say hypothetically I was to flash a new radio or rom and the device would not boot, i.e it was stuck on the HTC logo, how would I recover the device.
the reason fir me asking is I am about to flash a new radio and i hear this is the most likly thing that can go wrong and brick the device.
am i right in assuming that going the hboot and restoring from a previous backup will also restore the radio?
Kurisu87 said:
say hypothetically I was to flash a new radio or rom and the device would not boot, i.e it was stuck on the HTC logo, how would I recover the device.
the reason fir me asking is I am about to flash a new radio and i hear this is the most likly thing that can go wrong and brick the device.
am i right in assuming that going the hboot and restoring from a previous backup will also restore the radio?
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If thats the case is mostly a bad flash or bad file flashed, you will need to try to reflash again a new downloaded file.
and next time use Search
I used search but couldn't get a straight answer, but regardless you didn't answer my question, i asked how you would go about re flashing and restoring not the cause....
It can go wrong and brick your device if...
a) You unplug or disconnect the device while doing the flashing
b) You flash a Radio thats not meant for your device
c) You dont check the md5 sum and its a corrupt file
Restoring will not restore the radio..Flashign a RUU will
so the vodafone RRU from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
would work yes?
Make sure you do so nandroid back up in CWM before you flash anything. If your flash goes wrong, boot into recovery and restore.
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Kurisu87 said:
so the vodafone RRU from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
would work yes?
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Yep though if youre not feeling too confident then dont flash the hboot or you could end up regretting it
ALuton said:
Make sure you do so nandroid back up in CWM before you flash anything. If your flash goes wrong, boot into recovery and restore.
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Nandroid backups are always a good precaution but radios are a little different. If our device is like many that came before it, if you were to flash a bad radio you probably wouldn't be able to boot into recovery to restore a nandroid backup.
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I need to unroot so i can update 2.3.4 and want to just unroot Thanks
Just run the RUU
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idavid_ said:
Just run the RUU
Swyped from my HTC Sensation
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How can we unroot without having to replace the system image?
Just an FYI to everyone, it's not root that will stop the OTA from updating on its own, it's a custom recovery. The OTA requires your phone to have the stock recovery. If you installed ClockworkMod Recovery, then you have to get back to stock using the RUU. That can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201773
If you only acheived S-OFF with the Revolutionary tool and never installed a custom recovery, then you can go ahead and apply the OTA update and not worry about losing S-OFF. You can then load a custom recovery and gain root access by following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16808547
I hope this helps out anyone that has questions.
And I know this process works, because I had to do it to apply the update.
Jimmah555 said:
Just an FYI to everyone, it's not root that will stop the OTA from updating on its own, it's a custom recovery. The OTA requires your phone to have the stock recovery. If you installed ClockworkMod Recovery, then you have to get back to stock using the RUU. That can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201773
If you only acheived S-OFF with the Revolutionary tool and never installed a custom recovery, then you can go ahead and apply the OTA update and not worry about losing S-OFF. You can then load a custom recovery and gain root access by following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16808547
I hope this helps out anyone that has questions.
And I know this process works, because I had to do it to apply the update.
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Thanks. Will going back to stock with that RUU guide cause the loss of SMS etc?
f3nd3r said:
Thanks. Will going back to stock with that RUU guide cause the loss of SMS etc?
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Yes unless u backup
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ikhzter said:
Yes unless u backup
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Thanks. That's what I had thought. How do I backup SMS/MMS with Titanium Backup? Also, does it restore the MMS attachments?
I have now flashed the stock recovery. The OTA boots in to the stock recovery and begins installing, however it gets about halfway and then stops with a red triangle and exclamation mark displaying on the screen.
f3nd3r said:
I have now flashed the stock recovery. The OTA boots in to the stock recovery and begins installing, however it gets about halfway and then stops with a red triangle and exclamation mark displaying on the screen.
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I am experiencing the same issue after I did the RUU and flash it back to stock.
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earzkick said:
I am experiencing the same issue after I did the RUU and flash it back to stock.
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I got it to work by doing a nandroid restore back to a point before I rooted. Going to now try and restore the data.img from a more recent nandroid backup.
EDIT: The restore of data.img worked. So just to recap; I flashed back to a nandroid backup I took before I had rooted so that I had my ROM in an unrooted state. Then I flashed a stock recovery. Once I had done this, the OTA update applied without any problems. I then flashed CWM recovery and restored data.img from a recent backup. Doing this has restored all of my SMS/MMS, Apps+Data.
f3nd3r said:
I got it to work by doing a nandroid restore back to a point before I rooted. Going to now try and restore the data.img from a more recent nandroid backup.
EDIT: The restore of data.img worked. So just to recap; I flashed back to a nandroid backup I took before I had rooted so that I had my ROM in an unrooted state. Then I flashed a stock recovery. Once I had done this, the OTA update applied without any problems. I then flashed CWM recovery and restored data.img from a recent backup. Doing this has restored all of my SMS/MMS, Apps+Data.
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I ran the RUU and did the update and it worked. Then I used your method of flashing CWM recovery and restoring data.img from a recent backup. Worked like a charm! Thanks. Now just gotta do the boot animations over again.
I recently just rooted my shift to rooted 2.2 them did a custom rom cm7.1.0 speedy everything went very well.....then i decided to update the radio and wimax....did that through bootloader with a pg06img.zip file containing both....udated fine then went to reboot and i got stuck on the htc screen.......when i did this with the stock rooted rom no problem....except it didn't update the radio etc......
if any body has any suggestions i would greatly appreciate it....thank you
This is covered in the radio thread.. Take the zip off the root of your sdcard, boot into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik, then reboot. If it still won't boot you may have to restore your nand, don't worry this won't revert back to the old radios.
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stuck on htc screen
ok i seem to have fixed the problem with a little trick....the problem was that i had that pg601img.zip on my sd so every time i would try and go into the bootloader it would automatically load that file so i could not go to recovery could not delete it from sd via pc due to write protection so what it did let me do is rename the file.....so that it would let me chose recovery(clockworkmod recovery) so i could load my rom backup
still a noob
joeblue90 said:
ok i seem to have fixed the problem with a little trick....the problem was that i had that pg601img.zip on my sd so every time i would try and go into the bootloader it would automatically load that file so i could not go to recovery could not delete it from sd via pc due to write protection so what it did let me do is rename the file.....so that it would let me chose recovery(clockworkmod recovery) so i could load my rom backup
still a noob
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haha I hate when that happens.
I don't think that little trick is very obvious to most of us who flashed a radio our first time.
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travanx said:
I don't think that little trick is very obvious to most of us who flashed a radio our first time.
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I know, I edited my walk through with a note about this.
Hi
Hands up I think I have made a mistake by rushing in. I have flashed the latest insert coin rom to my Senation but it is in a sort of boot loop where it gets to a beats splashscreen then vibrates and goes back to booting again.
I have a backup but when I try to restore I get the message:
Checking MD5 sums...
Md5 mismatch!
Have I blown it or is there something I can do?
Any help appreciated.
Karl
karlos65 said:
Hi
Hands up I think I have made a mistake by rushing in. I have flashed the latest insert coin rom to my Senation but it is in a sort of boot loop where it gets to a beats splashscreen then vibrates and goes back to booting again.
I have a backup but when I try to restore I get the message:
Checking MD5 sums...
Md5 mismatch!
Have I blown it or is there something I can do?
Any help appreciated.
Karl
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Hi,
Md5 mismatch normally means you changed the name of the backup.
Make sure there are no gaps in the name, and it should work.
malybru said:
Hi,
Md5 mismatch normally means you changed the name of the backup.
Make sure there are no gaps in the name, and it should work.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
The backup is in clockworkmod/backup/2012-02-25.18.12.31
I haven't changed it in any way.
Any ideas?
karlos65 said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
The backup is in clockworkmod/backup/2012-02-25.18.12.31
I haven't changed it in any way.
Any ideas?
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If you will use 4ext recovery you can also restore the backup also if the md5 doesn't match... So install 4ext and restore
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matt95 said:
If you will use 4ext recovery you can also restore the backup also if the md5 doesn't match... So install 4ext and restore
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I am not using 4ext recovery, it is a Nandroid recovery from clockworkmod.
If there is no way other way of recovering would a phone shop be able to repair? They claim they can.
Is it possible to dump another Rom on the sdcard and then flash that from my present state?
If so can someone advise me on a clean Rom that is fairly easy to flash please.
You could run the relevant RUU for your original rom, then s-off, root and reflash a new download of insert coin?
stringer7 said:
You could run the relevant RUU for your original rom, then s-off, root and reflash a new download of insert coin?
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How would I find and run the original RUU?
And then just s-off and root the same way again?
karlos65 said:
How would I find and run the original RUU?
And then just s-off and root the same way again?
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Use the sticky guide in the developer thread for some notes about running RUU.
Pick the RUU from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
You have to match it to your original model (LE = xe model), country/region, carrier (no need if your phone was unbranded), base and & software version.
Then yes, s-off via revolutionary and root. Then nandroid backup. Then flash new rom.
