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Noob here to sprint and the whole android phone experience. Im still within the 30 day trial period so ive been basically toying with the phone all day for the last couple of days. I got it to where i can tether using PDaNet and the USB cable but its extremely slow so what im loooking to do with it unlock the wifi feature. Ive been at it all day and this is what ive done so far.
I tried rooting the phone using SimpleRoot 1.47.651.1 and went through it all but wasnt not able to get the wifi tethering to work. So i unrooted the phone using the steps on another site and everything worked fine also went through the downloads to have the most current OTC installed. I then did some more reading and was thinking about trying the steps on "IDIOT-PROOF Root Guide! NAND Unlock and ADB Update!!" found on this site but when i opened the phones SD card i noticed that it already has a PC36IMG file in it, is this the same one i need to root it or was this installed from when used the SimpleRoot program? Im not looking to do too much with the phone as far as rooting my main thing is wanting to unlock the wifi tethering then after that if i decide to keep the phone ill see about venturing further. Ive been at this all day and its getting on my last nerve any help would be greatly appreciated, Im on yahoo msngr as well LS954, thanks!

Just unlocked G2 (tmobile) "No service"

I just unlocked a brand new HTC G2 Tmobile phone. I used my sim card thats been active for years, Its Cincinnati Bell Wireless prepaid. Should work fine, but now its saying "No Service" and wont make calls/texts? Can anyone help plz?

Did you use gfree to unlock it? Worked fine for me. Try going into settings and manually searching for network, and restart 2-3 rimes. Worked for me.

No i went thru a service. it was unlockthatphone dot com
ill try that tho....

Well there's no need to.
And I dont want to be the one to tell you, but you might not be able to get service again, even with a T-Mo card. I've read that a lot of people had that problem with the unlock codes.

Well i couldnt figure out how to unlock it. Looked for hours and the guides here were so confusing id rather pay 30.00
How do i figure out if it will ever work again or not?
Someone mentioned I wireless might be CDMA and tmobile was not? Any clue how to check this?

As long as the carrier uses sim cards it's a GSM carrier (99% of the time, I know Verizon Global phones use simcards too.) if that's what you meant.
And for your question try some searching. I never bothered to find/read up on that since I unlocked it without a hitch.

I called the guy back that unlocked it for me, and he states "its impossible for an unlock code to damage 'ware in the phone, the guys on xda dont know what theyre talking about" and that he will work with me to fix this, he says hes pretty sure its my Baseband Version which is:
Baseband version 12.22.60.09bU_26.02.01.15_M2
Any thoughts on these?

Also this is from the HTC forums: http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/99/p/7564/33750.aspx

Actually I've unlocked my phone with an unlock code that Tmobile gave me. Customer Service said you just have to be paid up to date to get an unlock from them.
It may just be that the G2 is on a different carrier band than the carrier you were hoping to use.
Unfortunately, the onus is on you to look it up, I wouldn't expect the customer service for your company to know if your phone will work on their network or not.

so whats the deal ... If I unlock my G2 with a unlock code from TMobile; so I can use it when I head the Philippines on vacation ... I wont be able to get service even with Tmobile ???

There are reports of unlock codes not properly working on the phone all over the place. After entering in the unlock code, some phones simply cannot find a network no matter what SIM is inserted (even one that might have been working before). I met one dealer who said the same thing as your guy (unlock codes can't do that to a phone and people on the internet are stupid), so I had him try inputting in the code himself---the phone became messed up and all he could do was apologize. Some phones work fine though.
You can fix this weird state by running gfree to get subsidy unlock (there are at least two really long threads explaining this). Check out the wiki for instructions on how to do this.

Your phone unlock guy just wanted to get his $30. He knows full well that the carrier-unlock function in HTC VISION is ***DEFECTIVE***.
Problem is that the eMMC chip on the phone is write protected, so the unlock needs to be relayed through to a second mechanism and applied AFTER REBOOT, but it gets corrupted and instead of writing "0000" into the specified location on the eMMC chip, it will in some cases write it ***ENCRYPTED*** -- some function of your unlock code. Ends up being locked to a (most likely non-existent) random carrier, and the unlock code will no longer apply.
Once it has been damaged like this, the ONLY way to fix it is by running "gfree" on it, which would have unlocked you SAFELY and FOR FREE to begin with.
Find the button at the top of the page labeled "wiki" and find HTC VISION in there, and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS! This will cure your phone.

Wow Android is alot more extensive than windows phone. I'll try th e gfree but I really dont have that much experience on this phone. I barely temp rooted and overclocked this to 1427mHz. And barely reading all the perm root and s-off threads right now... I hope I can do it to mine and my wifes phone without messing something up. I tried abd and I cant seem to get it to work right. When I tried temp rooting. Can I do gfree without a computer can I do everything on the phone without abd???

Well for carrier unlocking, I think you can only do it with adb, but what do I know.

Ok so the one is carrier locked or whatever. I need adb to unlock it? and gfree to unlock my unmessed with one. Where do i find these programs and instructions to use them. Im PC literate but cell phone retarded. thanks in advance! I dont wanna pay to unlock these.....

