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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
1) Yes, you need to back stuff up, your phone will be wiped. Not sure what the best way to back up your apps is, but I think you can re-download paid apps for free using your Google account, since that's how you sign into market. Contacts can be exported to your SD card, but they also sync with your Gmail account. Beyond that, don't know.

2) Yes, it's a full root when they are combined. UF is an S-OFF and NAND unlock.

3) Yes, UF should protect you from losing root in the future.

4) Search the forums. Flashing is as easy as copying the ROM .zip to your SD card and rebooting into recovery. Wipe everything first (which means you'll lose data if you don't back up). Titanium works well, but you may run into problems if you try to back up all your settings and apps and then restore them all - they don't always work right between versions and/or ROMs. Best to re-download whatever you can. This goes along with your first question. Again, search. Lots of info on this.

But it's always recommended that you use the recovery to do a NANDROID backup, so you can go back to where you were before the flash. It's a full image of your current ROM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superlinkx:
I've heard there's issues with CM because it checks for the eng spl to determine if you have full NAND unlocked. Forever does unlock it, its just not the same method as using an engineering build. All other ROMs should work with no issue and there is probably a work around for CM.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
I can add a little something to 1

Try downloading an app called mybackup from the market - free trial only works for 30 days, but thats ok. it can back up your apps (although I've never used it for that), but more importantly, it can also backup your call logs, sms, mms, bookmarks, and a bunch of other stuff. No root needed for this either.

as a rule, you should always back up and save your contacts as google contacts. Then you don't need to ever worry about losing them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
You know, as soon as you flash the new PC36IMG in that new rooting guide, you're at the same starting point as toastcfh's method. You can do a full manual root from there as well and not have to worry about Unrevoked at all. Probably a good idea to run UF at the end, though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crimeslunk:
quick question how do I save my contacts to google contacts?

Also thank you all for the help. Did someone find a work around for CM6 using the urevoked methods? or can I just do them to ensure I have the root and nand then do the quick root or full root method afterward?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
For new contacts, just choose Google under contact type. I think you may have to manually enter existing ones into Google though or import them somehow - and its much easier to do that from a computer.

Don't think there's a fix for cm yet, but I'm pretty sure you can use any of the older root methods when you get back down to 2.1, and those will let you flash cm.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crimeslunk:
Hmmm so there isn't anyway to ensure that I can keep root permanently and still flash the CM6? I'm thinking for some reason (not really sure why) that i want to do the OTA again and update my radio and PRL don't really know what they do (think PRL has something to do with data) then flash over the cm6 but this isn't a feasible option it seems. Well I'm back at 2.1 so do I not need to update the radio and PRL? or will baked snack or what ever come with these updates already? still a bit confused about this whole thing but its worked well so far.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
It may have worked well so far, but it can go wrong quick. Once rooted, there is no reason to ota. Ever.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Is that not what Unrevoked Forever does? Permanent root?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reefer3026:
Huys, I keep getting stuck at the "Flashing recovery image. Do not touch your phone!" part in the unrevoked 3 prog. What the hell am I doing wrong. All usb drivers from their site are installed and I do what the prog tells me to. Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .jond:
You have to install unrevoked 3 first. That will give you super user permissions where you can then backup your device.

Easiest is to:

A. Install unrevoked 3

B. Install Rom Manager

C. Use Rom Manager to backup your device

D. Use listables to make a list of your contacts and apps

Yes, unrevoked is full root, and permanent. It's the best way IMO.

Yes. Do unrevoked forever, and then do all the HTC updates for PRL and your radios, except don't update to Android 2.2 through HTC obviously.

This is a major difference between unrevoked and simple root. Simple root makes you jump through hoops to update PRL and radios.

1. Unrevoked 3

2. Unrevoked forever

3. HTC Radio and PRL updates

4. Rom Manager --> Install your Rom

Simple as it gets

Good walk through using unrevoked forever:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=760651

Another good walkthough using unrevoked:

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...voked-forever-stock-2-1-stock-2-2-rooted.html
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crimeslunk:
So I've flashed over to Baked Snack or what ever it is and tried to restore all my contacts ect with My Backup but it has totally wiped my 7 "pages" now they are all empty is this something I should be worried about or should I just rebuild them?

Note: I forgot to do a nandroid back up between the 2.1 flash to the Baked Snack.

So have I lost my PRL and my Wimax and Radio? And if I have is this a big deal? Kinda worried about updating them manually seeming as how people are saying they've bricked their phones from it. Will I have to flash back to 2.1 and update again or is this pointless because when I do my factory wipe before flashing the rom does it delete the updated PRL Radio and Wimax?

And I greatly appreciate all of you help here. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

*For my next time through where is Rom Manager? Is this a market or pc app?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erlanleyva:
i have another question ones you are done with this can you install another rom for ex: omj?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reefer3026:
nevermind, i fixed it by uninstalling htc sync and then running unrevoked 3
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crimeslunk:
Well Baked Snack is good and all but it seems to be using up more of my mem then the official froyo. Why is that? I'm thinking I want to change over to Cyanogen (not for the memory use but I'm really not digging sense) but I'm hearing that its not possible with Unrevoked. Could someone give me some advice on how to set it up so I can flash CM6? Can I still go about using the simple root method over the unrevoked? Then flash to CM6? Or will I have to remove the root somehow and then flash the 2.1 then do something? Ohh its all so very confusing for now but I'll get the hang of this soon and stop asking questions.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soxozor:
Someone post a link as to where are the latest radios are please?
[Captivate General] gluvox:
So I was trying to edit my home screens, delteting them to start from scratch. The process was laggy. Then I got a Force Close screen

I hit Force Close --- and the Force Close Screen comes on again

and again

and again

Turn the phone off and on, FC screens again

reboot in safe mode FC again

How do I get my phone back?
[Captivate General] gluvox:
I just tried to reboot again and now I have the yellow robot sweeping "Downloading" screen.

I really did nothing strange. Did ADW.launcher just brick my phone?
[Captivate General] gluvox:
Basically, I can't do anything. I tried deleting cach. Deleting user data. Nothing on the recovery screen changed anything.

The phone boots up and gets to the locked screen, but as soon as I swipe to unlock the endless loop of ADW.launcher force close screens begins.

Kill ADW.launcher!
[Captivate General] gluvox:
Nothing? Oh well.:confused:
[Captivate General] evileric77:
Odin3 One Click Stock Rom. Should get you all back to usable. Personally I haven't had ANY issues with the ADW.Launcher and I've done all sorts of weird things on my phone. I didn't like LauncherPro.

Odin3 One Click

h ttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

-2xE

EDIT: had to put the space in http cuz the damn things won't let me post links yet =p
[Captivate General] gluvox:
Thank you so much for the response. I've seen the posts about Odin before, but I didn't know what it was, or else I would have went right there. It seems to have worked, getting back to the stock set-up. Thanks!

Definitely not going to reinstall ADW. I liked it but it just went berzerk on me.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teedo757:
Just wondering if there is a way to have 2 roms on your phone at the same time and being able to switch between them. I am working on some app dev with googles new app inventor and I seem to be having all kinds of wierd stuff so I want to flash stock for using app inventor while keeping my current Zen Hero in tact so I can just switch back when I am done. I thought there was some kinda rom manager but I wasn't sure if it made you wipe before switching to another rom.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
About the only option you have is to nand backup your current rom, wipe everything, flash the rom you want to work with, boot it up and let it load, boot back into recovery and nand backup that one. Then you can nand restore between the two without wiping. If you have a2sd enabled you will want to do backup with ext.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teedo757:
How do I select which nand backup I want to restore. Normally it just restores the last backup and I dont have a choice.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chromiumleaf:
Put both of them on your SD card in the nandroid folder, inside the sub-folder that is your serial number. You may want to rename those inner folders to something other than just that long time/date string so you can more easily tell them apart.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teedo757:
Yes but when I select Nand backup it does not give me an option to choose which one I want to install it restores the last backup i made. So if I backup the new rom and then try to restore the old one it will just restore the newest backup...is there a way to choose?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AjaxBU:
Also if you have renamed the folder and put a space in it that could cause a problem so you might want to remove the spaces.

BTW, I see you are from College Station. I'm a fan of the Freebird burritos down there.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chromiumleaf:
Nice! Yeah me too, I go there a lot!
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chromiumleaf:
Do you mean when you select "Nand restore"? You shouldn't be selecting Nand backup if you are trying to restore a previous nandroid. Also, what version of recovery do you have?
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
It sounds as if you have an old recovery on your phone. Maybe 1.2.3, which will only let you recover the last one. Download and flash AmonRa1.6.2 from here or find darchstar's recovery. With those you can choose between all of your backups.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teedo757:
Works. Thanks a ton.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unCoRrUpTeD:
You can edit the names of the folders that are located inside /nandroid/(device_name). The folder name is originally named after yyyymmddhhmm or something similiar. Just rename them with no spaces or symbols, then you will know which one is which.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brucejg:
Does bakedsnack support app2sd?

Thanks in advance...
[Epic 4G General] mroneeyedboh:
Can she upgrade her phone and let me get it? how would I go about doing that?
[Epic 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
You can pay an extra $25 and get an early upgrade through account services (assuming she has 2 months left on her contract as well)
[Epic 4G General] Pops_G:
Use her upgrade to get her one. Trust me, signing your girlfriend up for Google Latitude is like stalker heaven. Android phones update your location every 30-60mins without even having Maps open.

