So I was walking my girlfriend through rooting her new Evo3D, and we couldn't get the phone to get past the 'MI' logo, so I figured it was a kernel thing. After four kernels and two versions of MIUI I realized that it wasn't the issue, it was the hboot.
She didn't back up, she has only had it since last night. I now know what I need to do to flash the ROM, but how can I get her back to stock so I can get the app needed?
Any help?
She has HBOOT 1.5, right?
Go back to the folder where you did all the rooting. Get the stock MIUI kernel (boot.img from the flashable zip) and place it in that folder. Open up a cmd and navigate to that folder.
Boot her phone into fastboot mode. (Vol down + power while the phone is off. Hit power button to select fastboot once it goes into bootloader) Plug the phone into the computer via USB
Type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img' in the kernel. If it successfully flashes, you are done! MIUI should boot up now that it has the appropriate kernel. You will need to do this for any ROM you flash.
As long as you have a recovery, just flash whatever rom you want through fastboot and the kernel will stick.
Or just download a stock rooted rom and flash that the same way you just tried to flash MIUI. It will work since you still have the original kernel.
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flonker said:
As long as you have a recovery, just flash whatever rom you want through fastboot and the kernel will stick.
Or just download a stock rooted rom and flash that the same way you just tried to flash MIUI. It will work since you still have the original kernel.
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Well, ROM's cant be flashed through fastboot. The ROM is flashed through recovery. Then you go to fastboot and flash the kernel with my guide above. After that, everything should be working fine.
yousefak said:
She has HBOOT 1.5, right?
Go back to the folder where you did all the rooting. Get the stock MIUI kernel (boot.img from the flashable zip) and place it in that folder. Open up a cmd and navigate to that folder.
Boot her phone into fastboot mode. (Vol down + power while the phone is off. Hit power button to select fastboot once it goes into bootloader) Plug the phone into the computer via USB
Type 'fastboot flash boot boot.img' in the kernel. If it successfully flashes, you are done! MIUI should boot up now that it has the appropriate kernel. You will need to do this for any ROM you flash.
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Hopefully this works! Shes at church right now but I will have her do this ASAP and I'll report back!
(Awesome response time BTW)
Roms are flashed through fastboot just by loading your recovery into fastboot.
I never flash roms and kernels separately. Just go into fastboot, load your recovery, and flash as you normally would.
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I had something similar when flashing MIUI. if you boot the recovery.img from fastboot it should work. you may want to re download just in case of a bad download.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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I'm having the same problem as epicchase. have attempted to flash miui many times. at first i tried to do it through my recovery. it didn't work. then i tried to use the fast boot method and flash it from the recovery that i opened from fast boot. i'm quite frustrated. it just wont boot miui, is it the kernel, i'm new to rooting in general but i think i know what i'm doing. i have spent who knows how many hours trying everything i can. i tried flashing the boot.img and the ROM separately. I have successively flashed android revolution hd, but that's no fun, its nearly the same as the stock ROM any suggestions would be appreciated. it boots but i guess it must be a boot loop but idk all i know is it freezes in the middle of the boot animation.
ps. i am rooted using the htc official method (unfortunately) and am s-on)
redstrike120 said:
I'm having the same problem as epicchase. have attempted to flash miui many times. at first i tried to do it through my recovery. it didn't work. then i tried to use the fast boot method and flash it from the recovery that i opened from fast boot. i'm quite frustrated. it just wont boot miui, is it the kernel, i'm new to rooting in general but i think i know what i'm doing. i have spent who knows how many hours trying everything i can. i tried flashing the boot.img and the ROM separately. I have successively flashed android revolution hd, but that's no fun, its nearly the same as the stock ROM any suggestions would be appreciated. it boots but i guess it must be a boot loop but idk all i know is it freezes in the middle of the boot animation.
ps. i am rooted using the htc official method (unfortunately) and am s-on)
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Did you do a full wipe before you flashed? Find Virus's Superwipe tool (.zip), boot to recovery with fastboot, flash the superwipe.zip, then flash MIUI.
Twolazyg said:
Did you do a full wipe before you flashed? Find Virus's Superwipe tool (.zip), boot to recovery with fastboot, flash the superwipe.zip, then flash MIUI.
