Hi all,
Recently rooted my one x (used to have a rooted desire) and changing rom isn't as easy as I remember.
I've searched the forums and the net but can't find much about swapping onto a different rom. I've put it onto MIUI V4 but want to try out cyanogenmod 10/9 but i keep getting boot loops. From what i've read i think its something to do with the boot img? Can anyone help or link me to a guide?
I have managed to restore onto MIUI through the clockwork recovery. Also in ROM manager i can only see MIUI roms :s
Don't use ROM Manager - it's crap
With the One X you can't flash a new boot.img from Recovery so you have to flash the boot.img in a ROMs ZIP file before flashing the ROM using the fastboot command 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
Guides are in the Dev forum, or Google it
This may help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832891
But as said above, basically any ROM you want to change to, you need to extract the boot.img from the roms .zip, flash it using the fastboot command, then flash the ROM via recovery.
craftycarper1 said:
This may help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832891
But as said above, basically any ROM you want to change to, you need to extract the boot.img from the roms .zip, flash it using the fastboot command, then flash the ROM via recovery.
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Thanks for both of your replys. That thread really helps, going to give it a go tonight!
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I come from the SGAce forums where flashing is just download-and-flash method and now I wanna try the HTC One X and use ARHD Rom (used it on my friend's Gnexus) And I really don't know what to do! It's just too complicated for me
My bootloader is already unlocked and it's only a test phone I borrowed cause I'm not sure what to buy yet
If anyone can help Here as well as ow to flash the rom and the .bat file
THANK YOU A LOT
First you need unlock bootloader to flash custom recovery. Follow this guide for example how to do it.
After recovery, make a backup of your current rom.
After backup, download ARHD 5.1.0 and superwipe script to your sdcard, after you got them both flash boot.img from ARHD thread. (Download this & run "install-boot.bat") This is mandatory because without S-OFF one can't flash boot.img from recovery, and without boot.img flashed one can't boot their device or it won't work properly.
Then to the basic flashing process, boot to recovery and flash superwipe script and afterwards flash ARHD and you're good to go!
BTW, you don't need to flash firmware files
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First you need unlock bootloader to flash custom recovery. Follow this guide for example how to do it.
After recovery, make a backup of your current rom.
After backup, download ARHD 5.1.0 and superwipe script to your sdcard, after you got them both flash boot.img from ARHD thread. (Download this & run "install-boot.bat") This is mandatory because without S-OFF one can't flash boot.img from recovery, and without boot.img flashed one can't boot their device or it won't work properly.
Then to the basic flashing process, boot to recovery and flash superwipe script and afterwards flash ARHD and you're good to go!
BTW, you don't need to flash firmware files
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so I will only run the .bat file or use command prompt?
Doo:DAce said:
so I will only run the .bat file or use command prompt?
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In which part? When u flash boot.img you only need to run .bat file and press any button when device is in usb fastboot mode
Just another 13-Year old non-developer member running around the forums like a boss
Nubzori said:
In which part? When u flash boot.img you only need to run .bat file and press any button when device is in usb fastboot mode
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Ok im confused. How do you flah those two things?
Doo:DAce said:
Ok im confused. How do you flah those two things?
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Download the boot.img from ARHD thread, it has instructions inside
Hi,
Ive done a quick search and cannot find a straight answer, i dont own HTC one x but need to modify a friends phone. as far as im aware they have a custom 4.1 rom and CWM etc.
Do i need to flash boot.img for every rom regardless of what it says on the post? some dont mention it... just want to be sure!
LOGMD said:
Hi,
Ive done a quick search and cannot find a straight answer, i dont own HTC one x but need to modify a friends phone. as far as im aware they have a custom 4.1 rom and CWM etc.
Do i need to flash boot.img for every rom regardless of what it says on the post? some dont mention it... just want to be sure!
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If the rom uses stock kernel, then no but you may lose ram disk tweaks for that rom.
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Basically, Yes. If you switch over to a different ROM you have to flash the new boot image. Sometimes the boot image is also updated with a new version of a ROM in that case you have to flash the new Boot Image too.
You can install rom without flash boot.img only if you device is S-Off.
If your are S-On, you have to flash boot.img everytime you install a new rom.
I have a Desire S-Off and i can flash which rom i want without flash boot.img.
For my Sensation XE, it's the same.
For my HOX, i have to flash everytime i change my rom.
totofe69 said:
You can install rom without flash boot.img only if you device is S-Off.
