Hello, you must have seen thousands of those threads but I really hope someone can help me. I have a T-Mobile USA One S which has been sim unlocked. Several months ago I decided to root it. I got the One S pack with the TWRP. However not long after I realized that all of those custom ROMs and operations weren't really my cup of tea mainly because I couldn't install the Jellybean system update. When I down it, my phone automatically goes into TWRP and when I try to flash it, nothing really happens. So here's me seeking your help. How can I revert my phone to stock with the stock bootloader. Please if you can try to explain it as if you are explaining it to a 3 year old. Best regards.
r3vange said:
Hello, you must have seen thousands of those threads but I really hope someone can help me. I have a T-Mobile USA One S which has been sim unlocked. Several months ago I decided to root it. I got the One S pack with the TWRP. However not long after I realized that all of those custom ROMs and operations weren't really my cup of tea mainly because I couldn't install the Jellybean system update. When I down it, my phone automatically goes into TWRP and when I try to flash it, nothing really happens. So here's me seeking your help. How can I revert my phone to stock with the stock bootloader. Please if you can try to explain it as if you are explaining it to a 3 year old. Best regards.
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Pretty easy, just have to relock the bootloader and run a RUU.exe. This should return you to stock and put the stock recovery back.
When you run the RUU.exe on your pc it will give you instructions on what to do.
If it fails you might need to also put back the stock recovery on before running the RUU.exe.
RUU_Ville_U_JB_45_S_TMOUS_3.14.531.11_Radio_1.13.50.05.31_10.30.50.08L_release_309489_signed_ICS_2.exe
http://www.androidruu.com/getdownlo..._10.30.50.08L_release_309489_signed_ICS_2.exe
To lock the bootloader.
Go to bootloader-- with phone off, press and hold volume down and press power.
with phone plugged into computer, phone should say Fastboot USB. (if it says HBoot use volume keys to highlight hboot and press power to switch to fastboot)
Console command on PC
from fastboot folder, press shift and right mouse click and select open command window here.
type
fastboot oem lock
this assumes you have fastboot, adb files on pc
in this guide it has fastboot files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583427
Stock Recovery (bootloader needs to be unlocked)
http://www.modaco.com/topic/353006-...ch-recovery-for-the-htc-one-s-stock-download/
the SECOND download is the stock recovery
flashing a recovery,
put the recovery.img in the fastboot folder
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
you will need to rename it to recovery.img or type out exactly the name of the file you put in the fastboot folder.
You can also run the RUU.exe when your phone is in bootloader. Fastboot USB mode
(sometimes helps)
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I tried using revolutionary to root the phone and its worked for my phone and about 4 others ive done. but this peticular phone i came across it will read it, give me a code but tell me that i inputted the.wrong code and close. i did this a few times same.result. so i went to htc.com and unlocked the bootloader and i when i try to install the custom recovery the rough the bootllader it tells me.the phone is not recognized after it picks up the file and opens it. what the #$%$# is going on? lol
Chances are you've made a typo somewhere with Revo, and with unlocking via HTC you have to manually flash CWM to be able to flash a ROM
i tried like ten times and it keeps telling me key is incorrect.
i feel doing it manuelly is the only way to go. since the bootloader is unlocked i downloaded the recovery and saved it to the root. i turned on the phone to the bootllader, it reads it, and it says device not recognized. is their a .img file i can use instead? and what are the adb commands so i can flash it that way?
There are threads covering adb on here, and just Googling it will give you what you want to know as well.
What version of Revolution are you using? Could be an older one which has a different beta key than the current v0.4
adb way is manually
make sure you have sdk and adb/fastboot set up in your environment, its lot faster that way
once you have that, put the phone in fastboot
and type
fastboot flash recovery (drag the recovery.img in command window) and press enter and it will flash new recovery
HHHHHHHHEEEEEECCCCCKKK YYYYEEEESSSS!!!!
Thanks bro!!!!
I put the reocevery into c:/android
Ran cmd
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
perfect
thx again!!!
