Hey bftb0,

I have followed the steps you listed and successfully flashed the bootloader to 1.492000 and performed a soft-boot of the Amon_RA image. I created a nandroid backup without any errors.

I downloaded the attached MTD_Inspect_v0.9.zip file and transfered it to the sd card using Amon_RA custom recovery tool and flashed it. I attached the report it left on the sd card.

Originally Posted by bftb0

I had been thinking something along the lines of "wouldn't it be great to get hand the phone back to the wife just as she had last used it" - but that is clearly impossible if the /data partition got cleaned up.

So... what you probably want to do is download a ROM file to load onto the phone after we review the results of the "MTD_Inspect.txt" report.

The one that will be most familiar to your wife, and 100% stock, is this one:

[ROM] HTC Eris March 2011 OTA Stock ROM - v2.41.605.6

It's not even rooted - it literally is identical to the most recent "stock" HTC/VZW code for the Eris. Putting a rooted ROM on the phone is also possible, and there are versions that are extremely close to stock, such as "xtrSense 5.0", if you want to put that on the phone as an alternative. (The phone will be a little snappier in it's behavior.)

I think the wife will be happy with a working android phone. She is currently using an old windows phone (HTC ozone). I think she would be very happy with xtr sense.50 rom if it makes the phone a little snappier. She had complaints about the stock rom lagging between making calls and what not.

After you take a look at the inspect report and don't see anything out of the ordinary, I can give it a shot.

I will wait for your reply.

OK, everything looks normal. (1 bad block in /cache, but I don't know why that would cause a problem)

Go ahead and flash a ROM file after performing a

wipe -> wipe data/factory reset

in Amon_RA.

Watch the screen carefully for any errors (indicated with an "E:")

If flashing of the ROM succeeds, power the phone off with the menu, start it up in fastboot mode (Send+End), and then perform a flashing operation of the recovery partition:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-eris-v1.6.2.img

Then, after waiting for all visible activity to cease on the screen, pull the battery, re-insert it, and power the phone up normally. It will take quite a bit longer to get to the initial screen than normal, but that is typical for a first boot.

Let me know if you see any errors anywhere - watch the phone closely through all these steps.


bftb0

kd

I just remembered that - because you did a factory reset with the stock recovery on your phone - you will need to "activate" the phone.

The phone may request to do activation during the initial start up of the phone. I think that any other phone which is registered on that line needs to be switched off for this to work correctly (but am not completely sure, since I don't flop back and forth between phones). I guess that means that the Ozone should be off when you start up the phone.

If you've already gone past that point and need to do it manually, dial *228, and then enter option 1.

Whether this works or not depends on what Verizon did for you when you visited them. (It won't work if they removed the phone from the account) If it doesn't activate, give Verizon a call on another line and tell them "your phone came back from the dead".

bftb0

No errors!!!!

She now has xtrSense 5.0 running on her phone and it booted up!!!!!!


Thank you for all the help you provided!!

We activated the ozone when we got home from Chicago by dialing *228 opt 1.

So after I got the new rom loaded on her eris, I followed the prompts and activated the phone again.

Everything seems to be working normal again!!

I can't thank you enough for all the help you gave me!!

So far, running the xtrSense rom, the only thing that she has noticed different was the internet icon in the apps list. I got her facebook set up without any issues. (thats all she really cares about)

Thanks again for everything!!!

OK, you're welcome.

Sorry we went through a lot of extra effort (I was afraid of a scenario that didn't exist on your phone), but it sounds like your wife had a phone to use in the meantime.

Make sure to get rid of the PB00IMG.zip file (either delete it or rename it or move it out of the top-level folder) so it doesn't cause any disruption should the phone get booted into HBOOT mode.

A couple of other points are worthwhile to make, too.

1) You are an Eris rooter now, whether you wanted it or not

2) If you flashed the recovery ("fastboot flash recovery recov..."), you can now boot directly in to it (the custom recovery) by holding the Vol-Up and End/Power buttons when the phone is turned off.

3) You have means to make complete backups on your wife's phone with Nandroid. Once she has her phone fully configured, you might want to do that once as a insurance policy against further disasters.

Cheers and safe travels,

bftb0


PS It didn't escape me that you had absolutely no troubles with any of this stuff, including the command line, which usually eludes younger windows users. Compute much?

That was no big deal going through the extra effort! I am just relieved that we dont have to puchurse a different eris thru craiglist or ebay.

I deleted the PB00IMG.zip file when you mentioned it in a previous step.

I am going to have to look into rooting my phone now!! It was kind of fun!

I wouldn't say that I compute much. When I was a child and first introduced to computers, there was no such thing as windows. It was all dos. My father is a software engineer so I picked up alot from him back in the dos days.

My wife can't thank you enough for all the information you provided!

Cheers to you!!

kdcroswell

Hello,
I want to send out a Heavy thanks for this thread. I too was able to restore my wife's phone and flashed xtrsense 5.0. All other forums I visited for this topic ended with a verizon exchange and that wasn't possible for me. But right on! this was a tremendous help. Thanks again!

bftb0, I am having the same issue but it seems the process may be a little different for me do to my boot loader.

Mine shows 1.49.0000 S-ON

I did all of the same steps up to the point that I received the error as follows.

"Main Version is Older!" message after HBOOT unpacks and inspects the PB00IMG.zip file.

You advised to Stop and ask for further guidance so I am doing that now.

In advance I appreciate the help. This thread has been more helpful than any other resource I have found so far.