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ROM Manager-Backup Help..

I perma rooted my shift here, and installed ROM Manager. I wanted to backup my current stock rom+root just incase I f#*k something up, under flash recovery image i selected htc evo (cdma) (evo shift is not listed) it says successful but when i click backup current rom, it turns off and is stuck on htc screen...any suggestion??
by the way, i have busybox v1.17.1, updated via busybox app from market.

I don't think RM is supported on the shift yet...
OMG, Just read what you wrote. Um, you installed an evo recovery on your shift? That's not good.

ROM manager, and more importantly ClockworkMod are not yet supported on our device...
There are some versions that "work" -- I say that because they have issues, but have some functionality.
You need to flash your recovery manually with the one from the perma-root thread, using those steps.

grunge315 said:
ROM manager, and more importantly ClockworkMod are not yet supported on our device...
There are some versions that "work" -- I say that because they have issues, but have some functionality.
You need to flash your recovery manually with the one from the perma-root thread, using those steps.
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Is it possible to flash it manually now, after I did it for evo..or start from stock rom again?
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gbL420 said:
Is it possible to flash it manually now, after I did it for evo..or start from stock rom again?
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If you can boot to recovery I'd recommend running the stock ruu from your computer...that should fix the problem but know it will wipe all data and return you to out of the box stock...you can find it in the development section in the perm root/recovery/stock ruu thread (or something like that not sure exactly what the thread is called)
Edit: ha sorry thats what its called on the android central forum...you can find it still in the development section as speedy ruu

StAlphonso said:
If you can boot to recovery I'd recommend running the stock ruu from your computer...that should fix the problem but know it will wipe all data and return you to out of the box stock...you can find it in the development section in the perm root/recovery/stock ruu thread (or something like that not sure exactly what the thread is called)
Edit: ha sorry thats what its called on the android central forum...you can find it still in the development section as speedy ruu
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Lol yeaa I have the ruu saved on my pc, question: after I install stock rom can I restore my sys data/apps (minus clockwork) without having problems? (Using titanium backup)
Also I dunno if anyone else is having problems with mobile data but once in a while I have to reboot to get 3g back.
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gbL420 said:
Lol yeaa I have the ruu saved on my pc, question: after I install stock rom can I restore my sys data/apps (minus clockwork) without having problems? (Using titanium backup)
Also I dunno if anyone else is having problems with mobile data but once in a while I have to reboot to get 3g back.
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i think you would probably have to root again since not sure you would be able to even access sys data/app without root but not 100% about that and i dont imagine it causing any trouble as long as you get rid of clockwork but again im really not sure at all so i dont wanna say with any certainty.....also i havent had any problems with mobile data so far

StAlphonso said:
i think you would probably have to root again since not sure you would be able to even access sys data/app without root but not 100% about that and i dont imagine it causing any trouble as long as you get rid of clockwork but again im really not sure at all so i dont wanna say with any certainty.....also i havent had any problems with mobile data so far
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Thanks
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Cwm recovery not sucking?

At this point I've tried every method of flashing, and every version of cwmr. No matter what version or method I use, after about a week, I lose the ability to flash any roms that I havnt already flashed. I also can only restore certain backups due to.an MD5 mismatch. Has anyone else had these issues?
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hey, unfortunately i cant help you. I havent even been able to flash cm7 once. always boot loop.

md5 sums are giving me mismatch with some the original restore (nandroid) from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274

Yea, a guy In the cm7 thread its going to post a dl that worked for him so ill try that one and let u guys know as far as cm7 goes.
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I just want to revert to stock so I can get a replacement lol... maybe if you have one I can try :-/ I just deleted mine by accident (read the dates wrong)

mt3g said:
I just want to revert to stock so I can get a replacement lol... maybe if you have one I can try :-/ I just deleted mine by accident (read the dates wrong)
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Download the stock with root and use one click root to unroot after that use one click recovery and pick stock. Than hard reset your back on tmobile out the box stock
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crx4xharder said:
At this point I've tried every method of flashing, and every version of cwmr. No matter what version or method I use, after about a week, I lose the ability to flash any roms that I havnt already flashed. I also can only restore certain backups due to.an MD5 mismatch. Has anyone else had these issues?
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No issues like this. I reverted back to other roms more than once and it worked everytime. No mismatch error
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charlieb620 said:
Download the stock with root and use one click root to unroot after that use one click recovery and pick stock. Than hard reset your back on tmobile out the box stock
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Ya I downloaded it and everything and tried different ways and it wont let restore, just says md5 sums mismatched tried 2 sdcards and downloading them in root of sd card and directly in the CWM/restore folder. still a no go, but I can restore other backups and flsh roms. just not the one i need.

