[Q] Help with custom roms/firmware - HTC Rezound

I am at my wits end here. This phone is driving me crazy. It seems like the only ROM's I can get to work are ones that use Aroma installer. I don't know what part of the Aroma installer is what makes it work, but I would really like to know because I want to try NeWt's and/or AOSP.
I am S-ON
I am on whatever firmware gets installed with the Nil's business ICS Sense 4.0 Aroma installer. (I don't know how to check my firmware, I imagine it's easy to check and/or install new firmware, but I can't seem to find a thread about firmwares anywhere. All I can find is Kernels/Roms)
I tried newt's first. I wiped everything, installed the rom. Then I rebooted to bootloader and did fastboot flash boot boot.img (the boot.img I pulled out of the rom's .zip) it flashed that, then I rebooted. The result: Stuck at HTC logo.
No idea what caused that, but I decided I'd go for ICS AOSP instead. I installed that, following the same process as above, and in this scenario I get stuck at the CM9 bootlogo infinitely (bootloop).
I'm sorry if I seem really frustrated, but honestly it's because I am. I've never had this much of a problem getting custom roms to work on any phone I've ever had. I really hope it's something I'm just missing, because I feel like a moron. I can't get any of these roms to even boot, and that's just sad...
PLEASE HELP!

bigbabys said:
I am at my wits end here. This phone is driving me crazy. It seems like the only ROM's I can get to work are ones that use Aroma installer. I don't know what part of the Aroma installer is what makes it work, but I would really like to know because I want to try NeWt's and/or AOSP.
I am S-ON
I am on whatever firmware gets installed with the Nil's business ICS Sense 4.0 Aroma installer. (I don't know how to check my firmware, I imagine it's easy to check and/or install new firmware, but I can't seem to find a thread about firmwares anywhere. All I can find is Kernels/Roms)
I tried newt's first. I wiped everything, installed the rom. Then I rebooted to bootloader and did fastboot flash boot boot.img (the boot.img I pulled out of the rom's .zip) it flashed that, then I rebooted. The result: Stuck at HTC logo.
No idea what caused that, but I decided I'd go for ICS AOSP instead. I installed that, following the same process as above, and in this scenario I get stuck at the CM9 bootlogo infinitely (bootloop).
I'm sorry if I seem really frustrated, but honestly it's because I am. I've never had this much of a problem getting custom roms to work on any phone I've ever had. I really hope it's something I'm just missing, because I feel like a moron. I can't get any of these roms to even boot, and that's just sad...
PLEASE HELP!
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First off, no firmware will be installed with a rom, but this is a good place to start. With you being s-off, even a kernel won't be installed with a custom rom unless you flash the boot.img in hboot (or fastboot flash). My suspicion is that you are still on GB firmware. This can be alleviated by installing a patch. However, I think it in your best interest to re-lock, flash the newest RUU (found at androidpolice), and unlock again. That way, you will have updated to ICS firmware (therefore making it easier to run ICS based ROMS).
Do you have a working ROM right now that you can rever to so we can get some information off of it?

iamwalterwhite said:
First off, no firmware will be installed with a rom, but this is a good place to start. With you being s-off, even a kernel won't be installed with a custom rom unless you flash the boot.img in hboot (or fastboot flash). My suspicion is that you are still on GB firmware. This can be alleviated by installing a patch. However, I think it in your best interest to re-lock, flash the newest RUU (found at androidpolice), and unlock again. That way, you will have updated to ICS firmware (therefore making it easier to run ICS based ROMS).
Do you have a working ROM right now that you can rever to so we can get some information off of it?
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Well, it's funny you should say that. I DID, or so I thought. I got fed up and restored a backup. How even my backup won't boot. I have no idea how that is even possible. Do I need to re-lock the device to install an RUU? What you are saying sounds like exactly what I need (to get on ICS firmware) so if you could tell me the easiest way to do that, I'll get started right away, haha.
Anyways, the backup I tried to restore was viper rez 1.03, and my hboot version is 2.11.0000. I cant' boot a rom at all.

bigbabys said:
Well, it's funny you should say that. I DID, or so I thought. I got fed up and restored a backup. How even my backup won't boot. I have no idea how that is even possible. Do I need to re-lock the device to install an RUU? What you are saying sounds like exactly what I need (to get on ICS firmware) so if you could tell me the easiest way to do that, I'll get started right away, haha.
Anyways, the backup I tried to restore was viper rez 1.03, and my hboot version is 2.11.0000. I cant' boot a rom at all.
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If you can't boot a rom at all, then I can't tell you exactly which firmware you are on. With your hboot version, though, it looks like you are on GB firmware. Yes, you need to relock to run the RUU. Relock, run the RUU (found here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ ), unlock again, flash AR 3.15, then move onto ICS goodness.

iamwalterwhite said:
If you can't boot a rom at all, then I can't tell you exactly which firmware you are on. With your hboot version, though, it looks like you are on GB firmware. Yes, you need to relock to run the RUU. Relock, run the RUU (found here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ ), unlock again, flash AR 3.15, then move onto ICS goodness.
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Ok, I relocked, put the PH98IMG on my sdcard, I loaded up the bootloader, pressed power, and it loaded PH98IMG.zip (took a while, said loading) then after it finished loading it said checking PH98IMG.zip (which also took a while) but after that, nothing happened. It just went back to the bootloader main menu... what am I doing wrong?

bigbabys said:
Ok, I relocked, put the PH98IMG on my sdcard, I loaded up the bootloader, pressed power, and it loaded PH98IMG.zip (took a while, said loading) then after it finished loading it said checking PH98IMG.zip (which also took a while) but after that, nothing happened. It just went back to the bootloader main menu... what am I doing wrong?
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Wow, I just can't catch a break. Turns out, the RUU I downloaded was corrupt. So I got one that works, flashes the RUU, re-locked, reinstalled recovery, and flashed NeWt's and guess what. Hangs at HTC logo. WTF!
Edit: My hboot is 2.27.0000 now...
I just flashed that CM9 with the table being flipped over and it seems to boot okay. So I'm not sure what happened with newts. Oh well, I'm calling it a night. Been at this for over 5 hours (yea I know, that's insane)

bigbabys said:
Wow, I just can't catch a break. Turns out, the RUU I downloaded was corrupt. So I got one that works, flashes the RUU, re-locked, reinstalled recovery, and flashed NeWt's and guess what. Hangs at HTC logo. WTF!
Edit: My hboot is 2.27.0000 now...
I just flashed that CM9 with the table being flipped over and it seems to boot okay. So I'm not sure what happened with newts. Oh well, I'm calling it a night. Been at this for over 5 hours (yea I know, that's insane)
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You didn't say if you flashed the boot.img from Newt? You should have if you are s-on.

