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huge adb problemo

Okay i have a big problem...
I have rooted my device, however didn't run the ENG build, so my recovery is dependent on the pushing of the update.zip...
I flashed the myfroyo5 after pushing the update.zip... and ADB worked great, found the device in HBOOT and recovery.
Now after flashing this ROM, when i try and reboot back HBOOT no devices found.. however when i'm at the home screen with Myfroyo5 booted up, it sees the device..
Now i can't run any update, or get into clockwork recovery because i can't push the update.zip, because ADB can't see my device....
Please help! Any idea how i can get it to see my device with Myfroyo5? Otherwise i'm stuck with Myfroyo5 and can't reverse or do anything with it
Before all i did was change the option from device storage, to charge only, and that's how it worked...
again any ideas are appreciated!

wow 58 views and no one has any ideas? Please help!

Try turning on USB debugging mode?

Yes its always on, always check marked

I feel like I did have a similar problem at one point, but I don't remember how I resolved it. Sorry.

gee maybe you should have flashed the eng build as everyone was told to do when they rooted their slide. try a dozen different large and small SD cards, i don't really think that is what makes it work but others seem to disagree and maybe once you swap them out you'll get lucky. but first i would try flashing the eng build

tubaking182 said:
gee maybe you should have flashed the eng build as everyone was told to do when they rooted their slide. try a dozen different large and small SD cards, i don't really think that is what makes it work but others seem to disagree and maybe once you swap them out you'll get lucky. but first i would try flashing the eng build
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Must your replies always, ALWAYS have some snarky bit about how the person asking the question screwed up?
Humans are prone to error. You have valuable insight but beating someone's ego up before you give it really offsets your kindness.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

They don't always have snarky bits, but when 90% of problems are caused by not following directions then it apparently needs to be retold, I help a lot and I gave ideas to try here. Odds are he can still flash the eng build and then get into clockwork, but not following directions causes issues like this.
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I see your point but, as I recall, the ENG build came after root had been put out there for a day or so. I'm also pretty sure it came after SlideMeRoot1.
Things like this, along with simple mistakes, can cause these errors. You are helpful but I just find the "hey, dummy" tone to be overkill.
Not everyone who screws up is out to **** up your day, ya know? I've been having my own ENG build problems because I made a mistake. It doesn't mean I don't know how to follow directions, it just means I made a mistake, the way every human on the planet does.
I apologize, as well, because my own real life smiley fun tone doesn't translate well to the forum. IE: you good kid.
tubaking182 said:
They don't always have snarky bits, but when 90% of problems are caused by not following directions then it apparently needs to be retold, I help a lot and I gave ideas to try here. Odds are he can still flash the eng build and then get into clockwork, but not following directions causes issues like this.
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well first off.. i did follow directions... and it didn't work... and i've flashed multiple roms by just re-doing the ota.zip then the update.zip push, to get me into clockwork, until i flashed myfroyo5
which does not allow me to "charge only" which is why ADB doesn't allow to recognize my device in HBOOT/Recovery.
On the contra-ire i do know what i'm doing however a little bit of "knowledge" to point out maybe something that will fix an issue i have would be great.
Now i'm running myfroyo5, the device is seen by adb when the phones booted up, however upon reset to HBOOT/Recovery no devices are found. I've tried putting ENG build on my Sdcard, and HBOOT doesn't see it, also, i've tried pushing flash_image to /data/local, and mtd0.img to /data/local, and the files will not move.
That is part of my problem i'm assuming, i'll try another SD card to see if it will fix it, but i'm not sure its something that simple... but who knows, right?

