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Ola,
I tried to use the following instructions to root my desire, which is using android 2.1 and bootloader .83.
I used the easy method in a linux live cd. from the htcdesire site.
It hung on the screen that said "Checking for root files" and stayed there for about an hour. I never got the success message.
I had the recovery manager on the phone screen, so I selected reboot, and the phone came back fine.
I tried using unrevoked again and had the same issue.
So I am not entirely sure if I am rooted or not. I am assuming not, since I do not have a superuser app in my listing of phone applications.
Anyone have a solution to this issue?
Thanks!
MW
MisterWolfe said:
Ola,
I tried to use the following instructions to root my desire, which is using android 2.1 and bootloader .83.
I used the easy method in a linux live cd. from the htcdesire site.
It hung on the screen that said "Checking for root files" and stayed there for about an hour. I never got the success message.
I had the recovery manager on the phone screen, so I selected reboot, and the phone came back fine.
I tried using unrevoked again and had the same issue.
So I am not entirely sure if I am rooted or not. I am assuming not, since I do not have a superuser app in my listing of phone applications.
Anyone have a solution to this issue?
Thanks!
MW
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I think you missed root permissions. A 100% safe way:
Get an Ubuntu live cd (you can use any as long as sudo or su works there), extract unrevoked, then run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /path/to/unrevoked
chmod +x reflash
sudo ./reflash
If it asks you for a password, use "ubuntu" or "root". Unrevoked should start working.
This happened to me with my Desire as well. It turns out I was rooted.
Try turning your phone off, then hold the power and volume down buttons, then once you reach the boot screen, go ahead and select recovery. If you've successfully rooted your device, you should now be in whichever recovery mod you used unrEVOked to flash. For me, it was ClockWorkMod.
Go ahead and start following some custom ROM guides!
I do have the clockwork recovery mod on the phone, but when I tried to install titanium backup, it told me I do not have root permissions.
The tip with chmod'ing the flash file also did not work. I still get the same error.
Thanks
MisterWolfe said:
I do have the clockwork recovery mod on the phone, but when I tried to install titanium backup, it told me I do not have root permissions.
The tip with chmod'ing the flash file also did not work. I still get the same error.
Thanks
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If you have clockwork mod, then flash any rooted rom from here. I recommend Pinky Desire, Neophyte mod or LeeDroid. These are my favorites, though, you can choose any you like
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
K900 said:
If you have clockwork mod, then flash any rooted rom from here. I recommend Pinky Desire, Neophyte mod or LeeDroid. These are my favorites, though, you can choose any you like
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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I tried what you suggested, but the install failed due to not having root permissions, which hearkens back to unrevoked not working correctly.
MisterWolfe said:
I tried what you suggested, but the install failed due to not having root permissions, which hearkens back to unrevoked not working correctly.
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Then try running unrevoked under Linux, as I suggested in post #2
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
K900 said:
Then try running unrevoked under Linux, as I suggested in post #2
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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I ran it in linux the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time I attempted to root the phone. Each time the process gets stuck on 'checking for root files', and hangs indefinitely.
Clockwork mod was installed, but the phone was not rooted.
Clockwork requires the phone to be rooted in order to flash roms.
I'll try unrevoked again tonight, but I am not expecting a different result.
Maybe this is a bug that will be dealt with in a future release.
This is very strange. If it has written ClockworkMod to your recovery partition, wether the ROM currently installed is rooted or not shouldnt have anything to say. You ARE trying to flash the zip from Clockwork Recovery by entering the bootloader when booting the phone, and not trough ROM Manager or similar? Sory for asking, but the thing some people does...
It would help to know what guide you have followed "the htcdesire site" isnæt really telling me anything.
MisterWolfe said:
I ran it in linux the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time I attempted to root the phone. Each time the process gets stuck on 'checking for root files', and hangs indefinitely.
Clockwork mod was installed, but the phone was not rooted.
Clockwork requires the phone to be rooted in order to flash roms.
I'll try unrevoked again tonight, but I am not expecting a different result.
Maybe this is a bug that will be dealt with in a future release.
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Have you tried re-downloading it? Maybe the files inside are corrupt
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Thanks for the assistance.
I haven't had a chance to re-do the unrevoked again yet. if it should work with clockwork on, then it is likely a file corruption issue as you mentioned. I'll try again and report back.
myhtcdesire.com/modding/how-to-root-your-desire-easily-method-1 is the rooting method I used and will try using the same method again.
Success.
Looks like it was a corrupted clockworkmod issue.
Thanks for all your help
K900 said:
I think you missed root permissions. A 100% safe way:
Get an Ubuntu live cd (you can use any as long as sudo or su works there), extract unrevoked, then run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /path/to/unrevoked
chmod +x reflash
sudo ./reflash
If it asks you for a password, use "ubuntu" or "root". Unrevoked should start working.
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I've juste used your method and it worked, thank you very much!
Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?
I am on the original HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade rom downloaded from HTC development
I have tried the Windows method to root my phone with unrevoked.
When I run unrevoked it follows the following cycle:
unrevoked3 app: Pushing recovery
unrevoked3 app: Installing unrevoked services
Phone: Rebooting phone...
unrevoked3 app: Wait for bootloader
unrevoked3 app: Running pre-boot sequence
Phone: Reboot phone
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for reboot
Phone: Phone reboots to normal, not to bootloader. I do not know if this is correct
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for system to settle (might be a minute)
unrevoked3 app: Running root...
After awhile (on screen I have to enter pin for sim card but I do nothing)
unrevoked3 app: Error: failed to get root. Is yuor firmware too new?
Phone: Reboot phone
Could somebody tell me what is wrong and how to solve it?
jjplayground said:
I am on the original HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade rom downloaded from HTC development
I have tried the Windows method to root my phone with unrevoked.
When I run unrevoked it follows the following cycle:
unrevoked3 app: Pushing recovery
unrevoked3 app: Installing unrevoked services
Phone: Rebooting phone...
unrevoked3 app: Wait for bootloader
unrevoked3 app: Running pre-boot sequence
Phone: Reboot phone
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for reboot
Phone: Phone reboots to normal, not to bootloader. I do not know if this is correct
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for system to settle (might be a minute)
unrevoked3 app: Running root...
After awhile (on screen I have to enter pin for sim card but I do nothing)
unrevoked3 app: Error: failed to get root. Is yuor firmware too new?
Phone: Reboot phone
Could somebody tell me what is wrong and how to solve it?
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with the gingerbread ruu u need http://revolutionary.io/ to make it s-off and then allow root
here a complete guide http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/index.php/HTC_Desire
So first I have to s-off the device first and after that run the unrevoked app?
jjplayground said:
So first I have to s-off the device first and after that run the unrevoked app?
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After s-off it will also install a CWM recovery, so u can simply flash from the recovery the super user zip contained in the guide above (or alternative if u want change ur rom, directly flash one of the rooted roms from the dev section )
Unrevoked is not needed anymore, run revolutionary is very simple, fast and stable
Will try that! Keep you posted.
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After s-off it will also install a CWM recovery, so u can simply flash from the recovery the super user zip contained in the guide above (or alternative if u want change ur rom, directly flash one of the rooted roms from the dev section )
Unrevoked is not needed anymore, run revolutionary is very simple, fast and stable
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Thank you it worked very well!!!!
One question left: Now I can install ClockWork again so I can download roms and install them. ClockWorks has it's own bootloader right? Will this be a problem? Do I have to flash the clockwork mod?
As far as I know ckockworkmod (cwm) does not have its own bootloader, because it's a recovery. After running revolutionary successfully, you can just boot into cwm from bootloader. Or flash every you want from fastboot.
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Hiya all,
Just got my new Desire and rooted it right away of course.
Used unrevoked and all went well. Installed Rom Manager and it said I needed to install clockwork (even though it had already been installed by unrevoked) so I agreed.
Now when I run clockwork (2.5.0.7) it gives the following:
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E:Can't find MISC:
I am unable to backup or restore. Backing up says:
Error while dumping boot image!
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E:Can't find MISC:
Basically none of the commands in clockworkmod are working.
Next I tried using unrevoker to flash AmonRa but that just resulted in a black screen when I booted into recovery. So, once again, I used unrevoker and it reinstalled 2.5.0.7 with the same errors.
I have also tried using Rom Manger to download older versions of clockwork however, when I flash these using recovery it shows them as having installed at the time but, on reeboot, it switches back to 2.5.0.7 so the flash isn't working. The same applies if trying to change it in Rom Manager - it shows up as changed there, but is not on booting recovery.
Any help would be extremely gratefully received as I have been messing about with this most of the afternoon and I don't really know where to go next.
How about just using the phone first and see how it runs before jumping into rooting - I'd also recommend checking there is an RUU of your existing ROM so you can go back to stock should you need to
What is it with people rooting before even USING the phone??? Seriously...
introv said:
Hiya all,
Just got my new Desire and rooted it right away of course.
Used unrevoked and all went well. Installed Rom Manager and it said I needed to install clockwork (even though it had already been installed by unrevoked) so I agreed.
Now when I run clockwork (2.5.0.7) it gives the following:
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command
E:Can't find MISC:
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E:Can't find MISC:
I am unable to backup or restore. Backing up says:
Error while dumping boot image!
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E:Can't find MISC:
Basically none of the commands in clockworkmod are working.
Next I tried using unrevoker to flash AmonRa but that just resulted in a black screen when I booted into recovery. So, once again, I used unrevoker and it reinstalled 2.5.0.7 with the same errors.
I have also tried using Rom Manger to download older versions of clockwork however, when I flash these using recovery it shows them as having installed at the time but, on reeboot, it switches back to 2.5.0.7 so the flash isn't working. The same applies if trying to change it in Rom Manager - it shows up as changed there, but is not on booting recovery.
Any help would be extremely gratefully received as I have been messing about with this most of the afternoon and I don't really know where to go next.
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How are you entering Recovery, via Rom-Manager? If so, it might be trying to load fake-flash.
What happens if you try and load using the bootloader (power off, hold back and press power).
StuMcBill said:
How are you entering Recovery, via Rom-Manager? If so, it might be trying to load fake-flash.
What happens if you try and load using the bootloader (power off, hold back and press power).
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Same thing I'm afraid. Same errors and the same inability to overwrite the recovery image with a different version.
EddyOS said:
What is it with people rooting before even USING the phone??? Seriously...
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Of course I used it. It sends texts, connects to the internet, has android on. Time to move on ...
I'm a software developer. I break and fix things for a living and I enjoy it so consider a new phone a new piece of kit to mess with above anything else.
What is it with people attempting to belittle others decisions??? Seriously ...
introv said:
Same thing I'm afraid. Same errors and the same inability to overwrite the recovery image with a different version.
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I would go back to stock firmware and "re-unrevoked" it again and go from there.
I think Rom-Manager still installs fake-flash, and since unrevoked installs a permanent recovery, you don't really need to use it.
ROM Manager is a PITA - never used it as I prefer to do things myself from recovery. You get a lot more control over things
introv said:
Same thing I'm afraid. Same errors and the same inability to overwrite the recovery image with a different version.
Of course I used it. It sends texts, connects to the internet, has android on. Time to move on ...
I'm a software developer. I break and fix things for a living and I enjoy it so consider a new phone a new piece of kit to mess with above anything else.
What is it with people attempting to belittle others decisions??? Seriously ...
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I'm not belittling anyone
There are FAR too many people who come on and are like
"So I just got my new phone from the shop and have rooted it and S-OFF - I'm so cool, look at me!!"
And they have NO idea what they've done or why. Your first post mentioned nothing of being a developer nor that you'd used the phone before. What does the phone not do that you need to root or are you rooting for the sake of rooting??
People don't think enough and just follow others like sheep
Baaaaaa..... lol!!
EddyOS said:
ROM Manager is a PITA - never used it as I prefer to do things myself from recovery. You get a lot more control over things
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So it seems, and that's what I'm used to doing on my old G1.
