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Rooting dilemma :S

So I'm very confused about this rooting business. I am scared to root my Desire, mostly because of bricking my phone and losing the warranty but I need more battery as it sucks and Gingerbread is ever so tempting . I basically want to root my phone and flash gingerbread with the possibility of over/underclocking it when I feel the need.
This is what it says when I boot holding the power and volume key in:
BRAVO PVT4 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-051d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.10.05.30
I bought it from Orange brand new and it's got froyo 2.2, software number 2.17.61.3 on it.
Basically all I want to know is will using unrevoked work, or do I need to mess around with a goldcard etc and what are the advantages to making the device S-OFF?

unrEVOked will root it, no issues, but you won't be able to go back to stock as the Orange RUU isn't available so you'll need a gold card if you need to need to go back to stock (which would have to be a non-Orange one)
Don't worry about S-OFF at the mo as that's a lot more technical than rooting

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated
Ahh yes I've noticed that pretty much all other competing carriers RUU's for the desire are available to download except Oranges, why is this?
If I was to flash Gingerbread, I would need to flash the recovery to clockworkmod and perform a nandroid backup and then proceed with flashing the Gingerbread ROM, is this correct?

RossCee16 said:
If I was to flash Gingerbread, I would need to flash the recovery to clockworkmod and perform a nandroid backup and then proceed with flashing the Gingerbread ROM, is this correct?
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The recovery is ClockworkMod, if you nandroid first, then factory reset wiping all caches then installed your ROM you'd be fine. If you wanted to revert back to your stock ROM I'd suggest using your stock RUU which will wipe off the root, re-root then nandroid back and you'll be as you were.
Maybe you could just install a custom Sense ROM then run your Sense nandroid on top of that, but the safest thing to do would be to use the RUU.

[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] unrooting from gingerbread

Is there a way to unroot and get s-on back? I'm selling this phone and want to get back to its original state. I have clockwork recovery and I'm running the stock Rom.

Jimmynidas said:
Is there a way to unroot and get s-on back? I'm selling this phone and want to get back to its original state. I have clockwork recovery and I'm running the stock Rom.
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Did you use revolutionary or the xtc clip to obtain root?

I just did a simple search around the forum and came up with this. Follow these instructions. It will revert your phone back to stock gingerbread.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...8-605-4-same-as-the-official-gingerbread-ota/

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=1766
This would actually be best. This method will overwrite the revolutionary bootloader and fully revert it to stock with S-ON. You would need to have adb setup though.

I think you can actually just install the Gingerbread vivow RUU executable here and get it done quicker with less effort. That is what I did, and it updated the bootloader to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033922

I used revolutionary to root. Thanks for all the links. I'll check them out when I get to my main computer.

yes this would be the best way to get s-on and fully stock. tried other way but revolution remained with s-off

rootzwiki is what i meant.

[Q] Custom ROM with S-OFF rooted to Custom ROM with S-ON Unrooted possible?

Hi there,
did some searching and red a lot about going from a rooted s-off device to completely stock (s-on, unrooted, ruu). But i want to know if it is possible to go from: s-off, rooted, custom rom to: s-on; unrooted; custom rom ?
Why? you ask. Because i use my old Desire for work (bring your own device (BYOD)). And byod uses MobileIron which detects s-off and root. Company policy is no rooted etc. phones allowed. So i thought, i can s-on en unroot but with a much better Mildwild GB rom.
Is it as easy as to flash the rom.zip and unroot ? or is there more ?

Why would you ever want to do that?

Chromium_ said:
Why would you ever want to do that?
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edited fist post. Because of company policy.

To remove s-off you would need to flash an ruu. Then you would have to unlock the phone via HTC dev in order to flash a custom recovery. After that you could flash whatever rom you want through the recovery, however most roms (including milwilds) come rooted. You could try removing the supersu/superuser apk as well as the su binary located inside of the rom zip, which may work, but it also may cause other issues.

s-off, root & custom rom vodafone contract

hi everyone just a couple of questions for you
1. is it possible to get s-off on uk vodafone contract phone?
2.what is the procedure for s-off for this provider locked phone?
3. is there a stock image for me to revert back to on vodafone uk?
i really wanna try different roms with this phone but more worried about warranty and flash counter etc voiding the warranty
help would be extremely appreciated if you need any details of the phone dont hesitate to ask for them, build number etc

1. So long as you're not on Lollipop it should be possible
2. Same as any other phone
3. Yes, using the backups in the backup thread
And there is no flash counter on HTC phones

EddyOS said:
1. So long as you're not on Lollipop it should be possible
2. Same as any other phone
3. Yes, using the backups in the backup thread
And there is no flash counter on HTC phones
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no problem, so for warranty sake just bring everything back to stock? put s-on back to normal, and yes i did the upgrade to lollipop i take it i will have to revert back to 4.4 if thats even possible now

You can't downgrade unless you're S-OFF. For warranty I wouldn't even put back to S-ON again, but everything else would need to be put back to stock

No problem thank you for your help i will look into doing s-off ? and let you know results
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EddyOS said:
1. So long as you're not on Lollipop it should be possible
2. Same as any other phone
3. Yes, using the backups in the backup thread
And there is no flash counter on HTC phones
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EddyOS said:
You can't downgrade unless you're S-OFF. For warranty I wouldn't even put back to S-ON again, but everything else would need to be put back to stock
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so unlock bootloader - install custom recovery - then root, so with custom recovery i should be able to do a nandroid backup of my stock image to revert back is that correct? just to confirm im correct lol