javolin13 said:
well first off.. i did follow directions... and it didn't work... and i've flashed multiple roms by just re-doing the ota.zip then the update.zip push, to get me into clockwork, until i flashed myfroyo5
which does not allow me to "charge only" which is why ADB doesn't allow to recognize my device in HBOOT/Recovery.
On the contra-ire i do know what i'm doing however a little bit of "knowledge" to point out maybe something that will fix an issue i have would be great.
Now i'm running myfroyo5, the device is seen by adb when the phones booted up, however upon reset to HBOOT/Recovery no devices are found. I've tried putting ENG build on my Sdcard, and HBOOT doesn't see it, also, i've tried pushing flash_image to /data/local, and mtd0.img to /data/local, and the files will not move.
That is part of my problem i'm assuming, i'll try another SD card to see if it will fix it, but i'm not sure its something that simple... but who knows, right?
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Just use CR new root method for the ota update and then follow the steps to flash ENG build. wouldnt that work? cause its unneccessary for the device to be recognized in hboot in adb that way =\ just guesing

i would do all that too.... you know i think the issue is the copying the files over... none of them are actually moving where they need to go!...
And when i try to do it manually the folder says "read only file system" and when i try to push files it says "1188 KB/s <0 bytes in XXXX.000s>
so none of the image files are moving over to allow me to flash ENG build... i swapped different SD cards and now i can flash the ENG build, but i cant move the files to /data/local before i do that, so right now its pointless to flash it...

javolin13 said:
i would do all that too.... you know i think the issue is the copying the files over... none of them are actually moving where they need to go!...
And when i try to do it manually the folder says "read only file system" and when i try to push files it says "1188 KB/s <0 bytes in XXXX.000s>
so none of the image files are moving over to allow me to flash ENG build... i swapped different SD cards and now i can flash the ENG build, but i cant move the files to /data/local before i do that, so right now its pointless to flash it...
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do u have root in the shell script when u try to push the files over?

yes i do, that's whats really weird... i do adb shell, and i get #
when i do it the cat way, it does what it needs to, yet when i go search for the files using linda file manager they're still not there...
i dont want to flash eng build and it not work...

javolin13 said:
yes i do, that's whats really weird... i do adb shell, and i get #
when i do it the cat way, it does what it needs to, yet when i go search for the files using linda file manager they're still not there...
i dont want to flash eng build and it not work...
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i mean u could always just unroot and start from square one

can't unroot if my device is not seen with adb in hboot / recovery

javolin13 said:
well first off.. i did follow directions... and it didn't work... and i've flashed multiple roms by just re-doing the ota.zip then the update.zip push, to get me into clockwork, until i flashed myfroyo5
which does not allow me to "charge only" which is why ADB doesn't allow to recognize my device in HBOOT/Recovery.
On the contra-ire i do know what i'm doing however a little bit of "knowledge" to point out maybe something that will fix an issue i have would be great.
Now i'm running myfroyo5, the device is seen by adb when the phones booted up, however upon reset to HBOOT/Recovery no devices are found. I've tried putting ENG build on my Sdcard, and HBOOT doesn't see it, also, i've tried pushing flash_image to /data/local, and mtd0.img to /data/local, and the files will not move.
That is part of my problem i'm assuming, i'll try another SD card to see if it will fix it, but i'm not sure its something that simple... but who knows, right?
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I had the same problem just about and used the following thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710056 <-- BIG THANKS to Beartard for taking the time to type this all out. It worked just fine. I picked it up from - Installing the Engineering ROM - I kept my old update.zip file on the root of my sd card, and I got everthing back to normal, and everything works like new. Hope this helps

Suntar said:
I had the same problem just about and used the following thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710056 <-- BIG THANKS to Beartard for taking the time to type this all out. It worked just fine. I picked it up from - Installing the Engineering ROM - I kept my old update.zip file on the root of my sd card, and I got everthing back to normal, and everything works like new. Hope this helps
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Thanks for the idea, but flashing the ENG build is pointless unless i can push the flash_image, and mtd0.img to /data/local... which for some reason my phone will not allow me to do this part;
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type "adb push flash_image /data/local" and hit enter.
2. Type "adb push mtd0.img /data/local" and hit enter.

