CWM Recovery for HTCDev unlocked Salsa's

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You have probably seen this thread about how to install CWM recovery and found out that it doesn't work for you. The good news is there is a fix

1. Download the 2 zip files in the post linked above to get the recovery and root files.

2. Unzip the PH11IMG.zip and copy the recovery.img to where you put the fastboot program as part of unlocking the bootloader in HTCDev. Make sure you do not put PH11IMG.zip onto the SD card as you will be stuck in a bootloop.

3. Turn off your phone, pop the battery out for a few secs, turn back on while holding vol down and wait while it checks for a update file.

4. Select fastboot, plug it into your computer and wait for Fastboot USB to appear on the screen.

5. Open a command prompt and go to the folder with fastboot in it (As you have to do this to unlock the bootloader with HTCDev I assume you don't need me to explain this bit) and type

Fastboot devices

if you get something back like

HT16MTW02057    fastboot

then your good to go

6. Now type

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

and hold your breath as it writes the image....

sending 'recovery' (3858 KB)...
OKAY [  0.799s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  1.188s]
finished. total time: 1.986s

Unplug your phone, pop the battery out again for a few secs, turn back on with vol down held and select recovery.

7. wait about 10 secs for it to load.

8. Victory dance!

You can now flash any custom ROM you like, or just root with the root.zip file you downloaded before.

EDIT: It seems that the recovery image above has some problems with SD-EXT partitions (probably sensitive to the SD card, so yours may be fine), so if you were thinking of moving your data partition to your SD card then please use CWM 5.0.2.6 from this thread.

Thanks mate. Have been having problems with this the past week.

Wow!!! this is working for me. for you guys who can't get xtc-clip, unlock bootloader using htcdev, follow this step for recovery and then voila.... start rooting proses here

Thanks a lot man.... It SIMPLY WORKS GREAT... !!!

friends.. plz help if i do this process .. i lost my htc salsa warranty ..
during this process s-OFF IS Must...

plz answer my questions. ..

Originally Posted by mohdnishat

friends.. plz help if i do this process .. i lost my htc salsa warranty ..
during this process s-OFF IS Must...

plz answer my questions. ..

going to HTCDev won't give you s-off, that i can tell you, thats only given by the XTC Clip. by doing this yes you probably do void the warrenrty..but honestly..who cares lol

Mate you are great.
I bought the Salsa for my wife and was going nuts to constantly hear about low memory issues. Hope now I will be able to do something about it.

Originally Posted by BigBearEvo

going to HTCDev won't give you s-off, that i can tell you, thats only given by the XTC Clip. by doing this yes you probably do void the warrenrty..but honestly..who cares lol

Actually going to HTCDev does give you S-off, as long as your patient and follow the (long winded) guide you will end up with a patched unlocked bootloader.

How XTC clip seem to be able to do it properly but HTC (assuming the devs have access to the source code) have to do an awful hacky attempt is a whole different subject......

Originally Posted by snatch_this

Mate you are great.
I bought the Salsa for my wife and was going nuts to constantly hear about low memory issues. Hope now I will be able to do something about it.

Save yourself a lot of problems and get CWM 5.0.2.6 from the bottom of my first thread.
And back up everything. I can't remember at what point but I suddenly ended up with a wiped phone (Like a just did a factory reset) so this is not just a precaution, you will probably end up putting everything back on.

The minute u have s-off, u have problems. Htcdev allows you to install cwm 5, if your like me and a couple of others we cant upgrade...trust me....I was the second user on the salsa forum to get s-off, and test roms, so I do know this, and so far I've flashed thus unit 42 times with 5 test roms and 3 custom roms trying to progress further for all of us lol. So while u got s-on with unlocked bootloader....stay there and don't go any further. Get cwm 5, but please stop posting about it....so many threads over the same thing me and kanded started.
Its not a moan, but getting fed up of saying the same things over and over.

When we get a working rom....we will share it.
Share info, don't spam it to many times please

Oh and flashing a new rom, installing new cwm, basically anything done to your rom will wipe it all.
Use titanium backup root, to save your apps + data.
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