I had niles business rom on my phone and it kept messing up on me. so i downloaded the toolkit for s-off. After many tries i was able to get s-off. Now here is where my problem is there is no recovery on my phone now and when i try and do a fastboot in the cmd for my phone it will not write the Amon Ra recovery file. I now get this.
C:\Android\sdk-tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (3896 KB)... OKAY [ 0.814s]
writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.130s
what should i do?
eggbert81 said:
I had niles business rom on my phone and it kept messing up on me. so i downloaded the toolkit for s-off. After many tries i was able to get s-off. Now here is where my problem is there is no recovery on my phone now and when i try and do a fastboot in the cmd for my phone it will not write the Amon Ra recovery file. I now get this.
C:\Android\sdk-tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (3896 KB)... OKAY [ 0.814s]
writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.130s
what should i do?
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So your trying to flash it as a boot.img? Amon Ra should be flashed as fastboot flash recovery recovery.img. Also if your on stock HBoot i think you need a modified HBoot for fastboot commands or unlocked eve on S-Off
sorry should have been
C:\Users\jamie\Desktop\Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery recovery-ra-vigor-3.15-gnm.img
sending 'recovery' (7078 KB)... OKAY [ 1.426s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.742s
eggbert81 said:
sorry should have been
C:\Users\jamie\Desktop\Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery recovery-ra-vigor-3.15-gnm.img
sending 'recovery' (7078 KB)... OKAY [ 1.426s]
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.742s
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Do you have a stock HBoot? if so i think it has to be unlocked for fastboot commands even on s-off unless you have a modified Hboot that allows for fastboot commands while locked.
jon7701 said:
So your trying to flash it as a boot.img? Amon Ra should be flashed as fastboot flash recovery recovery.img. Also if your on stock HBoot i think you need a modified HBoot for fastboot commands or unlocked eve on S-Off
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i was reading about flashing the boot image so i also tried to take the boot.img out of CleanROM Standard 4.5 and tried to flash the boot and that didnt work either
i do have s-off and i can get my phone to say FASTBOOT USB but everything i try and write to it says sending OKAY then writing FAILED ( remote: not allowed)
eggbert81 said:
i was reading about flashing the boot image so i also tried to take the boot.img out of CleanROM Standard 4.5 and tried to flash the boot and that didnt work either
i do have s-off and i can get my phone to say FASTBOOT USB but everything i try and write to it says sending OKAY then writing FAILED ( remote: not allowed)
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Well if your bootloader is locked i would unlock it or get a modified bootloader that allows fastboot commands while locked. If those dont work then youll have to ask a dev
somehow i didnt even notice that was locked. ok got recovery on. now going to try and get a rom on it. with all this headache i almost miss my GNex but it has tons of issues
eggbert81 said:
somehow i didnt even notice that was locked. ok got recovery on. now going to try and get a rom on it. with all this headache i almost miss my GNex but it has tons of issues
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Glad i could help :highfive:
got it all to work. Thanks
eggbert81 said:
got it all to work. Thanks
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i didt understand much
still a newbie
first how do u know if the bootloader is locked or not
and how did u workout the problem
im having the same issue please help
& thnx:good:
When your in bootloader there will be a big pink highlight that says locked or unlocked
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I have a phone with HBOOT 1.01 S-off.
Code:
LEGEND PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-1.01.0000
I'm trying to flash the CWM. In the fastboot via adb:
Code:
fastboot flash image image.img
Get the error:
Code:
sending 'recovery' (3112 KB)
OKAY [ 0.410s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.410s
What am I doing wrong? How do I flash the image of CWM recovery?
P.S. Sorry for my bad English...
clever_man said:
I have a phone with HBOOT 1.01 S-off.
Code:
LEGEND PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-1.01.0000
I'm trying to flash the CWM. In the fastboot via adb:
Code:
fastboot flash image image.img
Get the error:
Code:
sending 'recovery' (3112 KB)
OKAY [ 0.410s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.410s
What am I doing wrong? How do I flash the image of CWM recovery?
P.S. Sorry for my bad English...
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I think it is; fastboot flash recovery image.img
Hitmax117 said:
I think it is; fastboot flash recovery image.img
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You're right, but I made a mistake when he wrote the post, in fact I am writing
Code:
fastboot flash recovery image.img
Log shows that trying to flash the recovery, but can't.
Ajafri86 said:
hi guys,
i am also have the same problem. When i try to flash cwm recovery.img through OneX tool kit or using the adb, i get the same error
writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
I have recently installed the official ics firmware on my sensation. Have been trying to root but stuck with the cwm recovery.
Need suggestions / guidance.
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Wrong forum.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda app-developers app
I recently discovered this, and I thought it would be of some benefit to those who are wanting to unlock, modify partitions, etc without the need to flash derpunlock.sbf or modify your photon in any way. What you need to do this:
1) fastboot for Windows or Linux
2) unlocked RDL3 (ramloader) which I am providing
The process is very simple, reboot your Motorola Photon, and hold the volume down button and power button. You will see "fastboot" on the screen, now press volume up. Connect your phone to your computer, and issue the following command which I discovered:
[email protected]:~$ fastboot flash rdl.bin RDL3_unlocked.smg
sending 'rdl.bin' (3072 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.193s]
writing 'rdl.bin'...
OKAY [ 0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.193s
This will load the unlocked ramloader (unlocked will be displayed at the top even if your phone is locked) which is normally only loaded into ram when flashing an SBF! Amazing, I know. Now you can do all kinds of stuff and you've made no modifications, just issue a "fastboot reboot" and nothing has been modified. Now you are able to erase boot, recovery, oem unlock, etc. Here is an example after you have executed the above. This is just me restoring my default boot and recovery partitions which you can't do from your locked bootloader:
[email protected]:~$ fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.739s]
finished. total time: 0.739s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG$ fastboot flash recovery CG58_0x00000120.smg sending 'recovery' (8192 KB)...
OKAY [ 8.760s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.013s]
finished. total time: 9.773s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG$ fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.761s]
finished. total time: 0.761s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG$ fastboot flash boot CG59_0x00000130.smg
sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...
OKAY [ 8.800s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.697s]
finished. total time: 9.497s
good progress on it
You can actually unlock the radio with the stock locked bootloader still in place (derpunlock.sbf flashing no longer needed):
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$ fastboot flash rdl.bin RDL3_unlocked.smg
sending 'rdl.bin' (3072 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.193s]
writing 'rdl.bin'...
OKAY [ 0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.193s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$ fastboot oem unlock
...
(bootloader) Unlocking your device can permanently VOID your warranty.
(bootloader) This process cannot be reversed. If you wish to proceed,
(bootloader) reissue the unlock OEM command containing the unique ID
(bootloader) of your device: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
OKAY [ 0.006s]
finished. total time: 0.006s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$ fastboot oem unlock XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
...
(bootloader) Device is already unlocked
OKAY [ 0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.003s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$
4G ?
Has anyone tried this method and retained 4G?
scottgl9 said:
You can actually unlock the radio with the stock locked bootloader still in place (derpunlock.sbf flashing no longer needed):
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$ fastboot flash rdl.bin RDL3_unlocked.smg
sending 'rdl.bin' (3072 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.193s]
writing 'rdl.bin'...
OKAY [ 0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.193s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$ fastboot oem unlock
...
(bootloader) Unlocking your device can permanently VOID your warranty.
(bootloader) This process cannot be reversed. If you wish to proceed,
(bootloader) reissue the unlock OEM command containing the unique ID
(bootloader) of your device: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
OKAY [ 0.006s]
finished. total time: 0.006s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$ fastboot oem unlock XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
...
(bootloader) Device is already unlocked
OKAY [ 0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.003s
[email protected]:~/Desktop/SMG_derpunlock$
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what would be the process coming from locked stock _6, would i just flash clock work mod, flash rom.zip then OP's inputs?
bigslanki said:
what would be the process coming from locked stock _6, would i just flash clock work mod, flash rom.zip then OP's inputs?
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The process of loading the unlocked ramloader is the same regardless of your firmware, even if the bootloader is 'locked'. The ramloader is just that, its written to ram, and so when the phone is reset the code is cleared out of memory. This means to unlock your radio, you don't have to flash anything to your ram, flashing rdl.bin basically just loads the ramloader to executable memory, then jumps to it. I'm still working on figuring out how to use this to chain load a custom recovery.
Love this! Keep up the good work!
So can I flash CWM after this kind of unlock the bootloader and then custom rom.
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Will this be useful for the ones that flash the electrify rom on the photon?
Sent from my MB855 using XDA
may you attach stock recovery here? thanks
rrusek said:
Has anyone tried this method and retained 4G?
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+1
4G confirmed working or not?
I like what I m reading. Sounds like this would be the saving grace for those photon users stuck on an electrify rom (and yeah I m one of them!). Please let us know when you get to rewrite system with a custom rom with this method!
dito33 said:
So can I flash CWM after this kind of unlock the bootloader and then custom rom.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
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Not yet, you can flash it but it is not yet bootable since I haven't figured out yet how to jump to recovery from the ramloader (you'll probably get an error 2 if you flash CWM then boot to recovery). After you reset your phone, rdl.bin gets cleared out so the same protection mechanisms are still in the bootloader. It's something I'm working on.
firtermish said:
I like what I m reading. Sounds like this would be the saving grace for those photon users stuck on an electrify rom (and yeah I m one of them!). Please let us know when you get to rewrite system with a custom rom with this method!
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I already can. just do the following:
fastboot flash rdl.bin RDL3_unlocked.smg
fastboot erase system
fastboot flash system your_system_file.smg
fastboot erase boot
fastboot flash boot your_boot.smg
fastboot reboot
EDIT: file extension doesn't really matter, can be smg or img
Theres also updating from fastboot using a zip file, I'm not 100% sure if this works the same as in recovery:
update <filename> reflash device from update.zip
jortiz12885 said:
Will this be useful for the ones that flash the electrify rom on the photon?
Sent from my MB855 using XDA
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Nope. I just tried and it doesn't work. I get error on phone like below.
1c10d60
SVF:106:1:2
sec_exception: b655, eddc, eb
Anyone knows what that is?
herach said:
Nope. I just tried and it doesn't work. I get error on phone like below.
1c10d60
SVF:106:1:2
sec_exception: b655, eddc, eb
Anyone knows what that is?
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At what point did you receive the error?
scottgl9 said:
At what point did you receive the error?
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After the Fastboot. It does Fastboot successfully but it gives the error on the phone screen.
herach said:
After the Fastboot. It does Fastboot successfully but it gives the error on the phone screen.
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It looks like it is some sort of security error(possibly a failed sigcheck or something).
Lightsword1942 said:
It looks like it is some sort of security error(possibly a failed sigcheck or something).
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I'm pretty sure the reason you're receiving this error is because this RDL is from derpunlock.sbf from photon_pudding.rar. I'll post the unlocked pudding electrify ramloader.
Attached is the unlocked pudding electrify ramloader, run:
fastboot flash rdl.bin RDL3_unlocked_electrify.smg
scottgl9 said:
I'm pretty sure the reason you're receiving this error is because this RDL is from derpunlock.sbf from photon_pudding.rar. I'll post the unlocked pudding electrify ramloader.
Attached is the unlocked pudding electrify ramloader, run:
fastboot flash rdl.bin RDL3_unlocked_electrify.smg
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Tried that. It reboots the device and the device stays on Moto Logo Dual-core Screen with nothing written on it and nothing else works.
Hello!
I installed Munjeni's special hboot partition (to increase usable space) and wanted to update the phone back to stock (to take back to att).
The RUU utility failed with code of 152.
The partition failed.
Now the phone is "stuck" at the black HTC screen with four warning triangles in each corner.
Any ideas?
I can fastboot and issue some commands...
I am s-on, hboot 1.02.
Thanks in advance!
DanGeorges said:
Hello!
I installed Munjeni's special hboot partition (to increase usable space) and wanted to update the phone back to stock (to take back to att).
The RUU utility failed with code of 152.
The partition failed.
Now the phone is "stuck" at the black HTC screen with four warning triangles in each corner.
Any ideas?
I can fastboot and issue some commands...
I am s-on, hboot 1.02.
Thanks in advance!
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If the bootloader is accessible, you can try grabbing the rom.zip out of the RUU (run it & let it load, then search in Windows' temporary folder for "rom.zip". If not there's probably a download somewhere), and rename it to "LIBEIMG.zip" on the root of the SD card.
Then boot into the bootloader (vol down) and it should pick it up and start flashing (might be a confirmation before it does)
Edit: Well I looked at the title again... does this mean its not accessible?
It should be if fastboot is, but I've never had the bad triangles so not completely sure..
If not, alternate option that may work: extract the hboot image from rom.zip and flash it with fastboot (if its allowed)
This is the RUU zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?tay1j415ymvukh5
drumist said:
This is the RUU zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?tay1j415ymvukh5
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Thank you for the link. I'm downloading it now.
I can fastboot, but I'm S-on (from one of my flashes).
What's the fastboot command for flashing the hboot? Will this even let me?
I'll give this a try. Thanks again!
When I try to fastboot flash a recovery, here's what I get:
C:\Mobile\Android\Fastboot and ADB Tool>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (3716 KB)... OKAY [ 0.875s]
writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 1.578s
C:\Mobile\Android\Fastboot and ADB Tool>
For hboot - does anyone have an idea which hboot I can try flashing?
WinSuk said:
If the bootloader is accessible, you can try grabbing the rom.zip out of the RUU (run it & let it load, then search in Windows' temporary folder for "rom.zip". If not there's probably a download somewhere), and rename it to "LIBEIMG.zip" on the root of the SD card.
Then boot into the bootloader (vol down) and it should pick it up and start flashing (might be a confirmation before it does)
Edit: Well I looked at the title again... does this mean its not accessible?
It should be if fastboot is, but I've never had the bad triangles so not completely sure..
If not, alternate option that may work: extract the hboot image from rom.zip and flash it with fastboot (if its allowed)
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I'll try the hboot image and see what happens.
What's the fastboot command?
I tried:
fastboot flash hboot
and
fastboot flash boot
Both gave me an invalid signature:
C:\>fastboot flash hboot hboot_liberty_7227_1.02.0000_101104.nb0
sending 'hboot' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.234s]
writing 'hboot'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 0.328s
C:\>fastboot flash boot hboot_liberty_7227_1.02.0000_101104.nb0
sending 'boot' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.234s]
writing 'boot'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 0.328s
I was running the latest TRON ROM from Neo with no issues for several days. Tonight, I went to use the camera and it FC'd. It kept doing it so I tried rebooting. It flashed the white screen with the green HTC logo and thats it, it won't go any farther.
I can get to recovery by pulling the battery and using the hard buttons, but recovery is not able to mount the internal or external memory. I cant backup, restore, flash a zip, or do anything really. How could this have happened? Am I bricked?
HELP!
If the phone does anything at all, it is not bricked. (The state it's in is sometimes called a soft brick, though). I believe there are two things you can do: either get an RUU (PH98IMG.zip) onto your SD with a computer (and an SD card reader EDIT: Or the Incredible you mentioned in the ROM thread), then boot up to hboot and let it flash, or try flashing a kernel (boot.img), ROM, or RUU using adb/fastboot.
If you have questions about the first of these processes, I may be able to answer them, but I probably won't be too helpful about the latter since I haven't flashed anything with adb/fastboot in quite a while.
HERE is the latest RUU, by the way.
Thanks, I'll try this out tomorrow.
s-on? Can you boot into the bootloader? Try reflashing the kernel via fastboot.
So I was able to get the latest RUU and flash it using Hboot. The phone booted up into stock. Great news!
However, I am now trying to get custom recovery installed again, but when I try to flash amon ra using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" I get the following error:
sending 'recovery' (7074 KB)..
OKAY [ 1.503s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.831s
trud9340 said:
So I was able to get the latest RUU and flash it using Hboot. The phone booted up into stock. Great news!
However, I am now trying to get custom recovery installed again, but when I try to flash amon ra using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" I get the following error:
sending 'recovery' (7074 KB)..
OKAY [ 1.503s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.831s
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Did you re-unlock after running the RUU?
trud9340 said:
So I was able to get the latest RUU and flash it using Hboot. The phone booted up into stock. Great news!
However, I am now trying to get custom recovery installed again, but when I try to flash amon ra using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" I get the following error:
sending 'recovery' (7074 KB)..
OKAY [ 1.503s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.831s
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download this zip and place it on the root of your sd card. it will flash Amon RA through hboot. no need for fastboot commands.
http://androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390248398092764223
mjones73 said:
Did you re-unlock after running the RUU?
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Just realized that, after doing some research...DOH!
Unlocked and good to go. Thanks!
Hi, guys I have a HOX+, which bricked just now. It seems like the bootloader cannot be fully unlocked. When I flash bootloader unlock_token, it gives this message:
Code:
C:\adb-setup-1.3\adb>fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
sending 'unlocktoken' (0 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.142s]
writing 'unlocktoken'...
(bootloader) unlock token check successfully
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 17.987s
How ever on HBOOT it says the bootloader is unlocked with S-ON, now I flash CM11 the phone just keep stuck at bootloop, already wipe everything. Any idea??? The phone is unusable right now. :crying: Got TWRP, can't boot...
soralz said:
Hi, guys I have a HOX+, which bricked just now. It seems like the bootloader cannot be fully unlocked. When I flash bootloader unlock_token, it gives this message:
Code:
C:\adb-setup-1.3\adb>fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
sending 'unlocktoken' (0 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.142s]
writing 'unlocktoken'...
(bootloader) unlock token check successfully
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 17.987s
How ever on HBOOT it says the bootloader is unlocked with S-ON, now I flash CM11 the phone just keep stuck at bootloop, already wipe everything. Any idea??? The phone is unusable right now. :crying: Got TWRP, can't boot...
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you have to flash the boot.img in fastboot usb mode!
Thanks, that worked.