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I recently went to change my ROM on my HTC amaze, but after I was finished installing it went to reboot and ever since no matter what I do, it just stays on the white htc screen. The only thing I can get to is into Recovery. I locked boot loader and unlocked it and after doing so I noticed it said S ON. How do I turn s off while stuck in recovery mode? Im using the ZurgRushTemp root but it says that I need my phone in usb debugging mode and I dont know how to do that in recovery mode. If I sound like a total idiot it's probably because I am. Previously I have unlocked boot loader and rooted my phone and downloaded other roms and it worked fine. I have no fricken clue what happened. Please help me.. How do I s off to install another rom while I can only get into recovery mode?
What recovery did you flash?
If its not 4EXT then you need to flash the kernel using fastboot.
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Double0EK said:
What recovery did you flash?
If its not 4EXT then you need to flash the kernel using fastboot.
Check out my hairless guinea pig
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Im not quite sure what you mean by which recovery did I flash? Im using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.6 if that helps. What does it mean and how do I "flash the kernal using fastboot"?
ben200451 said:
Im not quite sure what you mean by which recovery did I flash? Im using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.6 if that helps. What does it mean and how do I "flash the kernal using fastboot"?
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Alright slowly but surely I'm catching on to all this stuff.. I think. I found "Hasoon2000's HTC amaze all in one kit" on another fourm so im using that. So I want to flash a 4ext recovery? Then after that what? And do I want to flash it to stock telus kernal aswell? Goddamnit did I mess up big this time.
ben200451 said:
Alright slowly but surely I'm catching on to all this stuff.. I think. I found "Hasoon2000's HTC amaze all in one kit" on another fourm so im using that. So I want to flash a 4ext recovery? Then after that what? And do I want to flash it to stock telus kernal aswell? Goddamnit did I mess up big this time.
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The bootloader screen reads
*** Unlocked ***
Ruby PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.90.0006
eMMC-boot
just get the stock RUU for your phone. Re-lock your bootloader. Rename what you downloaded to PH85IMG.zip. place it in the root directory of your external SD card. reboot your phone into HBOOT and it should automatically flash the stock recovery and ROM. this WILL wipe your phone clean. then you can unlock the bootloader, root it, flash a custom recovery then a ROM of your choice.
NeoAndroid said:
just get the stock RUU for your phone. Re-lock your bootloader. Rename what you downloaded to PH85IMG.zip. place it in the root directory of your external SD card. reboot your phone into HBOOT and it should automatically flash the stock recovery and ROM. this WILL wipe your phone clean. then you can unlock the bootloader, root it, flash a custom recovery then a ROM of your choice.
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What is PH85IMG.zip and where can I download it?
ben200451 said:
What is PH85IMG.zip and where can I download it?
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Really?
If u don't know that, you've got some reading to do. Google it
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aha sorry I did, thanks for all the help. Well see if this works,
ben200451 said:
I recently went to change my ROM on my HTC amaze, but after I was finished installing it went to reboot and ever since no matter what I do, it just stays on the white htc screen. The only thing I can get to is into Recovery. I locked boot loader and unlocked it and after doing so I noticed it said S ON. How do I turn s off while stuck in recovery mode? Im using the ZurgRushTemp root but it says that I need my phone in usb debugging mode and I dont know how to do that in recovery mode. If I sound like a total idiot it's probably because I am. Previously I have unlocked boot loader and rooted my phone and downloaded other roms and it worked fine. I have no fricken clue what happened. Please help me.. How do I s off to install another rom while I can only get into recovery mode?
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Unlocking the bootloader won't change your phone into s-off. So, what you see is correct.
Forget about ZergRush. It won't work, or necessary at all if you unlocked your bootloader, anyway.
Edit: I forgot to mention. Try 'adb logcat' to see if your phone even gets to the boot sequence. If you see your screen gets filled up with tons of stuff, hit control-c to stop it. Then enter adb logcat > logfile.txt to capture it. You can post it here for someone to take a look.
