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How do I flash recovery with S-Off?

So I had to take my phone to Sprint. They flashed the original RRU back onto it.
I still have S-off though. So in order to root my phone again, do I need to go through the unrevoked method? Or is there a way I can just somehow flash clockworkmod recovery (through Hboot?), and then I'd be good to flash new ROMs from there?
Thanks.

adb amon ra
Search the forums, I remember reading about this specific issue, I believe you need to just push a custom recovery onto your phone and flash a rooted rom. Are you experienced with adb? Or I'm guessing you unrevoked 3'd your evo. Load amon ra and push that recovery back on.

if you're s-off try place on the root and flash this, then you should be good, you can flash a new rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764062&highlight=Recovery+hboot

I did try the search. No luck. Not good with adb but if I just have to put an image into my root directory and then flash it in hboot I can do that. I would just need the image

Frizzanko said:
if you're s-off try place on the root and flash this, then you should be good, you can flash a new rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764062&highlight=Recovery+hboot
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This would be great but is there a link for clockworkmod recovery do you know?

What did sprint say when you brought in and they no doubt noticed your phone was rooted?
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Ruggerxpunk said:
This would be great but is there a link for clockworkmod recovery do you know?
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On the unrevoked website, there is a link to bootloader flashable custom recoveries.
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Vandelay007 said:
What did sprint say when you brought in and they no doubt noticed your phone was rooted?
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Well I have 6 phones on my account with them, so they didn't say anything.
They know to either fix my phone or lose 6 monthly contracts.
Rydah805 said:
On the unrevoked website, there is a link to bootloader flashable custom recoveries.
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I can't see where you're referring to on the unrevoked website. I've been to both www.unrevoked.com & www.unrevoked.com/#evo and even www.unrevoked.com/recovery and the only options I have is to actually go through the entire "Painless root & reflash" process. I was hoping to just download only the clockworkmod PC36IMG image.

[Q] Inc in bootloop - even after RUU install

Hi - I've got a rooted AMOLED Incredible.
Yesterday, it went into a bootloop. I could get to HBoot but could not get into recovery. I tried flashing multiple other recoveries but still could not get into it from HBoot (it would go into a bootloop every time I chose "Recovery" from HBoot).
Today, I installed an RUU from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11717873&postcount=2
It updated, and then when I rebooted, it went into the same bootloop, this time with the stock splash screen.
I have HBoot 0.92, Radio 7.28. I'm S-off. I've formatted my SD card, and it's FAT32.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
-jaba

Is setcpu installed, and overclocking way high on boot? If setcpu is installed, you s/b able to mount device in adb and remove it.
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smtom said:
Is setcpu installed, and overclocking way high on boot? If setcpu is installed, you s/b able to mount device in adb and remove it.
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no setCPU installed.

Can you dl another ROM like Virtuous and put it on sd, then flash it?
Have you tried another sd?
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smtom said:
Can you dl another ROM like Virtuous and put it on sd, then flash it?
Have you tried another sd?
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I can't get into recovery with bootlooping.
I'll try another SD card.

Basically at this point I'd be happy to get the phone to S-On so that I can take it back to Verizon. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that as I can't access Recovery without going into a bootloop. I've tried to flash other recoveries and they all put me into a bootloop.
Anyone with any thoughts on how to get s-on without recovery?
Thanks!

I would say flash a bp31img through hboot. That should put you s-on i believe. If you cannot find a pb31img ill come back latter with a link for dl. The pb31img should put you completely stock. The image i have though is from the first shippments of 2.1 but its still stock.
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linuxmotion said:
I would say flash a bp31img through hboot. That should put you s-on i believe. If you cannot find a pb31img ill come back latter with a link for dl. The pb31img should put you completely stock. The image i have though is from the first shippments of 2.1 but its still stock.
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I tried that and it didn't work. Thanks, though.
I took the phone to verizon and they are sending me a new one.

Any solution to this?

To get s-on you need to be able to access recovery. Also what rom were you on when the phone messed up, was it cm7?

cmlusco said:
To get s-on you need to be able to access recovery. Also what rom were you on when the phone messed up, was it cm7?
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I was on SR 4.2 but I figured it out. The first time I RUU'd the phone was shaking all over the place so I think that just ****ed it up. I reflashed the RUU and it's good to go. I decided I am just going to sell it to my buddy as a stock unrooted with S-OFF, screw it.
Thanks though.

