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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 10-Dee-Q:
Hi I just got the EVO LTE few days ago and after reading this forums I've decided that I want to flash meanrom on it as its sounded like the best one out there.

But I have a question , this morning my phone noticed me that there's an system update available. Is it safe for me to update it? Or not? Ive not yet installed thhe mean Rom I planned to do it this weekend because of my tight schedule.

That's why I'm asking wheter its better for me to do the system update first or not.

And one more thing is that I'm not in the US and I'm using this phone on my country carrier , unlocked. Will it screws anything?

Oh and 1blast thing, now I'm still running stock.

I have a problem where there's some sort of static or noises when I listened the music in the phone and also when I'm watching movies using MX playeer , the sound come and go but its definatelky there. And this problem only occur when I'm using the headphone. When its on the built in speaker they were ok.

I've tried several other earphone and headphone that I have but all of them give the same results. Will this Rom help me with the problem? Thank you so much.

And just curious hows the battery life on this Rom compared to stock? As this is one of the most important thing to me.

Thank you so much.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] furbee86303:
Never admit to being rooted when we u contact sprint, trust me... n when they hear that, ur pretty much gonna get that's ur problem no matter what's goin on with the phone
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] netengineer:
Hey I am replying to my own post. It looks like it is my Airave. It looks like only the second part of the message goes threw and the first part does not.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SpyderPalo:
Before Unlocking???? Doesn't the texts and any other notification get sent as soon as the phone hits the cell service since that is how text messages are transmitted?

My Original question:

What I'm asking for from anyone is, is there a way to have the ROM flash and Boot up in Airplane mode so I can run WiFi to get it all setup before I "go Live" so After a reboot and running the SMS MMS restore I don't get texts while the ROM is getting all loaded up??

Thanks for the Great ROM and your hard work Mikey and other Meanies that do a great job at supporting with answering random and repeated questions.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Hulkanator:
no ideas on ruu with s-off and new frimware?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jediknight36:
Ok, radios are updated, and everything major is working. The only thing wrong now is I lost all my photos on my contacts when viewed in the messaging app. Photo unlocker worked the first time, but now isn't doing anything.

Thanks in advance!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] awillis111:
Have set Facebook to sync all contacts?

Try HaxSync.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
My neighbor friend has an Airave and exactly the same problem. It's not even phone dependent: did it with the Evo 3D on both GB and ICS and now the LTE. Send a message that has two parts: only the second goes. Send one with 3 parts: only the third goes. Only the last goes out. I've just learned not to send messages when I'm at his house or if I have to, I watch the character limit and send <160 then start a new message and send another <160. Never found a solution but didn't look very hard either because It's not my Airave. Odd thing is my house is 200 feet from his and I don't need an Airave in my house. I get a crappy signal but rarely ever drop a call even in my office with 2+ computers running.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] awillis111:
I use Handcent, and it has an option not to break sms at 160 characters. Wonder if that would make a difference.?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] firegeek:
I hate my airave with a frikken passion. My old one I had was amazing! Never a problem, always worked. Then it went bad, and they sent me the new model, and it's the biggest piece of crap. Ever day at least once it hangs and resends a text 5, 10, sometimes 20 times. Sprint has no fix for that. I also get the problem you mentioned. Sucks. I put the corporate prl in... So I just force roaming at home. Grrrrr.

Oh well.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ryanalan82:
There is an alien DNA boot animation from rom toolbox that I have been trying to get it to work work no luck. There are lots of boots in that app but I don't think I ever got any of them to work on this phone, they did work on the eVo and the 3d. I have the downloaded zip, does anyone know what I could do with it or the files to get other boot animations working?

I should elaborate..... I use water drops live wallpaper with a black n red pic of neurons. The alien dna boot animation is a red n black spinning helix. It would really just match my phone and complete it.

Swyped from my eVo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ryanalan82:
Background:

Swyped from my eVo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cherylbaker:
My phone no longer misbehaves and I did not take the upgrade. I reset to default and reinstalled abs so far no lockups and no resets .. so we both get our wish. You do not have to listen to be and I didn't have to upgrade..course you still may have to listen to other people complain since I was bit the only one with the problem
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ryanalan82:
Boot animation:

Swyped from my eVo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Nygel:
I'm sorry what issues were you having that advise from any knowledgable member could not help?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] awillis111:
I don't think boot animations from og or 3d will work on the ltevo, due to the different screen sizes. Send it to Kevinrocksman, and he may be able to get it to work for you.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SRQ Rick:
I've had an airrave for just over 2 months and have never experienced that problem. I just tested it again to make sure and both parts of the text went through. The only issue I have with an airrave is if I start a phone conversation while at home I can't leave the house and continue the conversation. It will drop the call when it is too far from the airrave. Other than that it has been awesome!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
If you're S-OFF, flashing an RUU won't change that. It will update the HBOOT, but you can still downgrade that back.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] robbo10:
I get this quite often when I wipe caches and/or flash a theme. If the other solution does not work, Get terminal emulator from the market type

su

Enter

chmod 666 /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files/*

Enter

Then reboot and they should be back.

