Hi!
Is it possible to flash a original HTC ROM with the appropriate RADIO, without loosing the unlocked bootloader?
I want to have an original ROM to have a reference if my phone works properly.
Thanks,
newpipe
if you have the rom parts, you could flash them via fastboot- system, boot, and userdata. You can also flash recovery and radio if you want to go full stock except for the bootloader. You might have to pack the rom parts into the appropriate formats. Either ext3 images or images packed with ANDROID! magic.
There isn't much fastboot info since everyone seems to like the one-click methods or the methods that require minimal typing. You can look around the G1 forums for fastboot info and unpack a few images.
Just don't erase hboot and you'll be OK- and by OK, I mean that you'll be able to recovery from any semi-bricked, boot looping, non-functional state.
sent from my cyanogen(mod) vision
Somethere in development section i saw a rooted stock rom in .zip format for flashing by custom recovery. Worked for me.
lw_temp said:
Somethere in development section i saw a rooted stock rom in .zip format for flashing by custom recovery. Worked for me.
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Talking about this?
Thanks for your answers!
lw_temp said:
Somethere in development section i saw a rooted stock rom in .zip format for flashing by custom recovery. Worked for me.
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I think I'll do it that way.
Barton82 said:
Talking about this?
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You're right. The first post in this thread looks promising.
Can we flash the ROM and RADIO linked without risk?
Edit: One more question: what does "Deodexed" mean? I saw the "Deodexed" ROM in the first post in the linked thread.
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Hi Guys, I just got my A100 last week and liking it so far, i want to install ICS on it, i am very familliar with Android since i got an android phone and have flashed tons of custom Roms on it. however i searched the A100 forum and cant find a single post / thread about proper instruction on how to install A500 roms on A100 or how to do different things for new owners,
for example i am interested in installing the FLEXREAPER ROm (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517181) what are the steps i need to follow? i have already rooted the device and all set, but what is unblocking the BL ?
Can someone please be kind enough to write a step by step instruction on how to flash a A500 rom on A100 ?
Thank you in advance.
Raul77 said:
Hi Guys, I just got my A100 last week and liking it so far, i want to install ICS on it, i am very familliar with Android since i got an android phone and have flashed tons of custom Roms on it. however i searched the A100 forum and cant find a single post / thread about proper instruction on how to install A500 roms on A100 or how to do different things for new owners,
for example i am interested in installing the FLEXREAPER ROm (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517181) what are the steps i need to follow? i have already rooted the device and all set, but what is unblocking the BL ?
Can someone please be kind enough to write a step by step instruction on how to flash a A500 rom on A100 ?
Thank you in advance.
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Unlocking the bootloader allows you to flash a custom recovery which is required to flash custom roms. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558595. All you need to do is restore your boot.img after flashing an A500 rom (so flash it like any other custom rom, then restore the boot.img from your a100 rom's nandroid backup).
Theonew said:
Unlocking the bootloader allows you to flash a custom recovery which is required to flash custom roms. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558595. All you need to do is restore your boot.img after flashing an A500 rom (so flash it like any other custom rom, then restore the boot.img from your a100 rom's nandroid backup).
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Thanks for the help.
so
i first unlock the bootloader, then flash my custom rom then BEFORE rebooting flash back by boot.img and reboot, correct? how do i backup my boot.img?
are you on any ICS rom urself? how is the screen ? i had the Morse code issue on this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDXfj6TchM&list=UUHqepxR6_suYYKySqKxymDg&index=16&feature=plcp
but then installed the HC custom build prob by crossix and its so much better, have you tested this on ICS ?
Thank you so much,
Raul77 said:
Thanks for the help.
so
i first unlock the bootloader, then flash my custom rom then BEFORE rebooting flash back by boot.img and reboot, correct? how do i backup my boot.img?
are you on any ICS rom urself? how is the screen ? i had the Morse code issue on this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDXfj6TchM&list=UUHqepxR6_suYYKySqKxymDg&index=16&feature=plcp
but then installed the HC custom build prob by crossix and its so much better, have you tested this on ICS ?
Thank you so much,
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- Unlock the bootloader
- Flash CWM Recovery
- Nandroid, then flash the a500 rom, then restore your boot.img from the nandroid backup
Yes, I am running ICS (I wanted to wait for the official release, but I was tempted by the development ). The screen is not as good as HC with crossix's modded build.prop. It cannot be used on ICS since it was coded for honeycomb. A few changes should make it compatible, but I haven't tried it.
Raul77 said:
Thanks for the help.
so
i first unlock the bootloader, then flash my custom rom then BEFORE rebooting flash back by boot.img and reboot, correct? how do i backup my boot.img?
are you on any ICS rom urself? how is the screen ? i had the Morse code issue on this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDXfj6TchM&list=UUHqepxR6_suYYKySqKxymDg&index=16&feature=plcp
but then installed the HC custom build prob by crossix and its so much better, have you tested this on ICS ?
Thank you so much,
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You can flash my rom Tabooyay it comes with the fixed boot.img, and i'm updating it possibly tonight.
Thanks guys,
well I honestly was about to return the A100 before i tried the crossix build.Prob, it was almost impossible to use it !!! I will give ICS a try i guess but Screen is huge i think,
just one final question, if i want to go back to Stock HC I can right?
Thanks,
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Thanks guys,
well I honestly was about to return the A100 before i tried the crossix build.Prob, it was almost impossible to use it !!! I will give ICS a try i guess but Screen is huge i think,
just one final question, if i want to go back to Stock HC I can right?
Thanks,
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Yes, you can. See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23008670&postcount=5.
Here is the process I took
Flashed ICS leak 009
Unlocked the bootloader
Flashed thor's recovery via fastboot (adb reboot bootloader then fastboot flash thorsrecovery)
Then I let the tablet fully boot up an did this
ADB reboot recovery
Then made a nandroid for box stock ICS
Then I downloaded Flexreapers rom an all the files/folders with the exception of these
-EC
-Meta INF
-system
Finally I did a factory reset an let the tablet boot up all the way an manually installed in the modified acer ring.apk I modified an replaced the old acer ring.apk an rebooted.
Happy ending
There is alot more i've done since but this is the basics of getting the a500 rom working.
pintek said:
Here is the process I took
Flashed ICS leak 009
Unlocked the bootloader
Flashed thor's recovery via fastboot (adb reboot bootloader then fastboot flash thorsrecovery)
Then I let the tablet fully boot up an did this
ADB reboot recovery
Then made a nandroid for box stock ICS
Then I downloaded Flexreapers rom an all the files/folders with the exception of these
-EC
-Meta INF
-system
Finally I did a factory reset an let the tablet boot up all the way an manually installed in the modified acer ring.apk I modified an replaced the old acer ring.apk an rebooted.
Happy ending
There is alot more i've done since but this is the basics of getting the a500 rom working.
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Holy smoke that sounds complicated !!!
Questions
1-) how is the screen?
2-) when you say "Then I downloaded Flexreapers rom an all the files/folders with the exception of these" so you downloaded the zip, unzipped it, removed those folders and rezipped it?
3-) Where did you download the Acer Ring?
Thank you,
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You can flash my rom Tabooyay it comes with the fixed boot.img, and i'm updating it possibly tonight.
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btw where can i find your ROM ?
Raul77 said:
btw where can i find your ROM ?
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His rom can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24164784&postcount=88.
GO TO THE POST BELOW FOR THE RECOVERY AND INFO. PLEASE THANK HIM
CLICK ME FOR POST.
This is his topic full of stock recoveries and what-not
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Bear in mind that I do not have the time to restore to stock, and then check it for myself if you can extract the stock recovery without root, but you probably can. Please refer to the quote I will post below as I have little time to clean this post up.
Please thank user Davy Jones for actually finding the solution!
Davy Jones said:
Okay, I don't know any coding so I apologize if this is a dumb suggestion, but is it possible to follow the article's directions to pull recovery? So from shell:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22 of=/sdcard/recovery.img bs=4096
I'm already on cwm so I have no way of testing this. Also, please don't try this unless you know what you are doing. I tried this on cwm and it created a file that was 10MB instead of the .img I originally flashed, which was 5.98MB.
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Alrighty that's wonderful. I am trying a guide right now and I will see if I am successful at extracting a recovery and I will report back.
EDIT
I've made wonderful process, and I've extracted a 10mb file which what the recovery.img supposed to be resized to.
So i've basically typed in
After this, I got a huge list of the partitions, and using this I've confirmed that mmcblk0p22 is the block that contains the recovery (I also made sure that I didn't extract something else, etc by checking what the userdata and sdcard size is supposed to be?
Then I typed in
and got
So I ended up with a 10MB file sitting in the root of my internal memory (known as sdcard)
Now I will try to confirm if it is the same file as my recovery.
EDIT
Well after more digging around.. I found this and where it says "Download - Recovery Image Method (using dd):" It shows that the block which the recovery is in in actually the same as the one above, so there was an easier way. Oh well! At least we confirmed that we have the correct file, the question is, can we flash it, guess I'll try after I get home.
If you want to try this out on a NON-Rooted one, you'll have to go to Settings>Developer Options>Root access and allow ADB.
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Quote ends here.
Hopefully you're a Koodo owner reading this and have noticed the title.
Many of us Koodo owners, have rooted, installed a custom recovery, and have started the flashing frenzy, but we have forgot one thing.
No its not making a NAND of the stock ROM, its the fact the we forgot to backup our stock recoveries! I know it might not be a difference compared to the Telus recovery, but we still need to be sure, that when we want to update, or if we want to return the phone, what we are fully stock.
So what I'm asking you, is to make a backup of your Koodo stock recovery, and share it with us
Unfortunately I do not know how to extract a recovery.img. So hopefully an XDA member will post a guide in this to help us extract the .img
or as always, Google is your best friend
Cheers, and thanks
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Koragg618 said:
I have found a link on how to get it
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...es-boot-recovery-and-system-partition-images/
Download link for RomDump is at the end of the article
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Those are the instructions.
Thanks everyone for contributing!
I have a stock phone still but need a guide on pulling my recovery. Would I just use ADB or?...
chevymeister said:
I have a stock phone still but need a guide on pulling my recovery. Would I just use ADB or?...
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Im not a koodo member but is it not the same way for tmobile users? With stock ODIN flash? when I ODIN flash my t989 to stock it also flash the stock recovery
I have found a link on how to get it
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...es-boot-recovery-and-system-partition-images/
Download link for RomDump is at the end of the article
Bump, since no one is really noticing the pinned topic
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Bump, since no one is really noticing the pinned topic
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I could help, Ive got a Koodo S2 X. However, its not rooted, would i still be able to make a backup of my stock recovery.
Yes I believe it is still possible, just make sure Debugging mode is on and you are using the ADB method, and not the one that has the Android Terminal one. Thanks
My friend and my girlfriend both have Stock Koodo Phone... so i'm gonne try to bring the original Koodo Recovery.img. I read the articles from addictive tips... but i think i missed something, They said we need to root the phone but the first step in the method to root the phone is to install CWM recovery IMG via Odin... So it will overwrite Koodo original Recovery.img.... before i extract it...
Any clue or hint ???
Maybe another way to root via ADB ???
I have a Koodo T989D still on stock everything. I want to root my phone and do all this fancy stuff on it but I'm not in a hurry. I can make a copy of my stock recovery if I get the proper instructions.
edit: isn't this what you're looking for anyway?? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849748
tazmania12345 said:
I have a Koodo T989D still on stock everything. I want to root my phone and do all this fancy stuff on it but I'm not in a hurry. I can make a copy of my stock recovery if I get the proper instructions.
edit: isn't this what you're looking for anyway?? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849748
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No. What you're pointing to us is a custom Rom... Based on the Stock Koodo Rom. What we are looking for is the Stock Recovery... Just to put back the entire phone in original condition if you have to bring it back to manufacturer for repair...
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No. What you're pointing to us is a custom Rom... Based on the Stock Koodo Rom. What we are looking for is the Stock Recovery... Just to put back the entire phone in original condition if you have to bring it back to manufacturer for repair...
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Oh i see... I'm still on stock 4.0.4 so i'll definitely try to provide the backup. Like i said, i'd need the proper instructions because i'm new to all of this.
Someone previously posted the stock recovery which I have attached. Use at your own risk since I have not tested it!
Amazing, where did you find this!
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Amazing, where did you find this!
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Someone previously posted it few weeks ago on the XDA forums in the device dev section and I had downloaded and kept a copy in case I needed it.
jumran said:
Someone previously posted it few weeks ago on the XDA forums in the device dev section and I had downloaded and kept a copy in case I needed it.
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Thanks! This will come in handy.
Sorry to be the bad news but I believe this recovery is the one that I've packaged before I though I've found the TLLG2 stock recovery from this site page 68( post by netusername and uploading it without testing it 1st.... then later installed/tested it and it was a CWM touch recovery and not the TLLG2 stock recovery, Sorry again.
Source:
User:netusername
KOODO STOCK IMAGE/RESTORE
Directions: Download these three in the same folder - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Use Winrar/7zip to only extract Part 1 after you have all three parts in the same folder. You should get a folder called clockworkmod. There should be another folder called "backup" inside.
Put the "clockwordmod" folder in your sd card.
Use clockwordmod to restore after factory reset, wipe system, wipe dalvik cache.... It is recommended that you use Clockwordmod 6 - it can be found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1823117
Enjoy!
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Sent from my ♛ SGH-T989 ♛ using XDA app.
Oh well thats confusing Thanks for the info man!
Sorry I'm not following.
Do you mean the post by jumran (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32299219&postcount=12) is not the stock recovery and is actually a CWM recovery that you're mentioning?
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Sorry to be the bad news but I believe this recovery is the one that I've packaged before I though I've found the TLLG2 stock recovery from this site page 68( post by netusername and uploading it without testing it 1st.... then later installed/tested it and it was a CWM touch recovery and not the TLLG2 stock recovery, Sorry again.
Source:
Sent from my ♛ SGH-T989 ♛ using XDA app.
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Yes it is a CMW Touch recovery and no problem
[curious] What are you guys doing? [/curious]
You realize backing up any part of your original stock ROM is pointless? All you have to do pick up the original stock tarball from Samsung's website, fire up ODIN, flash, and then not even Samsung can tell you ever did something to your phone. It will be stock everything: radio, recovery, ROM...
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Here, follow the instructions: http://fus.nanzen.se/
There are no presets for Koodo, but all the information you need is readily available on the original box your phones came in.
And if you really need the Koodo recovery for whatever reason, it is an IMG file inside the TARball. You can just DD it in place.
how to install ARHD after update jelly bean
Do you really need to open up a thread asking this? Read, read and read again.
the same way you used to flash ics roms.
there is no change of procedure. Since your firmware is updated now. all you need to do is put the zip in sd card.
flash the rom through recovery then flash the boot.img through fastboot
dnt foreget to erase cache.
and reboot. You are done
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the same way you used to flash ics roms.
there is no change of procedure. Since your firmware is updated now. all you need to do is put the zip in sd card.
flash the rom through recovery then flash the boot.img through fastboot
dnt foreget to erase cache.
and reboot. You are done
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ok thanks for your answer:good:
and i still need to unlock the phone right? (sorry im a real noob)
liorderei said:
and i still need to unlock the phone right? (sorry im a real noob)
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Yes you need to unlock and have a custom recovery installed. Look at the stickies in the one x android development forum. Bunch of easy to follow guides.
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Hi everyone,
I've been using PA for a while but it's become really buggy for me for some reason. Everything is incredibly slow and I have overheating issues with a few apps (like Hangouts).
I want to flash it back to Jelly Bean to see if it will help at all, can anyone tip into the right direction on how to do this from a custom ROM please?
Thanks for the help!
hm... I believe you can download the image from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
and then flash the .tar file like you would with any custom rom. well, if it doesn't work it won't boot but you can always flash another custom rom so it may be worth a try
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hm... I believe you can download the image from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
and then flash the .tar file like you would with any custom rom. well, if it doesn't work it won't boot but you can always flash another custom rom so it may be worth a try
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no no
you don't flash that tar file like a custom ROM.
it has all the necessary instructions on that page though I believe.
you use the files from in that tar, and flash them via fastboot.
to OP, there are sticky threads at top of one of these forums for how to return to stock.
all step by steps are easily found there as well as any helpful toolkits you might want to try which will basically do it all for you.
I haven't heard anything about an working method for backup stock recovery in A/B partition system, anyone knows how to do that? I already tried adb, Flashfire, TWRP, there's no recovery partition, help
All3nS3mpai said:
I haven't heard anything about an working method for backup stock recovery in A/B partition system, anyone knows how to do that? I already tried adb, Flashfire, TWRP, there's no recovery partition, help
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Yeah, there is no recovery partition in our phone... Why do you want to backup it?
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Yeah, there is no recovery partition in our phone... Why do you want to backup it?
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Because i want to install a custom one(TWRP) and still able to reinstall the stock if a new OTA is released
All3nS3mpai said:
Because i want to install a custom one(TWRP) and still able to reinstall the stock if a new OTA is released
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You will brick your phone as simple as that... You cannot use slots A/B with stock and AOSP simultaneously.
Read the guides on my signature and take care.
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You will brick your phone as simple as that... You cannot use slots A/B with stock and AOSP simultaneously.
Read the guides on my signature and take care.
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And I don't want to, what I'm trying to say is that if I want to go back to stock I can do it fully, including recovery, I don't want to have two systems installed at the same time, just stock or AOSP. And thanks for that post, I'll check it, I'm new in this.
All3nS3mpai said:
And I don't want to, what I'm trying to say is that if I want to go back to stock I can do it fully, including recovery, I don't want to have two systems installed at the same time, just stock or AOSP. And thanks for that post, I'll check it, I'm new in this.
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If you return to stock, the recovery is included. You don't need the stock recovery to go back to stock ROM. There is also a guide for "returning to stock".
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If you return to stock, the recovery is included. You don't need the stock recovery to go back to stock ROM. There is also a guide for "returning to stock".
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Even if the zip file doesn't include a recovery.img?
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Even if the zip file doesn't include a recovery.img?
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Recovery is in our boot.img. Flash that and you'll have stock recovery.
Technical said:
If you return to stock, the recovery is included. You don't need the stock recovery to go back to stock ROM. There is also a guide for "returning to stock".
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Does unlocking the bootloader stops the phone from receiving OTA?