Just to be sure. When updating an s-off phone to hboot 1.50 s-on, as sprint service techs like to be sure everything is updated, you can then use htc unlock method to revert back to s-off?
No. Can't revert to older hboot...
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Well this afternoon i was updated at the sprint store to hboot 1.50 with s-on. confirmed as soon as i left the store. came home to root via htc unlock and when i finished i had hboot 1.50 s-off. loaded prior ruu to get back to hboot 1.30.
Wait so you started with hboot 1.50 s-on and was able downgrade to hboot 1.30 s-off?
I thought this wasn't possible with HTC's unlock method?
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I think i read that you can only do it if you had s-off prior (or something to that effect)
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No. Can't revert to older hboot...
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Actually he never asked if you could downgrade to 1.whatever. He asked if he could use HTCs method.
Yes my phone was rooted with soff prior to upgradeing to hboot 1.50. S-on after going to hboot 1.50. Once I used HTC unlock method my phone was back to s-off and was able to downgrade hboot. Not that it was needed since it was s-off anyways. My intention of the op was to check and verify that this was the status quo of everyone who updated after rooting via revolutionary.
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I was on hboot 1.50 unlocked with s-off. I got a new sd card yesterday and loaded the 1.40 ruu on to it and now I'm just 1.40 with s-off. No more pink banner and I still can flash anything. Pretty sweet...guess I have a weird phone.
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Dude I just asked this in another thread a minute ago. lol
I am in the same boat. I rooted with Revolutionary and was S-off on 1.40. I accidentlaly flashed a radio/firmware update that pushed me to hboot 1.50 S-off with a Pink Locked banner.
I really want to get back to 1.40.
Can you link me to what you flashed or did?
Just put the p86img.zip containing hboot 1.40 on root of sd-card and go into bootloader. It will auto-detect it and tell you to press vol. up to flash it. It's not a 'weird' phone, it's having the security flag off .
Lol I downloaded the 1.40 ruu file,renamed it to PG86IMG.Zip,put it on a different sd card,put the new sd card in my phone and ran it when it was done my phone didn't have the pink banner anymore and it didn't say 1.50 now I'm back to good old 1.40 s-off and no pink banner
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Just put the p86img.zip containing hboot 1.40 on root of sd-card and go into bootloader. It will auto-detect it and tell you to press vol. up to flash it. It's not a 'weird' phone, it's having the security flag off .
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Where do I find just the Hboot? I saw Haus's thread with Engineering hboot. There was a 1.4 and 1.04 version I think? Do I just grab the 1.4 version?
I am 1.50 S-Off and it says Locked.
*Edit* LINK REMOVED: I don't wanna confuse people. You must have had S-off with revolutionary first, in order to roll back off hboot 1.50
Yeah just grab the 1.40 file,download it and rename it to PG86IMG.ZIP,then go into recovery and you know the rest lol...yeah not the mirror one
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So I never had s-off when i got my phone nd my girl updated my phone to 1.50 , so i unlocked my phone (closes thing to flash roms) and so now with this can I downgrade my hboot to 1.40???
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Jcki4 said:
So I never had s-off when i got my phone nd my girl updated my phone to 1.50 , so i unlocked my phone (closes thing to flash roms) and so now with this can I downgrade my hboot to 1.40???
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If I'm reading the post done here... I think it means if you had 1.40 hboot before and used the s-off method but by mistake upgraded your hboot. You can then downgrade your hboot, I'm not so sure though! Give a try and let us know.
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So I never had s-off when i got my phone nd my girl updated my phone to 1.50 , so i unlocked my phone (closes thing to flash roms) and so now with this can I downgrade my hboot to 1.40???
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No, you need S-OFF to flash HBOOT 1.40 over HBOOT 1.50. The HTC Unlocked HBOOT allows you to flash a custom recovery and ROMs, but not overwrite HBOOT.
can we flash hboot 1.40 from fastboot ('adb reboot bootloader' from pc)
Hello. I'm going to try to keep this short. I had Hboot 1.4 S-Off, then stupidly flashed the 2.17 Ruu. Now I have Hboot 1.5, but the S--Off stuck, but it's locked. So, Hboot 1.5, locked, but S-off. My Queston is, if I wanted to restore a nandroid backup from before I updated, could I do that now, or would I need to unlock the bootloader first?
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Hello. I'm going to try to keep this short. I had Hboot 1.4 S-Off, then stupidly flashed the 2.17 Ruu. Now I have Hboot 1.5, but the S--Off stuck, but it's locked. So, Hboot 1.5, locked, but S-off. My Queston is, if I wanted to restore a nandroid backup from before I updated, could I do that now, or would I need to unlock the bootloader first?
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I'm pretty sure you can just flash a pg86img.zip of the 1.4 hboot and revert back since you are still s-off. It's probably posted in a sticky somewhere.
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Yup, as he said, since you're still S off you just need to flash hboot 1.40. You can find it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16125146
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Hey!
Well im about to send my old phone back and ran the RUU then did the s-on procedure. i relocked my bootloader and says relocked.... i ran ruu again and says the same thing! any suggestion?
Do you think verizon would charge me for this?
ryclegman said:
Hey!
Well im about to send my old phone back and ran the RUU then did the s-on procedure. i relocked my bootloader and says relocked.... i ran ruu again and says the same thing! any suggestion?
Do you think verizon would charge me for this?
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i've never heard of a returned phone being rejected for any reason other than physical damage. and if you are super worried about it there is a link to hex edited hboots.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1853871 you already s-on'd so you might have to s-off again. not sure about that part though
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i've never heard of a returned phone being rejected for any reason other than physical damage. and if you are super worried about it there is a link to hex edited hboots.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1853871 you already s-on'd so you might have to s-off again. not sure about that part though
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I haven't either so i think i may just send it out! chances are they wont see or care
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I haven't either so i think i may just send it out! chances are they wont see or care
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I think you might have to s-off. Downgrade to GB or a lower ICS RUU. Lock it. s-on. then do the ICS RUU. Should be back to locked and s-off.
^^
Flyhalf205 said:
I think you might have to s-off. Downgrade to GB or a lower ICS RUU. Lock it. s-on. then do the ICS RUU. Should be back to locked and s-off.
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Won't his hboot still show relocked after that...
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Won't his hboot still show relocked after that...
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Other poster is correct. Have to run s-off. Rerun RUU to unroot and then write s-on flag. Will remove all tags and be box stock.
prdog1 said:
Other poster is correct. Have to run s-off. Rerun RUU to unroot and then write s-on flag. Will remove all tags and be box stock.
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Thats sweet. I didn't think that was possible which is why we have the hboots that are edited.good to know though!
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prdog1 said:
Other poster is correct. Have to run s-off. Rerun RUU to unroot and then write s-on flag. Will remove all tags and be box stock.
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But won't the hboot technically say relocked once you relock it after running the RUU?
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But won't the hboot technically say relocked once you relock it after running the RUU?
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Not of after you S-OFF. When you do, the bootloader locks automatically, and says LOCKED not RELOCKED.
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Not of after you S-OFF. When you do, the bootloader locks automatically, and says LOCKED not RELOCKED.
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So I am already s-off. Can I run the latest ICS RUU, then s-on? Will that send me back to a totally looking stock phone?
Why not just flash one of the missed hboots that says locked and s-on when you're actually s-off? I had mine unlocked and s-off and then made it s-on and sent it back in to Verizon and they sent me another one, no questions asked. Don't worry about it.
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Look, even my hex edited hboots wont fool a tech. They can still tell.
HTC tech, yea that is if they even care to look. Verizon Tech? I doubt they even know what S-Off means or what HBOOT even is lol.
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Just follow instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
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Just follow instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
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Invalid link.
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25167284#post25167284
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Might help to think of HTC Dev Unlock and JuopunutBear S-Off as the two "gatekeepers", the two tools in the Rezound's current arsenal that affect the security flag. The security flag starts off as "locked" on a stock phone.
HTC Dev Unlock will alter the security flag to show "unlocked", and running the code to lock it back will now show it as "relocked".
JuopunutBear S-Off will reset the security flag back to "locked" no matter what the flag reads, and alter the "S-On" flag to "S-Off".
So to get back to a stock "S-On/Locked" from any of these states:
"S-On/Unlocked or Relocked"
If you are S-On and have used HTC Dev Unlock, you will need to do S-Off to get the "Locked" message back. Run a RUU, then do S-On procedure.
"S-Off/Locked"
If you are S-Off but have *not* used HTC Dev Unlock after the S-Off procedure, you should just need to run a RUU and do S-on.
"S-Off/Unlocked or Relocked"
If you are S-Off and have used HTC Dev Unlock since the S-Off procedure, you must run a RUU, re-lock the bootloader if you have not done so before, and do S-On. Then, do the S-off procedure (keep the stock bootloader, do not flash a modded one) and do S-on again.
PhantasmRezound said:
Might help to think of HTC Dev Unlock and JuopunutBear S-Off as the two "gatekeepers", the two tools in the Rezound's current arsenal that affect the security flag. The security flag starts off as "locked" on a stock phone.
HTC Dev Unlock will alter the security flag to show "unlocked", and running the code to lock it back will now show it as "relocked".
JuopunutBear S-Off will reset the security flag back to "locked" no matter what the flag reads, and alter the "S-On" flag to "S-Off".
So to get back to a stock "S-On/Locked" from any of these states:
"S-On/Unlocked or Relocked"
If you are S-On and have used HTC Dev Unlock, you will need to do S-Off to get the "Locked" message back. Run a RUU, then do S-On procedure.
