yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 and Desire Z General] tnuis:
This broke my phone:(

Everything went well untill last reboot. Was supposed to then have the new ICS rom installed......But instead, no matter matter wat i do i only get the standard white startup screen with green HTC letters. Nothing more happens. Can still get into bootloader but nothing there works. Not factory reset, not the clockwork recovery, nothing:( Clockwork recovery will start but none of the menu options will work. It just freezes with the standard CWreovery logo. If hit any button i get back to menu. Hopeless...

Please help me.....This is my wifes phone......aaaaaa.

P.S. HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Don't use the power button in recovery, use either trackpad or camera to select stuff.

Might also be worth trying that 'fastboot -w' command someone mentioned a few posts back.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] tnuis:
at least that worked:)

Ok, that worked, using the togglebutton.

So i selected the rom to flash and i get the following error message:

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "

pyramid"

E:Error in /sdcard/rom.zip

(status 7)

Installation aborted.

Any suggestions. I'm stuck here.....
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
The problem is you are trying to flash a pyramid (sensation) rom on a vision (desire z). Which rom are you trying to flash? Where did you find it?

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] tnuis:
..

Using this one:

virtuous_quattro_alpha3_pyramid

It's supposed to be the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 for my htc dezire z

So u are saying this is the wrong rom?

Can't remember exactly were i found it. had to use several links to find a valid download link. Maybe you have any other suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
wrong rom, you can tell by the pyramid in the name.

This one should be the Vision rom, http://hulkshare.com/4zryobjlhyza

Always get roms from the Android Development forum.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] magnummandel:
Perhaps you forgot to flash the boot image or had an error while flashing it. Have you followed steps 5-7 properly?

MM
[G2 and Desire Z General] tnuis:
..

Ok, will try that:)

Do you have any experience with this rom vs cyanogenmod?

I use the stock ics on my incredible s and like it. Any tips before i install would be very much appreciated:)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Nope never tried Virtuous Quattro. Preferred to use Andromadus.

No tips I could offer.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] tnuis:
??

Ok, thank you.

So flashing the rom from the sd through clockworkmod recovery was succesful. choose reboot in the menu and it is still stuck at boot up screen (white screen with green htc letters)

this is starting to give me a headache:) been busy for almost 2 whole days now.

it will not get past boot screen no matter what. what can i do? is there any way to reboot the whole thing and start all over?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Look at the OP, you have to open the rom.zip, pull out the boot.img and 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] tnuis:
Nipqer is the BEST:)

Oh yeah forgot to change the boot.img file and re run the command.

This worked:) New custom rom up and running, finally, after 2 days. had I only found your post earlier......

Again Thank you thank you so much,

Your the best:)
[G2 and Desire Z General] DemonSteel:
I've followed all the steps, it just keeps hanging at the HTC screen, before the letters come in and it would make a sound. I left it all night and it just kept hanging, even after I sideloaded in the rom's .zip.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Want to join the #G2ROOT irc channel? should be easier figuring out the problem there.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] magnummandel:
Try to re-flash the rom and the boot.img
[G2 and Desire Z General] dave_id:
hey,nice post (too bad I didn't found it earlier)

I've flashed a custom recovery using your method

I had an error message when I wanted to make a backup of my stock rom

it all went good until backing-up .android_secure

"error while making a backup image of /sdcard/.android_secure!"

can you help?

thanks

edit:

it appears that my android_secure directory is taking up to 2gigs! and I didn't had enough room on my sd card...

is there a way to clean that directory ,it seems huge to me!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
I'm not really sure what lives in android_secure, I think it's just a bunch of app data.

You could probably just copy it to your desktop and delete it off the sdcard to get a backup working.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] zombie468:
thankyou so much for this i used the bootloader unlocker months ago and havnt been able to gain root until i found your thread i love these forums :)

---------- Post added 10th April 2012 at 12:06 AM ---------- Previous post was 9th April 2012 at 11:42 PM ----------

okay getting an error wheni try and flash a custom recovery

c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (3652 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.624s]

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.626s

please help im desperate to get this sorted i unlocked with the htcdev unlocker
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
You must've relocked it.

You can either relock and get s-off

or leave it unlocked and follow the rest of the guide.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] dave_id:
hey nipqer!

I want now to flash a rom

i'm just not sure at all about this line:

"4. Flash the rom.zip from your sdcard"

is is the part where extract boot.img and copy it to the root of the sd card?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
You have to the rom.zip onto the root of your sdcard, and reboot into recovery mode and select 'flash zip from sdcard'

This will flash all the rom files into /system and wherever else they need be.

Once you've done that, you need a copy of the boot.img on your computer, so that you can 'fastboot flash boot boot.img' so that the new rom will work.

I think the newest version of 4ext touch defeats the write protection on boot partition, so that the 'fastboot flash boot boot.img' step will soon be obsolete

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] dave_id:
thanks a ton,you were so helpfull!

I asked you somewhere else if you can have several recoveries but I guess not?

can i replace the clockworkmod one with the 4ext and reinstall it your way?

then will I have to skip the fastboot line and only do that?

1. Download the rom.zip you wish to run.

2. Extract boot.img from the zip and place it in the folder with fastboot.

3. Copy the rom.zip to your sdcard

4. Flash the rom.zip from your sdcard

5. Reboot to fastboot mode (as above)

6. XXXX
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
You can only have one recovery at a time.

I don't know if 4ext disables the write protect yet or its just a planned feature at the moment, so you probably still need to fastboot flash it

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] dave_id:
thanks

thing is I've used the 4Ext recovery updater,

it told me that I can try the pro version for some time,and suggested a recovery that I installed, thing is that back in recovery mode ,it's still the clockworkmod one...so I guess I'm gonna have to do it manually.

what is confusing is that 4ext recovery seems to have a pro and a free version of the recovery(one older) and the pro one seems to have S-on capabilities for flashing boot.imgs...

thing is that I'm not expert enough to be positive about it...

EDIT:the latest 4ext recovery works for S-ON devices but only for newer HTC models ,not the desire...I've contacted the 4ext creator.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
The 4ext updater will not be able to flash the 4ext recovery due to s-on. You could get it to download a recovery.img to your sdcard, then pull it to your computer and 'fastboot flash recovery recovery.img'

But, if as you said, this recovery doesn't flash boot.img for older devices with s-on then there's no real point to changing recovery as you will still need to fastboot flash a boot img

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] catherall:
Guide: Taco Root for Desire HD with Sense 3.x

Attention: All information provided in this post are "as is", no warranties, use at your own risk! Read everything first before using Taco Root.

Taco Root proved to work for temp root on the updated HTC Desire HD (Ace) with Sense 3.x (Android 2.3.5). When you root your phone with Taco Root then the phone will not full boot, that is normal.

To use Taco Root just download the Taco Root script from https://github.com/CunningLogic/TacoRoot/zipball/master.

Steps to use Taco Root:

The following steps assume that you know how to install and use adb.

Download Taco Root script tacoroot.sh and extract it into your platform-tools folder (or wherever you have adb).

Boot phone into recovery once, that is necessary for Taco Root to work properly:

adb reboot recovery

Reboot phone into Android by pushing the buttons Volume down, Trackpad and Power simultaneously for about 10 seconds.

Put the script on the phone and setup Taco Root:

adb push tacoroot.sh /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/tacoroot.sh
adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp
./tacoroot.sh --setup

The script reboots your phone automatically into recovery.

Reboot into Android (phone will most probably not boot fully, you might even see no splash screen).

Root the phone:

adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp
./tacoroot.sh --root

Don't be surprised, you phone will be booted into recovery again.

Reboot it to Android and connect to the phone shell.

adb shell

Now you should see the prompt "#" which indicates that you got root access now. :cool:

You can set the version string of your phone using misc_version or make other modifications.

Of course you do not have S-OFF yet, so writing to partitions like /system, /recovery or /boot is not possible.

After setting the version string your phone is ready to downgrade.

If you want to uninstall Taco Root then use the script again:

adb shell
cd /data/local/tmp
./tacoroot.sh --undo

This will reboot you phone.

To remove the script use the following command:

adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/tacoroot.sh

Some advice from Justin Case (developer of the Taco Root script): "While the phone will be highly unstable, and may not fully boot, you will have a root shell with adb. This gives you the ability to patch misc, and downgrade your phone."

Note: Dan Rosenberg discovered the Taco Root exploit first, earlier than Case.

Best regards,

Catherall
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zendarino:
Great guide! Thx man!! :thumbup::thumbup:

Inviato dal mio HTC Desire Z by Zendarino
[G2 and Desire Z General] JamesUK3:
Ok, whats a "Platform Tools Folder"?

Is this some sort of Windows PC software?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Its the folder that contains your platform tools. Automaticaly created in windows when you downloaded sdk
[G2 and Desire Z General] navarde:
I have encounter this and apparently wont flash. I follow all indication word by word and i have done it twice already. Any help will be appreciated

D:\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (3948 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.266s]

writing 'recovery'...

(bootloader) signature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 2.500s

D:\android-sdk\platform-tools>
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Read the guide carefully, recovery won't flash because you must've relocked your bootloader. (does it say '****RELOCKED****' at the top of the hboot screen?)

You have to either re-unlock your bootloader (fastboot flash unlock token or whatever)

OR follow the downgrade and \ guides from XDA (much better unlock)

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] navarde:
I have tried it as well and did encounter similar issues. On ADB I do get the lovely #, practically is when I try to downgrade it won't find stockrom on the fast method or IMG on the manual method. I rename the zip with and with out zip, never double zip.

I will follow your suggestion and post any questions on the other guide, I just got tired of trying to downgrade, wanted to try this one instead. A million Thanks for replying.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jarfullofcherry:
Temp Root

---

7. If you did get kicked out of adb shell, open it again. You should now see the lovely # instead of $, thus granting you temp root. Go ahead and exit out of shell to proceed to the next stage.

> adb shell
# exit

---

Hi Nipqer, I'm just wondering, after the step #7, when my phone is already temp rooted, can I stop and still be able to use my Desire Z? Will there be changes to it at this time? TIA.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Yes you can use your DZ, however, it may not be very stable, as the exploit is still active, and keeping it exploited isn't the best idea (don't be surprised if it crashes).

Also, if you have unlocked with htcdev/got s-off, any changes to /system will stick, as write protection is disabled.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] jarfullofcherry:
DZ Root

Thank you so much, Nipqer. BTW, what would be the most stable custom ROM for DZ then? (Pardon me if it's already in one of the threads :confused:)

-Jar
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
I've been using Mimicry for months now, heaps stable enough I find.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] pannu89:
Hi Niqper

Thanks for this brilliant guide. I accidentally unlocked my phone using HTCDEV, and your guide helped me a lot in rooting and flashing roms afterwards.

I flashed many roms and am currently running one of flinny's CM10 test builds on my Desire Z.

Is there any way I can get S-Off now after flashing so many custom roms?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Look to the first post, relock bootloader, then downgrade, then exploit using gfree... you will be very happy you did
[G2 and Desire Z General] ahui168:
hello,

I followed the guide to get the root, however when wanting to put a custom rom sends me the following error: E: Error in / sdcard/MyTouchUX_v3.zip (Status 7).

The phone does not pass myTouch screen.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Check the md5 of the rom zip, if the source had one attached. Otherwise try a different rom

-Nipqer

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z General] ahui168:
hello, apparently if it was the rom that was wrong, I tried another and since I could install.

Thank you very much!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
query

I'm using T-mobile g2 I've rooted my phone successfully and flashed CWM..but the problem is on flashing a custom rom it does not boot further and get stuck on the htc start up screen..
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Boot into your bootloader and write down everything on that screen
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
I am unable to fastboot flash boot boot.img it shows the error message FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 0.669s..what does it mean??
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Again, the more information you give the more likely you will get good help. Post everying from your bootloader screen and if you can also post a copy of the commands used in fastboot
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
VISION PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.82.0008

MICROP-0425

RADIO-26.13.04.19_M

eMMC-boot

Apr 13 2011,14:51:54

IN ADB I USED fastboot flash boot boot.img

and the error shown is sending 'boot' <3330kb>...

OKAY [ 0.720s]

writing 'boot'...

FAILED <remote: not allowed>

finished.total time: 0.720s
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
You have a stock hboot, does it say unlocked at the top of the screen? If it doesn't you are limited to the commands you can execute in fastboot mode. Do you know what method you used to get s-off? If you have true radio s-off (rooted using gfree method) then you just need to flash an engineering hboot and your good, but then of course you don't need to flash the kernel after every ROM flash.

If you used some other method and have fake s-off that it may not be safe to flash any PC10IMG.zip without knowing. In other words if you can assure me what method you used to root I can tell you what is safe and what is not at the point you are in now
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
I have used Superone click root..to root this phone and no it doesnt say unlocked..and it came with S-Off.
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
That's you're issue then, super one click is not an optimal way to obtain root access, you are best off to follow the xda wiki to downgrade and the root and get true radio soff via the gfree method.

Right now you can not change to an engineering hboot without risk or possibly not at all, but you should be able to flash ROMs through a custom recovery, I believe your current boot loader is partitioned as a g2 (opposed to the dz) which means you are limited to non sense ROMs.

But trust me, all youre headaches go away if you root properly
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
I'm on a gingerbread..and I tried to root it using xda method but I was not able to root it??
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
You need to downgrade first, go here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15851661

Follow instructions, if you get stuck post in that thread, I or someone else will help you there. If you do get stuck post as much information as possible, including cmd printout
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
I've successfully downgraded to froyo but on entering the following commands adb push su /data/local/tmp/

adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/

adb push fixsu.sh /data/local/tmp/

adb install SuperUser.apk

adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/fixsu.sh

adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/busybox

adb shell /data/local/tmp/fixsu.sh

I am getting error no such file or directory found.?? what to do now??
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Firstly, those commands are not needed on froyo, you need to go to a rooting/s-off guide (try the wiki, or cyanogenmod's wiki, or strawmetal's pdf)

Secondly, with trying to troubleshoot problems like that, it helps to know exactly where in the process it breaks, a screenshot or complete pastebin of your cmd/terminal is very useful

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
query

Hey in each and every sense Rom my opera mini crashes..I want to keep running it background..can u help me..??
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Sorry man, can't help with that at all.

My advice though: don't use sense roms.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
well its ok then can u tell me which will be the best rom for my g2..??
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
No I cannot tell you what the 'best' rom is, as there is no single 'best' rom, and each different rom has advantages and disadvantages, as well as conforming to different peoples tastes.

Have a look through the various rom threads in the Development forum, and see which ones seem to be what you're looking for.

- Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] Talha7866:
thanxx..
[G2 and Desire Z General] bigwilly90210:
hey so i was on 2.3.4 and i unlocked bootloader and tried flashing a custom rom. was that bad? will it not work? because everything i've tried so far it just hangs at the white htc screen at boot. wtf... is there more to it than that?
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
It depends on what your trying to flash, just unlocking your bootloader simply allows for minimum access to your phone, it allows a custom recovery and the ability to flash a stockish rom. But mostly you need to take the kernel from the rom and flash it through fastboot after you flash the rom. And if you have the g2 hboot you can't flash anything sense as the system partition is too small.

You are best to relock your bootloader and follow the method of rooting in the xda wiki, downgrade and exploit via gfree
[G2 and Desire Z General] chittaksh:
Having Problem Rooting

Hello,

First of all i made a mistake of using htcdev. So i had to come here and follow this tutorial.. I followed this completely and then tried to install the Affinity Rom from Virtuous but it never finished and was hanged at the green HTC icon in beginning. Later i realized the i need S-OFF so i went back to this thread to downgrade but it isn't working..

The only possible running OS is the Stock GingerBread

Please Help and tell what to follow next??

How to Completely root and get S-OFF??
[G2 and Desire Z General] demkantor:
Just follow the first 8 lines of the first post in this thread
[G2 and Desire Z General] mohA™:
when i write this comand

chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/fre3vo

i have error not a directory
[G2 and Desire Z General] shaikyousuf458@gmail.com:
htc pc10110 hardreset hang problum

my htc pc10110 hang logo and i am try to hardrest ? but hang problum only plzz tell any another solution i dont know what i do iam new joyner of from
[G2 and Desire Z General] The Android Manual:
What? :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] babokd:
Anyone notice that the incall volume is too low? I noticed this when I was listening to Pandora in my car with the AUX input. A call comes in, I can barely hear the caller even with the incall volume at 100. I pump up the stereo to be able to hear, then the call ends, and I have Pando:confused:ra blasting my ears off.

Tried apps, the service menu isnt the same as I've seen online in other posts, so frustrated.....:confused:.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] 0MN1:
Hey babokd,

Though this is my first post on XDA, I have been "trolling" quite a while and sucking up all the useful information I can. That said, this is the first time that I think I may have an answer. I hope this helps.

Bottom Line: If you have Google Voice installed, try uninstalling it and then make a call.

I will offer the troubleshooting I went through below so that anyone reading this can guage the validity of this and provide better commentary. I am not half as technically smart as the rest of the people here!

I have been having the same issue with my T-Mobile SGSII. I went through great lengths to figure it out. I noticed that on my phone the volume rocker works during calls to turn up and down when connected to auxillary and on speaker. However, the volume does not actually change.

I believe this issue stems with the KL1 update that I obtained through Samsung Kies. I reverted back to stock and the volume worked fine. I updated again to the KL1 update and reloaded all my apps, etc. Volume was broke again! (note: I did not install Google Voice when I reverted back to stock, so this could be an issue in the stock version as well).

As you suggested about the service menu... I am not sure if this is a KL1 issue, but on my T-Mobile variant of the SGSII (T989), the service codes that a lot of people are talking about do not work as well. It says "menu does not exist" after entering the codes.

In attempt to find a better answer for the T-Mobile variant, I updated to KL1 and installed all my apps one by one, but making a phone call after each app was installed. In my case, I found the culprit:

Google Voice

As opposed to other posts that I have seen saying Google Voice helps increase the call volume, I suggest that it does not. On the contrary, it makes the volume stick at low volume with no way to turn it up in speaker or auxillary. I uninstalled Google Voice and voila!, volume works again.

After all of this, I will still note that my SGSII volume is still not at the level I want during calls, but it is a whole lot more acceptable. Unfortunately, I can't use Google Voice for my calls now because I have it uninstalled just so I can make calls while driving.

I hope this was semi-insightful and helps you and others. At the very least, I hope someone else that is more tech-saavy chimes in!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bigcletus:
Do any options help in the call settings like hearing aid or TTY? Seems like these might affect the volume output.

I was just on a call and the volume seemed to be max on the earpiece. Pressing the volume switch shows the increase and decrease as pressed but the output volume stayed at max. I made a second call and the problem went away. Not sure what the deal is, maybe related to the rom i am using (beastmod)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DensoYamaha41:
Are you running a custom rom or stock? Most custom roms I have run are too loud and I end up having the volume between half way which is nice to have wiggle room.

I am running.

[ROM]▐[22.JAN.12]⁞★★Seanster_GBaxe EX v1.4.1:Taste of ICS★★⁞Android 2.3.6⁞Fauxv0.0.7▐