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[Q] Help Brick,

hi, my Incredible bricked after a hard reset. it stucks in the frist screen (the white one, that says Htc incredible), I can acces to the Hboot, but I cant acces to recovery menu neither hard reset or clear storage options because this options restar the device an it get stuck in the same screen. it have s-on. theres something to do? or is a paperweight now?

yomero1 said:
hi, my Incredible bricked after a hard reset. it stucks in the frist screen (the white one, that says Htc incredible), I can acces to the Hboot, but I cant acces to recovery menu neither hard reset or clear storage options because this options restar the device an it get stuck in the same screen. it have s-on. theres something to do? or is a paperweight now?
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If you can get to the boot menu then its not bricked
Try reflashing the recovery from there
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superchilpil said:
If you can get to the boot menu then its not bricked
Try reflashing the recovery from there
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thanks, can u tell me some hints to search it?

yomero1 said:
thanks, can u tell me some hints to search it?
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Try using unrevoked, and make sure your in hboot when u plug it in
If that doesn't work I believe your other option is adb but I know nothing of using it
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Assuming you have a way to get the file onto your sdcard (like plugging it directly into your computer), you can flash the recover image from hboot. I am not sure where you can get the plane jane clockwork recovery, but you can get the slightly modified clockwork recovery with easy scrolling enabled from the thread linked below. That should at least get you up and running again and then you can flash back the regular CW Recovery from Rom Manager if you don't like the easy scroll version.
Instructions for flashing from hboot are also in the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8245140#post8245140

You guys are missing that hes S-on, which means he cant flash from hboot.

Fretless said:
You guys are missing that hes S-on, which means he cant flash from hboot.
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I saw it but was guessing he meant s-off because of the way he said it. Hopefully unrevoked worked for him then as I don't think you have to have s-off for it to work.
Other option would be to flash a stock RUU from hboot. That should work even if he is s-on.

sdorn77 said:
I saw it but was guessing he meant s-off because of the way he said it. Hopefully unrevoked worked for him then as I don't think you have to have s-off for it to work.
Other option would be to flash a stock RUU from hboot. That should work even if he is s-on.
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Either way. He's got hboot, which means its not a brick
to the OP
If nothing else works,
I agree with sdorn. RUU is the way.
Thats what will fix your issues.
If you cant get to recovery and you have S-on, meaning that you cannot flash a custom recovery, your only option is to RUU. There is a link in android development. You will need a windows computer. Try this and report back. If it doesnt work and gives you a USB error, simply: 1. Exit the ruu program (KEEP YOUR PHONE PLUGGED IN), and 2. Run it again.
Boom, no more brick
but, hours worth of retweaking.

You could also try to run a update.zip of the OTA. Here is the url to download it.
droid-life.com/2010/08/31/manual-update-droid-incredible-to-android-2-2/
You can get the clockwork recovery from unrevoked.com on the forever part.
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Redemption Rom 2.03
Hydra OC 1.113
Unrevoked splash
Cyborg boot

I try with unrevoked3 but it cant find the phone.. the ruu that you said before is this ?? techpetals.com/how-to-root-install-froyo-for-droid-incredible-leaked-version-froyo-manual-install-1937

somekid13 said:
You could also try to run a update.zip of the OTA. Here is the url to download it.
droid-life.com/2010/08/31/manual-update-droid-incredible-to-android-2-2/
You can get the clockwork recovery from unrevoked.com on the forever part.
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Redemption Rom 2.03
Hydra OC 1.113
Unrevoked splash
Cyborg boot
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thanks, but the incredible is s-on and I cant access to the recovery for the update . Im trying to figure how to do the RUU that fretless said.

This update there is no need to have s-off, you can do out with s-on. It is the official ota update from verizon. Just download it, put out on the your of your sd card, then power phone up while holding the power button and volume down button. It should recognoize the file and ask you if you want to install. This is easier than the RUU and just as effective.
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Hydra OC 1.115
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Cyborg boot

yomero1 said:
thanks, but the incredible is s-on and I cant access to the recovery for the update . Im trying to figure how to do the RUU that fretless said.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765596&highlight=Ruu link to thread
Sorry if I'm not supposed to post links.
Install boot drivers. Refer to unrevoked help for this.
Run ruu. If it fails cancel program ten run it again.it's easy.
somekid13 said:
This update there is no need to have s-off, you can do out with s-on. It is the official ota update from verizon. Just download it, put out on the your of your sd card, then power phone up while holding the power button and volume down button. It should recognoize the file and ask you if you want to install. This is easier than the RUU and just as effective.
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Hydra OC 1.115
Unrevoked splash
Cyborg boot
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He can't get into recovery, so he can't apply the update. He's got to ruu.

1. Download the update.zip file from here. (DIRECT FROM GOOGLE.)
2. Drop the file on the root of your SD card. (Meaning, don’t put it in any folder.)
*MAKE SURE IT’S NAMED UPDATE.ZIP!
3. Turn your phone off.
4. Press and hold the Volume Down and Power at the same time to boot into HBOOT.
5. When the white HBOOT screen appears, use the volume button to move down to “RECOVERY.”
6. Press the Power button to select “RECOVERY.”
7. When the triangle and exclamation appears, hold the Volume Up and Power button at the same time.
8. Using the volume button, scroll down to “apply sdcard:update.zip” and select it.
9. Your phone will now update!
10. It could take some time, so be patient. When it reboots, you are on official 2.2. Yay!
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what I mean is that the step 7 never hapen, it freezes in the HTC Incredible bootscreen forever( until I pull off the battery).
there is another way to install this update without the recovery menu?

yomero1 said:
what I mean is that the step 7 never hapen, it freezes in the HTC Incredible bootscreen forever( until I pull off the battery).
there is another way to install this update without the recovery menu?
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Just use the ruu. Your recovery is probably messed up.

yomero1 said:
what I mean is that the step 7 never hapen, it freezes in the HTC Incredible bootscreen forever( until I pull off the battery).
there is another way to install this update without the recovery menu?
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Perhaps wait for awhile at the htc screen
My first root and flash took 20 min.
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Fretless said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765596&highlight=Ruu link to thread
Sorry if I'm not supposed to post links.
Install boot drivers. Refer to unrevoked help for this.
Run ruu. If it fails cancel program ten run it again.it's easy.
He can't get into recovery, so he can't apply the update. He's got to ruu.
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thanks, downloading, I did instal the drivers from unrevoked,

is frustrating, I did run RUU conect to USB with the drivres from unrevoked and it get error 170 cannt find it. I did something wrong?

yomero1 said:
is frustrating, I did run RUU conect to USB with the drivres from unrevoked and it get error 170 cannt find it. I did something wrong?
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Unrevoked drivers don't play nice with the ruu.

Follow above posters to RUU to 2.2 stock.
UnRevoked 3.2 will give you root and CWM.

stuck in hboot, can't get to recovery...

So i wanted to get the new cm7 up and running. went into hboot and noticed that i still had .77 or something like that, remember reading that i should upgrade to .92. went back into the phone, downloaded .92, installed it....ever since then i haven't been able to reboot the phone into anything...besides hboot. it won't go into recovery. it won't do a normal reboot. it's hboot or nothing. this phone isn't the only contact with my family at home during the day that i have. so if anyone can help me i'd be very appreciative. If it involved adb...i would need exact lines of code. i've never messed with it, so its not in my bag of tricks. the phone was having issues with boot times for the last couple of days, but it always wound up booting up. well i've been waiting on it to boot up into recovery for 10 min now, and i don't think my luck for the day is about to get any better. did battery pulls, still nothing.
any info or help at all would be GREATLY appreciated.
-Ty

Did hboot upgrade or not? How are you trying to get into recovery?
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it says it did. at the top of the hboot screen it says .92.000 and i'm just going to the recovery option from hboot. it won't boot the phone or into recovery though. just sits on the white htc screen, for 6 hours now.

When you update HBOOT, it can bork your boot.img. Reflash CWM and then restore a nandroid and you should be fine.

how do i reflash cwm when it won't even let me into recovery? i can update pb13img...thats abt it from what i can tell. lol.

typhoone said:
how do i reflash cwm when it won't even let me into recovery? i can update pb13img...thats abt it from what i can tell. lol.
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Hboot automatically recognizes the pb12img... It's the first thing it does.
Put the file on the root of the SD card (not in any folders), boot into the Hboot and let it do it's thing.
your sd card NEEDS to be formatted to fat32 though.

typhoone said:
how do i reflash cwm when it won't even let me into recovery? i can update pb13img...thats abt it from what i can tell. lol.
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Recovery is flashed from HBOOT via a PB31IMG.zip, not from within itself. You can use the PB31IMG.zip that I've linked to below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=494373&d=1295474605

najaboy said:
Recovery is flashed from HBOOT via a PB31IMG.zip, not from within itself. You can use the PB31IMG.zip that I've linked to below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=494373&d=1295474605
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Remember to delete it afterwards or stick it in a folder!

Thank you so much. I have my phone again.
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Good to hear!
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Stuck at white evo title screen, tried to hard reset and the PC36IMGfile

method, what else could I do?

LexLuger82 said:
method, what else could I do?
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You can run a RUU from your computer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
(.exe)

what are you trying to do? more info would be helpful.

ocnbrze said:
what are you trying to do? more info would be helpful.
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Probably have his phone boot past the white screen.

im trying to get past the white title screen so i can flash back to factory, i flashed the wrong rom for another phone by accident and it stuck at the white screen. I did a factory reset and put the ruu file on sd and rebooted but it did nothing

LexLuger82 said:
im trying to get past the white title screen so i can flash back to factory, i flashed the wrong rom for another phone by accident and it stuck at the white screen. I did a factory reset and put the ruu file on sd and rebooted but it did nothing
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Yeah that could be pretty serious.
Try running a RUU like I said.

mattykinsx said:
Yeah that could be pretty serious.
Try running a RUU like I said.
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whats the process?

LexLuger82 said:
whats the process?
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Download a .exe from that link.
Plug phone in and run it.

mattykinsx said:
Download a .exe from that link.
Plug phone in and run it.
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put it in hboot when im doing this or at the white screen?

What did you do to get it in that condition?

GrandWorks said:
What did you do to get it in that condition?
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flash rom for wrong phone

I hope I'm wrong, but flashing a different phone's rom is probably not something you can fix
Swyped From The Hippest Phone Using XDA Premium

LexLuger82 said:
put it in hboot when im doing this or at the white screen?
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You know what I'm not sure there's a difference.
Try in hboot first and if that doesn't work try on the white screen.
Best of luck.

bump this........

LexLuger82 said:
bump this........
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The RUU didn't work?

mattykinsx said:
The RUU didn't work?
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so i go to h boot usb, click it, and then hit the exe file?

LexLuger82 said:
bump this........
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If the RUU isn't detecting the phone, try running it while in fastboot usb. To do that, boot to your bootloader. Select the 'fastboot' option. Then plug your evo in to the USB. It should say 'fastboot usb' now. At this point, try running the RUU. It should detect the phone and run from fastboot usb. When you tried the PC36IMG.zip, and it failed, what happened? Did it give you any errors? Did it not detect the PC36IMG? The more detail you leave here, the better help we'll all be able to give you. What hboot version are you on? We could try using fastboot to erase EVERYTHING in your phone, then try the RUU from a clean slate.
EDIT: Also, for the RUU to work, you do need to have HTC Sync installed on your computer. It contains the required drivers for the RUU to work.

i got the pcimg file installed, and was about to get it to power up factory, but my problem is when im trying to get into recover it hangs and goes to a black screen with a triangle and exclamation mark, what is causing this? also i know im s off

LexLuger82 said:
i got the pcimg file installed, and was about to get it to power up factory, but my problem is when im trying to get into recover it hangs and goes to a black screen with a triangle and exclamation mark, what is causing this? also i know im s off
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Go to a on recovery thread and download the pc36img.zip to flash recovery. Once done go into your nandroids and restore if hopefully you have some and you did nandroids with A on. If not go to the clockwork thread and look for their recovery and see if there is an boot method to flash it. Then you can try and wipe all or run caulkins wipe all and flash thru recovery
Edit: that Amon and not A on

LexLuger82 said:
i got the pcimg file installed, and was about to get it to power up factory, but my problem is when im trying to get into recover it hangs and goes to a black screen with a triangle and exclamation mark, what is causing this? also i know im s off
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That is stock recovery. When you ran the RUU, it would have taken your phone back to Stock, out of the box.
Are you still S-Off?? (Check in Bootloader, at the top of the screen)
If you are, search Amon Ra Recovery, get the PC36IMG and put it on the root of your SDCard, and then reboot to Hboot (Vol-Dwn & Pwr at the same time)
It should discover the file, ask you to update, say yes, then it will flash recovery on your phone. Once it's done flashing, it will restart hboot, find the file again, ask you to upgrade, this time say no, then scroll to recovery and hit power button to enter. Now, you're in recovery, you can clear your caches and flash a ROM, IF you didn't screw things up by flashing the ROM from the other phone.
Matter of fact, since you have RUU flashed, you may want to just try to boot up normally before anything else, just to see what happens.

Flashed new HBOOT, now says S-ON?!

I was on one of the older Hboots, decided to update that and the radio. I flashed the new Hboot, now it says S-On and it DOES NOT reboot. Everytime I try rebooting, it shows the splash screen and goes right back to the Hboot menu! Can anyone help me?

Try running unrevoked forever from the recovery and it may let you unlock it. If not you may be stuck.

Ok, I got S-off back by unrevoked-forever, but it still doesn't reboot. Anyone have any suggestions?

boardindude said:
Ok, I got S-off back by unrevoked-forever, but it still doesn't reboot. Anyone have any suggestions?
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I've attached adb in case you don't already have it, extract it and cd to where you extracted it to. Then just connect your Evo and run..
Code:
adb reboot

bubby323 said:
I've attached adb in case you don't already have it, extract it and cd to where you extracted it to. Then just connect your Evo and run..
Code:
adb reboot
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Ok I tried this and its just keeps saying error device not found.

boardindude said:
Ok I tried this and its just keeps saying error device not found.
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Go into your recovery and wipe everything then reflash your Rom. If you can't access your recovery flash a recovery image of your choice via bootloader by renaming it PC36IMG and placing it on the root of your SD card then wipe everything and reflash your Rom.

complex88 said:
Go into your recovery and wipe everything then reflash your Rom. If you can't access your recovery flash a recovery image of your choice via bootloader by renaming it PC36IMG and placing it on the root of your SD card then wipe everything and reflash your Rom.
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I was in the middle of trying this when I seen your post. It worked, I'm back in business! Thanks for the help guys!

boardindude said:
I was in the middle of trying this when I seen your post. It worked, I'm back in business! Thanks for the help guys!
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Glad it worked.

Sure would be nice to have me one of them old hboot versions lol

TexasRebel said:
Sure would be nice to have me one of them old hboot versions lol
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Yeah, I think I had .93 Hboot, maybe should have just stayed with that, I dunno.

if it's bouncing you back to hboot it could be for the same reason it bounces you back to recovery after using a format_all.zip file.
Go find Sprint Lover's 2.3. It comes in a PC36IMG file you can put in the root of your sd card and flash in the bootloader (aka parsing the update).
It's rooted so you'll keep s-off and your phone should boot. Also, once you're booted, download rom manager and put your recovery back
Hope this helps!

[Q] Trouble returning to stock

I am trying to return my father's evo to stock. It was rooted with CM7 stable on it. I have run through the RUU method but when the phone restarts it boots and then when the lock screen is unlocked the phone just restarts.
I have used the most current RUU, the first one list and a couple others. I have also tried placing the PC36img file and letting that update but upon restarting it just vibrates 5 times.

Well what hboot is he on? You need to use the correct firmware for the hboot.
2.10 = 3.70 and 2.16 = 4.24

teh roxxorz said:
Well what hboot is he on? You need to use the correct firmware for the hboot.
2.10 = 3.70 and 2.16 = 4.24
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He is on 2.10, I have run the RUU from http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Supersonic and the top one is 3.70 is that correct?
I have it booting again yet every time I swipe to unlock the screen it just reboots

dtm_stretch said:
He is on 2.10, I have run the RUU from http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Supersonic and the top one is 3.70 is that correct?
I have it booting again yet every time I swipe to unlock the screen it just reboots
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That is the correct one, the first link. Though when running it, you need to:
-boot into the bootloader, select fastboot
-connect phone to pc via usb cable
-once fastboot usb shows up in blue, run the exe on the pc
Did you do that?

teh roxxorz said:
That is the correct one, the first link. Though when running it, you need to:
-boot into the bootloader, select fastboot
-connect phone to pc via usb cable
-once fastboot usb shows up in blue, run the exe on the pc
Did you do that?
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yes I have, I am running through it again just to verify.
It successfully runs then restarts and just vibrates 5 times. I can return to the HBoot screen and that still shows S-off
After pulling the battery the phone boots then returns to the lockscreen, after swyping the unlock the screen the phone just restarts.

dtm_stretch said:
yes I have, I am running through it again just to verify.
It successfully runs then restarts and just vibrates 5 times. I can return to the HBoot screen and that still shows S-off
After pulling the battery the phone boots then returns to the lockscreen, after swyping the unlock the screen the phone just restarts.
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Since its still s-off you can try re-flashing the hboot [can be found in the radio, wimax, ect thread in the dev section] and then try to re-run the RUU. I have seen that fix similar issues in the past.

teh roxxorz said:
Since its still s-off you can try re-flashing the hboot [can be found in the radio, wimax, ect thread in the dev section] and then try to re-run the RUU. I have seen that fix similar issues in the past.
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Well I have the hboot from that thread. Do i have to install a custom recovery to flash that Hboot? If so any recommendation to get that custom recovery installed?

dtm_stretch said:
Well I have the hboot from that thread. Do i have to install a custom recovery to flash that Hboot? If so any recommendation to get that custom recovery installed?
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Alright, and yes, flash it from recovery. Go with amon_ra 2.3 recovery, as it generally has the least errors while flashing.

teh roxxorz said:
Alright, and yes, flash it from recovery. Go with amon_ra 2.3 recovery, as it generally has the least errors while flashing.
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Now the next problem, I try to install the custom recovery(Amon_Ra) via the bootloader way. It completes the PC36img update then reboots. I try to enter recovery from the Hboot menu and the phone just vibrates 5 times.

dtm_stretch said:
Now the next problem, I try to install the custom recovery(Amon_Ra) via the bootloader way. It completes the PC36img update then reboots. I try to enter recovery from the Hboot menu and the phone just vibrates 5 times.
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Okay.
1. Try it again ; it happens sometimes to a lot of people where it does that the first time, then works the second
2. Boot into the bootloader, do a clear storage, then try the PC36IMG again.
Let me know if neither work.

Go to unrevoked.com and they have a the right tools to unroot and an s-on tool
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teh roxxorz said:
Okay.
1. Try it again ; it happens sometimes to a lot of people where it does that the first time, then works the second
2. Boot into the bootloader, do a clear storage, then try the PC36IMG again.
Let me know if neither work.
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That didn't work. Weird issue is I can get the phone to boot and not restart as long as I don't have the SDcard inserted. I am wiping the SDcard now to see if that helps.

NORCALkID said:
Go to unrevoked.com and they have a the right tools to unroot and an s-on tool
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I am running unrevoked now to get a custom recovery installed.

Alright, keep me posted.

teh roxxorz said:
Alright, keep me posted.
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Alright tried the Unrevoked method, it fails and says lost communication with device. Now the phone only vibrates 5 times when booting.
Thanks for sticking with me here, this has become very frustrating.
*Got it to boot, trying unrevoked again. NVM it restarted then vibrated 5 times. Now trying to get it to boot without the SDcard in.

you said you were trying to get to stock. you also said you downloaded a stock ruu.. in order for an ruu to upload you need htc sync installed on your computer do you have those Installed... if the ruu works you will still be s-off at this point you have to get the S- On tool from unrevoked and run that
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NORCALkID said:
you said you were trying to get to stock. you also said you downloaded a stock ruu.. in order for an ruu to upload you need htc sync installed on your computer do you have those Installed... if the ruu works you will still be s-off at this point you have to get the S- On tool from unrevoked and run that
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I had HTC Sync installed. I actually just uninstalled it per the unrevoked directions. The RUU completed but the phone just restarts when I try to swype to unlock it or if I wait long enough it will just restart on its own. I can't flash the S-on tool without a custom recovery installed, since running the RUU method removed the custom recover is that correct? I have tried to boot into the recovery via the hboot method and that just results in 5 vibrations.

are you able to use the phone.. can you install Clockworkmod recovery App?
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dtm_stretch said:
Alright tried the Unrevoked method, it fails and says lost communication with device. Now the phone only vibrates 5 times when booting.
Thanks for sticking with me here, this has become very frustrating.
*Got it to boot, trying unrevoked again. NVM it restarted then vibrated 5 times. Now trying to get it to boot without the SDcard in.
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No problem, and you tried formatting the sd card earlier?

NORCALkID said:
are you able to use the phone.. can you install Clockworkmod recovery App?
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Right now I am unable to the phone just keeps restarting after each boot. If i can get it to stop rebooting I will try to install clockwork recovery.
I am actually going to try an reinstall htc sync, reboot my comp, then rerun the RUU and hopefully that will stabilize the reboots.