Ive been at this for several days now, trying to flash TWRP and a custom rom on here. I was told to download the latest firmware first, but I need to get back to stock. I've purchased Sunshine S-Off and ran it, my S is off now. But When I ran the RUU it failed partway and told me to download the correct RUU tool. I honestly have no idea what I'm doing anymore and could really use some help.
Hit up OMJ's RUU thread in the development forum. Download the modified firmware for the Lollipop update. Place the file you download on the main directory of your external SD card. Make sure the file is named 0P6BIMG.zip. Reboot your phone to the bootloader, then select Hboot from the menu. Follow the on screen prompts to update your firmware. After the update completes reboot your phone and delete the firmware file from your SD card.
Make sure you download the correct modified firmware for your device, as there are two versions, one for the standard M8 & one for the HK version.
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Hi, I tried to update the system on my phone and when it did a reboot after updating and installing, it is freezing on the white/logo startup screen. how can i proceed...?
Remove the battery to turn the phone off, and when turning back on, hold down the power+volume up buttons. This will put your phone in hboot mode and allow you to reflash your ROM from there.
Good luck.
Sent from my Incredible S using xda premium
thanks. Yes i did make it to that step. now i need to flash the official rom for my model which is S710e, but i found so many links that i'm confused which one is the official...can i have some indication...
thanks in advance
If you flashed a custom rom and it is stuck in white screen with logo, your boot partition is messed up. But no worries you can fix it.
Extract the boot.img file out of your custom rom (zip-file).
download the SDK files
put the boot.img in the same folder as the files
Boot phone in fast boot
connect phone through usb with a computer
open command prompt on the pc an go to folder
use command fastboot flash boot boot.img
wait 2 secs
reboot
whole proces takes maybe 10 min, very easy to do.
no i did not flash a custom rom. i just did a system update which was prompted to me on the phone itself; when i did this it got stuck on reboot. then i did a factory reset but it was in vain.
at this point what i want is to have my phone back as it was in the beginning...so I wish to know how i can flash a stock rom so that it will become like brand new. thanks.
atlam83 said:
... I wish to know how i can flash a stock rom so that it will become like brand new. thanks.
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First, you have to know what your mainver is:
Boot into fastboot, open a cmd window in windows and type this:
Code:
fastboot getvar mainver
This will give you your mainver (e.g. 2.12.708.4)
And go here: http://www.filefactory.com/f/e45d6fe3dcf51228/
You'll find shipped rom list. The filenames are in format like this: RUU_[name][mainver][radio_version]_signed.exe You must select ones with WWE prefixes (for multi-language support) and higher mainvers than yours! For example, if your mainver is 2.12.708.4, then you can select RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_Sasktel_Canada_WWE_2.33.669.2_Radio_20.2810.30.085AU_3805.06.03.16_M_release_203211_signed (this one's mainver is 2.33.669.2) in the shipped rom list.
Once you've downloaded, you'll face another problem: Flashing.
Flashing is not a real problem but needs some trickies.
The question: Have you rooted your phone?
If yes, this thread is your flashlight to enlighten your way..
If no, you have to obtain a goldcard. A goldcard is a special microSD which prevents the phone to check cid (Customer ID) while trying to flash an original rom. If you haven't created a goldcard yet and cannot boot your phone properly, find another Android based phone and insert your microSD card into it. Then read this thread to create your gold card. Once you've created your goldcard, then it's so easy for you to flash your original rom. Follow the steps in the link above (explaining how to flash).
hth.
-R
i downloaded and flashed a stock rom on my phone by placing the PG32IMG.zip file in my sd card . the update was completed successfully however the phone still got stuck in the htc startup screen. any ideas what the problem might be?
I haven't tried the goldcard yet however.
atlam83 said:
i downloaded and flashed a stock rom on my phone by placing the PG32IMG.zip file in my sd card . the update was completed successfully however the phone still got stuck in the htc startup screen. any ideas what the problem might be?
I haven't tried the goldcard yet however.
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Did you previously use Revolutionary to gain S-Off on your phone. If so by trying to install the OTA update, you now have a HBOOT ROM mismatch. The OTA update requires that the HTC HBOOT 2.00.0000 be installed, but the Revolutionary S-Off HBOOT prevented the OTA from overwriting the hboot, thus creating the situation you are in.
Follow steps 1 - 2c on this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15732727&postcount=14
The find the OTA file on your SD card and extract the file firmware.zip.
Copy this to the root of your SD card and rename it PG32IMG.zip and then reboot into bootloader and it should reflash the correct HBOOT and you should be good to go.
Thanks very much tpbklake, I managed to solve my issue following the thread you indicated. its been 3 weeks since last i used my mobile. Send it to various ppl including HTC (which did not want to fix my mobile) and no one fixed it. have tried that thread and now its fine working again )
HTC freezing on thie logo startup screen
Hi
Im new here I had read the all similar threads that the forum found but no one could help me to solve my problem.
Im using Android 2.3.3 and
Sense 2.1,
HBOOT : 6.13.1002
My baseband version is 3822.10.08.28_M
I recived an OTA update with Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3.0 and I proceeded with it, everything goes well until the phone restarts and stay freeze in the green HTC logo. Nothing else happens.
plz give me a link for the official ROM for Incredible S 710e.I tried the links but it didnt work for me...
hope someone could help me.. :'(
Aniok said:
Hi
Im new here I had read the all similar threads that the forum found but no one could help me to solve my problem.
Im using Android 2.3.3 and
Sense 2.1,
HBOOT : 6.13.1002
My baseband version is 3822.10.08.28_M
I recived an OTA update with Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3.0 and I proceeded with it, everything goes well until the phone restarts and stay freeze in the green HTC logo. Nothing else happens.
plz give me a link for the official ROM for Incredible S 710e.I tried the links but it didnt work for me...
hope someone could help me.. :'(
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All you need to do is go to the Development section and upgrade from Revolutionary HBOOT 6.13.1002 to BlackRose 2.02.0002. That will allow your phone to boot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509236
Thanx
..
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Hi!
I have had some serious issues with my USB-port and am looking to send the phone back for warranty. Since the problem is the USB isn't working that well I have some issues regarding unrooting..
I found my RUU and extracted the rom.zip which I renamed to PG32IMG.zip and placed on my phone. Fastboot foudn it and started flashing and everything. But I've read that since I can't upgrade Hboot (I used Revolutionary to gain S-off) the phone won't start.
My question is: What should I do to get that working? The only thing I can do as far as I can see, is placing files on the SD-card named for auto-flashing in fastboot..
Any advice? Am I screwed? Profit?
BloomTwig said:
Hi!
I have had some serious issues with my USB-port and am looking to send the phone back for warranty. Since the problem is the USB isn't working that well I have some issues regarding unrooting..
I found my RUU and extracted the rom.zip which I renamed to PG32IMG.zip and placed on my phone. Fastboot foudn it and started flashing and everything. But I've read that since I can't upgrade Hboot (I used Revolutionary to gain S-off) the phone won't start.
My question is: What should I do to get that working? The only thing I can do as far as I can see, is placing files on the SD-card named for auto-flashing in fastboot..
Any advice? Am I screwed? Profit?
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Which RUU did you use? Is there a comparable Android 2.3.3/Sense 2.1 that you could use instead?
Ok, I can't help meddling in this. I have managed to re-flash CWR and restore my old backup of my old 2.3.3/2.1 stock rom. I have also gotten the ADB set-up and if only I could get that rom.zip file from my RUU I will flash stock HBoot..
I used RUU_VIVO_SENSE30_S_HTC_WWE_3.08.405.3_Radio_20.4802.30.0822U_3822.10.08.28_M_release_227170_signed since that was the one that my phone tried to download and install by it self. But when I run it, and enter my temp folder to get the rom.zip it isn't there (only an older version that isn't posible to open..)
advice?
EDIT: would this work instead? RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.30.405.1_Radio_20.2808.30.085AU_3805.06.03.03_M_release_199308_signed
BloomTwig said:
Ok, I can't help meddling in this. I have managed to re-flash CWR and restore my old backup of my old 2.3.3/2.1 stock rom. I have also gotten the ADB set-up and if only I could get that rom.zip file from my RUU I will flash stock HBoot..
I used RUU_VIVO_SENSE30_S_HTC_WWE_3.08.405.3_Radio_20.4802.30.0822U_3822.10.08.28_M_release_227170_signed since that was the one that my phone tried to download and install by it self. But when I run it, and enter my temp folder to get the rom.zip it isn't there (only an older version that isn't posible to open..)
advice?
EDIT: would this work instead? RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.30.405.1_Radio_20.2808.30.085AU_3805.06.03.03_M_release_199308_signed
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Copy the rom.zip file out of your temp dir and then open it with a 3rd party zip program (not default windows zip program)
The ruu in your edit will not have boot 2.0 although I'm not understnding why you don't just run the sense 3 ruu, after using the downgrade method in the s-on thread.
Yeah, that was the problem. Was trying to open the zip-files with windows zip-program. with that I also realized that using the first RUU would be better... I have, however, some trouble getting the downgrade thingie to work. It asks for root, it asks for gold card and it reboots in to recovery. But when it's at "checking version - main" it just gets stuck at "waiting for device"..
EDIT: sorry, I completly missed the fact that I need to create a gold card... sorryf or being a noob... will get back soon..
Communication breakdown. I was referring to the revert to s-on thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359555
Hi there...
I am running a stock ROM software number 1.29.708.4, Android version 4.1.2
I have successfully rooted my HTC ONE to use some Superuser features but never installed an alternative ROM. Now the OTA update 4.2.2 is coming in, which I would like to install. I learned that I cannot install OTA updates on an unlocked phone,so I tried following this guide here to re-lock the phone and then flash it again to install the OTA.
So my first question: Isn't it easier to simply flash the target version of the OTA? Is there a way to get to the 400MB large update and install it with the current bootloader/recovery? The software update that is being downloaded is version 2.24.708.4
So according to the instruction linked above, I installed fastboot, HTC Sync and relocked the bootloader successfully. Then I downloaded the RUU EXE file here and tried to start it while the phone was in the USB fastboot, but the RUU starts and then silently dies without ever showing any activity. I assume this is not normal, but I do not know what and how to change there.
The other thing that makes me think is I read that I need to "Flash a stock recovery". Is that the same as flashing a 1GB large RUU? Or is there a simpler way to just flash the recovery software? If so, where do I get that?
Hello,
About a week ago, i tried to flash a custom recovery to my dads Incredible S. Everything went well untill the next step: Downgrading the HBOOT to 1.13.0.x.x.x
I followed the steps to do this. Relocked the bootloader again (this was nessecary to make sure the ruu from the HTC rom could be installed) After I processed the update, it went stuck while downgrading. And now the phone wont start up I still can acces the phone via the recovery with a downgraded HBOOT. However, fastboot is not reconized anymore.
Is there a way that this phone could be alive again? I read on the forums that you can extra a P89IMG.zip from a ruu ? Is it possible to extra the files and put the files on a SD card so the Bootloader reconpized the files after you changed the names of them?
Regards,
Elroy
Possible said:
Hello,
About a week ago, i tried to flash a custom recovery to my dads Incredible S. Everything went well untill the next step: Downgrading the HBOOT to 1.13.0.x.x.x
I followed the steps to do this. Relocked the bootloader again (this was nessecary to make sure the ruu from the HTC rom could be installed) After I processed the update, it went stuck while downgrading. And now the phone wont start up I still can acces the phone via the recovery with a downgraded HBOOT. However, fastboot is not reconized anymore.
Is there a way that this phone could be alive again? I read on the forums that you can extra a P89IMG.zip from a ruu ? Is it possible to extra the files and put the files on a SD card so the Bootloader reconpized the files after you changed the names of them?
Regards,
Elroy
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Well, 1st of all, HERE!! is the development section so you have to ask general questions in general forum
Then, Yes you can extract the zip file of an RUU. Just run the RUU app and after it took some time to launch then use search to find a file called ROM.ZIP in the drive you've installed your windows on. Then rename it to PG32IMG and place it in the root of your SD-card, Though be careful cause I'm not sure what has happened to your device. I just told you how to install an RUU without a PC...
Please do not post questions in the dev sections.
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Hi,
I have been using Cyanogenmod, pretty much since I got my phone. I am tired of the non-working stuff and bugs in it and want to go back to stock, but I have no idea how to go about it. I used the CM auto installer method and I have no backup of my original system. TBH I want to flash ViperOne now, but they require the latest firmware, but mine is very old (I think it was 1.x). I have really no idea where to start and how to go about upgrading the firmware. I was not able to get S-Off .
About 2 weeks ago I downloaded a RUU package from a site looking like an official HTC one, but have no idea what can be the damages of running it. It is just a 1.5G .exe.
My questions are:
What will happen if the RUU is not for my CID and MID?
If I just run this RUU, is there any chance to brick my phone (I am still S-On)?
Will this update my firmware version?
If the process is successful, will I be able to flash ViperOne without S-Off then?
I also found this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2428276, but have no idea what to download. My phone is unlocked from Hong Kong, but I am using it in Europe (if that information is even necessary).
Any help and pointers are welcome.
Thank you!
Update: After hopping from link to link here, I now cannot see a problem to download the latest RUU .zip for any region, edit the android-info.txt so that it matches my CID and MID numbers and flash it on my device. I read that I do not need S-Off if my firmware version is lower that the one in the RUU. Will this work? Will I have OTA that way?
Thanks