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This is beginning to get out of control with all of the thread jacking and such with mainver issues. Anyway, read on.
NEW INFO: FLASH THIS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23169557&postcount=4\
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Old info if you care:
Q. What is MainVer?
A. MainVer is a string that HBOOT keeps track of that keeps the latest version of the RUU or PH98IMG.zip that has been flashed.
Q. Why does HTC have this?
A. In order to prevent downgrading with an RUU.
Q. I haven't run an RUU. How was my MainVer updated?
A. There are 2 reasons your MainVer could have been updated at this point.
The Original ICS Leak
DSB's new BAMF Rom (downloaded 1/17/2012 or later)
The original ICS leak that some of you flashed was still in RUU image form. Unfortunately, this was distributed with an updated MainVer string in the android-info.txt. When this was flashed, the new MainVer string was recorded into your device. DSB for some reason also included this new android-info.txt in his kernel PH98IMG.zip that is packed with his rom. I am not quite sure why he did that.
Q. What does this mean for me?
A. See new text at the top
Q. Why won't devs just add the new mainver to their roms to make my life easier?
A. They could, but then they would be forcing everyone to have this problem, not just you. It would also prevent everyone from using an RUU to repair their phones until a new one came out.
More Info:
No matter if you are going GB->GB or GB->ICS or ICS->GB you will need to have the correct mainver for your device. If you aren't having trouble going from rom to rom right now, you shouldn't even be looking at this guide. But if you got your mainver updated, you need to replace the android-info.txt for every single rom forever (until a new RUU comes out and it is safe to unify everyone's mainver)
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That was quick! Nice work, Con. Hopefully this will help everyone out having these issues. I'll make sure I bookmark this page to link to if anyone should have issues. Thanks!
WasabiWa83 said:
That was quick! Nice work, Con. Hopefully this will help everyone out having these issues. I'll make sure I bookmark this page to link to if anyone should have issues. Thanks!
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Thanks! That is a good idea about the bookmark. Ill do that too.
Yeah I had to answer this question a few times... this Q/A should make it easier.
I want to be sure I understand this correctly. If I flash an ICS rom I need to use the android-info mainver source 3.10.605.7 and if I want to revert back to a stock rom I need to use the android-info mainver source 1.02.605.6?
I have not installed any ICS roms yet, waiting for some more of the bugs to get worked out. I've been reading where many people are having issues with installing ICS roms and struggling with reverting back to stock.
I will try to make that more clear. Hold on.
I make a motion to sticky this thread. Anyone 2nd this motion?
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con247 said:
I will try to make that more clear. Hold on.
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Thanks Con for the quick reply! I like to look over these forums and make sure I'm understanding some of the issues that are currently going on. I've been flashing roms for awhile but still consider myself a noob. Thanks again!
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I make a motion to sticky this thread. Anyone 2nd this motion?
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium
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Yeah, definitely a 2nd for very this useful post. Especially since a lot of the ROM threads are getting off topic because of this. I saw Scott posted a link to this thread in his release posts. Good idea for the Devs to link back here too
Yeah this needs to be stickied...
Con... here is a post I did explaining Mainver... It is a bit more simplified, might be easier to follow for the new guys. (it also explains what RUU files are and what they do)
Marine6680 said:
RUU files are the official software releases from HTC.
RUU files are signed. (They give proper "official" codes to hboot to get past the s=on security)
This means that they can flash all parts of the device, even the bootloader and radio firmware, which we can not normally flash because it is write locked. (do to s=on we can't flash them even with root)
Sometimes people have issues and need to get the phone back to pure stock so they use the RUU.
Mainver is data on the software version number of the kernel (I believe... it may be for some other part, either way it is version info)
Think V1... V1.2... V1.5... V1.5.5
Because of s=on we are not allowed to "downgrade/revert" to older software versions.
The leaked ICS build has a newer Mainver, some people flashed the leak unmodified, and that changed the Mainver info. Now they need to use a special trick to trick the s=on security to allow flashing of older kernels. The ICS ROMs we have now, have been modified so they do not change the Mainver. This makes it easier to go back to GB or switch to other ROMs.
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I am sorry but I am trying to make sense of all this. I am on Scott's CleanRom 2.1 will I need to use these instructions to go back to my stock room? This is my first HTC, I've only had Motorola phones up till now and I hate to admit it but this is all a bit over my head. I have been studying these forums for the last 2 days and I really have no clue how to use the backup I made of my stock GB Rom or even what kernel to use. I do regret not waiting to mess with this phone. Any help is greatly appriciated and I love all the work you have all put into this phone. Thanks in advance.
