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[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
I say irrelevant, due to the very few reports of issues, compared to overall downloads.

I think the biggest variable being overlooked is: the recovery used for flashing kitkat based roms.

I don't think you changed anything firmware wise by taking the OTA.

What you did do, was install the update using stock recovery by taking the OTA.

That to me, says that there may be an issue with using certain custom recoveries and flashing kitkat Sense to this device.

That's my conclusion from the info presented.

If you or anyone else feels that the files I have posted are not adequate, or that I'm not properly providing such things for this device, then I'm more then willing to pull the files and force everyone to just take the OTA if they want the update.

But seeing how I have posted these stock setups many times for various devices, I fail to see where I have provided anything in the wrong manner.

Anyhow, glad you got your issues sorted out, maybe it will help someone else.

Seeing how there have been over 1,000 downloads of the stock rom, and a very limited few that have voiced issues with touchscreen, I have a hard time believing that the files do not work as intended.

Perhaps you failed to reflush the firmware a second time when you updated it manually, I really don't know...
[HTC Droid DNA] -DroidIsDNA-:
My phone won't get recognized in fast boot on windows 8.1. Can somebody hook me up with drivers? It worked before 8.1 so I'm thinking I need drivers...it reads adb and the phone as USB storage. Has anybody else had this problem? I flashed the hboot and radio for 4.09, but I wanna do the full firmware. Thanks
[HTC Droid DNA] pyroguysf:
Both before and after my official update, I used the same TWRP 2.7 to flash the same stock ROM you posted in the same manner, but with different results. The only reason I'm assuming it's in the firmware is that it's the only thing I can't double check just for the sake of it, but of course it's also possible that something else went wrong somewhere along the line for those of us with the issue. That aside though, I'm just curious, since the firmware is flashed through fastboot in RUU mode, does that actually still rely on the recovery?

This is just the first time I've seen a problem quite like this, but don't get me wrong, your work is definitely appreciated by myself, and I'm sure the 1000+ other people.
[HTC Droid DNA] finanandroid:
Here http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/adb-fb-apx-driver-universal-naked-t2513339
[HTC Droid DNA] terrorist96:
Still not getting any help.. Been patient for almost 2 weeks now. If compensating you for your time isn't enough motivation, then I don't know what is..

I guess I could just stay with this rom without flashing the firmware, since some are reporting issues with it anyway.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52422229
[HTC Droid DNA] Imacellist:
Dude you are getting help, it just hadn't been resolved. I have responded as have many others in the thread you posted. I'm sorry you have gotten adb working but that isn't the devs responsibility. Don't act like no one is helping.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
I'm closing this thread for now.

Seems to be an issue for some folks and I just don't have the time for it.

Wanna update to stock kitkat? Take the OTA.

THREAD REOPENED!!
[HTC Droid DNA] commandlinekid:
I'm having radio issues. I upgraded and it worked fine thankfully. I even applied the s-off/locked/dev-screen tidy-up patches..........but I noticed starting a week or so later (last week) and continuing through today.......that often times my phone would loose 4G altogether. It will Either show the little sim-card picture like it can't see the sim card, OR just turn into 3G except Internet doesn't work. Keep in mind that I'm in solid 4G territory in NY.

To fix temporarily (say for 12 hours or so) I just power cycle the phone.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
I do not have and have not had this issue.

But....

These are you options:

New Sim card tray

Tape on the back of sim

New Sim Card

Flash stock rooted rom and stock recovery - perform factory reset with stock recovery installed (**probably what you need)

This restores corrupted radio partitions, that custom recoveries and roms do not touch.
[HTC Droid DNA] badogg:
Hey Santod, I just want to say I am THRILLED to see this thread re-opened.

Thank you for every thing you do, we are fortunate to have you around..

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I think I'm going to try flashing the stock rooted rom, stock recovery, and factory reset as I have had a lot of 4G dropping and at time down to 1x. I did one time notice it complaining about not having a Sim card, but it seems to have resolved itself and I haven't seen it since. I think it is something with the new firmware as I have never had this touchy of a data connection.

