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Can you get into the bootloader and do you have a nandroid?
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So your problem is you can't boot and only get to Fastboot and you are unlocked?
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areolop said:
Yes to bootloader, no to nandroid
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Is the phone rooted or HTC unlocked? If you can get into bootloader, try getting into recovery from there. If you have a zip file that you can flash on the sd card, you might be able to just wipe and reflash everything. If you don't have anything to flash, or can't get into recovery, you will have to use adb to get it going (i think).
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I've rooted my stock DHD with VisionaryPlus and installed ClockWorkMod with ROM Manager.
When I try to boot into recovery, I get a red triangle with a ! inside, and the only thing I can do then is physically remove the battery.
The phone works fine otherwise, but I need to solve this problem if I'm ever going to back up my ROM or flash a new one. Can anyone help?
SOLVED: hadn't done s-off.
Probably the clockwork recovery is broken.. try flashing again i guess..
Thats stock recovery, after you root, you need to s-off before you can flash cwm......
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AndroHero said:
Thats stock recovery, after you root, you need to s-off before you can flash cwm......
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How do I s-off?
One Click S-Off tool.
Solved, thanks! I'm now fully backed up and running MIUI.
So I decided to try and unroot my htc evo 4g with this tutorial i found:
[GUIDE] How to Unroot the EVO in 2 STEPS http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141&highlight=unroot
I began with the steps that just involved transferring PC36IMG.zip onto my root folder and booting into boot loader. I ran the update and everything and rebooted and my phone seemed to have factory reset. i went back to my bootloader tho to find that it still says "s-off" so i guess its still rooted? I then installed rom manager and when i go to app it says im not rooted. Im so lost and confused I assumed i need to flash a recovery so i used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026 and tried each way. none have worked.
Please help!!
Thanks
Your not rooted just s-off which makes it possible to root.. If you get s on and update your phone to a newer hboot then you can't root.... If you want to be rooted again and have a custom recovery your gonna have to flash a recovery and flash su
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steviee7 said:
Your not rooted just s-off which makes it possible to root.. If you get s on and update your phone to a newer hboot then you can't root.... If you want to be rooted again and have a custom recovery your gonna have to flash a recovery and flash su
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soo how do i go about flashing a recovery and su?
also when i go to bootloader and try to enter recovery i get a black screen with a phone and red caution symbol. is this because i dont have a recovery?
itscuzimazn731 said:
soo how do i go about flashing a recovery and su?
also when i go to bootloader and try to enter recovery i get a black screen with a phone and red caution symbol. is this because i dont have a recovery?
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recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
superuser http://androidsu.com/superuser/
make sure you download the one for gingerbread and also download the su-bin and flash both via recovery
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recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
superuser http://androidsu.com/superuser/
make sure you download the one for gingerbread and also download the su-bin and flash both via recovery
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hrm ive been to the recovery forum and tried all ways to install and none worked. im scared to try the bootloader because last time i updated all it did was erase everything.
itscuzimazn731 said:
hrm ive been to the recovery forum and tried all ways to install and none worked. im scared to try the bootloader because last time i updated all it did was erase everything.
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the only thing that can be flashed in the bootloader that will wipe your phone is a RUU. Flashing a recovery wont erase anything
I also did the bootloader thing and ended up getting a big "**unlocked**" and "**relocked**" symbol above the regular Supersonic EVT3 S-ON. So I dont where this leaves me when its talking about my warranty and getting the device repaired. I wanted to re-root my device but nothing is working now that I am HBoot 2.18
Hey all) Maybe someone knows where to get information on how to write scripts for root.
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P. Dexter85 said:
I also did the bootloader thing and ended up getting a big "**unlocked**" and "**relocked**" symbol above the regular Supersonic EVT3 S-ON. So I dont where this leaves me when its talking about my warranty and getting the device repaired. I wanted to re-root my device but nothing is working now that I am HBoot 2.18
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unlock bootloader then downgrade to a earlier version of android like 2.3.3 then accept the OTA and it will say LOCKED s-on http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-) dont do the root part after you downgrade to a earlier version
I just tried this today and it should work.. Use the "HEX" zip file from this forum. Rename it PC36IMG and place it on the root of your SD card..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245649&highlight=how+to+unroot+revolutionary+root
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Don't do anything else but that and let me know how it goes.
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Such a pain in the butt now. I tried to get s-off for my nephew earlier this month but I threw in the towel. Thought it would be as easy as my phone but it was too late as he had updated his bootloader. My phone was rooted back in January, nice and easy.
Can i apply root using root.zip on stock recovery?
No you have to flash custom recovery to flash root.zip
If you are s-off or bootloader unlocked you can flash recovery via fastboot.
Later if you want to flash stock recovery,just extract it from any generic ruu and flash via fastboot.
was hoping that i can cause i tried almost all method here in installing custom recovery yet everyone of them gets stuck in black screen whith glowing button thanks for the help anyway
ngoralph said:
was hoping that i can cause i tried almost all method here in installing custom recovery yet everyone of them gets stuck in black screen whith glowing button thanks for the help anyway
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yeah sounds lik my friend's problem.got same because s-on.but can install another ruu by this method but dont sure it ll work or not because i tried but e:\ error.
