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 !
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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.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
chrisjcks said:
The kernel is flashed, you just need to flash its boot.img in fast boot aswell.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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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.
sentfromybrain
Ok im nexus user but my sister gave me her old DHD to give it to my father but i can't root that $#$!#$ device...im on 3.13.163.3 software no root no s-off (whatever this is) and im not sure what version i have to download from htcdev to downgrade to hboot2.....anyone can help???
Ok i manage to unlock the bootloader with upgrading hboot....i dont have sdcard can i remove soff without one???so i can normally flash roms??cause i flash "RandomROMv101" i also fastboot flash the boot.img after that....but i didnt manage to boot to rom....it takes me to twrp!!!
If your bootloader is S-On unlocked, you need to flash the boot.img from fastboot each time you flash a ROM.
bananagranola said:
If your bootloader is S-On unlocked, you need to flash the boot.img from fastboot each time you flash a ROM.
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On fastboot is show a purple line sais unlock something...but one line bellow sais sON...can i s-off it without sdcard??
Why do you want S-Off?
bananagranola said:
Why do you want S-Off?
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To be able to flash boot without flasthboot....i cant flash nothing now...for 4.1 roms i need to flash something else??i flash them through twrp after that i flash boot.img through fastboot but it send me straight to recovery
pikachukaki said:
To be able to flash boot without flasthboot....i cant flash nothing now...for 4.1 roms i need to flash something else??i flash them through twrp after that i flash boot.img through fastboot but it send me straight to recovery
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What version of TWRP are you running? What ROM are you trying to flash? Are you full wiping? How are you flashing the boot.img? Are there any error messages?
bananagranola said:
What version of TWRP are you running? What ROM are you trying to flash? Are you full wiping? How are you flashing the boot.img? Are there any error messages?
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This happent to me for the 1st time...but it needed format system too....not sure maybe it isnt inside the update-script file!!!now its all good....so whats exacly soff is doing??i didnt need to flash boot with fastboot
pikachukaki said:
This happent to me for the 1st time...but it needed format system too....not sure maybe it isnt inside the update-script file!!!now its all good....so whats exacly soff is doing??i didnt need to flash boot with fastboot
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I have no idea what you're saying.
bananagranola said:
I have no idea what you're saying.
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I had to wipe system too...i only making factory reset that didnt wipe system...all roms i have used wipe system through update-script...anyway now its all good...but why i didnt need to flash boot.img through fastboot?
look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2367322
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
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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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.
I've been using the HTC Desire HD for a long time, and I was wondering if things I've learnt with that phone are still relevant.
With the DHD, if the phone was S-ON (but with an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery), whenever flashing a new ROM it was necessary to extract the boot.img file from the zip and flash it manually by using: fastboot flash boot boot.img.
That was because a custom recovery couldn't flash a custom kernel while the device was S-ON.
Is that also the case with an M8 device that stays S-ON?
Or is a custom recovery now able to write any custom kernel regardless of being S-ON/S-OFF?
Thanks!
Indeed
s-on = Flash kernel via fastboot
s-off = kernel is flashed via rom/recovery
Thank you for the quick reply!
quick question..if what you say is true..if s on flash kernal in fastboot..if s off just flash normally threw recovery...why in captins thread with his GPE rom..says s off users must flash boot.img in fastboot?...i was about to try his rom ,before i got to that part..i am s off and ive never had to flash a boot.img threw fastboot before flashing the rom....next question..do i need to unpack the rom zip ,extract the boot.img flash it in fastboot..then repack the zip and flash again in recovery?ive never had to do this..i thought i would see a boot.img zip as a seperate download wouldve been lot easier...ive never unpacked a zip to extract a boot.img before...so i had to back out for now..can someone plz give me step by step directions how to flash captins GPE rom..really appreciate it..and i know im in the correct section to ask such a newbie question..thanks in advance
is this still true with modern Marshmallow/Nougat ROMs (and their associated firmware updates)? the device is unlocked and S-ON?
example: I just flashed ViperROM v6.1 on Tmobile M8 with v6.2 firmware and separate flash of boot.img NOT required.
In fact, I validated theory by doing the traditional procedure and result as phone that did not boot.
traditional procedure: flash ROM via TWRP and reboot direct into bootloader and fastboot. then finalize by manual flash of boot.img via fastboot. boot.img pulled from root directory of ROM zip.
any insight would be appreciated. -GA
Mr Hofs said:
Indeed
s-on = Flash kernel via fastboot
s-off = kernel is flashed via rom/recovery
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gads1 said:
is this still true with modern Marshmallow/Nougat ROMs (and their associated firmware updates)? the device is unlocked and S-ON?
example: I just flashed ViperROM v6.1 on Tmobile M8 with v6.2 firmware and separate flash of boot.img NOT required.
In fact, I validated theory by doing the traditional procedure and result as phone that did not boot.
traditional procedure: flash ROM via TWRP and reboot direct into bootloader and fastboot. then finalize by manual flash of boot.img via fastboot. boot.img pulled from root directory of ROM zip.
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No need to flash boot.img separately using fastboot (with s-on).
But it shouldn't hurt anything, either. It's just a redundant step, as you are just flashing the same boot.img that TWRP is already installing.
Try it again, without flashing boot.img separately. But I have a feeling something else is causing no boot. Make sure you are using current TWRP (version 3.1) with default TWRP wipe (cache, dalvik and data), or try another ROM.
I tried installing cm rom ...stable version...and by mistake wiped everything...the rom gave me get prop error....after that the mobile is stuck on hboot
i can unlock the bootloader and lock it and its on HBOOT. Plus i installed the TWRP. Tried side loading rom to it but error.
This is my getvar msg....attached....please help
tried everything...even htc all in one tool kit...locked the phone ..flashed the recovery and boot img and stock through all in one...but error
unlocked and through TWRP tried diff roms...pacman ...cm... but nothing... error
please give links to files (recovery, boot, stock rom, ...etc...etc) when you recommend as stuck and have no phone
ishaqz said:
I tried installing cm rom ...stable version...and by mistake wiped everything...the rom gave me get prop error....after that the mobile is stuck on hboot
i can unlock the bootloader and lock it and its on HBOOT. Plus i installed the TWRP. Tried side loading rom to it but error.
This is my getvar msg....attached....please help
tried everything...even htc all in one tool kit...locked the phone ..flashed the recovery and boot img and stock through all in one...but error
unlocked and through TWRP tried diff roms...pacman ...cm... but nothing... error
please give links to files (recovery, boot, stock rom, ...etc...etc) when you recommend as stuck and have no phone
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Your hboot is too low. Now download this RUU run as administrator then apply all system updates and the flash the CM11
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Your hboot is too low. Now download this RUU run as administrator then apply all system updates and the flash the CM11
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Just connect through Hboot...?.... leave the device as locked? and run this on fastboot usb? Thats it?
ishaqz said:
Just connect through Hboot...?.... leave the device as locked? and run this on fastboot usb? Thats it?
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Lock the device start the RUU on the PC after this fallow the instruction on the screen
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Lock the device start the RUU on the PC after this fallow the instruction on the screen
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Thanks buddy...that worked.... :good:
should i now unlock in hboot ...flash recovery TWRP or CWM.... and then install CM11?
any other steps?
Can you give link of stable CM11 please....
or best rom recommended?
ishaqz said:
Thanks buddy...that worked.... :good:
should i now unlock in hboot ...flash recovery TWRP or CWM.... and then install CM11?
any other steps?
Can you give link of stable CM11 please....
or best rom recommended?
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Check for update and update the phone to latest JB 4.2.2 then unlock bootloader copy CM11 to a folder on your cd card flash twrp 2.7.1 then flash CM11 and flash boot.img from CM11.zip archive
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Check for update and update the phone to latest JB 4.2.2 then unlock bootloader copy CM11 to a folder on your cd card flash twrp 2.7.1 then flash CM11 and flash boot.img from CM11.zip archive
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Yup..still updating... thanks and hats off man....
hope not too much but can you post links to the three...stable cm11 or best rom according to you ...TWRP lastest and i guess boot img will be in the file... just few step by step if possible and links...as dont want to get stuck again :silly:
THANKS again...loads:angel:
ishaqz said:
Yup..still updating... thanks and hats off man....
hope not too much but can you post links to the three...stable cm11 or best rom according to you ...TWRP lastest and i guess boot img will be in the file... just few step by step if possible and links...as dont want to get stuck again :silly:
THANKS again...loads:angel:
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1. I don't use AOSP download CM11 from Original android thread and gapps. Then copy the CM11.zip and gapps to a folder on your sd card
2. take the boot.img from CM11.zip and paste it in your fastboot folder
3. Download TWRP 2.7.1 and paste it in your fastboot foldert and flash it fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and then fastboot flash boot boot.img and last fastboot erase cache
4. Go in recovery flash First CM11.zip then Gapps and reboot and voala