yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
But led is working anyway, it doesn't say, that the bootloader is unlocked. Maybe really flash the 4.0.2.A.0.42 firmware using flashtool and then try if touch works, otherwise bring device to service, but I don't know if they can notice your try to install a custom rom.

Hope it will work for you!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] scorpion 13:
to fix your problem:

flash stock firmware via flash tools

flash a custom kernel and flash that custom(that you had problem with)

flash stock firmware again

i had your problem and i fixed it.

so... 100%working
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jefryaspye:
fixing

what if on 4.0.4 rom so i need to reflash same custom firmware(problem)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
I have had my G2 for about 18 months and have been running into a lot of issues recently. I've decided to fix those issues by rooting & getting a new ROM installed. I'm a tech savvy guy, but have not done anything on the phone end due to not wanting to break whats working. I've decided to go with the Mimicry 1.3.2 ROM since the install process uses Aroma and is very straight forward. Before I pull the trigger, I just want to make sure I have all the steps clear so that I don't go "Oh sh**" in the middle because I missed a step. There's also a couple of steps that I'm not clear on. Here's what I researched:

-Root phone using HTC's bootloader unlocker

-Format phone's flash memory to EXT4

--What is the best app to do this with? Will my phone work with Gingerbread after I make this change?

-Download Mimicry 1.3.2 and Google Apps put the zip files on my phone (not SD card)

-Power off phone and then push the volume down and power buttons together and choose to install the ROM

-Answer prompts in Aroma (including installing WiFi calling)

-Flash Google apps

--How exactly is that done?

-Restart phone and start setting up apps again.

Does that look correct and is there anything that I'm missing? Thank you in advance for your help.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Well first off I would stay away from HTC official unlocked bootloader, its worthless and will give you headaches in the future

use the wiki to root, either follow the wiki in cyanogen or here on xda, if you even slightly tech savvy it will be easy

following that guide you will have clockwork recovery, but I suggest moving to 4ext recovery, among many reasons is the ability to format to ext4. Otherwise the next easiest way to format would be to flash a super wipe script with ext4 format written to it (just search xda and you'll find it easier)

Now after you are rooted with an engineering s-off hboot consider flash the .19 radio, not super important but many find this to have the best reception and battery life.

Next make sure your SD card is fat32, I also suggest an ext4 partition there as well (easily done through recovery) but skip the swap

Now feel free to flash mimicry, and may I add this is one other best ICS Roms for the vision, and blk_jck is a very helpful Dev as well.

Good luck, if you run into issues there will be answers all over xda, just search a bit, happy flashing!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
Thanks

Thanks for the heads up on the HTC bootloader. I'll check out the Wiki on how to PermRoot my phone.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timram:
Mimicry, recovery, soft bricks, and new ROM

Agree with demkantor, the step-by-steps so painstakingly described in cyanwiki are your best bet.

Likewise, using 4ext in place of clockwork is also my recommendation, as I've used both now and

find the latter more polished and stable.

I recently rooted and updated for the first time. Got successfully as far as ICS using cyan's instruction,

then decided to use mimicry after reading about the radio updates etc posted by madmaxx. I think the sequence in which i

carried these out was flawed, because after updating the radio instruction sets, I re-flashed mimicry to take advantage of the

updated radio features and to install the wi-fi telephony; that was my downfall. I got caught in a boot-loop. Oh sh*t, indeed.

I could not, for the life of me, get past the HTC white screen. Being a total noob, I had no

idea where to go to next. I searched this website and cyan's a lot, and realised the term for what I now had was a 'soft

brick' or 'semi brick'. Could not get the device to be recognised via ADB, and could not access the sdcard directory.

I scratched my head for a few days (I had bought another phone prior to playing with the old G2), and came up with the

idea of just accessing the sdcard via my laptop, directly. In the midst of this, I turned on the phone (after taking the card

out), and voila, the phone now cycled into engineering hboot !

