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Long story short:
Read up about losing wimax numbers or something if I only backup with clockwork, so I use Rom manager to switch to amon ra 1.8, every thing was fine showed the with under current recovery. So I entered recovery, well hboot screen? White screen options usb recovery reboot ect. Then I hit recovery like I have done before and it took me back to about the same screen maybe options rearranged. Tried a few times same result so rebooted all was fine and I figured I would switch back and try clockwork, no big dealer I would Google later. So I switched back, verifies in Rom manager under current recovery. Then I try again, same results. So rebooted and Google to no results finally decide to come here and hope for an answer. Before you ask I am fully rooted s-off double checked for the last few months, current Rom is Myn's warm rsl4 awesome Rom Myn's stuff is great and my phone is still working and running better then ever. This is a new problem nothing has changed except maybe a few games, nothing with root privilege or kernels, radios ect. I am on the latest (prior) to 3.7 radios and what not, this problem is much newer than any of my changes and I have backed up since then. Any help guys would be great, especially a solution where I don't need to redo my phone, I only planned on doing that for Myn's rsl5
New symptoms:
Can not backup with Rom manager, goes to bootloader and has the same outcome as the other attempts.
Updated Rom manager, it said new clockwork, tried to flash, came back with a error. Before I could switch from clockwork amon ra and back, now if my evo messes up or I need to update my Rom what do I do?
Spelling/grammar Nazi's please be kind, it is 4 something am and I am a stressed and tired mom
kpost said:
Long story short:
Read up about losing wimax numbers or something if I only backup with clockwork, so I use Rom manager to switch to amon ra 1.8, every thing was fine showed the with under current recovery. So I entered recovery, well hboot screen? White screen options usb recovery reboot ect. Then I hit recovery like I have done before and it took me back to about the same screen maybe options rearranged. Tried a few times same result so rebooted all was fine and I figured I would switch back and try clockwork, no big dealer I would Google later. So I switched back, verifies in Rom manager under current recovery. Then I try again, same results. So rebooted and Google to no results finally decide to come here and hope for an answer. Before you ask I am fully rooted s-off double checked for the last few months, current Rom is Myn's warm rsl4 awesome Rom Myn's stuff is great and my phone is still working and running better then ever. This is a new problem nothing has changed except maybe a few games, nothing with root privilege or kernels, radios ect. I am on the latest (prior) to 3.7 radios and what not, this problem is much newer than any of my changes and I have backed up since then. Any help guys would be great, especially a solution where I don't need to redo my phone, I only planned on doing that for Myn's rsl5
New symptoms:
Can not backup with Rom manager, goes to bootloader and has the same outcome as the other attempts.
Updated Rom manager, it said new clockwork, tried to flash, came back with a error. Before I could switch from clockwork amon ra and back, now if my evo messes up or I need to update my Rom what do I do?
Spelling/grammar Nazi's please be kind, it is 4 something am and I am a stressed and tired mom
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Not sure if you have tried this but it worked for me.. Uninstall rom manager completely and then re-install it.. flash clockwork first and then reboot into recovery from rom-manager.. if it loads.. reboot and go back into rom-manager and install amon-ra.. if it doesn't load reboot and flash amon-ra and try it that way... if that doesn't work and you're comfortable with fastboot or adb download amon-ra and follow the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
Hope this helps :/
zphotop said:
Not sure if you have tried this but it worked for me.. Uninstall rom manager completely and then re-install it.. flash clockwork first and then reboot into recovery from rom-manager.. if it loads.. reboot and go back into rom-manager and install amon-ra.. if it doesn't load reboot and flash amon-ra and try it that way... if that doesn't work and you're comfortable with fastboot or adb download amon-ra and follow the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
Hope this helps :/
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I can confirm that what zphotop did, worked for me too. I have had this problem a couple of times.
It worked, thank you guys so much
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I'm looking for CW 2.5.0.1(?) so I can flash radio and other files. It seems like 3.x "aborts" install with some files.
I have not been able to find the 2.5.x CW img for the Evo. Also, now that my phone is crippled (flashed a new ROM), how do I install the 2.5.x over the 3.x? ROM Manager does not give me the option to flash back to 2.5.x
Thanks for any quick help!
BTW, I'm not using RA because it doesn't seem to allow me to navigate the SD directory to chose files to flash. If there is something I'm missing, let me know.
Edit:
See post #7 below, it contains the file to get you back to 2.5.0.1!!
snovvman said:
I'm looking for CW 2.5.0.1(?) so I can flash radio and other files. It seems like 3.x "aborts" install with some files.
I have not been able to find the 2.5.x CW img for the Evo. Also, now that my phone is crippled (flashed a new ROM), how do I install the 2.5.x over the 3.x? ROM Manager does not give me the option to flash back to 2.5.x
I believe that the new clockwork is causing problems for a lot of people, myself included. I cant revert to an old clockwork like 2.5 either. I just had to flash RA 1.8 on my phone and my wife's Evo.
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Rom manager has an option at the very bottom called "all clockwork recoveries"... Use that and select whatever build you want.
Sent from my pants. You figure out how I typed it.
Justin.G11 said:
Rom manager has an option at the very bottom called "all clockwork recoveries"... Use that and select whatever build you want.
Sent from my pants. You figure out how I typed it.
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For some reason that method isn't working for a lot of people, myself included. The thing that is working is to flash RA 1.8
I tried several times to revert to an old clockwork and kept getting an error.
go here... http://www.clockworkmod.com/download/recoveries/
click the supersonic recovery you want... make sure its the .zip file.
put on ur SD card and flash. hope this helps
Justin.G11 said:
Rom manager has an option at the very bottom called "all clockwork recoveries"... Use that and select whatever build you want.
Sent from my pants. You figure out how I typed it.
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cbond007 said:
For some reason that method isn't working for a lot of people, myself included. The thing that is working is to flash RA 1.8
I tried several times to revert to an old clockwork and kept getting an error.
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Correct, the older versions in ROM Manager do not work for the Evo.
I ended up finding a pc36img.zip and flashed it. I am now back to 2.5.0.1. I don't use RA because I can't select files. It's a pain when I have a lot of files to flash.
Here is the Clockwork 2.5.0.1, packaged flashable.
Put it in the root of your SD, boot into bootloader, let it update, and life is good again...
Edit: Some additional info to save you some searching:
Make sure you flash using bootloader and NOT your current recovery. Power off, hold Vol Down, and Power On. Let it update the image, then reboot into recovery again. At that point, you should see 2.5.0.1.
ROM Manager does not properly downgrade. 2.5.1.4/3, I have been told, is not for Evo. You will need to flash manully as I described.
snovvman said:
It seems like 3.x "aborts" install with some files.
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There's a more sinister problem with 3.0.0.1 (which appears to have now been retracted, as ROM Manager, after updating me to 3.0.0.1, is now showing "Latest Recovery: 3.0.0.0" at the time I write this).
It's only sheer chance that I had another unrelated problem, or I would have been screwed -- the Nandroid backup is broken in 3.0.0.1 (it completed the backup operation within about 2-3 seconds, clearly not having backed up everything!)
Edit: I checked in the backup directory, and the only files backed up by 3.0.0.1 were boot.img and recovery.img
Now that I reverted to 3.0.0.0, at least the backup takes a good long time and seems to be listing all the usual stuff, but I don't feel that I can trust 3.0 now.
I'm going back to what was working for me a couple of days ago (2.5.1.2) when I tried CyanogenMod (6.1.1) for the first time. ROM Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery handled it all so perfectly that I kicked it off with checkboxes enabled for the "back it up" and "wipe" options, got called away for about 1/2 hour, and when I returned, there was CM6 in all its beauty, even including the Google apps.
Is there an "official" place to report bugs for ClockworkMod Recovery? I noticed that the clockworkmod.com web site has gone poof (Google cache shows it intact on Dec 11th).
--tgi
HTC Supersonic / Sprint EVO 4G / Hardware 002
myn's Rooted Froyo 2.2 3.29.651.5 Radio 2.15.00.09.01 Kernel 2.6.32-ge2fb08e [email protected] #11
I'm sorry, but as an AR Recovery user, I see no reason to switch to Clockwork other than being able to browse folders other than the root of your memory card for ZIPs. AR seems much more stable and has had all of the features (except that one) that CW recently had added.
tgi007 said:
There's a more sinister problem with 3.0.0.1 (which appears to have now been retracted, as ROM Manager, after updating me to 3.0.0.1, is now showing "Latest Recovery: 3.0.0.0" at the time I write this).
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When ROM Manager prompted me to update tonight, I got 3.0.0.2. I was able to complete a backup, including the WiMax partition. Going back to the advanced restore menu, I was given the option to backup WiMax and other partitions seperately.
Does flashing work properly now?
At this point I'm afraid to try.
Product F(RED) said:
Does flashing work properly now?
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Flashing works just fine with 2.5.0.1.
snovvman said:
Flashing works just fine with 2.5.0.1.
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+1
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snovvman said:
Here is the Clockwork 2.5.0.1, packaged flashable.
Put it in the root of your SD, boot into bootloader, let it update, and life is good again...
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I have a Root folder I made in sd card and put the image file in folder in bootloader now its not reading it. what to do?
Edit: I figured it out and works perfect!! Thanks Button..
Product F(RED) said:
I'm sorry, but as an AR Recovery user, I see no reason to switch to Clockwork other than being able to browse folders other than the root of your memory card for ZIPs. AR seems much more stable and has had all of the features (except that one) that CW recently had added.
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+1 on this I will have to admit other than folder search I see nothing better about CW over AR and AR has great wiping features and usb mode. But to each its own...
Product F(RED) said:
I'm sorry, but as an AR Recovery user, I see no reason to switch to Clockwork other than being able to browse folders other than the root of your memory card for ZIPs. AR seems much more stable and has had all of the features (except that one) that CW recently had added.
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playya said:
+1 on this I will have to admit other than folder search I see nothing better about CW over AR and AR has great wiping features and usb mode. But to each its own...
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Question for yoru guys: When you flash with RA (/AR), do you just rename the file and put it into the root of SD each time? Is there an easier way to flash with RA that I am not aware of?
snovvman said:
Here is the Clockwork 2.5.0.1, packaged flashable.
Put it in the root of your SD, boot into bootloader, let it update, and life is good again...
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I tried this it says it runs the recovery but after I reboot and run rom manager it says clockworkmod 3.0.0.2. Am I missing a step?
snovvman said:
Question for yoru guys: When you flash with RA (/AR), do you just rename the file and put it into the root of SD each time? Is there an easier way to flash with RA that I am not aware of?
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Not defending CW, but it does have USB Mode. It's just tucked away in the menu.
If I'm on my PC, I download and then just drag to the phone or I use Dropbox, then Astro to move it to the root. If I'm not, then I use Astro. I don't have to rename anything.
ARG! I flashed 2.5.0.1 and still non of my old backups work they all hang at the white htc boot screen. I am just booting into recovery and running restore should I be doing something first?
I just rooted my friends evo, same hardware as my own, but there's all kinds of issues.
First, volume up + power doesn't boot into recovery like mine, It vibrates 3 times and that's it. You need to pull the battery and use volume down to get it to boot. If you use quickboot from within android, then it can reboot into recovery and everything seems to work normally.
Second, I loaded the Sprint lovers rom but now the phone doesn't answer every other call. For example, first call you can't hear me, second you can, third you can't etc...
Whats going on? I have a feeling it has to do with the different recovery version then i have on my own evo. I used the "z4root" method i found on here for his, for my own android I used that old flash based browser hack.
Also It just occurred to me, I think I deleted the wimax backup I made. Is that really essential? I never had to do that with my own evo
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Could really use some help. If I flash with the ru, will that erase s-off?
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acme64 said:
I just rooted my friends evo, same hardware as my own, but there's all kinds of issues.
First, volume up + power doesn't boot into recovery like mine, It vibrates 3 times and that's it. You need to pull the battery and use volume down to get it to boot. If you use quickboot from within android, then it can reboot into recovery and everything seems to work normally.
Second, I loaded the Sprint lovers rom but now the phone doesn't answer every other call. For example, first call you can't hear me, second you can, third you can't etc...
