I recently Upgraded got the HTC Evo 3D so i decided i was going to root the Phone. I notice going to Revolutionary the Hboot I have its not selected I have 1.50 I think I have updated software like a dummy through sprint OTA I seen their was and RUU file to downgrade back to 1.40 is it safe to do so.
Go here: LINK
Downgrade your HBoot and get back to 1.40.
Why don't you just root without downgrading?
iTzLOLtrain said:
Why don't you just root without downgrading?
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he is right....yuoi can root in hboot 1.5....you only need to go to hboot 1.4 if you want to obtain S-off rights.....
iTzLOLtrain said:
Why don't you just root without downgrading?
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After a while of having to use the flash image gui app, it gets pretty annoying not being able to use Nandroid backups. That is why i am trying to downgrade myself.
Makes sense. Then check out the link vdubtx posted.
I would like to have S-Off instead of s-On
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he is right....yuoi can root in hboot 1.5....you only need to go to hboot 1.4 if you want to obtain S-off rights.....
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You can root, but you also forfeit your warranty to HTC by doing HTC Unlock, that code that you use to unlock it, gives them your device info, including serial number and when you bring it to sprint for repair, they can just look it up and see that you've rooted and voided your warranty.
Any files will work what is the latest 1
none of the RUU working do I have to format my SD card and I am trying to downgrade back to 1.40 which RUU file is i am clueless please help thanks I want S-off
I notice i have 2.17.651.5 already I seen that in the file which RUU file I need to downgrade to HBoot 1.40 please _2.08.651.2 i rem seeing that before my phone got that OTA by mistake.
I was having a problem with my screen being unresponsive so i needed to take it into a sprint store. i ran a signed 2.17 exe and now I have hboot 1.5 but still have s-off. in the bootloader screen it says locked but still shows s-off. i am confused as to what to do next. i assume i need to unlock but didn't know if i could do this via revolutionary. I tried to do a search but everything i found was related to s-on. I am trying to restore my phone to its rooted state since I have already had the repairs made. Any help and links would be greatly appreciated.
Brandon
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brandonb8 said:
I was having a problem with my screen being unresponsive so i needed to take it into a sprint store. i ran a signed 2.17 exe and now I have hboot 1.5 but still have s-off. in the bootloader screen it says locked but still shows s-off. i am confused as to what to do next. i assume i need to unlock but didn't know if i could do this via revolutionary. I tried to do a search but everything i found was related to s-on. Any help and links would be greatly appreciated.
Brandon
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fastboot oem writesecureflag3 or fastboot oem writesecureflag 3 , one of those will turn s-on
Edit... This might help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578977
Thanks for the quick response. Sorry I was not more clear about what I am wanting to do. I am keeping the phone and the repairs have been made. I now have hboot 1.50 with s-off. I am wanting to flash a custom rom again and need to install a recovery. I didn't know what the process is currently for "unlocking" my phone now. When I rooted the phone originally, i was on hboot 1.4 and used revolutionary. I just do not know what to do to get my phone rooted again. I understand I have part of it with s-off still being on my phone, but the "locked" text at the top of the bootloader screen tells me I need to rectify this before I can flash a recovery. Is this correct?
Thanks.
Brandon
brandonb8 said:
Thanks for the quick response. Sorry I was not more clear about what I am wanting to do. I am keeping the phone and the repairs have been made. I now have hboot 1.50 with s-off. I am wanting to flash a custom rom again and need to install a recovery. I didn't know what the process is currently for "unlocking" my phone now. When I rooted the phone originally, i was on hboot 1.4 and used revolutionary. I just do not know what to do to get my phone rooted again. I understand I have part of it with s-off still being on my phone, but the "locked" text at the top of the bootloader screen tells me I need to rectify this before I can flash a recovery. Is this correct?
Thanks.
Brandon
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Oh I see, well, your s-off and that locked banner means nothing because s-off should override it. Just flash a PG86IMG.zip of a recovery of your choice and you're good to go. Or you can flash it via fastboot by typing fastboot flash recovery "yourrecovery.img" once you do that, flash a rooted Rom. You could flash a lower hboot with a PG86IMG.zip if you want but its not really necessary.
If you want, I could dig up hboot 1.4 or revs hboot for ya. I think I have em in dropbox.
I got it. Thanks for all the help.
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read this: the purpose of this post is to let folks know that if you htcdev unlock with s-off,your device will go back to reading unlocked until you relock it,at wich time it will read relocked,just like before you s-offed.
what does this mean?! if you dont care about getting back to a locked state for warranty purposes,then it doesnt mean anything. if one of the big reasons that you s-offed in the first place was to get back to locked,then,as the title says,dont unlock with htcdev after s-off. you can install recoveries and hboots via hboot in a PH98IMG files,or you can install available patched hboots to enable engineering commands.
i hope this helps clarify it for those who were confused by the title. my intention was not to cause panic,simply to educate folks in what id found,as i know the subject of locked/relocked is very important to some.
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ok,i have been posting in several threads that the unlocking after s-off is no big deal. i still maintain that.
however...
on my other s-off,htcdev devices,reflashing the hboot/running an RUU makes the device locked again. after more discussion with con,i decided i better test if i was gonna keep saying it.
i stand corrected!
i started by flashing back the 2.11.000 hboot and unlocking it. i flashed it again. still unlocked.. hmmm. so i flashed jp patched hboot,now juopunutbear flashed 2.11 back. still unlocked. hmmm.
so i relocked. reflashed 2.11. still relocked. uh oh. flashed the eng hboot. now relocked eng 2.11.20005,lol... relocked engineering hboot. flashed the 2.05.0000 ship hboot. still relocked.
at this point i ran the entire RUU for 2.01.605.11. still relocked
i plan to try flashing the leak ruu,then 2.01.605.11 again,but for now,im tired. 6am comes very shortly.
i should have known this phone would somehow be different
moral of the story is that if you are one of the folks whom care about your hboot saying locked,dont unlock it
sorry for any misconceptions based on my experiences with other devices
scotty1223 said:
ok,i have been seen posting in several threads that the unlocking after s-off is no big deal. i still maintain that.
however...
on my other s-off,htcdev devices,reflashing the hboot/running an RUU makes the device locked again. after more discussion with con,i decided i better test if i was gonna keep saying it.
i stand corrected!
i started by flashing back the 2.11.000 hboot and unlocking it. i flashed it again. still unlocked.. hmmm. so i flashed jp patched hboot,now juopunutbear flashed 2.11 back. still unlocked. hmmm.
so i relocked. reflashed 2.11. still relocked. uh oh. flashed the eng hboot. now unlocked eng 2.11.20005,lol... unlocked engineering hboot. flashed the 2.05.0000 ship hboot. still relocked.
at this point i ran the entire RUU for 2.01.605.11. still relocked
i plan to try flashing the leak ruu,then 2.01.605.11 again,but for now,im tired. 6am comes very shortly.
i should have known this phone would somehow be different
moral of the story is that if you are one of the folks whom care about your hboot saying locked,dont unlock it
sorry for any misconceptions based on my experiences with other devices
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I am betting you can s-on the phone then re s-off and have it say locked. Or someone could edit an hboot to just say locked.
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nosympathy said:
I am betting you can s-on the phone then re s-off and have it say locked. Or someone could edit an hboot to just say locked.
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im sure it can be edited,im sure thats how we became locked again after s-off. and yeah im certain re-s-off-ing would do it too
i dont personally care,my device has no mfg warranty and its kinda neat to me that it appears to stay unlocked thru up/downgrades,and if i want to run the eng or patched hboots,i still can.
i just wanted to prevent others who do care from becoming entrapped back in the situation because of other advice i may have given. should have tested first,spoke later
When I did my S-OFF I was on 2.11 hboot and the ICS firmware. I flashed the juonoptioeefianwefo hboot and then the ENG hboot and old firmware patch. My end result was it saying "locked" in hboot.
I was rather pissed off since I the reason I flashed the ENG hboot was so that it would say "unlocked" instead of juonoptionaofewhf.
My warranty is voided several times over in other ways* so it doesn't matter much to me and after the huge amount of time getting the darn wire trick to work I was rather proud to have my phone say S-OFF and "unlocked".
*apparently living in a high humidity area is enough to trigger the wetness seals.
jefffeely said:
When I did my S-OFF I was on 2.11 hboot and the ICS firmware. I flashed the juonoptioeefianwefo hboot and then the ENG hboot and old firmware patch. My end result was it saying "locked" in hboot.
I was rather pissed off since I the reason I flashed the ENG hboot was so that it would say "unlocked" instead of juonoptionaofewhf.
My warranty is voided several times over in other ways* so it doesn't matter much to me and after the huge amount of time getting the darn wire trick to work I was rather proud to have my phone say S-OFF and "unlocked".
*apparently living in a high humidity area is enough to trigger the wetness seals.
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Yeah high humidity trips em lol. I had an iPhone 3G back in the day trip both the headphone Jack and charging port water markers on a 70% humidity day.
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The number of things that can happen to invalidate your warranty really is annoying. My cousin has a completely stock Inspire that is stuck on hboot but AT&T won't touch it because it has a small ding in the case from when she dropped it.
After S-OFF (GB stock, amon ra, rooted system), I erroneously thought I needed to unlock. Then I locked the bootloader for any future OTA update and it showed Relocked.
I reinstalled the ENG hboot, but it still shows Relocked.
I asked in the sbear chat room, and the answer was
there is no simple way to get the ENG hboot to change from displaying Relocked to display just plain Locked.
But...It is just cosmetic and doesn't really matter.
Howard
No offense to OP, but can you change the title of this thread? It scared me.
I ran the S-OFF method yesterday in 7 minutes with no issues. I was on the new firmware and BAMF 2.1. I chose to keep the 2.21 HBOOT. I had to unlock via HTC in order to flash recovery after performing the S-OFF method. Some folks are saying that you to do not need to unlock once you have S-OFF. All I can say is that I could not flash recovery without unlocking the phone.
I don't know what any of this means...
I just think this makes it more confusing for people..
Mine said 'Locked' after S-Off so I just unlocked it and everything seemed better..
Irieone said:
No offense to OP, but can you change the title of this thread? It scared me.
I ran the S-OFF method yesterday in 7 minutes with no issues. I was on the new firmware and BAMF 2.1. I chose to keep the 2.21 HBOOT. I had to unlock via HTC in order to flash recovery after performing the S-OFF method. Some folks are saying that you to do not need to unlock once you have S-OFF. All I can say is that I could not flash recovery without unlocking the phone.
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That is because you kept the stock hboot which doesn't allow for fastboot commands without being unlocked. By choosing one of Jp's hboot's or the eng hboot you could have installed recovery without unlocking. I did the same thing. So I went back to s-on and redid the s-off procedure and installed jb's hboot. Now I am s-off and locked again. Whew!
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Irieone said:
No offense to OP, but can you change the title of this thread? It scared me.
I ran the S-OFF method yesterday in 7 minutes with no issues. I was on the new firmware and BAMF 2.1. I chose to keep the 2.21 HBOOT. I had to unlock via HTC in order to flash recovery after performing the S-OFF method. Some folks are saying that you to do not need to unlock once you have S-OFF. All I can say is that I could not flash recovery without unlocking the phone.
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I second this. I had to unlock before I could flash recovery. I don't care that my phone says unlocked, just wanted to point out that for one reason or another some have had to unlock again.
Good usage of Smileys.
I agree with scotty, my hboot says locked and I have s-off so far I have flashed everything except for ruu's. Even recoveries worked.
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I was on the latest firmware and RezROM ICS. Performed S-OFF and never seen an option to install JB-Hboot so I didnt. At that time mine said UNLOCKED/TAMPERED.
Then after a couple of days of reading and trying to decide what to do next I decided to RUU down to the latest official and as soon as that was finished I went back to boot loader and it said LOCKED / S-OFF. I flashed the ENG Hboot with no issues and Now it says LOCKED / VIGOR PVT ENG S-OFF RL.
I also made a backup of RezROM before all this. Restored my backup, flashed the firmware patch, flashed PH that came with RezROM and rebooted and have had no issues at all.
I am not in a 4G area so I might actually have the issue others were having with 4G dropping out. Will have to wait and see.
zone23 said:
I don't know what any of this means...
I just think this makes it more confusing for people..
Mine said 'Locked' after S-Off so I just unlocked it and everything seemed better..
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Ditto
I was/am on the stock GB firmware, completed S-OFF, phone said locked (still on stock GB HBOOT), I unlocked it ... no problems since.
HowardZ said:
After S-OFF (GB stock, amon ra, rooted system), I erroneously thought I needed to unlock. Then I locked the bootloader for any future OTA update and it showed Relocked.
I reinstalled the ENG hboot, but it still shows Relocked.
I asked in the sbear chat room, and the answer was
there is no simple way to get the ENG hboot to change from displaying Relocked to display just plain Locked.
But...It is just cosmetic and doesn't really matter.
Howard
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I saw you sign on. Did they ever answer my question about running the tool multiple times?
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Irieone said:
No offense to OP, but can you change the title of this thread? It scared me.
I ran the S-OFF method yesterday in 7 minutes with no issues. I was on the new firmware and BAMF 2.1. I chose to keep the 2.21 HBOOT. I had to unlock via HTC in order to flash recovery after performing the S-OFF method. Some folks are saying that you to do not need to unlock once you have S-OFF. All I can say is that I could not flash recovery without unlocking the phone.
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No,I won't change the title. To some folks its important to stay locked. I will try and clarify the op later today.
You don't need to unlock to install a recovery. It's easily permanently flashed via a PH98IMG,or fastboot booted via the jpbear patched hboots.
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I was on the latest firmware and RezROM ICS. Performed S-OFF and never seen an option to install JB-Hboot so I didnt. At that time mine said UNLOCKED/TAMPERED.
Then after a couple of days of reading and trying to decide what to do next I decided to RUU down to the latest official and as soon as that was finished I went back to boot loader and it said LOCKED / S-OFF. I flashed the ENG Hboot with no issues and Now it says LOCKED / VIGOR PVT ENG S-OFF RL.
I also made a backup of RezROM before all this. Restored my backup, flashed the firmware patch, flashed PH that came with RezROM and rebooted and have had no issues at all.
I am not in a 4G area so I might actually have the issue others were having with 4G dropping out. Will have to wait and see.
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I'm in the same situation. There's a thread here on how to fix it but I guarantee your 4G is whacked. I flashed back to a GB stock ROM then flashed an ICS ROM. Seemed to work okay when in my 3G only area but I visited a 4G area yesterday and it was just messed up. I flashed the latest GB RUU and did a reset from the stock hboot, flashed JuopunutBear hboot for GB, then AmonRa 3.15 and CleanROM DE. I'm going back to a 4G area tomorrow so if it doesn't work I'll post in that thread. Could just be me but everything about the phone seems better/cooler/faster after the RUU.
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I agree with scotty, my hboot says locked and I have s-off so far I have flashed everything except for ruu's. Even recoveries worked.
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I've flashed JuopunutBear hboot (GB and ICS), eng hboot, stock hboot, AmonRa, a nandroid, and a few roms after locked/s-off and have had no problem. Just flash eng or juopunutbear hboot before flashing recovery and you're good to go.
Edit: I was on the appropriate firmware when flashing the GB and ICS hboots.
Recovery can still be flashed as a PH file on the regular HBOOT.
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HTC having last laugh?
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Hello everyone
Sorry for a newb question, but, how can I unroot so that I can take all the OTA updates and get the official ICS update from Sprint/HTC. I dont care about losing root as I will be replacing the phone come October. I just want it back to stock and running on stable factory ICS.
I currently am Revolutionary HBOOT-1.40.110 / S-OFF / RADIO 1.06.00.1216.
Thanks!
Well you can first do a search, as this has been answered probably at least a hundred times on here. After you do that, you would realize you need to run a stock RUU to relock the bootloader.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194053
you just have to find the zip file but follow those steps did it a while back
Is there an unroot method for hboot 1.5 with s-off? I used Juopunutbear to get s-off.
I relocked the bootloader then ran the stock RUU and that did the trick
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Thanks guys. I ran the RUU, then did all the OTA updates. Im now on official stock ICS, bootloader 1.58, relocked, and still S-OFF
is it possible to unroot but keep s-off? i want to sell my phone but i would prefer it to be kinda pseudo-unrooted so i can easily revert back to s-off. I should probably just completely unroot though.
Is possible to reunlock the 1.58 hboot after we take the OTA using HTC dev method?
Hey all,
so I've been running ARHD on firmware 127.538.8 for awhile. I saw the RUU come out for 4.3 on Tmob, so obviously I was all like, **** yeah! So I flashed a stock ROM (based on 127.538.11) and then tried to run the RUU. Unlocked, S-OFF. For some reason, the RUU flashed Hboot (I'm currently stuck at 1.55.00) and then decided to throw an error 155 at me. So I tried relocking the bootloader, with a command I found browsing the forums that sets the status to Locked. Flashing the RUU here didn't work either. Re-unlocked the bootloader (I have no user data at all... it's sad). I realized, okay, I'm Unlocked and have a custom recovery installed (TWRP). Even if I relock, the RUU doesn't flash. My idea right now is to flash the 127.538.11 RUU to get Hboot 1.44, as well as a working non-hacked firmware. I'm not sure if that RUU will work, though I'm hoping it does. If it does, then I can OTA update without a problem.
Do any of you have any ideas as to how to do this? I can RUU to 127.538.11, then downgrade to x.8 and use revone to lock my bootloader and attempt an OTA. I'm not sure what to do here... I can also reflash ARHD 30 and stick with that for awhile. I can do basically anything recommended, as I have S-OFF and TWRP.
Thanks!
I don't mind being stuck on stock, however I do want to be able to warranty my phone in the future -- will having hboot 1.55.00 with 127.538.8 firmware be a problem? Can I downgrade my hboot since I'm S-Off? Any help here would be absolutely wonderful...