Hey, So i have a problem, I tried rooting my phone, and i guess i messed up somewhere, I lost my OS, and didn't create a backup because i'm stupid and didn't realize this could happen. I found a thread, relating to a similar problem, but a different phone so i relocked the phone with Hasoon's tool. Now i cannot find a proper RUU For my phone. I have an HTC One X+, Radio is 2.14.55.11, And the stock image is 1.20.661.1 or something. All i want now, is to return to stock. I've tried the RUU's from androidfiles . org/ruu/?developer=EvitaRE But no luck. It has some sort of error nearing the end. At the moment i can't find the error, as my phone is under %30, So after it reaches about 70, i'll try again and post the error. I'm getting pretty scared, as i'm new to this, and i don't want to lose my phone. Any help would be appreciated.
I don't really know what else to post, besides the radio, stock image file thing, and that it's the north american phone i guess, EvitaRE. The HBOOT is 1.40.0000 and it's stuck at the loading screen, 'HTC Quietly Brilliant'
Factory Reset's do not work, and push me back into the loading screen. It's in infinite boot, i guess, where i power the phone down and it just boots up again without me doing anything.
I dont know where i went wrong during the rooting process, as when Hasoon did it in his video tutorial, It worked out perfectly. but for me not so well, After flashing and unlocking bootloader etc, i clicked perm root, and i couldn't find the SuperUS or something, so i went to power the phone down into bootloader and it said i had no OS. I don't know what i did, and all i hope is that my phone can be somewhat revived so i can use it.
Thank you for reading, and any helpful information would be just appreciated.
~Cp
EDIT: Extremely sorry, but i have found other posts about this, but i can't seem to understand the fix, so if possible, please dumb it down for me! I'm extremely sorry for even attempting the rooting in the first place :S
Cpmasterme said:
Hey, So i have a problem, I tried rooting my phone, and i guess i messed up somewhere, I lost my OS, and didn't create a backup because i'm stupid and didn't realize this could happen. I found a thread, relating to a similar problem, but a different phone so i relocked the phone with Hasoon's tool. Now i cannot find a proper RUU For my phone. I have an HTC One X+, Radio is 2.14.55.11, And the stock image is 1.20.661.1 or something. All i want now, is to return to stock. I've tried the RUU's from androidfiles . org/ruu/?developer=EvitaRE But no luck. It has some sort of error nearing the end. At the moment...
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Unlock the bootloader.
Install TWRP
Sideload a custom ROM
Flash that ROM's kernel.
Addicted2xda said:
Unlock the bootloader.
Install TWRP
Sideload a custom ROM
Flash that ROM's kernel.
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Thank you, will try when I get home. Is there any roms you might recommend?
EDIT: Thank you, extremely. I honestly thought my phone was done for, after someone told me if ruu's didn't work i was screwed, guess i was talking to the wrong people. Thank you very, very much! After Sideloading, my phone booted up with venomXl rom, and works perfectly!
You are welcome.
BTW Sense 5 is here thanks to baadneez's insertcoin
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
Addicted2xda said:
Unlock the bootloader.
Install TWRP
Sideload a custom ROM
Flash that ROM's kernel.
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i am stuck in the same place ..
bootloader unlocked
hboot 1.32
s 0ff
cid 1111111
i almost tried all roms .. nothing boots .. some rom just go to deep sleep .. any suggestions will be thank full
sathara said:
i am stuck in the same place ..
bootloader unlocked
hboot 1.32
s 0ff
cid 1111111
i almost tried all roms .. nothing boots .. some rom just go to deep sleep .. any suggestions will be thank full
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I think you are not flashing the kernel.
Also - after flashing kernel, wipe cache and dalvik...
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I've got an Amaze 4G on Wind Mobile. My brother and I recently tried upgrading it to ICS. We followed numerous sets of instructions, flashing a recovery, a new version of hboot, s-offing the phone, changing the SuperCID and flashing an ICS ROM. We originally tried Android Revolution HD, but the phone always got stuck at the HTC logo and wouldn't boot up.
After a few hours of searching the forums and trying various things, we finally got the Energy ROM version 5/1 installed, after changing the SuperCID back to the Wind default (globa001 I think). We figured it was an issue with the Revolution ROM, but when I tried upgrading to Energy 5/6, I ran into the same issue.
I have searched the forums and found numerous people with the same problem, but I have not found a solution. I spent all night flashing ROMs and trying various things and I finally got it to go to the Energy boot animation, but it would just sit there and do nothing (I left it a good half hour). The next morning I tried installing Speed Rom with the SuperCID 11111111 and it worked. However, I had tried the same thing the night before, so I'm not sure what changed.
I'm not happy with Speed and would like to go back to Energy, but I'm worried it will brick my phone again.
I am currently using the TWRP recovery, but I used 4ext before with the same result. My firmware versions are as follows:
RUBY PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.93.0002
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0202
eMMC-boot
Any help would be very much appreciated.
acc3ssd said:
I've got an Amaze 4G on Wind Mobile. My brother and I recently tried upgrading it to ICS. We followed numerous sets of instructions, flashing a recovery, a new version of hboot, s-offing the phone, changing the SuperCID and flashing an ICS ROM. We originally tried Android Revolution HD, but the phone always got stuck at the HTC logo and wouldn't boot up.
After a few hours of searching the forums and trying various things, we finally got the Energy ROM version 5/1 installed, after changing the SuperCID back to the Wind default (globa001 I think). We figured it was an issue with the Revolution ROM, but when I tried upgrading to Energy 5/6, I ran into the same issue.
I have searched the forums and found numerous people with the same problem, but I have not found a solution. I spent all night flashing ROMs and trying various things and I finally got it to go to the Energy boot animation, but it would just sit there and do nothing (I left it a good half hour). The next morning I tried installing Speed Rom with the SuperCID 11111111 and it worked. However, I had tried the same thing the night before, so I'm not sure what changed.
I'm not happy with Speed and would like to go back to Energy, but I'm worried it will brick my phone again.
I am currently using the TWRP recovery, but I used 4ext before with the same result. My firmware versions are as follows:
RUBY PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.93.0002
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0202
eMMC-boot
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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ok, well if your on wind mobile you want to use super cid.
but heres what i think the problem is, you didnt mention anything about wiping. try flashing the superwipe.zip before flashing roms. and always have a nandroid of a working rom. or else you may get stuck....
if you need anymore help, i will be watching this thread
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I used superwipe and tried the various wipe options in the recovery, with the same result.
I'll definitely look into nandroid before I try installing another rom ;-)
I'd advise switching back to 4EXT recovery, makes flashing easier, trust me. Now update your phone to stock ICS, install 4EXT recovery then format all partitions except sd then install the ROM of your choice.
Before installing ICS you'll need to flash GB stock from WIND, then update to ICS via either OTA or directly on the phone via OTA. Then do what I said above, let us know what happens.
yeah like dark said above me, use 4ext. it makes flashing easier.
ziggy46 said:
yeah like dark said above me, use 4ext. it makes flashing easier.
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Damn thanks limit, lol. +ziggy.
Dark Nightmare said:
Damn thanks limit, lol. +ziggy.
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haha they should make it like 12 max
ziggy46 said:
haha they should make it like 12 max
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The app has no limits, gonna switch to that in a sec, I already gave out like 30 thanks for today, therefore no limits would be awesome, just people might abuse it, smh.
Dark Nightmare said:
I'd advise switching back to 4EXT recovery, makes flashing easier, trust me. Now update your phone to stock ICS, install 4EXT recovery then format all partitions except sd then install the ROM of your choice.
Before installing ICS you'll need to flash GB stock from WIND, then update to ICS via either OTA or directly on the phone via OTA. Then do what I said above, let us know what happens.
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Thanks for your help everyone. I'm a little confused about how to proceed though. I downloaded the stock Wind ruu.exe file from the forums, but I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm running Linux, so I can't execute the file. Is there any way to flash it without a Windows machine?
Also, do I need to relock my bootloader and go through the whole s-off procedure again, or can I simply downgrade to GB and upgrade back to ICS again without going through all those steps?
acc3ssd said:
Thanks for your help everyone. I'm a little confused about how to proceed though. I downloaded the stock Wind ruu.exe file from the forums, but I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm running Linux, so I can't execute the file. Is there any way to flash it without a Windows machine?
