So I used the disconnect internet trick and got Tango to install on my phone. Problem is, it stopped with the 3 updates and did not install (or find) the Samsung one that I know was supposed to be installed (for firmware), so my firmware is now 2103.11.10.1 instead of what it is supposed to be.
Does anyone know a way to force the OEM firmware to be sent to Zune. The internet disconnect trick isn't work now, so I'm stuck. Also, my backups aren't showing up, even though during the update process it said it was creating a backup (for all the OS updates it installed all the way up to 8773).
If there is no way to get the OEM firmware to be pushed, does anyone know how to get the Focus Flash to stock? I know I have a backup on my computer, but Zune isn't recognizing it (I had forced 8107 on my phone, and Zune made a backup of that ROM).
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i get a "can't connect to phone" error and a black screen with silver HTC letters on it on the screen of my phone when trying to flash the latest stock RUU. this is after the updater reboots the phone to try and flash.
i ran some root technique a couple days after i got my EVO (stood in line @ 5:30am to boot!). don't remember what it was though. toasts orig root i guess.
then it ran that sd card update (which didn't work for me). dunno if any of this matters, but wanted to provide back story.
why can't i flash??
Well depending on if you installed todays OTA update somehow changes my answer to your question.
For one if you did not install todays OTA update then the problem you are having is very commen and easily fixed. You'll notice that after it tells you there is no connection your phone should still be at the black screen with htc's logo. Without disconnecting or restarting your phone relaunch the RUU and go through it again. You should notice it will actually work the second time and eventually youll get a progress bar on your pc and eventually on the phone. This I am 90% certain should fix your problem. I've used the RUU numerous times and that has become standard procedure, although I don't understand why.
This will unroot your phone meaning you can then run unrooted or its now presentable if you have reason to take it in for replacement/warrenty issues.
But be warned! If you go back to stock in order to receive todays OTA update you will not be able to root your phone again using any current methods or files. Youll receive an error about the file being older than the new and wont be able to even partial root let alone get nand access.
On my end I unrooted today to test out the new features knowing full well I wouldn't be able to root again with the update installed. I figured I'd be able to use the RUU like you are because when it unroots a phone it takes it back to the default software from the day the phone was release but it was my luck that for whatever reason this new update effs up trying to use the RUU.
Is there a way to restore to factory settings that won't have the update installed or is it like how the 3GS was and once you upgrade thats it
Try flashing directly from the sd card, link is in my sig '(un)root'
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aaaahhh. there it goes. thanks.
actually it was more i was having sd-card issues still. kept unmounting. rather happy w/ how the EVO works for now so rooting/modding isn't a priority. figured i'd reflash to see if it fixed the sd issue.
thanks!
A colleague of mine has an incredible that every few days reboots into a continuous boot loop. It takes removing the battery for it to boot normally, and then a few days later it does it again.
He has tried a reset, and it doesn't fix the problem. This is an unhacked unrooted stock Incredible with what ever updates came from Verizon/HTC over the air.
I'm wondering if it would help to reflash it to virgin stock in case something is corrupted. In fact its also possible that one of the HTC updates caused the problems, since it seems to have started about the time of an update.
I have a Samsung phone and am familiar with the procedure for Samsung (Kies, Odin, etc) but don't know what to tell him about HTC.
What is the procedure for reflashing to stock, and perhaps selecting a stock version older than the latest for HTC phones?
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A colleague of mine has an incredible that every few days reboots into a continuous boot loop. It takes removing the battery for it to boot normally, and then a few days later it does it again.
He has tried a reset, and it doesn't fix the problem. This is an unhacked unrooted stock Incredible with what ever updates came from Verizon/HTC over the air.
I'm wondering if it would help to reflash it to virgin stock in case something is corrupted. In fact its also possible that one of the HTC updates caused the problems, since it seems to have started about the time of an update.
I have a Samsung phone and am familiar with the procedure for Samsung (Kies, Odin, etc) but don't know what to tell him about HTC.
What is the procedure for reflashing to stock, and perhaps selecting a stock version older than the latest for HTC phones?
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You can reflash the phone to stock with what incredible users call an ruu (rom update utility), however flashing older versions or downgrading the os is not allowed with s-on (security on). His best bet in my opinion would be to root and s-off the phone, and then flash a custom rom. However if hes not into all of that he can try to do an ruu and see if it fixes things. Doing so will wipe the phone compleetly and he will loose all of his apps and data. A pc running windows xp or newer is required.
1. Download the ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Image...0_Incredible_C_hboot_1.02.0000_4.08.605.2.exe, and place it somewhere on your pc.
2. Download and install HTC Sync http://dinc.does-it.net/HTC-Sync/3.0.5606/setup_3.0.5606.exe.
3. On the phone go to menu - settings - applications, uncheck fastboot if it is checked and then select development, and make sure usb debugging is checked.
4. Connect the phone to the pc with the usb cable, and wait for any drivers to install on the pc. The phone should be in charge only mode.
5. On the pc run the ruu file and follow the instructions it gives you.
If all goes well the phone will be like it just came from the factory. If doing all of this is to technical for him he can take it into a verizon store and they will do it for him at little or no charge.
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If all goes well the phone will be like it just came from the factory. If doing all of this is to technical for him he can take it into a verizon store and they will do it for him at little or no charge.
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Well not like it came from the factory originally. That would be Froyo, and this procedure would presumably get the last official (and maybe problem some Gingerbread). Is that right?
Also, I'm surprised to hear that a Verizon store could do a flash. My only experience is with T-mobile and they can't do any better than use the "factory reset" menu that just clears settings.
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Well not like it came from the factory originally. That would be Froyo, and this procedure would presumably get the last official (and maybe problem some Gingerbread). Is that right?
Also, I'm surprised to hear that a Verizon store could do a flash. My only experience is with T-mobile and they can't do any better than use the "factory reset" menu that just clears settings.
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Well not like it originally came from the factory 2 years ago (with froyo), but if they were still selling them today or you get a replacement, that is how it would come from the factory. The last update 4.08.605.2 fixed all the major issues and shouldnt give any major trouble. The only other option would be to root.
Verizion is pretty good with customer service, you may have to find a knowledgable employee but they can do it for you.
We tried the "ruu" approach without success. The drivers installed on the PC, the phone goes into debug mode, and we can even run "adb" manually and talk to the phone. However, when either "ruu" or "Ht Sync" try to talk to the phone they just say the phone is not connected.
If we run the task manager on windows we can actually see "ruu" invoking "adb" and there is no long timeout. It appears that ruu just doesn't like the answers.
Again running adb manually for example with the shell option seems to do all you expect adb to do. This is with both the versions linked above and the updates they end up offering.
Any ideas?
OK, found a mistake. I didn't realize that to do the ruu flash I needed to turn off the phone and vol-down/power it into htboot mode.
With that done the update program sees the phone notices it has lastest firmware and offers to update it to the same version. I say yes, and the phone reboots and the PC tells me it will take 10 minutes to flash, then 2 seconds later tells me it succeeded and the phone reboots.
Obviously it did not flash anything. Am I missing something?
Also any pointers on how to flash an earlier stock rom (and where to find it)?
I rooted my phone, and now I see there is an OTA update however it keeps failing and from what I found out its because my phone is rooted.
So how do I go about unrooting or enabling my phone to be updated?
I have the telus version of the phone.
I was rooted but was still able to do the update via kies. Can u do that?
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I rooted my phone, and now I see there is an OTA update however it keeps failing and from what I found out its because my phone is rooted.
So how do I go about unrooting or enabling my phone to be updated?
I have the telus version of the phone.
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Download the stock firmware from Sammobile.com or Samsung directly and flash through ODIN.
Or flash one of these...it's rooted but it has 3e recovery.
I will try via kies, it appears to work but my battery is 'too low' right now to update so I will post back in a little while.
What data am I going to lose? I imagine i'll be losing my text messages? My photos and that are backed up in my dropbox + my comp, same with music contacts are in my google account and there isnt really any app data I care about.
Last thing is when I update my root will be gone right?
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I will try via kies, it appears to work but my battery is 'too low' right now to update so I will post back in a little while.
What data am I going to lose? I imagine i'll be losing my text messages? My photos and that are backed up in my dropbox + my comp, same with music contacts are in my google account and there isnt really any app data I care about.
Last thing is when I update my root will be gone right?
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If you're still rooted, go download Titanium Backup. It'll save all of your stuff, including text messages. If you have stuff in your gallery, move it off manually. You can save basically everything. If you clean flash back to a stock rom and then install the OTA update, then you can easily restore it all. That being said, the update that came out today from Telus (that is still nagging me to all hell because I won't install it) is not JB, its just an update to ICS. You might want to just ignore it and wait until JB comes out in the nearish future.
Is there any rom that I can install that is a fully working ICS for my phone?
Cyanogen is ICS right it? But it says something about them only being nightly build's doesnt that mean theyre basically like the next step after beta?
Cm10 is jellybean and Both cm10 and aokp are usable as a daily ROM
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Flashing via odin, will I end up with a custom firmware count?
I remember with the S2 there was some usb dongle you could buy that when you plug in it resets the count to 0 so if you have any problems with the phone when they check to see if its modified and the warranty is void, it comes back as clean.
Is it the same with the S3?
I'm going to be away soon and won't have easy access to a non-professional PC (meaning any computer I may have access to - I won't have admin rights with). I didn't want to wait for a root+TWRP dev package for Lollipop to be released. I wanted to just get it done, (I was having bad problems with KitKat on some select apps because of LG's 4.4 coding, long story, but I won't even go there...)
I saw that I can go to the LG support site via a link from Android Central and manually upgrade to Lollipop way before the OTA rollout even begins. I had heard rumors of people having problems, read posts, and learned how to avoid it all. I reset everything before upgrading. I did many factory resets after getting Lollipop, (I know, a lot). I got rooted and set mostly everything up.
I wanted to get Xposed loaded, BADLY. I looked it up for Lollipop and realized that I'd have to flash a custom recovery. I expected as much. When I looked that up, I realized that I would have to either use a downgrade-upgrade method (which I didn't feel like going through) or a mandatory requirement of factory reset though a process. I had already set up all of the system stuff and restored from Titanium backup most of my apps. There was no way I would factory reset because I hate resetting-up the system stuff. - - - - - BIG MISTAKE 1
So I found a thread for the D850 (AT&T) version (no I didn't flash a bad radio or anything, I thought I knew what I was doing because I was only flashing recovery stuff for Lollipop, not an AT&T rom or radio.) This was to install TWRP without downgrading or resetting. The instructions said to copy files from an aboot.img and other boot images and such (to replace the recovery) on to the internal memory and use a terminal to type in code. I did it and rebooted it.
I made a horrible mistake.
When I held the power button on the phone, nothing happened. I found out that when plugging it in to the PC, it seems to be in download mode. It was fully charged. When using the restore/brick recovery software, I have tried different cables, different computers, checking to see if anything is corrupt, different USB ports, etc. with the files... Nothing will work. I keep getting an error with a red box about the model or something. "Model Information Check Fail"
So basically I have broken boot images on my device. I need to fix these.
Where do I go from here? All because I wanted Xposed on Lollipop without resetting.
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I have this situation. I messed up with laf.img and aboot.img too (from D850, thinking it was harmless since trying to install custom recovery only) and device won't turn on but PC recognizes as download mode but can't flash. Please read above. I'm bricked and all restore methods have failed so far.
Source from u/nicksteron on reddit.
I'm having this issue now too. It seems the thing I downloaded and tried broke my boot images.
Have you been able to fix this?
I'm trying the LG Flash Tool but it stops me at the model check fail as well. Gonna try a kdz method next.
EDIT: I tried the KDZ method with LG Flash Tool 2014 using both a KitKat and Lollipop based ROMs and I get an error. The S/W Upgrade progress gets to 4% and then the error shows up. I need my phone. Help?!
OK so I smashed my s5, am a UDP verizon guy and hooked on the open bootloader, so i searched far and wide for another one with the 15 chipset...which I didn't find but I found a note 4 with it.
I bought it and unlocked it and loaded on a rom I loved. (5.0.1 og5). Well...no sense lying here...I was trying to do some less than kosher things regarding my ex's Facebook account with it. In the process I wasn't smart enough to cross check MD5s (a precaution I learned all too well) and opened an app that has me baffled.
It basically hijacked admin on my device completely. No Antivirus program can touch it, though many detect it. "Unknown sources" in my security folder is stuck permanently enabled, and I can't take over as admin on my own brand new note4.
I have tried flashing twrp and titanium backups to no avail, and also tried the safe stock og5 firmware through Odin but it never completes. I am stuck. I have logcat records and all the tools I would think might help, but I can't get rid of it...it seems to have used root and embedded itself into every facet of the device.
I am willing and ready to do anything including a full unroot and stock rom, I just don't want a locked update. Can anyone help me please?
As of now, no roms break it, only the stubborn malware CM app tries to get rid of it, but only identifies it as "suspicious file". My user admin and unknown sources are both locked, and a gaggle of bizarre log events happen constantly, forcing my device into crazy lag. As soon as it happened I received a couple random number-link blank text messages, but I never opened them. I don't have the numbers saved as I've flashed the phone like 30 times since trying to rid myself of this. Aside from the lag and locked unknown sources and admin, and an inability to clear trusted credentials, the phone seems to run normally, though I am scared to use it to log on to pretty much anything. The malware didn't come from a text, but from an app that I knowingly permitted thinking it was something else and I feel like a moron for it. It doesn't seem to have a name. It installed as an untitled app and I couldn't delete it with the root system app deleter, because it put a green bar over the check box in the app. I got rid of it with titanium, but to no avail. It still lurks.
Thanks in advance, and let me know of any screens hits or logs or tests I can provide to help.
At that point, I would recommend using Samsung's Smart Switch for PC program to do an emergency firmware upgrade & initialization. This will download a full copy of the stock firmware for the device (including a few bits that you won't find in stock firmwares available for download through sites like SamMobile) and will erase everything on the device and restore your phone to stock firmware.
If you are in the US and have a Best Buy nearby, you can see if one of their Samsung reps can perform a factory recovery using their SMART tool (which will do the same thing that Smart Switch's emergency firmware initialization will). Officially, rooted devices are not supported and they may rightfully refuse to do this, but it's worth asking if you don't have a computer to use for Smart Switch or don't want to wait.
You will need to redo the developer conversion, but that's the only thing I can think of that will definitely completely restore your phone to stock and eliminate all traces of whatever you installed.
thanks. that solved my problem and got it back to stock, rid of the malware completely. unfortunately, when i tried to return to the rom i had used, everything fell apart for me :/.