Im already rooted but I'd like to root with Unrevoked b/c i've heard it will give me HBoot .92 and every other method i've tried to get .92 just doesn't work. So can i just run unrevoked and "re-root" ??
Did you download the latest HBOOT .92 from Doug Piston's site here, rename it to PB31IMG.zip, put it on the root of your SD card, boot to HBOOT to update?
Are you S-OFF currently? I am not sure if you need to be, but when I ran Unrevoked, it didn't give me .92 HBOOT. Try running Unrevoked Forever if you are S-ON to get S-OFF, then try updating HBOOT.
I did try downloading that and about every other suggestion i've heard....no dice. I am s-on, could that be the problem??
Well, if you were to get S-OFF, that would eliminate it as the issue, so I'd go for it. S-OFF will allow flashing of leaked radios, things like that, so that could be the issue here. You can always get back to S-ON if needed. Then retry the HBOOT steps.
when i run Unrevoked to get s-off i get the error message:
"unable to gain root...is your firmware too new?"
I've read where Market installed apps have done this, FrostIncredible said DropBox had to be uninstalled on his to get it to work. Maybe another app you've installed from the Market? Possibly setting the phone to Disk Drive mode when plugged into USB instead of Charge Only...or if you're in Disk Drive mode try Charge Mode Only. Make sure you're using Unrevoked HBOOT drivers too, here.
I've also read where people have installed then uninstalled the HTC Sync program but left the drivers and it worked. I would try this last. Apparently, it installs the HTC Sync drivers and the HTC Sync program, so uninstall only the HTC Sync program and leave the drivers.
This step by step guide may help too. It's a start to finish guide with links, for reference...here.
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can someone please help me, i used the simpleroot method im guessing it all worked fine it says my build number is 1.17.651.1. how do i remove simpleroot? im trying to run RUU to get back to my stock evo ive installed htc sync and drivers, phone will charge, it will sync with htc sync but everytime i try to run RUU its telling me it cant find my phone. im on windows 7. also after i install htc sync drivers and run RUU it will find it but then it goes into htc bootloader and installs htc bootloader and the installation will stop saying it cant connect to my phone and wont connect anymore after that
I think I've read elsewhere that you may have to just keep trying the RUU until it "takes." That may be 5-10 attempts or more from what I saw. I'm sorry I can't report any direct experience, but maybe kill a half-hour trying.
did you turn on USB Debugging? adb wont work without it.
yeah usb debug is on, i guess ill just keep running RUU. also is this to be dont when the phone is on or in bootloader?
Try doing it in fastboot mode (access from bootloader menu). Also, I never could get the 1.47 RUU to work for me, only the original RUU worked. I had to use a PC36IMG.zip to update to 1.47.
where can i get the file PC36IMG.zip to update to 1.47?
If it helps at all, you can just use the RUU install to go to 1.32 and do an OTA update to 1.47. I went with this route and had no problem updating to froyo.
I did download a copy of the 1.47 rom just in case I needed it, there are several links floating around the forum I don't have them handy so maybe you can find them, I think I just searched for "unroot" or something like that.
just remember if you do this method and update to froyo it it is very likely you will be waiting WEEKS if not longer to be able to reroot your phone if you ever want to (if it is possible at all).
There is already a rooted froyo in the dev section. So unless you aer taking it to sprint may want to look there
Before froyo, I rooted my Incredible and set S-OFF, then unrooted (left S-OFF) and updated with OTA. So today I have 2.2 stock unrooted with S-OFF. I'm trying to root now and I followed steps 15-21 of this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771178 but the phone still isn't rooted. Actually I don't really know how to tell if it is or not, but apps that require root access (like ShootMe) say they can't get it, even though it's granted in the Superuser app. If I go into hboot it shows version .92, which I believe is the correct one...?? What I'm wondering now is can I just run unrevoked (now that it works with 2.2) instead of the steps in the above listed post, or is that going to screw something up?
BTW I did search the forums for over an hour so if this is already covered somewhere, I'd appreciate a PM with a link to the post. Thanks in advance!
Run unrevoked 3 ... It will root froyo
Ok I just downloaded unrevoked version 3.21 and ran it. I already ran a prior version when my phone was still on Android 2.1, so I already had the windows hboot drivers installed. Now when I run unrevoked 3.21 I still get that "waiting for hboot drivers" message and I can't do anything with it. Nothing shows up in device manager as either "other device" nor as "android phone" so I can't get past that point of unrevoked. The drivers are there, but the computer and phone don't connect properly once it's in hboot. Any ideas?
Apparently there was a prob and I didn't get payload update and su applied, so I went back into recovery and did that and everything's working now.
I used unrevoked 3.21 to root and after that the first step where it looks for .img file was taking longer then usual to compelete, so I thought it has hboot issue o i used donwgrade hboot method with desire hboot, not I can not root my phone even. I ran ruu etc before running unrevoked but no success.Can I undo hboot thing?
desire h-boot?
Run the RUU.
Let the phone reboot to the black HTC screen.
When the RUU stops, force stop it on the pc.
Do not touch the phone, leave it at that screen.
Re-run the RUU, and it will work this time.
RUU works fine to restore stock rom. Or are you saying that if I force stop and restart, it will bring back my hboot to evo hboot?
Can you get to the boot loader
Ok so if u have got the radio failed pu you dont have a rom anymore so you need to do this
open my computer go to c drive go to user go to your username then up at the top go to the address bar and type in appdata so for mine it would say
c:\users\chris\appdata for something like that then when your in the app data folder you will see local click on that then you will see temp click on that now to make this easyer you sould erase everything in your temp folder that you can now
download the ruu 3.30 exe and when you get it downloaded go and load it up and when the program is ready for you to go through the steps of updating just dont touch it
Go back to your temp folder and you should see a couple more folders appreare in one of thoughs folders you will see another folder and like corecomp or something like that then you will also see dotnet well go to the other folder in that folder then go to the bottom and you will see (rom) move it to your desktop and rename it PC36img or what ever its suppose to be then erase the rom on your sd card and put this one on it and then go back into your bootloader and flash that one and it should work it did for mine the only thing is it will put you back on 3.30 the s-off will still be there if you have done the unrevokted forever this will also allow you to run the unrevoked 3.21 and it will give you a partial root with super user and i still have not been able to flash custom rooms but i am running superuser and root explorer and wireless tether on my eve and it is working good
So just to recap
If you have not got to the part where you can load unrevoked forever and you do my method you will return to stock and also unrevoked 3.21 will not work unless you have s-off
Now if you have s- off but cant get roms on your phone do this method and you will be able to get the stock rom on your phone then you can run unrevoked 3.21 for windows that is the one i did but it gave me superuser and it was flawless just do what it says.
have fun hope this helps get your phone back it did mine and 2 other so im sure it will work
download ruu 3.30 from here http://www.multiupload.com/U27BZXVWWI
Or you could just RUU and let it run on auto,
then re-root and load your custom rom.
kthejoker20 said:
Or you could just RUU and let it run on auto,
then re-root and load your custom rom.
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I did run RUU and got rom installed fine, but after that unrevoked does not work. It goes through first two reboots and says its a triumph and then reboots and starts the phone with rom does not go to boot loader.
Monarky said:
Ok so if u have got the radio failed pu you dont have a rom anymore so you need to do this
open my computer go to c drive go to user go to your username then up at the top go to the address bar and type in appdata so for mine it would say
c:\users\chris\appdata for something like that then when your in the app data folder you will see local click on that then you will see temp click on that now to make this easyer you sould erase everything in your temp folder that you can now
download the ruu 3.30 exe and when you get it downloaded go and load it up and when the program is ready for you to go through the steps of updating just dont touch it
Go back to your temp folder and you should see a couple more folders appreare in one of thoughs folders you will see another folder and like corecomp or something like that then you will also see dotnet well go to the other folder in that folder then go to the bottom and you will see (rom) move it to your desktop and rename it PC36img or what ever its suppose to be then erase the rom on your sd card and put this one on it and then go back into your bootloader and flash that one and it should work it did for mine the only thing is it will put you back on 3.30 the s-off will still be there if you have done the unrevokted forever this will also allow you to run the unrevoked 3.21 and it will give you a partial root with super user and i still have not been able to flash custom rooms but i am running superuser and root explorer and wireless tether on my eve and it is working good
So just to recap
If you have not got to the part where you can load unrevoked forever and you do my method you will return to stock and also unrevoked 3.21 will not work unless you have s-off
Now if you have s- off but cant get roms on your phone do this method and you will be able to get the stock rom on your phone then you can run unrevoked 3.21 for windows that is the one i did but it gave me superuser and it was flawless just do what it says.
have fun hope this helps get your phone back it did mine and 2 other so im sure it will work
download ruu 3.30 from here http://www.multiupload.com/U27BZXVWWI
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Doing this part now.
Unrevoked sucks.
Run the RUU.
Then run an earlier RUU and downgrade.
Then run simple root (somewhere on this forum)
that will put you back to .76 bootloader w.nand unlocked
You must be trying to load CM. CM won't run on anything except the .76 bootloader.
kthejoker20 said:
Unrevoked sucks.
Run the RUU.
Then run an earlier RUU and downgrade.
Then run simple root (somewhere on this forum)
that will put you back to .76 bootloader w.nand unlocked
You must be trying to load CM. CM won't run on anything except the .76 bootloader.
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Trying to downgrade to 1.47 but it does not allow gives me ROM Utility failure message.
I tried downgrading it by following steps in other post and can get 1.47 installed but the HBOT still says 2.2.0000, then when I run Simple root, it runs fine except the recovery can not be loaded.
kthejoker20 said:
Unrevoked sucks.
...You must be trying to load CM. CM won't run on anything except the .76 bootloader.
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I've tried to load the rooted 3.30 ruu and Myn's warm twopointtwo, it always throws a symlink error on line 10
You need this RUU.
http://rapidshare.com/files/3899834....651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe
Do not use any other ones.
Then, start from scratch and do unrevoked forever first.
Can't download that. Rapidshare says I've downloaded too much.
EDIT: BTW, thanks for the help! This has been very frustrating compared to rooting the hero.
Moderators, please delete this thread as my issue is reolved
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
This instructions fixed it. Moderators, please delete this thread
I applied the 2.2 RUU, then tried to flash the 2.1 stock PB31IMG.zip (yes I'm dumb). Anyway, my phone is now stuck in hboot and I can't do anything from there. I can't run unrevoked 3 because I can't enable usb debugging. I can't mount usb to load a ROM from recovery because I'm not rooted. I do however have S-off.
Is there anything I can do? I read the other thread where the person fixed the problem using adb, but don't you have to enable usb debugging to use adb?
You may be able to flash the 2.2 PB31IMG.zip RUU again. Since you able to get into Hboot and you have S-off, I would imagine that would work.
Going back to 2.1 is a bit of a process, and it sounds like you skipped a lot of steps which is probably why you are stuck in H-boot.
Hi I have tried searching the threads already but I couldn't find any that was related to my problem specifically.
I am trying to root my HTC EVO 4G 2.2 stock with the unrevoked method. I followed all the instructions from guides and unrevoked and the part I am stuck at is when I run Unrevoked and it reboots my EVO. When it tells me to use the volume button to select HBOOT USB and press power, I get an error message on my phone saying "no image or wrong image!"
Was I supposed to put the PC36IMG file and recovery image on my microsd card when I run unrevoked or is this unnecessary? I thought the unrevoked software was supposed to include it.
Also, am I supposed to root it without a microsd card or with it? Thanks.
I rooted mine with unrevoked 3.21. the newer version is at least v3.22. You are using version 3.0 to root your evo? If your having issues rooting ,my guess is that you are using an out of date unrevoked....
It depends on which h-boot your phone has...2.02 or 2.10 or an older version?
I'm using the newest version so it should be 3.22. I just dled the file from their site a few days ago. I tried using mac and pc and they both don't work.
So for mac, you're not supposed to have anything on your microsd like the PC36IMG file that i've seen on other rooting guides right?
How do I find out the version of the hboot on my phone? I am not sure.
ok, there are a few things that need to be sorted out here.
1: when it says no image/wrong image, that means it scanned the sdcard and found nothing. this is what you want to have happen for unrevoked to take hold.
2: unrevoked is way out of date. if your software is 3.29, 3.30, or 3.70, then your radio could be permanently corrupted and damaged because of this.
3: unrevoked is on version 3.22, and you say you are on version 3.0??? wow that is really, reeeealy out of date.
baisically, your radio is taking a bunch of bashing right now, and it is all your fault for not reading the threads and searching well enough. good luck sorting it all out. oh, and by the way, if you have hboots 2.02 or 2.10, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
I tried using Windows as well and I installed the drivers and I was able to get unrevoked to reboot my EVO. However, when it's done rebooting, it hasn't changed and unrevoked still says "waiting for root..." and I don't see the super user icon on my phone. What's going on?
Sorry no the 3.0 was a mistake/typo; it's 3.2, the newest one on their site.
So should I NOT use unrevoked and use some other method? I just used this because I read that it was supposed to be easy and simple. What other method would you recommend?
read again
read my post again. let me try again. beginrant/ UNREVOKED IS OUT OF DATE. YOU ARE PERMANENTLY HARMING YOUR PHONE. STOP USING UNREVOKED. THANKS FOR LISTENING. /endrant
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10025668/Thunderous_Backhand.swf
edit: i even linked a working tutorial for u in my last post.
haveing same problem