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Root M8 flashed firmware in cmd, now stuck in HBOOT

Ta da! :D

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Here is Brielles HTC Inspire 4G showing hboot screen. When I bought it on eBay the add said factory unlocked. Please 're furnish me with your PayPal info so I can help you out some. Then, when you're able to, let's turn this four minute boot up oldie into a more modern speedster. Sound like fun?
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Thank you sir!!

Ok - strictly for your daughter's HTC Inspire 4G.

First, it's an HTC so, volume down while powering on does exactly what you expect - takes you to the bootloader (and I guess from the screen shots you know that lol).

HTCdev.com unlock it - I think you have that part down to a science now. :)

The Inspire 4G isn't supported - so at HTCdev.com select other supported devices.

If there's a problem...
The Inspire 4G was born just a few months before the Evo 3D where the storm over the locked bootloader began, leading to the great petition of 2011, leading to the lauching of HTCdev.com.

So - your bootloader may have been born on the cusp and HTCdev.com won't unlock it.

No problem - you can get a bootloader version that works here - flash from sd card just like you did with your phone - except, no s-off required and no changing the name of the zip file -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437320

However according to what I've read, her 2.2.00.0030 bootloader ought to be just fine.

Install 4Ext recovery (no TWRP for this one) -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377757

Here's the direct download link -

http://www.4ext.net/ddl/ace/recovery.zip

Unzip it on your PC (double click in Windows Explorer, or right-click, I forget, it's one of those) - extract the recovery.img file from the recovery folder (if your system makes one, I'm on unix right now so I can't check what Windows will do - but - it's a zip file, nothing fancy).

Copy the recovery.img file to your fastboot folder (sdk-tools yeah?).

With the phone in FASTBOOT USB mode and in the command window say -

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Reboot phone to make sure that all is well.

Boot back into bootloader, navigate to RECOVERY - make a nandroid backup.

Screen shots are right there in the XDA thread, so don't be fooled - it's not TWRP so the layout is a little different but custom recoveries are just different versions of the same song ok.

Don't be concerned that it's not TWRP - 4EXT is a top-rated recovery.


Now - you have an unlocked bootloader, recovery and a nandroid backup of the stock rom.

For rooting, there's an ARHD available - install from recovery, do the full wipe from inside the Aroma installer (just like you did for Viper) -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964841

Let's see if this works. :)
 
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I've got this ad that stays in the middle of my screen no matter what. Is there an app that cleans out these types of intruders? It would be nice if malwarebytes worked on android.
 
EarlyMon said:
Thank you sir!!

Ok - strictly for your daughter's HTC Inspire 4G.

First, it's an HTC so, volume down while powering on does exactly what you expect - takes you to the bootloader (and I guess from the screen shots you know that lol).

HTCdev.com unlock it - I think you have that part down to a science now. :)

The Inspire 4G isn't supported - so at HTCdev.com select other supported devices.

If there's a problem...
The Inspire 4G was born just a few months before the Evo 3D where the storm over the locked bootloader began, leading to the great petition of 2011, leading to the lauching of HTCdev.com.

So - your bootloader may have been born on the cusp and HTCdev.com won't unlock it.

No problem - you can get a bootloader version that works here - flash from sd card just like you did with your phone - except, no s-off required and no changing the name of the zip file -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437320

However according to what I've read, her 2.2.00.0030 bootloader ought to be just fine.

Install 4Ext recovery (no TWRP for this one) -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377757

Here's the direct download link -

http://www.4ext.net/ddl/ace/recovery.zip

Unzip it on your PC (double click in Windows Explorer, or right-click, I forget, it's one of those) - extract the recovery.img file from the recovery folder (if your system makes one, I'm on unix right now so I can't check what Windows will do - but - it's a zip file, nothing fancy).

Copy the recovery.img file to your fastboot folder (sdk-tools yeah?).

With the phone in FASTBOOT USB mode and in the command window say -

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Reboot phone to make sure that all is well.

Boot back into bootloader, navigate to RECOVERY - make a nandroid backup.

Screen shots are right there in the XDA thread, so don't be fooled - it's not TWRP so the layout is a little different but custom recoveries are just different versions of the same song ok.

Don't be concerned that it's not TWRP - 4EXT is a top-rated recovery.


Now - you have an unlocked bootloader, recovery and a nandroid backup of the stock rom.

For rooting, there's an ARHD available - install from recovery, do the full wipe from inside the Aroma installer (just like you did for Viper) -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=964841

Let's see if this works. :)
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I will keep you posted sir! Thanks a bunch!
 
unlocked it, installed recovery, made nandroid, formatted external sd per GoldCard Helper, then decided not to do that. Not sure if s off is needed to flash arhd
 
HunterSeeker said:
Flashed the rom doing full wipe. Reboot taking quite a while..................
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Not to worry.

Could be that the kernel didn't flash right.
Unzip the ARHD rom zip, extract the boot.img file, place in the same folder as fastboot.

Cycle power to FASTBOOT USB mode and from the command window -

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot
 
restored nandroid. searching for ways to root and s off. most have beeen retired from use. Flashed rom twice with cache and dalvik wipe just before second flash. White screen. pulling battery to get past white screen to fastboot.(sorry this isnt really in order, just what I did)
 
EarlyMon said:
Well dang, how about trying this one -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960734


Here's the download link -

https://mega.co.nz/#!rQ01FLgT!OVSCpLaB3rhaU0eC2IBcTZTzTO6mFaTyoGld_EpVjj0

OR -

From the stock rom restored by nandroid, just flash SuperSU in recovery for root -
Suhttps://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip
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The super su isnt sticking. It flashes, I reboot, open apps and go to it, go into settings, tap on cleanup for full root, In the interim a system report pops up asking if I want to send to htc. It (SuperSU) dissappears too. I flashed it (supserSU) again and same thing.
 
It probably needs a much older superuser or something.

I was hoping to avoid the pain of s-off with most of old tools no longer up.

But I found one earlier that claimed to still work and had a youtube to go along with it if I'm not mistaken.

Let me see if I can find that...
 
Looks like possible success.
In recovery, deleted,wiped all partitions, then flashed .img, pulled batt to shut down, entered recovery again, flashed arhd, wiping cache in aroma, rebooted and lo and behold it has successfully booted into os. Not sure if radio and all is good, but hey this is certainly the farthest I've been.
 
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