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Hi.
I have a rooted s-off desire using alpha rev 1.8.
I'm currently trying to resize the nand partitions using the method on the alpharev.nl site, without a pc. I'm running cm6.1 rom, so I downloaded the n1table zip ready to flash. Its renamed to pb99img.zip on root of sdcard. I've reboot into hboot using volume+down and I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I tried going into recovery and installing zip from SD but it doesnt seem to have worked as when I reboot into rom and check SD storage, it remains the same as before.
I know I must be missing something basic. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Cheers.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Do NOT continue with what you're doing. Have you even read the instructions on the AlphaRev site? You flash a new MTD table using the fastboot commands of adb:
1) Nandroid backup in recovery.
2) Verify the MD5SUM of the file you downloaded against the one in the table.
3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode (Back+POWER) -> 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img' (change into the correct filename for the HBOOT you downloaded)
4) 'Fastboot reboot-bootloader'
5) 'Fastboot erase cache'
6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore
It´s also working with HBOOT...but I think you have to rename it to PB99IMG.zip (case Sensitiv)
If you have it in your / Filesystem on your SD Card, you will be asked after booting to Bootloader if you want to update.
Answer with "Volume up" or "down"
YOU DO NOT RENAME AN ALPHAREV HBOOT MOD TO PB99IMG
That is for Zip versions of the RUUs and NOTHING to do with AlphaRev
Seriously, read up before you brick your phone
From the Aplha Rev HP:
You can also download the corresponding PB99IMG zipfile, put it on your sdcard, and rename it to PB99IMG.zip. Then start the phone in HBOOT mode (VolDown+POWER) to flash the HBOOT without a PC.
Sorry, if I don´t understand this right...but that´s a fact from his Page
I´m sure Fastboot is the better way...but I tried it like this and it worked
I stand corrected, didn't see they had that option now. My apologies
In which case, you'd download the relevent ZIP file, rename it PB99IMG.zip (not PB99IMG.zip.zip) and put it on the root of our SD card (root - not in any folders)
Then, when you boot into HBOOT it should just pick it up and ask if you want to flash it - you don't go into recovery
no Probs
I never got asked if i wanted to flash the hBOOT
I'm running a rooted HTC desire and i'm trying to load flash the hboot to the oxygen variety
I haven't s-off my phone yet but wanted to use the no PC method outlined above
When i go into hBoot the phone picks up the PB99IMG.zip (saying "checking PB99IMG.zip......") but doen't give me the option to flash the hboot
Am i missing something? Do i have to s-off it the long way first?
Any help would be really appreciated
=]
Yes, you have to S-OFF first before you can change the MTD. It does say on the website:
"If you are already S-OFF, you can get our newest patched HBOOTs from here. (without going through the entire procedure again).
Please read the entire table and pick the partition table with the correct sizes for your ROM. One easy way to switch partition tables, is to nandroid backup,
and verify that the sizes of your backup are indeed the ones listed in the table (or smaller), and restore after flashing hboot."
Any idea if i can choose the Oxygen variation when i use the AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility or will i need to do it again with a PB99IMG.zip after?
the.draconian said:
Any idea if i can choose the Oxygen variation when i use the AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility or will i need to do it again with a PB99IMG.zip after?
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Do the Alpharev 1.8 Flash first.
Then connect your phone, boot into Fastboot mode, and run the foll:
1) Nandroid backup in recovery.
2) Verify the MD5SUM of the file you downloaded against the one in the table.
3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode (Back+POWER) -> 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img' (change into the correct filename for the HBOOT you downloaded)
4) 'Fastboot reboot-bootloader'
5) 'Fastboot erase cache'
6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore.
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Again a quote from their site
Edit: Alpharev seems to have taken down the Pb99img method
EddyOS said:
Do NOT continue with what you're doing. Have you even read the instructions on the AlphaRev site? You flash a new MTD table using the fastboot commands of adb:
1) Nandroid backup in recovery.
2) Verify the MD5SUM of the file you downloaded against the one in the table.
3) Flash HBOOT with your phone in fastboot mode (Back+POWER) -> 'fastboot flash hboot bravo_alphaspl.img' (change into the correct filename for the HBOOT you downloaded)
4) 'Fastboot reboot-bootloader'
5) 'Fastboot erase cache'
6) Boot recovery, wipe everything and restore
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Of course I have read the instructions thoroughly. I would never do anything without reading several times over. As another member pointed out, you can in fact flash from .zip
However it would not work for me, probably a lot of others too, as another member mentioned it has been removed from site.
I have now switched to miui and am not encountering any storage space issues as yet, so I think ill leave it alone for awhile. Thanks for everyone's input and help.
Cheers.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Anyone got this to work? Ive tried following the instructions (I have s-off and have repartitioned my HBOOT previously with ADB) and it just says no image found when I load into fastboot
When I try to do it from the SD card on mine, it finds the PB99IMG.zip file but then says "Model ID invalid. Update Fail!" then asks if I want to reboot or not. Rebooting just performs a normal reboot with no changes.
jordan.harris01 said:
When I try to do it from the SD card on mine, it finds the PB99IMG.zip file but then says "Model ID invalid. Update Fail!" then asks if I want to reboot or not. Rebooting just performs a normal reboot with no changes.
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Obviously, you're trying to install a file meant for another device! That's a very dangerous thing to do!
It's the PB99IMG.zip for the Oxygen HBOOT. How can it be for the wrong device? I'm s-off, running Oxygen RC7.
jordan.harris01 said:
It's the PB99IMG.zip for the Oxygen HBOOT. How can it be for the wrong device? I'm s-off, running Oxygen RC7.
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At least that's what the error code means anyway..Is there a reason why you cant fastboot flash the img?
Yea, I assumed that. I can't seem to get fastboot working again on my machine. It was working but I haven't had much time to look into what happened. ADB devices brings up the serial number but fastboot won't detect the phone. I was just trying to do this while I was at work and I don't have access to fastboot here.
jordan.harris01 said:
Yea, I assumed that. I can't seem to get fastboot working again on my machine. It was working but I haven't had much time to look into what happened. ADB devices brings up the serial number but fastboot won't detect the phone. I was just trying to do this while I was at work and I don't have access to fastboot here.
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Adb and fastboot detect the phone at different phases. If one detects, at that point, the other wouldnt.
Are u sure you're trying out fastboot in fastboot mode (poweroff, Back key+Power On)? At that point fastboot should work..Even most severely damaged phones are detected in fastboot
Yes, the phone is in fastboot when I'm trying this. I'm wondering if something happened to the fastboot driver or something. Either way, I'll look into it at some point.
hey guys, need some help:
been flashing radios, roms and spls succesfully in the past year on my htc magic.
recently upgraded to the desire and wanted to start flashing here as well.
i can see the device with adb devices (or fastboot devices), so driver must be installed correctly
but when i fastboot flash recovery (AmonRA) it sends ok but then fails writing with the error "fastboot failed (=remote not allowed)".
the desire has froyo sense stock on it and booting into fastboot gives me this info:
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.09.05.30_2
Aug 10 2010, 17:52:18
so i have s-off which is good, but why can't i get amonra on the phone?
do i need another hboot? and what about spl?
please someone explain what i'm missing here!
thx,
v.
You could try and use the Android Flasher utility. Makes it easier and I've had no problems with it.
hey, thanx for your answer, and nice prog!
it didn't work though: i booted the phone into fastboot, started the prog and gave it amonra's recovery. it all looked like it worked. the phone also reboots just like it says in the prog. but it still doesn't get the recovery on the phone.
so here's my updated status report, i hope someone can help me out:
i rooted succesfully yesterday (the unrevoked method). the version from their site that you can download now didn't do the trick though, i got the missing CID error that lots of others also get. i searched that problem and found the unrevoked prog in its version 3.2. that one worked. so the phone is rooted and unrevoked also flashed clockwork mod recovery.
i then succesfully flashed a rom (oxygen) and this all works which is nice.
my problem is that i
1.) can't boot into recovery by pressing home + power. i have to fastboot, then choose bootloader, then recovery. this starts clockwork mod.
2.) i can't get amonra to my phone. it won't work via fastboot flash recovery (error mentioned in post #1) or via the program mentioned in post #2.
i'd really like be able to flash recovery and radios via fastboot commands, i'm used to it and i don't like the fact that i get an error when i try this.
what's causing the problem here?
it must also be related to the fact that i couldn't get amonra installed via the program mentioned in post #2.
is it my hboot?
i'm rooted and also s-off.
so what is causing this locked up behavior?
i'd apprecciate any help you can give me,
thx,
v.
Try flashing it from the phone itself.
Place amonra.img in sdcard root directory.
From terminal emulator or over adb type flash_image recovery /sdcard/amonra.img
Then reboot, this can be done from recovery or from android.
already tried that method yesterday (sorry i forgot to mention it).
didn't work either.
i just ran unrevoked again and clicked "custom recovery" and added the amonra recovery. unrevoked ran thru the rooting process and in the end it succesfully flashed amonra. at least i can now use amonra.
but i still can't use any fastboot commands, i always get the "failed (remote: not allowed)" error.
what the hell is going on here?!
greetz,
v.
update:
i flashed a patched hboot from alpharev and this did the trick!
i thought s-off meant i could do all these fastboot commands but i must have been wrong (or some other reason, i don't know).
i downloaded the "PB99IMG_bravo_cm7" zip (because i'm running CM7 at the moment). normally you should flash these via fastboot but as i said this didn't work on my phone so i had to use the alternative method:
"You can also download the corresponding PB99IMG zipfile, put it on your sdcard, and rename it to PB99IMG.zip. Then start the phone in HBOOT mode (VolDown+POWER) to flash the HBOOT without a PC."
now i can finally work with fastboot commands again, no more "failed (remote: not allowed)" errors!
greetz,
v.
Weird. S-Off should allow you to use fastboot commands. Very weird indeed but that's just how it goes sometimes
Hi,
I tried to flash the standard HTC RUU so that i could send it in for repair.
It said that it couldn't flash and gave me error code 140.
Now whenever i turn on my phone it goes straight to fastboot mode which i think means there is no rom on the phone.
However the RUU overwrote my recovery and i dont have an sd reader to put a recovery update.zip on the sd card.
I want to do this so i can try and flash a rom to allow me to boot and try the RUU again.
Is there any way i can either copy files to the sd card or flash a recovery img from hboot, fastboot or recovery?
i tried using "fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img" but it just hangs the terminal, any idea why?
Thanks
this looks like it could help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=531310
can anyone clarify where exactly i enter the commands.
Im in recovery (black screen with red triangle).
thanks
Not sure if that will help but you enter those commands through ABD in the CMD terminal on your PC.
I'm not sure on this but your fastboot flash might be hanging because your file might need to be in your tools folder within your Android SDK folder.
no that didnt help. I think im gonna have to wait until tomorrow and buy a card reader
thanks
With flashing an ruu you are s-on and you cannot use fastboot any more.
Make a goldcard with linux (as far as i understand you cannot boot into your phone's os any more):
http://www.nazriawang.com/2010/04/how-to-create-goldcard-with-ubuntu.html
Then put this in your desire and try to flash ruu again. It should work now.
I know that i can use the RUU because i've used it before. I think it failed because i was S off (im not sure how i was meant to S on first). I think i need to:
1. copy update.zip to sd card with a recovery in it, and a rooted rom
2. boot to recovery via update.zip
3. flash a rooted rom
4. boot into rom and then flash RUU using the exe
Is this correct? as far as i know i have to be in android to use the RUU, is this correct? If i could flash it from recovery it would save me doing step 3.
thanks
Sorry, but i do not understand you...
