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I've had my thunderbolt happily running BAMF Remix 1.6.3 and Inoseyon's Kernel for about 2 weeks now. I bought an aftermarket battery off Ebay today and charged it up, then took the battery out of my old phone and put in the new aftermarket one. Tried to boot up, and am bootlooping at the white HTC splash screen.
Thinking the battery was junk, I put back in my old battey and tried to boot, same issue now, bootlooping. I can get into HBOOT but not recovery.
I'm not even sure what the solution is for a bricked phone in this condition (I'm assuming follow the "restore to stock" instructions in the development area) but I'm wondering if Froyo bricking is something anyone even reported.
I'm kind of in a time crunch so if anyone needs me to do something prior to re-flashing please let me know!
Okay, well I've been trying to research this (there REALLY needs to be a well-updated, concise Bricked Phone FAQ or something) and it does seem like I'm legimately bricked.
Phone goes to white HTC screen, then to black (shuts off it seems) then back to white HTC screen. Does this constantly. I can get into HBOOT but if I try to go into recovery, I'm back to the white screen bootlooping.
I tried factory reset, same deal, just went straight to white screen. I have no way of knowing if downgrading to the stock RUU would help without actually DOING it, which from what I understand would not be helpful to you folks.
Per HBOOT I still have S-OFF, and I'm more than happy to try to give you folks the info you need, but I have no idea how to get ADB to talk to me phone when it's not even able to turn on. I would need someone to give me reasonably simple instructions for how to do this.
Also, I can't wait forever on this, I'd post it in the actual development area but XDA feels I am not worthy of posting in there due to my noob status. If someone needs me to run some tests on the phone before flashing the stock .zips in HBOOT I need to hear back on this soon.
If hboot is stable and not looping, you should be able to flash the stock ruu, then unroot again. Gb loops happen in hboot too that's more serious
Sent from my thunderbolt
You can return to stock via the instructions in that thread if you like. But if you don't want to have to root again and you aren't bootlooping in hboot, you can flash the rooted MR1 RUU in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1082114 . This will take you back to rooted MR1 update. Just download, verify md5, rename PG05IMG.zip, put on root of sd, boot into bootloader and let it flash.
Excellent, thanks for the info. I hadn't realized the legit bricking issue caused hboot to be unstable as well. I'm almost sorry it's not the real deal, I was hoping to get you guys the emcc data ya'll were looking for.
I need to return a rezound to stock. I purchased it @ retail but have since gotten one via craigs list for nearly half price.
I was running an ICS rom.
First attempts with using RUU in windows resulted in ruu not seeing the phone via USB. The phone was locked @ the time and in fastboot usb mode.
I have tried many of the threads doing things like setting mainversion low etc.. still wont detect the phone . Tried pulling the zip and doing it from hboot but it says hboot mainversion is older.
Im sort of lost and on my last day here. I am currently on cleanrom so it looks kinda like stock, I realize it will still says relocked but i dont want anything else out of place if possible...
Flash the newest ICS CleanRom, Scott has it in his rom to get you back to mainver 1.00.000.00. This will allow you to pull the zip and do it from hboot. But make sure you using the right RUU. If you have hboot 2.11 you have to run RUU 2.01.xxx.xx.
Ok flashed to the latest, now as far as the ruu zip.. im in linux so i cant just grab them from the windows temp folder i have been dl them..
if using the downloads from scotts do i need to do both the smaller 3.xmb one and the larger472.xmb one? do this after re-locking correct?
UPDATE SOLVED
This issue was the ruu file there was the older one once i searched out the new one by name and found it all is well.
Thanks for the clear concise answer EmerikL
Yesterday I flashed to the Charmeleon rom using TWRP. Stupidly I didn't make a backup of the stock rom and part of the process is wiping the current rom completely, which I did. Now it seems like I'm stuck with no way to get back to my stock rom. If there is ANY WAY to get back to the complete, full stock rom my EVO LTE came with, PLEASE explain to me how to do it! Thanks in advance for anyone who offers their help.
Well 1 you're in general so you're in the wrong section. 2 Yes! you can go back to stock WITH OUT your stuff using a RUU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655733
Or flash the stock rooted rom.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Ok quick question, I found RUU files here - http://stockroms.net/file/HTCEvo4GLTE/RUU, and the link you gave me has 3 new ones... can anyone tell me which one is current?
cg121792 said:
Ok quick question, I found RUU files here - http://stockroms.net/file/HTCEvo4GLTE/RUU, and the link you gave me has 3 new ones... can anyone tell me which one is current?
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your supposed to flash the same one that on your phone now... go into menu in about.. software info.. more.. build number.. mines is 1.13651.1 so thats the ruu that i would run... check to see what build u got and run that ruu and u golden!
Well that's my problem, none of those are on my phone, the Charmeleon rom is. I completely wiped the stock rom away which is what I'm trying to get back. Am I not able to do so?
An ruu is run from your pc, a rom is flashed through your recovery. Not to be a ****, but I think you should have read
a lot more about all of this before you started. So download the stock rooted rom from the dev section, boot into recovery, wipe everything but your sd card, and flash the rom just like you did before.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Yeah sorry man, I'm just getting ahead of myself a bit because I've been searching this for the last (literally) 8 hours freaked out that I've done permanent damage to my phone. There's so many variations and believe it or not, there isn't a lot on this for this particular phone. Thanks to all you guys though, you all helped me a lot. Appreciate it.
The most recent build is 1.13, so you want to flash the stock rom of that build. It's always good to have the current ruu on your computer as a precaution, it can bring your phone back from the dead most of the time. Other than than its pretty easy, i'm on my phone so I can't post a link, but all you need should be in the stickies in the development section.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Okay guys ran into antother quick problem. My bootloader was unlocked and in order to install the RUU it has to be locked. So I re-locked it and my phone will only start into the bootloader, with a 'security warning' on the screen. I now found out that if you have a custom rom installed when you re-lock the bootloader, you can only start into the bootloader until you run the RUU. So now I'm basically trying to find out how to run the RUU without actually being into my phone.
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Yeah sorry man, I'm just getting ahead of myself a bit because I've been searching this for the last (literally) 8 hours freaked out that I've done permanent damage to my phone. There's so many variations and believe it or not, there isn't a lot on this for this particular phone. Thanks to all you guys though, you all helped me a lot. Appreciate it.
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Like thwese guys said, if u want to take your phone into Sprint for any reason, just flash the Stock Rooted ROM. The RUU will take your phone back to it Original state, but u need to relock your Bootloader before u run that. But dont run the RUU and all that, just to have a Bacjup of a stock ROM. That would just be silly. flash the Stock Rooted ROM, and make a backup of that. It will be no different from having the Original Stock ROM. Only differnce is, is that it has SU and Busybox installed with it. SO your fine. No worries
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Okay guys ran into antother quick problem. My bootloader was unlocked and in order to install the RUU it has to be locked. So I re-locked it and my phone will only start into the bootloader, with a 'security warning' on the screen. I now found out that if you have a custom rom installed when you re-lock the bootloader, you can only start into the bootloader until you run the RUU. So now I'm basically trying to find out how to run the RUU without actually being into my phone.
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You should b able to run the RUU while the phone is in fastboot.
Everything worked. So now I'm completely back to the stock rom as if I had just taken the phone out of the box?
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Everything worked. So now I'm completely back to the stock rom as if I had just taken the phone out of the box?
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I did the same thing you did but with CM10 rom. Where can I find the most current stock ROM that is rooted? I want to stay rooted but also have the stock ROM available to flash? Your input is extremely appreciated.
I can't seem to get back to stock for some reason, I've googled, searched the forums used the search function in the forums followed all those steps with bootloader unlocked and relocked and still Can't get to stock. My phone details are
HTC Amaze 4g (TELUS)
Android version: 4.0.3
Recovery: 4EXT
I'm not sure what other information is needed, I tried this thread here tried both files, the first one i tried restoring from recovery, says the MD5 sums don't match so I didn't want to take the chance. The second file the .exe attempted that failed right away and after removing battery phone went back to the same way it was. tried renaming the first file to PH85IMG and relocked bootloader, the flash succeeded it seemed, but once phone loaded nothing was changed..which I found very weird. It formatted I wiped caches, fixed permissions and get back to home screen after it was all done, and my apps were all still installed and settings were exactly the same and everything. (I had the feeling I'm already on stock and that's why its not working), the whole reason I was trying to get to stock is because in order to s-off juopunutbear's tutorial, where it didn't work the troubleshooting said problem is im not stock, or! i have certain programs installed. But I just reformatted and just installed the basics, so I have nothing that would interfere as far as I know.
So How Do I Get Back To Stock?
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I can't seem to get back to stock for some reason, I've googled, searched the forums used the search function in the forums followed all those steps with bootloader unlocked and relocked and still Can't get to stock. My phone details are
HTC Amaze 4g (TELUS)
Android version: 4.0.3
Recovery: 4EXT
I'm not sure what other information is needed, I tried this thread here tried both files, the first one i tried restoring from recovery, says the MD5 sums don't match so I didn't want to take the chance. The second file the .exe attempted that failed right away and after removing battery phone went back to the same way it was. tried renaming the first file to PH85IMG and relocked bootloader, the flash succeeded it seemed, but once phone loaded nothing was changed..which I found very weird. It formatted I wiped caches, fixed permissions and get back to home screen after it was all done, and my apps were all still installed and settings were exactly the same and everything. (I had the feeling I'm already on stock and that's why its not working), the whole reason I was trying to get to stock is because in order to s-off juopunutbear's tutorial, where it didn't work the troubleshooting said problem is im not stock, or! i have certain programs installed. But I just reformatted and just installed the basics, so I have nothing that would interfere as far as I know.
So How Do I Get Back To Stock?
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You just need a Telus ICS stock RUU, not gb RUU. Rename the zip rom to ph85img, not the exe file, put to your sd, relock and boot the bootloader. It will scan and ask you to update, just say yes.
you're done.
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You just need a Telus ICS stock RUU, not gb RUU. Rename the zip rom to ph85img, not the exe file, put to your sd, relock and boot the bootloader. It will scan and ask you to update, just say yes.
you're done.
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I've already done that exactly how you just said it, and it worked like it went through the whole process BUT once my phone loaded up nothng changed or was different and juopunutbear didn't work still. the TELUS files in the thread i linked, the ICS one...is that not the stock ICS RUU?
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I've already done that exactly how you just said it, and it worked like it went through the whole process BUT once my phone loaded up nothng changed or was different and juopunutbear didn't work still. the TELUS files in the thread i linked, the ICS one...is that not the stock ICS RUU?
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Well, I'm not with telus, but to me those look like on the air ICS and stock GB, which explain your prob :
•OTA_RUBY_ICS_35_S_TELUS_WWE_2.14.661.2-1.41.661.3_release_258801lhwl8053lp8g5hcp.zip
•RUU_Ruby_TELUS_WWE_1.41.661.3_Radio_1.08.550L.19DC _30.66.550L.08D_release_222694_signed.exe
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Well, I'm not with telus, but to me those look like on the air ICS and stock GB, which explain your prob :
•OTA_RUBY_ICS_35_S_TELUS_WWE_2.14.661.2-1.41.661.3_release_258801lhwl8053lp8g5hcp.zip
•RUU_Ruby_TELUS_WWE_1.41.661.3_Radio_1.08.550L.19DC _30.66.550L.08D_release_222694_signed.exe
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Great! lol thats what I thought OTA didn't think it was RUU but thats the link i was given on another site saying it would work. Any idea where theres a stock RUU? There is the .exe but i cant change that to a zip so no clue what to do
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Great! lol thats what I thought OTA didn't think it was RUU but thats the link i was given on another site saying it would work. Any idea where theres a stock RUU? There is the .exe but i cant change that to a zip so no clue what to do
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I haven't checked for the Telus one. I've the Videotron ICS RUU, but it's won't help unless you're cid free. For the .exe, you have to get the rom, not rename the .exe to .zip. Just search in your temp (%temp%), when you activate the RUU you'll see some new folders. Look for it, rename and you're done.
Maybe someone else could post a direct link.
Maybe you can directly try with the OTA to get back. boot into stock recovery, if you have the red triangle error, hold volume up and press the power button, should give you a menu, then install update from external, select the OTA RUU and install.
Try that, maybe it will solve your prob.
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I haven't checked for the Telus one. I've the Videotron ICS RUU, but it's won't help unless you're cid free. For the .exe, you have to get the rom, not rename the .exe to .zip. Just search in your temp (%temp%), when you activate the RUU you'll see some new folders. Look for it, rename and you're done.
Maybe someone else could post a direct link.
Maybe you can directly try with the OTA to get back. boot into stock recovery, if you have the red triangle error, hold volume up and press the power button, should give you a menu, then install update from external, select the OTA RUU and install.
Try that, maybe it will solve your prob.
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Hmm I found the rom.zip but I can't do anything with it, just says its invalid.
where do you get the invalid message? I've extracted the rom.zip after starting the exe file, and renamed it and it worked no problem before. If I get a hold of my backup phone I'll see if I can load up a stock rom and do a backup, zip it and put it on dropbox for you. That won't be til tomorrow though, and at least that way you'll have the stock rom, one way or another
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where do you get the invalid message? I've extracted the rom.zip after starting the exe file, and renamed it and it worked no problem before. If I get a hold of my backup phone I'll see if I can load up a stock rom and do a backup, zip it and put it on dropbox for you. That won't be til tomorrow though, and at least that way you'll have the stock rom, one way or another
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When I try to open it, I tried just renaming copying it to SD, it ran...but then said failed..older hboot....I believe. How would I be able to tell if I was on a stock ruu...I have a feeling I'm already stock...and that's why nothing is working...and my juopunutbear problem lies elsewhere.
did you try to flash with a stock recovery? You need a stock recovery to get the ruu to install. Did you change your hboot?
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did you try to flash with a stock recovery? You need a stock recovery to get the ruu to install. Did you change your hboot?
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It's possible but im not sure what should it say?
loki9 said:
It's possible but im not sure what should it say?
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ya im pretty much stuck cant get back to stock because my bootloader version is newer
Hey all,
The title pretty much says it all. I've converted my AT&T HTC One into a Google Edition phone, but I'm tired of multiple issues etc. With that being said, I'd like to convert back to AT&T stock, but I can't seem to find the stock RUU for my device. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I've been able to pretty much get to the RUU stage, but it seems like that's the only thing holding me back at this point.
Thanks all
pacDiesel said:
Hey all,
The title pretty much says it all. I've converted my AT&T HTC One into a Google Edition phone, but I'm tired of multiple issues etc. With that being said, I'd like to convert back to AT&T stock, but I can't seem to find the stock RUU for my device. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I've been able to pretty much get to the RUU stage, but it seems like that's the only thing holding me back at this point.
Thanks all
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post your fastboot getvar all results minus serial no and IEMI
did you change your MID and CID to GPE?
You need to be S-Off...
Directions an Hboot you'll need are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43460011&postcount=2
The RUU file is here: http://www.htc1guru.com/downloads/ruu-file-downloads/
You want the Cingular one...
One thing not mentioned in the directions on xda is that affer you flash the hboot in RUU mode, fastboot reboot-bootloader. With the phone connected in bootloader mode, run the RUU. There is no need to change your CID back to the att one to have the RUU run...
pm me if you have any questions...I did it today...I prefer the developer edition RUU...(brightstar) grab the 1.29.1540.16 version, and let it run the OTA's all the way to 4.4.2
Mark