Alright, first off, I want to acknowledge that is a blatantly noob question/issue. However...
I have a Vivid, rooted with an unlocked bootloader. I am currently S-ON. I highly doubt I will ever be S-OFF. The thought of playing with delicate wires (of which can brick the unit) scares me greatly.
Every ICS rom I try (VI, DarkRaider, et cetera) works great. However, I can never seem to get WiFi. Being on "America's Largest 4G Network," WiFi is paramount. It says, "turning WiFi on..." It never cuts on though. Is there a fix for this, or will I have to stick to stock roms?
Thanks, in advance, for the help.
Have you even searched for that issue? It's been discussed countless times. You must fastboot flash the boot.IMG seperately if you are S-On.
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Jirv311 said:
Have you even searched for that issue? It's been discussed countless times. You must fastboot flash the boot.IMG seperately if you are S-On.
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Ah, didn't realize that's what that meant. Thanks. BTW, love your stock rom.
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Ah, didn't realize that's what that meant. Thanks. BTW, love your stock rom.
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Thanks.
Yeah typically, if you ever see that, it's because the kernel wasn't flashed at all or it didn't flash correctly. Some say to flash the boot.img before and after a ROM install. I typically only did it after a ROM install when I was S-On.
Best Bet is too make it stock, then flash the right kernel (boot.img) then the rom and you should be good to go
Ok so for shiz and giggles i wanted to try out cm10 so i did.. now that i've tested it and tried to recover from a back up and tried other roms but they all get stuck in a boot loop. tried flashing all different kinds of kernels including faux's. although i didnt see this as a thing that could be wrong with CM10 but i cant mount the phone anymore so i've been downloading different roms straight to the phone.. is there anybody out there that can help me figure out how to fix this? i still havnt tried the RUU so i'm downloading that now but i figured it may take awhile for anyone to answer so i posted this first. i'm technically a newb to this whole android rooting and flashing roms thing but i'm a software engineer so i'm not completely out of my element. edit: my carrier is ATT btw.. also i used the AIO toolkit 2.1 thing to do all the rooting and flashing CWM 5.5.0.4
RujinXERO said:
Ok so for shiz and giggles i wanted to try out cm10 so i did.. now that i've tested it and tried to recover from a back up and tried other roms but they all get stuck in a boot loop. tried flashing all different kinds of kernels including faux's. although i didnt see this as a thing that could be wrong with CM10 but i cant mount the phone anymore so i've been downloading different roms straight to the phone.. is there anybody out there that can help me figure out how to fix this? i still havnt tried the RUU so i'm downloading that now but i figured it may take awhile for anyone to answer so i posted this first. i'm technically a newb to this whole android rooting and flashing roms thing but i'm a software engineer so i'm not completely out of my element. edit: my carrier is ATT btw.. also i used the AIO toolkit 2.1 thing to do all the rooting and flashing CWM 5.5.0.4
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My cm10 is not the problem...sometimes recoveries go bad on this phone...try downloading a recovery and flashing it...if it doesn't work just wait for that ruu
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mg2195 said:
My cm10 is not the problem...sometimes recoveries go bad on this phone...try downloading a recovery and flashing it...if it doesn't work just wait for that ruu
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i didnt mean anything by it.. it just seemed that it was the problem what with i couldnt use any other rom anymore.. other than the calls not working it looks very pretty.. very snappy.. cant wait for more updates.. so yeah apparently i'm a retard because i was seriously up all night trying different things.. dead tired.. i never thought to try a rom that i previously got working properly.. so i just did that and it works.. so basically all those other roms i tried wernt flashing correctly or maybe i was doing something wrong in the process that made them boot loop.. but now i know backups on this phone go bad.. thanx for the tips.. and your rom..
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i didnt mean anything by it.. it just seemed that it was the problem what with i couldnt use any other rom anymore.. other than the calls not working it looks very pretty.. very snappy.. cant wait for more updates.. so yeah apparently i'm a retard because i was seriously up all night trying different things.. dead tired.. i never thought to try a rom that i previously got working properly.. so i just did that and it works.. so basically all those other roms i tried wernt flashing correctly or maybe i was doing something wrong in the process that made them boot loop.. but now i know backups on this phone go bad.. thanx for the tips.. and your rom..
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alot of vivid owners had/having problem with cwm , i avioded it. and use the other recover that was in the all-in-one tool .. think the name is WCX recovery .. and i have no issue
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alot of vivid owners had/having problem with cwm , i avioded it. and use the other recover that was in the all-in-one tool .. think the name is WCX recovery .. and i have no issue
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same- its also in the WCX root pack in the superguide
Hi all, I have a question about downgrading with RUU.
Currently I am on version 2.00.401.4 and I would like to downgrade to 2.00.401.2, so I can properly use this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320080
I have read several threads and I've searched a long time but I cannot find a solution for this. (For the Desire C).
I followed the steps in this thread several times with no succes; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425
I hope someone knows what to do!
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Hi all, I have a question about downgrading with RUU.
Currently I am on version 2.00.401.4 and I would like to downgrade to 2.00.401.2, so I can properly use this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320080
I have read several threads and I've searched a long time but I cannot find a solution for this. (For the Desire C).
I followed the steps in this thread several times with no succes; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425
I hope someone knows what to do!
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You dont need to downgrade.
What do I need to do? 3G was not working, because it would reboot. And now it's in a bootloop.
Pindagus said:
What do I need to do? 3G was not working, because it would reboot. And now it's in a bootloop.
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Try a lower frequency kernel, make sure you have the correct kernel. There should be no problem with the 3G
I am using 767 Prometheus. Still 3G rebooting problem. I'm in Europe btw, no idea if it cares
Pindagus said:
I am using 767 Prometheus. Still 3G rebooting problem. I'm in Europe btw, no idea if it cares
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Based on RUU means he took the rom from the stock, posted on the official site, and modified it further. Go to the thread and look around as far as I remember people had a similar problem but it got resolved. Have you tried clearing dalvik and cache?
Hello all,
I'm sorry to interrupt you all, but this is rather important!
I tried to root my girlfriends Velocity 4G which she got with her contract with A1 (austrian carrier).
I already flashed a One S and knew of the complications a root for HTC could bring.
So I tried to get everything together before flashing and then I did it...
Got the bootloader unlocked, installed TWRP and flashed sun_dreams rom.
Don't worry, I wiped all clean and think I did it the right way (already flashed 4 other phones, but samsungs').
But I seem to have missed something as I got in a neverending bootanimation (white background with green htc logo).
I know, that you sometimes have to wait a few minutes, but after about 5 minutes or so, I thought I was stuck on boot loop.
So I rebooted, flashed it again and rebooted and nothing changed.
I then read about the boot.img... So I extracted the boot.img and did a full wipe, then installed it, after that the rom and then (just to be safe) three times again the boot.img.
Rebooted and now I got the reboot loop (white background with green logo, then black, then white background again and so on)
I tried everything and as I was about to give up, read about the final solution: the RUU or PH39IMG.zip.
Now the problem is: I cant get either of them to work. At all. When trying to flash the RUU (with bootloader relocked), the programm says: "ERROR 170: No device connected".
I read about some other people having the same problem, so I tried the solution given to them: go to the first screen, then to your temp data, extract the rom.zip, rename it and flash that one, via putting it on the external sd and booting into bootloader.
Didn't work either: Wrong CID. Same for all RUUs I could find even closely related to my phone.
As I couldn't find the real correct RUU, I tried to cheat and use the goldcard to overgo the cid-problem.
Because I couldn't boot up the Velocity 4G I tried to make one with my own Galaxy S2, which worked.
Seems to be the wrong way, since it's the wrong CID anyways, when trying to install the PH39IMG (still all RUUs say ERROR 170).
I might need to mention I didn't do the S-OFF thing, as I didn#t want to mess with the hardware... Is that necessary for my problem to getting fixed?
Maybe I just need the one correct RUU for my model, but I can't find it anywhere!
please help me somebody, as I feel very guilty because of wrecking my girlfriends phone! :crying:
any help is appreciated!!!
greetings
deweini said:
Hello all,
I'm sorry to interrupt you all, but this is rather important!
I tried to root my girlfriends Velocity 4G which she got with her contract with A1 (austrian carrier).
I already flashed a One S and knew of the complications a root for HTC could bring.
So I tried to get everything together before flashing and then I did it...
Got the bootloader unlocked, installed TWRP and flashed sun_dreams rom.
Don't worry, I wiped all clean and think I did it the right way (already flashed 4 other phones, but samsungs').
But I seem to have missed something as I got in a neverending bootanimation (white background with green htc logo).
I know, that you sometimes have to wait a few minutes, but after about 5 minutes or so, I thought I was stuck on boot loop.
So I rebooted, flashed it again and rebooted and nothing changed.
I then read about the boot.img... So I extracted the boot.img and did a full wipe, then installed it, after that the rom and then (just to be safe) three times again the boot.img.
Rebooted and now I got the reboot loop (white background with green logo, then black, then white background again and so on)
I tried everything and as I was about to give up, read about the final solution: the RUU or PH39IMG.zip.
Now the problem is: I cant get either of them to work. At all. When trying to flash the RUU (with bootloader relocked), the programm says: "ERROR 170: No device connected".
I read about some other people having the same problem, so I tried the solution given to them: go to the first screen, then to your temp data, extract the rom.zip, rename it and flash that one, via putting it on the external sd and booting into bootloader.
Didn't work either: Wrong CID. Same for all RUUs I could find even closely related to my phone.
As I couldn't find the real correct RUU, I tried to cheat and use the goldcard to overgo the cid-problem.
Because I couldn't boot up the Velocity 4G I tried to make one with my own Galaxy S2, which worked.
Seems to be the wrong way, since it's the wrong CID anyways, when trying to install the PH39IMG (still all RUUs say ERROR 170).
I might need to mention I didn't do the S-OFF thing, as I didn#t want to mess with the hardware... Is that necessary for my problem to getting fixed?
Maybe I just need the one correct RUU for my model, but I can't find it anywhere!
please help me somebody, as I feel very guilty because of wrecking my girlfriends phone! :crying:
any help is appreciated!!!
greetings
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OK... Vodafone is still on gingerbread...
Soooo... You need a gingerbread ROM... And a gingerbread boot.img... Then get it to boot...
After that I would s-off, super cid, get to ICS hboot... Then flash the ROM of your choice
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OK... Vodafone is still on gingerbread...
Soooo... You need a gingerbread ROM... And a gingerbread boot.img... Then get it to boot...
After that I would s-off, super cid, get to ICS hboot... Then flash the ROM of your choice
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So far so good... but where do I get it from?
I have this one:
RUU_HOLIDAY_SENSE3_5_Vodafone_DE_2.38.162.1_Radio_3.02.4740.09_34.20.701040.19_release_241518_signed
But this one won't work either...
What complicates the search, is that this phone goes by so many different names (vivid, velocity, holiday, raider, etc...)
Should I post a getvar all?
Concerning your further steps: I would be very happy to get it to run at all, maybe then think of reflashing something.
I don't know if I manage that s-off thing and I don't want to hard brick it and give it the final punch...
anyways, thanks for the fast response!
Can you get the ph39img from it?
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Can you get the ph39img from it?
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I already did that with all the RUUs I found, but none worked...
EDIT: so I tried a solution offered by another poster in another forum which said to install CM10 on a clean wipe.
did that and it booted in the cm boot screen and loads the "first install wizard"... well, at least to the language selection screen, then it freezes and reboots again.
but at least we bought us some time at the start.
deweini said:
I already did that with all the RUUs I found, but none worked...
EDIT: so I tried a solution offered by another poster in another forum which said to install CM10 on a clean wipe.
did that and it booted in the cm boot screen and loads the "first install wizard"... well, at least to the language selection screen, then it freezes and reboots again.
but at least we bought us some time at the start.
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Its because of a wrong hboot...
It will happen with all of the ICS+ ROMs...
I wish you hadn't relocked your bootloader...
Can you reunlock...
Iirc there is a thread with hboot updated... Maybe try that... Or download the Wcxroot thingy and flash the juopenut hboot...
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Its because of a wrong hboot...
It will happen with all of the ICS+ ROMs...
I wish you hadn't relocked your bootloader...
Can you reunlock...
Iirc there is a thread with hboot updated... Maybe try that... Or download the Wcxroot thingy and flash the juopenut hboot...
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so, you're basically saying i might be able to get it to work without any RUUs or PH39IMGs?
Wow, that would be good news at last.
I already reunlocked before i flashed the CM10 rom and i didn't forget to flash the boot.img afterwards and even went back again to recovery to wipe cache and dalvik and fixed permissions.
Which one should i try?
thank you for your help!! :good:
is updating the hboot even possible without s-off?
so it seems i have to obtain s-off to flash anything else than stock rom...
as far as i read you have to be on stock ruu to obtain s-off, is that correct?
because that would be bad, as i don't have the stock ruu for my phone.
is it possible to acquire s-off without being on stock rom and would it be possible with the state my phone is in?
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is updating the hboot even possible without s-off?
so it seems i have to obtain s-off to flash anything else than stock rom...
as far as i read you have to be on stock ruu to obtain s-off, is that correct?
because that would be bad, as i don't have the stock ruu for my phone.
is it possible to acquire s-off without being on stock rom and would it be possible with the state my phone is in?
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I think homeslice s-offed his phone on a non stock ROM...
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I think homeslice s-offed his phone on a non stock ROM...
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i already wrote a pm. do you have any ideas left? maybe try and install a gb rom and then try that ruu again?
ps: i did manage to start the ruu.exe (by reinstalling the htc sync) and it stopped with the error 131. installing the rom.zip (or PH39IMG.zip) still won't work as it says customer id check failed...
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i already wrote a pm. do you have any ideas left? maybe try and install a gb rom and then try that ruu again?
ps: i did manage to start the ruu.exe (by reinstalling the htc sync) and it stopped with the error 131. installing the rom.zip (or PH39IMG.zip) still won't work as it says customer id check failed...
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Okay, so I did manage to fix it, as it seems... :laugh:
This is what I did:
1. reunlocked bootloader
2. installed TWRP and booted into recovery
3. mounted the internal SD as mass storage
4. copied over VJRaiders GB rom
5. did a full wipe
6. installed VJRaiders rom
7. rebooted into bootloader
8. fastboot flashed the kernel found in the rom thread (twice)
9. rebooted and it worked...
I don't know how and why, but the problem seemed to be that I always tried to flash non-GB roms. As simple as that.
I have no idea why the RUU and PH39IMG didn't work tho...
Well. I won't touch that thing for a looong time, as it works and I had enough problems getting there!
The reason that you had problems with ics and upward roms is because your phone still has the gb hboot. This is because boss never released the ics update. To install ics roms you need the ics hboot.
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The reason that you had problems with ics and upward roms is because your phone still has the gb hboot. This is because boss never released the ics update. To install ics roms you need the ics hboot.
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Which I'm only able to attain with s-off, am I right?
Correct, I believe. If you didn't get an official update to ICS, you'll have to S-Off. It's honestly not as bad as it sounds, I did mine with some speaker wire...probably the worst part of it is getting the cover off of the section where you have to ground out the point. Just take your time, and make sure you're in a well lit area, with a little bit of working space, and you'll be fine.
well, the problem is, that we are not longer on a stock rom and can't seem to flash the original ruu, as we don't find it anywhere...
and as far as i know it is not recommended or possible to go s-off without being on stock rom!?
AFAIK it is UNTESTED... Not impossible
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If this is anything like other HTC devices, i'd say your best shot if you're willing to try an untested idea, would be to give it a shot with a sense rom, as they tend to be (under the hood anyways) a lot closer to stock than non sense roms.
Hi Guys,
I have a rooted S-On Tmobile M7UL device. It was running on Viper one 6.2 Rom without a problem. Today all of a sudden my phone is not receiving any signal. Wifi is fine. Tried factory resetting the phone. But still no signal. Please help.
pasanjay said:
Hi Guys,
I have a rooted S-On Tmobile M7UL device. It was running on Viper one 6.2 Rom without a problem. Today all of a sudden my phone is not receiving any signal. Wifi is fine. Tried factory resetting the phone. But still no signal. Please help.
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You might try re-installing the radio or TMO firmware. If you want to run the latest RUU 5.14.531.11.
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You might try re-installing the radio or TMO firmware. If you want to run the latest RUU 5.14.531.11.
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Thank you for the reply. Since im S-On i might have to relock ans flash stock recovery right?
And i found a way to get the signal back. When the phone boots up all i have to do is turn airplane mode on and off. Then signal comes back. But the problem is i have to do this every time i switch on the phone. Do you think it has something related to a bug in the custom ROM?
I cant seem to flash any other custom roms. tried insertcoin 4 and few others. But all of them caused bootloops.
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Thank you for the reply. Since im S-On i might have to relock ans flash stock recovery right?
And i found a way to get the signal back. When the phone boots up all i have to do is turn airplane mode on and off. Then signal comes back. But the problem is i have to do this every time i switch on the phone. Do you think it has something related to a bug in the custom ROM?
I cant seem to flash any other custom roms. tried insertcoin 4 and few others. But all of them caused bootloops.
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It might be a custom ROM. If you can find a firmware for your version flash it. Yes you have to lock your bootloader.
pasanjay said:
Thank you for the reply. Since im S-On i might have to relock ans flash stock recovery right?
And i found a way to get the signal back. When the phone boots up all i have to do is turn airplane mode on and off. Then signal comes back. But the problem is i have to do this every time i switch on the phone. Do you think it has something related to a bug in the custom ROM?
I cant seem to flash any other custom roms. tried insertcoin 4 and few others. But all of them caused bootloops.
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if all the roms bootloop you need to update your custom recovery to 2.6.3.3 or 2.7.1.1
Have the same issue. Had it with insertcoin and now with viper 7
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I'm on candy kitkat 4.4.4 rom and had the issue of having service but no data. So I flashed a 4T.28.3218.04_10.33E.1718.01L radio and all is good now. But I'm s-off and have super cid.
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I am s off and supercid-ed running ViperROM 5.8 still with the first T mobile KitKat radio. I almost always have full LTE but these past few weeks and maybe more they are upgrading towers and I suddenly have 3g. It usually happens between 3 and 5am but when I am awake, I call and they give me $10 credit. I am on ancient firmware too....I am about to update now but I am trying to be sure that newest firmware version is OK because my LTE is always blazing fast...don't want to ruin that!
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