The phone has been running flawlessly for a while and now randomly it won't boot up, or when it does it hits the HTC boot screen and shuts back off. Any suggestions? The charging light comes sometimes, even after the battery is pulled. I have tried different batteries but to no avail.
are you running a custom rom? if so which? and which recovery are you using? and what carrier is your amaze from..? can you boot into the bootloader? have you tried flashing back to STOCK or flashing a different rom from recovery? or reflashing the same rom?
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are you running a custom rom? if so which? and which recovery are you using? and what carrier is your amaze from..? can you boot into the bootloader? have you tried flashing back to STOCK or flashing a different rom from recovery? or reflashing the same rom?
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All this info is needed if you expect any help. Pull battery, put it back in then hold volume down, press power while still holding vol down and it should boot into bootloader. If it does that there should be a way to fix it.
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are you running a custom rom? if so which? and which recovery are you using? and what carrier is your amaze from..? can you boot into the bootloader? have you tried flashing back to STOCK or flashing a different rom from recovery? or reflashing the same rom?
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Custom Rom, Speed Rom 7.x (I don't remember version, this is my sister's device). Recovery = CWM, Carrier = Wind, Device barely responds so haven't tried bootloader. Can't access recovery since it barely boots.
Dont ever use cwm with this phone its recommended 4ext if u have s-on and my personal favorite twrp if u have s-off
"HTC Amaze - Speed Rom 8.0"
"HTC Sensation - MIUI"
"LG G2x - Stock and overclocked"
"LG Thrill - Slim Stock Rom"
DarthDerron said:
Custom Rom, Speed Rom 7.x (I don't remember version, this is my sister's device). Recovery = CWM, Carrier = Wind, Device barely responds so haven't tried bootloader. Can't access recovery since it barely boots.
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try to boot into the bootloader and then go to fastboot and flash 4ext use hasoon's AiO toolkit if you don't know adb
ted619 said:
Dont ever use cwm with this phone its recommended 4ext if u have s-on and my personal favorite twrp if u have s-off
"HTC Amaze - Speed Rom 8.0"
"HTC Sensation - MIUI"
"LG G2x - Stock and overclocked"
"LG Thrill - Slim Stock Rom"
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couldn't have said it better myself.. but overall i still prefer 4ext s-on or s-off
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try to boot into the bootloader and then go to fastboot and flash 4ext use hasoon's AiO toolkit if you don't know adb
couldn't have said it better myself.. but overall i still prefer 4ext s-on or s-off
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Does 4Ext come with the toolkit or have I got to find it myself? And also what is the difference betweeen S-On and S-Off? I read a thread about it but I still don't really understand it...
Edit... Can't boot into Bootloader, pretty sure it's bricked. Thanks for all the help guys. This thing lasted a good year. Limited to 8 thanks a day, so I'll be back later to deliver.
DarthDerron said:
Does 4Ext come with the toolkit or have I got to find it myself? And also what is the difference betweeen S-On and S-Off? I read a thread about it but I still don't really understand it...
Edit... Can't boot into Bootloader, pretty sure it's bricked. Thanks for all the help guys. This thing lasted a good year. Limited to 8 thanks a day, so I'll be back later to deliver.
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yes 4ext comes with the toolkit, and s-on lets you flash different radio's and stock ruu's for other carries.. it makes it easier to rewrite the protected system partitions of the phone.. and sorry to hear about that, maybe you can look online for ways to fix a corrupted hboot or bootloader
Phone doesn't seem to wake at all. Even if I could find a way I would have to get the device to at least show some life first
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DarthDerron said:
Phone doesn't seem to wake at all. Even if I could find a way I would have to get the device to at least show some life first
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well on the bright side you have your s3 now ^^ just like me i moved from amaze to s3, my wife till uses the amaze though
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well on the bright side you have your s3 now ^^ just like me i moved from amaze to s3, my wife till uses the amaze though
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The S3 is 10x easier when it comes to rooting and flashing. This one was a pain for me. Toolkit at the time was still in very early stages so it was somewhat hard, and drivers were having problems as well.
On another update the phone appears to be booting to the HTC bootscreen and then freezing up. What's bad is I can't control the reboot, meaning I can't put it into bootloader.
