so ive been attempting to downgrade and eventually root my incredible 2. ive tried everything, and i cant seem to downgrade from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3. i am trying to follow a guide and it says that i must require a "Re Locked" bootloader, i had already unlocked it, im not sure how to though. i have revolutionary on my computer, and recovery 5.2.0.2 on my phone right now. dont know what to do, just trying to get beats audio on my phone and this is a very long process, please respond. a walkthrough would be well appreciated and very helpful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28290187
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Hey guys well i crashed the software on my old evo due to rooting lol. IM getting a new one shortly. What Im asking is a REALLY GOOD step by step guide, with the links to download the right files, to root the 2.2 stock froyo it comes with BUT ALSO nand-unlocking it while im rooting it. The reason im asking for this was I had a hard time flashing cyanogen mod 6 after i used the root method from djr3Z from the droid demos website (It was downgrading the stock 2.2 to stock 2.1, rooting 2.1 and then finally going to a rooted 2.2 with Amon Ra recovery) Please help me! Im a noob and i would really appreciate it. Thx in advance!
Nand wasn't unlocked fully with the method you used. Many people had that issue. You can either unlock nand and be done, or wait a few days for the latest unrevoked to come out.
Here is how to unlock nand :
http://theunlockr.com/2010/07/20/how-to-unlock-nand-on-the-htc-evo-4g/
Unrevoked if you wait :
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked3
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sgallos1 said:
Hey guys well i crashed the software on my old evo due to rooting lol. IM getting a new one shortly. What Im asking is a REALLY GOOD step by step guide, with the links to download the right files, to root the 2.2 stock froyo it comes with BUT ALSO nand-unlocking it while im rooting it. The reason im asking for this was I had a hard time flashing cyanogen mod 6 after i used the root method from djr3Z from the droid demos website (It was downgrading the stock 2.2 to stock 2.1, rooting 2.1 and then finally going to a rooted 2.2 with Amon Ra recovery) Please help me! Im a noob and i would really appreciate it. Thx in advance!
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If you followed regaw's complete tutorial, including unrevoked-forever, you unlocked your nand and have the ability to flash custom roms. I know because I did it and am currently running Fresh 3.2. I also made nandroid backups and boot between them.
You can't jump right in to Cyanogen because you're on the wrong hboot. Cyanogen requires hboot 76, and you're probably on 93 or similar from regaw's method. Boot phone holding volume down and check it out.
I can't post links, but you can search the forums for "ENG hboot 76" and probably get the right post on how to get hboot back. Also, I believe it may be easier to find the link in the actual Cyanogen forums.
Keep in mind this downgrades your PRI to 1.3 instead of 1.40. Find the fix for that in a different thread.
Good luck.
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Nand wasn't unlocked fully with the method you used. Many people had that issue. You can either unlock nand and be done, or wait a few days for the latest unrevoked to come out.
Here is how to unlock nand :
http://theunlockr.com/2010/07/20/how-to-unlock-nand-on-the-htc-evo-4g/
Unrevoked if you wait :
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked3
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Ok thx for that. The only question is when i get my evo and its on stock 2.2 should i do the nand-unlock, will that also root the phone in the process?
By the time you get your phone unrevoked will be out, with unrevoked, you just do a couple of mouse clicks and your done.
Also, unlocking nand is different than rooting. You must be rooted first in order to unlock nand. Just wait for your phone first, unrevoked will make it easy and painless for you.
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Unrevoked all the way
sgallos1 said:
Ok thx for that. The only question is when i get my evo and its on stock 2.2 should i do the nand-unlock, will that also root the phone in the process?
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Unrevoked is a great tool that truly makes it easy. When i rooted without it, I lost everything. But unrevoked doesn't delete anything at all. Will the new one unlock and or will you still need forever and .76 boot img?
dkdude36 said:
Unrevoked is a great tool that truly makes it easy. When i rooted without it, I lost everything. But unrevoked doesn't delete anything at all. Will the new one unlock and or will you still need forever and .76 boot img?
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Not sure, still no details on their site. I recommend getting the .76 hboot because roms like cyanogenmod wont flash on other versions.
