[Q] HTC Sensation XE Root dilemma - General Questions and Answers

Hello experts,
Yesterday I tried to root my HTC Sensation XE! First I unlocked this device using the htcdev then u found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668276 and i followd the instructions and finished. In the HBOOT menu this device is still listed as S-ON but i downloaded the Rootchecker app and it confirms that the device is routed.
I am trying to update to the jellybean 4.1.2 using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782009.
The cyogenmod bootscreen is stuck loading over 10min so i assumed that i am doing something wrong, so i restored it to the original ROM using clockworks.
If someone has any ideas please feel free to comment and remark.
Thanks =)

Use 4ext with smart flash on,
What it seems to me is with clock work it doesn't write the boot IMG. With that being said it would be stuck in a boot loop.
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Thank you sir. I shall try this today, and replay the output produced

You're welcome!
Do you know what ROM you are going to flash?
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I had no sucsess .
let me explain the procedure.
First i am turning off my phone and remove the battery.
I boot into HBOOT by pressing the volume down and power.
Acess the recove, in which the 4ext menu appears.
I select wipe phone, and after i select delate chace and dalvik
Then i select the install from sd > chose the zip.
i select the CM10 zip and install it and after i select the gaps too.
reboot the phone.
When rebooting the phone stucks the cyanogenmod boot screen

Okay. I had this same problem you are having when I first started getting familiar with flashing ROMs.
If you correctly installed 4ext recovery, go into your settings and select "smart flash on" this will allow you to flash a ROM correctly with out having your s-off. Try that and let me know.
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hello again, thx for you help. I cannot find the smart flash option. you can guide me where to find it pls

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1964708
Head over to this forum. I was reading it and people had the same boot load problem you have.
Just take this forum step by step.
Have a good day.
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I managed to enable the smart flash option with your help, but still phone is stuck on the CM boot screen

eromlig1991 said:
I managed to enable the smart flash option with your help, but still phone is stuck on the CM boot screen
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When you flash another rom.. You should do full wipe aka 4EXT - wipe / format - format all partitions except sdcard
Then flash cm10 rom.. You will come out fine
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Madness
I have been talking to my friend i have relized that my phone was roted but S On, so i made the S off.
my phone is HTC dev Unlocked, Rooted with S off full wiped and still it gets suck on the CM 10 booting screen

About how long is the boot loop?
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[Q] HTC Sensation stuck in bootloop

I flashed the stock kernel. Now it just boot loops displaying the HTC logo and stuck there.What should I do to solve this problem?
duofeng0214 said:
I flashed the stock kernel. Now it just boot loops displaying the HTC logo and stuck there.What should I do to solve this problem?
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I'm assuming S-OFF and CWM installed.
Get into CWM
fully power off, then power on and press volume down at the same timem on the white screen select recovery.
Wipe Cache
Under Advanced Wipe Dalvik cache
Reboot Recovery then Reboot the phone and GL
I'm assuming S-OFF and CWM installed.
Get into CWM
fully power off, then power on and press volume down at the same timem on the white screen select recovery.
Wipe Cache
Under Advanced Wipe Dalvik cache
Reboot Recovery then Reboot the phone and G
it didnt work it is still stuck in the white htc screen is there anything else i can do?
Flash a new rom or reinstall the current one from recovery. That'll fix it.
mattbutsko said:
Flash a new rom or reinstall the current one from recovery. That'll fix it.
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+1 or try a different kernel, make sure its sense or cm7
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Worse case you may have to do a full wipe
(hope you did a full backup first!)
I had this happen a few weeks ago - wiping cache did finally fix it for me. Try it more than once just to be safe.
I have justed flashed arhd 6.0 ics. stuck on beats logo after reboot eny help would be great guys cheers
my backup wont even work!! i had a MIUI backup, and when i restored it, it restarts at boot logo! but before that i tried to update my firmware to 3.24 and got a CID INCORRECT error, is there anyway for me to resotore?
thanks in advance guys
Just make super-CID, flash the fw-upgrade, then flash the rom and youre good again.
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trx182 said:
Just make super-CID, flash the fw-upgrade, then flash the rom and youre good again.
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hey thanks for your help, i managed to restore my old MIUI rom, but it seems like i cant flash the RCMix-Ics v3.1.1 rom, i tried a few times, but it just get stuck on the ics boot logo is there something wrong with my phone?
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trissc said:
hey thanks for your help, i managed to restore my old MIUI rom, but it seems like i cant flash the RCMix-Ics v3.1.1 rom, i tried a few times, but it just get stuck on the ics boot logo is there something wrong with my phone?
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did u installed new firmware package.
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namila007 said:
did u installed new firmware package.
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at first i tried updating the 3.24 but i got an error message saying " RADIO_V2 FAIL-UZ" so i tried the 3.12 and updated successfully... was i meant to update the 3.24 ? if so how?
Thanks!
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Did you flash the matching firmware?

