Previously I was on 2.2 and rooted using unrevoked. I then flashed the stock 2.3 pre rooted rom which I found here.
Everything works fine but I wish to remove some of the rubbish which is preinstalled and after reading lots of guides it says I must boot into recovery but I no longer have recovery and dont know how to install it.
Is there an easier way to remove stock apps? I tried deleting with root explorer but it comes back after restart.
you cant delete stock apps without s-off as they are replaced.
You either need to boot into recovery or reflash a modified version of the rom.
Now what do you mean you have no recovery?
Turn off your device.
Hold vol down+power, and highlight recovery using the volume keys and power to select. What do you see?
If you no longer have clockworkmod, You will have to s-off then fastboot flash it, although I cannot see how you got in this situation.
When I gold volume down and power button nothing happens phone doesn't even turn on. And what is a-off? Is it possible on 2.3?
It's flashing a custom hboot which ignores the security flag in radio nvram (s-on).
What if you hold vol down, then hold power for 3 seconds then release only power?
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Still doesn't do nothing. Sometimes it lists boots into the actual ROM and that's it.
Faulty hardware?
What about the same method using Back instead of vol down?
It cant be faulty hardware because when I was on 2.2 it worked. It only stopped working after I flashed the pre rooted 2.3. I will try the back button and will see how it goes.
soldiers33 said:
It cant be faulty hardware because when I was on 2.2 it worked. It only stopped working after I flashed the pre rooted 2.3. I will try the back button and will see how it goes.
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Well I don't know how software could affect hardware from working. Especially hardware used to power on a device, unless you're not doing it right...
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rootsu cant he take his system apps off in abd commands even with s-on??
dan281082 said:
rootsu cant he take his system apps off in abd commands even with s-on??
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yes, but he needs to be booted into recovery to do this. I have a guide in my signature.
Could just freeze them in titanium too.
rootSU said:
yes, but he needs to be booted into recovery to do this. I have a guide in my signature.
Could just freeze them in titanium too.
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my bad didnt read first post proper!
Sorry couldn't post. Basically I tried to hold volume down and power button but nothing still happens. I held it for 30 seconds but it would even turn on unless I let go off power button.
Don't know what's happened to your device. Personally I'd RUU it and start again but someone may have a better idea
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soldiers33 said:
Previously I was on 2.2 and rooted using unrevoked. I then flashed the stock 2.3 pre rooted rom which I found here.
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Is it possible that you are not rooted anymore as you went to a pre-rooted 2.3? And cannot get to recovery because of a stock rom?
wigs1l said:
Is it possible that you are not rooted anymore as you went to a pre-rooted 2.3? And cannot get to recovery because of a stock rom?
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he cant get to hboot or fastboot either. All these things exist in stock form. Something is really wrong here
I've tried the same thing, an had to pull the battery shortly, afterwoods I could use the volume down / power option. This happen several times, until I flashed another ROM. ???
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hi, my Incredible bricked after a hard reset. it stucks in the frist screen (the white one, that says Htc incredible), I can acces to the Hboot, but I cant acces to recovery menu neither hard reset or clear storage options because this options restar the device an it get stuck in the same screen. it have s-on. theres something to do? or is a paperweight now?
yomero1 said:
hi, my Incredible bricked after a hard reset. it stucks in the frist screen (the white one, that says Htc incredible), I can acces to the Hboot, but I cant acces to recovery menu neither hard reset or clear storage options because this options restar the device an it get stuck in the same screen. it have s-on. theres something to do? or is a paperweight now?
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If you can get to the boot menu then its not bricked
Try reflashing the recovery from there
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superchilpil said:
If you can get to the boot menu then its not bricked
Try reflashing the recovery from there
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thanks, can u tell me some hints to search it?
yomero1 said:
thanks, can u tell me some hints to search it?
