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i have tried everything possible with this phone to root it and nothing. Was wondering if someone would help me out??
I feel your pain and I've try the HTC dev. unlock with no luck I'm coming from the OG evo which was really easy to root ..
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go to htcevohacks.com i hace hboot 1.5 and it worked perfectly if u have the newest upgrade tho i dont think they have a root method out yet
Htcevohacks is easiest . And with the newest ota its still hboot 1.5
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brandonaspencer said:
i have tried everything possible with this phone to root it and nothing. Was wondering if someone would help me out??
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It would help us if you told us exactly what problems you are having.
Cool!! thanks!!
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Look at the roll up stickies. The directions are pretty clear. HTC method is going to be your only option
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Rooting phone
brandonaspencer said:
i have tried everything possible with this phone to root it and nothing. Was wondering if someone would help me out??
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have kinda problems have you had with rooting your phone.
HTC evohacks is very easy thanks !! For the help : )
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yami951 said:
Look at the roll up stickies. The directions are pretty clear. HTC method is going to be your only option
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I agree
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Trying to root using HTC 1.5 with no success.
Hi to all I have tried to root using the HTC boot unlocker with no success. I was using the step by step instructions from HTC evo hacks. I got to the step at the command prompt where I put in the unlock code and I got this : C:\rootevo3dnew>fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
sending 'unlocktoken' (0 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.152s]
writing 'unlocktoken'...
(bootloader) unlock token check successfully
OKAY [ 0.007s]
finished. total time: 0.161s
The phone screen asking me to unlock the bootloader never came up. Any help would be appreciated. BTW I have rooted at least 7 EVO 3D's. with no problems.
I'm stumped.
lilal100 said:
The phone screen asking me to unlock the bootloader never came up. Any help would be appreciated. BTW I have rooted at least 7 EVO 3D's. with no problems.
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See the Guide/flashing Notes in my signature. You need to rerun the currently installed "FULL" Ruu or the the Latest RUU, then the unlock will work.
I did the HTCDev and unlocked it went to thread on downgrade from 1.5 hboot to 1.4 tried that and it did not work. I went to try the wire trick and this is what I get when I try to use the controlbear. the phone connects and goes through process but says the following...
======== ControlBear 0.6 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....but device has no root!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
Any help would be helpful I have tried superuser but wont install, tried rootevo3dnew, temproot sensation Ect. everything says I need to be rooted.
I am running stock rom that shipped with phone and yes I did updates. I am Sprint CDMA 2.17 rom shipped, 1.5 Hboot. I have flashed roms and modded before but dont consider myself to be advanced. I have done flashing and installing roms with my old HTC Touch pro2 but alot easier on touch pro2 LOL... Please point me in the correct place I have beeen all over from this thread to that one and back and forth and yes I have search threads and I have tried them but still come back to the one with wire trick.. I am 1.5 with S-ON
inkjammer said:
I did the HTCDev and unlocked it went to thread on downgrade from 1.5 hboot to 1.4 tried that and it did not work. I went to try the wire trick and this is what I get when I try to use the controlbear. the phone connects and goes through process but says the following...
======== ControlBear 0.6 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....but device has no root!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
Any help would be helpful I have tried superuser but wont install, tried rootevo3dnew, temproot sensation Ect. everything says I need to be rooted.
I am running stock rom that shipped with phone and yes I did updates. I am Sprint CDMA 2.17 rom shipped, 1.5 Hboot. I have flashed roms and modded before but dont consider myself to be advanced. I have done flashing and installing roms with my old HTC Touch pro2 but alot easier on touch pro2 LOL... Please point me in the correct place I have beeen all over from this thread to that one and back and forth and yes I have search threads and I have tried them but still come back to the one with wire trick.. I am 1.5 with S-ON
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Ok, let's make sure we know where you are at to start with. When you use the vol and power button to boot to fastboot, does the phone show "unlocked". If not, I think you need to do the htc method again. I have not kept up recently, but I am not sure there is any method other than the HTC method that works every time for 1.5. I have used the HTC method on two phones without a problem, so that is the method I use.
