[Q] Accidentally installed ROM into Recovery - HTC EVO 3D

So I'm a real noob to rooting, so please be patient. My wife dropped her phone in the washing machine without noticing, and it went through a whole cycle. Long story story, her HTC EVO 3d is dead, and had to buy used one off ebay. Just got it yesterday, it's been rooted with stock 2.3.4 rom. She was never a fan of this, so I looked into getting her a custom ICS rom. Already installed was the Revolutionary CWM recovery from the previous owner. How this differs from regular CWM, I'm not sure. I went ahead and download ROM manager and assumed I flashed the recovery to regular CWM. I then proceeded to reboot with the power and vol down buttons, and was searching the recovery menus again, and I noticed Revolutionary CWM was still on the phone. Then I somehow accidentally installed a custom rom I downloaded on the sd card, into the recovery menu. Well now the phone doesn't go past the HTC logo and I'm at a loss. Any help or am I doomed?

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First thing you need to do is pull out the battery, put it back in and hold power+vol down button.
should get you into bootloader. Tell us what it says there. like s-on/off hboot version etc. you probably should be able to access recovery from there as well

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How to fix recovery
Im not such an expert on android, rooting etc but that knowlegde I have ill share
As far as I know, I may be wrong, the HBoot version you have wont make a difference,
Try -
- take battery out
- replace battery and hold volume up rfirst and then press and hold power (boots in hboot after +/- 3 seconds)
- now use power, and volume buttons, boot into fafstboot(should just be power button)
- plug usb cable in computer and connect phone
- if you have fastboot, navigate to the exe (fastboot.exe) else just google fastboot download
- google your choice of recovery, 4 ext (i prefer) or cwm,etc its a zip file(extract the recovery.img file) or just a plain recovery.img file
- place this recovery.img file in the exact diractory as fastboot
- now make sure your phone says FASTBOOT USB, ,if it doesnt, check that ur phone is connected, try different usb ports or other cables
- press windows key and 'r' @ the same time, then run cmd
- navigate to fastboot directory
- type " fastboot devices" to check if cmd picks up ur phone , result should be a serial num- mine eg would look like (HN225NM5698)
- then if it did pick up device...
- type " fastboot flash recovery recovery.img " flashes ur custoom recovery u downloaded to ur phone
- now to boot into recovery type " fastboot boot recovery.img " OR to reboot type " fastboot reboot " phone reboots
IF ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS DID NOT SOLVE PROBLEM
try, if possilbe, booting into OS, download ROM manager and flash CWM recovery through that, if that doesnt work
try running a RUU, (remember to change ur CID to match RUU) and lock ur bootloader
if all else fails, follow my post @ ask team derp ur q pg.550, that might help:good:

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cybergurken said:
the HBoot version you have wont make a difference,
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@OP
If you want a completely up to date phone just use the latest RUU. It will update everything to the latest.
Then if root is not important leave it. And if you want root then just flash a recovery and then superuser zip.
EDIT : I see you edited it yourself.

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EM|NEM said:
First thing you need to do is pull out the battery, put it back in and hold power+vol down button.
should get you into bootloader. Tell us what it says there. like s-on/off hboot version etc. you probably should be able to access recovery from there as well
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Yes, I'm able to get into both bootloader and Revolutionary CWM Recovery. Bootloader states:
***UNLOCKED***
SHOOTER XC SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.50.0000
eMMC-boot
Aug 7 2011, 10:21:40

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If you want to run roms w/o problems I'd suggest you get s-off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
This guide should be sufficient

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EM|NEM said:
If you want to run roms w/o problems I'd suggest you get s-off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
This guide should be sufficient
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Awesome, I will look into this guide. Should I do the guide step by step or just the wire trick for s-off?

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@EM|NEM
Oops My Bad..
How can i forget that i had hboot 1.5 and wasnt able to use revolutionary so i did unknownforce's bricking method.
Thanks.

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the wire-trick requires stock rom although some people have managed to get it to work with custom roms. you'll probably need to run the RUU to get back to stock so its best if you follow all the steps.
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mnomaanw said:
NO WAIT! Why do you want to go the harder way when you already have hboot 1.50, which can be s-offed without wiretrick !
Go to revolutionary.io and set your 3d free.
Dont run the ICS RUU , just run the 2.08 gingerbread ruu again and use revolutionary.
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isnt a 1.4 hboot required for cdma? i'm not sure about this as i have a gsm device

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Ok, so because it's my wife's phone, and she could care less if it's rooted or not, what is my best option here? All she'd like is stock ICS, like on her last non-rooted stock Evo 3D. Would it be best to flash ICS ruu and call it done? Is this the easiet way to get it back to basic ICS as OTA updates won't work?

