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[FIXED!] Uninstalling fbook bricked my phone? Stuck at HTC logo! HELP!

Hi - I have posted in the leedroid thread with no response so i'm posting a new thread:
I was running leedroid 1.6b - i uninstalled facebook and all was fine. I then at some point yesterday rebooted my phone & it got stuck at the htc logo.
I entered fastboot which works fine, but then tried to enter recovery and once again it got stuck at the htc logo (vibrates a few times and does nothing).
I assumed my recovery image had got corrupted, and so i tried to go through the root process (the second one) again - everything seems to go fine until i try to enter recovery where it still gets stuck at the htc logo.
Can someone assist on what i can do to get recovery working again?
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Ok so here are the things i tried that didnt work:
Unrevoked - couldnt run as required you to be in OS
r6 root - Could do step 1 but not step 2 (Hang at htc logo)
Official RUU Exe - Would complete successfully but still hangs at HTC logo
Also tried formatting sdcard, removing ext partitions, removing sim card - none worked.
Finally i tried this and it did work:
1. D/L PB99IMG zip from following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684259
2. Rename to PB99IMG.zip
3. Place on sdcard (i just took the card out & used a usb adapter)
4. Put card in phone & start with vol-down pressed.
The phone will detect the zip & flash.
This worked - now unrooted & ready for rooting again.
Not sure why the PB99IMG method worked when the RUU exe failed, but there you go
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Does ADB find your phone?
What hboot do you have?
Do you have a goldcard?
Don't worry, as long as you can access fastboot you're not bricked. Although you must've done something more then uninstalling Facebook. Try flash a new recovery using unrevoked.

How you startet your Phone? (Home+Power dont starts Recovery for me) only with VoldumeDown+Power i can get to Recovery.

xtcislove said:
How you startet your Phone? (Home+Power dont starts Recovery for me) only with VoldumeDown+Power i can get to Recovery.
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Back+Power?

sindrefyrn said:
Does ADB find your phone?
What hboot do you have?
Do you have a goldcard?
Don't worry, as long as you can access fastboot you're not bricked. Although you must've done something more then uninstalling Facebook. Try flash a new recovery using unrevoked.
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I was on hboot 0.75 but when i tried to root again it got changed to 0.80?
I swear all i did was uninstall facebook - even used it for quite a while after that - maybe something else did it.
My phone is unbranded so dont have a goldcard.
Havent tested adb - if it does work what are the steps?
I thought you had to be fully booted to run unrevoked?

inamak said:
I was on hboot 0.75 but when i tried to root again it got changed to 0.80?
I swear all i did was uninstall facebook - even used it for quite a while after that - maybe something else did it.
My phone is unbranded so dont have a goldcard.
Havent tested adb - if it does work what are the steps?
I thought you had to be fully booted to run unrevoked?
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As long as adb finds your phone you should be able to run unrevoked. Try that. I'm not sure about this, but you may also be able to run it from fast/hboot.
Remember that to boot into recovery mode on desire you'll need to first boot using vol down + power.
You could also try picking clear storage in fastboot if neither above work, but we can come back to that later.

Hi - I tried unrevoked - it didnt work - i think it wants me to be in the OS before it does anything - all it says when i am in the hboot screen is "waiting for device - plug phone in now and enable usb debugging".
I can get to both fastboot & hboot screens, and also usb works fine in both, so i know the drivers are installed ok on my xp machine.
All it does is show me the htc logo and vibrate a few times when i try to go into the recovery mode.
Is there a way to get unrevoked to do its thing without being in the OS? Or another method?

Also just tried an official RUU - got all the way through the setup fine - when it completed it reboot the phone, and it still gets stuck at the htc boot screen & vibrates

inamak said:
Also just tried an official RUU - got all the way through the setup fine - when it completed it reboot the phone, and it still gets stuck at the htc boot screen & vibrates
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Did you remove HTCFacebook.apk? Or Facebook.apn? HTCFacebook is part of the system and should not be removed..
was your SD partitioned for A2SD+ and is it still? Installing a Rom that does not support A2SD+ with an ext3 will cause bootloops.
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inamak said:
Also just tried an official RUU - got all the way through the setup fine - when it completed it reboot the phone, and it still gets stuck at the htc boot screen & vibrates
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Try the following:
Boot your phone while holding vol down.
Wait for the "searching for p99img (or whatever it is) to finish.
Press vol down three times, then click power.
Press vol up to confirm.
Try boot your phone as normal.
Did that work?