REYES702 said:
I was on SR 4.2 but I figured it out. The first time I RUU'd the phone was shaking all over the place so I think that just ****ed it up. I reflashed the RUU and it's good to go. I decided I am just going to sell it to my buddy as a stock unrooted with S-OFF, screw it.
Thanks though.
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Don't give up hope just now to S-ON. Have you read the below page for getting S-ON?
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
It should work with stock recovery as long as you're on one of the listed radios.
Get the unrevoked-forever-son.zip and follow instructions for unrevoked-forever.zip, renaming to update.zip

Quick question, I RUU'd back to Froyo so can he still receive the OTA with S-OFF? Or does it need to be S-ON?

REYES702 said:
Quick question, I RUU'd back to Froyo so can he still receive the OTA with S-OFF? Or does it need to be S-ON?
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It can be s-off but everything else must be stock, including recovery and having all original apps. Since its s-off rooting after the ota is no problem if desired.

Replacement EVO has S-Off from Asurion... What next?

My replacement EVO arrived today, S-OFF with Hboot 2.18.0001
What should I do next? Flash a PC36IMG.zip with amon recovery, or do i need to do something with the bootloader to downgrade/unlock it first?
thanks in advance!

It arrived s-off or you rooted it? If it came that way you need to contact them and demand a new handset!
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I wouldn't contact them, it just makes your job easier with already having s-off. You're correct, just flash a recovery and you'll be good to go.

No, you should contact them because they have now sent you a phone that had a voided warranty.
I understand the thought of cool it's already rooted, but you can't say for sure what has already been toyed with.
r2doesinc, a premiere developer, had this issue and took it to corporate and they apologized and sent him a brand new in the box device.
Unlocking is a user decision and needs to be done by the user.
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plainjane said:
I wouldn't contact them, it just makes your job easier with already having s-off. You're correct, just flash a recovery and you'll be good to go.
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Just in case anyone in a similar situation (s-off but with hboot 2.18 locked) finds this thread in a search:
I went ahead and unlocked the bootloader using the htc-dev method, flashed a recovery with a PC36IMG.zip that was still on my SD card, and everything is copacetic. No problems making a nandroid backup, flashing MikG 3.11 and then an SBC kernel
I assumed the bootloader needed to be unlocked first to flash a PC36IMG that wasn't signed by HTC's keys.

[Q] Can't install recovery

Before I get flamed for using search, I did, and all I found were 4 threads, in which I read. I did not find a good answer. I'm trying to flash smelkus ics themed and when the zip is read, I get a parsing (PC36IMG.ZIP). And it just hangs there. Any ideas??
EVT2-3 S-on
HBoot-2.18.0001
MICROP-041f
Radio-2.15.00.12.19
Thanks,
Jasen

mrjasenr said:
Before I get flamed for using search, I did, and all I found were 4 threads, in which I read. I did not find a good answer. I'm trying to flash smelkus ics themed and when the zip is read, I get a parsing (PC36IMG.ZIP). And it just hangs there. Any ideas??
EVT2-3 S-on
HBoot-2.18.0001
MICROP-041f
Radio-2.15.00.12.19
Thanks,
Jasen
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You put it on root of SD? Also check md5 on file via hash Droid or md5 sum in market
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maybe try flashing with fastboot? flash recovery recoveryname.img thats the command to flash a recovery in fastboot. google how to do it and what you need
or flash with flash image gui
its free on xda

mrjasenr said:
Before I get flamed for using search, I did, and all I found were 4 threads, in which I read. I did not find a good answer. I'm trying to flash smelkus ics themed and when the zip is read, I get a parsing (PC36IMG.ZIP). And it just hangs there. Any ideas??
EVT2-3 S-on
HBoot-2.18.0001
MICROP-041f
Radio-2.15.00.12.19
Thanks,
Jasen
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Well you did root / unlock the device correct? Additionally, make sure you don't have a bad download of the file.

Must be "s-off"
Just spent the better part of a week on this one. I also could not get past "parsing". I know how frustrating it is! I wasn't having a problem with Amon RA 2.3, I just wanted the new one!
I am using Nitrous 1.5.3 and posted to that board and got some great support as always. raafeall informed me that I needed to make sure I didn't need "s-off". I did. I had rooted using htcDEV so I was watermarked and "s-on". I followed Captian_Throwback's thread to rool back and rooted through Revolutionary to get "s-off". As soon as it was done I updated to smelkus Amon Ra 4.3!
Thread at click-dev:
http://www.click-dev.com/htc-evo-4g-qa/ra-supersonic-v4-3/msg218/?topicseen#new
Captian_Throwback's thread:
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...-18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-)
"New" option for achieving "s-off" after watermark (I did not use this one):
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-hacks/root-for-htc-evo-4g-gingerbread-is-here/

teh roxxorz said:
Well you did root / unlock the device correct? Additionally, make sure you don't have a bad download of the file.
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I have a recovery already installed along with the fact I've flashed atleast 50
different times, from my LG Optimus, and now my Evo 4g.
I was just looking to try something new.

