If you haven't updated yet due to any number of reasons, just drag the update.zip found here to your root of your sdcard, and boot into recovery using, while your phone is completly off, both volume keys and power and use the down key to navigate to apply update.zip and then press the camera button to select the option. That's it, a painless update, if you still have your bloat of coarse. When your done feel free to root with the one click I made. (;
Hey man i need some help.
Whatever we did to my phone wont mount my sd card so i cant flash anything via recovery.
Your still using the failed fake flash recovery jt and I made. Let me dig up the official recovery for you to flash in odin.
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Ok awesome man. Your just going to have to remInd me how to do it lol.
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was the odin version ever posted? I needed to try flashing dj05 for a certain reason and now can't friggin flash back. Thought I saw it posted but alas no.
Hate to bump...but does the ODIN dl17 exist?
I flashed the latest version, nothing. Just gets stuck at the white htcinc screen.
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Look in the android development forum for "the ultimate back to stock thread". download the "PB31IMGxxxxx" file there, rename it to just PB31IMG.zip and put it on the root of your sd card. Go into the bootloader and let it run the update. This will bring you back to a 2.2 stock. From there you can re-root and do whatever else you like. Just be careful with what you flash, just cause there is an update, doesn't mean you need to flash. I know it's hard but I learned that the hard way lol.
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How do you manually get into recovery? I've only done it from rom manager. Im running evervolvs gingerbread 1.0.1b3 if that might be affecting cwr
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So my whole problem is getting into the bootloader. I just need to flash a rom with working GPS =/. Anyone?
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Edit: Weird, i just checked cwr version and it wasn't 3.0.whatever. all good now. =)
to manually get into recovery turn phone off hold volume down and power....
Ok, so I have an Evo, rooted it, flashed so many roms I can't even count, my friend gets an Evo, I root it, load a few apps and send him on his way. Today he tells me his Evo reset a few times, so he went to fastboot and it asked him to update, which he did unfortunately. Now his phone wont boot past the HTC splash screen, wont boot to recovery, wont get recognized by HTC sync. I have tried to clear the storage, flash the RUU image, and so far nothing. His battery was pretty much dead when I tried flashing the PC36IMG of the RUU, so I told him to charge his battery and try again.
So is there anything I can do or is he going to have to get a new one at a sprint store?
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Ok, so I have an Evo, rooted it, flashed so many roms I can't even count, my friend gets an Evo, I root it, load a few apps and send him on his way. Today he tells me his Evo reset a few times, so he went to fastboot and it asked him to update, which he did unfortunately. Now his phone wont boot past the HTC splash screen, wont boot to recovery, wont get recognized by HTC sync. I have tried to clear the storage, flash the RUU image, and so far nothing. His battery was pretty much dead when I tried flashing the PC36IMG of the RUU, so I told him to charge his battery and try again.
So is there anything I can do or is he going to have to get a new one at a sprint store?
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What rom was he running when it initially messed up on him. And do you have any idea what the pc36img that he flashed from the bootloader was? Some left over files from when you rooted it maybe? I would try the ruu or pc36img a few more times,once his phone is charged up.
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just to make sure.. your holding down the volume down button and pushing power at the same time? Should be able to get to the bootloader at least doing this.. then recovery..
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Ok, so I have an Evo, rooted it, flashed so many roms I can't even count, my friend gets an Evo, I root it, load a few apps and send him on his way. Today he tells me his Evo reset a few times, so he went to fastboot and it asked him to update, which he did unfortunately. Now his phone wont boot past the HTC splash screen, wont boot to recovery, wont get recognized by HTC sync. I have tried to clear the storage, flash the RUU image, and so far nothing. His battery was pretty much dead when I tried flashing the PC36IMG of the RUU, so I told him to charge his battery and try again.
So is there anything I can do or is he going to have to get a new one at a sprint store?
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Did the phone die in the process of updating, ect, because that could allow it to be bricked. I would recommend to try what the others posted on a full battery. And do you know what was inside the PC36IMG?
Can you get into the bootloader?...cus this happened to me a couple nights ago and I had to wipe all data from bootloader and flash the recovery from the terminal...fixed it for me
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You can do a few things.
One, pull the sdcard, put it in your computer, and put recovery on the root as pc36img.zip.
Since it looks like the phone will go to boot loader, just flash the update and them try recovery. Hopefully, you did a nandroid that you can flash back to.
Or 2, if that doesn't work, put the RUU on the root of the sdcard as pc36img.zip and run the update, re-root, etc and basically start over from scratch.
I have put the recover and ruu images on the SD card and tried both from the bootloader. But like I said the battery was dead.
