So ive had my mytouch 4g slide for about 6 months. Recently i rooted it like 3 months ago, i had wildchilds rom, but then i changed to miks stock rom, everything was fine and dandy, but then my phone stopped sending msgs, receiving msgs, calls not coming in, and calls not going out. I restarted my phone several times, still the same problem. So i took it to T-Mobile, and i told the guy there what happend. He told me to factory reset my phone, and i did infront of him, everything worked fine and all, calls and texts back to normal, but then i looked through my phone, no Market, or play store. I askedhim wahts wrong and he said maybe its a glitch. He told me to restart it, i did, still not there, we factory reset again and nothing. So defeated i left and went home. I thought i could just reflash the rom, but since i dont have any apps and i dont have rom manager, it just ffreezes on me. So i am stuck with my phone without apps. What can i do to get play store on my phone again. been like this for 5 days so far. IT SUCKS!
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robertog1994 said:
So ive had my mytouch 4g slide for about 6 months. Recently i rooted it like 3 months ago, i had wildchilds rom, but then i changed to miks stock rom, everything was fine and dandy, but then my phone stopped sending msgs, receiving msgs, calls not coming in, and calls not going out. I restarted my phone several times, still the same problem. So i took it to T-Mobile, and i told the guy there what happend. He told me to factory reset my phone, and i did infront of him, everything worked fine and all, calls and texts back to normal, but then i looked through my phone, no Market, or play store. I askedhim wahts wrong and he said maybe its a glitch. He told me to restart it, i did, still not there, we factory reset again and nothing. So defeated i left and went home. I thought i could just reflash the rom, but since i dont have any apps and i dont have rom manager, it just ffreezes on me. So i am stuck with my phone without apps. What can i do to get play store on my phone again. been like this for 5 days so far. IT SUCKS!
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If you are S-On Locked you can go here...... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1532809
If you are S-On Unlocked you can go here to see the most common mistake when flashing........ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1508556
It's probably that simple. Good Luck
mine is S-Off. my rom manager wont work. i reboot and try to wipe data and cache but it will just show me the rom manager logo and sit there. It wont power off reboot or anything. Any option i choose it will get stuck. I click the options button, back or home and it will send me back to the menu with all the options.
robertog1994 said:
mine is S-Off. my rom manager wont work. i reboot and try to wipe data and cache but it will just show me the rom manager logo and sit there. It wont power off reboot or anything. Any option i choose it will get stuck. I click the options button, back or home and it will send me back to the menu with all the options.
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Sounds like maybe you are pushing the wrong button to activate the command. Try pushing the trackpad when you have the item selected.
Did you reflash the gapps? I'm not sure if that ROM has them, but that could be your problem.
HappyKhicken said:
Did you reflash the gapps? I'm not sure if that ROM has them, but that could be your problem.
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I cant flash anything at all on my phone since my rom manager isnt working, I dont know what to do. I am pressing the right button to command it because ive done it before pressing the on/off button. But it wont work ugh. What do i do?
Have you tried the trackpad button?
robertog1994 said:
I cant flash anything at all on my phone since my rom manager isnt working, I dont know what to do. I am pressing the right button to command it because ive done it before pressing the on/off button. But it wont work ugh. What do i do?
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You can flash from recovery without using Rom Manager. Just dl the file and use the choose zip option when installing. You'll be fine.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
Maybe we need a noob guide for how to use recovery! He's using power to select instead of Trackpad
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide running MikTouch
robertog1994 said:
I cant flash anything at all on my phone since my rom manager isnt working, I dont know what to do. I am pressing the right button to command it because ive done it before pressing the on/off button. But it wont work ugh. What do i do?
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to get into recovery turn off the phone take out the battery for 5 seconds, put the battery back in and hold vol down while holding the power button. It will take you to the hboot menu. Once there press vol down until recovery is highlighted and Press the power button and it will take you to recovery.
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Somebody (and I'm speaking more in general terms) should create a good noob guide for Android in general. But then there's a need for specific guides for the major manufacturers too. And of course, I'd really appreciate any guide including a good glossary.
From my experience, XDA and other developer forums are very steeped in detailed technical jargon with little explanation for the casual or new user. And I know that the focus is on development and not hand holding the noobs. But I'll counter with the fact that they do come here, looking for help. And it's infinitely harder to learn when there isn't a good resource.
Having said all that, I do appreciate Blue6IX's [REF] doubleshot Developers Reference.
GoPadge said:
Somebody (and I'm speaking more in general terms) should create a good noob guide for Android in general. But then there's a need for specific guides for the major manufacturers too. And of course, I'd really appreciate any guide including a good glossary.
From my experience, XDA and other developer forums are very steeped in detailed technical jargon with little explanation for the casual or new user. And I know that the focus is on development and not hand holding the noobs. But I'll counter with the fact that they do come here, looking for help. And it's infinitely harder to learn when there isn't a good resource.
Having said all that, I do appreciate Blue6IX's [REF] doubleshot Developers Reference.
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By all means feel free to make one. Your right new people come here and get lost in the hours of research needed to understand things but like you said this is a developers forum first and formost so everything is set for them
sent from the Batcave
Coug76 said:
You can flash from recovery without using Rom Manager. Just dl the file and use the choose zip option when installing. You'll be fine.
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You don't understand. I do go into the thing to flash. No matter what option I select it'll just show rom manager icon in the middle and freeze. No matter what I select I get the same result. I will record a video and show you what I mean once I get home. No matter what I do it won't clear cache, clear data, update, install from zip, nothing. I've done this before guys, I'm not completely mew at this, but this is the first time this has happend to me.
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You don't understand. I do go into the thing to flash. No matter what option I select it'll just show rom manager icon in the middle and freeze. No matter what I select I get the same result. I will record a video and show you what I mean once I get home. No matter what I do it won't clear cache, clear data, update, install from zip, nothing. I've done this before guys, I'm not completely mew at this, but this is the first time this has happend to me.
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So to verify, you're using the trackpad to select and not the power button right? Just making sure because it was never answered.
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As your not new to this then you should now how to fix it. Flash back to stock and start over. By following the directions of someone that has no idea what they are doing you ended up removing important files and without them you won't be able to do much at all.
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robertog1994 said:
You don't understand. I do go into the thing to flash. No matter what option I select it'll just show rom manager icon in the middle and freeze. No matter what I select I get the same result. I will record a video and show you what I mean once I get home. No matter what I do it won't clear cache, clear data, update, install from zip, nothing. I've done this before guys, I'm not completely mew at this, but this is the first time this has happend to me.
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You are right, I didn't understand what you were trying to communicate.
I was under the impression that when you were writing about ROM Manager that you meant ROM Manager and not CWM. ROM Manager is an application that communicates with CWM and directs it to do what the user directs, CWM is a developed recovery. They are not the same thing. Clarity is helpful if you are asking for assistance.
Here is a thread regarding getting back to stock but I don't know if it will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15834402
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
fastboot flash recovery path/to/recovery.img
Sent from Spaceball One.
Also, like the others have said, use the track pad to navigate in recovery. If you use the power button to select, that is why you get the logo, and frozen screen. I have done it, I know.
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im new at this please bear with me.
i rooted my shift last week. everything was fine, im not ready to get too crazy into flashing stuff yet (since the risk for bricking is higher with android). i like to take my time read, study, test small things here and there.
today i was browsing the forums and came across the battery icon mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892297
so i downloaded it, i had rom manager installed, and installed the battery icon manager.
i chose the icon i wanted rebooted, it looked ok, so i wanted to try the other icon and loaded that one, phone rebooted and got stuck on the sprint splash screen.
i can boot into the bootloader, not sure what steps i need to take next to restore my os.
BiffTirkle said:
im new at this please bear with me.
i rooted my shift last week. everything was fine, im not ready to get too crazy into flashing stuff yet (since the risk for bricking is higher with android). i like to take my time read, study, test small things here and there.
today i was browsing the forums and came across the battery icon mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892297
so i downloaded it, i had rom manager installed, and installed the battery icon manager.
i chose the icon i wanted rebooted, it looked ok, so i wanted to try the other icon and loaded that one, phone rebooted and got stuck on the sprint splash screen.
i can boot into the bootloader, not sure what steps i need to take next to restore my os.
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once you're in bootloader, select recovery, then backup restore. Then restore. Then restore your backup that we're all sure you made before you made those mods right? RIIIIIGHT?????
You have to get to boot loader to get to recovery to wipe and flash your rom... (hold vol down and press power) in case you didn't know..you should being that its rooted..I dunno
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once you're in bootloader, select recovery, then backup restore. Then restore. Then restore your backup that we're all sure you made before you made those mods right? RIIIIIGHT?????
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if you still have problems, come hit us up in irc:
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #HTC_EVO_Shift
Port: 6667
Site: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=HTC_EVO_Shift
RyteSyde said:
once you're in bootloader, select recovery, then backup restore. Then restore. Then restore your backup that we're all sure you made before you made those mods right? RIIIIIGHT?????
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hahaha, why would i create a backup!? that would make sense. i have not created a back up. i had not gotten around to doing it yet. it was on my list of things to do.