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I will try that tonight thanks very much in advance
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Did you do a full wipe before you flashed? Find Virus's Superwipe tool (.zip), boot to recovery with fastboot, flash the superwipe.zip, then flash MIUI.
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well it didn't work it did the same exact thing. I've been giving it about 10 mins to attempt to boot is that long enough? I'm new to non sense roms I've only ever used sense, is there something I'm forgetting to do that is different for non sense roms. *frustration* (and i thought i was beginning to understand this)
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okay well i tried to flash cyanogenmod 7 still no dice. I must be an idiot, sorry for being a noob.
this is what im doing.
im placing the .zip on root of my sd card. then opening my cmd.
i then type " cd c:\android" (i saved the recovery image in a folder named android) it says
"c:\android" just as it should i then type "fastboot boot recovery.img"
it restarts my phone in recovery
i press install .zip from sd card then click wipe cache and dalvik cache it goes and does its work
i then select the superwipe.zip it says flash compete however it says error or something but i just kind of ignored it.
i then select my miui.zip that i got from www.miui.us
i then select install .zip files the first thing that comes up is "md5 check fail- ignoring" and the continues and flashes (i have no clue what that part means but i continue anyway)
i select reboot and it starts to boot my phone i get the white screen with green htc.
i then get the miui boot animation for anywhere from 2-5 seconds and then it freezes.
i sit and nearly just stare at it and the clock. i wait at least 5 mins but have waited up to 30 mins.
the boot animation never restarts i just freezes there making me think it is not a boot loop (however the definition of an actual bootloop is slightly vague to me.)
anyway thanks for reading and if you have any suggestions i will be very happy for now im just gonna run my android revolution hd rom.
If superwipe isn't working, fastboot to recovery, go to the wipe menu, not install a zip, wipe dalvik, cache, and factory reset. Don't do the factory reset in android, do it in recovery. I'm guessing you got a corrupt download of superwipe, I would redownload it and try it again if I were you.
Try using this one.
Twolazyg said:
If superwipe isn't working, fastboot to recovery, go to the wipe menu, not install a zip, wipe dalvik, cache, and factory reset. Don't do the factory reset in android, do it in recovery. I'm guessing you got a corrupt download of superwipe, I would redownload it and try it again if I were you.
Try using this one.
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Yayyyy perfect thankyou sooooo much I'm speechless thank you so much!!! it flashed like it was mardi gras.
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this process doesnt work for me, i have been trying it for 2 mnoths..No avail, is there anyone who can make this work?
EVO 3D HBOOT 1.5
rcquartz said:
this process doesnt work for me, i have been trying it for 2 mnoths..No avail, is there anyone who can make this work?
EVO 3D HBOOT 1.5
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What didn't work for you?
rcquartz said:
this process doesnt work for me, i have been trying it for 2 mnoths..No avail, is there anyone who can make this work?
EVO 3D HBOOT 1.5
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make sure your phone is actually rooted if it is hboot 1.5 make sure to use htvdev.com
make sure you have a recovery image
I need help, I have been trying this for 2 days now
to start, I set my phone back to stock
Unlocked with the HTC Dev method
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (twrp)
install superuser from zip
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
modified superwipe
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
install viperROM from zip
reboot
Cannot get past the HTC boot screen
can anyone help me?
I have been able to root in the past, I had rooted to ics-deck a few months ago and have rooted to other Gingerbread ROMs but have not been able to get any of the new ICS roms to work for me since the leak.
Here is how i fixed that problem
First, download flash image GUI from the market. Go into the app and hit flash kernel. Then browse your SD card for the VIPERrom IC3D zip and flash the kernel from it. The app will tell you the zip file is too big to just be a kernel but it will say that if the file is a Rom that it will find the kernel and flash only the kernel. The it will give you the option to reboot into recovery. Then reboot in recover, and I used TWRP. Flash the VIPERrom IC3D zip. I had the same problem ad I learned to do this before with a gingerbread rom. I guess it is because the VIPERrom is not compatible with the gingerbread kernel so it refuses to boot. Trust me, this should work it did for me.
