[Q] Need help: Provider ICS update bricking my phone - HTC EVO 3D

Hi,
I've been searching through posts for help. But I might have run into a combination of bad luck and noobness, and I can't perform any suggested recovery procedure that I've found smoothly. If you think my problem can be solve by another answered post please link.
My phone was rooted (from the HTCDev tool) and sim unlocked. This morning I started the Update pushed from HTC (that should be the ICS update???). The update last more than 40 minutes (I wasn't watching) and stuck on the HTC boot screen. I thought it's problem hanged, unplugged the battery (maybe I noobed out here? shouldn've waited 4 hours? or do a hard reset instead?).
Anyway, from that point onward it's hang on boot.
I boot it up the the hboot menu. Go to recovery, tried wiping the cache, tried the factory reset. No luck.
Here is what I have on HBOOT
*** UNLOCKED ***
SHOOTER_U PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT_1.49.0008
eMMC-boot
Jul 15 2011, 14:39:25
When I tried to run the "update from SD card" in the recovery mode I always get the
E:can't open /cache/recovery/command
no matter what I've put in the SD card
When I try to use 4EXTRecovery, it always says error: device not found
I also tried to use revolutionary to turn S-OFF but it always stuck on waiting for device
the fastboot command line from HTC Dev however, can talk to the phone slightly...
fastboot devices
HT17WV302432 fastboot
fastboot oem unlock
...
(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
sending 'unlocktoken' (0 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.142s]
writing 'unlocktoken'...
(bootloader) unlock token check successfully
OKAY [ 0.007s]
finished. total time: 0.150s
But the phone doesn't turn to the unlock agreement page, phone remains S-ON.
I don't have CWM installed on my phone yet. And I don't know how to get it onto my phone with market place. Putting update.zip in SD card doesn't seem to trigger the phone in any way.
At this point, I think I should?
S-OFF my phone?
See if I can use fastboot to flash any workable ROM / boot / Recovery onto the phone?
Any help would be great.
Thanks a lot.
Gil

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If I remember correctly to update to the official OTA you need to put the stock recovery back on your phone and re-lock it.

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I don't really care whether it is official OTA or not. I just want to get my phone back to work. Do you have any link to where I can get the OTA and how to do it?
Does it require turning S-OFF? I'm under the impression it is blocking me to do anything. And because my phone is already in a bad state a lot of the tools is not communicating with the phone right now...

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No luck with the OTA. I was able to get CWM onto recovery through fastboot, and also tried flashing King Cobra. But the phone still won't be with King Cobra, I'm still on S-ON. Revolutionary still won't connect.

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u dont need s-off with 4ext recovery
I had an unlocked EVO3D (htcdev method) and the problem you had happened to me too. The phone stuck at the initial splashscreen and iI had to pull the battery off.
To have my phone back it was enough to use 4ext to restore a saved backup I had
done previously.
If you dont have backups then installing KingCobra (1.5, I have issues with 1.6) should be enough to solve. Copy the rom to the sdcard and then install it via 4EXT.
If you want to go S-OFF i recommend to use the wire-trick method
unlimited.io/juopunutbear-public-beta-0-1/instructions
It's tricky indeed but works very well.

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kernBeros said:
I had an unlocked EVO3D (htcdev method) and the problem you had happened to me too. The phone stuck at the initial splashscreen and iI had to pull the battery off.
To have my phone back it was enough to use 4ext to restore a saved backup I had
done previously.
If you dont have backups then installing KingCobra (1.5, I have issues with 1.6) should be enough to solve. Copy the rom to the sdcard and then install it via 4EXT.
If you want to go S-OFF i recommend to use the wire-trick method
unlimited.io/juopunutbear-public-beta-0-1/instructions
It's tricky indeed but works very well.
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How do you get 4EXT onto the phone? Is there anyway to flash it to recovery? Or do you already have it flashed before? I was trying to find a 4EXT recovery flash but no luck.
I tried using CWM flashed to the recovery and installed King Cobra, it installed but still doesn't boot up. I also tried flashing boot.img onto boot (by using fastboot) but the phone still doesn't boot up. The firmware (PG86IMG.zip) wouldn't flash tho, so maybe I need either S-OFF or 4EXT to do that.
Thanks.

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gyt2wong said:
How do you get 4EXT onto the phone? Is there anyway to flash it to recovery? Or do you already have it flashed before? I was trying to find a 4EXT recovery flash but no luck.
I tried using CWM flashed to the recovery and installed King Cobra, it installed but still doesn't boot up. I also tried flashing boot.img onto boot (by using fastboot) but the phone still doesn't boot up. The fireware (PG86IMG.zip) would flash tho, so maybe I need either S-OFF or 4EXT to do that.
Thanks.
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4Ext was already flashed. However what you did should be ok. Are you sure that the boot.img that you flashed is the correct one for the ROM that you installed?
The boot.img on the KingCobra main page belongs to the 1.6 version.
You can extract the correct one for the 1.5 version from the ROM zip file.
The path in the zip file is Custom/Kernels/Stock/boot.img
I used the 1.5 version with the original radio without problems.

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Fixed this by:
1) Getting the official RUU on ICS.
2) Connect USB in HBOOT
3) Use fastboot to relock the bootloader
4) Run RUU on Windows and successfully flashed everything
So seems like S-ON pluse unlocked bootloader means no no to both official rom and custom rom.