Welcome and happy Rom flashing
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i tried like ten times and it keeps telling me key is incorrect.
i feel doing it manuelly is the only way to go. since the bootloader is unlocked i downloaded the recovery and saved it to the root. i turned on the phone to the bootllader, it reads it, and it says device not recognized. is their a .img file i can use instead? and what are the adb commands so i can flash it that way?
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Copy/paste the key to notepad then copy/paste from notepad to revolutionary then it will work.
My first post here so go easy on me
Anyway, I got an Evo Shift, I do not know its history, but its stuck in some sort of a boot loop, on the white screen with green HTC logo.
Things I know:
****UNLOCKED****
SPEEDY XE SHIP S-ON
HBOOT -0.99.0001
RADIO - 1.08.01.0111
Clockwork Recovery v5.0.2.0
I did not get an SD card with it, no recovery image.
RUU says version is 2.77.651.3
I know the S-on is a problem.
I have tried all 4 of the RUU versions - failed.
Tried RUU with Gold Card - failed.
Tried rom.zip from each RUU renamed to PG06IMG.zip - failed.
I have tried custom roms of all sorts, every methoud I found - failed.
Where do I go from here? Is there a way of manually flashing all the partitions from a ROM.zip file via fastboot? Is there a way of disabling a version check in RUU? Or is there a way of disabling MD5 sum in Clockwork so I can try flashing a restore image from another Shift?
I have spent 3 days on this phone, and I would hate to admit defeat, so I am reaching out to the genius minds here. Thanks in advance!
Okay, I fixed it. did a write up on how I did it in case someone else fubars their phone.
Things you will need:
Android SDK
HTC Drivers
7-zip
RUU_Speedy_Sprint_WWE_1.17.651.1_Radio_1.07.00.112 9_NV_SPCS_1.52_1103_release_160079_signed.exe
On your computer, search for ROM.ZIP. Include system locations and hidden files.
Delete any instances of it that you may find.
Take the SD card out of the phone.
Put your Shift into fastboot (vol/down + power)
Run the RUU, let it get stuck.
On your computer, run a search for ROM.ZIP while the RUU is running. Its gonna show up in some temp folder.
Copy it to your desktop.
Use 7zip to extract it (for whatever reasons Windows can't extract it).
Open the extracted rom.zip folder.
Copy all files and place them in your SDKs platform tools folder.
Shut down the RUU, reboot the phone into recovery (vol/down + power).
Run CMD and change directories to your platform tools folder.
Type the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotes) - this gets rid of any custom recovery like Clockwork, etc.
Reboot the phone into recovery again, you should have a triangle with an ! next to it on black background.
Go back to CMD and your platform tools, and start flashing the following:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dzdata dzdata.img
fastboot flash partition partition.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Reboot the phone.
After 30 seconds of white HTC screen, your phone should boot up fine and you will be in Android 2.2.
Let me know if it worked out for you, I just fixed mine less than an hour before writing this up.
Also, if anyone out there sees anything redundant, or can help me clean this process up a bit, I welcome your input.
gzetski said:
Okay, I fixed it. Please delete the thread. Unless someone wants me to do a write up on how I did it in case someone else fubars their phone.
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Did you unlock the bootloader with htcdev tool?
The bootloader was already unlocked when I got the phone.
Thanks for this. I will test it and add it to my guide.
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Thanks for this. I will test it and add it to my guide.
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You're welcome... I figured I'd just go hard since it was bricked already.
Speaking of guides though, can I get a bit of clarification on something?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357157
2.3.4 step 15,
Place misc.img and PG06IMG.zip on sdcard using windows explorer or "adb push /sdcard/file.xxx" via usb
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Where is the MISC.IMG coming from, and what is ( rom? which one? etc.)in the PG06IMG.zip?
Thanks!
And BTW, I am now rooted, but with S-ON... Grrr. Superuser works, rom manager works, pretty much anything requiring root access works. I have rebooted the thing like 20 times to see if it goes away, and its sticking just fine, but I am afraid of trying to flash a custom rom with the S-ON.
All attempts to flash ENG bootloader fail, both by flashing via fastboot (all my MD5 sums match, the process is flawless from start to finish, when I reboot, still same bootloader with S-ON), or using ShiftRR.
