[Q] Custom Recovery for HTC Rhyme (Bliss) - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello everyone!
I've been looking for a custom recovery for my HTC Rhyme (Bliss) and I've tried EVERYTHING!
Clockworkmod recovery, 4ExtRecover, Amon Ra Recovery, etc. There is no option in ROM Manager Pro and there are no custom ROMS for my phone. Even if there was a ROM for my phone, I can't flash any ROMS!!! So, I'm desperately waiting for someone to help me or maybe a developer who knows how to build a recovery. Please help me. I've been emailing developers and seeking out options all over the web.
If you can help, thanks.

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Can someone please help me...

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I don't think there'll be much development for the Rhyme. It isn't as popular as the other HTC phones, mainly because of it's niche consumer target. It's mostly meant for women, and most of the devs on XDA are guys. Also the phone hasn't become so widespread that they might take interest in developing for it. That's the reason there isn't even a forum for HTC Rhyme in XDA, alongside all the other devices. So I guess you're at a dead end and stuck with stock. :-\ Maybe something will come up if you're lucky!

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Hopefully something comes up because I can't even flash a kernel or anythign...thanks!

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It may be a girls phone, but the boys have to maintain them. Also the Sense 3.5 must make it an interesting test bed? Vote for a forum.
Post a request here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1301121

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416406
Sorry, I put a bad link above. This one works.

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Hello everyone !
I've got good news : after a lot of search, I found a chinese site which explains how to flash an unofficial ClockworkMod 5.0.2.7 on the HTC Rhyme.
I don't understand chinese, and so a guy helped me on phonandroid.com (a French forum) : he found the PI46IMG.zip file on MediaFire.
Here is the url (I'm not allowed to post links) : http :// www . mediafire . com/?xu8o6ppiu00e76z
The bootloader autoflash method (puting the file in the microSD's root) didn't worked for me (incorrect CID), but a fastboot flash did !
Here are informations (got with fastboot) about my phone, on which it worked :
Code:
> fastboot getvar all
version: 0.5
version-bootloader: 1.30.0004
version-baseband: 3822.09.00.08_M
version-cpld: None
version-microp: None
version-main: 1.29.401.11
product: bliss
platform: HBOOT-7630
modelid: PI4610000
cidnum: HTC__203
partition-layout: Generic
security: on
build-mode: SHIP
commitno-bootloader: 693a31ef
hbootpreupdate: 12
gencheckpt: 0
So to flash the unofficial CWM 5.0.2.7, someone must :
- Unlock the bootloader
- Download the PI46IMG.zip file (4.17MB)
- Unzip the file on the hard drive
- Reboot into fastboot (via
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
for example)
- Flash the recovery.img :
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Enjoy !
PS: Sorry if my English isn't very good, I'm French.

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I'm really unsure of what you mean by unzip the file on the hard drive...do you mean on the phone like I'm flashing a radio? and then what do I do after that and thanks btw!!

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Tried this several times. It's not working for me. In fact, I've tried everything I could find about rooting the Rhyme and NOTHING has panned out. The only thing that I've been able to do successfully is unlock/relock the bootloader. I've tried flashing numerous recoveries and even an RUU mod. I have no success using methods that others have used and they worked for them. ZergRush is what most have used but I get nowhere with it. Now, I can't even get the stock recovery to boot.
This is my wife's phone and I really want to root it so that she can have the benefit of being able to completely backup everything, in addition to all the other great perks that come with root.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.

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@rankelvin: by "unzip the file on the hard drive" I mean on your computer, as the only way to flash a recovery or a boot image on the Rhyme is with the fastboot command and an unlocked bootloader.
@RuLEoF2: ZergRush almost worked for me, but not permanently. I think the best way to have a real root for the Rhyme is to flash an already rooted ROM, like the one I published (you can search here for "Aurore Rhyme 1.0"), but you need a recovery to do that... I thought the fastboot method would work for everyone, it's weird it doesn't... What does the phone do when you try to boot on the recovery ?

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It goes to the white HTC screen for a few seconds, then to a black screen with an image of a phone and a tiny caption saying something about updating. That only lasts about a second where it then goes to the infamous red triangle screen.
I have to hold down the power button for about 10 seconds to get it to power down from there.
I've tried flashing with fastboot from my PC (no joke) at least 20 times with several different recovery downloads. No good. It never takes.
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Here's what I got with a recovery a just tried to flash. The recovery image was extracted from an RUU.
C:\android>fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
sending 'recovery' (4018 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.656s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 3.328s

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The infamous red triangle screen is normal with stock recovery. You have to press the power button while holding the volume up button to enter in the recovery from there.
About the "signature verify fail", is the bootloader really unlocked ? There is no signature verification on my phone when I flash something with fastboot...

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Ok... I am able to get to the recovery that way.
The bootloader may have been locked on that flash attempt. I've been bouncing back and forth, trying different processes. I unlocked it again a little while ago and flashed a boot.img which worked fine.
As an experiment, I just tried flashing Amon Ra for Rezound, It said that it installed "okay" but it wouldn't load. No surprise there. So I re-flashed the recovery image from earlier and it installed "okay" and that one loaded just fine. The main thing that I wanted to know from this was I even able to flash a recovery at all and it appears so.
That recovery image is the only one I have and it looks like it's the stock "Android system recovery <3a>". I haven't been able to find any custom recoveries as of yet.

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The only one custom recovery made for the Rhyme I found after a long search is the one on MediaFire I linked before. I don't know if there is any other which could work... :/

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I tried that one before and again just now. It fails saying "Model ID incorrect!".
I am able to extract the files with 7zip. Is there something I can do to modify the txt file?

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Which files are you able to extract with 7zip ?
And what does this fastboot command return ?
Code:
fastboot getvar modelid

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I am able to extract the recovery.img and the android-info.txt files. The txt file contains the following...
"ModelID: PI4610***
ModelID: PI4610000
CIDNUM: 1111111
MainVer: 2.0.0.134076
DelUserData:0"
When I use the fastboot "getvar modelid" command, I get "modelid: PI4611000".
I tried flashing the recovery.img by itself manually with fastboot and it didn't work. It said "okay" but wouldn't boot past the white HTC screen.

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OK, so you have better to flash the stock recovery again...
I'll try to find a recovery for your ModelID but it will be difficult. :/

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Ok. I did and the stock recovery is working.
Thank you very much. I really do appreciate your help.

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So the problem is that the recovery is for the bliss and yours is a blissc.
I found a way to build an official CWM from a stock recovery, but I need informations about your phone to check if the partitions table is the same on the two models.
The informations I need are the return of the following commands, that must be executed on the phone (via adb shell) :
Code:
cat /proc/emmc
mount
If the partitions table is the same, this recovery should work, I just build it from a BlissC RUU's recovery with the official CWM builder :
http://android.4urore.net/blissc/recovery.img