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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
You can get a rooted stock 2.2 ROM, odexed or deodexed. Then you can install a wifi tether app. Personally, I use Fresh 3.1.0.1, I don't notice any differences in general to stock, but you should probably just try different ROMs out and see which one you like. It's easy to switch around.

See this for ROMs.

As for rooting, You can use Simple Root, but I highly suggest doing it yourself using toast's or TheBiles' guides. You learn a lot and it's the same thing as using Simple Root, but you can deal with problems better (although I didn't have any issues when I did mine).

See here for guides.

There is a lot of info on how to get around any issues you have, so be sure to search if you do run into trouble.

And if you need the files for rooting, check here. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
Awesome response, SilverZero, thanks! I'm starting to feel comfortable with the rooting procedure.

I think the difficulty I have in choosing a ROM is that many ROM threads don't list conclusively whether a feature works or not. So, for instance, I presume that the Fresh ROM has a fully working camera (8MP/720P with all settings), but I've read other ROM threads that talk about downgraded camera bugs, so I am not sure if I should assume things work fine. Conversely, I think wifi tethering doesn't work, since it *seems* to suggest it isn't working, but doesn't flat-out say so...

I don't suppose some source exists somewhere that lists/compares all of these ROMs' features in a table format, listing whether they work or not, or are downgraded? Having something like that in a central, often-updated location would be incredibly useful...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imiddlet:
I used toast's method for rooting, and havent had any problems whatsoever. All I had to do after that, was install the new RA recovery image ( was more current ).

Is this the simplest way? probably not. But, i perfer doing the method with the most manual work. Automated processes tend to scare me, 'oh, our mod does steps 1 through 19 all at once'... well, thats fine, but what happens when it fails half way through? Toast's method, while a bit involved, is pretty simple, and if something happens, you can go "hey, when i do this command <whatever>, it does this, helps?!".

as for your 'questions 2s'

1: Are you sure you dont mean, flash from recovery? recovery is where you do all of your flashing, do your nandroid backups, and wiping. theres 3 ways to get there ( once your rooted/nand unlocked ).. volume -, and power while the phone is off, hold it til you get the menu. use quickboot ( a feature of damagecontrol mod ), or use adb using a command prompt on windows ( adb reboot recovery ).

2: Most people install radio updates when they go to change to new roms. The reason being, 2.2 'code' is based around having a certain radio version, and for things like 4g, and good 3g signal, you need to match.

personally, every time i go to install a new rom, i verify what the most recent radio version is out there, and install it ( same with wimax )

3: Once you are fully rooted, there are walktrhoughs for 'starting over / going back to stock'.. but I would just use one of the rooted stock images, as it gives you the ability to change your mind. for instance, right now 2.2 isnt rootable, so if you changed your mind after switching back to it, your kind of screwed. I'm not sure if the engineering image you install for root would go away if you reverted to stock/root though, as have never tried.

4: as long as you have the phone rooted, any 'bricking' that i have caused ( boot loops, power turning off on boot, etc ), were easily recoverable by just booting into recovery and reflashing. the only way I could see bricking in a totally bad way, would be if you somehow messed up the rooting process and corrupted the bootloader in such a way it couldnt recover. Otherwise, i have yet to see a rom that will flash / change your bootloader or recovery image, so it shouldnt be an issue.

5: It can, but i've seen issues where backing up stuff from a 2.1 rom, and installing a 2.2, causes weird issues. its safer to just redownload them if you are using a 2.2 rom. Another benefit of 2.2, is now google backs up your app selection you had installed, so when you wipe / flash a new rom, it auto-reinstalls all your apps you had from before ( it doesnt backup your settings though, just the applications themselves ).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Here's a project that one user is putting together comparing different ROMs.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aguc0npJCrWxdEFyU2NRNG1jNnRkY2trdXBsYlJLdWc&hl=en#gid=0
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
Wow, thank you for taking the time--you really answered all of my questions.

Greeeeat. Exactly what I was looking for.

