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Root Unable to download TWRP 2.5.0 using GooManager

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Lord Vader

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I recently had my EVO LTE stolen, so after getting a replacement, I have to redo the long, tedious process of rerooting it and everything. I've unlocked the bootloader, but when I use GooManager to try and download and install TWRP 2.5.0, I keep getting this error message:

"Download failed. Invalid MD5 sum."

Other times, GooManager simply crashes, forcing me to reopen it and try again, but then I get the invalid MD5 sum message.

Just to add to this, when I attempted to download the 2.5.0 img file directly to the root of my SD card (an alternative method of installing TWRP), I get an error message that says:

"You can't save here. Please choose another location."
 
Lord Vader said:
I recently had my EVO LTE stolen, so after getting a replacement, I have to redo the long, tedious process of rerooting it and everything. I've unlocked the bootloader, but when I use GooManager to try and download and install TWRP 2.5.0, I keep getting this error message:

"Download failed. Invalid MD5 sum."

Other times, GooManager simply crashes, forcing me to reopen it and try again, but then I get the invalid MD5 sum message.

Just to add to this, when I attempted to download the 2.5.0 img file directly to the root of my SD card (an alternative method of installing TWRP), I get an error message that says:

"You can't save here. Please choose another location."
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I would delete the Goomanager app. Then redownload from the market.

Also, I would copy the contents of your SD card to your computer and reformat the SD card while it's the phone.

Hopefully that gets you going. :)
 
Granite1 said:
I would delete the Goomanager app. Then redownload from the market.

Also, I would copy the contents of your SD card to your computer and reformat the SD card while it's the phone.

Hopefully that gets you going. :)
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OK, but how do I format the card while it's in the phone?
 
Well, SOMEthing's wrong. I tried the terminal emulator method of installing TWRP, but when I tried to download the image to my phone's internal storage (as opposed to the root of the ext sd card), I get the same message: "You can't save here. Please choose another location."

What the heck is going on?
 
OK, so I downloaded the file to my PC, copied it to my phone's internal storage, then tried to run terminal emulator to install TWRP. However, when I run terminal emulator, it gives me an error message saying that "no such file exists." In other words, the file I put there via a copy and paste, while showing in the root of the internal sd card, isn't being detected by terminal emulator.

Jeesh! Nothing is ever easy for me when I do this stuff. What irritates me is that I'm not a newbie or someone uncomfortable with this stuff, as I've done it before (albeit about 9 months ago). The only thing I've thus far been able to do is unlock this phone. Other than that, I've run up against one brick wall after another.
 
Rxpert83 said:
I'd also get yourself familiar with how to do these things manually.

These helper apps are useless when the going gets tough
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Well, I've been familiar with how to do these things manually, as I've done them before. The problem I'm running into is that I'm following the manual instructions but still have been unsuccessful no matter which manual method I have tried.
 
Do you have a computer handy?

The easiest is a simple "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"

I have guides written on doing it that way if you aren't familiar with fastboot
 
Rxpert83 said:
Do you have a computer handy?

The easiest is a simple "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"

I have guides written on doing it that way if you aren't familiar with fastboot
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Yes, I have a PC handy. BTW, just an FYI--I did try that method as well (I followed the instructions on TWRP's site), but that, too, did not work.

I welcome, however, anything you might be able to add to it or correct.
 
When I tried using GooManager, the download kept failing with the aforementioned MD5 sum error.

Then I tried the download--bootloader option. I downloaded the file, renamed it, then went to my bootloader. That told me there was an "incorrect file name," or something to that effect. It wouldn't recognize the file I had just downloaded.

Then I tried the terminal emulator method. When I entered the command as per TWRP's website, I got an error that said something like "no such file exists," despite the fact that I had copied and pasted it to the root of my phone's internal storage.

Note: One common problem does seem to be that whenever I try to directly download something, particularly this file, to anywhere on my phone (ext. SD card, internal SD card, etc.), I get a message telling me: "You can't save here. Please choose another location."

Also, I should correct myself. The only method I haven't tried is the Download--fastboot method. I don't think that'd work anyway due to the inability to download/save anything to my phone or its card.
 
You can't save any files to the storage on the phone, and the files you know are there aren't showing up. Correct?

Something is wrong with the way the phone is seeing the memory.

I know when you unlocked the bootloader it factory reset the phone. You may want to try another factory reset.

Also to format the SD card from the phone, go to Menu / Settings / Storage / select "Unmount SD Card" Once the card is unmounted, select "Erase SD Card"

That will perform a phone format of the SD card. :)

Like I said earlier make sure you have all the info backed up prior to doing this.

Please, take Ocns avatar to heart "Don't Panic!!" We'll do everything in our power to get you fixed up. :)
 
Lord Vader said:
When I tried using GooManager, the download kept failing with the aforementioned MD5 sum error.

Then I tried the download--bootloader option. I downloaded the file, renamed it, then went to my bootloader. That told me there was an "incorrect file name," or something to that effect. It wouldn't recognize the file I had just downloaded.