Again, thanks for everything!!:highfive:
[HTC Droid DNA] commandlinekid:
I don't understand why the radio didn't take. I don't get the theory.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
I never said the radio didn't take.

What I am saying is that there are low level partitions that carry other modem and radio related data/files.

Over time, these NV radio partitions(as they are called) can become corrupt.

Flashing a rom and/or radio, does not reset these partitions.

The only thing that does, is a factory reset in stock recovery.

This is a known and proven, working solution(not a theory) for your exact issue, on not just this device, but all 4 of my current HTC devices.

Try it or don't, just providing the info I know that works.
[HTC Droid DNA] commandlinekid:
Thanks for responding. Thanks.
[HTC Droid DNA] pcwizkid1994:
Can someone point me to the recovery for the newest kitkat build? I need to do a factory data reset to fix my 4g problems and cant find it. Thanks
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
You can use this one from the Kitkat Pre-update(1st smaller OTA)

LINK
[HTC Droid DNA] ryryrocco:
I'm having radio issues as well. If I perform the above procedure how will it affect my unlocked bootloader/ s off status/root. Also should I load the 4.2.2 stock rom/recovery and then reset and take the ota. Or should I load the 4.4.2 stock Rom and reset from that.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Back up what's important to you, this will wipe your device

Load stock rooted rom + firmware if you haven't yet

Load stock recovery

Boot to hboot > Factory reset

Profit

This does not effect s-off or bootloader status!

After you are done, fastboot flash choice of recovery and then flash choice of rom.
[HTC Droid DNA] superchaos:
Before everyone does a reset, try a new SIM card. Two outta of the three that took the ota in my house had to have the SIM changed out to get the 4g to work reliably.

Sent through the XDA Forum App
[HTC Droid DNA] ryryrocco:
I already got a new SIM card last week and a new tray the other day. Neither of these helped in my case.
[HTC Droid DNA] badogg:
Omg man, I'm ready to throw my phone into the garbage disposal trying to search for the stock recovery. My pc is on the Fritz right now due to my 2 year old and a mishap, so I'm stuck on my phone. Do you have a minute to post a link to the thread with the stock recovery? No biggie if you don't. Thanks...

Edit: nevermind, got it. It kept removing the search box every time I tried to type, but I got it. Lol
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
I just installed this ROM today and every thing went swimmingly except it lost the root binary's. I tried to flash the SuperSU zip in the OP but had the failed error as some other users. I started going through the thread to see if there was a solution and found this reply. I downloaded the UPDATE-SuperSU v1.94, flashed in recovery and BOOM, root restored.

[MENTION=1331268]santod040[/MENTION] may I make a suggestion to update the link in the OP to THIS instead in case others run into this problem? They may not be as patient as I was and start to flood the thread "I lost root" complaints.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
That's the same as the link in the OP, it takes you to SuperSu 1.94.

Only reason the one baked in isn't working is because I left the ramdisk stock, did not add init.d for the su script to work.

I can and was planning to update it and do that just for this reason, but I thought flashing it was simple as well.

But the link in the Op does take me to 1.94 :)
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
Huh that's strange. I originally downloaded the link you provided in the OP and had a FAIL when I tried to flash with recovery. I did a google search for the UPDATE SuperSU 1.94, downloaded that from chainfires host site and flashed in recovery with no problems.

Now I'm really confused....
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Yeah, I don't know, it just takes you to his site for the latest version...

It's not a direct link to a file.

