OperationA7X
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Because that made a lot of things act bizarre. But you have the HTC Velocity?
Sent from my HTC Vivid BoRKed using Android Central Forums
Sent from my HTC Vivid BoRKed using Android Central Forums
no apologies needed. I really appreciate an expert confirming that it's not something simple that I'm missing. I will do whichever of the two above options you think are less likely to get me into trouble... I think I can unlock the bootloader via HTC Dev site
or, if going the other route, would do some research to work out what S-Off is.
I may be confused but please clarify. Do you mean unlock the bootloader and flash a custom ROM (ie not stock)?
... just that option one flashing the RUU would have me on the stock ROM wouldn't it?
Final request would be if you have any suggestions for the most reliable custom ROM.
I unlocked the bootloader OK. But having no joy flashing a custom ROM... if I rename it to PH39IMG.zip and put it on an SD card before booting the phone, it seems to be loading, the blue bar goes to the top... and a message about parsing comes up. But then it just goes back to the HBoot screen.
I'm not really sure what I'm doing but have tried to flash a clockworkmod recovery image via the command prompt from my computer (in the hope that this will let me install a ROM)... I get the "finished/OKAY" message when I've done this but, when I run recovery on the phone, I get a white screen with green HTC requiring a battery pull.
Not game to try to get S-Off, the posts I've read refer to a wire trick and I don't think I'm up for it.
any tips?
Thanks again for all your help. I'm feeling like a pest but very keen to get this phone working and maybe learn enough that I can get more control of my phones in the future.
The PH39.img file is a large file extracted from the Telstra RUU... other posts suggest that it can be used to install the ROM from the SD card... the existing bootloader seems to look for a file by that name on the SD card every time it loads. So I renamed a custom ROM but, as you say, it doesn't work.
Still no luck with your post on the other thread about custom recovery and rooting... I get exactly what I did when I tried the same process with Clockworkmod recovery. The recovery seems to be installed properly in that I get the OKAY and finished messages in the command prompt and also the green bar going to the top on the phone. But when I disconnect the phone and then select recovery, I get the white screen with HTC Logo.
Thanks again. Was trying to do that but now phone has black screen no matter what I try to do. Sometimes it seems to light up a bit when pressing power button or plugging in to charge. Maybe bad battery - given the problem first occurred when battery was left to run down. Have ordered new battery and will try your fix when it arrives. If battery doesn't help, I'll give up.