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Ok, I screwed up....
Flashed the New ICS leak after relocking bootloader via PH
I was on a custom ROM and the flash failed miserably.
My phone will only boot into the bootloader and it shows Tampered and Relocked
I tried reflashing the last RUU in PH format and get an error saying Hboot version is older.
Anyone know how to get this phone to boot? Not how I wanted to start my Sat. morning at all.......
Wondering if someone can repack the latest RUU into a zip with a modified main version? I can only flash through fastboot and cannot Unlock the bootloader.
Scott has a tutorial for getting through this in the OP of ICS 4.0 Clean ROM
I'd think you would first want to unlock again. Then bootloader to recovery and restore the backup you made before trying to flash.
Got it unlocked again. I had to generate another Unlock code, my screw up somehow killed the original.
Issue resolved
Irieone said:
Got it unlocked again.
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you need to chose factory reset , the first time after flashing a custom recovery then you can reboot into recovery after that. At least that was the experience of a few of us.
I'm back in business, but permanently branded. ( I think)
My bootloader still reads ***TAMPERED*** at the top. If anyone knows how to clear this, please let me know...
Irieone said:
I'm back in business, but permanently branded. ( I think)
My bootloader still reads ***TAMPERED*** at the top. If anyone knows how to clear this, please let me know...
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from my reading last night it seems that this will go away once having the stock recovery back on the device, it only shows with a custom (amon ra, CWM) recovery.
andybones said:
from my reading last night it seems that this will go away once having the stock recovery back on the device, it only shows with a custom (amon ra, CWM) recovery.
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Hmmm, it never said that until I botched flashing the new ICS leak. I spend a lot of time in the bootloader and never once saw it say tampered.
Irieone said:
Hmmm, it never said that until I botched flashing the new ICS leak. I spend a lot of time in the bootloader and never once saw it say tampered.
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well that is because I am assuming you never installed a leaked firmware before...
you tampered with your bootloader, lol, so I guess it's letting you know.
I'm sure when I upgrade to the leak I'll have it too. not worried about it personally.
so installing the leak makes your bootloader say tampered? im sorta glad i held off on installing for right now.
Ok, I thought things were cool and they are not. I have my phone up and running. I was able to restore a backup I had...
Here is the catch tho, my phone will not read/access internal or external storage at all. My recovery will read storage
What to do now?
Irieone said:
Ok, I thought things were cool and they are not. I have my phone up and running. I was able to restore a backup I had...
Here is the catch tho, my phone will not read/access internal or external storage at all. My recovery will read storage
What to do now?
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You can't restore backups on the new firmware.. I spent 6 hours last night into this morning figuring that out the hard way...Did you make a backup of the stock rom after you ran the RUU ? If so then just flash your backup and realize you have to wait for the roms to get updated. If you didn't the only way I can think of is to relock and rerun the RUU and don't restore backups.
Ouch, I don't have a backup of the stock rom.
Do you have a link to the last RUU? The link is dead in football's thread.
Wonder if I can flash Scott's new 4.0 ROM? I think I will try that...
[[/URL]
Irieone said:
Ouch, I don't have a backup of the stock rom.
Do you have a link to the last RUU? The link is dead in football's thread.
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here is the one I downloadedhttp://lts.cr/Be5_ for the latest RUU. Unfortunately, once you flashed the new RUU you can't go back with the last RUU. The new one upgraded the hboot and I don't think you can downgrade.
you just need to rerun the same RUU you just did that is all and just wait for the rom you like to be updated.. most devs already have one in the works or out already
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Irieone said:
Ouch, I don't have a backup of the stock rom.
Do you have a link to the last RUU? The link is dead in football's thread.
Wonder if I can flash Scott's new 4.0 ROM? I think I will try that...
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Good idea Scott's should work just fine .. just mount usb in recovery in order to get the Rom on the SD card .
Did you flash the RUU twice? That worked for me.
From here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1550358 on your root sdcard rename the zip and flash it twice.
Scott's ROM keeps crashing and the phone reboots..
I will try flashing the RUU zip file again I guess..
You relocked the phone and change the file to PH98IMG correct?
My bootloader looked normal after the second flash. but then said tampered once i flashed a recovery.
Flyhalf205 said:
My bootloader looked normal after the second flash. but then said tampered once i flashed a recovery.
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Were you on a custom ROM when your flashed?
Irieone said:
Were you on a custom ROM when your flashed?
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At the time yes. Probably why I flashed it twice. But the RUU is used in HBOOT so it shouldn't have mattered if there is a custom recovery at the time.
Ok, I am doing this now
Irieone said:
Ok, I thought things were cool and they are not. I have my phone up and running. I was able to restore a backup I had...
Here is the catch tho, my phone will not read/access internal or external storage at all. My recovery will read storage
What to do now?
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There is a zip floating around from Scott that you need to flash for your SD card. Check the development area
So this time, I think I got the wire trick to work.
Doing S-Off on 2.21.0000 ICS leak (3.11.605.22), from S-On (unlocked), rooted, stockish ICS ROM.
I'm fairly certain the wire trick worked this time, but now ControlBear seems to be confused.
My phone booted itself into recovery, and I don't know what I should do. Reboot? reboot bootloader?
I got s-off finally but now I cane only boot into the bootloader or recovery and my SD card is not reading,what shall I do? Can i ruu back to stock now?
androidrookie84 said:
I got s-off finally but now I cane only boot into the bootloader or recovery and my SD card is not reading,what shall I do? Can i ruu back to stock now?
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Is your bootloader on S-Off now?
This happened to me when I had a bad SDCard, and I thought I was doing the wire trick wrong.
All I had was Bootloader.
I use an ICS PH98IMG.zip RUU from bootloader to get the rest of my phone back, but I didn't even have a recovery.
I actually rebooted into the normal ROM, and controlbear stated that it failed.
I then (assuming rebootRUU hadn't been done, and thanks to a fine gentleman in #Juopunutbear) followed these:
http://unlimited.io/hboot-downloads/
And did rebootruu and flashed the juop bootloader.
Winning
It's like my phone won't read the SD card but it will read the internal SD through bootloader,how can i get my SD card to read again through recovery and the bootlader?
androidrookie84 said:
It's like my phone won't read the SD card but it will read the internal SD through bootloader,how can i get my SD card to read again through recovery and the bootlader?
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have u read the FAQ's page sd card problems are common... u may need to reformat in amonra to fix the mnts.. there are threads on this if u search
When I got to this stage in my s-off adventure it booted me into recovery as well so I just rebooted into bootloader and everything was good.
Beeko said:
When I got to this stage in my s-off adventure it booted me into recovery as well so I just rebooted into bootloader and everything was good.
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I'm so happy now i was able to Ruu my phone back to stock gingerbread,thanks for your help!
I recently went to change my ROM on my HTC amaze, but after I was finished installing it went to reboot and ever since no matter what I do, it just stays on the white htc screen. The only thing I can get to is into Recovery. I locked boot loader and unlocked it and after doing so I noticed it said S ON. How do I turn s off while stuck in recovery mode? Im using the ZurgRushTemp root but it says that I need my phone in usb debugging mode and I dont know how to do that in recovery mode. If I sound like a total idiot it's probably because I am. Previously I have unlocked boot loader and rooted my phone and downloaded other roms and it worked fine. I have no fricken clue what happened. Please help me.. How do I s off to install another rom while I can only get into recovery mode?
What recovery did you flash?
If its not 4EXT then you need to flash the kernel using fastboot.
Check out my hairless guinea pig
Double0EK said:
What recovery did you flash?
If its not 4EXT then you need to flash the kernel using fastboot.
Check out my hairless guinea pig
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Im not quite sure what you mean by which recovery did I flash? Im using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.6 if that helps. What does it mean and how do I "flash the kernal using fastboot"?
ben200451 said:
Im not quite sure what you mean by which recovery did I flash? Im using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.6 if that helps. What does it mean and how do I "flash the kernal using fastboot"?
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Alright slowly but surely I'm catching on to all this stuff.. I think. I found "Hasoon2000's HTC amaze all in one kit" on another fourm so im using that. So I want to flash a 4ext recovery? Then after that what? And do I want to flash it to stock telus kernal aswell? Goddamnit did I mess up big this time.
ben200451 said:
Alright slowly but surely I'm catching on to all this stuff.. I think. I found "Hasoon2000's HTC amaze all in one kit" on another fourm so im using that. So I want to flash a 4ext recovery? Then after that what? And do I want to flash it to stock telus kernal aswell? Goddamnit did I mess up big this time.
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The bootloader screen reads
*** Unlocked ***
Ruby PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.90.0006
eMMC-boot
just get the stock RUU for your phone. Re-lock your bootloader. Rename what you downloaded to PH85IMG.zip. place it in the root directory of your external SD card. reboot your phone into HBOOT and it should automatically flash the stock recovery and ROM. this WILL wipe your phone clean. then you can unlock the bootloader, root it, flash a custom recovery then a ROM of your choice.
NeoAndroid said:
just get the stock RUU for your phone. Re-lock your bootloader. Rename what you downloaded to PH85IMG.zip. place it in the root directory of your external SD card. reboot your phone into HBOOT and it should automatically flash the stock recovery and ROM. this WILL wipe your phone clean. then you can unlock the bootloader, root it, flash a custom recovery then a ROM of your choice.
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What is PH85IMG.zip and where can I download it?
ben200451 said:
What is PH85IMG.zip and where can I download it?
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Really?
If u don't know that, you've got some reading to do. Google it
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aha sorry I did, thanks for all the help. Well see if this works,
ben200451 said:
I recently went to change my ROM on my HTC amaze, but after I was finished installing it went to reboot and ever since no matter what I do, it just stays on the white htc screen. The only thing I can get to is into Recovery. I locked boot loader and unlocked it and after doing so I noticed it said S ON. How do I turn s off while stuck in recovery mode? Im using the ZurgRushTemp root but it says that I need my phone in usb debugging mode and I dont know how to do that in recovery mode. If I sound like a total idiot it's probably because I am. Previously I have unlocked boot loader and rooted my phone and downloaded other roms and it worked fine. I have no fricken clue what happened. Please help me.. How do I s off to install another rom while I can only get into recovery mode?
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Unlocking the bootloader won't change your phone into s-off. So, what you see is correct.
Forget about ZergRush. It won't work, or necessary at all if you unlocked your bootloader, anyway.
Edit: I forgot to mention. Try 'adb logcat' to see if your phone even gets to the boot sequence. If you see your screen gets filled up with tons of stuff, hit control-c to stop it. Then enter adb logcat > logfile.txt to capture it. You can post it here for someone to take a look.
If you can get into bootloader and/or recovery, your phone isn't in a bad shape at all. If you can access your phone from a pc with adb or fastboot (which, you should have if you've unlocked your bootloader), there are things you can try.
1. boot your phone into recovery and see if you can access it through adb shell. Do you see a shell prompt ('$' or '#' sign)? On the phone, use the mount option to mount system and data partitions to see if they are mountable. You can use 'ls -l' on the shell prompt to look around, if you like.
2. If your phone is accessible, but not bootable, the first thing I would try is to flash a boot image. You probably have one sitting in the pc folder you used to unlock, or hanson's all-in-one tool has it.
3. If you flash a fresh boot image (kernel) and the phone still won't boot up, the next thing I would try is to restore from a nandroid backup. I'm sure you've made a backup before you started, right?
4. If the nandroid restore doesn't work, you can try flashing a stock rom like someone elese suggested. You just copy the zip file, which you download from the stock rom thread in the dev section, to the external sd card, rename it to PH85IMG.zip, and reboot your phone into the bootloader. The phone will detect the stock rom if it's there and asks you whether to install the update or not. Remember to download the correct file for your carrier.
5. If nothing works, come back here and post your result. I'm afraid your phone may have a corrupt nand memory...
I am having the problem I followed steps 1-5 of the post above.
using PH85IMG.zip in bootloader. It loades the image and checks. afterwards when it restarts it gets stuck on bootloader or HTC splash screen.
I am unlocked through HTC Dev
S-ON
rooted
on ext4 recovery
Sheng1988 said:
I am having the problem I followed steps 1-5 of the post above.
using PH85IMG.zip in bootloader. It loades the image and checks. afterwards when it restarts it gets stuck on bootloader or HTC splash screen.
I am unlocked through HTC Dev
S-ON
rooted
on ext4 recovery
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What carrier are you on?
mobilicity phone but using on rogers.
also not sure if it matters
h.boot 1.93
Sheng1988 said:
mobilicity phone but using on rogers.
also not sure if it matters
h.boot 1.93
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Were you on GB or ICS before this started happening? Or a custom ROM? Give me as much info as possible in one brief post.
original rom nandroid backup to sd card before flash
s-off through Juopunutbear
unlocked boot loader
ext4 recovery and rooted
flashed energy rom, wouldn't boot
tried to go back to stock but then internal sd card stopped working could not access anything except ext4 and fastboot
used PH85IMG.zip through bootloader still wouldn't boot
formatted internal sd card through ext4 (format everything including sd card)
re ran PH85IMG.zip in bootloader, everything checked out but could not pass htc screen
tried to relock bootloader got hard brick used unbricking project
S-ON
re-ran PH85IMG.zip still wouldn't boot past htc
unlocked bootloader through htc dev
ext4 recovery with all in one tool
rooted with tool
re-ran PH85IMG.zip and still won't get through htc screen
tried to flash kernel with all in one tool with boot img received from
OTA_RUBY_ICS_35_S_DAVE_CA_2.14.1800.6-1.45.1800.2_R_release_263099viknauioz1fkgotb
still stopped at htc screen
any help and all help is appreciated!
Sheng1988 said:
original rom nandroid backup to sd card before flash
s-off through Juopunutbear
unlocked boot loader
ext4 recovery and rooted
flashed energy rom, wouldn't boot
tried to go back to stock but then internal sd card stopped working could not access anything except ext4 and fastboot
used PH85IMG.zip through bootloader still wouldn't boot
formatted internal sd card through ext4 (format everything including sd card)
re ran PH85IMG.zip in bootloader, everything checked out but could not pass htc screen
tried to relock bootloader got hard brick used unbricking project
S-ON
re-ran PH85IMG.zip still wouldn't boot past htc
unlocked bootloader through htc dev
ext4 recovery with all in one tool
rooted with tool
re-ran PH85IMG.zip and still won't get through htc screen
tried to flash kernel with all in one tool with boot img received from
OTA_RUBY_ICS_35_S_DAVE_CA_2.14.1800.6-1.45.1800.2_R_release_263099viknauioz1fkgotb
still stopped at htc screen
any help and all help is appreciated!
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You used the wrong image, went about using that ota file incorrectly as well, Oh boy, ite, let's keep our fingers crossed on this.
You said your hboot was 1.93.0002? Correct? If you're s-on, this may or may not work, lets hope it does, since's it practically your only hope, though I wonder what your cid currently is set to.
Since you did s-off, you should know how to use adb. Shut the phone off via battery pull, boot up into hboot then go into fastboot, using adb check your cid via this command: fastboot getvar cid
Let me know what it is when you're done, we'll work from there, hopefully we can get this done.
sorry, forgot to pull sd card so it ran the PH85IMG twice,
the cid is
11111111
Sheng1988 said:
sorry, forgot to pull sd card so it ran the PH85IMG twice,
the cid is
11111111
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Cid is 11111111 and you're s-on? Lucky you, well download the mobilicity GB stock ruu exe file, reboot into fastboot and run the file to restore your phone to complete stock GB, hopefully it goes through, though I don't see why it wouldn't, if you're s-on, you'll have to relock your bootloader before doing this.
Thanks! hopefully it'll work
downloading the GB rom from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27704071
going to relock bootloader with the amaze tool.
going to change the RUU to PH85IMG then pray it works!
I'll post an update in this thread, unfortunately the rom takes about 4 hours to download from file factory
Sheng1988 said:
Thanks! hopefully it'll work
downloading the GB rom from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27704071
going to relock bootloader with the amaze tool.
going to change the RUU to PH85IMG then pray it works!
I'll post an update in this thread, unfortunately the rom takes about 4 hours to download from file factory
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You can download the ruu from the ruu/ota thread in the same forum, the dev host upload by krook is much faster.
Do not change the name of that file, it's an exe file, you have to run it via a pc with your phone connected via usb cable in fastboot mode.
