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Hey guys, hope i'm posting this in the right place. I am in need of some serious help here! I rooted my wifes Evo via unrevoked and was running myn's RLS4 with no issues. Than i decided to update/flash the radio/wimax combo zip provided by virus on this forum. I did a Nandroid backup before this btw. Well the phone got stuck in the screen with the white box/arrow and android beside it. After a while i did a battery pull. After that the phone would not start up so i tried to flash the nandroid backup i made but it just kept getting stuck on the white screen that says HTC Evo 4G. I had an older nandroid backup of the stock/rooted sprint rom it came with. It let me flash that just fine for some reason but not the newest backup! Well after this the phone was running like CRAP! lagging, random reboots, physically heating up etc. I was directed to Chris Sprint Lovers 3.70 rom by another member. I did the all in one that the phone scans for automatically in bootloader. Worked like a charm and fixed everything BUT............now i cant flash any roms at all. It goes through all the steps when flashing but it gets stuck on the HTC Evo 4G screen everytime! I still have S-off and SU permissions and all root only apps are working fine. I was told to re-root it but that didnt work either. It gets stuck on the part where unrevoked says waiting for root! Can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me? It would be much appreciated!
EVO 4g
Hardware 0003
running Sprint Lovers 3.70 OTA update ROM
I think its because the new radio/pri is not really compatible with older HTC kernels or ROMs that are not based off of build 3.70. You might need to flash the older radio and pri before you can flash other ROMs.
Well after flashing the Sprint lovers rom all the software is up to date. Build 3.70, #15 kernel, etc. Runs really smooth but cant flash anything!
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What is your hboot version?? You may need to use a different recovery version.
Its .092 I believe. I have been using clockwork recovery prior to this issue. Every time I flash something it just gets stuck in reboot.
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I have the Same problem sprint lovers rom 3.70 build and cannot cannot cannot get into recovery and i'm using Amon Ra and on Hboot .97 i'm pretty sure its the hboot
bump need a solution if any
I can access recovery and flash zips but it gets stuck on the reboot and than I have to do a battery pull and go back and flash my nandroid backup.
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Lucky you mine locks up on the splash screen trying to get in to recovery
Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
Man i hope i can get my wifes phone fixed ASAP or i may be spending Xmas on the couch!!!!
Are you on the old HBOOT or the new one? Cause if your on an old HBOOT you can running the original ruu and down grade the radio and be back on track
Sent from my EVO at the edge of hell
Old one I believe. So the radio is the issue?
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luist4498 said:
Old one I believe. So the radio is the issue?
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I belive so i Think that the new radio's are incompatable with the older hboots such as .97 and below excludeing the eng. bootloader haven't seen anyone have issues issues with .76 or 2.02 and above i have .97 and anytime i flash the radio's my recovery breaks gets stuck at the splash screen and won't go in to the recovery screen. after i flash the ruu that restores the old radios and flash reflash amon ra it works fine again. I have tried to reflash the recovery but its a no go still hangs up
Hmm....she likes the way its running with the 3.70 updates and new radio though. Its much smoother and battery life is pretty good! May try it out though.....
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Also, where can I find the correct ruu? I tried a few out that didnt work!
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Check out this thread.
Supersonic Shipped ROMs
It gets even more wierd....a friend of mine has the same phone, rooted the same way as my wifes, same software and all. He just flashed the Sprint lovers rom today. He can still access cwm recovery and flash like normal. What's up with that? Why won't my wifes work?
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I tried to run the RUU but it was a no go! It keeps giving me a usb error. This is gettig pretty annoying since she really wants her old font and rom back! Sorry for beating this to death but i just cant figure this one out! I cant flash anything!
I've searched the forums and have not found a situation that really matches mine.
I've been running on a Cyanogen nightly build for probably two months with no problems. Out of nowhere this morning my phone reboots itself (while it was idle; I wasn't even touching it) and then gets stuck in a boot loop. I get the White HTC Evo 4G screen, then it powers off and comes back up to the white screen again. Over and over.
All I can get do is hboot. Even telling hboot to go into the recovery mode puts my back into the boot loop. Fastboot, clear storage, and hboot usb all seem to work though. I've tried downloading the PC36IMG.zip file (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141) in that thread, but hboot loads it and tells me that it is older than my current version, and only gives me the option to reboot, or not to reboot. Doesn't load the image.
Here is the information on my hboot screen:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.97.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
Aug 19 2010, 14:29:08
Anybody have any ideas? Thanks!
you lost root, s-on
you can still start the bootloader so it's not a brick
need to get s-off before you can load recovery again and reflash your rom
have you tried the RUU? if it installs and defaults you then you can unrevoked to root
NewZJ said:
you lost root, s-on
you can still start the bootloader so it's not a brick
need to get s-off before you can load recovery again and reflash your rom
have you tried the RUU? if it installs and defaults you then you can unrevoked to root
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Trying the RUU here now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874091
Wish me luck!
luck has been wished
Kuhmo said:
Trying the RUU here now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874091
Wish me luck!
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This didn't work. Everything is still the same, except that my hboot version is now 2.10.0001. Any other thoughts?
still won't not into any rom? did you get errors?
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still won't not into any rom? did you get errors?
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No, the app on the PC said everything was successful. The progress bar on the phone progressed without errors too.
what happens when you reboot the phone not going into bootloader?
Just the HTC EVO 4G splash screen. Over and over and over...
does it show the boot animation or just stuck on splash?
Just the splash. No animation.
pull the battery, remove your sdcard, put the battery back in, see if it gets to the animation
Doh, you upgraded your hboot. It's alright though, just run the ruu one more time and your should be ok
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Wrong button..
xHausx said:
Doh, you upgraded your hboot. It's alright though, just run the ruu one more time and your should be ok
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I asked my wife to check this thread from the car on the way to dinner. Saw the response. So I took my laptop inside with us and used the RUU one more time. No luck. I decided that it must be a hardware issue. I took the SD out and removed the evidence that the phone had been rooted, then took it to the sprint service center up the road. They just replaced it for me. Thanks for your time! I DO want to root my phone again, the ROMs are just so much better than the stock installation. Should I not install the OTA updates if I'm going to root it? Which guide should I follow for rooting?
never do OTA when rooted, use unrevoked to root, unrevoked.com
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never do OTA when rooted, use unrevoked to root, unrevoked.com
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Not when rooted. I meant should I update to the latest OTA UNTIL I decide to do the root again? Is the latest OTA unrootable?
Same deal.
Here is the post that I put in the wrong forum that I was about to post here until I saw this thread...
Wellp. I win.
I win a no expenses paid trip to my nearest Sprint dealer.
Ever since I used unrevoked to root my phone in November, I've been voraciously digging through these forums for tasty roms. I've been snorting lines of Cyanogen, MIUI, and a myriad of other, well-designed roms.
Using a on older version of hboot (pre 1 methinks) I was able to avoid the latest hassles with ClockworkMod (plus, I down(up?)graded to 2.6 via RomManager).
Tonight, as I was enjoying some tasty foodstuffs at my local foodstuff vendor, my phone rebooted. Then, it rebooted again. Then again. I once made the folly of flashing a new rom without running the appropriate wipes, and was no stranger to the bootloop. I patiently fired up hboot (my poor volume rocker is all but wore out) and ordered up the trusty recovery mode.
...then it rebooted again... and again... and again.
PusSidiasus: ONOES! I HAVE THE WTFBBRICKED MY PRECIOUS!
SmartAsSidiasus: Hang on for a second, let's check the internet. Try this link: tinyurl.com/4vgeyeg
PusSidiasus: ...
Unfortunately, my internal dialogues are not nearly as witty. Also, my best attempts to de-brick-ify were for naught. Fastboot gave some wacky error message when I tried to flash a new recovery, and installing via PC36IMG.zip did nothing to improve the situation. I even went so far as to install a stock image someone pulled from an RUU (with a 2.02hboot, so as to avoid wimax woes)...
Still, a whole lotta nothing. I can't do anything beyond hboot, and whatever recovery image I install (Clockworkmod, AmanRa) the machine still bootloops.
At this juncture, I've resigned to taking the phone into the sprint store and playing dumb. It is a stock rom, though I hope the attendant misses the S-OFF bit at boot. Which brings me to my proper question:
1) Has anyone run aground a similar issue and found a way out?
OR...
2) Anyone know how to turn S-(back)ON in my current situation?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Also, you can rest assured that I'll be rooting again whatever phone I walk away with, and the work that is exhibited in these forums is amazing. Keep churning out wonderful roms and guides.
Sidiasus
(Currently, Sadiasus... )
run the ruu to s-on then trade for another
NewZJ said:
run the ruu to s-on then trade for another
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Ack, sorry... didn't mention in previous post. I fired up windows to run the RUU (I don't trust wine to that stuff) but it couldn't detect the device.
First of all I want to give props to the devs, you guys amaze me. Problem I have been working on getting back the root or unrooting my evo so that I can use my warranty to possibly get my phone swapped out. So here is where I am s-on, clockworkmod recovery, running stock, deodexed rom, I need to get everything back to factory specs for warranty svc. Everytime I run the RUU all I get is this error msg. ERROR 170 USB CONNECTION ERROR. When I to flash the pcm163.img via Bootloader I get a version is older error msg. What else can I try? I think this thing would pass for stock, if I could just get the factory recovery back on, and uninstall superuser. I have no Idea what to do now devs help!
note: interesting how I have "s-on" yet I still have superuser permission.
update got RUU to run but now I'm going to need instructions on how to backup and restore my wimax once I get my new Supersonic Evo 4g.
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Do you mean how do you backup your new wimax keys on your new device? You can't restore the wimax keys of your old evo to your new one. All the newest recoveries backup wimax keys now. I'd really recommend going with Among Ra. It's a much better recovery than clockworkmod in my opinion.
So, after messing around with my "new" replacement EVO and getting it rooted (successfully with HBOOT 2.1, 2.6.32.15 Kernel, ROM back to stock Sprint 3.29.651.5, baseband 2.15.00.09.01), I decided to try and put Warm's ROM back on it. That was all fine and dandy until I rebooted with the ROM on my SD and went into recovery... to get the little Angry Red Triangle of Death. Even though it's showing as SOFF, when I ADB in (via FASTBOOT), it won't let me push anything and acts like it's not rooted; TB/WH/etc... aren't working either.
That being said... how do you go about flashing a new recovery when HBOOT won't properly read the PC36IMG.zip file? It reads it and does its little break out thing for the individual components, but then never gives me an option to flash it. Obviously, I can't flash any IMGs via ADB because the phone thinks that it's not rooted... am I semi-screwed? I can probably find a way to brick it and take it back to Sprint for another one, but I'd rather fix it myself than take the dishonest path.
Any help is much appreciated in advance. Let me know if I can answer any other questions that need answering. Radios are also the latest, IINM, and if it even matters.
*edit* Also, I was stuck in a boot lock at the white HTC screen previously, which I fixed by running an older Sprint RUU while it was connected via fastboot. Did that potentially make things worse?
What hardware version do you have? I am guessing since you have 2.1 h boot, that, you may have 004 hardware. Also I'm not sure what root method you used, but I would try and re-root using unrevoked then see how it affects your recovery.
I have no idea if this would work, but try flashing a recovery through rom manager. However, is your bootloader borked?
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I have no idea if this would work, but try flashing a recovery through rom manager. However, is your bootloader borked?
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Nope, bootloader seems to be fine. I can get into it and it reads the PC36IMG files but just doesn't want to load them up and/or try to install them. Everything else in the regular bootloader menu works too, past recovery.
Hardware version is indeed 0004. Does that make any difference? I couldn't find anything in the FAQs about whether or not hardware version makes a difference with the newest ROMs.
Hello everyone, I'm running into a bit of a problem here with my sister's HTC EVO 4G.
You see her phone is a remanufactured replacement model from Sprint, and naturally it has a few minor problems with it. She wasn't thrilled with the battery life, so I rooted and flashed CM7.1 on her phone. She liked the rom and liked the extra battery life after I did some tweaking. Two Months later, for some odd reason, her phone will not connect to the data network at all. I flashed CM 7.2, same problem. Contacted sprint, where they refreshed the signal to the phone, no luck. So I concluded that it was a hardware error. Problem is, Sprint won't work on the phone without the Stock Sense Rom installed. I thought: "No big deal, I'll just flash it back to the stock sense rom" right? WRONG.
Never have I ever been so enraged by a cellphone. No matter what I do, no matter what I try, this phone absolutely REFUSES to go back to the stock rom. I've tried flashing several PC36IMG.zip files from the sdcard in HBOOT, and I have also tried several RUU updates from my PC while having the phone in Fastboot USB mode.
Quick Info:
Phone: HTC EVO 4G
Baseband: 2.15.00.12.19
HBOOT: 2.18.0001
Bootloader = Unlocked
Security = ON (S-ON)
Trying to flash PC36IMG.zip from HBOOT results in the phone loading the zip (with the little vertical progress bar on the side) and after loading completely, it just goes on it's merry way, checking for any other zip files and then HBOOT loads normally.
Running the RUU .exe files on my computer goes smoothly right up until somewhere in the update progress I get Error 155 (Unknown Error).
Now, it's my understanding that I don't need S-OFF to go back to the stock Sense rom, but I figured I should try to get S-OFF anyways. So I downloaded unrevoked and try to apply it from CWM, and it fails stating that it's not compatible with my radio version. Funny thing is, in all the radio lists for the HTC EVO 4G, I don't see 2.15.00.12.19 anywhere. In fact, 2.15.00.08.08 seems to be the newest one, unless I'm reading the lists wrong.
Either way I'm completely stuck here, and now I have a whining teenage sister screaming at me because she doesn't have a phone on a friday night. Go Figure.. Please guys, I know I'm a noobie here, but do me a solid. Please help me out, I'm stuck, frustrated, and I'm getting to the point where it's time to crack open a beer or 3 and say "f**k it".
Thanks in advance,
Alcolawl
you dont need s-off to return to stock..try the guide below in my signature to unroot and return to stock
XenonV said:
you dont need s-off to return to stock..try the guide below in my signature to unroot and return to stock
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Does it matter which RUU version I download? (I've been extracting the rom.zips from the RUU's temporary files). I have the most current one on my computer named: "RUU_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3_Radio_2.15.00.12.19_NV_2.33_release_234563_signed". I usually take the Rom from that, rename it PC36IMG.zip, place it on a freshly formatted sdcard, and reboot into bootloader and hope for the best.
well, if you want the bootloader to be returned to factory stock settings then you can follow the guide below, BUT if you just want to UN ROOT, just copy a stock rom like the one you named, and flash it thru RECOVERY menu (install zip from sd card), dont install it from the bootloader (white screen)
XenonV said:
well, if you want the bootloader to be returned to factory stock settings then you can follow the guide below, BUT if you just want to UN ROOT, just copy a stock rom like the one you named, and flash it thru RECOVERY menu (install zip from sd card), dont install it from the bootloader (white screen)
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Sounds easy enough. While messing around and waiting for Dominos to arrive, I decided to flash MikG (first time doing so, so I wasn't sure what to expect). Lo and Behold, I updated the PRL and Data Profile, and her Data works again. She also likes how Sense looks more so than CM7. Aesthetics > Functionality in her book I guess. If it comes down to having to bring the phone to the Sprint store, I'll try flashing the image through Recovery instead of Hboot.
Thanks for the help man, really appreciate it.
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Sounds easy enough. While messing around and waiting for Dominos to arrive, I decided to flash MikG (first time doing so, so I wasn't sure what to expect). Lo and Behold, I updated the PRL and Data Profile, and her Data works again. She also likes how Sense looks more so than CM7. Aesthetics > Functionality in her book I guess. If it comes down to having to bring the phone to the Sprint store, I'll try flashing the image through Recovery instead of Hboot.
Thanks for the help man, really appreciate it.
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no problem :good::fingers-crossed: