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Did I just fudge up rooting my GF's phone.

I rooted mines and followed the steps for full root on a mac. I went to root her today and pushed that PC36IMG file to her phone and forgot that instead of pushing the first one I was supposed to push I pushed the second PC36IMG file.
I can't flash the first PC36IMG file because I'm guessing the second modified PC36IMG file is a newer version. How do I manually reverse this process. If I hold the down volume and power I can get into that screen but when I press recovery it shows me a phone with a RED triangle with an exclamation point.
How can I start over again?
I even deleted the files from the Tools folder to see if I can start over again.

gqstatus0685 said:
I rooted mines and followed the steps for full root on a mac. I went to root her today and pushed that PC36IMG file to her phone and forgot that instead of pushing the first one I was supposed to push I pushed the second PC36IMG file.
I can't flash the first PC36IMG file because I'm guessing the second modified PC36IMG file is a newer version. How do I manually reverse this process. If I hold the down volume and power I can get into that screen but when I press recovery it shows me a phone with a RED triangle with an exclamation point.
How can I start over again?
I even deleted the files from the Tools folder to see if I can start over again.
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Thats your recovery. Have the ClockworkMod recovery update.zip in the root of your sd card, reboot into recovery where you got that red triangle, hold Volume up and press power. Select apply sdcard:update.zip and you will have a good recovery. Wipe and flash the right PC36IMG this time

Where do I get that Clockwork zip?

Here ya go.
download this file, rename it to "update.zip," and copy it to the root of your SD card just like we did with the PC36IMG zip before. A common problem that people have here is actually typing the last ".zip" in when naming the file. ONLY type "update" as the file name because the file you are downloading is already in .zip format, and Windows hides known file extensions. If you get any kind of "file cannot be found" or "verification error" on this step, then you probably made this mistake, and you just need to rename the file.
Please note: This is the ONLY file on your SD card to be named "update.zip." Do NOT rename any other files to "update.zip" or remove this file.
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taken from this thread

Thanks dude I'll try when I get home.

I just followed those instructions and I'm still getting that red triangle.

gqstatus0685 said:
I just followed those instructions and I'm still getting that red triangle.
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Your supposed to see the RED TRIANGLE!! Hold down Volume Up and Power and then install from SD card

That doesn't work. I'm unable to install that PC36IMG. It scans but doesn't give me option to flash. If I hold volume up and power I can't navigate through the SD and manually choose the file.

when youre in the screen with the ! open a command
type:
Code:
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
to mount
unmount
Code:
echo "" > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

don't do adb push, just put the file on the root of the sd card, then power the phone on with vol down+power

I had the same thing happen to me where I pushed the same one again, all i did was load up the nandroid backup from the first time i flash the first one

I fixed it. I didn't go to bed last night until like 3 because I hate having unfinished things on my mind. I have a quick question though. If I root my friends Evo's do I have to remove those files from the /Tools folder every time? Will this affect other stuff I may do with my Evo when I have to hook it up to Terminal to run commands? (Wireless N hack)

just flash back to stock
flash back to the stock ruu then dont do the sprint upgrade and start from scratch using neckfaces root method. its fast and simple

cannot start evo after root

Can someone please help...
i rooted my evo and then reinstalled a backup, now i cannot start the evo, it just keeps rebooting. i have tried to restore nand backup, installing the new pc36img.zip file and reformatting the sd card. when i start with the pc36img.zip file on the root of the sd card, i get no image or wrong image. it also has the newest ota. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
D_

Corrupted pc136 file?
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you have to use OTA simple root, you can't use the regular simpleroot and most likely you nand wasn't unlocked that's why you have the bootloop.

youngdhillon said:
you have to use OTA simple root, you can't use the regular simpleroot and most likely you nand wasn't unlocked that's why you have the bootloop.
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Also, after you do the newest ota simple root. Be sure to wipe all before you flash a new Rom.

vbyt said:
Corrupted pc136 file?
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I have tried multiple PC136img.zip files.
Thank you

I used the ota simple root... when it was done, i tried to restore a backup of all my apps and data using my backup, that's when the loop started. I can boot into boot loader, nand, restore, etc... but nothing seems to get me out.
Thank you

What HBOOT version do you have? When you statr phone with volume down and power, white screen you come to at the top should be the version.

