Am i bricked? how turn to turn s-off wihtout adb - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi whenever i turn my phone on it goes directly into the bootloader. it says i have s-on it will not go past the bootloader.. then when it trys to update it says "main version older. update fail! reboot" what would i do from here. i do not adb installed on this computer my laptop is on the fritz right now. do i need to reroot and how would i do this wthout turning the phone on. or how would i turn s-off? please any help would be appreciated im having a small heart attack right now over this.

jyabor91 said:
hi whenever i turn my phone on it goes directly into the bootloader. it says i have s-on it will not go past the bootloader.. then when it trys to update it says "main version older. update fail! reboot" what would i do from here. i do not adb installed on this computer my laptop is on the fritz right now. do i need to reroot and how would i do this wthout turning the phone on. or how would i turn s-off? please any help would be appreciated im having a small heart attack right now over this.
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were u in the middle of rooting?

so far I believe the root and s off REQUIRES adb. someone can chime in if this is not correct.
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lu270bro said:
so far I believe the root and s off REQUIRES adb. someone can chime in if this is not correct.
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Yup. It does. Not sure what the OP was doing here.

Do you have one of the ~400mb Pg01img files on your sd card? If so you might be able to go into fastboot in your phone and update to this.

Forgetfull said:
Do you have one of the ~400mb Pg01img files on your sd card? If so you might be able to go into fastboot in your phone and update to this.
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If not, he could just mount his SD card on a computer externally and put the RUU file that he needs onto the SD card, and flash it from there. But without more information about what he was doing... kinda hard to say.

psufan5 said:
If not, he could just mount his SD card on a computer externally and put the RUU file that he needs onto the SD card, and flash it from there. But without more information about what he was doing... kinda hard to say.
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Getting the ruu on the sdcard and then fastboot would be the best way to start over.
Find a PG05IMG.zip that's stock with s-on, place it on root of sdcard boot to fastboot and should put you back to stock unrooted s-on.
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Soft Bricked My Rezound I'm CLUELESS!!

I managed to soft brick my phone or i believe so. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed cwm to the phone, rooted then read that it fails alot with the rezound so i prepped my phone to unroot and remove cwm and install Amon Ra and nodded off to sleep while in the recovery menu... This is where it gets weird... I woke up to my phone like this. I uploaded a picture of the bootloader screen... Its relocked and will not allow me to do jack... Im not the best at development and relatively inexperienced... I desperately need help. Please.
Well you have hboot so its not bricked. I would pull the battery and then make sure you don't have a ph98img.zip in root of sd. Then put battery back in and see what happens.
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texascfdad said:
Well you have hboot so its not bricked. I would pull the battery and then make sure you don't have a ph98img.zip in root of sd. Then put battery back in and see what happens.
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When I I rooted my phone i had forgotten to put my sd card in so it rooted using the internal sd. I cannot find external or internal sd card through the bootloader or via usb connection. Here is what the bootloader shows when i try to launch recovery.
Reunlock your hboot then try a regular reboot.
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Snuzzo said:
Reunlock your hboot then try a regular reboot.
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I've tried to use hasoon2000's kit to reunlock my phone and to no effect. It cant even locate my device... Here's a screen shot...
jaredvillhelm2002 said:
I've tried to use hasoon2000's kit to reunlock my phone and to no effect. It cant even locate my device... Here's a screen shot...
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Does the phone say fastboot usb?
darkghost568 said:
Does the phone say fastboot usb?
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When connected to the pc via usb cable yes. My pc however cannot find any files or even recognize the phone as a device. Ive put my microsd card into the reader and it is also completely wiped... nothing...
jaredvillhelm2002 said:
When connected to the pc via usb cable yes. My pc however cannot find any files or even recognize the phone as a device. Ive put my microsd card into the reader and it is also completely wiped... nothing...
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Do you have HTC sync installed?
Have you tried to download a complete RUU in PH98IMG.zip form and see if it will install from the bootloader?
Here is a link...
Flash ruu of your choosing then use the toolbox to install amon ra. When in doubt use ruu to get back to square one. I have had to do it a few times lol.
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I've downloaded HTC sync and it's fully updated. I downloaded the 4.0.3.xxxx ph98img.zip from I can't remember where and tried throwing it onto my sd card but when I booted the phone I to hboot it did nothing. I'll try again if someone can guide me through it. And this is my fault for thinking after being out of the tech loop for years that I could jump back in and do a full root and rom flash without much more extensive research. I found out what happened also. My gf was trying to get the phone to turn on and couldn't figure out what was happening and turned out she was playing with the volume rocker and power button. So god knows she may have wiped everything from the inside out...
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We've all heard the gf excuse... not gonna fly.
You could try reformatting the sd card using your pc and using that one to flash the RUU?
feralicious said:
We've all heard the gf excuse... not gonna fly.
You could try reformatting the sd card using your pc and using that one to flash the RUU?
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<3.
Not going to pull any punches. 1st off; learn your fastboot commands hassoon's toolkit is for ease of use. 2nd; You were almost there. 3rd; When trying to use fastboot/adb, make sure HTC sync isn't running in the background.
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I've downloaded HTC sync and it's fully updated. I downloaded the 4.0.3.xxxx ph98img.zip from I can't remember where and tried throwing it onto my sd card but when I booted the phone I to hboot it did nothing. I'll try again if someone can guide me through it. And this is my fault for thinking after being out of the tech loop for years that I could jump back in and do a full root and rom flash without much more extensive research. I found out what happened also. My gf was trying to get the phone to turn on and couldn't figure out what was happening and turned out she was playing with the volume rocker and power button. So god knows she may have wiped everything from the inside out...
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Have it named PH98IMG.zip(watch your filenames, be careful not to name it PH98IMG.zip.zip). But first try reunlocking again and see if you get boot. If you at least get boot animation that tells me you have a working boot partition. If not then you would need to reflash a boot.img. If you are adamant about gaining root, you could have just flashed a custom rom after flashing Amon RA + a data wipe along with proper boot.img in fastboot.
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Not going to pull any punches. 1st off; learn your fastboot commands hassoon's toolkit is for ease of use. 2nd; You were almost there. 3rd; When trying to use fastboot/adb, make sure HTC sync isn't running in the background.
Have it named PH98IMG.zip(watch your filenames, be careful not to name it PH98IMG.zip.zip). But first try reunlocking again and see if you get boot. If you at least get boot animation that tells me you have a working boot partition. If not then you would need to reflash a boot.img. If you are adamant about gaining root, you could have just flashed a custom rom after flashing Amon RA + a data wipe along with proper boot.img in fastboot.
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Simple steps I used when I was in an HTC boot loop.
1. Relocked and installed the stock ruu.
2. Unlocked and flashed the recovery partition using fast boot flash recovery recovery.img (name of your recovery image you want to use.)
3. Used recovery to install su.
4. Profit.
You can also use fast boot to install asop boot images. But for now if you want root use steps 1-4. It worked for me when I borked the heck out of entire phone. ( I had no recovery even after fastboot flashing the recovery partition.)
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lol, your not bricked at all. Not even close. You just need to figure out how to flash an ruu in hboot to get back to square one. That way you have a clean slate to start over again with.
Next time, DONT FALL ASLEEP.
wildstang83 said:
lol, your not bricked at all. Not even close. You just need to figure out how to flash an ruu in hboot to get back to square one. That way you have a clean slate to start over again with.
Next time, DONT FALL ASLEEP.
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Not going to pull any punches. 1st off; learn your fastboot commands hassoon's toolkit is for ease of use. 2nd; You were almost there. 3rd; When trying to use fastboot/adb, make sure HTC sync isn't running in the background.
Have it named PH98IMG.zip(watch your filenames, be careful not to name it PH98IMG.zip.zip). But first try reunlocking again and see if you get boot. If you at least get boot animation that tells me you have a working boot partition. If not then you would need to reflash a boot.img. If you are adamant about gaining root, you could have just flashed a custom rom after flashing Amon RA + a data wipe along with proper boot.img in fastboot.
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What should be done if i'm stuck at re-locked bootloader, S-ON, download mode screen, unable to lock-unlock bootloader nor able to flash RUU ? Even the unbrick tool at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=183353 doesn't detect my phone.
I gave it to a repair shop, he tried flashing the RUU but said he was getting some USB error.
Pull SD card, place a full ruu ph98img on it with a card reader.
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Snuzzo said:
Pull SD card, place a full ruu ph98img on it with a card reader.
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Done that several times.. even tried different sd cards and different new downloads.. still doesn't boot up.. ruu flashes just one pass only very quickly in under 2-3mins..
Not recognizing fastboot at all?
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[Q] Rezound Stuck At Lock Screen

Hi,
I am new here and this is my first post so forgive me if starting a new thread for this topic was wrong but I found my own situation slightly different from the others here who had the same problem.
I have a gsm unlocked rezound and was trying to get rid of the unknown sim error message at lock screen. I followed the steps mentioned on this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882355. I rooted the phone, downloaded the apk. Deleted the .odex file and replaced the existing apk with the downloaded one and rebooted. Now, I am stuck at the lock screen with no icons. But for the other people who faced similiar issue, they were able to open the home screen. I can't. I can see pop ups for sms/mail. I get ring when a call comes in but I cant pick. I tried hard reset. Tried booting without sim/sd card. Still no luck. I tried connecting the phone to my pc but now my pc wont recognise the phone when its connected. I can see icon on top of the phone which says USB connected and I also see sync icon, but it will not go any further. I dont know how to get into the phone's menu now.
I may have bitten more than I can chew, silly me :crying:
If you guys can help me in any way, I would appreciate that a lot.
OS : 4.0.3 ICS Running HTC Sense 3.6.
A quick fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017932
Flash my debloater, choosing the Sense option(will be brought to a widget removal screen if you don' use them all) & AOSP lockscreen. Disadvantage to that though, you will have to unlock to see the caller id when it rings.
Snuzzo said:
A quick fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017932
Flash my debloater, choosing the Sense option(will be brought to a widget removal screen if you don' use them all) & AOSP lockscreen. Disadvantage to that though, you will have to unlock to see the caller id when it rings.
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Thank you for the quick response. I have downloaded the file. I know this sounds stupid but I am a real rookie. I don't know how to do the flashing or how to get to the AOSP lock screen. If you could guide me through the process or maybe give me a link where I can learn it myself, it would be great.
Essentially since you already have rooted, you will(should) also have a custom recovery (TWRP, AmonRa, CWM). Install it as you would a regular rom but without any wipes until after flash of the zip. Dependent on which recovery you will want to look up their FAQ/QnA on how to wipe dalvik/cache.
Once you get inside the script, you will see what I meant by "Choose Sense & AOSP Lockscreen".
Snuzzo said:
Essentially since you already have rooted, you will(should) also have a custom recovery (TWRP, AmonRa, CWM). Install it as you would a regular rom but without any wipes until after flash of the zip. Dependent on which recovery you will want to look up their FAQ/QnA on how to wipe dalvik/cache.
Once you get inside the script, you will see what I meant by "Choose Sense & AOSP Lockscreen".
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Yes the phone was rooted, but I used a rooting software from google apps from the phone. After I downloaded that app, it rooted the phone and brought in an extra icon. I remember it as SU root something, but I didnt do it from the pc. So I dont have any recovery on the pc. I used to sync the phone with htc sync. Unfortunately, right now, my pc wont recognise the phone. I tried root explorer for android from pc, it wont recognise the device. HTC sync too will not. But my phone seems to know when a USB is connected, it brings the usb icon on top but thats about it. ((
Ok, best suggestion at this point is to follow the instruction in the OP for installing TWRP in the Rezound development section.
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Ok, best suggestion at this point is to follow the instruction in the OP for installing TWRP in the Rezound development section.
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Could you kindly provide me a link to the right topic. Do you think my phone is beyond repair ? Have I bricked it ?
I am running 4.0.3 ICS on Sense 3.6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902381
You are far FAR from being bricked. Softbricked yes, hardbricked no.
Snuzzo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902381
You are far FAR from being bricked. Softbricked yes, hardbricked no.
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Thank you for the help buddy. I am glad you said its not. I dont know what I would have done if it had. This is my first android phone and I took it a week back. I was beginning to miss my iPhone . Unfortunately the link you provided wont help me because I have no way of restarting phone other than by removing battery. Even when in fastboot, the pc does not recognise the device even when device shows fastboot usb. I doubt if I can get past step 1 in that link.
I found that I am on Vigor H Boot 2.27.000 and Radio 2.22.10.0803r with S-ON. I tried to turn S-Off after reading and educating myself on android from this forum till now. But even to S-Off, I need to be able to enable USB in debug mode which I am not able to. Any suggestions ?
Device still not fixed
hi,
I took the phone to a couple of places to check if it can be fixed, No one was able to fix it thus far, Any other advice or suggestions to fix this would be great. Any admins/mods have something to add ? Please, I am desperate to fix this phone. Anyway of doing this ?
Have you tried flashing a different rom?
If he's S-on and locked, he can simply flash the latest RUU can't he(just to get the phone working again). From there someone can help him set up adb, and s-off.
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From what they posted, somehow they don't have a custom recovery even though they are rooted?
Can you put a PH98IMG.zip file of a recovery (either Amon Ra or TWRP) on your SD card and flash it in hboot? Then flash a custom ROM the same way from recovery.
You can take the SD card out and mount it on your pc and use your pc to copy over the recovery PH98IMG.zip file.
And oh yeah, I see what Obaterista... was saying. You should be able to flash the latest RUU from hboot. Here's a link for it:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
That's global too, which seems to be what you'll need.
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Have you tried flashing a different rom?
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Yes I have vigor, tried AmonRa, that did not work mate. It starts fastboot, gets stuck @ unpacking PH98IMG.diag and then nothing happens.
Obaterista93 said:
If he's S-on and locked, he can simply flash the latest RUU can't he(just to get the phone working again). From there someone can help him set up adb, and s-off.
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The bootloader screen says S-On. On top it says ***Tampered*** and below it ***UNLOCKED***.
feralicious said:
From what they posted, somehow they don't have a custom recovery even though they are rooted?
Can you put a PH98IMG.zip file of a recovery (either Amon Ra or TWRP) on your SD card and flash it in hboot? Then flash a custom ROM the same way from recovery.
You can take the SD card out and mount it on your pc and use your pc to copy over the recovery PH98IMG.zip file.
And oh yeah, I see what Obaterista... was saying. You should be able to flash the latest RUU from hboot. Here's a link for it:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
That's global too, which seems to be what you'll need.
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Yes I rooted from a tool I found on android market. Noob me. So I do not have a recovery. I had downloaded the PH98IMG.zip and put it in my sd card and tried. The recovery starts and then shows a red exclamation and then nothing happens.
I was just trying different pages for help. Someone has mentioned that I should add the PH98IMG.zip as just PH98IMG and I shud not add the .zip. Thats the only thing left to try. I will post what happens when I do that.
lllR2-D2lll said:
Yes I have vigor, tried AmonRa, that did not work mate. It starts fastboot, gets stuck @ unpacking PH98IMG.diag and then nothing happens.
The bootloader screen says S-On. On top it says ***Tampered*** and below it ***UNLOCKED***.
Yes I rooted from a tool I found on android market. Noob me. So I do not have a recovery. I had downloaded the PH98IMG.zip and put it in my sd card and tried. The recovery starts and then shows a red exclamation and then nothing happens.
I was just trying different pages for help. Someone has mentioned that I should add the PH98IMG.zip as just PH98IMG and I shud not add the .zip. Thats the only thing left to try. I will post what happens when I do that.
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What you'll have to do is relock your boot loader, flash the RUU and then unlock again. From there you should be able to flash a recovery and flash a rom.
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My phone is also soft bricked. I relocked the phone and now it just sits in hboot and won't do anything no matter if I yet to flash the ruu zip file or use the exe ruu.
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Relocked
Hboot 2.10.0000
Believe I am 4.03.605.2 main version, at least that's what the exe file said.
I'm pulling my hair out just trying to any software installed. Help please!
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1967ls2 said:
My phone is also soft bricked. I relocked the phone and now it just sits in hboot and won't do anything no matter if I yet to flash the ruu zip file or use the exe ruu.
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Relocked
Hboot 2.10.0000
Believe I am 4.03.605.2 main version, at least that's what the exe file said.
I'm pulling my hair out just trying to any software installed. Help please!
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Are you trying with the stock ROM ? If ure saving stock ROM as PH98IMG.zip, then try PH98IMG without the .zip typed in.
Obaterista93 said:
What you'll have to do is relock your boot loader, flash the RUU and then unlock again. From there you should be able to flash a recovery and flash a rom.
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Thanks a tonne. That helped. I am back in the menu now. I am so grateful for ure help. But my problems dont seem to end just yet. Now, my htc sync wont detect the phone. The phone is relocked. I will try unlocking and see if it works, but is that the cause ?
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Are you trying with the stock ROM ? If ure saving stock ROM as PH98IMG.zip, then try PH98IMG without the .zip typed in.
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I'm trying to install any Rom. I find can of it is ics or gb. Nothing will load.
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1967ls2 said:
I'm trying to install any Rom. I find can of it is ics or gb. Nothing will load.
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I am no expert to give u any suggestions but maybe if you could explain how it got bricked in the first place, someone might be able to give u a better solution mate.

[Q] Help! Might have bricked my Rezound...

Okay, so I had a custom ROM on my phone, with a custom recovery. Sold the phone on eBay, and silly me tried to revert to stock before I shipped it out.
The phone is S-On. The bootloader was unlocked, and I relocked it using fastboot oem lock.
Then I tried to flash the RUU using fastboot, which failed. Here is the output.
i.imgur. com/sGAtSba. png (remove the spaces, I can't post links until I have ten posts and this is kind of important to my post...
Now the phone won't turn on, no charging LED, nothing... is it FUBAR?
(I thought I couldn't brick it if I was S-On but maybe I'm just stupid)
Thanks guys.
Is this a PH98IMG.zip you're trying to flash? If so, you don't do it through fastboot. Put it on your external SD card and boot into the bootloader. The phone will walk you through the rest.
shrike1978 said:
Is this a PH98IMG.zip you're trying to flash? If so, you don't do it through fastboot. Put it on your external SD card and boot into the bootloader. The phone will walk you through the rest.
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Yeah. Originally, I tried that. I placed it on the phone's storage and nothing happened when I booted into the bootloader. So I tried fastboot instead (noob mistake?) but now it won't turn on at all. It looks like the flash failed on hboot
it needs to be on the removable disk drive. hboot won't read phone storage.
REZOUND-S-OFF-VIPERREZ - SNUZZO 2.3 KERNEL...
Well I've tried unbricking it with no luck. I used the tool at /showthread.php?t=1833530
I was able to successfully flash the hboot file. Tried all three versions to no avail. I still can't turn the phone on or get to the bootloader. I also tried the hboot located within the RUU zip (2.25)
I'm seriously stuck now.
Pull the battery and leave it out for a few minutes to give any residual charge in the phone a chance to dissipate. Put the battery back in and try to charge it. In the meantime, pull the removable microSD card out and with an adapter plug that into your PC. Copy the RUU ph98 file to that card. If you manage to get a healthy charge on your phone, replace the microSD card and try to boot into the bootloader. The RUU installation process should then start.
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Pull the battery and leave it out for a few minutes to give any residual charge in the phone a chance to dissipate. Put the battery back in and try to charge it. In the meantime, pull the removable microSD card out and with an adapter plug that into your PC. Copy the RUU ph98 file to that card. If you manage to get a healthy charge on your phone, replace the microSD card and try to boot into the bootloader. The RUU installation process should then start.
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I will try this. If I'm not mistaken, it had about 50% charge when it was bricked though. I will update with what happens, thanks
Edit: it should be noted that it shows up in my device manager as "QHSUSB_DLOAD"
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I will try this. If I'm not mistaken, it had about 50% charge when it was bricked though. I will update with what happens, thanks
Edit: it should be noted that it shows up in my device manager as "QHSUSB_DLOAD"
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The name of your RUU file shows as "QHSUSB_DLOAD"? If so, it needs to be renamed to PH98IMG.zip before you try and flash it.
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LOBBS said:
The name of your RUU file shows as "QHSUSB_DLOAD"? If so, it needs to be renamed to ph98img.zip before you try and flash it.
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No, that's what the USB device shows up as in my computer's device manager. From what I've read this means it's soft bricked.
Ah, I've never come close to a brick so I didn't recognize that. I threw my idea out on the hope that you had a lower charge than you anticipated when you went to flash. If we can get any response outta the phone there's a chance to recover it.
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LOBBS said:
Ah, I've never come close to a brick so I didn't recognize that. I threw my idea out on the hope that you had a lower charge than you anticipated when you went to flash. If we can get any response outta the phone there's a chance to recover it.
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Yeah no luck with your idea
That's what I'm hoping. My Google searches are currently proving futile. Any more ideas are much appreciated.
Don't know if this pertains to your situation but you might want to check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833530
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Don't know if this pertains to your situation but you might want to check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833530
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Yeah, I used that. I was successfully able to flash the hboot image but the phone still won't turn on!

[Q] What have i done? Can only get in bootloader...

Sooo, playing with rooting, been rooted for a couple days, flashed viperlte rom and had problems and decided to take it back to stock for now. Gonna be on the road and can't be 'experimenting'...attempted to go back to stock, by using the original RUU, and as I understood it, I needed to lock the phone back first. Didn't make sense as I was wondering how I could flash a Rom if it was locked back. After locking, when trying to go to recovery, it just comes back to fastboot. I can't get into the main phone--it boots to a screen, but no buttons work, although if i press volume up/down it shows it on the screen. What have I done?! I'll admit being a newb to phones, so please, some guru help me get back to something
Here's what fastboot shows:
TAMPERED
RELOCKED
SECURITY WARNING
Fireball pvt ship s-on rl
Hboot 1.15
Radio 1.53
opendsp v29.1.0.45
emmc-boot
It wouldn't read either of the mini sd-cards I used after rooting, so I can't just get use my sdcard with a new or original rom. I can't get to a main phone screen to turn on usb debugging, so no adp? Any ideas?
zazaray said:
Sooo, playing with rooting, been rooted for a couple days, flashed viperlte rom and had problems and decided to take it back to stock for now. Gonna be on the road and can't be 'experimenting'...attempted to go back to stock, by using the original RUU, and as I understood it, I needed to lock the phone back first. Didn't make sense as I was wondering how I could flash a Rom if it was locked back. After locking, when trying to go to recovery, it just comes back to fastboot. I can't get into the main phone--it boots to a screen, but no buttons work, although if i press volume up/down it shows it on the screen. What have I done?! I'll admit being a newb to phones, so please, some guru help me get back to something
Here's what fastboot shows:
TAMPERED
RELOCKED
SECURITY WARNING
Fireball pvt ship s-on rl
Hboot 1.15
Radio 1.53
opendsp v29.1.0.45
emmc-boot
It wouldn't read either of the mini sd-cards I used after rooting, so I can't just get use my sdcard with a new or original rom. I can't get to a main phone screen to turn on usb debugging, so no adp? Any ideas?
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download the ruu rename it PJ53IMG THEN transfer it to your sdcard via your computer and put back in phone and boot to bootloader, it should pick up the PJ53IMG, AND ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE, hit volume up to sat yes.(put sdcard in an adapter and put in your computer to transfer) Also you want 2.17.605.2 ruu software. make sure the zip is on the root of the sdcard(not in a folder, then make sure after you transfer that the file doesn't have 2 zips on it (PJ53IMG.ZIP.ZIP)YOU WANT ONLY ONE ZIP
Aldo101t said:
download the ruu rename it PJ53IMG THEN transfer it to your sdcard via your computer and put back in phone and boot to bootloader, it should pick up the PJ53IMG, AND ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE, hit volume up to sat yes.(put sdcard in an adapter and put in your computer to transfer) Also you want 2.17.605.2 ruu software. make sure the zip is on the root of the sdcard(not in a folder, then make sure after you transfer that the file doesn't have 2 zips on it (PJ53IMG.ZIP.ZIP)YOU WANT ONLY ONE ZIP
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Thank you for the response. Tried this, it loaded the zip, then went to 'checking' and after that, back to the bootloader. Never asked me if I wanted to proceed. When rebooted it brought me back to where I was, a phone which appears to be up--clock works, wifi is on, but I can't do anything. I feel pretty confident the img is good. Thoughts?
zazaray said:
Thank you for the response. Tried this, it loaded the zip, then went to 'checking' and after that, back to the bootloader. Never asked me if I wanted to proceed. When rebooted it brought me back to where I was, a phone which appears to be up--clock works, wifi is on, but I can't do anything. I feel pretty confident the img is good. Thoughts?
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HOW did you put the ruu on the sdcard? from the computer? or usb
Aldo101t said:
HOW did you put the ruu on the sdcard? from the computer? or usb
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XP PC, formatted fat32, put it on root...just tried a different ruu, searched the exact string, the 2.0... and got it from a xda forum member, so I feel confident in the ruu. It did the same thing, loaded it, checked it for about 2 mins, then returned me to the loader. I noticed SECURITY WARNING is gone from bootloader now, FYI. What else can we try?
zazaray said:
XP PC, formatted fat32, put it on root...just tried a different ruu, searched the exact string, the 2.0... and got it from a xda forum member, so I feel confident in the ruu. It did the same thing, loaded it, checked it for about 2 mins, then returned me to the loader. I noticed SECURITY WARNING is gone from bootloader now, FYI. What else can we try?
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go to your file explorer and access the ext sdcard and see if the file is PJ53IMG.ZIP
you ARE downloading a zip file and not an image file????
Aldo101t said:
go to your file explorer and access the ext sdcard and see if the file is PJ53IMG.ZIP
you ARE downloading a zip file and not an image file????
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That is the name of the file and here is the link where I'm downloading the zip file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947600
zazaray said:
That is the name of the file and here is the link where I'm downloading the zip file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947600
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that's the right one, it should work, ////...????
Aldo101t said:
that's the right one, it should work, ////...????
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Oh no, not what I wanted to hear Thanks for the help, any other ideas? Anyone else experienced it loading the zip, check it, then nothing happen? I'll do some forum searching...
Can you unlock the bootloader again?
somerandomname1 said:
Can you unlock the bootloader again?
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I dunno, is there a way to do it from the bootloader? Cause I can't get to a place where I can push adp commands and I can't get to recovery...i've hosed this thing haven't I? I've got insurance, do I need to drop this thing in the sink and get another? And maybe not try rooting the next one...
zazaray said:
I dunno, is there a way to do it from the bootloader? Cause I can't get to a place where I can push adp commands and I can't get to recovery...i've hosed this thing haven't I? I've got insurance, do I need to drop this thing in the sink and get another? And maybe not try rooting the next one...
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No need for all that just calm down. I'm confused are you stuck n bootloader or can you boot up into your ROM?
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
You said you where relocked right? You must be locked to ruu
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zazaray said:
I dunno, is there a way to do it from the bootloader? Cause I can't get to a place where I can push adp commands and I can't get to recovery...i've hosed this thing haven't I? I've got insurance, do I need to drop this thing in the sink and get another? And maybe not try rooting the next one...
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If you are on my boot loader unlock method just unlock, flash recovery and then a rom
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jose51197 said:
If you are on my boot loader unlock method just unlock, flash recovery and then a rom
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Would you mind posting a link to your unlock method? The method I used the first time was using usb debugging and adp commands from windows. Can I unlock somehow from within the bootloader? Thank you very much for your help. Lol, my phone is ringing at this moment but i've got know way to answer it
Aldo101t said:
You said you where relocked right? You must be locked to ruu
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Yes, I relocked from the bootloader, as I guess i misunderstood that I needed to do that before flashing the ruu...I was actually on one of the custom roms when I locked it
prairiedogn said:
No need for all that just calm down. I'm confused are you stuck n bootloader or can you boot up into your ROM?
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
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I CAN boot into the rom, but nothing is accessible...the phone rings if someone calls, beeps alerts for mail notification or txt, but no buttons work and screen is blank(except for wallpaper). I can see the icons connect to wifi and such, so it's working, I guess, sort of...
zazaray said:
Would you mind posting a link to your unlock method? The method I used the first time was using usb debugging and adp commands from windows. Can I unlock somehow from within the bootloader? Thank you very much for your help. Lol, my phone is ringing at this moment but i've got know way to answer it
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no way to answer it, even
Have you tried wiping everything and flashing a new ROM.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
prairiedogn said:
Have you tried wiping everything and flashing a new ROM.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
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I can't get into recovery or use adp commands from windows, is there another way I can wipe and flash?

[Q] Is there a downgrade on 4.3?

hello, i upgraded the software from htc of 4.3 and i have s-on, i seriously hated it and i was wondering if theres a way to downgrade to 4.1.1? thanks!
Not without S-OFF.
is there a way to turn it off????
Captain_Throwback said:
Not without S-OFF.
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hernandezah123 said:
is there a way to turn it off????
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Of course. Rumrunner.
can you tell me step by step to downgrade to 4.1.1? im seriously a noob and it sounds sad to hear from me saying it but its true haha,
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Of course. Rumrunner.
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hernandezah123 said:
can you tell me step by step to downgrade to 4.1.1? im seriously a noob and it sounds sad to hear from me saying it but its true haha,
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Start with S-OFF. After that, you just run the RUU from HTC (like you would've done to upgrade to 4.3).
after that thats all i do?
Captain_Throwback said:
Start with S-OFF. After that, you just run the RUU from HTC (like you would've done to upgrade to 4.3).
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hernandezah123 said:
after that thats all i do?
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That's it.
i got a problem now and during the process of rooting, i team win and when i tried to mount usb storage, on my windows screeen it says that it needs to be formated to use the drive? can you please help???? my phone is already unlocked ! and it says tampered as well!
Captain_Throwback said:
That's it.
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Your storage is likely corrupt. You can format it with your PC but this will delete everything from your storage. All you need to do is download the SuperSU zip to your phone and flash it in recovery, then you'll be rooted. You'll also need to install the SuperSU app from the Play store if it's not included in whatever ROM you flash. Once you've done this you can start the S-off process.
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if i format it is everything going to be okay? and how do i download it like to my sd card?
Magnum_Enforcer said:
Your storage is likely corrupt. You can format it with your PC but this will delete everything from your storage. All you need to do is download the SuperSU zip to your phone and flash it in recovery, then you'll be rooted. You'll also need to install the SuperSU app from the Play store if it's not included in whatever ROM you flash. Once you've done this you can start the S-off process.
Sent from my HTC device
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If you have any important files on your internal storage copy them to your PC. You can download the SuperSU zip afterwards and use your computer or a file manager to move it to your SD card if you'd like but it won't matter where you put it, it's just personal preference.
Sent from my HTC device
Well, i was in the process of rooting my phone and it got deleted like it got totally swipped, so i tried flashing a rom called viper4g and while it was succesfully installing, and it did, it took me to the htc screen and after that it was blank like black screen. so i hard reset and i got into bootloader, i pressed recovery and it doesnt let me go in. my phone is seriously bricked. i can access fast boot commands but i cant access recovery. i tried re flashing it and it still doesnt do any good! can you help with this?
Magnum_Enforcer said:
If you have any important files on your internal storage copy them to your PC. You can download the SuperSU zip afterwards and use your computer or a file manager to move it to your SD card if you'd like but it won't matter where you put it, it's just personal preference.
Sent from my HTC device
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hernandezah123 said:
Well, i was in the process of rooting my phone and it got deleted like it got totally swipped, so i tried flashing a rom called viper4g and while it was succesfully installing, and it did, it took me to the htc screen and after that it was blank like black screen. so i hard reset and i got into bootloader, i pressed recovery and it doesnt let me go in. my phone is seriously bricked. i can access fast boot commands but i cant access recovery. i tried re flashing it and it still doesnt do any good! can you help with this?
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I would suggest running the RUU again. Connect your phone and PC via Fastboot USB mode. Once you've done this, double-click the RUU to start the installer. Since you're S-on you may have to relock your bootloader first.
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I even tried re locking it and it still didn't do any good!
Magnum_Enforcer said:
I would suggest running the RUU again. Connect your phone and PC via Fastboot USB mode. Once you've done this, double-click the RUU to start the installer. Since you're S-on you may have to relock your bootloader first.
Sent from my HTC device
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hernandezah123 said:
I even tried re locking it and it still didn't do any good!
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A little more detail as to what happened would be helpful.
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So I tried relocking it and when I unlocked it again, it didn't work, I still under go the problem where I can't access recovery because it would bootloop any other options instead of fastboot
Magnum_Enforcer said:
A little more detail as to what happened would be helpful.
Sent from my HTC device
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Did you relock it and try the RUU?
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I didn't try that, I'm a noob about these things, I'm sorry, when I get the ruu, what do I do? Do I just install it directly from my computer? Or use the fastboot commands?
Magnum_Enforcer said:
Did you relock it and try the RUU?
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It's run from your computer. Click the top link in my sig and scroll down to the section regarding RUU's and follow the instructions I've posted in that thread.
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