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[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Hello,

This is an odd request, but I'm in need of some help with this HTC Rezound. A bit of background first. It's not mine. I'm a G2 user (rooted and I know my way around Android hacking). This phone belongs to a friend and despite having it rooted he knows nothing about how he got there or how to fix a problem. Currently it's stuck in a bootloop. He mailed the phone to me (we live 750 miles apart) and he's hoping I might be able to assist. I can get into recovery (I'm assuming it's a custom recovery - looks like ClockworkMod) and my hope was to flash a new ROM but he stupidly neglected to send the phone to me with an SD Card. I'm wondering if there's a way to get a ROM/gapps onto the phone (internal storage) and flash from there. I see there's an option for USB-MS toggle and I've tried playing around in the internal_sd area, and I can get a G: drive to appear when choosing this and connected via USB to my computer, but when I put the ROM/gapps on there I cannot seem to access it for flashing purposes.

Sorry for the long-winded description. But is this a simple solution? Do I just need to get a hold of an SD card and put the files needed on there for flashing? Or is there a way to flash the ROM directly from internal storage?

Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.
[HTC Rezound] pball52998:
Could you post a "fastboot getvar all" ? Without the commas.

Also one thing I would do. Flash twrp 2.6.3.0 Then mount the phone. Push the ROM using a adb push. But first could you post a fastboot getvar all ?

Sent from my Rezound running Sense 5. S-OFF
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Sorry for my noobness, but I have no idea how to do that with this phone. I know nothing about HTC devices - never owned one before.
[HTC Rezound] pball52998:
No problem at all man, we all start somewhere for every phone company.

Okay, pull the battery out. Put it back in, volume down, power button. It should show up a white screen. With I think like 5 options, I know the first two are: fastboot and recovery. When highlighted over fastboot, press power. Then will bring you to fastboot. It'll say in red letters "FASTBOOT USB" at the top. Plug it into the computer open a cmd prompt where you fastboot/adb also known as platform-tools is. Type fastboot getvar all

Sent from my Rezound running Sense 5. S-OFF
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Thanks for the reply. My time messing with the phone is done for the night, but I'll give that a try tomorrow.
[HTC Rezound] pball52998:
Okay sounds good

Sent from my crappy Jailbroken apple iPad.....

Freedoms just another word for nothing left to do... Nothin' ain't worth nothing but it's free.....
[HTC Rezound] Uzephi:
It should say something in the bootloader at the top like below:

***unlocked***

Pvt ship s-off (or s-on)

Hboot version # stuff here

Radio version # stuff here

Is it s-off or s-on?

If it's secure flag is still on, you would need to extract the boot.IMG from your ROM zip and do the following command after pushing and flashing the ROM in recovery. After you do flash the ROM, boot back into bootloader and into fastboot and type the following command in PC terminal

Fastboot flash boot boot.img

Sent from my Rezound
[HTC Rezound] pball52998:
Yep, pretty much, what I was trying to get him through first was actually pushing a ROM to the phone, also the fastboot getvar all gives almost all info. But true with that, that's probably the MOST important part of rooting and ROMing HTC lol. Although he never stated what rom he has. Trying to get him through some basics of HTC too. :)

Sent from my Rezound running Sense 5. S-OFF
[HTC Rezound] Uzephi:
Yeah, just wanted to put that out there in case he found it how to flash a ROM without us, he will see that post to fix his boot loop (if s-on)

Sent from my Rezound
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Thanks again for the replies everyone. Very helpful. As stated before, this is an odd situation because I know nothing about rooting/ROMs for HTC and this isn't my phone.

Anyway, a bit of where I'm at and some better info regarding the phone's situation. The phone, upon attempting to boot, would just bootloop. I don't remember exactly which ROM was on there as I've since done a factory reset, but needless to say it wasn't working. Also, I happened to track down an SD card from an old phone of mine and I used the USB-MS feature in recovery to put a ROM on there for flashing. Wiped everything as I would any other phone, flashed the ROM (which stated was successful) and upon a reboot the phone just hangs on the white HTC screen. Did a bit of digging and decided to try returning to stock (he doesn't care if this phone is still rooted, just wants it working). Found this link http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ull-ruu-build-4-03-605-2-for-the-htc-rezound/ and followed the instructions exactly. Update seemed to take just fine, but again a reboot just got me stuck on the white HTC screen.

I've yet to hook this up to try the fastboot getvar thing as the computer I'm using didn't have ADB installed and I didn't have the time to do so. In the meantime any additional suggestions?

I'm attaching a pic of the phone in hboot so you can see some info that might be helpful.
[HTC Rezound] Uzephi:
The reason the phone froze at the HTC screen is because that phone is s-on...

In HTC world, there is the bootloader lock (the purple thing at the top saying unlocked) and the secure flag.

With the bootloader unlocked, you can flash on virtually any partition (only signed firmware and other technical stuff that is irrelevant in your situation) but when booted in recovery, you cannot flash to the boot partition. (Can only do that when s-off)

To flash the boot partition when unlocked s-on (secure flag on) you need to extract the boot.IMG from the ROM and flash it while in fastboot mode from the hboot.

To RUU (return to complete stock) you also need to flash upwards or same version firmware officially signed by HTC when s-on. If you are s-off then you can downgrade. Also, bootloader needs to be locked again.

TL/DR: flash the boot image following my post above and that ROM you flashed will work.

Sent from my Rezound
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Thanks for this. I think I get what you're saying, but just for the sake of clarification, one more question regarding this process.

I extract the boot.IMG from my ROM of choice, flash the ROM/gapps as I would on any other device, then go back to fastboot and run the adb commands posted earlier? Correct?
[HTC Rezound] Uzephi:
Exactly. Be sure to do exactly that command not

Fastboot boot boot.img

If you forget to say flash boot, it will just temporarily boot that kernel/boot image and not flash it to the device. Then upon reboot you will be back at step one.

Sent from my Rezound
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Again, thank you. Going to give this a go after my son's t-ball game. I feel like more of a noob than when I rooted my OG Droid years ago.
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
[MENTION=4604067]Uzephi[/MENTION], [MENTION=5642430]pball52998[/MENTION], thank you to for your assistance. I felt like a total noob working on a phone that wasn't mine. But I've got it up and running again. My friend Jake will be very happy (I've also told him that this is the last ROM he will ever put on here unless he learns how to do everything I just did - he didn't even know what ADB was when I told him).
[HTC Rezound] pball52998:
Wait! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: He has old HBOOT and Radios, the newest radio is 1.28 he has 1.21 I think I saw.... I would suggest s-off then RUU and doing a RUU.... Or if anyone has em, the HBOOT and Radios you can flash in recovery.
[HTC Rezound] Rodeojones:
Flashing them in recovery would be great, if there's a link to download the files. But just to be clear, despite this phone finally booking up there's more I need to do to make it 100% usable?
[HTC Rezound] Uzephi:
It is 100% usable, but you will experience less overheats and better battery life with the new firmware. I know the hboot ph98img zip is somewhere in this forum for the updated hboot and radio (for that zip you would just put in root of external SD card and in hboot it will automatically flash)

Sent from my Rezound
[HTC Rezound] jlipps75:
Hello, I have been preparing to RUU back to 4.03.605.2 and want to be sure of process. I read REV3NT3CH's post on downgrading, so I downloaded the latest 2 PH89IMGs via his instructions and here's where I stand:

S Off

Hboot 2.28

Radio 2.23.10.0123r/1.23.10.0124r

also running CleanRom 4.5

Can I just place PH89IMG on sdcard to RUU or am I missing a step? Thank you in advance
[HTC Rezound] Uzephi:
Just place it in the root of SD card and reboot to your boot loader

Sent from my Rezound
[MX Player] dpoverlord:
I am using ed file Explorer coupled with mx player and my. My files seem to stream very slowly from my computer. Anyone have any ideas how to increase the buffer? They are cached on an ssd and it does not make sense that I am having such a slow down.
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
There is a similar report over here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52331493

As per the report there is a pocket drop between ES to MX. Try some other file msnagers.

It may fix the issue.
[MX Player] Logic_:
I use File Manager HD for the same purpose and it works perfectly. I have a link to the network folder with my videos on the homescreen and it opens as instantly as any other map.

Seeking through videos is almost as smooth as local files, but that might be because it is actually on an external HDD, it may even be a lot faster on an internal SSD.
[MX Player] dpoverlord:
yeah it ges a lot of hiccups is there a better video player than MX Player with a longer buffer?
[MX Player] CDB-Man:
I use Root Explorer to get videos off an SMB network drive and it's also reasonably smooth.
[MX Player] dpoverlord:
When you use root you can't stream though correct? I have root Explorer as well.
[MX Player] CDB-Man:
... What do you mean by that? You can add an SMB address to Root Explorer by adding a new tab.
[MX Player] BRAiNCHiLD95:
subtitles!

Just switched to Root Explorer! :)

Streaming is a lot smoother via Root Explorer for me...

However, MX player doesn't automatically pick up the subtitles like it used to do on ES..:confused:

Anyway around that? Because i can't browse to the SMB drive via the Subtitle panel of Mx Player..

Checked the same file via ES, worked perfectly...

Extra info: The file name is the same(exactly the same)..for both the video and the .srt file...

Am i doing something wrong?? Please Advice! I really need subtitles..:crying::crying::crying:
[MX Player] CDB-Man:
I'm not sure if it can pickup on external subs via network stream as I've never tried before; all my videos have embedded subs.

If you're big on network playback, I suggest trying BubbleUPNP DLNA app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1118891
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hrangwala95:
Hi i was recently playing around with my phone and i rooted it installed custom recovery using autorec app and installed custom roms and now i want to revert back to 100% stock. If i use the .kdz unroot method will it bring my device to 100% stock? will it remove the loki and upgrade the bootloader to as it was before on kit kat? Because when i used autorec there was a warning that it will downgrade my bootloader so will the unroot method bring everything back to stock as it was when i took it out of the box? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!:)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6ril1:
Going back to stock + hard reset does what you want:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oliver11111:
Firstly, I know nothing about computer science. I don't really know what a ROM is never mind a kernal. I don't really know what clockworkmod is or what mount, flash mean or what a software developer kit is.

--- please explain any help in an exact step by step process without jargon (or explain jargon if using)

--- as I know nothing about phone tech!

The situation

Galaxy s2 i9100

I think its rooted - I had "insufficient storage space problem" nothing worked, so I booted into recovery mode

(I have clock work mod v6.0.3.2)

I then cleared the data and cache, and rebooted, solving the problem

Everything was working fine until I went to settings and downloaded a cyanogenmod update, I think it was 10.1 or 10.1.3 or 10.3?

I then clicked the install icon after it had downloaded, in the settings, and it started to reboot but then it got stuck on the loading screen

the loading screen says "samsung galaxy i9100" with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in below

when I turn the phone on, if I don't go to recovery mode, it just displays that - it doesn't make it to the spiralling cyanogenmod animation

I have been playing around with recovery mode - I don't really know what any of it does

If I go to install zip to SD card then "choose zip from sdcard" I get E: can't mount sdcard

or if I choose apply /sdcard/update.zip I get E: can't mount [file] Installation aborted

Or "choose zip from internal sd card" - I go to /emmc/cmupdater/ cm-10.1.3-RC2~i9100.zip

- when I try to install this it says "set_perm: some changes failed ; E:error in [file].zip (Status 7) ; Installation aborted

I tried "install zip from sideload"

I downloaded the latest android SDK, then downoaded the CM11 Zip (thought I'd try a newer CM), put it in the platform tools, did ctrl right click to run command window and typed "adb sideload cm11.zip"

but I always end up at *failed to write data 'protocol fault' no status *

I tried this while running "SDK Manager.exe" but didn't make any difference

I tried adb push to push CM11.zip to sdcard, I think it worked but I can't find it on clockworkmod?

Help!

REWARD:

Lifetime access to all of my public health company's resources - (I can't post a link as I'm new but it is jellymed followed by .com for our website)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
1) I don't want 'lifetime access to your company's resources'.

2) You can't ADB sideload a rom/kernel/recovery/whatever on the I9100.

3)If I were in your situation, for the sake of simplicity (and because I could do the whole thing in 10 mins tops), I'd be getting a stock rom from Samfirmware, flashing it with Odin to get a 'clean slate', re-rooting your phone by flashing a custom kernel and then restoring a nandroid backup in CWRecovery, or reinstalling my custom rom in same.