Then I tried the terminal emulator method. When I entered the command as per TWRP's website, I got an error that said something like "no such file exists," despite the fact that I had copied and pasted it to the root of my phone's internal storage.

Note: One common problem does seem to be that whenever I try to directly download something, particularly this file, to anywhere on my phone (ext. SD card, internal SD card, etc.), I get a message telling me: "You can't save here. Please choose another location."

Also, I should correct myself. The only method I haven't tried is the Download--fastboot method. I don't think that'd work anyway due to the inability to download/save anything to my phone or its card.
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The fastboot method takes a file placed in the proper folder on your PC and flashes it to your Recovery partition. No need to have any files saved to the phone at all.

Here is a copy of the Fastboot instructions from the guide, this "should" work:

1.go to openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-jewel.img to download the file.
2.move the file into the android folder you created earlier when you unlocked your bootloader.
3.on your phone you should be in the bootloader menu screen, select the fastboot option. if you are not in the bootloader menu then power off the phone and then press and hold power+vol down.
4.on your computer press and hold shift while right clicking the android folder.
5.select open command window here option (windows 7)
6.enter command:

[HIGH]fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-jewel.img[/HIGH]
7.from the bootloader menu reboot the phone.
congrats!!!!!!


Also, the Bootloader method won't work until you unlock the bootloader. S-on won't allow any file that isn't signed with HTCs secret key to be flashed. :(
 
Granite1 said:
The fastboot method takes a file placed in the proper folder on your PC and flashes it to your Recovery partition. No need to have any files saved to the phone at all.

Here is a copy of the Fastboot instructions from the guide, this "should" work:

1.go to openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-jewel.img to download the file.
2.move the file into the android folder you created earlier when you unlocked your bootloader.
3.on your phone you should be in the bootloader menu screen, select the fastboot option. if you are not in the bootloader menu then power off the phone and then press and hold power+vol down.
4.on your computer press and hold shift while right clicking the android folder.
5.select open command window here option (windows 7)
6.enter command:

Code:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-jewel.img
7.from the bootloader menu reboot the phone.
congrats!!!!!!


Also, the Bootloader method won't work until you unlock the bootloader. S-on won't allow any file that isn't signed with HTCs secret key to be flashed. :(
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I am unlocked, BTW. I'm just looking to install 2.5.0 then root the thing.

BTW, on that note, which is the best--translation, easiest--method to root and get S-OFF? I've seen a couple methods, but I don't want one that's going to end up adding to my woes. :p
 
Ocn, you'll have to take over for tonight. I have to get to bed, 4AM comes early, and it's almost 10:30 here. :)

Also what do you think about the memory glitch?

@Vader, if this works and we can get a recovery flashed. You'll be cool, but I still think the internal memory and the SD card need wiped clean. Something isn't jiving in there, and I can't put my finger on it.

Thank you for keeping calm, we'll do our best. :)
 
Lord Vader said:
I am unlocked, BTW. I'm just looking to install 2.5.0 then root the thing.

BTW, on that note, which is the best--translation, easiest--method to root and get S-OFF? I've seen a couple methods, but I don't want one that's going to end up adding to my woes. :p
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Post up your hboot # and your radio # and we'll point you to the method you'll need. :)
 
either dirty racun or baby racun depending on what your phone says is the one that works for most peeps. there is facepalm, but i have seen it hit or miss, but it does seem the simpler method out there.

edit: and granite i got it from here.....nitey nite;)
 
Granite1 said:
Post up your hboot # and your radio # and we'll point you to the method you'll need. :)
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Here ya go. Here's all my info:

Hardware version: 0003
Software version: 3.16.651.3 710RD
Android version: 4.1.1
HTC SDK API level: 4.63
Kernel version: 3.4.10-g19136fe
Baseband version: 1.12.11.1210
Build number: 3.16.651.3 CL147243 release-keys
hboot version 2.09.0000
PRI Version: 2.97_003
PRL Version: 25014
 
Granite1 said:
The fastboot method takes a file placed in the proper folder on your PC and flashes it to your Recovery partition. No need to have any files saved to the phone at all.

Here is a copy of the Fastboot instructions from the guide, this "should" work:

1.go to openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-jewel.img to download the file.
2.move the file into the android folder you created earlier when you unlocked your bootloader.
3.on your phone you should be in the bootloader menu screen, select the fastboot option. if you are not in the bootloader menu then power off the phone and then press and hold power+vol down.
4.on your computer press and hold shift while right clicking the android folder.
5.select open command window here option (windows 7)
6.enter command:

[HIGH]fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-jewel.img[/HIGH]7.from the bootloader menu reboot the phone.
congrats!!!!!!


Also, the Bootloader method won't work until you unlock the bootloader. S-on won't allow any file that isn't signed with HTCs secret key to be flashed. :(
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OK, I've done that. I turned it back on but went to recovery and now have TWRP 2.5.0! Woo hoo!
 
Now it's installing SU. Next is getting S-OFF. I'm debating whether to do that tonight or tomorrow evening, as I have to get up early. But then there's the Stanley Cup finals tomorrow, and I don't want to miss my Blackhawks. :)
 
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