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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cruise350:
Which hboot were you on previously? I it looks like the ruu updated your hboot, but it didn't update your radios or anything else. Since it appears you can get into fastboot mode, I would plug your phone into a usb port and try to flash the ruu using fastboot. Look for a post by bigdaddy in the Android development stickies. It may help you. One of your problems will be you have some of the current firmware bits installed but not all of them. Which means you risk a hard brick if you to to revert to an older version. There was a post a while back where someone had a hboot flashable pj75img.zip that HTC sent him. That way you could put it on your sdcard and run it from hboot. If I pop can find it I will post a link.

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Here is the post with a link to the pj75img.zip. Download it, put it on the root of your sdcard, boot your phone into the bootloader, let it find the file and select yes to install it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k8llst3qjb0pn73/PJ75IMG.zip
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] a senile fungus:
Was it really necessary to offer money??

Send a message to captain throwback, he'll help you if you can be helped. And there are others too who would do it for free...

Good luck to you
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rawintellect:
Yep happens to me every time I relock my bootloader. Either (1) run ruu and let it finish. Or (2) use the htcdev sife to unlock your bootloader.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rollerpig:
alright brahs so a quick update

i got some help from a nice guy in the irc chat (so the paypal reward is gone) however i still have a few questions.

as soon as i unlocked via htc dev unlock the phone sprang back to life. twrp was back in recovery the stock rooted rom was still there (super su still intact). However my hboot has been updated so the ruu did do something. However my radios are still not updated so how do i go about doing so?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] UB2NOZ:
Relock bootloader. Run the Jelly RUU 3.15. Unlock boot loadr (htc) load TRWP and make a backup..H boot will be downgraded in time. It will take some time just not now there is nothing
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
Sigh...

I am in the EXACT same boat.

Unfortunately the radios go completely biserko running anything jelly bean.

Fortunately I am able to unlock at will and run whatever ROM I want though... just not run it well at all.

Current status in my bootloader for the lurkers:

*** TAMPERED ***

*** RELOCKED ***

*** Security Warning ****

JEWEL OVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-2.09.0000

RADIO-1.05.11.0606

OpenDSP-v25.1.0.32.0405

eMMC-boot

Oct 18 2012,15:46:20

The 3.15 RUU completes supposedly "successfully" when ran with the phone in fastboot, however it completes in record time. What takes 10 minutes in the videos takes but maybe 3 minutes on my phone. Sigh.

Gonna flash ICS and continue to lurk. If anyone finds a fix for this please update this thread as I'm subscribed.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
As clarification to lurkers...

Relocked bootloader.

Ran Jelly RUU 3.15

Unlocked bootloader

Made my backup in TWRP

Not sure what the point of that backup is though, the ROM doesn't get updated by the RUU. As soon as I re-unlock I am able to boot right into my previous rom.

I've tried a complete wipe then ran the RUU, same result, except obviously I just had to reload a ROM afterwards.

Flashed an ICS ROM then ran my RUU thinking maybe it was verifying the current ROM version, still no joy.

The RUU goes through it's process, all be it faster than what one would think it should, and finishes saying it successfully completed. But it never actually updates the ROM.

I'm adding tags so others can find the thread as it took awhile to sort through and find this particular issue.

TAGS:

Bootloader HBOOT 2.09 Boot Loader Loop Security Warning Radio-1.05.11.0606 Firmware 3.15
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cruise350:
I think what's happening is, when running the ruu, part of the process is it checks your current hboot and firmware to verify it isn't installing an older software. Since some how you partially upgraded with that first ruu attempt. Any future ruu attempts reads your hboot and decides you've already upgraded firmware and skips or stops the rest of the installation. You may be out of luck until HTC comes out with a new ota that upgrades hboot or someone comes up with a method to flash radios in recovery with s-on. You may want to just brick your phone and take it to sprint and see if they will exchange it. A tech looking at should be able to see that the upgrade failed and you only have a partial upgrade.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
Brick the phone as a solution.... Sigh...

Yeah, I don't see Sprint exchanging with a Tampered and Unlocked mark on the phone; may just wait until an s-off method for hboot 2.09 is found, but attempting an exchange may be worth a look.

It's really frustrating how HTC is so hell bent on locking the radios down the way they do. Oh well, that's the mistake I made for not going with a Nexus or something more developer friendly. I knew going in HTC was a proprietary jail of sorts, if you dance in the fire you gotta expect that at some point it's going to burn. Real pisser.

Thanks for the help everyone. If a solution is discovered please PM me or update the thread.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kchitown1977:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2081631 this sign good things coming to 2.09 hboot
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rollerpig:
just a few updates. the phone is working but just ****ed up in general. Randomly reboots everyone once in a while. sometimes text messages take forever to send. won't connect to 4g and google music is unable to stream/function properly. So i hoping all this is related to the radios and once i can achieve s-off (shouldn't be long now) i'll be able to update radios and things should work better. until then is there anything i can do to improve the performance? i'm guessing not.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
I hate to be a debbie downer, but...

I wouldn't put too much stock in the latest dirtyracun s-off technique.

The first step in Dirty Racun requires you to stock the phone with the official RUU. In our case the 3.15 RUU.

Well, for the folks in our position the official HTC 3.15 RUU doesn't actually do a damn thing.

Per their instructions:

Download the RUU for your current HBOOT and put it in your DirtyRacun folder:

This step is REQUIRED even if you are on Stock RUU already!

RUU 1.22.651.3 - HBOOT 1.15

MD5 0fde3633b4fe22123d49ea66615b57ff

RUU 2.13.651.1 - HBOOT 1.19

MD5 3c6dbe048b7cfa09fd8f31a1d65ddb51

RUU your device (with your phone in fastboot):*

fastboot erase cache

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip RUU.zip

Now unless they are using a modified RUU, I don't see this technique working in our case. That said, as soon as I get home I'm going to grab the ROM out of the EXE temp folder and try flashing it this way as I haven't done it yet:

fastboot erase cache

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip ROM.zip

Every time I've tried flashing I've used the Windows EXE which hasn't had any problems discovering the device while it's in fastboot usb, but trying this way may fix it, I'll let the thread know in a few hours.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
Fail blog time

So I ran the flash through a terminal, at least I got a more verbose error:

***NOTE The RUU.zip used here is the PJ75IMG.zip from this thread, just renamed:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2067921

root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads# fastboot oem lock

...

(bootloader) Lock successfully...

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 534642032 (0x1FDDFD70)

FAILED (status read failed (No such device))

finished. total time: 5.944s

root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads# fastboot erase cache

erasing 'cache'...

OKAY [ 0.115s]

finished. total time: 0.115s

root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads# fastboot oem rebootRUU

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

OKAY [ 0.068s]

finished. total time: 0.068s

root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads# fastboot flash zip RUU.zip

sending 'zip' (659905 KB)...

OKAY [ 25.722s]

writing 'zip'...

(bootloader) adopting the signature contained in this image...

(bootloader) signature checking...

(bootloader) rom parsing start ...

(bootloader) rom parsing finish ...

(bootloader) zip header checking...

(bootloader) zip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 22 loading zip info fail)

finished. total time: 85.132s

For good measure I ran the flash a second time with the same "remote: 22 loading zip info fail" result:

root@ubuntu:/home/user/Downloads# fastboot flash zip RUU.zip

sending 'zip' (659905 KB)...

OKAY [ 25.271s]

writing 'zip'...

(bootloader) adopting the signature contained in this image...

(bootloader) signature checking...

(bootloader) rom parsing start ...

(bootloader) rom parsing finish ...

(bootloader) zip header checking...

(bootloader) zip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 22 loading zip info fail)

finished. total time: 83.659s

So far the bottom line is, if you ran the latest RUU, have s-on, your hboot is at 2.09 and radio at 1.05, welcome to the SOL club.

I've received several PMs from peeps who are suffering the same deal, and everytime I check the forum there's another member joining our not so elite club.

:crying:

Bummers.

I'll donate another $20 to rollerpigs fund if we can get this fixed before the next OTA... :silly: Just kidding, but seriously...

As always any help from the cloud will get stacks of kudos.

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To verify the image from the other thread, I just ran the same thing on my Windows partition using the rom_01.zip from the RUU EXE, and as anticipated got the same result.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] buggsbuny:
Just got a new Evo LTE yesterday. Unlocked, but can't get S-off following the infamous YouTube video. Relocked then tried RUU. I have the same problem. RUU runs faster then it should. Was 2.13 and when I ran 2.13, it would say I had 2.13 installed. Doesnt work. Tried 3.15. Checks RUU image and says 3.15 is installed on my phone. Huh??? Reboot phone and still running ICS. Can't flash it back to stock. Going to try PJ75IMG. Maybe I will be lucky enough for it to brick and I can take it back to Sprint.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cruise350:
Maybe when Dirty Racun is for hboot 2.09 is released to the public soon, the ruu they provide to flash before you run their process may fix you guys up. Don't know. I think for the mean time people should stop running the ruu to try to upgrade and take the ota instead. The OP should try to change the title of this thread to something more informative like: "help, I ran the 3.15 RUU to upgrade my phone and it screwed up my phone, DO NOT RUN THE RUU BEFORE READING THIS"
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cloves:
Unbelievable how HTC has taken such a nasty stance on enabling people to tweak these phones. I have been using Sense since windows mobile, but all these hoops are not worth the hassle.

PS I am in the same boat. The 3.15RUU file updated the bootloader but NOT the Rom. On reboot the stock sprint Rom was still there along with all settings email etc. P.S. Also followed qbking77 youtube videos except went with the latest RUU instead of the one I had installed.

Op should change thread title to warn others. Problem with these forums is that there is SO much information its impossible to know what is important without spending hours reading.

Thoughts ::confused:

What if we were to unlock the bootloader again (I used RegawMOD and install TWRP, then run the older RUU with the earlier HBOOT version wouldn't that work? Does TWRP recovery overwrite the stock HBOOT? I was under the impression that it did, but now I am not too sure.

PS check this out folks:

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/01/...&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoodAndEvo+(Good+and+EVO)

Pretty much summing it all up.

http://www.pocketables.com/2012/12/...es-for-rooted-s-on-htc-evo-4g-lte-owners.html
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
No

I believe the current HBOOT 2.09 is what is validating the RUU being flashed. So if you try to flash an earlier RUU the current HBPOOT 2.09 halts you in your tracks.

As far as MeanBean, yeah it looks to be shaping up to be a great ROM. Unfortunately any JB ROM installed on antiquated and unflashable radio firmware isn't likely to function well. I've flashed an old stock ICS ROM and it seems to be faring well as far as radios and battery life. The only radio I've noticed dropping is WIFI but it recovers rather quickly. To be honest, I remember stock having that issue previously, so my phone is basically in the status it was in October.

I'm kicking myself, I never should have ran HTCs RUU. Hopefully this was an unintentional move by HTC and they provide updated version signatures in a soon to be released RUU to fix the issue they have caused. If not, I see them going the way of Nokia, superior quality but the geeks advise others away from it. The only non technical people I know that have an HTC cell are either the people I recommended to buy one or people who were referred by other geeks.

When it comes to Android you don't want to piss off the geeks... When you ask a non-geek why they bought a specific Android phone 90% of the time they say "because my geek friend recommended it" and that's a true reality.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cruise350:
The problem is, people are using the ruu improperly. A ruu is not meant to update the phone to the next version of software. It is for returning a phone back to factory condition. The ruu you flash is supposed to correspond to your current hboot and firmware. That is why you are supposed to take the ota to upgrade not run a ruu. I believe if you would have started with a pj75img.zip, which is an update file you would have been alright. Now that the hboot has upgraded all future attempts at running the ruu are failing. I am afraid you maybe out of luck on fixing this until the next ota that updates hboot and radio comes out.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rollerpig:
I updated the original post to reflect some of the findings in this thread. i'm also going to try to email htc i doubt this will have much effect but just to aware them on the issue that many of us have been having maybe a simple programming tweak would fix the way the ruu is being flashed. For now i'm running the latest stock rooted rom, its stable enough to be a functional phone but obviously it could be better. I'll update this thread again if i get any response from htc or if i acheive s-off in the near future and can update radios
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sgt. slaughter:
You realize you contradict yourself here in this statement?

You say the RUU is supposes to be used to return a phone back to stock.... BUT then say that the process is failing because its reading the hboot is already updated...... Think about it and how that 2nd part is not true at all.

Has everyone checked the md5 on the file they download?....
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scottspa74:
So, if it's intended to restore, it shouldnt fail when seeing the same hboot, correct?

from this PACevo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] PedroDaGr8:
I'm just thinking outloud but I am wondering if SuperCID could help. IIRC SuperCID is supposed to allow you to flash older firmwares (radio etc.), which MAYBE (and this is a BIG maybe) means it bypasses the check that is causing this to fail. It's just a WAG but figured I would throw it out there.

Also, for those that are wondering, SuperCID ability is part of the Jewel/Evita Toolkit
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cruise350:
To tell you the truth, this shouldn't happen. For some reason the JB RUU is messing up phones and only updating the hboot and not the radios, firmware, or rom. I don't know if HTC released a bad RUU or if its the new hboot. All I know is every subsequent attempt to run a RUU or PJ75IMG.zip that the affected people have tried has resulted in the same thing, failure. I have always been under the impression that a RUU should be able to flash a working phone back to stock but for some reason it isn't working with the latest RUU. Now, all the people that have been affected started with an older base and hboot. I have always thought your RUU that you use was suppose to match your current software, for example, if your on hboot 1.15 you should run the 1.15 RUU, etc. All of the people that are having this problem tried to use the JB RUU to upgrade their phone instead of just returning to stock. This seems to be the problem. An older RUU doesn't work because it starts to install and then sees the new hboot and won't finish, the current RUU looks like it completes, but in record time and nothing is changed. I wish I could help these people but its beyond my knowledge. Hopefully someone that knows how to use that toolkit that was mentioned above can figure it out.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sgt. slaughter:
Correct.... Note the steps to preform dirtyracoon....

I'd reach out to HTC for the RUU as maybe the one football posted or the one u guys downloaded has a flaw in it...

Its that or there is a step you guys are messing up along the way somehow...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
I'm thinking it's flawed logic in the RUU. Also, I have PMs from 12 separate people, one of which claims they never ran HTC Unlock (maybe they bought it 2nd hand and didn't realize it was unlocked?). Either way, it is way more widespread than an issue of...you run an executable on windows wrong. The issue is also starting to get piublicity as being WIDE spread:

Read this: http://www.pocketables.com/2012/12/...es-for-rooted-s-on-htc-evo-4g-lte-owners.html

As I said earlier, if it's an accident by HTC I hope they fix it fast. If it's some sort of attempt to bludgeon the geek crowd, I fear HTC will lose MASSIVE credibility over this.

Also, referring to cruises discussion, the reason why HTC releases the RUU is so that users who for whatever reason have the phone but don't use it on a cell network (maybe they just use it as an "advanced ipod w/ gps, Google Wallet"), so they can't get the OTA from Sprint, they can use the RUU to get an official upgrade from HTC. This IS the reason HTC releases the RUU...to upgrade the device from an older HBOOT, firmware, and software.

The reason why hobbyists in these forums always recommend not to upgrade with the RUU is as an effort to keep from upgrading the HBOOT, which is widely known to cause headaches if you want to s-off the device at a later point.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sgt. slaughter:
Your also confusing HTC releasing the RUU with football posting one.... One is official and one is semi official.....

Which is why I also suggested getting one directly from HTC and checking the md5 and compare that to the one football has...

Also what's being described in that article is slightly different to what is problematic here.... That's talking about things not sticking after a reboot in the system you changed via root... The issue here is someone not being able to run the RUU and upgrade to JB for whatever reason...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
AFAIK football's RUU and the one at http://www.htcruu.com/?dir=Jewel are one in the same I downloaded both and the second one has RUU_JEWEL_CL_JB_45_S_Sprint_WWE_3.15.651.16_Radio_1.12.11.1119_NV_2.87_003_25007_release_299302_signed.exe(1) to me means duplicate download

MD5 match on both files
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cloves:
Encrypted zips the problem?

Alot of variables going on in this thread. I think it would be helpful on finding a solution rather then disputing misinformation.

I read over in the previous link I posted that some htc's ruu had done encrypted zip files in it? Wondering if this could be the problem possibly.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Tilde88:
necro'd for "boastloader" :)

did you ever get your problem fixed?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cloves:
Has anyone reached out to football by an chance?

PS Came across these additional instructions.

http://androidjinn.com/how-to-updat...-1-jelly-bean-3-15-651-16-ruu-firmware.html/2
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rollerpig:
i don't see the problem being user error/inability to follow that guide. the ruu is pretty simple to execute yet it obviously isn't functioning properly for a wide variety of users.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
Yes, the latest RUU has two ROMs (rom_1.zip and rom_2.zip), as opposed to what were used to seeing (just 1 ROM, rom.zip). If I recall rom_1.zip is encrypted and rom_2.zip is not. rom_1.zip was the full 650MB rom and rom_2.zip appeared to be just the hboot record. But to be honest there's no way to tell.

That said, I did try flashing with rom1 copied as both rom1 and rom2 in the temp directory. It definitely verified rom2 and failed. I believe that what is happening is that it is only applying rom_2.zip when it runs. rom_1.zip is what has all of the images for the radios and what not (even an hboot.img), and rom_2.zip only has hboot.img.

I have tried SEVERAL different ways getting this to flash, but so far have been unable. My next attempt will be modifying the android information text file that appears to be providing arguments. In particular, the hboot_preupdate option. In previous versions this variable was set to 13, but in 3.15 it is set to 3. First I will be trying it with 13, and if that doesn't work I'm going to give 0 a shot. It can't be that simple though can it??? I'll find out and update in a few hours.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cloves:
Keep us posted tankerkevo!

I have reverted back to our older HTC EVO until I can figure out if this is fixable. If not I am going to have to figure out how to brick the phone and call Sprint (Phone is 3 months old and the repeating SMS is unbearable). I think this ridiculous at this point :/
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rollerpig:
i'm still curious though as to why when i relock my phone it goes into a bootloader/fastboot loop? anyone have an explanation/fix for this?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tankerkevo:
I believe I have a fix, it's going to take a while to write up a tutorial.

Please stay tuned.

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Crappers spoke too soon, but...

I am now able to boot into my current 2.0 MeanBean ROM while the phone is in "relocked" mode. This is I believe an advancement to resolution as previously I could not get past the bootloader with the phone in the HTC locked state. Also, I've been able to get the security warning removed from the bootloader.

Running the EXE in windows however did not flash the stock roms and wares.

I'm going to re-unlock, attempt to install a decrypted stock ROM and see if that gets the firmware updated. I also have a few other ideas swirling around. But fr the first time I do feel I'm making some progress. I'll let you know if there's good news, otherwise I'm still hacking away.

I'll update this thread if I find a fix, but my fix instructions will be in the sticky thread that was posted by pig.

Thanks to cloves for spiking the idea in my brain of decrypting the ROM_01.zip..

I was able to apply a decrypted boot_signed.img and recovery_signed.img that was able to at least get me past the stupid bootloader while locked.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cloves:
Fingers crossed for you! Keep good notes.

PS Tank did you read this:

Tool to unencrypt the zip file is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36330088

Some dev's decrypted the zip already:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2085854

So now I wonder how can we pack this all up into the original exe so we can see if it will work.