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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] PsiPhiDan:
Here's what I did (I wanted TB to back up my apps data first):

1. Root (lots of threads devoted to this already - takes one click).

2. Backup data via Titanium Backup.

3. HTC Unlock by following instructions (choose "other supported device"), and realize your phone will wipe clean, although root access will remain.

4. Install goo manager from Play Store.

5. Find TWRP thread and follow instructions to install custom recovery.

6. Make backups and then flash ViperROM.

Note: You may went to clear settings in Google Wallet before unlocking bootloader. Some say it is required or you'll permanently brick that app. Some say it didn't happen when they unlocked. I don't know the truth, I just did it just in case.

Edit: RegawMod does all this for you with the click of a button I believe. Check out his thread in the General section.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] OstrichSak:
I'm not mincing words. I'm making sure I fully understand what needs to be done an why before proceeding to void a warranty on a $600 device that I've owned a matter of hours. I didn't realize it was SO much more involved and complex on this device as it was on past devices or I wouldn't even have asked. I was confirming what I thought I knew before proceeding and it turned into a big huge discussion which I didn't intend. Now I know I need to unlock as step #1 so I'll do that and then figure out what I need to do next as it's clearly not what I thought it was going to be.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ldostang:
I really need to fix my screen name and capitalize my L. Everybody always calls me ido.... instead of Ldo....

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Dont get discouraged. Its not as hard as it sounds. Just follow the instructions in the dev site, then the instructions in the root thread (link you posted), and you are going to realize its not that bad. However, if you have any issues rooting or installing the recovery, please ask in the specific threads. They can help you better there.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] iknowsquat:
Well I'm a rebel and called you "Idol" :p

My apologies. I fixed it.

From this day forward you shall be known as 'Stang
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] digiblur:
Is there a way we can get the stock brightness back? I like to leave mine on auto brightness but it just seems to dark for my tastes now. I know it saves on battery but I need to be able to see the screen a little better.

Awesome work on the ROM so far!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] iknowsquat:
I know it's on their radar. Last I saw it mentioned Vin had knocked the values down and needs to tweak. Viper said to set manually for now till they get to it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ldostang:
I know vin posted a fix here but i havent tested it. I also asked him if it breaks the mods by runandhide but havent gotten an answer.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] .Gibson.:
I think I'm the only one who is happy with the brightness levels. During the earlier versions of the ROM I thought to myself "I thought they were supposed to lower brightness per the changelog". I definitely see the change I wanted now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] MrTrackZed:
Is there any hope/chance/possibility of getting the screen off animation? I know its corny and whatnot, but I've grown accustomed to it:-) ROM is running great, can't thank you guys enough!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Ep3n3wp:
Thanks for your input...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ryanalan82:
Having a problem with external sd card mounting after a reboot. It will mount but I have to do it manually every time. If I remember, it's there something you type in terminal or adb to fix this?

Swyped from my eVo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] -viperboy-:
We will look into it :)

On our list!

As they pointed out, BetterBatteryStats is your friend. You care most about partial wakelocks. Something is keeping your phone awake. Also, check CPU spy, see if you're hitting deep sleep. The DCM doesn't work well for everyone. You may want to try removing it if you're still not getting acceptable battery life.

My battery life isn't bad, Vin. I didn't use it Mich today though but I would hope anyone who uses the DCM would understand that battery life won't be the same. Just the nature of the beast lol

Wasn't anything we talked about. I'm sure someone will get to inverted messaging before we do and I don't know that the led flashing during charging will be a mod we would add. Seems unnecessary.

Nothing should cause that. Do you have a lot running or anything? ROM should perform the same way no matter the percent.

Literally screen turning on? No notifications though? Must be an app you have. Download betterbatterystats. Everyone really should have that app on their phone. I just can't include it in the ROM because the developer has asked for people to not do that.

Thanks Vin, good job!

I clear settings before flashing full ROMs, personally.

How about an il Duce contribution? Got nothing for you over here yet, would love to have you help out if you'd like! We haven't touched Rosie so go nuts if you want.

Go for it dude. You'll like it :)

Manually go into mount and toggle the sdcard options. Try again :) and unless they fixed it, I don't think mass storage works in recovery yet only adb. You can either use adb to push the files or put them on your sdcard before going into recovery.

Rosie.apk can be modded to do that but stock, no - only 4 rows.

Try manually resyncing all in accounts and sync. If that doesn't work, remove the people widget and readd. If it still doesn't work, try a reboot. Let me know if you have further issues.

Manually adjust it for now. Next update will raise the brightness since people don't like it this low. I kinda don't either.

I think Vin has a thread with stock icons in it.

As said above, next update. Use manual brightness for now if needed.

You know, I haven't seen this in any ICS ROMs on and devices that I can recall. I wonder why.

You may need to reformat your card.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
Wow, sorry vin you had to put up with that

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
This is the path I choose... :) s'all good Fernando. You got the lte up and running vr?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
WOW, Overnight i went from 99% to 91% in 10 hours!! Is that normal LOL? ive neva seen that kinda standy-time on any device. Yeah it was on Wi-Fi, but that means i dont even have to charge over night. Pretty shocked to see that when i woke up
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] smw6180:
Yep. That's pretty normal. :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Ahh look who it is:D

How ya been brotha?

Yeah i was pretty shocked when i woke up this morning. Have used anything from VC yet either. I may just leave things the way they are for now. Seem to be running real good!!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] smw6180:
Been good. Good to see you back. Now stop messing with inferior carriers, huh? ;)

Yeah just leave it stock. Not all that much to mess with in VC anyhow until we get kernel source and someone compiles a decent kernel....God only knows who that will be. Kernel devs have been few and far between since the Evo 4G. Maybe I'll mess with it, who knows? :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
HAHA jesus, Ive been getting "Done with all 3 other carriers now?" since yesterday morning LOL...Yeah thats it. No more, its def good to be back.

Yeah i figured there wasnt much to mess with in VC just yet. Im hearing the word Dual-Mode, or whateva it is, being thrown around a bit. But imma just leave it the way it is for now
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
You don't even know what you just started by mentioning dual core mod. Derek is going to come in with a hardon talking about how it 'sips battery when screen is off and the performance is so great when using the phone, blah blah blah'.

Thanks, just f'in thanks Jon.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] smw6180:
Shh. There there Vin. Just talk about your kickass battery mods to offset it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
Rooted only at this time. No htc unlock, I'm gonna wait a month or two for s-off.

Does htc unlock void your insurance or just the warranty? I have best buy insurance but I want to go back to sprint/asurion

Part of the reason I've decided to wait for s-off is that I couldn't even download the rom yesterday, too many other idiots trying to download it LOL, the link kept timing out.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Only 'parts' of your warranty. Things you most likely won't have to worry about. Dive in man, there's almost no reason to not use the htcunlock
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
Well... Just the warranty because if you brick it then just put it under something heavy and crush it. I will choose one of the pieces of heavy equipment I run but a car and a rock will work just as good and they then cant tell you even had it rooted.;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
See, theres a good way to fight off an arrgument. I know he must swear by it, but i had bad luck i believe with the 3D, as far as the dual core MOD goes. I dunno, im not totally sold on it, but im up for anything i guess.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ckoadiyn:
Should just be warranty however it is rather unclear what that includes....not like sprint will check anyways if your screen dies or something or radios go haywire.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Yeah but thats just with the Warranty from HTC correct? Sprint has nothing to do with the whole "HTC Unlock voids warranty debacle"?...Or do they?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
Dang you guys are quick, 4 replies to my last post before I edited it.

Part of the reason I've decided to wait for s - off is that I couldn't even download the rom yesterday, too many other idiots trying to download it LOL, the link kept timing out.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] theultimatev:
long first boot? Mine's been taking a long while...though I installed Viper 1.2, 1.2.1, and the button remap tweaks in one recovery session
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Yea...I'd of done those in separate sessions...lol, good luck though!

I don't even know if s-off is being worked on since the only thing we can't do with htcunlock is flash splash screens...even for firmware, just relock, run the ruu to update firmware, then unlock, flash recovery, restore nandroid
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] theultimatev:
Ugh...me and my hastiness :P i'll just boot back into recovery and go slow

GOT SO SCARED WITHOUT REMOVABLE BATTERY! Thank God volume up+volume down+power still works as hard reset
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Well goo.im was having issues ALL DAY yesterday. Im sure its fixed by now. Imm check in a sec. I downloaded it fine thru Goo Manager lastnight, but it didnt want to flash from the App itself. Just took me to recovery and sat there. Id say just go for it. Or not:eek:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
Well they don't like root because in exploits there hotspot. But the insurance is through a third party so it doesn't really matter. And you can do it over the phone or online so they won't even see it.

sent from my bad a** EVO LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
I say do it. You can always relock through HTC and then do the s-off unlock if they ever do it.

sent from my bad a** EVO LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
The openscript (auto flash) from goo manager will only work if the mod/rom is on your internal sd card. If you want to be able to auto flash everything from within goo manager, change the path for all of your downloads to go directly to internal.

Obviously, you can flash mods/roms from your external, just not using the auto flash-style
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Actually, it's just holding the power button, while the capacitive buttons flash about 10-12 times before powering down the phone, then just hold power and volume down ;).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Riff76:
Can someone post a YouTube video how exactly that's done? I don't want to wait to the last minute to find out, scared I won't be able to.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Right now, just hold the power button for about 7 seconds. Within the system, it'll say 'continue holding power button for x-seconds to reboot' (or something to that extent). Same concept if you're stuck in a bootloop, except you'll just hold the volume down button after it shuts down to enter bootloader.

It was one of the first things I tried on the phone, just to be sure it worked right. (both from home screen, and even tested during bootup)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
+1. I did the same its really easy. The easy way to do it in the Rom is press and hold power til the power off reboot comes up choose reboot then when it shuts off press and hold volume down til it goes into bootloader.

sent from my bad a** EVO LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] boomer8403:
Does anyone know how to get rid of the grainy contact photos and replace them with HD quality?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
When did you flash? Mine cleared up after a little bit.

sent from my bad a** EVO LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] boomer8403:
I flashed early yesterday morning. What app are you using to pull the pics from Facebook in HD quality?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scottspa74:
I haven't tried it myself, but I've read haxsync from the market works great for that.

Also, I'd love to see the CRT animations implemented. Either viper or Vince said they hadn't seen them on an ICS ROM. That's weird. They've been in every ICS ROM I've used. AOKP, Deck, CM9, Drews builds, etc.

sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
The roms you listed...what do they have in common? (hint, they're all aosp)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ckoadiyn:
There is a set of YouTube vids in this section that shows it
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Damn, i had no idea about that. I actually changed the setting within the Recovery to show just my External SD Storage. Im telling ya, i dont know why im allowign this whole Internal and External storage buisness confuse the hell out of me. Thanks for that tip
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] theultimatev:
After flashing 1.2.1 and the button remapping mods I can now say that this phone is most definitely worth while. :) the fastest, most stable phone-rom combo I've ever used (maybe it's just the phone :P)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] slayerpsp:
links dont seem to work cant download

The server at goo.im is taking too long to respond.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few

moments.

If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network

connection.

If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure

that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.:mad:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 94tbird:
my battery life has been less tha nstellar as well on this rom, less than stock anyway.

Ive only been off the charger for an hour, no phone calls, sent 4 text messages and im down 12%

seems something is keeping it awake
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
Mine is doing pretty darn good.

sent from my bad a** EVO LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 94tbird:
look at the difference in android system between yours and mine. gigantic!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] -viperboy-:
Says the one who didn't do it right away lol

Nah, they don't share that info with sprint.

Hey, I like it. Lots in store for it :)

Talked to s0up about it, he said it needs to be fixed in twrp.

Thanks!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] -viperboy-:
Gotta download betterbatterystats from xda. I really wish we could put it in the ROM. People ask this like everyday multiple times a day.

PSA: Download betterbatterystats from XDA and check partial wakelocks before asking questions about battery issues! Lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ckoadiyn:
Can you link it here?

Nvm lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fredgar75:
Looks like you may have a wake lock issue. I think if you search the forum you can find help on that.

sent from my bad a** EVO LTE.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 94tbird:
Ive got it, shows nothing in partial wake locks over a few seconds
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
FWIW

i unlocked and flashed 1.2 last night.

unless i was out of it (and i didn't drink anything!)

goo manager downloaded 1.2.1 to my card (not phone)

and did auto flash ...

i have TWRP set for card

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@vin - i tried runandhide 4x5 - no good - had to nan restore.

i like 5 rows.

and do we have circle battery available ?

sorry, i'm late to party, and didn't read all the posts

but i jumped in last night and thought Murder on the Orient Express would be appropriate !

Cool Hand Luke : what we have here is a failure to communicate. right between the eyes !
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Mirror for viperROM 1.2 viperROM 1.2 mirror

Mirror fir viperROM 1.2.1 update viperROM 1.2.1 update mirror

Link this D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 1BadHEMI:
I hope this will not be baked into the next version of the ROM. Hope to see it kept seperate in the future.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ricoroadstar:
Hey guys, got my evo yesterday n hacked it right away throwing on this ROM n letting it rip. Much to my Suprise this is very, very laggy on my phone. I called it up at first to being because of a fresh install needing time to settle, all the apps that just installed are settling, blah blah. Restated a couple times n let it sit over night. Woke up watched some "news" online n some music, already at 52% on 1hr19 mins.

Anyone else having the very lagging issue? Two seconds to switch screens, loading issues etc. by reading some back I see ppl are having battery issues like me. Help! It's like my new baby is sick :-(
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
I wouldn't release it in it's own thread if it was just going to be put into the ROM

How did you flash? Did you wipe anything/everything? Did you restore system app data? Any other mods installed? You give us nothing to work with...like walking into a mechanic for the first time, and saying 'it's broke, see ya'
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 1BadHEMI:
I just know that past ROMs on both my 3D and Epic Touch had this feature I had problems with (phone turning itself on at whim in my holster during the day and even in my pocket.

