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Clockwork recovery after UnrEVOked. Help!

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

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

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

Have you tried "fastboot?"

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

Thanks for taking the time to help me btw

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

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

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

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

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

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Did you forget something?

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

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

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

HELP! Stuck At White Screen

alright look i know this is the wrong section to post this but im panicing right now and in the other sections there stupid! so i been on myns rls4. i havnt updated because i never have a good connection to download it on my phone and i was computerless. well i download the combo from calkulin radios. i installed it thru clockword and i was left with a white screen for 30 min. i took out the battery and was just gonna reload myns rls4 or restore an old nandroid i had. but now it says my sd card wont read and some /dev/block/mmcblk0 shows up and it will not let me access my sd card. so now im stuck with a htc evo 4g white screen. ! sumbody please help me!

can you get into the bootloader? or try to repair your sd thru the computer.

yes i can access the bootloader but i cant access my sd card thru thu the computer . my phone wont pass the white screen. is there anything i can do thru the bootloader?

adb cuh
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You can mount SD card from RA and clockwork recovery.
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the one thing i never really could understand was adb man. ive tried and tried but it just always loses me. n ive tried mounting it thru clockwork its not letting me .

jdez561 said:
yes i can access the bootloader but i cant access my sd card thru thu the computer . my phone wont pass the white screen. is there anything i can do thru the bootloader?
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Adb to the phone and try to nan restore, if you can take the sdcard out of the evo and connect it might help. Or try to connect usb in recovery.

try adb remount /sd card

Try restoring through nand?

supchaka said:
Try restoring through nand?
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he cant get access to the sd card. have you tried removing the card then booting up, battery pull then put it back in.

Maybe you should read a little more. The best way to get the information you are looking and to keep it retained in your head is to discover it your self.
A quick search for ADB How To might do the job.

yea im tryin to do adb i guess. i got my sd card to finally show up but wen i try to load the nandroid which yes i should kill myself for being so lazy which dates way bak to 10-01 . it jus stays frozen on the that bootscreen i had

i swear all i tryed to flash was the combo update of the radios from calkulin and all this had to happen! ughhhhhh fml!

zerosquared said:
Maybe you should read a little more. The best way to get the information you are looking and to keep it retained in your head is to discover it your self.
A quick search for ADB How To might do the job.
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7 posts...forum guru.

zerosquared said:
Maybe you should read a little more. The best way to get the information you are looking and to keep it retained in your head is to discover it your self.
A quick search for ADB How To might do the job.
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Dude, shut up. Clearly he's in frantic state because he screwed something up. People like you give XDA a bad name. If you're not going to help or support get out of this thread

jdez561 said:
i swear all i tryed to flash was the combo update of the radios from calkulin and all this had to happen! ughhhhhh fml!
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this happend to me also with combo update i know u say u cant access sd but if you can just flash an older radio and it should fix it. i had to put my sd in a adapter put it in pc dl old radio put sd back in phone then flash. fixed it
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jokester902 said:
he cant get access to the sd card. have you tried removing the card then booting up, battery pull then put it back in.
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You really need adb. I know is kinda scary I was in your shoes once .but read about it download it play with it it will help you in the long run I have done what u have done at least 3 or 4 times the answer is here in the forums. It kills SD card and usb that's why your computer wont see the sd card . Only other option is if your have a SD card reader plug it into your computer sorry I can't be more help.

I had this happen to me on a plane, almost exact same circumstances. The HTC kernel in RLS4 is not compatible with the latest radios.
You need to use adb to push one of two things to the phone:
1. One of the alternate kernels - They work with the latest radios
2. The older (octoberish) radios - Something before the december release
Steps-ish:
adb shell
-> mount /dev/sdcard
-> exit
adb push one_of_the_two_above_zips.zip /dev/sdcard/zipname.zip
Then use clockworkmod to flash that zip from the SDcard.

i finally got an old nandroid to load up so ima just go from there. im losing alotta important things but ill learn from that but i do dearly thank you all . !

