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I have read a bunch of stuff about downgrading unrooting and all this other stuff, but I am not sure what I need to do to be able to install possibly the Skyraider 2.0 Rom.
I have a stock 2.1 Inc that is Rooted
From what I understand I need to:
Unroot
Install Leaked OTA from about a month ago
Reroot
Then install the ROM of my choice so long as my radio is 2.0.... now
Is this correct? If so is there a tutorial to take me from start to finish on my setup now? I hate jumping different tutorials because they are all a little different on how they do stuff.
So if u go to scuccia's thread called 2.2 leaked rom he has instructions on how to do everything.
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I put the PB31IMG.zip file on my sdcard and rebooted to bootloader, and it search for a few .nbh files and was unable to find them. So I am currently copying all the files off my sdcard onto my computer then formating from FAT to FAT32 because it said it had to be FAT32 so I hope this helps.
If you haven't found your answer yet, check my thread. I think I called it Rooting for noobs or something like that. It'll take you through everything. I asked some of the dumbest questions you you'll probably find all of the answers there.
So trying to apply the 8/1 update (skipping earlier leaks) and am getting this when loading the update.zip in recovery
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command (this comes up before even trying to run the update)
--Install From sdcard...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
I unrooted, reformatted, and get this problem when trying to flash the 8/1 radio.
I rerooted and navigated to the folder and command doesn't exist inside recovery. does anyone else have something in there?
any ideas?
First things first have you upgraded to a 2.xx radio yet?
no I'm still on 1.00.03.04.06
anytime I try to load ether of these files from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742242
I get that error. I know I'm naming them properly so that shouldn't be the problem.
Do I have to update using the original radio leaks first?
Turn off signature verification in clockwork mod recovery. It wont check for a signature and should proceed as normal. Btw, this should have been posted in either the leaks thread, or in general. Mods please move. Don't forget to search man. I kno I've seen this same problem at least a dozen times on this forum.
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well you're trying to do all of this at the right time due to some hard work by unrEVOked we now have s-off and permanent nand unlock so this process should be quite painless.
Step 1: Apply the unrEVOked forever patch
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever#custom_splash
Step 2: Flash a 2.xx radio
http://adrynalyne.stfuthxbye.net/rad...28/PB31IMG.zip
Step 3: You don't need to rename the 8/1 leak update.zip just download the zip file place it on the root of your SD card reboot into clockwork recovery choose the option which allows you to pick a zip from your SD card find the 8/1 leak and select it.
Step 4: Reboot and enjoy.
Hope this helps
Lou
EDIT: the link I provided for the radio no longer works however if you apply the unrevoked forever patch and then try to flash the leak it should update your radio there's a radio file within the leak now that you have s-off and nand unlock this should work.
I don't know if I want to use Forever yet since its supposed to be irreversible right?
As far as turning off signature verification in clockwork, I'm following the walkthrough in this link and it says you need to be unrooted to update the radio so I won't have clockwork to do that when I try updating.
or have things changed since then and can you now flash radios while rooted?
yes the unrevoked forever is permanent however it's going to make things just like what you're trying to do a lot easier. I recommend it. The only reason we had to downgrade before to upgrade our radio was because of the s-off and nand issues the unrevoked forever fixes those problems so we never have to go through that mumbo jumbo again.
I definitely see the benefit of using it, but there is still a chance right now that I may bring my phone into a verizon store. In the future when I'm more certain I will more than likely use it, just for now I'd prefer to avoid it while I can.
you need to be unrooted to apply the radio update but then you need to reroot and get CWM Recovery to install the new 2.2 leak 8/1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737400
Follow that guide but just use the 8/1 leak instead of the 7/27 and your set.
rmoney said:
I definitely see the benefit of using it, but there is still a chance right now that I may bring my phone into a verizon store. In the future when I'm more certain I will more than likely use it, just for now I'd prefer to avoid it while I can.
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I am in the same boat man, and know what you mean about irreversible. here is what you do.
First off USE TITANIUM BACKUP TO BACK UP APPS AND DATA!!
downgrade to stock by placing the stock image (found Here and use these steps to install:
1. Place PB31IMG.zip on root of SD Card
2. Reboot
3. Hold Down Vol Down into HBoot
4. It will ask if you want to update
5. Select Up to accept
6. Wait..........
7. it'll finish updating and ask to reboot
8. select vol + to choose yes
9. Done
Next Run Unrevoked 3.1 found Here (this will root and flash coustom recovery on your stock image) Now your Incredible is as fresh as the day you bought it, but with root and custom recovery.
