Finally got S-OFF but have a small problem. Every time I go into bootloader it tells me to parse my sdcard? How can I get rid of that? I was 1.5 hboot S-On unlocked, now I'm 1.58 S-off locked. I can't flash via bootloader anymore. Any suggestion?? Thanks
sammy518 said:
Finally got S-OFF but have a small problem. Every time I go into bootloader it tells me to parse my sdcard? How can I get rid of that? I was 1.5 hboot S-On unlocked, now I'm 1.58 S-off locked. I can't flash via bootloader anymore. Any suggestion?? Thanks
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Delete the PG86IMG.zip file from the root of your SD card then flash a custom hboot like ENG (1.04) or JBear GB (1.50.5050) using this post, then you should be able to flash using fastboot commands.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
Delete the PG86IMG.zip file from the root of your SD card then flash a custom hboot like ENG (1.04) or JBear GB (1.50.5050) using this post, then you should be able to flash using fastboot commands.
ramjet73
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I did delete the PG86IMG.zip but might have deleted the wrong one because I can't get past the HTC home screen. I basically have no working phone now. Anty advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
sammy518 said:
I did delete the PG86IMG.zip but might have deleted the wrong one because I can't get past the HTC home screen. I basically have no working phone now. Anty advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Get into recovery via fastboot in the bootloader after removing/replacing the battery and holding Power+VolumeDown until the bootloader screen appears.
After you are in recovery, either restore a nandroid backup of a configuration that you know works or "format all partitions except SD card" and flash a ROM.
If you don't have a working recovery, connect your phone in the bootloader fastboot mode to a PC with the ADB/fastboot files installed and flash a custom recovery using fastboot.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
Get into recovery via fastboot in the bootloader after removing/replacing the battery and holding Power+VolumeDown until the bootloader screen appears.
After you are in recovery, either restore a nandroid backup of a configuration that you know works or "format all partitions except SD card" and flash a ROM.
If you don't have a working recovery, connect your phone in the bootloader fastboot mode to a PC with the ADB/fastboot files installed and flash a custom recovery using fastboot.
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I can get into recovery, anything I try to flash it says aborted. I then tried a restore of a ROM that was working and still stuck on HTC home screen. Basically I can not get past the home screen HTC it's stuck there. Not sure how I screwed it up but it's just a paper weight at this point. Is there something I can do? Thank you ramjet
sammy518 said:
I can get into recovery, anything I try to flash it says aborted. I then tried a restore of a ROM that was working and still stuck on HTC home screen. Basically I can not get past the home screen HTC it's stuck there. Not sure how I screwed it up but it's just a paper weight at this point. Is there something I can do? Thank you ramjet
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Did you try to re-flash your recovery from fastboot?
ramjet73
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Did you try to re-flash your recovery from fastboot?
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I'll try that now and see if that works. Not sure how to do that exactly but remember it posted somewhere.
sammy518 said:
I'll try that now and see if that works. Not sure how to do that exactly but remember it posted somewhere.
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Just checked your OP and you said you have the locked stock 1.58 bootloader so you will need to install a custom bootloader like JBear 1.58.5858 to flash recovery from fastboot or use a PG86IMG.zip version of your recovery and flash it from the bootloader.
ramjet73
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Did you try to re-flash your recovery from fastboot?
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No, I am not sure the commands to type in fastboot.
sammy518 said:
Can you please walk me through how to re-flash my recovery from fastboot? I think I lost my recovery.
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How did you get root and S-OFF? Flashing a custom recovery had to be part of that procedure.
Well, if you don't unlock your stock bootloader, which I don't recommend since there is no way to get it back to "locked" without doing the wire trick again, you will need to install a custom bootloader first as I indicated in my last post. You can try flashing the attached PG86IMG.zip version of 4EXT instead. Install it the same way you would an hboot.
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I'm sorry I misunderstood what you said. I am on 4EXT recovery, I tried to re flash 4EXT which it aborts, try to flash rom it aborts, try restore..loads it fine then after restart stuck on HTC screen. Lost
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Delete the PG86IMG.zip file from the root of your SD card then flash a custom hboot like ENG (1.04) or JBear GB (1.50.5050) using this post, then you should be able to flash using fastboot commands.
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If this helps, after doing these steps above the problems started. I did delete all PG86IMG files then flashed JBear GB 1.50 (I thought you were giving me a link to downgrade to 1.5) but I am on 1.58 locked s-off. Now I can't flash anything it just aborts. Can't even reflash the recovery b/c it aborts that too.
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If this helps, after doing these steps above the problems started. I did delete all PG86IMG files then flashed JBear GB 1.50 (I thought you were giving me a link to downgrade to 1.5) but I am on 1.58 locked s-off. Now I can't flash anything it just aborts. Can't even reflash the recovery b/c it aborts that too.
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At this point I'm totally confused about what your current problem(s) are versus what you reported in the OP of this thread. The "parsing" problem you mentioned was probably related to having a PG86IMG.zip file left in the root of your SD card and deleting it certainly shouldn't have affected anything else. I don't think there was anything actually completed from my subsequent posts in this thread that would affect your ability to flash a bootloader, recovery or ROM, so either something was already damaged on your phone, possibly by flashing something intended for another phone, or I'm just not understanding the terminology you are using to describe your problem.
Maybe someone else can jump in at this point and try to help you. It would probably help to post some screen shots or at the least the actual messages you are getting when the things you are trying fail.
ramjet73
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At this point I'm totally confused about what your current problem(s) are versus what you reported in the OP of this thread. The "parsing" problem you mentioned was probably related to having a PG86IMG.zip file left in the root of your SD card and deleting it certainly shouldn't have affected anything else. I don't think there was anything actually completed from my subsequent posts in this thread that would affect your ability to flash a bootloader, recovery or ROM, so either something was already damaged on your phone, possibly by flashing something intended for another phone, or I'm just not understanding the terminology you are using to describe your problem.
