So I ditched my Thunderbolt for a Rezound. Unlocked, rooted, patched firmware, flashed Superclean ICS. Seemed to have some data issues, so I cruised around some more, got S-off and re-flashed new firmware, hit a couple more ROMs and finally loaded the latest ICS leak RUU. Everything either had intermittent data loss, random reboots, battery drain issues, or just really bad memory management. Finally I reverted back to stock, which seems to be working fine, other than intermittently dropping data connection. I'm beginning to wonder if the data loss issue is due to flashing Superclean after patching firmware, instead of fully updating it.
Have you tried ineffabilis deus?
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So I ditched my Thunderbolt for a Rezound. Unlocked, rooted, patched firmware, flashed Superclean ICS. Seemed to have some data issues, so I cruised around some more, got S-off and re-flashed new firmware, hit a couple more ROMs and finally loaded the latest ICS leak RUU. Everything either had intermittent data loss, random reboots, battery drain issues, or just really bad memory management. Finally I reverted back to stock, which seems to be working fine, other than intermittently dropping data connection. I'm beginning to wonder if the data loss issue is due to flashing Superclean after patching firmware, instead of fully updating it.
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As long as you're wiping the phone between roms, no, flashing a rom wouldn't cause that problem with other roms. By any chance is the back off when you're having these issues?
Performed the same process not to long ago and I can't say anything went wrong outside of the latest RUU having awful screen on battery life (or maybe that's just me)
it went this way for me XD
unlock, custom recovery, (WIPE) -> ics rom, old firmware patch, (oh darn this didn't upgrade it to the latest version), relock, flash the newest ruu (twice), custom recovery again, (wipe) flash rom AND the image in hboot, S-off, happy times
~ upon flashing my rom the 2nd time, i had no data seemingly, a lot of force closing, and some odd battery drain
the fix was zipalign, permission check, and wipe cache/dalvik cache to be safe, the data picked up after a half hour or so
Also try to do a factory reset in stock recovery. Has fixed data issues from jumping around to different radios and firmware.
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Performed the same process not to long ago and I can't say anything went wrong outside of the latest RUU having awful screen on battery life (or maybe that's just me)
it went this way for me XD
unlock, custom recovery, (WIPE) -> ics rom, old firmware patch, (oh darn this didn't upgrade it to the latest version), relock, flash the newest ruu (twice), custom recovery again, (wipe) flash rom AND the image in hboot, S-off, happy times
~ upon flashing my rom the 2nd time, i had no data seemingly, a lot of force closing, and some odd battery drain
the fix was zipalign, permission check, and wipe cache/dalvik cache to be safe, the data picked up after a half hour or so
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I'll try this, see if that helps. Probably tomorrow, will be a double hangover day. working on my first one now.
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Also try to do a factory reset in stock recovery. Has fixed data issues from jumping around to different radios and firmware.
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I did factory reset, though not from hboot as some posts suggest. Is there a benefit to that?
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As long as you're wiping the phone between roms, no, flashing a rom wouldn't cause that problem with other roms. By any chance is the back off when you're having these issues?
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No, I do know the antenna are in the back cover. Though it's usually the little things we forget.
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I did factory reset, though not from hboot as some posts suggest. Is there a benefit to that?
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Factory reset through HBoot has been notorious for fixing data issues specifically data dropping in and out, 4G switching back and forth to 3G. Makes swapping out firmwares even more of a pain in the ass because you need the stock recovery in order to factory reset in HBoot. On a side note having the back cover removed will kill your signal as all the antenas are in the cover.
Okay, so my data issue was a hardware problem. was still dropping after a full stock reversion. After four hours of Verizon reps trying new sim cards and messing with my network profile, I have a new phone. Let's try this again...
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Okay, so my data issue was a hardware problem. was still dropping after a full stock reversion. After four hours of Verizon reps trying new sim cards and messing with my network profile, I have a new phone. Let's try this again...
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Have you had any problems with your replacement? Cause I've had an issue with my data dropping out completely on my stock rezound. I've been through 2 replacements and I'm on my third, which is still doing it.
