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I am a rooted htc rezound user and am in desperate need for help. My rezound is rooted and the bootloader is unlocked. I just recently tried the new ICS (sense 3.5) rom that was released yesterday. Before i used the rom i did a nandroid backup and then a factory reset. Once i was finished with the rom (because of the bugs it carried), i went to restore my phone using the nandroid backup. When the phone booted back up, after it hit the HTC splash screen, it freezes. The phone is still on, but stuck on a black screen.
I have tried everything. Restoring the nandroid backup multiple times. Flashing a stock rom of the htc rezound in the recovery and also (changing the name to PH98IMG) and the tried flashing it through bootloader/hboot. I also took the stock kernel and did the same exact thing. Ive also downloaded the automatic (.exe) RUU update of the stock rom, from Scott's Roms, but that just kept giving me an "Update Fail" message.
Please help me!
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No offense, but this is what you get for flashing a leak without understanding the repercussions. Fortunately, you can be helped but in the future it may not be possible to restore to an earlier version if you flash a leak via a PH98IMG.zip.
Several things you and others must understand now that you have flashed your phone via the PH98IMG.zip leak. If you flashed scott's rom of the leak, you are fine and this DOESN'T apply to you.
1) Your mainver was updated. It is possible you WILL NOT be able to EVER use an RUU to restore in the future. The RUU checks for the mainver and if yours is newer, it will error. A new RUU of the official ICS update will probably work, but that could be a ways off and you could be screwed if you need to RUU in the mean time.
2) Since your mainver was updated, the current ways to install kernels that involve PH98IMG.zips won't work unless you modify them yourself. So you will have to install them via fastboot. Some of them are distributed as zImages so you can't flash those anymore without devs updating their tools. It is unlikely that they will, because in order for them to work with your phones, it will update everyone elses mainver when they run the kernel installation and doing that for everyone would be irresponsible.
DO NOT FLASH THIS IF YOU DIDN'T UPDATE TO THE LEAK VIA A PH98IMG.ZIP IF YOU FLASHED THE BOOT IMAGE WITH FASTBOOT OR CLEANFLASH YOU ARE FINE. IF YOU MODIFIED THE android-info.txt YOURSELF BEFORE FLASHING BECAUSE YOU ARE SMART, DON'T FLASH THIS EITHER.
Anyway, to use:
1) Wipe in recovery
2) Format /system in recovery
3) Run your nandroid restore or install a rom of your choice.
4) Flash the PH98IMG.zip from the bootloader.
Restart and you should be OK
con247 said:
No offense, but this is what you get for flashing a leak without understanding the repercussions. Fortunately, you can be helped but in the future it may not be possible to restore to an earlier version if you flash a leak via a PH98IMG.zip.
Several things you and others must understand now that you have flashed your phone via the PH98IMG.zip leak. If you flashed scott's rom of the leak, you are fine and this DOESN'T apply to you.
1) Your mainver was updated. It is possible you WILL NOT be able to EVER use an RUU to restore in the future. The RUU checks for the mainver and if yours is newer, it will error. A new RUU of the official ICS update will probably work, but that could be a ways off and you could be screwed if you need to RUU in the mean time.
2) Since your mainver was updated, the current ways to install kernels that involve PH98IMG.zips won't work unless you modify them yourself. So you will have to install them via fastboot. Some of them are distributed as zImages so you can't flash those anymore without devs updating their tools. It is unlikely that they will, because in order for them to work with your phones, it will update everyone elses mainver when they run the kernel installation and doing that for everyone would be irresponsible.
Anyway. To restore the stock kernel, I am building a special PH98IMG.zip right now. DO NOT FLASH THIS IF YOU DIDN'T UPDATE TO THE LEAK VIA A PH98IMG.ZIP IF YOU FLASHED THE BOOT IMAGE WITH FASTBOOT OR CLEANFLASH YOU ARE FINE. IF YOU MODIFIED THE android-info.txt YOURSELF BEFORE FLASHING BECAUSE YOU ARE SMART, DON'T FLASH THIS EITHER.
Anyway, to use:
1) Wipe in recovery
2) Format /system in recovery
3) Run your nandroid restore
4) Flash the PH98IMG.zip from the bootloader.
Restart and you should be OK
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Omg, thank you sooooooooo much. It worked beautifully! Thank you times a million!
con247 said:
No offense, but this is what you get for flashing a leak without understanding the repercussions. Fortunately, you can be helped but in the future it may not be possible to restore to an earlier version if you flash a leak via a PH98IMG.zip.
Several things you and others must understand now that you have flashed your phone via the PH98IMG.zip leak. If you flashed scott's rom of the leak, you are fine and this DOESN'T apply to you.
1) Your mainver was updated. It is possible you WILL NOT be able to EVER use an RUU to restore in the future. The RUU checks for the mainver and if yours is newer, it will error. A new RUU of the official ICS update will probably work, but that could be a ways off and you could be screwed if you need to RUU in the mean time.
2) Since your mainver was updated, the current ways to install kernels that involve PH98IMG.zips won't work unless you modify them yourself. So you will have to install them via fastboot. Some of them are distributed as zImages so you can't flash those anymore without devs updating their tools. It is unlikely that they will, because in order for them to work with your phones, it will update everyone elses mainver when they run the kernel installation and doing that for everyone would be irresponsible.
Anyway. To restore the stock kernel, I am building a special PH98IMG.zip right now. DO NOT FLASH THIS IF YOU DIDN'T UPDATE TO THE LEAK VIA A PH98IMG.ZIP IF YOU FLASHED THE BOOT IMAGE WITH FASTBOOT OR CLEANFLASH YOU ARE FINE. IF YOU MODIFIED THE android-info.txt YOURSELF BEFORE FLASHING BECAUSE YOU ARE SMART, DON'T FLASH THIS EITHER.
Anyway, to use:
1) Wipe in recovery
2) Format /system in recovery
3) Run your nandroid restore
4) Flash the PH98IMG.zip from the bootloader.
Restart and you should be OK
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As stupid as it was that I installed that PH98IMG.zip without looking further into it, or if I had just used fast boot, or cleanFLASH I wouldn't be in this mess. I mainly blame it on having the Eris, INC1, and INC2 all S-OFF, esp my latest phone before the Rezound inc2, was perma S-OFF thanks to the XTC clip so I could flash just about anything without repercussion. But you live and you learn. The Eris had crazy 2.1 leaks and people got stuck on some bad builds, and not only that they were unable to root when root finally came out, because they flashed the 2.1 leak.. I thought I learned my lesson then but with this I didn't know any better. Learn something new everyday. but I disagree with this part. "It is possible you WILL NOT be able to EVER use an RUU to restore in the future."
Jcase has assured me this is not true.
Ignore This and the next post plz
I need ten post in order to post on development forums. I am just going to use my thread so plz ignore this.thnks
I need ten post in order to post on development forums. I am just going to use my thread so plz ignore this.thnks
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Don't give up now! You're almost there...
Lol.. i had to do same to be able to post to the appropriate threads and forums ...
Careful about that. If a mod's having a bad day your posts could be deleted.
Just sayin'.
Sent from my Unlocked/Rooted Rezound running CleanROM 2.0/AmonRa
Sounds like you haven't gotten a hang of flashing a ROM with this device. Try the following.
1 - Download Cleanflash to computer
2 - Download ROM you want to install.
3 - Using a ZIP program, look in the ROM and copy the boot.img file and put in the Cleanflash folder.
4 - Open the back cover, pull battery, wait 10 seconds, put back battery and cover.
5 - Press and hold Vol-, then power for 2 seconds, release power, wait for hboot screen, then release vol-
6 - Connect phone to computer
7 - Make sure HTC Sync is not running on computer
8 - Run CleanFlash and use option 2 to flash boot.img to phone
9 - On the phone, use vol keys to go to recovery (I assume you have Amon Ra recovery already installed)
10 - Follow the menu to mount your sd card
11 - From the computer, your phone's sd card should now show up as a drive
12 - Copy ROM (entire zip file) to sd card, while your at it make sure there is no other ZIP file on the card. You should also mount the internal card and make sure there are no zip files there either.
13 - Unmount the card and disconnect from computer
14 - Now flash the new ROM
15 - reboot phone
feralicious said:
Don't give up now! You're almost there...
