Root Bricked Evo, and cant factory wipe. Help please

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

Xtremedays said:
Ok, let me see if we are on the same page. You ran the RUU and are now back to stock. You have s-off. You reran unrevoked a second time and still no recovery. You tried to use hboot to flash the PC36IMG file and it failed. Is that where we are at? Did you make sure you didnt accidentally name the file PC36IMG.zip.zip? Windows hides extensions and it is easy to do.

i just reran unrevoked 3 and it said "Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?"

As far as the zip goes. I did what the guide said and named it "PC36IMG.zip"

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

Try naming it just PC36IMG and see what happens.

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

i just did and that worked. found it and put in the recovery.

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

Good. I would make a nandroid backup from recovery first before doing anything else. Do you know if the RUU you used was 3.70?

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

Xtremedays said:
Good. I would make a nandroid backup from recovery first before doing anything else. Do you know if the RUU you used was 3.70?

i will. the ruu i used was 3.26.651.6

Cuso · Feb 9, 2011

You might want t0 update your title , because you are definitely not bricked, congrats. Good work guys. keep updating this thread with your progress, it has been a very educational reading...

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

You will need to flash the updated radios when you flash a 3.70 based rom. Fresh 3.5.0.1 is a very stable rom to start with. You can go to Geek For Me

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

Xtremedays said:
You will need to flash the updated radios when you flash a 3.70 based rom. Fresh 3.5.0.1 is a very stable rom to start with. You can go to Geek For Me

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

If you go to the link for Myn's at [ROM] Myn

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

the ruu i used was 3.26.xxx.x is thisgoing to affect my roms/radio/wimax by any chance?

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

You will likely have to do the radio update. You can see what radio you have by booting the phone, go to settings> about phone> and see what baseband version you have. The latest is 2.15.00.11.19. If you have that then you should be good to go, if it is not that then you will need to do the radio update.

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

Xtremedays said:
You will likely have to do the radio update. You can see what radio you have by booting the phone, go to settings> about phone> and see what baseband version you have. The latest is 2.15.00.11.19. If you have that then you should be good to go, if it is not that then you will need to do the radio update.

ok so my baseband is 2.15.00.07.28 so I have to do the radio update, right? All I have to do is select "apply sdcard:update.zip" right? or would I have to select "install zip from sdcard" first then update?"

also i'm on the 3.26.651.6 build/software number. I just read that the latest OTA is 3.70 so should I run a ruu of that build before trying any of these roms/radios/wimax?

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

Yes, you will have to do the radio update.

Download the Radio update and Rom from Myns links. Place them on the root of your sd card. Wipe all/factory reset. Wipe Davlik-cache. Flash the Rom. Reboot and let it fully load. Reboot to recovery. Flash the radio updates. Reboot and enjoy. All will be flashed through the "install zip from sd card" option. The latest Myns is based on the 3.70 update so no need to RUU to that.

akazabam · Feb 9, 2011

Thanks guys; it looks like you got everything working

. I knew you'd get it fixed. I figured this was the state your phone was in. Now that you've got everything backup, one quick suggestion - when you flash the ROM (myn's) and the radios, flash them one right after the other. You shouldn't boot up a 3.70.651.1 based ROM (e.g. myn's RLS5) with the older radios. It might boot up, but it will be unstable if it does. So, you should flash the ROM in recovery, then without rebooting flash the radios, and follow the instructions. Wipe cache, dalvik, and data, of course.

Just a quick couple of notes - if you ever have to unroot again, use the correct one for your hboot version. Likely, you should have used the 3.70 RUU. Since you have S-OFF, it sort of worked using an old one. I'm going to guess you still have hboot 2.10, correct? Anyway, no harm done; just update the radios. Also, what exactly were you trying to do in the first place? What you're going to be doing now is flashing a ROM. Is that what you wanted to do in the first place?

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

Thanks a lot Xtreme, I got everything working now. Thanks again

soundidea · Feb 9, 2011

akazabam said:
Thanks guys; it looks like you got everything working . I knew you'd get it fixed. I figured this was the state your phone was in. Now that you've got everything backup, one quick suggestion - when you flash the ROM (myn's) and the radios, flash them one right after the other. You shouldn't boot up a 3.70.651.1 based ROM (e.g. myn's RLS5) with the older radios. It might boot up, but it will be unstable if it does. So, you should flash the ROM in recovery, then without rebooting flash the radios, and follow the instructions. Wipe cache, dalvik, and data, of course.

Just a quick couple of notes - if you ever have to unroot again, use the correct one for your hboot version. Likely, you should have used the 3.70 RUU. Since you have S-OFF, it sort of worked using an old one. I'm going to guess you still have hboot 2.10, correct? Anyway, no harm done; just update the radios. Also, what exactly were you trying to do in the first place? What you're going to be doing now is flashing a ROM. Is that what you wanted to do in the first place?