You guys are awesome--I think I know what I need to know now, and in the next few days I will probably try rooting and installing Fresh Evo or BakedSnack. I'll update once I know how it went! :p
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
Urg...Well, I did the manual root method. Everything went fine through the initial root (using the classic method by toastcfh), and through the manual recovery mode where I made a nandroid backup.

Then, in recovery mode, I attempted to flash the latest Fresh Evo 3.1.0.1. It gave me no error messages, and I rebooted.

Now, it is stuck on an infinite reboot at the Fresh Evo ("FRESH!!!") bootup animation. It just keeps running that animation, never loading up. I've let that animation run about 15 times before I had to pull the battery to make it stop. Any time I try to boot the phone, I am stuck at that infinite reboot/load sequence.

The only thing I could do was hold Vol- while powering up to get into the bootloader and redo my stock root. I redid the Fresh Evo install, and it still just keeps rebooting for 10 minutes, before I pull the battery. I'll try Baked Snack next, but I don't want to press my luck with too many flashes... Any ideas anyone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Try doing a full wipe, Data, Dalvik Cache, everything except the SD card. Then try reflashing the ROM. That was how I had to fix mine when it did the same thing.

Also don't forget to update your Radio, WiMax and Recovery if you havent already.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715485

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6877247&postcount=98

As far as the best ROM is concerned I've been using SteelH's deodexed stock ROM with the netarchy-toastmod kernel and it's been running great. FPS are unlocked, its quick as hell and my battery life is excellent.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=743781

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=719763
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I did a double-wipe (cache, dalvik cache, and data/factory reset x2) before each of the 3 times I tried to install Fresh Evo. Same infinite reboot loop always.

Then I installed Baked Snack just now. I was able to actually boot (54 fps looks great!) but ROM Manager was giving me an error message about flashing the Recovery replacement, Wifi Tether force closed every time I opened it, and every time I plugged in the USB cable, it would disconnect about 2 seconds later, rendering the phone essentially useless since it wouldn't recharge or accept files in that two seconds.

So now I'm flashing back the stock root image, PC36IMG.zip.

I guess this isn't going very well. If anyone has any advice about these problems I'm having, I'm still in the depths of rooting hell. I appreciate the SteelH suggestions. Maybe I'll try that next. But it's definitely worrying me that every ROM I try has some major problems.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
if you're using clockwork try switching to Amon-RA. That may be whats doing it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
Thanks for the suggestion and the very fast responses. I'll give Amon-RA a shot, if I can install it. (note: I didn't use Rom Manager to install any actual ROMs here--it was just what I was about to begin using.)

Sorry if I have so many questions, but: What is the best method to flash Amon-RA recovery? Rom Manager seemed easy because you could simply download the program, run it, and choose an option in the settings menu to replace the stock Recovery.

For Amon-RA, there are two options--fastboot, and adb. I only have a vague idea of what these are and how to make them work.

As an UPDATE: I installed SteelH's ROM, and it booted, but it definitely didn't have 54 fps on mine (clearly 30 fps, Novatec panel FWIW), and I had the same problem with the USB cable disconnecting 2 seconds after plugging it in. I of course wiped everything before installing.

So I'm trying to figure out if I did something wrong in my original root--though it seemed to work fine. Could a locked NAND be causing these problems?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
I used the fastboot method earlier and it was a piece of cake. Just move the recovery to the Tools folder for the SDK, put your phone in fastboot mode and copy paste the two lines in a cmd prompt to install it. I was bored reading through the recovery thread I linked to earlier and apparently clockwork is not wiping properly, others were also having problems with Fresh because of it.

For the FPS fix that is done in the kernel so you would need to flash a custom one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
I tried to do as instructed. I rebooted into Fastboot mode on my phone, verified the device was seen by fastboot on my PC, then entered:

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-evo-v1.7.0.1.img

sending 'recovery' (5032 KB)... OKAY [ 1.406s]

writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 2.094s

I tried to redownload the file, but the same result occurred.

EDIT: I was able to flash the Amon-RA recovery, going back to toast's instructions. I don't know why it wasn't flashed before...

