I have to send out my HTC Evo to HTC because the power button doesnt really work anymore and I have a dead Pixel on my phone. If I restore it from the HTC website will they know if it was ever rooted? I'm only sending them my phone not the SD card or the battery I don't think. If I restore it back to Factory Settings is there any trace of the phone ever being rooted?
Thanks!
As long as your phone is s-on they won't know anything. Just run the stock ruu utility from the site to get it back to factory. Good luck
~ d3rk
IF IT IS S-OFF then flash the unrevoked s-on tool from their website or else they will easily realize it is rooted and screw you (hard) if they are jerks. then run the ruu.
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Hi All,
I have a US Cellular BravoC that needs to go in for repair. I am one of the unlucky ones who are experiencing the overheating/forced resetting while doing CPU intensive tasks.
I currently have S-OFF, CWM Recovery 3.0.2.4
I know that I can download 2.2 RUU in fastboot and that will return my phone to unrooted, S-ON... and my warranty repair should go through fine. The problem is, I want to be able to return to CM or Oxygen when I get my phone back.
1) If I return a phone with S-OFF and CWM recovery is it likely that HTC will deny the warranty repair?
2) Does anyone know if there is an RUU for 2.1?
3) Is it possible to flash the stock recovery and leave S-OFF as a back door?
4) Is it even likely that I will get the same software back? In other words... should I not even worry about because I will likely get back something different (Just flash the 2.2 RUU and say screw it).
I still do not really understand the whole "goldcard" thing or how to really use fastboot effectively, so I don't have the untouched ROM that came with the phone. Only the rooted one I created with nandroid backup before installing CWM
Sorry, I know that is a lot of questions but they are all very closely related. I have searched through the forum and did not find anything that really answers these.
Thanks for any advice you may have!
When you get your phone back you can just reroot and S-OFF again. You need to find the US Cellular ruu and run it.
Maybe someone else can help you with that.
So if I understand this correctly, even if I have 2.2 installed (which, as of now, can not be rooted) I could find and install the 2.1 RUU and then root the phone? I think the problem is HTC never released a 2.1 RUU. I am pretty sure I go to 2.2 (or HTC upgrades my phone to 2.2) I will lose the ability to root it.
Man, I just hate the stock ROM so much I want to try avoiding it at all costs.
Hi Guys, I posted this in Android Software and Hacking General, but I didn't get a reply. Probably the wrong section!
my HTC Desire GSM is stuck in Fastboot and won't boot into the ROM. The background to this issue is that I installed S-Off and then ClockworkMod and flashed Cyogenmod 7 to see if it would fix a reboot issue on the phone. The damn thing just reboots itself when the CPU is used heavily...
Anywho, after realising that Cyogen wouldn't resolve the issue I flashed the standard Virgin UK rom back over it and upgraded to 2.22.351.2 via the system update feature. The problem was that ClockwordMod was still installed and I had to get rid of it to sent the phone off for repair to Virgin!
So I did further research and found that I could flash HBoot via the AlphaRev.nl downgrader tool. I downloaded it and popped it into the root of my SD card and it flashed the bootloader back to Hboot 0.80.0000. That should have been it, but all of the sudden the phone no longer boots into the Rom. All it does is to power on and then go into Fastboot. That's it! When I try putting the standard Virgin Rom back onto the SD it tries to load it and then says "Main Version is older!" "Update Fail!".
How do I get around this now? The phone doesn't boot, so I can't re-flash S-Off and start again, not am I able to run the stock Virgin Rom within Windows because it complains about the versions.
Is there any ways around this situation? I just want to get the phone back to stock so I can send it to Virgin and get it repaired.
P.S. I *have* used the search function and spent the last 4 hours testing various things but I'm now stuck.
Cheers Guys!
Mich
Well you obviously fckd up with the Downgrader, you should have run it first BEFORE RUU. Also did you flashed Stock Hboot prior to Downgrader? (if you used CM7 earlier)
I never played around with the hboot downgrading etc. so i wont be able to help you but im sure there is some workaround...
as your returning your phone anyway why don't you try the official HTC gingerbread update from the HTC developer site (sorry I don't have a link). It should return your phone to stock and when you get it back you need to use revolutionary to get s-off back. Also, there is a sticky from user bortac which has loads of help and trouble shooting advice.
iain2510 said:
as your returning your phone anyway why don't you try the official HTC gingerbread update from the HTC developer site (sorry I don't have a link). It should return your phone to stock and when you get it back you need to use revolutionary to get s-off back. Also, there is a sticky from user bortac which has loads of help and trouble shooting advice.
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Any advice that uses the 2.3.3 RUU to fix something is plain bad advice - it can just make your problem a LOT worse.
@OP Go onto my guide, look at RUU problems for help
What you need to do:
-Make a goldcard (there is a tutorial there)
-Flash the WWE RUU
Guys, upgrading to Gingerbread has actually brought the phone back from the dead! =) And I can now return it to Virgin to get it repaired properly. The symptoms are that while the phone is plugged in and charging, and I'm doing stuff (taxing the CPU), the phone will eventually simply rebooting itself. Just *BANG*! And it's gone. And once it starts it's a bit of a run-away thing and just keeps on doing it until you leave the phone alone for a bit. Virgin had a look at it and simply re-flashed it, thinking that they could away with that. Typical, overworked, non-creative call centre workers..... I'm well pissed off with them!
Gonna send it back next week and force them to swap the motherboard or something, cause this is a serious fault with the phone.
i may need to go to bone stock for warranty purposes and then go s-on. if i flash the latest ruu (2.3.4) and then go to s-on (how do i go to s-on?) then can i get back to s-off if they actually fix my piece and send it back?
No. S-on via Clockworkmod, then flash 2.2 RUU. Then, when you want to root, use unrevoked
No need to go to newest stock, any stock with s-on should work. If they send you back an updated phone you can still downgrade and s-off from 2.3.4. Search forum for s-off and downgrade. It's doable - i've done it with help from here.
Just get the phone back to stock s-on. It doesn't matter if its 2.2 or 2.3 as long as its stock. They will send you a new phone that is updated already. Then to re root just downgrade and use unrevoked3
Sent from my Incredible Stock+ Ginger Tiny
oh so with s-on i can downgrade using an ruu and then unrevoked it? i thought some updates could block root forever a.k.a. u cant downgrade anymore to unrevoke. guess i was wrong. gonna submit my claim to square trade soon. hope they send me an upgraded phone lol.. rezound would be nice.
Ya that would be nice but you will either get the original incredible or the incredible 2. Any ways, the original 2.2 downgrade should work. I have tried it my self and I don't see where people have problems. I bricked my phone really bad and had to install the actual bootloader. But point is I had no problems downgrading and rooting again. Let me know if it worked for you. It should since you have a bootloader still.
Sent from my Incredible hd / gingedtiney
My battery is charged upto 90%. I am trying to unroot my desire before selling it.
I downloaded RUU_Bravo_Froyo_hTC_Asia_WWE_2.13.707.1_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_143921_signed.exe from shippedroms.com.
When I try to install this RUU after 2 mins I get an error saying battery is less than 30% when in fact it is 90%. I connected the phone using usb cable in HTC Sync mode. What am I doing wrong? How can I successfully unroot my phone? please advise. Thanks.
First of all, why don't you use the 2.3.3 RUU? Second, please do not use HTC Sync mode when you want to unroot. Just boot your Desire into fastboot, connect phone to computer and run the downloaded RUU on your computer.
Gingerbread upgrade for Desire makes it unrootable, isn't it? So I want to go back to Froyo. Secondly how do I boot into fastboot? For the time being I have restored my original ROM backup from cwm recovery. So now my phone is still rooted but has original htc froyo.
Still cant get to install RUU!
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Gingerbread upgrade for Desire makes it unrootable, isn't it?
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Wrong! With revolutionary you get S-OFF and root for Gingerbread RUU in two simple steps:
http://revolutionary.io
sarkar_007 said:
Secondly how do I boot into fastboot?
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Turn off your phone. First hold back button and then power button.
Sold the phone without rooting finally.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
Hey is it possible to s-on the telus DHD? I've searched and found the s-on tool, but where I'm running stock 2.3.3 can I turn the security back on?
Thanks
I know it's possible to go back to the factory image easily, though I'm not sure that it's possible to go back from S-Off to S-On, still i'm not sure about that.
Just to know, you want to put it on S-on again for what reason?
If it's for warranty? If yes, just put everything back to normal except the S-off.
I did send mine with factory image but S-Off on it and they did accept it.
The ace hack kit has a feature to return to son.
Thanks all. Yeah i was wondering for warranty reasons. I don't have to send it in but if i did i just wanted to know if i could. I'll have a look again at the kit, but my phone is Telus branded pain in the rear.
I did a friends regular desire last night was just as easy as my Acer A500 tablet. Wish the dhd was easy.