Probably won't get to it till thursday or so, but im going to try and go back to completely stock, reroot, reflash cwr, flash cm7. Otherwise im getting a replacement...
Ps
The dl posted in another thread for me failed as well. I also had an intense the other day where all my partitions were completely wiped. It took 3 hours to finally get nv flash to flash cwr and flash a rom.
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crx4xharder said:
Probably won't get to it till thursday or so, but im going to try and go back to completely stock, reroot, reflash cwr, flash cm7. Otherwise im getting a replacement...
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I have a feeling im going to return another one thatll make 4
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My SD was bad! Reformatted in cwr, then in settings SD and storage... dl cm7, and flashed. Just remember to copy ALL the contents of your sdcard cause formatting WILL DELETE EVERYTHING!
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Ok if anyone is still having problems, id like to mention that I exchanged my 5 year old 2g simcard yesterday for a new one, and bought a new 16gb class 4 sandisk sdcard, and EVERYTHING is working great! so far maybe only 2 or 3 occurrences of data loss, easily corrected with a battery pull. And I borked some lib files trying to get the camcorder to work. So I installed the kanged version update-cm-7.1.0-RC0-G2x-KANG-signed.zip overtop of my build to get the rom to boot again, and now the camcorder works! Maybe only about 15fps but works nonetheless...
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Atrix 2 bricked installing Blaze ROM

Pls help-
I'm not quite a noob, but def no dev... got my Atrix 2 rooted using mastermind's 1-click method, installed bootstrap & flashed clockworkmod recovery- everything went fine until trying to flash/restore the ROM itself. I followed the instructions to the letter (save ROM in cwm backup folder, wipe cache & data, do not flash zip... restore in recovery). Yet i've bricked 2 atrix 2's trying to install this rom. Luckily the store I work at was good about letting me switch out, but kinda scared to brick a 3rd device. It just errors on restore then goes back to cwm. I try to reboot and cant get past the moto startup screen.. I'm sure i'm doing something wrong, cuz I know it should work (there are screenshots in the thread)... any help?
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Did you unzip the rom and then put the contents in the backup folder?

You do know that you are more than likely going to be charged full price of the phone if you are returning a bricked phone to the store.
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Why not flash the FXZ and start over?
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tmease1 said:
You do know that you are more than likely going to be charged full price of the phone if you are returning a bricked phone to the store.
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Luckily I work for a phone sales store, so they didn't charge me full price, as I blamed the phone bricking on a "bad software update" (which is kinda true- if the rom had restored properly, I wouldn't have been bricked in the 1st place)
; )
and it was still within the exch. period anyway... But that's neither here nor there... Yez, I unzipped the folder into the cwm backup folder. Not sure about reflashing fxz, havent tried that yet... don't really know how, never had to do that? I've flashed dozens of roms on my HTC & Samsung galaxy phones, but this is my first exp. w/ moto. So any help u can give is appreciated.
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No, not sure how to do that?
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jzachary78 said:
Luckily I work for a phone sales store, so they didn't charge me full price, as I blamed the phone bricking on a "bad software update" (which is kinda true- if the rom had restored properly, I wouldn't have been bricked in the 1st place)
; )
and it was still within the exch. period anyway... But that's neither here nor there... Yez, I unzipped the folder into the cwm backup folder. Not sure about reflashing fxz, havent tried that yet... don't really know how, never had to do that? I've flashed dozens of roms on my HTC & Samsung galaxy phones, but this is my first exp. w/ moto. So any help u can give is appreciated.
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I had a similar problem, found the unzipped folder nested 2x under clockwork/backup.
Like this
sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/myrom/myrom
What I did was move all the files from second folder to the first then deleted second folder.
Hope I am clear and that it helps.
ATRIX 2 / Victory Rom

smgulsby said:
I had a similar problem, found the unzipped folder nested 2x under clockwork/backup.
Like this
sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/myrom/myrom
What I did was move all the files from second folder to the first then deleted second folder.
Hope I am clear and that it helps.
ATRIX 2 / Victory Rom
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Can you post a like for the victory Rom, I'm kinda scared to install without the bootloader being unlocked and Id like something that's not att stock

I actually did find an extra set of files in the cwm backup folder & deleted them... so ur pretty confident that I should be able to install this ROM now? and (just to clarify) I don't need to flash the zip before restoring in cwm (that just doesn't make sense to me, but w/e works)? Thx for ur help
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jzachary78 said:
I actually did find an extra set of files in the cwm backup folder & deleted them... so ur pretty confident that I should be able to install this ROM now? and (just to clarify) I don't need to flash the zip before restoring in cwm (that just doesn't make sense to me, but w/e works)? Thx for ur help
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Unzip rom, move the folder with the 2 files, to CWM/BACKUP.....boot into recovery, choose BACKUP/RESTORE, and restore the rom.
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So the problem is that you stuck on motorola dual core logo?
Just try to flash fxz,it's pretty simple. You just need the file you need and let the pc doing everything while you watching a tv.
I got this problem twice when i try to flash victory rom this morning,wich is caused by a corrupt file.
And everything is sorted out by flashing fxz.
Trust me,it works! (It sounds like commercials on tv )

You can always boot to recovery and when you see the android with the exclamation press both volume rockers to reset to factory.
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kisnerct said:
You can always boot to recovery and when you see the android with the exclamation press both volume rockers to reset to factory.
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would you be kind and elaborate on this?

kojitabe said:
So the problem is that you stuck on motorola dual core logo?
Just try to flash fxz,it's pretty simple. You just need the file you need and let the pc doing everything while you watching a tv.
I got this problem twice when i try to flash victory rom this morning,wich is caused by a corrupt file.
And everything is sorted out by flashing fxz.
Trust me,it works! (It sounds like commercials on tv )
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Just in case that happens again- what is the file I'll need when I connect to PC... u just mean the ROM files, or is there a diff fxz file i'm not aware of?
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kisnerct said:
You can always boot to recovery and when you see the android with the exclamation press both volume rockers to reset to factory.
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actually tried that a cpl times via chat w/ a tech support rep from moto on first bricked device, it still wouldn't reset...
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Flash Fix
This link can explain alot of your questions and hopefully have an answer for you as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396650. This is where I started to look when I began researching how to return my phone back to stock.

Installing the roms
if anybody could please tell me.......can I install Droid 3 or Droid razr's custom roms unto my Atrix 2. Would it work..? (Coz of the three phones bear same chipset i.e Powervr540)............Please help me out....i'm afraid if i'll brick my phone by doing this......!

devil.jeet said:
if anybody could please tell me.......can I install Droid 3 or Droid razr's custom roms unto my Atrix 2. Would it work..? (Coz of the three phones bear same chipset i.e Powervr540)............Please help me out....i'm afraid if i'll brick my phone by doing this......!
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The devs have got some roms from other moto phones to boot but have problems mostly with the radio and probably a handful of other things. I would highly recommend you not try to do this. We have plenty of good roms here in the dev section that you can flash that are good roms. Generally if you follow the instructions for each rom you would be fine but if you are afraid of bricking your phone make sure you read a lot before attempting anything and always make sure you have a way back to stock.
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Keeping a stock backup?

So I have flashed many ics roms and all have worked fine, obviously I am on 3.32 firmware our whatever (most recent) and my question is, is there really any point in keeping a backup of the stock rom?
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If something goes wrong somewhere down the line you can always go back to stock but besides that point, no?

Wow, I could have written that exact same question. I still have my stock GB (non t-mobile) backup on the phone. I'm thinking of just copying it off to my PC for archive. IF you ever need to go back to it, you need to reinstall the old kernel, etc. as well.

Last time I moved backups to my computer, for some reason the md5 sum nandroid.md5 completely disappeared, leaving me with no restorable backups...
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Sensation-al! said:
Last time I moved backups to my computer, for some reason the md5 sum nandroid.md5 completely disappeared, leaving me with no restorable backups...
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4EXT will let you force the install without the MD5 Sum. I've done it. It works provided that the file is not corrupted, and that just the MD5 sum itself is lost.
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topcat0 said:
Wow, I could have written that exact same question. I still have my stock GB (non t-mobile) backup on the phone. I'm thinking of just copying it off to my PC for archive. IF you ever need to go back to it, you need to reinstall the old kernel, etc. as well.
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If you have a nandroid backup of the Stock ROM (or any other ROM) the Kernel is included with it.
Now, you'll have to reinstall teh stock firmware, which is NOt included with the nandoird backup.