I'm also not sure that my wiping the data is the problem--I wiped factory settings/cache/dalvik cache each time using only the stock recovery. I think my mentioning Rom Manager might have suggested I used that program to wipe my data, but I haven't done so...

Anyway, I appreciate the help. This is tough for me--I can't seem to get anything to work.

EDIT2: Problems solved! Indeed, I had not properly unlocked NAND. I redid the toast NAND unlock steps, and Fresh Evo installed on the first try! :D

My only remaining question: how do I flash a kernel? I simply flash a ROM and then the kernel? I think Fresh Evo is great, but fps2d is still showing me locked at 30 fps.

EDIT3: I think I found the answer. Flash it like any other ROM from zip. (Doing it with Netarchy's Kernel 4.0.3: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=719763 )

(Probably looks silly reading me answer my own questions, but I thought it was better to look stupid if it might help a future beginner like me.)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kindakrazy:
Just my oppinion simpleroot never really worked for me and ive read bad things about unrevoked so just follow toasts method to rooting it is very simple and straight forward, as for rom i prefer baked snack themed version it is by far the most sexy rom i have seen it uses manups theme and u can enhance it even more, its very stable and has no fps cap on it, as well as both cameras work and video recording works, im not sure if blue tooth has been fixed yet and am not sure if 4g works because i dont have it where i live try it out and tell me what u think.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScaryBugThing:
So...Everything works! A couple of final notes in case it ever helps anyone in the future:

Note 1: The call part of the phone was not working well at all. I could send and receive calls, and hear the other party, but the audio was very noisy and the other party didn't hear my voice when I talk.

I tried to update PRL and Profile, but I got an error code 1012: "The profile update could not be completed. Please try again later. If the problem persists, you may need to contact customer service. Error code:1012"

I thought the problem might be me overwriting some system files with Titanium Backup (though I was careful). But when I tried wiping factory settings/cache/dalvik cache, and rebooted, still the same problems. Ultimately, it turned out simply that Sprint's servers were down, so I couldn't update my profile/PRL. I finally was able to update the Profile and PRL (now 60669) when they came back up, and everything seems to be working.

Note 2: I realized too late that I lost all of my visual voicemails. I don't think there's a way to restore them, and I don't know if there's any way to back them up. But something to think about if you've racked up a fair amount of downloaded visual voicemails.

Thanks everyone for your help.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adza:
Hi,

I'm trying to root my phone. I'm up to the step where I install unrevoked and run it.

When I do I get the message:

Waiting for device. Plug phone in now and enable USB debugging.

I have my phone plugged in and USB Debugging is enabled, but nothing happens.

The drivers I needed to download would not install until I booted my phone into hboot. (Then it showed the android 1.0 device so I installed the drivers).

I've rebooted my phone now, and I have tried connecting both as HTC Sync and as a Disk Drive (on the phone).

I believe HTC Sync has been completely removed from my computer, so I'm stuck at where to go next. Can someone help please?

Edit: When I connect using 'HTC Sync' as the method on the phone, I get an Unknown Device appear in my list of drivers. I can't install the 'drivers' provided with Unrevoked here. Have I missed a step?

Thanks & Regards

Adza
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adza:
Never mind - found the problem. I uninstalled both HTC Sync and HTC Driver installer. Once I put HTC Driver installer back on, all ran like clockwork. (I needed to also choose HTC Sync on the phone when connecting the USB Cable).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hidimba:
Ok, to start off, I have an orange branded/unlocked phone brought from grey market in india with Android 2.1. I think its also unrooted bcoz i have never checked it or tried rooting it.

Now for the past couple of days i have been having a strange problem. While running a game, the phone felt buggy and i exited it. Then while switching windows on sense, it wouldnt switch smoothly but jiggle between the windows. Upon hitting the home button it would take me to the center window but remain unresponsive. Upon again hitting the home button it would zoom out to show all the windows. Then, when touching the center window or home again, it would again ziggle between center window n zoomed out view. The only way to stop it would be to take out the battery coz the end button wouldnt work.

upon rebooting the phone ran fine. So left it like for coupla hours. Then when i started using it, the same problem started again.

