So...I was showing someone at work today how to install custom recovery in goomanager. I wasn't paying attention, went to far & it started to download twrp. I was running a newer version 2.6.3.0 so I tried to cancel the download. Well, that's when my problem started. I rebooted my phone into recovery so I could show him what twrp could do & it was gone. The phone would boot to the splash screen & hang for a few. It would then reboot again back to the splash screen & continue until the phone was back up & running. If I reboot into the bootloader it still says I'm unlocked & s-off. I'm also still rooted. I've tried all the options...fastboot, terminal emulator/adb shell, the PJ75IMG.zip in bootloader, & again thru goomanager. I just can't get it to reinstall. Everything else on the phone works fine. I can connect to my cpu & view all the files on internal storage & the sd card. I'm running Meanbean on hboot 1.19 & baseband 1.12.11.1210.
So what are my options??? I'm not above doing a complete factory reset if needed. Obviously, I'd like to do this without having to start over from scratch if possible.
TIA
buddahj said:
So...I was showing someone at work today how to install custom recovery in goomanager. I wasn't paying attention, went to far & it started to download twrp. I was running a newer version 2.6.3.0 so I tried to cancel the download. Well, that's when my problem started. I rebooted my phone into recovery so I could show him what twrp could do & it was gone. The phone would boot to the splash screen & hang for a few. It would then reboot again back to the splash screen & continue until the phone was back up & running. If I reboot into the bootloader it still says I'm unlocked & s-off. I'm also still rooted. I've tried all the options...fastboot, terminal emulator/adb shell, the PJ75IMG.zip in bootloader, & again thru goomanager. I just can't get it to reinstall. Everything else on the phone works fine. I can connect to my cpu & view all the files on internal storage & the sd card. I'm running Meanbean on hboot 1.19 & baseband 1.12.11.1210.
So what are my options??? I'm not above doing a complete factory reset if needed. Obviously, I'd like to do this without having to start over from scratch if possible.
TIA
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Open a cmd window from your PC>platform tools folder
Boot into bootloader>fastbootusb
Type fastboot erase cache
Re-Flash twrp > fastboot flash recovery recoverymane.img
Hopefully that will fix your issue
BD619 said:
Open a cmd window from your PC>platform tools folder
Boot into bootloader>fastbootusb
Type fastboot erase cache
Re-Flash twrp > fastboot flash recovery recoverymane.img
Hopefully that will fix your issue
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I tried it & unfortunately it didn't work. It's still doing the same thing.
After typing in the command: fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.109s]
finished. total time: 0.109s
After typing in the command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
error: cannot load recovery.img' : Unknown error
buddahj said:
I tried it & unfortunately it didn't work. It's still doing the same thing.
After typing in the command: fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [ 0.109s]
finished. total time: 0.109s
After typing in the command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
error: cannot load recovery.img' : Unknown error
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Is the recovery.img file in the folder you are using to run the commands?
BD619 said:
Is the recovery.img file in the folder you are using to run the commands?
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Yes, it's in the platform-tools folder.
Something else that just happened. I went into Nandroid Manager to see if it would say what recovery I'm running...if any. It said: Detected Recovery: Unknown Click to fix! When I clicked it I got this message.
"It looks like the file last_log at /cache/recovery/last_log does not exist! This file is required to detect installed recovery. To fix this problem please reboot into your recovery then reboot back to system!
What about flashing recovery via Nandroid Manager? I'm a little reluctant to do this since they warn it can brick your phone.
Odd. If you can't get recovery reinstalled I would RUU and go from there. You can use the 3.17 RUU and you'll retain S-off. You'll need to unlock your bootloader, install recovery and flash a ROM once it completes. Might be your best option.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
buddahj said:
Yes, it's in the platform-tools folder.
Something else that just happened. I went into Nandroid Manager to see if it would say what recovery I'm running...if any. It said: Detected Recovery: Unknown Click to fix! When I clicked it I got this message.
"It looks like the file last_log at /cache/recovery/last_log does not exist! This file is required to detect installed recovery. To fix this problem please reboot into your recovery then reboot back to system!
What about flashing recovery via Nandroid Manager? I'm a little reluctant to do this since they warn it can brick your phone.
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I have never heard of Nandroid Manager so can't really answer.
Are you sure everything is spelled correctly in the command?
FinZ28 said:
Odd. If you can't get recovery reinstalled I would RUU and go from there. You can use the 3.17 RUU and you'll retain S-off. You'll need to unlock your bootloader, install recovery and flash a ROM once it completes. Might be your best option.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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If I RUU, what's my best option for unlocking the bootloader? Can you still use HTC dev?
BD619 said:
Are you sure everything is spelled correctly in the command?
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yes
buddahj said:
If I RUU, what's my best option for unlocking the bootloader? Can you still use HTC dev?
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Yep.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
If I use the 3.17 RUU will it change my hboot? Not that it matters, just curious. You don't happen to have a link for the 3.17 ruu do you? Any thoughts on the viperuu?
buddahj said:
If I use the 3.17 RUU will it change my hboot? Not that it matters, just curious. You don't happen to have a link for the 3.17 ruu do you? Any thoughts on the viperuu?
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Yep, you'll have the newest Hboot. Doesn't really matter since you're S-off. Hit the top link in my sig and go to the bottom of the first post.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
buddahj said:
If I use the 3.17 RUU will it change my hboot? Not that it matters, just curious. You don't happen to have a link for the 3.17 ruu do you? Any thoughts on the viperuu?
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http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-evo-4g-lte-sprint/news/
Same hboot as far as I know.
If you are running Moonshine or Rumrunner hboot it may overwrite it but you can just re-flash the hboot again
:good::good: Thanks for the help guys. This looks like something I'll tackle on my next day off. Lol, the way my luck's been running lately this may not go as smoothly as it should.
FinZ28 said:
Yep, you'll have the newest Hboot. Doesn't really matter since you're S-off. Hit the top link in my sig and go to the bottom of the first post.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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He's on 1.19 so it'll update to 2.09. As far as VipeRUU, I don't have an opinion on it. I've used it previously on a phone that had a borked recovery partition and it worked just fine. It's really a matter of personal preference.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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buddahj said:
:good::good: Thanks for the help guys. This looks like something I'll tackle on my next day off. Lol, the way my luck's been running lately this may not go as smoothly as it should.
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I ran the 3.17 RUU on my phone the other night just for the heck of it. It takes about ten minutes from start to finish but it's pretty painless.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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Just curious. When you were showing how to install recovery, how did you go about doing it?
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
FinZ28 said:
He's on 1.19 so it'll update to 2.09. As far as VipeRUU, I don't have an opinion on it. I've used it previously on a phone that had a borked recovery partition and it worked just fine. It's really a matter of personal preference.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
Just curious. When you were showing how to install recovery, how did you go about doing it?
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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I was in the goomanager app showing him how you could use it to install open script recovery & accidentally started to download it.
I tried to run the 3.17 Ruu & got an error [158]: image error
It says: The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone. Please get the correct ROM Update Utility & try again.
buddahj said:
I tried to run the 3.17 Ruu & got an error [158]: image error
It says: The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone. Please get the correct ROM Update Utility & try again.
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Try a different USB port USB2 work the best
BD619 said:
Try a different USB port USB2 work the best
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I am using USB 2.0. I'll try on my laptop later & update then.
I ended up running the viperuu. I'm now back to being unlocked/rooted with twrp. What a pain in my arse.
Thanks again guys!!!
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I've tried multiple ways of returning to stock, including PJ75IMG.zip and running the RUU for my version. TWRP won't let me flash anything I've tried and they all fail. I can install backups from TWRP no problem there. I'll try to give as many details as possible, but I can't figure out what is wrong.
*Tampered* Unlocked*
JEWEL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT is 1.19
Radio is 1.12
Recovery is TWRP version 2.2.2.0
Software version is 2.13.651.
I'm dying to figure this one out, as all I want to do is return it to completely stock so I can start again clean. Thanks guys.
What happens when you try to run ruu
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
PathogenVirdae said:
I've tried multiple ways of returning to stock, including PJ75IMG.zip and running the RUU for my version. TWRP won't let me flash anything I've tried and they all fail. I can install backups from TWRP no problem there. I'll try to give as many details as possible, but I can't figure out what is wrong.
*Tampered* Unlocked*
JEWEL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT is 1.19
Radio is 1.12
Recovery is TWRP version 2.2.2.0
Software version is 2.13.651.
I'm dying to figure this one out, as all I want to do is return it to completely stock so I can start again clean. Thanks guys.
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Update your twrp to 2.3.3.0 or if you want to return to stock you have to relock your bootloader
Sent from my PoS MoPho
TWRP won't take the update for whatever reason, and I can't get fastboot to work over this machine, so I'm thinking about running linux to get into the phone a little easier (hopefully.) I either have to wait til I can use my roommates machine, or start installing a dual boot
Have you tried goomanager to update twrp?
Yea, it downloads the file, gives a message stating it has been installed, then it does nothing. No reboot. when I manually reboot into recovery, it still sits at previous version.
Do you have adb setup on your PC? Also do you have the correct drivers installed ?
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always=SG3
Ok, so finally got my fastboot to work
"Fastboot oem lock"
Worked. Awesome...now it's stuck in a bootloader loop. Won't let me into recovery, but I can still get to fastboot. I can't get to recovery, factory reset, etc. just hboot and fastboot.
screen shows tampered relocked and security warning.
Any ideas? I can get it to flash the PJ75IMG.zip but it says main version is older! or something to that effect and it fails. Any ideas?
UPDATE: Got it unlocked again and it booted back into OS.
