After flashing the froyo ruu, I have checked in my hboot and it still says alpharevx s-off. I'm slightly confused. Is it still safe to carry on with flashing a recovery and rooting again?
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It's ok, flashing ruu don't restore your hboot...
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Yes you can flash a recovery and get root again as long as you have S-OFF. Because Revolutionary changed the HBoot to 6.x. flashing an RUU with HBoot 0.80/1.00x cannot replace it. In case you want to get rid of S-OFF, you'll have to follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160251
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Hi everybody,
I previously rooted and S-OFF my phone by downgrading from 1.72 to 1.34 and using gfree.
But my phone broke down and I just received my DZ from after-sales service, with stock ROM...
So I have few questions:
- I tried to root it with HTC super tool v3. I was not able to perma-root my DZ until I unlocked the stock bootloder using htcdev official method.
So I succeed in writing the system partition. But now i cannot flash a custom recovery (using ROM manager). S-off is only for bootloader/radio, so I should be able to do it with an unlocked bootloder, even if i'm still S-On, right ? What should be wrong?
- Now, if I want to S-off my phone, I must downgrade the radio to the one from 1.34 to use gfree, right ?
- What is the advantage of flashing an eng-hboot rather the official/unlocked one ?
Thanks,
Aurélien
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Check out my guide for htcdev unlock here, it'll explain how to flash a recovery.
To S-OFF you will have to relock the bootloader to downgrade, then use gfree.
Eng hboot lets you use a whole bunch of fastboot commands, and can help you fix your phone from a SOFT brick.
-Nipqer
Thanks for your reply Nipqer.
I will follow your guide.
But just to be sure I understand everything, I there a reason why I cannot flash the recovery after rooting the phone ? is there some kind of hardware lock enabled because of S-on ? in my case, is there any difference flashing from fastboot rather that ROm manager ?
And about the official unlocked hboot, Is there some kind of signature check when flashing that engineering one does not have?
Thanks again,
Aurélien
The emmc still has write protection if you use the htcdev method, so recoveries (and kernels) can only be flashed via fastboot.
So you cannot use Rom manager.
If the phone is S-ON it will perform a signature check, and only flash official HTC signed roms. S-OFF will let you flash any rom.
-Nipqer
Thanks for the explanation !
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I just unlocked my cousins evo 4g. I was wondering if I need s-off to flash Roms. If so. Can someone give me a link to a tutorial .
Well, you need Clockworkmod but you can't install clockworkmod without S-off, my Evo actually has S-on with clockworkmod and I can install roms no problem I don't even know how S turned back on but it did lol... It's really easy to google and find a guide on rooting/turning s-off but regardless here ya go, it's a list of a ton of guides for the Evo and rooting involves turning s-off.
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/491123-evo-4g-all-things-root-guide.html
I did install clockworkmod while on s-on
iTzLOLtrain said:
I just unlocked my cousins evo 4g. I was wondering if I need s-off to flash Roms. If so. Can someone give me a link to a tutorial .
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If you are like me, and would rather visually see it happen, go check out the beloved YouTube. There are lots of videos of people showing you exactly how to do it, step by step.
Hit thanks if I turned you in the right direction!
Good Luck!
Unrevoked rev works well to root it if you didn't take the latest OTA Clockwork mod 4.0 works well for it afterwards to flash and wipe.
If you are s-on (OOW unlocked) on hboot 2.18 u can used fastboot to flash a recovery, you should be using Amon RA on the evo and not cwm or twrp. If you are on hboot 2.15/.16 you need to use revolutionary.io to achieve s-off and gain recovery and the flash SU and SU binaries. Any hboot prior to 2.16 you use unrevoked or one of its variants to get s-off. If you're hboot 2.18 s-on locked you use htcdev.com to unlock the bootloader from there you can use fastboot to flash recovery or you can follow captain throwbacks guide to downgrade your hboot to an earlier version and achieve s-off. With s-on unlocked you can do (almost) anything you can do with s-off except you won't be able to flash PC36IMG.zip files, which include recoveries, radio updates, splashscreens, and RUU files.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
If you are s-on (OOW unlocked) on hboot 2.18 u can used fastboot to flash a recovery, you should be using Amon RA on the evo and not cwm or twrp. If you are on hboot 2.15/.16 you need to use revolutionary.io to achieve s-off and gain recovery and the flash SU and SU binaries. Any hboot prior to 2.16 you use unrevoked or one of its variants to get s-off. If you're hboot 2.18 s-on locked you use htcdev.com to unlock the bootloader from there you can use fastboot to flash recovery or you can follow captain throwbacks guide to downgrade your hboot to an earlier version and achieve s-off. With s-on unlocked you can do (almost) anything you can do with s-off except you won't be able to flash PC36IMG.zip files, which include recoveries, radio updates, splashscreens, and RUU files.
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Hey -EViL-KoNCEPTz-
You got me kinda confused now. I thought the new CWM got the problems fixed with clearing the cache? If not, then is the Amon RA safe to use, it hasn't been updated in for ever. If you still recommend Amon RA, how do I change to that?
