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okay so i have a working goldcard. my adb is working
i have a 32b
but heres the weird part. i loaded the sappimg.zip on my goldcard and did fastboot. that was loaded just fine. yet im still on 1.6 , but i thought im suppose to be on 1.5. im going by the directions on the (how to) for rooting made by RA.
then when i fastboot usb to load the recovery img. it says failed. i really have no idea what im doing wrong.
i have done all this for my g1. cuz i hand changed the boot screen. so im not new to this.
i have checked to see if my drivers are all working. when im on the home screen , i made sure my mytouch was connected to adb with *adb devices* but when i go to fastboot usb it says theres nothing there. also i have the recovery.img in both places. one on my normal mem card and one in ANDROIDSDK/tools/
so im not even sure what the problem is. once i get the recovery.img on there then ill be good to go.
if anyone knows what this may be. then thank you in advanced for the help
posted in wrong section... And try unlocker to get yourself a video you can't seem to read. B/c you don't need a gold card or fastboot... REALLY over thinking it.. get a newer updated guide really/
wow dbag. i am using unlocker also. forgot to put that in there.
okay all great master of phones. why not help then
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Downgrade to DC83 (1.5). Just drag and drop Sapp onto the root of your card, unmount, turn the phone off, volume down and power, hit END key to start update, wait awhile (make sure your phone has full power), once its done hit the trackball to restart and you should be good to go. Reboot phone and check system settings for 1.5 firm.
ok first off we need your phone info... not all mt3g need a goldcard to root.. basically i found if you mt3g came with 1.6 preloaded then you do need a goldcard.. you wont be able to just downgrade using the mt3g sappimg from theunlockr how to..
ceas909 said:
ok first off we need your phone info... not all mt3g need a goldcard to root.. basically i found if you mt3g came with 1.6 preloaded then you do need a goldcard.. you wont be able to just downgrade using the mt3g sappimg from theunlockr how to..
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yeah this was a replacement MT3g that came with 1.6
to the guy above. i tried those steps already. it stops at sig. and says failed something.
i made a goldcard and tried with the Sapp zip file
it loads and all. but then its still on 1.6
G-Fetus6 said:
to the guy above. i tried those steps already. it stops at sig. and says failed something.
i made a goldcard and tried with the Sapp zip file
it loads and all. but then its still on 1.6
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Downgrade to DC83 (1.5). Just drag and drop Sapp onto the root of your card, unmount, turn the phone off, volume down and power, hit END key to start update, wait awhile (make sure your phone has full power), once its done hit the trackball to restart and you should be good to go. Reboot phone and check system settings for 1.5 firm.
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Well. Those are right steps. If it says signature fail - that's your problem that you need to fix.
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Well. Those are right steps. If it says signature fail - that's your problem that you need to fix.
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hmm ive tried everything. just doesnt wanna seem to downgrade. i redownloaded the files from other places to make sure it wasnt my files.
still nothing . hmmm i guess more reason to sell this phone and upgrade to a better one... maybe a N1
G-Fetus6 said:
hmm ive tried everything. just doesnt wanna seem to downgrade. i redownloaded the files from other places to make sure it wasnt my files.
still nothing . hmmm i guess more reason to sell this phone and upgrade to a better one... maybe a N1
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no no no.. you cant downgrade your device with the regular mt3g 1.5 sappimg... if your phone came with 1.6 already loaded you need to find a sappimg that has a higher hboot then your phone... im betting your current hboot is 1.33.0007 ... and the mt3g sappimg used to downgrade to 1.5 is for hboot 1.33.0006.. you can use a hboot lower then what you have to down grade try this how to.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=674003
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posted in wrong section... And try unlocker to get yourself a video you can't seem to read. B/c you don't need a gold card or fastboot... REALLY over thinking it.. get a newer updated guide really/
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o and its funny how noobs try to step in and give their 2 cents when they have no idea of what their talking about....
ceas909 said:
no no no.. you cant downgrade your device with the regular mt3g 1.5 sappimg... if your phone came with 1.6 already loaded you need to find a sappimg that has a higher hboot then your phone... im betting your current hboot is 1.33.0007 ... and the mt3g sappimg used to downgrade to 1.5 is for hboot 1.33.0006.. you can use a hboot lower then what you have to down grade try this how to.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=674003
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Never knew that. Ty.
i solved it . went and looked threw the magic wiki more. and found my problem hinding. the spl was perfected an such.
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posted in wrong section... And try unlocker to get yourself a video you can't seem to read. B/c you don't need a gold card or fastboot... REALLY over thinking it.. get a newer updated guide really/
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and yeah i posted in the wrong section. but thats cuz i though i was in the general section on my phone <not a noob lol
Related
Anyone know how to change the ugly vodafone screen on the 32B Board? Im talking about the one before splash when you first turn it on?
