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So I have been rooted for the past 8 hrs.
I went from the original july 5th evo 1.32 to 2.2 froyo rooted.
Now throughout this process - actually awhile back, I deleted some folders (audio,pictures) from the SD.
what I would like to do is to get my SD card back to original factory SD.
all the files/folder and if possible to 1.32 root or unrooted.
Basically I would like to start from scratch and with the knowledge gained, I can optimize and learn more about the system.
is this possible?
I dont care if I lose all my apps and whatnot I have gained. I would like to go as if I have just purchased the phone from day 1.
wow
dude i think the apps will just create a folder on the sd card for you so if you really want to just format the sd card then turn on your phone and use it, i think that is what you are talking about?
grrgrrgrr said:
So I have been rooted for the past 8 hrs.
I went from the original july 5th evo 1.32 to 2.2 froyo rooted.
Now throughout this process - actually awhile back, I deleted some folders (audio,pictures) from the SD.
what I would like to do is to get my SD card back to original factory SD.
all the files/folder and if possible to 1.32 root or unrooted.
Basically I would like to start from scratch and with the knowledge gained, I can optimize and learn more about the system.
is this possible?
I dont care if I lose all my apps and whatnot I have gained. I would like to go as if I have just purchased the phone from day 1.
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"you must be the change you wish to see in the world"
Could just format your sd card to wipe it, then do a factory rest on your phone. Don't see how going back to a 1.32 rom is going to matter. When you do that your phone will create the stock folders on the sd card on boot.
However if you wanted to do it your way, I believe you would have to load a 1.42 rom first then run the 1.36 ruu.
All advice in the post is brought to you by an android noob so take it as it is.
Well It seems my HTC.gallery isn't working, I can't get to my wallpaper and some system setting is force closing. Not sure if I deleted important files/folder or advance task killer f'ed it up. Lastly I just got the xda app and it says this was done by pc36100??? Why doesn't it say evo?
Thank u in advance
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grrgrrgrr said:
Well It seems my HTC.gallery isn't working, I can't get to my wallpaper and some system setting is force closing. Not sure if I deleted important files/folder or advance task killer f'ed it up. Lastly I just got the xda app and it says this was done by pc36100??? Why doesn't it say evo?
Thank u in advance
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there is nothing important on the sdcard when you first get it. If youre getting force close (FC) errors, then check with the rom documentation, perhaps you missed a step or perhaps its a know bug. the XDA app goes by the name of the phone (i think) which is the PC36100, just change the signature part in the settings.
If you go to menu -> settings in the xda app you can make your sig say whatever you want. It's currently set to the default sig which displays the model number. This can also be found under your battery if you take it out (if my memory is right).
If you're having problems and want stock just install a stock 2.2 rooted rom. Should solve any of your issues. Like was stated in the post before this, make sure you read the rom install instructions, some you need to do wipes.
Also if you're using the 3d gallery from the n1 (i think) I believe there is an issue with it fc if opened in portrait mode. Open in landscape and then you can rotate to portrait.
it dosent say evo because
grrgrrgrr said:
Well It seems my HTC.gallery isn't working, I can't get to my wallpaper and some system setting is force closing. Not sure if I deleted important files/folder or advance task killer f'ed it up. Lastly I just got the xda app and it says this was done by pc36100??? Why doesn't it say evo?
Thank u in advance
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you have the engineering hboot hold volume down while pressing power then i bet you will see that it says "HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC3610000)"
MAJOR HELP NEEDED PLEASE.
Basic Info
Im rooted, nand unlocked and was on fresh. I nandroid backup into Ava-FroyoV5 Rom
From there I unmounted my SD and formatted.
Followed by Factory Reset.
Phone boots up, I enter back into Ava-FroyoV5
I connect my phone to the PC to view the SD - as expected everything gone.
I downloaded strong file manager to confirm, it's confirmed.
But how/why did my phone manage to boot than since the pc36img file is gone?
or the Ava-FroyoV5.zip is gone? Why is my phone working and not stuck???
I made sure to view all hidden files in the SD and it shows the following folders:
.android_secure
downloads
LOST.dir
so now my question is - am I STILL ROOTED???
if not, what do I do now?
If I am;
where can I get a 1.32 or 2.2 stock rom? All the 1.32 rom links are dead and I can't seem to find a stock 2.2 rom.