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snowride20 said:
I am sorry but I am trying to make sense of all this. I am on Scott's CleanRom 2.1 will I need to use these instructions to go back to my stock room? This is my first HTC, I've only had Motorola phones up till now and I hate to admit it but this is all a bit over my head. I have been studying these forums for the last 2 days and I really have no clue how to use the backup I made of my stock GB Rom or even what kernel to use. I do regret not waiting to mess with this phone. Any help is greatly appriciated and I love all the work you have all put into this phone. Thanks in advance.
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You're pretty much good because Scott's ROM does not update your MainVer. This is only for those ROMs that updated the MainVer. All you will need to do is restore your nand and flash the stock rooted kernel with Scott's Clean Flash tool. It's really more simple than you would think. You can find the Clean Flash tool and the stock rooted kernel in the dev forum. Just make sure that there is no PH98IMG.img on your ext sd card before you try to revert to your nandroid. Once you have restored your nand, you need to get to HBoot using the clean flash tool to make sure that you flash the stock rooted kernel. If you have the PH98IMG on your ext SD card, you would be kind of boned. Hope this helps a little.
So I flashed BAMF once, but it was weeks ago and I've since been using GingerSense without any issues, and that flashed fine after I tossed his boot.img back on, and then again after I did a full wipe a few nights ago. Is there any way to easily tell which mainver we're currently on? I'm assuming I'm ok since I haven't had to do anything else while flashing his ROM, guess I just wanna make sure.
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So I flashed BAMF once, but it was weeks ago and I've since been using GingerSense without any issues, and that flashed fine after I tossed his boot.img back on, and then again after I did a full wipe a few nights ago. Is there any way to easily tell which mainver we're currently on? I'm assuming I'm ok since I haven't had to do anything else while flashing his ROM, guess I just wanna make sure.
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I believe mainver only changed if you flashed rezound cubed 1.0.2. If you didn't flash that, like I did, you should be fine.
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Well if that's true then yeah I'm ok, I see 1.0.2 is from 1/17 and I know I flashed it well before that, so I guess that explains why I haven't had any issues. Thanks!
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Well if that's true then yeah I'm ok, I see 1.0.2 is from 1/17 and I know I flashed it well before that, so I guess that explains why I haven't had any issues. Thanks!
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Thanks, I added that date to the OP
It worked
Wasabi, I appriciate you giving me the little extra i needed to get back to stock. Thanks for the help.
So, is the MainVer stuck at the higher version number even if you manually flash the older boot.img from the PC?
The boot.img is independent of the mainver. Once you have it set higher, it can never go back. Possibly on an S-OFF device, but that would be pointless.
Oh thrill. So no ICS for us who flashed the dsb kernel? I hope the real HTC ICS is out soon then.....
Hi guys, I've tried many ICS roms here but unfortunately everyone has bugs and problems...
Is there a bog standard rooted 3VO EU ICS rom here to download without any modifications? Just a plain rooted OTA ICS rom?
Also where can I download old PG86IMG.ZIP radios for the 3VO, radios from gingerbread days? I've noriced a big drop in signal strength and stability with the new radios floating around since ICS came along...
This section is for development. If you had looked, one of the stickys is
[Tutorial - How to revert back to Original ROM for backup or warranty purposes]
Which shows you how to revert. You can then OTA update. Please post in the relevant section next time.
Thanks for the info but you haven't even tried to answer my question.. I know about HTC standard OTA updating....I don't want an un-rooted OTA update.
I'm asking if there is a Bog standard un-moded rooted EU ICS 3VO rom available to download here in XDA?
I'm surprised if there isn't because that's the standard first thing devs release....
There are tens of different moded ICS roms to try in XDA, everyone with individual mods and many bugs... Im looking for a Bog standard un-moded rooted EU ICS 3VO rom
oquestions in development thread are not allowed. REPORTED.
Thanks for that Mr Bavaria goosewalk
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Hi guys, I've tried many ICS roms here but unfortunately everyone has bugs and problems...
Is there a bog standard rooted 3VO EU ICS rom here to download without any modifications? Just a plain rooted OTA ICS rom?
Also where can I download old PG86IMG.ZIP radios for the 3VO, radios from gingerbread days? I've noriced a big drop in signal strength and stability with the new radios floating around since ICS came along...
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1. Wrong section.
2. I will try to answer your question anyway
You can root the OTA ICS rom yourself.
1. Install it
2. Unlock bootloader
3. Install custom recovery
4. Install SU 3.x.x via recovery
Voila, you're rooted.
There is a thread with all stock roms. It also has the RUU for ICS.
The problem you're having in signal strenght is not something I can comply, so I cannot agree with that. I have used all (yes...seriously, I've tried them all ) ICS Roms here and no signal strenght issues whatsoever.
The GB radio's... there is a thread also that has all ROM's , Kernels and firmware's listed. It's a sticky, so easy to find.
Not that I don't want to provide any links, it's just that I am really lazy today
edit: holy crap you guys are fast.
@e3d, thanks for the report
KrewsialNL said:
1. Wrong section.
2. I will try to answer your question anyway
You can root the OTA ICS rom yourself.
1. Install it
2. Unlock bootloader
3. Install custom recovery
4. Install SU 3.x.x via recovery
Voila, you're rooted.
There is a thread with all stock roms. It also has the RUU for ICS.
The problem you're having in signal strenght is not something I can comply, so I cannot agree with that. I have used all (yes...seriously, I've tried them all ) ICS Roms here and no signal strenght issues whatsoever.
The GB radio's... there is a thread also that has all ROM's , Kernels and firmware's listed. It's a sticky, so easy to find.
Not that I don't want to provide any links, it's just that I am really lazy today
edit: holy crap you guys are fast.
@e3d, thanks for the report
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Great Thanks, real help some useful tips.
Is the RUU for ICS rooted?
I can't keep up with all the different threads here so I'm forced to ask sometimes. That's what forums are for...
e3d certainly has his finger ready on the button....
Why don't you just revert to stock ics, and root your self, ? ? If you have any problems is be happy to do it, create a nand and ul to my drop box
iconias said:
Great Thanks, real help some useful tips.
Is the RUU for ICS rooted?
I can't keep up with all the different threads here so I'm forced to ask sometimes. That's what forums are for...
e3d certainly has his finger ready on the button....
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No, you need to flash the superuser.zip through recovery.
Also, there is a Q&A forum. Please use it.
gav-collins1983 said:
Why don't you just revert to stock ics, and root your self, ? ? If you have any problems is be happy to do it, create a nand and ul to my drop box
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Thanks, but I was hoping to just download a rooted stock ICS here in XDA and install it, no such luck it seems.
I dont want to revert back to stock and stock Hboot just to be able to download an htc OTA, I'm on S-OFF
Snowled said:
No, you need to flash the superuser.zip through recovery.
Also, there is a Q&A forum. Please use it.
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SO it's as easy as pie? I just have to download the RUU stock ICS here in XDA and then flash superuser.zip through recovery...?
I'm downloading RUU_SHOOTER_U_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_3.28.401.1_Radio_11.7... from here
iconias said:
Thanks, but I was hoping to just download a rooted stock ICS here in XDA and install it, no such luck it seems.
I dont want to revert back to stock and stock Hboot just to be able to download an htc OTA, I'm on S-OFF
SO it's as easy as pie? I just have to download the RUU stock ICS here in XDA and then flash superuser.zip through recovery...?
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Because of leaks, thanks to mdeejay, development was instant so when ruu was released the devs were ahead of the game, and the need for a stock but rooted Rom wasn't really necessary for ics, if you wanted gb its in here somewhere, you could revert to that, then update to ics ota, and then re flash recovery and in root, after unlocking the boot loader
iconias said:
Hi guys, I've tried many ICS roms here but unfortunately everyone has bugs and problems...
Is there a bog standard rooted 3VO EU ICS rom here to download without any modifications? Just a plain rooted OTA ICS rom?
Also where can I download old PG86IMG.ZIP radios for the 3VO, radios from gingerbread days? I've noriced a big drop in signal strength and stability with the new radios floating around since ICS came along...
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Why do you want to install a stock (non-optimized rom)? when you can install mwakious rom, for me is the best one, no bug whatsoever, very fast and very stable. Just try it.:fingers-crossed:
I've used makios's rom more than others and also in my opinion the best out of all the moded ICS roms.
But it also has some bugs in sense apps, such as sense mail and friends and facebook and wifi connection is effected by these bugs.
Anyway the mwakious thread is the place to talk about that...
I'm still downloading the RUU_SHOOTER_U_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_3.28.401 .1_Radio_11.7...its a slow file server
iconias said:
I've used makios's rom more than others and also in my opinion the best out of all the moded ICS roms.
