I have a friend with a DI2 who needs to return his phone for a warranty claim. It is 100% stock, and on GB.
He essentially wants to do a full backup of apps and data, but I would be hesitant to unlock his bootloader and flash a recovery image.
What would be the best way to go about this?
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Look into downgrading his hboot. The use revolution to root then make a back up using cwm. Then follow the steps of unrooting. Just don't use the HTC unlocking kit.
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Look into downgrading his hboot. The use revolution to root then make a back up using cwm. Then follow the steps of unrooting. Just don't use the HTC unlocking kit.
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I think a temp root for TiBU or MyBackup Root should be able to do the trick. I feel generally uneasy about touching his HBOOT or anything Verizon would reject his phone for.
The reason for my hesitance is that AT&T rejected a warranty claim on my phone when I returned it for a dead flash memory chip, until I fought them for it.
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My phone wouldn't charge the last couple days so I Unrooted and returned to stock, s-on. I used a PC36IMG to return to stock. I took the phone to Sprint and somehow it started working again. They said it wasn't the charging port and it wasn't the charger or battery. I also have 2 different chargers and 2 different batteries of my own I tried. Anyways they gave me the phone back and told me to give it a couple days to see if I have any more problems, he didn't do anything but it started charging again somehow. Anyways before I left he said it is rooted still, even though I thought I Unrooted, s-on and return to stock. Superuser is not installed. How can this be possible???
PS I rooted with revolutionary
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That guy was way off unless he looked at your sd card no way he could tell it was rooted
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I probably should have taken it out. I didn't have any file explorers installed so I figured he wouldn't be able to
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Which HBOOT do you have? If it were the Revolutionary one it may have tipped him off. Also check your SD card. I've seen them go to Market and look at purchased apps and see if root apps were bought, so don't sync with Google. Run an RUU for good measure, take put the SD card and go back
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He also said to bring it back if it has any problems. I didn't think he would say that if he thinks it's rooted. Thanks man.
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tropicalbrit said:
Which HBOOT do you have? If it were the Revolutionary one it may have tipped him off. Also check your SD card. I've seen them go to Market and look at purchased apps and see if root apps were bought, so don't sync with Google. Run an RUU for good measure, take put the SD card and go back
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I have hboot 6.17.00001 S-OFF.
It doesn't say Revolutionary. I've heard of RUU a few times. What does it do?
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A ruu returns you to stock as in no root and no recovery but you still.have s-off
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A ruu returns you to stock as in no root and no recovery but you still.have s-off
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Oohh
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tropicalbrit said:
I've seen them go to Market and look at purchased apps and see if root apps were bought, so don't sync with Google.
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I would just let them know that any root apps that are synced to my Google account are for a tablet at home, an older phone, or some other BS.
To my understanding; if you take the stuff off your SD card, running Stock and have S-ON, there's really no way they could prove that you were rooted.
It's all about covering your tracks.
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I have hboot 6.17.00001 S-OFF.
It doesn't say Revolutionary. I've heard of RUU a few times. What does it do?
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The 6.17 hboot is what tipped him off. Stock hboot only goes up to 2.16, Revolutionary gives you a s-off'ed 6.16 hboot. Getting s-on with Revolutionary involves flashing the 6.17 hboot (which isn't stock) which is s-on. If you run the RUU for the latest update, you should get the 2.16 hboot back. You'll need it to re-run Revolutionary.
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The 6.17 hboot is what tipped him off. Stock hboot only goes up to 2.16, Revolutionary gives you a s-off'ed 6.16 hboot. Getting s-on with Revolutionary involves flashing the 6.17 hboot (which isn't stock) which is s-on. If you run the RUU for the latest update, you should get the 2.16 hboot back. You'll need it to re-run Revolutionary.
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OK thanks. Where can I find info on the ruu? Is it on xda?
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Nevermind I found the ruu. Thanks.
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Where did u find the ruu I can't find
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EVO 4g Development section in xda
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Does the downgrading on a G2 using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912 have any chances of bricks on theG2
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Looking over it briefly here: following the instructions to the letter should not result in any kind of brick.
Just follow the instructions, you'll be alright!
There is no brick chance using this guide.
You are only writing a 10 character string to partition17, which just tells the phone you have a low build/software number.
It then uses the built in HTC system, to flash an official HTC rom.
as above, the dd command just reads, it does not write.
all the important partitions on the phone are still write-protected, so nothing bad can happen while you are temp-rooted
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Thanks cuz I'm trying to root my friends G2 which runs 2.3.4 I have to downgrade it and don't want anything to go wrong
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To any of u know were I can find the Tmobile ota update 2.3.4 to flash by PC10IMG.zip in bootloader ..the one that's not rooted
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http://www.shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Vision
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Just be careful around "dd" command. If given wrong args, in may brick or semi-brick your phone.
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Just be careful around "dd" command. If given wrong args, in may brick or semi-brick your phone.
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Ok..so on the wiki I have to restore the flash the pc10img.zip and than restore my part 7 backup right
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The only way I know of to brick the device during permanent root would be if you were using Visionary.
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The only way I know of to brick the device during permanent root would be if you were using Visionary.
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Ii bet
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All right everything went well
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Ok, so my problem that I reported the other day (of the phone not charging unless it's turned off) finally got to the point that I requested a replacement from Verizon. Yes, I know I'll have to unroot this one and restore it to stock if I want it to be covered under warranty. No big deal
A website dedicated to unlocking the bootloaders of HTC phones( htcdev.com/bootloader) recently caught my eye, but I have a couple of questions about it. Will unlocking my bootloader prior to rooting in anyway change the rooting process? How so? If it will be made easier as a result, I'm definitely listening.
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If they are mailing you a replacement phone and you have to mail it back. I wouldn't worry about putting back to stock.
the best thing to do is downgrade and root with revolutionary
Where is a tutorial on downgrading the rom, hboot?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18331632
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I've rooted before and I'm familiar with the process. My question is about unlocking the bootloader prior to rooting. Does that change the rooting process at all?
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I've rooted before and I'm familiar with the process. My question is about unlocking the bootloader prior to rooting. Does that change the rooting process at all?
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Kinda... Unlocking gives you less freedom than gaining S-Off. It requires extra steps to flash a ROM due to the fact that the kernel has to be flashed via Bootloader.
@sjpritch Why do you recommend me not returning the other phone to stock? This is a warranty replacement I'm getting and a rooted phone not running the stock ROM is sure to catch the attention of whoever checks the phones being sent in for warranty replacements.
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So I want to return my phone to stock I had the rcmix3d but now I have the standard 2.3.5 sense 3.0 which I flashed using the volume down and power. But i think my phone maybe still s off or radio off which may stop me from returning my device to HTC UK because of a hardware fault I just basically want to know how i can make the warrenty not void after rooting it
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Um do you want to keep S-OFF or do you want S-ON? And do you want to root it or do a completely unroot?
Edit: you can root it with superoneclick if you already S-OFF.
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go to boot loader and find out if it is s-off or not. depending on what you find, and what unlock method you used, go to that unlock thread, and relock it again.
I used ahhk and yes it is s off I want to s on
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aliHTCDHD said:
I used ahhk and yes it is s off I want to s on
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use the Hack Kit to revert to stock and S-ON....but you won´t find it in xda anymore. Just follow my signature....
So I had already unlocked the phone using HTCDev's boot unlocker. Everything seemed fine right up until it came time in this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751796 to run Revolutionary. The phone is bootlooping to the point that Revolutionary can't get the root, it fails and says hit almost any key to exit.
Any help would be appreciated, I'm about to throw this thing through the window.
is it GB 2.3.3 or 2.3.4?
try flashing a newer radio
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Do you happen to have a link to one?
crap the only place its even stable enough is at the bootloader and adb can't communicate with it. I don't know what to do. This blows.
search this forum for radios. there's a thread on dev section. and what android version were you on when you tried to root? might have to use taco root for 2.3.4 I think
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Well, if you unlocked through HTC you have to relock in order to s-off. Not sure if you knew that.
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