Hi there..
First post in the Flyer section. I think I know the answer to this but I'll ask anyway.
I'm not a noob to Android or to flashing ROMs, but this is the first I've tried on the flyer. Tried flashing the HC leak, but I think I screwed myself. I unlocked using Revolutionary, but the guide posted in this forum didn't mention anything about whether to go ahead and download ClockWorkMod at the end of that S-OFF procedure, so I selected no. Now I can't connect to my tab with adb, after flashing the Honeycomb radio and the boot image. Basically I got to step 12.
So now the revolutionary bootloader will come up, but I don't seem to be able to do much else (obviously the OS won't boot at this point). Am I screwed?
Thanks in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14693680
This should do it
Actually you should already have the recovery downloaded a installing it is a later step
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Yep, that shook it loose. I didn't realize the fastboot command could access the tablet still, adb push would not. Thank you very much!
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Novice to rooting here. Have a BBY 16GB FLYER. Tired of waiting for HTC OTA update. Can anyone give some pointers as how to safely update the FLYER to HC with the download(s) from the forum? Do you have to root the device in order to put HC on?
Have read the Globotron thread but someone says there are couple of steps missing which are not obvious to novice user like me.
Thanks very much!
I have the BB Wifi now running Globaltron's rooted OTA HC. There is nothing missing in his instructions, just follow careful, do not skip anything and yes you have to root. Then install the version from his tread.
IF you are on the stock Flyer ROM, start here in his instructions.
"Run revolutionary, there is no reason to install ClockWorkMod recovery at this point, say no when asked."
WARNING, MAKE SURE YOU READ AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS ESPECIALLY THOSE WARNINGS IN RED LIKE " MAKE SURE YOUR DEVICE IS FULLY CHARGED"
you have to root for bc. this is very easy to do. first you have to unlock to get s-off, with revolutionary. don't need to install cwm.
essentially you download the HTC drivers and install. run the revolutionary program. you have s-off. then follow globatrons directions. easiest way for novice imho is to download the big file. rename it like instructed and place on your SD card. boot into hboot and it will take care of the rest. just follow the directions. did it like this on two best buy flyers and it works great. wish I could have hc on my view.
I do not think there are any missing steps. Just take your time and read. All the threads needed are in development. first s-off using revolutionary, Then follow steps in globatrons thread
Thanks guys for the replies. With Globatrons thread, should anything goes wrong, can I backout or have other options? Will I brick the flyer? Thanks -
have the stock RUU for your device saved to your pc first. You will need this to revert or in the case of problems.
How do I do that?
z3atl said:
Thanks guys for the replies. With Globatrons thread, should anything goes wrong, can I backout or have other options? Will I brick the flyer? Thanks -
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I can't make it any easier than it is, but in my experience people who ask the last question are 5-10 times more likely to brick a device than those who don't because they are the very people don't read instructions properly and don't understand what the procedure is doing properly.
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have the stock RUU for your device saved to your pc first. You will need this to revert or in the case of problems.
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I've been trying at least to follow the threads here and the Android development subforum since I bought my Flyer the day BB dropped the price to $300. I thought there was no RUU for the US wifi version? That's all that has been keeping me from Globaltron's HC since S-off and root were so simple and his packaged up ROM seemed so straight forward. So is there a RUU for the BB US Wifi Flyer?
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bsoplinger said:
I've been trying at least to follow the threads here and the Android development subforum since I bought my Flyer the day BB dropped the price to $300. I thought there was no RUU for the US wifi version? That's all that has been keeping me from Globaltron's HC since S-off and root were so simple and his packaged up ROM seemed so straight forward. So is there a RUU for the BB US Wifi Flyer?
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Not yet, you can use my version now and I'll update it with all of the regional versions as and when they are released and you will have an option to flash the US version of it when released or to revert to stock and take the stock update.
bsoplinger said:
I've been trying at least to follow the threads here and the Android development subforum since I bought my Flyer the day BB dropped the price to $300. I thought there was no RUU for the US wifi version? That's all that has been keeping me from Globaltron's HC since S-off and root were so simple and his packaged up ROM seemed so straight forward. So is there a RUU for the BB US Wifi Flyer?
