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Not able to get ROM manager to flash Clockwork for recovery. It shows successful but then when I reboot to recovery, it shows this image of red triangle over a cellphone, probably meaning recovery does not function.
Any ideas? I already have S-OFF done...
BriEE said:
Not able to get ROM manager to flash Clockwork for recovery. It shows successful but then when I reboot to recovery, it shows this image of red triangle over a cellphone, probably meaning recovery does not function.
Any ideas? I already have S-OFF done...
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This is how I got it to work:
Step 1 - run Visionary R12 to get perm root.
Step 2 - Push the files from page 1 to phone via adb
./adb push [path to file]/wpthis-Z.ko /data/local/wpthis-Z.ko
./adb push [path to file]/hboot_7230_0.84.2000_100908.nb0 /data/local/hboot-eng.img
(as you can see above, I renamed the HBOOT file on the phone just to be consistent)
note: I'm not sure if you HAVE to put them in /data/local of if you can just run this from /sdcard - but I didn't want to experiment
Run the commands below as root via adb shell or from a terminal on your phone.
Step 3 -
insmod /data/local/wpthis-Z.ko
Step 4 -
dd if=/data/local/hboot-eng.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
Step 5 -
sync
Step 6 - Wait two minutes and then run clockwork and try to install recovery - do not reboot your phone.
Worked for me. Good luck.
I already have S-OFF and perm root though, why do it again?
So you're saying the WP isn't perm and neither is S-OFF? Is our root perm even lol?
Just reflash clockwork from rom manager. Same thing happened to me.
foxfire235 said:
Just reflash clockwork from rom manager. Same thing happened to me.
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Same here, just reflash clockwork a second time and it should work.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
I had to flash CW twice as well. It seems successful after the first try but booting into recovery would show a black screen with a small phone icon.
codf4ther said:
I had to flash CW twice as well. It seems successful after the first try but booting into recovery would show a black screen with a small phone icon.
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Did you just flash it twice, or did you follow the complete instructions twice?
Hello!
I have a big problem.
I might have bricked the device however the things what i can do are the following:
- Boot into recovery (clockworkmod)
- start a usb data connection with a computer (clockworkmod)
- input of the ADB commands through terminal running in the computer
What i did?
Flashed the memory with a Cyanogenmod 6.3 according to official guideline:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_HD:_Full_Update_Guide
and took note and used most procedures from there actually:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2
Didn't do the engineering hboot.
Everything was working. I got cyanogenmod working.
Then after a while i tried to restore a backup which i had from original HTC configuration which was actually just before i did the cyanogenmod flash with clockworkmod.
So the backup was from the time i already unlocked the phone from locks and had root access.
So again the restore function worked and everything was back to normal.
How i managed to half brick the device?
Yesterday i wanted to put cyanogenmod back to my phone and then the s hit happened.
I admit that i didn't check whether the locks were off i just thought that these should have been off because backup soft was from time i had phone unlocked.
Anyway to cut the long story short - after flashing the memory with cyanogenmod with the help of rom manager the phone didn't boot anymore.
I tried all the options from clockworkmod flash and format and upgrade straight from sd card a new cyanogenmod but nothing worked. Again the white HTC screen and connection through a usb cable.
So probably i have the s-off and who knows what else.
I dont have a root access anymore as well because i already tried it through the terminal. It doesn't recognize the su command.
Question is, how can i put the cyanogenmod back on by only using clockworkmod recovery and working ADB connection through usb link?
Probably have to just get the locks off but the original instructions say i have to have terminal emulator running in phone but i only have clockworkmod recovery soft running at best.
S hit, again very long story, but hope someone can help me!
Cheers!
I had a similar problem yesterday, after flashing ClockwordkMod Recovery to version 3.0.0.5 (it said it had an update) and trying to reinstall CyanoGenmod 6.3 my phone would no longer boot, it got stuck in the white HTC Logo screen.
I'm not really an expert on this stuff, but I managed to "recover" my device by downgrading it again to 1.32.405.6 using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905003. First I had tried to recover a previously backed-up ROM, but that did not work.