Posted from my meanELTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jediknight36:
Before buying that app, I cleared out the data and went into HTC sync and deleted the account, and reset it through setup. Worked like a charm!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
You won't brick if you run the most current 2.13 RUU, and are on the latest firmware/radio/hboot.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] RussellAlan:
Yes sir, I'm going to flash the 4.2.2 see if that gets rid of the 4x5 rosie, Or is there anothere way to revert the 4x5?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rkclark:
You can manually push the Rosie from the release zip to the data/ app dir and reboot to get back to 4x4
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] RussellAlan:
Alright thanks and I just extracted it and used ES File Explorer to put it in /system/app
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] il Duce:
It's 664 just fyi, plus it's a far less demonic number ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] voodamn:
Great rom and good job on this Mikey..been running v4.2 for awhile now and haven't had any problem yet. BTW..did i miss v4.2.1?

NVM..v4.2.1 is the nightly..lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mann75:
If you are running hboot 1.12 do you have to update to 1.15?

Rooted EVO baby
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] voodamn:
don't recommend it if you want to achieve s-off so stay on hboot 1.12 for now until the devs can figure out a way to get s-off on hboot 1.15.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] netengineer:
They have been doing work out my way so my signal has been crap. Hope they get it fixed. The sending of text 10 times at a pop makes me look like a stalker when I first meet a women. Lol

---------- Post added at 08:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:18 PM ----------

Maybe there is a setting on it then.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
First the blah blah lol I work nights and sleep during the day I went to bed at 7am my battery at 59% when I woke up at 330pm phone was completey dead o have data turned on and gps but I have an airave so it shouldn't be searching for a signal I don't use fb or chrome very minimal apps I have never had any battery problems. I will post a battery stats when I get home from work and get it charged. My SIG is current if that helps.

Btw my Evo is not my primary phone so I don't use it much so can't understand why the battery died while in deep sleep most of the time
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mann75:
Alright so you can't obtain s-off with hboot 1.15 yet. But does this hboot 1.15 have anything that is needed for our pho.es? Or is all the updates and tweaks covered by mike and his meanroms?

Rooted EVO baby
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Konvict808:
I've flashed dirty since 3.8, I'm on 4.2. And wallet still works. U might have to clear data & force stop it & reset it after a dirty flash. There was a article on goodandevo.net about how the updated wallet is a lot harder too break & it might be impossible to break the secure element.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] brnail:
i have had an Airrvana (Airrave) for over two years. It will periodically refuse to send texts, double them up, etc. I have talked to technical support several times. They recommend that you update profiile while not on the Airrave and reset the Airrave. It works for a while sometimes. It is a well known problem.

On dropping the call, this has almost always happened to me. The phone is supposed to convert over to the tower when I get out of range, but it rarely does. Tech support does not have any answer.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Silent23:
I don't lose GPS signal, but when using Navigation and stopped at a light or moving slow, my location will bounce back and forth between 2 locations about 1/2 a mile apart. It will keep going back and forth, even changing the estimated arrival time. Once I get moving again, it acts normal again until I stop again at a red light.

Not sure what is going on.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] manaup:
Does anyone feel like the evo lte got bested by the sg3 spec wise and basically everything else wise?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] guih:
Hey guys I haven't been on MeanROM in a while so I was wondering if someone could quickly tell me whether I set up the MeanROM.opt file correctly. I had flashed the “no light up screen for SMS" zip, then edited the opt file, rebooted and now have this in my /data. Is that fine?

Sent from my LTEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] midmadn:
Not at all. The SG3 is a plastic Samsung phone that scores like 3000 in quadrant compared to the metal EVO that without even overclocking can pull mid 6's.

I use my GPS all day everyday and Sammie's aren't noted for having strong GPS.

In the end I'm sure the SG3 is an ok phone, but it wasn't available when a lot of us bought our Evo's and it will be outdated when we're ready for our next upgrade just like the EVO.

This is way off topic in this thread though. So please troll in the appropriate forum.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] manaup:
Yeah. Gotcha.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] atlmtnbiker:
all i have is the setprop....false line (exactly as you show it). i know at one point i edited the performance and battery options, but now i can't seem to find where to edit it.

i apologize for the mini hi-jack.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chong67:
What are the advantage/disadvantages of the 1.12, 1.15 and 1.19 beside being able to root or cannot root?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bndfishing:
Do I need to flash a stock rom and kernel before I RUU and unroot? I need to get the latest firmware and see if that fixes the wifi issue.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
You can get S-OFF with 1.12. With the other two, you can't. It may eventually be possible with the 1.15, presumably, if the 1.19 was released to patch an exploitable vulnerability.