Lastly - let's assume where I am right now, with AVA-froyoV5 - can I download titanium backup and get my stuff back since I had them backed up??? I dont see how but than again I dont see how my phone read ava-froyov5....
bump - changed my last post to something else - urgent help, read above, sorry n thanks
Yes you should still be rooted. Once the pc36img file was flashes to the phone it no longer needs to be on the card. That is also why your phone booted with no problems. You should be able to find a stock rooted 2.2 in the development forum. I'm pretty sure Netarchy and Steelh both have it posted.
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Never used Titanium Backup, did you back up to sd card or online? If you backed it up to your sd card and did not back up your card before you formatted it the info is gone. Any alps you had purchased should show up in the Market so you can redownload them.
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BrianBusby2038 said:
Never used Titanium Backup, did you back up to sd card or online? If you backed it up to your sd card and did not back up your card before you formatted it the info is gone. Any alps you had purchased should show up in the Market so you can redownload them.
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thanks, was wondering how powerful titanium was, if it was able to bring it back, but it doesnt.
No loss - i wanted to get everything original but rooted and I have achieved that.
But now im still lost in the logic of, how did my phone boot up?
the way im thinking in my head is:
I format my Harddrive, thus removing windows
yet when I turn on my computer, it loads into windows
But I haven't installed windows after the format.
So how did it find Ava-FroyoV5 (bootloader???)
Will it be able to find the Fresh Rom as well?? (I was scared to turn the phone off and thought I got lucky here)
grrgrrgrr said:
the way im thinking in my head is:
I format my Harddrive, thus removing windows
yet when I turn on my computer, it loads into windows
But I haven't installed windows after the format.
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But what if the first time you booted Windows, it loaded all of the Windows files into BIOS?
Sent from my blah blah blah blah
Since Ava was the last time you were running, it was stored on the phone not on the sd card, same as if you were to boot and unrooted phone wo an ad card it would still boot the stock 2.1 or 2.2. The phone always searches for a pc36img file on reboot but doesn't need one to boot into the os.
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so than, how do I get access to the internal memory???
Should be able to access it via ADB or possibly through a terminal emulator. What are you trying to do?
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exploring atm. just learning how the phone works.
Like a human anatomy.
Most unrooted ppl enjoys how the body works, the structure, bones.
Rooted (SD) are the blood, veins, organs
Internal memory are the inside of organs, the blood cells, etc
so im just learning right now.
Also I'd probably want to delete stuff in there perhaps?
I just got my stock 2.2 root rom which will be my fallback to anything I mess up on.
I guess my end goal is to see how a rom works and how the phone works. Than if possible, to make my own mod (if its easy)
Or to find a rom that has the bare bones.
removed all default images (live, static wallpapers, audio, etc)
removed all apps that can be downloaded on market if needs be.
basically bare bones with the fast/power engines, tires, transmission that makes the phone (car) run.
Leave the styling, seats, weight, etc to me.
Gotcha, check out Cyanogen or one of the AOSP roms if you want the highest possible performance.
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I rooted my HTC Droid Incredible with Android 2.2 using unrevoked, but did not flash a new rom. Everything worked fine. My SD card crapped out a couple of days ago, so that it becomes corrupt every time the phone reboots. I've since tried to flash skyraider 4.0 and others, but to no avail. I tried to factory reset all of the data on my phone, but it just reboots with all of my information in tact.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong or what the hell I should do to fix it?
me144 said:
I rooted my HTC Droid Incredible with Android 2.2 using unrevoked, but did not flash a new rom. Everything worked fine. My SD card crapped out a couple of days ago, so that it becomes corrupt every time the phone reboots. I've since tried to flash skyraider 4.0 and others, but to no avail. I tried to factory reset all of the data on my phone, but it just reboots with all of my information in tact.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong or what the hell I should do to fix it?
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Well, I have no idea what's wrong, but try mounting the SD card to PC from in recovery and see if that lets you flash
Make sure sd is formatted FAT32
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and if reformatting does not work, swap out sd cards and you should be good as new.
Strange issues!!