Part of the issue here is that even in recovery, when booting directly to it, clockwork is not working correctly and is also not allowing me to flash over it. Worse than that though is that when I flash a different recovery on using unrevoker the phone black screens when booting into recovery.
Anyhoo ... unless anyone else has any brilliant ideas I guess I will reset it to stock tomorrow and try again.
I think the easiest thing to do is go back to stock and start afresh.
Also if you want to change recoveries often you should maybe look into AlphaRev (www.alpharev.nl) and get an S-Off HBOOT.
Do you have an AMOLED or an SLCD Desire?
Sent from my Amiga 500 using Workbench
same problem here, recovery doesn't work properly. Any ideas?
EDIT: I guess I should provide some details ;-)
I have a rather new (3 weeks old) SLCD Desire with a Vodafone branding on it.
Unrevoked 3.21 didn't work, so I had to use the older version which doesn't check the misc partition for the correct version.
Now rooting went fine, but if I try to boot into recovery, it can't mount any of the flash partitions (except for the sdcard), instead it shows the same error messages the OP got.
EDIT2: Got it fixed. The default recovery seems to be broken, everything worked after flashing the RA-desire-v2.0.0 Recovery.
Did find any solution to this problem plzzzzzzzzzzz help me
I should 1)backup? 2)s-off? 3)flash using the RA-desire-v2.0.0 Recovery?
then after that i shouldn't receive "E:Can't find MISC: ... "?
I'd like to know how to solve this problem too... It's pretty annoying not to able to flash or at least backup a ROM. How did you get it work ?
This works for me . . . .
I had exactly the same problem and had to install clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 in order to be able to create a nandroid backup.
Search the desire development thread for the latest clockworkmod, download the .img version and reflash the phone using unrevoked but before you start, go into unrevoked settings and tell it to use the .img you downloaded instead of the standard one. 3.0.0.5 will then be your standard recovery and will let you backup/flash etc.
Also,
Keep ROM Manager installed, because although It's generally **** and I'd never use it if I didn't have to, it has one use . .
Sometimes, you may try to flash a zip in Clockworkmod (CWM) 3.0.0.5 and it will tell you it can't flash it due to some edify scripting issue (or something like that!!)
As rare as it is, if this happens, reboot to android, run ROM Manager and ask it to install recovery. When it's done, ask it to reboot to recovery and it will install CWM 2.5.0.7 then boot into it, which will let you flash the zip which you couldn't flash before. Awesome!
The good thing is, once you leave recovery, 2.5.0.7 is gone and next time to reboot to recovery (not using ROM Manager) you will be back to 3.0.0.5.
Double awesome!!
What I've advised in the last 2 posts works well for me and has done for months, so hopefully it will work for you too.
Don't use ROM Manager for anything other than this though, cos apart from this it is rubbish!!
Hope this helps
EDIT: CWM is here by the way
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=839640
Hi,
I used Unrevoked with the latest Clockwork recovery. Unfortunately, I got this error message : "Error, failed to get root. Is your firmware too new ?"
I think I must reset the phone though I don't want to... That'll do like I did the 1st time.
That sucks !
Here's a few suggestions for those who get "Error, failed to get root. Is your firmware too new ?"
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/249730-unrevoked3-your-firmware-too-new.html
Hi guys...
Well, I'm a total noob when it comes to Android in general, but I know a thing or two about rooting... The thing is... I managed to flash Oxygen ROM and it was all good... But then I tried to flash a stock HTC ROM and now I can't boot (red triangle) or even get into the recovery! All I can access is fastboot, HBoot and Android recovery. Whenever I try to flash files it sais "Signature failed" or something like that, and even when I tried to do it with the HBoot menu using a stock HTC ROM it kinda went like this: everythin OK except Radio_V2 (Bypassed) and HBoot (Error) so yeah... My Desire is now unusable and I have to use my crappy Xperia X10 Mini... HELP!
SOLVED: Thanks for the help!
Have you tried putting the update.zip (recovery) back on the sd card?
And what rom did you use?
If that does not work use a RUU, there are plenty of threads in Q&A on how to do that.
