[q] root newest ota - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

HEY I tried to root my tbolt from the newest ota. When I do the old manual root and go to flash the pc05img it does make me do the volume up , and it goes to the bootloader. Any help on the situation ?

I'm not sure what you are asking, but the file needs to be named PG05IMG.zip not PC that might be your problem.
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JBO1018 said:
I'm not sure what you are asking, but the file needs to be named PG05IMG.zip not PC that might be your problem.
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That's what I meant and I have the. Zip
It will pick the file up but no flash of the file

So you are saying you are going to the bootloader and it IS finding the file and IS requesting you to hit volume up? That is what is supposed to happen.

Beastclaw said:
So you are saying you are going to the bootloader and it IS finding the file and IS requesting you to hit volume up? That is what is supposed to happen.
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YES IT DOES FIND THE FILE AND DOES 2 LOADING BARS AND THEN Back to fastboot
recovery selection screen

got it working had to do the one click root i like the manual

it was the misc. File on the manual it was empty

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How to install OTA manually

Hi guys,
I have a unrooted stock 1.5 Hero.
Here in South Africa we have not received any of the OTA updates.
I have downloaded the two WWE OTA updates but I do not know how to install these manually.
I have downloaded the following two files
OTA_Hero_HTC_WWE_2.73.405.93-2.73.405.5_release7sd65upagwzkrpms.zip
and
OTA_Hero_HTC_WWE_3.32.405.1_R-2.73.405.93_releasephkp3wtd8ykg6hqk.zip
Can someone give me some guidance?
h4ckii said:
Can someone give me some guidance?
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wait till you no it's not going to break your device otherwise you will be sending it back!
That makes no sense...
Anyone else?
I have tried the following, but it fails so if anyone can shed some light.
I like you have downloaded the 2 update files and this these are the steps I tried.
1. rename the zip file to update.zip
2. copy the update.zip file to you sdcard (into the top level of the filesystem)
3. power off the devices.
4. Hold down home and then press power
5. Hold down home and then power again, this puts you into the boo loader screen
6. using your trackerball scroll down to the second option and the press the tracker ball button to select. The slecetion should say update from /sdcard/update.zip.
I tried this for both update with no success but I am on T-Mobile in the UK grrrr.
hope that helps.
h4ckii said:
That makes no sense...
Anyone else?
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It makes perfect sense, basically if it is incompatible with your device you could render it useless and have to send it back.
I hold no responsibility if you break it.
You can follow plenty guides, the two files you have in the first post won't work. You need something like this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712707
DL the RUU
See this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7095844
ChilliBYTE said:
See this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7095844
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The RUU will prevent future root, but there appears to be a way to root the OTA using HEROIMG.ZIP method

[Q] Need help with flashing the new radio

Hello all,
Let me preface this by saying I'm on a mac and I apologize if that offends anyone. Anyways, I've rooted my phone flashed roms and kernels and all that good stuff but I'm still pretty new at all of this. I want to flash the new radio but I'm not sure exactly how to go about doing that. Do I have to go to terminal or can I just put it on the SD card through USB mount? Thanks in advance.
klh8336 said:
Hello all,
Let me preface this by saying I'm on a mac and I apologize if that offends anyone. Anyways, I've rooted my phone flashed roms and kernels and all that good stuff but I'm still pretty new at all of this. I want to flash the new radio but I'm not sure exactly how to go about doing that. Do I have to go to terminal or can I just put it on the SD card through USB mount? Thanks in advance.
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Drop it into the root of /sdcard and then boot into hboot by shutting down the phone and then while holding the volume down button power the phone back on. It will then boot into hboot, find the radio file and ask you to confirm you want to flash it. It's a pretty quick process.
giantniz said:
Drop it into the root of /sdcard and then boot into hboot by shutting down the phone and then while holding the volume down button power the phone back on. It will then boot into hboot, find the radio file and ask you to confirm you want to flash it. It's a pretty quick process.
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Also note that for the hboot to find the radio it has to be named PG05IMG.zip. If its named anything else it wont find it.
Do I rename the whole folder or just one of the files in it?
klh8336 said:
Do I rename the whole folder or just one of the files in it?
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The whole zip file that you download needs to be renamed.
^ yeah
you don't extract anything from the PG05IMG archive
Ok I got it now. I unzipped the file before i put it on my sdcard. Everything worked out well. Now I just have to get the best way to fix my GPS...any suggestions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1072869
read through the whole thread.

