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Hey all,
so I've come into a bit of a conundrum. I was playing with the MaximusHD Jellybean 4.3 ROM. It was alright, but not for me. So I decided to flash back to stock. After a bit of finagling, I got a Stock Rooted 4.1.2 ROM for my phone, and was able to flash it. But now, I can't RUU my phone back to complete stock. Relocking the bootloader produces a **Security warning**, which prevents booting. Now, with an unlocked bootloader the stock ROM boots fine -- but locked, it doesn't boot and goes directly to bootloader. Can someone please walk me through getting my phone back to normal? I've used the RUU before to return to complete stock once before, except I'm not sure what I've done wrong this time around. Any help is appreciated. Also, I have TWRP recovery (latest version), unfortunately without a Nandroid backup
My phone works fine right now -- albeit rooted. Thank you!
Try flashing a stock recovery before relocking.
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Are you s off?
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Exact same problem here
Hi,
I have the exact same problem here, i've had my HTC One with a 2-year plan @t-mobile but with the stock rom i haven't had any t-mobile bloatware/splash screen. Is that normal?
Also if i flash a stock t-mobile rom it hangs at the bootloader.
nanobutter said:
Are you s off?
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I don't have S-OFF, but I can get it if necessary. Will that help me any?
Yes it will help. I am no dev. Once your s off you won't need to lock your device and can run ruu
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lampel said:
Try flashing a stock recovery before relocking.
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Will this allow booting to my rooted ROM / will it remove the **Security warning** that prevents booting?
crashfocus said:
Will this allow booting to my rooted ROM / will it remove the **Security warning** that prevents booting?
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It should.
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nanobutter said:
It should.
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Unfortunately, flashing a stock recovery just prevented my device from booting normally. I had to reflash TWRP to get it to boot properly... unless I just didn't give the boot process enough time on the stock recovery.
You can put any recovery on your phone, lock it, and run fastboot rebootRUU from hboot to run the RUU.
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zerolgk5 said:
You can put any recovery on your phone, lock it, and run fastboot rebootRUU from hboot to run the RUU.
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Wonderful! I'll try this after school today. Will report back...
word, let me know if you have any trouble. :good:
I am looking to use moonshine to achieve s-off. I currently have S-ON and SuperCID. I need to update firmware first, so I need to switch back to stock. I am planning on using this method to do so.
Do I need to un-SuperCID, if so, how?
If I leave SupeCID, and run RUU what happens? No OTAs, or something worse?
Excuse my noob questions.
no noob questions here man thats why we help and as far as updating firmware are you planing on using a custom rom and kernel or just wanting s-off for a custom kernel on 2.07 firmware?
supercid does not need to be changed you only have extra steps if you are s-off which then you would need to relock the bootloader first
t1gartist said:
no noob questions here man thats why we help and as far as updating firmware are you planing on using a custom rom and kernel or just wanting s-off for a custom kernel on 2.07 firmware?
supercid does not need to be changed you only have extra steps if you are s-off which then you would need to relock the bootloader first
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Well my plan was to go back to stock to ota to the 2.07 then load custom rom, vipers new one actually, after doing moonshine to achieve s-off
I thought leaving supercid was going to prevent me from successful ota. I can always flash the zip instead of ota though, right?
Also I made a more detailed thread in the development section on what I am going to work on doing, with steps that I think are correct, here is the link. I was finally able to post in that section
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2531701
d3fiance said:
Well my plan was to go back to stock to ota to the 2.07 then load custom rom after doing moonshine to achieve s-off
I thought leaving supercid was going to prevent me from successful ota. I can always flash the zip instead of ota though, right?