pg158diag.img zip file

every time i boot my phone into recovery i get a lot of green writing with errors no file or image found for this particular zip file >>pg58diag.img
says missing images etc
i have looked and there is no zip on my sdcard with that name so obviously its missing so im wanting to no what is it and whats exactly in this zip as i can not remember deleting it.
is it important and can i re install it without having to wipe my phone and if so were can i find it.
thanks in anticipation for any help.
It's supposed to be PG58IMG.zip
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yes i no that now my phone is stuck in boot loop how do i wipe it clean do a full re install including software update and reinstall of mike 1986 ics rom.
andy1969 said:
every time i boot my phone into recovery i get a lot of green writing with errors no file or image found for this particular zip file >>pg58diag.img
says missing images etc
i have looked and there is no zip on my sdcard with that name so obviously its missing so im wanting to no what is it and whats exactly in this zip as i can not remember deleting it.
is it important and can i re install it without having to wipe my phone and if so were can i find it.
thanks in anticipation for any help.
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Hi, don't worry. It is because whenever you are holding your power+volume- button , it boots into bootloader or HBOOT mode. This mode is intended to flash firmware package . ( i.e radio, HBOOT, Splash etc ) . That is why the bootloader searches your sdcard for the firmware package( PG58IMG.zip).
When it can not find it , it waits for user input , then u select recovery and press the power button.
In fact do not keep any PG58IMG.zip file on your sdcard if you do not want to flash your firmware. If this screen annoys you , you can use QUICKBOOT app from the market. By using this app you can directly boot into recovery. Alternatively u can open a terminal on your phone and type : "reboot recovery" . It will directly boot into recovery. If you are comfortable with adb , then type from your pc in the adb terminal " adb reboot recovery"..
yes thanks but now my phone is stuck in boot loop and i s wipe it then try to reinstall ics rom and still in boot loop any suggestions ?
andy1969 said:
yes thanks but now my phone is stuck in boot loop and i s wipe it then try to reinstall ics rom and still in boot loop any suggestions ?
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Upgrade your firmware, link here darkforest.violishious.com/Firmware
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do i flash this zip file ? install from sdcard using 4 ext.
andy1969 said:
do i flash this zip file ? install from sdcard using 4 ext.
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Put it on root of sd card then boot into HBOOT and flash through hboot
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yes done that still in boot loop would installing the old ginger bread rom work then upgrade to the ics rom ?
how do i completely wipe the phone clean and do a fresh install ?
andy1969 said:
yes done that still in boot loop would installing the old ginger bread rom work then upgrade to the ics rom ?
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Now that problem sounds more like a bad flash, re-download the ROM, check MD5 sums and if they match, reflash the ROM. If the MD5 Sums dont match then try another ROM
checked came back ok with a tick so isnt that ill try to install the old gingerbread rom then upgrade.
grrrrr getting frustrated now lol
nope didnt fix it still in boot loop any fix suggestions be greatfully received im lost now as to what to do.
This can be closed now sorted
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Are u using an ics Rom? Ics 4.0.1 has a dedicated firmware to flash. So also ics 4.0.3 has its separate one. Search for there respective firmware and flash. You will b ok.
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andy1969 said:
This can be closed now sorted
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Happy to see that you have solved your problem.
Just one request , while asking any question try to give your HBOOT and Radio version i.e the full details of your bootloader screen. This will help people to understand your problem better.
Happy androiding on sensation !!

[Q] S4 , cant access my recovery or boot normally!

i cannot boot phone into recovery nor can i boot phone normally... I had just installed Viper one S rom on my phone and rebooted into recovery because my wifi wasnt working , so i was just going to revert back to an old rom. After clicking reboot to recovery from Viper rom the screen just went white . I had to power it down manually, after powering it up it would stop at htc screen with the red development lines... tried to go into recovery and it will come up for a second then disapear then phone reboots.... any ideas? oh I also had installed Latest radio in CWM after installing rom.. I hear its buggy in CWM...
I had the same problem. Did you flash the boot.IMG in recovery or fastboot? If you flashed in recovery and its not supported by your hboot version. That could be the issue. Try re flashing the boot.IMG using fastboot. If you still cannot get it to work. I would try reinstalling a custom recovery manually and restarting the Rom flashing process. There are forums all over the place to help with that. Try twrp. Ps this is all assuming you are able to get into your boot loader.
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Problem fixed. Don't ask me how lol. All I did was relock boot loader and flash stock ROM. Stock ROM would not load so I just decided to unlocked boot loader and phone rebooted fine. Recover works to.. crazy.
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That happened to me when I didn't fast boot flash the boot.IMG file, but only the latest Viper has given me grief with that.
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MrPickleFicker said:
That happened to me when I didn't fast boot flash the boot.IMG file, but only the latest Viper has given me grief with that.
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Good to know so I won't make the same mistake twice.
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[Q] HTC sensation ROM flashing problem

Dear friends,
I tried to flash the Jelly BAM rom 3.3 on my htc sensation. The device is roooted with CWM installed. I did factory data wipe in recoevre mode and installed the zip from sdcard but on booting my system hangs on the startup screen forever. After that i have tried all data wipes etc but it doesnt seem to be working. My device is also not being recognised on the computer so i would flash the boot.img from adb or some thing. can you please advise what to do now?
Is your device s-off?
If not, install 4ext recovery (see my signature) and flash the ROM from there, make sure 'smart flash' is checked in the recovery.
Without s-off the recovery has no direct access to the boot partition, this smart flash mode bypass this problem.
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You need s-off, new recovery
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[Q] Constant soft reboot at welcome screen, tried multiple custom ROMs

I bought a used htc sensation (TMOUS) from ebay and immediately rooted and s-off'd (using the stickied toolkit, and revolutionary.io respectively). I then updated my firmware to 3.33 and used clockwork recovery to install the CyanogenMod 10.1 Jellybean 4.2.2 - KANG. The ROM would load but it would freeze and soft reboot at the welcome screen, after I selected my language. I tried again with the PAC-man ROM and experienced the same problem. Then I tried again with Cyanogenmod 9.1 and this time the phone would lock up if I tried to pull down the notification bar or use any apps. In one of the ROM threads I saw that it might be an issue with the radio, so I tried an variety of radios but still have the same results or occasionally the ROM will get stuck at the boot animation. I'm currently using firmware 3.32 (downgraded to see if that would help), hboot 1.27.1100 and radio 11.23.3504.07 M2. Any ideas on why my phone just refuses to boot up?
Hi
Greetings,
Try ARHD or stock Rom and check
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You may also try the installation using 4Ext touch recovery.
It seems Recovery is the culprit
Change it to 4EXT
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ganeshp said:
It seems Recovery is the culprit
Change it to 4EXT
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jyo1 said:
You may also try the installation using 4Ext touch recovery.
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I tried flashing 4EXT using the multitool and for some reason the phone entered a bootloop when I tried to boot in to recovery. I then tried flashing the TWRP recovery image through the multitool and it worked! After formatting everything and reinstalling the PAC-man ROM, I was finally able to get past that welcome screen. I bought this phone as a gift for a friend, and it is blowing my mind that this rom makes this 2 year old phone have newer features than my galaxy s3! Thank you again for all the help!!

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