Hi
I recently updated my unlocked and s-off AT&T Vivid to CM10 but did not like it. Is there a way to revert my phone to a previous ICS ROM?
Thank you!!
buc_homi said:
Hi
I recently updated my unlocked and s-off AT&T Vivid to CM10 but did not like it. Is there a way to revert my phone to a previous ICS ROM?
Thank you!!
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Yea, boot to recovery, wipe data/cache/dalvik/system and flash the ICS ROM you wish to use. If necessary, then flash the boot.img (i know you said you're s-off, but not all ROMs will flash boot.img in their script regardless of your s- status)
homeslice976 said:
Yea, boot to recovery, wipe data/cache/dalvik/system and flash the ICS ROM you wish to use. If necessary, then flash the boot.img (i know you said you're s-off, but not all ROMs will flash boot.img in their script regardless of your s- status)
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I think the ROM i was trying to install didn't have the flash boot command.
I flashed the boot.img and worked perfectly.
Thanks for the quick reply
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Hi,
i have the Telstra Vivid running Dark Raider 1.5.4 Rom at the moment. My phone is still S-ON running the Stock kernel from Telstra.
Now i think about tryin' out another kernel. Therefore i have some questions:
1. Can I use every kernel like Kozmik, kangbang, faux? Can you advise a special one?
2. In many tutorials about kangbang kernel the instructions say, i should playe the zip file with the kernel on SD-card and then flash from recovery with "install zip from sdcard"!
Is it really correct like that? I remember some months ago if your phone wasn't S-Off it was not possible to flash a kernel from recovery. That was why you always had to flash the kernel with fastboot if your phone was S-On.
I'm a little bit confused now! Is it now possible to flash the kernel from recovery? Can I flash also with fastboot?
I don't wanna brick my phone!
Thank you
It hasn't changed at all. If you are s-on you will need to flash the kernel boot.img through fastboot.
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Yes, that's why i thought too. But:
http://www.androidauthority.com/vivid-2-0-ghz-overclock-custom-kernel-kangbang-106636/
and here
http://www.androidtuition.com/att-htc-vivid-kangbang-kernel-overclock-to-2-0-ghz-androite-guide/
it just says i have to choose the zip from sdcard from recovery, also for the s-on version! Is it a mistake or is it just that i'm too confused to understand?
Fastboot boot *recovery.img* from your pc... Then install as s-off on the phone and it should work...
If I read synergye's post right
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yes, but i'm confused! What does that mean? Is there a special recovery coming with the kernel which can flash kernels?
Or does it really just mean i can flash it from "normal" recovery even if i'm still s-on?
There is sort of a special recovery, that when you fastboot it loads that specific recovery which then allows you to flash the kernel from recovery. My understanding you cannot flash this recovery to your phone and it would then work to flash the kernel from recovery everytime. has something to do with launching that specific recovery from fastboot.
OK, thank you, i think i understand now. So i can either flash with his special recovery or i can flash manually with fastboot?
Maxi1984 said:
OK, thank you, i think i understand now. So i can either flash with his special recovery or i can flash manually with fastboot?
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Yes, either use the method described on those other posts or use the traditional S-On method described in several threads here.
Im S-off and use flash image gui app to install them, if you would do s-off it would be so much easier....here is link to the info on it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16129916
Doing the wire trick is really easy to do for s-off, and you cant brick it by trying it,
Hello everyone!
Some time ago I tried to install MIUI. I have official htcdev unlock. So I flashed the rom via 4ext and the kernel via adb. But the phone didn't boot up.
So then I tried Nik Project X, everything was all right.
So I now want to install MIUI one more time, I'm downloading a bulid from miui.su. So how to solve the problem and make it boot up, if it also wouldn't boot up?
BORISWINNER said:
Hello everyone!
Some time ago I tried to install MIUI. I have official htcdev unlock. So I flashed the rom via 4ext and the kernel via adb. But the phone didn't boot up.
So then I tried Nik Project X, everything was all right.
So I now want to install MIUI one more time, I'm downloading a bulid from miui.su. So how to solve the problem and make it boot up, if it also wouldn't boot up?
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Do you have blackrose hboot or the stock one?
iirc the miui china builds need you to have the blackrose hboot, because they mount different partitions. If that is the case, the rom did not flash properly and that is why yous is not booting.
markj338 said:
Do you have blackrose hboot or the stock one?
iirc the miui china builds need you to have the blackrose hboot, because they mount different partitions. If that is the case, the rom did not flash properly and that is why yous is not booting.
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Thanks! May you please give a link for that wonderful HBOOT?
BORISWINNER said:
Thanks! May you please give a link for that wonderful HBOOT?
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Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509236
You will have to be s-off to install the hboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373697
Boris, did this work for you?
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markj338 said:
Do you have blackrose hboot or the stock one?
iirc the miui china builds need you to have the blackrose hboot, because they mount different partitions. If that is the case, the rom did not flash properly and that is why yous is not booting.
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I have blackrose hboot and still didnt boot up on me -.- (flashed it on 4ext recovery) and tried to flash the boot.img in fastboot but it just says: "FAILED (remote: not allowed)
Please someone help
So like a tard, I went and flashed a ROM for the One wanting a menu button. Unfortunately, this ROM was not specifically for a Sprint HTC One, but for the other One variants. Now my wifi and data are broken, and my phone constantly restarts itself, independent of the ROM I'm using ( I've flashed at least 3 ROMs to confirm this). Is there anything I can do to specifically re-flash the radios/prevent the constant restarting?
Boomchaos said:
So like a tard, I went and flashed a ROM for the One wanting a menu button. Unfortunately, this ROM was not specifically for a Sprint HTC One, but for the other One variants. Now my wifi and data are broken, and my phone constantly restarts itself, independent of the ROM I'm using ( I've flashed at least 3 ROMs to confirm this). Is there anything I can do to specifically re-flash the radios/prevent the constant restarting?
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you have to flash a boot.img too- you shouldn't flash roms not specific to your phone, you'll brick it
Please read my post here before you brick your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40678263
Aldo101t said:
you have to flash a boot.img too- you shouldn't flash roms not specific to your phone, you'll brick it
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I flashed viperBoy's stock Sprint ROM and that already had a boot.img in it. Are you saying I should flash that separately?
Boomchaos said:
I flashed viperBoy's stock Sprint ROM and that already had a boot.img in it. Are you saying I should flash that separately?
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yes, if you are s-on not s-off you do, with s-on even if the rom has a boot image, it will not flash the boot.img you must pull the image boot from the rom zip and flash it via adb sdk tools in fastboot
Aldo101t said:
yes, if you are s-on not s-off you do, with s-on even if the rom has a boot image, it will not flash the boot.img you must pull the image boot from the rom zip and flash it via adb sdk tools in fastboot
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Is there a particular order in flash the boot.img vs. the main rom? And should I have taken out the boot.img from the ROM before flashing the ROM? As in should the ROM not have the boot.img inside of it when being flashed?
Boomchaos said:
Is there a particular order in flash the boot.img vs. the main rom? And should I have taken out the boot.img from the ROM before flashing the ROM? As in should the ROM not have the boot.img inside of it when being flashed?
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ROM first, then boot.img.
And no, flash as is or else you'll get errors.
CNexus said:
ROM first, then boot.img.
And no, flash as is or else you'll get errors.
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Still restarting, and freezing up. Wifi works now though...baby steps haha.
Dear all,
I have tried to flash the pacman rom on my rooted Z, but i had over looked the part on wiping out the data and had restarted my phone. Right now my Z has be stuck on the Pac is loading for a good half of the day. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Boot into recovery then wipe and reinstall or restore your backup
Michealtbh said:
Boot into recovery then wipe and reinstall or restore your backup
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I managed to reboot it, thank you so much!!
remember, flashing CM roms require you to fastboot the boot.img
spazzy1912 said:
remember, flashing CM roms require you to fastboot the boot.img
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No it doesn't, the boot.img is flashed with the zip in recovery. You only need to use fastboot if you don't already have a custom recovery
Michealtbh said:
No it doesn't, the boot.img is flashed with the zip in recovery. You only need to use fastboot if you don't already have a custom recovery
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Since when?
From me to you.
XperienceD said:
Since when?
From me to you.
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That's been the case since I got my XZ ~4 weeks ago
Michealtbh said:
That's been the case since I got my XZ ~4 weeks ago
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If you have a stock, but bootloader unlocked Phone, you need to flash the kernel first for CWM, so if I flash another ROM that needs a different kernel, just flashing the zip now also flashes the kernel?, which it's never done on Xperia Phones before.
From me to you.
XperienceD said:
If you have a stock, but bootloader unlocked Phone, you need to flash the kernel first for CWM, so if I flash another ROM that needs a different kernel, just flashing the zip now also flashes the kernel?, which it's never done on Xperia Phones before.
From me to you.
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Correct. Boot partition can be flashed through recovery with the XZ.
Hi guys!
I've flashed faux kernel but I'd like to go back to stock..
Where I can find the stock kernel?
Thanks a lot!
daede86 said:
Hi guys!
I've flashed faux kernel but I'd like to go back to stock..
Where I can find the stock kernel?
Thanks a lot!
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It's the boot.img file in whatever SBF you are running. You MUST use the boot.img from the exact same SBF file (for YOUR version/variant) that you are currently on.
Flash it using fastboot: fastboot flash boot boot.img
samwathegreat said:
It's the boot.img file in whatever SBF you are running. You MUST use the boot.img from the exact same SBF file (for YOUR version/variant) that you are currently on.
Flash it using fastboot: fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Thanks man
Can't I use flashify to flash the boot.img? Right now I don't have a pc with me..
daede86 said:
Thanks man
Can't I use flashify to flash the boot.img? Right now I don't have a pc with me..
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Sure. The main function from flashify is to flash IMG s.
nexuspur said:
Sure. The main function from flashify is to flash IMG s.
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Downloading right now
Thabks again
If I'm on krypton 4.4.4 ROM on a xt1053 T-Mobile variant can I use the 4.4.3 T-Mobile sbf boot.IMG or the Verizon 4.4.4 sbf boot.IMG?
dobbs3x said:
If I'm on krypton 4.4.4 ROM on a xt1053 T-Mobile variant can I use the 4.4.3 T-Mobile sbf boot.IMG or the Verizon 4.4.4 sbf boot.IMG?
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Maybe....but why would you do that?
One way to find out -- try it. If it doesn't work or causes issues, flash the boot.img from krypton back on.
i think i made a mistake...
i thought i had the 4.4.4 stock firmware on my sd, so i've flashed the boot.img.. but after that, my moto stopped working properly! it completly changed the color scheme, the boot anymation is broken and it keep rebooting after few seconds/minutes.
So i realized i've flashed the 4.4.2 boot.img!!
i temporarly solved this problem flashing a custom rom (using slimkat right now) but i really want to go back to stock!
How should i proceed?!
i have a german moto x xt1052
thanks a lot!!!
daede86 said:
i think i made a mistake...
i thought i had the 4.4.4 stock firmware on my sd, so i've flashed the boot.img.. but after that, my moto stopped working properly! it completly changed the color scheme, the boot anymation is broken and it keep rebooting after few seconds/minutes.
So i realized i've flashed the 4.4.2 boot.img!!
i temporarly solved this problem flashing a custom rom (using slimkat right now) but i really want to go back to stock!
How should i proceed?!
i have a german moto x xt1052
thanks a lot!!!
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You shouldn't have flashed that custom rom. Now you have to wait for the full sbf to be leaked which could take weeks or months. By flashing the custom rom, you overwrote /system.
If you didn't do that, you could have simply flashed the boot.img from the 4.4.4 OTA file.
Your only other option is to find someone with the same variant as you have on 4.4.4 and ask them to do a twrp backup of just system and boot. Then flash that backup.
Remember: you can't downgrade without great risk of bricking - either immediately or in the future.
Thanks a lot..i hope to find someone with 4.4.4 german moto x!
samwathegreat said:
You shouldn't have flashed that custom rom. Now you have to wait for the full sbf to be leaked which could take weeks or months. By flashing the custom rom, you overwrote /system.
If you didn't do that, you could have simply flashed the boot.img from the 4.4.4 OTA file.
Your only other option is to find someone with the same variant as you have on 4.4.4 and ask them to do a twrp backup of just system and boot. Then flash that backup.
Remember: you can't downgrade without great risk of bricking - either immediately or in the future.
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i've found an user so kind to share with me his system and boot backup!!
so how should i proceed?! this time i want to be sure
to use my moto in the past days, i flashed kripton rom! so should i just restore from recovery the backup (after a factory reset)?
thanks a lot!!
daede86 said:
i've found an user so kind to share with me his system and boot backup!!
so how should i proceed?! this time i want to be sure
to use my moto in the past days, i flashed kripton rom! so should i just restore from recovery the backup (after a factory reset)?
thanks a lot!!
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You should be able to boot to twrp, and flash the backup using restore button. Make sure you erase userdata afterwards.
Before you start, you need to copy the backup to your internal storage in the twrp backup folder, of course.
Don't erase userdata until after you have restored the backup otherwise you will erase the backup! Everything on the internal memory will be erased, so save anything important such as pictures to your PC first.
could you share boot.img with me please ?
My phone wont boot anymore
XT1052 on 4.4.2