Can't get s-off : ( - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I had recently unrooted my gingerbread EVO and gained s-on to take it in for repair, when I bring it back and root.it again i can't get s-off no matter what I try . Help please. I'm currently running infected eternity Rom
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EarnyBaller said:
I had recently unrooted my gingerbread EVO and gained s-on to take it in for repair, when I bring it back and root.it again i can't get s-off no matter what I try . Help please. I'm currently running infected eternity Rom
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If you're not rooted, how're you running infected eternity?

i am rooted, revolutionary was successful but for some reason it never changed my s-on to s-off

EarnyBaller said:
i am rooted, revolutionary was successful but for some reason it never changed my s-on to s-off
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Well then use the revolutionary unroot, then re-root.

For future reference, if you take it in for repair, you don't have to be S-ON, you just need to have the stock latest stock Rom.
KJ

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[Q] Rerooting with Unrevoked 3.22

I already have a rooted htc desire running stock 2.2 rom s-on. Is it ok to use unrevoked 3.22 and reroot to gain permanent unlocked NAND flash?
Ghettonine said:
I already have a rooted htc desire running stock 2.2 rom s-on. Is it ok to use unrevoked 3.22 and reroot to gain permanent unlocked NAND flash?
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There is no problem with trying Unrevoked again, esp if you're S-ON and want to change the Recovery. But why? For S-OFF, you should run Alpharev. But you probably know this already.
droidzone said:
There is no problem with trying Unrevoked again, esp if you're S-ON and want to change the Recovery. But why? For S-OFF, you should run Alpharev. But you probably know this already.
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I really dont have any idea what is Alpharev,I got the phone already rooted from a friend. He says he had never tried installing a custom rom and I notice its S-on but thanks for the advice.
Btw, i just want to make sure if it is ok not to unroot and just simply overite with unrevoked?

[Q] S-OFF and Stock RRU

Hi,
If I run the Stock RRU for my HTC Desire will it reflash my bootloader and return to the stock HBOOT? (so S-ON returns)?
If not, how do I do this safely?
Thanks
Running an RUU will put EVERYTHING back to stock - you need to be rooted to have S-OFF
So if I run the Rru. My soff root and flash all go back to stock.
Wondering if that will put back for warranty claim
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
EddyOS said:
Running an RUU will put EVERYTHING back to stock - you need to be rooted to have S-OFF
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See my other post
Yes, it puts EVERYTHING back to stock. S-Off returns to S-Off, you become unrooted, your partition tables return to normal (I guess so since it rewrites the Hboot), EVERYTHING!!! I don't see why not for putting it in a warranty claim. To be honest I don't think they will be fussed, as long as you have the stock rom untouched.

[Q] Unroot Question

I unrooted my HTC Evo 4G yesterday and its back to stock but my S is Off and I want to know if i can turn my s-on using the Unrevoked S-On Tool.
You would have to re-root, run the s-on tool, then unroot. Its this way because the s-on tool has to be flashed in recovery. So in the future, always run the s-on tool before the RUU.
yes whats he said...LOL.....good luck man
Thanks for the help guys,i re rooted my phone and got my s-on.all went out great and everything is working fine.
Glad to hear it went as such.

How to get s-on

I rooted with revolutionary and wanted to know the quickest way to get s-on going to flash my stock back up because I'm upgrading my phone. Any help is really appreciated
y do you need to unroot to upgrade? are you trading your phone in?
Yea upgrading to evo 3d compliments of sprint
id say check out this thread. the key is to check that you have s-on, correct hboot version and KEEP you sd card as it will have different partitions, folders and files on it that if gone through can give it away.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141&highlight=keeping+apps
That unroot method is for the unrevoked root metho I rooted with revolutionary
btaylor545 said:
That unroot method is for the unrevoked root metho I rooted with revolutionary
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thank you captain throwback http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16949711#post16949711
do you have the stock nandroid? id say restore to your stock nandroid and do the OTA update... i have read that it will unroot you.
found this link for you roo...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245649
Run this.
Then flash this after changing the name to PC36IMG.
Then run this again.
SavocaFTW said:
Run this.
Then flash this after changing the name to PC36IMG.
Then run this again.
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finishing up now so far everything is going good im back to stock just waiting to see if the s-on sticks
alright this worked great traded the phone to sprint S-ON and back to stock thanks a lot of the direction just made my upgrade to the Samsung Epic Touch

[Q] unrevoked or revolutionary?

