Hello all,
I posted this over at XDA, figured I would post it here as well.
Just found a neat little work around for getting into recovery when you have a radio on your SDcard. You don't need a card reader or anything for this one. Tonight I accidentally flashed a Sense kernel while trying to get CM7 up and running. I got stuck at the HTC screen and it refused to boot any farther. So I had the choice of going to walmart and buying an SDCARD reader, but I thought that I could find a way around it, and I did. Sorry if this has already been posted.
Steps:
1. Connect to a charger and remove the SDCARD from the phone, replace the battery and then boot into Hboot screen. Normally this would ask to update the radio if an SDCARD with a PG05img.zip file was inserted, and regardless of whether you accepted or declined, you were forced to reboot, with no way to get into recovery.
2. Remove the battery from the phone. Hboot will stay powered up while connected to your charger.
3. Reinsert the SDCARD and replace battery.
4. Select recovery and your phone will boot into recovery for you, and you can restore a backup, or reflash your rom, or whatever you were trying to accomplish before you got into a bootloop or bad rom install or whatever.
Again, I don't know if this has been posted before, but I thought it was a cool little workaround for those times you need to get to recovery but can't due to the PG05img.zip file still being on your SDcard.
I posted this over at XDA, figured I would post it here as well.
Just found a neat little work around for getting into recovery when you have a radio on your SDcard. You don't need a card reader or anything for this one. Tonight I accidentally flashed a Sense kernel while trying to get CM7 up and running. I got stuck at the HTC screen and it refused to boot any farther. So I had the choice of going to walmart and buying an SDCARD reader, but I thought that I could find a way around it, and I did. Sorry if this has already been posted.
Steps:
1. Connect to a charger and remove the SDCARD from the phone, replace the battery and then boot into Hboot screen. Normally this would ask to update the radio if an SDCARD with a PG05img.zip file was inserted, and regardless of whether you accepted or declined, you were forced to reboot, with no way to get into recovery.
2. Remove the battery from the phone. Hboot will stay powered up while connected to your charger.
3. Reinsert the SDCARD and replace battery.
4. Select recovery and your phone will boot into recovery for you, and you can restore a backup, or reflash your rom, or whatever you were trying to accomplish before you got into a bootloop or bad rom install or whatever.
Again, I don't know if this has been posted before, but I thought it was a cool little workaround for those times you need to get to recovery but can't due to the PG05img.zip file still being on your SDcard.