I don't want to be giving my friend the wrong information. When his sprint 3d was boot 1.5 I took it and soff it for him downgrading to 1.4. Now recently he upgraded to hboot 1.58 and it says relocked at the top. Of course he still has recovery and still is rooted.
My question is since his phone is soff can't he just still flash whatever with no issues? Does he have to do dev unlock again?
I own a rezound and have had many HTC devices and soff has always been the key to everything for me. Any help would be appreciated
With s-off there's no need to unlock his boot loader again. (For example) If he wants to flash an aosp rom, all he's gotta do is downgrade his hboot via boot loader.
Perfect. Already installed JP bear latest hboot and went to twrp. Making a backup now. That's what I was thinking but I wanted some confirmation. Its been a while since I messed with an Evo 3d
Hmmm. It won't flash paranoid android. Even tried the 1.04 eng hboot. Any ideas? Using twrp recovery. Latest radios and 1.04 eng hboot.
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Hmmm. It won't flash paranoid android. Even tried the 1.04 eng hboot. Any ideas? Using twrp recovery. Latest radios and 1.04 eng hboot.
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A lot of people have had better luck with 4EXT on the Evo 3D. You can download the Recovery Updater for free from the www.4ext.net website and install the current version of 4EXT Recovery from that app. Then "format all partitions except SD card" in the wipe/format menu of the recovery, and try flashing PA again.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
A lot of people have had better luck with 4EXT on the Evo 3D. You can download the Recovery Updater for free from the www.4ext.net website and install the current version of 4EXT Recovery from that app. Then "format all partitions except SD card" in the wipe/format menu of the recovery, and try flashing PA again.
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K. I'm working on that now. I let you know soon its backing up now. Thank you for the heads up. Do you think I should go back yo the latest jbear hboot? Or just leave the 1.04 eng hboot? He wants to be able to run these jellybean builds that are out
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K. I'm working on that now. I let you know soon its backing up now. Thank you for the heads up. Do you think I should go back yo the latest jbear hboot? Or just leave the 1.04 eng hboot? He wants to be able to run these jellybean builds that are out
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Stay with the ENG 1.04 hboot for now. The GB and AOSP based ROM's won't boot with the latest JBear (1.58.5858) so if you want to use a JBear version 1.50.5050 is better.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
Stay with the ENG 1.04 hboot for now. The GB and AOSP based ROM's won't boot with the latest JBear (1.58.5858) so if you want to use a JBear version 1.50.5050 is better.
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Wow thank you for all the help. I just did everything and unfortunately it is just stuck in a never ending splash loop. Doesn't seem like the kernel/boot is being flashed. Made a backup so I should be good. Just sucks doing all the steps and being stuck.
What kernel are you flashing with pa?
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What kernel are you flashing with pa?
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It doesn't come with a kernel?
stkiswr said:
Wow thank you for all the help. I just did everything and unfortunately it is just stuck in a never ending splash loop. Doesn't seem like the kernel/boot is being flashed. Made a backup so I should be good. Just sucks doing all the steps and being stuck.
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Are you doing the "format all partitions except SD card" in 4EXT right before flashing the ROM? Make sure to give it plenty of time to boot since sometimes the first boot can take up to 10 minutes.
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stkiswr said:
It doesn't come with a kernel?
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Well go with ramjets suggestion and try format all partitions minus sdcard along with full factory data wipe and cache/dalvik wipe and see if it boots up all the way.( it couldn't hurt to do all the wipes two or three times before you flash the rom). Just to make sure everything was wiped all the way.
Oh yeah. Step by step . It just never gets past splash. I looked into the ROM downloaded and saw a boot IMG but it really seems like a boot issue. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Soff, everything in right place, correct recovery and no boot. Not complaining, he still has his backup he is running and it restores backup correctly.
His phone was soff and he upgraded firmware to the 1.58 so it said locked in hboot. I just flashed 3 dif bootloader with no issues. Its def soff.
Ok, try flashing a different kernel. Try the Mac kernel that's located in Mazda's aokp jb thread. I believe buttered toast came with pa that your trying to flash. It could also be a bad download as well. You could always redownload the rom as well to see if that works. You never know about these things sometimes.
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Oh yeah. Step by step . It just never gets past splash. I looked into the ROM downloaded and saw a boot IMG but it really seems like a boot issue. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Soff, everything in right place, correct recovery and no boot. Not complaining, he still has his backup he is running and it restores backup correctly.
His phone was soff and he upgraded firmware to the 1.58 so it said locked in hboot. I just flashed 3 dif bootloader with no issues. Its def soff.
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You've tried all the standard stuff to get AOSP ROM's to boot on the Evo 3D. At this point I can only suggest that you flash the 2.89.651.2 SPrint ICS RUU from here, then reflash a custom bootloader and recovery. That will make sure everything is in sync and has cleared up this problem for other users.
You don't need to relock the bootloader (although I think you said it is already relocked) when flashing the RUU if the phone is S-OFF.
ramjet73
Yes, I will try to download ROM again and also grab that kernel.
I soff this phone for him when it was hboot 1.50. Then I reverted to 1.40 via brick method to get it soff. He has ran some form of an hboot/radios update because he was told to do that. Now we are working together and I am trying to fix all his stuff and get him setup correctly. I have an soff rezound and am sure his phone isn't seeing the boot.IMG.
Now today his phone said locked or relocked am not sure. I went ahead an changed his hboot to a recommended 1.04eng hboot. Installed 4ext recovery via the app that was linked. I am downloading gangam style cm10 to test just to see if something will boot. It successfully flashed a sense based ROM and booted fine thru an aroma installer that came with the ROM. In the installer I stated it was soff and had no issues. I will try the ROM and it doesn't boot I will jump back to recovery and flash a kernel and see. Thanks very much for all the help
Well, I have done it all. Not much more I can do. He may try to run the ICS ruu later but I just can't get any cm10 jb based ROM to boot. Y'all have been more than helpful catching me back up to speed on the 3d and while I agree this should be flashing alas it is not booting. I am positive its just not accepting the boot img for what ever reason because it never makes it far enough after reboot from recovery. Just endless quick splash screen reboots.
No problem. I just wanted to add that a lot of users are having weird issues with paranoid android. ( I'm subscribed to the thread) so it could be that your phone doesn't like pa for some reason. ( Not a diss on Lens Flare at All) but he's been having some issues with the rom and is more than likely trying to work on it. Hopefully you can get gangnam style up and running or even aokp jb. If none of these work, I would go with ramjets suggestion and run a ruu and then back to Asop.
Edit: guess you already tried them. Hopefully you get some better luck after you try the ruu method. Good luck.
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Hey guys, my 3VO hasn't been acting right lately. I was having trouble booting Agrabrens latest CM10 build for CDMA, it bootlooped, but then i was able to run it again later without issue. Now my phone is having trouble running ICS based Sense roms, the roms bootloop. None of these roms have a 1.58 hboot requirement and i'm running eng hboot. Lately my phone only can run AOSP/AOSP based roms(except for at least one i've tried) without bootloops. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
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Hey guys, my 3VO hasn't been acting right lately. I was having trouble booting Agrabrens latest CM10 build for CDMA, it bootlooped, but then i was able to run it again later without issue. Now my phone is having trouble running ICS based Sense roms, the roms bootloop. None of these roms have a 1.58 hboot requirement and i'm running eng hboot. Laterly my phone only can run AOSP/AOSP based roms(except for at least one i've tried) without bootloops. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
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Sounds like Sense is mad at you for trying AOSP ROM's.
I'm assuming you are S-OFF since you mentioned the ENG bootloader, but have you flashed the 2.89.651.2 (Sprint ICS) firmware yet? My preference would be to flash the whole RUU if you haven't already and then reflash recovery, but there is a .zip file in Virus's OTA thread that contains only the firmware, including hboot 1.58, that can be flashed from your current bootloader. You can always go back to the ENG bootloader once you get past this problem.
ramjet73
Does your recovery bootloop as well? What recovery on are you on?
Details, details.
Mobilemodz said:
Does your recovery bootloop as well? What recovery on are you on?
Details, details.
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Recovery wouldnt have anything to do with his bootloops unless you flashed the a mod, kernel, or theme that doesnt play nice with the Rom. Like ramjet said, its more than likely a firmware and or hboot issue. Go with ramjet and try his solution.
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Sounds like Sense is mad at you for trying AOSP ROM's.
I'm assuming you are S-OFF since you mentioned the ENG bootloader, but have you flashed the 2.89.651.2 (Sprint ICS) firmware yet? My preference would be to flash the whole RUU if you haven't already and then reflash recovery, but there is a .zip file in Virus's OTA thread that contains only the firmware, including hboot 1.58, that can be flashed from your current bootloader. You can always go back to the ENG bootloader once you get past this problem.
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Thanks bro, flashing the newest boot helped. Iinm I used Viruses zip. Now I'm back on eng hboot.
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damn im in the same boat right now, tried virus zip and no luck......continuous boot loop.
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damn im in the same boat right now, tried virus zip and no luck......continuous boot loop.
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Edit: for this puppy back in business has to flash full ruu as you mentioned ramjet73 and not I'm 1.58 s-off locked, which really doesn't matter since I can just flash PG86IMG and go back to eng hboot.
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I have an Evo V 4G (obviously) it's S-OFF (wire trick) and running the buttered toast kernel, I was on Paranoid Android 2.99 and I kept getting fc's, so I decided to try a few new ROMs, so I tried ViperROM for Sense 4.1, that froze in the boot animation, so I went into 4ext and wiped/flashed a new ROM, but in 4ext, when I hit "info" it still says ViperROM no matter how many times I've wiped it.
I've tried going back and forth retracing my steps and trying different ROMs, aroma installer set ups, and I have no clue.
Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
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I have an Evo V 4G (obviously) it's S-OFF (wire trick) and running the buttered toast kernel, I was on Paranoid Android 2.99 and I kept getting fc's, so I decided to try a few new ROMs, so I tried ViperROM for Sense 4.1, that froze in the boot animation, so I went into 4ext and wiped/flashed a new ROM, but in 4ext, when I hit "info" it still says ViperROM no matter how many times I've wiped it.
I've tried going back and forth retracing my steps and trying different ROMs, aroma installer set ups, and I have no clue.
Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
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First suggestion would be to post in the right forum, which for this thread would be Q&A. I've reported it to the mods so they will move it for you.
If you are using 4EXT you should do a "format all partitions except sd card" in the wipe/format menu before flashing a ROM. Then make sure the the S-ON/Smartflash option is disabled in the tools menu, although that won't prevent your ROM from flashing correctly.
Try doing that and giving it plenty of time to boot after you flash it (10 minutes should be enough).
ramjet73
This needs to be in Q&A so get ready for some flames, but I'll attempt to answer.
Go into bootloader and use the wipe all utility there. Then go back to 4-ext and make sure to enable smartflash under settings. Wipe everything except your SD card, and then try to flash something like a sense 3.6 ROM that you know will be stable. Finally, let your device reboot or reboot it when the flash is complete, and let it sit for at least ten minutes. If by then, it still hasn't booted, post back.
Best of luck.
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ramjet73 said:
First suggestion would be to post in the right forum, which for this thread would be Q&A. I've reported it to the mods so they will move it for you.
If you are using 4EXT you should do a "format all partitions except sd card" in the wipe/format menu before flashing a ROM. Then make sure the the S-ON/Smartflash option is disabled in the tools menu, although that won't prevent your ROM from flashing correctly.
Try doing that and giving it plenty of time to boot after you flash it (10 minutes should be enough).
ramjet73
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lol beat me to it
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lol beat me to it
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At least we're consistent.
ramjet73
sorry about that guys, I'm not new to forums, I just use AndroidForums more often, I'll give it a try, although I've tried formatting already.
A possibility might be that ViperROM was supposed to be flashed with an RUU fastboot? I'm not really familiar with that method
My guess is Viper needs 1.58 hboot since it a sense rom.
And yeah, wrong forum.
well we've gotten past that, I get it, wrong forum, won't happen again.
That might be true, I'm on Eng 1.04, but I've tried installing Paranoid Android again which worked for me on 1.04, so is there any way I could possibly fix this and get it to boot
Yeah, you definitely need HBOOT 1.57 (Juop HBOOT, the one for Virgin Mobile) if you want this to run. Optionally you can also use 1.58 (Evo 3D ICS Bootloader), but you'll need to modify the SPC in info.txt to make it "02" or "2" I forget which one.
You can of course always fuse the build with the Virgin Mobile Leak kernel, and while you'll lose some stability, it will make it compatible with the ENG Bootloader. Sense 4.1 ROMs are not natively compatible with the ENG bootloader (1.04), because they use a modified version of the 2.89 (RUU) kernel.
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Yeah, you definitely need HBOOT 1.57 (Juop HBOOT, the one for Virgin Mobile) if you want this to run. Optionally you can also use 1.58 (Evo 3D ICS Bootloader), but you'll need to modify the SPC in info.txt to make it "02" or "2" I forget which one.
You can of course always fuse the build with the Virgin Mobile Leak kernel, and while you'll lose some stability, it will make it compatible with the ENG Bootloader. Sense 4.1 ROMs are not natively compatible with the ENG bootloader (1.04), because they use a modified version of the 2.89 (RUU) kernel.
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thank you, is there any way I can get my phone to boot? I've tried every ROM on my sdcard, whether its JB, MIUI, Sense, Sensless, and it seems to be stuck at this HTC logo, it won't play any boot animation or bootloop, its just stuck
Wipe all partitions, get the original HBOOT 1.57 on it, wipe all partitions again, and then flash Harmonia. Harmonia always boots for me 100% of the time. It's really the only surefire way of doing in my opinion.
If you don't have the Juop HBOOT, here's a download from my personal repository https://www.box.com/s/s64uphj0a37yj7mf3jx1
You probably already know, but rename it PG86IMG.zip, put it on your SD card, and go into bootloader. Once it's there, do the update. Take out your SD and get another one (because you won't be able to get to the recovery anymore) and put Harmonia on it. Your phone should boot, this method has saved me more than once.
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thank you, is there any way I can get my phone to boot? I've tried every ROM on my sdcard, whether its JB, MIUI, Sense, Sensless, and it seems to be stuck at this HTC logo, it won't play any boot animation or bootloop, its just stuck
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Some people with this problem have needed to flash the RUU.exe to get it resolved. The Virgin Mobile version is here.
Since you are S-OFF you can just flash that from Windows after putting the phone into "fastboot usb" mode, then flash a custom bootloader and recovery and you will be back in business. You can also boot into the stock ROM and download and install the VM OTA update before flashing the custom recovery. Should take no more than a half hour.
I have a link to the bootloaders and instructions for flashing them available in this post and they all work with both the Evo 3D and Evo V.
ramjet73
thebeastglasser said:
Wipe all partitions, get the original HBOOT 1.57 on it, wipe all partitions again, and then flash Harmonia. Harmonia always boots for me 100% of the time. It's really the only surefire way of doing in my opinion.
If you don't have the Juop HBOOT, here's a download from my personal repository https://www.box.com/s/s64uphj0a37yj7mf3jx1
You probably already know, but rename it PG86IMG.zip, put it on your SD card, and go into bootloader. Once it's there, do the update. Take out your SD and get another one (because you won't be able to get to the recovery anymore) and put Harmonia on it. Your phone should boot, this method has saved me more than once.
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I updated the HBOOT, but when I plug in my other SD card, it's trying to update the Radio, so I hit no and it automatically reboots (and stays frozen)
on the second SD card, all I need is the harmonia zip?
iZandeR said:
I updated the HBOOT, but when I plug in my other SD card, it's trying to update the Radio, so I hit no and it automatically reboots (and stays frozen)
on the second SD card, all I need is the harmonia zip?
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You need to delete the PG86IMG.zip file on your SD card. See my previous post if you can't get it working with your current direction.
ramjet73
Yeah, delete it, or snag a second SD. All you're going to need is the harmonia.zip. Flash it, and you should be good to go.
EDIT: And if you really can't get it to boot, the RUU is definitely the way to go. Ramjet is totally right there.
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My guess is Viper needs 1.58 hboot since it a sense rom.
And yeah, wrong forum.
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Not anymore, Virus was nice enough to make his ViperROM compatible with any Hboot I hear.
aoaleman said:
Not anymore, Virus was nice enough to make his ViperROM compatible with any Hboot I hear.
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That's true. I have r304 booting successfully with the ENG 1.04 hboot.
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thebeastglasser said:
Yeah, delete it, or snag a second SD. All you're going to need is the harmonia.zip. Flash it, and you should be good to go.
EDIT: And if you really can't get it to boot, the RUU is definitely the way to go. Ramjet is totally right there.
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Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a try!
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Not anymore, Virus was nice enough to make his ViperROM compatible with any Hboot I hear.
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Yeah, that's what I thought too.
So I s-offed my wifes evo 3d a little bit ago, Afterwards I put the 1.04 hboot and CM 10.1 on her sd and flash them, Of course wiping in recovery because of the hboot flash, And it bootloops, So i'm like wtf, And I re-wipe, and re-flash. Still a bootloop, So I throw the sd in the pc and realize it corrupted so I format it, And throw back on the 1.04 bootloader and reflashed the rom, Still a bootloop,
So I run the ruu, It goes through, And boots back up so I'm like, Okay, Got it all taken care of.
So I flash the 1.04 bootloader once again and as i'm rebooting for the first time, bootloop. So, This is now seeming like a problem to me, Anyhelp? Ramjet maybe?
This is the same copy same download as the 1.04 bootloader that's running on my phone with CM 10.1 doing just fine.
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So I flash the 1.04 bootloader once again and as i'm rebooting for the first time, bootloop. So, This is now seeming like a problem to me, Anyhelp? Ramjet maybe?
This is the same copy same download as the 1.04 bootloader that's running on my phone with CM 10.1 doing just fine.
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Try the JBear 1.50.5050 hboot.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
Try the JBear 1.50.5050 hboot.
ramjet73
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I'm currently running the RUU again trying to get it to at least boot stabily a time or two.
It's so weird seeing the stock boot animation boot loop lol.
Got it to boot, I feel a little better lol.
Is there a chance somethings seriously wrong? I tried 1.40 and 1.04 and both bootlooped.
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Try the JBear 1.50.5050 hboot.
ramjet73
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Isn't that one GB?
Edit: After a ruu and a run through set up, I unchecked fastboot and checked usb debugging and then flashed the 1.50.5050 and it also bootloops.
What. The. Hell.
The only thing that'll boot up is stock.
Edit 2: So after the RUU I flash the 1.50.5050 you suggested, Bootloop as above stated, So I take out the sd and put the 1.58 stock hboot on it and flash that and it boots back up just fine. Which makes sense, But doesn't... ya know.
Edit 3: So I went to go unlock the bootloader on 1.58 and I'm on the "Unlock Bootloader?" screen, But I can't select yes, I know the dang power button works, I've pressed it 20 times, held it, it wont recognize, I also tried the camera button, don't work
I just tried to select no, and guess what, it'll work for that
Anyone ever seen this?
I unlocked it successfully like, 2 hours ago, with no effort at all. What. The. Hell.
Edit 4: Alright even though it wouldn't go through and reboot when hitting yes, and I even hit no to reboot it, I pulled the battery and went into the bootloader and it's unlocked.
So I wrote a recovery, I'm gonna make a back up of the stock rooted rom and see what we can't figure out here.
Okay, So it'll boot a custom rom on the 1.58 hboot. And I've made a backup of the stock rooted rom, I'm gonna try and flash the 1.04 again, and if it bootloops i'm gonna try and restore the backup of the stock rooted rom from the 1.58 hboot (Will that be a problem)
OKAY! Flashed the 1.04 hboot over Common-Sense (Thanks Turtle) and it finally booted up, Time to flash some jb goodness and hope we've got success.
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Isn't that one GB?
Edit: After a ruu and a run through set up, I unchecked fastboot and checked usb debugging and then flashed the 1.50.5050 and it also bootloops.
What. The. Hell.
The only thing that'll boot up is stock.
Edit 2: So after the RUU I flash the 1.50.5050 you suggested, Bootloop as above stated, So I take out the sd and put the 1.58 stock hboot on it and flash that and it boots back up just fine. Which makes sense, But doesn't... ya know.
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Sorry, I didn't realize that you were still on the stock ROM. As you found out, the only hboots that will boot that is 1.58 and JBear 1.58.5858.
The JBear 1.50.5050 hboot is a customized version of the latest Sprint GB bootloader and should boot everything that the engineering (ENG) 1.04 hboot does. I prefer to use that over the ENG version for day-to-day stuff since it's partition configuration is closer to the stock 1.58 hboot.
ramjet73
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Sorry, I didn't realize that you were still on the stock ROM. As you found out, the only hboots that will boot that is 1.58 and JBear 1.58.5858.
The JBear 1.50.5050 hboot is a customized version of the latest Sprint GB bootloader and should boot everything that the engineering (ENG) 1.04 hboot does. I prefer to use that over the ENG version for day-to-day stuff since it's partition configuration is closer to the stock 1.58 hboot.
ramjet73
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I've got it working now, But I still don't understand the problem.
Everything worked fine except changing hboots.
The first time I flashed the hboot and then the rom without booting into anything and it boot looped, And I know 1.04 and JB work together.
The way I fixed it doesn't make sense to me either, But I'm not complaining about that.
Hey guys i gota semi bricked EVO LTE on the 3.16 SW i was wondering if anyone can help me fix. I tried to root it and thats what caused this issue. I did the bootloader unlocked, loaded TWRP recovery, then installed SU, then it wouldn't turn on, would only flash to sprint screen.
I have tried to to a full wipe / factory - didn't work
i have tried to load the 3.15 RUU - does not work (it just shows loading the rom forever)
i have tried to load it through fastboot via Ulimited.IO (it just freezes during the loading of the SW)
what else can i try? I seems like everytime the phone tries to take a ROM it will just not respond.
thanks
OK your on the latest firmware I think 3.16 and if your s-on that means you have the new touch panel driver which limits what ROMs will work on your device.
You need to download a ROM with a s-on installer included or pull the boot IMG from the ROM and flash via fast boot because you can't flash kernels easily when your S-ON .You also will need a rom that's compatible with the latest fw. AFAIK most of the sense ROMs will be good to go, I really don't know which ones cause I'm s-off and don't have the tp driver problem.
If you need more info there's s thread stickied in Q&A called "don't panic" that will answer most of questions
Once your up and running you should go about getting S-Off.
SENT FROM MY LTEVO
corcgaigh said:
OK your on the latest firmware I think 3.16 and if your s-on that means you have the new touch panel driver which limits what ROMs will work on your device.
You need to download a ROM with a s-on installer included or pull the boot IMG from the ROM and flash via fast boot because you can't flash kernels easily when your S-ON .You also will need a rom that's compatible with the latest fw. AFAIK most of the sense ROMs will be good to go, I really don't know which ones cause I'm s-off and don't have the tp driver problem.
If you need more info there's s thread stickied in Q&A called "don't panic" that will answer most of questions
Once your up and running you should go about getting S-Off.
SENT FROM MY LTEVO
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thanks for the info. So i need to get a rom with s-on installer and flash it via fastboot flash zip xxxxxx.zip? But i'm not even sure if i'm rooted. I did install the SU in there, it said okay, but now i cant access the recovery. only fastboot. would this damage the phone in anyways?
thanks
right now its showing
**tampered***
** relocked **
** security warning**
Jewel PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT - 2.09
RADIO - 1.12.11.1210
OpenDSP - V31.1.0.45.0815
emmc- Boot
oct 18 2012
I just tried to flash MeanBean v309 on it via fastboot and it didn't work? is it because the file is too big? I am pretty sure the bean mean is a S-on ROM
Looks like u need to unlock again. Use the same command as the last time
"Fast boot OEM unlock" or whatever it is. Flash twrp recovery thru fast boot. Once you have twrp installed flash a rooted ROM to gain root.
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corcgaigh said:
Looks like u need to unlock again. Use the same command as the last time
"Fast boot OEM unlock" or whatever it is. Flash twrp recovery thru fast boot. Once you have twrp installed flash a rooted ROM to gain root.
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took your advice, re-unlocked it and installed TWRP recovery on it, and now i get recovery, but i cant use it because the touch screen does not work so i'm in the process of trying to find a CMW recovery instead and try to install a newer rom.
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took your advice, re-unlocked it and installed TWRP recovery on it, and now i get recovery, but i cant use it because the touch screen does not work so i'm in the process of trying to find a CMW recovery instead and try to install a newer rom.
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Do not use CMW. It was abandoned a long time ago for our phones. Something about it screwing up partitions. Install a new version of TWRP. 2.4 or higher. And Venom rom has an s-on installer for sure. Other roms might have one but I'm not sure which ones. Stay away from CMW.
The s-on installer is just an installer added to the ROM zip so that you don't have to flash the boot.img seperately. Just get a working version of TWRP and flash Venom (or other s-on friendly rom). That should work.
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Do not use CMW. It was abandoned a long time ago for our phones. Something about it screwing up partitions. Install a new version of TWRP. 2.4 or higher. And Venom rom has an s-on installer for sure. Other roms might have one but I'm not sure which ones. Stay away from CMW.
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ahh okay thanks, i'll give it a shot and report back.
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ahh okay thanks, i'll give it a shot and report back.
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thanks guys so i got it working! i appreciate everyones help! I ended up loading a new TWRP recovery, and loading the new Meanbean and it works now.
I have one last question, does this mean i can only install roms compatible with 3.16 now? The only reason i went through all of this was because i wanted ICS on it. The new JB diag drivers dont work, and the only way i can make the diag drivers work is to downgrade to ICS. If i try to downgrade will i mess it up again?
thanks
truwrxtacy said:
thanks guys so i got it working! i appreciate everyones help! I ended up loading a new TWRP recovery, and loading the new Meanbean and it works now.
I have one last question, does this mean i can only install roms compatible with 3.16 now? The only reason i went through all of this was because i wanted ICS on it. The new JB diag drivers dont work, and the only way i can make the diag drivers work is to downgrade to ICS. If i try to downgrade will i mess it up again?
thanks
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Yes, you are stuck on 3.16 roms. Anything below and your touchscreen won't work. I highly recommend going for s-off. Makes everything so much easier. The only other option is to use babyracun from unlimited.io then ruu to 3.15. But if you're doing that you might as well go for s-off.
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Yes, you are stuck on 3.16 roms. Anything below and your touchscreen won't work. I highly recommend going for s-off. Makes everything so much easier. The only other option is to use babyracun from unlimited.io then ruu to 3.15. But if you're doing that you might as well go for s-off.
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Agreed. I did babyracun and then Facepalm afterwards. Worked great on Windows 7 64bit of which isn't supported by the developers, of course
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Agreed. I did babyracun and then Facepalm afterwards. Worked great on Windows 7 64bit of which isn't supported by the developers, of course
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Which is what this guy should do since he doesn't have ubuntu and probably doesn't want to use a live disc.
thanks alot guys, i was not aware of the babyracoon. I'll give that a shot.
thanks
i have a question about baby racoon, as it does not have a separate thing for it.
So do i download baby racoon and run all the adb commands, and then run face palm, then ruu?
or do i download baby racoon and run all the adb commands, and ruu then face palm?
sorry i'm a noob
truwrxtacy said:
thanks alot guys, i was not aware of the babyracoon. I'll give that a shot.
thanks
i have a question about baby racoon, as it does not have a separate thing for it.
So do i download baby racoon and run all the adb commands, and then run face palm, then ruu?
or do i download baby racoon and run all the adb commands, and ruu then face palm?
sorry i'm a noob
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Do steps 6-9 on unlimited io. That will leave your phone at stock 3.15. Then go and find out what facepalm requires and continue with that.
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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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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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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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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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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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