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Was having similar data issues on rooted stock, where my data would just stop working and would require a reboot to get it back. Opted to install Nil's Business ROM based on latest leak. Had a hard time getting the 4g to work initially but after applying the GB patch a couple time and a couple hard resets and reboots, I have not had my data drop even once.
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Have you had any problems with your replacement? Cause I've had an issue with my data dropping out completely on my stock rezound. I've been through 2 replacements and I'm on my third, which is still doing it.
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I am now having my 5th Rezound being sent because of data issues.
Related
I was rocking the latest perfect storm rom saw that a new lighting rom released. Downloaded, wipe data cache flashed. Loaded up fine except no data, tried toggling airplane mode...nada. booted in recovery wiped davlik and battery stats, restored ...same thing. Restored back to perfect storm...no data. Any advice to why this happened. Phone was perfect before I crakflashed
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Have you made sure that the mobile internet is activated?
also, might be a good idea to post the topic in development section. but i havent had any problems switching between the two ROMs
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I was rocking the latest perfect storm rom saw that a new lighting rom released. Downloaded, wipe data cache flashed. Loaded up fine except no data, tried toggling airplane mode...nada. booted in recovery wiped davlik and battery stats, restored ...same thing. Restored back to perfect storm...no data. Any advice to why this happened. Phone was perfect before I crakflashed
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Bump this I am having the same exact issue today on my HeroC going between ROMs. Did you get this fixed? None of my nandroids even have data =(
Nothing worked, pretty sure one of the beta kernals broke the radio between flashes. Final result had my phone replaced
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Nothing worked, pretty sure one of the beta kernals broke the radio between flashes. Final result had my phone replaced
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Dude, people on this site are not going to release kernels that will f up your phone. Next time you should probably do a little more research before you trade in your phone for a new one.
Patience is a virtue for most, but when its your primary line and data is f'd up I'm not going to wait. Research at the time was non existent for this matter. I had a new phone in 10hrs when I requested replacement. A dev suggested reflashing the stock radio and re rooting the device to restore data, this didn't take. Its flasher beware, something everybody knows. Devs even post this in the beginning of all threads. Everybody's phone reacts differently to each rom, kernal, radio, theme what have you. I'm just now sitting back and waiting for UD to be released
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dx1881 said:
Patience is a virtue for most, but when its your primary line and data is f'd up I'm not going to wait. Research at the time was non existent for this matter. I had a new phone in 10hrs when I requested replacement. A dev suggested reflashing the stock radio and re rooting the device to restore data, this didn't take. Its flasher beware, something everybody knows. Devs even post this in the beginning of all threads. Everybody's phone reacts differently to each rom, kernal, radio, theme what have you. I'm just now sitting back and waiting for UD to be released
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UD... LMAO
This is kind of related to development, and still really important since those flashing Leak ROMs might not read the General section and not know if I posted this there. That is why I posted this here.
If you flashed any PG86IMG firmware zip for the Virgin Mobile leaks, you might not be able to go back.
EDIT: CHADS DOWNGRADE THREAD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1641461
NOTE: This is not specific to freeza's zip. Any firmware zip for the leaks is the same.
Why?
The leak firmware has a file, dzdata_4g.hdr, which no other official firmware has.
The only similar thing other leaks have is dzdata.img which has confirmed not working since people flashing 2.17 ruu (which has this) are still showing the Virgin Mobile banner and having problems.
Downgrading will leave you with the Virgin Mobile dzdata_4g.hdr.
TL;DR/easier to digest
Leak has dzdata_4g.hdr
No official firmware RUU does
Downgrading leaves you stuck with dzdata_4g
What is bad about keeping the Firmware
If you have flashed the zip or have tried downgrading from it, you might be one of the few that have problems with:
-No 3G, just 1X
-No VPN
-More bugs
And everyone will be stuck with the "Virgin Mobile" banner.
Also you're flashing radios and firmware from an unnoficial firmware for a different device. This can cause a lot of issues.
If you aren't having problems and you flashed it, good for you.. Some do but most don't..
EDIT: We're marked as Virgin Mobile so we'll be at the bottom of the tower priority.. among other things..
Can I still flash the firmware zip minus dzdata_4g.hdr?
Try it and report back. It might brick or phone or cause random reboots with the ROM.
Is there a fix if I already flashed it?
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1641461
Summary:
The point of this warning is that if you flash the leaked firmware, there is a chance of you having problems. This chance is pretty high since I'd say like 1/10 of people have no 3G and signal quality for a lot of people got poorer.
If you get these problems, there's no going back. There's no way of fixing them.
Whether it's worth taking the risk or not is up to you.
Edit: This kind of explains the situation were in right now:
HTCFlyerX said:
BTW....if anyone can confirm that they can roam on data after flashing the VM firmware please let us know! I believe data roaming may not work any longer.
And to explain why I don't believe the Sprint ICS leak....very simply....all the rcdata.imgs from our ruus contain the same exact thing....the partition (RCData) is the Radio-Cust.(om?)er?) Data partition and holds pri information and roaming data!
So quite simply....we flashed a file that was built for a different carrier and are now marked as that carrier in different areas of the network.....this WILL conflict with other things as more of us use our devices at different levels!
ADDED AFTER..... Chad has just confirmed with Qualcomm that we have messed up our devices PRI! There is no way to revert from the VIRGIN MOBILE PRI!
The ICS leak may be our fix as it could contain a updated PRI that would be accepted by our devices partition!
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Thanks man
I havent had any problems with upgrading and am happy with the ics leak so im good to go I've had same signal, same data speeds and everything....
Nice post btw
That's a good thing I just flash away with s-on then.
sent from the future!
I happen to be one of those lucky chaps who flashed it and are suffering from extremely poor signal...
God damn...why did I flash this ish..
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I happen to be one of those lucky chaps who flashed it and are suffering from extremely poor signal...
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I flashed it and went a few places and had what I think is extremely poor signal, but every time I checked my wifes phone's signal (stock Epic 4G) it is the same. Maybe just coincidence?
Good thing I just flashed the roms and not the fw *PheeeW*
Interesting. Curious to.see more feedback I myself did not update firmware. Signal seems normal.
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im not entirely sure how true this is cause I just nandroid back to WarmTwoPointThree and using my 4g hotspot from my Evo 3d
I upgraded to the firmware and then decided to go back to the 2.17 firmware and I don't have any problems?
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Jamesredmond82 said:
im not entirely sure how true this is cause I just nandroid back to WarmTwoPointThree and using my 4g hotspot from my Evo 3d
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4G still works with the firmware, I never said anything was wrong with 4G. So does hotspot.
Go to settings, about phone, network and tell me what it says for your network operator.
Also you did flash the firmware right? or did you flash the roms without firmware?
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I upgraded to the firmware and then decided to go back to the 2.17 firmware and I don't have any problems?
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Only some are actually having problems, but the point is, if you flash Freeza's firmware there is a chance of you having problems. If you have problems, theres no way of fixing them.
Also the chance is pretty high as many users have been reporting of no 3G, VPN, etc.
With the virgin mobile banner am I no longer in the Sprint database or is it just cosmetic/visual that can be edited with eri.xml ???
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I appreciate the warning, but maybe it was premature? I flashed the fw with no issues, and I've been on 2 ics builds and one 2.17 without problem.
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Hope a solution comes out for this, so glad I didn't flash the firmware lol.
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I want this **** off of my phone!!! Can I use a old RUU?
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4G still works with the firmware, I never said anything was wrong with 4G. So does hotspot.
Go to settings, about phone, network and tell me what it says for your network operator.
Also you did flash the firmware right? or did you flash the roms without firmware?
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I Flashed the firmware right into bootloader and I dont see where you are seeing your network operator
I flashed Freeza's ics firmware but my banner never changed to virgin mobile even though it seemed to work since voicemail didn't work. I was able to run 1.13 RUU and it seemed like everything was back to normal.
I also haven't had an issues with any rom.
I flashed while on Newts one S. And was able to restore to Nocturnal Adrenaline just fine.
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im not entirely sure how true this is cause I just nandroid back to WarmTwoPointThree and using my 4g hotspot from my Evo 3d
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You can Nandroid back to a previous "rom" but, the "firmware" (if you flashed) will remain the same.
Hey,
Like many of you I have been trying out the new sense 4.0 roms as they come available. I usually end up back on bamf's 3.6 rom without issues through my nand backup.
Recently, my phone started freezing up after going back to the 3.6 rom. This never happened before. I tried flashing a new rom instead of using the backup and it keeps happening. Now, any rom I try ends up freezing, randomly restarting, and then after it restarts it will continue to bootloop showing only the white HTC screen.
My phone is s-off running the newest ICS leak. Not really sure where to go from here. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Since this isn't specific to any rom I made a new thread, feel free to move if this is the wrong area!
That's weird bro. Not sure why. I switch all the time between gb And ics Nd sense 4 with no issues. Maybe run the ruu again
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Natef53 said:
Hey,
Like many of you I have been trying out the new sense 4.0 roms as they come available. I usually end up back on bamf's 3.6 rom without issues through my nand backup.
Recently, my phone started freezing up after going back to the 3.6 rom. This never happened before. I tried flashing a new rom instead of using the backup and it keeps happening. Now, any rom I try ends up freezing, randomly restarting, and then after it restarts it will continue to bootloop showing only the white HTC screen.
My phone is s-off running the newest ICS leak. Not really sure where to go from here. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Since this isn't specific to any rom I made a new thread, feel free to move if this is the wrong area!
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Wipe more. My DX must have been flashed and sbf'd over two hundred times easy. Never died...my dinc2 was same story..and the 2 months a had a galaxy nexus i flsahed everyday. Your phone is fine. May be a bug or you aren't wiping enough.
Let us know.
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Wipe more. My DX must have been flashed and sbf'd over two hundred times easy. Never died...my dinc2 was same story..and the 2 months a had a galaxy nexus i flsahed everyday. Your phone is fine. May be a bug or you aren't wiping enough.
Let us know.
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+1 make sure to wipe system, cache, d cache and factory reset in recovery before flashing the rom
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I usually wipe 3 times or more but I will try again tomorrow wiping everything 10x to see if it helps.
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I will say I've had the same issue, on ics leak phone froze and would only boot to white HTC screen. Try the RUU.exe, you will have to s-off though. I still don't have working wifi yet, and can't flash the ics leak.
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I will say I've had the same issue, on ics leak phone froze and would only boot to white HTC screen. Try the RUU.exe, you will have to s-off though. I still don't have working wifi yet, and can't flash the ics leak.
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OP, All you need to do is flash the firmware patch or proper kernel. Your phone is rebooting when gmail tries to sync, when you press a button that makes a noise, or when you get a notification?
It sounds like your issue is that your running a rom and firmware that don't match up. Just let me know what your firmware version is by booting to hboot with power+vol down
To the guy above that can't flash the ICS leak and doesn't have wifi, I'll help you fix it. That sounds like the kernel you installed and the roms base don't match up, like for example if someone flashed a new sense 4 rom and flashed a sense4 PH98IMG.zip from an older base that wasn't out of the newest rom.
Both of you send me a PM and I'll help you fix it.
Gads. I've waited 2 years to root my phone and the first ROM I flash toasts it. I downloaded the Skyraider Zeus 1.3 and everything looked fine. When it rebooted, though, I realized I'm not able to do anything.
I slide the lock to get into the phone and I'm greeted by a dialog about in-call volume. All I can do is hit the Silent button and it switches between that and bluetooth volume. I can't figure out how to get past it so I can actually do anything.
Ideas?
ETA: Now I'm really sick to my stomach. I decided to restore from backup. Neither one of the backups I made prior to flashing are working.
Error while restoring /data!
WTF? Now I'm dead in the water.
4pm Update: I figured I have a brick now so I wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache. Now I'm trying to re-install Skyraider. I'm not holding my breath.
You're not bricked.
Go back into recovery...
Wipe data/factory reset 3x, wipe cache, and then wipe dalvik cache.
Flash the ROM.
You should be good.
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RBarnett09 said:
You're not bricked.
Go back into recovery...
Wipe data/factory reset 3x, wipe cache, and then wipe dalvik cache.
Flash the ROM.
You should be good.
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Thanks. I did that and it worked. I guess I have to reinstall everything.
Why would two different backups fail to restore? The first I did manually last night through Titanium. The second I did when I flashed through ROM Manager.
That's your problem using rom manager. Download 4ext in the play store and you wont have backup issues.
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That's your problem using rom manager. Download 4ext in the play store and you wont have backup issues.
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Will do. What a debacle it started out to be. I think I'm ok now. I got the ROM working and for some reason although I wasn't able to boot into recovery and restore I have been able to restore my apps and data through Titanium. I have to say buying the Pro license was worth not having to acknowledge each install. :laugh:
One thing I noticed is that I used to be able to slide the task bar down and have two options. Initially it was set with notifications but I could select a tab to make quick selections like enable/disable the hotspot, etc. I'll have to figure out why I only see notifications now. Maybe that's just part of the ROM behavior.
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Will do. What a debacle it started out to be. I think I'm ok now. I got the ROM working and for some reason although I wasn't able to boot into recovery and restore I have been able to restore my apps and data through Titanium. I have to say buying the Pro license was worth not having to acknowledge each install. :laugh:
One thing I noticed is that I used to be able to slide the task bar down and have two options. Initially it was set with notifications but I could select a tab to make quick selections like enable/disable the hotspot, etc. I'll have to figure out why I only see notifications now. Maybe that's just part of the ROM behavior.
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That's strange that you don't see the quick settings tab.
Usually after flashing a ROM through recovery, I flash it an extra time so that I know it gets all the files through.
I know when I flashed Gingeritis 3D, I couldn't get the music player to stop force closing when I changed the music sound effects. The only way to fix these issues and a few others was to flash it a couple more times, without wiping anything at all. Dirty flashes (not wiping) could possibly fix any issues as long as you haven't changed any of the ROMs settings or set up anything.
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That's strange that you don't see the quick settings tab.
Usually after flashing a ROM through recovery, I flash it an extra time so that I know it gets all the files through.
I know when I flashed Gingeritis 3D, I couldn't get the music player to stop force closing when I changed the music sound effects. The only way to fix these issues and a few others was to flash it a couple more times, without wiping anything at all. Dirty flashes (not wiping) could possibly fix any issues as long as you haven't changed any of the ROMs settings or set up anything.
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Ha! I was just trying to grab a screenshot and found Quick Settings. I accidentally tapped the top of the window and now I see it. However, it only lists Wi-Fi, BT, GPS, and media volume. I really hope I can figure out how to add the hotspot.
ETA: Found it in Skyraider settings! I'm getting closer to where I wanna be!
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Ha! I was just trying to grab a screenshot and found Quick Settings. I accidentally tapped the top of the window and now I see it. However, it only lists Wi-Fi, BT, GPS, and media volume. I really hope I can figure out how to add the hotspot.
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To change those settings in that menu you would probably have to look in the skyraider settingsm
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This is getting better. Now I'm posting from my netbook connected via WiFi tethering an not using the Verizon hotspot! This will save me another $30/mo.
So far this ROM seems to be much faster jumping between apps than stock. I'm going to play with it a few days and then throw caution to the wind and try the Skyraider ICS ROM. :silly:
Skyraider ics? I wasn't aware that they had an ics rom for the bolt.
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My bad. I followed it from the Skyraider download but it's the ICS leak for HTC.
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My bad. I followed it from the Skyraider download but it's the ICS leak for HTC.
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That rom blows. If you want a working decent sense 3.6 get nusense from the infectedrom forums.
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That rom blows. If you want a working decent sense 3.6 get nusense from the infectedrom forums.
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Nusense is actually on my list. These are what I was initially looking at trying:
Liquid Smooth AOKP
SkyRaider Zeus 1.3
NuSense
I think I'm like most Tbolt users that are tired of waiting for ICS. I wasn't sure about Nusense because I was believing that Sense was the source of a lot of my problems. However, SkyRaider (even though it's neither ICS nor Sense-less) is running considerably better. My phone was next to useless. It might take 1-2 min just for the stupid thing to dial a # once it was selected. I'd tell people if I ever needed 911 I'd be dead before it even dialed. I also had a lot of problems with messaging and general performance. So maybe it was just a bloatware problem that was dragging me into the mud.
Now that I'm having a positive experience with SR I think I'm going to make NuSense my next one. It looks very promising. I appreciate the warning and help to steer me clear.
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Nusense is actually on my list. These are what I was initially looking at trying:
Liquid Smooth AOKP
SkyRaider Zeus 1.3
NuSense
I think I'm like most Tbolt users that are tired of waiting for ICS. I wasn't sure about Nusense because I was believing that Sense was the source of a lot of my problems. However, SkyRaider (even though it's neither ICS nor Sense-less) is running considerably better. My phone was next to useless. It might take 1-2 min just for the stupid thing to dial a # once it was selected. I'd tell people if I ever needed 911 I'd be dead before it even dialed. I also had a lot of problems with messaging and general performance. So maybe it was just a bloatware problem that was dragging me into the mud.
Now that I'm having a positive experience with SR I think I'm going to make NuSense my next one. It looks very promising. I appreciate the warning and help to steer me clear.
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You should try Twisteds version of Liquid ICS AOSP . Only problem is Netflix and video can don't work. But other than that its a great rom --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33076925
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Thanks. I'll give it a shot. I don't use Netflix much from the phone so that's not a deal breaker.
How is it with data? I flashed NuSense yesterday morning and flashed back to SkyRaider last night. I couldn't stay connected. The data drops were horrible. It was odd. I'd have the 3G/4G icon like I was connected but couldn't surf/email/etc. Then other times I'd lose the 3G/4G altogether. Sometimes resetting the mobile data would work and other times it would just laugh at me.
I guess I didn't give it much of a chance since it only lasted <12 hours but it was driving me nuts. Nothing like spending time with family and not being able to surf and escape.
Any liquid based ics rom is plagued with data drops.
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Any liquid based ics rom is plagued with data drops.
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I'm not getting them that bad. Maybe twice a day at best. Have you tried pulling your sim for a little bit.
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I'm not getting them that bad. Maybe twice a day at best. Have you tried pulling your sim for a little bit.
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I have done it all. New sim pulled sim and all different radios.
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I have done it all. New sim pulled sim and all different radios.
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You don't get data drops on other builds? Have you checked the gold tabs under your battery door and bald sure they aren't damaged? Maybe check to see if they are making good contact too.
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Dark Jedi said:
Any liquid based ics rom is plagued with data drops.
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Ugh. That's not good. SkyRaider has been rock solid on data. The only thing I've really run into is it seems flashing my apps with app2zip only works on some things. I end up having to re-flash Kindle, Lookout, and a few other apps once I'm up and running again.
I was really looking forward to ICS but not if data drops are the norm.
Well I have been using these builds and now my LTE is is completely broke. I have the 4glte icon and called customer care and they said my network is fine. Now I might have to send my T-Mobile S5 in for repair. I have been working on it for 8 hour doing factory resets and unrooting
And nothings bringing it back . I installed all the 5.0 builds exactly how op said to and didn't do any mods of any kind. Hope this isn't going to happen to more folks who are using unofficial 5.0 releases.
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Well I have been using these builds and now my LTE is is completely broke. I have the 4glte icon and called customer care and they said my network is fine. Now I might have to send my T-Mobile S5 in for repair. I have been working on it for 8 hour doing factory resets and unrooting
And nothings bringing it back . I installed all the 5.0 builds exactly how op said to and didn't do any mods of any kind. Hope this isn't going to happen to more folks who are using unofficial 5.0 releases.
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I have ran my international rom and restored my backup and found this to be a issue.
Upon restoring I have 5 bars...but, no icons what so ever. I rebooted and all returned to normal.
As for you.....when you unrooted did you Odin back to stock? LTE is tied to the bootloader, not the modem.
This is the main reason I'm not building 5.0 until T-Mobile drops our official firmware.
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I have ran my international rom and restored my backup and found this to be a issue.
Upon restoring I have 5 bars...but, no icons what so ever. I rebooted and all returned to normal.
As for you.....when you unrooted did you Odin back to stock? LTE is tied to the bootloader, not the modem.
This is the main reason I'm not building 5.0 until T-Mobile drops our official firmware.
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Yes I odin back to stock. Out of box stock and didn't root for a while just to let it settle. I have the icon for 4glte but I'm only getting 2g and edge speeds. I went driving around even went to T-Mobile store where I no they get 4glte and nothing the sales person at T-Mobile was confused as well. He thinks its shot as well. I'm going to mess with it for a couple of more days to see what happens cause I don't want a refurbashed phone that I paid 690 bucks for. If it don't get fixed I'm just going to make the jump.
P.S You all be careful with those TW LP unofficial roms. I should have waited for the official build from T-Mobile. Just saying. Don't get me wrong the devs did great work but I don't think they're even aware of this. I didn't want to post in there threads and make them up set. And really I don't know which one actually broke it. There like 4 of them I tried. I use WiFi most the time I should have been more wise
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P.S You all be careful with those TW LP unofficial roms. I should have waited for the official build from T-Mobile.
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Makes me wonder whether or not you got a funky modem in all your testing, and it's stuck. Sometimes it can be crazy hard to get a modem to stick when upgrading. No telling what might be happening when downgrading. Sorry about your issues but thanks for the heads up.
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Makes me wonder whether or not you got a funky modem in all your testing, and it's stuck. Sometimes it can be crazy hard to get a modem to stick when upgrading. No telling what might be happening when downgrading. Sorry about your issues but thanks for the heads up.
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Yeah I'm thinking the same thing. Between all the back and forth from 5.0 to 4.4.2 and just 5.0 to 5.0. And international back to regular T-Mobile. I'm thinking something was corrupted or just plain fried . I went completely back to the latest bootloader K2 and modem and the LTE is just gone. But like I said I still get the 4glte icons in status bar and it all looks good but then when I run test speed test and other test it shows I'm only running at 2g or even edge speeds its super slow and I've even rerooted and tried other custom Roms from 4.4.2 that worked great before I started messing around with these unofficial TW LP 5.0 Roms. Its very odd for sure I see myself having to go ahead and do the jump but hey I'm not mad at anyone one of those devs that ported these tw 5.0 Roms over to our SM-G900T's they always tell us to flash at own risk and besides I think I'm ready to move on from s5 at this point anyways time to move to a new territory.. Lol
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Has anyone tried to flash back to the software that the phone shipped with from release then to the newest?
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Has anyone tried to flash back to the software that the phone shipped with from release then to the newest?
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I have ran my international rom, reverted to my backup several times with no issues besides having to reboot after it restores to make LTE pop on.
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I have ran my international rom, reverted to my backup several times with no issues besides having to reboot after it restores to make LTE pop on.
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Yes I have used yours as well @The Sickness. But I think your was the latest KitKat NH5 ROM and I'm actually back to it now I've never had any issues with you ROM. It just seems that the LP 5.0 ported Roms that are actually international are the one that gave me this issue. Its been two days now and still LTE is non existent. Im going to hold off till wensday and try a few more things to see if I can get this worked out. If not then that's why I have the jump deal I'll just have to either send it in for repair or just jump to another device.
I could just wait for the actual release of the 5.0 firmware for SM-G900T and try that and maybe by some miracle that will solve the LTE issue.
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I have ran my international rom and restored my backup and found this to be a issue.
Upon restoring I have 5 bars...but, no icons what so ever. I rebooted and all returned to normal.
As for you.....when you unrooted did you Odin back to stock? LTE is tied to the bootloader, not the modem.
This is the main reason I'm not building 5.0 until T-Mobile drops our official firmware.
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I will definitely try your lollipop build when we get our update that's for sure. That's if I still have this phone by the time we get the update. Your builds are flawless..
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After using one of the 5.0 ports, I tried to nandroid back. This resulted in a full system force-close. I was able to install a CM11 ROM (no gapps, skip set up) because this is how I've fixed this force-close issue before. I restored nandroid again (NK2 rooted), still had a full system force close. So I then used Odin (yuck had to boot into windows, I wish they would fix heimdall for Linux), and that did fix my system force-close. What's more, since the NK2 tar does not wipe any data, my phone was just like before I started this whole exercise. EXCEPT I had no LTE or WiFi. What fixed it was I odined back to NK2, once Odin was done I pulled the battery and factory reset (do not auto-reboot). The new Odin tars don't wipe data like the old days with the S2/3/4. After the factory reset I noticed that I still didn't seem to have a good LTE or WiFi signal, but I had to drive home. I did not log in to my Google account and set the phone up, i just got in my car and split. On that 40 minute drive home, I noticed LTE kick in. I tested it by loading a random YouTube video. The video loaded up quick and with good quality, so I knew I had LTE. When I got home I connected to my WiFi, the signal seemed normal. At that point I decided to Odin CF Autoroot and TWRP. Once I did that I was able to restore my nandroid that I had made that morning, and luckily it worked perfectly and the LTE and WiFi have been great since. I don't know if you've tried this, but if you haven't, I hope it works for you.
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Well I have been using these builds and now my LTE is is completely broke. I have the 4glte icon and called customer care and they said my network is fine. Now I might have to send my T-Mobile S5 in for repair. I have been working on it for 8 hour doing factory resets and unrooting
And nothings bringing it back . I installed all the 5.0 builds exactly how op said to and didn't do any mods of any kind. Hope this isn't going to happen to more folks who are using unofficial 5.0 releases.
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I reverted back to my 4.4.2 backup. I do see 4glte and i even used txposed midoule lte only, but my speeds are as follow. Any fix yet ?
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I also had problems going back by nandroid from LP roms with the result in android crashes. Since I still keeps a rom on my phone just in case of issues like this and was able to get lte back and use titanium to extract my nandroid for all my saved data. I guess we just have to be a bit more patient or just invest into a nexus.
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Well I have been using these builds and now my LTE is is completely broke. I have the 4glte icon and called customer care and they said my network is fine. Now I might have to send my T-Mobile S5 in for repair. I have been working on it for 8 hour doing factory resets and unrooting
And nothings bringing it back . I installed all the 5.0 builds exactly how op said to and didn't do any mods of any kind. Hope this isn't going to happen to more folks who are using unofficial 5.0 releases.
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I tried the following: while back on 4.4.2 I reflashed NK2 bootloader and Modem vua Odin. When the phone restarted i ticked off Wifi and Wifi calling. Ran a speed test and got these results. I believe it may have something to do with wifi calling. You may have a better idea being a dev. Let me know how it goes.
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I reverted back to my 4.4.2 backup. I do see 4glte and i even used txposed midoule lte only, but my speeds are as follow. Any fix yet ?
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This looks about right. I'm was getting about the same speeds except my upload speed was about 1.54 appsolutely awful. I haven't gotten it fixed as of yet I'm busy with other things at the moment. My phone still works but as for getting at anything through data when I'm not able to use WiFi its about useless for that now. I'll keep you all updated. Also I will show a screen shot of my speeds later. I'm obviously back on KitKat stock ROM now . I'm staying the heck away from TW LP till we get an official build. If that ever happens..lol
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dzhowandai said:
I tried the following: while back on 4.4.2 I reflashed NK2 bootloader and Modem vua Odin. When the phone restarted i ticked off Wifi and Wifi calling. Ran a speed test and got these results. I believe it may have something to do with wifi calling. You may have a better idea being a dev. Let me know how it goes.
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Yes I aso tried flashing K2 bootloader modem the works and still no fix. I conplelty went back to stock NK2 everything with full factory reset and formating and still broke.. That was about the speeds I was getting before this nightmare started from my house . I will post a screen shot of my speeds.
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You've probably done this already, but just in case... Have you tried soft-bricking your device? Maybe factory reset and wipe system, don't install anything, then restart and let it bout loop for a few minutes, then Odin NK2? Have you tried installing CM11?
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You've probably done this already, but just in case... Have you tried soft-bricking your device? Maybe factory reset and wipe system, don't install anything, then restart and let it bout loop for a few minutes, then Odin NK2? Have you tried installing CM11?
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Yes I have done all of the above thanks though ,good suggestion.☺
Like I said earlier, I'm just going to hold off on trying to fix this, I've done just about everything I can think of to resolve this issue.
I'm just going to wait for official release of 5.0 and see if that resolves it. If not I'm going to go ahead and use my jump and upgrade to another device.
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I have installed a few of the international lollipop ROMS and have not had any issues with LTE that's weird that u guys are here is my speed test as u can see mine are normal