But it also has some bugs in sense apps, such as sense mail and friends and facebook and wifi connection is effected by these bugs.
Anyway the mwakious thread is the place to talk about that...
I'm still downloading the RUU_SHOOTER_U_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_3.28.401 .1_Radio_11.7...its a slow file server
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I didnt know that bugs existed on his rom just because i dont use sense mail, friends and i dont have facebook . With wifi i dont have problems. If i was you il better report to mwakious and he will try to solve this problems.:fingers-crossed:
I finished downloading RUU_SHOOTER_U_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_3.28.40 1 .1_Radio_11.7...
Unfortunately I see its an official HTC update, its going to revert everything back to stock including hboot....not what I was looking for
So theres no rooted stock ICS rom anywhere to download..?
iconias said:
I finished downloading RUU_SHOOTER_U_ICS_35_S_HTC_Europe_3.28.40 1 .1_Radio_11.7...
Unfortunately I see its an official HTC update, its going to revert everything back to stock including hboot....not what I was looking for
So theres no rooted stock ICS rom anywhere to download..?
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Hi iconias,
I ask for a rooted ICS stock 2 or 3 weeks ago, but unfortunately in this forum nobody know or want create a rooted-deodexed ICS stock.
Try this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732984
Let me know if this it can help you! I'm still waiting to use it.
Thanks for that link, it looks like what I was after, a rooted EU ICS zip for flashing normay without having to revert to htc stock and hboot....
I'm very busy the next few days but should have time to try it next week...
iconias said:
Thanks for that link, it looks like what I was after, a rooted EU ICS zip for flashing normay without having to revert to htc stock and hboot....
I'm very busy the next few days but should have time to try it next week...
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Its' a modified OTA ICS update.
When you'll try it next week, post your result.
Bye
Well... After an issue with the digitizer in my phone I had to finally have it recently replaced. I had recently loaded the ICS OTA and actually for the most part liked it alot. I have rooted and done some roms with my 3d when it was Hboot 1.4 with Rev S off and root method. But my phone is currently Hboot 1.5 after replacing it. I havent loaded it to the OTA for ICS. But im trying to decide what I want to do. Id like to root and S off if I can and find a Rom/OTA that works great with the best performance and options with reduced bloat. ICS is pretty cool that I used, but seemed like some bugs with it to. Any suggestions of help on getting me there and in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Ive done some searches here and there on the forum. But really after taking time out for a medical issue I havent been in the loop til now. Thanks ahead of time for any help and suggestions you can push my way.
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But im trying to decide what I want to do. Id like to root and S off if I can and find a Rom/OTA that works great with the best performance and options with reduced bloat. ICS is pretty cool that I used, but seemed like some bugs with it to. Any suggestions of help on getting me there and in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
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Here's what I would do in your situation:
1. Do HTC unlock and flash 4EXT recovery
2. Backup current ROM so you have a nandroid of GB stock
3. Root GB stock ROM and do JuopunutBear (wire trick) with GB version to gain S-OFF
4. Flash 2.89 RUU.exe to get solid Sprint ICS base (firmware and software)
5. Flash Jbear Sprint ICS (1.58.5858) or engineering (ENG) bootloader
6. Flash 4EXT recovery (via fastboot flash recovery.img)
7. Backup current ROM so you have a nandroid of ICS stock
8. Flash whatever ROM's you want to try and check them out
If all the ROM's you are interested in are ICS Sense, then the JB Sprint ICS bootloader is fine, but if you want to flash and run GB and AOSP ROM's the ENG bootloader is a better choice, but it won't run the 2.89 stock kernel.
That's one opinion.
ramjet73
Thanks Ramjet. What are you using or have you used? Is ICS the latest? Any other good stuff out there?
If anyone else has suggestions or preferences Id love to hear them.
Thanks!!
constevens said:
Thanks Ramjet. What are you using or have you used? Is ICS the latest? Any other good stuff out there?
If anyone else has suggestions or preferences Id love to hear them.
Thanks!!
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The Sprint ICS 2.89.651.2 release with Sense 3.6 is the latest official build, but there have been several CM10 based ROM's released using the AOSP 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) base, and some Sense 4.0 and 4.1 ROM's that run on the E3D.
My favorites are still MeanROM ICS 2.6 and SOS M 2.6.1 which use the same base. Here's a post I wrote back in May that enumerates the fixes mikeyxda had done to the VM leak base at that time and most of those fixes and enhancements were transferred to the Sprint ICS 2.89 based version, with some new ones added. SOS M is de-Sensed and offers a lot of customization built-in and via the Aroma installer with a minimal amount of effort. Both ROM's are fully functional and have good reliability, performance and battery life.
I've tested a lot of interesting ROM's with some unique features including Paranoid Devil with a tablet configuration option and Charmander with Sense 4, but they both have some stuff not working, including 3D and WiMax/4G. If you don't need those features you might also want to try some of the AOSP ROM's (CM9, CM10 and MIUI) since they are very light and clean, and a lot of the current development activity seems to be with those ROM's. If you want a full ICS Sense 3.6 based ROM with a lot of mods integrated, Cool ICS is worth a look too.
ramjet73
Thanks Ramjet. Im gonna check out the MeanRom ICS, SOS and Cool ICS. In past ive liked a sense based rom but Im open to other stuff. My main thing is wanting as few as issues or non working things as possible. Even the OTA of ICS has to muc issues. But the in general feel and look was good.
Thanks for the input and direction. I may hit you up on some advice if thats cool? Thanks again.
Just use the search function to find all the info on the stuff above Ramjet? or is there a good central location that might have links for everything?
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Just use the search function to find all the info on the stuff above Ramjet? or is there a good central location that might have links for everything?
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A lot of the information and links that you will need are in mpgrimm2's guides in this forum. Just do an advanced search on threads started by user mpgrimm2 and you should have most of the information and links you need in those threads.
ramjet73
Thanks you Ramjet!
Ok So I got it unlocked. and installed the APK of the 4EXXT recovery. But its giving me some issues saying I need S-off before I can use it? I assume its a program that runs on the Phone not a recovery like ive been used to with the boot loader? If its a flash that flashes the boot loader i seem to be having issues finding it. How do I need to go about rooting? Is root the same as S off? Its been a while since doing all this kinda stuff and just getting back into it. Thanks for any direction you can give me.
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Ok So I got it unlocked. and installed the APK of the 4EXXT recovery. But its giving me some issues saying I need S-off before I can use it? I assume its a program that runs on the Phone not a recovery like ive been used to with the boot loader? If its a flash that flashes the boot loader i seem to be having issues finding it. How do I need to go about rooting? Is root the same as S off? Its been a while since doing all this kinda stuff and just getting back into it. Thanks for any direction you can give me.
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This post by mpgrimm2 (part of his overall guide) covers flashing a custom recovery (like 4EXT) and superuser from the PC command prompt via fastboot. Those are the two steps required for rooting, after you have HTC unlocked.
Once you've done that you can move on to gaining S-OFF with either the JuopunutBear (wire trick) or Hboot downgrade method, which is setting the security off for the NAND memory of your phone, and allows you to flash more stuff and not have to use the fastboot command to do it.
It's probably time to move on to the Q&A forum since this has changed from an advice thread into a help thread.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
This post by mpgrimm2 (part of his overall guide) covers flashing a custom recovery (like 4EXT) and superuser from the PC command prompt via fastboot. Those are the two steps required for rooting, after you have HTC unlocked.
Once you've done that you can move on to gaining S-OFF with either the JuopunutBear (wire trick) or Hboot downgrade method, which is setting the security off for the NAND memory of your phone, and allows you to flash more stuff and not have to use the fastboot command to do it.
It's probably time to move on to the Q&A forum since this has changed from an advice thread into a help thread.
ramjet73
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Have more questions but will gladly move it over to the Q and A if you dont mind more questions... So many write ups on stuff.. Little confusing sometimes.
Thanks RamJet.
Here is my questions thread for help in the Q and A section..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31102158#post31102158
Hi,
i have an s-on gsm evo 3d with 4ext recovery installed...Can anyone tell me which jb rom i can flash...n how to do it..Please ! :fingers-crossed:
i tried this but it gets stuck on boot animation (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801647)
Did you check here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786578. Also your problem maybe that you are s-on and most aosp roms require you to be s-off with a downgraded bootloader to work properly. I am suprised because you have posted in the tutorial for rearranged s-off and did not follow the guides to obtain s-off. Well, in any event. Obtaining s-off is your first priority if you want to run aosp roms on your device.
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Did you check here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786578. Also your problem maybe that you are s-on and most aosp roms require you to be s-off with a downgraded bootloader to work properly. I am suprised because you have posted in the tutorial for rearranged s-off and did not follow the guides to obtain s-off. Well, in any event. Obtaining s-off is your first priority if you want to run aosp roms on your device.
