Hi,
I need to get my hero back to stock everything so i can send it back for repair. The only thing is its the usb connection that does not work so i can't use the RUU.
Does anyone have the update packages for the stock roms, loaders, radio, recorvery and whatever else i need to get it back to factory settings.
I was thinking if i can have the updates, copy them to SD card and then update them will that work??? Hangon just had a thought, i need to recovery image to load roms in the first place so how can i restore this without my usb connection..
Hmmm, a challange for someone perhaps?
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks.
Hmm shouldn't this be in general really?
Well assuming you can home+power to start and get to a recovery image with a stock ROM from the stickies you should be able to flash with that....
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help
anyone have any advice on this?
DO you have a working recovery image?
yes!
Yes i do, but its not the original recovery image. Will they check this when i send it for repair?
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Hi there, I have a T-Mobile G2 Touch (HTC Hero) and I want to go back to the stock T-Mobile ROM, but I've been told that if I re-flash then it'll brick my phone?
I'm running the latest version of VillainROM 10.3.2 and I found that I may need a Nandroid backup or something? If someone could possibly re-direct me to where I need to find a Nandroid recovery image for my phone, I'd be greatful!
Can you just confirm that I CAN/CAN'T re-flash my phone to Stock?
Help is appreciated! Thanks!
EDIT: I used flashrec to make a back up of the recovery image or some sort? On my SD card is "recovery-backup.img"? Does this help?
Thanks!
I am not sure how it will brick your phone and maybe someone here can advise you on this.
The recovery-backup.img is just an image of the stock bootloader that comes with your phone. If you wish to apply official OTA updates, you will need to restore to your stock bootloader using the flashrec app even after u have reverted to the stock ROM.
Hope it helps =)
Hi,
My USB connection is broken and i need to send my phone for repair. Most of the methods for getting the phone back to stock involve an RUU that works over USB. Since i do not have this luxury i have flashed the generic WWE hero rom and stock radio. But what about the recovery image etc?
Once i had flashed the generic stock rom and radio i got a notification about the OTA. I thought, great, this will take me back to official software with recovery image etc. However when it asked if i wish to install the update and i said yes it got to the recovery image and threw some error at me so it wont flash the OTA.
EDIT: the error i get is
Finding update package
Opening update package
Verifying update package
E: No signature (216 files)
E: Verification failed
Installation Aborted
Does anyone have any advice? Does anyone have a link to a zip that i can flash from recovery that will take everything back to default including the recovery image?
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Sorry but you can't reset to default without a usb connection (BTW the default for a hero would be 1.5 ROM which it came with). By that being said a mini usb is very common (like for some cameras, external harddrives etc.) are you sure you don't have one laying around?
not the cable its the port
Hi,
It's not the cable thats broken it's the port. Is there really no other way to restore without using the usb port??
solution!
For all those naysayers that said it could not be done!
First i found a super old stock rom on modaco, one with a kernal that allowed the use of flashrec.
Then i found some nice person that had posted a backup of their recovery image. I copied that recovery backup to the sd card and used flashrec to restore it so now i have the stock recovery image and stock rom.
Only problem now is for some reason the device is not telling me that an OTA update is due. It did this for every other stock rom that i tried so i am a bit concerned i am now stuck with the oldest stock rom....
Any ideas? ....agian?
nilmunny said:
For all those naysayers that said it could not be done!
First i found a super old stock rom on modaco, one with a kernal that allowed the use of flashrec.
Then i found some nice person that had posted a backup of their recovery image. I copied that recovery backup to the sd card and used flashrec to restore it so now i have the stock recovery image and stock rom.
Only problem now is for some reason the device is not telling me that an OTA update is due. It did this for every other stock rom that i tried so i am a bit concerned i am now stuck with the oldest stock rom....
Any ideas? ....agian?
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I would just send it in for repair. Then root it from 1.5 when you get it back
Ok, i think i might.
Is there any chance they could tell i have been messing with it, for example it has the oldest stock ROM installed on it, is this not slightly suspisious?? Maybe the radio version is slightly newer than the ROM version? I know these guys will look for any excuse not to honour my warranty.
Or is it perfectly ok as long as all the software on it is standard android / htc stuff?
Thanks for all your advice.
settings > privacy> factory data reset ....
try that if it helps
Is it possible that it messed up your settings cause you used someone else's recovery image?
you could go htc website and try to install the official 2.73 rom and then upate to the 2.1 ota from there
obiously you will loose root if your phone was rooted but you can always unroot if you have your goldcard.img
Hi,
Please help!!
Being a noob to Android. I have made a big mistake and flash OTA_Hero_HTC_WWE_3.32.405.1_R-2.73.405.93 using the clockwork recovery. now the clockwork recovery is gone there and the phone does not boot pass the HTC logo.
I did a search and found that I can make a gold card and flash any stock rom back onto the phone. but I don't have a gold card and I have no phone to make one.
so does anyone have the official RUU for the Australian GSM Hero? I think can extract the rom.zip from it and flash that by holding down the Volume down and the power without needing a gold card.
otherwise does anyone know of another way to get the phone working again?
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Nevermind. I managed to find the Australian RUU and re flashed back to factory.
