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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prboy1969:
Well not sure if these will help, but they at the very least should point you in the right direction ;) . The last two have actually helped me quite a bit :) .

How To Backup and Restore using tar on adb shell - Fastest recovery

Performing a Nandroid Restore Manually using ADB

ADB, Fastboot, and Nandroid for Noobs

ADB Workshop and Guide for everyone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ditamae:
Can't you use a recovery.img from your PC (whether it's from your nandroid or CWM or whichever Recovery you're currently using) and then simply flash using fastboot...

fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>recovery.img

From there you can boot into the bootloader and then Recovery and then restore your complete nandroid backup or flash a ROM.

Here's the link to pull the CWM Recovery image for your Sensation:

http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DuratecPaul:
Thanx will check tem out on the weekend, last two I havent seen before
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DuratecPaul:
excelent I shall try this on the weekend
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sonicomega:
Some help for you

What I have noticed is my sd card after so many flashes has been moved to the system unrecognized location of \storage\sdcard1 and the only way I can get to it is with a reader or sending the files through my computer using the phone as the reader (mass storage mode).
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
FAQ and helpful stuff

[Q] What order should I flash things in?

[A] Well, wipe everything except for SD card, twice. I flash the ROM first, then the theme, then the kernel (mounting everything properly), then any tweaks I may have. Works for me.

[Q] Which is the best ROM? What ROM would work best for me?

[A] What is the best flavor of ice cream? What works for me might not work for you. You may love a theme; I might not like it (I personally do not like all of the blue in themes). You have to experiment and try out different ROM types!

[Q] OMG MY PHONE KEEPS BOOTLOOPING! I CAN GET INTO BOOTLOADER BUT NOT RECOVERY!!! I THINK I BRICKED MY PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[A] No, your phone is not bricked. When a phone is "bricked" it does not turn on and is a nice expensive paperweight. If you can get into bootloader/HBOOT, you can be saved. There is something called an RUU. It is a package provided by HTC to completely wipe your phone and rewrite the software image.

Steps to run the RUU:

Download it from here. This is the most recent one.

Get into HBOOT.

Plug your phone into the computer and select "Fastboot" with power button.

Go to your downloads folder and double-click the RUU.

The directions that pop up are pretty self-explanatory.

[Q] My phone has a notification that there is an OTA update available. Maybe it's ICS! :O

[A] Do not accept OTAs. It is a general rule of thumb. You will lose root and there is a slight possibility you may brick your phone. Somebody will probably have it rooted and ready to flash within a day.

[Q]Will Vipermod or Incredicontrol work with Sense? It would be cool to adjust the level of undervolt!

[A]Nope, it won't work. None of the current GB Sense kernels have HAVS because it was simply problematic. It was implemented, and it didn't work very well so it was taken out. If you want to undervolt, then download one of Lithid's Freedom kernels that come in undervolted flavors.

[Q] Whenever I try to boot into recovery all I see is this....

[A] You do not have a custom recovery installed. See post one on how to flash a custom recovery (Amon Ra)!

[Q] My battery life has been dropping ridiculously. How can I calibrate my battery and get some more life?

[A] I follow a little guide that Hipkat wrote up here. I shall quote some for you....

I do this every time I flash a new ROM and kernel. Other things to help battery life are underclocking, turning auto-sync off, having GPS/WiFi/unused radios off. Do NOT use task killers. Ever since Froyo, Android has had a built-in one. Task killers just interfere with that.
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Battery/Performance Tips and Thanks

Battery tips:

Sense is heavy, I know. But you can help stop the drain with a few things (I don't use any apps like Juice Defender).

Calibrate the battery.

Use Wi-Fi as much as possible. Just shut it off when you are done.

Shut off "Always-On Mobile Data" in Settings - Wireless - Mobile Networks.

Turn off "Quiet ring on pickup," "Pocket mode," "Flip for speaker," "Audible selections" and "Vibrate feedback" in Settings - Sounds.

Turn down the brightness and Screen timeout in Settings - Display. Also, turn off all animations.

Shut off GPS when not using it.

Unselect "Back up my settings" in Settings - Privacy.