Maybe someone else can jump in at this point and try to help you.
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Thanks for helping ram, sorry to confuse you with the wrong terminology, I'm new to this. I think I'll have sprint take a look at it. Thanks again man
sammy518 said:
Thanks for helping ram, sorry to confuse you with the wrong terminology, I'm new to this. I think I'll have sprint take a look at it. Thanks again man
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Sorry I couldn't help you identify your problem. I edited my last post to suggest that you post what the actual messages are when you try to do different things and if you can do that it might be easier to figure out what is actually happening.
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Your problem is kiind of confusing.Some Pics might help.
Had a similar issue on friends phone. Using another sdcard fixed the aborting issue. Had to format the sdcard to get it to function normally.
mnomaanw said:
Your problem is kiind of confusing.Some Pics might help.
Had a similar issue on friends phone. Using another sdcard fixed the aborting issue. Had to format the sdcard to get it to function normally.
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That's a great suggestion. If you recently did the wire trick your SD card could be corrupted and might need reformatting and restoring from your backup.
If that's the problem you could also try removing the SD card, then going into "fastboot usb" mode in the bootloader to flash recovery with the fastboot command since that doesn't require an SD card.
ramjet73
sammy518 said:
If this helps, after doing these steps above the problems started. I did delete all PG86IMG files then flashed JBear GB 1.50 (I thought you were giving me a link to downgrade to 1.5) but I am on 1.58 locked s-off. Now I can't flash anything it just aborts. Can't even reflash the recovery b/c it aborts that too.
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How can you be on locked 1.58 hboot even after flashing GB 1.50 hboot? And you said it aborted. Are you sure you are flashing the hboot via your bootloader and not recovery?
If another sdcard or formatting it doesnot work (or you dont want to do that) or if you just dont want to go through any hassle, your simplest and best bet is to use RUU.
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If another sdcard or formatting it doesnot work (or you dont want to do that) or if you just dont want to go through any hassle, your simplest and best bet is to use RUU.
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Although flashing an RUU won't fix a corrupted SD card so it that's the cause of all or part of his problems he's going to have to format and restore it or replace it with another card.
ramjet73
I don't think it's the sdcard b/c when I did the wire trick I used an older 2gb card, then swapped it out for a 16GB card and it worked fine untill this morning. I am going to have to run the RUU and start from scratch. Again, sorry for the confusion and thanks for the help guys.
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I have recently decided to go S-off with All-In-One-Toolkit and gotten to the recovery portion, but cannot proceed further. I have tried manually flashing but all I get is error messages. Also, I cannot reboot in order to get to the external sd. Anything would help, I'm getting nowhere at this point.:crying: I'm using Hboot 2.21 and the screen does say s-off
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I have recently decided to go S-off with All-In-One-Toolkit and gotten to the recovery portion, but cannot proceed further. I have tried manually flashing but all I get is error messages. Also, I cannot reboot in order to get to the external sd. Anything would help, I'm getting nowhere at this point.:crying: I'm using Hboot 2.21 and the screen does say s-off
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Did you flash juopunutbear hboot?
You need to do that to flash stuff with fastboot. (or you can HTCdev unlock the stock hboot, but that would take longer)
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Did you flash juopunutbear hboot?
You need to do that to flash stuff with fastboot. (or you can HTCdev unlock the stock hboot, but that would take longer)
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I did, it was a question after the s-off was complete. It wouldn't say an hboot number at the fastboot screen if I didn't right?
Ok, so I guess it didn't work through the program so I did it manually, and was able to flash a recovery. Although now I can't reboot, and the phone doesn't recognize any of the sd cards in recovery. Is there a certain recovery I should use? Or how I can format the SD card from there?
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Ok, so I guess it didn't work through the program so I did it manually, and was able to flash a recovery. Although now I can't reboot, and the phone doesn't recognize any of the sd cards in recovery. Is there a certain recovery I should use? Or how I can format the SD card from there?
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Sometimes storage gets messed up during s-off.
Try formatting them in recovery.
(I use amon-ra recovery, but any one should work)
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Sometimes storage gets messed up during s-off.
Try formatting them in recovery.
(I use amon-ra recovery, but any one should work)
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Yeah I did that and flashed everything I needed to. I think it is rolling along now, you've been a great help thanks.
I know this has been posted before, but my particular circumstance after reading through many threads has not been covered (as far as i know). I normally flash A LOT of new roms because i'm a bit of a ROM junkie and am always interested in all of you wonderful developers creations. So after flashing may 1000th rom, CM10.1, many times and getting bootloops, i decided to give up and restore the fully functional CM10 I was using prior. Well, after MANY numerous ways of restoring my back up, others roms, stock OEM RUU's/Zips, and bootloader NOTHING will get my phone to get past the WHITE HTC LOGO SCREEN!!!
I at one point couldn't access or mount my internal SD, o kept getting an error message so I connected it to windows and it was recognized and windows prompted me to format the internal SD card because it was "corrupted", so I did and tried flashing again through all the above methods and STILL NOTHING. Now every time i boot into recovery, it sometimes takes 50+ seconds to load or if it does load quicker it says i'm in "safe mode" or "enable 4EXT'S ADVANCED SETTINGS". I'm sorry that this si lengthy, but i'm stumped. Can anyone help me????
When I was on evervolv all my partitions were corrupted according to 4ext. No rom would flash. The only way I was able to recover was to downgrade to an official T-Mobile GB RUU. Once I did that everything was fine and dandy again. Hopefully if you do the same it works for you.
Thank you, I am going to try this today and see if it helps. Did you just put the RUU on the root of the external SD or was it and exe file??
