Does anybody know where I can find a Stock ROM for a Sprint HTC EVO 4G? I've visited the HTC site and they have the some downloads, but I'm not sure if that is specific to HTC or if it's the same as what Sprint would have. I know some vendors add their own proprietary features so I'm concerned that the ROM I get from HTC would be different from the Sprint ROM.
Rooted versions are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038701
The ones from HTC will cause you to lose root. If you need to unroot, flash the unrevoked s-on zip in recovery first, then run the RUU. If you aren't rooted, you should be able to just run the RUU to update, although it will be easier to do it OTA.
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Thanks for your reply, plainjane. However, I'm still confused if there is a difference in stock ROMs between the HTC EVO you get from Sprint and the stock ROM you download from HTC. Call it anal, but I would like to restore my Sprint HTC EVO to it's original state. My concern is that if I download the stock ROM from HTC I might miss out on some proprietary modifications Sprint might have made to the kernel or the baseband.
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i have a rooted htc evo 4g with a custom fresh rom by flip.
OK here my question. can i update my htc evo from 2.2 to 2.3 without any problem? or it will erase my htc back to stock htc evo? or i have to reinstall everything again?
culua said:
i have a rooted htc evo 4g with a custom fresh rom by flip.
OK here my question. can i update my htc evo from 2.2 to 2.3 without any problem? or it will erase my htc back to stock htc evo? or i have to reinstall everything again?
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If you're talking about the official update from HTC, you'll have to unroot/get back to stock to update. No one knows when or if that update will come.
As far as custom gingerbread ROMs go, all you'll need to do is a nandroid backup through recovery, wipe, and flash. Shouldn't be any problem there, and if there is you can just restore from your backup.
Just make sure you've read up on the ROM you want to flash so there won't be any surprises when something is incompatible. Also know that there aren't any Sense ROMs on GB yet, so if you're not used to AOSP, you should familiarize yourself with the differences.
Ok thank you, Im happy with my phone as it right now. Until then I just wait for updates.
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How did you get the custom fresh rom?
Download Rom manager in market. Or search if on google. Type custom Rom for what phone you have.
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hey all new to this phone and have a few questions.
1. can this phone be activated on other roms or firmwares?
2. do nandroid backups require you to flash the firmwares manually or do they retain them?
3. how can you tell the difference between the sensation and sensation 4g?
the reason i ask these is because i currently have a month and a half service left with my current provider.
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hey all new to this phone and have a few questions.
1. can this phone be activated on other roms or firmwares?
2. do nandroid backups require you to flash the firmwares manually or do they retain them?
3. how can you tell the difference between the sensation and sensation 4g?
the reason i ask these is because i currently have a month and a half service left with my current provider.
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1 you can supercid your phone, and then flash roms from any other carrier. There are also numerous firmwares available, some for gb, some for ICS.
2 firmware must be flashed manually nandroids do not change firmware.
3 the 4G has some tmobile branding, and obviously different stock ruu, but besides that they're the same I believe..
Hope I helped
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jiggaman508 said:
1 you can supercid your phone, and then flash roms from any other carrier. There are also numerous firmwares available, some for gb, some for ICS.
2 firmware must be flashed manually nandroids do not change firmware.
3 the 4G has some tmobile branding, and obviously different stock ruu, but besides that they're the same I believe..
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thanks. and im coming from a cdma phone and i know activation only worked on stock rom so im just confirming whether there is a difference for gsm devices?
These are flashable zips that will change your baseband (radio firmware). Google it See twistedxx's post quoted below if you have no idea what this means. If you have an HTC One X (Tegra 3) you're in the wrong place.
twistedddx said:
Radio = firmware
RIL(radio interface layer) = driver
Android = operating system
All 3 are "programs" that are running at different "levels", I have listed them from top to bottom in the order typically considered for how they interact. It is important to understand that a program is just code and how they interact is a philosophy programmers created and are now use to and not because it has to be set out that way.
In the case of the RIL, the API rarely/never changes so it is rarely/never updated.
The actual changes HTC make happen in the "Radio" program.
This is opposite to how say Windows/Nvidia tackle things. The firmware rarely/never changes and they make their changes in the "driver".
In Nvidia's case they do this because there is no standard way in x86BIOS/Windows for GPU firmware to be loaded from something as simple as the installed HDD, the firmware is actually written to chips on the card itself. It is just simpler to make all the code that gets changed inside the "driver" which is easily updated.
For our phones "radio" its trivial for the changes in code to happen at the "driver" level or the "firmware" level, HTC/Google decided they would stick changes in the "firmware". They did this because they created a separate partition for the radio so that they can protect it separately to the OS. Android typically means the phones OS should be open for tweaking, so it must be assumed the driver could easily be replaced.
Countries and Carriers have licensed spectrum to protect and transmitters must be licensed to use it, running custom radio code would break laws in many countries. This leads to the radio firmware being protected much more heavily than the OS itself.
It is because HTC is lazy and because we have awesome devs that we can replace the radio firmware at all. As far as HTC, Country communication regulators and carriers are concerned the user should NEVER be altering the radio software.
Radio:
radio(fancy code stuff) <-> ril(boring translator) <-> Android OS
Nvidia:
firmware(advanced fixed code that allows for flexible access) <-> driver(fancy code stuff and translator) <-> Windows
Note:
Radio is about wireless communications
Nvidia is about graphics processings. They are not similar technologies just some tech you may be familiar with.
PS. API = application programming interface.. and lets just say if you do not understand what that is.. I cant be arsed trying to explain that, go Google it.
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If you're on the newer HBOOT (1.14) and insist on running a Sense based ROM use the Jet tool to downgrade to 1.09. This will allow you to write to the radio partition of the phone. Or just S-OFF (w00t!)
If you're running a CM 10.x ROM it doesn't matter what HBOOT you're on as the radio firmware is stored elsewhere (in a writable partition... /system to be precise).
Instructions:
1) Copy zip file to SD Card
2) Boot into Recovery (CWM or TWRP)
3) Flash
4) Reboot
Always take a Nandroid Backup in case something goes screwy!
Your bootloader will not show the correct baseband. I'm working on figuring out how the RUU updater handles the android_info.txt in the firmware.zip's
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I think maybe the op should add to the op that if you are running the official sense 5 4.2.2 builds, either telstra or tmobile germany, you SHOULD NOT be flashing the AT&T radios in the op, as they WILL cause data drops and reboots. Not quite sure about non-AT&T radios though...
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These are radios for flashing in Sense OR CM 10.x builds after 7/15 nightly!!!. They don't include the RIL files.
CURRENTLY THE DROPBOX LINKS ARE DEAD, THEY'LL BE BACK SOON (Migrating everything over to dev host to avoid this situation in the future)
Rogers 1.73 (0.16a.32.09.06_10.81.32.14L):
ATT 1.73 & ATT 1.82 (0.16.32.09.19_2_10.79.32.08L) :
HTC ASIA HK 1.77 (0.16a.32.09.17_2_10.83.32.16L):
HTC TELSTRA 1.81 (0.17a.32.09.03_2_10.85.32.16L):
ATT 1.85 /1.82 (0.17.32.09.12_10.86.32.08L) : http://d-h.st/mgs - thanks to rburgman
HTC ASIA 1.88 (0.17a.32.09.16_2_10.88.32.17L):
ATT 2.09 (0.17a.32.09.24_2_10.91.32.19L):
HTC TELUS 1.91 (0.18a.32.09.01_2_10.94.32.20L):
HTC TELSTRA 1.89(0.18c.32.09.01_10.93a.32.20L):
HTC ROGERS 1.94 (0.18as.32.09.28_L_10.103.32.24L):
HTC ASIA 2.23 (0.19as.32.09.09_L_10.104b.32.25):
ATT 2.20 (0.19as.32.09.11_2_10.105.32.25): http://d-h.st/bZx
HTC O2 2.29 (0.19as.32.09.20_3_10.107.32.25): http://d-h.st/AKZ
HTC TELSTRA 2.40 (0.20os.32.09.15_10.113.32.28L): http://d-h.st/cMp
HTC 2.41 VODAPHONE (Thanks Turge!)(0.20os.32.09.10_2_10.113.32.28L): http://d-h.st/HCL
HTC Singtel-Telstra 3.17 (0.23as.32.09.29_10.128.32.34):
HTC TMobile-Germany 3.17 (0.24a.32.45.03_10.129.32.34): http://d-h.st/TDQ - thanks to coldrazor!
HTC ATT 3.18 (0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34): http://d-h.st/Aez
HTC TELSTRA 3.17.841.9 (1.26a.32.45.19_10.134.32.34a): http://d-h.st/VoB
HTC VODAPHONE 3.17.162.7 (1.27a.32.45.15_2_10.135.32.34a): http://d-h.st/pGK
HTC VODAPHONE 3.17.162.8 (1.27a.32.45.28_10.135.32.34a): http://d-h.st/CIM
HTC TMobile-Germany 5.08 (1.31a.32.45.16_2): http://d-h.st/Z6X
HTC VodaPhone 5.06 (1.31a.32.45.16_2_10): http://d-h.st/hIM
PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THE RADIOS BELOW IF YOU ARE ON RECENT VERSIONS OF ROMS. THERE ARE HERE FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES ONLY
RIL Files + Radio: (YMMV. RIL versions change from one release to the next. Turge is on Record as not supporting these for his ROMs)
HTC O2 2.29 (0.19as.32.09.20_3_10.107.32.25): http://d-h.st/8tn
HTC TELSTRA 2.40 (0.20os.32.09.15_10.113.32.28L): http://d-h.st/IJ4
HTC 2.41 VODAPHONE (Thanks Turge!)(0.20os.32.09.10_2_0.113.32.28L): http://d-h.st/KdE
HTC ATT 3.18 (Thanks to liamstears!)(0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34): http://d-h.st/Maq
Radios for CM10.x based ROMs pre-7/15 builds (with radio in /system/etc/firmware)
TELSTRA 2.40 : http://d-h.st/vox
FIXED 2.41 VODAPHONE : http://d-h.st/0ah
O2 2.29 : http://d-h.st/gis
ATT 2.20 to revert back to stock cm10: http://d-h.st/R92
TELSTRA 1.89: http://d-h.st/yr4
Singtel-Telstra 3.17: http://d-h.st/UQa
TMOBILE GERMANY 3.17: http://d-h.st/645
ATT 3.18: http://d-h.st/DcT
HTC TELSTRA 3.17.841.9: http://d-h.st/Ewb
VODAPHONE 3.17.162.7: http://d-h.st/C9o
VODAPHONE 3.17.162.8: http://d-h.st/hKO
To Help decide which Radio is best for your area, try checking the Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=217917717250281685326.0004c262acfff78edb974
And please post your results to help other users out!!
possible to achieve soff since htc dev thinks its a rogers device?? rogers did achieve soff thrue htc dev right??? correct me if im wrong....
rpomponio said:
possible to achieve soff since htc dev thinks its a rogers device?? rogers did achieve soff thrue htc dev right??? correct me if im wrong....
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I think only a handful did, mine didn't.
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rpomponio said:
possible to achieve soff since htc dev thinks its a rogers device?? rogers did achieve soff thrue htc dev right??? correct me if im wrong....
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I think over in the S=OFF Thread they've thrown around a few theories, I dont think any of them involved the radio partition.
The take away from this is that we've been able to flash images to partitions we didnt think we could without S=OFF (kernel, radio) so it might be a relatively moot point to achieve it. As far as ROM Development is concerned anyhow.
I think... could totally be wrong about all of that, though. =)
This is amazing man thank you!!
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possible to achieve soff since htc dev thinks its a rogers device?? rogers did achieve soff thrue htc dev right??? correct me if im wrong....
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Mine is a Rogers and didn't receive S-Off from HTC Dev.
any way you could make these for the AT&T radios? or at least point me in the right direction to find them?
Mosch26 said:
any way you could make these for the AT&T radios? or at least point me in the right direction to find them?
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Looking for any one in particular?
When we get the kernel source, these forums will be buck wild
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Looking for any one in particular?
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the ones from 1.82 and 1.85 would be great!
Thanks for this, looking forward to att versions.
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taylor.fowler said:
OK Folks, this is a CWM/TWRP Flashable zip to bring you back onto the Stock Rodgers Radio (Radio_0.16a.32.09.06). I'll add Asia and ATT versions if there's a demand for it (You can also just replace the radio.img file in the zip with whatever radio you want to flash).
Instructions:
1) Copy zip file to SD Card
2) Boot into Recovery
3) Flash
4) Reboot
Always take a Nandroid Backup in case something goes screwy!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uje8r9erza80y0q/EVITA_Rodgers_Radio_0.16a.32.09.06.zip
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great man. I'm on 1.73 ATT, any risk with flashing radio from either 1.82 or 1.85 ?
Do we have the ability to flash radios from the One S or does it have to be a S4 One X??
ge3kswag said:
Do we have the ability to flash radios from the One S or does it have to be a S4 One X??
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This will most likely result in a brick
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First off thank you for this, I have been wanting my default rogers radio since upgrading to at&t 1.85 RUU. I have been questioning if there Is any difference in reception on my device.
Now, Please don't take this the wrong way, I am not trying to sound like an as!, but Rogers Canada does not have a "d" in Rogers. Again I realize this is a little petty, but I felt the point should at least be raised. Again, I am more then grateful that you have done this. Thanks again.
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Zarboz said:
This will most likely result in a brick
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Or in one x getting hspa+ on T-Mobile lol.. jk
HTC oneSies
Please make one for ATT 1.85. I have been on 1.82 and didn't want to relock to RUU. I have been hoping for something like this for awhile now! Please good sir, may I have just a little more radios please, I haven't flashed anything in three long days.
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possible to achieve soff since htc dev thinks its a rogers device?? rogers did achieve soff thrue htc dev right??? correct me if im wrong....
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Why are you so adamant on achieving S-OFF now that were bootloader unlocked and we can flash full ROMS with the ability to flash the boot.img and flash the radios from within recovery there is absolutely nothing more that you need except for HTC to release the source. Once HTC releases the Source we can start getting custom kernels and AOSP ROMS can get moving.
Can someone post the ATT 1.73 radio ?
am uploading the ones for 1.82 and 1.85 now (it'll take a while)
Crappyvate said:
Can someone post the ATT 1.73 radio 0.16.32.09.01_3_10.79.32.08L ?
am uploading the ones for 1.82 and 1.85 now (it'll take a while)
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Thanks...I'm like the other guy. Unlocked and on 1.73 running CleanRom 2.5...don't wanna relock to try the newer radio.
hi guys,
im planning to swap my phone to htc sensation 4g. tmobile. im currently using optimus 3d p920.
the question is, are t-mobile 4g sensations are somewhat different to other sensations when it comes to flashing? i meant there are somr carriers who does not support tethering right? or you can flash any rom on tmobile htc sensation?
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cmangalos said:
hi guys,
im planning to swap my phone to htc sensation 4g. tmobile. im currently using optimus 3d p920.
the question is, are t-mobile 4g sensations are somewhat different to other sensations when it comes to flashing? i meant there are somr carriers who does not support tethering right? or you can flash any rom on tmobile htc sensation?
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as far as i know if you S-OFF your device and supercid then you can install whatever rom you like
thanks for the reply.
i saw a thread before, though i cannot find it now, and based on that thread, there is a different way to flash roms to at&t sensation phones.
i am physically located in the philippines and i havent tried international phones ever since, i always use the local ones.
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Hi there, I am T-Mobile sensation 4g. I can confirm that yes as long as you are S-off you can flash any Rom to your sensation you like. Just make sure you have the correct firmware for the Rom you are wanting to run. Rule of thumb is ICS roms run on android 3.32 or 3.33. Firmware. Very important. 3.33 is the newest firmware but most ics roms run on both . As long as your soff and have the correct firmware your good to go. I highly recommend you using 4ext recovery also. It's a easy to use recovery that most of us use . Some roms actually are not booting unless 4 ext is installed. It's extremely easy to use and you will love it. It makes flashing a breeze. Remember before you flash to always do a nandroid backup . This is for your protection. If you have an issue you can easily restore your backup. Hope this information has helped you some. Don't worry about T-Mobile. I enjoy any Rom I want whenever I want to flash without any issues. Best wishes !
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thanks for that information.
if ever this would be my first htc unit. what are the things that i need to consider to prevent softbrick/hardbrick? or loosing imei? i appreciate using ext4 was already mentioned. i have a friend with galaxy s, he wiped ext4 and it cause him a bootloop and its very dificult to fix. as we tried to use odin and got no luck.
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now i got my sensation,
its already using a custom rom and custom kernel. im checking if there is clockwork recovery app or not, it appears that there is none,
how can i check if it's s-off already, unlocked bootloader, with supercid?
Hello, i wanted to know if i use the RUU to update the software on my sensation will void my warranty? Normally i dont have an XE, but the soft is from the XE... Thanks
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Smexhy said:
Hello, i wanted to know if i use the RUU to update the software on my sensation will void my warranty? Normally i dont have an XE, but the soft is from the XE... Thanks
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That all depends on how you got root. I know on my EVO 3D shipped with hboot 1.50 in order to get temp root, then s-off I used the HTCDev site and I basically forfeited my warranty (that's my understanding) and HTC COULD hold me to that. I would encourage you not to run an RUU for a phone of a different model. I know in the EVO 3D forum people on Sprint were flashing the ICS update for Virgin and it did not go well for them. Not knowing the specifics for your phone I would encourage at least reading in the Sensation forums and seeing what they say.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
That all depends on how you got root. I know on my EVO 3D shipped with hboot 1.50 in order to get temp root, then s-off I used the HTCDev site and I basically forfeited my warranty (that's my understanding) and HTC COULD hold me to that. I would encourage you not to run an RUU for a phone of a different model. I know in the EVO 3D forum people on Sprint were flashing the ICS update for Virgin and it did not go well for them. Not knowing the specifics for your phone I would encourage at least reading in the Sensation forums and seeing what they say.
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Ok, can i atleast change the ROM to the original HTC Sensation ROM but updated to the lastest version?
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Ok, can i atleast change the ROM to the original HTC Sensation ROM but updated to the lastest version?
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If you want to run the latest Stock version I would say to unroot, do the OTA, then reroot. There are some great Sense ROMs for the Sensation, I would check into them...think stock (with regards to look and feel, kinda) on steroids. Here is a link to ViperS Sense 4.1 ROM for Sensation. Team Venom does awesome work and it will give you the Stock interface (Sense), with better speed and performance. There are many more options are you wanting to go stock rooted or stock unrooted?
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
If you want to run the latest Stock version I would say to unroot, do the OTA, then reroot. There are some great Sense ROMs for the Sensation, I would check into them...think stock (with regards to look and feel, kinda) on steroids. Here is a link to ViperS Sense 4.1 ROM for Sensation. Team Venom does awesome work and it will give you the Stock interface (Sense), with better speed and performance. There are many more options are you wanting to go stock rooted or stock unrooted?
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I dont want to root my phone, my question is : Does the software version on my phone has to be exactly as the time i got it or can i update it on the lastest Sensation ROM using the RUU? (Cause i want to give it to warranty due problems i have with my battery). Thanks