I strongly suggest you take the time to learn 'the basics' once you get this fixed which you are obviously sorely lacking in. Failure on your part to read the guides/tutorials in the stickied thread near the top of General could quite easily lead to a busted phone & data loss at some stage if you continue to fumble around without knowing stuff like 'I don't really know what a ROM is never mind a kernel'. Don't believe me ? I've seen thousands of people like you on here over the past 2.5 yrs end up in exactly that situation (busted phone, didn't back stuff up, lost important stuff).

You proceed in your current state at your own risk.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oliver11111:
Hi I downloaded a stock rom from samware (Irish 02 - as my phone was on O2 so I wont have to root it right?)

How do I use Odin to flash stuff?

I just downloaded it and extracted everything to desktop

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Stickied thread near the top of Q&A titled' Flash stock firmware' has simple instructions.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oliver11111:
Nice! Its working!

Will definitely take you up on all your advice, after exams.

Thanks for guiding me to the good resources

Do you know any good books or courses that would take me from my current hardcore noob state up to a developer - what did you use?

Kind regards,

Oli

p.s. if you are still interested in some cool health resources our medical team is developing, any premium stuff will be all yours (site under development is jellymed dot com)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
The guides/tutorials here, won't turn you into a 'developer', but they'll give you a thorough grounding in what makes this phone tick as well as stuff that applies to Android generally.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm good.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jdubbs13:
Anyone got any cool boot animations they wanna share
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] daniel4653:
ROM toolbox pro has a list of about 300 downloadable boot animations.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] jdubbs13:
I tried but they won't work on my s4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] HPferoxCraft:
They should work just fine, your rom/kernel combo needs to be able to use custom boot anis. Here's another link for some cool ones.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2334927

Should posted this in a Q&A thread though.
[Themer General Discussion] ChibiChen:
Good day.

I'm wondering how to auto hide the status bar.

I found it accidentally in one of the options and can't find it anymore.
[Themer General Discussion] ThemerSupport:
Hi,

Long press on the homescreen - Advanced - More - Desktop - enable Notification Bar AutoHide :)
[Themer General Discussion] Eric_G:
I did this but had no such options
[Themer General Discussion] ThemerSupport:
Hi,

Long press on the homescreen - Advanced - More - Notification Bar - disable Notification Bar Always Shown and enable Notification Bar AutoHide. Sorry about that!
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] mwilky:
Reserved
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] fisha21:
Reserved
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] ssojyeti2:
Reserved

Guys I've just been asked to make the thread, the real credit goes to the rest of the Renovate team, make sure to tell them thanks!
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Pneuma1985:
Awesome man got an at&t thread as well...Can't wait to see some your epic gfx work come to the renovate team bud...
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] fisha21:
Great to be here :)
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] dreaming1reality:
stuck

stuck on white HTC screen. how long to boot?

edit: n/m. re-flashed. worked fine.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] jjbusa:
looking good so far
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] jjbusa:
when i first installed the rom i selected to have the status bar and weather to be transparent how can i change that now that im on the rom ive looked every where i think
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] mwilky:
For those options you get during installation the only way to change those is to reflash the rom and choose the new option you'd like
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Raiderman:
Nice Rom, I like the look of the inverted apps. I have one request. I would love to see the highlighting disappear. For example, the check boxes, and radio buttons have highlights of whichever theme color you have chosen. Also settings app does the same thing. Its very ugly to have the highlights included. Is there a way to make a stock, black/transparent theme, with no highlighting/overlay colors?
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] ssojyeti2:
so greystyle, you mean?
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Raiderman:
So if I want to use custom icons, checkboxes, and radio buttons, I don't have the ugly green highlighting over the top off them. So transparent would be best.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] ssojyeti2:
ahhh ok I think I get what you mean...try asking in the main thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2704145
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Wonders_Never_Cease:
5.11.1540.9 official sense 6 AT&T base build is done,hopefully itll get tested enough to shift over to here....
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] fisha21:
OP updated with the new Milestone. Please note, you'll need to be on the latest available AT&T 4.4.3 firmware

RENOVATE 4.0

General

Rebased on new 2.22.401.4 base

Android 4.4.3 + New Kernel

All previous mods/tweaks/improvements included

Only International, Sprint and AT&T support for now till the others get 4.4.3

Fixes

Fixed graphical issues with Weather Clock Widget

Fixed tethering for Sprint variant

Fixed custom OTA Support for all variants

Fixed issues with inverted Weather

Fixed issue with 4x2 clock flip transparency options when choosing 4x5 homescreen

Fixed actionbar in heqs reorder list

Fixed default state for cpu tweak

Fixed default state for safe volume warning

Fixed install errors when full wiping for some users

Reduced the boot time of the device

New features

Dalvik now runs in optimized mode which means better performance/battery life

ART support for all variants (first boot takes a lot longer)

Brand new Portal app where you can download content straight to your phone

Added back stock HTC themes as well as the unified variants (9 in total)

Added Music Channel to the settings Menu

Added tweak to show/hide native HEQS

Added tweak to show/hide the signal bar icons

Added tweak to change the color of all statusbar icons/dropdown notification icons

Added the option to launch camera when you swipe up from the soft buttons

Added HTC Power To Give, and option to remove in aroma

Added proper removal option of live wallpaper

Updated all apps

The RENOVATE theme and the hide music icons tweak hasn't been ported to the new base yet, they will come with time.

Latest Version: 4.0 - 26/07/2014

RENOVATE 4.0

MD5 SUM *E55CC24A8423893CCFC0A9C38E3C523D* MD5 SUM

​
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] ssojyeti2:
thanks sarj!
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] sameer1807:
I have the AT&T m8. How can I upgrade the firmware to the 2.22 base? Cause I tried it and I kept getting an incompatible error in adb.
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] slackwaresupport:
where are screenshots?
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] mwilky:
RENOVATE 4.5.0

General

Merged with new 2.22.401.5 base

Re-added back all carrier support. (International, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, TMO-US)

Fixes

Fixed rebuilding apps issue on every reboot when running in ART

Fixed Renovate Hub showing incompatible kernels

Fixed orange volume slider when using red theme

Fixed checkbox theming in tweaks app

Fixes to GPS performance

Fixes and improvements to Sprint support

Fixed touch in Sprint recovery

New features

Added back sweep2sleep for international users

Added back tweaks_hide_htcsync_notification

Added back hide music icons tweak

Added hide battery icon tweak

Added hide wifi icon tweak

Added hide GPS icon tweak

Added hide Data Icon tweak

Added back harman option in aroma

Added tweak to disable/enable home assist (swipe up on nav bar)

Added tweak to show/hide search button in navigation bar.

Added improved battery stats (thanks lyapota)

Readded inverted theme

Updated apps

Increased performance/battery life

The RENOVATE theme hasn't been ported to the new base yet, they will come with time.

Latest Version: 4.5.0 - 12/09/2014

RENOVATE 4.5.0

MD5 SUM *251153555A3C20E07EFDFA231FD45C12* MD5 SUM

MIRROR 1 | MIRROR 2

​
[AT&T HTC One (M8)] Texas_Dave:
I just downloaded renovate yesterday. So far overall I like the ROM, .... but I can't change the ringtones. It let's me apply, but the ringtone stays as olive.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Howie3045:
Bell Canada HTC One, want to flash the stock recovery back so that i can get the Sense 6 update. Phone is rooted and unlocked with HTC dev but does not have S-off. been running into issues with hboot 1.56 in that regard and cant get S-off to work. Anyway. From what I gather the OTA update wont work without the stock recovery. How do I know which one to install
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alray:
Why are you starting another thread for this? You already have one here

Please close thread
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] 100thMonkey:
Is it just me or can one only sort by one dimension on the Tasks. Unlike Outlook where one can sort by: Completed, then Due Date, and finally Priority. IS there a hack or program that can add additional functionality to the native task application? (I'm not looking to add anything like Agendus or PI)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] goestoeleven:
I think you'll need to go 3rd party if you want more functionality.

I use PocketInformant (the new 2007 version is coming out with integration to FranklinCovey's PlanPlus for Outlook software). I'm running the beta right now, and it is very powerful as a PIM replacement.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] 100thMonkey:
How does it do on the TyTN? any slow downs?