I have been searching the web for how to relock my EVO. This is because i am taking it back to sprint for a screen fix and I have learned from the PPCGEEKS thread all the problems and warranty stuff related to rooting as well as the odds of them discovering that I have rooted it. I just don't want to risk it and I would like to know how to relock, just for the knowledge.
Does anyone have specific instructions how??
PPCGEEKS Thread: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=126849
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/
Download first and last, and flash in the same sequence.
So thats all?? its done? It's unrooted? That seems simple.
Yep, that's how easy it is.
On some phones (one out 5 I "control") I had to get all 3 and flash in the same sequence, otherwise last one wouldn't flash over the first - not sure why.
redsolar said:
last one wouldn't flash over the first - not sure why.
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that surprises me. the latest RUU should flash over anything *theoretically*.
what error did it give you when you attempted?
yes, it should be easy to restore the phone to stock. think of all their service departments fixing/refurb'n phones. one simple flash and its all completely stock no matter what was loaded before.
for those more technically included, since this is the dev board, if the eng build RUU is loaded the PRI is downgraded and as of now, no currently released RUU is able to upgrade the PRI ... but thats such a small issue, can almost guarantee nobody will notice.
Damn screen... I have to do the same thing, and just one other question, besides those files I will just have to use Htc Sync to flash them right?
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Damn screen... I have to do the same thing, and just one other question, besides those files I will just have to use Htc Sync to flash them right?
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Those RUUs are just exe files. So sync will provide you with drivers yes, but after downloading you just run from that download with your phone plugged in.
wow after reading that thread on ppcgeeks i dont think i ever want to leave xda! must be a young crowd over there. i ran the latest 1.47 RUU that i downloaded from HTC before I returned my phone. much to my surprise they didn't even take the phone out of the box! still, since it only takes 10 minutes might as well do it.
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Those RUUs are just exe files. So sync will provide you with drivers yes, but after downloading you just run from that download with your phone plugged in.
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are you talking about just using the volume down and power button method?
redsolar said:
Yep, that's how easy it is.
On some phones (one out 5 I "control") I had to get all 3 and flash in the same sequence, otherwise last one wouldn't flash over the first - not sure why.
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whats the point in running all 3 on a phone you are returning? just running the first one is good enough to unroot and restore to stock. i only ran the most recent one, because i had already upgraded the baseband and was unable to run the earlier ones because of it.
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that surprises me. the latest RUU should flash over anything *theoretically*.
what error did it give you when you attempted?
yes, it should be easy to restore the phone to stock. think of all their service departments fixing/refurb'n phones. one simple flash and its all completely stock no matter what was loaded before.
for those more technically included, since this is the dev board, if the eng build RUU is loaded the PRI is downgraded and as of now, no currently released RUU is able to upgrade the PRI ... but thats such a small issue, can almost guarantee nobody will notice.
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I was surprised too when I tried first.
The 1.47 RUU just sat on the "waiting for bootloader" screen and timed out after ~90 seconds, "unable to find phone" (tried multiple times) and the screen would get stuck in white bootloader/RUU message (battery pull required) - so i am guessing 0.76.2 bootloader was too low for it. That was flashing from 3.2.2+ DamageControl ROM, didn't try from any other one, since the DC -> 1.36 -> 1.47 stock worked well.
And yes, the PRI caveat is there, but as joeykrim said, that's minor, plus you can always say "PRI what - huh?", right?
OneStepAhead said:
whats the point in running all 3 on a phone you are returning? just running the first one is good enough to unroot and restore to stock. i only ran the most recent one, because i had already upgraded the baseband and was unable to run the earlier ones because of it.
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Running latest OTA makes you seem more of a "dumb user" who wouldn't even know what root is?
Yellowcard8992 said:
are you talking about just using the volume down and power button method?
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No. RUUs are handled differently. You download the file. And run it on your computer with the phone plugged in. It does everything for you. You DO NOT flash these via recovery.
Update on my phone
I took it to the sprint store yesterday and against everything I have heard the guy at the store turned my phone and checked it. Thank god I used redsolar's posted method. I must have the appearance of someone who would root there phone. It passed his inspection, luckily.
Thanks for the help
I rooted with the new Simpleroot OTA Edition, with Fresh Rom 053, and RA-Rec.
I'm trying to start over from stock so I can re-root my phone, but I can't get the RUU's to work. The oldest one will actually try and put the phone in bootloader, but while its waiting for bootloader it eventually just stops and gives me the 170 error, usb connector problem.
So is there any other way to go about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
murdercitydan said:
I rooted with the new Simpleroot OTA Edition, with Fresh Rom 053, and RA-Rec.
I'm trying to start over from stock so I can re-root my phone, but I can't get the RUU's to work. The oldest one will actually try and put the phone in bootloader, but while its waiting for bootloader it eventually just stops and gives me the 170 error, usb connector problem.