"Change splash screen on HTC Magic" - http://ostebaronen.dk/?p=124
Tried that and all it says is failed all the time, Once it went through but didnt change feck all lol
EDIT: Done it god knows why it wouldnt work
Really?
I got a UK Vodafone Magic G2, i did this http://ostebaronen.dk/?p=124 and then i used these pictures http://ostebaronen.dk/android/splash/
Works like a charm on my phone, me 2 got pissed at the Red Vodafone screen.
so you have to have the phone rooted for this
I'm actually not sure whether you have to have a rooted phone for this. My guess is yes. You should try it with an unrooted phone though. And I am happy you could use my guide It is also in XDA's Wiki here: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Sapphire_Hacking#sec08
my phones no rooted am to scared lol
ok ive got waiting for device now its doing nothing
make sure its loaded in fast boot.The easiet way i found to do it all was..windows key then search cmd,when it finds it copy.
Put all the neccessary files in one folder (android sdk fastboot etc) and paste the cmd window. When you run the cmd inside your folder full of stuff it starts tyhere so no need to change directories. I then followed the flashing procedure and voila new boot screen
Turn off you phone. Then when it is turned of hold the back button and then hold the end/power button along with it until it boots again. It will boot into fastboot mode.
in fast bootmode i notice i don't have the usb driver installed right cusae am using vista x64 so downloading the new andriod sdk with the signed vista 64 driver. ive never messed around with andriod before so wish me luck
comes up with remote sig failed
I'm actually not sure whether you have to have a rooted phone for this. My guess is yes. You should try it with an unrooted phone though.
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OK, It definitely needs to be rooted as I've just tried without being rooted.
Incidentally
comes up with remote sig failed
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this is the error you get when not rooted
so is it worth doing as far as a see i only need a engineer spl or hard spl what ever they are lol
scoobyturbo said:
so is it worth doing as far as a see i only need a engineer spl or hard spl what ever they are lol
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If you follow the instructions provided here you can flash it in a manner that will root it.
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
thanks i will have a look
i flashed my mytouch with the wrong RADIO, its was for a hero, im just stuck at the spash screen. i already tried to go to the fastboot and tried:
1-recover it by flashing sappimg on the gold card, its says wrong model id!
2-i also tried to going back to the stock mytouch 1.2 spl and radio using the command prompt and androidsdk and all i get its "FAILED <remote not allow>"
any advice???, im willing to give $10 by paypal if some one can help me out and unbrick it im a man of my word
the radio i see on the fastboot is 6.35.10.18 and the hboot is 1.33.013
I did this exact same thing. If you can boot to recovery, you can salvage it pretty easily by flashing an update.zip that has the proper SPL. If not, then you may want to try one of the things I did, which was to remake the gold card, because somehow it got reverted and needed the first sector rewritten. Then you can run the SAPPIMG.zip fix. I hope it works out!
MassiveAttack said:
I did this exact same thing. If you can boot to recovery, you can salvage it pretty easily by flashing an update.zip that has the proper SPL. If not, then you may want to try one of the things I did, which was to remake the gold card, because somehow it got reverted and needed the first sector rewritten. Then you can run the SAPPIMG.zip fix. I hope it works out!
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i cant get into amons ra recovery, and i did another gold card and get the same error
blasterbeam said:
i cant get into amons ra recovery, and i did another gold card and get the same error
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What happens when you try to go to recovery? And, you tried to make _another_ gold card, or remake the one you had before?
MassiveAttack said:
What happens when you try to go to recovery? And, you tried to make _another_ gold card, or remake the one you had before?
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when i press the down volume+power i get into the bootloader and yes i already make another gold card and stills says wrong image id while its reading the recovery image
Holding Home+Power is the way to get to recovery, and remake the goldcard you originally used to initially root the phone.
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Holding Home+Power is the way to get to recovery, and remake the goldcard you originally used to initially root the phone.
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i meant home and recovery, i get nothing but a endless splash screen of the phone, and i alreadt remaked the original gold card and still no luck
Sorry, dude. I know I had this exact same issue, and reformatting/remaking the gold card using a SD adapter in my laptop got me back to the point that I could reflash SAPPIMG.zip. What SPL/Radio did you get installed?
let's find anything like sappimg.zip that's suiteable to your phone put on your sdcard and get into bootloader(Home+Power) will help and then flash suitable hboot and radio and recovery then flash some rom. Cheers
hidebank said:
let's find anything like sappimg.zip that's suiteable to your phone put on your sdcard and get into bootloader(Home+Power) will help and then flash suitable hboot and radio and recovery then flash some rom. Cheers
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lol, i CANNOT acces recovery and cannot flash any hboot and radio i get an error saying " FAILED <remote: not allow>
did you try fastbooting the correct spl and radio? if so what exactly is the error message?