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7 posts...forum guru.
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+10000 hahahahaha

s 0n

Having a hell of a time getting my evo 4g to change to s on. I have successfully unrooted it but the s off remains there. I need to take it back to sprint for repairs.
I have tried several with the recent unrevoked 3. But my results are after flashing "waiting 5 seconds because windows hates" message and the other says waiting to reboot" (both freezes forever). Any direction would be appreciated.
Thanks you.

Newsflash. I've never heard one story of Spring checking a bootloader to make sure a phone is S-On.
Flash A stock ROM and you;ll be good, although there have been posts that say Sprint will work on Rooted phones now.

rosario04 said:
Having a hell of a time getting my evo 4g to change to s on. I have successfully unrooted it but the s off remains there. I need to take it back to sprint for repairs.
I have tried several with the recent unrevoked 3. But my results are after flashing "waiting 5 seconds because windows hates" message and the other says waiting to reboot" (both freezes forever). Any direction would be appreciated.
Thanks you.
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Ignore this, double post. Next post.

rosario04 said:
Having a hell of a time getting my evo 4g to change to s on. I have successfully unrooted it but the s off remains there. I need to take it back to sprint for repairs.
I have tried several with the recent unrevoked 3. But my results are after flashing "waiting 5 seconds because windows hates" message and the other says waiting to reboot" (both freezes forever). Any direction would be appreciated.
Thanks you.
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You have to have a custom recovery to do that (Amon-RA or Clockwork). You need to reinstall Amon-Ra Recovery by putting this in the root of your SDCard and rename it "PC36IMG.zip": http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=PC36IMG.zip
Then flash this: http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
After that just run an RUU from here: http://goo-inside.me/supersonic/ruu
In case the RUU won't work from your computer, download one of the ZIP ones, put it in the root of your SDCard and rename it "PC36IMG.zip". That always works.

I am not sure what you mean by "Spring checking but I have flashed the stock rom PC36IMG.zip onto the root of the sd. My understanding that once your successful doing this you basically revert to the original rom. I have done that thanks to this site. But, I cannot for the life of me get the s on back on. Rooting my phone with three different custom roms were easier. Not all Spring stores like rooted phones. Id rather revert to original with the s on to be sure. product F thanks for the reply I will try that..perhaps I missed something. Thank You.

HipKat said:
Newsflash. I've never heard one story of Spring checking a bootloader to make sure a phone is S-On.
Flash A stock ROM and you;ll be good, although there have been posts that say Sprint will work on Rooted phones now.
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That plus the leaked document from the sprint employee forums that said that sprint supports rooted devices means we don't have to fret over s-on for service just make sure that your phone is running a sense rom when it is taken in otherwise they can't use the diagnostic commands from the dialer to fully support the device.
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Well I think my biggest problem is that i unrooted my phone because Clocwork will not work for me to flash forever s on because it is unrooted. Is this correct? Thanks

rosario04 said:
Well I think my biggest problem is that i unrooted my phone because Clocwork will not work for me to flash forever s on because it is unrooted. Is this correct? Thanks
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If you're using Clockwork, you have to disable Signature Verification.

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Product F(RED) said:
You have to have a custom recovery to do that (Amon-RA or Clockwork). You need to reinstall Amon-Ra Recovery by putting this in the root of your SDCard and rename it "PC36IMG.zip": http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=PC36IMG.zip
Then flash this: http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
After that just run an RUU from here: http://goo-inside.me/supersonic/ruu
In case the RUU won't work from your computer, download one of the ZIP ones, put it in the root of your SDCard and rename it "PC36IMG.zip". That always works.
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But to get clockwork to work you have to be rooted...correct?
Thank you

