CM9 looks really awesome, but the consistent problem that I'm having with the different builds being offered is that wireless card doesn't turn on. I did get it going on Countershrike, but 4G wasn't working for some oddball reason and I wanted to try out other ROMs. I'm really liking Neo's 1.6 Linaro so far, but yet again, no wi-fi. It it were just one ROM I was having a problem with that would be one thing, but this is happening consistently no matter which ROM I'm installing.
Yes, I did use the fastboot with the image from the respective ROM threads whenever I encountered the "parsing" error, so I don't think that's it. Perhaps in the case of Neo's ROM I shouldn't have updated when prompted.
What am I doing wrong?
AOKP builds require you to toggle the native hotspot after reboot to make WiFi work. Newer CM9 builds work fine out of the box. Not sure about Gray's build, but I know that my CounterShrike build, Neo's Rage build, and Snuzzo's Linaro build work fine out of the box with nothing special required.
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I'd your getting a parsing error then I think its not flashing the boot.IMG so then WiFi might not work. Does it work on sense? Some peoples phones don't like aosp.
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shrike1978 said:
AOKP builds require you to toggle the native hotspot after reboot to make WiFi work. Newer CM9 builds work fine out of the box. Not sure about Gray's build, but I know that my CounterShrike build, Neo's Rage build, and Snuzzo's Linaro build work fine out of the box with nothing special required.
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Whoops, strike that. It was actually just your ROM that was the one where wi-fi worked fine and not Grey's. Sorry about that, like I implied, I've tried out at least four of them today. I'll try your suggestion.
jon7701 said:
I'd your getting a parsing error then I think its not flashing the boot.IMG so then WiFi might not work. Does it work on sense? Some peoples phones don't like aosp.
Sent from my Rezound fueled by jelly beans.
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Just tried an AOSP, this time Neo's Rage 1.9, still no wi-fi. Sigh......frustrating, Why doesn't this appear to be an issue for all the other Rezound users?
This is just bizarre, only Countershrike has had wi-fi operational so far out of the five ROMs I've flashed. Curious and curiouser.
All CM9 builds have working WiFi out of the box.
zhuge_liang said:
just tried an aosp, this time neo's rage 1.9, still no wi-fi. Sigh......frustrating, why doesn't this appear to be an issue for all the other rezound users?
This is just bizarre, only countershrike has had wi-fi operational so far out of the five roms i've flashed. Curious and curiouser.
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youre doing it wrong
Make sure you're doing a clean flash (choose Wipe either right before or right after flashing) and flashing the kernel with "fastboot flash boot boot.img" (if you're S-On). I've sometimes had troubles with the PH98IMG.zip that is sometimes created to flash the kernel.
scy1192 said:
Make sure you're doing a clean flash (choose Wipe either right before or right after flashing) and flashing the kernel with "fastboot flash boot boot.img" (if you're S-On). I've sometimes had troubles with the PH98IMG.zip that is sometimes created to flash the kernel.
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Wipe before flashing.
Perhaps I should flash boot.img from SDK instead of bootloader menu. And it looks like my command line syntax may have been slightly off.
I used "flashboot boot boot.img" The command was accepted but again, you may have just pointed out my error.
Just to be clear, I am wiping everything before flashing. I'm thing the issue is isolated to PM98IMG and the bootloader step. Is the boot.img proprietary to the ROM it's posted with?
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Zhuge_Liang said:
Perhaps I should flash boot.img from SDK instead of bootloader menu. And it looks like my command line syntax may have been slightly off.
I used "flashboot boot boot.img" The command was accepted but again, you may have just pointed out my error.
Just to be clear, I am wiping everything before flashing. I'm thing the issue is isolated to PM98IMG and the bootloader step. Is the boot.img proprietary to the ROM it's posted with?
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The command is:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
O M G
no...
Y O U R E D O I N G I T W R O N G
cslingerland said:
O M G
no...
Y O U R E D O I N G I T W R O N G
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I get that I'm the new guy here and all what with my questions that may come off as "t3h n00bish" to someone like yourself, but acting in the manner that you are likely isn't representing this community very well. This sort of thing is self-taught for the most part, same as it was for you at some point and I've taken the time to research a lot of this on my own.
If you have something productive to contribute to the discussion, then by all means stay and contribute, otherwise move on.
Zhuge_Liang said:
I get that I'm the new guy here and all what with my questions that may come off as "t3h n00bish" to someone like yourself, but acting in the manner that you are likely isn't representing this community very well. This sort of thing is self-taught for the most part, same as it was for you at some point and I've taken the time to research a lot of this on my own.
If you have something productive to contribute to the discussion, then by all means stay and contribute, otherwise move on.
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ok heres my help.
assuming adb and fastboot are in your knowledge base,
1. unlock
2. flash amon ra
3. download rom
4. flash rom
5. extract kernel from rom
6. place in fastboot directory
7. boot phone to fastboot
8. "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
9. done mofo
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cslingerland said:
O M G
no...
Y O U R E D O I N G I T W R O N G
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wow... what an ass hole
cslingerland said:
ok heres my help.
assuming adb and fastboot are in your knowledge base,
1. unlock
2. flash amon ra
3. download rom
4. flash rom
5. extract kernel from rom
6. place in fastboot directory
7. boot phone to fastboot
8. "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
9. done mofo
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I had come across adb yesterday when I had Google searched for "how to remove clockworkmod" since it crept back onto my phone (likely through a Titanium restore during one of my previous ROM install attempts) and interfered with amon-ra. I realized that forcing amon-ra through adb was the way to go. After fighting with the PH98IMG part, I stuck with SDK and flashed it that way and finally got wi-fi working in Neo's AOKP 1.6. I'm not sure about 4G yet, but that may be the next problem I have to tackle.
I hadn't understood that the correct boot.img was to be extracted from the actual ROM zip file having gotten that confused with the whole PH98IMG thing. But thanks for posting back anyway.
EDIT: Nevermind, it seems 4G is working fine. I'm streaming Netflix perfectly and last I checked 3G doesn't produce the bandwidth to support streaming a movie, at least not at an acceptable resolution. The signal indicates 3G, but the performance in this case couldn't possibly be a 3G performance. Speed Test is showing 3G speeds. I'll have to check the thread for this ROM to see if anyone else has had issues with this.
cslingerland said:
ok heres my help.
assuming adb and fastboot are in your knowledge base,
1. unlock
2. flash amon ra
3. download rom
4. flash rom
5. extract kernel from rom
6. place in fastboot directory
7. boot phone to fastboot
8. "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
9. done mofo
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wow... what an ass hole
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Are you talking to yourself?
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cslingerland said:
ok heres my help.
assuming adb and fastboot are in your knowledge base,
1. unlock
2. flash amon ra
3. download rom
4. flash rom
5. extract kernel from rom
6. place in fastboot directory
7. boot phone to fastboot
8. "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
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Ok, I tried everything here; even tried the CleanWipe by Scotty (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562176), going back to RUU, then steps 1-8 above. Unfortunately I still cannot get the wifi to work on Neo's TRON v1.2.
My status: I am S-Off, HBOOT 2.27, Baseband 2.22.10.0801r & 2.22.10.0803r. The Kernel Version showing under Settings:About phone = 3.0.16-FunkyBean-v2.3-gb2f996c. I've also tried just the wipe before fastbooting the boot.img several times.
The last time I tried it, I flashed the rom 3 times before I proceeded to do anything else. And I also attempted to toggle the hotspot, and still nothing. In Settings:About phone:Status both the wifi and bluetooth addresses show "Unavailable". I am at a loss here - was hoping to make Tron my daily ROM based on everyone's comments in the forum, but without wifi & bluetooth, I'm going to have to try CounterShrike as Zhuge_Liang was able to get it work 'out of the box'.
Any other comments or suggestions on making wifi work on Neo's Tron would be appreciated.
If you're s-off, no need of fastboot flashing. Unsure what's happenning here as wifi should just completely work right. Even bluetooth should work right. Try this out and see how well it works for you ....
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390248398092763844
If you need ics gapps
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip
Snuzzo,
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried them but to no avail. I guess I'll have to go without using wifi unfortunately. I've tried different ROMs and nothing seems to work. Maybe some hardware broke?? Everything else seems to work fine except wifi and bluetooth.
Any luck getting wifi fixed? I've been having the same problem.
Related
At some point during my flashing I ended up with kernel
"3.0.13-gaf15497-dirty
[email protected]#1"
I think it was with a BAMF ICS Rom.
Since then whenever I got to flash another kernel I get
Update failed. Main version older.
Its not a huge deal because the roms I have been flashing work with this kernel but Id prefer to use the recommended one.
Can someone explain what exactly is going on here and if it is a big deal or a way around it.
I had never seen this with my Dinc or Tbolt but both were S-off so I was able to flash in recovery.
brownsfan said:
At some point during my flashing I ended up with kernel
"3.0.13-gaf15497-dirty
[email protected]#1"
I think it was with a BAMF ICS Rom.
Since then whenever I got to flash another kernel I get
Update failed. Main version older.
Its not a huge deal because the roms I have been flashing work with this kernel but Id prefer to use the recommended one.
Can someone explain what exactly is going on here and if it is a big deal or a way around it.
I had never seen this with my Dinc or Tbolt but both were S-off so I was able to flash in recovery.
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Read the f*cking sticky in the development section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23169557&postcount=4
con247 said:
Read the f*cking sticky in the development section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23169557&postcount=4
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And we all thought your wouldn't have to say anything anymore
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brownsfan said:
At some point during my flashing I ended up with kernel
"3.0.13-gaf15497-dirty
[email protected]#1"
I think it was with a BAMF ICS Rom.
Since then whenever I got to flash another kernel I get
Update failed. Main version older.
Its not a huge deal because the roms I have been flashing work with this kernel but Id prefer to use the recommended one.
Can someone explain what exactly is going on here and if it is a big deal or a way around it.
I had never seen this with my Dinc or Tbolt but both were S-off so I was able to flash in recovery.
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Page 1 of HTC Misctool in development forum, con has a tool for this posted.
Edit: he beat me to it!
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Or just flash CleanROM ICS. Scott included the mainver fix that sets mainver to 1.00.000.00
superchilpil said:
And we all thought your wouldn't have to say anything anymore
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I was hoping... I wish the first time someone came into the Rezound section they would be forced to read a thing that explains main version and how to fix it.
Make life easier and learn the fastboot method for flashing kernels.
Just take the boot.img file from the rom, put it on a flash drive or folder on your pc with fastboot.exe and adb.exe
Plug in you phone (adb drivers must be installed already) to your PC's USB port
Open a command prompt and navigate to the path where adb resides.
Type:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
Then once the phone says "fastboot usb", type in come:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
After it flashes, reboot the phone and enjoy the new kernel.
Or, you can fix the main version error by searching for the thread. Its easy.
a.mcdear said:
Make life easier and learn the fastboot method for flashing kernels.
Just take the boot.img file from the rom, put it on a flash drive or folder on your pc with fastboot.exe and adb.exe
Plug in you phone (adb drivers must be installed already) to your PC's USB port
Open a command prompt and navigate to the path where adb resides.
Type:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
Then once the phone says "fastboot usb", type in come:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
After it flashes, reboot the phone and enjoy the new kernel.
Or, you can fix the main version error by searching for the thread. Its easy.
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That doesn't actually fix the problem or fix the fact that it might not be possible to RUU if something happened.
Im sorry ok,
Geeze. It wasnt obvious to me at first look. I found it now.
I was also unaware this was such a common issue. Sorry so many have asked. Lesson learned.
brownsfan said:
Im sorry ok,
Geeze. It wasnt obvious to me at first look. I found it now.
I was also unaware this was such a common issue. Sorry so many have asked. Lesson learned.
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If I search mainver in the Rezound section I get over 500 results. It wouldn't have been hard to find.
superchilpil said:
And we all thought your wouldn't have to say anything anymore
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Oh man I just shot soda out of my nose when I got into this thread.
I did my research on how to install ROMS with a locked S On and Kernels, but just got even more confused about the process. I am coming from an Evo 4g CDMA.
I have H BOOT 1.5 unlocked S ON. My back up was lost. I tried to flash something like the newest MIUI using TWRP 1.1. w/e. I can't get past the boot screen for MIUI. As I was reading up on the forums, it seemed to me that you had to use a program called Flash Image GUI to get a kernel going on a ROM. Though, here is where I was confused. If a ROM has a kernel in it and I flash the ROM, does the Kernel part of that flash not get set up as well?
