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[Guide] Stuck on White Screen/Hboot Read This

After seeing this issue quite a few times this past week I thought I make a tutorial on how to possibly fix this. If any of you see any errors or any way to improve this guide please let me know and ill include it and or adjust accordingly
Note-Make sure you have plenty of battery. You don’t want your phone dying in the middle of flashing a PD98IMG
If you are stuck in Hboot and have S-On or don't have access to an adapter go straight to Alternate method at the end
Rename to PD98IMG
Recovery: http://1drv.ms/1ke30zE
Inspire 4g pre-rooted Rom: http://db.tt/DCU3oW39 (only use if you have S-off)-
Inspire 4g stock Rom: http://1drv.ms/1ke3ohy
Telus DHD Rom: http://min.us/mTqXM8fTY
Reinstalling Recovery
For whatever reason you have wiped your custom recovery (My guess is you did a factory reset, thus erasing it). Personally I would try this first as one can go straight to a custom rom. If you don't want a custom rom feel free to go to the next section.
1) Back up anything you don’t want deleted from your sd card
2) Plug in sd card into computer through an adapter of some kind or another phone
3) Reformat the Sd Card to Fat32 – Do a full reformat not a quick
4) Once reformat is complete place the file downloaded from the first link on the sd card
5) Eject the sd card from computer and insert into phone
6) Power off phone by pulling the battery
7) Reinsert the battery
8) Boot into bootloader by pressing volume down and power button
9) It will scan for the file press volume up to accept update
10) It will ask you to reboot- you will still be stuck which is normal-
11) If everything is going to plan you now have access to recovery. So now we need to flash a rom. (Remember to delete the pd98 as it will prevent you from going into recovery)Skip down to the flashing rom section if you don’t know how to. If flashing the recovery didn't work continue to the next section
Reinstalling Recovery With No Card Reader
1) Download recovery above and place it in your fastboot directory
2) Boot into Hboot
3) Connect your phone to your PC
4) Select fastboot
5) Open up command prompt and CD to your Fastboot directory
6) Run the command fastboot erase cache
7) After the OK run fastboot oem rebootRUU
8) You'll see a new screen with HTC logo and a progress bar. here you need to run fastboot flash zip PD98IMG.zip
9) Once it completes (should say ok,finished, or complete) run fastboot reboot bootloader
10) Go into Recovery and flash a rom
Flashing a Stock Rom
Note- If you have S-Off i recommend flashing the prerooted version
1) If coming from previous section plug in sd card and delete old file then Jump to step 5
2) Back up anything you don’t want deleted from your sd card
3) Plug in sd card into computer through an adapter of some kind or another phone
4) Reformat the Sd Card to Fat32 – Do a full reformat not a quick
5) Once reformat is complete place the stock rom on the sd card
6) Eject the sd card from computer and insert into phone
7) Power off phone by pulling the battery
8) Reinsert the battery
9) Boot into bootloader by pressing volume down and power button
10) It will scan for the file press volume up to accept update
11) If everything is going to plan you now should have a fully working phone
12) At this point you are un-rooted so if you want re-root I recommend using the ace hack kit. (unless you used a pre-rooted stock rom then no need to use hack kit)
NOTE- IF EITHER FLASHING THE STOCK ROM OR RECOVERY PD98 FILES HAVE NOT WORKED REPEAT PROCEDURE WITH A DIFFERENT SD CARD
Flashing a Rom
1) So we were able to re-flash a custom recovery. Connect sd card to computer and delete the PD98img file
2) Download the rom of your choice and any super wipe zips if your rom needs it
3) Place file on sd card eject and reinsert onto phone
4) Boot in bootloader.
5) This time it will scan and not find any files. After it scans scroll down and select recovery.
6) You should now be in CWR. Do a full wipe (wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache-found in advanced I think
a. If recommended by your rom uses a super wipe zip. Simply choose install from sd card in CWR and select the super wipe zip
7) Now flash the rom by selecting install from sd card and choosing rom
Alternate-Flashing of RUU
This is for those that don’t have access to an adapter to place files with. This should work whether your S-on or S-Off
RUU’s: http://goo.im/ruu/ace
1) Download your RUU from above
2) Boot into Hboot
3) Connect your phone to your PC
4) Select fastboot
5) Run the RUU program
Credits to Gene Pool for the Recovery PD98 and pre-rooted RUU for us inspire users.
Thanks to Gizmoe for his link- helps avoid the renaming issues that crop up and idea for alternate RUU flashing,
Thanks to JSL and driphter for the RUU.exe links
Thanks to Attn1 for the hack kit, all the devs for their awesome work, XDA members who are on here helping people out. I have learned so much just by reading

10/4/12- New method of flashing recovery included. no need for a card reader
8/29/12-New link added for RUU's
3/14/12-New links added to OP
2/12/12- Here are some mirrors for the PD98IMG files that were hosted on multiupload. Hopefully multiupload isnt down for good, so in the mean time i have them on depositfiles-Note i recommend the new links in the 1st post. the depositfiles mirrors are way too slow
Inspire 4g stock Rom: http://depositfiles.com/files/4ofstmcse
Telus DHD stock Rom: http://depositfiles.com/files/mec1ycc7k
CWR Recovery-make sure to rename
http://hoxnet.com/droid/PD98IMG_cwm5026_recovery.zip

Please Help...I got att inspire with gb on it...unlocked and root with advanced kit..all well good. flashed Wild Cat ROM...with 3.5 sense...at night when I plugged my phone into charger..it went to HTC logo screen...and was unable to do any thing...using your method of RUU flashing...I get error 152...and system does not flash at all...I tried re.downloading RUU and flashed several time..but no luck..I am s-off with advanced kit...Please help...Thanks.

oscar786 said:
Please Help...I got att inspire with gb on it...unlocked and root with advanced kit..all well good. flashed Wild Cat ROM...with 3.5 sense...at night when I plugged my phone into charger..it went to HTC logo screen...and was unable to do any thing...using your method of RUU flashing...I get error 152...and system does not flash at all...I tried re.downloading RUU and flashed several time..but no luck..I am s-off with advanced kit...Please help...Thanks.
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First, confirm that you can boot into Hboot. If you can, then try Gene Pole's method, but you need a SD Card reader in order to put the zip file in the card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16451214&postcount=1
Otherwise you can try to boot in recovery selecting it from Hboot menu and try to flash other rom.
Hope it helps....

glevitan said:
First, confirm that you can boot into Hboot. If you can, then try Gene Pole's method, but you need a SD Card reader in order to put the zip file in the card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16451214&postcount=1
Otherwise you can try to boot in recovery selecting it from Hboot menu and try to flash other rom.
Hope it helps....
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I can not boot into Hboot...because when I tries flashing with RUU flasher..it gave me error and now I am stuck on hTc logo screen. I have to pull battery out to get out of that screen and when I plug in to computer of just turn on same htc screen with "triangle mark" in all four corners...I am so frustrated..Please hlep

Don't plug in phone. Pull the battery, reinsert and quickly press and hold the volume down and power button? What happened then?

Same htc screen with 4 triangles in corners.

Well don't panic.its only a phone I haven't seen an error 152, so I got look up what that means. You also mentioned that the you flashed the ruu several times? Did it ever complete or always errored out?
Edit- when you first tried the ruu were you ever able to enter hboot to begin with?

marsdta said:
Well don't panic.its only a phone I haven't seen an error 152, so I got look up what that means. You also mentioned that the you flashed the ruu several times? Did it ever complete or always errored out?
Edit- when you first tried the ruu were you ever able to enter hboot to begin with?
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Yes I was able to go into Hboot and as you instructed selected fastboot usb..and go..
It errors out on system flash and than radio flash...when it give error 152...it says to recover by pulling the battery out...and plugging the phone back in...and the process starts again...ITS GIVING ERROR WHILE FLASHING SYSTEM IMG..It happened before and I tried your method of flashing with RUU flashing because other didnt work...at that time it was successful after 4 tries..but this time its no luck.

oscar786 said:
I can not boot into Hboot...because when I tries flashing with RUU flasher..it gave me error and now I am stuck on hTc logo screen. I have to pull battery out to get out of that screen and when I plug in to computer of just turn on same htc screen with "triangle mark" in all four corners...I am so frustrated..Please hlep
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Don´t use the Flasher...use the cell straight foward....if you cant go into Hboot then try to boot in fastboot,....
plug to AC and keep pressing power...the led will turn red and green and then boot in fastboot. From there you might be able to use the hack kit to revert to stock.
If that is not working try to contact Gene Pole or Attn1 in the irc channel....he might help you better that I.

glevitan said:
Don´t use the Flasher...use the cell straight foward....if you cant go into Hboot then try to boot in fastboot,....
plug to AC and keep pressing power...the led will turn red and green and then boot in fastboot. From there you might be able to use the hack kit to revert to stock.
If that is not working try to contact Gene Pole or Attn1 in the irc channel....he might help you better that I.
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I tried this and light stays orange..htc screen with all corners triangle...

oscar786 said:
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I tried this and light stays orange..htc screen with all corners triangle...
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Go to the Ace Hack Kit IRC Channel and try to ask the guys or in their thread about it....
If not try Gene Pole´s thread....let me know if you could sort it out...hope you can. See ya...

thanks by secnd time, you savem my inspire

orb3000 said:
thanks by secnd time, you savem my inspire
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...It seems that yours the only one that was saved!! Oscar might have not been that lucky!!...

Hello all, have an HTC Inspire s-off h-b00t 0.85.0007. When the phone powers up, the bootloader is the only screen that comes up and is frozen. Cant use volume control or power button.

When you power it up is it booting straight into hboot? If so sounds like your volume button is stuck

Booting straight in to Hboot. He apparently did a factory reset, and when it rebooted it locked up. Cant get past step 12 of parsing the zip file for PD98IMG.zip on the root of the SD card (tried 2 2gbs, 1 1gb, and 1 8gb). 3 of the SD cards would only get to step 4 and freeze.
hboot 0.85.0007
s-off
Attached a couple of pictures, the first was from the rooted.zip and the second was from the non rooted.zip. I also attempted the recovery.zip (all named PD98IMG.zip)

blakklanta said:
Booting straight in to Hboot. He apparently did a factory reset, and when it rebooted it locked up. Cant get past step 12 of parsing the zip file for PD98IMG.zip on the root of the SD card (tried 2 2gbs, 1 1gb, and 1 8gb). 3 of the SD cards would only get to step 4 and freeze.
hboot 0.85.0007
s-off
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It seems what mardsta told u....the volumen rocker must be broken!!...

glevitan said:
It seems what mardsta told u....the volumen rocker must be broken!!...
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Hard to understand how a hardware issue happens from applying a factory reset, not to say impossible... in my mind improbable, but what do I know. Thanks for the info.

blakklanta said:
Hard to understand how a hardware issue happens from applying a factory reset, not to say impossible... in my mind improbable, but what do I know. Thanks for the info.
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the fact is that if you are rooted then a factory reset erases everything from your phone!! you get stuck if you don't flash other rom. If the volumen rocker is broken then you will boot always in hboot...don't actually know how the wipe happened but....did you have a PD98IMG.zip file in your sdcard??...that might explain it better...

[Q] Did I brick my HTC Sensation? Please help!

Yesterday I tried to install a custom rom on my HTC Sensation. The sensation had the Dutch Vodafone ROM, updated to the newest version.
I started by following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 to the letter and did not encounter any problems.
Then I read a post about the InsertCoin ROM, and started with the recommended download and install of PG58IMG.zip. I did not install the ROM yet. Upon rebooting after installation of PG58IMG.zip the phone now seems to be in a boot loop, it boots untill the "Quitely Brilliant" appears and then reboots again. I removed PG58IMG.zip and reinstalled su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip (as per suggestion in another thread about a boot looped phone). However the phone refuses to install it.
Is there anything I can do the get my phone out of this bootloop?

Beejee said:
Yesterday I tried to install a custom rom on my HTC Sensation. The sensation had the Dutch Vodafone ROM, updated to the newest version.
I started by following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 to the letter and did not encounter any problems.
Then I read a post about the InsertCoin ROM, and started with the recommended download and install of PG58IMG.zip. I did not install the ROM yet. Upon rebooting after installation of PG58IMG.zip the phone now seems to be in a boot loop, it boots untill the "Quitely Brilliant" appears and then reboots again. I removed PG58IMG.zip and reinstalled su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip (as per suggestion in another thread about a boot looped phone). However the phone refuses to install it.
Is there anything I can do the get my phone out of this bootloop?
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That's it. You're screwed. Throw it away.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA App

Livewings said:
That's it. You're screwed. Throw it away.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA App
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Ugh.. really? Any idea what went wrong? I imagine I might have done somthing stupid, but I have no idea what.

You can probably fix it. First thing I would try doing is booting to recovery and restoring from the backup(s) you made.

hello i myself am not really familar with that device its one i never played with or researched but i do know that bootloop does not mean your device is bricked if your device is bricked it would simply be a black screen that did nothing something in your bootloader or spl (secondary program loader).
please boot into clockwork mod pull battery hold vol down when it boots do a complete wipe
wipe data / userdata
wipe cache
wipe davlik
then try to reboot see if you can boot then and if not pull out sd card download a rom from your pc to your sd card for your device try a diffrent rom install sd card into your phone boot back into clockwork mod select zip from sd and install most likely it will repair your boot loop.
(YOUR PHONE IS NOT BRICKED)
any ? go to sensation questions and answers and or development they can further benifit you because they deal with that device full time

Beejee said:
Is there anything I can do the get my phone out of this bootloop?
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I had the same problem. Solved it by installing the a compatible (to the new firmware) rom, like InsertCoin 4.3.2. So, tne procedure is:
1. Install firmware by putting PG58IMG.zip on root of sd card
2. remove PG58IMG.zip from root of sd card
3. install InsertCoin 4.3.2 from sd card

Hi buddy. No, you're not bricked. You just flashed a non-compatible ROM, you're all safe. It happened to me once.
A bricked device means a device that is unable to even power up. If it can boot to recovery, or fastboot, you're not bricked. And if you have a bootloop, you're not bricked either.
Do the following:
Battery pull
Put the battery back again
Press and hold the volume down button
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds, while keeping the volume down button
When you get into fastboot, let go volume button
Select recovery using the volume keys and confirming with the power button
There you are! You can flash back your backup... Because you have a backup, right?

@ all; Thanks all for the help! Wiping and restoring backups didn't do the trick, but the suggestions were very welcome since they convinced me I didn't brick my phone
Special thanks to Norad73 and Pyrobisqit; I did have a backup, but not of the firmware it seems, since restoring the backup didn't work <red face>.
Bu the suggestion of the ROM not being compatible with the new firmware was right on the mark. I installed the InsertCoin ROM, and yes it worked! I now have a very nice ICS Sensation
Thanks, thanks, thanks!

Think I have killed my sensation...help :-)

Hi,
I think I have killed my sensation when upgrading the firmware, now its stuck in a boot loop and nothing else. I can enter the boot menu but there are no options to wipe cache or anything else...
I have tried recovering via a RUU file but windows doesn't detect the phone be because of the constant reboots on the loop...
Is it dead ?
Cheers

scott7saunders said:
Hi,
I think I have killed my sensation when upgrading the firmware, now its stuck in a boot loop and nothing else. I can enter the boot menu but there are no options to wipe cache or anything else...
I have tried recovering via a RUU file but windows doesn't detect the phone be because of the constant reboots on the loop...
Is it dead ?
Cheers
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Take the SD card out and reboot. You need to delete the ps58img off the card. A way to bypass it is to take out the card and reboot. Then when booted insert sd card, delete the img file.

Thanks for the reply,
When I load unto the boot loader after deleting that file there are still no other options other than recovery, simlock, reboot or restart boot loder.. What's the img file you refer too and how would I delete it ?
Thanks again

Put the card into a card adapter and insert it into your pc, browse the files in it and the file mentioned above will be there, delete the file and then you can reinsert the card into your phone.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G XE with Beats Audio using xda premium

scott7saunders said:
Thanks for the reply,
When I load unto the boot loader after deleting that file there are still no other options other than recovery, simlock, reboot or restart boot loder.. What's the img file you refer too and how would I delete it ?
Thanks again
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What options are you expecting to see in bootloader?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G XE with Beats Audio using xda premium

scott7saunders said:
Thanks for the reply,
When I load unto the boot loader after deleting that file there are still no other options other than recovery, simlock, reboot or restart boot loder.. What's the img file you refer too and how would I delete it ?
Thanks again
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You need to flash a 3.24 compatible Rom.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium

If your able to access recovery, you probably already deleted the file. You need to flash a Rom. Example ARHD 6.1.1
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium

I flashed the 3.24 firmware and a 3.24 ROM and all I got was a bootloop. I have read many people have had the same troubles. What I did to solve it was mount the SD card into a computer and delete the PD58IMG.zip and replace it with the 3.12 firmware. Unplug USB and reboot phone into hboot and let hboot install the 3.12 firmware. Worked for me. One time on my mytouch 4g I had an incident where my phone messed up during a flash and even recovery wouldn't come up correctly. All my partitions were ****ed up due to a bad ROM installation. Couldn't be fixed and had to exchange it at tmobile.

scott7saunders said:
I can enter the boot menu but there are no options to wipe cache or anything else...
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the hboot menu (the white screen) does not have the "wipe cache" option...you need to select "recovery" from hboot in order to get to wipe cache and install a rom
if you already installed the new firmware, it should ask you if you want to install it again, you say no, and then you can select recovery

shootind5nukes said:
I flashed the 3.24 firmware and a 3.24 ROM and all I got was a bootloop. I have read many people have had the same troubles. What I did to solve it was mount the SD card into a computer and delete the PD58IMG.zip and replace it with the 3.12 firmware. Unplug USB and reboot phone into hboot and let hboot install the 3.12 firmware. Worked for me. One time on my mytouch 4g I had an incident where my phone messed up during a flash and even recovery wouldn't come up correctly. All my partitions were ****ed up due to a bad ROM installation. Couldn't be fixed and had to exchange it at tmobile.
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Maybe it could've been fixed but you didn't know how to.

ROM won't boot, can't get to recovery, only bootloader

I was running the Hypernonsense ROM and wanted to try a diff kernel. I flashed the newest faux kernel and now it's stuck at the first boot screen.
I do a battery pull and can voldown + power and get to the bootloader, but the problem there is that it sees the latest 3.32 P58IMG update on my SD card every time and won't let me select any other options. I can flash that over and over, but it's still sticking at the first boot screen, doesn't make it to the ROM's bootup screen.

Delete PG58IMG.zip.
Hang on, isn't Hyper-non-Sense ROM based on ICS? Faux's kernel's are only for Gingerbread based ROMs. Reflash the ROM to restore the 'stock' kernel.

help please
wmoore said:
Delete PG58IMG.zip.
Hang on, isn't Hyper-non-Sense ROM based on ICS? Faux's kernel's are only for Gingerbread based ROMs. Reflash the ROM to restore the 'stock' kernel.
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How do I get to a point where I can delete the IMG file or reflash...it's just "stuck".

take the sd card out,
boot the phone into the boot loader
go to recovery
it will start counting down or whatever looking for the sd card
put the card back in
it will see the sd card
it will continue on into recovery
connect to pc
mount usb in recovery
delete img file
reboot now if you like everything will be back to normal
* i believe this will also work if you put the sd card in after the bootloader is loaded before you go to recovery, the card just needs to be not present while the bootloader is loading. i believe it checks the card when it loads the bootloader, but after the bootloader comes up you can put the card back in then proceed to recovery

dwcasey said:
How do I get to a point where I can delete the IMG file or reflash...it's just "stuck".
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Ok, I was able to have it plugged into my laptop, voldown+power until I heard windows "bing" like a new device connected.
Then I went to a command prompt where I have adb installed and ran
adb devices
To make sure it was connected and it was. Then I ran
adb reboot recovery
And now I'm back to 4EXT recovery...phew, was getting worried. Gonna super wipe and install a new ROM.

I'm sweating bullets now cause I only have a Mac computer

PamelaGirl said:
I'm sweating bullets now cause I only have a Mac computer
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Hi,
What is the problem?

Hello malybru,
Yesterday my device got stuck and I couldn't boot up and I could not access recovery.
I than found these steps that would allow a Mac user access to adb and fastboot.
[GUIDE] Set up ADB and Fastboot on a Mac easily (With Screenshots!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
Now I am all good again, but I was nervous at first cause it seemed like most of the tools are PC related.
Thank you

Bricked (temp hopefully)

Trying to flash the new stock sense 5 rom phone is stuck in a loop that I cant get it out of.
Rogers HTC One XL
hboot 2.14
bootloader unlocked.
Followed this guide to unlocked bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952038
Copied the stock 4.2.2 sense 5 rom and super su zips onto my sd card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2423735
Then I booted into twrp and flashed the stock 4.2.2 rom and was prompted to flash super su as well.
flashed both files and reset the phone.
The phone boots up and shows the htc screen, then goes to a black screen.
Holding power down just makes the three softbuttons flash three times, then the phone resets and goes back to the black screen.
EDIT:
I can get into the recovery menu, but everything fails.

Berserk87 said:
I can get into the recovery menu, but everything fails.
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everything fails? when you need assistance it's all in the details. the more details you give, the easier it is to help you.

exad said:
everything fails? when you need assistance it's all in the details. the more details you give, the easier it is to help you.
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Sorry.
Im in the boot menu.
When I scroll down and select 'factory restore' it boots into twrp.
from there selecting factory restore comes back as "failed".
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unable to mount '/sdcard'
unable to mount storage

Berserk87 said:
Sorry.
Im in the boot menu.
When I scroll down and select 'factory restore' it boots into twrp.
from there selecting factory restore comes back as "failed".
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once you unlock the bootloader you cannot factory reset in hboot menu anymore.
flash twrp 2.6, wipe sd card on twrp (wipe - advanced), mount, copy rom over, wipe everything except sd card then flash your rom.
if youre s-on you have to extract the boot.img from the rom you flashed and:
fastboot flash boot boot.img

exad said:
if youre s-on you have to extract the boot.img from the rom you flashed and:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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ah ha!
Thats what I messed up.
I'm on sense 5 now.
I should be able copy root over and flash that again, then s-off my phone after I have root. (correct?)
thanks for the help :good::good:

Berserk87 said:
ah ha!
Thats what I messed up.
I'm on sense 5 now.
I should be able copy root over and flash that again, then s-off my phone after I have root. (correct?)
thanks for the help :good::good:
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yes. Don't forget to enable usb debugging

Power down. Hold volume down and Power. You're in boot loader. Go to at boot mode and reboot boot loader. Try going to recovery now.
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Eh... What are you talking about?...
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I got everything working. thanks for the help. :good:
Bootloader Unlocked.
S-OFF.
Rooted.
Sense 5.
Updated Firmware.
Disabled T-Mobile Bloat.