Well I was trying to put the MR2 radio on and flash over the BAMF 3.0 rom but accidently put the stock verizon IMG file back on. I lost root and as far as I know it's back to a stock phone. Well trying to root with the 1 click version because I dont have the time or patience for ADB right now but I can't get it to push any files. Keeps saying that there's an Error and throws the phone into bootloader.
if anyone could help me get rooted and BAMF back on it'd be GREATLY appreciated.
To my understanding you should not have lost the root. you simply need to download the right MR2 radio, put it in your Root SD and get into recovery. If you can't do it through your rom manager then do it manually by holding the power button and volume up. Select the right radio, reflash bamf 3.0 and reboot. I'm still learning myself, but from some of the mistakes I have made in the past, this seems as if it should work for you.
Alright i got the files to push now, after yelling and screaming obscenities at my phone lol. But now when its just about to finish it says "update failed main version older"
I lost EVERYTHING, i have no root access, S-ON, no root access via ROM manager
again I'm not the most advanced techy, but I would suggest plugging in your phone via USB, downloading the right MR2 again and re-downloading the bamf 3.0 again as well. ( When I run into a problem I like to know that I'm starting with a fresh canvis). put both into Root of SD, get into Clockwork and update the MR2. Once you have that updated, reboot. then reflash the Rom, Reboot. run your Titanium backup (Just apps not system data). Reboot normal and I would think you would be good to go. I'm sure someone will pipe up if I'm wrong, but thats what comes to mind for me.
I skimmed over and didn't see that you said you installed the stock verizon radio. I am not experienced enough to give advice from here and feel confident I was telling you the right thing to do. My guess is since you installed the
PG05IMG file, it now has the S-on and you will need to root again. Did you try the power button and volume up?
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I got it to push files but then when update of the NEW rooted update ends it says update failed main version older
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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!
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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!
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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!
Just updated the ruu found in the bamf remix 1.5 post and lost my root? Or seemed to.
First post because most the time I can find the answers through posts but this I can't seem to find.
I was previously rooted, flashed the new ruu via hboot and everything went smooth. Reboot, reinstall superuser and clockwork via marketplace, and superuser wouldn't take an auto update when it prompted me there was a new version out. Clockwork says I need root before it can do anything.
Few notes to consider :
- s-off is still there (least it says so in hboot)
- my first root I did was the longer way with Android sdk command line, no one click, no 400mb file
- dumb me is dumb, got excited about the new ruu and no nandroid backup
Now I'm chilling here, tried reboots, flash in hboot, and all I can do is sit here staring at my stick Rom like.... Herpa derp want root and bamf back
Help??? Please? Would rather not have to re root. As I won't have access to my computer for days.
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Did you update to bamf 1.5, or someone posted the stock untouched ruu and you decided to flash that?
Download titanium back up and root, hit "problems?"
and install busybox.
Sometimes when I flash roms it will say i dont have root access, and go through titanium, hit problems, and keep installign busybox (ive had to do it up to 3 times)
and then it works for me
I used the ruu file that was posted in the bamf remix 1.5 thread in the first post right above the zip file for the actual Rom
And I didn't make it to installing bamf. Just finished with the ruu flash via hboot and was on my way to flash bamf when clockwork told me I didn't have root. This is when I went forum hunting about two hours ago :/
Samsuck said:
Download titanium back up and root, hit "problems?"
and install busybox.
Sometimes when I flash roms it will say i dont have root access, and go through titanium, hit problems, and keep installign busybox (ive had to do it up to 3 times)
and then it works for me
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Wish I could say it worked for me... *sigh* guess I just really lost root then :/
So you didn't do any RUU, you flashed the radio. I flashed that radio before i flashed BAMF 1.5 and everything is working fine over here. Did you check MD5 sum to make sure that it downloaded correctly?
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So you didn't do any RUU, you flashed the radio. I flashed that radio before i flashed BAMF 1.5 and everything is working fine over here. Did you check MD5 sum to make sure that it downloaded correctly?
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Yeah. Little goofy on the terminology, fairly new to Android least. But yeah I always check any Rom or kernel or anything like that
I'm not sure, I don't understand how you can lose root just by flashing the radio, never heard of it happening before, sorry.
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I'm not sure, I don't understand how you can lose root just by flashing the radio, never heard of it happening before, sorry.
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No problem. I assume I did something wrong but I can't put a finger on it.
Ah well. I appreciate the help m8!
I'm gonna go out on the limb here and say that when you first rooted you never removed the zip file from you sd card and hboot pulled that image instead of the radio update.
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I'm gonna go out on the limb here and say that when you first rooted you never removed the zip file from you sd card and hboot pulled that image instead of the radio update.
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Possibly.... If I delete that. Download the new radio, and flash via hboot any ideas what would happen?
Edit... Yup that's what I did. I know... Im a genius swear I had moved that file and over written. Took a lot longer to flash that old file lol. Thanks!
Now just live with the stock sense UI and no root till I can redo that, /cringe
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Possibly.... If I delete that. Download the new radio, and flash via hboot any ideas what would happen?
Edit... Yup that's what I did. I know... Im a genius swear I had moved that file and over written. Took a lot longer to flash that old file lol. Thanks!
Now just live with the stock sense UI and no root till I can redo that, /cringe
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It's an honest mistake. I had the file on my sd for awhile before I found out. Glad I could help.
I did the same thing but I am stuck in Fastboot/HBoot. If I select reboot or power down in the Fastboot menu, I just come back to Fastboot. If I choose bootloader, I can't use the volume keys to select any of the menu options except the first one (Fastboot). After a few seconds it looks like it starts running the update process on PG05IMG but fails and says "Main version is older." Google/forum searches haven't shown me anything and I don't know where to go from here.
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Hi, and thanks for bearing with a noob.
I have a HTC desire, rooted using unrevoked 3. I and I have tried a couple different ROMs successfully and was able to use Titanium Backup and ROM manager successfully, but after flashing cyanogen 7, I want to start using Titanium Backup, but it tells me could not aquire root priv., I went to the problems tab and it tells me make sure im rooted. did I lose root? the only choices it gives me from there is 'prefrences' and 'upgrade superuser' when i upgrade su. I did that to no avail.
also going into ROM manager it tells me ; superuser was not found.
anyway, i have been trying to search for the answer to this for a few days and have tried a couple things. my question is basically, did I lose root and need to unroot and reroot? or is there a way to enable superuser?
Thanks for any help
Oh, fuuuu...crap.
I may have screwed up here. I rooted my device using Revolutionary, and then using ROM Manager installed the latest Synergy mod on my stock (unrooted Froyo) Thunderbolt. Everything loaded fine, it seemed to be flawless ... but after the update I'm not getting any signal at all. I figured this was a radio issue, so I downloaded the latest radio that was leaked (the 2.11.605 one), put it on my SD card, and flashed that. It said it was "updating" the radio (RADIO_V2), but still no luck. I've tried a few different versions, and although it seems to "flash" and update fine, there's still no signal. Not 1x, 3g, or 4g. Nada. :-\
According to HBOOT, "RADIO" is 1.16.00.0223r, if that helps.
Any ideas on how I can basically undo all this, or have I spectacularly failed at this?
-BT7
bandtrumpet7 said:
Oh, fuuuu...crap.
I may have screwed up here. I rooted my device using Revolutionary, and then using ROM Manager installed the latest Synergy mod on my stock (unrooted Froyo) Thunderbolt. Everything loaded fine, it seemed to be flawless ... but after the update I'm not getting any signal at all. I figured this was a radio issue, so I downloaded the latest radio that was leaked (the 2.11.605 one), put it on my SD card, and flashed that. It said it was "updating" the radio (RADIO_V2), but still no luck. I've tried a few different versions, and although it seems to "flash" and update fine, there's still no signal. Not 1x, 3g, or 4g. Nada. :-\
According to HBOOT, "RADIO" is 1.16.00.0223r, if that helps.
Any ideas on how I can basically undo all this, or have I spectacularly failed at this?
-BT7
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Well you shouldn't panic. Which radio did you flash? I would flash the MR2 one from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154010 . If that doesn't work, I would download the rom directly from Synergy here http://androidfilehost.com/XxXViRuSXxX/roms/synergy/thunderbolt/
From recovery, wipe everything manually (Wipe data/cache/dalvik) than flash the file from where it is on your SD card. If you need specific instructions feel free to ask.
bandtrumpet7 said:
Oh, fuuuu...crap.
I may have screwed up here. I rooted my device using Revolutionary, and then using ROM Manager installed the latest Synergy mod on my stock (unrooted Froyo) Thunderbolt. Everything loaded fine, it seemed to be flawless ... but after the update I'm not getting any signal at all. I figured this was a radio issue, so I downloaded the latest radio that was leaked (the 2.11.605 one), put it on my SD card, and flashed that. It said it was "updating" the radio (RADIO_V2), but still no luck. I've tried a few different versions, and although it seems to "flash" and update fine, there's still no signal. Not 1x, 3g, or 4g. Nada. :-\
According to HBOOT, "RADIO" is 1.16.00.0223r, if that helps.
Any ideas on how I can basically undo all this, or have I spectacularly failed at this?
-BT7
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Am I reading this right???? You said you rooted with Revolutionary.... Then you flashed some Synergy mod with ROM Manager (always a no-no).... onto your STOCK, UNROOTED FROYO Tbolt???? How did we go from rooted with Revolutionary to stock, unrooted Froyo? I'm confused.
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Am I reading this right???? You said you rooted with Revolutionary.... Then you flashed some Synergy mod with ROM Manager (always a no-no).... onto your STOCK, UNROOTED FROYO Tbolt???? How did we go from rooted with Revolutionary to stock, unrooted Froyo? I'm confused.
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Sure hope he's just confused...
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Am I reading this right???? You said you rooted with Revolutionary.... Then you flashed some Synergy mod with ROM Manager (always a no-no).... onto your STOCK, UNROOTED FROYO Tbolt???? How did we go from rooted with Revolutionary to stock, unrooted Froyo? I'm confused.
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Lol I saw that, I decided not to say anything, I guess you have the sharper tongue than me
Ya pretty scary. I'm hoping he meant he rooted his phone and when he said unrooted, he meant "stock" froyo build on his phone.
Sounds like he is able to boot up, just not get any signal.
I'm guessing he is not too skilled in the ways of Android yet.
Lol just found something interesting. Synergy isn't even on rom manager? I was checking to see if the version ofcsynergy he was using was a previous froyo build, and I can't even find it on rom manager
He probably meant that he used Rom Manager to load the rom rather than using recovery.
haha weird
OK, so I was tired when I wrote my initial post, and I probably didn't make a whole lot of sense. Let me be a bit clearer.
For reference, no, I'm "not too skilled in the ways of Android yet". I've been living with Froyo, anxiously awaiting Gingerbread, and then got fed up and read about all the benefits that come with rooting. Now that an easier method has presented itself - the Revolutionary method, as opposed to opening a command prompt and doing the adb stuff, which I can do - I rooted a friend's phone - but decided to not take the plunge myself - I decided to go ahead and give GB a shot.
So let me break down what happened:
- My phone was unrooted previously, running the same software it came with. I'd done a few OTA updates that Verizon provided but had never gone into my phone. That's why I called it "stock", sorry if that terminology confused people. I just meant it was the OS that came on my phone - Android 2.2 w/ HTC Sense and all that jazz.
- I ran the Revolutionary method posted in the "Thunderbolt Android Development" forum. Worked fine. Ran Recovery and installed Superuser permissions as the documentation said. Worked great. Have a phone where if HBOOT launches, it says -Revolutionary- at the top, and it's got -S OFF. My phone technically is rooted.
- The Synergy mod was also posted in the "TB Android Development" forum. I downloaded that and installed it using ROM Manager (Install ROM from SD). Worked fine ... but then had no signal. Every other aspect of the phone seemed to be working. My radio just wasn't working.
- Downloaded an updated radio from the TB Android Dev. forum, ran that, it said it was updating the radio. Rebooted the phone after the update ... still no signal.
I "solved" this problem by flashing the leaked HTC/TB Gingerbread build, the latest one that was like 400 MB, and when I booted my phone up again I had Gingerbread on my phone with HTC Sense 2.1, and I had signal. So I'm living right now with a fully working phone, but I wanted to dip my foot into custom ROMs. So now I have a backup method just in case the radio thing doesn't work again, but what can I do to install a custom ROM and ensure that I get signal?
Thanks for the response, xebryus - and to everyone else, sorry I was a little confusing. Everybody starts from somewhere, right?
-BT7
Download the GB ROM you want, boot into clockwork (please don't install VIA ROM Manager). In clockwork using you Volume keys to move and the Home button to select....
Select Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Select Wipe Cache
Select Advanced
Select Wipe Dalvik
Select Go Back
Select Mounts and Storage
Select Format /system
Select Go Back Until you are at the first screen
Select Install from SD Card
Select Choose ZIP
Go to the folder where you downloaded the ROM
Select ROM
Select Yes.
When it is done Reboot.
Enjoy!
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Hey, at least you didn't brick your phone, so kudos for you for getting that far.
As others have stated there are basically two kinds of radio versions out there. One that work with Froyo builds and ones that work with GB builds.
So depending on the rom you are loading, you just have to make sure you have the right radio to match the rom(the rom thread should tell you what radio it requires). From what you were saying, it sounded like you just had the wrong radio.
Anyways, couple of things you want to make sure you do. Any check to make sure the checksum is correct on the radio (so that it's not corrupt) otherwise you could have some major issues. Also, once you flash the radio and you get your phone back up, make sure to either rename or delete the PG05img file from your SD root, otherwise, again a major hassle.
Check out the noob thread at the top of this forum also. It has great info there that will help you on your journey.
Good Luck.
I have always felt more in control flashing from recovery or hboot but I'm curious why no rom manager?
Sent from my Tbolt running Das Bamf 3.0...
RevosFTS said:
I have always felt more in control flashing from recovery or hboot but I'm curious why no rom manager?
Sent from my Tbolt running Das Bamf 3.0...
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When the TB first came out, it seemed that people were having issues with using rom manager to flash roms (alot of force closes, things in general not working correctly). So many experienced people said to use recovery rather than rom manager to flash anything on the TB.
I guess that idea just kinda stuck after that.
Ok thanks. I will still use recovery anyhow I am more used to it. Plus I'm kinda old school I love adb haha
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I have downloaded Synergy Rom and have no problems except that I am not able to get the radio to flash. I am on verizon and chose the MR3.5 radio. I did a battery pull and then pressed the power and volume down button to enter HBoot but I do not have an option to Upgrade. What am I doing wrong any help is appreciated. I need help quick, thanks!!!
1more thing when i am in the HBoot window my only options are Fastboot, Recovery, Factory Reset, Simlock, Hboot USB, System Info, Image Crc..... it says radio is 1.16.00.0402w.
Does this mean the radio was already upgraded. Why can I not get a signal then?
Did you rename the .zip and have it on the root of your SD card?
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1more thing when i am in the HBoot window my only options are Fastboot, Recovery, Factory Reset, Simlock, Hboot USB, System Info, Image Crc..... it says radio is 1.16.00.0402w.
Does this mean the radio was already upgraded. Why can I not get a signal then?
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Nope..402w is still MR1. Sounds like you are already in bootloader so at this point if it isn't updating then more than likely the file is named incorrectly as stated above.
Radios HAVE to be named PG05IMG.zip (3rd character is a ZERO, not the letter "O"). It HAS to be in the root folder of your SD card. Now, turn the phone OFF.
Next, hold down the VOL-DOWN button. Keep it held down. Is it still held down ? If so, push and hold down the POWER button. When the screen turns on, you can release both. This menu will automatically look for 3 or 4 files with certain names. One of the names (files) it looks for is .... PG05IMG.zip. When/if it finds it, it will check it and ask you if you want to load it. Tell it to load it and then leave your phone alone. It will update it and reboot like normal (if successful).
MY TBOLT MUST DID THE OTA OR ATLEAST TRIED TO WHILE I WAS SLEEP NOW IT KEEPS POWERING OFF THOUGHT I HAD ROM MANNAGER TO RESTORE A BACK UP OFF MY SD BUT IT MUST DIDNT INSTALL AFTER LAST UPDATE I ONLY HAVE JUST THE PREMIUM LICENSE. I THOUGHT IT WOULD STAY POWERED LONG ENOUGH TO GO DL ROM MANAGER IN THE MARKET BUT IT WONT. I TRIED DL THE NEW OTA SO I CANN PUT IT ON MY SD AND FLASH HBOOT BUT IT KEEPS NAMING WITH THE .ZIP.ZIP EXT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I RENAME IT WHAT CAN I DO I LOOKED HERE http://www.thunderboltforums.com/fo...-get-rid-ota-forced-reboots-rooted-phone.html BUT I NEED ROM MGR DO I NEED TO DL A STOCK AND UNROOT IT WHAT CAN I DO.... HELP PLEASE SAD PART I WORK FOR VZW AND I KNOW HOW THEY DO WITH EQUIP CHARGEBACKS
First, locate your caps lock and TURN IT OFF. Next locate your period key and put them on the end of your sentences. Making sense of your post is giving me a headache.
Now, on your computer you need to disable the "hide file extensions for known file types" option to fix the zip.zip problem. Can't give you exact directions since you didn't say which os you're using.
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Windows7 currently
I have the same problem and I tried to get in through the clorkworkMod adb shell, but the device is not recognized by adb...? When the device boots up it is recognized. with my DINC I could use the shell while in clorkworkmod.
Is it showing as device offline or not showing the device at all. If its offline, through cmd, close adb server, then start it back up, half the time that fixed that problem for me. If its not showing at all, try setting it to HTC Sync i believe was the one i had to do at one point for it to register. I've rooted 4 times using ADB method and each time its been a little different, so i can't narrow down what i'm doing wrong to help you more with the adb, sorry.
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Hi All and thanks to all the cats on here that willfully give their knowledge! I have a Tbolt - Rooted with Revolutionary, stock rom (removed VZ Bloat via Titanium ), but this latest OTA update is not leaving me alone. I try to reject it and magically a few days later I get out of nowhere reboot and then the android exclamation point with a triangle. I use the Clockwork Mod Recovery to wipe data cache and reboot which makes the update manager get upset saying it failed. The error I see in Clockwork is this:
CWM Recovery V5.0.2.1
E: Failed to verify whole file signature
E: Signature Verification Failed
Install Aborted
So how can I get this update (I am assuming it is to fix the HTC fail for new exploit out there) which I think would be a good thing. I am not ready to flash a custom ROM yet so please don't reply saying "Just flash with my favorite ROM"
Thanks ahead of time!
It pushes the update, and if you don't reject within 3 mins, viola, you have a nice new update. If you can still get into recovery, which it sounds you can, install a stock rooted either full or debloated. Thats the updated equivalent to what you have now. Make sure you grab the rooted though. Here is the full rooted (not debloated) http://www.multiupload.com/H06XI7W380
from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312193
I'd probably wipe cache and dalvik cache, but you can probably leave data since you're staying stock.
Thanks for the direction nbdysreal!
Hello,
I have an S-on 4g LTE unlocked with bootloader and running Viper 2.2. I've been getting those annoying update messages, so I thought I'd try a different ROM. I tried to switch to the Avatar ROM on the forums: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207395, but I couldn't get it to take. I read somewhere that I needed to extract and load the boot.img file through ADB first, so I did that but it still didn't take. I could install the ROM, but I can't get it to boot past the "HTC: This build is for development purposes only" screen. It hangs there for a while, then the screen goes black, and eventually it loops back.
So then I decided to just go back to Viper 2.2, but that won't take. It's doing the same loop-back. I did a full backup before starting, so I tried restoring that but it made no difference. I thought maybe I needed to do the adb boot.img thing again using the boot.img file from the viper 2.2 file, but there's no boot.img in any of the viper files I have. So I tried looking on the forums, but all the boot.img file links I found were expired/dead/long gone.
So I need some help in figuring out how to get this phone back. I can get it out of the bootloop by pulling the battery and then do hboot via the downvolume + power button, and then I can get into teamwin recovery from there. But after that, I don't know what to do. Any advice/help to get back on my feet would be greatly appreciated!
Nevermind...got it! I tried installing the stock kernel from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770978 and it booted back up finally.
I kind of thought that's what I needed to do, but I was at the point where I didn't want to keep touching (or more like breaking!) more stuff until I knew what to do. Thanks anyway!