[Q] im having problems after s-off

i installed the clockworkmod that comes with the revolution and i did the superuser part to grant me full acess so i tried installing twrp-shooter-1.0.0.img but it keep saying
--insatlling: /sdcard/PG86IMG-twrp-shooter-1.0.1.zip
finding update package...
opening update package...
Installing update package...
Installation aborted.
what im i doing wrong should i just stick with clockworkmod or keep trying to install twrp-shooter-1.0.0.img or is it installed already
Download TWRP as the PC86IMG.zip. Put it in the root of the sd card and boot into bootloader and let it scan for the update. It will ask to apply update and select yes. Much easier that way. Make sure it is all caps and name exactly PC86IMG.ZIP and not PC86IMG.ZIP.ZIP.
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ill try that and see what happends untill then please more feed back i need more opinions thanks
You don't flash that in recovery. Your supposed to rename the file to PG86IMG.zip ,put the file on the root of your sdcard, and go to your bootloader where it should find the img and update automatically.
I guess I can't type fast enough.
You could also flash it using fastboot, not 100% on commands but its something like fastboot flash recovery xxxx.img
getmoneygreen said:
ill try that and see what happends untill then please more feed back i need more opinions thanks
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Jayharper was correct with his instructions. Just make sure that when you download the file, you rename it to PG86IMG.zip, because it has some extra stuff in the file name when you download it. Just be sure it's exactly PG86IMG.zip, and then boot to bootloader. It'll find it and ask you to update.
Glad to see you in here Kyle We probably going to have a lot of work here in the Q&A section
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jayharper08 said:
Glad to see you in here Kyle We probably going to have a lot of work here in the Q&A section
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Same here Jay! Very glad to see you over here, so many other familiar names from the Evo. I'm always around the Q&A trying to help people keep their phone's running smoothly!
i renamed it to PC86IMG.ZIP but it wont load this is what im getting
mind you i had to record this because it was loading to fast for my eyes to catch up
SD checking....
Loading ....[PG86DIAG.zip]
No image
Loading ....[PG86DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading ...[PG86IMG.tar]
No image!
Loading ...[PG86IMG.aes]
No image!
Loading...[PG86IMG.enc]
No image !
should i just back up everything thats on my memory card and erase everything and just install the twrp and try again?
please help im almost there...............
make sure you didn't rename it to PC86IMG.ZIP.zip
make sure you can see your file extensions, you might have them hidden, and you are accidentally renaming the file with a double extension
If the bootloader update method isn't working for you and you have ADB and fastboot set up correctly just follow the instructions on the 3rd post of this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192077
Hope this helps.
im still stuck with clockworkmod im still having issues. keeps saying the same thing but i will keep on trying your advices are greatly appreciated thankz
jayharper08 said:
Download TWRP as the PC86IMG.zip. Put it in the root of the sd card and boot into bootloader and let it scan for the update. It will ask to apply update and select yes. Much easier that way. Make sure it is all caps and name exactly PC86IMG.ZIP and not PC86IMG.ZIP.ZIP.
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should be PG86IMG.zip NOT PC86IMG.zip....
Maybe thats why the problems?
Just sayin....
Wow I didn't even notice that thanks ill check it out right now again thanks for the help guys I'm s-off and rooted and hoping that i get twrp I keep hearing it has way more features than clockworkmod
getmoneygreen said:
Wow I didn't even notice that thanks ill check it out right now again thanks for the help guys I'm s-off and rooted and hoping that i get twrp I keep hearing it has way more features than clockworkmod
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Not only that, Team Wins' Recovery isn't a piece of crappy like clockwork. Plus the visuals are nice too. I backed my phone up for the first time with clockwork and tried to restore, what do you know? It never backed my phone up. Then I was stuck with a ROM-less phone.Screw CWM.
My ''xDU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rx'' shot you down in 3D!
spookytay said:
make sure you didn't rename it to PC86IMG.ZIP.zip
make sure you can see your file extensions, you might have them hidden, and you are accidentally renaming the file with a double extension
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That was it for me, i had it has .zip and then i took it out and it worked. thanks
Weird. I'm using CWM and haven't had any problems so far.
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i don't know if you got help or not yet but CWM isn't working properly yet. you need to download teamwin recovery (its kickass) and rename the file to PG86img and put it in the root of your sd card.
Then power off your phone(make sure fast boot is off), pull out the battery, put it back in and power into Bootload (Vol dwn,Power) and it will run a script for the pg86 file and Click yes to update. Then Reboot.
Enjoy

[Q] Baseband:1.16.00.00.0223r; build: 1.12.605.6 CL338893 release keys

I used the somewhat easy root method in May or maybe march? I believe could be wrong? Still on 2.2.1 and have recieved no OTA's, I need return my Tbolt to verizon and cannot get back to stock; First (if I am wrong sorry I'm a noob that tries but that's all I got) My understanding is if I flash hboot and all of that stuff I will be in serious trouble??? Also I have no recollection of how or what programs I used to root in the first place I need just some pointing in the right direction, and I am capable of following direction and using abd or whatever I do not have any of the original files from the easy root because i have a new computer... Please help or at least point me in the right direction XDA you are the Best and most awesome.
KingTUT55 said:
I used the somewhat easy root method in May or maybe march? I believe could be wrong? Still on 2.2.1 and have recieved no OTA's, I need return my Tbolt to verizon and cannot get back to stock; First (if I am wrong sorry I'm a noob that tries but that's all I got) My understanding is if I flash hboot and all of that stuff I will be in serious trouble??? Also I have no recollection of how or what programs I used to root in the first place I need just some pointing in the right direction, and I am capable of following direction and using abd or whatever I do not have any of the original files from the easy root because i have a new computer... Please help or at least point me in the right direction XDA you are the Best and most awesome.
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just flash a stock ruu thru hboot and you'll be fine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175506
1st download the ruu from web page and make sure its on the root of sdcard
2nd rename the file you just downloaded to PG05IMG.zip if your doing it from windows 7 make its not renamed PG05IMG.zip.zip
3rd power off your phone and the hold power and the volume down button and you'll boot in boot loader and hit the power button once more till its in hboot if you named the file correctly your phone will find it and load up to flash and your good to go, like you just bought it
marcogiudice said:
just flash a stock ruu thru hboot and you'll be fine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175506
1st download the ruu from web page and make sure its on the root of sdcard
2nd rename the file you just downloaded to PG05IMG.zip if your doing it from windows 7 make its not renamed PG05IMG.zip.zip
3rd power off your phone and the hold power and the volume down button and you'll boot in boot loader and hit the power button once more till its in hboot if you named the file correctly your phone will find it and load up to flash and your good to go, like you just bought it
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Might wanna double check that ......http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?2703-How-to-return-rooted-device-back-to-stock!-ROOTED-USERS
trentreed said:
Might wanna double check that ......http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?2703-How-to-return-rooted-device-back-to-stock!-ROOTED-USERS
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I would also recommend this link.
If I helped you in any way please use the thank you button.
Thanks!!
trentreed said:
Might wanna double check that ......http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?2703-How-to-return-rooted-device-back-to-stock!-ROOTED-USERS
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Thank you everyone who replied. Got it all squared away I thought I had to replace the radio but Jcase had it all put together, Thanks again, I guess I was just worrying to much, don't want to brick my device you know.