[Q] HELP FIX /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Does anyone know how to fix an EVO that gives this error?
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory) E: Can't mount SDCARD
I was flashing firerant's mtd partition to make up more space to install more apps. When I try to reboot my evo it turns on then vibrates 5 times and shuts down. I can get to hboot mode (volumen down + power). On top instead of s-off it changed to s-on. When I try to use command from my mac's terminal it says error: device not found.
I unrooted by flashing a PC36IMG.zip in hboot. Im in stock now. The phone seems to work fine but now the phone does not recognize the memory card (only in hboot mode) or the usb being plugged in. when i plug in the usb to the computer evo does not give me the notification nor charges or the light come on. Then I tried to root it but it's imposible because I still get terminal's error: device not found because the evo's usb is messed up or something. And since there is no notification to mount the memory card to my computer I can't transfer any files to/from evo.
Then I downloaded Unrevoked3 but still it does not do anything for the same reason the usb is not being detected.
Now I am unroot, evo not detecting memory card (when its on) and usb is messed up (when its on and in hboot mode).
Can Anyone please help me out. Maybe there is a zip that I can flash in hboot mode since is the only place my memory card is being read. Terminal commands through USB doesn't work in hboot or fastboot i dont know why.
Thank you so much everyone.
p.s. I am not blaming this on firerant's mod. I am just describing how it happened. I appreciate all devs work. and I am aware of their disclaimer we can brick our devices. Thank you.

pretty sure you fubar'd your internal partions there buddy.

Go get a new phone. Run over it with your car first.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

Yes that's what I think. The partition is fubar'd, so there is no way to fix that?
Thanks for replying.

mrcamposd said:
Yes that's what I think. The partition is fubar'd, so there is no way to fix that?
Thanks for replying.
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im sure there is but only by someone who knows what the hell they're doing. lol ;-)

can that person come to the RESCUE :/

lol @ the advice on here. I wouldn't exactly say I know what Im doing but I'll try to help anyway.
From a adb shell run 'cat /proc/mtd' and 'cat /proc/partitions' and that should tell you what your partitions look like. If you can copy them on to here.
Edit: Just remembered he had a custom recovery set up to use with it, were you using that to flash it? You'll most likely need that to recognize the partitions.

If you can flash a zip why not give Caulk's "format all" a try this may restore your partitions. I'm far from a dev but seems like i read about this same problem somewhere and they ran calks zip and presto all was well. I tried to find the thread but couldn't, just what I remember they flashed this then rom then kernel then radios. Of course they were rooted ... maybe rename to PC36IMG.zip ....but if you can flash a zip cant see how this would hurt.

xHausx said:
lol @ the advice on here. I wouldn't exactly say I know what Im doing but I'll try to help anyway.
From a adb shell run 'cat /proc/mtd' and 'cat /proc/partitions' and that should tell you what your partitions look like. If you can copy them on to here.
Edit: Just remembered he had a custom recovery set up to use with it, were you using that to flash it? You'll most likely need that to recognize the partitions.
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cant adb shell in terminal it does not recognize the device. thanks though

ifly4vamerica said:
If you can flash a zip why not give Caulk's "format all" a try this may restore your partitions. I'm far from a dev but seems like i read about this same problem somewhere and they ran calks zip and presto all was well. I tried to find the thread but couldn't, just what I remember they flashed this then rom then kernel then radios. Of course they were rooted ... maybe rename to PC36IMG.zip ....but if you can flash a zip cant see how this would hurt.
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thank you so much you are a hero... but will try this next time it happens because I went to the sprint store and told them the new update had messed up my phone hahahaha...
thank you all intelligent people i appreciate your help so much. it means a lot to me.

[Q] Cannot Downgrade Hboot 1.01.0002 to 1.01.0001

Hello,
I'm new to the forums, and have only just recently got a HTC Wildfire A3333 running 2.2.1.
I have tried to use " [GUIDE] Downgrade to HTC Froyo WWE for AlphaRevX (HBOOT 1.01.0001) " to downgrade the h boot as to start to gain root.
But when I have followed the instructions, it appears to complete ok, but when I reboot in to the system menu, it still shows as .002 hboot and does not install the rom supplied.
any help would be great
EDIT: IT TOLD ME I HAD SUCCESSFULLY CREATED GOLD CARD
GlennBrownie

same goes with me mate, i got the gold card and then i insert it, it all goes but when the cmd closes it still shows hboot 1.01.002

This happened to me on a Telstra wildfire (A3335). if you make it so the CMD window doesn’t close (I used an alternative shell) you will see that it actually gets some error before closing, which is why it doesn’t actually change the hboot.
I must have done it 20 times before I got it to work. I can't remember what I did differently the time I made it work, but it was something to do with which usb mode the phone was in for each step, and when I decided to change it from one mode to the other. Basically trying to make it so the phone wouldn’t say “preparing SD card” after I had made the goldcard.
Worst part was when I finally downgraded my Hboot, alphrev X still wouldn’t work for me. Continued to get the error of “Retrieving Caroline from certain doom...” and "mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00000000" I've since given up..

