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[Q] Inspire Wi-Fi

Hello All -
I've been having an ongoing problem with my Wi-Fi signal on my Inspire.
I currently go between 1 and zero bars connected to wi-fi, while my Samsung focus and Iphone have full bars. This is sitting in one place at my desk at work. Of course the Inspires bars increase when I get close to the router, but it's kind of ridiculous.
Any idea what to do about this?

fyrwyer said:
Hello All -
I've been having an ongoing problem with my Wi-Fi signal on my Inspire.
I currently go between 1 and zero bars connected to wi-fi, while my Samsung focus and Iphone have full bars. This is sitting in one place at my desk at work. Of course the Inspires bars increase when I get close to the router, but it's kind of ridiculous.
Any idea what to do about this?
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Is your phone bone stock?
Rooted, custom ROM?
Details of your phone's current set-up are important in helping to determine the cause of your issue.

Scott_S said:
Is your phone bone stock?
Rooted, custom ROM?
Details of your phone's current set-up are important in helping to determine the cause of your issue.
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Rooted, Custom Rom (currently Gingerbeast, but it does the same thing on all roms I have tried.)

fyrwyer said:
Rooted, Custom Rom (currently Gingerbeast, but it does the same thing on all roms I have tried.)
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Are your radio and RIL matched?
Depending on what radio you were running prior to flashing gingerbeast, the RIL that's included with that ROM may or may not be matched to your radio.
For more detailed information, see the inspire only radio thread located in the dev section.
Since gingerbeast is an AOSP-based ROM, you may need to flash the appropriate RIL, available from the above-mentioned thread.

Cyanogen Mod...What Radio Are You Rocking??

The reason I ask, I just installed Cyan Mod and now I have no signal. In my room, I usually have about 2 bars, but now, since flashing Cyan, I am getting no signal. Any ideas or suggestions.

did you try flashing a new radio maybe MR2.0 or MR2.5?

I think for CM7 you're supposed to flash the stock radio, I may be crazy though

Well I've never changed the radio, so it should be stock. But like I said, my signal is worse since putting CM7 on it. So I was hoping some other people have tried other radios with CM7 and had success.

If you are going by bars...forget it...look at signal strength under settings/about phone...bars work differently on sense and aosp

If you have 4g your phone will have signal but not show bars.. it's a known bug. If you flashed anything other than 223r or 402w then you have the wrong radio
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[Q] Any good ICS solution for Rogers users as of April 2nd?

I've read through the threads on all the forums, and nothing definitive yet. Also things are changing so fast over the last few days, I figured this needed asking.
I'm hearing people say that some of the zip cooked ROMs can be installed on the 727R but only if you have the leak installed first with ODIN.
When I go through the leaked ROM thread, it says it doesn't work on Roger's Skyrockets.
So is there any way to take a stock, or non-stock GB ROM and get either the leaked ROM or a cooked ROM onto a 727R?
Thanks

This works on Rogers. I flashed this from stock rooted Rogers GB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567817
Some minor bugs but there are solutions for them all so far.
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but to be honest my battery has been draining alot with this leak. also seems alot unstable atm. i know go ahead bash me but ive tried every rom to see if it would settle or be stable. but none so far and im just wondering if this leak is a problem for canadians or for "rogers" especially.

i didn't see anything about rogers incompatibility in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566820

wali01x said:
but to be honest my battery has been draining alot with this leak. also seems alot unstable atm. i know go ahead bash me but ive tried every rom to see if it would settle or be stable. but none so far and im just wondering if this leak is a problem for canadians or for "rogers" especially.
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+1 today it's been unstable for me a lot and the battery leak is still happening

