Problem flashing roms - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

Hi there, before u say anything I have searched and searched for answers but not luck which is why I am psoting this...
I have a HTC sensation, locked boot loader, hboot 1.27, s-off with juopunutbear.
I have 4ext recovery touch and currently on xperianse custom rom..
I have tried flashing different roms for the sensation and at first I was able to install a few with the aroma installer but now I am finding it really hard to get a from that will flash... Every time I try to flash a from that I have used before I get, install aborted.. I'm not sure why this is.. I can't update firmware via boot loader as it loads zip file and then stops as though I never tried to update.. not sure if its my cid or just the fact I can't install custom kernels but I would really like to know what I can do.. and also while I'm on here, the Ubuntu for android uses a shared kernel... I contacted the company about providing me with files but no luck so if anyone has done it already, and I don't mean chroot either.. please let me know. Thanks guys.
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[Q] What is Kernel Source from htcdev?

I might sound like a noob but I need help. After flashing ICS rom, my wifi doesn't work. I researched and found this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469428
But I don't understand where i can get the boot.img for HTC sensation. Please help me. I flash a boot.img for sensation(At least it said for HTC sensation) and now my phone stuck at boot.
I've download a kernel source from HTCdev but don't know what to do with it. Please help me.
zarhayda said:
I might sound like a noob but I need help. After flashing ICS rom, my wifi doesn't work. I researched and found this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469428
But I don't understand where i can get the boot.img for HTC sensation. Please help me. I flash a boot.img for sensation(At least it said for HTC sensation) and now my phone stuck at boot.
I've download a kernel source from HTCdev but don't know what to do with it. Please help me.
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Flash a different ROM, make sure to wipe
brashmadcap said:
Flash a different ROM, make sure to wipe
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Can you link me to the trusted?safe ROMS? My sensation is not rooted. Should I root it? When I flashed this room, i flashed it with a RUU.exe from pc.
Thanks in advanced. Im sorry. I am a newbie at android.
I can't even boot my phone. To wipe, i need to root it and to root, i need to be in the normal homescreen status? I download a ICS RUU for sensation. Can you tell me what i do next?
zarhayda said:
I can't even boot my phone. To wipe, i need to root it and to root, i need to be in the normal homescreen status? I download a ICS RUU for sensation. Can you tell me what i do next?
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Run the exe file and follow onscreen instructions
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium
Have u tryed to boot into recovery? If not do this and do a factory reset nd wipe dalvik/cache this may solve it prob with out havin to flash a new Rom...otherwise elegancia and virtuous ate awsome
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A couple noobie questions

Hello everyone,
I’m a total rookie by the way and and have spent a decent amount of time reading on my own before posting anything here. I am wanting to flash cm9 on my sensation 4g. Based on some of the research I have done, before I can flash cm9 I first need to install stock ics in order to get the 3.32 firmware correct? I also thought I read somewhere that before I can update the firmware I first need to update the hboot version (currently my hboot is 1.17.1111) but now I can’t find where I read that.
As I’m reading some of the guides on how to flash these roms it seems like all of them are saying “make sure you have cwm recovery installed”. Well when I first rooted my phone I was watching some youtube videos and following the steps. For some reason the one I chose had me install teamwin recovery, so that is what I use instead of cwm recovery. Does that make any difference? Can I still update firmware and flash ics roms with twrp?
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Get supercid,root,s-off and cwm after thats done first download your desired rom and also the 3.32 firmware first boot into recovery flash the rom..
Then when its done just power off hold volume down + power (make sure fastboot is disabled ) and update firm ware reboot delete the pg58img from root of your sdcard and voila!
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
well, you don't need to install the stock ics rom, but you need to flash the 3.32 firmware, that allows you to run ics roms...
I suggest you to install 4ext recovery, I don't know if you have to downgrade your hboot, mine was the right one and I don't know hot to do that, you'll find a guide or something like that on this forum...
if you have already rooted I think that you will not have any problem flashing a recovery or the fw...
and, my personal suggestion...if you want aosp experience flash aokp official rom, I tried both roms and aokp is more stock feeling
shahkam said:
Get supercid,root,s-off and cwm after thats done first download your desired rom and also the 3.32 firmware first boot into recovery flash the rom..
Then when its done just power off hold volume down + power (make sure fastboot is disabled ) and update firm ware reboot delete the pg58img from root of your sdcard and voila!
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
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Awesome, thanks again I'm excited to try it when I have time.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA
10 _1_3_1_19_19 said:
Hello everyone,
I’m a total rookie by the way and and have spent a decent amount of time reading on my own before posting anything here. I am wanting to flash cm9 on my sensation 4g. Based on some of the research I have done, before I can flash cm9 I first need to install stock ics in order to get the 3.32 firmware correct? I also thought I read somewhere that before I can update the firmware I first need to update the hboot version (currently my hboot is 1.17.1111) but now I can’t find where I read that.
As I’m reading some of the guides on how to flash these roms it seems like all of them are saying “make sure you have cwm recovery installed”. Well when I first rooted my phone I was watching some youtube videos and following the steps. For some reason the one I chose had me install teamwin recovery, so that is what I use instead of cwm recovery. Does that make any difference? Can I still update firmware and flash ics roms with twrp?
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA
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You have 1.17.1111 Hboot which tells me you are S-offed via Revolutionary. This means you can flash the 3.32 firmware that is linked in the ARHD ROM thread and then flash any Android 4.0.3 ROM you want to flash.
The Team win Recovery works just as good a Clockwork Mod Recoveryto me, 4EXT Recovery is my preferred re overy. You can use Team Win Recovery to flash any of the things you mentioned.
10 _1_3_1_19_19 said:
Awesome, thanks again I'm excited to try it when I have time.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA
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Great let me know if you need help or if your unsure about anything just ask ! I don't want you to end up whit a brick neither do you i guess
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
T-Macgnolia said:
You have 1.17.1111 Hboot which tells me you are S-offed via Revolutionary. This means you can flash the 3.32 firmware that is linked in the ARHD ROM thread and then flash any Android 4.0.3 ROM you want to flash.
The Team win Recovery works just as good a Clockwork Mod Recoveryto me, 4EXT Recovery is my preferred re overy. You can use Team Win Recovery to flash any of the things you mentioned.
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Cool, I may go this route since it seems to be the simplest which is ideal for someone like me.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA
You guys are modding pimps, I was able to update firmware and flash roms without any issues.
Thanks again
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA

flashing custom rom

Hi,
im a new member, and i just dont know anything about xda but guys i have a problem with my htc sensation xe.
the problem is that i recently unlocked bootloader of my phone via htc dev which gives me root priviledges but its still s-on, ive installed everything but when flash a custom rom my phone stucks in bootloop, i can only flash rom like ARHD, but i wanted to try ordroid and sense 4 roms but they all get stuck in bootloop. so that means i cant flash roms like that while s-on? cause the juopunutbears soff technique is to difficult so please tell me how can i flash sense 4 roms? ive tried everything.
hboot version: 1.27
firmware:3.32
and does anybody know when revolutionary guys are going to get updated so i can s-off my device with 1.27?
sharibbughio said:
Hi,
im a new member, and i just dont know anything about xda but guys i have a problem with my htc sensation xe.
the problem is that i recently unlocked bootloader of my phone via htc dev which gives me root priviledges but its still s-on, ive installed everything but when flash a custom rom my phone stucks in bootloop, i can only flash rom like ARHD, but i wanted to try ordroid and sense 4 roms but they all get stuck in bootloop. so that means i cant flash roms like that while s-on? cause the juopunutbears soff technique is to difficult so please tell me how can i flash sense 4 roms? ive tried everything.
hboot version: 1.27
firmware:3.32
and does anybody know when revolutionary guys are going to get updated so i can s-off my device with 1.27?
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a little search would have give you some million results ..also half of my posts (around 900) are also replies to the same question
anyways ..flashing custom roms ..while being SON and HTC dev unlocked is little bit different
and there is an excellent guide ofr it ..
just follow the below guide to the letter
flashing ROMS with SON

[Q] Another HTC Sensation XE bootloop thread, PLEASE help!! :/

Hi everyone,
About 2 days ago my phone crashed while I was using it and since then it won't boot up properly, all I see is the HTC logo followed by a black screen and back to the HTC logo, I think it's called a bootloop?
I can access the bootloader menu I think it's called (hold vol down + power button), I've tried recovery and factory reset, neither work, I went to the HTC dev website to unlock my bootloader menu and those options still do nothing
I'd like to add I've NEVER rooted my phone or added any custom firmware or anything like that, so I've no clue why my phone has done this, I've seen several similarly related threads but they've usually done something wrong while rooting their phone, nevertheless I've tried so many different things but nothing seems to work, I've tried to S-OFF using juopunutbear, I've tried flashing boot with various "boot.img", I've tried flashing recovery with "4EXTrecovery..." I've tried to flash with RUU, NOTHING works, I'm at the end of my tether and have pretty much given up, I've spent so many hours trying so many things :crying:
This is what it says on my bootloader screen...
*** UNLOCKED ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT- 1.29.0000
RADIO-11.24A.3504.31_M
OpemADSP-v05.6.0.2226.00.0418
eMMC-boot
Mar 2 2012, 18:14:34
Any input is appreciated, it'd be nice if I can get my phone fixed and it can help anyone else in my situation
Hi! So what recovery do you have at the moment? You should be able to flash 4ext recovery. When you do that, you will be able to flash a rom. Here is the thread you should follow! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861 Do everything exactly! as it is written there and you should be ok to go.
edit: If you would like to install a completely stock rom, you will find this thread useful: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425 (If you want to install RUU, you must relock your bootloader! You find all the info how to do it in the thread!) Good luck! Your phone will be OK!
matekaneve said:
Hi! So what recovery do you have at the moment? You should be able to flash 4ext recovery. When you do that, you will be able to flash a rom. Here is the thread you should follow! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861 Do everything exactly! as it is written there and you should be ok to go.
edit: If you would like to install a completely stock rom, you will find this thread useful: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425 (If you want to install RUU, you must relock your bootloader! You find all the info how to do it in the thread!) Good luck! Your phone will be OK!
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Hi matekaneve, thank you for your response
I've come across that thread before, it doesn't work for me unfortunately :/
Despite the 4EXT recovery image successfully writing to my phone, each time I select recovery on the menu, my phone goes into bootloop again and the recovery menu doesn't load so I can't go any further than step 3 on the thread you posted
Has anyone run into this before?
That's weird... Have you tried re-download and reinstall the 4ext? Or have you tried another recovery like CWM for instance?
What about installing the RUU? Relock your your bootloader and install the right ruu?
matekaneve said:
That's weird... Have you tried re-download and reinstall the 4ext? Or have you tried another recovery like CWM for instance?
What about installing the RUU? Relock your your bootloader and install the right ruu?
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I relocked my bootloader menu, downloaded the correct RUU, ran the programme, it finished successfully, took around 20 minutes in total, it said my ROM has been updated and my phone was ready for use but it's STILL stuck in bootloop! This is so frustrating
Jafooly said:
I relocked my bootloader menu, downloaded the correct RUU, ran the programme, it finished successfully, took around 20 minutes in total, it said my ROM has been updated and my phone was ready for use but it's STILL stuck in bootloop! This is so frustrating
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I think you really have to wait for someone more clever to help you now as I'm out of ideas... I hope somebody can help you out of this...
matekaneve said:
I think you really have to wait for someone more clever to help you now as I'm out of ideas... I hope somebody can help you out of this...
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It's okay, I appreciate your efforts anyway!
I give up now, I'm tired of getting my hopes up thinking it can be fixed and then having it fail again
I know I won't be getting a HTC ever again, this isn't the first time this phone has given me trouble, time to jump on the iPhone bandwagon me thinks :good:
Jafooly said:
It's okay, I appreciate your efforts anyway!
I give up now, I'm tired of getting my hopes up thinking it can be fixed and then having it fail again
I know I won't be getting a HTC ever again, this isn't the first time this phone has given me trouble, time to jump on the iPhone bandwagon me thinks :good:
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Boot into the bootloader with POWER and VOL DOWN. If you're going to give up and get an iPhone, I won't be helping you though, since I don't like people who give up easily. What HBOOT version does it say?
Sent from my locked, tampered ville
hello,
my htc pyramid has also aa boot loop. it cannot start into the custom rom anymore, also not able to boot into recovery.
For about three weeks ago i had the same problem, did everything to try but nothing worked, then i brought the phone back to the shop, where i had to leave it for 2 weeks. Now the problem is comming back but don't want to mis my phone for 2 weeks again.
my fastboot is unlocked and s-on with hboot 1.29.0000
i hope someone could help me with this.
THNX
polcomp
AW: [Q] Another HTC Sensation XE bootloop thread, PLEASE help!! :/
Fastboot is unlock ? I think you have bootloader unlock by htc dev.
And you tried Download a custom Rom or an original ruu with s-on.
? Did you flashed an recovery ?
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thnx for your repley.
srry, bootloader unlocked.
3 weeks ago when i had the same problem i tried to use ruu, but it fails because it cannot boot.
4ext recovery is installed now, but i can't boot to recovery anymorge, because it hangs on the HTC logo (sort of bios logo)
i hope you have some ideas that i can try.
thx
polcomp said:
thnx for your repley.
srry, bootloader unlocked.
3 weeks ago when i had the same problem i tried to use ruu, but it fails because it cannot boot.
4ext recovery is installed now, but i can't boot to recovery anymorge, because it hangs on the HTC logo (sort of bios logo)
i hope you have some ideas that i can try.
thx
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try to reflash the recovery again
already tried, but after the command fastboot reboot the phone boots with hte htc logo and than its going into the boot loop again...
so i think that the mainboard is exploded or something, but could that be possible by using a custom rom?
thnx
polcomp said:
already tried, but after the command fastboot reboot the phone boots with hte htc logo and than its going into the boot loop again...
so i think that the mainboard is exploded or something, but could that be possible by using a custom rom?
thnx
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flash another recovery
see if you have then access
otherwise use a ruu to start over
Also tried CMW recovery. Are there more recovery's?
Als installed serveral RUU's but no one worked. i used fastboot to flash PG58IMG.zip.
After install only bootloops....
AW: [Q] Another HTC Sensation XE bootloop thread, PLEASE help!! :/
Try to flash all from the root of your SD card without command from Computer like adb,fastboot..... look at the corect syntax of the name.:thumbup:
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium
okay, i'll try when the phone is back, bacause it's the phone of my brother. When i know more, then i'll let you know.
THNX for all the ideas!

[Q] What next??

hi every one, i have been using htc hd2 for long time , flushing custom rom and lately i bought htc my touch 4g slide , my goal was to install a custom rom with no sense as i don't like sens roms, so i started here
using that beautiful guide for jjbz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801106
i got to unlock my boot loader , and install custom recovery ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.7 then
when i ran REVOLUTIONARY s-off i got this
found my touch 4g slide <doubleshot-1.45.0013,android 2.3.4 ver 1.55.531.3
your device doubleshot, with HBOOT 1.45.0013 not supported
oh god <thats me>
<<the problem>>
according to him he said we can flash any rom after this point , with S-on as long i install the rom boot loader 1st using fastboot i tried 3 diffrent roms but no thing works till i found that 1.55.531.3-unsigned-cust rom and it worked ,
i want to install JB rom what excatly iam missing??
i wan to keep my s-on or i want a reversible way so i can put it on if i change it whenever i want
also which rom do u guys recommand ,, i know all roms r beautiful and people work hard thanks everyone bla bla but which rom is stable
i am relly lost between the old post and i know there must be new post with new other better ways , its 2013 and most of the guide r 2011-2012
so what next step , any help!!!!
Flash rom, flash gapps if needed, boot to fastboot, flash kernel, reboot
Personally recommend s-off for many reasons, but your choice
Sent from my RubiX NonSense using xda app-developers app
how to get s-off there is so many ways and non of them work with me
There are two ways for this phone, one with older hboot and one with newer, you have newer hboot, there is a stickied thread entitled 'how to root and get soff with any hboot'
Or something like that, just do a little reading and you will get it. After you research and read and if you still have questions feel free to ask
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

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