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there is a stock gb ruu for the best buy flyer available, if that is what you are asking
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there is a stock gb ruu for the best buy flyer available, if that is what you are asking
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Yes, that is certainly true. I think you interpreted the post better than me and that was what was meant.
globatron said:
in my experience people who ask the last question are 5-10 times more likely to brick a device than those who don't
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Best rooting advice evar!
globatron said:
I can't make it any easier than it is, but in my experience people who ask the last question are 5-10 times more likely to brick a device than those who don't because they are the very people don't read instructions properly and don't understand what the procedure is doing properly.
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Which is weird, as people who are afraid of bricking it, would, logically, read all the instructions a dozen times over!
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Which is weird, as people who are afraid of bricking it, would, logically, read all the instructions a dozen times over!
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Yeah, go figure but this is based on my experience.
coming from a galaxy s device prior which used odin utility and was a world of one click solutions switching to a HTC device had a learning curve. I read everything multiple times first. Then crazy me, I did some trail runs to teach myself the basics of adb and fastboot commands as they were not commonly needed in my previous android use. Once I had a grasp of what worked where, and what commands were for what I read everything again. Then I moved forward.
Amazingly enough I have had no issues moving to and from Honeycomb and Gingerbread. Couple soft brick/boot loops allong the way but that was only becasue I was messing around with tweaking things.
Read 3 times, flash 1 time
Just trying to get the questions out of the way should I decided to continue.
Regarding running revolutionary:
Step 4: Turn USB debugging ON (Where do you turn this on?)
Note: The device should be fully booted to android now, do not go to the bootloader or fastboot. (Do you connect your device and turn it on, and when do you do so? Or is it a normal turn on or some sort of 'safe mode' you bootup differently? )
Step 5: Connect the device via USB if not already done. (If you take this step, do you connect it when it is off or on?)
Thanks!
Regarding running revolutionary:
Step 4: Turn USB debugging ON (Where do you turn this on?)
Probably should slow down if you have to ask this but it can be found under settings/applications/development. While you are at it you should disable fastboot under settings/power
Note: The device should be fully booted to android now, do not go to the bootloader or fastboot. (Do you connect your device and turn it on, and when do you do so? Or is it a normal turn on or some sort of 'safe mode' you bootup differently? )
Your thinking too much here. Your Flyer is on and booted up. Just plug usb in.
Step 5: Connect the device via USB if not already done. (If you take this step, do you connect it when it is off or on?)
Cant believe you asked this after your last question, once again, device on then plug in USB.
Revolutionary is going to locate your device and give you your id. you enter it into the website and you get the beta key. You enter the beta key into revolutionary and hit enter. Do you want Clockwork Recovery, select Y or N hit enter. It does the rest
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Regarding running revolutionary:
Step 4: Turn USB debugging ON (Where do you turn this on?)
Probably should slow down if you have to ask this but it can be found under settings/applications/development. While you are at it you should disable fastboot under settings/power
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I must admit, I had to think hard where I had seen that option, last night...
And I didn't know about that fastboot setting until this morning!
mcord11758 said:
Regarding running revolutionary:
Step 4: Turn USB debugging ON (Where do you turn this on?)
Probably should slow down if you have to ask this but it can be found under settings/applications/development. While you are at it you should disable fastboot under settings/power
Note: The device should be fully booted to android now, do not go to the bootloader or fastboot. (Do you connect your device and turn it on, and when do you do so? Or is it a normal turn on or some sort of 'safe mode' you bootup differently? )
Your thinking too much here. Your Flyer is on and booted up. Just plug usb in.
Step 5: Connect the device via USB if not already done. (If you take this step, do you connect it when it is off or on?)
Cant believe you asked this after your last question, once again, device on then plug in USB.
Revolutionary is going to locate your device and give you your id. you enter it into the website and you get the beta key. You enter the beta key into revolutionary and hit enter. Do you want Clockwork Recovery, select Y or N hit enter. It does the rest
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New to Android and new to rooting....Thought I'd clearify the questions. Only way to learn.
Greatly appreciate the answers!!
To keep a long story short, HTC decided to mess the root on my nephew's HTC View after getting the charging port fixed. I intalled the HC RUU from globatron's sticky (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1409306). The system boots up. My problem is the recovery. The HBOOT screen still says Revolutionary and the HBOOT version is 6.14.5555.
I'm trying not to brick this thing so I want to make sure I don't install something from the other threads because I was missing something else.
What is the easiest way to get CWM installed? I saw a thread about using ROM Manager to get CWM installed, but there was somewhat a debate whether or not that was the best method.
Sorry for the noob question, but still a little green when trying to resolve issues like this.
Thanks,
Ryan.
EDIT: Wow, a lot of lookers, but no answers. Doing some research, it seems that installing the recovery image through fastboot is the answer? Is there anything I'm missing. The tablet has S-OFF & Revolutionary. Can't seem to get superuser installed since I need a recovery to flash it (right???). Would running the Revolutionary tool solve my problems?
I bought the Flyer a while ago and it came with HC installed. Now that it seems that ICS might be an option for it here on xda I figured I'd start looking into what I need to do in order to flash in a new rom.
I've done a bit of reading but it feels like I have missed something fundamental somewhere. So... this is what I have done:
As far as I have understood it is not possible to get s-off while on HC so I just went ahead and successfully unlocked the boot loader through HTCdev.
Now it is my understanding that I should be able to flash in clockworkmod recovery eventhough I am not s-off'ed, right? I downloaded cwm-4.0.1.4-flyer.img from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14693680 and flashed it through fastboot. According to the output everything went well and I got two "OK" from the command line.
Now, when trying to get into recovery I just get to the green HTC logo with white background and the FLyer doesn't move anywhere. What have I missed/done wrong to not get into the clockworkmod recovery?
I should probably end with saying that the Flyer still boots into Android without any issues so I haven't totally bricked it... yet
You are trying gb recovery on hc. Look for thread in development from Paul obrien about leaked hc. Has right cmw
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You are trying gb recovery on hc. Look for thread in development from Paul obrien about leaked hc. Has right cmw
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Ha! That did the trick.
I am now backed up, rooted and prepared
Many thanks!
So, I have gone through the whole process of rooting my phone, unlocking it. I have TWRP on it, Titanium backup (thankfully), Goo Manager. It is S-on. I have 2.09 Hboot. My TWRP-jewel is 2.5.0.0. Ok, now onto my question, I am trying to get CM-10 to load but it doesn't go any further than the load screen. No matter what I try. I have even tried switching to JellyBAM but all to no avail. Can someone offer me tips as to what I may have done or be doing wrong? Thanks in advance
[Q] trying to put CM10 on my rooted phone
Forgive me if I put this in the wrong group, but I feel this is probably the right one for it. I have Hboot 2.09. I have TWRP. I have S-on. I want to put CM10 with Gapps onto my phone but every way I have tried, CM10 just sits there and loops around, the longest being an hour. I figured some time was possible, but come on. Over on Google+, people are telling me to flash this and flash that, fastboot this or that. I have no idea what they are trying to say to me. I am loving learning all of this but I need a little more explanation than just flash something. I realize that flash has something to do with commands. I am running windows 8 if that helps on my laptop. My TWRP version is 2.5.0.0. I don't know if my phone has gone through the latest update or not. Thanks for any help you can give me!
You have to install the kernel separately from the ROM since you're S-on. Click the link in my sig for more info.
You most likely have the newest touch panel driver, so you can only use ROM's based off the latest OTA, software version 3.16. Your touchscreen won't work otherwise. You can gain S-off and downgrade your touch panel driver, at which point you can run AOSP ROM's like CM.
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tabidee said:
Forgive me if I put this in the wrong group, but I feel this is probably the right one for it. I have Hboot 2.09. I have TWRP. I have S-on. I want to put CM10 with Gapps onto my phone but every way I have tried, CM10 just sits there and loops around, the longest being an hour. I figured some time was possible, but come on. Over on Google+, people are telling me to flash this and flash that, fastboot this or that. I have no idea what they are trying to say to me. I am loving learning all of this but I need a little more explanation than just flash something. I realize that flash has something to do with commands. I am running windows 8 if that helps on my laptop. My TWRP version is 2.5.0.0. I don't know if my phone has gone through the latest update or not. Thanks for any help you can give me!