I think there may be slight differences between the Skyrocket & Rogers version, that only Samsung know about.
One only has to look at the Samsung Focus 1.3 & 1.4 revisions. Both are identical except for a minor difference, but it caused major headaches for MS when pushing updates. It wouldn't surprise me if Samsung does the same on the Android side.
So with this leak your running an unfinished ROM, & one that may not be intended for your revision of hardware

i think that could very well be true. because of this battery drain 2-3% every less than half hour is like does this rom really feel it should be like this. also reboot issues, rom hanging in here & there, its not about the "work-around" but actual work seems very unstable. their devs are even soo stupid that when i ripped dialer.apk they spelled dailer in 1 of the imgs rather then dialer..it made me laugh soo hard..

projectvirtue said:
i didn't see anything about rogers incompatibility in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566820
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I've tried this version, Mostly worked ok but my caller ID stopped working?
I'm a newb so I can't post over there to find out if anyone else saw the same issue... maybe I did something wrong but everything else seemed to be great?

Thank you everyone for responding. Gonna wait a few days and see how this plays out for Rogers uses. Hope other Rogers users post results here.

If you are on Rogers, flash the thing from the second post then flash any of the other ICS ROMs.

GB-->ICS works
I used ICSMOD5 from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566820
What I did:SGH-i727R
My ROM was running Malice from T989, with Streamline Kernel.
1)Backup!
2)Factory Reset
3)Advanced - Wipe Dalvik
4)Manual reset: - Mounts and storage, Format system,data & cache
5)Flash UCLA4 ICS radio
6)Flash the ICSMOD5_wipe version
7)Boot
8)Wait...wait even more...don't panic...
9)Enjoy
Everything including data and gps, and time issues were okay.
On the apex launcher, the messenger icon is bonked, just remove the shortcut and put the messaging shortcut again.
Wifi Tether: Starts up via toggle mod, can set password and stuff, computer connects to it but no data goes thru.
Will report back on battery use and possible issues.
So far so good.

how did you all get LTE to work?
i cannot for the life of me!!

johentie said:
how did you all get LTE to work?
i cannot for the life of me!!
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Flash this modem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24140728&postcount=5
Then type *#2263# into the Phone and Select "[4] LTE Band Preference" then "[7] LTE ALL". Once you get an LTE signal, then type *#2263# again and this time Choose "[1] Automatic" and it should work.
I've had to do this a few times, but I have gotten stable LTE on all the ICS builds so far.

i keep getting unknown id on my calls instead of it showing the number

shaeelasim said:
i keep getting unknown id on my calls instead of it showing the number
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I'm getting the same thing? No fix yet but have a look here

jwfraser said:
Flash this modem http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24140728&postcount=5
Then type *#2263# into the Phone and Select "[4] LTE Band Preference" then "[7] LTE ALL". Once you get an LTE signal, then type *#2263# again and this time Choose "[1] Automatic" and it should work.
I've had to do this a few times, but I have gotten stable LTE on all the ICS builds so far.
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Thanks... i tried that but i couldn't get an LTE signal.. the best i got was 1 bar of just signal..
i usually get 45mbps download speeds in my area... I'll try it again elsewhere..

confirm ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 on Rogers Galaxy S2 I727
I like to endorse the custom ROM ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 on Rogers Galaxy S2 I727. it is a SUPER ROM, improves the battery life, smooth, uncluttered and simple to install. mhx did a fabulous job.
ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 is fantastic!

redleef said:
I like to endorse the custom ROM ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 on Rogers Galaxy S2 I727. it is a SUPER ROM, improves the battery life, smooth, uncluttered and simple to install. mhx did a fabulous job.
ICS-SUPERLITE 5.1 is fantastic!
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+ 1, actually this has become my daily driver. There are some quirks as in callerid coming in from a telus cell but other than that everything else is solid. Also got lte to kind of work but it's just been started to get setup in my area lol.
~PsyCl0ne
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I've been running Smooth Ice for almost 2 weeks with no issues. The first ROM I used to upgrade from GB was the one just called 'Working Rogers ICS ROM', or something like that. I used Superlite and then went to Smooth Ice and have no complaints.

well not to put my team's rom up. but if you use our rom after we're gonna update today you are not gonna wanna leave it =).. you think you had enough with other roms. haha you have seen nothing yet.

Signal

I have flashed a lot of Roms successfully, ever since I got the inspire (over a year ago). Sure in the early stages of learning the device I had some boot loops, flashes that didn't take, or just random items.
However, as time has past I have noticed a problem when it comes to signal.
When I flash a Rom I always use the recommended radio, and ril combo that is suggested, however, I flash all available radios for our device, to make sure I have the right one for my area. (Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana)
I have a device that doesn't like overclocking, past 1.2 normally, no matter the Rom or kernal.
So I keep the device a hair over 1G, for stability.
Now to my question.
When I flash GB with sense 2.1, I get the best signal, and GPS lock of any build.
When I flash GB with sense 3.0, the signal drops some, but still ok.
When I flash GB with sense 3.5, the signal goes away. (I know some Roms have a glitch in the display) however I totally lose signal, where I had full service with the above.
My question is? Is there a way to pull the radio set up from GB 2.1 and align it with GB 3.0, GB 3.5 or even ICS?
Or is this based off the RUU that the Rom is based off of?
The Rom that gives me the best radio and GPS is Rumrunner 4.0, and the worst is any sensation port.
I have found a lot of stable, clean, and fast Roms that I like, however, I always have to return to a GB 2.1 Rom, because of signal issues.
Any insight on this would be awesome!!
"This has occured on multiple devices I have rooted, and flashed for others, so I know it is not just my device."
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SGF11 said:
I have flashed a lot of Roms successfully, ever since I got the inspire (over a year ago). Sure in the early stages of learning the device I had some boot loops, flashes that didn't take, or just random items.
However, as time has past I have noticed a problem when it comes to signal.
When I flash a Rom I always use the recommended radio, and ril combo that is suggested, however, I flash all available radios for our device, to make sure I have the right one for my area. (Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana)
I have a device that doesn't like overclocking, past 1.2 normally, no matter the Rom or kernal.
So I keep the device a hair over 1G, for stability.
Now to my question.
When I flash GB with sense 2.1, I get the best signal, and GPS lock of any build.
When I flash GB with sense 3.0, the signal drops some, but still ok.
When I flash GB with sense 3.5, the signal goes away. (I know some Roms have a glitch in the display) however I totally lose signal, where I had full service with the above.
My question is? Is there a way to pull the radio set up from GB 2.1 and align it with GB 3.0, GB 3.5 or even ICS?
Or is this based off the RUU that the Rom is based off of?
The Rom that gives me the best radio and GPS is Rumrunner 4.0, and the worst is any sensation port.
I have found a lot of stable, clean, and fast Roms that I like, however, I always have to return to a GB 2.1 Rom, because of signal issues.
Any insight on this would be awesome!!
"This has occured on multiple devices I have rooted, and flashed for others, so I know it is not just my device."
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G using xda premium
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What are you using to measure signal strength? If you are counting bars, each rom calculates them slightly different, only creating the illusion of different strength levels. Changing radios and rils often also isnt going to help you gain much. ive never seen a signal strength different between roms but i also have mine set to show -dbm so i know actual signal. Me personally, im using my gb ota radio as its given me the best signal retention out of the ones ive tried.
By the way, recommended radio ril that rom devs suggest is simply what they use on their device. They state this because this is the combination they know for 100% that it works. You are free to use whatever radio you want. and with sense roms flash the respective ril. aosp/aokp roms, do not flash ril (it will cause modem to not work until a reflash)

[Q] Why is Virtuous Inquisition v4.0.2 the only ICS that mobile data works on for me?

Please help if I am missing something. I am s-off wire trick. I believe I have the most recent radio. 11.59.3504.00P_11.16.3504.20_2.
I can flash the 3.0.53v8 or v9 kernels over this rom and most everything works but wifi so I am sticking with the 3.0.16virt kernel that is available with this rom. But I cannot flash any other of the CM9 or CM10 roms and get data. I have flashed them multiple times, tooled around with the vpn's got a new sim card, got a new phone (warranty), spent too much time with customer service at TMobile. Still, no dice. I am pretty happy with this ROM aside from not having DSP Manager or the ability to add it. Is it because there are still some elements of sense there like the camera? I thought it was a APN input issue but I have dialed in the same APN's as Inquisition for any other CM9 or 10 roms and nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

ronbon said:
Please help if I am missing something. I am s-off wire trick. I believe I have the most recent radio. 11.59.3504.00P_11.16.3504.20_2.
I can flash the 3.0.53v8 or v9 kernels over this rom and most everything works but wifi so I am sticking with the 3.0.16virt kernel that is available with this rom. But I cannot flash any other of the CM9 or CM10 roms and get data. I have flashed them multiple times, tooled around with the vpn's got a new sim card, got a new phone (warranty), spent too much time with customer service at TMobile. Still, no dice. I am pretty happy with this ROM aside from not having DSP Manager or the ability to add it. Is it because there are still some elements of sense there like the camera? I thought it was a APN input issue but I have dialed in the same APN's as Inquisition for any other CM9 or 10 roms and nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
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I know this is no help to your situation, but I've run all the available ICS and JB roms that are for the MT4GS and I have mobile data and wifi on all of them. There have been some issues where data drops occasionally, but it will reconnect in a matter of seconds. With the later kernels like r8 and r9 I had no dropouts.
I believe that Sense-based ROMS require a kernel that is built for Sense, so using a CM-based kernel (like r8 or r9) would definitely cause problems. Likewise, using a Sense-based kernel on a CM ROM would be unwise.
If you like Sense based ROMs, have you tried either the Bliss ROM from sun_dream (the XE 3.32 version, not the 3.33) or the MikXE ROM? Of the ICS Sense ROMs, I found them to be the most stable and battery-friendly right out of the box. For a CM/AOKP, the AOKP JB Milestone 1 is very stable and functional, and gets you Jelly Bean... even Google Now works well on it. CM9.1r9 is a great, very stable release, as well.
Just make sure you're doing a very thorough wipe before flashing any new ROM. Even go to Mounts and format the /system, /data, and /cache manually wouldn't hurt.

Thanks
Fuzi0719 said:
I know this is no help to your situation, but I've run all the available ICS and JB roms that are for the MT4GS and I have mobile data and wifi on all of them. There have been some issues where data drops occasionally, but it will reconnect in a matter of seconds. With the later kernels like r8 and r9 I had no dropouts.
I believe that Sense-based ROMS require a kernel that is built for Sense, so using a CM-based kernel (like r8 or r9) would definitely cause problems. Likewise, using a Sense-based kernel on a CM ROM would be unwise.
If you like Sense based ROMs, have you tried either the Bliss ROM from sun_dream (the XE 3.32 version, not the 3.33) or the MikXE ROM? Of the ICS Sense ROMs, I found them to be the most stable and battery-friendly right out of the box. For a CM/AOKP, the AOKP JB Milestone 1 is very stable and functional, and gets you Jelly Bean... even Google Now works well on it. CM9.1r9 is a great, very stable release, as well.
Just make sure you're doing a very thorough wipe before flashing any new ROM. Even go to Mounts and format the /system, /data, and /cache manually wouldn't hurt.
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So, I did the full wipe and flashed the newest cm nightly on my phone. No data. Did it again, full reformat et all. No data.Flashed the v9 kernel on top with no wipe. DATA! Thanks. I must have to flash things a few times for them to take. This wasn't a problem with the roms that had some "sense" to them. Weird. I've done the reformating before when I was s-on and never noticed any effect. Now I'm gonna try the CM10 you recommended. I like this phone a lot. The market is based around people buying new phones once a year at least. It's crazy. It's not fair that you can purchase a phone that 6 months latter has a totally obsolete Rom. I am so glad you responded. This makes my life a lot easier. Thanks!

ronbon said:
So, I did the full wipe and flashed the newest cm nightly on my phone. No data. Did it again, full reformat et all. No data.Flashed the v9 kernel on top with no wipe. DATA! Thanks. I must have to flash things a few times for them to take. This wasn't a problem with the roms that had some "sense" to them. Weird. I've done the reformating before when I was s-on and never noticed any effect. Now I'm gonna try the CM10 you recommended. I like this phone a lot. The market is based around people buying new phones once a year at least. It's crazy. It's not fair that you can purchase a phone that 6 months latter has a totally obsolete Rom. I am so glad you responded. This makes my life a lot easier. Thanks!
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It almost sounds like you're S-ON or still locked. Could you be S-OFF but Locked? You could always fastboot flash the kernel after you flash the ROM just to be sure, but if doing what you just did got the data working for you, then I wouldn't mess with it. If you do want the Jelly Bean without too many issues, I would go with the AOKP JB Milestone 1. The Paranoid Android JB ROM is also very nice, but it does require a little bit more tinkering.

I'm s-off jb from doing the wire trick. I have flashed that cm10 rom with v9 kernel. Have any issues with mms? Got any apn tips?
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ronbon said:
I'm s-off jb from doing the wire trick. I have flashed that cm10 rom with v9 kernel. Have any issues with mms? Got any apn tips?
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When you say cm10 rom, do you mean the AOKP JB Milestone 1? When I was running it I didn't have any issues with MMS, but I use Handcent SMS as my messaging client, not the built-in client. I also use T-Mobile and the standard T-Mobile APNs worked fine. I do see that some people are having issues with the r9 kernel, maybe if you flash the r7b kernel (standard, not experimental) it will be more stable. That seems to be the kernel some people find is the best combo of performance and stability.

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Fuzi0719 said:
When you say cm10 rom, do you mean the AOKP JB Milestone 1? When I was running it I didn't have any issues with MMS, but I use Handcent SMS as my messaging client, not the built-in client. I also use T-Mobile and the standard T-Mobile APNs worked fine. I do see that some people are having issues with the r9 kernel, maybe if you flash the r7b kernel (standard, not experimental) it will be more stable. That seems to be the kernel some people find is the best combo of performance and stability.
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Sorry I should have specified. I am in the middle of My CCNA2 and Comptia+ hardware exams this week and I was writing from my phone. AOKP Milestone 1, yes. I think it is the best CM10 I have flashed for MT4gs yet. Just a bit of a battery drainer and I've got an Anker. I tried hand scent this morning. Tweeked the APN's and now know way too much about the ins and outs of this phone not to just learn to become a developer
I got the rom to send MMS but not receive without it being marked as a download. So, coupled with that and the battery drain, I decided to go straight for the r9 kernel and it's rom. Supercharged and ultimate jar patched it. Pimp my rom'd it. And it runs very well, sends and receives mms fine. My issues seem to stem from a combination of problems. Yes doing a complete wipe and manual formats and flashing the specific rom and kernel helped ingrain the rom I believe. But the main culprit is those darn APN's. I finally found alternate APN's and after going through them all in every combination, turning on and off my wifi to check the mobile data latency in terms of how long it took to come on, I have discovered that a T-Mobile Data APN named wap.voicestream.com with the mmsc set to the /mms/wapenc, the MCC:310, MNC:260, and APN protocol of IPv4, with everything else not set of unspecified, allows my phone to come and go between wifi and mobile data with no latency, just like the sense based roms did. So far no drops, but have been bunkered down studying and doing last minute work. When I leave the house in a minute I am gonna be driving around for about an hour to and from where I am going playing spotify, so that should be some kind of test. I also tried internet2.voicestream.com but it was not as consistent of a mobile data signal. They are trying their best to control all bandwidth and software so we can spend a fortune upgrading our services and buying 3 phones a year just to have a proper interface. Most phones are going to only one LTE radio soon as opposed to one that will do data and one that will do voice, effectively making the devices less expensive for them to manufacture, but not for us to buy! Hopefully there will be enough of a niche market to have qwerty hard keyboard devices that are decent released periodically.

Has gone from a well intentioned but flawed technology to a stable streaming around this corner of my city. No drops. And spotify kind of sucks in comparison to other streaming services in terms of quality and performance. I don't wanna get too excited though, ill have to wait a month until I begin to have confidence again that ill have consistent data.
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ronbon said:
Has gone from a well intentioned but flawed technology to a stable streaming around this corner of my city. No drops. And spotify kind of sucks in comparison to other streaming services in terms of quality and performance. I don't wanna get too excited though, ill have to wait a month until I begin to have confidence again that ill have consistent data.
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What city? Are you on a T-Mobile account? I'm in Atlanta and T-Mobile data is pretty good here, and I use the standard APNs (epc.tmobile.com). I also used my phone while in China, bought a China Unicom SIM and had excellent data using their system as they use the 2100MHz frequency for HSPA+.

Dallas, TX. Its solid around here but streaming high quality in a 40 mile radius could still be spoty with the meh quality of spotify, probably a load on their servers at rush hour, coupled with the fact that I've been so use to data drops. I'm telling you, the apn fixed my problem. It seems to be a known issue on these threads. Massive data drops. There needs to be a thread compiling alternate apns for people that have that issue with cm 9 and up. Double flash, full wipes, apn config. I'm on the cm 10 unofficial now with its standard kernel. Seems solid. Better battery life for my phone. Every time I flash a kernel I get intermittent data until I change to that apn above. Like zero to occasional. But now my data is tough as nails.
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no wifi!
hey guys im s-on unlocked n currently running [ROM] [01-DEC-2012][r9] CM 9.1 + bat drain fix + usb trans speed fix + other tweaks right now and not getting any wifi. i am coming from the only rom that would give me wifi (virtuous inquisition) but that rom got too heavy too fast n was done on my phone. so i switched between a few other ics roms and none of them r giving me wifi.
i dont want to go back to virtuous inquisition but i need wifi. my setting just wont slide over. any help would be appreciated. THANKS!

Have you tried "fastboot flash boot boot.img" ? Using one of the boot.img files from the CM9.1 ROM you're running? It's a necessity when changing ROMs with S-On.

The big issue with no wifi as I've experienced s-on or s-off is that the rom is not sticking. If you are s-on do not try to switch out different kernels, just flash the whole rom. Also, id try the v8 version of that rom because it seems more stable. Go into your recovery, wipe cache, wipe data, wipe delvic cache, go into mount/format and format cache, data, and system, flash rom zip, flash gapps, fastboot boot.img, then let the phone reboot and don't touch it for at least ten minutes, reboot into recovery, wipe cache, data, and delvik cache again, flash rom, fastboot boot.img, and wait again another ten minutes or so while itg reboots. Don't touch it even if the droid comes up and asks you for what language. It is still loading. This is the usual issue regarding roms not sticking. Multiple flash of the same rom over itself and not touching for ten minutes or so after flashing. If you don't know how to fastboot boot.img get hasoon 2000's mt4g all in one program. It'll instruct you to remove the boot.img from the rom and place it into one of the folders in the program and will fastboot the boot.img for you. And btw, the wire trick is real easy. I didn't do it for a year but when I did I was suprised at how easy it was. Makes flashing roms less of a headache.
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When flashing a ROM with S-On it isn't actually the ROM not sticking (although that may happen in certain circumstances) but it is that With S-On (security on) the kernel doesn't get installed at all thru CWM. You HAVE to flash that independantly & seperately & LAST And ALWAYS this way thru ADB with S-On. There IS no other way. (Save perhaps pushing that to the right partition thru terminal but that is another discussion altogether).

Yeah, what he said. And if your not savy with adb get hasoon 2000s all in one and it'll do it for you.
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