OKAY, so. this is my first smartphone, and i basically screwed it all up... I unlock the bootloader (it's an HTC Evo 4G LTE on Sprint btw)
did that fine, but i didnt root it right. it still says S-ON. i can go into TWRP 2.4.3.0. I tried flashing a rom, stupidly i didnt know that it wasnt rooted, and i HAVE NOT made backups. it basically wiped the whole phone. i USED to be able to go into the bootloader, and TWRP, but i tried to fix it using RUU, and it just gets stuck at the silver HTC logo, with triangles in all the corners... no going into bootloader anymore, and not going into TWRP. so my guess im basically screwed, and need a new phone. do i need a new phone? PLEASE HELP ME
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What happens when you plug it in to PC and and look at device manager.? Someone else posted almost this same thing last night? It doesn't say QHUSBDLMODE does it?
Also, S-on has nothing to do with root . HTC dev unlock leaves device S-on. All you needed to do was flash a rooted ROM. You don't root a device, you root a ROM.
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Someone please explain to me what to do. Should I start shopping for a new phone? I can't boot into recovery mode because it just goes back to HBOOT. I've tried a factory reset and it goes right back into HBOOT. I'm not quite sure what I've done...I was attempting S-OFF which didn't work and my phone worked fine until I unplugged it from my computer. The only thing I did differently was "simlock" which said it failed then it got stuck in HBOOT. Im so mad at myself. Please tell me there's a way to fix this. HBOOT - 1.22.0000 Radio - 1.11.00.0831 S-ON
Im a newb so bear with me please.
You have no option to boot into any sort of recovery? It sounds like your os is corrupted and you may need to get into recovery to boot a working rom.
Which phone is it? Most likely ann RUU for your device.
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It's an HTC Hero-S for us cellular.
Could I use an RUU for an Evo 3d? I can not find one for a hero s anywhere.
EDIT: I meant the HTC Evo Design 4g
EDIT2: I have been up all night trying different Evo design 4g RUUs and each one of them tells me I can't use it for my device.
hobble said:
You have no option to boot into any sort of recovery? It sounds like your os is corrupted and you may need to get into recovery to boot a working rom.
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Hmm..How would one go about getting into recovery?
Hello,
I tried searching for a similar problem without luck so sorry if something like this has been posted already. I have an htc Rezound i just got recently after upgrading from an original rooted droid. I decided to unlock it using the HTC dev method then tried perm root using some of the stickies. I rooted the phone (or at least i think i did) and got the superuser permision. Now to the problem, every so often the phone would reboot on its own. After that reboot it goes into a eternal boot loop. the only way to stop it is if i go and remove the battery and reboot it again. This has been going on for a couple of weeks and i cannot seem to find the problem any suggestions would be great.
my phone currently is S-on and im ataching some screenshots phone info.
Thanks
I would start by doing the HTC Dev unlock to stay s-on and unlocked to root, otherwise you will have issues sooner or later like these. Stock rom rooted without htc dev is kind of pointless since you can't back anything up. Re-run the stock RUU and htc dev unlock then root it.
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I would start by doing the HTC Dev unlock to stay s-on and unlocked to root, otherwise you will have issues sooner or later like these.
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I did go trough the whole process for the HTC dev unlock, and unlocked the phone and it is currently S-on, as i said.
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Stock rom rooted without htc dev is kind of pointless since you can't back anything up. Re-run the stock RUU and htc dev unlock then root it.
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I see the point, now if i understand correctly you are suggesting I run back to a Stock version and redo the entire HTC dev process again? Or can i try and flash a rom and see if it solves the issues?
xjrod09 said:
I did go trough the whole process for the HTC dev unlock, and unlocked the phone and it is currently S-on, as i said.
I see the point, now if i understand correctly you are suggesting I run back to a Stock version and redo the entire HTC dev process again? Or can i try and flash a rom and see if it solves the issues?
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Sorry, I didn't read very well lol, just look for one of the stock rooted roms, and flash that in recovery.
Hey guys I have an Htc evo 3d with 1.5 hboot unlock with htc dev tool.. at the time it was unlock I was able to install willshooter [2.08.651.3] rom htc sense 3.0. now that I am ready to sell the device I want to restore it back to stock ICS.
the issues that I have is that I am unable to go into recovery, I try using Rom Manager to get a recovery to install but it wont stick, and it wont let me go into recovery.
