Softbrick, Successful downgrade. S-on

[ashindnile]

UPDATE: NO progress overall, but I've been trying fastboot, but it gives me a verify failed error

What do I do?


Hey guys,

I'm really sorry if this has been answered already, but to the best of my surfing, it hasn't

Any way, so I ran the Advanced Ace Hack Kit on a VirtualBox Ubuntu environment.
so it offered to do all necessary for a downgrade, and it downloaded everything and SUCCESSFULLY downgraded my device(DHD) back to Froyo

now, I tried rooting..

I don't know what exactly went wrong.. but this is the status of the phone:

As usual, stuck in white screen

I CAN access H-BOOT, and CWM is apparently installed too... so I'm guessing it's rooted
However, The status is still clear:

S-on

Please put me on the light here?

 

[bananagranola]

AAHK is retired. The files it needs have been pulled and the server take down. If you have CWM and S-On, I have a hunch your bootloader is unlocked. Is it? If so you can flash ROMs. For S-On, each time you flash a ROM you need to fastboot flash boot.img.

 

[ashindnile]

AAHK is retired. The files it needs have been pulled and the server take down. If you have CWM and S-On, I have a hunch your bootloader is unlocked. Is it? If so you can flash ROMs. For S-On, each time you flash a ROM you need to fastboot flash boot.img.

Hey thanks for your reply, but how do I do that?
I'm trying to flash jelly time, and how can I upload fast boot.img.. I'm sorry, switching from motorola has made understanding difficult also how do I know if it is unlocked?
and is it better to s-off?
can we talk by email? it's my user name at gmail.com

 

[bananagranola]

I tend to like doing this in a forum, because if I screw up giving you directions someone else will come by and say so. To check whether you are unlocked, reboot holding down volume-down and power. What does it say? S-Off is currently not an option and it is unknown when it will be one, but yes, S-Off is better.

 

[brandub]

I tend to like doing this in a forum, because if I screw up giving you directions someone else will come by and say so. To check whether you are unlocked, reboot holding down volume-down and power. What does it say? S-Off is currently not an option and it is unknown when it will be one, but yes, S-Off is better.

I tried using aahk a few weeks ago before I realized that it wouldn't work. The phone was soft bricked after trying to use the downgrade file. 5 hours of tinkering and I got it to - s off and root but all I recall is using a combo of adb pushes, super one clicked some aahk..

Basically I 'mashed the keypad until I accidentally dialed the right number'.

 

[bananagranola]

I tried using aahk a few weeks ago before I realized that it wouldn't work. The phone was soft bricked after trying to use the downgrade file. 5 hours of tinkering and I got it to - s off and root but all I recall is using a combo of adb pushes, super one clicked some aahk..

Basically I 'mashed the keypad until I accidentally dialed the right number'.

AAHK worked a few weeks ago. It only got retired this week.

 

[ashindnile]

AAHK worked a few weeks ago. It only got retired this week.

Hmm..
But what can I do now? And thank you for your prompt responses, but I haven't been getting anywhere..
For starters, all I want to do now is to get it working...
How can I do that? I'll give custom ROMS a shot once I'm done that..

Thanks

 

[bananagranola]

Flash a ROM from CWM. Then fastboot flash boot.img.

 

[ashindnile]

Flash a ROM from CWM. Then fastboot flash boot.img.

Hmm I found instructions regarding fastboot, but now it's a different problem..

<waiting for device>



i installed drivers, but perhaps not the right ones.. do I need any sdk or something? or any specific adb drivers?

 

[yumm91]

Hmm I found instructions regarding fastboot, but now it's a different problem..

<waiting for device>



i installed drivers, but perhaps not the right ones.. do I need any sdk or something? or any specific adb drivers?

Make sure the driver is installed when the usb cable is unplugged. That is crucial for some cases

 

[ashindnile]

Make sure the driver is installed when the usb cable is unplugged. That is crucial for some cases

which one? the one that comes with HTC sync?
can anyone get me a package with all that's necessary to use the adb tool? thanks

 

[yumm91]

which one? the one that comes with HTC sync?
can anyone get me a package with all that's necessary to use the adb tool? thanks

If you are running it in windows environment, aahk should provide adb and fastboot command. Just run the hack.ace.cmd as administrator and after that just close it. It should be installed then. To check whether it is installed, just type adb or fastboot in command prompt. It should gives an info regarding adb and fastboot option..

But from your problem, it shows that the adb and fastboot is already installed, but there is a problem with usb connection.

The driver is provided in aahk inside windrivers folder.. Just install it with cable unplugged from phone.

 

[brandub]

@ Bananagranola, yes your right. I read attn1's post on his website 3 weeks ago about discontinuing and thought he already did.

I now recall my problem was the downgrade file not installing and issues installing cwm.
Inside the aahk I noticed flash_adb was set to flash_hboot which wasn't helping my efforts. I turned flash_adb on and I think that got things rolling. I still had to use super one click to finish the job but I read recently that flashing boot.img would have solved that.

I'd rather do things manually than automated but super one click worked well for me.

 

[ashindnile]

@ Bananagranola, yes your right. I read attn1's post on his website 3 weeks ago about discontinuing and thought he already did.

I now recall my problem was the downgrade file not installing and issues installing cwm.
Inside the aahk I noticed flash_adb was set to flash_hboot which wasn't helping my efforts. I turned flash_adb on and I think that got things rolling. I still had to use super one click to finish the job but I read recently that flashing boot.img would have solved that.

I'd rather do things manually than automated but super one click worked well for me.

hmm.. but I'm soft bricked..

also now I made some progress: I'm able to use adb, but I get the signature verify error, meaning my bootloader apparently is not unlocked..

is that what it means?

and I'm using the boot.img from the froyo official rom..

please help! anyone?

 

[ashindnile]

Anyone?

 

[bananagranola]

Are you trying to flash a ROM? The boot.img you need is the one in that ROM zip, not one in a Froyo RUU.