I always flash a new radio with recovery and I have now been told this is not the correct way on doing this, But all radio flash tutorials I have read say to do it this way.
What all your votes on this?
Depends on if you have modified nand partitions. If you have one with a cache partition to small to hold radio you HAVE to flash from fastboot.
Apart from that I believe there is little difference in the risks associated.
superste2201 said:
Depends on if you have modified nand partitions. If you have one with a cache partition to small to hold radio you HAVE to flash from fastboot.
Apart from that I believe there is little difference in the risks associated.
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I have stock nand, what's the limit cache on that? new radio is out its a 11mb zip
Am worried using recovery now lol this will be my 4th radio flash with recovery and not one single problem?
it is generally safer to flash radio from fastboot.
if it can go wrong, then it is defienietly more probable while doing that trough recovery.
shankly1985 said:
I have stock nand, what's the limit cache on that? new radio is out its a 11mb zip
Am worried using recovery now lol this will be my 4th radio flash with recovery and not one single problem?
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Stock should have 40 mb cache, if i remember well...sure you can flash it via recovery then, but fastboot is still safer imo.
vnvman said:
Stock should have 40 mb cache, if i remember well...sure you can flash it via recovery then, but fastboot is still safer imo.
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Think am just going to stick with recovery like I said I not had one problem.
shankly1985 said:
Think am just going to stick with recovery like I said I not had one problem.
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It's your choice, tho bricking is more frequent with that way: if the archive gets damaged recovery will flash it anyway and eventually brick your device, fastboot instead doesn't allow you to flash a malformed image, afaik...
vnvman said:
It's your choice, tho bricking is more frequent with that way: if the archive gets damaged recovery will flash it anyway and eventually brick your device, fastboot instead doesn't allow you to flash a malformed image, afaik...
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True I never thought of that
Can I use this fastboot on windows7? Is there a upto data tutorial you can link me to please that would be great thanks.
shankly1985 said:
True I never thought of that
Can I use this fastboot on windows7? Is there a upto data tutorial you can link me to please that would be great thanks.
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Yep, you can use it (i got the same os), but in order to do that you have to download the android sdk and set up adb properly. There's a lot of tutorials on how to do this, here's the first i stumbled across:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
Imho it's a rule of thumb to have a working adb/fastboot if you wanna be into the rom flashing thing: sooner or later they'll save your arse
vnvman said:
Yep, you can use it (i got the same os), but in order to do that you have to download the android sdk and set up adb properly. There's a lot of tutorials on how to do this, here's the first i stumbled across:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
Imho it's a rule of thumb to have a working adb/fastboot if you wanna be into the rom flashing thing: sooner or later they'll save your arse
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Thanks yes I already have all that done and installed USB driver's. I did this when first rooting my phone
so it just learning how to use fastboot
So what ive been reading is this true.
As long has the zip file is not damaged you should be ok flashing in recovery. So if I just check zip file befor flashing for error's I will be fine?
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Hello peeps,
I've just come from an iphone so please forgive my stupidity. I've been looking around XDA and various other places for 2 days trying to sort my One X, but don't seem to be making any progress.
I currently only have access to the bootloader
I managed to unlock and root the phone, but then got stuck on a boot loop which I haven't been able to get out of. I was able to get into the OS, but had no cell or wifi, but now I'm just stuck in the bootloader after a failed flash of probably an incorrect RUU. The phone has been relocked.
I ran Vtool from post 7 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989358, and my main version is 2.17.206.2
I'm in the UK on the o2 network.
Can someone please help??
slixter said:
Hello peeps,
I've just come from an iphone so please forgive my stupidity. I've been looking around XDA and various other places for 2 days trying to sort my One X, but don't seem to be making any progress.
I currently only have access to the bootloader
I managed to unlock and root the phone, but then got stuck on a boot loop which I haven't been able to get out of. I was able to get into the OS, but had no cell or wifi, but now I'm just stuck in the bootloader after a failed flash of probably an incorrect RUU. The phone has been relocked.
I ran Vtool from post 7 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989358, and my main version is 2.17.206.2
I'm in the UK on the o2 network.
Can someone please help??
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ok but what do you want to do now? keep it unlocked or not?
matt95 said:
ok but what do you want to do now? keep it unlocked or not?
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I'd like to unlock it with a custom rom, but I'm quite happy just to have a working phone again.
Additional info, I also have access to CWM
slixter said:
I'd like to unlock it with a custom rom, but I'm quite happy just to have a working phone again.
Additional info, I also have access to CWM
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Phone is also unlocked again using Hasoons all in one kit.
Happy to hear of a fellow iphone convert :thumbup:
Is there something in particular you did that caused the boot loop?
Do you by chance have a nandroid backup?
jonnyboiii said:
Is there something in particular you did that caused the boot loop?
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I've got no idea to be honest.
I've got no back ups.
If you have access to cwm then you're not totally out of luck, I think your best option would be to flash a stock rom for your particular phone.
jonnyboiii said:
If you have access to cwm then you're not totally out of luck, I think your best option would be to flash a stock rom for your particular phone.
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Can you direct me to a stock rom?
did you flash the boot.img when you got bootloops?
matt95 said:
did you flash the boot.img when you got bootloops?
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Pretty sure i didn't
slixter said:
Pretty sure i didn't
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that's why you got bootloops... when you flash a rom you need to flash its boot.img too
matt95 said:
that's why you got bootloops... when you flash a rom you need to flash its boot.img too
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So do i need to flash the boot.img and the rom from CWM and I should be ok?
Just look around in the One-X forum, do some searching, see if you can find a stock rom to download to your computer then move to your phone.
CWM has this handy feature I think in the "mount" tab, where you can mount your phone as a usb device, from which your computer will pick it up and you'll be able to move the roms file to your phone for flashing.
jonnyboiii said:
Just look around in the One-X forum, do some searching, see if you can find a stock rom to download to your computer then move to your phone.
CWM has this handy feature I think in the "mount" tab, where you can mount your phone as a usb device, from which your computer will pick it up and you'll be able to move the roms file to your phone for flashing.
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Thanks for the info - think I have a rom I can use.
1 more question before i continue, how do i flash the boot.img file? I have a zip with the rom / boot.img
I have mounted as usb storage and copied the zip file across
I've installed CM, after wiping cache, dalvik, system etc, but seem to be stuck on the JB animation screen.
Wondering if this means the OS is installing, or if I'm still stuffed....
I don't know if I need to do something with the boot.img file as the onlyl thing i did was load the zip file for CM
slixter said:
I've installed CM, after wiping cache, dalvik, system etc, but seem to be stuck on the JB animation screen.
Wondering if this means the OS is installing, or if I'm still stuffed....
I don't know if I need to do something with the boot.img file as the onlyl thing i did was load the zip file for CM
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Personally I've flashed a total of three roms which isn't many, but in all my time spent reading threads of the latest and greatest roms I've never heard anything about a separate boot.img that you needed to flash... (perhaps a One-X specific thing?).
Just be patient with it when it's booting, the first boot after an install always takes longer.
jonnyboiii said:
Personally I've flashed a total of three roms which isn't many, but in all my time spent reading threads of the latest and greatest roms I've never heard anything about a separate boot.img that you needed to flash... (perhaps a One-X specific thing?).
Just be patient with it when it's booting, the first boot after an install always takes longer.
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I do need to flash the boot.img first.
I'll do that once my battery gets some more charge.
How much charge does it have right now? It's important to always go into using CWM on a substantial amount of battery life. Upwards of %50 is recommended, but but you should do just fine with around 30, that is assuming you're able to tell.
slixter said:
I do need to flash the boot.img first.
I'll do that once my battery gets some more charge.
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download the rom's boot.img and type with the phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img
after that your phone will boot up correctly
jonnyboiii said:
How much charge does it have right now? It's important to always go into using CWM on a substantial amount of battery life. Upwards of %50 is recommended, but but you should do just fine with around 30, that is assuming you're able to tell.
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How do you tell how much charge it has?
matt95 said:
download the rom's boot.img and type with the phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img
after that your phone will boot up correctly
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Fastboot won't let me flash cos of the low battery, so will let the phone charge for a bit then try again. Thanks.
My procedure in chronological order:
Flashed recovery TWRP 2.3
Wiped everything possible in the wipe-tab
Installed CM9/10 from zip on SD-card (zip contains META-INF, system and boot.img)
Flashed boot.img from the zip file CM9/10
Issued the command fastboot erase cache
Unplugged cable and reboot
What happens is that I am stuck at the HTC booting screen. I have been here for about 30-40 minutes. If I try any adb shell command I receive this error: - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -. Clearly, something is not right here. I will not speculate because I lack the knowledge to do so. Any help is appreciated because I have been phone-less for a day now and it is getting irritating. Thanks!
Seems you did everything correctly.
Try to flash via ClockWorkMod recovery.
Sent from my HTC One X
TToivanen said:
Seems you did everything correctly.
Try to flash via ClockWorkMod recovery.
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I just did the same procedure as before but with clockworkmod instead. Still hung at booting screen. I get the same error as before. Is root access a must? I have not done any exploit, only thing I have done is unlocked my boot loader at HTCDev.
zettez said:
I just did the same procedure as before but with clockworkmod instead. Still hung at booting screen. I get the same error as before. Is root access a must? I have not done any exploit, only thing I have done is unlocked my boot loader at HTCDev.
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Root should not be needed since most roms are rooted by default.
Did you flash gapps?
TToivanen said:
Root should not be needed since most roms are rooted by default.
Did you flash gapps?
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No, I have not. Maybe I should give it a try? Or is it not required? Should I not be able to start the phone without any gapps?
Do you by chance have any ROM you can recommend that works so I could try it out and exclude problems? Would very like to know if it is my phone or ROM that is buggy.
It should boot without them, but better to give it a try.
Ironically, I've been using CM10 for more than a month now and never had any problems booting.
Sent from my HTC One X
If you have an hboot newer than 1.12 you need a different boot.img, check the bottom if the ROM OP.
TToivanen said:
It should boot without them, but better to give it a try.
Ironically, I've been using CM10 for more than a month now and never had any problems booting.
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Would you mind telling me which CM10 build you are using and which boot.img you flashed?
BenPope said:
If you have an hboot newer than 1.12 you need a different boot.img, check the bottom if the ROM OP.
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I have hboot 1.3 or something I think. I downloaded the different builds at get.cm. Where can I get the boot.img if not the one in the zip file? Do you mean whichever thread that CM have posted themselves here on xda? Would you mind sending a link to where I can find the boot.img?
zettez said:
I have hboot 1.3 or something I think. I downloaded the different builds at get.cm. Where can I get the boot.img if not the one in the zip file? Do you mean whichever thread that CM have posted themselves here on xda? Would you mind sending a link to where I can find the boot.img?
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Normally it would be found in the bottom of CM10 threads OP but the link is down.
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34829297&postcount=9173
Remember to repack it with the one found in zip. Repack tool stickied on android development forum.
Sent from my HTC One X
TToivanen said:
Normally it would be found in the bottom of CM10 threads OP but the link is down.
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34829297&postcount=9173
Remember to repack it with the one found in zip. Repack tool stickied on android development forum.
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Thanks, but still a no go. What I did was take the modified boot from your link and the boot.img from the zip file, do the online converter as stickied on the forum, then did the procedure all again but this time I flashed the new boot.img I got from combining the old and the new boot.img. Still hangs at boot. Very annoying. I am currently using a modified stock ROM and I dislike it very much.
Hey,
I have exactly the same issue. I've unlocked my bootloader using the method as specified by htcdev.com. Then I flashed the newest CWM recovery. But if I flash any ROM, I'm stuck at its boot animation. However if I then unzip the boot.img from the ROM, and flash that (fastboot flash boot boot.img), my phone won't boot past HTC screen. Even erasing the cache didn't help (fastboot erase cache).
I've restored the stock ROM using the RUU, however during the process something went wrong and it formatted my sd-card. So I'm stuck with the stock ROM, without any applications or data.
Can anybody help me flash CM10?
My Hboot version is 1.36.0000
And I'm trying to flash the cm-10-20121210-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip ROM.
Thanks in advance
Han
irundaia said:
Hey,
I have exactly the same issue. I've unlocked my bootloader using the method as specified by htcdev.com. Then I flashed the newest CWM recovery. But if I flash any ROM, I'm stuck at its boot animation. However if I then unzip the boot.img from the ROM, and flash that (fastboot flash boot boot.img), my phone won't boot past HTC screen. Even erasing the cache didn't help (fastboot erase cache).
I've restored the stock ROM using the RUU, however during the process something went wrong and it formatted my sd-card. So I'm stuck with the stock ROM, without any applications or data.
Can anybody help me flash CM10?
My Hboot version is 1.36.0000
And I'm trying to flash the cm-10-20121210-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip ROM.
Thanks in advance
Han
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You cannot use the boot.img that comes with the zip out of the box if you have Hboot 1.36. What you have to do is repack it, taking the boot.img from the zip file and then a modified boot.img here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=9173 (thanks TToivanen), then as I understood it, repack it for instance here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815607, download the repacked boot.img and flash that.
With that said, I could not get it running but it might be something wrong with my phone. Please try this out and tell me if it works or not so I may start to conclude where the error lies.
zettez said:
Thanks, but still a no go. What I did was take the modified boot from your link and the boot.img from the zip file, do the online converter as stickied on the forum, then did the procedure all again but this time I flashed the new boot.img I got from combining the old and the new boot.img. Still hangs at boot. Very annoying. I am currently using a modified stock ROM and I dislike it very much.
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Sorry, but all I can say is that you did a mistake at some point.
Try installing again with full wipe and remember to wipe cache and dalvik.
You are referring to the official CM10 and not Trip's or any other builds right?
TToivanen said:
Sorry, but all I can say is that you did a mistake at some point.
Try installing again with full wipe and remember to wipe cache and dalvik.
You are referring to the official CM10 and not Trip's or any other builds right?
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Will try again. I got the latest build from http://get.cm/?device=endeavoru. Will try cm-10-20121213-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip as it came out today.
zettez said:
You cannot use the boot.img that comes with the zip out of the box if you have Hboot 1.36. What you have to do is repack it, taking the boot.img from the zip file and then a modified boot.img here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=9173 (thanks TToivanen), then as I understood it, repack it for instance here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815607, download the repacked boot.img and flash that.
With that said, I could not get it running but it might be something wrong with my phone. Please try this out and tell me if it works or not so I may start to conclude where the error lies.
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I did that and now my phone is still stuck on the HTC screen. Trying to restore my backup of the stock ROM atm.
---------- Post added at 04:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:30 PM ----------
hmm the backup was useless... Off to the RUU it is....
irundaia said:
[/COLOR]hmm the backup was useless... Off to the RUU it is....
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You flashed the stock boot.img before restoring?
irundaia said:
I did that and now my phone is still stuck on the HTC screen. Trying to restore my backup of the stock ROM atm.
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I see, then it is not only I who have this problem.
And a heads up, if the backup would go wrong, I currently use this ROM and it works pretty good if you want stock or cannot be arsed to get a root exploit for the stock ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035203.
Would be great if anyone has any ideas why irundaia and I cannot make CM10 work?
TToivanen said:
You flashed the stock boot.img before restoring?
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You're right, I forgot to do that. I does boot now, still at a loss though. Can't we downgrade our Hboot to a version in which we know that CM can be flashed?
Kinda out of ideas here...
Can you confirm that the boot.img flashes ok? (should say OKAY)
Also confirm that you have endeavoru and not evita.
I soft bricked my M8 and wiped the phone with twrp then tried to sideload the GPE rom I was using again and it wouldn't work. In fact I can't flash any rom that isn't cyanogen mod nightly for the m8... Also my bootloader changed from the white screen with the droid bots on a skateboard to a black screen with a single droid on it. Any idea why I can't flash anything besides cyanogen?
Rye Cribby Tree said:
I soft bricked my M8 and wiped the phone with twrp then tried to sideload the GPE rom I was using again and it wouldn't work. In fact I can't flash any rom that isn't cyanogen mod nightly for the m8... Also my bootloader changed from the white screen with the droid bots on a skateboard to a black screen with a single droid on it. Any idea why I can't flash anything besides cyanogen?
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Did you try pushing the rom instead of sideloading it? Apparently sideloading in TWRP doesn't work, or doesn't work like it should
Try pushing it to the correct path and flash again.
Are you S-OFF?
BerndM14 said:
Did you try pushing the rom instead of sideloading it? Apparently sideloading in TWRP doesn't work, or doesn't work like it should
Try pushing it to the correct path and flash again.
Are you S-OFF?
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Yeah, once I got the phone fixed I tried to load it normally. However it still didn't work. I tried other recoveries like Philz Touch too. Unfortunately firewater doesn't work for me.
Rye Cribby Tree said:
Yeah, once I got the phone fixed I tried to load it normally. However it still didn't work. I tried other recoveries like Philz Touch too. Unfortunately firewater doesn't work for me.