Alright, so I've got an S-On rooted Rezound and I'm stuck in the boot loop. YES I've read all the posts about logging in and dialing *#etc and also to go into Mobile Network and switch to LTE/CDMA, but I can't dial anything because the phone cuts off before I get a chance, and the LTE switch does nothing. I've tried flashing several different kernels, using the adb method and the PH98IMG methods, I've tried installing several different ROMS, I've done at least 10 different wipes/factory resets, I boot my phone without the cover, SIM card and without the SD card..and I'm still stuck in this boot loop. Someone please help a noob
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Here's my "solution" to this issue. I'm sure it's located somewhere in these forums, but I couldn't find it so I imagine others can't either. Essentially, you're going to have to S-Off. Here's the solution:
I believe my recovery started acting funny after I failed to S-Off properly the first time. Amon Ra was all gimmicky and said stuff like "E: can't find cache" and reinstalling the recovery/wiping everything (and I mean everything: external SD, internal SD, cache, partioning SD card etc..) wasn't working. I tried re-installing Amon Ra through command prompt with the adb, I tried reinstalling my ROMS but my phone wasn't having it.
It got to the point all I could boot into was a white HTC screen, so I then tried out Twrp's 2.1 Touchscreen (I wasn't S-Off yet) recovery (I don't have enough posts to post a link yet ) which INITIALLY reported the same "E: can't find cache" errors as Amon Ra, BUT when I wiped my files in Twrp it seemed to actually fix them...I'm not sure exactly what I wiped or formatted that fixed the "E: can't find mount/cache" issues, so try everything.
So my ROM installed but I was still stuck on the white HTC logo. This is where I INSTALLED A NEW KERNEL THROUGH ADB. I wish I knew which kernel I installed, but I have like 10 and I just picked a random one. The point is if you're still stuck at a white HTC screen, install a new kernel.
So I got a recovery on the phone, and then I tried to S-Off again but I didn't have a good ROM installation so that was hanging at the HTC white screen. I then installed CleanROM DE 1.4 and I was able to boot into it, but ran into my initial problem of it crashing after dialing a number and entering infinite reboot. However, it would stay on just long enough for me to run ControlBear's program to S-Off.
So I S-Offed, I downloaded the Gingerbread RUU (the .exe version for Windows), I installed it, and now I can dial numbers and I'm all goodie again. Unfortunately, I honestly think the only way I was escaping my trouble was doing an S-Off, unless they leak a Ice Cream Sanwhich executable for Windows.
TL;DR Install Twerp 2.1 through adb, wipe everything, install CleanROM DE 1.4, install kernel S-Off, run Gingerbread RUU .exe
autotuneuser said:
Alright, so I've got an S-On rooted Rezound and I'm stuck in the boot loop. YES I've read all the posts about logging in and dialing *#etc and also to go into Mobile Network and switch to LTE/CDMA, but I can't dial anything because the phone cuts off before I get a chance, and the LTE switch does nothing. I've tried flashing several different kernels, using the adb method and the P87etc methods, I've tried installing several different ROMS, I've done at least 10 different wipes/factory resets, I boot my phone without the cover, SIM card and without the SD card..and I'm still stuck in this boot loop. Someone please help a noob
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Have you tried running a RUU to put it back to factory like you just bought it?
I can't tell you how many times I've had to do that to fix stuff.
Magestic12 said:
Have you tried running a RUU to put it back to factory like you just bought it?
I can't tell you how many times I've had to do that to fix stuff.
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I think I have downloaded the stock RUU..but just to be sure could you possibly link me to the correct one to run? Also I thought it was impossible to go back down from Ice Cream Sandwhich to Gingerbread?
autotuneuser said:
I think I have downloaded the stock RUU..but just to be sure could you possibly link me to the correct one to run? Also I thought it was impossible to go back down from Ice Cream Sandwhich to Gingerbread?
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It is if you're s-on. Also, what did you mean by "P87etc," are you flashing the files properly?
autotuneuser said:
I think I have downloaded the stock RUU..but just to be sure could you possibly link me to the correct one to run? Also I thought it was impossible to go back down from Ice Cream Sandwhich to Gingerbread?
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People say a lot of things are impossible, most have the virtue of never being tried.
This is the one I used to fix mine when I screwed up the partitions on my phone. I will warn you, the link in the thread takes you to another site & you have to sign up to download it. Its completely free & legit, but it won't let you download unless you register which is STUPID!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25664508
Let me know if that helps
Oh & BTW I was & still am on the ICS leaks when I did this, so you'll be fine. You will lose everything on your phone though, because it wipes everything. But if you can't use it, that's not really an issue I guess.
tekhna said:
It is if you're s-on. Also, what did you mean by "P87etc," are you flashing the files properly?
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The PH98IMG file. And I believe I'm flashing the properly..I do it twice; flashboot in adb, it tells me success, I then flash again right there, and then I reboot back to the bootloader and flash again so I do it 3 times in total.
I'm downloading the Vigor executable now. It's going to take a while but I'll report back with my results.
autotuneuser said:
The PH98IMG file. And I believe I'm flashing the properly..I do it twice; flashboot in adb, it tells me success, I then flash again right there, and then I reboot back to the bootloader and flash again so I do it 3 times in total.
I'm downloading the Vigor executable now. It's going to take a while but I'll report back with my results.
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PH98IMG is not going to help you in this situation. You are going to have to download & run the RUU that I linked in the previous post. Trust me on this, not only have I already tried that before, I've blown my phone up enough times to know.
Magestic12 said:
PH98IMG is not going to help you in this situation. You are going to have to download & run the RUU that I linked in the previous post. Trust me on this, not only have I already tried that before, I've blown my phone up enough times to know.
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Ok, I went to use the RUU and at first I got error 150, so I read somewhere I should lock my bootloader, so I relocked and now I get error 140, whcih is bootloader verision error. I think that's because I'm on ICS with S-On right? Is there any ICS RUU I can use to restore my phone? I downloaded Vigor_Stock_Doedexed_3.14.605.5 before but it still wasn't working for me.
autotuneuser said:
Ok, I went to use the RUU and at first I got error 150, so I read somewhere I should lock my bootloader, so I relocked and now I get error 140, whcih is bootloader verision error. I think that's because I'm on ICS with S-On right? Is there any ICS RUU I can use to restore my phone? I downloaded Vigor_Stock_Doedexed_3.14.605.5 before but it still wasn't working for me.
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And as far as this goes yeah you can't use the .exe if your on ICS firmware with s-on and there are no available .exe's for ICS
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Unless you are already on the gingerbread build, and it sounds like your not, if you are s-on, it simply will not work. My suggestion is to download the latest leak and that should get you going. If it were me, and I aleady did it, download the latest leak here: http://android.thesmallprint.org/ICS.LEAK.3.14.605.5_PH98IMG.zip. Rename it PH98IMG.zip and put it on your external sd card. Should take less than 10 mins to download. Reboot into bootloader and let hboot install it. Make sure you are locked or relocked. After that is installed either delete or change the name of that file. Reboot into bootloader, unlock, and install either amon ra or tpwr and you can reinstall that rooted rom.
what he said
mikey's comments just previous are totally right, but after install, i would recommend
a factory reset, maybe even twice.
your bootloop problem should be cured then...
I was on the latest ICS firmware running an ICS ROM when I had to run the RUU I gave the link for & it worked fine for me.
Here's my suggestion & you can take it for what its worth.
I would download the latest HBoot & Radios & flash them.
Then if you can get into recovery, wipe everything, manually wipe the system, boot, etc. Then after that try running the RUU.
I just did this earlier in the week & it worked fine & my phone was all screwed up because the partitions were mounting to the wrong places & just all messed up.
I am by no means a dev or an expert, I'm just telling you what I did.
WHATEVER YOU CHOSE, YOU DO AT YOUR OWN RISK, but I don't see where you really have a choice.
Let me know if I can be of anymore help as I know what its like to have a phone that's freaking out on you. You can PM me or post here which ever you prefer. If after that we still can't get it fixed, we'll go find a dev to help us.
mikeyk101 said:
Unless you are already on the gingerbread build, and it sounds like your not, if you are s-on, it simply will not work. My suggestion is to download the latest leak and that should get you going. If it were me, and I aleady did it, download the latest leak here: . Rename it PH98IMG.zip and put it on your external sd card. Should take less than 10 mins to download. Reboot into bootloader and let hboot install it. Make sure you are locked or relocked. After that is installed either delete or change the name of that file. Reboot into bootloader, unlock, and install either amon ra or tpwr and you can reinstall that rooted rom.
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Well now my recovery is saying it can't mount various things like "E: can't mount b dev/block/ blah blah"
And I tried flashing my ROM through Amon recovery but it's saying it can't open the file because it's (bad). I formatted the SD card and I'm still getting the issue. Any ideas?
Did you download the one from the link? You don't flash that PH98IMG.zip in recovery, you boot up into bootloader and let hboot find it. If when you get to your bootloader and it is fastboot, use your volume key and select on bootloader option. Then hboot will find it and ask you if you want to install it. Install it. After that, you will then need to reinstall either amon ra or the other but stay away from clockworkmod. But to reinstall the recovery, you will have to unlock again.
mikeyk101 said:
Did you download the one from the link? You don't flash that PH98IMG.zip in recovery, you boot up into bootloader and let hboot find it. If when you get to your bootloader and it is fastboot, use your volume key and select on bootloader option. Then hboot will find it and ask you if you want to install it. Install it. After that, you will then need to reinstall either amon ra or the other but stay away from clockworkmod. But to reinstall the recovery, you will have to unlock again.
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I did install in hboot. I then installed Amon so I could flash the ROM and that's what's giving me all those errors.
If all you are after is stock and rooted, try looking at this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642217
Since you ran the PH98IMG that I directed you to, you are now on ICS. So follow the directions in that thread for "S-On and ICS".
Installation for S-ON Devices on ICS firmware
•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!
Edit: The only change I would recommend is to hold off putting that PH98IMG file from that thread on the sd card right away. You will have a hard time getting to recovery if you have that on the card. I would suggest following all the instructions up to and including "Flash ROM". Then I would "return" back to the main Amon Ra screen, make sure you have the data cable connecting your phone to the computer, select "USB-MS Toggle", then select the SD Card, and that will allow you to copy the PH98IMG file to the SD card. Then continue with the rest of the directions. If you do this right, you should be ok.
mikeyk101 said:
If all you are after is stock and rooted, try looking at this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1642217
Since you ran the PH98IMG that I directed you to, you are now on ICS. So follow the directions in that thread for "S-On and ICS".
Installation for S-ON Devices on ICS firmware
•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!
Edit: The only change I would recommend is to hold off putting that PH98IMG file from that thread on the sd card right away. You will have a hard time getting to recovery if you have that on the card. I would suggest following all the instructions up to and including "Flash ROM". Then I would "return" back to the main Amon Ra screen, make sure you have the data cable connecting your phone to the computer, select "USB-MS Toggle", then select the Internal_sd, and that will allow you to copy the PH98IMG file to the SD card. Then continue with the rest of the directions. If you do this right, you should be ok.
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It's the actual recover I believe to be giving me the errors, but I'll try what you said in about 2 days (I need to study for finals). It might be because I tried to S-Off and I installed all of that guys software and it might be making the phone act funny. I'll be much more descriptive about my errors when I post back in 2 days.
I fixed it!!
Ok, so I finally got it working, I'll try to detail my steps for anyone else who ran into similar issues:
I believe my recovery started acting funny after I failed to S-Off properly the first time. Amon Ra was all gimmicky and said stuff like "E: can't find cache" and reinstalling the recovery/wiping everything (and I mean everything: external SD, internal SD, cache, partioning SD card etc..) wasn't working. I tried re-installing Amon Ra through command prompt with the adb, I tried reinstalling my ROMS but my phone wasn't having it.
It got to the point all I could boot into was a white HTC screen, so I then tried out Twrp's 2.1 Touchscreen (I wasn't S-Off yet) recovery (I don't have enough posts to post a link yet ) which INITIALLY reported the same "E: can't find cache" errors as Amon Ra, BUT when I wiped my files in Twrp it seemed to actually fix them...I'm not sure exactly what I wiped or formatted that fixed the "E: can't find mount/cache" issues, so try everything.
So my ROM installed but I was still stuck on the white HTC logo. This is where I INSTALLED A NEW KERNEL THROUGH ADB. I wish I knew which kernel I installed, but I have like 10 and I just picked a random one. The point is if you're still stuck at a white HTC screen, install a new kernel.
So I got a recovery on the phone, and then I tried to S-Off again but I didn't have a good ROM installation so that was hanging at the HTC white screen. I then installed CleanROM DE 1.4 and I was able to boot into it, but ran into my initial problem of it crashing after dialing a number and entering infinite reboot. However, it would stay on just long enough for me to run ControlBear's program to S-Off.
So I S-Offed, I downloaded the Gingerbread RUU (the .exe version for Windows), I installed it, and now I can dial numbers and I'm all goodie again. Unfortunately, I honestly think the only way I was escaping my trouble was doing an S-Off, unless they leak a Ice Cream Sanwhich executable for Windows.
TL;DR Install Twerp 2.1 through adb, wipe everything, install CleanROM DE 1.4, install kernel S-Off, run Gingerbread RUU .exe
I asked this in another thread but didnt get an answer...
This morning, I checked my system updates and got the OTA for ICS. It downloaded fine, and I hit install now. My phone powered off like it should have, and when it came back on my screen has has a weird green X in the middle of the screen. Is this normal? should I keep waiting? I didnt think it should have takin this long, and Ive never seen this weird X before...can someone please help...
Are you rooted/Bootloader unlocked?
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Are you rooted/Bootloader unlocked?
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yes, both actually. Ive never flashed any roms or anything though, just stuck with the stock cuz I was scared to mess things up...lol
Unroot, restore stock recovery then relock the bootloader, then try again. It won't allow the update with an unlocked bootloader.
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Unroot, restore stock recovery then relock the bootloader, then try again. It won't allow the update with an unlocked bootloader.
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To be completely honest, I have NO IDEA how to do that. I had Binery walk me through the rooting process, and I dont know how to restore it..
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To be completely honest, I have NO IDEA how to do that. I had Binery walk me through the rooting process, and I dont know how to restore it..
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Use the Amaze toolkit, it has everything as a button, do it in this order and you should be fineL
1. restore stock recovery
2. relock the bootloader (oem_relock)
3. retry updating.
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Use the Amaze toolkit, it has everything as a button, do it in this order and you should be fineL
1. restore stock recovery
2. relock the bootloader (oem_relock)
3. retry updating.
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thanks, one more question, where do I get the toolkit?
Here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493905
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Here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493905
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thank you sir...
Welcome buddy ^_^
Hey Dark, I flashed the stock recovery, relocked the bootloader, ran the update again and now I get a phone pic with a red triangle and exclamation mark...any ideas?
Download one of the GB stock RUU files, rename it and place it on your external sd card and reboot into HBoot, it should automatically detect the file and take your entire phone back to complete stock, there shouldn't be any stops from updating.
Stock RUU thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617644
rename the file to PH85IMG.zip when you place in on your sd card.
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Unroot, restore stock recovery then relock the bootloader, then try again. It won't allow the update with an unlocked bootloader.
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As I posted in another thread, I have an unlocked bootloader with no other mods done, and I flashed the OTA without a problem.
great, I dont have and SD card...lol
Awe man, what's not stock on your current set up? Maybe we can just restore files. Don't you have a nandroid backup?
Dark Nightmare said:
Awe man, what's not stock on your current set up? Maybe we can just restore files. Don't you have a nandroid backup?
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well, when I unlocked my bootloader I used the HTC site, then I had Binery help me with root. he came up with a one-click root while we were doing it. After that I haven't done anything else to it besides get rid of the bloat cuz that's the only reason I wanted root.
Everything should be fine then, stock recovery, stock rom, locked bootloader, tried re-downloading the update?
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Everything should be fine then, stock recovery, stock rom, locked bootloader, tried re-downloading the update?
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I just did a factory reset, re-downloaded the update, Im about to try the install now. I did notice one thing though when I was using Hasoon, I think it said Failed when I flashed the stock recovery...
Yep, The update failed to install again.
What radio is on the new OTA update? Can someone who has done the update, post?
No clue where recovery files go on the amaze or we could do it via recovery, just retry flashing stock recovery, if not we'll have to wait until someone pulls the file and makes a zip file to flash it, did you try flashing the recovery using the tool while the phone was in fastboot? That's probably a requirement.