So...I just got a replacement refurb evo from the insurance company.
Rooted using revolutionary, b/c my HBOOT was 2.16 & I just got the phone this week & didn't have time to go about it any other way. This changed my HBOOT to 6.16.
Today, I decided to try to switch to unrevoked. The method I used was to hex edit the 0.76.2 HBOOT (I'm not realizing I probably should've used the .93 HBOOT, but I could've sworn .76 was what I was running on my former OG, so I followed the instructions on how to do it correctly & went for it), then I flashed it through bootloader.
When my phone rebooted, it now reads:
SUPERSONIC EVT1 ENG S-OFF
HBOOT - 6.17.0000 (PC36*****)
RADIO - 2.15.00.0808
The only thing I can now flash through bootloader is my radio. Anything else & I get a PU error, which is partition update failure. If I try to reboot into recovery, I get 3 little android guys, same as if I try to just boot my phone up.
Yes my friend you most certainly did BRICK your evo. New evos have different block sizes then the older ones. That is why you CAN NOT downgrade the Hboot. Sorry to give the bad news. Not to be mean, but ur giving off a noobish vibe by saying "switching to unrevoked", so I'm gonna assume you didn't do your homework on this one. What was the reason to downgrade your hboot?
I'm curious why you wanted to downgrade on the first place?
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Sounds like he just wanted it to be like his old evo.
That evo be toast, shoulda looked before leaping on that one sorry bout your stroke of bad luck, if u have ins "forget" it somewhere and call in a replacement
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Ok. I need to unroot because I've got some screen separation and some dead pixels on my Evo, and want to get the screen replaced at the sprint store so I don't have to pay for it. I'm currently running Fresh 3.5.0.1 with the stock kernel, Radio is 2.15.00.09.01, PRI 1.77_003, PRL 60671 and my hardware is version 0002. I rooted a long time ago using unrEVOked and unrevoked forever and then got the HBOOT 0.76.2000 using this. I've already done all the research on how to unroot and found that this should do it for me. My question is, will that method take away the .76 hboot? If so how difficult will it be for me to get it back? Also is there a better pc36img that would be better for me to use to make re-rooting easier?
Any help on this topic would be much appreciated.
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Ok. I need to unroot because I've got some screen separation and some dead pixels on my Evo, and want to get the screen replaced at the sprint store so I don't have to pay for it. I'm currently running Fresh 3.5.0.1 with the stock kernel, Radio is 2.15.00.09.01, PRI 1.77_003, PRL 60671 and my hardware is version 0002. I rooted a long time ago using unrEVOked and unrevoked forever and then got the HBOOT 0.76.2000 using this. I've already done all the research on how to unroot and found that this should do it for me. My question is, will that method take away the .76 hboot? If so how difficult will it be for me to get it back? Also is there a better pc36img that would be better for me to use to make re-rooting easier?
Any help on this topic would be much appreciated.
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99% of the time for an issue like this there is no need to unroot
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theTrashcanMan said:
Ok. I need to unroot because I've got some screen separation and some dead pixels on my Evo, and want to get the screen replaced at the sprint store so I don't have to pay for it. I'm currently running Fresh 3.5.0.1 with the stock kernel, Radio is 2.15.00.09.01, PRI 1.77_003, PRL 60671 and my hardware is version 0002. I rooted a long time ago using unrEVOked and unrevoked forever and then got the HBOOT 0.76.2000 using this. I've already done all the research on how to unroot and found that this should do it for me. My question is, will that method take away the .76 hboot? If so how difficult will it be for me to get it back? Also is there a better pc36img that would be better for me to use to make re-rooting easier?
Any help on this topic would be much appreciated.
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Just some FYI alot of times they give you a replacement phone but you can downgrade from .97 with out problem so if you do run a RUU and get the .97 Hboot you can still go back to .76 and rooting any of those is easy still
roscoenr said:
99% of the time for an issue like this there is no need to unroot
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Yeah I know, but my bad luck I'd get the only hard ass tech in the whole company who would screw me...lol...so I'd rather just un-root to be safe.
Jbcarrera said:
Just some FYI alot of times they give you a replacement phone but you can downgrade from .97 with out problem so if you do run a RUU and get the .97 Hboot you can still go back to .76 and rooting any of those is easy still
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I know they do, I actually called the local sprint repair store and asked if they could replace the screen. The rep said yes, but I'll believe it when they do it. I can live with the phone the way it is, but I figured if I can get it fixed then I might as well.
I hate to be a PITA but I want to make sure I do this right, is this the correct place to find the ruu? How do I know which one contains the .97 hboot? Like I said sorry for the questions, I've learned a lot since I decided to root, but the biggest lesson was to always make sure I know EXACTLY what I'm doing and why. Again thanks for the help
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Yeah I know, but my bad luck I'd get the only hard ass tech in the whole company who would screw me...lol...so I'd rather just un-root to be safe.
I know they do, I actually called the local sprint repair store and asked if they could replace the screen. The rep said yes, but I'll believe it when they do it. I can live with the phone the way it is, but I figured if I can get it fixed then I might as well.
I hate to be a PITA but I want to make sure I do this right, is this the correct place to find the ruu? How do I know which one contains the .97 hboot? Like I said sorry for the questions, I've learned a lot since I decided to root, but the biggest lesson was to always make sure I know EXACTLY what I'm doing and why. Again thanks for the help
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Never had to unroot so not much help there but
Try this thread it might help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721843
what ever you do keep your scard
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Ok. I need to unroot because I've got some screen separation and some dead pixels on my Evo, and want to get the screen replaced at the sprint store so I don't have to pay for it. I'm currently running Fresh 3.5.0.1 with the stock kernel, Radio is 2.15.00.09.01, PRI 1.77_003, PRL 60671 and my hardware is version 0002. I rooted a long time ago using unrEVOked and unrevoked forever and then got the HBOOT 0.76.2000 using this. I've already done all the research on how to unroot and found that this should do it for me. My question is, will that method take away the .76 hboot? If so how difficult will it be for me to get it back? Also is there a better pc36img that would be better for me to use to make re-rooting easier?
Any help on this topic would be much appreciated.
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I unrooted with this method just this weekend and it worked pretty well. Took my phone in and they didn't say anything, unfortunately my phone couldn't be fixed so i will be getting a refurb unit I also had the .76 Hboot and this method did upgrade it to .97 hboot with 3.26 software build. Just make sure you run the s-on tool a couple times since I had the .76 hboot it never changed to s-on and still read s-off but once I started the PC36IMG and the hbooot was upgraded the hboot started showing S-OFF.
Ok, so the .97 hboot is in the 3.26 update? Thats what I was waiting for, thanks for all the help everybody. I'll post back here and let you know if they replace my screen or not....keeping my fingers crossed.
I am wanting to get Fastboot commands working on my Evo, Currently when I try a command they do not work. I read that I need a different H-Boot for fastboot to run correctly on my phone. So searching I found the correct H-Boot, but it seems my partitions are wrong for the H-Boot. Here is what my set up is...
CM7
Hardware 0003
H-Boot 2.10.0001 S-OFF via Unrevoked
Baseband 2.15.000.11.19
PRI 1.90_003
Software 3.70.651.1
When I run "cat /proc/mtd" in shell I am 00040000 for erasesize
Is there a work around I can do? I found a way to fool H-Boot into thinking its .76 BUT it says NOT to use the method if I have new partitions, erasesize 00040000, which I have
Could I RUU to a earlier software, then apply the .76 H-Boot, or will my 0003 hardware cause conflicts? So much dev for the Evo, but so many restrictions on what you can and cant do, depending on hardware, h-boot, baseband, its crazy! lol If it is possible please give as much info as you can. I dont want to get even more confused on what I can and cant do to get fastboot up and running
Thanks
If you've fooled HBOOT, kudos to you. But the latest HBOOT isn't downgradable, and if you RUU on your current software, it'd take you back to stock blah blah, but I think on the current HBOOT. I don't have all the answers, but I think you may be stuck on this one...
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If you've fooled HBOOT, kudos to you. But the latest HBOOT isn't downgradable, and if you RUU on your current software, it'd take you back to stock blah blah, but I think on the current HBOOT. I don't have all the answers, but I think you may be stuck on this one...
