yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Ok the next step to try would be to do an ruu. It will restore the phone to stock, but you will still have s-off.

Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.06.605.3/PB31IMG.zip and place it on the sdcard in no folders, boot to hboot, vol up to install. This time though when prompted to reboot select no, and then select factory reset. Hopefully when its done it will boot normaly.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
OK, going to give it a shot. Will be back soon with good news hopefully
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
Question...... After selecting "no" to the reboot option after it's been updated with the file, do I delete or rename the file and THEN try to get into recovery?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
After selecting no to reboot, select factory reset from the hboot menu. When the factory reset is done it should automaticly reboot and boot up like normal.

Then you can delete the file and reflash cwm recovery as the ruu left you with the stock recovery.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
OK, I must be doing something wrong. Here are the steps I have done:

* I put the SD card into a phone recognized by my computer

* I then place the RUU file onto that SD card

* I then take the SD card out and place it in the DInc

* I then hold the volume down button and power button to get into hboot

* The phone recognizes the file and starts the update (takes a bit)

* Once the update is done it asks if I want to reboot and I select no

* It then goes to a screen with a few options (bootloader, reboot bootloader etc...) I don't select anything and then pull the battery

* I then take the SD card out of the DInc and place it in the other phone so I can remove the file

* Once the file is deleted I take the SD card out of that phone and place it back into the DInc

* I go into hboot and select recovery and it just boot loops again with the "htc Incredible" screen

Am I missing something?? I know it can be recovered. Even it's back to stock, it would be great. My wife just wants her phone back. :confused:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
Damn, you're fast cmlusco.

When I select no to the reboot, it does not present me with the screen that has the recovery option. It's a different screen with, I think, 4 options: bootloader, reboot bootloader, and 2 others I can't recall

Just notice this thread is on page 2 now. Check the last post on page one for steps on what I did.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
When you boot to hboot there should be an option to do a factory reset, do that, you may have to select bootloader first. Then see if it boots normaly.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
no go.

I assume once I apply the RUU I don't need to do it every time?

I went back into hboot and selected factory reset and it just did the same boot loop. Should I try wiping the SD card 100% clean and then try the RUU file?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
You could try it, but it sounds like the recovery partition may be messed up. The stock recovery dosent work, cwm recovery dosent work, but ruus and recoverys flash fine without error. Sounds like a messed up partition table. Do you have ADB setup on your pc?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
I don't have ADB on this PC. Been a while since I've even done anything with ADB. Could you point me in the right direction on what to do to get set up?

Once set up, what steps need to be taken?

Thanks for all your help with this. It's very much appreciated.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
gotta download android sdk

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

this should help http://androidforums.com/faqs/443072-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-a.html
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Download this http://dinc.does-it.net/ADB/ADB-Fastboot-USB-Drivers_v4_(x86)(x64).zip, and extract the contents to C:\ADB.

Connect the phone to the pc and on the pc go to device manager and look for an entry called unknown or android 1.0. Right click on it and select update driver. Select browse for driver and navigate to C:\ADB\drivers and select the adb folder. It should find the driver and update it.

Then open a cmd prompt on your pc and navigate to the C:\ADB folder. At tje prompt type adb devices , it should return a string of numbers and letters.

From there if it finds the phone you need to fastboo flash your misc partition.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Its gonna get a little complicated and require a bunch of steps. It sucks but it may fix it. I know there are already threads out there on how to fix this issue but i cant seem to find one.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
When I plug the phone into the computer and power the phone on it just boot loops and the computer doesn't acknowledge it at all. In device manager there is not entry under any of the categories that says "Android..." or "unknown"
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Crap i forgot you need to be able to boot the phone to enable usb debuging for the pc to see it. Um now im not sure what to do. Mabey format the sdcard fat32 and try the ruu again. I need to think about it, it will come to me.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
OK, no worries. I will wait patiently while my wife freaks out. :D
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
Can he not just install adb drivers from unrevoked and be good. Shouldn't need debugging enabled for boot access

This guide

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
U have to boot into fast boot and then try
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Good idea, boot to hboot with the phone connected to the pc and then go to device manager and see if you can see an entry for the phone. Our ultimate goal is to be able to use fastboot. Then fastboot flash the misc partition.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
OK, I booted into hboot and device manager shows "Android 1.0"

Not sure how to proceed from here
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
Now either follow my guide or cmls
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
Thanks Shano, I followed it and got to the last part where "Android Bootloader Interface" is listed under Android Phone. This is the last step/screen shot in your guide. Where do I go from here?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Ok now you need to flash the engineering hboot.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
Now we wait for cmlusco to give more instructions :)

Edit: just saw his post
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Hboots/ENG_Hboot_0.77/PB31IMG.zip, place on sd and flash thru hboot. Reboot when prompted then remove the PB31IMG file and reboot to hboot with the phone connected to the pc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Then download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/mtd0.img and place it on your pc in the C:\ADB folder, the same folder as adb.exe and fastboot.exe

Then open a cmd prompt on your pc and navigate to where the fastboot.exe and mtd0.img files are.

At the prompt type without quotes "fastboot flash misc mtd0.img".

If alk goes without error flash the ruu thru hboot again and see if you can boot to the os.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
OK, done. I rebooted into hboot while connected to my PC
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
oops, didn't see the first post on this page. You say to download a file but there is no link. Which file do I download?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Lol sorry refresh and check previos post again i added the link.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
Sorry, I'm sure I sound like an idiot. I've just never done this much in depth stuff on this phone before.

Not sure where to get the mtd0.img file

(at least I think thats what file he is talking about.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
No that was my fault forgot to add the link http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/mtd0.img
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
I got this message after typing the fastboot message in the command prompt:

sending 'misc' <640 KB>... FAILED <status malformed <1 bytes>>

I'm thinking something is not right.....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Hmm let me do some googling on thst error.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
In the cmd prompt type without quotes "fastboot devices" and report what it says.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
HT05ZHJ03421 fastboot
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Ok so it is seeing the phone try typing " fastboot erase misc" and then "fastboot flash misc mtd0.img"
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
gave me another "failed" message
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Ok lets try one more thing, download this http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/recovery.img, and place it on your pc with fastboot.exe and mtd0.img. go to cmd prompt and typr "fastboot erase recovery" and then "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
Still getting a failed message when trying the erase recovery command.

To make sure.....in the cmd prompt, I'm under the folder containing the mtd0.img file correct? If thats right, then I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Thats correct. Im leaning twords hardware failure. Flashing recoveries thru hboot or fastboot dosent work, ruus dont work, flashing the misc partition dosent work, flashing new hboot dosent work, im not sure what else to try. You could do an ruu.exe with your pc, but its not really any different than the PB31IMG.zip ruu just more automated.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
Not sure if it will work but you could try this to get to recovery

By downloading from here http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager and putting it in your adb folder then typing

fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-inc.img
fastboot reboot

Edit just saw erase recovery didn't work hmm..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
I guess it would be worth a shot to htcdev upgrade and unlock your bootloader http://htcdev.com/bootloader, and then see if you can boot or sucessfully fastboot flash cwm recovery. The htcdev site will guide you thru the steps.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
well, shoot....

Thanks for all your time and energy tonight in trying to get this up and running for me. I truly appreciate it.

Since I flashed a new hboot and am no longer in s-off mode, I'm wondering if my wife takes it down to a Verizon store, if they will help her get a replacement.

Well, at least one good thing came of all this. I learned a bit more about the "restore" process.

Thanks again guys. If you happen to think of anything else I will check back here.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Well you are still technicly s-off. I believe with the eng hboot installed (something the public was never ment to have) it says something at the top of hboot like "production" instead of s-off. However if you were to flash back to 0.92 hboot right now, it would still say and be s-off. To get s-on to return to store you would need to be able to access recovery to flash the s-on patch.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
Send your wife in alone and tell her to act clueless and not to mention any tampering :p
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Very true take it in and if they say something play totaly dumb and say all i know is i cant text or make calls, thats all i know how to do.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Droinc:
LOL, will do. It wont be much of a stretch. It was a good first Android phone. Guess it might be time to move on..........:)

Thanks again!!!!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shano56:
Don't forget you can either ship it for repairs or sell on eBay to a dev or someone who buys bricked phones :)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 20twins10:
so i followed the steps in this thread looking for an answer, i unfortunatley got one.. thanks for the assistance.. an answer is always better then no answer.. id be curious to know the similarities of the cases..
[Acer Iconia A500] karlkarloff:
This has nothing to do with anything really, just a neat thing I saw today that I thought I'd share.

Today I went to a sub shop(Jersey Mikes) in my town, which I don't normally go to cause its on the other side of town, and as I was standing there ordering I noticed the meat slicer dude was weighing the meat on a USB scale of some sort which was plugged into an A500 covered in plastic wrap. Other than the momentary "oh cool, I got one of those" I didn't think too much about it until I sat down to eat. I mean, considering the price of the tablet, coupled with the price of the scale attachment, it would be cheaper to buy just a digital food service scale I would think. So I'm wondering why. Maybe they somehow use it for inventory control or something, I don't know. But anyway, I thought it was cool to see one of our tablets being used for more than just watching cats on Youtube or whatever.
[Acer Iconia A500] sRDennyCrane:
rofl... that's extravagantly terrific.

Of course, now we'll need pictures.
[Acer Iconia A500] diiorio:
You'll be suprised what companies have apps for android devies for interface.

Seen the scales as well, they conenct via wifi to update product weights.

They have DJ interfaces (get a good screen protector for yoru fingers don't drag).

Househould security control, theater control, and light control bundles with the APK's for 2.3, 3.1+, and 4.0

Canon has there app so yo ucan scan from pritners, and print right to printers from phones and tabs. (believe Kodak does as well).

Medical interfaces for variosu medical soft. Even Mcallister is releasing the Android 4.0 itnerface for Avimark for veterinary hospitals.
[Acer Iconia A500] ctiger:
I thought you meant they use the A500 to scale, not plug in a usb scale attachment. I was wandering how, use the digitizer to sense weight? COOL!!!! They might have a reason for that because A500 can record the weights.
[HTC One X] dogredwing1:
what straight talk sim should i get ??? att compatible, t mobile compatible, or unlock phone compatible
[HTC One X] sapplegater:
Depending on which service is better in your area, most like AT&T is going to be the better choice since tmobile you would only get Edge (2G) data and the unlocked sim card choice all they do is send you an AT&T sim card.
[HTC One X] dogredwing1:
thanks:)
[HTC One X] sapplegater:
You're welcome :-)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] FLACattack:
Hey everyone,

Have Prime with .21 Firmware

Did/do NOT want unlocked bootloader, but I want the root.

Downgraded the Prime to the .15

Rooted it using the ViperMod

-Now this next part if it doesn't make sense I blame it on me being sick, and it being late here.-

So, it wasn't offering the OTA .21 update to me after this.

I read that wiping the cache was a step that I may have missed.

From my experience with tinkering with the old Galaxy S and rooting/throwing on custom roms I remembered that CWM is the way to go for this!

Puts on Rom Manager

Flashes CWM and then the new CWM Touch after that.

Tries to reboot into recovery mode so that I can do the wipe.

Doesn't work from manual hard reset, adb commands, or from the Rom Manager UI.

Now I just want to get rid of CWM and go back with stock recovery, and then just push the .21 blob on there instead.

Please tell me I didn't somehow unlock my bootloader... >_< I thought I would have had to agree to something to do that.

If I didn't, how do I pull the CWM off, but keep the root and the bootloader UNLOCKED.

Yes, I have been hunting through the Forum, and through Google. I'm finding things that are close, but just far off enough that I'm not sure the answers are applying to this situation.

(By the way, if I did something completely stupid in my thought process let me know... but I'm still going to bank on being sick and tired :p)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bpear96:
You cant install cwm unless you unlocked your bootloader... So im not sure how you flashed it with rom manager. Are you sure you didnt select the option to unlock and install cwm in viperMOD?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] FLACattack:
Positive that I didn't. Mainly because it mentioned the unlock tool in the same line as CWM.

Everything that I did after following Wolf's directions was through Rom Manager (aka the CWM install and ROM backup).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] beekay201:
another advice: don't think "cwm" when you want to install asus blobs

still, everything i read so far says that to install cwm you need unlocked bootloader.

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] FLACattack:
I don't think that I was "thinking" properly >_<. But I will make sure and keep that in mind.

That's what I've read too. What's strange is that, unless some program did it without telling me that it did it, I avoided anything that looked like it said "unlock".

So, just did some more Google searching and came across this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1575138

(tl;dr Don't need to unlock bootloader, just need to have root)

I know it's not a TF201 thread, but should the principles still apply (you actually have to read the thread to see what I mean).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] FLACattack:
Alright, after a little more reading, investigating on the prime, and putting a little more thought into it I think I've come to believe that (even though OM Manager thinks it is) CWM isn't actually installed on the Prime. I'm thinking that when ROM Manager supposedly flashed it, it only installed a random file or two that it could. the ONLY CWM folders I could find in ANY directory on my prime was in the sdcard folder and the clockworkmod folder.

I just deleted that, restarted, and it isn't broken... yet.
[Motorola Photon 4G] i7vSa7vi7y:
I read that when you have 3e it doesn't allow you to have CWM. I can only access CWM through ROM manager. If I try to get to CWM with power and vol up, I always get into the default android recovery 3e which leads me to ask, how do I downgrade to 2e?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sub2k1:
Are you sure you have a Photon 4G?
[Motorola Photon 4G] i7vSa7vi7y:
Positive
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
To get to Android recovery you need to press Vol down and power, then go through the fast boot menu by pressing Vol down about 5 times. It should now say Android recovery, press Vol up and it should go into cwm. Works every time for me

Sent from the back of a MoPhoKing AOKP Unicorn
[Motorola Photon 4G] valentinoh:
pwr+Vol up gives you rsd protocol or fast boot mode.depending on what state your phone is.. power + volume down gives you a few options starting with fast boot then scroll with vol dwn button and selecting with vol up button. On the photon. OP sounds strange as how he gets to recovery lol
[Motorola Photon 4G] valentinoh:
Are you unlocked?
[Motorola Photon 4G] i7vSa7vi7y:
Yes I'm unlocked. I have CWM installed but when I go to android recovery its the default android recovery not CWM
[Motorola Photon 4G] na7q:
then you don't have CWM installed. grab one of the listed ones from here http://www.motosunfire.com/clockworkmod-recovery/ and then install it via moto-fastboot or from the rom managers recovery. then you're good to go. highly recommended by everyone would be jokers v3 or v4 recovery.
[Motorola Photon 4G] paulredmond:
cwm recovery

if you have cwm installed on your phone and you goto recovery mode and it brings up the standard android recovery then your recovery will not allow cwm to run on your phone untill you downgrade the android recovery

when you goto recovery at the top you will probably see this android recovery (3) if so you need to download gingerbread and flash it with odin after that you should be good . i had the same problem as you and thats how i fixed it
[Motorola Photon 4G] i7vSa7vi7y:
Thanks. A very late reply and I just went with TWRP instead and had no problems. I'm getting the S4 today but I appreciate your answer and I'm sure it will help others in the future.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
I have a Transformer Prime with an Unknown Serial Number. My tablet can NOT be pushed OTA Updates by ASUS. Do NOT suggest going to ASUS's website and downloading their update file, you can NOT keep Root using those files. OTA RootKeeper ONLY Works on OTA Updates PUSHED by ASUS to your tablet.

Do NOT suggest going to ASUS's website and downloading their update file. Do NOT suggest any blob file that has been linked to on these forums, UNLESS it is from someone who has actually COPIED the OTA Update from ASUS AS IT WAS BEING PUSHED to their tablet. These blob files are NOT OTA Updates.

Okay, so if you have an unknown serial on your Transformer or Transformer Prime you can't get OTA Updates. I am one of these people and it sucks because I actually like 9.4.2.21. I want root.

Now my question is, is it possible for someone with a TF101/TF201 to use some ADB or some other software to intercept the package that ASUS is pushing to the tablet and make it available to others?

I would try to figure out how to do it myself, but as I mentioned earlier. I don't have a tablet with a serial number, it shows unknown. So no OTA Updates for me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bpear96:
You can manually update it using wolf849 method, which is really used to downgrade but im more then certain it would work to manually upgrade.

Ill go step by step.

1. If you want root, and are on 9.4.2.15 now, root it now! then backup root with OTA ROOTKEEPER

2.Download latest .21 FW here http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=20&s=16&m=Eee+Pad+Transformer+Prime+TF201&os=32 you likely want US build, not WW (check in settings under about this tablet)

3. Download my modded ViperMOD tool from here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25508554&postcount=52 this allows for one click downgrade.

4. Extract the .21 fw you download and find the file named "blob" and put blob on the root of you primes INTERNAL MEMORY

5. Make sure all prime drivers are installed (should install by themselves , mine did) then open my modded viperMOD (thanks viperboy) and connect transformer prime. Select option 1 in modded viperMOD tool to downgrade tablet (in your case upgrade, it just manually apply's the blob file (firmware) )

6. Should reboot to .21 :D then restore root with OTA Rootkeeper if wanted

Hope it works :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
You can't manually update or you'll lose root. Unless you have tested this yourself I'll stick with where I am. I was on 9.4.2.15, manually upgraded to .21 as I have Unknown Serial problems, LOST ROOT. Currently downgraded to 9.4.2.14.

Aka, downgrade to 9.4.2.XX. Root. Protect Root, Use the tool to upgrade to .21. Restore Root. If you can show me video evidence of this, I will do it. Otherwise, it would be a waste of my time as I would have to downgrade AGAIN and stay where I am.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bpear96:
I was on .21 downgraded to .15, then rooted, then installed OTA rootkeeper to backup root, updated to .21 OTA then restored root with OTA rootkeeper, and im now on .21 rooted :D with out a unlocked prime. This has also been stated by many others.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slayvus:
The Blob files are NOT the OTAs as far as I can tell from what I have read.

I can NOT receive OTA Updates from ASUS while connected to the internet on my Tablet. I have an UNKNWON SERIAL NUMBER on my TF201.

An Unknown Serial Number prohibits me from being pushed OTAs by ASUS.