I have an s-off ReZound, tried to flash Vigor360 kernel prior to flashing the Vigor360 ROM. I screwed up, I guess, because I wiped system, data, cache (thinking I was going to then flash the ROM zip after flashing the kernel), then flashed the kernel zip. Now my hboot just constantly tries to run the update, and if I don't boot to the bootloader, the phone just stays at the HTC boot screen. I know I need to probably delete the files off the internal SD, but I can't get adb to recognize the device (i'm guessing since I have no rom to boot up into), so I don't know how to get into recovery to delete the zip file now.
How do I get out of this? Confused....
You can pull the card out and use a card reader on your pc to delete that PH98IMG and copy back the ROM if it's not still on there and put it back in the phone. Boot into bootloader and flash the ROM again. I think that will work.
Then after the ROM flashes just flash the kernel PH98IMG file without wiping.
That should do it.
If you don't have a card reader to use, there's a trick to sliding out the card just a little bit so the phone will boot, but I'm confusing myself trying to think of how it works since it allows you to bypass the PH98IMG file but then I don't see how you are supposed to read it to delete the file once booted. Might be able to find it by searching, I know it's been posted a few times.
Thanks for the reply
feralicious said:
You can pull the card out and use a card reader on your pc to delete that PH98IMG and copy back the ROM if it's not still on there and put it back in the phone. Boot into bootloader and flash the ROM again. I think that will work.
Then after the ROM flashes just flash the kernel PH98IMG file without wiping.
That should do it.
If you don't have a card reader to use, there's a trick to sliding out the card just a little bit so the phone will boot, but I'm confusing myself trying to think of how it works since it allows you to bypass the PH98IMG file but then I don't see how you are supposed to read it to delete the file once booted. Might be able to find it by searching, I know it's been posted a few times.
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Thank you for trying to help me. Unfortunately, the zip is on the internal SD. I have removed the external SD card from this equation completely. If I had a way to read the internal SD, I could be in business, but the only way I know how to do that outside of the ROM is in recovery, which I don't know how to get into while in this state.
Wonder what would happen if you put a PH98ZIP of an RUU on the external and popped that in? I don't know which card it would read first but you might get lucky and if it reads the RUU you can run that and start fresh.
The global leak one at Android Police is a zip:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
That appeared to work!
feralicious said:
Wonder what would happen if you put a PH98ZIP of an RUU on the external and popped that in? I don't know which card it would read first but you might get lucky and if it reads the RUU you can run that and start fresh.
The global leak one at Android Police is a zip:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/
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Flashed RUU from external SD, deleted the violating ph98zip, then reflashed my rom. It appears to function. Thanks again for the help!
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I tried flashing the new ICS leak (3.11.605.22), somewhere in the process I messed it up. I flashed the RUU then I flashed CleanROM 4.0. the ROM booted up fine, however I cannot access internal or external storage (sd card). AmonRa recovery could read my SD card. I think I need to reflash the RUU, however fastboot wont read the PH198IMG.zip off my sd card. I tried flashing the PH198IMG.zip using adb, however I keep getting an error (FAILED (remote:not allowed)) and I'm not very good with adb. Long story short I guess I need help returning my phone to stock even without using an sd card, or any other work around would be helpful.
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I tried flashing the new ICS leak (3.11.605.22), somewhere in the process I messed it up. I flashed the RUU then I flashed CleanROM 4.0. the ROM booted up fine, however I cannot access internal or external storage (sd card). AmonRa recovery could read my SD card. I think I need to reflash the RUU, however fastboot wont read the PH198IMG.zip off my sd card. I tried flashing the PH198IMG.zip using adb, however I keep getting an error (FAILED (remote:not allowed)) and I'm not very good with adb. Long story short I guess I need help returning my phone to stock even without using an sd card, or any other work around would be helpful.[/QUOTR
Did u get Scott's Ph98 off the sd card, then put the leak ruu back on and relock to rerun ?
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yes, i took scotts PH off and downloaded the RUU and renamed it to PH198IMG and put that on the SD card, however the bootloader doesnt find it.
well, I feel stupid. the file was named PH198IMG.zip. I renamed it to PH98IMG.zip and it found it. go figure.
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well, I feel stupid. the file was named PH198IMG.zip. I renamed it to PH98IMG.zip and it found it. go figure.
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yea, gotta name it right.
Seams to have started just after I S-Off'd my rezound. Took me forever to initially get it working and get cleanrom back onto it, where it immediatly started to reboot randomly after a minute or two, usually under quick/hard loads, it does it every time consistently when I try to Dial or Text someone. I also tried to upgrade to the leaked RUU and rom to fix this, nothing. The stock rom I could dial, but it did reboot once on lock screen. Custom roms reboot consistently. Help?
Did you flash the leak twice?
