I know this might seem similar to other post but i haven't found anything that has my exact problem.
I unlocked my boot loader HBOOT 1.5 S=ON and the phone seemed to be working fine until the new update for Android was released.
My phone will download the update but when i hit ok to install the phone restarts and sits at a white triangle with a yellow ! and a blue android guy.
I followed this video to unlock my phone:
"htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-3d-hacks/how-to-root-htc-evo-3d-gsm/"
can u enter in bootloader??
power down phone then press n hold the volume up and power button for a couple of seconds
Dadovvv said:
can u enter in bootloader??
power down phone then press n hold the volume up and power button for a couple of seconds
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Yes i can enter into my bootloader and i have to custom recovery installed that was shown in the video i posted the link to.
Whats your hboot version now? 1.53?
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Whats your hboot version now? 1.53?
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1.50.0000
LOL
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u have gsm or cdma?
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"lol" what?
jb14813 said:
"lol" what?
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I honestly am not sure its US Sprint. and i dont have a sim card at least that i can get to.
You shouldn't take an update of you are unlocked. Have you tried to install a custom Rom since you have your custom recovery?
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You shouldn't take an update of you are unlocked. Have you tried to install a custom Rom since you have your custom recovery?
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I havent found good instructions on how to update to a new rom and i still have s-on.. Is there any roms of icecream that work 100% and good instructions that you can point me too.
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I havent found good instructions on how to update to a new rom and i still have s-on.. Is there any roms of icecream that work 100% and good instructions that you can point me too.
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Download the android sdk, and flash a custom recovery (I can walk you through it) then run a few fastboot commands and then flash a new rom. I recommend either homebrew, common sense, or any other ics rom with hboot 1.50 compatibility, just search the development forums
Again, I can walk you through this step by step if you want. I've had my time with s-on forever.
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or you could just downgrade your hboot, get S-OFF and do as you please?
CDMA downgrade:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563342
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Download the android sdk, and flash a custom recovery (I can walk you through it) then run a few fastboot commands and then flash a new rom. I recommend either homebrew, common sense, or any other ics rom with hboot 1.50 compatibility, just search the development forums
Again, I can walk you through this step by step if you want. I've had my time with s-on forever.
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That would be very helpful and id rather stick to the safest way of getting the new version of Android as this is my only phone and i dont have the money to replace it if i turn it into an expensive paper weight. Also i have a custom recovery installed the one from the video i first mentioned in this post. I will look into the roms but are there any that you can suggests specificly for my device
You could try running the stock ruu.exe to go back to stock you would have to relock your phone to do so personally I just done the wire trick to gain s off its simple to do plus takes less time that the downgrade method running stock ruu never worked for me but has for other people so I would recommend doing the wire trick and gaining s off wish you luck
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jb14813 said:
That would be very helpful and id rather stick to the safest way of getting the new version of Android as this is my only phone and i dont have the money to replace it if i turn it into an expensive paper weight. Also i have a custom recovery installed the one from the video i first mentioned in this post. I will look into the roms but are there any that you can suggests specificly for my device
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Alright, so this is what you need to do:
1. Download the android SDK from htcdev.com. It contains fastboot and adb which are essential. Without them you won't be able to reboot into recovery right.
2. I don't remember if you said you were unlocked or not, so if not, unlock through the HTCDev method (htcdev.com -> unlock bootloader)
4. Now make sure you're in the bootloader, and then click on fastboot, because this is where the fastboot commands will be run. Keep it plugged into the computer as well.
3. Take your custom recovery and place it in the same folder as adb and fastboot.
4. Open the command prompt on your computer and type in "cd c:\[directory with fastboot and adb]" (minus the quotes)
5. Once you're in that directory, type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (minus the quotes) ***if your recovery isn't named recovery.img, change it to that, makes it easier***
6.Once it finishes that, type in "fastboot boot recovery.img" (minus the quotes)
7. Now you're successfully in recovery!
8. Because I'm completely biased beyond belief lmfao, I would recommend my rom (link is in the signature), or powduh09's rom, homebrew. Both roms are excellent, powduh did a fantastic job with his. Both of these will work with no issues with your firmware, I promise
9. Once you've downloaded one, place on your sdcard and flash!
10. Reboot and enjoy ice cream sandwich
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I installed your rom but its just sitting at HTC screen has been for like 20 mins
jb14813 said:
I installed your rom but its just sitting at HTC screen has been for like 20 mins
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Then you might have to extract the boot.img to the fastboot directory, cd c:/(fastboot directory) from cmd and type in "fastboot flash boot boot.img" while in the BOOTLOADER, not recovery
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beneath-a-burning-turtle said:
Then you might have to extract the boot.img to the fastboot directory, cd c:/(fastboot directory) from cmd and type in "fastboot flash boot boot.img" while in the BOOTLOADER, not recovery
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what boot.img i used the install .zip from sdcard in recovery and it ran through your installer and everything went ok
I extracted the boot.img from the zip like im thinking you said lol
it booted past the htc now i have like a wave of triangles lol im not sure if this is the new boot screen i think you had listed or if my phone is has entered the twilight zone.
It booted past that screen and i had seen the home menu for a few seconds then it just reboots...
C:\rootevo3dnew>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (3756 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.990s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 1.192s]
finished. total time: 2.182s
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I extracted the boot.img from the zip like im thinking you said lol
it booted past the htc now i have like a wave of triangles lol im not sure if this is the new boot screen i think you had listed or if my phone is has entered the twilight zone.
It booted past that screen and i had seen the home menu for a few seconds then it just reboots...
C:\rootevo3dnew>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (3756 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.990s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 1.192s]
finished. total time: 2.182s
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Lmfao twilight zone, lol no that's the boot animation I listed. What recovery are you using? I use twrp, and that gives me no issues, if you're using ext4, make sure you turn smartflash on.
Before flashing again, manually wipe EVERYTHING minus the sdcard, that means wipe system and data as well. Just to make sure it starts on a clean slate. If you still can't get it pm me and ill help you one on one
And wait.. wait install.zip? I don't have an install.zip listed...?
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New to android. Using a MAC to unlock, root and install senseless ICS. I've unlocked the bootloader via htcdev. Everything worked and now shows unlocked. I downloaded amon ra version 3.11 and installed with this command:
./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
It seemed to work:
sending 'recovery' (4124 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.908s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.265s]
finished. total time: 2.173s
When I go back to the fastboot menu and select recovery it goes to the white HTC screen and freezes. At least I think it freezes. Waited 10 minutes and it didn't do anything. I am trying to root the phone now. It looks like I should be able to root by booting into recovery, go to developer and install su. I may be wrong though. Can someone help me with this? I've searched everywhere and there's not a lot of help on using a MAC. My phone boots normally if I don't go to fastboot.
Hey, man I know that its a pain because most people here don't use Macs, or the ones that do have iPhones or whatever but I feel your pain. I'd start from scratch and follow this post from start to finish. I did it and it worked fine.
A couple of notes that you should be careful of:
1. When copying the token identifier from your phone, do not copy the INFO text at the beginning of each line
2. At the end of the process it shouldn't reboot to HTC logo but back into the Hboot screen and say S-off at the top. (If it hangs anywhere after successful completion, try a battery pull and then reboot into hboot)
3. If you got there safely, boot back into your stock rom, and follow this post to flash custom recovery (choose AmonRa NOT cwm).
4. After you flash recovery, flash Super User (non-eng) from within Amon Ra (again follow directions from the post!) and then reboot and you should be perm root. Download Titanium Backup to test and back up your crap before flashing roms or something.
That's how I got mine going from my unibody macbook pro running Lion. Good luck my fellow mac-tard! (I say that with love )
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2. At the end of the process it shouldn't reboot to HTC logo but back into the Hboot screen and say S-off at the top. (If it hangs anywhere after successful completion, try a battery pull and then reboot into hboot)
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I think you meant to say that the phone will say "unlocked" at the top, not S-off.
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I think you meant to say that the phone will say "unlocked" at the top, not S-off.
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Yep Un-Locked on the top left corner.
are you typing this exactally?
./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If so that may be your problem, recovery.img should be whatever the recovery file name is.
I was using the latest amon ra recovery and it wasnt working. I used an older version and it worked. Been running scotts senseless ics for 2 days now. Working very well.
If you want to avoid this issue in the future, don't buy a Mac lol
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I'm being lazy here. I'm a Motorola guy and screw with my Bionic daily so I offered to help thinking a driod's a driod boy was I wrong! My friend has a Rezound that is stock OS but is rooted, unlocked and S-on. The other day when he got the OTA for ICS it left his phone with a black screen with a red triangle and an exclamation point.
I've scoured google and forums but I just can't wrap my head around this HTC stuff. So I'm being lazy and asking what to do. Can someone tell me in total idiot terms how I can help this guy get his ICS update? We've given up all hope and expect that everything will be lost root, data, and anything else so hit me with the easiest way to flash this update.
TIA
Jake
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I'm being lazy here. I'm a Motorola guy and screw with my Bionic daily so I offered to help thinking a driod's a driod boy was I wrong! My friend has a Rezound that is stock OS but is rooted, unlocked and S-on. The other day when he got the OTA for ICS it left his phone with a black screen with a red triangle and an exclamation point.
I've scoured google and forums but I just can't wrap my head around this HTC stuff. So I'm being lazy and asking what to do. Can someone tell me in total idiot terms how I can help this guy get his ICS update? We've given up all hope and expect that everything will be lost root, data, and anything else so hit me with the easiest way to flash this update.
TIA
Jake
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Reboot to bootloader, relock, flash RUU. That's about all I can suggest.
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Reboot to bootloader, relock, flash RUU. That's about all I can suggest.
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I need like the total total idiots guide. I know how to get to HBOOT, but I don't know how to relock it or how to flash an RUU.
BBQnBEER said:
I need like the total total idiots guide. I know how to get to HBOOT, but I don't know how to relock it or how to flash an RUU.
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1.Download htc drivers
1.5 download android sdk
2. Boot phone to hboot then select fastboot
3. Connect phone to computer(make sure htc sync is disabled)
4. Run cmd. exe And cd to sdk directory containing adb and fastboot. Exe
5. Run command adb fastboot oem lock
6. Download 3.14.605.12 ruu, place on root of sd card
7. Boot phone to recovery and flash the ruu. Zip from the install from Sdcard menu
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Squirrel1620 said:
1.Download htc drivers
1.5 download android sdk
2. Boot phone to hboot then select fastboot
3. Connect phone to computer(make sure htc sync is disabled)
4. Run cmd. exe And cd to sdk directory containing adb and fastboot. Exe
5. Run command adb fastboot oem lock
6. Download 3.14.605.12 ruu, place on root of sd card
7. Boot phone to recovery and flash the ruu. Zip from the install from Sdcard menu
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That's exactly what I was looking for! Couple of questions I saw in another post somewhere where I needed to rename the ruu file to something specific? Step 7 boot into recovery it that the pow + volume up? Also what about root and lock and stuff will that not matter with this method?
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That's exactly what I was looking for! Couple of questions I saw in another post somewhere where I needed to rename the ruu file to something specific? Step 7 boot into recovery it that the pow + volume up?
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Press thanks for the guy who helped you out.
And yeah make sure it is named PH98IMG.zip (make sure it isn't a .zip.zip) and place it on the sd card not in any folders, and then boot into hboot which is power + vol. DOWN.
Step #8 demand payment from your friend cuz you just debricked his phone
Edit: I forgot to add that when your finished flashing the ruu he must re unlock the bootloader if he wants to flash custom roms. I assume he knows how since it was unlocked when he gave it to you
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I used HTCDEV.COM to unlock my phone, then flashed a custom recovery (i am hboot 1.58 with latest OTA)...the recovery didn't work so I tried flashing a stock recovery back...I do not think that worked. I relocked my phone and it has been working great for about a week. My battery died and now it is acting like this....
I have tried a factory reset, battery pulls, sd card pulls, reboot etc...to no avail
You Tube dot com /watch?v=imJGRGFNSeM
Ok, after charging for awhile and trying factory resets I found that my recovery image doesn't seem to exist...that is probably the problem but I do not know how to fix that...
any help is much appreciated
you tube dot com/watch?v=AC4TZvHWLG8
ICS back up now after battery/sd card pull and reseat....any ideas how i can I fix? My initial goal was to get a custom rom on the phone to live out the rest of my sprint contract in peace and with better battery life - the end result has been, as of now - a headache
Unlock, flash a new recovery image via adb, then flash your rom. I prefer 4EXT recovery. If you are s-on, you'll need that one and you'll need to enable smart flash in the settings menu.
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aqualls said:
Unlock, flash a new recovery image via adb, then flash your rom. I prefer 4EXT recovery. If you are s-on, you'll need that one and you'll need to enable smart flash in the settings menu.
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thank you so much for the reply! I tried that initially, now when I attempt to use adb it says "waiting for device" or something, and wont do it for me...
I TRIED THIS AND FAILED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2074181
I have been unable to run any RUU to downgrade the phone, locked or unlocked
it also says when in boot loader PG86.img or whatever doesn't exist or not found
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it also says when in boot loader PG86.img or whatever doesn't exist or not found
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Make sure it's on the root of your SD card and renamed PG86IMG.zip exactly.
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Try using Ramjet73's guide. May be best to take to scratch and start over.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
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I'm still stuck
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Make sure it's on the root of your SD card and renamed PG86IMG.zip exactly.
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Try using Ramjet73's guide. May be best to take to scratch and start over.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
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Following Ramjet73 and failing here too
Relocked the phone several days ago. Unlocked tonight, unable to flash a new recovery image, relocked and tried to run the RUU in that guide.
I've attached some supporting pics
Edit: the pictures failed! the RUU utility errored out and said,
"ERROR [140]: BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.
Please get the correct R"OM Update Utility and Try again."
This is bad right? Where it says FAILED (status read failed (unknown error)?
trey41303 said:
This is bad right? Where it says FAILED (status read failed (unknown error)?
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That's probably not a problem, but are you Sprint or VM?
ramjet73
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That's probably not a problem, but are you Sprint or VM?
ramjet73
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I'm with sprint now. It's like my recovery image doeant exist, isn't accessible, and can't be replaced. I'm still not sure if the pg86img.zip is the same thong as my recovery but it says it doesn't exist when I go to fastbooot
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I'm with sprint now. It's like my recovery image doeant exist, isn't accessible, and can't be replaced. I'm still not sure if the pg86img.zip is the same thong as my recovery but it says it doesn't exist when I go to fastbooot
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OK.
I just noticed you said that you took the latest OTA that came out this month. How and when did you do that? Was it after you were already rooted?
You may need to flash another file to downgrade the main version (mainver) before flashing the RUU but you would need to unlock again before doing that.
ramjet73
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OK.
I just noticed you said that you took the latest OTA that came out this month. How and when did you do that? Was it after you were already rooted?
You may need to flash another file to downgrade the main version (mainver) before flashing the RUU but you would need to unlock again before doing that.
ramjet73
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Took the OTA update the day before I tried the HTCDEV unlock and flashed arecovery IMG over I tried several of them to no avail and it never booted to recovery after that so I just set up the phone and moved on...
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Took the OTA update the day before I tried the HTCDEV unlock and moved a recovery IMF over. It never booted to recovery after that so I set up the phone and moved on...
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OK, you'll need to start by unlocking the phone again and then we'll get your recovery installed so you can flash the zip file and RUU.
Can you verify that you can get into "fastboot usb" mode and do the HTC unlock with the same .bin file again?
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
OK, you'll need to start by unlocking the phone again and then we'll get your recovery installed so you can flash the zip file and RUU.
Can you verify that you can get into "fastboot usb" mode and do the HTC unlock with the same .bin file again?
ramjet73
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I can do that. Sorry for the slow responses. I joined in 2010 when I got my Hero, but never had trouble rooting and modding it just following the posts. The forum is still making me wait 5 minutes between posts
Pull battery
Replace
Vol Dow + power
When menu comes up press power
Plug phone into computer
Cd c:/android
Fastboot flash unlocktolken Unlock_code.bin
Move the thing on the phone to unlock then select it with the power button...then.....
That's where I get fuzzy
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I can do that. Sorry for the slow responses. I joined in 2010 when I got my Hero, but never had trouble rooting and modding it just following the posts. The forum is still making me wait 5 minutes between posts
Pull battery
Replace
Vol Dow + power
When menu comes up press power
Plug phone into computer
Cd c:/android
Fastboot flash unlocktolken Unlock_code.bin
Move the thing on the phone to unlock then select it with the power button...then.....
That's where I get fuzzy
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So you did all of that already?
If so you are ready to flash the recovery. If you have a recovery.img file in the same directory as your ADB/fastboot, put the phone back into "fastboot USB" mode and issue the following commands:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot boot recovery.img
The second command should put you into the recovery.
ramjet73
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So you did all of that already?
If so you are ready to flash the recovery. If you have a recovery.img file in the same directory as your ADB/fastboot, put the phone back into "fastboot USB" mode and issue the following commands:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot boot recovery.img
The second command should put you into the recovery.
ramjet73
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Ok, which recovery should I be using? People say to use 4ext, but I have yet to find that
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Ok, which recovery should I be using? People say to use 4ext, but I have yet to find that
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Yea, I'd recommend 4EXT. You can download it from here, then put in your ADB/fastboot directory and rename it to "recovery.img".
ramjet73
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Yea, I'd recommend 4EXT. You can download it from here, then put in your ADB/fastboot directory and rename it to "recovery.img".
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got 4EXT thank you, renamed it recovery.img, placed in my c:/android
tried to fastboot flash and get this response....im face palming here
Phones eye view
Here is my phone in boot loader mode as of now
And the screen showing its unlocked
Did you see the previous pic...seems something is wrong....I am trying to find the instructions I was using to flash a new rom when I found that the initial recovery img didn't work
Seems it said if your "s-off"...do this to flash a new rom, or do this to flash a rom and permanently root/place recovery I g on phone. And I did the latter
Ok first off my phone just started a boot loop but only with the first htc quietly brilliant screen, noting more. It then restarts and does it all over again. I tried the factory reset a few times and got nothing. So i decided now would be a good time to root so I unlocked with htvdev. Then, using the twrp stuff, i did the fastboot devices cmd and it recognizes the phone. So i did the rest the jewel stuff and it said okay. Then did the cache erase. After getting back to hboot screen i select recovery and it starts with the htc quietly brilliant screen with the red writing under it. After a few seconds the phone restarts and the htc quietly brilliant screen is back but without the red writing under it and it starts the boot cycle all over again. I have no access the the twrp recovery, just the fastboot and bootloader stuff. I am fairly new to this stuff and have searched all over the place but cant find what im looking for. Maybe not looking for the right stuff. Any direction would be great. Thanks
Ok So now I got it to loop the splash screen but with the writing under it. I forced a couple roms and found one that did brick it. Got it back through ubuntu but thats about it, still looping.
Sounds like you're S-on & you need to install the kernel separately from the ROM for your phone to boot. Click the link in my sig for more info.
Also, your phone isn't bricked
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I cant get into twrp. Its installed but I cant access it and i cant seem to figure out how to flash a kernal or rom or anything. Im running hboot 2.09 unfortunately. I dont know what rom or kernal to flash anyway. The dirtyracun stuff says to boot into recovery for part of it and I cant get into recovery.
Can you access your bootloader screen?
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FinZ28 said:
Can you access your bootloader screen?
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Yes
enolive said:
Yes
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What happens when you try to access recovery from the bootloader screen?
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FinZ28 said:
What happens when you try to access recovery from the bootloader screen?
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It shows the splash screen with the htc writing, sits there for 30 secs or so then the screen goes black and then the splash screen comes back up. I keeps doing that over and over. I should clarify that the twrp install was the next step that I was trying to get to. After typing "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-jewel.img" then selecting recovery. Mind you that the boot cycle was already happening in the very beginning and thats what prompted the root. Kind of a "nothing to lose" deal.
I also just tried to see if adb is still reading my phone and now its showing the "list of devices attached" with nothing listed. Im not sure if the developer options could have been reset to off or something, dont even know if that matters at this point.
You need to get into the bootloader and plug your phone up to it. Make sure it's connected via Fastboot USB highlighted in red, then try fastboot flashing the recovery again. Make sure the recovery file is in your ADB tools folder or it won't work. Once you get recovery working I suggest using the mount option, then you can transfer files to your phone from your computer. I suggest using a ROM that has an S-on kernel installer, like MeanBean. Just follow the instructions for flashing the ROM.
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You need to get into the bootloader and plug your phone up to it. Make sure it's connected via Fastboot USB highlighted in red, then try fastboot flashing the recovery again. Make sure the recovery file is in your ADB tools folder or it won't work. Once you get recovery working I suggest using the mount option, then you can transfer files to your phone from your computer. I suggest using a ROM that has an S-on kernel installer, like MeanBean. Just follow the instructions for flashing the ROM.
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The phone is plugged into the computer and connected via fastboot usb in red like you said. The recovery file is in the adb folder. It says
C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\Root_HTC_EVO_LTE>fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp
-2.5.0.0-jewel.img
sending 'recovery' (8196 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.010s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 2.000s]
finished. total time: 3.020s
Thats the problem, when i select recovery, in the bootloader menu, it just keeps rebooting. I let it go for awhile, like 2 hrs, and thats all it did.
Would a messed up sdcard cause this? Should I try mounting file the the sdcard and then putting it back in the phone? I'm not against going with the s-off but I cant get that to work till i get into the recovery, right?
That's weird. You should be able to get to recovery now. Try and install an older version of TWRP, like version 2.41. It's on their site.
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FinZ28 said:
Did you try to fastboot flash the recovery to your phone from your computer like I said to do in my previous post? Or are you just trying to boot straight into recovery from the bootloader?
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Fastboot flash from the computer? Isnt that what I was doing or am i doing it wrong? I type it all in on the cmd prompt. If thats not right I dont know how else to do it. Is there another way to boot the recovery other then from the bootloader?
Try "fastboot reboot recovery " from the command window.
I'm not 100% positive about that command but it should be good
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corcgaigh said:
Try "fastboot reboot recovery " from the command window.
I'm not 100% positive about that command but it should be good
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Just tried it and it gave me a list of commands to try. I just copied the twrp file "pj75img.zip" to the sdcard via another phone. Problem is that the battery is to low right now so its gonna wait till tomorrow.
enolive said:
Just tried it and it gave me a list of commands to try. I just copied the twrp file "pj75img.zip" to the sdcard via another phone. Problem is that the battery is to low right now so its gonna wait till tomorrow.
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You won't be able to flash a PJ75IMG.zip file unless you are S-OFF
Open a cmd window from android-sdk/platform-tools folder and type adb reboot recovery and press enter
that should take you to twrp
bigdaddy619 said:
You won't be able to flash a PJ75IMG.zip file unless you are S-OFF
Open a cmd window from android-sdk/platform-tools folder and type adb reboot recovery and press enter
that should take you to twrp
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Well now it says "error:device not found". When I type "adb devices" i get the blank list of devices but if i type "fastboot devices" it gives me the number. I think at some point I tried fastbooting a rom didn't work and actually bricked the phone, blank screen that wont turn on. Then fixed that via ubuntu and got it back to the bootloop. As I stated in the beginning it wasnt booting with the red writing at the bottom of the splash screen to start but then went away on the second reboot and kept rebooting without it. After fastbooted twrp again it now shows the red writing on every reboot. Also I cant get the battery to charge because i cant shut it off so it says battery low when i try the flash recovery command. The battery charge led is blinking slowly for about a minute after a simulated battery pull but thats it.
I guess its not fixable.
enolive said:
I guess its not fixable.
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It's fixable, bro. Check your PM
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Hello,
This is an odd request, but I'm in need of some help with this HTC Rezound. A bit of background first. It's not mine. I'm a G2 user (rooted and I know my way around Android hacking). This phone belongs to a friend and despite having it rooted he knows nothing about how he got there or how to fix a problem. Currently it's stuck in a bootloop. He mailed the phone to me (we live 750 miles apart) and he's hoping I might be able to assist. I can get into recovery (I'm assuming it's a custom recovery - looks like ClockworkMod) and my hope was to flash a new ROM but he stupidly neglected to send the phone to me with an SD Card. I'm wondering if there's a way to get a ROM/gapps onto the phone (internal storage) and flash from there. I see there's an option for USB-MS toggle and I've tried playing around in the internal_sd area, and I can get a G: drive to appear when choosing this and connected via USB to my computer, but when I put the ROM/gapps on there I cannot seem to access it for flashing purposes.
Sorry for the long-winded description. But is this a simple solution? Do I just need to get a hold of an SD card and put the files needed on there for flashing? Or is there a way to flash the ROM directly from internal storage?
Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.
Could you post a "fastboot getvar all" ? Without the commas.
Also one thing I would do. Flash twrp 2.6.3.0 Then mount the phone. Push the ROM using a adb push. But first could you post a fastboot getvar all ?
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pball52998 said:
Could you post a "fastboot getvar all" ? Without the commas.
Also one thing I would do. Flash twrp 2.6.3.0 Then mount the phone. Push the ROM using a adb push. But first could you post a fastboot getvar all ?
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Sorry for my noobness, but I have no idea how to do that with this phone. I know nothing about HTC devices - never owned one before.
No problem at all man, we all start somewhere for every phone company.
Okay, pull the battery out. Put it back in, volume down, power button. It should show up a white screen. With I think like 5 options, I know the first two are: fastboot and recovery. When highlighted over fastboot, press power. Then will bring you to fastboot. It'll say in red letters "FASTBOOT USB" at the top. Plug it into the computer open a cmd prompt where you fastboot/adb also known as platform-tools is. Type fastboot getvar all
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pball52998 said:
No problem at all man, we all start somewhere for every phone company.
Okay, pull the battery out. Put it back in, volume down, power button. It should show up a white screen. With I think like 5 options, I know the first two are: fastboot and recovery. When highlighted over fastboot, press power. Then will bring you to fastboot. It'll say in red letters "FASTBOOT USB" at the top. Plug it into the computer open a cmd prompt where you fastboot/adb also known as platform-tools is. Type fastboot getvar all
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Thanks for the reply. My time messing with the phone is done for the night, but I'll give that a try tomorrow.
Okay sounds good
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It should say something in the bootloader at the top like below:
***unlocked***
Pvt ship s-off (or s-on)
Hboot version # stuff here
Radio version # stuff here
Is it s-off or s-on?
If it's secure flag is still on, you would need to extract the boot.IMG from your ROM zip and do the following command after pushing and flashing the ROM in recovery. After you do flash the ROM, boot back into bootloader and into fastboot and type the following command in PC terminal
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Uzephi said:
It should say something in the bootloader at the top like below:
***unlocked***
Pvt ship s-off (or s-on)
Hboot version # stuff here
Radio version # stuff here
Is it s-off or s-on?
If it's secure flag is still on, you would need to extract the boot.IMG from your ROM zip and do the following command after pushing and flashing the ROM in recovery. After you do flash the ROM, boot back into bootloader and into fastboot and type the following command in PC terminal
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Yep, pretty much, what I was trying to get him through first was actually pushing a ROM to the phone, also the fastboot getvar all gives almost all info. But true with that, that's probably the MOST important part of rooting and ROMing HTC lol. Although he never stated what rom he has. Trying to get him through some basics of HTC too.
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Yeah, just wanted to put that out there in case he found it how to flash a ROM without us, he will see that post to fix his boot loop (if s-on)
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Thanks again for the replies everyone. Very helpful. As stated before, this is an odd situation because I know nothing about rooting/ROMs for HTC and this isn't my phone.
Anyway, a bit of where I'm at and some better info regarding the phone's situation. The phone, upon attempting to boot, would just bootloop. I don't remember exactly which ROM was on there as I've since done a factory reset, but needless to say it wasn't working. Also, I happened to track down an SD card from an old phone of mine and I used the USB-MS feature in recovery to put a ROM on there for flashing. Wiped everything as I would any other phone, flashed the ROM (which stated was successful) and upon a reboot the phone just hangs on the white HTC screen. Did a bit of digging and decided to try returning to stock (he doesn't care if this phone is still rooted, just wants it working). Found this link http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ and followed the instructions exactly. Update seemed to take just fine, but again a reboot just got me stuck on the white HTC screen.
I've yet to hook this up to try the fastboot getvar thing as the computer I'm using didn't have ADB installed and I didn't have the time to do so. In the meantime any additional suggestions?
I'm attaching a pic of the phone in hboot so you can see some info that might be helpful.
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...
In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.
With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)
To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.
To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.
TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.
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Uzephi said:
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...
In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.
With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)
To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.
To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.
TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.
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Thanks for this. I think I get what you're saying, but just for the sake of clarification, one more question regarding this process.
I extract the boot.IMG from my ROM of choice, flash the ROM/gapps as I would on any other device, then go back to fastboot and run the adb commands posted earlier? Correct?
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Thanks for this. I think I get what you're saying, but just for the sake of clarification, one more question regarding this process.
I extract the boot.IMG from my ROM of choice, flash the ROM/gapps as I would on any other device, then go back to fastboot and run the adb commands posted earlier? Correct?
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Exactly. Be sure to do exactly that command not
Fastboot boot boot.img
If you forget to say flash boot, it will just temporarily boot that kernel/boot image and not flash it to the device. Then upon reboot you will be back at step one.
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Exactly. Be sure to do exactly that command not
Fastboot boot boot.img
If you forget to say flash boot, it will just temporarily boot that kernel/boot image and not flash it to the device. Then upon reboot you will be back at step one.
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Again, thank you. Going to give this a go after my son's t-ball game. I feel like more of a noob than when I rooted my OG Droid years ago.
@Uzephi, @pball52998, thank you to for your assistance. I felt like a total noob working on a phone that wasn't mine. But I've got it up and running again. My friend Jake will be very happy (I've also told him that this is the last ROM he will ever put on here unless he learns how to do everything I just did - he didn't even know what ADB was when I told him).
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@Uzephi, @pball52998, thank you to for your assistance. I felt like a total noob working on a phone that wasn't mine. But I've got it up and running again. My friend Jake will be very happy (I've also told him that this is the last ROM he will ever put on here unless he learns how to do everything I just did - he didn't even know what ADB was when I told him).
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Wait! He has old HBOOT and Radios, the newest radio is 1.28 he has 1.21 I think I saw.... I would suggest s-off then RUU and doing a RUU.... Or if anyone has em, the HBOOT and Radios you can flash in recovery.
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Wait! He has old HBOOT and Radios, the newest radio is 1.28 he has 1.21 I think I saw.... I would suggest s-off then RUU and doing a RUU.... Or if anyone has em, the HBOOT and Radios you can flash in recovery.
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Flashing them in recovery would be great, if there's a link to download the files. But just to be clear, despite this phone finally booking up there's more I need to do to make it 100% usable?
It is 100% usable, but you will experience less overheats and better battery life with the new firmware. I know the hboot ph98img zip is somewhere in this forum for the updated hboot and radio (for that zip you would just put in root of external SD card and in hboot it will automatically flash)
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Uzephi said:
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...
In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.
With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)
To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.
To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.
TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.
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Hello, I have been preparing to RUU back to 4.03.605.2 and want to be sure of process. I read REV3NT3CH's post on downgrading, so I downloaded the latest 2 PH89IMGs via his instructions and here's where I stand:
S Off
Hboot 2.28
Radio 2.23.10.0123r/1.23.10.0124r
also running CleanRom 4.5
Can I just place PH89IMG on sdcard to RUU or am I missing a step? Thank you in advance
Just place it in the root of SD card and reboot to your boot loader
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