Yes but you're still s-off so follow those instructions.
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Thanks for staying with me. Appreciate it.
Here is how I wasable to get to recovery to get to the root directory for choosing zip from sd.
STEP 9: TURN OFF DEVICE
Power down the device by holding the Power Button for 2 seconds. Allow it to shutdown completely. Wait about 10 seconds before next step.
STEP 10: RECOVERY MODE
Hold down VOL DOWN + POWER until device boots into a White Screen.
Move to RECOVERY by using the VOL DOWN toggle and select by using POWER button.
STEP 11: TRANSFER PC36IMG.zip TO SDCARD
Connect the MICRO USB Cord. There is an option for this in both the Amon RA and Clockwork recovery.
Transfer the PC36IMG.zip to the ROOT of your SDCard.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
It was the connection and discnnection of th usb cable. Everything was in green. Is that normal.
So, my next step was to flash the forever s on zip. The results were unsupported radio version. Update failed. The current version I have is 2.15.00.05.02. on the new update on my evo. I tried it first by removing the pc36img.zip nd then tried it with it on...same results.
So I found this radio version (EVO_Radio_2.15.00.05.02_WiMAX_27243_PRI_NV_2.15_003), but I am not sure if this is what version is needed. Anyways, I apologize for this long everyone, but I am trying to provide as much info and hopefully I can minimize your time. Thanks alot.

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So, my next step was to flash the forever s on zip. The results were unsupported radio version. Update failed. The current version I have is 2.15.00.05.02. on the new update on my evo. I tried it first by removing the pc36img.zip nd then tried it with it on...same results.
So I found this radio version (EVO_Radio_2.15.00.05.02_WiMAX_27243_PRI_NV_2.15_003), but I am not sure if this is what version is needed. Anyways, I apologize for this long everyone, but I am trying to provide as much info and hopefully I can minimize your time. Thanks alot.
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The radio package you mention is the same radio you already have, so you'll want an older version. I'm not exactly sure of the version number, but I do know that is not the correct one.
Remember when you flash radios to not pull the battery. It'll flash, then upon rebooting it'll finish. You'll see a screen that you probably haven't seen before, it'll most likely be an arrow pointing down to a phone or an Android in a box... or something like that. Regardless of what you see after the flash, don't freak out and pull the battery - you'll end up bricking your phone. It's one of the few ways to guarantee a real brick, the phone will never turn on again. You may already know this, or it may be in whatever guide you're using, but it's good to know.
Anyway, I'll see if I can find the correct radio for you, and good luck!
Edit: I read somewhere that someone used this one to get s-on: http://www.mediafire.com/?v0ymbhaa0ltcvyy
However, you may need to do some trial and error. It should work, but here's a link to all of them: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
These are from Calkulin, so if they're PC36IMG files you'll be fine, but I'm pretty sure you flash them in recovery. Sorry, it's late & I'm lazy. Anyway, I think Calkulin still uses amend scripting, which will render them incompatible with ClockworkMod. You'll either need to switch to Amon Ra to flash them or find a different flashable zip. I think you'll only need to flash the radio, not all of them, but I could be wrong.
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You don't need S-OFF to have sprint work on your phone for repair. My cousin just got an insurance replacement Evo 4g because he washed his phone with his clothes. He brought it over to me to be rooted and the phone he got was already S-OFF and that is an Insurance REFERB. also with the leaked forum of how Sprint will infact work on Rooted phones gives it away that you dont need S-OFF

Plainjane. Thanks for the info. I downloaded the zip from the first site you showed here and it ran well with the exception that it got stuck on formatting cache. So, I rebooted. s off still on. I will try the next one here in a few. Thanks everyone.

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well. While I continue to try and solve this puzzle I will attempt to attach this link on how to flash a radio to evo. i take no credit.

well i am happy to say i have finally go the s on back on. I believe the problem was that i left the recovery supersonic ra image on the root directory of the sd. i deleted that and flashed the supersonic s on image and voila!!! Everythin crumbled under the rosario wrath and s on is on. Thats Boricua power. My next problem is flashing sense back on. Khilbron, I wasnt ignoring your post on sense, it was just I was trying to get the other things done. So can you please expand on the sense. Thanks to everyone who took out the time even you kipkat with your kind of unfriendly comments. Dueces.

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rosario04 said:
well i am happy to say i have finally go the s on back on. I believe the problem was that i left the recovery supersonic ra image on the root directory of the sd. i deleted that and flashed the supersonic s on image and voila!!! Everythin crumbled under the rosario wrath and s on is on. Thats Boricua power. My next problem is flashing sense back on. Khilbron, I wasnt ignoring your post on sense, it was just I was trying to get the other things done. So can you please expand on the sense. Thanks to everyone who took out the time even you kipkat with your kind of unfriendly comments. Dueces.
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i took my phone back to sprint and they replaced both speakers. now to root again.
Again. Want to thank everyone for their help.

help possible brick not sure!!!!!!!!

I HAVE SEARCHED FOR THE PAST HOUR PLEASE DON'T HATE!!!! I ALWAYS SEARCH WHICH IS WHY MY POST COUNT IS LOW!!!
K so here is my issue was installing an app and it just rebooted in the middle of the install and is now stuck in a bootloop on the white htc evo 4g screen but can still access the bootloader. have already tried flashing a pc36img.zip still nothing. if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it. and also can't access recovery.
Thanks in advance!!!
UPDATE:NO FIX!!!!!!!! guy at sprint repair store said to file a claim and get a new one, also said say it was lost since it was rooted.

What Rom were u on?
Sent from my amazing Evo on king bliss beta v7

If you can access the bootloader then you are not bricked. If you can get into recovery then the first thing that you should try is to wipe the Cache and Dalvik Cache. If that does not work then something in your data partition may be messed up. The next step would be to wipe Data. You will lose all of you system settings and data by doing this and you will have to reconfigure your accounts and install all of your apps again. If you have a backup (using MyBackup or Titanium) you can restore that just be sure not to restore any system settings that were from a different ROM.

m20120 said:
If you can access the bootloader then you are not bricked. If you can get into recovery then the first thing that you should try is to wipe the Cache and Dalvik Cache. If that does not work then something in your data partition may be messed up. The next step would be to wipe Data. You will lose all of you system settings and data by doing this and you will have to reconfigure your accounts and install all of your apps again. If you have a backup (using MyBackup or Titanium) you can restore that just be sure not to restore any system settings that were from a different ROM.
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Same bootloop when trying to access recovery. Also forgot to add that in op

evo4gnoob said:
What Rom were u on?
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was trying out the runnymede beta sense 3.5 rom everything was working great so i decided to start reinstalling apps and was gonna run it for a couple of days

Try flashing a new recovery manually. I believe amon RA thread has manual instructions
Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.

What Hboot and radio versions do you have?

shortydoggg said:
What Hboot and radio versions do you have?
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hboot-2.10.0001
radio-2.15.00.11.19
edit: downgraded to eng-0.76

Can you access fastboot usb on your phone (volume down +power buttons at the same time, then power button again on FASTBOOT)? If so, plug your phone to your computer and see what driver you have installed in the device manager from your computer's control panel, under Android Devices.

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Can you access fastboot usb on your phone (volume down +power buttons at the same time, then power button again on FASTBOOT)? If so, plug your phone to your computer and see what driver you have installed in the device manager from your computer's control panel, under Android Devices.
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problem with this is i have a macbook pro.
edit: and im a bit of a noob with the fastboot and adb stuff.

odie145 said:
problem with this is i have a macbook pro.
edit: and im a bit of a noob with the fastboot and adb stuff.
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Try this PC36IMG file on your SD card, maybe it will work, or maybe not.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38127313/Root 2.2/PC36IMG.zip
or try running a RUU file from your computer with your phone in Fastboot USB. One can be found here:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/PckGRqz
I'm not sure if it will work on a macbook.