I subsequently was able to edit the sdcard directly via the laptop (using an micro sd card adapter), and removed the pc10?.img file

that was left over the radio update. Having recovered to this point, I re-flashed mimicry 1.3.1 (via 4ext) and so was able to get a completely

functional phone again.

The point of all of the is this: 1. To all the previous post-ers, both here and at cyanwiki...You guys rock. Can't say that enough. Even more:

2. A 'soft brick' may be anything but...a little bit of not-very-complicated experimentation afterward can pay off big time. Lastly, I tried

mimicry 1.3.2, but kept getting a heap of error messages. Needless to say, I was a bit spooked by the previous stuff-up, so I quickly reverted

to 1.3.1, which appears to be 100% stable (IMHO).

Cheers
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blk_jack:
1.3.2 adds few framework level changes and no device level changes. Definitely nothing that should cause errors or problems booting anyway.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
Good Info

Thanks for that info. I am taking a look at the Cyanogen Wiki and seeing what I have to do. I'm thinking that I will jump directly to Mimicry 1.3.2 instead of installing Cyanogen 9 first. Hopefully that file doesn't hang out there and causes that boot loop to happen to me (thanks for that explanation, BTW).

So do I have to use that ClockworkMod to load the ROM, or does EXT4 do the same thing (as far as loading the rom goes)?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timram:
...where thanks is due

many thx, blk jack, I should have specifically mentioned your awesome contributions as well, and

have remedied with thanks meter as i came/come across it.

Will re-try the 1.3.2 shortly. If I run in to the same glitches, I will try and make note of the specific errors

(or any other bugs, for that matter) and let you know.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamnoobie:
Use the following guide, it is incredibly simple yet swift. Contains root methods for both the DesireZ and the T-Mobile G2 :

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/TMobile_G2:_Rooting
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
Checking it out now

I'm actually looking at that wiki right now. I just finished backing up all the contents on my SD card. I can't backup the apps on my phone since it's not rooted, and I can't use a backup app unless I'm root. So it looks like that is a catch 22. Personally, I don't mind wiping everything anyways since I'm going to be making the jump to ICS. I guess I'll have to beat all those levels in cut the rope again :crying:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timram:
@deadeye

actually, the only important bits are your contacts, sms's, phone logs, etc (if these matter to you), which i think you can backup via gmail. Additionally, any other (or all) files on the SD card, you should be able to just copy directly onto a folder in your laptop or desktop (see the post I made above). HTH.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
Thanks for that. I've now downloaded the Android SDK and am now trying to test the connection to my G2 using adb. So far, no connection. Grrrr. I'm looking around now to see how to get my phone detected by adb since it doesn't seem to have anything on the cyanogen wiki.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
you downloaded adb.exe from within the sdk right? find the folder it is in (usualy platform tools) hold shift right click within the folder and choose open command here

now type adb devices, you should se some letters and numbers that means you good if not need to trouble shoot some more

alternatively you can change the path within enviromental variables so you can open a cmd anywhere
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
HTC Sync

I tried the adb devices command and it didn't return any connected devices. Looking in the xda wiki, they are saying that I need to have HTC Sync installed. I'm downloading that right now. They probably should put that in the cyanogenmod wiki also.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
I got my phone detected by adb! I did some preliminary checking and I think I should be good to go on rooting. I think I will root my phone tomorrow when I have plenty of time to troubleshoot any issues that my come up.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prairie-dad:
This is just the thread I was looking for. I'm also an old (60) tech-savvy guy who has never rooted his phone, and was nervous about which set of rooting instructions (cyan-wiki or Setherio/Strawmetal?; the latter is more recently updated, seems a bit more detailed, and has newer versions of some utilities) which recovery, ClockworkMod or ext4, and which ROM, Cm9 unofficial or mimicry or even AOKP...

You all seem to feel cyan-wiki instructions better (right?) ext4 and mimicry... Shall I go for it? Last suggestions?

