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i downgraded but could not get root. how do i and what method do i use to make it completely stock.
TO RETURN TO STOCK:
Make sure you S-ON (if able) BEFORE you Unroot. The S-On tool needs root permissions to function.
Step 1 (S-On):
Run Bubby323's S-On tool: S-On Tool
Step 2 (Unroot/Return Stock ROM):
Flash the stock AT&T ROM: RUU_Ace_Cingular_US_1.80.502.3_Radio_12.39.60.19_26.06.04.06_M_release_166557_signed.exe
That's the original factory shipped rom, not rooted. =]
That will return everything back to the way it was when you bought it.
And just to be clear, you actually run the EXE file on your windows computer, with your phone connected via USB. Don't do anything crazy like try to put it on the SD card or something, because that won't work.
Edit: If you are still S-Off after running the tool, and need to S-On, read post 27 of this thread BEFORE you unroot with the stock ROM.
Ive been thinking of doing the same thing. I have s-off. Is there anyway to have root on the stock rom?
Not as of yet. The only way it's accomplished so far is with the downgrade. There are developers working on a way for that to be accomplished soon though, I'm sure.
Would there be any way to tell there is s-off for warranty purposes? Can that be turned off?
ClearD said:
From what I understand, flash this:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b50...60.19_26.06.04.06_M_release_166557_signed.exe
That's the original factory shipped rom, not rooted. =]
That will return everything back to the way it was when you bought it. The only thing it will not fix is S-Off, which it doesn't look like you've done yet anyways.
And just to be clear, you actually run the EXE file on your windows computer, with your phone connected via USB. Don't do anything crazy like try to put it on the SD card or something, because that won't work.
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It's just the equivalent to an odin for captivated.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Apparently there is a way to root the stock rom. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957901
budco2000 said:
i downgraded but could not get root. how do i and what method do i use to make it completely stock.
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Budco, if you downgraded, you can get root - the hard part is done. Come back to the IRC channel and be patient. When you were there there was a ton of activity.
I'm trying to return to stock after the "stock with root" rom, due to my wifi not working. I despite having a fully charged batter, the ruu errors saying that my batter is less than 30%.
any suggestions?
rdgoeson4ever said:
I'm trying to return to stock after the "stock with root" rom, due to my wifi not working. I despite having a fully charged batter, the ruu errors saying that my batter is less than 30%.
any suggestions?
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Use CWM to wipe battery stats. That may help.
don't you have to reverse S-OFF to S-ON in order to flash a stock ROM?
harlenm said:
Would there be any way to tell there is s-off for warranty purposes? Can that be turned off?
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You can tell by reading your HBOOT (bootloader) screen. It will say "S-Off".
You're supposed to be able to get into this menu by holding volume down while pressing the power button to boot, however I haven't gotten it to work yet.
The hack tool uses "gfree", the T-Mobile G2 program for turning S-Off, which should have a method for turning S-On as well. I'll try to dig it up later, but check the Desire HD forum area for turning S-On. I believe they have made a program to do it.
Edit: To get to that menu, hold volume down while using the "Reset" option in the shut down menu.
ClearD said:
You're supposed to be able to get into this menu by holding volume down while pressing the power button to boot, however I haven't gotten it to work yet.
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Same here. I can only get in from restart. The phone vibrates a couple of times then boots right into recovery.
I keep getting error 170. Has anyone else seen this and what is the solution? I rebooted the phone and PC (W7 x64) but am still getting the same error.
What are you doing when you receive this error? What exactly is throwing the error?
lrs421 said:
Same here. I can only get in from restart. The phone vibrates a couple of times then boots right into recovery.
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And thank you!! I've been trying to figure that one out! ;]
I kept getting error 130 battery to low but my battery was at 65%. Says you need minimum 30%
sgaar said:
I keep getting error 170. Has anyone else seen this and what is the solution? I rebooted the phone and PC (W7 x64) but am still getting the same error.
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Error 170 means that the RUU program cannot find the phone. Make sure you have installed HTC Sync on your PC. It installs some drivers that the RUU needs to find the phone via the USB cable.
returning to stock?
Can someone instruct me on how to return my Inspire back to stock? I tried rooting using attn1 instructions and also the youtube videos. It got to the downgrade part but once it rebooted, I can't get the device recognized like when I type in hackerize-ace clean in the command prompt. It won't work so I'd like to fix it. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I feel like I've bricked my phone and I'm sick about it. Thank you.
if you want to finish rooting, make sure USB debugging is on. I'm pretty sure when i rebooted from downgrading, since it was a fresh install, it was set to off, and that sounds like the culprit with the device not being recognized.
So here's the situation. I've been running NoSensi 1.0.4 ROM w/o problems for the past month but all of a sudden tonight my phone started to freeze up. I would take the battery out and turn it back on but after a few minutes the phone would freeze up again. So I decided to try to flash the new version on NoSensi (1.0.8) and the first step was to flash the NoSensi_EXT4_Wipe and it was almost complete in CWM when it froze up and wouldn't respond. Waited a few more minutes to be sure it wasn't just taking a while so I took the battery out and went back into recovery. In CWM, I see the menu options but when I try to select install from SD, the CWM menu would reset every few seconds and leave me at the main screen.
