Aloha Folks-
New here and am thankful for this forum. I recently bought an EVO 4g off of a gentleman. It is rooted with CM7 on it.

I tried to activated the phone with Sprint but to no avail. Finally, the seller instructed me to get a Sprint ROM from media fire and flash the ROM with it.

He gave me instructions and said to make sure I made a backup of the current system on the phone so that after I put on this Sprint ROM just to activate the phone, I could go back to this Cyanogenmod7. So, I followed the instructions and everything went well, have the backup on both my computer and on the microSD card in the phone. Sprint was able to activate the phone and now it is working for my wife.

So, I tried to reboot by holding down the power button and volume- at the same time as I have been recently taught to do. Unfortunately, I cannot get back to that screen with green lettering that would allow me to "restore" the CM7 using the nandroid backup I made earlier.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I get back into ClockWorkMod (CWM) recovery so that I can restore using the CM7 ROM?

Hope that all made sense and look forward to all of yours valuable advice.
Thank you very much.
Mahalo!

 

Aloha Mike!
Thank you so much! I was not able to find the "fast boot" option in the Sprint ROM so I did your other suggestion of just pulling the battery, even though the phone was on. I counted the seconds and did just like you advised and boom! I was back to that "hboot-screen" and able to restore back to CM7!

Thank you again so much, now my wife has to learn-pick&choose what apps she would like. I do think we should have essential ones that help with the operation of the phone, manage ROMs if we ever have to put it back to the Sprint ROM. I am sure on this forum there are links or suggestions as to what might be good.

I also heard there are "kernals" that help with the power consumption, so we get better battery life. And is there a "tethering" app that allows our phone to become a wifi hotspot without being charged for it?

Again, thank you for your help. Much appreciated.
Mahalo!

 

Aloha Rxpert83- Thank you very much for your suggestions as I hope to get this onto my wife's phone. Is the hot spot app one that is found in the "market" as they say? I feel overwhelmed sometimes seeing how many apps there are out there but hope to pin point this one down that you mentioned.

Also, we noticed when someone calls the phone if we missed the call and it goes to voice mail, it is not what it used to be using Sprint. It registers under an SMS message instead of the Sprint Voice Mail service. Is this something that needs to be fixed on Sprints' side or is this something that can be fixed within CyanogenMod7 so that we can access our voicemails? Thanks again for all your help!
Mahalo!
PS: I believe you when you say that folks here can help the phone not only last longer but also perform much better too!

 

Aloha Ocnbrze-
Thank you for your info! Will be using it. Also, for some reason we had to re-setup my wife's voice mail with Sprint but at least it works better now.

We were also trying to use GPS with our EVO. Of course with Sprint's ROM there is something for this. Since we are now using CM7 is there an app specifically that we can use or search for one of many? Sprint told us that we have unlimited use for GPS services so we thought we would put that to use. Any suggestions much appreciated.

Also trying to get the wifi app put onto this phone so we can create a hotspot and not be charged by Sprint for this service!

Thanks again for all your help and everyone on this forum!
Mahalo!

 

Aloha Rxpert-
Thank you for your reply. The phone came with CM7 and I believe Savage for the Kernal. We then flashed it back to a Sprint ROM in order to activate it with Sprint, then I used my Nandroid backup file to put it back to CM7. I am new to this. Having said that, I do like the CM7 system better than the Sprint one! But I am open to trying other ROMs too. The MikG sounds interesting too, I will read up on it and see the pros and cons of it compared to CM7.

It sounds like CM7 is very customizable but that means you the user have to do a lot of tweeking.

Voice mail is working but we get 2 messages telling us we have a voice mail: 1 from Sprint and 1 from "android." So, I hope to fix it so that we only get 1 message from Sprint. Sometimes it also tells us to call a number to hear the message but we are not doing that, instead contacting Sprint like we would to hear them messages. Hope to fix that.

I will work on the GPS fix that you gave us. As well as to see about the hotspot.

Are both CM7 and MikG stable, durable, reliable? Curious if the main advantage to MikG is just that more things are included in its system so the user does not have to do as much work?

Thank you again for your help and advice!
Mahalo!

 

Aloha MizzouBrent, Ocnbrze & Rxpert83-

I hope you can help us out with another "symptom," the phone "froze" and my wife said in about 5 minutes she was able to get it working again. She also received a message about the current kernal on her phone, SavagedZen, being enabled. Plus a lot of her battery life had gone down. I was away at the time so she read on the net that some folks have had problems with SavagedZen draining power. So she disabled it. I do not know what this does to the phone.

But I noticed in one of the earlier posts by Rxpert83 that you mentioned this kernal:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63060876/Tiamat_Evo-v3.3.7-sbc.zip

Would the install of this be more stable and drain less power? Do I need to erase SavagedZen before I begin or just download the above zip file to my computer then I can move it over to the microSD card in the HTC? And when you say "flash" still getting used to all the terms, would I pick in the hboot menu - ClockWorkMod Recovery "restore" or something else to install the Tiamat kernal?

Once installed would Tiamat kernal be enabled?

Sorry for the newbie questions. I hope possibly with installing this kernal and using it instead of the SavagedZen that the battery life will increase, the phone will still be durable and the freezing up of the phone will go away.

Thank you all for your help and advice.
Mahalo!

PS: The phone "froze" again. This time it was in sleep mode maybe? The screen was blacked out and when my wife pressed the power button on the top of the phone it did not "wake" it up. But the keys on the front of the phone lit up. Is there another fix or setting that needs to be done. Or, by changing out and enabling a new kernal, would that fix it? Thanks again!

 

Aloha MizzouBrent, Ocnbrze & Rxpert83-

Thank you again. For some reason the phone is still having unique problems:

We put in a different battery last night and plugged it in to charge. This morning my wife unplugged it turned it on and set it to the side. At some point it started to re-boot then she said the screen was blank and nothing. She tried pressing the top power button and nothing. So, I pulled the battery, waited 10sec then put it back in and was able to turn it back on.

Couple of things to note: Have not yet installed the new kernal, and the old one SavageZen has been disabled.

Couple of questions:

Could this be a hardware issue: My wife was reading on some blogs that many folks have had this issue and believe it to be a hardware problem. If that is the case, is is something like bad batteries or just that the phone is on the way out?

Could this be a software issue: I received the phone rooted with CM7 but had to put it back to a Sprint Rom in order to activate it. The phone has ClockWorkMod on it and I used to to make a nandroid backup of the CM7 that was on the phone before I put on the Sprint Rom. Could something have happened in this process?

We love the phone, I just hope it can be stabilized for use.
Mahalo
PS: my wife said the phone wanted to do some updates like Google Play and she did not accept it. Are there updates that are Ok to accept? She was not sure which ones.

 

Aloha MizzouBrent-

Ok! I will first install the new kernal Tiamat 3.3.7 like you advise. Then I will install Amon RA 2.3 as you advise.

After that, I will have Amon RA wipe clean our system except for the microSD card in the phone which will either have CM7 or MikG or both loaded onto it. So after the new kernal is installed and Amon RA has done its job, then I can install the ROM of my choice.

I know before under ClockWorkMod I made a nandroid backup of my system which I used to "restore" after Sprint activated the phone. But this time under Amon RA I am not restoring but installing a clean copy of either CM7 or MikG.

By the way, if I use CM7 do I need to install this first too:
gapps-gb-20110828-newtalk-signed.zip (gingerbread gapps 8-28-11)

Or can I install it after I flash CM7? I just want to make sure I follow the process. Thank you again.
Mahalo!

ps; Rxpert & dustwun thank you for the info in regard to the updates and what we should accept and what not to accept (sounds like anything from Sprint!).

 

Aloha MizzouBrent-

I should mention that mother is a Mizzou Tiger, I hope I am assuming that correctly?

Alright, I flashed the phone with Amon Ra 2.3 I then wiped everything except for SDcard, SDcard android and maybe SDcard ext. I think I was worried that any of those selections might wipe out the data on the card, also this was the first time to use Amon Ra, menu looked a little different then ClockWorkMod.

I did wipe the cache and dalvic 3 times just to be sure. Then on the same "recovery" session I flashed CM7.1, the 8282011 gingerbread gapps file and last but not least, the Tiamat 3.3.7 kernal. Then rebooted.

Not sure if I did everything right, in that phone did not ask for me to sign in after rebooting. Maybe I did not wipe something I was supposed to?

Also CM7 asked if it could enable statistics, was not sure if we should have allowed that?

If things are stable, then I think I can flash the phone with the Sprint Voice Mail fix-file stated above as well as the Sprint GPS fix-file above too.

Want to thank all of you for your help. Now we see how it goes.
Mahalo

ps: I never had a stock backup, phone came with CM7 on it. But seller sent me a file, Stock Sprint ROM that I have kept just in case I need to put it back onto the phone for any reason.