for rooting that is. i rooted my inspire 4g couple days ago using bubby323's method. loved it. this method is what was recommended to me. now attnn1's method was recommended instead. i dl'ed it and looked at the effen manual, and it seems slightly confusing, maybe i'm missing something.
anyway, i was just wondering what everyone's preference was for rooting, and why. thank you all.
Hack kit was much easier for me.
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i used bubbys. but why are you rooting again?
i took my phone in and exchanged it, simply put b/c the volume button came loose and i wasn't comfortable with it like that. yes, i put everything back to stock and unrooted it first as well.
Hack it. Menu driven with no need to enter terminal commands. All I had to do was put the phone in usb debugging a couple of times and make menu selections. I found the effen manual to be consfusing at first, but once you open up and start running the program, it becomes more clear. The effen manual is telling you more what the process is going to do for you than what you need to do to run the process, which is making menu selections.
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i see that now, thank you!
i seem to be having a problem with the ace hack kit...
What is it?
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on the 2nd step of downgrading. it doesn't seem like it's actually downgrading the phone. in the cmd it says it's clearing the cache, but when all that is said and done, it reboots back into the phone like normal, no setup to go through like the manual suggests. i hate to ask such a noob question, but does the fastboot need to be on or off or something? i feel like i'm missing something. during the 2nd step am i supposed to be doing anything manually or is it still doing everything for me?
You need to run as an administrator with a good gold card, good usb drivers, antivirus completely shut down, usb debugging turned on, and the usb connection in charge only mode. With all this, when you run menu 2, you should get the downgrade rom. If you don't, then there is an issue with one of the above.
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when in the process of step 2, is there anything i need to be doing myself?
ok it went through step 2, rebooted, had to go through setup and change to usb debugging. did that. i'm supposed to hit the 3 on the cmd then right? i did that, and it turned off and now i have a red triangle with an exclamation point in it.
did you flash clockwork recovery?
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when in the process of step 2, is there anything i need to be doing myself?
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No. As long as you have all that I mention, you select menu 2 and have to do nothing until it reboots. If you are not rebooting into a downgraded rom, then something is wrong. It could be a bad gold card. I created my gold card with the gold card maker and then just picked up with the hack kit on menu two. The gold card creation process in the hack appears to be the same. Make sure all antivirus and malware detection is disabled, including anything Windows if you are using it. If you got the usb drivers from Sync, make sure Sync is disabled or uninstalled. I didn't use the sync drivers because I already had them installed from the sdk.
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no, not yet. i was at the step of run through setup and turn on usb debugging. it says to temproot again? what was i supposed to do here? and how can i get rid of the triangle? i do apologize, i'm just a little bit confused at this point
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No. As long as you have all that I mention, you select menu 2 and have to do nothing until it reboots. If you are not rebooting into a downgraded rom, then something is wrong. It could be a bad gold card. I created my gold card with the gold card maker and then just picked up with the hack kit on menu two. The gold card creation process in the hack appears to be the same. Make sure all antivirus and malware detection is disabled, including anything Windows if you are using it. If you got the usb drivers from Sync, make sure Sync is disabled or uninstalled. I didn't use the sync drivers because I already had them installed from the sdk.
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yes, i finally got it to boot into the downgraded rom, but i'm stuck again. i swear i made it through the other method of rooting before, so i'm not sure where i'm messing up here. i'm in the downgraded rom now, just went through the setup and turned on usb debugging.
hate to bother, but can anyone point me in the correct direction once i've made it to the downgraded rom?
All I did was make sure debugging was turned on, made sure that the usb connection was still charge only, and started option 3 in the menu.
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All I did was make sure debugging was turned on, made sure that the usb connection was still charge only, and started option 3 in the menu.
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so if i understand correctly, once i turn usb debugging back on, very usb charge only, i go to cmd prompt and hit 3?
thanks for everyone's help. i finally got it through the final steps. now is there any recommendations for any radio's? or can i leave it as is?
This past weekend i rooted my MyTouch 4G Slide and all went well. i downloaded all the popular root apps like rom manager, superuser , and rom tool pro or root tool pro i forget, but while on root tool pro i was downloading fonts and trying to find a cool one so i downloaded a font from the internet and installed it and my phone went black. coincientally i had just deleted all of my backups because they were "wasting" my memory.
i tried to flash a rom to fix it , but they dont work and i think because my phone is s-on.
is there anyway else i can use a backup ? or do i have to turn my s-on to s-off ?
If you HTC unlocked you have to flash the boot.img from the ROMs zip in fastboot
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If you HTC unlocked you have to flash the boot.img from the ROMs zip in fastboot
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i tried that. i think my usb debugging is turned off in my settings. it appears my phone is soft bricked. I've been reading up on it, trying to find a way to fix my phone and haven't even been close .. is there anything at all i can do to bring my phone back to life .. PLEASE HELP ME !!
i have clockworkmod recovery 5.0.2.7 .
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i tried that. i think my usb debugging is turned off in my settings. it appears my phone is soft bricked. I've been reading up on it, trying to find a way to fix my phone and haven't even been close .. is there anything at all i can do to bring my phone back to life .. PLEASE HELP ME !!
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USB debugging has nothing to do with fastboot. Go into bootloader then choose fastboot USB once there put the boot.img where fastboot is and use 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
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Hey everyone,
I've recently had a lot of trouble with my old S. I randomly lost root, which caused my phone to go into a boot loop. After multiple attempts to reflash to another ROM, it just wasn't going. I decided to go back to square one and flash back to stock. It seemed to have completed, rebooted, then stuck on the Google logo with lock icon for a good 15 minutes. I did a battery pull, and now it won't even power on. I connected it via USB, and it does have some life in it - however Windows only recognizes it as "Unknown Device", instead of being in ADB or fastboot. I tried installing the USB drivers to it, but no go.
Is it curtains for my little friend? Cheers!
Do you have Nexus root toolkit (free windows app). And can you power up to boot loader?
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Do you have Nexus root toolkit (free windows app). And can you power up to boot loader?
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I do have the root toolkit, however I cannot power up to the boot loader. The phone is 100% a brick besides from the response on the PC when I connect it via USB.
My computer won't recognize my phone at all unless I have it turned on..
Does it even give you a charging animation?
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My computer won't recognize my phone at all unless I have it turned on..
Does it even give you a charging animation?
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Nope, no charging info.
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Nope, no charging info.
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Pull the battery and sim out and let it sit for 5-10 minutes, reinstall battery (sim is not required) and try to boot it into bootloader if successful connect to toolkit and let the toolkit flash to stock..
if it won't go to bootloader, try booting normally and feel if it has that small vibration at the start... or will boot to logo/system..
If you can boot up fully don't turn it off/pull battery, make sure you are set up for debugging and let the toolkit flash to stock..
If you get only to the logo wait a couple minutes and see if it reverts to bootloader/recovery.. connect to toolkit and flash to stock..
If you only get a vibration and no screen, it may be screen related??? (only a slight maybe)
Fingers crossed for you and your Nexus S..
Basically the HTC blinkfeed won't work so I can't access anything. I turn off the phone but when I go to perform a factory reset it just turns the phone back on. I also can't do it with USB either.
Is there anything I can do at this point?
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Basically the HTC blinkfeed won't work so I can't access anything. I turn off the phone but when I go to perform a factory reset it just turns the phone back on. I also can't do it with USB either.
Is there anything I can do at this point?
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Flash the RUU-like file available.
godhamba said:
Flash the RUU-like file available.
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Backup everything and move it off internal storage before this step.
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My wife's stock, un-modded one s sat for a few months (she got a new phone) and now it won't boot-up past the "ONE" logo. I've NOT tried a hard reset because I don't want to wipe the data. I'm unable to see the device connected to any computer when I plug it in via USB (through the OS or adb).
I don't really care about the phone but there is some data on it that we'd like to retrieve, mainly calendar events that were saved to the built-in storage. Does anyone know if it's possible via some type of hardware hack to get this data pulled off?
Yes you can get data by unlocking bootloader and flashing recovery on it
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Yes you can get data by unlocking bootloader and flashing recovery on it
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Appreciate the reply but I'm not sure this is possible. It's a bone stock phone which means USB Debugging isn't enabled so I don't think I can use any of the tools out there to unlock it. Maybe I'm wrong on that?
You can check I think its working without debugging
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