I had to put the stock 1.32 PD98IMG.zip file on my SD card using ClockwordMod Recovery (since I could no longer boot), I'm not exactly sure which steps I took to do so, I have tried a lot of things yesterday before I got everything working again.
After this my phone could boot again and I was ready to play around again. I reinstalled CyanogenMod again using an older version of ClockwordMod Recovery. I'm not sure if this is related in any way, but my phone works smooth again..
Once again; I'm really not on expert on how all this stuffs works, I just hope that I can help you on the way with some ideas on how to fix your device.
So probably i have the s-off and who knows what else.
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I figured out wether my device was S-OFF and/or Eng S-OFF by entering "adb reboot bootloader" from cmd. At the top of the page for me it states:
ACE PVT ENG S-OFF
I believe it stated only SHIP S-OFF when I had the problems you describe.
Thanks man for quick reply!
I definitely try the downgrading solution and i remember i too did the update for clockworkmod rom manager before the flash.
I'll report back tomorrow.
Cheers!
couldn't boot up any roms earlier after upgrading clockworkmod recovery to v3... downgraded to 2.5.1.3 and worked fine
Hi Guys, I have exactly the same problem. It would be really great if you provide me the step by step process to downgrade clockworkmod recovery.
Cheers,
Pav
I'd like to say to you guys that the downgrading solution worked
Didn't have to use any programs inside phone except clocworkmod recovery which was the only thing i had running.
Thank you user jvdminne!
The downgrading solution was in official cyanogenmod guidelines as well but forgot it anyway.
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Pavanka!
The downgrading solution from the link is pretty step by step actually.
But anyway, with my half-broken phone the lines didnt do the trick:
Code:
adb push psneuter /data/local/tmp
adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/psneuter
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version
adb shell /data/local/tmp/psneuter
I had to copy psneuter and misc_version to /tmp folder not into /data/local/tmp.
But anyhow, i already had # root access through computer. Probably from last half flashed system.
So only thing i basically had to do was to cd in windows cmd into folder where i had psneuter and misc_version and after that:
Code:
adb push misc_version /tmp
adb shell chmod 777 /tmp/misc_version
adb shell
in the shell (adb shell):
Code:
cd /tmp
./misc_version -s 1.31.405.6
And after that follow the instructions from previous link.
To get the ADB functions working just follow the guide here or from previous link where it had adb program included, but not sure whether it was working cause i had it from Android SDK package already set.
Hope you got some sense out of it.
Cheers!
Hey
I had similar problems to those mentioned in the beginning with the cyanogen mod...
I installed cyanogen and the it got to the screen with the blue swirlyness and then just kept restarting. I decided to restore a backup and just got stuck on the white htc screen.
I decided to follow this post and now am stuck with this...
I just tried a couple of different things to no avail...
maxa1577 said:
Hey
I had similar problems to those mentioned in the beginning with the cyanogen mod...
I installed cyanogen and the it got to the screen with the blue swirlyness and then just kept restarting. I decided to restore a backup and just got stuck on the white htc screen.
I decided to follow this post and now am stuck with this...
I just tried a couple of different things to no avail...
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If you had ROOT , S-OFF etc you shouldn't need to go through all this rigmarole, if you can access recovery carry out a full wipe /system /cache /dalvik-cache and reflash your chosen ROM, should be all that's required
ghostofcain said:
If you had ROOT , S-OFF etc you shouldn't need to go through all this rigmarole, if you can access recovery carry out a full wipe /system /cache /dalvik-cache and reflash your chosen ROM, should be all that's required
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phew cheers for that. First time flashing and I thought I killed me poor desire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHrtVzlsA_s
i followed this guys video tutorial to rooting my device. so please confirm if its the 'ultimate rooting' method or watever cus im so confused ever since the original s=off forums been modded with the new gfree root/unroot method.
i used visionary and the terminal emulator plus that whole blue screen 'su' thingy to root.
how do i come about UNROOTING from using this guys rooting method????
help
msyang20 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHrtVzlsA_s
i followed this guys video tutorial to rooting my device. so please confirm if its the 'ultimate rooting' method or watever cus im so confused ever since the original s=off forums been modded with the new gfree root/unroot method.
i used visionary and the terminal emulator plus that whole blue screen 'su' thingy to root.
how do i come about UNROOTING from using this guys rooting method????
help
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I actually just unrooted my phone yesterday to send it in.
I used the same method and all you need is the PD15IMG file to unroot.
Save it to the root of your SD Card.
Power off your phone. Hold Volume Down + Power and let it install the file.
Done!
http://www.mediafire.com/?12oi5elu7v2y8og
Download it, the make sure you have superuser, vishionary and terminal installed.
In terminal:
1. Open up terminal editor on your device.(I prefer this method b/c you can see the output.)
a. Type "su" + enter to gain root privileges.
b. Type "cd /sdcard/unroot" + enter.
c. Type "sh unroot.sh" + enter.
Restart into recovery and make sure it says s=off, then restart and go into vishionary and click unroot. This is what I did. Took 2 minutes.
darksulfur5 said:
http://www.mediafire.com/?12oi5elu7v2y8og
Download it, the make sure you have superuser, vishionary and terminal installed.
In terminal:
1. Open up terminal editor on your device.(I prefer this method b/c you can see the output.)
a. Type "su" + enter to gain root privileges.
b. Type "cd /sdcard/unroot" + enter.
c. Type "sh unroot.sh" + enter.
Restart into recovery and make sure it says s=off, then restart and go into vishionary and click unroot. This is what I did. Took 2 minutes.
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Will this work if I rooted using gfree method? I did the unlocker unroot method but when I checked it still said s-off.
darksulfur5 said:
http://www.mediafire.com/?12oi5elu7v2y8og
Download it, the make sure you have superuser, vishionary and terminal installed.
In terminal:
1. Open up terminal editor on your device.(I prefer this method b/c you can see the output.)
a. Type "su" + enter to gain root privileges.
b. Type "cd /sdcard/unroot" + enter.
c. Type "sh unroot.sh" + enter.
Restart into recovery and make sure it says s=off, then restart and go into vishionary and click unroot. This is what I did. Took 2 minutes.
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el-jodio said:
Will this work if I rooted using gfree method? I did the unlocker unroot method but when I checked it still said s-off.
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Being that that file is only ~200kb, this will only work if you used the root.sh script, AND you NEED to be on a near stock MySense ROM..Now i will say there is one of those files floating around that contains a script to download and put the PD15IMG in the correct place reboot the phone into HBoot and flash the PD15IMG.
If you did the ./gfree method you have to reverse the ./gfree which can be found the the ultimate guide in the development section.
Here is a quick guide on how to unroot the latest RUU 5.07. It seems that quite a few people are having trouble unrooting their device or running an official RUU while being on the latest update, or a ROM based on the latest update.
The problem is that HTC has fixed the bootloader (in particular Hboot 2.18) so that it will reject any PC36IMG.zip official software or RUU files that update previous operating systems on the phone (a S-ON phone). You would usually need a RUU (I'm calling both the PC3IMG.zip file and the RUU file an RUU) that is for your current operating system. If your phone is on the latest 5.07 update or a ROM that is based on the 5.07 update, then latest RUU that exist is for the Evo with RUU Supersonic 4.67. 5.07 never came out, done intentionally by HTC I believe. So none of the RUUs which exist today will work with the 5.07 update. The problem exist because the phone's misc partition is updated whenever you accept an update or run a RUU from HTC, or even flash a ROM. There are other cases as well. The only way to run an official RUU on a phone that is not currently S-OFF is either to downgrade the phone's misc partition, or to turn the phone S-OFF (which you will still have to flash the phone's misc partition to do).
What I've done is put together a quick guide for those who need (or just insist) on unrooting their Evo. It is brief and only for a PC (not a Mac). Hopefully, someone in the future can provide further details or make it Mac friendly or even more user friendly because I don't have a Mac, nor the time to spend to make this guide perfect. I have another phone too to deal with. Remember too, that everything is done at your own risk. So if something goes wrong, well you knew the risks.
For this guide I'm going to assume that you are on Hboot 2.18, the phone is S-ON, the bootloader is unlocked (UNLOCKED), and that the phone's ROM is currently rooted. If not, then this is not the right guide for you.
1. Download this zip file. It contains the necessary files that you will need.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38127313/sdk.zip
2. Plug your phone into your computer. Then go to Settings/Applications and uncheck Fastboot. Then goto Development and make sure that USB debugging is now checked. If you have a custom ROM, then the locations of these settings may be slightly different.
If you need the HTC drivers, then I have also included the drivers.exe file that you must run from your computer to install the "MyHtc" drivers that you must have under the computer's device manager when the phone is plug in.
3. Next, unzip the file to a folder, preferably sdk. Rename the "PC36IMG_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.54.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.0808_NV_2.15_release_220182_signed" file to PC36IMG.zip (not PC36IMG.zip.zip). Place the phone into "Disk drive, then copy the PC36IMG.zip file to your sdcard. Afterwards, don't forget to change the phone back to "Charge only".
4. Next you will need to open a command prompt at the folder where you extracted the files. If you are not familiar or uncomfortable with adb commands, then I cannot help you here.
5. Type or copy the below commands exactly as they appear.
adb push flash_image /data/local <ENTER>
(This places the file on your phone in the /data/local directory).
adb push mtd-eng.img /data/local <ENTER>
(This places the file on your phone in the /data/local directory).
adb shell <ENTER>
(You should see either a dollar sign ($) or a pound sign (#) at your prompt, depending on your ROM. If you do not then something went wrong. And, No the phone will not brick if you should stop at this point).
su <ENTER>
(You might not need this command depending on your ROM, and also you should check to see if your phone is asking for superuser permissions. If everything went Ok, you should now see a pound (#) sign at your prompt. If you do not then something went wrong. And, No the phone will not brick if you should stop at this point).
cd /data/local <ENTER>
(You need to be in the directory where you put the flash_image and mtd-eng.img files).
chmod 755 flash_image <ENTER>
(flash_image needs to be assigned permissions).
./flash_image misc mtd-eng.img <ENTER>
(This is the most critical step here).
reboot bootloader <ENTER>
(I prefer this step, as it is much faster than pulling the battery and all that other stuff that people suggest).
The phone should now reboot directly into the bootloader. Also the phone will now be locked again (LOCKED OWW) regardless of its previous state. Next hit the power button. It will then take some time to read the PC36IMG.zip file. If everything went Ok, then it should ask you whether or not you want to accept the update, which means that your misc partition was successfully downgraded, and now you can successfully run the RUU.
EDIT: I have to re-upload the sdk.zip file, because the original one had a problem with the PC36IMG.zip file. It should be available shortly. The one I added does work this time; however, the phone may have to be updated in order to bring it back to the latest bootloader and update. It's not the latest RUU 4.67, but the second latest 4.54. I cannot believe that something was wrong with that file. Also, instead of the PC36IMG.zip file that I added, you could also use any other PC36IMG.zip file or a RUU.exe file from HTC. They should work as well. I would not recommend a RUU below Supersonic 3.70. I'm going to upload some of these as well when I get a chance. I have like all of them.
Re: How to unroot the latest RUU (5.07)
You should put "[GUIDE]" in the title, right now it seems like a question
Just a thought anyway.
Sent from my PG06100 using xda premium
CNexus said:
You should put "[GUIDE]" in the title, right now it seems like a question
Just a thought anyway.
Sent from my PG06100 using xda premium
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Thanks for the advice. I'm currently re-uploading the sdk.zip file. Something went wrong with the PC36IMG file. It should be available again in a little while.
I wonder if you can help me?
I have a problem with an Evo I got from someone, it mostly gets stuck in a bootloop but sometimes it actually boots all the way up. As your guide mentioned, I'm not able to RUU because its on the 5.0.7. I think the phone was rooted because it had a few .apk's that require root including su.apk. I did a factory reset while the phone was on a sprint account but it didn't fix the issue........ long story short, I noticed the bootlooping stopped when she got off the phone, so I figured the bootloop was caused by the data running through it or something. Today I turned the phone on and fooled around with it for about an hour before I decided to put it on my pageplus account because my verizon droid razr was stolen yesterday, as soon as I did the esn swap with the pageplus rep the phone started the bootlooping again. So I came across your post and luckily got the phone to boot up and began following your guide...... when i got to the "su" I didn't get "#" sign and permission was denied. I noticed the su.apk was not in the app draw so I downloaded it, I also installed root explorer to see if I get root access, no luck. Since then I can't get the Evo to boot up..... So finally my question, is it possible to execute your guide in fastboot or is there a way to push su through fastboot via adb?
