• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Root [Verizon] Hyperdrive 16.1 upgrade stuck at boot

maplewood

Well-Known Member
Jul 26, 2010
155
10
I very carefully followed the directions in the video from Bobios Tech World and have been staring at the boot animation for way, way too long. (15 mins now).

I was on RLS 15. Used Safestrap (which is how I installed 15). Did a full wipe, flashed SuperSu.

I suppose I can reboot to Safestrap and find a way to recover to the backup (not sure how, but I assume it is possible) but would rather get this working.

Any suggestions?

(Or if you know the steps to recover the backup -- which is on the internal card -- that would be appreciated as well.

Files installed via SS:

Hyperdrive+RLS16.1+KK+S4+Final.zip
UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip

Have not yet installed modem fix or Wifi fix
 
Well that's unfortunate

I did a restore to the backup of the pre-install and rebooted. Rebooted to the same 4.4.2 animation! So I did battery pull to get out of that.

Did the restore again just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the restore routine is complete but FAILED.

I guess I could try the whole install again but am doubtful that would make a difference. Should I just Odin back to stock and start over? (Or make dinner for the kids and try again tomorrow :)
 
Upvote 0
Update:

I noticed that I was actually running SS 3.71 as I installed the APK but never actually “installed” the recovery.” So I fixed that. (Lesson: Don’t mess with phone when 6 year old is wondering when dinner is.)

I recovered back to a god-knows-how-old Stock recovery. (Rooted but that’s about all).

All good except no Wi-Fi.

Why? I have no idea but I’ll assume that’s fixable, probably by the Gogolies Wi-Fi fix once the Hyperdrive is actually running.

Flashed Hyperdrive 16.1. Seemingly fine.
Flashed SuperSu – seemingly fine.

Rebooted system.
Waited ten minutes.

Same deal. Boot animation forever.

So all I know at this point is that moving to SS 3.72 didn’t do the trick.

Perhaps Gogolie’s 9 step, syntactically interesting method is the solution.
 
  • Like
Reactions: chadwick108
Upvote 0
e8a5y5y9.jpg
 
Upvote 0
Well the Gogolies method mostly worked. (see below for details) I'm running 16.1 but can't get WiFi working despite having flashed gogolies-wififix-VZW-retail-NC5-w-modules-SS.zip NC5-patch1.zip

It's not a phone, it's a hobby!


Gogolies Method for S4 with SafeStrap as per http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2720163
1. Install Custom Rom in SS. (Hyper 16.1)
2. Flash SuperSu
3. Flash Modules for firmware (Flltevzw-NC5-modules.zip)
4. Flash NC5 boot.img and WiFi Fix in same que
QuickpUpgrade-NC5-Ss-No-bootloaders=MDK-MK2-toNC5-gogolie.zip
gogolies-wififix-VZW-retail-NC5-w-modules-SS.zip NC5-patch1.zip
5. Flash Super Su again
6. Reboot to Download mode
7. Odin Flash
MC5 Boot.img in the AP Slot
Ap_mk2_to-nc2-upgrde-boot.tar
NC5 HLOS/Modem in CP Slot
Modem-nhlos-nc5-odin.tar
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones