Hello all, I have a Rooted, S-Off Sprint HTC Evo 4g LTE. I just updated the firmware to latest, then wiped the phones cache/dalvik cache/system/etc and tried installing 3.16.651.3 (latest afaik) which is stock/odexed/rooted. Phone will not boot past the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen. What do i do?
also just updated to TWRP 2.5.0.0
OK so I have TWRP 2.5.0.0 with both the latest firmware package and the latest software package on the root of my SD card. When I mount the sd card I can change the name of the packages to PJ75IMG.zip. Once I do that, I unmount the storage and reboot into bootloader and it says "no image or wrong image" for both the firmware package and the software package when they're clear as day properly named and in the proper location. IDK what to do to restore this phone. Its been wiped clean and as of now is as good as a paperweight. PLEASE HELP QUICKLY!
Do you have two PJ75IMG's on your external SD? You can only do one at a time.
Also, make sure you're not renaming them to PJ75IMG.zip.zip... Windows will sometimes hide extensions for known file types. So if windows knows its a .zip file, it won't show the .zip, and you'll rename it with a .zip at the end, and then windows will add another .zip....
Just a few things to consider...
What two files are you trying to install? I'm guessing firmware is one, but what's the other?
Also, are you sure your phone is S-off?
+1 to what was stated above. You can only install one PJ75IMG from the root of your SD card at a time, otherwise the installation will fail.
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I get a "magic file mismatch:" when I boot so I cannot copy files to the device directly and I cannot get the sdcard to be read even after changing the command recovery file to say sdcard2
This is in the wrong area, FYI.
Did you install clockworkmod .12 or .13, and then try to update the ROM using one of the mods? If so, this is a common error as those newer cm's don't like unpadded boot.img's.
If so, Mrbobrowitz actually had this exact issue last night and managed to fix it by downleveling clockworkmod to .8 and then re-running the update.zip.
So, I've used Revolutionary to S-off and root, but now there's a system update (I assume for the security vulnerability that was found a week or two ago). I'd like to install this update, but it just fails when I try... Does anyone know how to turn it into a flashable zip, or will I have to un-s-off/root, update, then re-s-off/root?
A hotfix for the vulnerability is not out yet - you tought HTC is that fast But if you can find it you can remove /system/app/HtcLoggers.apk from your rooted Flyer (with an app like File Expert that can mount partitions like /system).
Since you are still stock you might have been offered an incremental update, but I guess soon you will want to flash a custom ROM that already includes it anyway.
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A hotfix for the vulnerability is not out yet - you tought HTC is that fast But if you can find it you can remove /system/app/HtcLoggers.apk from your rooted Flyer (with an app like File Expert that can mount partitions like /system).
Since you are still stock you might have been offered an incremental update, but I guess soon you will want to flash a custom ROM that already includes it anyway.
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It appears there's a new update today, and it's only about 4.5 megs - I think HTC may actually be that fast
I really don't want to install a ROM, I just want stock with root (to help with development)... Any suggestions appreciated!
To answer my own question, I downloaded the OTA on the device, then I used adb to copy it to my computer (it's in /sdcard/downloads/). I edited the zip so that it wouldn't flash the recovery (there's a recovery.img in firmware.zip inside the OTA zip - remove it), copied it to the external SD card, then flashed it via ClockworkMod (it won't update via the HTC updater).
Something to make sure of, you MUST be running stock - it patches files rather than reinstalls them, so this will fail if there are any differences. This includes build.prop. You can make any changes you like after flashing of course.
Don't forget to backup before doing anything of course! Another warning, ClockworkMod fails silently if your SD card doesn't have enough room for the backup, so make sure you have plenty of space beforehand too!
Hope this helps someone.
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To answer my own question, I downloaded the OTA on the device, then I used adb to copy it to my computer (it's in /sdcard/downloads/). I edited the zip so that it wouldn't flash the recovery (there's a recovery.img in firmware.zip inside the OTA zip - remove it), copied it to the external SD card, then flashed it via ClockworkMod (it won't update via the HTC updater).
Something to make sure of, you MUST be running stock - it patches files rather than reinstalls them, so this will fail if there are any differences. This includes build.prop. You can make any changes you like after flashing of course.
Don't forget to backup before doing anything of course! Another warning, ClockworkMod fails silently if your SD card doesn't have enough room for the backup, so make sure you have plenty of space beforehand too!
Hope this helps someone.
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Removing the recovery.img? I've rezipped everything and it's only 510kb now, surely that cant be it?
Recovery.img's are large files it was just a minor updat to probably fix a couple internal things nothing major. It was a small file at 4mb already.
Hy
Can you please upload the edit-update?
Thanks
ric242 said:
Hy
Can you please upload the edit-update?
Thanks
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Will do once i'm home!
adaimespechip said:
Will do once i'm home!
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Thanks! Might be able to make it into a flash able zip.
Cwiiis said:
To answer my own question, I downloaded the OTA on the device, then I used adb to copy it to my computer (it's in /sdcard/downloads/). I edited the zip so that it wouldn't flash the recovery (there's a recovery.img in firmware.zip inside the OTA zip - remove it), copied it to the external SD card, then flashed it via ClockworkMod (it won't update via the HTC updater).
Something to make sure of, you MUST be running stock - it patches files rather than reinstalls them, so this will fail if there are any differences. This includes build.prop. You can make any changes you like after flashing of course.
Don't forget to backup before doing anything of course! Another warning, ClockworkMod fails silently if your SD card doesn't have enough room for the backup, so make sure you have plenty of space beforehand too!
Hope this helps someone.
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Thanks for the helpful guidelines...
Just a quick question and pardon me since I am a newcomer to Android universe. What do You mean when You say stock?
Thanks again...
BTY
HTC_Flyer / Revolutionary / CWM
Ok so I'm trying to flash Clean Rom ICS 1/22 version
I did all the steps they said to in the instructions "I also made sure I had no PH files or I made sure I already deleted them"
I keep getting this
Main version is older!
update fail
press <power to rebot>
I then have to take the sd card out, get into recovery, put sd card back in and then USB mount the sd card to erase the ph file that the rom installed..
I'm so frustrated by this.
I was currently running the rom below with a custom kernal
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1456883
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I did the same thing... What I've done is downloaded a few ROMs to my SDcard, but I've edited the .zip before putting them on. I went into the kernel folder, and edited the android-info.txt to match that leaked mainver number. After I saved that file, i went into the PH98IMG.zip and edited the android-info.txt file in there. Now I don't have to worry about getting stuck if I don't have a computer handy to do a fastboot
The next OTA update will fix this big mess, and hopefully we all learn from this lol. I sure have!
andybones said:
The next OTA update will fix this big mess, and hopefully we all learn from this lol. I sure have!
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Not to flash leaks unless you are a Dev... or very experienced user/rooter/flasher of Android devices?
I am almost done rooting my HTC One. I am able to boot into recovery and get into TWRP but when i go to install it goes directly to SD (which I don't have). I have looked through all of the folders to find the .zip file that I need to install SU but it is not there. I have downloaded it directly to the phone as well as added it from "file transfer." File transfer that there are 3 zip files on the phones internal memory but nothing shows up in Team Win. Help?
Also when I reboot from Team Win, I get a message that tells me I am not rooted, and asks if I want to install SU.....I am afraid ill brick the phone if I swipe to install with no zip selected.
figured it out
ghost19d said:
I am almost done rooting my HTC One. I am able to boot into recovery and get into TWRP but when i go to install it goes directly to SD (which I don't have). I have looked through all of the folders to find the .zip file that I need to install SU but it is not there. I have downloaded it directly to the phone as well as added it from "file transfer." File transfer that there are 3 zip files on the phones internal memory but nothing shows up in Team Win. Help?
Also when I reboot from Team Win, I get a message that tells me I am not rooted, and asks if I want to install SU.....I am afraid ill brick the phone if I swipe to install with no zip selected.
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I had installed the wrong package for TWRP. Got it changed over and it works fine now!
Hi.
I'm very new to the concept of hboot/rooting/etc. I'm trying to figure how to stop hboot from checking for new zip files on the sdcard, all it does it go through each possible zip file for the model of phone, and it then hangs when it gets after "nv.zip", which prevents me from going directly into the recovery.
The phone is a TMobile G2 (also called the HTC Desire Z), rooted, and uses CyanogenMod11 (from http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-desire-z/development/rom-cyanogenmod-11-0-nightlies-t2854386 (thanks to them for continuing the builds for my device )). Using HBOOT-0.76.2000 and is S-OFF.
CaveJohnson said:
Hi.
I'm very new to the concept of hboot/rooting/etc. I'm trying to figure how to stop hboot from checking for new zip files on the sdcard, all it does it go through each possible zip file for the model of phone, and it then hangs when it gets after "nv.zip", which prevents me from going directly into the recovery.
The phone is a TMobile G2 (also called the HTC Desire Z), rooted, and uses CyanogenMod11 (from http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-desire-z/development/rom-cyanogenmod-11-0-nightlies-t2854386 (thanks to them for continuing the builds for my device )). Using HBOOT-0.76.2000 and is S-OFF.
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You just have to remove any update zips from the SD card. The phone is made to check for that every time and you can't change this behavior, nor should you as you might need that function at some time to go back to stock or repair the phone.
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You just have to remove any update zips from the SD card. The phone is made to check for that every time and you can't change this behavior, nor should you as you might need that function at some time to go back to stock or repair the phone.
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Does it look for _any_ zip within the top level directory of the sdcard? So if I remove all zips from the top level will it work?
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Does it look for _any_ zip within the top level directory of the sdcard? So if I remove all zips from the top level will it work?
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It doesn't matter if you have zips there or not, it will scan the card for them. You just need to make sure nothing with the official RUU zip name can be there on the root of the card (PC10IMG.zip for the HTC Vision / G2 / Desire Z) and it will not try to load anything after scanning.