Bump. I'd really like to get this phone on the newest versions of everything. Anyone have any ideas?
PathogenVirdae said:
Bump. I'd really like to get this phone on the newest versions of everything. Anyone have any ideas?
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Did you fastboot flash the stock recovery after you relocked?
bigdaddy619 said:
Did you fastboot flash the stock recovery after you relocked?
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No, but I was wondering if I could flash things in that state. Since it wasn't moving past bootloader I wasn't sure if I should try anything. Is stock recovery effected by anything like software version?
Sorry to need hand-holding, but I'm really lost, lol :crying:
Go to unlimiteds site and s-off, all your problems will be solved, they go step by step to get you back to stock.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
PathogenVirdae said:
No, but I was wondering if I could flash things in that state. Since it wasn't moving past bootloader I wasn't sure if I should try anything. Is stock recovery effected by anything like software version?
Sorry to need hand-holding, but I'm really lost, lol :crying:
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Well since you are s-on you can't flash PJ75IMG files from bootloader if you want to update your phone to the latest OTA you have to relock your bootloader and reflash the stock recovery and take the OTA then unlock and flash twrp again.
If you click the link in my sig and download the 3.15/2.09 hboot file there is a stock recovery in the files as well as instructions on how to flash it
Sent from my PoS MoPho
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mrlakadaddy said:
Go to unlimiteds site and s-off, all your problems will be solved, they go step by step to get you back to stock.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
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Or this ^^^^ a much better choice
Sent from my PoS MoPho
I'm assuming that would be "flash recovery recovery.img" once I found a suitable stock recovery?
PathogenVirdae said:
I'm assuming that would be "flash recovery recovery.img" once I found a suitable stock recovery?
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There is a stock recovery on the files I recommend as well as the commands to use
Sent from my PoS MoPho
So I'm trying to run the Dirty Racun method, and I'm sitting at this part "sudo ./fastboot flash zip RUU.zip"
How long should this normally take? The only thing I can see is Sending 'zip' (filesize) and htc on the phone. Does this process take awhile? >20 mins? Is there some kind of progress meter?
Update:// So apparently I'm stuck. DirtyRacun seems to hang on the RUU flash. BigDaddy, it also stops half way thru the stock recovery flash.
I used HTCDEV.COM to unlock my phone, then flashed a custom recovery (i am hboot 1.58 with latest OTA)...the recovery didn't work so I tried flashing a stock recovery back...I do not think that worked. I relocked my phone and it has been working great for about a week. My battery died and now it is acting like this....
I have tried a factory reset, battery pulls, sd card pulls, reboot etc...to no avail
You Tube dot com /watch?v=imJGRGFNSeM
Ok, after charging for awhile and trying factory resets I found that my recovery image doesn't seem to exist...that is probably the problem but I do not know how to fix that...
any help is much appreciated
you tube dot com/watch?v=AC4TZvHWLG8
ICS back up now after battery/sd card pull and reseat....any ideas how i can I fix? My initial goal was to get a custom rom on the phone to live out the rest of my sprint contract in peace and with better battery life - the end result has been, as of now - a headache
Unlock, flash a new recovery image via adb, then flash your rom. I prefer 4EXT recovery. If you are s-on, you'll need that one and you'll need to enable smart flash in the settings menu.
Sent from my SlimRom jb'd EVO 3D.
aqualls said:
Unlock, flash a new recovery image via adb, then flash your rom. I prefer 4EXT recovery. If you are s-on, you'll need that one and you'll need to enable smart flash in the settings menu.
Sent from my SlimRom jb'd EVO 3D.
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thank you so much for the reply! I tried that initially, now when I attempt to use adb it says "waiting for device" or something, and wont do it for me...
I TRIED THIS AND FAILED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2074181
I have been unable to run any RUU to downgrade the phone, locked or unlocked
it also says when in boot loader PG86.img or whatever doesn't exist or not found
trey41303 said:
it also says when in boot loader PG86.img or whatever doesn't exist or not found
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Make sure it's on the root of your SD card and renamed PG86IMG.zip exactly.
Sent from my SlimRom jb'd EVO 3D.
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Try using Ramjet73's guide. May be best to take to scratch and start over.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
Sent from my SlimRom jb'd EVO 3D.
I'm still stuck
aqualls said:
Make sure it's on the root of your SD card and renamed PG86IMG.zip exactly.
Sent from my SlimRom jb'd EVO 3D.
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Try using Ramjet73's guide. May be best to take to scratch and start over.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
Sent from my SlimRom jb'd EVO 3D.
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Following Ramjet73 and failing here too
Relocked the phone several days ago. Unlocked tonight, unable to flash a new recovery image, relocked and tried to run the RUU in that guide.
I've attached some supporting pics
Edit: the pictures failed! the RUU utility errored out and said,
"ERROR [140]: BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.
Please get the correct R"OM Update Utility and Try again."