If you can get into bootloader and/or recovery, your phone isn't in a bad shape at all. If you can access your phone from a pc with adb or fastboot (which, you should have if you've unlocked your bootloader), there are things you can try.
1. boot your phone into recovery and see if you can access it through adb shell. Do you see a shell prompt ('$' or '#' sign)? On the phone, use the mount option to mount system and data partitions to see if they are mountable. You can use 'ls -l' on the shell prompt to look around, if you like.
2. If your phone is accessible, but not bootable, the first thing I would try is to flash a boot image. You probably have one sitting in the pc folder you used to unlock, or hanson's all-in-one tool has it.
3. If you flash a fresh boot image (kernel) and the phone still won't boot up, the next thing I would try is to restore from a nandroid backup. I'm sure you've made a backup before you started, right?
4. If the nandroid restore doesn't work, you can try flashing a stock rom like someone elese suggested. You just copy the zip file, which you download from the stock rom thread in the dev section, to the external sd card, rename it to PH85IMG.zip, and reboot your phone into the bootloader. The phone will detect the stock rom if it's there and asks you whether to install the update or not. Remember to download the correct file for your carrier.
5. If nothing works, come back here and post your result. I'm afraid your phone may have a corrupt nand memory...
I am having the problem I followed steps 1-5 of the post above.
using PH85IMG.zip in bootloader. It loades the image and checks. afterwards when it restarts it gets stuck on bootloader or HTC splash screen.
I am unlocked through HTC Dev
S-ON
rooted
on ext4 recovery
Sheng1988 said:
I am having the problem I followed steps 1-5 of the post above.
using PH85IMG.zip in bootloader. It loades the image and checks. afterwards when it restarts it gets stuck on bootloader or HTC splash screen.
I am unlocked through HTC Dev
S-ON
rooted
on ext4 recovery
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What carrier are you on?
mobilicity phone but using on rogers.
also not sure if it matters
h.boot 1.93
Sheng1988 said:
mobilicity phone but using on rogers.
also not sure if it matters
h.boot 1.93
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Were you on GB or ICS before this started happening? Or a custom ROM? Give me as much info as possible in one brief post.
original rom nandroid backup to sd card before flash
s-off through Juopunutbear
unlocked boot loader
ext4 recovery and rooted
flashed energy rom, wouldn't boot
tried to go back to stock but then internal sd card stopped working could not access anything except ext4 and fastboot
used PH85IMG.zip through bootloader still wouldn't boot
formatted internal sd card through ext4 (format everything including sd card)
re ran PH85IMG.zip in bootloader, everything checked out but could not pass htc screen
tried to relock bootloader got hard brick used unbricking project
S-ON
re-ran PH85IMG.zip still wouldn't boot past htc
unlocked bootloader through htc dev
ext4 recovery with all in one tool
rooted with tool
re-ran PH85IMG.zip and still won't get through htc screen
tried to flash kernel with all in one tool with boot img received from
OTA_RUBY_ICS_35_S_DAVE_CA_2.14.1800.6-1.45.1800.2_R_release_263099viknauioz1fkgotb
still stopped at htc screen
any help and all help is appreciated!
Sheng1988 said:
original rom nandroid backup to sd card before flash
s-off through Juopunutbear
unlocked boot loader
ext4 recovery and rooted
flashed energy rom, wouldn't boot
tried to go back to stock but then internal sd card stopped working could not access anything except ext4 and fastboot
used PH85IMG.zip through bootloader still wouldn't boot
formatted internal sd card through ext4 (format everything including sd card)
re ran PH85IMG.zip in bootloader, everything checked out but could not pass htc screen
tried to relock bootloader got hard brick used unbricking project
S-ON
re-ran PH85IMG.zip still wouldn't boot past htc
unlocked bootloader through htc dev
ext4 recovery with all in one tool
rooted with tool
re-ran PH85IMG.zip and still won't get through htc screen
tried to flash kernel with all in one tool with boot img received from
OTA_RUBY_ICS_35_S_DAVE_CA_2.14.1800.6-1.45.1800.2_R_release_263099viknauioz1fkgotb
still stopped at htc screen
any help and all help is appreciated!