okays, thanks for the help, ill try that, but with alpharevx the problem they are tring to fix is the part where you need to restart into fastboot the second time, so in this case, ill give that a try. the thing is that im useing windows 7 enterprise, i have the hboot drivers all installed and etc, i used the intructions given to me and everyone else where you have to make the gold card. in that intruction it stated to put the sd card into the usb or sd port, the thing i did was switch my phone to mount the SD card and create it via there, i think the part where we all went wrong is unmounted it after we finished making the sd card. so try that, and with your problem i tghink you need to try and run the program in ADMIN mode (right click and run as admin) and then try and get the HBOOT drivers from Unrevoked installed. give that a try and hope it all works out
cheers

Well I managed to get step2.bat to run in a cmd so that it stayed open,
it came up with "FAILED <remote: 42 custom id check fail>".
when HTC booted in to bootloader it still showed same h.boot (.0002)
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Question!! / problem!!
GlennBrownie said:
Hello,
I'm new to the forums, and have only just recently got a HTC Wildfire A3333 running 2.2.1.
I have tried to use " [GUIDE] Downgrade to HTC Froyo WWE for AlphaRevX (HBOOT 1.01.0001) " to downgrade the h boot as to start to gain root.
But when I have followed the instructions, it appears to complete ok, but when I reboot in to the system menu, it still shows as .002 hboot and does not install the rom supplied.
any help would be great
GlennBrownie
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my question is, when i run alpharevx, it asks me for the beta key, note that it doesnt show my device name or anything like how i did it before i downgraded, any ideas why? and does anyone have a beta key for me to use? because the one i got with my phone when i entered it in said it was incorrect, when before before i downgraded it worked perfectly fine (except the rotting part).

what Beta key, I dont recall one?

To get a new beta key just follow this link, click download and then enter your phone's SN.
http://alpharev.nl/x/beta/

GlennBrownie said:
Well I managed to get step2.bat to run in a cmd so that it stayed open,
it came up with "FAILED <remote: 42 custom id check fail>".
when HTC booted in to bootloader it still showed same h.boot (.0002)
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Make sure you properly created a working gold card. Retry with gold card.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

technolust109 said:
my question is, when i run alpharevx, it asks me for the beta key, note that it doesnt show my device name or anything like how i did it before i downgraded, any ideas why? and does anyone have a beta key for me to use? because the one i got with my phone when i entered it in said it was incorrect, when before before i downgraded it worked perfectly fine (except the rotting part).
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If it doesn’t show your device properly just reboot your phone. Basically every time the program fails it won’t show your device properly until you reboot again (This will also fix the issue where it thinks you have the wrong beta key). People suggesting to go get a new beta key have no idea. Have they not noticed that it doesn’t matter which HBoot version you select on the site you still get the same key based on your serial number.

yes, i used mt wildfire SN and i use the code it gives me still getting the same problem,

nejc121 said:
To get a new beta key just follow this link, click download and then enter your phone's SN.
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currently running windows so cannot download as windows version under review.
bharatgaddameedi said:
Make sure you properly created a working gold card. Retry with gold card.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
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completed program and it had a pop up saying something like, "success, you now have a gold key"....

GlennBrownie said:
Well I managed to get step2.bat to run in a cmd so that it stayed open,
it came up with "FAILED <remote: 42 custom id check fail>".
when HTC booted in to bootloader it still showed same h.boot (.0002)
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in other words, your goldcard is not created correctly.

ieftm said:
in other words, your goldcard is not created correctly.
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done it twice and it still come up with success message?
even did it through hex editor....

