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Hi everyone, Ive been reading the various threads in this forum, and am now ready to install a custom rom over my cupcake.
My phone is not rooted or unmodded in anyway.
Did a fastboot and it shows:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.3300.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-3.22.20.17
Compiling the various threads, Ive come up with these steps to install the rom. Very much appreciate if someone can tell me if im doing anything wrong in here. Thanks alot!
Step 1 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
1. Download the rav image into PC.
2. Boot the device in fastboot mode.
3. Connect the device to your machine over USB. (Do i need to mount?)
4. In command prompt of windows, type $fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.1.1H.img
Step 2: Nandroid backup
Can i use the RAv1.1.1 as above, to do a nandroid backup by selecting the option? Or do i follow the guide below?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530723
Step 3: flashing SPL
Download a SPL for 32A, copy to SD card, rename it as update.zip and flash it via RAV menu.
Step 4:
Using RAV, wipe data
Step 5: Installing rom
Choose a custom rom, copy to SD card, rename to update.zip and flash via RAV.
Is that all to it? Do I need any root access? And have i miss out anything?
Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks!
Work through my guide, it might help clear things up for you:
http://www.karrderized.com/romguide/
KarrdeNZ said:
Work through my guide, it might help clear things up for you:
http://www.karrderized.com/romguide/
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thx, i'll follow ur guide and try installing the rom tomorrow
Does that guide apply to all roms?
Is the guide applicable for every ROM flash?
Example
If I am on a stock ROM, and flashed <Hero ROM 1>, can I follow the exact same step to flash from <Hero ROM 1> to <Hero ROM 2>?
If it turns out that I want Ion ROM instead of Hero, can I follow the exact same step to flash from <Hero ROM 2> to <Ion ROM 1>?
Finally, if I made a nandroid backup of the original phone ROM (boot/recovery/system) before flashing any custom ROM, can I restore this backup to the phone regardless which custom ROM I have flashed. In another word, reset the phone back to factory state
Somewhere I read that flashing Hero ROM also update SPL... I am still learning so don't know if I am reading, and understanding, things correctly
It applies to all signed ROMs. It makes no changes to the SPL, so if the ROM you want to install needs a SPL change, you'll need to do that first.
And yes, you should be able to Nandroid restore to your original ROM regardless of which ROM you're running at the time.
thx KarrdeNZ, your guide is pretty well written. I was about to follow it easily and no problems encountered at all
Hi,
I hope this is in the right section....
I have recently put the QTEK 1.6 Hero ROM on my Sapphire (UK MAGIC), and its ok but I preferred the stock ROM.
I have obviously done a nandroid backup using the RAV1.2.1G recovery image, using the one-click method (http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/29/how-to-root-the-htc-magic-in-one-click/).
I want to revert back to the stock ROM using my nandroid backup. I have follwed the instructions on these forums on how to do it, but I keep getting a problem.
I use the flashboot flash system system.img, it says sending, then writing, but when it comes to verifying info something or other, it says failed, something and something about unable to verify signature (happens on data and boot imgs too).
Is this something to do with SPL, do I need to update my SPL to restore, I have downloaded HARDSPL (version?) but have not gone any further as I dont want a brick....
Any help would be much appreciated.....
Thank you
If you were able to make a nandroid backup with your current SPL, then i assume thats not the problem.
Are you sure the files of your backup is still on your SD-card, and its (foldername "nandroid") location is root on SD-card..?
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes the nandroid folder is on the root of the sdcard, i've managed to get it working. Very strange??
What I did was to ignore the windows way of restoring, I just booted into recovery and selected nandroid restore, pressed green and hey presto, it worked? Now I tried that before and it said use adb in windows... maybe i missed a file or didnt press something correctly, at least I have my stock and apps back now...
Will try tinkering again though...got to be done... QTEKs rom has a few bugs, want to try Cyanogens, but i cant find his rom anywhere (i realise the issues with google)
Then i guess your SD-card wasnt ready mounted the moment you tried to recover.
He didn't recover via recovery, but via SPL.
so, do 1clickroot again, but instead of flashing a rom in recovery, select: restore nandroid recovery.
What if
What if we never created a Nandroid backup of the OEM ROM from our phone?
Will we still be able to return to the original ROM if we'd like for warranty purposes? I have flashed a Hero ROM and the OEM Tmo for Root Users and AmonRA Recovery. I haven't flashed any Radios or SPLs or anything though.
Just curious, thanks.
I downloaded the Unroot IMage which is exactly the release I used to have, COC10, is this the ROM I need for warranty purposes?
Hi,
So I recently tried to do some modding, and I followed the guide (so I thought) for putting the Google ION firmware on my HTC Magic. The guide said, recovery image, I flashed recovery image.
Apparently I've flash the radio too...and they didn't mean recovery image they meant system image.
Is there a way to resolve this?
I'd really appreciate the help, I'd like to get my hands on the VFUK Radio or complete recovery image.
Could use this too
Orig Voda UK Nandroid backup
I've got my CRA71C nandroid backup I made after I got my Magic on the 3rd May. I found out shortly after buying it that it was a dev build firmware that should never have been released into the wild (already rooted) if that's any use?
Not 100% sure, but at the moment I'm willing to try anything, and I can get onto the recovery and get to Nandroid, so should help. I just need to find the right image to flash.
i thought they have same radio? being both 32B?
They are the same radio, as I've just discovered.
But for some reason it didn't work at all, but I followed some guide about reverting to a 32B Radio. So I wiped the whole thing, boot, recovery, system, etc. Installing the OTA update, and amon_RAs recovery, same problem again, but instead of booting into the system, I rebooted it into fastboot, flashed radio.img from the radio download on the HTC site, and it worked.
Not sure exactly what the problem was, but it's resolved now, thankfully.
I had CM6 on my G1 with HBOOT-1.33.2005.
I downloaded RC7 and accidentally installed it without flashing HBOOT-1.33.2003 and now it says HBOOT-0.95.0000.
Is this OK? If it is, im gonna start flashing it back to 1.6.
maxppp said:
I had CM6 on my G1 with HBOOT-1.33.2005.
I downloaded RC7 and accidentally installed it without flashing HBOOT-1.33.2003 and now it says HBOOT-0.95.0000.
Is this OK? If it is, im gonna start flashing it back to 1.6.
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so you went back to android 1.1 or 1.5? you dont have any engineering spl anymore as far as i know.
that means you have to start right from the beginning with rooting flashing etc
pls correct me if im wrong
Edit: do you still have a modified recovery or is it the stock one?
Hi, I went back right to the beginning which is DRC7 (version 1.0)
Im not sure about the recovery image question, how would i find out?
boot into recovery. (did you flash another recovery some time earlier?)
so if it is the one you had then you dont have to start from the beginning.
is it one without a menu or with a menu of 3 options you have to look for tutorials and start all over
why dont you just get into fastboot, wipe everything, fastboot flash EZterrys new radio & hboot, and than flash biffmod 2.1 ROM?
i did it this morning, and i must say... t'is nice ;]
A few month ago, I updated my wife's DesireS with a custom rom so she could have the Sense 3 before the official update.
I installed the clockwork recovery, but now I cannot install the official rom, because after the install's reboot, I'm in recovery and it doesn't flash the update.
Altought I have a EVO3D with KingCobra's 1.9 Rom, I'm not too familiar with HBOOT and RECOVERY, and I couldn't find an original Desire S recovery to allow the offical update.
Of course, I made some google searches, but I couldn't find how to solve this problem. Most replies tell to flash another rom, not the official. But my wife is my wife, and each time she has a problem, she tells me that it is because it is not an official (bug free?) ROM.
I tried to run a shipped rom from this thead : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506 , but I fall in a boot loop, not able to enter recovery, no USB connection to flash with recoverymanager, and at a moment, I even thinked I bricked the phone.
Fortunately, I found the VolUP+Power several times, and I was able the re-flash the previous rom.
Can someone help me please.
Thank you.
@kitarolivier
Little unsure on what you are needing.
Do you 1) want to revert the phone to stock, i.e. as you first got it (s-on again/no custom recovery/not rooted) or 2) flash a stock ROM but the latest (still s-off/able to root/custom recovery installed).
Also you need to provide more info, like the current hboot, and what method you used to s-off, what was the software version when you s-offed, which RUU you tried. More info easier and more direct solution.
The thread you linked are RUU's to get the phone to point 1.
foX2delta : Thank you for reading and replying.
You are right : I want to revert it as i received it. My goal is to install last offical rom with the htc update in the settings.
I will post hboot version when I'll get hands on my wife's phone. I didn't expected a reply so soon
I installed a rooted rom (can remember which one) with rom manager.
Full information this evening (GMT+1).
@kitarolivier
How did you s-off the phone? Also do you know if the phone is a Europe unbranded device?
@foX2delta :
The phone is S-OFF
HBOOT 6.98.1002
It's an unbranded european phone.
Is this enough as information ?
You should be able to flash this eng hboot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17481836&postcount=2 via fastboot, then you should be able to flash the stock rom that you tried to flash previously
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App
Thank you for the answer. I'll check that tomorrow, because I'm not home today.
Regards,
Olivier.
@kitarolivier
Pretty easy fix.
Have a look at this guide I wrote here, follow section 2.
If you want to get the latest (2.3.5/sense 3.0) then use the 2.10.401.8 RUU.
Hello,
I find lots of helpfull contents here, especially in your guide @foX2delta.
I'm a bit interessted by the second method to get stock ROM "2) flash a stock ROM but the latest (still s-off/able to root/custom recovery installed)."
Is it possible to get the stock ROM and keep s-off and custom recovery ? Have you a guide about this ?
I know it's possible to get the ROM from RUU but how to install this rom.zip ?
thank you in advance, bye
ps: sry for my poor english
@LitonX
If your phone is s-off and you have a custom recovery then it is as easy and flashing a rom, see this thread for prerooted stock roms.
thx,
i get HTC_Europe_2.10.401.9_Prerooted_Deodexed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480576). it's works fine.
I have a last one question. it is complicated to make my own flashable .zip from the "rom.zip" wich is obtained by RUU (start RUU and get rom.zip in %tmp%) ?
foX2delta said:
@kitarolivier
Pretty easy fix.
Have a look at this guide I wrote here, follow section 2.
If you want to get the latest (2.3.5/sense 3.0) then use the 2.10.401.8 RUU.
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I followed with success the section 2 of your tutorial. I also donwloaded in installed the ROM you suggested, and it was OK. After that, the device updated a few apps (FB, locations, etc...).
Many thanx for your help, and I will press the thanki button right now, so you are now at 33 I think.
Olivier.
@kitarolivier
Good stuff, glad it all worked out for you!!
hello.. i have same case to.. i want to get back to s-on..
i`ve tried all tips and trick, but it still didnt work...
could you give me some solution?..
sendietera said:
hello.. i have same case to.. i want to get back to s-on..
i`ve tried all tips and trick, but it still didnt work...
could you give me some solution?..
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Follow section 2 of post: http://androidforums.com/3405058-post1.html
Basically, you have to go through flashing the bootloader twice.