Greetings,
Long story short, I was using MeanRom. My supervisor liked it, I flashed it for him. Then I went to CM10, convinced him how awesome JB was and made him switch. He didn't like it so he wen't back to JB. Then weird stuff began to happen.
There's a gym close to our workplace were a coworker gets 4g but my supervisor loses data entirely. When they get out they both get 3g.
Today, I tried to RUU his phone with JB but got stuck at sending, no progress at all, then error 155. We installed an ICS rooted stock rom and now he lost his data at the gym. He rebooted the phone, got 3g and lost it again.
Would it be possible that there is something wrong with the phone itself?
We wanted to take it to the store but we cannot RUU.
Thanks for your time,
Ed
Make sure the boot loader is relocked before running the RUU...also that the correct drivers are installed.
Sent from my S-OFF HTC EVO 4G LTE JB AOSP FTW
ryanissnackpack said:
Make sure the boot loader is relocked before running the RUU...also that the correct drivers are installed.
Sent from my S-OFF HTC EVO 4G LTE JB AOSP FTW
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Ok, will do. I'll post back the results tomorrow.
Thanks.
Had the same issue
Had the same issue on Saturday. Had rooted, installed TWRP using the HTC bootloader unlock utility (S-ON), so wanted to run the RUU to get back to stock to stock to accept the JB OTA update. I Would start the RUU update but then the phone would error out and wouldn't fully install.
Ended up taking the phone to the Sprint store and they said that they had an issue with another the other day and there were certain known issues with the JB update and handed me a new phone. Was able to install the JB update, unlock the bootloader, install TWRP and then install root.
Oh yeah, phone was refurbished by Assuron too...
So I could be screwed if I wanted to ruu back the ICS then use the ota for JB? Been thinking about that for the new radios and firmware.
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Well I got myself into a real pickle here. I was trying to get the newer OTA with my unlocked rooted 3D I tried everything I have here on how to do it but now my phone just reboots itself after it get to the sprint screen sometimes it does make it to where is show the info bar at the top with the time but reboots soon after. I have tried a stock recovery and a new OTA RUU using hboot and the PG86IMG.IMG which did install at hboot but I still have the same issues. Any ideas on how to at least get back to normal?
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Well I got myself into a real pickle here. I was trying to get the newer OTA with my unlocked rooted 3D I tried everything I have here on how to do it but now my phone just reboots itself after it get to the sprint screen sometimes it does make it to where is show the info bar at the top with the time but reboots soon after. I have tried a stock recovery and a new OTA RUU using hboot and the PG86IMG.IMG which did install at hboot but I still have the same issues. Any ideas on how to at least get back to normal?
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What hboot are you ? Also what software are you on 2.08 ? You are CDMA I am guessing? If all else fails man boot into your recovery and wipe just not your SD card and go back to hboot relock your phone and use the latest 2.17 ruu exe.. Works every time and then root again and your set... This info is for CDMA only Not GSM>>>
THanks reaper. I was on hboot 1.5 and CDMA sorry for not stating. I ended up just taking it back to sprint and they gave me a new phone which I am actually happy about because of a few blemishes I had on the phone. I think I will wait till after ICS and see if they can get it rooted. I really only want the ability to wireless tether.
Again thanks for the reply
Hello everybody
The new ICS update for the ROGERS EVO 3D just came out yesterday, so I restored my phone to the original firmware (via restoring the backup I did in the recovery) and then proceeded to download the OTA update. After it finished, the phone rebooted into the recovery (i have 4-ext touch recovery) and started installing. After it finished, the phone rebooted and then got stuck on the white HTC screen. I managed to enter the recovery again and restore the original firmware again. What is that I'm doing wrong here? Here is some helpful info:
Rogers EVO 3D, GSM version
Unlocked bootloader (HTCDEV method), S-ON
carrier unlocked
HBOOT 1.49.0008
OS is rooted
I'm in the same boat but I'm not able to do a recovery. I went through the update process and when the phone rebooted it got stuck on the white htc screen. I can get it into the bootloader menu but when i choose recovery it starts but then i get an error with a pic of the device and the red yield sign. If i choose factory reset it just gets stuck at the white htc. I read some other posts and I saw that having an unlocked bootloader may cause issues with updates so that may be your issue as for me, I'm not sure what I can do. I may just need the actual update file to redo the update but I'm not sure where to find it.
