yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leenypost:
Thanks for the reply. I am now using your 2.1 Azrael ROM completely stock and have left out these apps and set cpu too. Wiped battery stats right before and after install and I will see how it goes. The ROM itself is a thing of beauty, smooth as can be and I experience no lag at all (HW 003 and 3.29 build) I'm just hoping for some excellent battery life too!! Maybe I will have it already, if so it will be another plus 1 for you because I have yet to get enough juice to make it through a day on any ROM I have tried without using setcpu and forcing the screen off clock speed to be at the lowest available.

If you were not getting the battery life you wanted personally, what would be the steps you would go through to try and improve it (assuming u already wiped battery stats and calibrated the battery)

Thanks again for all your help and a fabulous Rom. I will be making a donation for you to have a few cups of coffee on me cause your work is second to none in my opinion!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricsim78:
Thank you very much, I am glad the ROM is working well for you and hope it always serves you well!

I turn off haptic feedback, vibration, automatic brightness. Just doing that alone saves a lot of battery life.

With the 3.29 OTA version of Azrael X v2.1 Director's Cut, I can go all day, all night, and well into next day with normal use. That is good enough for me. That is with GPS always on and mixed 3g/WIFI.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NonCorp:
@OP

Heya, I just wrote up a little how-to for manually updating the PRL. Threads get buried pretty fast in Q&A, so I thought you might want to add a link to the first post.

[How To] Manually Update PRL
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chessmyantidrug:
I decided to recalibrate my battery so I had it charge overnight. When I woke up, I rebooted into recovery to wipe battery stats and immediately rebooted the phone. Now it won't boot into the ROM. Any suggestions?

EDIT: I cleared cache and Dalvik and it booted just fine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bestmove29:
Always Backup

I am a noob to customizing roms on phones but I do know and am a firm believer that you should always have a second copy of you important imformation on a external hard drive. If you were to wipe your sd card for instance you will have a copy of it on the external hard drive. I have saved myself many times by having done that extra backup that most people don't think of.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin526:
Umm I have a question I rooted using this method "[GUIDE] How to root Android 2.2 on the EVO 4G Outdated" but I didn't do part 2 should I unroot and use a newer method or just go do part two and if not how do I unroot thanks in advance
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sekigah84:
I hope you are using that with a really old version cause that method is outdated. Hence the title of the thread.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kkakki:
Wow! that was a great info that you posted, and a very detailed one too. Thanks for your time and all the help that you are giving to us!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CDuB1973:
Thanks for the info. I have learned so much already from these forums
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjz84:
I am in Japan and I think about Evo but does it work only 4G or 2G and 3G also? I want buy one but know about it before and then can we change the radio and make it to work 2G and 3G?

Regards.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sekigah84:
It works for 2G, 3G, and 4G. I haven't seen the 2G icon pop up but it does exist on the phone. lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donnyespo:
Thank you great info!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentphantom:
great information, thanks guys:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coiledwire:
You might want to verify the frequency sprint uses for 2G/ 3G and make sure it the same as your carrier in japan. At the very least, check if you have have it modified to work on your Japanese carrier's frequency.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kent_Davis:
this is a lot to read and very comprehensive. too much for me but probably good for some people. I was always one to put aside the instructions unless I really needed them. People today are a lot like that I think. But, this is not meant as a slam just perspective cuz somebody I am sure needed this information
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gorguts:
In reference to this: "Battery recalibration (Thanks to Cyanogen for this and to fachadick for bringing it to my attention)."

Was this an EVO only instruction? My friend told me about it and I tried it on my EPIC. HOLY F my battery went from 100% to 97% upon reboot and then within 40mins was down to 84% and all I did in that time was send an email and turn off LWP. After some regular browser use it ended up on 17% in less then 2hrs. I rebooted and it has been sitting on 24% for about 3 hours with some more minimal web use.

Any Ideas or info?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oreganoflow:
great info here. thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 360hype:
YAHOO!!!

Seems like all I needed was a battery calibration... 30 mins up time still 100% :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skyflyt:
This is so awesome. thank you for putting this together!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dutchguts:
nice this thread really useful
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 400milliliters:
True

Hello, Im new to Android (HTC EVO rooted stock ROM); former Iphone user, and i must say as far as CPU overclocking goes, this is an absolute wealth of info for noobs and vets alike! the Processor built into the phone is great as it is. If people don't know what they're doing, they sbouldn't be messing with it.

