Hi all,
I have spent several days trying to fix this problem without any luck.
I have a HTC Dream on development 1.6 firmware (DRC83), I have root access to this phone. So the 'SU' command works in any terminal on the phone. I have the standard SPL.
I am trying to load custom firmware : the new CYANOGEN 4.1.9.9.9
I have used several recovery images and updates to load a SPL that can install the Cyanogen update ontop of the 1.6 development firmware but without any luck.
With root I have placed a HardSPL "update.zip" on the sdcard root and install it via the recovery mode, it aborts the installation after while. I tried several files several times. The Cyanogen update also does not install this way.
I have also tried to downgrade using the DREAIMG.nbh file but the bootload does not seem to work well for me .. it simply goes to the screen with trafic light colours. Again I tried several files several times.
I cannot get fastboot to work either, although I can work with adb, this is how I got root access to the current development firmware.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
you dont need the hardspl for cyans rom
you cant have fastboot without the engineering/hard/haykuro spl
the traffic light colors is the bootloader
why does it abort
its no use telling is it aborted if there isnt any more info
im assuming your running a dev phone 1 firmware on it. you need to upgrade to cyans 1.4 recovery, then flash everything
thanks finally fixed it, no running the customer firmware.
The story was basically that I had root access to my dev phone 1 but the flash_image file did not exist in the /system/bin folder so I had to take it from another firmware package.
I pushed the file into the bin folder on the phone using adb and set up access to flash_image with shell command : chmod 0777 /system/bin/flash_image
next i installed the cm-recovery-1.4.img and with command: flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
it finally worked and I installed the custom firmware.
thanks again!
ah ok great to see you got it working
the standard dev phone firmware makes it a little more difficult to use lmao esp after getting used to the community baked roms
man i'm a real noob in android os and flashing these is also a dilemma, i've been using i-mate jam couple yrs ago now i have a diamond and also G1 with DRC83 i ask you to spend some time and explain me how to get it flashable and also which roms are most functional? please don't give links to guides spend some time to make a step by step manul for noobs like me i read through the threads but they are really complicated. no normal manuals even for an experienced ROM flasher like me. we- noobs need this badly...
rdejong said:
Hi all,
I have spent several days trying to fix this problem without any luck.
I have a HTC Dream on development 1.6 firmware (DRC83), I have root access to this phone. So the 'SU' command works in any terminal on the phone. I have the standard SPL.
I am trying to load custom firmware : the new CYANOGEN 4.1.9.9.9
I have used several recovery images and updates to load a SPL that can install the Cyanogen update ontop of the 1.6 development firmware but without any luck.
With root I have placed a HardSPL "update.zip" on the sdcard root and install it via the recovery mode, it aborts the installation after while. I tried several files several times. The Cyanogen update also does not install this way.
I have also tried to downgrade using the DREAIMG.nbh file but the bootload does not seem to work well for me .. it simply goes to the screen with trafic light colours. Again I tried several files several times.
I cannot get fastboot to work either, although I can work with adb, this is how I got root access to the current development firmware.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
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I have a same problem :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=576859
rdejong said:
thanks finally fixed it, no running the customer firmware.
I pushed the file into the bin folder on the phone using adb and set up access to flash_image with shell command : chmod 0777 /system/bin/flash_image
thanks again!
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I can't push the file flash_image to the bin folder by adb because it warning: permission denied
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Hello all.... I am working on a group project where we will be using a dev G1. The phone was shipped to a another group member and before I can get my hands on it, he decided to upgrade the firmware from 1.0 to 1.6, having very little knowledge of android beforehand and therefore he cant really tell me what exactly he did either. He followed the directions on the HTC website. As far as i can tell, I do have the 26I radio, engineering SPL and 1.6 installed currently, not sure about the recovery though (i.e. stock 1.0 or 1.6). When I got the phone, root access was gone but followed some simple steps on this website to regain it. By way of typing in "su" in terminal emulator and in ADB shell, I now also have su. However I still cant flash anything. When trying to flash cm 4.2.5 in the recovery, the system verifies it and then aborts installation. I then tried to install the Amon-RA recovery to no avail. Tried fastboot, ADP, terminal, im not sure how to access the /data/ partition on the phone and there is no option for acessing the console in the recovery menu. Installing through ADB dosnt work, no test-keys in current recovery. In fastboot it says "okay" for both sending and writing the recovery but rebooting into recovery shows that it didnt work. In terminal it says "flash_image: not found". I'm kinda lost and need some help....
All I need is cm4.2.5 on the phone with root.
Thanks in advance.....
Edit: I triple and quadruple checked the name of the recovery image when trying to install through terminal. I'm pretty sure it cant find the command "flash_image" and not the file itself. Just wanted to clarify...
You could try downgrading to RC29: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...ngrading_to_RC29_.28US.29_or_RC7_.28Europe.29
halr9000 said:
You could try downgrading to RC29: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.p...ngrading_to_RC29_.28US.29_or_RC7_.28Europe.29
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Tried that, already... That method only works for the stock T-Mobile G1's which have a different SPL. The Dev G1's come with engineering SPL and I have no idea how to flash the .nbh image from that. All it does I think is enable Fastboot, I cant get it to do anything else.
This fails?
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Nope... No luck, it says:
sending 'recovery' <4456kb>.... OKAY
writing 'recovery' <4456kb>.... OKAY
and then I reboot using "fastboot reboot", wait till the homescreen loads, and then go back into recovery and it still shoes the the triangle and the !.....
Bump...
Anyone?? Right now we just have a reallly expensive paper-weight in our hands ANY help/thoughts/comments would be very appreciated...
This thread is meaningless since there is NO SUCH THING as a "DEV G1".
alilbitanuthin said:
Hello all.... I am working on a group project where we will be using a dev G1. The phone was shipped to a another group member and before I can get my hands on it, he decided to upgrade the firmware from 1.0 to 1.6, having very little knowledge of android beforehand and therefore he cant really tell me what exactly he did either. He followed the directions on the HTC website. As far as i can tell, I do have the 26I radio, engineering SPL and 1.6 installed currently, not sure about the recovery though (i.e. stock 1.0 or 1.6). When I got the phone, root access was gone but followed some simple steps on this website to regain it. By way of typing in "su" in terminal emulator and in ADB shell, I now also have su. However I still cant flash anything. When trying to flash cm 4.2.5 in the recovery, the system verifies it and then aborts installation. I then tried to install the Amon-RA recovery to no avail. Tried fastboot, ADP, terminal, im not sure how to access the /data/ partition on the phone and there is no option for acessing the console in the recovery menu. Installing through ADB dosnt work, no test-keys in current recovery. In fastboot it says "okay" for both sending and writing the recovery but rebooting into recovery shows that it didnt work. In terminal it says "flash_image: not found". I'm kinda lost and need some help....
All I need is cm4.2.5 on the phone with root.
Thanks in advance.....
Edit: I triple and quadruple checked the name of the recovery image when trying to install through terminal. I'm pretty sure it cant find the command "flash_image" and not the file itself. Just wanted to clarify...
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Pretty sure there is...
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
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anyone?
alilbitanuthin said:
Pretty sure there is...
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html
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Do you see ANYTHING on there that says "G1"?
Answer: No you definitely do NOT.
If I remember correctly, after you use fastboot to flash the new recovery image, you can't let the phone reboot or it will overwrite the recovery with the stock recovery image
The solution would be to use fastboot to flash either Cyanogen's or Amon_RA's recovery image, and be quick here, but when you send the fastboot reboot command be holding down the home button on the phone so it will boot to the custom recovery image
lbcoder said:
Do you see ANYTHING on there that says "G1"?
Answer: No you definitely do NOT.
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lol, no need to nitpick, about the name no less. Thats the least of my worries
As long as you get the message across...
jackslim said:
If I remember correctly, after you use fastboot to flash the new recovery image, you can't let the phone reboot or it will overwrite the recovery with the stock recovery image
The solution would be to use fastboot to flash either Cyanogen's or Amon_RA's recovery image, and be quick here, but when you send the fastboot reboot command be holding down the home button on the phone so it will boot to the custom recovery image
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That maybe it I'll give it a try as soon as I get back home. Thanks a lot for the help!!
Thanks a lot jackslim, finally got it to work!
I decided to try and root my phone tonight.
I was successful in rooting my Captivate, and got root access.
I was able to fully access the recovery menu by pressing the power, vol up and down keys.
I messed up by installing Nero for the Vibrant on my Captivate, and things started acting weird on my phone. Vol -/+ were going opposite ways, and menus would not load in the right direction.
I decided that I needed to get a rom that worked with a Captivate, so I hooked everything back up and ran Odin again (I believe this was a mistake).
From here, I was going to give myself root access again, and flash with a new rom.
Every since I ran Odin, which installed Eclair 2.1 back on my phone -- I can not get into the recovery menu, therefore I can not get root/install the roms.
Please help
Thanks
Danny
I was able to successfully get in recovery mode with ADB.
I will post more if I run into any other problems.
Thank you !!
_allstar said:
I was able to successfully get in recovery mode with ADB.
I will post more if I run into any other problems.
Thank you !!
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_allstar, Can you post directions for how to use ADB to get into recovery? I have a similar situation as you, where I cannot get into recover or download after flashing stock with Odin. I can't seem to figure out what to do with ADB. Thanks!
GlassButrFly said:
_allstar, Can you post directions for how to use ADB to get into recovery? I have a similar situation as you, where I cannot get into recover or download after flashing stock with Odin. I can't seem to figure out what to do with ADB. Thanks!
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Check this out, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819105
Some info on how to setup ADB.
I am having this same problem after one click odin and master clear (back at JF6). I tried to do the 3 button fix which is part of the quide bobbylx posted but one step is to flash with ROM manager. I can't do this now that I'm back at stock (no root access!) The step that I'm stuck at within http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364 is re-rooting my phone.
How exactly do I get into recovery or flash if I am not rooted?
nechalo said:
I am having this same problem after one click odin and master clear (back at JF6). I tried to do the 3 button fix which is part of the quide bobbylx posted but one step is to flash with ROM manager. I can't do this now that I'm back at stock (no root access!) The step that I'm stuck at within http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364 is re-rooting my phone.
How exactly do I get into recovery or flash if I am not rooted?
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Have you ever been rooted and had Clockwork recovery installed? If so you should already have the update.zip on your phone. Just boot into stock recovery and choose Reinstall Packages, the phone reboots into stock recovery again, then choose Reinstall Packages a second time. This time you will be in Clockwork.
If you don't have the update.zip, I posted it before in another thread here
Also, if you do root or install a custom ROM, which by the rooting is not needed to install custom roms, here's a tip. After you download and install ROM manager and install clockwork, you will always have the update.zip on your internal SD card. But if you somehow delete update.zip, then go to MyFiles file browser, and in the folder Clcokworkmod, there is a file called recovery-update.zip. If you take it and copy it to the root of your SDcard and rename it update.zip that is the clockwork installer.
Just use ADB to reboot into recovery if you haven't rooted.
GlassButrFly said:
_allstar, Can you post directions for how to use ADB to get into recovery? I have a similar situation as you, where I cannot get into recover or download after flashing stock with Odin. I can't seem to figure out what to do with ADB. Thanks!
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Yes. You need to install the ADB package on your computer. Google "Download the Android SDK" and download the android-sdk_r08-windows.zip (I can't post links yet) , unzip to your root directory (C:\ on windows) and then run the .exe in the zip. It will download updates for the program.
This took me some time, and research to figure out. I was sitting helpless for about 2-3 hours not able to boot into recovery.
Once you get ADB installed, open command prompt and goto your directory that it is in, for example this is what my DOS prompt looks like:
C:\Users\Danny> cd c:\
C:\> cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
(make sure your phone is plugged in, turned on, and on Debug mode, then execute this command)
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools> adb.exe reboot recovery
Your phone will reboot into recovery mode via command prompt
Hope this helps. It took me awhile to figure out, but I'm very glad I know now.
_allstar said:
Yes. You need to install the ADB package on your computer. Google "Download the Android SDK" and download the android-sdk_r08-windows.zip (I can't post links yet) , unzip to your root directory (C:\ on windows) and then run the .exe in the zip. It will download updates for the program.
This took me some time, and research to figure out. I was sitting helpless for about 2-3 hours not able to boot into recovery.
Once you get ADB installed, open command prompt and goto your directory that it is in, for example this is what my DOS prompt looks like:
C:\Users\Danny> cd c:\
C:\> cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
(make sure your phone is plugged in, turned on, and on Debug mode, then execute this command)
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools> adb.exe reboot recovery
Your phone will reboot into recovery mode via command prompt
Hope this helps. It took me awhile to figure out, but I'm very glad I know now.
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THANK YOU! For me, I had to use the following commands:
C:\Users\[username]>cd android-sdk-windows
C:\Users\[username]\android-sdk-windows\tools>cd tools
C:\Users\[username]\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb.exe reboot recovery
It rebooted directly into recovery and I was able to flash back to the rom I was using previously, which is where I will stay, probably indefinitely. Seems my phone does not take well to flashing. lol But this is so much better than being stuck with Stock Eclair, so thank you very much!
thank you so much guys, worked like a gem
Hi,
i have a nexus one with a broken power button, my warranty is out so there is no replacement, i want to root it to be able to install trackball wake s,o i can open the mobile and close it.
when i try to access the bootloader i hold the trackball then i take off the battery 2 to 3 time to switch on, and if i keep holding the trackball it access the bootloader screen.
but i can't choose bootloader because i need to use the power button to do so, i also tried the universal androot, i got a message saying failed! no ~~~fu goo~~~.
my OS version is 2.2.2, build number FRG83G.
please any help.
You can try manual root. I find it easier getting the drivers to install when the phone is in fastboot, but it isn't essential...
http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/...mple-sdk-setup-manual-root-guide-windows.html
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If you hold Vol Up + Track Ball and Remove & Insert your battery while your plug in to USB cable you can access Fastboot screen. But you will not be able to select any options because it needs power switch to select options.
many thanks danger-rat, i got a superuser access now on my list
i need one more thing if you please, how can i install cyanogenmod? because as i mentioned before i need trackball wake setting.
best regards,
The quickest way in my opinion is to install ROM manager from the market. You can then choose to install either Clockwork recovery image or Amon_RA. If you choose Clockwork then you can use ROM manager to automate backing up/flashing of new ROMs. Alternatively you can choose Amon_RA recovery, which I personally use. There are only a few differences other than layout but both are excellent recoveries.
Once you've installed a recovery image, you can either download CM7 manually and place it on your SD card or use ROM manager to download it. Depending on your choice of recovery you can use ROM manager to backup then flash or alternatively go into recovery manually and flash CM7 there. To reboot directly to recovery either hook the phone up to a PC and issue the command 'adb reboot recovery' or alternatively install an application like Quickboot which does the exact same thing through a GUI.
You shouldn't really have any problems once you've flash CM7 as it has a reboot to recovery option built in. Good luck
Edit: Oh and always, I repeat always Nandroid! It'll save you any headaches.
thanks man for the guide, it worked wonderfully, but what do Nandroid do?!
omarqa said:
thanks man for the guide, it worked wonderfully, but what do Nandroid do?!
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It's like imaging software for a PC, it takes a screenshot of your system at that time which can then be restored should anything go awry. I have a couple that I switch between
Bootloop cyanogen
Hi all,
after all your help guys i managed to get my self into trouble again , after i installed cyanogen i found out that the market is not there, and i couldn't add gmail account also, so i recovered the previous one.
i thought I'd reinstalled cyanogen again, so after a couple of failures in installing it "getting an android with and explanation mark over the head", the last one worked but it booted into a boot loop, i keep getting the cyanogen screen again and again.
can i do something with command line such as adb shell
best regards,
I ran into the same problem, it's a little long winded but I found this to work. Also, it seems your recovery is reverting to stock. This is because of files recovery-from-boot.p and install-recovery.sh. After flashing the ROM go to terminal and issue the following commands (Without #) :
# su (Making sure to accept the root privileges prompt)
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/null /system
# mv /system/recovery-from-boot.p /system/recovery-from-boot.p.bak
# mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
# reboot
More info here.
Then flash Amon_RA recovery or Clockwork during fastboot commands from my first link. Rename the image downloaded to recovery and issue the following command during fastboot:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
You can then follow the rest of the guide to return to recovery. If you ever end up in a bootloop again just follow the guide in the first link as is and you'll be back in recovery to recover a nandroid backup or flash again.
Also it seems you're missing the Googleapps (Gapps) package for Gingerbread. Flash this after flashing CM7.
omarqa said:
Hi all,
after all your help guys i managed to get my self into trouble again , after i installed cyanogen i found out that the market is not there, and i couldn't add gmail account also, so i recovered the previous one.
i thought I'd reinstalled cyanogen again, so after a couple of failures in installing it "getting an android with and explanation mark over the head", the last one worked but it booted into a boot loop, i keep getting the cyanogen screen again and again.
can i do something with command line such as adb shell
best regards,
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Did you flash a compatible gapps package (Google apps)? The market and other Google apps are not distributed with Cyanogen ROMs, and have to be flashed separately...
Edit: Sorry, must have overlooked the tail end of the post above...
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how to flash the ROM
omarqa said:
how to flash the ROM
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There should be an option saying something along the lines of 'Flash zip from SD card'. Simply browse to the zip and flash.
whenever i try to do recovery or anything i keep getting FAILED (remote: signature verify fail) anybody know why i keep getting this???
omarqa said:
whenever i try to do recovery or anything i keep getting FAILED (remote: signature verify fail) anybody know why i keep getting this???
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Is your device unlocked? It must be unlocked to issue certain fastboot commands.
Which custom recovery do you have installed?
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thanks guys, it got fixed.
so how can i install cyanogenmod, every time i try to install version 6.1.1 i get a android log with exclamation mark over it, any ideas
your help is really appreciated,
edit: i mean by fixed that i restored the original version of the device.
That's the stock recovery (hence my previous question)...
You need to install a custom recovery, and also delete the following two files:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
(as stated by HD earlier)
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Alright, I officially feel like a jerk right now. I RUU'd my hero. . . lost root. . . spent ridiculous amount of time trying to GET root back. . . and now I'm stuck with GodSpeed Recovery Darchstar Edition. I've tried EVERYTHING to get back to CWM. Well, hopefully not everything. ROM manager free doesn't show up in the market (for whatever reason). I can't get it to side-load the .apk at all (astro doesn't recognize the file at all). I'm S-OFF but making a HERCIMG.zip with the recovery.img enclosed doesn't work. When I try to push it through fastboot, I get FAILED: remote not allow.
hboot:
HERC XC SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-1.47.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-2.42.01.04.27
MAR 1 2010, 16:02:39
I can't help but feel I'm "googling in circles" anymore. I just need a way out of this. . . PLEASE!!!
If I flash CWM 5.0.2.7 in my current recovery, I get:
Install from sdcard. . .
Finding update package. . .
Opening update package. . .
Verifying update package. . .
E:No signature (3 files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted.
Is there a place to toggle signature verification in that recovery? If so, turn it off and flash cwm.
You could flash a rom then download rom manager and flash cwm recovery
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stupidjerkheadface said:
Alright, I officially feel like a jerk right now. I RUU'd my hero. . . lost root. . . spent ridiculous amount of time trying to GET root back. . . and now I'm stuck with GodSpeed Recovery Darchstar Edition. I've tried EVERYTHING to get back to CWM. Well, hopefully not everything. ROM manager free doesn't show up in the market (for whatever reason). I can't get it to side-load the .apk at all (astro doesn't recognize the file at all). I'm S-OFF but making a HERCIMG.zip with the recovery.img enclosed doesn't work. When I try to push it through fastboot, I get FAILED: remote not allow.
hboot:
HERC XC SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-1.47.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-2.42.01.04.27
MAR 1 2010, 16:02:39
I can't help but feel I'm "googling in circles" anymore. I just need a way out of this. . . PLEASE!!!
If I flash CWM 5.0.2.7 in my current recovery, I get:
Install from sdcard. . .
Finding update package. . .
Opening update package. . .
Verifying update package. . .
E:No signature (3 files)
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted.
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Well just sign my recovery zips and you can flash. Also you don't fastboot flash HERCIMG.zip files. You place them on the root of your SD card and boot into the bootloader. They also have to include the android-info.txt inside with the recovery.img as well. Next time you need to reroot just use z4root and manually reboot or OneClick root. Here is an alternative way to flash.
Install Busybox.
Download Terminal Emulator.
Place the recovery.img on the root of your SD card.
Enter these commands into Terminal Emulator:
Code:
$ su
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
私のEVO 3Dから送信される。
A slip of some wording there. I was trying to flash the recovery image in fastboot, and attempting to get hboot to pick-up the HERCIMG.
I tried z4root. . . claims it's rooted, but I can't get rom manager through the market. Side loading doesn't work and neither did the previously mentioned options.
One-click gave me the recovery that I'm currently attempting to replace. I can't load any of the latest ROMs with that recovery, and there is no way to toggle signature verification either. I have no idea which ROM's I can flash.
Searching for clues on the .txt file now. . .
thanks
Use my terminal emulator way to flash a recovery.
私のEVO 3Dから送信される。
dastin1015 said:
Use my terminal emulator way to flash a recovery.
私のEVO 3Dから送信される。
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That worked dastin. What's funny is that I was able to flash CM6.x last night. Once on the phone, I saw that ROM Manager was installed. I flashed CWM through that application, and went to bed. It stated that the installed recovery was 2.5.0.7!!! This morning, I rebooted into recovery to find GodSpeed still installed!!! :lol:
At any rate, your terminal emulator method flashed the 5.2.0.7 image for me. . . and I thank you for that!!! I'm still fairly new to all of this, so what I find on the internet is what I know/learn so far. \
Nandroiding now!!! Flashing zerohero momentarily!!!
Regards,
Paul T.
stupidjerkheadface said:
That worked dastin. What's funny is that I was able to flash CM6.x last night. Once on the phone, I saw that ROM Manager was installed. I flashed CWM through that application, and went to bed. It stated that the installed recovery was 2.5.0.7!!! This morning, I rebooted into recovery to find GodSpeed still installed!!! :lol:
At any rate, your terminal emulator method flashed the 5.2.0.7 image for me. . . and I thank you for that!!! I'm still fairly new to all of this, so what I find on the internet is what I know/learn so far. \
Nandroiding now!!! Flashing zerohero momentarily!!!
Regards,
Paul T.
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Remember that different recoveries put their files in different folders so that Clockwork would not find it if the recovery image isn't in the /clockworkmod/backup folder. Did you reflash 2.5.0.7 in clockworkmod? It will always say that is what your recovery is when you are using a custom recovery.
Also, when using Hboot, make sure that your HERCIMG.zip isn't written as HERCIMG.zip.zip. This won't work and you also need to have an "android-info.txt" in the zip as well if you are making your own, not just the recovery.img (and it can't be named something like GL-recovery.img. I use Dastin's Orange Corps 4.0.1.4 recovery
I have made all of these mistakes in the past. I leave a HERCIMG.zip on my SD card at all times just in case there is a problem and I have some I can flash from recovery. It has saved me a lot of time and trouble when something unexpected has happened.
Well, this all started with my wife losing her 4 month old Evo 4g. . . yay. I had to RUU the hero so she could use it while I found a replacement. I tried a bunch of different ways to get it to activate while on zero hero to no success.
I was trying to flash CWM with GodSpeed. It never did stick. ROM Manager stated it flashed 2.5.0.7 when I was finally able to try that.
What I really don't understand is why I couldn't flash the recovery in fastboot. I kept getting "FAILED: remote not allow" after the flash command. I'm quite sure I was flashing that correctly. Anybody have an answer for that?
Hey everyone,
So I am in quite the pickle here and need some help from experts. Seeing as how my google searches were leading more and more to this site, I figured the time had come to create an account and ask my specific issue question:
So here's the situation I'm currently in:
• My phone is bricked. Yes I have no backup (my first shooting of myself in the foot), and a pretty clear SD card (no OS so I cannot boot it. It gets stuck at the startup screen)
• I have the bootloader unlocked
• I have S-ON
• I do not have SU installed
• I have TWRP 3.0.2-0 installed
What I'm looking to do is stock reset my phone so I can just get it back to par. SO like any normal human being I go to google and enter "Stock reset HTC ONE M9" and find all kinds of videos and threads about how to do so. Unfortunately, most thread and videos assume that you have S-OFF and/or SU installed.
So here is my struggle now:
• I want to install SU so I can do things like lock the bootloader and flash a stock ROM to get my phone back to factory stock.
• However, It seems that I cannot install SU because I need an operating system to do so? (Not sure on that part) Reason being, using my current version of TWRP (3.0.2-0) I have tried to install SU versions 1.25, 2.75, 2.76, etc. etc. However, when I install them using TWRP it reboots about 100 times and then gets stuck on the startup screen. Then when I try to use ADB SHELL and enter the "su" command, I find out that SU is not found or in other words not installed.
So I'm not sure if I'm totally screwed and have the chicken and the egg problem where I can't install SU without an OS and I can't install an OS without unlocking the boot loader first which I need SU for)
If there is a way to flash a stock ROM in my current condition that is the answer I'm looking for. I just want to factory reset my phone.
Any thoughts, suggestions, or link are greatly appreciated. At this point I'm desperate to not buy an new phone. Throw your crazy methods of solving this problem my way please!
Also please note that I am still learning the ins and outs of things like the bootloader, RUU, ROM, Recovery so any definitions or helpful comments you provide about what something is and what it is meant to do is greatly appreciated for I am still learning.
Thanks.
hey man supersu only works with a system in place... soff or on doesnt give a crap about a system restore...but since you have twrp recovery , just download a ruu zip or a custom rom for the m9 flash it using twrp and have su installed then
Laddyboy22 said:
hey man supersu only works with a system in place... soff or on doesnt give a crap about a system restore...but since you have twrp recovery , just download a ruu zip or a custom rom for the m9 flash it using twrp and have su installed then
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Awesome good to know! So I'm downloading a stock RUU zip.
But when I try to flash it though TWRP I get an error saying:
"Failed to mount '/system' (Invalid arguments)"
"Could not find 'META-INF/com/gogle/android/update-binary' in the zip file."
"Error installing zip file '/sdcard/M9_3.38.502.12_FullStock.zip'"
Can you lend me some information on what this means?
EDIT
I also tried to fastboot flash zip ROM.zip and get "RU_SECURITY_FAIL zip from usb command in download mode" which I think I need S-OFF for.
Great Unbrick and SU install guide
Finally fixed it. Found a great guide for both an unbrick and su install all-in-one.
(I'd post a link but I can't post links since I'm too new.)
I found it on teamandroid and the title was "Update HTC One (M9) to Android 6.0.1 Stock Rooted Marshmallow Custom ROM"