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Downgrade?

Is anyone working on a downgrade from 2.1 leak to stock 1.5? Just wondering.

is anyone using the search function on this site? Just wondering.
Answer: They are looking.

I found it last week, even posted a how to on here. So far only one person has reported it works, no one has reported that it doesnt.
Step one
Reboot your phone holding down the trackball, power button, call button, volume up and down at the same time.
Step two
place know on a hard surface
Step three
Using a large rock, smash phone.
Step four
go to
http://ebay.com
Step five
Buy new phone running 1.5

jcase said:
I found it last week, even posted a how to on here. So far only one person has reported it works, no one has reported that it doesnt.
Step one
Reboot your phone holding down the trackball, power button, call button, volume up and down at the same time.
Step two
place know on a hard surface
Step three
Using a large rock, smash phone.
Step four
go to
http://ebay.com
Step five
Buy new phone running 1.5
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Downgrade Successful

I just "lost" my phone today. My downgrade will be here in a couple days.

Sub-Standard said:
I just "lost" my phone today. My downgrade will be here in a couple days.
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my downgrade will be here tomorrow
btw good tutorial jcase

jcase said:
I found it last week, even posted a how to on here. So far only one person has reported it works, no one has reported that it doesnt.
Step one
Reboot your phone holding down the trackball, power button, call button, volume up and down at the same time.
Step two
place know on a hard surface
Step three
Using a large rock, smash phone.
Step four
go to
http://ebay.com
Step five
Buy new phone running 1.5
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Jcase I think you have the clearest downgrade instructions on XDA!

most likely the developers downgraded and gave up on posting a how to: when this stuff happens it happens fast i find it hard to believe the downgrading wasn't already figured out. no offense to the developers..
lol oh and jcase telling us to smash our phones basically is him saying hahaaa you all are screwed have fun being stuck on that smelly ass leak

hks18psigst said:
most likely the developers downgraded and gave up on posting a how to: when this stuff happens it happens fast i find it hard to believe the downgrading wasn't already figured out. no offense to the developers..
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Actually htc has made it almost, if not, impossible to downgrade. We have tried everything we could think of
lol oh and jcase telling us to smash our phones basically is him saying hahaaa you all are screwed have fun being stuck on that smelly ass leak
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thats about the most working downgrade as of now

jamezelle said:
Actually htc has made it almost, if not, impossible to downgrade. We have tried everything we could think of
thats about the most working downgrade as of now
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Yeah almost impossible that's what they said about Eris getting rooted... lol

hks18psigst,
We work on downgrading daily, well at least one dev does. You know we also have families, kids, jobs, school, other stuff etc.
I have 2.1 leak and root, I want a downgrade as well.
However I invite you to join us, in finding a downgrade. I am positive you will be jsut as sucessful as we have been so far.
-jcase

jcase said:
hks18psigst,
We work on downgrading daily, well at least one dev does. You know we also have families, kids, jobs, school, other stuff etc.
I have 2.1 leak and root, I want a downgrade as well.
However I invite you to join us, in finding a downgrade. I am positive you will be jsut as sucessful as we have been so far.
-jcase
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I know you all have families jobs lives.. by all means I'm not rushing you guys. Just getting a little depressed seeing go smash your phone posts.
And if my girlfriend didn't have the Eris as a daily user I would 100% be trying whatever it takes to root but its the only Verizon phone we have at the moment.. ever since my g1's I've been a flashaholic..

hks18psigst,
Please come join us in our work, we are on irc.wastate.net #root working on the downgrade.
As far as I am concerned, the only ones who get to complain are those who are working on it.
-jcase

jcase said:
hks18psigst,
Please come join us in our work, we are on irc.wastate.net #root working on the downgrade.
As far as I am concerned, the only ones who get to complain are those who are working on it.
-jcase
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Would love to help but girlfriend won't let me use her device for testing.. and I'm not complaining about the downgrade status cause its my fault I jumped the gun and updated to a leak.. but complaining about how I was scared in regards to your downgrade how to.. but now that I know that it was a joke I'm a lot better. .. and if I can help with out a device I'll be more then happy to

just a question.
i havent dont any developing, just know java so far. just need to ask where do i begin. DO i need specific programs or is there something i can use. Just let me know, thanks!
i also am on the leak so will do what i can when i can to maybe get a downgrade.

Austinjs0102 said:
just a question.
i havent dont any developing, just know java so far. just need to ask where do i begin. DO i need specific programs or is there something i can use. Just let me know, thanks!
i also am on the leak so will do what i can when i can to maybe get a downgrade.
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To start you should go and get the android SDK. I'm sure you could google those terms and it would lead you somewhere in the right direction. The SDK website has plenty of info, including install install instructions and programs that would help you begin developing

jcase!! this legit? http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-droid-eris/7944-downgrade-1-5-official-verizon-rom.html

hks18psigst said:
jcase!! this legit? http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-droid-eris/7944-downgrade-1-5-official-verizon-rom.html
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That won't work. That person just assumed that would work because of the 1.5 build downgrades.

My downgrade will be here tomorrow

ampinc-
ampinc - can I ask, do you have insurance or are you able to get this as part of the 1 year warranty that comes on all these phones?

Google Wave - Droid Eris - OTA & Leak 1.49 hboot Root Discussion

Hi All,
I have been watching 4-5 Different threads on Here and I have finally gotten tired of random banter and endless reading of repeated non-working or just non-technical responses. So I made a google Wave to try to consolidate our efforts and finally root this thing The wave will focus on overcoming the 1.49 Hboot with S-On and not specifically leak or OTA. If we don't get this solved its going to eventually kill our dev community
I make a personal promise that I will comb through the Wave document every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and merge all useful information into the main post and purge all non essential information so it remains consolidated and on point.
It will include:
General Root Tools:
Known Root Methods & If they have been tested on the Eris:
And More stuff I haven't figured out yet:
I will try to gather as much info as I can find about these things but please go post what you know on the wave to help out
Here is a link to the Public [Droid Eris - OTA & Leak 1.49 hboot Root Discussion] Wave:
https://wave.google.com/wave/invite...3138d&wsig=ABk8uhQbSaBHvVNCEDJwkF95o5d39W_HyA
P.S. I am just try to help get a root going so it would be cool if no one flamed me

Good effort man. I'd like to see this happen before I get a new phone.

strong words..but with no end result really, besides creating an outside place to go for more confusion and so on, instead of actually keeping it at "home base".
Going forward and to be quite honest imo..rooting the leak or working on the known exploits or even going forward the h-boot and not reaching an end result, will not "kill the community". Yea it may in fact dwindle to a certain extent, but certainly not "kill it", as u mentioned.
Now with applying what you have created, the only thing i see happening is the cease and desist of the "random banter" here, and moved there.
If i may, a suggestion i have thrown out there numerous times, is actually hitting up the mods and seeing if a subforum with all threads related be created and moved there, yet still being on xda, and still not needing an external link.

Everyphone got the root acept the eri
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s 1.49Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App

Do you make a personal promise to keep the google wave up to date with the currents edits that are made? LOL
Straight from the google wave said:
Hi All,
I have been watching 4-5 Different threads on XDA and I have finally gotten tired of random banter and endless reading of repeated non-working or just non-technical responses. So I made this wave to try to consolidate our efforts and finally root this thing This thread will focus on overcoming the 1.49 Hboot with S-On and not leak or OTA.
I make a personal promis a personal promise that I will comb through this document every, and Friday and merge all useful information into this main post and purge all non essential information so this remains consolidated and on point. This main thread.
I think to get started we should re-list all known root methods and which ones was have proven not to work on the Eris.
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Just pokin at ya but doesnt look great when even the google wave isnt up with the edits.

paris10 said:
Everyphone got the root acept the eri
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s 1.49Sent via the XDA Tapatalk App
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maybe not in ur country..
but we have root.
just not the leak.
everyone was warned..majority of us either got replacements or had backups. i personally have 3, started out with 2 but picked up another along the way

SoCalSpecialist said:
maybe not in ur country..
but we have root.
just not the leak.
everyone was warned..majority of us either got replacements or had backups. i personally have 3, started out with 2 but picked up another along the way
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Two quick things.
1.) I am sorry I am not the best writer I was trying to work on it at work when ever I had a moment or two but I should of caught those errors.
2.) Ok, so everyone was warned about the leak. I know I used the leak personally. I was annoyed with no root, but only at my self. Then I had some general issues with the phone and I got a replacement, and at that time I made sure I rooted my android 1.5 replacement! And for a few months I had rom fun! Then from either possibly screwing around with my phone or just random electronic breakage it died. At this point Verizon is only giving replacements out with Android 2.1 and maybe some people are getting lucky but most are coming with 1.49 S-on bootloader. Now I know SoCalSpecialist you have like 3 Erises (this personally confuses me, owning 3 of the exact same model phone, but what ever makes your happy is cool with me) but I only have one. As of now I have no way to root it, and until its rooted coming to this board daily to check it makes me sad lol (I still come tho lol). More and more people that were active members in this community will be in the same boat as me and just have to sit by and become passive observers.
Look if no one wants to use the wave its cool. I am going to continue trying to arrange the information that community members have discovered and post it logically, as opposed to being randomly lodged in a number of different threads over hundreds of posts. And I do this only with the hopes that some Dev, takes a sec to look at it one day and reads it and something sets a light-bulb off for them, and bam! 1.49 S-on Rooted!
PS. One note I meant what I said about Wednesday, Friday, and Monday updates to the wave. all spelling/grammer errors will be fixed tomorrow night + additional info. I would do it now but I need to be to work in 5 hours and I am beat