Same here, but I don't get half way through the ota update before I see the red triangle and exclamation mark. Phone will boot into stock recovery (which I would assume you need instead of modded recovery) and the update starts, but doesn't complete. I pull the battery and the phone boots up normally. Just can't seem to get through the update. Could be something to do with being s-off I would guess.
EJ
madmajd said:
Hello everybody
The new ICS update for the ROGERS EVO 3D just came out yesterday, so I restored my phone to the original firmware (via restoring the backup I did in the recovery) and then proceeded to download the OTA update. After it finished, the phone rebooted into the recovery (i have 4-ext touch recovery) and started installing. After it finished, the phone rebooted and then got stuck on the white HTC screen. I managed to enter the recovery again and restore the original firmware again. What is that I'm doing wrong here? Here is some helpful info:
Rogers EVO 3D, GSM version
Unlocked bootloader (HTCDEV method), S-ON
carrier unlocked
HBOOT 1.49.0008
OS is rooted
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Same problem but whit s-off
I have been predicting that this would happen... ICS failures with non-standard HBOOTs. Good luck.
Probably will have to wait for an RUU or custom.
I'd recommend using the GB ruu to get you back to full stock. Always found Rogers ota updates (possibly all carriers?) won't install if you're rooted or using a custom recovery.
I had to install the ruu via renaming the rom.zip to PG86IMG.zip and copying it to the sd card so that the bootloader would auto flash it. Running the ruu exe tossed up all kinds of errors.
It will put everything back to Rogers stock. After that just setup wifi and do the 2 Rogers OTA updates.
Once in ICS, it's easy peasy to get recovery and root back.
Also, for what it's worth, Go Backup is awesome for going rom to rom and not needing a full backup. Use it on rooted rom, then use it to restore after rooting new rom. Will do all your apk's and everything.
1st post here after years of lurking. Yay.
wikkid said:
I'd recommend using the GB ruu to get you back to full stock. Always found Rogers ota updates (possibly all carriers?) won't install if you're rooted or using a custom recovery.
I had to install the ruu via renaming the rom.zip to PG86IMG.zip and copying it to the sd card so that the bootloader would auto flash it. Running the ruu exe tossed up all kinds of errors.
It will put everything back to Rogers stock. After that just setup wifi and do the 2 Rogers OTA updates.
Once in ICS, it's easy peasy to get recovery and root back.
Also, for what it's worth, Go Backup is awesome for going rom to rom and not needing a full backup. Use it on rooted rom, then use it to restore after rooting new rom. Will do all your apk's and everything.
1st post here after years of lurking. Yay.
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Alright thanks a lot
Just an update on what I did. I was able to reload the stock gb rom for rogers using the exe file, then I went through the 2 updates that came up when checking and ics is now up and running on my phone. However in my attempts of trying to fix the original problem, I managed to re-lock my bootloader before flashing to stock rom and I had s-on the whole time. hope this help.
i switched to stock like.. a week back?
jus got ota on 4th
i WAS rooted and using juopunutbear's hboot *u can jus get the hboot from their website*
so i jus flashed back stock recovery.. and updated.. and success.. lost root though.. and i was back to stock bootloader..
used the PG86IMG with juopunutbear's bootloader and 4ext recovery.. and flashed cwm supersu.. v0.91 i think.. i dunno.. latest one.. and bam.. im on stock.. rooted.. and works perfectly..
Possible sollution
Maybe try flashing one of the customized ROMs that are based on the latest OTA update. I'm sure Anryl's newest rom is blazing-fast and stable. You can find it in the gsm android development forum and flash it via recovery. Make sure you have the latest 4ext recovery installed, though.
where can a i find that stock rogers rom i modified mine and that might be the reason i get a security failure in hboot. s is on. when i run the ruu file in windows to downgrade i get error 155. when i run the the update from about phone. it locks up with blue android guy and yellow exclamation mark. i remove the battery and she boots fine with no changes.
I am trying to do same. Get stuck on HTC screen. I have S-ON. Was on cobra 2.4 prior.
