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Softbricked? Help Please

Hey, I have been messing around with my phone recently, and I have gone to the OTA update after I had root, to check it out. Well I decided to root again, so I was at RC30 and the build is JFv1.3. Now, I put on Haykuro's 6.0R1 (Uses new SPL) my memory card, as update. I tried to do it, but it didn't work. Now I am stuck in a JFv1.3 Recovery screen. No matter what I do, I can't get out. Does anyone have any advice? I would appreciate it, because I have been looking online for the past hour to fix it.
Thanks,
Chris

Ok lets get some more information:
Is the recovery screen responsive or frozen?
If it is responsive make sure you have the update.zip on your phone and and do an Alt+W to wipe all data and the Alt+S to install the update.
If it is NOT responsive then your recovery image is corrupted and you need to re-install it.
This will require fastboot, if you search around you can find it, and if you are in windows you will need the usb drivers.
You need to download the JF recovery image which should be called recovery.img
Put it in the same folder that has the fastboot files in it.
Boot the phone into fastboot mode (Camera+Power)
in the terminal(linux) or CMD(windows) type
1. fastboot erase recovery - erases the broken one
2. fastboot flash recovery recovery.img - puts the new one in
3. fastboot reboot - reboots the phone
then you can install the new ROMS if you want.
Post back with any other problems.

[Q] Nexus one flash ROM fastboot OS low memory cant acces home

My Unlocked Rooted Nexus one FRF91 when my phone starts I dont get access to home lancher seen and cant run application , my power button is dead. So only option is reload the Custom Rom but I cant select recovery on hboot as my power button is dead, so only option to clear & update rom is fastboot, when I try doing fastboot update customrom.zip it gves error ..
D:\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot update update.zip
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt
what to do now how do I clear my phone memory or load custom rom through fastboot ? can any one give me link to zip packed with these txt file any version, or passimg.zip way?
hboot 0.33.0012
radio 4.06.00.12_7
Also I would like to know currently the hboot give access of selection of recovery by power button, is there upgrade on hboot which provides selection of recovery through trackball...?

You don't flash roms in fastboot.

Just turn your phone on. Even if it doesn't get to the launcher, connect USB and:
"adb reboot recovery"
If you don't have USB debugging enabled - download the recovery and:
"fastboot boot your_downloaded_recovery.img"

Thanks Jack and Albundy, I could have tried Jacks suggested, but look what I did was since I was not able to erase userdata partition (Failed) so I overwrite it with fastboot flash userdata data.img (I had data.img from g1) LOL I was able to access the launcher home now and went to recovery through this and wiped everything in recovery & reloaded Froyo! that’s it.
One learning I never Nandoid back up ever, so first did this so infuture I can always use fastboot flash partition partition.img to reload the OS freshly.
Some tips for those who have power button failure & fell into same trouble, dont get panic.
1) Connect to power and insert battery see its charging, remove the battery and reinsert it quickly when you see the charging light has gone off. This will switch on your mobile.
2) Above combination with holding trackball allows to go directly in fastboot & with vol down key allows you to go in Hboot.
3) Always do Nandroid backup so in bad event you can always use fastboot to rebuild the fresh OS.
I wonder is there an HBOOT which allows recovery selection with trackball not power button.

[Guide] Newb guide to unlocking HBOOT 1.16.0000 and 2.00+ and flashing a custom ROM

