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I was a preorder and am sporting HBOOT v.77 ... and had 3 questions:
1) How would I to update to v.79 or higher?
2) If one updates their HBOOT do they have to re-root through the current (not so easy) method or will the custom recovery survive?
3) Any chance that the custom recovery could be patched to also update the HBOOT?
Thanks!
the only way i know of right know is to use ruu that has hboot 79
correct me if im wrong
I originally rooted my day-one purchased inc, which had .77 installed, it was nearly impossible though, I used like 10 different cards and only got in with adb once. I screwed something up though and the su.apk got erased every boot, so I RUU'ed it to .79, and it was just as difficult for me to root it, until I bought the pny 2gig card. Now I am 100% rooted, and I was sure my phone was never going to be because nothing I tried worked until the pny card would work.
yes you can update without loosing root but its tricky to do, here is how to do it allthough there is no benifite.
1 get the rom zip from the ruu
2 rename it to PB31IMG.zip
3 put it on the root of your sd
4 reboot to HBOOT it will search for files on your sd card, take your back cover off
5 when it ask's if you want to up date say yes
6 it will update your hboot and radio than reboot
7 right after the reboot or as soon as the screen goes black than pull your sd card out
8 it will boot in into hboot and you will see that your bootloader was upgraded along with your radio.
9 select reboot than you can put your sd card back in, and when it boots remove PB31IMG.zip from your sd card.
I have done this and can confirm that it works, i did it to see if it would fix my signal issues. Just be warned if you do not pull your sd card out before it loads up the second time you will have to reroot your phone.
binny1007 said:
I have done this and can confirm that it works, i did it to see if it would fix my signal issues. Just be warned if you do not pull your sd card out before it loads up the second time you will have to reroot your phone.
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so, did it help with any signal related issues ?
Yes it did seem to help a little bit. I'm not dropping down to 1x all the time any more.
There was no change for me between .77 and .79 as far as I can tell.
Does this even do anything on the phone itself??
What im saying is at the moment im running what came with my phone when i first got it, which is 1.22.605.2 Hboot .77... If i ran the RUU file it would update me to 1.22.605.2 Hboot .79... the Hboot is different but the actual software version stays the exact same (1.22.602.2) so nothing in android changes whatsoever it would seem like, and the only difference is Hboot version, does just the hboot update by itself make a difference in the daily operations of the phone?
I have read through these forums for the past 12 to 20 hours, but I am still stuck. I followed regaw_leinad's tutorial on rooting my Evo. Everything was fine until it rebooted and tried to load the PC36IMG.zip. The bootloader was skipped and the radio update failed. Now I cannot do anything.
I get into the recovery mode, Windows shows the Android Composite ADB Interface in Device Manager, but adb devices shows the Evo as offline. I have reformatted the sdcard, copied the PC36IMG.zip file back on to the card with a card reader, re-ran the update, but it is always the same. The radio update always fails, the entire update fails and the phone stays in an offline mode. Is there anything I am missing here?
Just rebooting the phone only gets me to the logo and stays there forever. When I reboot holding the down vol I get:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.02.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
Oct 14 2010, 19:14:47
I have also posted this in the developers area, but received no responses.
larrythethird said:
I have read through these forums for the past 12 to 20 hours, but I am still stuck. I followed regaw_leinad's tutorial on rooting my Evo. Everything was fine until it rebooted and tried to load the PC36IMG.zip. The bootloader was skipped and the radio update failed. Now I cannot do anything.
I get into the recovery mode, Windows shows the Android Composite ADB Interface in Device Manager, but adb devices shows the Evo as offline. I have reformatted the sdcard, copied the PC36IMG.zip file back on to the card with a card reader, re-ran the update, but it is always the same. The radio update always fails, the entire update fails and the phone stays in an offline mode. Is there anything I am missing here?
Just rebooting the phone only gets me to the logo and stays there forever. When I reboot holding the down vol I get:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.02.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
Oct 14 2010, 19:14:47
I have also posted this in the developers area, but received no responses.
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Try using the PC36IMG from the thread below, you should be able to use adb through the hBoot or you can just pull the sd card and use an adapter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
I had not read this post yet, but I got a different version of PC36IMG.zip and tried again. It failed the radio update and got a new failure on the IC update. BUT, I can now get into recovery mode and the phone is shown as recovery to adb. I can push to the phone now. I cannot recover yet. Also, I cannot get into adb shell, either. I am now getting a a new error when I run Unrevoked3. It says Device "exec'/system/bin/sh' failed:No such file or directory". So I'm closer, but not there yet. I guess I really hosed up the phone.
I will try the files from this post as soon as they finish downloading.
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Try using the PC36IMG from the thread below, you should be able to use adb through the hBoot or you can just pull the sd card and use an adapter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
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I don't know if this will help you, it was added after the new Hboot however. However, the first link the OP posted is for a sadly out of date thread now. You should look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045 if it still doesn't work. If anything, get a un-root PC36img, and start over.
Had the same issue when I rooted my wifes evo. Then I ran unrevoked forever which gave me "s-off" then I was able to flash radios
Still no joy
So far this morning, I have tried:
Running the PC36IMG.zip that came from one of the older threads. Same thing.
Pushing the moveme folder to the sdcard on the phone. It gives no errors, but there is nothing on the card. Just empty. Pulled the card out and copied the folder to the sdcard using a card reader and put it back in the phone. Nothing changed. Copied the eng-PC36IMG.zip file to the card and renamed it PC36IMG.zip. Ran the update but get the same results.
I am downloading what the thread says is an un-root PC36IMG.zip file. I will see if that works.
I see that the big issue for my phone appears to be that I cannot get to S-OFF, which keeps me from getting into the adb shell. I will try all of the suggestions and see what happens.
Thanks all
I used different PC36IMG.zip and got my phone working again. I have still not seen my phone get to S-OFF yet. But for now, I have a phone again.
I will try to root again using the post from yesterday you directed me to.
larrythethird said:
I used different PC36IMG.zip and got my phone working again. I have still not seen my phone get to S-OFF yet. But for now, I have a phone again.
I will try to root again using the post from yesterday you directed me to.
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did you try the unrevoked forever?
any legit fixes?
You need to use the Hboot 2.02 root like a boss method, unrevoked doesn't work with hboot 2.02 here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
I'm trying to get my phone back to stock because i used Simple Root v.1 when it came out last year. I need to bring my phone to Sprint because my USB port is defective and won't charge anymore. I have a hardware 2 version of the phone. Not sure if that helps or not.
This thread (i would post in there but it says i must have more than 10 posts to do so) says i can just flash a stock signed rom, but my phone says "S-off" even though i never used unREVoked forever. Do i just flash the rom anyway?
How will i know (or Sprint) once i flash the stock rom if my phone is stock with no root?
Download the Unrevoked S-on zip, place that on your sd card and flash it like you would anything else.
After that, download the PC36IMG.zip for the 3.70 OTA here (the one in the OP of the link you posted is out of date, I know b/c I just used it last week):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
Rename the file so it says PC36IMG.zip and that is the full exact name, remove all the other crap.
Place that on your sd card, turn the phone off and power on while holding vol down. This will take you to hboot where it will read the PC36IMG.zip. Follow the on screen instructions to update and you will be unrooted.
Once you do that, power off again and go back to hboot by holding power+vol down (same as before). Once you get to hboot, and it says s-on, you will know you unrooted.
So i tried the unREVoked S-on tool and my phone still says S-off. I tried it three times and no change.
Should i go ahead and just flash the stock 3.7 ROM? I downloaded it already, changed it to say PCIMG36.zip, and moved it onto my SD card.
Currently trying to get my phone charged up to at least 30% before flashing the ROM but it is such a pain to get my phone to charge. If i move the charging wire around i can get the charging light to come on but i never know if it is really charging because most of the time i'll turn my phone on and it is only charged to 5-7%.
I don't think it will work if your are s-off. Try redownloading the s-on.zip, esp if you dl it from your phone.
Edit: Just making sure you flashed the s-on zip from recovery?
Yes, i flashed the unrevoked tool from recovery and it says it installed successfully but it still says s-off.
I think that was toasts methods they used back then.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
So i went ahead and just flashed the 3.7 stock ROM and it worked. It says S-on and looks to be back to stock. Unfortunately, the local sprint repair store just closed so i will bring in my phone tomorrow. It will be nice to have a phone that charges again. I guess i should be happy it happened two months prior to my one-year manufacturer warranty expiring.
Thanks for the help guys!
Anytime, glad you got it sorted.
Hi , okay i lost my old MyTouch 4g from launch , and received a new one back in August. I decided to finally do the downgrade via ADB , i got through every step and when it was time to do the "manual Downgrade" i put the Rom on the root of the SD card and when i booted to the bootloader it said PD15IMG.zip was found but the nbh file wasn't found
SD Checking...
Loading... PD15DIAG.zip
No image!
Loading... PD15DIAG.nbh
No image or wrong image!
