Okay i bought this phone Sprint HTC EVO 4G that was rooted with CM supersonic and i was trying different ROM's and accidently erased the RUU im guessing while trying to back up the current setup so im soft bricked. I cant get the phone to connect to the computer to reload RUU or anything the phone recognizes its connected to the computer but software such as Windroid Tookkit and running RUU don't see it. Guys i need a little help to get this EVo going. Ive done this before with my HTC M8 but i cant remember what i did? HELP PLEASE!!! ARRRGH
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I have to send out my HTC Evo to HTC because the power button doesnt really work anymore and I have a dead Pixel on my phone. If I restore it from the HTC website will they know if it was ever rooted? I'm only sending them my phone not the SD card or the battery I don't think. If I restore it back to Factory Settings is there any trace of the phone ever being rooted?
Thanks!
As long as your phone is s-on they won't know anything. Just run the stock ruu utility from the site to get it back to factory. Good luck
~ d3rk
IF IT IS S-OFF then flash the unrevoked s-on tool from their website or else they will easily realize it is rooted and screw you (hard) if they are jerks. then run the ruu.
Hi Guys, I posted this in Android Software and Hacking General, but I didn't get a reply. Probably the wrong section!
my HTC Desire GSM is stuck in Fastboot and won't boot into the ROM. The background to this issue is that I installed S-Off and then ClockworkMod and flashed Cyogenmod 7 to see if it would fix a reboot issue on the phone. The damn thing just reboots itself when the CPU is used heavily...
Anywho, after realising that Cyogen wouldn't resolve the issue I flashed the standard Virgin UK rom back over it and upgraded to 2.22.351.2 via the system update feature. The problem was that ClockwordMod was still installed and I had to get rid of it to sent the phone off for repair to Virgin!
So I did further research and found that I could flash HBoot via the AlphaRev.nl downgrader tool. I downloaded it and popped it into the root of my SD card and it flashed the bootloader back to Hboot 0.80.0000. That should have been it, but all of the sudden the phone no longer boots into the Rom. All it does is to power on and then go into Fastboot. That's it! When I try putting the standard Virgin Rom back onto the SD it tries to load it and then says "Main Version is older!" "Update Fail!".
How do I get around this now? The phone doesn't boot, so I can't re-flash S-Off and start again, not am I able to run the stock Virgin Rom within Windows because it complains about the versions.
Is there any ways around this situation? I just want to get the phone back to stock so I can send it to Virgin and get it repaired.
P.S. I *have* used the search function and spent the last 4 hours testing various things but I'm now stuck.
Cheers Guys!
Mich
Well you obviously fckd up with the Downgrader, you should have run it first BEFORE RUU. Also did you flashed Stock Hboot prior to Downgrader? (if you used CM7 earlier)
I never played around with the hboot downgrading etc. so i wont be able to help you but im sure there is some workaround...
as your returning your phone anyway why don't you try the official HTC gingerbread update from the HTC developer site (sorry I don't have a link). It should return your phone to stock and when you get it back you need to use revolutionary to get s-off back. Also, there is a sticky from user bortac which has loads of help and trouble shooting advice.
iain2510 said:
as your returning your phone anyway why don't you try the official HTC gingerbread update from the HTC developer site (sorry I don't have a link). It should return your phone to stock and when you get it back you need to use revolutionary to get s-off back. Also, there is a sticky from user bortac which has loads of help and trouble shooting advice.
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Any advice that uses the 2.3.3 RUU to fix something is plain bad advice - it can just make your problem a LOT worse.
@OP Go onto my guide, look at RUU problems for help
What you need to do:
-Make a goldcard (there is a tutorial there)
-Flash the WWE RUU
Guys, upgrading to Gingerbread has actually brought the phone back from the dead! =) And I can now return it to Virgin to get it repaired properly. The symptoms are that while the phone is plugged in and charging, and I'm doing stuff (taxing the CPU), the phone will eventually simply rebooting itself. Just *BANG*! And it's gone. And once it starts it's a bit of a run-away thing and just keeps on doing it until you leave the phone alone for a bit. Virgin had a look at it and simply re-flashed it, thinking that they could away with that. Typical, overworked, non-creative call centre workers..... I'm well pissed off with them!
Gonna send it back next week and force them to swap the motherboard or something, cause this is a serious fault with the phone.
Last month i rooted and S-off'd my friends desire, and i also installed the oxygen Rom onto it, but now i have no idea what the idiot has done or how to resolve it.
First of all, there is now no ROM installed in his phone.
Second, he has somehow unrooted the damn thing.
Third, it is now S-on again.
I have tried everything from searchin the internet to installing proper official ROM's on it and getting know where. Each ROM i try install will come back with the same 131 error, "Incorrect CID"
all i can do with the phone is load up the boot loader and get into fastboot, and it will recognize the
USB plugged in, clock work recovery is still in the phone and i can get into that, but i cant use the backup function or mount anything during to S-ON and it being unrooted,
Can anyone help please
Thanks
Check bortak's troubleshooting guide.
I'm on Android 2.3.4 and trying to unlock bootloader and get s-off, etc.
I can't get my computer to recognize my phone for long enough to run the RUU from HTCdev. HTC Sync will recognize my phone if I put it into sync mode on my phone, but when I start the RUU it disconnects.
any way to do the HTCdev method on Ubuntu? I have a system that I have Ubuntu on but I am not a pro with it either.
i am new but i've gotten the custom rom fever now since I got my nook tablet but this is frustrating me.
Suggestions?
I did it with Arch, and I'd bet you could do it with Ubuntu. Try http://www.droidforums.net/forum/ht...bootloader-through-htc-dev-linux-edition.html
I know it says Rezound, but it'll work (as long as you choose HTC Droid Incredible instead of Rezound).
Thanks. I'll try this tonight when I get home.
Hey everyone, having an issue. I'm back to the OG and I got the 2.18 hboot and trying to root but stuck tryin to get s-off. Now the problem must be a driver or something. When I try using adb, it's not seeing the phone. When I connect my 3D and do adb get-serialno, works fine but when I do the same with the OG, nothing. I was going with the HTCdev unlock method, got unlocked but trying to get s-off with the method shown on Evo Hacks and need adb working.
Any thoughts what could be wrong or where I can get the right driver?
Never mind, figured it out, FINALLY. If anyone is having a similar problem, uninstall all HTC drivers and then plug the new phone in and let it try installing them again.