Kudos..

++sticky!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laoto:
Thank you!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AmplifiedJ:
This is helpful. Thanks much.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cuballevo:
that cleared up alot, btw mods...makes no damn sense...have had account for a few months, sign in all the time, just rarely post, and i have to make ten useless posts just to make one in a developer section that actually has meaning....seems counter productive to me....but since i dont have 10,000,000 post like some trolls....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
I want to root my Evo but I am scared as hell, and now that I just learned you can lose your 4G key I am even more freaked out. So here are my questions that I don't believe are answered in this thread and if they are I sorry.

I have read the easiest way to root is unrevoked3, but I believe this puts clockworkmod and not amon ra, what is the easiest way to root and have amon ra on the phone?

If I simply unroot my phone, what rom is on there afterwords? The exact one that is on my phone just before I rooted or clockwork/amon ra from doing the root?

If I root and put a stable/basic ROM will I have 4g? Do new roms change the radio or is that a separate thing that is done on its own? So if I never mess with the radio will my 4g key stay there?

My main reasons for rooting are free wifi hotspot and to delete all the bloatware to increase battery life. I like sense but plain froyo would be fine, I would love a gingerbread rom with 4g but not sure that is possible.

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
1. After rooting, place the file I attached on the root of your sdcard [not in any folder]. Boot into the bootloader; power phone off, while powering back on hold vol+down. Then let it scan, apply update, reboot, reboot back into recovery, and you'll be on amon_ra 2.3. The PC36IMG is amon ra recovery.

2. If you unroot, you'll be on a stock rom, no recovery, as if you just turned it on for the first time.

3. Rom won't change your radio, you should be on the most current one now, so no need to worry, and you can always change it after you root. if you want a plain froyo rom, CM6 is the way to go, if you want gingerbread, CM7 is your winner; 4G, HDMI, everything works in both roms.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Thank you very much for the very quick response. So I can use unrevoked to root, then do what you said in number 1 to get amon ra as my recovery? At that point I do the nandroid backup. Once that is done I choose CM6 or 7 as my custom ROM and then install that I assume the same way as I just installed the amen ra recovery? (I have to read up on installing roms yet, I was going to use a ROM manager but may not now) If anything ever goes wrong I will have the amon ra recovry to go back to but will that PC36IMG need to stay on the root of my SD card or once it is installed or can I get rid of it? I want to have market place so I also need to install that google pack that I have seen mentioned in the unrevoked threads. I have recently been installing some of the free programs from amazon app store, I would lik to save them so I am going to back them up first to my SD card and then when the custom rom is installed I can re-install them from SD card by using the same backup program? OK, sorry for the long rant, this will be the first time doing this so of course I am being extremely cautious.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
It's cool. When you root with unrevoked, it won't touch your apps/data, so need to backup in fear of losing them; though it doesn't hurt. When you install CM6 or CM7, you need to install the latest gapps for froyo and gingerbread , CM6, CM7, respectively. Also, since you're going to flash amon_ra, i'd make the backup right after you flash it. Also, make a separate backup of the wimax, and copy it to your pc for safe keeping, forbidding you lost your wimax keys somehow, and can have a backup. Take the PC36IMG off your sdcard, because anytime you boot into the bootloader afterwards, it'll try to update. As for flashing a rom, it'd be done in recovery, from amon_ra. When flashing a rom for the first time, do a full wipe, of factory/data, cache, and dalvik cache, then flash your rom. Wipe cache and dalvik, then flash gapps.

:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Very cool, I have been reading up on backing up the wimax info and I def will. My apps stay on there after I root with revoked but wont they be lost once I put a custom rom on there from wiping the data first?