Once you get that far, I used adb to push or flash the twrp image into the recovery section of the phone. Then you should be able to flash superuser via the install menu of twrp. There are threads that have detailed explanations on how this is done.
Yea, I had a bit of a learning curve from my TP2 also, but love this phone!
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Ok, let's make sure we know where you are at to start with. When you use the vol and power button to boot to fastboot, does the phone show "unlocked". If not, I think you need to do the htc method again. I have not kept up recently, but I am not sure there is any method other than the HTC method that works every time for 1.5. I have used the HTC method on two phones without a problem, so that is the method I use.
Once you get that far, I used adb to push or flash the twrp image into the recovery section of the phone. Then you should be able to flash superuser via the install menu of twrp. There are threads that have detailed explanations on how this is done.
Yea, I had a bit of a learning curve from my TP2 also, but love this phone!
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I am unlocked I did the HTC Dev and unlocked it. I have a stock rom (the one shipped on phone) all I have done is unlock it... I did try the controlbear and got what I posted on last post. I am Hboot 1.5 S-ON and stock rom is 2.17.651.5 HTC Sense 3.0 ANDROID Ver. 2.3.4... Like I said all I have done is Unlock and installed TWRP 2.2 and created a restore point and created a recovery and backed up my phone. All through Goo Manager. That is all I have done.
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I am unlocked I did the HTC Dev and unlocked it. I have a stock rom (the one shipped on phone) all I have done is unlock it... I did try the controlbear and got what I posted on last post. I am Hboot 1.5 S-ON and stock rom is 2.17.651.5 HTC Sense 3.0 ANDROID Ver. 2.3.4... Like I said all I have done is Unlock and installed TWRP 2.2 and created a restore point and created a recovery and backed up my phone. All through Goo Manager. That is all I have done.
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In my post Ive included a flashable SuperSU zip. What youll need to do is boot to recovery and install this zip. Then reboot. You should have superuser access then.
Still learning this forum so excuse any errors I make. I've spent the last 10 hours trying to fix the mess I created on my wife's Evo 3d. I was able to root my phone and it was relatively easy so I tackled hers as well and have gotten a bootloop I cannot figure out, 10 hours later. I'm on hboot 1.5. I unlocked the phone (using a pretty reliable video), loaded 4EXT Recovery then tried to load roms. Everything worked fine until the rom-loading portion. Since then, the phone loops, but once or twice it made it all the way to the main screen and before I could slide the ring, a read error message appeared next to the bars of service then the phone just completely reboots. Right now, the only thing I can get into is the bootloader and the clockworkmod v4.0.1.4, somehow I lost my 4EXT Recovery. I'm stuck and in dire straights as my wife is going out of town and will KILL me if I don't fix her phone. Please help! BTW, somehow I managed to NOT back anything up (stupidity on my part). Will I be able to get this thing back to stock at least or is it now a paperweight?
user22410 said:
Still learning this forum so excuse any errors I make. I've spent the last 10 hours trying to fix the mess I created on my wife's Evo 3d. I was able to root my phone and it was relatively easy so I tackled hers as well and have gotten a bootloop I cannot figure out, 10 hours later. I'm on hboot 1.5. I unlocked the phone (using a pretty reliable video), loaded 4EXT Recovery then tried to load roms. Everything worked fine until the rom-loading portion. Since then, the phone loops, but once or twice it made it all the way to the main screen and before I could slide the ring, a read error message appeared next to the bars of service then the phone just completely reboots. Right now, the only thing I can get into is the bootloader and the clockworkmod v4.0.1.4, somehow I lost my 4EXT Recovery. I'm stuck and in dire straights as my wife is going out of town and will KILL me if I don't fix her phone. Please help! BTW, somehow I managed to NOT back anything up (stupidity on my part). Will I be able to get this thing back to stock at least or is it now a paperweight?
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Your not bricked by any means. And Im going to guess you tried to boot an ICS rom.. dont. They dont work with hboot 1.5. If you really want to go back to stock run the 2.17 RUU and youll be back to where you started. Another option is to download a GB rom and flash that. Not ICS. If your able to get to the bootloader than you can still load up 4ext recovery so you can flash the GB rom.