BiffTirkle said:
im new at this please bear with me.
i rooted my shift last week. everything was fine, im not ready to get too crazy into flashing stuff yet (since the risk for bricking is higher with android). i like to take my time read, study, test small things here and there.
today i was browsing the forums and came across the battery icon mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892297
so i downloaded it, i had rom manager installed, and installed the battery icon manager.
i chose the icon i wanted rebooted, it looked ok, so i wanted to try the other icon and loaded that one, phone rebooted and got stuck on the sprint splash screen.
i can boot into the bootloader, not sure what steps i need to take next to restore my os.
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Boot in to CWM Recovery go to backup/restore /advanced restore, select restore /system only. Once that is complete clear the cache, reboot. you can then delete your dalvik cache (note: clearing the dalvik cache doesn't work via CWM currently). That's it.
If you didn't make a back up, just re flash the rom. If you were still stock, just flash preludedrew's or nfinitefx's base. You can even still keep your data. Just make sure from now on to back up before doing any mods.
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he's squared away now. Make your backups y'all.
RyteSyde said:
he's squared away now. Make your backups y'all.
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thank you again for taking the time to help me out. it would have been a much longer night had you not offered.
BiffTirkle said:
thank you again for taking the time to help me out. it would have been a much longer night had you not offered.
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You're lucky. Usually when RyteSyde helps people, he helps them to pricking their device. Glad it worked out for you in the end.....
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riggsandroid said:
You're lucky. Usually when RyteSyde helps people, he helps them to pricking their device. Glad it worked out for you in the end.....
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That's a little f'ed up callin someone out like that no? I'm not a mod by far but I'm pretty sure the forums aren't for childish behavior as such..
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JKILO said:
That's a little f'ed up callin someone out like that no? I'm not a mod by far but I'm pretty sure the forums aren't for childish behavior as such..
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They're friends.
^ Shift Faced
jesusice said:
They're friends.
^ Shift Faced
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Touchè lol apologies to you two
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We take turns bricking phones in the IRC!
I guess I should've put an indication that I'm just trying to piss him off, but I know I pissed someone else off....
riggsandroid said:
We take turns bricking phones in the IRC!
I guess I should've put an indication that I'm just trying to piss him off, but I know I pissed someone else off....
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you're such an idiot
love you mean it
So, whenever I reboot into Recovery, the white HTC logo pops up, and then fades to black.
From what I've read online, there is a glitch with SLCD screens and CWM.
I've noticed that I can luckily still flash roms. I just have to select "Install Rom from SD Card" from within Rom Manager, and then the phone reboots, goes black... and in a few minutes everything is done. Would be awesome to be able to see the progress.
Anyone know what's up?
So I take it no one else has had this problem?
I have asked you three times now... How did you root the phone, what rom are you running... and so forth.........
No I don't have that prob. But try hitting the menu button when in recovery. It shows the update and when u hit menu again it clears out. If not menu try the other buttons on your screen. See if u can get the thing to switch out... see an update bar etc.
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I have asked you three times now... How did you root the phone, what rom are you running... and so forth.........
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Sorry, must have missed it.
I'm rooted with Bubby's one click, and I'm running CoreDroid 3.1
did they help you solve it in the CoreDroid thread?
mudknot2005 said:
did they help you solve it in the CoreDroid thread?
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Yeah, thanks Mud. This thread fixed it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974789
If I came off mean I apologize, just sometimes it takes a little more info to solve the problem. If you have any questions feel free to email me, and I will help you to the best of my ability.
mudknot2005 said:
If I came off mean I apologize, just sometimes it takes a little more info to solve the problem. If you have any questions feel free to email me, and I will help you to the best of my ability.
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No, you were fine. I definitely should have posted more information. I was spamming my problem everywhere, so I couldn't remember which posts to go back and check, haha.
**Added a few new things now that we have S-off. Check them out below.**
This thread was created simply for Noobs. Yes, if you don't know how to boot into the bootloader..than you should be reading this. We were all Noobs once. You can always check this more than once since i will be updating it with more issues and solutions fellow members post that i might have forgot to add.
If you dont have this recovery flashed already here is a Link to a WORKING CHARGING WHILE OFF RECOVERY PLEASE FLASH IT JUST TO BE SURE YOUR SAFE here. Will get removed when Rom Manager gives you the right recovery and not a broken one.
My Phone Died and i can't turn it back on!!! help!!
1. Download the recovery i have posted above. Once downloaded rename to remove the name of the recovery until its just named recovery.img.
2. Plug your device to a computer and run the command
adb reboot
or
adb reboot bootloader
if your device doesn't turn on, then simply pull the battery, put it back in, then redo the steps.
3. Once your phone does power on from one of those commands, reboot into android OS and put the recovery on the root of your sdcard.
4.Boot into bootloader while plugged into the computer and run the following command
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then the problem is fixed! I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, but thats the fix.