Loading... PD15IMG.zip
No image!
Loading... PD15IMG.nbh
No image or wrong image!
and it never performed a downgrade , now when i tried to reboot back to the current rom, it gets stuck at the MYtouch 4g sign
i have a G1, so im able to swap memory cards to move files if need be because im not sure if i could access the USB mass storage through the bootloader
More information i have is at the Bootloader is
GLACIER PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.89.0005
MICROP-0429
RADIO-26.11.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
If I see and you type what there really is, then it didn't find any PD15IMG.ZIP.
That would be either because you have your card formatted in some weird way, or because you didn't follow the guide, didn't read the multiple warnings and unknowingly named your file PD15IMG.ZIP.ZIP (because your Windows isn't set to show file extensions).
So, formatting the SD card before use with regular FAT32 and making sure the name is right will solve that.
Moreover, you should check the MD5 of the PD15IMG. It will keep looking for .nbh only if the file is wrong.
no i downloaded the PD15IMG zip file from the guide i didn't have to change anything it was already named that file, so if i format the memory card all should be good ?, would i have to worry about doing the ADB again because i had multiple reboots by taking out the battery because of being stuck at the splash screen.
EDIT: Thank You Progress was made i just Formatted the memory Card now, its performing the Update through the Bootloader to 2.2.1 with the blue side bar , i'll keep this posted with another Edit
EDIT: 2.2.1 update wasunsuccessful it getts stuck at the purple "updating" words i went to a youtube video to see what the update process would be like its supposed to go "updating, OK, OK, Unzipping"
imma try to reinstall 2.3.4 then doing the ADB method if possible
EDIT: updating to 2.3.4 does nothing but the same thing 2.2.1 update did , now im stuck scratching my head
It means that the phone is stuck updating one of the partitions, which is bad.
You could attempt to flash Panache RUU on this thing. HTC have their own downloader, inaccessible through regular modes, which is invoked when RUU is being flashed using EXE file. You might also need a goldcard for your phone to attempt it. In the Mobilicity/Panache rooting thread in General section you'll see all the info on creating a goldcard. A bit of search will get you the Panache RUU .exe file
If the RUU is successful - you'll have HTC Panache for a phone. From there, you can attempt rooting and downgrading instructions in the Panache rooting thread.
If you still have warranty - I'd use it. Flashing Panache RUU, if it won't get you luckier with PD15IMG, will be irreversible, since I don't know of MyTouch 4G RUU in .exe format.
alright i have all the necessary files such as the RUU exes i tried to make the gold card but was unable to do so using the simple Gold card method , how would i go about turning my phone into the Panache if my phone cant even turn on fully ?
HTC software running on PC doesn't need your phone to be booted, it can automatically put the phone into HTC-specific download mode from any other mode.
Run the RUU.exe while the phone is in the bootloader, for example, and see if it flashes, and if not - what error does it show.
the RUU.exe says USB error, everytime i plug my phone in through the bootloader the computer comes up with a Android 1.0 New Hardware wizard i dont know if this is interfering with the .Exe not finding the phone
EDIT: Found Android 1.0 drivers , now the error was the phone not being charged LOL! , ill keep this posted with another edit after the phone is charged, thank you for the help i appreciate it.
Yes, you'll need the driver operational.
Use Windows 7 computer, it'll automatically find and install the needed driver.
Thank You So Much for your Help i went to T-Mobile , and my insurance covered for a new phone i took the option of going for the Sensation instead of getting another Mytouch 4g and running into the same problem,
I Enjoyed this community from my First MyTouch 4g of flashing multiple ROMS , this was and is a powerful phone i wish it had more dev/hacker support with this phone
Hello guys,
I got a replacement from T-Mobile a few weeks ago, it came with 2.3.4 on it already. I was using the guide from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Glacier:_Full_Update_Guide and my phone will NOT recognize the PD15IMG.zip. I MD5'd the file on the phone and it matches. I have done everything up to the step where you are supposed to flash the PD15IMG.zip but I am stuck right here.
Everything else went fine before it
Any tips?
STATS:
S-ON
0.89.0005
26.11.04.03_M
2.3.4 stock
Ok just as an update: I tried a different SDcard with the EXACT same file and it is working now... What the hell...
EDIT: It rebooted for some reason mid-update... I am trying again.
SD card needs to be formatted properly for it to work (FAT32).
For some reason when I downloaded it from my computer and transfered the PD15IMG.zip to my phone it added a extra .zip at the end so it was saying PD15IMG.zip.zip