LeeDroid said:
Did you remove HTCFacebook.apk? Or Facebook.apn? HTCFacebook is part of the system and should not be removed..
was your SD partitioned for A2SD+ and is it still? Installing a Rom that does not support A2SD+ with an ext3 will cause bootloops.
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Not sure - i did it through titanium backup as the update would not install - guess that is what did it? I'm sure it was the normal app not the htc one though.
Yeah my card does have an ext3 partition - the phone isnt bootlooping though it is getting stuck at the htc logo? Cant even get into recovery to flash another rom.

sindrefyrn said:
Try the following:
Boot your phone while holding vol down.
Wait for the "searching for p99img (or whatever it is) to finish.
Press vol down three times, then click power.
Press vol up to confirm.
Try boot your phone as normal.
Did that work?
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Gave it a try but didnt work - still stuck at htc logo.
It said fat32 ok but the 2 other things below it said failed?

inamak said:
Not sure - i did it through titanium backup as the update would not install - guess that is what did it? I'm sure it was the normal app not the htc one though.
Yeah my card does have an ext3 partition - the phone isnt bootlooping though it is getting stuck at the htc logo? Cant even get into recovery to flash another rom.
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That's very interesting! I tried to uninstall fb apk with titanium several times and while uninstalling my desire reboots.
So seems that I had some luck with that...but still fb stays
Maybe you uninstalled the htcfb apk.
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Ok so i tried removing my ext3 partition (leaving me with just a fat32 partition over the whole sd card) and redoing the whole rooting procedure. It still gets through step1 fine, but when get back to the hboot screen & try to enter recovery it just shows me the htc logo and vibrates.
Anything else i can try? If not i guess i will have to get the phone replaced...

*Bump*
Anything else i can try?

Finally fixed it - solution in post 1

Spoke too soon - was all up and running again but the phone decided to reboot by itself after about 4hrs & now is stuck at the logo again.
Tried the method i used before but no luck this time.
So now rerooting, unrooting, PB99IMG do not work for me - can't boot into OS or into recovery...
Think my phone must be faulty?

I'm facing the same problem as you now. So, do you have any permanent solution so far...?

inamak said:
Spoke too soon - was all up and running again but the phone decided to reboot by itself after about 4hrs & now is stuck at the logo again.
Tried the method i used before but no luck this time.
So now rerooting, unrooting, PB99IMG do not work for me - can't boot into OS or into recovery...
Think my phone must be faulty?
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Find any solution? I may be in the same boat as you... and you may want to change the title from FIXED, I got my hopes up.

[Q] S-ON, invalid recovery/system partitions, boot loop, bricked device?

Hi all,
Was attempting to root my desire HD and install CM7. Somehow, I managed to screw up the phone. I was using ACE so at some point I had root, and was able to flash different partitions (which is where I screwed up). Here are the facts:
1. Phone boot loops
2. There's no working recovery partition (I manually flashed that when I did have root), and a completely busted system partition
3. the phone is still S-ON (not sure how this stayed this way) - which means I can't fastboot
I tried downloading and installing the stock ROM, and it loaded, and installed - but then neither 'recovery' nor 'factory reset' do anything. Both still lead to boot loops...
From researching the web, I understand that:
1. If I don't have S-OFF - I can't fastboot, and even the PD98img.zip won't install
2. I can't get S-OFF without having a working system first (either via HTC's tools or some root'ing app).
Am I SOL, or does anyone have ideas of what I should try?
thx.
Blake

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31722797
Post#7, it may help.
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You haven't tried running an RUU yet? It restores your phone to factory state. Best way is to flash an RUU and start over with the Advanced Ace Hack Kit. I'm pretty sure you didn't read the manual properly and follow it word for word. By RUU I don't mean the PD98IMG.zip, I mean the exe file. Connect your phone to the computer and run the exe.
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...60.29_26.14.04.28_M_release_225512_signed.exe

sashank;31725074]You haven't tried running an RUU yet? It restores your phone to factory state. Best way is to flash an RUU and start over with the Advanced Ace Hack Kit. I'm pretty sure you didn't read the manual properly and follow it word for word. By RUU I don't mean the PD98IMG.zip, I mean the exe file. Connect your phone to the computer and run the exe.
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I tried - but i got the 'failed to communicate with your phone, make sure USB is connected and phone is in debug mode'...As I understand it, running the exe requires that phone to be in a working state. I only have hboot now...
Am I mistaken?

