor signal strength. which is what i always get at home. but usually it stays connected for a long while.

dose this mean i lost my wimax?

i just got to part 5. i havent loaded a rom yet?
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You wouldn't be able to connect if you lost your rsa keys. You could be in a bad coverage area, or you might need to update your profile.

Either way, grep doesn't work because you don't have busybox installed. Install that, and the command will work.
 
akazabam said:
You wouldn't be able to connect if you lost your rsa keys. You could be in a bad coverage area, or you might need to update your profile.

Either way, grep doesn't work because you don't have busybox installed. Install that, and the command will work.
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thanks. it worked now. now another question.
having busybox installed.
should i un install un install now? i am currently looking for a rom to use. i might be loading one up soon...
 
reconunit said:
thanks. it worked now. now another question.
having busybox installed.
should i un install un install now? i am currently looking for a rom to use. i might be loading one up soon...
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Nope, busybox comes in handy for many, many things. Most ROMs have it preinstalled, in fact. No matter what, though, stuff you have installed now has nothing to do with flashing ROMs. You have to wipe everything before flashing a ROM.
 
pegasus12 said:
Hello I been having trouble with rooting again. I use to have my phone rooted but last week I unrooted because I was taking it for a check up to sprint. However I been trying to root again but when I download unrevoked3 it downloads fine and everything but when I try to open it, it doesn't open, it just tells me "The application Reflash quit unexpectedly" does anyone knows what's wrong?

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help me!!
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Try re-download unrevoked. You may have gotten a bad download. You say you are on a mac so all you have to do is download and then run it. No need for anything else like drivers.
 
wrapkgb said:
You do not need drivers with a mac.
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Yeah that's what i figured but the problem is that when I open the unrevoked3 it just says "The application Reflash quit unexpectedly" so I don't know how to get it to work. or maybe I downloading an old version of it! this is the website I'm using: unrevoked
 
wrapkgb said:
Try re-download unrevoked. You may have gotten a bad download. You say you are on a mac so all you have to do is download and then run it. No need for anything else like drivers.
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I downloaded it several times now, and it stil gives me the same message
 
Weird. I have a mac and have rooted two phones with no hiccups. What version mac OS are you running? Unrevoked 3.22 requires Snow Leopard.
 
just rooted my evo (3.70). awesome! thanks guys... for those looking to root their phone, its pretty simple just follow the steps...
 
pegasus12 said:
I downloaded it several times now, and it stil gives me the same message
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try restarting your computer... same thing happened to me on windows 7... i ran unrovoked3 right after installing the usb driver... got that error about flash.exe stopped working... after afew tries with same result, i decided to restart the computer (l:rolleyes:ike it suggest in the instruction ahaha)... after restarting everything went ok. :D
 
Thanks Ya'll for your support. Everything is working in good order so far, after four days with an infinite loop of the white screen. Now currently rooted and tether works on 3g only, my 4g however seems to keep on scanning. I haven't tried to change my profile yet, gonna try it in a minute.

Also if the nandroid made a (wimax.img) does that file contain my precious rsa keys for the 4g connection?:confused:
 
CaptainFDU said:
I am sorry to ask a question that I have seen asked before but I have not found an answer. I have followed the steps completely over and over again for the past 4 hours and I always get hung up at the waiting for device screen. My antivirus is off. When I check device manager after I reboot the phone, it doesn't show a section for Android Phone. Could this be the problem. Everything else up to that point works just as described. I can't figure out what the hangup is. Thanks in advance for any help!
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So any ideas on what to do to fix this? I really want to get rid of the bloatware that Sprint keeps forcing on us.
 
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