Please answer these questions first:
Can you boot into clockworkmod or amonra recovery?
Can you start your rom?
Which hboot do you use?
And flashing failed because of cid error i think? So why don't you create goldcard and try to flash ruu again? The programm will tell exactly what to do.
no, i can only get into the blue basic recovery. This is why i need to put update zip onto the sd card so i can access amonra.
I cant start my rom. when i turn it on normally it goes straight to the fastboot screen with 3 androids at the bottom.
HBOOT is 0.80.0000
Flashing didnt fail because of CID error because i brought my phone unlocked and i have used this exact same RUU before (its the standard HTC signed one). i dont understand how a goldcard would help as i need to be booted into a rom before i can flash the RUU. I dont think i can do it from recovery?
Thanks
"I know that i can use the RUU because i've used it before. I think it failed because i was S off (im not sure how i was meant to S on first). I think i need to:"
You don't have to be S-ON to be able to flash a RUU. The actual RUU will override anything you have done to "jailbreak" your phone: ROOT, S-OFF, Custom HBOOT, Custom Recovery (Amon RA or CWM) and restore you to basic (you'll have none of the above). This is why it is used.
If you have tried to flash the RUU and get the error, you are more than probably not ROOT-ed and S-OFF anymore so you can't install a CUSTOM ROM. This is what makes the problems even harder.
The error you got: Error 140 is Bootloader version error.
Read the second post from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880268 and try to extract the PB99IMG.zip from your RUU and try to flash it from card in boot.
EDIT: Also be sure (I don't know how ) if the RUU you got has the same bootloader version as your phone. I read that this is a kind of incompatibility if it is lower than your version.
You should get the latest WWE 2.29.405.5 RUU. I think this should be compatible. Extract the PB99 and put it on root of SD.
LEDIT: if you want to mount your SD card try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=531310. Maybe it helps you.
Ive tried it with RUU RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4. 06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe
It gives me an error "Main version is older!"
do you think this means i should try the newer version you recommended or the older version (RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.15.405.4_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4. 05.00.11_release_122704.exe)
Thanks for your help
That has worked perfectly with the RUU you recommended. I will be keeping that image on my SD card to avoid this happening again.
Thanks
jbaldwinroberts said:
That has worked perfectly with the RUU you recommended. I will be keeping that image on my SD card to avoid this happening again.
Thanks
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I'm glad I was able to help you and that you resolved your problem.
edit: It finally worked. I cleaned the microsd with diskpart and made a new goldcard, then I flashed a HTC WWE 2.29 Image, with the PB99IMG method. Now Im on bootloader 0.93.00. Back to business (I don't know exactly why the goldcard worked this time, or maybe the goldcard wasnt the problem)
Hello,
I tried to go back to the original state (TMobile germany branded). The phone was S-Off and rooted and I had a cm7 partition table.
At first I just tried to flash over an original T Mobile Rom (RUU_Bravo_TMO_UK_1.21.110.4_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_127570a_signed.exe).
Everything worked, and after that I did put the newest OTA Update on the phone. Checking to see what bootloader I have I saw that I was still Security Off. So I flashed a downgrade HBoot from the alpharev page. After that I flashed the same T Mobile Rom again to have an original HBoot.
Somewhere in the middle of the procedure though it stopped and I was stuck in that screen with four triangles on the sides and HTC written in the middle. At first I thought now its totally bricked without hboot, but I was able to reboot into HBoot. Also i can get to fastboot and the standard recovery mode. The current Hboot is 0.80 and S-ON.
Now from there on I tried many things:
- Downgrader from xdadevelopers does not work because one has to be in a working system
- Unrevoked does need a working system
- Tried same TMobile Rom numerous times with the installer on PC (gives bootloader version wrong 140) and as update.zip in recovery mode (signature verification failed)
- Tried RUU_Bravo_HTC_WWE_1.21.405.2_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.02_2_release_126984_signed.exe and RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.3_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121865.exe
- I made a goldcard and tried to flash these roms from the goldcard in recovery mode
- Tried to flash the ota update I installed through recovery mode
- Also I tried all of these things with the rom.zip named as PB99IMG.zip in Bootloader
- Fastboot commands do not work, So I should have a locked Bootloader now
- The old root method with goldcard which did not work
- I tried to get into an adb shell in recovery mode with various drivers to get the cid of the sd card to make a new goldcard but the device is listed as offline
I am not really sure why the goldcard does not work, maybe my saved goldcard image got messed up for some reason. Unfortunately I can't get the cid of the phone, because I can't use adb meaning the phone is recognized with "adb devices" but shown as offline.
If there is some other way to get the cid that I have not found as of yet, that might help.
Otherwise I am out of ideas... I hope its not bricked, help is greatly appreciated
edit: official update utility tmobile rom shows that I'm coming from 2.12.110.2 and going to 1.21.110.4 so it seems like the room still exists somehow but cannot boot, bootloader starts and deletes user data, sends data, updates signature=> bootloader version error 140
Well after about 20+ hours spent looking online and tinkering with my phone I have arrived at this point. I have been trying to install a custom rom with no success. I have rooted and S-OFF my phone with revolutionary. I have installed 4ext recovery. I have been trying to install the cm 10.1 rom and/or the paranoidandroid rom. No success on either one, I always got the status 7 error. After looking online I found that status 7 relates to the wrong HBOOT, so I flashed the the stock HBOOT from alpharev.nl and now my phone's screen won't turn on for any mode(normal boot, hboot, fastboot) it's just a black screen. The phone does "turn on" because my pc can see that it's there and it vibrates. I can also send fastboot commands to the phone.
Does anyone know of this problem and how to fix it? I've tried to flash different HBOOTS and ROMS and Recovery but with no success, it always says "out of memory" or a different error. Also I tired doing SUU but it always says I have the wrong model phone.
I just tried fastboot flash hboot bravo_downgrade.img(from alpharev.nl)
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
then I ran RUU from shipped-roms.com it was the HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade.exe
gives me "error 130 model id error"
Anyone?
cree125 said:
I just tried fastboot flash hboot bravo_downgrade.img(from alpharev.nl)
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
then I ran RUU from shipped-roms.com it was the HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade.exe
gives me "error 130 model id error"
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the downgrader isn't actually an hboot, it's just a way of 'unlocking' an hboot like cm7r2 which can't be overwritten by RUU.
flash the stock hboot again, then run the 2.3.3 RUU.
I repeated the same process as in the previous post except replacing the downgrader with the stock boot and received the error. The RUU starts to work and the progress bar at the top says "sending" but then just stops and gives the error. I am not very knowledgeable about android OS so basically I am out of ideas at this point.
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I repeated the same process as in the previous post except replacing the downgrader with the stock boot and received the error. The RUU starts to work and the progress bar at the top says "sending" but then just stops and gives the error. I am not very knowledgeable about android OS so basically I am out of ideas at this point.
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Can you boot into bootloader and confirm what it says on the top line please?
Have you tried the 2.3.3 RUU by PB99IMG.zip method?
Try bortak's troubleshooting guide, step 7, ignore the bit about goldcard for now. You basically need to extract the rom from your RUU, rename it to PB99IMG.zip, and put it on the root of your sd card to run from bootloader.
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Can you boot into bootloader and confirm what it says on the top line please?
Have you tried the 2.3.3 RUU by PB99IMG.zip method?
Try bortak's troubleshooting guide, step 7, ignore the bit about goldcard for now. You basically need to extract the rom from your RUU, rename it to PB99IMG.zip, and put it on the root of your sd card to run from bootloader.
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Sorry I have been really busy with work! Hopefully I can try this with in the next couple days, thanks a lot for the advice!