7/28/11 We now have s-off.
follow this guide here for a better in depth on how to do it. : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
How do i flash a ROM on my sensation?
1.place the rom on the ROOT of your sdcard.
2.boot into recovery using either the app rom manager and choosing boot to recovery, MORE THAN LIKELY your custom rom will have the advanced power menu so you can just hold the power key, go to restart, then choose recovery, or powering off and booting holding power+vol down, then scroll down to recovery, press power key.
3. WIPE your DATA/CACHE partitions, then scroll down to advanced and wipe your dalvik cache.
4. go to install zip from your SDCARD
5. Choose zip from sdcard.
6. Find the rom, press power button, and install it.
7. Reboot and enjoy!
Will i lose all my texts, apps,etc when i install a new rom?
Yes you will. You could make a titanium backup of everything though and restore it when your done flashing the roms so you can get everything back. Download titanium from the market.
What is the difference between a Nandroid Backup and using Titanium backup??
Well When you make a nandroid backup, your backing up the ENTIRE rom, not just things you want to restore onto your new rom. in other words, with a nandroid, if you want to go back to your previous rom if you don't like the new one, use a nandroid backup.
Nandroid sounds interesting and is something i would like to do!! How do i do it?!
You boot into recovery, go down to where it says backup and restore, and choose backup, name it, then go ahead and back it up. Thats obviously where you want to restore it as well. You *ALSO* can choose the app ROM Manager and do it from there.
My battery Life SUCKS after i flashed this New ROM!! IS MY BATTERY MESSED UP??
Nah its not don't worry about it. Your battery life usually is going to suck because your battery stats got wiped from android, and it has to recreate it. So let the battery die once probably, fully charge it, then let it die again. then Charge it then you should be ok. Give it a day or two you should see a change. If not, let the developer of the ROM know NICELY in his thread. If you see that someone already posted about the battery life, no need for you to post it as well.
How do i flash a kernel??
You flash it exactly how you do a ROM. No need to wipe anything just flash it and reboot.
How do i flash a RADIO?
That depends. if its in a format and the name starts with a P then has a bunch of different numbers after, then you do the following:
1. Place on the root of your sdcard.
2. Reboot into the bootloader.
3. Then it will find it, and ask you if you want to update.
4. Let it do the update. It will only replace the radio.
5. Reboot into recovery and wipe DALVIK cache.
6. Reboot and enjoy.
ALWAYS make sure you read the Original post of the person who is providing the radio to make sure he ripped everything out and its ready to flash.
My Phone is S-OFF and it fully died and now it won't turn back on and it doesn't look like its charging while its off WTF AM I BRICK?!?!
No its not. From what i learned its in "offline" charging mode since the battery is so low, and even though the light isn't showing, its still charging. To turn back on:
1. Either wait a few mins and let it charge for a little, then pull battery, put it back in and try to turn on.
2. Plug into computer, let it sit for a second, then use this command from terminal:
adb reboot
It will turn it on for you. i honestly don't know WHY its like this, but thats just how it is for right now. i personally had to use the second option. If i learn more about this, ill update you guys.
Does this Recovery update?! If so, how do i UPDATE IT?!
Since S-off and recovery JUST became available to us, its prolly not updated right now. But for future reference just download the App ROM Manager from the market. Once loaded, if there is ever an update or something for it, it will be in that app. then you can choose it from there and it will update it for you.
I hold the volume down+the power button but it doesn't boot into it!!!! help!!!
Pull the battery out before you do it. OR to make things ALOT easier, before turning your sensation off go into settings,power, and uncheck the Fastboot option. Now when you turn the device off, it will fully power down instead of just going into a "sleep" mode. Now do it.
My wifi is terrible! When i turn it sideways, i lose ALL MY BARS!! WTF?!?!
'Try moving your hand, you might be detuning the WiFi antenna'. If you know that the WiFi antenna is adjacent to the camera lens, you're more likely to be aware when you're covering it. But Your not alone either. i actually have this same problem as well. Yes i know it sucks. There are only three things you could do here though honestly since We haven't really brought it down to a conclusion of is it our hardware that's causing it or is it the software.
1.You could boot into bootloader and data wipe your sensation to see if it fixes it. BE WARNED IT WILL WIPE YOUR DEVICE, MEANING EVERYTHING WILL GET DELETED OFF IT! APPS, MESSAGES ETC.
2.If that doesn't fix it, go into Settings-Wifi & Networks-Wifi Settings. Once your in there press the menu button and go to the advanced option in the pop-up menu. Once in there choose Best Wifi Performance.
3. If that doesn't work, then you need to get a warranty replacement. we know it sucks, we promise.
My touchscreen stops being responsive! Whats going on!?