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yea i got my evo back that i broke. They fixed it and brought it back to 2.1. I turned it off to charge it. Whne it was done and i turned it on instead of it booting up the sprint music with the 4g symbol, it went into htc with the cursive letters popping up quietly brilliant. Anyone has had this issue? I mean after that it goes smooth im on the interface and all goes well any advice?
sgallos1 said:
yea i got my evo back that i broke. They fixed it and brought it back to 2.1. I turned it off to charge it. Whne it was done and i turned it on instead of it booting up the sprint music with the 4g symbol, it went into htc with the cursive letters popping up quietly brilliant. Anyone has had this issue? I mean after that it goes smooth im on the interface and all goes well any advice?
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Sounds like you have the oldest version of 2.1 like they did a factory reset. No issue. Your phone is primed and ready for rooting. If you are going to run CM6, then I would suggest using Toast's method to root and nand unlock. This will give you the necessary eng hboot 0.76.2000 to run that ROM. Although you may want to do search through the forums for a means of unlocking nand without downgrading your PRI to 1.34_003 (current is 1.40_003). The eng-PC36IMG.zip in Toast's part 2 "How to unlock nand" will downgrade your PRI.
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yea i got my evo back that i broke. They fixed it and brought it back to 2.1. I turned it off to charge it. Whne it was done and i turned it on instead of it booting up the sprint music with the 4g symbol, it went into htc with the cursive letters popping up quietly brilliant. Anyone has had this issue? I mean after that it goes smooth im on the interface and all goes well any advice?
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You are ready to rock n roll now.
First Step - Root
http://theunlockr.com/2010/07/20/how-to-root-the-htc-evo-4g-unrevoked-method/
Second Step - Unlock Nand with Toastcfh .76 Eng Bootloader
http://theunlockr.com/2010/07/20/how-to-unlock-nand-on-the-htc-evo-4g/
Third Step - Get ROM Manager
Go to the android market and download ROM Manager. Once installed, open the app and have it flash a custom recovery for you, either clockworkmod or RA.
Have Fun.
Just got an incredible tonight, seem to be getting hung up in the root process. I'm following instructions here to root 2.3.4 and when I run unrevoked 2.33 it "fails to flash recovery image." I've installed the modified drivers and usb debugging etc is enabled. Is there a better root method, or way to downgrade without rooting? This is my first time on HTC so bear with me.
edit: About half way through the htcdev method, seems to be good. Stumbled on it right after I posted this of course..
Hey I've run into the same exact issue. Did the HTCdev method work, and if so any direction you can point me? First time ever rooting a phone and I've seemed to pick a difficult one. Got this incredibly for free so wanted to root it and make it my mp3 player to free up SD space on my Galaxy Nexus.
theatregeoff said:
Hey I've run into the same exact issue. Did the HTCdev method work, and if so any direction you can point me? First time ever rooting a phone and I've seemed to pick a difficult one. Got this incredibly for free so wanted to root it and make it my mp3 player to free up SD space on my Galaxy Nexus.
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just use this guide by scotty http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600904
it should work for you, good luck
wareju said:
Just got an incredible tonight, seem to be getting hung up in the root process. I'm following instructions here to root 2.3.4 and when I run unrevoked 2.33 it "fails to flash recovery image." I've installed the modified drivers and usb debugging etc is enabled. Is there a better root method, or way to downgrade without rooting? This is my first time on HTC so bear with me.
edit: About half way through the htcdev method, seems to be good. Stumbled on it right after I posted this of course..
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You should be using unrevoked 3.22, not 2.33.
Yeah I had the same issue with that... when your running 2.3.4 it is mainly the version of unrEVOked you use (if you follow the directions)found that out after the 5th version of the program. Also do not use z4root it never works. But yeah definitely make sure you have the right version compatible with your build of gingerbread/froyo
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I'm on a HTCDEV unlocked Inc2 and tried to get S-OFF tonight. Big fail. Hopefully somebody can help ASAP.
I relocked the bootloader through adb. Then went into bootloader, where the phone scanned and installed the RUU.zip I had renamed as per instructions. All went fineand I tried to open revolutionary but it kets scanning for deviced. Rebooted and but it keeps reloading the bootloader and trying the same RUU install over again and keeps failing saying "main version is older." ADB won't talk to the phone and now I'm dead in the water.
HEEEEELLLLP!!!!
Edit: Fastboot adb is talking and connected.
You try with taco root to downgrade?
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Didn't think I could do tacoroot since I'm already rooted.
As an update. I was able to re-unlock and get back to the normal functioning bootloader. I actually hit factory reset and after showing the verizon update screen it booted into my old CM9 ROM. I totally botched this.
Actually you need taco root your just rooted from unlocked and soffing while unlocked is bad that's why you need to relocked use taco root method to get temporary root to achieve the downgrade and be able to use revolutionary
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GoonAssJuan said:
Actually you need taco root your just rooted from unlocked and soffing while unlocked is bad that's why you need to relocked use taco root method to get temporary root to achieve the downgrade and be able to use revolutionary
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I read the instructions completely wrong. I though I had to lock- apply the gingerbread .zip , re-unlock and then revolutionary. Whoooops. Back to S-ON for me. I guess it'll have to wait for another night.
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I read the instructions completely wrong. I though I had to lock- apply the gingerbread .zip , re-unlock and then revolutionary. Whoooops. Back to S-ON for me. I guess it'll have to wait for another night.
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Haha yea I'm in the same place with you actually haven't had time to s- off until the weekend but if you need any help through it feel free to pm me
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so ive been attempting to downgrade and eventually root my incredible 2. ive tried everything, and i cant seem to downgrade from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3. i am trying to follow a guide and it says that i must require a "Re Locked" bootloader, i had already unlocked it, im not sure how to though. i have revolutionary on my computer, and recovery 5.2.0.2 on my phone right now. dont know what to do, just trying to get beats audio on my phone and this is a very long process, please respond.
Getting really tired of saying this...but...
Questions go in the frakking question forum
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J B4KE said:
so ive been attempting to downgrade and eventually root my incredible 2. ive tried everything, and i cant seem to downgrade from 2.3.4 to 2.3.3. i am trying to follow a guide and it says that i must require a "Re Locked" bootloader, i had already unlocked it, im not sure how to though. i have revolutionary on my computer, and recovery 5.2.0.2 on my phone right now. dont know what to do, just trying to get beats audio on my phone and this is a very long process, please respond.
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How many times has this question been asked? I remember linking two people to this same question..gee maybe you should look through before posting
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hey i just got a droid incredible from my sister (not going to use it as a phone) and i would like to root it and flash a custom ROM, im sorta know about rooting and flashing but i keep looking for ways to root this phone and its way difficult for me. i am not about to use adb or android sdk for some reason they never work with methods for my other phones. not sure how to get to recovery just goes to a hboot screen which i see is normal. a lot of the links are broken on methods to root i see that unrevoked dosent work with 2.3.4. and im really frustrated with this phone. it has 2.3.4. S-ON and hboot 1.0.7 i don't know how to do the radio stuff please help.
Trozzul said:
hey i just got a droid incredible from my sister (not going to use it as a phone) and i would like to root it and flash a custom ROM, im sorta know about rooting and flashing but i keep looking for ways to root this phone and its way difficult for me. i am not about to use adb or android sdk for some reason they never work with methods for my other phones. not sure how to get to recovery just goes to a hboot screen which i see is normal. a lot of the links are broken on methods to root i see that unrevoked dosent work with 2.3.4. and im really frustrated with this phone. it has 2.3.4. S-ON and hboot 1.0.7 i don't know how to do the radio stuff please help.
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The only way to root 2.3.4 is to unlock your bootloader using htcdev unlock, then use fastboot (an android sdk program) to flash a custom recovery. Once you have the recovery installed, you can flash a rom of your choosing. There are no one click options available since the inc got gingerbread. It requires a bunch of steps, but isnt all that hard. Here is a working guide if you decide to take the plunge. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506258. Note that you do not need s-off to flash a rom, but you do need s-off to flash radios, hboots, and splash screens.
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