I’m in need of some help!! I have a droid inc that was rooted for many months with no issues. I wanted to change the boot animation. To do this I was instructed to get a root explorer which from the market. I need to move the “bootanimation” file from the sd to the “system/media” folder. After doing this the device lost connection to many of the apps. They no longer showed as being installed on the device. I could no longer “install or uninstall” anything. When trying to restore apps from titanium backup I needed to reinstall them because the had lines through them as thought they were not installed, but the apps get stuck on “installing” I tried formatting the card and recopying the data back to it but that didn’t help, so I tried to wipe the device. Doing this I was able to re download titanium backup but still the same problem with the apps getting stuck on install. Finally I unrooted the device back to a stock rom at jonsuh.com/2011/01/unroot-your-droid-incredible/[/url] I now have installed the drivers and ran the unrevoked3 rom but I get hung up on the “installing unrevoked3 service” Please help me to get my dinc back to a working order where I can restore my titanium backup files.
Hi,
I need some help please. Running CM7 7.0.0, using RomManager and ClockworkMod 3.0.0.5. I've been very busy with work and school so have not had much time to play with the phone, so two days ago I wanted to checkout one of the nightlies and installed nightly#101. Then I thought I haven't updated the PRL in a while and dowloaded the stock odexed version 4.20 from RomManager. I updated and then went back to the nightly#101.
This time though everytime I tried to make a phone call I would get a "Call has been lost" message. I figured must be a bug in this nightly or something. So using clockworkmod went back to CM7 7.0.0 backup. That's where my problems started. When the phone came on it was not reading the SD card (I tested it in my girlfriend's phone and it is good, I borrowed hers and the evo didn't read it), I could not turn on the bluetooth and when I rebooted it vibrated 5X and then the green light would blink. I though maybe the battery is dead, so I let it charge for 30 mins and the phone came on. I tried to reboot into recovery so I could reinstall the backup, but it would vibrate and blink, and sometimes it would come on and others not, almost randomly it seems.
Today, I found this fix for the SD card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1017387 and it worked.
However, the bluetooth is still not working and can't go into recovery. It seems that the only time I can get the phone to turn on and vibrate and blink is if I 1)put the battery in, 2)Press the power button and 3)plug the power in. Don't know why that works.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Recovery works now!
So I turned the phone on, went to RomManager and reflashed clockworkmod and tried to go into recovery from there, but it vibrated and blinked. I took the battery out, put it back in pressed power and vol down together and selected recovery and it didn't work (by the way, hboot.97 and it says s-on even though I had rooted with unrevoked and it was s-off).
I turned the phone back on figured let me try amon-ra since I have an amon-ra created backup in my computer. I turned the phone off, turned on with power+vol down, went to recovery and clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 loaded up.
I tried the reflash my backup and then once it completed, i hit reboot and it vibrated and blinked. Took battery out and put back in procedure again. went back to clockworkmod wiped cache and dalvik (not sure if needed, but figure it can't hurt). Rebooted from Cwm, but vibrated and blinked, and I did my boot up procedure again.
Bluetooth still not working, wifi works, wimax works.
I think maybe I should unroot go back to stock and see if that works. If it doesn't at least I can bring it to sprint and get a replacement.
I love CM7 and don't like Sense or Sprint bloatware.
I see 2 of your problems right off hand; Rom Manager and Clockwork Mod.
Get rid of RM and switch to Amon Ra.
HipKat said:
I see 2 of your problems right off hand; Rom Manager and Clockwork Mod.
Get rid of RM and switch to Amon Ra.
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i second that!!!
to the OP....what I would try (as a last resort) is factory reset your phone and unroot (run the 2.2 RUU or any other method that unroots), then try to reroot your phone....and flash Amon_RA as opposed to RM and CWM. then reflash the rooted 4.22 ROM, do your updates of radios, prls, etc. and then CM7....that might do the trick. I'm suggesting this cause you said:
topollillo said:
by the way, hboot.97 and it says s-on
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and question for ya....you had used Amon_RA but then went to RM and CWM?? why???
I rooted with unrevoked and then installed rommanager. i had then installed amonra, because of what i had read about CWM and the rsa keys backups. but went back because of the convenience when flashing roms.
So now i have discovered that the Usb is not working. I tried the fix in the same thread as the sd card fix, but it did not work.
I'm going to go back to 2.2 see if that fixes it and then follow your steps.
If it doesn't fix then will go to sprint for a new phone
Will report back on what happens. Thanks.
do u have an sd card reader
and yeah amon ra is way better than clockwordmod
back to 2.2 bluetooth not working, usb not working, vibration + light still happening.