That's the only relevant difference.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mmmdieselfumes:
Been running MR since he started it, but I ran into the strangest damn thing the other night.

4.2's been running flawlessly for like 2 days and many reboots. Went to the lakehouse, and have crummy reception (all brick house). I fell asleep dead drunk on the couch, and when I woke up the next day the phone was dead, which wasn't surprising.

When I charged and turned on, I got a SystemUI mismatch (?) error, sense dead, and all my apps FC'ed. Ended up having to reflash (clean flash, not dirty), but I still get certain apps "unexpected stopped" errors (which is strange instead of FC's). Not sure why this stuff happened, but thought I'd mention it. Maybe letting the battery die completely corrupted the internal SD card while it was trying to update an app or something?

So now I've flashed over to superLTE, and back to a clean install of MR, and everything seems back to normal.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] evomike77:
Just relock bootloader and run ruu from USB fastboot then unlock and root

LtEVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] robbo10:
Lol, thanks that's what I used on the OG, so I've used it on the LTE and it's worked every time. I will try it next time, it is a better number. Just out of curiosity why does that happen?

Posted from my meanELTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sun1914:
For some reason after upgrading to 4.2 I can't find the CPU app that came with the previous MeanRoms to change performance of rom. Did I do something wrong? I was having some issues so did a full wipe and flash. All apps restored on there own but no CPU
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] seewhyphotos:
Here's a quick tutorial on where the numbers come from for the permissions. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/unix-file-and-directory-permissions/
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cactusone:
Hi Mike,

I too had the crackling issue but its gone now..but I did notice something new today that I had no prior issues with. Not sure if its a Rom or bug issue.

While listening to music AND running google navigation..the turn by turn instructions by google are now very garbled and hard to hear. In the past the music would mute briefly and the turn by turn instruction would come through the headset without any issues.

Anyone else notice this? I was using ear-buds, google maps/navigation was running and listening to music (Mp3, TuneWiki app)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kusanagi-sama:
Here's a couple images of battery life on 4.2
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] crocks:
Hello, so I successfully flashed the screen off mms and it worked great! Was hoping to get back to normal here eventually. Is there always I can get back without wiping everything? Thanks!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] 10-Dee-Q:
Anyone :( ?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ovrrdrive:
In the end the sg3 is still a samsung phone that will have tons of bugs and little to no manufacturer support after the first update. I got burned 3 times after I said never again by samsung and I finally saw the light about a year after the e4g came out and won't stray from htc again.

As mentioned already, the sg3 is only better on paper.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tommy24:
Depending on how or if you rooted your phone I would say don't. I would first do the 2.13 firmware, then flash mean.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] babyschmoof:
Well I'm sad to announce that the crackling still exists in Google Music. I don't have any local music, so I'm only using the Google Music app. I tested it with and without beats running.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Jerz:
Crackling? Is it when you use blue tooth? I use Google Music all them time except I use a cassette adapter and don't hear any crackling at all. The only issue I have is when I get a notification from a text or email it sounds like the stereo mutes and a real static-y sound comes through the phone.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] slayerpsp:
They use the same cpu and gpu the s3 has more ram and more storage space but the screen isnt as good either pretty much the same phone so its a toss up if you ask me i like htc so i stick with them third phone Ive owned from them EVO 4G EVO 3D now EVO LTE great build quality. Mean ROM is awesome had no problems with it love the ota update
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] volk9029:
Get your msl number. Go to dialer. Put ##gpsclrx#. Your phone will reboot and gps signal will get better.

Sent from my lair.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
My Battery Log

I work nights and sleep during the day I went to bed at 7am my battery at 59% when I woke up at 330pm phone was completey dead I have data turned on and gps but I have an airave so it shouldn't be searching for a signal I don't use fb or chrome very minimal apps I have never had any battery problems. I will post a battery stats when I get home from work and get it charged. My SIG is current if that helps.

Btw my Evo is not my primary phone so I don't use it much so can't understand why the battery died while in deep sleep most of the time
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] seewhyphotos:
Pardon my noobness, but where do you get the MSL number? Is it needed to be able to "reset" GPS?

Thanks in advance,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] leerage:
If you are rooted you can download MSL Reader from the play store to find out what your msl is.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
MSL reader from GP
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikeyxda:
I notice that you are not on WiFi. The 3G radio uses much more juice than WiFi even if you have a good signal. Other than that one tip, only thing I can suggest is maybe downloading Better Battery Stats or something to see what is drawing battery. Here are my stats from yesterday (on 4.2.2). 14.5 hours and still 68% left. Didn't use the phone much: only 58 minutes of screen on time, but I thought I'd post this because a few people are complaining about screen off (idle) battery drain. When set up properly with no other app issues or wake lock issues, the ROM itself should last several days in standby (screen off) while connected to WiFi (maybe a day on 3G). If your battery is draining that fast (as you reported above) with the screen off, you've got a misbehaving app.

Now one thing I do that I think makes a difference is that I've got sync turned off (in accounts and sync) for everything except calendar, contacts, internet, and tasks under "Google" and I also allow the HTC weather to sync. That's it. Turn off what you don't need in there. I have Facebook and other syncing turned off because, well, I couldn't care less about Facebook. Some of that stuff you don't need: turn it off. For example, I have Gmail sync turned off because I use K9 and it does push mail on its own. If I had Gmail sync turned on, it'd be double pushing all my mail! So I think the #1 thing is use WiFi if you can and a close second is: only sync the stuff you're actually using.

Other tips:

- Keep GPS off unless you actually need it for nav (yes, it does draw a significant amount of power no matter what others say).

- Make sure "best wifi performance" is NOT checked in the advanced menu under WiFi settings.

- Also in advanced WiFi, turn off the 5 Ghz band if you don't use it.

- And finally, check for misbehaving apps causing wake locks using a battery stats app.

Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
This is the first time I've had problems with the battery it seems like it went from around 60% to completely dead in a few hours my settings have always been the same. I do have better battery stats but I'm not really sure what to look for.

Sent From My POS MoPho
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tybo31316:
My battery life on 4.2 is great here's some battery stats with light use.

Also I found out more about my browser closing automatically. Apparently, the issue has something to do with the update because I was browsing another forum and some stock unrooted users is having the same problems after the update to the latest build.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gianmarco00:
I've had the same. I'm at 30% now with 2 1/2 hours of screen on time and at 24 hours use.

I will add that my battery performance was terrible until I uninstalled Google chrome. Someone suggested it and they were absolutely right. Complete battery and memory hog. I've switched to ics browser per Mike's suggestion and haven't looked back.

I can also confirm that battery usage with screen off is great. I unplugged the other morning when at 100%. Over one hour later while I went back to sleep it was still at 100%. Three hours later it was at 99%. And this is with Wi-Fi and GPS and Bluetooth always on.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
I usually get the same results but for some reason this charge cycle was bad I don't have chrome or fb installed so I'm at a loss as to why all of a sudden it went crazy in me

Sent From My POS MoPho
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mswlogo:
There are always a few "Outliers" regarding battery with each ROM.

A few folks posting great battery is no proof there isn't a problem.

It could be WIFI sleep issues, could be screen on vs screen off conditions that are not performing as well as they have.

But their seems to be more Outliers this time around.

Many changes Mike (or other Devs) make are tradeoffs. Could simple be some folks are hitting the negative side of a trade off.

Lot of complaints about lag before this. Now less complaints about lag and more on battery.

For me I'm sticking with 3.9 for a while. Except for the dial pad on boot, which is no biggy at all. It's a solid release.

But that's not saying 4.2 isn't better. I just seemed to be very low on battery by the end of day the with my usage pattern on builds after 3.9 (don't know exact version).

Could be a valid tradeoff and more folks are happier with 4.2 with their usage patterns. Which is all well and fine.

This is partly why I love Mikey's ROMS because they are FULL ROM's and great Realease notes and not patches.

I just dirty flashed backwards to 3.9 and all seems like it was, when I was on 3.9 :)

This is not a bash on the ROM just because I choose to stick with 3.9, at least until I see a feature worth while to jumping to :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jarocho151:
Any way to get the multitask button to become the menu again. Thank
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] RoosRCB:
For what it's worth...

I have been flashing ROM's consistently since my HTC Hero days. It is almost a certainty for me that 90% of the problems experienced with flashing ROM's or ROM performance are because of rogue apps or settings. This statement is under the premise that the ROM was built and functioning correctly. Mikey's ROM's to me are the most consistent in performance across the board. Occasionally I have ran into "battery" issues, but almost every single time, it is App or Setting related.

My experience with MeanROM has always been great, with great battery stats. Of course, I have never had a battery drain issue like many listed above, so I can't say that it is or is not a ROM issue. If I was guessing, it has to be App or Settings. Check your Facebook, Email, WiFi, GPS, etc, just as Mikey said. Also, I agree that Chrome is a culprit as well. I think the Stock Browser functions just as well as Chrome, so I don't mess with Chrome. Important to note, I have only clean flashed MeanROM with my initial install, and the upgrade to 2.13 base. I have dirty flashed all other times.

My only problem I have experienced currently, I don't see a missed call notification in the status bar...is that something that doesn't happen anymore? It really doesn't affect me that bad, because my phone tells me on the screen when I missed a call, just curious if I missed something.

Thanks Mikey!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] manaup:
Juice defender is a good app to try. It even reports how much it's extended your battery life. I got the paid version from Amazon app store. JD has a free version too.