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[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
I am having some major issues now. My rezound wont boot into anything but hboot.

I cant get into recovery at all. I've tried to flash Amon RA using the PH98IMG method on my SD card.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
I think he's past that. He said he's stuck on the juopunut bear screen if he did that wrong he'd be at the fastboot screen still.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Did you flash their hboot?
[HTC Rezound] kingpin003:
This is so depressing, I've tried at least 50 times and I can't get it to work because I can't get adb to detect the rezound on the green arrow screen. Any idea how to resolve that? Just reinstalled htc driver and that did not help. And before anyone asks, yes I ran as an admin.
[HTC Rezound] jefffeely:
It took a couple tries to get it to reset completely, but it did eventually work.

Now I just need to figure out how to steady my hands so I can do the darn wire trick.

As a side note: On Windows at least, ControlBear includes ADB and Fastboot. It unpacks them from the image and puts them in a tmp dir to use them.
[HTC Rezound] winged mantis:
I am unlocked, rooted, and running stock with AmonRa 3.15 recovery. What file should I use and is the process any different not being on a rom?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Do you have adb installed? If so, reboot your computer and see if it'll run
[HTC Rezound] nnnnr14:
now just getting white htc logo screen.. :/
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
I had the screen facing down the whole time I did this... so I have no clue what screens pop up. :eek:

You seem to have got this... I need to get off for a while. Lead em right. :cool:
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Did it flash? If so now you can flash amon ra and then flash you boot IMG and then boot ...lol
[HTC Rezound] mjones73:
Worked like a charm, thanks!
[HTC Rezound] graymonkey44:
Do you have "USB debugging" enabled?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Hahaha I'm dying over here. Refreshing both pages on the xda app lol
[HTC Rezound] kingpin003:
Yep. That's how I know it won't detect. I have a second cmd open and if I type adb devices while in the rom it lists the number of it, but once it reboots to the green arrow screen adb devices no longer lists anything.
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
I been here for several hours now... good luck.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Just let it run adb shoudnt be picking up at that point. That's like the base HTC recovery.
[HTC Rezound] krelvinaz:
At least I'm not the only one.

I tried reverting back to 3.14 with the same results, and then back to 3.15 with the same results.

Before S-Off, I had made a number of backups with 3.15.

Stock Rom GB, Rooted, S-Off
[HTC Rezound] qudwis:
YEA!!! S-Off!!!

now i'm going back to stock gb!!
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
When I go into HBOOT, it says Parsing PH98IMG, then goes right back into HBOOT.
[HTC Rezound] con247:
flash it as a PH98IMG.zip
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
What's the ph98img that your installing?
[HTC Rezound] nnnnr14:
now getting partion doesnt exist but it did flash.

ONE STEP CLOSER!!
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
ADB only detects the phone during certain modes... Regular boot and recovery mode... I do not think it detects the phone in hboot. I know it does not detect it during fastboot.

You need the fastboot .exe for that. When the phone is in fastboot, typing the command "fastboot devices" into a command prompt will show the phone if it is connected and in fastboot mode.

If you do not have the fastboot .exe this exploit will not run properly.
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
I took their jb_hboot and put it on the root of my SD card, then renamed it to PH98IMG.ZIP
[HTC Rezound] RoryHe:
I've been stuck on do wire trick now for like 20 minutes and i tried with a wire but i think a paper clip would be best but i can't find one ... is it okay to just close the program? or should i continue trying with what i got.
[HTC Rezound] kingpin003:
I have. It just sits there for 10+ min. It actually won't automatically load fastboot either. I have to do a battery pull just to get to the wire-trick. Then after that completes, it'll sit on the green arrow screen forever.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Just plug in your phone, put the hboot in your fastboot folder and run these commands.

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip

fastboot reboot
[HTC Rezound] qudwis:
i tried like 13 times and finally worked.

it took me over an hour.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Make sure your the metal piece your supposed to touch goes in a little. Don't just tap, you kinda need a little force.
[HTC Rezound] Marine6680:
Strip the wire back at least 3/8 inch. Use a small enough wire to fit down in the hole, the contact is deep in there.