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You used the wrong image, went about using that ota file incorrectly as well, Oh boy, ite, let's keep our fingers crossed on this.
You said your hboot was 1.93.0002? Correct? If you're s-on, this may or may not work, lets hope it does, since's it practically your only hope, though I wonder what your cid currently is set to.
Since you did s-off, you should know how to use adb. Shut the phone off via battery pull, boot up into hboot then go into fastboot, using adb check your cid via this command: fastboot getvar cid
Let me know what it is when you're done, we'll work from there, hopefully we can get this done.
sorry, forgot to pull sd card so it ran the PH85IMG twice,
the cid is
11111111
Sheng1988 said:
sorry, forgot to pull sd card so it ran the PH85IMG twice,
the cid is
11111111
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Cid is 11111111 and you're s-on? Lucky you, well download the mobilicity GB stock ruu exe file, reboot into fastboot and run the file to restore your phone to complete stock GB, hopefully it goes through, though I don't see why it wouldn't, if you're s-on, you'll have to relock your bootloader before doing this.
Thanks! hopefully it'll work
downloading the GB rom from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27704071
going to relock bootloader with the amaze tool.
going to change the RUU to PH85IMG then pray it works!
I'll post an update in this thread, unfortunately the rom takes about 4 hours to download from file factory
Sheng1988 said:
Thanks! hopefully it'll work
downloading the GB rom from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27704071
going to relock bootloader with the amaze tool.
going to change the RUU to PH85IMG then pray it works!
I'll post an update in this thread, unfortunately the rom takes about 4 hours to download from file factory
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You can download the ruu from the ruu/ota thread in the same forum, the dev host upload by krook is much faster.
Do not change the name of that file, it's an exe file, you have to run it via a pc with your phone connected via usb cable in fastboot mode.
So, I rooted my phone last night and ever since I've been stuck in bootloop. I loaded one rom and it was in bootloop all night until the phone died. I charged the phone up, wiped it and tried another, stuck in bootloop for hours with nothing working. Now, the bigger problem is, I - being an idiot - forgot to do a nandroid backup so there is nothing to restore too, yet when I set it to factory settings it's once again stuck in bootloop.
All my phone now displays is the green HTC logo on the white background, until the phone battery dies.
So... how screwed am I?
EDIT: CDMA, S-on, 1.50, I used HTC dev to root it.
Did you root with HTC dev. You need to flash the boot.IMG using fastboot.
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MSK01 said:
So, I rooted my phone last night and ever since I've been stuck in bootloop. I loaded one rom and it was in bootloop all night until the phone died. I charged the phone up, wiped it and tried another, stuck in bootloop for hours with nothing working. Now, the bigger problem is, I - being an idiot - forgot to do a nandroid backup so there is nothing to restore too, yet when I set it to factory settings it's once again stuck in bootloop.
All my phone now displays is the green HTC logo on the white background, until the phone battery dies.
So... how screwed am I?
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We need more info dude.
CMDA or GSM?
what rom did you try to install?
hboot 1.50 or 1.40?
S-On or S-OFF
The more info the more we can help you.
iTzLOLtrain said:
We need more info dude.
CMDA or GSM?
what rom did you try to install?
hboot 1.50 or 1.40?
S-On or S-OFF
The more info the more we can help you.
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CDMA, S-on, 1.50, I used HTC dev to root it. CM 9 Nightly.
Do what I said. Boot your phone into the boot loader. Select fastboot. Stick the boot.IMG from the Rom you used into the folder on the pc that you used with htcdev.
Connect your device.
Open up command prompt. Navigate to the folder in command prompt where you put the boot.IMG
Type fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
If it works it will say so restart your phone and enjoy.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
Do what I said. Boot your phone into the boot loader. Select fastboot. Stick the boot.IMG from the Rom you used into the folder on the pc that you used with htcdev.
