I did my research on how to install ROMS with a locked S On and Kernels, but just got even more confused about the process. I am coming from an Evo 4g CDMA.
I have H BOOT 1.5 unlocked S ON. My back up was lost. I tried to flash something like the newest MIUI using TWRP 1.1. w/e. I can't get past the boot screen for MIUI. As I was reading up on the forums, it seemed to me that you had to use a program called Flash Image GUI to get a kernel going on a ROM. Though, here is where I was confused. If a ROM has a kernel in it and I flash the ROM, does the Kernel part of that flash not get set up as well?
Would I need to flash the rom like normal from the SD Card then use something separate to flash a Kernel? If so, I am kinda boned. I can't get into the phone, just the recovery and can't get that program installed on the phone Trying to flash up Xplode now to see if maybe I just got a bad download.
If these questions were answered, please forgive me, I did try to find the answers, but as I read up more and more, it was getting to be more and more confusing to my personal issue at hand.
Thanks for the help!!
If you grab the kernel from your Miui zip, it's in the zips root called boot.img
Put that into your folder with your fastboot exe
Boot into bootloader the same as when you flashed the CWM
Use fastboot command... fastboot flash boot boot.img
this will flash the kernel and you should be able to boot up properly
Oh, well that is the problem. I had someone else flash TWRP for me. Guess I need to find out more on how to flash up that to get the kernel going. This S On thing is a massive PITA, lol. Guess once I get the phone up and going and I can use that program, things will be way easier
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Oh, well that is the problem. I had someone else flash TWRP for me. Guess I need to find out more on how to flash up that to get the kernel going. This S On thing is a massive PITA, lol. Guess once I get the phone up and going and I can use that program, things will be way easier
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I see. i skipped the how to part since i thought you had alrady flashed the CMW your self, it's fairly easy.
you need..
1) to install the evo 3d usb drivers.. filename HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe .sorry i don't have a link, i got them off these forums somewhere
2) you need the fastboot.exe , again search google/these forums
then shut down your phone
pull battery out, then back in
hold down volume- (minus) and then hold the power button as well, only let go once in the bootloader, choose the fastboot option then insert usb cable to phone->pc .. you should see fastboot-usb message come up on your phone
then you can type out that fastboot command in the previous post from a dos command prompt, from the directory with your fastboot exe and boot.img
It's easier to put rom you want on the SD card make sure debug is on.
Adb reboot bootloader . Now
Fastboot boot recovery.img now wipe and flash rom you are good to go man. Works flawless .
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Sorry about posting in the wrong area.
What I did, which can help out other 3D noobs is this:
Since I just unlocked and have no back up, my kernel was still stock
Downloading a stock rom and moving it to my phone via comp, twrp recovery mode>> USB Toggle allows you to connect to PC! Put the rom on the main part of the SD card and just flash like normal.
Here you should be able to boot up like normal again.
Let me say, Flash Image GUI is a noobs friend till you can learn to use adb more.
I was told you can put a Rom on your card and just flash allowing the kernel to flash as well. I have not had success with this with HBoot 1.5 S On.
Flash Image GUI:
Download the rom you want, Aosp to Sense is fine.
Open Flash GUI and choose the Browse option.
Locate your rom on your card and choose it.
The app will give you a message saying the rom is big yada yada, say yes.
Wait a few moments as it finds the kernel. Once it does, choose flash Image.
Choose reboot recovery and flash the exact rom you picked with the App. Reboot and win.
This is just what I, a noob, have found to work.
I have NOT been able to just flash any rom on the SD Card and have it work. Flash Image UI has NOT been able to get Virus' Rom to load
A's I find more noob friendly tips I can report.
Thanks everyone else for the input! I won't lie, I came from an Evo 4g and am totally lazy as I am used to S Off and just flashing away. S On, I hate you. ADB, I fear you. Flash Image GUI, I want to marry you!
CDMA 3D, I wish we had more AOSP lol
Hope this helps out some people.
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Nametaken said:
Sorry about posting in the wrong area.
What I did, which can help out other 3D noobs is this:
Since I just unlocked and have no back up, my kernel was still stock
Downloading a stock rom and moving it to my phone via comp, twrp recovery mode>> USB Toggle allows you to connect to PC! Put the rom on the main part of the SD card and just flash like normal.
Here you should be able to boot up like normal again.
Let me say, Flash Image GUI is a noobs friend till you can learn to use adb more.
I was told you can put a Rom on your card and just flash allowing the kernel to flash as well. I have not had success with this with HBoot 1.5 S On.
Flash Image GUI:
Download the rom you want, Aosp to Sense is fine.
Open Flash GUI and choose the Browse option.
Locate your rom on your card and choose it.
The app will give you a message saying the rom is big yada yada, say yes.
Wait a few moments as it finds the kernel. Once it does, choose flash Image.
Choose reboot recovery and flash the exact rom you picked with the App. Reboot and win.
This is just what I, a noob, have found to work.
I have NOT been able to just flash any rom on the SD Card and have it work. Flash Image UI has NOT been able to get Virus' Rom to load
A's I find more noob friendly tips I can report.
Thanks everyone else for the input! I won't lie, I came from an Evo 4g and am totally lazy as I am used to S Off and just flashing away. S On, I hate you. ADB, I fear you. Flash Image GUI, I want to marry you!
CDMA 3D, I wish we had more AOSP lol
Hope this helps out some people.
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ADB is pretty simple to flash with lol
All you do is keep a copy of the recovery.img you are using in your adb folder...
You hold shift down right click on the folder that adb is in platform tools folder is where it's at say open cmd prompt to it. That is the fast painless method
Make sure you have a rom on your sd card.... Also that debug is turned on...
Plug phone in hook to computer...
ADB:
adb reboot bootloader
now:
fastboot boot recovery.img takes you into recovery...
Now wipe don't wipe SD card...
Flash rom your set works on virus roms and any other rom 0 issues
Also Flash GUI works for everyone nothing wrong with it....
I just prefer Good Old Adb to do my work If you need any help feel free to ask man.. I'll do what I can to help ya out if you get stuck..
reaper24 said:
ADB is pretty simple to flash with lol
All you do is keep a copy of the recovery.img you are using in your adb folder...
You hold shift down right click on the folder that adb is in platform tools folder is where it's at say open cmd prompt to it. That is the fast painless method
Make sure you have a rom on your sd card.... Also that debug is turned on...
Plug phone in hook to computer...
ADB:
adb reboot bootloader
now:
fastboot boot recovery.img takes you into recovery...
Now wipe don't wipe SD card...
Flash rom your set works on virus roms and any other rom 0 issues
Also Flash GUI works for everyone nothing wrong with it....
I just prefer Good Old Adb to do my work If you need any help feel free to ask man.. I'll do what I can to help ya out if you get stuck..
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You can not flash some ROMS through ADB/Fastboot with s-on, it just doesn't work no matter which way you go about it. Flashing a recovery is easy but that was not the OP's problem. The "noob" way that the OP suggested is the only way to get roms with custom boot.img in the zip to stick. I just installed CM9 and ADB/fastboot was of no use. Getting into recovery is easy but will not provide results unless you have used FlashImageGUI.apk first on a working ROM.
Nether CWM nor TWRP work to flash such ROM's with the right boot.img. You must use FlashImageGUI.apk!
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You can not flash some ROMS through ADB/Fastboot with s-on, it just doesn't work no matter which way you go about it. Flashing a recovery is easy but that was not the OP's problem. The "noob" way that the OP suggested is the only way to get roms with custom boot.img in the zip to stick. I just installed CM9 and ADB/fastboot was of no use. Getting into recovery is easy but will not provide results unless you have used FlashImageGUI.apk first on a working ROM.
Nether CWM nor TWRP work to flash such ROM's with the right boot.img. You must use FlashImageGUI.apk!
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I never had any issues using cwm the older version 4.0 to flash any rom the fastboot method Anyway's older TWRP and Newest CWM had some issues with not wiping right to flashing funky...
I will help the OP out if he ever gets stuck
Yeah reaper your right! I think I came off like a ****, I am one, but didn't mean to come off sounding snide.
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Yeah reaper your right! I think I came off like a ****, I am one, but didn't mean to come off sounding snide.
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It's all good man no worries Your cool
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Dah da dat ta ta! (Swoops in with my 2 cents)
See the Guide/Flashing Notes in my signature for a walkthru for flashing roms, recoveries, etc. All up to date. Choose your method: fastboot & recovery or flashimage & recovery.
Note: TWRP 2.0 with Dumlock is a workaround to avoid using fastboot (pc). FlashImage is not a requirement, its also a workaround vs fastboot.
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Dah da dat ta ta! (Swoops in with my 2 cents)
See the Guide/Flashing Notes in my signature for a walkthru for flashing roms, recoveries, etc. All up to date. Choose your method: fastboot & recovery or flashimage & recovery.
Note: TWRP 2.0 with Dumlock is a workaround to avoid using fastboot (pc). FlashImage is not a requirement, its also a workaround vs fastboot.
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Nice I was wondering when you was gonna pop in . LOL
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Thanks erryone. I hope others were able to get some help here that are new to 3vo and flashing. I am so waiting for a nub proof s-off method.
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There is the HBOOT downgrade. I have ZERO linux experience whatsoever and thought the process was very easy. I know it says to 'brick' the phone, but it is honestly not that scary. I have done two of these already both being successful on the first attempt. The live cd by closeone actually takes care of almost everything, except for actually doing the brick. Trust me being on 1.40 s-off is much much nicer.
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I can navigate adb and everything just fine and no I don't need to know how to set up unlock or want to know if there is a root method lol. I'm way past all that.
I have been reading about TWRP 2.0 though and can't seem to find what I am looking for. I have read it's suggested to actually remove the other recovery then install the new one. How exactly to I go about that? and do I HAVE to leave the twpr2.0ect...name intact or can I rename it?
2nd, and semi related but not, when flashing Roms I know I can flash kernels in the same set up time but can I also SAFELY flash other items?
Example: I have been having to reflash OLYMPUS for various reason but I also use the stock lock ring zip, Anthrax and now would like to use the Leedroid tweaks.
Can I flash all in the same recovery session? If so is there a suggested order for multiple items?
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I can navigate adb and everything just fine and no I don't need to know how to set up unlock or want to know if there is a root method lol. I'm way past all that.
I have been reading about TWRP 2.0 though and can't seem to find what I am looking for. I have read it's suggested to actually remove the other recovery then install the new one. How exactly to I go about that? and do I HAVE to leave the twpr2.0ect...name intact or can I rename it?
2nd, and semi related but not, when flashing Roms I know I can flash kernels in the same set up time but can I also SAFELY flash other items?
Example: I have been having to reflash OLYMPUS for various reason but I also use the stock lock ring zip, Anthrax and now would like to use the Leedroid tweaks.
Can I flash all in the same recovery session? If so is there a suggested order for multiple items?
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To install new recovery, simply boot your phone into the bootloader. The latest (and sadly probably last) version of TWRP is here. Plug a USB cable into your phone from your computer. You should see FASTBOOT change to FASTBOOT USB. Now in a command prompt window, go to the directory where your fastboot.exe is located, (place the recovery that you want flash in the same folder to make things easier). Type in the command
fastboot.exe flash recovery thenameofyourrecovery.img
Wait a few seconds. It should output a message saying that the recovery image had successfully been flashed.
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Now, to flash Roms, Kernels, addons, etc... Unfortunately, an issue with HBOOT 1.50, you can't just flash kernels, etc straight from recovery. What you'll have to do is flash either using Flash Image GUI (not too familiar with it) or Boot a recovery image using fastboot on your computer.
Similar command follows.
fastboot.exe boot thenameofyourrecovery.img
It will boot into recovery, from here you can go ahead and flash your ROMs, etc. If you haven't done a NANDroid backup, do that first just in case. On you phone, now you can flash the ROM, then Kernel, lockring, one after another (as far as I know, you should be fine doing things in that order - ROM goes first though).
For a better explanation, look at post #2 of this thread.
Best of luck.
Thank you on the 2nd part, I got the adb into recovery part down.
As far as the 1st part, is there any truth to needing to delete the original recovery before I flash the new? If so how would I do that?
Are team win defunct? I don't follow their threads very close.
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blizzard1017 said:
Thank you on the 2nd part, I got the adb into recovery part down.
As far as the 1st part, is there any truth to needing to delete the original recovery before I flash the new? If so how would I do that?
Are team win defunct? I don't follow their threads very close.
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Glad I could help.
Nope, you don't need to delete the original recovery before flashing the new one. You can safely flash the new recovery without doing anything before.
About TeamWin. It would probably be best for me to point you to their most recent blog post. I'm not too sure about the future, I guess we'll have to see what happens.
Was running NRG GB just fine. When giving the phone to the wife I decided to upgrade to ICS. Used CWM to wipe data, cache, etc, and installed, got freeze on HTC logo. Started using Superwipe before each try and also tried flashing several different kernels including the one inside the zip and the one included with the amaze stock kernel flasher. Now the best I can get is 5 seconds into the Energy spinning rings logo before a 5s freeze and reboot.
The only thing I haven't tried is firmware; I've seen references to "find it on the forums" but copious forum and google searches don't seem to lead to the ICS firmware itself. Can anyone help with that or point out what I'm forgetting?
In the meantime I will try installing the ICS stock ROM first and see where that gets me.
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Was running NRG GB just fine. When giving the phone to the wife I decided to upgrade to ICS. Used CWM to wipe data, cache, etc, and installed, got freeze on HTC logo. Started using Superwipe before each try and also tried flashing several different kernels including the one inside the zip and the one included with the amaze stock kernel flasher. Now the best I can get is 5 seconds into the Energy spinning rings logo before a 5s freeze and reboot.
The only thing I haven't tried is firmware; I've seen references to "find it on the forums" but copious forum and google searches don't seem to lead to the ICS firmware itself. Can anyone help with that or point out what I'm forgetting?
In the meantime I will try installing the ICS stock ROM first and see where that gets me.
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Do just that, remember to lock your bootloader if you're s-on and yes, jumping to an ICS rom without updating your device caused the bootloop.
Dark Nightmare said:
Do just that, remember to lock your bootloader if you're s-on and yes, jumping to an ICS rom without updating your device caused the bootloop.
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Thanks for the reply! I'm downloading PH85IMG_RUBY_ICS_35_S_TMOUS_2.14.531.3_Radio_1.14.550L.17DC_30.78.550L.15_release_259626_signed.zip from filefactory, it's taking forever. Am I flashing this with CWM? Or should I be downloading a GB factory ROM and using that instead, then re-locking the bootloader and trying to update over the air?
ten6 said:
Thanks for the reply! I'm downloading PH85IMG_RUBY_ICS_35_S_TMOUS_2.14.531.3_Radio_1.14.550L.17DC_30.78.550L.15_release_259626_signed.zip from filefactory, it's taking forever. Am I flashing this with CWM? Or should I be downloading a GB factory ROM and using that instead, then re-locking the bootloader and trying to update over the air?
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Don't download that one, it has issues, hold up, I'll give you a link to the most recent file.
Here, get this: http://d-h.st/3VD
Download speed should be faster as well. rename it PH85IMG and place it on your sd card after you relock your bootloader, then boot into bootloader, it's gonna detect the file and ask you if you wanna update, follow the on screen instructions to update, voila! Follow the basics to install the new energy rom.
It's almost as tho NO One reads anymore. It's actually getting kinda ridiculous how many times the same issue is gonna be asked.
I know this post isn't very helpful but I'm sure most of the recognized/senior/not noobs members are getting frustrated.
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Double0EK said:
It's almost as tho NO One reads anymore. It's actually getting kinda ridiculous how many times the same issue is gonna be asked.
I know this post isn't very helpful but I'm sure most of the recognized/senior/not noobs members are getting frustrated.
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It is useful, I fully agree with you, it's like we come here to answer the same questions over and over, but I'm just trying to be nice, cause I usually just say, read the amaze bible, but then they go and do something even more noobish, so to avoid the tear jerks I just give the basic info, though I'm fading away slowly.
Thanks'd for the link and the help. I was gonna get mad about being called a noob who can't read, but I guess it's a small price to pay for instant, free help. Keep on rockin' XDA.
I came across this issue. As earlier posts said, install the new ICS update. The partitions were messed up and the ruu will clean it up.
ten6 said:
Thanks'd for the link and the help. I was gonna get mad about being called a noob who can't read, but I guess it's a small price to pay for instant, free help. Keep on rockin' XDA.
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Lol, never pointed fingers buddy, so calm down.
Maybe I should create a new topic but my issue is similar to this one except for the fact that I read quite a lot and tried quite a few things.
My situation is that I made a backup with cwm only booted not flashed so I have the 100% stock backed up, after this I flashed cwm and tried to install the Energy rom based on ics and that was my mistake as I used to be on a Nexus device I didn't have to worry about this.
So I got stuck on a bootloop and tried factory reset/wiping everything, tried to reinstall a stock ROM (t-mobile one as I only found a .exe for the videotron one and I did not feel like exploring the exe as I am a Linux user) by relocking bootloader and using the HTC method, tried to install manually the stock Kernel with Energy ROM using adb and fastboot commands, tried to restore my backup but nothing seems to work, I'm still bootlooping.
Is-it possible to s-off without a regular adb access (only the cwm adb access)? And would s-off allow me to flash anything as I wish? Is there a way to have any ROM working on my device? (i know the answer is yes to the last one, at least )
Thanks!
Edited: I don't know why I even replied to the post above this.
Read more you'll find out what you're doing wrong.
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Edited: I don't know why I even replied to the post above this.
Read more you'll find out what you're doing wrong.
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Maybe I'm a noob on this forum but it's far to be the first time I face a problem in software configuration/installation and I read quite enough (spent about five hours on xda, google, etc.) to say that you should at least help me a bit by linking me to a thread where I can find an answer.
I know my mistake was to install ics at first but now I flashed the stock recovery back, I relocked the bootloader via fastboot and put the file on the root of my sdcard renamed correctly that it be detected automaticly (and it apparently does install) but I still got the * bootloop.
I'm able to read a manual and to read the Amaze 4G bible four times to try to point out the detail I forgot. I made my homework and now it would only be nice from you that you help me a bit...
johnride said:
Maybe I'm a noob on this forum but it's far to be the first time I face a problem in software configuration/installation and I read quite enough (spent about five hours on xda, google, etc.) to say that you should at least help me a bit by linking me to a thread where I can find an answer.
I know my mistake was to install ics at first but now I flashed the stock recovery back, I relocked the bootloader via fastboot and put the file on the root of my sdcard renamed correctly that it be detected automaticly (and it apparently does install) but I still got the * bootloop.
I'm able to read a manual and to read the Amaze 4G bible four times to try to point out the detail I forgot. I made my homework and now it would only be nice from you that you help me a bit...
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Okay okay, calm down, there's currently only one method of going about restoring your device since you're s-on and no you cannot s-off with just cwm adb, I think JB s-off method is only an exe file, never saw linux files anywhere on his site. Anyways, you have to use the GB exe for videotron and restore to stock via it then update to ics to use the most recent energy rom, BUT if you just want a working device, this is just an idea, though it should work fine, you can flash a custom recovery and flash the GB version of energy rom, you should be able to restore your backup as well, but you said you can't, which is odd, it may be because of the kernel not being flashable as since CWM cannot flash kernels while s-on, in which case I'd advise you to get 4EXT recovery and then try restoring your back once again, it should work fine since 4EXT can flash kernels while S-ON.
My two cents.
Well, 4ext doesn't works, apparently it flashes correctly but I can't boot in it so can't even try to restore my backup, s-off doesn't works from cwm and my device has to be booted to work with Videotron's exe (or I badly installed my drivers, I nerver understand properly the 899363 drivers per device I have to install for an android phone on Windows?)
Smells bad... I checked the 4ext's md5sum and it's alright, I took it from the fastboot installable img in direct dl from the thread in the Amaze bible.
Any idea?
Oh and there is a JB s-off executable for Linux on his site. After all I guess it is mostly adb commands?
johnride said:
Well, 4ext doesn't works, apparently it flashes correctly but I can't boot in it so can't even try to restore my backup, s-off doesn't works from cwm and my device has to be booted to work with Videotron's exe (or I badly installed my drivers, I nerver understand properly the 899363 drivers per device I have to install for an android phone on Windows?)
Smells bad... I checked the 4ext's md5sum and it's alright, I took it from the fastboot installable img in direct dl from the thread in the Amaze bible.
Any idea?
Oh and there is a JB s-off executable for Linux on his site. After all I guess it is mostly adb commands?
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I got lost halfway through that post, after flashing a rom, if the kernel isn't flashed (reboots and does it automatically), then flash the kernel manually, should boot fine, does anyone ever really read anymore? This very issue both s-on and s-off has been answered more times today than I can count. If you read the details on JB's site, you'd see and know all you need to.
Right, I'va already flashed manually the stock kernel as sais in the NRGRom thread without success before my first post here, will look at different kernels.
johnride said:
Right, I'va already flashed manually the stock kernel as sais in the NRGRom thread without success before my first post here, will look at different kernels.
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How did you go about flashing the kernel?
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There was a flash.sh file in the zip with the kernel, I couldn't run it normally as I can't boot but I went in cwm (maybe I should have used 4ext, don't think so for this part) executed the adb commands there were in the sh file with all filesystems mounted, rebooted into fastboot and flashed the kernel image. Maybe there are differents /system when in cwm and when booted on regular system... Will figure that out when I have time to spend on this, as soon as possible.
Thanks for all the cues!
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johnride said:
There was a flash.sh file in the zip with the kernel, I couldn't run it normally as I can't boot but I went in cwm (maybe I should have used 4ext, don't think so for this part) executed the adb commands there were in the sh file with all filesystems mounted, rebooted into fastboot and flashed the kernel image. Maybe there are differents /system when in cwm and when booted on regular system... Will figure that out when I have time to spend on this, as soon as possible.
Thanks for all the cues!
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Okay here's a few tips, cwm cannot flash kernels with son devices, get 4ext recovery for that. Second thing, reflash the from after doing a super wipe, if 4ext doesnt reboot and flash the kernel, do it manually, ill assume you know how to use ad, if not check my Bible tutorial on it, use the boot command for flashing boot images, take the boot file from the zip file, place it in the folder where your adb files are and flash it to your device while its in fastboot mode.
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Well, I think I have done all you mention above, the only thing i'm not sure to understand is what you mean by "super wipe" I found some executables about it but I guess it can't do much more than the flash all partitions (except external sdcard) in 4ext recovery wich I finally managed to install properly.
So, I made that global formatting thing, I tried to install an ICS based ROM and 4ext rebooted to install kernel, same bootloop. Tried to install manually the kernel that came with this rom via the classic fastboot flash boot boot.img. Same bootloop. Tried to put the modules manually via the recovery adb access (performing a mount -a in adb shell to have everything present in fstab mounted) and flashing this stock kernel with no more success.
Achieved the same operations with a GB based ROM (this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535173) with both the faux and the stock kernel without any more success.
Did I miss something? Am I so dumb? Do you have any other rom to suggest that have higher chances to succeed?
Do you think trying to restore my sotck nandroid with 4ext has more chances to succeed?
Thanks, again and always!
Last night I was able to unlock my bootloader on my rezound. And I installed Amon Ra recovery. I did a nand backup before I made any other choices from there. But I don't know if I was perm rooted. But I installed su and busybox. well I went ahead and installed Rom Manager just to start out with instead of using amon recovery.
Through rom manager I had to flash clockwork mod. did that. so I thought i was ready to go with flashing a ROM. well I downloaded a ROM through my phone. but it wasn't on my sd card. so i pulled the notifications down on my phone and just clicked the downloaded ROM and it said what would you like to do with it? I clicked the rom manager option. cleared dalvik and cache n all. Everything said installed successfully. well it just stayed on the htc screen FOREVER. so i pulled battery and tried to recover my backup. well now that i have clockwork as recovery. my backup isn't on my phone. I can't even use clockwork now. I can't get my phone to boot at all. I don't think my phone is bricked cuz I can get into the bootloader menu. But i can't get my phone to boot back up at all whatsoever
So I was either not rooted like I thought I was or something. I can't even factory reset through bootloader. it just takes me back to clockwork mod and everytime i click an option through cwm it goes blank. every single option. I need my amon recovery back somehow so i can restore my backup....please somebody help me out. I hope its not bricked. Thanks
You need to flash the boot.img from fast boot if you're not s-off
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and how am i able to do so??? I guess I'm still a noob with some things. just need a good step by step way of how lol
Edit: Ok I opened up a command prompt and typed in fastboot boot.img. then a whole bunch of stuff popped up. what do i do from there?
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and how am i able to do so??? I guess I'm still a noob with some things. just need a good step by step way of how lol
Edit: Ok I opened up a command prompt and typed in fastboot boot.img. then a whole bunch of stuff popped up. what do i do from there?
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extract boot.img from your downloaded ROM. place it in folder on your PC where you have fastboot.
put the phone in fastboot mode and connect to PC , it shows fastboot usb.
issue below in command prompt
fastboot flash boot boot.img
kancherlapraneeth said:
extract boot.img from your downloaded ROM. place it in folder on your PC where you have fastboot.
put the phone in fastboot mode and connect to PC , it shows fastboot usb.
issue below in command prompt
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Ok i did this. and this is what popped up.
c:\Android>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (3950 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.905s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 1.174s]
finished. total time: 2.082s
Now what???
Edit: Nevermind I got it to work now thank you SO MUCH you guys. much appreciated
@@#$$%#$% Freaking hell I am getting so frustrated with my phone!!! I am going through a continuous bootloop. I can't do anything in time on my phone before it bootloops again over and over. I installed one of newts one xxx ROMS and the continuous bootloop will not stop. I tried installing a different RUU and tried flashing using command prompt and nothing happened....I am so frustrated and have been trying to figure out this rooting stuff over 4 days now straight....I could really use some help!!!
npainter7 said:
@@#$$%#$% Freaking hell I am getting so frustrated with my phone!!! I am going through a continuous bootloop. I can't do anything in time on my phone before it bootloops again over and over. I installed one of newts one xxx ROMS and the continuous bootloop will not stop. I tried installing a different RUU and tried flashing using command prompt and nothing happened....I am so frustrated and have been trying to figure out this rooting stuff over 4 days now straight....I could really use some help!!!
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Your firmware is probably still GB, Newt's is for ICS. There is a patch allows you to use his ROM on a GB firmware base. So, over on MikMIk possibly, is this patch you need. Flash it in recovery, just like you would a ROM.
