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 This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.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 This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.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
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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
rootSU said:
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
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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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
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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
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
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'm having issues with a bootloop on the incredible after rooting using unrevoked 3 and making the mistake of choosing cyanogenmod as the recovery because I'm incredibly new at this. Now granted this isn't an issue, I have root access now and I'm able to assign superuser and the phone boots to what looks like the stock rom. However, I wanted to flash cyanogen 7 rc2 and it's giving me a lot of issues when I try to access the clockworkmod recovery screen. I downloaded the rommanager from the market and flashed the recovery to clockworkmod 3.0.0.8 as per a wiki online and tried to boot to recovery. from there it hits the HTC incredible screen, then flashes every 3 seconds rather than showing the green text it's supposed to show.
I still have S-on and unrevoked won't run properly again. Tried running the factory reset and it's another bootloop. I tried going through the steps for a "manual recovery file flash via cyanogen's wiki, but I'm running into errors.
Summary:
unrevoked 3.32 completed successfully even using the cyanogenmod rom as the recovery file.
Have root access, S-on, radio version ~.7.28
Can't flash back to stock due to bootloop
Can't factory reset due to bootloop
Can't get to clockworkmod recovery screen due to bootloop
phone able to boot to main screen with original
Ideal solution: get to clockworkmod recovery screen and install C7RC2
Any help appreciated!
Why do you think using ClockworkMod was a mistake? It's one of the better AOSP ROMs out there.
It sounds to me like you're probably going to have to download one of the stock RUUs to completely revert your phone to stock. You might have a corrupted recovery. You can't flash ClockworkMod or an alternative recovery via RomManager?
oh don't get me wrong, my huge problem here is that I can't get into recovery, and I didn't load clockworkmod initally, but it is (as rom manager says) my recovery image and it's just not working at all.
I tried going with a RUU and it wouldn't get into bootloader properly (just shows HTC on the screen till the the ruu times out) I'll try on a 32 bit machine when I get home. I was originally able to flash on that and unrevoked was giving me issues till I did a 32 bit xp attempt. Thanks for the response!
whoops, forgot to address your last point. Tried another version of clockwork and the RA_GNM 1.8.1 and neither stopped it from bootlooping rather than recovery screen.
HTCP2newb said:
I'm having issues with a bootloop on the incredible after rooting using unrevoked 3 and making the mistake of choosing cyanogenmod as the recovery because I'm incredibly new at this. Now granted this isn't an issue, I have root access now and I'm able to assign superuser and the phone boots to what looks like the stock rom. However, I wanted to flash cyanogen 7 rc2 and it's giving me a lot of issues when I try to access the clockworkmod recovery screen. I downloaded the rommanager from the market and flashed the recovery to clockworkmod 3.0.0.8 as per a wiki online and tried to boot to recovery. from there it hits the HTC incredible screen, then flashes every 3 seconds rather than showing the green text it's supposed to show.
I still have S-on and unrevoked won't run properly again. Tried running the factory reset and it's another bootloop. I tried going through the steps for a "manual recovery file flash via cyanogen's wiki, but I'm running into errors.
Summary:
unrevoked 3.32 completed successfully even using the cyanogenmod rom as the recovery file.
Have root access, S-on, radio version ~.7.28
Can't flash back to stock due to bootloop
Can't factory reset due to bootloop
Can't get to clockworkmod recovery screen due to bootloop
phone able to boot to main screen with original
Ideal solution: get to clockworkmod recovery screen and install C7RC2
Any help appreciated!
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Did you try getting to recovery manually power off the phone while its off press power and volume down at the same time you should be in hboot use the volume button to scroll down boot into recovery.....
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App
I don't think unrevoked finish all The way because you should be s-off did you wait until it said "done"..... or did you stop when it said "this is a triumph"
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Okay, from a 32 bit system has resolved the flashing back to a stock rom, I will update as to whether I can get into recovery and will wait until I am told "triumphant" this time around.
Will post an update in a bit if this was all that was necessary to fix the issue. Thank you all to have posted so far, please post if you think I'm missing something else.
HTCP2newb said:
Okay, from a 32 bit system has resolved the flashing back to a stock rom, I will update as to whether I can get into recovery and will wait until I am told "triumphant" this time around.
Will post an update in a bit if this was all that was necessary to fix the issue. Thank you all to have posted so far, please post if you think I'm missing something else.
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No you need to wait till it says done sorry you misunderstood me......let it go till it says done and it stops completely..... because the last thing it does is flash the recovery
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Did you try flashing a recovery through hboot?
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Okay, problem totally resolved. basically what happened was that there was an incomplete unrevoked process for whatever reason or another. I repaired by downloading the RUU off the HTC website and flashing back to stock. That generated an error of "your firmware is too new" which is available elsewhere in XDA, basically solved by going into hboot and factory resetting.
Once I had the factory reset completed, I used a 32 bit system to unrevoke the phone (after setting debugging to on in applications > developer settings >debugging on) then I was able to properly boot into recovery. I recommend Clockworkmod update to 3.0.0.8 in Rom manager, but I used 2.5 and didn't have much of an issue. I backed up and the wiped the memory and cache and installed 7r2 without an issue.
The phone is WAY more stable now (thanks to all the hard work at Cyanogen! Thank you also to everyone who posted here!) Pandora doesn't randomly cut songs in half and battery life seems to have improved. Whether that was verizon's crap or I went market-crazy and had waaaay too many apps syncing... I can't say.
Thank you everyone again!
Hey guys so I have been messing with my Evo trying to get S-off and trying to get it to start with clockwork recovery but I have had no luck after at least 6 hours of trying. So I have decided to seek some expert advice so anything will help.
About my evo
Purchased day it came out and rooted it the following night with a tedious method I don't remember at all.
HBOOT- 0.79.0000
Radio - 1.39.00.04.26
Rom Installed - Cyanogen 7.0.3.1
My initial problem
I was trying to get my phone to boot to recovery (latest clockwork recovery and Amon RA 2.3) but every time I tried I would see the red triangle with the exclamation mark. So to fix this I tried running the latest unrevoked and that would get hung up at rooting... so then I wiped my phone and tried again and still nothing. I would get stuck at either rooting... or firmware too new then I tried using an older version of unrevoked (3.21) and it seemed to get further. It ended up getting stuck at reboot.
New problem
Now I cant enter recovery at all. Whenever I try entering through rom manager it takes me to FASTBOOT and even if I try entering recovery through bootloader it does the same. Any suggestions will help! And if you need any more information I will be glad to help.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19699565/PC36IMG.zip
Place that on the root of your sd card. Turn your phone off, boot into the bootloader while holding vol+down as you turn the power on. Let it scan, apply update, reboot, reboot into recovery, from the bootloader, and you'll be on amon_ra 2.3 recovery.
Jeez, please stop using ROM Manager to boot to recovery, or to do anything else and explain how you can be using CWM AND AR??
Okay it booted and recognized the file PC36IMG. As for the update, how do I apply it? I click recovery and it still takes me to FASTBOOT.
@HipKat and I tried both recoveries at different times. First clockwork, the amon ra.
Kingcoke said:
Place that on the root of your sd card. Turn your phone off, boot into the bootloader while holding vol+down as you turn the power on. Let it scan, apply update, reboot, reboot into recovery, from the bootloader, and you'll be on amon_ra 2.3 recovery
Okay it booted and recognized the file PC36IMG. As for the update, how do I apply it? I click recovery and it still takes me to FASTBOOT.
@HipKat and I tried both recoveries at different times. First clockwork, the amon ra.
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It should have asked you to apply update, which you would have used the volume keys to navigate to yes, then pressed the power button to make the selection. If ya didn't get it, do the process again.
It doesnt ask me that and I have tried 5 times already. All it does is return to the bootloader screen.
The script in my sig should be able to recover it, just flash cm7 again once it's done and you should be good to go. You will be able to get to the recovery afterward by holding down power and selecting reboot
So I have been trying to use AutoRoot and was following the video on the thread but I keep getting hung up at "ERROR Could not access the SD card!" Also I was trying to use flashzip as suggested in this thread with your response. And I noticed that it was notifying me my nand was locked. Does that matter at all?
Kingcoke said:
So I have been trying to use AutoRoot and was following the video on the thread but I keep getting hung up at "ERROR Could not access the SD card!" Also I was trying to use flashzip as suggested in this thread with your response. And I noticed that it was notifying me my nand was locked. Does that matter at all?
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It sounds like you never got fully rooted if your nand is locked (s-on) and the sd card not being recognized could be caused by unrevoked not undoing something. Flashing the 3.29 PC36IMG will most likely fix the sd card error, but if not you'll need to use the OpenShell script from the autoroot folder and type the following:
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adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot reboot
If you could attach the autorootlog.txt file to a post that will also give some more information about the condition of your phone.
xHausx said:
It sounds like you never got fully rooted if your nand is locked (s-on) and the sd card not being recognized could be caused by unrevoked not undoing something. Flashing the 3.29 PC36IMG will most likely fix the sd card error, but if not you'll need to use the OpenShell script from the autoroot folder and type the following:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot reboot
If you could attach the autorootlog.txt file to a post that will also give some more information about the condition of your phone.
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Yeah im pretty sure my phone doesn't have a full root and okay im currently downloading 3.29.651.5_PC36IMG.zip. (by the way how do I install it with flashzip? do I just move it in the res folder or what?
attached is my autorootlog
thanks for all your help thus far I hope we get this figured out soon.
edit: I flashed as you suggested, ill see if it solved sd card error.
Kingcoke said:
Yeah im pretty sure my phone doesn't have a full root and okay im currently downloading 3.29.651.5_PC36IMG.zip. (by the way how do I install it with flashzip? do I just move it in the res folder or what?
attached is my autorootlog
thanks for all your help thus far I hope we get this figured out soon.
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Anywhere in the autoroot folder will be ok. It can't get your firmware version either so there is definitely something weird going on there, but you should be good once 3.29 is flashed.
Its currently flashing my firmware. Everything seems good so far! I will keep you updated.
edit: It says
congratulations! Your phone is now rooted with a customer recovery capable of flashing ROMs!
Unrevoked Forever was not required to root your phone but you must flash it if you plan on using a production hBoot. The ENG hBoot that is currently installed is unlocked by design and has extra features that can not be used on newer version.
WOW! Amazing, thanks so much! S-off, I can enter a custom recovery, and installing cyanogen as we speak. Finally a full root. I have been trying to achieve this forever. Any suggestions on roms? I have been using cyanogen forever.
Kingcoke said:
WOW! Amazing, thanks so much! S-off, I can enter a custom recovery, and installing cyanogen as we speak. Finally a full root. I have been trying to achieve this forever. Any suggestions on roms? I have been using cyanogen forever.
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Glad to hear that, you'll want to remember not to use any RUUs or upgrade your hboot though. Unrevoked forever can be used to permanently unlock it but as is flashing a RUU will completely unroot your phone and flashing anything newer than 3.29 will prevent you from downgrading your hboot again.
I'm currently using aamikam's sense 2.1 rom from here but have been looking for another, I can't lower brightness with any of the GB sense ROMs so my battery gets murdered when the screen is on. I'm digging the new sense though.
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Glad to hear that, you'll want to remember not to use any RUUs or upgrade your hboot though. Unrevoked forever can be used to permanently unlock it but as is flashing a RUU will completely unroot your phone and flashing anything newer than 3.29 will prevent you from downgrading your hboot again.
I'm currently using aamikam's sense 2.1 rom from here but have been looking for another, I can't lower brightness with any of the GB sense ROMs so my battery gets murdered when the screen is on. I'm digging the new sense though.
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What exactly is hboot? I want to make sure I don't foolishly upgrade it.
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What exactly is hboot? I want to make sure I don't foolishly upgrade it.
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hBoot stands for hardware boot, it's just another name for the bootloader. Flashing a RUU is guaranteed to upgrade it but aside from that you shouldn't really have to worry about it.
Just Did the manual Upgrade to 2.3.4 and want to root it so i can update to HTC Sence 3.0 or higher.
I tryed using the superuser.zip method, but im having problems going into Recovery Mode, it gives me a picture of the phone with a red triangle in it, so i press and hold the power button and the volume up button to get past it. After that, i try installing the file from the SD card and it just restarts the phone. It didnt install super user so im at a loss.
Can Anyone Help? Thank You
Wondering the same thing??
dbaker22186 said:
Just Did the manual Upgrade to 2.3.4 and want to root it so i can update to HTC Sence 3.0 or higher.
I tryed using the superuser.zip method, but im having problems going into Recovery Mode, it gives me a picture of the phone with a red triangle in it, so i press and hold the power button and the volume up button to get past it. After that, i try installing the file from the SD card and it just restarts the phone. It didnt install super user so im at a loss.
Can Anyone Help? Thank You
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You have to flash a custom recovery either clockwork mod or amonra recovery. Then go into recovery and install the superuser.zip. In order to do this you have to be s-off. If you are s-on on 2.3.4 there is no current way to root.
My understanding as well that thre isn't a root for gingerbread.
my Dinc
my phone is currently s-off which is good.
That's good then, all you need to do (like a previous poster said) is flash a custom recovery, then flash the superuser zip in that recovery. The easiest way to do this is using rom manager, it's pretty self explanatory. Alternately, you can flash the recovery of your choice in hboot, www.dougpiston.com has recoveries available for download. Then find the superuser zip and "install from SD card" in recovery.
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sjgeek89 said:
My understanding as well that there isn't a root for gingerbread.
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You mean ... there isn't a root for gingerbread ON for HTC phones. The droids are rooted just fine (my wife has a Droid 2 Global with the OTA installed) through a one click for Windows and Linux (Z4ROOT doesn't work anymore though).
k_nivesout said:
That's good then, all you need to do (like a previous poster said) is flash a custom recovery, then flash the superuser zip in that recovery. The easiest way to do this is using rom manager, it's pretty self explanatory. Alternately, you can flash the recovery of your choice in hboot, www dougpiston dot com has recoveries available for download. Then find the superuser zip and "install from SD card" in recovery.
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i downloaded the clockworkmod from www clockworkmod dot com under recovery images. Where do i put that file now?
I used unrevoked the last time i rooted so this way is totally new for me.
i appreciate all your help
There's root/S-OFF for other HTC phones on gingerbread. Look at the unrevoked/revolutionary site. Evo 3D, incredible 2, sensation, are a few HTC phones on gingerbread that can be S-OFFed.
dbaker22186 said:
i downloaded the clockworkmod from www clockworkmod dot com under recovery images. Where do i put that file now?
I used unrevoked the last time i rooted so this way is totally new for me.
i appreciate all your help
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I'm assuming that it's a zip file that you downloaded? It's most likely meant to be flashed in hboot. Rename the file exactly to PB31IMG.zip and put it on the root of your SD card (not in any folders). To get in to hboot, power the phone off completely, then hold power and volume down. You'll be taken to the hboot screen and it will automatically look for the PB31IMG.zip and ask you to update. Press volume up to confirm.
the file that was downloaded is: recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-inc.img
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when i get a few minutes, ill type all the steps ive currently taken and see where the problem lies.
Oh, that's an .img file, I'm not sure what you'd do with that without a custom recovery already. I'd recommend downloading a recovery from www.dougpiston.com or use rom manager.
when i first installed gingerbread onto my device last nice, i downloaded a file that i had to change to PB31IMG.zip. So when i go into my CD card there is a folder called clockworkmod.
In the folder there are 2 files: .settings and .settings 2
Somewhere along the line i think something got screwed up and id like to start from scratch. Would you be willing to walk with me through this thing lol. Youve been such a great help so far. Please let me know. I live in california and im off work at 6 so ill be doing this after work so i dont have to hide the screen every two seconds lol.
Would you take the challange to help me?
Thank you
It sounds like you installed rom manager maybe, or a custom recovery since you have the clockworkmod folder on your SD card. What was the PB31IMG that you tried previously?
Let me know, and I'll subscribe to this thread so I'm notified of new posts, or feel free to pm me. I'm not sure exactly what I'll be up to later but I'll try to respond ASAP. Maybe continue posting in this thread so other people can chime in and help too.
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when i first installed gingerbread onto my device last nice, i downloaded a file that i had to change to PB31IMG.zip. So when i go into my CD card there is a folder called clockworkmod.
In the folder there are 2 files: .settings and .settings 2
Somewhere along the line i think something got screwed up and id like to start from scratch. Would you be willing to walk with me through this thing lol. Youve been such a great help so far. Please let me know. I live in california and im off work at 6 so ill be doing this after work so i dont have to hide the screen every two seconds lol.
Would you take the challange to help me?
Thank you
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Ok first uninstall rom manager and the superuser app if you have it installed and delete any PB31IMG.zips that are on the root of your sd card. Then download cwm recovery here http://dinc.does-it.net/PB31IMG.zip, place it on the root of your sd (not in any folders). Then download the superuser binary from here http://dinc.does-it.net/su.zip and place it on the root of your sd. Then go to menu, settings, manage applications and make sure fast boot is unchecked. Power off the phone and then boot into hboot by holding vol down and power at the same time. Once in hboot it will automaticly find the recovery and prompt you to press vol up to install. Once installed it will prompt to reboot hit vol down and you will go back to the main hboot screen. Then vol down to recovery and hit the power button. Once in recovery select install zip from sd card and then select the su.zip. It will ask you to confirm select yes. Once installed select reboot phone. Once the phone boots up go to the market and get the superuser app to keep su up to date and allow programs superuser permissions. Install that and then download rom manager from the market so you can keep recovery up to date and make backups. Thats it you should now be rooted.
should i check USB debugging? before i do this?
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should i check USB debugging? before i do this?
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No you dont need it checked but you can if you want to.
okay, ill get started on it right away. and let you know how it goes or if i run into an issue. do you have AIM? my handle is bluebullet528 if you wanna chat there, it will be easier lol
Sorry i dont use any messengers (i know i know who dosent use a messenger lol) but feel free to send me a pm.
what do you know about HTC Sense 3.0 or 3.5?
I just got an HTC Desire A8181, and it is my very first time using an Android Device. The thing is that I already know that you can do a lot of things with Android devices (thats why I swapped from iOS to Android). Now here is my point, I basically need to know:
Basics about software and OS customizing for Android.
Basic things to know before do anything to my phone.
Tutorials for root the device (HTC Desire A8181)
Want to know if it is possible to make the phone work faster in terms of Manage the Processor and Ram Usage, how to do it, and understand the process.
And any other information that could be useful in order to make my phone work a lot better (take into consideration that I'm new with the OS and the phone, so there are a lot of things that I dont know about this theme.)
I also want to know if it is possible to install the latest Android Version on my HTC Desire and make it work fast.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
The desire comes with sense 2.3 gingerbread. Sense is HTC's skin that they overlay ontop of the android operating system. Although it may look nice (doesnt really look that good to me), it is heavy and causes decreases in performance. When you s-off your device, and install a custom recovery you will be able to flash an aosp based custom rom. Aosp = android open source project, and basically means stock pure android...nothing running on top. As you can probably predict, this will result in faster speeds, less ram usage, and better battery. I think that answers the first few questions.
Next Ill move on to how to root it (make your phone good). I honestly think the term "root" is deceiving to most new users. I see people asking "how do i root my phone", but i think what they really want is to install a custom recovery and flash a custom rom. Being rooted on stock rom is pointless to me. Custom roms are where the good stuff is at.
Post your bootloader details here and ill walk you through the process. To get these details turn the phone off, then hold power + volume down until the phone boots into the bootloader. It should look similar to this. Post all of the first couple of lines at the top. The whole process summarized is this: s-off, install custom recovery, flash custom rom
There are also some other things that i would recommend doing so that you can have extra space for apps (you probably noticed you barely have any space at the moment), but ill get to that later when i give you more instructions.
Thanks for response so fast!
Chromium_ said:
The desire comes with sense 2.3 gingerbread. Sense is HTC's skin that they overlay ontop of the android operating system. Although it may look nice (doesnt really look that good to me), it is heavy and causes decreases in performance. When you s-off your device, and install a custom recovery you will be able to flash an aosp based custom rom. Aosp = android open source project, and basically means stock pure android...nothing running on top. As you can probably predict, this will result in faster speeds, less ram usage, and better battery. I think that answers the first few questions.
Next Ill move on to how to root it (make your phone good). I honestly think the term "root" is deceiving to most new users. I see people asking "how do i root my phone", but i think what they really want is to install a custom recovery and flash a custom rom. Being rooted on stock rom is pointless to me. Custom roms are where the good stuff is at.
Post your bootloader details here and ill walk you through the process. To get these details turn the phone off, then hold power + volume down until the phone boots into the bootloader. It should look similar to this. Post all of the first couple of lines at the top. The whole process summarized is this: s-off, install custom recovery, flash custom rom
There are also some other things that i would recommend doing so that you can have extra space for apps (you probably noticed you barely have any space at the moment), but ill get to that later when i give you more instructions.
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Really thanks for all the information, I'll post the information you are asking me for when I go back to my house since now I'm working
But thanks for offer me your help with this, is my first Android and I would like to have fun with it, and you are right I barely have space for my apps now... Will be some other information needed in this process that I can post later on?
StheveO said:
Really thanks for all the information, I'll post the information you are asking me for when I go back to my house since now I'm working
But thanks for offer me your help with this, is my first Android and I would like to have fun with it, and you are right I barely have space for my apps now... Will be some other information needed in this process that I can post later on?
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Nope, just your bootloader details for now.
Please tell me that I did not ****ed my phone
Ok so here is my problem now on, I tried to flash the CyanogenMod, but I dont know if i ****ed my phone or im just missing something...
Here is what I did:
1- I followed the instructions on another thread about the HTC_Unlock_Bootloader_Tool in order to unlock the bootloader.
2- I copied the CM-7.2.0.1-bravo.zip file into the sd card manually and also by using the "adb push" command.
But now my phone turns on, but every time that I try to access the Recovery option from the Fastboot menu just gives me an icon of the phone with a red advertise sign and then I press "Volume Up + Power" and got access to some sort of recovery options... But cannot go further than that... What can I do? Please tell me that I did not ****ed my phone?
When u unlock the bootloader u must then flash recovery via fastboot commands. In my sig ul see 4ext recovery as PB99IMG, download and extract the recovery.img and flash via fastboot. U can find a fastboot guide in bortaks troubleshooting guide (in my sig also)
Thanks for your response.
jmcclue said:
When u unlock the bootloader u must then flash recovery via fastboot commands. In my sig ul see 4ext recovery as PB99IMG, download and extract the recovery.img and flash via fastboot. U can find a fastboot guide in bortaks troubleshooting guide (in my sig also)
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Ok so here is my new actual situation, cause I went to sleep at 3.00am just to keep working with the phone...
After check within some forums and stuff I realized that there was an app called ROM Manager that can flash the Recovery and also the ROM (Cyanogenmod is the one I want to install), I started researching for another way to do it since every single time that I tried to start in FastBoot and use the recovery option in order to flash anything I just got a black screen with an icon that seems to be the same phone with a red alert sign on its corner (icon which i really did not like at all!!!), so I started checking for another way to work with this and found ROM Manager, but when the app was installed and I tried to flash the ClockworkMod Recovery but ROM Manager was giving an error related with permissions, I thought that my HTC Desire was already Rooted since it said "*** Unlocked ***" on the Fastboot menu (My fault!) but I realized that it is not Rooted after download the Root Checker app from the Store... So basically here is the case resumed: Fastboot "Unlocked" (Via easy unlocker tool), ROM Manager App (Installed but no permissions to Flash the ClockworkMod Recovery nor CyanogenMod ROM), Root Checker App (Installed and seems that my phone is not rooted)... How do I need to proceed now on???
Thanks in advance for all your help! I never thought that Android were this complicated, but I like it ****ing so much!!! So I think that it is most likely a beginner issue
StheveO said:
Ok so here is my new actual situation, cause I went to sleep at 3.00am just to keep working with the phone...
After check within some forums and stuff I realized that there was an app called ROM Manager that can flash the Recovery and also the ROM (Cyanogenmod is the one I want to install), I started researching for another way to do it since every single time that I tried to start in FastBoot and use the recovery option in order to flash anything I just got a black screen with an icon that seems to be the same phone with a red alert sign on its corner (icon which i really did not like at all!!!), so I started checking for another way to work with this and found ROM Manager, but when the app was installed and I tried to flash the ClockworkMod Recovery but ROM Manager was giving an error related with permissions, I thought that my HTC Desire was already Rooted since it said "*** Unlocked ***" on the Fastboot menu (My fault!) but I realized that it is not Rooted after download the Root Checker app from the Store... So basically here is the case resumed: Fastboot "Unlocked" (Via easy unlocker tool), ROM Manager App (Installed but no permissions to Flash the ClockworkMod Recovery nor CyanogenMod ROM), Root Checker App (Installed and seems that my phone is not rooted)... How do I need to proceed now on???
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Well, to root it, you need to flash a Superuser zip from recovery. To flash it, you need a custom recovery. To get a custom recovery, you do what @jmcclue said 2 posts above.
StheveO said:
but I like it ****ing so much!!!
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I think it's " but I like it so ****ing much!!!".
More questions
abaaaabbbb63 said:
Well, to root it, you need to flash a Superuser zip from recovery. To flash it, you need a custom recovery. To get a custom recovery, you do what @jmcclue said 2 posts above.
I think it's " but I like it so ****ing much!!!".
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Hahahahaha yeah sorry about that but I'm working so it is difficult to be on the phone talking about Hard Drives and troubleshoot them, while trying to figure out whats going on with my phone hahahahaha
So Basically and if I'm not mistaken (hopefully not, let me know if I am) I need to do the following:
-Download and Flash the 4eXT Recovery as PB99IMG from the previous response: After download the file can I go to CMD and use "adb reboot bootloader" then "adb fastboot flash recovery PB99IMG.zip" (that must flash the recovery right?)
-Then I need to Flash the Superuser from a Zip file: By accessing the new Recovery Interface installed previously, wipe chache / install from sd card / install from zip (that must root my device right?)
-After that I should be able to turn on my phone as normal and use the ROM Manager in order to Flash the CyanogenMod 7.2 right?
Sorry that I bother all of you in this way with so many question and ****, but I really want not only to flash my drive but also to learn about the process and what I'm doing to my phone... Thanks for everything.
StheveO said:
Hahahahaha yeah sorry about that but I'm working so it is difficult to be on the phone talking about Hard Drives and troubleshoot them, while trying to figure out whats going on with my phone hahahahaha
So Basically and if I'm not mistaken (hopefully not, let me know if I am) I need to do the following:
-Download and Flash the 4eXT Recovery as PB99IMG from the previous response: After download the file can I go to CMD and use "adb reboot bootloader" then "adb fastboot flash recovery PB99IMG.zip" (that must flash the recovery right?)
-Then I need to Flash the Superuser from a Zip file: By accessing the new Recovery Interface installed previously, wipe chache / install from sd card / install from zip (that must root my device right?)
-After that I should be able to turn on my phone as normal and use the ROM Manager in order to Flash the CyanogenMod 7.2 right?
Sorry that I bother all of you in this way with so many question and ****, but I really want not only to flash my drive but also to learn about the process and what I'm doing to my phone... Thanks for everything.
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In my sig, you'll find a link "The PB99IMG method" under the "How to flash the 2.3 RUU" link. Use it to flash the recovery. Ignore the parts about the 2.3 RUU.
Another question...
abaaaabbbb63 said:
In my sig, you'll find a link "The PB99IMG method" under the "How to flash the 2.3 RUU" link. Use it to flash the recovery. Ignore the parts about the 2.3 RUU.
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Ok, so after check the other post with the PB99IMG method the phone should ask meto install something after put the zip file into the sd card and start the bootloader??? The thing is, if that doesn't happen what can I do? Because if I try to go to the Recovery option the phone gives me the Black screen with the Icon of the phone and a red alert sign... :S
StheveO said:
Ok, so after check the other post with the PB99IMG method the phone should ask meto install something after put the zip file into the sd card and start the bootloader??? The thing is, if that doesn't happen what can I do? Because if I try to go to the Recovery option the phone gives me the Black screen with the Icon of the phone and a red alert sign... :S
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You don't need to go to recovery for the PB99IMG method. Only bootloader.
StheveO said:
Ok, so after check the other post with the PB99IMG method the phone should ask meto install something after put the zip file into the sd card and start the bootloader??? The thing is, if that doesn't happen what can I do? Because if I try to go to the Recovery option the phone gives me the Black screen with the Icon of the phone and a red alert sign... :S
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Yes thats what you should do. If that doesnt work you would try flashing the recovery via fastboot.
When you go into recovery right now and see the red warning thing, that is normal. It is the stock recovery, which makes sense because you havent installed a custom recovery yet. Once 4ext is installed you will no longer see that screen.
Another problem
Chromium_ said:
Yes thats what you should do. If that doesnt work you would try flashing the recovery via fastboot.
When you go into recovery right now and see the red warning thing, that is normal. It is the stock recovery, which makes sense because you havent installed a custom recovery yet. Once 4ext is installed you will no longer see that screen.
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Ok, now here is the thing, I just used the BP99IMG method... But at the moment of go to the bootloader I just got an error message:
Main version is older!
Update Fail!
What Can I do!?
StheveO said:
Ok, now here is the thing, I just used the BP99IMG method... But at the moment of go to the bootloader I just got an error message:
Main version is older!
Update Fail!
What Can I do!?
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I forgot you weren't S-off. Pardon me.
Do this:
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/
Then extract the .img file from the PB99IMG zip, and put it on your C drive, do the path would be C://recovery.img.
Then, open CMD, connect your phone in fastboot mode, and use this command:
fastboot flash recovery C://recovery.img
jmcclue said:
When u unlock the bootloader u must then flash recovery via fastboot commands. In my sig ul see 4ext recovery as PB99IMG, download and extract the recovery.img and flash via fastboot. U can find a fastboot guide in bortaks troubleshooting guide (in my sig also)
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:thumbup:
Here I go again!
abaaaabbbb63 said:
I forgot you weren't S-off. Pardon me.
Do this:
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/
Then extract the .img file from the PB99IMG zip, and put it on your C drive, do the path would be C://recovery.img.
Then, open CMD, connect your phone in fastboot mode, and use this command:
fastboot flash recovery C://recovery.img
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Ok so If I understood it is necessary to have the phone S-Off which means that the bootloader is unlocked, right??
Because my bootloader says "Unlocked" on the top of the menu... What I'm not doing right?
StheveO said:
Ok so If I understood it is necessary to have the phone S-Off which means that the bootloader is unlocked, right??
Because my bootloader says "Unlocked" on the top of the menu... What I'm not doing right?
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Unlocked does not mean s-off. You are Unlocked, but S-on. Just flash the recovery through fastboot, like jmcclue originally said.
Some good news
Sello I'm glad to let you know that finally I got my phone.cpletely flashed with the CM7 and this works just great... the only thing that I were not able to do is to partition my 4Gb SD card to assign 1Gb as phone extension and the rest as external storage...
Can you help me with this last thing, I just used a previous post...
With the 4ext recovery y created a first partition of 1024Mb as the ext of the system but my phone does not sees it, it keeps saying that only have 140Mb total as internal
StheveO said:
Sello I'm glad to let you know that finally I got my phone.cpletely flashed with the CM7 and this works just great... the only thing that I were not able to do is to partition my 4Gb SD card to assign 1Gb as phone extension and the rest as external storage...
Can you help me with this last thing, I just used a previous post...
With the 4ext recovery y created a first partition of 1024Mb as the ext of the system but my phone does not sees it, it keeps saying that only have 140Mb total as internal
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Yes thats normal. Ur partition is there doing its job, dont worry.