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Incubus has posted a rooted version of the OTA in the Devolpment forums! That is all....
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but no 2.15.10.07.07 radio yet... i want it to get tested and found good...
mirrin said:
but no 2.15.10.07.07 radio yet... i want it to get tested and found good...
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The radios don't always mean better signal or faster 3G. They vary by location and phone... the leaked radio sucked for me and the 11.19 one seems best so far.
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And the leaked radio worked best for me, its gunna vary for everyone
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well i found 5.06 worked pretty well for me but i have been on most of them i only left it because people were saying it killed the wifi on their phones... as long as large numbers of reports of the same thing from 7.7 dont occur ill probably stay on that one...
Can someone who has flashed this try out the speech to text and see if it works properly?
Navigation or anything. Texting or anything. It some of the GB roms with the EVO framework and issues with speech to text.
Well this isn't the EVO GB Release. It's the actual Incredible release. But yes the speech to text does in fact work.
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Well this isn't the EVO GB Release. It's the actual Incredible release. But yes the speech to text does in fact work.
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I know. I'm currently on Joel's shooter rewind 3d and working voice search would be the only thing to tempt me off of it.
Sweet
First post on XDA here, I registered primarily to give props to Joel and Incubus.
I grabbed the rooted OTA Incubus posted and flashed it with Rom Manager. Took a lot of patience, but it went pretty smooth. Thanks to you both (and everyone else who had a hand in this).
My DInc is just about to go out of warranty, so I'm going to be trying some other ROMs pretty soon. I'm pretty much locked into the root/S-Off status now, and I'm happy with it that way. I think I'll be hanging on to this phone for some time.
So far I like this update, but I've had a few random reboots. One or two while I was re-installing some of my apps or moving them to the SD card, and at least one while it was just sitting there on the charger.
For the moment, I'm going on the assumption that this is just some early stuff working itself out. When flashing the ROM, I cleared the Dalvik cache, but didn't do a data wipe. Anyone have any idea if this is a problem?
Again, thanks a million guys!
( Oh, LOVE the noob video! )
keyslapper said:
First post on XDA here, I registered primarily to give props to Joel and Incubus.
I grabbed the rooted OTA Incubus posted and flashed it with Rom Manager. Took a lot of patience, but it went pretty smooth. Thanks to you both (and everyone else who had a hand in this).
My DInc is just about to go out of warranty, so I'm going to be trying some other ROMs pretty soon. I'm pretty much locked into the root/S-Off status now, and I'm happy with it that way. I think I'll be hanging on to this phone for some time.
So far I like this update, but I've had a few random reboots. One or two while I was re-installing some of my apps or moving them to the SD card, and at least one while it was just sitting there on the charger.
For the moment, I'm going on the assumption that this is just some early stuff working itself out. When flashing the ROM, I cleared the Dalvik cache, but didn't do a data wipe. Anyone have any idea if this is a problem?
Again, thanks a million guys!
( Oh, LOVE the noob video! )
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Well first off, welcome! And yes. You should ALWAYS wipe data, cache, and dalvik at the minimum. It ensures that you have a better experience without lag, freezing, FC's, etc.. You have to do the setup every time, but it's worht it and you get used to it. And most devs don't recommend using Rom manager since it's known to have some issues, you're best bet is to go install through your CWM recovery.
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Well this isn't the EVO GB Release. It's the actual Incredible release. But yes the speech to text does in fact work.
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I flashed it. Got in my car, sped up to 35 and tried a Voice Search. Like with the GB leak, google voice search throws up its hands and can't understand you.
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Well first off, welcome! And yes. You should ALWAYS wipe data, cache, and dalvik at the minimum. It ensures that you have a better experience without lag, freezing, FC's, etc.. You have to do the setup every time, but it's worht it and you get used to it. And most devs don't recommend using Rom manager since it's known to have some issues, you're best bet is to go install through your CWM recovery.
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Wow, seriously, ALL data? That means having to set up multiple mail accounts (GMail, private, work) and re-installing all my apps - well, Titanium at least.
Initially, I took over a month to get my phone just the way I liked it, and still wound up tweaking the hell out of the look and feel on a regular basis. Can application data backed up with Titanium be restored to get most of that back? Seems like it would take hours to get it back either way. I never found a thread on this, so I apologize if it is answered somewhere - I'd love to get a link to that thread if it is out there.
Now I think about it, this has been the biggest hurdle to my trying different ROMs. Screw the suits whining about how I use the services and devices I pay for, I just don't have the time to be messing with it that much.
Again, thanks for the info!
Cheers!
What did I do wrong? I DL'd the file in the thread, put it onto my SD card, then turned my phone off.
I rebooted into recovery (power and volume down button), chose update from .zip on SD card. Picked the file and let it update...
Now my phone will boot up and just stay stuck on the "Droid" screen. Any help?
was I supposed to rename the file or anything? Please help, my phone is stuck right now...
Install zip from sdcard not update... And u should of wiped data cache all that junk if u didn't do that
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What did I do wrong? I DL'd the file in the thread, put it onto my SD card, then turned my phone off.
I rebooted into recovery (power and volume down button), chose update from .zip on SD card. Picked the file and let it update...
Now my phone will boot up and just stay stuck on the "Droid" screen. Any help?
was I supposed to rename the file or anything? Please help, my phone is stuck right now...
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Did you wipe anything? You should do a full wipe (data/system/cache/dalvik/etc.) before flashing a new ROM.
Cant wait for a 2.3.4/3.0 sense Rom.
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Wow, seriously, ALL data? That means having to set up multiple mail accounts (GMail, private, work) and re-installing all my apps - well, Titanium at least.
Initially, I took over a month to get my phone just the way I liked it, and still wound up tweaking the hell out of the look and feel on a regular basis. Can application data backed up with Titanium be restored to get most of that back? Seems like it would take hours to get it back either way. I never found a thread on this, so I apologize if it is answered somewhere - I'd love to get a link to that thread if it is out there.
Now I think about it, this has been the biggest hurdle to my trying different ROMs. Screw the suits whining about how I use the services and devices I pay for, I just don't have the time to be messing with it that much.
Again, thanks for the info!
Cheers!
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You can back up app data, but it is strongly recommended that you don't back up system data. And yes it means starting all over, and I too was skeptical to start over when I first started flashing ROMs, but now it takes me about 15-20 minutes to setup everything again. But then again I only reinstall about 45 apps.
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BMWPower06 said:
What did I do wrong? I DL'd the file in the thread, put it onto my SD card, then turned my phone off.
I rebooted into recovery (power and volume down button), chose update from .zip on SD card. Picked the file and let it update...
Now my phone will boot up and just stay stuck on the "Droid" screen. Any help?
was I supposed to rename the file or anything? Please help, my phone is stuck right now...
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Boot into recovery and wipe everything 3x. Next choose install zip, then after that DO NOT CLICK ON update.zip, select choose zip from SD, then find your downloaded file (wherever you put it) and select that.
Has anyone tried any Bluetooth devices? Keyboards or such to see if we did in fact get the full bt stack?
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Resolved: see post below.
Hi there, I'm really writing this hoping that maybe someone knows a fix for my problem and as a warning for why renaming system/apps with .bak is a silly idea when you can just do it via titanium or something similar.
About the device
Phone is a bell model, rooted but running the stock rom. I froze a bunch of apps with titantium (the smart way) but also added the .bak extension to some apps in the system/app folder.. I can't remember which ones but evidently important ones.
Everything was fine until today when an app I sideloaded caused my phone to go into a boot loop. I've been fighting with wakelock issues lately so I figured it wasn't a big deal to pop into the android recovery and do a factory restart. Problem is, some of the apps I added the .bak extension to are needed via the setup.
Problem I'm having
I can boot the phone fine and get to the blur setup screen which I can bypass as well. Problem is, once I skip the screen I immediately get a force close, and instead of taking me to the home screen, it goes back to the blur setup screen. I tried the keyboard shortcut bypass method which also works fine, but renders the phone useless since I can't access any menus, etc. It's just a black screen with the notification bar at the top. Horrah!
Long story short:
I can't enable usb debugging unless there is a way to sneak into the settings menu from the emergency call screen
Bell doesn't have a stock rom available
I can't re-root and fix my problem via adb because I can't turn on debug mode.
GAH!
Anyways, I'm pretty screwed. What are my choices?
I can return it to bell and hope they don't notice my giant gaff, flash an aftermarket rom and lose any warrenty I might have (I'm pretty toast now anyways) or buy a replacement phone.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
- Kate
OMG
my heart had literally stopped beating for the past hour until I remember reading somewhere that you could text message a link to a replacement launcher hosted on dropbox.
OMG
Problem solved, phone is working.. I think.
Lesson for today kids: Do not mess with things you're not totally 100% sure about. Also, don't screw around with work phones. You need them to stay employed. Bricks don't keep you employed.
Flashing after market software shouldn't void your warrenty. I've sent in a few self bricked phones to bell.
Try early USB enumeration mode for ADB access
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marko! said:
Flashing after market software shouldn't void your warrenty. I've sent in a few self bricked phones to bell.
Try early USB enumeration mode for ADB access
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And I have sent 2 of my atrixs back to at&t both were unlocked and rooted
No questions asked not on extra doller spent I love insurance its worth 5 dollers a month to me + my phones were both bricked by apps in the android market
that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!
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marko! said:
Flashing after market software shouldn't void your warrenty. I've sent in a few self bricked phones to bell.
Try early USB enumeration mode for ADB access
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Does that work even if usb debugging is off? If so, that's fantastic! I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in a horrible jam.
It wasn't market apps though that was my concern though... rather it was messing with system/apps and build.prop that had me concerned. Any wise tech would know that my problems weren't caused by some error on Motorola's part, but rather a silly girl who's breaking things from within.
Thanks though
I once told the **tech repairs specialist** that I bricked my phone installing a custom rom and got asked " what kind of customer was on the phone?"
Try and find NFHimselfs atrix mods apk it will help a lot
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BIG QUESTION:
I have not turned on Sprint service on the phone yet and was wondering if Sprint will detect if the phone has been rooted before I try to activate it and then not allow me to activate it?? I am basically wondering if I should wait to root the phone till after I activate it, because I don't want Sprint to ban it, but I also don't want all that bloatware on it either.
Background:
I have kept "feature/dumb phones" ever since I've had Sprint and I've been with the consecutively for more than 10 years with the same "plan" that gives me free 3G internet, but times are changing and while my plan is perfect for me (price and everything else balanced) I'm finally giving in to the data and bandwidth Gods. I find it a shame Sprint or other carriers don't provide a toolkit to customize their phones to how people want them and for the most part I just want my smartphone to be "barely smart" and mostly just a NICE phone with broadband convenience. I don't want to live so plugged in all the time, so a custom ROM seems right.
I have held out for a very long time on getting a smart phone. I don't change phones, but every 4-5 years. I bought a HTC EVO Shift 4G used with a slightly cracked screen (on the edge) and have refurbished it with a new screen and new circuit chip/ribbon cable and I've got it all working nicely now. I'm rockin an old Samsung Rant (slider) and honestly I think sliders are dying, but as long as I can use one I always will.
I have been teaching myself how to root my phone through various posts (the whole past week) on this web site and the only thing I've found that will temproot my HTC Evo Shift is Visionary+ and I had to install it manually since the PLAY market doesn't have it anymore. I'm working on getting through all the various instructions to permanent root it. Then I was gonna load JustWorksTechnology's ROM v2 and hopefully like it and use it bloatware free.
Lastly - I have temprooted the phone, and even then I don't see the option to remove the bloatware apps when I go to manage applications in the regular menu system. Do I find a bloatware/root uninstaller type app, once I'm temprooted, to remove this stuff if I wanted to stick to the stock ROM and just get the bloatware off it? or how else is removing stock apps from a stock ROM accomplished?
FYI - I've gotten rom manager/clockwordmod recovery on it, but I realized before trying that I can't even do a backup ROM to "start the ROM experimentation process" without having full permanent root privileges first.
Sorry if this was a little long. Just figured I'd introduce my highly technical Android and PC freedom forever - SELF. 1st post on this site. Yes, I actually did watch the NOOB video.
To get rid of bloatware you need a root explorer or something like Titanium Backup. Just be aware deleting it may cause issues when trying to get OTA updates.
And there's no way for Sprint to detect root.
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About detecting a root
Well if Sprint would be able to detect a root at all, then activating a phone or not, it would be detected.
You can either detect a root, or not detect a root.
And to answer your question; "Can I uninstall bloatware from my stock ROM?"
I was about to give a "no", but then I realized something. If you root and use your stock ROM, you can download Titanium Backup (app in the Playstore) and the app will let you delete bloatware. Only if rooted though, obviously.
Yes ofcourse, ROOT ALL
Welcome to "Rooting community
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Posting to root or not to root on XDA is like saying should we legalize weed at a weed distribution center, Anyways you are ONLY gaining functionality by having root and really not losing anything.
I love the responses. lol thanks everyone. Well, then I guess activating a ROOTED phone on Sprint shouldn't be an issue. Thats what I needed to know.
1. Well, then what remains is what ROM is best for my SHIFT. Anyone got experience with the JustWorksTechnology one that has very recently been updated? or recommendations of any certain ROM?
2. Do these ROMS include all the default menu system that comes on the phone or do they do away with that as well?
IE: I know the main purpose is of a ROM is to get rid of bloatware and gain performance and a few added features, but will I be missing any normal parts of the menu system that are normally there or do I get all that too with the Android OS?
3. Whats a good Android emulator for me to play around with ROMs before loading it to my phone?
You're activating it over the air right, not taking it into the store to have it added to your account? If you're doing it yourself or having them do it over the phone you're good, but if this is something you bought from someone else and have to get put on your line in-store then you don't want to root until after they have it in the system.
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To get rid of bloatware you need a root explorer or something like Titanium Backup. Just be aware deleting it may cause issues when trying to get OTA updates.
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But, Titanium Backup (and the like) can't remove bloatware unless you are rooted right?
What type of OTA updates would cause issues? PRI, PRL, Firmware, etc.. ?
I figure you are just saying if it tries to update something that isn't there, there could be issues right?
What the issue could be with a used phone is a bad ESN.
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Cheers!
Congrats! Always fun learning something new. Personally I started off rooting with a previously water damaged HTC MyTouch 3G Slide. I eventually ended up with 3 altogether, and as these phones required repair I turned to the XDA community. I couldn't be happier with learning all the in's and out's of working with Android, the various phone producers and the different cell phone companies. So, Cheers! Wish you the best of luck.
Rooting before activation?
Hello,
I'm am going to take advantage of Sprint's Black Friday promotion to get an SG3 for my partner. He's not very technical but I'd prefer to root his phone so that he can take advantage of Titanium Backup. Do I need to activate the phone prior to rooting it or can I root it first? I know I have to turn it on and enable USB debugging mode. I want to say that when I got my E4GT, I had to activate it before doing anything on the phone.
Is there a non-root method for backup that will back up app data and not require a connection to the computer? I looked at the Ultimate Backup Tool, but it appears to require a USB connection to a computer to work. I like the simplicity of TiB.
Thanks
cajunlibra said:
Hello,
I'm am going to take advantage of Sprint's Black Friday promotion to get an SG3 for my partner. He's not very technical but I'd prefer to root his phone so that he can take advantage of Titanium Backup. Do I need to activate the phone prior to rooting it or can I root it first? I know I have to turn it on and enable USB debugging mode. I want to say that when I got my E4GT, I had to activate it before doing anything on the phone.
Is there a non-root method for backup that will back up app data and not require a connection to the computer? I looked at the Ultimate Backup Tool, but it appears to require a USB connection to a computer to work. I like the simplicity of TiB.
Thanks
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I ordered the phone and it should arrive next week. Do I have to activate the phone before rooting it? This would just be a rooted stock JB ROM. Giving him anything else will confuse the hell out of him. If you think not rooting it is better, what would be the best way to backup app data, etc? I haven't really found any non-rooted backup solutions that don't require connecting to a computer. Once rooted, will he have to ignore all OTA updates as well?
Root all your life
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MissionImprobable said:
To get rid of bloatware you need a root explorer or something like Titanium Backup. Just be aware deleting it may cause issues when trying to get OTA updates.
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there are ways to block OTA updates, thus preventing root issues. From when I was researching root for my Motorola Droid X2 last summer, if your phone receives an OTA update and you froze/removed system apps it can brick your phone.
Looking back on that, I question "brick". You can probably still SBF, although probably won't keep your data.
cajunlibra said:
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Originally Posted by cajunlibra
Hello,
I'm am going to take advantage of Sprint's Black Friday promotion to get an SG3 for my partner. He's not very technical but I'd prefer to root his phone so that he can take advantage of Titanium Backup. Do I need to activate the phone prior to rooting it or can I root it first? I know I have to turn it on and enable USB debugging mode. I want to say that when I got my E4GT, I had to activate it before doing anything on the phone.
Is there a non-root method for backup that will back up app data and not require a connection to the computer? I looked at the Ultimate Backup Tool, but it appears to require a USB connection to a computer to work. I like the simplicity of TiB.
Thanks
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I ordered the phone and it should arrive next week. Do I have to activate the phone before rooting it? This would just be a rooted stock JB ROM. Giving him anything else will confuse the hell out of him. If you think not rooting it is better, what would be the best way to backup app data, etc? I haven't really found any non-rooted backup solutions that don't require connecting to a computer. Once rooted, will he have to ignore all OTA updates as well?
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Can anyone help me with this? The phone is expected to arrive either Wed or Thurs and I'll be heading out of town to see him on Saturday.
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OK, so here is where my T Mobile MT4G is at:
Had the phone since November 2010. Sole user. Never dropped, or wet.
S=ON.
I purchased a new battery last month as thought this may have been part of the problem.
Phone started acting weirdly, apps freezing, pone freezing, not working correctly and rebooting out of nowhere.
Decided to attempt reset, full factory reset. Could not do so via the phone or via the vol down power on method either.
After a few weeks of negotiating, because the phone is out of warranty, HTC customer service (Thanks guys!) gave me the PD15IMG file. I loaded it onto a formatted SD card.
Uchecked FASTBOOT.
I was able to use the battery out, re-install battery, vol down and power button to allow the new ROM to load from the SD card, which it seems to do, that is, all files, but the first TP file which is "bypassed".
Then when asked to hit the power button to reboot, the screen freezes on the T Mobile MY screen.
If after say 20 minutes, I remove the battery to reboot, doing it this way instead, all apps and previous settings are still in place and the phone is still more or less inoperative. The new ROM is not installed. Go figure.
Messages from various apps keep popping up indicating that Andriod app this or that is not functioning correctly.
I never dropped the phone or got it wet. It looks great, only does not work correctly.
I suspect part of the problem may be apps (guilty as charged for having too many apps) that may be conflicting and I can not even manually delete the apps as they constantly reappear, no matter what. Tried this many times.
This has happened repeatedly. For well over a month.
I can not factory reset from within the phone either (Phone and SD Card > Factory reset).
The factory reset seems to take place yet the phone when and if it reboots only reboots to the most previous state, it certainly is not reset.
I downloaded the full wipe software (FULL_WIPE_1.5_EXT4_DS), and am unsure how to use it.
I am tired.
Here's my proposition:
Am willing to send the phone to anyone who thinks he or she can get it working. I'm a 64 year old guy and will offer up to $50.00 if the phone can be returned to a fully functioning default state in whatever rom you choose. I will pay return shipping cost (via USPS) too. I know this is not much, but I am fearing the phone may be fried, or not!
Personally I am looking for a non app rom, like virtuous unity 2.2, (with S=OFF, naturally) and will settle for the HTC rom of PD15IMG (S=ON) at the very least.
I have spent too many hours on this and my son also has spent many hours attempting to get the phone working in the pristine state.
Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated.
Cordially,
Robert
I'll gladly help you out for free man!
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I'll gladly help you out for free man!
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I was thinking the same thing, but I don't have a computer right now & ain't sure if I could do it without 1. But that's another reason why u are awesome! And I'm very serious, that speaks volumes about your character...
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Old dude you have no idea how lucky you are... Awesome is a very good DEV and offering to do it for free is well Awesome lol
If I were the OP I'd ask Awesome to sign the back cover! :laugh:
Last night I was trying to put a new font on my phone and was using ROM toolbox pro to install them. The I installed a font and it said to reboot the phone for it to take affect. I did this and no problems. Wasn't really happy with that font so tried another one and rebooted.
Got to the first screen that shows LG. Let it sit for 5 minutes or so and thought..oh crap!. Did a battery pull and same issue. I did not want to do a factory reset but, said screw it and did one. Nothing. Still the same problem. Tried a second time and the same result.
Took the phone to the Sprint store and even they could not get it to work. Phone is still under warranty and I have device protection so,
They are ordering me another one that will be here later this week. Had to get a prepaid phone in the meantime.
I just hate the fact that something so simple as changing a font could cause the phone to malfunction so easily.
I'm of course going to root the phone again but, are going to very careful on what I do from now on.
Why didn't you use your pc or download mode to reinstall the os?
I suggest learning all you can from here and maybe keep as close to stock as possible till you get a little more comfortable flashing with a computer. I'm sure it's fixable. Some people at Sprint are smarter than others. Sorry you have to use a burner phone for now. You'll probably love the g3 twice as much after using that though. Good luck man.
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Last night I was trying to put a new font on my phone and was using ROM toolbox pro to install them. The I installed a font and it said to reboot the phone for it to take affect. I did this and no problems. Wasn't really happy with that font so tried another one and rebooted.
Got to the first screen that shows LG. Let it sit for 5 minutes or so and thought..oh crap!. Did a battery pull and same issue. I did not want to do a factory reset but, said screw it and did one. Nothing. Still the same problem. Tried a second time and the same result.
Took the phone to the Sprint store and even they could not get it to work. Phone is still under warranty and I have device protection so,
They are ordering me another one that will be here later this week. Had to get a prepaid phone in the meantime.
I just hate the fact that something so simple as changing a font could cause the phone to malfunction so easily.
I'm of course going to root the phone again but, are going to very careful on what I do from now on.
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It was fixable but for future reference avoid installing fonts with rom toolbox pro while on stock. I've had it soft brick several phones while on the stock rom but it usually works great on an ASOP or CM based rom (if only we had some of those). There are other font installers that should work but RTP font installer is hit or miss for sure.
I did try to fix it using download mode but, it wasn't working for me.
I'm not going to mess with it anymore. I know I'm getting a new phone in a few days Just have too use the dummy phone until then.
I'll be looking for free wifi with my Nexus 7 to check email and stuff.
Damitu said:
I did try to fix it using download mode but, it wasn't working for me.
I'm not going to mess with it anymore. I know I'm getting a new phone in a few days Just have too use the dummy phone until then.
I'll be looking for free wifi with my Nexus 7 to check email and stuff.
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Oh, and I WONT be using that app ever again! Wish I never paid for it in the first place.
HELP
imucarmen said:
It was fixable but for future reference avoid installing fonts with rom toolbox pro while on stock. I've had it soft brick several phones while on the stock rom but it usually works great on an ASOP or CM based rom (if only we had some of those). There are other font installers that should work but RTP font installer is hit or miss for sure.
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Can you pls explain how to fix it cause it happened to me to and i dont have the time to turn it in.Tryed to fac reset and battery pull but didnt work. got messes up while installing a font
creeperkid704 said:
Can you pls explain how to fix it cause it happened to me to and i dont have the time to turn it in.Tryed to fac reset and battery pull but didnt work. got messes up while installing a font
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You should be able to use the LG update software on your PC to flash the stock firmware. I havent personally done it with the G3 but often had to recover my LG spectrum with it whenever I would soft brick. My experience has been as long as you can access download mode then the phone is fixable. I'm sorry I can't help you in this instance because I've personally not bricked this phone and havent had to do any recovering from a soft brick yet.
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Damitu said:
Oh, and I WONT be using that app ever again! Wish I never paid for it in the first place.
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Rom Toolbox PRo is a great app and most of it's features are safe to use. RTP is my goto root app and has been for over 3 years now and I've used it on every phone i've had (which is 5). I love it because it has so many root features in one place. I always use the build prop editor, I use it to access terminal, the boot animations usually work good (though it's better to use a root explorer to change those), the app manager works great, also the sdcard boost works great, as well as the root explorer, and it has some very useful shortcuts. The font installer works great on ASOP based roms just don't use it on stock ones. Another thing I've never had success with in it is the cpu profiles never stick. Antutu's cpu app works great for profiles though. They always apply and stick without reverting back to whatever the phone wants to change it to.
I definitely wouldn't throw the whole app out because the font installer broke your phone. And that's more the fault of the stock rom than RTP.
I should be getting my replacement G3 from Sprint today. Started off with the $20 flip prepaid phone to get me through the week but, couldn't take it. Had to upgrade to the basic Android prepaid.
I wasn't bashing Rom Toolbox Pro. Was just angry and frustrated. I'll download it but, stay away from the font section.
I finally got my replacement G3 today.
Good thing I'm off from work because it's taking half the day just to get it back to what I had before.
Two Words.....
Titanium Backup!
Happened to me twice on international version G3, although managed to restore the system using the LG pc suite... Couple of weeks ago, under the themes and apps section, someone mentioned Fonster from the play store would work, so I gathered up enough courage, had my pc ready just in case, and prayed to the gods, but hey, what do you know, it actually works!
I've switched fonts a couple of times and so far so good, so give it a go...
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I love changing fonts on my phone but I too have soft bricked many a phone doing it. I never understood why sometimes it would work & other times brick. I've been sacred to try on my new LG G3 is the consensus then not to ever do it on a stock rom? I would love to change the font on this phone but not worth the hassles if it will brick it half the time.
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Here's a screenshot of my G3 using Roboto condensed thanks to the Fonster app...
All you need is root...
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This exact same problem happened to me when I had my Galaxy S4. I had to take it in to get re-flashed but that fixed it. Glad to see that you got a replacement G3!