TheGhost1233 said:
Have you tried putting the update.zip (recovery) back on the sd card?
And what rom did you use?
If that does not work use a RUU, there are plenty of threads in Q&A on how to do that.
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Tried the update.zip you provided, got the following error:
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:Signature verification failed
Installation aborted
Before my problems I used the latest stable Oxygen ROM, after it was the newest (European) Stock ROM for HTC Desire I could find.
And yeah... How do I use an RUU when I can't even boot the phone? I mean, it's an exe, is it not? Can u help me out a little more? sorry for my newbieness n_n
(GAH, I miss my Desire already T^T)
First disable signature verification in recovery, option can be found under 'install zip from sd' and try again.
TheGhost1233 said:
First disable signature verification in recovery, option can be found under 'install zip from sd' and try again.
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The only option I have to "install from zip" is "Apply sdcard:update.zip" from the Android System Recovery (2e) menu, since yeah... Amon RA was removed when I tried to flash the stock rom... I've screwed up quite bad, haven't I?
Well yes you screwed up but it should not be to much trouble fixing it. Next time you flash a rom make sure it's designed to be flashed on a rooted desire.
But this guide should help to get the phone unrooted and working again, then you should be able to root again.
TheGhost1233 said:
Well yes you screwed up but it should not be to much trouble fixing it. Next time you flash a rom make sure it's designed to be flashed on a rooted desire.
But this guide should help to get the phone unrooted and working again, then you should be able to root again.
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Thanks! I'll give it a go and post here with the result! I'll be more carefull from now on, lol
TheGhost1233 said:
Well yes you screwed up but it should not be to much trouble fixing it. Next time you flash a rom make sure it's designed to be flashed on a rooted desire.
But this guide should help to get the phone unrooted and working again, then you should be able to root again.
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Tried to use that method now, got the following:
Reads the zip file and asks to update using it, I press Vol+ (yes) and the process of updating starts... After a while it vibrates and I see the following:
BOOT OK
BOOTLOADER Bypassed
RADIO_V2 Fail-PU
RADIO_CUST OK
RECOVERY OK
SPLASH1 OK
SYSTEM OK
USERDATA OK
Partition update fail!
Update Fail!
Do you want to reboot device?
<VOL UP> Yes
<VOL DOWN> No
I press VOL UP...
Aaaand I'm met with an infinate HTC boot screen... nothing happens.
When I try to enter recovery...And it's the same deal, met with the HTC boot logo... nothing ever happens... What can I do?! : /
Okaaay, this is embrassing... Just had to run an offical RUU with the phone in Fastboot... God I'm so stupid... Thanks anyways, guys!
Hehe, grattis Erik!
lol good to hear u solved it out
Hey there.
I just got myself a (white) Desire with SLCD:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Since i want to install oxygen2 RC7 i rooted the phone first with unrevoked3.
It seems that it worked since "Rom Manager" got su. But booting into Recovery gives me following lines:
E:cant mount cache:recovery/command
E:cant find misc:
because of that i cant do a nandroid backup and i guess flashing a new rom also wont work.
so i tried to re-root the Desire with unrevoked several times (using Linux Ubuntu) but nothing changed. Furthermore unrevoked told me, that my firmware was too new (because i'm already rooted?)
so i tried flashing AmonRa 2.0 with unrevoked. wont work and firmware still too new.
so i tried:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img in cmd (after downloading Android SDK)
but it said something about signature verify fail.
After a while i found a workaround by booting the AmonRa recovery first with:
fastboot boot recovery-RA-desire-v2.0.0.img
but it told me something about FAILED <remote: not allowed>
I guess flashing the stock rom from shippedRoms and re-rooting the desire wont work since i dont believe that flashing a ROM is possible. Also i'm new to this stuff (rooted and flashe Desire with AMOLED before) and would prefer to not brick my phone
any ideas?
(btw: please excuse my bad english)
edit: i can't even wipe the phone. if i try it gives me the mentioned lines from above.
Have you read the stickie in general? There the pvt4 situation is explained.
Also a ruu (stuff from shiped roms) does not require root.
So you can unroot and use unrevoked again with the right recovery image or if your comfortable S-offing you could do that and use fastboot to flash the recovery image.
Keep in mind that you are the only one responsible for your phone, no one else.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
thanks!!
i overlooked this thread. As soon as the desire gets home (actually it belongs to my girlfriend) i'm gooing to try again by flashing RUU and rooting again with AmonRa Recovery since i don't know if S-offing the device would be the best idea.
Thanks so far. I will report in time.
hey.
i just found out, that the phone is a branded one (vodafone_fr).
So just in case i created a goldcard as long as the device is running.
I downloaded following RUUs:
OTA_Bravo_Vodafone FR_(A1 Österreich)_von 1.21.163.2 zu 2.10.163.1
OTA_Bravo_Froyo_Vodafone FR_(A1 Österreich) von 2.10.163.1_zu 2.33.163.1_R
i renamed it to PB99IMG.zip, put it on the SD Card and restarted the phone while holding volumeDown.
After a while it gives me "PB99IMG.zip.....No image or wrong image"
After reboot nothing changed.
Is there any possibility to get a working RUU for my Desire (2.33.163.1).
Or HAVE i to go via alpharev S-off?
Man, with my PVT1 Amoled Desire the whole procedure was done within half an hour.
greetz
You don't rename the RUU itself, you need to extract the ROM.zip file from the RUU and rename that. Follow this guide I posted on another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10509780&postcount=102
Hey guys and thanks for your help.
I managed to get root via unrevoked and flash AmonRA by uninstalling zysploit FIRST. Now unrevoked didnt tell me anymore that my firmware ist too new.
Summarizing: If yout get something like this after rooting with unrevoked:
E:cant mount cache
E:cant find misc
than u just have to re-root your desire with unrevoked. This time you have to load a custom recovery (i recommend AmonRa 2.0 since it worked for me) and deinstall Rom Manager and zyploit from your phone before plugging in you phone.
In the Linux Terminal it still says "Error n=-1 ... no such device " three times but it stills works.
Now it was possible for me to run a nandroid backup and to partition the sd
THANKS guys
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense .
1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.
2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.
3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.
4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.
Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.
If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.
tjmarchand said:
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense .
1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.
2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.
3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.
4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.
Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.
If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.
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Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:
su
flash_image recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img
reboot recovery
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Post the results in here.
blackknightavalon said:
Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:
Post the results in here.
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Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
tjmarchand said:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
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Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.
blackknightavalon said:
Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.
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Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"
With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.
My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)
tjmarchand said:
Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"
With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.
My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)
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Maybe it's a bad recovery. You said you flashed 2.5.1.3, so ROM Manager should work. Try flashing 3.0.2.4 through there now. If not, I suggest downloading Fastboot.
tjmarchand said:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
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flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493
raitchison said:
flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493
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Thanks for the guide! I followed it with no issue, I rebooted into recovery; it first hung on the HTC screen, rebooted, vibrated and then booted back into the OS. So anyway, instead of 2.5.1.3, I'm on 3.0.0.5 now.
I went down to 2.5.1.3 and downloaded cm6.1 via rom manager. It told me this : E: can't open '/sdcard/..location (bad) installation aborted. tmp/recovery.log was copied to sdcard
I tried enom's froyo themed rom next, heres what recovery tells me:
Installing update...
Formatting cache
Copying files
Formatting SYSTEM
Copying files...
E Can't symlink /system/bin/su
E Failure at line 19:
symlink /system/xbin/su SYSTEM: bin/su
Installation aborted.
I also tried to download an updated superuser from the market, it says installation unsuccessful package file was not signed correctly.
Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk
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Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk
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That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update pacakge...
Opening update pacakge...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)
tjmarchand said:
That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update pacakge...
Opening update pacakge...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)
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If this is the Gingerbread OTA, you'll need everything as stock. If it's the "OTA" with Superuser thrown in, you'll need CWM Recovery 3+ (2.5* formats the system in yaffs, 3+ formats it in EXT).
This is just the ota update with wifi calling still 2.2, Im unrooted and stock recovery again
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