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You can update firmware, but let's see if we can get a 100% working phone first. Can you reboot to bootloader, and do the:

fastboot getvar all

and tell me what your cidnum is.

Couple of ways to do this, can either work back through older Viper ROMs until you hit on one that works. Or find a stock backup that I think will work, that you can copy over to your micro sd card and then restore from TWRP. I need the cidnum to be able to take an educated guess at which backup will work though.

Edit : the other thing I want you to do is a backup of the Viper rom in TWRP. After you run the above and write down the cidnum, select HBOOT on the phone screen (vol down and then press power to select). Wait until HBOOT does it's checks, and then select Recovery (again vol down and then power to select).

In TWRP press the backup button, in the backup screen where it says Storage press on the text if it says Internal Storage, select Micro SDcard, press ok. Tick Enable compression, and then swipe at the bottom to start the backup. This will take maybe 10 mins to complete, but means you at least have a rom backed up that you can restore relatively easily.
 
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That's good news, you have a cid that uses WWE .401. firmware which makes things much easier.

This is going to involve another download I'm afraid, go here and download this file:

https://mega.co.nz/#!g48lRI6L!1vMaT0u0mFI0xJFCsdKEcUSY19v5Ma1ci886kTkXlg8

Once downloaded, on your PC create a folder called something like Stock_Backup - doesn't matter what as long as you recognise it. Extract the files from this download into the folder you created, note there might be other folders in the zip but so you know where the actual files are copy them over in to your Stock_Backup folder. The files we need will have names such as boot.emmc.win and system.ext4.win000 - you need to copy all of them.

Then we need to copy the Stock_Backup folder to a specific place on your micro sd card. Also part of the reason for getting you to do a TWRP backup. Once the TWRP backup has completed, you will have the following folder created on your sd card:

TWRP\BACKUPS\<your phone serial number>

- I don't know what your phone's serial number is but it will be a string of letters and numbers.

Copy the Stock_Backup folder from your PC to here on your sd card so you have:

TWRP\BACKUPS\<your phone serial number>\Stock_Backup

Then boot into TWRP recovery, click the restore button, select the Stock_Backup entry, swipe at the bottom to start the restore. Once complete, always a good idea to wipe cache/dalvik cache again, and then press reboot.

You should then have a stock rom that has working wi-fi - as long as the software version matches or is older than your firmware.
 
wait i will do steps by steps... you are afraid of what ?
The steps you mentionned above seems confusing to me... again downloading 1.29 gb for the wifi to work...i will let it download which will take 3-4 hours...i will do those steps tomorrow bro because of the download...i will be back to you :)
 
Ignore it, just a figure of speech - just meant you have another long wait for the download since your connection is slow.

Sorry, just the way it is - we can't get your firmware version so this is trial and error if you want everything to work. All this stuff means downloading large files at some point, no way to avoid it.

Be happy at least you now have a phone that boots properly into OS again - apart from wi-fi does everything else work, data and calls/texts?
 
thanks the download started i understood those steps i will catch some sleep and be back tomorrow while this LARGE file is being download i understood those steps...as far as i understood we are only trying this one if i really want the wifi to work..im thinking positive that it will work though it dont work what other things should be done ?
 
If it doesn't work, need to try a different way and probably download another file - but tomorrow's job.
 
Something wrong at your end then, both links work for me. Your fall back is either to try an older Venom rom from their download page, or go for using a RUU zip file which will take you back to stock. Both are still going to need files downloaded. Remember you need a full Venom rom version. I'll have a look for a link to full RUU zip so you have it.
 
Alternative, which is using the RUU zip file if none of the above work.

There are full RUU zip files available that should allow you to update your firmware and get you back to stock rom/recovery as well. This is normally a last resort step but if you can't get to the TWRP backup links, it's an option if you don't want to try different ROMs until you find one where everything works.

Note : if you have anything on your phone in internal storage you want to keep (photos etc) copy it all over on to a PC first - this will completely wipe the phone's internal storage.

You need the file listed here, this will also update your firmware to 2.22.401.4 as there aren't any for your older firmware that I could find:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934516315

Download it and check the md5 matches exactly.

Rename the file to be 0P6BIMG.zip (first character is a zero, fifth character is a capital letter I) and copy to the root of your sd card - don't put it in a folder.

Reboot to bootloader, then using vol buttons highlight HBOOT in the menu and select using the power button.

The bootloader should then recognise the zip file and work through installing the full stock setup, your phone will probably reboot a few times during the process this is normal.

Once completed, been reading that this might have to be run again to properly install the firmware. So if process asks to reboot once complete do that, then reboot to bootloader and select HBOOT again, and go through the whole install again.

Once complete then delete the 0P6BIMG.zip file off your sd card, otherwise if you go in to HBOOT again it will re-install the whole RUU every time.

Then - Power off. Volume down while powering on.

Above the instructions it should say FASTBOOT highlighted and at the top of the list below, HBOOT highlighted.

Tap power to select HBOOT.

HBOOT screen - choose and select FACTORY RESET.

FASTBOOT screen - REBOOT.

Note : this will also remove TWRP and reinstall the stock recovery. You already know how to fastboot flash TWRP back again.

Good luck.
 
Did one of the stock backup downloads work then? Yep, if you extracted the files, copied into Stock_Backup (or whatever you called it) paste to sd card so it sits below the Serial Number folder. Should be another folder in there from the backup you did using TWRP for the Venom rom with broken Wi-Fi.
 
Just to be clear - you tried to restore this in TWRP following instructions in post #107 but the restore failed? What message did you see in TWRP?
 
When you clicked on the Stock_Backup folder in Restore in TWRP, what partitions were ticked - should be Boot, System, Data at least.

Can you list the files you copied over from the backup download.
 
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