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Ics firmware, outdated use Mike's latest release.

Here is the ics firmware from the leaked ics Ruu. Big thanks to rcteam. Ruu is a beta release so flash this at your own risk.
Rename to pg58img. This firmware is missing system and recovery.IMG, but will update the other partitions. Once flash restore nand or reflash Rom once update is complete.
http://db.tt/HMWF5RaX
Edit: So I downloaded this package to make sure that it works and is not corrupted. It is not corrupted.
Here is a md5 you can use to make sure that yours is not corrupted either.(believe it should be for all other downloads)
md5 checksum: 147CBA54E2B4756B5CA76AD8B0350CE3
after flashing read third post down.
While flashing the pg58img and you get a model wrong id in the middle of flashing you need to supercid. Link to supercid. Someone in mikes thread reported that you can supercid while in hboot 1.20.xxxx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
Thread to mikes thread if you experience in problems, trouble, or to report feedback.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412618
Another note, difference between hboot.
1.20.xxxx, 1.19.xxxx, 1.18.xxxx will have locked at the top, to unlock you can htcdec unlock it. There is no performance difference between any of the hboot including eng hboot 1.17 shipped or revolutionary. As mike stated most user will be fine with hboot 1.18.xxxx-1.20.xxxx as they do not use fastboot write commands and they can just flash through pg58img files.
But for others if you want fastboot commands you can flash eng hboot back 1.17.xxxx
Link to ziggy's post if you want to eng hboot (1.17.xxxx) back
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20681060&postcount=22
After flashing, dzdata will delete userdata so you will have to reflash rom or nand backup. YOU WILL STAY S-OFF FROM FLASHING THIS AND ANY OTHER HBOOT!!!!! This has been stated many times in numerous thread and I believe everybody is getting tired of answering this.
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They already released the RUU themselves here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408961.
So not sure what you posted?

Side note. Hboot will say locked. If you don't like it just reflash eng hboot. And you will stay s-off.
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the_scotsman said:
They already released the RUU themselves here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408961.
So not sure what you posted?
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It's not the ruu. It's the firmware inside for those who don't want to go through the process. And this won't upgrade the system partition or recovery.
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d3vilskid said:
It's not the ruu. It's the firmware inside for those who don't want to go through the process. And this won't upgrade the system partition or recovery. So plz read my post again.
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Ahhhh ok...so what exactly will it update? hboot?

the_scotsman said:
Ahhhh ok...so what exactly will it update? hboot?
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Hboot radio,adsp,rpm etc. There's more but I can't remember the names of it.
Well I guess general section is best for this lol.
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So who's game enough to brick their s4g on chrissy day ?

Flashmore said:
So who's game enough to brick their s4g on chrissy day ?
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Lol I'm really tempted to flash this.
d3vilskid said:
Side note. Hboot will say locked. If you don't like it just reflash eng hboot. And you will stay s-off.
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By "reflash eng hboot" do you mean run Revolutionary again?
Since s-off stays (right?), are there any disadvantages to keeping the updated hboot and just unlocking it via htcdev? Or is that even possible? I wanted to try the new radio, but I read that it's unstable unless you keep the hboot.

Ok considering people May have bricked their device in the other thread....anyone successful in flashing this let us know....I'm not going to risk it until I know It's safe
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Heh. This thread and one of the other reaction threads to Steve007's firmware zip really made me do some searching and learn a bit more about the different kinds of bootloaders. That said, all of a sudden I'm not so brave to flash this right away lol.
Sucks what happened with the other firmware package though. Really bad timing.

Flashmore said:
So who's game enough to brick their s4g on chrissy day ?
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i just did that yesterday and it worked
only difference that i flashed the rom.zip extracted from the ruu
i deleted the recovery image incase the new hboot locks the phone again
i then restored my backup and voila
the weird thing is my bootloader says 1.20 and unlocked at the top !!! any ideas
i didnt try flashing another hboot as i would like to keep the newer radio which is a little better than old 10.58
other than that ICS works way better with it`s own firmware

This bricked my S4G last night. Steve's zip may have been bad.

Sdobron said:
This bricked my S4G last night. Steve's zip may have been bad.
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Oh no, complete brick you haven't been able to recover ?
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Steve's thread has been removed as it caused a few bricks apparently.

vincepg13 said:
Oh no, complete brick you haven't been able to recover ?
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It needs Qualcomm QPST or a Jtag to recover. I'm exchanging it through T-Mo for warranty. I think he posted a corrupt file with MD5 sums, so I verified MD5 sums match to a corrupt file and flashed, leaving me with a paperweight that won't even turn on.

Flashed it last night, i knew at the time i should have removed splash1.nb0 as my custom splash with "property of ....... my email, brothers phone no was replaced by stock HTC splash
RCMix ICS rom definitely running better with this, did the HTC dev unlock but couldn't get fastboot to flash my custom splash so used PG58IMG to go back to older hboot, everything seems fine with old hboot and new radio

Flashing firmware from anything other than a release RUU is just asking for a brick. I couldn't advise more strongly against it unless you're already considering buying yourself a new device and need a potential excuse.

rmk40 said:
Flashing firmware from anything other than a release RUU is just asking for a brick. I couldn't advise more strongly against it unless you're already considering buying yourself a new device and need a potential excuse.
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YUP,Listen to that guy.I learned that the hard way.As i sit here looking at my $500 paper weight I wish i waited for feedback before i flashed the zip
EDIT: Just to be clear i didn't flash the zip posted in this thread.It was another firmware file posted by someone else in the dev section.

rawrfische said:
Lol I'm really tempted to flash this.
By "reflash eng hboot" do you mean run Revolutionary again?
Since s-off stays (right?), are there any disadvantages to keeping the updated hboot and just unlocking it via htcdev? Or is that even possible? I wanted to try the new radio, but I read that it's unstable unless you keep the hboot.
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only disadvantage is losing fastboot commands. flash hboot 1.17 through bootloader like how you would flash this package. Since all the partitions are updated you should be fine in running any hboot with the newest radio.

rmk40 said:
Flashing firmware from anything other than a release RUU is just asking for a brick. I couldn't advise more strongly against it unless you're already considering buying yourself a new device and need a potential excuse.
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Thats why i said its a beta ruu and flash at your own risk. But anywho im going to download this and flash it to my device to make sure that it works, since i done it before i upload it to here.

[Q] HBoot 1.17 or 1.18

Hello,
I flashed the latest RUU for my sensation and wanted to change the splash screen.
This of course is not possible with 1.20 and putting the splash1.IMG into the PM87zip does not do the trick for me.
I was wondering if any of you guys can link me to hboot 1.17 or 1.18. I found 1 link on another forum but i don't really trust it.
Thanks

qiuness said:
Hello,
I flashed the latest RUU for my sensation and wanted to change the splash screen.
This of course is not possible with 1.20 and putting the splash1.IMG into the PM87zip does not do the trick for me.
I was wondering if any of you guys can link me to hboot 1.17 or 1.18. I found 1 link on another forum but i don't really trust it.
Thanks
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The reason why the zip file is not working for you is because you named it wrong. It has to be named PG58IMG.zip in order to work
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qiuness said:
Hello,
I flashed the latest RUU for my sensation and wanted to change the splash screen.
This of course is not possible with 1.20 and putting the splash1.IMG into the PM87zip does not do the trick for me.
I was wondering if any of you guys can link me to hboot 1.17 or 1.18. I found 1 link on another forum but i don't really trust it.
Thanks
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Here is my copy if hboot 1.17
Place PG58IMG.zip on sd card
Power down/ power back on by holding power & volume down.
Proceed with prompts that follow.
After finished removed file from sd card to avoid hang ups in the future trying to boot into bootloader
http://db.tt/kHEpBme0
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[Q] why doesnt is work for me?

Hello everybody. I have s-on but hboot 1.23 and my hboot is meant to support firmware 3.12 but when I tried to run roms on that firmware, ALL of them got stuck in a bootloop even though I flashed the boot.img file for each of them and did a full wipe. Is there any solution to my problem?

well simply u need it s-off now it lloks up and signed rom while u use an custom. follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
is a very good guide used it and worked for me.

I can't soff now because I have hboot 1.23 and revolutionary does not support it.

how did you get the 1.23 hboot?
anyway.. find a ruu for your device and go back to gb. s-off then

I can't all of the RUU files give unknown error:155

Try then updating to the 1.27 revolutionary if you feel brave enough
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Or extract the rom from a ruu and flash it as pg58img.zip
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that's the problem, hboot 1.23 is utter pathetic and shoddy, it can't flash any firmware files whatsoever or do any advanced fastboot commands such as :fastboot update PG58IMG
I didn't put hboot 1.23 on, it came whilst i was trying a firmware for a rom.

Extract the full rom from a ruu and put it in the root of your SD card named PG58IMG.ZIP and go into boot loader. It should downgrade you to gb... Then you can s-off with revolutionary
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dexter93 said:
Extract the full rom from a ruu and put it in the root of your SD card named PG58IMG.ZIP and go into boot loader. It should downgrade you to gb... Then you can s-off with revolutionary
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If only, hboot 1.23 cant update any PG58IMG files, it checks that they are there, then says parsing and reboots hboot.

Perhaps this will help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1029401

sensation rom on sensation xe

the problem i have is the following, i rooted my sensation, then i wanted to update to ICS and had to remove the root because of the s-off. Now i did that, but i accidentally installed the normal sensation ICS rom on my sensation xe, point being i lost my beats equalizer -.-'' anyone got a solution how to back from sensation to sensation xe rom?
thx in advance

timmert26 said:
the problem i have is the following, i rooted my sensation, then i wanted to update to ICS and had to remove the root because of the s-off. Now i did that, but i accidentally installed the normal sensation ICS rom on my sensation xe, point being i lost my beats equalizer -.-'' anyone got a solution how to back from sensation to sensation xe rom?
thx in advance
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the thing is you could either flash sensation XE rom on top of it
or
just install this addon by mudhi (gives beats also srs,equalizer and dolby effects)
link here
EDIT: flash the non XE mod from the thread btw
PS: don't forget to hit the thanks button

by flashing xe rom on top of it, i wont have dual boot? all i want is the original xe rom back on my sensation xe if i want that do i have to root again ?
i just want the ICS sensation xe rom back on my sensation, do you also have a link to the stock xe rom?

timmert26 said:
by flashing xe rom on top of it, i wont have dual boot? all i want is the original xe rom back on my sensation xe if i want that i do i have to root again ?
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no you wont have a dual boot but you might need to do a superwipe which is dependent on the rom
btw which ROM are you running currently ?(this would be helpful for further answers)
PS:
in most of the custom ROMS the only difference between XE and non-XE version is just beats...nothing less nothing more
so if you want just beats you can flash the mod by mudhi which ive posted earlier
ohh you want stock ruu ???
here is the link then
stock ruu's
btw sensation xe ruu is in second post

no wi want to get s-off, and my HBOOT version is 1.27 and revolutionary doesn't go above 1.17, any solutions?

timmert26 said:
no wi want to get s-off, and my HBOOT version is 1.27 and revolutionary doesn't go above 1.17, any solutions?
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ohh that's hard to crack
here is the guide this might help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469296

Hold on, there's something I don't understand. You said that you flashed a sensation ROM on your sensation XE. By right you should haven't lost S-OFF by doing that.

i kinda flashed stockrom so i could turn s-on, so i could use the normal update to ics

i actually have a clockworkmod backup of the old version, but when i go to HBOOT and click recovery i get an image of my phone with a red traingle with an ! inside it, what does this mean? because if i connect my phone to the pc and use th SD card, the recovery is on it
the story is this way:
i rooted my phone(successfull, no custom rom) to use certain apps, later on when ICS got released in my country, i had to turn s-on to use the "legal" update. So i did that by use of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 this thread. The thread sais in step 5 to install stock-rom, i picked the normal sensation ICS rom en that is when the Hboot went to 1.27. Now i cant root it, and can't enter clockworkmod to go back to 23-01-2012
at least, i get the picture of my phone with an ! in a triangle in red

timmert26 said:
i actually have a clockworkmod backup of the old version, but when i go to HBOOT and click recovery i get an image of my phone with a red traingle with an ! inside it, what does this mean? because if i connect my phone to the pc and use th SD card, the recovery is on it
the story is this way:
i rooted my phone(successfull, no custom rom) to use certain apps, later on when ICS got released in my country, i had to turn s-on to use the "legal" update. So i did that by use of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 this thread. The thread sais in step 5 to install stock-rom, i picked the normal sensation ICS rom en that is when the Hboot went to 1.27. Now i cant root it, and can't enter clockworkmod to go back to 23-01-2012
at least, i get the picture of my phone with an ! in a triangle in red
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the triangle on your recovery means you have stock HTC recovery.
Flash the cmw again using PG58IMG.zip by keeping that file on root of your sdcard.
then you can use the old backup from your sdcard

then i will have hboot 1.17 again, and there is no chance of bricking?

i put the pg58img on my root file on sd, but it wont install. Is this because i use an old pg58img, if so, is there a pg58img for 1.27hboot?

timmert26 said:
then i will have hboot 1.17 again, and there is no chance of bricking?
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your phone wont be bricked as long as you got the right PG58IMG.zip ...but im wondering whether your recovery will be updated or not..as your bootloader is S-on now (but if you failed it wont screw up your phone....just remove the zip file after you've flashed to prevent bootloops)
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timmert26 said:
i put the pg58img on my root file on sd, but it wont install. Is this because i use an old pg58img, if so, is there a pg58img for 1.27hboot?
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what error did you get?
1.is the PG58IMG.zip didn't got recognized?
2. detected the PG58IMG but got an error while trying to update?
if 2. is the case then you are out of luck and you need to wait until proper 1.27 s-off tool was made
(as of now there are no tools but some guys are saying they are pretty close to achieving it)

from rspple
bummer, 2and indeed, it failed during install. Any idea how long this is gonna take?

timmert26 said:
bummer, 2and indeed, it failed during install. Any idea how long this is gonna take?
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here is the link to thread where the tool is being made
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351

[Q] Desire S

After nandroid restore my stock rom wont boot what to do i try to flash boot.img from fastboot

Phencyclidine said:
After nandroid restore my stock rom wont boot what to do i try to flash boot.img from fastboot
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If you're comming back from a different base,
( cyanogenmod-> sense or the other way around- for example)
You may try to fully wipe your device, before restoring backup
and flashing boot.img
That is anyway what i do in case of troubles
Edit: Nowadays, custom roms- as they mature- are/may be using different bases...
very often even updates of that same rom differ so much,
that full wipe before update becomes our good habit,
and- in many cases- strongly advised practise

Try that all I have 3 HTC sensation , desire s and explorer and only desire make my day hard I find stock ruu try to flash tough fastboot system boot and recovery and than lock bootloader and factory reset or ruu setup and nothing I am so angry maybe I will only destroy this phone and walk away
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Phencyclidine said:
Try that all I have 3 HTC sensation , desire s and explorer and only desire make my day hard I find stock ruu try to flash tough fastboot system boot and recovery and than lock bootloader and factory reset or ruu setup and nothing I am so angry maybe I will only destroy this phone and walk away
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Well, just calm down and start from skratch:
1.lock bootloader
2. Run RUU
A) check pc drivers
B) check if they ( phone and pc) see each other-when phone in fastboot mode
Running RUU is a procedure given to us for granted by manufacturer,
when all else fails- RUU must not, and ussualy does not....
If you- in th mean time- have upgraded bootloader- should find appropriate stock ruu

Belive me it's not my first time to use RUU and adb/fastboot commands but no help
I find only 3 ruu for Europe hboot is 2.00.0002 on this link if you have more pls give me link for other RUU
CID : HTC__032
I use RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.5_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_219480_signed
http://www.androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Saga
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Phencyclidine said:
I find only 3 ruu for Europe hboot is 2.00.0002 on this link if you have more pls give me link for other RUU
http://www.androidfiles.org/ruu/?dir=Saga
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If you please, go to the help thread (you'll find it in Q&A)
Desire s HELP THREAD ask any question....
and ask about it there...
My b****y tab stopped pasting links- sorry,...
Anyway just go there and ask

Now the method of flashing is the same with all desire s phone. Not one of this device has another 'special' way of flashing.
There might be a small chance that u did the flash wrongly. I would suggest that u be specific(right down to the adb command) in the process when flashing the nandroid.
Any chance that u change the hboot since ur last nandroid?
If stock rom is all u wanted, we have many sense rom, even modded stock rom that has been clean(those require specific hboot though).
Now being being led to run a ruu. Are u s-off or unlock? if u are not sure check bootloader.
If you are unlock, check this out. Step 4 shows the the method of flash rom and boot.img from the fastboot.

I will try again I'm unlocked son 4ext classic recovery
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