The HBoot is 0.79.0000

erase all the new files from your sd csrd....like pc36 and the flast image and image1-3...then start over using simpleroot 1.47

Thanks but I cannot boot the phone at all. I was able to format the card to fat32, boot the phone to recovery, start the ota simple root, on pc run Windows-recovery, start a adb shell and push the pc36img from simple root to it... but when I reboot from there, I get the "no image or wrong image". Then it will say loading... pc36img.zip for about 30 seconds, then says checking pc36img.zip for another 30 and go to the menu with "fastboot, recovery, clear storage etc..."
I can select "recovery" and see any Rom or zip file and load it; but it will still boot to a loop.
Thanks again.

Have you tried toasts part 2 in its entirity? You dont have the engineering hboot. Look for whiteslacks starting over it will tell you to do toasts part 2 first then run the whiteslack method you are going to have to get engineering hboot to do much of anything.
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I will try it out and let you know. Thank you very much.

i tried the toast 2, but can't seem to get past the mtd-eng.img part.'
here's what i get. First i Hold down the vol button and press power. once the phone starts, i scroll down to recovery and press power. in recovery it says "ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1" at the top and bottom of the screen. Now i open a command prompt on my computer and type in, "recovery-windows" the phone then goes into the android system recovery, and at the bottom says "Build : not set". From here i can open shell on the computer by typing "adb shell", but when i type in the first line "cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image" it returns "cat: can't open '/sdcard/flash_image': No such file or directory" but i can ls while in a shell and see the file in the data directory and i can cd to any directory. the flash_image file is in the data director, and i can change the permissions with 755, but cannot get past that part.

OK... I don't really know how, but i was able to finally get it to see the PC36img.zip files. i pushed the flash_image to the /data directory, wiped everything and rebooted with the new PC36IMG file on the root. it asked if i wanted to update, and the rest is history...
Thank you for all your help.

I never used simple root and i dont recommend by other suggestionfor many issue during the process. Always i use this way and work perfectly easy and useful step by step , then last step flash custom rom
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=123714
132.651.1/6 Top Instructions
147.651.1 Bottom Intructions

EVO Bricked? Please Help

I had rooted my phone and updated the radio to 1.47.651.1 when I tried to update a custom rom I accidently re-ran PC36IMG.zip and it rebooted quick NOW the radio says 1:39:00:04:26
and in the options below I now have
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
HBOOT USB
I tried putting the phone on FASTBOOT then connected it to the USB and began a stock rom not rooted and it boots my phone into an HTC Black screen Boot mode and begins to update until it comes to the signatures and it gives me an error.
I run windows 7
I went and tried this, connected sd card to Computer with adapter and transferred stock rom rooted and renamed it to sdcard.zip
booted Evo to bootloader and chose recovery.
I as usual got the black background with EVO Icon and red triangle with exclamation mark.
There I click on hold Volume Up and Power until I get the following error:
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Then I click volume up and the following title and menu appear:
Android system recovery <2e>
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
When I choose the sdcard:update option the following message is displayed
----Install from Sdcard ------
Finding Update package
Opening update package
verifying update package
E:signature verification failed
instalation aborted
After, I downloaded tha froyo 2.2 file and placed it on the sd and rename it to update.zip
and when I ran Update.zip from bootloader it ran half way but then stopped saying the following error
failed to verify whole-file signature
So now I load any PC36IMG and I get NO QUESTION to update just puts me onto the bootloader screen….

Not bricked, just stuck. Download stock ruu, plug phone into computer and install. Or put pc136.img on rot of sd, boot into fast boot, it should install automatically. If none of the above, go to a sprint store, tell them it won't boot and you don't know why, and they will flash or replace.
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What I would do from here if I were you is put that sd card back in the computer and erase everything on it.
while your at it shut down the phone. Hold down the volume down button and press power. When that comes up post what version of Hboot you have please.
And I'll be better able to help out.
WOw

did you try to reinstall another ROM?
if you still see the RECOVERY menu item, go there and then go where it says update from zip on sdcard. then using up/down buttons highlight the .zip file of the ROM then push the power button to make it run.
this hoping you got a ROM on your sdcard. if not just get one at the forum and download.
i got clockworkmod but im sure the other recovery tools have similar options.

@ adelaney Stock Ruu begins to update and gives me an error when signatures are being installed. I tried three Stock ROMS
RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253
RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.6_Radio_1.39.00.05.31_release_171253_signed
RUU_Supersonic_1.47.651.1_Radio_2.05.00.06.10_release_CL195459
@ rjmjr69
Hboot information is:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.79.0000
MICROP-041F
TOUCH PANEL-ATMWLC03_16ac
RADIO-1.39.00.04.26
@mogul420
Recovery gives me an error
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Then I click volume up and the following title and menu appear:
Android system recovery <2e>
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
When I choose the sdcard:update option the following message is displayed
----Install from Sdcard ------
Finding Update package
Opening update package
verifying update package
E:signature verification failed
instalation aborted

Ok here's the deal. If you have nan unlock, fully rooted then you should have a nandroid back. If you do then boot into recovery and no a nandroid restore. This should boot you to one of your pervious backup/ system state.
Please note.
If you are fully rooted u should always do a nandroid backup before you flash any update, that way u can do a restore in the even something goes wrong.
http://WWW.rootznculture.com

Thank you for the information but it was a step I did not do... The tutorial that I went with did not speak about that when I rooted my phone...
EDIT: I even tried mixing files that I have downloaded with various PC36IM.zip and nothing triggers the update question.

Would they be able to notice if its rooted?
adelaney said:
Not bricked, just stuck. Download stock ruu, plug phone into computer and install. Or put pc136.img on rot of sd, boot into fast boot, it should install automatically. If none of the above, go to a sprint store, tell them it won't boot and you don't know why, and they will flash or replace.
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Most likely NOT bricked if it boots!
Sounds like you re-applied root but glitched somewhere?
Try root again - may still work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706411
Another helpful post
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=123714
What version is your hboot - press power and volume down WITHOUT pc36img.zip, update, etc on your sd - i.e. rename it or remove it, i.e. with adb or sd card slot on pc.... See if you can still access recovery?
I've been hammering on these things for a bit and if I can get into the boot screen, it's pretty much good to go...

Hboot-0.79.0000
Also the error that began all of this was running the wrong PC36IMG to begin with... I had 1.4 radio and I think that the one I used had the 1.3 radio so the only thing that helped me boot up again was that 1,2,3 step flashing so I thought that I had to take the second step and that placed in on booter, I have not been able to boot again ever since.... That was yesterday been trying for about 9 hours lol
lwarranty said:
sounds like you re-applied root but glitched somewhere?
Try root again - may still work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706411
another helpful post
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=123714
what version is your hboot - press power and volume down without pc36img.zip, update, etc on your sd - i.e. Rename it or remove it, i.e. With adb or sd card slot on pc.... See if you can still access recovery?
I've been hammering on these things for a bit and if i can get into the boot screen, it's pretty much good to go...
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Yes your just not rooted anymore. Run whatever process worked for you the first time

Try whitslack's method.
EDIT: Nevermind, no can do.

What happens is that my phone DOES read the PC36IMG.zip but it does not give me update option as it used to before. Any suggestions?
rjmjr69 said:
Yes your just not rooted anymore. Run whatever process worked for you the first time
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xx1479 said:
Try whitslack's method.
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latinsbest said:
What happens is that my phone DOES read the PC36IMG.zip but it does not give me update option as it used to before. Any suggestions?
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Like he said
Make sure you delete all the files off your sdcard first

Do you have a link? I made a quick search and could not find a direct link...
xx1479 said:
Try whitslack's method.
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I have several times even formatted (fat32) various times too
rjmjr69 said:
Like he said
Make sure you delete all the files off your sdcard first
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latinsbest said:
I have several times even formatted (fat32) various times too
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Reroot your phone using toast method! That is all! If you are on 1.47 then use simple root!

Seems you have un-rooted the boot me thinks but also read something about mixing radio's causing grief, someone more in the know could answer that... If you can get to hboot usb and try the RUU from your PC? Sometimes taking the battery out and restarting, if communication fails, try it again, rebooting the pc, hell I have no procedure, I just hammer till it makes sense, however 9 hours - holy crap, I'd be foaming at the face!

Ok will do right away and post update
novanosis85 said:
Reroot your phone using toast method! That is all! If you are on 1.47 then use simple root!
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I have done that via PC and the only thing that works with that are the stock roms since they come in EXE they manage to reboot my phone and everything but when the update gets to the signature part it says it fails in the signatures and aborts... any other custom roms that have EXE?
lwarranty said:
Seems you have un-rooted the boot me thinks but also read something about mixing radio's causing grief, someone more in the know could answer that... If you can get to hboot usb and try the RUU from your PC? Sometimes taking the battery out and restarting, if communication fails, try it again, rebooting the pc, hell I have no procedure, I just hammer till it makes sense, however 9 hours - holy crap, I'd be foaming at the face!
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Unrevoked3

Hey all. Need help as usual. I "rooted" using unrekoved3. I'm a mac user and that's the reason i chose unrevoked. But now I'm thinking i should have jusr rooted from a pc. I dont think i have full rooy. Heres what i did.
1. Download unrevoked3 for mac. Opened file, ran program, rooted phone.
2. Downloaded titanium backup. Performed a full user/data and app backup.
3. Downloaded busybox.
4. Downloaded rom manager. Clicked clockwork option.
5. Downloaded terminal emulator
Verified root by typing SU, got #.
6. Accessed superuser permission app.
7. Downloaded setcpu.
8. Downloaded root manager.
I never ran a pc36img file on the phone. When i go into bootloader and try to do a nand, the screen stays on htc evo 4g white screen. When i enter bootloader, some text flashes for a second that says pc36diag.zip and pc36nbh.zip... no Image! I think i missed a step.
I had 2.2 before root, thats why i chose unrevoked3. I am thinking about unrooting but i dont know how to on a mac. It seems i need to download htc sync which there are no links for a mac.
I dont know what to do. Should i unroot on a pc and reroot using a better method? Im driving to va, currently in TN. Ill be mobile so please reply and or msg me on gtalk: [email protected]. thanks guys
Sent from my Evo 4g from inside my Evo X.

I think once you go into the bootloader screen, there should be an option to go into recovery mode.
sent via HTC EVO

i tried doing that. the phone wont go into recovery mode. it just stays on the white htc evo 4g screen. the exact message i get when i go into bootloader is this...
sd checking...
loading... [pc36imgdiag.zip]
no image!
loading... [pc36diag.nbh.zip]
no image or wrong image!
loading... [pc36img.zip]
no image!
loading... [pc36img.nbh]
no image or wrong image!
then it goes back to the bootloader screen, if i select power down it will boot normal. if i select recovery, it freezes on white screen

I'm a total noob to EVO and I am getting the same result too...
Altough I rooted via PC. I was on 2.2 stock from the box and I used unrevoked3 as well. Everything seemed to be OK and I showed root and S-OFF but after downloading ROMManager and trying to do a nand backup, I keep getting this same message during bootup. If I let it do its thing, the phone seems to work OK... but I don't think I have root anymore. I tried to load wireless tether and it tells me that I need root, so I assume I am no longer rooted.
Could it be that I need to load a recovery onto SD? I'm gonna try and do unrevoked3 again and see if it will give me root again...
EDIT: when I try to go to recovery, I get the black screen with the red circle and ! and it doesn't do anything. I have to do a battery pull.