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Try flashing the boot.img file that comes with the ROM first, then re-flash the ROM of your choice.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Go back into recovery of choice, wipe cache, dalvik-cache etc Then go to installed zip and select the ROM of your choice and flash the ROM.
Firewater won't work anymore for "later released" models that gets shipped with latest firmware. HTC patched it, you "MIGHT" be lucky if you still have an older device.
The developers of Firewater did however create another method to S-OFF the device. [Android][HTC S-OFF] SunShine for modern HTC devices
Sunshine is $25 but it works. It first checks your phone for compatibility before you pay for anything. That way if your device "isn't" compatible then it won't make you pay $25 for something that "won't" work.
Something to look into if you have $25 to spare :good:
BerndM14 said:
Try flashing the boot.img file that comes with the ROM first, then re-flash the ROM of your choice.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Go back into recovery of choice, wipe cache, dalvik-cache etc Then go to installed zip and select the ROM of your choice and flash the ROM.
Firewater won't work anymore for "later released" models that gets shipped with latest firmware. HTC patched it, you "MIGHT" be lucky if you still have an older device.
The developers of Firewater did however create another method to S-OFF the device. [Android][HTC S-OFF] SunShine for modern HTC devices
Sunshine is $25 but it works. It first checks your phone for compatibility before you pay for anything. That way if your device "isn't" compatible then it won't make you pay $25 for something that "won't" work.
Something to look into if you have $25 to spare :good:
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I tried flashing the boot.img and it didn't work sadly. It fails as soon as I swipe to flash.
Rye Cribby Tree said:
I tried flashing the boot.img and it didn't work sadly. It fails as soon as I swipe to flash.
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Did you flash in fastboot?Try to download twrp from its officical site.Also maybe you have downloaded a bad version of the rom.
Jyotirdeb said:
Did you flash in fastboot?Try to download twrp from its officical site.Also maybe you have downloaded a bad version of the rom.
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There is no offical twrp for the AT&T version of the m8 and I did flash in fastboot. The ROM I used worked in a previous installation as well. It soft bricked after updating so I completely wiped the phone now it wont install.
I had a similar problem, I had to use the format option in twrp and then used RUU
gonzo237 said:
I had a similar problem, I had to use the format option in twrp and then used RUU
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Do you have a link? Or something I could look up and find on my own?
Rye Cribby Tree said:
Do you have a link? Or something I could look up and find on my own?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727831
Now this one is for the Verizon HTC, but maybe this will help you.
gonzo237 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727831
Now this one is for the Verizon HTC, but maybe this will help you.
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Ah, I can't s-off, thank you for the reply though I'm sure someone else with this problem will find this helpful.
Rye Cribby Tree said:
Ah, I can't s-off, thank you for the reply though I'm sure someone else with this problem will find this helpful.
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I'd still give the format option a try, I wasn't able to flash any roms except for the CM nightly as well, then I made it worse by trying to wipe the internal data which led to not being able to mount the internal partition, and couldn't even get into the bootloader until my phone battery died. I remember reading that the format would allow me to mount the internal storage. You may be able to fix the issues with a format and then try flashing a rom.
Did you try converting your phone over to GPE? That's what it sounds like you tried to do. If so then that is why nothing is working because the partitions are layed out differently from a stock sense M8. You need to wipe everything and run whatever RUU is available for your device and pray to god it works because you are s-on... You seriously should have been s-off before doing all of this. Being s-on is really going to complicate things for you bro... That's also probably why you can't fastboot the kernel. Find a RUU for your phone and run it. Post back here if you get any "main version" errors cuz then some tricks will need to be done.. Feel free to PM me, maybe I can assist directly getting you back up and running...
gonzo237 said:
I'd still give the format option a try, I wasn't able to flash any roms except for the CM nightly as well, then I made it worse by trying to wipe the internal data which led to not being able to mount the internal partition, and couldn't even get into the bootloader until my phone battery died. I remember reading that the format would allow me to mount the internal storage. You may be able to fix the issues with a format and then try flashing a rom.
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Great news, your suggestion worked! I'm able to flash the sinless GPE 4.4.4 rom! No more nightly's for this guy.:good:
Im am the only one or have other phones the same problems?
I use an HTC one x and have to flash the kernel seperate. is there anyone with the same isue?
any tipps for flashing without an PC only with recovery?
cyrok said:
Im am the only one or have other phones the same problems?
I use an HTC one x and have to flash the kernel seperate. is there anyone with the same isue?
any tipps for flashing without an PC only with recovery?
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My last HTC device was a Desire HD, but I imagine that the newer devices have the same approach. To flash a kernel, you need to use both recovery and a PC, first to flash the boot.img with fastboot from the PC, and then flash the .zip from the recovery.
cyrok said:
Im am the only one or have other phones the same problems?
I use an HTC one x and have to flash the kernel seperate. is there anyone with the same isue?
any tipps for flashing without an PC only with recovery?
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Yes use kernel lighter from original android section by @Thunder07 thanks to him we don't need S-OFF:victory:
Thant said:
Yes use kernel lighter from original android section by @Thunder07 thanks to him we don't need S-OFF:victory:
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what did the s-off mean? i saw it in the original recovery, but dont understand the sense
sorry for my bad english
cyrok said:
what did the s-off mean? i saw it in the original recovery, but dont understand the sense
sorry for my bad english
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S-OFF give you possibility to flash boot.img withoet PC, the boot.img is includet in the module.zip with script to flash it from recovery, and many other things
Thant said:
S-OFF give you possibility to flash boot.img withoet PC, the boot.img is includet in the module.zip with script to flash it from recovery, and many other things
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means i can flash a zip (wich contains the boot.img) without a PC?
cyrok said:
means i can flash a zip (wich contains the boot.img) without a PC?
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yes and roms too but no S-OFF for HOX. Are you read for the kernel lighter?
Thant said:
yes and roms too but no S-OFF for HOX. Are you read for the kernel lighter?
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how did you mean that?
cyrok said:
how did you mean that?
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what what I mean??? I mean you can flash roms and kernels with kernel lighter withowt PC only one time you must to flash the KLboot.img and other things read in the thread for kernel lighter
I use an android phone with twrp custom recovery and when i flashed a rom before i restarted my phone i wipe cache and dalvik cache then i flash the kernel zip separately from the rom and then restart phone. Make a nandroid backup before doing any thing like this and you can backup your stock kernel if you haven't changed it yet. Flashify for root users, app can backup your current kernel and current recovery. I only flash roms and kernels through recovery. I have used that app to flash my recovery but some people have bricked their devices using it. Soft bricked i think
ryan012 said:
I use an android phone with twrp custom recovery and when i flashed a rom before i restarted my phone i wipe cache and dalvik cache then i flash the kernel zip sererately from the rom and then restart phone. Make a nandroid backup before doing any thing like this and you can backup your stock kernel if you haven't changed it yet. Flashify for root users, app can backup your current kernel and current recovery. I only flash roms and kernels through recovery. I have used that app to flash my recovery but some people have bricked their devices using it. Soft bricked i think
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thats my rom ;P
http://forum.pac-rom.com/Thread-ROM-UNOFFICIAL-KitKat-4-4-4-ENDEAVORU-PAC-ROM-KK-RC-3
i think i do it on the classic way, like you say think that wasnt a onetime flashing so i like to be on the safe side
cyrok said:
thats my rom ;P
http://forum.pac-rom.com/Thread-ROM-UNOFFICIAL-KitKat-4-4-4-ENDEAVORU-PAC-ROM-KK-RC-3
i think i do it on the classic way, like you say think that wasnt a onetime flashing so i like to be on the safe side
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What is it you were doing ? Were you trying to flash them both at same time from a computer instead of on the recovery ?
ryan012 said:
What is it you were doing ? Were you trying to flash them both at same time from a computer instead of on the recovery ?
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naaa... first flash the extractet boot.img with his tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952426
and then i flash the full zip with my recovery. i use philz touch 6 recovery for the hox.
i had made a flashable zip with all my apps. made with ZIPme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zip.me&hl=de
works great ^^
i think its easyer than make the whole s-off thing
cyrok said:
naaa... first flash the extractet boot.img with his tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952426
and then i flash the full zip with my recovery. i use philz touch 6 recovery for the hox.
i had made a flashable zip with all my apps. made with ZIPme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zip.me&hl=de
works great ^^
i think its easyer than make the whole s-off thing
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with Kernel lighter you install one time the KLZeusBeta8.img with the pc then when you go in recovery just go to flash zip from file choice Flash AromaFM-KL.zip then choice your rom and will be installed on the end choice the boot.img from rom.zip the apps will ask you to choice the boot.img and give you automatik the boot.img in the rom.zip and you are ready to go you can change your rom every thime when you want and flash kernels any time without PC
Thank you. I give it a try you description is easyer than the one from the thread
Thant said:
S-OFF give you possibility to flash boot.img withoet PC, the boot.img is includet in the module.zip with script to flash it from recovery, and many other things
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cyrok said:
how did you mean that?
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just keep in mind that there is a small bug in KL-Aroma which ill fix in a week, after my exams.
but you can bypass it by running this commands with adb
Code:
adb remount
adb shell mkdir /system/boot/
adb shell mkdir /data/boot/
adb shell mkdir /sdcard/boot/
I have a Verizon xl unlocked, rooted, elemental kernel, running X firmware and I'm unable to get into recovery. I've tried multiple times and get recovery unknown. Anyone wide having this problem?
Yes, I screwed up my phone at one point and ended up restoring to stock.
But OEM recovery is not available to download.
So... I don't have recovery either.
Doesn't matter. Don't need it for anything.
Just need to wait for TWRP to drop and that'll actually be useful.
CZ Eddie said:
Yes, I screwed up my phone at one point and ended up restoring to stock.
But OEM recovery is not available to download.
So... I don't have recovery either.
Doesn't matter. Don't need it for anything.
Just need to wait for TWRP to drop and that'll actually be useful.
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I just wanted to wipe my cache. I deleted some apps using titanium and they keep showing app stop working message. I haven't screwed my phone up yet, so i think it has something with flashing Google firmware on my Verizon xl. Just a guess
I think recovery is now tied to kernel (boot.img). Flash the stock kernel image in fastboot, then try recovery. Note that when you get into recovery, I think you hit Power-Volume up to get to option to wipe cache.
Or you probably can wipe cache in fastboot (fastboot erase cache used to work on 7.0 and under).
TechBSwift said:
I just wanted to wipe my cache. I deleted some apps using titanium and they keep showing app stop working message. I haven't screwed my phone up yet, so i think it has something with flashing Google firmware on my Verizon xl. Just a guess
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pixel stock recovery Is without 'wipe cache partition' option
To wipe cache :
Settings/storage/cached data
jasoraso said:
I think recovery is now tied to kernel (boot.img). Flash the stock kernel image in fastboot, then try recovery.
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I tried that on my phone earlier this week but it didn't work unfortunately.
EDIT: I did the flash-all but just checked and this command wasn't part of this like I thought.
CZ Eddie said:
I tried that on my phone earlier this week but it didn't work unfortunately.
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I just did it and it worked
Nahh, I still can't get recovery.
I updated to SDK 25 for the latest fastboot.
Did the flash-all.bat.
Then flashed boot.img without error, but still no recovery.
I just get the pissed off Android like in my forum pic.
Code:
C:\Users\Media1\AppData\Local\Android\sdk1\platform-tools>fastboot flash boot bo
ot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (26405 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.660s]
writing 'boot_a'...
OKAY [ 0.305s]
finished. total time: 0.965s
As someone mentioned earlier recovery is part of boot.img. However you should still be able to access it like I did.
You may want to find a "root" cache cleaner. Much easier...
Good luck!
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I just get the pissed off Android like in my forum pic.
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When you are at the screen with the pissed off Android, if you hold Power and then touch +volume, the recovery menu doesn't appear?
I don't remember the factory image for pixel now and I can't check -no PC) ..but if you unzip the image. zip you should have the recovery.image ( Nexus images) ..if it so try to flash only the recovery..
I was reading ..but really now the recovery is a part of boot.img ?
Scott said:
As someone mentioned earlier recovery is part of boot.img. However you should still be able to access it like I did.
You may want to find a "root" cache cleaner. Much easier...
Good luck!
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Thanks Mr clean rom ????
cam30era said:
When you are at the screen with the pissed off Android, if you hold Power and then touch +volume, the recovery menu doesn't appear?
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Oh my gosh. Nothing on the Pixel works like it did on my older phones.
lmao, thank you. That was a step I was missing. I DO HAVE RECOVERY! :good:
It's shown here for anyone else wondering what we're talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZKRDDMaQV8
@CZ Eddie,
Welcome. That's why I come here. To learn, and to help others.