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Well thanks for answering :highfive:
Also, Which aosp rom will work ?
P.s i posted in that thread coz i was new to xda then..and wanted thanks by helping people :victory:
As well as the s-on problem the rom you linked to will only boot (for me at least) with the usb cable unplugged.. shrugs, also note first boot takes a fair time, 5 minutes or so.
Still No Luck !!! :crying:
Well, now i installed ubuntuz 0.7.2 jb rom...and it got to android is upgrading ...And it is stuck there tried everything !
Don't panic its going to be ok lol. As I have said before aosp roms do not play nice with s-on devices. I will walk you through this. First thing you will need to do is download an ruu file. Now are you unbranded or branded? If branded you will need to download the ruu for the country and carrier you are on. If not then just use the Europe one. Here's a link with a list of ruu files http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208485. Scroll through that and find the appropriate one for you. If there aren't any ruu exe's just google it to find the one appropriate for you depending on if your branded or not. Use the European one if unbranded. Here's a link to help you with getting back to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655832. Okay, if you get to.stock here's a link to gaining s-off. Follow method D. Now I just want to say, a lot of users are apparently having crazy bootloops even with s-off. So my suggestion to you is to flash a sense Rom like cool sense for now until the devs can fix these aosp roms.
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Don't panic its going to be ok lol. As I have said before aosp roms do not play nice with s-on devices. I will walk you through this. First thing you will need to do is download an ruu file. Now are you unbranded or branded? If branded you will need to download the ruu for the country and carrier you are on. If not then just use the Europe one. Here's a link with a list of ruu files http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208485. Scroll through that and find the appropriate one for you. If there aren't any ruu exe's just google it to find the one appropriate for you depending on if your branded or not. Use the European one if unbranded. Here's a link to help you with getting back to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655832. Okay, if you get to.stock here's a link to gaining s-off. Follow method D. Now I just want to say, a lot of users are apparently having crazy bootloops even with s-off. So my suggestion to you is to flash a sense Rom like cool sense for now until the devs can fix these aosp roms.
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i just restored my nand...thanks anyways ! :good:
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i just restored my nand...thanks anyways ! :good:
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AOSP ROM's play fine with s-off devices. Use the hboot 1.4 or ENG hboot 1.04, I run two AOSP ROM's as daily drivers.
Hi Guys,
All apologies, I could not find reference to this question anywhere for the HTC Evo 3d forum but my forum foo is not yet strong. So if you'd like to hit me with the D3rp Bat feel free, but provide linky to reference as well if you could.
So I'm going to be upgrading my phone to a Samsung Galaxy Note II and am handing my HTC Evo 3D to my wife. She is entirely new to Android (and smartphones) and I want her experience to be smooth. So given that we're all still playing around with JB and lots of functionality items aren't rock solid or hammered out yet (wifi tether, for ex.) I would like to downgrade her to ICS where I can load a bunch of tried and tested ROMs that I know will be solid for her.
Question: Is there a guide to do this somewhere? I've looked, can't seem to find it.
My understanding is I'll need to reflash the hboot, kernel and rom, am I forgetting anything else? I'm currently running JB kernels and roms and my HBOOT is 1.49.1107 Rev ShooterU. My recovery is TWRP (LOVE twrp!) v2.3.1.0
Also, if I have unlocked the sim will I need to flash the sim unlock file again after downgrading?
Sorry for the nubbin questions.
Thanks folks!
You don't need to change hboot and considering you are s-off you could just flash an ics rom from recovery (after wiping ofc). Then if you want you can change your kernel as well. not sure about the sim unlock though..
EM|NEM said:
You don't need to change hboot and considering you are s-off you could just flash an ics rom from recovery (after wiping ofc). Then if you want you can change your kernel as well. not sure about the sim unlock though..
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You sir, are a scholar and a gentleman for answer me!
I'd need to flash an ICS Kernel too though, yeah? Simlock isn't such a big deal since I can just flash the file again from Hboot if need be. I'm currently running the 3.0.16-poonkang+ kernel but truth be told I'll likely go back to Turge's ICS Rogers build since it was rock solid and I know my wife will be really turned off of the whole smartphone experience if the phone is buggy.
Thanks again man.
The kernel comes with the rom zip file sir. As long as you are s-off there no need to flash the kernel seperately. Just wipe data, flash rom,reboot and you're good to go