I am rooted, have not installed the latest update (dunno if there is a rooted version available). My phone showed me that I needed to update but made sure not to do it because I didn't want to undo my root. Yesterday, my phone started roaming all of a sudden. I can't get it to pick up a regular signal. The signal at my apartment has always been really strong (sometimes 4g), so it doesn't seem like there's a reason for it to be roaming (and it's screwing up some of my uses of wireless tether). Suggestions?
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Help Phone suddenly roaming
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Update the PRL for sure, that's the tip-top advice in this situation - and if you did, update again, another bud hereabouts found h had a case like this where it somehow didn't really update.
There are a few stock rooted roms with 3.70 available, here's one -
[ROM] 12/21/10 | SPRINT LOVERS | 2.2 | 3.70.651.1 | Radio/Wimax/PRI All-In-One - xda-developers
Keep your radios in alignment with the rom, don't update HBOOT, it'll screw up your recovery and you'll have to re-do things for no good reason.
Bookmark this - it's usually up-to-date, although recently, it's just showing one stock rooted rom when several are out there -
HTC Supersonic/ROMs - XDA-Developers
Use that to be sure which radios go with what roms.
Either way, if a simple PRL update from your phone's settings menu doesn't square things away, post back.
If you're getting any other spurious behavior creeping in, this is always good for that - http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/141369-how-fix-froyo.html
There are a few stock rooted roms with 3.70 available, here's one -
[ROM] 12/21/10 | SPRINT LOVERS | 2.2 | 3.70.651.1 | Radio/Wimax/PRI All-In-One - xda-developers
Keep your radios in alignment with the rom, don't update HBOOT, it'll screw up your recovery and you'll have to re-do things for no good reason.
Bookmark this - it's usually up-to-date, although recently, it's just showing one stock rooted rom when several are out there -
HTC Supersonic/ROMs - XDA-Developers
Use that to be sure which radios go with what roms.
Either way, if a simple PRL update from your phone's settings menu doesn't square things away, post back.
If you're getting any other spurious behavior creeping in, this is always good for that - http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/141369-how-fix-froyo.html
Go ahead and update your PRL anyway.
It can / may not only update the roaming list, but also the native tower list. Like all things software / data, even if the list didn't really change, it might be tangled up in memory in your phone.
It can / may not only update the roaming list, but also the native tower list. Like all things software / data, even if the list didn't really change, it might be tangled up in memory in your phone.
I'm NOT expert in this, but I wouldn't think that would matter. I'd expect them to just know how to give us the right stuff, no matter what.
We'll have to find out from a PRL expert - if one of us gets time, this would be a good question in the Android Lounge - lots of experts-at-large hang out there.
Can't hurt to try it at both locations, if you're unsure.
It's just data, you're on the premium Evo plan, so they know how to track us for the right updates, just my opinion.
Sprint doesn't care about us roaming within their network - it's when we crossover and have to use a Verizon tower or something - that's when they have to horse-trade somehow - that's my understanding. So, when the phone goes into roaming, it's going to want to find a Sprint tower instead.
Again - that's just my understanding.
Now you got me curious, too! I never thought about it, just kept it updated, and re-updated if it started roaming funny-like.
We'll have to find out from a PRL expert - if one of us gets time, this would be a good question in the Android Lounge - lots of experts-at-large hang out there.
Can't hurt to try it at both locations, if you're unsure.
It's just data, you're on the premium Evo plan, so they know how to track us for the right updates, just my opinion.
Sprint doesn't care about us roaming within their network - it's when we crossover and have to use a Verizon tower or something - that's when they have to horse-trade somehow - that's my understanding. So, when the phone goes into roaming, it's going to want to find a Sprint tower instead.
Again - that's just my understanding.
Now you got me curious, too! I never thought about it, just kept it updated, and re-updated if it started roaming funny-like.
evoX2
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Have you tried switching it from automatic to sprint only in the mobile networks under wireless and networks and see what happens?
When mine phone starts acting weird i usually will do a profile update as well.
^This too, great points!
I guess Ill add it here but not sure where it goes. I updated my PRL and profile. The thing is I can keep updating them. Shouldnt it say there is no PRL update available or no Profile update available? I can keep hitting update and it will keep saying updated changes will now be applied.
As far as I recall, profile has always behaved that way and PRL updates were model dependent - I _think_ that in the past the Evo would tell you your PRL is up to date.
While this looks underconstrained on the surface, I think it's an improvement because of those known cases where the version number alone can't indicate that an update is necessary because something got scambled under the hood.
My opinion, though.
While this looks underconstrained on the surface, I think it's an improvement because of those known cases where the version number alone can't indicate that an update is necessary because something got scambled under the hood.
My opinion, though.