Hey guys, I'm going to be buying my first htc device when the amaze 4g comes out. I was just wondering if anyone knows if HTC has a flashing utility simular to Samsungs Odin. Odin has saved my butt on more than one occasion with my Samsung Vibrant and it is very nice to be able to return to stock firmware so easily. I loved the Samsung Vibrant after putting CM7 on it but I'm going with the HTC rather than the Samsung Galaxy S2 cause I want a device that feels like quality in my hand. Are HTC devices easy to root/unroot? Thanx in advance.
its called a RUU for Rom Utility Update. there is not one for the current shipped ROM but there is a zip file that you can put on your SD card and flash through hboot
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Hey guys, I'm going to be buying my first htc device when the amaze 4g comes out. I was just wondering if anyone knows if HTC has a flashing utility simular to Samsungs Odin. Odin has saved my butt on more than one occasion with my Samsung Vibrant and it is very nice to be able to return to stock firmware so easily. I loved the Samsung Vibrant after putting CM7 on it but I'm going with the HTC rather than the Samsung Galaxy S2 cause I want a device that feels like quality in my hand. Are HTC devices easy to root/unroot? Thanx in advance.
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Samsung phones are easier, by a lot. Nothing is really hard though once your finally figure it out. Create your gold cards(after finding an sdcard you don't care about), temp root a few times haha!
Would we still need recovery to flash the Rom though ?
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Hey guys, first post, first real major issue I've encountered well rooting a phablet.
I have a ATT galaxy note, yesterday I rooted it and installed the Saurom ROM, everything was a breeze, I decided to try out ICS, I accidentally installed Criskelo onto the device before finding out it wasn't okay for the ATT note.
It hung on installing the rom itself and so I removed the battery imagining I could just revert to Saurom til I found a new ICS rom. But after I interuppted the ROM from installing, I get NO POWER! No download mode, nothing whatsoever on the screen =[ I'm ultra sad, best solution I find for the note is possibly a USB jig but I don't know if it will bring me back from this...
ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! I'm sitting here with a bricked note and a broken heart.
Don't be heartbroken just yet. This just happened to a friend of mine with his Note. I'm sending him your way. He's working today so I doubt he can get to you right away but I'm pretty sure he has the answer you need.
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Have you tried accessing the phone with odin to see if it shows up there?
did you install CWM prior to flashing? try the three button combo to boot into recovery
did you backup prior to flashing ICS?
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Hey guys, first post, first real major issue I've encountered well rooting a phablet.
I have a ATT galaxy note, yesterday I rooted it and installed the Saurom ROM, everything was a breeze, I decided to try out ICS, I accidentally installed Criskelo onto the device before finding out it wasn't okay for the ATT note.
It hung on installing the rom itself and so I removed the battery imagining I could just revert to Saurom til I found a new ICS rom. But after I interuppted the ROM from installing, I get NO POWER! No download mode, nothing whatsoever on the screen =[ I'm ultra sad, best solution I find for the note is possibly a USB jig but I don't know if it will bring me back from this...
ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! I'm sitting here with a bricked note and a broken heart.
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Some ROMs can damage the device's onboard flash. Surprisingly the Note is one of the few devices that you can actually physically break by flashing the wrong ROM.
erikistehsex said:
Hey guys, first post, first real major issue I've encountered well rooting a phablet.
I have a ATT galaxy note, yesterday I rooted it and installed the Saurom ROM, everything was a breeze, I decided to try out ICS, I accidentally installed Criskelo onto the device before finding out it wasn't okay for the ATT note.
It hung on installing the rom itself and so I removed the battery imagining I could just revert to Saurom til I found a new ICS rom. But after I interuppted the ROM from installing, I get NO POWER! No download mode, nothing whatsoever on the screen =[ I'm ultra sad, best solution I find for the note is possibly a USB jig but I don't know if it will bring me back from this...
ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! I'm sitting here with a bricked note and a broken heart.
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You may need to contact mobile tech videos and get jtag unbricking service.
A bad flash happened to me in my first week of owning the phone so I was under the 30 day return policy with AT&T. I told them I was updating apps in the market, it got super hot, shut off, and would not power up.
They couldn't get it to turn on either, for obvious reasons, and they exchanged it no further questions asked. Hopefully your still in the return period.
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I done the same thing..odin should pick it up kust flash att recovery
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I'm sorry to say you probably have a hard brick on your hands. There's more info in this thread. I did the same thing myself. studacris's answer is the only option, you'll need to send it to someone who can do a JTAG repair on it, or you need to hope it's under warranty and send it back to AT&T and tell them that it just plain broke.
All notes are under warranty from Samsung still. They are for a year of purchase date. note has not been out a year.