Thanks,

Dave
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eboy_gb:
Cyan wiki worked for me! (strawmetal didn't - I blame myself though).

ext4 and mimicry are what I'm running now (after going through CWM, CM 7.2 and CM9 RC1 & RC2) and I'm very happy with both. Mimicry is great!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
setherios guide is just for the downgrade process

the cyanogen wiki, xda wiki, and strawmetals pdf guide are all more or less the same guide, just writen a tad differently

as for the recovery 4ext is far superior but feel free to switch recoveries later if it complicates thing, very easy to do

as for a rom choice there are many good ones and it will be hard to recommened one so try a few, make nandroid backups, and see where your prefernce lies. if you like ics then my personal opinions are elitemod ics or mimicry, both are great. don't care much for sense so you will have to explore by yourself on those (you will need the dz hboot if you want any sense roms - easily done)

if you want gingerbread try ilwt or elitemod cm7 (this is still the rom I almost always use, even curently)

have fun, read, read some more, search when stuck... this is should all be easy as you say your tech savvy - happy flashing!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prairie-dad:
minor glitches, but rooted and s-off fine

all went well till the very, very, very end. I went to reboot into clockwork recovery, and...nothing doing! holding down the trackball, volume down and power...and waiting and waiting...just got me into the bootloader with no option to go to recovery...just reboot, reboot the boot loader, and power down.

So I thought, maybe I somehow failed to get the recovery img where I wanted it...no big deal. I logged onto the old Market (this is 2.2, after all) and purchased 4ext (which is what seems to be everyone's choice) and installed it. Then I said I wanted to reboot with mimicry and gapps, hit "go," and...it rebooted into ClockworkMod Recovery...where it now sits, I assume backing up the existing system. Mimicry 1.3.2 and gapps images were sitting on my sdcard root, btw.

Very odd, and a little perplexing...I will wait it out a while before powering off and up again.

any thoughts? Must I remove clockwork mod manually (I assume that when I installed 4ext it made itselfthe default recovery method...) or does 4ext just sit atop Clockwork Mod...and what I am seeing now is normal...? I've been waiting a few minutes now, and see nothing but the Clockword Mod icon, the top hat.

Sigh...but pretty clearly almost all the way home.

Thanks to all,

dave
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
I've never used an app to install a recovery, always used fastboot.

But to answer your question 4ext does replace clockwork, it does not sit on top of it. Just downloading the app well... downloads the app. You must then go into the app and choose to download and install the recovery, after this from within the recovery flash your ROM (and gapps etc. If needed)

I have the 4ext app just for the purpose of supporting the Dev as anything that does me good deserves my money but I really have never bothered much with it so off hand I can't tell you the exact steps to do this but I'm sure it s very straight forward.

Good luck and let us know how all turns out
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prairie-dad:
darn ClockWorkMod/4ext clash!

Thanks...I sat and looked at it for a while, then hit power, and up came the ClockworkMod menu...and did nothing. When I asked _it_ to load a zip from the sdcard...it still sat there stupidly...nice menu but no action. so I rebooted with trackball/volume-down and power...and still can't get to the bootloader menu...the only way is to attach via usb, and do adb reboot bootloader...which gives me a bootloader menu showing no recovery app...just the same options as before. ugh. I wonder what the recovery.img is...? I went through the steps of installing 4ext...and it said it had installed itself.

well, I will poke around a tad more...midnight now...at least I have a working phone on 2.2, rooted, S-OFF, etc.

dave

---------- Post added at 07:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:42 AM ----------

Mimicry is booting now. All good. I ended up using the clockwork mod version, 3. something, that I installed when following (too slavishly?) the CM wiki's instructions (otherwise excellent!) Then (and now) I have problems booting into the bootloader, and it doesn't show a recovery option... Running 4ext (which I purchased) seems to be great (looks really useful) until rebooting...when CWM comes up instead.

I kept using volume up or down to pick what I wanted, then pushed the power button to select...wrong! It's the trackball you click, which I only hit upon by accident. Once I got that working, I flashed mimicry and Gapps, and I am off to the races again.