Oh well, I install the rom and booted it and then install the radio and booting it up right now. It seems to be working right now.

when you mean by unrooting, do you mean run the 3.70 ruu? I'm not sure what hboot I have have right but I'm pretty sure it.s 2.10. I'll make sure to write down the specific one right away.

Well what I wanted to do first was actually do the nandroid backup but it could never find it. I renamed the zip file like in the guide but I guess I shouldn't have added that .zip at the end of it. Anyway, I got the recovery working now and everything seems to be fine except for the htc sense clock where it keeps starting at 11:xx and then flips to the current time. It's just an annoyance but is there anyway to correct this?

Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

Glad you got it worked out. Thanks Akazabam for the correction on the flashing procedure. I will have to remember that for the next radio update.

akazabam · Feb 9, 2011

soundidea said:
Oh well, I install the rom and booted it and then install the radio and booting it up right now. It seems to be working right now.

when you mean by unrooting, do you mean run the 3.70 ruu? I'm not sure what hboot I have have right but I'm pretty sure it.s 2.10. I'll make sure to write down the specific one right away.

Well what I wanted to do first was actually do the nandroid backup but it could never find it. I renamed the zip file like in the guide but I guess I shouldn't have added that .zip at the end of it. Anyway, I got the recovery working now and everything seems to be fine except for the htc sense clock where it keeps starting at 11:xx and then flips to the current time. It's just an annoyance but is there anyway to correct this?

1) Eh, not a big deal. If it worked, that's great. It's more a of a general precaution to help you avoid a headache.

2) When I say unrooting, I mean taking your phone back to stock, completely, giving you no root permissions, and locking nand again (S-ON). To do that, you flash the unrevoked S-ON, and flash the appropriate RUU (via exe or PC36IMG). You should use the RUU or PC36IMG RUU for your hboot version. You used an older one, which normally wouldn't work, but it partially did because you had S-OFF at the time. If you ever want to unroot read the Rooting for Dummies guide, which will have links for both the unrevoked S-ON tool, and the appropriate PC36IMG.zip (simpler way to flash RUU) for your hboot version. You will want to choose the one for hboot 2.10 (or SW version 3.70.651.1). That will ensure you don't have these radio issues again. If you have hboot 2.10, you had the right radios, but they were downgraded with the RUU.

3) Sounds like you got it working fine. I was just currious how you got your phone in that state to begin with. You need to be careful flashing PC36IMG.zip files, as they are generic files used for flashing to different parts of the system. It sounds like you tried to flash one that had the contents of some RUU or another without realizing that's what you were doing. It wiped out recovery, and put your ROM in an unbootable state. Thankfully, as you now know, it's not too hard to fix

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Xtremedays said:
Glad you got it worked out. Thanks Akazabam for the correction on the flashing procedure. I will have to remember that for the next radio update.

No worries; it's just a good idea to do it that way, but you don't *have* to if you're actually able to make it boot. You did an awesome job getting the OP up and running again

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Xtremedays · Feb 9, 2011

Just trying to pay it forward. Learned alot from you guys and reading the threads....time to help when I can. Thanks for being as helpful as you are on here.

dianamoreno · Mar 22, 2011

hi im hAVING THE SAME PROBLEM..BUT ALSO MY PHONE WONT CONECT TO A COMPUTER..LIKE IF IT DOESNT READ THE PHONE.PLEASE HELP ME

binder · Mar 22, 2011

Put u your micro sd card in your computer and put pc36img.zip (needs to be downloaded) on the card then hold the vol down button when use press the power button to boot into bootloader. Update pc36img when it asks u to u to update. The reboot your phone.

Xtremedays · Mar 22, 2011

dianamoreno said:
hi im hAVING THE SAME PROBLEM..BUT ALSO MY PHONE WONT CONECT TO A COMPUTER..LIKE IF IT DOESNT READ THE PHONE.PLEASE HELP ME

Do you have the drivers installed on the computer? You might try and install HTC Sync then uninstall it as it will install drivers for your phone then see if it sees your phone.

dianamoreno · Mar 22, 2011

Xtremedays said:
Do you have the drivers installed on the computer? You might try and install HTC Sync then uninstall it as it will install drivers for your phone then see if it sees your phone.

ok will do that

dianamoreno · Mar 22, 2011

ok.... i installed it and its ready to use!! so now wat can i do?

Xtremedays · Mar 22, 2011

dianamoreno said:
ok.... i installed it and its ready to use!! so now wat can i do?

You need to uninstall it now. It will leave the driver installed on your computer. See if the computer recognizes your phone after you uninstall HTC Sync.

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