Have u tried flashing from Hboot ??
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directly installing a custom recovery & rooting might be possible in most other phones, but u gotta unlock the bootloader on the WFS. U can either switch S-OFF or unlock the bootloader by going to the HTCDEV site & follow the steps there..
hope that helps
ngoralph said:
Can i apply root using root.zip on stock recovery?
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be sure you have unlocked your bootloader.
I have cwm recovery on my phone with just s off not unlocked bootloader so I imagine its possible. And make sure you use the r8ght one for your phone like cdma or gsm.
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So from what I see you are able to flash a sense ROM with s on and a unlocked boot loader. Can I do this with my droid incredible? Its rooted with cwm and a unlocked boot loader. If so can I use a sense 4.0 ROM? Also I think I have to flash boot.IMG from fast boot right?
Trozzul said:
So from what I see you are able to flash a sense ROM with s on and a unlocked boot loader. Can I do this with my droid incredible? Its rooted with cwm and a unlocked boot loader. If so can I use a sense 4.0 ROM? Also I think I have to flash boot.IMG from fast boot right?
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If you have cwm installed you can flash any rom made for the incredible.
No you do not need to flash anything from hboot except cwm, which you say you already have.
cmlusco said:
If you have cwm installed you can flash any rom made for the incredible.
No you do not need to flash anything from hboot except cwm, which you say you already have.
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i still have S-on does this hurt it?
Trozzul said:
i still have S-on does this hurt it?
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No it will not hurt anything, you only need root/custom recovery to flash a rom. However i would suggest you think about going s-off, as it can come in handy if something goes wrong. It also allows you to flash recoveries, radios, splash screens, ..., thru hboot.
So then what's the point of s-on?
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Trozzul said:
So then what's the point of s-on?
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S-on (Security On) is just a way for htc to lock down the bootloader to stop you from flashing unsigned images and messing up your phone. Along the way enough htc customers expressed the desire to be able to put custom roms on their phones that htc listened and came up with the unlockable bootloader. Unlocking the bootloader however does not turn all bootloader security off, but meerly allows you to flash unsigned recovery and boot images. All other images are still locked and can only be flashed with a signed image from htc. So they let you flash a custom recovery, which in turn allows you to flash roms and kernels. But they still keep important things like the bootloader it self, the misc partition, etc locked so you cant brick your phone. At least not as easily.
So what I'm going to do is make a nand backup then factory reset from cwm then flash a ROM and I shouldn't brick my phone? I thought of the because my HTC inspire 4g(or the HTC desire HD) had a unlocked boot loader and cwm and was able to flash ROMs but I had to fast boot flash the ROMs boot.IMG do you know why I don't have to do it with this phone?
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So what I'm going to do is make a nand backup then factory reset from cwm then flash a ROM and I shouldn't brick my phone? I thought of the because my HTC inspire 4g(or the HTC desire HD) had a unlocked boot loader and cwm and was able to flash ROMs but I had to fast boot flash the ROMs boot.IMG do you know why I don't have to do it with this phone?
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No im not sure why, but you dont have to. Just backup, wipe and flash the new rom.
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No im not sure why, but you dont have to. Just backup, wipe and flash the new rom.
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thanks for the help!
Hi all, I'm sorry to ask this question again, but after a lot of checking I can't figure this out.
I have Android 2.3.5 (3.12.405.x), the phone is S-Off with bootloader 2.00.0029, and locked. I need to unlock it so I can flash a recovery and then root the thing to use Titanium backup to restore data to another phone.
The HTCdev method wipes all the data, right?
Ben
BenPope said:
Hi all, I'm sorry to ask this question again, but after a lot of checking I can't figure this out.
I have Android 2.3.5 (3.12.405.x), the phone is S-Off with bootloader 2.00.0029, and locked. I need to unlock it so I can flash a recovery and then root the thing to use Titanium backup to restore data to another phone.
The HTCdev method wipes all the data, right?
Ben
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If you are s-off you can just flash a custom recovery directly. No need to unlock the bootloader.
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yumm91 said:
If you are s-off you can just flash a custom recovery directly. No need to unlock the bootloader.
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fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
gives me:
remote: not allowed
BenPope said:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
gives me:
remote: not allowed
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You got those error because remote flash only allowed on unlocked and engineering bootloader.
You need to use hboot patch to install custom recovery by putting that zip files in the root of your sdcard. Reboot to bootloader and it will ask for a prompt to update. I am not sure whether this method still applicable to new bootloader (2.00.0029).
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yumm91 said:
You got those error because remote flash only allowed on unlocked and engineering bootloader.
You need to use hboot patch to install custom recovery by putting that zip files in the root of your sdcard. Reboot to bootloader and it will ask for a prompt to update. I am not sure whether this method still applicable to new bootloader (2.00.0029).
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Hmmm. It's hard to find the right information for newer hboot.
I'm creating a pd98.zip now with a custom recovery. I'll update on how it goes.
BenPope said:
I'm creating a pd98.zip now with a custom recovery.
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That worked, I have 4ext on there now, thanks for your help.
BenPope said:
That worked, I have 4ext on there now, thanks for your help.
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No problem. Glad to help.
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