Thanks to all, but I want to figure out what is with recovery for the future.

What buttons do I push to get to bootloader...so far all I have gotten to work is via USB cable and "dab reboot boot loader."

dave
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
hold volume down while powering on, or now that you have mimicry (and most custom roms will be the same) hold power, choose reboot, reboot bootloader
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
I'm going to be going through this whole process myself in about an hour or 2. Just to confirm, did you end up using CWM (using the link they provide to download) as per CM's Wiki, or did you have to upgrade CWM?

I think I'm going to go through CM's Wiki and once Mimicry is working, I'm going to hop over to 4ext to help flash future ROMs.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
After some research, I found people going back into the bootloader and selecting recovery and then selecting to wipe the various caches. My volume buttons wouldn't work in the bootloader, which really started to scare me. I took out my sdcard and went into the bootloader and found that after the phone went through the hboot and didn't find the pc10img.zip file, it brought me back to the bootloader menu and allowed my volume buttons to work. I did a master reset and then my phone was able to boot into Froyo (I forgot how ugly Froyo was compared to Gingerbread).

Now on to rooting & loading my phone with Mimicry!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prairie-dad:
Hey Deadeye37

Read through this whole thing...it's all here...each misstep as well as the final success.

I used the CM wiki in its entirety, including the version of CWM they link to from their Wiki...3.0.4.2 or something like that...way below the current version, which is 5.something, and is recommended in the Strawmetal set of instructions (which I did _not_ try.) But everyone was saying that 4ext was better, so _while_ I was in Froyo, rooted and S-OFF but not yet with a new ROM flashed,I went to the Market (the old Play Store) and bought 4ext. I thought I set it up correctly, told it to become my recovery app, flash the mimicry and gapps ROMS that I had already put on the SD card, and so on, and hit "go." That is, I did what I thought was the reboot bootloader sequence...push down the trackball, hold volume down and hit power and hold them till you go into bootloader.

Well, there is _something_ wrong with that...I kept going into Froyo, over and over. So I attached to the computer (I use a Mac) via USB and did "adb reboot bootloader" and that got me to my boot loader, but there was no option to go to recovery!! Dead end.

So, I went into 4ext and said what I wanted to do, and you can actually say "go ahead and reboot and make all my changes" from within the app...so finally I did that...and where did I land, but inside the version of CWM that had been installed using the CM wiki...that freaked me out. But at least it did say that I could flash a new ROM from there, or reformat data and cache (all those instructions are in the "flashing CM" wiki page, that follows the Rooting page on CM wiki.) So I followed those instructions, but still kept having a problem...I would navigate to my choice with volume up and down...then hit Power to select (like in the bootloader. But NO...that never did anything...man was I frustrated. I did that several times, rebooting more than once...until at one point, more or less by accident, I hit the trackball...and bingo! That is what CWM uses, not Power. So even with the old version that I had of CWM, it all worked out okay...I flashed mimicry and Gapps, and now have a nice new phone. All good.

I have reinstalled 4ext...but not yet tried to use it. I will use mimicry for a while and see how that goes, I like it so far, though there are a few things I miss from the old apps in Gingerbread. But sure it is faster, cleaner, less memory use, less battery use...all good!

good luck, I'll keep watching here to see how you do, and report on my 4ext adventures...

dave
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
I am now running Mimicry 1.3.2 and Wifi calling (my biggest worry) is working! Rooting using the CM Wiki was spot on, for the most part. The one thing that I didn't know, and this is because I'm a noob at this, is how to actually get into CWM. I was expecting the boot loader to be replaced, or an option to come up after I boot. Instead, I found that it was under the bootloader menu. I had to choose recovery (which I did before I did the perm root, but basically got the middle finger from Android in the form of a cryptic picture, so I didn't know that this was were they that recovery option is set). Once I got that, everything else was a breeze.

Now it's off to figuring out ICS and Mimicry. Thank you everyone who helped!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prairie-dad:
Bravo, deadeye!

Let me ask about Wifi calling...is this the EdKeys package that is mentioned in the introductory Mimicry post? Did you need to flash your radio, install the wifi package and then flash the efs wipe script? I am looking at doing exactly those things, and would appreciate your experience

Also, what about your SIM card? I gather that 9177 is the kind to have, while I have a 9073. Did you check that out first...and what did you find? If it was an old card, did you upgrade, or have you done all this with the old card?

thanks,

dave
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warbuff:
Hi prairiedad

To answer your questions.

Wificalling in mimicry is the same as edkeys. If you install from the mimicry installer it does the efs wipe for you. However before you do all this make sure that you have the latest radio installed. There is a thread that is linked to in edkeys post that will help you install the new radio.

As for the sim card. I used to have the same simcard you have. I went into a tmobile store and made up a story about my data dropping and asked if they can swap for the latest sim card you mentioned. No questions asked and they swapped and activated it on the spot. You can use your old sim card but you risk getting sim card errors when using wifi calling. Hope this answers some questions and feel free to ask more.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadeye37:
I believe I was already on the latest radio version (and I had thought that the WiFi calling package updated to the latest radio anyways). I just selected the WiFi calling package and got that installed. Seems to work great.

As for the SIM card, My SIM had actually started to turn bad on me a few months ago, so I didn't worry about having the outdated SIM card.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warbuff:
Good to hear. The wifi calling package installs wifi calling and the matching radio rils and gps.so packages. It doesnt install the new radio
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roolio:
Prairie-dad, if you open the 4ext app on your phone, click on the Online Install | Upgrade option. It now opens all the versions of 4ext you can flash, choose the most recent RC version on the Touch tab. Then click install. Wait for the app to do some stuff, and voila, you have the 4ext recovery from now on!

To go into recovery, long press the power button, select Reboot, then select Recovery. 4ext recovery is a touch recovery, so you can forget about the volume buttons and selecting with the power button. To exit the recovery just select Reboot.
[HTC Rezound] keolawills:
i was wondering if there is an eng hboot 2.27 or a patched version that allows fastboot commands? i like my bootloader to say locked but had to unlock it after upgrading my firmware.
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
2.27 hboot? latest i know of is 2.25..... is this the latest ota for global capabilities?
[HTC Rezound] Snuzzo:
Yup. I'm watching unlimited.io like a hawk.
[HTC Rezound] keolawills:
will you post something when/if there is one available?
[HTC Rezound] spitzaf:
Honestly, I found a locked s-off hboot to be sufficient. The only thing I can't do is flash recovery, so I keep TWRPs PH98IMG.zip on hand. Fastboot isn't needed that much after s-off.
[HTC Rezound] keolawills:
I use fast boot frequently actually. Much easier imo. I know there are ways around not having to use fast boot commands but it can be a pita. Don't matter really since I unlocked my bootloader and i can get it to say locked again.

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[HTC Rezound] SR3TLAW:
What exactly are you waiting for?
[HTC Rezound] antp121:
A new juopunutbear hboot. Itll open the phone up again! Untill then, you cant have eng commands on the latest ota
[HTC Rezound] keolawills:
you can use fastboot commands you just have to be unlocked through htcdev.
[HTC Rezound] Snuzzo:
Why unlock if s-off?
[HTC Rezound] SynisterWolf:
you need an eng hboot to do fast boot commands. thats why they are still using 2.25 and not 2.27
[HTC Rezound] manbat:
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Yep...the jbear 2.25 works fine on the update. Have it on mine currently. I also made a zip to flash back to 2.27...lol
[HTC Rezound] SynisterWolf:
i wonder what they did from 2.25 to 2.27. idk if the GSM ability needed something in hboot to make our phone a global phone or not.

If there are any devs out there that want to chime in, im all ears. i want to know what the difference is if they know.