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[Q] Original stock rom update.zip file

Hey I need some help. I have been trying to reformat my phone with the original stock ROM but I cannot get the RUU to work. Every time that I try to use the RUU executable file to reinstall the original ROM it can't detect my phone. I really need help with this my phone is incapacitated right now. If someone could help me find a rom that I could use here that would be fantastic. Thanks

what happened that your phone is not working? are you rooted, s-off? what rom where u on b4?
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

It is S-Off and I am not sure if it is still rooted. I have been switching back and forth from the cyanogen mod and the stock rom, and I tried doing a system restore on the stock rom and it didn't really change anything but I don't think it can do root things anymore. It has been asking me to do a system update but every time I try to install it it fails.

SerenadeX said:
It is S-Off and I am not sure if it is still rooted. I have been switching back and forth from the cyanogen mod and the stock rom, and I tried doing a system restore on the stock rom and it didn't really change anything but I don't think it can do root things anymore. It has been asking me to do a system update but every time I try to install it it fails.
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Your failed update is probably due to your still having a modified recovery.
Something that could work for you:
>run the .exe for the RUU, then minimize it.
>start/run/type "%temp%" in the dialog box.
>search the output for rom.zip
>move the rom.zip to your sdcard and run it from hboot.
this should go through the rom installation and restore your rom. it's worked a couple times for me when I messed up recoveries.
Good luck!
BTW do you have HTC sync installed on your computer? not having that might be missing the driver for your phone.....just a thought

I tried extracting rom.zip out of the temp directory but the file was corrupted. Maybe the RUU doesn't work at all? I don't know. If you can get me a rom.zip that isn't corrupted that would be fantastic. Thanks!

SerenadeX said:
I tried extracting rom.zip out of the temp directory but the file was corrupted. Maybe the RUU doesn't work at all? I don't know. If you can get me a rom.zip that isn't corrupted that would be fantastic. Thanks!
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Make sure SD card is formatted to fat32. Rename it so it is PB31IMG.zip(If on Windows and have fileextensions turned off rename it PB31IMG. The .zip will already be added.)
Put on root of SD card meaning not in any folders and boot into hboot. The phone will ask you to update, select yes and wait for it to ask you if you want to reboot.
http://dougpiston.com/files/RUU/bui...and-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip

Alright Now i have one last question. That worked wonderfully first thanks for the info. Now i need to reverse unrEVOked forever 's radio fix. Right now its S-OFF and I want to restore it to its original state when I bought it. How do I reverse unrEVOked forever?

SerenadeX said:
Alright Now i have one last question. That worked wonderfully first thanks for the info. Now i need to reverse unrEVOked forever 's radio fix. Right now its S-OFF and I want to restore it to its original state when I bought it. How do I reverse unrEVOked forever?
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Under the FAQ there's a link to the S-ON tool.
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS4.

SerenadeX said:
Alright Now i have one last question. That worked wonderfully first thanks for the info. Now i need to reverse unrEVOked forever 's radio fix. Right now its S-OFF and I want to restore it to its original state when I bought it. How do I reverse unrEVOked forever?
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To get s-on you need to have CW recovery. Wish you would have mentioned this before. You need to flash clockwork recovery again then apply the s-on. Then re run the previous PB31IMG.

Wow this is so freaking nuts. Ok so I tried running the S-ON .zip file that they provide using CW Recovery. Problem is now unrEVOked forever doesn't support my radio, radio-1.00.00.02.09. I will try to contact them unless you all have another idea. Thanks for your help so far!

If your still s-off you can flash a supported radio through Hboot much like the get back to stock PB31IMG you just ran. But if you ran the one I provided earlier you should be on a .92 hboot and a 2.15.00.07.28 radio, which is supported for s-on.

Here, download one of the ones that S-ON if compatible with and put it on the root of your sd card, and boot into hboot. Be sure its called PB31IMG.zip, or else it won't work.
http://adrynalyne.us/files/di_radios/
A quick guide for flashing radios:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=774155
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS4.

Ok so I tried updating to a radio compatible with the unrEVOked S-ON update. When I try to run the file the recovery screen blacks out and then goes back to the main menu. It doesn't give me any output as to why that happened or if it even did anything.

You should flash RUUs from within HBOOT, not Recovery. An RUU includes everything from radio, to ROM, to recovery.
You can still do this with S-ON, since it is signed.

I'm not on the RUU I know how to install that. I need to use the S-ON .zip file that i got from unrevoked.com

SerenadeX said:
Ok so I tried updating to a radio compatible with the unrEVOked S-ON update. When I try to run the file the recovery screen blacks out and then goes back to the main menu. It doesn't give me any output as to why that happened or if it even did anything.
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You don't flash radios in recovery you flash radios in HBOOT. Make sure you rename the file to the proper filename then it should automatically detect it and install it.
Again like I said before, if you simply install the RUU from within HBOOT that would revert everything back to stock including the radio. Then you could run S-ON from within the stock recovery. But if you want to do it the other way so that you run the S-ON patch from within ClockWork that's fine too.