So is there any other way to go about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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ya what I do is replug the usb coord then try ruu again while the phone is stuck on the HTC sign,then if that doesn't work I just manually go into bootloader myself (power+volume down) then use the ruu.exe, works everytime but then it tells me my current version is not valid, so if you ota'd you probably won't ever be able to go back to 1.32.651.1/.6 stock but you can just use the new 1.47.651.1 ruu to regain stock after ota.
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ya what I do is replug the usb coord then try ruu again while the phone is stuck on the HTC sign,then if that doesn't work I just manually go into bootloader myself (power+volume down) then use the ruu.exe, works everytime but then it tells me my current version is not valid, so if you ota'd you probably won't ever be able to go back to 1.32.651.1/.6 stock but you can just use the new 1.47.651.1 ruu to regain stock after ota.
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Thanks a **** load Tundricles, you saved my ass.
I was getting so pissed, I'd run the RUU and once it got to opening the bootloader on my phone it was get frozen on the HTC screen, and the RUU would get the use connection error. So I unplugged my phone, and noticed it was in the bootloader, but if the usb was plugged in, it wouldn't show the bootloader screen for some reason. So I just plugged it back in and started the RUU back up, it instantly went past the "Waiting for bootloader..." message and started updating.
Thank you, and for anyone else having similar problems, READ THIS!
Flashing the RUU doesn't restore the stock recovery does it?
I ran Unrevoked 2 a while back and I have RUU'd but I'm pretty sure Clockwork Mod is still there.
Sent from my EVO 4G using the XDA App.
ViViDboarder said:
Flashing the RUU doesn't restore the stock recovery does it?
I ran Unrevoked 2 a while back and I have RUU'd but I'm pretty sure Clockwork Mod is still there.
Sent from my EVO 4G using the XDA App.
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It should. RUU replaces everything but PRI
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
murdercitydan said:
Thanks a **** load Tundricles, you saved my ass.
I was getting so pissed, I'd run the RUU and once it got to opening the bootloader on my phone it was get frozen on the HTC screen, and the RUU would get the use connection error. So I unplugged my phone, and noticed it was in the bootloader, but if the usb was plugged in, it wouldn't show the bootloader screen for some reason. So I just plugged it back in and started the RUU back up, it instantly went past the "Waiting for bootloader..." message and started updating.
Thank you, and for anyone else having similar problems, READ THIS!
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np glad I could help
I am on the verge of throwing my partners Desire out the window... I have spent hours trying to get it out of Safe Mode by upgrading ROMs' Rooting it and installing Custom ROMS...
Nothing has helped get around Safe Mode.
So I now need to get it back to the factory/T-Mobile shipped settings so that it can be returned because as far as I am concerned the damn thing is faulty.
I have just tried installing using RUU the UK TMO 1.15 and 1.21 ROMS, but now all I get is... Error 155 Unknown Error. At the moment phone is rooted using Unrevoked and running NextSense ROM so I need to clear all of this before taking the thing back
Any suggestions please?
When you turn the phone on - what happens? Can you get into recovery, too?
Yep I can get into Recovery, but it is the Unrevoked version. I was under the impression to revert back all that was necessary was to install a UK TMO ROM, but it is this that is not working
OK I think I am sorted now.
I installed another custom rom but also removed my SD (GOLD) Card as I thought that might be causing a problem with the ROM signing.
Anyway I am now running TMO UK 1.15 so all being well I should be able to send the damn thing back now.
Thanks anyway.
Hi guys, I'm at the end of my tether now!
My phone kept rebooting when using Navigation yesterday, then after the 3rd time it has just been stuck on the HTC boot screen and nothing will fix it.
I can't even get into recovery, so I cant do a nandroid restore.
I have been using Leedroid 2.2e with no problems before this.
I have tried flashing the latest RUU but because I had the latest Froyo already installed it wont work as it needs to be an older version on the phone.
I cant downgrade Froyo to an older version as I cant get into the phone to turn on USB debugging.
I have only had the phone 2 weeks, please help if possible.
If you use the 2.10.405.2 or 2.29.405.2 RUUs they should flash with no issues. Might be worth extracting out the ROM.zip from the RUU, rename it PB99IMG.zip, copy it to the sd card and go into HBOOT and it should revert back to stock (assuming it can read the card)
I tried flashing the 2.10.405.2 RUU but it fails halfway with a Customer ID error, and I know the goldcard is good so I thought it must be failing the check for older software version.
I also tried renaming and flashing the rom from the card, but the phone read the file and a progress bar went up the right hand side of the screen, then nothing, it just stopped.
I'm not really clued up on these things, but I have been doing a lot of reading on various forums.
Hey EddyOS, thanks for the heads up on the 2.29.405.2 RUU, that was what I needed to flash over my current rom.
All back and running now, after being up all night trying to fix it.
I'm scared to root and put a custom rom on now in case it happens again and I have to send it in for a warranty repair, that was my biggest worry.
Thanks again!
Hi guys, I'm confused.
I have a stock HTC Desire on Orange with 2.10.405.2. I've been having problems with the radio (losing data connectivity but not showing it, text messages being delayed for hours, etc) and decided to root it with Unrevoked and put a new radio and RIL pack on. Well, I did that OK (although the connectivity problems persist).
The trouble is that now there's an OTA update to 2.29.405.2, which I would quite like to try out. When I tried to run it, Clockwork Recovery gave a signature check error.
Could someone explain how to fix this? I don't mind losing root, but I would very much prefer to run an update rather than flash a rom and lose everything on the phone! A clear description of what's going on would be appreciated, cheers!
I'm pretty sure, running the OTA would brick your phone,thats why it wont go through, what you need to do it, flash an Stock rom on your phone, then do OTA
Read the Wiki or Ask in the Desire forum for more help
Oh my, this reply came in just after I had managed to start an update (by moving/renaming the update file to update.zip in the root directory and using clockwork recovery). And as I read the update, the phone had been on the HTC splash screen for quite some time...
I almost had a heart attack.
But it's booted now The update failed due to not having enough free memory.
I suppose I'll just have to back up what I can and flash the stock rom. It's really annoying that rooting the phone in order to give me more flexibility has taken away the option to update painlessly.... That is, unless someone can point me towards a rooted update file?
Oh, the radio I updated to was Radio Froyo 5.11.05.27 (I flashed the RIL zip file separately), I am not sure how much that could affect things.
too bad that my phone had enough memory and now I'm trying to flash a stock rom.
The 1st one I tried was 2.09, and it failed saying kind of "invalid ruu version".
Now downloading 2.29.....
So I've been trying to unroot my phone and get s on.. the only thing I can do is get s on after that I cant flash anything through hboot as I get some error saying "wrong image" and I don't know where to go from there... Is there someway I can just wipe the whole phone and start from there ? or can someone try helping me out? only reason I ask is because lately my phones been acting up and I just want to unroot it and get s on. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You need to flash the RUU to go back to stock and do a full clean wipe of the phone. You may need to reformat your SD card as FAT32 as sometimes it's temperamental and the zips don't get picked up. Make sure it's a PB31IMG.zip and exactly named that way on the sd card for your Droid Incredible.
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You need to flash the RUU to go back to stock and do a full clean wipe of the phone. You may need to reformat your SD card as FAT32 as sometimes it's temperamental and the zips don't get picked up. Make sure it's a PB31IMG.zip and exactly named that way on the sd card for your Droid Incredible.
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I believe thats what Ive been trying to flash after getting s-on but after s-on I cant flash anything through hboot. Ive tried multiple times to reformat my card on the computer but no luck for me. So now I have s-on but my phones really acting up now, the play store and internet keep force closing and I keep getting UID's inconsistent message.... I dont think the RUU I have is right anyway would you happen to know where I can get a current one?
AFAIK you can only S-ON with a certain radio version or older. My recommendation if you're trying to go back to pure stock is to put S-OFF again, run the froyo RUU from http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/3.26.605.1/ or flash the PB31IMG.zip from the same location. Either way you need to be in HBOOT. Then flash S-ON again before taking the OTA to update. That's how I would do it if I needed S-ON and stock.
tiny4579 said:
AFAIK you can only S-ON with a certain radio version or older. My recommendation if you're trying to go back to pure stock is to put S-OFF again, run the froyo RUU from http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/3.26.605.1/ or flash the PB31IMG.zip from the same location. Either way you need to be in HBOOT. Then flash S-ON again before taking the OTA to update. That's how I would do it if I needed S-ON and stock.
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Thank you. Ill give it a shot and let you know the results.
Update: Ok so I I flashed the PB31IMG and now I just to get s on but I Cant since I don't have a recovery to do it.
UPDATE: Ok never mind , I seem to have figured it out. Thanks Tiny I appreciate it.
Eatyourgreenes said:
Thank you. Ill give it a shot and let you know the results.
Update: Ok so I I flashed the PB31IMG and now I just to get s on but I Cant since I don't have a recovery to do it.
UPDATE: Ok never mind , I seem to have figured it out. Thanks Tiny I appreciate it.
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So Im at 2.2 with S-on and I cant seem to get updated. It will download the update and thats it, it wont reboot or anything. I tried flashing the latest RUU through Hboot but I still get the wrong image message.... Well I need to go to work so I'll use it as is for now. but I hope this can be fixed