DarthDerron said:
The S3 is 10x easier when it comes to rooting and flashing. This one was a pain for me. Toolkit at the time was still in very early stages so it was somewhat hard, and drivers were having problems as well.
On another update the phone appears to be booting to the HTC bootscreen and then freezing up. What's bad is I can't control the reboot, meaning I can't put it into bootloader.
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can you get to recovery then?
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can you get to recovery then?
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Can't get to anything. Can't control the boot. It will boot to the HTC screen then immediately shutoff. I keep fiddling with the buttons to try to get it back to no avail
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pull the battery from your phone wait for 10 secs plus.. place it back in.. and power it on by holding volume down and power till screen turns on.. *for boot loader* and hold volume up and power for recovery
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I'm on HBOOT 1.5 and have unlocked my phone the HTC unlock method and from what I've read and understand the only drawback is that I have to use fastboot in order to write to the boot area and properly flash a ROM (which I have done many times and am very familiar with the process), or I can just use the Flash Image GUI app (which I have also used many times). Are there other restrictions I'm not aware of?
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I'm on HBOOT 1.5 and have unlocked my phone the HTC unlock method and from what I've read and understand the only drawback is that I have to use fastboot in order to write to the boot area and properly flash a ROM (which I have done many times and am very familiar with the process), or I can just use the Flash Image GUI app (which I have also used many times). Are there other restrictions I'm not aware of?
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Nope, not that bad at all as far as I can tell. I'm running CM9 and love it
like it was my wife. I couldn't care less about more time in the command
prompt because if you don't use it you loose it. My 3D with HB 1.5 has ICS
port and my wife's fully rooted 4G doesn't so I'm feeling pretty good about
my HB 1.5 3D right now!
I don't have hboot 1.5 but I think you can use boot manager also which let's you install multiple roms on your ad card and let's you boot into them.
I blame 1.5hboot HTC method for random reboots and soft freezes
No issues with hboot 1.5 No reboots no nothing just some minor steps when it comes to flashing.
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Don't you guys have to be connected to a computer in order to flash a rom?
oohaylima said:
Don't you guys have to be connected to a computer in order to flash a rom?
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not with flash gui
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oohaylima said:
Don't you guys have to be connected to a computer in order to flash a rom?
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nope just flash in recovery. if the rom has a custom kernel i just use flash img gui and it extracts the kernel and flashes it for you the just reboot in to recovery and flash the rom.
the only thing with 1.5 is we can't flash radios or splash screens.
Excellent. I thought you guys had to go through an elaborate process to install a Rom.
No, not really. Also, intentional brick method ftw.
there are many customization optiom option just like changing splash screen, cpu overclock, and many more for advance user.
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jdeoxys said:
No, not really. Also, intentional brick method ftw.
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I seen that method not a total brick tho if you do brick your phone it will behave like one no power. Dead
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stevestone said:
there are many customization optiom option just like changing splash screen, cpu overclock, and many more for advance user.
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I could already do an overclocked CPU with HBOOT 1.5, so I'm sure I could do the other things you mentioned also. Where can I find splash screens for the EVO 3D? I just did the HBOOT downgrade here because I like a challenge, not because I think I needed to. My wife is still on HBOOT 1.5. I'm just not sure having HBOOT 1.5 is really that bad a thing. I don't think there is anything you can't do with HBOOT 1.5 execpt that you need to use the computer or flash image gui.
EDIT: Oh and I never had any reboot issues or whatnot as someone else associated with HBOOT 1.5. Not that I ever noticed.
hboot 1.5 is not all that bad for your average user.
For "power users" it is a nightmare because it makes it a pain to flash kernels. Okay, maybe not a pain, but still. We like more control over our devices to be able to flash things where ever we'd like. Also, HTC's unlock makes the bootloader unable to accept PG86IMG.zips, which means flashing them via bootloader doesn't work. What does that mean? No "all-in-one" firmware update packages when new software versions are released. Lastly, no splash screen flashing. While this isn't a big deal, it still allows one to further customize their device.
I for one am very happy to be back on eng hboot 1.04 and thanks to the efforts of Unknownforce and everyone involved, this got made possible and for power users, it will make phone exchanges less of a risk.
