My Problem:
I cannot boot into the phone OS. I can get to the bootloader and CWM, but when trying to boot the phone normally, it just sits on the HTC splash screen.
What I Did:
I was trying to root my T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4G.
I went to HTC Dev and unlocked my bootloader. That went fine.
I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 only, I didn't. I skipped the S-OFF part. Stupid, I know. Not sure why exactly I did that, but I did.
I proceeded to flash CWM 4 and the su-2.3.6.3-ef-signed.zip which both worked fine. Then I flashed Virtuous Inquisition 3.0 without first doing a backup (again, I know, stupid). I rebooted and sat at the splashscreen for about 20 minutes (about 10 minutes longer than the Inquisition instructions indicate is the maximum anticipated time required).
At this point I went to the virtuous IRC and asked for help. They tried to help me, but we did not get far, other than determining that I had failed to S-OFF and supercid.
I tried using the RUU to return to stock. The first one I downloaded (RUU_Pyramid_TMOUS_1.29.531.2_Radio_10.42.9007.00P_10.11.9007.15_M_release_193714_sig) just crashed when I tried to run it. The second one (RUU_Pyramid_TMOUS_1.50.531.1_Radio_10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01_M_release_223976_sig) ran, but said it was the wrong image.
As far as I can tell, S-OFF requires being in the phone OS and using the Revolutionary tool. Without being able to put a stock ROM on there, getting a working ROM on the phone requires it being S-OFF. I think I may have really ruined my phone. Can anyone help?
Try reading here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469296 ... Just had a read through myself, and it seems that it might provide help with your situation
Worth a read/try
My Hero
You sir, are my hero (along with trkaaa). It worked! I am now able to boot into the phone OS and am S-OFF. :-D Thank you so much!
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Boy oh boy, I had a really tough few days trying to flash a custom rom. I was pretty heavy into flashing roms from the G1 days until I got my sensation on the day it was released. I then took a long break. Well 2 days ago I decided to Unlock my Bootloader through the HTC website. Everything went well. I did notice the ******UNLOCKED****** in the bootloader I also noticed the S-ON(security was still on). I didn't think this mattered. Was I ever wrong. With that S-On you cannot flash new radio's. I have never been able to flash a PG58IMG.zip file from hboot/fastboot. I can however flash recovery's from fastboot using (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
Seems as if every single rom I tried needs the Security-OFF to work correctly. I was able to put clockwork mod 5.0 on my phone, and install super wipe, and several roms, the problem I ran into is I would get a error under the switch for wifi. Wifi would not work on any of the 5 roms I tried before this one. I was wanting to give up and go back to stock for several hours. I tried the RUU to bring me back to build 1.27 and build 1.29 both were unsuccessful. I was stuck at build 1.73.401.2 and no way possible to get back to stock. And picture this living in a area with tmobile that is still using the edge network(2 ****ing g) OMFG I was so mad trying to even boot a new rom without wifi is a nightmare, took me literally 20 minutes to download rom manager. Anyway's this rom was the last one I tried before busting my phone into pieces.
Rom's I tried:
1. Android Revolution 3.6.1, and 4.1 (3.6.1 booted but had no wifi)
2. RCMix 3.5 v04 (bootloop)
3. LeeDroid booted fine (no wifi)
4. I believe there was one other I tried. NO GO
5. Then I flashed this one late last night, and to my surprised it worked.
I was so happy I almost pissed myself.
Oh yeah I tried many irc channels, one was the revolutionary.io irc channel, I was able to successfully run the rev.io tool and it showed as a success however my S-was still ON. I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes looking for other ideas. They pretty much told me I was screwed and that it had never been tested after you unlocked through HTC. And it simply might never work.
Anyway I guess what I am getting at. For anyone else that might have to go through what I did.