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knny1491 said:
did you try fastbooting the correct spl and radio? if so what exactly is the error message?
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yes, the message is "FAILED <remote not allow>"
take a zip with the correct spl ad radio and rename it to sappimg? thats the best i can think of.
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knny1491 said:
take a zip with the correct spl ad radio and rename it to sappimg? thats the best i can think of.
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didnt worked, but tanks anyways, any other advice?
The default SPL is 'perfected' that means you need to make a gold card in order to flash the Engineering 2010 SPL, then from there you can flash the needed hboot, recovery, etc (ie: click the "rooted" link in my signature)
Your lucky you can even get as far as you can. I didnt realize there was anything besides your basic 32a and 32b. I checked my Specs and thought I had 32a. I flashed both updated radio and SPL for 32A and bricked my phone. Nothing working not even fastboot. I returned to Tmobile and replaced learning my lesson.
If you are within the return just swap it if you can and be careful next time.
Gerr1985 said:
If you are within the return just swap it if you can and be careful next time.
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Personally I think bricking your phone should be caveat emptor.
heavensblade23 said:
Personally I think bricking your phone should be caveat emptor.
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Can only imagine if the non-contract price of our phones are due to so much returns...
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Can only imagine if the non-contract price of our phones are due to so much returns...
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Doubtful. Its likely only 5% or so Mytouch owners root their phones. Then out of that 5% another 5% brick them. It is HIGHLY unlikely it affects our prices in the slightest. I have 2 friends who work at tmobile stores and neither of them have ever had a phone swapped during the 14 days due to it being bricked... the thing is its not common enough to bring prices up. They have to meet consumer needs and compete with competitors. I've never bricked a phone before and I'm careful, I'm sorry I didnt realize that 32a and 1.2 were different at first and just wanted to update like I did with my G1. The mytouch is a somewhat confusing phone with all of its variations ( kind of annoying ).
Hell... I'm definitely not going to apologize to anyone for swapping my bricked phone for a new one. Who wouldnt feel fortunate and lucky to save the load of cash by getting it exchanged for free during the return... even if you are the reason its broken??? Put yourselves in the users shoes for a change and realize people make mistakes regardless of how perfect we think we are.
It is important to keep a large difference in contract vs non-contract prices to encourage people to sign up for new activation to get the phone MUCH cheaper than not.
BUMP, any help??
Sorry guys if this was posted already. I had been searching for a way to unroot totally back to factory and the RUUs were giving me all sorts of errors... 171, 170 etc. So I finally found a way to actually make it work.
** If you are rooted and have the 1.47 update and cannot unroot with the RUU you were in my boat. Here's what I did:
1 - Download the ROOTED 1.32.651.1 from http ://geekfor.me/evo/rom/Supersonic_1.32.651.1_rooted .zip
(Remove the spaces from the url)
2 - Put that zip in the root of your SD card and then boot into recovery and flash it.
3 - Download the official 1.47 RUU and it should work on your device with no problems.
I am sorry if this guide was elsewhere but this is what I came up with on my own and I wanted to share it in case there wasn't a working unroot guide out.
bman789 said:
Sorry guys if this was posted already. I had been searching for a way to unroot totally back to factory and the RUUs were giving me all sorts of errors... 171, 170 etc. So I finally found a way to actually make it work.
** If you are rooted and have the 1.47 update and cannot unroot with the RUU you were in my boat. Here's what I did:
1 - Download the ROOTED 1.32.651.1 from http ://geekfor.me/evo/rom/Supersonic_1.32.651.1_rooted .zip
(Remove the spaces from the url)
2 - Put that zip in the root of your SD card and then boot into recovery and flash it.
3 - Download the official 1.47 RUU and it should work on your device with no problems.
I am sorry if this guide was elsewhere but this is what I came up with on my own and I wanted to share it in case there wasn't a working unroot guide out.
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Has the 1.47 RUU been released?
kpoz said:
Has the 1.47 RUU been released?
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Yes. http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/
the ruu does not restore the PRI to 1.40 if you have the engineering boot.
From what I can tell, there is no way to restore back to 1.40 pri.
Can someone post the stock 1.47.651.1 in a zipped image format for the bootloader??
My USB port broke, so Im trying to return to unrooted stock to send my phone back to sprint, but since the USB port is broken i can only do it through the SD card..
Thanks,
TurboX2 said:
Can someone post the stock 1.47.651.1 in a zipped image format for the bootloader??
My USB port broke, so Im trying to return to unrooted stock to send my phone back to sprint, but since the USB port is broken i can only do it through the SD card..
Thanks,
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There are adapters and you can also put the card in another phone.