I dont know... I dont really see the differences
For me personally, yes, its a terrible curse on my phone. For one, I couldn't change that super bright HTC splash screen, also I couldn't make or restore a nandroid backup unless I was fastbooted into recovery, which means I had to be at my computer. Fastbooting into recovery was just a command away, and id unplug from the computer right after booting to recovery so that I wasn't stuck at the computer, but still, I had to have a comp. Lastly, I use boot manager so if I switch roms and it wouldn't boot, I have to flash to the boot partition, which means I had to be at a comp. That happened at work and I was without a phone all day. I was spoiled with s-off on my EVO 4g so its really hard to get used to the HTC unlock. Thankfully, I downgraded and I'm now s-off, and loving it.
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For me personally, yes, its a terrible curse on my phone. For one, I couldn't change that super bright HTC splash screen, also I couldn't make or restore a nandroid backup unless I was fastbooted into recovery, which means I had to be at my computer. Fastbooting into recovery was just a command away, and id unplug from the computer right after booting to recovery so that I wasn't stuck at the computer, but still, I had to have a comp. Lastly, I use boot manager so if I switch roms and it wouldn't boot, I have to flash to the boot partition, which means I had to be at a comp. That happened at work and I was without a phone all day. I was spoiled with s-off on my EVO 4g so its really hard to get used to the HTC unlock. Thankfully, I downgraded and I'm now s-off, and loving it.
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Does the cwm recovery not allow you to make and restore backups normally then?
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Atomix86 said:
Does the cwm recovery not allow you to make and restore backups normally then?
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A nandroid backs up your boot partition, and when u restore, it writes to boot partition. With htcdev unlock u can't do that unless you fastboot (from comp) to recovery.
And this is kinda weird, but good, with htcdev unlock, cwm wouldn't let my phone charge with power off. Now that I'm 1.4 s-off. It will. Charged all night with power off.
Easy adb and a computer Your all set . Root is easy. Swapping kernels is fine too. Stock kernel isn't bad .
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A nandroid backs up your boot partition, and when u restore, it writes to boot partition. With htcdev unlock u can't do that unless you fastboot (from comp) to recovery.
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I don't see what the problem is. Can you not keep the boot partition the same when backing up and restoring? It never stopped me doing anything when I had an S-On Wildfire S
Okay, so I purchased the htc rezound on ebay, the guy has a very high seller rating. Anyway, he FAILED to mention that the phone was "rooted/flashed" or what ever. My problem is that I want ORIGINAL FACTORY rom that would be on the phone from Verizon. I see links about how to get other roms, but what if I want to get back the original? As soon as turned the phone on, it went to the bootloader screen. I figured how to just boot into the regular boot up, then during the boot up you see the htc logo, then the an animation that says "clean rom". How do I switch from that back to the regular verizon factory? (Sorry for the long message).
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Okay, so I purchased the htc rezound on ebay, the guy has a very high seller rating. Anyway, he FAILED to mention that the phone was "rooted/flashed" or what ever. My problem is that I want ORIGINAL FACTORY rom that would be on the phone from Verizon. I see links about how to get other roms, but what if I want to get back the original? As soon as turned the phone on, it went to the bootloader screen. I figured how to just boot into the regular boot up, then during the boot up you see the htc logo, then the an animation that says "clean rom". How do I switch from that back to the regular verizon factory? (Sorry for the long message).
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do a search for the stock RUU and flash that from hboot, i think you will have to relock hboot though first. problem is your bootloader will now say "relocked" so i think the seller screwed you over if you wanted a virgin phone.
Check what version hboot is and post it here and we can help you from there
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1425091
that thread may be of use too.
mighty_markus12 said:
do a search for the stock RUU and flash that from hboot, i think you will have to relock hboot though first. problem is your bootloader will now say "relocked" so i think the seller screwed you over if you wanted a virgin phone.
