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[Q] Confused...Rooted or unRooted?

Hi please be gentle...I'm a noob.
So, I receives a pre owned HTC Evo. Went through the forum and figured that it is rooted (bootloader indicates S-OFF at top). I want to unroot so I can take it to Sprint and have the speaker checked.
However, I checked the sd card and it is completely wipe clean with no zip files, no ROMs or any files for that matter. I don't know what was used to root the phone. Although, whenever I bootload it goes to an update which I think is the pc36img and after the process is done all indicate "ok" so not really sure what that is...(BTW-When I got the phone it appeared to have stock OS).
My questions are:
Can I still unroot without any knowledge of how the root was done? If so, how?
Is there a possiblity that the previous owner tried to unroot but did not fully do so, hence the S-OFF?
Do I need to get another rom (like unrevoked-forever) zip firle into the sd card to even proceed with the unrooting?
I am not a techy gal so dumb it down for me please...I would appreciate it. Thanks

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141&highlight=restoring+stock
here is the guide to restoring back to stock.
If you can get into h-boot than its very possible to fix your problem here. Make sure you got a full battery when working with h-boot (you never want your evo to die while these processes are going on)

Just follow the link the previous user supplied, it'll work. If you have any problems just pm me or get back here in the thread.
Edit: Also, the S-OFF [security off] means the phone was fully rooted, allowing you to change the splash screens, and just about everything.

Still confused...
I tried to do all the steps from the link above. Since I wasn't sure if it was rooted with unrevoked forever I first tried to do the first 8 steps and when I did the bootloader and selected "recovery" it took me to a black screen with a red triangle and exclamation mark. The bottom half...also got the same result. So, I pressed vol up and power buttons to get out of that scary page but it just reboots.
What am I doing wrong? Have I "bricked" my phone? I don't think so since I still can use the phone with the stock OS...Help anyone???

uh DUH said:
I tried to do all the steps from the link above. Since I wasn't sure if it was rooted with unrevoked forever I first tried to do the first 8 steps and when I did the bootloader and selected "recovery" it took me to a black screen with a red triangle and exclamation mark. The bottom half...also got the same result. So, I pressed vol up and power buttons to get out of that scary page but it just reboots.
What am I doing wrong? Have I "bricked" my phone? I don't think so since I still can use the phone with the stock OS...Help anyone???
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That screen you are seeing means you don't have a custom recovery installed. That isn't the main issue.
When you load into H-BOOT. (Volume Down + Power), does it say S-ON or S-OFF at the top? If it says S-ON, flash the stock RUU and it will bring you back to stock. You can find it in my sticky or by going through the forums.
If you are S-OFF and still get the red triangle screen when you hit Recovery, you will have to flash another custom recovery like Amon RA to get back in to flash the Unrevoked S-ON Tool.
Also for future help. Get your H-BOOT Version from the H-BOOT Screen, all the information from Menu > Settings > About Phone > Software Information as well as all the information from Menu > Settings > About Phone > Hardware Information

[Q] Gnex wont boot. Cant flash from fastboot (too many links error)

CDMA GALAXY NEXUS> Hey guys, I was running Romanbb's 4.0.4 build earlier today. I clicked on a video (which may or may not have been on a porn site) all of a sudden my screen went all wacky. Where it was kind of fuzzy and running diagnal across the screen. I could only see part of it. I thought I might have gotten a virus or something because i have never had one of my devices do this before. So I immideatly rebooted the phone into recovery and wiped eveything including formatting system. I went to flash a nandroid I had of black ice and in the middle of flashing that my phone rebooted itself and stayed there (bootlooping at the google logo) I can get into fastboot and I can get into recovery about one out of every ten times but I cant do anything in recovery because the phone turns itself off insted of booting recovery most of the time (I have clockwork touch) When I do get into recovery without it turning off it reboots if I try to flash anything. It seems to be stable in fastboot (thank god!) but When I get it connected in Wugs Root tool kit and try to flash the stock image it goes through the motions and says FAILED on every step exept the first (which I believe is checking radio). It says ( error too many links) on the first two) and I cant remember the error on the last four but I have tried it a couple times so I can replicate it if needed. Can anyone tell me what to do from here? I really appreciate in advance!!! If this is a hardware error then I would like to get it back to stock to get it replaced. It is weird that it happened while running a rom. Its not like I messed up while flashing or anything.
ADB will recognize it in Fastboot. I already set all of that up when I rooted. when I try to flash the stock+unroot option on wugfresh's toolbox it errors out on every step like there is something wrong with my internal sd on my phone? Im wondering if I should try odin. IDK? Im hoping somebody who has seen this or had this happen before will save the day and tell me what to do.

lol why did you rush into CWM and start wiping things? you should have let it reboot and it probably could have been a one off..
you can try this http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14145-od...actory-odin-restore-402-with-radios-unrooted/

It is stable in fastboot but in cwr it is still geeking out
It still is glitching in cwr. most of the time it either turns off or reboots when I try to go into cwr. i can wipe but if I flash anything it freezes at the point where it starts writing to storage. I have never seen anything like this before.

I have now tried oden as well
It looks like it is a problem with the hardware. The phone is only a couple months old if that. So I really wish I could flash the stock image or at least get rid of cwm. but that is not looking likely. Here are a couple pics of odin showing the problem. Any guidace would be much appreciated. This SUCKS

Why in the heck are you trying to use Odin?

I can only get into fastboot and odin.
CWM wont let me do anything. it crashes and reboots into a bootloop if I try to flash anything. The poster above suggested odin. I dont know what else to do. Please help if you can!

Can you get a screencap of when it fails fastbooting the stock images?

yes
yes, give me couple min and I will post it. Thank you!
I guess I cant. This is all I get now

drumdestroyer said:
yes, give me couple min and I will post it. Thank you!
I guess I cant. This is all I get now
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How are you attempting to access fastboot?

Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time
Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time from powered off
And oden was Vol - and power at the same time from powered off
Now no matter what I push it goes to the screen with the yellow triangle.

That screen says you (now) have a corrupt partition.
At this point, you must use Odin, which is unfortunate. What URL did you use to download the image? The current image in that thread was on multiupload.

drumdestroyer said:
Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time from powered off
And oden was Vol - and power at the same time from powered off
Now no matter what I push it goes to the screen with the yellow triangle.
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during my rooting attempt I had a problem with the two vol buttons. It was quite frustrating. Keep trying them and try pressing the power button a fraction of a second sooner.

I downloaded the one later in the thread
Here's the Modem: http://dl.dropbox.co...15.EK02_LTE.tar
Here's the System: http://dl.dropbox.co...L53F_signed.tar
from this thread on page 3 housry23 posted them from his dropbox:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14145-od...restore-402-with-radios-unrooted/page__st__30
there were a couple other posts right around the same time with it but they all were the same file name
I thought I saw the same files in the xda thread i found also
I used that thread because it is the one that the second post linked for me.

drumdestroyer said:
Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time from powered off
And oden was Vol - and power at the same time from powered off
Now no matter what I push it goes to the screen with the yellow triangle.
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Send it to me. I might be able to fix it. PM me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

loveubuntu said:
during my rooting attempt I had a problem with the two vol buttons. It was quite frustrating. Keep trying them and try pressing the power button a fraction of a second sooner.
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no luck with that. it seems to only open to the "corupted partision" screen. Thanks for the suggestion.

ljwnow said:
Send it to me. I might be able to fix it. PM me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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I pm'd you to ask how you could fix it. Just wondering if I could do it. I can follow instructions well. I have never had a problem and have been flashing stuff for a year or so. IDK what happened here.

I can't help but I wanted to share that I had a similar experience. I was bonne stock and clicked on a you tube video and my phone immediately shut down and tried to reboot itself, but only would boot loop. I had to manually reformat my partitions to recover. Sounds like your case might be even worse. Still don't know what my problem was.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Thanks. Any feedback is appreciated.

so you can't get into bootloader or odin screen any more? if so try using a Jig it works to get the phone into odin mode for me. i used the same usb jig i made for the captivate.

I got the same suggestion from someone else. I have to wait until radio shack opens in the morning and I will give it a shot. Otherwise, I went by verizon and they are having samsung send me a replacment. I would much rather keep this one if I can though
I tried flashing the stock image from fastboot and it failed though when I could get there, and I also tried flashing the stock image through oden when I could get there and both failed multiple times so I don't have much hope. I think something broke.
I am headed to radio shack now. Be back soon with a answer as to wheather I can save my baby or not.

[Q] Nexus will not start up

First of all, I'd like to apologize if I'm breaking any forum rules. I just hastily made this account because I did something stupid and I need your help.
I rooted my Nexus 7 a few days ago, and it all went well. While looking through root apps on the Play store today, I found a font switcher. It looked alright, so I figured I'd download it. I picked out a font, hit install, and the device rebooted as I would expect. It showed the Google logo, as well as the padlock icon, and then went to the "X" as per usual. However, it stayed on that screen for quite a while and would not start up. The bootloader menu still works, but I can't really do much with it. I'm afraid I had USB debugging turned off as well. Please help, I don't have a clue what to do and I don't want to have it permanently bricked less than a month after buying it. Thank you in advance.
P.S. You'll have to explain the terms to me, rooting is sort of a new area for me.

Factory reset ?

hyperxguy said:
Factory reset ?
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I wouldn't mind doing it, but I can't as I can only access the bootloader menu and I don't have any recovery programs installed.

I'm not very familiar with stock recovery (assuming that's what you have. I've never seen the stock recovery since I wiped stock off my tab as soon as I could). But doesn't it have a factory reset option ? (I thought I saw that on my old N7 when it was still on stock form)
Edit: you can get to stock recovery from the bootloader menu. Just use volume up/down to rotate thru menu options and hit power to select.

hyperxguy said:
I'm not very familiar with stock recovery (assuming that's what you have. I've never seen the stock recovery since I wiped stock off my tab as soon as I could). But doesn't it have a factory reset option ? (I thought I saw that on my old N7 when it was still on stock form)
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I tried entering recovery mode and I got an error icon, then after a while it just rebooted.

Is your tab OK now ?
Don't worry too much, it's very difficult to "brick" a N7.
You may look at this tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389107
It's easy to do many things.
The hardest part would be to get your PC to fully recornize your tab (which you're there, since you rooted the tab).

If you don't mind losing data, you can just flash stock back from fastboot. If you want to try factory resetting, you can flash a recovery image from fastboot, then reset from there. Fastboot is done from the bootloader.

hyperxguy said:
Is your tab OK now ?
Don't worry too much, it's very difficult to "brick" a N7.
You may look at this tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389107
It's easy to do many things.
The hardest part would be to get your PC to fully recornize your tab (which you're there, since you rooted the tab).
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Yes, it's fixed. I found a recovery tool in WugFresh's toolbox.

[Q] Stuck on Fastboot mode

Well technically i'm not really stuck on fastboot mode considering I can take the battery out and it loads up fine, but the fact that I've been trying to flash a new recovery, TWRP to be exact and I can't seem to do it, All it does is go to a black screen with "680Fastboot mode" in the top left hand corner and doesn't do anything from there, I've waited up to 15 minutes, take in mind I'm also relatively new to this so I may be doing something obviously wrong, but does anyone have some light to shine in this matter?
Thanks in advance?

the easy way to fix that is factory reset.

Can't do that just goes right back to fastboot mode started

How are you flashing the recovery?

Tried both the adb way and flashify neither works

You get the fastboot screen when trying to boot into recovery?

Marshmallon said:
Well technically i'm not really stuck on fastboot mode considering I can take the battery out and it loads up fine, but the fact that I've been trying to flash a new recovery, TWRP to be exact and I can't seem to do it, All it does is go to a black screen with "680Fastboot mode" in the top left hand corner and doesn't do anything from there, I've waited up to 15 minutes, take in mind I'm also relatively new to this so I may be doing something obviously wrong, but does anyone have some light to shine in this matter?
Thanks in advance?
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I'm guessing you've used a "Root Lollipop (No-Downgrade) Method" and then tried to Flash new "Recovery". You still need to Downgrade the aboot image to KitKat Image. Go here:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-update-to-lollipop-root-bumpd-twrp-t3048845 read OP then goto, Page 16, Post #153 for Imageprep tool. That will give you TWERP. To be honest if you can, use the Downgrade Method, it's been around longer and does not have as many pitfalls (IMHO).... .....

I have a fix for your problem.. Go to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...y-download-t3053985/post60096627#post60096627

Urgent help, stuck at google logo.

So I've kinda ****ed up.
I've been rooted for a while now and this is the first time I've broken anything. I'd just flashed a clean install of Pure Nexus 7.0 using TWRP and went back to install elemental x. I'd installed that but before rebooting decided to reflash the surround speakee mod, and this is where I **** up. "It'll be fine" I think, so I reboot, stuck in a bootloop, so I go back into TWRP and try to flash the recovery something about incorrect partition. ****. So in a last ditch effort I go back and wipe everything, now I just get stuck at the google logo. My phone sits on my desk powered of completly, any help would be much appreciated thanks.
Edit: Thanks guys, I flashed the stock image using fastboot (already had it installed anyway) and my phones back.. I'm typing this out on it. Thanks.

Revert to Stock
This post should fix your problems.
goo [dot] gl/u1GCXe
replace the [dot] with an actual period to get the url. It's basically just instructions for fixing soft-brick via Wugfresh's root toolkit

Chill mate, this has happened to me many times because I'm a ROM lover! Simply flash a stock img and everything will be just fine. If you're looking for an easy way then Google "Nexus toolkit" (latest version) and download it. Plug in your phone and relax. Or if your looking for a manual method then just go on to this thread! :good: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/tutorial-flash-factory-images-unroot-t3231627

DougleBi said:
So I've kinda ****ed up.
I've been rooted for a while now and this is the first time I've broken anything. I'd just flashed a clean install of Pure Nexus 7.0 using TWRP and went back to install elemental x. I'd installed that but before rebooting decided to reflash the surround speakee mod, and this is where I **** up. "It'll be fine" I think, so I reboot, stuck in a bootloop, so I go back into TWRP and try to flash the recovery something about incorrect partition. ****. So in a last ditch effort I go back and wipe everything, now I just get stuck at the google logo. My phone sits on my desk powered of completly, any help would be much appreciated thanks.
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Strangely and inexplicably, this happens to me all the time, like every third boot or so(phone doesn't shut off too often). Normally, I just have to hold the power button(and sometimes vol down as well) for 20-30 seconds and the phone will reboot as usual, meaning I was actually never bricked and the boot loader is just tripping/glitching for whatever reason, probably over the encryption. If that doesn't work then before you get to the google logo(at boot splash screen) try rebooting into 'download mode', the option to enter download mode is 'hold volume down'(I think, could be 'hold vol up', it will say on screen) while booting. Go into download mode and flash the stock image with android studio. If that doesn't work(which it really should) then you're basically SOL, but I have to say it's nearly impossible to fully brick this phone. You'd literally have to be trying to brick it to make it FUBAR, so relax man. Just follow what people on here have said. You'll be back to flashing in no time.

rogerdcruz said:
Chill mate, this has happened to me many times because I'm a ROM lover! Simply flash a stock img and everything will be just fine. If you're looking for an easy way then Google "Nexus toolkit" (latest version) and download it. Plug in your phone and relax. Or if your looking for a manual method then just go on to this thread! :good: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/tutorial-flash-factory-images-unroot-t3231627
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@ the op:
Good info here!! I suggest anyone who owns a Nexus learn how to install SDK and platform tools or at the least adb and fastboot and learn to use them. It's very simple and it's one of the great things about owning a Nexus. We don't have to use other things...I'm not a fan of toolkits and whatnot because if I were to just always use them I'd never learn and I like to learn even though I'm somewhat of a slow leaner. ;p I'll slap a link up in a few with detailed instructions on how to install just adb and fastboot in 20 seconds on Windows.... Super easy!!!! One more thing If your talking about the surround sound mod that allows both speakers to play my advice is be careful many things can mess up our phones. I've seen reports of that blowing the speaker. Just saying... Brb with link to 20 sec installer..
My bad it's 15 seconds. ;p
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979&page=89
Sent from my Nexus 5X using XDA Labs