Also I made a more detailed thread in the development section on what I am going to work on doing, with steps that I think are correct, here is the link. I was finally able to post in that section
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2531701
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Since you have super cid you don't need use moonshine. Find the face palm method and enjoy
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thats right phaded.. im sorry defiance i forgot about facepalm method been so long since my first device all the others are already updated
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thats right phaded.. im sorry defiance i forgot about facepalm method been so long since my first device all the others are already updated
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I wonder why I got stuck on moonshine? Face off seems so much easier, for me anyways. No need to go back to stock... So as far as Firmware, after s off I just go in and flash the zip through adb?
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I wonder why I got stuck on moonshine? Face off seems so much easier, for me anyways. No need to go back to stock... So as far as Firmware, after s off I just go in and flash the zip through adb?
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After s-off, flash a recovery through fastboot and then whatever Rom you want
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Phaded said:
After s-off, flash a recovery through fastboot and then whatever Rom you want
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I am happy to announce I am now S-OFF after facepalm! I actually found your thread about customer recovery. Will be doing that shortly.
One thing that is left to figure out is the tampered flag. I am not able to find any information on how to actually reset it. I found something on a different website about issuing a -t command. But that was after the s-off was achieved using revone. After further research, apparently all I need to do is flash another hboot to get rid of that flag?
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This thread looks like a winner http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156713 am I on a correct path here?
yes thats correct
You can ignore that flag. If and when you return the phone to complete stock that will taken care of.
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yes thats correct
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Phaded said:
You can ignore that flag. If and when you return the phone to complete stock that will taken care of.
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New problem. Flashed 2.6 twrp, erased system, cache and internal storage. Went to sideload mode, keeps saying starting. Issue a command in and to load a Rom, nothing happens, cmd return a list of all the commands. Twrp still states starting sideload. Restart the phone to recovery, still the same problem. Flash older version of twrp?
Also twrp keeps telling me I am not rooted.
Thoughts?
Why did you wipe internal storage? Easiest way is to load the ROM onto internal and flash.
Rebooting twrp will install su binaries.
Try older twrp or cwm
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Phaded said:
Why did you wipe internal storage? Easiest way is to load the ROM onto internal and flash.
Rebooting twrp will install su binaries.
Try older twrp or cwm
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Well Viper Sense 5 rom needed a full wipe, so, I wiped everything. Are you saying I do not have to wipe internal storage, just clear everything else, then flash the rom?
The problem was that I have a bad habit of putting spaces when renaming zip files. Once I renamed the zip adb worked just fine. :facepalm:
d3fiance said:
Well Viper Sense 5 rom needed a full wipe, so, I wiped everything. Are you saying I do not have to wipe internal storage, just clear everything else, then flash the rom?
The problem was that I have a bad habit of putting spaces when renaming zip files. Once I renamed the zip adb worked just fine. :facepalm:
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Exactly, you don't need to wipe your internal storage. You lose pictures, videos, etc
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yeah with twrp 2.4.4.0 and later it is preselected for you so you dont wipe everything on your device just whats needed so lesson learned and in about a week you will be graduated to advanced droid dna room any hour lol
Phaded said:
Exactly, you don't need to wipe your internal storage. You lose pictures, videos, etc
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t1gartist said:
yeah with twrp 2.4.4.0 and later it is preselected for you so you dont wipe everything on your device just whats needed so lesson learned and in about a week you will be graduated to advanced droid dna room any hour lol
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I am still learning as I go. Thanks for sticking around guys. But yay for graduation haha! :victory:
I have been flashing roms for the past 8 hours. Looking for the perfect sense 5. Every rom has issues with data on my phone. Tried 5 . Google play store will not download anything, Or it starts downloading at dial up speeds. 2 roms I actually had to reflash twice because they kept hanging u at at the initial start.
5 roms doing the same thing? I was starting to think something happened to the phone, so I reflashed the original UKB DNA 1.3 rom that I have been running all this time, and it does the same thing.