bigbabys said:
Wow, I just can't catch a break. Turns out, the RUU I downloaded was corrupt. So I got one that works, flashes the RUU, re-locked, reinstalled recovery, and flashed NeWt's and guess what. Hangs at HTC logo. WTF!
Edit: My hboot is 2.27.0000 now...
I just flashed that CM9 with the table being flipped over and it seems to boot okay. So I'm not sure what happened with newts. Oh well, I'm calling it a night. Been at this for over 5 hours (yea I know, that's insane)
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Hahaha, "CM9 with the table flipped over"! I'm sure that's how you felt after 5 hours. Not to make light of how frustrating that can be, but I'm glad you've got something working again.

topgun1953 said:
You didn't say if you flashed the boot.img from Newt? You should have if you are s-on.
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For both installs, I did a flashboot boot amonrarecovery.img so that it could write to the boot partition. (A nifty little trick courtesy of scotty over at androidforums.com ) however, not wanting to rule out the possibility that maybe that little trick was the cause of the issue, I extraced the boot.img and did a fastboot flash boot boot.img to make sure. However it still was hanging at the HTC logo. That's when I tried the cm9 rom, and used the trick, and it worked fine.
I have no idea why NeWtS didnt' work for me. I can't post in the thread specifically for it yet, but as far as I know I did everything correct this time, so I'm at a loss.
iamwalterwhite said:
Hahaha, "CM9 with the table flipped over"! I'm sure that's how you felt after 5 hours. Not to make light of how frustrating that can be, but I'm glad you've got something working again.
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Oh believe me, I'm just as glad My original plan was to flash a ROM real fast before going out with some friends. I figured worst case scenario I could flash a backup. But I didn't realize you can't restore a nandroid from recovery if you are S-ON without manually writing the boot image again. So I made myself a nice paperweight and spent the entire night fixing it I'd like to find out what went wrong with NeWts, but to be honest I tinkered with cm9 most of last night and I think I'm happy with it. It's so smooth. And to be honest, I have low expecations for every sense rom now since every single one I tried has the autofocus issue.

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I just went from GB to ICS, ICS is in a boot loop (probably something simple)

I already S-OFF and S-CID, JB, I have 4ext and so forth.
I got a replacement phone, had GB on it, I went directly to Energy rom but it freezes in splash screen, same with speed rom. I updated the kernel that was provided by Energy thread but it still boot loops. I am probably missing something.
Any idea what I am missing?
F9zSlavik said:
I already S-OFF and S-CID, JB, I have 4ext and so forth.
I got a replacement phone, had GB on it, I went directly to Energy rom but it freezes in splash screen, same with speed rom. I updated the kernel that was provided by Energy thread but it still boot loops. I am probably missing something.
Any idea what I am missing?
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The proper radio and additional device files, reload your stock GB ruu, update to ICS first then flash a custom rom.
Way ahead of you boss. Did that and it worked, I re unlocked bootloader and reinstalled 4ext, however I can't seem to mount the SD card. Searching for solution
Never mind its working now ;p thanks!
F9zSlavik said:
Way ahead of you boss. Did that and it worked, I re unlocked bootloader and reinstalled 4ext, however I can't seem to mount the SD card. Searching for solution
Never mind its working now ;p thanks!
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Here's a tip: You don't need to relock/unlock your bootloader for stock ruu files if you're s-off.
I hear ya boss, I'll remember that next time!
Thanks for the insight as always!

[Q] Most roms wont boot, please help

Hey guys,
Im not sure what Im missing but Im getting a little frustrated with the rezound/my ignorance haha. My only other android was a dx and that one seemed to flash all roms much easier as far as compatibility. I have read guides and not sure what Im missing. I have an unlocked bootloader and amonra recovery 3.15, S-ON....
I have only been able to use the cleanrom series since 4.3? and conrom (liked but gets HOT) and now wanted to try cm9 lenoob but that failed to boot and also tried miui4.0 with a fail also. They get stuck on the htc logo and get warm, waited about 10mins each and am worried my battery might get low so turned it off before I didnt have enough to recover a backup. The directions said to place in sd and flash, thats what I did in and it didnt work, miui4.0 prompted if I needed the GB patch and I selected yes as well. I know with cleanrom I needed to do the GB patch and ph zip which I have, conrom did everything on its own but the cm9 versions I had no luck with.
Please point out my error guys, this phone has solid specs and just want the latest build of ICS.
66racer said:
Hey guys,
Im not sure what Im missing but Im getting a little frustrated with the rezound/my ignorance haha. My only other android was a dx and that one seemed to flash all roms much easier as far as compatibility. I have read guides and not sure what Im missing. I have an unlocked bootloader and amonra recovery 3.15, S-ON....
I have only been able to use the cleanrom series since 4.3? and conrom (liked but gets HOT) and now wanted to try cm9 lenoob but that failed to boot and also tried miui4.0 with a fail also. They get stuck on the htc logo and get warm, waited about 10mins each and am worried my battery might get low so turned it off before I didnt have enough to recover a backup. The directions said to place in sd and flash, thats what I did in and it didnt work, miui4.0 prompted if I needed the GB patch and I selected yes as well. I know with cleanrom I needed to do the GB patch and ph zip which I have, conrom did everything on its own but the cm9 versions I had no luck with.
Please point out my error guys, this phone has solid specs and just want the latest build of ICS.
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That's because no kernel was flashed. When your S-On, you have to manually flash the boot.img within the rom zip. Fastboot comes in handy in that situation. Most devs are S-On friendly and provide a PH98IMG.zip for you to flash.
On a side note, I suggest you upgrade to ICS via the global RUU. If you do, be sure to re lock bootloader, then flash RUU.
HTC Rezound
luis86dr said:
That's because no kernel was flashed. When your S-On, you have to manually flash the boot.img within the rom zip. Fastboot comes in handy in that situation. Most devs are S-On friendly and provide a PH98IMG.zip for you to flash.
On a side note, I suggest you upgrade to ICS via the global RUU. If you do, be sure to re lock bootloader, then flash RUU.
HTC Rezound
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Thanks. So basically to have the easiest time I should get on the latest ruu?
Do you have the Android SDK or the Rezound All In One Toolkit?
scy1192 said:
Do you have the Android SDK or the Rezound All In One Toolkit?
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All in one toolkit