Connect your device.
Open up command prompt. Navigate to the folder in command prompt where you put the boot.IMG
Type fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
If it works it will say so restart your phone and enjoy.
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If you hadn't said anything I probably would have been running around in circles for the rest of the day. I just did and I'm waiting for it to restart right now. Hopefully it works.
Hopefully it will work. If you flash anymore roms you have to do the same flash boot.img using fastboot since you unlocked with HTC dev.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
Hopefully it will work. If you flash anymore roms you have to do the same flash boot.img using fastboot since you unlocked with HTC dev.
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Meaning I can just nandroid backup this rom? Or do I have to reflash it then flash the new ones over it?
If you want to flash a new rom do a nandroid backup first and then wipe everything. But everytime you flash a new Rom you have to flash the boot.IMG seperatley that was supplied with the Rom if that makes sense. This also applied when doing a recovery.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
If you want to flash a new rom do a nandroid backup first and then wipe everything. But everytime you flash a new Rom you have to flash the boot.IMG seperatley that was supplied with the Rom if that makes sense. This also applied when doing a recovery.
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Unless the boot.IMG is automatically with each rom that does not make sense. However, if that means (which I pretty sure it does, I just need that extra clear clarification) that a new boot.IMG is supposed to be supplied with every single new ROM then that would explain why my phone is still in bootloop. No changes since last time I was on, about an hour ago I took the battery out and restarted it.
So it's still in bootloop whenever I try anything.
Help as well...
Stuck in the same problem. Hboot 1.50, S-on, and I'm trying to load Evergreen's CM7 port. I'm also using CWM 4.x (can't remember number, just the non touch version). Whenever I try to start my phone all I get is the white HTC screen with the little vibrate, then the black screen, and then the HTC screen once again and so on. I've tried flashing the boot from the file and then flashing the ROM with and without the boot.img in the .zip file. Help me. Please.
You need to flash the rom first then restart your phone load in to fastboot and flash the boot.img using fastboot. Search the forums there should be a more detailed way on how to do this. But its pretty much the same instructions I gave in previous post.
Try following this if your struggling.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qonxj8jsawcesl/Android Fastboot boot.docx
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If that last reply was meant me, I've already tried that. Doesn't change anything at all.
Ah ok you mentioned you flashed the boot.img first that's all
Also try formatting your sd card or use a spare one and format that and then flashing the Rom and boot.IMG. I had to do that with my desire s.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
You need to flash the rom first then restart your phone load in to fastboot and flash the boot.img using fastboot. Search the forums there should be a more detailed way on how to do this. But its pretty much the same instructions I gave in previous post.
Try following this if your struggling.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qonxj8jsawcesl/Android Fastboot boot.docx
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That worked. Holy ****, that worked! Thank you so much!!
Spazz Monk3y said:
You need to flash the rom first then restart your phone load in to fastboot and flash the boot.img using fastboot. Search the forums there should be a more detailed way on how to do this. But its pretty much the same instructions I gave in previous post.
Try following this if your struggling.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qonxj8jsawcesl/Android Fastboot boot.docx
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doesnt work for me :<
Unlocked HBOOT 1.53.0007
rooted with superuser
S-ON
Revolionary CWM v4.0.1.4 (also tried to flash 4EXT but it doesnt work!!:/ )
ROM: cm-9-DevilToast-0.7.5-shooteru.zip
any tips?
sabbath88 said:
doesnt work for me :<
Unlocked HBOOT 1.53.0007
rooted with superuser
S-ON
Revolionary CWM v4.0.1.4 (also tried to flash 4EXT but it doesnt work!!:/ )
ROM: cm-9-DevilToast-0.7.5-shooteru.zip
any tips?
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Get s-off using the wire trick.
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I am a complete noob. Sprint Evo 3d 1.5 s-on, I have been running Viper IC3D for a month now, loving it,should have stuck with that. I wanted to try one of the Jelly Bean Roms, specifically the Team D.I.R.T. one, but I didn't want to have to keep flashing the two roms back and forth. Found out about Boot Manager Pro on here, and found a thread about using it with hboot 1.5 s-on. followed the instructions, booted into D.I.R.T. rom. fiddled with it, decided to go back to my phone rom. Boot Manager kept unexpectedly closing on me, wouldn't stay open long enough to do anything. So I went into recovery and restored my nandroid of Viper. But D.I.R.T. loaded! Said screw it, and wiped and reflashed Viper. D.I.R.T. loaded! Couldn't get anything but that ROM to load no matter what I did. Uninstalled Boot Manager, nothing but D.I.R.T.So I hunted around here and found a thread that said if all else failed, to manually remove Bootloader from sd and go from there. Did that, and it soft bricked my phone. I can get into recovery, but no matter what I do when I reboot it hangs in HTC white boot screen. I cannot afford another phone and don't get an upgrade til next year. Please Say there is a solution to this! I cried all last night, couldn't sleep, and I'm crying again. Side note, i accidentally erased half the C; Drive on my laptop trying things I found on another android forum,and system restore didn't work. So I'm back here, and I'm scared to try anything else, but I have to do something. Help!!!!!!
Flash the kernel. All will be well.
Viper rom should include boot.img.
Extract it to sdk-tools folder.
Open terminal, cd to sdk-tools directory.
Hold volume plus down on phone. Hit power button on fastboot option.
Plug in phone to computer. It should say fastboot usb on phone screen now. If not, install htc drivers.
Go to terminal. Type "fastboot flash boot boot.img
Should see some stuff happen on computer screen, phone will reboot.
Do that then report back.
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can I do this using my rootevo3dnew package? I had a bad experience trying to install android sdk
You don't install sdk-tools. It's just a bunch if exe's in a folder.
That other thing you said, never heard of it.
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Marta9227 said:
can I do this using my rootevo3dnew package? I had a bad experience trying to install android sdk
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Yes you can, as long as you have fastboot and adb in there you'll be good, just put the boot.img in the same folder
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please read my post carefully again and again it will solve your problem, I had the same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1853065
I'm doomed. I was able to flash CWM this way, although it didn't help me at all. But I tried to flash the boot img and it didn't work. Didn't seem to recognize the command.
I'm cdma s-on? So basically you relocked and flashed an RUU and then relocked?
try to relock and flash with RUU it will work
At first when you were unable to boot back to phone rom, you should have went into recovery and flash the update.zip located in the sdcard/bootmanager/phonerom.
Anyway try to flash back to viperrom again then boot your recovery via fast boot since you are not s-off. And flash the update.zip from the phone rom folder. If everything fails just relock your bootloader and use the ruu.exe and you should be fine.
Marta9227 said:
I'm doomed. I was able to flash CWM this way, although it didn't help me at all. But I tried to flash the boot img and it didn't work. Didn't seem to recognize the command.
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The command is: fastboot flash boot c:\(navigate to the sdk map with boot.img)\boot.img
For instance. for me it's c:\Users\(my name)\boot.img
Because i have my sdk and boot.img in my User map.
I believe boot manager creates the files for the second rom on the sd card. maybe thats why the D.I.R.T rom is loading.. My advice, try a different sdcard and see if the viper rom starts (you still might have to flash the boot.img via adb because of s-on)
I have no idea where the files for second rom are created so maybe if someone else could help out here. Then it should be a simple matter of deleting the second rom from the sd card and then go ahead and flash your viper rom.
http://init2winitapps.com/stories/BMManual.html
^^ this tell you all you need to know about dual booting.
Thanks to everyone! Relocked and ran RUU safely back to stock now debating if I have the guts to unlock again lol
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Do it!