No, I followed instructions off of theandroidsoul,com rezound ics upgrade page to the 'T' since they supplied download links.
I'd post the page directly but I haven't reached my required post count.
It's a kernel upgrade via hboot, and a shell/rom flash via recovery, so I'm not sure if your expecting a different upgrade meathod.
Which am I expected to flash twice? And what is expected to change?
Check android community site with march 16 story to download rooted version for the leak. It should just be a ph98img.zip. before you do though, have you tried wiping everything in recovery, possibly 2 or 3 consecutive wipes, and then a completely clean install of Scott's stuff again? Also, are you on amon ra?
Edit- it would be the kernel to do twice. When it prompts at bootloader to update, you pick yes and if it doesn't hit all the entries, you have to run it again.b
I flashed the rom and the kernel twice earlier, stock seams to run flawlessly, I can dial, and the phone doesn't reboot Speed Ex 3D like it did earlier, though it plays double screened, weird. Anyway, I'll try flashing some various roms to see what happens.
Good to hear.
Ran into an issue, Stock ICS isn't mounting my SD card, simply says unavailable under storage. HBoot still finds the kernel upgrade, rather annoying when I'm trying to remove it to access recovery.
The format check earlier said Ext4, I assume RUU should be able to handle that. Would be unthinkable that I'd have to flash the GB fix.
have you checked under settings--about phone--software and made sure that it says android 4.0.3? I ran into a similar (maybe same) problem when I first tried flashing the leak firmware. It didn't fully flash correctly, so the first time it said I was still on GB and it could not mount my SD, the second time I flashed the ph98img.zip it said I was on 4.0.3 but still would not mount my SD. So I flashed it once more and everything was fine after that.
What the hell... I just noticed by radio is 1.22, I flashed the leaked radio awhile after the S-Off. Kinda screwy. I removed the external SD card, got into recovery, but when I mount the internal sd to the computer, I can't edit anything. Says full up to 1200kb if i read that right.
Btw, says 4.0.3 under software
SD Card reads normally under CleanRom DE, but still crashes
BAMF Senseless v2 crashes when I try to dial too.
Wait, is it the same sd you had in it when you did the S-off procedure? If so, have you reformatted it? If this is the problem, see sindroidx's how-to in the rezound general forum. If not, it still sounds like your sd card has either been corrupted/misformatted somehow. That's for external. If it is internal SD, see graymonkey44's "S-off is Official!!!" thread. It contains the fix for both, by the way.
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Wait, is it the same sd you had in it when you did the S-off procedure? If so, have you reformatted it? If this is the problem, see sindroidx's how-to in the rezound general forum. If not, it still sounds like your sd card has either been corrupted/misformatted somehow. That's for external. If it is internal SD, see graymonkey44's "S-off is Official!!!" thread. It contains the fix for both, by the way.
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Definately, sounds like your SD card needs to be reformatted. Numerous posts on it , but some have had success just formatting in Windows ( might have to do it more than once to finally get it to show your full capacity) . I used Gparted Live CD to repartition and reformat to fat 32 and it worked great. Whatever your comfortable doing will work, but needs to be reformatted regardless. Also sounds like you should just RUU from scratch after your SD card is fixed , then start over once you know the phone is operating properly.
I RUU'd back to the OTA 2.011 and it fixed some odd issues I was having , now running the Sense 4 roms using the old firmware patch and everything is fine.
I formatted through recovery and RUU after I used a spare SD to install/update. Well this is what I don't get, under other Roms, my SD card mounts fine, but not under Leaked RUU, how ever if I'm on, say cleanrom and mount it to to the computer, windows acts like the external SD needs to be scanned/fixed, how ever I can still open and explore it just fine.
Ig I'll try reformatting my SD once more, then flash some GB kernels/fix
Will it matter if I'm on the GB or ICS bootloader?
sounds like the symptoms of not having the firmware patched.
What patch are you referring to?
In the meantime I'm going to try this kernel and run the GB > ICS fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467793
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Wait, is it the same sd you had in it when you did the S-off procedure? If so, have you reformatted it? If this is the problem, see sindroidx's how-to in the rezound general forum. If not, it still sounds like your sd card has either been corrupted/misformatted somehow. That's for external. If it is internal SD, see graymonkey44's "S-off is Official!!!" thread. It contains the fix for both, by the way.
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As I stated, Leaked RUU wont recognize either SD, CleanRom and others recognize both but reboot alot. I tried the internal fix by flashing the ICS Hboot for S-Off last night which changed nothing. I just now flashed a GB Kernel and ran the SD card fix to test with CleanRom and it still freezes/reboots.
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Just checked, and it still says 4.0.3 under software. This is such a pain...
Also I can't access the internal SD card from the computer when I USB mount in recovery. It simply opens up blank.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560363 Sounds just like my problem.