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cmsanchez00 said:
Ok, so because it's my wife's phone, and she could care less if it's rooted or not, what is my best option here? All she'd like is stock ICS, like on her last non-rooted stock Evo 3D. Would it be best to flash ICS ruu and call it done? Is this the easiet way to get it back to basic ICS as OTA updates won't work?
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Yes sir! OTAs will work after clean RUU flash. And if you ever want to s-off or just unlock through htcdev, you can always do that later.

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cmsanchez00 said:
Ok, so because it's my wife's phone, and she could care less if it's rooted or not, what is my best option here? All she'd like is stock ICS, like on her last non-rooted stock Evo 3D. Would it be best to flash ICS ruu and call it done? Is this the easiet way to get it back to basic ICS as OTA updates won't work?
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If she want stock ics then the ruu well be enough
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2

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mnomaanw said:
Yes sir! OTAs will work after clean RUU flash. And if you ever want to s-off or just unlock through htcdev, you can always do that later.
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Awesome, thanks for your help everyone. Appreciate it.

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cmsanchez00 said:
Awesome, thanks for your help everyone. Appreciate it.
Just to confirm, I can use either the Gingerbread OR the ICS ruu correct?
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yes but once you use ICS, you cannot use gingerbread again unless you are s-off.....you can flash same version of gingerbread or an updated version of gingerbread or ICS but you cannot flash old version once you update...in short , you cannot downgrade.

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mnomaanw said:
yes but once you use ICS, you cannot use gingerbread again unless you are s-off.....you can flash same version of gingerbread or an updated version of gingerbread or ICS but you cannot flash old version once you update...in short , you cannot downgrade.
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Perfect. Makes sense.

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So I tried flashing ruu but cannot because pc cannot recognize phone, as I can't get it to go past htc logo as it just hangs there. It's basically sitting in a Charge Only mode. I'm only able to access bootloader screen. Sooooo, next option would be to place RUU on sd card and install from there, correct? Does ruu need to be zip file in order to flash in recovery screen? Or can I still use the exe file that's sitting on my desktop?

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Boot into boot loader and select fastboot and connect phone to pc ...phone should show fastboot usb.then run the RUU and let it complete the process . It's not necessary to boot into android if you are in fastboot mode.
EDIT : oh sorry I forgot, that you will have to relock the boot loader before using RUU using "fastboot oem lock" command

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mnomaanw said:
Boot into boot loader and select fastboot and connect phone to pc ...phone should show fastboot usb.then run the RUU and let it complete the process . It's not necessary to boot into android if you are in fastboot mode.
EDIT : oh sorry I forgot, that you will have to relock the boot loader before using RUU using "fastboot oem lock" command
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So, here's my issue, I can see FASTBOOT USB show up no problem in bootloader, but my problem is, my pc won't recognize my phone through usb cable. My phone doesn't show up in windows explorer. Before, I could just change the USB from "charge only" to "Disk Drive" and my pc would list my sd card at Drive E. That's my issue, if pc can't see phone, I can't relock bootloader and can't run ruu. Am I missing a step here?

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cmsanchez00 said:
So, here's my issue, I can see FASTBOOT USB show up no problem in bootloader, but my problem is, my pc won't recognize my phone through usb cable. My phone doesn't show up in windows explorer. Before, I could just change the USB from "charge only" to "Disk Drive" and my pc would list my sd card at Drive E. That's my issue, if pc can't see phone, I can't relock bootloader and can't run ruu. Am I missing a step here?
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If you have htc sync on your pc uninstall it and install htc drivers (google it) and restart your pc
Also if you have antivirus disabled it too
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2

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hanisod said:
If you have htc sync on your pc uninstall it and install htc drivers (google it) and restart your pc
Also if you have antivirus disabled it too
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2
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I don't have HTC sync and I installed the htc drivers. No bueno.
Only way I can get my pc to recognize phone is if I go into recovery and "Mount USB Storage" - this is the only way File Exporer pops up my sd card.