Cant flash radio? Need help - Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Well I'm trying to flash a radio and I dunno why? I try do it by command when the phones in bootloader and I get a error message like remote not allowed. But I don't get it and what to do. I've put a photo of my boot loader if it helps
If anyone could help it would be very appreciate it
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I just started to read last night how to flash one, not much i can help with.
Did you, being in the rom check usb debugging or whatever its called?
Edit: oh my, whatever happened to my grammar? No more posting before my first cup of coffee.
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Its because you don't have eng soff. For us "regular" soff we flash a radio via a pd98img formatted zip. If you really want eng soff use the ace hack kit to install it
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kyaldearing said:
Well I'm trying to flash a radio and I dunno why? I try do it by command when the phones in bootloader and I get a error message like remote not allowed. But I don't get it and what to do. I've put a photo of my boot loader if it helps
If anyone could help it would be very appreciate it
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OK guy flashing radios are not an easy task. Especially trying eng s-off and command flashing them. It is not for the noobies to attempt. Please research and read up as much as you can on radio flashing before you end up with an unrepairable expensive paper weight. Flashing radios in pd98img zip formats are the easiest and safest way without eng s-off.
Also radios are based on your region. You may flash a radio and end up with worse service. There's and old saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it"
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Reinaldo33897 said:
OK guy flashing radios are not an easy task. Especially trying eng s-off and command flashing them. It is not for the noobies to attempt. Please research and read up as much as you can on radio flashing before you end up with an unrepairable expensive paper weight. Flashing radios in pd98img zip formats are the easiest and safest way without eng s-off.
Also radios are based on your region. You may flash a radio and end up with worse service. There's and old saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it"
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I have tried doing it as pd98img but it finds it and then says parsing pd98img and then does nothing.
and my service isn't the best and my battery life is terrible with whatever I do it didn't work and also I know your trying to help but your don't have to be all high and mighty and arrogant about knowing what I dont

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295&page=201
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12.65.60.29_26.14.04.28_M radio version in a flashable PD98IMG.zip. I downloaded it somewhere from ARHD 6.3.1 thread, checked MD5Sum, packed it into a template PD98IMG.zip, unzipped it, checked MD5Sum again (was the same ).
I then calculated the MD5Sum of the new created PD98IMG.zip with the radio.img in it (the one I'm providing here).
The MD5Sum is: 599913d5041450b5c169f65b09b2f859
Download
So download it, put it onto your SD Card and check the MD5Sum before - should work like a charm then.
[I'm not responsible for any possible brick ]
Download that radio version and check md5. Put PD98IMG.zip root of sdcard. Take battery out and put it back in. Then press vol- down and press power button. Phone will ask perform update if all has gone well. If not there is something wrong in your phone software.

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Cellcom usa stock ruu, or way to get it?

Hello everyone, I have searched all over to try and figure this out on my own but I guess I have failed....lol. I am looking for the stock Rom from HTC desire cellcom usa. Or a way I can remove a stock Rom from the phone its self. I have one rooted and one not rooted and for warranty reasons I need a way to recover it to a state they would not know it was tampered with in the future. I hope that day never comes but I like to be safe. Anyone know of a way I can rip the stock ruu from the unrooted? Or know of a place I can find cellcoms ruu? Any help would be awesome and is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I may have posted that a little hard to understand. Is there a way to take a backup from nandroid and remove the superuser aspect of it and then flash so the phone is restored to stalk? If that was a possibility I would do it and then upload the recovery for other users if they need it for recovery reasons. Second part of my question my fiance has a non rooted desire is there a way I can rip the factory cellcom recovery off of it?
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You could try it using this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6710113&postcount=5
But I have no idea how to remove the custom recovery from your device.
don't know if this will work, haven't tried it, let someone who knows what they're talking about to confirm this (it probably won't work, I made it) and fill in the gaps before you try anything.
The following will (*should*) take you through the process of dumping the stock rom and flashing it to a rooted phone, most of this is from memory from what I read elsewhere, THIS IS NOT A GUIDE - PERFORM AT OWN RISK - UNTESTED!!!
Dump (stock desire):
Find the radio that is installed and download it, look here, in ruu's and OTA's, put it on your pc and call it radio.img
Use visionary to get 'temp root' (don't do a permanent root (not that it will work anyway)).
From adb or terminal emulator run these commands.
Code:
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd1 of=/sdcard/unroot/recovery.img bs=4096
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd2 of=/sdcard/unroot/boot.img bs=4096
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd3 of=/sdcard/unroot/system.img bs=4096
Reboot into fastboot (bootloader) and note what HBOOT it is. This bit I'm unclear on, you will either have to dump the HBOOT somehow or extract it from a RUU (zip), I haven't done either but one of them should be possible.
Put the HBOOT image on your pc and call it hboot.img.
Restore (rooted desire):
s-off the desire if this has not already been done.
boot to recovery and clear ALL userdata.
Over adb (from recovery still) run these commands
Code:
mount /sdcard
flash_image boot /sdcard/unroot/boot.img
flash_image system /sdcard/unroot/system.img
***reboot into android to check it works before flashing recovery***
flash_image recovery /sdcard/unroot/recovery.img
reboot bootloader
From fastboot run 'fastboot flash radio radio.img'
From fastboot run 'fastboot flash hboot hboot.img'
reboot and you should be done.
Notes:
I'm not sure if misc needs to be backed up...can someone clarify.
Wow thanks for such a detailed reply. I will wait until someone else can confirm it is a good plan before prpceeding. It sounds good on paper but I don't want to take any chances lol. I am use to messing with other hardware but phones is a new thing to me. Being region and carrier specific I really don't want to ruin the phone before I have a stable backup to factory and because there are no ruu's for my provider I have to make my own. Thanks again. Hope to get this working so I can post it for other desire owners with my carrier
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No problem, it's not an entirely selfless act, there is no ruu for my carrier either so I would be very interested to see if this works.
Yeah I hope with one rooted desire and one stock to find a way to get factory recovery working. If so would make things a lot easyer for a lot of people I think
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If you already have a rooted desire, you can try the steps that mercianary provided. I am not sure, but maybe you don't need s-off because you will flash an "official rom".
Try these two steps
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd2 of=/sdcard/unroot/boot.img bs=4096
dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd3 of=/sdcard/unroot/system.img bs=4096
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And then without s-off try to push them with fastboot, you will get an error if it doesn't work, but then it hasn't done anything, so you don't need to worry.
Do all this on your already rooted desire of course. No harm done if it does not work.
If that works, you can try a temproot on your non rooted desire. Then do the same things from adb, then do the steps from fastboot on your already rooted desire (but don't push the recovery yet).
So I dont wanna sound to stupid but phone tweaking is really new to me. Phone was rooted with unrevoked so did not take a lot of skill... If you don't mind could I ask for slightly clearer directions? Thank you so much for the reply and help so far it is greatly appreciated
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have you flashed any custom roms or did you just use unrevoked?
I only used unrevoked and updated the radio but I am not to worried about the radio part though I bet I could find the official one that it shipped with
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Hey was just thinking, would someone be able to piece together a stock setup? Say find a normal boot without costume recovery and replace it in a backup, and then remove super user as well? Then flash that and be back to normal?
did you ever get this to work? I'm on Cellcom too and looking to get back to stock. Do you have the software version of the stock Desire that you could share?
It won't work as the signature wouldn't match. Just gotta use a WWE RUU and hope they don't mind
EddyOS said:
It won't work as the signature wouldn't match. Just gotta use a WWE RUU and hope they don't mind
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Where are those available?
I see on shippedroms.com there is an Alltell RUU. All that I can tell for sure that's the same is the radio. Would this possibly work?
It's the only CDMA RUU ever to leak I think so it should work...branding will be wrong, though
I actually gave up on it lol. But I had to send my phone in for service and just got it back today a month later and they never said a thing about it being rooted and have superuser privileges
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GB OTA and the new hboot 0.82.0008- lots of questions

I haven't flashed the new hboot yet. I'm currently running CM7 and have the eng hboot 0.76.2000 with s-off.
As promised, here are the questions:
1) Has anyone flashed the new hboot and tried to restore a custom rom?
2) If I flash the new hboot (0.86.0008) will I be able flash back to the eng hboot?
3) What are the differences between the two? I usually use cwm/recovery, but if I need the hboot, I would like to be able to flash all the partitions. Is this still possible with the SHP version?
4) the nb0 files seem like I could flash them via "flash hboot" and skip the zip or disk destroy. Does this make anyone nervous?
5) I lost track of all the rooting going on... I rooted with gfree before there was a version number. Is there a root method that unlocks even more?
Thanks in advance... I've been playing with the ASUS transformer lately which has an unlocked, unbrickable bootloader, so I know I should slow down before getting to flash happy with hboot.
Why do you want to flash a new hboot? Something wrong with your device or something?
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This is one of those "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" things.
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The more you tell me not to do it, the more I want to flash it!
I'm just curious....
Same as u gee one, I wanna know. If no one ever tried new things cause what we had was "good enough" we would be years behind in progress in about every level of life.
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Stick with the ENG HBOOT -- it has more of the fastboot commands enabled.
I think we all plan on sticking with eng hboot. Still doesn't answer the question about what is different with the new one.
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Hboot changes are typically to add security (i.e., take away your freedom), not add new features or make anything better. Unlike the radio, it will NOT affect performance. This is just a bootloader, like GRUB or LILO. Once it hands the CPU off to the Linux kernel, its life is over. As long as it does that correctly, there is no reason to change it.
Thank you 234 I think that is the kind of answer we were looking for I would hit thanks but am on the mobile app.
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I have flashed the htc desire hboot on the G2 and so far I'm still able to flash any rom for both the G2 and the htc desire .
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What "features" are missing from the existing hboot? If it aint broke dont fix it, definately a case of theres a new version must flash it must be better, think will stay on my old boring hboot that does what i need it to do until the wiki is updated.
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Hold my beer, I'm gonna flash the new hboot!
There's nothing wrong with hboot- I'm just asking about what differences there are. I never asked if it was better. I understand that it's not an engineering hboot, but I don't know what features are "missing" from it. This is the exactly the question that I'm asking. I know that flashing a new hboot will not increase my battery life or improve my radio reception. I know that flashing hboot can be dangerous and lead to bricked devices. I know that flashing hboot will not solve world hunger, resolve the world debt crisis, or bring peace in the Middle East.
I think if I asked about a new ROM, people would just tell me to flash it and find out for myself.
Flashing hboot can be dangerous and possibly brick your device. I do not recommend it. This thread is for entertainment purposes only!
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There's nothing wrong with hboot- I'm just asking about what differences there are. I never asked if it was better. I understand that it's not an engineering hboot, but I don't know what features are "missing" from it. This is the exactly the question that I'm asking. I know that flashing a new hboot will not increase my battery life or improve my radio reception. I know that flashing hboot can be dangerous and lead to bricked devices. I know that flashing hboot will not solve world hunger, resolve the world debt crisis, or bring peace in the Middle East.
I think if I asked about a new ROM, people would just tell me to flash it and find out for myself.
Flashing hboot can be dangerous and possibly brick your device. I do not recommend it. This thread is for entertainment purposes only!
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No offence buddy but why do you want to flash a new hboot then? You mention different ways to root but as far as I am aware the wiki is the "official" recommended way, will stick with what Ive got until such times as the wiki recommends changing my hboot,that is the only guide to rooting that I need.
I never said I wanted to flash it. I just asked what was different about it. What changed from the old stock hboot? Maybe the partition layout is different and there is more memory allocated to data? I don't know, hence the questions.
As some people have asked, if it ain't broke, then why fix it? Then why would HTC/T-Mo change it? I'm just curious about the changes.
I agree, for most users, they would never need hboot. The zipped up roms and radios are just fine for flashing in recovery.
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I agree with you. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know what does the new hboot do. Furthermore, the only thing "wrong" with knowing more is that you get more awesome stuffs, kinda painful isn't it?
And, "if it ain't broke, then why fix it", why are we using HTC Vision here, not Nokia 1100, or better yet, smoke signal?
Holy thread resurrection, Batman !
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He's got a good point though.

[Q] Help me get back to stock!!

I have a Telus Desire HD and I managed to downgrade then root and Radio s-off,then installed Revolution HD 5.2.3 and everything is great.
However now i am selling it and the person that wants it says he wants it stock with no root or custom anything.
Honestly I don't know how to go about it to do this and that is why I need some help from someone that has more experience and knowledge than me.
Thanks in advance and if i left out any important info about my phone let me know and i will include it.
You should have made a backup of your stock rom .
if you did flash it though recovery. It will lose root. Still be s-off but they wont know ha.
failing that you need an official ruu. This is an .exe file used. With a windows pc. You will find these in the dev forum or the htc website. Ruu will.remove s-off radio-off and the eng hboot.
if you dort have a pc or cant connect your dhd to it. Flash a stock (but custom) ·rom and tell them its done.
.if they dont mod phones they wont know the difference.
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Thanks twiztedvvv for replying...
I'm gonna run down once more what is on the DHD at the moment so I can get the correct info on how to bring this back to stock.
Revolution HD 5.2.3
Clockworkmod latest
cid TELUS001
ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-085.0007
Radio-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Oct 11 2010,12:47:02
Before I rooted and installed custom rom the phone had the Telus logo when it booted but now its gone since I rooted and flashed the custom rom.
I managed to download to RUU's...
RUU_ACE_GINGERBREAD_S_TELUS_WWE_2.43.661.1_R_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_194001_signed
and
RUU_Ace_TELUS_WWE_1.84.661.1_R_Radio_12.35d.60.140f_26.06.03.24_M2_release_168987_signed
So after reading this what is your recommendation?Do i still need the gold card to flash the stock rom?
Thanks for the help bud!
Personally i would go for the first one you listed. Connect your phone to htc.sync and double click the ruu. It should run the update and return your phone to stock. No goldcard or special method needed. Let me know if it goes well?
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Oh man I think something is wrong....I fired up the first RUU and went trough all the instructions and hit update and it rebooted the phone to the black screen with the htc logo and its been sitting there for like over 30 min.What should I do,should I disconnect and try again or what.
I am so scared that this damn phone is bricked,please help!!
Edit:
Wow I almost got a heart attack and thought it bricked but was relieved when it booted up again.
But now I am scared to attempt this again and I don't know what went wrong.
Did it flash the RUU? or are you still rooted?
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No,unfortunately it did not flash cause it got stuck at the black HTC screen and then I disconected the cable rebooted the phone.
And now I am totally scared to even make a second attempt but eventualy I will have to.What is the chance of bricking the phone while running th RUU?
I have never heard of it happening before but I don't want you to be the first.
I don't understand why it didn't flash. If Ruu are not compatible it won't try to flash them. Usually.
I know its not morally right. But could you flash a stock rom via recovery then remove the superuser app. Giving the impression of being stock. Will be safer for you.
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twiztedvvv said:
I have never heard of it happening before but I don't want you to be the first.
I don't understand why it didn't flash. If Ruu are not compatible it won't try to flash them. Usually.
I know its not morally right. But could you flash a stock rom via recovery then remove the superuser app. Giving the impression of being stock. Will be safer for you.
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Is it possible to even brick with RUU at all?I want to give it a second try but the thought off bricking is scaring me.I use to own an Iphone before I switched to Android and I had the worst experience with the Iphone that it left a mental scar on me.
Anyway I spoke to the guy that wants to buy my phone and he is basicaly now saying that he wont mind having the phone rooted but he would like to have a stock rom on it.
I tried to tell him that the current rom that I have on (Revolution HD 5.2.4) is way better than stock but he is not listening to me.
There are stock roms in the dev section. Ill grab a link for you if I have time. Bit busy at the monent sorry.
Idont think you can brick with an ruu but I'm not 100 percent. Id go with the stock rom through recovery.
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twiztedvvv said:
There are stock roms in the dev section. Ill grab a link for you if I have time. Bit busy at the monent sorry.
Idont think you can brick with an ruu but I'm not 100 percent. Id go with the stock rom through recovery.
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No problem bud I will wait patiently for that link.
Maybe the ones I have are not compatible or the wrong ones,I have no idea at all.
I apreciate your help my friend and I am sure glad I signed up here and I have a great deal of learning to do.Thanks again!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059563
This, I believe, is the best option. And the safest.
Its a standard zip to flash through recovery. Its rooted but as the person buying the phone said they want stock. This is the closest you will get without an RUU. Glad to be able to help.
Out of interest are you getting another android after selling your dhd.
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twiztedvvv said:
Out of interest are you getting another android after selling your dhd.
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I am definetely getting another Android.I am never going back to iPhone ever,it was a nightmare owning an iPhone in the past and it left me disappointed.
I am gonna get the sane as I have now a desire Hd but one that is new and comes with warranty.The one I am selling was used when I bought so no warranty.
I will let you know how it goes and thanks again for helping out,much appreciated.
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Not sure why the ruu failed. But if you want to give an alternative a try is run the ruu for the first two steps, right before it begins flashing. Go into your temp folder. You'll see a folder named bunch of gibberish. In there look for rom.zip. copy it and rename it PD98IMG. Place in the root of your SD card and flash through hboot
So I am on Windows 7 and where is this temp folder located specifically?
Could it be possible that the RUU failure is caused by win7?
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In the start menu search %temp%.
Not sure. Could be maybe a driver issue? Did you have USB debugging on? Maybe a bad download?
I've ran ruus on windows 7. So I doubt its the os
I think I did have usb debuging on....you think tat could be the problem?
And thanks for the search tip I managed to find the folder.
I will give this a shot in the morning with a nice cup of coffee .
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ive always have mine to have usb debugging on when connected to a pc, but not positive that it is required for the ruu. Ive only ran an RUU a couple of times.
Also do you have HTC Sync installed? if not install it and try RUU again. Personally i prefer the PD98IMG method though. keep us posted
I do have HTC synch installed so I think that can't be the problem.
I'll try the RUU method one more time and if it fails then I will try your method.
Thank's for your kind help sir.
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ok. let me know if it works. maybe try the other ruu this time. first one you tried must be wrong. good luck

[Q] Upgrading HBoot

Hello, I have a Wildfire that is rooted with S-Off and HBoot .8....
I would like to only upgrade the HBoot and nothing else, no other changes to the phone. I am running a non-stock ROM and want to keep it. I don't want to lose root either.
Is this possible? If it is how do I do it and where can I download the version of HBoot I want to upgrade to?
Thanks.
Yo do know that you will gain absolutely nothing by upgrading the hboot don't you? The only reason HTC upgraded them was to close the loopholes we exploit to gain s-off and root.
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I figured since they are now unlocking all hboot's on the htcdev site there would be some improvement in some of the functions with a new loader.
On the dev site they do it through the net, but I don't have a trustworthy connection and would prefer to do it myself manually.
I read in some posts that there is a possibility of extracting the rom.zip file from the ruu and using recovery to flash a new hboot, but there was a lot of confusion as to the end results and nothing was concrete enough for me to risk it.
If anyone has done it, and can tell me how it would be greatly appreciated.
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I figured since they are now unlocking all hboot's on the htcdev site there would be some improvement in some of the functions with a new loader.
On the dev site they do it through the net, but I don't have a trustworthy connection and would prefer to do it myself manually.
I read in some posts that there is a possibility of extracting the rom.zip file from the ruu and using recovery to flash a new hboot, but there was a lot of confusion as to the end results and nothing was concrete enough for me to risk it.
If anyone has done it, and can tell me how it would be greatly appreciated.
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There's no improvments if you use HTCDev.
Infact, it's a downgrade. Your device will be unlocked, but it'll still be S-ON, which means you won't be able to edit the internal memory among other stuff.
gringopistolero said:
I figured since they are now unlocking all hboot's on the htcdev site there would be some improvement in some of the functions with a new loader.
On the dev site they do it through the net, but I don't have a trustworthy connection and would prefer to do it myself manually.
I read in some posts that there is a possibility of extracting the rom.zip file from the ruu and using recovery to flash a new hboot, but there was a lot of confusion as to the end results and nothing was concrete enough for me to risk it.
If anyone has done it, and can tell me how it would be greatly appreciated.
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There are no extra functions in the hboot. There hasn't ever been any I don't think, as I said before the only changes made have been for security. Nothing that affects us.
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How to Radio S-off?

Hi.. I have a Rooted DHD but I wanna do Radio S-off as well. Is there any guide for this? I got this phone with a Custom Rom so I'm not sure which andriod it was shipped with.
Hi mate,
I believe this thread will answer your questions, I'm in the same boat thinking it may solve my random bootlooping issue...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
I'm a little out of touch with the Desire HD (previously had a Desire with custom ROM, Radio S-Off, etc. etc. that ran perfect).
Let me know how you go, interested to give it a shot myself.
Interested too, as currently I am unable to successfully boot up the latest 4.2.x ROMs!
me.noob said:
Hi.. I have a Rooted DHD but I wanna do Radio S-off as well. Is there any guide for this? I got this phone with a Custom Rom so I'm not sure which andriod it was shipped with.
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Use the guide and the thread in my signature. You will find all the information you need there. Just for precaution treat your phone as shipped with GB. It is not important with what OS it was shipped with, but what is running right now.
glevitan said:
Use the guide and the thread in my signature. You will find all the information you need there. Just for precaution treat your phone as shipped with GB. It is not important with what OS it was shipped with, but what is running right now.
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I know how to flash a new radio, I just wanna S-off my radio 1st b4 flashing a new 1. So basicially I'm looking for a guide to tell me how to S-off my current Radio.
As per my post mate - that thread links to this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896597
Which then links to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
The latter, being a one click radio s-off solution. Let me know if it works - pretty keen to attempt myself.
shifted-is said:
As per my post mate - that thread links to this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896597
Which then links to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
The latter, being a one click radio s-off solution. Let me know if it works - pretty keen to attempt myself.
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That is dangerous if your device is running or was shipped with GB version of android. Flashing the ENG S-OFF or a froyo Hboot will miserably mess your bootloader. If you are already S-OFF you can flash the modified ENG S-OFF included in the Hack Kit.
Use the Advanced Ace Hack Kit:
http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=74
Be careful as somebody suggested because you can end up with a brick. Read the manual included.
wachutunai said:
Use the Advanced Ace Hack Kit:
http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=74
Be careful as somebody suggested because you can end up with a brick. Read the manual included.
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Not the Hack Kit, but the options. If he tries to hack kit device again he will get stuck. By flashing ENG S-OFF he will not brick his device, but will have a big headache. To brick the device he needs to flash a wrong partition...
glevitan said:
Not the Hack Kit, but the options. If he tries to hack kit device again he will get stuck. By flashing ENG S-OFF he will not brick his device, but will have a big headache. To brick the device he needs to flash a wrong partition...
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You are right, the last time I used the AAHK did not include an option to flash an ENG S-OFF hboot :angel:
wachutunai said:
You are right, the last time I used the AAHK did not include an option to flash an ENG S-OFF hboot :angel:
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That is because the tradicional ENG S-OFF had issues (severily messed) with the bootloader and put it in superslow motion. After a while the Hack Kit included a modified ENG S-OFF compatible with GB shipped devices...saves a lot of headaches
hmm
Thanks 4 ur replies guys. My DHD is Rooted with ENG S-OFF, I just wanted to flash a newer Radio to see if it gives better signal performance but I guess its too risky. I'd better not mess with this Radio S-OFF thingy .. Dont wanna endup with a brick ..
@glevitan - so with the Ace Hack Kit we can attain ENG S-Off and Radio S-Off?
How do we know if our device originally came with Gingerbread or Froyo?
Pretty keen to flash radio (constant drop outs) and give it a go, don't want to do the wrong thing though!
Edit: Ace Hack Kit - is it 1 step Radio S-Off, Eng S-Off etc.?
And can still flash through http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106324 regardless of Radio S-Off?
shifted-is said:
@glevitan - so with the Ace Hack Kit we can attain ENG S-Off and Radio S-Off?
How do we know if our device originally came with Gingerbread or Froyo?
Pretty keen to flash radio (constant drop outs) and give it a go, don't want to do the wrong thing though!
Edit: Ace Hack Kit - is it 1 step Radio S-Off, Eng S-Off etc.?
And can still flash through http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106324 regardless of Radio S-Off?
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Yes, the Hack Kit lastest version will flash ENG S-OFF, but it is not the tradicional ENG but a modified one to work with all devices regardless the Android version they were shipped with.
I guess that currently doesn´t matter what version was your device shipped with but the one it is running at the moment. Mostly all devices have been updated and so have the bootloaders, so the risk is for all the people who actually updated. The best is to treat your device as shipped with GB always just to avoid a headache.
You can always flash a radio in the PD98IMG.zip way, that it is the safest. Always make sure that you check the md5sum of the file and that the radio is for your device, as stated in that thread. You are S-OFF if you used the Hack Kit some time ago, but ENG S-OFF if you did it in the last year...If you are just S-OFF (check what it says in the hboot top left corner), you can flash the ENG S-OFF from the HAck Kit options.
I always flash radios in the PD98IMG way, safest thou not faster.
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Maybe I'm missing a step there?
It says "parsing", and the radio doesn't update :-\
Then the phone boots in safe mode...
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shifted-is said:
Maybe I'm missing a step there?
It says "parsing", and the radio doesn't update :-\
Then the phone boots in safe mode...
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If the file is parsed and you are not prompted to update, then your sdcard might be corrupted (have you tried using a different one?) or the file is not named PD98IMG.zip correctly.
Ill try a different SD card,
The name of the file is IMG not 1MG yes? I named the file correctly, inside the ZIP archive is just the radio.img file.
Not sure why it did that, before it says parsing it comes with PD98DIAX or something and "no file found" then it lists PD98IMG and parsing.
Unfortunately I havent had much luck with this phone
I remember the Desire being a similar radio update process.
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shifted-is said:
Ill try a different SD card,
The name of the file is IMG not 1MG yes? I named the file correctly, inside the ZIP archive is just the radio.img file.
Not sure why it did that, before it says parsing it comes with PD98DIAX or something and "no file found" then it lists PD98IMG and parsing.
Unfortunately I havent had much luck with this phone
I remember the Desire being a similar radio update process.
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inside the zip you should have the img file and a .txt file, otherwise it won't flash
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Ah I see, well the txt file is missing - ill have to check the radio thread again to see what the go is as I downloaded the radio zip archives from there.
Thanks!
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