There's no exploit that has been found yet to S-OFF your HBOOT 1.16.0000 Incredible S, but you can unlock the bootloader, flash a recovery image, and install a custom ROM.
If you're not sure about doing this, I'd advise against it - things can go wrong, and there is a chance you'll damage your phone. Also be aware that HTC's unlock process effectively voids your warranty, and it will erase everything on your phone, as if your stock ROM went back to how it was when you first bought the phone.
1. Go to http://htcdev.com/ and create a free account. Once done, click the "Unlock Bootloader" link, or click here. Note that the Incredible S v1.16.0000 wasn't listed at the time of writing this, but the process still works fine.
Follow the instructions there to the letter; it's a pretty simple process - the guide says you'll need HTC Sync installed, but you may just need USB drivers. I installed HTC Sync for this process and then uninstalled it from my PC afterwards.
Part of this process involves grabbing some files from the Android SDK; you might not have that installed, so download them HERE. Put them somewhere easy to find, like the root of your C: drive in a folder called "android" (I'll use this for the rest of the instructions).
2. You'll know the process is going well when your phone flashes up an image asking if you're sure you want to unlock your bootloader. If you're still sure, select yes, and the process will complete.
3. Once done, your phone's bootloader will be unlocked, enabling you to flash a recovery image.
4. Go to here and download the recovery image for the Incredible S. Put it in the "android" folder along with the other files needed for HTC's unlock process, above. This file is the ClockWorkMod recovery image for the IncS.
5. Shut down your phone. Plug it in via USB to your PC which you set up during the HTC unlock process. Hold volume down, and press power and the phone will boot into the bootloader. Wait for it to scan your SD card (takes a few seconds), then ensure "Fastboot" is highlighted and press power.
6. On your PC, load up a command prompt - open the Start menu, go to Run, and type "cmd".
7. In the command prompt window, type the following, assuming the HTC unlock files and the recovery image you downloaded in step 4 is all in C:android.
Code:
cd c:android
Then type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recovery_name.img>
Don't forget the .img on the end, and replace "recovery_name" with the specific name of the recovery image you want to use. For ClockWorkMod linked to in step 4, you'd type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.img
After a few seconds, ClockWordMod will have been flashed to your phone.
8. Reboot your phone, there should be an option in the fastboot menu (volume up and down to navigate, power to select). It should boot as per normal. Put it into USB disk mode, and download a ROM that you'd like to use. CyanogenMod is a good start: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-s
Download the ROM and place it in the root of your SD card (ie. not in any folders or anything).
9. Power off the phone. Hold volume down and press power to boot back into the bootloader. Use volume down to select "Recovery" and press power. ClockWorkMod recovery will load.
10. Using volume up/down and power to select, go down to Backup/Restore. Select it, then hit Backup. ClockWorkMod will backup your stock ROM in case there are any dramas and you want to go back to it.
11. After that (takes around 3-4 minutes), go back to the main menu. Select wipe data/factory reset and confirm. Go back to the main menu, select Advanced > Wipe Dalvik cache > confirm. Always best to do these 2 things before flashing a new ROM.
12. Go back to the main menu, and select "Install zip from SDcard". Next choose "Select Zip from SD card" and select the ROM you'd like to install. Confirm this action, and ClockWorkMod will install your new ROM. After that's done, shut the phone down.
13. Ordinarily you'd be done after that, and you could boot into your new ROM. However HBOOT 1.16 does some weird stuff and tends to cause issues; I think it interferes with the installation of the boot.img that ordinarily would be flashed with the ROM. Anyhow, grab the ROM that you downloaded earlier (CyanogenMod, in my example), and on your PC, unzip the file somewhere. Once unzipped, inside you'll see a file called "boot.img". Put this in the same folder as your other Android tools that you used earlier. Power your phone on, hold volume down, and instead of loading recovery by choosing "recovery", choose "usb fastboot".
14. Open up your command prompt again (Start > Run > "cmd"), and type (using the "android" folder for this example):
Code:
cd c:android
fastboot flash boot boot.img
This will flash the boot.img to your phone.
Power off the phone, reboot it, and you should be good to go. There may be more efficient ways to do some of the above, but I'm not a massive guru at this stuff, I just haaaate Sense and bloatware. If any gurus notice any errors, please let me know.
* Edit: Bear in mind that by default, a CM7 install won't include any Google apps (this includes the market app); this needs to be flashed as a separate update via recovery. At the time of writing, a link to information about the Google apps package for CM7 is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/t-1297579.html
Have updated the title as this should work with HBOOT 2.00+; haven't tested this myself though.
Apologies, not around this site too often these days, at least until an official ICS ROM is out, so I probably won't respond to PMs. Good luck, and hope the above info helps - but it may pay to do some due diligence yourself first, in case it's out of date.