This is bad right? Where it says FAILED (status read failed (unknown error)?
trey41303 said:
This is bad right? Where it says FAILED (status read failed (unknown error)?
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That's probably not a problem, but are you Sprint or VM?
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
That's probably not a problem, but are you Sprint or VM?
ramjet73
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I'm with sprint now. It's like my recovery image doeant exist, isn't accessible, and can't be replaced. I'm still not sure if the pg86img.zip is the same thong as my recovery but it says it doesn't exist when I go to fastbooot
trey41303 said:
I'm with sprint now. It's like my recovery image doeant exist, isn't accessible, and can't be replaced. I'm still not sure if the pg86img.zip is the same thong as my recovery but it says it doesn't exist when I go to fastbooot
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OK.
I just noticed you said that you took the latest OTA that came out this month. How and when did you do that? Was it after you were already rooted?
You may need to flash another file to downgrade the main version (mainver) before flashing the RUU but you would need to unlock again before doing that.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
OK.
I just noticed you said that you took the latest OTA that came out this month. How and when did you do that? Was it after you were already rooted?
You may need to flash another file to downgrade the main version (mainver) before flashing the RUU but you would need to unlock again before doing that.
ramjet73
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Took the OTA update the day before I tried the HTCDEV unlock and flashed arecovery IMG over I tried several of them to no avail and it never booted to recovery after that so I just set up the phone and moved on...
trey41303 said:
Took the OTA update the day before I tried the HTCDEV unlock and moved a recovery IMF over. It never booted to recovery after that so I set up the phone and moved on...
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OK, you'll need to start by unlocking the phone again and then we'll get your recovery installed so you can flash the zip file and RUU.
Can you verify that you can get into "fastboot usb" mode and do the HTC unlock with the same .bin file again?
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
OK, you'll need to start by unlocking the phone again and then we'll get your recovery installed so you can flash the zip file and RUU.
Can you verify that you can get into "fastboot usb" mode and do the HTC unlock with the same .bin file again?
ramjet73
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I can do that. Sorry for the slow responses. I joined in 2010 when I got my Hero, but never had trouble rooting and modding it just following the posts. The forum is still making me wait 5 minutes between posts
Pull battery
Replace
Vol Dow + power
When menu comes up press power
Plug phone into computer
Cd c:/android
Fastboot flash unlocktolken Unlock_code.bin
Move the thing on the phone to unlock then select it with the power button...then.....
That's where I get fuzzy
trey41303 said:
I can do that. Sorry for the slow responses. I joined in 2010 when I got my Hero, but never had trouble rooting and modding it just following the posts. The forum is still making me wait 5 minutes between posts
Pull battery
Replace
Vol Dow + power
When menu comes up press power
Plug phone into computer
Cd c:/android
Fastboot flash unlocktolken Unlock_code.bin
Move the thing on the phone to unlock then select it with the power button...then.....
That's where I get fuzzy
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So you did all of that already?
If so you are ready to flash the recovery. If you have a recovery.img file in the same directory as your ADB/fastboot, put the phone back into "fastboot USB" mode and issue the following commands:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot boot recovery.img
The second command should put you into the recovery.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
So you did all of that already?
If so you are ready to flash the recovery. If you have a recovery.img file in the same directory as your ADB/fastboot, put the phone back into "fastboot USB" mode and issue the following commands:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot boot recovery.img
The second command should put you into the recovery.
ramjet73
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Ok, which recovery should I be using? People say to use 4ext, but I have yet to find that
trey41303 said:
Ok, which recovery should I be using? People say to use 4ext, but I have yet to find that
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Yea, I'd recommend 4EXT. You can download it from here, then put in your ADB/fastboot directory and rename it to "recovery.img".
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
Yea, I'd recommend 4EXT. You can download it from here, then put in your ADB/fastboot directory and rename it to "recovery.img".
ramjet73
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got 4EXT thank you, renamed it recovery.img, placed in my c:/android
tried to fastboot flash and get this response....im face palming here
Phones eye view
Here is my phone in boot loader mode as of now
And the screen showing its unlocked
Did you see the previous pic...seems something is wrong....I am trying to find the instructions I was using to flash a new rom when I found that the initial recovery img didn't work
Seems it said if your "s-off"...do this to flash a new rom, or do this to flash a rom and permanently root/place recovery I g on phone. And I did the latter
Hi,
I have a Sprint CDMA HTC EVO 3D. I tried root and get S-OFF for it. Unfortunately I failed and now the phone fail to boot.
Below is what I did from which you might be able to diagnose it and give me suggestions.
(1) The original status of mu phone is:
Stock rom, I never root it before.
HBOOT-1.58.0000
Android Version: 4.03
HTC Sense version: 3.6
Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
(2) My root procedures:
I followed this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813818
I successfully unlocked phone with HTCDev, successfully Flashed 4EXT recovery, and successfully installed Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip. I also booted into sytem, everything worked well.
However I failed in next step of JuopunutBear's Wire Trick (S-OFF). When I ran ControlBear.exe, it finally hanged there.
Current status of my phone:
Unfortunately I did not make a backup to my original ROM, so there is no way to revert back by restoring backup.
Now the phone is in unlocked status, I was able to boot to HBOOT and also enter 4Ext recovery, however I am not able to boot into Android. If I try to boot into Android, it always hang at black screen.
I am able to boot to fastboot (USB) mode, I tried to flash some stock ROM (listed at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24268786&postcount=209), but I failed. For example, I ran a RUU of 2.89.exe, it detected my phone version is 2.95, and further update RUU failed.
Looks like my partition is ruined, but I might be wrong.
ANyone can help me to restore my phone to working status? At least I need the phone to be able to boo to Android.
Here are also some tries that I ever did:
(1) I ever put the PG86IMG.zip file (downloaded from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21593454&postcount=564) to my sdcard, still failed.
(2) I ever formatted all partition from 4EXT recovery
lsdyna said:
Here are also some tries that I ever did:
(1) I ever put the PG86IMG.zip file (downloaded from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21593454&postcount=564) to my sdcard, still failed.
(2) I ever formatted all partition from 4EXT recovery
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Okay. I've got some questions.
1. You're stuck on some black screen as you said. It boots past the white HTC splash and then it's stuck on that black screen, right. Do you mean the juopunutbear "arrow screen" - juopunutbears boot.img?
2. I think if you had flashed the original boot img everything would have been fine.
3. The easiest way is to flash to stock, so lets try to figure out why it doesn't flash.
MrJyrks said:
Okay. So from what I understood, you are stuck on the black juopunutbear screen, right?
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Yes, after I was stuck with black juopunutbear screen, I took battery out, reboot again, never was able to root to Android. I am only able to boot to HBoot.
lsdyna said:
Yes, after I was stuck with black juopunutbear screen, I took battery out, reboot again, never was able to root to Android. I am only able to boot to HBoot.
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And you can boot to recovery, right?
EDIT:
One more thing. Which ruu were you trying to run
Edit2:
What's your CID? Use "fastboot getvar cid" or "fastboot oem readcid" (without quotes).
Edit3:
BTW, this was on the wire trick page... http://unlimited.io/jbtroubleshooting.htm - TROUBLESHOOTING There was everything you needed to know when you failed at something. Remember that page. You may need it the next time you try to do the wiretrick.
Q: Were you using a linux distro for the wire trick and did you use the appropriate files for wire trick since GB and ICS have separate tools?
If you want I may assist you in gaining s-off if we get this thing functional again.
Yes, I am able to boot to recovery.
I tried ROM's here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24268786&postcount=209
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22519105#post22519105
I tried 2.17, 2.89, unfortunately none of them worked
My CID is SPCS_001
MrJyrks said:
And you can boot to recovery, right?
EDIT: One more thing. Which ruu were you trying to run
Edit2: What's your CID? Use "fastboot getvar cid" or "fastboot oem readcid" (without quotes).
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lsdyna said:
Yes, I am able to boot to recovery.
I tried ROM's here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24268786&postcount=209
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22519105#post22519105
I tried 2.17, 2.89, unfortunately none of them worked
My CID is SPCS_001
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Aw man, I'm completely sorry I didn't see this: Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
That means, no RUU for you cause htc/sprint wasn't kind enough to provide the ruu. Also FYI you can't flash a ruu lower than your current one.
So your best bet is to flash the most stock 2.95 cdma rom you could find and right after, flash the stock cdma evo 3d kernel through fastboot or 4ext (I think 4ext smartflash does the same thing). Try to find something that's COMPLETELY STOCK - with no mods whatsoever or if you couldn't find any, try something that's almost* stock. That should get you booting and you can try s off again.
Edit: This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Now I only want to revert my phone to stock, not considering root at present time.
I searched 2.95 ROM, unfortunately the highest version that I can find is 2.89. Does this mean I have no way to revert my phone to live? Thanks a lot.
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Aw man, I'm completely sorry I didn't see this: Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
That means, no RUU for you cause htc/sprint wasn't kind enough to provide the ruu. Also FYI you can't flash a ruu lower than your current one.
So your best bet is to flash the most stock 2.95 cdma rom you could find and right after, flash the stock cdma evo 3d kernel through fastboot or 4ext (I think 4ext smartflash does the same thing). Try to find something that's COMPLETELY STOCK - with no mods whatsoever or if you couldn't find any, try something that's almost* stock. That should get you booting and you can try s off again.
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I ever run a RUU 1.13...exe for mmy phone, it said my device is having 1.000, and it tried to update to 1.13. However, the update procedure always failed at some point, some at beginning, some failed at 'wring signature'...
MrJyrks said:
Aw man, I'm completely sorry I didn't see this: Software version: 2.95.651.6.710RD
That means, no RUU for you cause htc/sprint wasn't kind enough to provide the ruu. Also FYI you can't flash a ruu lower than your current one.
So your best bet is to flash the most stock 2.95 cdma rom you could find and right after, flash the stock cdma evo 3d kernel through fastboot or 4ext (I think 4ext smartflash does the same thing). Try to find something that's COMPLETELY STOCK - with no mods whatsoever or if you couldn't find any, try something that's almost* stock. That should get you booting and you can try s off again.
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I ever run a RUU 1.13...exe for mmy phone, it said my device is having 1.000, and it tried to update to 1.13. However, the update procedure always failed at some point, some at beginning, some failed at 'wring signature'...
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This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
My HBoot screen shows below:
SHOOTER XC SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.58.000
RADIO-1.09.00.0108
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0217
DO you think I still have chance to save my device? Thanks a lot.
lsdyna said:
I ever run a RUU 1.13...exe for mmy phone, it said my device is having 1.000, and it tried to update to 1.13. However, the update procedure always failed at some point, some at beginning, some failed at 'wring signature'...
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lsdyna said:
My HBoot screen shows below:
SHOOTER XC SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.58.000
RADIO-1.09.00.0108
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0217
DO you think I still have chance to save my device? Thanks a lot.
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If you have access to the recovery, most likely, yes.
Hello MrJyrks,
Thank you so much for the link! I am eager to try that. Before I do that I think I shall ask two questions to avoid further mess up the device:
Question #1: To install the deodexed rom, which is the correct way:
(1) Rename the ZIP file to PG86IMG.ZIP, put to root of sdcard, then boot, letting the Bootloader to do the update.
(2) In 4EXT recovery, enable smartflash, enable script asserts, then install the zip from the root of sdcard.
Question #2: You said I shall flash boot image, can you tell me how to do this? I mean, where shall I get the boot image file? Flash it with 4EXT? SHall I do it before or after install ROM zip file?
Thank you very much for your helps!!!
MrJyrks said:
This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
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I tried install the stock ROM from your link (using 4EXT with smartflash enabled and script asserts enabled.) . Amazing that installation completed successfully (indeed this is the first ROM zip that I was able to install successfully since I mess up the device). When I exit After that, it did some further update which I guess is the boot.img that you mentioned.
4EXT it said 'a pending update for your boot partition is detected' and I think it was doing the boot image flash that you mentioned, right?
Unfortunately when I boo the device, I still got black screen.
Now I am unlocked and also rooted (since I successfully installed superuser in 4EXT). DO you think I shall lock the devioce before installing the stock ROM? If so, one possible issue is that if I relock the device, I found 4EXT is not available. In that case, how shall I install the ROM zip file?
Thanks.
MrJyrks said:
This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
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Further update:
I flashed boot image by: fastboot flash boot boot.img which is included in the stock ROM zip file.
The flash went successfully. However, I am still not able to boot to Android. WHat I have is the device hang there, alternatively displaying logo with white background, and black screen.
MrJyrks said:
This shall work. http://www.negalite.com/index.php?topic=21.0 Try it and report back!!!
Flash like a normal rom and don't forget to flash the boot img because that's what's really causing you problems right now. I'd choose the deodexed one from there.
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I wiped cache and Dalvic, then re-flash the ROM, now I am able to boot as normal.
MrJyrks, you are my life save!!!
Your helps are sincerely appreciated !
lsdyna said:
I wiped cache and Dalvic, then re-flash the ROM, now I am able to boot as normal.
MrJyrks, you are my life save!!!
Your helps are sincerely appreciated !
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You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!
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Oh, and if, in the future, you do try the wire trick and get stuck at some point you can revert the changes with ControlBear -r or ControlBear -f from command line. And you may also PM me if you need any help. Cheers!
MrJyrks, thank you so much!!!
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You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!
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Oh, and if, in the future, you do try the wire trick and get stuck at some point you can revert the changes with ControlBear -r or ControlBear -f from command line. And you may also PM me if you need any help. Cheers!
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Similar problem, can't return to stock
I have a problem similar to lsdyna's, and am hoping that even though this post is old, MrJyrks or someone might be able to help me.
I am unsuccessfully trying to return my phone to stock. First a bit of history.
I had 2.95.651.6.710RD s-on hboot 1.58 Android Version: 4.03 HTC Sense version: 3.6 on my phone, and wanted root. I didn't need s-off, just wanted to root so could do some tweaking (stop some apps from autostarting, stop some form getting network access, etc.) so loaded 4EXT Recovery Touch, and got root (fastboot oem get_identifier_token method), got superuser in there, and happily began tweaking. Famous last words... I didn't make a backup right away (learned my lesson!) and suddenly found a 'overtweaked' sluggish phone on my hands.
Thought best thing would be to lose the root & return to stock & start over, carefully, making backups.
So I used Fastboot (fastboot oem lock) to lock it (worked) and proceeded to try to load RUU_Shooter_ICS_35_S_Sprint_WWE_2.89.651.2_Radio_1.09.00.0706__NV_NV_SPCS_1.43_release_271101_signed.exe into it [via my computer], but didn't realize until reading MrJyrks post that a lower RUU couldn't be used.
I now am relocked (phone does boot up, but can tell the system tweaks are still slogging it), lost the recovery, and wondering what to do... do I try putting recovery back in & using the Negalite 2.95 stock deodex ROM MrJyrks mentioned? If so, how do I use that zip file method verses the exe one I tried thru my computer?
Thanks for the help
You had issues with the RUU because your main version is higher than that contained in the RUU.
Unlock, flash recovery again. Boot into recovery and flash this zip: https://copy.com/wlVvwssXXNN00Pe
That will lower your main version. Relock the bootloader, put the phone into fastboot USB mode, then run the RUU while in fastboot USB mode.
Should be back to stock after that.
I've been trying to root my EVO 4G LTE using various guides from this board, and I'm not having a lot of luck. I have HBOOT 2.09 and it's S-ON. It seems like the easiest way to root the device is to go S-OFF, but then it appears that the device needs to be rooted to get S-OFF. So I'm a little confused at this point. I've unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP, but when I try to install the SuperSU root utility it gives me an error about mounting partitions and fails. My bootloader screen also displays "TAMPERED" which seems to be a problem but I'm not having a lot of luck finding a way to resolve it.
So... can anyone tell me what my next step is?
Thanks in advance.
Are you using Facepalm, Moonshine, or DirtyRacun? You haven't really provided enough details to help, at this point. What's your software version? I assume you're running the stock ROM?
I was running the stock ROM, I think it was 3.16. I tried using Facepalm but again it seems like it needs root to work which I haven't been able to achieve just yet. I tried installing the ROM from this thread through TWRP but it just hangs on the HTC screen so I'm not sure what's on there now. I can still get into the bootloader and recovery though.
You can't use Facepalm on 3.16 software. Use Moonshine.
Try flashing this stock rooted to get back to a working state: http://d-h.st/users/Captain_Throwback/?fld_id=10308#files
You may need to fastboot flash the boot.img to make sure it fully boots.
OK, I downloaded that ROM and extracted the boot.img. I booted the phone into the bootloader and ran "fastboot flash boot boot.img". It seems to have completed correctly, no errors at least, but now the phone just sits at the HTC screen with the red text at the bottom. Clearly I'm doing something wrong...
Did you flash the ROM too? Or did it reboot on you when you tried?
I just did the boot.img. Should I also do "fastboot flash zip 3.16.651.3_stock_rooted_odex_CPTB.zip"?
davel23 said:
I just did the boot.img. Should I also do "fastboot flash zip 3.16.651.3_stock_rooted_odex_CPTB.zip"?
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You have to flash the ROM in recovery.
Ok, so I went into recovery which is still TWRP, adb pushed that ROM to the phone then tried to install it. It gives a bunch of error messages about being unable to mount various items, says it's unable to find path for partition [name of the zip] and fails.
Thanks for your help and patience so far...
You do not extract the file, leave it as a zip and do not open it. Move it to your SD card while in fastboot (mount sd) and from there use twrp and select the correct zip to flash. But above all... DO NOT EXTRACT THE FILR
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roscoepcoltra said:
You do not extract the file, leave it as a zip and do not open it. Move it to your SD card while in fastboot (mount sd) and from there use twrp and select the correct zip to flash. But above all... DO NOT EXTRACT THE FILR
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He's S-on. He can't flash kernels from recovery with Hboot 2.09.
davel23 said:
Ok, so I went into recovery which is still TWRP, adb pushed that ROM to the phone then tried to install it. It gives a bunch of error messages about being unable to mount various items, says it's unable to find path for partition [name of the zip] and fails.
Thanks for your help and patience so far...
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I don't understand what you're doing here. Boot to recovery, mount storage, copy the ROM zip over, and then flash it.
Ok, so I mounted storage from recovery, or least I tried to, my PC said it needed to be formatted. So I did so, copied the file over and flashed it which completed successfully this time. My phone now boots properly, I'll give Moonshine a try now. Hopefully I won't need to bug you again, thanks for all the help.
Captain_Throwback said:
You can't use Facepalm on 3.16 software. Use Moonshine.
Try flashing this stock rooted to get back to a working state: http://d-h.st/users/Captain_Throwback/?fld_id=10308#files
You may need to fastboot flash the boot.img to make sure it fully boots.
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my friend wants to buy im rooted unlocked evo. it is on viper now can I flash this an it will be stock rooted ?
Tigerstown said:
my friend wants to buy im rooted unlocked evo. it is on viper now can I flash this an it will be stock rooted ?