honestly..best of luck.
getting the Eris community on the same boat has been an issue for all of us DEV's hence why we are slowly dwindling..
as far as the grammer and all that other jazz..who cares dude..as long as we get the jist, thats all that matters!
my with 3 devices, one was a tester i got from CNET, one belongs to my wife and the 3rd has the original leak that was never rooted.

SoCalSpecialist said:
getting the Eris community on the same boat has been an issue for all of us DEV's hence why we are slowly dwindling..
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I think either a wiki or google wave will do wonders for this... Having a central repository, editable by anyone, will foster information sharing and development.

Hi All,
As promised its been updated. I wish I could post more tonight but a family member had a mini stroke so I need to go out
More updates Friday.

Hey all,
Lots of new Info up on the wave.
Hope this helps out.

Whats the diff between 1.49 S-On and S-Off? Mine is 1.49 S-Off.

jopusm said:
Whats the diff between 1.49 S-On and S-Off? Mine is 1.49 S-Off.
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S-OFF is the rooted hboot, S-ON is the one we need to get around to get root.

khol91 said:
S-OFF is the rooted hboot, S-ON is the one we need to get around to get root.
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Thanks for clearing that up!

RootMe like JailbreakMe?

Wonder if there is an app to root Htc HERO easily as JailBreakMe for Iphone?

rapsass said:
Wonder if there is an app to root Htc HERO easily as JailBreakMe for Iphone?
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Not yet, afaik.
But I showed two people the stickied method in development forum today, and it took less than 5 minutes each

Well to be very honest. You should be happy that doesn't work with our phones, cause it's just a pdf exploit problem with this is it can be used for less amusing purposes

xinos said:
Well to be very honest. You should be happy that doesn't work with our phones, cause it's just a pdf exploit problem with this is it can be used for less amusing purposes
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100% agreed.
There was a viral tweet from the parody @ceostevejobs account, mockingly asking people to kindly stop jail breaking the demonstration iPhones in stores

i got my hero at about 6 o clock last night. i have froyo on now it took about 30 minutes

Hehe, that means you rival my "time to root"
I never actually booted stock rom, as I fastbooted recovery and flashed.
In fact, you beat me, as I let it charge first

i ran stock for around 30minutes...lol. It just proves custom is the way forward. If i stayed official i wouldnt even be on 2.1 now due to 3 not releasing it...2.2 ftw

Call for Volunteers

As you know we have root access, and believe the root exploits will work on the production devices.
However I do not believe we will have perm root on the production devices.
We are seeking volunteers willing to assist, by testing a method once the device is released. A risk of bricking exists, and the volunteer will assume 100% of that risk.
Requirements:
1) Will be getting a thunderbolt on or shortly after release
2) Ability to follow directions
3) Basic computer knowledge (ability to use command line would be nice)
4) Have the sdk installed, or be willing to install it
5) Understand the risk of volunteering completely. (ie know bricked phones no longer work)

jcase said:
As you know we have root access, and believe the root exploits will work on the production devices.
However I do not believe we will have perm root on the production devices.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the other post, you show a photo with SHIP S-OFF at the SPL level... so is this not permanent?
Perhaps I am confused then by what you mean 'perm root' in this case. Do you mean a engineering SPL?

reukiodo said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the other post, you show a photo with SHIP S-OFF at the SPL level... so is this not permanent?
Perhaps I am confused then by what you mean 'perm root' in this case. Do you mean a engineering SPL?
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If you read that whole post, you will understand its a pre production device (see the lack of verizon branding?). That is why we had s-off. Production models will not likely have it.

I currently have a touch pro 2 with nand loading xdandroid.
I would be happy to test though, I would rather not be the first brick. LOL
But in the sake of root, I might be willing to risk it. Considering the success rate.... I would say the risk would be high I am sure many precautions will be taken to prevent a brick.

coolsilver said:
I currently have a touch pro 2 with nand loading xdandroid.
I would be happy to test though, I would rather not be the first brick. LOL
But in the sake of root, I might be willing to risk it. Considering the success rate.... I would say the risk would be high I am sure many precautions will be taken to prevent a brick.
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With current ideas, risk is near nothing for one. Other one is slim. (in my opinions)

I am sure once the device is in hand tests will be done prior to flashing.
HTC phones are pretty good about not permanently bricking.
I will be trying it out.

