So I decided to use htcdev to unlock my bootloader last night for the first time. I am on OTA 1.22.651.3. I know I am not "rooted" and am confused as to if I can actually try any custom ROMs. I read REGAWMOD's post regarding his rooter not working right now...is there another option? Sorry if I missed a post that explains this situation, but I just want to try a custom rom without screwing up my phone.
bman3333 said:
So I decided to use htcdev to unlock my bootloader last night for the first time. I am on OTA 1.22.651.3. I know I am not "rooted" and am confused as to if I can actually try any custom ROMs. I read REGAWMOD's post regarding his rooter not working right now...is there another option? Sorry if I missed a post that explains this situation, but I just want to try a custom rom without screwing up my phone.
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There's really no reason to manually root if you've already unlocked the bootloader. All you need to do is flash a recovery and then you can flash any ROM, which will already have root access. Here's a good instructional on flashing a recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830098
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Thanks premo15 for the info and link.
The funny thing about htcdev was the stuff they make you download and the steps they make you go through to unlock the bootloader. I was thinking they were going to make me hop on one foot while patting my head and belly simultaneously. :laugh:
I read over and over, did some research, tried running cmd and so on.
having no luck
I went through the HTCDev, s-on but bootloader unlocked
I'm running stock 2.13
After unlock you need to flash twrp, you can use fastboot to do so, just download twrp from the teamwin website and put the image file in adb tools or android sdk folder and in the bootloader type fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-jewel.img
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After unlock you need to flash twrp, you can use fastboot to do so, just download twrp from the teamwin website and put the image file in adb tools or android sdk folder and in the bootloader type fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-jewel.img
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i tried doing that and i couldn't get it to. is there another way to do it?
Can you be more specific on how it isn't working?
om4 said:
Can you be more specific on how it isn't working?
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yeah, sorry.
the steps i've taken were similar to the htcdev steps,
finish steps 1-7
after I typed "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" into command prompt and gives me
"error: cannot load 'recovery.img'"
The name has to match, when you download twrp 2.2 the full name is openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-jewel.img so it would be fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-jewel.img or you can rename to recovery.img
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The name has to match, when you download twrp 2.2 the full name is openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-jewel.img so it would be fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-jewel.img or you can rename to recovery.img
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i re- downloaded and used command prompt again without changing name, worked fine this time. thanks for the help om4
flash some roms!!!!!!!!!! :victory::highfive::laugh::good::silly:
Why dont you just get goomanager from the market and flash it from there. Goomanager/flash rom/install open recovery,,,that easy bro
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Thanks
premo15 said:
There's really no reason to manually root if you've already unlocked the bootloader. All you need to do is flash a recovery and then you can flash any ROM, which will already have root access. Here's a good instructional on flashing a recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830098
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Thanks Premo! I was also confused what to do at this point, might this be worth adding to the FAQ thread?
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Hi I've been doin a lot of reading of this forum. My main question is can I install a no sense hc Rom from just performing an HTC unlock or do I need to downgrade to gb anyway in which case I may aswel go s off while I'm at it.
I'm running hc official ota
There is no true no sense rom available as of yet
ok but if i just used the htc unlock could i then easily flash the new virtuous rom which has just started been developed?
Problem is i cant find the correct ruu to downgrade my device, its a uk 16gb wifi . I thought id found it but the site wont let me download.
You should be able to flash clockwork, then a custom ROM through fastboot without downgrade and root.
Haven't done it myself, but that is my understanding of how the unlocked bootloader works versus real S-Off.
I managed to do this hardware unlock and now have an unlocked bootloader. Tried. To flash cwm and corrupted the recovery. How do you install CWM through fastboot?
aranzou said:
I managed to do this hardware unlock and now have an unlocked bootloader. Tried. To flash cwm and corrupted the recovery. How do you install CWM through fastboot?
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You have get CWM recovery, go into fastboot, connect USB, and then install via command prompt.
If you are unaware of how to do this try installing recovery via Rom Manager. Might be your easier solution.
Thanks for the reply, I actually downloaded cwm from a post in the dev section. Flashed it through command line with fastboot and now when I boot from recovery the device is stuck on a white HTC screen.
Also tried to use Rom manager but the device has to be rooted first. Can you root it through fastboot without cwm? Can I get a download link for a working cwm?
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Thanks for the reply, I actually downloaded cwm from a post in the dev section. Flashed it through command line with fastboot and now when I boot from recovery the device is stuck on a white HTC screen.
Also tried to use Rom manager but the device has to be rooted first. Can you root it through fastboot without cwm? Can I get a download link for a working cwm?
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Maybe the downloaded file corrupted?
Maybe you can use this link as reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194709
I currently have S-Off 1.5 Hboot on my Sprint Evo 3D with 2.17.651.5 HTC Software Release. I am having problems rooting the phone using the Revolutionary rooting method. When I run Revolutionary.exe, I get an error message that says my "Shooter" is not supported at this time. Also, when I try and follow your instructions via cmd command propt, I can't seem to access the "rootevo3dnew" zip file I downloaded from "HTCEVOHACKS website. Please help!!!
jshawjr said:
I currently have S-Off 1.5 Hboot on my Sprint Evo 3D. I am having problems rooting the phone using the Revolutionary rooting method. When I run Revolutionary.exe, I get an error message that says my "Shooter" is not supported at this time. Also, when I try and follow your instructions via cmd command propt, I can't seem to access the "rootevo3dnew" zip file I downloaded from "HTCEVOHACKS website. Please help!!!
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There is a difference between unlocking the bootloader and gaining root access. If you're device is already s-off, as stated above, there is no need to run revolutionary again to unlock the device as the device has already been unlocked.
The next step after unlocking the device is seting up root access in the respectively loaded ROM, generally the stock ROM.
A common approach: you can either flash a custom recovery, which can then load the superuser .zip file and setup root access in the currently loaded stock ROM, or you can flash a custom ROM through the custom recovery which contains root access already setup.
Hope that helps clarify some of the possible confusion!
This does help. How do I flash a Custom Recovery? When I go into Fastboot and choose Recovery, the phone just locks up and I can't go any further...can you please send instructions?
jshawjr said:
This does help. How do I flash a Custom Recovery? When I go into Fastboot and choose Recovery, the phone just locks up and I can't go any further...can you please send instructions?
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Directions are posted all over the forum in many different guides and threads.
There are multiple ways of accomplishing the same end goal. If you're interested in finding the easiest method for you, might need to do some research.
The method I would personally use would be the command: fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img .
The advantage to this route is the fastboot flash command will permanently load the custom recovery in the recovery partition so when you follow the steps you outlined, boot into the bootloader and select recovery, the recovery will load.
Hope that helps!
I will try this and see if I can get it to work. It appears I'm doing something wrong on my computers 'cmd' command prompt...I keep geeting an error.
I was able to finally get into cmd command prompt using Revolutionary.exe and it tells me that my Hboot 1.5 is not supported. Is there another way to flash custome recovery image?
So I had HBOOT 1.30.0000, and I used the old revolutionary method. Then there was a problem and now I'm left with S-Off, but no recovery and no root access. Can anyone help?
Amer532 said:
So I had HBOOT 1.30.0000, and I used the old revolutionary method. Then there was a problem and now I'm left with S-Off, but no recovery and no root access. Can anyone help?
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If you have s-off then I'm pretty sure that all you need to do is flash a recovery, then flash a rooted rom. Check the recovery in my sig.
What was the "problem" if you don't mind me asking.
wikdNoob said:
If you have s-off then I'm pretty sure that all you need to do is flash a recovery, then flash a rooted rom. Check the recovery in my sig.
What was the "problem" if you don't mind me asking.
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Can't remember, it was somethin in cmd that said connection interrupted or something like that. Can't remember exactly
wikdNoob said:
If you have s-off then I'm pretty sure that all you need to do is flash a recovery, then flash a rooted rom. Check the recovery in my sig.
What was the "problem" if you don't mind me asking.
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Also, how would you install that recovery?
Amer532 said:
Also, how would you install that recovery?
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Flash image GUI, google it. You could use fastboot to flash it but flash image is wayy easier.
wikdNoob said:
Flash image GUI, google it. You could use fastboot to flash it but flash image is wayy easier.
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I cant use Flash image GUI because I don't have root access
wikdNoob said:
Flash image GUI, google it. You could use fastboot to flash it but flash image is wayy easier.
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Never mind, I got it!!! All I had to do was run the revolutionary root again. Thanks for replying, I appreciate it
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I cant use Flash image GUI because I don't have root access
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Yeah, good point, sorry.
Put the recovery image in the same folder that you have adb in. Make sure usb debugging is turned on. The phone needs to be booted into android. Open the folder on your computer that has adb in it and hold shift while you right click, select open command prompt here, now type "adb push recovery.img /sdcard/" without the quotes. Now type "adb reboot bootloader", itll boot to hboot and you should be in fastboot usb, now type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" without the quotes.
Also, you,ll either have to change the name of the recovery to "recovery.img" or you can change the command i gave you, ie, fastboot flash recovery nameofyourrecovery.img
You now have your custom recovery back.
Eh, can someone please upload the latest 4ext recovery PG86IMG.zip for me? I want to flash a new ROM, but it requires 4ext. The system bootloops so I can't get it the normal way.
I found one around here, but it's for CDMA and my bootloader told me to go eat a rock. So GSM, please.
Cheers!
xXx420SwegQuickScopesxXx said:
Eh, can someone please upload the latest 4ext recovery PG86IMG.zip for me? I want to flash a new ROM, but it requires 4ext. The system bootloops so I can't get it the normal way.
I found one around here, but it's for CDMA and my bootloader told me to go eat a rock. So GSM, please.
Cheers!
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Can u tell us ur HBoot and S-on or S-off
Try to flash other recovery , install a stock rom then install 4ext.I was in same problem too
http://4ext.net/ddl/shooteru/recovery.zip
please note this is not a PG86IMG file. you have to extract recovery.img and flash via your pc using cmd. put your phone is fastboot and use this command in cmd
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
make sure you have drivers for phone installed
XeNNz said:
Can u tell us ur HBoot and S-on or S-off
Try to flash other recovery , install a stock rom then install 4ext.I was in same problem too
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HBoot 1.49.1107, S-Off. I was thinking of going that way, but that seems too much of a hassle for something that could be simply downloaded.
EM|NEM said:
please note this is not a PG86IMG file. you have to extract recovery.img and flash via your pc using cmd. put your phone is fastboot and use this command in cmd
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
make sure you have drivers for phone installed
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Thanks, I'll try this out right now.
Edit: I ended up flashing with fastboot, then installing an older version of the ROM, then installing recovery from the app and only THEN the ROM version I wanted. Apparently the latest version required the most recent 4ext, I'm dazed and confused but everything is working now.
Haven't used the phone for an year or so, restoring some old SMS messages out of the nandroid backup brought up some memories. Now I'll be using it to test my mobile app. Thanks again!
now that you can boot your rom, download 4ext Recovery Updater and update to latest version of 4ext from there
Hello, welcome all forum users. I tried to unlock bootloader in my atrix 4g International. I used guide on cyanogenmod website. When i flashed first sbf file something were wrong and i have failed to boot 1 command on phone. Follow other guide i flashed radio.img to phone and reboot. First time phone run in rsd mode but after restart android recovery corrupted. Next I should flash android recovery to bring back rsd mode but i have still locked bootloader so i can't flash cwm or twrp recovery. Trouble is that I can't find anyone stock recovery and i stucked in place. Can anyone help me?
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Hello, welcome all forum users. I tried to unlock bootloader in my atrix 4g International. I used guide on cyanogenmod website. When i flashed first sbf file something were wrong and i have failed to boot 1 command on phone. Follow other guide i flashed radio.img to phone and reboot. First time phone run in rsd mode but after restart android recovery corrupted. Next I should flash android recovery to bring back rsd mode but i have still locked bootloader so i can't flash cwm or twrp recovery. Trouble is that I can't find anyone stock recovery and i stucked in place. Can anyone help me?
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So based off of what you have said:
-Your bootloader is still locked (you haven't said 100% for sure that you are unlocked)
-You may or may not be rooted as well (again, you haven't said if you are or are not)
-You want to run stock recovery, which is the recovery that Moto ships with the device, which is entirely useless for custom ROM flashing
This is the guide you need to root and unlock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302423
palmbeach05 said:
So based off of what you have said:
-Your bootloader is still locked (you haven't said 100% for sure that you are unlocked)
-You may or may not be rooted as well (again, you haven't said if you are or are not)
-You want to run stock recovery, which is the recovery that Moto ships with the device, which is entirely useless for custom ROM flashing
This is the guide you need to root and unlock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302423
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1. Yes, bootloader is still locked.
2. Yes, I haven't root acces.
3. Yes, i wanted to flash recovery to bring back stock rom.
I haven't mentioned when I power on my phone i have acces only for fastboot mode, nothing else. Something were wrong when I try to flash by rsd mode file intl-fix-try1.sbf so i can't unloock bootloader way is on your's guide.
malakai079324 said:
1. Yes, bootloader is still locked.
2. Yes, I haven't root acces.
3. Yes, i wanted to flash recovery to bring back stock rom.
I haven't mentioned when I power on my phone i have acces only for fastboot mode, nothing else. Something were wrong when I try to flash by rsd mode file intl-fix-try1.sbf so i can't unloock bootloader way is on your's guide.
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Keep going with the guide. Go to the fastboot oem unlock step and go from there
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Keep going with the guide. Go to the fastboot oem unlock step and go from there
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Hey, it's works, now i just flashed cwm. and everything looks fine. Thank you for your help.