Okay. So, I unlocked my bootloader, rooted my phone and then went to do the S-Off with the "wire trick." Well, during the Control Bear program it got to the 5th beer and rebooted my phone to the black screen with the phone and green arrows in a circle on it. It then couldn't find the device after 5 attempts of doing so. Yes, I had the drivers installed properly for the phone and ADB - so I don't believe that was the issue. Anyways, I closed Control Bear and unplugged my phone. Restarted my phone and Control Bear and it got stuck on the same screen, but now it can't find the device. I put the phone in fastboot, Control Bear detected it and then it booted up to the green arrow screen again.
At this point, I figure I just need to do a factory reset and everything should be fine. WRONG!
So far I have flashed 4EXT touch recovery so that I can attempt to flash a custom ROM. I tried flashing two different ROMs and after a successful installation it reboots and then gets to the same green arrow screen. I've also attempted to flash a stock RUU by putting it on the external SD card, renaming it PH85IMG.zip and it only gets through the blue status bar in the upper right corner and then goes back to the fast boot screen. Rebooting it afterward takes me to the same green arrow screen.
Suggestions on resurrecting my phone? I'd really like to not have to go through the unbricking BS in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627882
Carrier
OS version
etc.
Info then problem solving after.
Most likely you can just restore a stock ruu, the one you used is probably older since you dug up a hard brick recovery thread though you have a softbrick, tells me you read a far way back than you needed to, so shoot some info, start solving from there.
TMOUS
Was running Stock ICS 4.0.3
HBOOT 1.93.0002
Dark Nightmare said:
Carrier
OS version
etc.
Info then problem solving after.
Most likely you can just restore a stock ruu, the one you used is probably older since you dug up a hard brick recovery thread though you have a softbrick, tells me you read a far way back than you needed to, so shoot some info, start solving from there.
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Here: http://d-h.st/3VD
I don't know if that's the one you downloaded, but that's the latest image we have, you already know the process of renaming the file and placing it on your external sd card, also before you attempt to reload the stock RUU, don't forget to lock your bootloader, since you're s-on. It will say relocked, but that's fine, then put your sd card in and reboot into bootloader after relocking, watch the magic happen, hit volume up to update.
Ah! That's the step I was forgetting: relocking my bootloader! Thanks. I'm gonna get on that now. I'll let you know how it goes.
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Here: http://d-h.st/3VD
I don't know if that's the one you downloaded, but that's the latest image we have, you already know the process of renaming the file and placing it on your external sd card, also before you attempt to reload the stock RUU, don't forget to lock your bootloader, since you're s-on. It will say relocked, but that's fine, then put your sd card in and reboot into bootloader after relocking, watch the magic happen, hit volume up to update.
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I figured, but I could've been wrong, yup let me know when you boot.
YEAH! That worked! Thanks so much! I think I'm gonna skip doing S-Off for now. LOL
DJ_Caibel said:
YEAH! That worked! Thanks so much! I think I'm gonna skip doing S-Off for now. LOL
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Lol it's not exactly needed unless you wanna mess with things on an advanced level or go back to GB, which I doubt you do, so no worries.
I was looking to SuperCID, but I'm gonna leave that be and be happy with it as is. Thanks again for your help.
Dark Nightmare said:
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Lol it's not exactly needed unless you wanna mess with things on an advanced level or go back to GB, which I doubt you do, so no worries.
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Hey folks,
So I was stupid enough to allow my Thunderbolt to OTA. From there, the phone would restart approx 2 min after boot, and try and unpack the update (I presume).
Fast forward, I tried to downgrade again, but screwed up.
Essentially, this is where I'm at now:
S-ON with H-Boot 0.95.0000
My Radio is 1.02.00.0103_2r
And I get a security warning with any Rom I try to flash. So I think I'm kind of screwed. Opinions? Suggestions?
Any wisdom you could glean would be extremely helpful.
Resolved
Apparently I was too quick to post.
I was able to resolve my issues using the page below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009423
The reason I was freaking out, was because I assumed since I was in S-ON that I wouldn't be able to flash anything, and I couldn't boot so the phone was inaccessible via ADB.
Anyways, all is well.
pls help the same thing happened to me.... visited your link.. when i type 'adb devices' it shows no devices listed... when i choose recovery mode on boot loader screen it shows device offline... What should I do????
I messed up...
The directions were so wonderfully simple and yet I managed to mess up.
I loaded the files in the wrong order. I know, there is a huge giant warning and I feel like an idiot. Now I'm stuck on HBOOT with a security warning.
How can I fix this?
Thanks.
Trek7553 said:
The directions were so wonderfully simple and yet I managed to mess up.
I loaded the files in the wrong order. I know, there is a huge giant warning and I feel like an idiot. Now I'm stuck on HBOOT with a security warning.
How can I fix this?
Thanks.
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This is what I did when this happened to me. First, what version is your hboot? If its 1.05.0000 or lower this should work, at least it did for me. First you have to get the sd card out and get this file http://minus.com/lBEp5MMf0P6de on the root of the card and rename it pg05img. That file is the latest stock RUU and its gingerbread. Make sure its not named pg05img.zip.zip because the file extension could be set to be hidden on whatever pc or someone else's phone you are using to rename it. Now put the card back in the phone and put the battery in and hold the down volume button while pressing power. When the screen comes on let go of the buttons. I think this automatically goes to bootloader but if it doesnt then use the volume buttons to scroll to bootloader and press power. It will find the pg05img file and start loading it. When it asks if you want to update hit yes and let it do its thing. It take a few minutes. Once its done it will say so and ask if you want to reboot. Hit yes and when it gets done booting up you should be runni.g the gingerbread I think sense 2.1. After that you can root if you want. I used revolutionary to root, its pretty simple.
My heart is about to break ;( , It's been a couple days without my rezound working properly.....
I tried to Flash BAMF's rom v1.1 and it kept on rebooting itself after a couple minutes.
After I found out that I had to install the new RUU i tried that.
And i guess i failed horribly.
I dl'd it and put it on my sd card.
I Locked my Rezound, and had it installing.
I ran it about 3 times and the blue bar went from blue to yellow and then it just went back to the android men skateboarding.
I tried to run my nandroid but I didnt get any signal what so ever (Wifi-3g-4g).
At this point I was going insane.
I'm not sure what I should do......
My phone is just a white screen having these text.
***UNLOCKED***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.11.0000
RADIO-0.95.00.1118r/0.95.00.1223r
OpenDSP-v10.6.0.7611.00.0919
eMMC-boot
Oct 6 2011, 15:43:22
PLEASE HELP ME
(Yes, i tried looking up very single thing....)
(I have both a PC and Mac, If possible can you post instructions for MacOS)
First, based off those version numbers, you never successfully installed the latest RUU. Scott has a nice write up on his site on how to do the RUU install, it's needed for any of the latest ICS based roms. - http://www.scottsroms.com/showthread.php/856-HOW-TO-Prepare-for-CleanROM-4-0-Update
If you're trying to restore a backed up rom, you also need flash the kernel back into place, nandroid restore can't do it because our phones are s-on. Try using this to do the restore - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547496
Is it possible to do something else than recover the back up?
What are you trying to do before recovering the back up?
kevinlovesrice said:
My heart is about to break ;( , It's been a couple days without my rezound working properly.....
I tried to Flash BAMF's rom v1.1 and it kept on rebooting itself after a couple minutes.
After I found out that I had to install the new RUU i tried that.
And i guess i failed horribly.
I dl'd it and put it on my sd card.
I Locked my Rezound, and had it installing.
I ran it about 3 times and the blue bar went from blue to yellow and then it just went back to the android men skateboarding.
I tried to run my nandroid but I didnt get any signal what so ever (Wifi-3g-4g).
At this point I was going insane.
I'm not sure what I should do......
My phone is just a white screen having these text.
***UNLOCKED***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.11.0000
RADIO-0.95.00.1118r/0.95.00.1223r
OpenDSP-v10.6.0.7611.00.0919
eMMC-boot
Oct 6 2011, 15:43:22
PLEASE HELP ME
(Yes, i tried looking up very single thing....)
(I have both a PC and Mac, If possible can you post instructions for MacOS)
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so when exactly did you almost brick?
I had a similiar problem. I relocked just fine, but when flashing the ruu it only partially worked even though it didn't give me any errors.
Turned out I had a bad download. Try to redownload ruu check file size and try to flash again. This worked for me.
tmar23 said:
I had a similiar problem. I relocked just fine, but when flashing the ruu it only partially worked even though it didn't give me any errors.