"S-Off/Locked"
If you are S-Off but have *not* used HTC Dev Unlock after the S-Off procedure, you should just need to run a RUU and do S-on.
"S-Off/Unlocked or Relocked"
If you are S-Off and have used HTC Dev Unlock since the S-Off procedure, you must run a RUU, re-lock the bootloader if you have not done so before, and do S-On. Then, do the S-off procedure (keep the stock bootloader, do not flash a modded one) and do S-on again.
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So I was s-off and unlocked. I just flashed the latest ICS RUU. Now you are saying I need to lock my bootloader and then s-on? Then s-off with the wire trick again, then s-on one more time? Will this all work with the latest RUU I have installed?
It sounds too complicated to get rid of the "RELOCKED" sign...
Is it possible with hboot 1.19 s-on running MeanBean? If so what method? I tried dirty racun and it failed on the on the step fastboot oem rebootRUU and black screen with HTC. Then wouldn't flash RUU. t/u
Ruu when in bootloader. Then unlock and then run racun.
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Last weekend I relocked my phone then ran the RUU and took the OTA then unlocked and rooted again. I couldn't get Racun to work for me either.
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T/u
I will most likely try the unroot method since I have tried the racun and was stuck with a phone not working for a while.
What RUU
xbmoyx said:
Last weekend I relocked my phone then ran the RUU and took the OTA then unlocked and rooted again. I couldn't get Racun to work for me either.
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What RUU did you use or what post did you follow. Asking so when i do this this evening i don't get stuck and have to do a lot of reading. t/u
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What RUU did you use or what post did you follow. Asking so when i do this this evening i don't get stuck and have to do a lot of reading. t/u
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The RUU to use depends on your hboot, for example, if youre on hboot 1.15 use RUU 1.22.651.3 - HBOOT 1.15
for hboot 1.19 use RUU 2.13.651.1 - HBOOT 1.19
The best guide to follow is the unlimited guide from their site, they will acutally support your efforts live! I used this method and I was able to gain s-off, unlock my bootloader and root; here's the link (it contains eveything you need including the RUU):
http://unlimited.io/jewel.htm
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The RUU to use depends on your hboot, for example, if youre on hboot 1.15 use RUU 1.22.651.3 - HBOOT 1.15
for hboot 1.19 use RUU 2.13.651.1 - HBOOT 1.19
The best guide to follow is the unlimited guide from their site, they will acutally support your efforts live! I used this method and I was able to gain s-off, unlock my bootloader and root; here's the link (it contains eveything you need including the RUU):
http://unlimited.io/jewel.htm
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That is the one I was using and failed on step 8 second command went to black screen with HTC in center and nothing after that. Then failed to load the RUU. I am on HBOOT 1.19. I will look at it again tonight and might give it a try again.
I am trying to flash my phone with the RUU 2.13 so I can get the new firmware and flash meanbean. I am following this post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31520093&postcount=11730) to do so. After following what Captain says, which is to relock the bootloader I can't get past the bootloader (which I now understand is normal right?) and then try to run the RUU through HBOOT, however I get the USB error. Is this due to the bootloader being relocked or am I missing the htc drivers on my computer?
Also, I'd rather go to S-Off, so if anyone could shed some light on how I would go from S-On to S-Off I would greatly appreciate it.
Which firmware are you trying to get on your phone? Because the way I'm reading it is you're using the older ruu file to try to get the newest firmware. Just wanna make sure you're using the newest ruu of 3.15 (came out December 22).
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Which firmware are you trying to get on your phone? Because the way I'm reading it is you're using the older ruu file to try to get the newest firmware. Just wanna make sure you're using the newest ruu of 3.15 (came out December 22).
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Ya wow can't believe how long it's been since I've flashed a rom. An old version of MeanRom has lasted me so long. I am on an old firmware (1.13) I believe. I want to preferably go from S-On to S-Off. Before, I tried Captain Throwbacks method (relocking the bootloader, flashing the RUU) however I ran into a USB Connection Problem with the RUU. So I am trying to figure out if it was because I didn't have the right htc drivers installed or something else. If S-On to S-Off would eliminate the need for those steps I would much rather do that. I am trying to get to the latest firmware. Thanks!
What Hboot are you on?
Edit: If you're on 1.12 you're going to have to go the Dirty Racun route, since Lazy Panda is no longer officially supported. This, of course, requires you to RUU to upgrade to either Hboot 1.15 or 1.19, then run Dirty Racun to get S-off. Getting S-off is definitely the way to go, as it can save you some headache down the road. Also, don't run the RUU for 3.15 (JB) as this will update your Hboot and currently there is no exploit to get S-off with the new Hboot. You can still unlock and root it, but you'll be S-on.
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FinZ28 said:
What Hboot are you on?
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^^^^What he said
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