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You don't need to actually be in a service area. 4G will should turn on regardless (sorta operates like Wifi, it can be turned on but left disconnected). But post OTA, the 4G was refusing to turn on at all. Check my root thread, I updated the backup link to the new post OTA one. If you also get borked 4G (my Wifi also refused to turn on), then I'll pull the link and put the old one back on. :(

EDIT: Oops...this is the root thread. So just scroll up to first post. The link there is the one that's been updated. lol :P
 
zombu2 said:
good work

when i get home i will start delousing the rom and change some things in it to make it more smooth

i have to read into how to deodex a rom heh
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Hey, If you want to team up let me know.
I know some stuff but not a whole lot. I know how to theme. Give transparency to status bar. And various other tweaks. Nothing that should give use errors untill we heavily mod the rom.
Ill be home later tonight...we should pull info together and get this baby up and running smoothly. If not cool. :)
 
transitoyspace said:
Hey, If you want to team up let me know.
I know some stuff but not a whole lot. I know how to theme. Give transparency to status bar. And various other tweaks. Nothing that should give use errors untill we heavily mod the rom.
Ill be home later tonight...we should pull info together and get this baby up and running smoothly. If not cool. :)
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I m up for that if Apache is... every bit helps

and i will grab the file as soon as i get home ... on my prime atm
 
First off I just want to say thanks to everyone here -- I've learned a hell of a lot from lurking and not that I know as much as any of you, but thanks for teaching lurkers such as myself and putting in all this awesome work!

But I've de-cloaked because I have a problem. I, foolishly, deleted my stock backup because I figured everything was working on my phone. Little did I know I would need to reinstall the bloat that came oem in order to do the OTA update, so now when I try to update I get a red triangle. I'm able to get back into my phone, just can't update.

Sooo...does anyone have a stock nandroid backup that they would be willing to share with me, root or otherwise?

Thanks, and thanks again.
 
My backup I posted a link to in this thread is the one you need. But after restoring to it, you must reinstall stock recovery and relock your boot loader before OTA updates will work correctly. ;)
 
It would apparently help if I were a little more careful about reading the OP. I'll restore from the backup, flash stock recovery, relock the bootloader, then try the OTA update and restore from titanium from there.

Thank you! And thanks for figuring out root on this device so fast! I thought I was going to have to wait at least a few weeks before I could load up my root apps. Do you take donations through paypal, etc?
 
guyphs said:
It would apparently help if I were a little more careful about reading the OP. I'll restore from the backup, flash stock recovery, relock the bootloader, then try the OTA update and restore from titanium from there.

Thank you! And thanks for figuring out root on this device so fast! I thought I was going to have to wait at least a few weeks before I could load up my root apps. Do you take donations through paypal, etc?
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heh

aperantly the phoon was already rooted on another site we just reinvented the wheel by doing it ourselves because we did not know

but hey it s all good great learning expierience

as for me i don t take donations
but apache might:D
 
Well thanks to you as well. I guess since the phone was basically the same as the one that Spring has the rooting process would be the same, with the exception of ICS vs Gingerbread. I'm personally really enjoying learning about all this stuff, even if I constantly feel like I'm about to be the proud owner of a $300.00 paperweight lol
 
guyphs said:
Well thanks to you as well. I guess since the phone was basically the same as the one that Spring has the rooting process would be the same, with the exception of ICS vs Gingerbread. I'm personally really enjoying learning about all this stuff, even if I constantly feel like I'm about to be the proud owner of a $300.00 paperweight lol
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It is very hard to completely brick the phone as long as you have a backup and cwm

as long as you can start cwm you golden if not adb is your friend
 
Okay so now I'm having another problem. I restored from Apache Thunder's stock + root backup, restored the stock recovery, relocked the bootloader, then did the OTA update. Everything seemed fine except that now 4g and wifi are both toast -- they won't even turn on. The only thing I can think of is that somehow the bootloader didn't relock properly -- I did get an error saying something about too many links, but I checked in hboot and it said Relocked and then under the Security Warning, but IDK if that means I messed something up or if that's standard when you relock. Any ideas?
 
guyphs said:
Okay so now I'm having another problem. I restored from Apache Thunder's stock + root backup, restored the stock recovery, relocked the bootloader, then did the OTA update. Everything seemed fine except that now 4g and wifi are both toast -- they won't even turn on. The only thing I can think of is that somehow the bootloader didn't relock properly -- I did get an error saying something about too many links, but I checked in hboot and it said Relocked and then under the Security Warning, but IDK if that means I messed something up or if that's standard when you relock. Any ideas?
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Easy fix, you restore to your working backup.
You did make a back up right?

I never recommend restoring from someone else's backup unless you have a working one of your own. I havent done the update myself as everything is working on my phone.
 
transitoyspace said:
Easy fix, you restore to your working backup.
You did make a back up right?

