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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magikmichael:
Maybe the mods can make the most useful/best roms sticky...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeahman45:
agree! very hard and sometimes slow to search through 10,000 posts .. it 's often a nightmare to follow the thread
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] howdid:
search button ftw?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yeahman45:
even with search button.. e.g. you search for an issue on battery.. you see someone who asked the question... then i must scroll down(or move next page) to search if someone actually replied and gave a solution to the issue (assuming a there's a reply or solution to the question)... in between you have tons of other unrelated questions/replies/opinions/thanks etc... lol i think you know what i mean
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erklat:
The masses say no. We like asking the same questions all over again, or even better opening the new threads for every query we have.

Your idea is good but what you propose can't be done. It can't be avoided as it would be a forum utopia sort off. Google is more powerful than forum search. Good info doesn't necessarily have to come from XDA.

And for starters this thread is in totally wrong section. :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haxxler:
How about a section for roms with sense and a section for roms without sense? or maybe section for ports from other devices and a section for "almost" stock roms. Mabye 2 - 4 subcategories would be a good idea. Another good idea would be that the cooks would use a specific format for the thread names like "Update/Date - Rom name - Version - Cook".

just my two cents in some bad english ^^
[HTC Inspire 4G] whiteman0vette:
When I try to do the power and holding the volume up button what happens is the phone vibrates and the led light just keeps flashing ? Any ideas ?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Whoops. First typo. It now reads:

Sorry about that.
[HTC Inspire 4G] whiteman0vette:
It's all good. :0)
[HTC Inspire 4G] Zbor:
I'm actually wanting to flash my phone back to an "out of the box" state, I'm downloading the .zip now, I'll post the results in a few. If this works, you will have made me a happy man!

I'm going to get the Motorola Atrix (I hope it's actually better...)

*EDIT* so I need to have S-ON BEFORE running this package?

I downloaded the above, renamed it, booted to HBOOT, ran the update however I still have S-OFF. Boots to a black screen... (Brick??)
[HTC Inspire 4G] lothodon:
if you have s-on, you probably never rooted in the first place so what are you looking to "restore"?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
No HTC splash screen? It should boot into a minimal android system. Try pulling the battery and power on.
[HTC Inspire 4G] TheJokah:
ill test for ya..

downloading now. i have to get my phone to stock to show my friend how easy is is to root and use custom roms. hope this works...
[HTC Inspire 4G] mounttimp:
The atrix sucked for me I sold my first inspire and got one it just sucked it might be good in the winter for a hand warmer it gets smoking hot so if you get one good luck
[HTC Inspire 4G] Quincux:
Great tool, downloading
[HTC Inspire 4G] TheJokah:
works

It worked as it should. S-on and back to stock, very easily. great work.:cool:
[HTC Inspire 4G] attn1:
Nice job, GenePoole. This was well thought out and executed.
[HTC Inspire 4G] scward:
is there a specific place to put the PD98IMG or is anywhere fine?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Ethere:
This didn't work for me. I wanted to try out the new Gingerbread release from AT&T and when I run through this process, I'm stuck at a black screen after step 4. I tried twice just to make sure I didn't screw something up. Black screen, both times.
[HTC Inspire 4G] greentrees89:
thanks

