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[Q] Bricked HTC Sensation 4G ?!

Today , i successfully rooted my HTC Sensation 4G, everything was working totally fine, but then I wanted to install and custom ROM , called Super Villain Shensation.
I followed everything like the instructions told me to, but it says that the installation was aborted. and when i want to reboot my phone, it just stays on the white HTC logo screen, and doesnt do anything. I am able to get to the bootloader, but when i try recovery the same thing happens. what do i do !?

First of all, it is not bricked. Moving forward you need to re-download the ROM to make sure it is not a corrupted download, then try to flash again.
In order it would be:
-re download ROM again (I would personally suggest a ginger bread ROM that doesn't require you to flash firmware and such)
-download super wipe
-put them both in your sd card, somewhere where you could find the files
-go into your recovery and flash the super wipe zip (found in the Android Revolution thread)
-flash ROM
-let it boot (it will take about 5 minutes)
-done
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He's thesuper wipe
http://db.tt/ps5JWwBw
Sent From Space Using My ICS Flavored Sensation

He said he can't get to recovery (-.- )
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Can you get to the bootloader?
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Need tothrow the pg85.img zip on the root of you're sd card then boot into bootloader. Follow on screen instructions.
Sent From Space Using My ICS Flavored Sensation

Go to your bootloader like previous poster said and paste this file in the root of your sd card.
-Press the up volume rocker once you get the prompt to do it
If everything goes the way is suppose to go, you will be able to get into recovery again and flash whatever ROM you like.
This file contains Clockwork recovery
http://db.tt/ht4BPIS8
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Did you superCID? If not, what is your CID, because the file: P58IMG.zip is the firmware package for your device, and it's CID dependent. Get the one you need from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767

youssefkiev said:
Did you superCID? If not, what is your CID, because the file: P58IMG.zip is the firmware package for your device, and it's CID dependent. Get the one you need from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
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is there a way to know the cid if we are stuck at boot loader. i have no recovery(backup corrupt). and cant install pg58img.zip....

beartraxx33 said:
is there a way to know the cid if we are stuck at boot loader. i have no recovery(backup corrupt). and cant install pg58img.zip....
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Are you s off?
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Rhiannon224 said:
Are you s off?
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Yes i did every thing right until the cid part. and when i flash the p58img.... wrong cid.

beartraxx33 said:
Yes i did every thing right until the cid part. and when i flash the p58img.... wrong cid.
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In that case you can find it from fastboot.
Code:
fastboot getvar cid
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stringer7 said:
In that case you can find it from fastboot.
Code:
fastboot getvar cid
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Fixed It. used adb fastboot to superCiD and it worked....finally. Thanks for your support guys.

having the same problem with my htc sensation
theshanebennett said:
Today , i successfully rooted my HTC Sensation 4G, everything was working totally fine, but then I wanted to install and custom ROM , called Super Villain Shensation.
I followed everything like the instructions told me to, but it says that the installation was aborted. and when i want to reboot my phone, it just stays on the white HTC logo screen, and doesnt do anything. I am able to get to the bootloader, but when i try recovery the same thing happens. what do i do !?
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i had rooted my htc sensation with s-off....
recently i tried to flash it with cyanogenmod 9 and all i get is the logo....
revolutionary and s-off changed back to pyramid and s-on...
i'm able to get to bootloader and recovery but still the phone is not getting rebooted..
help me out guys!!!!
cheers!!!!

rockinrraj said:
i had rooted my htc sensation with s-off....
recently i tried to flash it with cyanogenmod 9 and all i get is the logo....
revolutionary and s-off changed back to pyramid and s-on...
i'm able to get to bootloader and recovery but still the phone is not getting rebooted..
help me out guys!!!!
cheers!!!!
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Format all partitions and reflash CM9
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rtorres422 said:
Format all partitions and reflash CM9
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I formatted all the partitions but i'm unable to flash CM9 as the security flag is ON now..
S-ON. still not able to S-OFF.. i have tried all the methods posted in xda forums.. ;(

rockinrraj said:
I formatted all the partitions but i'm unable to flash CM9 as the security flag is ON now..
S-ON. still not able to S-OFF.. i have tried all the methods posted in xda forums.. ;(
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HTC_DEV unlock ?

rockinrraj said:
I formatted all the partitions but i'm unable to flash CM9 as the security flag is ON now..
S-ON. still not able to S-OFF.. i have tried all the methods posted in xda forums.. ;(
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What is you hboot if it's 1.18 or below and since you're r now s-on you need to run an ruu for ics that is closes to you stock rom. To upgrade your firmware to an ics compatible firmware. If it's 1.2x then you can htc-dev unlock and if you want s-off use jb then flash 4ext recovery even if your just htc-dev unlock. If your just htc-dev unlocked in 4ext enable smart flash. Now your good to go!
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unlocked.. yes!!
ganeshp said:
HTC_DEV unlock ?
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yeah dude.. its unlocked.

