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Is my phone toast?

Flashed the NexusBeam ICS rom and deleted the radio and bootloader img that came with the zip and now my phone wont boot at all, I was under the impression by deleting the bootloader.img it just wouldnt install the new bootloader which is what i wanted but it seemed to haved deleted mine in the process

Yup.. Deleting those files from the package would result in the bootloader and radio being wiped and replaced by nothing.. You will probably have to use Odin to flash a stock image. Hopefully someone can help you with that, as I've never used it.
This is precisely the reason I, and some others, were asking devs not to include those files in the rom package..and we were getting crap from other people about "complaining".
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PhillyboyDROID said:
Flashed the NexusBeam ICS rom and deleted the radio and bootloader img that came with the zip and now my phone wont boot at all, I was under the impression by deleting the bootloader.img it just wouldnt install the new bootloader which is what i wanted but it seemed to haved deleted mine in the process
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What phone do you have? to want to delete NexusBeam ICS bootloader? I have nexus s GT-I9020 & was gonna delete the radio, but thaught I would give the new ICS one a try first! (could always flash compatible radio later on!) & it works flawlessly! Then I added GlaDOS 2.4 kernel which changed the boot animation which I didn't like (simple, just deleted bootanimation.zip from system/media, then pulled original bootanimation.zip from NexusBeam zip, & replaced!)
Just dowload NexusBeam again & use cwm recovery or fastboot to reflash NexusBeam & if you want to change radio also, do it at the same time after copying your desired rado to your sd-card & wiping dalvik cache first, then if you change your stock kernel in NexusBeam to dev one, just use method I mentioned previously if you want to change your boot animation to whatever you want! Good luck!!

I cant boot into my bootloader or recovery at all....I can boot into ICS but if i try to but into my recovery from ROM manager my phone just turns off, and if i turn it off it wont turn back on until I run a unbrick program i found. Im stuck after that though, dont know how to flash bootloader without fastboot

PhillyboyDROID said:
I cant boot into my bootloader or recovery at all....I can boot into ICS but if i try to but into my recovery from ROM manager my phone just turns off, and if i turn it off it wont turn back on until I run a unbrick program i found. Im stuck after that though, dont know how to flash bootloader without fastboot
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After you use unbrick program & get into recovery, use fastboot to flash new cwm recovery.img! (fastboot flash recovery cwm recovery.img!) Then when you're in cwm recovery, mount usb storage & put your newly downloaded NexusBeam.zip on your sd-card & install through cwm recovery!

CrackDaddy said:
After you use unbrick program & get into recovery, use fastboot to flash new cwm recovery.img! Then when you're in cwm recovery, mount usb storage & put your newly downloaded NexusBeam.zip on your sd-card & install through cwm recovery!
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Fixed it, didnt realized i had to hold power and vol up while running the unbrick process...thanks for all your help guys

PhillyboyDROID said:
Fixed it, didnt realized i had to hold power and vol up while running the unbrick process...thanks for all your help guys
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Glad to hear you fixed it. Don't delete the radio or bootloader files from the package again. Instead, you can just flash a different radio after flashing the rom. The updated bootloader is a keeper though.
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[Q] Phone Stuck in Boot Loop Why?