Do it! The RUU will save you anyways lol
Should I do the stock ics ota first? I know that will make me hboot 1.58. Can I still HTC dev unlock 1.58? And can I get a new code? Didn't save the old one
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Yes you will have to get new code from htcdev. Though i wouldn't recommend updating hboot cause its known to cause some issues with some roms
Hello,
This is an odd request, but I'm in need of some help with this HTC Rezound. A bit of background first. It's not mine. I'm a G2 user (rooted and I know my way around Android hacking). This phone belongs to a friend and despite having it rooted he knows nothing about how he got there or how to fix a problem. Currently it's stuck in a bootloop. He mailed the phone to me (we live 750 miles apart) and he's hoping I might be able to assist. I can get into recovery (I'm assuming it's a custom recovery - looks like ClockworkMod) and my hope was to flash a new ROM but he stupidly neglected to send the phone to me with an SD Card. I'm wondering if there's a way to get a ROM/gapps onto the phone (internal storage) and flash from there. I see there's an option for USB-MS toggle and I've tried playing around in the internal_sd area, and I can get a G: drive to appear when choosing this and connected via USB to my computer, but when I put the ROM/gapps on there I cannot seem to access it for flashing purposes.
Sorry for the long-winded description. But is this a simple solution? Do I just need to get a hold of an SD card and put the files needed on there for flashing? Or is there a way to flash the ROM directly from internal storage?
Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.
Could you post a "fastboot getvar all" ? Without the commas.
Also one thing I would do. Flash twrp 2.6.3.0 Then mount the phone. Push the ROM using a adb push. But first could you post a fastboot getvar all ?
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pball52998 said:
Could you post a "fastboot getvar all" ? Without the commas.
Also one thing I would do. Flash twrp 2.6.3.0 Then mount the phone. Push the ROM using a adb push. But first could you post a fastboot getvar all ?
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Sorry for my noobness, but I have no idea how to do that with this phone. I know nothing about HTC devices - never owned one before.
No problem at all man, we all start somewhere for every phone company.
Okay, pull the battery out. Put it back in, volume down, power button. It should show up a white screen. With I think like 5 options, I know the first two are: fastboot and recovery. When highlighted over fastboot, press power. Then will bring you to fastboot. It'll say in red letters "FASTBOOT USB" at the top. Plug it into the computer open a cmd prompt where you fastboot/adb also known as platform-tools is. Type fastboot getvar all
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pball52998 said:
No problem at all man, we all start somewhere for every phone company.
Okay, pull the battery out. Put it back in, volume down, power button. It should show up a white screen. With I think like 5 options, I know the first two are: fastboot and recovery. When highlighted over fastboot, press power. Then will bring you to fastboot. It'll say in red letters "FASTBOOT USB" at the top. Plug it into the computer open a cmd prompt where you fastboot/adb also known as platform-tools is. Type fastboot getvar all
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Thanks for the reply. My time messing with the phone is done for the night, but I'll give that a try tomorrow.
Okay sounds good
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It should say something in the bootloader at the top like below:
***unlocked***
Pvt ship s-off (or s-on)
Hboot version # stuff here
Radio version # stuff here
Is it s-off or s-on?
If it's secure flag is still on, you would need to extract the boot.IMG from your ROM zip and do the following command after pushing and flashing the ROM in recovery. After you do flash the ROM, boot back into bootloader and into fastboot and type the following command in PC terminal
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Uzephi said:
It should say something in the bootloader at the top like below:
***unlocked***
Pvt ship s-off (or s-on)
Hboot version # stuff here
Radio version # stuff here
Is it s-off or s-on?
If it's secure flag is still on, you would need to extract the boot.IMG from your ROM zip and do the following command after pushing and flashing the ROM in recovery. After you do flash the ROM, boot back into bootloader and into fastboot and type the following command in PC terminal
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Yep, pretty much, what I was trying to get him through first was actually pushing a ROM to the phone, also the fastboot getvar all gives almost all info. But true with that, that's probably the MOST important part of rooting and ROMing HTC lol. Although he never stated what rom he has. Trying to get him through some basics of HTC too.
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Yeah, just wanted to put that out there in case he found it how to flash a ROM without us, he will see that post to fix his boot loop (if s-on)
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Thanks again for the replies everyone. Very helpful. As stated before, this is an odd situation because I know nothing about rooting/ROMs for HTC and this isn't my phone.
Anyway, a bit of where I'm at and some better info regarding the phone's situation. The phone, upon attempting to boot, would just bootloop. I don't remember exactly which ROM was on there as I've since done a factory reset, but needless to say it wasn't working. Also, I happened to track down an SD card from an old phone of mine and I used the USB-MS feature in recovery to put a ROM on there for flashing. Wiped everything as I would any other phone, flashed the ROM (which stated was successful) and upon a reboot the phone just hangs on the white HTC screen. Did a bit of digging and decided to try returning to stock (he doesn't care if this phone is still rooted, just wants it working). Found this link http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ and followed the instructions exactly. Update seemed to take just fine, but again a reboot just got me stuck on the white HTC screen.
I've yet to hook this up to try the fastboot getvar thing as the computer I'm using didn't have ADB installed and I didn't have the time to do so. In the meantime any additional suggestions?
I'm attaching a pic of the phone in hboot so you can see some info that might be helpful.
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...
In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.
With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)
To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.
To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.
TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.
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Uzephi said:
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...
In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.
With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)
To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.
To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.
TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.
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Thanks for this. I think I get what you're saying, but just for the sake of clarification, one more question regarding this process.
I extract the boot.IMG from my ROM of choice, flash the ROM/gapps as I would on any other device, then go back to fastboot and run the adb commands posted earlier? Correct?
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Thanks for this. I think I get what you're saying, but just for the sake of clarification, one more question regarding this process.
I extract the boot.IMG from my ROM of choice, flash the ROM/gapps as I would on any other device, then go back to fastboot and run the adb commands posted earlier? Correct?
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Exactly. Be sure to do exactly that command not
Fastboot boot boot.img
If you forget to say flash boot, it will just temporarily boot that kernel/boot image and not flash it to the device. Then upon reboot you will be back at step one.
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Exactly. Be sure to do exactly that command not
Fastboot boot boot.img
If you forget to say flash boot, it will just temporarily boot that kernel/boot image and not flash it to the device. Then upon reboot you will be back at step one.
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Again, thank you. Going to give this a go after my son's t-ball game. I feel like more of a noob than when I rooted my OG Droid years ago.
@Uzephi, @pball52998, thank you to for your assistance. I felt like a total noob working on a phone that wasn't mine. But I've got it up and running again. My friend Jake will be very happy (I've also told him that this is the last ROM he will ever put on here unless he learns how to do everything I just did - he didn't even know what ADB was when I told him).
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@Uzephi, @pball52998, thank you to for your assistance. I felt like a total noob working on a phone that wasn't mine. But I've got it up and running again. My friend Jake will be very happy (I've also told him that this is the last ROM he will ever put on here unless he learns how to do everything I just did - he didn't even know what ADB was when I told him).
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Wait! He has old HBOOT and Radios, the newest radio is 1.28 he has 1.21 I think I saw.... I would suggest s-off then RUU and doing a RUU.... Or if anyone has em, the HBOOT and Radios you can flash in recovery.
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Wait! He has old HBOOT and Radios, the newest radio is 1.28 he has 1.21 I think I saw.... I would suggest s-off then RUU and doing a RUU.... Or if anyone has em, the HBOOT and Radios you can flash in recovery.
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Flashing them in recovery would be great, if there's a link to download the files. But just to be clear, despite this phone finally booking up there's more I need to do to make it 100% usable?
It is 100% usable, but you will experience less overheats and better battery life with the new firmware. I know the hboot ph98img zip is somewhere in this forum for the updated hboot and radio (for that zip you would just put in root of external SD card and in hboot it will automatically flash)
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Uzephi said:
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...
In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.
With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)
To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.
To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.
TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.
