We reported on Wednesday that the new over-the-air update containing Sense 4.1 and Android 4.0.4 was rolling out to some customers from Sprint.
The new updated kernel upped Quadrant scores to nearly 6000 without overclocking, changed the reported memory from 600 megs to a gigabyte, and fixed a few problems that had been plaguing some with Bluetooth connectivity and multitasking. The Sense 4.1 update also added the ability to remap the recent apps button to menu as well as introducing some problems with custom ringtones for individuals.
In the EVO 4G LTE root world development has been coming fast and furious over the past couple of days and several ROMs have been updated to take advantage of the new radios and kernel. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s been updated that we know of:
- Stock With Goodies 2.0
- MeanROM ICS v3.5 (updatable via OTA application)
- Flex360′s Stock Rooted Deodexed
- Infected-2.13.651.1-B1
I expect that once the SuperLTE base ROM is updated we’ll also be seeing Warm 4.1, d3rpLTE, and Mayhem joining the new kernel crowd.
On a side note, Deck’s CMX (which doesn’t use anything from the update) appears to play fine with the new radios and has a supposedly fully working everything now. So, do your research -but it should be ok to update.
If you’re looking for the new radios and are S-OFF, click here. If you’re S-ON, you’ll probably have to jump through hoops similar to what I wrote about for the EVO 3D.
If I’ve missed any ROMs that are based off the new OTA, drop a line here and let me know.
Hoping lazypanda s-off for hboot 1.15 is right around the corner. Of course I haven’t done a lot of research yet to find another way for s-off.
No other s-off methods out there at the moment. Just HTCDev unlock, which I used all through my EVO 3D flashing days (it’s still HTCDev unlocked and S-ON)
Is there an easy/one click root yet?
Regaw has been available since a week after the phone was out…
Yeah, but I haven’t seen it available for this update. Even on the last update, when I tried the links, all the downloads were down.
6000 quadrant score… That’s impressive
Are there any really high quadrant score roms for the evo 3d?
This is great, now where is Jelly Bean?
Anyone else having problems with the press and hold feature of the Recent Apps? I have changed to all 3 options and cannot get the press and hold feature to work???
It always opens recent apps as usual and when I set it for “Press for menu and p & h for recent apps” it goes to the menu, but long press won’t activate the recent apps. I have my long press setting to “short” maybe changing to med or long will help??? I let ya know…any ideas?
@matthew, first which rom are you trying? My question is concerning MeanRom, I’ve been running the OTA feature however it sends up error code after makes it all the way through downloading. Then the file itself seems to get “wiped” completely. I use esfile manager to ck and the file is of correct size and growing as it downloads but, again once download hits 100% it pops up very very brief error message and then is gone and seemingly nothing left of the file.??
Any suggestions? Is the first time I’ve actually used the built in OTA feature. Thanks for any help
@matthew. I was just back on the meanrom xda Page from the link above posted in Pauls article.
Developer states that long press features will take a little bit to implement on the new base. But from what I’ve seen these guys seem to bust through the bugs and have regular updates with improvements galore. Again I’m not sure if your stock or running a custom rom, just trying to pass the info along if it helps
Successfully installed latest meanrom. Had to just do it the old fashioned way (on computer and then copy over). I did notice while updating another app prior that I did not have option checked for (installation of non market apps) idk if that had any effect on the OTA functioning correctly but now that it’s cked I will try next ota available..
PSA dont plug your evo into a regular car charger. I pluged it in saw the 4g lte splashface and it never turned on again. Im going to a sprint store this week. Me and hundreds of other people learned the hard way.
I’ve never heard of hundreds of people learning this – what car charger did you plug it into? Have you tried pressing power, vol up and down at the same time for a kernel reset?
Even if you over or underamped the thing it should compensate
Likewise Paul – I’ve never heard of anyone suffering from issues of that sort.
On a side note, it is a shame that the LTEvo doesn’t get more dev support. It’s got GREAT hardware in it.
it’s started… 2 new CMX branches… just takes a bit to start… PA and a new one are out there..
Same thing has happened to me too. I did some research and it is common. The phone goes into a dead state and won’t power on. Even the charge light doesn’t come on.
Please cite some sites with this information on it with links.
If that’s the case, the LTE power converting hardware is flawed… this is standard USB tech that’s been around for years.
I’ve plugged my LTE into our generic two port DC charger and it worked as you would expect it to. Perhaps there are a few defective units out there? This is the first I have heard of DC auto adaptors blowing up phones.
A random question:
I’m rooted and S-Off but still running stock and haven’t been applying the official updates. Is there any way to install the MeanROM updates and keep my installed programs/settings without tons of extra work?
When I was on the Evo OG, trying new roms was always a pain because of the time it took to reinstall. I have Titanium Backup, but it seems like using that requires you to really know well which apps to backup/restore from the extensive list including system and other apps, and still there may be problems when you try to restore.
@jeff, there are available ways of getting some the updates. Paul published a article few days back discussing the abilities of flashing the updates via your bootloader. As far as meanrom is concerned, it is like any other rom. Your best bet is to flash the whole thing. There may be a way to just extract certain files or aspects of the rom but I assure you.. That would be even more complicated and probably not stable. Paul taught me some tricks about flashing new roms from reading the articles over the past couple of years.
