Root Cant boot into recovery

akazabam · Jan 6, 2011

There's an option to mount it in hboot somewhere. Not sure if that will help. I know that people who've gotten stuck in hboot were able to run RUUs. Sorry, I don't have my phone with me right now, and it's making things difficult.

So, where did you get this phone again? Can you get your money back?

harmhimself · Jan 6, 2011

Ebay. Im working on it. But i figured id give it a shot and try to fix it. My Hero was much easier to deal with

akazabam · Jan 6, 2011

Try this PC36IMG instead:

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

That's the latest OTA. Let's see if that updates your hboot and fixes things.

tardmobile · Jan 6, 2011

I had a similar thing happen once when I first got into this a while back. Had to rock the fastboot push options from command line on my PC with the dev console to get things installed properly.

There is an overwhelming wealth of information on how to do these things over at XDA if you're up for a little reading.

harmhimself · Jan 6, 2011

Well you lost me there mobile, so hopefully you can give me a quick guide to walk me thru this.

tardmobile · Jan 6, 2011

well, does it have a fastboot option? When I got stuck like that I had to use fastboot to push a working recovery so I could get the rest of what I needed to do done.

edit: also, it was a huge pain in the ass

akazabam · Jan 6, 2011

fastboot from the command line? Did/do you have the eng bootloader? I believe you need that for that to work.

wrapkgb · Jan 6, 2011

akazabam said:
fastboot from the command line? Did/do you have the eng bootloader? I believe you need that for that to work.

Akazabam is correct. You need .76 in order to utilize the fastboot commands

akazabam · Jan 6, 2011

Yeah, that's not going to help the OP, unfortunately. Besides, a PC36IMG will get you your recovery back just as well, but you need s-off already.

harmhimself · Jan 7, 2011

Ok...How do i get S-OFF? It is ON right now

Pioneer74 · Jan 7, 2011

harmhimself said:
Ok...How do i get S-OFF? It is ON right now

You turn S-OFF by rooting it.

akazabam · Jan 7, 2011

Ok, let's try something crazy. This might work or it might be a dead end. Rename the attached file to PC36IMG.zip, and flash it from hboot. I want to see if you can get a custom recovery image.

EDIT: I can't get it to attach. If anyone has any version of CW as a PC36IMG hosted somewhere, can you please provide a link?

tardmobile · Jan 7, 2011

Ah, yeah, I do have the .76 eng bootloader.
Once you get this figured out I highly recommend it~

I haven't done this in a while. Is the newer hboot really impossible to deal with without already having access to a working recovery (it's not like it was there by default) or is the answer here going to be to root this thing the old school way?

akazabam · Jan 7, 2011

Well, apparently running a PC36IMG for stock didn't work. I'm thinking it might be possible to get a custom recovery and flash unrevoked forever. Thing is - if a stock PC36IMG didn't fix it, there might be something more serious going on. There could be some kind of physical damage to the device (water damage, maybe?).

harmhimself · Jan 8, 2011

Sorry about the delay of reply. In the navy and had a 24 hour shift. Ok so i tried renaming the file and no luck. So far no luck.

akazabam · Jan 8, 2011

No worries. Question - you put your own sdcard in the phone, right? What kind/size?

harmhimself · Jan 8, 2011

It is a 1gb that came with my HERO orig.

akazabam · Jan 8, 2011

Yep, there's your problem. Same thing just happened to someone else I was helping troubleshoot a similar issue. See if you can find a 8 GB card like the one that comes stock. You should be able to flash PC36IMG files normally with that.

harmhimself · Jan 8, 2011

Can it be any 8gb card or does it have to be the same exact one?

akazabam · Jan 8, 2011

Oh, I would think any 8 GB card would work fine (and maybe a 4? Not sure).

harmhimself · Jan 9, 2011

Ok i just ordered an 8gb one. Give me 2-3 days and ill write back and see if we can get some where.

akazabam · Jan 9, 2011

Great. Once you get it, follow the original instructions above, and let's see if it works. I'll be here if you need help.

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