Ok, so I found a file that updated my Sprint Hero from 1.5 to a build of 2.1. Ive been trying to root the phone for some time now since I've done this update and have had 0 success rooting the device. I want to load a custom rom onto my device and I think i might have made things hard by going to this 2.1 update. This is what I see on my software information screen on my phone:
Firmware Version
2.1 -update1
Baseband Version
2.42.00.03.10
Kernel version
2.6.29-d30020a8
Build Number
2.20.651.1 CL157175 test-keys
Software number
2.20.651.1
Browser version
Webkit 3.1
PRI Version
2. 10_003
PRL Version
60660
Any ideas on how to get back to 1.5???
I think the bootloader has been locked by your update. You probably need to try a goldcard method to downgrade the rom before rooting again.
I tried the Goldcard method and it didnt work. Maybe im missing something but Ive tried the gold card numerous times and still get no where. Maybe Im doing it wrong or the sdcard im using wont work. Im so lost on this. Any more help would be appreciated.
twan254 said:
I tried the Goldcard method and it didnt work. Maybe im missing something but Ive tried the gold card numerous times and still get no where. Maybe Im doing it wrong or the sdcard im using wont work. Im so lost on this. Any more help would be appreciated.
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some people report that they have to try multiple times and it eventually works. Just keep at it.
Make sure you follow the guide word for word.
Im gonna try now, if this doesnt work, then i have a source at my local store that I can have my hero swapped out and then start fresh with a HERO with 1.5 on it. Although i must say that this version of 2.1, if it is really the Sprint leak s pretty smooth running. I just envy all the custom ROMS i see and the live wallpapers. Pretty interesting things you can do with an ANDROID. Boo APPLE.
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but, I have a At&t Streak, I rooted it fine, and then when trying to get the o2 1.6 on it with the steps at Streak smart i got this "E: Can't Open/sdcard/update.pkg (bad)" at the final stage. Any ideas why? i've tried to download it from different places, and re extract the file thinking it was a corruption on my part, but nothing has worked. I really want 2.1 just wondering if any one can help me. Im also new to android so im getting over whelmed with this. Plus i hate the flash buttons with the root.
stryfe604 said:
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but, I have a At&t Streak, I rooted it fine, and then when trying to get the o2 1.6 on it with the steps at Streak smart i got this "E: Can't Open/sdcard/update.pkg (bad)" at the final stage. Any ideas why? i've tried to download it from different places, and re extract the file thinking it was a corruption on my part, but nothing has worked. I really want 2.1 just wondering if any one can help me. Im also new to android so im getting over whelmed with this. Plus i hate the flash buttons with the root.
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Have a look HERE IT DOES A STEP BY STEP and is easy to do any problems let me know
Hey guys. I think i fubarred my phone. I was running one of the stock + root builds 2.2 and i used Clockworks to restore my 2.1 back i had done before i started messing with all this and it restored it, but my phone is sitting here saying searching...and i can't unlock it. I tried getting into the Download mode and it won't go into that either. Tried a couple of different ways thats been listed and no go. Can anyone help me??
Thanks in advance!
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Hey guys. I think i fubarred my phone. I was running one of the stock + root builds 2.2 and i used Clockworks to restore my 2.1 back i had done before i started messing with all this and it restored it, but my phone is sitting here saying searching...and i can't unlock it. I tried getting into the Download mode and it won't go into that either. Tried a couple of different ways thats been listed and no go. Can anyone help me??
Thanks in advance!
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Have you tried Odinback to stock?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyAIUOYufrU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33I-aNCypVM
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As long as it comes on your only soft-bricked so you should be ok.. which ways have you tried for download mode? Do you still have the 2.2 on your root drive from CWM recovery? And, can you get to CWM recovery?
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Have you tried Odinback to stock?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyAIUOYufrU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33I-aNCypVM
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Thanks! that done it. hitting the power button was my issue thanks!!
In case you didn't realize it. Clockwork backups (Nandroid) WON'T restore a kernel. Going to / from 2.1 -> 2.2 will ALWAYS soft brick your phone. You MUST flash a correctly version matched kernel for the Android OS version you are going to immediately following the nandroid restore. Yes, this might be require a bit of forethought but keeping a few CWM flashable kernels on your phone's internal storage for situations like this is a good idea IMO. This is likely what you forgot. Hopefully, you learned from this and can avoid this issue in the future now knowing why it happened. Doing it this way beats using ODIN any day IMO.
my sister got Htc Rhyme and sometime it restart by itself. I cant find any information about rooting this phone.
pls help.