I will look for the image
Download to root of sd and rename to PC36IMG
http://www.mattwhitlock.com/PC36IMG-1.47.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1.zip
They do not check for root and to be honest its perfectly LEGAL now to root a phone so no WORRYS leave it as is
thanks again for the really quick response.. I have a mircoUSB adaptor that i use, and my roomate has the same phone as me so i can get my battery charged.
i may just do as you say and go with the sprint stock rooted rom.. kuz this is proving to be more of a hassle than i thought it would be.
thanks
It's still void the warranty even tho its legal so save yourself a potential hassle and unroot
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spencelk said:
It's still void the warranty even tho its legal so save yourself a potential hassle and unroot
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In the MOST EXTREME case but its highly doubtful and has been proven over and over. I for one agree you should unroot it as best you can so it doesnt allow the carrier or htc to figure out the root method etc but if you can't I wouldnt worry one single bit. Good luck let me know if I can be of anymore help
hmm.. okay.. so that zip file that was there.. i already had, and i already tried flashing that.. and it didnt work last time, nor did it work this time
i have hboot 0.79.000
i have radio 1.39.00.05.31
and i flashed to a rooted 1.32 rom like it said i had to do.
Im using clockworkmod recovery 2.5.0.1
When i go to install zip from sd card>choose zip> and select the file attached, it just tries to open it and within a few miliseconds its back to the screen i was just at.
if i were to rename it to PC36IMG.zip and let bootloader load it, it will say 'wrong or no image'
I think im going to give up..
i found this. i will give it a try i suppose:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701835
EDIT: NVM i forgot my USB doesnt work. lol.. oh well.. i dont think sprint will do anything.. its a sprint rom anyways.. Ive replaced hard-spl'd winmo phones throu att before
arrrg.. windows mobile made more sense to me.
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hmm.. okay.. so that zip file that was there.. i already had, and i already tried flashing that.. and it didnt work last time, nor did it work this time
i have hboot 0.79.000
i have radio 1.39.00.05.31
and i flashed to a rooted 1.32 rom like it said i had to do.
Im using clockworkmod recovery 2.5.0.1
When i go to install zip from sd card>choose zip> and select the file attached, it just tries to open it and within a few miliseconds its back to the screen i was just at.
if i were to rename it to PC36IMG.zip and let bootloader load it, it will say 'wrong or no image'
I think im going to give up..
i found this. i will give it a try i suppose:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701835
EDIT: NVM i forgot my USB doesnt work. lol.. oh well.. i dont think sprint will do anything.. its a sprint rom anyways.. Ive replaced hard-spl'd winmo phones throu att before
arrrg.. windows mobile made more sense to me.
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You arent nand unlocked just bring it back do a full system wipe
It also doesnt hurt to try again make sure that you download a fresh version of the file and wipe the sd card of any other files if possible if at least make sure there arent any other pcimg files there
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In the MOST EXTREME case but its highly doubtful and has been proven over and over. I for one agree you should unroot it as best you can so it doesnt allow the carrier or htc to figure out the root method etc but if you can't I wouldnt worry one single bit. Good luck let me know if I can be of anymore help
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Cause HTC's employee's are incapable of finding public forums such as this.
topdnbass said:
Cause HTC's employee's are incapable of finding public forums such as this.
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And that means what? I dont understand?. we all know they are here some even post from time to time
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You arent nand unlocked just bring it back do a full system wipe
It also doesnt hurt to try again make sure that you download a fresh version of the file and wipe the sd card of any other files if possible if at least make sure there arent any other pcimg files there
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No files found in the under the nandroid option..
nothing is really flashing except for custom rooted roms
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And that means what? I dont understand?. we all know they are here some even post from time to time
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The person he was quoting was implying that we should unroot so that Sprint / HTC don't figure out how we were able to root.
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The person he was quoting was implying that we should unroot so that Sprint / HTC don't figure out how we were able to root.
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OIC ok thank you
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In the MOST EXTREME case but its highly doubtful and has been proven over and over. I for one agree you should unroot it as best you can so it doesnt allow the carrier or htc to figure out the root method etc but if you can't I wouldnt worry one single bit. Good luck let me know if I can be of anymore help
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Umm.. to find out the root method can't 'the carrier or htc' just use google and these forums?
my htc one x is with rogers.
yesterday i unlocked my htc, and tried to root it by using the one click root tool
it said success but after rebooting , it stuck at the loading screen with security warning in red " this build is for development ......"
i tried to use ruu to flash PJ83IMG, but at the upgrade selection, it says my img version is 1.94, and the upgraded one is 1.73(or 1.83, i forgot)
i clicked upgrade anyway. i didn't work.
also i tried the ARUWIZARD, it didn't work as well.
plz help me , i just want to get this phone back to working.
any help would be appreciated.
thx for reading
forgot to say that i did relock it.
