I just bought a Rezound and it is continuously freezing and rebooting within 5 minutes of booting. It usually occurs when unlocking the screen. This occurred on the latest gingerbread release even after 2 factory resets and after upgrading with the leaked ICS ruu. I already did the boot loop fix by making sure WCDMA was not set for the network type. It even freezes with the back cover off and the sim card removed. Does anyone have any idea what it could be?
Call 611 and have it replaced. It's borked.
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Was phone full stock and not tapered? If so then yes defective.
Are you rooted? if so did you run the ics ruu and then go back to gingerbread?
because that would be your issues right there
The phone is 100% stock, it has never been rooted. All I did was upgrade with the leaked ICS ruu. My question is if I call into Verizon will they care that I upgraded with the leaked ruu and if so can I downgrade back to gb I know if I use the gb ruu it will say unable to downgrade to older version.
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The phone is 100% stock, it has never been rooted. All I did was upgrade with the leaked ICS ruu. My question is if I call into Verizon will they care that I upgraded with the leaked ruu and if so can I downgrade back to gb I know if I use the gb ruu it will say unable to downgrade to older version.
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Get Soff and then downgrade and relock. I returned 2 phones already like this without issue.
Sounds like someone installed iOS 5.0.1 when you weren't looking...
Cares said:
Get Soff and then downgrade and relock. I returned 2 phones already like this without issue.
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I would do this but the juopunutbear s-off technique requires the phone to be on for part of the process will I be able to do this with the high chance that my phone will freeze in the middle of the process?
FAndroidHTC said:
The phone is 100% stock, it has never been rooted. All I did was upgrade with the leaked ICS ruu.
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Classic...
FAndroidHTC said:
I would do this but the juopunutbear s-off technique requires the phone to be on for part of the process will I be able to do this with the high chance that my phone will freeze in the middle of the process?
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no, it doesnt need to be on for long
but you need to HTCDev unlock and root it
ive run the Controlbear program when the boot animation starts and before it could even finish it rebooted it to hboot
The HTCdev unlock only requires the bootloader which I can run all day without the phone freezing. If controlbear doesnt require much time with the phone on I will give it a shot and hope for the best.
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The HTCdev unlock only requires the bootloader which I can run all day without the phone freezing. If controlbear doesnt require much time with the phone on I will give it a shot and hope for the best.
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in all curiosity, if your going to root it anyway then why not give a custom rom a swing? a rooted stock-ish rom may be to your liking and it also may help you with your issues
just throwing it out there
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Yeah I know I jumped the gun without reading the warnings and now I am kicking myself but I was hoping this would be the fix I would need but I hard to learn the hard way.
superchilpil said:
in all curiosity, if your going to root it anyway then why not give a custom rom a swing? a rooted stock-ish rom may be to your liking and it also may help you with your issues
just throwing it out there
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I was thinking that and I am definitely gonna try it cuz I have nothing to lose.
the s off method only puts the phone into bootloader and recovery. You could probably start in fastboot and it should be able to read it.
I would probably try and get it replaced from verizon. My guess is the memory is faulty. Only explanation if you had the problem on GB and on the ICS RUU since the RUU replaces everything from radios, to rom to kernel.
You did run the ICS RUU twice? That is required to fully flash it.
Yes I did do it twice and the same problems occurred I will run the s off from fastboot and get back to stock and give Verizon a call
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Ok here goes. Since the ics leak came out i can only assume that the Official update cant be that far behind. i have been reading the S-off and the Ics leak threads for about an hour or so now. and i have come to the following understanding: if i dont s off before installing the leak ( or even installing the official that ia on its way) then there is a chance i could never get s off.
So these are my questions
1. What are the advantages of having s-off
2. Should i just Root and s-off as soon as the phone comes in order to be sure i will have s-off
Sorry if these questions are "noob questions" and thank you in advance
You could wait for the official update which won't require you to root your phone or have S-OFF. T-Mobile hasn't released a date on when the update will come, but I'm sure it'll be when the One S is released. After I just updated to the leaked version my phone is no longer rooted and my bootloader is locked again, but I still have S-OFF
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Ok here goes. Since the ics leak came out i can only assume that the Official update cant be that far behind. i have been reading the S-off and the Ics leak threads for about an hour or so now. and i have come to the following understanding: if i dont s off before installing the leak ( or even installing the official that ia on its way) then there is a chance i could never get s off.
So these are my questions
1. What are the advantages of having s-off
2. Should i just Root and s-off as soon as the phone comes in order to be sure i will have s-off
Sorry if these questions are "noob questions" and thank you in advance
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Well Having S-off allows you more control over your phone. you can flash radios, Eng/Mod Hboot images and have access to basically all partitions. if you upgrade to ICS before getting S-off you may only be able to have htc unlocked.
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Well Having S-off allows you more control over your phone. you can flash radios, Eng/Mod Hboot images and have access to basically all partitions. if you upgrade to ICS before getting S-off you may only be able to have htc unlocked.
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I wasn't even able to update to ICS until I had S-Off, idk if anyone else had any luck with it with S-On but I definitely didn't.
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I wasn't even able to update to ICS until I had S-Off, idk if anyone else had any luck with it with S-On but I definitely didn't.
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well if you are on Tmobile you dont need S-off for this ICS leak, you only need S-off if you are on another carrier and need to super cid
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well if you are on Tmobile you dont need S-off for this ICS leak, you only need S-off if you are on another carrier and need to super cid
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I think my problem was that I had a custom Rom installed like you stated somewhere else. So to anyone trying to update from a custom Rom you might have to have S-Off. Otherwise try reverting back to stock and updating it.
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You could wait for the official update which won't require you to root your phone or have S-OFF. T-Mobile hasn't released a date on when the update will come, but I'm sure it'll be when the One S is released. After I just updated to the leaked version my phone is no longer rooted and my bootloader is locked again, but I still have S-OFF
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Ok, I am new at this whole thing. I have a stock HTC Amaze 4G and LOVE this phone. I have downloaded the file to my SD card and have followed all of the instructions. HOWEVER, before I scroll up to UPDATE in HBOOT mode, or whatever it is called, I need to know if everything is working ok on the phone? I don't want to brick my $550 phone and it only be used as paper weight. Will this update void the exchange warranty on the device? Please advise. Thank you!
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Ok, I am new at this whole thing. I have a stock HTC Amaze 4G and LOVE this phone. I have downloaded the file to my SD card and have followed all of the instructions. HOWEVER, before I scroll up to UPDATE in HBOOT mode, or whatever it is called, I need to know if everything is working ok on the phone? I don't want to brick my $550 phone and it only be used as paper weight. Will this update void the exchange warranty on the device? Please advise. Thank you!
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I haven't extensively tested it yet. You can check over in the development section. There's a thread for issues and bugs. So far everything is working fine for me though
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I haven't extensively tested it yet. You can check over in the development section. There's a thread for issues and bugs. So far everything is working fine for me though
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Let me make sure I am clear here. If I reboot the phone, push down POWER and VOLUME down, it will go through the process then ask me if I want to update/upgrade. When I push the VOLUME UP button, it will update...yes...but did you experience any problems? IF something goes horribly wrong, am I able to revert back to the stock OS?
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Let me make sure I am clear here. If I reboot the phone, push down POWER and VOLUME down, it will go through the process then ask me if I want to update/upgrade. When I push the VOLUME UP button, it will update...yes...but did you experience any problems? IF something goes horribly wrong, am I able to revert back to the stock OS?
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Ideally that's what would happen. The only problem I experienced was that it just wouldn't update when I didn't have S-Off it would find the update start unpacking it, fail, then just boot to gingerbread. I also noticed after a failed attempt like that I'd have to recopy the ph85img.zip file to my sdcard, the old one seemed to have been corrupted. There's always a risk associated with flashing non-official roms and updates to your phone. If you don't want to void your warranty It's probably better that you wait for the official update.
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Ideally that's what would happen. The only problem I experienced was that it just wouldn't update when I didn't have S-Off it would find the update start unpacking it, fail, then just boot to gingerbread. I also noticed after a failed attempt like that I'd have to recopy the ph85img.zip file to my sdcard, the old one seemed to have been corrupted. There's always a risk associated with flashing non-official roms and updates to your phone. If you don't want to void your warranty It's probably better that you wait for the official update.