If I call sprint to get a replacement phone, they will prob ask me to make sure I have the latest software. should I just accept the OTA and see what happens, or am I risking losing root? Does it not matter?
I don't have an sd card reader, downloaded to phone over wifi.
how can s-on happen automatically. I had rooted and had s-off with unrevoked forever?
Apparently you messed something up, because with s-on, you aren't rooted. I would boot into the bootloader, do a clear storage [factory reset], then try unrevoked again. Make sure you have the hboot drivers, installed then uninstalled htc sync.
Went to the Sprint store after an unpleasant phone chat with sprint support. They tried to force the phone to update, that didn't work. So they gave me a new phone.
So I don't mess up this one, could someone give me a recommendation as to how I should go about rooting and installing CM7. Use unrevoked, install amon-ra, flash to my heart's content. Avoid Rom manager. Please fill in some blanks for me, if you have a link to a good guide it would be great. I know there are a lot of great guides here, unfortunately with work, school and the wife I don't have the time I used to have to enjoy my day reading up on the forums.
All your help was greatly appreciated.
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topollillo said:
Went to the Sprint store after an unpleasant phone chat with sprint support. They tried to force the phone to update, that didn't work. So they gave me a new phone.
So I don't mess up this one, could someone give me a recommendation as to how I should go about rooting and installing CM7. Use unrevoked, install amon-ra, flash to my heart's content. Avoid Rom manager. Please fill in some blanks for me, if you have a link to a good guide it would be great. I know there are a lot of great guides here, unfortunately with work, school and the wife I don't have the time I used to have to enjoy my day reading up on the forums.
All your help was greatly appreciated.
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Yup, that is fine. Though if the new phone has 2.3 on it, you can't root it yet; if still on 2.2, use unrevoked and good to go.
I had the same blinking light and vibrating probelms on my evo. Mine was overheating really bad. It would run at a constant 102 degrees and when it hit 104 it would shutdown. I called sprint and told them what was happeningand without any questions or problems they sent me a brand new one in the box(non refurbished)
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So I was running Synergy + God Mode and today my phone decided to reboot itself. Well not it keeps locking up at the htc EVO 4G white screen or sometimes will get as far as the Synergy splash screen but will just loop.
So to back up a bit I previously had moved the Dalvik cache to the sd card as well as most all apps. This has been running fine for weeks.
I was able to get it to boot once after I removed the sd card but now it won't even with that. I tried wiping the phone from recovery and still nothing.
Any ideas? this is annoying. I've never run into an issue this bad before. I've always been able to repair either with a nandroid backup or just a wipe.
I tried restoring a nandroid backup and it just sat there with the lines getting longer and longer 1 dot at a time. Actually filled the whole screen and never actually finished.
Try a RRU
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I would try an RUU.exe
Which HBOOT do you have? If you can get to HBOOT, then you should be able to go back to stock and solve most problems
I'm running the 0.76.200 HBOOT.
I will probably end up having to go back to stock but would like to keep that as a last resort.
I think I narrowed down my problem. Anytime I go into recovery and try and wipe anything that has to do with the ext3 partition it either locks up or for instance I'm now trying to repair the ext3 partition and it just keeps adding dots. Just keeps working and seems to get nowhere.
I can still access everything else on the SD card just errors of sorts when dealing with the ext partition.
well got it working after RUU but i still wish I knew what caused it in the first place
Hey folks,
Thanks for taking the time to read/assist. I don't typically do these kinds of posts and am at my wit's end!
Phone's Previous Setup - MIUI Gingerbread, Rooted (but with S-ON after the fact).
What happened:
My HTC Incredible finally got to the point of being practically unuseable with laggy behavior and random restarts and the like, so I decided to complete a reset to factory settings or wipe.
I completed my backups using Titanium (apps) and ClockworkMod Recovery (full backup). After this, I went ahead and opened up Settings and directed the phone to complete a Reset to Factory Settings. It ran through the process, rebooted, and came up jelly. While no custom apps were installed (expected), my folder settings on my main home page were saved, along with some previous text messages. I was pleasantly surprised.
From here, I wished to wipe the SD Card so as to make sure it was clean of any residual folders/files that might cause conflict down the road (based on advice from others). So, headed to the SD card part of the settings. Had to unmount the SD card to format, proceeded to do so.
Here's where things went wonky: Despite receiving a confirmation that the SD card format had proceeded, nothing else ever happened. I attempted to mount the card again w/o luck (kept getting a msg that it was now unmounted). Eventually, I decided to go ahead and restart the phone and see if that helps. Big mistake.
From this point forward, the phone refuses to fully start up into any Android ROM. Initially, it hung on the white HTC Incredible splash screen (yes, even w/ giving it an hour+ of time). I tried wiping and reflashing different ROMS over the period of the day yesterday to no avail.
Doing a full recovery via ClockworkMod (from my backup that I made before and copied back onto the SD card via USB) leaves me stuck on the HTC Incredible white splash screen.
MIUI - 2.2.10
Hangs on white splash screen
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed
MIUI - 2.2.17
Loads past white and MIUI splash screens
Instead of loading into Android homescreen, immediately loads up "Encryption" error and directs to "reset phone."
Repeated restart and attempts of resetting phone don't work
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
MIUI - 1.12.9
Hangs on white splash screen.
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
CM - 7.1.0
Hangs/loops on CM splash screen.
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
CM - 6.1.0
Hangs/loops on CM splash screen.
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
I looked into HBOOT options, getting PB31IMG.ZIP and PG86IMG.ZIP.img thinking maybe I could try reverting to stock at a friend's suggestion. HBOOT sees the files and "checks" them, even briefly showing a small vertical blue loading bar at the top-right corner, but never attempts to run/update them as I am lead to expect from all the instructions/encounters I've found on the net suggest. The screen info flashes by so quickly, I can barely read it, but I confirmed that it said "checking" and not updating or such. x.x
I considered trying to flash an updated copy of ClockworkMod Recovery, but I cannot do that w/o being able to load up the phone into Android.
I cannot run anything desktop-side, like ADB, as they all require the phone started up and put into USB-debugging mode.
I've looked into and tried all this and more, but nothing seems to be working.
My next idea is to try to forcibly downgrade the phone. Reasoning being that I read that the HBOOT will not try to update if it senses that the ROM is newer than its default settings(?). So, I need a good choice of "old" ROM that I can attempt to install via the HBOOT or CWM Recovery, and verify I have the correct files for HBOOT to try updating/running.
Again, this is a speculative attempt, but I'm willing to try whatever might work! Otherwise, I've got a fancy brick and my well-being on the line w/ no $$ to replace the phone. x.x
Thanks again for reading and hopefully offering some wonderful assistance! Sorry it's so long!
Feel free to ask Qs if you need clarification on stuff.
wigmuke said:
Hey folks,
Thanks for taking the time to read/assist. I don't typically do these kinds of posts and am at my wit's end!
Phone's Previous Setup - MIUI Gingerbread, Rooted (but with S-ON after the fact).
What happened:
My HTC Incredible finally got to the point of being practically unuseable with laggy behavior and random restarts and the like, so I decided to complete a reset to factory settings or wipe.
I completed my backups using Titanium (apps) and ClockworkMod Recovery (full backup). After this, I went ahead and opened up Settings and directed the phone to complete a Reset to Factory Settings. It ran through the process, rebooted, and came up jelly. While no custom apps were installed (expected), my folder settings on my main home page were saved, along with some previous text messages. I was pleasantly surprised.
From here, I wished to wipe the SD Card so as to make sure it was clean of any residual folders/files that might cause conflict down the road (based on advice from others). So, headed to the SD card part of the settings. Had to unmount the SD card to format, proceeded to do so.
Here's where things went wonky: Despite receiving a confirmation that the SD card format had proceeded, nothing else ever happened. I attempted to mount the card again w/o luck (kept getting a msg that it was now unmounted). Eventually, I decided to go ahead and restart the phone and see if that helps. Big mistake.
From this point forward, the phone refuses to fully start up into any Android ROM. Initially, it hung on the white HTC Incredible splash screen (yes, even w/ giving it an hour+ of time). I tried wiping and reflashing different ROMS over the period of the day yesterday to no avail.
Doing a full recovery via ClockworkMod (from my backup that I made before and copied back onto the SD card via USB) leaves me stuck on the HTC Incredible white splash screen.
MIUI - 2.2.10
Hangs on white splash screen
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed
MIUI - 2.2.17
Loads past white and MIUI splash screens
Instead of loading into Android homescreen, immediately loads up "Encryption" error and directs to "reset phone."
Repeated restart and attempts of resetting phone don't work
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
MIUI - 1.12.9
Hangs on white splash screen.
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
CM - 7.1.0
Hangs/loops on CM splash screen.
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
CM - 6.1.0
Hangs/loops on CM splash screen.
No go w/ or w/o SD card installed.
I looked into HBOOT options, getting PB31IMG.ZIP and PG86IMG.ZIP.img thinking maybe I could try reverting to stock at a friend's suggestion. HBOOT sees the files and "checks" them, even briefly showing a small vertical blue loading bar at the top-right corner, but never attempts to run/update them as I am lead to expect from all the instructions/encounters I've found on the net suggest. The screen info flashes by so quickly, I can barely read it, but I confirmed that it said "checking" and not updating or such. x.x
I considered trying to flash an updated copy of ClockworkMod Recovery, but I cannot do that w/o being able to load up the phone into Android.
I cannot run anything desktop-side, like ADB, as they all require the phone started up and put into USB-debugging mode.
I've looked into and tried all this and more, but nothing seems to be working.
My next idea is to try to forcibly downgrade the phone. Reasoning being that I read that the HBOOT will not try to update if it senses that the ROM is newer than its default settings(?). So, I need a good choice of "old" ROM that I can attempt to install via the HBOOT or CWM Recovery, and verify I have the correct files for HBOOT to try updating/running.
Again, this is a speculative attempt, but I'm willing to try whatever might work! Otherwise, I've got a fancy brick and my well-being on the line w/ no $$ to replace it. x.x
Thanks again for reading and hopefully offering some wonderful assistance! Sorry it's so long!
Feel free to ask Qs if you need clarification on stuff.
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You need to gain s-off again before flashing with clockwork. How come you turned it back on?
"In a nutshell, S-OFF means that the NAND portion of the device is unlocked and can be written to. The default setting for HTC’s devices is S-ON, which means that neither can you access certain areas of the system nor can you guarantee a permanent root. Furthermore, signature check for firmware images is also ensured by the S-ON flag."
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gain s=off boot into CMW wipe data, and factory reset. Flash a new rom of your choice and then boot. should get you back to a working phone.
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You need to gain s-off again before flashing with clockwork. How come you turned it back on?
"In a nutshell, S-OFF means that the NAND portion of the device is unlocked and can be written to. The default setting for HTC’s devices is S-ON, which means that neither can you access certain areas of the system nor can you guarantee a permanent root. Furthermore, signature check for firmware images is also ensured by the S-ON flag."
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gain s=off boot into CMW wipe data, and factory reset. Flash a new rom of your choice and then boot. should get you back to a working phone.
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The first time my phone was rooted/flashed, my bf did it for me. He used Unrevoked to root it and install CWM Recovery (v2.5.1.2 presently). I recall conversation being that having S-On would be better security with regards to the cell carrier (e.g., good to leave on, bad if off as they can see you rooted). So I agreed to having it put back to S-On, which I understood he then took care of.
Fast-forward a year and he now tells me he didn't actually end up running the other Unrevoked (Forever) tool to put S-On back in place, but that it simply *was*, so he left it that way. o.o;
Keep in mind, I've flashed 3 different ROMs since he originally rooted and flashed, w/o issues.
I pulled up everything to try re-rooting it again (to gain S-Off), but the instructions required having the phone loaded up and in debugging mode, which I cannot do as I cannot start up the phone past recovery in the first place.
Did I miss something that allows it via recovery? Going to check again in the meantime.
wigmuke said:
The first time my phone was rooted/flashed, my bf did it for me. He used Unrevoked to root it and install CWM Recovery (v2.5.1.2 presently). I recall conversation being that having S-On would be better security with regards to the cell carrier (e.g., good to leave on, bad if off as they can see you rooted). So I agreed to having it put back to S-On, which I understood he then took care of.
Fast-forward a year and he now tells me he didn't actually end up running the other Unrevoked (Forever) tool to put S-On back in place, but that it simply *was*, so he left it that way. o.o;
Keep in mind, I've flashed 3 different ROMs since he originally rooted and flashed, w/o issues.
I pulled up everything to try re-rooting it again (to gain S-Off), but the instructions required having the phone loaded up and in debugging mode, which I cannot do as I cannot start up the phone past recovery in the first place.
Did I miss something that allows it via recovery? Going to check again in the meantime.
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actually its better to keep it s=off so this type of situation wont happen. Your carrier cant see your hboot from my understanding on how this phone works. They dont care if you have root or not, unless you are trying to exchange the phone for another one from them or for insurance reasons. With root you only void your warranty on the phone and not your contract or anything to do with VZW. S=off is just a NAND lock, meaning you cant add your own custom recover to the phone, and you are limited to builds that come from VZW themselves (ie the security signature check).
If you ever want to take the phone back to them because its defective or call insurance then you need to remove root and S=on. but thats the only time you need to toggle the NAND lock.
ok so you will need to ruu to stock, downgrade then gain s=off over again:
for the ruu for GB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227279
a guide to do this all after you ruu:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306400
OMG I may've gotten it!
So I decided to give things another go with attempting to revert to stock again, as at this point, nothing is going to work other than via HBOOT.
I completed another reformat of the SD Card (Fat32) to be on the overcautious side and copied over ONLY the PB32IMG.zip file and restarted into HBOOT.
(Ah.. new user, so not allowed to post the link of where I got it.)
This time, much like before, it scanned, found the file, and did a parsing/loading. However, THIS TIME it actually prompted me to update! I chose yes (Vol+) and let it do its thing.
At this time, I am happy to announce that it actually is back up stock!
Wooohoo! Now to get it back to how I like it again. XD
If nothing else, hope this information helps someone else later on.
wigmuke said:
OMG I may've gotten it!
So I decided to give things another go with attempting to revert to stock again, as at this point, nothing is going to work other than via HBOOT.
I completed another reformat of the SD Card (Fat32) to be on the overcautious side and copied over ONLY the PB32IMG.zip file and restarted into HBOOT.
(Ah.. new user, so not allowed to post the link of where I got it.)
This time, much like before, it scanned, found the file, and did a parsing/loading. However, THIS TIME it actually prompted me to update! I chose yes (Vol+) and let it do its thing.
At this time, I am happy to announce that it actually is back up stock!
Wooohoo! Now to get it back to how I like it again. XD
If nothing else, hope this information helps someone else later on.
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You might have lost root if you did the ruu from hboot. to check download the app "super user" from market that will tell you if you still have root or not.
Alright, now that I'm back to stock and runnin' smoothly, I need to figure out what route to take for rooting and flashing. Everyone talks about Unrevoked3, but I've heard there're other newer tools, too.
What would you recommend?
....also, sorry for the weird delay/disjointed/incomplete responses. I keep forgetting that XDA severely limits my posting capabilities. I wanted to say super thanks wolf, for all your help and sticking with me! Your input is appreciated. And yes, I'm pretty sure I lost all root, etc. It is back to "out-of-the-box" stock as far as I can tell.
wigmuke said:
Alright, now that I'm back to stock and runnin' smoothly, I need to figure out what route to take for rooting and flashing. Everyone talks about Unrevoked3, but I've heard there're other newer tools, too.
What would you all recommend?
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unrevoked3 is the easiest way. but you will need to downgrade to android 2.2 for the security exploit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306400
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wigmuke said:
....also, sorry for the weird delay/disjointed/incomplete responses. I keep forgetting that XDA severely limits my posting capabilities. I wanted to say super thanks wolf, for all your help and sticking with me! Your input is appreciated. And yes, I'm pretty sure I lost all root, etc. It is back to "out-of-the-box" stock as far as I can tell.
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lol now worries. easiest way to get to the 10 limit is just pad the count in here. ie just say something 10 times and you are good to go.
synisterwolf said:
unrevoked3 is the easiest way. but you will need to downgrade to android 2.2 for the security exploit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306400
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Good news, I'm on 2.2 stock right now (just checked to confirm). So should be able to just go ahead and run Unrevoked3 then.
Also, the most popular recovery I'm aware of is ClockworkMod Recovery. I found that it's up to version 5.0.2.0. Would you recommend anything else or know of a newer version?
Figure if I'm going to do this, might as well do it right.
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Good news, I'm on 2.2 stock right now (just checked to confirm). So should be able to just go ahead and run Unrevoked3 then.
Also, the most popular recovery I'm aware of is ClockworkMod Recovery. I found that it's up to version 5.0.2.0. Would you recommend anything else or know of a newer version?
Figure if I'm going to do this, might as well do it right.
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Nope I'm RunNing that one and it works well.
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