Thanks!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Then you've never ran viperROM...we don't add in mods like this stock in our roms. But we do our best to make sure most available mods are compatible with our ROM, for those that want them
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] btbamzao:
Happy to report all of my battery issues were caused by my phone being a lemon. Got a new one from best buy.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] -viperboy-:
Thank you vin, you're the absolute greatest thing to ever happen, ever
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] megazac1:
There's a thread that has a bunch of battery icon mods available to flash, but none that I've found sans percentage. Just want the stock icon.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Aww thanks man...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Go to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1677301 and flash that
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] megazac1:
Thanks, but I'm unclear as how to flash this. Doesn't seem to follow the traditional "flash in recovery, reboot" approach.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gpz1100:
There's a pretty lengthy thread elsewhere on here about this app. Looking at partial wakelocks is only part of the picture. There's more to it. Sure the wakelock time is important, but equally important is HOW MANY times the device has entered a wake state.

When interpretting BBS dumps, I look at the following

A) Time Since Unplugged

B (under other)) Awake

C (under other)) Screen On

The difference between B & C is your wakelock - time spent with the screen off, but awake.

Next, sort the wakelocks by time and look at the top. Anything with relatively large time amounts is a culprit. But you can also have a case where there's nothing with large time values. In that case, sort by counts. Again, look at items at the top of the list.

You can also save the dump as a file (places it in the root of the sdcard) and attach it here for analysis.

I'm still trying to better understand the information provided, but this should at least give some insight to what the cause might be.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Download one of my battery mods on your computer. open it (not extract, just open it so you can the files). Navigate to /system/app. Download the SystemUI.apk from the link, and drag and drop it into my open mod. Move your newly made mod to your phone and flash it
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ricoroadstar:
Sorry, tried to give symptoms n I am a mechanic, you drop it off with what you know n I fix it (easier when you have the actual said machine in front of you lol)

These apps were fresh install from the market place, did not attempt to put old app data from old device on new clean phone. Evo was first rooted by zetomax then used HTC unlock. I first wiped cache, then delivk then factory reset then viper 1.2 let it reboot n settle down with fresh app install from market. Once done rebooted back into twrp n installed update 1.21. I have not changed any settings that the new ROM had. Just fresh apps from market. No LWP running either.

Hope that helps a little more! Thanks again!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] megazac1:
I'm operating on Mac OSX and I'm unsure how to 'open' the zip file without extracting it. I tried opening it (creates a new folder), swapping in the new SystemUI.apk, recompressing it, and then flashing but that's not working. I get 'Failed' in TWRP.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
If you extract it...be sure when going to make an archive/zip, that you're inside the mod folder, highlight the system and meta folder, and compress those together.

Most likely, you're zipping it wrong, do my above method

After you flashed 1.2 (the main ROM) how was performance? Choppy? Or smooth?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] megazac1:
Thank you!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] -viperboy-:
My account was haxed... Good one, shortstroke.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
These people needed mirrors, I had to hax you're account. A goodness if I actually receive a 'thanks' from your account every once in a while..lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ricoroadstar:
To be honest no, never did run it with just 1.2 with no update. After I let it settle I just rebooted updated then went along.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
Maybe try a full wipe and flash of just 1.2...see how performance is...if you've got time...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Ill tell ya guys. I dont know if its the phone or what but im also now seeing some stutter and freezing of my screen. Like if i back out of this thread and click on another, the phones screen will actually freeze for maybe about 5-6 seconds, and then work again. Pretty wierd. Im also running 1.2.1. I wasnt on 1.2 long enough to see if it did on there as well. Not sure what it could be caused by though.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Vinchenzop:
The only time I've noticed anything close to what you described, was within the xda app. If I open it (opens to 'latest" tab) and press on the pm tab too fast. Literally, the only time. So I think it has to do with the xda app, for my described situation, at least.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ricoroadstar:
Sounds like your having the same issue. I don't experience with any app in particular just all around. Most noticeable was dolphin browser running with google music playing, tried to open the multi view to switch to another app n it took the 5-7 seconds of,ah ****.

I'll try n reflash 1.2 no update n see where this goes. Kusy worried aboutputting all the stress on a new battery. Do these things still have memories? Stupid question I know.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] smw6180:
*LAUGH* Ok that's funny...

...and another new name for Vin:

"Mathboy" "Old Man" and now "Shortstroke"

Love it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mocsab:
Viper Rom - Nice work!

I picked up my new EVO LTE yesterday - rooted it and installed TWRP soon after and was very pleasantly surprized to see you had already done so much work on getting this ROM together - I have flashed and am very impressed with everything so far - can't wait to see what kind of battery life I will be getting - Can't wait to see what's next!