Edit: some hboot 1.5 users are lucky and can flash them if they used the correct VM firmware but majority of users have problems.
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Your not bricked by any means. And Im going to guess you tried to boot an ICS rom.. dont. They dont work with hboot 1.5. If you really want to go back to stock run the 2.17 RUU and youll be back to where you started. Another option is to download a GB rom and flash that. Not ICS. If your able to get to the bootloader than you can still load up 4ext recovery so you can flash the GB rom.
Edit: some hboot 1.5 users are lucky and can flash them if they used the correct VM firmware but majority of users have problems.
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Thanks, I just tried flashing a rom that has taken it back to stock but I'm still in the bootloop. Should I stop flashing and simply locate the RUU?
22410,
It sounds like the kernel did not flash correctly with 4ext Recovery (next time, make sure u indicat S-on in its settings). I'm not sure if you were just stock 2.17 rooted or not, but use 7zip on your pc to open & extract/copy out the "boot.img" file from the rom, zip, etc you were using and copy it to your fastboot pc folder. Still have the Cwm 4.0.1.4 recovery.IMG file there too right (or the 4ext recovery.img file)? Ok...
- put phone in fastboot usb mode
From PC's fastboot command prompt type:
- " fastboot flash boot boot.img "
(this will reflash the kernel/boot image extracted from a rom)
If your recovery is screwed up:
- " fastboot flash recovery YourRecoveryFilename.img "
(ie: cwm_4.0.1.4_recovery.img or recovery.img, etc as listed in fastboot folder, to reflash a recovery to your phone).
With S-on, to properly enter a recovery for flashing ANYTHING you must:
- " fastboot boot YourRecoveryFilename.img "
(doesn't apply if using 4ext's Smartflash or TWRP's Dumlock settings. But you must have a bootable android OS/kernel first, once the flash is screwed it won't work).
If u have a Sprint CDMA EVO3D/HTC Unlocked & S-on (not Jbear s-Off), then the guide in my signature has more info.
Edit: as NIN said you will likely have problems flashing ICS roms with S-on (hboot version doesn't matter). If u are still unlocked & have a working recovery u can flash any gb Rom successfully after wiping system, data, & cache (or run superwipe zip). Meanrom GB v4.5 recommended.
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I received a replacement Rezound today and have messed it up beyond my repair. When I powered the new phone on it was on the old GB software. I manually searched for an update which was finally found. I downloaded the update and went through the process of installing it. About half way through the update, a red triangle with an exclamation point appeard. I tried this process twice and then decided to run the RUU that I had installed on my sd card from my prior phone. The RUU was the most recent ICS.
At this point I was not S-off or rooted, but completly stock. The RUU did not fully run but it did update my HBOOT and Radio's. When I boot the phone, it is still on GB software. I have some how changed my bootloader to show Tampered as well.
I was able to flash a zip file of AmonRa 3.15 and was able to flash ViperRom 1.03. I thought this would correct the problems and allow me to S-Off but it did not.
I thought that if I could S-off I could maybe get this all straight. But I am not sure.
At this point, I have a phone that reboots after a few short minutes.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
Romans8vs1 said:
I received a replacement Rezound today and have messed it up beyond my repair. When I powered the new phone on it was on the old GB software. I manually searched for an update which was finally found. I downloaded the update and went through the process of installing it. About half way through the update, a red triangle with an exclamation point appeard. I tried this process twice and then decided to run the RUU that I had installed on my sd card from my prior phone. The RUU was the most recent ICS.
At this point I was not S-off or rooted, but completly stock. The RUU did not fully run but it did update my HBOOT and Radio's. When I boot the phone, it is still on GB software. I have some how changed my bootloader to show Tampered as well.
I was able to flash a zip file of AmonRa 3.15 and was able to flash ViperRom 1.03. I thought this would correct the problems and allow me to S-Off but it did not.
I thought that if I could S-off I could maybe get this all straight. But I am not sure.
At this point, I have a phone that reboots after a few short minutes.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
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If it tanked doing the OTA ICS update right out of the box, I'd call VZW for another phone...