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First of all you might be on the newest touch panel driver, and that's the first thing that gets you in trouble because aosp roms don't work with that, as of now, it might work later... Who knows... Secondly you need to flash the boot.img separately thru fastboot because your are s-on and on 2.09... To make your life easier try to get s-off either thru facepalm or dirty racun... That way you can flash any rom and also downgrade your touch panel driver to get aosp working on your phone... If you flash viper rom it has a senseless option so you can use nova and get stability and some sort of aosp look... Good luck!
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Yes, S-off is the way to go if you want to run CM. Otherwise, try meanbean or viper or sharkie or any other sense based Rom. They should work fine.
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I have tried to do facepalm. When I put the code in (I'm assuming it goes in the command window), I get messages like "adb not valid command". Even though my phone is most definitely rooted, says unlocked. Should I redownload android-sdk? Thanks again!
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tabidee said:
I have tried to do facepalm. When I put the code in (I'm assuming it goes in the command window), I get messages like "adb not valid command". Even though my phone is most definitely rooted, says unlocked. Should I redownload android-sdk? Thanks again!
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ADB commands must be issued when the phone is mounted as media share not as fastboot. Connect your phone as if you were transferring files between it and your pc.
Something new to try since you're on the latest OTA.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321072
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ADB commands must be issued when the phone is mounted as media share not as fastboot. Connect your phone as if you were transferring files between it and your pc.
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I do have it connected to the computer like that. Do you mean I have to go into TWRP and mount it that way? I tried it that way too. I downloaded and whole new android SDK to see if that is the problem. If not, I am going to factory reset my phone and start over. I can't imagine why I was able to root the phone, get it unlocked, but now I can't do anything else with it. Not even get adb commands to recognize it.
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I do have it connected to the computer like that. Do you mean I have to go into TWRP and mount it that way? I tried it that way too. I downloaded and whole new android SDK to see if that is the problem. If not, I am going to factory reset my phone and start over. I can't imagine why I was able to root the phone, get it unlocked, but now I can't do anything else with it. Not even get adb commands to recognize it.
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If I were you I would try the new S-off method I posted above. It's Windows friendly
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thank you
FinZ28 said:
If I were you I would try the new S-off method I posted above. It's Windows friendly
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I know that I have been a particularly trying noob this week and I apologize. I tried to go back and thank the ones that helped me along the way and i did realize I double posted. I apologize for that too. So a big thank you!!!!!!!!!:good:
Message is for user tabidee tho if anyone else can help..koo..but I doubt u want tow
This is for tabidee hey I was reading ur stuff on xda developers and I have a question. If u can help if not its cool. Ok so i got my sprint evo and I went to try to root it. I went thru a process that with the steps combined with htcdev site got me to say unlock my bootloader. I used hoot 2.09 and I was supposed to flash this pimg175 zip to i guess install a recovery. Well that won't work at all... I cant get my s on switched to s off and so i am stuck with according to the hoot screen a tampered, unlocked with s on, unrooted phone. I am so confused with all the steps and files I had to download, rename and save to various folders that I gave up. With my phone at its current state what do I do next? I deleted all the files from the day I unlocked it but if you can explain to me... And explain like if I was a five year old cuz I'm that dumbfounded on this subject... But if u can maybe walk me thru the rest of the process or walk me thru a undoing of what I done so far. I'm lisa. My email is [email protected]
Check out the link below. It's a GUI for rooting and has everything you need to get your phone rooted. You'll need to install the recovery first then superuser, which will give you root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2436217
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Whoever has time and is bored.....come help me one on one
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This is for tabidee hey I was reading ur stuff on xda developers and I have a question. If u can help if not its cool. Ok so i got my sprint evo and I went to try to root it. I went thru a process that with the steps combined with htcdev site got me to say unlock my bootloader. I used hoot 2.09 and I was supposed to flash this pimg175 zip to i guess install a recovery. Well that won't work at all... I cant get my s on switched to s off and so i am stuck with according to the hoot screen a tampered, unlocked with s on, unrooted phone. I am so confused with all the steps and files I had to download, rename and save to various folders that I gave up. With my phone at its current state what do I do next? I deleted all the files from the day I unlocked it but if you can explain to me... And explain like if I was a five year old cuz I'm that dumbfounded on this subject... But if u can maybe walk me thru the rest of the process or walk me thru a undoing of what I done so far. I'm lisa. My email is [email protected]
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Can someone just email me on the side and we can come up with a good day n time to IM or even a phone call covenrsation so we can go step by step and hook my phone up right. I'm just way too dumbfounded on the whole thing at this point.... The weed probably coulda waited... Lol.. [email protected]
kinda
datbitch said:
Can someone just email me on the side and we can come up with a good day n time to IM or even a phone call covenrsation so we can go step by step and hook my phone up right. I'm just way too dumbfounded on the whole thing at this point.... The weed probably coulda waited... Lol.. [email protected]
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I had to do moonshine with wubi lunbuntu linux terminal. Rooting is easy u do it from google play look for 4.2.2 roms that are ok with s-on. mean is easy.
so I still have to connect my sh*t to da pc and go thru some more steps with this lunbuntu thing before though rite? BTW... the HTC software update won't complete itself so I'm still 4.1 I think
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Hello. So I've tried multiple times flashing ROMs to my device, and have always had problems somewhere along the line. The furthest I got was successfully flashing this ROM, but it ended up in a boot loop. I believed it was due to my device being S-ON, even though I've successfully rooted and unlocked my bootloader via HTCdev and thus I've been attempting to get S-OFF. I tried JuopunutBear but got an error message related to checking my adb and fastboot drivers (Which I'm fairly sure are up to date and working) and I think the problem is I am on HBOOT 1.57. I've been attempting to downgrade using this guide (Which uses Revolutionary to get S-OFF in which case I wouldn't need JuopunutBear). I only got a bit of the way in, however, before I got stuck. After relocking my device it tells you to put the RUU zip on your device, but my computer isn't detecting my device and I'm stuck in the bootloader. I've tried shutting it off, trying all the options in the bootloader, taking out the battery, entering commands into adb, and probably some other things I've forgot, but I'm still stuck on the bootloader and my device isn't detected at all on my computer (Either in command prompt or in the explorer window).
Essentially what I'm asking here is:
How do I get my phone unstuck from bootloader?
Do I need S-OFF to be able to flash ROMs?
If I don't need S-OFF, what was I doing wrong? Should I try a different ROM?
And I suppose I may as well ask if that's a worthwhile ROM. I want something that optimizes my device and allows for custom themes, but otherwise I'm not too picky.
Specs:
Windows Vista (With ADB and fastboot, as well as HTC Sync and other phone drivers. Essentially I think I have all the software I'd need installed.)
HTC EVO 3D CDMA with Virgin Mobile as the carrier.
HTCdev unlocked bootloader
S-ON
HBOOT 1.57
Stock ROM
4ext recovery
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!
(Also I apologize if I didn't give all the information needed or if I posted this in the incorrect spot. I figured this would be the most appropriate spot since although I have issues with specific processes it's also a fairly general request for help.)
UPDATE: I tried re-unlocking my phone using HTCdev so I'm no longer stuck in bootloader. I'm going to be trying the HBOOT Downgrade Toolkit guide again sometime today or tomorrow to see if I can get it working. I think one of the problems before was that I didn't put the RUU on the sdcard beforehand and then my device wasn't being recognized so i couldn't put it there then. If I put it on beforehand I should be able to update successfully and get past the step I was stuck on before.
If you're son u can only flash sence ROMs.
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If you're son u can only flash sence ROMs.
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Er, I'm not quite sure what you're saying here.
UPDATE: I tried re-unlocking my phone using HTCdev so I'm no longer stuck in bootloader. I'm going to be trying the HBOOT Downgrade Toolkit guide again sometime today or tomorrow to see if I can get it working. I think one of the problems before was that I didn't put the RUU on the sdcard beforehand and then my device wasn't being recognized so i couldn't put it there then. If I put it on beforehand I should be able to update successfully and get past the step I was stuck on before.
It will be your hboot causing the problems.
Most recoveries allow you to mount usb storage so you can use that option to connect to your pc and move the ruu across without removing your sdcard etc.
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