Haha well i have not explained things properly so let me explain where I am at right now very clearly.
Right now I have HBOOT updated using an RUU with a radio that unrEVOked forever works with. I have rooted and installed Clockwork Recovery. Now, I go to install the S-ON using Clockwork and then the screen blacks out and it returns to the Clockwork main menu without giving me any output.
Hopefully that clears things up

Ok sorry I thought you had trouble flashing the radio.
Yes I do believe the S-ON patch is installed within recovery, I just did it a few days ago and it worked fine. I was using the 7.28 radio. I believe I just did a normal .zip install in clockwork.
This sounds stupid, but make sure you're not pushing the power button. In ClockWork you have to push the optical pad to make selections, it's unlike HBOOT. I can't think of anything else.

[Q] Update 2.29.405.5-2.29.405.2 - error 7

Hi folks,
Any idea why my "unbranded" htc desire will not update OTA for the new update:
ota_bravo_froyo_htc_wwe_2.29.405.5-2.29.405.2releasedauh16jhok5cmdm6.zip
I keep getting explanation mark in triangle with status error 7...

Try running this RUU with the phone connected to the PC, ensure USB debugging is enabled on your phone. Create a Gold Card if your are not sure whether your phone is unbranded or not.
If you receive any driver/USB associated errors when running the RUU, check that HTC Sync is installed, run as Administrator, and temporarily disable any AV software.
If you still have problems, then try the PB99IMG (rename the RUU to PB99IMG.zip and place to the root of your SD card, then flash via the Bootloader screen) method as it is a lot easier than the first method I mentioned. Just remember that if you were branded before you will need a Gold Card to allow this method to work.
If you do try the later method, remember to remove the PB99IMG.zip file from your SD card afterwards or else it will run if you ever go into recovery mode.

yep MasDroid, just a thing, the link you gave point 405.2 rom ^^
for 405.5 try this one instead => http://shipped-roms.com/download.php?category=android&model=Bravo&file=RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe

That's cool.. and I will probably use the RUU to update.
however does this mean I can't perform any future OTAs? What does status error 7 actually mean?

status error 7 mean a problem with the verification of the signature.
like when you try OTA with orange desire + HTC stock rom without gold card.
perhaps HTC work on the gold card back door?
anyway that's the crap if we no longer could make OTA with our unbranded desire...

I can't update my phone with OTA at all, just keeps coming back with error 7...
I have unbranded with stock HTC rom with a gold card! (as I used it to originally unbrand my phone).
feel lost...

@garpunkal
did you try to flash from your pc with the RUU from shipped-rom?

Try the PB99IMG method i posted above instead as you won't run into PC errors.
@tozneno thanks for the updated RUU link
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

you're welcome, Mas ^^

@tozneno I originally flashed my phone to unbrand to the 405.2 rom... now I have an OTA update and it fails with error 7... Do I now need to reflash to get this update?

You shouldn't HAVE to but it might be something HTC have changed to stop people using a gold card?? Who knows...
If you can download the file you could try and flash it manually

@MasDroid will the PB99IMG method wipe my phone? (reflash rather than update?)

Yes, PB99IMG method is the same as RUU, it will wipe the phone
EDIT: trying to find the OTA, going through HTCs servers, and it won't work so either the file name is wrong or they've pulled it

Yes, it will reflash the firmware.
It just a more efficient method than running the RUU, which can bring up all sorts of driver/usb errors.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

@EddyOS tried flashing it manually... renaming it to update.zip and doing the bootloader stuff... no luck...

Sounds like a duff OTA file to me

@EddyOs @MasDroid if it wipes the phone, I might skip this until the next major update....

Rename to PB99IMG.zip
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

EddyOS said:
Sounds like a duff OTA file to me
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I've downloaded it twice now, still not joy on both...

MasDroid said:
Rename to PB99IMG.zip
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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You mean rename the RUU to PB99IMG.zip not the OTA update file?

[Q] Back to stock / S-On for warrenty

I've been having some issues with my screen recently, probably due to a cable being loose or something like that so I want to send my phone back to be repaired. I have S-OFF and am running CM6.1.1. I have a nandroid backup for the original stock rom, but this is obviously rooted. So have to i get to back to S-On with the original stock room un-rooted so my warranty isn't technically void??
edit: Its a EU desire z,

Restore the backup of the stock ROM that you have.
If you have S-OFF via gfree then you need to un-do that via "gfree -s on".
If you have the eng hboot then you need to dd back the stock hboot (get it out of a PC10IMG.zip file.
Finally you can remove root. Removing the Superuser app will almost certainly be enough, no-one is going to notice anything more.

I flashed a hboot to get s-off, how exactly do i dd back to stock hboot? Do i extract the file from the PC10IMG zip?

jakbjak said:
I flashed a hboot to get s-off, how exactly do i dd back to stock hboot? Do i extract the file from the PC10IMG zip?
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Yes, extract the stock hboot from the correct PC10IMG.zip file, then you can dd it to your hboot partition just like you originally did with the eng boot.
Or if you just flash a complete stock ROM over the top (the same version as your backup, once the backup has been restored), it will install the stock hboot anyway.

ok still, just to be certain (last thing i want is to brick my phone!!) restore rooted stock rom from the nandroid backup, then get a copy of the original rom i have a flash it? and do i flash it through cwm or the other menu?

jakbjak said:
ok still, just to be certain (last thing i want is to brick my phone!!) restore rooted stock rom from the nandroid backup, then get a copy of the original rom i have a flash it? and do i flash it through cwm or the other menu?
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If that stock ROM is the same version as your rooted backup that you restored, then yes, that should be fine because the stock ROM will include the stock hboot, to put you back to S-ON via hboot.
If however the stock ROM is an earlier version than your backup, you will have to go through an additional downgrading procedure to safely be able to flash an earlier ROM (or you could end up bricked).
No, you don't flash it via Clockwork. You put the ROM image (not RUU) onto the root folder of your SD card, called "PC10IMG.zip", then boot into hboot (with the phone powered off, hold Volume Down and then press Power until it switches on) and it will open the ROM and ask if you want to flash it.

Cool, that makes sense. Thanks

is this safe to flash on ANY Desire Z?
RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.5_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M_release_155556_signed.exe
(This RUU is exactly the one used in the 1.72 root procedure to downgrade to 1.34)
Like I plan to just execute it on the computer and let it do its thing.
My baseband version:
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
My rooting route was exactly as the XDA wiki, but stopped short of flashing ENG HBOOT.
I know I can restore my backup ROM, and s-off using gfree. My problem is with CWM recovery because if the people at the shop try to charge it with the power down, they will know I've rooted before due to the phone booting into recovery.

djfoo000 said:
is this safe to flash on ANY Desire Z?
RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.5_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M_release_155556_signed.exe
Like I plan to just execute it on the computer and let it do its thing.
My baseband version
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
My rooting route was exactly as the XDA wiki, but stopped short of flashing ENG HBOOT.
I know I can restore my backup ROM, and s-off using gfree. My problem is with CWM recovery because if the people at the shop try to charge it with the power down, they will know I've rooted before due to the phone booting into recovery.
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I belive this is the RUU for the Europe Vision only, so if your Desire Z is not the Europe Vision I would not run this RUU.
Edit: I found this thread on your RUU, I would check it out first before flashing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-822908.html
In skimming the thread I see someone flashed this on a Bell Desire Z, but they super-cid with gfree first.
Edit 2:Cant you just find the stock recovery.img and then flash it to your phone using the flash_image method from terminal emulator? Since you dont have fastboot. Then re-run gfree with the -s option to get S-on again.
Heres the link to the Flash_image method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493&highlight=flash_image

i was thinking of a pseudo-one click method. hahaha
I've just finished downloading the RUU i mentioned.
How do I go about extracting the recovery.img? I tried extracting with 7zip and it says cannot open file.

djfoo000 said:
i was thinking of a pseudo-one click method. hahaha
I've just finished downloading the RUU i mentioned.
How do I go about extracting the recovery.img? I tried extracting with 7zip and it says cannot open file.
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Just download it myself, good question, not quite sure myself on an RUU since it wants to exe. , thought it might be a simple a unzipping it but ?
Edit : found this:http://lukasz.szmit.eu/2010/04/extracting-rom-files-from-htc-android.html

there's nothing dangerous about it, right? As in the recovery.img extracted from any RUU is not baseband specific or anything? My radio is stock.

djfoo000 said:
there's nothing dangerous about it, right? As in the recovery.img extracted from any RUU is not baseband specific or anything? My radio is stock.
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Im not gonna lie, I really dont know if the G2 and the Desire Z recovery.img are the same, I know theres a link to the stock G2 recovery image here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834545&highlight=unroot

hrmm... Just a thought, is that issue worthy of a thread? That whether stock recoveries of G2 and Desire Z are the same, regardless of location of origin (ie Asian/European etc).

You just need to run the RUU but then not press any buttons on the screen, then find the folder where the RUU has extracted temporary files. There will be a standard location on this that depends on your exact OS. Look for the most newly-created folders at this location, and a couple of levels down from there you will find the extracted files, including rom.zip.
Sent from my HTC Desire Z

The same version of Clockwork recovery is used on the G2 and all Desire Zs. So I would have thought you'd be absolutely fine to flash the stock recovery from that DZ RUU onto your own DZ.
Sent from my HTC Desire Z

Is there a way to downgrade your ROM?

I have the latest OTA update and using ruu file was able to downgrade to an earlier version of GB which I guess was the leaked one. I tried to go back an earlier ruu (RUU_Vivo_W_VERIZON_WWE_1.34.605.3_Radio_0.99.01.02 25_2_NV_VZW1.92_release_181303_signed) but it gave me an error about the bootloader.I have not had S-Off or root done to the phone and is just stock.
I would like to go back to the original ruu/image that was shipped with the DINC2. In worst case I will just apply the latest ruu that is the same as the latest ota.
Any suggestions?
thx

just rename any RUU to PG32IMG.zip and put onr oot of sd card and flash in hboot. since it's signed HTC you don't need root.

Were you able to do this successfully?
Sent from my ADR6350 using XDA App

andybones said:
just rename any RUU to PG32IMG.zip and put onr oot of sd card and flash in hboot. since it's signed HTC you don't need root.
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In HBOOT I see the message saying its Loading pg32img.zip then after awhile it says it is checking pg32img.zip and then returns back to the Main screen where you can choose fastboot, recovery etc.
After booting phone backup, I attempted again to run the ruu form from windows pc and got this error "ERROR[140]:BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR"

[Q] How to SAFELY Unroot HTC INC?

Hey there,
I want to unroot my Incredible but I have been reading horror stories of "DONT DO THE WRONG ONE!" because it more or less bricks your device if X Y Z factors are true. What is the RIGHT/Good way to unroot the phone now? What specs have to be true to make it safe?
These are my specs :
Android Version : 2.2
Baseband Version : 2.15.10.05.06
Kernel Version : 2.6.32.17-g9a2fc16 [email protected] #1
Software Number : Skyraider 4.3 Sense
HBoot Version : .92
S-Off
If you need any other details please just post up. Thanks!

Are you looking to go back to out of the box stock? The best way to do that would be to run the RUU to get things back to complete 2.2 stock. This website has everything you'd need to do that: pvillecomp.com. You could download the 2.2 Froyo PB31IMG.zip file, verify that the MD5 hash listed on the website matches the zip file you just downloaded, put it on the root of your SD card, and boot into the bootloader to return to stock 2.2.

That's correct, I want it to be "Out of the box". Is that in fact that safe/non destructive way? lol
Does it take care of the S-Off, kernels and all that jazz?
If I handed it to a Verizon employee would they see it just as another non-rooted HTC Device?
RMarkwald said:
Are you looking to go back to out of the box stock? The best way to do that would be to run the RUU to get things back to complete 2.2 stock. This website has everything you'd need to do that: pvillecomp.com. You could download the 2.2 Froyo PB31IMG.zip file, verify that the MD5 hash listed on the website matches the zip file you just downloaded, put it on the root of your SD card, and boot into the bootloader to return to stock 2.2.
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Reizvoller said:
That's correct, I want it to be "Out of the box". Is that in fact that safe/non destructive way? lol
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Yeah, that's how I'd do it. Just download the 2.2 zip file from the above mentioned site, name it: PB31IMG.zip
Make sure it's named exactly that, not something like PB31IMG.zip.zip or anything, and it's on the root of your SD card (not in any folders). Check the MD5 after you download, and make sure it matches what the website says, as there is a radio inside, so if the MD5's don't match, don't flash!
Once it's named PB31IMG.zip and on the root of your SD card, boot into the bootloader, and it'll see the zip file and ask if you want to Update...hit up for Yes. I think this way is easier than the RUU method, but I've done both.
Make sure you're downloading the Froyo 2.2 PB31IMG.zip file, not the 2.3 version...as if you want to root later on, you'll have a difficult time at that.
Good luck!

Okay I did as you suggested and I think it went off without a hitch. So now my phone is as if I just got it out of the box right?
Is it supposed to have that "Droooid" boot up sound and animation? I've only seen that on rooted phones. Is the radio, kernel, ROM, and ALL that stuff reverted back to stock?

Reizvoller said:
Okay I did as you suggested and I think it went off without a hitch. So now my phone is as if I just got it out of the box right?
Is it supposed to have that "Droooid" boot up sound and animation? I've only seen that on rooted phones. Is the radio, kernel, ROM, and ALL that stuff reverted back to stock?
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Yes to all the above.
Sent from my ADR6300 using xda premium

But did you flash S-ON through recovery before you ran the RUU? Otherwise, the phone is still S-OFF.
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever -- S-ON
In order to flash it, you will have to reflash ClockworkMod recovery back onto your Incredible. Which can be done by flashing CWM through HBOOT here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=28
And then S-ON. Then you will need to re run the RUU to get the stock recovery back. You may be able to flash the stock recovery alone in HBOOT from the same page as above, but I don't know if it is signed or not.