OK, so I got Boost 1031 and I flash them to Verizon 1028 firmware so we can use them on PagePlus.
I have flashed sever with this great guide but yesterday after flashing I allowed it to take te 4.4.4 ota and it worked fine but no 3G. I tried a few things without luck and decided to reflash the 4.4.2 firmware through fastboot. Apparently partition changes and such make this not work well. I guess I'm now stuck with parts of each and I can't seem to get either one back complete.
Symptoms: Reboots every minute or 2 and no wifi service.
I've tried sideloading the 4.4. ota, installing it from recovery and I also installed CWM, rooted and flashed a couple 4.4.4 roms and still wifi not happening and very unstable.
I began with unlocked bootloader, but stock otherwise. I really want to get it back to stock 4.4.2 or 4.4.4
I'm no expert by any means, but no noob either...any help would be much appreciated. I guess when someone release a complete 4.4.4 package I may be ok. Maybe a kernel or radio would work but I haven't found any packaged radios for 4.4.2
Fastboot & recovery are very stable...I'm back on stock recovery now.
BTW I flashed another today for a friend and updated it to 4.4.4 and everything worked fine...even 3G! I think I had a setting wrong in DFS is why 3G would work on the f'd unit.
Moral...Don't try to flash 4.4.2 over the top of 4.4.4
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Before I post in the CM forum, thought I would try here first.
I am a very experienced flash/mod user and have never had a "brick" issue in many years of tinkering with dozens of devices. I have been using Cyanogen and AOSP roms since 2008.
Today, I thought I would try a CM12 build on an XT1031(cdma) knowing that even though CDMA is not operational, CM builds are unified anyway. I figured it wouldnt be like flashing a GSM ROM onto a CDMA device. Well, I guess I was wrong...
It appears that CM12 builds are indeed GSM specific, and though the ROM installed and ran correctly, it seems to have corrupted both wifi and cellular radio at very deep level.
I fastboot flashed back to 4.4.2 stock, and it boots fine. Wifi connects and grabs an IP but doesn't transfer data, and cellular stays as a black triangle. It seems to grab MIN and phone# and has correct MEID.
Eventually, after 60-120 seconds the phone will crash and reboot.
I have tried flashing stock radios from the thread here, and have also tried several other falcon stock and CM11 roms. They all exhibit the same behavior...boot fine, no networks, and crash after a minute or two.
I find it hard to believe that flashing a ROM would physically damage BOTH wifi and cellular radios. One or the other I could understand. But this seems like a deeper problem at a base level of the phone...below ROM or firmware.
Is it possible that changes were made at at the /persist level? Is there any way to reflash the /persist partition with a stock image?
I have access to bootloader and recovery (currently TWRP). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I really just want to get wifi working... plan on using it wifi-only anyway. But it would probably be good for the community to document the problem and see if we can figure out what caused it and if it is fixable or "brick-worthy"
Thanks!
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Got it fixed.
I didn't notice, but the CM12 build automatically upgraded the bootloader to 41.13. I was not able to fastboot flash the motoboot.img and boot.img files because they were the wrong version. Once I flashed it with a 4.4.4 version of motoboot.img and boot.img, I was able to flash the system partition back to 4.4.4 stock and it is working 100%.
So, if you are reading this and are in a similar situation with "preflash validation failed" or other "downgrade" errors, check your bootloader version. If it is 41.13, you will need to manually flash 4.4.4 images.
Now, I am just stupid enough to try this again...this time with a custom modem/radio image
ive been trying to get my xt1031 back to stock so i cna use it on another carrier. so i first had a problem flashing to 4.4.4 listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62090152&postcount=1642 so i decided to try 4.4.2 using a batch file found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646415&page=6 and just replaced the fw files with mine, well it completed fine but now it just hangs at the boot logo without fully booting. so im just trying to get this on stock, dont really care what version at this point
What would I have to do or is it even possible to run a 4.4.4 Rom after taking the 5.0.1 update? I'm rooted s-off and unlocked ,wanting to run kit Kat because fake WiFi xposed module dosent work with 5.0.1 .
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What would I have to do or is it even possible to run a 4.4.4 Rom after taking the 5.0.1 update? I'm rooted s-off and unlocked ,wanting to run kit Kat because fake WiFi xposed module dosent work with 5.0.1 .
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Flash the rom. That's about it. I've been running Cleanrom 3.0 for over a month now using the the firmware that came with the 5.0.1 update. Haven't had any trouble at all. Nothing's ever certain with these phones but generally, what works on one M8 will work another M8.