Any ideas?
gzetski said:
You're welcome... I figured I'd just go hard since it was bricked already.
Speaking of guides though, can I get a bit of clarification on something?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357157
2.3.4 step 15,
Where is the MISC.IMG coming from, and what is ( rom? which one? etc.)in the PG06IMG.zip?
Thanks!
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shift-rootkit.rar
Read the prereqs.
Okay, got it.
Too many things floating through the intertubes with similar filenames.
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Okay, got it.
Too many things floating through the intertubes with similar filenames.
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Yep, I've finally got the thread pinned, and I created 2 videos on how to do it the right way. They are uploading to youtube now.
S-off?
Did you ever figure out how to get S-Off? I seem to be right where you were a few days ago with the phone appearing to have root, but S-on still there. I'm also running HBOOT -0.99.0001 and unlocked via the HTC Dev tool. Is there anyway to downgrade to .93 or to turn S-Off. My ultimate goal is to get Cyanogenmod on this Shift.
Thanks in advance!
I have not messed with the phone for a few days. I am gonna try to go back to 2.3.4 then downgrade again. Most likely what I ended up having is a bunch of borked files, hopefully the latest RUU will fix that. This was really intended as a brick fix and not a legitimate 2.2 downgrade. When I mess with it, I will post the results for you though.
Omg thank you! I accidentally bricked one of my evo shifts and spent 3 hours trying to figure out how to fix it. I'm so glad I ran into this thread. Worked like a charm for me.
MTsol said:
Omg thank you! I accidentally bricked one of my evo shifts and spent 3 hours trying to figure out how to fix it. I'm so glad I ran into this thread. Worked like a charm for me.
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Its not a brick if you can fix it... Bricked phones are permanent paperweights, nothing more, nothing less...
Sent from my PG06100 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
drob311 said:
Its not a brick if you can fix it... Bricked phones are permanent paperweights, nothing more, nothing less...
Sent from my PG06100 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
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Yes Sir . Been there done that. Had a HERO that somehow got " water damaged " after it was BRICKED .
signature verify fail
gzetski said:
Okay, I fixed it. did a write up on how I did it in case someone else fubars their phone.
Things you will need:
Android SDK
HTC Drivers
7-zip
RUU_Speedy_Sprint_WWE_1.17.651.1_Radio_1.07.00.112 9_NV_SPCS_1.52_1103_release_160079_signed.exe
On your computer, search for ROM.ZIP. Include system locations and hidden files.
Delete any instances of it that you may find.
Take the SD card out of the phone.
Put your Shift into fastboot (vol/down + power)
Run the RUU, let it get stuck.
On your computer, run a search for ROM.ZIP while the RUU is running. Its gonna show up in some temp folder.
Copy it to your desktop.
Use 7zip to extract it (for whatever reasons Windows can't extract it).
Open the extracted rom.zip folder.
Copy all files and place them in your SDKs platform tools folder.
Shut down the RUU, reboot the phone into recovery (vol/down + power).
Run CMD and change directories to your platform tools folder.
Type the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotes) - this gets rid of any custom recovery like Clockwork, etc.
Reboot the phone into recovery again, you should have a triangle with an ! next to it on black background.
Go back to CMD and your platform tools, and start flashing the following:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dzdata dzdata.img
fastboot flash partition partition.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
Reboot the phone.
After 30 seconds of white HTC screen, your phone should boot up fine and you will be in Android 2.2.
Let me know if it worked out for you, I just fixed mine less than an hour before writing this up.
Also, if anyone out there sees anything redundant, or can help me clean this process up a bit, I welcome your input.
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First, I want to thank you for posting this even though it hasn't yet worked for me. I'm in essentially the same position you started in. Phone will not boot past the green-on-white HTC logo. I boot to recovery and can get to fastboot mode with USB detected. I flashed recovery.img and boot.img with no problems, but trying to flash dzdata onwards gives me the same error every time: "(bootloader) signature checking... FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)" and will not flash the other components from ROM.ZIP.
Any thoughts on how to proceed? This thing is rapidly approaching permanent brick status.
You need to unlock your bootloader and then flash the rom. zip files through fastboot
The "failed" message means that your bootloader is locked
to get S-off the easiest method is to downgrade your device from 2.3.4 to 2.2 and then FOLLOW THE SAME INSTRUCTIONS AS OBTAINING S-OFF ON 2.3.4. i had the same issue when i first unlocked my Shift bootloader.
(Method 1)
Ok so you're trying to put this really cool new custom ROM on your phone and then suddenly, your phone won't start up or go to recovery… well my friends, you have got yourself a bricked phone. The thing you worry about the entire time you're rooting, and flashing your phone, has now become reality. Well, fear no more, for I, have found a way to unbrick your device! after bricking my phone and finding different ways how to do it...
Because we are not able to swap or get the sdcard out from the phone, it makes it difficult on how to add a ROM.zip and re-install. Another issue I found is that CWM will not be able to read the sdcard if you do an adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/ROM.zip or by mounting the sdcard adb shell mount /sdcard . If you have this issue will explain later
So let's get started.
Step 1: Turning Off Your Phone and Reboot to Boot-Loader
Because you have a bricked phone, you can't just hold the power button. So if your phone is not already off then you're going to want to turn off by pressing the volume down + power button until the phone shuts off then turn on to boot-loader by pressing volume down and press for 3 seconds the power button. once in boot-loader select fastboot.
Step 2: Adb push to SD card
I assume that you have install CWM, if you don't you can download it from HERE. Once downloaded install CWM fastboot flash recovery CWM.TOUCH.5.8.3.1.img, where your done go back to boot-loader and select recovery. Once in recovery do an adb push of a ROM, in this example I used "Energy ROM" you can get the ROM from HERE. Once you have your ROM rename ROM.zip and push adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/ROM.zip, you will get a message stating the size of the the push.
If you can't do a push because you got an error message will explain later.
Step 3: Wipe The Phone
Make sure to do a Factory Reset / Wipe before installing ROM
Step 4: Reboot back to fastboot
Once you install the room you will need to make sure you have a boot.img for the ROM your using.
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot Recoveries/boot.img
YOUR DONE
If your the unlucky one's that can't do an adb push to the SD card do the following.
- Reinstall STOCK Recovery fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- Lock OEM fastboot oem lock
- Unlock OEM fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock/Unlock_code.bin
- Reinstall CWM Recovery fastboot flash recovery CWM.TOUCH.5.8.3.1.img
That should fix the problem on how to push back to the sdcard
If you have other methods post them below...
Sticky!!
But this won't work if you flash a wrong radio, will it? I thought that if you flashed a wrong radio, you couldn't get anything done, even not booting into bootloader, because it boots the radio first?
I'll second that this method works. Did for me and is easy to do once you take your time. Also make sure you have all the right files and you make sure to type everything word for word in ADB..
This tutorial already exists as a sticky in the Q&A section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
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Nice writeup.
For every new Phone I own, the first thing I do after flashing a Custom Recovery is Making a Nandroid Backup of the stock Rom. If something goes wrong after flashing a bad rom I just restore to Stock rom.
A real life Saver for me.
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I'll second that this method works. Did for me and is easy to do once you take your time. Also make sure you have all the right files and you make sure to type everything word for word in ADB..
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It worked for me when I bricked my phone and had to find ways how to be able to load a ROM back to the SDcard and reflash it...
This is a combo of a tutorial cannondale wrote and one I wrote myself.
His is stickied in Q&A section, mine is in Android Dev section...
Not sure why this is here lol.
i get the error 155 when trying to install the RUU
420haxr said:
i get the error 155 when trying to install the RUU
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Try to relock your bootloader first.
In fastboot:
fastboot oem lock
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Issue
Ok, still running into an issue. No errors when I push, I locked, unlocked, tried everything again. Reset everything, installed fresh CWM, tried it all over...
What's happening is that it's saying it pushed the file over, but I can't find it anywhere after it's done. This happened the first time I installed custom...I just can't remember what I did to get it to work...
Anyone has the link of stock recovery for HTC One S z560e(ville c2)?? i get error 155 when i try to install with RUU.
After i flash the cwm touch recovery I cant boot into recovery... my phone is stuck on the HTC boot logo with the red text underneath. Is it a problem with recovery or should i try install an RUU. My phone is HTC One S villec2 (S3).
Hello,
So I have a rooted HTC Desire S with Hboot 2.00.0002, unlocked bootloader and 4ext touch recovery. After a couple of failed attempts of flashing the MIUI rom and nandroid restoring it, I lost the ability to connect to 3G after the fourth attempt. So, I tried to flash a new kernel on it to see if it would solve anything. It didn't, whenever I boot up my phone it hangs on the HTC logo, then reboots a little while in 4ext recovery mode.
From here I again tried to nandroid restore, but with no luck.
How do I get my phone back to working? (what I had before was rooted stock rom)
I have tried these two kernels: http://bit.ly/ozxbWr (HTC-Kernel-2.6.35.10) and the Reaper 3.0 kernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433816).
Thanks.
Alright, found the problem. For future Googlers here is how I fixed it.
So, first I downloaded a custom rom for my phone, MIUI. I placed the zip on my micro-SD card (I have a converter so it will fit into my laptop) and booted into 4EXT recovery. I guess you can use ClockworkMod Recorvery aswell.
In here I picked "choose from SD-card" and picked my .zip file and installed it.
After installation you boot into the bootloader (Volume Down + Power button) and go into fastboot. While in fastboot you plugin your USB-cable.
Set up ADB and Fastboot with this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272595
Now go back to where you downloaded the custom rom to and extract the boot.img file to the folder where adb.exe and fastboot.exe is.
Upon up a cmd in your folder where adb.exe and fastboot.exe is in (Use Shift+Right click, pick "Open cmd here").
Now write exactly the following
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
.
Press Enter and let it do it's job. When it's done you can unplug the USB cable and restart the phone as normally. The phone will now function again.
Did you unlock your phone with HTCDEV? If so then it is extremely well documented that you have to flash to kernel separately.
SimonTS said:
Did you unlock your phone with HTCDEV? If so then it is extremely well documented that you have to flash to kernel separately.
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And even more so now
Impressed that someone actually resolved their own issue, let this hopefully be a lesson to the crowd
Swyped from my DesireS
The guide for doing this is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100
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I just picked this up for a back up phone and looking for the latest way to root this version.
I've noticed a few one clicks and some others using SDK but a lot of these seem to be old threads that have not been updated for this version. I need someone's help in pointing to the right tutorial for 4.1.1 stock NS4G.
I'm using the one-click-8.0 and Sabra's but every time I click 'Locked' it brings me to the Bootloader screen and I do not know what to click after that.
nyczwillz said:
I just picked this up for a back up phone and looking for the latest way to root this version.
I've noticed a few one clicks and some others using SDK but a lot of these seem to be old threads that have not been updated for this version. I need someone's help in pointing to the right tutorial for 4.1.1 stock NS4G.
I'm using the one-click-8.0 and Sabra's but every time I click 'Locked' it brings me to the Bootloader screen and I do not know what to click after that.
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Stop using 1 click crap. Rooting a Nexus S takes 10 minutes at best. Nothing changed since the phone came out because it's a piece of cake to unlock a Nexus S, heck, it's meant to be unlocked.
Download and install ADB drivers
Download and unpack fastboot & adb
Connect your phone to your PC. Reboot in bootloader mode (VOL UP and PWR)
From a command line, fastboot oem unlock
On your phone, scroll to Yes, press pwr
This will wipe your phone
Reboot to bootloader again, flash a custom recovery (fastboot recovery recovery.img)
Reboot to recovery (VOL UP and PWR, then scroll then recovery and press pwr)
From within, flash su or supersu.
Tada! Just rooted your phone.
Edit: Here's a link to a guide with pictures and every necessary file linked.
http://digitalpbk.com/nexus-s/how-to-root-nexus-s-windows
I recommend using a more up to date recovery though, and flashing it instead of simply booting from it.
this worked for me above anything else:
http://www.wugfresh.com/dev/nexus-root-toolkit/