You will now be able to use run Clockwork and install the 8-1 Froyo leak found here
When it is all over, you can find Titanium backup again in the market and use it to re install missing Apps and App Data (DO NOT RESTORE ANY SYSTEM DATA! JUST APPS AND APP DATA!
zerf said:
you need to be unrooted to apply the radio update but then you need to reroot and get CWM Recovery to install the new 2.2 leak 8/1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737400
Follow that guide but just use the 8/1 leak instead of the 7/27 and your set.
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so I have to apply the 7/27 while unrooted first? Then I root and do the 8/1 leak?
I just applied 7/27 and that worked, so now I'm going to root again.
rmoney said:
so I have to apply the 7/27 while unrooted first? Then I root and do the 8/1 leak?
I just applied 7/27 and that worked, so now I'm going to root again.
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Its best to go from stock image to 8-1 leak. Follow instructions at the last post on page 1.
zerf said:
Follow that guide but just use the 8/1 leak instead of the 7/27 and your set.
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did you read what I just wrote at all?
ok, so back to stock. Root, then 8/1 leak through clockwork.
I must have rooted and gone back to stock at least 3 times today trying to figure out the proper procedure. Not to mention countless times to recovery.
just follow the guide for the 7/27 leak and dont skip any steps that it says and you will be fine.
or my guide.....whatever
sum it up:
1. Back to stock
2. Use Unrevoked to get Root
3. Install 8/1 leak
Conflicting info doesn't help...
Option 1: Stock, Install 7/27 leak, root, then install 8/1 leak
Option 2: Stock, root, install 8/1 leak
TrailBlazer31 said:
or my guide.....whatever
sum it up:
1. Back to stock
2. Use Unrevoked to get Root
3. Install 8/1 leak
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yup exactly what he said... didnt think it was that hard lol
ugh, and after i already installed 7/27. the usual method for going back to stock isn't working now ether.
just went ahead and am now install 8/1 over 7/27, will see what happens...
8/1 installed fine, everything seems to be ok. Waiting on Skyraider 2.5 before I flash.
Is there anyway to downgrade the radio and redo all this without using the 7/27 leak? or is it not worth it?
EDIT: will a nandroid backup restore the older radio if I made it before all this nonsense?
Successfully I downgraded Evo from 2.2 to 2.1 android. and I want to upgrade it a gin to 2.2.
not only downgraded but also rooted 2.1 Android.
I get error message Error code: 1012
and when I download the official 2.2 it prosed but after a while its stuck!
what to do?
Can you help me to updated the rooted evo 2.1 to the official 2.2 please?
You need to make sure that nand is unlocked. Do Simple Root found in the dev forums or complete Part 2 of Toast's How to Root Guide also in the dev forums.
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Ibraheemoman said:
Successfully I downgraded Evo from 2.2 to 2.1 android. and I want to upgrade it a gin to 2.2.
not only downgraded but also rooted 2.1 Android.
I get error message Error code: 1012
and when I download the official 2.2 it prosed but after a while its stuck!
what to do?
Can you help me to updated the rooted evo 2.1 to the official 2.2 please?
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if you used the unrevoked way for both root and forever then you can't upgrade, you can download the ota all you want, but it will not install, which leads me to believe those of us who rooted this way will never be able to except a ota, so we might have to just rely on custom ROM's, which are better anyways.
I'd recommend Netarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build, and don't forget a custom kernel as well to go with that to make it really perform, also recommend Netarchy's 4.1.9 cfs kernel.
tomh1979 said:
if you used the unrevoked way for both root and forever then you can't upgrade, you can download the ota all you want, but it will not install, which leads me to believe those of us who rooted this way will never be able to except a ota, so we might have to just rely on custom ROM's, which are better anyways.
I'd recommend Netarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build, and don't forget a custom kernel as well to go with that to make it really perform, also recommend Netarchy's 4.1.9 cfs kernel.
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Tanks for offering me a solution but I do not who to install a rooted room in my device, I am just knew to HTC,
So what are the steps to install knowNetarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build to a rooted Evo?
Ibraheemoman said:
Tanks for offering me a solution but I do not who to install a rooted room in my device, I am just knew to HTC,
So what are the steps to install knowNetarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build to a rooted Evo?
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Thanks for offering me a solution but I do not how to install a rooted room in my device, I am just knew to HTC,
So what are the steps to install knowNetarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build to a rooted Evo?
Ibraheemoman said:
Thanks for offering me a solution but I do not how to install a rooted room in my device, I am just knew to HTC,
So what are the steps to install knowNetarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build to a rooted Evo?