In hboot, press power on fastboot. When FASTBOOT shows up in a red background, then connect it to the computer and try running the RUU.

If that doesn't work download the htc sync (drivers). You need to switch of the antivirus before installing. The program will prompt you before.
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Teichopsia said:
If that doesn't work download the htc sync (drivers). You need to switch of the antivirus before installing. The program will prompt you before.
Sent from a dream.
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Ok - I managed to get the right RUU from shipped-roms, and I used it to flash the ROM. It took a few mins, and then told me that it was successful.
However, I'm still stuck in a boot loop...
Any ideas?
Blake

Thanked you by mistake. Tell me, how long are you waiting after turning on the phone before considering it to be boot looping? For any ROM, the first boot always takes time. Not too long, but a few minutes. In that time it will just show the HTC splash screen. This happens because the dalvik-cache has to be built and the time it takes depends on the number of apps. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're assuming too soon that it's bootlooping. Wait for some time and see.
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sashank said:
Thanked you by mistake. Tell me, how long are you waiting after turning on the phone before considering it to be boot looping? For any ROM, the first boot always takes time. Not too long, but a few minutes. In that time it will just show the HTC splash screen. This happens because the dalvik-cache has to be built and the time it takes depends on the number of apps. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're assuming too soon that it's bootlooping. Wait for some time and see.
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The phone boots, I see the white screen with the HTC logo, then a few seconds later, it reboots, and I get the same logo, and so on, and so forth...It just keeps on rebooting, even though the RUU worked.
thx.
Blake

blakey1 said:
The phone boots, I see the white screen with the HTC logo, then a few seconds later, it reboots, and I get the same logo, and so on, and so forth...It just keeps on rebooting, even though the RUU worked.
thx.
Blake
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Any ideas, anyone?
B.

Try booting without the sd card.
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blakey1 said:
Any ideas, anyone?
B.
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That seems to be a bad emmc chip. Many devices suffer from that.
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blakey1 said:
Hi all,
3. the phone is still S-ON (not sure how this stayed this way) - which means I can't fastboot
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This is not true. I have still S-ON (but unlocked via htcdev.com) and I can do fastboot, flash recovery etc. But flash works only from fastboot menu, not from running system or recovery mode.

[Q] Desire HD messed up

Hello everyone,
I have been using this website to try out different things with my DHD. Last month I rooted the phone myself and ran jellybean on it. Then I wanted to try android revolution so i wiped that off and copied another rom in it. I went through the installation process but for some reason it did not work properly. Now when i start my phone it boots into recovery mode and if i select reboot now it restarts and shows the Green HTC logo with white screen and then the screen goes total black, as in black light comes up and stays like forever. I am a noob as its obvious so please help in as simple language as possible. Waiting for your suggestions.
Thanks.

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saraah said:
Hello everyone,
I have been using this website to try out different things with my DHD. Last month I rooted the phone myself and ran jellybean on it. Then I wanted to try android revolution so i wiped that off and copied another rom in it. I went through the installation process but for some reason it did not work properly. Now when i start my phone it boots into recovery mode and if i select reboot now it restarts and shows the Green HTC logo with white screen and then the screen goes total black, as in black light comes up and stays like forever. I am a noob as its obvious so please help in as simple language as possible. Waiting for your suggestions.
Thanks.
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and I cant install another rom either cause if i select any option in recovery mode it restarts and goes to the black screen. I think there is no solution to this problem but if anyone can help that would be great.

S-Off or unlocked bootloader? You could try fastboot flashing another recovery.

bananagranola said:
S-Off or unlocked bootloader? You could try fastboot flashing another recovery.
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thanks for replying. i rooted the phone myself a month ago so probably s-off..and i am not sure how to fastboot it..it would be great if you could tell me the process step by step. thanks.

Instructions are in the link in my signature.

bananagranola said:
Instructions are in the link in my signature.
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ok thanks a lot...i will give it a go and post the results...thanks again.

Bootloader / HTC screen bootloop help ):

So me being the impatient guy that I am decided to unroot/relock my HoX. I followed this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859714
I downloaded the nandroid that matched my ID, HTC_044. Restored the backup, all was fine but the ROM was rooted. Flashed stock recovery and kernel too.
I then deleted the SU files from system/app and system/bin and /xbin. Rebooted, but somehow SU was still there. So I deleted the files again and wanted to boot into stock recovery to do a wipe.
So I boot into the bootloader, tried getting into recovery. Had the red ! exclamation mark. So I flashed the recovery again and that's where the problem started. My phone is going crazy right now.
It's bootlooping at the HTC quietly brilliant screen. 2 seconds and it reboots forever. I tried forcing my way into the bootloader, but then the bootloader has a mind of it's own and bootloops as well. Whenever I manage to get into the bootloader, it boots for 2 seconds then it goes back into bootlooping.
Here's a video of everything happening. I need help! Battery is at 100% last I checked, but it's been bootlooping for 3 hours now ):

Nobody? ): My phone's been bootlooping for 7 hours now D:

ArmedandDangerous said:
Nobody? ): My phone's been bootlooping for 7 hours now D:
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Can you carry out a fastboot command??
If yes, give the output of
fastboot getvar version-main
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Why fastboot getvar version-main ?
Ow good morning btw

Mr Hofs said:
Why fastboot getvar version-main ?
Ow good morning btw
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So he can run a RUU??
Good Morning to you too!
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Yeah good thinking but a bootlooping device can't run a ruu because fastboot usb connection is lost at reboot, therefore no communication between phone and pc

Mr Hofs said:
Yeah good thinking but a bootlooping device can't run a ruu because fastboot usb connection is lost at reboot, therefore no communication between phone and pc
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So what to do?
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Mr Hofs said:
Yeah good thinking but a bootlooping device can't run a ruu because fastboot usb connection is lost at reboot, therefore no communication between phone and pc
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As long as I know, RUU can be run while in fastboot
The problem is that he can't stay in it more than 2 seconds... Mmm

Maybe fastboot erase cache will help.
I also have seen reports that it stopped out of its own
Difficult issue

Mr Hofs said:
Maybe fastboot erase cache will help.
I also have seen reports that it stopped out of its own
Difficult issue
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Let's wait for him to reply....
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Good idea !

I've been trying to get to fastboot at the right time for erase cache to activate but it restarts too fast and fasboot hasn't fully initialized yet ):

Let it drain out, then charge the phone. Hopefully its gone by then. Its the only thing you can do now

Mr Hofs said:
Let it drain out, then charge the phone. Hopefully its gone by then. Its the only thing you can do now
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It has drained out, but every time I plug it in it starts bootlooping again.

Then there is not much you can do

Mr Hofs said:
Then there is not much you can do
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So it's a hard brick and there's no way to save it?
EDIT : I got lucky and managed to fastboot erase cache but it's still bootlooping. I've got the RUU ready and rom.zip extracted, but with the bootloader looping as well, I don't know what to do.

Why don't you try running the RUU?? I know the phone needs to be in connection with the PC all the time but still.. worth a try...
If you can't access bootloader on the One X, it's a hard brick!

You can try to start the ruu, hope it works. But i have my doubts.
Nothings else you can do atm, maybe somebody with more knowledge or this experience pops up !

ArmedandDangerous said:
It has drained out, but every time I plug it in it starts bootlooping again.
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Why don’t try to open it and disconnect the battery. I think letting it drain out doesn’t mean the battery is 0% (no power).

moom999 said:
Why don’t try to open it and disconnect the battery. I think letting it drain out doesn’t mean the battery is 0% (no power).
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He is full stock ATM and even the bootloader is relocked, he has better chance of claiming warranty via HTC and letting them fix it instead of opening it himself and trying to fix it (which I doubt would be of any help)... again there's a chance that he could damage or tear one of the cables while doing it...
@ OP
If you don't get any solution within two days, it's better you send it to HTC if you are still under warranty... If you have experience opening up the device, then go with @moom999 soln...:good:

[Q] Nexus 7 suddenly bricked ?

Hello all, so yesterday I went on my tablet (Nexus 7 2013 WIFI ver.) and browsed the net a bit and went to sleep. I recall having around 30% battery power. This morning I wake up to an apparently flat battery (power button didn't turn on anything) so I just plugged it in and did something else. After a while, I took my tablet and started it with the power button. However, it got stuck on the Google logo and never fired up anything. I've rooted the tablet quite some time ago (months) so the cause is not from there.
Things I haven't recently done:
Installing an app.
Rooting or flashing anything.
Updating an app.
Things I have tried doing to fix the problem:
Booting into FASTBOOT then trying the recovery mode = still stuck on the Google logo.
Booting a custom recovery image using Wug's toolkit = frozen at the team logo (TWRP) / black screen (CWM).
Flash Stock + Unroot (Soft-Bricked/Bootloop) = FAILED (flash write failure).
So now I'm really stuck and desperate to make the device work again. I've been reading all day long and trying all sorts of solutions to no avail. And it seems far-fetched to me for a device like this to just instantly brick itself without any reason at all.
Can anyone help me with this case ? Or does anyone has any idea what just happened to my tablet ? :crying:
EDIT: I'm afraid that warranty might not work as the device was unlocked and rooted so it's the last solution for me.

Bumpity bump
No one has any idea what happened to the tablet and how to fix it ? I've tried doing some more flashing but to no avail. It just refuses to flash and keeps failing to write the files.

I think you need to leave out on the charger for 1/2hr without doing anything with it. You are probably using what little power it has charged by trying to reboot it, etc.
I had to do that once and it did the trick.
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There is no reason you should not be able to get in to recovery (power and volume down).
You could call Motorola. They have good tech support.

The exact same thing happened to me. I rooted it months ago and haven't changed a thing since then. It just froze up a few days ago. I restarted and it just gets stuck on the google screen. I can get into the bootloader, but when I try to go to recovery, the google screen comes up and won't go away. I've tried every method I can find for flashing the stock image and absolutely nothing is working. I just get stuck on the google screen.
Please update this if you find a solution!

Do u guys have the most up to date version of whatever particular recovery that you're on?

Yep. I've flashed the stock recovery multiple times to no avail. :/

nexusjas said:
Yep. I've flashed the stock recovery multiple times to no avail. :/
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If you can't get into recovery or flash any images it sounds to me like a hardware failure. Bad memory maybe? If you've tried everything then RMA to Asus before the one year warranty runs out.
Have you tried to see if your computer sees your N7 by typing fastboot devices if you have the sdk installed?

wantabe said:
If you can't get into recovery or flash any images it sounds to me like a hardware failure. Bad memory maybe? If you've tried everything then RMA to Asus before the one year warranty runs out.
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Not what I wanted to hear, but you're probably right. Thanks :/

nexusjas said:
Not what I wanted to hear, but you're probably right. Thanks :/
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I was to slow with my update. Does your computer see your N7 with fastboot?

wantabe said:
I was to slow with my update. Does your computer see your N7 with fastboot?
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Yes, I can get into the bootloader just fine and I can use fastboot. I go through the flashing process and the command prompt says everything flashed successfully, but when I restart the device, it hangs on the google logo. The same thing happens when I try to boot into recovery.

nexusjas said:
Yes, I can get into the bootloader just fine and I can use fastboot. I go through the flashing process and the command prompt says everything flashed successfully, but when I restart the device, it hangs on the google logo. The same thing happens when I try to boot into recovery.
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If you fastboot flashed the factory image and can't boot up then it sounds like a hardware problem. Out of ideas, sorry.

wantabe said:
If you fastboot flashed the factory image and can't boot up then it sounds like a hardware problem. Out of ideas, sorry.
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I'm not sure what happened, but I just ran this little utility again (I've done it many times over the last week or so to no avail) and it actually worked. Hopefully it keeps working!
Thanks for your help!