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Going back to stock without using RUU?

I have tried the RUU for the recent OTA update and the previous firmware, both gave me errors at one point during the process that i could not figure out how to fix, error 170 (i fixed with the drivers) then 171 witch i could not get around. I have also tried putting the recent OTA firmware on using the pc36IMG firmware, but for some reason my Evo will no longer check for that file on the root of the SD. I think it may be due to the fact that i have Amons(Think thats the name) Recovery on my Evo now. My Evo is currently fully rooted and NAND unlocked.(Using toasts method) But for some reason it has started freezing alot and not turning back on once the phone goes to sleep etc etc. I am running Fresh 1.0.1(The latest version, the # may be incorrect) And i want to go back to stock, unrooted, without NAND unlocked and then im just going to wait for Froyo to be pushed. If anyone knows a way to do it without the phone needing to check for PC36IMG, and without using the RUU that would be great, maybe an ADB way.
Thanks guys,
Daugusta

im stuck just like you bro...RUU wont work on my evo either....please somebody help us go back to stock anybody?

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same issue. im not sure what the deal is .. if someone could just extract the image perhaps we could just flash the stock rom back to the evo.
any help?

_sunz said:
same issue. im not sure what the deal is .. if someone could just extract the image perhaps we could just flash the stock rom back to the evo.
any help?
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http://depositfiles.com/files/2dp2m33kp
Put it in your SD and flash it (you will need to root again)

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] 4extrecovery-root-custom rom need s-off Help

I'm to this point and I do have some back ups but I wanted to know if I can acheive s-off where I'm at or do I need to go back to stock? Forgot to mentioned I'm unlocked and when I relocked while running a custom rom I got security warning so I quickly unlocked and it didn't seem to hurt anything I'm aware of.

farcus211 said:
I'm to this point and I do have some back ups but I wanted to know if I can acheive s-off where I'm at or do I need to go back to stock? Forgot to mentioned I'm unlocked and when I relocked while running a custom rom I got security warning so I quickly unlocked and it didn't seem to hurt anything I'm aware of.
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theres many, many
threads about s-off.
please take a look for them, and also give some more information.
from what you say, you have recovery, at this point I have no idea the hboot you have, or anything or that matter.
so even if I wanted to help you, I can't.

hboot .98 and I didnt get s-off from the start because I couldn't get the downgrade tool to work at all and I searched for a week to find someone having the same issues as I was having with the model I have 6.01.605.05. I did find some people having the same issue when I would run the downgrade it would say failed 43 error and version older then the one I'm currently running. Which I new that. so I unlocked the phone and tried to install clockworkmod 5.0.2.0 using fastboot so I could get root and it would not take it. So I kept looking for a recovery that would work and found 4ext recovery used fastboot and it loaded and I backed up and installed superuser. Being unlocked I installed Aokp in recovery and Gapps and flashed boot.img and rebooted. I found a method to acheive s-off with tacroot and it didnt go very well.

There is a whole thread in general area for downgrading your software version. Start here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685387

[Q] Please Help! I've created a Frankenstein phone by accident

So here's my story. I bought my VZW HTC One on day one. Brought it home and immediately unlocked (via HTCDev) and rooted it before Verizon blocked the unlock the next day. So I am bootloader unlocked, rooted, and S-ON. Now here is where I screwed up in two areas. The first being that I think I have somehow over written the original stock recovery with my Frankenstein one. So the Frankenstein one is that I originally had an HTC Incredible 2 unlocked, rooted, and S-OFF and I took my last full TitaniumBackup from the Inc2 and restored it to the new HTC One. The problem with doing this was the backed up system files from the Inc2 were applied to the One and now it causes some strange crashes when using some of the HTC sense apps such as HTC's contact list. However in this strange setup most everything works perfectly and I've left it this way since that first day. The other annoyance here is that I keep getting reminded to install some of the OTA updates that have come out but it will not install them so I've missed them all and it stills keeps alerting me to install them.
Now what would I like to do from here? I would like to be able to keep root, keep unlock, gain S-OFF and start over with stock rom and be able to get the OTA updates (if possible). This way I can still get back to the backups I have made in Titanium, only this time instead of restoring all, I would only restore hand picked apps, leaving out the old Inc2 system files. Is there anyone out there who would be willing to help me with step-by-step detailed instructions? I would greatly appreciate it.

lostnsound said:
So here's my story. I bought my VZW HTC One on day one. Brought it home and immediately unlocked (via HTCDev) and rooted it before Verizon blocked the unlock the next day. So I am bootloader unlocked, rooted, and S-ON. Now here is where I screwed up in two areas. The first being that I think I have somehow over written the original stock recovery with my Frankenstein one. So the Frankenstein one is that I originally had an HTC Incredible 2 unlocked, rooted, and S-OFF and I took my last full TitaniumBackup from the Inc2 and restored it to the new HTC One. The problem with doing this was the backed up system files from the Inc2 were applied to the One and now it causes some strange crashes when using some of the HTC sense apps such as HTC's contact list. However in this strange setup most everything works perfectly and I've left it this way since that first day. The other annoyance here is that I keep getting reminded to install some of the OTA updates that have come out but it will not install them so I've missed them all and it stills keeps alerting me to install them.
Now what would I like to do from here? I would like to be able to keep root, keep unlock, gain S-OFF and start over with stock rom and be able to get the OTA updates (if possible). This way I can still get back to the backups I have made in Titanium, only this time instead of restoring all, I would only restore hand picked apps, leaving out the old Inc2 system files. Is there anyone out there who would be willing to help me with step-by-step detailed instructions? I would greatly appreciate it.
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I would
1) flash the signed RUU (not 100% necessary)
1a) Gain S-OFF using rumrunner (it supports ALL versions, so just download the correct one, I am assuming 1.10.605.8 as you said you missed the two OTA updates)
2) Once you are S-OFF, go into fastboot, and fastboot flash the stock recovery.
3) Now that you are S-OFF and on the stock recovery you may take the OTA (Or just flash a ROM such as Santod040's that is based on it, that's what you do when rooted, NEVER take an OTA just wait for ROM DEVs, but these two OTA's have been deemed OK and doesn't touch root)
I don't know a thing about Titanium backup, sorry.
Best to start fresh on the HTC One, IMHO.

Thanks so much for the response! This is very helpful. One question though, after getting S-OFF from Rumrunner you say to flash stock recovery. I'm not sure if it is still intact or not. Can I just proceed with flashing the ROM or is it absolutely necessary to flash stock recovery first?
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andybones said:
I would
1) flash the signed RUU (not 100% necessary)
1a) Gain S-OFF using rumrunner (it supports ALL versions, so just download the correct one, I am assuming 1.10.605.8 as you said you missed the two OTA updates)
2) Once you are S-OFF, go into fastboot, and fastboot flash the stock recovery.
3) Now that you are S-OFF and on the stock recovery you may take the OTA (Or just flash a ROM such as Santod040's that is based on it, that's what you do when rooted, NEVER take an OTA just wait for ROM DEVs, but these two OTA's have been deemed OK and doesn't touch root)
I don't know a thing about Titanium backup, sorry.
Best to start fresh on the HTC One, IMHO.
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#2 is not necessary. The RUU will flash a stock recovery.

sorry guys, was late. def no need to re-flash stock recovery after RUU. Noob mistake, my apologies

OK, I'm not very familiar with RUU's. Where does this come from? A quick search in the forum yielded a list of a bunch of them. I'm not sure which one is the right one. To me they don't look any different from custom ROMs. Sorry for being a noob, still learning how all this works.
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when you go into fastboot mode on your phone read and see what the radio you have... and based on that number you could get rumrunner and also you can get the right RUU i dont know if the RUU will relock the phone tho but i think you can unlock it if you saved the tocken in case you dont want to get s-off
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and dont worry we all were noobs before, fact im a noob when it comes to HTC phone used to have Motorolas.. but couldnt overlook the speakers on this beauty...

[Q] Is stock possible?

Recently been looking into purchasing a new HTC One for myself, but after reading up on it, I see that there are a ton of S-Off and stock issues flying around. I guess I have a few clarifying questions then...
If I buy the phone today, is S-Off still possible?
Is S-Off risky?
Can I return to 100% complete stock yet if I need to or not? If yes, how?
Really I'm wondering if it's worth it to even purchase this phone as I don't want to be without flashing ROMs but at the same time, I resell my phones after awhile so I'm going to need to go back to 100% stock eventually. Sorry if these questions have already been asked, my xda search function is a bit broken. Thanks for reading this far.
Edit - Did some more searching and found the HTC One m8 now has the RUU's? Could someone also explain this? I'm new to HTC devices, coming from a nexus 5 here.

Nobody knows at all...?
Sent from my HTC M8

DinoSoup said:
Recently been looking into purchasing a new HTC One for myself, but after reading up on it, I see that there are a ton of S-Off and stock issues flying around. I guess I have a few clarifying questions then...
If I buy the phone today, is S-Off still possible?
Is S-Off risky?
Can I return to 100% complete stock yet if I need to or not? If yes, how?
Really I'm wondering if it's worth it to even purchase this phone as I don't want to be without flashing ROMs but at the same time, I resell my phones after awhile so I'm going to need to go back to 100% stock eventually. Sorry if these questions have already been asked, my xda search function is a bit broken. Thanks for reading this far.
Edit - Did some more searching and found the HTC One m8 now has the RUU's? Could someone also explain this? I'm new to HTC devices, coming from a nexus 5 here.
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Probably, it will be. But it's not for certain. If your phone comes with the stock 1.12 software, then you can do it. But there's also a possibility of your phone being one of those unlucky "Whelp, this sucks..." phones. If it comes with the latest 1.57 software installed, it won't be possible.
That being said, if it comes with 1.12, which it probably will, and you unlock the bootloader, root, and S-Off, you can always go back to 100% stock with no trace at all of it ever being rooted if you want to return it for warranty, exc.
IF it is one of the unlucky "Whelp, this sucks..." phones, and you unlock your bootloader, root, and try to S-Off, but can't, then you can re lock the bootloader, run the stock RUU, and the only trace of it being unlocked and rooted would be that in the bootloader, it would say "Relocked" instead of "Locked."
Remember that if the phone comes with the 1.12 software, NEVER accept the OTA update. If you do accept the update, you will never be able to S-Off.
But again, chances are you will probably get the 1.12 software and be able to S-Off your phone. Hope this helped.

XxKINGxX2580 said:
Probably, it will be. But it's not for certain. If your phone comes with the stock 1.12 software, then you can do it. But there's also a possibility of your phone being one of those unlucky "Whelp, this sucks..." phones. If it comes with the latest 1.57 software installed, it won't be possible.
That being said, if it comes with 1.12, which it probably will, and you unlock the bootloader, root, and S-Off, you can always go back to 100% stock with no trace at all of it ever being rooted if you want to return it for warranty, exc.
IF it is one of the unlucky "Whelp, this sucks..." phones, and you unlock your bootloader, root, and try to S-Off, but can't, then you can re lock the bootloader, run the stock RUU, and the only trace of it being unlocked and rooted would be that in the bootloader, it would say "Relocked" instead of "Locked."
But again, chances are you will probably get the 1.12 software and be able to S-Off your phone. Hope this helped.
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Thanks a ton, this is exactly what I was hoping for. Final question - how do I go about getting to stock. I found the RUU and stock files but I don't know at all what to do. After I know that, I'll be ready to root!
Sent from my HTC M8

DinoSoup said:
Thanks a ton, this is exactly what I was hoping for. Final question - how do I go about getting to stock. I found the RUU and stock files but I don't know at all what to do. After I know that, I'll be ready to root!
Sent from my HTC M8
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Sorry for the late reply,
To get to complete 100% stock, you have to download and run the RUU. It's a simple EXE file. There are a bunch of Youtube videos on how to run RUUs. Before running the RUU, you have to re-lock the bootloader. But, to go to 100% stock, you first have to to reset the tampered flag, LOCK, not re-lock the bootloader (there is a thread on how to make the bootloader say LOCKED, not Re-Locked) and then S-ON. After that, run the RUU file, and it will take you back to complete stock. Like you never unlocked the bootloader or rooted.
But, I would do everything except S-ON. If you go to S-ON and run the RUU, you will not be able to go back to S-Off again. The RUU will install the 1.57 software, and that version isn't supported by Firewater.
The only thing you really have to do is a simple re-lock of the bootloader before running the RUU. But, doing what I said would make the phone look like it was never rooted. Again, I would do everything I said except going back to S-ON.

I just successfully achieved completely stock with S-On. I gave my details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55374644&postcount=2