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my htc one x is with rogers.
yesterday i unlocked my htc, and tried to root it by using the one click root tool
it said success but after rebooting , it stuck at the loading screen with security warning in red " this build is for development ......"
i tried to use ruu to flash PJ83IMG, but at the upgrade selection, it says my img version is 1.94, and the upgraded one is 1.73(or 1.83, i forgot)
i clicked upgrade anyway. i didn't work.
also i tried the ARUWIZARD, it didn't work as well.
plz help me , i just want to get this phone back to working.
any help would be appreciated.
thx for reading
forgot to say that i did relock it.
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DId you use SuperCID? you should just try different ruu until one of them works. Did you try to get into recovery aka holding down the vol button when you power on?
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DId you use SuperCID? you should just try different ruu until one of them works. Did you try to get into recovery aka holding down the vol button when you power on?
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i dont know what is SuperCID so i guess i didn't use it.
recovery is the only thing that i can get into right now.
i tried factory reset. didn't work.
im quite new to android so i dont know too many things.
thx for reading and replying.
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i dont know what is SuperCID so i guess i didn't use it.
recovery is the only thing that i can get into right now.
i tried factory reset. didn't work.
im quite new to android so i dont know too many things.
thx for reading and replying.
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Well if you didnt that means you can only use an ruu for the image you currently have or any ruu after after that. im not to familiar with rogers ruu version numbers but like i said equal or great. I would go into recovery and and go into fastboot and try the ruu then. that should do the trick and you still need to be relocked but you said you did that already so good luck!
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Well if you didnt that means you can only use an ruu for the image you currently have or any ruu after after that. im not to familiar with rogers ruu version numbers but like i said equal or great. I would go into recovery and and go into fastboot and try the ruu then. that should do the trick and you still need to be relocked but you said you did that already so good luck!
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thx, but i still dont understand how to do it.
can u plz tell me the detail?
what files do i need ? or is there a thread that can help me through the process ?
btw, there is no equal or greater ruu, i searched it , found a few thread asking the same thing but no result.
kongfutoufu said:
thx, but i still dont understand how to do it.
can u plz tell me the detail?
what files do i need ? or is there a thread that can help me through the process ?
btw, there is no equal or greater ruu, i searched it , found a few thread asking the same thing but no result.
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yeah it seems like you did take all steps. with changing your CID im not really sure what to do. illl be back if i find anything but right now im stuck. sorry man.
drklazarus26 said:
Yeah I was just looking around and I noticed there but only one ruu. this is a link to the ruu ROGER RUU. its an exe so basically hold the vol down button while you turn the power on. you should have a screen that says "fastboot", recovery and so on. select fastboot and connect to your computer. when it finishes installing the drivers and the phone says fastboot usb in red then run the ruu.
actually its not an exe. sorry i need to look it up myself
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yeah, that is not an exe file. it's a zip file that should replace the rom.zip when u do the ruu (according to the posts online).
that's what i did. the thing is that when i did the ruu thing, my phone version is greater then the one u can find online. so it's not working this way. or maybe im not doing it right.
this phone is killing me right now.
thank u.
no one seems to have a good solution to this???
i just solved it.
it's quiet simple actually.
for ppl who may have the same problem as i did , this is what u need to do :
flash recovery, then go in to recovery mode, wipe everything, except the external storage, then install a new rom
simple...
yea , first of all , unlock ur device.
thx/.
Should change the title of post from [Q] to [solved] so that people know your all set and others that may find the info useful.
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I'm sure I haven't bricked this phone, because in the process of rooting it, it will eventually say it's S-OFF. But after getting to that point, I can choose Recovery in CWM and when it gets to the white screen with the green HTC logo, after about 4 seconds, it will fade to black. This has happened to 2 phones I've rooted. Luckily mine worked like a charm, but after the last 2...I'm afraid to root another one. Does this sound like a bad memory card, or maybe it's not a gold card? I've searched around and couldn't find an answer, so maybe someone here at XDA has experienced this problem and has an answer.
TIA
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I'm sure I haven't bricked this phone, because in the process of rooting it, it will eventually say it's S-OFF. But after getting to that point, I can choose Recovery in CWM and when it gets to the white screen with the green HTC logo, after about 4 seconds, it will fade to black. This has happened to 2 phones I've rooted. Luckily mine worked like a charm, but after the last 2...I'm afraid to root another one. Does this sound like a bad memory card, or maybe it's not a gold card? I've searched around and couldn't find an answer, so maybe someone here at XDA has experienced this problem and has an answer.
TIA
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I quite don't get that....you can choose recovery in CWM?? what does that is supposed to mean? CWM is a custom recovery. I guess that you are probably refering to hboot. Anyway, if you are S-OFF, then you might not have a recovery installed, so flash a new one (use the guide in my signature or look for post # 7 in the Ace Think Tank in the general section of the Desire HD forum)
Make sure first that you are S-OFF for certain, if you are not, then you won't be able to flash anything at all. Then, try re running the Hack Kit again from the white splash screen as the manual tells you to.
glevitan said:
I quite don't get that....you can choose recovery in CWM?? what does that is supposed to mean? CWM is a custom recovery. I guess that you are probably refering to hboot. Anyway, if you are S-OFF, then you might not have a recovery installed, so flash a new one (use the guide in my signature or look for post # 7 in the Ace Think Tank in the general section of the Desire HD forum)
Make sure first that you are S-OFF for certain, if you are not, then you won't be able to flash anything at all. Then, try re running the Hack Kit again from the white splash screen as the manual tells you to.
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Yes, I guess I did mean hboot. In the process of Recovery is when it will fail and there is a ROM loaded for it to recover from on the SD card. Is it possibly because it is looking for the clockworkmod/backup folder and there is not one? I just realized that maybe I can copy a backup from my phone (we have the same exact phone) and place in there if it's possible. I don't have access to the phone now, as it is a friends. Also, if it fades out at the white HTC logo and just gets hung up, there is no way to re-run the Hack Kit is there?
Thanks for the help glevitan, as you've helped me before and I HAVE downloaded your Ultimate Hack Guide and keep it on my phone for reference.
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Yes, I guess I did mean hboot. In the process of Recovery is when it will fail and there is a ROM loaded for it to recover from on the SD card. Is it possibly because it is looking for the clockworkmod/backup folder and there is not one? I just realized that maybe I can copy a backup from my phone (we have the same exact phone) and place in there if it's possible. I don't have access to the phone now, as it is a friends. Also, if it fades out at the white HTC logo and just gets hung up, there is no way to re-run the Hack Kit is there?
Thanks for the help glevitan, as you've helped me before and I HAVE downloaded your Ultimate Hack Guide and keep it on my phone for reference.
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Just a question, are you sure that the phone is S-OFF? or has an unlocked bootlaoder? In either way you can flash recovery again from fastboot and then a custom rom again.
If you need help, I can lend you a hand via teamviewer..just let me know. :good:
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Just a question, are you sure that the phone is S-OFF? or has an unlocked bootlaoder? In either way you can flash recovery again from fastboot and then a custom rom again.
If you need help, I can lend you a hand via teamviewer..just let me know. :good:
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I'm going by after work to pick up the phone and will work on it this weekend. Thanks for the offer of help too. I'll post back with how this turns out.
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I'm going by after work to pick up the phone and will work on it this weekend. Thanks for the offer of help too. I'll post back with how this turns out.
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ok. Good luck!
Ok glevitan, I believe the problem might be in the PD98IMG.zip that's on the root of my SD card. I noticed when the phone booted into hboot, it would display that the image file was wrong, or something to that effect and then would force an update, which would load the HTC spashscreen and then ultimately fade out. I figured it had a bad PD98IMG.zip file, so I found the original aahk-13012012.zip and extracted the PD98IMG.zip from there and overwrote the one in the root. It didn't work. A different story...I noticed on my Inspire 4G (working correctly, but hboot had same error, even though I could load recovery from there) that it wasn't finding the correct image either. I copied over the PD98IMG.zip onto my phone and now both phones are now fading out on the HTC splashscreen after about 4 seconds. This tells me that it's in the SD card, right? If so, any suggestions? Both phones were rooted using this version of aahk.
Edit: Also, with this new PD98IMG.zip image, hboot will go into the process of parsing for
[1] boot
[2] recovery
[3] radio_v2
Once this is done, I push Power to reboot and that's when I get the failure in the HTC splashscreen.
Edit: I noticed in the PD98IMG.zip there was no md5 file, so I stuck one in there and got my phone working (which is not the one with the original issue started in this thread) and was able to restore a nandroid backup. I put this same SD card in the original damaged phone and it didn't restore like mine did. I still think it's an SD card issue causing the HTC splashscreen fadeout, but don't know where to go know.
Also, my PD98IMG.zip only has a recovery.img and a recovery.md5 file in it. I noticed that the original aahk PD98IMG.zip has those along with a boot.img and a radio.img. Should those be in the PD98IMG.zip? I know this post was edited twice and is very jumbled, so if you can make sense of it and offer solutions, much obliged.
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Ok glevitan, I believe the problem might be in the PD98IMG.zip that's on the root of my SD card. I noticed when the phone booted into hboot, it would display that the image file was wrong, or something to that effect and then would force an update, which would load the HTC spashscreen and then ultimately fade out. I figured it had a bad PD98IMG.zip file, so I found the original aahk-13012012.zip and extracted the PD98IMG.zip from there and overwrote the one in the root. It didn't work. A different story...I noticed on my Inspire 4G (working correctly, but hboot had same error, even though I could load recovery from there) that it wasn't finding the correct image either. I copied over the PD98IMG.zip onto my phone and now both phones are now fading out on the HTC splashscreen after about 4 seconds. This tells me that it's in the SD card, right? If so, any suggestions? Both phones were rooted using this version of aahk.
Edit: Also, with this new PD98IMG.zip image, hboot will go into the process of parsing for
[1] boot
[2] recovery
[3] radio_v2
Once this is done, I push Power to reboot and that's when I get the failure in the HTC splashscreen.
Edit: I noticed in the PD98IMG.zip there was no md5 file, so I stuck one in there and got my phone working (which is not the one with the original issue started in this thread) and was able to restore a nandroid backup. I put this same SD card in the original damaged phone and it didn't restore like mine did. I still think it's an SD card issue causing the HTC splashscreen fadeout, but don't know where to go know.
Also, my PD98IMG.zip only has a recovery.img and a recovery.md5 file in it. I noticed that the original aahk PD98IMG.zip has those along with a boot.img and a radio.img. Should those be in the PD98IMG.zip? I know this post was edited twice and is very jumbled, so if you can make sense of it and offer solutions, much obliged.
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Ok, I quite don't get much...sorry, but that version of the Hack Kit is old, so use the lastest one: http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=74
But again, I don't still get if the phone is S-OFF or not. If you are S-OFF there is no need to do all that process. Even, you can flash a RUU without using the PD98IMG way if you suspect that the sdcard is messed.
You can flash it over fastboot.... Anyway, you will have to flash this RUU (which is the gingerbread update 2.3.3 version of ATT. the lastest one, if you are not S-OFF will make things a bit harder for you to run the hack kit later): http://https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30674730/RUU_Ace_Gingerbread_S_Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed.exe
Put the phone in fastboot usb (when in hboot, plug the phone and it should read fastboot usb in red, if not, just press power button to toggle to fastboot). Then, just run that .exe file and it should flash...
glevitan said:
Ok, I quite don't get much...sorry, but that version of the Hack Kit is old, so use the lastest one: http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=74
But again, I don't still get if the phone is S-OFF or not. If you are S-OFF there is no need to do all that process. Even, you can flash a RUU without using the PD98IMG way if you suspect that the sdcard is messed.
You can flash it over fastboot.... Anyway, you will have to flash this RUU (which is the gingerbread update 2.3.3 version of ATT. the lastest one, if you are not S-OFF will make things a bit harder for you to run the hack kit later): http://https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30674730/RUU_Ace_Gingerbread_S_Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed.exe
Put the phone in fastboot usb (when in hboot, plug the phone and it should read fastboot usb in red, if not, just press power button to toggle to fastboot). Then, just run that .exe file and it should flash...
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Sorry, I thought I had said I was S-OFF. I can get my phone to be fastboot usb when hooked up with a usb in hboot, but can't reflash aahk or anything computer related. It just doesn't seem to recognize anything on the PC.
Edit: And I apologize glevitan, I've searched and found a couple of threads related to the black screen after the HTC logo, so I know you guys have helped and explained this numerous times before. I just couldn't get any of the suggestions from those threads to work out. Thanks for any help you may input.
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Sorry, I thought I had said I was S-OFF. I can get my phone to be fastboot usb when hooked up with a usb in hboot, but can't reflash aahk or anything computer related. It just doesn't seem to recognize anything on the PC.
Edit: And I apologize glevitan, I've searched and found a couple of threads related to the black screen after the HTC logo, so I know you guys have helped and explained this numerous times before. I just couldn't get any of the suggestions from those threads to work out. Thanks for any help you may input.
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I was having a similar problem, I'm not too sure if it relates to what your experiencing. But I was trying to gain s-off my hboot was in fact unlocked but was still s-on. I was reading around and flashed a few boot.img with fast boot. I had that problem where htc screen would show then fade to black, and then stay black.
What I did was (I had installed recovery pretty early on) I did a factory reset in recovery then went to restore. Prior to this thank god I had transfered my nandroids to the pc b4 flashing new boot.img(s) then flashed the boot.img from the nandroid I just restored. All was well back into stock. I then found the insecure boot.img to use for aahk, flashed that in fastboot and relocked hboot. Reran aahk in linux. Got me to S-OFF with unlock.
If you need a fairly stock nandroid I can provide one.
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Sorry, I thought I had said I was S-OFF. I can get my phone to be fastboot usb when hooked up with a usb in hboot, but can't reflash aahk or anything computer related. It just doesn't seem to recognize anything on the PC.
Edit: And I apologize glevitan, I've searched and found a couple of threads related to the black screen after the HTC logo, so I know you guys have helped and explained this numerous times before. I just couldn't get any of the suggestions from those threads to work out. Thanks for any help you may input.