I already try using updating my bootloader, it wont take it aswell.. and I also try using the OTA option where you go into the setting and try to update it I have a clean 16gb sdcard in case its a memory issue and the cellphone is not connected. I am using wifi to try to update it.
I would appreciate if anyone been on this situation before and would lend a hand.. if more information is needed please ask, because I need to restore this device..
Thanks.
Unless I missed something, you should be able to lock the bootloader and then run an ruu.exe to get back to stock.
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coal686 said:
Unless I missed something, you should be able to lock the bootloader and then run an ruu.exe to get back to stock.
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That should work. Your bootloader will say "*** RELOCKED ***" but other than that everything should be stock.
You can download the most current Sprint ICS RUU.exe (2.89.651.2) here.
BTW, ROM Manager doesn't work well on the Evo 3D so you might have better luck downloading the 4EXT Recovery app and usiing that to flash and boot into recovery. There are free downloads available on the www.4ext.net website.
ramjet73
same thing happened to my evo 3d a couple of weeks ago and i did the exact same thing they said^^^^ and it worked peefectly
Me and my friend have been trying to root his HTC Thunderbolt and we thought everything was going pretty smoothly. We found one of the versions of the Liquid ICS and moved that to his SD card and we unlocked the bootloader using the HTC dev site and everything was working just fine. We even got to the point where we could flash CWM onto the device and even that seemed to go smoothly. But after we flashed clockwork onto the phone we were only able to get to recovery. Anytime we try to boot into the rom that we installed it just sits on the white HTC screen. We've wiped data, dalvik and cache, which is a common cause for bootlooping and common errors as such. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, my friend is concerned about not having a phone and is actually considering purchasing a phone for retail price off of amazon, and I really think thats a waist considering this phone isn't bricked, and I think the geniuses here at XDA can definitely help us out of this pickle. Thanks in advanced - Randy
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Me and my friend have been trying to root his HTC Thunderbolt and we thought everything was going pretty smoothly. We found one of the versions of the Liquid ICS and moved that to his SD card and we unlocked the bootloader using the HTC dev site and everything was working just fine. We even got to the point where we could flash CWM onto the device and even that seemed to go smoothly. But after we flashed clockwork onto the phone we were only able to get to recovery. Anytime we try to boot into the rom that we installed it just sits on the white HTC screen. We've wiped data, dalvik and cache, which is a common cause for bootlooping and common errors as such. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated, my friend is concerned about not having a phone and is actually considering purchasing a phone for retail price off of amazon, and I really think thats a waist considering this phone isn't bricked, and I think the geniuses here at XDA can definitely help us out of this pickle. Thanks in advanced - Randy
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Your first problem is that you used HTC dev. You need to relock the bootloader and use the allinone tool to unlock get root and s off. The problem is that liquid ice has a custom kernel and you can't flash those with a locked bootloader.
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Could you link me to a thread on how to do that without getting your computer to recognize the phone? Because as is, the phone can't be recognized seeing as it won't boot and its either stuck at a white screen, on HTC's boot loader *which is unlocked*, or clockwork recovery mod.
Before you setup your phone you need to fast boot flash a stock ruu. You should have made a nand in cwm before you ever attempted to flash a rom. If you did you wouldn't have this problem right now. You could just restore that backup in recovery and you would be rooted stock. Then you could follow the relock procedure and use the allinone tool to unlock and get s off.
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Well that would be where we screwed up. we never made the nandroid back up and we kept trying to flash the RUU onto the phone via HBOOT but that doesn't work either. It says that is radio version 1.49.etc. inside of the bootloader.
You will need to give me more info about your radios. What baseband are you running?
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Alright so I dropped it off with my good friend Ryan and he was able to manually flash the RUU onto the phone and got it to boot stock. So we are done with our phone adventures for a little while. Thanks for offering to help, but we got it all solved
Now that you're root stock you can relock and then use the all in one tool.
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SOLVED!! Thanks to everyone, especially bigdaddy and FinZ! I will post something about what I did and what I used to get S-Off since it is actually really easy once put into easy to understands terms
Hey everyone,
Everything was going really as I was rooting my Evo 4G LTE this afternoon, until I realized I forgot to S-off. TWRP was installed and Superuser was flashed - Anyways, I got antsy and wiped the phone and flashed CM 10.1 and realized I forgot S-off - so of course, the phone wouldn't boot past the HTC screen.
I've been trying to flash stock roms to get into the superuser app, but none of them will load. They start to flash in TWRP, then the phone reboots to the HTC splash screen.
I am now unlocked, but still S-on. I can't flash any roms right now and was hoping someone might be able to help me out. I even tried the process all over again, but I get the same problem. So as of now, I can't get an OS on the phone.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Edit: I was running the latest OTA with HBOOT 2.09.
venkman21 said:
Hey everyone,
Everything was going really as I was rooting my Evo 4G LTE this afternoon, until I realized I forgot to S-off. TWRP was installed and Superuser was flashed - Anyways, I got antsy and wiped the phone and flashed CM 10.1 and realized I forgot S-off - so of course, the phone wouldn't boot past the HTC screen.
I've been trying to flash stock roms to get into the superuser app, but none of them will load. They start to flash in TWRP, then the phone reboots to the HTC splash screen.
I am now unlocked, but still S-on. I can't flash any roms right now and was hoping someone might be able to help me out. I even tried the process all over again, but I get the same problem. So as of now, I can't get an OS on the phone.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Edit: I was running the latest OTA with HBOOT 2.09.
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Flash meanbean or viper rom, both have s-on kernel installer and you should be able to get s-off using dirty racun or moonshine... Sharkie rom is a stock rom too with a s-on installer... Good Luck!
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venkman21 said:
Hey everyone,
Everything was going really as I was rooting my Evo 4G LTE this afternoon, until I realized I forgot to S-off. TWRP was installed and Superuser was flashed - Anyways, I got antsy and wiped the phone and flashed CM 10.1 and realized I forgot S-off - so of course, the phone wouldn't boot past the HTC screen.
I've been trying to flash stock roms to get into the superuser app, but none of them will load. They start to flash in TWRP, then the phone reboots to the HTC splash screen.
I am now unlocked, but still S-on. I can't flash any roms right now and was hoping someone might be able to help me out. I even tried the process all over again, but I get the same problem. So as of now, I can't get an OS on the phone.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Edit: I was running the latest OTA with HBOOT 2.09.
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Question... How did you install your recovery? Goo manager, pj75img.zip, or fastboot? I have had this same problem and the only solution was to fastboot flash a recovery... Dunno it was very weird and has only happened on my lte but it's been months.
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Question... How did you install your recovery? Goo manager, pj75img.zip, or fastboot? I have had this same problem and the only solution was to fastboot flash a recovery... Dunno it was very weird and has only happened on my lte but it's been months.
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I installed it using fastboot. I'm going to try one of the ROMs suggested above and see if that works. I'll let you all know as soon as I do it.
I keep reading that Moonshine won't work with HBOOT 2.09 - and I haven't had any luck getting it to work; it still gives me connection issues saying it can't connect to the phone. It's weird... I can use the adb devices command in recovery mode and my device ID shows up, but when I go into fastboot USB and do adb devices, I can't get it to show up. If I could somehow get that to show up during fastboot, it would mean smooth sailing.
Update: I successfully installed Meanbean. However, I still cannot gain S-Off. Moonshine won't work and I do not know enough to use DirtyRacun since it must be used with Ubuntu. I'll post my Moonshine issues in that thread
Thanks for the help with this! It looks like it just needed a S-On ROM to be installed which I though I was doing before!
I've tried every single HTC driver available and I can't get anything to recognize the Evo when it's in fastboot. It only recognizes the device when the ROM is loaded and USB storage is enabled. Unfortunately, I can't get s-off (as far as I know) without being in the bootloader and using fastboot.
Anyone know how I can achieve this or how I can get everything to communicate with one another like they're supposed to?
Have you deleted all the HTC stuff on your PC rebooted it the plug you phone back in and it should load the drivers again
then boot into bootloader and it should load more drivers
also try updating your android-sdk
Make sure you have the most current HTC driver. At least one person that I know of had issues until he updated to the most recent driver, which can be found in the link below. Use the HTC driver from post #2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179776
Also, like Bigdaddy said, make sure you have things like HTC Sync removed. Make sure you're using a USB 2.0 port, too. I don't know where you read Moonshine doesn't work with Hboot 2.09, because it does (specifically for the latest OTA).
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