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[Q]What root method did I use?

I can't for the life of me remember what root method I used. I'm not to clued up on the really technical stuff, but I have been able to flash custom boot images and what ever the latest radio is.
Is there away to find out?
There are 2 reasons why I ask. One is that after have a read through the stickies recently I was reading about gfree, none of what I read sounded even vaugely familiar. But from reading around these forums the gfree method of rooting it is the best way of routing and the safest. Is this correct? And if I'm not rooted from using gfree should I consider unrooting and rerooting using the gfree method? And this bring me on to my second question, if I did want to unroot my phone to go back to stock would I need to know my rooting method?
Thanks in advance
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Edit, I'm a idiot, quoted my op instead of editing it

Hmm... am not sure if u can even find out. Well if u use the 1st method of rooting and getting the s-off using terminal and visionary with unforgivens way or you used rage which am not familiar with and the last one I know is the gfree way
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How to install radio plz help : l

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Get rom manger. Select install rom from sd card....then flash the radio....make sure its compatible so your next post doesnt start with "my phone wont boot plz help"
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Its not recommended to install radios with recovery. If you check the radio thread in the dev forum, it gives you step by step install instructions.
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But if i dont like it can i just restore back to normal
hTc G2
Running on senseginger 3.0

XxhTcG2uSERxX said:
But if i dont like it can i just restore back to normal
hTc G2
Running on senseginger 3.0
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What is wrong with your current radio? You said if you don't like it can you flash back wich tells me nothing is wrong. Don't flash a radio unless your current one is giving you an issue plain and simple
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But get really slow data speeds
hTc G2
Running on senseginger 3.0

if you have s-off and have sdk/adb you can fastboot flash Safest way to flash radios,
if not there are PCIMG radio that you can flash through bootloader, and yes if you dont like the outcome of it you flash your original radio back

How do u check if u have adb/sdk
hTc G2
Running on senseginger 3.0

did you install it on a computer thats something you have too look ,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865685
thts the adb guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970809
The PCIMGs as well radio.imgs
radio.imgs are for fastboot flash
PCIMG are for bootloader flash

need engineering hboot to use radio .img files
use the PC10IMG.zip method to flash your radio via stock hboot, easier in my opinion. Just make sure u rooted with gfree and superCID is set to 11111111.
Read this if you need to check what your superCID is set to
In all honesty tho, while im all for people who want to learn how to tweak their own devices, if you dont know what adb/sdk is, or you dont know what HBOOT or gfree is, you shouldnt be messing with your radio. I foresee a brick

sephiroth1439 said:
need engineering hboot to use radio .img files
use the PC10IMG.zip method to flash your radio via stock hboot, easier in my opinion. Just make sure u rooted with gfree and superCID is set to 11111111.
Read this if you need to check what your superCID is set to
In all honesty tho, while im all for people who want to learn how to tweak their own devices, if you dont know what adb/sdk is, or you dont know what HBOOT or gfree is, you shouldnt be messing with your radio. I foresee a brick
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Lol if dont know what sdk/adb should be or have root, but gotta start somewhere,
and CID doesn't have to be at 11111 if jus unlucky few need it, as well its better recommended to have but not really a necessary thing, i dont have CID set, was able to flash PCIMG

XxhTcG2uSERxX said:
How do u check if u have adb/sdk
hTc G2
Running on senseginger 3.0
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Before flashing a radio I highly suggest you call you carrier first and see if its something they can't fix if the issue is data. Make sure you know what speeds your area is capable of as well. But as mentioned before this if you don't know what these key terms are don't mess with it untill you read up and are confident.
I know what I'm doing but I usually check with my provider first to make sure nothings up with the network. You know part of your cell phone bill includes "free support" right..use it
dont send me pm's crying about how i hurt your feelings in a thread

popokrew said:
Its not recommended to install radios with recovery. If you check the radio thread in the dev forum, it gives you step by step install instructions.
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Your right. I dont flash radios very often and forgot about that.
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*palm to face*
then
*search*.

need a full guide

can anyone give me a full guide to flash my hboot to CM7 so i can install CM7 ROM because i am afraid to do it without full guidness cause its most likely the smallest mistake bricks the phone and i cant afford that

First off. DO NOT POST MORE THAN ONE THREAD ABOUT THE SAME TOPIC!!!
Second: no that was it. Im not going to help you.
edit: (just kidding throw me a pm i'll guide you through it, and we already have plenty of threads explaining it, so don't need another one, also i was serius on the first part)
edit2: you do know you don't necessarily need to flash the hboot in order to use cm right? You can use the stock one just fine, you will just have a little less space on /data for apps.

Zisi911 said:
can anyone give me a full guide to flash my hboot to CM7 so i can install CM7 ROM because i am afraid to do it without full guidness cause its most likely the smallest mistake bricks the phone and i cant afford that
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You should do exactly as described on alpharev.nl
Edit:
See here for a s-off tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805811
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http://youtu.be/JmvCpR45LKA

anderl78 said:
You should do exactly as described on alpharev.nl
Edit:
See here for a s-off tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=805811
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+1 just download ISO file form alpharev.nl burn it, and let it do it's magic.

Looking to root friends desire - unrevoked...

Hi, i've been looking around to help my friend with his new desire,
I would like to see if this works, according to my research...
If I ran the phone through unrevoked, would this root the phone?
And in turn, let us install rom manager + clockwork mod?
I don't have much experience around here as I am still looking about rooting my nexus
Hope you can help

Details needed.
Bootloader info, phone info...
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I'm gonna have to ask about the bootloader info, but it is currently running stock (latest) which I think is 2.2?
EDIT: How do you get into the bootloader? Is it power+ volume down?

Yes.
TouchPaled from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App

If its running 2.2, chances are very high that you can root it with unrevoked. Make sure the hBOOT version is 0.93.xxxx
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If its the same as mine, yes unrevoked will do. However, i was having issues with CwM before so now im using amon ra recovery.just a heads up
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Ye, thats right, I just found out that it is 0.93
So my plan on my original post will work?
EDIT: Do we need S-off? And how does this affect the phone?

Warmo161 said:
Ye, thats right, I just found out that it is 0.93
So my plan on my original post will work?
EDIT: Do we need S-off? And how does this affect the phone?
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use google and find out.... or just follow one of the many noob guides
A noob guide would of answered all of your questions

Warmo161 said:
Ye, thats right, I just found out that it is 0.93
So my plan on my original post will work?
EDIT: Do we need S-off? And how does this affect the phone?
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It will work. As long as the drivers required are properly installed. And you don't need s-off unless you are planning to change the boot partitions (eg. Change from Stock hBOOT to CM7r2 hBOOT to get more space for apps)
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If your still not 100% sure I don't think you should even try rooting your friends phone. You'll need the htc usb drivers installed on pc, make sure the htc sync apps is not installed.
Use unrevoked to root and install cwm recovery, from there you can install any of the great roms.
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Please read the rooting faq in my signature. There's also a guide there which incorporates pre requisite information which (for some unknown reason) is missing from most other guides.
But read the faq too. It's not about blindly following steps. It's about understanding the process and what you are doing.
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Failed, remote: Not allowed

Yo, again problems with fckin htc devices.
I just downgraded the rom from gingerbread to 2.2 froyo.
After that I rooted the phone, but now I cant install cwm recovery via adb.
Always gettin the msg "failed, REMOTE: NOT ALLOWED "
Debugging is enabled.
Anyone can help me with that crap htc phone?

Calling your g2/dz crap doesn't make it so, it just sounds like you don't know what you're doing and then complaing that it must be the phones fault... kinda flawed logic.
But if you want some help rooting it why don't you post a copy of your cmd output/imput and we can see where you went wrong. Also maybe link the guide you're following as there may bed a better one that is easier for you to understand
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demkantor said:
Calling your g2/dz crap doesn't make it so, it just sounds like you don't know what you're doing and then complaing that it must be the phones fault... kinda flawed logic.
But if you want some help rooting it why don't you post a copy of your cmd output/imput and we can see where you went wrong. Also maybe link the guide you're following as there may bed a better one that is easier for you to understand
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Htc is crap. I got also a sensation. I got more than enough bugs after the ics update.
Well, nvm
B2T
Downgrade guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912
root : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4I6W8MMnQ

Well that is the right downgrade guide, now you need to root it, follow the xda wiki to do that... if you have issues post the imput output of cmd
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demkantor said:
Well that is the right downgrade guide, now you need to root it, follow the xda wiki to do that... if you have issues post the imput output of cmd
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The phone is already rooted and S-off

During the rooting process and gaining true radio soff you will have a custom recovery.
Did you follow the YouTube video to root then?
The only method you won't to use to root is with gfree
Either follow the xda wiki
Cyanogens wiki
Or straw metals PDF guide
For the most part anything else you do will cause you problems
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Yea, I followed the youtube video.
How can I roll it back to s-on?

i just quickly looked at the youtube video and it seems it was having you run gfree for the exploit which is good but doing it through terminal emulator not through adb. shouldnt be an issue doing this but im too lazy to go through the video and see if it was telling you all the right things, either way you need to check and see if gfree worked.
check THIS POST out, follow the steps at the bottom and see if gfree worked. if you have true radio s-off than flash one of the pc10img.zips through hboot or fastboot - fastboot is the preferred method as if there is an error it will tell it to you and you can choose not to reboot until it is fixed.
if you need further help feel free to ask

Just checked it.
But got one question
"~make nandroid in recovery"
How can I make a backup without recovery? :x

As long as it says secure flag zero you are safe to use the pc10img.zip
The nandroid is just so you can restore easy, instead just flash a new rom
But you may just want to flash the recovery through fastboot if you're not interested in changing radios etc, so long as you have an engineering SPL you can do this, if not flashing the pc10img.zip will give you one.
More info here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27796375
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