Do I have to unroot in order to change to a different root method. Since I used HTCDev method should I un do it to go back and do Revolution??

traceli said:
Just spent the better part of a week on this one. I also could not get past "parsing". I know how frustrating it is! I wasn't having a problem with Amon RA 2.3, I just wanted the new one!
I am using Nitrous 1.5.3 and posted to that board and got some great support as always. raafeall informed me that I needed to make sure I didn't need "s-off". I did. I had rooted using htcDEV so I was watermarked and "s-on". I followed Captian_Throwback's thread to rool back and rooted through Revolutionary to get "s-off". As soon as it was done I updated to smelkus Amon Ra 4.3!
Thread at click-dev:
http://www.click-dev.com/htc-evo-4g-qa/ra-supersonic-v4-3/msg218/?topicseen#new
Captian_Throwback's thread:
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...-18-HBOOT-with-HTCDev-com-No-More-Watermark!-)
"New" option for achieving "s-off" after watermark (I did not use this one):
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-hacks/root-for-htc-evo-4g-gingerbread-is-here/
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I believe that he explained it perfectly for you. Just read and follow the instructions. Good luck
mrjasenr said:
Do I have to unroot in order to change to a different root method. Since I used HTCDev method should I un do it to go back and do Revolution??
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Flashing ROM and Recovery not the same
mrjasenr said:
I have a recovery already installed along with the fact I've flashed atleast 50
different times, from my LG Optimus, and now my Evo 4g.
I was just looking to try something new.
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Yes, you would be able to flash ROMS, Kernels, and 'some' Recoveries with the bootloader unlocked by htc, that is why they did it. You cannot flash different Baseband, Radio, Wimax, etc. unless you are "s-off". And for some reason (I am curious why, now I get something to research!), smelkus' recovery requires that level of permissions.
mrjasenr said:
Do I have to unroot in order to change to a different root method. Since I used HTCDev method should I un do it to go back and do Revolution??
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Yes, if you use Captian_Throwback's thread. It un-roots to a "s-on", "locked", un-watermarked state. Then, you will roll back your radio and baseband, otherwise Revolutionary won't work.
Good luck. The whole process only took me a hour, hour and a half maybe, and I was tip toeing through the whole thing.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21842484&postcount=19
Here is the Captian's method on xda.

sha4000 said:
I believe that he explained it perfectly for you. Just read and follow the instructions. Good luck
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Ok, I was unsure if I had to unroot first, but I did not. I followed
Captian_Throwback method to the T and it went flawlessly. Thanks alot!!
Now to install a newer recovery!

I had trouble flashing the zip (it just hung there) and was able to load the .img via fastboot.
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mrjasenr said:
Ok, I was unsure if I had to unroot first, but I did not. I followed
Captian_Throwback method to the T and it went flawlessly. Thanks alot!!
Now to install a newer recovery!
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I'm glad that you got that sorted out. Now on to flashing.
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[Q] Is this phone bricked?

I received an Incredible 2,
*****RELOCKED*******
VIVO_W XB SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT -0.98.0000
Radio- 1.09.01.0312
eMMC-boot
Jul 18 2011
All that it does is get stuck at the HTC screen.
Things that I have tried.
New Ruus
PG32IMG
The phone is recognized in fastboot,
ADB does not recognize the phone.
I have been going through the forum, and websites for the last 4 hours.
Factory Reset reboots the phone and gives me a security warning.
Recovery does the same.
I also get the USB Not recognized error once the phone comes on. I have installed the HTC drivers, I have also installed HTC Sync and have removed it.
Am I stressing and overlooking something simple? Or, do I need to take this phone out back and lay it to rest.
Thank you in advance
Crush

I don't own this phone but how did this happen? I'm assuming your rooted and unlocked if you got s recovery and stuff. And if your recovery works.. just Mount your SD card and transfer a ROM from your PC and flash one.. make sure you flash the kernel too. That or run the ruu
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XxlemonxX said:
I don't own this phone but how did this happen? I'm assuming your rooted and unlocked if you got s recovery and stuff. And if your recovery works.. just Mount your SD card and transfer a ROM from your PC and flash one.. make sure you flash the kernel too. That or run the ruu
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Thank for replying xxLemonxx
I was given this phone because because it is stuck in the bootloop. Phones come with their own recovery, this isn't a custom recovery. I have tried to run ruus, the error I get is Main version is older. I have also downloaded official stock roms with no luck.
When I hit recovery, the phone reboots back to the bootloader, the recovery never comes up.

CrushRush said:
Thank for replying xxLemonxx
I was given this phone because because it is stuck in the bootloop. Phones come with their own recovery, this isn't a custom recovery. I have tried to run ruus, the error I get is Main version is older. I have also downloaded official stock roms with no luck.
When I hit recovery, the phone reboots back to the bootloader, the recovery never comes up.
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Ohh so someone messed it up and just gave it to you for free? Or for you to repair? Either way I don't follow the droid inc2 but maybe im sure its rooted if its in a boot loop so try going into fast boot and go into cmd prompt and try to install a recovery. Look up how to install a recovery through CmD Prompt on the Pc. On my phone can't explain all of it. And then just transfer over a ROM probably cm9 and follow the instructions
Unless you want to go back to stock? Not sure if you know about ROMs and kernels?
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XxlemonxX said:
Ohh so someone messed it up and just gave it to you for free? Or for you to repair? Either way I don't follow the droid inc2 but maybe im sure its rooted if its in a boot loop so try going into fast boot and go into cmd prompt and try to install a recovery. Look up how to install a recovery through CmD Prompt on the Pc. On my phone can't explain all of it. And then just transfer over a ROM probably cm9 and follow the instructions
Unless you want to go back to stock? Not sure if you know about ROMs and kernels?
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Thats exactly what happened, it was given to me to me in this condition, and if I can fix it I will get paid for doing so.
Yes, I am familiar with roms, and kernels, I currently use an Evo 4g with Swagged out Stock X 2.0.9.8
Ive also rooted and flash cm7 on plenty of phones, I even have cm7 on my HP Touchpad.
I can't for the life of me figure this out. It has me highly intrigued. I am known for stressing out and overlooking minor small steps, so I wanted get some input from the community.
I currently have fastboot open, I am not entirely familiar with the Incredible 2, but normal case S-on = none rooted from my experience.

it was devunlocked then relocked i believe, from the error message i believe you are not flashing the right ruu, you are trying to flash an older one, you need the newest one, it was released a few months ago if i recall correctly and it was no big update but thats the one you need, search for it and try it it should work. if you are s on you cant flash a older ruu than whats already on it
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CrushRush said:
Thats exactly what happened, it was given to me to me in this condition, and if I can fix it I will get paid for doing so.
Yes, I am familiar with roms, and kernels, I currently use an Evo 4g with Swagged out Stock X 2.0.9.8
Ive also rooted and flash cm7 on plenty of phones, I even have cm7 on my HP Touchpad.
I can't for the life of me figure this out. It has me highly intrigued. I am known for stressing out and overlooking minor small steps, so I wanted get some input from the community.
I currently have fastboot open, I am not entirely familiar with the Incredible 2, but normal case S-on = none rooted from my experience.
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Hboot 98 is compatible with revolutionary root method. I would start there, rooting and s-off with a stock rooted Rom...
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Your radio is .0312, so you won't be able to flash an RUU, they're all older. Can you recognize it in fastboot mode? Try unlocking again with HTCdev, then flashing a custom recovery and ROM.
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Macrodroid said:
Hboot 98 is compatible with revolutionary root method. I would start there, rooting and s-off with a stock rooted Rom...
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Hboot .98 isn't compatible with revolutionary, only .97 is, but that doesn't make a difference anyways because you can't run revolutionary if you can't boot the phone.
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prototype7 said:
Your radio is .0312, so you won't be able to flash an RUU, they're all older. Can you recognize it in fastboot mode? Try unlocking again with HTCdev, then flashing a custom recovery and ROM.
OMG..... As usual... I have been overlooking the obvious path to glory. Thank you. I think I can handle it form here.
That literally took me like 2 minutes.
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CrushRush said:
prototype7 said:
Your radio is .0312, so you won't be able to flash an RUU, they're all older. Can you recognize it in fastboot mode? Try unlocking again with HTCdev, then flashing a custom recovery and ROM.
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Are there any roms that you recommend that run smooth on the INC2?
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I would proceed with s-off because it's so much better than htcdev unlock.
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