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[Q] Can't flash img-files. Need tips!

I want to update radio and clockwork mod recovery but I can't flash image files. I tried two ways the below one being the first:
"1. Extract the contents of the radio zip package. You should have radio.img file in it.
2. Copy/move the radio.img file to “Tools” directory of the Android SDK setup. Fastboot.exe will also be located in the same folder.
3. Connect the Phone to computer via USB cable.
5. Open the command prompt and run the following command:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
6. Wait for the radio flash to complete.
After flashing is completed, reboot your Android phone. It should boot with the new Radio ROM! That’s it. You have successfully installed Radio.img on your Android Phone."
I couldn't run the fastboot command. After reboot to bootloader I couldn't connect to the desire. All I got was an error message saying "device not found". What's up with that? I do have the right drivers (at least i think so). Before the reboot the device was found all right. I rebooted via the command prompt and it worked just fine. USB debugging was activated all the time.
The second method I tried was using android terminal (trying to flash the new recovery) like this:
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
The super user command worked fine but the next one didn't. Another error message "flash_image not found"
This has nothing to do with the recovery image not being in the right place or me misspelling. Tried it many times belive me. What seems to be the case is that I don't have flash_image on my phone.
Am I missing something here. I'm new to rooting and installing ROMs so I figure I might
Background:
I just recently rooted my Desire. I wanted more space for apps and to get rid of many apps included in the stock ROM.
I searched all over the place and figured Redux to be the ROM for me. I used the unrevoked method too root and Alpharev 1.8 to S-off. I use the Oxygen HBOOT flashed via the zip-file from Alpharev. I don't think I've ever used adb to flash images since I never had to.
Any ideas?

1. Install the HBOOT drivers form unrevoked site (From here.)
2. Download android SDK from their site and install it + platform tools, revision 3 (from SDK MANAGER).
3. Reboot the phone into fastboot (POWER + BACK key). Should say FASTBOOT USB.
4. Run CMD.EXE and navigate to your folder where is fastboot.exe is located (android-sdk-\tools) on your hard drive.
5. run command (e.g. fastboot flash radio xyz.img)
6. run command reboot-bootloader
Sorry, for the noobish instructions, but this should work, I just did it yesterday.

Don't worry, I'm a noob
I have already done 1 and 2. All drivers are up to date. I do get to FASTBOOT USB when doing 3 but then I can't execute any adb commands due to my device not being found.
Weirdly I can see Android Phone 1 on my laptop where you unmount en externel drive.
I might just do steps 1 and 2 over again.
For now I managed flashing the new Clockwork Mod Recovery using a guide suggesting to download a flash_image file extracted from one of the cyanogenmod ROMs and pushing it to the system/bin directory on the phone. adb commands works fine when the phone is completely rebooted so I could do that. Then I just used Terminal Emulator to flash the recovery image.
Thanks for your instructions!

[Q] Help flashing new Radio

I seem to have an annoying problem. When the phone is connected via USB and is properly on i.e. in the sense launcher and everything, typing 'adb devices' on cmd works fine and I find the device. However when I power down
1. it goes into recovery
2. If I do manage to get into bootloader the PC tries to reinstall the drivers which it fails to do hence 'adb devices' doesn't come up with any results.
Any help would really be appreciated.

Android SDK?

Few quick questions, you have installed ADB drivers(i guess you have else no "devices" would show)? You are running in USB Debugging? I have only known fastboot to work in recovery mode, which guide are you following to flash the radio?
As far as i remember it is all fastboot commands once you have ADB reboot recovery then it's something like fastboot copy radio.img etc,
Check this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896597

@Xtrema - I have the android sdk and in tools i put the three ADB files in there.
@wbbigdave - I'm pretty sure I have the ADB drivers because I can find it when the phone is fully on and I have HTC sync installed which has the Desire HD come up. I'm using this guide to flash the radio and method 2 since it seems like the method that the Android Rev maker said to use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11557769
My main problem is that it won't find my device when I'm in the bootloader :S but finds it when the phone is fully on.
Shall I try Method 1?

Method 1 is the one i use.
Download the radio flash.zip and extract to desktop, extract the radio.img file into the extracted folder. Then double click the 'start here' file. This will then open a command window into which you type the commands.
Phone should be in recovery when you do this.

Thanks alot, I was getting confused. Method 1 seems a lot easier but I was already in fastboot when I wasn't suppose to be
So far it seems to have gone through. How do I make sure I have the correct radio. In the bootloader will it not show the first half the the radio file name?

Settings, About phone, Software information, Baseband version.

How do I use Fastboot?

Hello, I have my HTC Desire running the following:
AlphaRev Oxygen r2
Oxygen 2.1.6
S-Off
HBOOT 6.93.1002
Radio: 32_54_00.32U_5.14.05.17
Now, I have always flashed radios, ROMS, HBOOT etc... inside of my phone, so using images in recovery and so on. But, now, apparently you can no longer flash radios inside of Clockwork Recovery because apparently the cache memory isn't large enough to handle them.
As such, you have to use Fastboot and "fastboot flash radio radio.img". How do I do this? Has anyone got a guide on how to do this? I want to update my radio to 5.17.05.23 but cannot at the moment.
Any advice?

you need to connect your phone to the computer and reboot into fastboot mode (hold down Vol down + back button).
you'll need to have the android SDK installed prior.
navigate to fastboot mode.
head on to CMD on your pc, navigate to C:\program files\android\android-sdk\[i think its tools or platform-tools, use the command dir to list the directory. make sure fastboot.exe is in tht folder].
once in there, type "fastboot flash radio radio.img". (radio.img can be the name of the .img file you downloaded)
make sure your img is in the same folder too.

do0b said:
you need to connect your phone to the computer and reboot into fastboot mode (hold down Vol down + back button).
you'll need to have the android SDK installed prior.
navigate to fastboot mode.
head on to CMD on your pc, navigate to C:\program files\android\android-sdk\[i think its tools or platform-tools, use the command dir to list the directory. make sure fastboot.exe is in tht folder].
once in there, type "fastboot flash radio radio.img". (radio.img can be the name of the .img file you downloaded)
make sure your img is in the same folder too.
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Excellent. So I need to get the SDK first. Is that something I can grab from Google's site or... ?

everything you need to know here for sdk

Nice guide about adb and fastboot by suroot:
http://androidforums.com/desire-all...fastboot-windows-updated-1st-june-2011-a.html
Sent from Oxygen

Or you can use the Android Flasher tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638

So... I installed the Java SE JDK in order to run the Android SDK... but... when ever I try and run the latter it just won't recognise that I have the JDK installed. Any ideas?

I'm wondering if it is because I installed the 64bit JDK, not the 32bit.

Works great now. Had to install the 32bit JDK and then took me a while to work out where adbwinapi.dll was

i had problem with fastboot.exe not able to find adbwinapi.dll so i moved fastboot.exe into the folder where adbwinapi.dll was (platform-tools i think). and it worked.

how to install cm7 hboot?

Hi guys...
i want to install the CM7 hboot on my desire, and i boot my desire in fastboot mode (voldown + power and select fastboot) and then i plug it in the computer
then i have tried to use both android flasher and fastboot commander but both of em can't contact my phone.... fastboot commander cant retrieve device info or anything...
what am i doing wrong?
i have used the alpharev method to S-off...

Root + S-OFF using Revolutionary. Then, boot into HBOOT (remove the battery, re-insert it, hold Volume Down + Power until you get a white screen). The volume rockers will probably do nothing now, as it has to check for a ZIP file first. After about 15 seconds, you should be able to browse in the menu. Select 'Fastboot' with the volume rockers, and press Power. Connect it to your PC, and use the tools you mentioned to flash a custom HBOOT.
After flashing a custom HBOOT, you'll also have to reinstall your ROM! Perhaps you also have to reinstall your recovery, but I'm not sure about that.

Chaosz-X said:
Root + S-OFF using Revolutionary. Then, boot into HBOOT (remove the battery, re-insert it, hold Volume Down + Power until you get a white screen). The volume rockers will probably do nothing now, as it has to check for a ZIP file first. After about 15 seconds, you should be able to browse in the menu. Select 'Fastboot' with the volume rockers, and press Power. Connect it to your PC, and use the tools you mentioned to flash a custom HBOOT.
After flashing a custom HBOOT, you'll also have to reinstall your ROM! Perhaps you also have to reinstall your recovery, but I'm not sure about that.
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OP has already got root & S-OFF...
menthos said:
Hi guys...
i want to install the CM7 hboot on my desire, and i boot my desire in fastboot mode (voldown + power and select fastboot) and then i plug it in the computer
then i have tried to use both android flasher and fastboot commander but both of em can't contact my phone.... fastboot commander cant retrieve device info or anything...
what am i doing wrong?
i have used the alpharev method to S-off...
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Before you start, boot recovery and backup your ROM!
Lets use cmd. You'll need fastboot.exe, for simplicity - put it in your c:\ (if you don't have it, download & unzip my attachment into c:\)
Download the cm7 hboot from alpharev (and check md5!!!!! - also attached md5 checker) and put it in c:\
open cmd (start menu, accessories) and type:
Code:
cd\
fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot oem gencheckpt [COLOR="Red"](optional: this just boots you into recovery)[/COLOR]
You're more than likely to get a bootloop from your current ROM if you don't re-flash it.

bortak said:
OP has already got root & S-OFF...
Before you start, boot recovery and backup your ROM!
Lets use cmd. You'll need fastboot.exe, for simplicity - put it in your c:\ (if you don't have it, download & unzip my attachment into c:\)
Download the cm7 hboot from alpharev (and check md5!!!!! - also attached md5 checker) and put it in c:\
open cmd (start menu, accessories) and type:
Code:
cd\
fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl-cm7r2.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot oem gencheckpt [COLOR="Red"](optional: this just boots you into recovery)[/COLOR]
You're more than likely to get a bootloop from your current ROM if you don't re-flash it.
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thanks for the good description.... actually it was my drivers that was wrong... i checked in device manager and tried to update driver and it found the right driver then...
actually i found it almost easier to use CMD than thoose programs

menthos said:
thanks for the good description.... actually it was my drivers that was wrong... i checked in device manager and tried to update driver and it found the right driver then...
actually i found it almost easier to use CMD than thoose programs
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Yeah CMD is pretty easy, specially if you know the right commands etc. if you look at some guides you'll get the hang of it pretty fast (it's pretty simple really), there's also less to go wrong so it's safer (especially when flashing radio :O) since cmd is less prone to crashing than other programs (not that I've had a crash before.. just saying)
and I could've made it simpler.. you're just not a spanktard that doesn't get anything and you actually understand things lol so well done on that

cm7/r2
Hi, I would like to have in my desire cm7/r2 but I have a problem instal it.
Now I'm already S-OFF used Revolutionary, unrevoked, in this time NO ROOT, because I updated to offic. A2.3.3. I have: HBOOT-6.93.1002, RADIO-5.1105.27.
I would like to try install cm7/r2 hboot because I have a problem install Aurora ROM. I can't boot into the system after installation. Can anyone help me and write step by step guide? I tried cmd and fastboot but it's not working for me.
I have had installed few custom ROMs from XDA, but I'm still newbie so please be patient with me
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/718/cmdme.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/revolutionary.jpg/
EDIT: OK guys I did it in other way.

[Q] HTC Desire Z Stuck in boot with green HTC logo after rooting ...

I have followed following Instructions --
but, after restarting the device it Stuck in boot with green HTC logo..
pls pls help ...
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Instructions
1. Install Terminal Emulator and a file manager (such as Astro File Manager) from the Market.
2. Extract the contents of the zip file to the SD card (this will create a directory called root_files on the card). When done, make sure you unmount your SD card from your computer if you had mounted it as a storage device to transfer the files.
3. Enable Unknown Sources (under Settings->Applications) and USB Debugging (under Settings->Applications->Development).
4. Using your file manager, navigate to the root_files directory on your SD card and select "com.modaco.visionaryplus.r14.apk" to install the Visionary app.
5. Start the Visionary app.
6. Click on "Temproot now." Leave all other settings unchecked.
7. Start the Terminal app.
8. Type the following commands (the $ and # symbols represent the command prompt and should not be typed):
Code:
$ su
# cp /sdcard/root_files/perm_root /data/local/perm_root
# chmod 777 /data/local/*
# /data/local/perm_root
You will see multiple messages scroll by as the programs run. Once you are returned to the prompt in terminal, you will have permanent root (S-OFF), as well as subsidy unlock and SuperCID. At this point, you can also choose to flash the engineering hboot as explained in the wiki. Flashing this hboot allows you to use the flashboot program to flash images from your computer to your phone (which can be very helpful when stuck in a bootloop for example). Note, this is often times the step that bricks people's phones when following other guides. To help mitigate the danger involved, I created a script that first checks the md5 of the hboot file to ensure it didn't get corrupted and then actually performs the flash (many times the bricking occurs because of a typo in this command). If you wish to flash the engineering hboot, type the following command in terminal if you have a G2:
Code:
# /data/local/tmp/flash_hboot
Or this command if you have a Desire Z
Code:
# /data/local/tmp/flash_hboot_z
If you get a verification failed message, you should re-download the files, re-extract them to your SD card, and run the flash_hboot script again.
If you don't want the engineering hboot, just reboot your phone. You can verify you have permanent root by holding volume down while powering on (you'll see S-OFF in the first line of the bootloader). You are now free to install a new recovery and start flashing custom ROMs. If you don't want to flash a new ROM, it's safe to uninstall the Visionary app at this point.
And if you are curious, you can open the perm_root and flash_hboot files in a text editor to see what they are actually doing...
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I guess you didn't see the
WARNING - Do not use Visionary to permanent root your G2/DZ - high brick risk! sticky, well that's a shame.
If you managed to flash the eng hboot, it shouldn't be too hard to fix. Otherwise you might have to flash an RUU to get it back to factory settings.
-Nipqer

sry, but there are quite a few warnings about not using visionary...
ok, so what can you do?
first thing i would try is:
try to enter bootloader (power & volume down) connect your phone to pc, open cmd.exe go to your platform tools folder and type "fastboot devices" if your phone shows up, type "fastboot oem boot"
...if you are lucky you are able to boot into the rom again.
EDIT: or do what nipqer posted... tell us what your bootloader shows (hboot number and s-off?)

On volume down + power, it shows following
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC1011000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.04.02.17_M2
eMMC-boot
Aug 20 2010, 16:51:01

Download clockworkmod recovery
Use fastboot to flash it. Boot into fastboot mode (hold trackpad and power), then run 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img' from a command line.
Then boot into the recovery, from hboot, and flash a new rom from there.
-Nipqer

ok, i will leave it to nipqer

Do i have to use ADB tool to run 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img' ?
please help me with the step to run the same as I never done this before....
It will be a great help

Fastboot is an Android tool, but it is not adb.
(Assuming you're on windows) I'm not sure which drivers (if any) you need for it, but if you have installed HTC Sync you will have the drivers.
Download this zip and extract the fastboot for your OS, into the same folder the recovery image is in, then just run the command
fastboot-[os] flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.7-vision.img
You could pop into #g2root on freenode for faster/easier help.
Otherwise hopefully hoffmas sees this and feels like taking over as its almost sleep time for me.
-Nipqer