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Root HTC EVO Shift 4G Root Help?

montero23 said:
anybody tryed ICS 4.0.3 deck or CM9, if so help me out,im getting stuck on the HTC screen when i reboot,
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Well, pretty much go back to the beginning of this thread, follow my brick fix, upgrade to 2.3.4 so you have a nice clean install, then follow the XDA thread on rooting and getting S-OFF, then do like 3 backups, and only flash roms using Clockwork's ROM manager. Should keep it from happening again.

Also, you have different requirements for AOSP ROMs like CM7/9 and Sense based ROMs.
 
gzetski said:
Well, pretty much go back to the beginning of this thread, follow my brick fix, upgrade to 2.3.4 so you have a nice clean install, then follow the XDA thread on rooting and getting S-OFF, then do like 3 backups, and only flash roms using Clockwork's ROM manager. Should keep it from happening again.

Also, you have different requirements for AOSP ROMs like CM7/9 and Sense based ROMs.
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wait what? lol i tryed warm synergy and it worked perfect but not ICS, and i idk how to get back to stock, my RUU gets stuck at 13% and the 2.3 RUU i had wont open i get a error
 
montero23 said:
wait what? lol i tryed warm synergy and it worked perfect but not ICS, and i idk how to get back to stock, my RUU gets stuck at 13% and the 2.3 RUU i had wont open i get a error
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Use the method I described earlier to get to 2.2, then update from there and reroot....
 
Okay, here goes:

Unlocked S-ON
HBOOT: 0.99.0001
RADIO: 1.08.01.0111

Android 2.2 with full root access (even though its S-ON)

Gonna try to update to the latest RUU and see what happens. I'll let u guys know in a minute.

EDIT: Failed! Error 155. Back to the lab.
 
gzetski said:
Okay, here goes:

Unlocked S-ON
HBOOT: 0.99.0001
RADIO: 1.08.01.0111

Android 2.2 with full root access (even though its S-ON)

Gonna try to update to the latest RUU and see what happens. I'll let u guys know in a minute.

EDIT: Failed! Error 155. Back to the lab.
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use the OTA 2.3.4, and u be good, just have to unlock bootloader
 
RUU failed for me. Tried the manual method, but had an issue with the last step:

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot flash system system.img
sending 'system' (515836 KB)...
FAILED (remote: data length is too large)
finished. total time: 0.025s
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unbrkshft said:
RUU failed for me. Tried the manual method, but had an issue with the last step:
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flash clockwork recovery, wipe all cashes and partitions, try again.

On a side note, I think its a kernel mismatch, that's why the RUUs are not taking. What was the stock kernel with 2.2? Anyone know?
 
gzetski said:
flash clockwork recovery, wipe all cashes and partitions, try again.

On a side note, I think its a kernel mismatch, that's why the RUUs are not taking. What was the stock kernel with 2.2? Anyone know?
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No luck. I wiped data/factory reset. Wiped cache/partition multiple times. Tried flashing the files. The same error message happens when I try to flash the system.img. I tried flashing it multiple times. I guess I'll flash back to 2.2 now so that the phone is at least usable.
 
For some reason it is either frozen trying to update back to 2.2 or just taking an extremely long time. I've been loading the system.img for about an hour now. It did not take this long in previous attempts. It seems that loading the 2.3.4 RUU files may not have been a great idea...


Update: But it finally finished! So not all is lost.

The kernel is 2.6.32.21-gcd7abbd
Made Sat Nov 10
 
gzetski said:
I just spent 3 days researching this issue, finally got it fixed. Same thing that happened to you. I am assuming your bootloader is unlocked but S-ON.

Tings you will need:

Android SDK
HTC Drivers
7-zip
RUU_Speedy_Sprint_WWE_1.17.651.1_Radio_1.07.00.1129_NV_SPCS_1.52_1103_release_160079_signed.exe

On your computer, search for ROM.ZIP. Include system locations and hidden files.

Delete any instances of it that you may find.

Take the SD card out of the phone.

Put your Shift into fastboot (vol/down + power)

Run the RUU, let it get stuck.

On your computer, run a search for ROM.ZIP while the RUU is running. Its gonna show up in some temp folder.

Copy it to your desktop.

Use 7zip to extract it (for whatever reasons Windows can't extract it).

Open the extracted rom.zip folder.

Copy all files and place them in your SDKs platform tools folder.

Shut down the RUU, reboot the phone into recovery (vol/down + power).

Run CMD and change directories to your platform tools folder.

Type the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotes) - this gets rid of any custom recovery like Clockwork, etc.

Reboot the phone into recovery again, you should have a triangle with an ! next to it on black background.

Go back to CMD and your platform tools, and start flashing the following:

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dzdata dzdata.img
fastboot flash partition partition.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img

Reboot the phone.

After 30 seconds of white HTC screen, your phone should boot up fine and you will be in Android 2.2.

Let me know if it worked out for you, I just fixed mine less than an hour before writing this up.

Also, if anyone out there sees anything redundant, or can help me clean this process up a bit, I welcome your input.
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i did what u said, but when i rebooted the phone, it bootlop on the 4G screen, never passed that, did it like 3 times
 
gzetski said:
I just spent 3 days researching this issue, finally got it fixed. Same thing that happened to you. I am assuming your bootloader is unlocked but S-ON.

Tings you will need:

Android SDK
HTC Drivers
7-zip
RUU_Speedy_Sprint_WWE_1.17.651.1_Radio_1.07.00.1129_NV_SPCS_1.52_1103_release_160079_signed.exe

On your computer, search for ROM.ZIP. Include system locations and hidden files.

Delete any instances of it that you may find.

Take the SD card out of the phone.

Put your Shift into fastboot (vol/down + power)

Run the RUU, let it get stuck.

On your computer, run a search for ROM.ZIP while the RUU is running. Its gonna show up in some temp folder.

Copy it to your desktop.

Use 7zip to extract it (for whatever reasons Windows can't extract it).

Open the extracted rom.zip folder.

Copy all files and place them in your SDKs platform tools folder.

Shut down the RUU, reboot the phone into recovery (vol/down + power).

Run CMD and change directories to your platform tools folder.

Type the command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotes) - this gets rid of any custom recovery like Clockwork, etc.

Reboot the phone into recovery again, you should have a triangle with an ! next to it on black background.

Go back to CMD and your platform tools, and start flashing the following:

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash dzdata dzdata.img
fastboot flash partition partition.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img

Reboot the phone.

After 30 seconds of white HTC screen, your phone should boot up fine and you will be in Android 2.2.

Let me know if it worked out for you, I just fixed mine less than an hour before writing this up.

Also, if anyone out there sees anything redundant, or can help me clean this process up a bit, I welcome your input.
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i did what u said, but then my phone gor stuck on the 4G screen, kept rebooting, and everythime i flashed the radio or partion and dzdata said failed, but since i was already getting stuck on the 4G i pressed the Factory reset on the bootloder and it worked, now im on 2.2 but my baseband is 1.08 the 2.3.4 idk why
 
I managed to get my hands back on the Shift today after the owner had tried to run an HTC update which resulted in it soft-bricking. I was finally able to solve my issue of being at 2.2 with a locked hboot and thought I would post the method I used in case it helps anyone.

All I had to do was re-install 2.2 per gzetski's instructions. Then I followed the rooting instructions at the top of this post as if I was running 2.3.4. It was flawless. I was able to downgrade the hboot and S-OFF. The phone is now running CM7 and the owner is quite pleased.

Thank you all for your support.
 
crump said:
I would agree, your guide is more for brick situation. It's definitely not typical to have to manually flash every partition...And IMO should be a last resort.

AFAIK You would have to somehow exploit the .99 Hboot before you would be able to overide it. Can you run the latest 2.3.4 or 2.3.3 RUU? If not I would suggest trying to take the updates all the way up to 2.3.4. Once you have everything back in order root following the guide someone posted earlier in this thread.

Edit: I missed where you said you've already tried taking the OTA. Is your bootloader unlocked via the HTC tool?
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Man :p . Crump you are everywhere :) . Good thing to, from the looks of it :thumbup:
 
ok ive tried everything. this way is the closest to working i have gotten but i still have a problem. my adb doesnt recongnize my phone when its in recovry so i can flash anything. when i try to flash it when the phone is on it just sits and says waiting for device. please help :/
 
sod7227 said:
ok ive tried everything. this way is the closest to working i have gotten but i still have a problem. my adb doesnt recongnize my phone when its in recovry so i can flash anything. when i try to flash it when the phone is on it just sits and says waiting for device. please help :/
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What Android version are you on?
 
It might also be that your computer isn't using the right driver for your phone. Try uninstalling the driver your computer uses for your phone right now, unplug your phone, google HTC drivers and download it, run the exe, connect your phone again, and then see if your phone shows up when you run "adb devices" in command prompt from the platform-tools folder
 
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