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I don't really care if it's a "non virgin" phone, I can live with that, I just as long as I can A stock rom with the original factory verizon apps. I mean seriously, this rom doesn't even have the MUSIC PLAYER!!!! lol
refuse2bstopped said:
I don't really care if it's a "non virgin" phone, I can live with that, I just as long as I can A stock rom with the original factory verizon apps. I mean seriously, this rom doesn't even have the MUSIC PLAYER!!!! lol
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yup you just relock the bootloader and flash the stock RUU. that link i posted should help you out. i may be wrong but i think you can even run the ice cream ruu and stay stock.
mighty_markus12 said:
yup you just relock the bootloader and flash the stock RUU. that link i posted should help you out. i may be wrong but i think you can even run the ice cream ruu and stay stock.
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Okay, now how do I get to the "hboot" screen or what ever? I'm totally lost, but I'm sure I can get this done because years ago I use to flash WM roms almost every other day. lol
refuse2bstopped said:
Okay, now how do I get to the "hboot" screen or what ever? I'm totally lost, but I'm sure I can get this done because years ago I use to flash WM roms almost every other day. lol
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did you relock the device? to get to hboot power the device off and press power+volume down.
mighty_markus12 said:
did you relock the device? to get to hboot power the device off and press power+volume down.
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I try that but it keeps on doing nothing, then when I finally let go of the buttons it just boots up the phone
Soooo.....
Does the fact that holding "power + volume down" and it just stays at the off screen until I finally let go and then just boots up into it's regular boot up mean I'll have to somehow "re-root" the phone? (if that makes any sense)
Honestly the Rezound is much better without the stock rom.
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refuse2bstopped said:
Does the fact that holding "power + volume down" and it just stays at the off screen until I finally let go and then just boots up into it's regular boot up mean I'll have to somehow "re-root" the phone? (if that makes any sense)
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Nope...pull the battery, put it back in, then hold power and volume down. Hold them until it boots into hboot. It sometimes takes 15 seconds for mine. From there you can check if you need to relock.
uToTMeH8 said:
Nope...pull the battery, put it back in, then hold power and volume down. Hold them until it boots into hboot. It sometimes takes 15 seconds for mine. From there you can check if you need to relock.
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Okay that worked, at the top it says ****tampered with**** then under it says ****relocked**** and it says HBOOT-2.21.0000
Well I've been able to get into that boot loader screen, but the thing is, how do I get one of the stock roms installed at that point? Where can I find one that will ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD?!!! I'm using a MAC btw, so I can't use any methods that require a windows based computer
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Well I've been able to get into that boot loader screen, but the thing is, how do I get one of the stock roms installed at that point? Where can I find one that will ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD?!!! I'm using a MAC btw, so I can't use any methods that require a windows based computer
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You are on leaked ics so find the ics ruu and run that and you should be good
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Someone installed the latest leak with the new hboot on it, you can't return to a stock GB rom without adding an SD Card fix.
And what's an "sd card fix"? Does that mean I have to reformat the card or something, or is it just something I have to boot from the sd card rather than it being initiated from the computer?
mjones73 said:
Someone installed the latest leak with the new hboot on it, you can't return to a stock GB rom without adding an SD Card fix.
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Do you mean actually reformat my sd card, or is there just something I can put on it and then get to it in boot loader mode?
werdna87 said:
You are on leaked ics so find the ics ruu and run that and you should be good
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The thing is how do I "RUN" it? What's the process? I've downloaded here on here but I don't know what to do next, other than how to get into boot loader mode. However, it says "relocked" at the top and again, I'm not sure where to run the ruu from. I know I can't do it from the computer because it's a MAC and so far all instructions have seemingly been PC based.
A leaked ICS is a .exe file that runs on Windows, I doubt it'll work on a MAC.
With limited knowledge on how to flash a ROM, your best option is to find a friend that has a PC, download the RUU executable file, boot your phone to the boot loader, and then run the file you downloaded.
Remember that those are leaked images so not being official means there is no support, so it seems you need to run the .exe RUU, which means you'll need to find a PC.
Okay i've been looking since last night for the answer to this question and found out nothing but everyone helping gives up and stops answering the question. Thus the thread is left with answered question.
But here goes. Currently on hboot. 1.50 s-on
Rooted my phone last night and download "mean" ics rom. Put it on the root of my sd card and went to recovery to boot the rom.
the rom wasnt downloading to the system and i dropped the phone by accident onto my bed and the battery fell out. (the back wasnt on it, not a hard fall)
attemped to install the rom again and by accident installed the "viper" ics rom
rebooted phone from recovery and phone will not go further than the htc logo boot.
any suggestions?
i can still go into hboot and recovery if i take my battery out. so i do not think its bricked since i can use my power button.
I think the dropped phone thing is coincidence. I'm pretty certain the issue is ICS and being hboot 1.5 s-on. For some reason, being s-on causes ICS to bootloop for most people. I highly recommend you go s-off. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585846
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Go s off so no more bootlooping and when the phone fell it didnt affect the bootloop
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Will try right now
Koozyk said:
Will try right now
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okay after reviewing the directions on how to do this, i am utterly confused at what i am supposed to do.i hate bother people with these noob questions. Not entirely sure how to turn s-off or what i am supposed to download
So is no one going to help me? i dont understand the terminology in the instructions...
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zcink said:
I wrote up a little tutorial for GSM but there is enough there to do it for CDMA. In fact the video shows CDMA.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777614
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okay the problem with this is i cant get to my basic phone functions, im stuck with htc boot logo screen, bootloader/recovery
like i start the controlbearRelease program and it try to take me from bootloader to the main phone functions which it wont do. Like getting to the main phone functions would leave me with no problem
okay at thes point since so many people have seen it, im guessing im s.o.l?
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zcink said:
If you can get to recovery, then just Flash a stock rooted rom for your CDMA.
That will boot you up and you can s-off.
Yank the battery and put it back in. Then hold the down volume and press the power button while continuing to hold the down volume button until it boots into bootloader. From there you can get to recovery.
From recovery you can flash a stock rooted rom.
Then the rest should be easy.
After you are s-off you can flash any rom you want to for CDMA and you can flash the new Firmware and Radio.
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you sir have just saved my phones life. You have no idea how thankful i am right now
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zcink said:
Let me know how it all turns out.
I'm not much help when it comes to CDMA because I've always used GSM.
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This worked out perfecctly, took me a while to get the wire trick to work but i have a nice rom on my 3vo now. Thanks again.
Hello all!
My HTC evo 4g lte will not boot into recovery! I recently flashed CM 10.0 and am now trying to boot back into TWRP recovery but with no such luck. I have tried all of the standard procedures (i.e. turn off, hold volume down and power...and reset to recovery via CM) and none of them seem to work. The phone just gives up and boots normally. I need to flash gapps but can't! Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
skfergus said:
Hello all!
My HTC evo 4g lte will not boot into recovery! I recently flashed CM 10.0 and am now trying to boot back into TWRP recovery but with no such luck. I have tried all of the standard procedures (i.e. turn off, hold volume down and power...and reset to recovery via CM) and none of them seem to work. The phone just gives up and boots normally. I need to flash gapps but can't! Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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are u s-on or s-off? my quess your s-on
Correct...I am s-on at the moment.
is there an easy way to go S-off using a mac or is that even necessary?
s-off makes thing alot easier.. dont think u can on a mac tho?? i mite be wrong.. check the dirty racun thread out.. i kno on aosp rom if your s-on u have to flash the kernel spearate.. that mite be messing u up.. i would try and get s-off if i was u..
Best bet would be to run a copy of ubuntu live distro and following the directions for dirty racun
if your S-on it does depend on whether which hboot your running. i was running 1.12 hboot for the longest time without any problems. i just kept flashing and flashing no problems. if your on 1.15+ then yea s-off does help because you can flash stuff more easily.
as to your not being able to enter Twrp have you tried fastbooting and re installing TWRP? thats probably a last ditch effort though.
When your turning it on and holding the volume down button does it enter the boot menu and you just select recovery and it just doesnt go into TWRP or can you not even get into the boot selection area?
skfergus said:
Hello all!
My HTC evo 4g lte will not boot into recovery! I recently flashed CM 10.0 and am now trying to boot back into TWRP recovery but with no such luck. I have tried all of the standard procedures (i.e. turn off, hold volume down and power...and reset to recovery via CM) and none of them seem to work. The phone just gives up and boots normally. I need to flash gapps but can't! Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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Try to boot to the bootloader first. Then select recovery. To get to the bootloader, hold power button down until screen shuts off, then hold down power plus volume down until bootloader screen comes up.
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onlybob said:
Try to boot to the bootloader first. Then select recovery. To get to the bootloader, hold power button down until screen shuts off, then hold down power plus volume down until bootloader screen comes up.
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Thanks for all of your replies! I can get into bootloader although it is through a round about way...I have to first restart the device...let it start the rom and then hard reset it while holding volume down. Once in bootloader I am still unable to get into recovery. I have managed to get into recovery on a one time basis by re-flashing TWRP...however this only works once before I am unable to get back into recovery mode.
I do have Hboot 1.19...and I am guessing it is more difficult to get s-off with that new of a version but I will look into the dirty racun thread...
thanks again guys...any more direction would be appreciated!
skfergus said:
Thanks for all of your replies! I can get into bootloader although it is through a round about way...I have to first restart the device...let it start the rom and then hard reset it while holding volume down. Once in bootloader I am still unable to get into recovery. I have managed to get into recovery on a one time basis by re-flashing TWRP...however this only works once before I am unable to get back into recovery mode.
I do have Hboot 1.19...and I am guessing it is more difficult to get s-off with that new of a version but I will look into the dirty racun thread...
thanks again guys...any more direction would be appreciated!
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So, back in da bootloader, what happens if you select recovery?
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It acts like its going to continue on into recovery but then gives up and boots like normal...I also noticed that my mobile network no longer works...perhaps thats a separate issue. I need to look into it a bit further...
So I already had an HTC Rezound for a year and was too afraid to root-so I bought an already rooted rezound from eBay that came with a 16 gig recovery sd card. I don't know what to do or how to flash a Rom or what I should do as a root noob... Can I please get some guidance from an experienced person?
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So I already had an HTC Rezound for a year and was too afraid to root-so I bought an already rooted rezound from eBay that came with a 16 gig recovery sd card. I don't know what to do or how to flash a Rom or what I should do as a root noob... Can I please get some guidance from an experienced person?
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Any idea what's on it now? Check the rom info in Settings, About Phone.
Also power it off, pull the battery, put it back in and turn the phone back on while holding Volume down, that'll get you the bootloader. See what version you have and if it's s-on or s-off.
From there you can select Recovery on the menu and boot into it, see what recovery you have.
Let us know and we can go from there.
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Looks like just the stock rom. What version hboot, are you s-on/off and what recovery do you have?
Just did what you said and took some pictures that i will post to show you what I'm working with.
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Is this the right information that you needed to know?
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You are already unlocked and have Amon Ra recovery installed, the "hard" stuff is done (actually it's not hard), and FYI you are S-ON... You are pretty good to go for any ICS based ROM. If you want to move into JellyBean or KitKat based ROMs you should switch to TWRP or CWM Recovery. Other than that, your good to go.
Ok, thanks a bunch! Ive done tons of reading about flashing roms and am still a little weary about the actual process. Ive read that a computer is needed in some cases but in others people are switching roms right from their phone- whats the safest or correct way to do it?
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undeadking said:
Ok, thanks a bunch! Ive done tons of reading about flashing roms and am still a little weary about the actual process. Ive read that a computer is needed in some cases but in others people are switching roms right from their phone- whats the safest or correct way to do it?
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Although there are ways around it (that I don't recommend, mind you) the rule of thumb is based on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF...
When S-ON, a computer has to be involved so that the boot.img can be loaded... you must either: A) flash the boot.img manually with fastboot after flashing the ROM in recovery, or B) boot the recovery image file with fastboot and flash the ROM file
When S-OFF, no computer is required, all partitions of the phone are writable by recovery directly.
acejavelin said:
Although there are ways around it (that I don't recommend, mind you) the rule of thumb is based on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF...
When S-ON, a computer has to be involved so that the boot.img can be loaded... you must either: A) flash the boot.img manually with fastboot after flashing the ROM in recovery, or B) boot the recovery image file with fastboot and flash the ROM file
When S-OFF, no computer is required, all partitions of the phone are writable by recovery directly.
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Don't forget you can use the phone (or a computer) to pack the boot.img into a PH98IMG.zip. As long as it boots, that is.