I tried bone stock and your cleanrom 3.0 bone stock failed and clean Rom flashed successfully but was stuck at a white screen with green HTC after boot then when I went to restore viper I didn't have signal until I rebooted for the third time which scared the pee outa me lol ! Am I missing something ? Maybe a bad download ?
Don't know what to tell you. I was running cleanrom 4 at the time I went back. I just flashed the rom. Kept the lollipop firmware though with one exception. I'm running the radio from 4.4.4. I had flashed it while I was on lollipop due to connection problems I was having at the time.
If it doesn't work for you I guess I'd flash the 4.4.4 firmware first, then flash the rom. Strange how something works on one phone and not the next. Android.
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I'm just a impatient tard I tired it again this morning after posting and put the phone down long enough to make coffee and came back to a functional Rom ! Thank you for entertaining me lol ! And for your cleanrom suggestion I actually like it (I'm a AOSP fan man)
Yeah, that first boot can take a while. Glad it worked out for you in the end.
Hey guys, I just flashed the CM13 nightly from stock 5.0 and now I'm showing no sim card. I saw a couple threads saying that newer twrp builds have issues with flashing radios, so I reverted to twrp 2.8.6 and did a clean flash, with no love. Tried flashing the radio zip, no love. Tried flashing the 3 most recent radios through fastboot, no love.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Are you flashing both the bootloader and radio? If this doesn't work, I suggest flashing the latest stock MM to make sure the phone is working, then flash CM13.
Good call, trying it now
okay, flashed to stock 6.0.1, worked like a champ, flashed back to cm, now it connects to the network, but drops to no service after a second or two. Progress! Now that I know that you have to flash bootloader and radio, i'll try some different combos and see if i can get something to work. If nothing else, i can always go back to stock MM
Thanks!
Have you tried CM13 with a custom kernel? This may solve the issue.
You need to do alot of reading, no insult intended. Don't run b4 you can walk. If you didn't know to flash the radio and bootloader you need to learn alot. Luckily it's a bullet proof phone. Nightlies are not stable and not for daily drivers. They are works in progress and buggy as a result. Not for noobies, IMHO
The OP did flash different radios. It is not always necessary to flash a modem and bootloader to have a working phone.
So, I'm sure I'm probably doing something incredibly stupid..
I just got my Note 5 today. I've been trying to flash a custom ROM, TEKXodus first and then Dr Ketan's ROM. I managed to get them to boot up (at least Ketans, I've been trying so long today at this point I'm not sure if I ever got TEKXodus to load).
However, after finally getting in, my SIM card isn't being detected, neither is the baseband and IMEI. The phone registers as a N290I instead of N290T.
Did I flash something wrong? Would the wrong version of recovery cause this? Kernels?
This isn't my first time rooting and flashing ROMs, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong this time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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nightfire55 said:
So, I'm sure I'm probably doing something incredibly stupid..
I just got my Note 5 today. I've been trying to flash a custom ROM, TEKXodus first and then Dr Ketan's ROM. I managed to get them to boot up (at least Ketans, I've been trying so long today at this point I'm not sure if I ever got TEKXodus to load).
However, after finally getting in, my SIM card isn't being detected, neither is the baseband and IMEI. The phone registers as a N290I instead of N290T.
Did I flash something wrong? Would the wrong version of recovery cause this? Kernels?
This isn't my first time rooting and flashing ROMs, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong this time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You need to start from scratch (square one) and odin flash the
official stock Samsung N920T Tmobile Marshmallow 6.0 firmware
before doing anything else.
You can find the N920T Marshmallow 6.0 firmware here:
http://sammobile.com
Good luck,
Have a great day!
The phone came with Marshmallow already installed I believe. Either way I've currently got the stock TMobile installed now and am still having the same problem.
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The phone came with Marshmallow already installed I believe. Either way I've currently got the stock TMobile installed now and am still having the same problem.
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Perhaps your phone came with the wrong version of Marshmallow 6.0 if the phone was not new when you got it.
Either way I bet you still have NOT Odin flashed the full official stock samsung N920T 6.0 Marshmallow firmware
which can be found at http://sammobile.com
If you finally decide to do the above be sure to do a full wipe and factory data reset before you odin flash.
And forget about roms until you get the phone working properly with the stock N920T odin flash firmware.
Will definitely double check and retry that when I get off of work.
And that worked!
Thank you so much, I was working off a different MM build apparently. Probably would never have figured that out by myself.