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Did I just fudge up rooting my GF's phone.

I rooted mines and followed the steps for full root on a mac. I went to root her today and pushed that PC36IMG file to her phone and forgot that instead of pushing the first one I was supposed to push I pushed the second PC36IMG file.
I can't flash the first PC36IMG file because I'm guessing the second modified PC36IMG file is a newer version. How do I manually reverse this process. If I hold the down volume and power I can get into that screen but when I press recovery it shows me a phone with a RED triangle with an exclamation point.
How can I start over again?
I even deleted the files from the Tools folder to see if I can start over again.

gqstatus0685 said:
I rooted mines and followed the steps for full root on a mac. I went to root her today and pushed that PC36IMG file to her phone and forgot that instead of pushing the first one I was supposed to push I pushed the second PC36IMG file.
I can't flash the first PC36IMG file because I'm guessing the second modified PC36IMG file is a newer version. How do I manually reverse this process. If I hold the down volume and power I can get into that screen but when I press recovery it shows me a phone with a RED triangle with an exclamation point.
How can I start over again?
I even deleted the files from the Tools folder to see if I can start over again.
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Thats your recovery. Have the ClockworkMod recovery update.zip in the root of your sd card, reboot into recovery where you got that red triangle, hold Volume up and press power. Select apply sdcard:update.zip and you will have a good recovery. Wipe and flash the right PC36IMG this time

Where do I get that Clockwork zip?

Here ya go.
download this file, rename it to "update.zip," and copy it to the root of your SD card just like we did with the PC36IMG zip before. A common problem that people have here is actually typing the last ".zip" in when naming the file. ONLY type "update" as the file name because the file you are downloading is already in .zip format, and Windows hides known file extensions. If you get any kind of "file cannot be found" or "verification error" on this step, then you probably made this mistake, and you just need to rename the file.
Please note: This is the ONLY file on your SD card to be named "update.zip." Do NOT rename any other files to "update.zip" or remove this file.
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taken from this thread

Thanks dude I'll try when I get home.

I just followed those instructions and I'm still getting that red triangle.

gqstatus0685 said:
I just followed those instructions and I'm still getting that red triangle.
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Your supposed to see the RED TRIANGLE!! Hold down Volume Up and Power and then install from SD card

That doesn't work. I'm unable to install that PC36IMG. It scans but doesn't give me option to flash. If I hold volume up and power I can't navigate through the SD and manually choose the file.

when youre in the screen with the ! open a command
type:
Code:
adb shell
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
to mount
unmount
Code:
echo "" > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

don't do adb push, just put the file on the root of the sd card, then power the phone on with vol down+power

I had the same thing happen to me where I pushed the same one again, all i did was load up the nandroid backup from the first time i flash the first one

I fixed it. I didn't go to bed last night until like 3 because I hate having unfinished things on my mind. I have a quick question though. If I root my friends Evo's do I have to remove those files from the /Tools folder every time? Will this affect other stuff I may do with my Evo when I have to hook it up to Terminal to run commands? (Wireless N hack)

just flash back to stock
flash back to the stock ruu then dont do the sprint upgrade and start from scratch using neckfaces root method. its fast and simple

A rooting attempt gone astray

So I was trying to root my evo so I could try the fresh rom (please note that this was my first ever root attempt and my phone had the OTA update). I followed the instructions from this guide:
Latest OTA rooted! - Page 2 - Android Central Forums
This is where my problem is:
11. Once back at the Home screen type:
Code:
adb shell
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
reboot recovery
When I enter the "cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image" code I get:
"cannot create /data/flash_image: permission denied"
After some googling I found other people typed "su" prior to typing in the "cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image" command. That didn't work for me. I received "su: permission denied" after entering su.
Would going back and starting this tutorial all over cause serious damage? I'm wondering if maybe I messed up earlier.
I'm very worried I really screwed something up. Can anybody please offer up some advice for a newbie?

Weigh the stakes
Man, just try the "SimpleRoot 1.47 OTA update" app for Windows. You save time, money and a lot of feces on your tract by the worries that everything is ok.
Now, I want to remind the stakes. If you haven't looked at my post here at Q&A, I pretty much effed up my phone while being rooted. I don't know if it was too much exposure to heat caused by WiFi Tether, or of mysterious powers regarding the RSA 256 bit encryption update process screwed my phone up. So before trying to crack your phone, please, review the stakes and stay stock.
BTW, you haven't completed the root process, so a simple Factory Reset should do the trick to go back into Stock without any trace of root procedure. That is, if you want to play it safe.

Okay, first things first. Just so I'm clear.
1. Which guide(exactly) did you follow?
2. What software version do you have now?

Yeah i was having problems with my administrator password so I switched from simple root to this method. Maybe I was using the wrong version or something, could you post a link to simple root for ota?
churchwin88 said:
Okay, first things first. Just so I'm clear.
1. Which guide(exactly) did you follow?
2. What software version do you have now?
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1. http: // forum.androidcentral. com/htc-evo-4g-roms-hacks/ 21043-latest-ota-rooted-2. htm
2. My software number is 1.47.651.1
Thanks for the help

StrummingLevi said:
Yeah i was having problems with my administrator password so I switched from simple root to this method. Maybe I was using the wrong version or something, could you post a link to simple root for ota?
1. http: // forum.androidcentral. com/htc-evo-4g-roms-hacks/ 21043-latest-ota-rooted-2. htm
2. My software number is 1.47.651.1
Thanks for the help
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For the 1.47 you need to use this version of simple root(if you haven't already) - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720565
I'm not sure why it would have problems with the password. Only thing I can think of would be something along the lines of not having administrator privileges.
EDIT: Make sure to have all the requirements and if you successfully run that let me know so we can proceed to the next step(it is really simple).

I did the simple root for 1.47 and it was a success! Although I did not understand what the flash recovery did. I tried the clockwork recovery and it took me to a screen with a bunch of options, but I didn't know what to do so I just rebooted. What's next? I want to try the newest version of the fresh rom.

TO try fresh first download it and place the zip file on your computer, boot into recovery, (power phone off then hold down volume and power untill you get to the white screen) select flash zip fron sd card then select the fresh rom and flas, presto fresh should flash, the recovery is a seperate area which is used to flash a rom, as you cant flash a rom from within a rom.

So do I use the clockwork recovery to flash the fresh rom? I was looking at the guide to flash the new fresh rom and it says that I need to have nand unlocked. How do I do that?

if you did simpleroot nand should be unlocked, and yes clockwork recovery is used to flash the fresh rom. clockwork recovery is what you are in when you boot with the down volume and power button held down. If it doesnt work you may want to try amon ra recovery, find the toast root method and do the last step:
- on your PC open a shell again and do:
Code:
adb shell
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
reboot recovery
- you should now be in recovery mode
- do a wipe of data and dalvik cache
- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup
- come here to the forum, get and flash the latest radio
- enjoy... you can now reboot into recovery, write to system and other partitions while in Android. Also you now have a Engineering SPL so you can fastboot and much more.
It also wont hurt to do the whole part two of toasts guide if you dont think your nand is unlocked. FYI Nand unlocking allows both a read write option in the recovery which is needed to write the custom roms.

StrummingLevi said:
So do I use the clockwork recovery to flash the fresh rom? I was looking at the guide to flash the new fresh rom and it says that I need to have nand unlocked. How do I do that?
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Your nand is unlocked. Just download Fresh, boot into recovery, wipe caches, and apply Fresh via zip file.
ifly4vamerica said:
if you did simpleroot nand should be unlocked, and yes clockwork recovery is used to flash the fresh rom. clockwork recovery is what you are in when you boot with the down volume and power button held down. If it doesnt work you may want to try amon ra recovery, find the toast root method and do the last step:
- on your PC open a shell again and do:
Code:
adb shell
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
reboot recovery
- you should now be in recovery mode
- do a wipe of data and dalvik cache
- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup
- come here to the forum, get and flash the latest radio
- enjoy... you can now reboot into recovery, write to system and other partitions while in Android. Also you now have a Engineering SPL so you can fastboot and much more.
It also wont hurt to do the whole part two of toasts guide if you dont think your nand is unlocked. FYI Nand unlocking allows both a read write option in the recovery which is needed to write the custom roms.
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Ignore this post, unless you want to flash Fresh with Amon Ra Recovery instead of Clockwork Recovery (what you have now)

Agreed, I was only posting that "if" he had problems using clockwork sorry for the confusion.

jerryparid said:
Your nand is unlocked. Just download Fresh, boot into recovery, wipe caches, and apply Fresh via zip file.
Ignore this post, unless you want to flash Fresh with Amon Ra Recovery instead of Clockwork Recovery (what you have now)
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So I decided I was going to use Amon Ra's recovery because flipz recommended it. That was going well until "- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup". I selected nandroid restore and it said something like /sdcard/nandroid not found. Aster that I just rebooted , which took a while and had me pretty nervous. It eventually booted up though. This stuff is a lot more confusing than windows mobile was haha. I'm wondering if nandroid was indeed unlocked with simple root. I'm still willing to press forward if the help is still available. By the way, what and how can I make a nandroid backup?

Turn phone off, turn phone on holding down volume and power, when you get to white screen select recovery then scroll through your options, i believe it it backup/restore then creat nandroid backup, FYI you cant restore a nandroid backup if you haven't created one, IE the not found error you got before.

Ok so how exactly would I go about flashing(if that's even the right word) fresh rom from what I already have?

I'm not sure what you actually have, can you get to recovery, then the option to 'flash zip from sd card? if you have that option just place the fresh rom on the root of your sd card (put the zip file there and don't open the zip) then reboot to recovery, ie vilume down and power button when you get to white screen volume down to recovery, then flash zip from sd then select the fresh rom zip, then hit power button to select, hit power button again to confirm and away you go.

Ok that sounds simple enough. I can't thank you guys enough for all your help. What does a nandroid backup do?

it makes a copy of your rom basically, so say you put on fresh do a nandroid backup then flas CM6, you decide you dont like CM6, so you nandroid restore of your fresh and presto right back to where you were before you flashed CM6, also useful if you have screwed something up ... you can go back ... make sense?

A few questions before first root attempt

Ok, going to follow the SimpleRoot OTA 1.47 how-to, but I have a few questions first.
How do I back up things like my Contacts?
What the latest "radio" and how do I check and get the newest?
How do I wipe caches? Or will the SimpleRoot guide tell me?
Any ROM recommendations? I was thinking of just trying Fresh.
Do I need to do any adb setup prior to starting?
I have been reading through the guides, but there is SO much info here, it takes too long to get through it all. Plus, I'm not even sure of all the questions I need to ask!
Thanks in advance for any and all help!

1. Use Titanium Backup. It will back up whatever you want, I backed up EVERYTHING (apps + system data) and it brought back all my settings, texts, even my scenes. I had to use Unrevoked on my 1.32.651.6 stock build to install TB, followed TheBiles "Idiot-Proof" guide for that part.
2. The radio is the baseband. I actually never flashed mine, and I haven't had issues, but I don't use 4g so I wouldn't know how that works. There are links to a few radios here, but otherwise check the thread or webpage for the custom ROM you want to flash and it might link to the recommended radio.
3. Wiping caches is done through recovery (Amon RA, Clockwork, or using ROM Manager from within a rooted ROM). You do it right before you flash the custom ROM. SimpleRoot will just root the phone, then you'll want to install ROM Manager and use that flash your preferred recovery (that's a whole separate debate).
4. I've been reading up a lot in the last day or two, and Fresh seems to be very popular. I'm using it right now, no problems so far! I've used DC, I had a couple of issues, CM6 is cool but still changing all the time. Go with Fresh at least to get your feet wet. Follow the guide that flipz provides in his Fresh thread.
5. I didn't use SimpleRoot, I rooted manually using ADB. If you're comfortable with using a terminal/command line (or at least typing and following directions) ADB might be a good idea. But if SR gives you a full-root, you don't need ADB at all. It's basically just a telnet connection to your phone.
Hey, whatdya know? I answered them all! There may be better answers, but I think this is all correct. PM me if you need more help, or I'll subscribe to this thread for a few days. I'm new but I'm learning fast and I LOVE this stuff!
Also, here's a good portal for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709267

Titanium backup works great for most things but you have to be rooted to use it. Your contacts should be backed up directly to your google account if you have done it correctly. When you add a contact to your phone it will ask if you want to add it to google or as a "phone" contact. Make sure you save it as a google contact. Or you can go to your google account on your computer and sync all your contacts. I used SimpleRoot to get my phone started and then I went through this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915
That is where I started with everything.....fully unlocked and stock rooted with the newest radio. I also used Amon recovery from SimpleRoot instead of Clockwork. SR will clear all your cache, factory data, etc. Im running Damage Control ROM right now and love it. But it's fun to get your phone rooted and then just start using root apps and go from there. Oh, and the best thing for me about using SR and then going through the next thread I posted is that you dont have to use ADB. ADB is pretty simple but the SR + thread process took me about 25min.

Yeah, on that note, it's super-easy to just make a Nandroid or Clockwork backup of your flash, then flash something else to try it out. If you want to go back, just restore the backup and you're right where you were before.
And, of course, backing up contacts on Google is easier.

Running through the SimpleRoot and it got to Starting Part 2... and it's just hanging out doing nothing, been that way for a few minutes now. I didn't copy the PC36IMG file to the SD card, was I supposed to?
Will it bork anything if I disconnect, switch back to Disk Drive as the connection type and drop the file on the SD card? Do I need to do that? Am I retarded?

Not sure as I went through toast's manual method, but it shouldn't do any damage to start over. If Android is still running, I think the system will still be intact.

Well, I think I figured it out, sort of. I never got prompted to reboot into the bootloader until I disconnected the phone. Once I did that, it told me what to do. But, when I installed the update, the bootloader gave me this message: Main version is older, update fail!
Do I need to use the PC36IMG file for 1.47 now? SimpleRoot did push the PC36IMG file to the phone, btw.

ElectricWraith said:
Well, I think I figured it out, sort of. I never got prompted to reboot into the bootloader until I disconnected the phone. Once I did that, it told me what to do. But, when I installed the update, the bootloader gave me this message: Main version is older, update fail!
Do I need to use the PC36IMG file for 1.47 now? SimpleRoot did push the PC36IMG file to the phone, btw.
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i had the same issue, you need to make sure all the steps are complete before you go into step 4 and boot into bootloader...so make sure after pushing the files you finish step 2 and 4...it worked for me...my pc kept hanging on some steps so i tried it on a different pc and it went throught perfectly the first time around.

Uhh, starting to get a little worried here. I deleted the PCIMG36.zip file per the "Starting Over..." thread, and copied the su-2.1 file on to the SD card. Rebooted into bootloader, selected Recovery per the instructions, now I have a red triangle with and exclamation point and an unresponsive phone!

ElectricWraith said:
Uhh, starting to get a little worried here. I deleted the PCIMG36.zip file per the "Starting Over..." thread, and copied the su-2.1 file on to the SD card. Rebooted into bootloader, selected Recovery per the instructions, now I have a red triangle with and exclamation point and an unresponsive phone!
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you're fine that's just telling you that you're in recovery mode follow the steps....it should tell you to run a command in you're command prompt which will get you into recovery and then you backup nand, wipe, and load image from sd card

Ah, OK. I pulled the battery and it came back to life. Didn't see anything in that thread about commands, but I will read it again.

just boot your phone holding power and volume up button and then when you see the white screen go down to recovery and press the power button...now you should be in recovery mode from there just follow instructions. you should backup nand, wipe cache and wipe data, and install rom from sd card.

That's the problem, following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915, I don't get any instructions for the recovery portion that match what I actually get on the phone. I don't get the different menu so I don't get a chance to flash from the su-2.1 file.
Arrrgh! Here's what I did:
Replaced the PCIMG36.zip file that was in the SimpleRootOTA folder that I downloaded with the PC36IMG-1.47.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1.zip file (renamed to PCIMG36.zip)
Ran SimpleRootOTA, followed all instructions
When I got to the place in Step 4 where I was supposed to be prompted to install the update at the bootloader, it didn't happen. I assume that this was due to the fact that I had already applied that update
I unplugged, looked in the root of the SD card, found that the PCIMG36.zip file had not been pushed.
I copied the file on to the SD card, rebooted into the bootloader, let it scan the PCIMG36.zip file and apply the update, then rebooted.
So, that's where it sits now. I'm out of time and can't do anything more with it, so I just re-installed MyBackup and am restoring apps and data.
Any ideas as to what I should do next?

Hopefully you are just transposing numbers in your post? According to the thread you linked, the name of file should be PC36IMG.zip....you are writing PCIMG36.zip....those are very different.
edit...and if you are getting stuck at step 4...that sounds like what you did.

youngdhillon said:
just boot your phone holding power and volume up button .
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volume DOWN button
2. Power off your phone.
3. Hold down the Volume Down and Power buttons until the white screen appears.
4. HBOOT will scan the PC36IMG.zip file. You'll see a blue progress bar on the right side of the screen.
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ElectricWraith said:
That's the problem, following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915, I don't get any instructions for the recovery portion that match what I actually get on the phone. I don't get the different menu so I don't get a chance to flash from the su-2.1 file.
Arrrgh! Here's what I did:
Replaced the PCIMG36.zip file that was in the SimpleRootOTA folder that I downloaded with the PC36IMG-1.47.651.1_eng-hboot_RA-1.7.0.1.zip file (renamed to PCIMG36.zip)
Ran SimpleRootOTA, followed all instructions
When I got to the place in Step 4 where I was supposed to be prompted to install the update at the bootloader, it didn't happen. I assume that this was due to the fact that I had already applied that update
I unplugged, looked in the root of the SD card, found that the PCIMG36.zip file had not been pushed.
I copied the file on to the SD card, rebooted into the bootloader, let it scan the PCIMG36.zip file and apply the update, then rebooted.
So, that's where it sits now. I'm out of time and can't do anything more with it, so I just re-installed MyBackup and am restoring apps and data.
Any ideas as to what I should do next?
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ok if you has updated without any errors and you're rooted...
1)turn off your phone power it back on holding the volume down button and power button at the same time
2)when you see the white screen with HBoot menu scroll down using volume down button, highlight recovery and press power button.
3)you should now see a different menu (black&green) you are now in recovery from here:
4)select backup nand it will ask you to confirm hit power button and wait till it backs up you're nand
5)go down to wipe data...highlight wipe data hit power, confirm
6)wipe cache...confirm
7)load rom from sd card (you should have the su-2.1 in you're sd card) it will let you choose, choose su-2.1 hit power, confirm and let it finish.
you're done wait for the phone to reboot into you're new rom

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volume DOWN button
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oops sorry about that, volume down

Yes, I was just transposing digits, DERP.
I will try again later. Thanks for all the help!

Well, I just booted into the bootloader, it scanned the PC36IMG.zip file, but didn't do anything else but put me back at the bootlader menu. I selected Recovery, hit the power button, then black screen with image of phone and red triangle w/exclamation point.
No idea what's wrong or what to do now except pull the battery.

ElectricWraith said:
Well, I just booted into the bootloader, it scanned the PC36IMG.zip file, but didn't do anything else but put me back at the bootlader menu. I selected Recovery, hit the power button, then black screen with image of phone and red triangle w/exclamation point.
No idea what's wrong or what to do now except pull the battery.
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I remember this problem and I'm trying to remember what I had to do. It seems like after it scanned the PC36IMG.zip it asked if I wanted to scan and I had to say "no" and then after that I could boot in to recovery. I remember it being some dumb little mistake that I made like 2 times in a row and then had a "d'oh" moment when I realized why I kept getting the red triangle. Man, I'm gonna try to remember this and post later. Hopefully you get it though.

[GUIDE] Remove permanent root

** I AM NOT LIABLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE OR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY YOUR STUPIDITY**
This guide will follow the steps needed to remove permanent root and bring your device back to 100% stock
Here are the following files we will need to download please grab the files needed below and place them on the root of your sdcard
1-a) Stock PRE-OTA Rom rooted:
Stock PRE-OTA Rom
or
1-b) Download the attached HexEditor on the thread
2.) Stock Factory Bootloader / Recovery / ROM / Kernel:
Stock Factory Bootloader / Recovery / ROM / Kernel
(rename this to PC10IMG.ZIP)
3.) T-Mobile OTA Update - Build # 1.22.531.8:
T-Mobile OTA Update
(rename this to update.zip)
Procedure:
Step 1.) Flash Stock Rooted PRE-OTA Rom via ClockWorkMod
Open up RomManger via the Android Launcher and select "Install ROM from SD Card" and select the "stock_root.zip" on the root of the sdcard and select the option to "Wipe Data and Cache" and hit ok. Once rom is flashed it will reboot automatically and bring you back to the os.
**IMPORTANT**
If the flash has failed you must reboot back into the OS and use HexEditor which i have attached to the thread. DO NOT PROCEED UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THIS!!
Open up an ADB Shell and run the following command:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 of=/sdcard/misc.img
this will then export the misc.img file we need to edit to the root of the sdcard.
Mount your sdcard and save the misc.img file to your PC and Open the file with HexEditor.
You should now see the version number on the right hand side of the application and it should read "1.22.531.8" YOU MUST CHANGE THIS TO "1.19.531.1" you can now save the file as miscnew.img and place it on the root of your sdcard and then unmount the sdcard from windows.
Now go back to your ADB Shell and run the following command
dd if=/sdcard/miscnew.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
you can now make sure you have copied the PC10IMG.zip file to the root of your SDCARD and power off your phone and proceed to step 2.
*All Credit goes to Apache14 for this method which is in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398
Step 2.) Restore factory BOOTLOADER, RECOVERY, KERNEL, ROM (THIS RE-ENABLES S-ON)
Place the factory firmware you downloaded in step 2 above on the root of your sdcard and rename it to PC10IMG.zip one you have done this power off the device and power back on by holding volume down and power. Once in the bootloader it will then scan your sdcard and find the file needed, be patient this can take quite a few minutes. After it finishes scanning you will then have to hit the Volume up key on the side of the phone to restore the software. This will take approximately 5-10 minutes. The phone will reboot in the middle of the update to restore S-ON once rebooted it will then scan sdcard again and resume flashing. Once completed you will have to hit Power to reboot and boot back into the factory restored android os.
Step 3.) -OPTIONAL- Apply OTA Update from T-Mobile
Boot back into android and mount your sdcard once again. You will now delete the PC10IMG.zip file we copied previously. Once you have deleted the file copy the file we downloaded in step 3 above to the root of the sdcard and rename it to “update.zip”. You can now power down your device and power back on holding volume down and power. Once in the bootloader wait 5-10 for it to finish scanning your sdcard and hit volume down and power to select RECOVERY. Once in recovery mode you must now hold volume up and power on your G2. You will now hit volume down and power to select "apply sdcard:update.zip" It will then scan your sdcard verify the update.zip file we placed on the root of the sdcard and proceed to install. You will then have to hit power once more to reboot when indicated on the device. This will now take approximately another 5 minutes and the phone will reboot 2 times automatically do not touch until you are booted automatically back into android.
You are now 100% Back to stock with S-ON, Factory ROM, and Factory Recovery.

Thank you for posting this.

PLS STICKY! and wiki
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Finally, an undo method for permaroot.
Just one question: will this wipe my apps and content? I suspect it will; I just want to confirm it.

Yes. It will wipe. Make a back up of your data and restore it after. This can be done via titanium backup
[G2/HTC Vision]

I ran Visionary and everything seem to be working ok until I rebooted my G2. Now When I ran Visionary it says that the phone is already rooted, but when I use terminal emulator or adb to root is says suermission denied. When I try to Flash Stock Rooted PRE-OTA Rom via ClockWorkMod I get this error "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands". Also when I try to Restore factory BOOTLOADER, RECOVERY, KERNEL, ROM I do exactly as you said and I'm getting a no image found. I would appreciate any help you could provide.

If all you need is root go to rom manager and click on download rom and under extras download superuser e/f then install the zip this flash the superuser.apk you are missing
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

Did as instructed but still getting "error occurred while attempting to run privilege commands".
Superuser.apk is already installed
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

What rom are you currently on stock ota?
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

1.22.531.8 CL277427 release-keys Just recently installed the new OTA that T-mobile sent out a few days ago. Thanks for all your help.

Very useful, thank you.

When I try to restore the bootloader I get a Main Version is Older!
Update Fail!
Press Power to reboot

Crackaf3tt said:
When I try to restore the bootloader I get a Main Version is Older!
Update Fail!
Press Power to reboot
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I'm getting the same thing... any idea what is going on?

Did you two flash the original rom linked in step 1?
Either way follow the steps here for the fix..
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831398

Yep... flashed the original linked ROM.
I'm following the other directions right now...

Ok that should deffintleyw ork it is failing due the fact it is still reading the stock OTA build number opposed to the original stock build. let me know if you need help.

Yep... worked great.
That forum topic might want to be step A prior to doing anything... the error caused me to have a panic attack...

Code:
Writing BOOT:...
E:Can't find BOOT:
E:Failure at line 344:
write_raw_image PACKAGE:boot.img BOOT:
Installation aborted.
??? What gives?

where are you getting that error? I recommened give you the link i just posted 2 posts above and then flashing PC10IMG.zip and you should be all set.

this was after i tried installing the stock_root.zip
eveything is wiped, so could i just flash the PC10IMG.zip and be done?
im just getting a replacement phone from t-mobile cause of the hinge

[Q] Incredible not booting into Recovery

Hey guys,
I've been running CM7 on my phone for a quite some time now, but now all of a sudden all my apps force close when opened. I tried a week a go to enter recovery (before the force closes) both manually and from RM with no luck. I can enter bootloader manually but when I choose recovery it just gives me the white HTC Incredible page and sits there with taking the battery out as the only option.
Any suggestions on what the problem is?
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried flashing recovery again?
Sent from my ADR6300 using xda premium

does that require RM? Because I can't open it as it FC's on me everytime...

Ok so from bootloader i tried a factory reset, and the same HTC Incredible splash screen. I think the problem is something to with the flashing, because when i start bootloader it says something about some .zip file not having an image. (sorry about sounding like a noob).

Incredible510 said:
Ok so from bootloader i tried a factory reset, and the same HTC Incredible splash screen. I think the problem is something to with the flashing, because when i start bootloader it says something about some .zip file not having an image. (sorry about sounding like a noob).
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Flash recovery thru hboot (vol down plus power while phone is off) as a PB31IMG.zip, RM is not needed. You can get the recovery here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=28. Download the PB31IMG.zip file and place it on your sd card in no folders. Boot into hboot, it will find the file and prompt to press vol up to apply. Then vol up to reboot. Then boot into hboot and select recovery.
In recovery, wipe everything in mounts and storage and also dalvik cache, and then flash the rom of your choice or restore a known working nandroid.

Thank You! I really appreciate it.
Saved me from throwing my phone at a wall

I downloaded the file, renamed to PB311MG.zip, moved to root of SD card (no folders) and when I boot into hboot, it does not recognize the file. Im just stuck @ bootloader, when I try to boot into recovery, HTC Incredible pops up for a second, and I'm right back where I was. Any clues?

Rocs Macho said:
I downloaded the file, renamed to PB311MG.zip, moved to root of SD card (no folders) and when I boot into hboot, it does not recognize the file. Im just stuck @ bootloader, when I try to boot into recovery, HTC Incredible pops up for a second, and I'm right back where I was. Any clues?
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That is an incorrect label. It must be: PB31IMG.zip
The number "31" is followed by the letter "I" in the .zip file name. Also, have you revealed file extensions with your preferred file explorer? You must avoid labeling the file "PB31IMG.zip.zip"

SlimSnoopOS said:
That is an incorrect label. It must be: PB31IMG.zip
The number "31" is followed by the letter "I" in the .zip file name. Also, have you revealed file extensions with your preferred file explorer? You must avoid labeling the file "PB31IMG.zip.zip"
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2 things....That was a typo on my end....it was a 31IMG, not 311MG, and my mistake was adding the .zip. I was able to get into recovery, did my wipes, and am restoring a back up as I write this. Thanks for the help.

Not a problem so long as everything is squared away for you.