The first guide I followed to upgrade was trash,
this guide has fixed everything:
http://www.teambamf.net/topic/3528-guide-to-install-ics-ruu-and-firmware-windows/
So I used Hasoon2000 to unlock the boot loader, flashed Amon-RA, then flashed the ROM and the kernel. The phone is stuck at the white HTC screen, and if I try to HBoot with the SD card in the phone, it tells me "Main version is older!", then it reboots.
So I'm stuck. Any ideas?
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Never used the Hasoon tool before. Which RezROM are you trying to install?
Regarding the main version is older issue, the problem is that you have a PH98IMG.zip file sitting in the base folder of your SD card. Every time the phone boots up into hboot, it will try to flash that file. Assuming you want to flash that file (probably the kernel for your ROM, but it may already be flashed), you need to follow the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23169557&postcount=4
However, having it on your SD card and a non-working ROM makes booting into recovery a little tricky. You can either: use the microSD card in an SD adapter, mount it on your PC, and delete or move the PH98IMG.zip file; or a slightly more tricky approach is to half pull out the SD card before your phone boots. Lift up the battery slightly at an angle so it's still making contact, and pull out the SD card. Then use power+volume down to boot into hboot. Once booted, push the SD card in, and you can put the battery back in. It takes some maneuvering but can be done by one person (I've done it a few times).
I will do this and report back. Thank you.
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Used setmainversionLOW.zip. Worked like a charm. I'm up and running. Thanks!!
x01660
What is the difference between copying something to the SD card and copy something to the root of the SD card? Thanks
rockehill10 said:
What is the difference between copying something to the SD card and copy something to the root of the SD card? Thanks
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Copying to the root of the sd card simply means not putting the item in a folder on the sd card.
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Copying to the root of the sd card simply means not putting the item in a folder on the sd card.
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Thanks, but the reason I asked this question is that in Method 4 of installing CleanRom 4.5, it states
•Copy ROM to SD Card AND PH98IMG.zip AND GB Firmware Patch to ROOT of SD Card
I thought whenever you reboot, it would automatically search for a PH98IMG file and would load that first.
In the CleanRom install, you flash the ROM, then the Patch in Recovery first, then flash the PH98IMG last. If the PH98IMG file is in the root of the SD card, won't it load that first?
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Thanks, but the reason I asked this question is that in Method 4 of installing CleanRom 4.5, it states
•Copy ROM to SD Card AND PH98IMG.zip AND GB Firmware Patch to ROOT of SD Card
I thought whenever you reboot, it would automatically search for a PH98IMG file and would load that first.
In the CleanRom install, you flash the ROM, then the Patch in Recovery first, then flash the PH98IMG last. If the PH98IMG file is in the root of the SD card, won't it load that first?
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If you have a rom with the quick reboot installed, boot right to recovery once you're done copying the files, otherwise download quick reboot from the market.
You'll only have issues trying to get into recovery if you're using the Vol - + power on boot up option.
Hi All, 1st post here and i hope i'm putting it where it should belong lol.
in any case my problem is similar,
I've unlocked thru HTC DEV, and was running stock GB on my Rezound from Verizon.
After combing through this forum for a few days i felt confident enough to try to flash my first ROM. (thanks to all the AMAZING guides BTW)
I picked up Vigor_Stock_Doedexed_3.14.605.5, PH98IMG, and the GB Firmware Patch.
I followed the Steps for Flashing with S-ON and GB Firmware and running Amon-Ra 3.15
Everything went according to plan (ROM Flashed, Patch Flashed) but the issue was when i went to reboot to flash the bootloader with the PH98IMG it wasn't able to locate it.
Upon a little more research I found an article that said HBOOT cannot read from the internal storage so I recovered to stock with my nandroid backup file, and placed the PH98IMG in the root of the external SD card.
Upon rebooting into HBOOT the PH98IMG was located and asked if i would like to install it. i selected "no" as per the guide i was following, however i was only left with the option to "power-down" and there wasn't anyway to get to the recovery menu to flash the ROM and the Patch in the order that they needed to be.
After fooling with the HBOOT menu a few more times to no avail i decided to select yes thinking (foolishly maybe) that this would let me get to the recovery menu and i could flash everything in the order it needed to be. However this was not the case, and now im left "soft bricked".
I pulled the External SD card, and was able to get to recovery mode and did a clean wipe. However the nandroid backup is also on the External SD card (i don't have a spare as i'm out of the country, probably my first mistake, and i dont have a USB micro SD adapter to remove the PH98IMG...)
Upon seeing this article i wish i had known about the quick reboot option (many thanks to mjones73 for that).
My first question is where does the PH98IMG file need to reside (root of internal or external SD)?
