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i cannot even get to the homescreen...i tried flashing yay's .sbf file but still nothing...what file do i need to flash to go back to stock? or will that even fix it?
Yoi should post in that thread. More information would also be helful such as rooted or not etc.
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You'd have to have the stock SBF file to flash back to stock. I think Yay had it in one of his threads.
rooted, unlocked, and running homebase 2.1 with the 4.3 update when it started...now im on yay's newest .sbf update....still no change...i dont know how to do a hard reset without being able to access the settings menu on the phone...it doesnt even load to the home screen...just stays "contacting network"...i do have a signal..
TexasRebel said:
rooted, unlocked, and running homebase 2.1 with the 4.3 update when it started...now im on yay's newest .sbf update....still no change...i dont know how to do a hard reset without being able to access the settings menu on the phone...it doesnt even load to the home screen...just stays "contacting network"...i do have a signal..
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What recovery have you got now if you've flashed the latest sbf? Clockwork or stock?
If stock follow this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267740
If Clockwork recovery then get into it and clear all user data/factory reset
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SBF has not been working for myself and many other xda members... how can you use sbf to solve the problem if it won't work??? Has anyone successfully used it on the Photon? I am familiar with SBFing, but not on the photon... I know that it is the same, but it could be faulty sbf files... anyone have any tips?
The same problem
I have the same problem. I use my Photon in Russia with gsm sim card. At first everything was fine, the phone was looking Sprint's network for a long time, then gave an error that "can not be activated", and loaded on (works fine). But now, always looking for the network. And do nothing. Wipe and flashing other roms do not help.
Any ideas?
TexasRebel said:
rooted, unlocked, and running homebase 2.1 with the 4.3 update when it started...now im on yay's newest .sbf update....still no change...i dont know how to do a hard reset without being able to access the settings menu on the phone...it doesnt even load to the home screen...just stays "contacting network"...i do have a signal..
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did you manage to get this fixed? i have the same issue.
thanks
Nope...i flashed every sbf file i could find...just ended up flashing back to stock and re-locking the bootloader and taking it back to sprint and getting a replacement...not sure what caused it...
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Haven't had to problem since either...
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TexasRebel said:
Nope...i flashed every sbf file i could find...just ended up flashing back to stock and re-locking the bootloader and taking it back to sprint and getting a replacement...not sure what caused it...
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did you relock the bootloader in fastboot or by flashing the sbf file?
What file are you using to relock the bootloader via fastboot? The lock file is an sbf and has to been done via RSD.
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I figured out hot to get over contacting network... just power and vol down and select Boot-Android (no BP) this will boot you up with no modem, so activation fails, select airplane mode, restart.
When it restarts it will say that the handsfree activation cannot be done with airplane mode on, just hit ok and move on.
When you get into the homescreen just turn off airplane mode. so everything is on now. the last things i need are the settings to get this working with 3g now, because i can get voice and 4g to work.
If 3g doesn't authentificate you cannot update your profile, therefor no 3g data and if you start a profile update you will get into the same loop of Contacting Network...
Also in RSD Lite my phone has a nice field that says:
Phone Type: Engineering (0000000000000000000000000000).. check the attachement
xTMFxOffshore said:
What file are you using to relock the bootloader via fastboot? The lock file is an sbf and has to been done via RSD.
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well that my friend i am still working on... i might have something but i am not sure, especially that my phone is now modem bricked
Sweet deal Man. Let me know if you get it working. I wanna try something.
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xTMFxOffshore said:
Sweet deal Man. Let me know if you get it working. I wanna try something.
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At this point, let me know what you wanna try i am about to trow this phone away. lol
If you can get the file to lock via fastboot I can see about keeping the oc kernel.
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afaik, in my case, the contacting network thing its a Sprint APK, I just rooted and deleted after the first boot.
I dont recall the exact name of the apk, sorry
pmcnano said:
afaik, in my case, the contacting network thing its a Sprint APK, I just rooted and deleted after the first boot.
I dont recall the exact name of the apk, sorry
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that's not the issue. the issues is that it isn't authentication with the 3g, 4g works, voice works.
I need to make it authentificate with the network so i can update the profile and PRL. My PRL is 51079.
Can anyone post the 51082 prl. I want to see if that does anything.
I hate to do this but a real fix is to call sprint and ask for
Msl
Esn
Min
data profile username and password
Then go to dialer
type ##data#
Edit accordingly
Reboot
update msl
Update profile
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I tried to set my photon up for GSM while i used a nexus s 4g... now i didn't know how SLOW the nexus was compared to the photon so now i'm trying to make the photon my primary again. I flashed the KDDI radio but never even got it to work with any of my sim cards (never got any phone service) but it always recognized the different carriers i tried out. Now i tried to SBF back to stock to retain my service but that was a no go and i tried RSD'n 3 times -__- now i'm not sure what to try out
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I tried to set my photon up for GSM while i used a nexus s 4g... now i didn't know how SLOW the nexus was compared to the photon so now i'm trying to make the photon my primary again. I flashed the KDDI radio but never even got it to work with any of my sim cards (never got any phone service) but it always recognized the different carriers i tried out. Now i tried to SBF back to stock to retain my service but that was a no go and i tried RSD'n 3 times -__- now i'm not sure what to try out
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What error did you get when you tried to RSD back to stock? What version of software is in the phone?
jami1 said:
What error did you get when you tried to RSD back to stock? What version of software is in the phone?
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im not getting any error.. i'm able to sbf its just the radio is sticking to the kddi one. I'm using 2.3.4
Have you tried factory reset from the stock recovery? When you get to the screen with the triangle and the Android guy, hit vol up and down and a menu will pop up. Factory reset from there and re flash the sbf
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bullfrog527 said:
Have you tried factory reset from the stock recovery? When you get to the screen with the triangle and the Android guy, hit vol up and down and a menu will pop up. Factory reset from there and re flash the sbf
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I tried that . I found a solution . Since it seemed the radio wasn't getting overwritten I flashed peetrs SV1 198_7 radio and I'm back in business!
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Jaemostoriginal said:
I tried to set my photon up for GSM while i used a nexus s 4g... now i didn't know how SLOW the nexus was compared to the photon so now i'm trying to make the photon my primary again. I flashed the KDDI radio but never even got it to work with any of my sim cards (never got any phone service) but it always recognized the different carriers i tried out. Now i tried to SBF back to stock to retain my service but that was a no go and i tried RSD'n 3 times -__- now i'm not sure what to try out
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do u said u have stock sbf for photon kddi ? if u have it, please give me a link where to download it, im so desperate searching but nothing help
knjng said:
do u said u have stock sbf for photon kddi ? if u have it, please give me a link where to download it, im so desperate searching but nothing help
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there is no sbf for kddi.
As I've learned, custom ROMs don't traditionally come with radios so, flashing them (meaning the custom ROMs) won't affect whatever radio is currently on the device - you have to do it manually to upgrade/downgrade if that's the intention.
Where can i find the sv1 198_7 radio from peetrs
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After rooting my phone I flashed a few roms and not being happy with them, I decided to flash back to stock. I downloaded a stock rom (from the faq.
Everything seems to be working except I cannot connect to 4G. Where I life has 4g and befor I started flashing it I had no issues connecting to the network. I am able to use 3G, texting and am able to make calls.
Any Ideas?
Jedite83
What all did you do starting from actually rooting your phone?
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
prairiedogn said:
What all did you do starting from actually rooting your phone?
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
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1. I rooted the phone following these directions. However I did not make a back up (have rooted several phones before and never needed it.)
2.i flashed CM10 and it's boot.img to the phone. (cm-10.1-20130304-EXPERIMENTAL-fireball-M2.zip). I got the rom from the CM site.
At this point 4g was still working. However I was unable to send pictures via SMS.
3. A friend of mine who says he knows about phones susgested that I call *228 and update roaming (option 2 when called).
I did and 4G stopped working. This also did not fix the picture problem.
4. I flashed viperLTE and its boot.img to my phone. Picture texting worked but still no 4g.
5. I flashed this stock rom and boot.ing to the phone.
Still no 4g.
Between each flash I wiped the cache, d. cache, system and factory reset.
I think that is everything. If I think of anything else I ill edit this post.
Thank you everyone,
Jedite83
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3 . A friend of mine who says he knows about phones susgested that I call *228 and update roaming (option 2 when called).
I did and 4G stopped working. This also did not fix the picture problem.
Calling *228 from a 4G phone with a sim card can fry the sim card and it sounds like that could be what happened here.
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Jedite83 said:
1. I rooted the phone following these directions. However I did not make a back up (have rooted several phones before and never needed it.)
2.i flashed CM10 and it's boot.img to the phone. (cm-10.1-20130304-EXPERIMENTAL-fireball-M2.zip). I got the rom from the CM site.
At this point 4g was still working. However I was unable to send pictures via SMS.
3. A friend of mine who says he knows about phones susgested that I call *228 and update roaming (option 2 when called).
I did and 4G stopped working. This also did not fix the picture problem.
4. I flashed viperLTE and its boot.img to my phone. Picture texting worked but still no 4g.
5. I flashed this stock rom and boot.ing to the phone.
Still no 4g.
Between each flash I wiped the cache, d. cache, system and factory reset.
I think that is everything. If I think of anything else I ill edit this post.
Thank you everyone,
Jedite83
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look in settings and see what your preferred network is set at and in about phone to see if it says lte13, as far as cm10.1 -- when your mms didn't work all you had to do was was dalvic cache in recovery and mms would have worked. read the op in development for cm10 releases for the work arounds on some bugs it's all there
you may have borked your radio don't know, theres direction there to do that to(repair radio)
Aldo101t said:
look in settings and see what your preferred network is set at and in about phone to see if it says lte13
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'LTE/CDMA' is selected.
prairiedogn said:
Calling *228 from a 4G phone with a sim card can fry the sim card and it sounds like that could be what happened here.
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Is there a way to test this?
You may need to run the ruu package to get your radio working again. The stock and cm10 rils can sometimes get screwed up flashing between the 2. You can find the ruu on unlimited's site. Which can be found in the s off thread in development.
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Jedite83 said:
3 . A friend of mine who says he knows about phones susgested that I call *228 and update roaming (option 2 when called).
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Your friend does not know about phones. Consider ignoring his future advice. Post 2 of the CyanogenMod thread is likely relevant to you. Did you bother reading the whole first post as is clearly noted?
prairiedogn said:
Calling *228 from a 4G phone with a sim card can fry the sim card and it sounds like that could be what happened here.
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Calling *228 will not "fry" the SIM card in this phone, but does not serve any purpose for phones with SIM cards.
MJL99 said:
You may need to run the ruu package to get your radio working again. The stock and cm10 rils can sometimes get screwed up flashing between the 2. You can find the ruu on unlimited's site. Which can be found in the s off thread in development.
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Please don't unnecessarily recommend running the RUU. In fact if the radio did stop functioning from using CM, the RUU has nothing to do with the recovery process. It's the factory reset feature which restores the correct settings in the radio's NV memory.
I was able to get another sim (attached to a different account) and it gave me 4G. I called Verizon and they refreshed something and that seems to have fixed it. They are sending me a new sim card anyway.
Thanks for the help.
Jedite83
mdmower said:
Please don't unnecessarily recommend running the RUU. In fact if the radio did stop functioning from using CM, the RUU has nothing to do with the recovery process. It's the factory reset feature which restores the correct settings in the radio's NV memory.
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You're right, I misspoke. I was under the impression that a file from the ruu was needed to return to stock ril. Sorry about the confusion.
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I think I killed my 4g. I don't know how it is just gone. I have had my phone rooted since I got the thing as soon as it came out. I have been on the Viper ROM for the majority of that time now. The other night I was here reading the forums. It was something about wallpapers that I had to flash. I downloaded and flashed. The flash failed, and my phone never booted up. I was unlocked and had S-OFF as well. It would just get stuck on the HTC screen. I first did a factory reset and wipe of it all. Nothing resolved, but I did have TWRP, so I could still get into that each time after. Since I did have that, I was able to sideload Viper again, but I never got 4g. Well, I finally have relocked my phone, RUU'ed it back to stock, and I still don't get 4g. And I know it shouldn't be a sim card issue, as the same one works in my Nexus, still in love with it, with 4g. Does anyone have any ideas of how Icould possibly get 4g back. I need it!!!
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I think I killed my 4g. I don't know how it is just gone. I have had my phone rooted since I got the thing as soon as it came out. I have been on the Viper ROM for the majority of that time now. The other night I was here reading the forums. It was something about wallpapers that I had to flash. I downloaded and flashed. The flash failed, and my phone never booted up. I was unlocked and had S-OFF as well. It would just get stuck on the HTC screen. I first did a factory reset and wipe of it all. Nothing resolved, but I did have TWRP, so I could still get into that each time after. Since I did have that, I was able to sideload Viper again, but I never got 4g. Well, I finally have relocked my phone, RUU'ed it back to stock, and I still don't get 4g. And I know it shouldn't be a sim card issue, as the same one works in my Nexus, still in love with it, with 4g. Does anyone have any ideas of how Icould possibly get 4g back. I need it!!!
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Just flash radios
axeldiks1 said:
Just flash radios
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When I did use RUU, did it not flash a radio that should have bought 4g back. I am going to be doing that as my next step, but I thought my radios would be fine by now. I hope that helps me.
subhelix said:
When I did use RUU, did it not flash a radio that should have bought 4g back. I am going to be doing that as my next step, but I thought my radios would be fine by now. I hope that helps me.
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I hope it helps power down remove your SIM card insert back flash a Rom of your choise , radio . Do not forget usual stuff factory reset cache dalvik system then when your are in system change to lte mode
Do factory reset from setting. Make sure ur still on stock ruu and stock recovery
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MicroMod777 said:
Do factory reset from setting. Make sure ur still on stock ruu and stock recovery
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I got back into 4g from the hidden programming menu. Had to switch to lte only and get great 4g... When I switch to anything but, it always reverts back to 3g. Have done factory resets from pure stock. Flashed a new Rom, radios, done what I can think to do. I'm baffled. Anymore ideas?
Thanks
So, I used Moonshine to unlock and root the VZW Droid DNA, and after it was all said and done, I installed CM11 with the KK Gapps.
Normally, I don't have an issue with this kind of thing, but I could call and text after for approximately two hours, then it just stopped.
I now can't text at all, and when I call, it says something about needing to go to an external operator on VZW's service,
but what gets me is that I still have LTE, I still have data, I can browse the internet, I just can't call or text. I'm baffled.
In settings, in about phone, it says it's connected to service, it isn't roaming, it has all connectivity and even shows me my number.
Why could this be? I really need this phone to have service. Thanks to all who help!
Have you tried it on stock to see if it does the same Thing.
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Same issue
thayl0 said:
Have you tried it on stock to see if it does the same Thing.
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I am having the same issue as him but i can still receive both calls and texts. This issue seems to be occurring on both stock and custom roms and it started after i updated to the cm 11 snapshot.
Ironclad6 said:
I am having the same issue as him but i can still receive both calls and texts. This issue seems to be occurring on both stock and custom roms and it started after i updated to the cm 11 snapshot.
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Have you tried flashing a different radio
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Same issue here. All data works via LTE (status bar icon turns blue) but without SMS or phone ability. Traveling on business this week I noticed poor connectivity and ran the *228 #2 option to update my roaming coverage. I thought that was the cause, but it may not be if others are experiencing the same. I can reach Verizon activation if I switch CDMA mode to automatic (goes to roaming) but activation cannot complete. Seems like we need reprogramming for some reason but I doubt Verizon will want to assist us with customized software.
Wise people of XDA, please help/advise us confused souls.
Verizon DNA, Moonshine, TWRP beta, CM11 (no difference with stable CM10.2.1).
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Phibernaut said:
Same issue here. All data works via LTE (status bar icon turns blue) but without SMS or phone ability. Traveling on business this week I noticed poor connectivity and ran the *228 #2 option to update my roaming coverage. I thought that was the cause, but it may not be if others are experiencing the same. I can reach Verizon activation if I switch CDMA mode to automatic (goes to roaming) but activation cannot complete. Seems like we need reprogramming for some reason but I doubt Verizon will want to assist us with customized software.
Wise people of XDA, please help/advise us confused souls.
Verizon DNA, Moonshine, TWRP beta, CM11 (no difference with stable CM10.2.1).
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This is for 1.15
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8627edlqwbwrfsf/PL83IMG+-+1.15+Recovery.zip
This is for 3.0.6
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319195733
Try***
Backup your internal storage.
Copy to pc.
Flash stock based Rom.
Flash Stock Recovery***.
Perform a
factory reset from settings or recovery.
This will wipe everything and restore the radio partition.
Flash back a custom recovery and Rom.
Copy sd contents back to device.
thanks to Santod
other way RUU*...
finanandroid said:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8627edlqwbwrfsf/PL83IMG+-+1.15+Recovery.zip
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Backup your internal storage.
Copy to pc.
Flash stock based Rom.
Flash Stock Recovery***.
Perform a
factory reset from settings or recovery.
This will wipe everything and restore the radio partition.
Flash back a custom recovery and Rom.
Copy sd contents back to device.
other way RUU*...
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This is the same method I used to get mine working again.
Something happened to my radio partition, it was showing my phone number as 000-000-0000 and would not recognize the SIM. Too many ROM flashes. Hahaha. This will rebuild all the factory partitions.
Worked like a champ for me.
sdamark said:
This is the same method I used to get mine working again.
Something happened to my radio partition, it was showing my phone number as 000-000-0000 and would not recognize the SIM. Too many ROM flashes. Hahaha. This will rebuild all the factory partitions.
Worked like a champ for me.
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Yup! I saw this like a cool alternative, instead go to full Ruu route
I'm sure this is a silly question I'll find the answer to immediately after I hit "Submit", but... I've found the Sense 5 deodexed ROM mentioned in similar threads but how do I know which recovery download to use? 1.15 or 3.06?
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I'm sure this is a silly question I'll find the answer to immediately after I hit "Submit", but... I've found the Sense 5 deodexed ROM mentioned in similar threads but how do I know which recovery download to use? 1.15 or 3.06?
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1.15 is Stock HTC Sense 4.1 as droid dna came from factory (jelly Bean 4.1.1)
3.0.6 is Stock Htc sense 5 is the new Vzw Ota (jelly bean 4.2.2)
Scratching my head. Nothing sees the phone via ADB though the drivers and software appear correct. I'm able to flash TWRP through Flashify and Flash Image GUI but it doesn't seem to like any of the recovery options above. Selecting Recovery from the Moonshine HBOOT screen brings me (eventually) to a red "!" triangle over a phone. I have the option to reset through Sense 5 settings or Moonshine, but my guess is that just makes things worse/does nothing without the correct recovery. Any ideas?
EDIT: Small gains - computer sees the phone if I reinstall CM10.2.1. Not that it fixes much...
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Scratching my head. Nothing sees the phone via ADB though the drivers and software appear correct. I'm able to flash TWRP through Flashify and Flash Image GUI but it doesn't seem to like any of the recovery options above. Selecting Recovery from the Moonshine HBOOT screen brings me (eventually) to a red "!" triangle over a phone. I have the option to reset through Sense 5 settings or Moonshine, but my guess is that just makes things worse/does nothing without the correct recovery. Any ideas?
EDIT: Small gains - computer sees the phone if I reinstall CM10.2.1. Not that it fixes much...
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a red "!" triangle over a phone, its stock recovery, reboot and go to setting and perform Phone Reset.
Phibernaut said:
Scratching my head. Nothing sees the phone via ADB though the drivers and software appear correct. I'm able to flash TWRP through Flashify and Flash Image GUI but it doesn't seem to like any of the recovery options above. Selecting Recovery from the Moonshine HBOOT screen brings me (eventually) to a red "!" triangle over a phone. I have the option to reset through Sense 5 settings or Moonshine, but my guess is that just makes things worse/does nothing without the correct recovery. Any ideas?
EDIT: Small gains - computer sees the phone if I reinstall CM10.2.1. Not that it fixes much...
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NVM
Similar "!" images indicated recovery issues on my old Droid 3. Here they're a good thing and I'm back in action after using the steps discussed. Thanks all!
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After a day or two of use I have lost LTE and a second reset has not brought it back. I have had past sporadic SIM card error messages upon boot of fresh CM installs but assumed it was normal. Connectivity would eventually resume but I'd nudge the card tray anyway. 3G seems strong & solid - thoughts/suggestions?
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