Can anybody help with this?

Thanx in advance.

Hidimba
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongfeifong:
I just saw this page, anyone with a stronger japanese base can translate/explain?

I think you have to buy x10 within that time range to get a more designered background and OS theme + the shell skin.

I wonder if they have something like that here in north america.

http://www.mtvjapan.com/xperia-100design/index.html

I would love to have a nice x10 skin. It will make every phone user jealous.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DBSS:
Does this help at all?

http://seinsider.com/?p=2525
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongfeifong:
Sadly, it doesn't help. It feel like a direct google translation.

I want to know if we can buy any of the shell. I definitely want one.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ookiller:
Omgosh I want one too!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slave1:
Bugger that, I want leather effect
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ookiller:
I wouldnt want my cell to look like an ugly black berry..
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vin87:
That one looks pretty sweet! TO bad it's not for the X10 but for the SO-01B (Japanese X10) hence the hole in the back:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SMP-16:
Those cases look like they would def fit our X10's ...

And some of them look awesome. It looks like they are giving them away as gifts but I wouldnt mind buying a couple.
[Vibrant General] the shadiest:
The other day I was playing around with the camera or something and found a way to add captions or little props to pics and I haven't been able to find it again. Does anyone know how to do this? And just to be clear, it wasn't a third party app or anything like that. It was a native app. Thanks!
[Vibrant General] ju5tiiv:
It sounds to me like you are speaking of the audio postcard app?
[HTC Aria General] kura808:
i'm not sure if anyone noticed this yet but i ran across these linpack scores for the htc legend.

1	htc	16.708	HTC legend	711.0MHz htc/htc_legend/legend/tofu:0.96/thumb/21:user/test-keys

2	htc	16.708	HTC Legend	711.0MHz htc/htc_legend/legend/tofu:0.96/thumb/21:user/test-keys

3	kyosa	10.914	HTC Legend	800.0MHz FRF91 octest

4	kyosa	10.081	HTC Legend	730MHz FRF91 octest

5	kyosa	9.825	HTC Legend	864.0MHz legend/legend/legend/legend:2.2/FRF91/43546:user/release-keys

i found it quite interesting because the legend has the same processor as the aria. someone also managed to overclock the legend as well. pretty cool to know what our processor is capable of.

thought i'd share.
[HTC Aria General] msd24200:
Very interesting indeed thanks for sharing your find
[HTC Aria General] kura808:
no prob. maybe 711 is the magic number haha xP
[Captivate Android Development] halfhp:
Maybe this is too technical for these forums, sorry if it is...but I hit a brick wall so here goes....

I'm trying to extract the configuration settings displayed by the LBSTestMode app (accessed by entering *#*#1472365#*#*) from within a home-made android app.

It's quite possible that they cannot be directly accessed via the Android API at all, but maybe somebody here knows another way to get them? I've looked through the variables accessible via the obvious places like LocationManager etc. and came up with nothing.

Or maybe somebody knows where the source for this app exists...I'm looking through Samsung's source for the i897 (http://opensource.samsung.com/) as we speak but nothing so far. The app seemed like something the vendor would add into their image but perhaps its part of the basline android source afterall.

Thanks,

Nick
[Hero CDMA General] chococrazy:
Ok guys my headphones (Meelec M9P) make static when I plug them into my phone. It's starting to get really annoying. When I plug it in I hear static that gets worse when I touch the screen, but it reduces drastically when music or sound gets puts through it. My Jetblue $2 airline headphones (no mic) don't do this...

This happened on all roms, but I'm running the zomg not my dog build of Froyo.
[Hero CDMA General] c00ller:
The reason one pair of headphones does it while the other is because the one that does hear static has a lower impedence than the one that does hear static.

