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help with ext4 recovery!

Hi all, I have an s-on unlocked htc sensation. Last night I went to bed and woke up to a phone that was dead (forgot to plug in) so I charged it a little bit and then turned it on..only to find that it just stays at the white HTC screen. I then went into recovery and tried to reinstall a clockwork mod recovery(which has worked plenty of times) but this time it said "the folder does not contain any zip files, so I thought, Oh well time to do a fresh install anyway, so I went into the 4ext recovery/wiped everything, then turned on the smart ext..ran super wipe, then installed the elegancia 4.0 2.7, everything went fine...until it finished, EXT4 recovery then says something like creating backup..blah blah blah..then says backup failedthere was an error processing the command (not the exact terminology)..so then i let it restart and again it is stuck at the white htc screen. I then reboot into recovery again, and it says smart 4ext has been disabled, go to tools etc to re-enable..report your error blah blah blah..I just dont get it, i have done this many times, but I am clueless on why it wont boot..i have the latest files etc too 1.27.00 bootloader as well, I am unable to do anything with adb right now..I am at work, but really need a phone today..can someone help possibly?..Thanks a million....Larry

There are lot of blahs in the post
Anyways coming to your post.. Flash the boot.img of the rom you have flashed from bootloader/fastboot
(extra 1 step in flashing roms with SON guide)
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ganeshp said:
There are lot of blahs in the post
Anyways coming to your post.. Flash the boot.img of the rom you have flashed from bootloader/fastboot
(extra 1 step in flashing roms with SON guide)
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I forgot about having to do it that way since I dont have s-off..I cant get to a computer that has adb right now..is there any way I can do this from the phone?..maybe extract the boot.img from the zip file or something like that?Thanks for your help.

dirtylarry10 said:
I forgot about having to do it that way since I dont have s-off..I cant get to a computer that has adb right now..is there any way I can do this from the phone?..maybe extract the boot.img from the zip file or something like that?Thanks for your help.
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Not possible as you would be using the kernel when you are booting the phone (just like how formatting c drive (where windows is normally installed) is not possible when using windows)
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ganeshp said:
Not possible as you would be using the kernel when you are booting the phone (just like how formatting c drive (where windows is normally installed) is not possible when using windows)
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eah...makes sense...ok cool...thanks for your help..ill get it done this afternoon....

It'll be easier to help if you can provide exact errors you are getting and exactly what you did. Try installing an AOSP ROM and let us know the error you are getting. I've never used smart EXT so maybe let it be disabled and try.

dirtylarry10 said:
I forgot about having to do it that way since I dont have s-off..I cant get to a computer that has adb right now..is there any way I can do this from the phone?..maybe extract the boot.img from the zip file or something like that?Thanks for your help.
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you can't do it through the phone casue to flash the boot.img you need to be in fastboot mode...

[Q] Bricked my HTC One S

Hi all,
Got mine today, tried to install a ROM and it got stuck in bootloop.
I did a number of stupid things not to mention wiping the SD and im in serious trouble.
I can get into bootloader and CWM but thats it.
Ive heard restoring a RUU can cure it but I have a MAC and cant find anything to help.
Can anyone help? Im gutted....and fell like an idiot.
Ive got an S4 on the three network.
Thanks

Hold down the power button for 10 seconds then after the touch buttons stop flashing, just hold the volume button and see if ot enters the bootloader.
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blackcell1 said:
Hold down the power button for 10 seconds then after the touch buttons stop flashing, just hold the volume button and see if ot enters the bootloader.
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Hi,
It enters into bootloader but then what?

Follow the guide here from how to flash custom rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24478083
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blackcell1 said:
Follow the guide here from how to flash custom rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24478083
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Its sent and wrote the recovery file but what now?

mikejasonsmith said:
Its sent and wrote the recovery file but what now?
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Specifically you'll have to flash the ROM zip file from the recovery and then use fastboot flash boot boot.img.
You can find boot.img inside the ROM zip file

Tried flashing ROM zip but no joy...when should i flash boot img? before or after recovery?

mikejasonsmith said:
Tried flashing ROM zip but no joy...when should i flash boot img? before or after recovery?
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ok managed to get the sd mounted...phew...but how do i get a rom on when it wont boot?

mikejasonsmith said:
ok managed to get the sd mounted...phew...but how do i get a rom on when it wont boot?
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Ive used TRW to get the sd mounted but it wont boot beyond that. i restored the stock recovery but what do i do next?
At the moment i have a phone which has CWM working but nothing else?
Thanks for your help

mikejasonsmith said:
Ive used TRW to get the sd mounted but it wont boot beyond that. i restored the stock recovery but what do i do next?
At the moment i have a phone which has CWM working but nothing else?
Thanks for your help
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ok so ive tried flashing ruu and keep getting error 155 which is a cid issue i believe - which RUU do i use for a device locked to '3'?
Thanks
oh and can you point me in the direction of it...thanks

mikejasonsmith said:
ok so ive tried flashing ruu and keep getting error 155 which is a cid issue i believe - which RUU do i use for a device locked to '3'?
Thanks
oh and can you point me in the direction of it...thanks
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so ive managed to get the h3g rom and flashed rom and boot.img.
locked bootloader and run RUU but i keep getting error 155???
Somebody please help me before this thing goes out of the window.....:crying:

Search adb push
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danevianta said:
Search adb push
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Finally seem to have done it and managed to RUU
The phone is locked to 3 but as a noob I spent 2 days flashing a generic euro ROM.
When i realised i need a ROM to match CID i downloaded 1.53. Tried this a number of times with no joy.
Just tried 1.78 and it seems to be working
Thanks to everyone for your help - us noobs must be sooooooo annoying.

Htc One S bricked
Hi im relatively new at rooting and am currently experiencing issues with a bricked device.
i have two htc one s devices
my personal one is running cm10 ville with clockwork touch recovery and is working perfectly
however the second one i was using the same exact files.
this one is bricked
its in a constant bootloop.
i can get back to my recovery just fine and get to the fastboot in the phone fine
i cleared my cache
wiped my data and wiped the dalvik cache all perfectly fine when i try to flash the cm10 official rom back on it cannot mount the sd card
i would try to install a different recovery and try again maybe using viper one s
but i cannot get the phone to power on
it doesnt showup on the computer when it is plugged in while in fastboot
when i try the cmd fastboot flash recovery it says waiting for device
any advice. this is not my own phone so i need it repaired pretty quickly.
any helpful information would be much appreciated.

FaLLeN_BtB said:
Hi im relatively new at rooting and am currently experiencing issues with a bricked device.
i have two htc one s devices
my personal one is running cm10 ville with clockwork touch recovery and is working perfectly
however the second one i was using the same exact files.
this one is bricked
its in a constant bootloop.
i can get back to my recovery just fine and get to the fastboot in the phone fine
i cleared my cache
wiped my data and wiped the dalvik cache all perfectly fine when i try to flash the cm10 official rom back on it cannot mount the sd card
i would try to install a different recovery and try again maybe using viper one s
but i cannot get the phone to power on
it doesnt showup on the computer when it is plugged in while in fastboot
when i try the cmd fastboot flash recovery it says waiting for device
any advice. this is not my own phone so i need it repaired pretty quickly.
any helpful information would be much appreciated.
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Bootloop does not mean your bricked...means you need to fastboot flash boot.img
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blackcell1 said:
Hold down the power button for 10 seconds then after the touch buttons stop flashing, just hold the volume button and see if ot enters the bootloader.
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This little post just pulled me out of missery. Love ya man!

all you guys getting sorted
make a nandroid and sdcard bu NOW and put them on pc,
obviously leave a copy of nandroid on phone also
makes it a lot easier if you get in trouble again
and you/we will

Mounts and Storage --> Format everything --> Now Mount USB Drive --> Put Gapps and ROM
Flash it, erase cache & and Dalvik...Blah blah blah. Flash boot.img in fastboot, and there you go.
Everybody, please remember this and there won't be noob q&a anymore...

