Root Thanks a lot US Gov. now i can't root

brandonrr · Jan 30, 2012

i recently got another warranty exchange because the power button was acting as if it were pressed down 100% of the time, even though the button still moved as i should have.

anyway, i got my new t-bolt and am trying to downgrade it to an older firmware version so i can root it. the problem is the H boot file i need to flash the "PG05IMG" file i already put on the root of the SD, cannot be downloaded anymore. the link in this forum leads to multi-upload.com and they have been taken down just like megaupload.

can anyone please send me a link that works? i need to get that h boot loader thing so i can downgrade and then root using the same method i did with my old phone.

--thanks in advance

brandonrr · Jan 30, 2012

well, i think i got it figured out now. i didn't realize u could get into HBoot without being rooted. i just tried it on a whim and to my surprise, it worked! i'm currently in the process of downgrading to an older firmware so i can root. i've been missing my liquidsmooth ROM after toying around with the stock ROM.

brandonrr · Jan 30, 2012

even though not a single person looked at this thread besides myself (lol), i finally managed to to root and am currently making a nandroid backup of the current ROM and am getting ready to flash the backup that i made before swapping phones.

update:

it seems that i can't restore my backups from my old phone. it just goes to the HTC "quietly brilliant" screen (shouldn't go there with LTB 3.2) and that screen pops up over and over again without making progress. is there anything that would keep my new phone from restoring a nandroid that i made on the old one?

also, the download link for LTB 3.2 seems to have been taken down off of rootzwiki (the site that the root thread takes you to). does anybody have a link to another place to download it, or at least a copy of the file that they could send me?

once again, i appreciate any help.

offanairplane · Jan 30, 2012

brandonrr said:
even though not a single person looked at this thread besides myself (lol), i finally managed to to root and am currently making a nandroid backup of the current ROM and am getting ready to flash the backup that i made before swapping phones.

update:

it seems that i can't restore my backups from my old phone. it just goes to the HTC "quietly brilliant" screen (shouldn't go there with LTB 3.2) and that screen pops up over and over again without making progress. is there anything that would keep my new phone from restoring a nandroid that i made on the old one?

also, the download link for LTB 3.2 seems to have been taken down off of rootzwiki (the site that the root thread takes you to). does anybody have a link to another place to download it, or at least a copy of the file that they could send me?

once again, i appreciate any help.

I definitely think you won't be able to restore a nand backup from another device without issues. But sounds to me all you need to do at this point is get your hands on a copy of Liquid 3.2 rom, correct?

I am at work, and my company's firewall blocks all online storage sites, like multiupload, etc. But when I go there on my phone's browser there is one link and then a space and 5 or 6 more. The third one down on that lower group of links (I forget the name of the site) seems to still work.

jackdubl · Jan 30, 2012

Were your nandroid backups made with the same version of cwm that you are now using?

xmetalfan99 · Jan 30, 2012

offanairplane said:
I definitely think you won't be able to restore a nand backup from another device without issues. But sounds to me all you need to do at this point is get your hands on a copy of Liquid 3.2 rom, correct?

I am at work, and my company's firewall blocks all online storage sites, like multiupload, etc. But when I go there on my phone's browser there is one link and then a space and 5 or 6 more. The third one down on that lower group of links (I forget the name of the site) seems to still work.

You are talking about deposit files. They aren't working for me right now, but wupload is.

brandonrr · Jan 30, 2012

jackdubl said:
Were your nandroid backups made with the same version of cwm that you are now using?

Eureka! I flashed CWM recovery in ROM manager and it solved the problem. my new T-Bolt now has my old nandroid backup running on it with no issues so far. it even saved the kernal from the old phone.

now the ONLY difference between this phone and the one i sent in is the working power button. everything, even my messages, is now on the new phone.

thank you Jack for helping me realize the one thing i overlooked.

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