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[FIXED] Help!Cant flash any recovery images

Ever since I updated to the last OTA I have lost clockworks recovery image. Thus now I am unable to install the latest froyo rom.
I have tried to install the latest clockworks recovery image and Amon_Ra recovery through Rom Manager. Each time it states it is installed but everytime I try to boot up to the recovery image it gives me the following error:
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
and it just gives me the Android System Recover <2e>
Any help would be appreciated....

It sounds like you are not rooted.
If you accepted the OTA from Sprint using your system update on your phone, you are no longer rooted and will not have a custom recovery/root permissions. You will be unable to flash any custom recovery/ROMS/delete any sprint apps/Other Root only things until someone comes up with a way to root 2.2.
Have a drink in hopes that a dev will come up with a way to Root 2.2 soon!

I didnt update over the phone
What happened is I installed a rooted verson of 1.47.651.1 but in doing that it got rid of the recovery image... it definetly a rooter version because i can run apps that require root.. such as wife tether titanium back etc...
any other suggestions...

coolguycarlos said:
I didnt update over the phone
What happened is I installed a rooted verson of 1.47.651.1 but in doing that it got rid of the recovery image... it definetly a rooter version because i can run apps that require root.. such as wife tether titanium back etc...
any other suggestions...
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there's an update.zip around here somewhere that will allow you to boot into an early form of clockwork recovery.
so, assuming that you goofed something, but still have nand unlocked....
find that update.zip. put it and a .zip for a real recovery onto your sdcard. boot into hboot, let it run the update.zip, that will take you to koush's early clockwork recovery. use that recovery to flash a solid recovery.
done.
alternative method would be to use fastboot to erase the recovery partition, then put a new recovery in.

Here is the update.zip...Just extract Recovery.zip....Do this OR/AND what the Senior Member above said and you should be good

timothydonohue said:
there's an update.zip around here somewhere that will allow you to boot into an early form of clockwork recovery.
so, assuming that you goofed something, but still have nand unlocked....
find that update.zip. put it and a .zip for a real recovery onto your sdcard. boot into hboot, let it run the update.zip, that will take you to koush's early clockwork recovery. use that recovery to flash a solid recovery.
done.
alternative method would be to use fastboot to erase the recovery partition, then put a new recovery in.
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I actually tried the update.zip one already and it doesnt install... it will stated that the signature cant be verified and it will about the installation... havent tried the fastboot approach... I guess I will need to find out how to do that now

so from the looks of it I am screwed... I have hboot .79 if that matters and from the looks of it the rooted rom i installed screwed up my nand unlock.. which is why i think i can install any recovery images... i tried alot of the nand unlock tutorials and most of them I eventually get to a point were i need to write to /data and i cant because permissions are denied... great... oh well i'll keep on trying... any suggestions are appreciated...

If you still have super user, try this...same thing happend to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744621&page=4

I'm having a very similar problem also. My Hboot is 0.79.000 too & after trying clockworkmod recovery, a few RUU update attempts, and attempting to change ROMs completely (not in that order) I'm at a loss, no success anywhere. I can't even get in to recovery anymore. It just reverts back to Bootloader menu where my options are Reboot, Reboot Bootloader, or Power down (& I think there is one other option that i tried and sent me back to the aforementioned screen). However, I can still load my pre-existing ROM...
Does anyone have any ideas if there is anything I can do?
TIA

topdawgn8 said:
If you still have super user, try this...same thing happend to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744621&page=4
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I have a question bout this... I seen this before but the sdk that I downloaded for Windows 7 does not have the Su command... any ideas on how I can get it for Windows 7?
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

Nevermind I got the Su command to work
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

you can erase recovery from rom manager and try to reflash. i would recommend reinstalling rom manager just to make sure it installed correctly. it installed bad on me once and corrupted my recovery trying to update it, reinstalled and installed an old recovery then the newest one and it worked.

Thanks for the suggestions all. I followed the instructions from link you posted using terminal emulator. No such luck, still reading HBOOT 0.79.0000 and running same ROM.
I also tried reinstalling (several times) clockworkmod recovery images and it effects nothing.
Should I try to completely unroot my phone again? If the images i just flashed didn't do it what will?
Im totally at a loss here. ARG!

hit there jtwonbly.......are you also running the stock rooted 1.47.651.1?

Build number 1.47.651.1 CL195459 release-keys

yea same here......and what is it that your trying to do...go back to stock ROM?

I'd like to go to any other ROM. Its as if I'm no longer rooted anymore.
I think I may try to start all over again using NeckFaces old tutorial on unlocking NAND w/o adb. I'm just not sure if that will fix the HBOOT file because I can't get in to Recovery.

OK Guys thanks for all your help but I have been able to get it fixed now!!!
I pretty much had to redo all of Toast Root tutorial and NAND unlock to get it working. Both Part 1 and Part 2 even though I was already running a rooted rom.
The original problem I had is I kept getting told to just try the nand unlock in part 2 but the phone wasnt having it. It wouldnt like the engineering build of the pc36img.zip
So I started from Part 1. Downloaded the rooted rom pc36img.zip and what do you know it finally let me install it. By the time I was done with both parts 1 and 2 I was able to flash a recovery image, get back to hboot .76 and I am now another proud owner of an Evo running a rooted Froyo!!!!

[Q] 3.70 OTA update failing

Got the notification earlier today, went ahead and started downloading the update. I turned on 4G, it couldn't get 4G so i turned on wifi when it was at 12%
Download completed, it rebooted, showed the proper update screen, and now it gets to about 15% of the progress bar then shows the slanted triangle with an exclamation mark in it and little android dude under it.
Rebooted, tried again and same thing.
I'm thinking cuz i switched from downloading via 3g to wifi maybe file is corrupt?
I deleted the update file from /sdcard/download and tried again and same thing...
any ideas?
---update--
i pressed discard and then went to back to check for software update and it re-downloaded it but same thing..
Is it cuz its rooted? do i have to remove the root to put the OTA?
btw, its my gf's evo.. if it was mine i'd probably be running some other rom.
--update2--
So i flashed stock recovery then tried again, same thing but this time different images during the install process and the error
Went over to unrevoked's site, installed the unrevoked-forever-son.zip (had to flash clockwork recovery to flash that zip)
That still didn't do it.
Now i'm trying to get stock recovery back on but it won't ask me if i want to install it. I have it as PC36IMG.zip on the root of my sd card. When i first get into HBOOT it shows checking PC36IMG.zip and then no option to press volume up to install/flash it.
ALso i unziped PC36IMG.zip and attempted to flash recovery.img via fastboot but i get this:
[codr]sending 'recovery' (3779 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)[/code]
Anyone know what to do?

I'm having the same issue! Also rooted. I'd really like to not have to flash it from recovery so I don't have to re-do all my settings.

I'm having similar issues, but I'm not as far as you have gone. =)
Could you help me out on reflashing the stock recovery? 3.70 is the first OTA that has come out since I rooted (with unrevoked3), so I'm no expert. I'm downloading a stock PC36IMG.zip, but I don't want to replace everything if I can help it.
Hopefully once I have a stock recovery again I can give you a hand. =)

I'm no expert by any means but, I was rooted when the 1st OTA came out. I just flashed joey-krims stock rom over top my stock rom. I just wiped cache & dalvik cache. Didn't do a factory reset. All apps and data were preserved. And I just flashed joeys most recent update over top the last update, same procedure, same results. Only thing that happed was my weather bug widget had to be put back on the screen.
Milage may vary.

VaughnOnix said:
I'm having similar issues, but I'm not as far as you have gone. =)
Could you help me out on reflashing the stock recovery? 3.70 is the first OTA that has come out since I rooted (with unrevoked3), so I'm no expert. I'm downloading a stock PC36IMG.zip, but I don't want to replace everything if I can help it.
Hopefully once I have a stock recovery again I can give you a hand. =)
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Download the PC36IMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD card. Reboot device while holding volume down, give it a sec and it should prompt you volume up to flash volume down to cancel.
Flashing the recovery will not erase/replace anything but the recovery itself.

there is something that gets missed every time.
the ota will not work unless u r on an odex completely stock rom!!!
when i say complete i mean all apps that came with the stock rom have to still be on it also.
otherwise... dont be surprised if it wont work.
just flash a new rom instead... that would be the better sol here.

aamikam said:
there is something that gets missed every time.
the ota will not work unless u r on an odex completely stock rom!!!
when i say complete i mean all apps that came with the stock rom have to still be on it also.
otherwise... dont be surprised if it wont work.
just flash a new rom instead... that would be the better sol here.
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really?
That sucks... so is everyone that is rooted having the same issue with this OTA or does this happed to all OTA for rooted ussers?
(this is my gf's evo, i got a dell streak which isn't this hard to flash an official realease.. when they do release them is a different story)

yea, same here. Wife and I were running errands so I ran the OTA on her handset - no issues. Tried it on mine and got the same error with the thing over the Android. doh!
If I pop the battery out I can use the phone but now i want the update.
My device is rooted with UnrEVOked. Wife's is not rooted.
I am trying to restore the factory ROM and then try the update and whatever else I can salvage...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685835
links to the factory ROM
http://rapidshare.com/files/3899834....651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe

djliquid said:
yea, same here. Wife and I were running errands so I ran the OTA on her handset - no issues. Tried it on mine and got the same error with the thing over the Android. doh!
If I pop the battery out I can use the phone but now i want the update.
My device is rooted with UnrEVOked. Wife's is not rooted.
I am trying to restore the factory ROM and then try the update and whatever else I can salvage...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685835
links to the factory ROM
http://rapidshare.com/files/3899834....651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe
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Same story here, rooted with unrevoked.
I would flash factory rom as you are doing but if i don't get it back to how it was, my gf would ***** till i die...

