Captain Throwback has put together some flashable zips for S-OFF HTC EVO 4G LTE owners that allow you to update everything to the new firmware, or just the radio, PRI, or boot image. Update: Links are not up for individual items, just one PJ75IMG.zip link for the PRI/radio firmware.
This is the day many of you who are rooted but S-ON may have dreaded, when you have your phone set up just like you want it and now you want to update radios and PRI for (hopefully) improved results with the network. For S-ON, go here. You’ll need to modify a couple of the steps but the basic principle is the same.
The radios and PRI should be safe to flash with any custom ROM, although you may want to check with your developers first to see if there are any known issues. I wouldn’t flash the full firmware or boot.img, unless you want to wipe out everything on your phone.
Also worth noting for is that the radios at the top are the newest. The ones below with remarkably similar looking version numbers are older. Flash at your own risk, and let us know if you notice the new radios or PRI doing anything useful.
For those wanting a ROM incorporating the new OTA bits, just give it a day and you’ll probably have it. I’ll actually be surprised if, by the time publish this, someone doesn’t have a stock rooted odexed/deodexed ROM available somewhere. Feel free to post links to anything incorporating the new OTA in the comments section.
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Update – just a downloadable PJ75IMG now that doesn’t include HBOOT, boot.img, etc. Still requires S-OFF and bootloader method as far as I know.
what about those of us who are S-Off
download the PJ75IMG_somethingsomethingsomething.zip, rename it to PJ75IMG.ZIP stick it on your SD card, reboot into bootloader, choose update, click yes, sit back and wait.
I just did it on S-OFF… waiting to see if my SD card comes back at the moment (due to overclocking, probably not due to update)
Links for the individual items aren’t up yet, just the full enchilada minus hboot, kernel, touchpanel update, and recovery.
I ran mine and i am still getting:
LazyPanda
Hboot- 1.12.2222
Radio- 1.12.11.1210
Also, if you’re going to update your PRL/Profile afterwards, turn off your WiFi (and perhaps LTE) so you don’t get Error Code 1233. You phone needs to talk to a tower to update those.
Paul, i cant seem to find the link to download the IMG
Duh.. nevermind.. didnt read that the hboot would not be updated
I just updated mine. I am actually doing a nandroid back up right now in anticipation of Mean Bean 3.0 tonight, so I can’t say if it has improved anything or not.
Does everyone think Mean Bean is the best ROM developer? I have to find a new developer since Flex360 jumped ship and started talking bad about XDA he got banned.
Yeah I’ve been loving MeanBean. That Mikey guy is a beast. Love seeing new OTA updates every morning. Does anyone know if he has or is working on a senseless Jelly Bean ROM?
Your contenders seem to be Meanbean, SuperJelly, and possibly the new Viper, although I haven’t had a chance to mess with that yet (think it came out 4 days ago)
mikey said he wont be able to work on putting this new OTA in his rom till monday.. thats what he said in the meanbean thread.. quess hes very busy
no new meanbean for 3 whole days? We must start the rumor that Mikey is dead, or has been enslaved by HTC
i just flashed this through the bootloader and it appeared to update okay…
rebooted the phone afterwards and it has not powered back on since.
Not sure what went wrong.
I am S-OFF.
The phone will not even charge.
I guess ill be making a trip to the sprint store tomorrow.
Odd, give it the power+vol up+vol down 3-finger salute for 15 seconds, see if that doesn’t fix it. Checking right now if there’re any reports of that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704612&page=81 head over here and post that, I’m reading through the thread to see if anyone at all has had these problems
Yeah, I’m not seeing anyone with that particular issue. Go and report it over in the thread and they may be able to get you an answer. Short of it is if it started flashing, there shouldn’t have been any issue.
now its tuesday! 4 whole days!!
lol
we must accept the fact that Mike has been kidnapped by the Chinese
Lol, or does actually have some sort of life after all.
Funny thing is it maybe Monday or Tuesday or maybe Wednesday.. But then it will be two updates a day for the next following week straight. That man is a super hero when it comes to updating his rom. Relentless until he’s satisfied with it.
After doing the new radio update, I’ve noticed that I now have strong 4G in my house. Whereas before, I had weak 3G.