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b..b...b...brick.....

Tried to install latest radio and bricked it.... phone will not power on, no signs of life. I was using the unrevoked forever, clockwork recovery, and damagecontrol 3.5......
Now what....
Update: Battery been sitting out for about an hour stick back in and nothin.... plug into charger and no led lights...

Bricked!!! Lol what radio were u flashing
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BorlaGTO said:
Tried to install latest radio and bricked it.... phone will not power on, no signs of life. I was using the unrevoked forever, clockwork recovery, and damagecontrol 3.5......
Now what....
Update: Battery been sitting out for about an hour stick back in and nothin.... plug into charger and no led lights...
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At which step did your Evo fail? Evo crashed mid flash? Evo bricks during the first reboot after flash?

I am sorry for your loss, I give my condolences

wow you know just how to make someone feel better, ha it was the latest one

Take it to T-Mobile tell them you were doing an update and your power dropped
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crashed at first boot

sherlockpwnz said:
Take it to T-Mobile tell them you were doing an update and your power dropped
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Lol. I wish I could be there to see the look on their face if the op did do that!

Same thing happened to me....i was in the middle of updating the radio....thought it crashed....pulled the battery.....put the battery back in.....so signed of life.your wool have to get a new one.
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sherlockpwnz said:
Take it to T-Mobile tell them you were doing an update and your power dropped
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Err.... what will this do, last time i checked my newly acquired brick stated "Sprint" on the back.

Same thing happened to me flashing .28 radio

BorlaGTO said:
Err.... what will this do, last time i checked my newly acquired brick stated "Sprint" on the back.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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kris54241 said:
Same thing happened to me flashing .28 radio
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Did you have to buy a new one?

I did the same thing. I went to the Sprint store and explained that Iwas downloading the OTA 2.2 update (just didn't say which one) when it bricked and they ordered a new Evo. Apparently the very LASTthing you should do is yank the battery during the process.
It was still under warranty.
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bigmoogle said:
I did the same thing. I went to the Sprint store and explained that Iwas downloading the OTA 2.2 update (just didn't say which one) when it bricked and they ordered a new Evo. Apparently the very LASTthing you should do is yank the battery during the process.
It was still under warranty.
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Was yours rooted with custon rom and whatnot? I think i will do this but can they check?

bigmoogle said:
I did the same thing. I went to the Sprint store and explained that Iwas downloading the OTA 2.2 update (just didn't say which one) when it bricked and they ordered a new Evo. Apparently the very LASTthing you should do is yank the battery during the process.
It was still under warranty.
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Same
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BorlaGTO said:
Was yours rooted with custon rom and whatnot? I think i will do this but can they check?
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They dont check. Stick with the OTA update story though.

BorlaGTO said:
Err.... what will this do, last time i checked my newly acquired brick stated "Sprint" on the back.
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Ouch.
10char

BorlaGTO said:
Was yours rooted with custon rom and whatnot? I think i will do this but can they check?
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If the phone wont boot and is bricked, then that's it, it's dead Jim.
They cannot exactly boot it up at the store and check on it now can they.

Sucks.
I agree with the others though. Might as well take advantage of the warranty while the OTA update is still in effect. Makes for a good story anyway...
Somehow I think someone will chime in and say that this is not right or something though.... just used to forums, lol.
Luck!

Dinc radio boost?

Has anyone figured out how to juice up the radio? Much like overclocking the CPU, but with the radio to improve up and down signal.
Willing to run any experimental programming on my phone if anyone has something to try out.
I'm not worried about bricking my phone, as that's already happened and I've brought it back to life again, so gimme all you've got!!!
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Haven't ever seen anything like that, no.
.......and FYI if you're still using it, it wasn't "bricked"

Other
You could always try the other released radios. The 11.xx has been scoring some pretty "oh my goodness, how fast can I uninstall this thing" ratings, but the 9.xx may do you some good. On all radios, YMMV; and be VERY VERY careful when flashing.

When it bricked it was stuck in an infinite boot loop, then after a few tries, wouldnt go further than hboot. I got lucky and found a way to restore an old rom I saved to my PC with the sdcard. I'm just glad I could still get it to run clockwork recovery.
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Bricked actually means that you can't power it on its 100% unresponsive.
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jdmba said:
You could always try the other released radios. The 11.xx has been scoring some pretty "oh my goodness, how fast can I uninstall this thing" ratings, but the 9.xx may do you some good. On all radios, YMMV; and be VERY VERY careful when flashing.
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Interestingly, the 11.x radio increased my battery life about 20% (no major impact on my reception, if anything it seemed to have cost me a dB or two) compared to the 7.x radio. Tried the 9.x for a few days; cost me nearly half my battery life and caused the phone to run above 100F just for surfing the web.
It's DEFINITELY a YMMV situation.

6stringandy said:
When it bricked it was stuck in an infinite boot loop, then after a few tries, wouldnt go further than hboot. I got lucky and found a way to restore an old rom I saved to my PC with the sdcard. I'm just glad I could still get it to run clockwork recovery.
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Your phone wasn't even remotely close to being bricked. That would be kind of like saying a dislocated shoulder is total paralysis.
A bricked phone is one that can't do anything at all and is completely unrecoverable. A basic rule of thumb is that if you can get to the bootloader, the phone is in no way bricked.

Gahh Its Lee said:
Bricked actually means that you can't power it on its 100% unresponsive.
Ah, ok. Had no clue. Thought that was when the programming crashes. Thnx.
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When did this go from radios to bricks? I get it, I didn't brick it. (2 point for numbnuts)
Where do I go to get other radio versions, and which ones don't play nicely with Dinc?
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Search for the radio thread in the dev section.
6stringandy said:
When did this go from radios to bricks? I get it, I didn't brick it. (2 point for numbnuts)
Where do I go to get other radio versions, and which ones don't play nicely with Dinc?
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6stringandy said:
When did this go from radios to bricks? I get it, I didn't brick it. (2 point for numbnuts)
Where do I go to get other radio versions, and which ones don't play nicely with Dinc?
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Flashing radios is the number one way to brick your phone; basically, be careful and check MD5 sums.
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Grr
I wish VZW would just release an official updated radio already.
As much as it ticked me off that some guy declared his own thread to be the new official thread, I think this has the links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886129
You can also get all Radios except the 11.xx radio here:
http://adrynalyne.us/files/di_radios/

helo with rooting evo

Hello guys. I was wondering if someone.could please help me with rooting my wife's evo. I'm not familiar with the evo. I've been researching it the.past couple days. My question is in the wiki I see the universal auto root but that uses unrevoked. I have just been reading that unrevoked causes problems so I was wondering if there.is a better way than using the unrevoked. My wife's evo is hardware 4 hboot 2.10 radio-2.15.00.11.19 and on software.version 3.70. So does using unrevoked cause.problems? Thanks for.all your help.

Nope unrevoked is the best way I love it, press a button boom follow simple instructions and your rooted!
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no issue with unrevoked for me have used on 2 evos

if you want to get adventurous, try the link in my sig.

Thank you guys alot. I haven't been keeping up on the evo like I wanted to with the.epic finally getting 2.2 about time. Damn you guys had it for a while and are getting honeycomb to boot up. Amazing work. So if I use unrevoked forever and an update comes out how does that work? I know you get to keep root but what steps do you take? Thanks alot guys for the help.
Dkdude36 that rooting way.looks fun. Its alot.more involved.

haha ya that rooting method is 'fun' its not as hard as it seems though. to update, just flash a rom with the new software. if you dont know how to do this, then you probably should have used the manual root to learn, but i will tell you anyways.

Oh ok I got ya. Think you so much.bro. I appreciate the.help and support. One.more question. I know.its.personal preference but what is your favorite rom/kernel?
dkdude36 said:
haha ya that rooting method is 'fun' its not as hard as it seems though. to update, just flash a rom with the new software. if you dont know how to do this, then you probably should have used the manual root to learn, but i will tell you anyways.
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my favorite is the newest cm7 nightly (whichever is newest at any given time ) plus savagezen's newest nosbc. savagezen needs like a day of conditioning so you might get bad results the first day. just stay on it and you will be impressed. i get 30+ hrs battery and high 1550's quadrant scores.

Awesome. You guys have alot of options to choose from. I guess I'll look at what you showed me and show the wife and let her find one. Her problem is she loves htc sense. So I might be limited on what I can pick. I really just want to get that bloatware off and overclock it for her to speed it up. So if I use the universal script it flashes Amon ra recovery right? I've never used that before. I have always used clockwork Mod before.
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musclehead84 said:
Awesome. You guys have alot of options to choose from. I guess I'll look at what you showed me and show the wife and let her find one. Her problem is she loves htc sense. So I might be limited on what I can pick. I really just want to get that bloatware off and overclock it for her to speed it up. So if I use the universal script it flashes Amon ra recovery right? I've never used that before. I have always used clockwork Mod before.
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I've always used unrevoked and then when its done I go into recovery and flash amon RA. Its worked multiple times for me. There are a bunch of different sense Roms out there. Warm and mikfroyo are most popular though. Plus a ton of themes and overclocked kernals to go with them. I myself use cm7 but its all personal choice.

If I use the universal root doesn't that flash amon ra recovery for me? Or do I have to do that after.I complete the root?
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yep xhausx's auto root does the whole thing. try it it works. and if he doesnt he responds fast and makes it work within the hour.

Will do thanks bro. It looks really easy. I would.love to try cm7 on the evo. I know my wife would hate it but oh well. Once again thank you. You have really helped me understand everything. I always thought the evo was hard to root cause of the nand lock. I guess you could say I was intimidated by it. Just looking around you all have a great community here. Ill definitely be hanging around here a little more.
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yep xhausx's auto root does the whole thing. try it it works. and if he doesnt he responds fast and makes it work within the hour.
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Hey man no problem always glad to help. I can see you are very helpful in the epic always glad to help a helper. Good luck rooting and everything and just ask I'd you need help.
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Will do thanks bro. It looks really easy. I would.love to try cm7 on the evo. I know my wife would hate it but oh well. Once again thank you. You have really helped me understand everything. I always thought the evo was hard to root cause of the nand lock. I guess you could say I was intimidated by it. Just looking around you all have a great community here. Ill definitely be hanging around here a little more.
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I just rooted mine yesterday with unrevoked and loaded the latest cm nightly with the savagedzen kernel and the battery life is amazing compared to what I had with stock. That alone was worth rooting.
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Yeah I try to help out as much as possible. Our community(epic) way to much flaming and ignorant people. No one wants to help anyone. There's only a handful that help. I will definitely hit you up if I need anything that I can't find the answer to. Your a good dude man.
dkdude36 said:
Hey man no problem always glad to help. I can see you are very helpful in the epic always glad to help a helper. Good luck rooting and everything and just ask I'd you need help.
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Awesome. I like to hear.that. I'm gonna give it a go as soon as I get my laptop back.
Trollemite said:
I just rooted mine yesterday with unrevoked and loaded the latest cm nightly with the savagedzen kernel and the battery life is amazing compared to what I had with stock. That alone was worth rooting.
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musclehead84 said:
Oh ok I got ya. Think you so much.bro. I appreciate the.help and support. One.more question. I know.its.personal preference but what is your favorite rom/kernel?
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I'm running mikfroyo 4.6 beta at the moment to tes along with net toast 4.3.2 havsmore sbc... you cant go wrong with mikfroyo 4.5 with net toast 4.3.1 havs...quick. give it a shot and see how you like it

The sbc and nosbc is just how it trickle charges right (nosbc doesn't trickle charge)? How is the battery life with the nosbc one?
Definitely want some better battery life but don't want to kill my battery either. I'm running the sbc one now.
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i think nosbc is more than enough. i get 30 hrs with one. why push it if you can get through a day without charge?

How Can I Brick My Phone

Yeah, you read right. I want to brick my Evo.
Any surefire ways to go about it?
I already flashed some GSM radios, but it's still booting like a champ. Rawr.

I'm curious as to why? You could try flashing a rom for a different phone.
We're comin from a pure power source.

metalfan78 said:
I'm curious as to why? You could try flashing a rom for a different phone.
We're comin from a pure power source.
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I did, and it still boots into recovery.

Try running the ruu for another phone and see if it still boots. Try the inspire 4G ruu, or grab the inspires radio and flash it. Maybe even the Motorola droids radio and a rom.
~ d3rk

The catch with the radios is to update then interrupt the update process by pulling the battery. That should do the trick.
~ d3rk

dirkyd3rk said:
The catch with the radios is to update then interrupt the update process by pulling the battery. That should do the trick.
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At what point though?
And you can't flash that RUU. Or the inspire's radios..
Can you attach something for me to flash or direct me to it?

I still wanna know why? Lol
We're comin from a pure power source.

dirkyd3rk said:
The catch with the radios is to update then interrupt the update process by pulling the battery. That should do the trick.
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exactly correct!
flash the radio then reboot and when you see the lil android guy next to the box, pull that battery instant paperweight

Don't help this idiot try to get a new phone if has one that works
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Why on earth would you even do something like that??? Lol
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He's clearly aware of what he's doing. Why are you guys in here judging, its his phone right? Ok then stfu if you aren't trying to help.
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he wants an answer and asked the question, who are we to discuss what somebody should or shouldn't do with something they own

Keep flashing radio and pulling out battery while in the middle of it. Would have to so it up to 20 times
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if the battery pull doesn't work, you can do what proskaterronnie did in my sig ;p

What bout putting a sbc kernel and keep it charging and use it a lot till if over heats I'm not sure if it will. Work buy just giving ideas
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kidram said:
What bout putting a sbc kernel and keep it charging and use it a lot till if over heats I'm not sure if it will. Work buy just giving ideas
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Radio interrupt is way easier and less time 0_o
~ d3rk

I had my phone plugged in for 5 days with a sbc kernel, didn't even get warm, no smoke, battery didn't care

Why not just lose it? And then you can sell it to me for $50 when you find it again.
I don't think I want that one though.
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He's clearly aware of what he's doing. Why are you guys in here judging, its his phone right? Ok then stfu if you aren't trying to help.
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I'm not judging, I just have never seen anyone ask about deliberately bricking a phone and wanted to know what for
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xHausx said:
Why not just lose it? And then you can sell it to me for $50 when you find it again.
I don't think I want that one though.
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Because that costs 50 bucks.
The problem is, when I flash a radio, it just says how it's flashing, then it says to reboot. Then it goes to the evo w/ refresh symbol, then boots back up. I have pulled at every step along the way, and I still boot. Can someone link me up to some radios or RUUs with some instructions as to what to do with whatever it is?
And I would appreciate it if people who don't have anything constructive to say would not say anything. I paid a lot of money for this device, and IT IS MINE TO DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH.

Don't update to new OTA if you want root

There is a rumoured new update coming out. Of you are rooted or want root please hold off as you might lose your root ability. Just a warning of friendly advice.
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Edit: Dang its late. Sorry I can't spell. Glad that's not what the army paid me for. Lol

Yeah. I just got the phone today for my wife and it updated while it was charging before I could root it...which sucks since rooting it played a HUGE role in the decision to get this phone.
I'm guessing I could really break something if I just tried the unrevoked/alpharev/revolutionary approach regardless of the fact that I now have hboot 0.98 huh?

chrisanthropic said:
Yeah. I just got the phone today for my wife and it updated while it was charging before I could root it...which sucks since rooting it played a HUGE role in the decision to get this phone.
I'm guessing I could really break something if I just tried the unrevoked/alpharev/revolutionary approach regardless of the fact that I now have hboot 0.98 huh?
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I don't recommend it lol. Esp if its a different hboot
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Can you fix the "knew" in the title to "new." It really hurts my brain.

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I don't recommend it lol. Esp if its a different hboot
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****, I was afraid of that. Now I wonder if I should try to return it and try again...damnit.

Is the update going to try and force itself or will it does it have to be a manual update?
Also, if you are running a custom rom will this still effect people, or just people running stock root?

Unless things are different from my Original Droid then custom roms don't need to worry about it since most of them have OTA updates turned off.

trystan.snyder said:
Can you fix the "knew" in the title to "new." It really hurts my brain.
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Sorry..was doing it by phone so it took a while. Thank you for your thoughtful post though.

kubes069 said:
Is the update going to try and force itself or will it does it have to be a manual update?
Also, if you are running a custom rom will this still effect people, or just people running stock root?
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If it is a stock based Rom without OTA removed...then yes it prob will...and you will lose root...you can remove the update service yourself with a root explorer app
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You will want to switch to a custom for sure. Was about to go to sleep for the night. I am still running my own stock debloat. I caught the ota pop up with the countdown clock. Luckily I was able to pull battery and flash bliss real fast.
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zax10 said:
You will want to switch to a custom for sure. Was about to go to sleep for the night. I am still running my own stock debloat. I caught the ota pop up with the countdown clock. Luckily I was able to pull battery and flash bliss real fast.
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Yep that's what I thought lol luckily I'm running miui. I hope I got this out on time to save some ppl...what happened to Verizon asking if you wanted to update first...
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I'm new to the Inc2, can I turn S-off somehow and then downgrade to the original hboot? Is that possible? Or is the Revolutionary method the only way to turn S-off?

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I'm new to the Inc2, can I turn S-off somehow and then downgrade to the original hboot? Is that possible? Or is the Revolutionary method the only way to turn S-off?
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Unless you have an overpriced xtc clip..you're screwed for now.
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Can you fix the "knew" in the title to "new." It really hurts my brain.
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Glad two of your 7 posts have been to correct me btw. Way to add to the community
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If you take the ota to 2.3.4 kiss rooting goodbye.
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For some reason the curious side of me wants to down load. Can't be that big oh a change. Right???
How long for the exploit on 2.3.4 since we already have 2.3.2 done.
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My crystal ball says it will take 3 months and 9 days to find the next exploit, and 4 months 15 days for the next patch that kills it.
It seems that one of the biggest benefits of custom roms are freedom of forced updates. I guess this is the answer to all the people concerned about getting s-on for the event of a return.
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Wow, this thing pushes through without user consent? Holy crap am I glad I'm running CM7.
Just a thought - would users who have received the update against their will have the option of flashing the previously released gingerbread RUU? I'm guessing that even if they could, they'd still be stuck with the updated hboot and therefore unable to get s-off. I'm not really sure how all that works though. Anybody smarter than me have any thoughts?
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The new OTA is pushed to your phone but it offers the option to accept, postpone or reject.
I am rooted (stock rom) and made the error of accepting. After the update my phone would not boot completely (erred with white triangle, yellow exclamation point, blue android). You can follow Conduitz's fix found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233267

NOOB Question
If I want the update and could wait for Root (have root now), how does one go about getting S-ON again? I used the alpharev method.
thanks in advance.