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?.
NapalmDawn said:
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.
dragonstalker said:
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?
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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.
xarmorx said:
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.
Okay so I have this htc rezound, it was running ICS when I got it but the guy formatted it so it was stuck in the bootmanager or whatever you call it. I flashed recovery and then flashed a file that was on the sd card already. It says im running android 2.3.4 now. It wont read my sd card or take pictures at the moment, says theres an error when I go into gallery and the sd card won't mount. I can't see it on my computer either. i want to put on scotts clean rom because the guy i bought it from said that it fixed his sd card problems. I'm not really sure what to do because I can't get any files onto the sd card if it won't mount. Any suggestions? And if he was already runnig scotts cleanrom do I need to update to ICS firmware or whatever or should I install it like I was updating from gingerbread?
EDIT: I also forgot to add that when i try it mount it just says "preparing sd card" then it says "sd card safe to remove" and i have tried two different cards.
Can you boot into HBOOT (power off the phone, pull the battery, replace it, and then hold down the Power+Volume down buttons) and let us know the information on that screen? that will tell you what HBOOT the phone is running as well as radios to see what RUU you can run to return the phone to stock.
Edit: A card reader or spare phone would be great to mount the Sdcard and place the needed files on it btw
Did you try doing the SD card fix? It will format your SD card unfortunately.
Yeah im in hboot now. it says ***tampered*** and ***unlocked*** at the top ad it says the hboot is 2.21.0000 and the radio is 1.22.10.0310r/1.22.10.0308r
and yeah i heard theres a way i can get files onto the sd card through fastboot or something? I don't have an external sd card thing for my computer but i may be able to use my brothers droid x to put files on it.
If you can get to your recovery you can mount your USB through it.
If you're having trouble because you have a PH98IMG on your zip preventing you from getting past the bootloader...you can pull your MicroSD halfway out and angle your battery in such a manner that the bottom contacts are touching but not fully in the phone.
You get past the PH98IMG check and then slide the SD card all the way in and then push the battery in. Voila.
i dont know if im doing it wrong or i just don't know how but i can't get it to mount in recovery either!
shakeandscream said:
i dont know if im doing it wrong or i just don't know how but i can't get it to mount in recovery either!
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Do you have another SD card to check? It could be that your SD card needs to go through the SD card fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615418
yeah the second sd card wouldn't work either. and i have s-on so idk if that tut will work for me. i appreciate the help though!
EDIT: yeah I can't get busybox to install because it says my sd card is mounted or there isn't enough free space but it's empty and not showing up. so freakin confused haha
Are you still on GB or ICS firmware?
Did you try running a stock RUU and see if it fixes everything? Get the RUU.exe file and put your phone in Fastboot mode and run it. Yes this will basically wipe everything and restore you to stock. You have to have your bootloader re-locked too.
im not sure which firmware im on. I assume ICS because that's what the guy flashed it too before i got it but when i got it it was just in the hboot and it wouldn't boot up so he didn't have a rom on there. i haven't tried the ruu but i guess i could give it a go
What hboot version are you on?
I actually got it figured out but now my camera still won't work. It's giving me an error when I try to take pics that says its unable to save to sd card due to insufficient file permissions. Removing the sd card won't fix it and neither will reformatting the card
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.
trickster2369 said:
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?
rockehill10 said:
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!
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
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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!