Ok this is pretty simple, just did it on my coworkers Evo will be doing mine once I am off call,
1. Use Rom manager to install ra recovery
2. Boot to recovery, and flash zip from SD card ( this step assumes us have copied the downloaded zip using root explorer from cache dir and saved to sd card)
3. Select the OTA 370 blablabla.zip file
4. after flash completes, don't reboot yet, select apply zip from SD card again, and flash root (I used a file called 2.2 root.zip I found on these boards some where)
5. Reboot and when it finishes ur phone will be rooted and updated, running stock recovery
*** note I answered from my phone so I don't have any of the links or files, I will try to place links next time i am at my computer. this will just update and not wipe anything from the phone **

detcup4evr said:
Ok this is pretty simple, just did it on my coworkers Evo will be doing mine once I am off call,
1. Use Rom manager to install ra recovery
2. Boot to recovery, and flash zip from SD card ( this step assumes us have copied the downloaded zip using root explorer from cache dir and saved to sd card)
3. Select the OTA 370 blablabla.zip file
4. after flash completes, don't reboot yet, select apply zip from SD card again, and flash root (I used a file called 2.2 root.zip I found on these boards some where)
5. Reboot and when it finishes ur phone will be rooted and updated, running stock recovery
*** note I answered from my phone so I don't have any of the links or files, I will try to place links next time i am at my computer. this will just update and not wipe anything from the phone **
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Was your co worker rooted and having the same issues with the update failing before you did all this?
This method didn't work for me.
During the install via RA recovery it errors out after
Code:
verifying current system . . .
i get
Code:
assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/app/Sprint_Navigation.apk", "E:unknown command [e788c9586bac4af50d9d6df17f6b9eac21fced4" ,]
E:unkown command [a044")]
E:Error in /sdcard/OTA_Supersonic_3.70.651.1-3.29.651.5_releasezq9ss6wyobuo26b5.zip
(Satus 7)
Installation aborted.
Is this all cuz i uninstalled sprint navigation?

fone_fanatic said:
Download the PC36IMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD card. Reboot device while holding volume down, give it a sec and it should prompt you volume up to flash volume down to cancel.
Flashing the recovery will not erase/replace anything but the recovery itself.
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Thanks for the assist. Just to confirm, flashing a zip that weighs in at almost 200mb will only affect the recovery?

ok here is my problem i flash the rom install the update ans my 4G and wifi is having a error what am i doing wrong

VaughnOnix said:
Thanks for the assist. Just to confirm, flashing a zip that weighs in at almost 200mb will only affect the recovery?
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NO you are correct, the 200MB PC36IMG.zip will reset everything!
I was referring to the stock recovery image (3 to 4MB file)
I noticed browsing through the forums and downloading files i need that different recovery and roms are name as PC36IMG.zip
So now everytime i download one, i either rename it or put it in a folder with the proper name..
dramadawgz said:
ok here is my problem i flash the rom install the update ans my 4G and wifi is having a error what am i doing wrong
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Don't know why that is.. did you download and flash via recovery or you did the OTA update?

via recovery thats how i got it and it's killing me cause i need the update but i rather have a rooted EVO lol

dramadawgz said:
via recovery thats how i got it and it's killing me cause i need the update but i rather have a rooted EVO lol
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Unrevoked will root it..
I'm restoring it to ship rom now then let it do the OTA restore Nandroot data backup and then unrevoked root..

ok ill give that a try cause i just redid it and im still getting the error message

Failing here too.... stuoid.

werxen what problems r u having

Ok, so what i did was downgrade to stock shipped rom
then had to do the 5 or so OTA's and finally on 3.70.651.1 but NOW I can't Root or flash clockwork mod which means i can't restore the nandroid backup
I ran into this post over at androidcentral Yes you can do OTA update if youve unrevoked forever heres how hope that helps you guys as i went through a headache and all this other crap to get this stupid OTA and now i can't even restore my backed up data!
Guess i have to wait for a better way to root the HBOOT 2.10 version
good luck to everyone else

[Q] Upgrading to cyanogenmod 7.1 issues

Phone: HTC Desire GSM
I have Cyanogen 7.0.3 and want to upgrade to 7.1, mainly to keep up to date but also because since I got a market update a couple of months ago I keep getting force closes whenever I try to update or download a new app. This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.
When I try to go into recovery, I get the red triangle. How can I get a custom recovery like clockworkmod on there? I also noticed from the bootloader menu that I still have S_ON, how can I fix this? The suggestion from the cyanogen wiki is to use Revolutionary, but when filling out the form for the beta key, my HBOOT version is not on there. Mine is 0.75, the only two options are 0.93 and 1.02.
What are my options for getting cyanogen 7.1 on my phone, or at least fixing this awful force close thing that leaves my market unusable. I've tried a few fixes for it but none have worked.

Pryomancer said:
Phone: HTC Desire GSM
I have Cyanogen 7.0.3 and want to upgrade to 7.1, mainly to keep up to date but also because since I got a market update a couple of months ago I keep getting force closes whenever I try to update or download a new app. This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.
When I try to go into recovery, I get the red triangle. How can I get a custom recovery like clockworkmod on there? I also noticed from the bootloader menu that I still have S_ON, how can I fix this? The suggestion from the cyanogen wiki is to use Revolutionary, but when filling out the form for the beta key, my HBOOT version is not on there. Mine is 0.75, the only two options are 0.93 and 1.02.
What are my options for getting cyanogen 7.1 on my phone, or at least fixing this awful force close thing that leaves my market unusable. I've tried a few fixes for it but none have worked.
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jheeze theres a troubleshooting guide for you stickied.. so it's the first thing you see when you go into Q&A and yet you still post a new thread.. come on man that's what its there for! Just check it out and you can get a solution there

Uninstall updates on superuser
Try setting language to US English for market.
Assume you used Rom manager to flash before?
Also sounds like you rooted pre unrevoked?
At the red triangle, press vol.up plus power. Does it say HTC recovery 2.0e? If so this is the.leaked engineering recovery we started with.
If you used Rom manager, you probably have update.zip on your sd card to boot into cwm fake flash.
If not, here it is: http://db.tt/s6MoApxB
Put it on the root of sd and boot into the engineering recovery. Apply update from there then take a nandroid backup.
If its true alpharev doesn't work with 0.75 (have you tried? I don't know) best bet is probably to RUU. But in order to use alpharev, not sure if cm7 is compatible so flash teppic74 rooted stock Froyo. You can also do this via fake flash cwm. Run alpharev to test.
Like I said, if not, probably easier to RUU then root with unrevoked or s-off with revolutionary
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

bortak said:
jheeze theres a troubleshooting guide for you stickied.. so it's the first thing you see when you go into Q&A and yet you still post a new thread.. come on man that's what its there for! Just check it out and you can get a solution there
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It's the first thing I went to, but my situation seems to meld two or three of the problems addressed in that guide.
I'm rooted, with S_ON, going to recovery brings up the red triangle, my HBOOT is 0.75. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest some specific actions for me to take. It's a lot of things to consider and is somewhat overwhelming. I don't know where to begin.

rootSU said:
Uninstall updates on superuser
I did this, it seemed to work, I can get superuser access on a terminal with su now. Before it would crash. But I tried following some instructions to create a market-download-cache folder but I didn't have permission to do it.
Try setting language to US English for market.
I tried that before, it didn't work.
Assume you used Rom manager to flash before?
Yes, I put cyanogen 7.1 on my sd card and went to flash through rom manager, but it went to the red triangle screen. If you mean did I use rom manager to get my current version of cyanogenmod on my phone, then yes I did do that. However that was on my computer before I upgraded to Win7. I had this .bat file that I ran and it pushed a load of files to my phone over usb which fixed the red triangle and took it to a recovery menu. I can't find that again. Would it work if I did have it?
Also sounds like you rooted pre unrevoked?
I suppose so. I got my Desire a few days after it came out, rooted it probably 2-3 months later.
At the red triangle, press vol.up plus power. Does it say HTC recovery 2.0e? If so this is the.leaked engineering recovery we started with.
Yes, it says 'Android system recovery <2e>, in blue text. I also have a small menu consisting of Reboot system now, Apply sdcard:update.zip(I assume that's from rom manager?), wipe data/factory reset, and wipe cache partition. It also says below all that in yellow text, 'E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
If you used Rom manager, you probably have update.zip on your sd card to boot into cwm fake flash.
If not, here it is: http://db.tt/s6MoApxB
I heard Rom Manager is not good anymore as of some recent updates to it. It can mess up installations. Is this true?
Put it on the root of sd and boot into the engineering recovery. Apply update from there then take a nandroid backup.
If its true alpharev doesn't work with 0.75 (have you tried? I don't know) best bet is probably to RUU. But in order to use alpharev, not sure if cm7 is compatible so flash teppic74 rooted stock Froyo. You can also do this via fake flash cwm. Run alpharev to test.
Like I said, if not, probably easier to RUU then root with unrevoked or s-off with revolutionary
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Thank you for that. Is my situation bad, is it salvagable? So I should apply the update.zip from that recovery screen? What happens after that?
In fact, maybe I should revise what I actually want to do. I just want cyanogen 7.1, so do I even need to gain S_OFF? What do I need to do to be able to get into recovery and flash it? Is it that simple or do I need to do other things?

You doo if you want to use CM7 HBOOT. Some root apps also requires S-OFF.

Pryomancer said:
Thank you for that. Is my situation bad, is it salvagable? So I should apply the update.zip from that recovery screen? What happens after that?
In fact, maybe I should revise what I actually want to do. I just want cyanogen 7.1, so do I even need to gain S_OFF? What do I need to do to be able to get into recovery and flash it? Is it that simple or do I need to do other things?
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you need s-off to replace the engineering recovery with cwm true flashed recovery as the engineering one is hugely limited. Please confirm you have this
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

As beautiful n functional cynogen mod is,I couldn't get it to work properly on my phone,it had something to do with force close Android.phone looping continuously as soonm as my phone air get network it air lose it...tried the 2g,3g network change n still didn't work

leoaamro said:
As beautiful n functional cynogen mod is,I couldn't get it to work properly on my phone,it had something to do with force close Android.phone looping continuously as soonm as my phone air get network it air lose it...tried the 2g,3g network change n still didn't work
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did you do a full wipe before you installed CM? if you didn't go to mounts and storage and format everything apart from the sdcard and then flash it again.
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Pryomancer said:
Phone: HTC Desire GSM
I have Cyanogen 7.0.3 and want to upgrade to 7.1, mainly to keep up to date but also because since I got a market update a couple of months ago I keep getting force closes whenever I try to update or download a new app. This also force closes when it tries to update the superuser app, as it says binary outdated and won't let me use it, then tries to download the new one and FC's.
When I try to go into recovery, I get the red triangle. How can I get a custom recovery like clockworkmod on there? I also noticed from the bootloader menu that I still have S_ON, how can I fix this? The suggestion from the cyanogen wiki is to use Revolutionary, but when filling out the form for the beta key, my HBOOT version is not on there. Mine is 0.75, the only two options are 0.93 and 1.02.
What are my options for getting cyanogen 7.1 on my phone, or at least fixing this awful force close thing that leaves my market unusable. I've tried a few fixes for it but none have worked.
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What I would do:
Use alpharev 1.8 to S-OFF
Download recovery
Do a full wipe (mounts & storage, format boot, syste, data, cache, sd-ext)
Flash ROM
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also @RootSU - I swear you can't flash anything from the stock recovery? I tried before and it didn't let me.. otherwise what would be the point of rooting and flashing custom recovery if it was that easy?
also im pretty sure Alpharev works on that version, it's revolutionary that doesn't.

No not stock. Before unrevoked we all had to push an engineering HTC recovery (used by HTC engineers) not stock. It's the one.that says 2.0(e) at the top. You can apply update.zip only
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rootSU said:
No not stock. Before unrevoked we all had to push an engineering HTC recovery (used by HTC engineers) not stock. It's the one.that says 2.0(e) at the top. You can apply update.zip only
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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oh, I thought that was the stock one, and yeah I tried applying update.zip through that recovery once but it didn't work for me. I've only tried to use it once so I guess you know about it more than me

bortak said:
oh, I thought that was the stock one, and yeah I tried applying update.zip through that recovery once but it didn't work for me. I've only tried to use it once so I guess you know about it more than me
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The update.zip I used to apply regularly was the fakeflash cwm. I often forgot back in those days that the reboot into recovery from the power button took me to the Triangle unlike RM which took me to CWM.
The huge downfall of this setup is that sometimes if your FS is already a little corrupt, CWM decides to "wipe" the sd card, taking with it the update.zip for cwm.
Thats why I RUU's and rooted with unrevoked when it came out.

rootSU said:
The update.zip I used to apply regularly was the fakeflash cwm. I often forgot back in those days that the reboot into recovery from the power button took me to the Triangle unlike RM which took me to CWM.
The huge downfall of this setup is that sometimes if your FS is already a little corrupt, CWM decides to "wipe" the sd card, taking with it the update.zip for cwm.
Thats why I RUU's and rooted with unrevoked when it came out.
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Ahh right, I never knew that.. I only rooted my phone about 6 months after I got it so I used unrevoked from the start

rootSU said:
you need s-off to replace the engineering recovery with cwm true flashed recovery as the engineering one is hugely limited. Please confirm you have this
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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It says <2e> at the top of the recovery when I do power+vol.up at the red triangle screen. From what you've said this seems to indicate I do have the engineering recovery.

Pryomancer said:
It says <2e> at the top of the recovery when I do power+vol.up at the red triangle screen. From what you've said this seems to indicate I do have the engineering recovery.
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search your clockworkmod folder for a "update.zip"
place it in the root of your sdcard
when you boot the engineering reocvery, press VOLUME UP and POWER together.. it may take several attempts before you get anything.. sometimes you don't press it at exactly the same time or whatever
choose "apply update.zip"
When the new recovery is booted
flash a rom

bortak said:
search your clockworkmod folder for a "update.zip"
place it in the root of your sdcard
when you boot the engineering reocvery, press VOLUME UP and POWER together.. it may take several attempts before you get anything.. sometimes you don't press it at exactly the same time or whatever
choose "apply update.zip"
When the new recovery is booted
flash a rom
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Ive been in this situation and it can be a nightmare if the SD fails so personally rather than flashing a rom using cwm fake flash, I would simply nandroid backup.
Then RUU and start from scratch. As unique as the 2e is, its better to have a decent recovery flashed.
Update.zip should be on the root of sd anyway. If not, here it is:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20471345/SUroot/Tools/Android/Recovery/CWM2.5.0.7 fakeflash/update.zip

thanks for the reply bortak, i will try when I get bored of the current rom - Aurora....
I've read it in quite a few places of users experiences the force close phone.android error inspite of the wipes (not format's)
check here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968501

leoaamro said:
thanks for the reply bortak, i will try when I get bored of the current rom - Aurora....absence of smart dialling was putting me off..
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you can always download a different dialer app from market

[Q] What do I do for today's OTA update?

I got an OTA notification. I'm currently running the stock GB rom,
with s-off, rooted (unrevoked 3.21) and CWM 5.0.2.0. I have ADB
installed and working.
What do I need to do to apply update without messing up
existing root setup?
Anyone know what is being updated? Does it replace radio,
boot or recovery?

fuzzynco said:
I got an OTA notification. I'm currently running the stock GB rom,
with s-off, rooted (unrevoked 3.21) and CWM 5.0.2.0. I have ADB
installed and working.
What do I need to do to apply update without messing up
existing root setup?
Anyone know what is being updated? Does it replace radio,
boot or recovery?
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Applying the ota will make you loose root, but as long as your s-off you can root again easily.
Not sure exactly whats updated. If your rooted the update will not go thru anyways. It checks to make sure you have the stock recovery, and that all of your original stock apps and system files are there and unchanged. To install you would have to go complete stock other than still being s-off.

it does nothing if you have a custom recovery file.
if you click install, it'll do the count down, but won't reboot.
when you manually reboot, it'll still be what you had.
my setup is:
S-ON
HBOOT: 0.92.0000
CWM: 5.0.2.0
Baseband: 2.15.10.07.07
GingerTiny v2
GingerSense 3.5

So, I need to replace CWR with stock recovery?
All the bloatware is still there I just froze it in Ti.
I guess I need to remove superuser.apk & su?
then update, fastboot flash cwr back,
(is the last recovery.img file from nandroid
backup suitable for restoring cwr via fastboot?),
then reroot?
Think someone will package the update
for cwr flashing?

So, I need to replace CWR with stock recovery?
All the bloatware is still there I just froze it in Ti.
I guess I need to remove superuser.apk & su?
then update, fastboot flash cwr back,
(is the last recovery.img file from nandroid
backup suitable for restoring cwr via fastboot?),
then reroot?
Think someone will package the update
for cwr flashing?
PS:
Is there a way to stop the prompting for
OTA installing?
thanks

yes, anyone know how to get it to stop prompting? should i just let it try to upate and fail (i have root/custom recovery)? i froze updater using TI and i tried editing build.prop but neither worked.

orphicone said:
yes, anyone know how to get it to stop prompting? should i just let it try to upate and fail (i have root/custom recovery)? i froze updater using TI and i tried editing build.prop but neither worked.
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What line did you edit in the build.prop? What number did you replace and what did you use to replace it? I've been trying to narrow this down also since it's worked in the past. So far I see one user that claims the build is 210690.
So in the build.prop I'd be looking for the line that included "/XXXXXX:user..." and replace the old 6 digit number with the new.

iowabowtech said:
What line did you edit in the build.prop? What number did you replace and what did you use to replace it? .
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I used root explorer but my editing wasn't very sophisticated. Hopefully someone can shed some light? Post the updated build.prop values for this build and which ones we have to change?

orphicone said:
I used root explorer but my editing wasn't very sophisticated. Hopefully someone can shed some light? Post the updated build.prop values for this build and which ones we have to change?
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Check this out, hopefully I explained it a little better here. Maybe you could give it a shot or confirm if this is how you did it and if that's the number you edited?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19371024&postcount=58

Open build.prop with the text editor and look for:
Code:
ro.htc.checkin.url =http://andchin.htc.com/android/checkin
Change the url to something else but dont leave it blank. This will prevent the phone from contacting thr update server.

fuzzynco said:
All the bloatware is still there I just froze it in Ti.
I guess I need to remove superuser.apk & su?
then update, fastboot flash cwr back,
(is the last recovery.img file from nandroid
backup suitable for restoring cwr via fastboot?),
then reroot?
Think someone will package the update
for cwr flashing?
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I hope someone posts a flashable version of this update for us on cwm. I'm in the same boat as you.

yeah me too

Chernyi said:
I hope someone posts a flashable version of this update for us on cwm. I'm in the same boat as you.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347044

The above linked thread is to an entire ROM and requires wiping. Is it possible to create an update.zip to bump me up (and keep me rooted) if I am rooted and have CWM? I know this has been done for previous updates.