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6foot5nbad said:
I have a problem with an Evo I got from someone, it mostly gets stuck in a bootloop but sometimes it actually boots all the way up. As your guide mentioned, I'm not able to RUU because its on the 5.0.7. I think the phone was rooted because it had a few .apk's that require root including su.apk. I did a factory reset while the phone was on a sprint account but it didn't fix the issue........ long story short, I noticed the bootlooping stopped when she got off the phone, so I figured the bootloop was caused by the data running through it or something. Today I turned the phone on and fooled around with it for about an hour before I decided to put it on my pageplus account because my verizon droid razr was stolen yesterday, as soon as I did the esn swap with the pageplus rep the phone started the bootlooping again. So I came across your post and luckily got the phone to boot up and began following your guide...... when i got to the "su" I didn't get "#" sign and permission was denied. I noticed the su.apk was not in the app draw so I downloaded it, I also installed root explorer to see if I get root access, no luck. Since then I can't get the Evo to boot up..... So finally my question, is it possible to execute your guide in fastboot or is there a way to push su through fastboot via adb?
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BTW, Bootloader is still unlocked
If bootloader is unlocked, flash a recovery through fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash recovery path/to/RECOVERY_NAME_HERE
Most likely RECOVERY_NAME will end with ".img" so the command would be like this:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery-evo.img
After that, search google for a "zip" file named "su-signed-efghi.zip", look for a hit on goo.im (search "evo 4g su-signed-efghi.zip") and download and place it on your sdcard
Boot into recovery (VolDown + Power, then user volume keys to navigate and power key to select recovery)
Then choose "flash zip" and locate the "su-signed-efghi.zip" file and flash it
You should now have the su binary installed in the correct place
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CNexus said:
If bootloader is unlocked, flash a recovery through fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash recovery path/to/RECOVERY_NAME_HERE
Most likely RECOVERY_NAME will end with ".img" so the command would be like this:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery / path/to/recovery-evo.img
After that, search google for a "zip" file named "su-signed-efghi.zip", look for a hit on goo.im (search "evo 4g su-signed-efghi.zip") and download and place it on your sdcard
Boot into recovery (VolDown + Power, then user volume keys to navigate and power key to select recovery)
Then choose "flash zip" and locate the "su-signed-efghi.zip" file and flash it
You should now have the su binary installed in the correct place
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Thanks for your quick response. Been trying that but its been going into a bootloop after I select recovery from hboot. Can't boot into recovery at all I was thinking about using adb to flash a stock recovery but all the recovery.img's i come across.... seem to be for an older hboot and/or system. Also I don't want to attempt anything that will make things worse. I've rooted dozens of Evo's on hboot 2.18 and I have a good Idea of how adb works. I'm wondering if that if I can manage to get S-Off will the phone be able to take an RUU then? or is there anyway to push a older flash_image to trick RUU into updating? I guess the question I should ask is what would you do if your evo would barely boot normally and couldn't get into recovery? the only thing that does work consistently is Hboot and I can't launch recovery through adb nor hboot.
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6foot5nbad said:
Thanks for your quick response. Been trying that but its been going into a bootloop after I select recovery from hboot. Can't boot into recovery at all I was thinking about using adb to flash a stock recovery but all the recovery.img's i come across.... seem to be for an older hboot and/or system. Also I don't want to attempt anything that will make things worse. I've rooted dozens of Evo's on hboot 2.18 and I have a good Idea of how adb works. I'm wondering if that if I can manage to get S-Off will the phone be able to take an RUU then? or is there anyway to push a older flash_image to trick RUU into updating? I guess the question I should ask is what would you do if your evo would barely boot normally and couldn't get into recovery? the only thing that does work consistently is Hboot and I can't launch recovery through adb nor hboot.
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I found and exploit on TacoRoot that will get me temp root access without booting into recovery as long as I had an recovery log in /data/data/recovery/log (stock preferably). So I would greatly appreciate if someone can post the file here. I want to attempt to use the exploit to get temp root access then use this guide to get to the point where i can use an RUU.
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6foot5nbad said:
I found and exploit on TacoRoot that will get me temp root access without booting into recovery as long as I had an recovery log in /data/data/recovery/log (stock preferably). So I would greatly appreciate if someone can post the file here. I want to attempt to use the exploit to get temp root access then use this guide to get to the point where i can use an RUU.
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Also, I would need help on how to push the recovery log file to /data/data/recovery/log if possible or would it simply be adb push log /data/data/recovery/ ?
An RUU would only work if you had a lower or equal version on your phone than the RUU
As for your actual issue....you cant use adb while its in the bootloader, phone has to be fully booted if you want to do anything with adb
The only thing you can do while in hboot is to use fastboot
Try running:
Code:
fastboot reboot recovery
And see if that gets you into recovery
Sent from my PG06100
CNexus said:
An RUU would only work if you had a lower or equal version on your phone than the RUU
As for your actual issue....you cant use adb while its in the bootloader, phone has to be fully booted if you want to do anything with adb
The only thing you can do while in hboot is to use fastboot
Try running:
Code:
fastboot reboot recovery
And see if that gets you into recovery
Sent from my PG06100
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Yes, I've tried -fastboot reboot recovery- in fastboot, just goes into a boot loop....... I did get the phone to stay booted overnight, I think as long as the battery is fully charged it stays on, and I can use adb now. The main issue now is that I can't boot into recovery therefore, like I mentioned it just goes into a bootloop and the battery discharges if I let the phone bootloop while trying to boot into recovery. Also, I noticed that the phone won't boot normally unless I have a full charge (Green Light). I think I just need the recovery log file, my thinking is if I can put the log file in the the correct location I can trick the phone into thinking it booted into recovery. If I can get temp root access then I use this guide to relock the bootloader and be able to use an RUU. Do you think that's possible?
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6foot5nbad said:
Yes, I've tried -fastboot reboot recovery- in fastboot, just goes into a boot loop....... I did get the phone to stay booted overnight, I think as long as the battery is fully charged it stays on, and I can use adb now. The main issue now is that I can't boot into recovery therefore, like I mentioned it just goes into a bootloop and the battery discharges if I let the phone bootloop while trying to boot into recovery. Also, I noticed that the phone won't boot normally unless I have a full charge (Green Light). I think I just need the recovery log file, my thinking is if I can put the log file in the the correct location I can trick the phone into thinking it booted into recovery. If I can get temp root access then I use this guide to relock the bootloader and be able to use an RUU. Do you think that's possible?
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I forgot to mention, the TacoRoot Exploit requires the recovery log file (http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13713-tacoroot-htc-universal-root-exploit-12-30-2011/) to be in /data/data/recovery/ directory, so it requires a user to boot into recovery to create the log file, and I can't boot into recovery.... so my idea is to push the recovery log file to /data/data/recovery/log cause thats where the exploit is looking for the log file. I'm hoping that will prevent me from having to boot into recovery which is where I'm getting stuck on the tacoroot exploit. With shortydoggs guide, I'm getting stuck at the "su" command cause the evo (for some reason) isn't rooted anymore. So my plan is to get me temp root with TacoRoot so I can get "#" and continue with shortydoggs guide. Not sure if that's possible but at this point its my only option since I can't get into recovery to flash su.zip nor can I RUU cause I'm on 5.0.7 which has no RUU.
I can give you the file, but it's hard to get it to work without that recovery. You have to extract out of the zip file and then push it to the /data/data/recovery directory. I tried it myself and I can adb push it, but when doing the tacoroot --root, I get an error "/data/local/tacoroot.sh: cannot create /data/local.prop: permission denied".
EDIT: I uploaded the two files that you need. You need to unzip the two files. Then push the log file to the /data/data/recovery directory, and the local.prop file to the /data/ directory. Getting them there will be up to you, as I'm not the most Linux educated person out there. I'm only able to push the files because my phone is already rooted. Hopefully you figure it out or someone more familiar with Linux (adb) commands can help you. Then, the "adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.sh --root" command is a breeze.
Code:
adb push tacoroot.sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh
adb shell chmod /data/local/tacoroot.sh
adb shell sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh --setup
#should give an error after line above, its fine because you're pushing the local.prop yourself
adb push local.prop /data/local.prop
adb shell sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh --root
If anything goes wrong or it doesnt work, run this to revert
Code:
adb shell sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh --undo
I would've posted the tacoroot.sh for you since I use it in my shift utility to root your phone, but I wasn't sure if it was universal for all HTC devices or just for the evo shift. Sorry about that.
Sent from my PG06100
Thanks!!!
shortydoggg said:
I can give you the file, but it's hard to get it to work without that recovery. You have to extract out of the zip file and then push it to the /data/data/recovery directory. I tried it myself and I can adb push it, but when doing the tacoroot --root, I get an error "/data/local/tacoroot.sh: cannot create /data/local.prop: permission denied".
EDIT: I uploaded the two files that you need. You need to unzip the two files. Then push the log file to the /data/data/recovery directory, and the local.prop file to the /data/ directory. Getting them there will be up to you, as I'm not the most Linux educated person out there. I'm only able to push the files because my phone is already rooted. Hopefully you figure it out or someone more familiar with Linux (adb) commands can help you. Then, the "adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.sh --root" command is a breeze.
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Thank you and CNexus. I'll try it and let you know how it went. I probably will fool around with it tomorrow sometime so I'll get back to you then. Going back a little, after I pushed flash_image and mtd-eng.img to data/local/, I noticed a blue status bar while in hboot, I'm assumming its searching for the pg36img.img update...... that said, is it necessary to push those files again?? BTW, great guide and write up. Thanks for everything. http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/good.gif
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Thanks for your help, I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
CNexus said:
Code:
adb push tacoroot.sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh
adb shell chmod /data/local/tacoroot.sh
adb shell sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh --setup
#should give an error after line above, its fine because you're pushing the local.prop yourself
adb push local.prop /data/local.prop
adb shell sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh --root
If anything goes wrong or it doesnt work, run this to revert
Code:
adb shell sh /data/local/tacoroot.sh --undo
I would've posted the tacoroot.sh for you since I use it in my shift utility to root your phone, but I wasn't sure if it was universal for all HTC devices or just for the evo shift. Sorry about that.
Thanks for your help, I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
Sent from my PG06100
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Hi, Just wondering if you would mind re-uploading the original files? The link is broken, and I'd really like to unroot my phone, so it would be really appreciated. Thanks heaps!
i can't get into cwm after i got installation aborted on the bravo for CM7.... i already have a backup through recovery, whats the key combo to get into cmw?
jafferkhan said:
i can't get into cwm after i got installation aborted on the bravo for CM7.... i already have a backup through recovery, whats the key combo to get into cmw?
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Can you still boot into the Android operating system itself? If you can, then you can download a terminal emulator from Google Play and use it to boot into recovery through its command line. Here's what you would need to type in, only type what is in bold:
su
(This requests superuser/root permissions for the app. When you get this, wait for a message to come up asking if you want to give it root permissions and then grant the app permissions.)
reboot recovery
This will make the phone turn off, and it will boot into recovery. If it doesn't boot into recovery, then the recovery itself is probably broken.
I'll try to get the button combo for recovery ASAP, just in case the terminal emulator method does not work.
EDIT: Here is how to boot into recovery with the button combinations:
1) turn off the phone, take off the cover, and remove the battery.
2) put the battery back in
3) hold down the volume down key. CONTINUE TO HOLD IT DOWN AS YOU THEN HOLD DOWN THE POWER BUTTON TO TURN THE PHONE ON AGAIN.
this method is to get into stock recovery, but you can try it to get into CWM. Post back what happens when you try these methods.