He didn't have a custom roms, stock rom, just rooted,and the only image he had on there was the recovery image. He had also cleared his storage at some point, not sure before or after.
I have the recovery and ruu images downloaded and I'm going to try those again, should I try the recovery first or just go straight to the ruu?
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Essentially if I do the recovery image, it asks me to update, I update, it asks me to to reboot, do I reboot it go straight to recovery? Same if I do the ruu, do I reboot right away?
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If you flas recovery, when it reboots to hboot, check no for the update this time and go to recovery. Clear your caches and try to reboot.
If you flash the RUU, yo uare restoring the phone to out of the box, stock, so you have to re-root, and then flash your recovery, just like you did when you first got your phone
When I install the ruu, it turns off and then starts over again on the second step, then finishes, is that normal?
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If anyone has the correct ruu is should use, could you post it please, I think that might be my problem.
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If anyone has the correct ruu is should use, could you post it please, I think that might be my problem.
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What happens after you ran the ruu? And yes, its normal for it to reboot, then finish installing. You'll see a black screen with green arrow, that's the radio flash. What happens when it finishes and you reboot? I don't have any links, I'm on my phone. But do a search, there's tons of ruu's around here.
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Tried the ruu, is flashed, the rebooted, was on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes, made the boot sound, but the animation took about a minute to go through, then stopped on 4g, waiting a while longer it go to the lockscreen and wouldn't let me unlock it then brought up a force close that wont let me click it, it just sits there.
The recovery installed, it rebooted, I clicked on recovery and it stayed on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes until I pulled the battery.
Should I maybe try another ruu or recovery?
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You need to use the RUU that is specific for your phone, based on hardware version, radios, etc.
Here's a list of RUU d/l's.
It's not the best one, but I Can't find the thread with all the RUU's on it that's here on XDA.
http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Supersonic
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Tried the ruu, is flashed, the rebooted, was on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes, made the boot sound, but the animation took about a minute to go through, then stopped on 4g, waiting a while longer it go to the lockscreen and wouldn't let me unlock it then brought up a force close that wont let me click it, it just sits there.
The recovery installed, it rebooted, I clicked on recovery and it stayed on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes until I pulled the battery.
Should I maybe try another ruu or recovery?
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That's weird that you were able to boot up, but it froze up on ya. Trying a different ruu wont hurt, but Im surprised the one that just succeeded for you wont run. What ruu did you run? What software? Maybe try clearing storage from the bootloader, and try to boot up again.
What hardware is your phone? What hboot version?
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Cleared storage and ran the most up to date ruu because he had everything updated on his Evo. Is there anyway to get s-on?
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Cleared storage and ran the most up to date ruu because he had everything updated on his Evo. Is there anyway to get s-on?
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Not without having recovery, to flash the s-on tool, unfortunately. I've seen reports of running the ruu a few times turned s on. Did you try running any older ruu, just to test?
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Hey guys,
I used the AlpharevX Windows beta to S-OFF my Inc 2, then rooted using CWM (still on stock rom). I can see the OTA, and can download it, but it won't install.
The progress bar gets about 1/3 the way full then comes up with the triangle with the !.
I've tried it two or three times, did factory reset, have no idea what to do. Do I have to S-ON for it to install? If so, how exactly do I do that?
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Hey guys,
I used the AlpharevX Windows beta to S-OFF my Inc 2, then rooted using CWM (still on stock rom). I can see the OTA, and can download it, but it won't install.
The progress bar gets about 1/3 the way full then comes up with the triangle with the !.
I've tried it two or three times, did factory reset, have no idea what to do. Do I have to S-ON for it to install? If so, how exactly do I do that?
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First, you cannot install an OTA when you have a custom recovery such as CWM installed. You at least need to install the original recovery image for your particular ROM before you try again.
Since the OTA in now available and official, why don't you just wait a few hours and someone will have a fully rooted version of the ROM that you can flash using CWM and not worry about losing S-OFF?
Let me give you a fair warning though, I'm not positive how Alpha set up their root, as I used XTC. BUT I know if you install the OTA with replacing CWM with regular recovery, you MAY be turned back to S-ON WITHOUT an option to get root back, UNLESS using the XTC clip. Enjoy.
Okay, I was afraid of that. I'm used to not even being able to see OTA's at all with CWM (came from Droid X), so it kind of threw me off.
Do you have any idea if the OTA is really any different from the leaked Inc S GB rom that's floating around? If, for some reason, it takes forever to get the ota rooted and they're not that different I may just install the leaked one I have.
Not trying to be a pain, just curious.