I just have a quick question as I am coming from having a D1. How easy are HTC phone's rooting compared to the D1? I used the super one click root, I have to research HTC's methods now.

rotorocker said:
I just have a quick question as I am coming from having a D1. How easy are HTC phone's rooting compared to the D1? I used the super one click root, I have to research HTC's methods now.
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D1 root was rather easy, so was HTC back then. No longer is this the case.

I'm still 50/50 on getting it right when it comes out since I'll be paying full retail and we don't have a confirmed price yet. But otherwise, I meet all of the criteria. I actually tested the rage exploit on the Droid 2 first and had to write up the adb commands for others, so I'm comfortable working my way through some hackery.

karnovaran said:
I'm still 50/50 on getting it right when it comes out since I'll be paying full retail and we don't have a confirmed price yet. But otherwise, I meet all of the criteria. I actually tested the rage exploit on the Droid 2 first and had to write up the adb commands for others, so I'm comfortable working my way through some hackery.
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full retail if its like what BB posted ($750) then its cheaper to cancel your current contract and buy it with a new 2 year for $250
so thats 250+350=600
If you have a current contract

I will be picking a tb up as soon as they say go at a verisimilitude store and no matter what phone I have I can never go more than a day or two with out root. I need the ability to have freedom even if I can't change anything. Just the thought of having it keeps me going. As for knowledge I had the droid first and did everything you could to it and now I am running the fascinate on 2.2.1 that samsung and verizon still haven't released, so I am not the best but learn as I go.
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I'll give this a shot.

since the RUU's are already out, it should be fairly easy to get correct most problems right?

superchilpil said:
full retail if its like what BB posted ($750) then its cheaper to cancel your current contract and buy it with a new 2 year for $250
so thats 250+350=600
If you have a current contract
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Yeah. It is cheaper, but then you are still stuck in contract... and one year down the road you will need to repeat the same cycle.

bmcclure937 said:
Yeah. It is cheaper, but then you are still stuck in contract... and one year down the road you will need to repeat the same cycle.
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It's no big deal for me
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

JCase I have a fascinate now, had a D1, and a DX. I'll be getting my thunderbolt the day of as i preordered at best buy. My twitter is Mike91908 I'm down. this is my first HTC device though, but i have all the know-hows.

mike919 said:
JCase I have a fascinate now, had a D1, and a DX. I'll be getting my thunderbolt the day of as i preordered at best buy. My twitter is Mike91908 I'm down. this is my first HTC device though, but i have all the know-hows.
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cool beans, I think we got something good.

jcase said:
cool beans, I think we got something good.
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Sounds good. if you need me, hit my twitter or gtalk mikeandjill919 and i can get on IRC.

Do you still need volunteers?

Count me in
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Is it true??? Root maybe coming??

So I found this on the EVO 3D channel. Looks like they found a hole they may be able to use for rooting 2.3.3!
See the links listed in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135100

tnerb123 said:
So I found this on the EVO 3D channel. Looks like they found a hole they may be able to use for rooting 2.3.3!
See the links listed in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135100
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I already have root on my EVO whats the point of this?

there is a whole evo 3d forum here on XDA which would be a better place to talk about it

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I love all the posts about just watch here and they'll be tons of posts about the new root. now that one is close.
One post

Right now, there is NO new root. I guaranty you there will be people Fighting to be the first to post when it actually drops. Plus, if you read the thread, they state that it seems to be very device specific...meaning it may not help us, we don't know yet. Unless you are a dev or a tester, we are still in wait-and-see mode.

True but I suspect the same root will work on this device as well. Just surprised to see so little chatter about it

rezistrat said:
True but I suspect the same root will work on this device as well. Just surprised to see so little chatter about it
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Why get the hopes up of all of the noobs that took the OTA. The smart ones that got unlucky with a warranty swap or an insurance claim that got 2.3.3 on a new/refurb phone knows where to look and when to ask about it.

I heard unrevoked has a solution. They appear to have bootloader loop issue to resolve before they can publish a solution.
Hope this is true.
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MrDSL said:
I already have root on my EVO whats the point of this?
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It went over your head completely. Derty-der...
Many people with unrooted phones and GB 2.3.3, S-ON, are waiting for a solution to get flipped over to s-off. So they can root.
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Im sure xda devs are hard at work I will wait as long as it takes them or until they say it can't be done
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sweet i heard they rooted the cdma hero

True, yes it may be coming. Quote the maybe part ok let's all move on.

They actually said last night in IRC that it's unlikely that the exploit will work on Sense 1.0 roms.