Ok, I knew that it could force install, just didn't know for sure if it was safe
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About rooting

Hi, I need your help.
I wanna know if I can come back to the stock rom (The official rom - htc sense 4) after rooting and flashing other roms ?
And I wanna know if there is a really improvement for the battery life in other rom and other kernal ?
Also, can I unroot my device ? (If it was root)

Yes u can go back to stock completely by running an ruu. There are many benefits of custom roms the amount of customisation and also the battery life can improve depending on what Rom you Use some are for performance others for battery savers
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k1llacanon said:
Yes u can go back to stock completely by running an ruu. There are many benefits of custom roms the amount of customisation and also the battery life can improve depending on what Rom you Use some are for performance others for battery savers
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"Yes u can go back to stock completely by running an ruu" - please, could you explain that for me? I don't understand about the rooting and all of that ..

And yes unroot is possible and will also happen when returning to stock rom

frdd said:
And yes unroot is possible and will also happen when returning to stock rom
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And how do I do this ?

Even with super su if u go into settings there is something called full unroot and u don't need to be connected to computer
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k1llacanon said:
Even with super su if u go into settings there is something called full unroot and u don't need to be connected to computer
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So does it really make my phone to be unrooted?
Ohh and I want to install any rom, but I see that there are new updates for the rom. So I need to flash the new rom (the update) ?? I don't want to lose the messages, contacts and etc with the new updates ...

Once rooted download titanium backup and make a back up then also make a nandroid backup when u install a new Rom its advised to wipe the phone (sd card does nt get touched ) once your on the desired Rom restore files with titanium back up if anything goes wrong when rooting run nandroid back up ans ye super su will totally unroot u that's what it says or u can run and ruu specific to ur country and update version and that will also take u back to stock
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k1llacanon said:
Once rooted download titanium backup and make a back up then also make a nandroid backup when u install a new Rom its advised to wipe the phone (sd card does nt get touched ) once your on the desired Rom restore files with titanium back up if anything goes wrong when rooting run nandroid back up ans ye super su will totally unroot u that's what it says or u can run and ruu specific to ur country and update version and that will also take u back to stock
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Great comment I must say
And can I get the htc original updates in the stock rom?

Yea u can update on stock HTC but there is no point personally I don't recommend it if your rooting and going onto a custom Rom no point because developers base their roms around the latest update from HTC and HTC sometimes add stupid things in their updates to make it harder for us to get roms on making phone easier to brick like I'm still on HTC update 1.73 never updated just make sure before put on a custom Rom that you have
Titanium backup and made a backup
Made a nandroid backup this is built into clock work mod (recovery) and your good to go
I never keep my backups on my phone I transfer them to the computer because they can take upto 2gb on phone and that's just nandroid backups
Another reason why you shouldn't update via HTC updates is because you will have to keep changing your ruu for the newer ones and sometimes can be hard to get hold of by staying on the one you have right now just find and download it.and u will never have to change it if anything ever goes wrong like bootloop you can run ruu if less experienced or run adb push a Rom onto phone if you want to learn about that I can send u a link for xda thread
Hope this helps sorry for any spelling errors I did not check over it because wrote this via my one s and its quite late ;p
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And u only get super su once rooted
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k1llacanon said:
Yea u can update on stock HTC but there is no point personally I don't recommend it if your rooting and going onto a custom Rom no point because developers base their roms around the latest update from HTC and HTC sometimes add stupid things in their updates to make it harder for us to get roms on making phone easier to brick like I'm still on HTC update 1.73 never updated just make sure before put on a custom Rom that you have
Titanium backup and made a backup
Made a nandroid backup this is built into clock work mod (recovery) and your good to go
I never keep my backups on my phone I transfer them to the computer because they can take upto 2gb on phone and that's just nandroid backups
Another reason why you shouldn't update via HTC updates is because you will have to keep changing your ruu for the newer ones and sometimes can be hard to get hold of by staying on the one you have right now just find and download it.and u will never have to change it if anything ever goes wrong like bootloop you can run ruu if less experienced or run adb push a Rom onto phone if you want to learn about that I can send u a link for xda thread
Hope this helps sorry for any spelling errors I did not check over it because wrote this via my one s and its quite late ;p
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And u only get super su once rooted
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"u will never have to change it if anything ever goes wrong like bootloop you can run ruu if less experienced or run adb push a Rom onto phone if you want to learn about that I can send u a link for xda thread" -
Yes please give me the link
And there is a possibility that my phone can stop working because the root/rom/htc ?