This method helped me turn off the annoying install reminders. I used it with Nils' Business Gingersense.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19370543&postcount=993

I just went ahead and updated since mine is S-OFF.
The steps I used to update and re-root:
Make sure you have S-OFF.
Boot into Clockworkmod and Backup your phone just in case.
Download the following:
Stock Recovery: http://www.multiupload.com/86N0CZ8NO0
Clockworkmod Recovery: http://www.multiupload.com/UQ3Q5ZI0HO
SuperUser: http://androidsu.com/superuser/ (use binary only if you already had SuperUser app installed)
Copy OTA update in /cache to SD card and name it update.zip.
Copy recovery zip files and SuperUser zip (su-bin-3.0.3-efgh-signed.zip) to SD card.
Rename stock_recovery_PB31IMG.zip to just PB31IMG.zip.
Hold VOL-, press POWER to boot into bootloader.
Press VOL- to update recovery to stock. At this point, it may automatically install the update. If not (red exclamation), press VOL+ and POWER to get to the stock recovery menu and select "Apply update.zip from SD" to update manually.
When update completes and you're booted into Android, go to Settings, Applications, and turn off Quick Boot.
Rename or delete existing stock recovery .zip on SD card.
Rename Clockworkmod recovery, cwm_PB31IMG.zip, to PB31IMG.zip.
Shutdown or reboot phone and get into bootloader again, and this time flash Clockworkmod recovery.
Get into Clockworkmod and use it to flash su-bin-3.0.3-efgh-signed.zip.
Once it reboots, you will be updated and rooted.

GnatGoSplat said:
I just went ahead and updated since mine is S-OFF.
The steps I used to update and re-root:
1. Make sure you have S-OFF.
2. Copy OTA update in /cache to SD card and name it update.zip.
3. Copy stock recovery to SD card and make sure it's named PB31IMG.zip.
4. Hold VOL-, press POWER to boot into bootloader.
...
Where is the stock recovery file? There is nothing in /cache or /cache/recovery. For a brief time, the OTA update file for Gingerbread 4.08 was in /cache, but nothing in recovery. the update file has since disappeared, but not before I copied it to my sdcard, so I have that.
Also, I noticed after installing that version of Gingerbread on another phone that was not rooted, that once I did that the hboot menu did not appear when holding down the vol key while powering on. Maybe that is an S-off thing only.
Thanks.
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I had to search Google for quite some time before finding the stock recovery and when i searched just now, all I found were broken links.
I won't be home for awhile, but let me know if you can't find the stock recovery and I'll upload it somewhere.
Oh yeah, you have to go into Settings, Applications, and turn off Fast Boot or Quick Boot in order to be able to get into bootloader when rebooting.

shoot
I wish I had read this thread before i messed up my phone. I was running fine rooted with unrevoked and I thought I'd be smart and get the OTA to install and worry about re-rooting later. It would never reboot so I did a factory reset. That only stuck mine in a Sense crash loop. I'm on PrimeXL's r40 ROM now for 24hours and I'm looking into what else might be available. It runs ok but I can't get Exchange mail for work because something about "device encryption enabled" policy, pic gallery won't show emmc folders, and keyboard auto-correct goes nuts in portrait mode on internet.

jonduncan99 said:
I wish I had read this thread before i messed up my phone. I was running fine rooted with unrevoked and I thought I'd be smart and get the OTA to install and worry about re-rooting later. It would never reboot so I did a factory reset. That only stuck mine in a Sense crash loop. I'm on PrimeXL's r40 ROM now for 24hours and I'm looking into what else might be available. It runs ok but I can't get Exchange mail for work because something about "device encryption enabled" policy, pic gallery won't show emmc folders, and keyboard auto-correct goes nuts in portrait mode on internet.
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Are you wanting to go back to stock?
If so, are you S-OFF? If yes, it's pretty easy, you can just install the full Gingerbread RUU (the .exe file that installs from PC) to go back completely to stock and it'll boot for sure.
What I would do is do a backup with clockworkmod to SD.
Then install the RUU.
Flash clockworkmod back into it (this is why you need to be S-OFF).
Use clockworkmod to restore only your /data partition from SD.
Re-root by installing su.zip.
You should now be rooted, stock, and all your apps and settings should still be intact.
I don't know for sure the backup and restore will work from one ROM to the next, but it did work when I bricked my wife's Incredible and had to restore from RUU (though it was on stock ROM before and after).

[Q] Problems after rooting - wont boot - want back to stock

Hello first off all. I dont know if anyone else here got the same problem but I could not find anyone.
Hello, I tried to root my DHD to get ICS (i know it is not yet done). But after i tried to update it or install it i cant boot Android... It's getting stuck on the HTC logo, however I can boot into bootloader and into clockworkmod v4.0.1.4.
So now I want to get back to stock, root it properly, take a backup (YES i forgot to do it -.-) and try again to get ICS.
Anything else u need?
Before i rooted i think i had 3.12.405.1, but i am not sure.
I also updated to Sense 3.0
And i am banned from the hack kit irc. (i asked for help and they helped me a bit, but not enough, I did NOT ask for passkey)
btw. I am new to this root and flash things so i hope u be noobfriendly
Thanks for any answer.

