Now I can't install any rom...
I can tell you what you should've done. Post your questions in the Q&A section. Also if you flashed this because you wanted the newest CM then you didn't follow the directions correctly and now you lost root congrats.
question and answer section is where this belongs....and i don't know what you were trying to do but you need to re read the instructions to do so......
You cannot install any rom because you have loose your root as when flashing HTC Recovery Image 1.6 only you will lose root. So you need to root again before installing any other rom
Before we can help you, we need to know what exactly you flashed, and how you flashed it. I am assuming that you downloaded the ADP1 images of 1.6 from HTC's site. Here are a few questions that will help others guide you to an answer:
Did you download the package to be used through the recovery tool (booting with HOME+POWER) or through the fastboot tool (booting into the SPL with CAMERA+POWER)?
If you used the fastboot method, did you follow HTC's directions and flash all of their images, or did you manually flash each partition?
If you manually flashed the partitions, did you also flash over the recovery image?
Because of the way that HTC limited their ROM, if you did not retain your recovery partition, you will most likely need to start from scratch. (If you flashed HTC's ROM using recovery mode by booting with HOME+POWER held down, or if you used the fastboot method, but did not manually flash the partitions preserving your existing recovery partition, then you need to start from scratch.) Thankfully, it is now easier than ever to do this. Here are the steps you need to perform:
Download RC29 image (DREAIMG.NBH). You can find links to this file on the forum.
Download cyanogen's recovery image (1.4).
Copy both the DREAIMG.NBH file and the cm-recovery-1.4.img file to the root of your SD card. You can do this easily by mounting the SD card, and just copying it over from your computer.
Boot into your phone's SPL by starting up while holding both CAMERA+POWER.
When the SPL finds the DREAIMG.NBH file on your SD card, it will automatically prompt you to install the image. Follow the prompts. This will leave your phone with the first shipped version of Android (1.0).
After the install has finished, reboot the phone by pressing CALL+MENU+POWER at the same time. This will boot you into an old version of Android.
In order to proceed any further, you must re-register your phone. Just enter you Google Account information once the phone is booted.
Change your phone's settings to allow you install non-Market applications. Do this by going to Settings > Applications > Unknown sources.
Open the Browser application, and navigate to http://code.google.com/p/flashrec/. From there, download the current version of flashrec.
Lauch flashrec. First you must backup your current recovery image. Then, tell it to flash "/sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img".
Now you have a recovery partition that will allow you to flash any image you want—problem solved.
However, please remember this is development forum, and not the Q&A. Please do post your questions in the Q&A forum. Also, please use the search function, as this type of question has been answer MANY times before.
see post 11- and below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=568171
Oh~ thank you very much.
I'm in this situation because I'm not using the CM recovery 1.4 and I flashed the HTC recovery image 1.6.
I've rerooted my phone.
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I lost my root access and have been unable to get it back and install my old cyanogen rom. someone please help me try to get it back, ive been trying everything.
is it possible to root donut build once uve installed the real one? it keep aborting any installations i try to do, and doesnt let me flash the recovery img either. i dont know what to do.
Yea the official update will do that... but all is not lost. You can follow the guide here and downgrade to RC29 to gain root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
you can follow those steps to regain root on your phone, when choosing which rom you'd like to run, if you'd still like to have root access but prefer the official builds you can check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538456
if you still have an engineering or death spl, you can just flash recovery from fastboot.
Boot your phone while holding the camera, then press back button, you should see "fastboot usb" on the screen. Download amon_ra's recovery (look for it in android development) and flash it doing "fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-dream-v1.2.2.img". After it's done you should have recovery back and now you can restore your nandroid or flash another update.zip
I downgraded back to RC29 successfully, but now its not letting me install any apps from the sdcard or online to the phone, it just keeps saying Install unsucccessful on any app. Wat could be causing this?
i ended up rooting the phone the old way, using telnet. now its working again
So I just got into this stuff last week and have learned quite a bit. I tried various types of images. Accidentally I happened to load the Android 1.6 dev image to my regular G1. Now it wont let me flash anything! It wont let me flash images or even the spl! Please help me!!! How do I get back to cupcake now?
You mean the stock ADP1v1.6 image from developer.htc.com?
First off, you do NOT want to be flashing the SPL. The first thing you should have done is to write the ENGINEERING SPL (ADP1 stock SPL), and then NEVER touch the SPL again.
Now since you managed to write the stock ADP1v1.6 image, I suspect that you already have this (or the uselessly different hack of it called HARDSPL), which means that you have a mode called FASTBOOT (which can be used to write ANY image (in image format, not in update format) to the device. I suggest flashing the RECOVERY partition with cyanogen's recovery image. You can use fastboot to do this. The fastboot binary and instructions on getting into fastboot mode is available at developer.htc.com/adp.html -- the command to use would be "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img".
Note: With a stock ADP1v1.1 or newer, root access is available (yes, stock root), but only via ADB -- this is a SECURITY precaution to prevent malicious apps from hijacking root. If you want to su to root, just need to go in via ADB. So in other words, if somehow you have a stock tmobile SPL that lacks fastboot, then you DO have root access, so you can go in and flash the recovery partition over ADB. What you would do here is copy the recovery.img onto the root of your sdcard and use the flash_image command... i.e. "flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img".
Hi,
First post, so if I am out of line, I will take whatever heat you decide I deserve.
Background:
I am trying to get a newerish version of Android onto a Rogers Dream with radio 3.22.26.17 using the guides found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rooting_HTC_Branded_EBI1_Dreams
Problem:
It all went very well until part D, step 4. I can boot into recovery, and can choose the "Flash zip from SD Card", and can see the zip file (1_33_2005_spl.zip), Now what? I have tried to reboot, but it doesn't seem to flash the 1_33_2005_spl.zip file. Is there a key combination that I need to press to have the file flash into the internal memory of the device? I have looked onto the recovery screen, and don't see any command key combination to have it flash. When I run the subseqent shell reboot bootloader command, the screen shows S-ON, HBOOT: 1.33.0010 RADIO: 3.22.26.17. I assume that this means that the 1_33_2005_spl.zip file has not been flashed.
Question:
How do I flash the 1_33_2005_spl.zip file into memory in the recovery mode? Or, what is the key combination to flash the 1_33_2005_spl.zip file into internal flash?
Kostas
kkritsilas said:
Hi,
It all went very well until part D, step 4. I can boot into recovery, [...]
How do I flash the 1_33_2005_spl.zip file into memory in the recovery mode? Or, what is the key combination to flash the 1_33_2005_spl.zip file into internal flash?
Kostas
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I don't have a Rogers EBI1, so I'll have to assume that this guide is already giving the safest method to update the SPL with their rooting method. (Flashing SPL or Radio from Recovery is a bit dangerous, see this thread on why.)
That said, it sounds like the part about "3. Choose 1_33_2005_spl.zip" you are missing is to press the trackball to select the file to install. After flashing the SPL, don't do any other task except reboot, exactly as it says. Once you have the Engineering SPL, it is safer to flash further SPL or Radio updates from fastboot mode.
Thanks, that did it. The guide doesn't really specify how to select and execute stuff, and not having any other devices with either RA recovery, or a trackball, it sort of confused me.
I now have root, and I have the 1.33.2005 SPL installed. I have tried installing some ROMs, but have not settled on anything yet. I'm sort of tending towards Ginger Yoshi 1.4, if I can ever get the 1.33.2010 SPL located (its required to install Ginger Yoshi 1.4). At the very least though, I know how to install .zip files from recovery, now.
Kostas
Chances are you were searching for Dream SPLs to find 2010.
Here is the Magic SPL list, which also work on the Dream. The special 1.33.0013d SPL for extra memory is over here, if yoshi can use it.
For anyone else changing the SPL, I'd recommend reading (important enough to link to it again): CONFIRMED!! BRICKS: Radio and SPL + New SAFETY theory.
It is generally considered safer to flash the hboot (SPL) partition only from fastboot mode whenever possible, and only from recovery if you have a locked (i.e., "SHIP") SPL while rooting.
Hi guys,
I can't find a clear explanation of this. So I would like your help. For the time being, I'm primarily interested in rooting and not so much in a custom ROM. I'll just tell you what I do and we could take it from there. Assume an unlocked boot loader.
1. I flash the HTC recovery partition with CWM or TRWP
2. I root the phone.
3. I enjoy apps that require root.
When a HTC OTA update arrives:
1. I extract recovery.img from the OTA zip (and I use OTA-root keeper too to regain root after the OTA-update has been applied)
2. I flash HTC's recovery.img to the recovery partition (just stating the obvious)so that the phone again has the stock recovery
3. I update the phone
4. I reflash TRWP or CWM to the recovery partition
5. I use OTA-rootkeeper to regain root.
Now with Sony, I've read there is no separate recovery partition. So the bootloader does NOT load the recovery directly when asked to. Instead it loads the regular kernel which in turn loads the recovery. So it appears the kernel needs to be modified and the recovery image needs to be stored somewhere. I've picked up some terms like ELF and Ramdisk but I'm not getting the bigger picture here.
Could you please tell me what the implication are? With HTC, I can easly apply the OTA-updates using my above method and not loose any apps or data. With Sony, it appears I need to do much more?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439328
Basically
Download flashtool from flashtool.net
Use it to flash a .534 FW (Download any one of them from the megacollection thread in the general section)
Google Bin4ry root many android to root the phone
Let the phone update OTA
Install Dual recovery from here then update it using the package in post #321 of that thread
A little info:
I have a 5.0.2 Stock ROM installed (Lexodus ROM). What kernel or .img do I need?
I've already looked up tutorials to no avail, and they don't teach it manually just how to use the app...
I basically have everything downloaded and I need to know what to flash.
I would like to flash the new Blisspop ROM (5.1.1, CM12.1) as a secondary. Can I have more than two?
I do NOT want to use fastboot because I am unexperienced in it. If you can please teach me how to flash everything solely from my phone (Flashify).
I'm very cautious about this because everyone on the thread seems to know what to do except for me, so I'd like to know how without messing up my phone please.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/development/mod-multirom-v31-t3045290
Here you can find everything. First flash stelar kernel that is the only One that supporta kexec(multirom) on stock ROMs. then follow the multirom tutorial. There it explains a lot. U need an sd card formated ext4 or a partition formated ext4. And then u install inside your SD card. U can google videos step by step. U can flash 100 roms depending the size of your ext4 partition. Please read first post and good luck!
I'm also a bit inexperienced not I think fastboot its easy and safest to use and for install a recovery just make sure your flashing the right file in the right partition.
Install adb, fastboot and proper phone drivers
Unlock bootloader you can't skip this step
Put device in fastboot mode, turn off the. Press power on and vol down keys together for a couple second release and you'll see a menu that's fastboot.
In cmd
Fastboot devices (check if your device is recognized correctly if not install drivers again)
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (this install the multimod compatible recovery download recovery from guide rename it to recovery.img)
Fastboot reboot (reboot phone)
Boot into recovery flash mulirom.zip and stellar kernel and you're done