Hey guys! I have no idea where to post, so I apologize if I'm in the wrong section.
I'm very new to rooting and I've seem to come into a major problem. (Atleast in my eyes.) To start off I had gotten my HTC Evo 4g & used the method of UNRevoked to root my Evo. I then found out UNRevoked isn't a full nand unlock & all the nitty gritty, so I came upon Toastcfh's guide to rooting the Evo. I performed half the instructions as told and was then in this boot loop. Right before it happened I (think) I erased the Dalvik Cache, but I definitely hard formatted the whole phone/cache. Anyway as told in the instructions I was suppose to flash the PC36IMG.zip to my phone and I did. Once that all configured it rebooted on itself & now the phone is stuck in boot with stock recovery method. I can load into HBOOT and see that in green lettering it says: SUPERSONIC EVT2-2 SHIP S-OFF, HBOOT-0.79.0000, TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab, RADIO-1.39.00.04.26. Please help me. I havent used my phone for a whole day now. :\
To add: Before the PC36IMG.zip got added on my phone, I had clockwork mod recovery. Now I have the stock one I'm guessing. I have tried a stock RUU through HBOOT USB, but the RUU either says some error my phone battery is under 30% (when it's fully charged). Or the RUU will say waiting for device to connect. & I tried putting a rom on my sd card then flashing or whatever and my computer wont open my sd card unless, I put it in the disk reader. Please ask questions, I'll answer as best as I can...thanks!
The current Unrevoked does in fact unlock nand, so you should have stopped there. I am not familiar with Toast's rooting method, so I can't say for certain what happened. The good news is, you are probably fine, you just need to reflash a rom. Since you can't get into recovery, the best way to fix this is to flash a rooted stock pc36img from your hboot. Download the file from THIS THREAD, rename it to pc36img, put it on your sd card and boot into hboot. It will find it automatically and then it will take a few minutes to load it. Once it's loaded it will ask if you want to run the update, choose yes and let it do its thing. When it's done you will have the latest rooted stock rom on there and clockwork recovery. Make sure you delete the old pc36img off your sd card before doing this. Good luck and godspeed.
Did what u said there MetalHead. still getting boot loops at the white htc evo 4g screen and can not get into recovery. Do you have anymore suggestions?
I would try it again but use this PC36IMG.zip instead.
http://www.4shared.com/file/5U4M4eVi/PC36IMG.html?cau2=403tNull
This one is completely stock. You will be unrooted after running it, so you will have to root again.
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I was trying to get cm6 installed on my Evo and unfortunately, my mac unzipped the files as i downloaded them.
Unknowingly, I flashed the SPL engineer and Radio from the unzipped folder. However, before flashing cm6, i realized the mistake, and switched to PC. I restored my initial backup from ROM manager and then tried reflashing the (now properly zipped) engineer folder, but when it tried to reboot, it got stuck in hboot and it wont reboot. When I try restoring from Recovery, it says theres a problem with the boot image. Any ideas or did i kill the phone?
try this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752832&highlight=pc36img+hboot
Basically someone took hboot and put it into a pc36img.zip format. So you should be able to place this on the root of the SD card, which means you'll have to take your sd card out of your phone and stick the pc36img.zip on it through a PC. Also make sure that the file reads exactly pc36img.zip. Stick your sd card back on your phone, turn on, see if you phone finds this zip card automatically when it boots and hopefully applies it so you get hboot back.
I read that this might make your lose root and wipe your phone, but at least you can get hboot back hopefully. I'm no expert, but thats a start.
If this does get you back hboot, then you might check out this thread to get your Nand unlocked, (if it shows security-on)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701835
Search the development forums, they can help you a lot. If you can get hboot to work again, you might have to flash a stock version thats unrooted to get everything back to a running state. Remember that you need some type of recovery such as clockword mod or Amon Ra to flash roms. If you don't have recovery up and running then you might look for a stock version in the pc36img.zip format that can run from hboot.
I haven't tried this, therefore I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone. These are suggestions, since you can't seem to go any further.
Thanks, yeah after a bit of tinkering, I got it fixed. The PC36img file worked. thanks for the suggestions.
Ok, I'll try to keep this simple and informative.
I have been rooted with unrEVOked for months. Last night I flashed CyanogenMod 7 RC2. (I've posted this there too on their forums) Today my Evo crashed while using the app QR Droid, and now goes into a boot loop after the "htc EVO 4g" white screen. It loads that screen, then goes black, reboots and does this cycle until I pull the battery.
I can get into hboot. (v 2.10.001, Clockworkmod), S-OFF, updated radio last night when I actually could before I flashed CM7 RC2 to 2.15.00.11.19.
Here is where the problem deepens, and is very similar to this thread; Bricked Evo, and cant factory wipe. Help please
When I try to select Recovery, the boot-loop starts over; so i actually cant get into recovery and flash anything from the sd card it also does not give me any triangle bull**** or whatever, just starts the boot loop.
I have a card reader for my micro sd card; I took everything off of it and put an RUU on it, renamed it PC36IMG.zip, got into hboot, tried to update it and it failed, goes back to the boot loop. I believe the ruu was outdated.
Can someone link me to the most recent recovery image? I should use to get back to stock? I think that is my problem, the ruu is out of date.
Or any other input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I tried this recovery image to know effect, when i reboot after applying update it goes back into loop; CANT POST LINK YET!
mhport2 said:
Ok, I'll try to keep this simple and informative.
I have been rooted with unrEVOked for months. Last night I flashed CyanogenMod 7 RC2. (I've posted this there too on their forums) Today my Evo crashed while using the app QR Droid, and now goes into a boot loop after the "htc EVO 4g" white screen. It loads that screen, then goes black, reboots and does this cycle until I pull the battery.
I can get into hboot. (v 2.10.001, Clockworkmod), S-OFF, updated radio last night when I actually could before I flashed CM7 RC2 to 2.15.00.11.19.
Here is where the problem deepens, and is very similar to this thread; Bricked Evo, and cant factory wipe. Help please
When I try to select Recovery, the boot-loop starts over; so i actually cant get into recovery and flash anything from the sd card it also does not give me any triangle bull**** or whatever, just starts the boot loop.
I have a card reader for my micro sd card; I took everything off of it and put an RUU on it, renamed it PC36IMG.zip, got into hboot, tried to update it and it failed, goes back to the boot loop. I believe the ruu was outdated.
Can someone link me to the most recent recovery image? I should use to get back to stock? I think that is my problem, the ruu is out of date.
Or any other input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I tried this recovery image to know effect, when i reboot after applying update it goes back into loop; CANT POST LINK YET!
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I attatched a PC36IMG of Amon Ra recovery version 2.3. You can try flashing that from the bootloader. I will also provide a link to the most recent RUU's and PC36IMG's. This link actually has all of them, old and new. Hope you're able to recover the phone dude. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu
thanks, I have clockworkmod from when i unrevoked and had it updated via the CM7 rom manger last night, does that matter?
I tried that img you attached, it did not work, Im not exactly sure how to use the RUU's could someone explain what else I should do?
mhport2 said:
thanks, I have clockworkmod from when i unrevoked and had it updated via the CM7 rom manger last night, does that matter?
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should'nt make any difference at all. I'm not sure how your initial problem happened, but you are not the first I've seen this happen to. Most that I've seen were recent, and were running CM7. Not sure what's up with that, but if you search the q and a section, you'll find a few similar threads. Very strange. I hope you ge it working again.
Happened to me and a few others a week or 2 ago. There was no fix that we found. Pc36img wont work, ruu won't work. U won't be able to do anything to get s-off to s-on either (in my experience.) Even tho u can get to bootloader, if its like what happened to me and a few others, ur bricked. I got mine warranty replaced (but they're still gonna charge me $125 for returning an unrecoverable phone) another guy threw his out his car window and they charged him $100 to replace his "lost" phone. Those are the only options I know of.
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I have just started working on this Incredible. It has not successfully been rooted although it appears that somebody may have tried, unsuccessfully. When I try to start it, it will boot up as far as the unlock screen. As soon as it begins it's media scan, it shuts off and reboots to the white "Droid Incredible" screen.
I have access to hboot mode and fastboot mode. When I tried to start recovery mode, I only get the black screen with the red triangle. It is still showing "s-on" in the hboot screen which I can only assume means that the phone does not have root access.
