Root [CDMA] Ummm... Help...

oOMavrikOo · Feb 7, 2012

HELP! Phone hangs on "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen after nandroid restore. I did a backup earlier and flashed to MIUI just to check it out. I used Flash Image GUI first, then flashed the ROM from recovery (TWRP). Everything was fine. I played with MIUI for about 20 minutes, then decided to restore my stock nandroid. I've tried several times and everything seems fine until it hits the above mentioned part of the boot and then just hangs. It's sat as long as 15 minutes. I understand that this can happen during a flash, but not a restore. I think the nandroid might be corrupted.

Any ideas on how to at least get my phone back to working condition. I have the MIUI and MeanROM ROMs on the root of my sd. How do I go about flashing them from Hboot?

oOMavrikOo · Feb 8, 2012

So........ I think all is well for now. I'm stuck on MIUI right now which isn't too bad. I had to re-install the ROM through fastboot. My stock nandroid still won't load. Can someone load an RUU so I'll have it in case I ever need to revert to stock? Thanks in advance

devinEVO · Feb 8, 2012

oOMavrikOo said:
So........ I think all is well for now. I'm stuck on MIUI right now which isn't too bad. I had to re-install the ROM through fastboot. My stock nandroid still won't load. Can someone load an RUU so I'll have it in case I ever need to revert to stock? Thanks in advance

when you restore you need to take the boot.img file out of the original rom file you want to restore and run fastboot flash boot boot.img before restoring the rom...

i found this out the hardway myself.

or you could fastboot boot yourrecoveryimg.img and then do the restore because if you boot to recovery from fastboot like that it allows you to write to the boot partition. which ever way is easiest for you!

DonB · Feb 8, 2012

Now you see why I am glad I never updated my HBott, to 1.5

devinEVO · Feb 8, 2012

DonB said:
Now you see why I am glad I never updated my HBott, to 1.5

Oh. It isn't that bad LOL. Just makes it easier in the long run when rooting new devices becomes much mire dificult lol

MahaloCat · Feb 8, 2012

devinEVO said:
Oh. It isn't that bad LOL. Just makes it easier in the long run when rooting new devices becomes much mire dificult lol

Nah - this will Likely be my last HTC device.
will stick with the Google Nexus Phones...
Great Dev support and open bootloaders.
they also get priorty Updates.....
oh htc - how the mighty have fallen...

DonB · Feb 8, 2012

Let us know so we can follow path, otherwise it will be like a broken marriage if you leave us, so we follow, LOL

MahaloCat said:
Nah - this will Likely be my last HTC device.
will stick with the Google Nexus Phones...
Great Dev support and open bootloaders.
they also get priorty Updates.....
oh htc - how the mighty have fallen...

MahaloCat · Feb 8, 2012

I know.....AOSP is deving for the Nexus S 4G - doing his hero magic over there

I am Up for another upgrade july 1 I think.....will be my last 1 year upgrade....so will wait and see what is available....

Will likely sit tight until Nov/Dec - see what the next big thing is....

oOMavrikOo · Feb 9, 2012

devinEVO said:
when you restore you need to take the boot.img file out of the original rom file you want to restore and run fastboot flash boot boot.img before restoring the rom...

i found this out the hardway myself.

or you could fastboot boot yourrecoveryimg.img and then do the restore because if you boot to recovery from fastboot like that it allows you to write to the boot partition. which ever way is easiest for you!

Could I use Flash Image GUI for this? Just extract from the nandroid as apposed to a ROM?

devinEVO · Feb 9, 2012

oOMavrikOo said:
Could I use Flash Image GUI for this? Just extract from the nandroid as apposed to a ROM?

think u gotta use fastboot for that one bud. but maybe you could play around with it? never tried it or red it anywhere so i just use fastboot

devinEVO · Feb 9, 2012

MahaloCat said:
I know.....AOSP is deving for the Nexus S 4G - doing his hero magic over there

I am Up for another upgrade july 1 I think.....will be my last 1 year upgrade....so will wait and see what is available....

Will likely sit tight until Nov/Dec - see what the next big thing is....

yeah i got my 2 year upgrade ready, just waiting on the galaxy nexus to drop =)

oOMavrikOo · Feb 10, 2012

devinEVO said:
when you restore you need to take the boot.img file out of the original rom file you want to restore and run fastboot flash boot boot.img before restoring the rom...

What exactly do you mean by this? Are you saying extract the boot.img file from the ROM itself and place it in the SDK file?

jerofld · Feb 10, 2012

oOMavrikOo said:
What exactly do you mean by this? Are you saying extract the boot.img file from the ROM itself and place it in the SDK file?

No, you have to get into fastboot and flash the boot.img separately.

oOMavrikOo · Feb 10, 2012

jerofld said:
No, you have to get into fastboot and flash the boot.img separately.

Just something else I thought about when I read back through the thread...

What if I use Flash Image GUI to flash the ROM's kernel from the ROM zip itself, then restore the nandroid in recovery instead of flashing the ROM?

jerofld · Feb 10, 2012

oOMavrikOo said:
Just something else I thought about when I read back through the thread...

What if I use Flash Image GUI to flash the ROM's kernel from the ROM zip itself, then restore the nandroid in recovery instead of flashing the ROM?

Restore the NANDroid first, then use FlashGUI to flash the kernel from the back up. Doing it the other way around would do no good.

oOMavrikOo · Feb 10, 2012

jerofld said:
Restore the NANDroid first, then use FlashGUI to flash the kernel from the back up. Doing it the other way around would do no good.

Trying to restore the nandroid was the problem I'm having. Basically, if I'm not at home on my PC I can't restore a nandroid.

jerofld · Feb 10, 2012

Can you restore the backup through fastboot recovery? It should restore the kernel properly if done through fastboot, or so I would think.

oOMavrikOo · Feb 10, 2012

jerofld said:
Can you restore the backup through fastboot recovery? It should restore the kernel properly if done through fastboot, or so I would think.

I haven't tried directly from the phone since the first time it hung on the splash screen. The next time I try I'll post my results.

devinEVO · Feb 11, 2012

oOMavrikOo said:
Trying to restore the nandroid was the problem I'm having. Basically, if I'm not at home on my PC I can't restore a nandroid.

another way to do what your doing is to download boot manager from the market i think its like 3 bucks. keep your stock rom as the phone rom and then install up to 4 other roms on your sd card so you can just switch back and forth all you want without having to go into recovery or any of that!

oOMavrikOo · Feb 11, 2012

devinEVO said:
another way to do what your doing is to download boot manager from the market i think its like 3 bucks. keep your stock rom as the phone rom and then install up to 4 other roms on your sd card so you can just switch back and forth all you want without having to go into recovery or any of that!

Boot Manager says it requires S-off.

jerofld · Feb 11, 2012

Maybe he means S-off (or S-on unlocked)? I bet most people don't make the distinction.

oOMavrikOo · Feb 11, 2012

jerofld said:
Maybe he means S-off (or S-on unlocked)? I bet most people don't make the distinction.

I could try using it. I just don't want to spend $3 for an app I can't use.

oOMavrikOo · Feb 11, 2012

jerofld said:
Maybe he means S-off (or S-on unlocked)? I bet most people don't make the distinction.

I sent the developer an email asking if it would work. Waiting for his reply.

oOMavrikOo · Feb 11, 2012

oOMavrikOo said:
I sent the developer an email asking if it would work. Waiting for his reply.

He said it's not recommended to use in case a flash gets caught in a bootloop. There's no way to fix the problem without booting into fastboot.

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