Thanks,
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parkwoodsuks said:
Okay, I was afraid of that. I'm used to not even being able to see OTA's at all with CWM (came from Droid X), so it kind of threw me off.
Do you have any idea if the OTA is really any different from the leaked Inc S GB rom that's floating around? If, for some reason, it takes forever to get the ota rooted and they're not that different I may just install the leaked one I have.
Not trying to be a pain, just curious.
Thanks,
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Check the Dev section. It looks like there is already a rooted, debloated version available.
I just created a PG32IMG.zip containing. Android-info text file and CWM recovery img renamed to recovery.img and placed it on root of sdcard
Booted into hboot and flashed it ...
Then I replaced the recovery with the stock recovery from the froyo ruu and flashed the stock recovery back....
Then flashed right back to CWM..
Never used any commands via windows or linux
I am going to install the ota and try to go back to cwm recovery and see what I can do from there.
I'll keep you guys informed
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This way we will know if the s-off is similar to.unrevoked for the incredible 1. I could do this all day long with theirs.
One way to find out right.
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Mr1070 said:
I just created a PG32IMG.zip containing. Android-info text file and CWM recovery img renamed to recovery.img and placed it on root of sdcard
Booted into hboot and flashed it ...
Then I replaced the recovery with the stock recovery from the froyo ruu and flashed the stock recovery back....
Then flashed right back to CWM..
Never used any commands via windows or linux
I am going to install the ota and try to go back to cwm recovery and see what I can do from there.
I'll keep you guys informed
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You will recieve the OTA update and get Gingerbread. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED BY MANY that you will NOT be able to -reroot. if you can that's because of the hboot alpha gave you. but if it changes ur hboot you need XTC clip to re-root. RMK already posted a ROOTED ROM of the current OTA. SAME THING, why chance root for OTA. THEY ARE THE EXACT SAME FILES. BUT WITH ROOT! just use his ROM. my 2 cents. do as you please
Link
Hey, Instead of Don't do this, do that, do this, don't update that, If you want the release and don't want to lose root, install from this link. This guy(rmk40) spent some time to get this out to us. Awesome work! You won't lose root, everything works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161411
Be sure to "Thanks" him for this
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Looking at the zip it appears theirs reflashes hboot, which will break s off as far as i know.
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I got RMK's rooted rom and it's awesome. Thanks for the help guys.
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evening fellow rooters and droid users
i never ran into root problem before with any of my past previous phones but there is first for anything these days. so it be greatly appreciated if i can get any input from anyone about my problem.
i have tmobile galaxy s3
droid version 4.0.4
i followed the step of downloading odin3, cwm superuser and clockworkmod.tar.
copy cwm superuser zip file to my sd card
boot into download mode. ran odin3, click on PDA and locating the clockworkmod.tar
i've been reading mix instructions of UNCHECK and/or UNCHECK F Reset Timer. which one is correct?
press start everything passed and the phone automatically reboot.
powered off the phone and hold VOLUME UP and HOME and POWER button to try to get into CWM recovery tool. but i end up getting into android's recovery system NOT CWM.
where do I go from there? i re-install and used odin over 5 times already and no changes.
what should i do?
Read this it should take care of it. let me know how it goes.
i appreciate your reply however it didn't resolve anything.
the installation of the cwm.tar file supposedly say success and not failed.
i just can't seem to get into CWM recovery.
i am assume the installation of that cwm recovery.tar file didn't go thru?
Ok the other thing you can try is after you flash via odin remove the battery before it reboots when done flashing thru odin. Wait about 5 to 10 seconds put battery back in and hold volume up + home button + power button and when you see the little blue letters on the top left of the screen let go of all the buttons and it should take you into CWM. Then install superuser.zip. reboot and then you can flash recovery from either rom manager(cwm) or goomanager (twrp) and it will stick. Let me know what happens. I'll be checking the thread for your results. We will get you rooted!!!!
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u beat me to the punch sir.
i was just going to say i found solution by removing battery after the installation pass.
problem solved. hopefully someone makes a note/sticky that anyone with version 4.0.4 on tmobile galaxy s3 should remove battery as instruction and take off auto-reboot.
thank you sir
Glad you got it bro, and welcome to the madness.
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Its probably because after any ota update stock recovery will rewrite at boot.
Delete these
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Reinstall cwm and youre good to go.
Ive got a fw thread stickied in development and will be adding this and more soon. Will try to start on it tonight.
Theres another way without battery pull btw. Check there later and ill explain it.
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I think he has a new unit that already came updated.
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I didnt see that, but its the only reason Ive seen that recovery wont stick after a reboot. They only put those files in with otas as its how they patch/update the recovery. You shouldnt see them any any of the odin flashable firmware.
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