Any ideas?
flash a dead stock rom one by mircomod777 see how it runs should be last 4.1 version
t1gartist said:
flash a dead stock rom one by mircomod777 see how it runs should be last 4.1 version
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So my phone went completely nuts last night. I decided to flash another back up that was working perfectly before going with your recommended rom. Kept failing in TWRP. So after 3 attempts I just decided to reload another rom. Rom installed, phone rebooted, went through initial setup. Once I finished with the initial setup my phone was running sense5 with all of the information from the backup. Needless to say I nuke everything, flash original TWRP (2.4.0.0 beta) that worked for me prior to 2.6. Do a clean install of Viper Sense5 rom and voila! Running perfect right now, no complaints. Fingers crossed. I guess I am done flashing roms for right now and sticking to Vipers. At least until KitKat comes.
good deal
So I already had an HTC Rezound for a year and was too afraid to root-so I bought an already rooted rezound from eBay that came with a 16 gig recovery sd card. I don't know what to do or how to flash a Rom or what I should do as a root noob... Can I please get some guidance from an experienced person?
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So I already had an HTC Rezound for a year and was too afraid to root-so I bought an already rooted rezound from eBay that came with a 16 gig recovery sd card. I don't know what to do or how to flash a Rom or what I should do as a root noob... Can I please get some guidance from an experienced person?
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Any idea what's on it now? Check the rom info in Settings, About Phone.
Also power it off, pull the battery, put it back in and turn the phone back on while holding Volume down, that'll get you the bootloader. See what version you have and if it's s-on or s-off.
From there you can select Recovery on the menu and boot into it, see what recovery you have.
Let us know and we can go from there.
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Looks like just the stock rom. What version hboot, are you s-on/off and what recovery do you have?
Just did what you said and took some pictures that i will post to show you what I'm working with.
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Is this the right information that you needed to know?
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undeadking said:
Is this the right information that you needed to know?
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You are already unlocked and have Amon Ra recovery installed, the "hard" stuff is done (actually it's not hard), and FYI you are S-ON... You are pretty good to go for any ICS based ROM. If you want to move into JellyBean or KitKat based ROMs you should switch to TWRP or CWM Recovery. Other than that, your good to go.
Ok, thanks a bunch! Ive done tons of reading about flashing roms and am still a little weary about the actual process. Ive read that a computer is needed in some cases but in others people are switching roms right from their phone- whats the safest or correct way to do it?
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undeadking said:
Ok, thanks a bunch! Ive done tons of reading about flashing roms and am still a little weary about the actual process. Ive read that a computer is needed in some cases but in others people are switching roms right from their phone- whats the safest or correct way to do it?
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Although there are ways around it (that I don't recommend, mind you) the rule of thumb is based on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF...
When S-ON, a computer has to be involved so that the boot.img can be loaded... you must either: A) flash the boot.img manually with fastboot after flashing the ROM in recovery, or B) boot the recovery image file with fastboot and flash the ROM file
When S-OFF, no computer is required, all partitions of the phone are writable by recovery directly.
acejavelin said:
Although there are ways around it (that I don't recommend, mind you) the rule of thumb is based on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF...
When S-ON, a computer has to be involved so that the boot.img can be loaded... you must either: A) flash the boot.img manually with fastboot after flashing the ROM in recovery, or B) boot the recovery image file with fastboot and flash the ROM file
When S-OFF, no computer is required, all partitions of the phone are writable by recovery directly.
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Don't forget you can use the phone (or a computer) to pack the boot.img into a PH98IMG.zip. As long as it boots, that is.
Hi All,
I am also new at rooting the Rezound and I'm having trouble. I did quite a bit of reading and followed the instructions here: theunlockr.com/2012/08/24/how-to-root-the-htc-rezound-video/
Apparently this was for an older version because I can't install ClockworkMod Recovery ("an error occurred ..."). I read that getting a backup of ClockworkMod Recovery was the best thing to do before installing any ROMs. Is that really necessary? It seems like I could always find an RUU on this site and flash back to ICS if I wanted to right?