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I think you are right! I have read reports the update should hit when the new One S goes on sale, WHICH is tomorrow. So, hopefully T-Mobile will push out the OTA tomorrow or this week. Thank you for your advice on this.
According to TMONEWS.com the amaze is scheduled for 6/16.
The Official Tmobile ICS update for the Amaze is finally out (May 21st). My question is very similar the OP. My phone has never been rooted, it has S-on and I finally received the notification for ICS update. My question is can I still get S-off after I do the OTA ICS update? OR should I get S-off first then upgrade to ICS?
Rasco702 yes you can still S-Off your device. There are 2 methods of the Juopunutbear S-Off Method. One for Gingerbread and one for ICS. Even if you wanted to soff while in gingerbread you can flash the RUU for ICS.
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So like most users, I was very excited to hear about the ICS leak by Football since I've been waiting MONTHS for some sort of development on that.
Getting impatient on waiting for CM9 and Evervolv builds for the Amaze, I really wanted to try this new leak for T-Mobile. So I figured that in order to do that, I must get S-Off.
It seemed like a tedious process so I've been holding it off for a while. Now that I've got a copper wire and everything, I wanted to do the deed once and for all.
So I accidentally flashed a stock rom (which I thought was a good thing since the instructions said I needed a stock rom), but I seem to have lost root access. Superuser runs, but battery calibration says I need to have root first and Titanium Backup doesn't work. However, my phone still says unlocked and I can still run ClockworkMod Recovery. The S-Off program tells me that there's an error. Is there anyone that can help?
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So like most users, I was very excited to hear about the ICS leak by Football since I've been waiting MONTHS for some sort of development on that.
Getting impatient on waiting for CM9 and Evervolv builds for the Amaze, I really wanted to try this new leak for T-Mobile. So I figured that in order to do that, I must get S-Off.
It seemed like a tedious process so I've been holding it off for a while. Now that I've got a copper wire and everything, I wanted to do the deed once and for all.
So I accidentally flashed a stock rom (which I thought was a good thing since the instructions said I needed a stock rom), but I seem to have lost root access. Superuser runs, but battery calibration says I need to have root first and Titanium Backup doesn't work. However, my phone still says unlocked and I can still run ClockworkMod Recovery. The S-Off program tells me that there's an error. Is there anyone that can help?
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Well you are on T-mobile so you have two choices here. you can S-off if you want to have total freedom or you can revert your phone to stock and relock your bootloader and flash it and then re-unlock again. but remember flashign this without s-off may prevent you from getting s-off later on.
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Well you are on T-mobile so you have to choices here. you can S-off if you want to have total freedom or you can revert your phone to stock and relock your bootloader and flash it and then reunlock again.
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Well, I can't flash the PH85IMG without S-Off, right? Because on the HBoot screen, it would load the file but i wouldn't be asked if I wanted to install it. So I had no idea what to do. I thought I had to have S-Off to install it. Does this really mean I've lost root even though my phone says unlocked and I can run Clockworkmod?
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Well, I can't flash the PH85IMG without S-Off, right? Because on the HBoot screen, it would load the file but i wouldn't be asked if I wanted to install it. So I had no idea what to do. I thought I had to have S-Off to install it. Does this really mean I've lost root even though my phone says unlocked and I can run Clockworkmod?
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you can if you lock your boot loader and revert the phone to stock.
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you can if you lock your boot loader and revert the phone to stock.
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Well, how do i revert it to stock and reroot it exactly?
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Well, how do i revert it to stock and reroot it exactly?
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i think you can use this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1493905
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Well, how do i revert it to stock and reroot it exactly?
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Pretty sure you just use fastboot to lock, open a command prompt with your phone attached in debugging mode, type in fastboot oem lock, then install the stock rom listed in the development section. (If I am wrong on this, someone please feel free to correct me.)
Long Story short:
BlueTooth was not working on stock GB. Flashed an ICS Rom, still doesn't work. Flashed GB Ruu, took the OTA ICS update. Bluetooth still doesn't work. Took phone into Verizon and now they are mailing a replacement phone so I can send this one in for repair. Problem being, I need to revert my phone back to LOCKED without the Relocked/Security warning.
Sooooo, if I can S-Off the OTA ICS, I understand what steps to take.
Anyone know if the current version of ControlBear .5 will work for the OTA? Or can I just unlock and flash a ICS ROM that can be S-Off'd?
Thanks, and yes, I know if I had patience or the knowledge yesterday that I have today, all of this could have been avoided.
Thanks!
Mark
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Long Story short:
BlueTooth was not working on stock GB. Flashed an ICS Rom, still doesn't work. Flashed GB Ruu, took the OTA ICS update. Bluetooth still doesn't work. Took phone into Verizon and now they are mailing a replacement phone so I can send this one in for repair. Problem being, I need to revert my phone back to LOCKED without the Relocked/Security warning.
Sooooo, if I can S-Off the OTA ICS, I understand what steps to take.
Anyone know if the current version of ControlBear .5 will work for the OTA? Or can I just unlock and flash a ICS ROM that can be S-Off'd?
Thanks, and yes, I know if I had patience or the knowledge yesterday that I have today, all of this could have been avoided.
Thanks!
Mark
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Use the "WINDOWS (3.14.605.5 ICS Leak)" listing on unlimited.io. It should work. The firmware has not changed in all the releases newer than that one. I've not tried S-off on the x.12 OTA, but I did so successfully on x.10.
And of course make sure you have root on the ROM you're using and USB debugging enabled.
Court Jester said:
Long Story short:
BlueTooth was not working on stock GB. Flashed an ICS Rom, still doesn't work. Flashed GB Ruu, took the OTA ICS update. Bluetooth still doesn't work. Took phone into Verizon and now they are mailing a replacement phone so I can send this one in for repair. Problem being, I need to revert my phone back to LOCKED without the Relocked/Security warning.
Sooooo, if I can S-Off the OTA ICS, I understand what steps to take.
Anyone know if the current version of ControlBear .5 will work for the OTA? Or can I just unlock and flash a ICS ROM that can be S-Off'd?
Thanks, and yes, I know if I had patience or the knowledge yesterday that I have today, all of this could have been avoided.
Thanks!
Mark
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To be honest...I would just send it back unlocked. Have we heard of anyone having issues with returning unlocked phones?
Good luck
I really wish I could get s-off to work. I've rooted many Thunderbolts. No issue with HTC unlock. I'll be damned if I can get my phone to work with the s-off exploit. I've spent many hours on each of my attempts. Gave up trying. Too frustrating.
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I really wish I could get s-off to work. I've rooted many Thunderbolts. No issue with HTC unlock. I'll be damned if I can get my phone to work with the s-off exploit. I've spent many hours on each of my attempts. Gave up trying. Too frustrating.
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Make sure you're using the right kind of wire (not a paperclip - mine wouldn't work with this either, until I used a speaker wire from my home theatre - worked the first try), and get the timing right.
So Sprint finally said there was a system update to ICS so I downloaded it and installed and it instantly popped up an error, didn't have any words it was just a picture of the guy with the warning sign. So I waited and it never did anything. I figured I would clear everything/factory reset and see if that fixed it. Nope. Even moreso, it wouldn't let me install any other ROM either. I did enough superwipes and stuff that I finally got the stock ROM to work so I'm back where I started.. One clue might be that I cannot seem to clear the sd-ext, it gives me an error there.
With it back in working order, if I don't clear anything and just try and install ICS from bootloader, what I show in the pic is what happens.
The last part about the E:error in sd card is what I was getting when all the other ROM's were screwing up.
Maybe bad sdcard
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I don't see how when it works fine now. It's like something is messing with it but I have no clue what.
Re-lock your device and apply the update again.
Just do a fastboot command "fastboot oem lock".
Ugh, you cannot take an OTA if you are rooted with a custom recovery.
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Ugh, you cannot take an OTA if you are rooted with a custom recovery.
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I had Revolutionary with CWM installed on mine w/ Gingerbread. Installed via EXE method and everything works.....
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I had Revolutionary with CWM installed on mine w/ Gingerbread. Installed via EXE method and everything works.....
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Right, that is not an OTA.
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wow! are you F***ing serious? OH I'M ROOTING AND I'M GOING TO TAKE AN OTA? SERIOUSLY!? lmao! Other than that, I'm not going to say anything more. lol. I WISH I WAS ROOTED AND HAD 1.4 INSTALLED WHEN I GOT MY PHONE! but no! it came with 1.5 and it took a year to figure out how to downgrade. lol. oh well. now they've figured everything out. can s-off with being on 1.5. love everyone on here. Anyway, DO NOT TAKE AN OTA!
I am not the greatest with these things. You are saying I need to unroot my phone for this to work? And I need to somehow get rid of the revolutionary recovery thing? I don't know what OTA means but I can see it's part of the file name. Is there a non-OTA version of it that I can use? For some reason a lot of ROM's don't work. I have hboot 1.5 with s-on and cynogenmod and a lot of ICS ROM's just hang on the HTC screen.
You are saying I need to unroot my phone for this to work? And I need to somehow get rid of the revolutionary recovery thing?
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You don't need to unroot, but you need to lock your bootloader and get the stock recovery back to take the OTA. The easiest way to upgrade to ICS without doing all that is to flash the new firmware, then flash a stock rooted rom if you want to stay on the stock rom.
I don't know what OTA means but I can see it's part of the file name.
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Over The Air, i.e. the update that Sprint sends out.
Is there a non-OTA version of it that I can use?
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Upgrade firmware through bootloader, then flash a stock rooted rom or a custom rom based on ICS. If you want to use the new kernel, you will have to upgrade hboot as well, or you can keep your current hboot and use the VM leak kernel.
For some reason a lot of ROM's don't work.
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Could be a number of reasons, you need the new firmware to run an ICS rom, and you need the new hboot if those roms use the new kernel.
I have hboot 1.5 with s-on and cynogenmod and a lot of ICS ROM's just hang on the HTC screen.
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You can't flash kernels with s-on, so you will need to get s-off before you want to use an ICS rom.
I just got a replacement rezound because my other one had a million problems. The new one seemed to work perfectly so I unlocked the bootloader and installed a cm11. Everything seemed to work great until I realised that I couldn't make phone calls. Whenever I would call or someone would call me the call would instantly end. I figured it was a problem with cm11 so installed another rom and had the same problem. Then I installed a sense rom and still no calls. I have tried those Ruus and it just says that it can't update my phone. I even tried the ota stock rooted rom and that didn't even flash because it was corrupted. I just need to get back to stock so I can return this stupid thing.
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I just got a replacement rezound because my other one had a million problems. The new one seemed to work perfectly so I unlocked the bootloader and installed a cm11. Everything seemed to work great until I realised that I couldn't make phone calls. Whenever I would call or someone would call me the call would instantly end. I figured it was a problem with cm11 so installed another rom and had the same problem. Then I installed a sense rom and still no calls. I have tried those Ruus and it just says that it can't update my phone. I even tried the ota stock rooted rom and that didn't even flash because it was corrupted. I just need to get back to stock so I can return this stupid thing.
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1.) are you s-off? 2.) The ruu's and most ota's will only work while s-off and a relocked bootloader 3.) are you a sim card user or verizon?
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1.) are you s-off? 2.) The ruu's and most ota's will only work while s-off and a relocked bootloader 3.) are you a sim card user or verizon?
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So I have to go through the pain in the ass to get s-off? Damn. And yeah I'm on Verizon. Don't I have to have linux to get s-off?
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So I have to go through the pain in the ass to get s-off? Damn. And yeah I'm on Verizon. Don't I have to have linux to get s-off?
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its actually not a pain at all...i can do it in 5 minutes...just follow my 2 guides and you will be all set bud....you can run linux from a live cd...no need to install on pc....i recommend the 32 bit to make it even easier on you
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its actually not a pain at all...i can do it in 5 minutes...just follow my 2 guides and you will be all set bud....you can run linux from a live cd...no need to install on pc....i recommend the 32 bit to make it even easier on you
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Which guides would those be exactly? I can run linux from a usb drive no problem but I don't know where to look for the most current wire trick for s-off
They are right here in the q&a section....one is an s-off guide which is required for downgrading to stock and the other is a downgrade/upgrade guide...once on stock ROM and recovery there is another method for gaining son back so you'll have straight from factory stock....but if you plan on keeping and using the phone I suggest keeping s-off....when I get a few minutes and access to PC I'll dig up links unless you find them...they both are on first page of q&a section
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