Recovery troubles

[fadetoblack2104]

I'm trying to root my phone and every time the phone hangs at the hboot screen. So today I manually entered recovery pressing vol down and power. I wanted to do a factory reset and try rooting again since I already have the OTA installed. Once in recovery I cannot navigate with the power buttons. I have to remove the battery to even restart the phone. Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the phone.

 

[Four-Fifty-X]

remove the sd card...

 

[fadetoblack2104]

It works when I remove the sd card. Now how am I supposed to root the phone though? I have to have the sd card in to root and this is the screen that it hangs on.

 

[homescrub]

So when you're at the HBoot screen, you press power and the phone asks you to update, do you update it with the IMG file?

 

[Four-Fifty-X]

It works when I remove the sd card. Now how am I supposed to root the phone though? I have to have the sd card in to root and this is the screen that it hangs on.

The first thing I would try is getting rid of all *.zip files in the root. See if you can go into hboot then. If you can, you likely have a bad zip file. Get a fresh copy. If that does not work, copy everything off the card and format it. Then put everything back.

Do you have s-off?

 

[Four-Fifty-X]

BTW, how are you trying to root? Are you trying to downgrade via hboot?

 

[homescrub]

If all else fails, and you can't get to where you need to be, run the Android Recovery Utility, located here: http://forum.androidcentral.com/inspire-rooting-roms-hacks/88094-rom-t-stock-rom-sense-unroot.html

Just run the RUU file, not the S-On. It will take you back to stock, and you can re-root if needed.

 

[fadetoblack2104]

BTW, how are you trying to root? Are you trying to downgrade via hboot?

I have used both The Ace Hack Kit and Bubbys one click GUI. I cannot get either one to work. With the ace hack kit v11a during downgrade the phone freezes at a black screen with an HTC logo. Using v11b it freezes at the hboot screen where it is supposed to be checking the file for reboot (from what I understand). Using bubbys method it also freezes at the hboot screen.

 

[homescrub]

i must be talking to myself in these forums

 

[fadetoblack2104]

If all else fails, and you can't get to where you need to be, run the Android Recovery Utility, located here: http://forum.androidcentral.com/inspire-rooting-roms-hacks/88094-rom-t-stock-rom-sense-unroot.html

Just run the RUU file, not the S-On. It will take you back to stock, and you can re-root if needed.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to run this and then try rooting and see if it goes through.