I never recommend restoring from someone else's backup unless you have a working one of your own. I havent done the update myself as everything is working on my phone.
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Oh yeah, absolutely. I unlocked the bootloader again, restored CWM, and restored from a nandroid backup I did. Everything works fine on my phone, except I don't have the update -- I guess I should adhere to the school of if it ain't broke, don't fix it huh?
 
guyphs said:
Oh yeah, absolutely. I unlocked the bootloader again, restored CWM, and restored from a nandroid backup I did. Everything works fine on my phone, except I don't have the update -- I guess I should adhere to the school of if it ain't broke, don't fix it huh?
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well i used apaches backup on my phone and i have no issues what so ever with 4g or wifi not working , i even went the 35 miles to the airport to test 4g speeds and it almost blew my socks of the rim and i really had to hold on to my underwear . thats how fast it was i was almost hitting 10 mbit down
 
zombu2 said:
well i used apaches backup on my phone and i have no issues what so ever with 4g or wifi not working , i even went the 35 miles to the airport to test 4g speeds and it almost blew my socks of the rim and i really had to hold on to my underwear . thats how fast it was i was almost hitting 10 mbit down
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Yeah I know -- I'm actually really impressed with the 4g. It's about twice as fast as what I was getting when I was with TMO and for about half the cost.

So what am I doing wrong then? I flashed Apache's pre-OTA backup, put stock recovery on through hboot, relocked the bootloader per HTC Dev's insutrctions, did the OTA and everything seemed to work fine except the 4g will not turn on (the slider goes to on then right back to off) and the wifi will not turn on, either (I try to turn it on and it just says "error" right underneath the slider).

The only thing I could possibly think is that the relocking of the bootloader didn't take somehow -- it said failed too many links when I tried, but on the hboot screen it said it was relocked so I figured I was good to go. I'd like the update, but not so much that I'm willing to forego 4g and wifi.
 
guyphs said:
Yeah I know -- I'm actually really impressed with the 4g. It's about twice as fast as what I was getting when I was with TMO and for about half the cost.

So what am I doing wrong then? I flashed Apache's pre-OTA backup, put stock recovery on through hboot, relocked the bootloader per HTC Dev's insutrctions, did the OTA and everything seemed to work fine except the 4g will not turn on (the slider goes to on then right back to off) and the wifi will not turn on, either (I try to turn it on and it just says "error" right underneath the slider).

The only thing I could possibly think is that the relocking of the bootloader didn't take somehow -- it said failed too many links when I tried, but on the hboot screen it said it was relocked so I figured I was good to go. I'd like the update, but not so much that I'm willing to forego 4g and wifi.
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hmm try wiping data and cache in cwm and see if that helps

wierd thing is apache asked me to test it too since he got the wifi error too on his own backup
 
zombu2 said:
hmm try wiping data and cache in cwm and see if that helps

wierd thing is apache asked me to test it too since he got the wifi error too on his own backup
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No dice. I restored the backup, then wiped the cache, dalvik cache, and data partitions. Rebooted and did the OTA update and get the same problems. I even tried doing the OTA with the bootloader still unlocked for fun and that didn't work either. I'm at a loss as to how to update -- could su be causing it?
 
guyphs said:
No dice. I restored the backup, then wiped the cache, dalvik cache, and data partitions. Rebooted and did the OTA update and get the same problems. I even tried doing the OTA with the bootloader still unlocked for fun and that didn't work either. I'm at a loss as to how to update -- could su be causing it?
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i doubt it i did the ota with root then restored root with voodoo ota root keeper

works great so far

as for your issue you could look into the dmesg log and see where it fails
 
I can also say that on my phone, that even with stock recovery and relocking the bootloader, the OTA update still seems to cause 4G/Wifi to stop working. After looking at the firmware.zip file, the update is trying to update the boot.img. My guess is that it's failing to flash the boot.img due to s-on flag thus the patched system files aren't compatible with the old kernel (since it failed to update the kernel) (boot.img is the kernel I believe) thus things like 4g/wifi stop working.

But even with the bootloader being relocked ota updates seem to still fail on updating the kernel. My guess is because it's not "factory locked" anymore. Notice when you lock the boot loader, it will say "relocked" in the hboot screen. Which I do recall being different then just "locked" when you first get the phone from the store.

It may also be that your stock recovery is too new. Do a google search and find the "leaked" firmware update to get the "original" recovery.img that came with the phone. The one I uploaded was ripped from the latest OTA update and thus it may be different then the stock recovery that was shipped with the phone.

Also one idea. notice how the contents of the firmware.zip in the OTA update appear to be the same in structure to the PH44IMG.zip we use to flash things to the phone via hboot.

Try putting the boot.img file from the update into the above zip file and flashing it with hboot AFTER you do the ota update and have unlocked the bootloader again. Be sure to grab the boot.img from the leaked ics rom so that you can go back to the true stock boot.img the phone shipped with incase you run into problems with the new boot.img.

(with boot loader unlocked of coarse). Do this even if you already have CWM installed. You probably can't flash boot.img by itself due to s-on. If hboot is able to do it, then you should be able to get the correct version of the kernel installed and the 4g/wifi issues should be fixed. I think the phone is using the recovery rom when it's trying to flash the boot.img file. Perhaps hboot will be successful instead. ;)
 
After i did the OTA update nothing changed with my phone at all as far as issues you guys are experiencing my wifi/4g works perfectly even after the update ( non rooted of course ) infact everything is still working beautifully.
 
Apache Thunder said:
I can also say that on my phone, that even with stock recovery and relocking the bootloader, the OTA update still seems to cause 4G/Wifi to stop working. After looking at the firmware.zip file, the update is trying to update the boot.img. My guess is that it's failing to flash the boot.img due to s-on flag thus the patched system files aren't compatible with the old kernel (since it failed to update the kernel) (boot.img is the kernel I believe) thus things like 4g/wifi stop working.

But even with the bootloader being relocked ota updates seem to still fail on updating the kernel. My guess is because it's not "factory locked" anymore. Notice when you lock the boot loader, it will say "relocked" in the hboot screen. Which I do recall being different then just "locked" when you first get the phone from the store.

It may also be that your stock recovery is too new. Do a google search and find the "leaked" firmware update to get the "original" recovery.img that came with the phone. The one I uploaded was ripped from the latest OTA update and thus it may be different then the stock recovery that was shipped with the phone.

Also one idea. notice how the contents of the firmware.zip in the OTA update appear to be the same in structure to the PH44IMG.zip we use to flash things to the phone via hboot.

Try putting the boot.img file from the update into the above zip file and flashing it with hboot AFTER you do the ota update and have unlocked the bootloader again. Be sure to grab the boot.img from the leaked ics rom so that you can go back to the true stock boot.img the phone shipped with incase you run into problems with the new boot.img.

(with boot loader unlocked of coarse). Do this even if you already have CWM installed. You probably can't flash boot.img by itself due to s-on. If hboot is able to do it, then you should be able to get the correct version of the kernel installed and the 4g/wifi issues should be fixed. I think the phone is using the recovery rom when it's trying to flash the boot.img file. Perhaps hboot will be successful instead. ;)
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Wow, after reading all that and searching around for a while for the leaked firmware, I decided that I don't want the OTA update *that badly.* I'm still trying to get adjusted to the HTC after being on samsungs for forever and a day, so the whole concept of hboot / fastboot is still something I'm trying to figure out.

Like, for example, is the PH44IMG.zip just a generic file basically that you can put various things into (like boot.img, recovery.img, etc) that hboot then flashes to the phone? In that sense, is hboot just basically another way of doing what CWM can do by choosing to install zips, or am I misunderstanding that?

So far my phone works great, and I guess if I really really really want the OTA update that badly I can just return it per the 30-day return policy, get a new one, update it, then root it, but it's a lot easier just to turn off the automatic check for device updates and then my phone won't bother me to update lol.

Knowing my luck I'll probably drop it or something have have to do an insurance claim anways, so I'll just wait until my natural grace and charm solves the problem for me.
 
Tw3ak said:
After i did the OTA update nothing changed with my phone at all as far as issues you guys are experiencing my wifi/4g works perfectly even after the update ( non rooted of course ) infact everything is still working beautifully.
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Yes the update will probably work properly if you have never unlocked and rooted the phone. The issue at hand is mainly for phones have been unlocked.
 
Apache Thunder said:
Yes the update will probably work properly if you have never unlocked and rooted the phone. The issue at hand is mainly for phones have been unlocked.
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I know i was just trying to help by verifying your post that it may be a issue only with rooted/unlocked phones. ;)
 
I am a novice at this and attempted to install "stock_PH44IMG.zip
(rename file so that "stock_" is not present otherwise hboot won't see the file! If you are flashing OTA updates, be sure to relock the boot loader otherwise things like radio firmwares and kernels will not flash correctly and you may get problems kernels/roms clashing with older versions of eachother)"

when I went to install the update a message came up stating "wrong or incorrect image".

When the phone rebooted it is not picking up a signal at all.

I can only get internet/data access via my Wifi connection. Did I miss a step? Can this be fixed? Or is the Boost signal bad right now and what I did isnt in connection to me completely losing my cell signal?

Thanks for your time.
 
Did you unlock your boot loader? If it says locked at the top of the hboot screen, it will not let you flash custom images. If the boot loader was locked, nothing was changed. So your signal issue are probably unrelated.
 
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