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S-on AND Root

I've been posting here and there around here lately but thought I'd get a cleaner, more focused thread going for those of us who used HTC's unlock tool and want root.
I managed to get the bootloader unlocked with HTC's tool and installed SU and clockwork onto my Inc2 but I think I'm having problems because I'm still S-On instead of S-Off.
So, what do we do next after unlocking the bootloader? I'm under the impression that because I'm S-On still, I can flash a custom ROM, but not only the ones with the stock kernel intact. This would be why Sabotage was able to install, but Mik wouldn't. Still only a theory, though.
ANY HELP PLEASE!!!

Kayak83 said:
I've been posting here and there around here lately but thought I'd get a cleaner, more focused thread going for those of us who used HTC's unlock tool and want root.
I managed to get the bootloader unlocked with HTC's tool and installed SU and clockwork onto my Inc2 but I think I'm having problems because I'm still S-On instead of S-Off.
So, what do we do next after unlocking the bootloader? I'm under the impression that because I'm S-On still, I can flash a custom ROM, but not only the ones with the stock kernel intact. This would be why Sabotage was able to install, but Mik wouldn't. Still only a theory, though.
ANY HELP PLEASE!!!
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There are 2 options to flash a custom ROM that has a custom kernel on an unlocked bootloader.
1. Instead of booting to recovery mode directly, you need to boot in Fastboot mode and issue the command:
Fastboot boot [path to custom recovery.img]
This will boot you into recovery mode using the custom recovery image. Then you can flash a custom ROM with a custom kernel correctly.
2. Extract the boot.img from the custom ROM zip file and copy it to your SDK tool directory.
Then boot into recovery mode and flash the custom ROM. Next you must reboot into bootloader mode and enter Fastboot mode. Enter the following command:
Fastboot flash boot [path to the boot.img file].
Try either option 1 or option 2. You do not need to do both.
Hope this helps.

tpbklake said:
There are 2 options to flash a custom ROM that has a custom kernel on an unlocked bootloader.
1. Instead of booting to recovery mode directly, you need to boot in Fastboot mode and issue the command:
Fastboot boot [path to custom recovery.img]
This will boot you into recovery mode using the custom recovery image. Then you can flash a custom ROM with a custom kernel correctly.
2. Extract the boot.img from the custom ROM zip file and copy it to your SDK tool directory.
Then boot into recovery mode and flash the custom ROM. Next you must reboot into bootloader mode and enter Fastboot mode. Enter the following command:
Fastboot flash boot [path to the boot.img file].
Try either option 1 or option 2. You do not need to do both.
Hope this helps.
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Tried option 1 and when I go to select install zip from sd card after booting to cwm the phone restarts. Trying option 2 now...

Option #2 won't work since I get stuck at the HTC screen when trying to load a custom ROM.

Kayak83 said:
Option #2 won't work since I get stuck at the HTC screen when trying to load a custom ROM.
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How did you try to reboot into bootloader from recovery once the ROM was flashed. Once I get into recovery I connect the phone with a USB cable and then type
Adb reboot bootloader
This will boot you into HBOOT straight from recovery and should prevent the hang at the HTC.

Ok. Let's start fresh and complete:
1- Plug phone into computer.
2- select HTC sync on phone
3- open cmd and get to sdk
4- type "adb reboot bootloader"
5- phone should reboot to HTC's recovery thing
now what?
I have cwm installed already.