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No, I havent fooled it. I found a thread on how to, but not with my partitions sizes, I have the 40k partitions. So that being said I can not as of yet downgrade my H-Boot to ENG .76 I thought to myself, I am still S-OFF so I should be able to flash simple splash screen, nope!
c:\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash splash1 evosplash1.rgb565
sending 'splash1' (750 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.350s]
writing 'splash1'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.354s
Seems I cant do that because of the way I rooted, Unrevoked. I had the HTC Hero a while back and that phone was so easy to mess with. Then I played with a Intercept, trash! I got a LG Optimus S, another phone that is a PIA! Now I got my dream phone, been wanting a Evo since it cam out, 2 months after I got my Hero, grrrrrrrr Anyway, now that I have a Evo I cant do as I was able to do with my Hero. I thought because it was HTC it would be the same. The other 2 phones not being HTC was the problem, lol. I guess these phone companies are doing more and more to try and lock the end user out of rooting the device. Sucks for us who want to be flashing this or that, in any method we choose.
Now that I am done ranting, lol It looks like most of the stuff i want to do can be done via PC36IMG.zip's. Flashing recoveries, flashing splash screens, radios, all that junk. Is there a good thread explaining how to create these zip's and what they can and cant be used for?
Thanks
teh roxxorz said:
If you've fooled HBOOT, kudos to you. But the latest HBOOT isn't downgradable, and if you RUU on your current software, it'd take you back to stock blah blah, but I think on the current HBOOT. I don't have all the answers, but I think you may be stuck on this one...
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My replacement evo came with 3.70, hw003, hboot 2.10, 2000 erasesize and I still downgraded my hboot to .76. It's the newer block sizes and hw004 that have problems downgrading.
cordell12 said:
No, I havent fooled it. I found a thread on how to, but not with my partitions sizes, I have the 40k partitions. So that being said I can not as of yet downgrade my H-Boot to ENG .76 I thought to myself, I am still S-OFF so I should be able to flash simple splash screen, nope!
c:\android-sdk\tools>fastboot flash splash1 evosplash1.rgb565
sending 'splash1' (750 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.350s]
writing 'splash1'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.354s
Seems I cant do that because of the way I rooted, Unrevoked. I had the HTC Hero a while back and that phone was so easy to mess with. Then I played with a Intercept, trash! I got a LG Optimus S, another phone that is a PIA! Now I got my dream phone, been wanting a Evo since it cam out, 2 months after I got my Hero, grrrrrrrr Anyway, now that I have a Evo I cant do as I was able to do with my Hero. I thought because it was HTC it would be the same. The other 2 phones not being HTC was the problem, lol. I guess these phone companies are doing more and more to try and lock the end user out of rooting the device. Sucks for us who want to be flashing this or that, in any method we choose.
Now that I am done ranting, lol It looks like most of the stuff i want to do can be done via PC36IMG.zip's. Flashing recoveries, flashing splash screens, radios, all that junk. Is there a good thread explaining how to create these zip's and what they can and cant be used for?
Thanks
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There's a thread on Android Central HERE that explains how to make a flashable PC36IMG.zip splash screen. i assume the process for any other PC36IMG.zip is similar.
lovethyEVO said:
My replacement evo came with 3.70, hw003, hboot 2.10, 2000 erasesize and I still downgraded my hboot to .76. It's the newer block sizes and hw004 that have problems downgrading.
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I have hardware 0003 but its is equipped with new partitions 40k size. Are you saying I can downgrade Hboot?
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EndlessDissent said:
There's a thread on Android Central HERE that explains how to make a flashable PC36IMG.zip splash screen. i assume the process for any other PC36IMG.zip is similar.
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Thanks for the link!
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cordell12 said:
I have hardware 0003 but its is equipped with new partitions 40k size. Are you saying I can downgrade Hboot?
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You could try and theoretically it "could" work but I can't say for sure because there haven't been much reports of the 40k sized 003hw's having success with it.
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You could try and theoretically it "could" work but I can't say for sure because there haven't been much reports of the 40k sized 003hw's having success with it.
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I see, so theoretically it could also brick me. I am within my 30 days, and have a dead pixel. Thing is they know I root my phones, they were checking out my wifes LG Optimus S with 2.3 and were really interested on how to root. One of the reps wants to root his Evo but is scared due to all the versions and what not. Cant say I blame him, but you think working for sprint they can easily get a replacement phone, no?
Has anyone had success with hardware 0003 and NEW partitions (40,000 block size), or have anyone bricked while trying?