Hey All,
I just got my One XL and I was so excited by the root on 2.20 that I decided to try and flash the custom rom of AOKP on onto it.
After rooting the phone, I did the following:
Flashed TWRP 2.3.1.0 - success
Then I went and saw the thread about the AOKP rom and followed instructions. On that thread, it states that you must flash the boot.img before doing this through fastboot if you are coming forom 2.20 firmware, so I did that. Then I saw that it said on the thread "do not complain about bootlooping if you flashed a custom KERNEL or did not manually flash the stock KERNEL via fastboot" As this was the first custom rom I had attemped with this phone I assumed that I had the stock KERNEL already installed, so I did not flash any kind of kernel.
As soon as I flashed the boot.img from AOKP, I saw that there was red writing on the bootloader about this being for development use only and I noticed that the phone would get past the bootloader to a black screen and then would reboot (boot loop).
I thought that the issue here was that I did not flash the kernel so I went and downloaded the rohan.kernel and flashed that. HOWEVER, I did not realize that I was meant to use recovery to do that and I pushed the boot.img from within the kernel via fastboot instead of using recovery to flash the new kernel (not sure if that matters all that much, but I think that from now on all rom work will be done in the day time after sleeping a little more).
After doing that I see no change in the performance of the phone (it is still boot looping). I am unsure of what to do now. I managed to push the KERNEL zip file and the ROM zip file to the phone via adb but when I try and install them via TWRP I am getting an error because the phone reports that it is unable to mount /sdcard/.
Can one of the far more knowlegable gurus here point me in the right direction? I have wiped the cache and davlik cache numerous times but that has not helped. Should I use TWRP to wipe the system? How can I get the phone back to a place where I can install the new rom?
Thanks!!

ackerchez said:
Hey All,
I just got my One XL and I was so excited by the root on 2.20 that I decided to try and flash the custom rom of AOKP on onto it.
After rooting the phone, I did the following:
Flashed TWRP 2.3.1.0 - success
Then I went and saw the thread about the AOKP rom and followed instructions. On that thread, it states that you must flash the boot.img before doing this through fastboot if you are coming forom 2.20 firmware, so I did that. Then I saw that it said on the thread "do not complain about bootlooping if you flashed a custom KERNEL or did not manually flash the stock KERNEL via fastboot" As this was the first custom rom I had attemped with this phone I assumed that I had the stock KERNEL already installed, so I did not flash any kind of kernel.
As soon as I flashed the boot.img from AOKP, I saw that there was red writing on the bootloader about this being for development use only and I noticed that the phone would get past the bootloader to a black screen and then would reboot (boot loop).
I thought that the issue here was that I did not flash the kernel so I went and downloaded the rohan.kernel and flashed that. HOWEVER, I did not realize that I was meant to use recovery to do that and I pushed the boot.img from within the kernel via fastboot instead of using recovery to flash the new kernel (not sure if that matters all that much, but I think that from now on all rom work will be done in the day time after sleeping a little more).
After doing that I see no change in the performance of the phone (it is still boot looping). I am unsure of what to do now. I managed to push the KERNEL zip file and the ROM zip file to the phone via adb but when I try and install them via TWRP I am getting an error because the phone reports that it is unable to mount /sdcard/.
Can one of the far more knowlegable gurus here point me in the right direction? I have wiped the cache and davlik cache numerous times but that has not helped. Should I use TWRP to wipe the system? How can I get the phone back to a place where I can install the new rom?
Thanks!!
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First of all I think if you're on 2.2 fw I don't think you can flash kernels through TWRP - I think it has to be through fastboot, I don't know first hand as I'm still on an earlier fw version.
Secondly if you can get into recovery you can flash another rom.
Go to Mount > Mount USB Storage with your phone connected via USB, it should mount as a drive otherwise windows asks you to format format the drive if this happens chances are may have wiped it in bootloader with factory reset or clear storage in either case just format the drive.
You can then drag and drop another rom onto the phone and flash that - remember to extract the boot.img from the rom and flash via fastboot so it will boot.
Goodluck

thejosh86 said:
First of all I think if you're on 2.2 fw I don't think you can flash kernels through TWRP - I think it has to be through fastboot, I don't know first hand as I'm still on an earlier fw version.
Secondly if you can get into recovery you can flash another rom.
Go to Mount > Mount USB Storage with your phone connected via USB, it should mount as a drive otherwise windows asks you to format format the drive if this happens chances are may have wiped it in bootloader with factory reset or clear storage in either case just format the drive.
You can then drag and drop another rom onto the phone and flash that - remember to extract the boot.img from the rom and flash via fastboot so it will boot.
Goodluck
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Hey!
Thanks a ton for your reply! I managed to get the phone to install a new ROM (AOKP V5) and it seems to boot up. Now when I get into that rom, I see all kinds of things crashing on me. The "Settings" app crashes, the keyboard crashes..any idea?

Did you wipe system, factory reset, davlik and cache from within TWRP before flashing?
Try that otherwise if you're still running into issues post in the thread.

You flashed the 11/10 JB gapps?
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ok, i got the phone back up now and have been able to flash stuff properly.
I am working on an issue where after flashing a new rom (AOKP v4) and then a new kernel right after (rohan.kernel V2) the rom seems to hang on the loading splash screen. Has anyone else had this happen? Know how to solve it?

ackerchez said:
ok, i got the phone back up now and have been able to flash stuff properly.
I am working on an issue where after flashing a new rom (AOKP v4) and then a new kernel right after (rohan.kernel V2) the rom seems to hang on the loading splash screen. Has anyone else had this happen? Know how to solve it?
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Did u wipe everything? (davlik, cache)
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[Q] Soft Brick - TWRP intact, how to flash?

Okay so I sold my HOX running AOKP to a guy on Clist. He tried to flash a stock rom.. and somehow in the process wiped his whole system and sd card. Over the phone I figured out he soft bricked it and its stuck in a bootloop.
Went thru the steps over the phone with him to get into recovery(TWRP), and he confirmed that TWRP is there. Of course he didnt do a nandroid or anything of that sort, so he cant revert to that. There's no ZIPs on the phone, when he goes to INSTALL on twrp, it just shows "twrp" folder and thats it.
I haven't had the phone in my hands yet, but will see it tomorrow. My question is:
How do I transfer a Zip file onto the phone to flash thru TWRP? Does TWRP have a USB mass storage mode? (I have an S3 now and that's not available on my TWRP)
Can I use ADB or Fastboot to flash the ZIP as is? Or can I use ADB to transfer a file to the phone?

Yeah twrp has usb storage, you go into Mount then mount usb storage and windows should recognise so long as you have the correct drivers installed.
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Sweet. Ill do that tomorrow
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Maybe I didn't understand the op but, when flashing... You'll have to flash the boot.IMG file from the rom seperately if the phone has the 1.14 Hboot. Then go into recovery and install the .zip file after you wipe the cache/delvik.
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s1mpd1ddy said:
Okay so I sold my HOX running AOKP to a guy on Clist. He tried to flash a stock rom.. and somehow in the process wiped his whole system and sd card. Over the phone I figured out he soft bricked it and its stuck in a bootloop.
Went thru the steps over the phone with him to get into recovery(TWRP), and he confirmed that TWRP is there. Of course he didnt do a nandroid or anything of that sort, so he cant revert to that. There's no ZIPs on the phone, when he goes to INSTALL on twrp, it just shows "twrp" folder and thats it.
I haven't had the phone in my hands yet, but will see it tomorrow. My question is:
How do I transfer a Zip file onto the phone to flash thru TWRP? Does TWRP have a USB mass storage mode? (I have an S3 now and that's not available on my TWRP)
Can I use ADB or Fastboot to flash the ZIP as is? Or can I use ADB to transfer a file to the phone?
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You can just mount USB storage and drag the ROM to the sdcard.
If you are on the new hboot (1.14) you will have to flash the boot.img (its inside the rom zip) first (from fastboot). then flash the ROM from recovery.

[Q] Wiped and not working HTC One S [s4]

Good day everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I am in desperate need of your help. I recently purchased a HTC One S from an online store they told me it was new never used locked phone. Turns out phone was rooted, 4g does not work, and it could not recognize e drive, (internal sd card)
After reading the all in one i re-rooted it and install the teamwin version of recovery.
Now i never had any back ups or any factory files. as i got the phone rooted with software that did not work. My phone now has no rom and i cannot install from adb sideloader, or an other means. I am new to this and cannot seem to figure out how to get my phone back to even stock un-rooted etc. I tried multiple forums and download links but nothing.
i was able to install vipers rom at one point but despite several attempts to reinstall. recovery does not see files loaded. which i can see on my mac or pc.
the other strange thing i notice is that at the top in fastboot mode i sometimes see unlocked in pink only and other times i see both unlocked and tampered. when its unlock only none of my computers recognize connection.
I also tried boot.img for flash. The furthest my screen no goes is the htc logo, then goes black.
Please help, even to just point me in rite direction to have this resolved.

the boot.img, did you flash it via fastboot? (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
And, one question that comes to mind... they sold you a device as new, yet it wasnt.. Why didnt you return it?

Goatshocker said:
the boot.img, did you flash it via fastboot? (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
And, one question that comes to mind... they sold you a device as new, yet it wasnt.. Why didnt you return it?
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Yes I tried several times loading the boot.img via fastboot.
As far as returning the device i trashed the mailing box but kept original packaging so no return address. I called the company which i made the purchase from "N1wireless" several times and sent several emails to them. They have yet to reply or answer any of my calls. Which is why I am so frustrated.

mnitllc said:
Yes I tried several times loading the boot.img via fastboot.
As far as returning the device i trashed the mailing box but kept original packaging so no return address. I called the company which i made the purchase from "N1wireless" several times and sent several emails to them. They have yet to reply or answer any of my calls. Which is why I am so frustrated.
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Boot into recovery, select mount > mount usb storage. From pc move the Rom.zip to your sd card which should now be showing on your pc. After it is moved to your phone select unmount then press home button in twrp recovery. Then install the Rom. After install open up adb and type adb reboot bootloader then press enter. Now fastboot flash the boot img from inside the Rom.zip on your computer. After that reboot your phone and report back
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bochocinco23 said:
Boot into recovery, select mount > mount usb storage. From pc move the Rom.zip to your sd card which should now be showing on your pc. After it is moved to your phone select unmount then press home button in twrp recovery. Then install the Rom. After install open up adb and type adb reboot bootloader then press enter. Now fastboot flash the boot img from inside the Rom.zip on your computer. After that reboot your phone and report back
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Hi, thanks for the reply, thats just the thing I cannot in recovery install any rom loaded to sd card. It fails. I tried reinstalling the recovery and it still not reading my sd card.
So my guess is i need a new twrc or how to do it from my mac, as now when i try on my pc it is failing as-well. Once I get the recovery to work I will try your other suggestions as I think it will work based on the steps you mentioned.
I am trying to figure out how to use terminal to reinstall recovery. any suggestions or links will be greatly appreciated.:good:

you install recoveries through fastboot, fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Goatshocker said:
you install recoveries through fastboot, fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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I reinstalled recovery several times now and it wont recognize the sd card. is there another recovery i can download and use? Also is there any instructions for a newby to use terminal to re-boot, everything from scratch. Meaning if the phone is completely blank except the fast boot and a recovery manager no backups or stock kernel etc. what is the format to be used in order for the computer and recovery to recognize the sd card?
I think I need a good recovery rom like cmod if there is one for the htc one s or the stock one if someone has it.

hi i had that problem
mnitllc said:
I reinstalled recovery several times now and it wont recognize the sd card. is there another recovery i can download and use? Also is there any instructions for a newby to use terminal to re-boot, everything from scratch. Meaning if the phone is completely blank except the fast boot and a recovery manager no backups or stock kernel etc. what is the format to be used in order for the computer and recovery to recognize the sd card?
I think I need a good recovery rom like cmod if there is one for the htc one s or the stock one if someone has it.
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I had that problem the sd card would not be seen by my laptop and the phone would not boot at all if you plug in the phone to your go to start and then computer right click on your c drive go to manage and see if you can see it there if so try to format it and then reboot the phone if it works you can then install cwm as a recovery system then you can put what rom you wont on it i am use in zenRom 1.05 and to me its the best coz it like the htc rom that the phone come with if that don`t work let me know coz i have more tricks to try i hope this helps you out.

Theres only TWRP and CWM for the S afaik, and CWM sucks. TWRP is the one to use.

I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!

violentlighting said:
I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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got it. will try it asap.

I could not get the stock recovery via that link you provided. If there is another link to the stock I would appreciate it. I had to flash it wit cwm twice then reflash with twrc to get it to identify the sd card. i had tried the viper rom but my 4g and wifi doesnt work. Will try trickmod hopefully that works with no more issues

violentlighting said:
I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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Hey thanks allot for your suggestions. I made some progress. It kinda worked. However I my wifi and data connections no good. I tried the 9.1 update and then tried the tweaks.
Do you know if it is possible to get stock kernel and stock rome to undo changes on device?

[Q] HELP!!!

I was flashing CyanogenMod 10.1 and i followed the instructions to a tee, and now it will not power on, it just sits there with a black screen. It was working fine before. Can anyone please give me some help. It is my only phone.

kjmiller1984 said:
I was flashing CyanogenMod 10.1 and i followed the instructions to a tee, and now it will not power on, it just sits there with a black screen. It was working fine before. Can anyone please give me some help. It is my only phone.
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what zip did you flash for cm10.1?

HELP
DvineLord said:
what zip did you flash for cm10.1?
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I flahsed cm-10.1-20130302-NIGHTLY-evita.zip
I have an evita HTC one x
before i installed i wiped cache, davlik cache and system from TWRP, after install i wiped cache and davlik.

odd, are you s-off? h8rift told me he uses gapps-jb-20121130-signed.zip for gapps since using those i have had much better luck with flashing roms. i'd say stick on wall charger for awhile and volume down + power some to get into bootloader.

thanks
DvineLord said:
what zip did you flash for cm10.1?
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DvineLord said:
odd, are you s-off? h8rift told me he uses gapps-jb-20121130-signed.zip for gapps since using those i have had much better luck with flashing roms. i'd say stick on wall charger for awhile and volume down + power some to get into bootloader.
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I was able to get into bootloader, but after trying to flash again again it is still not loading. Guess I will have to go with a different ROM, i had ViperXL but i wasnt overly fond of it.

i asked if you were s-off and what gapps you were using.

sorry
DvineLord said:
i asked if you were s-off and what gapps you were using.
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S-On suprisingly enough. gapps-jb-20121212-signed

kjmiller1984 said:
S-On suprisingly enough. gapps-jb-20121212-signed
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try gapps-jb-20121130-signed.zip and do a full wipe

DvineLord said:
try gapps-jb-20121130-signed.zip and do a full wipe
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Will do, thanks.

Since your not S-OFF you need to flash the kernel through fastboot. The reason CM won't boot is the kernel you currently have is for sense roms.

unitedatom said:
Since your not S-OFF you need to flash the kernel through fastboot. The reason CM won't boot is the kernel you currently have is for sense roms.
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Not sure how to do that, im kinda a newbie

kjmiller1984 said:
Not sure how to do that, im kinda a newbie
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Since you're new I recommend you sift through the forums and get a better understanding of general things. That said, these steps should aid you:
1. Download the Boot Installer : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1962428
2. Extract the Boot Installer somewhere easy to work with, like your desktop.
2. Download your ROM of choice, CM10.1, ViperXL, etc ( download to your desktop to make it easy)
3. Extract the ROM you downloaded. (you downloaded a .zip, extract it)
4. From the extracted ROM folder copy the boot image and only the boot image into the TN_Win Boot Installer Folder. (If there is another boot image in the TN_Win Boot Installer folder just replace it)
5. Boot into your bootloader (press and hold both the power button and bottom volume rocker when device is off to boot into it)
6. Select "fastboot" option
7. In the TN_Win Boot Installer folder run "RunMe from fastboot"
8. A command prompt will pop up and flash the boot.img for you.
9. Boot into recovery once told to by the command prompt.
10. Wipe system and factory reset
11. Install ROM of choice
I am assuming you have already installed the drivers to your computer to allow your device to transfer files with your computer. If not downloading HTC sync should install them. If you have problems with TN_Win Boot, it's likely these drivers are not installed and your computer is not communication with your device.
Note: You'll have to do this procedure every time you swap between AOSP ROMS to Sense ROMS. This is because there kernels are difference.
If you're able to get your device to an S-OFF state you no longer have to flash the boot.img and can just flash the ROM from recovery without hassle. We just achieved S-OFF recently so read about it!
I recommend you look into achieving S-OFF, but till then, this method should work.

unitedatom said:
Since you're new I recommend you sift through the forums and get a better understanding of general things. That said, these steps should aid you:
1. Download the Boot Installer : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1962428
2. Extract the Boot Installer somewhere easy to work with, like your desktop.
2. Download your ROM of choice, CM10.1, ViperXL, etc ( download to your desktop to make it easy)
3. Extract the ROM you downloaded. (you downloaded a .zip, extract it)
4. From the extracted ROM folder copy the boot image and only the boot image into the TN_Win Boot Installer Folder. (If there is another boot image in the TN_Win Boot Installer folder just replace it)
5. Boot into your bootloader (press and hold both the power button and bottom volume rocker when device is off to boot into it)
6. Select "fastboot" option
7. In the TN_Win Boot Installer folder run "RunMe from fastboot"
8. A command prompt will pop up and flash the boot.img for you.
9. Boot into recovery once told to by the command prompt.
10. Wipe system and factory reset
11. Install ROM of choice
I am assuming you have already installed the drivers to your computer to allow your device to transfer files with your computer. If not downloading HTC sync should install them. If you have problems with TN_Win Boot, it's likely these drivers are not installed and your computer is not communication with your device.
Note: You'll have to do this procedure every time you swap between AOSP ROMS to Sense ROMS. This is because there kernels are difference.
If you're able to get your device to an S-OFF state you no longer have to flash the boot.img and can just flash the ROM from recovery without hassle. We just achieved S-OFF recently so read about it!
I recommend you look into achieving S-OFF, but till then, this method should work.
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ok, but now i cant mount my sd card and transfer over my roms to the device, i flashed the boot image successfully, what happened?

kjmiller1984 said:
ok, but now i cant mount my sd card and transfer over my roms to the device, i flashed the boot image successfully, what happened?
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How were you flashing CM10.1 before? You had to have it on your SD Card in order to install it from recovery.
If you don't have the ROM zip file on your sd card you'll have to get it on there. I'm not sure what the best method is, maybe someone else can chime in.
If you didn't wipe your system yet, just flash the boot.img for the ROM you were using before and you should be able to boot into your old ROM. Or better yet if you have any ROM zip on the sd card just flash its boot.img and then install that ROM so you can boot into android and have easy access to your sd card.

unitedatom said:
How were you flashing CM10.1 before? You had to have it on your SD Card in order to install it from recovery.
If you don't have the ROM zip file on your sd card you'll have to get it on there. I'm not sure what the best method is, maybe someone else can chime in.
If you didn't wipe your system yet, just flash the boot.img for the ROM you were using before and you should be able to boot into your old ROM. Or better yet if you have any ROM zip on the sd card just flash its boot.img and then install that ROM so you can boot into android and have easy access to your sd card.
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I had it on my sd card, the problem was when i went into recover after i flashed the boot image to isntall CM10.1 it wasnt there, and when i tried to mount it through twrp it wouldnt mount the sd card. I managed to fix the issue though and it is now reading the sd card again. now i just hope to be able to install cm10.1

kjmiller1984 said:
I had it on my sd card, the problem was when i went into recover after i flashed the boot image to isntall CM10.1 it wasnt there, and when i tried to mount it through twrp it wouldnt mount the sd card. I managed to fix the issue though and it is now reading the sd card again. now i just hope to be able to install cm10.1
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problem fixed thanks for the help all