Need to replace my Evo

[danh18]

I agree, a detailed step-by-step so we can return to root easily would be great!

[tornacl]

Hey Sheik ... for a little clarity, which speaker is bad ? Is it the speaker phone speaker or the ear piece speaker ? I have options for you so you dont have to un-root your phone.

Torn

[dallas contractor]

My phone from 6/4 purchased wil waiting had micro usb go out last week could not unroot so I let battery die. Took 30 minutes at Sprint Repair store to get replacement. I guess I am lucly they could have put other battery in a checked.

[Sheik_Yerbutay]

Originally Posted by tornacl

Hey Sheik ... for a little clarity, which speaker is bad ? Is it the speaker phone speaker or the ear piece speaker ? I have options for you so you dont have to un-root your phone.

Torn

The ear piece speaker has an annoying tinny buzz during calls. I am all ears if you have a solution to that!

[Sheik_Yerbutay]

Just thought I would post my findings for others that need to unroot to stock.

Research got me to this thread with very clear and concise instructions and links to required files in v.3.29.xxx.

Personally, I am waiting to see if TornACL has any info that will resolve my original issue. If not, I will follow the above to unroot and return the phone to Sprint.

Thanks to everyone here and over at xda for sharing your knowledge and feeding this addiction

[lkillen]

Originally Posted by dallas contractor

My phone from 6/4 purchased wil waiting had micro usb go out last week could not unroot so I let battery die. Took 30 minutes at Sprint Repair store to get replacement. I guess I am lucly they could have put other battery in a checked.

the odds are that the phone hanging on the techs hip is rooted and running a custom ROM.

I went to a Sprint kiosk in the Mall and got talking with the sales staff. Started showing some apps and he recognized my ROM. At first I felt nervous though it was only social visit. Within minutes, we are all talking about being rooted and the ROMs we tried. Seems the most "tecked up" was the district manager just in from Florida. Had a fun gab-fest with some pretty sharp hackers.

[tornacl]

Its nice when " customers" come in being honest about whats been going on with their devices. I am more inclined to help a person who wants to be honest about what's broken, than one who thinks I am a (EXPLETIVE) idiot and won't be able to sort it out anyway.

Torn

[jpwhre]

Originally Posted by lkillen

the odds are that the phone hanging on the techs hip is rooted and running a custom ROM.

I went to a Sprint kiosk in the Mall and got talking with the sales staff. Started showing some apps and he recognized my ROM. At first I felt nervous though it was only social visit. Within minutes, we are all talking about being rooted and the ROMs we tried. Seems the most "tecked up" was the district manager just in from Florida. Had a fun gab-fest with some pretty sharp hackers.

Originally Posted by tornacl

Its nice when " customers" come in being honest about whats been going on with their devices. I am more inclined to help a person who wants to be honest about what's broken, than one who thinks I am a (EXPLETIVE) idiot and won't be able to sort it out anyway.

Torn

I should keep up on some of my posts. Sometimes things like this I post and don't get resolved in time, then others with my concerns pop in later in thread and I tend to ignore them.

lkillen, This is true. There is actually lots of lurkers here that work at sprint and keep on the DLow for work reasons. Wether it be to learn for themselfs or find out what we are doing. I have no doubt in my mind that the phone on the hip of the tech could be rooted/unlocked and have hacks with custom roms. Just like I have no doubt that the tech working on my phone at said given moment may have an Iphone 4g and could care less about me and report me to his boss for sake of his/her job.


tornacl, same goes to you, mostly the last part I said. We would all like to think the tech working on our junk has far better mods to the same type of junk, but face it, you also get the tech that is running a fully stock moto R2D2 on VZW and would rat on us in the blink of an eye, and not give 2 hoots about us. Paying full price for a replacement when we broke the screen and that is now a free fix with insurance, and looking at hefty fines from sprint (hoping they don't drop us) is why we revert back to stock and then flash back to what we have.

Let us assume you are a complete idiot and hope you don't catch it. You could make a choice and do one of 2 things. Look us in the eye, say good luck with your device, whisper a secret in our ear we missed and send us on our way, or look us in the eye, give us back our broken device, hand us a $800 bill, and tell us that AT&T is around the corner.

Most sprint help only care about that check at end of week, and not the consumer. Big props to you for being one of us, and understanding why we do what we do. You would do the same in our shoes if you weren't a sprint tech and could fix your own without anyone knowing what you got.

I have known for some time you guys are here doing what we do, but not all of you.

Thanks for being a help on this thread too. =D>

[tornacl]

Like I posted already, I am more inclined to help a person who wants to be honest about the challenges they are having with their device than one who isn't. You will come across those techs that have been " behind the glass " for way to long and have no " Face to Face " skills left. A major shift happening for us now as consumers and employees is a shift back to " Customer Service " . I modded my own devices way before my current employment ... and find that that experience can really help me deal with those " troubled souls " that don't wanna fess up to what they did wrong. I have the tools at my disposal to reload your " brick" ... question is do you wanna help me to help you.

[jpwhre]

we do it for a reason. If the carriers did for us, what we do for ourselves, sites like this wouldn't exist. and the devopers would work for/with carriers/manufacturers/os builders, and the world would be a better place.