If anyone can give details on how to fix it, it would be great! Please no saying "install exe". I need to know which exe etc.
just wanted to tell everyone that in order for the ota update to work properly, you need to be running stock unrooted firmware with a locked bootloader. Just relock your bootloader, reinstall the stock firmware, upgrade to ics via ota, then re-unlock and re-root.
Hi
I have a HTC EVO 3D from Rogers that was got messed up during changing networks... rooted the phone for no apparent reason... to now get a update for it for ics from the provider and it bricked the phone.
It's stuck at HTC boot screen, can get fastboot USB from bootloader. recovery gets a ! in a triangle and factory reset doesn't work, freezes at splash screen after restarting the phone. Was stupid not making a backup or searching for programs to back it up before I went ahead and clicked update
It has HTC boot-loader 1.49 s-on but is rooted.
I am looking for clear(fix my evo for dummies) step by step instructions with correct installation for my model of phone, HTC EVO 3D Rogers GSM, or anything that could replace the os to get my phone to be useful again I'm currently using my backup phone a HTC G1 HTC ftw
Try kingcobra's rom, ota from rogers will not boot due to the fact that your phone is rooted, kingcobra's rom is based on rogers ota, flash it and leave it.
Sent from my HTC EVO 3D X515m using xda premium
Davideichler7 said:
Hi
I have a HTC EVO 3D from Rogers that was got messed up during changing networks... rooted the phone for no apparent reason... to now get a update for it for ics from the provider and it bricked the phone.
It's stuck at HTC boot screen, can get fastboot USB from bootloader. recovery gets a ! in a triangle and factory reset doesn't work, freezes at splash screen after restarting the phone. Was stupid not making a backup or searching for programs to back it up before I went ahead and clicked update
It has HTC boot-loader 1.49 s-on but is rooted.
I am looking for clear(fix my evo for dummies) step by step instructions with correct installation for my model of phone, HTC EVO 3D Rogers GSM, or anything that could replace the os to get my phone to be useful again I'm currently using my backup phone a HTC G1 HTC ftw
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Go to the gsm development forum and download the RUU for the phone, and restore it to stock unrooted OS. Before you do that though, make sure that your phone's BOOTLOADER IS LOCKED. Look up how to re-lock your bootloader. After you relock your bootloader, you can proceed with restoring the phone.
Soooo.... basically, what I'm getting from this is, if you like having a locked bootloader, CWM and root, don't bother trying to install this OTA update because it's a headache. Agree?
The phone's not mine, it's my wife's, and she doesn't want anything special or like the idea of me messing around in her phone.
I was about to install this late last night, just about to hit that button, then I thought, "what about the bootloader? what about root? what about the fact that it's now unlocked and being used on a carrier other than Rogers?"
Long Story short:
BlueTooth was not working on stock GB. Flashed an ICS Rom, still doesn't work. Flashed GB Ruu, took the OTA ICS update. Bluetooth still doesn't work. Took phone into Verizon and now they are mailing a replacement phone so I can send this one in for repair. Problem being, I need to revert my phone back to LOCKED without the Relocked/Security warning.
Sooooo, if I can S-Off the OTA ICS, I understand what steps to take.
Anyone know if the current version of ControlBear .5 will work for the OTA? Or can I just unlock and flash a ICS ROM that can be S-Off'd?
Thanks, and yes, I know if I had patience or the knowledge yesterday that I have today, all of this could have been avoided.
Thanks!
Mark
Court Jester said:
Long Story short:
BlueTooth was not working on stock GB. Flashed an ICS Rom, still doesn't work. Flashed GB Ruu, took the OTA ICS update. Bluetooth still doesn't work. Took phone into Verizon and now they are mailing a replacement phone so I can send this one in for repair. Problem being, I need to revert my phone back to LOCKED without the Relocked/Security warning.
Sooooo, if I can S-Off the OTA ICS, I understand what steps to take.
Anyone know if the current version of ControlBear .5 will work for the OTA? Or can I just unlock and flash a ICS ROM that can be S-Off'd?
Thanks, and yes, I know if I had patience or the knowledge yesterday that I have today, all of this could have been avoided.
Thanks!
Mark
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Use the "WINDOWS (3.14.605.5 ICS Leak)" listing on unlimited.io. It should work. The firmware has not changed in all the releases newer than that one. I've not tried S-off on the x.12 OTA, but I did so successfully on x.10.
And of course make sure you have root on the ROM you're using and USB debugging enabled.
Court Jester said:
Long Story short:
BlueTooth was not working on stock GB. Flashed an ICS Rom, still doesn't work. Flashed GB Ruu, took the OTA ICS update. Bluetooth still doesn't work. Took phone into Verizon and now they are mailing a replacement phone so I can send this one in for repair. Problem being, I need to revert my phone back to LOCKED without the Relocked/Security warning.
Sooooo, if I can S-Off the OTA ICS, I understand what steps to take.
Anyone know if the current version of ControlBear .5 will work for the OTA? Or can I just unlock and flash a ICS ROM that can be S-Off'd?
Thanks, and yes, I know if I had patience or the knowledge yesterday that I have today, all of this could have been avoided.
Thanks!
Mark
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To be honest...I would just send it back unlocked. Have we heard of anyone having issues with returning unlocked phones?
Good luck
I really wish I could get s-off to work. I've rooted many Thunderbolts. No issue with HTC unlock. I'll be damned if I can get my phone to work with the s-off exploit. I've spent many hours on each of my attempts. Gave up trying. Too frustrating.
RicoX9 said:
I really wish I could get s-off to work. I've rooted many Thunderbolts. No issue with HTC unlock. I'll be damned if I can get my phone to work with the s-off exploit. I've spent many hours on each of my attempts. Gave up trying. Too frustrating.
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Make sure you're using the right kind of wire (not a paperclip - mine wouldn't work with this either, until I used a speaker wire from my home theatre - worked the first try), and get the timing right.
so my wife got a replacement evo being hers had a few. issues. came with 1.50 hboot. i did the downgrade method to 1.40 phone constantly reboots or bootloops at times. i figured well maybe was a firmware issue. so when sprints firmware leaked. i updated it all even bootloader. its now 1.58 hboot. shows locked but s-off. i still have 4ext recovery installed on it. i have tried to flash the stock rooted rom. the phone boots after sits idle for a litle while it will go into boot loops. im at my wits end here. thinking it maybe hardware now. want others opinions. before i flash stock non rooted and bring it in for service. any thought?
You could try to unroot and go back to stock to see if the bootloops stop.
Man i love FrootLoops.. oops.. crap, i read the title wrong..
ON a serious note, do what coal686 said, go back to factory stock and start from scratch. Take out as many of the variables as possible.
so how do you suggest i do that? there is no ruu for the new ota update. im on newhboot. so im lost as to how to attempt to relock to stock for service.
so i ran the pg86img for 2.17 everything down graded fine. then rat the ota update to ics. updated to ics 2.89 fine. weird thing is it still shows s-off. only thing so far sense has froze on her twice. but the reboots have stopped. waiting a day to make sure. then ill unlock if i need to.then stock rooted for her.
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so i ran the pg86img for 2.17 everything down graded fine. then rat the ota update to ics. updated to ics 2.89 fine. weird thing is it still shows s-off. only thing so far sense has froze on her twice. but the reboots have stopped. waiting a day to make sure. then ill unlock if i need to.then stock rooted for her.
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You don't need to unlock as s-off is better.
S-off > Locked with Tapatalk 2
kaos420 said:
so my wife got a replacement evo being hers had a few. issues. came with 1.50 hboot. i did the downgrade method to 1.40 phone constantly reboots or bootloops at times. i figured well maybe was a firmware issue. so when sprints firmware leaked. i updated it all even bootloader. its now 1.58 hboot. shows locked but s-off. i still have 4ext recovery installed on it. i have tried to flash the stock rooted rom. the phone boots after sits idle for a litle while it will go into boot loops. im at my wits end here. thinking it maybe hardware now. want others opinions. before i flash stock non rooted and bring it in for service. any thought?
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I'm in the same boat the only difference is my wife's phone is completey stock no root & s-on latest ics update hboot 1.58 u know the rest. Started bootlooping out of nowhere & I don't know what to do,did a factory reset through bootloader & still bootloops like crazy! Any ideas would be helpful & thank you in advance!
Ok so am
Rooted
Unlocked
S-on
Viper 3.17
I wanted to go back to stock
I relocked via fastboot oem lock
Now I am stuck in the stock recovery and can not find a 3.16 or 3.17 ruu for the life of me to download?
