So, I've unlocked bootloader and rooted my friends sensation all with s on because he was already on stock ICS but then I ran into the problem that you have to flash a certain type of firmware before a custom ROM ??? I've owned several androids and never had to do that and that seems rather weird but I flashes aokp on his phone and it workes successfully. I was wondering what other ROMs are there that are stable and good that you can just straight flash? I'd appreciate it so I can give him more options. Thanks
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You do not need any firmware as you already are on the ics firmware from the OTA.
And did you s-off?
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You do not need any firmware as you already are on the ics firmware from the OTA.
And did you s-off?
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No I didn't need to do s off , there was a method since it was already on stock ICS. And its no longer on stock its on AOKP. And some roms do need firmware because I tried to flash cm9 and nightlies like 4 times every time they boot looped and other ROMs, then I re read and they all said they needed firmware flashed first. AOKP is the only one that worked.
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Try the new 3.33 firmware and read flashing Roms with s on please.you need to get 4ext recovery and enable smart flash to flash Roms. Here is a guide for http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861 please read this guide it will explain the whole process. Hope this helps
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Try the new 3.33 firmware and read flashing Roms with s on please.you need to get 4ext recovery and enable smart flash to flash Roms. Here is a guide for http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861 please read this guide it will explain the whole process. Hope this helps
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Hey yes the flashing roms with SON guide will work.. But firmware flash won't work on SON devices... So flashing 3.33 is not possible for the OP... Just a suggestion
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Ok thank you ! iv been doing some more reading about s on, now I see they must be s off in order to do the firmware update. My apologies. Now I know and will remember this.... I am s off and being S on is quite different in many ways. Will do some more reading and study about s on. Again my apologies,.
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ill be rooting this, how do i get ics? do i have to flash a ruu then flash roms? or if i want, i just flash sensation xe roms and im good to go? please help
Right now there are a couple of ICS roms.
Personally I'm using ARHD's ICS rom & it works perfectly with a good battery life.
Follow the steps here till after writing SuperCID.
For ICS ROM, you would need to flash firmware from 3.12.401.2/102 RUU from here.
For support for newer ICS rom's like ARHD's. All 4.0.3 ICS Roms runs on 3.12.401.2/102
& It's been said that this firmware runs good with Gingerbread too.
-Warning Only Flash after Rooting-
Heres the one I'm using. ARHD
The guide to do this can be found at ARHD's post itself under the "How to Flash" Section.
Hopes this helps!
can you tell me the steps to flash the ruu?
i download the file, and i put it in root of sdcard and i go to bootloader or fastboot and flash?
do i have to check anything before doing this? thanks. and will it brick my phone?
g1user101 said:
can you tell me the steps to flash the ruu?
i download the file, and i put it in root of sdcard and i go to bootloader or fastboot and flash?
do i have to check anything before doing this? thanks. and will it brick my phone?
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why you are install RUU file? for what?? to install ICS in your mobile ;
1.unlock hboot,S-off ,Set CID and root your phone
2.then install ICS firmware.without it you want be ble to run ics rom in ur sensation.(check my sigi for the link)
3.then dl your rom and flash it via CWM
thats it. ;-)
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I meant the firmware. Well, do u have to supercid?
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No the ruu is an exe file u run it on ur comp
g1user101 said:
can you tell me the steps to flash the ruu?
i download the file, and i put it in root of sdcard and i go to bootloader or fastboot and flash?
do i have to check anything before doing this? thanks. and will it brick my phone?
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you MUST do Super CID. Set it to 11111111.
MAKE SURE IT IS 11111111 BEFORE FLASHING.
If not it might cause issues like bricking.
If you wait some days more ( like a month or less), HTC will announce the official update
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dexter93 said:
If you wait some days more ( like a month or less), HTC will announce the official update
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then im waiting for it
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My friend has an HTC Sensation that he rooted and tried to put an ics rom on. I tried to help him as I have rooted 3 different types of phones and installed several custom roms on them. I updates the firmware and that broke the phone. I fixed by running the 1.50 ruu. Unlock with htcdev and installed cwm. Can't get s off or get roms to boot. Please advise.
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My friend has an HTC Sensation that he rooted and tried to put an ics rom on. I tried to help him as I have rooted 3 different types of phones and installed several custom roms on them. I updates the firmware and that broke the phone. I fixed by running the 1.50 ruu. Unlock with htcdev and installed cwm. Can't get s off or get roms to boot. Please advise.
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Did you go to this page yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
btbamzao said:
My friend has an HTC Sensation that he rooted and tried to put an ics rom on. I tried to help him as I have rooted 3 different types of phones and installed several custom roms on them. I updates the firmware and that broke the phone. I fixed by running the 1.50 ruu. Unlock with htcdev and installed cwm. Can't get s off or get roms to boot. Please advise.
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Unfortunately htc.dev only unlocks part of the bootloader and you can't flash radio.img or boot.img to the device. Revolutionary will not work on htc.dev unlocked device, and roms may not boot unless official htckernel (boot.img) is used.
Solution is to run your ruu again, and start over using the thread posted above. If that fails there is a way to recover the device, I'll find a link and post it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469296
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I tried the ruu again and it says security fail on the phone. do I need to relock the bootloader? If that doesn't work I will try the methods above. Thank you all for the help.
OK yes try to relock - its part of the guide posted above. Its a bit of a process but shown to work!
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So I finally got the virtuous rom to work by using adb to flash the boot.img and that rom is working. Can't get the bootloader to lock back so I can root with revolutionary or use an ruu. Frustrated.
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OK so you have bootable rom and working recovery? Next you need to flash the 2.3.3 rom according to the instructions in the guide posted above. This will downgrade and relock bootloader, you should then be able to s-off & root.
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Unfortunately htc.dev only unlocks part of the bootloader and you can't flash radio.img or boot.img to the device. Revolutionary will not work on htc.dev unlocked device, and roms may not boot unless official htckernel (boot.img) is used.
Solution is to run your ruu again, and start over using the thread posted above. If that fails there is a way to recover the device, I'll find a link and post it.
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hey.i unlock my bootloader via htc dev method. But i can flash radios . but i run revolutionary to s-off
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stringer7 said:
OK so you have bootable rom and working recovery? Next you need to flash the 2.3.3 rom according to the instructions in the guide posted above. This will downgrade and relock bootloader, you should then be able to s-off & root.
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Unfortunately the links are dead for the 2.3.3 rom.
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Unfortunately the links are dead for the 2.3.3 rom.
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Hmmm, annoying.
You may be able to find something else by searching, instructions specify a stock rooted 2.3.3 rom, not necessarily the actual one in the link.
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If anyone has a link to any 2.3.3 rom for the sensation I would greatly appreciate it. i have been looking for hours and all of the links are on multiupload therefore no good.
What is the hboot version?
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1.18
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Hi, I want to ask if any of you guys flashing custom rom into device that still s-on but rooted. I'm doing this to my device cause its very hard to me to get the s-off. We need to do short circuit thingy I guess (HTC Sensation XE). My concern here that I'm afraid flashing custom rom to s-on device can harm or brick my device as the developer said to do so. Pls give your opinion. Thx.
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This guide will explain how to flash custom rom with SON
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25587345
Now there are 60+ thanks to that post.. So you decide whether it's harm or not
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Also which developer told you flashing roms s-on is dangerous? whoever it was needs their head bashing
enchektola said:
Hi, I want to ask if any of you guys flashing custom rom into device that still s-on but rooted. I'm doing this to my device cause its very hard to me to get the s-off. We need to do short circuit thingy I guess (HTC Sensation XE). My concern here that I'm afraid flashing custom rom to s-on device can harm or brick my device as the developer said to do so. Pls give your opinion. Thx.
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No harm. I just did it yesterday on a replacement I got with HBOOT 1.27. Easy process as well, just follow the instructions.
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i have flashed rooted stock ics rom with S-ON and everything was ok
give it a try in the thread that mentioned before(i used that thread)
I'm using my Sensation XE for ages now but a few month later I found that my WiFi & Bluetooth is not functioning, I don't know what cause it. Try to flash hundred of ROM still got the same result. It is bricked now? Someone please help me regarding this problem.
enchektola said:
I'm using my Sensation XE for ages now but a few month later I found that my WiFi & Bluetooth is not functioning, I don't know what cause it. Try to flash hundred of ROM still got the same result. It is bricked now? Someone please help me regarding this problem.
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The same guide.. I've posted above. . Do extra #1 step from it.. After flashing the ROM
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ganeshp said:
The same guide.. I've posted above. . Do extra #1 step from it.. After flashing the ROM
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What do you mean by doing extra step 1#? Unlocking using HTCDev? Ive done before. But if you say to unlocking HTCDev every time I flashed new rom. Is such a pain. OR, Is that anyway it can be lock again? Coz before this wifi thingy happen ive flash many rom & kernel. I think this cause my wifi not functioning. Sorry Im totaly lost now. Sorry also coz being noob here. My bad.
Thanks in advance. Really need a guide for solving this. FYI I got 2 Sensation XE. The other is just fine with the custom rom. But this one is gave me so much trouble.
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There is a "extra #1" step.. After #5B
Check it again
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ganeshp said:
There is a "extra #1" step.. After #5B
Check it again
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Got it! How come i missed that. Will try soon. Thx a bunch! Now i know not all ROM can flash the boot.img itself. Isnt it? Or this a bout the recovery cant flash it automatically? New knowledge here.
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enchektola said:
Got it! How come i missed that. Will try soon. Thx a bunch! Now i know not all ROM can flash the boot.img itself. Isnt it? Or this a bout the recovery cant flash it automatically? New knowledge here.
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escpecially in S-ON devices after flashing a custom rom if the smartflash feature(4ext recovery) fails(you notice that when the device is trying to boot the rom and it is bootlooping)then the only option is to flash the boot.img of the rom manually
Not true!!!
enchektola said:
Hi, I want to ask if any of you guys flashing custom rom into device that still s-on but rooted. I'm doing this to my device cause its very hard to me to get the s-off. We need to do short circuit thingy I guess (HTC Sensation XE). My concern here that I'm afraid flashing custom rom to s-on device can harm or brick my device as the developer said to do so. Pls give your opinion. Thx.
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I am still S-ON and I flash whatever roms I like. It is very difficult to hard brick your phone if you're S-ON. If however you're S-OFF, you can potentially screw up your phone. So no worries about bricking if you're S-ON (unless you do something really really naughty!!!).
Just rooted and successfully s-off'd my next step is flashing a rom, I'm reading the instructions for Team Venom's sense rom.
Step 1 says 'Flash the boot img script' I'm using a t-mobile us one s do I still flash the same boot script? Or do I need a different one???
Also what's the best way to get wifi working? I've read that you need to flash a different hboot.
You're S-Off, boot.imgs are redundant to you now. Just flash the ROM.
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kylepont said:
You're S-Off, boot.imgs are redundant to you now. Just flash the ROM.
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thank you, that's what I needed to know.
Hello everyone,
I recently bought HTC Sensation 4g (T-mobile) and it's already S-OFF, rooted (Superuser by ClockworkMod) and recovery is CWM 5.0.2.0 and it has stock rom Android 2.3.4. Recently, I got alerted about an update of 4.0.4 for my HTC then I downloaded it but can't install it so I guess it's because it's rooted. I really want to install 4.0.4 on my HTC sensation 4g then I searched up for roms until I found this rom - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654347
Now, my question is, how should I flash it? Should I normally just flash it via CWM or via odin? Or I will have to go back to stock recovery for flashing the rom that Steve0007 posted on the thread linked above. And just to confirm, is it compatible with my device?
Android: 2.3.4
HTC Sense: 3.0
Software number: 1.50.531.1
Thanks!
D4nyal said:
Hello everyone,
I recently bought HTC Sensation 4g (T-mobile) and it's already S-OFF, rooted (Superuser by ClockworkMod) and recovery is CWM 5.0.2.0 and it has stock rom Android 2.3.4. Recently, I got alerted about an update of 4.0.4 for my HTC then I downloaded it but can't install it so I guess it's because it's rooted. I really want to install 4.0.4 on my HTC sensation 4g then I searched up for roms until I found this rom - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654347
Now, my question is, how should I flash it? Should I normally just flash it via CWM or via odin? Or I will have to go back to stock recovery for flashing the rom that Steve0007 posted on the thread linked above. And just to confirm, is it compatible with my device?
Android: 2.3.4
HTC Sense: 3.0
Software number: 1.50.531.1
Thanks!
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First upgrade your firmware to 3.33universal
Go to the development section and search for kohr-ah's thread
Follow the instructions carefully and before flashing check md5 sums(important)
After that you have to flash an ics or jellybean Rom because your current Rom won't boot with ics firmware
Edit:do not never use Odin for anything.it is not for sensation devices
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rzr86 said:
First upgrade your firmware to 3.33universal
Go to the development section and search for kohr-ah's thread
Follow the instructions carefully and before flashing check md5 sums(important)
After that you have to flash an ics or jellybean Rom because your current Rom won't boot with ics firmware
Edit:do not never use Odin for anything.it is not for sensation devices
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Thank you!
And uhh, it's really big headache unlike Samsung mobiles.. easy to root and easy to get back to stock. HTC is a big headache for those things.
D4nyal said:
Thank you!
And uhh, it's really big headache unlike Samsung mobiles.. easy to root and easy to get back to stock. HTC is a big headache for those things.
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yeah i have been told too about samsung devices
they are way easier about rooting stuff
i don't know personally but from what i have heard from friends who own samsung devices
and they have the same opinion about htc devices hehe
rzr86 said:
yeah i have been told too about samsung devices
they are way easier about rooting stuff
i don't know personally but from what i have heard from friends who own samsung devices
and they have the same opinion about htc devices hehe
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Hey, just changed my mind, how about flashing another good custom ROM? Should I just flash custom ROM via CWM? 4.0.4 stock is way too hard and gonna take time.
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D4nyal said:
Hey, just changed my mind, how about flashing another good custom ROM? Should I just flash custom ROM via CWM? 4.0.4 stock is way too hard and gonna take time.
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yes you can use any custom rom you like
but first upgrade your firmware in order to boot an ics or jelly bean custom rom
rzr86 said:
yes you can use any custom rom you like
but first upgrade your firmware in order to boot an ics or jelly bean custom rom
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Dang! I thought I will just have to flash ROM and it will be easy to do it than returning back to stock but still need to upgrade my firmware thingy which is way hard for me.
Thanks so much btw!
D4nyal said:
Dang! I thought I will just have to flash ROM and it will be easy to do it than returning back to stock but still need to upgrade my firmware thingy which is way hard for me.
Thanks so much btw!
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With your current firmware you can flash only gingerbread custom roms
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rzr86 said:
With your current firmware you can flash only gingerbread custom roms
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Ohh so that's the case, now I get the whole situation. Thank you!