[HTC Rezound] 66racer:
Hello,

Point of this is to get s-off roms to work on an s-on phone, s-on is how a phone is stock, so if you dont know which you are or what this is, your phone came s-on and thats what you have.

Thought I would make a quick noob guide to flashing boot.img files for the S-on users. It was something that confused me and thanks to a few guys in here I got it going and want to return the favor by making a SUPER easy (hopefully) list of directions. Any input on making these directions easier would be appreciated as well. Keep in mind you already need to have an unlocked bootloader which you can do through htc and have installed amonra recovery to flash your rom. I had an easy time using hasoon2000's all in one tool kit found in here for unlocking and flashing the amonra recovery. I am assuming your comfortable flashing roms at this point and have probably even tried a few but now want to try the s-off ones without actually going s-off.

Doing this you take your own responsibility for whatever may happen, but this works on my phone and should on yours too.

Needed programs:

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

HTC drivers http://www.htc.com/www/software/htc-sync-manager/

winrar or winzip- I use download.com

rom of choice

Read the directions first and understand them before you flash an s-off rom on your phone. If you mess up dont worry make a backup so you can restore it to working order or have a safe rom you know already works handy in case something goes wrong.

Whenever you see something in quotes, type only whats inside the quotes and dont include the quotes.

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setting up the computer for this process

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Step 1: Download the android sdk toolkit, htc drivers/snyc, winrar and install them

Go ahead, download the programs and install them the normal way they guide you to do. Pay attention when installing the android toolkit, it will tell you where it is going to save it too, it will come in handy on step 2, but I also include where it saved it on my computer in step 2. This should be the same for all windows 7 computers as well as vista.

Note: during sdk toolkit install select install for only me option or it wont put it in the correct directory in windows.

Step 2: Locate the installed folder and make a shortcut onto your desktop

-you need to go into your c drive in windows, then its most likely stored in the users folder, then click the user name you have, then appdata, then local, then android. Once at android-sdk right click and select send to desktop to make a shortcut. Now click on android-sdk and do the same for the platform-tools folder.

The folder path will be similar to the one below:

android-sdk folder path C:\Users\yourUSERname\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk

platform-tools path C:\Users\yourUSERname\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

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At this point lets assume you have the s-off rom on your phone and your pc

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Step 3: Place the boot.img file of the rom your going to install into the folder: platform-tools

How do you get the boot.img? Well you have to get the rom you want and extract it from the rom zip file. That's where winrar or winzip come in handy. Make a folder on your desktop and name it whatever you want, I name them with the rom name. Now place your rom in here, right click the rom, and you will see an extract option. "Extract to here" will be there with winrar but winzip should have the option too. Once all the files are extracted you will see another file called boot.img. That is the boot file you need to install to get the rom working. Now that you have the file handy, right click and select copy. Now go into the platform-tools shortcut you made on your desktop and paste the boot.img file there.

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If you read everything already and understand it, this is where you can start flashing your s-off rom on your phone and wait for it to finish

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Step 4: Open the windows command line on your computer

With windows 7 and I think vista also just open the windows menu on the bottom left and type "cmd" in the search bar, select the cmd.exe and a black window will pop up.

Step 5: Type "cd where ever platform tools folder was located"

Now you need to navigate cmd to the boot.img file; so we will tell cmd how to get there. Basically we need to type the location of the platform-tools folder but since its long I will show you a short way a member here showed me. Type "cd" without the quotes then hit the spacebar. Now we will go to the desktop and look for the android-sdk shortcut we made earlier. Open that shortcut. Inside you will see the platform-tools folder, click and hold on that folder and drag it to the black cmd box. If you did it right you will see the long path to the platform-tools folder in the cmd section. Now click on the cmd window to make sure its selected and hit enter on the keyboard.

step 6: After rom install put phone in bootloader, on pc type "fastboot devices" to confirm you have your phone hooked up properly

Now we need to get the phone ready, at this point your phone should have had the new rom flashed, once it was done installing the rom in amonra, select developer menu and select bootloader. At this point connect your phone to a usb 2.0 slot, for some reason none of the usb 3.0 slots will recognize with this process so make sure its usb 2.0. You will see usb-fastboot on your phone if the computer sees it. To be sure in the cmd screen type "fastboot devices" and you will see a device name come up, thats your phone. If nothing popped up the computer isnt seeing it.

step 7: type "fastboot flash boot boot.img"

So at this point we know everything is ready to flash the boot.img. Simply type "fastboot flash boot boot.img" and let it do its thing, once its done, your ready to reboot the phone and start playing with it. If you want to reboot it through cmd which I do the text is below or you can simply just hit the reboot option in the phone.

step 8 once done type "fastboot reboot"

After typing the above command in cmd let the phone reboot. Once it starts to reboot you can disconnect the phone and close everything out.

Enjoy

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tip Understanding commands

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what does "fastboot flash boot boot.img" mean anyways?

This command is like ordering someone to do something.

Hey fastboot, I need you to flash a boot file called boot.img is basically what you told the computer to do.

Commands are like that and hope it helps you remember them

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Thanks to:

Luis86dr

famoustarsandstraps1

--Both of these guys helped me understand these tools and I want to return the favor to the other members--