Hi All,
I am also new at rooting the Rezound and I'm having trouble. I did quite a bit of reading and followed the instructions here: theunlockr.com/2012/08/24/how-to-root-the-htc-rezound-video/
Apparently this was for an older version because I can't install ClockworkMod Recovery ("an error occurred ..."). I read that getting a backup of ClockworkMod Recovery was the best thing to do before installing any ROMs. Is that really necessary? It seems like I could always find an RUU on this site and flash back to ICS if I wanted to right?
Can some one point me in the right direction for what I should do next? Basically all I want to do is flash a ROM on my Rezound that will enable me to use it as a wall controller for my home automation system. So, ideally I'd like to remove the swipe to unlock feature (just be able to press the power button to get to the home screen) and to be able to force a nightly reboot with Tasker and remove as much bloatware as possible. This device is connected to my home network through wifi only. Any ideas what the best ROM would be for that?
By the way my recovery screen looks like undeadking's. I have S-On.
Thanks!
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Easiest way to get where you want is to HTC unlock if not already done,
S-0ff with RumRunner, then follow this thread with all its great stuff:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509770
You will end up with newest radios that are best for newer stock and custom roms.
There are several daily-user type custom roms mentioned in Development.
After you read a little about each, you'll know what you want to try first.
I like the custom Sense roms for best battery life.
michaelbsheldon said:
Easiest way to get where you want is to HTC unlock if not already done,
S-0ff with RumRunner, then follow this thread with all its great stuff:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509770
You will end up with newest radios that are best for newer stock and custom roms.
There are several daily-user type custom roms mentioned in Development.
After you read a little about each, you'll know what you want to try first.
I like the custom Sense roms for best battery life.
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Thanks, I was able to get my ROM working. The problem I was having was I was still S-ON. I was a little leery about turning it off so I found instructions for flashing with it still on here: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/499172-how-manually-flash-roms.html
I installed the LiquidSmooth ROM and I was able to disable the lock screen. Thanks again.
acejavelin said:
Although there are ways around it (that I don't recommend, mind you) the rule of thumb is based on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF...
When S-ON, a computer has to be involved so that the boot.img can be loaded... you must either: A) flash the boot.img manually with fastboot after flashing the ROM in recovery, or B) boot the recovery image file with fastboot and flash the ROM file
When S-OFF, no computer is required, all partitions of the phone are writable by recovery directly.
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There are ways using terminal emulator with an s-on device alongside using a proper busybox installation to flash without using a pc and no fastboot/hboot access is needed. flashing a boot.img while in rom, rebooting to recovery and finish installing the matching rom by flashing its zip.
petewill8 said:
Thanks, I was able to get my ROM working. The problem I was having was I was still S-ON. I was a little leery about turning it off so I found instructions for flashing with it still on here: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/499172-how-manually-flash-roms.html
I installed the LiquidSmooth ROM and I was able to disable the lock screen. Thanks again.
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the one big issue you need to worry about while being s-on is if you soft brick while s-on there is absolutely almost no fix...with s-off you con ruu.exe to safely restore your phone which you cannot do while s-on....if you plan on flashing custom roms alot than i HIGHLY suggest going s-off or you'll regret not doing so when that time comes
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the one big issue you need to worry about while being s-on is if you soft brick while s-on there is absolutely almost no fix...with s-off you con ruu.exe to safely restore your phone which you cannot do while s-on....if you plan on flashing custom roms alot than i HIGHLY suggest going s-off or you'll regret not doing so when that time comes
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I second this... S-Off is highly recommended, it might not seem necessary now, but when something goes wrong, you will be glad you did it.
Thank you both. I had not read that before. I guess I will be performing the S-Off after all.
Don't freak out if your ROM doesn't boot after running rum runner happened to me xD just go into recovery and flash your stuff again. Clean flash it. Make sure you're s-off though Lol hopefully doesn't happen to you
Sent from my Rezound. CyanogenMod 11. S-off
pball52998 said:
Don't freak out if your ROM doesn't boot after running rum runner happened to me xD just go into recovery and flash your stuff again. Clean flash it. Make sure you're s-off though Lol hopefully doesn't happen to you
Sent from my Rezound. CyanogenMod 11. S-off
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Just do a quick backup of your ROM in recovery then when done restore it.
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Just a thing. All my recoveries failed all 4, they would do the same thing and boot loop itself. *sigh* o well.
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