Ok guys, first of all I'll explain everything from the start.
Back in November I used AAHK to root, ENG S-OFF etc. my phone so that I could flash a custom rom. Installed Android Revolution HD.
A month ago or so I found the IceColdSandwich rom so I NAND-ed my AR and fresh installed that. And I kept switching between the 2 of them from time to time.
Found that there's a free download of clockworkmod touch on their website, but I couldn't flash it via fastboot. Gives me this:
sending 'recovery' (3554 KB) ... OKAY [0.641s]
writing 'recovery' ... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
Same thing happened when I tried to flash a new radio.
Stupid me, I reinstalled the recovery from ROM Manager again in the process as a last resort (dunno why I thought it would work >.< ).
Now the problems start, I was running AR 6.3.1 last night and I wanted to update the ICS rom, so I made a backup to AR rom and wanted to restore the ICS one. Told me the md5 wasn't correct or something. I instantly thought "GAH, probably because I reinstalled recovery." so I decided to finally install the clockworkmod touch if I had allready ****ed it up. Got the same bloody error:
"FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
So what did stupid old me think then? "Yeah, maybe I didn't ace hack it right the first time..." so I decided to use AAHK again. Logged in Linux, started the kit. All fine and well, said there "Rebooting, please wait". I was like "MMkay, I guess it will take a bit, I'm gonna go do something else" and forgot about it for a couple of hours. 2 hours later, same message in terminal, my phone still had the white background with HTC logo on it.
Ok, don't panic, what to do, what to do...disconnected my phone, pulled out the battery, rebooted into h-boot, hit recovery. The horror of it not being there
Rebooted into bootloader again, tried to flash recovery again, still the same message.
While I was there, desperately tried "Factory Reset", shows me a screen with a loading bar or something and next to it a micro sd card with upload download arrows on it (up and down arrows). Afterwords it proceeds to rebooting my phone 3 times and then it dies. Do I need some kind of file on my SD card for it to work or something?
I think I bricked it. :-<
Sorry for the long post.
Any kind of help is apreciated. Thanks guys
PS: H-BOOT says:
ACE PUT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-0.85.0024
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011, 00:55:45
Hey dude.
Just a quick post, you have not bricked your phone so don't panic.
More in a mo.
Greg.
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk
Search this forum for a stock PD98IMG.Zip ideally a 1.32 one.
Copy this to your sd card, then boot into hboot.
Hopefully hboot will recognise the image and install it on your phone.
Can anyone qualify/dispute this?
Cheers.
Greg
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk
Thanks Greg. I'll find the image and tell you in a min if it worked
It has to be an RUU that fits your phone. Do NOT flash a froyo RUU on a phone that was shipped with stock gb. An RUU will revert the phone to stock. After that you should have no probs running AAHK again to gain s off.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD with Beats Audio using XDA App
Bought my phone in December 2010, it was shipped with Froyo 2.2. I updated it myself to Gingerbread (only later I found out how dumb that was) so I guess it's okay if I flash a 1.32, right?
Good Guy Greg, I love you man I can use my phone again, thank you so very much!
I have just a question though. Is it by any chance possible to create a PD98IMG.Zip to revert my phone to something more recent? Can I use it to create something like a NAND backup?
dragancla said:
Good Guy Greg, I love you man I can use my phone again, thank you so very much!
I have just a question though. Is it by any chance possible to create a PD98IMG.Zip to revert my phone to something more recent? Can I use it to create something like a NAND backup?
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Glad to help dude.
I think that as long as your phone turns on, even if it bootloops etc... you haven't bricked it.
I think it is possible, but I'm not totally sure how to create a PD98IMG.ZIP.
But I'd suggest is you want something more recent, just flash a new ROM.
Once you are back to stock (this may have broken root) check to see if you're still rooted, if not re root and use CWM Recovery to flash whatever ROM you want.
Regards.
Greg.
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Thanks again, mate I used the AAHK again and I flashed my old rom back, but I still can't flash a different radio or the touch recovery...same error: "writing 'recovery' ... FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
Oh well, glad to have my phone back :>
You can't flash a radio with the way you are doing it (ie fastboot) unless you have the engineering bootloader (Eng soff). For.those of us with just soff we flash them via a pd98img formatted zip. Much easier in.my opinion as you can flash a radio without a PC.
One thing to note is that if your phone cane shipped with gb, DO NOT install the engineering bootloader as it will mess you up big time and cause your phone to.take30 min to boot up. Its fixable but its a pita
dragancla said:
Thanks again, mate I used the AAHK again and I flashed my old rom back, but I still can't flash a different radio or the touch recovery...same error: "writing 'recovery' ... FAILED (remote: not allowed)"
Oh well, glad to have my phone back :>
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Why not buy the Touch upgrade from ROM Manager?
Greg.
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TeamDraven said:
Why not buy the Touch upgrade from ROM Manager?
Greg.
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It's not fun if I don't do it myself It's like saying "Yeah, you ****ed up your phone, better take it to the local repair guy" but thanks to you I learned how to downgrade my phone back to stock and start over, even if I dont have recovery installed any more. I consider learning from trial and error better than having people do it for you...that and I've always wanted to learn to flash .img files like recovery, radios, 4ext themes etc. But I'm glad to report that I have ENG S-OFFed my phone since then and flashed all I need :>
Thanks again, Greg :>
I get what you are saying dude.
But there's no harm in supporting a developer.
Cheers dude.
Greg.
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Desire HD brick
Hi, I have similar problem as dragancla with small differences.
I did root my Desire HD too, but in Ace advanced hack kit. I di mSD card as goldcard, next a put PD98IMG.zip (1.32.X) on sdcard. Then I started with root first three steps going well. After succesfully installing root, clockworkmod and first radio start next step flash new radio and here was the problem. Connection with PC fell and flashing was stoped. Now I have only black background without any mark of starting of device. Only orange LED flashes.
I tryed to remove battery and wait 10 minutes but without any succes.
Please can you help me with this problem?
That sounds like a hard brick.
And what can I do with it?
DO you know?
Brick DHD
Today I have a small changes in the device settings.
When I pushed it to recharger then device start to recovery but only for a few seconds. I can install retore or update but I have so short time for it, then every installation ends in black screen.
If somebody know something about this problem, please help me.
Eltahrel said:
Today I have a small changes in the device settings.
When I pushed it to recharger then device start to recovery but only for a few seconds. I can install retore or update but I have so short time for it, then every installation ends in black screen.
If somebody know something about this problem, please help me.
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Have you used a froyo RUU and your device was shipped with Gingerbread?? if you did that then you have messed your hboot....you need to fix that in order to have a normal phone!!
It's kinda hard to know what's going on with the information provided, but you can come and hit the Hack Kit IRC Channnel to see if we can help...
(original post was in wildfire general section-- moved here on suggestion)
I wanted to root and flash my VM Wildfire S,but had some problems along the way.
Before I started the process, I had a LOCKED.
*** LOCKED ***
MARVEL C PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT- 1.10.0001
And, I have Android 2.3.4
I successfully unlocked the bootloader using HTC Dev site/process. I validated that I had (and still have) "UNLOCKED" on HBOOT screen.
Being a noob, I was really happy with this result. In fact, I was so happy, I wanted to continue on to Root the phone. Upon hours of search in xda, I found "One Root for WFS 1.5", read the thread, and even watched the youtube vid- man, it looked easy!
Unfortunately, all did not go well. See attachment to get idea of what happened..
I was softbrick until yesterday. I could get the HBOOT Menu, but when I try fastboot, I saw things like:
PG76DIA.zip
no image or wrong file
PG76DIA.nbh
no image or wrong file
I spent many hours looking through this forum and others on how to fix. I tried a couple of things, but this one worked (flashed Alquez's Unoffical 5.0.2.6 ClockworkMod recovery):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1436501
I installed Rom Manager as suggested, but it wouldn't work ("an error occurred while trying to run privileged commands"). I am guessing that I am actually not rooted??
I am happy for now, but back to searching for next step, unless I can get a hint or two from this forum? please. I am guessing I need to root (any suggestions as to best one for vm wildfire s?) Can I still do this with the alquez's unofficial 5.0.2.6 cwm recovery?
I think you ROM is still not rooted. There any many root Applications present Try out. I personaly prefer htcsupertool utility, Since it helped to Root my WFS.
After Rooting process Is done.
You can check the status using Root Checker(a small app in Google market) to verify the root status.
After Rooting you can Flash ClockworkMod Recovery through Rom manager app.....
If you've got a custom recovery, try to find a root.zip somewhere on the forum, and install from recovery. That should root you.
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"You can overclock as much as you want, your phone will always seem too slow."
OK, long story short, I need help BAD please! A while back I posted a question if there was a way of fixing my sons Droid inc. stuck in a the white droid inc. bootloop over and over. it was completely stock when purchased on eBay. a system update came up after activation and i accepted it and worked fine for about a week then began having problems when it kept rebooting once and a while then eventually it just started bootlooping over and over. I was told within the forum to flash PB31IMG files which I did and it seemed to do something but it went so fast couldn't really see what it said. so when it was done it asked if I wanted to reboot and I said yes and it just went back to the bootloop. I am extremely interested in android and development and reading all I can take in and have been lurking around for quite a while but never really had any issues till this.
So the next thing which I was told to try is to unlock and root it, well my nephew has dabbled in rooting a couple galaxy S2's successfully but not touched an HTC device but he gave this a try and succeeded to unlock from htcdev and went on to follow the root method and was unsuccessful and it gave some error but I am not sure what it was because I was unable to be present when he attempted it and that is where I am now it is unlocked but still in a boot loop. when booted into hboot/fastboot it says:
***UNLOCKED***
INCREDIBLEC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.07.0000
MICROP-04107
TOUCH PANEL--ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.10.12.20
Apr 24 201,22:58:40
I hope this helps and I hope I posted this in the correct area and I also hope there is someone who could lend a helping hand with a fix for this with some good instructions for a noob!
I am looking forward to any help which someone could give because I really don't have the cash for a new device at the moment and I would also love to learn something along the way.....
Sent from my AT100 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
hockeytown said:
OK, long story short, I need help BAD please! A while back I posted a question if there was a way of fixing my sons Droid inc. stuck in a the white droid inc. bootloop over and over. it was completely stock when purchased on eBay. a system update came up after activation and i accepted it and worked fine for about a week then began having problems when it kept rebooting once and a while then eventually it just started bootlooping over and over. I was told within the forum to flash PB31IMG files which I did and it seemed to do something but it went so fast couldn't really see what it said. so when it was done it asked if I wanted to reboot and I said yes and it just went back to the bootloop. I am extremely interested in android and development and reading all I can take in and have been lurking around for quite a while but never really had any issues till this.
So the next thing which I was told to try is to unlock and root it, well my nephew has dabbled in rooting a couple galaxy S2's successfully but not touched an HTC device but he gave this a try and succeeded to unlock from htcdev and went on to follow the root method and was unsuccessful and it gave some error but I am not sure what it was because I was unable to be present when he attempted it and that is where I am now it is unlocked but still in a boot loop. when booted into hboot/fastboot it says:
***UNLOCKED***
INCREDIBLEC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.07.0000
MICROP-04107
TOUCH PANEL--ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.10.12.20
Apr 24 201,22:58:40
I hope this helps and I hope I posted this in the correct area and I also hope there is someone who could lend a helping hand with a fix for this with some good instructions for a noob!
I am looking forward to any help which someone could give because I really don't have the cash for a new device at the moment and I would also love to learn something along the way.....
Sent from my AT100 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
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Was i the one who tried to help you before?
Anyways if i was i dont remember the details. You said you tried the ruu (pb31img) and it looked like it worked but went by to fast to read it. If it went by that fast, then it did not flash the ruu. It just checked for it but couldnt find it. You can try it again if you want. http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip It needs to be on the sdcard in no folder named exactly PB31IMG.zip. If it dosent find it again, then backup and reformat your sdcard fat32 and then try again with only the pb file on there. Note that if the ruu works, it will relock the bootloader and you will need to use the unlock_token.bin file and fastboot to unlock it again.
Or you can use fastboot to flash cwm recovery since your unlocked. Then in recovery wipe everything in the mounts and storage menu except emmc and sdcard. Then flash a rom of your choosing.
Hopefully one of those options will work and get it to boot.
Let me explain:
I use i9300, and I'm completely unfamiliar with HTC environment and treating. My girlfriend's Desire Z froze recently. I rebooted it, and it didnt go through bootloader.
It did it once, but it was the only time. Then i turned it off to put in the simcard. It didnt come back. Still stuck on the HTC logo. Before, it was going to the HTC quietly brilliant, but now it's just freezing on HTC.
Everything is stock. Phone has never been rooted. I decided, to go through the hboot (correct me if im wrong) and try to do something there.
When I hit factory reset, phone freezes on that menu. I decided to go around that by rooting it, or reinstalling software from that recovery menu, or through usb, or memory card. Well, anything that might make it work.
I tried to find a proper help for that. Unfortunately, I found some threat here, but it had a link on the top saying "go to actual method", it took me to another threat, which had a link to another "actual method". There, i was given three different techniques vision, one for temp, one for perm root, s-off, SDK, ADB and all this freakin stuff. I DONT GET IT!
Please, provide me with step by step instruction (links, whatever) so I can fix this bloody phone. I dont know what is the difference between temporary and permanent root, what is s-off, and what to download from where to make it freaking work.
I'm struggling with this 3rd day now, trying to understand what is all of this instructions. I still cant tell if it's a software, or hardware problem, because i cant diagnose it! I cant spend another day on educating myself about htc rooting.
Please, provide me with some tips on how to fix it, or instructions to perform the system factory reset from hboot menu.
Let me give you the details i get in that menu:
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT- 0.85.0013
MICROP-0425
RADIO- 26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 11 2011, 23:26:27
It looks bad, like a fried emmc. Not being rooted limits your chances of fixing as well as your chances of even confirming the failure
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35236029
read through this a bit and see if it helps any, your best chance is to attempt an ruu but if it is a bad chip then there is noting you can do other then warranty exchange or get a new phone
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
Hi, I tried posting this in the ' Upgrading, Modifying Sticky Roll-Up Thread **Check this thread BEFORE posting** ' thread yesterday before posting here, but it would appear it's not being answered anymore...
Anyway, I've just spent the last few days attempting to root my phone - most of it has been dead-ends, but I've made an amount of progress that actually surprises me! But I've come to this forum in an attempt to jump (hopefully) my last hurdle.
My phone is a HTC Sensation XE (Beats Audio), Android version 4.0.3, HBoot version 1.27.0000.
I bought it a little over a year ago from AmazonUK, with the SIM already unlocked. But other than that, I believe it was completely stock.
Now, over the past few days my primary goal was to root my phone, so far I've managed to unlock the bootloader with HTCDev, S-Off using the wire trick and (I think) perform a successful flash recovery with the clockwork recovery .img file - not sure if the recovery did work or not though, because it didn't actually install anything on boot-up... which I think it was meant to, wasn't it? I need some enlightening on this please :angel:
Anyway, these processes I've done have come from all different sources on the web, purely because nowhere has a solid system that completely works for me! either something is the wrong version, or its out of date, or it doesn't work with my phone for some obscure reason. However, I've made it this far and am now stuck with getting my phone finally rooted! I'm not sure if it's to do with a failed recovery or something, but could someone point me in the right direction or at least some sort of direction so I can say if I've already tried it or if it actually works, please!
Thank you!!