Please help can't load any rom

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I bought this 3D used but like new and wanted to flash it to Boost so I was doing some preliminary pre-flash things like rooting and loading a custom recovery and rom. I used the HTC unlock method for the bootloader and flashed Eternity and it stuck at Beats screen (boot animation). I downloaded a different rom to see if it was the rom but that one froze at the animation screen as well. I attempted to do an RUU stock reset on my PC from bootloader but it returned an error saying update failed. I'm basically locked out of this phone. I read everything it said about flashing custom kernels and how you are supposed to flash them from bootloader. I know Eternity has a stock kernel don't know about the other one. My last resort is to download a zip of a stock rom and flash that from recovery. If it freezes on me I'm not sure what I'll do next. Any help is appreciated...

Originally Posted by xlxcrossing

I bought this 3D used but like new and wanted to flash it to Boost so I was doing some preliminary pre-flash things like rooting and loading a custom recovery and rom. I used the HTC unlock method for the bootloader and flashed Eternity and it stuck at Beats screen (boot animation). I downloaded a different rom to see if it was the rom but that one froze at the animation screen as well. I attempted to do an RUU stock reset on my PC from bootloader but it returned an error saying update failed. I'm basically locked out of this phone. I read everything it said about flashing custom kernels and how you are supposed to flash them from bootloader. I know Eternity has a stock kernel don't know about the other one. My last resort is to download a zip of a stock rom and flash that from recovery. If it freezes on me I'm not sure what I'll do next. Any help is appreciated...

Did you follow the root instructions all the way through to install Superuser and the recovery? If so, did you boot into fastboot, connect usb, then do the fastboot boot recovery.img before flashing the rom?

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Originally Posted by JayDaKissEP

Did you follow the root instructions all the way through to install Superuser and the recovery? If so, did you boot into fastboot, connect usb, then do the fastboot boot recovery.img before flashing the rom?

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I did not use that method to flash, no. I'm assuming you mean from my PC execute the command. I did follow the instructions to install TWRP which is a custom recovery and I flashed a ZIP from TWRP for Superuser and checked it to be working which it was. (I tested Root Explorer and Terminal Emulator for root)

I was operating off the assumption that custom roms with a STOCK kernel could be flashed by booting into recovery. I went to bootloader then recovery then flashed the rom. Obviously I did something wrong since both roms wouldn't load. I will use your method of PC commands from fastboot into recovery and see where that gets me....pease let me know if this is correct or anything else I need to do....thanks a bunch.

UPDATE : I tried the method of loading recovery from fastboot usb - it worked thank you. The rom loaded. I'm wondering why since it was a custom rom with a stock kernel why I couldn't flash it from recovery.

Originally Posted by xlxcrossing

UPDATE : I tried the method of loading recovery from fastboot usb - it worked thank you. The rom loaded. I'm wondering why since it was a custom rom with a stock kernel why I couldn't flash it from recovery.

While the kernel is stock, Virus has a bunch of binaries and such that will be mismatched without flashing the boot.img properly ... So while some of his builds say "stock" not always completely stock.

Originally Posted by ifly4vamerica

While the kernel is stock, Virus has a bunch of binaries and such that will be mismatched without flashing the boot.img properly ... So while some of his builds say "stock" not always completely stock.

cool cool thanks for the info. So I need to load the recovery.img file from usb fastboot EVERY time I want to flash a rom? Any way to eliminate this hassle....I just assume flash less often if not...thanks

Originally Posted by xlxcrossing

cool cool thanks for the info. So I need to load the recovery.img file from usb fastboot EVERY time I want to flash a rom? Any way to eliminate this hassle....I just assume flash less often if not...thanks

With hboot 1.5, the ONLY way to flash a ROM correctly is with fastboot>recovery.

Originally Posted by Twolazyg

With hboot 1.5, the ONLY way to flash a ROM correctly is with fastboot>recovery.

Not true. You can flash a ROM but if you don't use fastboot it won't touch the kernel. I always change roms with the stock kernel. He must have done something wrong

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Originally Posted by JayDaKissEP

Not true. You can flash a ROM but if you don't use fastboot it won't touch the kernel. I always change roms with the stock kernel. He must have done something wrong

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If the kernel is pure stock with no added binaries or stuff it will work. Virus puts lots of little tweaks in that require it. Now if you can load a completely stock kernel and ramdisk then load Eternity (of course some eternity builds did have a completely stock kernel) then you may be onto something.

As far as flashing with hboot 1.50 easiest way to do that without the computer is with joeykrm's flash image gui. I don't have 1.50 but I have used his gui to do partial updates on svn builds in tandem with adb sync and it works great. His post with the apk is in development section. just read the instructions and flash away.

Originally Posted by ifly4vamerica

If the kernel is pure stock with no added binaries or stuff it will work. Virus puts lots of little tweaks in that require it. Now if you can load a completely stock kernel and ramdisk then load Eternity (of course some eternity builds did have a completely stock kernel) then you may be onto something.

As far as flashing with hboot 1.50 easiest way to do that without the computer is with joeykrm's flash image gui. I don't have 1.50 but I have used his gui to do partial updates on svn builds in tandem with adb sync and it works great. His post with the apk is in development section. just read the instructions and flash away.

Yeah I read all about it I'm still stuck on why if I had a stock kernel installed with a stock rom and I do a custom rom flash and as stated it doesn't touch the kernel why the rom wouldn't simply run off the stock kernel - that's what confuses me. I understand the issue of the kernel not being flashed which is obviously what happened with me. I just don't really know where I stand with what kernel to ALWAYS have loaded since if that's the thing with the issue I would want to for purposes of not doing tons of work stay away from flashing kernels and stick to flashing roms when I want to change it up. But if the STOCK kernel won't load with a custom rom which technically it should I guess I'll just have to flash a universal custom kernel and assume any rom I flash will simply use that kernel. Kind of a nightmare compared to my 4G....welcome to the world of the 3D I guess.

I guess going into recovery from hboot with the volume and power buttons wouldn't count - I have to stick with PC commands?