I was rooted fine with unrevoked forever. I wanted to try a rom than required me to install the newest version of hboot so I did that. Well I didnt like that rom so I tried to flash a nandroid restore but it didnt take. So I reinstalled the pc36img that I used when I rooted my phone. Then I rebooted my phone. Now it booted like its not rooted! I don't have superuser app and when I try to reboot into recovery I get a red triangle over a phone.
When I boot into hboot it says I have s-off but I have no idea how to get my phone back to the way it was.
Under system info it says I have firmware version 2.1-update1 but I try to look for a froyo update and it says there are none available.
I was going to just unroot with the s-on tool but that requires going into recovery which I can't do.
What do I do?
Please help me get my root back!!!!
Try flashing this PC36IMG. That should bring you up to the latest rooted OTA, radios, hboot, and it will flash clockwork for your recovery.
Will that cause me to loose s-off root? Will I be able to re-root with the simple root method?
I want to be rooted I just screwed something up and need to fix it
Nope, it's already rooted. You will be rooted stock, off the new OTA with S-OFF.
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Try flashing this PC36IMG. That should bring you up to the latest rooted OTA, radios, hboot, and it will flash clockwork for your recovery.
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Ummmmm... That file in that link had a trojan virus in it. Thanks!
You're joking right?
Just so you know, that was a rhetorical question.
There's no trojan in that file. Download it or don't, that's on you. I am only trying to help.
I did download that file and my antivirus said a trojan virus was detected. I'm very serious. I will try again and see if I get the same results
I downloaded it again and no virus this time, Weird. Anyways when I flash this I get Boot Fail-pu so I flashed it again and got the same result. Any idea why it would do this?
I think its fixed. I reflashed my rom and now I have superuser again and I just used rom manager to flash ra recovery. Thanks for the help!!!
Novarider said:
I downloaded it again and no virus this time, Weird. Anyways when I flash this I get Boot Fail-pu so I flashed it again and got the same result. Any idea why it would do this?
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I got the exact same error. It flashed everything but the Boot failed. I restarted and it kept bringing me to the clockwork recovery instead of booting up. It said E: Invalid Argument. I wiped everything and did another restore and got the same error. I did it again and my recovery worked
I would press my luck and try to flash the de-ox rom over this but from the last 3 days, I'll probably get a boot loop again -_-
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Ever since I updated to the last OTA I have lost clockworks recovery image. Thus now I am unable to install the latest froyo rom.
I have tried to install the latest clockworks recovery image and Amon_Ra recovery through Rom Manager. Each time it states it is installed but everytime I try to boot up to the recovery image it gives me the following error:
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
and it just gives me the Android System Recover <2e>
Any help would be appreciated....
It sounds like you are not rooted.
If you accepted the OTA from Sprint using your system update on your phone, you are no longer rooted and will not have a custom recovery/root permissions. You will be unable to flash any custom recovery/ROMS/delete any sprint apps/Other Root only things until someone comes up with a way to root 2.2.
Have a drink in hopes that a dev will come up with a way to Root 2.2 soon!
I didnt update over the phone
What happened is I installed a rooted verson of 1.47.651.1 but in doing that it got rid of the recovery image... it definetly a rooter version because i can run apps that require root.. such as wife tether titanium back etc...
any other suggestions...
coolguycarlos said:
I didnt update over the phone
What happened is I installed a rooted verson of 1.47.651.1 but in doing that it got rid of the recovery image... it definetly a rooter version because i can run apps that require root.. such as wife tether titanium back etc...
any other suggestions...
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there's an update.zip around here somewhere that will allow you to boot into an early form of clockwork recovery.
so, assuming that you goofed something, but still have nand unlocked....
find that update.zip. put it and a .zip for a real recovery onto your sdcard. boot into hboot, let it run the update.zip, that will take you to koush's early clockwork recovery. use that recovery to flash a solid recovery.
done.
alternative method would be to use fastboot to erase the recovery partition, then put a new recovery in.
Here is the update.zip...Just extract Recovery.zip....Do this OR/AND what the Senior Member above said and you should be good
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there's an update.zip around here somewhere that will allow you to boot into an early form of clockwork recovery.
so, assuming that you goofed something, but still have nand unlocked....
find that update.zip. put it and a .zip for a real recovery onto your sdcard. boot into hboot, let it run the update.zip, that will take you to koush's early clockwork recovery. use that recovery to flash a solid recovery.
done.
alternative method would be to use fastboot to erase the recovery partition, then put a new recovery in.
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I actually tried the update.zip one already and it doesnt install... it will stated that the signature cant be verified and it will about the installation... havent tried the fastboot approach... I guess I will need to find out how to do that now
so from the looks of it I am screwed... I have hboot .79 if that matters and from the looks of it the rooted rom i installed screwed up my nand unlock.. which is why i think i can install any recovery images... i tried alot of the nand unlock tutorials and most of them I eventually get to a point were i need to write to /data and i cant because permissions are denied... great... oh well i'll keep on trying... any suggestions are appreciated...
If you still have super user, try this...same thing happend to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744621&page=4
I'm having a very similar problem also. My Hboot is 0.79.000 too & after trying clockworkmod recovery, a few RUU update attempts, and attempting to change ROMs completely (not in that order) I'm at a loss, no success anywhere. I can't even get in to recovery anymore. It just reverts back to Bootloader menu where my options are Reboot, Reboot Bootloader, or Power down (& I think there is one other option that i tried and sent me back to the aforementioned screen). However, I can still load my pre-existing ROM...
Does anyone have any ideas if there is anything I can do?
TIA
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If you still have super user, try this...same thing happend to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744621&page=4
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I have a question bout this... I seen this before but the sdk that I downloaded for Windows 7 does not have the Su command... any ideas on how I can get it for Windows 7?
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you can erase recovery from rom manager and try to reflash. i would recommend reinstalling rom manager just to make sure it installed correctly. it installed bad on me once and corrupted my recovery trying to update it, reinstalled and installed an old recovery then the newest one and it worked.
Thanks for the suggestions all. I followed the instructions from link you posted using terminal emulator. No such luck, still reading HBOOT 0.79.0000 and running same ROM.
I also tried reinstalling (several times) clockworkmod recovery images and it effects nothing.
Should I try to completely unroot my phone again? If the images i just flashed didn't do it what will?
Im totally at a loss here. ARG!
hit there jtwonbly.......are you also running the stock rooted 1.47.651.1?
Build number 1.47.651.1 CL195459 release-keys
yea same here......and what is it that your trying to do...go back to stock ROM?
I'd like to go to any other ROM. Its as if I'm no longer rooted anymore.
I think I may try to start all over again using NeckFaces old tutorial on unlocking NAND w/o adb. I'm just not sure if that will fix the HBOOT file because I can't get in to Recovery.
OK Guys thanks for all your help but I have been able to get it fixed now!!!
I pretty much had to redo all of Toast Root tutorial and NAND unlock to get it working. Both Part 1 and Part 2 even though I was already running a rooted rom.
The original problem I had is I kept getting told to just try the nand unlock in part 2 but the phone wasnt having it. It wouldnt like the engineering build of the pc36img.zip
So I started from Part 1. Downloaded the rooted rom pc36img.zip and what do you know it finally let me install it. By the time I was done with both parts 1 and 2 I was able to flash a recovery image, get back to hboot .76 and I am now another proud owner of an Evo running a rooted Froyo!!!!
Okay. I've search around and haven't found anything yet.
I recently got a new evo and rooted with the Unrevoked 3.0 beta RC2 yesterday. All was going well until I tried to upgrade to the CM 6.1.2 this morning. Google apps wasn't installed so I flashed the zip which put me in to a boot loop with Clockwork.
It was giving me an error when I tried to restore the backup. I tried to flash pc36img.zip and now whenever I go into recovery I am in RA-evo-v1.8 which I am unfamiliar with. I've tried installing other ROMs via this recovery but the prcess is aborted each time.
Any help would be more than appreciated. I am literally stuck.
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Okay. I've search around and haven't found anything yet.
I recently got a new evo and rooted with the Unrevoked 3.0 beta RC2 yesterday. All was going well until I tried to upgrade to the CM 6.1.2 this morning. Google apps wasn't installed so I flashed the zip which put me in to a boot loop with Clockwork.
It was giving me an error when I tried to restore the backup. I tried to flash pc36img.zip and now whenever I go into recovery I am in RA-evo-v1.8 which I am unfamiliar with. I've tried installing other ROMs via this recovery but the prcess is aborted each time.
Any help would be more than appreciated. I am literally stuck.
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Need any and all information about your phone. I also notice that you are new. The dev section isnt for Q/A there is an entire section dedicated to solving these issues. Please remember that next time. Keeps things cleaner. So please gather anything you can about your phone. Method, Hboot, Version, Radio, Anything that can help anyone here identify something.
Do you have the rom in the root of the usb card? If so try full data wipe and installing the room see if it boots up.
Thanks for the quick reply. Will remember. Desperation has gotten the better of me. I will move over to Q/A if you prefer.
HBOOT-2.10 0001
RADIO - 2.15
Initially rooted via Unrevoked 3 beta RC2 yesterday.
if your able to boot up into a rom download Rom manager and select flash clockworkMod recovery or flash alternate recovery thats prob gonna be the easiest fastest fix (considering it works)
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if your able to boot up into a rom download Rom manager and select flash clockworkMod recovery or flash alternate recovery thats prob gonna be the easiest fastest fix (considering it works)
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I agree with this method... the best way to determine the recovery to use would be to go into the terminal and type
Code:
cat /proc/mtd
if you see "400000" then you need to get the clockwork v3.0.0.2 that supports this phone partion layout. If you see "20000" then you should get amon_ra 1,8 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
The information I gathered was from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894331
Making sure you have the correct recovery is the first step. Once that is done create a nandroid and save it somewhere to ensure that the wimax partition is saved.
You have to flash the modified version of Amon_ra found in Zikronix thread. You can find my thread that points to it or just search for hboot 2.10 and follow the instructions in that rooting thread. It seems you're already rooted so just flashing the recovery is probably all you will need.
I haven't used unrevoked, and I know there are several versions. But I have seen others who have used unrevoked and couldn't flash anything bc evidently the method they used to root didn't install the flash_image file on their phone.
I know that installing flash_image fixed being able to flash for some people who rooted with unrevoked.
This issue came up and I was able to help some people, if you check near the end of fastRX8 thread. But I was only able help point the right direction, they figured out the rest of the way. The OP there has the flash_image file and tells you what terminal commands to install it.
I don't know how for you to check if you gave it or not, as I can see mine on sd card cuz I put it there when I rooted.
Beyond this suggestion, lithid can probably help much better than I.
But def post your hardware version, root method, and hboot version (you see that when you go into bootloader and read the top line.
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Wow, sorry, theres been several posts since I started tying. Looks like these guys got it for ya
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Was there a resolution for your problem? If so please post so anyone searching in the future can resolve there problem quickly.
you should flash the pc36img.zip located at the bottom of zikronix's root thread. good luck. just put it on the root of ur sdcard named as pc36img.zip and boot into bootloader. accept the update, and say no to the reboot. then pick recovery, and flash a rom. you need to stay with this recovery if it works for you.
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you should flash the pc36img.zip located at the bottom of zikronix's root thread. good luck. just put it on the root of ur sdcard named as pc36img.zip and boot into bootloader. accept the update, and say no to the reboot. then pick recovery, and flash a rom. you need to stay with this recovery if it works for you.
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You mean the modified amon ra recovery image?
exactly...
dkdude36 said:
exactly...
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Ya it worked for someone else in the Amon_Ra Clockwork thread here is the link.
zikronix said:
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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.
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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OP flash the PC36IMG in the bootloader to load this new recovery, then you can go into your new recovery and flash a new rom.
i just rooted my evo with the unrevoked beta.hboot 2.02 it installed clockwork and through that i switchted to the aman ra after that i did a nand backup, powered off my phone and when i turned it back on it was stuck in the bootloader loop. the only thing that eventually worked was installing the sprintlovers pc36img. that got my phone working again. just tried to nand backup again and the same thing happened. does this mean that i need to flash that broken recovery?
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i just rooted my evo with the unrevoked beta.hboot 2.02 it installed clockwork and through that i switchted to the aman ra after that i did a nand backup, powered off my phone and when i turned it back on it was stuck in the bootloader loop. the only thing that eventually worked was installing the sprintlovers pc36img. that got my phone working again. just tried to nand backup again and the same thing happened. does this mean that i need to flash that broken recovery?
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Were you restoring a backup or did you stuck on loop on a new rom flash?
i wasnt even trying to flash a rom yet. i was doing the very first nand backup so i could check some roms out. after the backup was complete it gave the option to power off so i did and when i turned my phone back on it was in the bootloader loop. so i went back to recovery, wiped everything, restored nand and i said it restored but when i rebooted it was back in the bootloader loop.so i just search around trying to get help but couldnt find much so i put sprintlovers since it boots up right when you turn your phone on. now it wouldnt even nand backup it said some error and was in the bootloader loop again so i just reinstalled sprintlovers, again
Try downloading an actual rom in zip format (not sprintlovers pc36img) and see if you can flash a new rom fresh. Make sure to wipe everything.
Try using Caulkings format all zip in recovery to wipe your caches.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ikylelx99c49133/Calkulin's_FORMAT_ALL.zip
put in on my sd card turned my phone off to go into recovery and now my phone wont even turn on
it came on now. gonna try to wipe and flash that rom
hboot 2.02
hardware 003
Software 3.30
I tried on 2 pcs without luck. Ihave double checked everything but no luck after numerous tries. I have rooted 2 other phones so this isnt my first root. Anyone else been able to get around this issue?
hmmm I booted into hboot and it says S-Off (although its not off) but there is no recovery.
Looks like im up!! My s was off so I manually backed uped my RSA keys just to be safe and proceeded to flash Amon_RA recovery PC36IMG.zip and then I flashed superuser zip and that got me where I needed to go.
bizdady said:
Looks like im up!! My s was off so I manually backed uped my RSA keys just to be safe and proceeded to flash Amon_RA recovery PC36IMG.zip and then I flashed superuser zip and that got me where I needed to go.
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hey..
even iam experiencing same problem..
but i really could not get what you did to make it work.. lol
it would be of great help if you can help me with it.
hboot 0.93
So your s-off now when you boot into boot loader?
I just flashed the recovery and got back up manually with superuser and busy box. You can download superuser from the market or flash a zip as for busy box I installed through Titanium Backup.
I used this method to get my recovery fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
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READ THIS GUIDE CAREFULLY SEE POST TWO FOR FAQ OR SEARCH THE THREAD.
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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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is unrevoked CID issue fixed
Hi..could you fix this issue, I wish know how fix it but I only found really old post without solutions...thanks!!!........
Ok so I used PC36IMG and updated it from the hBoot screen now it does not have any recovery mode and it comes up with a EVO Pic with a Triangle. Please help me how do I fix this?
w4rl0 said:
Ok so I used PC36IMG and updated it from the hBoot screen now it does not have any recovery mode and it comes up with a EVO Pic with a Triangle. Please help me how do I fix this?
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What was the PC36IMG & why did you need it? You need to download a PC36IMG.zip of Amon Ra or CWM. Don't rename, update in the bootloader.
plainjane said:
What was the PC36IMG & why did you need it? You need to download a PC36IMG.zip of Amon Ra or CWM. Don't rename, update in the bootloader.
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Where can I get one for Clockwork Mod?
And for your other questiuon i have no idea why i did it was on there and asked me if I wanted to update so i said yes.
w4rl0 said:
Where can I get one for Clockwork Mod?
And for your other questiuon i have no idea why i did it was on there and asked me if I wanted to update so i said yes.
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This confuses me a bit. You somehow ended up with a PC36IMG on your sd card that you had no idea what it was, then it asked you to update, and you said yes, not even knowing what it was? Is that accurate? Does your bootloader still show S off? If you flashed a PC36IMG of a factory ROM you may be S on and unrooted, so check that first. If you're still s off, and you can boot into the OS, then the easiest way for you to get Clockwork back would be to download ROM manager, and use that to flash clockwork. Just select 'flash clockwork mod recovery'. If you did in fact run a PC36IMG of the factory rom, you'll most likely need to install the Super User app again in order for ROM manager to work.
I'm very curious of what the heck you flashed, and how you didn't know what it was, lol. A little more info would be great. Are you still on the same ROM you were before you flashed it? What were the results of flashing the PC36IMG? Can you boot up?
Same thing happened to me a few days ago. Nothing is briked. Some how. After a few reeboots all came back to normal.
I fixed it, but now I am trying to get back my original backup and everythime I try it says:
Checking MD5 sums…
Erasing boot before restore…
Restoring boot image…
Error while flashing boot image!
I think my HBOOT isnt the write version but im not sure.
Hi everyone,
I got a soft-bricked evo4g and It is stuck from bootscreen.
I can get it to revolutionary recovery (HBOOT-6.16.1002).
Things that I tried. But nothing happened, didn't help and still stuck on "htc evo4g bootscreen".
Wiping it out (via HBOOT)
Updating PC36IMG.zip via SDCard
HTC Evo Hacks - RUU.exe process, but my version 1.00.000.0, according to The Root to All Evo the process will fail.
As of now I'm lost what to do next. Since TheRootToAllEvo didn't mentioned what to do with 1.00.000.0 versions (which he/she said received an OTA then rooted)
Any help with it?
Update :
I successfully flashed RUU 3.70.651.1.1, but still I have my phone rooted (S-OFF)
HBOOT-6.16.1002. But still can't boot properly.
What do I do next? Can't seem to find a way to s-on thru FastBoot.
Update :
Managed to successfully flashed RUU 4.54.651.1 and I still don't know why It won't boot properly.
Tried the PC36IMG.zip again. My HBOOT doesn't scan my SD, Is it possible that the SD Card slot is the problem?
Have you tried flashing a new recovery in fastboot to see if maybe its the recovery that's messed up? Also you started with a freshly formatted sdcard right?
Try one of these to see if it do anything different than what you already seen...
Deodexed Version ruu http://www.mediafire.com/?t7u904lm502vl7l
Odexed Version ruu http://www.mediafire.com/?krpdawqca8a58t1
genetic_shift said:
Have you tried flashing a new recovery in fastboot to see if maybe its the recovery that's messed up? Also you started with a freshly formatted sdcard right?
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I did tried to flash a new recovery, but I'm not sure if I've done it right. (using PC36IMG.zip too right?) Also. I'm using a 16gb freshly formatted sdcard (my tablet can see the content)
moreno4xl said:
Try one of these to see if it do anything different than what you already seen...
Deodexed Version ruu http://www.mediafire.com/?t7u904lm502vl7l
Odexed Version ruu http://www.mediafire.com/?krpdawqca8a58t1
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Downloading one of them.
Thanks for both of the response!
onesimus7 said:
I did tried to flash a new recovery, but I'm not sure if I've done it right. (using PC36IMG.zip too right?) Also. I'm using a 16gb freshly formatted sdcard (my tablet can see the content)
Downloading one of them.
Thanks for both of the response!
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Preferably, download the amon ra recovery, do a full wipe, [everything but sd card], flash your rom, and should be good. i suspect your recovery wasn't wiping correctly.
Update : I successfully flashed hboot 6.17, tried to flash amon ra recovery(2.3) It was scanned successfully, but never asked me to update. It just skipped back to menu.
I'll try it again once I got to fully charge the battery.
Thankkks!
onesimus7 said:
Update : I successfully flashed hboot 6.17, tried to flash amon ra recovery(2.3) It was scanned successfully, but never asked me to update. It just skipped back to menu.
I'll try it again once I got to fully charge the battery.
Thankkks!
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I answered your post over on Android Forums. Time for you to flash a stock ROM. I'd go with Froyo, personally - I find unrEVOked easier to unlock with.
Captain_Throwback said:
I answered your post over on Android Forums. Time for you to flash a stock ROM. I'd go with Froyo, personally - I find unrEVOked easier to unlock with.
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Will do that, downloading the froyo rom.
Update : Can't install Froyo or Eclair RUU Stock Roms. Its says BootLoader Incompatible. Already in 4.54 ROM, still can't boot properly.
Well it's as close as dead. Can anyone suggest anybody who's super pro that can fix this phone?
UPDATE! : I got it unlocked with HTCDev, still can't boot to recovery (even successfully flashed AMON RA, CWM and TWRP 1.1)
Any help?
onesimus7 said:
UPDATE! : I got it unlocked with HTCDev, still can't boot to recovery (even successfully flashed AMON RA, CWM and TWRP 1.1)
Any help?
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You should try flashing the s-on tool, it may tell you in bootloader that it is still s-off flash it again for good measure. The try the ruu. Then re-root.
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