So I posted on another thread that I am having issues with my 4g working on the new custom rom with T Mobile USA, after reading around some more I found out (not exactly sure about this) but that the custom rom (cyanogenmod) does not work well with t mobile sensation 4g.
I never backed up my stock rom, how do I revert back to it? do I just do a wipe? do I just do it like installing a custom rom but just point it to a stock rom?
Thanks guys.
doc2142 said:
So I posted on another thread that I am having issues with my 4g working on the new custom rom with T Mobile USA, after reading around some more I found out (not exactly sure about this) but that the custom rom (cyanogenmod) does not work well with t mobile sensation 4g.
I never backed up my stock rom, how do I revert back to it? do I just do a wipe? do I just do it like installing a custom rom but just point it to a stock rom?
Thanks guys.
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Wiping won't revert you to stock if you're already on a custom rom.
It just... wipes your phone. Stock roms install with a RUU executable, not a flashable zip like custom roms.
Follow this guide to write SUPERCID if you haven't done so. It lets you flash any rom that is carrier/region locked.
Then pick your choice of RUU from this thread and flash. These are all stock roms.
Remember to backup cause it will wipe everything.
kaof said:
Wiping won't revert you to stock if you're already on a custom rom.
It just... wipes your phone. Stock roms install with a RUU executable, not a flashable zip like custom roms.
Follow this guide to write SUPERCID if you haven't done so. It lets you flash any rom that is carrier/region locked.
Then pick your choice of RUU from this thread and flash. These are all stock roms.
Remember to backup cause it will wipe everything.
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Do I need to do the SUPERCID if I am flashing to TMOUS rom? since this phone came with out I don't need it right?
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Also to confirm on how to install the stock rom, I just put that into my root directory. Go to recovery, wipe everything, than install from sdcard correct? No need to do anything special?
doc2142 said:
Do I need to do the SUPERCID if I am flashing to TMOUS rom? since this phone came with out I don't need it right?
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Also to confirm on how to install the stock rom, I just put that into my root directory. Go to recovery, wipe everything, than install from sdcard correct? No need to do anything special?
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You won't have to write SUPERCID if your phone came with TMOUS stock. It is highly recommended though, unless you are perfectly sure the RUU you download is the right one.
Download the relevant file to your PC, connect your device via USB and double-click the executable. You won't need to copy it to sd or go into recovery. It will do everything for you.
Word of warning. Do not, under ANY circumstances interrupt the RUU update process. You will brick the phone.
EDIT: Remember to check the MD5 before flashing
kaof said:
You won't have to write SUPERCID if your phone came with TMOUS stock. It is highly recommended though, unless you are perfectly sure the RUU you download is the right one.
Download the relevant file to your PC, connect your device via USB and double-click the executable. You won't need to copy it to sd or go into recovery. It will do everything for you.
Word of warning. Do not, under ANY circumstances interrupt the RUU update process. You will brick the phone.
EDIT: Remember to check the MD5 before flashing
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Awesome it worked. Also my 4g data works on stock firmware.
Does this mean the custom rom I installed (cyanogenmod) Wont work with my carrier?
I tried installing different radios it didn't work, though on stock rom it works perfectly.
Custom roms work fine with Tmous. The only difference is the 4g icon does not display.
It is the same in data speeds.
On Tmous stock Rom it constantly says 4g.
It will not switch the icon back and forth.
Bit it is switching internally.
There is no difference in the connection speeds at all.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Coredroid XE
lozonw said:
Custom roms work fine with Tmous. The only difference is the 4g icon does not display.
It is the same in data speeds.
On Tmous stock Rom it constantly says 4g.
It will not switch the icon back and forth.
Bit it is switching internally.
There is no difference in the connection speeds at all.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Coredroid XE
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That wasn't my problem, I had the H logo but I couldn't use the internet. I tried playing with apn and everything but no luck.
doc2142 said:
That wasn't my problem, I had the H logo but I couldn't use the internet. I tried playing with apn and everything but no luck.
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Ok. Go Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
Download RUU_Pyramid_TMOUS_1.45.531.1_Radio_10.56.9035.00U_ 10.14.9035.01_M_release_208218_signed
With phone on start the RUU.
This will take you back to stock rom and stock S-off.
If I revert back to stock rom will I lose the unlock for the carrier?
jdawg2485 said:
If I revert back to stock rom will I lose the unlock for the carrier?
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Sim unlock once attained will be never lost again
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium
ganeshp said:
Sim unlock once attained will be never lost again
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium
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I can’t find the right ruu, why the hell r they labeled like that. My htc sensation is unlocked, what ruu do I need
Have a look at:
http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Pyramid
I believe the TMOUS ones are the right ones for you.
3.32.xxx will give you ICS.
I've attached a file that is supposed to list the carrier/location codes used in the RUU names.
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Hi all,
I have a problem with my Sensation due to my own fault.
I want to flash ARHD ICS rom to my phone, and I started with rooting my Sensation. I followed all instruction til installing the Recovery (PG58IMG).
I downloaded two versions of PG58IMG (one for ICS and one for the other), but I copied the firmware for ICS version to my SD card and already installed it. Now, my phone already S-off but cannot reboot into homescreen. It keeps rebooting it self in white hTC screen (after I installed the ICS firmware).
I don't know how to fix. I tried to read the troubleshoot in the post but I still cannot fix it. Does anyone have a solution??
Thanks in advance
chuz said:
Hi all,
I have a problem with my Sensation due to my own fault.
I want to flash ARHD ICS rom to my phone, and I started with rooting my Sensation. I followed all instruction til installing the Recovery (PG58IMG).
I downloaded two versions of PG58IMG (one for ICS and one for the other), but I copied the firmware for ICS version to my SD card and already installed it. Now, my phone already S-off but cannot reboot into homescreen. It keeps rebooting it self in white hTC screen (after I installed the ICS firmware).
I don't know how to fix. I tried to read the troubleshoot in the post but I still cannot fix it. Does anyone have a solution??
Thanks in advance
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If I understand you correctly you flashed the firmware upgrade BEFORE you flashed the new ICS rom? If so you'll need to get your sdcard card out (and get your computer to read it) so you can rename the PG85img on your sdcard so you can get back into recovery so you can flash the new ICS rom.
runderekrun said:
If I understand you correctly you flashed the firmware upgrade BEFORE you flashed the new ICS rom? If so you'll need to get your sdcard card out (and get your computer to read it) so you can rename the PG85img on your sdcard so you can get back into recovery so you can flash the new ICS rom.
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Yes, I flashed the upgraded firmware before not only I flashed ICS rom, but also I get rooted. Now, I can't flash any rom as well as su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip or su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip.
It still keep bootlooping. I tried to flash the other firmware, but it showed 'CID incorrect'. I don't know how to fix now
Did you check MD5 Sums before you flashed the ROM because it sounds like a bad download so re-download the ROM and reflash
Jonny said:
Did you check MD5 Sums before you flashed the ROM because it sounds like a bad download so re-download the ROM and reflash
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I did check MD5 sums for all files I downloaded and it is corrected.
Now, I'm curious that whether it is possible to flash the upgraded firmware before being rooted.
And of course you need to be using the right version of the firmware for the rom you want to flash. Mike's latest uses 3.24 per here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
I don't know if you can get into fastboot or not, but you should be able to check the CID of your phone there, and download the right firmware for your phone. If your phone is carrier independent (i.e. didn't get on contract) then the HTC__xxx variety should be good.
airzone said:
And of course you need to be using the right version of the firmware for the rom you want to flash. Mike's latest uses 3.24 per here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
I don't know if you can get into fastboot or not, but you should be able to check the CID of your phone there, and download the right firmware for your phone. If your phone is carrier independent (i.e. didn't get on contract) then the HTC__xxx variety should be good.
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Thank you so much for your link. I can boot my Sensation into the homescreen now. For my problem, I have to download and flash the older version (3.17) to fix it.
Thanks all of you for your reply again.
+1 for me, solve with a new download .
Just flash the Mod, the bootloop is normal.
I got the same problem, before i flashed Revolution Rom i used that radio package. After the radio package flash, my phone wass stuck in a bootloop.
I took the memory card out en removed the zip file en flashed the revolution rom. After that my phone started normal.
SOrry for the bad enlgish.
Good luck mate.
hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol
anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID
when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??
so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.
so what did i do wrong?
a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?
thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...
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also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.
nevermind, figured it out and got it work! the new ics is pretty sweet!!
thanks for everything- towards all the developers and testers on here
Cool. The answer is yes of course. The firmware file contains a specific radio / hboot / etc version. The ROM you download and install is dependent on certain combinations of the firmware versions you have. The super cid just allows you to flash any of the firmwares available here... Otherwise you have to find the specific one for your region and/or carrier.
Also, don't forget you can use an adb logcat while your phone is booting to see if you can diagnose any boot-looping issues. Just run that command on your PC with your phone attached via USB cable
Kawirider594 said:
hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol
anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID
when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??
so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.
so what did i do wrong?
a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?
thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...
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also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.
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To do so,
1. Download the correct firmware version ( PG58IMG.zip V3.24 ) and copy it to the root of your SDCARD.
Be 200% sure that the downloaded zip file is not corrupted. ( Check the MD5 checksum after you download)
2. Pull Back the battery and wait for a minute.
3. Put the battery and press POWER+VOLUME Down Key together.
4. Your phone will detect the firmware.
5. Follow the screen and complete the flashing.
6. Download the ICS based ROM of your favor.
7. Boot into recovery and flash your rom.
Kawirider594 said:
hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol
anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID
when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??
so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.
so what did i do wrong?
a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?
thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...
edit:
also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.
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No you didn't do everything the thread said to do because you're stuck in a bootloop. And yes, you must have correct firmware to run any ICS ROM.
1. SuperCID.
2. Load correct firmware for ROM version you wish to flash (there are 3 different firmwares, 3.06, 3.12 and 3.24. Make sure you've got the right one.
Put PG58IMG.zip on the root of your damn SD card.
Put the ROM you want on the root of your damn SD card.
Put a wipe or superwipe script on the root of your damn SD card.
So far it's easy, no?
Boot to bootloader, select FASTBOOT, select yes to update.
Watch the phone. You should see it flash some partitions, reboot itself, then flash the radio and some other crap.
When done you should be at correct HBOOT and radio.
Now, pull the battery. Pull the SD card.
Insert the battery. Start the phone with power + Volume down.
Move cursor to recovery.
Insert SD card and select recovery.
Flash the wipe script, flash the ROM.
Now if you did everything exactly like this, you will boot to normal phone in about 10 minutes or so.
This has been spelled out 50 times in 50 threads, including threads devoted to nothing but this procedure.
Your phone is a machine. It can only do what you tell it to do. If you screw up, it's screwed up. If you do everything exactly right, in the right order, carefully checking each step, your phone will behave.
Try again.
Do it right. Do it carefully.
P.
To the Guru of this forum. After my last rom flashing my device is keeping booting into recovery :crying:. Is it briked ? If so my only hope is the unbricking project ? Thanks in advance.
What recovery are you running?
Can you use the power menu within recovery to boot into bootloader?
Also, please provide as much pertinent info as possible, ie: rom you flashed, firmware, s-off or s-on, locked or unlocked. With your description it's basically like saying, "my car makes a noise all the time. what is causing it?".
Its not bricked.If u can enter recovery
Sent from my HTC sensation
Sorry you are right:
What recovery are you running? 4Ext
Can you use the power menu within recovery to boot into bootloader? yes
The device is HTC unlocked with S-On.
Rom JBMIUI v4.1 2.8.31 R2.
HBOOT 1.27.0000
firmware 3.33.401.6
I've format everything but SD. Restored the most recent back up done today before flashing. Once it reboots HTC logo comes up once, black screen, HTC logo, 4Ext is coming up saying that smartflash it is set to update the boot partition on next system start asking if this should be removed.
I've downloaded and installed again PG58IMG *different files using bootloader
I've founded a 3.33.401.6-Unsecured-Boot.img,+Root+Busybox zip file that can be installed via recovery but it did not help.
At this point I need a bit of help to look into the right direction and I'm not sure that Unbrick_Pyramid is the right way.
Thanks again.
Try turning off smartflash and flash a 3.33 stock rom to see if it will boot.
What was your last working setup, and what were you trying to install?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk 2
Hi. Manage to flash a stock 3.33.
It stopped to reboot straight into recovery.
Sits now on HTC logo now for about 10 mins. I plan to let him run for 1 hr and see what happens.
Was thinking to install CWM on the basis that could be a 4ext recovery issue, toughs?
GROGG88 said:
Try turning off smartflash and flash a 3.33 stock rom to see if it will boot.
What was your last working setup, and what were you trying to install?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk 2
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If you can install clockworkmod that may help.
Tge device isnt getting the message that it has already booted into recovery once. So something may be jacked up with 4ext.
Clockwork may bypass all that when it doesnt know what to do with that signal to run smartflash.
Worst case scenario...put a full pm58img containing a rom and recovery on the sf card and flash that through bootloader.
You should still be able to get to bootloader as the device looks for that option first.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app
Hallo. Ok installed CWM. Can please direct me to a full pm58img as you mentioned ? Thx.
Skipjacks said:
If you can install clockworkmod that may help.
Tge device isnt getting the message that it has already booted into recovery once. So something may be jacked up with 4ext.
Clockwork may bypass all that when it doesnt know what to do with that signal to run smartflash.
Worst case scenario...put a full pm58img containing a rom and recovery on the sf card and flash that through bootloader.
You should still be able to get to bootloader as the device looks for that option first.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app
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DiscreteTask said:
Hallo. Ok installed CWM. Can please direct me to a full pm58img as you mentioned ? Thx.
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And did that help? Are you able to get into recovery without errors now? If so you should be able to flash a fresh version of any ROM.
Try that first. Get any ROM. Flash it. See if it boots.
If you have successfully replaced 4EXT I will bet a fresh flash of a ROM will now boot.
Also worth a shot is replacing or upgrading the firmware, as that could be what's sending the phone into recovery on each boot (though this is less likely that 4EXT just being broken)
Flash a firmware PM58IMG like 3.32 or 3.33 and see if that helps.
But for starters, put a fresh ROM on the SD card and flash it with CWM. (BE SURE IT'S A ROM THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE 4EXT!!)
Once you've got it all fixed you can switch back to 4EXT. I have a feeling it was just the copy you were running that got botched. The software itself is solid and stable. A new copy shoudl work fine now.
CWM v5.0.2.0 was installed fine.
3.33 firmware installed once again.
Using this I've installed ROM that I already did in the past w/o luck, they all sit on the HTC logo. Is like the initial boot sequence is broken. Is boot.img part of the firmware or ROM ?
Trying to download some additional ones.
Thanks,
Skipjacks said:
And did that help? Are you able to get into recovery without errors now? If so you should be able to flash a fresh
version of any ROM.
Try that first. Get any ROM. Flash it. See if it boots.
If you have successfully replaced 4EXT I will bet a fresh flash of a ROM will now boot.
Also worth a shot is replacing or upgrading the firmware, as that could be what's sending the phone into recovery on each boot (though this is less likely that 4EXT just being broken)
Flash a firmware PM58IMG like 3.32 or 3.33 and see if that helps.
But for starters, put a fresh ROM on the SD card and flash it with CWM. (BE SURE IT'S A ROM THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE 4EXT!!)
Once you've got it all fixed you can switch back to 4EXT. I have a feeling it was just the copy you were running that got botched. The software itself is solid and stable. A new copy shoudl work fine now.
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DiscreteTask said:
CWM v5.0.2.0 was installed fine.
3.33 firmware installed once again.
Using this I've installed ROM that I already did in the past w/o luck, they all sit on the HTC logo. Is like the initial boot sequence is broken. Is boot.img part of the firmware or ROM ?
Trying to download some additional ones.
Thanks,
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The more details you give, the better the answers will be. Don't consider any detail too small.
What do you mean you installed ROM's that you had done in the past? Do you mean you are trying to restore a backup made with 4EXT?
That won't work. You need to flash a fresh version of the ROM after wiping.
Also, CWM won't install some ROM's that you may have used in the past. What ROM are you trying to install?
The HTC logo that first pops up when you hit the power button is part of the firmware.
Make sure you do a full wipe of everything but the SD card from within CWM. Get whatever's causing the problem off that way. Then flash a fresh install of a ROM from scratch.
Hi.
I did not use any backup only fresh ROMs: ARHD, Elegantia, but also stock ROMs I could find.
I've tried also some PG58IMG with ROM included.
Cheers.
Skipjacks said:
The more details you give, the better the answers will be. Don't consider any detail too small.
What do you mean you installed ROM's that you had done in the past? Do you mean you are trying to restore a backup made with 4EXT?
That won't work. You need to flash a fresh version of the ROM after wiping.
Also, CWM won't install some ROM's that you may have used in the past. What ROM are you trying to install?
The HTC logo that first pops up when you hit the power button is part of the firmware.
Make sure you do a full wipe of everything but the SD card from within CWM. Get whatever's causing the problem off that way. Then flash a fresh install of a ROM from scratch.
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Arhd and elegencia wont work with cwm. So there is your isdue. Try cm9 or 10 to see if you can boot one of those.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app
Hallo, after trying all option the following did work for me:
- re-lock bootloader via fastboot oem lock
- apply stock ROM founded in this list http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
- rebooted fine
I guess that HTC RUU had some superpower and erase and installed whatever file(s) were corrupted.
Now I'm on stock 3.6 - fw 3.33.401.106 - radio 11.76A.3504.00UU_11.24A.3504.31_M
HBOOT 1.29 - S-ON - Relocked.
Standard Recovery.
Now I'm reading how to return my device to S-OFF w/o damaging it again.
Many thanks to skipjacks & groog88 :good:
Skipjacks said:
Arhd and elegencia wont work with cwm. So there is your isdue. Try cm9 or 10 to see if you can boot one of those.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app
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Hey Guys
So I unlocked my phone's bootloader last week, and installed The AxiomS ROM.
I was pretty excited given all the epic features. Anyway my excitement soon turned
to regret. My files are getting corrupt (Images, Videos, APK's, everything...) and
my battery life has been very lower than I had on my stock ROM. I thought I might
run into trouble with the Custom ROM so I made a Nandroid backup of my Stock
ROM. The problem is, apparently a stock ROM won't run unless the bootloader is
relocked. So I restored the backup through recovery, relocked the bootloader, but I
got stuck in a bootloop. Only way I can get a ROM on there after I relocked the boot
loader is to run a RUU from the PC (Correct me if I'm wrong :cyclops: ) I don't want
to download an external stock ROM, so my question is - Is it possible to build a RUU
from my Nandroid backup ?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanx guys ! P.S I'm still running AxiomS at the moment...
Will be trying out Team Venom's ViperOneS ROM soon.
Christian
It probably didn't restore the boot.img but you sure can run a stock rom with unlocked bootloader. Try to extract boot.img from backup, unlock bootloader again and flash boot.img through adb or just run the RUU of your stock rom.
T-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.
Just backup and flash Venom following the directions in the thread precisely. BTW, my SD card was getting corrupted a lot too...stopped when I stopped mounting it as USB storage and using bluetooth and wifi to transfer files. Something with this phone doesn't unmount cleanly for some people.
fmedrano1977 said:
It probably didn't restore the boot.img but you sure can run a stock rom with unlocked bootloader. Try to extract boot.img from backup, unlock bootloader again and flash boot.img through adb or just run the RUU of your stock rom.
T-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.
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I actually did do exactly that, as I know the boot image isn't installed with the ROM. Learned to do it when I installed Axiom...
Anyway, I still got stuck in a boot loop... But I'll Try it again. Any way to build a RUU ?
el_smurfo said:
Just backup and flash Venom following the directions in the thread precisely. BTW, my SD card was getting corrupted a lot too...stopped when I stopped mounting it as USB storage and using bluetooth and wifi to transfer files. Something with this phone doesn't unmount cleanly for some people.
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Thanx for the help with the Data... Will give it a Try ! I'm busy downloading The Venom ROM now.
But for some reason It's EXTREMELY slow. Like 10Kb/s... It's quite bad. I've tried with different service
providers (we use like three between our family). Any thoughts ?
777Christian777 said:
Thanx for the help with the Data... Will give it a Try ! I'm busy downloading The Venom ROM now.
But for some reason It's EXTREMELY slow. Like 10Kb/s... It's quite bad. I've tried with different service
providers (we use like three between our family). Any thoughts ?
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I know its an old thread BUT
The OP didn't get an answer to his question and i would like to hear members thought on the subject anyway
Is it possible to make a RUU from any given ROM
Im just surprised that its not been developed on here before now
On my travels i found this
http://www.htcsensationforum.com/htc-sensation-rooting/how-to-extract-rom-zip-from-ruu/
Now if it possible to extract the rom from the ruu why not the reverse ?
You can turn Mustang into Pinto, but you can not turn Pinto into Mustang. Any downloaded rom have 3 files in it - Meta, System and boot.img. RUU have firmware( in addition ) and is in exe format. Just can not be done from back up rom. The easy way would be to download the RUU.
I know that it is "pain in the butt", but that way, you will get your phone back to "normal".
liesnomore said:
You can turn Mustang into Pinto, but you can not turn Pinto into Mustang. Any downloaded rom have 3 files in it - Meta, System and boot.img. RUU have firmware( in addition ) and is in exe format. Just can not be done from back up rom. The easy way would be to download the RUU.
I know that it is "pain in the butt", but that way, you will get your phone back to "normal".
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Dead right its a pain especially when HTC release the RUUs when and if they choose to...just how many members do you searching around for RUUs that have not been released...and were talking phones that are 8 months or in some instances older
doing some reading here and there I would like to try a couple other ROMs, if only for s&g's.
Can I have different ROM.zips on the SD (provided there is room) and flash one or another to try them out?
Or do I have to remove one for another?
metropical said:
doing some reading here and there I would like to try a couple other ROMs, if only for s&g's.
Can I have different ROM.zips on the SD (provided there is room) and flash one or another to try them out?
Or do I have to remove one for another?
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Hi,
You can keep as many ROMS on your sd card as there is room.
Make sure you have a nandroid backup of a good ROM,so you can always restore your phone to a working condition.
Use the wipe/format all partitions (except sd card) before any new installation.
thanks malybru.
whats nandroid? What is 4 EXT? I've seen that mentioned a lot as well?
I used PG58IMG for Recovery.
I assume I'm done with that?
Just load a ROM.zip onto the SD and flash w/HBOOT?
I assume I will have to reload gapps.zip each time or might Play sync work and reload my previous apps?
metropical said:
thanks malybru.
whats nandroid? What is 4 EXT? I've seen that mentioned a lot as well?
I used PG58IMG for Recovery.
I assume I'm done with that?
Just load a ROM.zip onto the SD and flash w/HBOOT?
I assume I will have to reload gapps.zip each time or might Play sync work and reload my previous apps?
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nandroid is a backup of your rom in case when you are using or flashing something in your device and maybe has bad results.
then from recovery you can restore your nandroid to revert your device to its previous condition.
4ext is a recovery that many of us is using it.if you have installed cwm recovery i suggest to install 4ext.it's better
rom always is flashing from recovery
I assume that ROM manager would allow me to make a "nandroid"?
Yes I did use cwm recovery. Whats makes 4EXT a better choice?
metropical said:
thanks malybru.
whats nandroid? What is 4 EXT? I've seen that mentioned a lot as well?
I used PG58IMG for Recovery.
I assume I'm done with that?
Just load a ROM.zip onto the SD and flash w/HBOOT?
I assume I will have to reload gapps.zip each time or might Play sync work and reload my previous apps?
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Hi,
4EXT can be installed using THIS TOOL
Look in 4EXT for a section called backup and restore.
Are you s-off or s-on?
I would not bother with ROM Manager.
Gapps will need to be reloaded if you do a full wipe of your previous CM ROM
metropical said:
doing some reading here and there I would like to try a couple other ROMs, if only for s&g's.
Can I have different ROM.zips on the SD (provided there is room) and flash one or another to try them out?
Or do I have to remove one for another?
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Yes, you can have as any as can fit on the card. Remember to wipe clean if you go to another ROM.
S-Off
I'll look at 4ext. Will it replace PG58IMG automatically or do I need to remove that?
Related, I can't find the Fastboot switch under Settings in the CM9 ROM.
Do I know longer need to think about that? Or is it somewhere else?
metropical said:
S-Off
I'll look at 4ext. Will it replace PG58IMG automatically or do I need to remove that?
Related, I can't find the Fastboot switch under Settings in the CM9 ROM.
Do I know longer need to think about that? Or is it somewhere else?
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Hi,
If you run the 4EXT,it will overwrite CWM.
There is no fastboot switch in CM
Thanks again,
doing the nandroid b.u now, then onto 4ext.
I was using the default ICS browser with CM9. It lacked easy access to bookmarks.
The "quick" labs functioned intermittently, other wise I'd have used them to access bookmarks.
I tried ICS Browser+ and that just crashed repeatedly.
Might any of this change with 4ext and another ROM choice? Right now I'm steering towards ARHD/ICS.
Or are there better (the only thing I'd like is easy access to the short list of bookmarks I had from GB).
And is there a Fastboot option in 4ext or will I still be beyond that?
I assume to flash both 4ext and a new ROM I need to turn on USB debugging?
metropical said:
Thanks again,
doing the nandroid b.u now, then onto 4ext.
I was using the default ICS browser with CM9. It lacked easy access to bookmarks.
The "quick" labs functioned intermittently, other wise I'd have used them to access bookmarks.
I tried ICS Browser+ and that just crashed repeatedly.
Might any of this change with 4ext and another ROM choice? Right now I'm steering towards ARHD/ICS.
Or are there better (the only thing I'd like is easy access to the short list of bookmarks I had from GB).
And is there a Fastboot option in 4ext or will I still be beyond that?
I assume to flash both 4ext and a new ROM I need to turn on USB debugging?
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Hi,
You get different browsers with different ROMS.
You can also install one of your choice from the market.
Fastboot option appears in Sense ROMS.
USB debugging is in all ROMS.
If you flash ARHD,it will install 4EXT for you as part of the installation.
Are you going from GB to ICS?
Are you s-off?
You will need to update your firmware for that.
Look HERE
Are you going from GB to ICS?
Are you s-off?
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I've left GB and I'm on ICS via CM9. S-Off.
metropical said:
I've left GB and I'm on ICS via CM9. S-Off.
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Hi,
Firmware will be OK ,then.
malybru,
I have dl'd the Android_Revolution_HD_Super_Wipe_Sensation.zip.
Back up my current ROM.
gapps.zip is still on my SD.
At this point do I drop the .zip on the SD and reboot recovery (4ext touch) and flash the new ROM and that's it?
Or do I need to wipe the davlik + cache, or wipe data factory reset, or format system or what?
metropical said:
malybru,
I have dl'd the Android_Revolution_HD_Super_Wipe_Sensation.zip.
Back up my current ROM.
gapps.zip is still on my SD.
At this point do I drop the .zip on the SD and reboot recovery (4ext touch) and flash the new ROM and that's it?
Or do I need to wipe the davlik + cache, or wipe data factory reset, or format system or what?
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Hi,
Don't use arhd superwipe.
If you have 4 ext, then, format all partitions(except sd card)
Back up your ROM first.
Drop the new ROM onto your sd card, and flash it from recovery.
You only need gapps if you use cm.
Most ROM threads tel u what u need to do if you're installing from a different ROM. superwipe is only needed of you' re going to ARHD.
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OK. I dl'd ARHD 1.2.2 T-Mobile.zip
There is some other info on the ARHD thread page here.
"3.33.401.x firmware is required!" I guess based on what you've written above, that isn't a concern for me.
" HTC Sensation 4G (U.S. T-Mobile PG5810000 | T-MOB010) users can flash this for better signal and data speeds!" Concern or wait to see what I get after flashing?
metropical said:
OK. I dl'd ARHD 1.2.2 T-Mobile.zip
There is some other info on the ARHD thread page here.
"3.33.401.x firmware is required!" I guess based on what you've written above, that isn't a concern for me.
" HTC Sensation 4G (U.S. T-Mobile PG5810000 | T-MOB010) users can flash this for better signal and data speeds!" Concern or wait to see what I get after flashing?
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Hi,
3.33 firmware is not crucial.But it does have the latest radio
ARHD will work fine on 3.32
Flash first and see how your signal works.
Although,I believe the T-MOB add-on does work well.
how do I check what firmware I have?
4ext doesn't say.
Revolutionary shows the radio 11.23.3504.07_M2
HBOOT is 1.27.1100.
ICS 4.04
metropical said:
how do I check what firmware I have?
4ext doesn't say.
Revolutionary shows the radio 11.23.3504.07_M2
HBOOT is 1.27.1100.
ICS 4.04
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Hi,
You have radio 11.23,so that is 3.32
11.24a is firmware 3.33
I have h-boot 1.14 withe twrp recovery, I backed up my phone with a previous rom i had and my question is would I have to install the image again after i restore the phone or should the phone restore without any problems.
cal4877 said:
I have h-boot 1.14 withe twrp recovery, I backed up my phone with a previous rom i had and my question is would I have to install the image again after i restore the phone or should the phone restore without any problems.
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Most of the time yes you will have to install the boot .img manually coming from a different base or Rom... But say if you're on viper and your back up is the same base sense Rom you probably wouldn't have to reflash it... But if coming from cm10 or anything else yes
a box of kittens said:
Most of the time yes you will have to install the boot .img manually coming from a different base or Rom... But say if you're on viper and your back up is the same base sense Rom you probably wouldn't have to reflash it... But if coming from cm10 or anything else yes
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Awesome thanks man, also im currently running nocturnals dirty rom I believe this is a AOKP rom, now if i want to flash another AOKP or any other CM10 base rom wouldnt the image be the same? or the i have to flash another image of the rom aswell?
cal4877 said:
Awesome thanks man, also im currently running nocturnals dirty rom I believe this is a AOKP rom, now if i want to flash another AOKP or any other CM10 base rom wouldnt the image be the same? or the i have to flash another image of the rom aswell?
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Be safe and flash it
Is it necessary to reflash rom before restore or can you just fastboot flash boot.IMG and just restore backup?
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I believe you have to flash boot. IMG and than restore according to the comments up there
I just wish we had to option to downgrade the software/hboot without going thru all those steps listed, I remeber i had the htc inspire and you will be able to downgrade hboot by choosing a downgraded version of Ruuu files.
cal4877 said:
I just wish we had to option to downgrade the software/hboot without going thru all those steps listed, I remeber i had the htc inspire and you will be able to downgrade hboot by choosing a downgraded version of Ruuu files.
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Yeah I loved the inspire that's what got me into android... But I got my phone on hboot 1.09 I've never done the downgrade process but I heard it can be pretty simple