This is what the actual link is. Which is what your link was for as well.

http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU

Anyhow, glad you figured it out. :)
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
Maybe I'm coming down with Alzheimer's or Dementia (which by the way could be bad for a firefighter/paramedic like me :D) but in any case everything is working fine. OR better yet just chalk it up to evil electronic gnomes... :D
[HTC Droid DNA] Steve One:
Anybody have the weatherbug elite apk. I bought it back in the day and now it's not available in the play store thanks
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
I'm really having a brain fart today. What is the fastboot command to flash the stock recovery? I have the latest recovery image that [MENTION=1331268]santod040[/MENTION] linked to and placed it in my adb/fastboot folder and labeled it "recovery". I just can't remember if it's by fastboot reboot oemRUU flash recovery or just fastboot flash recovery recovery.zip. either way I try fails...
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Second way you said was close.

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
It would help if I spelled the file in the adb/fastboot directory correctly. No wonder I couldn't flash it, I was flashing recvery.zip not recovery.zip. Disregard my last command, I was stupid.

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Now that I have everything spelled correctly the recovery image you linked to flashed fine. I then tried to reboot the device into the stock recovery and all I get is a device with a red triangle with an exclamation point above it. The device sits idle for two or three minutes then automatically reboots into the software.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
That is stock recovery.

You can hold power and volume up for a menu or just enter hboot to do factory reset from there...or settings storage in the rom.
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
Oooohhhhhhh..... This is the first time I have ever played with stock recovery. :) From the day I picked up this device I unlocked it with moonshine, placed a custom recovery on it and never looked back. I guess you can figure out by know I'm having some radio issues and just want to to a factory reset with stock recovery to reset the NV partition. I'm all loaded up with the stock 4.4.2 ROM and firmware files you linked to it's just the last step in placing the stock recovery and doing a factory reset is what was giving me problems.

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Actually I'm in the process of applying for a new job and in between updating my resume and filling out the application I'm trying to recover my phone to stock. I guess I should I concentrate on one process at a time and stop trying to multi-task as it's beginning to confuse me. :D
[HTC Droid DNA] Steve One:
Hello santod is there a way to get xposed working with this Rom and if so where can I download the installer. Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.Thank you kind Sir.

Edit.....never mind found it got it all is good....Thanks Sir icon did not look like the one you include in your roms.
[HTC Droid DNA] Steve One:
Example
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
I've been running this ROM with the kernel [MENTION=4803670]iHateWebOS[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3766545].torrented[/MENTION] have been collaborating on for the past week and the battery life has been phenomenal. I've been averaging 17 to 18 hours with a touch over 2.5 hours of screen time. And that is even with the motion launch gestures activated and screen brightness set to auto. By far this is the best battery life of any Sense based ROM I've ever used. I do believe HTC and Google knocked this update out of the park and the two developers I mentioned above have only improved the device experience.
[HTC Droid DNA] mulhiny:
May I ask your kernel settings? Based on your recommendation I think I'd like to give the kernel a try. I've never really messed with kernels in all my rooting years, this is why I ask.
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
I'm just using the v6.5 kernel with base settings. You'll need to install Trickster Mod app from the play store to activate the MLG.
[HTC Droid DNA] mulhiny:
Sounds good. Thanks again!
[HTC Droid DNA] iHateWebOS:
Can be activated from installer as well. Also the wake features for that kernel aren't MLG(yet), they are the standard Sweep2Wake/sleep and DT2Wake features introduced by showP1984 a while ago.
[HTC Droid DNA] mulhiny:
I'm sorry to sound like a noob...but I read the OP for the kernel and I'm not sure what MLG is. Do I need it or can I just flash the kernel as is?
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
D'oh... I was under the impression that DT2wake and S2wake were considered MLG. As far as the settings on Aroma they didn't stick for me and I saw a few pages back someone mentioned setting them with TricksterMod and that worked.
[HTC Droid DNA] iHateWebOS:
Just flash in recovery
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
10 days on a Sense based ROM, stock nonetheless. This is the longest I've stayed on a Sense based ROM since I bought the phone and I'm still getting kicka$$ battery life.
[HTC Droid DNA] severedevil:
im having issues with my data/wifi speeds. ive flashed RUU stock and factory reset multiple times, i have flashed stock recovery with stock kitkat rom and still my data will not work right. ive done factory reset through settings and hboot. not working for me. any help appreciated.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Get a new SIM card.
[HTC Droid DNA] severedevil:
its not the sim, ive swiped with my wife and data works fine on her phone with my sim and ****ty on mine still with her sim.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2612740

the above link is the link i used for files to flash the RUU, is it the right one? i would like to try relocking the device if there is nothing else i can do.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
You've flashed an old RUU.

Have you updated the firmware and Rom since then?

Did it not work on that RUU?

Sounds like if you've put stock on the phone and did a factory reset with the stock recovery loaded and still had issues, you may well have faulty hardware.

Good luck, hopefully you can get it figured out or sent to be fixed.
[HTC Droid DNA] severedevil:
my phone worked fine a week ago while i was running viper dna 1.3.5 then i wanted to try sense 5.5 and installed 3.5.0 viper and thats when it all started. ive flashed multiple roms and recovery's and firmware. now i just noticed some ota updates and im currently letting it update and we shall see if that helps at all.... hopefully optimistic....

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ok so i downloaded the ota updates on the device from verizon and still same issues. you said the RUU i flashed is out of date... where can i dl up to date copy. do u think relocking would solve my issue? because if not im not gonna bother with it. if you have time maybe a quick step by step guide to make sure im doing everything right. im not a complete noob when it comes to this but im not completely understanding everything im just following guides i find and they happen to work. really helps when all zips are included with each command i need in order, i know its alot to ask so if your to busy then dont worry about it.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Only suggestion I have is to do a factory reset with stock recovery installed.

If that doesn't help and sim doesn't help, there isn't much more to do.

Yes, that ruu is older, but that doesn't matter.

It is stock and you have taken OTA's since with no positive results.

So flashing some other RUU is not gonna do you any more good then what you have already done.

The biggest thing that helps is factory reset in stock recovery.

If you have tried that, then you have done all you can do.

If you have not, then that's what I suggest.

(doing so, will wipe the entire device, so back up anything important first, if you should do this)

I think there are other threads in General and Q&A that maybe you could check with as well.

Since some of those are regarding similar issues and this is not really related to this thread topic.
[HTC Droid DNA] severedevil:
I apologize. I posted in general and Q&A but havnt had anyone help except I was refered to this thread page 35 u mentioned corrupt radio. And to flash stock recovery. And do factory reset through hboot. I donno how to do factory reset through hboot. Only settings. Would corrupt radio ****up my WiFi too? I have 5-10mb down and 3-8up on WiFi. 2mb down and 1mb up mobile data. While my wife next to me gets 30+ down and 20+up WiFi and 25+ down 20+ up mobile data with her gs4. I used to have those speeds.... :'(
[HTC Droid DNA] sabres032:
[MENTION=1331268]santod040[/MENTION] any plans in the future of posting a debloated version of the stock ROM? I'm actually liking the stock 4.4.2 for this device and would love to have the Verizon and HTC bloat "Removed" not just disabled.
[HTC Droid DNA] kenohki88:
Hey santod I need some clarification please. I flashed your radio/firmware updates went well but when I run a sense 6 ROM the capacitive buttons start getting screwy after a while. I know it's been asked and you suggested to flash the stock JB and take the OTA but if i do all that will I lose root and have to go through root/unlock process again? How exactly do I go about flashing the stock JB and recovery? Will the fact that i have already updated firmware/radios cause a problem? Thanks in advance
[HTC Droid DNA] live2die:
any rom is okay, it's not like a kernel;)
[HTC Droid DNA] lulisat:
yes i am on SFR france and is running wery smoth.
[HTC Droid DNA] coachcrey:
I didn't realize the DNA had died lol. We are on the verge of having a kitkat sense 5.5 ROM we have a ton of kitkat aosp ROMs I love that I chose this phone.
[HTC Droid DNA] detonation:
Is it recommended to also flash the rest of the new firmware from the OTA?
[HTC Droid DNA] trmp54:
I installed this and is running perfect, but im still having the skype audio problems, do you know why is this happening, it was said that was because of the kernel
[HTC Droid DNA] riot1031:
Please correct me if I'm wrong here...I'm running 2.07 and want to upgrade to 3.06. Because this doesn't wipe data, it looks like I can flash this and retain all of my apps/data. Can I just flash this in recovery and be good to go? Thanks!