Lynt said:
There's no exploit that has been found yet to S-OFF your HBOOT 1.16.0000 Incredible S, but you can unlock the bootloader, flash a recovery image, and install a custom ROM.
If you're not sure about doing this, I'd advise against it - things can go wrong, and there is a chance you'll damage your phone. Also be aware that HTC's unlock process effectively voids your warranty, and it will erase everything on your phone, as if your stock ROM went back to how it was when you first bought the phone.
1. Go to http://htcdev.com/ and create a free account. Once done, click the "Unlock Bootloader" link, or click here. Note that the Incredible S v1.16.0000 wasn't listed at the time of writing this, but the process still works fine.
Follow the instructions there to the letter; it's a pretty simple process - the guide says you'll need HTC Sync installed, but you may just need USB drivers. I installed HTC Sync for this process and then uninstalled it from my PC afterwards.
Part of this process involves grabbing some files from the Android SDK; you might not have that installed, so download them HERE. Put them somewhere easy to find, like the root of your C: drive in a folder called "android" (I'll use this for the rest of the instructions).
2. You'll know the process is going well when your phone flashes up an image asking if you're sure you want to unlock your bootloader. If you're still sure, select yes, and the process will complete.
3. Once done, your phone's bootloader will be unlocked, enabling you to flash a recovery image.
4. Go to this thread and download the recovery image for the Incredible S. Put it in the "android" folder along with the other files needed for HTC's unlock process, above. This file is the ClockWorkMod recovery image for the IncS.
5. Shut down your phone. Plug it in via USB to your PC which you set up during the HTC unlock process. Hold volume down, and press power and the phone will boot into the bootloader. Wait for it to scan your SD card (takes a few seconds), then ensure "Fastboot" is highlighted and press power.
6. On your PC, load up a command prompt - open the Start menu, go to Run, and type "cmd".
7. In the command prompt window, type the following, assuming the HTC unlock files and the recovery image you downloaded in step 4 is all in C:\android.
Code:
cd c:\android
Then type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recovery_name.img>
Don't forget the .img on the end, and replace "recovery_name" with the specific name of the recovery image you want to use. For ClockWorkMod linked to in step 4, you'd type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.im
After a few seconds, ClockWordMod will have been flashed to your phone.
8. Reboot your phone, there should be an option in the fastboot menu (volume up and down to navigate, power to select). It should boot as per normal. Put it into USB disk mode, and download a ROM that you'd like to use. CyanogenMod is a good start: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-s
Download the ROM and place it in the root of your SD card (ie. not in any folders or anything).
9. Power off the phone. Hold volume down and press power to boot back into the bootloader. Use volume down to select "Recovery" and press power. ClockWorkMod recovery will load.
10. Using volume up/down and power to select, go down to Backup/Restore. Select it, then hit Backup. ClockWorkMod will backup your stock ROM in case there are any dramas and you want to go back to it.
11. After that (takes around 3-4 minutes), go back to the main menu. Select wipe data/factory reset and confirm. Go back to the main menu, select Advanced > Wipe Dalvik cache > confirm. Always best to do these 2 things before flashing a new ROM.
12. Go back to the main menu, and select "Install zip from SDcard". Next choose "Select Zip from SD card" and select the ROM you'd like to install. Confirm this action, and ClockWorkMod will install your new ROM. After that's done, shut the phone down.
13. Ordinarily you'd be done after that, and you could boot into your new ROM. However HBOOT 1.16 does some weird stuff and tends to cause issues; I think it interferes with the installation of the boot.img that ordinarily would be flashed with the ROM. Anyhow, grab the ROM that you downloaded earlier (CyanogenMod, in my example), and on your PC, unzip the file somewhere. Once unzipped, inside you'll see a file called "boot.img". Put this in the same folder as your other Android tools that you used earlier.
14. Open up your command prompt again (Start > Run > "cmd"), and type (using the "android" folder for this example):
Code:
cd c:\android
fastboot flash boot boot.img
This will flash the boot.img to your phone.
Power off the phone, reboot it, and you should be good to go. There may be more efficient ways to do some of the above, but I'm not a massive guru at this stuff, I just haaaate Sense and bloatware. If any gurus notice any errors, please let me know.
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this line:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.im
should be:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.img

Thanks, fixed.

Lynt said:
Thanks, fixed.
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Np, I think this is a great idea btw.
This question comes up frequently.
Good work!

scoobysnacks said:
Np, I think this is a great idea btw.
This question comes up frequently.
Good work!
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I second that. Great job. Thanks for your contribution.

Excellent job Lynt, I will try this later...

Yeah good work dude. Should put a stop to the constant h-boot posts. We just need a mod to sticky this.

I bought one XTC Clip to unlock Incredible S but now i'm Xperia ARC.
If someone wants buy my XTC Clip, contact.
I sell by one lower price.

After flashing the boot.img, you may need to install the ROM one more time (if the phone cannot boot). But this time, do not wipe any cache. Just install the ROM from Recovery.