I would simply like to get this device back to usable (stock) condition. I have rooted phones before but this one has me stumped.
Any ideas?
"Unroot" it, load a PBimg and restore to stock, next time you try to root use unrEVOked.
Yup. The RUU image is the solution to practically everything.
Just download this and rename it exactly "PB31IMG.zip" and place it on the root of the SD card (make sure it's formatted as FAT32 first). Then boot up into hboot (it takes a while to scan the image) and vol-up to confirm the update. And make sure it has a good charge first!
This should go in the Q&A section.
The PB31.zip method recommended by Smokeey will be the best solution. If for some reason that doesn't work try Verizon's RUU .exe here: http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Inc...dio_1.00.03.04.06_release_161493_NoDriver.exe
Usually your phone has to be s-off already as well as your sd card formatted FAT32 to install a new PB31IMG.zip
Crans said:
Usually your phone has to be s-off already as well as your sd card formatted FAT32 to install a new PB31IMG.zip
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You only have to be S-Off to install a custom (unsigned) PB31IMG.ZIP, installing the PB31IMG.zip from verizon's RUU will still install successfully.
Best of luck
dawynkoop said:
You only have to be S-Off to install a custom (unsigned) PB31IMG.ZIP, installing the PB31IMG.zip from verizon's RUU will still install successfully.
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A few days ago, my dad called me about a HTC Evo 4G he just got. It's a replacement that someone got for him b/c his old one was broken. The issue is that the phone won't go past the "HTC" white screen. I told him to check the HBOOT and he says it's 2.10. The weird thing about it is that it says "S-ON".
I told him to "Clear Storage" from the bootloader... No success.
The only way I figured that this issue could be fixed was to root a custom ROM onto it.
PS: Steps commonly say to make sure that USB Debugging is on... If I'm unable to get the phone to load the stock ROM that's already on it... How could I do that? (If rooting is even possible)
I would go to the bootloader, mount it ad fastboot, then try to manually push a new boot partition extracted from a rom and use adb to do so.
If it's HBoot 2.10 and it's S-On, use the old Unrevoked to root, and that will also push Recovery on the phone.
Then, flash the pc36img of Amon Ra, get into recovery, wipe everything, every single thing ,except the SD Card and try to boot up, or flash a new ROM
Hello. I'm in a bit of a bind which I cannot get myself out of, so I am posting here. I've been around for over a year lingering, updating, trying new things, etc. I came across a free Incredible, which I attempted to root, and install a ROM onto. I rooted the phone with Unrevoked 3, booted into Clockwork mod recovery, made a nandroid, and installed the ROM. The installation was successful, however, on boot after the HTC splash screen the phone vibrates 5 times and the led flashes green constantly. The same thing happened when I tried to boot into recovery.
I found that the phone booted to the Set Up, which crashed, if it was plugged into a computer. I ADB saw the device but I could not push files or execute commands. Unrevoked S-OFF would not work also.
After Googling, I found a 2.2 RUU, which installed successfully, but I get the same boot problems. If the USB is plugged into a computer before the phone is turned on I actually get to Android and can play around. The phone will not recognize any memory, SD or internal; only phone memory is recognized. I tried ADB again with no luck, most likely has to do with the phone not recognizing memory. So I flashed the RUU from HBOOT which flashed fine, but the same problems still persist.
I am out of ideas, which I hope someone has anything I can try.
S-ON
HBOOT 0.92
MICROP-0417
TOUCH PANEL - ATMELC03_16AC
RADIO 2.15.00.07.28
Edit: I tried to be as detailed as possible, so ask any questions if I did not make since.
Check this out
http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
Thank you, trying it now.
cmlusco said:
Check this out
http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
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I cannot thank you enough.
Edit: Unrevoked gave me s-off. I want to be clear this time before I install any ROM. Do I need to run unrevoked-forever.zip? I am 99.999% positive I do not since I already have s-off. I want to get a new ROM on tonight.
Unrevoked 3 now contains the forever patch, as previous versions did not. So you are good to go flash away, after making a nandroid of course
No need for unrevoked forever if you are s-off
Thanks! On my way to a new ROM.