1. How in the world can you get you phone back to complete stock?
2. Why is this happening?
3. Why is my wifi not working with any other rom? And everyone else's is?
4. How do I go about getting my S-OFF?
5. Does anyone know if you can RELOCK your bootloader through HTC so that I can turn the SECURITY-OFF and "then" unlock the bootloader.
I probably have more question's. I just wanted to see if I might be able to get a few answers from you fine people. Help me understand what in the world is going on and how many other people are dealing with what I am dealing with.
droiddv said:
Boy oh boy, I had a really tough few days trying to flash a custom rom. I was pretty heavy into flashing roms from the G1 days until I got my sensation on the day it was released. I then took a long break. Well 2 days ago I decided to Unlock my Bootloader through the HTC website. Everything went well. I did notice the ******UNLOCKED****** in the bootloader I also noticed the S-ON(security was still on). I didn't think this mattered. Was I ever wrong. With that S-On you cannot flash new radio's. I have never been able to flash a PG58IMG.zip file from hboot/fastboot. I can however flash recovery's from fastboot using (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
Seems as if every single rom I tried needs the Security-OFF to work correctly. I was able to put clockwork mod 5.0 on my phone, and install super wipe, and several roms, the problem I ran into is I would get a error under the switch for wifi. Wifi would not work on any of the 5 roms I tried before this one. I was wanting to give up and go back to stock for several hours. I tried the RUU to bring me back to build 1.27 and build 1.29 both were unsuccessful. I was stuck at build 1.73.401.2 and no way possible to get back to stock. And picture this living in a area with tmobile that is still using the edge network(2 ****ing g) OMFG I was so mad trying to even boot a new rom without wifi is a nightmare, took me literally 20 minutes to download rom manager. Anyway's this rom was the last one I tried before busting my phone into pieces.
Rom's I tried:
1. Android Revolution 3.6.1, and 4.1 (3.6.1 booted but had no wifi)
2. RCMix 3.5 v04 (bootloop)
3. LeeDroid booted fine (no wifi)
4. I believe there was one other I tried. NO GO
5. Then I flashed this one late last night, and to my surprised it worked.
I was so happy I almost pissed myself.
Oh yeah I tried many irc channels, one was the revolutionary.io irc channel, I was able to successfully run the rev.io tool and it showed as a success however my S-was still ON. I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes looking for other ideas. They pretty much told me I was screwed and that it had never been tested after you unlocked through HTC. And it simply might never work.
Anyway I guess what I am getting at. For anyone else that might have to go through what I did.
1. How in the world can you get you phone back to complete stock?
2. Why is this happening?
3. Why is my wifi not working with any other rom? And everyone else's is?
4. How do I go about getting my S-OFF?
5. Does anyone know if you can RELOCK your bootloader through HTC so that I can turn the SECURITY-OFF and "then" unlock the bootloader.
I probably have more question's. I just wanted to see if I might be able to get a few answers from you fine people. Help me understand what in the world is going on and how many other people are dealing with what I am dealing with.
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Personally i would just do the normal s-off method as it gives you a little more freedom compared to HTC unlocking method.
My wifi is dead too, but i have no way of fixing it at all, i've got a thread called "wifi is dead" in the q+a section of the sensation forum.
Let me know if you get yours working, i imagine that if you revert your phone back to stock again and then use the alpha rev method that you will have better luck.
1. You can Relock your bootloader using HTC site but this time u will see Relocked instead of Locked
2. No idea
3. Did you try resetting your router? Works for me. Also try flashing a different radio.
4. No idea
5. You can relock bootloader on HTC site but have no idea of you can unlock it with Revolutionary again.
Try write secureflag command, just search for.the correct one on xda. Also, try flashing your RUU and then s-offing via revo.
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tinky1 said:
Try write secureflag command, just search for.the correct one on xda. Also, try flashing your RUU and then s-offing via revo again. You might need eng s-off, pm EddyOS, he should be able to help, I believe he's done it before.
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[ Solved ] WiFi error , Radio flash Problem , and revert back to any Custom Rom
droiddv said:
Well 2 days ago I decided to Unlock my Bootloader through the HTC website. Everything went well. I did notice the ******UNLOCKED****** in the bootloader I also noticed the S-ON (security was still on). I didn't think this mattered. Was I ever wrong. With that S-On you cannot flash new radio's. I have never been able to flash a PG58IMG.zip file from hboot/fastboot. I can however flash recovery's from fastboot using (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
Seems as if every single rom I tried needs the Security-OFF to work correctly. I was able to put clockwork mod 5.0 on my phone, and install super wipe, and several roms, the problem I ran into is I would get a error under the switch for wifi. Wifi would not work on any of the 5 roms I tried before this one. I was wanting to give up and go back to stock for several hours. I tried the RUU to bring me back to build 1.27 and build 1.29 both were unsuccessful. I was stuck at build 1.73.401.2 and no way possible to get back to stock.
Oh yeah I tried many irc channels, one was the revolutionary.io irc channel, I was able to successfully run the rev.io tool and it showed as a success however my S-was still ON. I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes looking for other ideas. They pretty much told me I was screwed and that it had never been tested after you unlocked through HTC. And it simply might never work.
5. Does anyone know if you can RELOCK your bootloader through HTC so that I can turn the SECURITY-OFF and "then" unlock the bootloader.
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[Solved ] WiFi error , Flash Radio Problem , Install any Custom Rom without errors , Wrong S-on Brick
this is Solved and the wifi error is because of kernel included in Boot.img
you can use the following solution to install any custom rom without wifi errors
first read " how htc dev works " to have an understanding why this happened to you and why you are still S-on and why you can't flash Radio . link is here " Solve WiFi Errors , Radio Flashing Problem , Caused by htc Dev Unlock Method "
the solution itself is in the following link , Read title " Custom Rom Flash " and "[FONT="][ Implementation ][/FONT][FONT="] Successful S-OFF using my above method " . [/FONT]link is here " Successful S-OFF after brick (wrong S-ON) for ICS or GB , Downgrade OTA firmware "
this also solve wrong S-on Brick , hope that helps
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Hello to every one here in this forum.
I am posting here a topic about a problem I have with my new htc inspire 4G.
I had rooted my phone with success with the ace hack kit and loaded the revolution
HD rom .after one o 2 days II thought I load the radio that was given with this rom
So I went to make the phone eng s-off and I forgot to check the I have s-off.
Now the problem is I cannot get to the boot screen and when I turn on the phone it takes about half an hour to start. After that every thing is ok.trying every thing to get the stock rom back but no success. All the methods I found at this forum will fail. The phone just freezes and I have to take the battery to start it again and wait for half an hour to start.
Any help would be grateful.
Thanks.
Look for Gene Poole's s-on tool. Follow his instructions and return to stock. Then try the hack kit from attn1. You should be set then.
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You need to get a proper hboot installed. The newer Inspires have some hardware just enough different that the ENG hboot and/or the older Froyo hboot images will cause just this problem. Since you were able to install this, then you are obviously S-OFF. As such, you can install a new hboot from the booted phone (once it is finally booted) but it is tricky and involves operations that could really screw things up. Your best bet is to jump into the IRC channel and get some real-time help with this:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
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Hello and thanks for your replys.
I am new to these things and i did manager to root my phone with sucsess and load a new rom. The only problem is with the hboot now. How can i fix it to be ok. If i have fast boot enable the phone starts up in 5 sec. if i do not i have to wait about half an hour to start after that every thin is working ok.
What do i have to do?
Any more help would be gratfull.
And sorry for my bad english.
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ok guys after i installed the eng s-off the phone canot boot normal any more.
any ideas to fix it or leave it like this?
VAMIAN said:
ok guys after i installed the eng s-off the phone canot boot normal any more.
any ideas to fix it or leave it like this?
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Have you tried hittng the irc link above that gene poole posted for you??????
I got your 10 char right here
You should read up on this phone in the threads. Its been stated many places that eng s-off messes with the new hboot and you dont even need it to flash a radio. Hboot does this with a pd98img without needing eng s-off. But I hope you go to the link suggested and get it fixed. Stay away from eng s-off.
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proper hboo
First i want to thank you guys for your replys i did use the Gene Poole's s-on tool
but it says no image or wrong image i tryed 3-4 times but sill the same.
any ideas about not wanting to load the PD98IMG.ZIP?
eng s-off problem
i finally did manage to to load Gene Poole's s-on tool but still the problem is there and phone is still eng s-off.
Problem fixed
I want to thank you all for all the good things and help you have here.
phone is fixed i took the battery out and after that the phone starts and boots
like new.
thanks again
I didn't post this in the CM7 thread because I believe my problem was a glitch during rooting, not CM7 which seems to work fine.
I recently dropped my Insight 4G which had been rooted and was running the Revolution ROMs and cracked the screen. I purchased a replacement phone, which arrived with the Gingerbread ROM from AT&T.
I decided to try CM7 this time and followed the instruction on wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Ace to the letter on rooting, installing clockworkmod, and installing the CM7 roms. Everything worked perfectly with one exception.
Now the phone takes > 10 mins (closer to 20 actually) to boot every time it reboots. I have tried restoring a nandroid backup of the Revolution ROMS from my original phone and everything works fine, but reboot is still very, very long. Restored CM7 from nandroid backup and tried to install RUU file to restore the phone to AT&T, but the software times out due to the extremely long boot time. Everything seems fine on the phone except for the boot time and I don't know what to do next.
After reading a lot of posts it appears that the instructions I followed have a similar effect to using the outdated Ace Hack Kit here. (Wish I'd used the new one). I am well and truly "Jammed Up"
Anyone have a possible fix? I am happy to do whatever it takes... not worried about data.
tricotec said:
I didn't post this in the CM7 thread because I believe my problem was a glitch during rooting, not CM7 which seems to work fine.
I recently dropped my Insight 4G which had been rooted and was running the Revolution ROMs and cracked the screen. I purchased a replacement phone, which arrived with the Gingerbread ROM from AT&T.
I decided to try CM7 this time and followed the instruction on wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Ace to the letter on rooting, installing clockworkmod, and installing the CM7 roms. Everything worked perfectly with one exception.
Now the phone takes > 10 mins (closer to 20 actually) to boot every time it reboots. I have tried restoring a nandroid backup of the Revolution ROMS from my original phone and everything works fine, but reboot is still very, very long. Restored CM7 from nandroid backup and tried to install RUU file to restore the phone to AT&T, but the software times out due to the extremely long boot time. Everything seems fine on the phone except for the boot time and I don't know what to do next.
After reading a lot of posts it appears that the instructions I followed have a similar effect to using the outdated Ace Hack Kit here. (Wish I'd used the new one). I am well and truly "Jammed Up"
Anyone have a possible fix? I am happy to do whatever it takes... not worried about data.
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What I would do is return to a full stock. Then run the hack kit. But that is just me as I have never donebit with the CM wiki instructions
This is a common issue with the latest batch of Inspires (post Aug, 2011 MFG). The hardware is different and not compatible with any hboot except the one that ships with the GB RUU. If you downgraded as per the CM wiki, then you necessarilly installed an older hboot and this is the root cause of your problem.
You can easily replace the hboot on an S-OFF Inspire once it finally does boot by simply writing the later hboot image to the hboot partition (partition 18). There's instructions here:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/495273/
You can jump into the IRC channel if you need some one-on-one help:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
Ok, after many hours of fiddling I finally got it back.
I used the hack kit to re-install the stock RUU using the alternate (hboot) method. It took a LONG time, but was successful. I then used the hack kit to re-root the phone and installed CM7 nightlies. The ace hack kit is a wonderful tool, and I thank the author for making it.
Gene Poole said:
This is a common issue with the latest batch of Inspires (post Aug, 2011 MFG). The hardware is different
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Hey Gene so what your saying is all Inspire batches post Aug, 2011 must be rooted using the current acehack kit only right?
And older methods of rooting will cause intermittent booting?
Crazy Food For Thought....
jadeus0831 said:
Hey Gene so what your saying is all Inspire batches post Aug, 2011 must be rooted using the current acehack kit only right?
And older methods of rooting will cause intermittent booting?
Crazy Food For Thought....
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That is correct. The new AHK uses an HTC signed interim firmware patch put out for the DHD which has only a boot.img, radio.img and recovery.img. Fortunately, the radio and boot images are ones that are compatible with gfree and the S-OFF routines can be run without disturbing the rest of the firmware (hboot, system and data mainly), but unfortunately, the kernel is not compatible with the Inspire's graphics hardware so the process literally runs in the dark, and because of the GB changes, it must run in two stages involving both adb and fastboot. USB issues rampant among PCs (so many PC programs assume they are the only program you're ever going to run and so hijack the USB bus thinking you're never going to plug in any other device but theirs) so it is very important that both adb and fastboot drivers can run unimpeded. Occasionally a situation arises where adb runs OK, but fastboot fails and this leave the device in an intermediate state which is not in itself bad, but because there is a blank screen, users freak out and do everything but the right thing (usually involving a "wipe" from hboot) which really screws things up.
Hi Tricotec.
Please, could you describe the steps for doing it. I have the same problem.
Thanks.
nlennis said:
Hi Tricotec.
Please, could you describe the steps for doing it. I have the same problem.
Thanks.
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i also need those steps.
i tried with ruu but white rebooting bootloader it takes around 10 minutes due to which connection time out occurs b/w phone and wire thus ruu is not installing properly, is there any way we can edit ruu exe file to wait for accepting connect for 10 minutes or so
or please tell other steps
sandeep88822 said:
i also need those steps.
i tried with ruu but white rebooting bootloader it takes around 10 minutes due to which connection time out occurs b/w phone and wire thus ruu is not installing properly, is there any way we can edit ruu exe file to wait for accepting connect for 10 minutes or so
or please tell other steps
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Nice!! you messed the bootloader for not reading all the warnings. The only fix for the issue is this one:
http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=188
glevitan said:
Nice!! you messed the bootloader for not reading all the warnings. The only fix for the issue is this one:
http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=188
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i did not did this, i hv gingerbread 2.47 ruu, and i am aware not to downgrade it
its done by my ebay friend, lol he ha sonly that older ruu and he updated 100's of inspire with that, its the first time he got a newer inspire
anyways thanks a lot xda rocks
Sorry as I know these answers are out there, but I have been trying things for 2 days to no avail.
My end goal is a CM9 ROM on my sensation
I used Hasoons idiot proof utility, but apparently I am a super idiot
I clicked on install drivers, nothing happened, I assumed that I had everything I need from the sensation I had and rooted back in Oct 2011, so then I click "S-Off", the cmd box popped up and immediately went away (yes I went to the site and dl'ed the SOFF program).
after an hour of trying to figure that out I ended up skipping that and just going to HTC Dev and unlocked the boot loader. Thank went fine.
Installed CWM, that went fine, I think. If I hold Vol Down and Power it takes me to hboot not CWM? I can get to CWM by hitting recovery in HBOOT but I thought I remember Vol Down +Pwr took me straight to CWM.
THEN THINGS WENT WRONG.
I got a little greedy and tried to immediately flash a CM9 ROM, it flashed ok, but never got past the white HTC screen. So I tried to back pedal but flashing what I thought was a stock IMG file of GB. All the ones I trired would parse but do nothing after that.
Do I need to relock the boot loader to flash stock GB? and if so where is the Stock US T-mo GB IMG?