Whats going on? I have a feeling it has to do with the different recovery version then i have on my own evo. I used the "z4root" method i found on here for his, for my own android I used that old flash based browser hack.
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acme64 said:
Also It just occurred to me, I think I deleted the wimax backup I made. Is that really essential? I never had to do that with my own evo
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First of all, let me say I'm not familiar with the z4root method. I have followed the unrevoked methods, and also Zikronix's thread on hboot s off.
Also, there's not really any way to help you without more info. You said he has the same hardware of you, but never specified what hardware you have. We need to know the hardware version, software version that the phone was shipped with, radio versions would be nice. Way too much left out. All of that matters for various troubleshooting reasons. What recovery are you using? Clockwork or Amon RA? What bootloader version is it? Oh yea, to get to the bootloader, hold volume down, not up. So vol+down+power button. That is how it has always worked for me. When you get to the bootloader, record the version number, radio(baseband) version, and if you are s-on or s-off. Report back wth all of that, then we'll have a direction to look in.
acme64 said:
I just rooted my friends evo, same hardware as my own, but there's all kinds of issues.
First, volume up + power doesn't boot into recovery like mine, It vibrates 3 times and that's it. You need to pull the battery and use volume down to get it to boot. If you use quickboot from within android, then it can reboot into recovery and everything seems to work normally.
Second, I loaded the Sprint lovers rom but now the phone doesn't answer every other call. For example, first call you can't hear me, second you can, third you can't etc...
Whats going on? I have a feeling it has to do with the different recovery version then i have on my own evo. I used the "z4root" method i found on here for his, for my own android I used that old flash based browser hack.
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do this to solve your problem
1. download this file
2. place it on the root of your sdcard
3. rename it to PC36IMG.zip
4. reboot into bootloader
5. when it loads choose yes to flash the pc36img.zip
6. reboot into rom and delete the pc36img.zip
7. power off your phone
8. reboot into bootloader, select recovery from the menu.
this should fix your recovery problem as for the other, i suggest flashing a different rom afterwards
t3project said:
do this to solve your problem
1. download this file
2. place it on the root of your sdcard
3. rename it to PC36IMG.zip
4. reboot into bootloader
5. when it loads choose yes to flash the pc36img.zip
6. reboot into rom and delete the pc36img.zip
7. power off your phone
8. reboot into bootloader, select recovery from the menu.
this should fix your recovery problem as for the other, i suggest flashing a different rom afterwards
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Or you can flash another recovery. Use the latest Amon RA Recovery.
As for your ROM issues, did you wipe data/cache/dalvik? If you did you might want to try doing it about 3 times. The recoveries are not wiping cache, dalvik and data properly until you do it a few times. Also the latest Amon Ra fixes that I believe
That is another recovery in pc36img.zip format. Specifically amon_ra 2.1.1
Just a word of advice, never use vol up & power to turn on your phone. That will put it in diag mode if your nand is unlocked and that is something you really don't want to do.
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xHausx said:
Just a word of advice, never use vol up & power to turn on your phone. That will put it in diag mode if your nand is unlocked and that is something you really don't want to do.
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LOL!!! Sometimes its good to know what your doing specially before messing with a friends phone.
Today I started using CyanogenMod 7 nightly build #27 on my HTC Incredible. Everything was going great and I loved gingerebread. I used it for several hours and decided to make it permanent. I unmounted my sd and formatted it on my PC, after making a copy of all its contents of course. I re-mounted the card and started getting low space warnings, so I figured I should just restart. When I restarted, Cyanogen went into an infinite boot loop. No worries, I had a nandroid backup on my PC from a few hours before Cyanogen. I flashed back to rooted 2.2 Sense stock rom. New issue, I can't access anything on the sd. It appears empty, and none of my widgets can load. So I figured why not just start all over re-root and all of that. I followed a downgrade guide for an out of the box experience,(shouldnt have). The downgrade seemed to be successful but now my phone only boots to the white screen with the skateboarding androids. I have Bootloader, Reboot, Reboot Bootloader, & Power Down. I dont think I have root and I dont have clockwork anymore. Maybe if I could get clockwork back I could get back to 2.2 at least and use rom manager to get back to cyanogen 2.3.
What can I do???
SOLVED
Goto:
http://www.incredibleforum.com/foru...kwork-hangs-htc-incredible-splash-screen.html
Ok, the easiest way to fix this:
1. Format your sd card to FAT32 on your computer
2. DL this recovery zip: http://fourty.net/~berzerker/bamod/PB31IMG-red.zip
3. Place that zip on the root of your sdcard, rename to PB31IMG.zip
4. With the phone off, insert sdcard
5. Hold "Volume Down" and power button until a white screen pops up
6. It should scan for files, and find the zip on the sdcard
7. Press "Volume Up" to confirm update, you should see a progress bar top right.
8. When finished, select "No" when asked to reboot
9. Select "Recovery" with volume keys, confirm with power button.
You should now boot into ClockworkMod recovery. Wipe all data/factory reset, then format your sdcard (optional, just make sure PB31IMG.zip gets erased). You can then mount usb mass storage from "mounts" menu, and copy over CM7.
Stuck at HTC Incredible screen
Hey,
Thanks so much for your quick reply! I was able to flash the recovery you linked me too which has made my day a lot better already, but it seems its not quite over yet.
I wiped all the data, wiped the cache, fomatted the sd, mounted the sd to my pc and copied over CM7.
The first try I also copied over the signed google apps package I received from rom manager, which was in my backup.
Installed them both and the phone never made it past the white HTC Incredible Screen.
So I wiped again and only installed CM7. Same issue.
I have a nandroid backup of 2.2 rooted but otherwise stock HTC Sense rom, but I can't find the recovery on the sd. I copied over my entire old clockwork folder, but its nowhere to be found. I realize the recovery img you gave me looks a lot like clockwork but is titled BAMod Recovery. Could that prevent me from seeing the clockwork folder?
Thanks so much for your help with this!
I'm going to try flashing the radio back to 2.xx
and then try CM6 stable and see what I can get
FU3L said:
I'm going to try flashing the radio back to 2.xx
and then try CM6 stable and see what I can get
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NO!!!
Flashing a radio is probably not the greatest idea.
Instead, do a search for clockworkmod recovery for the inc. The link I gave you was the one I had on hand, since I wrote all that at midnight lol.
Another thing I'd do is to re-download CM7 from the official teamdouche mirror site, along with g-apps, as I have a feeling your backups are somewhat corrupt.
Ok I won't reflash the radio. But right now the radio is 1.xx
Doesn't CM7 require a 2.xx radio? It rolled back during the stupid downgrade I did.
I've started downloading CM7 and g-apps again. And I will replace BAMod with clockwork. I can do that with the same steps as before right? It will just overwrite BAMod?
FU3L said:
1. Ok I won't reflash the radio. But right now the radio is 1.xx
Doesn't CM7 require a 2.xx radio? It rolled back during the stupid downgrade I did.
2. I've started downloading CM7 and g-apps again. And I will replace BAMod with clockwork. I can do that with the same steps as before right? It will just overwrite BAMod?
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1. In that case, yes, flash a 2.XX radio.using a PB31IMG. Froyo and gingerbread both require it.
2. Yep, just follow the steps, it'll just overwrite it.
I flashed the radio successfully, something worked!
However I'm having a hard time getting clockwork. I donwloaded clockwork 2.5.0.7 img
I then put it in a zip called PB31IMG
The phone picks up on it and flashes through some things pretty quick the last being parsing PB31IMG.zip....
Then it just jumps back to HBOOT. It doesn't ask if I want to update like the radio did.
I even tried to push it over fastboot from my pc, but everytime it says Failed remote not allowed.
Since I have the correct radio I am trying to flash CM6.1 to see what happens. BAMod is installing it now. If I can get in and get rom manager it can flash clockwork.
Thats my thinking anyway
It says it installed CM6.1 successfully, but still hangs at white HTC Incredible screen on startup
Wiped and installed CM7 successfully but still hung on white HTC Incredible screen.