Normally when I've had a a phone brick on me or a friends phone when out of the 30 day period, I would call 611 and have them send me a phone and when I received the new one I would mail the bricked one. It wasn't a big issue since the phones have manufacture warranties. Now they opened a device support center near buy and you can go and get a new one that same day.
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question for the OP's question, Samsung has that flash counter on the phone, I'm assuming with a bad flash like this it doesn't go up. But does it? And it if does, would Samsung be able to tell what happened? I know Samsung has a hard stance on flashers. To OP, I did the same thing, and I resorted to getting the JTAG thing done, the few places I've came across won't charge unless they can fix it. And they only charge like $50.
I tried jtag. Waste of money. They could not save my phone, plus they charged me $30 for looking at it.
Not to mention I lost out on my shipping.
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The last resort is to try a Jig to force download mode. If that fails, you are done. You can look on your PC in the Device Manager. In there it will show you an "state" when you connect the device trying to get into Download Mode. Google that state. I am guessing you are getting the bad one which at this time is a device exchange.
The story goes...
I was running CM9, accidentally installed a cm7 nightly, soft bricked in bootloop. re flashed rom to 2.1 through Odin and all was fine. One click rooted the phone again all was fine. With going back to CM9 in mind, I needed to upgrade to 2.2. Did Through Kies which seemed to go O.K. (said was successful) but never rebooted. Now I am fully bricked. Phone won't respond to power button or even go into download with a jig or the remove batt, sd, simm method.
What Now????
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
Sorry Dave but it looks like you are out of luck. Kies is notorious for hardbricking devices.
You have no power at all? I would contact Samsung and tell them you hardbricked your phone using their software. Heard before that they will replace it.
I was afraid of that. I will notify Samsung.
Anyone need a Vibrant for parts at a good price out there?
Sorry to hear that. Jtag is what you need. Google mobiletechvideos.com and they can do it for you for 40 quids. You'll have tort phone back within a week.
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Been there man and it sucks, but i send my phone to mobiletechvideos.com and they fixed my phone and put in stock 2.1. So if you really love your phone send it, trust me there's no other good feeling that seeing your vibrant boot up again XD
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Wow, what are the odds there are two bricks from kies in a matter of days .... I am in exactly the same situation as you.
Fancy paperweights
Get the unbrickable mod done at mobiletechvideos.
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Phone back from Samsung--Yeah!!!
I sent the phone to Samsung and they had to replace the main board ($70). So now I am back to stock Froyo. I can't believe how much bloatware is on this thing. Before I attempt a root and such, I would like to understand the best procedure to getting back to 2.2 fully stock, in case I have to send it back. The Sticky AIO Vibrant toolbox seemed like a good idea, but it's directed to a bad link (Internet against Hollywood) when I click the skip add button. Will this be fixed, or is there a better way to go about this using Odin.
Thanks,
Dave
if u have seen Odin guide for vibrant then u wouldn't have done this .......whenever u Odin back to stock never use kies that's like opposite to Odin .......
I have deal with lg Optimus old model before and have brick at least 2 phone when reflashing to original stock. I'm afraid if I get this new model 600.00 dollar phone. I might brick it, on HTC or Samsung no matter what I do or mess it up it will never get brick.
Suggestion? Thank you
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Have you even looked at the guide for Rooting and Unlocking...? The entire thing is foolproof.
I've had a few Android phones and never bricked any of them. I've come close to bricking it but was able to re-flash original factory roms. With the LGOG, as long as you have a nandroid backup and cwm, you are good to go.
And even if you don't have a backup, you can use LG's software utility to return to stock state.
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And even if you don't have a backup, you can use LG's software utility to return to stock state.
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This is exactly what I did on my old optimus using lg software it just stop in the middle of restoring. Now I have have 2 brick sitting on my desk. That's why I'm hesitant going with LG, maybe old optimus don't have unlock bootloader.
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I can't speak to your particular situation, but several people have "bricked" their LGOGs and come to IRC for help. All of them, to my knowledge, have been able to get back up and running.
Good luck!
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I can't speak to your particular situation, but several people have "bricked" their LGOGs and come to IRC for help. All of them, to my knowledge, have been able to get back up and running.
Good luck!
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One guy had to take his phone in for exchange. IIRC, there was a corruption in a file that shouldn't have been affected by root and unlock. Besides that one case, it seems like everyone was able to recover via LGNPST as a minimum (I personally was one of them).
Why is the LGNPST such as pain in the neck to use? I've had Samsung phones and you can use Odin or KIES software to flash them back to factory, very very easily. LG software isn't up to par, in terms of useability? You must go to IRC to use it correctly???