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Ok, you need to reflash the RUU I posted above....you just need to flash that from fastboot usb. If you can't do it, Then you need to flash it manually. Just let me know and I can lend you a hand over teamviewer. When you get the phone back, then you run the hack kit.
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Ok, you need to reflash the RUU I posted above....you just need to flash that from fastboot usb. If you can't do it, Then you need to flash it manually. Just let me know and I can lend you a hand over teamviewer. When you get the phone back, then you run the hack kit.
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glevitan, you're awesome. I restored the phone by running the RUU executable and reran the aahk and am now fully rooted. Both times I got the black screen on this phone previously was on the same PC, but this time I ran aahk on my PC and it ran correctly. I sincerely appreciate your help in helping me to achieve root for this phone. Hopefully this thread helps someone in the future.
Can you or anyone do step by step on how too root the HTC inspire? From step one an not for get anything even if its an hour long video? Anything would help. I'm new with the HTC inspire. It seems that I can't root it at all. I'm not saying I can't root phones I rooted a lot. I have done the HTC Evo sprint the HTC amaze tmobile I have done three galaxy s2's the sprint the boost an the straight talk an many more. But this HTC inspire has me at a "STOP" noting seems too work at all. Please Help Me.
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Can you or anyone do step by step on how too root the HTC inspire? From step one an not for get anything even if its an hour long video? Anything would help. I'm new with the HTC inspire. It seems that I can't root it at all. I'm not saying I can't root phones I rooted a lot. I have done the HTC Evo sprint the HTC amaze tmobile I have done three galaxy s2's the sprint the boost an the straight talk an many more. But this HTC inspire has me at a "STOP" noting seems too work at all. Please Help Me.
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What have you tried? AAHK is the only real option. There is a very clear guide over at the Ace Think Tank post #7, linked in my signature.
jimmyport said:
Can you or anyone do step by step on how too root the HTC inspire? From step one an not for get anything even if its an hour long video? Anything would help. I'm new with the HTC inspire. It seems that I can't root it at all. I'm not saying I can't root phones I rooted a lot. I have done the HTC Evo sprint the HTC amaze tmobile I have done three galaxy s2's the sprint the boost an the straight talk an many more. But this HTC inspire has me at a "STOP" noting seems too work at all. Please Help Me.
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Besides what bananagranola said, you need to know that video tutorials suck. They skip important details and that, will probably get you stuck. Read the guide adviced, and the hack kit site (got the link in the Ace Think Tank Thread)...that is all you need to know.
I have tryed the Aahk. My problem is when it ask me to downgrade ruu an all that. All my phone dose when I run the aahk I push 1 an then it ask too downgrade so i put y then something about the ruu an I put y then it says pushing the 9 something file. ( sorry I'm not home on my computer ) so I'm not 100% on what it is saying. But then my phone boots to Hboot dose its thank. Then says bad image. I have done this a lot of times with the aahk. I even tock the s-on off an on. Is there a way that someone can jump into my computer an do this?
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I wish they would do a video an not skip anything at all. That would be really nice. I fill like there is stuff I'm missing. Dose anyone know off there heads what all needs too be downloade? I have the aahk an drivers. I did everything I been reading the fing manual. I have a ROM an gapps ready too go. Just need too root the phone so I can run the rom.
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I have tryed the Aahk. My problem is when it ask me to downgrade ruu an all that. All my phone dose when I run the aahk I push 1 an then it ask too downgrade so i put y then something about the ruu an I put y then it says pushing the 9 something file. ( sorry I'm not home on my computer ) so I'm not 100% on what it is saying. But then my phone boots to Hboot dose its thank. Then says bad image. I have done this a lot of times with the aahk. I even tock the s-on off an on. Is there a way that someone can jump into my computer an do this?
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I wish they would do a video an not skip anything at all. That would be really nice. I fill like there is stuff I'm missing. Dose anyone know off there heads what all needs too be downloade? I have the aahk an drivers. I did everything I been reading the fing manual. I have a ROM an gapps ready too go. Just need too root the phone so I can run the rom.
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Try using a different sdcard. If the RUU image is not being read, that is probably due to a bad sdcard. It is corrupted to work as a goldcard but fine for usual day use.
I have. I have had 4 of them now. Two 2 gigs one 36gig an one 8 gig. New I paid for them an a new USB cored fast data cable for the phone.
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I have. I have had 4 of them now. Two 2 gigs one 36gig an one 8 gig. New I paid for them an a new USB cored fast data cable for the phone.
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2gb is enough...don't use another cable but the oem one that came with the phone. Anyway, that seems to be a sdcard issue. Try with another one and then report back.
I will go buy one more. But I Dont thank its that. An why not use a fast data cored for my phone?
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