Secondly, what is the easiest way to remove the PH98IMG from external SD so i can recover my nandroid backup and try again? (i'm not opposed to running out and grabbing a micro SD -> USB adapter if that is the safest bet)
Lastly if there are any n00b mistakes in my approach please let me know lol
hopefully i haven't hijacked this thread or mis-posted. and again many many thanks for all the information and hard work from Devs and members alike!
EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED!
So as i was sitting around pondering my dilemma it dawned on me... if i took out the External SD card, wiped and re flashed the ROM and GB patch, i could power down and reinstall External SD and that would force the boot loader to be flashed correctly and in order. welp, i'm happy to report that i've solved my own problem and hopefully i'll be able to contribute to this forum in the future.
thanks again!
Hi folks. I had an unrooted Rezound. I used the HTC Dev site to get it to an unlocked bootloader. I installed the Amon-Ra recovery and used it to flash the Infection JB ROM. Now it boots into the white HTC screen, goes slightly darker white and doesn't move. I can get back into recovery but after some wipes to clear up problems, now I'm stuck. It won't mount the internal or external SD cards. I *can* boot into fastboot but when I try to push a different ROM, I get the message that it doesn't an android info file.
I think I might be okay if I can use flashboot to flash maybe an ICS based ROM but I'm not sure. It seemed the phone originally didn't like the 32 gig SD card in there (one boot prior to the flashing it said damaged SD card). I popped it out, put it in a USB card reader and formatted it to fat32. Recovery threw an error when trying to access the SD card to do the flashing of the Infection ROM so I just flashed it from the copy I had placed on the internal SD. I'm guessing I might have to flash a standard boot.img from flashboot and try things again?.
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Hi folks. I had an unrooted Rezound. I used the HTC Dev site to get it to an unlocked bootloader. I installed the Amon-Ra recovery and used it to flash the Infection JB ROM. Now it boots into the white HTC screen, goes slightly darker white and doesn't move. I can get back into recovery but after some wipes to clear up problems, now I'm stuck. It won't mount the internal or external SD cards. I *can* boot into fastboot but when I try to push a different ROM, I get the message that it doesn't an android info file.
I think I might be okay if I can use flashboot to flash maybe an ICS based ROM but I'm not sure. It seemed the phone originally didn't like the 32 gig SD card in there (one boot prior to the flashing it said damaged SD card). I popped it out, put it in a USB card reader and formatted it to fat32. Recovery threw an error when trying to access the SD card to do the flashing of the Infection ROM so I just flashed it from the copy I had placed on the internal SD. I'm guessing I might have to flash a standard boot.img from flashboot and try things again?.
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Try using the usb mount to access sdcard. you may have to reformat one if you have an extra one. Or format it prior to putting it in your Rezound. As long as you can access recovery you are not bricked.
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Try using the usb mount to access sdcard. you may have to reformat one if you have an extra one. Or format it prior to putting it in your Rezound. As long as you can access recovery you are not bricked.
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Provided I can gain access to the SD card, what would be my next step? Flash an ICS rom?
When trying to access the internal SD from recovery, I get this error-can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p37 or mmcblk0p38. Invalid argument. If I try to flash anything from the SD card, it says that it is opening the package, gives another line and then kicks me right back to the recovery menu. From there, trying to pull up the external card leads to a blank directory unless I yank the battery and reseat the card (or potentially just reseating the battery). Does anybody have any ideas?
fixit if you are s-0n
Look around xda, or google and find/download RUU 3.14.605.12, which should be an *.exe executable file.
Use a md5 checksum utility to confirm validity, boot into fastboot, and run this RUU.
It should make everything OK again.
@Napalm
Format the sd card using your recovery.
If you still have it in its current state open the rom's zip file, copy out boot.img, and fastboot flash it. Then attempt booting like normal.
Thanks Michael and hi Snuzz! After doing more searching, I did notice an extra step in one of the roms I used. It mentioned about flashing the boot.img in hboot if S-On was true. For my rezound, yeah it's still S-on for me. When I get back to my main PC, I'll see what I can do. I really hope I can come back from it as I'm really looking fwd to upgrading from my Tbolt. The Rezound has such a nice camera and processor, I'd prefer not to have to go another route.
Oh my god. This is so horribly screwy. The problem all along.....it ws the stupid 32 gig SD card I was using. I put Rage 2.3 on a 16 gig card, tried to flash from that one and it worked perfectly. No need for the RUU. I'm happy I didn't need it because of this warning.
This will not work if you used the HTC Bootloader unlock tool. Your device must be fully stock with a locked bootloader or you must have S-Off
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On the 32 gig card, the zip flash would go by very fast and then basically reboot the recovery. From there, well the thread covers that. As of right now, Rage 2.3 has booted and asking for initial setup info. Since Rage is going to be my first ROM on this device, anybody have any thoughts on it or comments on another they like more?