It's not hard to use. The hardest part is just getting all the .dll's configured properly before even firing up LGNPST. Once you understand how LGNPST works you'll be like "d'oh!".
The IRC has the links to all the files you need for LGNPST. And if you have problems using it, it's a plus because you're already in IRC to ask questions.
Please ask all questions in the Q&A section. Thread moved there.
All my past Android Phones have been Samsung. This past week I got my HTC One. I am loving it. Thing is I am finding HTC a lot harder to learn. I might have been this way with Samsung when I went from Windows to them. But it seems like HTC has made making your phone custom harder just to make people not do it.
Right now I am loving my phone as is. I am not seeing a huge reason to root my phone right now. Part of me does not want to unlock the boot loader yet because I know once you unlock it it will show that you have even if you re-lock it. Once the CM team has this phone down I could see myself breaking down and installing it. I love them for my Nexus 7 and when I had them for my Captivate.
I have been told I need to get a code to unlock my boot loader right away before AT&T locks this phone down. Is that something I can get and just wait till I want to use it later and not touch my phone?
I am a more visual learner. In searching I can find written processes to unlock or tweak this phone. But I can not find Videos. Does anyone know of some good youtube videos for DIY's on this phone?
Just wondering how hard is it to brick this phone? I know my Captivate you had to make a big mistake to do it. I know the Infuse it was almost impossible. I just want to make sure I know what I am getting into with HTC for this. I have seen way too many people take a great phone and make it into a paperweight.
Thanks for any help or tips
Try here. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182792
I too too was and or is a long time Samsung user....it is a whole different process with HTC then Samsung.... this is the toolkit i used on my htc one....pretty straight forward...u can follow the instructions and get ur unlock token now and use it whenever u like if u choose so....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40493789
Here's on video I found (though it doesn't use the same noob proof toolkit) it gives u an idea on how to at least get ur lock token
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU7vi388dMk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Thank you! Now feel better of what to do.
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Hi guys,
Was on vacation and had been taking good pictures with my HTC One X+ and one day I started seeing grainy lines (green/red/blue) in the main camera screen. I thought it was some sort of interference and it went away only to come back permanently later on. I know its not a software issue as restoring to an older image via TWRP (unlocked/rooted device with stock ROM) did not fix it. Multiple reboots did not fix it. I have had a few warnings previous day that the device was hot as I was in Turkey and I let it cool down.
I've seen a similar post elsewhere but was with an HTC Evo (http ://evo4gforum.net/15-htc-evo-4g-troubleshooting-tips-tricks/8076-major-camera-camcorder-problem-grainy-lines-camera.html).
Here is a pic taken from my HOX+ showing the issue.
I want to bring it back to the operator as its not even 1 year since I got it. The only thing I didn't do was a reset but I doubt it would fix that. However will try as I'm ready to return the device....not happy at all since I have a HOX and the battery life drove me mad!! :crying:
Does anyone know about this or what could be the cause?
Also how do I restore the stock recovery from the current TWRP to return it to operator?
Thanks
Take it back for a new one.
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I had a similar issue with my Desire back in the day, had to take it back to HTC Service and they replaced the camera. It worked fine after that
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Thanks guys, so it has to go back then I guess I would need to restore it to factory settings? i.e. unroot/'re-lock'? From where do I get the default/stock recovery image? It's an international HOX+ (Enrc2br) with Vodafone (Ireland) but I think its a UK build image.
I've seen some posts saying that the stock recovery would still be present on the device, so how do I go about removing TWRP to fallback to stock recovery?
Cheers
To be safe I would go stock, but I don't think they check that if it's a hardware issue.
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To be safe I would go stock, but I don't think they check that if it's a hardware issue.
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thanks.. just found out that the NFC isn't working either. Tested it with my One X. :crying:
Yup a buggy device. Take it back.
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Just returned the device. Had to quickly relock and unroot before the shop closes. I thought I'd downloaded stock recovery from a post in this site.
"9/6 Mandatory Update Official Clockworkmod Touch Recovery 5.8.4.0".
I thought I'd extract the rom.zip from the UK_JB RUU but just saw that it was for ICS but what I did was, run the exe, go to %tmp%, copy the rom.zip, extracted recovery_singned.img and flashed it. Tried to go to bootloader->recovery but got a warning say that this was a build image or something...didn't understand why that was happening but it because of the wrong RUU.
Where can I get the correct recovery.img for HOX+ UK_Vodafone?
I have the exact same issue, Well in my country we don't have any SAT for htc. Because my aunt gave me my AT/T HOX+ anyway if i bought a replacement camera for hox+ it would be fixed? i want to know before i buy it.