Root [CDMA] Today I tried installing Android 4.1.2 PACman Jelly Bean Custom Firmware and Now I'm stuck :/

[JonathanSkinny]

Hello everyone I'm new to forums and I'm in desperate need of some help with my phone.

 

[DonB]

Welcome to the site

Give us as much info about your phone and your issues and we will do our best to help you.

 

[JonathanSkinny]

So today I tried installing Android 4.1.2 PACman Jelly Bean Custom Firmware and everything seemed to be going great I followed the tutorial which I got from here Update HTC Evo 3D to Android 4.1.2 PACman Jelly Bean Custom Firmware. I followed the tutorial to the letter, but unfortunately my phone is stuck on the loading animation of the PACman emblem I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong and was wondering if anybody had an idea of how I could uninstall this now, since my phone will not allow me to enter into Bootloader mode anymore. If you guys could please help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Hey there Jonathan and welcome to the forums!

What's the problem your having?

Thanks fire joining!

 

[JonathanSkinny]

Thank you so much guys I greatly appreciate it.
So today I tried installing Android 4.1.2 PACman Jelly Bean Custom Firmware and everything seemed to be going great I followed the tutorial which I got from here Update HTC Evo 3D to Android 4.1.2 PACman Jelly Bean Custom Firmware. I followed the tutorial to the letter, but unfortunately my phone is stuck on the loading animation of the PACman emblem I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong and was wondering if anybody had an idea of how I could uninstall this now, since my phone will not allow me to enter into Bootloader mode anymore. If you guys could please help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Moved into the root section

Looking at that flashing guide, I don't see one important step, the wipe

Did you wipe data/cache/dalvik prior to the flash?

Pull your battery out, reinsert , hold vol down and power until your recovery comes up.

Choose to wipe data dalvik and cache. Reflash ROM and gapps and reboot

 

[JonathanSkinny]

Well I did wipe the data, which it told me to do on step 7, but other that no I did not.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

I've already posted my feedback in the other thread that I moved to the root section

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Ohhhh light bulb moment

Are you on hboot 1.50 or 1.58?

PAC is only compatible with 1.50

 

[JonathanSkinny]

DragonSlayer I had a problem with choosing the gapps and I think I might have choosen the wrong one to install I installed HDPI / MDPI / TINY: gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip – (Mirror #1) which is the 4.1.1-4.1.2 and I'm not sure if that is right or not. But I was able to get into Recovery and wipe everything thank you

 

[JonathanSkinny]

Oh I'm not sure how can I check?

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Unfortunately those gapps aren't right, and you need the 4.2+ gapps. I'll link them here in a sec

Edit never mind, that's a way outdated version of PACman so those are the right gapps

Before you rooted, was your phone on gingerbread or the updated ice cream sandwich?

 

[JonathanSkinny]

I believe Ice Cream sandwhich, but not entirely certain.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Alright your on hboot 1.58 then

Go here

http://androidforums.com/cdma-evo-3d-all-things-root/650310-compatible-roms-different-hboots.html

And select a rom under all Hboots

Did you make a backup before you tried flashing PAC?

Edit

Ouch that guide doesn't even have you making a backup

Big shame on them

 

[JonathanSkinny]

I got the phone just last week and I updated all the software before I rooted it so I think it might be Ice cream sandwich.

 

[JonathanSkinny]

No I don't think I did darn...

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Alright here's another alternative

Do you have the mini sdk on your pc still?

If so, and hopefully you can still access the sd card, navigate the pac zip file and find the boot.img and transfer that into your sdk folder

Once you do that, use the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img"

Do this from your bootloader menu I believe

 

[JonathanSkinny]

mini sdk ? I'm not sure what that is unfortunately. I'm sorry I'm really new at this :/

 

[DonB]

Both merged together, cheers

 

[DragonSlayer95]

That's not a problem at all

http://androidforums.com/faqs/443072-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-a.html

Go to the bottom of the page and download sdk-tools.zip

You can ignore all the instructions for now as I'll walk you through the process

Once you get it downloaded, transfer it to your desktop and unzip it

 

[JonathanSkinny]

Ok sorry about the wait in the middle of a Civil War History class lol. I just downloaded the sdk.tools and the file is unzip oh btw I am using a mac I don't know if the that changes any of the commands.

 

[JonathanSkinny]

And thank you again guys I really appreciate your help.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Oh goodness I have zero knowledge with a mac

I'll see if I can find someone that has knowledge with Macs to step in as I'm sure the commands have changed.

 

[JonathanSkinny]

Darn alright. Oh wait I have access to a pc my friends going to let me use it.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

If we can't get you straightened out before you get to a windows pc, that would be helpful for me.