Turned out I had a bad download. Try to redownload ruu check file size and try to flash again. This worked for me.
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That's weird. You have to run it twice, the first one updates hboot, and it will install in a random order. It will reboot, pull battery, get back to hboot, and install again. It will install in the correct order and be successful.
I was trying to recover a RezRom recovery but when I actually got into the back-up, it gave me no signal.
I'm going to try and re-download and hopefully revive me ReZound :,(
None of that = brick..
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2 options at this point OP
1.) Reflash your custom recovery and a custom rom of your choice/nandroid and reflash kernel.
or
2.) Redownload/Check MD5 of the RUU, update, reflash AmonRA and reflash BAMF 1.1.
mjones73 said:
First, based off those version numbers, you never successfully installed the latest RUU. Scott has a nice write up on his site on how to do the RUU install, it's needed for any of the latest ICS based roms. - http://www.scottsroms.com/showthread.php/856-HOW-TO-Prepare-for-CleanROM-4-0-Update
If you're trying to restore a backed up rom, you also need flash the kernel back into place, nandroid restore can't do it because our phones are s-on. Try using this to do the restore - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547496
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Follow the scottsroms post on how to update. Whoever told you above that you have to battery pull to get to the second round of updating is wrong.
1. Lock it
2. Run the RUU PH98IMG.zip in the bootloader
3. It will go to the white HTC screen, for me, it stuck there for like 20min. Just make sure it's plugged in and be paitent.
4. It will reboot into fastboot, select bootloader and tell it to run the PH file again.
5. It will reboot into the stock ROM
if it does anything other than that, you've done it wrong.
6. Don't try to nandroid restore... just do a clean install and don't restore anything from Ti Backup. Why would you try to restore a broken install?
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Follow the scottsroms post on how to update. Whoever told you above that you have to battery pull to get to the second round of updating is wrong.
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There were (not many) of some reports of hardlocking/freezing while updating hboot to where it comes up with an "OK" but doesnt give the prompt to press power to reboot.
Myself, I didn't have to.
this might help
Scott has a very detailed step by step guide in his CleanROM thread. Just a few pointers before you jump in. Following this and the steps in Scott's guide should help you to get your phone back. I truely suggest using the Amonra recovery, people have reported many times that this recovery just works right, no issues.
1) make sure you have a card reader for your computer that you can connect your removable micro-SD card to. Trust me, if you screw up somewhere in the process, having a reliable way to access the SD card is a life saver.
2) before flashing always wipe/factory reset 3 times, some think it is overkill, but if you end up with some odd glitch or bug when you just wiped once, you will most likely have to wipe and flash again to get rid of the bug...so of course you are actually saving time and hassle by just doing it 3 times in the first place.
3) make sure your battery is full or almost full before you start the process, you will avoid many problems by not having your phone battery die in the middle of a flash or update.
4) read, read and read again all the information and the instructions on what you are going to be doing, then make sure you understand and are comfortable Before you actually start. Reading through the forums and knowing beforehand what others have experienced, and the fixes, will make your life 100% better while you play with your phone.
THANKS
MY REZOUND IS ALIVE!!!!
I love scott.....
ohh my... im starting to think the definition for "bricking" a phone is changing
yojoe600 said:
ohh my... im starting to think the definition for "bricking" a phone is changing
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10 char
Yep. I was wondering when being in hboot=bricked.
Snuzzo said:
There were (not many) of some reports of hardlocking/freezing while updating hboot to where it comes up with an "OK" but doesnt give the prompt to press power to reboot.
Myself, I didn't have to.
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My bad, didn't ever catch that issue in my research.
So I decided I would finally S-Off my device today, having been too busy recently due to school and life. I got past the point where you do the wire trick and I thought all was going well, but then it said something along the lines of Error: Still Sober. I exited ControlBear and figured I would just try again. At first, it was stuck at the black Juopunutbear screen, and after trying to turn it off via the power button, I decided to pull the battery and turn it back on. When I did this, it just booted up into the bootloader. I searched the forum and found it was possible to attempt it from the bootloader, so I did. It appeared to be working fine, but then my phone rebooted, and ControlBear just said "Connecting to device..." for a while, then said "Connect device and install drivers." Now, my phone only boots into bootloader, my laptop doesn't recognize that it's plugged in (though it will say fastboot USB on the phone), and ControlBear just tells me to "Connect device and install drivers." I don't know where to go from here. Help? Has anyone else had this issue?
Never mind that problem! I rebooted my computer, then it detected my phone just fine. I got the wire trick this time, but now I'm stuck at a point where it keeps rebooting my phone into amonra and ControlBear doesn't detect it?
and again...nevermind! simply powered down, then powered back up, and all was well. What's weird, though, is that it didn't wipe my SD card....all the information is still on it. I would think something went wrong, but when I go to my bootloader, it says S-Off...oh well! Not about to complain about a functional SD card!
Sorry, just read your posts. I experienced each of the same problems along the way But with trying and trying, finally got it. Congrats and welcome to the s-off club!
pmterp said:
Sorry, just read your posts. I experienced each of the same problems along the way But with trying and trying, finally got it. Congrats and welcome to the s-off club!
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Yeah, I was a little freaked out at first. But I figured, it still does something, so at least I'm not bricked! haha. Thanks! It's good to be part of the club!
i to am stuck in the bootloader. i f-ed my phone up so i decided to relock and run the ruu and that failed.now it says relocked security warning none of my computers see my rezound, adb wont see it ether. i have tried a lot of stuff but no go.
anyone have any advice?
neckbonest said:
i to am stuck in the bootloader. i f-ed my phone up so i decided to relock and run the ruu and that failed.now it says relocked security warning none of my computers see my rezound, adb wont see it ether. i have tried a lot of stuff but no go.
anyone have any advice?
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When you say it failed. What was the nature of the failure? What did the screen say?
Did you rename the RUU to PH98IMG? Hopefully you have a card reader. Take the SD card out and make sure the RUU is renamed properly. Put it back into your phone and reboot. When the phone goes into HBOOT does it look for and find the card? It should find the PH98IMG file for you to flash. Its been said that you should flash this twice.
topgun1953 said:
When you say it failed. What was the nature of the failure? What did the screen say?
Did you rename the RUU to PH98IMG? Hopefully you have a card reader. Take the SD card out and make sure the RUU is renamed properly. Put it back into your phone and reboot. When the phone goes into HBOOT does it look for and find the card? It should find the PH98IMG file for you to flash. Its been said that you should flash this twice.
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i did rename it to ph98img and it found it but said checking ph98img and then nothing. i got it up and going anyway. i used the all in one toolkit and started from the beginning and did everything and it worked
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.
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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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.
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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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.
This title needs to be edited as it's misleading.
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.
lithium630 said:
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.
tekhna said:
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.
tekhna said:
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.
lithium630 said:
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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Chillerman said:
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.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk 2
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I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
lithium630 said:
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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lithium630 said:
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.
douger1957 said:
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.
lithium630 said:
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.
Hello all, I need some help if there are any ideas what could be going on with this phone. I can usually fix my own phone problems, but this one has stumped me...
I bought a rezound dirt cheap that was stuck on the white HTC screen and would not boot into the stock rom. At the time I bought it, it was s-on and I could get in the HBOOT and run fastboot commands.
Since buying it, I have tried many things to get this thing working. I've tried to RUU (with PH98IMG and .exe) and apparently after it completes it is once again in a boot loop on the white HTC screen. I have been able to unlock and flash a custom recovery onto it (amon-ra) and install any cm/aokp rom onto it and boot into that. The only issue with that is when in the rom, my wifi and bluetooth will not connect at all. It wont even toggle on in settings and it is not greyed out. 4G and everything else seems to work ok.
At this time, I'm thinking there is some kind of hardware failure but I'm open to suggestions.
In summary...
I have been able to s-off
I have tried different firmware combos of HBOOTs/radios
I have flashed custom recoveries and roms and can boot into them without wifi or bluetooth
I have been unsuccessful to RUU to anything stock, it'll just boot loop the white HTC screen
Right now, I have installed Tron 2.1 onto it. I did notice post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272781&highlight=no+wifi
When I go into system/lib, there was no /modules folder. I went ahead and created it and put in bcmdhd.ko and rebooted, but still no go. I'm not sure why the /modules folder was missing, but this reaches the extent of my knowledge on what is supposed to be there.
I believe I have tried everything and done fairly thorough searches to get this phone working properly and am at a loss what to do next. If anybody has a thought of something to try, I'm all for it. Fortunately if this phone doesnt work out, its not a big deal to me.
I don't want this to sound like another "stuck on HTC screen" thread. I have been through all those and this doesn't seem like the same problem.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
tacoman said:
Hello all, I need some help if there are any ideas what could be going on with this phone. I can usually fix my own phone problems, but this one has stumped me...
I bought a rezound dirt cheap that was stuck on the white HTC screen and would not boot into the stock rom. At the time I bought it, it was s-on and I could get in the HBOOT and run fastboot commands.
Since buying it, I have tried many things to get this thing working. I've tried to RUU (with PH98IMG and .exe) and apparently after it completes it is once again in a boot loop on the white HTC screen. I have been able to unlock and flash a custom recovery onto it (amon-ra) and install any cm/aokp rom onto it and boot into that. The only issue with that is when in the rom, my wifi and bluetooth will not connect at all. It wont even toggle on in settings and it is not greyed out. 4G and everything else seems to work ok.
At this time, I'm thinking there is some kind of hardware failure but I'm open to suggestions.
In summary...
I have been able to s-off
I have tried different firmware combos of HBOOTs/radios
I have flashed custom recoveries and roms and can boot into them without wifi or bluetooth
I have been unsuccessful to RUU to anything stock, it'll just boot loop the white HTC screen
Right now, I have installed Tron 2.1 onto it. I did notice post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272781&highlight=no+wifi
When I go into system/lib, there was no /modules folder. I went ahead and created it and put in bcmdhd.ko and rebooted, but still no go. I'm not sure why the /modules folder was missing, but this reaches the extent of my knowledge on what is supposed to be there.
I believe I have tried everything and done fairly thorough searches to get this phone working properly and am at a loss what to do next. If anybody has a thought of something to try, I'm all for it. Fortunately if this phone doesnt work out, its not a big deal to me.
I don't want this to sound like another "stuck on HTC screen" thread. I have been through all those and this doesn't seem like the same problem.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
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i would like you to do the following.
flash this http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
2 times. it will make sure we have a solid base to work on.
after that has ran 2 times. boot into the stock rom one time.
after that flash this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12405441/new.global.firm.PH98IMG.zip
once this is done let it boot into the rom.
from here you should be good to flash any rom that is out there to date. (note please dont restore any system data, only app data)
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 100% battery. doing an ruu can brick the phone if its interrupted.
report back when done
Thanks for replying. I have flashed that RUU several times in a row in the past, but I'm redownloading it now to make sure my copy isnt corrupt. Earlier experience when I double flashed this it still remained a white HTC screen loop.
Currently estimated at 6hrs to download, so I wont be able to reply for a bit with my findings...
tacoman said:
Thanks for replying. I have flashed that RUU several times in a row in the past, but I'm redownloading it now to make sure my copy isnt corrupt. Earlier experience when I double flashed this it still remained a white HTC screen loop.
Currently estimated at 6hrs to download, so I wont be able to reply for a bit with my findings...
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When the Rezound first came out a bunch of people had boot loop problems because the phone was set to wcdma or some such thing instead of cdma. I'm just a noob hack but that's my memory of it. The cure was to boot without the back cover on which contains the antenna and then change the setting.
Ok, I have re downloaded the AndroidPolice RUU and flashed twice, but was not able to boot into it no matter how long I waited (20 min+). It would just loop the HTC white screen. I then went ahead and flashed your global update firmware and have the same result after waiting (20 min+), it just loops the HTC white screen.
I have tried this process several times last night, but still no progress.
As the phone sits now:
*** UNLOCKED ***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-2.28.0000
RADIO-2.23.10.0123r/2.23.10.0124r
OpenDSP-v14.6.0.7708.00.0507
eMMC-boot
Sep 20 2012, 17:40:22
tacoman said:
Ok, I have re downloaded the AndroidPolice RUU and flashed twice, but was not able to boot into it no matter how long I waited (20 min+). It would just loop the HTC white screen. I then went ahead and flashed your global update firmware and have the same result after waiting (20 min+), it just loops the HTC white screen.
I have tried this process several times last night, but still no progress.
As the phone sits now:
*** UNLOCKED ***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-2.28.0000
RADIO-2.23.10.0123r/2.23.10.0124r
OpenDSP-v14.6.0.7708.00.0507
eMMC-boot
Sep 20 2012, 17:40:22
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You need stock recovery and a locked bootloader
- "Is it dark in there?"
drynyks said:
You need stock recovery and a locked bootloader
- "Is it dark in there?"
