http://www.multiupload.com/NOLWGVUTMZ
6c4babc9c39ca1c4e92030202a4ce413 hboot_8x60-lte_2.11.2005_111221_MR2_signedbyaa.nb0
Its just a eng hboot, its not a magic key, its not a banana split, it doesn't magically give you s-off. No instructions because I have none for you. Sharing in hopes that it furthers someone else's project as well.
This is apparently debug signed, don't attempt to flash it to s-on device. Ship s-on hboots won't flash it, even if you were able to sign an RUU properly.
for the s-off users, this allows extra fastboot commands
Not to imply doubt but is this for real?
With s off and such?
Awesome
kidwolf908 said:
Not to imply doubt but is this for real?
With s off and such?
Awesome
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Wondering the same....
does this give S-OFF?
con247 said:
does this give S-OFF?
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If it does, I think we're about to see a bunch of computers ruined by the nerdgasms that will follow.
according to his twitter it doesn't flash but he just wants to post it anyway
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http://www.multiupload.com/NOLWGVUTMZ
6c4babc9c39ca1c4e92030202a4ce413 hboot_8x60-lte_2.11.2005_111221_MR2_signedbyaa.nb0
Its just a eng hboot, its not a magic key, its not a banana split, it doesn't magically give you s-off. No instructions because I have none for you. Sharing in hopes that it furthers someone else's project as well.
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Now I'm CRAVING a banana split, you rat bastard!
Careful with flashing things like this. Advanced users only please. I can see the newbs going flash crazy. Had anyone flashed yet? Thanks for this jcase. I appreciate you helping out by doing things like this even though you don't have the phone
sent from my cm7 rooted fire
pwned3 said:
Careful with flashing things like this. Advanced users only please. I can see the newbs going flash crazy. Had anyone flashed yet? Thanks for this jcase. I appreciate you helping out by doing things like this even though you don't have the phone
sent from my cm7 rooted fire
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Finding a way to flash it to a s-on phone is what the goal would be, then we are assuming its signed with the same key as the SHIP hboots. If someone could flash it, and the key is the same (I am assuming it is, but may not be) , then it would give you s-off.
Yes, flashed it to radio s-off phones, it works fine, enables all the extended fastboot commands.
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Careful with flashing things like this. Advanced users only please. I can see the newbs going flash crazy. Had anyone flashed yet? Thanks for this jcase. I appreciate you helping out by doing things like this even though you don't have the phone
sent from my cm7 rooted fire
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I tried flashing it with fast boot but it gave me a remote not allowed error.
Thank you jcase for this file.. let's hope someone figures it out
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AFAIK you cannot flash an eng hboot to an S-ON device.
Be careful of flashing this. You can hard brick your phone with hboot. Seen it done on the E3D.
Just throwing that out there.
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scrosler said:
AFAIK you cannot flash an eng hboot to an S-ON device.
Be careful of flashing this. You can hard brick your phone with hboot. Seen it done on the E3D.
Just throwing that out there.
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This is incorrect, as long as everything is right signature wise, it won't brick. The problem is actually getting it to flash. However people shouldn't just go around flashing things without knowing what they are doing.
Lots of phones have gotten s-off b/c of an eng hboot, particularly the thunderbolt from us.
Thanks for putting this out there jcase
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If it helps, I could not flash this via fast boot nor in a PH98IMG.zip
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If it helps, I could not flash this via fast boot nor in a PH98IMG.zip
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stock hboot doesnt support flashing hboot throught fastboot
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This is incorrect, as long as everything is right signature wise, it won't brick. The problem is actually getting it to flash. However people shouldn't just go around flashing things without knowing what they are doing.
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Thats the point I am making. Know what you are go doing before you do it. And yes you can brick a phone with a a signed eng hboot. I have seen it done on Evo 3D. Either way...
So... How do you flash this to an S-ON device. I would love to have eng hboot.
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Thats the point I am making. Know what you are go doing before you do it. And yes you can brick a phone with a a signed eng hboot. I have seen it done on Evo 3D. Either way...
So... How do you flash this to an S-ON device. I would love to have eng hboot.
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If he knew, he'd of told us, here's to hoping someone finds a way!
cant this be flashed with ADB?? thats how it used to be done on the OG evo i had
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I am beyond feeling like a ReeeTard right now. As someone who beta tests for a lot of ROM builders and knows a great deal about Android, software development etc... please don't reply to this with a smart a** remark. It helps no one and makes you look like just a jerk.
We all have our days where we simply cannot think straight, I am dealing with a great deal of stress, in my life, so forgive me for somehow not finding the answer to this question.
I updated my phone, using an RUU...My phone WAS hboot 1.40, now however it's hboot 1.50, and it's UNLOCKED (the bootloader) as well as S-Off, Am I forgetting to do something to have ROOT access?
So I am hboot 1.50 UNLOCKED and S-off
With all of those things I thought, because I cant seem to think clearly right now, that I was rooted. I however ran root checker and I am not.
Please throw me a bone and fill me in on what I am missing here. It's been a rough couple weeks for me.
Much appreciated.
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I am beyond feeling like a ReeeTard right now. As someone who beta tests for a lot of ROM builders and knows a great deal about Android, software development etc... please don't reply to this with a smart a** remark. It helps no one and makes you look like just a jerk.
We all have our days where we simply cannot think straight, I am dealing with a great deal of stress, in my life, so forgive me for somehow not finding the answer to this question.
I updated my phone, using an RUU...My phone WAS hboot 1.40, now however it's hboot 1.50, and it's UNLOCKED (the bootloader) as well as S-Off, Am I forgetting to do something to have ROOT access?
So I am hboot 1.50 UNLOCKED and S-off
With all of those things I thought, because I cant seem to think clearly right now, that I was rooted. I however ran root checker and I am not.
Please throw me a bone and fill me in on what I am missing here. It's been a rough couple weeks for me.
Much appreciated.
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Hey! No worries man. You're almost there. All you need to do is flash a recovery now. Choose a recovery, and flash it, either a pg86img.zip or a recovery.img, and flash it. Once you have recovery flashed, either just flash a rooted ROM, or flash a su.zip. Then you should be good to go.
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Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it. I knew I needed to flash superuser I just wanted to be sure it was just flash a recovery then su.zip
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Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it. I knew I needed to flash superuser I just wanted to be sure it was just flash a recovery then su.zip
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You're welcome. Glad to help. Let me know if you have further questions. if you just decide to flash a su.zip, as opposed to an entire custom rom, you'd probably have the best luck looking in the old original TWRP thread for one. I know that had a su.zip posted in it. I'll see if i can find it for you real quick.
EDIT: Here's a super user zip http://techerrata.com/toastcfh/Shooter/su-2.3.6.3-efgh-fixed-unsigned.zip that I found in the 3rd post of this old thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192077&highlight=twrp+recovery. That's not the newest super user app, but it should work just fine, and you should be able to update it from there once you get it installed.
buckley nailed it!
i was actually unaware that updating your bootloader would still leave you s-off if you were on 1.4. that is interesting... although i would still never update.
did you know that it would still leave you with your NAND unlocked when you updated?
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buckley nailed it!
i was actually unaware that updating your bootloader would still leave you s-off if you were on 1.4. that is interesting... although i would still never update.
did you know that it would still leave you with your NAND unlocked when you updated?
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Yea, updating will still leave you S-off. You won't have a custom recovery anymore, and you'll be on hboot 1.5, but you still have S-off. There is pretty much no way that I know of to turn it back to S-on without going into fastboot and doing that 'fastboot setsecureflag3' command or whatever it is. The revolutionary team gave us some pretty damn permanent S-off, lol. I've seen lots of people take OTA updates, and still have S-off. You can even downgrade the hboot back to 1.4 if you wanted to, even though there really isn't a reason to. Having hboot 1.5 with S-off is just the same as having 1.4 with s-off, you don't need to do any extra stuff to flash.