If I were to get it back to stock and did an HTC OTA ICS update, would I then be able to re-unlock and then install CM9?
Can anyone also help with S-Off, If I remember correctly, my hboot is 1.118??
I also cannot seem to find the latest firmware for CM9 as the ones I clicked on gave me 404 website errors.
Again I apologize as I am sure the answer is easy, but I spent 4 hours on this and just need some help.
Thanks
mikeschevelle said:
Sorry as I know these answers are out there, but I have been trying things for 2 days to no avail.
My end goal is a CM9 ROM on my sensation
I used Hasoons idiot proof utility, but apparently I am a super idiot
I clicked on install drivers, nothing happened, I assumed that I had everything I need from the sensation I had and rooted back in Oct 2011, so then I click "S-Off", the cmd box popped up and immediately went away (yes I went to the site and dl'ed the SOFF program).
after an hour of trying to figure that out I ended up skipping that and just going to HTC Dev and unlocked the boot loader. Thank went fine.
Installed CWM, that went fine, I think. If I hold Vol Down and Power it takes me to hboot not CWM? I can get to CWM by hitting recovery in HBOOT but I thought I remember Vol Down +Pwr took me straight to CWM.
THEN THINGS WENT WRONG.
I got a little greedy and tried to immediately flash a CM9 ROM, it flashed ok, but never got past the white HTC screen. So I tried to back pedal but flashing what I thought was a stock IMG file of GB. All the ones I trired would parse but do nothing after that.
Do I need to relock the boot loader to flash stock GB? and if so where is the Stock US T-mo GB IMG?
If I were to get it back to stock and did an HTC OTA ICS update, would I then be able to re-unlock and then install CM9?
Can anyone also help with S-Off, If I remember correctly, my hboot is 1.118??
I also cannot seem to find the latest firmware for CM9 as the ones I clicked on gave me 404 website errors.
Again I apologize as I am sure the answer is easy, but I spent 4 hours on this and just need some help.
Thanks
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I could explain here, but it's a little tedious.
so i got a htc sensation z710e and works fine, network unlocked.
i have a smart watch but the thing wont work on ics ONLY above so i decided to stick a custom rom on to bring me up to the required android version to use said watch.
my phone has the 127.000 hbooot and it says s on but unlocked above in pink after i ran windroid and unlocked bootloader, it also had root and cm recovery 5.2.0.2 or watever number it was.
so on i went to try and install a custom rom. 1st i did cm-9.1.0-pyramid and it just hung on the cm9 boot up screen THEN i did cm-12-20141205-UNOFFICIAL-pyramid and it goot error 0 so never did nothing. and lastly i tried revolution 1.03 and it was promising went thru all the installation buff and jargon and then same again just hangs on the htc boot logo.
before i install zip files i wipe dalvaik. battery and data i think its called.
i can still get into recovery and hboot but cannot for the life of me get a rom to boot and tbh its draining the life out of me as i havent done a android in yrs.
tried looking for odin and download mode but im unsure if htc has them?
p.s just tried a factory wipe and still the same. hanging at the htc screen.
and advice would be great as i REALLY dont wanna tell the wife i need another 50 qwid for a new phone. she wont be chuffed.
cheers.
UPDATE-- managed to install-rmk-pyramid-stock_ics_3.32.401.3-v1 all working,well apart from no bloody wifi!!. known fault?
so now i think i will have to gain s-off and then move on,,, ??
UPDATE-- managed to gain s-off and that seemed to fix the no wifi? ha,,,, but i had to re unlock the bootloader, also got supser cid
so now im s-off with unlocked bootloader and looking for jelly bean, i think ima go with http://cm-10.2-20131028-albinoman887-pyramid.zip/
hopefully il just eed to exit into recovery and flash and il be golden.... kinda glad nobody replied as it made me batter my own mind working it out
hi, it didnt boot before when u were s-on because u need to flash the boot.img after u flashed the rom. but u got sorted in the end. :thumbup: