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[Q] Unrooted: Why still S-OFF?

I just unrooted my phone by running the RUU update for 3.29.xxx and at bootloader screen, it is still showing S-OFF. Shouldn't it be S-ON? I'd appreciate some feedback as I am heading back to the sprint store and want to be sure the phone is completely unrooted. I recall the other time I ran this same procedure, it went back to S-ON.
TIA

You need to flash the Unrevoked s-on tool. It can be found in several unrooting threads.
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TheMagicalSock said:
You need to flash the Unrevoked s-on tool. It can be found in several unrooting threads.
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Thanks. I suspect it was the tool I used to root that had the Unrevoked component (never had this problem first time around); should've read the fine print...
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so you need to re-root (maybe with unrevoked even) and then flash the s-on tool through recovery. it can be found in the unrevoked wiki. after that, then run the ruu.

dkdude36 said:
so you need to re-root (maybe with unrevoked even) and then flash the s-on tool through recovery. it can be found in the unrevoked wiki. after that, then run the ruu.
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Yup.... exactly. Thanks.....highly appreciated. I guess this explains why most prefer not to use the Unrevoked method.
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glad i could help. another reason people dont like unrevoked is it is now outdated. if you run it with the new protected hboot 2.02, you will get screwed pretty bad.
it used to save people hours of struggle, now it kills ruthlessly (haha)

Just flash this as PC36IMG.zip:
http://goo-inside.me/evo/stock/RUU_...0.09.01_NV_1.77_003_release_154209_signed.zip

drmacinyasha said:
Just flash this as PC36IMG.zip:
http://goo-inside.me/evo/stock/RUU_...0.09.01_NV_1.77_003_release_154209_signed.zip
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Does this downgrade HBOOT to .76.2000? If not, please list the exact steps + files to use. I have copies of Hboot_0.76.2000.zip and Hboot_2.02.0001-Patch but not sure of the other in which to flash them.
Thanks.
EDIT: I was able to get back S-ON, although I observed that bootloader doesn't show the updated value after flashing the unrevoked-s-on zip; not until you attempt to flash the stock PC36IMG file. The above RUU allowed me complete the unrooting process (now with hboot 2.02).
I guess the other pressing question is why do I need hboot 2.02 and not .93 or .76.2000?

Removing unrevoked from my evo

Ok so all I want to do is remove my unrevoked rooting from my phone. I did the one click, not the forever. Can anyone help me remove it? I have all stock roms. Just did unrevoked to add the wireless teetering. THANK YOU
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si_sedan07 said:
Ok so all I want to do is remove my unrevoked rooting from my phone. I did the one click, not the forever. Can anyone help me remove it? I have all stock roms. Just did unrevoked to add the wireless teetering. THANK YOU
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its real easy flash the unrevoked s-on tool untill the bootloader says s-on it may take more than one time it may not after that flash the ruu with the build that came with your phone

So I download the file to my card then what? I'm lost here sorry
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Unrevoked 3.21/3.22 automatically runs Unrevoked Forever after the rooting is done (this is the very last step of the process before your phone boots up). That's why you end up getting NAND unlocked (S-OFF).
So you are looking to go back to stock and do not want to run Wireless Tethering anymore yes?
Download the S-ON tool and place it on the root of your SDcard (not in any folders). Go into recovery and flash the S-ON file and it hopefully should make your phone S-ON again.

Thank you. I'll try that! I'll let you know.
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So it flashed the s-on and no luck. Done it twice ashtray and no luck. Should I keep trying?
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http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
From the unrevoked forever wiki page, it says to download the s-on.zip and flash it. If its not working, try re-downloading another unrevoked-forever-son.zip file and try again, otherwise I'm not sure what else to tell you, sorry.
[GUIDE] How to Unroot the EVO in 2 STEPS
This unroot guide written by djR3Z says to keep trying until it works.

Do you have radio version 2.15.00.11.19? I know you cannot S-OFF while on this radio version, so maybe you cannot S-ON either.
You will need to downgrade the radio first to 2.15.00.09.01. My real suggestion is to flash the mtd-eng.img hack, RUU back to 3.30, S-ON, RUU to 3.70.

I just finished! Had to flash a recovered rom. Stock rom that is. It was quite the process but I did it! Thanks for the help everyone!
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[Q] Inc in bootloop - even after RUU install

Hi - I've got a rooted AMOLED Incredible.
Yesterday, it went into a bootloop. I could get to HBoot but could not get into recovery. I tried flashing multiple other recoveries but still could not get into it from HBoot (it would go into a bootloop every time I chose "Recovery" from HBoot).
Today, I installed an RUU from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11717873&postcount=2
It updated, and then when I rebooted, it went into the same bootloop, this time with the stock splash screen.
I have HBoot 0.92, Radio 7.28. I'm S-off. I've formatted my SD card, and it's FAT32.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
-jaba

Is setcpu installed, and overclocking way high on boot? If setcpu is installed, you s/b able to mount device in adb and remove it.
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smtom said:
Is setcpu installed, and overclocking way high on boot? If setcpu is installed, you s/b able to mount device in adb and remove it.
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no setCPU installed.

Can you dl another ROM like Virtuous and put it on sd, then flash it?
Have you tried another sd?
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smtom said:
Can you dl another ROM like Virtuous and put it on sd, then flash it?
Have you tried another sd?
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I can't get into recovery with bootlooping.
I'll try another SD card.

Basically at this point I'd be happy to get the phone to S-On so that I can take it back to Verizon. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that as I can't access Recovery without going into a bootloop. I've tried to flash other recoveries and they all put me into a bootloop.
Anyone with any thoughts on how to get s-on without recovery?
Thanks!

I would say flash a bp31img through hboot. That should put you s-on i believe. If you cannot find a pb31img ill come back latter with a link for dl. The pb31img should put you completely stock. The image i have though is from the first shippments of 2.1 but its still stock.
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linuxmotion said:
I would say flash a bp31img through hboot. That should put you s-on i believe. If you cannot find a pb31img ill come back latter with a link for dl. The pb31img should put you completely stock. The image i have though is from the first shippments of 2.1 but its still stock.
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I tried that and it didn't work. Thanks, though.
I took the phone to verizon and they are sending me a new one.

Any solution to this?

To get s-on you need to be able to access recovery. Also what rom were you on when the phone messed up, was it cm7?

cmlusco said:
To get s-on you need to be able to access recovery. Also what rom were you on when the phone messed up, was it cm7?
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I was on SR 4.2 but I figured it out. The first time I RUU'd the phone was shaking all over the place so I think that just ****ed it up. I reflashed the RUU and it's good to go. I decided I am just going to sell it to my buddy as a stock unrooted with S-OFF, screw it.
Thanks though.

REYES702 said:
I was on SR 4.2 but I figured it out. The first time I RUU'd the phone was shaking all over the place so I think that just ****ed it up. I reflashed the RUU and it's good to go. I decided I am just going to sell it to my buddy as a stock unrooted with S-OFF, screw it.
Thanks though.
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Don't give up hope just now to S-ON. Have you read the below page for getting S-ON?
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
It should work with stock recovery as long as you're on one of the listed radios.
Get the unrevoked-forever-son.zip and follow instructions for unrevoked-forever.zip, renaming to update.zip

Quick question, I RUU'd back to Froyo so can he still receive the OTA with S-OFF? Or does it need to be S-ON?

REYES702 said:
Quick question, I RUU'd back to Froyo so can he still receive the OTA with S-OFF? Or does it need to be S-ON?
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It can be s-off but everything else must be stock, including recovery and having all original apps. Since its s-off rooting after the ota is no problem if desired.

[Q] Turning S-On with Halfway Rooted EVO

So I tried to run Unrevoked 3 with my friend's Hardware 0004 EVO. It recognized the phone and started rooting, but it didn't work. Unfortunately, now it only has S-Off and no superuser or custom recovery and he would like to go back to s-on.
Can I just flash the Unrevoked_forever_s-on.zip? And how should I do it since there's no custom recovery?

snowboarda42 said:
So I made the stupid mistake of attempting to run Unrevoked 3 with my friend's Hardware 0004 EVO. Needless to say, it didn't work. Unfortunately, now it only has S-Off and no superuser or custom recovery and would like to go back to s-on.
Can I just flash the Unrevoked_forever_s-on.zip? And how should I do it since there's no custom recovery?
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Unrevoked works on hardware 0004, and the 3.70 software. Sometimes it doesn't run correctly or completely the first time. Run it again, and be sure that there are no programs on your computer that are trying to communicate with your phone whein its plugged in to USB (pdanet, dropbox, music syncing etc). I would run Unrevoked again until it works. If not, download a PC36IMG or RUU and flash back to stock. You can't flash the s-on tool without recovery, so you'd need to RUU back to stock, or flash PC36IMG using the bootloader, get to stock, then re root. But yea, I know for sure that Unrevoked now works on all versions, they updated a while back. I've used it a few times, no issues. Good luck.
All PC36IMG's and RUU's can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu

Perfect thank you!
(I'll hit the thanks button when I'm on my laptop)
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snowboarda42 said:
Perfect thank you!
(I'll hit the thanks button when I'm on my laptop)
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You're welcome. Did you get it all sorted out?
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Not yet, I haven't had the chance to look at his phone yet. I'll update this if anything goes awry.

[Q] Help!!!! phone is on v2.3.3 with S-OFF NEED to turn S-ON

I tried to root my husbands htc evo phone but it was interrupted and was not able to try again. He was able to update the software when sprint sent it out but somehow when I went into his bootloader it has S-OFF. I need to return the phone to sprint. Is there any way I can turn S-ON again?