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Try using unrevoked, and make sure your in hboot when u plug it in
If that doesn't work I believe your other option is adb but I know nothing of using it
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Assuming you have a way to get the file onto your sdcard (like plugging it directly into your computer), you can flash the recover image from hboot. I am not sure where you can get the plane jane clockwork recovery, but you can get the slightly modified clockwork recovery with easy scrolling enabled from the thread linked below. That should at least get you up and running again and then you can flash back the regular CW Recovery from Rom Manager if you don't like the easy scroll version.
Instructions for flashing from hboot are also in the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8245140#post8245140
You guys are missing that hes S-on, which means he cant flash from hboot.
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You guys are missing that hes S-on, which means he cant flash from hboot.
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I saw it but was guessing he meant s-off because of the way he said it. Hopefully unrevoked worked for him then as I don't think you have to have s-off for it to work.
Other option would be to flash a stock RUU from hboot. That should work even if he is s-on.
sdorn77 said:
I saw it but was guessing he meant s-off because of the way he said it. Hopefully unrevoked worked for him then as I don't think you have to have s-off for it to work.
Other option would be to flash a stock RUU from hboot. That should work even if he is s-on.
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Either way. He's got hboot, which means its not a brick
to the OP
If nothing else works,
I agree with sdorn. RUU is the way.
Thats what will fix your issues.
If you cant get to recovery and you have S-on, meaning that you cannot flash a custom recovery, your only option is to RUU. There is a link in android development. You will need a windows computer. Try this and report back. If it doesnt work and gives you a USB error, simply: 1. Exit the ruu program (KEEP YOUR PHONE PLUGGED IN), and 2. Run it again.
Boom, no more brick
but, hours worth of retweaking.
You could also try to run a update.zip of the OTA. Here is the url to download it.
droid-life.com/2010/08/31/manual-update-droid-incredible-to-android-2-2/
You can get the clockwork recovery from unrevoked.com on the forever part.
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Redemption Rom 2.03
Hydra OC 1.113
Unrevoked splash
Cyborg boot
I try with unrevoked3 but it cant find the phone.. the ruu that you said before is this ?? techpetals.com/how-to-root-install-froyo-for-droid-incredible-leaked-version-froyo-manual-install-1937
somekid13 said:
You could also try to run a update.zip of the OTA. Here is the url to download it.
droid-life.com/2010/08/31/manual-update-droid-incredible-to-android-2-2/
You can get the clockwork recovery from unrevoked.com on the forever part.
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Redemption Rom 2.03
Hydra OC 1.113
Unrevoked splash
Cyborg boot
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thanks, but the incredible is s-on and I cant access to the recovery for the update . Im trying to figure how to do the RUU that fretless said.
This update there is no need to have s-off, you can do out with s-on. It is the official ota update from verizon. Just download it, put out on the your of your sd card, then power phone up while holding the power button and volume down button. It should recognoize the file and ask you if you want to install. This is easier than the RUU and just as effective.
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Redemption Rom 2.03
Hydra OC 1.115
Unrevoked splash
Cyborg boot
yomero1 said:
thanks, but the incredible is s-on and I cant access to the recovery for the update . Im trying to figure how to do the RUU that fretless said.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765596&highlight=Ruu link to thread
Sorry if I'm not supposed to post links.
Install boot drivers. Refer to unrevoked help for this.
Run ruu. If it fails cancel program ten run it again.it's easy.
somekid13 said:
This update there is no need to have s-off, you can do out with s-on. It is the official ota update from verizon. Just download it, put out on the your of your sd card, then power phone up while holding the power button and volume down button. It should recognoize the file and ask you if you want to install. This is easier than the RUU and just as effective.
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Redemption Rom 2.03
Hydra OC 1.115
Unrevoked splash
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He can't get into recovery, so he can't apply the update. He's got to ruu.
1. Download the update.zip file from here. (DIRECT FROM GOOGLE.)
2. Drop the file on the root of your SD card. (Meaning, don’t put it in any folder.)
*MAKE SURE IT’S NAMED UPDATE.ZIP!
3. Turn your phone off.
4. Press and hold the Volume Down and Power at the same time to boot into HBOOT.
5. When the white HBOOT screen appears, use the volume button to move down to “RECOVERY.”
6. Press the Power button to select “RECOVERY.”
7. When the triangle and exclamation appears, hold the Volume Up and Power button at the same time.
8. Using the volume button, scroll down to “apply sdcard:update.zip” and select it.
9. Your phone will now update!
10. It could take some time, so be patient. When it reboots, you are on official 2.2. Yay!
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what I mean is that the step 7 never hapen, it freezes in the HTC Incredible bootscreen forever( until I pull off the battery).
there is another way to install this update without the recovery menu?
yomero1 said:
what I mean is that the step 7 never hapen, it freezes in the HTC Incredible bootscreen forever( until I pull off the battery).
there is another way to install this update without the recovery menu?
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Just use the ruu. Your recovery is probably messed up.
yomero1 said:
what I mean is that the step 7 never hapen, it freezes in the HTC Incredible bootscreen forever( until I pull off the battery).
there is another way to install this update without the recovery menu?
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Perhaps wait for awhile at the htc screen
My first root and flash took 20 min.
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Fretless said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765596&highlight=Ruu link to thread
Sorry if I'm not supposed to post links.
Install boot drivers. Refer to unrevoked help for this.
Run ruu. If it fails cancel program ten run it again.it's easy.
He can't get into recovery, so he can't apply the update. He's got to ruu.
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thanks, downloading, I did instal the drivers from unrevoked,
is frustrating, I did run RUU conect to USB with the drivres from unrevoked and it get error 170 cannt find it. I did something wrong?
yomero1 said:
is frustrating, I did run RUU conect to USB with the drivres from unrevoked and it get error 170 cannt find it. I did something wrong?
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Unrevoked drivers don't play nice with the ruu.
Follow above posters to RUU to 2.2 stock.
UnRevoked 3.2 will give you root and CWM.
i was going between ROMS trying out different versions. then i installed Vision BaconBits 0.3 on a Modaco DESIRE Z rom (i know, i know) & now the phone is stuck in a boot loop.
then i noticed i couldn't revert back to the stock ROM like i've done before. i wiped & tried again, but to no avail.
says MAIN VERSION is older or something like that.
i even tried the Modaco ROM again too, but nada. it fails.
oh yeah... and for some reason i got S-ON again. i'm like wtf?
so... did i brick my phone? or is there a way to get it going again?
btw, i did install ClockworkMod Recovery for G2 & did a back up before i tried out the DESIRE Z ROM.
DJ ELITE said:
i was going between ROMS trying out different versions. then i installed Vision BaconBits 0.3 on a Modaco DESIRE Z rom (i know, i know) & now the phone is stuck in a boot loop.
then i noticed i couldn't revert back to the stock ROM like i've done before. i wiped & tried again, but to no avail.
says MAIN VERSION is older or something like that.
i even tried the Modaco ROM again too, but nada. it fails.
oh yeah... and for some reason i got S-ON again. i'm like wtf?
so... did i brick my phone? or is there a way to get it going again?
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it sounds like your phone is screwed!if there truly is no way to fix this return it for hinge issues or something,even pop the hinge if you have to lol
Try to get into clock work wipe if you can the system should try to reinstall stock , or see if you have adb access and then you can go from there . Good luck
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DJ ELITE said:
btw, i did install ClockworkMod Recovery for G2 & did a back up before i tried out the DESIRE Z ROM.
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So your not able to Volume Down + Power and get into clockwork still? If so then why couldnt you just restore the backup you made.
thx for the expedient reponse...
bled82 said:
Try to get into clock work wipe if you can the system should try to reinstall stock , or see if you have adb access and then you can go from there . Good luck
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the phone boot loops. how do i get in CWM?
userfriendlyme said:
So your not able to Volume Down + Power and get into clockwork still? If so then why couldnt you just restore the backup you made.
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i can def do the Volume Down + Power. how does that get me in to CWM?