Ok I'm out guys gotta get off here... good luck.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Haha you just can't leave. Too exciting and fun
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
When I run the "fastboot oem rebootruu" command, i just get "< waiting for devices >".
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
First, does your phone boot.
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
Yes my phone does boot.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Alright good. Is USB debugging enabled?
[HTC Rezound] NAU420:
I tried for a few hours, had to pull the battery and now I think I just bricked my phone. I tried to restart the program and the phone. I only get:

Starting up......

Waiting device

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

No beer for bear tonight :(

Press ENTER to exit.....

thats it nothing else....
[HTC Rezound] drmanhattan:
I successfully achieved s-off on one device, ran in to countless errors caused by htc sync, once disabled the first phone went off without a hitch. Second device goes through the entire process then returns error code 6635something message still sober. The instructions inform that i am miss timing the wire trick, but i am doing the same thing i did on my other rezound
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
I can't get into any ROM at all to enable USB debugging.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
What screen are you on?
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
I thought the usual method for flashing a recovery was through fastboot.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Timing is key. Try again and put 1.5 secs in between or whatever the website said
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Make sure your on the fastboot screen. Not regular hboot.
[HTC Rezound] kingpin003:
Attached a pic of my cmd windows. Used fastboot to reflash recovery and boot. Rebooted and ran adb devices to make sure it was connected successfully and started ControlBear as admin. It's been sitting on the green arrow screen for 5 min already.
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
I am on this screen:
[HTC Rezound] nnnnr14:
Now its just the white htc screen when i try to boot...
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
You don't have s-off that's why. Did you try and this happened?
[HTC Rezound] RoryHe:
GOT IT WOOT...

i installed the included hboot that's good right? and i could flash something else now anyways huh
[HTC Rezound] androidrookie84:
u guys got me scared to turn the s-off
[HTC Rezound] maqsur:
I actually did this whole process starting in fastboot. The only issue was timing the wire trick
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
Yep.. This is what happened to my phone.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
You need to flash a boot img
[HTC Rezound] Hotweelz66:
I've been going through the process all day long. I finally unlocked. Then I gained root but did not install any roms or anything else. I read through S-Off instructions then start the process and then it tells me I need to be rooted. ????

I'm pretty sure I'm rooted. I have Superuser installed, busybox installed with granted permissions. Even added terminal emulator to check for root that way. Am I missing something here??? :confused:

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
You have to finish. Either that or you have to ruu to stock ics. It won't work otherwise
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Are you on Windows?
[HTC Rezound] Hotweelz66:
yes
[HTC Rezound] luis86dr:
Great. Its getting worse for me now. Now everytime I run the .exe I get this:

======== ControlBear version 0.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

Making room for beer......

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....

Maybe this has something to do with the SD being fried now? rofl.
[HTC Rezound] con247:
I used a paperclip that was insulated. So just wrap one up with electrical tape and that will be fine.
[HTC Rezound] smokestacknj:
sounds easy enough thnx man
[HTC Rezound] con247:
Yeah it is easy.
[HTC Rezound] graymonkey44:
Seems like people are still having issues in the other thread though.
[HTC Rezound] Evo4gLI:
That's why I'm going to wait a few hours until I see some of the issues getting hashed out..... This is pretty awesome though
[HTC Rezound] con247:
I think it could have installed the ICS hboot on GB firmware or the opposite. So people might need to flash a new hboot. IDK though.
[HTC Rezound] fenguepay:
Does iot ahve to be 100% charged or can i be 50 or so? and also, do i run the exe and then do it and im good. I would like a VERY BRIEF tutorial. Like:

1. plug in

2. run program

3. wire trick 4. ????

5. PROFIT. i may ahve been right there, but please confirm this for me
[HTC Rezound] Evo4gLI:
If I haven't flashed the ICS RUU, then I use the GB version, correct?
[HTC Rezound] graymonkey44:
Correct.
[HTC Rezound] fenguepay:
ATTENTION

Who thinks i should add the s-off process to ym unlocking tutorial :O

I think that would be a very good thing

I could make a 10 minute unlock and s-off

Should i?
[HTC Rezound] con247:
I used the ICS version and I am on GB firmware running ICS.

The only difference is the hboot they try to give you. If you refuse it each version will probably work.
[HTC Rezound] evilstewie23:
Yes, for mac lol
[HTC Rezound] graymonkey44:
You're probably right... The exe is probably the same for both... What distinguishes GB from ICS is the hboot flash.
[HTC Rezound] snowride20:
This would be great as I feel a bit overwhelmed. Anyone going to make a YouTube video?

sent from my Clean Rezound
[HTC Rezound] fenguepay:
for what, unlocking? my tutorial is noob proof, im making version 2.0 right now. It simply redirects you to htcdev.com instead of painstakingly entering it on your browser. by 2.2 i should have the s-off integrated

---------- Post added at 06:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:27 PM ----------

The real big reason though, is so i get bragging rights for having the fastest unlocker out there. Its already fast, i just unlocked my device a few minuted ago. It ook only 2 minutes. The longest part is dragging the unlock_code.bin into the unlocker folder. Other than that, it is completely automated and you do not even have to take off the back cover.

---------- Post added at 06:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:29 PM ----------

Right now, the unlocker will be in the folder but will not actively be in the bat file
[HTC Rezound] con247:
Honestly this is very quick already and should not need further automation.
[HTC Rezound] jomama123:
im assuming this don't work with Mac?? i didn't see a download regarding Mac
[HTC Rezound] graymonkey44:
Nope, linux or windows my friend.
[HTC Rezound] ijustwantmydock:
how do run control bear in ubuntu?
[HTC Rezound] ProTekk:
chmod +x ControlBear && sudo ./ControlBear
[HTC Rezound] maqsur:
Try running controlbear with your phone in fastboot mode. I never saw an adb command being used and I was able to s-off.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Do you have a sd card in?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Did you run as admin? Is USB debugging enabled?
[HTC Rezound] luis86dr:
Yup. Just reseated the SD card. Rebooting device and going for another round at this. I feel like pulling my damn hair out. lol.
[HTC Rezound] Hotweelz66:
Ok I'll try that.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Try formating it. Or maybe another ad card.
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
I need to be able to lock my device. Fastboot wont detect my phone. Any insight here?
[HTC Rezound] kingpin003:
Alright, I'm at 15 min on this green arrow screen. It's obviously not doing anything. ControlBear cmd window still says waiting device. Any idea?
[HTC Rezound] luis86dr:
Seems to be the problem. Just loaded up and got a "Blank SD Card" in Drop down menu. Clicked it to format but doesnt seem to do anything. This is my only spare. I dont want to take a chance on my 32 gig. lol.

In dropdown menu it also notes.

Sd Card blank or has unsupported filesystem.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Understandable. How big is this card? I used my 16gb perfectly btw.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
What happens of you rerun the controlbear?
[HTC Rezound] maqsur:
I ran into that as well. Take out battery and USB cable then reconnect and start controlbear again. Took me like 20 tries to get it right, mainly the wire timing
[HTC Rezound] Hotweelz66:
I tried that and this is what I get:

======== ControlBear version 0.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Waiting device

Program requires root, sorry.

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....
[HTC Rezound] thisiswar951:
I ran into the error when I was stuck on the Screen with the arrow so I reflashed my boot.img then once booted tried to run the program again and it opens and says no beer for bear today. then exit's.

======== ControlBear version 0.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

No beer for bear tonight :(

Press ENTER to exit.....

Should I try restarting my computer I got 20g copper wire from lowes
[HTC Rezound] Nopi45:
I think I messed up one of my SD cards it says it only has 108KB and thats after formating.. any body had that problem yet?
[HTC Rezound] kingpin003:
That's the thing, I can't get to the wire timing. You know how it shows the green arrow and sends you to fastboot to have you perform the wire trick? Mine never does. :confused:
[HTC Rezound] luis86dr:
Used the 16gig that came with the device. Im trying to format the SD under

Settings - Storage - Format SD and nothing happens. Its just not my day.
[HTC Rezound] rexorz:
I get the following:

Starting up......

No beer for bear tonight :(

Press Enter to exit.....
[HTC Rezound] brycekerr:
SD Card Won't Mount

I performed the whole process and it worked flawlessly, i was done in about 5 minutes. I used a separate SD and reformatted afterwards. However, once I replaced my old SD with my data it isn't being recognized by the phone. When I boot it into recovery, i can still navigate the card so I'm not sure where the issue lies. I'm running CleanROM 4.3
[HTC Rezound] Pucuck:
I had the same issue but I took my card out and popped it into a card reader. Windows saw the card and let me format it without any issues. Maybe try this?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Are the files extracted to the same location?
[HTC Rezound] con247:
What firmware & android version? And what version of the utility did you use?
[HTC Rezound] Nopi45:
For all the people that cant even get to start to do the wire trick try to turn off HTC sync on your computer that was my problem.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Are the files in the same location?
[HTC Rezound] Nopi45:
and just got S-OFF
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Same. Had to format in windows to get it to work. Wad just about to say this.
[HTC Rezound] luis86dr:
Well Im **** out of luck. I dont have a external card reader. Hmm.
[HTC Rezound] brycekerr:
SD Card Won't Mount

Android - 4.0.3

Sense - 3.6

Kernel - 3.0.16-g4a9c8a3

I used the win64 ICS utility
[HTC Rezound] maqsur:
When I first ran the program I started in fastboot, meaning pulled the battery, then pressed vol down and power til bootloader menu came up.

Now several times I ran the program it would be stuck on the green arrow, if it happened I would keep pulling battery (and USB cable) then I would replace the battery and cable, without turning on the phone myself, because it usually turned on to bootloader as soon as I plugged USB cable back in.
[HTC Rezound] Pucuck:
Only issue I have is I can't seem to flash a recovery. I ran the GB version of the tool since I was on rooted GB bulid. Everything worked fine and got the S-Off on the second try. Ran an RUU to just check and see if it would still work alright. Decided to flash the ICS leak but now I can't flash AMON RA 3.15. Does it have to be put in a PH98IMG.zip?
[HTC Rezound] nnnnr14:
and im bricked.... :mad:
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Well if your doing it that way. I say put the IMG file in the fastboot folder and running the command

Fastboot flash recovery <insert recovery name>.zip
[HTC Rezound] tbogs:
I failed the first time with the wire trick. Trying to do it again and this message keeps coming up as others are having the same issue:

Starting up......

No beer for bear tonight

Press Enter to exit.....

I reinstalled recovery and the boot img to the rom I was using. My files that I extracted for running the S-Off are in the same location.
[HTC Rezound] qudwis:
what's the problem? need more than "bricked".
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
I doubt it. I don't think we've bricked a phone in a while, if at all. Does it boot?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Hey guys if you have any more problems please try and use the search bar. I'm trying to finish off a few more people before I crash. Seems like I've answered the same question like ten times. No offense, just trying to keep the thread clean of the same question ten times lol.
[HTC Rezound] thisiswar951:
the controlbear jb_hboot and jb_boot yeah they are.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Reboot your computer. Or look for the program in task manager and kill it. If that doesn't work, remove your ad and format it in windows.
[HTC Rezound] thisiswar951:
Same exact problem as you man
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Try rebooting your computer. If that doesn't work, try to format the sd card in windows
[HTC Rezound] Nopi45:
Got any ideals on what caused my 16GB sd card to only have 108KB (even after formatting in the phone and on the computer)?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Sorry man nothing comes to mind. Google it. It's happened to me before it just Im brain dead from answering all these questions.
[HTC Rezound] qudwis:
I just got the s-off and locked, but I needed to unlock again to install stock recovery

to go back to stock gb. After relocking then ruuing, I have s-off and relocked on hboot.

how can i change the "relocked" to "locked"?
[HTC Rezound] thisiswar951:
Format it as what format ? FAT,NTFS or ? I tried rebooting my computer that didnt work.
[HTC Rezound] nnnnr14:
it wont boot and i finnaly got it into recovery and look if you cant see it its a lot of errors and i tried to wipe and i tried to run the s-ofkf script again and i tried to reflash my rom but nothing its f'ed up
[HTC Rezound] luis86dr:
Looks like I'll be hitting up best buy tommorow for a micro sd card reader. Ill make a attempt at this again tommorow.

Edit: BINGO. NVM. Pulled out my old droid charge and I was able to format in the sdcard with it. lol.
[HTC Rezound] Pucuck:
I thought I bricked....well, screwed up and had a lot of work ahead of me to get things back to a running state. Anyways, here is how my process went: I started up the program and it loaded all the files and rebooted the phone. I, being too hasty, left the cover on the phone. I closed the cmd window and disconnected. I tried rebooting but it kept going back to bootloader. I reran the program but it wouldn't let me try to do the wire trick. It did let me do a "fastboot oem relock" thankfully, and I was able to run the RUU and get back up and running. I re-unlocked, rooted and all of that fun. Then I started over and actually took the cover off. Got it to take on the second attempt. Is this what "bricked" people are running into?
[HTC Rezound] brett014:
Has anyone ran on to the problem that when it reboots right before the pin-trick it takes you to a black screen with htc in white letters? in the video they provided you do the pin trick in the bootloader

any help would be appreciated... on attempt 100 or so it seems
[HTC Rezound] mxair2001:
I have read this thread and the "S-Off Discussion" one and have tried everything suggested but cant get past the "No beer for bear tonight" issue.

It ran ok the first time but I failed the wire timing. Flashed recovery and PH98IMG from the ROM I'm using so I am back to my desktop.Debugging is on and it is in charging mode. Tried formatting two different SD cards, done battery pulls, wiped cache, s-off files are in same folder as my fastboot files...

I dont know what else to try, this is driving me crazy....dumb bear, drink your beer! lol

Any advice or guidance would be apprecited.
[HTC Rezound] maqsur:
1. I was already htcdev unlocked and running custom rom (ics and newer firmware).

2. I downloaded the juoponot program for linux. FYI, I was running kubuntu 12.04 in VMware workstation.

2a. As an aside, a couple times doing the wire trick I managed to get the device into a state in windows showing qshusb_dnld - driver not found. Did a quick google search and found a win7 x64 driver on xda in the EVO 3d unbrick thread.

3. Never did I start the controlbear program while my rom was booted. During each try I was always in bootloader and/or fastboot.

4. Over the course of 20 tries I would either hang at fastboot menu, or the green arrow screen. Each time the screen and or controlbear program did nothing for 10 secs or more I would pull the battery and USB cable and then replug and run the controlbear again.

5. My main roadblock was timing the wire trick (meaning the time between the two ground taps). The way I knew I was successful since my screen was upsidedown, was listening to the sounds of windows when it detected the hardware. If you timed the taps right you would hear two successive sounds indicating that hardware was successfully inserted.

6. Even the few times I got that successful, I would still eventually get the s-off failed error message.

7. On the 20th try or so, I got the timing right and the phone rebooted like 3 or 4 times, then success.

That is as detailed as I can get. One last note, I tried with a cut cat5 cable but was hit or miss. Switched to a plain paperclip and that worked much easier and better.
[HTC Rezound] thisiswar951:
Same problem as me Only thing I can think of is maybe wiping completely then installing rom and kernal then trying again?
[HTC Rezound] tbogs:
I just tried all these options and nothing seems to be working. Keep getting the same message. I will keep messing around with things and see what happens. I appreciate the help.
[HTC Rezound] urushiol:
A HUGE thanks to everyone involved in this. Was stock on the newest ICS leak. Was able to get S-OFF and roll back to GB, and reload mikmiks ineffable!
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
It's like there is no way to get past that. Once you get it its like there isn't any way past it. I cant even think straight right now. I got it on my first shot. Idk why some people are getting these problems. I wish they would help at all. It's like here you go. Now go have fun and we won't help u at all. I've been on here for like two hours helping people...
[HTC Rezound] MrWizzu:
Same thing happened to me. After I got S-Off I just had to reinstall a RUU and it worked fine again, no amount of formatting would work otherwise. Hope this helps.
[HTC Rezound] nicotinic:
mission accomplished

Yeah, it was like disarming a friggin' bomb. I had to have the video playing in one window with the program prompting me to do the trick in the other...took me about 4 tries. Changed from jury-rigged wire to paperclip.

"Hurt Locker II: S-OFF"

:D
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
Guys, I think im done for the night. If anyone REALLY needs help inbox me. Before you do thought, check this thread. With 50+ pages we should have your answer.
[HTC Rezound] maqsur:
Love it, I also used the paperclip. Told my family I was doing electrophysiologic testing on the phone, basically defibrillating it. :D