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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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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
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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
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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?
I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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Get one of the old GB RUU's and run it on your phone. Start again. If your phone was truly bricked, it wouldn't power on and you wouldn't get an LED light when it was plugged in.
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I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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This is an easy one, or would have been when you were on the black screen. Well the internal storage fix scares me, but hopefully that wont matter. Typically all you need to do is get the PH file from your rom and place on sd card, boot into hboot, and run the update I believe, then reboot.
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lithium630 said:
I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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Relax. The S-off process blows out your recovery. You didn't brick your phone.
Put a recovery image on your SD card, go into hboot (from a powered down state, power button and volume down) and let 'er reload recovery. If you can't get the file on your SD card through your phone, pop the SD card into a card reader attached to your PC and stick it on there that way.
Once that's done, remove the image file from your SD card, put your fav ROM on it, and install it from recovery.
You may need to fix your SD card's mount points. Within the thread on S-off, there's a link to the process.
None of the commands work because the phone is not recognized. I cannot boot to hboot. Uh oh.
I had the same screen. Pull the battery and reboot into hboot, volume down+power and run the s-off program again. Something didn't finish and it will pick up where it left off in my experience.
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None of the commands work because the phone is not recognized. I cannot boot to hboot. Uh oh.
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What happens when you press power+volume down?
Edit: Also, if you're phone turns on, you're not bricked. It's pretty hard to brick this phone.
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What happens when you press power+volume down?
Edit: Also, if you're phone turns on, you're not bricked. It's pretty hard to brick this phone.
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Yeap just pull the battery and power on with power and volume down.
This kinda stuff you'll be fine with. Just don't get too creative with "repairs" that aren't posted in here.
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What happens when you press power+volume down?
Edit: Also, if you're phone turns on, you're not bricked. It's pretty hard to brick this phone.
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As I understand it, the only way to brick a phone is to bork a radio installation.
Dude...pull your battery, put it back in, then power and volume down at the same time. If you can get to hboot, life is good.
After about 30 battery pulls I was able to get to hboot. I have no idea what the issue was. Finally got the phone booting now. I appreciate the replies.
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After about 30 battery pulls I was able to get to hboot. I have no idea what the issue was. Finally got the phone booting now. I appreciate the replies.
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Awesome, glad to hear. Did the s-off work?
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Awesome, glad to hear. Did the s-off work?
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Sure did. Took me a little while to get the wire trick right. I just noticed the sd card is not recognized. I see the fix on the thread. That will be tomorrows project.
Constant reboots
I am able to install roms, but I get constant reboots, every few minutes at best. I tried a few different ICS ROMS. I am running the latest firmware. I BELIEVE with s-off I shouldn't have to flash PH98IMG.zip. I tried fixing permissions also but it has not helped.
How did you get the latest firmware and radios without running the PH98IMG.zip? The ics roms you are installing won't update your firmware.
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How did you get the latest firmware and radios without running the PH98IMG.zip? The ics roms you are installing won't update your firmware.
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I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
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I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
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Well the newest leak came out 5/7 and the one before that 5/2 so only a week ago. I would download the newest from Android Police and follow the instructions they give to install, then flash a recovery and install a rooted Rom for this firmware like Scott's.
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I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
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I don't know why you relocked...I think there's a thread about not so good things happening to those who relock after S-off. I downloaded and installed the 5/5 leak as PH98IMG after I S-off'd and reflashed the recovery.
I'm pretty sure my hboot said "locked" straight out of the gate after I did the S-off deed.
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I don't know why you relocked...I think there's a thread about not so good things happening to those who relock after S-off. I downloaded and installed the 5/5 leak as PH98IMG after I S-off'd and reflashed the recovery.
I'm pretty sure my hboot said "locked" straight out of the gate after I did the S-off deed.
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Nothing bad happens, you just don't ever get back to "locked" without doing S-off again. You're just at "relocked" like the old days. S-on with an eng hboot on the other hand will brick your device.
That aside, there's no need to unlock if you're S-off. Either flash a patched hboot or just flash a PH98IMG.zip of AmonRa if you don't need fastboot commands (I did the latter).
I flashed the last firmware before S-off. I followed the instructions given. I flashed the latest firmware today and this damn thing still reboots constantly. I flashed the 5-7 firmware then the Venasaur Rom.
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I flashed the last firmware before S-off. I followed the instructions given. I flashed the latest firmware today and this damn thing still reboots constantly. I flashed the 5-7 firmware then the Venasaur Rom.
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You need to try installing the radio firmware or just install the complete RUU again. And install a clean copy of the rom, not a nandroid backup. Wipe data, cache, dalvic cache, and system before flashing the rom.
Send me a private message if you would like and I'll help you get it figured out on gtalk.
After some headache, I installed Scotts ROM
[ROM / LEAK] 5/8 - Stock Rooted RUU 3.14.605.5 / Truly De-Odexed! / Root works
I read somewhere that the RUU had to be flashed twice and as the newb I am... I flashed it once.
My HBOOT is 2.11.0000
No idea what my radio is... It doesnt list it on the front of the bootloader menu.
Do I need to reflash? Should I rewipe?
I had 2 random reboots already.
I'm S-ON as well.
His isn't a ruu so you're still on gb firmware
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His isn't a ruu so you're still on gb firmware
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Do I have to be S-Off to get on ICS firmware?
Am I correct in assuming that any phone that ships with gingerbread will have a GB firmware until the day it dies, because of S-ON?
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His isn't a ruu so you're still on gb firmware
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I'm chalking up the reboots to heat... I'm outside and was charging myphone while using it... I'm guessing it was over 115-120+ degrees. Plus there might be a non ICS compatible app in my phone, who knows.
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Do I have to be S-Off to get on ICS firmware?
Am I correct in assuming that any phone that ships with gingerbread will have a GB firmware until the day it dies, because of S-ON?
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No that is not the case. Here is the latest leaked RUU
Rename it to PH98IMG.zip and put it on your the root of your SD card. Make sure you don't rename it to PH98IMG.zip.zip. Windows hides the .zip extension.
Your bootloader needs to locked in fastboot.
Code:
fastboot oem lock
(Do this before you place the PH98IMG.zip on your sd card.)
reboot into hboot, it find the image and then update the bootloader. It will take a long long time.
Then boot back into hboot for it to make another pass, this will update the system to ICS.
Unlock the bootloader again
Install Amon Ra recovery.
Install Scotts rooted stock rom that you have on the phone currently.
Done.
Warning, running the RUU will ERASE your internal SD card, so if you have pictures, video, music you want to keep, move it to your PC before you run the RUU.
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I'm chalking up the reboots to heat... I'm outside and was charging myphone while using it... I'm guessing it was over 115-120+ degrees. Plus there might be a non ICS compatible app in my phone, who knows.
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It's rebooting because you're running a ics rom on gb firmware without flashing the old firmware patch
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It's rebooting because you're running a ics rom on gb firmware without flashing the old firmware patch
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I ran the Gingerbread patch he included in the directions....
before rooting, flashing roms, and attempting s-off,
read up as much as you can so you know what to do when you get stuck.
there are some very extensive tutorials that people have spent a long time making as noob-friendly as possible.
Before or after flashing the rom
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Before or after flashing the rom
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After flashing the Rom... My phone restarted twice in 24 hours... Might have been a compatibility issue with an app... Who knows.
What advantage do I really have going to ICS firmware, is that for the new radios?
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After flashing the Rom... My phone restarted twice in 24 hours... Might have been a compatibility issue with an app... Who knows.
What advantage do I really have going to ICS firmware, is that for the new radios?
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I find that I get better signal, but that may be subjective. My battery temperature is noticable lower though.
If you are going to update the firmware, you mifht as well S-Off. Use the GB S-Off, then flash this:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/main/-Support_Files-/SuperChilPil/[ICS][2.25][JB][5-7]PH98IMG.zip
Thanks to superchillpill for the package.
This will get you the most recent firmware/radios.
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I find that I get better signal, but that may be subjective. My battery temperature is noticable lower though.
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Well that's good enough for me.... Looks like I'll be reflashing tomorrow.
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Well that's good enough for me.... Looks like I'll be reflashing tomorrow.
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Cool. Hope it goes smooth!
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Copy ROM to SD Card AND PH98IMG.zip to ROOT of SD Card
Reboot to recovery
wipe data / Factory Reset
Flash ROM
Use Developer Menu to reboot to bootloader and flash the boot.img file in the PH98IMG.zip
Reboot
Profit!
How do I get to the developer Menu with that ZIP file on the SD card, won't it just try to update and give me no way out of that process?
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Copy ROM to SD Card AND PH98IMG.zip to ROOT of SD Card
Reboot to recovery
wipe data / Factory Reset
Flash ROM
Use Developer Menu to reboot to bootloader and flash the boot.img file in the PH98IMG.zip
Reboot
Profit!
How do I get to the developer Menu with that ZIP file on the SD card, won't it just try to update and give me no way out of that process?
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it's a sub menu of amon ra recovery
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it's a sub menu of amon ra recovery
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I had to use the USB-MS mode to get the file in there... Now I have the PH98IMG.zip file on the root of my SD card... I'm in the Developer menu, but have no idea how to Flash that Boot.img.
The Step is just very un-newb friendly...
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I had to use the USB-MS mode to get the file in there... Now I have the PH98IMG.zip file on the root of my SD card... I'm in the Developer menu, but have no idea how to Flash that Boot.img.
The Step is just very un-newb friendly...
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reboot bootloader then once in bootloader press the power button once, phone will do the rest
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I must have inadvertently did that process 4 times already, I'm in Android OS now, so something must be working right.
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I must have inadvertently did that process 4 times already, I'm in Android OS now, so something must be working right.
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well if your up, and running with no issues delete the ph98 zip off your SD card
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I must have inadvertently did that process 4 times already, I'm in Android OS now, so something must be working right.
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Ha ha, good work! It happens like that sometimes.
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Hi, ever since last night my wife's Amaze has been stuck in a boot loop. The white HTC logo screen comes up and then it reboots and the same thing happens over and over. It was running firmware 2.14.531.3. I was able to boot into hboot and re-lock the bootloader with fastboot to flash the RUU and I flashed the latest one which is RUBY_ICS_35_S_TMOUS_2.14.531.3_R2 but still the same thing happens I even flashed it a second time but no dice. I'm really not sure what to do here. Did some other things too like take out the battery put it back in after a few minutes, charged it while the phone was off. If anyone has any ideas please help. Thank you
So no one has any ideas?
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rock7632 said:
So no one has any ideas?
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Try factory resetting in the stock recovery, then reloading the ruu via hboot.
(reboot into stock recovery from hboot, volume up and power button to bring the menu up so you can wipe the device)
Though reloading a stock ruu should wipe everything, are you getting any errors when reloading the stock ruu? And which one of the ruu files are you using to reload?
rock7632 said:
So no one has any ideas?
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You don't flash the ruu.. you need to put the file in root of ur SD and rename it to ph85img or something like that and reboot in the bootloader
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Try factory resetting in the stock recovery, then reloading the ruu via hboot.
(reboot into stock recovery from hboot, volume up and power button to bring the menu up so you can wipe the device)
Though reloading a stock ruu should wipe everything, are you getting any errors when reloading the stock ruu? And which one of the ruu files are you using to reload?
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I can try that. and no I didn't get any errors when loading the ruu. the one I did was the latest one for T-Mobile us 2.14.531.3_R2.
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You don't flash the ruu.. you need to put the file in root of ur SD and rename it to ph85img or something like that and reboot in the bootloader
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uhh yes that's what I did
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rock7632 said:
I can try that. and no I didn't get any errors when loading the ruu. the one I did was the latest one for T-Mobile us 2.14.531.3_R2.
uhh yes that's what I did
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Did you try different kernel?
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Did you try different kernel?
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RUU flashed the stock kernel when he reloaded.
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RUU flashed the stock kernel when he reloaded.
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yeah and even prior to that I had the stock kernel
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rock7632 said:
yeah and even prior to that I had the stock kernel
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Do u still have the custom recovery?
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Are you s-off? SuperCID? you need to set both back to the original values and reflash stock ROM from bootloader.
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Do u still have the custom recovery?
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no i flashed the stock recovery before i loaded the RUU.
olegy said:
Are you s-off? SuperCID? you need to set both back to the original values and reflash stock ROM from bootloader.
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I'm s-on
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rock7632 said:
no i flashed the stock recovery before i loaded the RUU.
I'm s-on
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Even if, you didn't need to reflash anything, apparently the fact that the ruu wipes and restores everything to stock still hasn't sunk in yet, anyways, we're missing some info here, what else happened before this issue that you're not telling me, since bootloop issues are easily resolved by a stock reload via hboot but yours seems to be on the same loop no matter what, are you giving it the time to boot after reloading via hboot? First boot takes a bit of time, patience is very vital.
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Even if, you didn't need to reflash anything, apparently the fact that the ruu wipes and restores everything to stock still hasn't sunk in yet, anyways, we're missing some info here, what else happened before this issue that you're not telling me, since bootloop issues are easily resolved by a stock reload via hboot but yours seems to be on the same loop no matter what, are you giving it the time to boot after reloading via hboot? First boot takes a bit of time, patience is very vital.
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Ya like he^^ said, it does take a very long to boot up after flashing an ruu, could take a good 10 mins or maybe more...
Now if you did wait and it still just bootlooped after flashing the ruu, either the ruu is bad, or u did something wrong, OR u got some serious software problems going on
Due to the fact, atleast from reading your first post, it sounds like it was running fine then suddenly just started bootlooping. And then flashing an ruu didn't fix it. Sounds to me like ur phone has some serious issues
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Even if, you didn't need to reflash anything, apparently the fact that the ruu wipes and restores everything to stock still hasn't sunk in yet, anyways, we're missing some info here, what else happened before this issue that you're not telling me, since bootloop issues are easily resolved by a stock reload via hboot but yours seems to be on the same loop no matter what, are you giving it the time to boot after reloading via hboot? First boot takes a bit of time, patience is very vital.
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That's just it, after loading the ruu via hboot the phone asks for a reboot and when I do it it barely takes 5 seconds on the HTC logo white screen then the phone reboots again and the same thing happens. And as far as anything happening before, nothing really happened. The battery died a couple of days ago and the when we charged it and tried to turn on the phone this started happening
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I've tried everything I could think of. Loaded 2 different ruu's, manually wiped everything from recovery and nothing has worked, its still doing the exact same thing. I really don't understand how it can be bricked just out of nowhere
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rock7632 said:
I've tried everything I could think of. Loaded 2 different ruu's, manually wiped everything from recovery and nothing has worked, its still doing the exact same thing. I really don't understand how it can be bricked just out of nowhere
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I think Im having an issue similar to yours. Is there any interaction after it begins to flash the RUU? I found a video for the thunderbolt where it asks you to approve the update before it finishes. My phone does the update then jumps back to the fastboot screen.
I managed to soft brick my phone or i believe so. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed cwm to the phone, rooted then read that it fails alot with the rezound so i prepped my phone to unroot and remove cwm and install Amon Ra and nodded off to sleep while in the recovery menu... This is where it gets weird... I woke up to my phone like this. I uploaded a picture of the bootloader screen... Its relocked and will not allow me to do jack... Im not the best at development and relatively inexperienced... I desperately need help. Please.
Well you have hboot so its not bricked. I would pull the battery and then make sure you don't have a ph98img.zip in root of sd. Then put battery back in and see what happens.
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texascfdad said:
Well you have hboot so its not bricked. I would pull the battery and then make sure you don't have a ph98img.zip in root of sd. Then put battery back in and see what happens.
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When I I rooted my phone i had forgotten to put my sd card in so it rooted using the internal sd. I cannot find external or internal sd card through the bootloader or via usb connection. Here is what the bootloader shows when i try to launch recovery.
Reunlock your hboot then try a regular reboot.
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Snuzzo said:
Reunlock your hboot then try a regular reboot.
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I've tried to use hasoon2000's kit to reunlock my phone and to no effect. It cant even locate my device... Here's a screen shot...
jaredvillhelm2002 said:
I've tried to use hasoon2000's kit to reunlock my phone and to no effect. It cant even locate my device... Here's a screen shot...
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Does the phone say fastboot usb?
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Does the phone say fastboot usb?
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When connected to the pc via usb cable yes. My pc however cannot find any files or even recognize the phone as a device. Ive put my microsd card into the reader and it is also completely wiped... nothing...
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When connected to the pc via usb cable yes. My pc however cannot find any files or even recognize the phone as a device. Ive put my microsd card into the reader and it is also completely wiped... nothing...
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Do you have HTC sync installed?
Have you tried to download a complete RUU in PH98IMG.zip form and see if it will install from the bootloader?
Here is a link...
Flash ruu of your choosing then use the toolbox to install amon ra. When in doubt use ruu to get back to square one. I have had to do it a few times lol.
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I've downloaded HTC sync and it's fully updated. I downloaded the 4.0.3.xxxx ph98img.zip from I can't remember where and tried throwing it onto my sd card but when I booted the phone I to hboot it did nothing. I'll try again if someone can guide me through it. And this is my fault for thinking after being out of the tech loop for years that I could jump back in and do a full root and rom flash without much more extensive research. I found out what happened also. My gf was trying to get the phone to turn on and couldn't figure out what was happening and turned out she was playing with the volume rocker and power button. So god knows she may have wiped everything from the inside out...
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We've all heard the gf excuse... not gonna fly.
You could try reformatting the sd card using your pc and using that one to flash the RUU?
feralicious said:
We've all heard the gf excuse... not gonna fly.
You could try reformatting the sd card using your pc and using that one to flash the RUU?
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<3.
Not going to pull any punches. 1st off; learn your fastboot commands hassoon's toolkit is for ease of use. 2nd; You were almost there. 3rd; When trying to use fastboot/adb, make sure HTC sync isn't running in the background.
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I've downloaded HTC sync and it's fully updated. I downloaded the 4.0.3.xxxx ph98img.zip from I can't remember where and tried throwing it onto my sd card but when I booted the phone I to hboot it did nothing. I'll try again if someone can guide me through it. And this is my fault for thinking after being out of the tech loop for years that I could jump back in and do a full root and rom flash without much more extensive research. I found out what happened also. My gf was trying to get the phone to turn on and couldn't figure out what was happening and turned out she was playing with the volume rocker and power button. So god knows she may have wiped everything from the inside out...
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Have it named PH98IMG.zip(watch your filenames, be careful not to name it PH98IMG.zip.zip). But first try reunlocking again and see if you get boot. If you at least get boot animation that tells me you have a working boot partition. If not then you would need to reflash a boot.img. If you are adamant about gaining root, you could have just flashed a custom rom after flashing Amon RA + a data wipe along with proper boot.img in fastboot.
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Not going to pull any punches. 1st off; learn your fastboot commands hassoon's toolkit is for ease of use. 2nd; You were almost there. 3rd; When trying to use fastboot/adb, make sure HTC sync isn't running in the background.
Have it named PH98IMG.zip(watch your filenames, be careful not to name it PH98IMG.zip.zip). But first try reunlocking again and see if you get boot. If you at least get boot animation that tells me you have a working boot partition. If not then you would need to reflash a boot.img. If you are adamant about gaining root, you could have just flashed a custom rom after flashing Amon RA + a data wipe along with proper boot.img in fastboot.
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Simple steps I used when I was in an HTC boot loop.
1. Relocked and installed the stock ruu.
2. Unlocked and flashed the recovery partition using fast boot flash recovery recovery.img (name of your recovery image you want to use.)
3. Used recovery to install su.
4. Profit.
You can also use fast boot to install asop boot images. But for now if you want root use steps 1-4. It worked for me when I borked the heck out of entire phone. ( I had no recovery even after fastboot flashing the recovery partition.)
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lol, your not bricked at all. Not even close. You just need to figure out how to flash an ruu in hboot to get back to square one. That way you have a clean slate to start over again with.
Next time, DONT FALL ASLEEP.
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lol, your not bricked at all. Not even close. You just need to figure out how to flash an ruu in hboot to get back to square one. That way you have a clean slate to start over again with.
Next time, DONT FALL ASLEEP.
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Not going to pull any punches. 1st off; learn your fastboot commands hassoon's toolkit is for ease of use. 2nd; You were almost there. 3rd; When trying to use fastboot/adb, make sure HTC sync isn't running in the background.
Have it named PH98IMG.zip(watch your filenames, be careful not to name it PH98IMG.zip.zip). But first try reunlocking again and see if you get boot. If you at least get boot animation that tells me you have a working boot partition. If not then you would need to reflash a boot.img. If you are adamant about gaining root, you could have just flashed a custom rom after flashing Amon RA + a data wipe along with proper boot.img in fastboot.
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What should be done if i'm stuck at re-locked bootloader, S-ON, download mode screen, unable to lock-unlock bootloader nor able to flash RUU ? Even the unbrick tool at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=183353 doesn't detect my phone.
I gave it to a repair shop, he tried flashing the RUU but said he was getting some USB error.
Pull SD card, place a full ruu ph98img on it with a card reader.
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Pull SD card, place a full ruu ph98img on it with a card reader.
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Done that several times.. even tried different sd cards and different new downloads.. still doesn't boot up.. ruu flashes just one pass only very quickly in under 2-3mins..
Not recognizing fastboot at all?
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