Also, do I need to relock my bootloader and go through the whole s-off procedure again, or can I simply downgrade to GB and upgrade back to ICS again without going through all those steps?
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You need windows to flash it.
acc3ssd said:
Thanks for your help everyone. I'm a little confused about how to proceed though. I downloaded the stock Wind ruu.exe file from the forums, but I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm running Linux, so I can't execute the file. Is there any way to flash it without a Windows machine?
Also, do I need to relock my bootloader and go through the whole s-off procedure again, or can I simply downgrade to GB and upgrade back to ICS again without going through all those steps?
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Once you're s-off once, you'll always be s-off unless you s-on again, to use the windows file your best option would be to use WINE. Which I figure you should be know how to use.
Dark Nightmare said:
I'd advise switching back to 4EXT recovery, makes flashing easier, trust me. Now update your phone to stock ICS, install 4EXT recovery then format all partitions except sd then install the ROM of your choice.
Before installing ICS you'll need to flash GB stock from WIND, then update to ICS via either OTA or directly on the phone via OTA. Then do what I said above, let us know what happens.
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Thanks again for your help. I followed your instructions: Downgraded to GB, flashed the Wind ICS OTA, install 4ext recover, ran superwipe and formatted everything except the SD card, and then flashed Energy 6/6. It got past the HTC screen, but got stuck on the Energy boot animation.
Do you have any other suggestions?
acc3ssd said:
Thanks again for your help. I followed your instructions: Downgraded to GB, flashed the Wind ICS OTA, install 4ext recover, ran superwipe and formatted everything except the SD card, and then flashed Energy 6/6. It got past the HTC screen, but got stuck on the Energy boot animation.
Do you have any other suggestions?
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flash the kernel from his 3rd post on energy rom
also you did flash the PH85IMG.zip on his downloads ya ?
Jay_Rulen said:
flash the kernel from his 3rd post on energy rom
also you did flash the PH85IMG.zip on his downloads ya ?
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And did you wait a bit? First boot usually takes a while.
Sent from an Amaaaaaazing place :-D
Dark Nightmare said:
And did you wait a bit? First boot usually takes a while.
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I waited at least half an hour, took out the battery and tried again to no avail.
Jay_Rulen said:
flash the kernel from his 3rd post on energy rom
also you did flash the PH85IMG.zip on his downloads ya ?
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Is that an Energy ROM image?
acc3ssd said:
Is that an Energy ROM image?
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Yes it is.
Sent from an Amaaaaaazing place :-D
Same issue
I'm doing the same and I need help
I'm trying to get the latest EnergyRom. I was using the GB EnergyRom before and finally made it to the T-Mobile Stock ICS rom using fastboot instructions from here: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/535820-how-easier-way-flash-ph98img-files.html using the this ruu. [bravo.d-h.st/z70?key=1340081175
Right now I don't se any S-On instructions for Energy rom, though I do see one for Android Revolution HD. I need to get CWM re-installed as that was lost. Do I need S-Off to get Energy Rom?
How do I get the latest Energry rom installed?
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Yes it is.
Sent from an Amaaaaaazing place :-D
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Yes, that's the one I installed. What will the other kernel do?
Sent from my HTC Amaze 4G using Tapatalk 2
acc3ssd said:
Yes, that's the one I installed. What will the other kernel do?
Sent from my HTC Amaze 4G using Tapatalk 2
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It's the kernel he built his rom on, so requires it to work properly.
Yesterday I flashed to the Charmeleon rom using TWRP. Stupidly I didn't make a backup of the stock rom and part of the process is wiping the current rom completely, which I did. Now it seems like I'm stuck with no way to get back to my stock rom. If there is ANY WAY to get back to the complete, full stock rom my EVO LTE came with, PLEASE explain to me how to do it! Thanks in advance for anyone who offers their help.
Well 1 you're in general so you're in the wrong section. 2 Yes! you can go back to stock WITH OUT your stuff using a RUU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655733
Or flash the stock rooted rom.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Ok quick question, I found RUU files here - http://stockroms.net/file/HTCEvo4GLTE/RUU, and the link you gave me has 3 new ones... can anyone tell me which one is current?
cg121792 said:
Ok quick question, I found RUU files here - http://stockroms.net/file/HTCEvo4GLTE/RUU, and the link you gave me has 3 new ones... can anyone tell me which one is current?
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your supposed to flash the same one that on your phone now... go into menu in about.. software info.. more.. build number.. mines is 1.13651.1 so thats the ruu that i would run... check to see what build u got and run that ruu and u golden!
Well that's my problem, none of those are on my phone, the Charmeleon rom is. I completely wiped the stock rom away which is what I'm trying to get back. Am I not able to do so?
An ruu is run from your pc, a rom is flashed through your recovery. Not to be a ****, but I think you should have read
a lot more about all of this before you started. So download the stock rooted rom from the dev section, boot into recovery, wipe everything but your sd card, and flash the rom just like you did before.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Yeah sorry man, I'm just getting ahead of myself a bit because I've been searching this for the last (literally) 8 hours freaked out that I've done permanent damage to my phone. There's so many variations and believe it or not, there isn't a lot on this for this particular phone. Thanks to all you guys though, you all helped me a lot. Appreciate it.
The most recent build is 1.13, so you want to flash the stock rom of that build. It's always good to have the current ruu on your computer as a precaution, it can bring your phone back from the dead most of the time. Other than than its pretty easy, i'm on my phone so I can't post a link, but all you need should be in the stickies in the development section.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Okay guys ran into antother quick problem. My bootloader was unlocked and in order to install the RUU it has to be locked. So I re-locked it and my phone will only start into the bootloader, with a 'security warning' on the screen. I now found out that if you have a custom rom installed when you re-lock the bootloader, you can only start into the bootloader until you run the RUU. So now I'm basically trying to find out how to run the RUU without actually being into my phone.
cg121792 said:
Yeah sorry man, I'm just getting ahead of myself a bit because I've been searching this for the last (literally) 8 hours freaked out that I've done permanent damage to my phone. There's so many variations and believe it or not, there isn't a lot on this for this particular phone. Thanks to all you guys though, you all helped me a lot. Appreciate it.
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Like thwese guys said, if u want to take your phone into Sprint for any reason, just flash the Stock Rooted ROM. The RUU will take your phone back to it Original state, but u need to relock your Bootloader before u run that. But dont run the RUU and all that, just to have a Bacjup of a stock ROM. That would just be silly. flash the Stock Rooted ROM, and make a backup of that. It will be no different from having the Original Stock ROM. Only differnce is, is that it has SU and Busybox installed with it. SO your fine. No worries
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Okay guys ran into antother quick problem. My bootloader was unlocked and in order to install the RUU it has to be locked. So I re-locked it and my phone will only start into the bootloader, with a 'security warning' on the screen. I now found out that if you have a custom rom installed when you re-lock the bootloader, you can only start into the bootloader until you run the RUU. So now I'm basically trying to find out how to run the RUU without actually being into my phone.
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You should b able to run the RUU while the phone is in fastboot.
Everything worked. So now I'm completely back to the stock rom as if I had just taken the phone out of the box?
cg121792 said:
Everything worked. So now I'm completely back to the stock rom as if I had just taken the phone out of the box?
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I did the same thing you did but with CM10 rom. Where can I find the most current stock ROM that is rooted? I want to stay rooted but also have the stock ROM available to flash? Your input is extremely appreciated.
I am at my wits end here. This phone is driving me crazy. It seems like the only ROM's I can get to work are ones that use Aroma installer. I don't know what part of the Aroma installer is what makes it work, but I would really like to know because I want to try NeWt's and/or AOSP.
I am S-ON
I am on whatever firmware gets installed with the Nil's business ICS Sense 4.0 Aroma installer. (I don't know how to check my firmware, I imagine it's easy to check and/or install new firmware, but I can't seem to find a thread about firmwares anywhere. All I can find is Kernels/Roms)
I tried newt's first. I wiped everything, installed the rom. Then I rebooted to bootloader and did fastboot flash boot boot.img (the boot.img I pulled out of the rom's .zip) it flashed that, then I rebooted. The result: Stuck at HTC logo.