Thanks for input
cordell12 said:
I see, so theoretically it could also brick me. I am within my 30 days, and have a dead pixel. Thing is they know I root my phones, they were checking out my wifes LG Optimus S with 2.3 and were really interested on how to root. One of the reps wants to root his Evo but is scared due to all the versions and what not. Cant say I blame him, but you think working for sprint they can easily get a replacement phone, no?
Has anyone had success with hardware 0003 and NEW partitions (40,000 block size), or have anyone bricked while trying?
Thanks for input
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My girl got her Evo in December. It's an 003 model but I'm not sure about the partition size as that is news to me. I rooted with whatever version of Unrevoked was out at the time, and simply grabbed the .76 hboot from Toast's part 2 thread and flashed it. It worked without any issue.....in this case. After I did that, I read that a lot of people were having trouble downgrading to the engineering SPL and were bricking, and I breathed a heavy sigh of relief that it didn't happen to me and my girl's 4 hour old Evo. lol
Come to think about it, I don't even know why I did it to her phone. I always experiment with my own phone before flashing anything new on hers, so in retrospect, downgrading to that hboot in her phone just for fastboot commands was a risk not worth taking.
My husband and I are selling our phones to get the new 3d. We both had rooted our phones so we needed to unroot them. I did mine 2 weeks ago and it took quite some doing but finally got it to work. So I unrooted and than downloaded the OTA update and sold my phone.
Sooooo I need to do the same to my husbands unfortunatly his phone is in a different state than mine. First thing I noticed is that his hboot is .97.. Now mine was 2.1. I am newvous about trying the procedures I used since he has different hboot. Secondly he has a custom rom installed something that has gingerbread on it already. He is not really sure what he did since he flashed rom's and radio's etc etc (arrgg)
right now here is where I am on the state of his phone..
s-on
hboot .97
radio 2.15.00.09.01
any help on how to unroot his phone and get back to a point that if sprint has another upgrade a new person can just accept the OTA upgrade without any issues..
thanks in advance.
You need to do an RUU. Try the 3.29 or 3.30 one from this site:http://goo-inside.me/supersonic/stock/ruu/
Download the exe file, the other is the md5 checksum. That's probably how you did yours, just try an older one. Worst case is that it errors out. If it does that, just try another one.
Or you could run a PC36IMG of the RUU through the bootloader, your choice. You're halfway there since you have s-on. Did you check with the buyer to see if they want to root it? If so, you can still run the RUU, just keep it on Froyo so that they have the option.
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Thanks for posting PlainJane. I was looking for this for someone else.
well I finally found a file that says it was for the hboot .97 and so I am currently flashing that we will see in a second if I totally messed things up or not hahaha.
holding my breath.. says it is done and rebooting device..
circle with arrow in it..... holding breath.... htc evo 4f white screen... taking short breaths.. sprint logo.. breathing sigh of relief.. least we are not bricked or anything.. now to see if we are unrooted..
yahhhhhh whoo hooo.. done.. man.. this is toooo stressful ..
thanks guys..
I'm embarrassed to ask this question as I feel like I really should know this... but I can't find the answer so here goes. Just got insurance replacement for EVO (usb port issues). Was running Synergy nightlies prior. New phone is of course 2.33 with 4.24 build. Thrilled that Revolutionary is now available as I could not stand going back to an unrooted phone.
Revolutionary is asking me if I have HBOOT 2.15 or 2.16. I don't know! I can't get the phone to go into the boot screen with power/volume down (don't you have to have root for this?). Only info I have is Baseband 2.15.00.05.02 and PRI is 2.15_003. This makes me think that HBOOT must be 2.15, but all threads that I can find re: rooting 4.24 with Revolutionary talk only about HBOOT 2.16.
Again, sorry if I am being totally stupid, but I can't find my answer and don't want to screw this up right out of the gate.
Thanks!
Nevermind. It turns out that it must not matter. You get the same beta key regardless of what you choose for HBOOT so I'm going on to root. Still curious though, if you can't get to your boot screen, how can you find out your boot version? Or, why wouldn't the boot screen come up for me? Oh well. On to root and all the goodness that it allows!
You have fastboot enabled (by default). You could've unchecked fastboot in settings, or after powering down the phone pulled the battery, put it back in, and then volume down + power.
For the record, your hboot version was 2.16. I think that running revolutionary changes the hboot to 6.16, but I may be wrong.
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THANK YOU!!!! This has been so infuriating! I've read about disabling fastboot in the past, but did not focus on it since I never had this problem. This is actually my daughter's phone. My phone has fastboot disabled, plus I always use Quikboot. I thought that maybe I'd been rooted so long that I must have forgotten all the fundamentals! Great, great thanks!
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I think that running revolutionary changes the hboot to 6.16, but I may be wrong.
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You are correct. I now have 6.16.
Well i've been working for the past 9 hours trying ever possible thing i could find trying to fix my issue without any progress. How do i get back to stock so i can start over?!
Supersonic EVT1 ENG s-off
hboot-2.10.0001 (pc36*****)
microp-041f
touch panel-atmelc03_16ac
radio-2.15.00.05.02
mar 30 2010, 11:24:04
I was rooted with unrevoked after reverting back from the newest OTA using a guide from the XDA forums. everything was working wonderfully but my dumbass had to try and downgrade to an ancient ENG Hboot. using thefredelement's guide to get back to ENG .76. NOT NOTICING i shouldn't try it with HW version 003/004. unfortunately my phone is HW 003. idk what i need to do to get this fixed or if i bricked my phone. I've got a warranty still so i can always just report it lost pay the 50 and restore from my backup sd card.
anyways, my computer is able to see my phone with fastboot but not adb. i get errors when trying to flash new recoveries or anything but radios (such as fail PU, image update error, data length too large, etc) Trying to do anything with adb shell just says "device not found" (yes, i have the correct drivers installed) I CANNOT get into recovery (i had CWM 5.0.2.2) it just reboots back to hboot or the screen with the three droids skateboarding when i try. sorry ahead of time if this is posted in the wrong section/i just killed some brain cells with my stupidity and lack of experience. thanks in advance for any help and advice i can get! (sorry for the double post, idk how to delete postings)
Xexus said:
Well i've been working for the past 9 hours trying ever possible thing i could find trying to fix my issue without any progress. How do i get back to stock so i can start over?!
Supersonic EVT1 ENG s-off
hboot-2.10.0001 (pc36*****)
microp-041f
touch panel-atmelc03_16ac
radio-2.15.00.05.02
mar 30 2010, 11:24:04
I was rooted with unrevoked after reverting back from the newest OTA using a guide from the XDA forums. everything was working wonderfully but my dumbass had to try and downgrade to an ancient ENG Hboot. using thefredelement's guide to get back to ENG .76. NOT NOTICING i shouldn't try it with HW version 003/004. unfortunately my phone is HW 003. idk what i need to do to get this fixed or if i bricked my phone. I've got a warranty still so i can always just report it lost pay the 50 and restore from my backup sd card.
anyways, my computer is able to see my phone with fastboot but not adb. i get errors when trying to flash new recoveries or anything but radios (such as fail PU, image update error, data length too large, etc) Trying to do anything with adb shell just says "device not found" (yes, i have the correct drivers installed) I CANNOT get into recovery (i had CWM 5.0.2.2) it just reboots back to hboot or the screen with the three droids skateboarding when i try. sorry ahead of time if this is posted in the wrong section/i just killed some brain cells with my stupidity and lack of experience. thanks in advance for any help and advice i can get! (sorry for the double post, idk how to delete postings)
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Remain calm. Let's see if we can get you fully functional.
First, let's upgrade that HBOOT. That by itself might fix you up, if it'll flash through the bootloader. Try the PC36IMG.zip attached to this post. It's for HBOOT 2.15.
If it flashes successfully, it should reboot the bootloader for you. If it doesn't, choose the fastboot option that does, and when it comes back up, try getting into recovery. If you can get into recovery, the next thing you should do is retire CWM and flash RA-supersonic.
thx capt. I actually just filed a clain through asurion, and for my $100 deductible i've getting a brand new evo3d xD so jumping the gun for the replacement actually worked out for me this time!
Xexus said:
thx capt. I actually just filed a clain through asurion, and for my $100 deductible i've getting a brand new evo3d xD so jumping the gun for the replacement actually worked out for me this time!
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A shame to send back a perfectly fine OG . But I'm glad it worked out for you. Personally I like the challenge of trying to rescue a soft-bricked device. But I guess we'll never know if it was possible, now . . .
i would have loved to have found out myself. but being on probation and in the process of finding a job I just didnt have the time to mess with it i've still got it so once i get some time i'm going to attempt to unbrick it still. although its useless now that it's been deactivated lol