OK, so I bought the Rezound used and already rooted, I have just flashed viper 1.0.3 but my radios dont match up with the latest ones and I'm not sure if that might help battery life. The phone has AmonRu, sorry if this is covered somewhere... I searched and didnt come up with anything
also current baseband version is 1.22.10.0310r, 1.22.10.0308r
u didn't search well enough cause you're new. learn to search better before you get flamed and ignored. if you knew anything about Android you'd know that only the latest ruu could upgrade your radios since you're s-on
yes run a RUU
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u didn't search well enough cause you're new. learn to search better before you get flamed and ignored. if you knew anything about Android you'd know that only the latest ruu could upgrade your radios since you're s-on
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It's just different from other androids (D1, D2) and even the other HTC's I've had (Incredible and Thunderbolt). So, I'd need to flash the latest RUU to get the radios, but can i do that with the amon recovery ? And if so, does the latest RUU break root? Like I said the guy I bought it from rooted it, he said he used htc dev tool to root it.
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It's just different from other androids (D1, D2) and even the other HTC's I've had (Incredible and Thunderbolt). So, I'd need to flash the latest RUU to get the radios, but can i do that with the amon recovery ? And if so, does the latest RUU break root? Like I said the guy I bought it from rooted it, he said he used htc dev tool to root it.
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You should do a little research before you attempt anything. Basically, you'll need to relock the boot loader using htcdev tool which is simple to do if you follow directions. Then you'll download the latest RUU and place it on the root of your SD card and then boot into the boot loader by powering the phone down and holding vol down and power. Then it will prompt for the update-choose yes. Once update is done you'll be completely stock and you'll need to unlock again with htcdev and install a custom recovery again. After that you can root again and flash ROMs. Sounds complicated, but if you plan to tinker with this phone these are MUST LEARN procedures.
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u didn't search well enough cause you're new. learn to search better before you get flamed and ignored. if you knew anything about Android you'd know that only the latest ruu could upgrade your radios since you're s-on
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Can't you tell from this post that XDA is just a warm, welcoming community geared towards helping people?
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localceleb said:
You should do a little research before you attempt anything. Basically, you'll need to relock the boot loader using htcdev tool which is simple to do if you follow directions. Then you'll download the latest RUU and place it on the root of your SD card and then boot into the boot loader by powering the phone down and holding vol down and power. Then it will prompt for the update-choose yes. Once update is done you'll be completely stock and you'll need to unlock again with htcdev and install a custom recovery again. After that you can root again and flash ROMs. Sounds complicated, but if you plan to tinker with this phone these are MUST LEARN procedures.
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In a nutshell, a good description of what to do. Kudos, localceleb for actually answering the question without making the OP feel unwelcome.
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Can't you tell from this post that XDA is just a warm, welcoming community geared towards helping people?
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In a nutshell, a good description of what to do. Kudos, localceleb for actually answering the question without making the OP feel unwelcome.
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Yeah, I could feel the love so much I got goosebumps. One question is will I have any problems relocking the bootloader with viper rom installed or do i need to relock and immediately flash the img.zip for the ruu ?
Why wouldn't you just run the S-Off and not have to worry about things like this? I just find it amazing that people will go through the headache of unlocking their bootloader but not do the S-Off routine.
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Why wouldn't you just run the S-Off and not have to worry about things like this? I just find it amazing that people will go through the headache of unlocking their bootloader but not do the S-Off routine.
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S-off looks like it isnt as easy as it used to be, and cant get back from it in case of a warranty return
eric90gt said:
S-off looks like it isnt as easy as it used to be, and cant get back from it in case of a warranty return
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You can get back to s-on
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S-off looks like it isnt as easy as it used to be, and cant get back from it in case of a warranty return
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It's still fairly easy. Once I got the right kind of wire (speaker wire instead of a paperclip), it literally took just a few minutes to complete it. Got the timing right on the first try with the right wire.
And like Ashton said, you can return to S-On.
Yeah, s-off is truly easy. I know it seems intimidating and complicated, but 95% of the process is automated scripts. Once again, if you follow directions and take your time, its easy. I was surprised at how easy it was once I've completed it. Now I've done the process 5+ times and it takes less than 3 minutes from start to finish.
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Make your the RUU is a zip and name it PH98IMG. S-OFF seems complicated, but it's not all you have to do is make sure you are rooted and have dev unlocked your phone run ControlBear and do the wire trick when told to. If you fail just leave the phone alone and close/open ControlBear again and keep trying.
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Yeah, s-off is truly easy. I know it seems intimidating and complicated, but 95% of the process is automated scripts. Once again, if you follow directions and take your time, its easy. I was surprised at how easy it was once I've completed it. Now I've done the process 5+ times and it takes less than 3 minutes from start to finish.