Enable power saver in Settings - Power and Battery Efficiency in Quick Settings of notificaiton bar.

Turn off Auto-sync in Settings - Accounts and Sync.

Underclock.

Don't use task killers.

Theory: I use Chainfire3D and have their EGL drivers installed. Battery life has been better with them. Can't prove it, so I say theory.

How to improve performance:

Use C-O-D Tweaks. They did a plenty good job of explaining, so I won't explain. Takes away any reason for me to use a RAM script. Follow instructions to a 't' and you will be good.

Chainfire3D drivers work quite well for me, I can see the difference.

Don't underclock

.

I modify ROMs to fit my needs, usually by stripping out what I don't need. Here's what I do:

Download and install 7-Zip.

Download the ROM

Unzip the ROM using 7-Zip to a folder, usually named after the ROM. Example: unzip MikG to a folder called "MikG"

Delete whatever I don't need out of the folders, usually apps and pictures and ringtones.

After deleting to my heart's content, I right-click on everything and select "Add to xxxxx.zip". Example: "Add to MikG.zip"

7-Zip compresses and zips everything up, so transfer the custom zip you made to your SD card and flash (I don't sign my zips, I don't know why).

If something doesn't work, you deleted something you shouldn't have

Time to thank everyone.... long list....

Thanks to teh roxxorz and plainjane for answering some of the very first questions I had! They helped me start out, and they are so extremely helpful and patient.

Thanks to HipKat for the battery charging guide and answering some of my questions!

Thanks to Lithid for answering my development questions!

Thanks to AlphaRev and unrevoked for building revolutionary.io!

Thanks to Lithid and Barnacles and netarchy for your amazing kernels!

Thanks for TeamWin for HDMIwIn and PoonSense and all other work!

Thanks to Calkulin for basically making the Evo awesome!

Thanks to Amon_Ra for your incredible recovery!

Thanks to tommy tomatoe for your awesome Classic ROM and all of your themes!

Thanks to aamikam for your awesome ROMs and tweaks and optimizations!

Thanks to Team Nocturnal for Shooter!

Thanks to jaredthegreat and dropzeroc for RunnyBliss Hybrid and other cool ROMs!

Thanks to drellisdee for updating Amon Ra recovery!

Thanks to anyone who has helped me out and answered my stupid questions! I will add more to the list later!
[EVO 4G General] atapia984:
This is a very very good guide. Keep it up.

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
Nice job, though you should throw kernels into one o our dibbed posts.
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Will do! I am going to go back and explain things, pros and cons, etc. And kernels, schedules and that sort of thing, but I'm out of town for a couple days with little internet access :/
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
No worries. I'm not a sense user, but still good info for those that do, and kernels are big part of the game. Do it when you get the chance. :)
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Bumping this guide... I think I did a fairly good job :D

What else should I add?
[EVO 4G General] ckoadiyn:
System tuner is nice you can manage CPU speed n create a init.d script for ur CPU speed also v6 supercharger with mikg is nice..
[EVO 4G General] geovanyglaude1:
pardon me im just trying to get 10 posts

---------- Post added at 11:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:23 PM ----------

i believe i just got it with this one
[EVO 4G General] Green_Arrow:
Free Bump ^_^
[EVO 4G General] kingdazy:
Rude.

Sent from my calculator watch.
[EVO 4G General] Art2Fly:
Do you have a British accent? I like to imitate the posters voice and read his posts aloud...
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Thanks for reminding me, I will put some of the XDA rules and etiquette too!

Get to 10 posts by asking legitimate questions and learning.

Not a legit accent, no. My bloodline is Puerto Rican and British, so that's where my name is from! Sorry to crush your dreams, I wish I were British too :/

I will look into System Tuner, I try to post information only about things I know how to do... V6 is pretty nice, haven't run it in a long time but I've seen a link to a good guide video around here so I shall look and post it!
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Awesome guide! I got a question, do I need to partition my SD if I'm running Classic Sense 1.0 ROM?
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
You don't need to, but if you get any ROM bigger than that I would! Or you could just go ahead and partition it, save some time in the future :D
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
I wanna delete all the stuff and start like new when the new ROM's update I'm using comes out. How can I get rid of scripts? Or formating the SD card will solve all of my problems?

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
You don't need the ROM on your SD card once you flash it, so you can delete it. No need to format your SD card, just plug up your phone to the computer and mount as disk drive and delete it.

I have more detailed directions on how to flash any ROM you want in third post, so look there.

To start new, wipe everything except for SD card. Twice. I suggest that any time you flash a ROM.
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Yeah i know that, but Idk which folders in the SD card are being used, so I just backed up my music,photos, and apps with titaniumbackup. I'll just format SD card and flash new ROM and restore everything.

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
What folders are used on your SD card? Not sure that I understand, the phone does not run anything off of your SD card (except for ext3). You don't need anything on the card except for pictures, music, nandroids, documents, or anything anything else you may want.
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
I got ".ngmoco" and "LazyList" for example.

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Don't need them or rosie_scroll or Android or Android.secure or .thumbnail or anything except for your pictures and music, important stuff like that. Basically, anything you didn't put there you can delete.
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Ok, guess I'm deleting everything!

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] travis55:
shameless bump.
[EVO 4G General] brad560:
nice guide.. i'd love to maybe compile a little list, of what roms contain sense 1, sense 2, sense 3 etc, maybe some major features.. would cut down on searching, etc.

thanks for your work in making this thread!
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Just did the Hands-free and restored my phone, it reboots and everything is ok. Then, it tries to update but instead of getting Okay I get an error code and I'm not able to use 3g internet anymore. Help?

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Bump. I really need help, its annoying.

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Which ROM are you using, the Classic?
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Fresh EVO 4.3.2 atm

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
I don't know why it shouldn't work, that's just odd. Reboot, update PRL, reboot, then try another hands-free activation. If that doesn't work (I have no idea why it isn't working) do you have a nandroid of another ROM you could go back to? If you don't you might have to nandroid Fresh then flash another ROM and do the activation then nandroid back, sorry that I can't give a better explanation
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
I live in Mexico and got my phone unlocked so I could use it with mex data network. I need to go get it re-programed, ****'s gonna cost $17. My sis deleted my backup by mistake. I'm so pissed right now ._.

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] Webstertech:
""""You should still be in recovery mode. Time to flash custom ROMs? Nope! First we shall partition your SD card. Before that, we are going to back up stuff on your SD card to the computer. Because partitioning your card will wipe it clean.

I am going to assume you have the stock 8 gigabyte card."""

But what if I have a 16 GB c10 as my 8GB is gone??
[EVO 4G General] Notorious:
You can still partition the 16gb
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
True. Multiply everything by two, thats what I did. I have a 16gb card I took from my dad's Epic :D

Sorry to hear, Royalfox. I should have pointed out that it should only work for Sprint.
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Its ok, just make sure u type it on the guide.

Sent from my Classic EVO
[EVO 4G General] kendallc123:
Wow this is great!
[EVO 4G General] thescaryboy:
Good

Thanks...

Is very good... 100%
[EVO 4G General] bobarune:
Would i need to backup another wimax '.img if I update the radios, wimax, pri, and nv?
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
No, you don't have to make another if you already have one.
[EVO 4G General] bobarune:
thanks (he says while hitting the thanks button)
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
Anytime man. :) and thank you as well.
[EVO 4G General] wmillea:
Great thread! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this guide. I learned so much just following your instructions. Thanks again.
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Going to update this later in the week, but put in some changes and new things I've learned. Slammed with Eagle Scout board of review and exams... hope I can work a little too....

Let me know any suggestions!
[EVO 4G General] bairds1:
What does mounting everything besides SDext help do when flashing kernels? :confused:

I've never heard of doing that... Thanks!

Excellent thread BTW :D Many thanks!!
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
I believe it to be this:

Libs in /data . ROMs have mostly moved the libs to /system so you won't have to mount, some haven't moved the libs yet.

Better safe than sorry, doesn't hurt anything and prevents any issues
[EVO 4G General] BarronTG:
thread is a help, thanks
[EVO 4G General] jgreemo:
This is a great thread and very informative! I'm running the Sense 1.0 Swagged Out Stock ROM, and the Dev says it supports Apps2sd, so I'm considering partitioning my SD card and moving apps. I'm loving the ROM (~177mb), but it's still sense and large enough to take up significant memory.

I'm a bit apprehensive to do it though, as some of the other guides have noted that you might have to use ADB if it's not working (I'm not good at command line stuff), so if possible, any info on apps2sd would be greatly appreciated. My understanding is that once you create ext3, rebooting causes the rom to move the apps over to the card, but again, I've read where issues occur forcing the use of ADB.

Big thanks for your work on this guide!
[EVO 4G General] bairds1:
Oh wow! Good to know! Wonder if I've been messing up my kernels...hmm

BTW, you're right. Fresh 4.3.3 is awesome with chopsuey 9.1! Great speed, battery life, and stability! And that's without v6, underclocking, or undervolting. Loving sense again! Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
What I would expect if you create the ext3 partition with the existing ROM then it won't move over automatically, at least that is what I think..... Remember to back up your SD card before partitioning. And check out A2SD GUI on the Market, simplifies moving stuff over. Usually I would just move cache or dalvik
[EVO 4G General] bairds1:
tropicalbrit - how do you like to undervolt? Incredicontrol app or vipermod? Just curious as I've used vipermod before for AOSP ROMs, but have heard of others using incredicontrol. My only concern with incredicontrol is having an extra app that might be running in the background, etc...just my thoughts.

Right now I'm using the Chopsuey 9.2.6 kernel with Fresh 4.3.3. Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
No current Sense kernels have HAVS, so you can't use Vipermod or Incredicontrol. There once was a Freedom kernel with HAVS, but it had issues so HAVS was taken out.

Freedom kernels are available in undervolted flavors, but they are not adjustable (so no Vipermod or Incredicontrol).

When I do use AOSP, then I use Vipermod
[EVO 4G General] bairds1:
Gotcha! Sorry, I must have missed that. Appreciate the info.
[EVO 4G General] mulhiny:
Great write up. My friend just got an Evo and I pointed him right here. Thanks again
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Small update tonight, mostly bringing everything up to date.

As always, tell me what I should add/improve on
[EVO 4G General] MM77X:
Quick question from back on main page post.Rooted this with revolution ok.When trying to run the Pc36IMG from hboot I see some files go by and says wrong format or something?File appears to be named correctly.Can i just run from recovery. I also only have a 1gig card in this phone,is that a problem? Sorry for the noob stuff,this is the first htc i have touched,i always have galaxys.
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Is it named exactly PC36IMG.zip? Is it on the root of your SD card, not in any folders? I can upload one tthat works for me
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
I'm stuck on my phone for the rest of the day so I can't do that right now... download the .img with the word "Supersonic" in it and the numbers 3.08. Transfer to the root of your SD card, then download Terminal Emulator. Type this in (# signs come up automatically):

#su

#flash_image recovery sdcard/nameoffile.img.
[EVO 4G General] bairds1:
Greatly appreciate this thread!! Saw you updated the undervolting with sense section. I think that will help a ton for clarifying with those such as myself that came from aosp ;)
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Haha yeah, I didn't put it in the guide in the first place simply because it didn't apply and I didn't think of it. I got some loose ends I gotta tie up, so another update with more shall come... eventually...
[EVO 4G General] Flowsick:
Can I used this If I have flashed my phone to boost?
[EVO 4G General] Ramondel:
How to use Boot Manager?

First off want to thank you for the time that you took to explain everything in 'laymans' terms. Can you please explain the use of 'BootManager' and if it will work with all ROM's types and hardware versions. I am new to flashing and would like to be able to have one stable ROM and a few daily's.
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
I know that you can't use Hands-Free Provisioning. I think you can do the proxies fix (setting addresses to 0.0.0.0 and ports to 0). Sorry, my Boost knowledge is limited
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Should not matter what hardware versions. I've never used Boot Manager, so I probably won't be the most reliable source of information on it. Main issue I would think is sdext, but I don't know how Boot Manager handles that, my apologies.

