Hi,
I've had a HTC Hero since they came out, and for most of the time I've had it, it has been rooted and running various roms (Cyanogen, lately).
A few weeks ago I somehow got dust under the screen, sent it to HTC who repaired it and sent it back, with their own 'install' which has:
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Software Number: 3.32.405.2
Now, I'm not really a fan of sense and would like to go back to using Cyanogen mod, however, I can't work out how to root it (well, to get it to a stage where I can flash it with custom roms).
All of the tutorials and step-by-step guides on here and ones I've found on Google don't seem to work any more (I believe they do on earlier versions of HTC's build), I appear to have got as far as 'rooting' it but when turning on with power and home held down I get the red triangle/exclamation mark displayed. I'm clearly not doing something right.
I don't want all the answers spelled out for me, but if someone could give me a hint as to where to look or a clue as to what I could be doing wrong I'd be grateful.
Any help will be appreciated
have you tried the androot method
http://theunlockr.com/down/UniversalAndroot-1.6.2-beta5.apk
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJA3L8YZ
make sure that unknown sources is checked
after you have download it and put it onto your phone download astro file manager and then find the androot apk and install then open it then press root
after doing that download to the android market and search rom manager and flash the recovery image that way
I had, yes - actually it was the first method I tried.
The first time I ran it, it said 'woot you're root' (or something similar) but on rebooting and holding home and power, I got the red triangle/exclamation mark symbol.
I have since reset my phone to factory settings so I reinstalled it now, again it appeared to root successfully, but on rebooting and holding home/power it just says on the white HTC logo screen and doesn't appear to progress.
Would the easiest solution to be to attempt to revert to a previous 'official' HTC build and then try Androot again? One of these maybe?
hmmm did you try the goldcard method? was the only method to gain root access on my Google G2 Touch (german HTC Hero by t-mobile)
due to most providers lock the possibility of rooting, this maybe could help you...
look for "Goldcard tool" @ google... sry don't know where i got my tutorial from the days i rooted but i remember it wasn't hard to find(although i was a complete rooting noob these days), so should be no problem to you
greets, Summoner
edit: was thinking... the exclamation mark looks like a missing custom recovery, maybe you need to flash one.. i'm using AmonRA 1.0.7.1 (build number correct? don't know) which can be found around here on the forum.
I was a Hero user some months before. I tried official 2.1 update just to root it again. I used this guide: http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?3941-Rooting-my-new-HTC-Hero&highlight=root+hero
I used amon ra recovery then. I also ended up getting red triangle. This was solved when i formatted my sdcard and only put the recovery image.
I had the same symptoms, could only get amon ra installed via rom manager alternative install, it would then allow me to reboot to recovery once, but every other time I would get the red triangle.
I believe the problem was I had two recovery.img files, stupidly I had copied a recovering flash image onto the sdcard, then renamed it recovery.img, not realising its name was then recovery.img.img.
(its been 20 years since I've administered unix systems..and it shows).
perhaps check the recovery img you have, and where it is, and re-try the command line flash, it might not be a rooting issue, hth.
LM<FAO
sorry for laughing but this is a thing that happened to me when i was a beginer
REMEMBER THIS rooting doesnt mean u have a rec image remember use androot to give u super user then use rom manager to flash clockworksmod recovery image then reboot in recovery
jave PHUN
wishes the best for all your heros
Thank you all kindly for your assistance; after hours of trying, tears, tantrums and almost throwing my phone out of the window I'm up and running on Cyanogen Mod again
Thanks!
no problem remember to press the thanks button to who ever helped you
hmm I've done fallowing:
1. androot
2. rom manager - flash clockworksmod recovery image
3. reboot in recovery
4. backup
5. wiped cache/dalvik
6. installed Elelinux-7.0.0-RC2-Hero-v1.6 (2011-03-23)
and now the android logo keeps looping (more then 5 min)
/cry
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Right now I'm on the latest radio and android verison. I was planning on getting a TB but my phone went swimming and selling it on ebay was going to help finance my new phone. So now I plan on rooting it and installing XtrSense. I might try the gingerbread ROM too, but for now XtrSense. The only problem is I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it
So how do I root and install a custom ROM????
Here is what I tried so far:
- Installed the one click root app and ran it.
- rebooted like it said, but it said I had to go into Amon's recovery and install a zip. No where on that thread did it state how to get into Amon's recovery and I don't feel like bricking my phone, so I came to ask for help.
I am a 2 on a 1 to 10 scale of being linux literate, and I am thoroughly confused.
Any help would be great!
jlab89 said:
Right now I'm on the latest radio and android verison. I was planning on getting a TB but my phone went swimming and selling it on ebay was going to help finance my new phone. So now I plan on rooting it and installing XtrSense. I might try the gingerbread ROM too, but for now XtrSense. The only problem is I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it
So how do I root and install a custom ROM????
Here is what I tried so far:
- Installed the one click root app and ran it.
- rebooted like it said, but it said I had to go into Amon's recovery and install a zip. No where on that thread did it state how to get into Amon's recovery and I don't feel like bricking my phone, so I came to ask for help.
I am a 2 on a 1 to 10 scale of being linux literate, and I am thoroughly confused.
Any help would be great!
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It's pretty simple, and it may depend. There are two ways to start recovery:
- with the phone powered off, hold down VolUp while you power up until you see the green-text-on-black-background Amon's Recovery start.
- for some versions of the Eris bootloader, this doesn't work. So, restart into the bootloader by holding down VolDn while powering up. When that starts, there will be a prompt telling you that you can press VolUp to start Recovery. Just press VolUp and you are there.
For the rest of it, assuming that you have already copied the xtrSENSE zip file to the root directory of the SD Card (i.e., not in a folder or subfolder), you can follow the directions in this thread, starting with post number 4. And, yes, the directions in the 1-click app post are a lot more sparse than they probably should be.
So I downloaded the ROM, erased my SD card and put only the ROM on my SD card. When I booted into recovery, i got a phone with a red exclamation mark that is inside of a red triangle. Any Ideas what I did wrong?
I took out the battery and restarted the phone and it works fine still
EDIT: I just re did the instructions for the one click root app. Everything works fine now and I'm happily using XtrSense. Thanks for all the help!
No CWM for me? Primo not going into CWM recovery any way I try
So I unlocked the prime after realizing root was not the only thing I needed to start flashing ROMs.. TRUE
I rooted using Sparky's method, so easy too. I also tried to root with viper mod one time when apparently Sparkys wasnt working again after I did something like un-root for fun. But Vipermod failed due to drivers that weren't installed and still haven't, reason: could not figure out how or what part was the driver to be installed nothing i clicked on (in XP) worked to download the drivers. however XP does recognize the prime after Windows Media Player update 11 . it said flash complete or successful . I've flashed CWM from the app itself but the only real function I have from it is fixing permissions...
So should someone like me who just reads downloads and flashes (like a madman flasher) to just wait for a newer version that is fully functional so I dont mess things up and need to learn hours of great knowledge to unbrick the TFP/???
I've read that its not really working all the way is this true???
and another ?Q: I want my web to be speedy like Speedy Gonzales so what do I delete from it and what is the best web browser for speed surfing... this prime was crawling around untill I deleted some things that were uselessly running it seems to have worked a bit but not enough a delete list would be rad. Also one other question was it my order of operations which led to a faulty CWM? though I ve reflashed it several times to no better result.. And also if you are still reading (and thank you very much if you are) I dont know how to manually give CWM a go or how to manually get into recovery--- volume up and down plus power seems to soft brick the Prime untill I hold down the power button for a while untill it vibrates for a second then release and push it again to turn it on....and I held power plus volume down but such small print showed up on the upper left corner that i couldn't really know what to do... I also saw the symbols one was a USB symbol,Q: What is this function? WHat would happen should I push the USB symbol ???... ALso can I get updates from Asus after the unlocker app has been used EDIT: DON"T need them however I will find out how to turn these FOTAs off . And Q: does anybody know how to keep the Logitech keyboard connected it times out so when you go back for it it can take a good thirty seconds recovering from its nap... any fix? thanks alot I cant wait to start flashing better ROMs than stock, mine is fairly buggy
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Mytouch 3g Cyanogen Mod
Galaxy S 4G Lightning Zapped! Valhalla Black
Galaxy S2 T989 Darkside Kernel ROM:Juggernaut 5.0
AND A VIRGIN PRIME TO FLASH BANG
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It is hard to tell if you tried to go into CWM correctly...here is how:
With the Prime OFF, hold the vol down button and the power button until the white lettering appears (you seemed to do that). Then, you have a few seconds to hit the vol up button. (If you wait too long, it won't work.) You should go into recovery at that point -- CWM version 5.8.2.0.
I did the first version of the recovery install manually, like you. But, honestlly, just download ROM Manager from the Market and let it install the latest Transformer Prime CWM for you. If it cannot do it, you have a problem.
If ROM Manager cannot do it, you are probably not actually unlocked. Do you remember giving your rights away to your warranty? If not, you did not unlock and you need to run the unlock .apk. Most of the guys with CWM problems did not unlock their devices correctly.
(P.S.) Personally, if my Prime had been too buggy, I would not have unlocked it. I would have RMA'd it!
Thanks
tedr108 said:
It is hard to tell if you tried to go into CWM correctly...here is how:
With the Prime OFF, hold the vol down button and the power button until the white lettering appears (you seemed to do that). Then, you have a few seconds to hit the vol up button. (If you wait too long, it won't work.) You should go into recovery at that point -- CWM version 5.8.2.0.
I did the first version of the recovery install manually, like you. But, honestlly, just download ROM Manager from the Market and let it install the latest Transformer Prime CWM for you. If it cannot do it, you have a problem.
If ROM Manager cannot do it, you are probably not actually unlocked. Do you remember giving your rights away to your warranty? If not, you did not unlock and you need to run the unlock .apk. Most of the guys with CWM problems did not unlock their devices correctly.
(P.S.) Personally, if my Prime had been too buggy, I would not have unlocked it. I would have RMA'd it!
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Im giving it a go now thanks for the CWM instructions that part is solved however I asked like ten questions though and am thankful for your answers
I just did a backup in CWM thanks a lot I' d hit thank you again but its gone THANKS!!!
*If I helped hit thanks*
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Mytouch 3g Cyanogen Mod
Galaxy S 4G Lightning Zapped! Valhalla Black
Galaxy S2 T989 Darkside Kernel ROM:Darkside
AND A VIRGIN PRIME TO FLASH BANG
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I had a similar problem. Bought my Prime from Amazon in the USA and it came preloaded with Honeycomb - imagine that!!! Anyways I struggled as a result to flash a recovery...I seemed to get root quite easily using NachoRoot and ViperMod methods but flashing a recovery and trying to boot into recovery had me ending up with an exclamation marked Android on boot! 1 day of persistent trying and searching high and low, and am glad to report I finally have a rooted Prime with working recovery (just about to flash Touch Recovery now and then a custom ROM...) running ICS 4.0.3...
My steps:
Trying to flash a custom recovery on HoneyComb really was the show-stopper here, using NachoRoot, Memphi*, nor ViperMod...it just wouldn't work using ADB, fastboot etc
So after 1 day of trying and almost dreading having to send the device back to the US for a swap out, I decided to focus instead on upgrading my firmware to 9.x.x.15 (just below the .21 version which has no root tool at the moment!)
So downloaded a pre-rooted ICS 9.x.x.15 custom ROM from somewhere (google is your friend here) and then followed this tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492887
Once I was on ICS, it was then easy to use ViperMod (excellent tool!) to quickly get rooted and successfully flash CWM
Great work to the devs of the different tools I have come across and used.
great
fyi, you only need root to flash cwm FROM rom manager, otherwise you can use fastboot to flash cwm manually.
Sent from my TF201
Sorry I'm a noob at all of this. Successfully rooted my phone today thanks to Honsoon2000's excellent tutorial and toolkit. Then I went to install Android Revolution, which appeared to go successfully and then after I flashed the kernel the phone wouldn't load and just hangs at the quietly brilliant screen. I followed Honsoon's tutorial to the T (or so I thought) and everything went perfectly until right at the end when I flashed the kernel. I can make it back to the bootloader screen though it says "failed to load usb master mode". I can still make it into fastboot and recovery mode...tried recovery, and the process seemed to go sucessfully, but the phone still wouldn't load after...tried reinstalling ARHD-- it's still on the sd card and the install procedure still goes off without a hitch, but the phone still won't load. I've searched around and tried everything I can, to no avail. Any help would be muchly appreciated, and I apologize in advance for being a noob wasting people's time.
Edit: For example, when I follow the steps outlined in the FAQ it asks me to enter the command 'fastboot flash boot boot.img' , but when I do it says 'error: cannot load boot.img'.
Edit 2: So I put my boot.img file from Android Revolution into the data directory of the rooting toolkit and was able to complete the above flashboot command. I was also able to install the ROM off my SD card...however the phone still hangs on the Quietly Brilliant screen...I can't even power the phone down...whenever I try it just reboots...frustrating...really hoping someone can help me...cheers.
Before you begin, make sure that the drivers for the One X+ are installed.
Place the boot image being used on the computer's hard drive.
Boot in to recovery and flash the ROM.
When that is done, boot in to bootloader and connect the phone to the PC via a USB cable.
If the phone isn't in fastboot mode already, use the volume keys to highlight the word "fastboot", then press the power button.
Now, there should be text at the bootloader screen that says "Fastboot USB".
Finally, use the toolkit or command line and flash the kernel with the fastboot command.
This should successfully flash the ROM and the kernel. Make sure you full wipe before flashing a new ROM. If you can't seem to get the new ROM booting, the final choice is to relock the bootloader and run a RUU.
Which phone version you do own? International or AT&T / TELUS?
Did you flashed the correspondant boot.img? Did you cleared the cache? ( fastboot erase cache)
I'm trying to run an RUU but it keeps saying the battery isn't charged enough to flash anything...and this after it's been plugged in all day. Oh dear I think my phone might be done...really sucks :/
Also, it won't let me power the phone down-- every time i try it shuts the phone off briefly and then opens back up to the bootloader screen.
Fixed thanks to sarcasticphoenix. Cheers.
OK so I've tried 3 times to flash a new ROM onto my phone (Android Revolution twice and Eleganzia once) using Honsoon's toolkit...I've followed every instruction to the T as far as I can tell and all 3 times the process has gone perfectly right until the end when I flash the kernel...after that when I reboot the phone it just hangs at the Quietly Brilliant screen. I know how to relock the bootloader, flash the custom rom and get my phone back...but I really want to know what I'm doing wrong so I can install a custom ROM. I know I'm using the right ROM for my phone and am wondering what gives. Being driven crazy here...any ideas what's going wrong here would be helpful. BTW on the last attempt right after I finished and the phone hung I went into the boot loader and followed the instructions in the FAQ for fixing a bootloop...still nothing.
Edit: Solved my problem-- I managed to successfully load eleganzia...the only thing i did differently the last time was flash the kernel BEFORE installing the ROM off the SD card.
jrockwell said:
OK so I've tried 3 times to flash a new ROM onto my phone (Android Revolution twice and Eleganzia once) using Honsoon's toolkit...I've followed every instruction to the T as far as I can tell and all 3 times the process has gone perfectly right until the end when I flash the kernel...after that when I reboot the phone it just hangs at the Quietly Brilliant screen. I know how to relock the bootloader, flash the custom rom and get my phone back...but I really want to know what I'm doing wrong so I can install a custom ROM. I know I'm using the right ROM for my phone and am wondering what gives. Being driven crazy here...any ideas what's going wrong here would be helpful. BTW on the last attempt right after I finished and the phone hung I went into the boot loader and followed the instructions in the FAQ for fixing a bootloop...still nothing.
Edit: Solved my problem-- I managed to successfully load eleganzia...the only thing i did differently the last time was flash the kernel BEFORE installing the ROM off the SD card.
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That's usually what I do first, flash the kernel and then install the zip via recovery
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Which kernel are you referring too? Actually there is one or two kernels available but only for the International version, not the AT&T/TELUS which you seem to have.
I strongly suspect that your boot looping was because you didn't flash the boot.img file correctly or not at all. And you don't seem to install the good ROM version for your phone.
Elegancia has two ROM versions one for International and one for AT&T/TELUS users.
ARHD is for International users.
Please read Q12 of the FAQ.
Lucky Thirteen said:
ARHD is for International users.
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Lol...yeah I don`t know how I missed that. I ended up getting elegancia successfully flashed and loaded so all is well. In retrospect this was a good experience because there`s nothing like having to get yourself unforked from a bad situation to gain an understanding of what`s going on. Cheers.
I have a couple questions and since I`m not allowed to post yet in the elegancia thread I'll try in this thread first:
1) An elegancia question: Is there a way (widget) to toggle data roaming on and off in this ROM?
2) Is there a way to tweak settings (transparent pull down, selection of launcher etc.) without wiping and reflashing the ROM?
3) What are people's favorite launcher for that ROM? I tried Atom but it was just a guess because I hadn't heard of any of them. I like it so far but am curious about the others.
Hello all,
Firstly I'd like to say that I am a long time lurker on this website, having rooted my phones and my friends' many times thanks to the awesome help of this community. I say I'm a lurker because normally I can find solutions to any speedbumps I have very easily on this site, but alas, something has really caught me by the pants this time.
I'm having trouble rooting my second SGSIII, FCC ID A3LGTI9300A. I tried first to flash CWM recovery through Odin, and it was successful, but then it keeps booting into the stock Android recovery (I'm not sure if this is because I don't have a working SD card, but I don't think that should make a difference). To be noted, I wiped all my data and cleared the cache in the Android factory recovery by mistake (I'm not sure if this makes a difference). I read up that some other people who were having this problem took out the battery after it flashed through ODIN and then booted into CWM recovery and it worked, but it seemed to have messed up my phone, because after that I wasn't getting any network signal (my SIM card is working though). I also noticed that now when I try to boot into Recovery, I have a red exclamation mark at the left top corner of my screen, and it doesn't go into any recovery mode.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but if someone can explain to me how to properly root my device after the so much I have ****ed up, I would really appreciate it.
Best bet is to start from scratch.
Flash stock firmware
Root with cf root (this will install a 5.x.x version of cwm recovery)
Update recovery with mobile Odin or through recovery)
NOTE.....When you flash cf root occasionally it doesn't "take" properly, in which case boot into recovery and this triggers installation. (As per Chainfire instructions )
The exclamation mark came into being in any firmware after XXELLA, it's a Samsung trick to alert that the phone has been flashed. It is in the bootloader, and you can revert to an old bootloader with a cwm flashable.zip (note this is potentially risky, but it worked fine for me, although I decided to stay with a new bootloader in the end)
i'm having the same problem. i flashed through heimdall which worked great, but in order to boot into CWM i need to pull the battery right after the flash. any subsequent attempts to boot into recovery meant i needed to restart the entire process of flashing from heimdall again. surely there must be some way around this? i understand that samsung's stock recovery 'resets' the preferences so chooses to boot from it instead of the loaded recovery... and this is slowly but surely driving me crazy.
any tips, anyone?
saraddictive said:
i'm having the same problem. i flashed through heimdall which worked great, but in order to boot into CWM i need to pull the battery right after the flash. any subsequent attempts to boot into recovery meant i needed to restart the entire process of flashing from heimdall again. surely there must be some way around this? i understand that samsung's stock recovery 'resets' the preferences so chooses to boot from it instead of the loaded recovery... and this is slowly but surely driving me crazy.
any tips, anyone?
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Are you using cf root?
A few weird things are happening on my phone and I'm quite concerned (even though it's actually working perfectly fine, which is the weirdest part of all!)
A little background: I recently wiped my phone and flashed the Sense 5 Android 4.3, stock rom. Now I'm trying to flash Viper 4.0.
First of all, as the title suggests, whenever I put a zip file on my phone it doesn't show in the TWRP recovery. I downloaded the correct one on the site (the newest one for the HTC EVO 4G LTE) so I don't think that's the problem. Also, I tried to push the file Viper zip onto my phone using this program called WinDroid Toolkit, and it claims it did but when I go into TWRP I cannot see the zip file at all, and if I try to use other folder names (such as the 'boot' folder I saw when I was in TWRP recovery) it says those folders don't exist!
Second of all, TWRP claims there is no OS installed on my phone but when I reboot my phone, it's fine! It just goes to the home screen as usual and it works perfectly fine... so I don't understand this warning but I couldn't shake the feeling that this was relevant to my issue.
I've been combing the forums looking for this type of problem, and I've tried multiple things but to no avail. I've read snippets about partition problems after formatting some phones but I'm not sure because there doesn't seem to be much information about it (at least from what I could find).
Altom85 said:
A few weird things are happening on my phone and I'm quite concerned (even though it's actually working perfectly fine, which is the weirdest part of all!)
A little background: I recently wiped my phone and flashed the Sense 5 Android 4.3, stock rom. Now I'm trying to flash Viper 4.0.
First of all, as the title suggests, whenever I put a zip file on my phone it doesn't show in the TWRP recovery. I downloaded the correct one on the site (the newest one for the HTC EVO 4G LTE) so I don't think that's the problem. Also, I tried to push the file Viper zip onto my phone using this program called WinDroid Toolkit, and it claims it did but when I go into TWRP I cannot see the zip file at all, and if I try to use other folder names (such as the 'boot' folder I saw when I was in TWRP recovery) it says those folders don't exist!
Second of all, TWRP claims there is no OS installed on my phone but when I reboot my phone, it's fine! It just goes to the home screen as usual and it works perfectly fine... so I don't understand this warning but I couldn't shake the feeling that this was relevant to my issue.
I've been combing the forums looking for this type of problem, and I've tried multiple things but to no avail. I've read snippets about partition problems after formatting some phones but I'm not sure because there doesn't seem to be much information about it (at least from what I could find).
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Try using the TWRP found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639180
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download this twrp http://d-h.st/7Cr
name it properly and fastboot flash it. after that mount your device to you pc and transfer a rom zip to storage.
Okay, well I flashed that TWRP and now I'm stuck at the white HTC screen. I can't even get into the bootloader, it just continually boots to the white HTC screen. Thoughts?
Altom85 said:
Okay, well I flashed that TWRP and now I'm stuck at the white HTC screen. I can't even get into the bootloader, it just continually boots to the white HTC screen. Thoughts?
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RUU or ViperRUU. TBH it sounds like the behavior of a dirty flash. ViperRUU is especially helpful in these situations.
Once done, use the TWRP recommended by Evolution_Freak. There were some major changes to the partitioning in the last few releases, make sure your recovery is appropriate for your ROM.
FesterCluck said:
RUU or ViperRUU. TBH it sounds like the behavior of a dirty flash. ViperRUU is especially helpful in these situations.
Once done, use the TWRP recommended by Evolution_Freak. There were some major changes to the partitioning in the last few releases, make sure your recovery is appropriate for your ROM.
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Ok it's not stuck anymore, I can get into recovery and bootloader, so I'm not in a panic anymore at least However, my computer is not detecting my phone, nor is VipeRUU. If I try to mount to the computer via TWRP, nothing comes up. BTW my recovery is 2.7.8.0b now. Still no OS, still gets stuck on the HTC screen until I boot to recovery or bootloader
Edit: Now the computer tries to install drivers for my phone whenever I plug it in. It pops up as HTC MTP Device, always fails to install, then has a warning in the device manager. So I uninstalled the drivers, uninstalled HTC Sync, reinstalled HTC Sync. Didn't help. This is beyond frustrating...
Edit 2: After scouring the internet someone said to lock the bootloader and that'll allow my PC to see my phone. Well, now i have a RELOCKED (that's what it says on top) bootloader and I'm no closer to the solution methinks. I'm ready to just throw this phone out the window.
Edit 3: I actually discovered ViperRUU has a way to bypass the initial screen so I can use it in bootloader. Great, except now it's stuck on "Flashing..." and has been for half an hour. I really might throw this phone out the window.
5th and final edit: VipeRUU just would not work at all, so I had to go back to an older stock RUU, which sucks but at least my phone is working now Thanks for your help guys!