hah funny story, IT IS SUPPOSED TO FLASH THAT TEXT. this is the phone checking itself for a manual update. i have no idea why you cant go into recovery. try reflashing with rom manager again, but this time, i would reccomend the alternate recovery (amon ra)

thanks, I'll try that
what do I do, put amon ra on the sd?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026 recovery thread
im personally not a big fan of clockwork...
i prefer fastboot method, if you have a pc handy. need the tools folder of the android sdk and put the recovery file in the same directory as fastboot (should be /android sdk/tools unless you change install folders)
although you can flash recovery w/o pc using adb method. get astro or another file manager so you can move files around easily on /sdcard/ put the recovery file on the sd card and check if you have flash_image. if not, i have it attached and then just put it on the root of the sd card as well. then follow instructions on the recovery thread.
if you need the flash_image, go into the .zip and extract it to sd card root.

How to clear my phone back to factory

Hey all i have a mytouch 3g slide with cyanogen installed and i would like to get ride of it asap. Im not sure how to go about doing that, someone help me with this please.

z32 said:
Hey all i have a mytouch 3g slide with cyanogen installed and i would like to get ride of it asap. Im not sure how to go about doing that, someone help me with this please.
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step 1:
post in Q&A section
step 2:
download the unmodified unrooted latesd update provided to us by chiefzreloaded[no im not going to link you to it its not hard to find]
step 3:
flash said update and now you are back to factory with the latest update and radio
step 4:
Im sure there would have been links in the rom bible for unrooting your device you should always do a little looking and searching before posting
step 5:
sorry for the sarcasm of this but steps 2&3 will actually unroot you so they are safe to follow
sigh to be nice here is the link: LINK now follow 2 and 3

Tried that does not work for me. I dont have a root file on mem card. Its on the phones mem and i cant get to it

z32 said:
Tried that does not work for me. I dont have a root file on mem card. Its on the phones mem and i cant get to it
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What? Do you still have the clockwork recovery? Just download the ota package it will download to the download folder on your memory card just boot into recovery flash the package located in the download section and your done! Oh and make sure your wiping before flashing
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

i got this phone rooted and im not sure exactly what your talking about. If you could give good details on how to do this i would forever owe you

In the rom bible there is a link to a unrooted rom. Its a nandroid of how the slide comes stock. Do a nandroid flash of it and you'll be all set.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

I think the OP is saying that they didn't root the phone themselves, but a previous owner did it, and now the OP has it and does not know how to unroot. If this is the case, I actually feel bad because this is one of the RARE cases that a complete noob actually NEEDS help for something.
So, you need to get the OTA package to your SD card. Download any file manager app in the market and use it to copy the OTA package to your SD card and make sure it is called "update.zip" and that it is on the root of the sdcard (meaning not inside of any other subfolders)..
Power off the phone.
Then while holding down the Volume Down button, power on the phone. You'll get whats called the H-BOOT screen. You can release the Vol Down button now.
use the Volume buttons to highlight RECOVERY, and press the Power button to actually select RECOVERY.
Once you seen the phone with an "!" on it, hold the Vol Up button and press the Power key. You'll get a menu. Use the Vol keys again to highlight Apply sdcard:update.zip, and press the Power key to select it.
That should do it. After reboot, you should be unrooted.

it wont work i keep on getting
E;Cant open /cache/recovery/command
install from sd card...
finding update package...
opening update package...
verifying update package...
E; failed to open /sdcard/update
zip no such file or directory
E;signature verification failed
installation aborted
not sure were to go from there

z32 said:
it wont work i keep on getting
E;Cant open /cache/recovery/command
install from sd card...
finding update package...
opening update package...
verifying update package...
E; failed to open /sdcard/update
zip no such file or directory
E;signature verification failed
installation aborted
not sure were to go from there
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Did you flash clockwork recovery? You did download clockwork recovery and name it update.zip and put it on the root of your sd card right? You can't flash the ROM until you flash clockwork recovery.