Took it to a repair shop and instead of repairing they gave me a replacement.
v2.3.5
baseband 2.15.00.12.19
build 4.67.651.3
software 4.67.651.3
pri 2.33_003
prl 60685
last time I rooted was with unrevoked forever. the new method is revolutionary right?
lostsoul77 said:
Took it to a repair shop and instead of repairing they gave me a replacement.
v2.3.5
baseband 2.15.00.12.19
build 4.67.651.3
software 4.67.651.3
pri 2.33_003
prl 60685
last time I rooted was with unrevoked forever. the new method is revolutionary right?
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since your on 2.3.5 you most likely have hboot 2.18. Your root method is going to be HTCdev.com. After you s-on unlocked with HTC dev you can either downgrade to a earlier version like froyo or GB and root with unrevoked or revolutionary or you can stay s-on unlocked but lose out on certain things because you wont be fully NAND unlocked(s-off) just unlocked s-on
lostsoul77 said:
Took it to a repair shop and instead of repairing they gave me a replacement.
v2.3.5
baseband 2.15.00.12.19
build 4.67.651.3
software 4.67.651.3
pri 2.33_003
prl 60685
last time I rooted was with unrevoked forever. the new method is revolutionary right?
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HBOOT IS 2.18.0001 which revolutionary doesn't appear to support. Also highlighted in pink it is displaying *** LOCKED (OOW) ***
I have a feeling someone is going to tell me it cant be rooted....
lostsoul77 said:
HBOOT IS 2.18.0001 which revolutionary doesn't appear to support. Also highlighted in pink it is displaying *** LOCKED (OOW) ***
I have a feeling someone is going to tell me it cant be rooted....
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Have to use HTCdev.com to s-on unlock then flash recovery through fastboot then superuser binaries and superuser zip
heres a guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473373
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA
evo4gnoob said:
Have to use HTCdev.com to s-on unlock then flash recovery through fastboot then superuser binaries and superuser zip
heres a guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473373
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do i need to downgrade my hboot? revolutionary site only gives 2.15.0001 and 2.16.0001 as options. I did the the s-on unlock successfully.
lostsoul77 said:
do i need to downgrade my hboot? revolutionary site only gives 2.15.0001 and 2.16.0001 as options. I did the the s-on unlock successfully.
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up to you. Do you want to downgrade to Froyo to use unrevoked or GB to use revoltuionary. You can flash roms with s-on unlocked just miss out on some perks S-OFF users have
evo4gnoob said:
up to you. Do you want to downgrade to Froyo to use unrevoked or GB to use revoltuionary. You can flash roms with s-on unlocked just miss out on some perks S-OFF users have
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I would rather use revolutionary as I've rooted a few other people's evo's with that method and it went fairly smooth. What im confused about is the hboot. I have to get the hboot to atleast 2.16.0001 and simply flashing a GB rom won't do that right? So do I need to find the radio thread and find an hboot file and can I even downgrade the hboot from 2.18 to 2.16 in order to use revolutionary to obtain s-off so that i can go back to what i was used to?
lostsoul77 said:
I would rather use revolutionary as I've rooted a few other people's evo's with that method and it went fairly smooth. What im confused about is the hboot. I have to get the hboot to atleast 2.16.0001 and simply flashing a GB rom won't do that right? So do I need to find the radio thread and find an hboot file and can I even downgrade the hboot from 2.18 to 2.16 in order to use revolutionary to obtain s-off so that i can go back to what i was used to?
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Simply flashing a rom wont affect radios ect. With S-on unlocked you CANT flash radios or hboots so you have to do a certain process in order to downgrade. You have to follow these steps exactly in order to downgrade. http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-)
evo4gnoob said:
Simply flashing a rom wont affect radios ect. With S-on unlocked you CANT flash radios or hboots so you have to do a certain process in order to downgrade. You have to follow these steps exactly in order to downgrade. http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-)
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Thanks so much for your help Evo4gnoob! i'm almost back to where i need to be. currently pushing recovery again via unrevoked.
lostsoul77 said:
Thanks so much for your help Evo4gnoob! i'm almost back to where i need to be. currently pushing recovery again via unrevoked.
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spoke too soon, having problems pushing recovery with unrevoked. says installing unrevoked3 service and been like that for 5mins
Not trying to sound like an A-Hole here, but what you have to do is exactly what evo4gnoob saays. Theres certain steps you have to take. evo helped me root my device with the exact same setup you have flawlessly. Hes pretty sharp. Take his advice and let him teach you.
drlzanej said:
Not trying to sound like an A-Hole here, but what you have to do is exactly what evo4gnoob saays. Theres certain steps you have to take. evo helped me root my device with the exact same setup you have flawlessly. Hes pretty sharp. Take his advice and let him teach you.
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I have it to where it is currently running Froyo. I followed all of the instructions. I'm not trying to root it using unrevoked as after downgrading, the root access was taken away. The unrevoked app pushes the recovery and sits at a status of "installing unrevoked3 service..." and never finishes. That's where i'm stuck at. I'm not new to rooting, just didn't have to go about it this way the last time. If unrevoked keeps failing, then I will give revolutionary a try if it supports froyo.
lostsoul77 said:
I have it to where it is currently running Froyo. I followed all of the instructions. I'm not trying to root it using unrevoked as after downgrading, the root access was taken away. The unrevoked app pushes the recovery and sits at a status of "installing unrevoked3 service..." and never finishes. That's where i'm stuck at. I'm not new to rooting, just didn't have to go about it this way the last time. If unrevoked keeps failing, then I will give revolutionary a try if it supports froyo.
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I've never used unrevoked so I have no idea how it works. Always felt that revolutionary was more simpler. Revolutionary only supports hboot 2.16 and 2.15 so you can take a ota just make sure its not the 4.67 ota
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA
evo4gnoob said:
I've never used unrevoked so I have no idea how it works. Always felt that revolutionary was more simpler. Revolutionary only supports hboot 2.16 and 2.15 so you can take a ota just make sure its not the 4.67 ota
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I did the OTA which upgraded me to 2.33 and hboot 2.16 and tried running revolutionary. Installed the fast boot drivers as well. receiving this error:
Zerging Root... this might take a minute or so.. rawadb_open: remote closed the
connection looking for target "sync:"
Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted. Try again.
Press (almost) any key to exit.
There is nothing using any usb port. This is becoming frustrating now
lostsoul77 said:
I did the OTA which upgraded me to 2.33 and hboot 2.16 and tried running revolutionary. Installed the fast boot drivers as well. receiving this error:
Zerging Root... this might take a minute or so.. rawadb_open: remote closed the
connection looking for target "sync:"
Communications with phone unexpectedly interrupted. Try again.
Press (almost) any key to exit.
There is nothing using any usb port. This is becoming frustrating now
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finally got it! had to reinstall the drivers.
Hell yeah, Are you s-on or s-off. as stated by evo4gnoob earlier, there are more advantages to s-off. flashing kernells,radios and such. Makes for a much more enjoyable expierience as far as flashing and moding,,,Later
drlzanej said:
Hell yeah, Are you s-on or s-off. as stated by evo4gnoob earlier, there are more advantages to s-off. flashing kernells,radios and such. Makes for a much more enjoyable expierience as far as flashing and moding,,,Later
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s-off, latest radios, and running MikG3.11...rooted with revolutionary after the long process of downgrading to froyo and upgrading to GB; unrevoked simply wasnt working correctly. An unrooted phone is just wrong on so many levels! LOL! Thank you guys much for all of your help! It's members like you who make this forum so great!
you can use htcdev to get s-off then use revolutionary to gain root.
4bdnf8 said:
you can use htcdev to get s-off then use revolutionary to gain root.
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htcdev does not give you s-off and revolutionary doesnt give you root it just s-offs you and installs a custom recovery
evo4gnoob said:
htcdev does not give you s-off and revolutionary doesnt give you root it just s-offs you and installs a custom recovery
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HTCDEV unlocks the bootloader
revolutionary and unrevoked give you root and s-off. I used revolutionary and I definetly have root as well as s-off.

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