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Rooted but still have S-On, Can I flash cm7?

I rooted a friends Incredible with ClockWorkMod a while back, he had gotten the Froyo OTA and the other update a few months later (was 17mb or so) and I went to root it then. I noticed he had S-On still even though he got the Superuser and I was able to do things like remove stock apps and other stuff that requires root. I rooted mine only after receiving froyo and I did get S-Off and successfully installed cm7! Will I be able to install cm7 on my friends phone? If not what can I do to install it? Will I have to unroot and root again? Can anyone provide me with the best explanation on how to get cm7 on his phone? Thank you.

Or you could easily get S-OFF by flashing it in CWM.
Source, and instructions here:
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for your help!

Non-rooted evo running 3.3 (how to restore recovery?)

Phone won't load recovery -
My phone currently has 2.3.3 and will not root because the firmware is too "new" according to Unrevoked.
How do I backtrack to 2.2?
Also, the phone is not rooted (s-on) and recovery once again will not load properly; i get the red exclamation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

There are a few threads addressing this issue already, and the short answer from what I have found in my research, because I too took the OTA update and have looked in to this myself, is that there is no option.
If you are S-ON and have the new Bootloader and newest OTA update, you just have to hang tight until the devs behind Unrevoked or other such methods figure out a workaround for the newest bootloader.

denxnis said:
Phone won't load recovery -
My phone currently has 2.3.3 and will not root because the firmware is too "new" according to Unrevoked.
How do I backtrack to 2.2?
Also, the phone is not rooted (s-on) and recovery once again will not load properly; i get the red exclamation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
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Hey man, I am sorry to inform you that there is currently no root method for the software you're on. You can't downgrade to 2.2, the RUU won't let you do it. The new bootloader that you're on is not downgradeable, and it is still currently locked. Hopefully a new exploit is figured out soon, but for now you just need to wait it out. Or trade your Evo with someone who still has froyo!

Thanks for the info guys.

Not sure is any of this could render your phone without functionality and If you are willing to give it a shot, try the first part of my post. After I unrooted the defective EVO to accept the OTA (since it was going back in a day anyway and didn't care if the root was lost) adn it was along with my .76 Hboot. I was able to get root back by using the HBOOT in stock recovery and loading the RUU posted with of course loading the usb drivers. Now, to be honest, I never used unrevoked to begin with on that EVO, so never checked son/soff before.
If for some glorious reason you are able to load the ruu and it comes up...try the root option also posted from the link to xHausx.
Here's hoping....but reality will probably set in and a short wait is needed for a real method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14496385#post14496385

unfortunately no root for 2.3 but rumor has it that htc is working on unlocking the new bootloader with a update coming in the near future prob 2.3.4

Better way to root?

Hello all, after reading todays news about HTC giving up efforts to update the desire, I have decided to update on my own.
The trouble is, my desire is a POS. I am not able to do the unrevoked way because my desire will just go into a reboot loop.
Is there an alternate way of doing it?
I assume that I must be rooted to get this firmware on?
Do I really need this s-off thing? I do not plan to stay rooted. Once i load the new firmware i will unroot.
Thank.

Ok, firstly POS? Secondly, what firmware?
When your rooted you can't simply just unroot. To unroot you have to flash an RUU, which in turn wipes all the data off your phone and updates everything back to manufacturer stock. I don't see what your trying to achieve here.

I am only rooting to get the new ruu. So, I assume that it will then be unrooted no?
POS is piece of sh..
I have the stock 2.2 fm.

You don't need to root to use an RUU. You can happily flash an RUU all day. The current RUU is Android 2.2, software number 2.49.405.5.

[Q] back to stock and then s-on - reversible?

i may need to go to bone stock for warranty purposes and then go s-on. if i flash the latest ruu (2.3.4) and then go to s-on (how do i go to s-on?) then can i get back to s-off if they actually fix my piece and send it back?

No. S-on via Clockworkmod, then flash 2.2 RUU. Then, when you want to root, use unrevoked

No need to go to newest stock, any stock with s-on should work. If they send you back an updated phone you can still downgrade and s-off from 2.3.4. Search forum for s-off and downgrade. It's doable - i've done it with help from here.

Just get the phone back to stock s-on. It doesn't matter if its 2.2 or 2.3 as long as its stock. They will send you a new phone that is updated already. Then to re root just downgrade and use unrevoked3
Sent from my Incredible Stock+ Ginger Tiny

oh so with s-on i can downgrade using an ruu and then unrevoked it? i thought some updates could block root forever a.k.a. u cant downgrade anymore to unrevoke. guess i was wrong. gonna submit my claim to square trade soon. hope they send me an upgraded phone lol.. rezound would be nice.

Ya that would be nice but you will either get the original incredible or the incredible 2. Any ways, the original 2.2 downgrade should work. I have tried it my self and I don't see where people have problems. I bricked my phone really bad and had to install the actual bootloader. But point is I had no problems downgrading and rooting again. Let me know if it worked for you. It should since you have a bootloader still.
Sent from my Incredible hd / gingedtiney

[Q] HTC G2 2.3.4 Gingerbread S-Off, want to downgrade to 2.2 Possible?

I rooted my G2 awhile ago with a perma-root, and s-off. After that, I decided to sell it to get something better. I found only 1 good tutorial, and it showed you how to get back to stock. I did it, and it worked. It then updated to 2.3.4, S-Off is still S-Off. Long story short, I decided not to sell, and I want to reroot it. I know I have to downgrade for perma-root, but I read that if you try to downgrade 2.3.4 with S-Off, it becomes bricked. Someone please explain if I can just use the normal method, or is this more complicated than I think?
Thanks,
whatiznt.

Seeing as you have S-OFF, getting root is rather easy.
If you follow this guide, but do only the 'Gaining Temp Root' and 'Temp-Rooting to Backup' steps, you will have perm-root, and can then flash a recovery through ROM-Manager (or 4ext recovery app)
-Nipqer