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Updated radio issue - phone not booting

I had success with the unrevoked root, so I decided to give the 2.2 upgrade a shot. I successfully reverted to a fresh stock unrooted 2.1, using the PB31IMG.zip file. This also took away my Clockwork Mod. Next I moved to the step of loading the dinc_ota.zip. After the 3 cycles it went to the HTC incredible boot screen and didnt move. I waited 15 minutes and nothing changed. I decided to pull the battery but no luck, still hangs on the white screen when i turn the phone on. I can still get into HBoot, which shows my radio as the updated 2.05 and my hboot is .79.
I've tried the RUU but I cannot boot the phone past the white htc screen so it wont work. I've also tried to load the PB31IMG.zip file from the sdcard agian, which doesnt. I get an error saying its too old.
Is there a way to restore my phone from Hboot?
Do you have any suggestions of threads I could read for the answer?
Thanks

Try the image again, then try the ota.
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i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.
PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?
I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html

k_flan said:
i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.
PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?
I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
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Sorry, my bad. DONT APPLY THE UPDATE AGAIN!
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Try a clear storage.

jdkoreclipse said:
Try the image again, then try the ota.
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I tried the image again, same error, it reads:
Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Do you want to reboot device?
vol up yes
vol down no
I tried the reboot and it still hangs at white screen.
k_flan said:
i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.
PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?
I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
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As for the radio update, I agree that it would be a bad idea to try to reaplly it, especially since my HBoot shows it as the updated radio.
I also saw the thread you pointed out to me but that requires clockwork mod to be installed and that was removed when i reverted to stock.
Any helpful ideas are greatly appreciated.

Does it show up on adb?
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jdkoreclipse said:
Does it show up on adb?
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I did try to clear the storage, but it still hangs.
Also tried adb devices in hboot, at the htc incredible white screen, and in the fastboot menu, all with no luck. When I try to boot to recovery it hangs at the same white screen. Might just have to bring it to Verizon tomorrow, I'm beginning to think I may be holding a brick.

To revert your radio back to the original 1.x, you need to have access to adb and pushing to your data directory
Long story short, you dun goofed by pulling the battery
HTC Incredible, rooted w/ modified Sense 2.1

I think its a brick
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ilinfinityil said:
To revert your radio back to the original 1.x, you need to have access to adb and pushing to your data directory
Long story short, you dun goofed by pulling the battery
HTC Incredible, rooted w/ modified Sense 2.1
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Once the radio update completed, the white htc inc screen came up and hung there for 15 minutes, I didnt think I had much of a choice.
In that situation what should I have done?

aaman137 said:
Once the radio update completed, the white htc inc screen came up and hung there for 15 minutes, I didnt think I had much of a choice.
In that situation what should I have done?
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When i did the ota, it took about 7-10 min total. Yours hung on that incredible boot screen for 15 min. You did the right thing.
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I appreciate all the help, this is why I came to xda. As for my Incredible, I guess its going back to Verizon tomorrow to see what they can do for me. I'm sure I'll be waiting a good week or two until I have my Incredible back, DOH!

I wouldn't think it's bricked if you can still get into the bootloader. Bricked generally comes about when you can't even power the device on. While I have nothing to add in the way of help, I'd say don't give up on the phone yet. I'm betting one of the *real* devs may be able to help you.

Ruoh said:
I wouldn't think it's bricked if you can still get into the bootloader. Bricked generally comes about when you can't even power the device on. While I have nothing to add in the way of help, I'd say don't give up on the phone yet. I'm betting one of the *real* devs may be able to help you.
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It may be a soft brick.
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i brick it this morning, called around dinner time, and they dispatched a replacement to me. overnight free shipping!!!

Its not bricked. I had the same issue. You need to follow this guide. Basically you have to redo it to get it to work, and this is the only way that I could do it.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
(This was the most important part of the guide for me. Solve that: error saying its too old. All glory to Adrynalyne)
Having troubles with the RUU giving connection errors? Do this.
Go to start, and in the search/run box, type
%temp%
Delete all that you can. Make sure the RUU is not running in the background.
Now run the RUU again. Once it starts to the first screen, it has extracted the files to the temp directory. You can then copy them to a safe place. It will be a long winded numbered folder, with a similar subfolder.
Once you have copied it to a safe place, you can then copy adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and adbwinapi.dll from the latest SDK into it, overwriting the older copies. Then start the RUU by executing ARUWizard.exe. This fixed the problem for me.
You can also rename the rom.zip contained within the extracted files to PB31IMG.zip and put it on your sd card. Booting to HBOOT will scan it and offer to install.

HolyGrail said:
Its not bricked. I had the same issue. You need to follow this guide. Basically you have to redo it to get it to work, and this is the only way that I could do it.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
(This was the most important part of the guide for me. Solve that: error saying its too old. All glory to Adrynalyne)
Having troubles with the RUU giving connection errors? Do this.
Go to start, and in the search/run box, type
%temp%
Delete all that you can. Make sure the RUU is not running in the background.
Now run the RUU again. Once it starts to the first screen, it has extracted the files to the temp directory. You can then copy them to a safe place. It will be a long winded numbered folder, with a similar subfolder.
Once you have copied it to a safe place, you can then copy adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and adbwinapi.dll from the latest SDK into it, overwriting the older copies. Then start the RUU by executing ARUWizard.exe. This fixed the problem for me.
You can also rename the rom.zip contained within the extracted files to PB31IMG.zip and put it on your sd card. Booting to HBOOT will scan it and offer to install.
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This only works if he can get to recovery.

TNS201 said:
This only works if he can get to recovery.
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Your point? He can get into stock recovery, which is all he needs to start over.

HolyGrail said:
Your point? He can get into stock recovery, which is all he needs to start over.
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His tutorial says you need clockwork, so he might not be ok. You need the ability to push files to your data directory which is why he needs clockwork, unless he can do it the old way when we first got root by the time attack method. I do not know how much functionality adb would have if he was able to access ADB with stock recovery.
This is all his fault for his failure to read. From what I read in the OP, he did this
1. He downgraded with the RUU image.
2. He tried to apply the OTA
He failed to do this or at least didn't acknowledge that he did this, but he didn't install the original OTA which you will get after you RUU back to stock. If you boot your phone back up it should download the OTA from VZW and then you apply the leaked OTA. So sounds like this is the reason for his brick/semi-brick. Failure to read or understand what youre doing leads to FAIL>

Clockwork recovery after UnrEVOked. Help!

I rooted my Evo last night with no problem and then decided to risk taking chances modding. I ended up replacing the HTC lockscreen with the vanilla one! However, I ended up trying to do a clockwork mod (the one that has the battery number on the top) and now my phone is in bootloop. I can't get my computer to recognize the phone now to download something on it. Anyone know of a way around this?

You should be able to pull the battery and be able to boot right back to recovery. Did you try that? Loops are POST recovery override so I would guess you haven't tried this yet?

edufur said:
You should be able to pull the battery and be able to boot right back to recovery. Did you try that? Loops are POST recovery override so I would guess you haven't tried this yet?
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Yes i'm in recovery but everytime I try to recover it goes into clockwork recovery and bootloops again. My laptop doesn't recognize the phone either.

Have you tried "fastboot?"

edufur said:
Have you tried "fastboot?"
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Yeah I did and I keep getting the error message "Connection failed" on my laptop. I'm on Windows 7

Thanks for taking the time to help me btw

Have you tried a different USB port? Strangely, sometimes Windows gets picky with a particular port / phone combo... and then choosing a different port often fixes connection failures.
Also, did you try factory resetting the phone as well? Like... clear storage... followed by full wipe?

edufur said:
Have you tried a different USB port? Strangely, sometimes Windows gets picky with a particular port / phone combo... and then choosing a different port often fixes connection failures.
Also, did you try factory resetting the phone as well? Like... clear storage... followed by full wipe?
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Yeah I tried to reset factory but it resets it right into "Clockwork recovery." Trying to change ports now.

Yeah my main problem is I downloaded that mod and I need to get the phone back to how it was when I first used the Unrevoked 3.2

try booting to fastboot... then reboot your PC... then use a previously unused USB port... switch things around if you have to.

Actually... I have another idea...
IF you have unrevoked forever on there, I am guessing this should work...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764062&highlight=amon_RA
that thread shows how to easily get switched to amon_RA from clockwork essentially in one easy step... but it requires that you push the img file.. which you are mentioning you cannot do... BUT... if you have a card reader/writer, you can pop your micro SD card out of the phone and into a reader/writer and put the img file in its root... along with a ROM of choice. then boot to the phone and it will automatically ask you if you want to restore the image file. say yes and you will be loaded up with amon!! amon is better. once you have that on there, pull the pcimg36 file off and flash the ROM that you picked from your amon recovery.
does this make sense? if not i can try to give better detail.

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martyzidek said:
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Did you forget something?

What if I can only flash "update.zip?"

edufur said:
Actually... I have another idea...
IF you have unrevoked forever on there, I am guessing this should work...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764062&highlight=amon_RA
that thread shows how to easily get switched to amon_RA from clockwork essentially in one easy step... but it requires that you push the img file.. which you are mentioning you cannot do... BUT... if you have a card reader/writer, you can pop your micro SD card out of the phone and into a reader/writer and put the img file in its root... along with a ROM of choice. then boot to the phone and it will automatically ask you if you want to restore the image file. say yes and you will be loaded up with amon!! amon is better. once you have that on there, pull the pcimg36 file off and flash the ROM that you picked from your amon recovery.
does this make sense? if not i can try to give better detail.
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Okay this worked! What rom should I download? I would like one that has the Vanilla lock screen and then i'll look into Nan unlocking after that. Thank you so much again. I haven't gotten anywhere until that post

Roms, oh the many choices
imwillzillla said:
Okay this worked! What rom should I download? I would like one that has the Vanilla lock screen and then i'll look into Nan unlocking after that. Thank you so much again. I haven't gotten anywhere until that post
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Cyanogenmod6 is simply the best, but it is VERY buggy at best and needs and unlock, which you don't have. I like Ava v7 because of it's simplicity and stability. A lot of people like evio and baked snack though. I don't know why. I don't personally.
Member now woo!

major problem. Need some help. Loopbooting

So I'm at work and go to look at my phone and notice its rebooting which it never does. I watch it and notice its loopbooting at the white Evo screen. Ive never as much as had a random reboot before. I try to boot into recovery and can get to hboot but as soon as I try to select recovery it loop boots at the same point. I tried pulling the battery and that didn't help either. I'm running cm6.1 rc1 with stock kernel and no over or under clocking. I haven't made any changes in a while. Not even any new apps.
Any ideas?

I just went through and read every thread with loop in the title and it seems like with everyone else they had this issue while rooting or flashing or making some sort of change. Nor just on an idle phone

You may need to RUU your phone and start over if you arent able to get into any type of recovery mode...
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I can get into hboot but that's about it

Just got home finally.. Gonna try to get this bs fixed. I wish I knew what caused it. I can't have this randomly happening again.

I was able to run RUU app and install the update from here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747319
It just finished and I'm still in a boot loop. Ugh.
I've been searching for hours now and I'm not finding much help

Ugh.. I'm giving up for the night. Been searching for hours and can't find anything that seems to work. And of course today is Thanksgiving and there's no chance of me even getting a new phone.

did you try a 3.29 ruu i'm surprised that sync let you flash a 3.26 if your phone updated to newer that might help also if you used unrevoked you need to flash thier s-on tool

Jbcarrera said:
did you try a 3.29 ruu i'm surprised that sync let you flash a 3.26 if your phone updated to newer that might help also if you used unrevoked you need to flash thier s-on tool
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The only RUU I was able to flash with the RUU app was the 3.26 one I posted. I downloaded like 10 others and RUU app doesn't see them for some reason.
Also, how can I send a file to the phone with fastboot? I've searched and searched and I'm not sure of the exact syntax to use.
I had S-OFF and was fully rooted untill I ran RUU app.

Any other suggestions? I'm really trying to avoid getting a new phone.

Grabbed a card reader and adapter and trying some other RUU's I found now.. Hopefully something works.

thenags said:
Grabbed a card reader and adapter and trying some other RUU's I found now.. Hopefully something works.
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i was going to suggest that but you beat me to it have been away all day

thenags said:
Any other suggestions? I'm really trying to avoid getting a new phone.
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Jbcarrera said:
i was going to suggest that but you beat me to it have been away all day
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Right now I'm just downloading another RUU to use with RUUApp. Do you have any other suggestions if this doesn't work?
Attempting the .exe found here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819771&highlight=mirror&page=3

thenags said:
Right now I'm just downloading another RUU to use with RUUApp. Do you have any other suggestions if this doesn't work?
Attempting the .exe found here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819771&highlight=mirror&page=3
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Just finished installing that RUU and no change. Still the same boot loop.

Downloading the following RUU now and going to try again.
RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.30.651.3_Radio_2.15.00.09.01_NV_1.77_003_release_157088_signed.exe
And for anyone looking for stock RUU's and having a hell of a time. Here's a good link I found with a bunch of them;
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/

That one didn't work either.. Still just loop booting. Looks like this thing is just completely eff'd and I need a new one. Damn.

Well, just got home with a brand new phone. It's got hboot 2.20.. Time to get rooting. Ugh.

Just search for a pc3600.img file that is rooted and put on sd and boot to bootloader and flash
sent from my white w/ red trim Evo

krazydude4g said:
Just search for a pc3600.img file that is rooted and put on sd and boot to bootloader and flash
sent from my white w/ red trim Evo
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I did that as well.. Nothing was working on that thing. Got a new phone now and just finished rooting it and getting it all set up.

[Q] Bring me up to date

Hello every one I have been away for a wile and I don't know wish upgrade I should do. I have the firmware version 2.1-update1 software number 1.47.651.1 is rooted because I mostly use Wireless tether... this is the most importing app i think i have in my phone i use it every day.
The question is wish upgrade i should do? keep in mind i definitely want to use the wireless tethering so i don't know if there is something new out there .
please post answers with links ty.

Not to be a **** but you could easily find the links you need by using google or the search function here. You are running some seriously outdated software, I suggest you do your research and update accordingly.

Bloodsville said:
Hello every one I have been away for a wile and I don't know wish upgrade I should do. I have the firmware version 2.1-update1 software number 1.47.651.1 is rooted because I mostly use Wireless tether... this is the most importing app i think i have in my phone i use it every day.
The question is wish upgrade i should do? keep in mind i definitely want to use the wireless tethering so i don't know if there is something new out there .
please post answers with links ty.
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We need more info to help you out. Ok, you have the 1.47 software. Is it a stock rom which was rooted, or was part 1 and part 2 of rooting done? If you did part 2 and you have the engineering bootloader on your phone, then you can just flash the 2.2-based rom of your choice over what you have now after doing a full wipe. Turn your phone off completely. Press the power button while holding volume down and it will boot into a white screen. Post all the top few lines you see on here so we know what you're working with.

rugedraw said:
We need more info to help you out. Ok, you have the 1.47 software. Is it a stock rom which was rooted, or was part 1 and part 2 of rooting done? If you did part 2 and you have the engineering bootloader on your phone, then you can just flash the 2.2-based rom of your choice over what you have now after doing a full wipe. Turn your phone off completely. Press the power button while holding volume down and it will boot into a white screen. Post all the top few lines you see on here so we know what you're working with.
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Well first of all ty for taking me seriously even do it sounds lazy i did a quick serch and got confused quickly this is way I'm asking you guys that are fresh with the subject..... Again ty rugedraw sorry for the delay i thout it would take more time to some one respond ... I m here now
ok the first 5 lines are
firmware version: 2.1-update 1
baseband version: 2.05.00.06.1
Kernel version: 2.6.29-789bf291 [email protected]#
build number : 1.47.651.1
Software number: 1.47.651.1
I did this log time ago I think I have the part 2 of the root because i use the boot-loader on my cell if I want it to recover it to stock this was done a few months ago I'm just back from the army and ill appreciate if you point me on the right direction wish software ur using froyo 2.2 its all i know that is out there i think there is a 2.3 right ?? i have no idea wish one is the best so far ?

what is the software ur using ?

Just got back from the army? Why didn't you say so in your OP?
Turn your phone off and then power it back on while holding volume down. Tell me what's listed. We are looking for S-OFF at the top and then your HBOOT version.

if you were rooted and NAND unlocked before all you have to do is flash a new ROM based on the latest OTA's easy peasy man.
any Evo based ROM in here as long as your full NAND unlocked and ROOT will work
Evo Development

xlGmanlx said:
if you were rooted and NAND unlocked before all you have to do is flash a new ROM based on the latest OTA's easy peasy man.
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I was going to recommend that he flash the all in one sprint lovers ROM so he can update his radio/wimax/pri and ROM in one shot. Just wanted to make sure he's S-OFF first.

sound advice, i personally flash each one individually for radios/wimax/PRl
radio/wimax/linky
_MetalHead_ said:
I was going to recommend that he flash the all in one sprint lovers ROM so he can update his radio/wimax/pri and ROM in one shot. Just wanted to make sure he's S-OFF first.
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xlGmanlx said:
sound advice, i personally flash each one individually for radios/wimax/PRl
radio/wimax/linky
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That works too, I just figured Sprint Lovers would be easiest for him.

yup, but he has to go to the deep end eventually haha
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That works too, I just figured Sprint Lovers would be easiest for him.
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sprint lovers

_MetalHead_ said:
Just got back from the army? Why didn't you say so in your OP?
Turn your phone off and then power it back on while holding volume down. Tell me what's listed. We are looking for S-OFF at the top and then your HBOOT version.
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Supersonic evt2-2 ENG S-OFF
Hboot-0.76.2000 (PC3610000)
MMICROP-041F
TOUCH PANEL ATMEL224_16AB
RADIO-2.05.00.06.10
MAR 30 2010 , 10:24:04
SORRY FOR THE DALY I WAS EATING and talking on the phone
i have another question will i still be able to use the wireless tether?

If you unroot, you won't be able to use wireless tether [for free] at least. You can try that z-4root, if you just want a temporary root, but I have no experience with it.

teh roxxorz said:
If you unroot, you won't be able to use wireless tether [for free] at least. You can try that z-4root, if you just want a temporary root, but I have no experience with it.
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I dont wana unroot

Well, where do you currently stand then?

Okay. Now do you have a recovery? If not, go to the market and download rommanager. Then, it'll set up a recovery for you. Download a rom like myns or mikfroyo or cm6/7 if you don't like sense. And then go to the radios link and download the all in one. When rommanager is done downloading, don't let it automatically flash. Make sure you have the all in one radio and the rom downloaded. Turn of your phone, turn it back on while holding the volume down button down and go to recovery then press the power button. It'll tale you to the recovery. Now, you'll probably have to wipe everything(make sure you backed up everything) first, create a nandroid back up tho. And then wipe and then flash the rom and then the radios all in one. You're golden
Someone confirm these instructions so nothing gets ****ed up
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.

teh roxxorz said:
Well, where do you currently stand then?
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well its hard to tell its been a long time i dont upgrade or read this page but im geting up to date ..... what rom ur using ?? its rooted?

Bloodsville said:
well its hard to tell its been a long time i dont upgrade or read this page but im geting up to date ..... what rom ur using ?? its rooted?
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Well, seeing your other post, it says you are S-OFF, which is rooted. So you technically can go flash a new rom and be on your way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10992006#post10992006
That thread has all the latest radios, ect. Since you are S-OFF, you can download the first link, the combo. Boot into recover, wipe your cache and dalvik cache, then flash the file. You'll be set then.

What type of ROM are you looking for? If you want to stay close to stock but just be up to date with everything, I stand by my recommendation of sprint lovers. It is essentially stock, but it has some performance tweaks.
Here is the download link for the ROM. As I stated before, it will update your radio/wimax/pri and will be the most current build of software for your phone.
Here is the link for the thread for the ROM, in case you want to check it out, and I recommend that you do.
Download the file, put it on the root of your SD card (directly on it, not in any folders). Turn your phone completely off, then turn it back on while holding volume down (like I had you do before). Give it a minute while it scans for the file and loads it. Once it's done loading it will ask you if you want to update, choose yes (use the vol keys to navigate up and down, power button to select). It will then update everything for you. Be sure to have a charged battery and do NOT under any circumstances pull the battery out during the update as you will most likely permanently brick your device. When it's done, delete the file from your SD card.
This will wipe your phone completely so make sure your contacts are backed up and use Titanium to back up your apps.

_MetalHead_ said:
What type of ROM are you looking for? If you want to stay close to stock but just be up to date with everything, I stand by my recommendation of sprint lovers. It is essentially stock, but it has some performance tweaks.
Here is the download link for the ROM. As I stated before, it will update your radio/wimax/pri and will be the most current build of software for your phone.
Here is the link for the thread for the ROM, in case you want to check it out, and I recommend that you do.
Download the file, put it on the root of your SD card (directly on it, not in any folders). Turn your phone completely off, then turn it back on while holding volume down (like I had you do before). Give it a minute while it scans for the file and loads it. Once it's done loading it will ask you if you want to update, choose yes (use the vol keys to navigate up and down, power button to select). It will then update everything for you. Be sure to have a charged battery and do NOT under any circumstances pull the battery out during the update as you will most likely permanently brick your device. When it's done, delete the file from your SD card.
This will wipe your phone completely so make sure your contacts are backed up and use Titanium to back up your apps.
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FIRST OF ALL THANX A LOT and thanx to every one else
im thinking on installing MikFroyo 4.4 looks nice and I think the hot spot is rooted so ill be able to use .... what do you think about mikfroyo? and 1 last think what ROM ur using ? sprint lovers?

[Q] Recover to stock

Currently my phone cannot boot up, get's stuck at the HTC white screen. I am trying to follow the directions here but I'm having some trouble. I can get into the recovery screen and by doing so it automatically starts loading the PG32IMG.zip file but does not do anything after that and I am unsure how to proceed. So far I have tried installing the .zip using the ClockworkMod Recovery but when I attempt to do so it says it can't open and just says (bad), installation aborted. Currently it is S-ON and I do not know if I can change it to S-OFF if I cannot boot it up. Right now I am waiting for the download to finish for this guide and I will hopefully be able to switch it but in the meantime if anyone has any ideas I would certainly like to hear from you.

Zook024 said:
Currently my phone cannot boot up, get's stuck at the HTC white screen. I am trying to follow the directions here but I'm having some trouble. I can get into the recovery screen and by doing so it automatically starts loading the PG32IMG.zip file but does not do anything after that and I am unsure how to proceed. So far I have tried installing the .zip using the ClockworkMod Recovery but when I attempt to do so it says it can't open and just says (bad), installation aborted. Currently it is S-ON and I do not know if I can change it to S-OFF if I cannot boot it up. Right now I am waiting for the download to finish for this guide and I will hopefully be able to switch it but in the meantime if anyone has any ideas I would certainly like to hear from you.
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What happened before it got stuck at the white screen? Were you trying to flash a rom?

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What happened before it got stuck at the white screen? Were you trying to flash a rom?
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yes. I managed to root it last night and was attempting to add this rom this morning. I don't remember what steps I took exactly (I knew I should have written it down!) and now it refuses to boot up. I am able to get into the recovery mode and access the SD card by mounting it to my PC but that's it.

Zook024 said:
yes. I managed to root it last night and was attempting to add this rom this morning. I don't remember what steps I took exactly (I knew I should have written it down!) and now it refuses to boot up. I am able to get into the recovery mode and access the SD card by mounting it to my PC but that's it.
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So you are HTC dev unlocked but not s-off if I'm understanding correctly. The flashing steps are a little different. You need to look around for flashing instructions for dev unlocked phones. I believe the Viper rom thread has the instructions, and they work for any rom.

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So you are HTC dev unlocked but not s-off if I'm understanding correctly. The flashing steps are a little different. You need to look around for flashing instructions for dev unlocked phones. I believe the Viper rom thread has the instructions, and they work for any rom.
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yes you would be correct in that understanding, is this the one you are talking about?

Zook024 said:
yes you would be correct in that understanding, is this the one you are talking about?
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Yes, his install instructions from that OP are:
Be s-off (or dev unlock)
Install a custom recovery (twrp/4ext)
Download the ROM and place it on your external SD card.
Do a nandroid backup!
Start rom install process and make sure you select to wipe data in aroma
Select your desired setup in aroma, and finish
Reboot the device and enjoy!
If you are dev unlock, you need to pull the boot.img from the rom zip and fastboot it in hboot
I'm not dev unlock, so I've never actually done this, which is why I'm not being more specific. The boot.img is already in the zip you downloaded for the rom.
If you look in this thread, the phone is different, but the flash steps should be identical according to my understanding:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28301167&postcount=1

gtdtm said:
Yes, his install instructions from that OP are:
Be s-off (or dev unlock)
Install a custom recovery (twrp/4ext)
Download the ROM and place it on your external SD card.
Do a nandroid backup!
Start rom install process and make sure you select to wipe data in aroma
Select your desired setup in aroma, and finish
Reboot the device and enjoy!
If you are dev unlock, you need to pull the boot.img from the rom zip and fastboot it in hboot
I'm not dev unlock, so I've never actually done this, which is why I'm not being more specific. The boot.img is already in the zip you downloaded for the rom.
If you look in this thread, the phone is different, but the flash steps should be identical according to my understanding:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28301167&postcount=1
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well I managed to install the ROM successfully but it still refuses to boot up, I've run out of ideas at this point, no idea why it refuses to boot up.

Zook024 said:
well I managed to install the ROM successfully but it still refuses to boot up, I've run out of ideas at this point, no idea why it refuses to boot up.
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More details will be very helpful to any of us that might be able to help you.
What rom are you trying to install?
What do you mean by won't boot up. Are you getting past the HTC screen now?

gtdtm said:
More details will be very helpful to any of us that might be able to help you.
What rom are you trying to install?
What do you mean by won't boot up. Are you getting past the HTC screen now?
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my apologies, I had originally attempted to install this ROM. I thought I had followed the directions to the letter, obviously I screwed up somewhere. I then attempted to perform a factory reset from the ClockworkMod Recovery which yielded no results. I then attempted the Viper ROM, again wiping the data and that said installation was successful. Still it refused to boot. I then tried this return to stock and with that, the .zip folder is automatically loaded but then does nothing. As of right now I cannot get past the HTC screen.

Zook024 said:
my apologies, I had originally attempted to install this ROM. I thought I had followed the directions to the letter, obviously I screwed up somewhere. I then attempted to perform a factory reset from the ClockworkMod Recovery which yielded no results. I then attempted the Viper ROM, again wiping the data and that said installation was successful. Still it refused to boot. I then tried this return to stock and with that, the .zip folder is automatically loaded but then does nothing. As of right now I cannot get past the HTC screen.
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Well don't panic first of all. It's not super easy for me to figure out what's going on because your setup is quite different from mine, but I'm willing to offer any knowledge I have gleaned from reading these forums (a lot).
When you tried to go to stock, you went to the bootloader and it found the PG32IMG? Or it just stayed on the options screen of reboot, recovery, factory reset, etc?
If it found the PG32IMG did it give you any messages? Did you check the md5 sum before trying to load it?

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Well don't panic first of all. It's not super easy for me to figure out what's going on because your setup is quite different from mine, but I'm willing to offer any knowledge I have gleaned from reading these forums (a lot).
When you tried to go to stock, you went to the bootloader and it found the PG32IMG? Or it just stayed on the options screen of reboot, recovery, factory reset, etc?
If it found the PG32IMG did it give you any messages? Did you check the md5 sum before trying to load it?
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haha too late for that, I'm already freaking out. It does find the PG32IMG automatically as I said and proceeds to load it. I was able to catch the message it flashes before it goes back to the default list, "wrong zipped image!" That doesn't sound good. I had not checked the md5sum prior to this, just did so now, says the codes do not match. Pardon my utter cluelessness but what on earth does that mean?

Zook024 said:
haha too late for that, I'm already freaking out. It does find the PG32IMG automatically as I said and proceeds to load it. I was able to catch the message it flashes before it goes back to the default list, "wrong zipped image!" That doesn't sound good. I had not checked the md5sum prior to this, just did so now, says the codes do not match. Pardon my utter cluelessness but what on earth does that mean?
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You need to post the md5 sum from the return to stock thread, it is right below the download. If it doesn't match after that, you have a bad download and need to download it again on a good connection. I can't see the md5 very well in your screenshot, but it looks like it is correct. Then the other thing to check is that windows didn't add an extra .zip to the file name. You'll have to go into folder options and make it show known file types then see if it says it is PG32IMG.zip.zip or something. I'll keep looking around to help, but I'd suggest reading through a lot or all of that return to stock thread.
Is the file in the root of your microsd or in a different folder like downloads?

gtdtm said:
You need to post the md5 sum from the return to stock thread, it is right below the download. If it doesn't match after that, you have a bad download and need to download it again on a good connection. I can't see the md5 very well in your screenshot, but it looks like it is correct. Then the other thing to check is that windows didn't add an extra .zip to the file name. You'll have to go into folder options and make it show known file types then see if it says it is PG32IMG.zip.zip or something. I'll keep looking around to help, but I'd suggest reading through a lot or all of that return to stock thread.
Is the file in the root of your microsd or in a different folder like downloads?
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Ok I corrected myself with the md5sum checker and now it confirms the codes match. I then doubled checked the file extension and it looks good as far as I can tell, I did not see a double .zip.zip anywhere, even after I selected "show file extensions of known files". I just tried again and got the same message,
"Checking....[PG32IMG.zip]
Wrong zipped image!
Loading...[PG32IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!"

Zook024 said:
Ok I corrected myself with the md5sum checker and now it confirms the codes match. I then doubled checked the file extension and it looks good as far as I can tell, I did not see a double .zip.zip anywhere, even after I selected "show file extensions of known files". I just tried again and got the same message,
"Checking....[PG32IMG.zip]
Wrong zipped image!
Loading...[PG32IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!"
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Well, I'm running out of ideas. Hopefully someone else can chime in. I'd try downloading again and make sure the md5 is good, put it on the root of the microsd, and try one more time. Other than that my knowledge is spent.
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gtdtm said:
Well, I'm running out of ideas. Hopefully someone else can chime in. I'd try downloading again and make sure the md5 is good, put it on the root of the microsd, and try one more time. Other than that my knowledge is spent.
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well I certainly appreciate you trying to help anyways. just on a hunch I tried running through the steps of the HTCdev bootloader which I had originally done and after doing so, it now says the following,
"Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Press <POWER> to reboot."
that is interesting, should I try the VIPER ROM again and see what happens now?

Well I am happy to report now I have figured it out! I managed to find this video and by following his steps, I was immediately able to get the Viper ROM up and running. So I guess that is what I was doing wrong, trying to follow the S-Off Method when I had already gone halfway with the HTCDev method. Very glad I was able to get it done tonight, another case of "if I can break it, I can fix it!" case closed.

Zook024 said:
Well I am happy to report now I have figured it out! I managed to find this video and by following his steps, I was immediately able to get the Viper ROM up and running. So I guess that is what I was doing wrong, trying to follow the S-Off Method when I had already gone halfway with the HTCDev method. Very glad I was able to get it done tonight, another case of "if I can break it, I can fix it!" case closed.
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Awesome. I'm glad you figured it out.
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