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All of the instructions are in the forums. Read and follow the steps. You need to put in some of your own effort. No one is going to do it for you.
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Ibraheemoman said:
Thanks for offering me a solution but I do not how to install a rooted room in my device, I am just knew to HTC,
So what are the steps to install knowNetarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build to a rooted Evo?
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Check out this link http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
Check out the section labeled "Reinstalling an official recovery" and it tells you what you need to do to install OTA Roms.
Give me a thumbs up if this helps.
reekotubbs said:
Check out this link http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
Check out the section labeled "Reinstalling an official recovery" and it tells you what you need to do to install OTA Roms.
Give me a thumbs up if this helps.
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In my sig, you can find a detailed guide for upgrading using Unrevoked Forever + the official OTA.
Ibraheemoman said:
Tanks for offering me a solution but I do not who to install a rooted room in my device, I am just knew to HTC,
So what are the steps to install knowNetarchy's HTC OTA Froyo 2.2 final build to a rooted Evo?
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it's really easy with installing roms, they all come with instructions, which are clear and simple, mostly just boot into recovery once you get that taken care of, do a factory data wipe, and install rom that is stored on your sd card in the download file, once you do it, you see how easy and simple it is, just make a nandroid backup first before doing the factory reset IMO.
tomh1979 said:
it's really easy with installing roms, they all come with instructions, which are clear and simple, mostly just boot into recovery once you get that taken care of, do a factory data wipe, and install rom that is stored on your sd card in the download file, once you do it, you see how easy and simple it is, just make a nandroid backup first before doing the factory reset IMO.
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Actually I did something else and it worked.
1- copied OTA official update to SD-card
2- waped the device
3- install the official update from SD-Card,
4- Restart
5- Delete user data from SD-card
it work fin I have the Superuser Icon, but I cannot access to the root as before, its OK as far as my device is back.
reekotubbs said:
Check out this link http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
Check out the section labeled "Reinstalling an official recovery" and it tells you what you need to do to install OTA Roms.
Give me a thumbs up if this helps.
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Actually I did something else and it worked.
1- copied OTA official update to SD-card
2- waped the device
3- install the official update from SD-Card,
4- Restart
5- Delete user data from SD-card
it work fin I have the Superuser Icon, but I cannot access to the root as before, its OK as far as my device is back.
edit: Sorry for posting in the wrong section! someone move this please
Hi!
What's the best way to install the latest stock ROM for HTC Desire Z?
I have rooted, installed hboot-eng, s-off, flashed clockworkMod recovery and installed cyanogenmod 7.
Now I'd like to try the current (Gingerbread) official ROM from HTC.
is it safe to flash with the hboot-eng and s-off?
Where can I get it?
Thanks!
Lol
The XDA app now has a thanks button. Please use it
I dont think the section is named Q&A.
Then there is the search button. Its free and wont take you to court for abusing it.
You're in the wrong section, buddy.
I believe you just flash the latest update or install one of the official ones and take the OTA update fromt here. It'll take you back to s-on and that's it.
Ooops sorry I wanted to post in the Q&A... was on the wrong Tab I think.
Anyway. I tried the search but it said it's currently unavailable. I tried searching with Google. I looked through all the suggested posts after I entered the subject.
I really tried to find the info. This forum is a rough place for a noob.
Try and flash virtuous sense its the stock rom optimized
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837042
I tried Virtuous (and many other ROMs)... CM is the best imo, except it's missing a good dialer.
I just like to try the original ROM.
Meanwhile I recovered a backup with the stock Froyo ROM and started the OTA update, but I fails to install. It says something like "E:cannot mount SDARD:downloads/(long file name).zip. Aborting installation" in ClockworkMod recovery.
Do I have to uninstall the recovery image before updating OTA?
Well that is the stock rom with under the hood things done. Also I don't know why you would want to go back to froyo
I don't want to go back to Froyo (that worked) but to Gingerbread.
It's just out of interest actually. Having a go at it to see how the new original ROM performs.
The forum search is working again and I found some threads, but none of them describe how to install the OTA update on a rooted device.
Am I right by saying ClockworkMod does not work to install a Stock HTC update, I I'd need to revert back to the original Recovery image?
Try renaming the file to the original name? PCIMG10.zip or whatever and use the stock bootloader?
If you want complete stock without the bloatware, that's what virtuous sense is for (not unity)
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kaijura said:
Try renaming the file to the original name? PCIMG10.zip or whatever and use the stock bootloader?