Always make a nandroid backup. (can always restore)
Back up your account with Google (its easy and on your phone already)
Back up sms (is actually a stock option in sms)
Titanium backup –
What I’ve found to be useful is to just back up the system. (all of it)
Then if you notice there is a section where you can backup just (user apps). Well since all of the system is backed up your good to go. When you flash a rom. Worst case you may have to re download titanium from play store but once you do you only have to restore (user apps). Occasionally there may be something to manually restore. Like Google play listen (is a widget not app)
Once you have the whole thing backed up.
Really only need to backup/restore your user apps in the future.
When flashing.
Best to do a complete factory reset. (if is a update from same rom than no, probably not)
Wipe your dalvik and cache at the very least.
If you factory reset. Yes you’ll have to go through the initial set up however, one of the first steps is setting up wifi and then signing into Google. This will bring back all of that info.
Open sms (hit menu and select backup sms, which will give many options) one of which is restore sms with a time stamp to choose from.
Get or open titanium backup.
Restore user apps.
I always then do a restart and everything should start to settle in nicely.
I’ve gotten pretty efficient getting back up and running after install. And if running a awesome rom is your thing, then taking the 10-15 min to get it right and able to use as a daily driver is well worth the time.
Remember there are plenty of “stock” roms out there that pretty much just have minor tweaks and the updates from factory OTAs.
Hope this helped a little even if you were already aware of most everything I mentioned. I’m sure Paul or somebody else smarter than me will chime in and correct anything else or give additional info. (after the holiday weekend)
But again look a few articles back and you can find info about just obtaining the the updates (sense4.1 and new radios and such) xda is a huge resource of this type of info as well.
Wow, thank you for the awesome reply. I might try to give MeanROM a shot today.
Thanks again!!
All of that is good advice aside from the part about wiping cache. Ever since 4.x (ICS and above) the OS keeps an eye on those items and will rebuild/make adjustments as necessary. That is why you get the “android is updating” message after flashing items in recovery that have made system changes. So in effect wiping cache/dalvik is no longer necessary.
No problem. MeanRom is pretty darn sweet. I also like viper4g (team viper) both are definitely awesome Sense based roms. CM10 is also coming along very well and I’ve just recently read that they may have been able to get a better camera (htc/sense did this very well this time around) CM___ anything is stock android operating system based roms. Very good and fast just not quite as perfected (yet) for this new evo lte. On our original evo4g Cm7 was amazing.
out of the available roms on the new base I would say that Mean is the meanest available! Fast, smooth and crazy batt life. It’s a must try..
Paul,
I jumped through the hoops and have the new firmware and profiles updated. Does that I have the new kernel, or just the radios?
Why should root my LTE?
If you want the ability to use WiFi tether, backup your ROM, flash a different ROM, get a fix for a problem with the operating system in a day as opposed to months waiting for the next OTA, if you want support as opposed to people who answer the phone and tell you they’re sending a “refreshed profile”, if you want to run another phone’s operating system, etc etc etc
Come on Team Venom. I want to see an update to Viper4g!!!
I’ve heard their next update is going to be Jelly Bean fantastic, however not sure if that’s the truth or fans
New.. MeanRom is updated today to v3.7!
Note: OTA feature worked just fine this time too. Not sure if me having the (installation of non market apps) actually checked and allowed this time around has anything at all to do with my troubles last time around? (I’d figure not and would have been caught b4 me)
But either way OTA worked and again the MeanRom team has squashed a few bugs and published a update in very timely matter. (second update since this article was posted!)
nice. had meanrom when first got my new evo, but have been running viper 4g lately. think im gonna go back to mean
PLEASE HELP i just unlocked my bootloader but have not the slightest idea how to root as the current root methods are for older builds of the htc evo 4g lte are there any known methods out there?
Well how did you do this? What exact state is your phone currently in? Sorry, your question reads a little confusing.. Need more information. Because if you “unlocked bootloader” then.. Your basically there
methods are always the same:
1: unlock bootloader (or get s-ff) which you’ve done
2: install TWRP from http://teamw.in
3: download and install the superuser binary or supersu binary
4: flash said binary in custom recovery from step 2
5: boot, install superuser or supersu from market
You can also download regawmod, which we ran through here a few times… it’ll automatically do it for you.
If you’re htcdev unlocked, there’s not much that varies from time to time. s-off is only where the changes happen. We’ve been doing the same steps since HTCDev first started letting us unlock bootloaders
How do I install these updates to my stock evo lte, but keep root? I read one post that talked about voodoo root keeper… Is this the only way? Kinda want these updates, but don’t want to lose root.
If you want to download new firmware, that’s the only time S-ON can be a pain. Short of it is you make a nandroid, flock the bootloader, flash a RUU with all the updates, unlock the bootloader, flash recovery, restore nandroid.
If you would go back the (home page) of this website. Got to the bottom and select either Page 2 or the next button you will find a Article posted on Aug 29th,(day ota update was pushed out) and is specifically titled Something.. Sprint.. New update 1.##.##… Out today. In the last part of the post is a link Paul left for anyone rooted who wants the updated files. Here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859789
But I’d read the article first. Hope this helps
This its a little more involved coming from the S2 (just following the developers). So the root method works for the latest ota? Then unlock through HTC Dev? Then twrp? Thank you in advance.
I’m S-OFF and running Stock. I didn’t take the 1st OTA, but reluctantly installed the latest OTA update. I still can’t get the remapping of the recent apps button to take ??? Tried rebooting, maybe install via RUU?? But ALSO noticed Dialer LAG. Anyone else had similar issues?