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Yes.
Captain_Throwback said:
Yes.
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S-on Ok? Or do I need to moonshine first?
Tigerstown said:
S-on Ok? Or do I need to moonshine first?
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You need to use Flash Image GUI or fastboot flash the kernel.
FinZ28 said:
You need to use Flash Image GUI or fastboot flash the kernel.
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Ok I got that app I use that. An for my other one I'm selling is s-off so I can just flash this on that one..it's been fun on the Evo with the helpful fellow xda's on the jewel. But the wife's work now cover half your bill if you have verizon so we had no choice
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Yes.
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Omg I just moonshine(easy thing I ever did) this phone my wife didn't want s-off before. So now I'm s-off I will just flash thanks once again throwback. Hope there is someone in vzw htc one thread that breaks down firmware like you.
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I'm having a little trouble with Moonshine. It reboots the phone a couple of times, gets to step 3 then just keeps printing periods in the program window. I've been reading through the Moonshine thread and it seems other people have had the same problem, but I haven't seen a solid fix yet. Anyone know what I need to do or should I stick with the Moonshine thread?
I think I messed up my phone partitions...
Background: I installed Haunted Carbon a couple of weeks ago. It worked great. I saw that NIN updated the haunted kernel to X.2.3.6 so I thought I'd update my kernel. I'm a noob in working with custom ROMs and thought it would just be a simple flash...boy was I wrong. Nothing on my phone works anymore.
When I boot into TWRP, and click on the command line icon on the bottom of the screen, I keep seeing the error: "E:Unable to mount '/sd-ext'"
When I try to wipe everything but my SD card, it says that the wipe as FAILED.
It says it's E:Unable to mount /usb-otg & /sd-ext​
Any ideas on how I can fix my phone? By the way, I tried using fastboot to load the original kernel onto the phone but it just hangs (it says it tries to copy, but just sits there forever..). I honestly think my phone partitions are messed up.
Phone:
TWRP 2.5 (i'm able to boot into it)
S-Off
... any other details I'm missing?
I'm not even able to install a ROM in TWRP at this point... it just says "failed" when I try.
Also, sorry if I'm missing any key details in my posts! I'm a noobie at custom ROMming, but feel free to ask me anything and I'll try to answer as best I can!
This should get you fixed up
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443108
bigdaddy619 said:
This should get you fixed up
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2443108
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Thx bigdaddy! I'm trying QBKing's unbrick instructions... if those don't work, I'll definitely be giving your link a run!
Quick update:
My TWRP stopped working... can't even boot into it from the bootloader. I tried reinstalling it through fastboot, but no files want to transfer (tried both that and boot.img through fastboot usb).
any ideas on how i can fix? i'm fresh out of ideas ((
What happens when you try to boot to recovery from the bootloader? What were you doing just prior to not being able to access recovery?
Download the latest version of TWRP and try to re-install it. Prior to that, use the "fastboot erase recovery" command while connected via Fastboot USB mode.
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What happens when you try to boot to recovery from the bootloader? What were you doing just prior to not being able to access recovery?
Download the latest version of TWRP and try to re-install it. Prior to that, use the "fastboot erase recovery" command while connected via Fastboot USB mode.
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Hi Fin!
I was just trying to install an updated kernel with GooManager... it turns out that the kernel probably wasn't compatible with Carbon. Also, erasing recovery failed... the msg I received is below:
fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.005s
Fr0HiKE said:
Hi Fin!
I was just trying to install an updated kernel with GooManager... it turns out that the kernel probably wasn't compatible with Carbon. Also, erasing recovery failed... the msg I received is below:
fastboot erase recovery
erasing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.005s
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Okay, so what happens when you try to boot into recovery?
I have a thought on how to fix this if you're shut out of recovery Take a look at the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197909
This will unroot your phone, but you'll have a working device once again. You can then go back through the steps to root it again.
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This just recently happened and I'm s-on it would but only white screen would just show so what I did was I tries vipers flash boot img 1.2 and it work
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bravo1565 said:
This just recently happened and I'm s-on it would but only white screen would just show so what I did was I tries vipers flash boot img 1.2 and it work
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He's S-off.
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FinZ28 said:
He's S-off.
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I'm actually S-on! Still having issues
Fr0HiKE said:
I'm actually S-on! Still having issues
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Okay. I was going off your original post. What Hboot are you on?
Can you do without your phone for a couple of days? If so, shoot me a PM.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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Okay. I was going off your original post. What Hboot are you on?
Can you do without your phone for a couple of days? If so, shoot me a PM.
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I'm on HBOOT 2.09, and yes I can do without my phone for a couple of days (using a backup atm, HTC EVO Shift ). PMing you now!
Fr0HiKE said:
I'm on HBOOT 2.09, and yes I can do without my phone for a couple of days (using a backup atm, HTC EVO Shift ). PMing you now!
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Check your PM.
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