Did you change firmware from original at all?
stringer7 said:
Use the sticky guide in the developer thread for some notes about running RUU.
Pick the RUU from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
You have to match it to your original model (LE = xe model), country/region, carrier (no need if your phone was unbranded), base and & software version.
Then yes, s-off via revolutionary and root. Then nandroid backup. Then flash new rom.
Did you change firmware from original at all?
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I didn't change the firmware and that is why I think the ROM I used is in a bootloop.
I appreciate the help.
You have 2 options.
1. Go into recovery,
Go to mounts and storage
Mount usb storage
Copy a gingerbread (android 2.3) ROM to your phone
Then flash it normally
2. Download the latest firmware,
Take battery out, put it back in, hold volume down and power button to boot into bootloader install the firmware then just reboot and it should work
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dmcb123 said:
You have 2 options.
1. Go into recovery,
Go to mounts and storage
Mount usb storage
Copy a gingerbread (android 2.3) ROM to your phone
Then flash it normally
2. Download the latest firmware,
Take battery out, put it back in, hold volume down and power button to boot into bootloader install the firmware then just reboot and it should work
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What is the latest firmware for my sensation? Do I install it from bootloader from the SdCard?
Can someone recommend a nice Gingerbread Rom please.
Sorry for being so stupid.
You can find the fw download here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412618
You copy it onto the root of your SD and and then boot into boot loader. Confirm update and it will flash.
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karlos65 said:
I am not using 4ext recovery, it is a Nandroid recovery from clockworkmod.
If there is no way other way of recovering would a phone shop be able to repair? They claim they can.
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in fact i have said that you can if you go with 4ext...if you can't you don't really care of this problem don't be lazy
dmcb123 said:
You have 2 options.
1. Go into recovery,
Go to mounts and storage
Mount usb storage
Copy a gingerbread (android 2.3) ROM to your phone
Then flash it normally
2. Download the latest firmware,
Take battery out, put it back in, hold volume down and power button to boot into bootloader install the firmware then just reboot and it should work
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Sorted, thankyou. Put a 2.3 Rom on sdcard and reflashed. All good.J
Hey
I'm on the newest CM9 from nk111
I tried CM10 by nk111, I made a backup ,wiped, flashed boot.img and installed .zip. No problem it worked fine.
Then I wiped again and restored. The problem is now that wifi cannot be turned on and I can't go to setting/apps I think it is because sdcard is moved and renamed to sdcard0 but how do I change it back? I can't do that using root browser
It all worked before I tried CM10...
When I reboot it says that the process system has stopped answering... please help me someone
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Reflash the CM9 ROM with only cache and dalvik wipe
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Guessing from your question, you have unlocked through HTCDev. In that case restoring the backup won't help you - you need to flash the correct boot.img that matches the kernel from backup (possibly boot.img from the backup itself, if it'll work).
Jack_R1 said:
Guessing from your question, you have unlocked through HTCDev. In that case restoring the backup won't help you - you need to flash the correct boot.img that matches the kernel from backup (possibly boot.img from the backup itself, if it'll work).
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Yes that was so obvious that I did not considered it at all From the OP I thought that guy knows about the obligatory kernel flashing, even for a backup.
Still hard to believe how so many people do not actually realise what exactly are they doing...
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Jack_R1 said:
Guessing from your question, you have unlocked through HTCDev. In that case restoring the backup won't help you - you need to flash the correct boot.img that matches the kernel from backup (possibly boot.img from the backup itself, if it'll work).
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Thanks a lot!!
amidabuddha said:
Yes that was so obvious that I did not considered it at all From the OP I thought that guy knows about the obligatory kernel flashing, even for a backup.
Still hard to believe how so many people do not actually realise what exactly are they doing...
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Well we cannot all be pros
So, I have S-On and the newer Hboot (1.14 I believe), and I had a quick question about TWRP restores and fastboot.
Normally, the process of flashing a new ROM means that I go into fastboot and flash the boot.img first, then go back into TWRP to flash the ROM.
However, what if this happens:
1. backup the ROM that I'm currently on (which is, say AOKP)
2. flash to a new ROM using fastboot boot.img and TWRP (this ROM is Sense-based)
Now, I decide I liked my old AOKP rom better. Can I just go into TWRP and click on restore? Or do I have to do something else first?
You need to also flash the boot.img for the ROM you are restoring to.
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Well if its on your sd card click install then go to file, if its nandriod then use restore and re flash img. I strongly suggest you do s off , process is easy if you read the thread and follow instructions
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crazylilazn said:
So, I have S-On ....
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The answer to any question that starts like this is "You need to s-off before going any further."