No idea what caused that, but I decided I'd go for ICS AOSP instead. I installed that, following the same process as above, and in this scenario I get stuck at the CM9 bootlogo infinitely (bootloop).
I'm sorry if I seem really frustrated, but honestly it's because I am. I've never had this much of a problem getting custom roms to work on any phone I've ever had. I really hope it's something I'm just missing, because I feel like a moron. I can't get any of these roms to even boot, and that's just sad...
PLEASE HELP!
bigbabys said:
I am at my wits end here. This phone is driving me crazy. It seems like the only ROM's I can get to work are ones that use Aroma installer. I don't know what part of the Aroma installer is what makes it work, but I would really like to know because I want to try NeWt's and/or AOSP.
I am S-ON
I am on whatever firmware gets installed with the Nil's business ICS Sense 4.0 Aroma installer. (I don't know how to check my firmware, I imagine it's easy to check and/or install new firmware, but I can't seem to find a thread about firmwares anywhere. All I can find is Kernels/Roms)
I tried newt's first. I wiped everything, installed the rom. Then I rebooted to bootloader and did fastboot flash boot boot.img (the boot.img I pulled out of the rom's .zip) it flashed that, then I rebooted. The result: Stuck at HTC logo.
No idea what caused that, but I decided I'd go for ICS AOSP instead. I installed that, following the same process as above, and in this scenario I get stuck at the CM9 bootlogo infinitely (bootloop).
I'm sorry if I seem really frustrated, but honestly it's because I am. I've never had this much of a problem getting custom roms to work on any phone I've ever had. I really hope it's something I'm just missing, because I feel like a moron. I can't get any of these roms to even boot, and that's just sad...
PLEASE HELP!
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First off, no firmware will be installed with a rom, but this is a good place to start. With you being s-off, even a kernel won't be installed with a custom rom unless you flash the boot.img in hboot (or fastboot flash). My suspicion is that you are still on GB firmware. This can be alleviated by installing a patch. However, I think it in your best interest to re-lock, flash the newest RUU (found at androidpolice), and unlock again. That way, you will have updated to ICS firmware (therefore making it easier to run ICS based ROMS).
Do you have a working ROM right now that you can rever to so we can get some information off of it?
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First off, no firmware will be installed with a rom, but this is a good place to start. With you being s-off, even a kernel won't be installed with a custom rom unless you flash the boot.img in hboot (or fastboot flash). My suspicion is that you are still on GB firmware. This can be alleviated by installing a patch. However, I think it in your best interest to re-lock, flash the newest RUU (found at androidpolice), and unlock again. That way, you will have updated to ICS firmware (therefore making it easier to run ICS based ROMS).
Do you have a working ROM right now that you can rever to so we can get some information off of it?
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Well, it's funny you should say that. I DID, or so I thought. I got fed up and restored a backup. How even my backup won't boot. I have no idea how that is even possible. Do I need to re-lock the device to install an RUU? What you are saying sounds like exactly what I need (to get on ICS firmware) so if you could tell me the easiest way to do that, I'll get started right away, haha.
Anyways, the backup I tried to restore was viper rez 1.03, and my hboot version is 2.11.0000. I cant' boot a rom at all.
bigbabys said:
Well, it's funny you should say that. I DID, or so I thought. I got fed up and restored a backup. How even my backup won't boot. I have no idea how that is even possible. Do I need to re-lock the device to install an RUU? What you are saying sounds like exactly what I need (to get on ICS firmware) so if you could tell me the easiest way to do that, I'll get started right away, haha.
Anyways, the backup I tried to restore was viper rez 1.03, and my hboot version is 2.11.0000. I cant' boot a rom at all.
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If you can't boot a rom at all, then I can't tell you exactly which firmware you are on. With your hboot version, though, it looks like you are on GB firmware. Yes, you need to relock to run the RUU. Relock, run the RUU (found here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ ), unlock again, flash AR 3.15, then move onto ICS goodness.
iamwalterwhite said:
If you can't boot a rom at all, then I can't tell you exactly which firmware you are on. With your hboot version, though, it looks like you are on GB firmware. Yes, you need to relock to run the RUU. Relock, run the RUU (found here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ ), unlock again, flash AR 3.15, then move onto ICS goodness.