Thanks again for your help!!!
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When I was on evervolv all my partitions were corrupted according to 4ext. No rom would flash. The only way I was able to recover was to downgrade to an official T-Mobile GB RUU. Once I did that everything was fine and dandy again. Hopefully if you do the same it works for you.
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silvertero said:
Thank you, I am going to try this today and see if it helps. Did you just put the RUU on the root of the external SD or was it and exe file??
Thanks again for your help!!!
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No the ruu should be a zip file not an exe. The ruu's I used are for T-Mobile.
Since your S-Off you should be able to do downgrade and upgrade at will. Sounds like your partitions are messed up. Also make sure your SuperCID as well.
Downgrade your amaze to a GB RUU 1.43.531.3
Check MD5 SUMS
Rename it to PH85IMG.zip
Place on your External SD CARD
Reboot phone into bootloader
Let Phone find update and apply update
Let Phone reboot
If that worked and your able to use your phone
Repeat Steps 1 - 8 and use ICS RUU 2.14.531.3 instead of the GB RUU.
You can't flash an ICS Rom if your firmware is still GB.
Also if you want to get the latest update from T-Mobile that address wifi calling and updates your Firmware and Radio for better battery life and reception follow my guide here
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Since your S-Off you should be able to do downgrade and upgrade at will.
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I am having the exact problem as OP but I am S-on, what extra steps do I need to take? Thanks for your help.
EDIT: Since I can't allegedly go backwards from JB/ICS to GB when S-on, the only solution I was able to arrive to on my own accord was to format the internal SD in 4ext. Once I did that 4ext was able to see both internal and ext sd and I was able to flash to my heart's content. I think it was a misaligned partition or something. Fortunately everything on the internal SD was backed up already but in the future is there an easier way to do this without formatting sdcard? I re-locked my phone and tried to flash the latest T-Mobile Stock ICS RUU by renaming it to PH85IMG.zip and letting the bootloader flash it but I still got stuck at the white HTC screen at boot.
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I am having the exact problem as OP but I am S-on, what extra steps do I need to take? Thanks for your help.
EDIT: Since I can't allegedly go backwards from JB/ICS to GB when S-on, the only solution I was able to arrive to on my own accord was to format the internal SD in 4ext. Once I did that 4ext was able to see both internal and ext sd and I was able to flash to my heart's content. I think it was a misaligned partition or something. Fortunately everything on the internal SD was backed up already but in the future is there an easier way to do this without formatting sdcard? I re-locked my phone and tried to flash the latest T-Mobile Stock ICS RUU by renaming it to PH85IMG.zip and letting the bootloader flash it but I still got stuck at the white HTC screen at boot.
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ive got the same thing going on, mine is s-on boot loader unlocked. i dont have super cid. ive tried the stock ruu t-moblie gb. in boot loader it reads it but afterwards nothing. ive even tried relocking the bootloader and trying that way, that way is a little differnt. if you relock bootloader then it will force itself in fastboot every time you try to turn it on or plug usb in from your pc. but you cant get into 4ext recovery.fastboot will read that ph85img.zip. and will try to update, but it fail and say cid incorect. but if you unlock your bootloader agein then your can get back into 4ext, but then your just at square one agein. idk im sumped. if any one can help that would be a life saver.
metalclark said:
ive got the same thing going on, mine is s-on boot loader unlocked. i dont have super cid. ive tried the stock ruu t-moblie gb. in boot loader it reads it but afterwards nothing. ive even tried relocking the bootloader and trying that way, that way is a little differnt. if you relock bootloader then it will force itself in fastboot every time you try to turn it on or plug usb in from your pc. but you cant get into 4ext recovery.fastboot will read that ph85img.zip. and will try to update, but it fail and say cid incorect. but if you unlock your bootloader agein then your can get back into 4ext, but then your just at square one agein. idk im sumped. if any one can help that would be a life saver.
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You have 2 options here
1. check your cid version download the appropriate ruu for it I've posted a unbranded version ruu in krooks thread and run it while the bootloader is locked..
2. Go to 4ext download a FLASHABLE ROM a gb rom NOT a ruu and flash it from 4ext and turn on smart flash before doing it ...
Either way you get a working device
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ravike14 said:
You have 2 options here
1. check your cid version download the appropriate ruu for it I've posted a unbranded version ruu in krooks thread and run it while the bootloader is locked..
2. Go to 4ext download a FLASHABLE ROM a gb rom NOT a ruu and flash it from 4ext and turn on smart flash before doing it ...
Either way you get a working device
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i wil try the second one.first and see what it does. i cant find that thread, can you put a link up for it?
thanx
metalclark said:
i wil try the second one.first and see what it does. i cant find that thread, can you put a link up for it?
thanx
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it's pretty much that no threads i'm afraid :/ just flash 4ext then put the rom.zip in your ext sd card then go to tools and enable smart flash since your s on then go to install from sd card>>choose zip from sd card>> then select your zip and flash it if you stuck in a bootloop flash faux kernel while enabling smart flash or flash the stock kernel with aio kit
your welcome i prefer the thanks button tho
ravike14 said:
it's pretty much that no threads i'm afraid :/ just flash 4ext then put the rom.zip in your ext sd card then go to tools and enable smart flash since your s on then go to install from sd card>>choose zip from sd card>> then select your zip and flash it if you stuck in a bootloop flash faux kernel while enabling smart flash or flash the stock kernel with aio kit
your welcome i prefer the thanks button tho
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ok so it didnt work. i have downloaded caprom its a gb rom and the newst faux kernal. tryed flashing it in 4ext, but it aborts it every time. but now ive tried flashing it thru aio kit. but its looking for the img.file. the faux kernal that was downloaded didnt come in a img.file. but im dowloading the stock kernal i fount and see what happens. scrach that. i forgot for a moment about exstracting it to get the img.file. srry
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ok so it didnt work. i have downloaded caprom its a gb rom and the newst faux kernal. tryed flashing it in 4ext, but it aborts it every time. but now ive tried flashing it thru aio kit. but its looking for the img.file. the faux kernal that was downloaded didnt come in a img.file. but im dowloading the stock kernal i fount and see what happens. scrach that. i forgot for a moment about exstracting it to get the img.file. srry
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ok so the stock t-mobile kernal worked with the caprom. so farno bugs. everything is working perfectly. i will keep this in mind if it happens agein lol. thanx a bunch man.
metalclark said:
ok so the stock t-mobile kernal worked with the caprom. so farno bugs. everything is working perfectly. i will keep this in mind if it happens agein lol. thanx a bunch man.
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glad to hear and yea faux kernel is kinda tricky lol
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glad to hear and yea faux kernel is kinda tricky lol
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i have a question. im trying to s-off. i cant find a link to download the aio for it. you wouldnt happen to have a link for it would you?
thanx.
metalclark said:
i have a question. im trying to s-off. i cant find a link to download the aio for it. you wouldnt happen to have a link for it would you?
thanx.
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Well all the inks are taken down sure you can try the Ubuntu version it's safe than the windows version according to the devs
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Well all the inks are taken down sure you can try the Ubuntu version it's safe than the windows version according to the devs
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i wonder why there all down? sadly im not to familiar with ubuntu. i tried to use it a few months ago, to see if i can resurrect my galaxy player 5.0.
but i had no luck with it.
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i wonder why there all down? sadly im not to familiar with ubuntu. i tried to use it a few months ago, to see if i can resurrect my galaxy player 5.0.
but i had no luck with it.
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noo need to know bout anything all you have to do is run the programme and s off and your done with it
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noo need to know bout anything all you have to do is run the programme and s off and your done with it
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i finally got the time to do all this. but i cant seem to get the program to run in ubuntu, i have no idea were the termal cmd is?? any ideas
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i finally got the time to do all this. but i cant seem to get the program to run in ubuntu, i have no idea were the termal cmd is?? any ideas
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there's the dash board or something similar to that cant remember when you open you get the search option type terminal in the search bar
Still no luck in getting past the splash screen
Well it's been a while since I've posted back on this thread, but I have tried everything that was suggested and i STILL can't get the phone to boot past the HTC Splash screen. I tried flashing many different RUU zips (all renamed PH85IMG) as well as custom ROMS (gingerbread and ICS based) and nothing gets the phone to boot up! They install, but after the phone reboots it's still a no-go. I just don't know what to do anymore. The only thing i can think of is my bootloader is still unlocked, could that have anything to do with this? Like I said earlier my phone is S-ON which makes things more difficult. I'm really hopeless for a solution.
I even mounted the internal and external SD's to the computer and reformatted them. Still doesn't help. Also, my recovery, which is 4EXT, always says i'm in "safe mode" and i have to do something to put it in advanced mode? Please someone help!:crying:
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Well it's been a while since I've posted back on this thread, but I have tried everything that was suggested and i STILL can't get the phone to boot past the HTC Splash screen. I tried flashing many different RUU zips (all renamed PH85IMG) as well as custom ROMS (gingerbread and ICS based) and nothing gets the phone to boot up! They install, but after the phone reboots it's still a no-go. I just don't know what to do anymore. The only thing i can think of is my bootloader is still unlocked, could that have anything to do with this? Like I said earlier my phone is S-ON which makes things more difficult. I'm really hopeless for a solution.
I even mounted the internal and external SD's to the computer and reformatted them. Still doesn't help. Also, my recovery, which is 4EXT, always says i'm in "safe mode" and i have to do something to put it in advanced mode? Please someone help!:crying:
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I'm having a similar problem only once i get to recovery it won't recognize any of my storage internal or ex, I did a full wipe, i tried reformating the storage from 4ext but it said that there was an error. i cant push anything from the all in one from hasoon because it cant find my phone. im kinda running out of ideas
Hi,
I have a Sprint CDMA HTC EVO 3D. I tried root and get S-OFF for it. Unfortunately I failed and now the phone fail to boot.
Below is what I did from which you might be able to diagnose it and give me suggestions.
(1) The original status of mu phone is:
Stock rom, I never root it before.
HBOOT-1.58.0000
Android Version: 4.03
HTC Sense version: 3.6
Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
(2) My root procedures:
I followed this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813818
I successfully unlocked phone with HTCDev, successfully Flashed 4EXT recovery, and successfully installed Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip. I also booted into sytem, everything worked well.
However I failed in next step of JuopunutBear's Wire Trick (S-OFF). When I ran ControlBear.exe, it finally hanged there.
Current status of my phone:
Unfortunately I did not make a backup to my original ROM, so there is no way to revert back by restoring backup.
Now the phone is in unlocked status, I was able to boot to HBOOT and also enter 4Ext recovery, however I am not able to boot into Android. If I try to boot into Android, it always hang at black screen.
I am able to boot to fastboot (USB) mode, I tried to flash some stock ROM (listed at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24268786&postcount=209), but I failed. For example, I ran a RUU of 2.89.exe, it detected my phone version is 2.95, and further update RUU failed.
Looks like my partition is ruined, but I might be wrong.
ANyone can help me to restore my phone to working status? At least I need the phone to be able to boo to Android.
Here are also some tries that I ever did:
(1) I ever put the PG86IMG.zip file (downloaded from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21593454&postcount=564) to my sdcard, still failed.