I have almost the same problem - I Installed the viperROM IC3D Beta 3 and everything appeared to be fine. The phone keeps rebooting into the viper Splash Screen and then reboots continuously - it won't stop. I tried pulling the battery after about 6 reboots - still doing it - HELP!
check my sig.. link to my devhost.. kernels uploaded there.. if u need them..
I also flashed this rom and it just keeps rebooting, can someone help me out pls?
They will answer your questions in the thread.
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Be more helpful!
mrlakadaddy said:
They will answer your questions in the thread.
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You do realize that none of these people have enough posts to post in the dev thread, right? As for the other posters, most people who are 1.50 S-ON have troubles because of the kernel. Flashing Chad's kernel is the only way I know that works, but even that doesn't always work.
Then message Vince or il duce, they will answer
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Hello XDA family,
I have a problem
I have a Sprint Evo 4gLTE, I recently installed twrp recovery successfully. Shortly after that, I tried to flash the phone to MeanROM but it did not work. At that point I got stuck with no operating system, access to fastboot and twrp but no way to install a new operating system.
I've tried installing an RUU and it doesn not work.
I've tried different ROMS and it doesn't work.
My phone is unlocked and rooted. WHAT can I do !!!!!!!?????!!!! AAAAAA...!!! lol
Did you make a backup before trying MeanRom?
If you have access to computer and internet you can mount your phone through twrp, download a ROM to your SD card and flash it
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bigdaddy619 said:
Did you make a backup before trying MeanRom?
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Do a what before what?
^^^^^^this guy is talking that crazy talk!^^^
Try extracting the boot.img file out of the meanbean zip, flashing it through fastboot, then going into twrp and wipe everything but ur internal/external storage, then flashing the zip like normal. I had to do it like that when I flashed meanbean, hope that helps.
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Hello,
I was attempting to install Meanbeam.
Evo -LTE of course. I did the back up and the factor wipe then in TWRP, choice install and selected the rom from the sd card. The problem is that it has be "installing" now for about an hour and a half. It appears to be froze.
The last two lines are installing update... and formatting and mounting partition...
S- on. I was attempting to following Mikeys directions for S on phones.
At this point is there anything I can do or just let the phone sit longer?
Thanks
Edit. I was able to get it to abort. (somehow, I am not entirely sure) haha
Were you able to get your issue resolved?
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If your device is not in an S-Off state, I believe you'll have to flash the MeanBean boot.img booter via the fastboot command. This is what I had to do after achieving an unlocked bootloader and installing a custom recovery, such as TWRP or ClockworkMOD.
SkedAddled said:
If your device is not in an S-Off state, I believe you'll have to flash the MeanBean boot.img booter via the fastboot command. This is what I had to do after achieving an unlocked bootloader and installing a custom recovery, such as TWRP or ClockworkMOD.
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MeanBean has a kernel installer built in to facilitate ROM flashing when S-on. You have to flash the ROM zip twice, once to flash the ROM, then again to flash the kernel (boot.img).
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FinZ28 said:
MeanBean has a kernel installer built in to facilitate ROM flashing when S-on. You have to flash the ROM zip twice, once to flash the ROM, then again to flash the kernel (boot.img).
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Thanks Guys.
I was able to get it to cancel out of the stuck install screen, I am not exactly sure what I pushed to get it to that, but.
I had an older version of TWRP.
I rooted a while ago and was just getting around to flashing a new rom.
Once i upgraded to the new TWRP the install went perfectly.
i flashed a kernel thru flash image gui now im stuck in bootloop i did hard reset formatted internal sd card, i have twrp 2.6.1.0 im s on unlocked rooted and etc tried flashing meanbean still boot looping what am i missing?
You need to flash meanbean twice for the s-on kernel installer to work... If not try the fast boot command if you are near a computer...
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jocarog said:
You need to flash meanbean twice for the s-on kernel installer to work... If not try the fast boot command if you are near a computer...
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i flashed meanbean twice, after first flash it never reboots into twrp to install kernel on second flash still bootloops.
You said you did a hard reset. Maybe you mean full wipe. I would wipe everything except SD cards and start over if you havnt already.
Maybe try fastboot flashing the kernel in case flash IMG GUI is not working for you properly.
Good luck man
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