I wanna do that but i am afraid that i may end up making my device useless
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

Khair.wara said:
I wanna do that but i am afraid that i may end up making my device useless
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
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Hmmmm,there is always risk lies when you customize your phone..though should be minimal when you follow the step provided carefully,trade off for you to enjoy custom rom.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using Tapatalk

Khair.wara said:
I wanna do that but i am afraid that i may end up making my device useless
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
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You dun learn when u dun try. Go ahead, it's quite safe if u follow the steps carefully. You will be glad if u did. The custom ROMs are way better than the stock ones.

thanks mate! works perfect!
just need to add a little bit steps u were missing
after step 12, have to restart the phone to fastboot in order to flash boot.
another question, if i flash a custom rom, will it unlock my sim lock as well?
i cant find it out just bcos i already unlock my IS by purchased a unlock code online 3 weeks ago.
many thanks
and thanks and thanks again!

blkx_yang said:
thanks mate! works perfect!
just need to add a little bit steps u were missing
after step 12, have to restart the phone to fastboot in order to flash boot.
another question, if i flash a custom rom, will it unlock my sim lock as well?
i cant find it out just bcos i already unlock my IS by purchased a unlock code online 3 weeks ago.
many thanks
and thanks and thanks again!
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No flashing a custom ROM will not SIM Unlock a phone.

i heard some dude downgrade the HBOOT to 1.13 by using gold card.
i tired, but IS checked version somehow, said version is old.
can we flash UUR instead of flash a custom Rom? and if it works is that mean Hboot will be 1.13?
i tried before, got an error says unable to open the file. any ideas?

Just rooted thanks guys....for the tutorial....
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erkk......how to install market...?

have to flash an other zip, you can find it on htcdev.com 's forum
or give me ur email, ill email u

ryzer said:
Just rooted thanks guys....for the tutorial....
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erkk......how to install market...?
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Did you install Cyanogen? If so, go back to their download pages or forum thread for the IncS and get the "Gapps" or Google Apps installer.

Revolutionary
Use Revolutionary..Its easy
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www.revolutionary.io

Peekay_Subbu said:
Use Revolutionary..Its easy
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www.revolutionary.io
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Revolutionary.io does not work with this latest HBOOT version, thus the reason for this thread. You have to use the HTCDEV unlock method.

Alternative SIM Unlock (Try if nothing else works)

After searching for hours and finding links to links and threads with broken links I figured I'd help out anyone who finds themselves in my situation.
I'll assume you already know that your warranty is void. If you visit this site you may as well already know that much
Start here if your bootloader is locked​
First thing you want to do is download HTC Sync for your drivers here.
Plug it in and wait for it to connect. Some times disabling HTC Sync in the settings helps get it going. If it just won't start, go to your device manager and delete(uninstall) the driver for it. It's usually under USB Host or something similar.
Go to your settings and disable fast reboot, then power off your phone. If you don't do this you may have to wait an additional 10 seconds after it starts booting.
Now go to HTC Dev's Unlock Bootloader section and from the dropdown menu select the last option "All other supported phones". If you do not have an account you'll be prompted to register. Do it, it's free. From there follow their guide and you'll be supplied with a file to flash that will unlock your bootloader.
Once you have this file save it from the email to your adb/fastboot folder and make sure it's named Unlock_Code.bin then while in fastboot mode in the phone you want to give the command to flash it
Code:
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
Congrats! You now have an unlocked Bootloader. You can see this in the bootloader (vol- and power) screen at the top. It will now say "Unlocked" highlighted in purple.
Start here if your bootloader is unlocked but you are S-on​
Before we start we need to obtain root and get a custom recovery. Since we're already back in the bootloader checking to see if we're unlocked let's go to fastboot again. Now take that file I just linked you and put it in with the others from before in the ADB/Fastboot folder and rename it to "recovery.img". Go back to the command prompt window and type this code in:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
*Note* if you did not rename the file to recovery.img then this code will not work.
Once this is finished you'll still be in the bootloader so let's take if for a spin! Select Bootloader with the volume button and press power to select it. Now go down to "Recovery" and press power. Once you leave here and reboot to system it will ask if you want to have root because it's nice like that. Swipe the bar for yes, cancel for no. It's not really important now but you can stop there if you don't want the SIM Unlock.
Now for getting rid of S-on.
S-on seems to be some sort of secondary lock. I believe it stops you from flashing custom roms... whatever, we don't want to be locked out from our own device! Let's get rid of it with Firewater!
At this point it's probably easier to point you to a more thorough guide. Here.
Start here if your bootloader is unlocked and you are S-off​
At this point I want to point you to the bottom where all the links are. Download the 4.1 rom and the RUU flash tool. These are relatively big files so they can download while you finish reading.
If you're like me the RUU tool will not work for you on a 4.3 rom so what we're going to do is flash the 4.1 rom via TWRP.
First take the 4.1 rom you downloaded and put it in the root directory of your SD card. If you want to test it (I didn't but I put it there for you) you can also flash the touch screen img through fastboot. If not, continue on with the rest of the guide.
Power down and hold vol- and power to get into your bootloader. Use vol- to select recovery and press power to enter. Now we want to wipe data and do a factory reset so tap "Wipe" and slide the bar. Once this is done tap "Back" and the back button on the bottom right. Next, tap Install and scroll down to EclipticOne.zip (I used 3.0) tap it and slide the bar to install. It takes about 3 minutes. Once it's sucessful go ahead and reboot to system.
Now you'll notice the touchscreen is broken. Not to fear, we can fix that by flashing the firmware for 4.1 with the RUU program. It acts like a setup at first but it's a firmware flashing tool. Just follow the directions and wait (around 6 minutes for me but it says 10).
But wait! We're still not done! This removed our root so we want to let it boot up completely then go back to our recovery and on exiting (reboot into system) it will ask if we want to have root. Slide the bar to accept and wait for boot. Once it does find the SuperSU app and open it. It will tell you you're not done yet so select TWRP to let it install itself for you.
Now we're at the final stretch! Search the Play Store for Sprint Unlock Helper and download it. Open it up and follow the instructions there and... Well I'm still not there yet so give me a minute... Currently rebooting from TWRP root right now.
Okay, so it worked! Also, I had flashed a changed OMAD file in the begining and when I touched simlock it didn't work but I put in a sim card and changed to GSM so... Hell yeah. Hopefully this works for you too!
Link for Firewater
http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/
Firewater Guide link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632351
Link for HTC Dev
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Link for Sprint TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2652498
Link for RUU Flashing Tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2508907
Link for 4.1 ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2324338
Link for 4.1 Touch Screen Firmware
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46225907

Cannot install 5.1 update on Verizon

New member here. I just got the phone today, and it's activated, running 5.0. When I check for an update, it shows that there is one, and I download the update. However, after the phone restarts to begin the update, it stops on the system installation screen (it says "error" very quickly, and the android falls over). When the phone restarts, it says that the update couldn't be installed. I've wiped the cache and have done a factory reset, but neither work. Any help would be much appreciated.
Update: Tier 2 tech support from Verizon says the phone has been rooted (I bought the phone used). Is there any way to completely unroot the phone?

Usually a root program can unroot the phone, like if that phone have the root program "SuperSu" on it, there is an unroot function within the program. However, this is not recommended, when the rooting is done and you don't know what the original owners did, there are probably other system files that were changed and the OTA update will detect it and it won't work regardless.
What you should do is flash the factory stock firmware for the device. This will completely return the phone to stock 5.0 and also erase everything in the phone:
1. Download the adb/fastboot files, which is the program used to flash firmwares to android devices:
http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Adb Fastboot Files
2. Download the Verizon 5.0 stock firmware:
http://rootjunkysdl.com/?device=Moto X 2014&folder=Official Firmware
3. Download and install the Motorola fastboot driver:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59139823&postcount=2
4. Boot the phone into fastboot mode:
While the phone is turned off, press and hold Vol - and Power. Release Power while still holding Vol - and you will see the bootloader menu appears. Connect the phone to the computer and leave it on this menu, here you can use fastboot commands.
Your computer will begin to install the fastboot driver for your phone right now, go to Computer's Device Manager and make sure you see in top of the list "Android device" and then "Motorola ADB Interface" below it, or something very similar related to ADB.
5. Extract both the files from the ADB/Fastboot files (step 1) and files from the Verizon firmware (step 2) into the same folder. Run the batch file "XT1096_5.0_LXE22.46.11_cid2_CFC.xml.bat", it will run a series of commands that will wipe the phone and install the stock firmware. If all the commands ran successfully you have a fresh install like out of the box.
Note: In the bat file, there is a command called "fastboot erase userdata", this command delete all of the user's apps and files, if you want to keep them you can delete that line from the bat file, however, you might get an error later on if your apps data does match with the version of the firmware you just flashed on the phone (in which case you can have to boot into recovery and wipe data (which will wipe everything) or wipe cache to fix the errors.
6. After installation is done, press Vol+ to select "Normal Power up". For some goofy reason, Vol+ is the select key Motorola phones, not Power. Now you can try doing the OTA update again.
Warning: Do not install the older version firmware (4.4.4) to your phone. There are reports from people who downgrade the version on their Motorola and when they receive over the air update it hard brick their device.