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I need some help and advice.
I was on Virtuous Shooter 1.0.2 Rom and tried to install a kernel from the CDMA section.
Before i flashed it i made a nandroid backup, so i could allways go back (I thought).
But after flashing the Kernel it didn't go to the rom, but to my recovery.
So the rom booted just fine, only my recovery was broken.
Then i tried flashing a new recovery by using Rom manager. The phone crashed while doing this.
And now all i can do is boot into the bootloader and fastboot.
Should i use the revolutionary tool again when in fastboot? Or can i do a fastboot restore like this:
Manual Nandroid restore
Make a Nandroid backup, and copy the folder off your SD card to your desktop.
cd ~/Desktop/path/to/backup/
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
I don't want to make things worse now, so i could use some advice.
I'm at work now so won't be trying this in the next few hours.
Thanx already
Download and flash an RUU
1. You now need to pick the RUU you wish to flash, a good source is this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208485
2. Once you have downloaded the RUU you would like to flash, run it (it can take a while to load), and stop when you get the welcome screen, which has a picture of a Evo 3D on the left and a red caution notice on the right.
3. Move this window out of the way (it forces itself into foreground), then open up windows explorer and go to:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp
4. Then sort by Date Modified. Find the newest folder with a long random sequence of numbers as its name, go in here and you should see, three files and a folder: corecomp, dotnetinstaller, IBSEW64. (the files may be different on 32-bit OS), now go into the folder which has another long random name.
In there amongst a lot of files (use search if you need to), you will find rom.zip. This is the rom we want to flash!
5. Copy the rom.zip file to the root of your SD Card
(i.e. if your on Windows, X:/ [where X is the letter of your EVO 3D's SD Card])
6. Rename the rom.zip you just put on your SD Card, to PG86IMG.zip (ensure you do not rename it to PG86IMG.zip.zip or it wont work!)
7. Find the "HTC Android ROM Update Utility" Window, and hit Cancel.
Flash RUU (rom.zip)
1. EITHER:
1a. Shut down your phone, then take out your battery and put it back in.OR:
1b. Make sure fastboot is disabled in settings and shut down your phone (This can be done via Settings > Power> Untick "FAST BOOT" at the bottom.)
2. Keep hold of the volume down button and switch your phone on.
3. When it asks "Do you want to start the update", press Volume Up to accept (this can take a while and its normal for the system part to appear to go in a loop several times)
5. Press Power Off to reboot to first time setup.
6. Your phone is now debranded!
7. Remove PG86IMG.zip from your memory card
Thanx, sounds good, but what does this do?
I don't need a new rom, i need my recovery back, so i can restore my nandroid, i believe this only gives me the rom part?
trion said:
Thanx, sounds good, but what does this do?
I don't need a new rom, i need my recovery back, so i can restore my nandroid, i believe this only gives me the rom part?
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Put this file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37682542/PG86IMG.zip in the root of your sd-card.
Just go into hboot and give permission to update.
This file will flash Recovery back again.
This all can be found here in this post .
HTC EVO 3DEVO 3D GSM Android Development[RECOVERY] Revolutionary based on CWM
Sorry, I dont't know how to give a direct link to the post.
deaad said:
Put this file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37682542/PG86IMG.zip in the root of your sd-card.
Just go into hboot and give permission to update.
This file will flash Recovery back again.
This all can be found here in this post .
HTC EVO 3DEVO 3D GSM Android Development[RECOVERY] Revolutionary based on CWM
Sorry, I dont't know how to give a direct link to the post.
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thanx! will try it later, still at work now.
Don't use a RUU too much work for no reason.
Simply do this
In future
1. Wrong Section
2. How comes that you are flashing a CDMA Kernel?
3. You also flashed a cdma Recovery lol
Flashmaniac said:
Don't use a RUU too much work for no reason.
Simply do this
In future
1. Wrong Section
2. How comes that you are flashing a CDMA Kernel?
3. You also flashed a cdma Recovery lol
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I was aware that it was from the CDMA section, but as most of the development is going on in there, and on my previous phone the kernels worked on both models. I tried a CDMA kernel, if it wouldn't work i could just restore my nandroid. But i didn't expect the kernel to overwrite my recovery.
And for flashing the recovery, i just used the normal ROM Manager option of flashing a recovery, Rom manager doesn't name a GSM or CDMA model, just HTC Evo 3D recovery, and that screwed up my rom.
Nandroid restoring now
thanx all who helped me :-D
I have come copied the ROM.zip to the SDCARD and rename to PG86IMG.zip
However each time I go into bootloader, it doesnt ask me to Update. It will automatically detect and start loading the zip (with one error image not found or something). You can still see a blue status bar on the right side but once its completely done it doesnt appear anything have happened. Rebooting the phone proves nothing was flashed.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need a FAT 16 SDCARD or goldcard to do this?
Preamble
This is the S-OFF upgrade from GingerBread to HoneyComb
Do not perform this procedure if you have the official HTC hboot, it will not work. You must have a revolutionary hboot (see prerequisites).
***If you performed this procedure with previously and have hboot version 6.14.5555 please update to the new hboot, 6.14.5555 is no longer supported***
Upgrade instructions at the bottom of the procedures.
Prerequisites
You must have performed Revolutionary S-OFF
If running on windows you will need these fastboot drivers
If running the procedure on Linux or MacOS you must have fastboot working.
There are no other software prerequisites for this procedure, it does not matter what ROM/Kernel or recovery you are using.
Don't bother asking for help if you try to do this on a virtual machine, you won't get any.
Run on a real machine.
Windows Instructions
Download this file MD5=c62cc1d0453799a7277abfea444d20e4
Download the superuser zip file MD5=69f81ca292f14f71b081bb45a556a3e3
Copy the superuser zip file to the root of your SDCARD
Extract the large zip file downloaded in step 1
Navigate to the RUU_Express_B02 directory
Double-click ARUWizard.exe and proceed like any other RUU, ticking the boxes and pressing next the screen as required.
Postinstall
Reboot to recovery
Flash the SU zip file copyed in instruction 3
Linux/MacOS Instructions (Also works on windows, use if ARUWizard.exe crashes for you)
Download this file MD5=5ef525038a3b8b0af2f214098fd80252
Download the superuser zip file MD5=69f81ca292f14f71b081bb45a556a3e3
Copy the superuser zip file to the root of your SDCARD
Boot your view to fastboot mode.
Run the following commands:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip RUU_Express_B02_RAW.zip
[COLOR="Red"][I]***This will fail first time with error 90, repeat the command[/I][/COLOR]
fastboot flash zip RUU_Express_B02_RAW.zip
[COLOR="Red"][I]***Ignore the on-screen progress bar, the flash is complete when fastboot completes[/I][/COLOR]
fastboot reboot
Postinstall
Reboot to recovery
Flash the SU zip file copyed in instruction 3
Alternative Installation Instruction (Any OS)
Download this file MD5=5ef525038a3b8b0af2f214098fd80252
Download the superuser zip file MD5=69f81ca292f14f71b081bb45a556a3e3
Rename the RUU_Express_B02_RAW.zip file PG41IMG.zip and place on the root of your (external) sdcard
Copy the superuser zip file to the root of your SDCARD
Boot your view bootloader, it will detect the PG41IMG.zip file and ask you to confirm update, confirm the update
***This will fail after completing part of the update, don't worry it's expected***
Boot your view bootloader a second time, it will detect the PG41IMG.zip file and ask you to confirm update, confirm the update again.
Postinstall
Reboot to recovery
Flash the SU zip file copyed in instruction 3
Do not mirror files from this post.
No discussion of Honeycomb content or changes or the relative merits of Gingerbread and Honeycomb. This thread is for the procedure and support thereof only! Also please don't quote the first post because your post becomes an automatic TLDR.
Update Instructions
Use these instructions if you currently have hboot 6.14.5555 - Your data should be preserved but take a backup first just in case.
Method 1
Download this file MD5=20fd6e7546ac2fc422c5a9a5b366f77c
Copy the file to the root of your external SDCARD
Boot your view bootloader, it will detect the PG41IMG.zip file and ask you to confirm update, confirm the update
Method 2
Download this file MD5=20fd6e7546ac2fc422c5a9a5b366f77c
Boot your view to fastboot mode.
Run the following commands:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip PG41IMG.zip
[I][COLOR="Red"]***Ignore the on-screen progress bar, the flash is complete when fastboot completes[/COLOR][/I]
fastboot reboot
[Revision History]
B02 - updated full version: hboot 6.14.5556
New bootloader to patch bugs with fastboot flashing
- Fastboot flashing splash1 fixed
- Fastboot flashing hboot fixed
Patch for upgrading from a previous version added.
B01 - Initial full version: hboot 6.14.5555
BETA- Developer preview
Special thanks: contradude for the early and riskiest testing, and Maine_Coon for all the ongoing testing
Downgrade to Gingerbread
Preamble
This is the S-OFF downgrade from HoneyComb to S-OFF GingerBread if you are not S-OFF and have a HTC (not revolutionary) hboot then do not do this it will not work.
The full versions of these files will give you a fully functional Gingerbread installation with S-OFF, CWM recovery and boot image with the secure flag turned off.
Windows Instructions
Download this file MD5=f5afc4b457a17f88cc611b40e6c7cdc8
Download the superuser zip file MD5=69f81ca292f14f71b081bb45a556a3e3
Copy the superuser zip file to the root of your SDCARD
Extract the large zip file downloaded in step 1
Navigate to the Express_Downgrade directory
Double-click ARUWizard.exe and proceed like any other RUU, ticking the boxes and pressing next the screen as required.
Postinstall
Reboot to recovery
Flash the SU zip file copied in instruction 3 if using the full version.
Linux/MacOS Instructions (Also works on windows, use if ARUWizard.exe crashes for you)
Download this file MD5=7cfbaf099d80d899b13848a3ed3fd66a
Download the superuser zip file MD5=69f81ca292f14f71b081bb45a556a3e3
Copy the superuser zip file to the root of your SDCARD
Boot your view to fastboot mode.
Run the following commands:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip Express_dg.zip [colour=blue](or Express_dg_lite.zip as appropriate)[/blue]
[COLOR="Red"][I]***This will fail first time with error 90, repeat the command[/I][/COLOR]
fastboot flash zip Express_dg.zip [colour=blue](or Express_dg_lite.zip as appropriate)[/blue]
[COLOR="Red"][I]***Ignore the on-screen progress bar, the flash is complete when fastboot completes[/I][/COLOR]
fastboot reboot
Postinstall
Reboot to recovery
Flash the SU zip file copied in instruction 3 if using the full version.
Alternative Installation Instruction (Any OS)
Download this file MD5=7cfbaf099d80d899b13848a3ed3fd66a
Download the superuser zip file MD5=69f81ca292f14f71b081bb45a556a3e3
Rename the file downloaded in step1 to PG41IMG.zip and place on the root of your (external) sdcard
Copy the superuser zip file to the root of your SDCARD
Boot your view bootloader, it will detect the PG41IMG.zip file and ask you to confirm update, confirm the update
***This will fail after completing part of the update, don't worry it's expected***
Boot your view bootloader a second time, it will detect the PG41IMG.zip file and ask you to confirm update, confirm the update again.
Postinstall
Reboot to recovery
Flash the SU zip file copied in instruction 3 if using the full version.
Do not mirror files from this post.
wow you are really fast, excellent men.
One for me please
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Great response time!
For us newbs, I'd like to clarify... This isn't an alternative HoneyComb, yet. Just an attempt to make the OTA honeycomb "unlockable", right?
vancraft said:
Great response time!
For us newbs, I'd like to clarify... This isn't an alternative HoneyComb, yet. Just an attempt to make the OTA honeycomb "unlockable", right?
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This is an attempt to make downgrading easier for us.
spartan1987 said:
This is an attempt to make downgrading easier for us.
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Right. That's the "recovery" part.
But its also described as "root, and all". I'm wondering if this allows the installer to root the OTA Honeycomb? Or will more work be required before the install can be further changed (i.e. s-off, eventually upgraded to ICS, etc.)?
It works
I can confirm this works with root flashed and all. I now have a rooted HC. tyvm globatron
risb577 said:
I can confirm this works with root flashed and all. I now have a rooted HC. tyvm globatron
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so, does that mean you could, in theory, flash a custom HC rom once we get one?
Throw up some screenshots or a video would you?
edit: oh and test rom manager and titanium backup if you don't mind.
I have a rooted CWM backup of the stock.
Do I need to restore and then unroot before proceeding with HC?
stuck on soft brick..
Hey Guys
how do you do the step 6?
I am in cmd and kept telling me command not recornized or something...
I guess I need to know how to flash that RUU-mini zip...
thanks for all your help...
Maine_Coon said:
I have a rooted CWM backup of the stock.
Do I need to restore and then unroot before proceeding with HC?
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No, as it says in the OP, You MUST be s-off and THEN run an RUU. Accept all updates to include the HC update and the view will be soft bricked. THEN use fastboot to push the mini ruu.
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myowin said:
Hey Guys
how do you do the step 6?
I am in cmd and kept telling me command not recornized or something...
I guess I need to know how to flash that RUU-mini zip...
thanks for all your help...
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If it says it's an unrecognized command, then either you do not have fastboot installed, or you haven't gone into environment variables (assuming it's a windows box) and added those commands to the path. try that first (google is your friend and you can google in XDA). Good luck.
A quick question here. Once it is the soft brick mode, I hold down power and volume down to get back to fastboot mode. Is this correct? And I know the ruu will wipe my data but nothing here should wipe the internal sd, correct?
thank you so much for quick respond..
I think I found it here how to do that.. (for someone like me... )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
root
Im not sure what this method of rooting will do for us, but I am under the impression that this will help if we need to go back to GB, or flash another custom HC rom when someone else cooks one up. I have not tested downgrading.
I can report that clockwork is installed with the option to flash from zip, mounts, etc just like the old clockwork. And I still have S-OFF. I installed ROM manager, but it gave me the "you don't have clockwork installed" message. I'm not sure if that is normal, because I don't use ROM Manager. Titanium did see root. Check out the screens.
ElAguila said:
A quick question here. Once it is the soft brick mode, I hold down power and volume down to get back to fastboot mode. Is this correct? And I know the ruu will wipe my data but nothing here should wipe the internal sd, correct?
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I haven't done this yet, but I'm dling the RUU right now to do it and help people troubleshoot.
To answer your question, if you hold down the power button long enough, the view will power off, then you can hold power + vol down to get back into the bootloader and select fastboot mode, then open cmd, type fastboot devices and check to make sure yours shows up, then proceed with pushing the mini-ruu. If I'm wrong guys, correct me. Hope it works out for you.
ElAguila said:
A quick question here. Once it is the soft brick mode, I hold down power and volume down to get back to fastboot mode. Is this correct? And I know the ruu will wipe my data but nothing here should wipe the internal sd, correct?
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Im not sure if this matters, but when I was in soft brick, I rebooted a few times and could not get into the bootloader. It just seemed to ignore the vol down keypress. I then unplugged the usb, powered off from soft brick, and held the vol. down button down even before I hit the power button as I was turning it on. Once I was in bootloader, I just plugged the usb back in.
EDIT: More tips:
1.After I flashed the initial stock ruu, and before I accepted any updates, I turned off fastboot in the power options and enabled usb debugging.
2. I did this from a Windows 7 laptop. When I initially tried to perform the softbrick steps, I got an access denied error message. The files were sent ok, but errored on saving. I closed the command prompt, and re-lauched the command prompt as administrator. The commands sent successfully.
3. Also, once you send the mini ruu over, the Tablet sat in the the oem loader with a 70% full progress bar after I successfully sent the mini ruu. I waited about 10 minutes because I was unsure how to proceed. I finally issued:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Once back into bootloader, I mounted usb storage, copied SU to the card, and flashed from zip
risb577 said:
Im not sure what this method of rooting will do for us, but I am under the impression that this will help if we need to go back to GB, or flash another custom HC rom when someone else cooks one up. I have not tested downgrading.
I can report that clockwork is installed with the option to flash from zip, mounts, etc just like the old clockwork. And I still have S-OFF. I installed ROM manager, but it gave me the "you don't have clockwork installed" message. I'm not sure if that is normal, because I don't use ROM Manager. Titanium did see root. Check out the screens.
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Yeah, rom manager won't work bc we don't have official support from Koush for CWM recovery so that's no issue, I was just curious is all lol. I'm glad to hear titanium detects root, as that was an issue initially for the view. Try to backup your apps, test radios (3g, 4g, wifi, bluetooth, GPS, ETC), run quadrant. I don't know how familiar you are with honeycomb to test out all of it's functions, but we are going to need a few people to test this out for globatron so he can make fixes and/or adjustments as necessary, which is why he specifically asked for devs and people familiar with troubleshooting to do this first. That's the beauty of open source, we're all guinea pigs.
I forgot to ask this earlier. What does the soft brick state look like? Is it just the white screen the the green HTC on it? I want to make sure I don't power it off while it is still flashing HC.
soft brick screen
ElAguila said:
I forgot to ask this earlier. What does the soft brick state look like? Is it just the white screen the the green HTC on it? I want to make sure I don't power it off while it is still flashing HC.
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It looks like this pic. Plus another clue you are soft bricked is it stays here longer than 10 minutes if you care to wait lol
I’m extremely new to the Android community and I did do a lot of reading on how to unlock, install a recovery, and install ICS on my HTC Rezound. The problem I’m having is that I found an ICS ROM to install. I downloaded it, renamed it PH98IMG.zip, installed it onto my SD card through Clockworkmod Recovery, I then tried rebooting into the bootloader to get the zip file installed, but this is what happens in bootloader:
SD Checking…
Loading…[PH98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading…[ph98diag.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading…[ph98img.zip]
And there’s a vertical progress bar on the right side of the screen that fills up, but then nothing happens after that. It goes back into the bootloader screen. Now my phone won’t startup at all, I get stuck at the HTC white startup screen. I can get into bootloader and Clockworkmod recovery, but nothing else works.
If anybody can please help me with step by step instructions I would really really really appreciate it. Thanks.
I should also mention that I followed a YouTube video on how to install ICS on my Rezound (I can't post a link of the video b/c XDA website won't let me).
The video had me unlock the bootloader, install CWM recovery, and install something called Ineffabilis-Deus-v1.0.1-Odex.zip. Everything up to this point worked just like the video (which is point 3:30 on the video). After that, nothing else worked.
I've ended up formatting the SD card from CWM recovery so now there's nothing on the SD card. Not even the PH98IMG.zip file. PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
If you still have ADB set up after you unlocked, here's whatchya do.
1. Unzip the P98 file.
2. Move the boot.img into your ADB directory.
3. Plug your phone into your computer.
4. Run CMD as administrator and type in the following commands
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Should work just fine after that. :good:
And I really hope you are at least using the modded CWM recovery from this post and elsewhere, you'll have issues if your phone fully drains otherwise:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27517554
Worry about reflashing recovery on its own after you get the ROM up and running, just be sure you keep the phone charged. And consider AmonRa or TWRP recovery.