If your are S-On, you have to flash boot.img everytime you install a new rom.
I have a Desire S-Off and i can flash which rom i want without flash boot.img.
For my Sensation XE, it's the same.
For my HOX, i have to flash everytime i change my rom.
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No. No. No.
Some or most kernels and ROM's for the OneX are NOT set up to flash the boot.img in recovery precisely because there is no method to S-Off the phone. Devs have simply stopped implementing the method. I have no idea which ones can and cannot so err on the side NONE can and you cannot go wrong.
Always flash, in fastboot, the given boot.img for every ROM is the general basic rule.
Tigerlight said:
No. No. No.
Some or most kernels and ROM's for the OneX are NOT set up to flash the boot.img in recovery precisely because there is no method to S-Off the phone. Devs have simply stopped implementing the method. I have no idea which ones can and cannot so err on the side NONE can and you cannot go wrong.
Always flash, in fastboot, the given boot.img for every ROM is the general basic rule.
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If both roms are using stock kernel and on the same base and you don't mind losing the roms ram disk tweaks you really don't need to flash.
Same if you are using a custom kernel.
So long as the kernel/base match you would just need to flash the modules.
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If you use Android 4.2.2 with sense 5, you only flash boot.img one time and flash any rom except Alex-V's rom. Because still now, all sense 5 rom using stock kernek
If you flash cm, you must flash boot.img every time you flash difference rom
if your device already s-off and super-cid you flash rom normal no need flash boot.img except some rom not allow flash boot.img in update-script
Thanks all!
nightstorm8x said:
If you use Android 4.2.2 with sense 5, you only flash boot.img one time and flash any rom except Alex-V's rom. Because still now, all sense 5 rom using stock kernek
If you flash cm, you must flash boot.img every time you flash difference rom
if your device already s-off and super-cid you flash rom normal no need flash boot.img except some rom not allow flash boot.img in update-script
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Thanks for all the replies guys, given me a better insight to the method i should take with this phone when i get hold of the phone ill analyse the rom currently on there. i think its 4.1 with sense so ill do more homework and figure it out!:cyclops:
my friend has just brought a one x and it came already rooted and with cm10 on it, he was thinking of changing software, what do i need know about this phone as i am the owner of an arc so no nothing of HTCs. can get on bootloader and into recovery but do not know if kernel has been changed or not and which software we are safe to use. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
eddrowe said:
my friend has just brought a one x and it came already rooted and with cm10 on it, he was thinking of changing software, what do i need know about this phone as i am the owner of an arc so no nothing of HTCs. can get on bootloader and into recovery but do not know if kernel has been changed or not and which software we are safe to use. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
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the best thing if to start over, in my opinion... put the rom you like on sdcard (change recovery if needed) and flash it following the instructions in the rom OP (remember to flash the boot.img from the zip otherwise it won't boot)... it's plenty of guides here, just look around
lukes91 said:
the best thing if to start over, in my opinion... put the rom you like on sdcard (change recovery if needed) and flash it following the instructions in the rom OP (remember to flash the boot.img from the zip otherwise it won't boot)... it's plenty of guides here, just look around
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kernel says on phone its 2.6.39.4-cyanogenmod inkyghost? is that a custom one? can this be changed easily?
eddrowe said:
kernel says on phone its 2.6.39.4-cyanogenmod inkyghost? is that a custom one? can this be changed easily?
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if you flash a new rom or another kernel the current one will be overwritten...
lukes91 said:
if you flash a new rom or another kernel the current one will be overwritten...
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i know yeah but thats not the stock kernel is it? do i need no anything about bootloaders with these fones i can get on the bootloader menu so i imagine its unlocked is there a way of finding that out?
do htcs flash in a different way to sony phones as like i sed i never used a htc phone or flashed one b4
eddrowe said:
i know yeah but thats not the stock kernel is it? do i need no anything about bootloaders with these fones i can get on the bootloader menu so i imagine its unlocked is there a way of finding that out?
do htcs flash in a different way to sony phones as like i sed i never used a htc phone or flashed one b4
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no, it's not htc stock kernel... to find out if the phone is unlocked enter the bootloader and look if the top flag is "unlocked" or "relocked"...
i never flashed a sony device, so i can't tell for sure...
in htc you have to flash the boot.img from rom zip via fastboot and then the rom zip via recovery...
Because you already have CM on your device that means your device is bootloader unlocked
I have rooted and flashed my sisters Xperia which is to similar to ARC , so here are couple of points you need to know before start flashing ROMs and kernels
1-On HOX we have an hboot which is like a bios for a PC which mostly its s-on
2-hboot will not allow you to flash any ROM in a single flash because its will not allow you to flash the boot.img file of it's kernel
3-so when flashing any ROM or kernel you need to flash ROM zip file from recovery then you need to extract boot.img file from ROM zip on your PC and boot into bootloader to push the extracted boot.img from your PC using this fastboot command every time "fastboot flash boot boot.img" if you are using Linux you may have to start your command with sudo
So for flashing here on HOX it's same for ROMs as for kernels
To change recovery for HOX it's nearly as same as flashing boot.img
For recovery you need to get into bootloader to flash the needed recovery.img using fastboot command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
And after each fastboot command you need to place this command order "fastboot erase cache" to prevent boot loops
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Hello everyone,
After having unlocked the boot loader I flashed via fast boot TWRP. The only problem is that I flashed "fastboot flash BOOT recovery.img" instead of RECOVERY... I wasn't paying enough attention...
The phone still boots but it goes straight to recovery. What can I do? Fast boot still recognizes it. I was thinking of extracting the boot.img file from a sense based rom like android revolution HD for the m8 or putting the whole rom android revolution HD on an sd card and flashing via recovery. In other threads users had already flashed a custom rom so they could flash the boot.img extracting it from that but I don't know since I still had the stock unlocked rom.
Would one of these solutions solve the problem?
u can try fastboot flash boot whateverbootloader.img otherwise try fastboot rebootRUU and try flashing hboot from within a ruu zip or wait for HTC to release official RUU
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u can try fastboot flash boot whateverbootloader.img otherwise try fastboot rebootRUU and try flashing hboot from within a ruu zip or wait for HTC to release official RUU
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I'll try flashing a boot.img, the other solution is beyond my current skills...
Just extract the boot.img from the ROM you were using. If stock, download one of the stock Roms and then extract the boot.IMG from it and then
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Obviously the boot.img will need to be in your fastboot/adb folder.
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thank you both, I flashed the correct boot.img and everything is fine now
djkinetic said:
u can try fastboot flash boot whateverbootloader.img otherwise try fastboot rebootRUU and try flashing hboot from within a ruu zip or wait for HTC to release official RUU
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What... He just needs to flash a kernel, why potentially cause someone to brick their device by flashing a hboot which wouldn't even solve the issue?
where did you get the boot.img file ? care to share it I am stuck too. My phones is from Rogers
tawer said:
where did you get the boot.img file ? care to share it I am stuck too. My phones is from Rogers
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Go to my backup thread and get a nandroid ....the kernel is inside the backup.
Thank you so much.
Hi Forum!
A question, as I like to flash the 4.2.2 sense roms, each one says you need to flash a boot.img with each rom, even though each rom contains a boot.img too, are these all the same? i mean can i just use one boot.img file in my fastboot folder work on each sense rom?
Also when I change roms, do i need to flash a boot.img each time? (bearing in mind, I only use the sense roms
You need to flash the boot image that is included with each Rom, they are all specific to the Rom you are flashing. And yes you need flash the boot image every time you change roms
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biggary said:
Hi Forum!
A question, as I like to flash the 4.2.2 sense roms, each one says you need to flash a boot.img with each rom, even though each rom contains a boot.img too, are these all the same? i mean can i just use one boot.img file in my fastboot folder work on each sense rom?
Also when I change roms, do i need to flash a boot.img each time? (bearing in mind, I only use the sense roms
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From what I have understood while lingering around XDA is, that the boot.img file is the kernel and you need to flash it (every time you change ROMs) in fastboot (because our phones are S-ON we can't just simply flash the ROM zip and be done).
So, flash the ROM zip, then fastboot flash the boot.img from a PC (remember to fastboot erase cache too).
You mean S-ON .... ^^
classic20 said:
From what I have understood while lingering around XDA is, that the boot.img file is the kernel and you need to flash it (every time you change ROMs) in fastboot (because our phones are S-OFF we can't just simply flash the ROM zip and be done).
So, flash the ROM zip, then fastboot flash the boot.img from a PC (remember to fastboot erase cache too).
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Does the ordering matter? In this ROM it is stated to flash the boot.img first and then the ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2630225
No does not matter.
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Mr Hofs said:
You mean S-ON .... ^^
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Yes, correct as always Mr. Hofs