And I did try to reroot it. (I KNOW, bad idea)

Anyone got any ideas? :C

Ifyou have access to cwr did you wipe and flash a new rom? Push come to shove you can always reflash an ruu.

I think i wiped and tried to install CM, but then the boot was already screwed (i think, i cant remember)? what do u mean about "push come to shove you can always reflash an ruu"?
Is it just to download the ruu .zip file and flash it? (Want back to stock)

Correct. Just download your pd98img.zip place in root of SD card and flash in hboot. Or alternatively download the ruu.execonnect your phone to pc. Go into hboot and select fastboot and run the program from your pc

I have used the ICS for a few days, after I root failed(on 2.3.5 with sense3 RUU). Taste good but the Camera doesnt work on ICS4. I do it like this:
1. Flash your DHD to 2.3.3 with the RUU.
2. ROOT it via aahk-17122011
3. Flash the ICS_BeatMod_Beta_v6.1 via clockworkmod to your DHD
then, Taste it!
ITS my first post here. If I do something wrong, tell me pls.
Potetsjokolade said:
Hello first off all. I dont know if anyone else here got the same problem but I could not find anyone.
Hello, I tried to root my DHD to get ICS (i know it is not yet done). But after i tried to update it or install it i cant boot Android... It's getting stuck on the HTC logo, however I can boot into bootloader and into clockworkmod v4.0.1.4.
So now I want to get back to stock, root it properly, take a backup (YES i forgot to do it -.-) and try again to get ICS.
Anything else u need?
Before i rooted i think i had 3.12.405.1, but i am not sure.
I also updated to Sense 3.0
And i am banned from the hack kit irc. (i asked for help and they helped me a bit, but not enough, I did NOT ask for passkey)
btw. I am new to this root and flash things so i hope u be noobfriendly
Thanks for any answer.
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marsdta said:
Correct. Just download your pd98img.zip place in root of SD card and flash in hboot. Or alternatively download the ruu.execonnect your phone to pc. Go into hboot and select fastboot and run the program from your pc
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My brother would like to thank you. You saved his life. I just rooted my DHD and he decide to flash some rom without my permission. First he installed CM7 but he didnt like it and decided to flash BinDroid. Idk what he did then. He said he started to flash it via ROM manager...So first he flashed BinDroid_EXT4_FULL_WIPE.zip ..So i guess he wiped everything.Phone worked only in CWM but never started.Couldnt recover earlier version.Stucked with HTC logo and thats all. So i've tried to flash another ROM in CWM but no matter what foldier i place zip i could never see it when i have to browse zip to install. Readed dosens of manuals of flashing.They said i have to rename the ROM i want to flash - update.zip and then it would be recognized..Never happen. So i just decided to buy new phone and break his neck when i saw this thread .Idk what is root folder - some ppl say its the main folder of your card,without any sub folders,other say i should create new folder - root and put it there. But when i putted your file in main SD card folders it didnt "see" it. When i putted it in Root folder it didnt see the folder at all. By "it" i mean me when i was browsing in CWM. So then i putted this file u say in a empty folder of my card that i could see when i CWM. So i again reboot in CWM,browsed to it and saw the file there. Installing didnt help. It said error and file could not be installed..In a pure despiration moment i decided to chose update from CWM and bloody hell...it recognized the file u said to install and started to install BinDroid ROM?! I guess i forgot BinDroid rom named as update.zip,when i was trying to flash it.So now my brother is alive thanks to you. IDK what and how i did it and how to update new roms from now on but at least i have my phone..

vcluca said:
I have used the ICS for a few days, after I root failed(on 2.3.5 with sense3 RUU). Taste good but the Camera doesnt work on ICS4. I do it like this:
1. Flash your DHD to 2.3.3 with the RUU.
2. ROOT it via aahk-17122011
3. Flash the ICS_BeatMod_Beta_v6.1 via clockworkmod to your DHD
then, Taste it!
ITS my first post here. If I do something wrong, tell me pls.
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So I should just use the ruu .zip and unroot it, then root it, wipe all data, and then install the ICS_Beatmod?

Ok, after i have rooted it, shall i run the hmod for the PD98IMG? And BTW. It says that i am S-ON in the bootloader....

1. install the PD98IMG.
2. Run the RUU .exe
3. root it
4. run the hmod for installing the "PD98IMG" again? when i am in the bootloader it asks me if i want to update. (Allready there is says i am S-ON)
5. removing the PD98IMG (manualy, not from the hackkit)
6. Wont go to Clockworkmod.
7. Still S-ON
8. ???????????
Shall i delete the HTCsync drivers that is on my phone?

I had to root it twice, but now I am stuck on boot graphics... Do i have to install the new kernell too?

nvm. got everything worked out now

dude if you can access CWM, just push any ROM to your sd card via adb, flash it, use it until the camera issue is fixed and then enjoy ICS. Don't go back to stock. I have adb in CWM thus you should too. These custom roms are much better than stock and if you want the interface just pick one with Sense.