Hi guys,
I can't figure this out. Why can't I flash a kernel with clockworkmod when I've unlocked my phone through htcdev.com.
Every time I flash a new rom it boot loops because the right kernel is not present.
When I boot it back in to fastboot and flash the kernel manually it boots..
If I'm correct: with a unlocked phone I should be able to flash kernels with clockworkmod.
Clockworkmod v5.8.4.0
flitjes said:
Hi guys,
I can't figure this out. Why can't I flash a kernel with clockworkmod when I've unlocked my phone through htcdev.com.
Every time I flash a new rom it boot loops because the right kernel is not present.
When I boot it back in to fastboot and flash the kernel manually it boots..
If I'm correct: with a unlocked phone I should be able to flash kernels with clockworkmod.
Clockworkmod v5.8.4.0
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you need s-off to can flash kernel .... if you phone is s-on you must flash kernel via fastboot
flitjes said:
Hi guys,
I can't figure this out. Why can't I flash a kernel with clockworkmod when I've unlocked my phone through htcdev.com.
Every time I flash a new rom it boot loops because the right kernel is not present.
When I boot it back in to fastboot and flash the kernel manually it boots..
If I'm correct: with a unlocked phone I should be able to flash kernels with clockworkmod.
Clockworkmod v5.8.4.0
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The kernel is flashed, you just need to flash its boot.img in fast boot aswell.
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chrisjcks said:
The kernel is flashed, you just need to flash its boot.img in fast boot aswell.
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Ah ok, thnx for the explanation
to expand a bit, you flash the modules for the kernel via cwm.
and as mentioned above, you then need to flash the boot.img via fastboot as without s-off this bit can't be done via cwm.
You can thank HTC for that cop out bootloader unlock.
Yeah you have to use fastboot to flash the boot and recovery partitions, an utter pain and pretty much the only time I have to connect my phone to a computer.
A nice step backward for HTC.
Actually some of roms come with kernel flasher which lets u flash kernel without booting into bootloader, just read the instruction carefully.
kim9988 said:
Actually some of roms come with kernel flasher which lets u flash kernel without booting into bootloader, just read the instruction carefully.
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curious which roms?
kim9988 said:
Actually some of roms come with kernel flasher which lets u flash kernel without booting into bootloader, just read the instruction carefully.
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Very curious which roms and devices.
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Man, Ive really screwed up now... I didn't back up the stock ROM, tried to root her phone using the HTC Sync method described here.
I successfully unlocked the bootloader and rooted, but still have S-ON. I have HBOOT ver 0.98, by the way.
Then after installing a Cyanogenmod 7.2 ROM through ClockworkMod Recovery (no errors there), the phone freezes on boot at the white screen with green HTC letters.
I tried flashing another ROM (several actually), but they all do the same thing. Freeze on the white boot screen, doesn't matter how long I wait.
So in an effort to get it back to stock, I tried flashing a stock RUU through the bootloader, and I get an error "Main version is older!". Checked my version through "fastboot getvar all" and the main version on phone is 6.01.605.05, so apparently I can't flash anything less than that. The latest version RUU that I've been able to find for download is 5.10.605.9.
Im fairly new to this, but I don't think I can use ADB commands without booting into the OS, is that right?
So in short:
-unable to boot to OS
-can't find a custom ROM that will boot
-can't use ADB commands to downgrade HBOOT or get S-OFF (or can I somehow?)
-can't flash an RUU because my phones version registering higher than anything I can find on the net
So does anyone have any ideas?
Calm down, did you flash the boot.img through fast boot?
To me it looks like you didn't, flash your rom open the rom on computer take out the boot.img and but phone in fast boot then enter the following command
Fastboot boot boot.img
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Yes, I tried but it keeps failing. Do you know if my phone has to be unlocked before I flash the boot.img? Also, I am still s-on and don't know how to get s-off from a 6.01.605.05. I am stuck in bootloop and can't get into recovery only hboot/fastboot. Will the Roms you mentioned work with s-on? Should I try flashing the boot.img, system.img, and recovery.img from one of those roms?
GoonAssJuan said:
Calm down, did you flash the boot.img through fast boot?
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mrkmzo said:
Yes, I tried but it keeps failing. Do you know if my phone has to be unlocked before I flash the boot.img? Also, I am still s-on and don't know how to get s-off from a 6.01.605.05. I am stuck in bootloop and can't get into recovery only hboot/fastboot. Will the Roms you mentioned work with s-on? Should I try flashing the boot.img, system.img, and recovery.img from one of those roms?
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Any rom will work as long as you flash the boot.img from that specific rom
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Had the same problem
I had the same problem and flashing the boot.img does work. Make sure your fastboot and boot.img are in the same folder and and you hold shift and open command prompt from there. Also make sure your drivers are working properly. After you flash your boot image to you phone the clear all data/cache/davsik and then instal cyanogenmod!
Hi,
I need help. I did an ota update from htc to improve battery performance on my rooted phone. Now the phone is not rooted anymore. I'm still on stock ics rom, how do I reroot the phone again? Do I just follow the same procedures when I rooted it the first time? Thanks in advance for any help.
Performing the OTA update will cause boot loops with most of the custom roms such as CM10 and AOKP. To successfully run a custom rom you should revert to an older RUU then reroot the phone and choose the custom rom of your choice. Here is a link to the older RUU you need to be able to run most of the custom roms http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094373
if you have relocked the bootloader,u have to unlock it again.for this,place the Unlock_code.bin file u received from htc for unlocking ur bootloader the first time in the fastboot folder.(or the platform-tools folder,whichever u have).then boot into bootloader and go to fastboot.then connect phone to pc.then just flash the token using-
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
select yes on ur screen,ur bootloader is now unlocked.
now flash a custom recovery by placing the recovery_name.img in the fastboot/platform-tools folder and flash it using-
fastboot flash recovery recovery_name.img
once recovery is flashed,flash this zip in recovery-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
now ur phone is rooted once again
Gryff302 said:
Performing the OTA update will cause boot loops with most of the custom roms such as CM10 and AOKP. To successfully run a custom rom you should revert to an older RUU then reroot the phone and choose the custom rom of your choice. Here is a link to the older RUU you need to be able to run most of the custom roms http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094373
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I'm still on the ROM the phone came with. I did not install any custom ROM after I rooted it first time. Do I reroot by doing the same procedures like I did the first time? i.e. unlock bootloader through HTC dev and use primo superboot to root.
mihirengg19 said:
if you have relocked the bootloader,u have to unlock it again.for this,place the Unlock_code.bin file u received from htc for unlocking ur bootloader the first time in the fastboot folder.(or the platform-tools folder,whichever u have).then boot into bootloader and go to fastboot.then connect phone to pc.then just flash the token using-
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
select yes on ur screen,ur bootloader is now unlocked.
now flash a custom recovery by placing the recovery_name.img in the fastboot/platform-tools folder and flash it using-
fastboot flash recovery recovery_name.img
once recovery is flashed,flash this zip in recovery-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
now ur phone is rooted once again
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I did not flash any custom ROM after it was rooted the first time. The phone is still on the original ROM it came with. Do I just need to unlock and use primo superboot to root again?
yes
edit:just flash the zip i linked you to in recovery after flashing the recovery.u can also do the superboot way but this is more simple...
mihirengg19 said:
yes
edit:just flash the zip i linked you to in recovery after flashing the recovery.u can also do the superboot way but this is more simple...
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Great! Thanks for the help, I will give it a go.
Hey
I was following this tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100
And everything worked well untill the part I had to boot into recovery mode.
I couldn't get into it and decided to skip that part and just flash the boot.img from the ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778202
I flashed everything succesful without any errors but now my phone won't boot, it just gives me a black screen and can't get into recovery.
My bootloader is unlocked and I can still get into it.
I was thinking about flashing the stock RUU or another ROM, but is this possible?
Now I can't use my desire hd .. need some help with it.
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I'm S-ON and unlocked bootloader.
I just tried to flash CWM and it flashed succesfully but still couldn't boot into recovery..
That tutorial is for the Desire S. What RUU did you use?
bananagranola said:
That tutorial is for the Desire S. What RUU did you use?
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I didn't use RUU yet, I was thinking about it..
...OK, I'm confused. Exactly what have you done?
bananagranola said:
...OK, I'm confused. Exactly what have you done?
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First I unlocked the bootloader.
Then I moved the ROM's zip file to the SD card.
I flashed the 4EXT Recovery after that.
I couldn't boot into recovery so I flashed the ROM's boot.img
Then I couldn't boot my phone in normal mode
After that I flashed CWM but it also didn't work..
Then I used fastboot erase cache and after that I tried fastboot oem rebootRUU
that's all I did untill now
What did you have on your phone to begin with, stock? What ROM zip did you get the boot.img from? How did you flash recovery? Which image?
bananagranola said:
What did you have on your phone to begin with, stock? What ROM zip did you get the boot.img from? How did you flash recovery? Which image?
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I had stock rom on my phone, didn't make a backup.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335496 is the rom I tried to put on my phone, that is where the boot.img is from.
And I flashed recovery with
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
btw, i dont have a file PD98IMG
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I tried booting into recovery with the command fastboot boot recovery.img
but it is stuck on the HTC screen
OK, you've flashed a JB AOSP boot.img on a Froyo/GB Sense ROM. No wonder it's not booting. Again, where did you get the recovery image from? You need to flash a working recovery from fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img), flash the ROM from recovery, and flash the matching boot.img from fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img).
bananagranola said:
OK, you've flashed a JB AOSP boot.img on a Froyo/GB Sense ROM. No wonder it's not booting. Again, where did you get the recovery image from? You need to flash a working recovery from fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img), flash the ROM from recovery, and flash the matching boot.img from fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img).
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I just googled the CWM Recover img...
Can you link me to a working recovery img? and to a ROM that is running android 4.0 or higher and is easier to flash?
thanks man!
SmikkelMikkel said:
I just googled the CWM Recover img...
Can you link me to a working recovery img? and to a ROM that is running android 4.0 or higher and is easier to flash?
thanks man!
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Recoveries are device specific. http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager. ROMs are all flashed the same way if you are S-On with an unlocked bootloader.
bananagranola said:
Recoveries are device specific. http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager. ROMs are all flashed the same way if you are S-On with an unlocked bootloader.
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Well thanks, I fixed it myself but still thank you for your help.
You sent me in the right direction !
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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I have an unlocked bootloader but not s-off am I still able to flash custom roms? if so how do I know which ones I can flash?
dbarrett480 said:
I have an unlocked bootloader but not s-off am I still able to flash custom roms? if so how do I know which ones I can flash?
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Does the old trick of booting to recovery via fastboot still work? I haven't had an HTC phone for a while....
dbarrett480 said:
I have an unlocked bootloader but not s-off am I still able to flash custom roms? if so how do I know which ones I can flash?
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dbarrett480 said:
Does the old trick of booting to recovery via fastboot still work? I haven't had an HTC phone for a while....
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Yes you can flash any ROM while S-On. S-Off is not needed for that.
And yes, you can get to recovery via your bootloader. But once you have a custom ROM, the option to boot to recovery will be available when you long press power.
S-OFF only really comes handy as you can flash different FW packages that aren't signed by HTC, or downgrade to an older FW package if required/wanted
Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I understand you can't flash a kernel with S-ON right?
TempestZ said:
Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I understand you can't flash a kernel with S-ON right?
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Wrong
U can flash following partitions
system
boot
data
recovery
TempestZ said:
Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I understand you can't flash a kernel with S-ON right?
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That was the case with the One X a few years back but changed since...
I was able to flash a kernel last night by fastbooting to recovery
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