When I say stop working u can go into bootloop for example installing wrong boot.IMG or forgetting to install boot.IMG with a Rom erm you very rarely will completely brick your phone I think I've seen one person on xda who completely bricked their phone not 100% tho u will make mistakes one s was my first android I went into bootloop 4times I understand everything now and it is very worth it just don't install radios because if ur new to it and do something wrong I think its perminant brick everything else is bootloop and to get out of it u run ruu , adb push Rom or the easiest one run the nandroid back up u made
I would only use adb when I go into bootloop and If I don't want to go back to stock by running ruu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
When putting a Rom onto the phone easiest way is to connect it to pc via USB put the .zip on there and flash it with cwm
Adb push tut here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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k1llacanon said:
When I say stop working u can go into bootloop for example installing wrong boot.IMG or forgetting to install boot.IMG with a Rom erm you very rarely will completely brick your phone I think I've seen one person on xda who completely bricked their phone not 100% tho u will make mistakes one s was my first android I went into bootloop 4times I understand everything now and it is very worth it just don't install radios because if ur new to it and do something wrong I think its perminant brick everything else is bootloop and to get out of it u run ruu , adb push Rom or the easiest one run the nandroid back up u made
I would only use adb when I go into bootloop and If I don't want to go back to stock by running ruu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
When putting a Rom onto the phone easiest way is to connect it to pc via USB put the .zip on there and flash it with cwm
Adb push tut here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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So if my phone will stop working, all I have to do is to use the link that you gave me ? (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929)

Re: [Q] Latest RUU?
Yes or u can run the ruu specific to your country and network , or run the nandroid backup u made
Here are the ruu files depending whether you have s4 processor or s3
S4
http://www.filefactory.com/f/cf061f69b5bf7878/
S3
http://www.filefactory.com/f/11f2bd9c14cebbbe/
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k1llacanon said:
Yeah or run the ruu specific to ur country and network
Or run the nandroid backup u made
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But if my phone will stop working, SO How can I open the ruu/nandroid ?

LalyGirl said:
But if my phone will stop working, SO How can I open the ruu/nandroid ?
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Read post above I editted it... U hold down power for 5sec to do soft reset if u think ur phones still on then hold power and down button and u will enter hboot / bootloader then u navigate to recovery and phone will display some red text with HTC logo and then cwm will launch you click backup and restore then click restore
Ruu is a exe file u run on the computer and u connect ur phone to the computer via USB and to run ruu phne has to be in fastboot which is in.bootloader and I just told u how to access that
This link will help you with ruu and going back to stock
http://www.htconeforum.com/forum/ht...e-your-htc-one-s-back-100-stock-relocked.html
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k1llacanon said:
Yes or u can run the ruu specific to your country and network , or run the nandroid backup u made
Here are the ruu files depending whether you have s4 processor or s3
S4
http://www.filefactory.com/f/cf061f69b5bf7878/
S3
http://www.filefactory.com/f/11f2bd9c14cebbbe/
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IN S4 it's said that I need to download T-Mobile USA RUU file - but I don't have T-MOBILE Device ..

Can u see the thing it says click here if u are not USA its massive red font
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k1llacanon said:
Can u see the thing it says click here if u are not USA its massive red font
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Yeah I saw there now, but I don't know which file to download :X
How could I know? :fingers-crossed:

I don't know what network your phone is or where u live in the world figure it out and make sure u get the right one according to your software information
HTC one s was my first android phone I got it 2wk after it came out 1wk within having it I rooted it using this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583427
I did not ask for any help from any1 and got it done that's that u need to do ive given you way too much help as it is time to figure it out now if ur unsure don't do it but I've given u enough help hopefully othr members agree with me
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