Also, I still have s-on.
Mine says:
*** UNLOCKED***
Supersonic EVT3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-2.18.0001
How do I get it to S-OFF or do I need to?
I've been flashing back and forth to different Roms for a few days now. I'm still trying to find the one I like where everything works.
I'm in the same boat as custm2007 except it's on my friends phone. What would be the best way to get s-off after rooting it or do I even need to? I'll be doing everything for him so he won't be flashing much at all.
Do this
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...-18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-
To actually answer the question... No you do not need to be s-off to flash rom's. Once unlocked you can flash a recovery through fastboot and flash rom's to your hearts content. This is currently how my phone is, and I have no complaints. Please see my blog for a tutorial for flashing recovery and su binaries.
imheroldtech.blogspot.com
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http://theunlockr.com/2011/08/02/ho...android-phone-using-the-revolutionary-method/
This was how i did it way back when. It was the easiest method for me.
I had a rooted desire and I thought stupidly by using an RUU that it would unroot the phone (I know stupid idea) anyways after the install my desire now won't boot into anything instead I just have black and white boxes and I can't get into clockwork recovery because it does the exact same thing. The only thing I can get into is the bootloader and I can't do much from there. Can anyone help?
Ok....
What Hboot were you using , Data++, CM7/R2, Stock???
Are you S-On or S-Off,
If your are S-Off, you can reflash a custom recovery and hboot,
Whether you can restore you phone to a working state now depends on if you are S-Off.
Look at bortak's guide.
During AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility, my phone freezed at stage 3 of 3 for about an hour... Pulled out the battery, turn back on & stuck at Fastboot.. (see image) managed to switch between fasboot & hboot.. it'll hang when i switch to Android System Recovery mode...
cant even do the Goldcard
I need help...
solleh.mc said:
During AlphaRev 1.8 HBOOT reflash utility, my phone freezed at stage 3 of 3 for about an hour... Pulled out the battery, turn back on & stuck at Fastboot.. (see image) managed to switch between fasboot & hboot.. it'll hang when i switch to Android System Recovery mode...
cant even do the Goldcard
I need help...
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Use your other android phone for the goldcard. Then flash the 2.2 WWE RUU. If that fails, use the 2.3 one.
Thanx bortak, i'll try..
Bortak, why adb still cant find my device? for Fastboot it's ok...
I'm preety sure you won't be able to do what you're up to with Alpharev cause you have 0.93 hboot, you need revolutionary for that.
But, if you use 2.2 RUU it can happen to downgrade hboot to 0.88 so then you can try with Alpharev.
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solleh.mc said:
Bortak, why adb still cant find my device? for Fastboot it's ok...
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adb needs android running or recovery
nlooooo said:
I'm preety sure you won't be able to do what you're up to with Alpharev cause you have 0.93 hboot, you need revolutionary for that.
But, if you use 2.2 RUU it can happen to downgrade hboot to 0.88 so then you can try with Alpharev.
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Alpharev is ok with 0.93(mine was 0.93 and 2.29.405.5) but it is obsolete and requires stock rooted ROM (unrevoked root must be done prior s-off procedure), revolutionary can do everything in one go I prefer Revolutionary
bortak said:
Use your other android phone for the goldcard. Then flash the 2.2 WWE RUU. If that fails, use the 2.3 one.
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Thanx Bortak!... I managed to flash the WWE RUU 2.3... I make the goldcard from my Galaxy Note...
Ok, next guide me on how to;
1. S-Off
2. Upgrade my Desire to Cyanogenmod 7 or Cyanogenmod 9 (which is stable...)
Revolutionary.io
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Like kotag said revolutionary. But before flashing of rom I suggest you to upgrade recovery, because revolutionary installs some old version. My recommendation is 4ext, install 4ext recovery updater and then flash recovery from it.
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hello, as i said my wildfire with HBOOT 1.01.0002 and it's written that it's S-OFF but when i try to flash recovery it wont. i rooted my phone before but i installed stock 2.2.1 rom recently. so do i have to make the whole process from the beginning and downgrade then S-off and all that stuff?
PLEASE answer me i'm afraid of bricking my phone and i do really need to root it now. will there be a problem if S-off while it's already s-off?
This also happened to me when I re-installed the stock ROM on my Wildfire. I did the whole process from the beginning again and it worked like a treat.
Message me if you need any help.
crazy.girl said:
hello, as i said my wildfire with HBOOT 1.01.0002 and it's written that it's S-OFF but when i try to flash recovery it wont. i rooted my phone before but i installed stock 2.2.1 rom recently. so do i have to make the whole process from the beginning and downgrade then S-off and all that stuff?
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What method are you using to flash the recovery? Fast boot is not enabled on that bootloader version. You must use the pc49img method.
Flash the Revolutionary HBOOT
Fastboot flash hboot hboot.img
Or you can use the dd if of method.
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thank you for answering i have solved the problem