Hi guys im new to the HTC community,
I already unlocked my bootloader S-ON
I made a back up of my stock Rom prior from flashing a GPE ROM
I flashed the boot.img then flashed the gpe rom its great
But what if i wanted to go back to my stock pure sense backup? Do i need to flash the original backup's boot.img for it to restore?
Lastly, what if i want to try ARHD, do i need to flash its boot.img? I read the installation procedure but i was wondering why does the GPE need to flash thru fastboot its boot.img
Then in ARHD its says just flash it in recovery?
Sorry for the longpost thanks!
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whisper13 said:
Hi guys im new to the HTC community,
I already unlocked my bootloader S-ON
I made a back up of my stock Rom prior from flashing a GPE ROM
I flashed the boot.img then flashed the gpe rom its great
But what if i wanted to go back to my stock pure sense backup? Do i need to flash the original backup's boot.img for it to restore?
Lastly, what if i want to try ARHD, do i need to flash its boot.img? I read the installation procedure but i was wondering why does the GPE need to flash thru fastboot its boot.img
Then in ARHD its says just flash it in recovery?
Sorry for the longpost thanks!
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I have had my One M7 for 2 years and have never flashed a boot.img along with a rom
restoring a Nandroid restores the boot.img and flashing ARHD or any custom rom flashes the boot.img for you.
You need to focus on getting the phone s-off if you want to mess with GPe and Lollisense roms
unlike older htc phones, you don't need to flash boot.img after flashing a rom. When flashing a rom, boot.img is flashed at the same time. You had to that on older htc phone because boot.img wasn't accessible from recovery, now with the M7, boot.img can be flashed from recovery so its already included in every rom. So no need to flash boot.img unless you want a different kernel than what comes with the rom you want to flash.
Thx guys! Made my mind clearer
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I'm trying to figure out how to return to stock, if I ever wanted to... I'm on 3 Network, UK (H3G)
I'm relatively new to Android, never used an RUU. I can't seem to find the correct RUU for my network anywhere. I have a Nandroid backup for 3 UK (1.28.771.x) from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207874 but it doesn't contain the stock recovery - it has CWM
Anyone know where I can find a stock recovery.img and if I can just flashing the stock recovery.img once I restore the nandroid?
I don't really understand the concept of the page above regarding RUU, OTA's, etc. so any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks
I'm going to bump this, sorry!
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Look inside the nandroid backup folder, is there a recovery.img in there? If so you can just flash that in bootloader by using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and you'll be back to stock.
If the image isn't in the nandroid, then ask around..see if anyone can provide you with a recovery image of your RUU.
Infact I think all stock recoveries might be the same..so just download it from the sticky and try
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But didn't he just say that the recovery inside that Nandroid Backup is CWM rather than the stock one? Flashing the recovery.img by using fastboot will just flash CWM for him.
Listen, mate, I'd download any 1.28 RUU and extract the stock recovery.img from it and then flash it in fastboot. How would you extract it from the RUU? Well, that's done by following this tutorial: https://sites.google.com/site/androidbyyorzua/home/tutorials/extracting-rom-files-from-htc-ruu
You'll end up with a rom.zip which has recovery.img, boot.img, and everything else inside it.
I am not sure if that's going to work, but I don't think recovery differs from CID or carrier to another, it's just the same stock recovery (especially since they're both 1.28).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158763
Searching is KEY
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Hi, i have been looking for a solution to flash the OTA "4.2.2". I have downloaded it but i can't flash it. What do i need too do to flash the OTA ?
Please respond!!:crying:
You don't.
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You don't.
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Why ?
If I'm not wrong, you have to restore original recovery, 5 missing apps (they were lost during htcdev bootloader unlock procedure) and execute fastboot OEM lock.
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You want to install OTA then you have to install a stock ROM with the same base for that region. You can't just flash an OTA zip even when your CID is the same. You need the right CID, MID and stock ROM to flash that specific OTA.
Where can I downloaded latest OTA?
Did you make nandroid backup before you flash cwm first time? If you have it, then extract original recovery from nandroid, restore everything using cwm, then flash original recovery and do fastboot OEM lock.
Don't forget to install 5 missing apps.
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Hello all, I have a Verizon m7 in which I foolishly tried to install a custom kernel (ElementalX) on the stock rom. I can boot into CWM, so should I use the sideload utility to flash a rom like Cyanogenmod? I'd appreciate any help you may have. If you want, I can post other details about my phone as well.
afang said:
Hello all, I have a Verizon m7 in which I foolishly tried to install a custom kernel (ElementalX) on the stock rom. I can boot into CWM, so should I use the sideload utility to flash a rom like Cyanogenmod? I'd appreciate any help you may have. If you want, I can post other details about my phone as well.
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you can just reflash the stock kernel... extract it from the ROM.ZIP which is Verizon compatible, and:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Hello guys, I need an help! I have reinstalled a 4.4.2 stock ROM on my phone, because I had some problems with ARHD 53.0, and decided to return stock waiting for 63.0. Anyways, I am curious about a thing. I have TWRP 2.6.3.3 installed on my phone, last firmware (4.19.401.11), stock kernel, rooted, last hboot, no fastboot option activated and, when I try to flash the stock recovery of 4.19.401.11, it always fails; it doesnt open but shows the warning red sign screen. Instead, I can install TWRP recovery without any problems. What is the reason for this? I always erase cache from fastboot before and after recovery flashing. thanks to everyone!
diego9416 said:
Hello guys, I need an help! I have reinstalled a 4.4.2 stock ROM on my phone, because I had some problems with ARHD 53.0, and decided to return stock waiting for 63.0. Anyways, I am curious about a thing. I have TWRP 2.6.3.3 installed on my phone, last firmware (4.19.401.11), stock kernel, rooted, last hboot, no fastboot option activated and, when I try to flash the stock recovery of 4.19.401.11, it always fails; it doesnt open but shows the warning red sign screen. Instead, I can install TWRP recovery without any problems. What is the reason for this? I always erase cache from fastboot before and after recovery flashing. thanks to everyone!
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The red warning triangle is stock
mb_guy said:
The red warning triangle is stock
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So the normal HTC stock recovery cant be used for flashing, etc? just for the OTA? Was just curious about, dont want to keep stock recovery but wondered about it
You need a custom recovery to flash any roms. Stock recovery is for OTA's. If you aren't worried about them I'd leave the custom recovery on
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You need a custom recovery to flash any roms. Stock recovery is for OTA's. If you aren't worried about them I'd leave the custom recovery on
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Perfect, was just curious to know about stock recovery functions thank you all
diego9416 said:
Hello guys, I need an help! I have reinstalled a 4.4.2 stock ROM on my phone, because I had some problems with ARHD 53.0, and decided to return stock waiting for 63.0. Anyways, I am curious about a thing. I have TWRP 2.6.3.3 installed on my phone, last firmware (4.19.401.11), stock kernel, rooted, last hboot, no fastboot option activated and, when I try to flash the stock recovery of 4.19.401.11, it always fails; it doesnt open but shows the warning red sign screen. Instead, I can install TWRP recovery without any problems. What is the reason for this? I always erase cache from fastboot before and after recovery flashing. thanks to everyone!
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i also need 4.19.401.11 stock recovery but can not find it. can you share it with me? its important, i have no recovery now and i must install sense 6 update
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i also need 4.19.401.11 stock recovery but can not find it. can you share it with me? its important, i have no recovery now and i must install sense 6 update
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You always have a recovery.. that would be ODD to not have one.. Here is it http://d-h.st/Igg Thanks to @Guich
so.. simple question but I'm not sure of the answer..
I unlocked my boot loader and flashed my HTC with cyanogenmod and the relevant boot.img that came with it. now I've reinstalled back to android revolution and the sense os to be able to properly back up my contacts and photos without requiring HTC sync manager...however when I went back to android revolution Rom.. I didn't 're flash my boot.img..
when is it actually necessary to flash a new boot.img when changing roms?
also.. could anyone clarify for me... I'm currently s-on so boot.img can only be flashed through fastboot correct?
and if I was s-off.. when I install a custom rom it'll auto install the boot.img yes?
thanks
Owen
bidaum92 said:
so.. simple question but I'm not sure of the answer..
I unlocked my boot loader and flashed my HTC with cyanogenmod and the relevant boot.img that came with it. now I've reinstalled back to android revolution and the sense os to be able to properly back up my contacts and photos without requiring HTC sync manager...however when I went back to android revolution Rom.. I didn't 're flash my boot.img..
when is it actually necessary to flash a new boot.img when changing roms?
also.. could anyone clarify for me... I'm currently s-on so boot.img can only be flashed through fastboot correct?
and if I was s-off.. when I install a custom rom it'll auto install the boot.img yes?
thanks
Owen
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/boot isn't protected on the M7 so you don't have to flash the boot.img after flashing a rom, its flashed at the same time the rom is flashed from recovery. Won't hurt if you flash it again but its not necessary. If you want to manually flash the boot.img you can do it from fastboot or from twrp recovery. There is an option from twrp to flash .img files to your /boot or /recovery partitions. So yes you can flash boot and recovery from recovery. In both cases, S-OFF isn't required, unlike other HTC phones.