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Hello, I have been preparing to RUU back to 4.03.605.2 and want to be sure of process. I read REV3NT3CH's post on downgrading, so I downloaded the latest 2 PH89IMGs via his instructions and here's where I stand:
S Off
Hboot 2.28
Radio 2.23.10.0123r/1.23.10.0124r
also running CleanRom 4.5
Can I just place PH89IMG on sdcard to RUU or am I missing a step? Thank you in advance
Just place it in the root of SD card and reboot to your boot loader
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I have a htc rezound with bad OS, I decided to flash a new rom.
First unlock bootloader from htc dev, then get root with iroot, then installed rom manager to install cwm recovery, then flash tow different rom and is the same, the phone just show htc.
So I think it is because I have s-on still, but I don't find a way to do it if I cannot enter to the OS
I attached a picture of the device setting
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hackeadorazo said:
I have a htc rezound with bad OS, I decided to flash a new rom.
First unlock bootloader from htc dev, then get root with iroot, then installed rom manager to install cwm recovery, then flash tow different rom and is the same, the phone just show htc.
So I think it is because I have s-on still, but I don't find a way to do it if I cannot enter to the OS
I attached a picture of the device setting
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After all these years and hundreds of people asking the same question, sometimes I can't believe this still comes up... but I will answer it again. The issue is that when you are S-ON the boot partition is not writable by recovery under normal conditions, essentially you flash a ROM but are not getting the matching kernel. You can't S-OFF without a bootable phone, kind of a double edged sword here but that's the unfortunate reality. The good news is, we can likely get it working.
The Rezound, and most HTC devices, need to have the boot image flashed separately via fastboot if you are S-ON, this can be achieved in two ways for the less experienced user... but both REQUIRE a PC with a USB port, correct drivers, and ADB/Fastboot installed, it will also require a copy of the ROM ZIP on your computer, and a copy of the recovery IMG file (I highly recommend TWRP).
The first method is to boot (not flash) recovery via fastboot and flash the ROM, when this is done the boot partition is writable by recovery because the phone thinks it is booting a boot image (not a recovery image) so the boot image has to be able to write to itself. Using this method you just need the recovery image file on your PC with the above mentioned pre-requisites, and you boot the phone into the bootloader and start Fastboot, now connect the USB and open a command window and enter:
fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-vigor.img
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-vigor.img should be the name of the recovery file you are using, you will see a little green bar on the side of the screen for a moment, then recovery will appear, perform normal wipes and flash the ROM like any other device, reboot, give it a good 15 minutes and you should be good to go. This method is NOT the same as starting recovery from the phone itself.
The second method updates the boot partition directly via fastboot, you need to extract the boot.img file from the ROM ZIP file and place it on your PC... now boot the phone into the bootloader and start Fastboot, connect the USB and open a command window and enter:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
This will write the correct boot partition to the phone. Reboot and give it a solid 15 minutes and it should be come up.
Now, the issue with S-OFF? See http://rumrunner.us/ after the phone is working again.
Sorry because I didn't read the forum or I didn't understand.
Now I understand right
I installed a stock rom and the phone is nice, now I can make s-off.
Really thank.
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hackeadorazo said:
Sorry because I didn't read the forum or I didn't understand.
Now I understand right
I installed a stock rom and the phone is nice, now I can make s-off.
Really thank.
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Not exactly... Rumrunner requires an unsecure kernel, so you have to flash to a custom ROM or use a custom Sense kernel, you could try to S-off the old fashioned way, via Juopunutbear, Linux, and use the wire trick, but that is the only way under a stock ROM.
I Decided leave the phone stock Until it fails again. The HTCs is the MOST Difficult brand.
Thanks
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hackeadorazo said:
I Decided leave the phone stock Until it fails again. The HTCs is the MOST Difficult brand.
Thanks
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Meh... Up to you, its like anything else, After you do it a couple times it's no big deal. Just glad you for it working.
And no, it's hardly the most difficult at all, TBH, HTC is quite good by comparison to many manufacturers... You have obviously never owned a Casio smartphone.