[Q] Unab;e to install ICS RUU before installing Nils' Business

Hey everyone,
So I have successfully HTC Unlocked my Rezound bootloader, installed Amon Ra, and then installed and booted the CM9 unofficial. Problem was that CM9 wasn't quite as cooperative as I'd hoped - it is unofficial, after all, and so I decided to abandon that in favor of Nils' Business ROM. Here's where I ran into issues.
I have tried everything in every order I can find online and think of, including Nils' writeup. So, for the life of me, I cannot get the leaked ICS RUU to boot (4.03.605.2 as listed in his instructions on XDA). Install runs fine every time I do it from the relocked (I checked) stock HBOOT, all steps included. Every time it reboots (and I've tried forcing it back into hboot to do the install a second time) it just goes to the white HTC screen and starts boot looping. Tried it a million ways, no go. Also worth noting - the stock recovery doesn't install properly, either. Some'fin is hinky, here.
So I've tried just "assuming" it went fine anyhow and then proceeding with the install for Nils' ROM and same deal, no go, although with one difference. With Nils' ROM, it does display the boot splash screen "Nils Business ROM" or what have you about 1 out of every 4 "boots" in the loop cycle, and then reboots again.
I think I am going to perform S-OFF tomorrow if I have the time, and then try it again using the S-OFF instructions, but I would sincerely appreciate any help from you all. Honestly, I'm at near wit's end with this device, and I don't want to be, I enjoy this chase too much, but I *really* want the reward at the end of it, lol.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
- Katie
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I'm guessing because of the corrupted recovery, you have a bad download of the RUU. Try re downloading and check the md5 hash for a match. The ruu should reboot itself after the first pass and end up in bootloader again for the second pass.... If not then after the first pass just hold down power + vol down to get back to bootloader.
Hope this helps
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Make sure that you have a booting ROM before you s-off. You will cause yourself all kinds of heartache if you don't.
Using an sd card reader on a pc, check md5 of your RUU zip file. If it checks out good, put the sd back in your rez and do an hboot power on and accept the update again. Report back with your findings. Also you will need to re-unlock your hboot after and install your recovery again.
Snuzzo said:
Using an sd card reader on a pc, check md5 of your RUU zip file. If it checks out good, put the sd back in your rez and do an hboot power on and accept the update again. Report back with your findings. Also you will need to re-unlock your hboot after and install your recovery again.
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Hey, thanks. Yeah, the RUU does check out just fine against an MD5SUM.
nm.... just read your original post again and you say you did relock the phone. I was hoping it was something simple like that that was overlooked.
Carry on...
feralicious said:
Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
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Right now, I cannot S-OFF because it requires a working stock image, and I'll be lucky to get anything more than CM9 unofficial working here.
You're too fast, now my bad post lives on...
So, when theh RUU failed, you unlocked again, flashed a custom recovery and tried to flash Nils' ROM?
Do you have a nandroid you can try to restore? Even if its the cm9 ROM at least to see if you can get it back to a working phone?
feralicious said:
You're too fast, now my bad post lives on...
So, when theh RUU failed, you unlocked again, flashed a custom recovery and tried to flash Nils' ROM?
Do you have a nandroid you can try to restore? Even if its the cm9 ROM at least to see if you can get it back to a working phone?
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Well that's the trick. CM9 didn't work well enough to even be worth backing up. I'm trying to reinstall it again now just to see if I get there - and it looks like I will. Once I'm back up with that, I'm not sure where to go from there. The phone barely worked under CM9. Really hoping to get Nils' ROM on there, since it gives all the nice features of a stock device without the bloatware. Even if I never get S-OFF, I'll be perfectly happy with just Nils' software.
How about this... did you wipe everything before running the RUU? There's CleanWipe in the Development forum you can flash it from recovery and it will wipe everything 5 times!
This shouldn't make any difference, but there's also a different RUU, the OTA that's not global. You might try that one instead. I'm convinced that sometimes things are just voodoo even when they should be completely logical. That's definitely the case at work on the Avid systems I use.
Here's the link to it:
http://androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Vigor
feralicious said:
How about this... did you wipe everything before running the RUU? There's CleanWipe in the Development forum you can flash it from recovery and it will wipe everything 5 times!
This shouldn't make any difference, but there's also a different RUU, the OTA that's not global. You might try that one instead. I'm convinced that sometimes things are just voodoo even when they should be completely logical. That's definitely the case at work on the Avid systems I use.
Here's the link to it:
http://androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Vigor
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I did try wiping everything first. No luck. I will try the CleanWipe tomorrow, because right now, whatever my issues are, I'm being prevented from solving them since I can't S-OFF and I can't even seem to get a working ROM to make the phone worth having! Ugh.
And you can try installing it under fastboot oem ruu instead of the ph.zip file
Sent from my HTC Rezound...
Flyhalf205 said:
And you can try installing it under fastboot oem ruu instead of the ph.zip file
Sent from my HTC Rezound...
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Oh yeah! Try that. Someone else was having trouble and did it that way and it worked. Here's instructions, just make sure you use PH98IMG and not whatever is used in the instructions since it was written up for a different phone.
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/487280-easier-way-flash-pb31img-files.html
Also, once you get your phone back to stock make a nandroid as soon as you flash the recovery again so you'll have that to go back to if you have any more issues.
Flyhalf205 said:
And you can try installing it under fastboot oem ruu instead of the ph.zip file
Sent from my HTC Rezound...
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Thank you, your magnanimity! Seriously, lol, you're gracing my thread just by being here. :victory:
feralicious said:
Oh yeah! Try that. Someone else was having trouble and did it that way and it worked. Here's instructions, just make sure you use PH98IMG and not whatever is used in the instructions since it was written up for a different phone.
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/487280-easier-way-flash-pb31img-files.html
Also, once you get your phone back to stock make a nandroid as soon as you flash the recovery again so you'll have that to go back to if you have any more issues.
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Thanks for the clicky, Feralicious. Same results, unfortunately. I'm going to try doing the RUU flash of Nils' ROM instead. Do you guys know where I can get the ICS firmware by itself? I cannot be sure that it's actually flashed right, unfortunately.
Your HBOOT is 2.27 and it should say relocked????
It should since you flashed the 4.03.605.2 RUU. The only RUU you will be able to flash since your S-ON is the one found here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390034591667978440
The other RUU will fail because you can't downgrade. So the link above(The Global RUU) will that fail or completely install 100%??
If it does install 100% and boot loops still. Take out the sdcard. Boot into the HBOOT and perform a factory reset inside of HBOOT/Fastboot(NOT IN RECOVERY)
Report your status
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The link listed above for the RUU. Other way of installing it which is a great way to look at the status of everything.
Boot into Fastboot
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot oem lock
fastboot flash zip rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip
fastboot reboot
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If you can't get it installed or it did. Just go ahead and unlock again. Flash custom recovery. Install a rom. Flash the boot.img in fastboot. Factory reset. and then see if it boots. If still not working. hit me up on google chat [email protected]
Flyhalf205 said:
Your HBOOT is 2.27 and it should say relocked????
It should since you flashed the 4.03.605.2 RUU. The only RUU you will be able to flash since your S-ON is the one found here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390034591667978440
The other RUU will fail because you can't downgrade. So the link above(The Global RUU) will that fail or completely install 100%??
If it does install 100% and boot loops still. Take out the sdcard. Boot into the HBOOT and perform a factory reset inside of HBOOT/Fastboot(NOT IN RECOVERY)
Report your status
EDIT
The link listed above for the RUU. Other way of installing it which is a great way to look at the status of everything.
Boot into Fastboot
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot oem lock
fastboot flash zip rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip
fastboot reboot
EDIT2:
If you can't get it installed or it did. Just go ahead and unlock again. Flash custom recovery. Install a rom. Flash the boot.img in fastboot. Factory reset. and then see if it boots. If still not working. hit me up on google chat [email protected]
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I'll do that stuff and let you know. Thank you!
Yes, I am on 2.27 HBOOT.
Point of interest, though possibly unsurprising. When I send the lock command, it locks and reboots, but says "Failed" in my command window screen. Sure this is probably normal since the phone might just reboot before responding to the computer, but possibly an issue.
I believe that is the image I tried before, but I'll do it again both ways to be certain and report back soon! :good:
ncc74656m said:
Yes, I am on 2.27 HBOOT.
Point of interest, though possibly unsurprising. When I send the lock command, it locks and reboots, but says "Failed" in my command window screen. Sure this is probably normal since the phone might just reboot before responding to the computer, but possibly an issue.
I believe that is the image I tried before, but I'll do it again both ways to be certain and report back soon! :good:
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My DNA said something about failing when I locked it. But it locked just fine.
Since it is failing.
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot oem lock ----if unlocked
fastboot flash zip rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip
fastboot reboot
Should work Maybe
Flyhalf205 said:
Your HBOOT is 2.27 and it should say relocked????
It should since you flashed the 4.03.605.2 RUU. The only RUU you will be able to flash since your S-ON is the one found here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390034591667978440
The other RUU will fail because you can't downgrade. So the link above(The Global RUU) will that fail or completely install 100%??
If it does install 100% and boot loops still. Take out the sdcard. Boot into the HBOOT and perform a factory reset inside of HBOOT/Fastboot(NOT IN RECOVERY)
Report your status
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Ok, so, this part including a factory reset got me to "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen, but then it bootloops again. Tried factory resetting again to no avail. Trying the second part.
Flyhalf205 said:
EDIT
The link listed above for the RUU. Other way of installing it which is a great way to look at the status of everything.
Boot into Fastboot
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot oem lock
fastboot flash zip rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip
fastboot reboot
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Same thing as before unfortunately. :/ Performed a factory reset afterwards to be safe - no go. Everything shows OK though in both this and the above install. *shrug*
Flyhalf205 said:
EDIT2:
If you can't get it installed or it did. Just go ahead and unlock again. Flash custom recovery. Install a rom. Flash the boot.img in fastboot. Factory reset. and then see if it boots. If still not working. hit me up on google chat [email protected]
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Proceeding with another attempt at installing CM9, I guess. Maybe the first one got hosed. If I get it booting in any form, I'll Nandroid it before trying anything else.
ncc74656m said:
Proceeding with another attempt at installing CM9, I guess. Maybe the first one got hosed. If I get it booting in any form, I'll Nandroid it before trying anything else.
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I really wouldn't see why you would need a Sense rom to get s-off. I would imagine it would just need su and busybox installed. But nandroid then try a sense rom again. Make sure you flash the boot.img through fastboot

[Q] Hardware failure? Unable to RUU.

Hello all, I need some help if there are any ideas what could be going on with this phone. I can usually fix my own phone problems, but this one has stumped me...
I bought a rezound dirt cheap that was stuck on the white HTC screen and would not boot into the stock rom. At the time I bought it, it was s-on and I could get in the HBOOT and run fastboot commands.
Since buying it, I have tried many things to get this thing working. I've tried to RUU (with PH98IMG and .exe) and apparently after it completes it is once again in a boot loop on the white HTC screen. I have been able to unlock and flash a custom recovery onto it (amon-ra) and install any cm/aokp rom onto it and boot into that. The only issue with that is when in the rom, my wifi and bluetooth will not connect at all. It wont even toggle on in settings and it is not greyed out. 4G and everything else seems to work ok.
At this time, I'm thinking there is some kind of hardware failure but I'm open to suggestions.
In summary...
I have been able to s-off
I have tried different firmware combos of HBOOTs/radios
I have flashed custom recoveries and roms and can boot into them without wifi or bluetooth
I have been unsuccessful to RUU to anything stock, it'll just boot loop the white HTC screen
Right now, I have installed Tron 2.1 onto it. I did notice post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272781&highlight=no+wifi
When I go into system/lib, there was no /modules folder. I went ahead and created it and put in bcmdhd.ko and rebooted, but still no go. I'm not sure why the /modules folder was missing, but this reaches the extent of my knowledge on what is supposed to be there.
I believe I have tried everything and done fairly thorough searches to get this phone working properly and am at a loss what to do next. If anybody has a thought of something to try, I'm all for it. Fortunately if this phone doesnt work out, its not a big deal to me.
I don't want this to sound like another "stuck on HTC screen" thread. I have been through all those and this doesn't seem like the same problem.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
tacoman said:
Hello all, I need some help if there are any ideas what could be going on with this phone. I can usually fix my own phone problems, but this one has stumped me...
I bought a rezound dirt cheap that was stuck on the white HTC screen and would not boot into the stock rom. At the time I bought it, it was s-on and I could get in the HBOOT and run fastboot commands.
Since buying it, I have tried many things to get this thing working. I've tried to RUU (with PH98IMG and .exe) and apparently after it completes it is once again in a boot loop on the white HTC screen. I have been able to unlock and flash a custom recovery onto it (amon-ra) and install any cm/aokp rom onto it and boot into that. The only issue with that is when in the rom, my wifi and bluetooth will not connect at all. It wont even toggle on in settings and it is not greyed out. 4G and everything else seems to work ok.
At this time, I'm thinking there is some kind of hardware failure but I'm open to suggestions.
In summary...
I have been able to s-off
I have tried different firmware combos of HBOOTs/radios
I have flashed custom recoveries and roms and can boot into them without wifi or bluetooth
I have been unsuccessful to RUU to anything stock, it'll just boot loop the white HTC screen
Right now, I have installed Tron 2.1 onto it. I did notice post:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272781&highlight=no+wifi
When I go into system/lib, there was no /modules folder. I went ahead and created it and put in bcmdhd.ko and rebooted, but still no go. I'm not sure why the /modules folder was missing, but this reaches the extent of my knowledge on what is supposed to be there.
I believe I have tried everything and done fairly thorough searches to get this phone working properly and am at a loss what to do next. If anybody has a thought of something to try, I'm all for it. Fortunately if this phone doesnt work out, its not a big deal to me.
I don't want this to sound like another "stuck on HTC screen" thread. I have been through all those and this doesn't seem like the same problem.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
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i would like you to do the following.
flash this http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
2 times. it will make sure we have a solid base to work on.
after that has ran 2 times. boot into the stock rom one time.
after that flash this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12405441/new.global.firm.PH98IMG.zip
once this is done let it boot into the rom.
from here you should be good to flash any rom that is out there to date. (note please dont restore any system data, only app data)
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 100% battery. doing an ruu can brick the phone if its interrupted.
report back when done
Thanks for replying. I have flashed that RUU several times in a row in the past, but I'm redownloading it now to make sure my copy isnt corrupt. Earlier experience when I double flashed this it still remained a white HTC screen loop.
Currently estimated at 6hrs to download, so I wont be able to reply for a bit with my findings...
tacoman said:
Thanks for replying. I have flashed that RUU several times in a row in the past, but I'm redownloading it now to make sure my copy isnt corrupt. Earlier experience when I double flashed this it still remained a white HTC screen loop.
Currently estimated at 6hrs to download, so I wont be able to reply for a bit with my findings...
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When the Rezound first came out a bunch of people had boot loop problems because the phone was set to wcdma or some such thing instead of cdma. I'm just a noob hack but that's my memory of it. The cure was to boot without the back cover on which contains the antenna and then change the setting.
Ok, I have re downloaded the AndroidPolice RUU and flashed twice, but was not able to boot into it no matter how long I waited (20 min+). It would just loop the HTC white screen. I then went ahead and flashed your global update firmware and have the same result after waiting (20 min+), it just loops the HTC white screen.
I have tried this process several times last night, but still no progress.
As the phone sits now:
*** UNLOCKED ***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-2.28.0000
RADIO-2.23.10.0123r/2.23.10.0124r
OpenDSP-v14.6.0.7708.00.0507
eMMC-boot
Sep 20 2012, 17:40:22
tacoman said:
Ok, I have re downloaded the AndroidPolice RUU and flashed twice, but was not able to boot into it no matter how long I waited (20 min+). It would just loop the HTC white screen. I then went ahead and flashed your global update firmware and have the same result after waiting (20 min+), it just loops the HTC white screen.
I have tried this process several times last night, but still no progress.
As the phone sits now:
*** UNLOCKED ***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-2.28.0000
RADIO-2.23.10.0123r/2.23.10.0124r
OpenDSP-v14.6.0.7708.00.0507
eMMC-boot
Sep 20 2012, 17:40:22
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You need stock recovery and a locked bootloader
- "Is it dark in there?"
drynyks said:
You need stock recovery and a locked bootloader
- "Is it dark in there?"
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S/he ran the RUU so they are stock.
Sounds like the symptoms of a kernel issue. Try pulling the boot.img from this stock OTA ROM and flashing it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154
fastboot flash boot boot.img
I have the exact same you. Been this way for months. Maybe once a month BT/Wifi will turn on but only for a few hours maybe. Phone will reboot itself and come back up with the 2 broken again.
feralicious said:
S/he ran the RUU so they are stock.
Sounds like the symptoms of a kernel issue. Try pulling the boot.img from this stock OTA ROM and flashing it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Well I finally booted into stock sense after flashing that boot.img which is a big step from before. For a brief moment, it saw wifi networks in my office but when I went to connect to one, wifi died and it no longer sees any wifi network. Bluetooth appears to still be an issue as well, i.e. will not turn on.
Flyhalf205 said:
I have the exact same you. Been this way for months. Maybe once a month BT/Wifi will turn on but only for a few hours maybe. Phone will reboot itself and come back up with the 2 broken again.
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Unfortunatly that doesnt sound very good for me if you've been battling this wifi/BT problem for months.
synisterwolf said:
i would like you to do the following.
flash this http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
2 times. it will make sure we have a solid base to work on.
after that has ran 2 times. boot into the stock rom one time.
after that flash this https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12405441/new.global.firm.PH98IMG.zip
once this is done let it boot into the rom.
from here you should be good to flash any rom that is out there to date. (note please dont restore any system data, only app data)
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 100% battery. doing an ruu can brick the phone if its interrupted.
report back when done
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can you explain what you mean by flash the ruu twice once I have saved it to the root of my sd card? Does that just mean get to the bootloader, watch as it reads the the ph98img file and let it do that twice, or do I need to reboot in between, or do I need to put in a command?
fivedezs said:
can you explain what you mean by flash the ruu twice once I have saved it to the root of my sd card? Does that just mean get to the bootloader, watch as it reads the the ph98img file and let it do that twice, or do I need to reboot in between, or do I need to put in a command?
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when you let hboot flash the zip, the first time is super short. it updates hboot, stock recovery, and splash i think. then it will reboot back to bootloader and ask to be flashed again. this time it will take some time to update because it does the whole system.
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tacoman said:
Well I finally booted into stock sense after flashing that boot.img which is a big step from before. For a brief moment, it saw wifi networks in my office but when I went to connect to one, wifi died and it no longer sees any wifi network. Bluetooth appears to still be an issue as well, i.e. will not turn on.
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something doesnt seem right. the RUU would have flashed the boot.img for you. can you link me to the downloaded ruu that you have? also before you run the ruu did you do fastboot oem lock the bootloader?
Edit:
i remember an old trick from the inc days. after the RUU boot back into hboot and do a "factory reset" then boot into the phone. it use to fix the radio errors somewhere getting after a RUU. no clue why we did it. it just worked. try that when you are on stock recovery locked bootloader
Here is the RUU I have re downloaded. It was also the original I used in the past on my other Rezound
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1570h8l0ba1u7qp/rezound_AndroidPolice_4.03.605.2_PH98IMG.zip
I have also tried the RUU 3.14.605.12.exe and a couple other different RUU versions, but have the same issue with that as well. Even on MicroMod777's OTA-Global-Stock-4.05.605.14 710RD-Rooted 5/1/13 flashed through amon-ra, I get the bootloop. I have done these as locked and unlocked bootloader with no difference. I have also tried the factory reset with locked bootloader.... no go with that either.
I was only able to finally boot in to stock by fastboot flashing the boot.img, and that is where this phone sits now. My major issue at this point is I dont have wifi or bluetooth and have dug through numerous posts and tried different things, and nothing is working on it. What was strange as I said in my previous post, the very first time I was able to boot into stock sense by flashing the boot.img, it briefly saw wifi networks but disappeared and disabled as soon as I tried to connect to one. I have not been able to replicate that since then.
On a sidenote and possibly related, since this phone has been sitting at my desk I decided to try and flash Newt's NOS JB v1.0.0 ROM and it bootloops also at the droid eye screen. I never was able to get it going on this phone. My other rezound boots this just fine.
I think I have reached the limits of my android knowledge of what to try on this thing. I am satisfied with it not having wifi/bluetooth since my wife wont be using those features. I would like to understand what the heck is going on though.

