4G Won't Connect

[jjbehren]

Never did a restore, no. And I fear for my RSA keys, too, if I have to use my backup from when I first flashed to OMJ's 2.2 ROM. I followed the steps in the older videos posted at the bottom of http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/1793724-post1.html. From reviewing that video, it looks like I would have used the Run > c:\evo-recovery backup method for my first backup. I hate to admit it, but I'm having a hard time finding my backup from then. It's not on my SD card. I might have put it on my laptop, which my wife is using right now.

Again, went straight from release-day stock with no OTAs to one of the first versions of OMJ's 2.2 ROMs to OMJ's 2.2 v4.2 w/ Caulk's combo radio/wimax/pri update. So only 2 flashes (with clean, double wipes) and the combo update ever done on this phone.

[mikee4fun]

You should try the following per XDA

Below is my output using a terminal emulator. You do need root to run the su first. If you see those lines at the end, begin and end RSA, then you are ok. If those two lines are missing then you are hosed UNLESS you have a good Amen Ra 1.8 backup of your wimax partition. Otherwise, you need to get it exchanged at Sprint.

Open up terminal emulator and type in su

then type in the following: grep RSA /dev/mtd/mtd0

you will then get the following

RSA-REQUEST
RSA-REPLY
RSA-REJECT
RSA-ACK
RSA-1024
RSA-REQUEST
RSA-REPLY
RSA-REJECT
RSA-ACK
RSA-1024
RSA
ReRSA
RSA requests
RSA replies
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

[Da Uniq 1]

Originally Posted by mikee4fun

You should try the following per XDA

Below is my output using a terminal emulator. You do need root to run the su first. If you see those lines at the end, begin and end RSA, then you are ok. If those two lines are missing then you are hosed UNLESS you have a good Amen Ra 1.8 backup of your wimax partition. Otherwise, you need to get it exchanged at Sprint.

Open up terminal emulator and type in su

then type in the following: grep RSA /dev/mtd/mtd0

you will then get the following

RSA-REQUEST
RSA-REPLY
RSA-REJECT
RSA-ACK
RSA-1024
RSA-REQUEST
RSA-REPLY
RSA-REJECT
RSA-ACK
RSA-1024
RSA
ReRSA
RSA requests
RSA replies
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

I'm having the same problem. Won't connect to 4G but 4 other Evo's in my house doo. Those are all stock non rooted.

Mine is rooted Fresh Rom 3.5.01 and I even updated radio and PRI using his methods.

When I tried this with Terminal Emulator, all I got was
<rsa>
</rsa>

[jjbehren]

Originally Posted by Da Uniq 1

I'm having the same problem. Won't connect to 4G but 4 other Evo's in my house doo. Those are all stock non rooted.

Mine is rooted Fresh Rom 3.5.01 and I even updated radio and PRI using his methods.

When I tried this with Terminal Emulator, all I got was
<rsa>
</rsa>

Hate to say it, but I do believe your RSA keys are gone and that EVO will never have 4G/wimax. For some reason I have seen this more often with Fresh's Rom than any others. Might just be a coincidence, but still...

And as an update, I'm home with my son today and he's been running me all day. Haven't had time to work through those threads posted above. I will, though.

[jjbehren]

Maybe my first post was a little long, but I did state I've done all that. Got the last two lines so my hope everything is cool regarding my RSA keys. However, lkillen's post made me fear that even if I have the RSA keys they may be corrupt.

Again, what I know: MAC address is fine (matches with what's under my battery), RSA keys are there, running a wimax log returns the error in my first post.

Thanks again for the help.

[lkillen]

If the RSA keys are gone, you have to go to Sprint. There was a post about restoring RSA keys but it was bogus. They are encrypted and paired to your phone/profile.

You will need to get unrooted. Good luck.

[kingsfan626]

I had the same issue and posted on the OMJ thread many times but was always told to search elsewhere. I flashed back to an old stock ROM and ran all of the steps again to fully root my phone and it worked.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-evo-4g...roms-wipe.html

[lkillen]

Originally Posted by kingsfan626

I had the same issue and posted on the OMJ thread many times but was always told to search elsewhere. I flashed back to an old stock ROM and ran all of the steps again to fully root my phone and it worked.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-evo-4g...roms-wipe.html

Then you had your RSA Keys. Hopefully he will be as lucky.

[jjbehren]

Originally Posted by lkillen

Then you had your RSA Keys. Hopefully he will be as lucky.

You keep making me nervous lkillen.

Are you suspecting there's something wrong with my RSA keys even though I get the:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

I haven't run across that situation much in my research.

[jjbehren]

Yeah, I might have to go that route when all is said and done. Some pieces of my phone's history are coming together a little throughout this process. I flashed to OMJ's 2.2 v3.0 back in late August from a release-day EVO (HW v. 0002) with no OTAs. I used the c:\evo-recovery method to back up as soon as I rooted, prior to any flashing.

One of the things I'm working on right now is finding that recovery image from evo-recovery (I posted in the FastRX8's thread kingsfan linked to above, but no response yet). Once I flashed to OMJ's ROM I had ROM Manager with ClockworkMod. I've since switched to Amon RA for a backup method. However, I can't find recover that original pre-flashing image using either ClockworkMod or Amon RA. Anyone reading this thread know how I would recover to that original non Clockwork/Amon RA backup?

Again, I'll work through the links in this thread later tonight when I get my son down to bed.

Thanks for everyone's help.