Sprint decided to update my Evo 3D, now i'm on
SHOOTER XC SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT 1.58.0000
is there anything I can do?
What is your final goal? You are s-off, so you can run any hboot you want. If you want to run GB or AOSP, you can downgrade your hboot to 1.4 using a PG86IMG.zip file. If you want to run an ICS Sense ROM, you can stick with hboot 1.58.
Hey guys, since I received the OTA update I cannot flash my roms on my SD card. I'm somewhat of an amateur so i'm not entirely sure what i've been doing exactly but its always worked, I am S-off Hboot 1.58 LOCKED. I have tried setting up 4ext but I get an error and busy box doesnt seem to think my phone is rooted, I used to load roms by using recovery and i believe revolutionary, Now when I go into recovery i get the HTC style error message with the phone and an exclamation. What can I do to fix this. The ICS rom runs fine but I would like to load in the new ICS mean rom. Any help would be appreciated!
yanmared said:
Hey guys, since I received the OTA update I cannot flash my roms on my SD card. I'm somewhat of an amateur so i'm not entirely sure what i've been doing exactly but its always worked, I am S-off Hboot 1.58 LOCKED. I have tried setting up 4ext but I get an error and busy box doesnt seem to think my phone is rooted, I used to load roms by using recovery and i believe revolutionary, Now when I go into recovery i get the HTC style error message with the phone and an exclamation. What can I do to fix this. The ICS rom runs fine but I would like to load in the new ICS mean rom. Any help would be appreciated!
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Never take an OTA if you are rooted!!
Now that that is out of the way, it sounds like the OTA removed your custom recovery. Have you tried to flash a new recovery? Download the 4ext img file from this site and use fastboot to push it to recovery on your phone. Then you should be able to flash MeanROM.
coal686 said:
Never take an OTA if you are rooted!!
Now that that is out of the way, it sounds like the OTA removed your custom recovery. Have you tried to flash a new recovery? Download the 4ext img file from this site and use fastboot to push it to recovery on your phone. Then you should be able to flash MeanROM.
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I have not tried that yet. This update really threw me for a loop. Kind of separating the men from the boys at this point lol. I will go ahead and try to flash that over hopefully I can find a DIY type thread on it
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I have HTC Evo 3D
It's on HBOOT 1.5 S-ON
It was S-OFF two days ago. I tried to go back to stock rom the 2.17 latest, I flashed it and when I get to start up screen, it freezes between from Sprint to 3D logo.
Now I am stuck, still HBOOT 1.5 but S-OFF, I currently have TWRP recovery 1.x.
I cannot even install my Evo3d driver on my PC. It says "Unknown Device" I tried updating the software with USB_driver_20101122_release but it would say "The best driver has already been installed".
At this point, I don't care what rom (stock or custom rom), I just want to be able to install a rom so I can use my phone again, please help
I didn't have a NANDROID backup.
BrianEvo said:
I have HTC Evo 3D
It's on HBOOT 1.5 S-ON
It was S-OFF two days ago. I tried to go back to stock rom the 2.17 latest, I flashed it and when I get to start up screen, it freezes between from Sprint to 3D logo.
Now I am stuck, still HBOOT 1.5 but S-OFF, I currently have TWRP recovery 1.x.
I cannot even install my Evo3d driver on my PC. It says "Unknown Device" I tried updating the software with USB_driver_20101122_release but it would say "The best driver has already been installed".
At this point, I don't care what rom (stock or custom rom), I just want to be able to install a rom so I can use my phone again, please help
I didn't have a NANDROID backup.
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Get a ruu file and extract the img files, place your phone in fastboot and flash via fastboot.
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can you please or anyone elaborate what he said?
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BrianEvo said:
can you please or anyone elaborate what he said?
Please...
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basicly flash it threw your computer, heres a video to give u a better idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HclYpo0ZR3s&feature=youtu.be
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Get a ruu file and extract the img files, place your phone in fastboot and flash via fastboot.
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if your s-off you don't need to do fastboot though but you can...
also look here for stock rom.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443592
BrianEvo said:
I have HTC Evo 3D
It's on HBOOT 1.5 S-ON
It was S-OFF two days ago. I tried to go back to stock rom the 2.17 latest, I flashed it and when I get to start up screen, it freezes between from Sprint to 3D logo.
Now I am stuck, still HBOOT 1.5 but S-OFF, I currently have TWRP recovery 1.x.
I cannot even install my Evo3d driver on my PC. It says "Unknown Device" I tried updating the software with USB_driver_20101122_release but it would say "The best driver has already been installed".
At this point, I don't care what rom (stock or custom rom), I just want to be able to install a rom so I can use my phone again, please help
I didn't have a NANDROID backup.
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Give Clockworkmod Recovery a try, I've heard TWRP has been having issues with new ROMs. CWM Touch is now available by the way, but I use the standard CWM recovery because I'm just more used to it. You could also try flashing a different bootloader since you have s-off, since there might be an issue with having the bootloader "locked" even though you have s-off.
If none of that helps, you could get the 2.08 RUU exe file and go back to completely stock (but you'll still keep s-off, I can confirm this because this is what I had to do to update to 2.17). Once the stock ROM boots up, go to system updates and choose to take the OTA update. After your phone updates and reboots, you'll be on the new baseband. Then you have to flash a custom recovery, and after that you'll be able to flash any ROM you like
Hboot 1.5 sucks sooo dearly...recommend u to just sell your evo and get one with a better hboot...all problems that u havev I see alll over the forums...and what's the cause....hboot 1.5 ...I would of done sold mine if it had it
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I don't want to be giving my friend the wrong information. When his sprint 3d was boot 1.5 I took it and soff it for him downgrading to 1.4. Now recently he upgraded to hboot 1.58 and it says relocked at the top. Of course he still has recovery and still is rooted.
My question is since his phone is soff can't he just still flash whatever with no issues? Does he have to do dev unlock again?
I own a rezound and have had many HTC devices and soff has always been the key to everything for me. Any help would be appreciated
With s-off there's no need to unlock his boot loader again. (For example) If he wants to flash an aosp rom, all he's gotta do is downgrade his hboot via boot loader.
Perfect. Already installed JP bear latest hboot and went to twrp. Making a backup now. That's what I was thinking but I wanted some confirmation. Its been a while since I messed with an Evo 3d
Hmmm. It won't flash paranoid android. Even tried the 1.04 eng hboot. Any ideas? Using twrp recovery. Latest radios and 1.04 eng hboot.
stkiswr said:
Hmmm. It won't flash paranoid android. Even tried the 1.04 eng hboot. Any ideas? Using twrp recovery. Latest radios and 1.04 eng hboot.
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A lot of people have had better luck with 4EXT on the Evo 3D. You can download the Recovery Updater for free from the www.4ext.net website and install the current version of 4EXT Recovery from that app. Then "format all partitions except SD card" in the wipe/format menu of the recovery, and try flashing PA again.
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A lot of people have had better luck with 4EXT on the Evo 3D. You can download the Recovery Updater for free from the www.4ext.net website and install the current version of 4EXT Recovery from that app. Then "format all partitions except SD card" in the wipe/format menu of the recovery, and try flashing PA again.
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K. I'm working on that now. I let you know soon its backing up now. Thank you for the heads up. Do you think I should go back yo the latest jbear hboot? Or just leave the 1.04 eng hboot? He wants to be able to run these jellybean builds that are out
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K. I'm working on that now. I let you know soon its backing up now. Thank you for the heads up. Do you think I should go back yo the latest jbear hboot? Or just leave the 1.04 eng hboot? He wants to be able to run these jellybean builds that are out
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Stay with the ENG 1.04 hboot for now. The GB and AOSP based ROM's won't boot with the latest JBear (1.58.5858) so if you want to use a JBear version 1.50.5050 is better.
ramjet73
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Stay with the ENG 1.04 hboot for now. The GB and AOSP based ROM's won't boot with the latest JBear (1.58.5858) so if you want to use a JBear version 1.50.5050 is better.
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Wow thank you for all the help. I just did everything and unfortunately it is just stuck in a never ending splash loop. Doesn't seem like the kernel/boot is being flashed. Made a backup so I should be good. Just sucks doing all the steps and being stuck.
What kernel are you flashing with pa?
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What kernel are you flashing with pa?
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It doesn't come with a kernel?
stkiswr said:
Wow thank you for all the help. I just did everything and unfortunately it is just stuck in a never ending splash loop. Doesn't seem like the kernel/boot is being flashed. Made a backup so I should be good. Just sucks doing all the steps and being stuck.
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Are you doing the "format all partitions except SD card" in 4EXT right before flashing the ROM? Make sure to give it plenty of time to boot since sometimes the first boot can take up to 10 minutes.
ramjet73
stkiswr said:
It doesn't come with a kernel?
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Well go with ramjets suggestion and try format all partitions minus sdcard along with full factory data wipe and cache/dalvik wipe and see if it boots up all the way.( it couldn't hurt to do all the wipes two or three times before you flash the rom). Just to make sure everything was wiped all the way.
Oh yeah. Step by step . It just never gets past splash. I looked into the ROM downloaded and saw a boot IMG but it really seems like a boot issue. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Soff, everything in right place, correct recovery and no boot. Not complaining, he still has his backup he is running and it restores backup correctly.
His phone was soff and he upgraded firmware to the 1.58 so it said locked in hboot. I just flashed 3 dif bootloader with no issues. Its def soff.
Ok, try flashing a different kernel. Try the Mac kernel that's located in Mazda's aokp jb thread. I believe buttered toast came with pa that your trying to flash. It could also be a bad download as well. You could always redownload the rom as well to see if that works. You never know about these things sometimes.
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Oh yeah. Step by step . It just never gets past splash. I looked into the ROM downloaded and saw a boot IMG but it really seems like a boot issue. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Soff, everything in right place, correct recovery and no boot. Not complaining, he still has his backup he is running and it restores backup correctly.
His phone was soff and he upgraded firmware to the 1.58 so it said locked in hboot. I just flashed 3 dif bootloader with no issues. Its def soff.
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You've tried all the standard stuff to get AOSP ROM's to boot on the Evo 3D. At this point I can only suggest that you flash the 2.89.651.2 SPrint ICS RUU from here, then reflash a custom bootloader and recovery. That will make sure everything is in sync and has cleared up this problem for other users.
You don't need to relock the bootloader (although I think you said it is already relocked) when flashing the RUU if the phone is S-OFF.
ramjet73
Yes, I will try to download ROM again and also grab that kernel.
I soff this phone for him when it was hboot 1.50. Then I reverted to 1.40 via brick method to get it soff. He has ran some form of an hboot/radios update because he was told to do that. Now we are working together and I am trying to fix all his stuff and get him setup correctly. I have an soff rezound and am sure his phone isn't seeing the boot.IMG.
Now today his phone said locked or relocked am not sure. I went ahead an changed his hboot to a recommended 1.04eng hboot. Installed 4ext recovery via the app that was linked. I am downloading gangam style cm10 to test just to see if something will boot. It successfully flashed a sense based ROM and booted fine thru an aroma installer that came with the ROM. In the installer I stated it was soff and had no issues. I will try the ROM and it doesn't boot I will jump back to recovery and flash a kernel and see. Thanks very much for all the help
Well, I have done it all. Not much more I can do. He may try to run the ICS ruu later but I just can't get any cm10 jb based ROM to boot. Y'all have been more than helpful catching me back up to speed on the 3d and while I agree this should be flashing alas it is not booting. I am positive its just not accepting the boot img for what ever reason because it never makes it far enough after reboot from recovery. Just endless quick splash screen reboots.
No problem. I just wanted to add that a lot of users are having weird issues with paranoid android. ( I'm subscribed to the thread) so it could be that your phone doesn't like pa for some reason. ( Not a diss on Lens Flare at All) but he's been having some issues with the rom and is more than likely trying to work on it. Hopefully you can get gangnam style up and running or even aokp jb. If none of these work, I would go with ramjets suggestion and run a ruu and then back to Asop.
Edit: guess you already tried them. Hopefully you get some better luck after you try the ruu method. Good luck.
I could not load what i believe is newer (ICS) roms. My phone would restart after the loading screen. so i did the s-off thing and i could now run ics roms.
now. i need to access the # codes. only one of them works. If i try older roms, including the backup from when i first rooted the phone, it gets to sense, then resets after a second or two.
is this because of S-OFF?
how can i undo the S-OFF so i can put my stock rom back on and access the # codes.
thanks for the help
No its not because of s-off.
What is your current hboot version?
What rom are you using now?
And your backup was ICS or Gingerbread?
If you want to boot a Gingerbread ROM you need to be on older hboot.
What is the code that you want to try?
I guess almost all Gingerbread dialer codes should work on sense based ICS rom.
mnomaanw said:
No its not because of s-off.
What is your current hboot version?
What rom are you using now?
And your backup was ICS or Gingerbread?
If you want to boot a Gingerbread ROM you need to be on older hboot.
What is the code that you want to try?
I guess almost all Gingerbread dialer codes should work on sense based ICS rom.
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hboot is 1.58
iv tried several roms including my original backup.
i believe backup was gingerbread. what the phone came with 2 years ago.
only one of hte codes worked. i dont know which ones specificialy i need
for soem reason they jsut dont work on ics roms
i assumed it was s-off because s-on was what kept me from running ics
What are you trying to do?
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hboot is 1.58
iv tried several roms including my original backup.
i believe backup was gingerbread. what the phone came with 2 years ago.
only one of hte codes worked. i dont know which ones specificialy i need
for soem reason they jsut dont work on ics roms
i assumed it was s-off because s-on was what kept me from running ics
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You have hboot 1.58, so you have a Sprint evo 3d.. so you need hboot 1.4 or 1.5 or eng hboot or revolutionary hboot or jb 1.50.5050 to boot you gingerbread backup. Just download and try few of these by renaming them to PG86IMG.zip and installing through bootloader. If the backup is almost 2 year old try revolutionary or 1.40 hboot.
And what recovery are you using now? Back then there was no touch recoveries. Only non touch cwm. So the backup is most likely made from that recovery. I don't know whether your current recovery restores it correctly or not.
And what exactly are you trying to do? Most codes work on Sense based ICS roms.
mnomaanw said:
You have hboot 1.58, so you have a Sprint evo 3d.. so you need hboot 1.4 or 1.5 or eng hboot or revolutionary hboot or jb 1.50.5050 to boot you gingerbread backup. Just download and try few of these by renaming them to PG86IMG.zip and installing through bootloader. If the backup is almost 2 year old try revolutionary or 1.40 hboot.
And what recovery are you using now? Back then there was no touch recoveries. Only non touch cwm. So the backup is most likely made from that recovery. I don't know whether your current recovery restores it correctly or not.
And what exactly are you trying to do? Most codes work on Sense based ICS roms.
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I dont know exactly which codes. but i know that only one of them worked.
basically i want to downgrade hboot and turn S-ON. i THINK this is what i need to do to run a gingerbread rom and have access to the # codes i need that wouldnt work on multiple ics roms
If you turn back to s-on you won't be able to downgrade.
But with s-off you can upgeade/downgrade anytime.
Your gingerbread rom will boot on s-off. There are many cases of bricked devices while turning s-off to s-on which can be fixed but there's no reason for you to turn it s-on, is there?
i dont know. s-off is what i had to do when i coudl boot gignerbread and not ics, so im under the assumption that to run gingerbread and not ics i need s-on. if this is not the case then all i need to do is go back to hboot 1.4? can you point me in the direction of downgrading please?
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i dont know. s-off is what i had to do when i coudl boot gignerbread and not ics, so im under the assumption that to run gingerbread and not ics i need s-on. if this is not the case then all i need to do is go back to hboot 1.4? can you point me in the direction of downgrading please?
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There's a difference between assumption and fact...
When you first did s-off you had a Gingerbread ROM and not ics and it was able to boot.
Currently I am dual booting with one ICS rom and one gingerbread rom and I'm s-off and they both boot perfectly. ON S-OFF GINGERBREAD BOOTS WITHOUT ISSUES.
Download the hboot 1.40.zip from somewhere (cannot attach using phone right now and I'm too lazy to search ramjet73 post ) and rename it to PG86IMG.zip and put it on root of sdcard then reboot into bootloader, let it scan and it will ask to update.. Hit volume up key then power key and it will reboot but before it boots, remove battery as your current ROM is not going to boot on that hboot unless it uses vm kernel. Now remove memory card and delete/rename/move that file from your sdcard using a card reader. Then boot into recovery and restore your backup. Make sure you use the same recovery that you used to make the backup. Only use the HBOOT 1.40 if you have evo 3d from sprint.
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If you dont want to do all these download RUU. Exe file made for your phone from shipped-roms.com and run it and follow the instructions, it will get you to stock rom and will unroot your phone. Your phone will be like new with stock recovery but still s-off. You can still flash custom recoveries and ROMs and hboots later.
that site seems to not have an ruu for me
mnomaanw said:
There's a difference between assumption and fact...
When you first did s-off you had a Gingerbread ROM and not ics and it was able to boot.
Currently I am dual booting with one ICS rom and one gingerbread rom and I'm s-off and they both boot perfectly. ON S-OFF GINGERBREAD BOOTS WITHOUT ISSUES.
Download the hboot 1.40.zip from somewhere (cannot attach using phone right now and I'm too lazy to search ramjet73 post ) and rename it to PG86IMG.zip and put it on root of sdcard then reboot into bootloader, let it scan and it will ask to update.. Hit volume up key then power key and it will reboot but before it boots, remove battery as your current ROM is not going to boot on that hboot unless it uses vm kernel. Now remove memory card and delete/rename/move that file from your sdcard using a card reader. Then boot into recovery and restore your backup. Make sure you use the same recovery that you used to make the backup. Only use the HBOOT 1.40 if you have evo 3d from sprint.
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If you dont want to do all these download RUU. Exe file made for your phone from shipped-roms.com and run it and follow the instructions, it will get you to stock rom and will unroot your phone. Your phone will be like new with stock recovery but still s-off. You can still flash custom recoveries and ROMs and hboots later.
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i cannot seem to find an attached zip
birddseedd said:
that site seems to not have an ruu for me
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Are you sure that you have HTC SHOOTER AKA EVO 3D?
These are RUUs from sprint from 1st to last
1. Gingerbread http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...0.0518_NV_SPCS_1.15_release_193503_signed.exe
2. Gingerbread http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...530_NV_NV_SPCS_1.16_release_198109_signed.exe
3. Gingerbread http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...08_NV_SPCS_1.31_003_release_208230_signed.exe
4. Gingerbread http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...08_NV_SPCS_1.31_003_release_219445_signed.exe
5. Gingerbread http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...216_NV_NV_spcs_1.42_release_233304_signed.exe
6. ICS http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...06__NV_NV_SPCS_1.43_release_271101_signed.exe
These are for sprint evo 3d......And not gsm or virgin.
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yep. that is my phone
ok im confused. i thought that sense and apex were just ui options? i chose sense with a ics rom and now ##3424#. im confsued.
birddseedd said:
ok im confused. i thought that sense and apex were just ui options? i chose sense with a ics rom and now ##3424#. im confsued.
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grr. that doesnt help. lol. so sense vs apex is more than the ui? it is actualy involved in the core of the os? or do each simply have different dialers?
Hey everyone. I've been on Neo's Infection 2.4. Wanted to try out Eclipze rom so I relocked bootloader, grabbed the latest ruu I could find, renamed it to whatever it was (PH98 something or other) and put that on my sd card. I rebooted into fastboot and it goes through the process of updating but then I get the error message. At the top of the fastboot screen it says hboot: 2.28. Is there another ruu somewhere that I don't know about. I'm downloaded a 4.03 ruu, is there a newer one I don't know about or am I pretty well screwed?
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Hey everyone. I've been on Neo's Infection 2.4. Wanted to try out Eclipze rom so I relocked bootloader, grabbed the latest ruu I could find, renamed it to whatever it was (PH98 something or other) and put that on my sd card. I rebooted into fastboot and it goes through the process of updating but then I get the error message. At the top of the fastboot screen it says hboot: 2.28. Is there another ruu somewhere that I don't know about. I'm downloaded a 4.03 ruu, is there a newer one I don't know about or am I pretty well screwed?
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Hem... that's the current bootloader. Are you s-on or off ?
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Hem... that's the current bootloader. Are you s-on or off ?
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I'm S-On. I downloaded the PH98 file again thinking maybe it was bad, but no dice. I get the same error message. I can't get anything to boot. I was able to flash a recovery so I flashed Infection 2.5 but I keep getting stuck at the Android looking screen (yes boot.img was flashed in fastboot). I flashed a couple different ICS roms but none of them boot up. I figured if I could get back to stock I would just go s-off and be done with it but I think this phone is done.
Edit: Gave the phone to a friend of mine who is much better at this stuff than I am. Maybe he can figure it out. Thanks for the help
Hm, if you flashed the kernel you should be able to boot up.
If you're s-on and on hboot 2.28 there's no RUU as of yet you can run. There's a stock OTA ROM of the lates OTA in the dev section you can run that and see if that helps. You probably can s-off on that but don't take my word for it, especially since you're on 2.28 hboot.
I would make a nandroid before so you can always get back to that if needed.
If you really want to run an RUU you need to s-off, but confirm that it's still going to work on the latest OTA before trying it.
So, I have a dilemma. I am currently S-ON running TACHYON 1.2 (Android 4.3)
HBOOT 2.28.0000
Radio 2.23.10.0123/4
I updated the hboot and radio while S-ON. Now, I've decided I'd like to go S-OFF. According to JuopunutBear I need to be on a stock RUU for their S-OFF to work. I tried running the newest ICS RUU a few weeks ago and found that it would just error out when it was checking the file because the radios and hboot on the phone were newer than the ones on the RUU. Can I step backwards in HBOOT versions whlie S-ON or have I kind of screwed myself? Or is there a better option I haven't thought about?
Thanks
Just install a stock Rom to run s-off program. You are on a stock hboot, so no problem there.
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Uzephi said:
Just install a stock Rom to run s-off program. You are on a stock hboot, so no problem there.
Sent from my DNA using my mind.
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It's a stock hboot, yes. But the RUU won't run because it is an older version hboot.
You need s-off to downgrade. Just install a stock based Rom that is rooted and run s-off procedure. You will have no issues. After s-off if you want, you can ruu
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Step 1 from Unlimited: Verify - You are on Stock RUU (not FreshROM, Stock Rooted, HarmonyROM - none of these will work!)
They say not to be rooted or anything. What difference does it make?
Also, what do you mean by "stock rom"? Is there a stock rom I can install that is not an RUU? (maybe that's a dumb question but I don't know lol)
jeff925 said:
Step 1 from Unlimited: Verify - You are on Stock RUU (not FreshROM, Stock Rooted, HarmonyROM - none of these will work!)
They say not to be rooted or anything. What difference does it make?
Also, what do you mean by "stock rom"? Is there a stock rom I can install that is not an RUU? (maybe that's a dumb question but I don't know lol)
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A stock rooted RUU would work. I was in your predicament once. First, do a nandroid backup then use this guide it'll get you to s-off. If you want to downgrade, then use this guide to accomplish this.
Thanks guys for the help. Installed the rom listed in the guide and it worked great. S-OFF now!! (Took me long enough...I've had the phone for 2 years!)
It installed JuopunutBear's hboot but whatever. I'd probably rather stick with a stock hboot but I can do that later.
Restored my nandroid backup and I'm back up and running like I never left.
Just flash this ROM and boot image, and you should be able to S-OFF, I can't remember if stock recovery is needed but that can be flashed separately as well if needed, but I don't think it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154
So, All was well until I decided to flash the stock hboot back to the phone. I put the file on the sd card and renamed it ph98img.zip and flashed it in fastboot. It said it was successful and that I was running hboot 2.28 and radio 2.23.10.0123/4. Then I rebooted and it hung up at the white screen with green htc logo. I pulled the battery and rebooted holding the power and volume buttons. It booted to fastboot so I tried a few things. I tried flashing a recovery but it said that remote was not allowed and failed. Then I tried opening the recovery I already had on the phone from fastboot and it gave me the software download icon. Nothing happened so I pulled the battery and tried to boot back to fastboot. This time it wouldn't even get to fastboot. The white screen with HTC logo comes up and then the screen goes blank. Then the software download icon comes up and then shortly there after a red triangle with an exclamation point takes its place.
That went downhill fast! Any suggestions?
EDIT: Pulling the SD card allows me to get back into fastboot! But I'm still not sure what to do. Is it because my bootloader is locked?
jeff925 said:
So, All was well until I decided to flash the stock hboot back to the phone. I put the file on the sd card and renamed it ph98img.zip and flashed it in fastboot. It said it was successful and that I was running hboot 2.28 and radio 2.23.10.0123/4. Then I rebooted and it hung up at the white screen with green htc logo. I pulled the battery and rebooted holding the power and volume buttons. It booted to fastboot so I tried a few things. I tried flashing a recovery but it said that remote was not allowed and failed. Then I tried opening the recovery I already had on the phone from fastboot and it gave me the software download icon. Nothing happened so I pulled the battery and tried to boot back to fastboot. This time it wouldn't even get to fastboot. The white screen with HTC logo comes up and then the screen goes blank. Then the software download icon comes up and then shortly there after a red triangle with an exclamation point takes its place.
That went downhill fast! Any suggestions?
EDIT: Pulling the SD card allows me to get back into fastboot! But I'm still not sure what to do. Is it because my bootloader is locked?
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In fastboot does it say s-off? Try manually flashing the boot.img by extracting it. If you haven't setup enviroment variable for fastboot put the boot.img in the same directory as fastboot.exe and use command prompt by typing
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cd C:\Android\platform-tools (or wherever it is for you)
Then type
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fastboot flash boot boot.img
I was able to put an RUU on another sd card and flash that. So now I'm on ICS 4.03.605.2 and running. But I still haven't solved my recovery problems.
According to this thread: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/550408-s-off-guide-info-return-stock.html
I can either use juopunutbear's hboot (which I just flashed over the top of) to flash a new recovery or I can compile a recovery in a ph98img file (which I don't know how to do or want to do).
My question is: What happens if I unlock my bootloader while S-OFF? (Yes, it says s-off on the bootloader screen.) Will that solve my problem or do I have to go back to juopunutbear's hboot?
jeff925 said:
I was able to put an RUU on another sd card and flash that. So now I'm on ICS 4.03.605.2 and running. But I still haven't solved my recovery problems.
According to this thread: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/550408-s-off-guide-info-return-stock.html
I can either use juopunutbear's hboot (which I just flashed over the top of) to flash a new recovery or I can compile a recovery in a ph98img file (which I don't know how to do or want to do).
My question is: What happens if I unlock my bootloader while S-OFF? (Yes, it says s-off on the bootloader screen.) Will that solve my problem or do I have to go back to juopunutbear's hboot?
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You can unlock when S-OFF, but there is no reason to, you can get a PH98img.zip of CWM here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914215 or TWRP here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902381 and just copy it to your sd card (remember to name it exactly PH98IMG.zip, beware the Windoze "double zip" issue) then pop it in the phone, boot into Hboot with the USB disconnected and it should recognize it and flash either CWM or TWRP. from there you can flash ANYTHING you want, being S-OFF with custom recovery allows you to flash anything, no fastboot commands required.
Also, since you are S-OFF, your Hboot is mostly irrelevant, but should be the matching version to your radios... an engineered hboot (like Juopunutbears) would allow fastboot commands well locked, but fastboot isn't generally needed once S-OFF has been obtained...
Try this. no wire even, works great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48911002#post48911002
i am on hboot 2.25 though. im thinking of updating my hboot still researching how exactly.
4218kris said:
Try this. no wire even, works great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48911002#post48911002
i am on hboot 2.25 though. im thinking of updating my hboot still researching how exactly.
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i can help with that....its pretty easy if your already s-off
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jeff925 said:
I was able to put an RUU on another sd card and flash that. So now I'm on ICS 4.03.605.2 and running. But I still haven't solved my recovery problems.
According to this thread: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/550408-s-off-guide-info-return-stock.html
I can either use juopunutbear's hboot (which I just flashed over the top of) to flash a new recovery or I can compile a recovery in a ph98img file (which I don't know how to do or want to do).
My question is: What happens if I unlock my bootloader while S-OFF? (Yes, it says s-off on the bootloader screen.) Will that solve my problem or do I have to go back to juopunutbear's hboot?
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and what recovery problems are you having....flashing an hboot will not give you a recovery...and an ruu is an exe file not a ph98img file...those are OTA's.....if you need pure stock i can easily help you obtain it....i just need to know what exactly your trying to achieve
REV3NT3CH said:
i can help with that....its pretty easy if your already s-off
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i believe i can flash hboot with a ph98img yea? can you link me to the best/newest 2.28 i think.
4218kris said:
i believe i can flash hboot with a ph98img yea? can you link me to the best/newest 2.28 i think.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40767819&postcount=33
4218kris said:
i believe i can flash hboot with a ph98img yea? can you link me to the best/newest 2.28 i think.
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that one or the this 2nd ph98img in my downgrade/upgrade guide work as well...that one is just radios and hboot....doesnt come with stock <3e> recovery
REV3NT3CH said:
if you need pure stock i can easily help you obtain it....i just need to know what exactly your trying to achieve
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Hey REV3NT3CH,
So, thanks to the help of so many in these parts, including you, I now think I'm S-Off and I'm very interested in bringing my phone up to the latest, completely stock OTA ROM. Can you help me with that?
Thanks!
cheers,
john
jrredho said:
Hey REV3NT3CH,
So, thanks to the help of so many in these parts, including you, I now think I'm S-Off and I'm very interested in bringing my phone up to the latest, completely stock OTA ROM. Can you help me with that?
Thanks!
cheers,
john
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when you boot into your bootloader...does your hboot now say S-OFF....if so i can give you everything you need and what id suggest doing just prior to doing it
REV3NT3CH said:
when you boot into your bootloader...does your hboot now say S-OFF..
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Yes it does.
REV3NT3CH said:
.if so i can give you everything you need and what id suggest doing just prior to doing it
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That would be fantastic!
Thanks,
John