[Q] Trying to RUU to update my firmware not working.

So I'm currently on Flyhalf's CM10.1 (S-ON), and I checked the recommended firmware/radios for the ROM and realized I'm outdated. It calls for Hboot 2.26 and radio 2.23.10.0123r, 2.23.10.0124r. but I'm on 2.25 and 1.22.10.0421r/1.22.10.0424r. I just updated to the latest version of the rom and I keep getting random bootlooping as well as the rom being way more unstable than the previous build I was on for about 4 months.
So, I'm trying to use Wildhorse's guide to updating firmware through RUU in hopes that it will solve my problems and it just plain isn't working. I've put the RUU in my external SD as PH98IMG, waited for my battery to charge to 90%, shut off the phone, pulled the battery, then gone into Hboot to flash it but I keep getting "No Image or Wrong Image" and it just goes back to the main Hboot screen every single time. Can anyone explain to me why this is happening even though I'm following everybody's directions exactly? I've been searching through the forums for about 2 hours now and I can't get an answer.
I'm still kind of new to HTC devices and how they work, so if anyone could help me figure this out I'd be very thankful.
BrahManty said:
So I'm currently on Flyhalf's CM10.1 (S-ON), and I checked the recommended firmware/radios for the ROM and realized I'm outdated. It calls for Hboot 2.26 and radio 2.23.10.0123r, 2.23.10.0124r. but I'm on 2.25 and 1.22.10.0421r/1.22.10.0424r. I just updated to the latest version of the rom and I keep getting random bootlooping as well as the rom being way more unstable than the previous build I was on for about 4 months.
So, I'm trying to use Wildhorse's guide to updating firmware through RUU in hopes that it will solve my problems and it just plain isn't working. I've put the RUU in my external SD as PH98IMG, waited for my battery to charge to 90%, shut off the phone, pulled the battery, then gone into Hboot to flash it but I keep getting "No Image or Wrong Image" and it just goes back to the main Hboot screen every single time. Can anyone explain to me why this is happening even though I'm following everybody's directions exactly? I've been searching through the forums for about 2 hours now and I can't get an answer.
I'm still kind of new to HTC devices and how they work, so if anyone could help me figure this out I'd be very thankful.
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You are on a leaked firmware, the currently available RUUs are all older than that, and you can't go back when you are S-ON. You need to S-OFF then you can RUU back to 3.14.605.12 and then OTA back up to the current 4.5.605.14
acejavelin said:
You are on a leaked firmware, the currently available RUUs are all older than that, and you can't go back when you are S-ON. You need to S-OFF then you can RUU back to 3.14.605.12 and then OTA back up to the current 4.5.605.14
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Okay, I was really hoping that wasn't the case. I hate to ask for more help, but I don't really understand how I'm supposed to get S-Off when I need to be on the stock RUU to do it, and I can't get on the stock RUU because I need to be S-Off to do so...
I hope I'm not stuck this way. Technically I'm on all the same software as I was yesterday, but now I'm getting random reboots all the time as well as bootloops that either go on for ten minutes or never end. I was on a build of CM10.1 from may with Amon Ra recovery, then tried to flash the newest TWRP that requires the new firmware (didn't realize I was on older firmware) and it bricked my phone. So I put on an older CWM recovery, tried to backup and it froze in the middle of every backup it tried to make. Put on an old TWRP, backups worked, so I flashed the newest version of CM10.1 (again not knowing I didn't have newest firmware) and that's when the bootlooping/rebooting started. I recovered to the old version of CM10.1 and the issue didn't go away, so now I'm just trying to figure out what I can do to get my phone in a usable state again.
BrahManty said:
Okay, I was really hoping that wasn't the case. I hate to ask for more help, but I don't really understand how I'm supposed to get S-Off when I need to be on the stock RUU to do it, and I can't get on the stock RUU because I need to be S-Off to do so...
I hope I'm not stuck this way. Technically I'm on all the same software as I was yesterday, but now I'm getting random reboots all the time as well as bootloops that either go on for ten minutes or never end. I was on a build of CM10.1 from may with Amon Ra recovery, then tried to flash the newest TWRP that requires the new firmware (didn't realize I was on older firmware) and it bricked my phone. So I put on an older CWM recovery, tried to backup and it froze in the middle of every backup it tried to make. Put on an old TWRP, backups worked, so I flashed the newest version of CM10.1 (again not knowing I didn't have newest firmware) and that's when the bootlooping/rebooting started. I recovered to the old version of CM10.1 and the issue didn't go away, so now I'm just trying to figure out what I can do to get my phone in a usable state again.
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Hey, wait a sec... :laugh:
My bad, I just double checked, and with that Hboot/radio combination you are on stock ICS firmware already! Just RUU version 3.14.605.12, that should work without issues if done correctly and you should be back to pure ICS and can then allow the OTA to upgrade you in a few steps to 4.5.605.14
acejavelin said:
Hey, wait a sec... :laugh:
My bad, I just double checked, and with that Hboot/radio combination you are on stock ICS firmware already! Just RUU version 3.14.605.12, that should work without issues if done correctly and you should be back to pure ICS and can then allow the OTA to upgrade you in a few steps to 4.5.605.14
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Oh, thank god. Hahah. I didn't remember ever flashing any leaked firmware before, so I was kind of confused there. I figured I may have done it somewhere in the unlocking/rooting process and just couldnt remember. Okay, thanks again for the help. RUU's have always confused me with the way they work. I should be stable in no time hopefully.
And now I'm having more issues... I can't use the Rom Updater because somethings wrong with my usb connection. I can plug it in and transfer files and such, but trying to use any ADB commands results in "Device not found" and the Rom Updater says it can't connect to my device either. My HTC Drivers are up to date, so I'm not sure why this is happening. Is there any way I can just get the PH98IMG.zip for 3.14.605.12 instead of having to use the RUU?
Not really sure what you are trying to run, I didn't think there was a 3.14.605.12 executable RUU, but use this page and instructions and grab the file: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...cream-sandwich-ruu-for-final-ota-3-14-605-12/
Remember you will need to RELOCK the bootloader if I am not mistaken it is possible to hard brick if you don't!
Then copy to external SD card, name the file PH98IMG.zip (beware of the Windows "double zip" issue), verify MD5 on the SDcard, then reboot into hboot and go. Do it twice!!! Let it boot up and sit for about 10 minutes to calm down, then remove the PH98IMG.zip file from the SD card. Everything should be smooth sailing from there...
You should then be S-ON, completely stock. You will need to unlock again to do anything more
acejavelin said:
Not really sure what you are trying to run, I didn't think there was a 3.14.605.12 executable RUU, but use this page and instructions and grab the file: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...cream-sandwich-ruu-for-final-ota-3-14-605-12/
Remember you will need to RELOCK the bootloader if I am not mistaken it is possible to hard brick if you don't!
Then copy to external SD card, name the file PH98IMG.zip (beware of the Windows "double zip" issue), verify MD5 on the SDcard, then reboot into hboot and go. Do it twice!!! Let it boot up and sit for about 10 minutes to calm down, then remove the PH98IMG.zip file from the SD card. Everything should be smooth sailing from there...
You should then be S-ON, completely stock. You will need to unlock again to do anything more
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Strange, re-locking the bootloader was all I needed to get the RUU to update in my bootloader. No one else said to do that in any of the instructions, but I did it and immediately it started updating with the PH98IMG that I was originally trying to flash (from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38527788&postcount=745&nocache=1&z=1965375486761331).
I'm back to stock now, but firmware is 4.03.605.2, not 4.03.605.14. Is that going to be an issue or can I go right ahead with re-unlocking the bootloader and flashing recovery/roms?
BrahManty said:
Strange, re-locking the bootloader was all I needed to get the RUU to update in my bootloader. No one else said to do that in any of the instructions, but I did it and immediately it started updating with the PH98IMG that I was originally trying to flash (from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38527788&postcount=745&nocache=1&z=1965375486761331).
I'm back to stock now, but firmware is 4.03.605.2, not 4.03.605.14. Is that going to be an issue or can I go right ahead with re-unlocking the bootloader and flashing recovery/roms?
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Well, I have some good news and bad news...
Bad news is you are now on a leaked firmware and will have to S-OFF to go up or down in versions unless a full RUU is released for the current OTA of 4.5.605.14...
Good news is you are the global leak, and you can use the JuopunutBear S-OFF exploit from http://unlimited.io/index.htm just as if you were on the original ICS release. Also, you can S-OFF and use most ROMs and recoveries as you are now on a global mode firmware.
acejavelin said:
Well, I have some good news and bad news...
Bad news is you are now on a leaked firmware and will have to S-OFF to go up or down in versions unless a full RUU is released for the current OTA of 4.5.605.14...
Good news is you are the global leak, and you can use the JuopunutBear S-OFF exploit from http://unlimited.io/index.htm just as if you were on the original ICS release. Also, you can S-OFF and use most ROMs and recoveries as you are now on a global mode firmware.
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Lol, all right, I would have tried to get the right firmware on there but my phone got so buggy that it wouldn't even boot into the rom anymore. So I couldn't get it on the SD card and I had to make do with what I had on there. At this point, I'm just glad the phone is usable again and I might leave it stock for a while. Thank you so much for all your help, I couldn't have figured this out without you!
BrahManty said:
Lol, all right, I would have tried to get the right firmware on there but my phone got so buggy that it wouldn't even boot into the rom anymore. So I couldn't get it on the SD card and I had to make do with what I had on there. At this point, I'm just glad the phone is usable again and I might leave it stock for a while. Thank you so much for all your help, I couldn't have figured this out without you!
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Cool, glad you got it working.
That firmware is actually pretty decent and rock solid stable, you shouldn't have any more software related issues... Plus you can root/ROM like normal from that version, the radios may be slightler lower than most recommended versions, but they should work fine. If you do decide to go the ROM route again, I would suggest going S-OFF before starting, it will just make it easier in the long run.
Hey, just wanted to ask some questions as a follow-up since this seems to be the most relevant (and active) thread to my issue:
Long story short, got a new (to me) Rezound. It was running CM10, from the forthnightly thread. New SIM card from Verizon and I was getting data, but the no mobile network found error. After reading the threads I could find on the error, went with the suggestion of a wipe and so I did. A few too many beers while reading thru the forums, and I did the wipe a bit too thoroughly. Now I have a no OS found, and instead of thinking I know what I'm doing I'd like to ask to make sure I understand this correctly.
Currently, the phone is S-OFF, with TWRP 2.5.0.0. It's saying I'm not rooted, but then again no OS to be rooted. The dump from my bootloader is as follows:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** LOCKED ***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-2.28.0000
RADIO-2.23.10.0123r/2.23.10.0124r
OpenDSP-v14.6.0.7708.00.0507
eMMC-boot
Sep 20 2012, 17:40:22
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After checking this thread and this one here it looks like the following applies:
* I can just run the regular RUU (executable) to load a stock image without having to revert back to S-ON first.
* I will have to re-unlock the bootloader thru htcdev after RUUing
* I'll need to reinstall TWRP
Is this right? Am I missing anything?
JoeKamel said:
Hey, just wanted to ask some questions as a follow-up since this seems to be the most relevant (and active) thread to my issue:
Long story short, got a new (to me) Rezound. It was running CM10, from the forthnightly thread. New SIM card from Verizon and I was getting data, but the no mobile network found error. After reading the threads I could find on the error, went with the suggestion of a wipe and so I did. A few too many beers while reading thru the forums, and I did the wipe a bit too thoroughly. Now I have a no OS found, and instead of thinking I know what I'm doing I'd like to ask to make sure I understand this correctly.
Currently, the phone is S-OFF, with TWRP 2.5.0.0. It's saying I'm not rooted, but then again no OS to be rooted. The dump from my bootloader is as follows:
After checking this thread and this one here it looks like the following applies:
* I can just run the regular RUU (executable) to load a stock image without having to revert back to S-ON first.
* I will have to re-unlock the bootloader thru htcdev after RUUing
* I'll need to reinstall TWRP
Is this right? Am I missing anything?
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You should be able to just boot into twrp and flash a rom
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izzaeroth said:
You should be able to just boot into twrp and flash a rom
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Okay, that's good to know. For now though, if I just wanted to get my phone working, make sure there's not a SIM issue and such I could go back to a stock image without worrying? I just would rather do a lot more reading and make sure I understand what I'm doing before I try to put a rom on and screw things up further.
JoeKamel said:
Okay, that's good to know. For now though, if I just wanted to get my phone working, make sure there's not a SIM issue and such I could go back to a stock image without worrying? I just would rather do a lot more reading and make sure I understand what I'm doing before I try to put a rom on and screw things up further.
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No doubt its good to be cautious when you are s-off. If you are just wanting plain jane stock then you could just flash a ruu from boot loader.
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izzaeroth said:
No doubt its good to be cautious when you are s-off. If you are just wanting plain jane stock then you could just flash a ruu from boot loader.
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Okay, so if I go with the image here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38527788&postcount=745&nocache=1&z=1965375486761331
Would I still need to relock the bootloader since I'm S-OFF or can I just flash that from TWRP and go from there?
JoeKamel said:
Okay, so if I go with the image here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38527788&postcount=745&nocache=1&z=1965375486761331
Would I still need to relock the bootloader since I'm S-OFF or can I just flash that from TWRP and go from there?
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Honestly I don't remember if you would have to relock to flash that in boot loader sine you are s-off, but I do know it won't flash from recovery
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izzaeroth said:
Honestly I don't remember if you would have to relock to flash that in boot loader sine you are s-off, but I do know it won't flash from recovery
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Recovery as in HBoot or TWRP? Because I still have TWRP. I can get the windows executable RUU for ICS if need be.
JoeKamel said:
Recovery as in HBoot or TWRP? Because I still have TWRP. I can get the windows executable RUU for ICS if need be.
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Recovery = twrp
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izzaeroth said:
Honestly I don't remember if you would have to relock to flash that in boot loader sine you are s-off, but I do know it won't flash from recovery
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium
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S-off is S-off... installing a RUU wont change that, it may set you back to 'Locked", but you are S-off so it doesn't matter, you can stay locked&s-off and its no different than unlocked/S-off.
If you are going back to stock and are S-off I would use the Global Mode Leak (4.3.605.2) available on AndroidPolice and flash in Hboot... rename file to PH98IMG.zip and place in root of SD card (how it gets there is a irrelevant) then reboot into Hboot, confirm and wait.
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