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How to enable S-on in bootloader

I ran unrevoked 3 and tried a few things and decided it was not for me, I ran the Sprint RUU and it all worked fine. But under the bootloader screen it still shows S-off. Can I renable it?

venom_762 said:
I ran unrevoked 3 and tried a few things and decided it was not for me, I ran the Sprint RUU and it all worked fine. But under the bootloader screen it still shows S-off. Can I renable it?
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Sry to hear that. See if THIS helps.

oooh that sucks. you have to re-root (you can just use unrevoked 3 again), then put the unrevoked s-on tool (found in the FAQ section of this thread http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever ) on the root of your sdcard. boot into recovery, and flash it as you would a rom. then check bootloader to make sure it is s-on. if it is, run the ruu again.
just curious, why dont u like root?

I just tried to re-run Unrevoked 3 and it will not reconnect, the tool just says waiting for device.
And I don't like root because of too much power.

venom_762 said:
I just tried to re-run Unrevoked 3 and it will not reconnect, the tool just says waiting for device.
And I don't like root because of too much power.
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usb debugging is probably not on. try that.
too much power? like too much battery consumption (wtf?) or too much power over the phone?

too much stuff for me to f-with.

venom_762 said:
too much stuff for me to f-with.
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hahah ok then. so ya turn debugging on (settings, applications, development, usb debugging) and put the phone on charge only and run unrevoked.

ok I found it, I was trying to root from the hboot screen.

Can't I just wait for the OTA from sprint and that would just turn S-back on?

venom_762 said:
Can't I just wait for the OTA from sprint and that would just turn S-back on?
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no, it wouldnt turn s-on, and you might not even be able to accept it. if you are having a hard time using unrevoked, seeing as your rom no longer has root permissions, i can lead you through manually flashing amon-ra recovery to your phone and you can flash ur s-on from there.

I just got it to root again using Unrevoked 3 and restored to right after my first root. I should be able to now install the S-on tool and install it from the recovery menu?

venom_762 said:
I just got it to root again using Unrevoked 3 and restored to right after my first root. I should be able to now install the S-on tool and install it from the recovery menu?
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That is correct. Also, I'm pretty sure that since you were still S off, you could've just flashed a pc36img of a recovery from the bootloader, flashed the s on tool, and then ran RUU.
Edit : just saw that dk already suggested that. Sorry.
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Update I figured it out and ran the S-on tool, booted into the bootloaded and verified it was back on. I then ran the RUU and it should be fully stock and ready to install the OTA?

I just don't want to be that guy does not or has a failed update when the official OTA is out.

Anyone? I dying to know if I can install the next ota.

venom_762 said:
Anyone? I dying to know if I can install the next ota.
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If you're back to stock, s on, and aren't on the latest OTA, then yes, you can take the OTA if you'd like to. That will bring you up to the latest software update.
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Great I am relieved, I just wondered if when its pushed out if I have problems seeing it. Thank you guys for all of your help.

venom_762 said:
Great I am relieved, I just wondered if when its pushed out if I have problems seeing it. Thank you guys for all of your help.
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sorry for leaving you in the dark for a while. that was one crazy day. but i'm at my comp now so i can help (not that there's anything left to do).
if i were you, i'd double check you are fully unrooted. boot into bootloader, and make sure you are s-on. then boot into recovery and make sure you have no custom recovery, just the stock htc one. also make sure your rom has no superuser app installed. if not, you are all good.

No prob man, I booted into the bootloader and S-On is back on and then tried to boot into recovery, a black screen with a red triangle came up so I assume there's no recovery installed. There is also no superuser Icon in the app draw.
The main reason I returned to stock is,is that this is my primary and only phone. I plan on getting the Nexus S when it come to sprint so I will see you guys again. That way if I bork the NS I got my trusty evo to activate.
Again thank you all for the help.

venom_762 said:
No prob man, I booted into the bootloader and S-On is back on and then tried to boot into recovery, a black screen with a red triangle came up so I assume there's no recovery installed. There is also no superuser Icon in the app draw.
The main reason I returned to stock is,is that this is my primary and only phone. I plan on getting the Nexus S when it come to sprint so I will see you guys again. That way if I bork the NS I got my trusty evo to activate.
Again thank you all for the help.
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ok ya ur totally unrooted. enjoy the cage some prefer it there.
just saying, the evo is freaking hard to brick.

Need a lot of help.

Long story short, my microphone broke on my old EVO, so I unrooted to take it back. I got a new one and tried to root it again used UnrEVOked3 again and it not work. Recovery does not work, there is no superuser options. On the hboot menu it does say S-OFF. I have tried to reuse the UnrEVOked3 and it will not recognize my device. I am just looking for some form of help so that I can get my phone rooted so I can get CM7.
Thanks

have you tried to dl superuser (the one from Chains) from the market?

Just did, still will not let me use root apps or anything, only difference is now I have the app.

Did you reboot?

Use this thread as a reference to completely unroot your phone, then retry unrEVOked...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141

mrpurplehawk said:
Long story short, my microphone broke on my old EVO, so I unrooted to take it back. I got a new one and tried to root it again used UnrEVOked3 again and it not work. Recovery does not work, there is no superuser options. On the hboot menu it does say S-OFF. I have tried to reuse the UnrEVOked3 and it will not recognize my device. I am just looking for some form of help so that I can get my phone rooted so I can get CM7.
Thanks
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Well, since you show S off, I'd just flash a PC36IMG of Amon Ra recovery, and then flash a new rom. I've seen people report of Unrevoked having a difficult time for whatever reason. I've never had a hiccup with it, but taht doesn't matter. Perhaps there was something on your computer causing you issues, such as HTC sync, PDAnet, an anti virus program, etc. Anyways, download this PC36IMG, put it on the root of your SD card. Shut your phone off, then boot to the bootloader. It'll ask you to update, and select vol up to say yes. Once it's done, you can boot into recovery and flash away. That should all work just fine, because you're S off already.

Try what he ^^^ said first...if that still fails, try what I said lol

what h-boot do u have and were u runing 3.70 when u did unrevoked 3 cause it should not work at all u need tun another method to root

lcorona056248 said:
what h-boot do u have and were u runing 3.70 when u did unrevoked 3 cause it should not work at all u need tun another method to root
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Not sure what you're talking about. I think your info is outdated. Unrevoked works with all hardware and software versions for the Evo (3.70) included. I've used it more than a few times. Unrevoked was updated months ago, like right after Christmas.

k2buckley said:
Not sure what you're talking about. I think your info is outdated. Unrevoked works with all hardware and software versions for the Evo (3.70) included. I've used it more than a few times. Unrevoked was updated months ago, like right after Christmas.
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cool i didnt know that i still have the first production hardware 002 so no need for me to keep up to date.. but i will keep that in mind when i get my next one thanks bro
i would do what k2buckley said and run amon ra recovery should help u a ton

that worked, thank you so much!!!

mrpurplehawk said:
that worked, thank you so much!!!
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You're welcome man, glad it worked for ya!

[Q] I miss my Evo rooted! help

i miss my evo being rooted!!...on friday i got my replacement and i cant root it my new EVO with unrevoked yet. a message keeps popping up saying that my FIRMWARE is too new. I dont know but i find my phone super boring with it being stock. can someone help me out please?
this is my software info
Android
2.2
Baseband
2.15.00.11.19
Kernal Verison
2.6.32.17-gee557fd
[email protected] # 15
Build number
3.70.651.1
Software number
3.70651.1
PRI Version
1.90_003
PRL Version
60678

1. Download and install the hboot drivers
2. Install then uninstall htc sync
3. Enable usb debugging on phone
4. From the bootloader, select clear storage [factory reset]
5. Star phone normally, connect phone to pc in charge only
6. Run unrevoked

Did you try unrevoked 3 ?

reaper24 said:
Did you try unrevoked 3 ?
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yes i did....

teh roxxorz said:
1. Download and install the hboot drivers
2. Install then uninstall htc sync
3. Enable usb debugging on phone
4. From the bootloader, select clear storage [factory reset]
5. Star phone normally, connect phone to pc in charge only
6. Run unrevoked
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thanks.. ima give this a try when i get home...but would it matter if i already downloaded the hboot drivers to root my previous evo?

did you turn your antivirus off on your computer? if on pc did you right click unrevoked and ran as administrator?

jsantos248 said:
thanks.. ima give this a try when i get home...but would it matter if i already downloaded the hboot drivers to root my previous evo?
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No, they're the same ones, just needed to make sure you had them.

jsantos248 said:
yes i did....
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Man that's weird I just got my evo a week ago brand new never been used in retail box 0004 had no problem rooting it.

emcp422 said:
did you turn your antivirus off on your computer? if on pc did you right click unrevoked and ran as administrator?
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yeah i did both...ive rooted my previous evos and never had a problem..this is the first time

i got my phone thru my insurance would they do something to it ...to make it not able to root it?

do you have something like wheres my droid on your phone, try uninstalling it, if you have qik uninstall updates, my first evo wouldnt root because of them

Reboot your phone, that way when it starts, nothing is running. Then run unrevoked after going through my instructions.

Make sure you download the newest version of unrevoked, I think its up to 3.2 or 3.3 now. Unrevoked 3 is out of date.

jsantos248 said:
i got my phone thru my insurance would they do something to it ...to make it not able to root it?
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Never had that problem only thing I can think of that would of cause that would be whoever had that phone be4 you installed a hboot that wasn't rootable. Refurbs are always someone elses problem that ends up in your lap.
I got mine through them the first one was junk had lines down the screen when you turned it on then called em and they sent a brand new one next day. No problem rooting it.

reaper24 said:
Never had that problem only thing I can think of that would of cause that would be whoever had that phone be4 you installed a hboot that wasn't rootable. Refurbs are always someone elses problem that ends up in your lap.
I got mine through them the first one was junk had lines down the screen when you turned it on then called em and they sent a brand new one next day. No problem rooting it.
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im on the phone with them as we speak...going to tell them im not satisfy and that i want a new phone..so far its wroking lol

I don't know which version of unrevoked you're using, but make sure you're using the newest one as somebody else mentioned. If you're using the version that you used to root previously, uninstall it & install the newest version. If that doesn't work, there are other methods to root.
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so did they replace the phone?
either way, i just want to put in a good word for an alternative to unrevoked: i had a *very* good experience with this universal auto root procedure by xhausx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
his procedure is pretty thorough and has specific instructions for various HW versions and HBOOT versions. it seems to me if you followed it to the letter you would very likely have success.
good luck!

NxNW said:
so did they replace the phone?
either way, i just want to put in a good word for an alternative to unrevoked: i had a *very* good experience with this universal auto root procedure by xhausx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
his procedure is pretty thorough and has specific instructions for various HW versions and HBOOT versions. it seems to me if you followed it to the letter you would very likely have success.
good luck!
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yeah they sent me a BRAND NEW EVO!!...i called last night about 9:00pm and got my new phone today about 12:30pm...so it worked perfectly...now im debating if i wanna root it lol its always something with me

Latest unrevoked and white evo

Myself and my wife both had black evos from launch day. I recently got the nexus 4g and she came back to the evo after trying the arrive. But this time she got a white evo with 3.70.651.1 with either hboot 2.02 or 2.10 I can't remember. But I could have sworn latest unrevoked worked with this. But at the end it says root failed is your firmware to new? what am I doing wrong now that I wasn't before? I know my replacement evo had 3.70.651.1 and hboot 2.02 and it rooted...
Any help would be great thanks guys

Go into the bootloader, select clear storage [factory reset]. Boot into the phone, enable usb debugging, make sure htc was installed at one point, removed when using unrevoked, install the hboot drivers, then run unrevoked.

I've done all that. If im not mistaking once you install hboot drivers once which I did in past then it should still work on any evo I root. USB debugging is on, it just says firmware to new root failed at the end. Is hboot 2.10 rootable with unrevoked?

iceman99393 said:
I've done all that. If im not mistaking once you install hboot drivers once which I did in past then it should still work on any evo I root. USB debugging is on, it just says firmware to new root failed at the end. Is hboot 2.10 rootable with unrevoked?
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She is going to have to get an older PC36IMG and let it downgrade in hboot. I have one that works but I am not on my computer that has it right now. I know there is a website you can find them one (the name slips my mind but I think it is like shipped roms or something?) Just get one of the older versions, update, and see if unrevoked works. (Just don't let the phone update before you run unrevoked.)

iceman99393 said:
Myself and my wife both had black evos from launch day. I recently got the nexus 4g and she came back to the evo after trying the arrive. But this time she got a white evo with 3.70.651.1 with either hboot 2.02 or 2.10 I can't remember. But I could have sworn latest unrevoked worked with this. But at the end it says root failed is your firmware to new? what am I doing wrong now that I wasn't before? I know my replacement evo had 3.70.651.1 and hboot 2.02 and it rooted...
Any help would be great thanks guys
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Just rooted two Evo's in the past week with no problems and they had all the updated firmware and software. Make sure you are using the latest Unrevoked software and try it on a Mac or Win7 machine. I get less errors on either one of them. Win7 make sure you load the drivers like previously mentioned

playya said:
Just rooted two Evo's in the past week with no problems and they had all the updated firmware and software. Make sure you are using the latest Unrevoked software and try it on a Mac or Win7 machine. I get less errors on either one of them. Win7 make sure you load the drivers like previously mentioned
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What hboot?
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

Just run unrevoked again , it will work it just sometimes takes 2 or 3 times. Trust me I've used it over 100 times and I get firmware to new about a quarter of the time.

Arnezie said:
Just run unrevoked again , it will work it just sometimes takes 2 or 3 times. Trust me I've used it over 100 times and I get firmware to new about a quarter of the time.
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I tried3 times but ima reinstall drivers and reflash package and try again. Maybe drivers have been updated when they updated unrevoked? Well see. Thanks
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

Reinstall the hboot drivers and make sure htc sync is uninstalled as it will interfere with adb commands. 2.10 is rootable, all evos at this time are rootable.

also dont forget apps like wheres my droid, lookout, antivirus mess with root process, also your computers antivirus will need to be turned off, because the root exploit is recognized as virus.
when you run the unrevoked file if on pc right click and run as administrator

iceman99393 said:
What hboot?
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App
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newest Hboot 2.10 I believe is the number

[Q] How to unbrick Dinc?

I was Flashing the OTA 2.2 Froyo Leak a while ago and it just didnt finish for some reason. Now when I try to turn it on it Vibrates 5 times and has a green blinking light.
Also it is S-ON now for some reason as well.
I have looked everywhere and cannot find a solotion.
Any help is appreciated.
Edit* I have tried flashing other roms and still nothing, (I can access HBOOT but not Recovery) and I cannot flash recovery either. Everything but Hboot is gone. And i tried flashin Ruu and it says main system too old.

5 Vibrates is usually some kind of hardware issue, where-as 3 vibrates is usually a software issue.
BTW, if you're S-On, how are you going to flash any recovery or ROMs? You need to be S-Off before you can flash anything.

carngeX said:
5 Vibrates is usually some kind of hardware issue, where-as 3 vibrates is usually a software issue.
BTW, if you're S-On, how are you going to flash any recovery or ROMs? You need to be S-Off before you can flash anything.
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How can I get S-OFF then? I can access Recovery but it doesnt do me any good it wont read my sd card.