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Ok, I relocked, put the PH98IMG on my sdcard, I loaded up the bootloader, pressed power, and it loaded PH98IMG.zip (took a while, said loading) then after it finished loading it said checking PH98IMG.zip (which also took a while) but after that, nothing happened. It just went back to the bootloader main menu... what am I doing wrong?
bigbabys said:
Ok, I relocked, put the PH98IMG on my sdcard, I loaded up the bootloader, pressed power, and it loaded PH98IMG.zip (took a while, said loading) then after it finished loading it said checking PH98IMG.zip (which also took a while) but after that, nothing happened. It just went back to the bootloader main menu... what am I doing wrong?
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Wow, I just can't catch a break. Turns out, the RUU I downloaded was corrupt. So I got one that works, flashes the RUU, re-locked, reinstalled recovery, and flashed NeWt's and guess what. Hangs at HTC logo. WTF!
Edit: My hboot is 2.27.0000 now...
I just flashed that CM9 with the table being flipped over and it seems to boot okay. So I'm not sure what happened with newts. Oh well, I'm calling it a night. Been at this for over 5 hours (yea I know, that's insane)
bigbabys said:
Wow, I just can't catch a break. Turns out, the RUU I downloaded was corrupt. So I got one that works, flashes the RUU, re-locked, reinstalled recovery, and flashed NeWt's and guess what. Hangs at HTC logo. WTF!
Edit: My hboot is 2.27.0000 now...
I just flashed that CM9 with the table being flipped over and it seems to boot okay. So I'm not sure what happened with newts. Oh well, I'm calling it a night. Been at this for over 5 hours (yea I know, that's insane)
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You didn't say if you flashed the boot.img from Newt? You should have if you are s-on.
bigbabys said:
Wow, I just can't catch a break. Turns out, the RUU I downloaded was corrupt. So I got one that works, flashes the RUU, re-locked, reinstalled recovery, and flashed NeWt's and guess what. Hangs at HTC logo. WTF!
Edit: My hboot is 2.27.0000 now...
I just flashed that CM9 with the table being flipped over and it seems to boot okay. So I'm not sure what happened with newts. Oh well, I'm calling it a night. Been at this for over 5 hours (yea I know, that's insane)
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Hahaha, "CM9 with the table flipped over"! I'm sure that's how you felt after 5 hours. Not to make light of how frustrating that can be, but I'm glad you've got something working again.
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You didn't say if you flashed the boot.img from Newt? You should have if you are s-on.
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For both installs, I did a flashboot boot amonrarecovery.img so that it could write to the boot partition. (A nifty little trick courtesy of scotty over at androidforums.com ) however, not wanting to rule out the possibility that maybe that little trick was the cause of the issue, I extraced the boot.img and did a fastboot flash boot boot.img to make sure. However it still was hanging at the HTC logo. That's when I tried the cm9 rom, and used the trick, and it worked fine.
I have no idea why NeWtS didnt' work for me. I can't post in the thread specifically for it yet, but as far as I know I did everything correct this time, so I'm at a loss.
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Hahaha, "CM9 with the table flipped over"! I'm sure that's how you felt after 5 hours. Not to make light of how frustrating that can be, but I'm glad you've got something working again.
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Oh believe me, I'm just as glad My original plan was to flash a ROM real fast before going out with some friends. I figured worst case scenario I could flash a backup. But I didn't realize you can't restore a nandroid from recovery if you are S-ON without manually writing the boot image again. So I made myself a nice paperweight and spent the entire night fixing it I'd like to find out what went wrong with NeWts, but to be honest I tinkered with cm9 most of last night and I think I'm happy with it. It's so smooth. And to be honest, I have low expecations for every sense rom now since every single one I tried has the autofocus issue.
[SOLVED - See Post #9]
Hey everyone,
So, I have some experience with rooting/ROMs, bootloaders and recoveries, all specifically on my HTC Droid Incredible (Yep, the original). But that's long in the tooth these days, and getting rather difficult to stand the slower speeds and all.
I decided to pick up a used phone, in this case an HTC Rezound, to repair and serve as my default. Cracked digitizer, but that's an easy fix, and it works for the moment which is all that matters. Turns out there was one more problem with it - it doesn't boot Android. It gets stuck in a bootloop if you allow it to boot, but it does go to hboot if you boot it up and hold the VOL down key, as expected. I cannot boot into recovery.
I tried flashing the 4.03.605.2 RUU from AndroidPolice - same problem. So, I'm not sure where the issue lies. I'd like to start by just getting the phone back to stock, and booting into Android if anyone can help me. I should be able to do everything properly from there.
I'm not entirely certain if HBOOT is stock - it shows the Android on the skateboard at the bottom - I'm not sure if that's a custom HBOOT or not, and I can't seem to find any specific reference to it. It is LOCKED with S-ON, so, I've been assuming that it hasn't been tampered with too deeply, someone just hosed an upgrade and I'm not sure how to go about getting it fixed.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
- Katie
lolatvincent said:
You have to fastboot oem rebootRUU first
then fastboot flash zip PH98IMG.zip
you may have to flash the zip twice.
Code:
androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/487280-easier-way-flash-pb31img-files.html
(I can't link yet)
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This might be able to help you too. You have adb and fastboot on your computer right?
lolatvincent said:
This might be able to help you too. You have adb and fastboot on your computer right?
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Yes, I do. Thank you, I'll check that out!
Like I was saying, I knew it wasn't bricked, I just didn't know how to go about doing it. I think I get where I need to go with that.
ncc74656m said:
Yes, I do. Thank you, I'll check that out!
Like I was saying, I knew it wasn't bricked, I just didn't know how to go about doing it. I think I get where I need to go with that.
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Flash a recovery in a zip right after you finish the ruu using the same method (no need for reboot).
To get root again you might want this: downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip
lolatvincent said:
Flash a recovery in a zip right after you finish the ruu using the same method (no need for reboot).
To get root again you might want this: downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip
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Ok, no such luck. I did the RUU flash and then tried rebooting, no go, tried reflashing from my SD after that, nothing. I'm not sure what to do now. :/
Update
Small update - I did the HTC bootloader unlock and successfully got Amon Ra flashed onto it. Now working on getting Android to boot. *sigh* This thing is a serious pain in the... :angel:
If I get it to work, I'll be sacrificing a ram, or at least some RAM. :fingers-crossed:
Still, I'm open to any suggestions or help anyone can offer. Thank you!
I would make a nandroid now and keep it as is for a bit just to make sure it functions okay.
Then if all is good flash a ROM!
I'm running ViperRez and it's very good. Doesn't seem to stream bluetooth media but all else is good. Very nice daily driver. There might be an update coming which will hopefully fix the bt steaming.
feralicious said:
I would make a nandroid now and keep it as is for a bit just to make sure it functions okay.
Then if all is good flash a ROM!
I'm running ViperRez and it's very good. Doesn't seem to stream bluetooth media but all else is good. Very nice daily driver. There might be an update coming which will hopefully fix the bt steaming.
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Heh, that would be doing things the SMART way. I'm going to do the unofficial CM9 which has BT streaming media, but not phone - sadly, something I'm much more interested in. I am wondering if I can't get the stock ICS or JB on there and just stick with that, since I do like using my BT headset. But since I've had no luck so far getting that to go on there, I think I'll take my chances with CM9 first, and go from there.
If I get that, I'll back it up thoroughly and then try my hand at putting the stock 4.03 on instead.
Solved!
Ok, so, I got CM9 booted!
The short of what I did was the following steps:
1) HTC Dev Bootloader Unlock
2) Installed Amon Ra
3) Installed CM9 using the S-ON instructions found at the site below - I can't link yet, so forgive me.
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885553
4) Letting the bootloader flash the Kernel failed, so I had to do it manually by following the instructions for S-ON below in case of a parsing failure:
Code:
http://www.androidauthority.com/rezound-android-4-0-4-ics-cyanogenmod-9-cm9-rom-unofficial-120696/
5) Boot and done!
ncc74656m said:
Ok, so, I got CM9 booted!
The short of what I did was the following steps:
1) HTC Dev Bootloader Unlock
2) Installed Amon Ra
3) Installed CM9 using the S-ON instructions found at the site below - I can't link yet, so forgive me.
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885553
4) Letting the bootloader flash the Kernel failed, so I had to do it manually by following the instructions for S-ON below in case of a parsing failure:
Code:
http://www.androidauthority.com/rezound-android-4-0-4-ics-cyanogenmod-9-cm9-rom-unofficial-120696/
5) Boot and done!
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Oh! I misread your last post above mine and thought you had gotten it back to stock.
Your issue was exactly what you figured out, that when you are s-on you need to flash the kernel separately after flashing a ROM or else you'll get stuck. If you s-off that will be automated but s-off makes it easier to brick your phone. I don't flash often so I'm staying s-on.
Sorry I misread your post, I could've let you know about that.
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Oh! I misread your last post above mine and thought you had gotten it back to stock.
Your issue was exactly what you figured out, that when you are s-on you need to flash the kernel separately after flashing a ROM or else you'll get stuck. If you s-off that will be automated but s-off makes it easier to brick your phone. I don't flash often so I'm staying s-on.
Sorry I misread your post, I could've let you know about that.
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No worries, it happens, thank you!!!!
please please help me, i have twrp installed i heard 2.4 was not flashing properly so reverted back to 1.1.1...I go into bootloader then boot my recovery.img. then when im in TWRP i try to flash one of my roms and its not allowing it, I think its because of the s-on again?? it still says unlocked at the top of bootloader but s-on instead of s-off now. I have no operating system now and cant think of a way to fix this. please anyone with any ideas or solutions help me, ive exhausted my ideas. I use my phone all the time, so any help would be greatly appreciated, i'd pay you for help if I could.
Please let us know which device u have.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
Did you try to flash with Odin?
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arteMiIs said:
Did you try to flash with Odin?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
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I dont know what Odin is. I have an HTC Evo 3d. Now my phone is not even turning on exactly like this guys: it wont let me post links yet but go to youtube and then search for: "Bricked HTC EVO 3D, not powering up, red light" and thats my current problem. am I just screwed?
sometimes i can get to bootloader but then s-on is still there so that seems like its preventing me from flashing roms.
What is Odin?
Thank you for the help.
ajb03 said:
I dont know what Odin is. I have an HTC Evo 3d. Now my phone is not even turning on exactly like this guys: it wont let me post links yet but go to youtube and then search for: "Bricked HTC EVO 3D, not powering up, red light" and thats my current problem. am I just screwed?
sometimes i can get to bootloader but then s-on is still there so that seems like its preventing me from flashing roms.
What is Odin?
Thank you for the help.
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Ok I got it to bootloader after removing the battery 50 times and putting it back in then doing the power/vol down. im in TWRP 2.4 because it lets me access my SD card. The problem i think is that when i did a full factory reset on my phone it turned s-on so my old roms are not working. so now im downloading the stock rom, going to put that in the roms folder and try to zip that sucker in, then do the s-off procedure again once I finally have an operating system again. I probably sound like a total noob but if anyone can offer advice or help along the line it would be appreciated. thank you
well I still cant install any ROMs. I cant do the s-off "wire trick" because apparently that requires an operating system. Will someone please help me out here. Why is it failing to install every ROM i have. I know i have the right stock ROMs. at the top of bootloader it says "Unlocked" and s-on, if that helps at all.. thanks for any help
sorry to keep posting but after reading the original root guide I used it turns out i never had S-off. So WHY cant I install any roms, every utility I use just says unable to install. I have tried multiple roms, and tried the one I had installed before, so I know for a fact that one is good. I have no operating system. the error message I keep getting has to do with md5 but I read thats not even a critical component. I tried extracting the boot.img from the rom, running that , then installing it. NO luck. Please someone with experience help. Or am I just screwed? Thanks for the help
bump, please help. why cant I flash a ROM, any rom, even ones I know work well because I have used them?
I fixed it, if anyone comes across this in the future. You have to have your bootloader RELOCKED to run a RUU. Maybe that is common knowledge but it sure evaded me. just fastboot oem lock then run the RUU and you are back to stock.
any one know how to fix QHSUSB_DLOAD caused after trying the s-off wire trick.