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Hello everyone.
I've been reading this forum for a while now but never had the guts to root my phone and install custom ROMs. Now I'm tempted to root and play around with my new sensation xe. Please tell me where should I begin from, and kindly note that I'm a total newb in this matter. Links to basics of rooting are most welcomed, and specially what I need to root a Sensation XE. Also I need ROMs with beats audio.
Many thanks in advance.
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Just follow this step by step:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300

As above and I use the Elegancia ROM. Works just about perfectly for me.
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hamedunix said:
Hello everyone.
I've been reading this forum for a while now but never had the guts to root my phone and install custom ROMs. Now I'm tempted to root and play around with my new sensation xe. Please tell me where should I begin from, and kindly note that I'm a total newb in this matter. Links to basics of rooting are most welcomed, and specially what I need to root a Sensation XE. Also I need ROMs with beats audio.
Many thanks in advance.
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Just so you will know any Gingerbread ROM (Android 2.3.0 to 2.4.3) can have Beats Audio installed on it if it does not have it. Go to here to check out the thread. It is a recovery flashable .zip file. It currently does not work on any ICS ROMs (Android 4.0.0 or higher).

If you get rooted....and are interested a Sense 4.0 rom I strongly suggest Ordroid its very stable now and beats finally works like a charm....be warned Shinzlon is a monster when it comes to updates so you will be wiping and flashing new versions every other day as he perfects it
Make sure you read a lot because you need a different firmware to flash ICS roms....
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Thanks a bunch guys. I think I'll spend some time reading before I get to action.
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Alright. I got s-off'd using revolutionary and successfuly backed up my data using recovery.
I want to install ARHD ICS ROMs but it seems I need a firmware upgrade. Some posts say I have to use 4Ext recovery to flash ARHD. Is that possible to flash ARHD with current recovery I have?
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Both are correct. 4ext recovery can be downloaded from the market and flashed that way. Also did you flash the superuser.zip after you S-off'd?? Might be worth doing that. It's also worth super CIDing too. Its fairly straight forward and is done via fastboot. There are plenty of guides on how to do it. Once that is done download the new firmware from the ARHD thread along with the superwipe script and the rom itself. Put these on the root of your SD card. Boot your phone into recovery and it should automatically flash the new firmware. Afterwards power off and remove the SD card. Put it in your PC and remove the firmware from your SD card otherwise you will get bootloops. flash the superwipe script then flash the ROM. Then enjoy.......

3484jacks said:
Both are correct. 4ext recovery can be downloaded from the market and flashed that way. Also did you flash the superuser.zip after you S-off'd?? Might be worth doing that. It's also worth super CIDing too. Its fairly straight forward and is done via fastboot. There are plenty of guides on how to do it. Once that is done download the new firmware from the ARHD thread along with the superwipe script and the rom itself. Put these on the root of your SD card. Boot your phone into recovery and it should automatically flash the new firmware. Afterwards power off and remove the SD card. Put it in your PC and remove the firmware from your SD card otherwise you will get bootloops. flash the superwipe script then flash the ROM. Then enjoy.......
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Read somewhere that ARHD ROMs install 4EXT recovery when they're flashed.
Please answer this question of mine: can I still install ICS if I don't supper cid?
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I dont know if ARHD flashes 4ext. Not sure they do though. Its easier just to do it first then you know its done, rather than run into problems. Its easy to install, like i mentioned it can be done from the market by just downloading the app. You have to be rooted though so, again
did you flash the Superuser.zip after you S-Off'd???
I think you can install ICS without supercid but you need to install the firmware that matches your CID. Its worth supercid though as then you can flash anything you want.

3484jacks said:
I dont know if ARHD flashes 4ext. Not sure they do though. Its easier just to do it first then you know its done, rather than run into problems. Its easy to install, like i mentioned it can be done from the market by just downloading the app. You have to be rooted though so, again
did you flash the Superuser.zip after you S-Off'd???
I think you can install ICS without supercid but you need to install the firmware that matches your CID. Its worth supercid though as then you can flash anything you want.
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No I didn't install superuser.zip. it wasn't mentioned in the guide I followed. By the way is it ok to have 2 recovery at the sale time? I have recovery bow and if I install 4EXT would it replace the current one?
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Go here
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/revolutionary
Scroll down to the common problems and questions. Read the one about root. Download that file and flash through recovery.
4ext will overwrite Cwm. You can only have 1 recovery.

3484jacks said:
Go here
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/revolutionary
Scroll down to the common problems and questions. Read the one about root. Download that file and flash through recovery.
4ext will overwrite Cwm. You can only have 1 recovery.
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I'm sorry for being a newb here but can help je through installing an ARHD ics Rom?
Right now I have s-off, Recovery installed. My hboot version is 1.17.1111
What's next for me?
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No you can only have one re over at a time as the internal NAND storage only has one recovery portion. Also no custom ROME flashes a recovery with it, they justflash the system portion and the boot partition.

hamedunix said:
I'm sorry for being a newb here but can help je through installing an ARHD ics Rom?
Right now I have s-off, Recovery installed. My hboot version is 1.17.1111
What's next for me?
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Flash the superuser.zip
go to market and install 4ext recovey.
All the info is on this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300

3484jacks said:
Flash the superuser.zip
go to market and install 4ext recovey.
All the info is on this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
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That's the guide I followed to get s-off and recovery. By in that post nothing is mentioned aboy 4EXT. Is it?
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T-Macgnolia said:
No you can only have one re over at a time as the internal NAND storage only has one recovery portion. Also no custom ROME flashes a recovery with it, they justflash the system portion and the boot partition.
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So is it possible for me to flash ARHD ics ROMs without 4EXT and using the revolutionary recovery?
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Holy smokes!!
4ext is required for ARHD. Read the ROM thread!!!! Have you done superuser yet?

3484jacks said:
Holy smokes!!
4ext is required for ARHD. Read the ROM thread!!!! Have you done superuser yet?
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No I haven't done superuser yet. Is that a must in flashing ARHD?
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4EXT recovery control is a paid app on market!
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Stock at bootanimation

I recently used htcdev, rooted and installed recovery. After this I tried to flash several roms but all stocked at the bootanimations.. what am I supposed to do? I'm running CWM recovery 4.0.1 - HTC Sensation XE - S-ON and hboot 1.29

blackster said:
I recently used htcdev, rooted and installed recovery. After this I tried to flash several roms but all stocked at the bootanimations.. what am I supposed to do? I'm running CWM recovery 4.0.1 - HTC Sensation XE - S-ON and hboot 1.29
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Follow the flashing ROMs with S-ON guide in sensation general forum
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Hmm I followed it and managed to install an aosp rom.. however I'd like to install ViperS and that didn't work. I noticed that ViperS had all these kernel things, does that mean I need s-off to install it?

blackster said:
Hmm I followed it and managed to install an aosp rom.. however I'd like to install ViperS and that didn't work. I noticed that ViperS had all these kernel things, does that mean I need s-off to install it?
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Use 4EXT Recovery then enable smart flash.
And for S-OFF I would recommend it because it will make life a lot easier
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Jonny said:
Use 4EXT Recovery then enable smart flash.
And for S-OFF I would recommend it because it will make life a lot easier
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I am planning to S-off but I just got the phone yesterday - I did enable smartflash ^^ it just didn't help it seems. Guess I have to s-off, or I am just a little bad at this xD

blackster said:
I am planning to S-off but I just got the phone yesterday - I did enable smartflash ^^ it just didn't help it seems. Guess I have to s-off, or I am just a little bad at this xD
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If flashing rom after smart flash didn't worked.. Then you need to do extra #1 step from the same guide
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[Q] Flash Sensation Custom Roms Steps order!

Hey guys,
After reading a lot of guides to flash a custom Rom to sensation ... i just want to to know 2 things:
First: is Recovery is mandatory? if yes.. why?
Second: i want to flash roms like ViperS rom or CM10... the steps i understood so far is :
1-S-OFF using [GUIDE] Juopunutbear S-OFF NO HTCDEV UNLOCK | ROOT (1.2x HBOOTS)--NEW: ONE CLICK ROOT
2-Flash the custom rom ... but really i don't know the exact steps to do that ....
I just want ordered guides to read to help me flash the rom.
My Sensation:
HBOOT 1.27
Software 3.33.415.51
Android version: 4.03
Best Regards,

Get s off
Install custom recovery ( must have for flashing custom rom )
Flash rom in recovery
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Itsakash said:
Get s off
Install custom recovery ( must have for flashing custom rom )
Flash rom in recovery
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thank you ...
So no need for root as the custom rom is rooted ?

new user.. HELP me to root..

friends i am having HTC sensation and i have to root my phone.. please help me to root or give me the link to the thread..
I am a newbie in rooting the phone so i dont know anything about this.. please guide me..

Read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140870

ashu01 said:
friends i am having HTC sensation and i have to root my phone.. please help me to root or give me the link to the thread..
I am a newbie in rooting the phone so i dont know anything about this.. please guide me..
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Hi,
Check my signature for an up-to-date list of guides.

malybru said:
Hi,
Check my signature for an up-to-date list of guides.
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I am currently reading your post.. i have read that first i have to s off my phone but i am not able to find the hboot version of my phone.. please help me to this guide.. i dont wanna brick my phone.. as i am having stock ROM and playing with custom ROM's first time.. if possible give me ur mail id..

ashu01 said:
I am currently reading your post.. i have read that first i have to s off my phone but i am not able to find the hboot version of my phone.. please help me to this guide.. i dont wanna brick my phone.. as i am having stock ROM and playing with custom ROM's first time.. if possible give me ur mail id..
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Hi,
Read # 33 by ganesh
He gives a good overview of most things that concern you.
We can keep this conversation in this thread,as it may benefit others.

Just rooted my XE today.dont dare to sOff bcoz my hboot is 1.29... thought its easy like my desire and desire hd.now stuck with S-on.
If a custom rom doesnt say need S-off, will it was a S-on?im confused to choose a rom here.flashed Viper with no success boot.it doesn't says need S-off either.
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acidglory said:
Just rooted my XE today.dont dare to sOff bcoz my hboot is 1.29... thought its easy like my desire and desire hd.now stuck with S-on.
If a custom rom doesnt say need S-off, will it was a S-on?im confused to choose a rom here.flashed Viper with no success boot.it doesn't says need S-off either.
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Hi,
Look HERE
The key to flashing custom ROMS with s-on,is to use the "Smartflash" in the 4 EXT recovery.

malybru said:
Hi,
Look HERE
The key to flashing custom ROMS with s-on,is to use the "Smartflash" in the 4 EXT recovery.
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Tq for the answer but i cnot open the link due to net congested.a question here so i cnot flash rom using CWM?And neither cnot using ext recovery as it requires a S-off.what a hard here...really missed my desire and dhd.
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acidglory said:
Tq for the answer but i cnot open the link due to net congested.a question here so i cnot flash rom using CWM?And neither cnot using ext recovery as it requires a S-off.what a hard here...really missed my desire and dhd.
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Hi,
Please wait until your net is not congested.
Read the thread I gave you,because it contains all the help you need.
No, you do not need s-off

malybru said:
Hi,
Please wait until your net is not congested.
Read the thread I gave you,because it contains all the help you need.
No, you do not need s-off
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Hi.i can read now all the instruction.i try flashing the 4ext recovery image but it wont boot.just stuck and automatically its reboot to stock rom.mean is i have no recovery now.have to install 4ext using wifi later..tq so much.
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acidglory said:
Hi.i can read now all the instruction.i try flashing the 4ext recovery image but it wont boot.just stuck and automatically its reboot to stock rom.mean is i have no recovery now.have to install 4ext using wifi later..tq so much.
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Manual flashing of custom recovery should work... Did the command was a success?
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I personnally used the Allinone Kit for htc sensation
i didn't even have to think
the steps are simple

ashu01 said:
friends i am having HTC sensation and i have to root my phone.. please help me to root or give me the link to the thread..
I am a newbie in rooting the phone so i dont know anything about this.. please guide me..
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Try this
http://virtuallyhyper.com/2012/12/rooting-my-htc-sensation-phone/

Thanks
Thanks a lot friends.. i have rooted my phone with Soff.. just need to install cutom ROMS now.. can you people suggest me some stable ROM's.. i know about CM ROM. I need some some ROM's which have sense 4+...:laugh:

ashu01 said:
Thanks a lot friends.. i have rooted my phone with Soff.. just need to install cutom ROMS now.. can you people suggest me some stable ROM's.. i know about CM ROM. I need some some ROM's which have sense 4+...:laugh:
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Hi,
All the ROMS are HERE
Just look for a Sense 4 ROM.
They all have titles.

CID
malybru said:
Hi,
All the ROMS are HERE
Just look for a Sense 4 ROM.
They all have titles.
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need help.. i have changed my cid to supercid on my stock ROM and my gprs stopped working....??

ashu01 said:
need help.. i have changed my cid to supercid on my stock ROM and my gprs stopped working....??
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Hi,
Going to supercid will not break your gprs.
Did you search the ROM thread or ask in there about gprs?

malybru said:
Hi,
Going to supercid will not break your gprs.
Did you search the ROM thread or ask in there about gprs?
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i changed my cid to supercid on my stock ROM and it broke my gprs.. now i again changed my cid to official one then also my gprs is not working..??

ashu01 said:
Thanks a lot friends.. i have rooted my phone with Soff.. just need to install cutom ROMS now.. can you people suggest me some stable ROM's.. i know about CM ROM. I need some some ROM's which have sense 4+...:laugh:
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Btw what methods u used to s-off? Btw dear friends tq for the links i successfully flashed rom using smartflash 4ext and it automatically fix the boot image.but mine stil s-on isnt it?
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[Q] Asking how to s-off

Hello everyone,
I have an Htc Sensation XE hboot 1.29.0000 which is unlocked bootloader and rooted.
Now I want to install cyanogenmod and I need s-off. But when I search online, the only thing I saw how to s-off is to do the wire trick.
I don't want to do s-off in terms of hardware.
Is there any way to s-off using any softwares like last time we did in gingerbread?
Please reply me at least whether yes or no! I will be looking forward to the replies.
Thanks,
Phyo Aung Khant.

phyoaungkhant said:
Hello everyone,
I have an Htc Sensation XE hboot 1.29.0000 which is unlocked bootloader and rooted.
Now I want to install cyanogenmod and I need s-off. But when I search online, the only thing I saw how to s-off is to do the wire trick.
I don't want to do s-off in terms of hardware.
Is there any way to s-off using any softwares like last time we did in gingerbread?
Please reply me at least whether yes or no! I will be looking forward to the replies.
Thanks,
Phyo Aung Khant.
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You dont need S-Off just to flash custom ROM. You just need Unlocked bootloader and 4EXT Recovery to flash custom ROM being S-On. And for S-Off, the wire trick is the only method to achieve S-Off with 1.2X hboots
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and don't forget to enable 4ext smartflash before flashing

How to use 4ext recovery
boyriot said:
and don't forget to enable 4ext smartflash before flashing
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Now the recovery I got is ClockworkMod Recovery Touch v5.8.0.9
Last time I flashed the Cyanogenmod Zip from the ClockworkMod Recovery, it stopped during the boot stage.
As you two said, if I use 4ext recovery, that problem will be gone, right?
So can you post any link to tutorials or videos to install 4ext recovery?
And also I don't know what is smartflash.
Please explain to me.
Thanks,
Phyo Aung Khant.

phyoaungkhant said:
Now the recovery I got is ClockworkMod Recovery Touch v5.8.0.9
Last time I flashed the Cyanogenmod Zip from the ClockworkMod Recovery, it stopped during the boot stage.
As you two said, if I use 4ext recovery, that problem will be gone, right?
So can you post any link to tutorials or videos to install 4ext recovery?
And also I don't know what is smartflash.
Please explain to me.
Thanks,
Phyo Aung Khant.
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Follow this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
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Thanks for the help
Thanks a lot, man.
I've got my sensation CM9.
I've always wanted it on my phone since stock rom cost a lot of RAM.
Thanks.
MrJukeHardbane said:
Follow this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
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