I'm still new to this so take my advice with a grain of salt but I think that "Main version is older issue" can be avoided by using the hex editor to change the build number on the ROM. Try changing the version with the hex editor as per this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
and then try to flash it. Hopefully thats all you need to do.
pull the battery, wait a couple seconds and put back in. now hold the volume down button and press power. the phone will boot into fastboot. use volume down key to select recovery and hit the power button to confirm. if CW is still on your phone it will load, if you have s-on idk if it will load without su privilages or not im not a dev but try it.
edit: i have soft bricked my g1 like 10 times, the main thing to remember is backup, wipe wiPE WIPE! and follow instructions to a T.
DJ ELITE said:
i can def do the Volume Down + Power. how does that get me in to CWM?
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If you can get vol dwn + pwr to work, then you can scroll to recovery. from there, you should be able to restore your backup from rom manager. If it's not in that one, then hold trackpad button + power and scroll to recovery.
if you can get into the clockwork recovery and can successfully get adb to recognize the phone, try the downgrade from OTA. it will restore your phone back to out of the box.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
you might need a usb microsd reader to get the files onto and off of the sd card
thx for the reponses...
Azrael3123 said:
I'm still new to this so take my advice with a grain of salt but I think that "Main version is older issue" can be avoided by using the hex editor to change the build number on the ROM. Try changing the version with the hex editor as per this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
and then try to flash it. Hopefully thats all you need to do.
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yikes... sounds a lil too experimental to me. thx for chiming in tho. truly appreciated.
EdTeach1680 said:
pull the battery, wait a couple seconds and put back in. now hold the volume down button and press power. the phone will boot into fastboot. use volume down key to select recovery and hit the power button to confirm. if CW is still on your phone it will load, if you have s-on idk if it will load without su privilages or not im not a dev but try it.
edit: i have soft bricked my g1 like 10 times, the main thing to remember is backup, wipe wiPE WIPE! and follow instructions to a T.
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yeah... i don't see CMW.
digikid said:
If you can get vol dwn + pwr to work, then you can scroll to recovery. from there, you should be able to restore your backup from rom manager. If it's not in that one, then hold trackpad button + power and scroll to recovery.
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in RECOVERY i don't see ROM MANAGER. just the standard:
Rebooty system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
thx for the response.
pr0naLd said:
if you can get into the clockwork recovery and can successfully get adb to recognize the phone, try the downgrade from OTA. it will restore your phone back to out of the box.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
you might need a usb microsd reader to get the files onto and off of the sd card
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i'm using my old HTC Rhodium to rename/transer files on the SD.
unfortunately... no CMW that i can see.
I can understand your hesitation but if you read through the post you will see that many people have tested it and it should work fine. At this point its the only way to downgrade to stock due to the "Main version is older" issue and, assuming you truly can't access clockwork recovery, I don't see what other method there is. Whats really got me twisted is the S-on part; I could've predicted some issue by flashing BB onto the Z rom but I wouldn't have seen that coming. Is it even possible to flash anything while S-on is enabled?
maybe you can use an offical update.zip that is signed. i dunno
DJ ELITE said:
in RECOVERY i don't see ROM MANAGER. just the standard:
Rebooty system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
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Hmmm...then you didn't install the CWM recovery. You should try to flash the rom that shipped with the phone. You can get it here. To do that, you need to get it onto your memory card as update.zip, then boot to recovery and choose "Apply sdcard:update.zip" and then you should have a bootable phone again.
thx for the reponses...
Azrael3123 said:
I can understand your hesitation but if you read through the post you will see that many people have tested it and it should work fine. At this point its the only way to downgrade to stock due to the "Main version is older" issue and, assuming you truly can't access clockwork recovery, I don't see what other method there is. Whats really got me twisted is the S-on part; I could've predicted some issue by flashing BB onto the Z rom but I wouldn't have seen that coming. Is it even possible to flash anything while S-on is enabled?
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don't get me wrong, i feel u. i may have no choice but to try that. i'm getting desperate.
however, the current ROM loaded is the Modaco DESIRE Z w/the Vision BaconBits 0.3 updated to it... and after that, it kept boot looping. plus the fact that i have S-ON.
supergear said:
maybe you can use an offical update.zip that is signed. i dunno
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have em. renamed em. tried em. (e.g.: PC10IMG.zip[, updated.zip)
oh that sucks
I was stuck in the same boat as you were. I had a stock rom permarooted and messed up editting on of the /system/ files. and got stuck with endless reboot. i then flashed this: [ROM] Desire Z Sense on the G2 (via HBOOT) because it was the only rom out at the time. It successfully loaded, but i wanted to go back to stock. i then flashed the OTB rom and got stuck with a desire z rom with s-on. No other rom would flash so i proceeded to temp-root and do the downgrade from OTA.
You lost root. Have to install the PC10.img and re-root.
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But in order to edit the files necessary to flash down to the stock ROM, he needs to have at least temp root so he can pull and edit the misc.img (I think). If he has S-on and is stuck in a boot loop, how can he access visionary or terminal emulator in order to set up that temp root? I think that's the biggest issue unless I'm missing something.
Shouldn't the stock rom have everything that's needed? Plus it's signed so it should flash with s-on.
I installed CWM recovery on my G2 and it keeps booting up automatically and I don't like that when I charge it so I want to remove it. What's the best way to remove it or flash stock recovery without losing data? Thanks all!
Try selecting shut down via clockwork menu, it should power device down while still connected to ac
dictionary said:
Try selecting shut down via clockwork menu, it should power device down while still connected to ac
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I really appreciate your help, but I kinda just want it off my phone completely as I have Autism and it bothers me a lot :\. I am very OCD about this kind of stuff and I just want my phone to turn completely off by itself. Thanks for all your help
Yeah, have the exact same error, I can't even calibrate my battery as it never shut down ...
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On the sticky about how to revert back to stock there is the stock recovery image. Just flash that and your done. However i seem to recall the reboot thing being a know issue for the hboot? I might be totally wrong about that though. One other thing make sure your really rooted and true s off with the gfree method if you still want root and custom stuff.
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I might be the only person who actually likes that it goes into recovery when plugged into usb and off. No stupid button combinations to remember. Personally the only time my phone is off is when it's dead. Otherwise it's 24/7 operation. To each his own though. I'm sure there is a guide on how to remove the recovery in the android development section.
locust43 said:
I installed CWM recovery on my G2 and it keeps booting up automatically and I don't like that when I charge it so I want to remove it. What's the best way to remove it or flash stock recovery without losing data? Thanks all!
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Use this recovery. It is the stock eng-recovery. Its the stock recovery, but has adb enabled in it, just incase something goes wrong at somepoint it might be your window back in...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834627
Put it in your sdk folder, boot into fastboot, then use the fastboot cmd in that post.
@gunlance, I'm the same way, but we all have different ways of using our phones...
dictionary said:
Try selecting shut down via clockwork menu, it should power device down while still connected to ac
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Where is the powerdown option??? Is it not there or am i blind?
Beast11 said:
Where is the powerdown option??? Is it not there or am i blind?
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There isn't one. You either have to stay with the phone powered on in Clockwork and charging, or flash back to the stock recovery (e.g. if you have fastboot/adb working, then "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img", where recovery.img is a stock recovery image from the stock ROM).
I rooted via unrevoked and the dl the kings kernal, but now my phone starts up and the will just turn off. I can't even try and get into any of the apps or programs before it just shuts down. What did i do wrong and how do i fix it? thanks for any help for this noob rooter.
So you flashed a kernel but not a Rom? The kernel probably wasn't compatible with the stock rom.
I'm assuming you didn't make a backup first?
DocHolliDave said:
I rooted via unrevoked and the dl the kings kernal, but now my phone starts up and the will just turn off. I can't even try and get into any of the apps or programs before it just shuts down. What did i do wrong and how do i fix it? thanks for any help for this noob rooter.