(2) I ever formatted all partition from 4EXT recovery
lsdyna said:
Here are also some tries that I ever did:
(1) I ever put the PG86IMG.zip file (downloaded from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21593454&postcount=564) to my sdcard, still failed.
(2) I ever formatted all partition from 4EXT recovery
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Okay. I've got some questions.
1. You're stuck on some black screen as you said. It boots past the white HTC splash and then it's stuck on that black screen, right. Do you mean the juopunutbear "arrow screen" - juopunutbears boot.img?
2. I think if you had flashed the original boot img everything would have been fine.
3. The easiest way is to flash to stock, so lets try to figure out why it doesn't flash.
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Okay. So from what I understood, you are stuck on the black juopunutbear screen, right?
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Yes, after I was stuck with black juopunutbear screen, I took battery out, reboot again, never was able to root to Android. I am only able to boot to HBoot.
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Yes, after I was stuck with black juopunutbear screen, I took battery out, reboot again, never was able to root to Android. I am only able to boot to HBoot.
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And you can boot to recovery, right?
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One more thing. Which ruu were you trying to run
Edit2:
What's your CID? Use "fastboot getvar cid" or "fastboot oem readcid" (without quotes).
Edit3:
BTW, this was on the wire trick page... http://unlimited.io/jbtroubleshooting.htm - TROUBLESHOOTING There was everything you needed to know when you failed at something. Remember that page. You may need it the next time you try to do the wiretrick.
Q: Were you using a linux distro for the wire trick and did you use the appropriate files for wire trick since GB and ICS have separate tools?
If you want I may assist you in gaining s-off if we get this thing functional again.
Yes, I am able to boot to recovery.
I tried ROM's here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24268786&postcount=209
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22519105#post22519105
I tried 2.17, 2.89, unfortunately none of them worked
My CID is SPCS_001
MrJyrks said:
And you can boot to recovery, right?
EDIT: One more thing. Which ruu were you trying to run
Edit2: What's your CID? Use "fastboot getvar cid" or "fastboot oem readcid" (without quotes).
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lsdyna said:
Yes, I am able to boot to recovery.
I tried ROM's here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24268786&postcount=209
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22519105#post22519105
I tried 2.17, 2.89, unfortunately none of them worked
My CID is SPCS_001
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Aw man, I'm completely sorry I didn't see this: Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
That means, no RUU for you cause htc/sprint wasn't kind enough to provide the ruu. Also FYI you can't flash a ruu lower than your current one.
So your best bet is to flash the most stock 2.95 cdma rom you could find and right after, flash the stock cdma evo 3d kernel through fastboot or 4ext (I think 4ext smartflash does the same thing). Try to find something that's COMPLETELY STOCK - with no mods whatsoever or if you couldn't find any, try something that's almost* stock. That should get you booting and you can try s off again.
Edit: This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Now I only want to revert my phone to stock, not considering root at present time.
I searched 2.95 ROM, unfortunately the highest version that I can find is 2.89. Does this mean I have no way to revert my phone to live? Thanks a lot.
MrJyrks said:
Aw man, I'm completely sorry I didn't see this: Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
That means, no RUU for you cause htc/sprint wasn't kind enough to provide the ruu. Also FYI you can't flash a ruu lower than your current one.
So your best bet is to flash the most stock 2.95 cdma rom you could find and right after, flash the stock cdma evo 3d kernel through fastboot or 4ext (I think 4ext smartflash does the same thing). Try to find something that's COMPLETELY STOCK - with no mods whatsoever or if you couldn't find any, try something that's almost* stock. That should get you booting and you can try s off again.
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I ever run a RUU 1.13...exe for mmy phone, it said my device is having 1.000, and it tried to update to 1.13. However, the update procedure always failed at some point, some at beginning, some failed at 'wring signature'...
MrJyrks said:
Aw man, I'm completely sorry I didn't see this: Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
That means, no RUU for you cause htc/sprint wasn't kind enough to provide the ruu. Also FYI you can't flash a ruu lower than your current one.
So your best bet is to flash the most stock 2.95 cdma rom you could find and right after, flash the stock cdma evo 3d kernel through fastboot or 4ext (I think 4ext smartflash does the same thing). Try to find something that's COMPLETELY STOCK - with no mods whatsoever or if you couldn't find any, try something that's almost* stock. That should get you booting and you can try s off again.
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lsdyna said:
I ever run a RUU 1.13...exe for mmy phone, it said my device is having 1.000, and it tried to update to 1.13. However, the update procedure always failed at some point, some at beginning, some failed at 'wring signature'...
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This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
My HBoot screen shows below:
SHOOTER XC SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.58.000
RADIO-1.09.00.0108
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0217
DO you think I still have chance to save my device? Thanks a lot.
lsdyna said:
I ever run a RUU 1.13...exe for mmy phone, it said my device is having 1.000, and it tried to update to 1.13. However, the update procedure always failed at some point, some at beginning, some failed at 'wring signature'...
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lsdyna said:
My HBoot screen shows below:
SHOOTER XC SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.58.000
RADIO-1.09.00.0108
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0217
DO you think I still have chance to save my device? Thanks a lot.
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If you have access to the recovery, most likely, yes.
Hello MrJyrks,
Thank you so much for the link! I am eager to try that. Before I do that I think I shall ask two questions to avoid further mess up the device:
Question #1: To install the deodexed rom, which is the correct way:
(1) Rename the ZIP file to PG86IMG.ZIP, put to root of sdcard, then boot, letting the Bootloader to do the update.
(2) In 4EXT recovery, enable smartflash, enable script asserts, then install the zip from the root of sdcard.
Question #2: You said I shall flash boot image, can you tell me how to do this? I mean, where shall I get the boot image file? Flash it with 4EXT? SHall I do it before or after install ROM zip file?
Thank you very much for your helps!!!
MrJyrks said:
This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
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I tried install the stock ROM from your link (using 4EXT with smartflash enabled and script asserts enabled.) . Amazing that installation completed successfully (indeed this is the first ROM zip that I was able to install successfully since I mess up the device). When I exit After that, it did some further update which I guess is the boot.img that you mentioned.
4EXT it said 'a pending update for your boot partition is detected' and I think it was doing the boot image flash that you mentioned, right?
Unfortunately when I boo the device, I still got black screen.
Now I am unlocked and also rooted (since I successfully installed superuser in 4EXT). DO you think I shall lock the devioce before installing the stock ROM? If so, one possible issue is that if I relock the device, I found 4EXT is not available. In that case, how shall I install the ROM zip file?
Thanks.
MrJyrks said:
This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
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Further update:
I flashed boot image by: fastboot flash boot boot.img which is included in the stock ROM zip file.
The flash went successfully. However, I am still not able to boot to Android. WHat I have is the device hang there, alternatively displaying logo with white background, and black screen.
MrJyrks said:
This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
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I wiped cache and Dalvic, then re-flash the ROM, now I am able to boot as normal.
MrJyrks, you are my life save!!!
Your helps are sincerely appreciated !
lsdyna said:
I wiped cache and Dalvic, then re-flash the ROM, now I am able to boot as normal.
MrJyrks, you are my life save!!!
Your helps are sincerely appreciated !
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You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!
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Oh, and if, in the future, you do try the wire trick and get stuck at some point you can revert the changes with ControlBear -r or ControlBear -f from command line. And you may also PM me if you need any help. Cheers!
MrJyrks, thank you so much!!!
MrJyrks said:
You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!
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Oh, and if, in the future, you do try the wire trick and get stuck at some point you can revert the changes with ControlBear -r or ControlBear -f from command line. And you may also PM me if you need any help. Cheers!
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Similar problem, can't return to stock
I have a problem similar to lsdyna's, and am hoping that even though this post is old, MrJyrks or someone might be able to help me.
I am unsuccessfully trying to return my phone to stock. First a bit of history.
I had 2.95.651.6.710RD s-on hboot 1.58 Android Version: 4.03 HTC Sense version: 3.6 on my phone, and wanted root. I didn't need s-off, just wanted to root so could do some tweaking (stop some apps from autostarting, stop some form getting network access, etc.) so loaded 4EXT Recovery Touch, and got root (fastboot oem get_identifier_token method), got superuser in there, and happily began tweaking. Famous last words... I didn't make a backup right away (learned my lesson!) and suddenly found a 'overtweaked' sluggish phone on my hands.
Thought best thing would be to lose the root & return to stock & start over, carefully, making backups.
So I used Fastboot (fastboot oem lock) to lock it (worked) and proceeded to try to load RUU_Shooter_ICS_35_S_Sprint_WWE_2.89.651.2_Radio_1.09.00.0706__NV_NV_SPCS_1.43_release_271101_signed.exe into it [via my computer], but didn't realize until reading MrJyrks post that a lower RUU couldn't be used.
I now am relocked (phone does boot up, but can tell the system tweaks are still slogging it), lost the recovery, and wondering what to do... do I try putting recovery back in & using the Negalite 2.95 stock deodex ROM MrJyrks mentioned? If so, how do I use that zip file method verses the exe one I tried thru my computer?
Thanks for the help
You had issues with the RUU because your main version is higher than that contained in the RUU.
Unlock, flash recovery again. Boot into recovery and flash this zip: https://copy.com/wlVvwssXXNN00Pe
That will lower your main version. Relock the bootloader, put the phone into fastboot USB mode, then run the RUU while in fastboot USB mode.
Should be back to stock after that.
So, I have a dilemma. I am currently S-ON running TACHYON 1.2 (Android 4.3)
HBOOT 2.28.0000
Radio 2.23.10.0123/4
I updated the hboot and radio while S-ON. Now, I've decided I'd like to go S-OFF. According to JuopunutBear I need to be on a stock RUU for their S-OFF to work. I tried running the newest ICS RUU a few weeks ago and found that it would just error out when it was checking the file because the radios and hboot on the phone were newer than the ones on the RUU. Can I step backwards in HBOOT versions whlie S-ON or have I kind of screwed myself? Or is there a better option I haven't thought about?
Thanks
Just install a stock Rom to run s-off program. You are on a stock hboot, so no problem there.
Sent from my DNA using my mind.
Uzephi said:
Just install a stock Rom to run s-off program. You are on a stock hboot, so no problem there.
Sent from my DNA using my mind.
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It's a stock hboot, yes. But the RUU won't run because it is an older version hboot.
You need s-off to downgrade. Just install a stock based Rom that is rooted and run s-off procedure. You will have no issues. After s-off if you want, you can ruu
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Step 1 from Unlimited: Verify - You are on Stock RUU (not FreshROM, Stock Rooted, HarmonyROM - none of these will work!)
They say not to be rooted or anything. What difference does it make?
Also, what do you mean by "stock rom"? Is there a stock rom I can install that is not an RUU? (maybe that's a dumb question but I don't know lol)
jeff925 said:
Step 1 from Unlimited: Verify - You are on Stock RUU (not FreshROM, Stock Rooted, HarmonyROM - none of these will work!)
They say not to be rooted or anything. What difference does it make?
Also, what do you mean by "stock rom"? Is there a stock rom I can install that is not an RUU? (maybe that's a dumb question but I don't know lol)
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A stock rooted RUU would work. I was in your predicament once. First, do a nandroid backup then use this guide it'll get you to s-off. If you want to downgrade, then use this guide to accomplish this.
Thanks guys for the help. Installed the rom listed in the guide and it worked great. S-OFF now!! (Took me long enough...I've had the phone for 2 years!)
It installed JuopunutBear's hboot but whatever. I'd probably rather stick with a stock hboot but I can do that later.
Restored my nandroid backup and I'm back up and running like I never left.
Just flash this ROM and boot image, and you should be able to S-OFF, I can't remember if stock recovery is needed but that can be flashed separately as well if needed, but I don't think it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154
So, All was well until I decided to flash the stock hboot back to the phone. I put the file on the sd card and renamed it ph98img.zip and flashed it in fastboot. It said it was successful and that I was running hboot 2.28 and radio 2.23.10.0123/4. Then I rebooted and it hung up at the white screen with green htc logo. I pulled the battery and rebooted holding the power and volume buttons. It booted to fastboot so I tried a few things. I tried flashing a recovery but it said that remote was not allowed and failed. Then I tried opening the recovery I already had on the phone from fastboot and it gave me the software download icon. Nothing happened so I pulled the battery and tried to boot back to fastboot. This time it wouldn't even get to fastboot. The white screen with HTC logo comes up and then the screen goes blank. Then the software download icon comes up and then shortly there after a red triangle with an exclamation point takes its place.
That went downhill fast! Any suggestions?
EDIT: Pulling the SD card allows me to get back into fastboot! But I'm still not sure what to do. Is it because my bootloader is locked?
jeff925 said:
So, All was well until I decided to flash the stock hboot back to the phone. I put the file on the sd card and renamed it ph98img.zip and flashed it in fastboot. It said it was successful and that I was running hboot 2.28 and radio 2.23.10.0123/4. Then I rebooted and it hung up at the white screen with green htc logo. I pulled the battery and rebooted holding the power and volume buttons. It booted to fastboot so I tried a few things. I tried flashing a recovery but it said that remote was not allowed and failed. Then I tried opening the recovery I already had on the phone from fastboot and it gave me the software download icon. Nothing happened so I pulled the battery and tried to boot back to fastboot. This time it wouldn't even get to fastboot. The white screen with HTC logo comes up and then the screen goes blank. Then the software download icon comes up and then shortly there after a red triangle with an exclamation point takes its place.
That went downhill fast! Any suggestions?
EDIT: Pulling the SD card allows me to get back into fastboot! But I'm still not sure what to do. Is it because my bootloader is locked?
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In fastboot does it say s-off? Try manually flashing the boot.img by extracting it. If you haven't setup enviroment variable for fastboot put the boot.img in the same directory as fastboot.exe and use command prompt by typing
Code:
cd C:\Android\platform-tools (or wherever it is for you)
Then type
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
I was able to put an RUU on another sd card and flash that. So now I'm on ICS 4.03.605.2 and running. But I still haven't solved my recovery problems.
According to this thread: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/550408-s-off-guide-info-return-stock.html
I can either use juopunutbear's hboot (which I just flashed over the top of) to flash a new recovery or I can compile a recovery in a ph98img file (which I don't know how to do or want to do).
My question is: What happens if I unlock my bootloader while S-OFF? (Yes, it says s-off on the bootloader screen.) Will that solve my problem or do I have to go back to juopunutbear's hboot?
jeff925 said:
I was able to put an RUU on another sd card and flash that. So now I'm on ICS 4.03.605.2 and running. But I still haven't solved my recovery problems.
According to this thread: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/550408-s-off-guide-info-return-stock.html
I can either use juopunutbear's hboot (which I just flashed over the top of) to flash a new recovery or I can compile a recovery in a ph98img file (which I don't know how to do or want to do).
My question is: What happens if I unlock my bootloader while S-OFF? (Yes, it says s-off on the bootloader screen.) Will that solve my problem or do I have to go back to juopunutbear's hboot?
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You can unlock when S-OFF, but there is no reason to, you can get a PH98img.zip of CWM here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914215 or TWRP here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902381 and just copy it to your sd card (remember to name it exactly PH98IMG.zip, beware the Windoze "double zip" issue) then pop it in the phone, boot into Hboot with the USB disconnected and it should recognize it and flash either CWM or TWRP. from there you can flash ANYTHING you want, being S-OFF with custom recovery allows you to flash anything, no fastboot commands required.
Also, since you are S-OFF, your Hboot is mostly irrelevant, but should be the matching version to your radios... an engineered hboot (like Juopunutbears) would allow fastboot commands well locked, but fastboot isn't generally needed once S-OFF has been obtained...
Try this. no wire even, works great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48911002#post48911002
i am on hboot 2.25 though. im thinking of updating my hboot still researching how exactly.
4218kris said:
Try this. no wire even, works great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48911002#post48911002
i am on hboot 2.25 though. im thinking of updating my hboot still researching how exactly.
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i can help with that....its pretty easy if your already s-off
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jeff925 said:
I was able to put an RUU on another sd card and flash that. So now I'm on ICS 4.03.605.2 and running. But I still haven't solved my recovery problems.
According to this thread: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/550408-s-off-guide-info-return-stock.html
I can either use juopunutbear's hboot (which I just flashed over the top of) to flash a new recovery or I can compile a recovery in a ph98img file (which I don't know how to do or want to do).
My question is: What happens if I unlock my bootloader while S-OFF? (Yes, it says s-off on the bootloader screen.) Will that solve my problem or do I have to go back to juopunutbear's hboot?
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and what recovery problems are you having....flashing an hboot will not give you a recovery...and an ruu is an exe file not a ph98img file...those are OTA's.....if you need pure stock i can easily help you obtain it....i just need to know what exactly your trying to achieve
REV3NT3CH said:
i can help with that....its pretty easy if your already s-off
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i believe i can flash hboot with a ph98img yea? can you link me to the best/newest 2.28 i think.
4218kris said:
i believe i can flash hboot with a ph98img yea? can you link me to the best/newest 2.28 i think.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40767819&postcount=33
4218kris said:
i believe i can flash hboot with a ph98img yea? can you link me to the best/newest 2.28 i think.
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that one or the this 2nd ph98img in my downgrade/upgrade guide work as well...that one is just radios and hboot....doesnt come with stock <3e> recovery
REV3NT3CH said:
if you need pure stock i can easily help you obtain it....i just need to know what exactly your trying to achieve
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Hey REV3NT3CH,
So, thanks to the help of so many in these parts, including you, I now think I'm S-Off and I'm very interested in bringing my phone up to the latest, completely stock OTA ROM. Can you help me with that?
Thanks!
cheers,
john
jrredho said:
Hey REV3NT3CH,
So, thanks to the help of so many in these parts, including you, I now think I'm S-Off and I'm very interested in bringing my phone up to the latest, completely stock OTA ROM. Can you help me with that?
Thanks!
cheers,
john
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when you boot into your bootloader...does your hboot now say S-OFF....if so i can give you everything you need and what id suggest doing just prior to doing it
REV3NT3CH said:
when you boot into your bootloader...does your hboot now say S-OFF..
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Yes it does.
REV3NT3CH said:
.if so i can give you everything you need and what id suggest doing just prior to doing it
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That would be fantastic!
Thanks,
John
Hi,
I have a Sprint HTC Evo3D
-HTCDev "Unlocked"
-Shooter XC Ship S-ON RL
-HBOOT 1.50
-TWRP Recovery 2.8.7 Loaded
I'm trying to make this phone usable, and all guides kind of shoot me in dead end. Nothing is working, and i tried flashing a bunch of random roms.
Can anyone give me directions, or point me in the right direction? I'm looking to revert this to a stock rom or something usable. Preferably the latest Andriod revision. I don't care for root, or anything special... I just need the wifi and browser, this isn't a service phone.
masterdukill said:
Hi,
I have a Sprint HTC Evo3D
-HTCDev "Unlocked"
-Shooter XC Ship S-ON RL
-HBOOT 1.50
-TWRP Recovery 2.8.7 Loaded
I'm trying to make this phone usable, and all guides kind of shoot me in dead end. Nothing is working, and i tried flashing a bunch of random roms.
Can anyone give me directions, or point me in the right direction? I'm looking to revert this to a stock rom or something usable. Preferably the latest Andriod revision. I don't care for root, or anything special... I just need the wifi and browser, this isn't a service phone.
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Try to flash boot.img from the rom.rar that you have installed. What is your radio baseband version?
Coaxs94 said:
Try to flash boot.img from the rom.rar that you have installed. What is your radio baseband version?
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How do i tell what radio baseband do i have?
When you say try to flash the boot.img, do you mean literally "fastboot flash recovery xxxx.img" to the system? I grabbed the VILLUMINATI-08152014-shooter.zip & it did flash via the TWRP, but did not boot up afterwards.
masterdukill said:
How do i tell what radio baseband do i have?
When you say try to flash the boot.img, do you mean literally "fastboot flash recovery xxxx.img" to the system? I grabbed the VILLUMINATI-08152014-shooter.zip & it did flash via the TWRP, but did not boot up afterwards.
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No, actually "fastboot flash boot boot.img" to the system. Just extract boot.img form rom.zip and put it to your ADB tools folder a hit "fastboot flash boot boot.img" command, try it. Does bootloader shows your radio version? Check that.
villuminati, liquid smooth both require s-off and specific HBOOT.
you are s-on. cm11 won't run.
try a stock-based rom, those should work.
oops, read closer, you're not finding stock roms.
this one works ok without s-off on the two 3vo's I tried it on.http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-evo-3d/cdma-development/rom-3d-anthology-12-18-2014-t2977403
bigsupersquid said:
oops, read closer, you're not finding stock roms.
this one works ok without s-off on the two 3vo's I tried it on.http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-evo-3d/cdma-development/rom-3d-anthology-12-18-2014-t2977403
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I tried flashing the base, waiting 20min, and got nothing. The phone is stuck on the white HTC boot screen logo. I then flashed the badassrom over it, and got the same result. FYI, i'm using the twrp recovery to flash both these roms.
Does anybody have a link to the stock rom? I tried the "PG86IMG_Shooter_S_Sprint_WWE_2.17.651.5_Radio_1.06.00.1216_NV_NV_spcs_1.42_release_233304-signed.zip" and it seemed to be stuck also.
Any other ideas?
you could try flashing an official RUU
they're posted in the stickies somewhere.
that'll rewrite all your firmware to something that should hopefully boot up.
bigsupersquid said:
you could try flashing an official RUU
they're posted in the stickies somewhere.
that'll rewrite all your firmware to something that should hopefully boot up.
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When you flash the RUU, is that running through the executable? I find that impossible b/c it requires you to have a working OS first to start off with? Can you flash a RUU with fastboot?
masterdukill said:
When you flash the RUU, is that running through the executable? I find that impossible b/c it requires you to have a working OS first to start off with? Can you flash a RUU with fastboot?
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there's .exe ruu's for window$ fastboot and PG86IMG.zip files for the root of your SD card in fastboot. since the phone's gotten long in the tooth a lot of links are dead so you may need to hunt a bit.
bigsupersquid said:
there's .exe ruu's for window$ fastboot and PG86IMG.zip files for the root of your SD card in fastboot. since the phone's gotten long in the tooth a lot of links are dead so you may need to hunt a bit.
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Couldn't' find much working links on this forum, but i googled & found "PG86IMG_Shooter_Sprint_WWE_2.89.651.2_Radio_1.09.00.0706_signed.zip" on other forums. Renamed it, rebooted to bootloader & this phone is alive again! Thanks for the help