rockinrraj said:
yeah dude.. its unlocked.
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Post the complete bootloader details here
Then I can suggest you better and precise
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Flash ruu after htcdev.com

My problem is that I cannot relock my phone after unlocking from htcdev.com
So now my bootloader is
Unlocked and s-on
So question is that can I flash my ruu directly to get my phone like before
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Provide some more info. About ur phone hboot? You can lock ur bootloader followvthe instructions which they already given.
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My hboot is 1.18 and I tried all ways to lock but all time it says
"Relocked
*security warning*
So can I flash ruu to get back to stock for ota
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Yes you should be able to, just make sure it is the right one for your cid
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r u sure that i can flash the ruu to relock my phone successfull to get official updates from htc...or can i get official update with stock rom but "unlocked from htcdev.com"
with
"unlocked"
and s-on status in bootloader

The RUU won't run properly as with s-on you cannot flash radio.img or boot.img. This guide will help with either return to stock or root/s-off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23222794
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thanks it worked for me to get s-off

help with ruu

ok so i redoing phone to stock and unroot s-on
i downloaded a few ruu 2so far 1 more to go 1550 sec to wait lol
anyway i cant get ruu to open on computer
http://www.filedropper.com/untitled_4
OK I THINK ITS FILEFACTORY
CAN SOMEONE POST SOMEWERE SO I CAN GET RUU 1.50 ANY I AM SUPERCID

I have to bump i need ruu 'pdslkfjvhsdfhvwa filefactory sucks a$$ ughhhhhhhhhhh

Search for the RUU file name in Google or in the Shipped ROMs thread - there are plenty of mirrors on here

i know but filefactory not working right and not sending whole ruu

craven667 said:
i know but filefactory not working right and not sending whole ruu
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Read eddy's post again. He said MIRRORS. In places OTHER than filefactory. Search is your friend
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dexter93 said:
Read eddy's post again. He said MIRRORS. In places OTHER than filefactory. Search is your friend
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ok read my post again 1.50 is not working i got 1.47 work but not 1.50 can anyone help me out and post a working one seeing how i googled and none seem to be working

If you are asking here, you'll get 0 responses. Go to the RUU thread and ask there for a mirror- or better search for it there- I've seen at least 5 of them for 1.50
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Someone can tell me what RUU I must install ? I use ARHD new ICS rom and crash my screen... I already turn S-ON but i can't install RUU error of bootloader version :|
My CID was 032, then 1111111 now... don't know :|
PLZ help

Fireblade1000rr said:
Someone can tell me what RUU I must install ? I use ARHD new ICS rom and crash my screen... I already turn S-ON but i can't install RUU error of bootloader version :|
My CID was 032, then 1111111 now... don't know :|
PLZ help
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Hboot version?
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dexter93 said:
Hboot version?
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my HBOOT is 1.23.0000

Fireblade1000rr said:
my HBOOT is 1.23.0000
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And you are s on? Forget about any ruu. You are cursed to stay with this Rom and firmware until *and IF* revolutionary updates. I'm sorry, but you should pay more attention before tampering with crucial parts of your phone
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There is no way to install some old HBOOT?

I believe someone found a solution using taco root, it looks complex and risky but it looks like it is possible. I suggest you have a look in the development forum.
Have a look here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23482010
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now I stuck in bootloader... now I just wanna install some room s-off,s-on no matter :| but I can't run recovery,
I trying this
STEP 5 - CHANGING BACK TO S-ON - PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. BEWARE THERE IS A RISK OF BRICKING READ BEFORE GOING TO STEP 1.
YOU MUST Follow this correctly otherwise you could semi-brick your device (Semi bricks recovery by re-flashing RUU). If you follow it correctly YOU WILL GET S-ON SUCCESSFULLY -confirmed by other users
I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong but i will help in every situation. 2 unrecoverable bricks so far. 1 due to not flashing RUU
First time i did this with a custom ROM installed - semi-bricked my device (couldn't boot due to security warning as S-on doesn't work with custom roms), restored it using RUU.exe
Second time after S-off i took the following steps and successfully went back to S-ON without any problems and booted up into stock rom.
Confirmed to work by several others as well as myself
1. Follow Step 4 above to get SuperCID - Skip if you already have it
2. Restore your official stock Rom: Just click here to download an Official Rom RESTORE STOCK EVEN IF YOU JUST RESTORED IT RECENTLY OR ARE ALREADY ON STOCK ROM. This is to ensure nothing gets changed in stock for S-on to be successful
So if you are already on a stock ROM or you just went back to stock ROM, i don't care, restore the stock ROM again using the RUU.exe if you don't want to be bricked!
Connect to your phone in charging mode. click the "RUU_pyramid_*****.exe" file you downloaded and follow on screen instructions.
3. Make sure when you download the RUU. download the same or similiar RUU version as your phone came with (e.g. Tmous or EU or Asian etc). As long as you install a stock rom similiar to what you had you should be ok. FAILURE TO DO THIS MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE.
4. Switch your phone on now and let it boot for the first time and just skip through the welcome screen.
5. Go back to Step 4 - SUPERCID and go through 1 to 7 to get to the fastboot bootloader. (so just do what you did before, put adb files in local disk, adb reboot bootloader etc)
6. enter the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" (Thanks Dazweeja)
7. Reboot into bootloader using "fastboot reboot-bootloader" or remove & reinsert the battery and press power on while keeping hold of volume down.
8. Bootloader should now read Pyramid PVT Ship S-ON RL.
9. Remove and reinsert the battery. Press power on as normal
You should now have S-on back and you can return your device or do whatever it is covered again under warranty.
10. IF IT DOESN'T REBOOT and bootloader says ***Security Warning**
Remove and re-insert the battery and go back into bootloader and holding Volume Down +power button select fastboot
11. Run RUU_Pyramid_***.exe to reflash stock rom. (the one u just downloaded in step 1) and then reboot. It should work now
The above method works successfully. So do not under any circumstances try this without going back to stock first using Ruu.exe. and Follow the instructions correctly if you want S-on WITHOUT problems Any doubts or questions PM me and i will get back to you and help you.
Donations welcome as i had a very shaky night experimenting and bricking my device (and having a panic attack over it) to find a safe method for successfully getting S-on back for all you out there complaining about warranty.
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I stuck at point 10 :|
someone have an idea what can I do?
also I try taco but...:
C:\adb>adb push tacoroot.bin /data/local
error: device not found

Problem with bootloader unlock on my sensation

Hello!!!
I have one problem with my sensation bootloader unlock. I took Unlock_code with HTCdev site and I start the unlock screen appears, yes or no, and when I click yes and power button phone freezes. Also when I run reboot bootloader also freeze. He prayed to for help. Pictures are attached.
P.S. Also when you are fallen cell phone shows HTC logo and go to end reboot reboot and when I go into recovery then get an error shown in Fig.
Sorry for my bad english.

If you want to unlock your bootloader to flash custom ROMs or a custom recovery, then I would suggest you to s-off your sensation since the HTC Dev unlock won't work.
The s-off method by ganeshp is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26280760
Read the thread carefully, and if you need the windows version for juonuput s-off then shoot me a PM and ask me for it. Recovery.io only supports Linux (as for now)
You can also install Ubuntu on your PC to use the Linux version.
Sent from my HTC Sensation

AndroidSupporter318 said:
If you want to unlock your bootloader to flash custom ROMs or a custom recovery, then I would suggest you to s-off your sensation since the HTC Dev unlock won't work.
The s-off method by ganeshp is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26280760
Read the thread carefully, and if you need the windows version for juonuput s-off then shoot me a PM and ask me for it. Recovery.io only supports Linux (as for now)
You can also install Ubuntu on your PC to use the Linux version.
Sent from my HTC Sensation
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I am not sure "usb debugging" is checked becouse not enter to normal start up phone, phone get to htc logo and reboot, several time then go to scree with red triangle.

Hmm... so you can't boot your phone. In that case, I would run a RUU, and then s-off...
Here's the RUU info and downloads: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26541170
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I think for unlocking bootloader from HTC dev u needs to b on completely stock , mean stock Rom , stock recovery
But u r using custom recovery , that's y it hangs when u select yes
Btw u can run ruu for complete stock , run ics version of ruu with same cid
I think this is a only option for u
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Itsakash said:
I think for unlocking bootloader from HTC dev u needs to b on completely stock , mean stock Rom , stock recovery
But u r using custom recovery , that's y it hangs when u select yes
Btw u can run ruu for complete stock , run ics version of ruu with same cid
I think this is a only option for u
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i agree ruu.exe is the only option
but can you have custom recovery when you are on S-ON and locked bootloader?

Just install a Ruu for your Sen. And retry unlock bootloader and s-off
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Hmm, nothing work for me, i try all solution but nothing work, when do bootloader load phone freez, when do write hboot phone freez. i try flashing RUU via sd card, (unzip RUU and rom.zip rename to PG58IMG.zip and start hboot cheking all ok, but when start flash rewritw bootloader phone freez). I dont know what to do. please help.
p.s. sorry my english is to bad.

Damirzvo said:
Hmm, nothing work for me, i try all solution but nothing work, when do bootloader load phone freez, when do write hboot phone freez. i try flashing RUU via sd card, (unzip RUU and rom.zip rename to PG58IMG.zip and start hboot cheking all ok, but when start flash rewritw bootloader phone freez). I dont know what to do. please help.
p.s. sorry my english is to bad.
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try flashing the ruu from pc
don't extract the rom.zip

[HELP] s-off with locked bootloader

hi everyone. my sensation is getting me angry for a few week. i can't flash roms or others using fastboot commands cause my device is s-off, but i still have the bootloaader locked. from the command prompt i always obtain the same message "writing boot...failed(remote: not allowed)". first at all, i unlocked my device using HTCdev, after i flashed my first rom i found the bootloader locked. second, i tried to turn my device s-off, but controlbaer crashed, so i didn't complete it, but hovewere i'm s-off. how can it be ??? at now, can i flash roms or other .zip just by recovery (4ext) ?? or how can i unlock again the bootloader ??? hope somebody give me an answer. :good:

If you are S-Off and even that the boot loader is locked there should be no problem to install ROM - via 4ext
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gab_ITA said:
hi everyone. my sensation is getting me angry for a few week. i can't flash roms or others using fastboot commands cause my device is s-off, but i still have the bootloaader locked. from the command prompt i always obtain the same message "writing boot...failed(remote: not allowed)". first at all, i unlocked my device using HTCdev, after i flashed my first rom i found the bootloader locked. second, i tried to turn my device s-off, but controlbaer crashed, so i didn't complete it, but hovewere i'm s-off. how can it be ??? at now, can i flash roms or other .zip just by recovery (4ext) ?? or how can i unlock again the bootloader ??? hope somebody give me an answer. :good:
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Hi,
Look HERE
Second post.
Try flashing this:
HBoot 1.27.1100 Patch (Go from Hboot 1.29.0000 to 1.27.1100)
This should give you an unlocked bootloader.

malybru said:
Hi,
Look HERE
Second post.
Try flashing this:
HBoot 1.27.1100 Patch (Go from Hboot 1.29.0000 to 1.27.1100)
This should give you an unlocked bootloader.
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I already have hboot 1.27. Could it work hovewere ?
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gab_ITA said:
I already have hboot 1.27. Could it work hovewere ?
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Hi,
I am not sure what to suggest.
People who flash this are normally locked and hboot 1.29
It works for them,so it should work for you
I do not think it would do any harm.
Or perhaps you could flash the 1.27 > 1.29 version first.
Then, go 1.29 > 1.27
How did your bootloader become locked?

malybru said:
Hi,
I am not sure what to suggest.
People who flash this are normally locked and hboot 1.29
It works for them,so it should work for you
I do not think it would do any harm.
Or perhaps you could flash the 1.27 > 1.29 version first.
Then, go 1.29 > 1.27
How did your bootloader become locked?
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gab_ITA said:
I already have hboot 1.27. Could it work hovewere ?
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When you say you have 1.27 do do you mean a patched one? Besides, @malybru posted a patched one.
You could try unlocking your bootloader (i am not sure, but this may cause brick).
JAM THAT THANKS BUTTON.
Happy to help.

I have 1.29 after flashing new radio and s-off and there is no problem using 4ext for flashing any zip so far
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malybru said:
Or perhaps you could flash the 1.27 > 1.29 version first.
Then, go 1.29 > 1.27
How did your bootloader become locked?
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Wells, it's always a way xD i unlocjed th bootloader using HTCdev, but when i flashed my first ROM(slimbean) it became again locked. I really can't explain how di it appen .... so, i'll try the patched one, let's see if it work....
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gab_ITA said:
Wells, it's always a way xD i unlocjed th bootloader using HTCdev, but when i flashed my first ROM(slimbean) it became again locked. I really can't explain how di it appen .... so, i'll try the patched one, let's see if it work....
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Flashing a rom via recovery shouldn't change bootloader status. Either you flashed a new firmware, or did an ruu.
Besides, a patched hboot should enable fastboot commands.

Far_SighT said:
Flashing a rom via recovery shouldn't change bootloader status. Either you flashed a new firmware, or did an ruu.
Besides, a patched hboot should enable fastboot commands.
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i've just dowloaded the patched hboot. how do i install it ?

gab_ITA said:
i've just dowloaded the patched hboot. how do i install it ?
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Hi,
It is all explained on the thread.