I think I may just go with CM6 for now for stability. Would it be so bad to stick with the clockwork mod recovery that unrevoked gives me instead of taking the extra step to put on the amen ra recovery? I know this thread suggested amen ra is better but I am also looking to do the least amount of steps possible for my first time doing this. Plus I can then use the ROM manager. Once I get more comfortable and used to it I can always put the amen ra recovery on there if needed right?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Your apps will be lost once you do a factory wipe, but that's why you back them up in titanium backup before hand, because they are restored from there, on the sdcard. And clockwork isn't so bad; I've used both an never had an issue with either. Its personal preference.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBone821:
This gave me all the answers I was looking for and some that I didn't know I was looking for. Thank you ricsim78! Keep up the good work
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
If I want to use the auto script method linked below, how can I use it and get amen ra as the recovery? I read in his thread that the full auto script changes the radio and puts a custom rom on it so I don't even get a chance to do a backup of my apps using titanium backup right after the phone is rooted. I also don't want to change my radio's since many people are saying this may cause you to lose your 4g key. They are also saying in this thread that rooting using the unrevoked method has lead to many more bricked evo's, is this true? I have been thinking about it, I really don't even need to backup my apps and messages, it would be nice to have my texts but I don't really need them.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838448
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coiledwire:
Are you looking at the autoscript method just to have Amon RA? If you already have clockwork installed, if you look at its menu, towards the bottom, there is the option to use alternate recovery. This will install amon ra for you.

Personally, I used unrevoked to root. Then you can install titanium backup and save all if your apps and whatnot. Then you can have the option to use clockwork or amon, stay stock or go with a custom rom. Just read up on things and ask questions if necessary. At the end of the day, its your own expensive device that's being modified. So be diligent. Good luck.

Sent on the go, from my evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Thanks, I have been reading up a lot and of course I keep finding more and more information that makes me second guess myself. I have not yet rooted or tried to root so my phone is locked. I was going to use unrevoked and stay with clockwork then I read that clockwork can be the cause of many problems so use Amon instead but both root methods put clockwork on it. Then I find out its possible to break your 4g, so I want to make sure what I do does not change my radios. So of course I am trying to find out which method to use that help me avoid the most problems and not lose my 4g. Thanks for your input of course, I think I may just o unrevoked and leave clockwork on. Then I am going to backup apps and stay with stock and see how I like it. Then I will think about maybe going to CM7 or another gingerbread once more of them are out and more stable. I want to use wifi hotspot and keep my 4g and also delete the bloatware from sprint.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
I rooted using unrevoked3 today, all went well and it shows s-off. Did a nandroid backup and I downloaded Titanium backup and will be backing up. I did a cmd prompt commad that backed up my wimax image but I have read that clockwork backs up the wimax image also. Then I have read that amen_ra backups up the wimax keys also and people who have backup up using amen_ra have been able to get back wimax when they revert back to that backup. After reading that I am more convinced I should be using amen_ra. So if I follow your instructions, put the PC36IMG.ZIP (I put the zip and not the contents correct?) on the root of my sd card and update to that I will not have the amen-ra recovery instead of clockwork, correct?

I also read a post that someone said if you have clockwork and you look in the menu it shows an "alternate recovery" and that is amen_ra? What does that do/mean, does it have both recoveries?

Thanks for all your help!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coiledwire:
Clockwork scared many people off of it when it had a problem wiping dalvik cache, which causes issues when flashing new roms/mods. I think current iterations of clockwork have resolved this problem.

The selection inside clockwork that says use alternate recovery does install amon-ra. That means all of your recovery services will use amon, but of course you have the clockwork app still installed. You could uninstall clockwork, and amon-ra will stay installed as the recovery program.

Some more additional info:

- Most custom roms will not update your radios

- Be careful when choosing to update anything with your radios; anything bad that occurs (like losing battery power) during a radio flash will have a good chance of bricking the phone.

- CM7 and other GB roms are good, but require "special" steps to get everything working as they should. They might be a bit harder for new flashers to get setup as they want.

- While rooting does allow for sprint bloat removal, its just the tip of the iceberg. Custom roms, kernels, and mods will allow way more functionality of your phone and will be hard to stay away from. This leads to being a "flashoholic" here on xda. :)

Good luck.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Thanks for that info, my biggest decision right now before I flash a rom is which recovery to use/keep. I have read that amons recovery has fixed peoples wimax after they have broken it, I assume clockworks does also since it backs up the wimax.img during its nandroid backup. From my reading of the CM7 thread I did notice that I would have to do a lot of work to get things working. I would like to avoid this beause I don't have much experience yet, I was thinking to do CM6 until CM7 has been out longer. I have also been reading that Kings ROMS and MikFroyo are very good, I have a lot of reading to do. For now my ideal ROM would have wifi hotspot/tether working, 4g, HD videa camera working and HDMI. Don't think I care if I have sense or not, I can use launcher pro on non sense roms. Oh and of course I would like better battery life.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Go for CM7...everything works on it. Been on it since...forever....never a problem.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Thanks, I may just go for CM7 and hope I can handle some of the customization. So my question to you (thanks again for being so helpful, you have helped me out a lot, as have others on here, thanks to all!) is do I just stay with clockwork recovery or go to amon_ra right now before I flash CM7?

I just want my base/recovery to be stable so that I can go back just in case. Probably the most important recovery ability is to get wimax back if I ever DL a rom that breaks it. It is working now and I have done a nandroid with CW recovery and I have backed up the wimax.img to my SD card as well as that OEM.key backup file the one thread suggested doing.

I also noticed that I don't have CWM3, I think is 2.5 or 2.6. Should that matter if I stay with CWM?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBone821:
i had clockworkmod 3.0.05 then wanted to try Amon Ra but wanted to flash back to a ROM I had backed up in ROM manager so I flashed back to clockworkmod since rom manager does not work with amon ra but now I only can get clockwork 2.7 and have tryed to update to 3.0.0.5 but with no luck and rom manager will not let me flash back to saved rom any ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
CM7 installed!!!! Put the google apps on as well, now I am just messing around with the settings.

Wimax says good signal strenth but I am getting horrid download speeds, nothing more than 2mb when I used to get between 8 and 10. I am going to have to figure out why this is happening.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant76:
Has anyone else had good results from a navigation app not turning into a total vampire and sucking your battery dry quickly I've tried google seemingly the best navigon its pretty bad and copilot which is like a kid at a candy buffet any ideas how to improve gps battery life does anyone know if the beta ginger is better

Ava froyo z3

netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-nohavs-noUV-nosbc-universal
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigUps:
I had the same thing happen when I first installed CM7. I rebooted and everything went back to normal.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigUps:
You could try to uninstall Rom Manager an reinstall it. If memory serves me correct, it'll update your clockworkmod.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bmcnary:
Thanks Rick
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBone821:
I actually had duh moment and realized I could just flash different ROMs I saved in clockwork with amon ra. I like amon ra a lot better. I feel like I have more control.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
If you stay with clockwork, the 2.5 version allows the amend scripting [old, and a lot of people still use it], 3.0+ uses edify scripting [new, won't accept amend files].

The only real advantage of amon_ra 2.3 is that it'll accept both amend and edify files, convenient. Some users have complained of clockwork not wiping properly, ect, but I personally have never had a problem. More a matter of preferences; though you can't restore a CWM backup on amon_ra, and vice versa.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant76:
Do not order the 3500 mah battery off ebay out of tx this is the results

Ava froyo z3

netarchy-toastmod-4.3.1-cfs-havs-nosbc-universal
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JBone821:
I had no problem restoring a CWM backup with amon ra once I found the file.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
That's good to hear.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardod1:
Thanks for all the useful info...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] towir022:
True very true
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] claycmk:
Thanks for great write-up. Very appreciated.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paperc07:
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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lenoretomato:
Great post. I believe people should read threads like this once in a while instead of asking the same questions over and over. That's why my post count is minimal. Everything you could ever need is at your fingertips.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well I'm glad someone did some actual reading. Though you can also post to give your opinions/help as well. :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant76:
Can anyone tell me why gps causes the phone to reboot usually after several hours of use and it happens with every rom I use stock was really bad not so much with customs but still annoying to look over and see your phone going through full reboot
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfish1883:
Thanks ricsim78, great post
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Its possible that your phone is overheating, so it auto-shuts off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ant76:
Yes it's usually very warm didn't think of that. So if that be the problem if I slow down cpu while using gps it should fix it. I hope
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GT1297:
Thank you for the info.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lanaka:
Aloha, am writing to ask this: if I flash a different ROM, for example MikG's 2+3 rom replacing the HTC Sense rom, will this change my e4g's network settings? I am fairly sure that my apps and their data will be lost, but I am not sure whether I will need to reunlock my phone and tie it back to Mobi (the local cell carrier Im using).

Also, I read that unless I am flashing the stock stock rom plus a few other steps (in unrooting phone), flashing wont normally change the phone root status. Correct?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phantom213:
I'm experiencing an issue with my rooted evo. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out why my pandora & slack radio keep pausing after listening over a half hour or less. I'm using R2R-Going-Green-R.3 latest rom, can anybody help me or give some good feedback?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erikemb:
you answered a lot of my questions, great post thanks!