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Root HTC Rhyme No WiFi after failed root

RuLEoF2

RuLEoF2

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I've been trying everything I can find to root my wife's HTC Rhyme and nothing works. ZergRush, TocoRoot, SuperTool, OneClick, SuperOneClick... none of it worked. I even tried flashing an RUU with a windows PC utility and it nearly bricked the phone to where I could only boot into the bootloader. I recovered from that but now I have no WiFi. I had this problem on my HTC Incredible and a kernel re-flash fixed it so maybe that's what I need here but I can't find one. Probably couldn't flash it without root S-OFF anyway.

The only thing that I've been able to do successfully is unlock/relock the bootloader. This is my wife's phone and I really want to root it so that she can have the benefit of being able to completely backup everything.

Any help with at least the WiFi issue wold be appreciated. Rooting would be nice too but I don't want to be greedy.

Thanks.
 
I was able to install an RUU which fixed the WiFi issue, but now the phone is stuck in a boot-loop. I've flashed it three times (doing it twice each attempt) but its the same result every time. The phone boots normally the first time, then goes into loop on the next restart. Could be the wrong RUU, could be corrupted or maybe I'm doing it wrong. I don't know.

Please... Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
 
Sounds like you did unlock the device. You may want to see if Verizon will replace the phone for you. I've seen a few people, including developers who bricked their phones just exchange them.
 
Here is what he did to fix his issue:

HTC Rhyme Root - 2 Sayfa


----quote----

I have...
RUU_Bliss_C_VERIZON_WWE_1.26.605.6_Radio_1.15.00.0 816_NV_VZW2.67_release_214911_signed.exe
RUU_Bliss_C_VERIZON_WWE_1.26.605.11_Radio_1.15.00. 0816_NV_VZW2.67_release_222889_signed.exe
... which I got here.

--- UPDATE ---

I fixed it. No root, but it's working and back to factory condition.

I used CWM recovery to format all partitions (data, system, cache, devlog, etc.) as well as the sdcard. Once that was done, I relocked the bootloader and ran the RUU. This time I went through the entire setup process for the phone (activation, market account, WiFi and so on) without rebooting first. After the setup, I rebooted and I started normally. About 20 minutes later, I got an android OTA update of some kind and now its fine.

Not sure why setting up the phone would make a difference, but formatting the partitions and going completely clean-slate is probably what did the trick. Something must have been stuck in memory from the first failed attempt and it was corrupting the following attempts in some way.

I'd still like to root it, but anyway... it's fixed and my wife's is glad to get her phone back. Happy ending.

Thanks to all for your assistance.
 
how did you get the ruu to go through completely i keep getting an error 140 bs is getting on my last nerves i downloaded both ruus you downloaded keep getting the same error help plz im rooted but i dont have wifi or bluetooth and i just wont to get it back 100 percent stock
 
Just a stated above, locked it and ran the ruu. It did the rest. When in doubt download the ruu again in your pc.
 
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