will give those a try and maybe i can find a windows machine soon but at least i still have my hero as a back up

odie145 said:
I HAVE SEARCHED FOR THE PAST HOUR PLEASE DON'T HATE!!!! I ALWAYS SEARCH WHICH IS WHY MY POST COUNT IS LOW!!!
K so here is my issue was installing an app and it just rebooted in the middle of the install and is now stuck in a bootloop on the white htc evo 4g screen but can still access the bootloader. have already tried flashing a pc36img.zip still nothing. if anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it. and also can't access recovery.
Thanks in advance!!!
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Did you use anything like firerat? That really screwed me up once... Might be a bad zip on your card also...

dropzeroc said:
Did you use anything like firerat? That really screwed me up once... Might be a bad zip on your card also...
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wasn't doing anything out of the norm. had just flashed the runnymede beta that morning and decided to keep a few days so i ran my restore from titanium backup and in the middle of the install of one of the apps it did a random reboot and been stuck ever since.
one thing i haven't been able to try is a ruu, has to i haven't got a windows machine to run it on yet.

If anyone has the fastboot binaries for mac and can share it i would greatly appreciate it. it seems all the links im finding for it is now sending me to the new htcdev.com site.

odie145 said:
If anyone has the fastboot binaries for mac and can share it i would greatly appreciate it. it seems all the links im finding for it is now sending me to the new htcdev.com site.
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try this link, there is a download zip in there for a MetroPCS Android phone. Inside that zip files there are two mac files adb-mac and fastboot-mac. Try it out.. hope it helps

Thanks for that link. i did finally get fastboot to recognize my evo on my mac but when i try flashing or erasing anything it say failed(status malformed)
Aso had no luck with tha RUU cant get it to connect to my device what do i need to do to get it to even run (somewhat of a noob question)

You've got to put the ruu on your SD card, as PC36img.zip
Mistress of Mischief

odie145 said:
Thanks for that link. i did finally get fastboot to recognize my evo on my mac but when i try flashing or erasing anything it say failed(status malformed)
Aso had no luck with tha RUU cant get it to connect to my device what do i need to do to get it to even run (somewhat of a noob question)
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did you do a google search for what that meant?

Flashing ROM

I have downloaded the ROM Classic v0.1.0 Supermagic, placed it on my SD card. I have also unlocked my bootloader and have CWM recovery. I have returned to the bootloader screen, went to recovery mode, and went to select which zip I wanted to flash. I found the classic v0.1.0 file and slected it, which I thought would begin the flash/download. It simply opened and gave me 3 more options for files. data/, system/, and META-INF/
I should probably mention that after getting the classic v0.1.0, i extracted it and put that file on my sd card.
I have an EVO 4G, unlocked but still with the S-ON, although I can still flash files. I really appreciate any help.

Don't extract a rom..and use smelkus recovery its better than that one
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but other than that mistake, it looks like I'm on track? and speed really isn't an issue right now. As new as I am, I simply want it to work.

WeAreGuns said:
but other than that mistake, it looks like I'm on track? and speed really isn't an issue right now. As new as I am, I simply want it to work.
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+1 on what Ireyes said and also wipe all except sd card 3 times, then flash.

Read the Evo guide in my signature

MIKESTONY said:
+1 on what Ireyes said and also wipe all except sd card 3 times, then flash.
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this will help I hope. i'm stuck in a boot loop atm. I eventually cose a different ROM, papasmurfs CM9, but i kept the same procedures, all went well until this boot loop. hope this wipe helps.

HipKat said:
Read the Evo guide in my signature
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Wow. That helps. I followed the rules and read everything I could before attempting anything and searched and read some more. Somehow I missed that thread. Would have saved me a boatload of time and frustration.

WeAreGuns said:
Wow. That helps. I followed the rules and read everything I could before attempting anything and searched and read some more. Somehow I missed that thread. Would have saved me a boatload of time and frustration.
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Try fully Rooting your evo I had the same problems when I unlocked the boot loader on the og evo for the second time.don't worry you can RUU it and get back to fully stock if you have any problems.
this right here is my pretty boy swag!