Ok ive done a little more research. I have the JDK and the SDK kits installed. Im preparing to use GFREE. But now im stuck. my SDK MANAGER says the following error when i try to boot it up.
Failed to execute tools/android.bat:
The system cannot find the file specified
What am i doing wrong? im trying but its a slow process.

Grim4239 said:
Ok ive done a little more research. I have the JDK and the SDK kits installed. Im preparing to use GFREE. But now im stuck. my SDK MANAGER says the following error when i try to boot it up.
Failed to execute tools/android.bat:
The system cannot find the file specified
What am i doing wrong? im trying but its a slow process.
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Navigate to the tools folder and see if there is a file inside called adb.exe. If so, download and unzip both the temp and perm gfree zip files from the wiki into that folder. You should be ready to go. When you connect your phone to the computer via usb be sure that you have the usb debugging checked (on).

Im so lost. the company is willing to refund the amount i spend to unlock the phones, so im just gonna have it done that way. Will the one with the locked carrier be able to be unlocked by a professional?

I got the temp loaded, the ADB loaded, the tools loaded. But this is what comes up
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/Diamondx0xEyez/wqeqweqw.jpg

Ok guys. Im desperate. Here is what Id be willing to do.
Im offering $20 to whomever can help me. Heres what I need.
I have 2x HTC G2 That need the FULL UNLOCK. Not the code, THE UNLOCK.
Im told its done thru this GFREE program. I am NOT smart enough to figure this out after days if trying. If someone can do the following thing for me, Ill donate that money straight to your paypal account.
-Send me a ZIP file with ALL THE NECESSDARY folders, with ALL THE NECESSARY files already placed in them, I plug in USB unlock phones, u get paid.
(I need ADK files, JDK files, all gfree files, EVEYRTHING i know itll be a big zip, but im payin so i dont mind)
I am unable to figure out these files, I am either installing the SDK files wrong or something, but I just need the files ALREADY placed in a file and just use them since im too stupid to do so desite reading many guides. Sorry ive tried. Now i just wanna use my phones.

[Q] Friends phone has no data and won't connect to a PC.

My friend had a rooted M8 which was completely stock up until yesterday afternoon. He received the OTA update and I told him not to install it until we looked around on here. Well long story short, we ended up flashing SkyDragon 2.0.1 over a completely stock and I'm assuming S-On device. It acted funny for a little bit but ultimately booted up into SkyDragon. Now he has absolutely no data, but that isn't our biggest concern. We have tried 3 PC's and a Macbook, none of our devices or ADB seem to detect the phone. I just want to help this guy restore this thing to 100% stock and be done with but I seem to be completed stumped. I have tried so many different Unrooting/Stock methods in the last 24 hours that my head is starting to hurt. Can anyone please help us out with this situation, I feel foolish that it reached this point because I've rooted numerous devices over the years and I've never had this problem. Thanks in advance.
T-Mobile HTC M8
Unlocked Bootloader
S-On

TamaleJohnson said:
My friend had a rooted M8 which was completely stock up until yesterday afternoon. He received the OTA update and I told him not to install it until we looked around on here. Well long story short, we ended up flashing SkyDragon 2.0.1 over a completely stock and I'm assuming S-On device. It acted funny for a little bit but ultimately booted up into SkyDragon. Now he has absolutely no data, but that isn't our biggest concern. We have tried 3 PC's and a Macbook, none of our devices or ADB seem to detect the phone. I just want to help this guy restore this thing to 100% stock and be done with but I seem to be completed stumped. I have tried so many different Unrooting/Stock methods in the last 24 hours that my head is starting to hurt. Can anyone please help us out with this situation, I feel foolish that it reached this point because I've rooted numerous devices over the years and I've never had this problem. Thanks in advance.
T-Mobile HTC M8
Unlocked Bootloader
S-On
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If you have no data the APN settings are missing
to get adb to recognize the phone turn on developer options and usb debugging. and/or install htc sync and then uninstall it and leave just the drivers
If you want to return the phone to stock use the correct nandroid posted here >> COLLECTION of Stock backup's
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376

"System update available"

Hi,
terribly sorry to bother you guys!
I recently bought an M9 (Belgium, no carrier) and rooted it with the help of this youtube video /watch?v=rOHN8byHAzk
works fine, it's rooted.
The thing is: i did updates before doing the root, as i unlocked bootloader everything was lost/deleted, at the time (4a.m), with my brain half asleep i didn't think about doing the updates again before performing the actual root. Now i keep getting the "system update available" message and can't get rid of it.
It'll keep popping up every few hours, obviously i can't install them because i arrive back at twrp recovery.
Android version 5.0.2
Kernel version 3.10.49-g5c16a62
I turned software updates off in the "about" section in settings, to no avail. I keep getting the message that updates are available. Downloading them and then proceeding to remove the downloaded files don't solve it.
I'm a total noob at this, but (hopefully) not a complete idiot. If there are any steps i can take to get rid of this constantly popping up, please advise me:fingers-crossed:

There's more than one possibility to proceed. Could you provide the output of the "htc_fastboot getvar all" command, when M9 is in download mode (without IMEI and Serial no.). I'd like to point you into the right direction.
Send by the swarm intelligence of my coffee machine ?.

Thanks for taking the time!
It's in download mode, i've got my command prompt open but it says "htc_fastboot is not recognized as an internal or external command, program or batchfile"

In all honesty just pay for s-off and you can flash an unsigned zip and be done with it.
Otherwise you need to get back to official status to flash the update. Pita to be honest.
Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk

shivadow said:
In all honesty just pay for s-off and you can flash an unsigned zip and be done with it.
Otherwise you need to get back to official status to flash the update. Pita to be honest.
Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk
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*sigh*
I'm going to take a few days off of work and try to educate myself on how all of this works exactly because i'm starting to feel like i just came out of the stone age. Honestly, i just rooted my last phone through good old towelroot without ever having to touch or change anything else. I should not have touched stuff i know nothing of to begin with.
I appreciate you guys taking the time to reply, i'm gonna find some sites to teach me more about this, if you have anything that could help me, feel free to share, because i literally know 0.

Fatimiyye said:
*sigh*
I'm going to take a few days off of work and try to educate myself on how all of this works exactly because i'm starting to feel like i just came out of the stone age. Honestly, i just rooted my last phone through good old towelroot without ever having to touch or change anything else. I should not have touched stuff i know nothing of to begin with.
I appreciate you guys taking the time to reply, i'm gonna find some sites to teach me more about this, if you have anything that could help me, feel free to share, because i literally know 0.
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Basically, there is a safety feature in HTC otas now that prevents them from running unless your phone is 100% stock. So being rooted, it won't run. There are only two ways forward, find the RUU files for your carrier and install them, or get s-off and update manually. There are multiple threads on how to do all this in the General forum. Read there before doing anything else. HTC phones work differently from other handsets that have to be hacked to achieve root. There is an official path, but how you do it matters.

iElvis said:
Basically, there is a safety feature in HTC otas now that prevents them from running unless your phone is 100% stock. So being rooted, it won't run. There are only two ways forward, find the RUU files for your carrier and install them, or get s-off and update manually. There are multiple threads on how to do all this in the General forum. Read there before doing anything else. HTC phones work differently from other handsets that have to be hacked to achieve root. There is an official path, but how you do it matters.
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Thank you very much man. I'm gonna learn up first, and then take your advice and head to the general forum.
For all other noobs who are desperate to catch up, this is helping me out quite a bit:
http://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-and-some-root-terminology.353591/ => Terminology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOHN8byHAzk => Unlock bootloader and root the phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979 => This helps to install ADB/fastboot/drivers
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...on-htc-android-phones-with-unrevoked-forever/ => some info about s-off
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59745198&postcount=3 => HTC One M9 FAQ
Edit: OH, AND THIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
FFS, WATCH THAT ONE!

Just in case anyone has the same issue (i like to end on a positive note =D ) :
The easiest working solution i found for the issue is to go to the Apps management (Settings, apps), go to "All", select "Updater" and then clear data.
No pop ups so far.
Credit for this goes to moderator Earlymon from androidforums

Verizon Pixel 2xl oem but Im being VERY detailed

Ive been rooting since my old Samsung Galaxy 4 using very early versions of Cyanogenmod, Towelroot, Odin and other tools. As recent as this summer I took my older Samsung Tab A while in quarantine and while using TWRP I flashed it and put Leneage on it and love it.
I have an old Verizon Google Pixel XL 2 I want to unlock, root, and repurpose. Here are the hardware details -
- Taimen:11/RP1A.201005.004.A1/6934943
- Android 11 security update Oct 5 2020
- Serial, IMEI and other data available upon request on a case by case basis
I have tried everything I could find on XDA and I find myself the victim of every dead end possible all leading back to the OEM unlocking refusing to stay enabled. Without getting too tl:dr, I've tried all the fastboot this, and critical that, and nothing. I made sure it's fully factory reset with no sim card as well as skipping all the setup prompts to include no pin codes, biometrics, or Google accounts. Wifi is off, Bluetooth is off, usb debugging on, and the latest drivers, OTA img, the latest platform-tools, and the latest version of Android Studio.
The furthest I've been able to get is by using
Code:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.phone
to enable OEM unlocking for a brief time before it goes back to being shaded out.
I'm leaving no rock unturned.
I can fill in any details and answer virtually any question clearly and with as much detail is requested. I'm not some kid or out-of-touch novice who's unable to answer basic questions or pay the respect to follow up. I didn't want to hijack other posts as it's a personal pet peeve of mine and hope others do the same for this post. I'm humbly asking for some assistance realizing what I don't know but can't figure out what I need to know.
Whatever support I receive I shall pay it forward within XDA.
Thank you!

No consistently successful method of bypassing the locked bootloader on a Verizon Pixel 2 XL has been found in the nearly four years this device has been around. There have been scattered reports of success, but most of those were due to an exploit discovered in an old version of the bootloader that has long since been patched.
You have done everything you could, and everything that anyone else with a Verizon device with a still-locked bootloader has done. Unfortunately, they've hit the same brick wall you have, and there is no way we know of to get past it.