Can some one point me in the right direction for what I should do next? Basically all I want to do is flash a ROM on my Rezound that will enable me to use it as a wall controller for my home automation system. So, ideally I'd like to remove the swipe to unlock feature (just be able to press the power button to get to the home screen) and to be able to force a nightly reboot with Tasker and remove as much bloatware as possible. This device is connected to my home network through wifi only. Any ideas what the best ROM would be for that?
By the way my recovery screen looks like undeadking's. I have S-On.
Thanks!
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Easiest way to get where you want is to HTC unlock if not already done,
S-0ff with RumRunner, then follow this thread with all its great stuff:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509770
You will end up with newest radios that are best for newer stock and custom roms.
There are several daily-user type custom roms mentioned in Development.
After you read a little about each, you'll know what you want to try first.
I like the custom Sense roms for best battery life.
michaelbsheldon said:
Easiest way to get where you want is to HTC unlock if not already done,
S-0ff with RumRunner, then follow this thread with all its great stuff:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509770
You will end up with newest radios that are best for newer stock and custom roms.
There are several daily-user type custom roms mentioned in Development.
After you read a little about each, you'll know what you want to try first.
I like the custom Sense roms for best battery life.
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Thanks, I was able to get my ROM working. The problem I was having was I was still S-ON. I was a little leery about turning it off so I found instructions for flashing with it still on here: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/499172-how-manually-flash-roms.html
I installed the LiquidSmooth ROM and I was able to disable the lock screen. Thanks again.
acejavelin said:
Although there are ways around it (that I don't recommend, mind you) the rule of thumb is based on whether you are S-ON or S-OFF...
When S-ON, a computer has to be involved so that the boot.img can be loaded... you must either: A) flash the boot.img manually with fastboot after flashing the ROM in recovery, or B) boot the recovery image file with fastboot and flash the ROM file
When S-OFF, no computer is required, all partitions of the phone are writable by recovery directly.
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There are ways using terminal emulator with an s-on device alongside using a proper busybox installation to flash without using a pc and no fastboot/hboot access is needed. flashing a boot.img while in rom, rebooting to recovery and finish installing the matching rom by flashing its zip.
petewill8 said:
Thanks, I was able to get my ROM working. The problem I was having was I was still S-ON. I was a little leery about turning it off so I found instructions for flashing with it still on here: androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/499172-how-manually-flash-roms.html
I installed the LiquidSmooth ROM and I was able to disable the lock screen. Thanks again.
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the one big issue you need to worry about while being s-on is if you soft brick while s-on there is absolutely almost no fix...with s-off you con ruu.exe to safely restore your phone which you cannot do while s-on....if you plan on flashing custom roms alot than i HIGHLY suggest going s-off or you'll regret not doing so when that time comes
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the one big issue you need to worry about while being s-on is if you soft brick while s-on there is absolutely almost no fix...with s-off you con ruu.exe to safely restore your phone which you cannot do while s-on....if you plan on flashing custom roms alot than i HIGHLY suggest going s-off or you'll regret not doing so when that time comes
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I second this... S-Off is highly recommended, it might not seem necessary now, but when something goes wrong, you will be glad you did it.
Thank you both. I had not read that before. I guess I will be performing the S-Off after all.
Don't freak out if your ROM doesn't boot after running rum runner happened to me xD just go into recovery and flash your stuff again. Clean flash it. Make sure you're s-off though Lol hopefully doesn't happen to you
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pball52998 said:
Don't freak out if your ROM doesn't boot after running rum runner happened to me xD just go into recovery and flash your stuff again. Clean flash it. Make sure you're s-off though Lol hopefully doesn't happen to you
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Just do a quick backup of your ROM in recovery then when done restore it.
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Just a thing. All my recoveries failed all 4, they would do the same thing and boot loop itself. *sigh* o well.
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Hello, I just bought a used AT&T M8 and am trying to convert it back to sense. Im not familiar with messing with HTCs. I see in hboot that it is unlocked and s-off. It looks like they put pure google on it. Ive been looking and seeing different instructionson gett phone back to stock but they seem scattered. I saw and tried running official ruu for 1.58 found in another thread but only get to the point where it tries to reboot into boot loader and then it says it cant and to find a ruu compatible with my device. I cant tell what custom recovery it has. Everytime in hboot when i choose recovery it just hangs and says bad command. Can somebody tell me instructions on how to run this ruu?
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Okay, making some progress. Pushed latest TWRP via fastboot. I'm assuming if I flash stock ROM and then push stock recovery via fastboot, then you I should be able to run ruu?
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ILuvRice said:
Okay, making some progress. Pushed latest TWRP via fastboot. I'm assuming if I flash stock ROM and then push stock recovery via fastboot, then you I should be able to run ruu?
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In your boot loader, what os does it say you have? We need to know if they did a true gpe conversion or just a rom. Does it have 3 android guys on skateboards or something else?
On the boot loader, it just says os-. I have attached a pic of my boot loader. Thanks for responding.
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ILuvRice said:
On the boot loader, it just says os-. I have attached a pic of my boot loader. Thanks for responding.
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You are on an gpe conversion and cannot flash sense roms. You need to follow this guide to get back to sense
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523
Make sure you change your cid to 11111111 before doing anything, it says to do this in the guide, but just saying
Update if anyone is interested, was able to flash a stock rooted Rom after following steps from thread posted above.
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ILuvRice said:
Okay, making some progress. Pushed latest TWRP via fastboot. I'm assuming if I flash stock ROM and then push stock recovery via fastboot, then you I should be able to run ruu?
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I know you solved your issue another way. But just so you know (and others, too) an RUU does not typically require stock recovery; while OTA does require stock recovery (probably the reason for the confusion).
Thanks. I ended up just flashing the RUU yesterday with stock rooted Rom and TWRP. This is why I love XDA. I was able to buy a M8 pretty cheap and thanks to people here, I was able to get it going.?
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I am quite noob to flashing so I understand that it is my fault if something goes wrong..
My husband volunteered his Evo 4g lte for me to make my attempts. I unlocked the boot loader, though it was S-ON, and flashed TWRP recovery (latest version). It seems my phone was wiped entirely (will not boot into Android) and the backup I made did not "stick".. I made attempts to flash a ROM but figured it would not work since the phone is S-ON. I'm stuck in boot loop at the moment - shows HTC screen then reboots - and my PC will not recognize the phone in any way even if I attempt to mount storage while in TWRP. Am I screwed?
I would settle with being able to get it back to stock, but I don't think that is possible even.. Any advice, tips? If I need to share further information, let me know. Feeling stuck at the moment and I've got to get some sleep so it may be a few hours before I respond.
P.S. I'm on HBOOT 2.10 and was running the HTC RUU update that came out (Sense 5.. etc) if that helps. If my problems have been addressed elsewhere, please do point me in that direction if it would help..
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I am quite noob to flashing so I understand that it is my fault if something goes wrong..
My husband volunteered his Evo 4g lte for me to make my attempts. I unlocked the boot loader, though it was S-ON, and flashed TWRP recovery (latest version). It seems my phone was wiped entirely (will not boot into Android) and the backup I made did not "stick".. I made attempts to flash a ROM but figured it would not work since the phone is S-ON. I'm stuck in boot loop at the moment - shows HTC screen then reboots - and my PC will not recognize the phone in any way even if I attempt to mount storage while in TWRP. Am I screwed?
I would settle with being able to get it back to stock, but I don't think that is possible even.. Any advice, tips? If I need to share further information, let me know. Feeling stuck at the moment and I've got to get some sleep so it may be a few hours before I respond.
P.S. I'm on HBOOT 2.10 and was running the HTC RUU update that came out (Sense 5.. etc) if that helps. If my problems have been addressed elsewhere, please do point me in that direction if it would help..
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Being that you are hboot 2.10, you must use the TWRP recovery found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639180
Also, because you are S-on, for AOSP ROMs, you must either fastboot flash the boot img or use flashify or flash img GUI. Both are available in play store. First, install the correct TWRP recovery and get up and running. Then read up on S-on kernel installing. I also strongly recommend getting S-off using the rumrunner method.
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Being that you are hboot 2.10, you must use the TWRP recovery found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639180
Also, because you are S-on, for AOSP ROMs, you must either fastboot flash the boot img or use flashify or flash img GUI. Both are available in play store. First, install the correct TWRP recovery and get up and running. Then read up on S-on kernel installing. I also strongly recommend getting S-off using the rumrunner method.
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Just to add on, I never had luck with rumrunner on the new partition layout, that being said firewater worked just fine.
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Both have worked for me on the new partition. The most common problems with getting s-off seem to be that people don't turn off their antivirus, or they forget to uninstall htc sync before running the utility. Or both.
I don't know why one would want to remain s-on. Just seems like it makes it a lot harder, with no real benefit in return.
Personally I would just rerun the ruu to get back to stock, then get s-off and the right twrp, then make a nandroid before going with anything custom.
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Evolution_Freak said:
Being that you are hboot 2.10, you must use the TWRP recovery found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639180
Also, because you are S-on, for AOSP ROMs, you must either fastboot flash the boot img or use flashify or flash img GUI. Both are available in play store. First, install the correct TWRP recovery and get up and running. Then read up on S-on kernel installing. I also strongly recommend getting S-off using the rumrunner method.
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Thank you for the response! I have come to realize that doing this with S-ON is probably the worst thing I could have done.. *bangs head on desk*. I don't know if you saw in my OP, but my computer is not recognizing my phone at all, I can put files on a micro-sd (using an adapter).. I know I can use the external for other ROMS, but would the method that you linked to still work for the PJ75IMG file or could I use the version of TWRP that I have to move the PJ75IMG to the internal storage maybe? I'm using TWRP 2.7.1.0b..
EDIT/UPDATE: Okay, I thought I would try running adb fastboot and fastboot through the command terminal despite the computer not displaying the device as a storage device & it not working earlier this morning.. It appears my computer recognized it so I flashed the boot.img for the last ROM that I attempted to flash (SlimKat) and rebooted the phone.. It booted into SlimKat O.O It is up and running now.. So I *think* I'm good to go with that rom?!
If I want to change ROMS (this isn't the ROM I necessarily wanted), what should I look for? Will any ROM work that is for the new partition layout is what I mean? I was really interested in Dirty Unicorn.. Though the husband may appreciate SK!
Luna_Sky said:
Thank you for the response! I have come to realize that doing this with S-ON is probably the worst thing I could have done.. *bangs head on desk*. I don't know if you saw in my OP, but my computer is not recognizing my phone at all, I can put files on a micro-sd (using an adapter).. I know I can use the external for other ROMS, but would the method that you linked to still work for the PJ75IMG file or could I use the version of TWRP that I have to move the PJ75IMG to the internal storage maybe? I'm using TWRP 2.7.1.0b..
EDIT/UPDATE: Okay, I thought I would try running adb fastboot and fastboot through the command terminal despite the computer not displaying the device as a storage device & it not working earlier this morning.. It appears my computer recognized it so I flashed the boot.img for the last ROM that I attempted to flash (SlimKat) and rebooted the phone.. It booted into SlimKat O.O It is up and running now.. So I *think* I'm good to go with that rom?!
If I want to change ROMS (this isn't the ROM I necessarily wanted), what should I look for? Will any ROM work that is for the new partition layout is what I mean? I was really interested in Dirty Unicorn.. Though the husband may appreciate SK!
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Yes, any ROM that supports the new partition layout will work. Also, in response to your other question, I believe you have to be S-off to use the PJ75IMG bootloader method. I'm glad to hear that you're up and running.
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Evolution_Freak said:
Yes, any ROM that supports the new partition layout will work. Also, in response to your other question, I believe you have to be S-off to use the PJ75IMG bootloader method. I'm glad to hear that you're up and running.
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I'm experiencing some problems with SlimKat and the hubby is really wanting me to flash Dirty Unicorn. Should I make attempts to resolve the problems with SK or can I move forward with flashing the DU rom?
Also, I want to make sure I have the process down that I should do BEFORE flashing a new rom... When using TWRP 2.7.1.0b, would the use of the default wipe feature (that says it wipes cache, etc, but not internal storage) work before flashing that rom or should I go into the advanced options? I assume I use the default wipe feature..
Luna_Sky said:
I'm experiencing some problems with SlimKat and the hubby is really wanting me to flash Dirty Unicorn. Should I make attempts to resolve the problems with SK or can I move forward with flashing the DU rom?
Also, I want to make sure I have the process down that I should do BEFORE flashing a new rom... When using TWRP 2.7.1.0b, would the use of the default wipe feature (that says it wipes cache, etc, but not internal storage) work before flashing that rom or should I go into the advanced options? I assume I use the default wipe feature..
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You can move forward if that is your choice. I personally use advanced and wipe data, system, cache and dalvik. However the default (factory reset) in TWRP seems to work as well
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Evolution_Freak said:
You can move forward if that is your choice. I personally use advanced and wipe data, system, cache and dalvik. However the default (factory reset) in TWRP seems to work as well
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I'm curious, if I have Dirty Unicorn up and running, can I use the RUU that was released by HTC a few months back to revert back to the all stock rom? Or do I have to flash something? Just curious.
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Evolution_Freak said:
You can move forward if that is your choice. I personally use advanced and wipe data, system, cache and dalvik. However the default (factory reset) in TWRP seems to work as well
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Though both devices are now running custom roms, would I be able to do S-Off? Would it be worth it in the long run? From what I have seen, it seems that USB 2.0 ports are required or at least recommended. All of my ports are 3.0, are there any programs out that would work for me to achieve S-Off?
Luna_Sky said:
Though both devices are now running custom roms, would I be able to do S-Off? Would it be worth it in the long run? From what I have seen, it seems that USB 2.0 ports are required or at least recommended. All of my ports are 3.0, are there any programs out that would work for me to achieve S-Off?
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I definitely recommend getting S-off. I recently returned my EVO LTE to stock, ran the 4.13 RUU, rooted and gained S-off (again) using the Firewater exploit in roughly a minute's time. I was using 3.0 USB ports when I did it.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
I definitely recommend getting S-off. I recently returned my EVO LTE to stock, ran the 4.13 RUU, rooted and gained S-off (again) using the Firewater exploit in roughly a minute's time. I was using 3.0 USB ports when I did it.
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Well, I made my best attempts to use Firewater to no success. I followed the instructions exactly and things were looking good.. until it told me that "someone pissed in the firewater" and to reboot the device. I tried a couple of times and had no luck. Does the Android version matter or anything like that?
I'm running on the latest build of the Dirty Unicorn rom if that makes any difference.. Just thought I'd throw it out there again.
Luna_Sky said:
Well, I made my best attempts to use Firewater to no success. I followed the instructions exactly and things were looking good.. until it told me that "someone pissed in the firewater" and to reboot the device. I tried a couple of times and had no luck. Does the Android version matter or anything like that?
I'm running on the latest build of the Dirty Unicorn rom if that makes any difference.. Just thought I'd throw it out there again.
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You should try using a closer to stock, sense ROM.
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Evolution_Freak said:
You should try using a closer to stock, sense ROM.
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Flashed Viper4G and ran Firewater again... Got S-Off just like that. Thank you for the tip!