It's been a while since I've done any flashing on my Rezound, and I want to try an ICS rom. However, I'm still on GB firmware and a lot has changed or is new since the last time I messed with the phone. Can someone please explain how to move up to ICS firmware? I might attempt S-Off this weekend before doing any of this. Much appreciated.
Definitely do s-off before touching your firmware. After you have s-off, Download THIS file and follow these instructions:
1. After downloading the file, rename it to "PH98IMG.zip" (no quotes)
2. Place the renamed file onto the root of the SD Card
3. Power down your device by pulling the battery
4. Reboot into the bootloader by holding VOL DOWN + Power
5. The flashing process should begin automatically just make sure to confirm it and let it reboot and install twice (will you will have to reboot three times so it will seem like you install it three times lol)
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i was recently at the movies (prince of persia =P ) and i accidentally left my screen on in my pocket... after the movie was over i took my phone out and all i saw was a multi colored screen with red green blue white (boot loader?) i tried everything to restart my phone to get back to my Os but seems everything was somehow wiped clean. i got home and have been spending all day trying to install new roms and each time when i run the RUU updater, it says image: (blank), the installer still runs and seems likes it works but no rom is installing i am still stuck with the multi colored screen. how can i salvage my phone, what could be wrong? =/ thx guys
i tried installing a new rom from the bootloader screen while connected via usb... but everything i try gets stuck at 0% and doesnt do anything... my hardspl is currently not unlocked and i am constantly trying to install the Raphael_CDMA_HSPL_037.exe and everytime... stuck at 0% on the phone..
Try the flash from memory card method:
1. Find a ROM that would be compatible with your phone, and download the nbh file. (I would recommend Original Carrier ROM - There is copies all over forums - that way it will flash everything, including the radio)
2. Plug your memory card to a computer and verify/format the card into FAT32 file system
3. Copy the ROM file (usually RUU_Signed.nbh) into the memory card directly (not inside any folder) and rename to RAPHIMG.nbh
4. Reboot the phone
5. When it reboots into three-color screen again, there should be a message that in order to flash you need to press Power button or so. Do it.
6. After your phone is working again, you might flash it with another ROM if you like.
Let me know...
Good luck
try theses two options, either flash back to stock rom which might fix the issue, but before you do that just flash a radio to the phone that should fix the issue
915Tibby said:
try theses two options, either flash back to stock rom which might fix the issue, but before you do that just flash a radio to the phone that should fix the issue
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That's the reason I recommended flashing stock ROM. Verizon released Maintenance Release, which is a complete reflash with radio and everything.
You could get Verizon complete file from: http://pcdphones.com/phone_downloads.aspx?bid=110&cid=1&mid=328&carrier=Verizon Wireless
You didn't specify which carrier you are with so I can't help any further. Just remember to extract the .nbh file from inside instead of putting a whole .zip file on the memory card. I hope I didn't come across wrong.
I am new to all this Android stuff and I am looking for help.
What I have done:
1. I had HTC Hero with official 2.1 never rooted.
2. I did a hard reset (I guess it failed because it went really fast (max 5 sec.) and after that I was not able to boot the phone).
3. I looked for help and found this tutorial.
1. Take out your memory card. FORMAT TO FAT32!!!
2. Download the RUU 2.73.405.5 from HTC support homepage
3. Run the installation.
4. When it fails to find your phone DON'T EXIT!!!
5. If you are using Windows 7 go in to c:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Temp
6. Search for ROM.zip
7. Move to desktop
8. Rename to HEROIMG.zip
9. Transfer to your newly formated memory card
10. Put memory card into phone
11. Start phone holding volume down pressed.
12. It will now check zip fil and then ask if you want to install.
13. homekey for YES
14. After installing you have 1.5 again and can safely upgrade to 2.1 OTA
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4. Did everything like said there but I am having problems in the HBOOT. I have tried to restore three times and every time it freezes at the "Radio_V2 - Updating". (Screenshot attached)
What could I do to get my phone back to normal (or maybe rooted)??
Thank You for support!!
Are you sure your phone isn't rooted? I know when I was trying to update my phone before I knew it was rooted, I tried to install the standard firmware and failed everytime. I used a version someone made for rooted phones and it worked fine after that. Maybe you can try that!
My phone had been rooted before I even bought it, i bought it in Singapore.
It could not be rooted. I bought it in the official LMT store here in Riga and I have never tried to root it. Always the official stuff.
Anyway I could try to instal version for rooted phone. Can anyone give me a link to one because I do not have any idea where could I find one.
All those errors are major problems, are you sure the zip file is complete? i.e it is the size it should be. Also its a major no-no to remove the battery or reboot the phone while it is flashing the radio.img , this can/will cause bricks.
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Ok. I checked the size of ROM file and it is all fine.
What should I do? I am 100% sure the phone has never been rooted or somehow hacked in any other way.
Please, does anyone have any suggestions?
Like I said before if you pulled the battery while it was flashing a radio you may have pricked your phone, but why not try downloading the ruu from HTC and running it on your computer.
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Hi all,
So I'm a bit confused about the radio. I flashed new basebands on my Droid 1 all the time, so I'm familiar with the idea. But I mistakenly flashed BAMF 1.5 directly after the manual rooting process, rather than the radio (which at the time apparently was missing the LTE portion of the update?). I tried to install the newly-fixed version that includes the LTE portion, and Clockwork is unable to install from the zip. Am I missing something? Or maybe there's a way to boot to the old "white" menu where there's a few different options, rather than just Clockwork recovery?
Thanks for any help. If I don't respond tonight, I fell asleep.
You need to boot into the bootloader and flash the file from there, not from recovery. The file must be named PG05IMG.zip and be located in the root (not in a folder) of your sdcard. Turn off the device. Hold volume down and turn it on, you should get the white screen. pick the top option (bootloader) and then wait, it should recognize the file, ask you to push volume up to confirm, and then flash it. After you reboot, delete the file from the sdcard, and then you can resume flashing roms from CWR =)
Aah, OK--a bit different than how the Droid worked, where I remember applying .zip files with radios through SPRecovery (and maybe Clockwork too?). I'll do it this way after/during work, since the file is already on the SD card. Thanks!
Rooted the device.... all ok.
Installed ROM Manager and then installed BAMF-Sense3-RC4
Now there is now phone (radio)
I tried to install these:
(MR2)PG05IMG
(MR2.5)PG05IMG
(06275r)PG05IMG
As they appear to be the "radio" but they all fail the install.
What now?
You are renaming them to "PG05IMG.zip" on the root of the sdcard then with the phone off, holding Power and Down to boot to hboot, and let them flash right?
Sounds like you might be trying from recovery if they all fail which is the incorrect procedure for flashing radios.
Oh no! I wasnt doing that at all ;(
So rename each one at a time and put the file in the root of the SDCARD.
Then do I just reboot or do something special?
-Place whichever one of those radio files that you want to flash onto the root of your sdcard (you only need to flash one of them. Check the forum for your Rom to see which is recommended by its users but all are should work to some degree).
-Make sure it is named "PG05IMG.zip".
-Turn your phone off.
-Hold Power and Volume Down to boot to hboot.
-Follow the instructions to install which should start automatically then when it tells you that it is finished hit Power.
-Remove the zip file from your sdcard when you are done.
thanks for the help!!
While I was trying to figure out what to do I put the original ROM back on the device and then the radio works. I guess the ROM and the Radio need to go together?
Some rom builds require certain radios to work yes. But that info should always be posted in the rom thread and usually in the OP.
OK sounds like my problem is the radio wasnt flashed first. I have flashed the radio and now working on installing again.
at least I have a little clue what I am doing now, thanks to your help! thank you!!!!
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-Place whichever one of those radio files that you want to flash onto the root of your sdcard (you only need to flash one of them. Check the forum for your Rom to see which is recommended by its users but all are should work to some degree).
-Make sure it is named "PG05IMG.zip".
-Turn your phone off.
-Hold Power and Volume Down to boot to hboot.
-Follow the instructions to install which should start automatically then when it tells you that it is finished hit Power.
-Remove the zip file from your sdcard when you are done.
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Lol we were all new at one point at doing this. Yeah, anytime you run into a PG05IMG.zip file, you're going to have to go through HBoot to flash those files. You'll have to do this as well if you're trying to unroot your phone with the RUU file. Just remember, ALWAYS REMOVE/RENAME THE PG05IMG.ZIP FILE WHEN YOU'RE DONE!! This will solve a lot of headaches in the future. I guarantee that
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Hello.
My phone is starting to act funny, it has the quite common problem where the touch function on the bottom half of the screen stops working properly.
Since I'm going to send it in, I'd like to return everything to as close to the shipping state as possible. I don't care if I still have Clockworkmod left on it or if I make it unrootable, since I'm going to buy a new phone and sell this one when the contract runs out in a few months anyway.
I've tried searching for the info I need but there are still some things I'm unclear about.
The phone is currently running VillainMod and has ClockWorkMod installed as a bootloader. I was running CM on it until a few days ago, but I tried installing a Sense-based ROM to see if I could get the RUU .exe method to work, but it fails after the phone has rebooted and just says that it cannot update the phone. Any ideas what's causing this? (I used the file RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_3.32.405.1_R_Radio_63.18.55.06P_6.35.15.11_release_signed.exe)
So since the "official" method failed I found the rom.zip that is unpacked by the RUU program and copied it.
Here is where I'm not sure how to proceed. Should I sign the zip-file (using testsign.jar) and then do "apply update.zip" from ClockWorkMod OR should I extract the boot.img, data.img, recovery.img, system.img and radio.img files from the zip, generate a md5 file (how?) and restore it using the backup feature in Clockwork?
Or is maybe both of these ideas totally of the mark?
Any help is appreciated. Do tell if there is some more info you need.
I personally don't think you should go with that plan. I'm not a big scientist when it comes to phone development since I'm still learning. But I think you should go backwards and check what went wrong.
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I also think that the new rom might have different requirements from the previous one. Usually that causes a problem if you try to flash a rom without fitting the requirements.
No you need to rename the Rom.zip to heroimg.zip then shut down phone and reboot into hboot mode by using power and vol down