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[Q] Unable to update hboot

HI
Im trying to upgrade my nexus to gingerbread stock according to the guids in the dev section
I understand that u need hboot 35 in order to do so.
im currently using hboot 0.33.0012
and stock rooted froyo 2.2.2 with unlocked bootloader
as i enter fastboot on my phone and try the command
fastboot flash hboot hboot.img
I get the following output
sending 'hboot' (512 KB)... OKAY [ 0.085s]
writing 'hboot'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.279s
does anyone know why do I get "remote : not allowed"?
thanks!
edit: can I skip this step or do I must upgrade hboot?
and can I upgrade it with a zip through the latest amon ra recovery?
edit2: I found an update zip containing only the hboot ver 35 and when I try to flash it
it says its unsigned and installation aborted...
should I try cancelling sign checking through recovery or is it too risky?
come one guys I really need some help here...

I have the same issue, never been able to solve it.

You can find a zip to the .37 hboot, I think in one of the GB 2.3.3 threads. (IIRC, it was craigacgomez's) If you are getting an unsigned error, turn off the signature verification in your recovery. I used the same zip, and all was fine. If you can't find the zip file, let me know. I most likely still have it.
UPDATE: here is the link craigacgomez provided for the flashable, zip hboot. http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/passion/d6096cac5e9f.signed-hboot-0.35.0017.zip
If it still fails, turn off signature verification.

Are you sure your bootloader is unlocked? People usually get those errors when it is locked, or they are trying to flash a .zip file instead of an.img file.
Using recovery is fine to flash HBOOT. Link to the .zip is in my signature.

Solved
I managed to solve the problem by finding a flash zip file. like mentioned above, before the comment was written.
and I took off the signature check myself, without knowing that itll go through fine
except from that the radio upgrade, and gingerbread installation went fine, finally I have 2.3.3 on my phone!!
thnks a lot anyway. I still wonder what is the cause for this error, as my bootloader is unlocked for sure, and I even tried
fastboot oem unlock
one more to be sure (which failed, as it stated that it is already unlocked)

I was getting the same error trying to flash to the .37 hboot from fastboot. My bootloader has been unlocked since I took the phone out of the box.

You guys were at the fastboot screen, right?
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Yea, I have used fastboot a few thousand times. Was found by fastboot devices. Just gave errors every time I tried to flash it. The zip worked fine though. Never had any problems flashing anything else through fastboot.

Yeah, I figured I was grasping at straws, but thought I'd ask anyway...
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[Q] Stock Recovery Partition Missing?

Just curious, does anyone have a dump of the recovery partition for the Dev Edition? It looks like from a bit of reading is that the recovery partition doesn't seem to be present.
I am unable to use recovery mode properly since it saids invalid operation when I do apply from SD, storage or cache, followed by the phone automatically restarting.
Has anyone else noticed this? I wonder if the unlocked 32 GB versions is unaffected.

try to reflash the recovery, the partitions should be the same as the original One

I tried to do that by using the RUU and using the zip, but it did not bring it back.
Is there a way to get the recovery image itself? I tried to extract the zip but it looked like it's encrypted as I cannot do so.
Looks like one mike1986 mentioned it's missing as well.
mike1986. said:
1. Well, I decided not to mention some things to avoid confusion. At the moment unlocking bootloader removes content of /data/preload partition, so indeed, installing OTA will fail. But I truly hope that HTC will fix it at some point and unlocking bootloader won't cause some stock apps to be missing.
2. Which procedure?
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Sango2 said:
I tried to do that by using the RUU and using the zip, but it did not bring it back.
Is there a way to get the recovery image itself? I tried to extract the zip but it looked like it's encrypted as I cannot do so.
Looks like one mike1986 mentioned it's missing as well.
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if you can point me where the RUU for your dev edition is i can extract the recovery.img for you

matt95 said:
if you can point me where the RUU for your dev edition is i can extract the recovery.img for you
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Great, thanks a lot.
Two places you can get it from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39588860 (BrightstarUS_WWE which is Developer)
or directly from HTCdev
http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads

Sango2 said:
Great, thanks a lot.
Two places you can get it from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39588860 (BrightstarUS_WWE which is Developer)
or directly from HTCdev
http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads
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ok, i'm downloading!
very very slow D:

matt95 said:
ok, i'm downloading!
very very slow D:
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No worries, I'll be back on tonight since got some meetings to attend in the office. Lets see what you can discover.
Thanks!

ok, iside of it i found this recovery file! try to flash it using
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
Download

matt95 said:
ok, iside of it i found this recovery file! try to flash it using
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
Download
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Tried it but for some reason I get this.
Code:
recovery recovery_signed.img
sending 'recovery' (9590 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.233s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 2.376s

Sango2 said:
Tried it but for some reason I get this.
Code:
recovery recovery_signed.img
sending 'recovery' (9590 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.233s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 2.376s
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as i though, mmmhh, unzipping the file breaks the signature.... well then you need to download a stock nandroid backup and inside of it you will fina a recovery.zip... just flash it and you're ready to go

matt95 said:
as i though, mmmhh, unzipping the file breaks the signature.... well then you need to download a stock nandroid backup and inside of it you will fina a recovery.zip... just flash it and you're ready to go
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Hmm, I'm beginning to wonder if the stock recovery is suppose to work like that, where if I try to apply storage, sd card, or cache it saids invalid operation and reboot. The reason is, a new HTC One S my relative got she her phone is being replaced for free under warranty... I go to the recovery and do those certain the apply stuff, it also saids invalid operation out and restarts!
I find this a bit interesting on my HTC One when I go to the recovery and wondering the failed mount SD card messages is normal.

Try this -> http://vps.rana.sg/HTC_ONE/individual_files/recovery.emmc.win
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash recovery recovery.emmc.win

v-b-n said:
Try this -> http://vps.rana.sg/HTC_ONE/individual_files/recovery.emmc.win
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash recovery recovery.emmc.win
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I get this error.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /HTC_ONE/individual_files/recovery.emmc.win on this server.
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Sango2 said:
I get this error.
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Oops ... try now

v-b-n said:
Oops ... try now
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I don't mean to hijack this thread but I tried flashing it on my HTC One and I received a signature verify fail...
Code:
sending 'recovery' (16383 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.921s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 3.876s

I don't get it why signature check is happening... Is the bootloader in unlock status and which custom recovery aren't of trying to overwrite?
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v-b-n said:
I don't get it why signature check is happening... Is the bootloader in unlock status and which custom recovery aren't of trying to overwrite?
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i'm wondering that too, but is that a recovery taken from the RUU.zip?

matt95 said:
i'm wondering that too, but is that a recovery taken from the RUU.zip?
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It's A twrp backup which is flashable using fastboot... I have done it so many times, hope people are flashing the fastboot way?
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The only time bootloader is going to Sig check a recovery partition is if he is relocked. He said he used the ruu a couple times so he is still relocked.

v-b-n said:
It's A twrp backup which is flashable using fastboot... I have done it so many times, hope people are flashing the fastboot way?
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... you mean taken from the TWRP backup?

Trouble flashing 4.3 radio

I basically get
writing 'zip'...
bootlader zip header checking
bootloader zip info parsing..
bootloader read zipped android_info fail
FAILEd remove: 24 parsing android-info fail
finished. total tim: 2.465s
any ideas?

Are you flashing it from recovery?

bigdaddy619 said:
Are you flashing it from recovery?
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fastboot

PaulB007 said:
fastboot
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Also, when pushing through fastboot with the firmware update the hboot updates but I get the remote 90 error issue. It doesnt seem to want to update the radio, so I wonder how much of the firmware even pushed to my device..

If it's a zip from the Radio thread just flash it from recovery

[Q] Latest Firmware Fails Fastboot

When I try to update my firmware to the 4.06.6514 firmware. I follow the directions in the thread, but when I issue the flashboot flash zip firmware.zip it fails with the following:
target reported max download size of 1526722560 bytes
sending 'zip' (20935 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.217s]
writing 'zip'...
(bootloader) adopting the signature contained in this image...
(bootloader) zip header checking...
(bootloader) zip info parsing...
(bootloader) Read zipped android_info fail
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 2.465s
The download seems OK, it passed the md5 check, etc... I haven't seen anyone else with this problem while looking around. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Did you update with the modified or unmodified firmware?
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o350125 said:
When I try to update my firmware to the 4.06.6514 firmware. I follow the directions in the thread, but when I issue the flashboot flash zip firmware.zip it fails with the following:
target reported max download size of 1526722560 bytes
sending 'zip' (20935 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.217s]
writing 'zip'...
(bootloader) adopting the signature contained in this image...
(bootloader) zip header checking...
(bootloader) zip info parsing...
(bootloader) Read zipped android_info fail
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 2.465s
The download seems OK, it passed the md5 check, etc... I haven't seen anyone else with this problem while looking around. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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DID YOU TRY reentering the command : fastboot flash zip firmware.zip imediately after the error(works sometimes) did you rename the download zip to firmware/

I flashed the unmodified firmware for the 3.05 firmware with the 1.55 hboot and got a similar message. I just rebooted and everything was fine.
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Yeah we need some more info
S-ON or S-OFF?
Modified or unmodified firmware?

BD619 said:
Yeah we need some more info
S-ON or S-OFF?
Modified or unmodified firmware?
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I was trying the unmodified firmware, and I believe that I AM S-ON, as I have never done anything special to get S-OFF.
I did try reissuing the command immediately after the fail a couple of times, and I did rename the firmware file as downloaded to firmware.zip
Thanks again!

o350125 said:
I was trying the unmodified firmware, and I believe that I AM S-ON, as I have never done anything special to get S-OFF.
I did try reissuing the command immediately after the fail a couple of times, and I did rename the firmware file as downloaded to firmware.zip
Thanks again!
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Did you re-lock your bootloader?

BD619 said:
Did you re-lock your bootloader?
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Is that something that you're supposed to do before updating? I'd never heard of that.

o350125 said:
Is that something that you're supposed to do before updating? I'd never heard of that.
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yeah you have to relock your bootloader for the firmware to flash successfully. you can do this through the command "fastboot oem lock" in cmd that you opened in the same folder location as your fastboot binaries
BUT be careful because if you do this you will lose everything on your phone, including all of the stuff you have on your internal storage, etc. i just performed this operation yesterday and had gotten that same error before i re-locked

o350125 said:
Is that something that you're supposed to do before updating? I'd never heard of that.
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If you are S-ON you do indeed have to re-lock your bootloader

[Q] jb_hboot FAILED

Hello,
I have a HTC holiday, after reading many post, I could not find a solution to my problem.
I tried to load cm-10-20130804-NIGHTLY-holiday, after that failed.
I have unlocked HTC, I am able to get to fastboot USB, tried to
- "fastboot erase cache"
- "fastboot oem rebootRUU"
- "fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip"
I have a backup for nandroid backup, so I thought loading back jb_hboot, so I can restore, but that is failing with the following error:
C:\WCXJB_ROOT_PACK>fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip
sending 'zip' (379 KB)... OKAY [ 0.252s]
writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 1.846s[/SIZE][/I]
can someone help.

ciffer1 said:
Hello,
I have a HTC holiday, after reading many post, I could not find a solution to my problem.
I tried to load cm-10-20130804-NIGHTLY-holiday, after that failed.
I have unlocked HTC, I am able to get to fastboot USB, tried to
- "fastboot erase cache"
- "fastboot oem rebootRUU"
- "fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip"
I have a backup for nandroid backup, so I thought loading back jb_hboot, so I can restore, but that is failing with the following error:
C:\WCXJB_ROOT_PACK>fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip
sending 'zip' (379 KB)... OKAY [ 0.252s]
writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 1.846s[/SIZE][/I]
can someone help.
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I think that you don't unlock the bootload check if you unlock it.

ciffer1 said:
Hello,
I have a HTC holiday, after reading many post, I could not find a solution to my problem.
I tried to load cm-10-20130804-NIGHTLY-holiday, after that failed.
I have unlocked HTC, I am able to get to fastboot USB, tried to
- "fastboot erase cache"
- "fastboot oem rebootRUU"
- "fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip"
I have a backup for nandroid backup, so I thought loading back jb_hboot, so I can restore, but that is failing with the following error:
C:\WCXJB_ROOT_PACK>fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip
sending 'zip' (379 KB)... OKAY [ 0.252s]
writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 1.846s[/SIZE][/I]
can someone help.
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Iirc that is not a flashable zip...
You unzip and work with the parts inside...
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need support
rignfool said:
Iirc that is not a flashable zip...
You unzip and work with the parts inside...
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So at this point, I am able to boot in fastboot, once in I start recovery, I get (RA revamped), I am unable to do a wipe, I get the following error: E:\ can't mount /dev/block/mmcblklpl.
I have a nandroid backup. How do I go about using it. Please provide steps.
Thank you
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ciffer1 said:
So at this point, I am able to boot in fastboot, once in I start recovery, I get (RA revamped), I am unable to do a wipe, I get the following error: E:\ can't mount /dev/block/mmcblklpl.
I have a nandroid backup. How do I go about using it. Please provide steps.
Thank you
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Can't help with WCX recovery...
Switch to twrp... Boot to recovery... Enter 'mounts' menu... Mount via USB...
Plug phone into windows based PC...
Hope windows offers to format the offending partition...
Unmount via USB... See if you can format with your recovery...
If yes... Flash ROM... Reboot to fastboot... Flash boot.img
If no... Report back
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twrp not work
rignfool said:
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Can't help with WCX recovery...
Switch to twrp... Boot to recovery... Enter 'mounts' menu... Mount via USB...
Plug phone into windows based PC...
Hope windows offers to format the offending partition...
Unmount via USB... See if you can format with your recovery...
If yes... Flash ROM... Reboot to fastboot... Flash boot.img
If no... Report back
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Thank you for the replay.
I flashed twrp. no error during the process. Once switching to recovery, I get white screen with HTC on it. Please help....
update used older version of Twrp, and I was able to format, with no error, I am ready to flash ROM any suggestion which rom to use..
Thank you

Similar Problem
ciffer1 said:
Thank you for the replay.
I flashed twrp. no error during the process. Once switching to recovery, I get white screen with HTC on it. Please help....
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I have a similar problem I flashed cwm recovery via ROM manager booted to recovery and I got a white screen with HTC on it. Help needed ASAP.

Prechyious said:
I have a similar problem I flashed cwm recovery via ROM manager booted to recovery and I got a white screen with HTC on it. Help needed ASAP.
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ROM manager does not support the vivid...
Read around and find how to flash TWRP or WCX recovery
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Thank you
rignfool said:
ROM manager does not support the vivid...
Read around and find how to flash TWRP or WCX recovery
Sent from my HTC Vivid 4G using Tapatalk
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Okay Thank you for the quick response and another question is between windroid and vivid toolkit which is advisable to use?

Prechyious said:
Okay Thank you for the quick response and another question is between windroid and vivid toolkit which is advisable to use?
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Dunno... Never used either... I always did it manually...

Thank you
rignfool said:
Dunno... Never used either... I always did it manually...
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Another question anytime I reboot I get this android is upgrading optimizing. It was not like that until after I rooted with baidu root.

Prechyious said:
Another question anytime I reboot I get this android is upgrading optimizing. It was not like that until after I rooted with baidu root.
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AFAIK that's from having an odexed services.jar...
The only fix is to use a deodexed ROM...
Its not a big deal unless you reboot all the time...