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S/he ran the RUU so they are stock.
Sounds like the symptoms of a kernel issue. Try pulling the boot.img from this stock OTA ROM and flashing it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154
fastboot flash boot boot.img
I have the exact same you. Been this way for months. Maybe once a month BT/Wifi will turn on but only for a few hours maybe. Phone will reboot itself and come back up with the 2 broken again.
feralicious said:
S/he ran the RUU so they are stock.
Sounds like the symptoms of a kernel issue. Try pulling the boot.img from this stock OTA ROM and flashing it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Well I finally booted into stock sense after flashing that boot.img which is a big step from before. For a brief moment, it saw wifi networks in my office but when I went to connect to one, wifi died and it no longer sees any wifi network. Bluetooth appears to still be an issue as well, i.e. will not turn on.
Flyhalf205 said:
I have the exact same you. Been this way for months. Maybe once a month BT/Wifi will turn on but only for a few hours maybe. Phone will reboot itself and come back up with the 2 broken again.
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Unfortunatly that doesnt sound very good for me if you've been battling this wifi/BT problem for months.
synisterwolf said:
i would like you to do the following.
flash this http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
2 times. it will make sure we have a solid base to work on.
after that has ran 2 times. boot into the stock rom one time.
after that flash this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12405441/new.global.firm.PH98IMG.zip
once this is done let it boot into the rom.
from here you should be good to flash any rom that is out there to date. (note please dont restore any system data, only app data)
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 100% battery. doing an ruu can brick the phone if its interrupted.
report back when done
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can you explain what you mean by flash the ruu twice once I have saved it to the root of my sd card? Does that just mean get to the bootloader, watch as it reads the the ph98img file and let it do that twice, or do I need to reboot in between, or do I need to put in a command?
fivedezs said:
can you explain what you mean by flash the ruu twice once I have saved it to the root of my sd card? Does that just mean get to the bootloader, watch as it reads the the ph98img file and let it do that twice, or do I need to reboot in between, or do I need to put in a command?
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when you let hboot flash the zip, the first time is super short. it updates hboot, stock recovery, and splash i think. then it will reboot back to bootloader and ask to be flashed again. this time it will take some time to update because it does the whole system.
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tacoman said:
Well I finally booted into stock sense after flashing that boot.img which is a big step from before. For a brief moment, it saw wifi networks in my office but when I went to connect to one, wifi died and it no longer sees any wifi network. Bluetooth appears to still be an issue as well, i.e. will not turn on.
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something doesnt seem right. the RUU would have flashed the boot.img for you. can you link me to the downloaded ruu that you have? also before you run the ruu did you do fastboot oem lock the bootloader?
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i remember an old trick from the inc days. after the RUU boot back into hboot and do a "factory reset" then boot into the phone. it use to fix the radio errors somewhere getting after a RUU. no clue why we did it. it just worked. try that when you are on stock recovery locked bootloader
Here is the RUU I have re downloaded. It was also the original I used in the past on my other Rezound
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1570h8l0ba1u7qp/rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip
I have also tried the RUU 3.14.605.12.exe and a couple other different RUU versions, but have the same issue with that as well. Even on MicroMod777's OTA-Global-Stock-4.05.605.14 710RD-Rooted 5/1/13 flashed through amon-ra, I get the bootloop. I have done these as locked and unlocked bootloader with no difference. I have also tried the factory reset with locked bootloader.... no go with that either.
I was only able to finally boot in to stock by fastboot flashing the boot.img, and that is where this phone sits now. My major issue at this point is I dont have wifi or bluetooth and have dug through numerous posts and tried different things, and nothing is working on it. What was strange as I said in my previous post, the very first time I was able to boot into stock sense by flashing the boot.img, it briefly saw wifi networks but disappeared and disabled as soon as I tried to connect to one. I have not been able to replicate that since then.
On a sidenote and possibly related, since this phone has been sitting at my desk I decided to try and flash Newt's NOS JB v1.0.0 ROM and it bootloops also at the droid eye screen. I never was able to get it going on this phone. My other rezound boots this just fine.
I think I have reached the limits of my android knowledge of what to try on this thing. I am satisfied with it not having wifi/bluetooth since my wife wont be using those features. I would like to understand what the heck is going on though.