Sensation 4g will not boot into recovery

[marcbachman]

Hello- I have begun work on HTC Sensation 4g phone(s). So far, I have successfully unlocked the bootloader ( gained S-Off )using Juopunut application and Android SDK tools, adb and fastboot from command line in Linux. I was unable to root the phone using root tools and root applications under Windows. I was similarly unable to install CWM using ROM manager from the Android environment since it requires root. The phone originally had Hboot 1.27.0000, after Juopunut updated it is now 1.27.1111. I attempted to flash "recovery.img" part of CWM zip archive using fastboot command from the parent adb/fastboot directory on my linux machine. Apparently, that was an unfortunate guess since my phone will not boot into recovery mode now. Since I was stuck here with this phone, I tried a similar approach with an identical phone, which now is boot looping, it will not boot an OS at all, and I cannot seem to get it to restore the factory ROM from recovery mode, or at any rate, I cannot get it to boot into the OS. Since I do not believe Windows is a logical choice for working on Android, I am avoiding it wherever I can. If there is a way I can recover using Linux, I'd rather try that. Any help appreciated.

 

[rzr86]

Hello- I have begun work on HTC Sensation 4g phone(s). So far, I have successfully unlocked the bootloader ( gained S-Off )using Juopunut application and Android SDK tools, adb and fastboot from command line in Linux. I was unable to root the phone using root tools and root applications under Windows. I was similarly unable to install CWM using ROM manager from the Android environment since it requires root. The phone originally had Hboot 1.27.0000, after Juopunut updated it is now 1.27.1111. I attempted to flash "recovery.img" part of CWM zip archive using fastboot command from the parent adb/fastboot directory on my linux machine. Apparently, that was an unfortunate guess since my phone will not boot into recovery mode now. Since I was stuck here with this phone, I tried a similar approach with an identical phone, which now is boot looping, it will not boot an OS at all, and I cannot seem to get it to restore the factory ROM from recovery mode, or at any rate, I cannot get it to boot into the OS. Since I do not believe Windows is a logical choice for working on Android, I am avoiding it wherever I can. If there is a way I can recover using Linux, I'd rather try that. Any help appreciated.

have you read this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425

note: leave S-OFF as it

 

[thevilla1]

i thought you needed to be rooted?

Rooting HTC Sensation Permanently
Turn off your device and reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery. (Disable the fast boot option first in settings then press and hold Volume down button while pressing Power at the same time. You will be in the bootloader mode where you can select Recovery to enter ClockworkMod Recovery.)

While in Recovery, create a Nandroid backup by navigating to Backup & Restore > backup.
If you have created a backup already, select “Install zip from sdcard” option, then select “Choose zip from sdcard”.
Select su-2.3.6.3-ef-signed.zip from the list. Then choose “Yes – install su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip” to install it.
Once installation is complete, reboot your handset.
You have now fully rooted your HTC Sensation. Your next possible step is to install a custom ROM and get rid of the stock ROM. There are various ROMs from many developers – one of the popular and trusted ones is no other than the CyanogenMod 7. Go ahead and take your HTC Sensation for a spin. You are now in full control of it.