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Coming from Captivate, flashing questions

Sorry if this should be in a different thread. Not trying to get flamed. So I am coming from a captivate and am just wondering how is flashing stuff on the inspire different from the captivate? Typically most of my flashing was just done thru CWM on the captivate itself or thru ODIN. I know ODIN doesnt exist for the inspire, but what differences can I expect coming into? how do I get to recovery or download? Any answers on how the flashing experience is different would be much appreciated

Once you've rooted it's pretty much the same as captivate install rom manager and install Rom with cwm recovery. There isn't a need to flash back to stock. Just clear data and cache.
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yup, clockwork mod makes life a hell of a lot easier.

And this restore a heck of a lot better than the captivate did. I don't even use titanium backup anymore. All my txt messages and apps automatically restores including wallpaper
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Thanks guys, my only question is how to get CWM on this phone after root. Im assuming its thru a kernel?

same way you do it on the captivate get rom manager from the market. Install CWM Recovery.
There's no need for special recoveries like on the captivate as there's no lagfix craziness to deal with. HTC uses Android/Linux standard file systems

gunnyman said:
same way you do it on the captivate get rom manager from the market. Install CWM Recovery.
There's no need for special recoveries like on the captivate as there's no lagfix craziness to deal with. HTC uses Android/Linux standard file systems
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Lol, kinda forgot thats all that needed to be done to get CWM. Too much stress with the captivate.

Yeah I had to retrain my brain as well.

p4ranoid4ndroid said:
Lol, kinda forgot thats all that needed to be done to get CWM. Too much stress with the captivate.
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Totally agree, ill never get samsung again. I would probably flash a different rom on my captivate every other day to find out which one had what bugs and what didnt work correctly, lol. The Inspire is a lot harder to root then the captivate, but is well worth it when you do, for one roms are higher quality and all 100% working, even cm7 rc1. There is no download mode for inspire, you can manually boot into bootloader mode and from there you can enter CWM Recovery.

So i looked at the HTC hack kit, are there any better instructions for rooting? just didnt see anything laid out in that thread.
Another question for yall: On the captivate when wifi was active the 3g symbol would disappear. This doesnt happen on my inspire. Does that mean hspa is still running while im connected to wifi? Battery drain is my issue with this

there's a readme in the hack kit. Very easy to follow

There is youtube two part video walkthrough, thats what i used. I learn easier if i can see it happening.
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On the vibrant (captivate) a bad kernel or Rom could mean boot loop and no hope of getting into clockwork and we would have to use odin. This doesn't happen on the inspire?
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.

ive had boot loop happen twice so far and both times i manually went into boot loader and went to CWM recovery and wiped data and reflashed then everything was fine. The one time i reflashed and still got boot loop i just restored back up and then flashed and was good to go. I made a backup right after i rooted so i wouldnt have to do it again, i suggest you do the same just to be safe.

bkeaver said:
And this restore a heck of a lot better than the captivate did. I don't even use titanium backup anymore. All my txt messages and apps automatically restores including wallpaper
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Not to hijack, but what do you mean? How do you restore all your apps etc without titanium?

Corriewf said:
Not to hijack, but what do you mean? How do you restore all your apps etc without titanium?
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lol dont mind the hijacking. the more questions asked the better.

the market auto restores your apps when you sign in with your google account, i cant really explain how it does this, but it sure is nice.

when you check back up my settings when you sign into google for teh first time, it starts keeping a list of market apps you've installed and restores them if you do a factory reset. doesn't seem to catch all of mine all the time though.

still have some questions regarding Flash
I read the rooting thread as well as saw the video, what I could understand is that in captivate we were rooting and then upgrading the ROM.
But here we are rooting and the downgrading.. Are we loosing any functionality? Its little difficult to understand..
can someone pls help?

You are actually downgrading the ROM then rooting THAT. After you have root, and have clockwork mod recovery installed you can install any rooted rom you like. There are a few to choose from in the Dev section.
The current Android release on the Inspire hasn't been "cracked" yet so you need to downgrade to get root.

Revolutionary from AlphaRev and Unrevoked

Anyone seen this? http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...rn-htc-phones-including-evo-3d-and-sensation/
It says support for the Thunderbolt is in the works as well. Pretty exciting, especially for those users who haven't rooted yet for one reason or another.

Cannot wait for Unrevoked to get to the ThunderBolt... thanks for sharing

Yes. It's awesome!

Ok, so I got a replacement bolt from FedEx yesterday and almost immediately went to the rooting process. I used Revolutionary for S-Off and I must say it couldn't have been easier. I'm quite pleased with the results on that front. BUT...
Now, no one can hear me when I'm on a call with them and, after trying different radios. I think it's time to return to stock so, I can troubleshoot some more and, possibly, send it back as defective (which I'm thinking was the case from the get-go). I wish I had the forethought to test the phone prior to rooting.
So, my question is, Does ANYONE know how to get S-On after Revolutionary?! I'm starting to get uneasy. Never had this problem before.

c_live_lee said:
Ok, so I got a replacement bolt from FedEx yesterday and almost immediately went to the rooting process. I used Revolutionary for S-Off and I must say it couldn't have been easier. I'm quite pleased with the results on that front. BUT...
Now, no one can hear me when I'm on a call with them and, after trying different radios. I think it's time to return to stock so, I can troubleshoot some more and, possibly, send it back as defective (which I'm thinking was the case from the get-go). I wish I had the forethought to test the phone prior to rooting.
So, my question is, Does ANYONE know how to get S-On after Revolutionary?! I'm starting to get uneasy. Never had this problem before.
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Ok well first to alleviate your concerns it is possible. My guess is that they just haven't released their s-on tool yet. You can do it yourself but YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL. This thread's OP explains the process. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186022 HOWEVER you will need a few things first. ADB and fastboot installed and working along with knowledge of how to use them. Plus you will need the enghboot.nbo file extracted from the exploits.zip located in JCase's original root tutorial. This is a download link for the exploits.zip file. ~~> http://www.multiupload.com/K4BZ22SIT5
Unzipped that file to find the enghboot.nbo. IMPORTANT!!! CHECK THE MD5 SUM OF THE EXTRACTED ENGHBOOT.NBO FILE!!!!! It should be this ~>
"6991368ee2deaf182048a3ed9d3c0fcb"
Once you follow the directions from the first link you will still be rooted with s-off but now you can follow the directions in the OP of this thread to get back to stock unrooted s-on. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009423
Just follow directions for rooted users. Be sure to flash the no_hboot_MR1 FIRST. THEN flash the s-on hboot.
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I rooted my phone yesterday with the Revelutionary S-off tool , it took 5 - 10 minutes , was the easiest root I have ever done. Flashed LGS v1.6 yesterday and everything is great with my phone. Just have to follow the instructions .
Sent from my LTE 4G Thunderbolt

jbh00jh said:
I rooted my phone yesterday with the Revelutionary S-off tool , it took 5 - 10 minutes , was the easiest root I have ever done. Flashed LGS v1.6 yesterday and everything is great with my phone. Just have to follow the instructions .
Sent from my LTE 4G Thunderbolt
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I did follow the instructions and, as I stated before, I had absolutely no trouble getting s-off, root, or cwm. All I can say to you is, you best hope you don't have any issues where you need to send your phone in to VZW. As of this moment, there is apparently no easy way back to s-on.

There's a reason I don't include this in my qANDa for noobs thread....

c_live_lee said:
I did follow the instructions and, as I stated before, I had absolutely no trouble getting s-off, root, or cwm. All I can say to you is, you best hope you don't have any issues where you need to send your phone in to VZW. As of this moment, there is apparently no easy way back to s-on.
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I don't worry about going back to s - on . If the phone needs to go back to vzw , it will be as a phone that fell out of a window and got smashed. Collect the insurance and buy a new one.
I have rooted every htc phone from the xv6600 to the Thunderbolt and never had to send one back., why start now ??
Sent from my LTE 4G Thunderbolt

jbh00jh said:
I don't worry about going back to s - on . If the phone needs to go back to vzw , it will be as a phone that fell out of a window and got smashed. Collect the insurance and buy a new one.
Sent from my LTE 4G Thunderbolt
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lol! I understand what you're saying man. But, my current situation isn't quite as simple as that. Thanks though.

I rooted using this method yesterday. So far so good. No issues yet.. Still running the stock ROM though.. Currently trying to decide which one I wanna jump in to

Rooted my brothers Thunderbolt the day the Revolutionary tool was released supporting the Tbolt, and no issues so far. He upgraded from an Incredible that I rooted and flashed a custom Rom/Kernel. He almost returned it to go back to his Incredible, until I rooted his Tbolt and flashed a custom Rom/Kernel. He's a happy camper now, I'm still sticking to my Incredible!! I wish I had 4g, DL speed is insanely fast.

phillysteve said:
I rooted using this method yesterday. So far so good. No issues yet.. Still running the stock ROM though.. Currently trying to decide which one I wanna jump in to
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LiquidGingersense v1.6 is very smooth and fast.
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Liquid Gingersense v1.6

I rooted, my Gf's Sensation.
Easiest job ever

+1
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Worked perfectly rooting the latest OTA
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The root process went perfect, by far much easier than my Inspire 4g. This phone still has the same problems as it did prior to the root n' rom, slow navigation & horrible touch recognition. After the new rom got put on cell service deminished to nearly nothing and has not changed no matter what radio i install. some it just breaks the radio all together and sais no sim...
I will be smashing this phone and enjoying every minute of it!

Do it and get your insurance and buy one that works.
Sent from my LTE 4G Thunderbolt

Any benefit to using jcase's original root method over this one? Rooted mine a while back but my girl should be getting hers this month?
First time posting in xda. 7 more and I can post anywhere. Can't begin to tell you how many times I had bugs I wanted to report after flashing a brand new released ROM.

Revolutionary root is just so damn easy. I used Unrevoked's 1 Click root to root my Incredible and that was easy , but this is easier . 5 -10 minutes and you are rooted. And I have not had ANY problems . Have flashed three roms without anything going wrong.
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[Q] HTC Sensation 4g How To Turn S-On?

Ok I have rooted and turned s-off as well as installed Sense O Maniac Sense. I have to send my phone to tmobile to get a replacement and I don't know how to turn S back On...I reflashed my backup of the original rom and need to turn S back On. How Can i Go About doing so? As well as unrooting It? Anyone please help me....links or links to download whatever I need to. I am still learning this stuff and this is my first sensation I have done. Thank you in advance.

Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 everything is in there. Good luck!

StefanB86 said:
Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 everything is in there. Good luck!
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Do You Know If There Will Be An OTA Update For Ourphones? Ever Again?

tongueman87 said:
Do You Know If There Will Be An OTA Update For Ourphones? Ever Again?
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Yes, eventually to Sense 3.5 (2.3.5) and then awhile down to the road to ICS (hasn't been confirmed, but I'm pretty sure).

aNYthing24 said:
Yes, eventually to Sense 3.5 (2.3.5) and then awhile down to the road to ICS (hasn't been confirmed, but I'm pretty sure).
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Well I tried the Sense-o-Maniac 2.3.5 sense 3.5 rom and I didn't really like it I guess cause I didn't notice anything different. Other than some bloat removed and beats audio which I loved! But I watched my phone go from 100% to 95% in 10 minutes of just listening to music....Dont Know why though....I would like to know what are the best roms that any of you can advise me to try that is good on battery life and get quite a differnet kick out of it if that makes sense

I haven't tried a Sense ROM if you're looking for that. CM7 is pretty different from any sort of Sense ROM but people have some mixed reviews on the battery life. It's been ok to pretty good for me, but I have an extended battery and I underclock/undervolt and use a custom kernel.