TWRP v 2.2.2.1 I can't flash Jelly Bean 4.2.2 .zip on HTC one s (s3)
HI, my device is an HTC ONE S (s3)... I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted it... it's ok... For recovery mode I installed TWRP v 2.2.2.1.... I've wiped the cache and made a factory reset... BUT when I try to flash the zip which contains the jelly bean 4.2.2 I get a message saying: FAILED when i was trying to install it... PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CUZ I THINK I CAN'T DO TOO MUCH WITHOUT AN OS ON MY DEVICE... I'M NOW JUST IN TWRP... HELP PLEASE........

mikebryant2807 said:
HI, my device is an HTC ONE S (s3)... I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted it... it's ok... For recovery mode I installed TWRP v 2.2.2.1.... I've wiped the cache and made a factory reset... BUT when I try to flash the zip which contains the jelly bean 4.2.2 I get a message saying: FAILED when i was trying to install it... PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CUZ I THINK I CAN'T DO TOO MUCH WITHOUT AN OS ON MY DEVICE... I'M NOW JUST IN TWRP... HELP PLEASE........
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Help! Brick?

Just got the HTC One S( HTC branded S4 edition). I unlocked the boot loader, rooted , flash a recovery , and then installed CM10. Everything went well until the final install , when the Cyanogen Boot was stuck. I have no idea what I did afterwards, but now the SD is unmounted. It doesn't boot up to HTC stock , the HTC developer pages just open and stays on .. I could fastboot. I backed up everything, but somehow everything got deleted.
What to do? I need help!
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Sounds to me like you forgot to flash the kernel, then did something else wrong afterwards in the attempt to fix. I have the S3 version, but I had a similar problem with the ROM getting stuck, then my recovery was unable to mount the SD. There are 2 options, one is to use fastboot to re-lock your device, and flash the latest RUU for your CID, or you can adb sideload a ROM if you are using TWRP. I would probably go for the RUU anyway because it is the easiest. Just go into the bootloader, choose 'fastboot', use the command to re-lock the bootloader (I just use the All-In-One Tool) and then run the RUU when the phone is in fastboot mode, the phone will then be good as new (except for the Tampered warning in bootloader, but that can be remedied with the S4 version)

This happened to me just flash TWRP wipe everything and get another ROM on there
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I'll try tonight when I get a chance.. And let you know how it went. Thank you.
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ferndom said:
I'll try tonight when I get a chance.. And let you know how it went. Thank you.
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I was in the exact same situation as you, it worked for me (on the second repeat). If it doesn't work the first time, then just try again.

Ami007 said:
Sounds to me like you forgot to flash the kernel, then did something else wrong afterwards in the attempt to fix. I have the S3 version, but I had a similar problem with the ROM getting stuck, then my recovery was unable to mount the SD. There are 2 options, one is to use fastboot to re-lock your device, and flash the latest RUU for your CID, or you can adb sideload a ROM if you are using TWRP. I would probably go for the RUU anyway because it is the easiest. Just go into the bootloader, choose 'fastboot', use the command to re-lock the bootloader (I just use the All-In-One Tool) and then run the RUU when the phone is in fastboot mode, the phone will then be good as new (except for the Tampered warning in bootloader, but that can be remedied with the S4 version)
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Thanks to all, especially to member Ami007. Im back and running again. I relocked the bootloader using fastboot, downloaded the correct RUU file that corresponds to my phone, and run the program.. Kudos to all!!!

[Q] Brick or Hardware Issue?

Picked up an inspire 4g off of cl.Paid 20 for it because it had no battery. Put a batter in it and it boots to the htc screen, black screen, then reboots. Volume down was broken but I fixed it and am able to enter hboot. Phone had already been unlocked through htcdev. So I relocked it and ran the newest 3.20 RUU. It completed successfully and rebooted. However, it does the same thing. So I tried to factory reset it through bootloader. Again it just reboots and does the same thing. So I decided to try to htc dev unlock it and flash a custom recovery. Everything went smooth and recovery flashed. But when I select recovery in bootloader it does the same bootloop over again. Again I've tried using the latest RUU to no avail. Ive tried everything I know of to do. I'm out of ideas. It seems like a great phone and I really want to fix this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

If the bootloader is unlocked and you can flash a ROM, fastboot flash the boot.img from the ROM zip and see if it works. Detailed instructions in my signature.

bananagranola said:
If the bootloader is unlocked and you can flash a ROM, fastboot flash the boot.img from the ROM zip and see if it works. Detailed instructions in my signature.
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Unfortunately I can't enter recovery to flash a rom. It just reboots at the white screen. The only thing I was able to flash was the stock RUU. And it still didn't boot. I've also tried flashing recoveries but that doesn't work either. It flashes successfully but never boots into it.
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No one knows what to do? I really want to fix this.
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[Q] HTC One X (AT&T) Won't Turn on

Hi,
I am new to rooting the device. I rooted HTC One X (AT&T) using toolkit by Hasoon2000. I followed all the steps as per my knowledge. Everything went good rooting the device, But when I tried to flash CM 10.1 it was giving me failure error. When I did second time it gave me same error but somehow I thought ROM got flashed and went ahead and flashed kernel. While doing so my cell phone battery was till 50% but once I flashed kernel. Suddenly screen went blank and couldn't turn it on. When try to go into fastboot mode it lights up red led and once and stays there until I hit the power button. After hitting power button it shows the HTC logo and displays the message below logo about device being used for development. then within a second screen gets turned off (no red LED) I tried to keep for charging for at least an hour or so with computer as well as on AC power but results are same. Neither I am able to connect it to computer or charge it. I don;t know what is going on with my device. So please can someone help me with this issue? I would really appreciate if this issue been resolved.
Thanks in Advance.

nishantbalwan said:
Hi,
I am new to rooting the device. I rooted HTC One X (AT&T) using toolkit by Hasoon2000. I followed all the steps as per my knowledge. Everything went good rooting the device, But when I tried to flash CM 10.1 it was giving me failure error. When I did second time it gave me same error but somehow I thought ROM got flashed and went ahead and flashed kernel. While doing so my cell phone battery was till 50% but once I flashed kernel. Suddenly screen went blank and couldn't turn it on. When try to go into fastboot mode it lights up red led and once and stays there until I hit the power button. After hitting power button it shows the HTC logo and displays the message below logo about device being used for development. then within a second screen gets turned off (no red LED) I tried to keep for charging for at least an hour or so with computer as well as on AC power but results are same. Neither I am able to connect it to computer or charge it. I don;t know what is going on with my device. So please can someone help me with this issue? I would really appreciate if this issue been resolved.
Thanks in Advance.
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Please provide:
Hboot version
S-ON or S-OFF

exad said:
Please provide:
Hboot version
S-ON or S-OFF
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I don't remember Hboot version. Is there any way I can I find that out as my phone is dead. But S-ON was there all the time even after unlocking bootloader.
Thanks.

nishantbalwan said:
I don't remember Hboot version. Is there any way I can I find that out as my phone is dead. But S-ON was there all the time even after unlocking bootloader.
Thanks.
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While it's off, press and hold volume down and power until the Hboot comes up.

exad said:
While it's off, press and hold volume down and power until the Hboot comes up.
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Phone is now showing me HBOOT screen, HBOOT is 2.14.000. Now In order to install CM 10.1 what do I need to do as it was failing. Also will my device go off again?
Thanks a ton

nishantbalwan said:
Phone is now showing me HBOOT screen, HBOOT is 2.14.000. Now In order to install CM 10.1 what do I need to do as it was failing. Also will my device go off again?
Thanks a ton
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Flash TWRP 2.6 if you're not using that version already.
fastboot flash recovery twrpfilename.img
Download cm 10.1 Check md5 to make sure download was good. Also, make sure you're downloading the one for our device. Link will be in original android dev section.
wipe everything (except sd card) in twrp 2.6
then flash cm 10.1
If you get an error, tell me what the error is.

exad said:
Flash TWRP 2.6 if you're not using that version already.
fastboot flash recovery twrpfilename.img
Download cm 10.1 Check md5 to make sure download was good. Also, make sure you're downloading the one for our device. Link will be in original android dev section.
wipe everything (except sd card) in twrp 2.6
then flash cm 10.1
If you get an error, tell me what the error is.
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Thanks you very much exad. Is it important to have S-OFF? Can I install android 4.3 ROM on HTC One X. Have you tried that? How can I check md5 to make sure CM is good?

S-off allows you to ruu without bricking.
Yes. I am running android 4.3 cm 10.2 right now. There have been bricks reported though that issue should be fixed now.
Use an md5 checker program. Google md5 checker.
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exad said:
S-off allows you to ruu without bricking.
Yes. I am running android 4.3 cm 10.2 right now. There have been bricks reported though that issue should be fixed now.
Use an md5 checker program. Google md5 checker.
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I have flashed openrecovery-twrp-2.6.0.1-m7.img but when I want to go to recovery it is still sticking on that HTC logo screen, giving message in red and getting it off. I don't know what I can do to go in recovery and do the needful.
Could you also provide me link to instruction to install CM 10..2 with that as well?
Thanks

nishantbalwan said:
I have flashed openrecovery-twrp-2.6.0.1-m7.img but when I want to go to recovery it is still sticking on that HTC logo screen, giving message in red and getting it off. I don't know what I can do to go in recovery and do the needful.
Could you also provide me link to instruction to install CM 10..2 with that as well?
Thanks
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M7 is the new HTC one device you flashed the wrong recovery. You need to flash twrp 2.6 for the evita.
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31ken31 said:
M7 is the new HTC one device you flashed the wrong recovery. You need to flash twrp 2.6 for the evita.
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How can I copy CM 10.1 and gapps on sd card? I am not having access to copy those file on sdcard. Is there any way I can flash ROM without copying files into sdcard?
I have installed but still I am not able to start phone. Could you please help me with that?
Thanks

nishantbalwan said:
How can I copy CM 10.1 and gapps on sd card? I am not having access to copy those file on sdcard. Is there any way I can flash ROM without copying files into sdcard?
I have installed but still I am not able to start phone. Could you please help me with that?
Thanks
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If you are able to boot into recovery, then you should be able to use the command <code> adb push <code>to copy any file from your current directory in computer to the sdcard
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kewlguru said:
If you are able to boot into recovery, then you should be able to use the command <code> adb push <code>to copy any file from your current directory in computer to the sdcard
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Adb won't work, he doesn't have a ROM to boot into.
nishantbalwan said:
How can I copy CM 10.1 and gapps on sd card? I am not having access to copy those file on sdcard. Is there any way I can flash ROM without copying files into sdcard?
I have installed but still I am not able to start phone. Could you please help me with that?
Thanks
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Have you flashed the correct recovery for our device (Evita) yet?
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kewlguru said:
If you are able to boot into recovery, then you should be able to use the command <code> adb push <code>to copy any file from your current directory in computer to the sdcard
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Even after installing TWRP 2.6 I am not able to flash the ROM. It is saying:
No MD5 file found.
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device")=="endeavoru" || getprop("r
E:Error executing updater binary inn zip ,/sdcard/ROMs/cm-10.1.0-RC5-ende
updating partition details...

Wrong ROM. You have evita not endeavour.
Look before you download and flash wrong recovery and ROM because you are on track to brick your device. You have burnt 2 of your lives already.
You have no idea how lucky you are as your device should already be broken.

timmaaa said:
Adb won't work, he doesn't have a ROM to boot into.
Have you flashed the correct recovery for our device (Evita) yet?
Sent from my Evita
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It did work. I was successful to copy files from computer to sdcards using adb.

twistedddx said:
Wrong ROM. You have evita not endeavour.
Look before you download and flash wrong recovery and ROM because you are on track to brick your device. You have burnt 2 of your lives already.
You have no idea how lucky you are as your device should already be broken.
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I think I have installed CM 10.1.2 for evita but now it is not rebooting into ROM. I am not able to reboot automatically. I have press and hold power and volume down key to go into fastboot. I am not getting what I am doing wrong now.

nishantbalwan said:
It did work. I was successful to copy files from computer to sdcards using adb.
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Ok. But listen to what Twisteddx said just before, take your time and make sure you're only flashing things meant for your device. He was right, you're EXTREMELY lucky you haven't bricked your phone yet. Only download ROMs from within this forum!
Sent from my Evita

If you are s-on you need to extract the boot.img from the rom you're flashing and fastboot flash boot boot.img or it won't boot. With S-off this step is no longer required.
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exad said:
If you are s-on you need to extract the boot.img from the rom you're flashing and fastboot flash boot boot.img or it won't boot. With S-off this step is no longer required.
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How can I extact boot.img file? can I use fastboot commands?