OK Im out of ideas. Ive searched threads high and low, googled, etc. I am trying to update to a ROM post-ICS (though Ive had the issue in ICS roms too. I cannot get my GPS signal to lock to my location without enabling Wifi. Im rooted, S-On 4EXT recovery. Tried using Energy, CM10, Kang CM 4.1.2, Fourth Bar Infusion, Speed Rom, CM9.... Done complete wipes of boot, system, data, cache, and dalvik between every flash.
I have tried multiple multiple different roms. Gone back to unrooted and reloaded the stock ICS rom (which GPS did lock), then rooted and flashed a rom again and bam no more gps. So somehow the GPS works, but as soon as I load a different Rom it fails. Some roms Ive had fail when trying to register on the T-Mobile carrier network. Verified APN settings every time. Downloaded FasterFix to manually set the GPS pool, downloaded GPS status to reset and redownload GPS data also. Never has any luck in any of the roms.
Im out of ideas, I need GPS for my job. Only time Ive gotten GPS to lock since leaving ARHD3.0 was when I flashed back to unrooted stock ICS RUU. Please help!
Edit: I reformated all partitions, reformatted internal SD, relocked bootloader, reloaded stock ruu, and now gps wont lock there either. Guess Im going to the Tmo store tomorrow for a new phone.
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So, before I start this, Yes I was a noob. I didnt make a nandroid backup from when I first rooted my phone and everything worked 100%. I didnt read, and I guess its now biting me in the ass.
The past few months Ive been having issues with Wifi, it continuously says "Unable to scan for networks". I did a factory reset about a week and a half ago and for the first time my wifi was able to connect, however it was dropping out every couple minutes. Wouldnt even stay connected to install any market updates.
I figured that it was something with my dying router(Which Ive since replaced) so I flashed in BAMF to see if I could keep my wifi connection with another rom. Ive been using VirusROM(Love it even though its out od date). I wiped and flashed in BAMF, and restarted. When I restarted, I had no wifi again. Since then, Ive been trying out different ROMS and kernels in hopes that I would find something that would fix it. Nothing did.
After this I figured that I would just do another factory reset and go from there, however with all of the times Ive done the factory resets it never actually gets reset. Does it wipe my info? Yes, but it boots back up with all of the portions of whatever ROM I had installed last. Not reset. So now Ive ended up with two problems.
1. I still have no wifi
2. I cant factory reset so that I can figure out what is going on with my wifi.
Ive wiped Cache/Batt Stats/Davlick and done a factory reset literally six times in a row to hopefully clean EVERYTHING OUT to no avail. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I hope Im just missing something small because Im still new to android.
Edit: I DO NOT use kernel manager and I dont use ROM manager to flash it in, I flash everything in through recovery.
McLabia said:
So, before I start this, Yes I was a noob. I didnt make a nandroid backup from when I first rooted my phone and everything worked 100%. I didnt read, and I guess its now biting me in the ass.
The past few months Ive been having issues with Wifi, it continuously says "Unable to scan for networks". I did a factory reset about a week and a half ago and for the first time my wifi was able to connect, however it was dropping out every couple minutes. Wouldnt even stay connected to install any market updates.
I figured that it was something with my dying router(Which Ive since replaced) so I flashed in BAMF to see if I could keep my wifi connection with another rom. Ive been using VirusROM(Love it even though its out od date). I wiped and flashed in BAMF, and restarted. When I restarted, I had no wifi again. Since then, Ive been trying out different ROMS and kernels in hopes that I would find something that would fix it. Nothing did.
After this I figured that I would just do another factory reset and go from there, however with all of the times Ive done the factory resets it never actually gets reset. Does it wipe my info? Yes, but it boots back up with all of the portions of whatever ROM I had installed last. Not reset. So now Ive ended up with two problems.
1. I still have no wifi
2. I cant factory reset so that I can figure out what is going on with my wifi.
Ive wiped Cache/Batt Stats/Davlick and done a factory reset literally six times in a row to hopefully clean EVERYTHING OUT to no avail. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I hope Im just missing something small because Im still new to android.
Edit: I DO NOT use kernel manager and I flash everything in through recovery.
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I'm sure there's an RUU out there that will take your phone back to stock but I honestly doubt that's the issue here. What radio version are you using? Have you tried flashing different radios to see if that would fix it. You can find a list here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045081. Also what ROM are you currently on?
When you install a ROM, it modifies the /system directory which is responsible for everything, how the rom looks, included apps, drivers etc.
When you do a factory reset, I'm guessing through recovery, it is only clearing the /data and /cache partitions.
You will have to flash a stock RUU to get it to truly go back to the day you got it.
Here are instructions on how to return to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009423
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I'm sure there's an RUU out there that will take your phone back to stock but I honestly doubt that's the issue here. What radio version are you using? Have you tried flashing different radios to see if that would fix it. You can find a list here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045081. Also what ROM are you currently on?
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The ROM Ive been on hasnt mattered. Ive jumped through BAMF, the new Cubed Rom, the Deodexed stock debloat and Virus' Airborne(which is my daily driver). Ive done the different radios. I was on the v2 leaked for a while, then I switched to the new 3g and old 4g to see if its worked but it hasnt. I may have to try out the original one and see if that works, but I havent had wifi since before I flashed in the leaked radio when it came out.
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When you install a ROM, it modifies the /system directory which is responsible for everything, how the rom looks, included apps, drivers etc.
When you do a factory reset, I'm guessing through recovery, it is only clearing the /data and /cache partitions.
You will have to flash a stock RUU to get it to truly go back to the day you got it.
Here are instructions on how to return to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009423
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Gotcha. Trying this now. I will make sure to make a nandroid this time if it works. lol.
@isdnmatt: Thanks, that got rid of my recovery problem
Still having wifi issue though. 100% out of the box stock and I get the "Unable to scan for networks
**** me, I should have read that before I did it. Now I have to reroot. Goddamnit.
Have had the same problem with WiFi before and after ADB root. It will sometimes forget both my home and work networks. I've found the problem usually occurs when I'm connected then move put of range. A reboot fixes the problem sometimes. Other times I have to re-enter my settings. I'm still on the stock Rom, nothing custom.
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ILMF said:
Have had the same problem with WiFi before and after ADB root. It will sometimes forget both my home and work networks. I've found the problem usually occurs when I'm connected then move put of range. A reboot fixes the problem sometimes. Other times I have to re-enter my settings. I'm still on the stock Rom, nothing custom.
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Thats a separate issue than what Im having. Im not having issues with it forgetting my networks. I cant scan for networks.
I am thinking of downgrading the radio.
EDIT: after LOTS of research here, I upgraded to MR2 and Gingervitis. All of my WiFi issues are gone.
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ok, so i unlocked and rooted my rezound, everything was working 100%, then i start flashing diferent roms and it was conecting to wifi with no problems, however when i flashed ( or tried to flash ) a new kernel ( dont remember which one ) wifi stoped working for me, it scans but doesnt pick up any network. i went back to stock kernel and nothing, re-locked device and installed verizon factory Ruu for the rezound and Wifi still doesnt work. Im going crazy here please help, maybe im flashing the kernel wrong but re-locking and restoring to factory Ruu should have fixed it
I was also having the same issue and tried reinstalling kernals and nandroids. I was loading the kernal through Amon Ra interface directly and no matter what I did I still had issues. Sooo, I revised my recovery process and found that dummy me can't read instruction correctly. The issue was resolved after I did a factory reset on the rom (Ineffablis v1.0) then I followed the instructions for installing the kernal (I'm using the SmartassV2 kernal from dsb9938; flash from SD, then flashmethis file and finally through HBOOT, it's a process ok?), rebooted and I was able to get WiFi working again. I've had this issue whenever one of the additions I was trying did strange things to my phone and have sucessfully restored WiFi (about 10 times for this occurance). I've also had to do a hard reset (pulled the battery) and follow the process to get back to functioning. Hope this helps.
i locked the phone again, and ran the rezound stock Ruu and did factory reset, still not picking up any networks. the wifi doesnt give and error it scans and everything, but for some reason it just doesnt pickup any networks
If you read the complete directions when flashing a rom... They state you will need to flash the wifi module after a fresh install. So just flash the kernel over again and you will have wifi working.
Thanks a lot, finally got it working
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I'm having the same problem where my rezound won't find any networks. My bluetooth won't turn on either. How were you able to fix it?
thanks,
ron
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Hello All,
I'm not to this forum. I'm having a very strange issue. I had unlocked and flashed a scotts clean rom to my phone. This rom worked fine. It was the cleanrom standard 4.4. Everything worked fine, but I wanted to try something without sense. So I followed the instructions and ran scott's wipe program that wipes 5 times over. Then I did a wipe on the device. From there it got stuck in a loop where I would boot it into the hboot and it would try to load that weird PH89IMG file and then reboot and do the same thing.
Believe it or not I resolved this by removing the SD card then booting to recovery then slightly lifting the battery and inserting the sd card in and mounting so that I could load another rom after mounting it. Just to be safe I did perform one more wipe. I loaded the CLEANrom tapped edition. It installed and booted up just fine, only one problem. I cannot turn the wifi on.
So I cleared the cache and Dalvik cache, rebooted. still no wifi. It sits on turning on. The wifi mac address is obviously unavailable. It went to an error evetnaully, but there was no detail in it other than the word ERROR. I tried reloading the ICS kernel as well, still nothing. I didn't see anything in the forum on this issue, so I am not sure why it's isolated to my device. can you help me?
Thanks.
I know your tired of wiping and flashing but this has happened to me before on a previous Clean Rom version. Wipe then reinstall ROM. **Caution** Before you boot to Rom, boot to recovery and flash the kernel that came with the Rom. That cleared up my broken wifi. Also beware that if the Clean Rom tapped edition uses a different base ie. 3.14.605.05 or 3.14.605.10. then you have to flash the Stock Rooted RUU of 3.14.605.05 or 3.14.605.10 and then wipe and install ROM. link to stock RUU:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642217
I have had this issue with a couple newer ICS ROMS I have tried and it all seems to come down to reflashing the Kernel. Even after updating Nils' Roms to newer versions my rezound would load up fine and everything worked except wifi. If I went back into recovery and reflash the kernel wifi would be back to normal again. Make sure you have the correct kernel designated for that ROM as I have noticed some Kernels need to be redownloaded and reinstalled seperately. Good Luck
Hello,
I am having the same problem and I am on Rezound Pure GSM sense 3.6 rom.....I am confused whether to flash the wifi modules for the new kernel from the above link....I don't wanna take any risks as I finally got my GSM working on atnt.
Thanks!!
Hi. i own an HTC EVO V 4G (Virgin Mobile). i used the Search function but sadly didnt found exactly what i needed.
a month or so after activating the phone, i decided to Root, S-off, Flash Recovery, bootloader and a custom Rom. However, its been a while now, that when i do a fresh install i get some inconsistency problems. for example, my first Rom was Harmonia, but later on i switched to MidnightRom. there the problems started to show up. the Sense version was working fine, but then i wanted to try out the Jellybean version. and when i did (after wiping everything, of course) some apps were not working. PlayStore wouldnt let me download anything, Tethering was not working, when using "reboot" the phone would get in a bootloop, which would only go away by removing the battery. and 3D games (Shadowgun, Temple Run, etc.) were graphically laggy. more like, unplayable. the image was distorted to the point it was impossible to see what was going on. messed around with fixing permissions, deleting Cache and Dalvik, re-flashing, and the problem was still there. i tried with other Jellybean Roms (both 4.1 and 4.2) and noticed that the problems were still there. anyways, after deciding to live with the problems (running Wild For the Night). months later i decide to flash MidnightRom again and i see that all the problems are magically gone. to this day ive been running only 4.1+ Roms and i dont have many issues whatsoever. BUT. i tried a Senseless Stock-based Rom the other day (started to miss 3D camera) and it ran well, but the overall behavior of the phone was laggy. it would take longer than usual to do anything. took me about 5 re-flashes to get rid of all the problems. then just yesterday i tried a few other Roms. some worked, though DU was really laggy, and the icons would switch places by themselves at times. as i saw the problem was not going away with re-flashing, fixing permissions and whatnot, i decide to restore to my most stable Flashed Rom.
just to clarify, here is what i do every time im about to flash a new ROM:
Wipe everything except SD card
Wipe Cache and Dalvik
Flash.
Reboot
after i flashed, if something went wrong, or if im flashing something ontop:
Wipe Cache and Dalvik
Fix permissions
Reboot
so question is, is this normal? does this has to do with the phone switching from ICS to JB? or am i doing something wrong?
also, just curious... is there a way one could, say, by some weird reason be "half S-off"? because although my bootloader says S-Off, and i have been able to flash many things, i remember that when doing the Wire thing i experienced many errors, and the thing said it was successful by itself a few seconds later while i wasnt doing anything.
and also, which is the best and most stable Hboot version i could use?
My HBoot version is 1.04.2000 (PG8610000)
Radio is 1.09.00.0706
My Recovery is 4EXT latest version
Thanks in advance
So...I was on CM10.2 and decided to try out Carbon. I used the latest TWRP recovery, wiped everything, and installed. I then installed the custom gapps, then got careless and installed the other .zips on the custom gapps page. I wasn't paying attention and thought they were required.
I'm S-ON so I did the fastboot flash boot boot.img from the boot.img in the Carbon zip.
ROM worked great, though, I was at home and had the wifi connected. I guess I didn't realize that the mobile data wan't working.
I noticed it yesterday at work and thought it might be a ROM problem. So, followed the process above and installed the 4.3 version of LiquidSmooth, Paranoid, and finally Revolt.
I couldn't get my mobile data to come on to save my life.
So, I just relocked it and RUU'ed with rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip (I had used this once before and it worked, before re-unlocking and playing with various roms)
I make it through all of the setup...still no mobile. The notifications bar *shows* three bars, but, the Mobile Network entry in Settings says "Turning on"
I've even tried a factory reset...everything on the phone works except the mobile network.
Anything else I can try?
greenhead916 said:
So...I was on CM10.2 and decided to try out Carbon. I used the latest TWRP recovery, wiped everything, and installed. I then installed the custom gapps, then got careless and installed the other .zips on the custom gapps page. I wasn't paying attention and thought they were required.
I'm S-ON so I did the fastboot flash boot boot.img from the boot.img in the Carbon zip.
ROM worked great, though, I was at home and had the wifi connected. I guess I didn't realize that the mobile data wan't working.
I noticed it yesterday at work and thought it might be a ROM problem. So, followed the process above and installed the 4.3 version of LiquidSmooth, Paranoid, and finally Revolt.
I couldn't get my mobile data to come on to save my life.
So, I just relocked it and RUU'ed with rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip (I had used this once before and it worked, before re-unlocking and playing with various roms)
I make it through all of the setup...still no mobile. The notifications bar *shows* three bars, but, the Mobile Network entry in Settings says "Turning on"
I've even tried a factory reset...everything on the phone works except the mobile network.
Anything else I can try?
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check you sim card. i might be a goner. you can take it to vzw and they will issue a new card.
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if you are on the stock rom could try this. pull the sim out, boot the phone. it will give you a sim error. turn off the phone and place sim back in