Thank you for the reply, but my hboot now says tampered and relocked. I do not think I could send the phone back in this condition and get a new one.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Un-lock using HTC unlock then s-off your phone using some wire tied to a couple thumb tacks. Run latest ruu again, then install recovery, then flash Rom.
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iHateWebOS said:
Un-lock using HTC unlock then s-off your phone using some wire tied to a couple thumb tacks. Run latest ruu again, then install recovery, then flash Rom.
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Why on earth do you hate WebOS?!?
I wasted a lot of life thinking it was the greatest....... Lies! Lies! Do you have any idea how lucky android users are to have on device recovery? When ya boot loop a webos phone ya need to hook up to a computer no matter what ya did wrong. Now I just restore a nandroid....I was so happy when I upgraded to a pre 2.... Now I just feel dumb for staying with webos for so long
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AshtonTS said:
Why on earth do you hate WebOS?!?
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Why do you not hate webOS? Awful.
In case anyone else has this problem, I was able to re-lock and flash the RUU through adb to get everything corrected. I'm now rooted, S-off, and running inef 1.2!
Here is what I have done so far. . .
- Rooted and unlocked
- Installed a custom recovery (Team Win)
- Flashed a rom (CM10)
That did not go so well, as I did not know about being S-no and having to flash the boot.img. . . so I flashed the boot.img - wiped a few things and rebooted
So the ROM booted but I wanted to be back at the stock ROM . . .
Like the smart guy I am, I made a backup. . . and then latter down the road I formatted my SD-Card. . . (kicking my self now)
So I had a good idea, flash the stock rom and the boot img, well I did that and it just stayed on the HTC sign for a little (40 mins) bit.
So, I thought about running an RUU!
I unlocked my phone, and ran an RUU and it told me it could not do that, I needed to get an RUU that was comparable with my phone...
So here I am---
*** Tampered ***
*** Relocked ***
** Security Warning ***
S-ON
HBOOT-1.19.000
And a Evo 4G LTE that will not boot, and wishing I would of just left it alone.
What can I do to get thing phone working again or have I messed it up to bad?
Truly, any help would be great. I have had this phone for like 24hrs and can use it. . .
Did you run the correct ruu for your hboot 2.13
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You can also run a ruu for your phone using a zip and flashing thru fast boot from your computer using CMD go to dirty raccoon website and download the correct version you should just go soff
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Edit I just wanna clarify that when I said 2.13 I was referring to the phones build number not the hboot which would be 1.19 on the 2.13 build I just reread and I seen it could confuse you the ruu would start with 2.13
chaos67731 said:
Here is what I have done so far. . .
- Rooted and unlocked
- Installed a custom recovery (Team Win)
- Flashed a rom (CM10)
That did not go so well, as I did not know about being S-no and having to flash the boot.img. . . so I flashed the boot.img - wiped a few things and rebooted
So the ROM booted but I wanted to be back at the stock ROM . . .
Like the smart guy I am, I made a backup. . . and then latter down the road I formatted my SD-Card. . . (kicking my self now)
So I had a good idea, flash the stock rom and the boot img, well I did that and it just stayed on the HTC sign for a little (40 mins) bit.
So, I thought about running an RUU!
I unlocked my phone, and ran an RUU and it told me it could not do that, I needed to get an RUU that was comparable with my phone...
So here I am---
*** Tampered ***
*** Relocked ***
** Security Warning ***
S-ON
HBOOT-1.19.000
And a Evo 4G LTE that will not boot, and wishing I would of just left it alone.
What can I do to get thing phone working again or have I messed it up to bad?
Truly, any help would be great. I have had this phone for like 24hrs and can use it. . .
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Just a quick question since you didn't mention it.....when getting ready to ruu back to stock, did you boot into bootloader and then set phone to fastboot? All this after relocking your bootloader etc of course. It should say "fastboot usb" if you did and its connected to computer. Just a minor thing I wanna make sure you tried. Your scenario sounds just like what I had happen and I personally had a brainfart and forgot to do that step. Hope that helps.
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Like dandan said....follow the steps at unlimited.io for s-off and don't panic. I'm assuming you can still get to the bootloader.
via eVo.
Got it back to Stock
So after a few hours of work, I found out 1: was not in fast boot, and 2: was running an old RUU
The phone is back to stock and working just fine.
As much as I liked the CM10 rom I tried out, the keyboard keep crashing and the camera was not as good. But to keep things on track, I was able to fix it.
I am going to end up waiting for do this again, until I set up my extra computer with a 32bit os and can do the steps here http://unlimited.io/ to get S-OFF.
Thanks for the quick answer guys!
chaos67731 said:
So after a few hours of work, I found out 1: was not in fast boot, and 2: was running an old RUU
The phone is back to stock and working just fine.
As much as I liked the CM10 rom I tried out, the keyboard keep crashing and the camera was not as good. But to keep things on track, I was able to fix it.
I am going to end up waiting for do this again, until I set up my extra computer with a 32bit os and can do the steps here http://unlimited.io/ to get S-OFF.
Thanks for the quick answer guys!
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Just make sure you don't take the official OTA or you will be screwed!!!!
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dandan2980 said:
Just make sure you don't take the official OTA or you will be screwed!!!!
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I have a evo lte and so does my gf, she took the OTA and is now on JB. Is there a way to root after that or is it stuck that way for now?
She cant live with out Groovshark (lol) and the update made it not work. . . so I told her I would swap our phones, and that would end up giving me the one with JB and sense+ . . If I do that I want to just root it and stick to the stock rom for now, so I can install a few apps that need root.
You should still be able to HTC dev unlock on jellybean.
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try unlocking the phone again, and your ROM should load up again. then run the RUU. see if that works.
exact thing happened to my phone and for some reason, it worked.
chaos67731 said:
I have a evo lte and so does my gf, she took the OTA and is now on JB. Is there a way to root after that or is it stuck that way for now?
She cant live with out Groovshark (lol) and the update made it not work. . . so I told her I would swap our phones, and that would end up giving me the one with JB and sense+ . . If I do that I want to just root it and stick to the stock rom for now, so I can install a few apps that need root.
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Try the following linked thread, the JB update CAN be rooted unlocked and remains s-on etc. At the moment it requires doing some minor command prompt commands til the script/app is updated for the ota to do it automatically. Be prepared to do htcdev unlock and the rest is in the thread...I just did it myself last night so I can verify it worked perfectly. Took about 15 mins total from logging into htcdev till it was rebooted and running unlocked. Good luck and let me/us know if it works out how you need it to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2038123
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I'm trying to help a buddy of mine. He has a Thunderbolt, issued through work. It is stock, unrooted, locked, never modded. He recently got the ICS OTA update. Phone was functional, but laggy and a bit unstable. He did a factory reset, and initially the phone was fine for a few hours, then it was acting buggy. After a reboot it was fine for a bit, then froze. Usable time kept diminishing with subsequent reboots. He tried another factory reset, and the phone won't boot now. If you power it up, you get the white screen with the HTC logo, then a black screen, and nothing ever happens. I can get to Hboot. I can get to fastboot. Not sure if recovery does anything. I get the recovery screen, then a reboot, and then nothing.
I've been trying to read up on how to fix this, and I'm not sure how to go about it since the phone is currently locked, and won't boot. I looked at the Thunderbolt All In One tool, but it looks like it needs the phone to be booted to start the process.
My end goal is to get back to stock, unrooted, (Gingerbread, then OTA update I suppose), and S-on. But to do that, I need to obtain s-off first. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
I've attached a couple of pics.
Thank you.
a little side note
from what I've read verison has been replacing some phones that the ota has killed or broken something..
worth checking out...
I believe even out of warrenty..
cujo6801 said:
a little side note
from what I've read verison has been replacing some phones that the ota has killed or broken something..
worth checking out...
I believe even out of warrenty..
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Good to know. Thank you. I think because it was employer issued, he's going to try to get a newer device if we can't get it running. But I just had to make some attempt to get it running.
Pm disconnecktie as you should be able to flash via abd beings you can get in to fastboot. He knows a lot about the workings of these phones.
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It could possibly be fixed by fastboot flashing the official release but I think a package would need to be put together for that to work correctly. Since the phone doesn't boot it limits the ways to fix it especially since we don't have an Ruu for the ics ota. Also because it doesn't boot adb commands are useless. Fastboot commands are unlikely to work either but I guess you could try by connecting the usb cable. Open a command prompt and type fastboot devices. If it shows the serial number then fastboot commands will work.
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It could possibly be fixed by fastboot flashing the official release but I think a package would need to be put together for that to work correctly. Since the phone doesn't boot it limits the ways to fix it especially since we don't have an Ruu for the ics ota. Also because it doesn't boot adb commands are useless. Fastboot commands are unlikely to work either but I guess you could try by connecting the usb cable. Open a command prompt and type fastboot devices. If it shows the serial number then fastboot commands will work.
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Fastboot does work. I was able to do the "fastboot devices" command before, and saw the phone. I was also able to "fastboot flash zip" the file from post 12 from this tread (link below), BUT even though the file transferred from the computer to the phone, the actual flash failed... I'm assuming because the phone is locked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2120985&page=2
Try downloading the official ota zip over at the developer section. Put it on the root of your sd card and rename it to PG05IMG. Then run the update through fastboot. I seriously doubt this will solve the problem long term but it may work. I have doubts. I am beginning to think htc released the ota purely for development purposes. More and more people are popping in here with problems similar to this.
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I downloaded santod040's full ODEXED ICS ROM. That's the only thing I noticed that said "Official". Hopefully I didn't miss something obvious. I put it on the SD card and renamed it. Booted Hboot, and the file loaded, checked, then stopped and went back to the Hboot menu. No option to flash or install. Then, I tried doing fastboot flash zip from the command line while the phone was in Fastboot. It sent the file, and loaded it, then failed booloader signature checking. I'm not sure if there is another method to try. I have SOME working knowledge on how to do this stuff, but not as much as many of the members here, I'm sure.
SoundTech said:
I downloaded santod040's full ODEXED ICS ROM. That's the only thing I noticed that said "Official". Hopefully I didn't miss something obvious. I put it on the SD card and renamed it. Booted Hboot, and the file loaded, checked, then stopped and went back to the Hboot menu. No option to flash or install. Then, I tried doing fastboot flash zip from the command line while the phone was in Fastboot. It sent the file, and loaded it, then failed booloader signature checking. I'm not sure if there is another method to try. I have SOME working knowledge on how to do this stuff, but not as much as many of the members here, I'm sure.
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You need to be rooted to use a rom
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Yeah, that wasn't too swift of me, was it now?
I grabbed the zip from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2144326
Tried Hboot with the file renamed, same results as previous post. Tried fastboot flash zip, same results as above. No joy.
Going to try to see if HTCDev will get the bootloader unlocked in the current phone state.
Well since the ota isn't a downgrade I thought it may work. If HTC dev is able to unlock his bootloader maybe he can get further.
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Bootloader is unlocked now, since it was all through fastboot. Still S-on. Tried with the OTA zip still on the SD card as "PG05IMG.zip." It loaded, started to check, started to parse for a moment, then went back to the Hboot screen, reboot got me nowhere. I need to go deal with the rest of life now. I'll try again tomorrow. I appreciate everyone's help today. Thank you.
At this point just s off and install a recovery then you can flash that ROM.
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Use this guide here. Make sure you have plenty of time before hand and FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS IN ORDER TO A T. It is very important that you don't skip over stuff. This is the only current method to get s off with ics.
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Long day at work, but back to it. Making sure the battery is charged up, and downloading files.
I'm looking at a post on ThunderboltForums. Making absolutely sure here: Is THAT the one I should be following?
Follow-up: At the end of step 28, after flashing the .19 ROM, is says to use the All-In-One tool. IF I plan to be stock, unrooted, locked, S-on, it seems I'm there at this point, and I can let the OTA update run. Is that correct?
Thanks again.
Looks like I'm on stock Gingerbread, S-off, re-locked, stock recovery. Heck, it finally boots! I'll see about trying OTA update tomorrow.
Thanks again.
S off and relocked? You need to run the allinonetool first and unlock the bootloader before you flash anything.
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S off and relocked? You need to run the allinonetool first and unlock the bootloader before you flash anything.
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Huh. I never did use the tool. I went through the steps on the ThunderboltForums post all the way through flashing the .19 ROM. Unless I missed something or did something wrong, before the flash it said I would be re-locked and S-on. After the flash it said the phone should be "back to normal". The next step was the All-In-One tool. But the device actually booted into android with the .19 ROM. That was the first time I saw it boot since I got my hands on it. Perhaps the process in that thread helped repair whatever part of the system was buggered up to begin with?
Regardless, I tried the OTA update, and the phone took the ICS update through Verizon. It seems to be running better now than it did before. It's back in my buddy's possession, and he's in the process of getting his apps and data reinstalled.
He thanked me profusely for getting it running again. So I, in turn, pass his thanks on to everyone here that helped me out, the people that worked to get the Thunderbolt resources to where they are now, and to the forum in general for existing and doing what it does. Thank you all.
So, I have gone through the whole process of rooting my phone, unlocking it. I have TWRP on it, Titanium backup (thankfully), Goo Manager. It is S-on. I have 2.09 Hboot. My TWRP-jewel is 2.5.0.0. Ok, now onto my question, I am trying to get CM-10 to load but it doesn't go any further than the load screen. No matter what I try. I have even tried switching to JellyBAM but all to no avail. Can someone offer me tips as to what I may have done or be doing wrong? Thanks in advance
[Q] trying to put CM10 on my rooted phone
Forgive me if I put this in the wrong group, but I feel this is probably the right one for it. I have Hboot 2.09. I have TWRP. I have S-on. I want to put CM10 with Gapps onto my phone but every way I have tried, CM10 just sits there and loops around, the longest being an hour. I figured some time was possible, but come on. Over on Google+, people are telling me to flash this and flash that, fastboot this or that. I have no idea what they are trying to say to me. I am loving learning all of this but I need a little more explanation than just flash something. I realize that flash has something to do with commands. I am running windows 8 if that helps on my laptop. My TWRP version is 2.5.0.0. I don't know if my phone has gone through the latest update or not. Thanks for any help you can give me!
You have to install the kernel separately from the ROM since you're S-on. Click the link in my sig for more info.
You most likely have the newest touch panel driver, so you can only use ROM's based off the latest OTA, software version 3.16. Your touchscreen won't work otherwise. You can gain S-off and downgrade your touch panel driver, at which point you can run AOSP ROM's like CM.
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Forgive me if I put this in the wrong group, but I feel this is probably the right one for it. I have Hboot 2.09. I have TWRP. I have S-on. I want to put CM10 with Gapps onto my phone but every way I have tried, CM10 just sits there and loops around, the longest being an hour. I figured some time was possible, but come on. Over on Google+, people are telling me to flash this and flash that, fastboot this or that. I have no idea what they are trying to say to me. I am loving learning all of this but I need a little more explanation than just flash something. I realize that flash has something to do with commands. I am running windows 8 if that helps on my laptop. My TWRP version is 2.5.0.0. I don't know if my phone has gone through the latest update or not. Thanks for any help you can give me!
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First of all you might be on the newest touch panel driver, and that's the first thing that gets you in trouble because aosp roms don't work with that, as of now, it might work later... Who knows... Secondly you need to flash the boot.img separately thru fastboot because your are s-on and on 2.09... To make your life easier try to get s-off either thru facepalm or dirty racun... That way you can flash any rom and also downgrade your touch panel driver to get aosp working on your phone... If you flash viper rom it has a senseless option so you can use nova and get stability and some sort of aosp look... Good luck!
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Yes, S-off is the way to go if you want to run CM. Otherwise, try meanbean or viper or sharkie or any other sense based Rom. They should work fine.
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I have tried to do facepalm. When I put the code in (I'm assuming it goes in the command window), I get messages like "adb not valid command". Even though my phone is most definitely rooted, says unlocked. Should I redownload android-sdk? Thanks again!
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I have tried to do facepalm. When I put the code in (I'm assuming it goes in the command window), I get messages like "adb not valid command". Even though my phone is most definitely rooted, says unlocked. Should I redownload android-sdk? Thanks again!
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ADB commands must be issued when the phone is mounted as media share not as fastboot. Connect your phone as if you were transferring files between it and your pc.
Something new to try since you're on the latest OTA.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321072
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ADB commands must be issued when the phone is mounted as media share not as fastboot. Connect your phone as if you were transferring files between it and your pc.
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I do have it connected to the computer like that. Do you mean I have to go into TWRP and mount it that way? I tried it that way too. I downloaded and whole new android SDK to see if that is the problem. If not, I am going to factory reset my phone and start over. I can't imagine why I was able to root the phone, get it unlocked, but now I can't do anything else with it. Not even get adb commands to recognize it.
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I do have it connected to the computer like that. Do you mean I have to go into TWRP and mount it that way? I tried it that way too. I downloaded and whole new android SDK to see if that is the problem. If not, I am going to factory reset my phone and start over. I can't imagine why I was able to root the phone, get it unlocked, but now I can't do anything else with it. Not even get adb commands to recognize it.
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If I were you I would try the new S-off method I posted above. It's Windows friendly
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FinZ28 said:
If I were you I would try the new S-off method I posted above. It's Windows friendly
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I know that I have been a particularly trying noob this week and I apologize. I tried to go back and thank the ones that helped me along the way and i did realize I double posted. I apologize for that too. So a big thank you!!!!!!!!!:good:
Message is for user tabidee tho if anyone else can help..koo..but I doubt u want tow
This is for tabidee hey I was reading ur stuff on xda developers and I have a question. If u can help if not its cool. Ok so i got my sprint evo and I went to try to root it. I went thru a process that with the steps combined with htcdev site got me to say unlock my bootloader. I used hoot 2.09 and I was supposed to flash this pimg175 zip to i guess install a recovery. Well that won't work at all... I cant get my s on switched to s off and so i am stuck with according to the hoot screen a tampered, unlocked with s on, unrooted phone. I am so confused with all the steps and files I had to download, rename and save to various folders that I gave up. With my phone at its current state what do I do next? I deleted all the files from the day I unlocked it but if you can explain to me... And explain like if I was a five year old cuz I'm that dumbfounded on this subject... But if u can maybe walk me thru the rest of the process or walk me thru a undoing of what I done so far. I'm lisa. My email is [email protected]
Check out the link below. It's a GUI for rooting and has everything you need to get your phone rooted. You'll need to install the recovery first then superuser, which will give you root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2436217
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Whoever has time and is bored.....come help me one on one
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This is for tabidee hey I was reading ur stuff on xda developers and I have a question. If u can help if not its cool. Ok so i got my sprint evo and I went to try to root it. I went thru a process that with the steps combined with htcdev site got me to say unlock my bootloader. I used hoot 2.09 and I was supposed to flash this pimg175 zip to i guess install a recovery. Well that won't work at all... I cant get my s on switched to s off and so i am stuck with according to the hoot screen a tampered, unlocked with s on, unrooted phone. I am so confused with all the steps and files I had to download, rename and save to various folders that I gave up. With my phone at its current state what do I do next? I deleted all the files from the day I unlocked it but if you can explain to me... And explain like if I was a five year old cuz I'm that dumbfounded on this subject... But if u can maybe walk me thru the rest of the process or walk me thru a undoing of what I done so far. I'm lisa. My email is [email protected]
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Can someone just email me on the side and we can come up with a good day n time to IM or even a phone call covenrsation so we can go step by step and hook my phone up right. I'm just way too dumbfounded on the whole thing at this point.... The weed probably coulda waited... Lol.. [email protected]
kinda
datbitch said:
Can someone just email me on the side and we can come up with a good day n time to IM or even a phone call covenrsation so we can go step by step and hook my phone up right. I'm just way too dumbfounded on the whole thing at this point.... The weed probably coulda waited... Lol.. [email protected]
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I had to do moonshine with wubi lunbuntu linux terminal. Rooting is easy u do it from google play look for 4.2.2 roms that are ok with s-on. mean is easy.
so I still have to connect my sh*t to da pc and go thru some more steps with this lunbuntu thing before though rite? BTW... the HTC software update won't complete itself so I'm still 4.1 I think
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