You could try Leedroid 4.0. Works great MIUI is awesome too. I personally use kernels from Faux but you could use stock kernels or kernels from Bricked too.
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Ok problem I followed the steps to turn s back on and now its stuck at the boot loader screen i tried the following pull out battery and re-insert due to the security warning and then tried to re-run ruu.exe well everything went fine except one small thing signature error 132....so now my phone is stuck in the damn bootloader screen where i can pick boot loader reboot etc.....what do i do? Please ANY HELP?

Extract the ROM.zip from ruu rename PG58IMG.zip, put on root of sd card, boot to hboot and, when prompted, yes to flash.

Thank you alot. I downloaded a newer ruu and it worked. I am now s-on and factory 2.3.4 is there any way to flash sensation xl factory Rom without root? Just by using ruu?
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as far as i got it is your phone a 4g and u want to flash xl ruu ? at least u need supercid for that and dont nail me on that answer but i think u need root for supercid

[Q] Rooting updated GB Infuse

Okay...
So I accidentally dropped my phone, and it was a TOTAL loss. It would not even power back on. I received the replacement phone today and followed through with the GB update via Kies Mini. Now when I attempt to root the phone, Superoneclick stops responding. Any suggestions?

Check out the threads in the dev forum for info on how to root. You will need to flash a rooted kernel.

I've attempted to root by several different methods, and no matter how many times, or which method I use, it will not root. I made sure that the phone was checked for USD debugging and for unknown resources. Anyone have any suggestions?
Edit: My apologies, as I thought that I posted the thread in the Q&A section where it is supposed to be.

OnProzac said:
Okay...
So I accidentally dropped my phone, and it was a TOTAL loss. It would not even power back on. I received the replacement phone today and followed through with the GB update via Kies Mini. Now when I attempt to root the phone, Superoneclick stops responding. Any suggestions?
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Did your screen crack? how did you not get charged?
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OnProzac said:
Okay...
So I accidentally dropped my phone, and it was a TOTAL loss. It would not even power back on. I received the replacement phone today and followed through with the GB update via Kies Mini. Now when I attempt to root the phone, Superoneclick stops responding. Any suggestions?
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If you want root back, you're gonna need to flash a rooted kernel through Odin. Currently Superoneclick doesn't work on GB. Hope this helps.
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There is no root method for stock 2.3.6 yet... period..
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you can root it but gasp, you wont be able to flash the "official" kernel back to it since we cant dump the kernel without root... but you can flash the kl2 leaked kernel to it (same thing) but with sdcard workarounds and voodoo lagfix you need to consider a few things and its alot to say, but why bother, just use the rogers root kernel with cwm to flash a yummy rom from the dev section...
as far as rooting it without a kernel replacement well good luck with that. i will likely make a rooted heimdall package in a few days but it will have the kernel from the leaked rom (same thing) if that scares anyone with their irrational rationalizations...
why heimdall? well the mac users need some love since samsung and att wont give it to them.. its more reliable that that crappy samsung software be it kies or odin. and with the package system introduced in version 1.3 it is idiot proof..
if you must have an odin version make it your self.

Idietssss
...... what's whit these people .....let it go for some time then try ....... I'm sick of these people asking for there problems to ... be solved ASAP
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weve know this would be a problem for like a year when the rogers infuse came out.
the rogers method works but it's just so many considerations and annoyances to tell people how to do it problem free. you have to assume they can creaet a file to disable the lagfix before hand and that they can extract and compress another file and depending on the kernel they use to root it they may need to edit one charachter of text. it all easy stuff but it becomes a lengthy post explaining it and then the next guy doesnt read what you already answered. ill wait for source code and fully compatible kernels with cwm so we dont have to worry about the extra process of reverting to a stock kernel, till then im burnt out on saying the same thing over and over and over.

[Q] unlocked bootloader, S-ON sending back for warranty

Ok so from the title you know whats going on, im hboot 1.45 ; ive flashed stock 7 different ways to Sunday and the stock boot image as well. however it stays an infinite loop as a white my touch 4gslide screen.
Can anyone help me return this to just stock software? i was looking at the ref, thread on the dev forum however i tried that and got zilch. so confused please help if you can >.>

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Goto
http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads
Then search for the "mytouch 4G Slide". There will be the stock rom that can be applied in the bootloader. Just charge phone to 100%. Then put the downloaded zip from HTC Dev on the (Root of a CLEAN) SD card, and enter the boot loader (Vol+/Power). Then it'll find the zip, and ask you stuff. Blah, Blah, Blah. Your 100% Factory.

Do i need to reflash a stock Recovery and boot. img for that to work ?

Script Kitty said:
Do i need to reflash a stock Recovery and boot. img for that to work ?
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Ignore what I said about the re-locking method, just flash the file from HTC. It puts the stock recovery, and boot.img on. Just do it via bootloader. Easiest way.
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Also, HTC/Asurion doesn't care if your S-On (U). Or S-Off, there's so many threads about this. Xo
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>.>, ok yet another noob questions, do i take the CRC or the MR file ? and what would be the difference between the two ?

I'm currently on my 5th phone for the year that I've sent back to T-mo for one reason or another....all were returned with s-off, rooted, custom boot animation, and Undeads, CM7 or MIUI roms without any issue.
This doesn't even account for a quarter of the phone's I've sent back to T-Mobile in the past 2 years for one reason or another....ALL returned s-off, rooted with one custom rom or another.... ZERO issues...

jsyi84 said:
I'm currently on my 5th phone for the year that I've sent back to T-mo for one reason or another....all were returned with s-off, rooted, custom boot animation, and Undeads, CM7 or MIUI roms without any issue.
This doesn't even account for a quarter of the phone's I've sent back to T-Mobile in the past 2 years for one reason or another....ALL returned s-off, rooted with one custom rom or another.... ZERO issues...
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Im in the same predicament, my screen is cracked but when i told them about it they told me i needed to pay 130 to replace the phone through warranty. Id like a free replacement
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Script Kitty said:
>.>, ok yet another noob questions, do i take the CRC or the MR file ? and what would be the difference between the two ?
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*bump*
The difference between these 2 files (CRC & MR) is? Which is the appropriate one to d/l in this situation?
EDIT: Well that's pretty damn typical. ScriptKitty...try to go download either. It'll redirect you back to the HTC home page for both. Wow. Go HTC! /sarcasm
If anyone else knows where to d/l this I'd much appreciate it. I'm in the same situation as ScriptKitty and cannot find this d/l anywhere.

Can not flash rom other than Pyroice
Hello. I have been searching for some help for a few weeks now. I am HBOOT-1.45.0013 S-on unlocked. I tried to flash other roms from bulletproof to Cyanogenmod per intsructions that I found using pyroice. I like the rom but I do not have wifi so I do not use this phone that much now. Just short of going stock, can anybody tell me why it wont load any other rom? I get status 7 load aborted????? Do not have my stock recovery just got Pyroice...

wesomatic said:
Hello. I have been searching for some help for a few weeks now. I am HBOOT-1.45.0013 S-on unlocked. I tried to flash other roms from bulletproof to Cyanogenmod per intsructions that I found using pyroice. I like the rom but I do not have wifi so I do not use this phone that much now. Just short of going stock, can anybody tell me why it wont load any other rom? I get status 7 load aborted????? Do not have my stock recovery just got Pyroice...
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Wesomatic, you may have MUCH more luck getting some help if you posted this in the Q&A section. Quite a few more developers & senior members cruise those threads than this one.
**Maybe a stupid question, but you ARE trying to flash from Clockwork Mod Recovery (or one of the other available recoveries) aren't you?

I have clockwork recovery....

AgentCherryColla said:
http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads
Then search for the "mytouch 4G Slide".
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I got kind of excited when I saw this, but all I've ever found at htcdev for the MT4GS is a couple of ZIPs of kernel sources. (To others, that's what those CRC and MR files are. I don't know the difference, but they are just sources and some docs.)
So, is the helpful advice from AgentCherryColla just a mistake, or have other files been there in the past? Or maybe some other location?
(Unofficial copies of signed stock ROMs are available with pointers in various threads here.)