yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
6 for 6!

Yeah, going all the way back to stock sucks... but when it's 3G at stake...

You can download clockworkmod as a PB13IMG.zip and flash it. Then you can restore a backup. Google for it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Epicardium:
Don't know if you can really claim 100% success. Could be several people who did it without success. ;)

For what it's worth...i got mine to work again by simply doing the factory reset, including internal storage. Didn't do anything else. Worked.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Actually 7 for 7. A guy on redemptive rom just did this and got 3g back

Droid Incredible

Redemptive rom

Nameless theme blue/black

Hydra kernel
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Yeah I tried that first. Had to do ruu update and another factory reset to get 3g back

Droid Incredible

Redemptive rom

Nameless theme blue/black

Hydra kernel
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
True true, but the OP specifically states to report back if it works or not xD If they don't say it doesn't work, then I have no control over that.

Hmm, I will change the OP to suggest doing a factory reset first. If that doesn't work, then RUU and factory reset.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumbotron:
Did you try reverting back to 2.15.00.07.28 and taking off your EVO ported ROM?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumbotron:
"3. Factory reset:

----Settings --> SD & phone storage --> Factory reset. (Pick whichever option wipes the most)"

So I can pick "Reset phone" or "Reset phone & internal storage."

Which one did you pick? The 1st time I tried it through me into a bootloop.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cole119:
I got a bootloop when I tried that too. I just ended up flashing the RUU in HBoot. Btw, OP, add another success to the list; I think my problem earlier was S-Off.

Edit: I picked "Reset phone & internal storage".
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumbotron:
Genius...forget all these haters. They were are just frustrated and haven't tried. I tried and it worked. Quit asking why and just do it people, it effin works. Place that stock RUU PB31IMG.zip on root of SD, boot into update and let it update, reboot, login and procede with the factory reset, I selected "reset phone," which was the first option. Upon reboot it forces you to activate by dialing *228 for you. Once OTA successful message reboots, believe me you'll see 3G and it's fast again.

Thx gmichaelow, you da man.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
You're welcome. I just think of how it was so frustrating. And I'd rather not anyone else have to go through that.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Yup, I had already been on 7.28, and flashed two other inc framework sense Roms first. I am back on Redemptive Evolution though, and no problems so far. I think it has to do with *228 on the EVO framework roms
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfarrah:
My problem is that I can't remember what the phone is supposed to look like under normal circumstances re: 3G. Currently, the 3G signal constantly goes in and out, sometimes not appearing at all for a little while. When I access the web browser, it lights up as normal, then goes away.

Hmmmmmm.....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broderboy:
this worked for me! went through step 2. back on skyraider!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broderboy:
thank you so much!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
S off shouldn't have anything to do with it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cole119:
When I had S-Off my phone would boot into CWM recovery when I selected yes to update from HBoot.

Edit: Were you saying S-Off shouldn't have anything to do with the 3G problem? The problem I was talking about was I couldn't flash the RUU to fix the 3G problem.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
That's your security turned off. I flashed ruu s off no problem. The reboot menu doesn't have anything to do with s off. It's in the framework.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] past_pluto:
I did the RUU then the factory reset and it started the activate by dialing *228 and I did option 1 to activate. It rebooted and went back into the setup and the 3g icon is lighting up and holding. Ran a speedtest and it's at 1873 kbps which is normal. Trying to use navigation in 1x mode this morning was quite fun considering I left the satellite layer running while using wifi.

I cannot remember using *228 when the redemptive rEVOlution rom but I did run that one and I did *228 after using it when I went back to the stripped froyo rom.

Edit: Booted into bootloader to make sure I had drivers installed and when I used fastboot to reboot my 3g was gone. No 1x or 3g. No mobile data period. Rebooted normally and it came back.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
I am having the problems again after two days on an evo rom, without messing with prl or even *228... I guess my phone doesnt like the evo framework
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] past_pluto:
So finally rereooted and the 1x is back. WTF!

Edit: Now I rebooted from the OS and not recovery or hboot and 3g is back with 3g speeds. This is very weird. The 3g speed this time was 730kbps down 844 up.

Edit2: Rebooted again from just turning off and charging and no mobile data. In settings it's stuck in turning on and greyed out.

Edit: 3: Another reboot fixes it. IIRC I remember often having to reboot after turning off wifi and using the manual toggle with juice defender to turn mobile data back on before I started using roms other than skyraider vanilla 3.0

Edit: 4: Nandroid my backup from before and still have 3g although some boots the mobile data stays greyed out but a reboot and it works.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhillyCheez:
my phone was rebooting constantly and 3G dropping...

did the RUU... everything works perfectly now!

im gonna stick with the stock rom plus new htc kernel for awhile. I am enjoying a glitch free phone and no bloatware!

i think the cause really is a *228 on a evo based ROM.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
I agree
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Man hate to hear that
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Ya I loved redemptive revolution too... I'll be sticking with redemption till this stuff gets a little more figured out-
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
Makes me nervous. Good luck
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
thx! I'm sure it will work out for most people, so I bet you'll be fine =)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grooby97:
Grey "3G"

I have issue where my "3G" goes grey. However, when I need to use internet, it turns back to white again. Is this the same issue as stated by the OP "3G goes away after opening internet"?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cole119:
I don't think so. For me the 3G icon would disappear entirely. When you try to go to a website, does it ever pop up and say no internet connection found?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
The best way to check is to go to about phone network settings. If under mobil network it says 1xtt then be afraid. Very afraid!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Another symptom I noticed with this problem, is 3g having trouble connecting, and it disconnecting randomly at will- =(
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Slightly updated OP for clarity.

If you're not pissed off at your phone, you probably don't have the problem xD

The symptom is the phone will SAY 3G, but when you open, say, the browser, *poof. No more 3G. Disappears entirely.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grooby97:
ahhh ok..then I do not have the same problem. I was freaking out noticing the 3G turning grey and was working furiously trying to apply this thread's fix for it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
In all honest though, doing a RUU, and then re-rooting is not a bad thing. On the contrary, I think it really speeds of your phone so you could give it a shot and just see what happens.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernando sor:
You actually nevet have it tho. If you download 3gtest from market and run it if you have this problem it will say you are on 1xtt
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] egeorgia:
This actually happened to me. Rrrrr. I had to do the steps in the op and it worked. I believe it was caused by doing the 228 while on the redemptive ROM. This sucked. Now I have to remember how to root again. I am thankful for this thread though. I would have never guessed I had to go back to stock to fix it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espmetalhead:
Just run Unrevoked and you will be re-rooted with clockwork in no time. :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisjz:
Im confused, does this mean we shouldn't use the redemptive roms??
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] egeorgia:
I have run redemptive roms before and had no issues. I think the problem is when I was one 1.9 and dialed the *22899. Then it messed up my 3G.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espmetalhead:
Revolution / Redemption are awesome roms. I found that there are no issues if you *228 from a Rom based off Incredible framework. I had to run the RUU after *228 on the Evo based ROMs.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spence341:
Just for the heck of it I did *228, it updated and I have no 3g issues.

I am running Redemptive as well. There has to more to it than just dialing *228.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cole119:
Yeah I'm pretty sure it happened to me without dialing *228.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Yeah, confirmed. There's definitely something that gets corrupted though. At least the fix isn't tooooo complicated, just annoying xD
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RegnierD:
Agreed. I RUU'd and then the unrEVOked tool didn't want to work, but I had S-Off so I was able to just install ClockWorkMod recovery through hboot. And now I'm back to Redemptive. :D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Just a quick heads up, I installed redemptive rEVOlution 2.0 and have been having no 3g problems at all! Don't be afraid to give it a shot =)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Picao:
I Installed Redemptive Revolution 2.0 and my 3G left the building, I downgraded back to the older radio and still no 3G, am now doing the full downgrade and factory wipe to see if this fixes the problem. On Virtuous, I never had this issue when updating *228, sucks because I really like the Redemptive ROM'S.

Edit: Worked like it was suppose to, now have my 3G back, will re-root then do Virtuous only until the Evo Rom's fix this issue.

Edit: Used ROM Manager to install backup copy of RR and now I have my 3G back. So if you follow the steps you will get your 3G back then just nandroid back to what you had. A lot of work to fix a small problem. Maybe Lou should put up a "do not update with *22899" in his OP.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayporsche:
EVO Roms have always been 'fixed', the best 3G signal and speed so far, I've got on them......currently running WarmTwoPointTwo on one INC and Redemptive 2.0 on the other INC, best 3G and speed by far ! and they look fock&^#g awesome too.... then again there are too many variables to be considered from case to case I guess......
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
how many users have linux here? i was planning on writing a short little shell script that will guide you through the process and push all the files to the right place. is there any intrest in something like that?

itd only take about 10 minutes to write up
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
This seems to be a simple enough solution that most seem to be able to understand. But I'm all for convenience! x]

If it'll only take ten minutes, then go for it! I'll add it to the OP.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inJustus:
I thought I bricked my phone.. I didn't have 3G problems but this thread and help certainly got me back to stock. I SUPER appreciate the post. I've been frustrated all day.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Ah, glad to have been of help. I came across your thread this morning and was going to offer some help, as it sounded like you simply needed an RUU. But then you already solved it.. xD

PS At least I THINK it was you...
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRW315:
No such luck for me. Mobile Network is still "Turning On..." Here's what I did:

Running SkyRaider 3.3.2, I tried to Factory Reset (Settings --> SD & phone storage --> Factory reset --> Reset phone). When this didn't work, next step was to RUU. Factory Reset again after RUU, this time including Internal Storage. Was prompted to Activate phone after this, so I did *228 option 1. When this didn't work I tried updating PRL. No go. Thanks for the effort anyways!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Hmmm, this is weird. It's worked for everyone so far. Is your problem exactly as stated?

3G icon is there, then disappears? Or just stays 1X the whole time?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRW315:
3G was there and disappeared when I tried to connect to the internet (no connection) with the stock ROM. I'm back on SkyRaider so I no longer have the 3G icon. Mobile network under settings stays stuck on "Turning on..." unless I'm also on WIFI. Seems like the same issue anyways. I'll try the process again tonight and leave it on the stock ROM for awhile.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stroupified:
k guys i was having a similar problem with the 3g icon turning on then turning off and i would have to load a different kernel such as kingxkernel in order for it to work, but i would lose 3g if i switced to different programs that use internet ie going from the app store to the browser. when i was loading new roms i noticed that the 3g worked but after i would do a titanium restore of my apps the 3g icon would show then dissappear so that told me that it was some app that was disconnecting me from the mobile network, so after about an hour and a half of deleting apps one by one and then turning 3g on and off after every one i finally found what was causing it, SwitchPro widget. as soon as i deleted it i was able to turn 3g on and it would stay on :) but now i thought i had wasted money on a program because it causes makes me lose connection so i reinstalled it and played around with different set ups, i had to enable "data connection" as one of the buttons in order for 3g to stay on but it only works if you have "mobile network" on in the menu that pops up when you hold the start button, then you can use switchpro to allow the 3g to turn on. it's like if the breaker is on but the light switch is off the light isn't gonna turn on.

well that fixed my problem so if you guys have switchpro installed then give this a try, if not then check if it's another app that's causing 3g to drop. hope this helps
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael Ellis:
Excellent. This fixed it right up. Thanks! You are a life-saver.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Ahaha, well... I try x] But really, this is a really panicking problem, and I'm just glad there's a fix. There are hundreds of posts of people with "Random 3G drops" and just as many frustrated people. Horray for fix though! =]
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRW315:
Hmmmm. I guess you can add another one to the fixed category. It didn't seem to immediately fix my 3G drops (as previously reported), but I haven't had any issues for the last couple days. Been going in and out of WiFi with no issues; this is when I had the most problems. Nice to have my phone fully functioning again!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] load97:
Me as well, THX!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slak?:
My problem seemed to just pop up immediately after a completely normal reboot. When I started back up the problems were obvious. Standard symptoms: 3g disappears completely, mobile network says turning on but never quite gets there, when it works it only works for a short time before it cuts out again.

I have run several evo ported roms, and and done *228 at least one time. I can't remember for sure which rom I was using when I did the *228, but it wasn't my current one and it was at least a month ago. I am right now running Redemptive Revolution. I noticed a post about ad-free, this re-boot that broke my phone was quite possibly the first reboot after installing ad-free! Suspicious...

I'm going to do this thing and I'll report back whether or not it works for me.

UPDATE 1: Did all steps (factory reset > ruu flash > factory reset > activate). Seemed to be fixed on the stock rom. Re-rooted with unrevoked and booted back up. Still seemed to be working normally. Flashed .zip of Redemptive Revolution 2.0 and Ziggy's Kernel. Now 3G no longer shows up at all. Ever. I idiotically forgot to do a nandroid directly after I had applied root and clockwork recover, so now I'm starting back over at flashing the RUU.

UPDATE 2: Re-did the RUU, factory reset and activation. 3G works again. Rooted. Still works. I'm going to find a AOSP or INC-native rom to use for now. Too bad, I liked all of the evo-port roms I used. I think this one can be chalked up as a success, since 3G is working now. If it is not working again later it probably means that I did something to break it.

UPDATE 3: SkyRaider 3.3.3 flashed and working fine.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cole119:
I wish we could figure out exactly what causes this to happen; some of the Evo roms are starting to look mighty tempting again, but I refuse to flash them until I know I won't have to go through this again lol.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coldbloodio:
the link is broken...it says temporary unavailable
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dpwhitty11:
Should doing this also work to fix massive 3G battery drainage?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Noope. I don't think it'll do anything for you. 3G is known to use lots of battery.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dpwhitty11:
I'm talking about it dropping 1% a minute. I've read that doing a RUU would fix it so I did, but nope. I live in Houston, so it's not a problem about having a low signal.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushoid:
Would I still be able to root after using the ruu?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Yes, this RUU is root-able.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushoid:
Can I get an md5 checksum on the ruu file:o please.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
There you go =] Added to the OP, step 2, "----" 2.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] csseale:
I sent Lou a pm letting him know....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impatspence:
Question:

I only get this problem when i use the stock tether app or the wireless tether app for longer then 5 minutes... my 3g switches off and on over and over... so my internet stops working which is very frustrating because i'm in college and like to pull my laptop out and be able to research.

I have tried both steps 2 and 3 (restoring to RUU, and factory reset) and it's not helping it, It used to work fine... i thought, but have had this problem for a while but didn't look into it into today... because my home internet stopped working.

Any ideas? :/
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impatspence:
This thread die? :o
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
I believe it is a bug with wireless tether. Try the pre-14. The link is floating around somewhere, Google it. (I'm lazy xD)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impatspence:
It does it with the stock tether app as well. :/
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Hmm, it sounds like a separate issue unrelated to this. This is system-wide general 3G droppage xD Hmm, try the hacked 3G wifi hotspot from Warm TwoPointTwo, or Wireless Tether pre-14.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Something a bit disturbing...

So i got the problem with the 3g not reconnecting, and even after two factory resets with the RUU, 3g is not turning on... Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Hmm, can you describe more clearly what exactly is happening and what exactly you did?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Basically 3g will not connect at all, Mobile Network is stuck at "turning on" no matter what I do... (Airplane mode toggle ect..)

I flashed the RUU in this thread, then factory reset, which did not work, so I tried factory resetting again, this time formatting my SD card and phone storage as well, and the problem still remained. After I thought that I may as well try and root again and reinstall a ROM, so I re-rooted, and flashed redemptive revolution again and still no 3g. I tried installing a different kernel (chad's new one) and nothing changed. Wifi works, everything else seems to work also.

Note: I did do somethign rather unusual today, I reflashed redemptive revolution a couple times to make fresh backups of the theme's I liked. The problem began on Redemptive with REDemption theme.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Sounds like drastic measures are warranted! xD Lol, just kidding. But there are still options to try, so don't start panicking yet!

It sounds as if the possibility of a software problem is eliminated. That leaves only hardware problems... or does it? There is still the chance that software on Verizon's end has gone bad, which kinda sorta possibly makes sense since you used an Evo ROM.

So I'd first suggest you RUU, and then call Verizon Tech Support. When I originally had this problem, I called and they did this thing to my account... not sure what, but it did involve tapping an "Activate" button, which eventually led me to the fix described in the thread.

Anyways, RUU, then call Verizon. I suggest calling from a separate phone, as the Verizon tech will have you do some rebooting.

If the Verizon dude can't fix it, I think he'll offer a replacement. Don't take it yet, you can always bring it into the store. Come back, post, and we'll see what else we can do.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] froader:
I had this happen with the dinc I purchased from EBay. after lots of time with VZW tech support, stock RUU, and hard rests a diff VZW person simply reset something in their system and 3g worked after 228 update. I can't remember what the guy reset, may have been dmu.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Very unusual, when I woke up today 3g was working! There was a bad storm last night, I wonder if there was any correlation? It's.got me stumped! I was just about ready to bring it in like you said
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmichaelow:
Ahhh xD Yay! =] Seems that there are a whole bunch of reasons for 3G to go out. Anyways, glad everything's working for you again!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndrewGL:
Ya... I'm glad it came back :)

Especially because I need the gps to drive home today..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] impatspence:
I am using Warm TwoPointTwo, and have tried both the hotspot app, and pre-14... both turn 3g off and on... and after it goes off the first time it doesn't actually reconnect on the device till i restart the app... then it just turns off again, however apps like PDAnet work fine... 3g doesn't turn off. I have tried different kernals and roms also, am i like the only one with this problem?! :/

Edit: It seems that when it gets over 35 degrees Celsius that is when it starts to turn off and on :/