so i haven't tried this method yet, im wondering if i return my inspire to get a new replacement inspire, will it be as easy to root my new inspire as it was a couple months ago, the reason i ask is because anyone with a rooted evo 4g better take good care of it because if they send it in to get a new one they will be stuck with stock, the new evo 4g is unrootable :eek: lol, sucks for them, any ways i just dont want a stock inspire that cant be rooted, thanks for this tool mate, i will surely use it once i know i can root my replacement inspire :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] onthezone:
This worked perfect and checked for update and told me I can download gb right away. Thanks and keep up the good work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] cordell507:
does this make the splash screen the default or does it stay coustom
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
Did you check the md5 sum?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Yes, the new ace hack kit by ATTN1 fully supports the new AT&G Gingerbread update.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
The RUU has the default splash screen (white with green "HTC") so I would assume that if you have a custom screen, it will overwrite it, but I have no first hand information. I'll try installing a custom splash on mine and see what happens.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I'm looking into this. There may be some variant model of Inspire or something is all I can figure. I assume you can still get to recovery, or somehow restore back to a usable system? Any details you can think of would sure help.
[HTC Inspire 4G] DiscipleDOC:
I had the atrix before I bought the inspire and hated the atrix. It may be different now that they have allowed the bootloader to be customized, but I just didn't like the 'feel' of the atrix.:(
[HTC Inspire 4G] cdshepherd:
Tried to run the tool while on VU and it would just stay stuck at the splash screen, after a few battery pulls with no success I used adb to get back into recovery and flashed the stock Rom and radio from attn1, then ran the tool and it worked flawlessly. I just wanted to try ATT's GB update, its been a while since I've had S-on, already missing VU, prob re root tonight. Excellent job on the tool, we needed this.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mcangeli:
I've had the same issue as CDShepherd on Virtuous Unity. The hboot portion runs and does it's thing, then when it reboots it hangs on the white HTC splash screen.

:(

I was also able to go back in with the Ace-Hack-Kit and downgrade to the stock rom that came with the kit and then do the whole process.

Maybe add a note for people with that tip if it doesn't work the first time.
[HTC Inspire 4G] telltell624:
works flawlessly
[HTC Inspire 4G] rdunseith:
Worked as stated and did overwrite my custom splash screen!! Thanks!

Very useful tool!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
Also stuck at a black screen :( and i dont have an sd card slot on my computer so it will be a day or two until i can get to one :(

EDIT: the rom i tried restoring from was MIUI if that helps
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I've updated the tool and added it to the first post. Hopefully the "black-screen" issue is fixed. Apparently some Inspires have a different brand of LCD screen than others and this is a known issue. I've used a different kernel supplied by ATTN1 that should address these newer LCD panels.

Also, fixed the screen timeout and added a line to the android-info.txt to clear the cache partition (again, thanks to ATTN1 for finding this and the solution in his tests).
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
And the new one is the one posted in the op?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Yes. 1.05b
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sdobron:
This will not touch SD card?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
No. [10 char]
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
just tried again. new version hung at splash screen...
[HTC Inspire 4G] KingKongKajun:
I am having the same problem. It hangs at the splash screen. Not exactly sure what I should do next!

I am able to get back into the Bootloader. Should I remove the tool from my SD card, and flash the stock rom from the Hack Pack?
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
What I did was remove my SD card, boot into recovery, mount SD card delete the file. Then I rebooted back to recovery and restored my backup
[HTC Inspire 4G] KingKongKajun:
Will do. Funny, I was previously using VU like the people above us, but now I'm using RumRunner. The only issue I was having with my phone was the automatic speaker problem, but now the car dock randomly appears. Stocking up my phone to bring her to AT&T.

EDIT: I just wiped the user data using recovery and it seems to have booted into the tool, but it tells me G-FREE wasn't able to restore the S-ON

However, a reboot seemed to do the trick. It works!
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
Gene Poole will have to look into this
[HTC Inspire 4G] KingKongKajun:
Forgive me, for I usually speak too soon. /facepalm

I am now stuck as the Bootloader doesn't recognize the RUU apparently. Nothing is available to update. I will try again...

Edit: Nada. I ran the tool again. When Bootloader loads up, it doesn't see the RUU. I'm just gonna restore now.
[HTC Inspire 4G] cdshepherd:
the only way i could get this tool to work was to flash this PD98IMG from this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1058042 , then re-downloaded the tool and worked great. Remember only one PD98IMG on root of SD at a time. for those of you still having trouble i think you should try this, maybe it would help the OP, i dunno, just a thought

EDIT: i flashed the one that allows aftermarket apps
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
There seems to be an issue with the dalvik cache in the latest build. I've removed it for now until we can get this straightened out. The CM6 base apparently uses /cache partition for some of the dalvik core stuff and the /data partition for other app related dalvik stuff. By wiping the cache on install, it's causing issues.
[HTC Inspire 4G] KingKongKajun:
Thanks for the info, but I cannot get it to flash in the boot loader. Nor can I get the original tool to flash. Bootloader will check the PMDwhatever.zip and simply dismiss it. I don't know; strange. i was able to get CM7 on there for now until I can sort this out.

EDIT: However, I do have this in the Bootloader:

ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL

~:|
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
The OP has been updated. A new version is available. This one has a parameter from android-info.txt removed. The parameter was though to be necessary to clear the cache partition if you were coming from a ROM that uses ext4, or from a CM7 ROM where the dalvik cache is stored on the /cache partition instead of /data. It turns out that a blank cache is worse than a non-formatted cache and would cause a hang on boot. Until I can figure a way to auto format the cache partition, it will require an extra step. Now you should (must) do a "factory reset" in ClockWorkMod recovery to ensure a properly formatted cache partition.

Sorry about all the updates, but my testing base is limited to myself and ATTN1 at present and we've both got tons of other thing going on right now.
[HTC Inspire 4G] trell959:
Flashed new version and it is currently running. Thanks a bunch man :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] TheJokah:
new version worked perfectly. great work, keep it up:p
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
Great tool Gene if you could estimate, how far is this away from being stable?

I cant wait to try this out! Good luck.
[HTC Inspire 4G] KingKongKajun:
Thanks Gene for your hard work. This tool did, essentially, work. I just needed to add a few extra steps :P

It got me much closer than I would have been on my own, and I was able to return my unit for a new one today!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I'd wait and see for a few more posts if you're on the fence, but I think the additional step of full wipe before installation has fixed most issues.

Did you need to go to stock for warranty purposes or something?
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
Yes, for warranty reasons, I had a hard time using the Hack Kit, I kept getting hung up at random steps and had to use a alternate method, I was just looking for something easier like your tool if I ever had to do it again. :D

Plus I wouldn't mind returning to stock and start completely over with a clean slate..
[HTC Inspire 4G] black_mobility:
Feedback: It Works

Great job on this. I have not witnessed any hangs, I have S-ON and my phone is currently booting the stock image. If anyone is on the fence, go ahead and try it...just follow the directions as posted in the OP!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sdobron:
This will flash the stock shipping radio in the RUU, correct?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Yes it will; the stock radio for 1.80.502.3 which is 12.39.60.19_26.06.04.06_M.
[HTC Inspire 4G] baggenismo:
Thanks Gene Poole! By far the easiest method of returning to OEM.

Unfortunately my LCD developed a dead pixel that took the entire column with it, with any luck when I send the phone back they wont tell my i voided my warrante. I will keep you posted and let you know if HTC rejects the phone for replacement.

Thanks again!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Updated OP. Now there's a Gingerbread RUU version.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Alkaizer Lord:
Thank You

Thank you Gene Poole I was searching for hours trying to find a way to restore back to factory. I ended up bricking my phone until I stumbled upon this thread. Keep up the good work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bpodz34:
After i rename the .zip file and boot into hboot, it never starts or asks me to install it like the directions say it should. it checks for it but then goes back to main hboo screen please help

EDIT: I figured it out. When re-naming the file do not put the .zip in the name =). silly me it is already a .zip file so it wont work if you do this
[HTC Inspire 4G] Ethere:
I am going to try this again, but I do have one question. What's the difference of using this tool and downloading the exe for GB direct from HTC? Wouldn't that do the same thing, or am I missing something? Maybe the GB exe from HTC won't put S back on?
[HTC Inspire 4G] XxxJoeDirtxxX:
Great tool. Worked like a charm to me. I tried stock for a couple of days and couldnt stand it anymore so I re-rooted lol. Thanks for the good work!:D
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
The only difference is that you are still S-OFF after running the HTC RUU. That is a huge red-flag that the phone has been tampered with and will void the warranty.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ko0ky:
worked great.

thanks!
[HTC Inspire 4G] yogi2010:
hi, I was wondering if the issues that people were having previously were mostly with the Gingerbread version of this tool? my friend's father wants to put his phone back to before the GB update, so i was wondering if the Froyo version of this has worked well for people... thx in advance.
[HTC Inspire 4G] joedeuce:
I believe all issues have been sorted. An extra step is just necessary from what was originally thought, but OP instructions have been updated to include the extra step.
[HTC Inspire 4G] yogi2010:
awesome, thanks for the response. I'll check the directions closely and give it a shot in a day or two, if my friend's dad is brave enough, lol.
[HTC Inspire 4G] yogi2010:
btw, my friend's dad's Inspire is completely stock, so for good measure, shall i do the factory reset in settings/privacy for step 2? or does the Inspire have a stock recovery where i should do a data wipe? thx
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
If he's completely stock, then this tool won't work. You need to be S-OFF for the binaries to even load.

The main purpose of this is to return to S-ON for warranty purposes. It has the added feature of installing a stock ROM.
[HTC Inspire 4G] yogi2010:
ah ok, I see, thanks for the explanation. so I suppose if I really wanted to get the phone reverted back to Froyo, I could root it and make it S-OFF first, and then run this tool.....
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
That would probably work.
[HTC Inspire 4G] shugga101:
I can honestly say that this is tested and works.

I used this to return my phone to stock and unroot my inspire 4g before sending it into HTC to get my speaker fixed on it.

They didn't detect any software changes or alterations so my phone is still under warranty and was fixed for free besides $5 shipping to their RMA headquarters.

Thanks for this and I will be receiving my phone today. Im so excited to finally get my phone back. I've been using an Iphone and I hate this thing.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Sully6789:
Haha, I would chop my thumbs off before I ever went back to using an iPhone. This worked perfectly gene, amazing stuff, and thank you. You saved me $400.
[HTC Inspire 4G] squint986:
looking forward to trying this out when needed :p hopefully it goes well thanks gene for the awesome tool! :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] bootsie99:
I keep getting stuck at the checking .. [PD98IMG.zip]
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
What do you mean by getting stuck? Does the progress bar on the right-hand side move at all? Does the MD5 match? Could the SDCard be corrupt?
[HTC Inspire 4G] jdogg836:
I would assume one of two things.

1. Make sure that you didn't rename it PD98IMG.zip.zip. If you have extensions hidden, then you might have done that on accident.

2. Try re-downloading the file, check the MD5 and make sure the file isn't corrupted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bootsie99:
Sorry

It would go through and load the pd file throughhdboot and show progress bar on right and reboot and give me the splash screen to load the image on the card and then reboot and the hit hdboot and say checking and just sit there nothing to the right or below or anything
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
So it has made it past the phase where it actually sets S-ON, but failed to load the factory ROM? Check the HBOOT screen. See if you're S-ON now. If so, you can at least load the factory RUU:

http://www.htc.com/us/support/inspire-att/downloads/
[HTC Inspire 4G] bootsie99:
Yeah it got past the s-on and loaded the rom on the card, but then got stuck
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
Gene I ran into a snag due to having an ext4 cache partition, the first boot after installing the image would hang formatting cache alone didn't fix it, I had to go into my recovery's partitions menu and convert the ext4 partition back to ext3.

You might want to add that info to your directions.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I guess it depends on what recovery version you're using. Do the recoveries with EXT4 automatically format to EXT4 when wiping a partition? I don't know because I've never used EXT4*. Does the EXT4 recovery have an option to format EXT3?

* The whole concept of EXT4 on an embedded device is ludicrous in my not so humble opinion.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I'm leaning toward a bad or weak SDcard. Of course, now that you are S-ON, you can install the stock RUU from HTC and get to the same point.
[HTC Inspire 4G] gunnyman:
This recovery was installed by Pirate Ghost Rum Runner I think. To convert back to ext3 you gave to use the partition's menu. Formatting the partition doesn't convert the filesystem
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
As per the intructions, I complete step #4 and press power to reboot.

It reboots and I get the normal vibration when starting up, then a very short vibration and it just hangs at the custom splash screen.

After reading through the entire thread, I am kinda confused on what to do next whereas everyone who had a problem had to handle it differently.

What do I try next?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Sounds like a messed up cache partition. Did you do step two completely?
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
Hey Gene, yes I wiped correctly and 2 times to be exact, kind of anal when it comes to wiping. No pun intended. Any suggestions?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I understand there's a CWM recovery out there that formats EXT4 by default when you wipe. Could that be the case?
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
I presume that is possible whereas I am using latest recovery, only EXT3 I have is a back up of CM7
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
I'm not sure I follow. If you're cache is formatted EXT4, this will fail. If you're using a CWM recovery that formats EXT4 by default, then a wipe will format the cache EXT4. If your recovery has an option to format EXT3, then do that. If not, then you need a REAL CWM recovery.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
The 4EXTRecovery is cool because it specifically has options to restore partitions to EXT3 or EXT4 in a very intuitive manner. That's why I started using it in the first place since becoming a ROM whore and flashing between the two all the time. The code is based off CWM...
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
Everything was formatted EXT4.

When I go to reboot as normal, it just goes to my splash screen and does nothing, when I try to go into recovery mode, it automatically takes me to HBOOT and begins flashing your tool and I can either proceed with your tool, where it leaves me stuck at the splash screen like I originally stated or I can decline and it prompts me to reboot, where it just takes me to the splash screen and hangs again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
A suggestion: Take out the SD card so you can boot into recovery. Once in recovery, reinsert and mount the SD card in recovery. Then check out your partitions (if using 4EXTRecovery it tells you without prompt what fs your partitions are :)). Format appropriately. Reboot and try the tool again.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
Ok, I did this and before I put my SD card back in, it reads

everything is ext3

tells me current ROM is cm6

I put the sd in and cache changed to 4 and I did not reboot recovery
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
Cool. I will now defer back to GenePoole since I have never ran this tool. Good luck!!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
OK, then I think we've narrowed it down. Reformat your cache to EXT3 and rerun.
[HTC Inspire 4G] bdpyo:
currently running "SecurityFlagTool".

---------- Post added at 01:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:00 PM ----------

After correcting my small issue, everything went very smooth, I'd like to thank you guys for the quick help and for this great tool, Thank You.
[HTC Inspire 4G] g3ismeee:
Good I want to see this tool work :p. I haven't used it but never know if I might need to at some point.
[HTC Inspire 4G] sreadesjr:
ok not sure what to do here. I'm getting stuck after it checks the PD98IMG.zip says parsing...[sd zip] and has 1 boot 2 system 3 userdata 4 radio_v2 and 5 radio_cust. It sits there for a bit then says cancel update! press power to reboot. I'm not sure if its doing this cause the down volume is stuck or what but I need to get the phone back to factory settings so I can take it back for war purpose. Any suggestions on how to get it to work or another way to get it back to factory stock? Oh I did go in to factory restore in hboot and wiped cad and usersetting I think is the other one and still getting stuck on that part of the process.
[HTC Inspire 4G] antny:
its not just this but radios that i cant flash and i dont get why, did i root wrong or something? can someone please help me. I changed the name of the file to PD98IMG.img or .zip and nothing happens. I get into bootloader and its just a regular old screen, no prompts nothing different at all. currently im running Android Revolution HD™ 6.1.0 with the stock radio and all that nonsense if that helps. PLEASE SOMEONE ASSIST ME.
[HTC Inspire 4G] S.Reno9:
Did you try changing the name of the file to just... PD98IMG ....and because since it's zip file, it will add the .zip on by itself. Try that.
[HTC Inspire 4G] shackman716:
I was having the same issue for a while so I decided to rename the file just PD98IMG and that seemed to get the process going...its not done yet so I will check back in a few
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
You've got to watch it with Windows as, by default, it assumes the average user is too stupid to know what a file extension is and hides it from you. If possible, check or rename the file on the android device with one of the dozens of file manager apps for the android.

https://market.android.com/search?q=file+manager&so=1&c=apps
[HTC Inspire 4G] S.Reno9:
Deleted my question...found the answer.

Tool worked flawlessly....great job!!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] Ethere:
Guys I need some help. I've used this tool a few times now with much success. Today, I ran it, and I can get into HBOOT, and it checks the file. Once it's done checking the file, I get right back to the main HBOOT screen as if it had not checked the file. I made sure the MD5 checked out on the sdcard, but it still won't run. I can get into Clockword recovery, but have no idea what to do from here. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Cancel this. Got attn1's help in the chat room.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mpvsuperstar:
If I only want to unroot my phone but have the s-off should I still use this method?