I tell my girlfriend I have her on it in case she gets kidnapped so I can find her and rescue her. Or if she loses the phone we can ping it. It makes that pill a lot easier to swallow.

I am not the jealous controlling type, but it feels good to know you can see exactly where they are on a whim. You know, to save them from kidnappers :D
[Epic 4G General] Pops_G:
To answer your question directly.

Yes you can have your GF use her upgrade. After that call Sprint and tell them you want to switch the phone to your account and they will walk you through it. Sprints only concern is that the phone is not stolen. They told me I could buy a phone on ebay and call them to activate it, as long as it wasn't reported stolen.

Your GF can continue to use her old phone. What I do not know is who would get stuck with the $10 premium charge.
[Epic 4G General] mroneeyedboh:
Thanks. The charge isnt a big deal as were both on the same plan. So in the end, were in it together.
[G4] maduuto:
hi, i need the best radio rom compatible with g4, where can i get it?
[G4] n2rjt:
Check out the Wiki.

Radio ROMs work on G3 or G4, no difference I have ever seen.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gospodinwizard:
Just out of curiosity and as a tool to measure the comparative "speed" of various ROMs I try, I installed Linpack. While I fully understand what it measures, I am unclear as what sort of MFLOPS numbers I can expect to see on my Eris. Can someone please shed some light on this for me?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hungry Man:
The eris will go between 2.5 (unrooted) mflops and 5.5 mflops (froyo + overclocking)

Mflops are a poor representation of speed but for simple computers like phones it's at least a general comparison.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gospodinwizard:
Oh I realize MFLOPS may not be the best choice, but if I use the same tool to check various ROMs in the same way I at least get a somewhat standardized point of comparison.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funnyface19:
i use quadrant as a standard between switching roms
[HD2 General] jason370:
Is there anyone willing to do this?

ive had my phone since the day they started selling in the US (actually even before that , i had a UK version first and just used edge) and although ive made a million interesting modifications, there are still some pain points that i cannot rid the phone of.

1) i'm using the latest stock rom (2.13 i believe)

2) i turn off sense and use spb mobile shell

3) im using thgrafs newest text message/mms build

my issues:

1) email and text

message client always freezes for at least ten seconds

whenever i try to X out of it. it always closes but it is very far from immediate.

2) i keep reading about

how fast and snappy others HD2's are.

my phone is neither of these. it isnt terrible and the functionality is very impressive but it is in no way fast or snappy. i hate iphones but i must admit they are instantly fast and snappy. makes for a very professional feel.

3) when in the call history screen, if i tap a previous call in the hopes of instantly dialing that number, it freezes for ten seconds before dialing.

4)

my visual voice mail totally doesnt work,

i get weird text messages which should be vvm but the vvm never works. this happened after installing thgrafs text message client.

would a custom rom change any of this?

do i need to run sense if im on a custom rom?

can i run spb mobile shell if i flash a custom rom?

im not lal that interested in android until i can flash it to my device and completely replace winmo but id like to know if microsoft exchange is supported on any of the android builds?

thanks in advance for any feedback on this. it can be a bit frustrating,

jason
[HD2 General] troed:
Hard Reset and then work through THIS:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=583638

then add CHT, Duncs Weatherpanel, MooNahs GPS-Tracker, netdrg 3D driver, LEOCPUSpeed and You are fine with a blazing fast HD2 ........... :D
[HD2 General] jason370:
in all due respect, i've done exactly that, more than once and although my phone has moments of brilliance...it just isn't living up to the hype and my hopes.

i was hoping for a cleaner step by step, not to mention something a bit more up to date.

thanks though,

jason
[HD2 General] jsmccabe78:
i believe your last questions are the most important. to be honest, i like you, have used stock roms. truth is it annoys me that often to get a better performance you need a custom rom. i like custom roms; but they should be a style change not a performance change. anyways..

would a custom rom change any of this?

--> possibly/ likely. i would think that this is a reasonable choice though to try.

do i need to run sense if im on a custom rom?

--> no. most chefs have roms that are only "titanium" builds (which is pure WM (sense is HTC's interface.) this is often best if you want to run spb.

can i run spb mobile shell if i flash a custom rom?

--> yes. see above.

im not lal that interested in android until i can flash it to my device and completely replace winmo but id like to know if microsoft exchange is supported on any of the android builds?

--> would have to check out that...but i think android in general is now supporting it, correct? if so, then android on hd2 will also. but don't know for sure.
[HD2 General] salman22:
Can you tell me where to find this 'netdrg 3D driver'..Searching only leads me to his ROM..Did you mean chainfire's 3D driver?
[HD2 General] drahmed:
Many thanks
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
1. Why are you using a 3rd party messaging client? I would try uninstalling it and using the default winmo one.

2. My son's hd2 is stock with spb mobile shell and it is snappy. No problems with messaging or lag. Make sure to not keep hundreds of text messages. If you have 100's of contacts, not sure anyone can help you.

3. See 2

4. See 1

Can a custom ROM increase performance??? Of course it will, why else would we build/flash them?

If you are happy with mobile shell (I was on my touch pro2 because I felt sense was too much of a memory hog, which it is), then sure, I would try a titanium only custom ROM.

I have used energy's titanium only and can recommend it:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591784

of course you will have to hspl unlock first, use hspl3, it will work for any device.

The biggest problem with the stock ROMs are that they aren't very well optimized. Sense is a memory hog. Uncompressed Sense is thousands of files and about 30-40mb in size. I think mobile shell is about 10mb.

If you are not satisfied with your hd2, might as well try a custom ROM. Might make you like your phone again. I don't run Android at all and I'm loving my phone right now.
[HD2 General] jason370:
1. Why are you using a 3rd party messaging client? because the default one sucks. also, thgrafs build IS the stock one, but optimized and made better. it is a clear step up from what i first used the day i bought this phone.

2. My son's hd2 is stock with spb mobile shell and it is snappy. No problems with messaging or lag. Make sure to not keep hundreds of text messages. If you have 100's of contacts, not sure anyone can help you. happy for your boy, im not so fortunate.

3. See 2 saw

4. See 1 saw

fyi, i flashed a custom rom (http://www.xperia-unoff.com/htc-hd2-rom-development/), and it is night and day difference. lightning fast, zero lags. now for android...
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
I have my phone unlocked but am trying to figure out was frequencies we can use for 3G on other carriers?

T-mo uses UMTS 1700 and 2100. But people who have unlocked and inserted a AT&T sim have been able to get 3G speed. Is the Vibrant able to get 850 and 1900 UTMS once unlocked?
[Vibrant General] rykale:
It has 1900. In menu shows option for 850 also, but the hardware doesn't support it.
[Vibrant General] cparekh:
As said above, the Vibrant supports 1700/1900/2100 for 3G. AT&T uses 850 and 1900, so in 1900 areas, you can get 3G on AT&T.

In case anyone cares, the AT&T Captivate (AT&T's Galaxy S) supports 850 and 1900, so it will not receive 3G speeds on T-Mobile's US network.
[Vibrant General] jackhuny:
The worst thing about t-mo network is that they require both 1700 AND 2100 to get 3g speed while ATT only needs one.
[Vibrant General] cparekh:
Not challenging you, just asking. How is TMO different than AT&T? I would guess that TMO is 1700 in some areas and 2100 in others, and so to get full coverage, you need both. Likewise, AT&T is 850 in some areas, and 1900 in some area, and to get full coverage, you need both.

Is this not actually the case?
[Vibrant General] jackhuny:
No its not.

T-mo uses AWS(Advanced Wireless Services) which require both 1700 to upload and 2100 for download (or reverse).
[Vibrant General] Palhaitus:
On the other side of things... I would think that way of doing things (dual channel) would potentially be more effective
[Vibrant General] jackhuny:
I think verizon would disagree on that.
[Vibrant General] thunderstruck!:
Is it half duplex or full duplex? That would matter as far as having 2 channels for simultaneous upload and download.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin217:
hey guys, so VZM has officially announced that the Incredible will be getting froyo starting tomorrow! woo finally.

anyway, im concerned with making sure all of my software is ready for the OTA without any issues.

i am currently rooted, S-Off running stock 2.1update 1. im also running the leaked ota with 720p, 2.05 radio and the upgraded H-boot.

with all of the above will i be all set to get the OTA update and update while keeping all my apps and data as well as maintain S-off?

thanks for the help guys,

Kevin
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Yep...you are ready
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin217:
awesome, thanks.

i also have clockwork recovery running, so i believe i need to install the stock recovery image? if so how exactly do i do that?

thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krysssyann:
same sort of concern for me, I just rooted via UnRevoked 3 the other day and am going to do Forever tonight on both of our incredibles. When I flash the update, how do I regain super-user permissions in the OTA FROYO? (the update.zip) file they talk about? Any ideas (still a bit new at this). Want to be able to continue wi-fi tether again for free!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aaron Rodgers Beard:
So Im rooted with unrevoked3 and forever. Didn't mess with my radio, or any kernels. So since I'm on unrevoked forever does that mean the ota will be pushed to my phone as is?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
If you have unrevoked forever, just install stocl recovery once the ota gets pushed out
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krysssyann:
and once we have the OTA installed? How to re-gain root access?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin217:
Ok great,and to install it I put it on the SD card and run it from Hboot?

Thanks a lot jdkoreclipse!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevin217:
The same way as installing stock recovery, you would just download and install clockwork recovery back to your phone
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patches152:
If not, the leak is the one coming ota. They're one and the same.