How were u trying to root? Which process?
Taking my experience into account:
Ive been rooted with unrEVOked...and unrooted using the Stock RUU zip. BUT....prior to that...S-on needs to be recovered. The process in which Ive used was following the enclosed link.
Hope it helps...good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141

tgeigel said:
I tried to root my husbands htc evo phone but it was interrupted and was not able to try again. He was able to update the software when sprint sent it out but somehow when I went into his bootloader it has S-OFF. I need to return the phone to sprint. Is there any way I can turn S-ON again?
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If it is S-OFF, just run a stock RUU EXE file... 3.70 seems to work just fine. it will return the device to complete stock, including the bootloader for 3.70 release/ship.

The only way to get s-off to s-on is to flash the unrevoked s-on tool. You can run the RUU all you want and return the partitions to stock, s will still remain off. Well it should anyhow, strange things happen sometimes...
That link in the second post gives you both. Flash s-on then flash the RUU, dont go the other way around...

I was rooting using unrevoked but somehow it got interrupted and didn't finish the process. This was before he update his phone
Even though the phone has the updated software?
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tgeigel said:
I was rooting using unrevoked but somehow it got interrupted and didn't finish the process. This was before he update his phone
Even though the phone has the updated software?
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Is the phone stock currently? If so just flash the s-on tool, it should work (though I havent heard anyone attempting this yet). If you need to return partitions to stock or an older version of android then run the RUU.

also PM a Mod and ask them to move this to Q please, only post developed work in the DEVELOPMENT section...

tgeigel said:
I was rooting using unrevoked but somehow it got interrupted and didn't finish the process. This was before he update his phone
Even though the phone has the updated software?
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Did the update change the Hboot version from 2.10 to 2.16?
Power off the phone, hold Vol Down and Power and wait for Bootloader to run to see which version is on the device.

evomattnc said:
The only way to get s-off to s-on is to flash the unrevoked s-on tool. You can run the RUU all you want and return the partitions to stock, s will still remain off. Well it should anyhow, strange things happen sometimes...
That link in the second post gives you both. Flash s-on then flash the RUU, dont go the other way around...
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This is wrong. I was S-OFF since June of 2010 when I bought it and rooted, I just recently had to return my device and get it swapped. I simply ran the RUU Exe, I then made sure to check because I didn't want to return it with S-OFF, and it was S-ON. I didn't run any S-ON Tool or anything else other than the RUU Exe.

Unknownforce said:
This is wrong. I was S-OFF since June of 2010 when I bought it and rooted, I just recently had to return my device and get it swapped. I simply ran the RUU Exe, I then made sure to check because I didn't want to return it with S-OFF, and it was S-ON. I didn't run any S-ON Tool or anything else other than the RUU Exe.
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Thanks. Plz move this thread to QA sorry I posted in the wrong thread.
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I tried to run the s-on tool but it says unsupported radio and it aborts
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Had the same problem so i just downgraded the radio but i need help because i turned s-on before installing stock rom and now i dont have a rom at all installed and i need to get it back to stock by today :0

BLiizz said:
Had the same problem so i just downgraded the radio but i need help because i turned s-on before installing stock rom and now i dont have a rom at all installed and i need to get it back to stock by today :0
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You tried just resetting the phone? Like a data factory reset.
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Run the ruu now...
BLiizz said:
Had the same problem so i just downgraded the radio but i need help because i turned s-on before installing stock rom and now i dont have a rom at all installed and i need to get it back to stock by today :0
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You get yours fixed t geigel?
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You tried just resetting the phone? Like a data factory reset.
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Youre wrong...unless you upgraded your hboot with the ruu. We usually use the ruu for your hboot...I need you to talk less now...
Unknownforce said:
This is wrong. I was S-OFF since June of 2010 when I bought it and rooted, I just recently had to return my device and get it swapped. I simply ran the RUU Exe, I then made sure to check because I didn't want to return it with S-OFF, and it was S-ON. I didn't run any S-ON Tool or anything else other than the RUU Exe.
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You get yours fixed t geigel?
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No my computer was not reading my phone properly and it wasn't downloading the driver either. So I just decided to send the phone back to sprint with the s-off. I ran the ruu and it didn't connect to my phone
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ok so i have my s-on and i ran the pc36img and my phone is still rooted am i doing something wrong i need to take it back to the store so i can get my 3d today

I have run the stock ruu on my phone and it unrooted and was back to S-on with no problem.
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Youre wrong...unless you upgraded your hboot with the ruu. We usually use the ruu for your hboot...I need you to talk less now...
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Unknownforce said:
This is wrong. I was S-OFF since June of 2010 when I bought it and rooted, I just recently had to return my device and get it swapped. I simply ran the RUU Exe, I then made sure to check because I didn't want to return it with S-OFF, and it was S-ON. I didn't run any S-ON Tool or anything else other than the RUU Exe.
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The reason yours switched to s-on is because the root method you used included the ENG bootloader. If the root method included unrevoked forever then the only way to achieve s-on is with the s-on tool. So no, he wasn't wrong he could have been more thorough in his explination that's all.
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