Should I try using fastboot on my PC to erase the recovery partition? clockwork just gets rejected everytime, the only thing thats seemingly different about the phone now is having BAMod recovery install things instead of clockwork, which worked...
I miss my incredible
Flashed Amon Recovery, installed CM7 build #27. Still hanging on boot screen.
VICTORY!
Here's how I got it working again:
Head over to h**p://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108 site (due to me being an absolute noob to this forum, I can't post links, so just replace h**p with http) , and pick up the PB31IMG version of the original stock HTC image. Flash it, and everything should start up as fresh as the day you bought it. It seems it loses root and custom recovery though, so just reapply and all should be well.
Hey guys,
So here's what happened and is happening:
1. I was running a custom ROM (Baked Snack 1.7) on Froyo (2.2). The phone was working fine but I wanted to try Gingerbread 2.3.3 out because I heard it had great battery life.
2. My phone would not update to 2.3.3 from Baked Snack. I thought it might have something to do with it being rooted. I used this method to unroot...and I think I only got through the first part:
http://www.thedroiddemos.com/2010/09/10/how-to-unroot-the-evo-in-2-steps/
I installed the S-On tool like he said to. Then I moved the "new updated version" of PC36IMG (I had the old version on my card already). He said something about the "S-Off" appearing on his phone but not the viewer's...well, mine says S-Off.
So fast forwarding, I got Sprint to push me the update for 2.3.3. It downloaded it, but then a voicemail error came up saying I had 2 voicemails. Then when I called voicemail, it said I had no messages. Sprint said a Sprint store would have to physically go into the phone to erase the error.
I also got a second update message that said there were minor enhancements to Gingerbread. I tried downloading them but the installation failed. Sprint told me to ignore the update, that there had been issues with Gingerbread (and the update) and that they were working on getting these resolved.
Somehow I managed to clear the phone and get back to 2.1. Here's what my system says when I look at the Phone Information:
Firmware Version: 2.1-update1
When I boot into the main bootloader/Recovery menu (Phone Off + Power Button + Volume Down), here's what it says:
Supersonic EVT2-2 ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC3610000)
If I click down to Recovery from this menu and press "Power" to enter it, NOW I get a picture of an EVO with a Red Triangle/Exclamation Point. This means I have to take my battery out and restart the phone.
Also, the OTA SimpleRoot procedure doesn't seem to work on the phone either. When I originally set it back, the procedure worked. Now it just goes through the motions on the computer but nothing happens with the phone (rebooting, skating Androids, etc.)
All I want to do is basically put it back 2.2 and re-run Baked Snack 1.7 which was giving me NO issues.
If someone could help me with this issue, I would be very grateful.
Well you have a simple fix. The error you got with the triangle and red ! is you booting into recovery, but no recovery is loaded [stock recovery]. Head over to the development section, and download the recovery of your choice. Personally I recommend in order: twrp [team win recovery project] , amon ra 2.3, cwm 3.0+. After you have your recovery installed, boot back into recovery and flash your baked snack rom. Also, don't manually take an OTA of 2.3.3 as it can't be rooted. if you want to try a gingerbread rom, simply download CM7, evervolv, deck's, ect rom and flash it like any other rom. Just backup your previous rom before flashing so you can go back.
teh roxxorz said:
Well you have a simple fix. The error you got with the triangle and red ! is you booting into recovery, but no recovery is loaded [stock recovery]. Head over to the development section, and download the recovery of your choice. Personally I recommend in order: twrp [team win recovery project] , amon ra 2.3, cwm 3.0+. After you have your recovery installed, boot back into recovery and flash your baked snack rom. Also, don't manually take an OTA of 2.3.3 as it can't be rooted. if you want to try a gingerbread rom, simply download CM7, evervolv, deck's, ect rom and flash it like any other rom. Just backup your previous rom before flashing so you can go back.
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You like TWRP better??
I haven't tried it yet
HipKat said:
You like TWRP better??
I haven't tried it yet
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Basically amon ra, but better. it has some additional options, such as the option to automatically reboot after a successful flash [good for doing a single flash, but if you're doing multiple, checked it at the last flash.] You have the option to compress backups to save space, though it takes a little bit longer, and they have some built in skins you can change at will. And MOAR.
I tried rooting using this method:
http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-root-instructions
I put the PC36IMG on the root of my SD card and let the phone update in bootloader. It seemed to work fine, updated, rebooted the phone, etc.
Then I downloaded ROM Manager so I could let Clockwork install and then install Amon Ra....when ROM Manager tried installing Clockwork, it gave me the following message: "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!"
It also will not let me flash an alternate recovery. I have the file "recovery-RA-supersonic-v2.3.img" on the root of my SD card right now.
What does this mean? Does this mean I'm not rooted? Or some other issue? I remember eons ago when I tried using this program I got the same message but I don't remember how I got around it. (obviously I did though)
Is there a different way I should install it?
nbakid2000 said:
I tried rooting using this method:
http://www.androidcentral.com/evo-4g-root-instructions
I put the PC36IMG on the root of my SD card and let the phone update in bootloader. It seemed to work fine, updated, rebooted the phone, etc.
Then I downloaded ROM Manager so I could let Clockwork install and then install Amon Ra....when ROM Manager tried installing Clockwork, it gave me the following message: "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!"
It also will not let me flash an alternate recovery. I have the file "recovery-RA-supersonic-v2.3.img" on the root of my SD card right now.
What does this mean? Does this mean I'm not rooted? Or some other issue? I remember eons ago when I tried using this program I got the same message but I don't remember how I got around it. (obviously I did though)
Is there a different way I should install it?
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That's a bit outdated; use unrevoked. I've already done the linking for you.
1. http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install <- Download and install the modified hboot drivers, follow the instructions.
2. On your phone, enable usb debugging from the applications > development, in settings
3. Connect your phone to your pc via usb cable, leave it on the home screen, no apps should be running; restart the phone just to be sure.
4. http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install <- download and run unrevoked
It'll take 3-5 minutes and reboot about 2 times, don't touch in the process, it'll say done at the end. Also, this will only work if on 2.2 still. if on 2.3.3, you're outta luck.
Okay, forget Rom Manager, forget "rooting" your phone - at least according to the normal use of the word.
Delete any PC36IMG files you may have on your SD card, then download this one of Amon Ra 2.3: http://db.tt/WP0beNa
Don't rename it, don't extract it... just put it on the root of your SD card. Then download whatever rom you want to use. Put it on the root of your SD card or in a folder that you'll remember. Amon Ra (and possibly other recoveries) can flash zips that are inside of folders. Just be sure that you know where it is because you'll need to navigate to it in recovery.
Then boot into the bootloader and let it flash the way you've done with other PC36IMG files. When it asks you to reboot just decline and then select recovery. I would make a backup just in case, then flash your rom.
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Thank you guys, I will try these methods when I get back from work tonight. I really really appreciate it, I was about having a meltdown without my phone (the way I want it).
I'll report back either way. (and yes, I'm still on 2.1-update1)
nbakid2000 said:
Thank you guys, I will try these methods when I get back from work tonight. I really really appreciate it, I was about having a meltdown without my phone (the way I want it).
I'll report back either way. (and yes, I'm still on 2.1-update1)
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Well between plainjane and myself, you'll be rooted before dinner time!
teh roxxorz said:
Well between plainjane and myself, you'll be rooted before dinner time!
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OK, I forgot to mention this earlier...last time I was stuck in the Boot Sequence where it kept looping the Sprint and 4G logo....now that I'm rooted using plainjane's method (thank you) I'm stuck with the same thing.
I flashed the recovery, then flashed the Baked Snack ROM....now I'm in the Baked Snack bootload section....and it just keeps looping.
Is this an issue with my system that can be resolved?
EDIT: So weird. I went back into Recovery and wiped everything and set the phone back to original condition...and voila, Baked Snack comes up as the ROM! So now it appears it's for the most part back to normal and back to where I wanted it....thank you guys again.
Now can anyone point me in the direction of the latest radios, etc. that I can download and flash?
And why would it be giving me those looping problems, and then go back to normal when I cleared/wiped everything?
I mean, I'm happy this happened but I don't want the same things happening if I decide to flash another ROM at some point.