[HELP] Flashed a rom, now its stuck in "initiating swagger" - HTC One X+

My phone is rooted with the help of hasoons2000 toolkit, and it was done succesfully, but this morning, when i tried to flash a rom (cm 10.1) its now stuck on "initiating swagger" and i simply cant get past that
Need some help, ive rooted the right version of cwm recovery, cleared my download cache before the flash, and backed up my previously rom (stock)
What do i do!!?

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Eddie5850 said:
My phone is rooted with the help of hasoons2000 toolkit, and it was done succesfully, but this morning, when i tried to flash a rom (cm 10.1) its now stuck on "initiating swagger" and i simply cant get past that
Need some help, ive rooted the right version of cwm recovery, cleared my download cache before the flash, and backed up my previously rom (stock)
What do i do!!?
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Did you flash the boot.img?

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gattzzz said:
Did you flash the boot.img?
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No, i flashed the zip
I have acces to the bootloader menu now by the way

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I'm pretty sure i need a RUU for my device now, but I don't know how to do that at the moment.

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You have to go back to Fastboot, get the boot img, place it in your fastbood folder and navigate to ist.
then do the following
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
Then Reboot the device and it should be Start.

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Cold Ice said:
You have to go back to Fastboot, get the boot img, place it in your fastbood folder and navigate to ist.
then do the following
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
Then Reboot the device and it should be Start.
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How do i access the boot.img, when the file is in a zip? when i press it, it starts the rom, and gets stuck on "initiating swagger"

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1. Download the ROM on to your PC.
2. Transfer a copy of the ROM Zip file to the phone.
3. On the PC, extract the ROM Zip file.
4. Open the extracted folder.
5. You will find the boot.IMG in the extracted folder. Using a toolkit or a command line, write the boot image to the phone while it is in bootloader mode.
6. Flash the ROM.
7. Flash any additional packages.
8. Reboot.
Edit: For adb sideload:
Follow steps 1, 3, 4, and 5, then sideload, then reboot
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Eddie5850 said:
How do i access the boot.img, when the file is in a zip? when i press it, it starts the rom, and gets stuck on "initiating swagger"
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Open the .zip with 7zip or winrar and extract the boot.img or look in the rom thread if there is a downloadable boot.img, there's also a boot.img flasher around here in a toolkit. Don't know which one it is, didn't rooted/Unlocked yet.

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Which ROM did you download?
The boot.img is either pointed out in the first post of the Custom ROM or it is in the download .zip
You need to copy the boot.img you find in the ADB/fastboot folder, then boot the X+ into the bootloader, select the fastboot option with the vol+/- and then connect the X+ with your computer.
I am not familiar with the all-in-one-toolkit but if I remember correctly you can flash it within the program.
The Insert Coin ROM and others have a kernel flasher. But I never used one of those either.
Look around a bit. Once the appropriate boot.img of the ROM you want has been flashed the ROMM will boot up.

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sarcasticphoenix said:
1. Download the ROM on to your PC.
2. Transfer a copy of the ROM Zip file to the phone.
3. On the PC, extract the ROM Zip file.
4. Open the extracted folder.
5. You will find the boot.IMG in the extracted folder. Using a toolkit or a command line, write the boot image to the phone while it is in bootloader mode.
6. Flash the ROM.
7. Flash any additional packages.
8. Reboot.
Edit: For adb sideload:
Follow steps 1, 3, 4, and 5, then sideload, then reboot
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All right, since I have no access to the usb debugging, i tried to sideload the rom (Cm 10.1 4.2.2), but when i use the toolkit with the script cmd
It says this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Tried it again, and it says this:
Sorry if i am a complete noob here

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Eddie5850 said:
All right, since I have no access to the usb debugging, i tried to sideload the rom (Cm 10.1 4.2.2), but when i use the toolkit with the script cmd
It says this:
Tried it again, and it says this:
Sorry if i am a complete noob here
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adb kill server
fastboot flash boot boot.img
done. Quite honestly you should read up before flashing rom's ALL the info is in this forum.

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Sorry if I'm thread jacking, but is there a way to flash a kernel from in the phone itself? my PC took a dump, it'll be a few weeks till i can afford to replace it.

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Great news everyone!
I saved my phone, and its now working like stock normal
The problem was that i flashed an entire zip file instead of a boot.img file, causing my phone to bootloop, after countless tries to fix this, I decided to unroot the phone with fastboot, recovery and a RUU file.
My phone is now working, thanks for helping!

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Until we get S-OFF, we can't flash kernels from the phone itself.
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So, sorry if i'm thread bumping, but if I want to give it a try again at flashing a rom, and try avoiding what happen last time
Are these the following step correct?
Do a backup of current rom in cwm recovery
Wipe data/factory reset 3 times in cwm recovery
Wipe cache partition in cwm recovery
Wipe dalvik cache cwm recovery
Flash the zip containing the cm10.1 zip
And can I do all this without the need of installing rom manager?

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Don't forget that you need to flash the kernel separately. Because we don't have S-OFF on our device, we have to flash the kernel from a PC.
1. Extract boot.img (this is the kernel) from the ROM zip file
2. Open a cmd prompt and cd to the directory containing the extracted boot.img
3. Connect your device and reboot it to the bootloader with the command:
adb reboot bootloader
4. Flash the kernel with the commands:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
5. Reboot your device with:
fastboot reboot
You can do these steps before or after flashing the ROM but remember that you should have the android SDK platform-tools folder in your PATH before it'll work (assuming you use windows).
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o_O said:
Don't forget that you need to flash the kernel separately. Because we don't have S-OFF on our device, we have to flash the kernel from a PC.
1. Extract boot.img (this is the kernel) from the ROM zip file
2. Open a cmd prompt and cd to the directory containing the extracted boot.img
3. Connect your device and reboot it to the bootloader with the command:
adb reboot bootloader
4. Flash the kernel with the commands:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
5. Reboot your device with:
fastboot reboot
You can do these steps before or after flashing the ROM but remember that you should have the android SDK platform-tools folder in your PATH before it'll work (assuming you use windows).
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Can't I just use the toolkit for my hox+? Hasoon2000 says you can just flash a kernel? I could be wrong though.

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I believe you can, and that the way I described above is actually the way Hassoon's toolkit does the job. Just make sure the boot image is named correctly for the toolkit to pick it up, and make sure you put it in the correct folder (from memory, it's the "kernels" folder).
I use Linux, so Windows users feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes.
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