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[Q] Desire Z Rooted or not?

i have purchased a 2nd hand desire z from someone, i noticed it has clockwork and rom manager installed, i think it also has super user rights. I also noticed that the rom is Virtuous 1.0.1. Thinking this meant that the phone was already rooted, i used rom manager to download and install CM7, however it caused the phone to be semi bricked, then i also realised that the phone was also S-ON.
Fortunately i managed to reboot the phone into CWM and restored the previous image, so now the question is, what is wrong?
PS. new to this whole android thingy..

hmmm... sounds like MAYBE you had a temp root?? Is you had superuser you definitely had some form of root, however, i am not sure you can flash a new rom if you dont have S-off (but i could be TOTALLY wrong here)
I have an Evo (and dont have this temp root issue), but i am helping a friend with a similar problem with his G2.
Can you get into recovery? (while phone is off, hold the volume down and power on the phone) If you can, do you have Clockwork recovery or stock android (says 3e at the top i think)?? If you have CW, just enable USB, download a CM7 through your computer, put it on your SD and flash it. SHould be good to go.
If you have stock recovery and S-on.. WELCOME TO MY BOAT... I am trying to find a solution to this for my friends phone. If i figure it out, i can let you know (please do the same??)

I am having the same problem, with the same rom. I can use all root apps, but it says S is ON? I can't put any other rom on my phone with out it going into boot loop or just staying on, HTC screen. Some one please help us, I know there are many phone guru's on this site. Any help would be over the top. O-yeah and I can not get the wifi to connect either says error or turns it self off after scanning? Please please please help. Thank you in advance.
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[email protected] said:
I am having the same problem, with the same rom. I can use all root apps, but it says S is ON? I can't put any other rom on my phone with out it going into boot loop or just staying on, HTC screen. Some one please help us, I know there are many phone guru's on this site. Any help would be over the top. O-yeah and I can not get the wifi to connect either says error or turns it self off after scanning? Please please please help. Thank you in advance.
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If you can boot to an OS, you are WAY ahead lol. Here is description of my problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009593
CHeck the links in that post. MAY be able to help if you can boot to OS?

frettfreak said:
Can you get into recovery? (while phone is off, hold the volume down and power on the phone) If you can, do you have Clockwork recovery or stock android (says 3e at the top i think)?? If you have CW, just enable USB, download a CM7 through your computer, put it on your SD and flash it. SHould be good to go.
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tried using CW to flash CM7 again.. no go.. just stuck at HTC screen after rebooting...

i was also reading thru the goldcard portion of the guides. Should i create one so that i can downgrade my phone back to an earlier ROM? Would appreciate some help to get permaroot.

ok.. i have managed to downgrade to an older rom and did a full root after that.. finally managed to get cm7 working..
was using this guide all the way..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905261

[Q] Am i doomed!?

hi,
i've got a Htc desire HD.
i've tried many diffrent roms and played with it a bit,
but now i got some serious trouble.
i just installed the ultimate droid rom to check it out,
but then my power button stopt working.
It did once before but i got it fixed with a factory reset so i tried that now and it worked for like 2 seconds and so i pulled out the battery to reboot. but then it got in to a bootloop, so that sucked.
then i thought i just install the rom again through the hboot but the biggest one is that when it searches for the PD98IMG.zip it doesnt find it...
soooo.... what i'm a gonna do now?
i've tried to find a way to install a rom through adb but ofcourse adb can't find my device...
any ideas anyone?

You cannot flash PD98IMG.zip in recovery, you have to do it in hboot. If the device does not recognize the PD98IMG, then format your SD card again to FAT32 with full format (no quick format). You can also try another SD.

thanks for the fast reply.
i'm sorry i meant hboot, i'm no gonne try your advice.
when i'm done i'll let you now!

well..
i tried it, with 2 diffrent sd cards but it didn't work

elleuh said:
hi,
i've got a Htc desire HD.
i've tried many diffrent roms and played with it a bit,
but now i got some serious trouble.
i just installed the ultimate droid rom to check it out,
but then my power button stopt working.
It did once before but i got it fixed with a factory reset so i tried that now and it worked for like 2 seconds and so i pulled out the battery to reboot. but then it got in to a bootloop, so that sucked.
then i thought i just install the rom again through the hboot but the biggest one is that when it searches for the PD98IMG.zip it doesnt find it...
soooo.... what i'm a gonna do now?
i've tried to find a way to install a rom through adb but ofcourse adb can't find my device...
any ideas anyone?
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did you do a backup, can you boot into recovery? if so can you not just restore a system image

@jonesjw362
well the big problem with that is that i can't select anything because my power button
is broken..

instal new clockwork recovery . u can control u r select with home , ,menu back and search button
so in short dont panic..ur phone is just fine!

@jags_the1
ok thanks, i didn't think of that!
i'll give a try, i'll let you know if it work out

YES!!
it's fixed!..
i couldn't reinstall clockwork recovery, but in some miraculous way my phone suddenly
pressed select all out of his own..
when i was in recovery i could reinstall my rom
the only thing now is that he doesn't recognize my sim.. but i'll fix that some way
Thanks for all the help!
edit: stupid me i put the sim in the wrong way round

You did it doode.. congrats.. Njoy
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[Q] help g2 buggin out

ok hello xda im having trouble with my g2 phone tha other day i installed launcher pro on my g2 and now i cant remove any apps...the apps would uninstall but when i reboot the phone everything i uninstalled somehow is bak on the phone like i never deleted it..and when i try to do the process to get s-off and permaroot everything goes well till i have to reboot the phone to check if the s-off is there but fail it still says s-on if tryed this process thousands of times still same result...and to top it off when i try to do a factor restore phone phone freezes at HTC white screen ands dosnt move from there...if anybody can help me with this problem i will be extremely happy and greateful thanks in advance

You need to go step by step and tell us what you did.
What method are you using to try to perm root?
What ROM (version number) are you currently on?

[Q] G2 flashing orange and green led lights,won't turn on.

my phone(tmo g2,rooted running extrahotsauce rom) is flashing the green and orange lights now that its charging...the battery was fine and i was doing a backup using clockword mod recovery and once that occured i rebooted,then rebooted again into recovery and from then on the phone hasn't turned back on. i put it on charge at first and no light,left it on for a bit and now there's green and orange led lights blinking continuosly,any one know the cause? and more important, the solution? any help would be much appreciated, thanks
someone posted in the evo 4g forums saying the phone was overheating? doubt that was the issue. but now that it isn't working,i am hoping it is

Turned on but kept shutting down on its own,somehow got it into clockwork mod recovery,wiped data and cache(after backing it up), wanted to install the mexdroid rom and the phone shut off again at the end of the wipe,now it just turns on at the htc screen.
when i hold volume+power and get to the boot screen,it wont let me scroll up and down using volume,instead it automatically just tries to update.
stuck at htc screen,just wanna try to restore my phone,any help would be great. thanks and sorry for being such a damn noob

Do you have a pc10img on your sd card? If so, you need to get that off of there to get into recovery. Also, it sounds like something is seriously wrong with the battery and you should replace it.
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found it,its a zip file right? it wont let me delete it though,is there a certain way to do it?
i have a spare battery,just cant seem to locate it at the moment, might need to buy one if i can't find it soon
nvmm figured it out,lets try it

OMG you are the greatest,its working so far...do i need to put the pc10img back on the sd card in order to install a rom or no?well it wouldn't get to the recovery screen with it on the sd card,sorry i need to get some sleep
NVM,i left pc10img off of the sd card installed the rom,but it wouldn't start,just stayed at the htc screen. I put that file back on the sdcard and it's still just stuck at the white htc screen, know what the issue might be? i have a custom boot animation in there,would that matter?

when i get to the boot screen,it says, s-on at the top,is that why?

If you're s-on then you're not rooted or at least truly rooted, like if you did a temp root with visionary. I would suggest finding the tmo post ota ROM in the development section dated from December, it'll be a PC10IMG, and rooting that with gfree from the wiki. When you have done all that, install ROM Manager from the Market. When you open the app click "Flash Recovery"and you'll be ableto install ROM's from ClockworkMod recovery.
I apologize if you already know some of this stuff, but you sound a bit confused. Hope this helps.
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heybobitsme said:
If you're s-on then you're not rooted or at least truly rooted, like if you did a temp root with visionary. I would suggest finding the tmo post ota ROM in the development section dated from December, it'll be a PC10IMG, and rooting that with gfree from the wiki. When you have done all that, install ROM Manager from the Market. When you open the app click "Flash Recovery"and you'll be ableto install ROM's from ClockworkMod recovery.
I apologize if you already know some of this stuff, but you sound a bit confused. Hope this helps.
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no need to apologize,you're only helping. i told my friend about the issue, and he reccomended a thread on xda that explains how to turn s-off(and root/unroot). it had been rooted, but yeah like you said it was temp rooted using visionary. ill try these methods and post results. thanks alot

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890827&highlight=[Guide]+How+to+Root
so that's the link he sent to me, i was skeptical but still went through with it and yet it still says s-on...i need a guide to show me how to fix just that.
i've never used gfree or wiki,nor do i know how or what of them. is there a thread you can direct me to? ill look for it myself but i think if you were to find it,you'd be able to direct me to the right one since im sure there are multiple threads and you seem to know what's happening and what you're doing

ok so i've tried 5 different methods and nothing seems to result with s-off for me. do i need to unroot and reroot?

i know this thread is old but i just got a referb g2 for my wife and it had this same problem. i found this somewhere else and it actually worked:
try taking out the battery and unplug the charger. then press and hold the power button for roughly a min. Then put the battery back in and press the power button. It should work. it worked for me.
i had tried holding the power button for almost a minute with the battery still in with no luck. doing it this way with the battery out worked though.

[Q] Desire HD bricked? Recovery also not really working...

Hi,
my Desire HD is running with this Custom ROM: "Unofficial CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightlies/M-Series by Mustaavalkosta"
The last flash was some months ago and everything worked fine.
Now the DHD fell about 30cm down on the ground two days ago. I was not able to see any damage on the outside, but there was no reation on teh screen. So I removed the battery and put it back in. The DHD started normally and asked for the PIN code. Unfortunately the touchscreen was not responding, so I removed the battery again...
And from this point my DHD is hanging in the boot process showing me the rotating CM logo for hours if I like... So I am not able to start my DHD anymore. I am able to start the Clockworkmod Recovery and navigate with Volume up and down but when I press the power-Button I see the submenu in a fraction of a second and then the DHD begins to boot...
The SD-Card is not recognized by the PC if I connect the DHD to it.
A have no clue what I can to do recover my Desire HD. At first I hoped to find a solution withpout losing any data, but now I would be happy to get it working again no matter what
I searched the german forums, and now here. I also tried to find something in the Ace Think Tank. I propably missed it in this huge thread.
Can you please help me in any way to fix my DHD again?

Have you got a back-up on your memory card?
In one of the other threads someone else had a similar problem and the way they got past it was renaming the recovery back-up to a PD98IMG.zip and put that on the root of their memory card. Then when booting into the bootloader (Hold Volume - along with power button) they were asked if they wanted to update and then the recovery back-up was installed.
If you haven't got a back-up then you might have to get an RUU, put that on the root of your memory card and go through the same process, just means that u will b starting from scratch though.

Maybe you can try official ruu for your dhd.
Download official ruu from htcdev, go to your recovery,and install the ruu from pc. I hope it work for your problem.
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I agree, try an RUU. Although. It does sound like internal hardware damage. If so. There isn't much you can do buddy
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