Kayak83 said:
Ok. Let's start fresh and complete:
1- Plug phone into computer.
2- select HTC sync on phone
3- open cmd and get to sdk
4- type "adb reboot bootloader"
5- phone should reboot to HTC's recovery thing
now what?
I have cwm installed already.
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Just select Charge Only, not HTC Sync.
Once you type adb reboot bootloader you should get the HBOOT screen and it should show FASTBOOT USB.
At this point you should enter Fastboot commands from you PC command prompt.
So you said you tried fastboot boot [path to recovery.img file] and it did boot you into recovery, right? Then you should be able to flash the custom ROM and reboot normally when the install is complete.
For option 2 once you are in recovery mode flash the custom ROM and then when it is finished connect the phone with the USB cable and at the command prompt you should be able to type adb devices and it will respond with your device id.
If it does, then type adb reboot bootloader and it will take you back to the HBOOT screen. From there you would then enter the following Fastboot command:
Fastboot flash boot [path to boot.img file]
Then Fastboot reboot

tpbklake said:
Just select Charge Only, not HTC Sync.
Once you type adb reboot bootloader you should get the HBOOT screen and it should show FASTBOOT USB.
At this point you should enter Fastboot commands from you PC command prompt.
So you said you tried fastboot boot [path to recovery.img file] and it did boot you into recovery, right? Then you should be able to flash the custom ROM and reboot normally when the install is complete.
For option 2 once you are in recovery mode flash the custom ROM and then when it is finished connect the phone with the USB cable and at the command prompt you should be able to type adb devices and it will respond with your device id.
If it does, then type adb reboot bootloader and it will take you back to the HBOOT screen. From there you would then enter the following Fastboot command:
Fastboot flash boot [path to boot.img file]
The Fastboot reboot
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I'm able to fastboot into cwm. But when I go to select install zip from sd card via the phone controls (volume up/down/power), the phone reboots.

Kayak83 said:
I'm able to fastboot into cwm. But when I go to select install zip from sd card via the phone controls (volume up/down/power), the phone reboots.
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Which version of CWM are ou using. I use CWM 5.0.2 and it works fine.

SUCCESS. Thanks for your help!

Glad you got it goin!
Sent from my ADR6350 using xda premium

Kayak83 said:
SUCCESS. Thanks for your help!
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Which option did you have success with?

dumb question but...
how do you find the path to your custom recovery?

mza929 said:
dumb question but...
how do you find the path to your custom recovery?
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You determine what the path is when you download the recovery image to your PC. The best place to download or copy it to is the same folder you run adb.exe and fastboot.exe from.

tpbklake said:
You determine what the path is when you download the recovery image to your PC. The best place to download or copy it to is the same folder you run adb.exe and fastboot.exe from.
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great thank you... i was thinking i had to use a path to the recovery on my phone's storage not my PC's...

Can someone link me to a cwm recovery that works. I'm having the reboot issue after selecting choose file from SD card.
Sent from my dinc2 using XDA App

mza929 said:
Can someone link me to a cwm recovery that works. I'm having the reboot issue after selecting choose file from SD card.
Sent from my dinc2 using XDA App
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You should look for and use CWM 5.0.2

Kayak83 said:
I've been posting here and there around here lately but thought I'd get a cleaner, more focused thread going for those of us who used HTC's unlock tool and want root.
I managed to get the bootloader unlocked with HTC's tool and installed SU and clockwork onto my Inc2 but I think I'm having problems because I'm still S-On instead of S-Off.
So, what do we do next after unlocking the bootloader? I'm under the impression that because I'm S-On still, I can flash a custom ROM, but not only the ones with the stock kernel intact. This would be why Sabotage was able to install, but Mik wouldn't. Still only a theory, though.
ANY HELP PLEASE!!!
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OK maybe I am missing something here. Do you actually have full root? If you do, how did you get it? I don't know how to get the su binary and busybox installed. I have unlocked my bootloader using the htc supertool and I don't have root, which is keeping me from installing CWM or anything root related for that matter. I have not seen any instructions on how to root this thing since the unlock tool became compatible 3 days ago. But maybe I have missed something.
Thanks for any help.

Still cant get rom to boot... however, i have been able to fastboot into custom recovery and complete the flashing process...
Now i am just stuck at the HTC screen after reboot.
Any suggestions?
Thank you all so far. You have been most helpful.
***** update ***** I finally got it after fast booting into recovery, flashing rom, and then extracting boot.img from that rom and flashing it via fastboot.

mza929 said:
Still cant get rom to boot... however, i have been able to fastboot into custom recovery and complete the flashing process...
Now i am just stuck at the HTC screen after reboot.
Any suggestions?
Thank you all so far. You have been most helpful.
***** update ***** I finally got it after fast booting into recovery, flashing rom, and then extracting boot.img from that rom and flashing it via fastboot.
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Yes good job. The last part is the key to getting a custom ROM installed. Glad it worked for you.
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hackweed said:
OK maybe I am missing something here. Do you actually have full root? If you do, how did you get it? I don't know how to get the su binary and busybox installed. I have unlocked my bootloader using the htc supertool and I don't have root, which is keeping me from installing CWM or anything root related for that matter. I have not seen any instructions on how to root this thing since the unlock tool became compatible 3 days ago. But maybe I have missed something.
Thanks for any help.
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After you have an unlocked HBOOT, you need to flash CWM recovery image in FASTBOOT mode. Once you have CWM installed, you can install the latest SU-3.0.xx.zip to root your current ROM and then you can installl and use root programs like ROM Manager, Busybox, Titianium Backup, etc. or you can install a rooted custom ROM.

[SOLVED] plz help

how r u doing guys,
after unlocking on htcdev, I 1st used the EASIEST ROOT METHOD - 'RECOVERY + SUPERSU' provided by PAUL but found that i couldnt boot into recovery, then i used the alternate method, after that my phone keeps restarting!
what to do now?

Flash cwm 5.4.0 through fastboot..
Download any custom rom of your choice.. put it in sd.. flash zip through cwm..
Reboot in bootloader..
Erase cache in fastboot and flash boot.img of the custom rom..
Make sure you wipe data/cache in cwm recovery..
There are so many guides.. take help for the commands..
Good luck
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk

i flashed the latest recovery image provided by paulobrien.. and then tried to reboot in recovery but it didnt work.. it just goes to the white HTC boot image..
what if i went through the whole thing.. without activating the USB DEBUGGING option?
i really dont remember activating it
do u think i bricked it?
im trying also to factory reset from bootloader but still nothing happens
i donno .. ill try flashing the version 5.5.0.4 but i dont think it will work
any other suggestions guys?
thank you

Loushi said:
i flashed the latest recovery image provided by paulobrien.. and then tried to reboot in recovery but it didnt work.. it just goes to the white HTC boot image..
what if i went through the whole thing.. without activating the USB DEBUGGING option?
i really dont remember activating it
do u think i bricked it?
im trying also to factory reset from bootloader but still nothing happens
i donno .. ill try flashing the version 5.5.0.4 but i dont think it will work
any other suggestions guys?
thank you
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Download clockworkmod touch > http://db.tt/VF9J2eo8
Install android SDK on your pc (to default installation path)
Put phone into fastboot USB
Place cwm.IMG inside your android SDK folder that contains adb (c:/Androis-SDK/platform-tools)
Open command prompt on PC
CD c:/Android-SDK/platform-tools
fastboot flash recovery cwm.img
Done
To install a ROM, download the zip files on your PC,
Enter CWM recovery on your phone
Mount USB storage (whilst plugged into PC of course)
drag ROM zip files to phone
unmount USB storage
install zip from sdcard
Done
*charge your phone, don't flash anything with less than 50% battery.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

[Q] Bricked my phone, please help

Thankyou anyone for helping me.
I was trying to update my phone to the Maximus rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601543) from an AOKP JB ROM.
I succesfully followed the instructions to relock my phone, the flash the firmware, then unlock it again. Unfortunately I was foolish and didn't think to copy across the rom.zip before doing this. I tried restoring a Nandroid backup but was stuck in a bootloop. I also tried reflashing the previous AOKP Rom that I had on there. In this case it booted but I had no radio, no wifi, and importantly I couldn't mount over USB to copy across the new ROM. I'm guessing neither method works because of the new HBOOT?
I went to this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1609190 and it's clear that I have to flash an RUU through fastboot to get back to a working state. Unfortunately All the RUU links for JB Roms as listed on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957376 seem to be dead so I can't download them. Similarly the links to older RUUs found here http://www.filefactory.com/f/e3e8b30e62a4a8aa/ all require a premium account because they are over the 500MB limit.
Can anyone tell me where I can please get an RUU to restore my phone to working order, or if there's another method available? Thankyou very much for your help.

Test this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924003
Don't stress, a phone never bricked.

laurab4369 said:
Test this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924003
Don't stress, a phone never bricked.
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Thankyou for the suggestion, but the problem with that method is that once again the ROM I want to flash has to be moved over to the virtal SD card of my phone. Since the ROM on it is currently not working I can't copy anything across to the SD card through the usual means. Is there a way I can copy it across using fastboot, as that is still working fine? I had a look at the fastboot help and there didn't seem to be any way. What I need is a ROM that can be flashed over fastboot, which I understand can be done with the stock RUUs?
I'm not panicking, I know that I will be able to get it back up and running, I just need a bit of help to get there.

Boot into bootloader and from there to recovery , mounts and storage - mount as USB ....and you have a working sd card to copy the rom.zip file to
Copy the rom.zip to the card and copy the boot.img from the rom.zip to the fastboot folder.
Flash the boot.img and flash the rom from recovery ..... Are u using cwm recovery 5.8.4.0

MarcelHofs said:
Boot into bootloader and from there to recovery , mounts and storage - mount as USB ....and you have a working sd card to copy the rom.zip file to
Copy the rom.zip to the card and copy the boot.img from the rom.zip to the fastboot folder.
Flash the boot.img and flash the rom from recovery ..... Are u using cwm recovery 5.8.4.0
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Thankyou so much for that suggestion. That would really help. I'm sorry, I don't know what I did, but now if I try to go into recovery the recovery flashes breifly on screen and then it resets. I tried reflashing it, using the All In One toolkit and using Fastboot.exe. I also tried flashing both the CWM recovery and the TWRP recovery, neither of them worked.
Thankyou for your help again, I'm sorry but recovery was working before, I think all I did was flash a boot.img but could that break recovery? I even tried going through the whole relock, flash firmware.zip, unlock, flash recovery procedure to see if that would work but it didn't.

Do a fastboot command
Put the phone in bootloader / fastboot USB menu
Fastboot erase cache
Check if you can enter recovery after that

MarcelHofs said:
Do a fastboot command
Put the phone in bootloader / fastboot USB menu
Fastboot erase cache
Check if you can enter recovery after that
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Thankyou! That fixed the recovery issue. Once I could get into recovery I could copy across the ROM, flash it, flash boot.img (not that that was a problem) and my phone is now in woring order again.
Once again, many many thanks.

Glad you got it sorted !

[Q] No CWM just HTC boot screen

So, I tried to get the latest Cyanogenmod on my phone.
Resulted in the the process com.android.phone has stopped issue.
FInally managed to get around that but no my phone is stuck with no CWM, no USB Windows fileshare and a HTC bootscreen.
I have searched, and read a lot of posts and the closes thing to recovery is a post on putting on a Nandroid backup for my Y13 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975140)
But, since I have no USB fileshare I am unable to get it on the phone and start the process.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
I need to completely wipe and reinstall everything but has no access other that fastboot USB.
What info should I post and how do I find it if more is needed.

smurf69 said:
So, I tried to get the latest Cyanogenmod on my phone.
Resulted in the the process com.android.phone has stopped issue.
FInally managed to get around that but no my phone is stuck with no CWM, no USB Windows fileshare and a HTC bootscreen.
I have searched, and read a lot of posts and the closes thing to recovery is a post on putting on a Nandroid backup for my Y13 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975140)
But, since I have no USB fileshare I am unable to get it on the phone and start the process.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?
I need to completely wipe and reinstall everything but has no access other that fastboot USB.
What info should I post and how do I find it if more is needed.
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Download Philz recovery and flash via fastboot. After this go in recovery and mound the sd card and wait 3-4 min. copy your rom on SD card flash the rom and flash the boot.img!

Thant said:
Download Philz recovery and flash via fastboot. After this go in recovery and mound the sd card and wait 3-4 min. copy your rom on SD card flash the rom and flash the boot.img!
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Thanks Thant!
So, I have downloaded Philz, I think I have flashed the recovery.img file over to the phone from CMD shell window.
I have rebooted my phone to fastboot menu and selectet recovery.
The result is still the same. Just the htc boot screen.
I`m sure I`m doing something wrong but cant figure out how. Philz How to uses USB / PC file transfer so I`m unable to use it as a step by step.
Would really appreciate a step by step command overview. If possible with an explanation so that I learn why I do the different commands. Then I wont be so f.. ignorant about these things anymore. Hopefully

smurf69 said:
Thanks Thant!
So, I have downloaded Philz, I think I have flashed the recovery.img file over to the phone from CMD shell window.
I have rebooted my phone to fastboot menu and selectet recovery.
The result is still the same. Just the htc boot screen.
I`m sure I`m doing something wrong but cant figure out how. Philz How to uses USB / PC file transfer so I`m unable to use it as a step by step.
Would really appreciate a step by step command overview. If possible with an explanation so that I learn why I do the different commands. Then I wont be so f.. ignorant about these things anymore. Hopefully
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The command to flash the recovery is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img you must to put recovery.img in your fastboot directory and you can run the command fastboot erase cache after this go in bootloader and choice the recovery this is all

Thant said:
The command to flash the recovery is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img you must to put recovery.img in your fastboot directory and you can run the command fastboot erase cache after this go in bootloader and choice the recovery this is all
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Again, thanks!!
Forgot my phone at work so I`ll have a go tomorrow!

This issue will remain unsolved.
The phone no longer charges so I am unable to start any process what so ever.
Thank you so much for the help I got

smurf69 said:
This issue will remain unsolved.
The phone no longer charges so I am unable to start any process what so ever.
Thank you so much for the help I got
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there is also a zip with a .bat file to charge in fastboot ...it should all work...as it was said before fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and fastboot erase cache...if nothng works then do the factory reset through bootloader helps often...if not working...hm try to find latest RUU for your CID which ould work...if already on hboot 1.7x only RUU from 3.14 and up would work

One-X-master said:
there is also a zip with a .bat file to charge in fastboot ...it should all work...as it was said before fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and fastboot erase cache...if nothng works then do the factory reset through bootloader helps often...if not working...hm try to find latest RUU for your CID which ould work...if already on hboot 1.7x only RUU from 3.14 and up would work
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Thanks, but the phone is completely dead and unable to boot.
There is no power and the phone won`t charge so I guess it`s a gonner.

smurf69 said:
Thanks, but the phone is completely dead and unable to boot.
There is no power and the phone won`t charge so I guess it`s a gonner.
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Search the forums, there are answers to get your device back to live. Like the charging script.

Cant flash TWRP recovery!

Hi.
I am on Multirom twrp recovery right now.
However i am not able to flash latest twrp recovery. When I flash it via fastboot, it directly goes to bootloader mode after successful flash message ,but cant enter recovery mode even when tried. when i try to flash other recovery like multirom one, it flashes correctly.
Please help!

arpith.fbi said:
Hi.
I am on Multirom twrp recovery right now. However i am not able to flash latest twrp recovery. When I flash it via fastboot, it directly goes to bootloader mode after successful flash message ,but cant enter recovery mode even when tried. when i try to flash other recovery like multirom one, it flashes correctly. Please help!
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Interesting. Does "fastboot boot twrp-3.2.1-0-flo.img" work?
A sure way to fix it is to reflash the factory image and then TWRP.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
But if you wish to investigate it, please post the output of...
fastboot getvar all
fastboot oem gpt-info
and 'install' the following zip in twrp, find 'logs.tgz' in the root of internal storage and post it here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4521373&d=1528468165