I unlocked my bootloader using Omnius but when I FASTBOOT flash a kernel I get stuck in a boot loop. I can flash back to stock kernels fine and access cwm. Am I missing a step? I have followed a lot of guides but most seem a bit out of date. How can I check that my boot loader is defiantly unlocked? Also, in-case I am being to impatient is it normal to wait 30 minutes for the first boot?
If you use flash tool for enter in fastboot?
Fastboot flash boot boot.img, check you're doing it correctly.
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If you don't know, what you are doing, you shouldn't be doing it at all.
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Just use the common way, like flashtool...
Oh and if custom kernel gets flashed without errors, then your bootloader is unlocked. If bootloader would be locked, kernel flashing would give an error.
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As stated, like a dummy i used the htc unlock method and really want to correct my mistake. i lost my backup of my stock rom so everytime i relock all i get is the fastboot screen. tried flashing the stock ruu file and i get "main version is newer" or something like that. Could it be the file?
I would just flash to a stock based ROM, and try that.
Im running andybonestock at the moment but i want to relock and unroot, remove Superuser etc.
STeVe7320 said:
Im running andybonestock at the moment but i want to relock and unroot, remove Superuser etc.
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Use the 2.3.4->2.3.3 downgrade method to reset your hboot version to .97 and then run Revolutionary.
Edit: Or, try flashing a stock recovery .img through an unlocked hboot using fastboot and then reset your data inside the android os. Then try relocking your bootloader. I would do this first. Then do the above.
Sounds like I need to track down a recovery image. I tried downgrading with the bootloader locked and unlocked and got nowhere
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Got the RUU to work. Locked the bootloader, left it on the fastboot screen. Plugged it in and let it work its magic. No problems at all.
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After using HTC tool to unlock bootloader, my device boots up and my bootloader is locked, Hboot at 1.02. I tried several times and it's now unlocked, but still S-ON. Then, I try to root it using dozens of methods. Finally, my rom is rooted now with super user inside app drawer. However, I can't flash cwm, or new Roms. My recovery shows system 3e, which always check signature of update.zip when flashing. It was 2e as I remembered.
Maybe I am the first one using the Espresso that face this, anyone has any idea about this. I've read through all the threads here, but no help...:-(
go to adb, then boot into fastboot and type "fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.1-espresso.img" or whatever cwm u download. then flash any rom and you are good to go. Make sure you paste that cwm.img in the correct folder for your adb. Let me know if it works.
Gonna try it and report soon sir.
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Punjabi23 said:
go to adb, then boot into fastboot and type "fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.0.1-espresso.img" or whatever cwm u download. then flash any rom and you are good to go. Make sure you paste that cwm.img in the correct folder for your adb. Let me know if it works.
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Ha ha, Thank you guy. It works like a charm. And now, I got cwm 5.5, which is higher than the thing I used before. Flashing right away and going back to the community. +1 for you Punjabi
How die you finally get root?
bearshare said:
After using HTC tool to unlock bootloader, my device boots up and my bootloader is locked, Hboot at 1.02. I tried several times and it's now unlocked, but still S-ON. Then, I try to root it using dozens of methods. Finally, my rom is rooted now with super user inside app drawer. However, I can't flash cwm, or new Roms. My recovery shows system 3e, which always check signature of update.zip when flashing. It was 2e as I remembered.
Maybe I am the first one using the Espresso that face this, anyone has any idea about this. I've read through all the threads here, but no help...:-(
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Like you I used the HTC tool to unlock bootloader and was able to get it unlocked, but still S-ON. I have tried like 10 different ways to get root, but no success so far. How did you get root?
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Like you I used the HTC tool to unlock bootloader and was able to get it unlocked, but still S-ON. I have tried like 10 different ways to get root, but no success so far. How did you get root?
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It does not matter if the screen shows S-ON. I do not remember how it was after I unlocked my bootloader...
So, hi there.
I have a very strange issue with my DHD.
Let me start saying that I've read and tried all these guides:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Desire_HD:_Firmware_Downgrade_(Gingerbread)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1259821
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424023
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936214
But... they don't work.
I bought my DHD with Froyo and updated the stock rom everytime, last time with the new Sense 3 stock.
I unlocked the bootloader with the RUU from htcdev.
Fre3vo doesn't work, tacoroot doesn't work, the ace kit (and the lovely effen manual) doesn't work.
I have succesfully flashed clockwork img to recovery (fastboot flash recovery clockwork.img is OK).
I had made a backup of the stock rom with clockwork, and that backup rom is the only one which starts succesfully.
Every other rom i tried (cyanogen, miui, virtuous ics) is succesfully flashed but at the boot it seems freezed at the HTC logo (yes, I waited for about 30 minutes).
The weird thing, is what I did for having miui running on my DHD.
I downloaded the miui rom ZIP,
I copied the zip to the SD,
I copied the boot.img from the zip to my desktop,
flashed the zip with clockwork (after i wiped all the data),
reboot the DHD into fastboot
fastboot the boot.img I've extracted to the phone (c:\> fastboot boot boot.img)
then the phone boots to the boot image I've sideloaded via USB.
And this is working really fine without any problems...
Unless I had to reboot the phone on the road or the battery dies...
Isn't that a bit weird? What shall I do now?
I'm assuming you did re-lock the bootloader before trying acehack kit?
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I'm assuming you did re-lock the bootloader before trying acehack kit?
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No, not really.
The bootloader is still unlocked at this moment.
Should I relock it? (why?)
You need to flash the boot.img for every rom, since you used the HTC dev method. Like above stated relock your boot loader and try the kit. As to why relock it, because the kit tells you too
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marsdta said:
You need to flash the boot.img for every rom, since you used the HTC dev method. Like above stated relock your boot loader and try the kit. As to why relock it, because the kit tells you too
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Hey! That worked! Thank you so much!
I thought it was Clockwork's job to flash the boot (which is inside the zip), but after I installed the zip from Clockwork's recovery boot, I also flashed the boot.img with fastboot and now it works!
Thank you again!
If your soff then yes cwr will flash the boot. But because your son cwr currently can't. 4ext recovery does have a new option that will flash it for you, not sure how it works but you might want totake a look into it, as to avoid needing a computer to flash roms .
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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?
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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!