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LOL (I hope an LOL is not cause for banishment)
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Considering I can't post in the development forum yet, I'll try asking here first. I've been reading up for the past few days on flashing recovery and ROMs for my new Rezound, mostly on ADB today to get a feel for the very basics. Right now I'm trying to get Amon Ra onto my device, only to run into the command prompt telling me, "error: cannot load 'recovery-ra-vigor-3.12b-gnm'. The recovery.img is in the root directory where the fastboot and adb executables are located. What am I missing? It's likely a simple fix, but as of yet my searches aren't finding the results I'm after.
Also, when I tried using fastboot to reboot the device to the bootloader (fastboot reboot-bootloader) I got a < waiting for device > message. I ended up just doing a battery pull to get into the fastboot menu on the phone. And as I've seen it asked previously, I did install the drivers when I was going through the unlock process last night. Any suggestions?
canned karma said:
Considering I can't post in the development forum yet, I'll try asking here first. I've been reading up for the past few days on flashing recovery and ROMs for my new Rezound, mostly on ADB today to get a feel for the very basics. Right now I'm trying to get Amon Ra onto my device, only to run into the command prompt telling me, "error: cannot load 'recovery-ra-vigor-3.12b-gnm'. The recovery.img is in the root directory where the fastboot and adb executables are located. What am I missing? It's likely a simple fix, but as of yet my searches aren't finding the results I'm after.
Also, when I tried using fastboot to reboot the device to the bootloader (fastboot reboot-bootloader) I got a < waiting for device > message. I ended up just doing a battery pull to get into the fastboot menu on the phone. And as I've seen it asked previously, I did install the drivers when I was going through the unlock process last night. Any suggestions?
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Recovery img has to be in the same folder as the fast boot file. Second...you must make sure too add the file ext for that file. Should be .img for a recovery file.
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I hadn't added in the file extension, that did the trick nicely. Thanks!
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Can i use the PH8 zip to return my Rezound to stock? I am on Scotts leaked ICS rom. It works and all but i want to restore my phone to stock. Im on a Mac so i can't use a RUU. Is there a zip of the latest RUU i can flash in Hboot?
There is a stickied post with the stock vigor RUU's that the phone's came with . Shouldn't have an issue since you used Scott's version he altered the mainver to avoid issues with going back to stock.
Need to relock then run RUU though FYI.. just in case you weren't clear about that.
I down graded to hboot 1.4 and The got s-off using revolutionary
I am now trying to install some roms and Not sure about some things. Will Roms that are based off of software version 2.17.... work after downgrading hboot because we had to downgrade software version too?
dlovedesigns said:
I down graded to hboot 1.4 and The got s-off using revolutionary
I am now trying to install some roms and Not sure about some things. Will Roms that are based off of software version 2.17.... work after downgrading hboot because we had to downgrade software version too?
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Do you want to from 2.17 to lower version or from lower version to 2.17?
If you want to go from 1.13/2.08 to 2.17 the follow this :
To use 2.17 ROM with hboot 1.4 and S-OFF first flash this PG86IMG.zip -----> http://db.tt/57Mycsoj by putting it on root of sdcard (1st rename the file to PG86IMG.zip) then booting into bootloader. It will detect it and then let it update.
It will update your radios and firmware. It will not touch the hboot and Secureflag.
After the update you can flash any 2.17 ROM or restore any update if you had.
NOTE: I dont know exactly if you can still flash a 2.08 ROM after the radio and firmware update.
Also, After you have installed the above PG86IMG.zip file, delete it from your SD card. Otherwise when you try getting into recovery using the power/down volume method, it will search for the update and ask to install it again.
thanks
mnomaanw said:
Do you want to from 2.17 to lower version or from lower version to 2.17?
If you want to go from 1.13/2.08 to 2.17 the follow this :
To use 2.17 ROM with hboot 1.4 and S-OFF first flash this PG86IMG.zip -----> by putting it on root of sdcard (1st rename the file to PG86IMG.zip) then booting into bootloader. It will detect it and then let it update.
It will update your radios and firmware. It will not touch the hboot and Secureflag.
After the update you can flash any 2.17 ROM or restore any update if you had.
NOTE: I dont know exactly if you can still flash a 2.08 ROM after the radio and firmware update.
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Thanks thats what I was wondering.
I ran the update the software still says version 1.13...
I copied to sd card renamed it ran installed successfully said to reboot but no change in software #.
dlovedesigns said:
Thanks thats what I was wondering.
I ran the update the software still says version 1.13...
I copied to sd card renamed it ran installed successfully said to reboot but no change in software #.
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1.13 refers to the ROM version. You will now need to DL a 2.17 based ROM and install it. The above file was only to get you ready for the install of a 2.17 based ROM.
So now that I'm s-off, is it easier to flash an ruu? Can someone explain?
I believe I no longer have to relock the phone. True?
Will either sd card be wiped in the process?
Can I go back to earlier ruu's if I want?
Thank you.
Rezound, s-off, loving it.
Piaband said:
So now that I'm s-off, is it easier to flash an ruu? Can someone explain?
I believe I no longer have to relock the phone. True?
Will either sd card be wiped in the process?
Can I go back to earlier ruu's if I want?
Thank you.
Rezound, s-off, loving it.
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no you dont have to relock anymore..sd will be wiped as before..you can go to any ruu you like..flash process is the same for ruu
The only plus for an s-off device as fast as RUUs go is that you get not only to upgrade but also to downgrade, which on s-on devices would cause a brick.
So if say you tried the 3.14 RUU and wanted to go back to GB you sir can.
tcarave said:
no you dont have to relock anymore..sd will be wiped as before..you can go to any ruu you like..flash process is the same for ruu
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So I can flash an ruu zip from recovery like a Rom?
Rezound, s-off, loving it.
Piaband said:
So I can flash an ruu zip from recovery like a Rom?
Rezound, s-off, loving it.
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Ofcourse not, you've to flash the RUU from the bootloader.
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1. Won't have to re-lock
2. It will wipe everything but external SD
3. Can do ANY RUU
4. Offical RUU's are .exe flies you run on windows while phone is plugged in.
5. All the leaks you put as Ph98img.zip 's and you put them on root of SD then boot to bootloader.
RoryHe said:
1. Won't have to re-lock
2. It will wipe everything but external SD
3. Can do ANY RUU
4. Offical RUU's are .exe flies you run on windows while phone is plugged in.
5. All the leaks you put as Ph98img.zip 's and you put them on root of SD then boot to bootloader.
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# 4 .... Thanks! a ruu is an executable pc file. The only thing a have is a rom image. The last Ruu was gb.
I'm running cons patched hboot 2.11. Do I need to do anything different if I wanna install the latest leaked ruu?
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An ruu will reset your hboot im pretty sure.
Yes the .exe RUU's are offical the ph98img.zip's are leaked RUU's but they both pretty much do the same thing.
I am s-off, will this give me s-on? Or will my phone stay s-off?
YeloSub7 said:
I am s-off, will this give me s-on? Or will my phone stay s-off?
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You'll stay s-off
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Every time I try to flash an exe RUU it fails every time since I've been s-off. What am I doing wrong?
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RUU
You would do a true RUU executable in Windows with your phone in fastboot.
The misnamed RUU's that are actually PBxxIMG's are flashed on startup into bootloader.
A custom ROM is flashed in Recovery with install from sdCard option.
Im s-off running Nil's business ics v2.2 sense 4.0, gb patch/sdcard fix. Ill be honest, the phone works absolutely better than ever right now, but, im intrigued by the fact that im still on gb firmware and may be missing out on the full potential of the latest firmware. Does the patch replace the need to upgrade alltogether? If not Is there really a big difference between gb and ics with the performance/radios?
stryver said:
Im s-off running Nil's business ics v2.2 sense 4.0, gb patch/sdcard fix. Ill be honest, the phone works absolutely better than ever right now, but, im intrigued by the fact that im still on gb firmware and may be missing out on the full potential of the latest firmware. Does the patch replace the need to upgrade alltogether? If not Is there really a big difference between gb and ics with the performance/radios?
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The gb patch/sdcard fix is the same thing, right? I think the Aroma installer installs the patch..
Anyway, yes the patch corrects for the firmware/ics rom difference. The change in performance/radios is subjective. I didn't notice anything different. Of course if s-off, you can always go back. My recommendation is go ahead and upgrade. You will sooner or later.
Well for some reason if i just flash the rom without the gb fix the phone will bootloop, naturally; but when i flash the gb patch i lose my sd card. So i have another file i downloaded(i dont remeber where from) called the sd fix that i flash last that does the trick. Come to think of it, i never tried just flashing the sd fix in place of the gb patch. Now that you say so they might be the same thing i might just have the wrong gb patch, idk. Buuut, its funny, you dont even know me but its like you know me so well, lol. Im gonna go ahead and fix the problem at the source by flashing the ics RUU as soon as i get a chance tonight. Its inevitable, im curious and this will bug the heck out of me until i do it. Just like s-off did.
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stryver said:
Well for some reason if i just flash the rom without the gb fix the phone will bootloop, naturally; but when i flash the gb patch i lose my sd card. So i have another file i downloaded(i dont remeber where from) called the sd fix that i flash last that does the trick. Come to think of it, i never tried just flashing the sd fix in place of the gb patch. Now that you say so they might be the same thing i might just have the wrong gb patch, idk. Buuut, its funny, you dont even know me but its like you know me so well, lol. Im gonna go ahead and fix the problem at the source by flashing the ics RUU as soon as i get a chance tonight. Its inevitable, im curious and this will bug the heck out of me until i do it. Just like s-off did.
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1. Flash the 3.14.605.10 RUU as PH98IMG.ZIP in bootloader.
2. Boot to stock ICS leak, don't set up, connect to PC and
3. Rename the PH98IMG.ZIP file, then either
4A. While still connected to PC, reboot to bootloader, go to fastboot usb and flash Amon Ra 3 . 15 recovery (see that xda thread for file & fastboot command) OR
4B. While still connected to PC, go into drive mode and copy Amon Ra 3.15 flashable package as PH98IMG.ZIP to sdcard2, reboot to bootloader and it will flash recovery.
5. Reboot to stock ICS ROM, connect to PC in drive mode and Put Nils' Business ICS Sense 4.0 v2.2 on sdcard2,
6. Reboot to recovery and flash Nils' ROM
Some people encounter card access problems after the firmware update. I did on one Rezound but not the other.
If you do encounter the problem, copy your card contents to PC, reformat it in the Rezound then copy back the contents.
Sent into the innertubes from my Arnova 10 G2.
hgoldner said:
1. Flash the 3.14.605.10 RUU as PH98IMG.ZIP in bootloader.
2. Boot to stock ICS leak, don't set up, connect to PC and
3. Rename the PH98IMG.ZIP file, then either
4A. While still connected to PC, reboot to bootloader, go to fastboot usb and flash Amon Ra 3 . 15 recovery (see that xda thread for file & fastboot command) OR
4B. While still connected to PC, go into drive mode and copy Amon Ra 3.15 flashable package as PH98IMG.ZIP to sdcard2, reboot to bootloader and it will flash recovery.
5. Reboot to stock ICS ROM, connect to PC in drive mode and Put Nils' Business ICS Sense 4.0 v2.2 on sdcard2,
6. Reboot to recovery and flash Nils' ROM
Some people encounter card access problems after the firmware update. I did on one Rezound but not the other.
If you do encounter the problem, copy your card contents to PC, reformat it in the Rezound then copy back the contents.
Sent into the innertubes from my Arnova 10 G2.
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Hi, do you need supercid after s-off to run any ruu?
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Hi, do you need supercid after s-off to run any ruu?
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I never used supercid on my Rezound or any other handset (I haven't been on the Rezound since March). Not sure whether you need to do it. If you're S-OFF, you should be able to run the RUU for your version of the Rezound. There are official RUU's available for the Rezound, which is more than I can say for my current handset.
hgoldner said:
I never used supercid on my Rezound or any other handset (I haven't been on the Rezound since March). Not sure whether you need to do it. If you're S-OFF, you should be able to run the RUU for your version of the Rezound. There are official RUU's available for the Rezound, which is more than I can say for my current handset.
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Agh, I'm sorry I didn't realize I was posting in the wrong place. My device is a HTC One S and I was able to get S-off, SuperCid and run a european RUU to get back everything. It's all working now!
Thanks !
Trying to install the latest GB RUU via Hboot but it doesn't want to detect it on my SD card I named it PH98IMG what I am doing wrong. Also I do "show known file types".
NVM got it, some of these RUU posted are bork had to spend some time looking for a good one.
Let me start off by saying that I'm a complete idiot and wasn't being very careful.
I have several problems with my Rezound right now and I'll try to be clear and concise. My internal SD card won't mount in the recovery menu, nor HBOOT, therefore I cannot flash PH98img.zip in HBOOT. My external SD will mount, but I'm not sure if the PH98img.zip will work from the external SD because it doesn't show up in HBOOT. My HBOOT reads as follows:
*** UNLOCKED ***
VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.10.00000
eMMC-boot
OCT 5 2011,21:18:48
And also, here's a weird thing: My phone will show up in adb devices only when the phone is off or when I'm in the Recovery menu. My phone won't appear in adb devices when I'm in HBOOT menu. I'm running ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.2.3.
I have tried using a few different ROMs to no avail. I think my main problem as of now is that I cannot access my internal SD card. Before I install a ROM I wipe everything I can think to wipe, cache, dalvik cache, factory reset. Some of the ROMs have the Aroma installer where it asks if I want to wipe on those and I say yes every time. I cannot start my phone because I'm stuck on HTC white screen whenever I try to boot the phone. I've tried using the Old_Firmware_Patch.zip and the GB Firmware Patch.zip. I have had no luck so far. Again, I'm sorry that I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing and I need a bit of help. Thank you and I appreciate any help that you can give.
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Prior to this complete failure in my phone I was using an early leak of ICS, one of Newts ROMs. His ROM didn't support 4G and had trouble with a few other things including stock wifi settings. Every time I tried to go to wifi settings the "com.settings.htc" or some such process would crash. So I wanted to update to a newer ICS ROM that hopefully supported 4G and didn't have problems with wifi settings. I thought it would be as simple as loading a ROM onto the external SD and loading it from recovery, but it wasn't that easy. Because I'm S-ON I apparently missed a few steps and forgot that I have to flash PH98img.zip. But now that I cannot access my internal SD card, I cannot flash PH98img.zip as far as I know.
First thing you want to do is get off of Clockwork Mod recovery. It doesn't play well with the Rezound. Go grab Amon Ra and flash v3.16.
Secondly, you can flash a PH98IMG file off the external sd, providing you can read it of course.
I think you are still on GB firmware based on your hboot, not completely sure about that. But it's def an old hboot.
So actually, I would run the RUU and update all your firmware, don't bother flashing Amon Ra first, do that after the RUU. Find it here:
http://androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Vigor
Top one, 3.14.605.12. Then after you run that, you can check for and accept the latest OTA that came out a couple weeks ago and then you'll be up to date with the official updates.
You'll need to relock the phone before running the RUU
fastboot oem lock
And save everything you need from the phone first since this will wipe everything and get you back to factory stock.
Then to run the RUU attach the phone to your pc and double click on the exe RUU file. It will do it's thing. Or you can use the following commands in fastboot to get it going:
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip NameOfZip.zip
Make sure you let it go all the way through. I ran the global RUU and the screen went black for a while then it goes back to finishing up, so if that happens just let it keep going. I think you end up in bootloader when it's done, and it'll ask you if you want to reboot. You should go ahead and boot up and make sure it's working okay.
After you run the RUU you will need to unlock again. Then flash Amon Ra, flash superSU for root (though I think you can just get root via Amon Ra again now) and make a nandroid of stock so you can always go back to this when you run into trouble, then flash a custom ROM if you choose.
That should sort everything out since like I said, it'll be a clean start and you'll get everything updated.
Oh, and the PH98IMG.zip file you have to flash because of being s-on is the kernel for the ROM you are flashing. So know that each PH98IMG.zip file is not the same as the other, the ROM makes the one you need using the kernel that is specifically for that ROM. So you'll either need to pull it out of the ROM and flash via fastboot, download the separate PH98IMG file if there is one in the ROM's thread, or the ROM may make one during the flash and leave the PH98IMG file on your SD card in which case you go to bootloader and accept the update, which will be the kernel.
If you don't flash the kernel then the phone won't boot, it'll just get stuck.
One last thing, I would grab CleanWipe from the Dev section and use that for wiping whenever you change ROMs. It'll really get the job done.
Back to stock now
You, feralicious, are a beautiful person for replying so detailed lol. I got my phone to start up gladly. I just now read your post. Earlier I got it working by following a thread which basically said exactly what you said: relock using fastboot oem lock and then do the lastest RUU. It was a thing of beauty. I as so lost prior to that.
It's good to know that each PH98IMG.zip is different per rom. I had no idea. I'm going to stay stock for a while. It's just nice to finally see that 4g up on the top of my phone after having dealt with 3g only for like 6 months. I'll definitely come back to this site if I have an trouble while attempting to re-root the phone. Thanks so much for your excellent reply.