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Power down the phone, hold volume down and press the power button to power it back on and get to your bootloader screen. Does it say s-off at the top? If so, try using the volume button to go down to the recovery option and see if the phone boots into the custom recovery that unrevoked installs on your phone. If the recovery was not installed properly, it will take you back to the white bootloader screen.
Try that and tells us what happens so we can point you in the right direction.
plainjane said:
So you flashed a kernel but not a Rom? The kernel probably wasn't compatible with the stock rom.
I'm assuming you didn't make a backup first?
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If you did flash a kernel, and not just downloaded one, then plainjane has a good point and unrevoked did properly root your phone with a recovery. Otherwise you wouldn't have been able to flash the kernel. What kings kernel exactly are you referring to, and did you actually flash a kernel after rooting?
Thanks for the info and help. I couldn't do anything in the phone itself and i needed to get into it, so i factory reset it so at least i have function. so what should i do to get a the most if i go unrevoked again?
You just need to run unrevoked, then download a flash a rom first, not just a kernel.
Phone: HTC Desire GSM
I have Cyanogen 7.0.3 and want to upgrade to 7.1, mainly to keep up to date but also because since I got a market update a couple of months ago I keep getting force closes whenever I try to update or download a new app. This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.
When I try to go into recovery, I get the red triangle. How can I get a custom recovery like clockworkmod on there? I also noticed from the bootloader menu that I still have S_ON, how can I fix this? The suggestion from the cyanogen wiki is to use Revolutionary, but when filling out the form for the beta key, my HBOOT version is not on there. Mine is 0.75, the only two options are 0.93 and 1.02.
What are my options for getting cyanogen 7.1 on my phone, or at least fixing this awful force close thing that leaves my market unusable. I've tried a few fixes for it but none have worked.
Pryomancer said:
Phone: HTC Desire GSM
I have Cyanogen 7.0.3 and want to upgrade to 7.1, mainly to keep up to date but also because since I got a market update a couple of months ago I keep getting force closes whenever I try to update or download a new app. This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.
When I try to go into recovery, I get the red triangle. How can I get a custom recovery like clockworkmod on there? I also noticed from the bootloader menu that I still have S_ON, how can I fix this? The suggestion from the cyanogen wiki is to use Revolutionary, but when filling out the form for the beta key, my HBOOT version is not on there. Mine is 0.75, the only two options are 0.93 and 1.02.
What are my options for getting cyanogen 7.1 on my phone, or at least fixing this awful force close thing that leaves my market unusable. I've tried a few fixes for it but none have worked.
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jheeze theres a troubleshooting guide for you stickied.. so it's the first thing you see when you go into Q&A and yet you still post a new thread.. come on man that's what its there for! Just check it out and you can get a solution there
Uninstall updates on superuser
Try setting language to US English for market.
Assume you used Rom manager to flash before?
Also sounds like you rooted pre unrevoked?
At the red triangle, press vol.up plus power. Does it say HTC recovery 2.0e? If so this is the.leaked engineering recovery we started with.
If you used Rom manager, you probably have update.zip on your sd card to boot into cwm fake flash.
If not, here it is: http://db.tt/s6MoApxB
Put it on the root of sd and boot into the engineering recovery. Apply update from there then take a nandroid backup.
If its true alpharev doesn't work with 0.75 (have you tried? I don't know) best bet is probably to RUU. But in order to use alpharev, not sure if cm7 is compatible so flash teppic74 rooted stock Froyo. You can also do this via fake flash cwm. Run alpharev to test.
Like I said, if not, probably easier to RUU then root with unrevoked or s-off with revolutionary
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bortak said:
jheeze theres a troubleshooting guide for you stickied.. so it's the first thing you see when you go into Q&A and yet you still post a new thread.. come on man that's what its there for! Just check it out and you can get a solution there
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It's the first thing I went to, but my situation seems to meld two or three of the problems addressed in that guide.
I'm rooted, with S_ON, going to recovery brings up the red triangle, my HBOOT is 0.75. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest some specific actions for me to take. It's a lot of things to consider and is somewhat overwhelming. I don't know where to begin.
rootSU said:
Uninstall updates on superuser
I did this, it seemed to work, I can get superuser access on a terminal with su now. Before it would crash. But I tried following some instructions to create a market-download-cache folder but I didn't have permission to do it.
Try setting language to US English for market.
I tried that before, it didn't work.
Assume you used Rom manager to flash before?
Yes, I put cyanogen 7.1 on my sd card and went to flash through rom manager, but it went to the red triangle screen. If you mean did I use rom manager to get my current version of cyanogenmod on my phone, then yes I did do that. However that was on my computer before I upgraded to Win7. I had this .bat file that I ran and it pushed a load of files to my phone over usb which fixed the red triangle and took it to a recovery menu. I can't find that again. Would it work if I did have it?
Also sounds like you rooted pre unrevoked?
I suppose so. I got my Desire a few days after it came out, rooted it probably 2-3 months later.
At the red triangle, press vol.up plus power. Does it say HTC recovery 2.0e? If so this is the.leaked engineering recovery we started with.
Yes, it says 'Android system recovery <2e>, in blue text. I also have a small menu consisting of Reboot system now, Apply sdcard:update.zip(I assume that's from rom manager?), wipe data/factory reset, and wipe cache partition. It also says below all that in yellow text, 'E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
If you used Rom manager, you probably have update.zip on your sd card to boot into cwm fake flash.
If not, here it is: http://db.tt/s6MoApxB
I heard Rom Manager is not good anymore as of some recent updates to it. It can mess up installations. Is this true?
Put it on the root of sd and boot into the engineering recovery. Apply update from there then take a nandroid backup.
If its true alpharev doesn't work with 0.75 (have you tried? I don't know) best bet is probably to RUU. But in order to use alpharev, not sure if cm7 is compatible so flash teppic74 rooted stock Froyo. You can also do this via fake flash cwm. Run alpharev to test.
Like I said, if not, probably easier to RUU then root with unrevoked or s-off with revolutionary
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Thank you for that. Is my situation bad, is it salvagable? So I should apply the update.zip from that recovery screen? What happens after that?
In fact, maybe I should revise what I actually want to do. I just want cyanogen 7.1, so do I even need to gain S_OFF? What do I need to do to be able to get into recovery and flash it? Is it that simple or do I need to do other things?
You doo if you want to use CM7 HBOOT. Some root apps also requires S-OFF.
Pryomancer said:
Thank you for that. Is my situation bad, is it salvagable? So I should apply the update.zip from that recovery screen? What happens after that?
In fact, maybe I should revise what I actually want to do. I just want cyanogen 7.1, so do I even need to gain S_OFF? What do I need to do to be able to get into recovery and flash it? Is it that simple or do I need to do other things?
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you need s-off to replace the engineering recovery with cwm true flashed recovery as the engineering one is hugely limited. Please confirm you have this
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As beautiful n functional cynogen mod is,I couldn't get it to work properly on my phone,it had something to do with force close Android.phone looping continuously as soonm as my phone air get network it air lose it...tried the 2g,3g network change n still didn't work
leoaamro said:
As beautiful n functional cynogen mod is,I couldn't get it to work properly on my phone,it had something to do with force close Android.phone looping continuously as soonm as my phone air get network it air lose it...tried the 2g,3g network change n still didn't work
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did you do a full wipe before you installed CM? if you didn't go to mounts and storage and format everything apart from the sdcard and then flash it again.
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Pryomancer said:
Phone: HTC Desire GSM
I have Cyanogen 7.0.3 and want to upgrade to 7.1, mainly to keep up to date but also because since I got a market update a couple of months ago I keep getting force closes whenever I try to update or download a new app. This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.
When I try to go into recovery, I get the red triangle. How can I get a custom recovery like clockworkmod on there? I also noticed from the bootloader menu that I still have S_ON, how can I fix this? The suggestion from the cyanogen wiki is to use Revolutionary, but when filling out the form for the beta key, my HBOOT version is not on there. Mine is 0.75, the only two options are 0.93 and 1.02.
What are my options for getting cyanogen 7.1 on my phone, or at least fixing this awful force close thing that leaves my market unusable. I've tried a few fixes for it but none have worked.
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What I would do:
Use alpharev 1.8 to S-OFF
Download recovery
Do a full wipe (mounts & storage, format boot, syste, data, cache, sd-ext)
Flash ROM
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also @RootSU - I swear you can't flash anything from the stock recovery? I tried before and it didn't let me.. otherwise what would be the point of rooting and flashing custom recovery if it was that easy?
also im pretty sure Alpharev works on that version, it's revolutionary that doesn't.
No not stock. Before unrevoked we all had to push an engineering HTC recovery (used by HTC engineers) not stock. It's the one.that says 2.0(e) at the top. You can apply update.zip only
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rootSU said:
No not stock. Before unrevoked we all had to push an engineering HTC recovery (used by HTC engineers) not stock. It's the one.that says 2.0(e) at the top. You can apply update.zip only
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oh, I thought that was the stock one, and yeah I tried applying update.zip through that recovery once but it didn't work for me. I've only tried to use it once so I guess you know about it more than me
bortak said:
oh, I thought that was the stock one, and yeah I tried applying update.zip through that recovery once but it didn't work for me. I've only tried to use it once so I guess you know about it more than me
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The update.zip I used to apply regularly was the fakeflash cwm. I often forgot back in those days that the reboot into recovery from the power button took me to the Triangle unlike RM which took me to CWM.
The huge downfall of this setup is that sometimes if your FS is already a little corrupt, CWM decides to "wipe" the sd card, taking with it the update.zip for cwm.
Thats why I RUU's and rooted with unrevoked when it came out.
rootSU said:
The update.zip I used to apply regularly was the fakeflash cwm. I often forgot back in those days that the reboot into recovery from the power button took me to the Triangle unlike RM which took me to CWM.
The huge downfall of this setup is that sometimes if your FS is already a little corrupt, CWM decides to "wipe" the sd card, taking with it the update.zip for cwm.
Thats why I RUU's and rooted with unrevoked when it came out.
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Ahh right, I never knew that.. I only rooted my phone about 6 months after I got it so I used unrevoked from the start
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you need s-off to replace the engineering recovery with cwm true flashed recovery as the engineering one is hugely limited. Please confirm you have this
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It says <2e> at the top of the recovery when I do power+vol.up at the red triangle screen. From what you've said this seems to indicate I do have the engineering recovery.
Pryomancer said:
It says <2e> at the top of the recovery when I do power+vol.up at the red triangle screen. From what you've said this seems to indicate I do have the engineering recovery.
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search your clockworkmod folder for a "update.zip"
place it in the root of your sdcard
when you boot the engineering reocvery, press VOLUME UP and POWER together.. it may take several attempts before you get anything.. sometimes you don't press it at exactly the same time or whatever
choose "apply update.zip"
When the new recovery is booted
flash a rom
bortak said:
search your clockworkmod folder for a "update.zip"
place it in the root of your sdcard
when you boot the engineering reocvery, press VOLUME UP and POWER together.. it may take several attempts before you get anything.. sometimes you don't press it at exactly the same time or whatever
choose "apply update.zip"
When the new recovery is booted
flash a rom
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Ive been in this situation and it can be a nightmare if the SD fails so personally rather than flashing a rom using cwm fake flash, I would simply nandroid backup.
Then RUU and start from scratch. As unique as the 2e is, its better to have a decent recovery flashed.
Update.zip should be on the root of sd anyway. If not, here it is:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20471345/SUroot/Tools/Android/Recovery/CWM2.5.0.7 fakeflash/update.zip
thanks for the reply bortak, i will try when I get bored of the current rom - Aurora....
I've read it in quite a few places of users experiences the force close phone.android error inspite of the wipes (not format's)
check here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968501
leoaamro said:
thanks for the reply bortak, i will try when I get bored of the current rom - Aurora....absence of smart dialling was putting me off..
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you can always download a different dialer app from market