Changing Hboot is easy, but you MUST be S-OFF
- You must be S-OFF
- Download Android Flasher from here and put it in a folder on a local drive (eg c:\flasher)
- Download your new Hboot image (.img file) from here and put it in the same folder as Android Flasher
- Boot your phone into the bootloader (Power + Vol Down), then select Fastboot and press Power to enter Fastboot mode
- Connect your phone to the computer with the USB cable
- Start Android Flasher, tick HBOOT and click Begin, select your Hboot image and let it go!
If you don’t have access to a windows PC – please read our page on how to flash a hboot without a pc
Talbess,
Help required! I’m stuck trying to update my hboot as per the instructions above. I cannot get Android flasher to work, it doesn’t seem to find the device and just goes “not responding” after a short while. Using “fastboot devices” from the command line yields a nil response. I tried copying the PB99IMG.zip into the root of my SD card and fastbooting but that gives me a “model ID incorrect, update failed” error.
I have a BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF with HBOOT 0.93.0001.
Ideas?
Okay, crisis over. I found an “updated” driver and applied it while phone was in Fastboot usb mode (not Hboot mode like before). This time when I ran Fastboot devices it actually reported something. So I went ahead and flashed the new hboot and it looks like it might have worked. Painful, but a result at the end.
Sorry to bother you.
I think u put the wrong link for downloading Hboot image. Should be this http://alpharev.nl/
They keep moving it – thanks