It seems to be happening to everyone after about a week of use, me as well. We think maybe an ota will fix it. But to do a quick fix of it just turn the screen off for a few seconds then turn it back on. it usually fixes it whenever it stops working.
My Data connection is horrible and extremely slow. Why?!
This also seems to have happened to everyone. To try to fix, call t-mobile and see if they have your phone in their database, and make sure on their database it has that you have a sensation and they have the right data package going for you. Also make sure your Sim card isn't old, which t-mobile can also fix for you. I Can personally say talking with t-mobile helps. i used to have poor connection. now i can use wifi hotspot for my laptop while being on the phone talking with someone still with full 4G bars.
You could also try this fix ( Thanks Mysterioustko):
-Go into the dialer and dial *#*#4636#*#*
-Select Phone Info
-Go to the "toggle cyphering" button and disable it
-For good measure turn off radio and then turn it back on
-Then reenable the "toggle cyphering" button
Just got my new sensation but its really hot!!! Is it defective?!
No it's not defective, its just hot. These batteries can heat up from time to time, ESPECIALLY on your first few charges, but it won't happen much anymore after. My battery was extremely hot from just charging it for the first time with the phone turned off, so i'm speaking from experience and from other users as well.
The voicemail notification won't leave the status bar even when i don't have a voicemail!!
Simple fix: Settings-Call-Clear Voicemail Notification.
Any more questions? Please Ask here. Ill try to answer them and add them to this post. Hope this helps people. Let's not keep asking the same questions over, and over, and over.. and over again.
Nice work!!!
But shouldnt this be posted in general?
Nice work!
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Nice write up, bro!
broncogr said:
Nice work!!!
But shouldnt this be posted in general?
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Thanks guys. I appreciate the thanks
Yeah, i posted it in both sections since some people dont pay attention to some things you know?
Thanks. Nice work. Hope HTC releases the new update soo.
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NEEDS to be stickied, I'm always in the background checking this forum everyday and see the amount of people asking the same questions...kind of.gets annoying to see.
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o0o Wiggy o0o said:
NEEDS to be stickied, I'm always in the background checking this forum everyday and see the amount of people asking the same questions...kind of.gets annoying to see.
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How would i go by stickying it? I never cared to sticky any of my threads that i post. Ever lol.
Shaquiel Harris said:
How would i go by stickying it? I never cared to sticky any of my threads that i post. Ever lol.
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U cant. A mod can, u need to ask them.
I think one of the Mods have to do it,depends if they think its useful though...I recommend they do lol
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Alright. Thanks for the clarification fellas, i asked a MOD hopefully they do.
EDIT: OP Updated.
stickied per request
joshkoss said:
stickied per request
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Thank You Very much!
Shaquiel Harris said:
Thank You Very much!
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anytime dude
joshkoss said:
anytime dude
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Would've gave you a thanks, but I'm past the thanks limit i can give in a day.
excellent..really appreciate ur effort...gr8 work done..
Noob friendly environment ... excellent
So, questions regarding radio's ... what are they? ... who makes them? ... why are they more dangerous to flash than rom it self? ... why is there more than version of radio per rom, and how to know which one to use?
ok, I'll slow down now ...
It would just be nice to have all radio related Q&A on one noob friendly place
So when the sensation boot loader gets open, i, and all us other beginners will definitely be more ready and armed with knowledge.
Thank you ...
strahota said:
Noob friendly environment ... excellent
So, questions regarding radio's ... what are they? ... who makes them? ... why are they more dangerous to flash than rom it self? ... why is there more than version of radio per rom, and how to know which one to use?
ok, I'll slow down now ...
It would just be nice to have all radio related Q&A on one noob friendly place
So when the sensation boot loader gets open, i, and all us other beginners will definitely be more ready and armed with knowledge.
Thank you ...
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hahahahahahah.. dont push it... there is much too many threads on radios and their ddescriptions.. in a nut shell.. if you dont have a radio you cannot make a call or use the phone as a phone.. so a radio is a must,, and the phone cannot be used with it..
Basically, it is recommended to use the radio that came with the ROM.. but many of us keep trying the new radios as and when they hit the market.. radio can be independently flashed on the phone (using sdk or fastboot - many programs available)
One person may see significant improvement by flashing a new radio, the other may not or may even have poor results > the radio performance will depend on the location you are in and your service provider.
Generally with the updated ROM (custom mostly) the dev will put somewhere in the OP the recommended radio..
OK,?
Now search for more >>> http://tinyurl.com/6yphuzw
Thanks..Very useful..
Htc map pack
Hey I have a question I had the desire hd rom on my mytouch and it had the htc map pack where i can get different maps for different countries etc ... How will I be able to get it on the sensation thank you.
My Galaxy S3 will not respond to any combination of button presses, and the device is identified as QHSUSB_DLOAD in Device Manager. If I take out the battery and plug it in, the light turns red for ~10 seconds, and then turns off. (Device Manager is refreshed at this time, but still reads it out as QHSUSB_DLOAD). It does not respond to home+power+vol down or up.
To get to this result, I had booted into recovery mode in order to install a new ROM, but the installation failed. I chose the reboot option and this is how I ended up. Looking back, I probably should've restored the device prior to booting...
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My Galaxy S3 will not respond to any combination of button presses, and the device is identified as QHSUSB_DLOAD in Device Manager. If I take out the battery and plug it in, the light turns red for ~10 seconds, and then turns off. (Device Manager is refreshed at this time, but still reads it out as QHSUSB_DLOAD). It does not respond to home+power+vol down or up.
To get to this result, I had booted into recovery mode in order to install a new ROM, but the installation failed. I chose the reboot option and this is how I ended up. Looking back, I probably should've restored the device prior to booting...
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You most likely need to go into Odin mode and flash back to stock using Odin. Just follow the steps in this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Also, dumb question, but is your battery dead? I know I had this problem coming from a completely dead battery once, took a bunch of tries to get it to start charging and turn back on. But I wasn't coming off of a bad flash, of course.
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You most likely need to go into Odin mode and flash back to stock using Odin. Just follow the steps in this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Also, dumb question, but is your battery dead? I know I had this problem coming from a completely dead battery once, took a bunch of tries to get it to start charging and turn back on. But I wasn't coming off of a bad flash, of course.
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The battery was at ~60% when I was flashing.
ALSO: I can't get into ODIN mode as the device doesn't respond to any type of button combination.
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Ok. I don't know what steps you have taken so far, but do a battery pull and then try to get into Odin mode.
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I don't know if you read the OP or not but I did in fact already do what you stated. It does not work. I have: Battery pull+attach to USB, Battery pull+battery back in. Neither work to get back into ODIN mode.
Yeah, sorry, I did read that right after my post, but I couldn't go back and edit it fast enough because I have these new user restrictions on my account.
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Yeah, sorry, I did read that right after my post, but I couldn't go back and edit it fast enough because I have these new user restrictions on my account.
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I understand, I have the same restriction. However, I think that the device is simply bricked and cannot be recovered. If no solution is posted then I will be heading to the VZW store tomorrow I suppose.
x04a said:
My Galaxy S3 will not respond to any combination of button presses, and the device is identified as QHSUSB_DLOAD in Device Manager. If I take out the battery and plug it in, the light turns red for ~10 seconds, and then turns off. (Device Manager is refreshed at this time, but still reads it out as QHSUSB_DLOAD). It does not respond to home+power+vol down or up.
To get to this result, I had booted into recovery mode in order to install a new ROM, but the installation failed. I chose the reboot option and this is how I ended up. Looking back, I probably should've restored the device prior to booting...
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Your phone is hard bricked. I'm gonna guess you were flashing a non Verizon ROM, probably an international.
The only fix at this point is a JTAG service. Also, unfortunately you would not have been able to restore before leaving recovery anyways. I'll try to find the popular website people use for that service.
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Yep, sounds like you flashed a ROM not made for the Verizon S3. Be a little more careful next time.
Check out mobile tech videos for a JTAG.
Zalithian said:
Yep, sounds like you flashed a ROM not made for the Verizon S3. Be a little more careful next time.
Check out mobile tech videos for a JTAG.
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Thanks I couldn't remember the site.
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I'm not trying to be a ****, but how/why do people flash roms not made for Verizon GS3? Is it really that easy to make the mistake? Where are they getting the roms from??
Just curious
josh995 said:
I'm not trying to be a ****, but how/why do people flash roms not made for Verizon GS3? Is it really that easy to make the mistake? Where are they getting the roms from??
Just curious
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Probably just google about flashing roms, find a youtube video and follow instructions. Wonder if a lot of videos don't have a warning, or if people ignore it.
josh995 said:
I'm not trying to be a ****, but how/why do people flash roms not made for Verizon GS3? Is it really that easy to make the mistake? Where are they getting the roms from??
Just curious
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I'm just an idiot, and jumped the gun on this flash.
josh995 said:
I'm not trying to be a ****, but how/why do people flash roms not made for Verizon GS3? Is it really that easy to make the mistake? Where are they getting the roms from??
Just curious
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Well, back in the days before quadcore... the roms that were made for the international HTC Desire HD also worked on the us version the HTC Inspire 4G. . . I fell right into the pitfall after getting used to that.
Is there such thing as a guide like this one but that is up to date and with working links? I want to flash a new ROM onto my phone, but the guides I've found here and elsewhere have broken links, or use language that I don't understand, or skip vital steps. I've been working on this for four hours straight and I haven't gotten a single guide to work, or get stuck, or something else that's really dumb. For someone who has worked on computers for the last 17 years this is extremely frustrating. I'm very new to the android modding scene and apparently it's not just a community, but an entirely different culture and I'm feeling a bit shocked and confused. I have like 30 tabs open with guides, info, different ROMs, different ways to do it, etc and the more I learn the less I understand how to do this :/ I just want to get my phone working with a ROM that's very similar to stock Sense but without the crappy bloatware and memory issues. Miktouch is the one I thought I wanted, but apparently hasn't been updated in almost a year, and bulletproof/doubleshot is confusing. I can't even figure out how to root and get S-Of... Gah!
Please help.
This guide is confusing and skips steps or lacks real explanations.
Thank you.
First thing you want to do is root your phone, this is done by unlocking you bootloader through the HTC dev website. There is a tutorial that is stickyed in the developer section called something like root from any bootloader. I suggest to read that a bit.
Once you followed those steps and unlocked your bootloader you can decide if you want to remove all security flags (highly recommend this, but some find it difficult) in the same guide it explains what radio s-off is and links you to the jbear site to do the wire trick (needs Linux) (or find weekendstoshort for a way to do it in windows)
Feel free to ask more questions but all answers should be found in these xda threads and jbear site, no need to Google anything for this
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I hope so...I'll give it another go tomorrow. I'm still quite frustrated at it. I wish I knew someone who had done it and could show me in person.
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I hope so...I'll give it another go tomorrow. I'm still quite frustrated at it. I wish I knew someone who had done it and could show me in person.
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MikTouch is optimized stock... So updating it farther would take it a direction we wasn't going with it.
Bulletproof is even older. We don't have much here... But what's here is solid
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First timer here as well (although long time computer user/programming familiar so I might have a better understanding of some things than you) and I was able to fully unlock, S-OFF, and load up a JB rom to my phone using the guide right on this site (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801106) and some help from some online friends that have done this kind of thing before. I found all links to be working, and pretty much all steps to be covered. The I guess hardest part was the permanent S-OFF using the wire trick. I had to burn an Ubuntu live cd and boot a laptop with it, but I was even able to get that step done. A little frustrating with the timing, I think it took me about 8 tries until it finally unlocked. The only thing I think I initially missed was wiping all 3 caches, so I did a dirty flash that got stuck on the boot screen. After I wiped and loaded again, no problems. If you'd like any additional help, I get pretty bored at work, so find me on aim or gchat, or just shoot me a PM here, I think I should get notified
Good luck, it's not as bad as I thought it would be
Also I haven't personally tried it, but feel free to peruse this thread as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696373
Note you'll need to have already achieved HTCDev unlocked and be rooted to use this (covered in that first link)
Hope that helps!
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First timer here as well (although long time computer user/programming familiar so I might have a better understanding of some things than you) and I was able to fully unlock, S-OFF, and load up a JB rom to my phone using the guide right on this site (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801106) and some help from some online friends that have done this kind of thing before. I found all links to be working, and pretty much all steps to be covered. The I guess hardest part was the permanent S-OFF using the wire trick. I had to burn an Ubuntu live cd and boot a laptop with it, but I was even able to get that step done. A little frustrating with the timing, I think it took me about 8 tries until it finally unlocked. The only thing I think I initially missed was wiping all 3 caches, so I did a dirty flash that got stuck on the boot screen. After I wiped and loaded again, no problems. If you'd like any additional help, I get pretty bored at work, so find me on aim or gchat, or just shoot me a PM here, I think I should get notified
Good luck, it's not as bad as I thought it would be
Also I haven't personally tried it, but feel free to peruse this thread as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696373
Note you'll need to have already achieved HTCDev unlocked and be rooted to use this (covered in that first link)
Hope that helps!
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I'm following the first guide you linked. So far it's working I just flashed CWmod on and I loaded it according to the instructions in the guide "After fastboot finishes, disconnect your MT4GS, go into bootloader, and go to “RECOVERY.” You should now be in ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.7. The first thing I would do in CWM Recovery is make a backup of your stock ROM for safe keeping. "
But I forgot to d/c my phone. It still loaded CWmod and I navigated to backup/restore and clicked it. Right now my phone has the clockwork logo in the middle but it didn't give me any prompts after selecting backup/restore. What's it doing? It's been doing this for like 5 minutes. Should I be worried that I forgot to d/c the cable and whatnot?
Thanks
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I'm following the first guide you linked. So far it's working I just flashed CWmod on and I loaded it according to the instructions in the guide "After fastboot finishes, disconnect your MT4GS, go into bootloader, and go to “RECOVERY.” You should now be in ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.7. The first thing I would do in CWM Recovery is make a backup of your stock ROM for safe keeping. "
But I forgot to d/c my phone. It still loaded CWmod and I navigated to backup/restore and clicked it. Right now my phone has the clockwork logo in the middle but it didn't give me any prompts after selecting backup/restore. What's it doing? It's been doing this for like 5 minutes. Should I be worried that I forgot to d/c the cable and whatnot?
Thanks
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I wouldn't worry, and I'm not entirely sure what it's trying to do, perhaps the possibility of USB storage is throwing it off. At this point I'd say just try to disconnect it, pull the battery, and start back up into recovery, but without the USB attached this time. I imagine then you'll be fine and able to backup the stock image like they say for safe keeping.
One more dummy question (tech support for many years, always check the simple stuff first...) you do have SOME SD card in there right?
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I wouldn't worry, and I'm not entirely sure what it's trying to do, perhaps the possibility of USB storage is throwing it off. At this point I'd say just try to disconnect it, pull the battery, and start back up into recovery, but without the USB attached this time. I imagine then you'll be fine and able to backup the stock image like they say for safe keeping.
One more dummy question (tech support for many years, always check the simple stuff first...) you do have SOME SD card in there right?
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Yeah, 32gb =)
booted into recovery, clicked on bacup/restore...still just showing the logo in the middle.
(PS any mods out there listening, I'd love to have that 5 minute restriction removed =D )
Okay, so the select button changes from power to the scroll pad once in recovery...good to know.
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booted into recovery, clicked on bacup/restore...still just showing the logo in the middle.
(PS any mods out there listening, I'd love to have that 5 minute restriction removed =D )
Okay, so the select button changes from power to the scroll pad once in recovery...good to know.
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NVMD....You got it now.
strapped365 said:
MikTouch is optimized stock... So updating it farther would take it a direction we wasn't going with it.
Bulletproof is even older. We don't have much here... But what's here is solid
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Using CWM to flash Miktouch now. Hopefully it works... =D
Just remember, if you are "S-On" you're going to need to fastboot flash boot boot.img after your ROM is thru flashing or you will hang up at the boot animation.
strapped365 said:
MikTouch is optimized stock... So updating it farther would take it a direction we wasn't going with it.
Bulletproof is even older. We don't have much here... But what's here is solid
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K. First impressions:
When I restart the phone, the first thing it does is force stop Gmail and Youtube several times. Is this supposed to happen?
Also, I'm extremely impressed with the speed of the restart. It's at LEAST twice as fast as stock.
And, Genius button doesn't work even after installing the patch linked to on your website (universal.zip).
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Just remember, if you are "S-On" you're going to need to fastboot flash boot boot.img after your ROM is thru flashing or you will hang up at the boot animation.
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Thanks Weekends. I did that and it's installed, though I fastboot flash boot boot.img before I used CWM to flash the rom. Does that make a difference? Do you think doing it that way will fix the force close mentioned above?
If there's not a fix for the gmail/youtube force closes, is it possible to do bulletproof with s-on? Thoughts? I really want to stick as close to stock MT4GS but with as solid a system as possible.
Flashing boot image before ROM will overwrite kernel
Wipe all
Flash ROM
Flash boot
Reboot
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Flashing boot image before ROM will overwrite kernel
Wipe all
Flash ROM
Flash boot
Reboot
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Another noob question. How do I wipe all?
Also, when I use CWM to install Mikrom it atuo restarts and loads up. Then do I restart again and go fastboot the new kernal?
Thank you all for how much help you have given me.
At the end of the updater-script there must be a reboot command, but being this ROM is based of stock you may not need to flash the kernel anyway.
Best methods for wiping is one of bluex's superwipe scripts or with fastboot
fastboot erase system -w
But being you are s-on that command may fail.
But always do a wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik in recovery.
It also good practice to make a nandroid of current ROM before you flash anything
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demkantor said:
At the end of the updater-script there must be a reboot command, but being this ROM is based of stock you may not need to flash the kernel anyway.
Best methods for wiping is one of bluex's superwipe scripts or with fastboot
fastboot erase system -w
But being you are s-on that command may fail.
But always do a wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik in recovery.
It also good practice to make a nandroid of current ROM before you flash anything
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Mmkay, working doing this now.
Quick question, hopefully someone can give me a link, but I'd love the install the depaginated app drawer, genius fix and menu wake up mods for this, but the links are broken (dev-host times out). Any help?
See weekends mirror thread
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