Here found a helpful link, look at PRDOG's post. He rocks... Depending on which release of Newt's ROM you are on, he also has a RLS 3.2.1 which is also a patch. Sorry it is a little confusing. But stick with it. Lots of people to help you. You don't need to flash the 3.2.1 patch, just the GB one.
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?13767-rls-3-2-1/page2
paulhoop said:
Your firmware is probably still GB, Newt's is for ICS. There is a patch allows you to use his ROM on a GB firmware base. So, over on MikMIk possibly, is this patch you need. Flash it in recovery, just like you would a ROM.
Here found a helpful link, look at PRDOG's post. He rocks... Depending on which release of Newt's ROM you are on, he also has a RLS 3.2.1 which is also a patch. Sorry it is a little confusing. But stick with it. Lots of people to help you. You don't need to flash the 3.2.1 patch, just the GB one.
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?13767-rls-3-2-1/page2
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Hey thank you so much!! It's nice to have people help out....so when I flash the GB one, I don't have to relock my bootloader do I? I hope not lol
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So in order to flash a PH98IMG.zip what do I have to do? do i have to go into the command prompt and go from there?
hello
First time, Long time. Just managed to install twrp2.2 and it is a nice ui for any sytem. But my issue is rough.
I was going to install a new rom with a Merto pcs service flashed over from Sprint. Unlocked S-om with rom manager on it
when I received it back. Read alot and many peple claim it is ok to stay with 1.50 so-on, others say to go back to 1.40.
I managed to root the device per maxs evo hacks and until I installed and accidently wiped kel/cashe, System by accident,
Anyways I even tried removing the 8 gig sd card and used a fully backed up same card to try and get recovery img file to boot into.
No luck because it goes into a screen that says (Parsing...[SD ZIP under that it says [1] RECOVERY . Then , Do you want to update
up=yes , down = No. Tried yes and continues bootloop.
Then I tried putting back the other sd card and that allows me to go onto the twrp ui but no ofixes that I know of or can do.
Can anyone help me, I will look out for you, really.
Thanks in advance. D-ACman Florida.
If I read correctly, you need to take out your SD card and put into a PC to remove the pg86100.zip img off of it. Put it back then go back to the bootloader and go to recovery. After that, flash a rom.
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Cetus Corr said:
If I read correctly, you need to take out your SD card and put into a PC to remove the pg86100.zip img off of it. Put it back then go back to the bootloader and go to recovery. After that, flash a rom.
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Ok I can try that but believe me I tried to do just that when thigs went crazy. So I though I should reinstall stock ruu after accidentally
wipeing my system along with cashe/kalvik/ and complete wipe, I somehow wiped the bootdrive of what it is telling me is the is no OS
installed si I'm at a loss and I k now if I can get into trwp recovery I can get a Rom either stock or other to be read and installed.
Each time I get bootloops and what I'm thinking is I should have take fastboot off when try to install an ICS rom, but that is still not the issue
I just believe I wiped eveything because of the statement on twrp ui that there is no OS installed.
I really appreciate whatever feedback and instructions you can give me. Just tell me what to try or do and I will
Thanks very much.
Download twrp recovery.img file. Put into your adb platform tools folder.
With phone off hold volume down & power.
Once in the bootloader, select fastboot.
Open a command from your platform tools folder. Then type..
fastboot boot recovery.img
Then just flash another ROM. If your sdcard is wiped , just toggle USB mass storage in recovery & transfer from computer.
Hope that helps
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Download twrp recovery.img file. Put into your adb platform tools folder.
With phone off hold volume down & power.
Once in the bootloader, select fastboot.
Open a command from your platform tools folder. Then type..
fastboot boot recovery.img
Then just flash another ROM. If your sdcard is wiped , just toggle USB mass storage in recovery & transfer from computer.
Hope that helps
Ps...remove that PG86IMG.zip from your sd card.
If you don't & its asks...select NO
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Ok woke up early today and I had seen this type of fix on another page on Q&A. SO first I had to get the file but you cant just
open prompt and type a command but I k now I had to go to the tools folder after inserting the .img file. Ok did that.
Since I have always kept my SDk in the root of my C:dr it's easier to hold shift down and right click on the tools folder then I placed the commands and brother, for lack of a better word or terminology,--- Absolutlely nothing happens.
Now am I using the right syntax commands? maybe not but the way you gave me the advice I thought it might get the img file onto the internal
drive of the phone.
Man I tried to even put the trwpzip file onto the sdcard and install it, unfortunetly that did'nt work either. So when I use the file manager
in TWRP2.2 I can see the files in the root of the phone and when I go and tap on the inner usb dr I have no files that I can see.What I might
have to do is to take snapshots of the actual menus I am seeing and perhaps I can get help that way.
I know it is difficult when you can't see exactly what is on my phone screen.
What about the DUMLOCK method within the ui of twrp. I have to digest some info on that section for I have'nt a clue about what the
dumlock does but if it's in the twrp UI it must be of some importance.
I really appreciate what you guys are doing for me and wether I get it fixed with or without your methods I will definately give U points for
taking time out to read my issues. I have not mentioned that I also have a duplicate phone (My 1st EVO) and that one came with 1.40 H-Boot
as opposed to this one with 1.50. nevertheless it is a good feeling, I know, when you can get ur **** running and installing Roms like if it was
a candy store. Im an old school type guy, as far as age is concerned and I am a Self employed Sub HVAC/R TECH and I Love to play with
ANdroid and all that goes with Flashing. I just wish I would have went to school for Computer Programming instead of AC.
But it is what it is. Sorry for the long life history and thanks again, If U can figure something else out please reply. Thanks
D-ACman
Still on Bootloop
dacman55 said:
Ok woke up early today and I had seen this type of fix on another page on Q&A. SO first I had to get the file but you cant just
Ok here I'll try again.
Phone is Evo3d Flashed to Metro PCS
phone is unlocked and S-ON
TWRP 2.2 recovery
when noticed I was low on space on my micro sd card I then replaced it witha pny 32 gig class 4 sd card
It comes already formatted 32 fat but I did another clean format on the computer
I replaced or copied everything onto the new card then installed it the working evo 3-d
I was on mikV for a few days but once I got into leedroid tweeks I then decided to just flash my nandroid recovery and go
back to stock.
At that time I was on CWM 4040 or something to that affect.
I noticed the beautiful UI for the TWRP 2.2 and decided to use that recovery.
As soon as I decided to use another custom rom the **** hit the fan.
So now I'm back where I started and I am reading many posts where I think I need to go and relock the phone
then install the stock rom and hopefully that will work.
What I need is to get step by step on the command prompts and computer to recognize the phone
when I try to place the image thats necessary to do the "fastboot lock commands and that it is seen working.
That's where I'm stuck at and am going from this dell laptop computer to my desktop and start the ADK/SDK download
put it in the C: drive and hopefully In the cprompt it will communicate to the phone.
I there a nooby guide to the step by step command procedure to do this?
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Hello All,
I bought my mom an HTC Rezound back in 2011 and given that I've been possessed with rooting, unlocking, and modding, I got my hands on her device the other day and nearly died when I saw all of the bloatware she had on it. Now she's at least updated to ICS, however I would like to root/unlock and mod her device so I can make it run a lot better.
The question is - what is the best way to root/unlock this device? I've read a lot of the XDA threads and done some Google searches, but most of the XDA guides are old and a lot of the comments (on XDA and Google) is that several of the methods don't work for the "updated" Rezounds. I reiterate that hers is an old version (original from 2011) but has the 2012/2013 updates.
If someone could please provide a link to a known working method for the 2012/2013 updated Rezounds, that would be great!
Thank you!
-Taxmaster
The basic method hasn't changed. Unlock the bootloader at htcdev.com, flash a recovery with fastboot, then go from there. You might see stuff talking about charging problems with CWM...you can safely ignore that, it's old news. There is no issue with the new CWM. You might also see stories of issues flashing things with TWRP. Again, that's old news. The recent versions of TWRP have no issues. A lot use Amon-ra, but I don't like it and haven't used it since TWRP and CWM were fixed, so I can't really say much more about it.
Hansoon's all-in-one toolkit will still work fine with this phone through the initial
Kernels can't be flashed in recovery unless you go the extra step of getting S-OFF. They can still be flashed, but only through the bootloader (using either fastboot or a PH98IMG.zip, if the ROM or kernel provides it). S-OFF also removes version checks which normally prevents downgrading of radios and bootloader. However, this phone is essentially unbrickable while it's S-ON, so there is a tradeoff.
Keep in mind that unlocking this phone's bootloader will wipe /data and emmc, so find a way to backup anything important before you start.
As for ROMs, AOSP is 99% working now...it's actually better here now than it is on the Note 2, and I prefer it to Sense on this phone, but there are some great Sense ROMs out as well. The only caveat is that MHL is only working on Sense 3.6 and I think one Sense 4+ ROM...no AOSP ROM has it working and most Sense 4 ROMs don't.
shrike1978 said:
The basic method hasn't changed. Unlock the bootloader at htcdev.com, flash a recovery with fastboot, then go from there. You might see stuff talking about charging problems with CWM...you can safely ignore that, it's old news. There is no issue with the new CWM. You might also see stories of issues flashing things with TWRP. Again, that's old news. The recent versions of TWRP have no issues. A lot use Amon-ra, but I don't like it and haven't used it since TWRP and CWM were fixed, so I can't really say much more about it.
Hansoon's all-in-one toolkit will still work fine with this phone through the initial
Kernels can't be flashed in recovery unless you go the extra step of getting S-OFF. They can still be flashed, but only through the bootloader (using either fastboot or a PH98IMG.zip, if the ROM or kernel provides it). S-OFF also removes version checks which normally prevents downgrading of radios and bootloader. However, this phone is essentially unbrickable while it's S-ON, so there is a tradeoff.
Keep in mind that unlocking this phone's bootloader will wipe /data and emmc, so find a way to backup anything important before you start.
As for ROMs, AOSP is 99% working now...it's actually better here now than it is on the Note 2, and I prefer it to Sense on this phone, but there are some great Sense ROMs out as well. The only caveat is that MHL is only working on Sense 3.6 and I think one Sense 4+ ROM...no AOSP ROM has it working and most Sense 4 ROMs don't.
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Thank you for covering this so thoroughly! Can you clarify what Sense is and what (if any) advantage it has over AOSP? I have a Galaxy Note 2 so I haven't come across this before.
Also, my plan is to use TWRP and only flash ROMs that have a custom kernel as part of the ROM (no separate flashing).
Sent via Tapatalk 2 using my:
Verizon Galaxy Note 2 (SCH-I605)
Unlocked, Overclocked, and Undervolted
CleanROM 4.7 w/Perseus 33.6 Kernel
Sense is HTC's overlay on top of Android...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Sense
Ah, so Sense is to HTC as Touchwhiz is to Samsung.
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Taxmaster said:
Ah, so Sense is to HTC as Touchwhiz is to Samsung.
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Unlocked, Overclocked, and Undervolted
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100% correct with that. Personally i like the AOSP roms better then sense. they just seem to work very well and alot of bugs have been worked out and they seem alot quicker then sense roms. The few things that you are missing from not having a sense rom are min and not a lot of people really notice. I use Neo's Infection 2.5. great rom, great speed, and very stable
clmowers said:
100% correct with that. Personally i like the AOSP roms better then sense. they just seem to work very well and alot of bugs have been worked out and they seem alot quicker then sense roms. The few things that you are missing from not having a sense rom are min and not a lot of people really notice. I use Neo's Infection 2.5. great rom, great speed, and very stable
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That actually was the ROM I was planning on using!
Here is my plan of attack (check to see if this looks okay):
Backup: MyBackup Pro (later on use Titanium Backup, but apparently temp. root doesn't work anymore after the ICS update).
Unlock/Root: Hassoon's All-In-One Kit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504824
ROM to flash: Neo's Infection 2.5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070947
Let me know if you give this plan of attack a thumbs up! Also, please let me know if you have any suggestions or things I should be aware of along the way!
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
That actually was the ROM I was planning on using!
Here is my plan of attack (check to see if this looks okay):
Backup: MyBackup Pro (later on use Titanium Backup, but apparently temp. root doesn't work anymore after the ICS update).
Unlock/Root: Hassoon's All-In-One Kit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504824
ROM to flash: Neo's Infection 2.5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070947
Let me know if you give this plan of attack a thumbs up! Also, please let me know if you have any suggestions or things I should be aware of along the way!
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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I've never used the all-in-one kit. I was never a big fan of them, but other people have had good success with it. From what it looks like it would be the same as doing it step by step manually. so i would say use that.
But yea that looks good, also make sure if you are going to stay s-on, to extract the boot.img file from the rom and flash it in fastboot.
Also just remember when you go ahead and do the unlock from HTC, it WILL data wipe your phone, so anything that needs to be backed up back it up..as you did say backup i think you already know that
other then that i say thumbs up
clmowers said:
I've never used the all-in-one kit. I was never a big fan of them, but other people have had good success with it. From what it looks like it would be the same as doing it step by step manually. so i would say use that.
But yea that looks good, also make sure if you are going to stay s-on, to extract the boot.img file from the rom and flash it in fastboot.
Also just remember when you go ahead and do the unlock from HTC, it WILL data wipe your phone, so anything that needs to be backed up back it up..as you did say backup i think you already know that
other then that i say thumbs up
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Okay, well I plan to stay S-On given that when I flash Neo's Infection 2.5 ROM it includes the Hiro Kernel. I went to download his ROM (which version should I use btw? I downloaded Infection_2.5.zip and there are others that say inverted, slim, dev, etc.) and extracted boot.img. I haven't worked with fastboot yet so could you give me a brief walkthrough on how to proceed with that?
By the way, do you recommend the AMON RA recovery that Neo mentions? I'm personally a TWRP fan.
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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Okay, well I plan to stay S-On given that when I flash Neo's Infection 2.5 ROM it includes the Hiro Kernel. I went to download his ROM (which version should I use btw? I downloaded Infection_2.5.zip and there are others that say inverted, slim, dev, etc.) and extracted boot.img. I haven't worked with fastboot yet so could you give me a brief walkthrough on how to proceed with that?
By the way, do you recommend the AMON RA recovery that Neo mentions? I'm personally a TWRP fan.
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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yeah no problem.
the difference are this
Slim is basiclly a stripped down version of the rom, min amount of apps and stuff no google stuff or anything..you have to download each thing seperate
the dev version is the one he uses to dev with, it was more less setup for Neo to use and play with for testing..nothing special with it just more stripped down then the standards
the inverted and non inverted are the same roms. the big difference is the inverted uses a dark them with bright lettering where as the non inverted uses a light theme with dark lettering. this also has the google apps installed
I use the inverted as i think it looks cool, always like the darker themed stuff. personal pref on that tho
fastboot is pretty simple to use. First you will need to download it.. ive always used the android SDK and then downloaded it from that and then removed the SDK. If you do some digging around im sure you can find the fastboot and adb stuff by itself.
so once you get the phone unlocked via htcdev you need to flash the recovery file. I do use amon ra like neo suggest. TWRP and CMW work just as well now that they fixed alot of the issues they were having. Im like amon so i tend to stick with it..its clean easy to use and never had a problem with it
to flash the recovery, you will need to use fastboot
to enter fastboot, pull the battery and put it back in, hold down the power and vol down button till you get the bootloader, then use the vol keys to select fastboot, then hit the power button. plug the phone into the computer
open the command prompt and go to where you have fastboot downloaded and then make sure the recovery img is there
type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img then hit enter. This will flash the recovery to the phone,
then do your typical flashing of the rom in the recovery. after you have flashed the rom, if you are using amon, back out till you hit the main menu and go down to dev options and select boot to bootloader..this will reboot your phone into the bootloader again, then just go back into the fastboot like you did to flash recovery. then open up the rom with a zip program like 7zip winrar and you will see a boot.img file. take that file out and put it in the same location as the recovery file on your computer that also has the fastboot program
go back to the command promt and type
fastboot flash boot boot.img to install the boot img into the phone and then when its down you can reboot..all should be good to go
hopefully this make since to you lol if not let me know and i will clearify it
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Oh and one last thing he no longer includes hiro for the kernel. The stock kernel with that ROM is snuzzo funkybean
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clmowers said:
yeah no problem.
the difference are this
Slim is basiclly a stripped down version of the rom, min amount of apps and stuff no google stuff or anything..you have to download each thing seperate
the dev version is the one he uses to dev with, it was more less setup for Neo to use and play with for testing..nothing special with it just more stripped down then the standards
the inverted and non inverted are the same roms. the big difference is the inverted uses a dark them with bright lettering where as the non inverted uses a light theme with dark lettering. this also has the google apps installed
I use the inverted as i think it looks cool, always like the darker themed stuff. personal pref on that tho
fastboot is pretty simple to use. First you will need to download it.. ive always used the android SDK and then downloaded it from that and then removed the SDK. If you do some digging around im sure you can find the fastboot and adb stuff by itself.
so once you get the phone unlocked via htcdev you need to flash the recovery file. I do use amon ra like neo suggest. TWRP and CMW work just as well now that they fixed alot of the issues they were having. Im like amon so i tend to stick with it..its clean easy to use and never had a problem with it
to flash the recovery, you will need to use fastboot
to enter fastboot, pull the battery and put it back in, hold down the power and vol down button till you get the bootloader, then use the vol keys to select fastboot, then hit the power button. plug the phone into the computer
open the command prompt and go to where you have fastboot downloaded and then make sure the recovery img is there
type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img then hit enter. This will flash the recovery to the phone,
then do your typical flashing of the rom in the recovery. after you have flashed the rom, if you are using amon, back out till you hit the main menu and go down to dev options and select boot to bootloader..this will reboot your phone into the bootloader again, then just go back into the fastboot like you did to flash recovery. then open up the rom with a zip program like 7zip winrar and you will see a boot.img file. take that file out and put it in the same location as the recovery file on your computer that also has the fastboot program
go back to the command promt and type
fastboot flash boot boot.img to install the boot img into the phone and then when its down you can reboot..all should be good to go
hopefully this make since to you lol if not let me know and i will clearify it
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Oh and one last thing he no longer includes hiro for the kernel. The stock kernel with that ROM is snuzzo funkybean
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Okay, so here's where I'm at:
1. I downloaded the Android SDK and installed it. I went into the folder Downloads/adtbundle..../sdk/platform-tools
In this directory I see an adb and a fastboot file. When I try to open and run either one of them, a window opens and terminates less than a minute after. I don't know if this is normal or not if if I'm supposed to use a different directory, but this is where I extracted these files to. (x64 Win 7 Ultimate btw).
2. When you say open the command prompt, which one are we talking about here and how do I get to it? When I think of command prompt, I'm thinking Windows "Run" (start+R).
3. You noted to have the amon ra recovery in the same directory as fastboot (at least that is what I believe you're inferring). Is the directory I noted above the appropriate place to put this Ra3.15PH98IMG.img file in? Am I supposed to leave it in this format?
4. Do I type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" in verbatim or do I type in something else (a different command), perhaps fastboot flash recovery Ra3.15PH98IMG.img ?
5. I'm confused regarding when I'm supposed to flash the ROM itself using Amon Ra. It seems like first I unlock, then I use fastboot to install Amon Ra, then I use fastboot to install the image extracted from the Infection 2.5zip. Once this is all done, then do I flash the Infection2.5.zip itself using Amon Ra?
6. How is the snuzzo funkybean kernel? Is it a better kernel than the Hiro? Overclock etc?
Sorry in advance for the many clarifying questions lol, the last thing I want is to break my mother's phone and be on the hook to buy her a new one lol.
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
Okay, so here's where I'm at:
1. I downloaded the Android SDK and installed it. I went into the folder Downloads/adtbundle..../sdk/platform-tools
In this directory I see an adb and a fastboot file. When I try to open and run either one of them, a window opens and terminates less than a minute after. I don't know if this is normal or not if if I'm supposed to use a different directory, but this is where I extracted these files to. (x64 Win 7 Ultimate btw).
2. When you say open the command prompt, which one are we talking about here and how do I get to it? When I think of command prompt, I'm thinking Windows "Run" (start+R).
3. You noted to have the amon ra recovery in the same directory as fastboot (at least that is what I believe you're inferring). Is the directory I noted above the appropriate place to put this Ra3.15PH98IMG.img file in? Am I supposed to leave it in this format?
4. Do I type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" in verbatim or do I type in something else (a different command), perhaps fastboot flash recovery Ra3.15PH98IMG.img ?
5. I'm confused regarding when I'm supposed to flash the ROM itself using Amon Ra. It seems like first I unlock, then I use fastboot to install Amon Ra, then I use fastboot to install the image extracted from the Infection 2.5zip. Once this is all done, then do I flash the Infection2.5.zip itself using Amon Ra?
6. How is the snuzzo funkybean kernel? Is it a better kernel than the Hiro? Overclock etc?
Sorry in advance for the many clarifying questions lol, the last thing I want is to break my mother's phone and be on the hook to buy her a new one lol.
-Taxmaster
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Your totally fine buds, i tend to not make thing totally clear..its my learning disabilty, i think of it in my head but sometimes my fingers dont always type what i think. so lets take this 1 step at a time
as you have downloaded the SDK already i will skip that..but here pretty much the step by step. If you are using the all-in-one
1.) Go to http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ and fill out the form, it tells you how to do everything from the site on how to unlock your phone
2.) Once you have unlocked it, you will need to install the custom recovery amon ra
3.) make a directory under the c drive called phone and copy the platform-tools from the SDK there. so you should see something like this
C:\phone\fastboot.exe
C:\phone\adb.exe
etc....
4 copy the boot.img and the recovery img to c:\phone (for ease rename amon to recovery.img)
5.) pull the battery on your phone and reinstall it...hold down power button and the vol down button
6.) once you are in the bootloader select fastboot from the menu and hit the power button
7.) connect the phone via usb to the computer and open a command prompt window ( Crtl + r then type cmd and hit enter)
8.) type in cd\ and then hit enter
9.) type cd c:\phone and then hit enter
10.) type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and then hit enter...you should see it loading and end up saying succesfull
11.) go back into the bootloader by selecting it from the menu on the phone and then use the vol down key to select recovery. this will boot into amon
12.) once you are in amon, select mount as usb drive..i think its the second option in the menu and then mount either of the sd cards.
13.) copy the ROM zip the phone and then once its down hit the power button to turn that function off
14.) go to the wipe menu and wipe everything 3 times, this will give your phone a clean slate
15.) back out and then select the flash zip menu and then select where you saved the rom and let it flash away.
16.) once you have flashed back out to the main menu again and then select the dev option in the menu and select reboot to bootloader, you are going to select fastboot again.
do steps 9 and 10 again if you closed the previous window other wise type in fastboot flash boot boot.img, and you will see a similuar screen like you did on the recovery file, once its done reboot your phone and you are now running a custom rom
I dont think that funky is overclocked by default, but the option is there to over/under click if thats your liking. Ive always had good luck with his kernals so i tend to stick to snuzzos kernals. ive used Hiro before and never really noticed much of a huge difference between the two. I live by the saying if it isnt broke dont fix it. so tend to stick with the funky just because i know it works and its never given me problems
hopefully this clears things up
clmowers said:
13.) copy the ROM zip the phone and then once its down hit the power button to turn that function off
14.) go to the wipe menu and wipe everything 3 times, this will give your phone a clean slate
15.) back out and then select the flash zip menu and then select where you saved the rom and let it flash away.
16.) once you have flashed back out to the main menu again and then select the dev option in the menu and select reboot to bootloader, you are going to select fastboot again.
do steps 9 and 10 again if you closed the previous window other wise type in fastboot flash boot boot.img, and you will see a similuar screen like you did on the recovery file, once its done reboot your phone and you are now running a custom rom
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I followed you up to step 13 (thanks for getting me this far btw!)
Questions:
1. You say to copy the ROM zip "the phone" and then once "its down" hit the power button to turn that function off. I'm totally confused as to what this means. For one, I don't know if I'm supposed to copy the Infection2.5.zip to the C:\phone or to the extSDCard. Then I just don't follow what you mean by "its down" and "turn that function off".
2. Just to clarify, it sounds like this is the order of operations (excluding wipes):
--Unlock/Root
--Fastboot Recovery
--Use Recovery to Flash ROM
--Fastboot boot.img (from ROM)
--Reboot system (restart phone)
Does this seem correct? Also, is there a cache/dalvik-cache clear in order at some point?
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
I followed you up to step 13 (thanks for getting me this far btw!)
Questions:
1. You say to copy the ROM zip "the phone" and then once "its down" hit the power button to turn that function off. I'm totally confused as to what this means. For one, I don't know if I'm supposed to copy the Infection2.5.zip to the C:\phone or to the extSDCard. Then I just don't follow what you mean by "its down" and "turn that function off".
2. Just to clarify, it sounds like this is the order of operations (excluding wipes):
--Unlock/Root
--Fastboot Recovery
--Use Recovery to Flash ROM
--Fastboot boot.img (from ROM)
--Reboot system (restart phone)
Does this seem correct? Also, is there a cache/dalvik-cache clear in order at some point?
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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Sorry those were miss types lol it should read this
copy the ROM to the sdcard and then once its done hit the power button to turn off usb mass storage
Basiclly what you are doing is copying infection 2.5 to your SDcard on your phone itself so you can flash it
Yes that would be the correct order.
As for wiping when you get into the wipe menu you will see the caches, and yes you will have to wipe both cache and devlik cache
Your very welcome btw
clmowers said:
Basiclly what you are doing is copying infection 2.5 to your SDcard on your phone itself so you can flash it
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One last clarification, when you say to the "SDcard on your phone itself" do you mean extSDCard or sdcard0 ? My plan was to insert the extSDCard while the phone is currently running the stock ROM, format it, connect it to the PC (MTP) and then copy/paste the Infection2.5.zip over to it (extSDCard). I would then leave that file on the extSDCard and use it as the reference directory for the ROM flash. Is this appropriate, or is it required to store the ROM zip on sdcard0 (built-in memory)?
Thank you!
-Taxmaster
Yes the exsdcard will work. That's the external sdcard and will work just fine As for getting the ROM on the extsdcard..that's totally up to you. It just need to be there for flashing
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clmowers said:
Yes the exsdcard will work. That's the external sdcard and will work just fine As for getting the ROM on the extsdcard..that's totally up to you. It just need to be there for flashing
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Alrighty then! I'm going to go for it and I'll let you know how it goes!
-Taxmaster
Its sounds more complicated then it really is...yea def let me know how it goes. If you have any questions along the way just ask
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I just wanted to let everyone know that I got my mom's phone up and running using this method! Thank you guys for all of your help!
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Wouldn't it be great if everyone got answers like this?
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