Have you purchased it already? If you have then just make a nandroid / backup of your current in recovery then try it out. I would think you would be fine. If you haven't bought it yet, a more knowledgeable person should hop in soon
[EVO 4G General] teh roxxorz:
Well, gave you the basic info that should solve your issue, and you can re-phrase it as you see best.

Though just in case, I'll offer some tag team help and post the link to the bootmanager thread > http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1224998&highlight=bootmanager
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Thanks to my friend the roxxorz, he has more words of wisdom on the subject than I:

I would suggest having the largest ROM on your phone and booting the lighter ones on your card
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Small update, nothing too big, just bringing my opinions up to date.

Anybody have any opinion on an alternative to Fresh?

Needs to be mostly-stock with maximum improvements and minimum theming. Preferably the newest EPST.

I use CleanGB now for the stuff in post 2, anyone have other ideas? I was thinking CleanGB, Blazer, or Brad's Sprint Updated.
[EVO 4G General] Royalfox:
Stock barebones untitled

Something like that. Pure stock

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
<For future guidance of unlocking bootloader with 2.3.5>
[EVO 4G General] tropicalbrit:
Just wanted to stop by and see how the Evo community was going. I'm planning one update for this guide, so I need some updated opinions. Any suggestions on favorite:

Stock (stock look, slimmed down)

Sense 1.0

Sense 2.1 + 3.0

Sense 3.5

Kernels

I don't see any Sense 3.6 / 4.0 ROM, if I'm wrong please correct me.

I do need to update the unlocking bootloader / S-Off for new bootloaders
[EVO 4G General] NxNW:
There's been quite a lot of kernel development including some SBC kernels for gingerbread finally.

Also a couple good stock barebones ROMs based off the latest OTA.

Really not a lot new happening with Sense > 1.0.

Rooting HBOOT 2.18 is well documented. Captain Throwback	put his original thread on themikmik, but there's a good guide on XDA you can link to as well.

But your biggest opportunity for a meaningful update is kernels.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ajtorres14:
Hi, I recently started messing around with my sgs4g and installed a custom rom using the GB Stater Pack and flash the KJ6 AOSP, everything is working flawlessly except that everytime I'm talking to someone I suddenly hear a rewinding-kind of sound and the other person can hear it too, it happened to me using octane rom, stock GB update and AudiophileFTW edition, can someone please help me get rid of that sound it's getting really annoying, I would really appreciate any help given. Thanks in advance :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Fluidification:
dude, you hurt your hardware.

Go back to stock KD1, and see if you still have the issue, If you do, go to the tmobile store.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ajtorres14:
If I Odin the stock one the rewinding sound goes away, I already did that, but I really want to try a few custom roms because the battery consumption of the stock one is awful.

I have 2 galaxy s 4g both of them are having the same problem one is running the kj6 aosp and the other one is running stock gingerbread leak rooted
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
When you flash the GB ROMs, are you doing a factory data reset, clearing caches, etc?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ajtorres14:
Factory reset, wipe cache & wipe davlik and my mount settings are u,m,m,u..
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
Weird issue. I know you didn't mention it in the OP, but are you over or under-clocking at all?

I'm somewhat with airflup on this - it seems to be a hardware issue. I am saying that based on the fact that I've not heard of anyone else having this issue on GB ROMs. It could be something funky with one of the chips in the phone but only manifests in the GB ROMs. It's weird but not unheard of.

I've not attempted this so someone tell me I'm an idiot for thinking about this, but what if you flash a stock GB ROM followed by the modem from KD1 or whatever Froyo ROM you're using to see if the problem is still there?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] spy4ka:
If you have the same issues on 2 different devices, you should redownload the roms(cwm and odin), maybe its a download issue i.e. mds5 error

Tell me if that works :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ajtorres14:
As of today I have rooted my phone with different methods, re-downloaded everything, used different versions of Odin, went back to stock, install official GB, it's still doing it, also with the stock Gingerbread leak I noticed that besides the rewinding nose every 4-5 minutes, also the call log doesn't work and while I was watching a movie at work the phone light stayed lit during the whole film... I don't know what to do, is either go back to stock and recharge my phone every 4 hours or go back to kj6 aosp and deal with that annoying sound ..