I tried to do it again to show screenshots.
firstly, I ran step one and it says "cannot stat" followed by file name and says "no such file or directory". see image1.jpg
I then checked the buzzdowngrade folder, and all files are there. see image4.jpg
I then attempted the goldcard, and I clicked get cid, and it loaded a CID with a lot of 0's in it so I dont think its showing correct CID, possibly hiding real CID?
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when I clicked patch MMC, it came up with an error message. see image3.jpg

Have you installed the HTC driver 3.0.0.007. If not, install it first before even going with step1.
And regarding step2, creating a working gold card is important. If you still get custom id errors, try with a different memory card. And run the gold card tool as administrator. And in that you will see mmc0 and mmc1 options. Try creating with the other if one fails.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

GlennBrownie said:
I tried to do it again to show screenshots.
firstly, I ran step one and it says "cannot stat" followed by file name and says "no such file or directory". see image1.jpg
I then checked the buzzdowngrade folder, and all files are there. see image4.jpg
I then attempted the goldcard, and I clicked get cid, and it loaded a CID with a lot of 0's in it so I dont think its showing correct CID, possibly hiding real CID?
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when I clicked patch MMC, it came up with an error message. see image3.jpg
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Just downgraded and i think i know what is the problem.
You have to change the connection status from charge only to Mass storage
then click refresh and the memory card will be available.
HTC MMC : select you sd card.
And now patch.

right, got an update.
managed to succeed with the dmisc.img and others that failed - thanks to Mattyyey, cheers Matt
We then got to flashing the rom and it failed, any suggestions?
we recreated the gold card and formated the microSD card and patched and it told us that it had succeeded.
please see screenshot.

bharatgaddameedi said:
And regarding step2, creating a working gold card is important. If you still get custom id errors, try with a different memory card...........Try creating with the other if one fails.
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its probably your fake SD card! I was able to run the commands in step 1 and 2 from the cmd, all but the final ROM flash. I think after we create it we should confirm its been put on the SD card via hex workshop.... I did think of this last night but I was getting tired and you dont have it installed. I suspect its just the goldcard isn't done, everything else works when typed manually into cmd.
Unless anyone else has another reason for the custom ID check failing?

MATTYYEY was correct, it was due to fake microSD card, completed gold card with authentic SD card and it worked.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire android 2.3.4 Cyanogen V7.1 ROM using XDA App, GREAT rom running perfect.

[Q] DHD rooting/flashing issues

Hi folks,
Have been going round in circles trying to root and flash my mate's DHD. I've been reading various threads and trying various methods but to no avail.
His DHD was originally on Froyo 2.2 and he took the T-Mobile OTA update to 2.3 w/Sense 3.0 when it was rolled out. As I understand it, it must be downgraded back to 2.2 before we can get full root access?
I've installed SDK on my PC and have been able to push tacoroot and misc_version to the phone. However, when running tacoroot, it reboots to go into recovery and I get the red triangle with the exclamation mark. The phone won't boot into recovery manually either. I've already done a factory reset to see if that helped, but no joy.
What am I doing wrong? Should the phone be able to access recovery completely stock? I never had this much hassle with my Desire - can't believe the DHD is such a pain in the backside. He has the phone with him now (he needs it tomorrow) but we're going to re-attempt tomorrow afternoon.
Am I doing things in the right order? Why do I keep getting the red triangle when trying to go into recovery?
Your help would be much appreciated!

well, as far as i remember you need to downgrade to 1.32 specifically.
and another thing, have you tried using advanced hack kit? it is pretty much one click solution, but can be tricky if the pc it runs from is not compleatly clean.

Try this on an Ubuntoo live CD, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1259821
worked like a charm for me..

I'm running Windows and followed the Hack Kit instructions to the letter. We're making more progress than before, but have run into the following problem:
[Would you like to downgrade? y/n]y
a67daa6baa7ef085307593fef6329d14 *PD98IMG/PD98IMG-GB2.zip
Flash the downgrade RUU? [y,n]y
pushing rom to sdcard - this takes time please be patient.
1690 KB/s (259503624 bytes in 149.887s)
Setting up to temproot....
cannot open 'tools/bin/zergRush': No such file or directory
1707 KB/s (572752 bytes in 0.327s)
1204 KB/s (19240 bytes in 0.015s)
going for temproot using zergRush....
setting mainver lower for downgrade...
--set_version set. VERSION will be changed to: 1.31.405.6
Misc partition is "/dev/block/mmcblk0p17"
Patching and backing up misc partition...
Error opening input file.
Creating goldcard....
HTC android goldcard tool Copyright (C) 2011, Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.
Original code by B. Kerler. Special thanks to ATTN1 and the XDA team.
/dev/block/mmcblk1: cannot open for write: Permission denied
starting downgrade...
** The phone will now reboot into HBOOT.
** It will then check the file just sent.
** If everything is okay, the phone will
** prompt you to continue by pressing
** VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.
**** PUSH POWER WHEN THIS STEP COMPLETES ****
If downgrade is successful, you may set up the phone and try to hack it again.
Once the downgrade is successful, press a key to return to the menu......
Otherwise, cut and paste the output to the screen into a text file for evaluatio
n.... then press a key.
Press any key to continue . . .
The phone checks in HBoot and then comes up with:
"Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Press <power> to reboot"
Any ideas? I'm drawing a blank.
Edit: Although I don't think it's a Windows issue, I'm downloading the Ubuntu live disc and will try it with that.

You have a couple of issues from the output you posted. In the beginning it couldn't find the zergrush files to temp root. This leads me to believe it was a bad download of kit. Did you verify the md5 for file integrity? And the second was an error with the SD card. You might want to try a different one
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

Checked the MD5 - came back fine. Have swapped the SD card for another one - formatted to FAT32 with nothing else on it.
Will re-run.
Still downloading the Ubuntu disc (!) so will try that in a mo if a re-run with a new SD card doesn't work.
Thanks for the input, much appreciated!
Edit: Exactly the same issue again. Will try it under Ubuntu.

Funkmeisterdude said:
Checked the MD5 - came back fine. Have swapped the SD card for another one - formatted to FAT32 with nothing else on it.
Will re-run.
Still downloading the Ubuntu disc (!) so will try that in a mo if a re-run with a new SD card doesn't work.
Thanks for the input, much appreciated!
Edit: Exactly the same issue again. Will try it under Ubuntu.
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That doesn´t seem to be an sdcard issue. Download the Kit again and extract it all in the same folder...The cases experiencing your issue are mostly for missing files in the hack kit.
Look this in the code you pasted: "...cannot open 'tools/bin/zergRush': No such file or directory..."

glevitan said:
That doesn´t seem to be an sdcard issue. Download the Kit again and extract it all in the same folder...The cases experiencing your issue are mostly for missing files in the hack kit.
Look this in the code you pasted: "...cannot open 'tools/bin/zergRush': No such file or directory..."
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I guessed the issue with the missing files but he said the md5 check out.
I mention the SD card because of the line of error writing to mmcblk1. After the line creating goldcard, but you spend more time helping out in the irc to know better than me
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

marsdta said:
I guessed the issue with the missing files but he said the md5 check out.
I mention the SD card because of the line of error writing to mmcblk1. After the line creating goldcard, but you spend more time helping out in the irc to know better than me
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA
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Yeah, those are the cases I have seem, but maybe something different comes out....it is hard to know without the whole information...

Thanks to everyone who offered ideas and support; I've finally managed to do it.
<hugesighofrelief>
Thanks again, also to the chaps and chappettes in the IRC support channel.
F

Bootloop

Hey guys,
I was using Sandvolds ICS for some weeks, but since yesterday my phone won't work anymore. I was starting a bike tour, but GPS on Endomondo didn't really work. So I restarted my phone. When I boot it'll show the white screen with green HTC logo, then it'll show the Evervolv animation and this animation will be displayed until I remove the battery, one time I had it running for half an hour.
I tried to boot the phone without sd card and could boot, but after "optimising" apps it kept on crashing because, as it appears, the system data is partly on the sd card.
Now I don't know what to do, what would you recommend? I'd probably just wipe everything and reinstall a backup, but - I don't have a backup

wipe everythin and reflash another rom/same rom...............

2012katas said:
wipe everythin and reflash another rom/same rom...............
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i guess that'll work, but could anyone recommend another, more time-saving possibility?
greets to india!

