Hi guys,
With the new clockwork recovery i can no longer flash radios through it. So i install them via fastboot by extracting the radio.img from the radio zip file.
Can someone tell me if there is anything i should do about the META-INF files? I'm just cannot help but think that the radio didn't flash properly without those.
Thanks in advance
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when im flashing a radio throught fastboot mode i just takie the .img file and flash it
but i dont extract the .img from the flashable .zip, i just download the .img file (there are always 2 files to download - either a .zip or an .img)
Are you using CM7 or Oxygen HBoot? If so, that's the reason, not CWM. Those tables don't have enough cache space to flash a radio through recovery.
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yes i am using cm7 hboot but also the safest method to flash a radio is with fastboot.
I was taking to OP
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Thanks for the replies. Yes indeed, i am using the oxygen hboot, i forgot that i had the stock one the last time i flashed a radio. Anyways i was just wondering if it was enough to extract the radio.img and flash it or there is something else i should do with the remaining meta-inf folder.
I always download the radios from this xda thread (featured in the Desire Index). I guess i did not think about searching for another place to get them. Will it really make a difference if i download the img for the radio instead of extracting it from the archive and flashing it?
honestly i dont think so, these are probably the same files.
HOWEVER
since it is a radio and a way to possibly brick your phone i wouldnt risk.
http://www.baadnwz.eu/search/label/addons
here is the newest radio "32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23.img" from2011-May-17 09:19:46 size 25.5M
also check the md5 sums, with the file that is also there.
i flashed it today, all is fine
also i think it comes with newest RIL, so no need to worry bout updating it.
The .img file itself and the .img file inside the .zip are exactly the same. The other files in the .zip file just tell the system what to flash and where to flash it.
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Hi,
I have a rooted/s-off htc desire. And i'm just experimenting with it. I'm trying to just get the rom (so no radio, hboot and recovery) out of a ruu rom.zip. So i can flash it with RA-Desire recovery.
I don't care about the fact that there are already nice custom roms out there (normaly i use gingervillain). I just want to try this to experiment with the stock rom,
Eh? Might nit be understanding this correctly but here goes. The hboot, recovery and radio are not in a rom, any rom for that matter. They are all seperate. That is why you flash them. If your just wanting AMONRA recovery, just flash it in recovery. And please don't mess with the hboot. If you **** that up then you brick your phone
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A stock PB99IMG.zip has all the above in it so assuming the OP is wanting to take them out of a stock ROM and flash the rest. Doubt this would work as the ZIP file isn't designed to run in the same way as a custom ROM update-script
Eddy understands what I want. I think it is possible. I red the following on de alpharev website.
Will my phone stay S-OFF forever?
Yes and no. As soon as you decide to flash a stock RUU that has a HBOOT update in it, this hacked HBOOT will be overwritten.
You do have the option to remove the HBOOT update from the rom.zip inside the RUU. Since your phone no longer checks signatures, you could easily do that.
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Yeah that would suggest that you could flash the ZIP with the files removed - the issue is that the ROM.zip (PB99IMG) isn't a ZIP file in the true sense so you'd need 7-Zip to extract the files and then re-zip them without the HBOOT, radio, etc
I'd assume you'd flash it as you would a normal PB99IMG file and not like a custom ROM but I don't know
Actually my idea was to just flash it from recovery (if possible).
It wouldn't work as you don't flash .IMG files in recovery
ok, thanx. But how do they do it with that stock rooted roms?
I am having issues with my phone dropping calls and wanted to downgrade the radio. Is this possible on CM7? I have the latest radio as of today but it also happened on the last few radios. It's not the ROM as I have tried several ROMS and experience the same issue.
Sure thing, just download a radio from here and flash in recovery. If you're also using the CM7 partition layout, use fastboot to flash it
Lunatic2 said:
Sure thing, just download a radio from here and flash in recovery. If you're also using the CM7 partition layout, use fastboot to flash it
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Also as stated above if you have S-off and CM7 partition table use ANDROID FLASHER and flash the radio.img file.
You get the radio.img file by extracting the xx.xx.xx_xx.xx.23.zip file.
Thanks - I can flash easy in recovery (no cm7 table) I just wasn't sure which radios I could flash with the ROM I am using.
The Fastboot method is saver but you need s-off:
fastboot flash radio xyz.img
Fastboot check the verified the image.
Jinson7 said:
Thanks - I can flash easy in recovery (no cm7 table) I just wasn't sure which radios I could flash with the ROM I am using.
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You can use any radio really, but to find out what radio works best with your rom, you should ask your rom chef
I usually download from the link already posted above, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687464. Save it on the root of my sdcard.
In CM7, I then do a reboot by long-pressing the power-button and choosing reboot, then Recovery.
After I have booted into recovery I choose install zip from sdcard and choose that file I downloaded.
Done!
I heard before that if you downgrade your radio, you might lose your GPS, and it aint work again???? Is that right?? And i have another question.
I have the latest radio, and i want to go back to froyo, is it ok ?
Thanks in advance.
Just flash in recovery
wska said:
I heard before that if you downgrade your radio, you might lose your GPS, and it aint work again???? Is that right?? And i have another question.
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I have heard about this on iPhone, but not on the Desire.
wska said:
I have the latest radio, and i want to go back to froyo, is it ok ?
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Yes, but you might need to change the ril. Frankly, I was lucky that I never encountered any issues with this.
Hey,
Is there a way to revert to the stock boot image (not animation) without separately creating an .img file for that (and flashing it)?
Thanks for your time
Sorry, your posts are invisible. Could you repost them, please?
Yeah, okay, still can't see them.
USER CP -> Edit Post Type -> untick: Invisibility?
Why don't you like me ?
I think flashing it is the easiest way. You might be able to use dd to copy the image, but i don't know the details.
Ok carry on...
Yeah, yeah, sure, but where can I _get_ it then?
Extract it from an ota (try shippedroms.com) using winrar, push it via adb
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Of course.
i had once flashed virtuous sensation rom on my g2, and i had to flash the hboot from the desire z, but im running the original rom now. i have received the OTA automatically but it always gets stuck on the rom manager screen.when i try to do it manually it gives me a wrong image error.
please help.
i need to flash the original hboot from t-mo.
i do have the ota file, i took it from the cache folder, is there any way to get this from this file?
thanks in advance.
I thought that were was a thread by hispeedworm about flashing back to the G2 hboot.
Use this until you find it - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999796
So I'm new at rooting.. and flashing.
I currently have the Revolution HD ROM for my Galaxy Nexus.
I found that there was a new leaked radio for my CDMA phone.
I want to flash it. I know that I have to go to Clockwork Recovery and flash the .zip file, but is that all I have to do?
Do I have to do a factory reset or can I just flash the .zip file right away into the custom ROM?
Just flash the zip file
Being new to flashing should not be used an excuse not to read the hundreds of threads about flashing ROMs. Really, all the info is already here if you can be bothered to search and read.
In any case, I was a beginner once and so I understand.
The two ways to flash radio is either flash the zip file using ClockworkMod Recovery or to flash the radio.img using fastboot by typing the following in the Windows command prompt: fastboot flash radio radio.img
Hi
I think i screwed up BIG TIME! Please help me if you have an idea!
i tried to flash the latest ARHD, comming from the lite version, i decided to go for the full package.
followed the guide, fastboot boot .img, clear chache etc. but when i got to the flashing part, recovery wouldnt run the .zip file (bad)
Now i dont have any nandroid backups or any other roms to try and flash. I've superwiped, so theres no roms installed, so i guess i cant access my "sdcard"..
And also, i have OSX, so i dont know how to do the sdk stuff
Are there any way to fastboot a new rom? or any other way to get my phone running again?
thanks
see this thread or follow these steps
flash stock recovery
relock bootloader
flash ruu
flash recovery
unlock bootloader
thank you..
as i cant run an exe file, is is nessesary to do that to get the boot.img from the zipfile? it says in some guides that you have to make sure that the exe is running before getting the boot.img
or is it possible to download the boot.img directly?
im downloading the ruu now
Gnuen2004 said:
thank you..
as i cant run an exe file, is is nessesary to do that to get the boot.img from the zipfile? it says in some guides that you have to make sure that the exe is running before getting the boot.img
or is it possible to download the boot.img directly?
im downloading the ruu now
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why can't you run the .exe? what you can do is extract the boot.img from the rom.zip and flash it through fasboot