I have no idea what I did, but it rebooted itself and its working

this is EXTREMELY weird. I had the phone plugged in because I wanted to root, but i was first getting the SD Card files off and when I unplugged the phone the same thing happened already....
So then I plugged the phone on again, went into HBOOT and ran the image until it told me it cant be read, and rebooted and back to normal....
Any idea what happened? I just wanna get opinions out of curiosity.

cvbcbcmv said:
cool. But no you don't want to be s-off for flashing the RUU back to stock, then you actually flash a s-on image first.
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He said he was trying to flash recovery and other ROMs to try and get it to work though too... You can't flash custom recovery without being S-Off.
If you want to flash back the RUU, and go back to complete unrooted stock... then yeah, you want S-On.

carngeX said:
BTW, if you're S-On, how are you going to flash any recovery or ROMs? You need to be S-Off before you can flash anything.
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Untrue, you can flash ROMs without being S-OFF. I was rooted and flashing ROMs before unrevoked released "forever."
Sent from my Droid Incredible running a random CM7 nightly.

it seems the problem is more serious then i imagined... I cant seem to use my phone.. when i connect it to the computer its unrecognizable and I cant do anything with it

SteveG12543 said:
Untrue, you can flash ROMs without being S-OFF. I was rooted and flashing ROMs before unrevoked released "forever."
Sent from my Droid Incredible running a random CM7 nightly.
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So were the images previous to Unrevoked's S-Off patch just signed properly? I didn't get a DINC and root it until after Unrevoked had released their patch.
eljean said:
it seems the problem is more serious then i imagined... I cant seem to use my phone.. when i connect it to the computer its unrecognizable and I cant do anything with it
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Like I said previously, 5 vibrates is usually a hardware issue, meaning you're most likely going to have to send it in for replacement. There's been a few people to recover from a 5-vibrate brick, but they had gotten lucky. You can search the forums and try to find how they fixed it (can't remember the thread off hand, just do a search for 5 vibrates and you'll get lots of results).

carngeX said:
So were the images previous to Unrevoked's S-Off patch just signed properly? I didn't get a DINC and root it until after Unrevoked had released their patch.
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I guess so, idk tbh lol. I've had my Inc since day one, and rooted it rather early.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running a random CM7 nightly.

yeah except i bought off ebay so i cud flash to boost. and i did but then i got too curious and ended up with bad nv items on the phone fixed it, then my meid came as <not available> (which still remains and i believe is the problem) and now this... i cant unplug my fone or it will die on me...
i need to get S-OFF and i might be able to fix it... any ideas on how to do this through HBOOT

i need to flash a rom thats what i need to do, because ihave no drivers.., thats the hardware issue and my meid but thats not importatn

Try using unrevoked while the phone is plugged in and in fastboot/hboot?

k_nivesout said:
Try using unrevoked while the phone is plugged in and in fastboot/hboot?
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How can this be possible? Can you just show me a quick summary and show me links to this method of rooting
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Just google unrevoked and download the unrevoked tool. I thought it did its thing in fastboot, but I could be wrong. Its worth a shot.
And BTW, its not really necessary to be posting multiple threads in multiple forums, it would be easier for you to just check one thread.

fixed it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14440621

k_nivesout said:
Just google unrevoked and download the unrevoked tool. I thought it did its thing in fastboot, but I could be wrong. Its worth a shot.
And BTW, its not really necessary to be posting multiple threads in multiple forums, it would be easier for you to just check one thread.
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Oh no is I bought 2 bricked phones from ebay as a wholesale and im trying to fix both of them which have different issues.

eljean said:
fixed it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14440621
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oh **** theres a fix for this lol i never knew

JoelZ9614 said:
oh **** theres a fix for this lol i never knew
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Yeah the guide was released last month
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