phone wont boot anymore, help needed

When i was trying to boot into recovery mode it failed and it gave a superuser error. At this moment i had leedroid rom evo 3d gsm that is s-off. When i still had stock rom i never had this error but it seems like it was there all the time with the leedroid rom. Well so i was trying to boot into recovery. Tried it with power button and volume down button at same time, but this was failing. So i did it with rom manager. I used rom manager before when i installed leedroids rom. But now it didnt boot into recovery. I tried installing superuser again but it didnt seem to make any difference. with rootchecker i checked if i had root acces but it seemed i lost root acces :S. after retrying a couple of times my phone didnt boot back to the leedroid rom. I was trying a lot of things, with and without sd and sim. After about 20 reboots i tried power and volume down to go to bootloader and know it loaded. At bootloader start it loads some things and i saw no image blalbla dont really know what it meant. I tried to go to recovery but it wont boot, i get a white screen with htc and wont load anything. I tried all other options in bootloader too, to check if anything works but even a factory reset failed.
For me it looked like somehow my rom is f*cked and now i cant go to recovery mode somehow. I have rom on my sd so if i could go to recovery i could still flash. Does anyone know how i still might get to recovery mode or is there another way to still flash another rom. Maybe there are some people who can tell me more about leedroids rom, are there more people who got trouble with root acces?
anyone who might be able to help plz let me know, im so frustrated right now because i cant use my phone, i even need to think about a way to wake me up this morning because i always used my phone for alarm
That is a very easy to fix problem. First, download Clockworkmod recovery for your device (evo 3D GSM) or another recovery.
CWM 5.2.0 Shooteru: http://www.mediafire.com/?5kdr0c7xux2c64p
After download/finding the recovery, rename it to PG86DIAG. (or whatever it tries to scan for in bootloader. If its 2 things, it is the bottom one)
Place the file on your SD card somehow. (in your case you would need to take out the SD card and put it in another phone/adapter)
Boot into bootloader with volume down + power and it should scan for the file. When it asks if you want to do the update, press yes. After the recovery is installed, press power to reboot.
Do a battery pull while you are on the splash screen. Reboot back into bootloader with vol down + power and click on recovery. Wipe everything and flash the rom again. Reboot and you should be able to load the ROM with root and everything.
thx, im so happy to here your solution. Know lets search for my sd adapter, i know its somewhere . I will let you know later if it has worked
stonyhawk said:
thx, im so happy to here your solution. Know lets search for my sd adapter, i know its somewhere . I will let you know later if it has worked
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You're welcome! I'll be watching the thread.
Oke i did what you said but when i boot into bootloader nothing has changed. It doesnt ask if i want to update anything. And if i go to recovery and try to boot it keeps hanging at the white screen with htc
btw, you said this:after download/finding the recovery, rename it to PG86DIAG. (or whatever it tries to scan for in bootloader.
Do you mean it might be other name i have to make it? How do i know this?
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Oke i did what you said but when i boot into bootloader nothing has changed. It doesnt ask if i want to update anything. And if i go to recovery and try to boot it keeps hanging at the white screen with htc
btw, you said this:after download/finding the recovery, rename it to PG86DIAG. (or whatever it tries to scan for in bootloader.
Do you mean it might be other name i have to make it? How do i know this?
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It is probably a different name.
When you boot into bootloader, it scans for 2 files and says not found, right?
The second file it scans for is the one you want to rename it to.
hmke, ye it scans for files but its going fast so cant see it very well. I see about 5 things get scanned
oke first thing it scanned is called PG86DIAG.zip, 2nd is PG86DIAG.nbh, 3th is PG86IMG.zip, 4th is PG86IMG.nbh, 5th is PG86IMG.tar, 6th is PG86IMG.aes, 7th is PG86IMG.enc
All this things are scanned and then it says no image
From what I can read if you lost root then you are s-on on the bootloader right? if so installing recovery through bootloader wont work... check if you have S-on or S-off on bootloader if you have s-on you will need to use a official update to restore your phone...
stonyhawk said:
hmke, ye it scans for files but its going fast so cant see it very well. I see about 5 things get scanned
oke first thing it scanned is called PG86DIAG.zip, 2nd is PG86DIAG.nbh, 3th is PG86IMG.zip, 4th is PG86IMG.nbh, 5th is PG86IMG.tar, 6th is PG86IMG.aes, 7th is PG86IMG.enc
All this things are scanned and then it says no image
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Do PG86IMG. Also, if it says S-On at the top of the bootloader, you will need to get S-Off with revolutionary again.
1107963 said:
From what I can read if you lost root then you are s-on on the bootloader right? if so installing recovery through bootloader wont work... check if you have S-on or S-off on bootloader if you have s-on you will need to use a official update to restore your phone...
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No im still s-off, but when my phone was less ****ed as it is now and i could still boot normaly, i already had some strange things with leedroid rom. superuser never seems to be working well. i couldnt give root acces, it gave an error when i try. even through root chekker it says no root, but i thought that might have something to do with superuser.
stonyhawk said:
No im still s-off, but when my phone was less ****ed as it is now and i could still boot normaly, i already had some strange things with leedroid rom. superuser never seems to be working well. i couldnt give root acces, it gave an error when i try. even through root chekker it says no root, but i thought that might have something to do with superuser.
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Instead of renaming to PG86DIAG, rename to PG86IMG and see if that works.
yousefak said:
Do PG86IMG. Also, if it says S-On at the top of the bootloader, you will need to get S-Off with revolutionary again.
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do you mean name the file PG86IMG and not PG86DIAG?
lol your answer came faster
Oke still no difference, but it is chekking for a .zip file right? Im not sure if its .zip right now, is this the reason why its failing?
Ummmmm I dont see any other choice but this... you can follow this tutorial to get your phone working...
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262457
You are going to need to revert back to stock
I had the same problem a month back and was able to fix it.
Also don't worry if you can still get to the boot loader its fixable.
stonyhawk said:
do you mean name the file PG86IMG and not PG86DIAG?
lol your answer came faster
Oke still no difference, but it is chekking for a .zip file right? Im not sure if its .zip right now, is this the reason why its failing?
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So it acts as if there is no .zip at all? Like it says "No image found"?
Double check if its a zip and the file is named properly. If it doesn't recognize it, there is a problem with your SD card/bootloader.
Oke when i put the .zip in a clockworkmod folder it didnt see it but now it shows parsing behind the PG86DIAG.zip and the PG86DIAG.img says no image or wrong image. All other thing still say no image
I tried the .zip you uploaded and now it could load the image , trying to flash now
stonyhawk said:
Oke when i put the .zip in a clockworkmod folder it didnt see it but now it shows parsing behind the PG86DIAG.zip and the PG86DIAG.img says no image or wrong image. All other thing still say no image
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I see what you're doing wrong. Don't put the zip in a clockworckmod folder. Put it on the root of your sd card.
(just directly on the sd card)
yousefak said:
I see what you're doing wrong. Don't put the zip in a clockworckmod folder. Put it on the root of your sd card.
(just directly on the sd card)
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Good catch on that one.
If you don't put it directly on the root of your sd card then the boot loader will not be able to find the zip and flash it.
Oke thx, i finally booted into recovery . I first had to delete the .zip again because it was trying to update again when i didnt. Im so happy now , couldnt done this without your help so i will push the thx button few times^^
stonyhawk said:
Oke thx, i finally booted into recovery . I first had to delete the .zip again because it was trying to update again when i didnt. Im so happy now , couldnt done this without your help so i will push the thx button few times^^
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