Tourist06 said:
Hey guys,
I was using Sandvolds ICS for some weeks, but since yesterday my phone won't work anymore. I was starting a bike tour, but GPS on Endomondo didn't really work. So I restarted my phone. When I boot it'll show the white screen with green HTC logo, then it'll show the Evervolv animation and this animation will be displayed until I remove the battery, one time I had it running for half an hour.
I tried to boot the phone without sd card and could boot, but after "optimising" apps it kept on crashing because, as it appears, the system data is partly on the sd card.
Now I don't know what to do, what would you recommend? I'd probably just wipe everything and reinstall a backup, but - I don't have a backup
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I got the same situation with you dude!!
I'm now using beta 0.17.1, but after this afternoon everything was wrong.
Then I did a full wipe and installed the latest version of Sandvolds ICS,
It's good and normal before I activate a2sd, but after that
everything went wrong again.
And finally I tried HTC DESIRE-AOKP-milestone6 v2,
It is working normally with INT2EXT, but not very smooth and stable.
actually i don't know what's going on right now :crying:

UserMatty said:
I got the same situation with you dude!!
I'm now using beta 0.17.1, but after this afternoon everything was wrong.
Then I did a full wipe and installed the latest version of Sandvolds ICS,
It's good and normal before I activate a2sd, but after that
everything went wrong again.
And finally I tried HTC DESIRE-AOKP-milestone6 v2,
It is working normally with INT2EXT, but not very smooth and stable.
actually i don't know what's going on right now :crying:
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hi everybody..i've got the same problem..everything was ok until yesterday with the latest release of the sandvold ics rom..when my phone shutted down for low battery,i put it on charge..after that,i booted it up,and it still remain on the evervolv logo...so i tried to wipe cache,wipe partition,factory reset and format and repartition the sd card..reinstall the rom..and eveything was ok the first time..after that,i enabled the a2sd,and it strucked another time..so i did everything again from the beginning,but this time i enabled the a2sd without any problem..so i started to download from the market all the stuff that i needed,and everything was fine..so i rebooted the phone..and here we go again..strucked!but the worst thing is that without the sd,the phone boot without any problem!now..i bought the sd a week ago..it's a new one..i don't think that it's an sd problem..or also the first times it won't be able to boot up and everything..also i would't be able to install the rom!..so..any suggestion?

Cesk87 said:
hi everybody..i've got the same problem..everything was ok until yesterday with the latest release of the sandvold ics rom..when my phone shutted down for low battery,i put it on charge..after that,i booted it up,and it still remain on the evervolv logo...so i tried to wipe cache,wipe partition,factory reset and format and repartition the sd card..reinstall the rom..and eveything was ok the first time..after that,i enabled the a2sd,and it strucked another time..so i did everything again from the beginning,but this time i enabled the a2sd without any problem..so i started to download from the market all the stuff that i needed,and everything was fine..so i rebooted the phone..and here we go again..strucked!but the worst thing is that without the sd,the phone boot without any problem!now..i bought the sd a week ago..it's a new one..i don't think that it's an sd problem..or also the first times it won't be able to boot up and everything..also i would't be able to install the rom!..so..any suggestion?
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maybe you can temporarily try DESIRE-AOKP-milestone6 v2
it's also a good choice! and a good rom also.

Hey,
I have the same problem! I also have Sandvolds ICS rom and it gets stuck on the Evervolv loading screen.
It loads up flawlessly without my SD card but then all my stuff is gone.
Any way to backup my data? (EDIT: Nevermind that question, I used backup from recovery)
BTW, SD card works, I can mount it from recovery mode.

Guys, what you say doesn't make me happy!
Maybe it's worth mentioning that I was NOT using the latest version of ICS, but I had no problems for weeks. I'm already waiting for the new Nexus phones, one of them will save me a lot of time and trouble updating to the newest OS and software
Good luck everyone, and please tell us if you manage making your phone working again

tried updating to latest ics via 4ext - fail! i could watch the evervolv animation for hours

Possible Solution
Looking in the Sandvold's thread a lot of people have been claiming that the bootloops is caused by the most recent version of Google Play 3.9.16. Apparently just deleting that will let you boot fine.

AceShinobi said:
Looking in the Sandvold's thread a lot of people have been claiming that the bootloops is caused by the most recent version of Google Play 3.9.16. Apparently just deleting that will let you boot fine.
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The solution is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1944766
For me didn't work, but I want to try again and apply the solution directly on the first boot.

AceShinobi said:
Looking in the Sandvold's thread a lot of people have been claiming that the bootloops is caused by the most recent version of Google Play 3.9.16. Apparently just deleting that will let you boot fine.
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Thanks for your hint, but after a few steps, I was stuck. After downloading the SDK (not mentioned in the tutorial) I experienced problems in the following steps, here is where I had problems
- cd Program Files(x86)/Android/android-sdk/platform-tools/ - I had to enter cd AppData\Local\Android/android-sdk/platform-tools/
- adb shell - command didn't work - I entered adb resulting in lots of text on my screen
- cd /data/data/ - the shell didn't accept this

Tourist06 said:
- cd /data/data/ - the shell didn't accept this
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Probably because there is no folder /data/data? Have you followed the instructions in this thread? That should work.

Tourist06 said:
Thanks for your hint, but after a few steps, I was stuck. After downloading the SDK (not mentioned in the tutorial) I experienced problems in the following steps, here is where I had problems
- cd Program Files(x86)/Android/android-sdk/platform-tools/ - I had to enter cd AppData\Local\Android/android-sdk/platform-tools/
- adb shell - command didn't work - I entered adb resulting in lots of text on my screen
- cd /data/data/ - the shell didn't accept this
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Seems like an adb fault.
If you type: adb get-state and adb get-serialno you have in output the infos of your Desire?

freakymonkey said:
Seems like an adb fault.
If you type: adb get-state and adb get-serialno you have in output the infos of your Desire?
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adb shell will return device not found, adb get-serialno and adb-get-state return unknown
Using 4ext, I mounted system and sd-card
I also tried dietwice's tip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33073702&postcount=8), but at step 3, cd /system/app , it says path not found. I'm no guru, so I don't really know what to do now.
Sorry about the fonts, it's a mess^^

Tourist06 said:
[...] I mounted system and sd-card [...]
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You need to mount "system" and "USB storage". You have to be connected to your computer.

gartenriese said:
You need to mount "system" and "USB storage". You have to be connected to your computer.
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Exactly, you have to mount more or less everything, depends on what kind of a2sd you have.
In my case, I had to mount everything because of "standard app2sd"; my "vending" are in /system, /data and /sdext.
Just to be sure, you have to undestand if the phone is connected to the computer. To check this try to write:
...../platform-tools/adb kill-server (press enter)
...../platform-tools/adb start-server (press enter)
NOW plugin your HTC Desire (in Recovery mode) to the computer and digit:
...../platform-tools/adb devices
Should appear at least your Deside (on the right side of the phone code will appear the word"recovery")
If this appear, you can prooced with "adb shell" or all other commands required for the procedure.
I had the same bootloop problem, it was easy to remove all the Play Store files.
Hope helping you.
Mat

Tourist06 said:
adb shell will return device not found, adb get-serialno and adb-get-state return unknown
Using 4ext, I mounted system and sd-card
I also tried dietwice's tip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33073702&postcount=8), but at step 3, cd /system/app , it says path not found. I'm no guru, so I don't really know what to do now.
Sorry about the fonts, it's a mess^^
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You need to mount "system" and "USB storage". You have to be connected to your computer.
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I think that Tourist06 can't resolve with mounting /system or something else, because he has a problem with adb (adb don't talks with his device).
Have you followed this guide for installing adb?

@freakymonkey: I followed the guide, seemed to work! If I enter the shell I no more need to enter the whole path, entering "adb" will produce text. Please have a look at the following screenshot, hope you can confirm this.
@matteo.rex, no success, here's a screenshot
A pop-up appeared saying there were unidentified devices.
Thanks for your help, guys! My phone isn't working for the sixth day now

Tourist06 said:
A pop-up appeared saying there were unidentified devices.
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Uhm, this is the problem maybe.
First question: is the phone charging when you plugin it to the pc? (I had a problem with the cable...solved changing it)
Second: could be not an ADB installation problem, but a Driver Installation problem. Check this thread to download it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654047
If typing "ADB" a list of command appear, this mean that it work.
Windows, after the driver installation, have to recognize you Desire also during Recovery, not only during common use.
I hope it could help you!
Let us know!
p.s. I use ADB over Ubuntu, but the work is the same.