I used a program called HTC_QuickRoot_1.1.13_Release, though i do have s-on, and am currently in the process of flashing a different ROM. My phone is in a bootloop, softbrick right now....not sure how come all the techniques I have tried arent working. I would actually like to get it back to stock, but cant find any help
It will be cool, if anyone can make port of CM7 or MIUI rom to this phone.
I just rooted my new HTC EVO LTE phone recently because I had to get a new one. Any way, after rooting it, I imminently made a nandroid back up. Then I flashed a few different roms and recoverys. However, what I found out is after I flash a new rom, my wifi says error and won't turn on. I'm not sure what the problem is. And yes, I cleared everything out before flashing a new rom. However, what is even more interesting is I can use my recovery that I made after rooting my phone to go back to the stock rom and it has no trouble with the wifi. I'm not sure why I'm getting this error or how to fix it.
I've thought about flashing some new radios, but I've had issues in the past with this phone trying to make it S-Off, so as a result it is currently S-On. I would like it to be S-off, but after having a lot of experience with it, I've learned it is very time consuming to do and it is a pain to get it to work, it almost always bricks my phone and then I have to go unbrick it in Linux.
I'm planning on running through the rooting method again to see if that does anything, but I'm doubtful. I've also tried updating the prl, profile, firmware and HTC software with no luck. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks.
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I just rooted my new HTC EVO LTE phone recently because I had to get a new one. Any way, after rooting it, I imminently made a nandroid back up. Then I flashed a few different roms and recoverys. However, what I found out is after I flash a new rom, my wifi says error and won't turn on. I'm not sure what the problem is. And yes, I cleared everything out before flashing a new rom. However, what is even more interesting is I can use my recovery that I made after rooting my phone to go back to the stock rom and it has no trouble with the wifi. I'm not sure why I'm getting this error or how to fix it.
I've thought about flashing some new radios, but I've had issues in the past with this phone trying to make it S-Off, so as a result it is currently S-On. I would like it to be S-off, but after having a lot of experience with it, I've learned it is very time consuming to do and it is a pain to get it to work, it almost always bricks my phone and then I have to go unbrick it in Linux.
I'm planning on running through the rooting method again to see if that does anything, but I'm doubtful. I've also tried updating the prl, profile, firmware and HTC software with no luck. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks.
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S-OFF is really the way to go if it's still an option for you it's the only way to get the new firmware without relocking and taking the OTA then unlocking and rooting again read post 2 in the lazypanda thread found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737123 just go down the list and verify everything works before running lazypanda there are plenty of members that subscribe to that thread so there is plenty of help availiable
Also, rerooting won't do anything. You're already rooted? Think the problem is in the rom u installed. Possibly a bad download. Try downloading from a good connection and install it again. If it is close to stock like flex's stock w goodies just clear cache and dalvik in recovery.
And what do u mean u tried a few recoveries? Cwm doesnt work well with the evo LTE. Try twrp 2.2 and leave it alone until its updated again.
What is your hboot? What rom did you try flashing?
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Im also getting this issue and i know its not anything to do with rooting and all that since ive been rooted since i picked this up from best buy on preorder release day and ive been flashing and running the same rom and mods forever now also i was using wifi yesterday soooo yea lol
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First, I don't believe I can make my phone S-off, because it has software version 2.13.651.1 710Rd on it and even though I do have a nandroid back on 1.13 hboot, for the default rom from a long time ago with my old HTC EVO LTE, I can't flash back a hboot to 1.13 so I believe I'm stuck S-On for now. Let me know if I'm wrong.
I've attempted several different roms including fresh rom 5.1.1, viper4G_1.0.0, and a jelly bean rom (cm-cfX-20120904-OFFICIAL-jewel all with the same problem. As for recoverys, I should have said I've tried restoring back to several different nandroid backups that I created in the past that were working just find with my old HTC EVO LTE.
Right now my phone is unlocked and rooted. I am running H Boot-1.19.000, I am S-On, and Radio-1.12.11.0809.
I know this problem has something to do with flashing new roms, because when I do a nandroid back up to the default rom, I don't have this problem, and the wifi is working great, I only have this problem if I try to flash any custom rom or use a nandroid backup that I made with my old HTC EVO LTE.
Again, this is not my first time around the track with an HTC EVO LTE, this just happens to be a new phone that I recently got from Sprint when they were thinking my dropped calls were caused by my phone when in fact they figured out they had a tower down. Since then, the tower is back up, so that is why I just rooted this new phone they gave me.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or if you need anymore information.
It's been while now, and I haven't gotten a real response back yet, and I was wondering if anyone knows anything that will help me out? Thanks.
Edit: Found out that I simply needed to flash the boot.img manually of what ever custom rom that I want to switch to in order to get around being S-On.
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It's been while now, and I haven't gotten a real response back yet, and I was wondering if anyone knows anything that will help me out? Thanks.
Edit: Found out that I simply needed to flash the boot.img manually of what ever custom rom that I want to switch to in order to get around being S-On.
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Hey im having the same exact issue I however went back to my stock backup from right after I rooted. The issue I had was I flashed a CMX nightly. I had been running them fine and suddenly everything went haywire i was bootlooping but only after about 30 seconds after the rom would load up. I'd have just under a minute to fish around and the it would reboot again. it was in this short window that I saw the wifi error and that it would not connect to the sprint network at all for voice or data. Im S-On Hboot 1.15 Evo LTE. I used Flash GUI to go from Stock sense to CMX as im sure youve figured out you have to do. Since i had backups of previous CMX nightlies I tried to just restore But none of my nandroids would fix the looping issue I managed to flash the boot img from the CMX rom i was previously on through adb/fastboot and it took but still my device kept looping. Finally i found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917106 but I didn't have any Sense Based Roms only my Stock Nandroid back up. So i used the Boot Image Flasher Tool, it took, then Instead of rebooting the system I went straight to my custom recovery and restored my Stock Sense BackUp since the tool flashes the stock sense kernel. To my relief the phone booted right up no problem connected to the network and all but to my dissmay the wifi is STILL broken somehow it says error and will not switch on. Everything else seems to be working fine though. This is crucial there is no way I can go without wifi on my phone. I don't want to ruin anything further or permanitely but i do plan to move forward. My plan is to download a sense rom (MeanRom) which im doing now but it's taking forever on 3G. Wipe everything (using TWRP 2.2) Data Dav rom and use super wipe, and try to install MeanRom. If anyone has any other suggestions Im all ears. Also im alittle confused on the Hboot kernel limitations I know I have to use Flash GUI if Im going from a sense Rom to Aosp and vise versa but do I have to use it when say Going to a nandroid backup of a sense rom while currently on a Aosp rom because I couldnt find a boot.img file in my backup file when i used the tool to extract it. I hate S-On HTC really screwed us with this. And I hate my original evo which had S-Off for dying on me on the 15th day and me having to get this replacement with 1.15 im sorry guys I love this phone but it has become a nightmare and the Evo 3D was no walk in the park either. I apprectiate any comment from anyone this is the first time in almost 8 years of hacking I've been truely worried I may not be able to fix something.
Try this....had the same problem during one of my flashing sessions from rom to rom...this fixed it for me.
You also might want to try a different rom with its corresponding boot img. I'm currently running Venom rom with its boot img file and its working great. Right now, it sounds like your kernel is what is giving you problems like mine, so flashing the correct boot img should fix it.
vel7wil said:
Try this....had the same problem during one of my flashing sessions from rom to rom...this fixed it for me.
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Thank you I'll be sure to try this out quick update, in TWRP recovery I had (force MD5 check on all zips?) checked now I don't remember checking it or if it came checked by default but as soon as I unchecked it I was able to run superwipe and flash MeanRom which both failed multiple times when it was checked on. Not sure if this was the cause of my problem but I agree I think I got a bad kernel in the CMX nightly. Either that or the Flash GUI app didnt exract the boot image properly. Either way I haven't been brave enough to try another AOSP rom man I hate having S-On my first Evo was perfect then I get stuck with this locked down replacement. One question though is that boot image for a stock/sense rom just wanna be sure.
vel7wil's advice worked for me I was having the same issue. Download the zip he recommends. Use flash image gui to flash the kernel and clear dalvik and cache. I just did a standard reboot after that and it said "android updating... apps x of xx" then everything was back to working.