So now I'm stuck with a phone that won't boot cause I don't have a proper ROM on and can't install a new ROM cause CWM is messed up.
Any ideas on how I can reinstall CWM or something?
First off, can you boot to hboot? And next do you have adb set up on your PC or Mac?
I'm gonna be honest with you, I can't really help you all the way but can give you the things you need to get started. And if anyone reads this and knows more about this please help thanks
Sent from my CM7 Nightly HTC Desire HD
Yes, I believe I can get into HBOOT, I get the white screen where the option of going into recovery of HBOOT. I do have adb on my PC, but don't know how to use it unless I have instructions.
Okay I remember going through the threads and saw something on using the PD98 img that has the recovery img inside instead of the system img. Ill look around but probably in the morning since its almost 2 for me. Or if someone knows what I'm talking that'd be great
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bluizzo said:
Okay I remember going through the threads and saw something on using the PD98 img that has the recovery img inside instead of the system img. Ill look around but probably in the morning since its almost 2 for me. Or if someone knows what I'm talking that'd be great
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I built a recovery PD98IMG for a user yesterday. It is the recovery I've been using since I rooted. It is v3.0.2.5 with offmode power mod, but It doesn't have any EXT4 support (don't get me started on EXT4).
CWM Recovery v3.0.2.5 in PD98IMG format:
http://hoxnet.com/droid/PD98IMG_cwmrecovery.zip
Rename to exactly "PD98IMG.zip" and place it on the root (top level directory) of your sdcard, then boot to HBOOT and it should pick it up and prompt you to install.
I'm worried that there may be some hardware problem with your device if it keeps freezing up like that. It might just be a loose battery or loose sim holder, but it might be worse. I'd try to install a stock RUU just to be sure. You can install this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191793
It is completely stock and you'll lose root, but not S-OFF so re-rooting is easy. You can instead, install my rooted version of this ROM too. Identical to stock except that the system and boot images are properly rooted and busybox is installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16118438#post16118438
If you must send it in for repairs and need to restore to factory settings, I have a tool for that too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
Good luck and I hope it's just firmware related.
Gene Poole said:
I built a recovery PD98IMG for a user yesterday. It is the recovery I've been using since I rooted. It is v3.0.2.5 with offmode power mod, but It doesn't have any EXT4 support (don't get me started on EXT4).
CWM Recovery v3.0.2.5 in PD98IMG format:
http://hoxnet.com/droid/PD98IMG_cwmrecovery.zip
Rename to exactly "PD98IMG.zip" and place it on the root (top level directory) of your sdcard, then boot to HBOOT and it should pick it up and prompt you to install.
I'm worried that there may be some hardware problem with your device if it keeps freezing up like that. It might just be a loose battery or loose sim holder, but it might be worse. I'd try to install a stock RUU just to be sure. You can install this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191793
It is completely stock and you'll lose root, but not S-OFF so re-rooting is easy. You can instead, install my rooted version of this ROM too. Identical to stock except that the system and boot images are properly rooted and busybox is installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16118438#post16118438
If you must send it in for repairs and need to restore to factory settings, I have a tool for that too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
Good luck and I hope it's just firmware related.
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Got CWM back with this, thanks so much! I tried doing the same method that was mentioned in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868 but kept having issues with CWM resetting every 2 seconds which didn't allow me to use it at all. Your file worked and am flashing a ROM on now. Hopefully the random freezing was just random so I'm just going to do a fresh install of a ROM
Gene Poole said:
I built a recovery PD98IMG for a user yesterday. It is the recovery I've been using since I rooted. It is v3.0.2.5 with offmode power mod, but It doesn't have any EXT4 support (don't get me started on EXT4).
CWM Recovery v3.0.2.5 in PD98IMG format:
http://hoxnet.com/droid/PD98IMG_cwmrecovery.zip
Rename to exactly "PD98IMG.zip" and place it on the root (top level directory) of your sdcard, then boot to HBOOT and it should pick it up and prompt you to install.
I'm worried that there may be some hardware problem with your device if it keeps freezing up like that. It might just be a loose battery or loose sim holder, but it might be worse. I'd try to install a stock RUU just to be sure. You can install this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191793
It is completely stock and you'll lose root, but not S-OFF so re-rooting is easy. You can instead, install my rooted version of this ROM too. Identical to stock except that the system and boot images are properly rooted and busybox is installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16118438#post16118438
If you must send it in for repairs and need to restore to factory settings, I have a tool for that too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
Good luck and I hope it's just firmware related.
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Yay that's what I was looking for, thanks soo much
Sent from my CM7 Nightly HTC Desire HD
so it seems it may be a hardware issue after all... sigh. Going to look to see if I can pick up another one for cheap on craigslist or something now cause mine was also used of CL about 5 months ago.
dtothesquare said:
so it seems it may be a hardware issue after all... sigh. Going to look to see if I can pick up another one for cheap on craigslist or something now cause mine was also used of CL about 5 months ago.
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HTC warranties the device for a year. I don't think any Inspire is a year old yet so you might want to call them first. Even if not covered by warranty, HTC is pretty reasonable on repairs.
