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[Q] HBoot 2.00.0002, unlocked, S-ON and recovery destroyed !

Hello guys,
My recovery doesn't work anymore : I get stuck on the HTC logo.
Apart from that, my phone is fine : the bootloader works and I can boot my phone in normal mode.
Me being stupid, I unlocked my phone with HTCDev and though that was enough to get the phone S-OFF.
So I flash a 4ext recovery image without doing any backup (another rookie mistake). And since, I cannot launch the recovery.
The hboot is 2.00.0002, and I still have the original unrooted 3.0 Sense ROM.
I don't want to go on tinkering with my phone (ie rooting, S-OFF and install a custom rom) until I fixed the recovery.
So I have the following questions :
1) what I can do to restore/fix my recovery ?
2) do you have a backup recovery image for a French Orange HTC Desire S ?
3) what procedure should I follow to backup my phone NOW (boot, recovery, data, rom, etc...) ?
Thanks for your help,
Deckard

Flash in fastboot recovery.img

download the 4EXTRecovery_v2.1.0_saga.zip package here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130004
rename it to PG88IMG.zip
put that file on the root of your sd card
start you phone in bootloader (hboot not fastboot)
the bootloader will ask you if you want to install recovery.img
confrim
reboot
rename the file again into something else or delete it (cause bootloader will always try to flash if a PG88IMG.zip file is on your sd card every time you boot into it)

If you are rooted, the easiest solution to get a working recovery, one that doesn't involve fastboot, hboot, multiple restarts, adb etc, is to simply download the recovery updater app (free) from 4ext.net and use the app to download and flash your new recovery (4EXT Recovery) without any reboots or jumping through hoops!!
Hope you get what you want... you have all the possible solutions now (see posts above)

mah1950 said:
If you are rooted, the easiest solution to get a working recovery, one that doesn't involve fastboot, hboot, multiple restarts, adb etc, is to simply download the recovery updater app (free) from 4ext.net and use the app to download and flash your new recovery (4EXT Recovery) without any reboots or jumping through hoops!!
Hope you get what you want... you have all the possible solutions now (see posts above)
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The OP stated that he has HBOOT 2.00.0002 and stock, unrooted 2.3.5/Sense 3.0 ROM, so your solution will not work for him.
He will need to flash a recovery.img using fastboot.

Thanks for your answer, korenisko
The truth is that I nicked my recovery using that particular command
(fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
I tried to flash 4ext 1.0.0.3b9.
So, I'm a little wary of it right now.
I didn't understand why it failed. Is it because my phone wasn't S-OFF ?
Because I weren't root (as far as I know, it shouldn't matter) ?
Because the downloaded file was corrupted (the zip seemed valid, though) ?
Because I unlocked my phone through htcdev ?
Do you have any idea ?
Anyway, for the time being, I am a little puzzled. And uncomfortable.
I don't want to messed up again.
I guess, I don't risk anything trying to flash another recovery....
Maybe the stable version 4ext...

Thanks for your suggestion !
Don't I need my phone to be S-OFF before I can do what you are suggesting ?
webdo said:
download the 4EXTRecovery_v2.1.0_saga.zip package here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130004
rename it to PG88IMG.zip
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[q] htc sensation cant boot nor install rom

hey guys im need of your help my sensation was essentially fine then i decided i wanted to root and find another rom just for better performance so i found and followed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 well some down the line idk what happended but now i cant transfer big files to the phone when in recovery mode and when i try to install a new rom the whole phone will reboot i've tried everything from adb push to flashing new firmware to the phone now im stuck and out of ideas can anybody help me the phone isnt bricked cause it can still boot into recovery and i can use fast boot mode as well i dont have any rom loaded on the phone and i didnt make any back ups (yea i know very dumb of me)

What do you mean transfer big files when in recovery mode? You can only transfer files when the phone is operating normally. Are you s off?

im pretty sure i am cause i used Revolutionary to root it

Since you can access recovery:
1. Download a rom suitable for the firmware you flashed.
2. Download super wipe script from ARHD thread.
3. Place both on a freshly formatted SD card using a PC
4. Insert SD to phone and install super wipe followed by rom.
Sent from my Pyramid-T

Take out sd card and use a card reader to load a rom. Which firmware did you flash? Through bootloader? If you flashed the ics firmware bundle, which one?

tropical cactus said:
Take out sd card and use a card reader to load a rom. Which firmware did you flash? Through bootloader? If you flashed the ics firmware bundle, which one?
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i tried all 3 actually

stringer7 said:
Since you can access recovery:
1. Download a rom suitable for the firmware you flashed.
2. Download super wipe script from ARHD thread.
3. Place both on a freshly formatted SD card using a PC
4. Insert SD to phone and install super wipe followed by rom.
Sent from my Pyramid-T
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I followed this and when i tried to flash the rom my phone either hanged or rebooted

SUPERSUPER23 said:
hey guys im need of your help my sensation was essentially fine then i decided i wanted to root and find another rom just for better performance so i found and followed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 well some down the line idk what happended but now i cant transfer big files to the phone when in recovery mode and when i try to install a new rom the whole phone will reboot i've tried everything from adb push to flashing new firmware to the phone now im stuck and out of ideas can anybody help me the phone isnt bricked cause it can still boot into recovery and i can use fast boot mode as well i dont have any rom loaded on the phone and i didnt make any back ups (yea i know very dumb of me)
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Since problem happened after you tried to s-off and you can't flash rom by recovery, i'm pretty sure that your phone is still s-on. You can try the method as following
1. Reboot into the bootloader and check whether phone is s-on. If it's not, or rather, it's s-off, congratulation to you because it's very easy now. You just need to install a third party recovery( i never try to flash a rom by stock recovery, but i recommend to use third party recovery to flash roms) and flash any rom you want except those which need firmware. If it's still s-on, what you need to do is login htcdev and unlock the bootloader
2.Download a rom which doesn't need firmware( Because i don't know how to cope with ICS stuff and i just know something about gingerbread rom. if you want to try ICS, then ignore my reply). Download a third party recovery. Extract the boot.img inside the rom to adb folder, and so do recovery.img.
3.Connect the phone to the computer, open command line and cd into adb folder, and go to fastboot mode. Type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" to install third party recovery. Type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" to flash boot.img
4.Reboot into recovery mode. Double wipe the phone, or you can try superwipe provided by mike1986. Then install the rom you download. After installation, reboot the phone. Now your phone should be ok.
PS: adb command usually works when your phone has booted into system. Although type adb command in recovery mode and get some response from the phone, actually it doesn't make any sense.
All in all, all you need to do is :unlock the bootloader by htcdev, flash recovery and boot, wipe and flash the rom, then ok

pmbldc said:
Since problem happened after you tried to s-off and you can't flash rom by recovery, i'm pretty sure that your phone is still s-on. You can try the method as following
1. Reboot into the bootloader and check whether phone is s-on. If it's not, or rather, it's s-off, congratulation to you because it's very easy now. You just need to install a third party recovery( i never try to flash a rom by stock recovery, but i recommend to use third party recovery to flash roms) and flash any rom you want except those which need firmware. If it's still s-on, what you need to do is login htcdev and unlock the bootloader
2.Download a rom which doesn't need firmware( Because i don't know how to cope with ICS stuff and i just know something about gingerbread rom. if you want to try ICS, then ignore my reply). Download a third party recovery. Extract the boot.img inside the rom to adb folder, and so do recovery.img.
3.Connect the phone to the computer, open command line and cd into adb folder, and go to fastboot mode. Type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" to install third party recovery. Type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" to flash boot.img
4.Reboot into recovery mode. Double wipe the phone, or you can try superwipe provided by mike1986. Then install the rom you download. After installation, reboot the phone. Now your phone should be ok.
PS: adb command usually works when your phone has booted into system. Although type adb command in recovery mode and get some response from the phone, actually it doesn't make any sense.
All in all, all you need to do is :unlock the bootloader by htcdev, flash recovery and boot, wipe and flash the rom, then ok
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i followed the guide exactly and once i got here http://www.htcdev.com/images/uploads/bootloader/step13.jpg my phone wont let me select yes

You could run appropriate ruu to revert to stock and begin again. Have you done superCID via fastboot?
Sent from my Pyramid-T

stringer7 said:
You could run appropriate ruu to revert to stock and begin again. Have you done superCID via fastboot?
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Yes I have Actually

ok i went back to stock and my phone is back !!!! now i wanna root it again but....

SUPERSUPER23 said:
ok i went back to stock and my phone is back !!!! now i wanna root it again but....
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That's great! Keep the ruu you used safe in case of more problems. Now, run revo again, install su & recovery and you are done.
But backup stock in recovery before anything
Sent from my Pyramid-T

stringer7 said:
That's great! Keep the ruu you used safe in case of more problems. Now, run revo again, install su & recovery and you are done.
But backup stock in recovery before anything
Sent from my Pyramid-T
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(fingers crossed) ok will do

guys success thanx to all who have helped me

[Q] HELP!!!how to return to stock without latest RUU？

i bricked my htc X920e chinese version and i cant flash the latest RUU(image version 1.08.1400.6 ) since my phone image verion is 1.10.1400.1.
Can anyone tell me how to return to stock without latest RUU? since the brick i cant use the phone anymore , everytime i boot it up the screen display the HTC logo, goes white and then nothing...ＨＥＬＰ！！！
Please excuse my poor English．
bootloader infos：
DELUXE_U PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.40.0000
RADIO-3A.22.306.10
OpenDSP-v5.120.274.1207
eMMC-boot

Re: [Q] HELP!!!how to ruturn to stock without latest RUU？
Have you tried wipe the cache from the recovery?
Sent from my HTC Butterfly

HELP!!!how to return to stock without latest RUU？
gbear said:
Have you tried wipe the cache from the recovery?
Sent from my HTC Butterfly
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yes i did, but that didnt change anything

Try to find the executive file of ROM (.exe) and run it to reflash your phone from PC. That the way I did with my One X, hope that will help. Remember to relock the phone before flashing.

HELP!!!how to return to stock without latest RUU？
snipervn said:
Try to find the executive file of ROM (.exe) and run it to reflash your phone from PC. That the way I did with my One X, hope that will help. Remember to relock the phone before flashing.
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i tried it but it failed because of image version of the latest Rom Update Utility( 1.08.1400.6 ) which is lower than my phone image version(1.10.1400.1.).

maybe you can go to htc service center and get them flash it back for you, they won't charge you anything (in my country), just say you don't know what happen...

Re :HELP!!!how to return to stock without latest RUU？
franzkila said:
i bricked my htc X920e chinese version and i cant flash the latest RUU(image version 1.08.1400.6 ) since my phone image verion is 1.10.1400.1.
Can anyone tell me how to return to stock without latest RUU? since the brick i cant use the phone anymore , everytime i boot it up the screen display the HTC logo, goes white and then nothing...ＨＥＬＰ！！！
Please excuse my poor English．
bootloader infos：
DELUXE_U PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.40.0000
RADIO-3A.22.306.10
OpenDSP-v5.120.274.1207
eMMC-boot
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Same Problem Hare.
is there any solution you find out.
please share.................!

HELP!!!how to return to stock without latest RUU？
SheikhSaqib said:
Same Problem Hare.
is there any solution you find out.
please share.................!
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i still didnt find any solution yet...

If you have the RUU.exe file (as you said), lets try :
- run the exe file.
- when the installation preperation process completed , keep the process wait there and find the temperature rom extracted somewhere in PC.
- copy the rom to other place.
- find the boot.img and recovery.img in firmware.zip file (in the zip rom that you just have)
- unlock your phone.
- press volume down + power to go to bootloader.
- connect phone to PC and use fastboot to flash boot.img file.
- continue to flash recovery.img
- relock the phone by fastboot oem lock
- flash rom.zip by fastboot.
Hope that could help. That is the way I did for my friend One X+.

snipervn said:
If you have the RUU.exe file (as you said), lets try :
- run the exe file.
- when the installation preperation process completed , keep the process wait there and find the temperature rom extracted somewhere in PC.
- copy the rom to other place.
- find the boot.img and recovery.img in firmware.zip file (in the zip rom that you just have)
- unlock your phone.
- press volume down + power to go to bootloader.
- connect phone to PC and use fastboot to flash boot.img file.
- continue to flash recovery.img
- relock the phone by fastboot oem lock
- flash rom.zip by fastboot.
Hope that could help. That is the way I did for my friend One X+.
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thx but that method didnt work...

franzkila said:
thx but that method didnt work...
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So, the problem should be HBoot version, I guested. You may try to search and find if there are any solutions to re-install Hboot, otherwise, send your phone to HTC service center is last solution you should do.

Unbrick htc x920e
hi everyone i finally succeed to unbrick my htc butterfly. Thx for all the support u guys brought to this post.
This is how i did it:
1. boot in recovery mode and wipe eveything (factory reset, cache, dalvik-cache and system)
2. Flash any x920e custom rom :
In my case i couldnt mount the sdcard from the recovery so i select the option "Install zip from sideload " instead of "Install zip from sdcard" abd and i used ADB Toolkit GUI Shell (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800335) to flash the custom rom.
Once in sideload mode u can use this command to flash the custom rom:
Code:
adb sideload rom_name.zip
After the phone reboot it was still stucked at the boot logo so i proceeded to step 3
3.Reboot in bootloader and put the phone in "fastboot USB" mode
4. Open the custom rom zip file and extract the "boot.img"
5. Use the command shell to flash the extracted boot.img using this command:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
6.Reboot

[Q] Sensation will not load past the splash screen...

I am hoping that I can find help out there. My phone will not load past the splash screen.
Over the last few days I have been trying to install a custom rom on my phone. I thought I was on the right track and now I have flashed it but it will not go past the splash screen. I would be grateful for any advice on how to get my phone back functioning. I would even be happy to have it back stock.
So my movements over the last few days have been as follows:
1) HTC DEV unlocked the bootloader
2) Used Hasoon2000's HTC Sensation 4G all-in-one to flash CWM.
3) Then the same tool to copy Prem Root onto the SD card and installed it via CWM.
4) Then used this post here to install JB Miui - http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/how-to-update-upgrade-miui.15424/
Then when I rebooted it is stuck on the Miui splash screen.
At every stage I felt like things worked well and now I have that sad feeling in my stomach because I have just realized how vital my phone is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Did u flash boot.img after u flashed the rom? Did u full wipe before flashing the rom? Also with s-on users its recommended to use 4ext recovery and in recovery, enable smartflash.

Where can I find information about boot.img - so that is a no. I am installing 4ext now.

jmcclue said:
Did u flash boot.img after u flashed the rom? Did u full wipe before flashing the rom? Also with s-on users its recommended to use 4ext recovery and in recovery, enable smartflash.
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ok, so I have been looking at the boot.img part and I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVl2dBTnmI
I have followed it but still am not having any luck.
Still very lost.

LiamRutherford said:
ok, so I have been looking at the boot.img part and I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVl2dBTnmI
I have followed it but still am not having any luck.
Still very lost.
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open rom.zip and search for the boot.img
probably it is located in the kernel folder
place it in the folder where you have adb and fastboot files
now boot your device to the bootloader and connect it to pc via usb(in the hboot screen it should say fastboot usb)
in the folder where you have adb and fastboot files open a cmd window and do this command
fastboot flash boot boot.img
then
fastboot reboot
done

rzr86 said:
open rom.zip and search for the boot.img
probably it is located in the kernel folder
place it in the folder where you have adb and fastboot files
now boot your device to the bootloader and connect it to pc via usb(in the hboot screen it should say fastboot usb)
in the folder where you have adb and fastboot files open a cmd window and do this command
fastboot flash boot boot.img
then
fastboot reboot
done
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Thanks - this did the trick. Now to hunt out roms.

LiamRutherford said:
Thanks - this did the trick. Now to hunt out roms.
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as suggested before it is better to have 4ext recovery
and before flashing any rom enable smartflash from it(for S-ON devices)
smartflash it does exactly what i said above

[Q] Can I, and how do I, flash the stock recovery after rooting and keep root?

Hi there. I'm new to rooting but I've done a considerable amount of reading before this and I have a question.
I'm rooting using a guide (can't post link due to new user restrictions) on another forum, and before doing this I realized that I wouldn't be able to receive OTA updates using the one of the two custom recovery options (CWM or TWRP 2) that the root method specifies. Is it possible to restore the stock recovery to receive OTA updates and keep my root? And how would I go about doing this for the HTC One S?
Thank you!

you just need to flash the stock recovery and relock your boot loader.
This isn't hard to do in fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (change the name of the recovery.img file to make it easier than typing something like recovery_signed_ville.img or whatever)
fastboot oem lock
I have the s4 variety of htc one s and I've used this stock recovery. it's the second download not the first.
http://www.modaco.com/topic/353006-...ch-recovery-for-the-htc-one-s-stock-download/
or you can use the all in one toolkit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604677
select 'your own recovery' and click flash recovery button. It will bring up a window to browse to where the recovery you want to flash is.
you can lock or unlock bootloader with it by putting your unlock_code.bin file in the data folder of the toolkit.