Would I need to flash the rom like normal from the SD Card then use something separate to flash a Kernel? If so, I am kinda boned. I can't get into the phone, just the recovery and can't get that program installed on the phone Trying to flash up Xplode now to see if maybe I just got a bad download.
If these questions were answered, please forgive me, I did try to find the answers, but as I read up more and more, it was getting to be more and more confusing to my personal issue at hand.
Thanks for the help!!
If you grab the kernel from your Miui zip, it's in the zips root called boot.img
Put that into your folder with your fastboot exe
Boot into bootloader the same as when you flashed the CWM
Use fastboot command... fastboot flash boot boot.img
this will flash the kernel and you should be able to boot up properly
Oh, well that is the problem. I had someone else flash TWRP for me. Guess I need to find out more on how to flash up that to get the kernel going. This S On thing is a massive PITA, lol. Guess once I get the phone up and going and I can use that program, things will be way easier
Nametaken said:
Oh, well that is the problem. I had someone else flash TWRP for me. Guess I need to find out more on how to flash up that to get the kernel going. This S On thing is a massive PITA, lol. Guess once I get the phone up and going and I can use that program, things will be way easier
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I see. i skipped the how to part since i thought you had alrady flashed the CMW your self, it's fairly easy.
you need..
1) to install the evo 3d usb drivers.. filename HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe .sorry i don't have a link, i got them off these forums somewhere
2) you need the fastboot.exe , again search google/these forums
then shut down your phone
pull battery out, then back in
hold down volume- (minus) and then hold the power button as well, only let go once in the bootloader, choose the fastboot option then insert usb cable to phone->pc .. you should see fastboot-usb message come up on your phone
then you can type out that fastboot command in the previous post from a dos command prompt, from the directory with your fastboot exe and boot.img
It's easier to put rom you want on the SD card make sure debug is on.
Adb reboot bootloader . Now
Fastboot boot recovery.img now wipe and flash rom you are good to go man. Works flawless .
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Please use the Q&A Forum for questions &
Read the Forum Rules Ref Posting
Moving to Q&A
Sorry about posting in the wrong area.
What I did, which can help out other 3D noobs is this:
Since I just unlocked and have no back up, my kernel was still stock
Downloading a stock rom and moving it to my phone via comp, twrp recovery mode>> USB Toggle allows you to connect to PC! Put the rom on the main part of the SD card and just flash like normal.
Here you should be able to boot up like normal again.
Let me say, Flash Image GUI is a noobs friend till you can learn to use adb more.
I was told you can put a Rom on your card and just flash allowing the kernel to flash as well. I have not had success with this with HBoot 1.5 S On.
Flash Image GUI:
Download the rom you want, Aosp to Sense is fine.
Open Flash GUI and choose the Browse option.
Locate your rom on your card and choose it.
The app will give you a message saying the rom is big yada yada, say yes.
Wait a few moments as it finds the kernel. Once it does, choose flash Image.
Choose reboot recovery and flash the exact rom you picked with the App. Reboot and win.
This is just what I, a noob, have found to work.
I have NOT been able to just flash any rom on the SD Card and have it work. Flash Image UI has NOT been able to get Virus' Rom to load
A's I find more noob friendly tips I can report.
Thanks everyone else for the input! I won't lie, I came from an Evo 4g and am totally lazy as I am used to S Off and just flashing away. S On, I hate you. ADB, I fear you. Flash Image GUI, I want to marry you!
CDMA 3D, I wish we had more AOSP lol
Hope this helps out some people.
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Nametaken said:
Sorry about posting in the wrong area.
What I did, which can help out other 3D noobs is this:
Since I just unlocked and have no back up, my kernel was still stock
Downloading a stock rom and moving it to my phone via comp, twrp recovery mode>> USB Toggle allows you to connect to PC! Put the rom on the main part of the SD card and just flash like normal.
Here you should be able to boot up like normal again.
Let me say, Flash Image GUI is a noobs friend till you can learn to use adb more.
I was told you can put a Rom on your card and just flash allowing the kernel to flash as well. I have not had success with this with HBoot 1.5 S On.
Flash Image GUI:
Download the rom you want, Aosp to Sense is fine.
Open Flash GUI and choose the Browse option.
Locate your rom on your card and choose it.
The app will give you a message saying the rom is big yada yada, say yes.
Wait a few moments as it finds the kernel. Once it does, choose flash Image.
Choose reboot recovery and flash the exact rom you picked with the App. Reboot and win.
This is just what I, a noob, have found to work.
I have NOT been able to just flash any rom on the SD Card and have it work. Flash Image UI has NOT been able to get Virus' Rom to load
A's I find more noob friendly tips I can report.
Thanks everyone else for the input! I won't lie, I came from an Evo 4g and am totally lazy as I am used to S Off and just flashing away. S On, I hate you. ADB, I fear you. Flash Image GUI, I want to marry you!
CDMA 3D, I wish we had more AOSP lol
Hope this helps out some people.
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ADB is pretty simple to flash with lol
All you do is keep a copy of the recovery.img you are using in your adb folder...
You hold shift down right click on the folder that adb is in platform tools folder is where it's at say open cmd prompt to it. That is the fast painless method
Make sure you have a rom on your sd card.... Also that debug is turned on...
Plug phone in hook to computer...
ADB:
adb reboot bootloader
now:
fastboot boot recovery.img takes you into recovery...
Now wipe don't wipe SD card...
Flash rom your set works on virus roms and any other rom 0 issues
Also Flash GUI works for everyone nothing wrong with it....
I just prefer Good Old Adb to do my work If you need any help feel free to ask man.. I'll do what I can to help ya out if you get stuck..
reaper24 said:
ADB is pretty simple to flash with lol
All you do is keep a copy of the recovery.img you are using in your adb folder...
You hold shift down right click on the folder that adb is in platform tools folder is where it's at say open cmd prompt to it. That is the fast painless method
Make sure you have a rom on your sd card.... Also that debug is turned on...
Plug phone in hook to computer...
ADB:
adb reboot bootloader
now:
fastboot boot recovery.img takes you into recovery...
Now wipe don't wipe SD card...
Flash rom your set works on virus roms and any other rom 0 issues
Also Flash GUI works for everyone nothing wrong with it....
I just prefer Good Old Adb to do my work If you need any help feel free to ask man.. I'll do what I can to help ya out if you get stuck..
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You can not flash some ROMS through ADB/Fastboot with s-on, it just doesn't work no matter which way you go about it. Flashing a recovery is easy but that was not the OP's problem. The "noob" way that the OP suggested is the only way to get roms with custom boot.img in the zip to stick. I just installed CM9 and ADB/fastboot was of no use. Getting into recovery is easy but will not provide results unless you have used FlashImageGUI.apk first on a working ROM.
Nether CWM nor TWRP work to flash such ROM's with the right boot.img. You must use FlashImageGUI.apk!
StevetotheH said:
You can not flash some ROMS through ADB/Fastboot with s-on, it just doesn't work no matter which way you go about it. Flashing a recovery is easy but that was not the OP's problem. The "noob" way that the OP suggested is the only way to get roms with custom boot.img in the zip to stick. I just installed CM9 and ADB/fastboot was of no use. Getting into recovery is easy but will not provide results unless you have used FlashImageGUI.apk first on a working ROM.
Nether CWM nor TWRP work to flash such ROM's with the right boot.img. You must use FlashImageGUI.apk!
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I never had any issues using cwm the older version 4.0 to flash any rom the fastboot method Anyway's older TWRP and Newest CWM had some issues with not wiping right to flashing funky...
I will help the OP out if he ever gets stuck
Yeah reaper your right! I think I came off like a ****, I am one, but didn't mean to come off sounding snide.
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StevetotheH said:
Yeah reaper your right! I think I came off like a ****, I am one, but didn't mean to come off sounding snide.
Sent from my HTC Evo 3D using XDA
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It's all good man no worries Your cool
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Dah da dat ta ta! (Swoops in with my 2 cents)
See the Guide/Flashing Notes in my signature for a walkthru for flashing roms, recoveries, etc. All up to date. Choose your method: fastboot & recovery or flashimage & recovery.
Note: TWRP 2.0 with Dumlock is a workaround to avoid using fastboot (pc). FlashImage is not a requirement, its also a workaround vs fastboot.
mpgrimm2 said:
Dah da dat ta ta! (Swoops in with my 2 cents)
See the Guide/Flashing Notes in my signature for a walkthru for flashing roms, recoveries, etc. All up to date. Choose your method: fastboot & recovery or flashimage & recovery.
Note: TWRP 2.0 with Dumlock is a workaround to avoid using fastboot (pc). FlashImage is not a requirement, its also a workaround vs fastboot.
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Nice I was wondering when you was gonna pop in . LOL
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Thanks erryone. I hope others were able to get some help here that are new to 3vo and flashing. I am so waiting for a nub proof s-off method.
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There is the HBOOT downgrade. I have ZERO linux experience whatsoever and thought the process was very easy. I know it says to 'brick' the phone, but it is honestly not that scary. I have done two of these already both being successful on the first attempt. The live cd by closeone actually takes care of almost everything, except for actually doing the brick. Trust me being on 1.40 s-off is much much nicer.
My rezound is currently stuck in fastboot recovery screen. Whether i reset or power down it just returns to the fastboot menu. I got the phone stock gb and tried updating to team bamf ics. It installed but realized it was crashing and went back to try to fix it following the team bamf old firmware update. I got to step 9 on the installation process part 1 but since i flashed the team bamf rom the android leak i was supposed to update to before flashing team bamf rom won't work because my phone is no longer fully stock. How do i fix everything and get back to team bamf rom? Thanks in advance.
Forgot to mention my device is S-ON.
Try to reinstall your recovery and then try to install the ROM again.
Chyrux said:
Try to reinstall your recovery and then try to install the ROM again.
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i will try that as soon as i reformat my pc... it suddenly crashed... -_-' and i'm waiting on a windows 7 dvd. will update as soon as i can
so i had to unlock the bootloader again before putting the recovery but when i unlocked the bootloader the phone went off. now the charging light just keeps flashing and the phone wont show anything on the screen
never mind this phone felt like toying with me
ok it worked i'm back on Team BAMF rom. but every time i try dialing a number on the dialer it crashes
Does the phone app crash or does your phone reboot? Also, does it do the same when you try messing with settings?
i got it to work by installing the old firmware patch file i found. now to get data working.
kevin.thomas said:
i got it to work by installing the old firmware patch file i found. now to get data working.
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It might be best to do a completely fresh install.
Extract the boot.img file from your P98IMG zip and drop it into your ADB directory. Go into recovery, wipe data/cache/dalvik, install ROM and firmware patch. Then reboot into bootloader, go into ADB and type in fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot your phone. Let it sit for about 5 minutes after the first boot and everything should work just fine. :highfive:
Chyrux said:
It might be best to do a completely fresh install.
Extract the boot.img file from your P98IMG zip and drop it into your ADB directory. Go into recovery, wipe data/cache/dalvik, install ROM and firmware patch. Then reboot into bootloader, go into ADB and type in fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot your phone. Let it sit for about 5 minutes after the first boot and everything should work just fine. :highfive:
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wow that's exactly what i was doing. I installed the Team PkmN - Venasaur Rom v3.2.0 to make it easy on myself because i'm on a gsm network and installed the gsm patch to go with it plus the firmware patch and everything works 100 %. Wow i learnt a lot and i can say it's been fun... Thanks for all your help :good:
kevin.thomas said:
wow that's exactly what i was doing. I installed the Team PkmN - Venasaur Rom v3.2.0 to make it easy on myself because i'm on a gsm network and installed the gsm patch to go with it plus the firmware patch and everything works 100 %. Wow i learnt a lot and i can say it's been fun... Thanks for all your help :good:
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No problem. Glad I could help. It's a learning process, but there are great things to learn. I usually use ADB for everything but installing a ROM (since you can't...I'd love to see this happen one day.) Never have a problem when I do. If you have any more issues just PM me.
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No problem. Glad I could help. It's a learning process, but there are great things to learn. I usually use ADB for everything but installing a ROM (since you can't...I'd love to see this happen one day.) Never have a problem when I do. If you have any more issues just PM me.
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no probs thanks again
Hello All,
I bought my mom an HTC Rezound back in 2011 and given that I've been possessed with rooting, unlocking, and modding, I got my hands on her device the other day and nearly died when I saw all of the bloatware she had on it. Now she's at least updated to ICS, however I would like to root/unlock and mod her device so I can make it run a lot better.
The question is - what is the best way to root/unlock this device? I've read a lot of the XDA threads and done some Google searches, but most of the XDA guides are old and a lot of the comments (on XDA and Google) is that several of the methods don't work for the "updated" Rezounds. I reiterate that hers is an old version (original from 2011) but has the 2012/2013 updates.
If someone could please provide a link to a known working method for the 2012/2013 updated Rezounds, that would be great!
Thank you!
-Taxmaster
The basic method hasn't changed. Unlock the bootloader at htcdev.com, flash a recovery with fastboot, then go from there. You might see stuff talking about charging problems with CWM...you can safely ignore that, it's old news. There is no issue with the new CWM. You might also see stories of issues flashing things with TWRP. Again, that's old news. The recent versions of TWRP have no issues. A lot use Amon-ra, but I don't like it and haven't used it since TWRP and CWM were fixed, so I can't really say much more about it.
Hansoon's all-in-one toolkit will still work fine with this phone through the initial
Kernels can't be flashed in recovery unless you go the extra step of getting S-OFF. They can still be flashed, but only through the bootloader (using either fastboot or a PH98IMG.zip, if the ROM or kernel provides it). S-OFF also removes version checks which normally prevents downgrading of radios and bootloader. However, this phone is essentially unbrickable while it's S-ON, so there is a tradeoff.
Keep in mind that unlocking this phone's bootloader will wipe /data and emmc, so find a way to backup anything important before you start.
As for ROMs, AOSP is 99% working now...it's actually better here now than it is on the Note 2, and I prefer it to Sense on this phone, but there are some great Sense ROMs out as well. The only caveat is that MHL is only working on Sense 3.6 and I think one Sense 4+ ROM...no AOSP ROM has it working and most Sense 4 ROMs don't.
shrike1978 said:
The basic method hasn't changed. Unlock the bootloader at htcdev.com, flash a recovery with fastboot, then go from there. You might see stuff talking about charging problems with CWM...you can safely ignore that, it's old news. There is no issue with the new CWM. You might also see stories of issues flashing things with TWRP. Again, that's old news. The recent versions of TWRP have no issues. A lot use Amon-ra, but I don't like it and haven't used it since TWRP and CWM were fixed, so I can't really say much more about it.
Hansoon's all-in-one toolkit will still work fine with this phone through the initial
Kernels can't be flashed in recovery unless you go the extra step of getting S-OFF. They can still be flashed, but only through the bootloader (using either fastboot or a PH98IMG.zip, if the ROM or kernel provides it). S-OFF also removes version checks which normally prevents downgrading of radios and bootloader. However, this phone is essentially unbrickable while it's S-ON, so there is a tradeoff.
Keep in mind that unlocking this phone's bootloader will wipe /data and emmc, so find a way to backup anything important before you start.
As for ROMs, AOSP is 99% working now...it's actually better here now than it is on the Note 2, and I prefer it to Sense on this phone, but there are some great Sense ROMs out as well. The only caveat is that MHL is only working on Sense 3.6 and I think one Sense 4+ ROM...no AOSP ROM has it working and most Sense 4 ROMs don't.
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Thank you for covering this so thoroughly! Can you clarify what Sense is and what (if any) advantage it has over AOSP? I have a Galaxy Note 2 so I haven't come across this before.
Also, my plan is to use TWRP and only flash ROMs that have a custom kernel as part of the ROM (no separate flashing).
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Sense is HTC's overlay on top of Android...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Sense
Ah, so Sense is to HTC as Touchwhiz is to Samsung.
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Ah, so Sense is to HTC as Touchwhiz is to Samsung.
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100% correct with that. Personally i like the AOSP roms better then sense. they just seem to work very well and alot of bugs have been worked out and they seem alot quicker then sense roms. The few things that you are missing from not having a sense rom are min and not a lot of people really notice. I use Neo's Infection 2.5. great rom, great speed, and very stable
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100% correct with that. Personally i like the AOSP roms better then sense. they just seem to work very well and alot of bugs have been worked out and they seem alot quicker then sense roms. The few things that you are missing from not having a sense rom are min and not a lot of people really notice. I use Neo's Infection 2.5. great rom, great speed, and very stable
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That actually was the ROM I was planning on using!
Here is my plan of attack (check to see if this looks okay):
Backup: MyBackup Pro (later on use Titanium Backup, but apparently temp. root doesn't work anymore after the ICS update).
Unlock/Root: Hassoon's All-In-One Kit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504824
ROM to flash: Neo's Infection 2.5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070947
Let me know if you give this plan of attack a thumbs up! Also, please let me know if you have any suggestions or things I should be aware of along the way!
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
That actually was the ROM I was planning on using!
Here is my plan of attack (check to see if this looks okay):
Backup: MyBackup Pro (later on use Titanium Backup, but apparently temp. root doesn't work anymore after the ICS update).
Unlock/Root: Hassoon's All-In-One Kit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504824
ROM to flash: Neo's Infection 2.5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070947
Let me know if you give this plan of attack a thumbs up! Also, please let me know if you have any suggestions or things I should be aware of along the way!
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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I've never used the all-in-one kit. I was never a big fan of them, but other people have had good success with it. From what it looks like it would be the same as doing it step by step manually. so i would say use that.
But yea that looks good, also make sure if you are going to stay s-on, to extract the boot.img file from the rom and flash it in fastboot.
Also just remember when you go ahead and do the unlock from HTC, it WILL data wipe your phone, so anything that needs to be backed up back it up..as you did say backup i think you already know that
other then that i say thumbs up
clmowers said:
I've never used the all-in-one kit. I was never a big fan of them, but other people have had good success with it. From what it looks like it would be the same as doing it step by step manually. so i would say use that.
But yea that looks good, also make sure if you are going to stay s-on, to extract the boot.img file from the rom and flash it in fastboot.
Also just remember when you go ahead and do the unlock from HTC, it WILL data wipe your phone, so anything that needs to be backed up back it up..as you did say backup i think you already know that
other then that i say thumbs up
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Okay, well I plan to stay S-On given that when I flash Neo's Infection 2.5 ROM it includes the Hiro Kernel. I went to download his ROM (which version should I use btw? I downloaded Infection_2.5.zip and there are others that say inverted, slim, dev, etc.) and extracted boot.img. I haven't worked with fastboot yet so could you give me a brief walkthrough on how to proceed with that?
By the way, do you recommend the AMON RA recovery that Neo mentions? I'm personally a TWRP fan.
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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Okay, well I plan to stay S-On given that when I flash Neo's Infection 2.5 ROM it includes the Hiro Kernel. I went to download his ROM (which version should I use btw? I downloaded Infection_2.5.zip and there are others that say inverted, slim, dev, etc.) and extracted boot.img. I haven't worked with fastboot yet so could you give me a brief walkthrough on how to proceed with that?
By the way, do you recommend the AMON RA recovery that Neo mentions? I'm personally a TWRP fan.
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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yeah no problem.
the difference are this
Slim is basiclly a stripped down version of the rom, min amount of apps and stuff no google stuff or anything..you have to download each thing seperate
the dev version is the one he uses to dev with, it was more less setup for Neo to use and play with for testing..nothing special with it just more stripped down then the standards
the inverted and non inverted are the same roms. the big difference is the inverted uses a dark them with bright lettering where as the non inverted uses a light theme with dark lettering. this also has the google apps installed
I use the inverted as i think it looks cool, always like the darker themed stuff. personal pref on that tho
fastboot is pretty simple to use. First you will need to download it.. ive always used the android SDK and then downloaded it from that and then removed the SDK. If you do some digging around im sure you can find the fastboot and adb stuff by itself.
so once you get the phone unlocked via htcdev you need to flash the recovery file. I do use amon ra like neo suggest. TWRP and CMW work just as well now that they fixed alot of the issues they were having. Im like amon so i tend to stick with it..its clean easy to use and never had a problem with it
to flash the recovery, you will need to use fastboot
to enter fastboot, pull the battery and put it back in, hold down the power and vol down button till you get the bootloader, then use the vol keys to select fastboot, then hit the power button. plug the phone into the computer
open the command prompt and go to where you have fastboot downloaded and then make sure the recovery img is there
type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img then hit enter. This will flash the recovery to the phone,
then do your typical flashing of the rom in the recovery. after you have flashed the rom, if you are using amon, back out till you hit the main menu and go down to dev options and select boot to bootloader..this will reboot your phone into the bootloader again, then just go back into the fastboot like you did to flash recovery. then open up the rom with a zip program like 7zip winrar and you will see a boot.img file. take that file out and put it in the same location as the recovery file on your computer that also has the fastboot program
go back to the command promt and type
fastboot flash boot boot.img to install the boot img into the phone and then when its down you can reboot..all should be good to go
hopefully this make since to you lol if not let me know and i will clearify it
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Oh and one last thing he no longer includes hiro for the kernel. The stock kernel with that ROM is snuzzo funkybean
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clmowers said:
yeah no problem.
the difference are this
Slim is basiclly a stripped down version of the rom, min amount of apps and stuff no google stuff or anything..you have to download each thing seperate
the dev version is the one he uses to dev with, it was more less setup for Neo to use and play with for testing..nothing special with it just more stripped down then the standards
the inverted and non inverted are the same roms. the big difference is the inverted uses a dark them with bright lettering where as the non inverted uses a light theme with dark lettering. this also has the google apps installed
I use the inverted as i think it looks cool, always like the darker themed stuff. personal pref on that tho
fastboot is pretty simple to use. First you will need to download it.. ive always used the android SDK and then downloaded it from that and then removed the SDK. If you do some digging around im sure you can find the fastboot and adb stuff by itself.
so once you get the phone unlocked via htcdev you need to flash the recovery file. I do use amon ra like neo suggest. TWRP and CMW work just as well now that they fixed alot of the issues they were having. Im like amon so i tend to stick with it..its clean easy to use and never had a problem with it
to flash the recovery, you will need to use fastboot
to enter fastboot, pull the battery and put it back in, hold down the power and vol down button till you get the bootloader, then use the vol keys to select fastboot, then hit the power button. plug the phone into the computer
open the command prompt and go to where you have fastboot downloaded and then make sure the recovery img is there
type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img then hit enter. This will flash the recovery to the phone,
then do your typical flashing of the rom in the recovery. after you have flashed the rom, if you are using amon, back out till you hit the main menu and go down to dev options and select boot to bootloader..this will reboot your phone into the bootloader again, then just go back into the fastboot like you did to flash recovery. then open up the rom with a zip program like 7zip winrar and you will see a boot.img file. take that file out and put it in the same location as the recovery file on your computer that also has the fastboot program
go back to the command promt and type
fastboot flash boot boot.img to install the boot img into the phone and then when its down you can reboot..all should be good to go
hopefully this make since to you lol if not let me know and i will clearify it
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Oh and one last thing he no longer includes hiro for the kernel. The stock kernel with that ROM is snuzzo funkybean
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Okay, so here's where I'm at:
1. I downloaded the Android SDK and installed it. I went into the folder Downloads/adtbundle..../sdk/platform-tools
In this directory I see an adb and a fastboot file. When I try to open and run either one of them, a window opens and terminates less than a minute after. I don't know if this is normal or not if if I'm supposed to use a different directory, but this is where I extracted these files to. (x64 Win 7 Ultimate btw).
2. When you say open the command prompt, which one are we talking about here and how do I get to it? When I think of command prompt, I'm thinking Windows "Run" (start+R).
3. You noted to have the amon ra recovery in the same directory as fastboot (at least that is what I believe you're inferring). Is the directory I noted above the appropriate place to put this Ra3.15PH98IMG.img file in? Am I supposed to leave it in this format?
4. Do I type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" in verbatim or do I type in something else (a different command), perhaps fastboot flash recovery Ra3.15PH98IMG.img ?
5. I'm confused regarding when I'm supposed to flash the ROM itself using Amon Ra. It seems like first I unlock, then I use fastboot to install Amon Ra, then I use fastboot to install the image extracted from the Infection 2.5zip. Once this is all done, then do I flash the Infection2.5.zip itself using Amon Ra?
6. How is the snuzzo funkybean kernel? Is it a better kernel than the Hiro? Overclock etc?
Sorry in advance for the many clarifying questions lol, the last thing I want is to break my mother's phone and be on the hook to buy her a new one lol.
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
Okay, so here's where I'm at:
1. I downloaded the Android SDK and installed it. I went into the folder Downloads/adtbundle..../sdk/platform-tools
In this directory I see an adb and a fastboot file. When I try to open and run either one of them, a window opens and terminates less than a minute after. I don't know if this is normal or not if if I'm supposed to use a different directory, but this is where I extracted these files to. (x64 Win 7 Ultimate btw).
2. When you say open the command prompt, which one are we talking about here and how do I get to it? When I think of command prompt, I'm thinking Windows "Run" (start+R).
3. You noted to have the amon ra recovery in the same directory as fastboot (at least that is what I believe you're inferring). Is the directory I noted above the appropriate place to put this Ra3.15PH98IMG.img file in? Am I supposed to leave it in this format?
4. Do I type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" in verbatim or do I type in something else (a different command), perhaps fastboot flash recovery Ra3.15PH98IMG.img ?
5. I'm confused regarding when I'm supposed to flash the ROM itself using Amon Ra. It seems like first I unlock, then I use fastboot to install Amon Ra, then I use fastboot to install the image extracted from the Infection 2.5zip. Once this is all done, then do I flash the Infection2.5.zip itself using Amon Ra?
6. How is the snuzzo funkybean kernel? Is it a better kernel than the Hiro? Overclock etc?
Sorry in advance for the many clarifying questions lol, the last thing I want is to break my mother's phone and be on the hook to buy her a new one lol.
-Taxmaster
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Your totally fine buds, i tend to not make thing totally clear..its my learning disabilty, i think of it in my head but sometimes my fingers dont always type what i think. so lets take this 1 step at a time
as you have downloaded the SDK already i will skip that..but here pretty much the step by step. If you are using the all-in-one
1.) Go to http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/ and fill out the form, it tells you how to do everything from the site on how to unlock your phone
2.) Once you have unlocked it, you will need to install the custom recovery amon ra
3.) make a directory under the c drive called phone and copy the platform-tools from the SDK there. so you should see something like this
C:\phone\fastboot.exe
C:\phone\adb.exe
etc....
4 copy the boot.img and the recovery img to c:\phone (for ease rename amon to recovery.img)
5.) pull the battery on your phone and reinstall it...hold down power button and the vol down button
6.) once you are in the bootloader select fastboot from the menu and hit the power button
7.) connect the phone via usb to the computer and open a command prompt window ( Crtl + r then type cmd and hit enter)
8.) type in cd\ and then hit enter
9.) type cd c:\phone and then hit enter
10.) type fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and then hit enter...you should see it loading and end up saying succesfull
11.) go back into the bootloader by selecting it from the menu on the phone and then use the vol down key to select recovery. this will boot into amon
12.) once you are in amon, select mount as usb drive..i think its the second option in the menu and then mount either of the sd cards.
13.) copy the ROM zip the phone and then once its down hit the power button to turn that function off
14.) go to the wipe menu and wipe everything 3 times, this will give your phone a clean slate
15.) back out and then select the flash zip menu and then select where you saved the rom and let it flash away.
16.) once you have flashed back out to the main menu again and then select the dev option in the menu and select reboot to bootloader, you are going to select fastboot again.
do steps 9 and 10 again if you closed the previous window other wise type in fastboot flash boot boot.img, and you will see a similuar screen like you did on the recovery file, once its done reboot your phone and you are now running a custom rom
I dont think that funky is overclocked by default, but the option is there to over/under click if thats your liking. Ive always had good luck with his kernals so i tend to stick to snuzzos kernals. ive used Hiro before and never really noticed much of a huge difference between the two. I live by the saying if it isnt broke dont fix it. so tend to stick with the funky just because i know it works and its never given me problems
hopefully this clears things up
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13.) copy the ROM zip the phone and then once its down hit the power button to turn that function off
14.) go to the wipe menu and wipe everything 3 times, this will give your phone a clean slate
15.) back out and then select the flash zip menu and then select where you saved the rom and let it flash away.
16.) once you have flashed back out to the main menu again and then select the dev option in the menu and select reboot to bootloader, you are going to select fastboot again.
do steps 9 and 10 again if you closed the previous window other wise type in fastboot flash boot boot.img, and you will see a similuar screen like you did on the recovery file, once its done reboot your phone and you are now running a custom rom
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I followed you up to step 13 (thanks for getting me this far btw!)
Questions:
1. You say to copy the ROM zip "the phone" and then once "its down" hit the power button to turn that function off. I'm totally confused as to what this means. For one, I don't know if I'm supposed to copy the Infection2.5.zip to the C:\phone or to the extSDCard. Then I just don't follow what you mean by "its down" and "turn that function off".
2. Just to clarify, it sounds like this is the order of operations (excluding wipes):
--Unlock/Root
--Fastboot Recovery
--Use Recovery to Flash ROM
--Fastboot boot.img (from ROM)
--Reboot system (restart phone)
Does this seem correct? Also, is there a cache/dalvik-cache clear in order at some point?
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
I followed you up to step 13 (thanks for getting me this far btw!)
Questions:
1. You say to copy the ROM zip "the phone" and then once "its down" hit the power button to turn that function off. I'm totally confused as to what this means. For one, I don't know if I'm supposed to copy the Infection2.5.zip to the C:\phone or to the extSDCard. Then I just don't follow what you mean by "its down" and "turn that function off".
2. Just to clarify, it sounds like this is the order of operations (excluding wipes):
--Unlock/Root
--Fastboot Recovery
--Use Recovery to Flash ROM
--Fastboot boot.img (from ROM)
--Reboot system (restart phone)
Does this seem correct? Also, is there a cache/dalvik-cache clear in order at some point?
Thanks!
-Taxmaster
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Sorry those were miss types lol it should read this
copy the ROM to the sdcard and then once its done hit the power button to turn off usb mass storage
Basiclly what you are doing is copying infection 2.5 to your SDcard on your phone itself so you can flash it
Yes that would be the correct order.
As for wiping when you get into the wipe menu you will see the caches, and yes you will have to wipe both cache and devlik cache
Your very welcome btw
clmowers said:
Basiclly what you are doing is copying infection 2.5 to your SDcard on your phone itself so you can flash it
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One last clarification, when you say to the "SDcard on your phone itself" do you mean extSDCard or sdcard0 ? My plan was to insert the extSDCard while the phone is currently running the stock ROM, format it, connect it to the PC (MTP) and then copy/paste the Infection2.5.zip over to it (extSDCard). I would then leave that file on the extSDCard and use it as the reference directory for the ROM flash. Is this appropriate, or is it required to store the ROM zip on sdcard0 (built-in memory)?
Thank you!
-Taxmaster
Yes the exsdcard will work. That's the external sdcard and will work just fine As for getting the ROM on the extsdcard..that's totally up to you. It just need to be there for flashing
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clmowers said:
Yes the exsdcard will work. That's the external sdcard and will work just fine As for getting the ROM on the extsdcard..that's totally up to you. It just need to be there for flashing
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Alrighty then! I'm going to go for it and I'll let you know how it goes!
-Taxmaster
Its sounds more complicated then it really is...yea def let me know how it goes. If you have any questions along the way just ask
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I just wanted to let everyone know that I got my mom's phone up and running using this method! Thank you guys for all of your help!
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Wouldn't it be great if everyone got answers like this?
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Hey Everyone! So here's the quick nitty gritty...
Flashed Clean Rom Standard and Left S-On
Worked great for about 8 months
Started crashing like crazy and the only fix was to go back to stock
Went to stock and then unlocked, S is still On
Flashed ClockworkMod 6.0.2.3
Can't get any aftermarket S-On Roms to work
It can never see a PH98IMG.zip file via fastboot/bootloader
So I'm stuck and I don't know what to do
Anyway, that's where I'm at. Right now the phone is working just fine but stock roms suck and it's FULL of bloatware that I can't get rid of. So...any ideas on what I can do? I'd love to use Clean Rom once again but I can't get the PH98 file to flash
More Phone Info...
Ver - 4.0.3
Sense - 3.6
Software - 4.03.605.2 710RD
Kernel - 3.0.16-g480e1b0
Thanks in advance!
AT
AlmostTactful said:
Hey Everyone! So here's the quick nitty gritty...
Flashed Clean Rom Standard and Left S-On
Worked great for about 8 months
Started crashing like crazy and the only fix was to go back to stock
Went to stock and then unlocked, S is still On
Flashed ClockworkMod 6.0.2.3
Can't get any aftermarket S-On Roms to work
It can never see a PH98IMG.zip file via fastboot/bootloader
So I'm stuck and I don't know what to do
Anyway, that's where I'm at. Right now the phone is working just fine but stock roms suck and it's FULL of bloatware that I can't get rid of. So...any ideas on what I can do? I'd love to use Clean Rom once again but I can't get the PH98 file to flash
More Phone Info...
Ver - 4.0.3
Sense - 3.6
Software - 4.03.605.2 710RD
Kernel - 3.0.16-g480e1b0
Thanks in advance!
AT
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The newer roms are mostly made for S-OFF and do not create a ph98img file to flash with the boot.img you have to manually do it.
You should be able to flash by extracting the boot.img from the rom you want to flash, place it in your fast boot folder on your PC,
Open command prompt in that folder, and type fastboot flash boot boot.img
Hope this helps
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Hi Neighbor
kc6wke said:
The newer roms are mostly made for S-OFF and do not create a ph98img file to flash with the boot.img you have to manually do it.
You should be able to flash by extracting the boot.img from the rom you want to flash, place it in your fast boot folder on your PC,
Open command prompt in that folder, and type fastboot flash boot boot.img
Hope this helps
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Hi Neighbor
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Haha Howdy!
Well, so I just tried using Nils ROM and it's supposed to be an all in one installer. I can see the installer saying everything is working but when it goes back to the boot loader screen it still isn't seeing the PH98 file...I'm not super familar with using fast boot on my PC as I'm still using older roms that always worked for me before when it came to flashing doing this method.
Sorry to be a pain in the a lol
AlmostTactful said:
Haha Howdy!
Well, so I just tried using Nils ROM and it's supposed to be an all in one installer. I can see the installer saying everything is working but when it goes back to the boot loader screen it still isn't seeing the PH98 file...I'm not super familar with using fast boot on my PC as I'm still using older roms that always worked for me before when it came to flashing doing this method.
Sorry to be a pain in the a lol
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I'll chime in, but would say that getting acquainted with how ADB works from the PC would be of great help to you. I don't like it either, which is why I s-offed. It does occur to me though that, at the very least, you are rooted, so Titanium Backup will help you freeze and/or uninstall bloat. I just had to RUU because I borked my internal storage and I am running stock, without all of Big Reds crap, and I'm actually enjoying it for a few days...
Good Luck from the mid west!
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Haha Howdy!
Well, so I just tried using Nils ROM and it's supposed to be an all in one installer. I can see the installer saying everything is working but when it goes back to the boot loader screen it still isn't seeing the PH98 file...I'm not super familar with using fast boot on my PC as I'm still using older roms that always worked for me before when it came to flashing doing this method.
Sorry to be a pain in the a lol
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't see a way around your problem if you're unwilling to learn how to do things with fastboot or adb or (possibly) both. They're easy to figure out for basic operations, so just do it! (Hey, you're flashing custom ROMs, ya gotta give a little too! )
Good luck,
john
AlmostTactful said:
Haha Howdy!
Well, so I just tried using Nils ROM and it's supposed to be an all in one installer. I can see the installer saying everything is working but when it goes back to the boot loader screen it still isn't seeing the PH98 file...I'm not super familar with using fast boot on my PC as I'm still using older roms that always worked for me before when it came to flashing doing this method.
Sorry to be a pain in the a lol
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There is one way to acquire temp "s-off" meaning you can flash ROMs in recovery and the boot image flash with it. It does do heavy work on your boot partition though. TWRP HTCdumlock there is instructions in flyhalf's TWRP thread to do this method
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Don't use CWM plain and simple. Switch over to TWRP. Only con, rebooting to bootloader manually. Also make sure you do a system/data/cache wipe prior to switching roms.
There is always the all in one tool that you can flash the kernel from but you still need to extract the boot img from the rom