But the explanation behind it getting worse when you touch the screen is similar to the what sometimes happens on old PCs with cheap integrated sound. Sometimes you can hear static, and hear more when moving your mouse or when your CPU load is high. It's caused by something like signal interference within the hardware, and there's nothing that can be done... which is probably what's happening to you.

I'm using Head-Direct RE2 earphones, but the impedence is high enough that I don't hear static.

Sorry, but I think there is nothing you can do to remedy the static =/

Just did a quick search: indeed, your impedence = 16 Ohms (source), mine = 32 Ohms
[Hero CDMA General] derekwilkinson:
This happens to me too, its really annoying and makes the phone feel like a piece of $hit!!!!
[Hero CDMA General] c00ller:
Well actually you could use a mini headphone amp like this one I have and like

Fiio E5

and it would probably solve your problem since it will be between your headphones and the phone
[Hero CDMA General] derekwilkinson:
But don't you think it's stupid that we would need something like that?
[Hero CDMA General] bcarter2000:
I only have that problem when I'm plugged into the car charger. DC vs AC I guess.
[Hero CDMA General] ipfreelytech:
actually AC is noisier. it has a sine wave, DC does not. your wall charger still spits out the same DC as the car charger, it just rectifies the ac to dc before stepping the voltage down. Car charger is all dc so its just stepping the voltage down from 12v to 5v. car charger probably has a weaker ground. Most car chargers I've seen are poorly built...
[Hero CDMA General] macvalentine:
i thought that was normal

i got some sony MDR-V150's and i get that **** too yes i know they're old! so dont say anythin bout that

its not very loud but since i got good hearing plus the fact its right on my ears i can hear it when nothin is playin or when i touch the screen
[Hero CDMA General] c00ller:
Question for you guys: why do you put headphones on when music is not playing :confused:
[Hero CDMA General] chococrazy:
I'm using M9P's, and they use a mic so I can take calls with them also, and I love using voice command with them :P.

Ahhhh the impedence problems seems right, but I wonder what the impedence on crappy airplane (Jetblue) headphones are then? I think it might have something to do with the mic, but there were ways that would slow it down. I could "turn" on the headphones without plugging it in through an app called toggle headset. It removed a lot of static, but sometimes it didn't work...

All of meelecs phones' are 16impednece, which makes me believe that when I get my m11+'s they'll have the same prob :(
[Hero CDMA General] kurigowa:
No headphone pop or capacitive screen static

The static with touch screen issue has been addressed. It was a problem with any OC Kernel, but it has been fixed with the latest kernels Darch has been putting out.

CyanogenMod RC1
[Droid Incredible General] nuwave22:
Just got off the phone with verizon they stated that they will be sending out the ota for the droid x and droid tomorrow and not the incredible. When I asked when it would come out they said latter this summer. Strait from tech support.
[Droid Incredible General] spotmark:
Lol, and monkeys might fly out my butt. No offense, but most of us have learned not to believe anything a verizon rep says, regarding update release dates.
[Droid Incredible General] jdkoreclipse:
the vzw reps know as much as my toenail.
[Droid Incredible General] nuwave22:
Hey believe it or not well see tomorrow if it doesnt come out I dont know why the sprint evo got theirs
[Droid Incredible General] Cole119:
The EVO got their's because Sprint didn't want their top phone to be overshadowed by the Droid X and Droid 2. Luckily for us, our phone is very similar to the EVO so we can be sure our phone is not far behind.
[Droid Incredible General] Reefhunter49:
Only the Droid is getting the OTA as of now. Not the Droid X
[Droid Incredible General] Fretless:
From what I've gathered though, the OTA is going to bork root. Honestly my 8/01 is working perfectly, except for twitter widget, which force closes, which is ok, because i hate twitter.

Even if it did come tomorrow i don't think I'd install for a few weeks.

Note to Verizon: it IS the end of the summer, JERKS!
[Droid Incredible General] jdkoreclipse:
lol they are real idiots...again, my toenail knoes more than them
[Droid Incredible General] nuwave22:
Yeah i agree but the faster it comes out the faster developers find out how to root it thanks to xda thank you for all your hard work.