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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UNFJoel:
Hi,

I am having an issue accessing Recovery to make a backup of my current ROM from HBOOT on my HTC Droid Incredible running Cyanogenmod 7.1.0. My phone was rooted using the unrEVOked method listed on the Cyanogenmod web page. I have attempted three methods to access recovery:

1. I load ROM Manager v5.0.0.6 on the phone and then select "Backup Current ROM." The phone reboots into HBOOT v0.92. I use the Volume Down button to highlight "Recovery" and then hit the Power button to select.

2. I load ROM Manager on the phone and then select "Reboot into Recovery." Once in HBOOT, the same steps from method one above.

3. While the phone is turned off I hold Volume Down and Power on the phone to boot into HBOOT directly. Once in HBOOT, the same step from method one above.

However, once I select "Recovery" from within HBOOT, it doesn't actually go into Recovery. Instead, it changes, possibly reloads HBOOT and says "FASTBOOT" at the top, and the selections are different - "Recovery" is no longer an option.

All that to say - I can't make a backup of my current ROM using HBOOT. Suggestions on how I can fix this?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pons:
Go into ROM Manager, advanced options, check erase recovery. Now flash recovery in ROM Manager. Reboot into recovery.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UNFJoel:
tried, unsuccessful

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I tried doing that just now, unfortunately, no success. When booted into HBOOT it starts out at the FASTBOOT screen. I select BOOTLOADER which causes the white screen to appear briefly before giving me the bootloader options. However, upon selecting recovery it just flashes the HTC white screen again and puts me back in the FASTBOOt screen.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Assuming your s-off, flash cwm recovery thru hboot as a PB31IMG.zip. http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip. If that dosent work flash back to stock recovery http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/Stock_4.08.605.2/PB31IMG.zip, then reboot and flash back to cwm. Heres how to flash in hboot if you dont already know http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=79
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
Well, this thread is going to be based on telling you how I completed Juopunutbear since I have no wires around already, I had to be creative and it worked out really well.

Things you'll need:

Downloaded Juopunutbear - Can be fetched from http://Unlimited.io

Ethernet cable

Doubleshot

Knife or scissors

Step 1:

Take ethernet cable and cut the wire open. You will see a couple of wires. Cut both ends to be an appropriate length (I cut about 3 inches of length to use)

Step 2:

Take stripped ethernet cable and pull out one of the wires.

Step 3: Strip about a half inch off the end of each side of the wire so you get the hard copper to show up.

Step 4: Twist the ends so that they are size appropriate for the contact point and can maintain better contact in general.

Step 5: Run control bear and follow instructions with retwisting the copper if you need to according to seperation. If you know what you're doing, it should be done in a few minutes :P

Step 6 - Optional : Recover your SD card for use again Can be found in post 2

*Note: I take no credit for Juopunutbear, only where my name is referenced in credits on unlimited.io Nothing else.

Credits to Team Unlimited and their respective members.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
How to recover SDcard for use (will be formatted)

Step one: Get gparted up and running (you can make a live CD / bootable USB)

Step two: Run gparted (if on linux and using it, type 'sudo gparted' minus '

Step three: Create a new partition table from "Partition Table" in the top menu

Step four: When that completes, repartition the card for the full space and then it will be fine and usable.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ac3theone:
gonna try this now, if it fails what can i do to get my phone back in working order?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
Run the .exe with the -r command prompt flag. It will restore everything. :P
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ac3theone:
sry im kind of lost here did you mean to run the exe in the control bear folder? if so wont it just try to s-off my phone again? and how do i run it with the -r command? im using windows7
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] qwerty3656:
Since you are posting your personal experience, I wanted to pass along mine. Tried several times - didn't get it to work.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
Timing and contact is important. I had to try it about 26 times
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] gtmaster303:
How did you rename the top purple banner?

That's a cool little hack. I'd like to try that myself
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ac3theone:
im finally s-off, took me awhile (maybe 50+ tries) turns out the sd card i was using was bad, when i switched to a new one it worked on the first try i think.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] beezie916:
Guess I got lucky to go through once through....yay me
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] 2G1J:
Decided to give this a shot and the phone just boot loops lol. I'm still a noob when it comes to this stuff, so is there anyway to stop this? Or do I just go to my T-Mobile store and play dumb lol?

*EDIT*

Never mind, just reflashed the boot image and got everything working again.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] qwerty3656:
Not sure what you mean by bad SD card? My SD card got fried somewhere along the process, but I can't believe that if people are doing this 25-50 times before it works that by the end of it their SD cards are still working.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] 2G1J:
After a bunch of cussing, numerous attempts of the wire trick, and tons of reformats of the sd card later I am finally s-off.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
Your sdcard isn't fried by the end of this. It just has a corrupted partition table. So recreating a partition table = perfectly normal sdcard.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] qwerty3656:
So between each attempt, do you need to "fix" the SD card?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
No, you don't.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Some_dude36:
cheese n rice , Im so glad I got a DS with the old software. Looks like you guys went through hell to get S=off. I was lucky revolutionary worked first try on mine ..
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] manimmal:
Does the phone have to be in fastboot mode when you first run controlbear?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ac3theone:
No
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] beezie916:
I guess I got off lucky to get it to go the 1st time with the version i used....
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Protricity:
after trying the juopunutbear wire trick, my mt4gs refuses to boot. left it charging, took out the battery and usb, everything. looks bricked. anyone have this happen?

this occurred roughly right after I attempted to make the contact between the specified points.

bricked?

Oh, and it appears as QHSUSB_DLOAD on windows device manager.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ac3theone:
Flash the boot.img and recovery. Img in the control bear folder to do it you must :

1- hold ctrl + shift and right click the control bear folder.

2-select open command prompt

3-type "control bear -r"

4-it will restore your phone
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
No. If its in that USB mode, its qcdl mode which is a brick. What did use for the wire trick, did you touch the point on the wire where it contacts the point in between tries without grounding yourself out? Go to #juopunutbear and ask for help but NOT in a frantic manner. You will probably need to RMA it. Yes, they will fix it for free, even if unlocked.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Protricity:
Yep, after some research it appears that touching the un-insulated wire caused this. Also it appears to have happened to a lot of people, mostly on the sensation. Looks like many of the instructions don't mention this precaution, and lots of the videos show people touching the wire un-insulated. Probably gonna be lots more bricks imo
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] beezie916:
Well anytime your shorting contact points there is a big risk...the instructions clearly say insulated....electro-static discharge is electronics worst nightmare....
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Indirect:
actually, the instructions on unlimited.io say do not touch the contact point of the wire. You can touch the grounded part.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
I did thus twice. Once on a my touch 4G slide, another on an amaze. Took me 4 hours. XT

Ruining Dinner w/ Breakfast :)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cparekh:
If you extract your hboot you can just edit in a text editor to anything you want. I think you might have to keep the same number of characters, so you'd need to use spaces, but I don't know.

Keep in mind that the Juopunutbear folks put a lot of effort into their hack, so they might take offense at removing their branding, though I have no idea if that is true. I believe that Indirect has some relationship with that group, so I think it might be different for him.

YMMV
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nlarge:
i managed this today after 15 tries... but i had to manually do adb reboot oem-78
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] d3athb4dishonor:
Think I'm going to try this when I get home. I'm tired of having to flash boot lol

Sent from my myTouch 4G Slide
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] manimmal:
Didn't mean to hit thanks lol I'm using my phone. Anyway, do it man! It's not hard, just follow the instructions. It may take 1 or 2 tries for you, or it may take a while and some frustration, but that feeling of gaining S-Off will take that all away!

Sent from my 4GSlide using the xdApp
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
Hey to do this what will I have to do, should I just go to a stock rom?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nlarge:
I didn't go stock and it worked just fine
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
What rom were u on
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] d3athb4dishonor:
What ROM, I'm curious as well.

Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nlarge:
deeessss one.....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1781279
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
Does juopunutbear erase anything of the device
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nlarge:
some people have top repartition sd card... nothing happened to mine at all
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Yeah its a full wipe

*edit*

I dunno what I was thinking. I don't remember to be honest

I've done 2 phones with the same sd and it never borked mine either

Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide running MikXE
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
Caqn I use a regulaqr paper clip with tape around it

---------- Post added at 07:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:05 PM ----------

u sure cause mik xe is ics
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
I used just a wire from the garage

Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G Slide running MikXE
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
i keep getting secondary backup failed

---------- Post added at 08:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:11 PM ----------

well it didnt work i had to flash recovery and rom again, ima try one more time
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] nlarge:
I'm positive
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] wiswis:
it also fried my sd card
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] piscesjoey:
Is this wire sufficient in y'all opinion? Found some speaker wire for a home theater that has silver contacts here at work & I just cut & stripped this piece that's pictured below. My girl got another Doubleshot yesterday & of course it has the 1.45 hboot & I want to s-off it for her.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] manimmal:
Yeah that should be fine. I used about a 10yr old wire I still had laying around in my junk bag (which always comes in handy for me at some point). As long as its small enough to touch the contact point you're good to go.

Sent from my 4GSlide using the xdApp

---------- Post added at 06:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:04 PM ----------

I got that message quite a few times too. I S-OFFed my decide twice and both times I found that upon rebooting my PC and then running Control Bear afterwards the program ran the first time without a single complication so everytime it would get weird I'd just reboot and it seemed to help. Don't know if that makes sense or not but it really helped me. Mind you, it took me about 15-20 tries and restoring my backup through fastboot to S-Off my 2nd time. Can be tedious but its worth it.

Sent from my 4GSlide using the xdApp
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] piscesjoey:
Anyone ever had issue with their MT4GS not being able to mount as a disk drive? When I plug my g/f phone in all it does is charges it, no popup for disk drive or USB tethering like it normally supposed to do.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Coug76:
I have that issue on CM9 Alpha 6. It is ROM dependant for my device.

Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Going to S-Off again :3 Wish me luck. Anybody else with new MT4GS's notice the keyboard is beyound stiff?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Oh you must not use the KB much. It is very very stiff but breaks in on so lovely I can text without even looking at the keyboard I mostly just watch the screen to make sure there isn't a typo
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
I hoping it kicks in Xo It's a new device,just got s-off:D HappyDay :D
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
im trying

when i downloaded the hboot from unlimited.io this is what i get

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Dave>cd/adb

C:\adb>fastboot erase cache

< waiting for device >

erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 1.856s]

finished. total time: 1.857s

C:\adb>fastboot oem rebootRUU

... INFOStart Verify: 3

INFOStart Verify: 3

INFOerase sector 130560 ~ 131071 (512)

OKAY [ 3.290s]

finished. total time: 3.291s

C:\adb>fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip

sending 'zip' (365 KB)... OKAY [ 0.263s]

writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)

finished. total time: 1.907s

C:\adb>
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
If your trying the whole wire trick. I just extracted the zip you download and run controlbear through terminal and it pushed the hboot and everytthing. I've never issued the fastboot commands you are
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Riyal:
fastboot is made to flash image(.img) files not zip(.zip) files
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
ok thanks riyal now i know .... strapped i cant find controlbear anywhere and its not on the unlimited.io site

and how do you do it thru terminal?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Download This. Then extract to where ever you like. Click the controlbear.exe. Let it do it Job. Extremely easy, but takes time.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
Its inside the zip downloaded from unlimited.io. I was under the impression that there was not a seperate download for the hboot, since I only had to download one zip that packaged it all. Check agents post and you should be on your way to freeing your android totally
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
S-Off is fun. I found a trick to the wire trick. Once you tap the contact, pull the wire up you'll here a plastic sound (can't explain). Then hurry and tap it again. Thats what I did. Then. Just keep doing in till you see the CMD.exe get past the wiretick part.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
ok another problem i started controlbear now getting a secondary backup failed??

---------- Post added at 01:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:48 PM ----------

ok nevermind on the last post now its /system/bin/su not found?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Are you rooted, Unlocked, have USB debugging enabled, and fastboot enabled? You also need to be running a stock (or stock based) rom to keep the issues away.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
======== ControlBear 0.7 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Connecting to device...

Searching device.....

Found device.....

Found backups!

Using eMMC dev /dev/block/mmcblk0

Using MMC dev /dev/block/mmcblk1

Boot partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p20

Recovery partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p21

Is information correct?

You have 5 seconds time to stop process by pressing CTRL+C

Finding some beer.....

Found first....

Found second....

Found third....

Hmmmm... where is that last one....... Wait a sec....

Found fourth....

Rebooting.......

=== Waiting for device....

(6/45)

Found device...

Waiting for device to settle... Please wait...

/data/local/tmp/JuopunutBear: permission denied

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....

???

---------- Post added at 02:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ----------

damnnn....now i need to put everything to stock now how to do that cause i did everything limewirelord way with s-on i replaced the recovery and flashed the boot.img ??
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Most everything we need to know when we run into an issue is already here for us Crimedave. It just takes some reading to find it. Blue6IX has written tutorials for us that will get us thru most ANY normal situation. Just like this one...
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Just flash MikTouch Xo It just needs to be a stock based rom Not being 100% stock (No Recovery, Locked, etc)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
weekend the links are dead :( and agentcherrycolla send me the link to the rom or can i use bulletproof?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
Yeah, bulletproof will work.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] crimedave1987:
i just s-off'ed my freaking phone (SO EXCITED) on the fourth try thanks people i just made a risk and i made it a success thank you all awesome people pound it to the air thanks for the help :)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
We're excited FOR you bro!!:good:

Now you can flash yourself a cool splash screen!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] manimmal:
Congrats man, now you will be a flash junkie like the rest of us...get your fix any time you want! LoL
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mill3rkydd:
Would I be able to just take a paper clip (colored ones) and strip thcolor off? The color would basically insulate.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] sino8r:
Sounds okay... no electrical tape handy? Or rubber gloves? I'd be concerned if the plastic isn't thick enough on the colored part. It's probably fine but it never hurts to be safe, right? Bricking is a real risk if you touch the ground the wrong way and electrostatic discharge can fry a board much easier than you think.... just don't let your skin touch the bare wire while doing so. Good luck!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
I used about a 12 gauge power wire from like a cb or radio or something, I dunno it was laying in the garage.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mrbubs3:
has anyone else been stuck on "let's take one more..." part of Control Bear, or is it just me?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] strapped365:
That's the part that needs the 1.7 second gap in wire touches, give it a few more goes you should get it
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mrbubs3:
It has been got. S-OFF, BISHES!!
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
Congratulations! Welcome to S-Off flashing simplicity!:good:
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Dukenukemx:
Trying to do this myself with MyTouch 4G Slide and getting stuck on a screen with a phone laying down and green arrows going around and down.

This is what JuoPunutbear says. The phone is running stock rom but rooted. Nothing asked me to allow root access on the phone, and it just reboots into fastboot, and then reboots again into this green arrows screen, and then just stops there.

Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Testing ADB connection
Test 1: Rebooting into bootloader
Waiting fastboot (5/60)
Waiting.....
Test 2: Booting device into JuopunutBear boot-mode
Waiting ADB.... (2/60)
Test 2.1: Rebooting into bootloader
Waiting fastboot (60/60)
Test 1: Rebooting into bootloader FAILED
Press ENTER to exit.....

**EDIT**

Never mind, I got it to work. I removed HTC sync and made sure no adb.exe process was running on my computer, as well as disabling my firewall and antivirus. Took me a few tries to get the wire trick right, but when it did was when I put the wire into the hole but didn't touch the sd card. Wasn't intentional, as the phone just rebooted when the wire was in the hole. Wasn't touching any metal or wire either.

Oh well, can't complain.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] david31262:
Ready to Go For It (from S-On, Unlocked, kornyone CM 10)

Ready to Go For It (from S-On, Unlocked, kornyone CM 10, 1.45.0013, CWM 5.0.2.7)

I'm trying to understand if I should load a stock RUU before controlbear.

Currently Running [ROM][Official]MyTouch4G Slide CyanogenMod 10 20130101 (Alpha 3) with S-On (via Limewire instructions).

What's a Quck Stock RUU to load ?

And to do this I'll need ADB load the Kernal, then use clockworkmod to load the Rom ?

Then I'm ready for the wire trick ?

I have the original backup from CWM, but assume I still need to ADB load the Kernal to use it.

(hoping I don't have to go all the way back and redo unlock and CWM install)

Thanks.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
You won't be able to get it from ANY Cyanogen ROMs. Just the way they are written. But the easiest one is MikTouch since it's clean stock. You don't have to go all the way back.

You will ALWAYS need ADB....even after rooted. Just mark my words. But if you do the wire trick, you'll never need it anymore for flashing ROMs and that's the pain in the butt.

When you get done, it will ask you if you want to install an unsecured bootloader.....and you do. Unlock will dissappear from your vocabulary except when you're trying to find your door key.

GOOD LUCK......and keep us informed.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] david31262:
COOL -> Got It

Wow, thanks. Got it going. Took me two JuoPuntbear tries to catch it.

I ended up first restoring my backup from Clockworkmod.

Here's what I did:

1) Copied the Clockworkmod Back Up to an SD Card (in the folder clockworkmod/backup/2012-11-27.16.24.20

2) Used ADB to reload the backed up boot.img from Clockworkmod (initial backup after unlocking)

3) Rebooted to clockworkmod and did a restore

4) Did a wipe, then let the phone setup and initialize

5) Followed the JuoPuntbear instructions to get S-Off

6) Loaded up SilverL CM 10.1

I've attached the HBOOT Screen.

One question.... If I select "FACTORY RESET" it takes me to the Clockworkmod screen (same as if I select RECOVERY). Is it supposed to do that ?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
I just checked and that's what mine does. I guess it's allowing you to select the "intensity" of the wipe/reset. (for lack of a better word)
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] david31262:
Thanks !!!

Thanks for checking (most would not be that brave :cool:). Now I know I didn't screw it up.

And thanks for the help.... :highfive:

Now I'm mucking around with my 64 Gig SD card. After a wipe, the card is no longer formatted. I'm thinking the phone doesn't know how to format this capacity. I'll go reformat it in a Linux PC then try again not letting the phone try the format the card (there's plenty of reports that they work).
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] WeekendsR2Short:
You're very welcome and welcome to our little community.

It will run a 64gb fine according to several here. That reformat should take care of it for you. If not, we'll figure something out.

No sweat giving that a try either. I have lots of ROMs backed up and had just flashed a new one anyhow.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] butch87402:
I've been going around this for how long now.. Tired of being dependent on the comp gonna try this very soon...

If this falls I read in this thread that you had to flash the boot. Img of what exactly and...

The recovery... Which I would have to do both through fastboot right?

I'm no electrician so I need an insulated wire making the coating sounds it... So only step a piece off so the wire inside is a little bit visible or like an inch?