Root Have I screwed up?

[Deleted User]

I've got an Alltel (non-divested) CDMA Desire.
I've successfully rooted it & got H-off.
I had Cyanogenmod 7 on there & it was running well with the exception of not being able to send pics attached to text messages. I downloaded the Alltel APN settings & used APN Backup to install it. Still no go.
I then downloaded & installed Oxygen 2.3 & had the same issues.
Finally, I went back to stock setting & was then able to get the texts w/pics attached.
Last night I couldn't leave well enough alone & went to US Cellular's site & downloaded HTC Sync & Froyo. It installed ok, but same problem again.
I attempted to go into recovery & restore the stock settings, but when I did, I got this crazy icon that wouldn't go away unless I did a battery pull & rebooted.
What now?
Thanks.

 

[Hadron]

What does the "crazy icon" look like? Is it a (red) triangle with an exclamation mark?

I guess that Froyo from USC will be an official RUU (ROM Update Utility), in which case if it actually ran for your phone you will have removed your custom recovery and unrooted the device. So the crazy icon might be the stock HTC recovery - on a GSM Desire this would be as I describe above, though I'm not familiar with CDMA devices.

 

[Deleted User]

What does the "crazy icon" look like? Is it a (red) triangle with an exclamation mark?

I guess that Froyo from USC will be an official RUU (ROM Update Utility), in which case if it actually ran for your phone you may have removed your custom recovery and unrooted the device. So the crazy icon might be the stock HTC recovery - on a GSM Desire this would be as I describe above, though I'm not familiar with CDMA devices.

That's it.
What now?

 

[Hadron]

Well, if you've unrooted your phone I guess you will want to root it again.

However, I have a feeling that USC Froyo may update your hboot to 1.06, in which case you'll need to use Revolutionary rather than unrevoked to root it. The procedure is similar, but not identical, so do read their documentation. A fair number of people here have used it, so if anything is unclear someone will be able to advise.

 

[Deleted User]

All I know is that I want MMS to work & so far the only ROM that I found that will allow MMS to work is the stock (2.1) rom.

 

[Hadron]

Not an expert on MMS - I receive about 1 picture message per year, and send fewer. But I'd have thought that as long as your APNs were OK it should work. But OK, since it doesn't for you, can we get back to your stock?

You say you did reload your stock ROM after CM7 and Oxygen, so I guess you have a nandroid backup (backup made from recovery). So to get that back you need to reinstall the custom recovery. I'm not familiar with CDMA phones though, so forgive me if there's a element of educated guesswork here and if I cannot give detailed instructions.

The first question: do you know what custom recovery version you had previously? The simplest solution would be to reinstall the same version, because that way we'd be sure it could restore your backup.

You could try rooting the same way you did previously (I assume using unrevoked), which if it works will reinstall the recovery. But I'm pretty sure I remember right that USCC Froyo upgrades the HBOOT to one that unrevoked cannot root, in which case this will fail.

So are you still S-Off, or has that also been reset? If you are you may be able to fastboot flash the custom recovery. You'll need to find a recovery.img for the recovery you previously had - I don't know whether these are different for CDMA phones or not. Instructions for flashing recovery can be found in the adb and fastboot faq in the "all about rooting" sticky post (red link in my sig). But if you have a standard hboot it may not support the necessary fastboot commands.

Which leaves revolutionary (linked previously). This will S-Off phones with the most recent hboot and can install a custom recovery. So if you can install the recovery you had previously, or if the one it installs by default is compatible, you should then be able to restore your stock ROM backup.

I think that either the second or third solution should work - the first might, but only if I've misremembered what USCC Froyo includes. Sorry I can only outline the general idea though.

There is one other possibility, but I think it's a long shot. Can you find the AllTel ROM in the same form as the USCC one (i.e. as an RUU)? If I look at shipped-ROMs BravoC index I see just one RUU, but it is AllTel. Is this your original software? If so, then in principle this could be used to reload that stock software. However, there's a catch here: if the Froyo RUU upgraded your HBOOT, I expect that this won't run, because an RUU is a ROM *Upgrade* Utility and won't let you *downgrade* the phone. So I think restoring the custom recovery and hence your backup might be the better chance, but mention this as the one other thing I can think of.

 

[shauny13]

All I know is that I want MMS to work & so far the only ROM that I found that will allow MMS to work is the stock (2.1) rom.

Hi, ive used all sorts of roms and sms apps and i find mms very hit and miss. Like Hadron i dont get very many, but sometimes they download ok others they dont. I think it's a network thing tbh.