Any suggestions on my next step?
copc said:
Ok so am
Rooted
Unlocked
S-on
Viper 3.17
I wanted to go back to stock
I relocked via fastboot oem lock
Now I am stuck in the stock recovery and can not find a 3.16 or 3.17 ruu for the life of me to download?
Any suggestions on my next step?
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There is no RUU for either 3.16 or 3.17. If you were S-off you could use Viperboy's VipeRUU tool, which will put you back totally stock. Captain Throwback posted a link somewhere around here regarding how to go back to stock. If I find it I'll post it up for you. In the meantime, the easiest thing for you to do would be to unlock your bootloader and install TWRP recovery so that you have a working phone.
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There is no RUU for either 3.16 or 3.17. If you were S-off you could use Viperboy's VipeRUU tool, which will put you back totally stock. Captain Throwback posted a link somewhere around here regarding how to go back to stock. If I find it I'll post it up for you. In the meantime, the easiest thing for you to do would be to unlock your bootloader and install TWRP recovery so that you have a working phone.
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Thanks I was hoping to find a RUU, but now I have unlocked it again backed up rom with TWRP and trying to get Moonshine or RumRunner to work. No luck yet getting S-off
If you're on the 3.16 OTA use Moonshine; for the 3.17 OTA use Rumrunner.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
Use stock rooted ROMs only
I am trying to do the same, and my phone is the same (Rooted, unlocked, S-on, TWRP, Mean Bean). I need to get back to stock to reactivate my phone with Sprint (long story). Can I flash a stock ROM with TWRP?
ShiftyBob said:
I am trying to do the same, and my phone is the same (Rooted, unlocked, S-on, TWRP, Mean Bean). I need to get back to stock to reactivate my phone with Sprint (long story). Can I flash a stock ROM with TWRP?
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You can re-activate with MeanBean.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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You can re-activate with MeanBean.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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I actually did, but I don't have a data connection. The manager at the Sprint Store (who is actually a good friend of mine) said it won't activate data unless I'm on a stock ROM and can use the "activate this device" function under "phone info". Not sure if he's correct on that, but I can't get data, and need to go back to stock to see if it works...
Then flash one of Captain Throwback's stock rooted ROM's. You do not have to be "stock" to get your phone working again-you just need a Sense ROM.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
FinZ28 said:
Then flash one of Captain Throwback's stock rooted ROM's. You do not have to be "stock" to get your phone working again-you just need a Sense ROM.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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which leads me back to my original question... can I flash a stock rom using TWRP if I am S-on?
ShiftyBob said:
which leads me back to my original question... can I flash a stock rom using TWRP if I am S-on?
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Yes
bigdaddy619 said:
Yes
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easy as pie! Once I installed the stock ROM and activated the device I had 4G right away. Did a nandroid, reinstalled Mean, then reinstalled from my Mean back up and now I'm cooking with fire. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
FWIW - My friend was partially right, you do have to be on a stock ROM to reactivate data service, but you DO NOT need to unroot.
To piggy back off this, I'm planning to turn in my EVO 4G and move onto the Sprint One Up program...if I'm rooted on CM10.2 (still S-ON) though...how much effort do I need to put in for Sprint to accept my phone?
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To piggy back off this, I'm planning to turn in my EVO 4G and move onto the Sprint One Up program...if I'm rooted on CM10.2 (still S-ON) though...how much effort do I need to put in for Sprint to accept my phone?
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From what I have read some people have returned phones with them being rooted/unlocked and multiple roms and there has not been a issue. I guess worst they can say is no. Then go home return it to stock and try again.
Or just return to stock and take it in.
My purpose for the Original thread was I am going to sell mine and I just wanted to sell it stock. I sold my first Android Hero way back and it had been rooted and flashed and the person I sold it to had issues getting it activated through sprint. They sent it back to me for refund and I returned it to stock and sold it like that and the person who bought it was a ex sprint employee and he was upset I flashed it back to stock saying the person should have and zero issues activating it. Now he had to root and flash it himself. I just find it easier to return it to stock myself and sell it,
Then I know no matter if a basic or advanced user buys it they can activate it.
Hope that helps