All good now
I was wondering a few things if anyone could help. I have the metro version
of the mega. Id like to know if it is possible to get back to complete stock. I flashed
twrp, which is awesome. Also I bought a sd card reader from Walmart so
I can add and remove files to the sd if I ever brick the phone. I have
tried cm11 wasn't for me. I have rooted the phone etc. I'm trying
to get back to the state of when I first got the phone. Currently I flashed
bnb's clean twrp files and am back to stock. I want to get rid
of twrp and go back to thr original bootloader if theres
a way. From what I know the bootlaoder is locked up.
Im thinking about taking the phone back to the store as the
owner knows exactly what I'm talking about when I start grilling
him with questions about different roms and such. Do you
think at the store they may be able to reflash it? I've
tried via odin, but can only flash the twrp and then from there
I am able to flash the clean backup. I totally want to go back
to original. If you guys have any tips, questions or comments
please and thank you.
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I was wondering a few things if anyone could help.
I have the metro version of the mega.
Id like to know if it is possible to get back to complete stock. I flashed
twrp, which is awesome. Also I bought a sd card reader from Walmart so
I can add and remove files to the sd if I ever brick the phone. I have
tried cm11 wasn't for me. I have rooted the phone etc. I'm trying
to get back to the state of when I first got the phone. Currently I flashed
bnb's clean twrp files and am back to stock.
I want to get rid of twrp and go back to thr original bootloader if theres
a way. From what I know the bootlaoder is locked up.
Im thinking about taking the phone back to the store as the
owner knows exactly what I'm talking about when I start grilling
him with questions about different roms and such. Do you
think at the store they may be able to reflash it? I've
tried via odin, but can only flash the twrp and then from there
I am able to flash the clean backup. I totally want to go back
to original.
If you guys have any tips, questions or comments
please and thank you. [END]
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Bump......anyone? I'm also noticing I'm Haveing to problems with
the playstore , its throwing a code cant connect to server it seems
every other day. I have to resign into google. Any thoughts?
Hello,
I broke my SII screen, I can not unlock it or see anything anymore. Obvioulsly, I'd like to access to internal storage *but* I did not activate USB debugging, or install any custom rom.
I manage to got to the device with adb, but as the phone is not rooted, I did not manage to mount internal storage in order to pull files from my phone. I also try Kied but I need to unlock the phone to access files.
I search the web and xda but I did not found a working solution (maybe my keywords were wrong).
Does someone has a solution ? For instance, a way just to be root easily on the phone in order to mount Internal storage ? Any other id ?
Thank you very much in advance. Doms.
PS: I do not want to change the screen as the price for the screen is too high. I do not have access to another SII phone in order to plug its screen on my mother board.
Flash a custom kernel/root the phone/get CWM, then find someone who uses the version of CWM that comes with that kernel to walk you through doing a nandroid backup (how many button presses to get through menus, etc) ?
MistahBungle said:
Flash a custom kernel/root the phone/get CWM, then find someone who uses the version of CWM that comes with that kernel to walk you through doing a nandroid backup (how many button presses to get through menus, etc) ?
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Thank you for your answer. I'd like to install CWM but is it possible without putting the phone in debug mode ? How can I put the file on the phone as I can not mount storage under adb ?
Thenk you for your help.
Doms.
You can flash a custom kernel via Odin (like Siyah) in download mode, the file you're flashing is on your PC, not on the phone, and this will root your phone and install CWM at the same time. All you need to know beforehand is what Android version you currently have on the phone so you choose the right build to flash, otherwise you'll end up with bootloop.
Search for the Siyah threads on here & read to work out which build you need to flash.
MistahBungle said:
You can flash a custom kernel via Odin (like Siyah) in download mode, the file you're flashing is on your PC, not on the phone, and this will root your phone and install CWM at the same time. All you need to know beforehand is what Android version you currently have on the phone so you choose the right build to flash, otherwise you'll end up with bootloop.
Search for the Siyah threads on here & read to work out which build you need to flash.
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Thank you again. Will try to get in download mode (more difficult than recovery as I need to validate at some moment without screen, adb do no want to do it as the phone is not rooted).
One last question: will it erase the internal storage or not?
Best regards. Doms.
If you have problems getting into DL mode, order a jig, or try the thread in General section where people have offered to lend their jigs to people nearby; might be someone near you who has one (not sure if the thread is still updated, but worth a look).
No, flashing a custom kernel will only do exactly that, replace your stock kernel with the custom kernel & your stock recovery with CWM, nothing else is touched.
Edit - The end result of this will be a nandroid backup, and you'll still have to get your data out of that. The easiest possible way will be to find someone else with an S2, restore your backup to their phone, get your data, and then have that person restore their setup. You can pull data from a nandroid (with just a PC), but it can be a bit fiddly if you've never done it before. We'll cross that bridge once you actually have a backup though.
MistahBungle said:
If you have problems getting into DL mode, order a jig, or try the thread in General section where people have offered to lend their jigs to people nearby; might be someone near you who has one (not sure if the thread is still updated, but worth a look).
No, flashing a custom kernel will only do exactly that, replace your stock kernel with the custom kernel & your stock recovery with CWM, nothing else is touched.
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Thank you for all. I just DL the kernel, will try this evening.
Doms.
You're welcome Good luck, post here when you've flashed it/if you have problems.
Hello,
Just to thank you again. I just have time to try it and it works fine ! Get and remove my 2 Gb of photo from my old phone.
Best regards. Doms.
No worries. Nice work, glad you got your data