I probably should have mentioned, I'm S-OFF, unlocked bootloader, rooted already.
[HTC Droid DNA] mr4r4n:
we were in the "top devices" list now we are not, and i think the DNA should be there:fingers-crossed:
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Yes, that should work fine.

But to be safe, make a backup before trying.
[HTC Droid DNA] riot1031:
Thank you!
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
You're welcome :)

Full deodex version is now up in the OP...

I will upload the debloated versions later today as well.
[HTC Droid DNA] riot1031:
Just wanted to report back, everything worked like a charm! I booted into recovery, wiped system twice, flashed the ZIP, wiped cache and dalvik, and rebooted back into 4.2.2/Sense 5!! Thanks!
[HTC Droid DNA] IcyAgitator:
Did you make any changes to the build.prop?
[HTC Droid DNA] riot1031:
Can someone check something for me? In Settings > Personalize > Home screen style, I have BlinkFeed as an option 4 times and the only other choice is Traditional (Current). Does everyone else see this too? Why BlinkFeed 4 times?
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
No I didn't. It's the stock build.prop.

Everything is stock except that I added su/supersu, a few busybox tools, and rooted the boot.img.

That way this can be used to flash a future OTA on top of(with a stock recovery installed), if one so chooses to do so.

In my debloated versions, the OTA updater is always removed, as well as other bloat.

No point in getting a prompt for an OTA that will just fail on that rom.

In this one however, it is in a virgin stock state other then what I mentioned above.
[HTC Droid DNA] frostysnowman3567:
Does anyone have a mirror? My downloads keep failing
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
There are mirrors on the linked server, check the right side of the page or bottom if on mobile.

Try one from a different state.
[HTC Droid DNA] riot1031:
Weird. Wonder why I have it 4 times? Any idea how to get rid of three of them?

Also, has anyone that enabled BlinkFeed tried to disable it afterwards (or go back to traditional home screen)? I want to try it out, but don't want to be stuck with it.
[HTC Droid DNA] santod040:
Try a clean flash? :)

I have to assume it was something to do with that or you restored some system stuff with Tibu or something.

Not really sure why else that would happen to you and not me.

Yes you can disable it/switch back to traditional.
[HTC Droid DNA] kendall316:
Does anyone know if any one made a zip to get rid of the ongoing WiFi notification. And also the permenant gps icon in the status bar?
[HTC Droid DNA] riot1031:
I'd like to know too! I'm thinking the old Wi-Fi notification remover zip won't work on this new build.
[HTC Droid DNA] Imacellist:
I'm experiencing issues with my radio since I upgrades too. I went back to cm and it carried over. I'm gonna try to flash the older radio if possible and see if that fixes it.
[HTC Droid DNA] Steve One:
I second a debloated ,deodexed version of this please

Would also be great if we could get this inverted?
[HTC Droid DNA] darkxizor:
I took me a while to get it right, but this worked for me. After upgrading from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2 I was getting an unresponsive touchscreen and very choppy scrolling on every ROM. Flashing the latest firmware directly did not help.

The steps that worked for me with S-off:

Flash an older rooted ROM https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760973976

Download and flash older firmware referenced from here, The Jellybean 3.06.605.4 firmware.zip (note: my Windows 8.1 computer stopped working with fastboot at this point, had to use a Win7 machine)

Flash stock recovery with fastboot

Boot to stock ROM, check for new updates and take the OTA

Check for new updates and get the new 4.4.2 stock ROM (maybe unnecessary)

After installing the ROM, fastboot flash TWRP 2.7.0.8 back

Install ROM of choice