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I will say it was a giant pain in the ass for me. I followed the timing and was pretty careful about it but it just didn't work. I was using a paperclip (uninsulated) so maybe that's why, but I eventually just spammed the other terminal and one of those times it took. haha
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I will say it was a giant pain in the ass for me. I followed the timing and was pretty careful about it but it just didn't work. I was using a paperclip (uninsulated) so maybe that's why, but I eventually just spammed the other terminal and one of those times it took. haha
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I got it to almost work only once with a paperclip. It failed at the end though (gave still sober message). After about 20-30 minutes of fiddling with it... I got sick of it. Took off one of the wires from my home theatre (18 guage probably, and ~25 ft lol), and used that. Worked the first try lol.. So yeah, been recommending actual wire rather than paperclips if possible.
Hey guys....
I feel really stupid about this entire thing but I've finally decided to post here because I'm getting desperate.
The guide in question (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563342) is fairly striaghtforward. Except the links are really scattered, at least for me. I'm on HBOOT 1.58, and I've had numerous problems even getting to the point where my phone is relocked (it's currently HTC unlocked because I use an MIUI port ROM) successfully. I would bring my problems to that thread, but I don't have 10 posts, which is a questionable rule but w/e.
Anyway, here's my problem. First, I'll tell you what I've done so far, and the problem I've come across both times.
1. Place a "2.89 RUU" or whatever onto my SD card and call it PG86IMG. This is where most of my confusion is. OP of that thread hasn't yet covered what the difference between 2.17 and 2.89 is, but my understand is that 2.17 corresponds with HBOOT 1.5 and 2.89 to 1.58. Honestly, all these numbers piss me off when there's little to no documentation of what the hell they even mean. This file is about 448 MB and my understanding was that it was a stock RUU and would make it so I could access my phone while it was still locked, which you can't do with a 3rd party ROM like the one I usually use.
2. Lock my phone's bootloader. I just did fastboot oem lock in Windows and it rebooted to *** RELOCKED *** *** Security Warning ***. Apparently this is normal, and now I need to flash said RUU.
3. Flash the RUU. This took an EXTREMELY long time, and it went through Loading PG86IMG.zip.. then to some other stage that took much less time to complete. After that it just sits in the bootloader.
Here's my concern... I can't access my SD card. Why? Because I can't even get out of the bootloader or fastboot. All it does is sit here, and since I can't remove the update file PG86IMG.zip, if I try to enter recovery (which I'm sure won't work anyway) it will try to start loading that file again. I don't really know what step I missed here, but it's probably because I'm fairly clueless when it comes to this stuff, lol.
So, I did this once, and then I waited about 6 hours for HTCdev's site to stop crashing so I could unlock my phone again. Made it through a school day with my old ROM and stuff, deleted the update files so they wouldn't run again, etc. etc.
Now, I'm doing it again today with this new 2.89 RUU or whatever and the same exact problem is happening. So now I'm at a stage where my phone is entirely useless until HTCdev.com starts actually sending e-mails. I swear, these crashes on HTCdev's part could not be more untimely.
So basically, what am I doing wrong with relocking my phone? OP implies that I should be able to start my phone (not the bootloader, but actually start it) because they ask after you've supposedly re-locked the bootloader for you to move a new PG86IMG.zip file onto your SD card, which I'm unable to do because my phone can't get out of fastboot/bootloader screen. That's the next step, which is actually doing the downgrading.
And yes, I know that it's possible for HBOOT 1.58 because someone else already did it (last post in the thread).
At this point, I don't really care when I get it to work, man. This is proving to be such a gigantic pain in the ass just to install a new Jelly Bean ROM. I JUST WANT JELLY BEAN!
If anyone can send a noob in the right direction, that'd be great. I have all week and all weekend, but I've run out of time to waste on this for today. I guess most of what I need is to know what files I'm supposed to be downloading, because I have a feeling that's most of what I'm getting wrong.
I hope I've explained my problem well enough, and thanks a ton to anyone who just suffered through reading my essay and can offer help. I'll be sending this to OP of the guide as a PM so hopefully if none of you guys can help they can.
Thanks a ton everyone, I just want to get Jelly Bean on my phone and stop dealing with MIUI :laugh:
Update: Found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495358. I believe this will probably help me out a lot! Wish I would've seen it sooner.
TL;DR: Need better explanation of how to relock 1.58 hboot bootloader with a stock rom, and where to find the rom.
Honestly, your post was tl;dr for me, but I think you would be best served to follow ramjet's guide to s-off. It's really the easiest and includes everything you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
coal686 said:
Honestly, your post was tl;dr for me, but I think you would be best served to follow ramjet's guide to s-off. It's really the easiest and includes everything you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
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Lol. I'm not surprised. I tend to pour my heart out on forums when I get to the point of desperation.
Gonna be honest with you, zero interest in the wire tap method. Zero. Not trying it. Not even going to think about it. Sorry, I appreciate the idea but honestly screw that.
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Lol. I'm not surprised. I tend to pour my heart out on forums when I get to the point of desperation.
Gonna be honest with you, zero interest in the wire tap method. Zero. Not trying it. Not even going to think about it. Sorry, I appreciate the idea but honestly screw that.
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Then, honestly, you are EXTREMELY limited as to what you can do. S-Off is your best bet. Good Luck.
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Then, honestly, you are EXTREMELY limited as to what you can do. S-Off is your best bet. Good Luck.
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I don't understand how that limits me at all. I just want to use the downgrade method to hboot 1.4 and s-off. I never had any intention of staying on hboot 1.5, and certainly not hboot 1.58.
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I don't understand how that limits me at all. I just want to use the downgrade method to hboot 1.4 and s-off. I never had any intention of staying on hboot 1.5, and certainly not hboot 1.58.
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From my understanding, the downgrade method works with hboot 1.58, but you have to brick your phone twice. But it really is the more challenging method so you may want to reconsider your stance on the wire trick. I've yet to hear of an unhappy customer who followed ramjet's guide.
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From my understanding, the downgrade method works with hboot 1.58, but you have to brick your phone twice. But it really is the more challenging method so you may want to reconsider your stance on the wire trick. I've yet to hear of an unhappy customer who followed ramjet's guide.
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I'm not sure.
However, this thread can be closed because I *finally* got the RUU to work properly! I was doing things in the wrong order, and not using the .exe was a silly idea. It's much easier that way. Currently have stock ROM running on a locked 1.58 hboot. Now I can continue!
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I'm not sure.
However, this thread can be closed because I *finally* got the RUU to work properly! I was doing things in the wrong order, and not using the .exe was a silly idea. It's much easier that way. Currently have stock ROM running on a locked 1.58 hboot. Now I can continue!
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Good! :thumbup:
Keep posting questions, we'll do our best to help.
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Good! :thumbup:
Keep posting questions, we'll do our best to help.
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LOLJK. I swear, at this point HTC must be trolling me. It's loaded up now. Thanks for trying to help everyone! I can't wait to get Jelly Bean on here soon!
Doubt this will help, but did you remove the PG86IMG.zip from your sd card? Also, did you run the ruu.exe while in bootloader (it will say fastboot usb in red). I'm sort of grasping at straws since the ruu usually works without issue when using the exe.
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Doubt this will help, but did you remove the PG86IMG.zip from your sd card? Also, did you run the ruu.exe while in bootloader (it will say fastboot usb in red). I'm sort of grasping at straws since the ruu usually works without issue when using the exe.
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I have a feeling you didn't see my update It magically decided to work. Here comes double bricking action... this should be (un)fun D:
i am on hboot 1.58 and used HTC Unlock and wire trick to get s-off. i was about to flash a JB Rom but realized that it requires hboot to be lower than 1.58. so all i do is pick the first hboot 1.40 from Here, put it in the root of SD, boot up the phone in recovery and flash that PG86IMG.zip.
once its done ill swap the SD with another one which would have the ROM i want to install, then boot again in recovery and wipe Dalvik+cache, and then flash ROM?
am i doing it right?
thank you.
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i am on hboot 1.58 and used HTC Unlock and wire trick to get s-off. i was about to flash a JB Rom but realized that it requires hboot to be lower than 1.58. so all i do is pick the first hboot 1.40 from Here, put it in the root of SD, boot up the phone in recovery and flash that PG86IMG.zip.
once its done ill swap the SD with another one which would have the ROM i want to install, then boot again in recovery and wipe Dalvik+cache, and then flash ROM?
am i doing it right?
thank you.
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No, do it from the bootloader
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fdavila17 said:
No, do it from the bootloader
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I have the exact situation with my wife's phone? I want to install Pacman on her phone which is still stock. Is all I have to do what chubaan said?
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I have the exact situation with my wife's phone? I want to install Pacman on her phone which is still stock. Is all I have to do what chubaan said?
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Just download the hboot you want, 1.50 or below to get PACMAN to.boot, rename it as PG86IMG.zip place it on the root of your sd card, go to.the bootloader and select yes to apply update , and your done
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Thank you.. that's what I did. And after you're done make sure to wipe dalvik and cache from recovery, at least in my case I had to. And then flash the rom. And that's it..
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Hello all,
Just a quick question, I google'd around a bit with no solid answer. What's the deal with Hboots? Do you need a certain version to run a certain version of AOS? from what I could tell it sounds like toy need the 2.09 or above hboot to run JB. this true? I'm on 1.12 Hboot, stock rooted rom, S-on with TWRP recovery and going for s-off, but apparently need to update my hboot to do so. Is there an Hboot that is more desirable than another? are there still ENG bootloaders out there? Just dont wana bork my phone or myself with this last step.. sheesh, when did rooting get so complicated? Thanks in advance
9X
They have progressively become stricter. Each time a new hboot is released its due to changes made. Patching exploits, adding support for changes in hardware, little things like that. 1.12 was relatively open, 1.15 removed access to areas of the boot partition requiring kernels to be flashed differently, not too sure what 1.19 changed if anything, 2.09 removes r/w access to your system so any changes to system will revert upon reboot.
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Hello all,
Just a quick question, I google'd around a bit with no solid answer. What's the deal with Hboots? Do you need a certain version to run a certain version of AOS? from what I could tell it sounds like toy need the 2.09 or above hboot to run JB. this true? I'm on 1.12 Hboot, stock rooted rom, S-on with TWRP recovery and going for s-off, but apparently need to update my hboot to do so. Is there an Hboot that is more desirable than another? are there still ENG bootloaders out there? Just dont wana bork my phone or myself with this last step.. sheesh, when did rooting get so complicated? Thanks in advance
9X
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You only have to update your HBOOT to get S-OFF because the tool to S-OFF the 1.12 HBOOT is no longer supported. After that, there's no reason to touch your HBOOT.
is there a "best" hboot? as in enables the most hardware / most bug fixes / still exploitable?
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is there a "best" hboot? as in enables the most hardware / most bug fixes / still exploitable?
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No. They're all S-OFF-able at this point. Just stick with the DirtyRacun HBOOT you get after S-OFF is complete and you'll be fine.
And why is s-off for 1.12 no longer supported? If it's not detrimental anyone know how I can s-off it?
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And why is s-off for 1.12 no longer supported? If it's not detrimental anyone know how I can s-off it?
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Because Team Unlimited isn't supporting it anymore. Because it's a simple matter to RUU to a newer version and S-OFF it. There's no reason not to - I don't understand your hesitation.
Just dont want a newer more restrictive hboot period. but here goes 1.15
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Just dont want a newer more restrictive hboot period. but here goes 1.15
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Once you're S-OFF, it doesn't matter. Restrictions are all removed.
x9x0 said:
Just dont want a newer more restrictive hboot period. but here goes 1.15
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The restrictions of Hboot are gone once you're S-off. It's just a number afterwards.
This is regardless of what Hboot you're on
Edit: Captain beat me to it. Hopefully you get the point now
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FinZ28 said:
The restrictions of Hboot are gone once you're S-off. It's just a number afterwards.
This is regardless of what Hboot you're on
Edit: Captain beat me to it. Hopefully you get the point now
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Not exactly - the stock HBOOTs don't have fastboot commands enabled unless they're unlocked. So while you have the freedom to flash whatever HBOOT you want, it's still best to have one of the DirtyRacun modded HBOOTs to get the full benefit.
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Not exactly - the stock HBOOTs don't have fastboot commands enabled unless they're unlocked. So while you have the freedom to flash whatever HBOOT you want, it's still best to have one of the DirtyRacun modded HBOOTs to get the full benefit.
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Very true.
+1 for Captain Throwback.
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hboot 1.15 s-off completed, thanks guys... just didnt want to do something i was going to regret.
Who on earth would regret soff?
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Who on earth would regret soff?
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Someone who bricked their device because they flashed something they could, but shouldn't have . . . . I will say, there are probably some people that shouldn't S-OFF, just because they'll find a way to break stuff. But I would hope those people don't frequent this forum (though I'd probably be wrong . . . )
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Someone who bricked their device because they flashed something they could, but shouldn't have . . . . I will say, there are probably some people that shouldn't S-OFF, just because they'll find a way to break stuff. But I would hope those people don't frequent this forum (though I'd probably be wrong . . . )
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You know better than that
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Well it seems everybody has had that sort of day even with s-on, at least in this forum. Most of the time it's hardly ever been device wrecking. There was a time when my inbox would flood lol
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Well it seems everybody has had that sort of day even with s-on, at least in this forum. Most of the time it's hardly ever been device wrecking. There was a time when my inbox would flood lol
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Thank God for devs
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Just didnt want to lockout or loose options. when I started doing this, it was easy to update to a version that sucked, in the process of trying to root or s-off and sometimes there was no way back, you were essentially stuck in limbo. That being said, I've rooted a LOT of phones for my self and other people, and never once bricked a phone. Not to say I havent been in no mans land where 90% of the people out there would call it bricked. Had more than a few looooong night undoing experiments gone bad. Although the victory of escaping brick-dom is super sweet, I Just dont have time right now to visit no mans land, reflow, jtag/reflash again. seems that now the devs have made this pretty much idiot proof, Incredible how far things have come.
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Just didnt want to lockout or loose options. when I started doing this, it was easy to update to a version that sucked, in the process of trying to root or s-off and sometimes there was no way back, you were essentially stuck in limbo. That being said, I've rooted a LOT of phones for my self and other people, and never once bricked a phone. Not to say I havent been in no mans land where 90% of the people out there would call it bricked. Had more than a few looooong night undoing experiments gone bad. Although the victory of escaping brick-dom is super sweet, I Just dont have time right now to visit no mans land, reflow, jtag/reflash again. seems that now the devs have made this pretty much idiot proof, Incredible how far things have come.
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Tell me about it. I took my son's OG EVO out last week and finally got S-off via Revolutionary. For $hits and giggles I even got my old Hero out and got it S-off, too. Probably the easiest phone I've done yet-just had to flash a zip file in recovery
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I want to root my phone badly and install cyanagenmod 10.2 on my rezound. But I'm afraid to, I mean I've read everything and I'm pretty sure I could do it easily, but it just scares me of bricking my phone, I upgrade sometime this year, should I wait till I upgrade? And by the way, if I do, do it, its on a Mac...
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There's very little if any chance of bricking unless you go S-Off. Keep it S-On and you'll always be able to recover to stock as long as you have a PC (something that works with Fastboot such as Windows or Ubuntu) and the latest RUU
Thank you, I've read that multiple times, but should I wait till I go for a upgrade? Or would you say root it sometime soon? And is it possible on mac though... I have the SDK, and all the necessary stuff on my mac, or at least I think...
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scy1192 said:
There's very little if any chance of bricking unless you go S-Off. Keep it S-On and you'll always be able to recover to stock as long as you have a PC (something that works with Fastboot such as Windows or Ubuntu) and the latest RUU
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ruu requires s-off bud...also if you soft brick while s-on there is no fix what so ever...all soft brick fixes work in s-off only.....but yes you actually root via a custom recovery on the rez...if s-on all you have to do is fastboot flash said recovery which i can link you to and run the su installer
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ruu requires s-off bud...also if you soft brick while s-on there is no fix what so ever...all soft brick fixes work in s-off only.....but yes you actually root via a custom recovery on the rez...if s-on all you have to do is fastboot flash said recovery which i can link you to and run the su installer
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Really it depends on the hboot and radios his phone is on, right? Bc say he were on the global leak 2.27 hboot with 2.22 radios he could still apply that ruu. However if on 2.28 hboot with 2.23 radios there technically is no official ruu so would need have be s_off..
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Really it depends on the hboot and radios his phone is on, right? Bc say he were on the global leak 2.27 hboot with 2.22 radios he could still apply that ruu. However if on 2.28 hboot with 2.23 radios there technically is no official ruu so would need have be s_off..
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he could fastboot to 2.28 without that provided OTA fille...ruu is actually an exe program... but i suggest against it honestly....but if downgrading at all requires s-off....he can root without s-off and flash roms....so long as he does use s-on instructions....(which to be honest s-on users have a harder time flashing custom roms for the reason of having to fastboot all the time)
Plus S-Off is so easy now... No wire trick
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I guess what the OP needs is some words of encouragement so let me just say this : unlocking the bootloader through HTC dev will not brick your phone, flashing a custom recovery will not brick your phone, flashing a custom rom will not brick your phone, getting the most out of your rezound will not brick your phone. Btw happy new year everybody
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Ok...so do I go s-off or s-on... Which one would you suggest... I'm kind of a noob... Sorry about that, I've read so many forum's, but I just haven't gotten to do it, or afraid of doing it, I know unlock bootloader and so on so forth... But after that... I know the HTC developers website provides a way for you to unlock the boot loader which allows you to install a custom ROM but I've seen other people do it differently, I've heard mac88 has a great one on rooting HTC rezound, but its supposed to have pictures but it was taken down... Or at least the pictures and I suck at reading it and doing it sometimes... I do better by seeing... Any help for a noob guys... Please help..
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I'm also looking to leave it Verizon, not changing anything, I've always heard never mess with the S-on or off... So...
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pball52998 said:
I'm also looking to leave it Verizon, not changing anything, I've always heard never mess with the S-on or off... So...
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s-off makes life easier...makes it so youll never have to use the computer to keep fastboot flashing the boot.img for every rom you wanna flash...doesnt change carrier....if youd like...to make your life easier...you can always send me the phone and ill do all the work for you and send it back free of charge
Thank you so much, so s-off is the best choice to do for the phone...
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pball52998 said:
Thank you so much, so s-off is the best choice to do for the phone...
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for a "noob" yes it is...makes things much easier on you....thats my personal opinion
Can you send me a link to a no wire trick, s-off please, because everything hat I have found is just wire trick..
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pball52998 said:
Can you send me a link to a no wire trick, s-off please, because everything hat I have found is just wire trick..
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Here ya go! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2585885 Much easier than the Juopunut s-off which requires Linux and the use of a wire to short out contacts on your phone.
Edit: Of course you need to be unlocked and rooted, and have a custom rom and kernel already installed to use this method. So it may not be easier for you.
Chillerman said:
Here ya go! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2585885 Much easier than the Juopunut s-off which requires Linux and the use of a wire to short out contacts on your phone.
Edit: Of course you need to be unlocked and rooted, and have a custom rom and kernel already installed to use this method. So it may not be easier for you.
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Thank you so much and I only plan on putting CM on, I know that sounds weird but thats my plan. I need to get my windows side on my mac working better... I do have windows 7 its just, slow, and very low memory on the windows side left....sadly, but I will try to at least unlock my bootloader and get my adb drivers set up...
And I also forgot to ask earlier, can you send me the link you said for the recovery and Su... Please?
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pball52998 said:
And I also forgot to ask earlier, can you send me the link you said for the recovery and Su... Please?
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There are a lot of good threads to look at in HTC Rezound > Rezound Android development. Here are a few to start.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418659
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1365654
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415615
Thank you I got into the boot loader unlock, but haven't done it yet, I went back in to make sure I have everything backed up, and when installing CWM does it back up your stock Rom onto a SD card? I've read things on it but don't really understand...sorry still a noob...
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Thank you I got into the boot loader unlock, but haven't done it yet, I went back in to make sure I have everything backed up, and when installing CWM does it back up your stock Rom onto a SD card? I've read things on it but don't really understand...sorry still a noob...
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It appears you have a lot more reading to do before you start making these changes to your phone. If not careful you can turn it into a useless brick. I would suggest reading through as many development threads as you can to get more comfortable.
BTW, you won't be doing any of this from your Mac. Find a Windows or Linux computer to use.
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