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Help A few questions..

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igolfleft

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Firstly.. I'll admit that I didn't read as throughly as I probably should have.. I have rooted several phones with the first being the original Motorola Droid and then a couple others.. All fairly tricky but for the most part no big deal... Anyway, I had no idea what S-ON or S-OFF meant nor was it very easy to find information such as this explained in detail..

Anyway, here is where I'm at..

1. Running S-ON, ICS w/ Slim 1.6
2. Phone has a tendency to reboot when it feels like it.. hasn't been too bad but seems to happen more when it's on 4G
3. Phone will NOT allow me to mount the internal storage nor the sd card when I plug into a computer.. like I mean it's not even an option, all I get are charge and internet tethering options..
4. the BIGGEST issue.. I can not tether whatsoever.. I've tried several apps such as Barnacle & PDAnet but none of which work.. I'm sorry I'm just used to the days of my incredible where it was very easy to tether and install ROM's all day long so I guess I was spoiled..

Any help would be appreciated.. the more I read though the more that S-OFF will offer and am I correct to have read that if I do the S-OFF I can turn my phone back to a "locked" status in the boot loader and in turn can also put back to completely stock??

Thanks!
 
Did you flash the old firmware patch after flashing the ROM? Did you flash the ROM more than once?

After this weekend, I'm running the same as you and haven't encountered those issues as of yet.
 
So after checking into some things I tried going a different route..

I downloaded Nils' Business ICS 4.0.3 Sense 3.6 (ICS Latest) (Aroma Installer).. followed the instructions.. installed with S-ON etc.. everything seemed fine.. NOW it won't stop rebooting after I configured Gmail & my work E-mail.. I can't boot into the bootloader menu unless I remove the SD card because it tries to flash the PH98IMG.zip as soon as it loads..

SO what to do next?? HBOOT I have the following information
UNLOCKED
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON SL
HBOOT-2.11.0000
Radio-0.95.00.1118r/0.95.0.1223r
OpenDSP-v10.6.0.7611.00.0919
eMMC-boot
Oct 6 2011, 15:43.22

HELP please!! :) :eek:
 
igolfleft said:
So after checking into some things I tried going a different route..

I downloaded Nils' Business ICS 4.0.3 Sense 3.6 (ICS Latest) (Aroma Installer).. followed the instructions.. installed with S-ON etc.. everything seemed fine.. NOW it won't stop rebooting after I configured Gmail & my work E-mail.. I can't boot into the bootloader menu unless I remove the SD card because it tries to flash the PH98IMG.zip as soon as it loads..

SO what to do next?? HBOOT I have the following information
UNLOCKED
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON SL
HBOOT-2.11.0000
Radio-0.95.00.1118r/0.95.0.1223r
OpenDSP-v10.6.0.7611.00.0919
eMMC-boot
Oct 6 2011, 15:43.22

HELP please!! :) :eek:
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This is how you get into bootloader. Pull our your SD card but have it "in" the slot but not all the way in. Have the battery at an angle ABOVE the SD card and turn on the phone in bootloader. After it runs the PH98IMG check you can use some friction and push the SD card all the way in and the battery down.
 
Cares said:
This is how you get into bootloader. Pull our your SD card but have it "in" the slot but not all the way in. Have the battery at an angle ABOVE the SD card and turn on the phone in bootloader. After it runs the PH98IMG check you can use some friction and push the SD card all the way in and the battery down.
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Ok that's not a problem.. but what should I try to get it running again.. I've been reading that maybe I should lock the boot loader at this point?? I'm good with just flashing back to stock for now.. I realize boot loader will show up as relocked but that's not a problem.
 
Ok so I managed to wipe and get back to my first issue above.. :) I believe this one should be easier to fix.. so under Software Information.. Here is what I have..

Android Version
4.0.3
HTC Sense
3.6
Software Number
Slim 1.6
Kernel
3.0.16-gd0049f1
Baseband is same as above
Build number
3.14.605.10 CL372320

and it's stuck on 3G for some reason. :) ugh fun of smartphone rooting! :)
 
What I recommend you do is first S-OFF via unlimited.io . Flash ICS firmware/radio combo. Flash desired ICS ROM. Sorry on phone so can't explain in detail but that's the correct steps.
 
Cares said:
What I recommend you do is first S-OFF via unlimited.io . Flash ICS firmware/radio combo. Flash desired ICS ROM. Sorry on phone so can't explain in detail but that's the correct steps.
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This is exactly what is happening.. I really don't want to go S-OFF right now but you're right that there is a mismatch in the firmware/ROM.. my firmware is still at GB and I tried loading a ICS ROM.. oops..

My question is.. Can I get to a ICS firmware and back again without going S-OFF?? Cause if not I'll probably just end up loading a GB ROM and be done with it. :)
 
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