Gene Poole said:
HTC warranties the device for a year. I don't think any Inspire is a year old yet so you might want to call them first. Even if not covered by warranty, HTC is pretty reasonable on repairs.
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Cool, thanks for the tip, i'll try to get stock by on then call them up
So I'm trying to run the PD98IMG image in HBoot, but its not auto-running anymore. Any ideas on how to manually have it run?
- EDIT: Nvm, it was due to bad sdcard
Gene Poole said:
I built a recovery PD98IMG for a user yesterday. It is the recovery I've been using since I rooted. It is v3.0.2.5 with offmode power mod, but It doesn't have any EXT4 support (don't get me started on EXT4).
CWM Recovery v3.0.2.5 in PD98IMG format:
http://hoxnet.com/droid/PD98IMG_cwmrecovery.zip
Rename to exactly "PD98IMG.zip" and place it on the root (top level directory) of your sdcard, then boot to HBOOT and it should pick it up and prompt you to install.
I'm worried that there may be some hardware problem with your device if it keeps freezing up like that. It might just be a loose battery or loose sim holder, but it might be worse. I'd try to install a stock RUU just to be sure. You can install this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191793
It is completely stock and you'll lose root, but not S-OFF so re-rooting is easy. You can instead, install my rooted version of this ROM too. Identical to stock except that the system and boot images are properly rooted and busybox is installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16118438#post16118438
If you must send it in for repairs and need to restore to factory settings, I have a tool for that too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
Good luck and I hope it's just firmware related.
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So I tried reverting back to stock via the PD98IMG method with both the gingerbread and complete stock in the post you mentioned. Both them it updates fine but on the reboot it just hangs on the white htc screen. Any recommendations? Would HTC warranty if it's stuck like that?
It sounds like a hardware problem to me. The first and most obvious sign that a phone has been rooted is the S-OFF in the HBOOT screen. They probably won't warranty it if this is still set. Unfortunately, you need a functioning phone to get to the point that you can re-apply S-ON. I'm really not sure what advice I can give you at this point.
Gene Poole said:
It sounds like a hardware problem to me. The first and most obvious sign that a phone has been rooted is the S-OFF in the HBOOT screen. They probably won't warranty it if this is still set. Unfortunately, you need a functioning phone to get to the point that you can re-apply S-ON. I'm really not sure what advice I can give you at this point.
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I figured as much. Oh well, going to miss the Inspire, really did like it except for that stupid battery door. Picked up a used captivate for cheap to hold me over until my next phone. Thanks for your help!
Missing CWM / No Recovery
Through a long string of mistakes, I'm stuck with an Inspire that will not load Recovery (just get black screen with phone icon and red exclamation point).
This thread was the best match I could find. I used the method above (renamed Gene Pool's file to PD98IMG.zip, placed on SD root), but HBOOT does not seem to find it during the startup scan.
Here is what I've got:
ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.0007
I've tried 2 different SD cards - I got into this mess because radio updates were not being found in PD98IMG.zip files either, so feel like its an HBOOT problem.
Any ideas?
ctownj30 said:
Through a long string of mistakes, I'm stuck with an Inspire that will not load Recovery (just get black screen with phone icon and red exclamation point).
This thread was the best match I could find. I used the method above (renamed Gene Pool's file to PD98IMG.zip, placed on SD root), but HBOOT does not seem to find it during the startup scan.
Here is what I've got:
ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.85.0007
I've tried 2 different SD cards - I got into this mess because radio updates were not being found in PD98IMG.zip files either, so feel like its an HBOOT problem.
Any ideas?
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If you are sure you renamed it correctly (Windows didn't mangle the name with its stupid "hide extensions" feature) and you are S-OFF, then the only other thing it could be is a bad or weak SD Card. Do you have a spare to try?
I solved this. Figured it was not reading my SD cards so I reformatted one (FAT32), redid everything, and was able to re-flash CWM. Bizarre, since the same card has been used successfully several times on this phone.
Well I've been having this problem for a while, my phone goes into a bootloop whenever I restart it. It shows the white HTC screen, goes black, then the white HTC screen...over and over again.
The only way I have found to get it to boot up normally is when I connect a USB cable to it
But if I remove the cable and reboot, I get the same problem again.
Any ideas? Has anyone had this happen before??
That may be a Hardware issue. They easiest way I can think of is to RUU back to Stock, and Reformat the SD Card. If it still does it, then it may be a Hardware related issue.
CNexus said:
Well I've been having this problem for a while, my phone goes into a bootloop whenever I restart it. It shows the white HTC screen, goes black, then the white HTC screen...over and over again.
The only way I have found to get it to boot up normally is when I connect a USB cable to it
But if I remove the cable and reboot, I get the same problem again.
Any ideas? Has anyone had this happen before??
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I've had that happen a couple times but it was because it was something I did/flashed, I agree with prboy, ruu back and format memory card (save your stuff to the computer first)- I've forgotten to save first a couple times
prboy1969 said:
That may be a Hardware issue. They easiest way I can think of is to RUU back to Stock, and Reformat the SD Card. If it still does it, then it may be a Hardware related issue.
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I'll definitely try that, I don't know if this shed anymore light on it but my sdcard doesn't mount through my phone anymore either...happened around the same time as the restarting thing
But I'll tr and see what happens, if not I'll just take it in to sprint, I know it can't be something I flashed, I've been on stock for a while because of my utility
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I would start by Formatting the SD Card. Then if that doesn't resolve issue. Format the SD Card again, and then RUU. If at that point the issue is still present, it's time to take it in to Sprint. Out of curiosity, are you using a custom Kernel ? Reason I ask is that I've run across something slightly similar after Flashing an Experimental Kernel Dirty. Meaning I did not wipe Cache, or Dalvik before Flashing. Mind you this was a very long time ago, in my HERO days. But I seem to remember it acting sort of like the symptoms you described.
prboy1969 said:
I would start by Formatting the SD Card. Then if that doesn't resolve issue. Format the SD Card again, and then RUU. If at that point the issue is still present, it's time to take it in to Sprint. Out of curiosity, are you using a custom Kernel ? Reason I ask is that I've run across something slightly similar after Flashing an Experimental Kernel Dirty. Meaning I did not wipe Cache, or Dalvik before Flashing. Mind you this was a very long time ago, in my HERO days. But I seem to remember it acting sort of like the symptoms you described.
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Nope, no custom anything. 100% stock 2.2 with temproot, but since I can't reboot its really permroot lol
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Then I would defiantly try what I stated above. See if it can resolve the issue.
prboy1969 said:
Then I would defiantly try what I stated above. See if it can resolve the issue.
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Will do
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Getting the same issues. I've tried ruu through both the exe and pg06 img. Tried factory reset with no luck, in the stock recovery ive wiped everything with no luck also. It's read by fastboot and i can issue commands, flashing through fastboot just gives me a sig verification failure. I've tried every method i've found and none have worked. Happened after downgrading to 2.2. I got temproot and went to permroot to go into this. I used htcdev to unlock the bootloader and it was successful. I cant access my sdcard since flashing the 2.2 ruu reverted it to stock and i cant get into the system to disk drive it. It boots for about 3 seconds then reboots. If any of the mmcblk... commands were mistyped or something was done wrong, how would i go about checking or fixing them if thats even possible? Any help or leads would be amazing.
SPEEDY XF SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
KiDxNinja said:
Getting the same issues. I've tried ruu through both the exe and pg06 img. Tried factory reset with no luck, in the stock recovery ive wiped everything with no luck also. It's read by fastboot and i can issue commands, flashing through fastboot just gives me a sig verification failure. I've tried every method i've found and none have worked. Happened after downgrading to 2.2. I got temproot and went to permroot to go into this. I used htcdev to unlock the bootloader and it was successful. I cant access my sdcard since flashing the 2.2 ruu reverted it to stock and i cant get into the system to disk drive it. It boots for about 3 seconds then reboots. If any of the mmcblk... commands were mistyped or something was done wrong, how would i go about checking or fixing them if thats even possible? Any help or leads would be amazing.
SPEEDY XF SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
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So at this point your just trying to run the RUU ? Or do you still want to achieve Root ?
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So at this point your just trying to run the RUU ? Or do you still want to achieve Root ?
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I had temp root and in between gaining perm root this happened. Root does me no good if I'm boot looped and can't even adb. I'm trying to get the phone to boot. Or read through adb. I can't fast boot any of the partitions either so I'm basically stuck in limbo
KiDxNinja said:
I had temp root and in between gaining perm root this happened. Root does me no good if I'm boot looped and can't even adb. I'm trying to get the phone to boot. Or read through adb. I can't fast boot any of the partitions either so I'm basically stuck in limbo
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Have you tried booting it up while connected to a USB cord? That works for me because my phone will otherwise go into a bootloop whenever I restart it
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KiDxNinja said:
I had temp root and in between gaining perm root this happened. Root does me no good if I'm boot looped and can't even adb. I'm trying to get the phone to boot. Or read through adb. I can't fast boot any of the partitions either so I'm basically stuck in limbo
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Are you trying the PG06IMG , or the RUU.exe ? Have you tried doing the 2.2 RUU.exe through Fastboot ?
prboy1969 said:
Are you trying the PG06IMG , or the RUU.exe ? Have you tried doing the 2.2 RUU.exe through Fastboot ?
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Yes and Yes, read my first post -_-
KiDxNinja said:
Yes and Yes, read my first post -_-
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Must have missed that somehow. My bad . But on to the issue at hand. I'm wondering if maybe your SD Card went wonky. I would remove the SD Card, format it. Load the PG06IMG back onto the Card, reinstall. Then try to flash it. Of course backup your card to the PC first.
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prboy1969 said:
Must have missed that somehow. My bad . But on to the issue at hand. I'm wondering if maybe your SD Card went wonky. I would remove the SD Card, format it. Load the PG06IMG back onto the Card, reinstall. Then try to flash it. Of course backup your card to the PC first.
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Tried this with same result. flashing through hboot works for the 2.2 ruu, but im still stuck in the bootloop.
I also tried flashing a custom recovery via hboot, but the pgo6img loads then doesnt ask me if i want to update or not. I have literally no idea where to go or what to check.
KiDxNinja said:
Tried this with same result. flashing through hboot works for the 2.2 ruu, but im still stuck in the bootloop.
I also tried flashing a custom recovery via hboot, but the pgo6img loads then doesnt ask me if i want to update or not. I have literally no idea where to go or what to check.
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Its not pgo6img. Its PG06IMG.zip. its a zero before the 6 not the letter "o". Idk if capitalized letters matter or not but I always capitalize all the letters
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Its not pgo6img. Its PG06IMG.zip. its a zero before the 6 not the letter "o". Idk if capitalized letters matter or not but I always capitalize all the letters
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I was just about to say that, if the name of the file isn't correct, the bootloader won't pick it up.
Yeah i know, i was just too lazy to type it out. I know what im doing as far as general modding and flashing, and I actually managed to fix it. I'm not positive how but I used the unroot back to stock guide for the stock locked bootloader. After flashing it through hboot I tried the 2.3.4 RUU. Still bootlooped but I was at stock with locked bootloader. I then used htcdev to reunlock the bootloader and I was then able to flash partitions through fastboot. I flashed cwm and was able to adb through it. I basically just reran through the rooting phase and gained temproot. From here I redid the steps to engineer hboot and finally received s-off. After this it booted normally. I might be leaving steps out but if anyone needs specifics, just pm me and maybe I can figure it out again for you.
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help with boot loop loop loop
hi
someone can help whit phone?
in summer i restart phone and it stuck in loop htc logo in white over and over agen
till batrtery go down and nothing happen when trying to charg only led was flashing
no to long ago i plug to charger ad phone torn back on, sd card was out
I turn it off put sd card back on phone turn back on, try to software update one and second time it go back to loop agen=[
rand battery down agen and it does not torn back on, to hboot
well it does if i play whit it holding power bottom volume down longer time
speed xe ship s-on
hboot-0.99.0001
radio-1.08.01.0111
emmc-boot
can some one give me step by step instruction?
I've researched and researched, now I need help. I have an HTC Inspire 4G that crashed. Never rooted, never unlocked, I think something just went wrong and a critical OS file or two got corrupted. So I brought out my old Aria and am using that :crying: while I try to figure out how to restore my Inspire 4G.
I'm a programmer but never felt the need to root my phone. It was fine as is. Now I am willing to do what it takes to get this back. I scoured the internet and found out a lot, piecemeal and by accident. Here's what I have learned, found and done so far:
I know how to boot into the Bootloader. I tried Factory Reset to no avail. It simply boots to the HTC screen and sits there.
I've installed the Android SDK and have researched the ADB and FASTBOOT commands.
I have installed the Windows 7 64-bit drivers onto my Win8 64-bit PC. They seem to be installed correctly - the device shows up in the Device Manager when I connect the phone via USB - although I have to connect it first, then Reboot Bootloader, at which point it appears in Device Manager as INSPIRONWIN8\Android USB Devices\My HTC.
I've unlocked my phone using instructions from HTCDev.com. I have the Unlock_code.bin file for my phone.
I have the actual AT&T ROM for this phone in EXE form. I've run it successfully twice with the phone attached(I relocked first), but each time when I reboot the phone just freezes on the HTC screen or cycles between that and the AT&T startup animation.
I've also mounted the SD card into my computer, formatted it with FAT32 and put PD98IMG.zip on it. There's another DIAG file the phone complains about not finding -I've searched the net and I can't find it either. I go into recovery and try to reload the ROM from that (Apply update from SD Card) but that has not succeeded either. Formatting the cached, etc.... none of that has worked.
I am trying to run the ADB command on the phone but it cannot find the device. I was thinking I'd try to push the ROM to the phone that way, but so far no luck. The USB Universal Driver does not work at all, so I'm back to the Win7 64-bit driver.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? Maybe I have all the steps but haven't done them in the right order?
Any help, guidance or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
Barry
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I've researched and researched, now I need help. I have an HTC Inspire 4G that crashed. Never rooted, never unlocked, I think something just went wrong and a critical OS file or two got corrupted. So I brought out my old Aria and am using that :crying: while I try to figure out how to restore my Inspire 4G.
I'm a programmer but never felt the need to root my phone. It was fine as is. Now I am willing to do what it takes to get this back. I scoured the internet and found out a lot, piecemeal and by accident. Here's what I have learned, found and done so far:
I know how to boot into the Bootloader. I tried Factory Reset to no avail. It simply boots to the HTC screen and sits there.
I've installed the Android SDK and have researched the ADB and FASTBOOT commands.
I have installed the Windows 7 64-bit drivers onto my Win8 64-bit PC. They seem to be installed correctly - the device shows up in the Device Manager when I connect the phone via USB - although I have to connect it first, then Reboot Bootloader, at which point it appears in Device Manager as INSPIRONWIN8\Android USB Devices\My HTC.
I've unlocked my phone using instructions from HTCDev.com. I have the Unlock_code.bin file for my phone.
I have the actual AT&T ROM for this phone in EXE form. I've run it successfully twice with the phone attached(I relocked first), but each time when I reboot the phone just freezes on the HTC screen or cycles between that and the AT&T startup animation.
I've also mounted the SD card into my computer, formatted it with FAT32 and put PD98IMG.zip on it. There's another DIAG file the phone complains about not finding -I've searched the net and I can't find it either. I go into recovery and try to reload the ROM from that (Apply update from SD Card) but that has not succeeded either. Formatting the cached, etc.... none of that has worked.
I am trying to run the ADB command on the phone but it cannot find the device. I was thinking I'd try to push the ROM to the phone that way, but so far no luck. The USB Universal Driver does not work at all, so I'm back to the Win7 64-bit driver.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? Maybe I have all the steps but haven't done them in the right order?
Any help, guidance or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
Barry
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Barry, if you ran the RUU successfully and the phone got stuck in the splash screen (white one), that seems to be a fried emmc chip. That is quite usual in Ace devices (DHD / Inspire 4G).
glevitan said:
Barry, if you ran the RUU successfully and the phone got stuck in the splash screen (white one), that seems to be a fried emmc chip. That is quite usual in Ace devices (DHD / Inspire 4G).
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Actually, I was able to flash the original 2.3.3 ROM last night using Fastboot. It took me a while to realize that since the OS was fried, ADB was useless - there was no 'android' to 'debug.' Consequently I used fastboot.exe to re-apply the PD98IMG.zip and it worked!
The old ROM is real smooth, so I may just keep it, but if I can figure out how to apply a newer build I will.
Thanks!
bimplebean said:
Actually, I was able to flash the original 2.3.3 ROM last night using Fastboot. It took me a while to realize that since the OS was fried, ADB was useless - there was no 'android' to 'debug.' Consequently I used fastboot.exe to re-apply the PD98IMG.zip and it worked!
The old ROM is real smooth, so I may just keep it, but if I can figure out how to apply a newer build I will.
Thanks!
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you can run the RUU exe file from fastboot usb
glevitan said:
you can run the RUU exe file from fastboot usb
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It's an EXE. How do I run that from fastboot?
bimplebean said:
It's an EXE. How do I run that from fastboot?
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Just run the exe file with the phone plugged and in fastboot usb. That is how RUU's work
glevitan said:
Just run the exe file with the phone plugged and in fastboot usb. That is how RUU's work
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Ah. Yes, I already did that, no luck. See above.
But never mind, as I said above I was able to flash the original 2.3.3. ROM using fastboot and it's working now. Everything else from here on out is just gravy.:laugh:
bimplebean said:
Ah. Yes, I already did that, no luck. See above.
But never mind, as I said above I was able to flash the original 2.3.3. ROM using fastboot and it's working now. Everything else from here on out is just gravy.:laugh:
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That is weird...RUU should be working if your phones works fine. Anyway, if you are cool in this state, just let it be. :good:
glevitan said:
That is weird...RUU should be working if your phones works fine. Anyway, if you are cool in this state, just let it be. :good:
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I REALLY should have taken your advice, but I fiddle around a bit and hosed the recovery loader.
I restored the phone again but it runs very slow and processes fail all the time. I can't run the RUU because it won't boot into the bootloader.
How do i restore the stock bootloader?
bimplebean said:
I REALLY should have taken your advice, but I fiddle around a bit and hosed the recovery loader.
I restored the phone again but it runs very slow and processes fail all the time. I can't run the RUU because it won't boot into the bootloader.
How do i restore the stock bootloader?
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There is no "recovery loader," just "recovery" and "bootloader." Which doesn't work? What did you do exactly when you "fiddled" with it?
bananagranola said:
There is no "recovery loader," just "recovery" and "bootloader." Which doesn't work? What did you do exactly when you "fiddled" with it?
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I apologize, this is not my strong suit. I've been through so many things I'm not sure I remember all the things I've tried. I think I tried flash the recovery with Ace Hack Kit.
Let me describe what I DO know.
I can boot in to Fastboot (Vol Down + Power)
Here's what it says:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011, 00:55:45
There is no LOCKED or UNLOCKED indicator at all.
I'd he happy with an RUU stock ROM, but when I try to re-run the RUU from my computer, the system tries to reboot the phone into the bootloader. This is when I get the HTC screen and it just sits there. The RUU program reports a connection error.
I have several ZIP files, one for the Froyo image, one for the Gingerbread one, they're supposed to be for this phone.
I tried to reload the Gingerbread one from the SD card (I renamed it update.zip) but it failed. I booted into fastboot, then selected Recovery. While I had the green symbol I waited...after a bit it went to HTC screen and froze.
Tried again - this time when I had the green symbol I pressed vol up + power and got to the recovery options.Here's what I see
formatting / data
can't open /data/cwpkg.zip
can't open /data/cw.prop
can't open /cache/cwpkg.zip
can't open /cache/cw.prop
formatting /cache.....
Then I get the blue list of options. I select apply update from SDCard...
-- Invalid Operation ---
Then it reboots into the HTC screen and stays there.
Suggestions?
would love a copy of your file...
bimplebean said:
Actually, I was able to flash the original 2.3.3 ROM last night using Fastboot. It took me a while to realize that since the OS was fried, ADB was useless - there was no 'android' to 'debug.' Consequently I used fastboot.exe to re-apply the PD98IMG.zip and it worked!
The old ROM is real smooth, so I may just keep it, but if I can figure out how to apply a newer build I will.
Thanks!
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Any chance I could get you to get me a copy of your original 2.3.3 ROM? I would like to try this. My phone Inspire 4G is bricked.....
pharoah1974 said:
Any chance I could get you to get me a copy of your original 2.3.3 ROM? I would like to try this. My phone Inspire 4G is bricked.....
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The original Stock rom can be found in www.shipped-roms.com or you can get the lastest 2.3.5 AT&T rom at the HTC support Site.
glevitan said:
The original Stock rom can be found in www.shipped-roms.com or you can get the lastest 2.3.5 AT&T rom at the HTC support Site.
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Thanks. I will try that.
Hi guys!
First of all thank you for reading.
I'm probably in my 3rd day lurking around every possible forum and thread looking for an answer to my similar problem but have yet to find one.
I used to have a sensation xe but I kinda smashed the digitizer to bits. before that the was battery swollen and the back case pretty damaged (it survived a 120 kph gps reading of an rc car before going end over end across a parking lot). Meanwhile I got an Htc One, which is superb and I kinda forgot about the old gal.
A few days back I found a guy selling a sensation for spares (the mobo was fried on his) so I just bought that (for 20 euros) and figured all I needed to to was a mobo transplant and then have a nice almost new sensation.
But obviously the digitizer is not calibrated. I found the forum with the tutorial on that but it requires super CID and Soff. Cannot do either of them.
Since the mobo has been replaced the devunlock didn't work. Cannot, for the love of me succeed with the junopunutbear soff with the wire trick. Tried it on a ubuntu live cd, all goes well up until the wire trick. On a side note, I design and build 3d printers for a living, I might be a noob in the android department but that's about it. Even tried an automatic timed relay to do the two wire taps and still nothing. Obviously, it's not working on windows, I found the kgs1992 tool which requires a version of controlbear for windows which I cannot find (found one but it doesn't recognise it when I put it in the tools folder).
tl;dr
Cannot devunlock, cannot soff, nothing. Could I possibly try changing the IMEI so that i can maybe just maybe devunlock it first? I tried putting the mobo back in the old phone, still powered up but didn't recognize the token. I'm pretty much stuck right now.
Any help would be highly appreciated and if you read the whole thing, kudos to you for standing my chatter !
i sent you a pm
also you can follow this guide which avoids wire trick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751187
rzr86 said:
i sent you a pm
also you can follow this guide which avoids wire trick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751187
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Hi mate!
Thank you so much for your reply!
Unfortunately, rumrunnes told me to f myself lol, an error about not finding an unsecure kernel I guess, too frustrated to remember what the error was after finally finding a piece of software which seemed to do something.
Will try with the link you sent me and will come back with results!
elktw said:
Hi mate!
Thank you so much for your reply!
Unfortunately, rumrunnes told me to f myself lol, an error about not finding an unsecure kernel I guess, too frustrated to remember what the error was after finally finding a piece of software which seemed to do something.
Will try with the link you sent me and will come back with results!
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did it tell you to be rooted first?
rzr86 said:
did it tell you to be rooted first?
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That it did, but I was under the assumption (well all the guides I read) that you need to be devunlocked in order to root it. which I can't do. Am I missing something or is this a vicious circle ?
elktw said:
That it did, but I was under the assumption (well all the guides I read) that you need to be devunlocked in order to root it. which I can't do. Am I missing something or is this a vicious circle ?
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just use the temproot.bat file from juopunutbear thread
then run rumrunner again
it is mentioning also in rumrunner thread
Stuck on confirm Unlock bootloader
Ok, my phone got really messed up with TWRP format bug.
Since then, I have tried RUU, different recoveries and finally got stuck with Relocked, S-ON, no ROM, no ADB on my Sensation.
When i try to unlock via Unlock_code.bit i used earlier i am able to send it via fastboot to phone where it prompts me for a choice Yes/No.
And here is funny part.
I can select No with my power button which reboots my phone and shows white screen with bootloader after it since there is nothing on it.
But, when i press Volume up and select Yes option and Power button to confirm it, nothing happens. Actually it freezes phone and i have nothing else left to do except pulling out battery and booting to bootloader.
Since it is some kind of alive, I'm sure there is some way to revive it but I guess I'm kinda not seeing right steps to unlock it, s-off again, and custom recovery and wait for twrp team or shantur to find a sollution to fix corrupted partitions.
Can you help me with unlocking?
What logs do you need?
culler said:
Ok, my phone got really messed up with TWRP format bug.
Since then, I have tried RUU, different recoveries and finally got stuck with Relocked, S-ON, no ROM, no ADB on my Sensation.
When i try to unlock via Unlock_code.bit i used earlier i am able to send it via fastboot to phone where it prompts me for a choice Yes/No.
And here is funny part.
I can select No with my power button which reboots my phone and shows white screen with bootloader after it since there is nothing on it.
But, when i press Volume up and select Yes option and Power button to confirm it, nothing happens. Actually it freezes phone and i have nothing else left to do except pulling out battery and booting to bootloader.
Since it is some kind of alive, I'm sure there is some way to revive it but I guess I'm kinda not seeing right steps to unlock it, s-off again, and custom recovery and wait for twrp team or shantur to find a sollution to fix corrupted partitions.
Can you help me with unlocking?
What logs do you need?
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Well, i can certainly try and tell you what I did. Basically listen to the wonderful advice of @rzr86. Assuming you have tried many tools, you probably have the temproot utility. I just used that and Rumrunners, no wire trick no nothing, those were pretty straightforward and I finally managed to soff and supercid it. Afterwards I just installed 4ext recovery and was finally able to install whatever custom rom I wanted.
My problem however is now a different one. Cannot calibrate the touchscreen using the 58diag file. I'm using cgmod11 and if I run the calibration file, it gets stuck in bootloader. Standard RUU and it does nothing at all for the touchscreen. I'm pretty much stuck and out of ideas.
Aaaanyway, try rumrunners with temproot and get back to me with the results !
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Well, i can certainly try and tell you what I did. Basically listen to the wonderful advice of @rzr86. Assuming you have tried many tools, you probably have the temproot utility. I just used that and Rumrunners, no wire trick no nothing, those were pretty straightforward and I finally managed to soff and supercid it. Afterwards I just installed 4ext recovery and was finally able to install whatever custom rom I wanted.
My problem however is now a different one. Cannot calibrate the touchscreen using the 58diag file. I'm using cgmod11 and if I run the calibration file, it gets stuck in bootloader. Standard RUU and it does nothing at all for the touchscreen. I'm pretty much stuck and out of ideas.
Aaaanyway, try rumrunners with temproot and get back to me with the results !
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Did you had access to rom and adb to run Rumrunners utility? I have only access to bootloader and when i try to run it it hangs waiting for ADB.
Also, I'm stuck on unlock bootloader screen so probably have corrupted memory because I can't unlock it. :/
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Did you had access to rom and adb to run Rumrunners utility? I have only access to bootloader and when i try to run it it hangs waiting for ADB.
Also, I'm stuck on unlock bootloader screen so probably have corrupted memory because I can't unlock it. :/
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do you have adb/fastboot installed?
did you enable usb debugging mode from settings?
use usb 2.0 ports not 3.0
also what windows OS do you have?
rzr86 said:
do you have adb/fastboot installed?
did you enable usb debugging mode from settings?
use usb 2.0 ports not 3.0
also what windows OS do you have?
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I'm on Windows 8.1 64-bit, but also tried Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 13.04 both 32 and 64bit.
I also tried both USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports.
Like i said, I cant enable USB debugging mode in settings since i don't have ROM now, device is empty, except bootloader without recovery and I can't find way to install since I'm Relocked and S-on.
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I'm on Windows 8.1 64-bit, but also tried Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 13.04 both 32 and 64bit.
I also tried both USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports.
Like i said, I cant enable USB debugging mode in settings since i don't have ROM now, device is empty, except bootloader without recovery and I can't find way to install since I'm Relocked and S-on.
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S-OFF requires a working rom so you can't use S-OFF method
with windows 8.1 you will face connectivity issues
type in search box how to set up adb/fastboot in windows 8 but the point is that you don't have enabled usb debugging mode
so i am not sure if you will have any success
by the way what version of TWRP did you flash?
the latest? (2.7.0)
I was using TWRP 2.7.0.0 which corrupted my partitions so i tried various recoveries to fix the situation without success.
So I tried to RUU and it also failed.
Somewhere along the way of trying to revive my phone, i used fastboot oem lock and now i somehow have S-ON device which is RELOCKED and I have no custom recovery. I can't even access HTC recovery now.
When i try fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin from HTCDev it prompts me with screen to choose YES to unlock or NO to unlock.
When i choose YES with Volume button and press Power button to confirm, device freezes and stays like that forever, or until I remove battery.
Selecting no reboots device and brings me back to bootloader.
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.29.0000
RADIO-11.24A.3504.31_M
OpenADSP-v05.6.0.2226.00.0418
eMMC-boot
Mar 2 2012,18:14:34
culler said:
I was using TWRP 2.7.0.0 which corrupted my partitions so i tried various recoveries to fix the situation without success.
So I tried to RUU and it also failed.
Somewhere along the way of trying to revive my phone, i used fastboot oem lock and now i somehow have S-ON device which is RELOCKED and I have no custom recovery. I can't even access HTC recovery now.
When i try fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin from HTCDev it prompts me with screen to choose YES to unlock or NO to unlock.
When i choose YES with Volume button and press Power button to confirm, device freezes and stays like that forever, or until I remove battery.
Selecting no reboots device and brings me back to bootloader.
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.29.0000
RADIO-11.24A.3504.31_M
OpenADSP-v05.6.0.2226.00.0418
eMMC-boot
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i thibk you are stuck mate unfortunately
did you try unbricking project or jtag method?
rzr86 said:
i thibk you are stuck mate unfortunately
did you try unbricking project or jtag method?
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I tried unbricking project but it hangs on start with connecting to device or waiting for device.
As I understood, it needs to access ADB which i cant succeed.
I dont have JTAG equipment so it goes to some service to see if they could repair it.
It's such a great device, i don't want to lose it so soon