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Can't flash new recovery image?

Hey guys.
Heres my situation. I want to flash psfMod-bravo-0.9.7.2 to jailbreak my PS3. I rooted my phone a while back using unrevoked.
I currently have ClockworkMod 2.5.0.1 installed. The ROM I am using is default Froyo 2.2.
So, I downloaded ROM Manager in an attempt to quickly flash to psfMod but the option to "Flash Alternate Recovery" was greyed out. After some reading, people were saying to flash to the latest ClockworkMod using ROM Manager (2.5.0.7) and then reboot and it would be available to flash whatever .img I wanted.
I ran Flash ClockworkMod Recovery, it said success. I rebooted but it was still greyed out.
Here its the part that confuses me. It says in ROM Manager that I am currently on 2.5.0.7, but if I switch off my phone and go into recovery it says im still on 2.5.0.1. I don't understand. If I select "Reebot into Recovery" in ROM manager, then it actually does load 2.5.0.7...Help!
I even tried manually flashing psfMod using the SDK and it says "FAILED (remote: signature verify fail).
Please can someone tell me if I am doing something wrong, or how to fix this!
tldr: I want to flash a new recovery (CWM 2.5.0.7) but everytime I boot up it still has the old one (2.5.0.1)

Anyone?

Can't you use unrevoked to flash an alternate recovery? In unrevoked you can select an alternate recovery, that's how I flashed amon ra

I tried using unrevoked already.
When it reboots it goes into the bootloader, does its thing, and then goes back into android but gets stuck on the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" splash screen and sits there. Unrevoked says Waiting for reboot. I have to pull the battery out for it to do anything. If I then take it back into bootloader again, Unrevoked says "Internal Error couldn't find misc".
I'm not sure whats going on. Someone please help!

Giggity said:
I tried using unrevoked already.
When it reboots it goes into the bootloader, does its thing, and then goes back into android but gets stuck on the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" splash screen and sits there. Unrevoked says Waiting for reboot. I have to pull the battery out for it to do anything. If I then take it back into bootloader again, Unrevoked says "Internal Error couldn't find misc".
I'm not sure whats going on. Someone please help!
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Would you be willing to flash a RUU or do the PB99IMG method? then root again? If you are then follow this.
This might work for you
WAIT, BEFORE YOU START, CREATE A GOLDCARD. IT IS VERY NECESSARY. THINGS WILL GO WRONG IF YOU DONT.
Firstly, download this file. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13240777/Desire Downgrade.ZIP
Extract the files.
Run the win-down.bat file.
Follow on screen instructions.
After the process is completed, Head to the root of your SD card and check if there is a file named P99***IMG (FORGOT THE EXACT NAME BUT IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE THIS) there should be one.
Secondly, disconnect your phone and turn it off.
After that boot up your phone while pressing the volume down button and the power button.
The bootloader should be checking for files after awhile and once it found the file that is supposed to be in the root of your sd card, press the volume up button (NOT EXACTLY SURE, SHOULD BE THE ONE THAT SAYS YES AND CONTINUE)
It should be writing files to your phone. and replaces everything. E.G: HBOOT, RECOVERY,RADIO and such.
It should be writing files successfully and then it would ask you to reboot. Continue with the reboot and you should be having your Desire back to stock. Perfect.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE ARE RISKS INVOLVED LIKE FAILURE OF WRITING TO THE HBOOT. PLEASE REMEMBER TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. MAINLY, DO NOT BLAME ME FOR ANYTHING THAT GOES WRONG.
FINALLY, YOU SHOULD BE READING EVERYTHING UP TO HERE AND THAT YOU MUST HAVE A GOLDCARD (A GOLD SD CARD)
Hope this helps you and please ask if you have further questions. PM me if the questions cannot be answered here. Good Luck

[Q] Cannot boot after OTA 2.29.405.2

Hello,
After applying the latest OTA 2.29.405.2 I am unable to boot my phone.
The new firmware was successfully applied, because I could start the phone for the first time.
After I shut it down again it won't got past the HTC logo.
I can get start the hboot but I if i select fastboot or recovery I get stuck again with the HTC logo.
When i select the bootloader "I get no image or wrong image."
I did not root my phone.
Please help.

For a start, unless you have a PB99IMG.zip file on your sd card you will always get that message in the bootloader. It's just telling you it can't find any of the files it looks for on your card so nothing wrong there.
First thing I'd do is try manually reflashing the OTA update. you can get the OTA ZIP file here:
http://fotadl.htc.com/OTA_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2-2.10.405.2_R_P_release8gn61bgo3rswcw24.zip
Rename it update.zip and put it on the root of your SD card. Then boot into recovery (if you manage to) and flash it.
If not, go into Fastboot and clear storage (wipe). This should sort you out. If not, download the 2.29.405.2 RUU from my signature and flash that in fastboot and it should see you right if you're still having issues

Did not work unfortunately. I will try to flash it. Any easy to follow tutorial I can use ? I never did this before.
Thank you kindly.

psycho.ro said:
Did not work unfortunately. I will try to flash it. Any easy to follow tutorial I can use ? I never did this before.
Thank you kindly.
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What didn't work? What I put on my previous post is exactly what you need to do

I downloaded the file and renamed it ot update.zip and copied it to the root of my sdcard. when i select recovery it gets stuck in htc logo.
Then I've cleared storage/user settings and tried again, same thing.

So now do the last thing I suggested

this happened to me also. i downloaded the RUU and just did it via the pc. lost everything i did not backup, but that's my fault. all contacts were on google and and i used appbrain to pull down all my installed apps.

ok, i finally did it and it's fine now. I figured out what i was doing wrong. flashed it and it started now.
thanks for the support, really appreaciate it !

For reference, what were you doing wrong?

i did not go in the fastboot menu when i tried the last thing you suggested and because of this, my phone was not recognized by windows and the flash utility could not do its job.
but now it seems that my phone is restarting from time to time, somewhere between 5-10 minutes.

Might wanna do a hard reset just to make sure things flashed correctly

Help With EVO

My EVO keeps on going into recovery mode with red triangle on it. I have tried to push the adb push PC36IMG.zip /sdcard but when the phone reads the zip it keeps on failing with these errors radio_vz fail bootloader fail-ic , image check fail and update fail!..
I have also tried to run RUU but it keeps on giving me usb connection errors. What do I need to do get my phone up and running

hello and welcome to the forums.
What method of rooting are you using?
At what stage are you getting to that you are at this point?
additionally it is helpful for posters to post in the section that best fits there post in this case Q&A. this si so it keeps things easy to read and find which you will quickly find can be a task all its own as you root and start playing around. it isn't a huge deal that you posted wrong though you may get a few nasty remarks for it just dont let them get to you and in the future try post questions there.
lastly if you hold the vol up button and power when at the red ! does it do anything for you?

I followed this article
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 basically the root didnot go through sucessfully and phone keeps on going into the recovery mode.
Now I am trying to get my phone up and running , apparently something went wrong with the script posted in the forum.
This has turned out to be a quite an adventure for me . The process failed at step 7 and it never worked from that step.

smartguy10 said:
I followed this article
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 basically the root didnot go through sucessfully and phone keeps on going into the recovery mode.
Now I am trying to get my phone up and running , apparently something went wrong with the script posted in the forum.
This has turned out to be a quite an adventure for me
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Don't worry. We've all had our bad rooting experiences. You're in good hands here. I'd recommend posting in the Q&A section because there will be a lot of people that can help you there (especially when it gets buisy later tonight). Breathe, you haven't bricked or destroyed your phone. You're no where close to in trouble

Are you S-off? If so sounds like your recovery didnt flash correctly.
You can try flashing a new recovery. Then if thats good just get superuser and busybox installed once your up and running.
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FIX BROKEN RECOVERY
This is really only needed if you rooted with one of the previos guides version 6 or lower or if you installed a different recovery like I told you not to. It installs amon_ra 2.2.1
1) Download File PC36IMG_Recovery.zip and Rename to PC36IMG.zip.
copy to the root of your SDCard and power off phone
2) Power your phone back on into the boot loader by holding power and vol-down until your presented with a white screen. It will read the pc36img.zip and as you if you want to flash. Say yes. Then it will ask if you want to reboot, VOL+UP for yes.
3) If your rom gets tossed in the process. Reboot your phone into bootloader select recovery, and reflash your rom....DONE
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No , its SOFF. I already copied the file to the zip and it failed with these errors
radio_vz fail bootloader fail-ic , image check fail and update fail!

Thread moved to Q&A.

smartguy10 said:
No , its SOFF. I already copied the file to the zip and it failed with these errors
radio_vz fail bootloader fail-ic , image check fail and update fail!
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It sounds like it never flashed the rom & recovery. Could you attach the autorootlog file to a post so I can see where it went wrong?
Since you are already showing s-off it will be an easy fix. It would be better to run the RUU, for a clean flash, then running autoroot again where it will see you are s-off and finish, but you could also use the flash recovery tool in the post below to simply install a recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10563497&postcount=1386
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I got the phone back with using RUU, now its time to step back and may be root again.

smartguy10 said:
I got the phone back with using RUU, now its time to step back and may be root again.
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smartguy10,
Could you please send me the autoroot log file that was made so I can find out what went wrong and possibly fix it?

I looked at the autoroot folder and didnot find autoroot file. Before I use your script again what precautions I should take again. If you look at the error messages it looked again the flash didn't finish completely.
Is there a way that I can back up my stock rom to sd card and restore it again if something goes wrong.

[Q] Unable to unroot Evo

Hey guys,
I had a friend root my phone and wanted to unroot it, I wasnt sure how to do it so i stupidly did stuff without reading first.
I am running unrevoked it seems and i went into recovery and did a factory reset. Well my phone still wouldnt accept the OTA update so i went back into recovery and deleted data and a few other options. Well i have been reading and been trying to reflash my phone back so i can use it again. Well i dont have an OS anymore it seems so the only thing my phone does is go to the bootloader. ( white screen with options Fastboot, Recovery, ect. )
I downloaded an image file and the bootloader checked it and said Main version older and failed to install. So i did more reading and flashed the unrevoked zip again and tried again. didnt work, so i have been downloading every image i can find tring to get it to install and it never does. It says i am missing file PC36diag.zip and PC36diag.nbh or NBH file is not correct. It then unpacks the img file i have on there then checks it, then nothing happens ( that is with the other image files i dled not the original ) And when i say nothing happens i mean it says checking, then just goes back to the bootloader screen. I dont know what to do. Any help?

Did you try Z4 mod to un-root?

No,
This link is the method i was using to unroot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141

Kethron said:
Hey guys,
I had a friend root my phone and wanted to unroot it, I wasnt sure how to do it so i stupidly did stuff without reading first.
I am running unrevoked it seems and i went into recovery and did a factory reset. Well my phone still wouldnt accept the OTA update so i went back into recovery and deleted data and a few other options. Well i have been reading and been trying to reflash my phone back so i can use it again. Well i dont have an OS anymore it seems so the only thing my phone does is go to the bootloader. ( white screen with options Fastboot, Recovery, ect. )
I downloaded an image file and the bootloader checked it and said Main version older and failed to install. So i did more reading and flashed the unrevoked zip again and tried again. didnt work, so i have been downloading every image i can find tring to get it to install and it never does. It says i am missing file PC36diag.zip and PC36diag.nbh or NBH file is not correct. It then unpacks the img file i have on there then checks it, then nothing happens ( that is with the other image files i dled not the original ) And when i say nothing happens i mean it says checking, then just goes back to the bootloader screen. I dont know what to do. Any help?
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Have you tried running the RUU yet? I would give that a try. Also, I believe that when you get the 'main version older' error, it has something to do with what version hboot you have on your phone. There are many different PC36IMG.zips and many different RUU's. I believe you need to find the correct one for your phone. I would try the RUU first though, and see if you can get your phone back up that way. You run the RUU from your computer, and have the phone plugged in via USB. I will provide a couple links, one that contains every RUU and PC36IMG (all software versions), and another that has a bunch of factory ROMS. Hope it works for ya.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs

You've got good advise on the RUU. I already did it to bring my Evo into a store to be looked at.
In the Evo Development thread you'll find one or more posts with links to the Evo RUU files. If you have a 002 or 003 hardware version Evo, download the 3.29.x version RUU; if you have an 004 you can get the latest 3.70.x file.
Connect your Evo to your PC via the USB cable, run the RUU file on your PC, and befor eyou know it, you've got an unrooted, completely stock Evo. Add your info again, run the OTA updater to get you back to the latest version, and enjoy your stock Evo.
I hope this helps. Thank you for your time.

This is really starting to look like a megaupload advertisement

I'm having trouble unrooting my evo and have to ship it back in 4 days. I,ve tryed the unrevoked s-on and it worked but reflash pc36img didn't take tried 3 or 4. going to try this but what do I do to phone to connect? disk drive?

i was also having this problem yesterday but i did it. i rooted using the autoroot program. i unroot using the ruu . heres what i did first download htc sync for your evo then plug in your phone to the pc. turn off your phone. turn it on to the bootloader . leave it there dont do anything else. then run ruu , if you get an error message keep on trying it . also google for the ruu program. hope this help

[Q] Help Unrooting!

Please don't refer me to any more threads or forums........
I'm sure this has been done and done and talked about but I've been reading the **** out of forums and comments for a few hours now and trying to unroot my Sprint LG G2.
I had it running stock like a champ. rooted it. worked great. then I was attempting to flash lollipop and it required a recovery update (No Problem) I downloaded the correct files and bam! it says your phone is not rooted this requires a root (or something like that) I was already rooted SuperSU installed and root checker said I was fine. so what the hell I swipe to root while inside recovery and it goes to some black screen with tiny text saying fastboot: processing commands and won't leave the screen. I tried booting into recovery and same thing happens. Tried to reboot normal and I'm stuck on the LG logo with my led flashing between blue and green slowly. I CAN boot into download mode and I'm following this
http://pastebin.com/WTm1xFXz
and this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2687929
to unbrick but having this error "Failed PreviousLoad()
Did I not get the right .dll file? I doubt it cause I only saw one...or is it the wrong .tot file? there was 3 or so
http://downloads.codefi.re/autoprime/LG/LG_G2/LS980/Stock_Firmware
Please help!
When i'm in download mode the phone does say I am rooted. is there a way to just re-flash recovery and restore from my backups I did before all this? if I have to wipe this thing clean and start over I don't really mind I just need to get my phone back haha this is the first time this has ever happened to me and I consider myself tech savvy so idk what I did here (except re rooting in recovery like an idiot) thanks so much!

First question, is the download mode you see with a small status bar or the big one?
If you have the big one, download mode should work. The f flash software will verify the tot file. If that goes through you should be golden.
When it asked you in TWRP to root, that is a message telling you system or ROM file did not take.
If you want cm12, use zv8 tot. Root, auto-rec, update TWRP with blastgator bumped TWRP 2.5.1. Flash cm ROM or aosp, then gapps. And go