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Is that a question? I don't know, you tell me
kaijura said:
If you want complete stock without the bloatware, that's what virtuous sense is for (not unity)
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Virtuous is OK but I had some crashes with it in the past. Right now I installed Virtuous Unity with Sense 3.0. I'm gona keep it some time as it behaves good so far (except for automatically installing every crap app I had in the past - eventually I remember to log in to Google only after disabling automatic restore next time)
I'd still be interested to know
- Where to get and how to flash the original HTC Gingerbread ROM
- Why the OTA update fails to install in ClockworkMod Recovery
- Some other things that may need a separate thread.
Generally, I'm sorry for being a noob but I'm really interested in learning this stuff. I hope I'm not bothering you guys.
Thanks to all you devs for what you do!
(I made a dedicated "Thank you" thread once but it got deleted in immediately)
Thanks for all the answers to far! I'm going to test drive Sense Unity now.
cheers
Now this is funny! You actually rooted your phone now you want to know how to flash a ROM! Lol I wonder where you got lost in the reading process. Sorry guys
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Yeah it's been a long time since I rooted it
I have been unable to find a thread that discusses my issue. Samsung GS3/AT&T (SGH-i747) I have been using a stock ROM rooted until AT&T pushed an OTA update to 4.0.4 baseband I747UCLH9. Now Superuser logs show Superuser, Avast and ES Task Manager had root access accepted, but Titanium and another app (Root Checker) are being denied.
a. am I still rooted and just need to tweak something?
b. If i re-flash superuser will I be sorry?
I don't really want to flash a new ROM or wipe. Any advice including links and steps would be greatly appreciated.
Just a disclaimer: I am a noob to Android. Having said that, I also rooted my AT&T GS3 and then without even thinking accepted the OTA update. The update to UCHL9 build wiped my root. Again since I'm a noob, I spent hours reading through posts to figure out what happened. I finally found some good information in posts on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
On page 110 of the thread there is a post by 'haywood' that I followed to root my device again. Of course, I did have to wipe and flash again which I understand you do not want to do.
Maybe reading through some more of the posts on that thread will lead you to a different method.
madge22 said:
Just a disclaimer: I am a noob to Android. Having said that, I also rooted my AT&T GS3 and then without even thinking accepted the OTA update. The update to UCHL9 build wiped my root. Again since I'm a noob, I spent hours reading through posts to figure out what happened. I finally found some good information in posts on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
On page 110 of the thread there is a post by 'haywood' that I followed to root my device again. Of course, I did have to wipe and flash again which I understand you do not want to do.
Maybe reading through some more of the posts on that thread will lead you to a different method.
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lol I went looking for that post and ended up reading through 4 pages lol. Thanks for the tip, Just for future reference you can right click on the post number and copy url and paste it for a link to a specific post like so http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31816685&postcount=1100 as not everyone has the same setting for page display, your page 110 was my page 22 lol.
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NVWSSV said:
I have been unable to find a thread that discusses my issue. Samsung GS3/AT&T (SGH-i747) I have been using a stock ROM rooted until AT&T pushed an OTA update to 4.0.4 baseband I747UCLH9. Now Superuser logs show Superuser, Avast and ES Task Manager had root access accepted, but Titanium and another app (Root Checker) are being denied.
a. am I still rooted and just need to tweak something?
b. If i re-flash superuser will I be sorry?
I don't really want to flash a new ROM or wipe. Any advice including links and steps would be greatly appreciated.
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Some OTA updates will wipe out your root permissions. You can get around this using SuperSU or RootKeeper. With rootkeeper you just backup your root permissions, update via OTA, and then go back to Rootkeeper to restore root. Worked for me going from UCALG1 to UCLH9.
I have had a few different android devices that didn't want to give root to TB and a few other apps. I would suggest downloading SuperSU from the play store (it's free) and seeing if your TB will get root then. Definitely check in to an OTA rootkeeper so that it will back up your SU + busybox in the likely case that an OTA you try to install will wipe root. On that note, if you removed any bloat or system apps, the OTA's will fail. I think that also applies to build.prop and other system mods too, because trying to update my AT&T S3 has been a nightmare since I flashed stock rom w/ root injected and removed a few apps. I came to the conclusion that for me, it is much easier to just flash a custom ROM + kernel (I recommend Codename Android + Lean Kernel) via ClockworkMod Recovery and never worry about updates being pushed on me from the carrier. There are definitely more options that way, because YOU choose when you think it is worth it to update, but there is much more room for error, so do your research, and then do it again just to make sure!
I'm new to XDA, we have to start somewhere, right? :good: