Hyperthetically if someone (not me) deleted all the root files using root explorer, would they all be replaced after a stock rom was installed using odin or is the only way to get root files like efs back a nand backup?
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I am not at all sure, but from what I can see online it seems that the /efs folder (and thus the holy IMEI number) are NOT restored by flashing roms or reloading general backups. That is likely the reason why it is strongly suggested to take a copy of your efs folder and save it somewhere secure before doing ANYTHING copacetic to your phone.
You (oh sorry, I mean your "friend") may be better off flashing to stock and then searching here for ways to change/set your IMEI number. Perhaps that will work.
Good luck.
Ok what I'm trying to ask is if I start playing with mods like root file mods that edit system files like the battery icon mod. Will a flash to stock rom on odin restore it back to normal or will the system files be forever changed? I think that is abit clearer.
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I would keep a back of all those files just to be safe
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I agree . But I'm more interested in the actual answer. Is the bootloader even stored in the root. And would it even be possible to restore everything just by pasting a backup of those files back?
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You can't **** up your bootloader with root explorer. You can destroy your efs though. As long as this is backed up everything else is restorable.
Thanks. So how would one go about backing up their boot loader or is that a mute point since the phone won't boot without one anyway? And if your bootloader did get screwed say from a bad flash and you couldn't get into download mode is that whats considered a hard brick and would a jig allow you to fix this?
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I'm looking to root my HTC vivid, and with all the resources here I thought it would be easy. However, I'm on a mac, and can't find a way to make the drivers work on my computer, and I'm still lost as to what to do after that. Somebody please help? Thanks.
Look in the development section, there are some programs that will help you with that problem. Just look through the topics.
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thanks. Is there a way to unlock a my bootloader without losing all my contacts and apps and such?
Save all contacts, etc. to your Google account, if you don't have one make it. Makes it much easier when replacing things. Otherwise you will lose data.
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google syncs backups of contacts....your apps if downloaded from market should reinstall automatically but yes you will loose all data when unlocking bootloader
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thanks. Is there a way to unlock a my bootloader without losing all my contacts and apps and such?
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I've read all over the internet and have had no luck finding any info on rooting from sd. Im on my honeymoon vacation and don't have access 2 a pc only my xoom. I have safestrap backups and titanium backups. Is there any way to maybe get my apps back from those without root?
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I've read all over the internet and have had no luck finding any info on rooting from sd. Im on my honeymoon vacation and don't have access 2 a pc only my xoom. I have safestrap backups and titanium backups. Is there any way to maybe get my apps back from those without root?
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You need a computer. I haven't seen a method from the phone.. You also need root for titanium backup to work. Redownload from the market or internet is the only option.
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You need a computer. I haven't seen a method from the phone.. You also need root for titanium backup to work. Redownload from the market or internet is the only option.
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Sad but true
Download the files you need to your sd card grab your usb cable and head to the local library and use their computer lol you have to be sneaky but my friend did it that way once
I'm an amateur ROM flasher and I usually get around a problem after a few hours of messing around with the device and forums but I am absolutely stumped by this one. After unsuccessfully trying to flash a few roms, I decided to restore my phone back to what it was because I backed it up only a few hours before. All it would load is a black screen with the status bar showing the time and no signal, sometimes allowing me to slide to unlock to my saved launcher with still a black background. Not only would it never get reception, it would reboot within two minutes. This cycled until the battery would die. I ended up deleting everything on the device itself in attempt to fix something, not thinking I would delete my back ups and then my ability to ever get my phone past bootloader or recovery. I can still do fastboot commands and change the recovery, but besides that, it's a brick. Any kind of help would mean the world, thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317989
[HOW TO] ADB Sideload/Push if you Wipe Internal Storage And have no ROM to Flash
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Im geussing you dont have any other phone to download a rom to an sd card and put it in ur phone?
It would beat having to go thru all the adb setup if your not familiar with adb .
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It's not a brick until nothing lights up our charges. And since there is no sd slot, that's out. You have access to recovery, you're fine. Download a stable Rom and just like fastboot, do an adb push of the Rom like suggested above. Wipe data, caches, and format system before flashing. No worries. All its not lost.
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It's not a brick until nothing lights up our charges. And since there is no sd slot, that's out. You have access to recovery, you're fine. Download a stable Rom and just like fastboot, do an adb push of the Rom like suggested above. Wipe data, caches, and format system before flashing. No worries. All its not lost.
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What ??? No sd card slot ? Thats insane.
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What ??? No sd card slot ? Thats insane.
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Wild times were living in.
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Use the tool here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40341536 makes everything easy download a Rom and then click sideload Rom. You may have to click install HTC drivers first.
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I smell a couple Trolls in here
No trolling on my end. Just trying to help a guy out. Maybe I'm missing the joke.
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No trolling on my end. Just trying to help a guy out. Maybe I'm missing the joke.
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Likely he's referring to the "Sent from my Samsung" guy aghast at the lack of an SD card slot.
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No trolling on my end. Just trying to help a guy out. Maybe I'm missing the joke.
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The Troll is the AT&T guy who think's he's being cute trying to tell the OP to put it on an SD card.
Yeah I see that now. Wasn't firing on all cylinders last night.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317989
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Any of those adb commands results only with "error: device not found"
This may not be a fix for HTC phones, but on Samsung devices, I've had to uninstall and reinstall drivers several times. Do and uninstall, run a registry cleaner, reboot pc, reinstall drivers, reboot, and try adb again. I used to do that every so often with my Samsung devices that wouldn't be properly detected by my pc. It usually fixed my problem.
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This may not be a fix for HTC phones, but on Samsung devices, I've had to uninstall and reinstall drivers several times. Do and uninstall, run a registry cleaner, reboot pc, reinstall drivers, reboot, and try adb again. I used to do that every so often with my Samsung devices that wouldn't be properly detected by my pc. It usually fixed my problem.
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How would I get around to doing this on a Mac? It's all I got.
Sorry, I'm not a Mac guy. I couldn't tell you. Can you poach some time on pc at work or a friend's? You may also be able to boot a Linux live disc on your Mac and work from there. Takes some effort, but may help.
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How would I get around to doing this on a Mac? It's all I got.
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No offense meant, but that information really needs to be in the first post. It could have made things significantly easier. We also really need to know what ROMs you were trying, because the problems you'r edescribing vaguely sound like you've flashed a GSM ROM somewhere along the line by accident, in which case you will need to RUU (and most of the guides are unfortunately pretty Windows-centric).
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No offense meant, but that information really needs to be in the first post. It could have made things significantly easier. We also really need to know what ROMs you were trying, because the problems you'r edescribing vaguely sound like you've flashed a GSM ROM somewhere along the line by accident, in which case you will need to RUU (and most of the guides are unfortunately pretty Windows-centric).
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No offense taken. Unfortunately, a Mac is all I'm able to use at the moment. I'm trying to run CleanRom from the sprint htc one development section of this site, so I'm fairly certain it should work. My main problem right now is that using adb commands my phone is not recognized. Using fastboot, though, works absolutely fine to do whatever I need and recognizes my device. I've tried using twrp and clockworkmod recovery touch to sideload any zip file and just won't work. All it says after trying that is "failed to open driver control: no such file or directory".
Please do tell me if any other information would help you help me faster. I don't frequent forums so I'd imagine I'm quite frustrating to work with.
Anybody have any idea?
Is there away I can root this phone without having to factory reset it? I was kinda spoiled by Odin when I was with the galaxy line. Just one click flash and done. I was hoping HTC had something similar but I haven't found it yet.
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Nope.
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Is there away I can root this phone without having to factory reset it? I was kinda spoiled by Odin when I was with the galaxy line. Just one click flash and done. I was hoping HTC had something similar but I haven't found it yet.
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in order to root it, you have to start by unlocking your bootloader through htcdev. this wipes your phone, there's no way I know to get around it.
you could back up all your stuff first. Helium (carbon) is the only app I know of that can backup your app+data, sms, etc without root:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
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in order to root it, you have to start by unlocking your bootloader through htcdev. this wipes your phone, there's no way I know to get around it.
you could back up all your stuff first. Helium (carbon) is the only app I know of that can backup your app+data, sms, etc without root:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
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Thanks man. I'm going check that app out now.
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HTC Backup also does a surprisingly good job of backing everything up and restoring it after a reset.
I second the HTC Backup. Link it to Drive or Dropbox and let it do a full backup. When you are setting up the phone again, log back into HTC Backup and choose to restore a previous backup. It will re-install 98% of your apps and will restore lots of settings like wifi routers that you've saved and even restore your Sense homescreen, including widgets.