i looked everywhere and couldnt find a solution to my hboot problem. first off.....i am not a developer this isnt my doings..... that being said, im on the newest leaked ics ruu, or leak, whatever u wanna call it im on it. well i couldnt use any fastboot commands so i did some looking around, seems the hboot in this leak, and the previous ics leak are the same, with a different version number. so in my looking through threads i saw someone had flashed the juopunutbear patched 2.21 over the current 2.25 leak with success. so i decided to go ahead and go 4 it. its working fine for me, i now have the latest leak with fastboot commands working. http://unlimited.io/hboot-downloads/ here is the thread to the hboot download u will need if u are interested. make sure u get the ics download, follow the commands provided in the link. once you are finished with the commands provided in the link u will c a green status bar on your phones screen, just type fastboot reboot. i hope this helps those having issues, like i was. THIS IS @ YOUR OWN RISK!!!
if this post is not allowed, or in the wrong spot feel free to remove or move it....im just trying to help out. AGAIN THIS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!!
EDIT: upon my first reboot after doing this i had a unexpected phone forceclose, i rebooted to recovery fixed permissions rebooted and all is fine. no problems whatsoever.
zounduser said:
once you are finished with the commands provided in the link u will c a green status bar on your phones screen, just type fastboot reboot. i hope this helps those having issues, like i was. THIS IS @ YOUR OWN RISK!!!
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I freaked out once I hit this last week. Finally just rebooted it, but I thought it froze...but this does work while the 2.25 is a pain and wouldn't write recovery.
ming3r said:
I freaked out once I hit this last week. Finally just rebooted it, but I thought it froze...but this does work while the 2.25 is a pain and wouldn't write recovery.
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I wish i would have known about it last week! ;-) thats y i started this thread. A lot of people dont know that it will work.
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zounduser said:
i looked everywhere and couldnt find a solution to my hboot problem. first off.....i am not a developer this isnt my doings..... that being said, im on the newest leaked ics ruu, or leak, whatever u wanna call it im on it. well i couldnt use any fastboot commands so i did some looking around, seems the hboot in this leak, and the previous ics leak are the same, with a different version number. so in my looking through threads i saw someone had flashed the juopunutbear patched 2.21 over the current 2.25 leak with success. so i decided to go ahead and go 4 it. its working fine for me, i now have the latest leak with fastboot commands working. http://unlimited.io/hboot-downloads/ here is the thread to the hboot download u will need if u are interested. make sure u get the ics download, follow the commands provided in the link. once you are finished with the commands provided in the link u will c a green status bar on your phones screen, just type fastboot reboot. i hope this helps those having issues, like i was. THIS IS @ YOUR OWN RISK!!!
if this post is not allowed, or in the wrong spot feel free to remove or move it....im just trying to help out. AGAIN THIS IS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!!
EDIT: upon my first reboot after doing this i had a unexpected phone forceclose, i rebooted to recovery fixed permissions rebooted and all is fine. no problems whatsoever.
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just did this and everything seemed to go well but now it just stays on white htc screen.
Worked for me. I did this yesterday. Only thing is it got stuck at the black HTC ruu screen and had to unplug and bull battery once instal finished. Worked like a charm though.
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tbgreen89 said:
Worked for me. I did this yesterday. Only thing is it got stuck at the black HTC ruu screen and had to unplug and bull battery once instal finished. Worked like a charm though.
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tried that to but still stuck on htc screen. i first did the fastboot reboot comand. i did check md5 also.
Dude I have the latest 2.25 jb hboot with fastboot commands in my thread? No need to downgrade
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got her back up and running by flashing the patched 2.25 that i was on before. i may need to flash the stock firmware and then flash the patched 2.21 hboot
neckbonest said:
got her back up and running by flashing the patched 2.25 that i was on before. i may need to flash the stock firmware and then flash the patched 2.21 hboot
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Bad idea
Mixing and matching firmware and hboots causes issues
I'd suggest y'all use my thread, that's what it was meant for, just requires a bit a reading and looking on androidfilehost for the correct file
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Dude I have the latest 2.25 jb hboot with fastboot commands in my thread? No need to downgrade
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thats what im on now but its not letting me do some fastboot commands. im trying to flash a new boot.img but its not flashing. trying to fix my gps. been reading lots of threads and found a few people just flash a boot.img and it fixes it. thanks for the firmware combos. it fixed some other problems i was having. just want my gps back
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thats what im on now but its not letting me do some fastboot commands. im trying to flash a new boot.img but its not flashing. trying to fix my gps. been reading lots of threads and found a few people just flash a boot.img and it fixes it. thanks for the firmware combos. it fixed some other problems i was having. just want my gps back
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Weird
Take that ph98img.zip that you have downloaded from my post, extract it
Pull everything out besides the android txt file
Put the boot image in there
Make sure it's named boot.IMG
Zip up those two files, put your sd, and flash in hboot
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Weird
Take that ph98img.zip that you have downloaded from my post, extract it
Pull everything out besides the android txt file
Put the boot image in there
Make sure it's named boot.IMG
Zip up those two files, put your sd, and flash in hboot
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thanks, i will try that
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Good evening. I am new to HTC phones (and unlocked phones in general). I am having trouble flashing a kernel using a PH98IMG.zip file. When it goes in the bootloader I get an error that says "Main Version Older Update Failed." I am able to flash a boot.img via Fastboot, but I am receiving wifi errors. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Chris
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Good evening. I am new to HTC phones (and unlocked phones in general). I am having trouble flashing a kernel using a PH98IMG.zip file. When it goes in the bootloader I get an error that says "Main Version Older Update Failed." I am able to flash a boot.img via Fastboot, but I am receiving wifi errors. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Chris
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What kernel are you trying to flash?
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How weird that someone else would post the same issue I'm having, when I've flashed several kernels in the past few days with no problems.
At some point, I've flashed every Sense-based kernel in the Rezound dev section. And now, for some strange reason, I'm getting the error described above.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
The Beeb
I'm going to guess you flashed the leak? If you did here is another thread to check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446273
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What kernel are you trying to flash?
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I think I have tried just about every stock kernel, and gotta the error.
pwned3 said:
I'm going to guess you flashed the leak? If you did here is another thread to check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446273
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No I never flashed the leak. Do you think that fixed would work? Well guess I should say if it doesn't work do you think it will cause any harm to the phone's system?
Thanks again.
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CHRIS42060 said:
I think I have tried just about every stock kernel, and gotta the error.
No I never flashed the leak. Do you think that fixed would work? Well guess I should say if it doesn't work do you think it will cause any harm to the phone's system?
Thanks again.
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Try flashing the kernel in fastboot.
I am having the same issue now also after I flash the BAMF's latest ROM. Their update log says they updated to the new base, and after that I can't to flash anything in hboot anymore. I can still ADB push the boot.img but no flashing. I also tried to revert to complete stock by flashing the RUU and get the same thing. It's says my system is newer and won't flash.
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I am having the same issue now also after I flash the BAMF's latest ROM. Their update log says they updated to the new base, and after that I can't to flash anything in hboot anymore. I can still ADB push the boot.img but no flashing. I also tried to revert to complete stock by flashing the RUU and get the same thing. It's says my system is newer and won't flash.
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So you can't fastboot flash boot <boot.img> from your PC??
MrSmith317 said:
So you can't fastboot flash boot <boot.img> from your PC??
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Sorry, yes, I can do that.
That's the only way that I can push a boot.img now. I know the kernel devs have a way to flash their kernel in recovery then automatically push you into hboot to flash the PH98IMG.zip file with the boot.img inside it. Flashing anything in fastboot now results in the error message above except for the BAMF ROM.
Having the same problem after updating to bamf cubed 102.
My main version sig updated when I flashed the leaked kernel. fastboot should always work, and would have saved me from the dumb mistake had i flashed in fastboot to begin with.
But my guess is that somehow u flashed a PH98IMG.zip file that was the leaked kernel.
I'm not sure how to find out what version the sig thinks it is running but since I know what the leak was, I can edit the .txt file in the PH98IMG.zip and make it work, like said in the thread.
Well this sucks! It definitely started when I flashed the new bamf cubed rom. So does this mean I can never flash a boot.img unless I do it with fastboot and a pc? So I cant just put the file on my sdcard and reboot into fastboot? Can this be fixed? Thanks!!!!
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Well this sucks! It definitely started when I flashed the new bamf cubed rom. So does this mean I can never flash a boot.img unless I do it with fastboot and a pc? So I cant just put the file on my sdcard and reboot into fastboot? Can this be fixed? Thanks!!!!
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The same issue also started for me when I flashed BAMF Cubed. Looks like dsb mention on the BAMF Cubed Rom thread that with S-On we can't easily change the base that was changed this with update. Looks like we will be using Fastboot until more developers use the newer version. Glad to know its not something I managed to screw up lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443328&page=5
Thanks a lot for all of the help everyone.
You might be able to replace the android-info.txt in the PH98IMG.zip with the one from dsb's kernel, making the hboot think you're not flashing backwards. Not positive if that works though.
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You might be able to replace the android-info.txt in the PH98IMG.zip with the one from dsb's kernel, making the hboot think you're not flashing backwards. Not positive if that works though.
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This does work, but you have to pull the file from his cube1.02 ROM not from his kernel.
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This does work, but you have to pull the file from his cube1.02 ROM not from his kernel.
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How exactly is this done?
**** someone needs to tell dsb or whoever to put it back to the old version. If your mainver gets updated, you can't run RUUs. So you could be stuck with a brick until we get the official ICS RUU
con247 said:
**** someone needs to tell dsb or whoever to put it back to the old version. If your mainver gets updated, you can't run RUUs. So you could be stuck with a brick until we get the official ICS RUU
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YEP! I can't RUU back to stock at this point... it's ok... I will deal with it until we get an official ICS RUU, but it's just a bummer incase something does actually go wrong with my Rezound.
con247 said:
**** someone needs to tell dsb or whoever to put it back to the old version. If your mainver gets updated, you can't run RUUs. So you could be stuck with a brick until we get the official ICS RUU
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my main sig updated, and it is far from a brick..
Infact it's not a very big deal at all, it's something that should be avoided by all costs I absolutely 100% agree with that.
but the phone will still be able to use RUU's, the update will be ICS anyway..
This is confirmed by jcase.
I completely agree with stopping this from happening to anyone else. But no need to scare them by saying your phone is a brick because the sig updated.
How exactly do you consider the phone to be a brick anyway? JW, not trying to be an a-hole by any means here.
the only problem is the need to change the PB98IMG.zip .txt file and cant use an RUU until we get an OTA, ICS will be the next OTA update anyway.
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jskolm said:
YEP! I can't RUU back to stock at this point... it's ok... I will deal with it until we get an official ICS RUU, but it's just a bummer incase something does actually go wrong with my Rezound.
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Just Curious, what do you need the RUU for?
do you use Stock ROM?
also, can't you just pull the rom.zip from ruu then rename to PB98IMG.zip and replace the.txt?
andybones said:
my main sig updated, and it is far from a brick..
Infact it's not a very big deal at all, it's something that should be avoided by all costs I absolutely 100% agree with that.
but the phone will still be able to use RUU's, the update will be ICS anyway..
This is confirmed by jcase.
I completely agree with stopping this from happening to anyone else. But no need to scare them by saying your phone is a brick because the sig updated.
How exactly do you consider the phone to be a brick anyway? JW, not trying to be an a-hole by any means here.
the only problem is the need to change the PB98IMG.zip .txt file and cant use an RUU until we get an OTA, ICS will be the next OTA update anyway.
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Just Curious, what do you need the RUU for?
do you use Stock ROM?
also, can't you just pull the rom.zip from ruu then rename to PB98IMG.zip and replace the.txt?
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Agreed that it's FAR from bricked, but it's just more of an annoyance. You can't use the easy flash script that all the kernel devs and ROM devs are using now. You have to manually update the .txt file yourself inoder to be able to flash it. (Or adb push it from a computer)
And yes you are correct about the RUU, you can probably just replace the txt file in it with the moded version (I didn't think of trying that even though I am doing that will the kernels that I have download from here).
I was only trying to RUU to see if it would undo what was done... just for ease of use for me. I like to browse these forums from tapatalk and download a new kernel when it's released (hasn't been for a while, come on devs ) and test it out. I can't do that now without a computer. So I was just trying to undo that is all.
Whenever I try to flash a ROM I always get "main version older". I'm on the stock, rooted gingerbread ROM right now with an unlocked bootloader and if I try to flash any ROM whether it's a gingerbread or ICS ROM I always get the same message when the phone reboots to the bootloader to flash the kernel.
What can I do about this?
After I first unlocked my phone I tried to install an ICS rom then I installed a gingerbread rom after and I never saw that message once. Then I started seeing it so I went back to stock to see if that would fix my issue but it hasn't.
Helper
It mostly mean your htc rezound is on a newer main version of software you going to need to downgrade by changing the number here a link to help you do this and take out the older message that come up http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467099
So, theoretically, if I take it all the way back down to 1.00.000.0 I could be able to flash anything because whatever I flash will always be greater than the main version.
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So, theoretically, if I take it all the way back down to 1.00.000.0 I could be able to flash anything because whatever I flash will always be greater than the main version.
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Until you flash something that updates your mainver lol.
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Which a lot of roms and kernels do. Its a very annoying issue.
If the main versions are the same will it still throw the same error?
Nope. Only when the mainver is older.
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Well it works. Anyone have any idea how I keep getting stuck at the HTC screen when I flash some roms (ICS ones mostly). I've never made it past the HTC screen with CleanRom and now I'm on the new Bamf ICS 0.5 rom and I'm sitting here stuck again. The kernel flashed successfully in the bootloader so I'm not sure why I keep getting stuck.
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use's something that can read your sdcard and add this file here http://www.mediafire.com/?9b9pr48t498ru1g to you sdcard then go into bootloader and let fastboot do it thing
cflo360 said:
use's something that can read your sdcard and add this file here http://www.mediafire.com/?9b9pr48t498ru1g to you sdcard then go into bootloader and let fastboot do it thing
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Well I tried it out on both Bamf and CleanRom and the results were no different... still stuck at the HTC start screen unfortunately.
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use this to get recovery overclock or the other recovery mean http://www.mediafire.com/?zk4ooxyonsgnaj5add overclock to the htc then go to your sdcard and add http://files.themikmik.com/new2/Ineffabilis-Deus_v1.0.1-Odex.zip and PH98IMG.zip (http://db.tt/d9503t4R) for bootloader now when all this is placed and done hit the boot to recovery on the program i showed you and your in overclock once there i want you to wip everything once done go to zip file and look for Ineffabilis-Deus_v1.0.1-Odex.zip click and once it finish installing go to bootloader and install PH98IMG.zip so when your done ....hopefully it work
I'm sending you a PM, I think I know what's wrong.
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CharliesTheMan said:
I'm sending you a PM, I think I know what's wrong.
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Replied.
...Gingerbread roms aren't working either. I have flashed 1 ICS rom and 2 Gingerbread roms in the past but for some reason now, I can't flash anything.
I'm wondering if flashing the stock RUU and relocking, then unlocking again and reflashing Amon Ra would fix the issue. After I originally unlocked was the only time I could ever successfully flash anything.
Don't see how locking and re-unlocking would make a difference.
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Don't see how locking and re-unlocking would make a difference.
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Flashing the RUU requires relocking.
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Don't see how locking and re-unlocking would make a difference.
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I'm running out of options.
I just recently switched back from the leaked Ice Cream Sandwich RUU by changing the main ver and uploaded the oldest ruu (1.02 etc) and was going to just update through OTA to the latest version of the htc Rezound. I the found out that when I tried to update it, recovery (amon ra recovery) was still present and it tried updating through that, which failed. Can anyone help me out with removing recovery?
in order to ruu, you need to install stock recovery which amonra recovery will be removed as well. download: http://db.tt/tw5m33ZG
qudwis said:
in order to ruu, you need to install stock recovery which amonra recovery will be removed as well. download: http://db.tt/tw5m33ZG
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Thank u so much! But which method of flashing do you use to flash the stock recovery?
willsully1221 said:
Thank u so much! But which method of flashing do you use to flash the stock recovery?
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i use cleanflash 1.0 for boot.img and recovery.img.
http://www.scottsroms.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=57
or use adb and flash using this command "fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img"
if you are using cleanflash 1.0, after downloading the stock recovery,
unzip then put the img file in the same folder as the tool the rename it to "recovery.img"
then use the tool and flash
make sure usb debugging is enabled, usb mode is on charging and htc sync on your computer is disabled before using the tool!!!!
willsully1221 said:
I just recently switched back from the leaked Ice Cream Sandwich RUU by changing the main ver and uploaded the oldest ruu (1.02 etc)
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How in the world did you get that to work?
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Snuzzo said:
How in the world did you get that to work?
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i think he meant to say that he were going to do that...
Hmm, well sounds like need more info to help the op then.
If op is doing this to try and get the OTA, it won't happen, due to flashing the .22 leak.
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I was thinking the same thing.
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There's a guide in the development section that can get you to switch your main ver to whatever number you want. I put it a 1.00.000.00 and then it automatically switched to the first main ver (when the htc rezound was officially released). Now I've got a problem because my phone won't read my sd card (even though it's working, i plugged it into the computer and it worked), it won't let me flash any RUUs in bootloader, every time i try to turn the phone on it goes straight to fastboot so I can't even access the phone, and where it should say locked or unlocked (in fastboot/bootloader) it has 3 lines that look like this:
***TAMPERED***
***RELOCKED***
***SECURITY WARNING***
Also, I was using the original stock rom for a couple of days before this happend, so that part was working fine. But Ive never experienced this before and this is my third or fourth time going through this exact same process.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that the recovery is now stock recovery again, as you could probably tell, it's relocked, I'm pretty sure it's unrooted, but I can't tell, and lastly, after multiple tires, I could not get the OTA update to work at all. I kept getting error/fail messages.
A couple of things. First you can't ruu back. Your hboot was updated. Second that TAMPERED message tells me that are not on the stock recovery, it only says that when a non stock recovery is installed. If you are just looking to get GB back on the phone, I made a guide in the general section. Search for "how to go back to GB from leaked ICS.
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EmerikL said:
A couple of things. First you can't ruu back. Your hboot was updated. Second that TAMPERED message tells me that are not on the stock recovery, it only says that when a non stock recovery is installed. If you are just looking to get GB back on the phone, I made a guide in the general section. Search for "how to go back to GB from leaked ICS.
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Thanks, and I did re install the stock recovery and have checked several times and there's no more recovery. But I'm back on GB now, I was just trying to get the OTA. Now I'm trying to get my phone to turn on because every time I power it on, it goes straight to fastboot, so I can't access it. So if you have any ideas on that to help me out, that would be awesome. But thank you for the help, I'm going to go look at your thread now. Thanks!
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Thanks, and I did re install the stock recovery and have checked several times and there's no more recovery. But I'm back on GB now, I was just trying to get the OTA. Now I'm trying to get my phone to turn on because every time I power it on, it goes straight to fastboot, so I can't access it. So if you have any ideas on that to help me out, that would be awesome. But thank you for the help, I'm going to go look at your thread now. Thanks!
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You need to flash amon ra recovery .. then flash a Rom and kernel
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yojoe600 said:
You need to flash amon ra recovery .. then flash a Rom and kernel
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Do I have to do that if my phone's already on GB?
Now it won't let me get into recovery because it keeps trying to update the the software from OTA but that fails and then it gets stuck at phone with a red triangle infront/ontop of it.
Edit: I actually realized it was doing that because the recovery still wasn't there, so i went back to the command prompt and looked and saw that it said that flashing the recovery had failed. so then I went and got the newer amon ra recovery and tried flashing that, still said it failed and still wasn't there. What is going on with my phone?
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Now it won't let me get into recovery because it keeps trying to update the the software from OTA but that fails and then it gets stuck at phone with a red triangle infront/ontop of it.
Edit: I actually realized it was doing that because the recovery still wasn't there, so i went back to the command prompt and looked and saw that it said that flashing the recovery had failed. so then I went and got the newer amon ra recovery and tried flashing that, still said it failed and still wasn't there. What is going on with my phone?
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It's locked you need to unlock the bootloader again
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superchilpil said:
It's locked you need to unlock the bootloader again
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Haha ya i realized that and then unlocked it, but it wont let me flash the kernel, it says main ver is older
willsully1221 said:
Haha ya i realized that and then unlocked it, but it wont let me flash the kernel, it says main ver is older
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There's a main ver fix in the development stickies, or just fastboot flash it
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There's a main ver fix in the development stickies, or just fastboot flash it
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would the command be: fastboot flash kernel (nameofkernel).zip
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would the command be: fastboot flash kernel (nameofkernel).zip
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No, flastboot flash boot (kernel).IMG
So it would need to be extracted out of the zip to get the raw IMG file
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No, flastboot flash boot (kernel).IMG
So it would need to be extracted out of the zip to get the raw IMG file
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Ok command prompt said it was a success, but nothing happened on the phone, I'm still going to infer that it was a success. Now what did the kernel update do? Will i be able to update via OTA?
Before I begin, I've read through a lot of threads on different forums and have yet to find a solution (that's working for me.)
I could never get my device to S-OFF so simply dropped the task. Not in too big of a rush right now. That being said, I'd like to go back to GB for a bit just to try a few things out.
I never flashed the ICS firmware, therefor I've had to use the old firmware patches. So, I tried running the RUU for GB and it only encountered error after error and my phone stayed at the black HTC screen. Any ideas?
Phone works just fine, just rebooted while I was typing this post and went straight into my ROM.
Only way I found is S-off'd, I had to go back to GB after ICS since it came on the phone I bought and needed to return it. Everyone told me I had to S-Off then RUU
If s on make sure you relock bootloader, then you should be able to run the gb ruu for whichever version you were on.
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Downgrading radios when s-on could very well hard brick your phone. I strongly recommend that you s-off first.
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Abu-7abash said:
Downgrading radios when s-on could very well hard brick your phone. I strongly recommend that you s-off first.
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You can't downgrade with s on....
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ericsignals said:
If s on make sure you relock bootloader, then you should be able to run the gb ruu for whichever version you were on.
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You can't downgrade with s on....
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Are you even the same guy?
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Pick a Gingerbread based rom and flash. Try out Chingy's Ineffabilis gingerbread.
Chyrux said:
I never flashed the ICS firmware, therefor I've had to use the old firmware patches.
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Wish you guys would read.
Abu-7abash said:
Are you even the same guy?
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If you never ran an ics ruu you still were on gb firmware....so you can run a gb ruu. When you run the same ruu that's not downgrading....sheesh :rolleyes . And its probably the easiest way to get back to a working phone if you are lost and don't really know what you are doing.
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ericsignals said:
If s on make sure you relock bootloader, then you should be able to run the gb ruu for whichever version you were on.
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Tried that. RUU said "Could not update your phone at this time."
I came from stock GB originally in...April. Is there a specific RUU for that?
I've never used RUU's before so I'm lost.
aaand now, I'm pretty sure my phone is a brick. It's re-locked now, can't go into recovery, won't boot into ROM.
Chyrux said:
aaand now, I'm pretty sure my phone is a brick. It's re-locked now, can't go into recovery, won't boot into ROM.
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Still only a soft brick. Would suggest trying the other of the two GB RUU .exe version packages if you only tried one of them, just a suggestion until someone else can help you and diagnose.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19756694
Chyrux said:
aaand now, I'm pretty sure my phone is a brick. It's re-locked now, can't go into recovery, won't boot into ROM.
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If you can get to hboot It's not bricked. Which ruu were you trying
pwned3 said:
If you can get to hboot It's not bricked. Which ruu were you trying
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RUU_Vigor_VERIZON_WWE_2.01.605.11_Radio_RS_0.95.00.1123r_3161E_9K_QMR_release_233635_signed
Try running that one again. It should work. You have to run it twice anyway
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Try running that one again. It should work. You have to run it twice anyway
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Tried. It's stuck on the "Verifying the information on your PDA Phone...Please wait..." screen.
EDIT: Nevermind, went into Fastboot, working now. Let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help so far.
I'm getting a bootloader version error. An ICS RUU should fix this, right? Granted, I know that means I can't go back until I S-Off, but I'd rather that than have a soft bricked phone
I am in the same boat - S-ON. I flashed Scott's ICS Rooted Stock Rom, along with the GB Patch. I downloaded the PH98IMG.zip and HBOOT doesn't recognize it. Trying the exe may resolve this?
Issue resolved thanks to dsb in the IRC channel. For some reason, I thought I had to throw the unlock.bin on my SD card to unlock.
And to the guy above me, try pushing it through adb. Extract the ROM, find the boot.img, throw it into your ADB directory.
adb reboot bootloader
(make sure you're in fastboot USB)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Issue resolved thanks to dsb in the IRC channel. For some reason, I thought I had to throw the unlock.bin on my SD card to unlock.
And to the guy above me, try pushing it through adb. Extract the ROM, find the boot.img, throw it into your ADB directory.
adb reboot bootloader
(make sure you're in fastboot USB)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Hate to ask you this, but would you mind giving me a step by step on what you did to get back to GB?
Thanks -Kim
print.logic said:
Hate to ask you this, but would you mind giving me a step by step on what you did to get back to GB?
Thanks -Kim
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With the new leak out, I haven't. However, I can still help.
Make sure there is no P98IMG file on your SD card.
1. Download the mainver fix from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23169557&postcount=4
2. Drop GB ROM of your choice onto SD card.
3. Flash the fix in recovery and reboot into bootloader.
4. Relock your phone by going into adb and typing in fastboot oem lock
5. Run GB RUU of your choice.
6. Use the HTCDev unlock on your bootloader
7. Download a recovery and push it to your phone by typing in fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
8. Boot into recovery, flash ROM, enjoy.
Hey all, just received a replacement rezound under warranty due to the charge port being all muffed up, and of coarse the first thing was unlock via htcdev which worked fine.
Here is the issue.. when trying to flash amonra via fastboot or PH98IMG.zip in bootloader it won't flash. For fastboot it says "unknown error" and as a PH file in bootloader it says "parsing..." for a few seconds then disappears without flashing anything. I've re-downloaded and checked md5's and still get the same errors.
My last rezound was s-off and that whole process was quick and painless and I don't understand why the same procedure I used on my last rezound isn't working now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
zac41189 said:
Hey all, just received a replacement rezound under warranty due to the charge port being all muffed up, and of coarse the first thing was unlock via htcdev which worked fine.
Here is the issue.. when trying to flash amonra via fastboot or PH98IMG.zip in bootloader it won't flash. For fastboot it says "unknown error" and as a PH file in bootloader it says "parsing..." for a few seconds then disappears without flashing anything. I've re-downloaded and checked md5's and still get the same errors.
My last rezound was s-off and that whole process was quick and painless and I don't understand why the same procedure I used on my last rezound isn't working now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What firmware is on the device?
hgoldner said:
what firmware is on the device?
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ota 3.14.605.12 710rd.
Can you flash in fastboot usb? (And, to be perfectly clear to avoid a dumb question, does hboot reflect that you are unlocked?)
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Can you flash in fastboot usb? (And, to be perfectly clear to avoid a dumb question, does hboot reflect that you are unlocked?)
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indeed *** unlocked *** is displayed at the top on hboot. and ive tried "fastboot flash recovery (nameofrecovery.img) with nameofrecovery changed to what i have it saved as and no luck. even tried relocking and ruuing too just to make sure it wasnt the software messing everything up.
Can't remember but can you try to S-OFF first? (It's been so long, but I can't remember whether you have a custom recovery already on).
Ah, one other stupid thing.... have you tried a different sdcard?
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Can't remember but can you try to S-OFF first? (It's been so long, but I can't remember whether you have a custom recovery already on).
Ah, one other stupid thing.... have you tried a different sdcard?
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I was thinking about the sd card being the issue but it installed an ruu via ph98img.zip perfectly fine bit its worth a shot. And on unlimited.io's site they say you need to be completely stock with root and as far as I know amonra is the only way to root on a stock ruu. I managed to s-off tho after using hasoon's tool to flash amonra. I'm now completely stock again after ruuing back to gb then accepting ota
so I'll try flashing amonra again and report back. Thank you for your help!
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You can install any custom recovery and use it to flash SuperUser. The root option in Amon Ra doesn't usually work by itself anyway.
shrike1978 said:
You can install any custom recovery and use it to flash SuperUser. The root option in Amon Ra doesn't usually work by itself anyway.
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Oh ok thats good to know actually. just cant seem to install any custom recoveries lol. i chose to install amon ra 3.15 with hasoons tool and for some reason i have 3.06 installed.. dont know how or why but i do. tried to install 3.15 with his toolkit again and got the stupid error again. i dont know what to do at this point lol. never had this problem with the last rezound. i am s-off now but do not have the recovery i want installed.
should i try ruu'ing again and start fresh?
and for what its worth i do have the jb hboot installed just to see if that was the issue. had to use fastboot commands to install it so i dont think thats the issue. i think its the download for amonra 3.15 i have. if anyone has a personal copy of 3.15 that is confirmed working and is willing to share it itd be greatly appreciated.
To use the fastboot commands you must be unlocked. With the parsing error. That will sometimes happen if you have a file called "update.zip" on your sdcard. Try seeing if you have one of those files. If your HBOOT does say s-off. Flash the GB RUU. Just so you can verify everything has changed. and then restart with the ICS RUU then flash a recovery. This time not with that tool.
Flyhalf205 said:
To use the fastboot commands you must be unlocked. With the parsing error. That will sometimes happen if you have a file called "update.zip" on your sdcard. Try seeing if you have one of those files. If your HBOOT does say s-off. Flash the GB RUU. Just so you can verify everything has changed. and then restart with the ICS RUU then flash a recovery. This time not with that tool.
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Thank you for the response. i tested to see if i really did have s-off by doing just that. ruu'd back to gb without a hitch. then accepted the ota. so im thinking ill just ruu the ota (3.14.605.12) and see what happens. and im with you on not using the tool again. ive heard really good things about it but never used it personally until today. my old method worked well i just didn't know what else to do at that point lol
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Thank you for the response. i tested to see if i really did have s-off by doing just that. ruu'd back to gb without a hitch. then accepted the ota. so im thinking ill just ruu the ota (3.14.605.12) and see what happens. and im with you on not using the tool again. ive heard really good things about it but never used it personally until today. my old method worked well i just didn't know what else to do at that point lol
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To s-off you got to do the wire trick. But RUU then don't use the tool. lol Lets us now if it works out.
Flyhalf205 said:
To s-off you got to do the wire trick. But RUU then don't use the tool. lol Lets us now if it works out.
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Yupp s-off'd with no issues. Just want amonra lol. Ruu'd to OTA and am waiting for my battery to charge up enough to flash via hboot. The amonra thread has a PH98IMG.zip but I think that one was the 3.06 version. Dunno. Will report back.
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Yupp s-off'd with no issues. Just want amonra lol. Ruu'd to OTA and am waiting for my battery to charge up enough to flash via hboot. The amonra thread has a PH98IMG.zip but I think that one was the 3.06 version. Dunno. Will report back.
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I'm not trying to be a jerk or whatever but have you read the bottom of the AmonRA OP? It has a link to 3.15 I am pretty sure.
Curious. Why you want AR so bad? We have 2 other fully functional recoveries. lol
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I'm not trying to be a jerk or whatever but have you read the bottom of the AmonRA OP? It has a link to 3.15 I am pretty sure.
Curious. Why you want AR so bad? We have 2 other fully functional recoveries. lol
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The ph98img.zip in that post is 3.06. I just got really used to it lol. I have twrp 2.3.2.3 downloaded for a couple weeks now.. might as well try it out lol.
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The ph98img.zip in that post is 3.06. I just got really used to it lol. I have twrp 2.3.2.3 downloaded for a couple weeks now.. might as well try it out lol.
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Since you're on the OTA ICS firmware, you should definitely NOT be running Amon Ra 3.06. You need to be on 3.15. If the md5's match what's on your sdcard and what's on the OP at that thread, it shouldn't be a bad download, but just in case, I loaded it up on my Dropbox and you can try the one here.
As far as alternate recoveries, while I was very impressed with TWRP, it is incapable of wiping boot, so that's a nonstarter. Admittedly, if Flyhalf solved that issue, I'd switch to it. As far as CWM Touch, that has issues with reading sdcard2, as of the last time I checked, or at least with respect to its interaction with various ROMs and their features. For me at least, having tried all of the Rezound recoveries, Amon Ra is my preferred choice.
just push AR manually instead of using the tool:
Unzip the file from the link listed below onto the root of the C drive on your PC, and it should create a folder called Android on the root of C.
1) open a cmd prompt and type " cd c:\Android " without quotes
2) boot to fastboot and make sure your USB is plugged into the pc and phone
3) type " fastboot flash recovery recovery.img " without the quotes
This should push the AR 3.15 to your device. I included AR 3.15 in the Android folder below.
the folder contains a txt file of a few other handy commands that i use. that txt file is for reference only
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aycfqc37tvkhbdl/Android12-14-2012_22+21+19.rar
I ended up flashing twrp and it worked great. Like a previous poster said if it could wipe boot it would be perfect. But it got the job done and am up and running again. Thank you all for your help!
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Glad everything worked out for ya. Wiping boot can cause a lot of problems just sayin. So I debating on putting it back into TWRP. Just ask snuzzo in his kernel thread