Chyrux said:
If you still have ADB set up after you unlocked, here's whatchya do.
1. Unzip the P98 file.
2. Move the boot.img into your ADB directory.
3. Plug your phone into your computer.
4. Run CMD as administrator and type in the following commands
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Should work just fine after that. :good:
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YES! It worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now to figure out how to get Amon Ra installed and uninstall CWM Recovery.
You can download Amon Ra from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23781936&postcount=428
rename img file to recovery.img and flash using fastboot as below
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fasheezy said:
YES! It worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now to figure out how to get Amon Ra installed and uninstall CWM Recovery.
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Dowload this: http://www.mediafire.com/?5yemc20dcnbr91c
Rename to PH98IMG and install via boot loader.
fasheezy said:
I’m extremely new to the Android community and I did do a lot of reading on how to unlock, install a recovery, and install ICS on my HTC Rezound. The problem I’m having is that I found an ICS ROM to install. I downloaded it, renamed it PH98IMG.zip, installed it onto my SD card through Clockworkmod Recovery, I then tried rebooting into the bootloader to get the zip file installed, but this is what happens in bootloader:
SD Checking…
Loading…[PH98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading…[ph98diag.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading…[ph98img.zip]
And there’s a vertical progress bar on the right side of the screen that fills up, but then nothing happens after that. It goes back into the bootloader screen. Now my phone won’t startup at all, I get stuck at the HTC white startup screen. I can get into bootloader and Clockworkmod recovery, but nothing else works.
If anybody can please help me with step by step instructions I would really really really appreciate it. Thanks.
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My Rezound has the exact same screen when going to the bootloader. I tried so very hard to avoid this but it must be done, I have to ask for help. I have no idea how to fix this phone. When trying to boot it gets all the way to the 4GLTE screen and stops, forever.
This phone is rooted with an unlocked bootloader, S-On, using Hasoon2000's AIO. It was working fine up until I did something stupid and loaded Motioncoding's Beats audio installer. (In case you're wondering I did this in an attempt to have the Beat's audio function while using Pandora, unfortunately this stopped the stock music player from functioning with headphones, I'm and idiot, I know...)
The problem occurred once I tried to uninstall the beat's audio installer using Root Browser Lite and deleting the system files they specified in the instructions. Apparently I deleted one to many and upon restart this is where I ended up. I have tried numerous fixes but the problem I keep running into is I cannot get access to Android via a USB connection on my PC. I still have access to the bootloader and to Clockworkmod Recovery but that is it. If someone can explain to me how to fix this it would really make me feel better and I promise I will never try to do something this stupid again. Thanks.
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Did you create a nandroid backup as recommended before trying any new mods? If not, reflash your rom in recovery/boot.img in fastboot, with only a system wipe. If so, restore your nandroid, if you don't boot then reflash a proper boot.img in fastboot.
Yeap snuzzo is spot on. I just wanted to add that it's not a big problem at all, not even something to stress about. We will help you get it fixed up. If you have the vertical loading var, there's a PH98IMG.zip file on the external sd card that you need to delete.
Since it was mentioned in the quote, make sure you aren't running the official clockwork mod recovery. Either run amon ra or fly halfs custom clockwork mod
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so hey guys. just got an evo, and did the regaw root method where it unlocks the loader using HTcunlocker. and it also installed the twrp. i downloaded the cm10 zip and threw it on a sd card.
I put the sd card in, and went and booted into recovery mode... all good. locate zip on the external sd card, and when i try and install it, it fails first step... any suggestions what to do.
I read around and noticed you need s off to do anything that has its own kernel.
seems my hmode is like 1.5 or something so i cant do the s-off. I need to downgrade it. No problem.
bad thing is in the recovery i went to do a wipe facory reset, and now when i try and boot to system it says NO OS found! haha i power it down and back on, and it says no os found!
I cant use an RUU or downgrade tool because i cant boot up and into debugging,
i know you clever people can help me out a bit, right?! i miss my epic 4g slider
EDIT STILL NEED HELP please and thank you in advance
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869377
Pay attention to the S-On part of that article. You have to flash the kernel separately with S-On. Also there is now a method of downgrading in order to achieve S-Off. It can be found in the original development subsection.
it seems like i downloaded a RUU with 1.3, but the problem is, it says it cant connect to the phone. i didnt install any drivers or anything. so point blank, since this was a newer phone, I need to download a livecd of linux in order to get this thing to boot to anything other then the white htc screen or twrp?
You need to get into twrp by holding power and volume down . Once there wipe everything except storage. Then mount USB and copy/paste a Rom from your pc to your phone. Pull the boot IMG first and place where your adb/fastboot files are.
Flash the Rom, when its done boot into bootloader from recovery and then fasyboot flash the boot IMG
There are detailed instructions on how to do these steps all over XDA
Hope you get it up and running
I don't know if you need those drivers you talked about. If you wanted to be sure about having the correct drivers you could install HTC sync on your pc.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
Ok let me read into that push/pull adb fastboot thing.
corcgaigh said:
You need to get into twrp by holding power and volume down . Once there wipe everything except storage. Then mount USB and copy/paste a Rom from your pc to your phone. Pull the boot IMG first and place where your adb/fastboot files are.
Flash the Rom, when its done boot into bootloader from recovery and then fasyboot flash the boot IMG
There are detailed instructions on how to do these steps all over XDA
Hope you get it up and running
I don't know if you need those drivers you talked about. If you wanted to be sure about having the correct drivers you could install HTC sync on your pc.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
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ok so go into twrp. then from my rom zip file, youre saying to pull out the boot.img and place in the fastboot folder (not sure)
then flash the whole zip file of the rom (with or without the boot.img that i copied) and then you say boot into bootloader and than fastboot flash the boot.img? im kinda lost right there
So As i just woke up and ready to try again with this bastard phone, can you link me to something stating how to actually flash a rom using s-on htcunlock? or just how and where you put the boot img and where the fastboot folder is etc.
Best thing to do probably is read om4's guide in the Q&A section. Its stickyed or maybe download flash image gui. The app explains the process. Its any easy solution for s-on folks.
Sorry i cant explain in detail how to fastboot flash the boot img but all the info easily found on xda.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
So when i try to send the image using fastboot, i do fastboot devices, and then i try and send. it says sending, but will stay there infinitely. I cant find a thread that talks about it locking up during the file transfer
Maybe I'm missing something here but couldn't he put a rom like meanROM ,that has the s-on kernel installer built in, onto his sd card (assuming he has one) and install it from TWRP just so he has a working phone? Then he could properly research how to get CM10 installed and running.
edit.... so I somehow miraculously now have it working again.... installed amon-ra recovery, then unsuccessfully flashed Neo, but was able to get Ecliptic Rez to work... can't seem to delete this thread though...
Hi,
So I was running the most recent RUU re-locked, S-on.
I went through the unlock process successfully, then got TWRP on my phone (not even sure how this worked... was using the Rezound all-in-one tool, it didn't seem to work properly the first time, but was able to pull up TWRP through Recover later on) then used TWRP to flash SuperSU and was rooted. Then feeling cocky I went ahead and did a clean wipe (note: I was very dumb and never setup a Restore... I thought, oh everything is going great, I'll just flash real quick, no reason to create a backup.... lesson learned haha) and tried to flash Ecliptic Rez. The first time it didn't work... it almost instantly said it was "installed" but didn't work. I tried to Flash it again, this time it looked good, took a while to install, everything looked great. I rebooted and the EclipticRez splash screen came up.... but then it stayed up, and it's still up. I can go back to recovery/hboot/whatever.
If it matters I pretty much flashed Ecliptic with all the options as default (except I chose S-on)...
I also tried just now to flash NeoMax2.0 but this is stuck at the splash screen as well. I tried to flash this rom first by having it as PM98IMG.zip on my root, but it didn't seem to install properly (it went through an initial phase on hboot for about a minute then went back to the hboot screen. So I then flashed it using TWRP, it said it was "injected successfully" (or something like that) but then when I rebooted it went to the splash screen and is stuck there...
If it matters too, my phone is "unlocked" and "tampered" on hboot.
My questions are...
Where should I go from here?
I really don't wanna mess with S-OFF..
I'm trying to learn more about amon-ra recovery but it's gonna take a while for me to digest all that info.
Could it be a TWRP issue in some way?
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
For future reference, since you are s-on (as am I) you need to flash the kernel after the ROM.
Some ROMs you have to pull the kernel out and do it in fastboot, or some, like Ecliptic, will put a PH98IMG on your sd card and put you in hboot after the ROM flashes. Then you accept the update if it doesn't start automatically and it will flash the kernel and then you should be able to boot.
You shouldn't need to rename the ROM to PH98IMG, just select flash zip in recovery and navigate to it.
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For future reference, since you are s-on (as am I) you need to flash the kernel after the ROM.
Some ROMs you have to pull the kernel out and do it in fastboot, or some, like Ecliptic, will put a PH98IMG on your sd card and put you in hboot after the ROM flashes. Then you accept the update if it doesn't start automatically and it will flash the kernel and then you should be able to boot.
You shouldn't need to rename the ROM to PH98IMG, just select flash zip in recovery and navigate to it.
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That's dead on! Thank you. That was the difference I noticed. I'm not sure why, but amon-ra after flashing EclipticRez sent me back to hboot and there I realized that I was supposed to do another step, and at that point I thought, hey this might work this time lol
Out of curiosity.... so you say some ROMs have you "pull the kernel out" - what exactly does that mean? Would I have to download (or perhaps just located the kernel in the SD card) and change that to PH98IMG and put it on SD Root so it loads that update in hboot? Thanks
Since I download everything to my pc then transfer to my phone, what I do is just look in the ROM zip file in explorer and then copy the boot.img out of it into my fastboot folder. Then I just flash it from there using:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
There's probably a way to get it out using Root Explorer or ES File Explorer, but I don't know how you would put it into a PH98IMG file on the phone.
I avoid PH98IMG files whenever possible. Those could be anything packaged up into a file named PH98IMG and I feel safer flashing something using the real name. Would hate to use the wrong PH98IMG file by accident and do something I regret later.
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Since I download everything to my pc then transfer to my phone, what I do is just look in the ROM zip file in explorer and then copy the boot.img out of it into my fastboot folder. Then I just flash it from there using:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
There's probably a way to get it out using Root Explorer or ES File Explorer, but I don't know how you would put it into a PH98IMG file on the phone.
I avoid PH98IMG files whenever possible. Those could be anything packaged up into a file named PH98IMG and I feel safer flashing something using the real name. Would hate to use the wrong PH98IMG file by accident and do something I regret later.
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Ok cool, so you'd flash your ROM first using the command prompt, then after the ROM has finished installing and you're back in hboot you would then flash the boot.img (aka Kernel right?)?
Flash the ROM in recovery - on the phone, not fastboot. I just download to my pc and store everything there then copy what I need to my phone when I want. So when I flash a ROM I copy it to my sd card to use in my phone.
Then you may or may not have to flash the kernel in fastboot. Only need to use fastboot if the ROM doesn't make a PH98IMG file for you and put it on your sd card. If it does make one I believe it will put you in bootloader and ask you if you want to update and you just select yes with no need to use pc.