Database Users

[Question] how to unroot/restore

Hello,
I recently bought a nexus one from Craigslist. I thought it hadn't been tampered with but it turns out that it is rooted. I read you can tell its rooted when theres an open lock underneath the nexus sign when loading it. I don't know how he rooted but its preventing me from updating to the pinch and zoom capabilities. Always get (status 7) error. So I want to unroot the phone, update it then perhaps later root it. Is there a way I can unroot it with a Mac?
Thanks for the help!
Extra info about my phone (if it makes a difference)
Firmware version
2.1
Baseband version
32.19.00.16U_4.02.02.14
Kernel version
2.6.29-gad36b87
[email protected] #1
Build Number
ERD79

It's rooted without an unlocked bootloader? I doubt that, or maybe you have the only one in existence.
You can always just flash this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hy2yj42my3i/gapps-passion-ERE36B-2-signed.zip
in recovery and you'll get the multitouch update.

mortzz said:
It's rooted without an unlocked bootloader? I doubt that, or maybe you have the only one in existence.
You can always just flash this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hy2yj42my3i/gapps-passion-ERE36B-2-signed.zip
in recovery and you'll get the multitouch update.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Dude did you not read his first post? It has an OPEN lock. There is a way you can get the update. Man

Extra info about my phone (if it makes a difference)
Firmware version
2.1
Baseband version
32.19.00.16U_4.02.02.14
Kernel version
2.6.29-gad36b87
[email protected] #1
Build Number
ERD79

change your thread title. Its seriously misleading....[HOW TO] is for threads TEACHING how and not for questions or requests.

shonanthebarbarianTP2 said:
Dude did you not read his first post? It has an OPEN lock. There is a way you can get the update. Man
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do I update it then? I have always gotten (status 7) error. Better yet how do I unroot it? Any ideas?

As of right now, theres no way to unroot a phone. But if I were you, id consider upgrading it to CyanogenMod (search in nexus one development for it) that enables the multi-touch capabilities.

Its not possible
The best you could do is this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614850
But anyway, why unroot, a rooted phone is much better
How about you look around the site and see wah u can actually do with your phone now

Just look for modaco's 1.7 , download it. Put your phone into recovery by powering down then hold volume down, down while holding that down press n hold power button. A white screen should come up. Leave it be until the green lettering disappears. Then press volume down to navigate to "recovery". Once in recovery use trackball to navigate to USB toggle . Click on it via trackball. Now plug ur phone into your comp via micro USB cable. Go to "my computer" on ur comp. Double click removable disk to open ur SD card. Delete everything from ur SD. Go to where u saved modacos 1.7 drag it to your empty SD card. Now click ur track ball to disable USB connection. Unplug your phone. Go to wipe. Click on it with ur track ball. Now click wipe data. Let it do its thing. Then wipe dalvik cache. Let it do its thing. After that push volume down to get back to ur menu. Go to flash update. Click on it and click on the zip you just put on ur Sd card. Let it do its thing and you're done.

1. Download a ROM of your choice, and then load it on to your SD card in the root directory.
2. Shut the phone off.
3. Hold down the volume down button, and hit + hold the power button at the same time.
4. Continue holding until the phone boots up
5. Scroll down to recovery by hitting the volume down button once.
6. Press the power button once.
7. Scroll down with the scrollball to Wipe
8. Wipe device/factory reset
9. Wipe cache
10. Click the volume down again
11. Scroll to Flash update/zip
12. Scroll to the ROM you downloaded and loaded to your zip, and then click
13. Click the trackball again to accept.
Now, you really just have to make sure the ROM you downloaded has the pinch to zoom, which most have. I don't believe you'll lose root, but you should at least gain the features you're looking for.

Your Nexus One is unlocked, not rooted. There is difference.

Thanks everyone for the help! I ended up needing to install the Amon RA recovery image and then installed the MoDaCo ROM. Works good but I read that Cyanogen is better with better features. I think I will now install the Cyanogen ROM. Not sure what he means by updating the radio if needed though. My radio is RADIO-4.02.02.14
If anyone knows if this is ok then I would appreciate it, I will try to research and see if it's ok too.
Thanks again!

Remember to do a nandroid backup in case you either screws something up or you wish to go back to your previous Rom (saves time and headache).

As far as i know updating the radio is optional, you just download it, nandroid backup, update like a rom, and reboot, IMPORTANT ON REBOOT IT WILL GO TO A LOADING SCREEN WHERE IT UPDATES THE RADIO DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING OR PULL BATTERY OR YOU MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE-FOR REAL. With that said after the radio loads it will take you back to recovery, then nandroid again if you want(never hurts), wipe and flash cyanogens rom then the gapps add on and then reboot and youre good to go.

I just download all the files but I noticed that the radio is a .img file
Not sure how I can install it... any suggestions?

Noob trying to flash to 2.1d

I have successfully flashed my Sprint THC hero with no problems.
My issue though is flashing the phone to 2.1d. i can't for the life of me follow these directions and I am really stumped on the process of doing a nandroid and flashing the ROM.
I downloaded the nandroid from this site but not sure where I put the directory with the files at. Can anyone break this process down into "ejpyle terminology"?
My problems are:
- where to copy the nandroid directory
- where to put the 2.1d ROM
- do i need this busybox that everyone is talking about?

Successfully flashed what? And what method.
If you mean you successfully ROOTED your Phone then huzzah, that's step one complete.
Part of the rooting process should include putting a recovery image on the phone. If you did that correctly then do this, power off the phone.hold down the home button and power it back up. In a few seconds you should boot into a recovery menu with options to do a nandroid backup/restore turn on the usb connection to move files to the phone from your pc, and flashing a zip. If you don't have this recovery menu then you need to install it.

I don't think you have downloaded a Nandroid, I think you have downloaded an "update.zip" as we so affectionitly call them around here. This is a term used from the first set of recovery tools we had, where we had to rename update files update.zip to be loaded. Thankfully the recovery software has been updated to let us store and use multiple files.
So you probable have fresh-cdma-hero-2.0d.zip downloaded.
Plug your phone into USB and set it to Mount SD Card or what ever it says in 1.5
Copy this file to the root of the sdcard. don't put it in to any folders just F:\ or whatever the drive letter is.
THEN
Unmount the sdcard or turn off the disk drive mode (Cant remember what 1.5 calls it)
THEN
Power off the phone.
Power the phone back on whilst holding the home key. When you feel the vibration (let your girl hold it if she wants ROFL) let go and it will boot into recovery.
THEN
Go to Wipe...do Factory Reset
THEN
Wipe dalvik
THEN
Go back to Flash Update from SDcard
Select the update file above and hit the home key to flash it.
The phone SHOULD install and go back to the main screen of recovery.
THEN select
Reboot
THEN
Wait a hell of a long time 10+ minutes is NOT uncommon (it has to rebuild dalvik and other stuff)
THEN
When the phone boots hit Always Allow for the memory settings app.
THEN
Setup all your google info again.....
THEN
You should be good to go
AND DEN????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EDIT:
I am SURE that I left a step out above, just go with the flow and wipe everything under the wipe menu. It's laid out so a monkey can do this stuff...hence the reason I am able to.

gunnyman said:
Successfully flashed what? And what method.
If you mean you successfully ROOTED your Phone then huzzah, that's step one complete.
Part of the rooting process should include putting a recovery image on the phone. If you did that correctly then do this, power off the phone.hold down the home button and power it back up. In a few seconds you should boot into a recovery menu with options to do a nandroid backup/restore turn on the usb connection to move files to the phone from your pc, and flashing a zip. If you don't have this recovery menu then you need to install it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thank you thank thank you... you have me going in the right directions.
Quesion..what is the best (most reliable without as many bugs) ROM to load that is 2.0-1?

ejpyle said:
thank you thank thank you... you have me going in the right directions.
Quesion..what is the best (most reliable without as many bugs) ROM to load that is 2.0-1?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not to be rude, because you seem like a decent enough person, but please read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668905 before asking anything else. Most of your answers are there, and 'search' will find the rest.

Kcarpenter said:
I don't think you have downloaded a Nandroid, I think you have downloaded an "update.zip" as we so affectionitly call them around here. This is a term used from the first set of recovery tools we had, where we had to rename update files update.zip to be loaded. Thankfully the recovery software has been updated to let us store and use multiple files.
So you probable have fresh-cdma-hero-2.0d.zip downloaded.
Plug your phone into USB and set it to Mount SD Card or what ever it says in 1.5
Copy this file to the root of the sdcard. don't put it in to any folders just F:\ or whatever the drive letter is.
THEN
Unmount the sdcard or turn off the disk drive mode (Cant remember what 1.5 calls it)
THEN
Power off the phone.
Power the phone back on whilst holding the home key. When you feel the vibration (let your girl hold it if she wants ROFL) let go and it will boot into recovery.
THEN
Go to Wipe...do Factory Reset
THEN
Wipe dalvik
THEN
Go back to Flash Update from SDcard
Select the update file above and hit the home key to flash it.
The phone SHOULD install and go back to the main screen of recovery.
THEN select
Reboot
THEN
Wait a hell of a long time 10+ minutes is NOT uncommon (it has to rebuild dalvik and other stuff)
THEN
When the phone boots hit Always Allow for the memory settings app.
THEN
Setup all your google info again.....
THEN
You should be good to go
AND DEN????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EDIT:
I am SURE that I left a step out above, just go with the flow and wipe everything under the wipe menu. It's laid out so a monkey can do this stuff...hence the reason I am able to.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You rock....You just taught a death and blind monkey how to do it. Thanks man!!!!! I will be sure to have my wife hold the phone for the vibrate thing. LMFAO

ejpyle said:
thank you thank thank you... you have me going in the right directions.
Quesion..what is the best (most reliable without as many bugs) ROM to load that is 2.0-1?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is no best one. The 2.1 ROMS are all very stable. Just avoid the ones that say {DEV} in the thread title because they are under development and likely have lots of stuff broken in them.
Decide what you want for yourself, beauty, speed, both? A good hint is to look for the ROM threads that have the most pages attached to them these are the ROMS that have the most discussion and help within them.

ejpyle said:
You rock....You just taught a death and blind monkey how to do it. Thanks man!!!!! I will be sure to have my wife hold the phone for the vibrate thing. LMFAO
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
DO NOT FLASH THE 2.1 Signed RUU Test ROM
OR I WILL FIND AND KILL YOU!

gunnyman said:
There is no best one. The 2.1 ROMS are all very stable. Just avoid the ones that say {DEV} in the thread title because they are under development and likely have lots of stuff broken in them.
Decide what you want for yourself, beauty, speed, both? A good hint is to look for the ROM threads that have the most pages attached to them these are the ROMS that have the most discussion and help within them.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks man, if I win the power ball lottery I will be sending you all a private message.
one more quickie though, If Sprint releases the 2.1 before I become eligible for AARP will I have to flash back to the 1.5 version before updating my device with it?

Kcarpenter said:
I don't think you have downloaded a Nandroid, I think you have downloaded an "update.zip" as we so affectionitly call them around here. This is a term used from the first set of recovery tools we had, where we had to rename update files update.zip to be loaded. Thankfully the recovery software has been updated to let us store and use multiple files.
So you probable have fresh-cdma-hero-2.0d.zip downloaded.
Plug your phone into USB and set it to Mount SD Card or what ever it says in 1.5
Copy this file to the root of the sdcard. don't put it in to any folders just F:\ or whatever the drive letter is.
THEN
Unmount the sdcard or turn off the disk drive mode (Cant remember what 1.5 calls it)
THEN
Power off the phone.
Power the phone back on whilst holding the home key. When you feel the vibration (let your girl hold it if she wants ROFL) let go and it will boot into recovery.
THEN
Go to Wipe...do Factory Reset
THEN
Wipe dalvik
THEN
Go back to Flash Update from SDcard
Select the update file above and hit the home key to flash it.
The phone SHOULD install and go back to the main screen of recovery.
THEN select
Reboot
THEN
Wait a hell of a long time 10+ minutes is NOT uncommon (it has to rebuild dalvik and other stuff)
THEN
When the phone boots hit Always Allow for the memory settings app.
THEN
Setup all your google info again.....
THEN
You should be good to go
AND DEN????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EDIT:
I am SURE that I left a step out above, just go with the flow and wipe everything under the wipe menu. It's laid out so a monkey can do this stuff...hence the reason I am able to.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hope the possible step left out above does not give me "another" bricked phone.

ejpyle said:
I hope the possible step left out above does not give me "another" bricked phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think I may have left out a step if you have apps on your sd card...
NOT WAIT I LEFT OUT THE DO A NANDROID BACK UP FIRST!!!!!!!!!!! DO THAT FIRST!!!! HOLY CRAP I HOPE YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET!!! DO A NANDROID!!!!!!!
Nope no chance at all of that as far as I can tell.
The only bricks we have seen are from people downloading GSM software or dropping a brick on their phone...that sounded funnier in my head.

smw6180 said:
Not to be rude, because you seem like a decent enough person, but please read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=668905 before asking anything else. Most of your answers are there, and 'search' will find the rest.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Because you too seem like a decent person I will share this with you....
I followed a thread on here at the beginning of march to install a ROM and the directions (which I followed exact) bricked my phone. I spent hours reading up on this website to find out after the fact that the RUU might have a bug and some users will have issues. With that said, I decided to ask questions. This site has a lot of cleanup going on (no disrespect to anyone here as you are all VERY intelligent) and I do not think that someone as myself would be comfortable just "searching" for the answer without asking questions first with respect to the experience we have had in the past.

Kcarpenter said:
I think I may have left out a step if you have apps on your sd card...
NOT WAIT I LEFT OUT THE DO A NANDROID BACK UP FIRST!!!!!!!!!!! DO THAT FIRST!!!! HOLY CRAP I HOPE YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET!!! DO A NANDROID!!!!!!!
Nope no chance at all of that as far as I can tell.
The only bricks we have seen are from people downloading GSM software or dropping a brick on their phone...that sounded funnier in my head.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
LOL I have not done it yet. I am about to copy this nandroid - file name "nandroid-2.0.zip" to my SDCARD. then i will do it.

ejpyle said:
LOL I have not done it yet. I am about to copy this nandroid - file name "nandroid-2.0.zip" to my SDCARD. then i will do it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So you have gotten me curious now, where did you pick up that file at?
My only guess is that someone has posted a nandroid of their device and zipped it. Most of the Rom downloads are ROMNAME.zip....
You can always try to load it, it won't load if its not setup properly inside for a rom.
And about your going back to 1.5 to update to sprints 2.1:
IF YOU UPDATE TO SPRINTS OTA 2.1 UPDATE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ROOT AGAIN UNTIL SOMEONE FINDS ANOTHER EXPLOIT!!! WHICH COULD BE NEVER!!

Kcarpenter said:
So you have gotten me curious now, where did you pick up that file at?
My only guess is that someone has posted a nandroid of their device and zipped it. Most of the Rom downloads are ROMNAME.zip....
You can always try to load it, it won't load if its not setup properly inside for a rom.
And about your going back to 1.5 to update to sprints 2.1:
IF YOU UPDATE TO SPRINTS OTA 2.1 UPDATE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ROOT AGAIN UNTIL SOMEONE FINDS ANOTHER EXPLOIT!!! WHICH COULD BE NEVER!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I got it from here....
http://dx.infernix.net/nandroid-2.0.zip

when you boot into recovery, what do you see?
If you rooted correctly and put a recovery image on there there isn't anything else you have to do to enable Nandroid.

ejpyle said:
I got it from here....
http://dx.infernix.net/nandroid-2.0.zip
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, so this leads me to another question. Where is the thread that links to this download?
The reason I am worried about this file now that I see it:
It's only 942kb - WAY to small for a rom or nandroid.

gunnyman said:
when you boot into recovery, what do you see?
If you rooted correctly and put a recovery image on there there isn't anything else you have to do to enable Nandroid.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had a triangle with an exclamation point.
I am copying the recovery to my SDCARD now... recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2

ejpyle said:
I had a triangle with an exclamation point.
I am copying the recovery to my SDCARD now... recovery-RA-heroc-v1.5.2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
1.6.2 is the latest. Not a whole lot different from 1.5.2 but some bugs where fixed and you can get the nifty Green Nexus Carebear back ground.

Kcarpenter said:
1.6.2 is the latest. Not a whole lot different from 1.5.2 but some bugs where fixed and you can get the nifty Green Nexus Carebear back ground.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I copied everything you indicated to my card. When I press HOME and PWR together I get a triangle with an exclamation point. Did this monkey not do something right?

[SOLVED] Did my last HD2, but I think I ruined this one

Can someone please work with me to fix my htc hd2...I think i lopad the software in the incorrect way and wiped my phone before installing some other software...cant get recovery to work.

Wrong forum
sorry all roms are flash at your own risk, if you bricked it. sorry
also, this is the WRONG forum to post this in, this is DEVELOPMENT not general or Q&A.
please post elsewhere, and do not post a new thread here ever again.

Damn, ugly boy stop being mean, don't tell him to never post here ever again.
malaeus said:
sorry all roms are flash at your own risk, if you bricked it. sorry
also, this is the WRONG forum to post this in, this is DEVELOPMENT not general or Q&A.
please post elsewhere, and do not post a new thread here ever again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sent from my HyperHd2 using XDA app

Try to flash recovery on Magldr, maybe forgot to do that xx

malaeus said:
sorry all roms are flash at your own risk, if you bricked it. sorry
also, this is the WRONG forum to post this in, this is DEVELOPMENT not general or Q&A.
please post elsewhere, and do not post a new thread here ever again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if you had any idea to help him, f**king say it. else shut up.
as for ops6047 (welcome to the noob hate community)
as for your hd2, try flashing the original windows mobile rom, or if you already have hspl 2.08 installed install a custom rom just to make sure your hd2 hasnt visited the RIP state.

Have you fixed your hd2?
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

Do you need help .let us know were you are with the phone so i can help you .very difficult to brick a phone.

What exactly is going on with your phone? As long as your phone boots into Tri-Color recovery and reads as a USB when you plug the USB in, you're fine...and even then there's still plenty of possibilities to fix it, I've had my phone not even read USB and after trying tons of different ways it finally fixed itself.
I highly doubt your phone is broke, let the community here know what's going on and someone is bound to get you going; most people are helpful but as always, there's asshats like malaeus that ruin communities.

ops6047 said:
Can someone please work with me to fix my htc hd2...I think i lopad the software in the incorrect way and wiped my phone before installing some other software...cant get recovery to work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Please provide a bit more information on what exactly you did resulting in your phone's current condition. Like hd2k10 said above, as long as you can get to the tri-color bootloader screen, your phone is fixable and you will be able to get it going again.
malaeus said:
sorry all roms are flash at your own risk, if you bricked it. sorry
also, this is the WRONG forum to post this in, this is DEVELOPMENT not general or Q&A.
please post elsewhere, and do not post a new thread here ever again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not really sure who you think you are but your tone is not appreciated here on XDA. I strongly encourage you to avoid making posts like that in the future. I like to think of myself as one who enjoys giving second chances but I'm not so friendly the 2nd time around.
If you have nothing nice or constructive to post, keep your smart ass comments to yourself.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Side note - This thread has been moved to HD2 Android Q&A section. I have, however, left an expiring redirect (1 week) so users can still find this thread and you can get the help you need.
-Dan

Not Bricked, Task29'ed....
You task29'ed but you have nothing else to flash after that, that is why you are where you are....Look go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090783 It is Ksubedi's Tool for Nandroid on HD2. once download. Download a Rom. Since I'm helping you, i will not give specific instructions on YOUR choice of ROM but rather MINE, sorry that is how it works around here xD.
http://hotfile.com/list/1335611/19f8a51 go to this link and download this file, HD2_Core_Droid_Desire_HD_V1.6_TMOUS_NAND_ONLY_LEO1024.rar, should be the second one. This is Best EYE Candy(Smexyness) rom, created by Coredroid Team.
Once that is downloaded. Now come the Steps for working phone.
First Connect Phone to Pc and keep it connected throughout the whole process.
On the Tool Kit You downloaded Earlier:
1. Power Off phone, and On while holding Volume Down Button Simultaneously.
2. You enter tri-color screen, with USB bottom.
3. Once USB is confirmed, Click "Wipe(Task29)" in Ksubedi's Toolkit, bottom right.
4. Follow the Instructions that Pop up. Blah Blah Blah.
5. On Ksubedi Toolkit in center LEFT it says "Choose System Partition Size(MAGLDR)," Choose 400MB. Leave the Cache alone.
5. After Success of "Wipe" Enter Bootloader(Tri-ColorScreen) Again.
6. USB confirmed, On Ksubedi's Toolkit, Bottom Right Click Install MagLdr.
7. Follow Instructions that Pop up. Blah Blah Blah.
8. When phone is rebooting after MagLdr install. Hold "End Call" Button until you see a list of 13-15 Options.
9. IF you don't succeed, Pop out the battery, and in again and power phone while holding "End Call" Button until you get to the Several Options, all in white.
10. Once at the Options in MagLdr. hit Volume Down Button til you get to Option "5.USB Flasher Mode" Hit "Call" Button
11. It will say "Wait USB..".... first, when USB confirmed, will say "Wait USB..USB"
Now Switch over to the CoreDroid V1.6 file you downloaded Earlier.
1.Extract File to a newly created Folder, and Open folder.
2. Wait for "Wait USB...USB"
3. In the New Folder, You will see something called DAF.exe, Right click and Run as Admin.
4. Follow Instructions. Blah Blah Blah.
5. Phone will Reboot again, and again Hold "End Call" button until you get to the same several options again.
6. This time go to Option "8. AD Recovery"
7. Using "Volume Down" button go to "mounts and Storage" and Down to "mount USB Storage."
8. New drive will pop up on PC, open the drive, and COPY FULLY, the zip named "HD2_Core_Droid_Desire_HD_V1.6_TMOUS_NAND_ONLY_LEO1024"
9. Once Copied, click "unmount" on phone with "Call" Button.
10. Now hit the "End Call" Button once more, then move down to "Install Zip from SDCard," then Down to "Choose ZIP from SDCard."
11. Choose "HD2_Core_Droid_Desire_HD_V1.6_TMOUS_NAND_ONLY_LEO1024"
12. Let it install, after intall, hit "End Call" Button until you see "Reboot Now" Option. and Reboot Phone.
13. Reboot and Setup the phone and your done, no more "Brick."

ayyu3m said:
if you had any idea to help him, f**king say it. else shut up.
as for ops6047 (welcome to the noob hate community)
as for your hd2, try flashing the original windows mobile rom, or if you already have hspl 2.08 installed install a custom rom just to make sure your hd2 hasnt visited the RIP state.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
haha i like ur answer ...he's lucky he wasnt in front of u ...maybe he would have a finger missing

dharvey4651 said:
Please provide a bit more information on what exactly you did resulting in your phone's current condition. Like hd2k10 said above, as long as you can get to the tri-color bootloader screen, your phone is fixable and you will be able to get it going again.
Not really sure who you think you are but your tone is not appreciated here on XDA. I strongly encourage you to avoid making posts like that in the future. I like to think of myself as one who enjoys giving second chances but I'm not so friendly the 2nd time around.
If you have nothing nice or constructive to post, keep your smart ass comments to yourself.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Side note - This thread has been moved to HD2 Android Q&A section. I have, however, left an expiring redirect (1 week) so users can still find this thread and you can get the help you need.
-Dan
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks for ur clear answer ... this guy was born knowing how to install android...he was never a noob and he never needed help ....
he dont know the meaning of bricking his phone and dont sleep all night trying to fix it ... making registrations in all forum and posting everywhereto fix the problem ...it such a damn bad feeling
people r appriciated for the help they provide ..or only for a nice word said...so thanks again
sorry for double post but i dont know how to quote 2 msg in one

Theres that....
IS there anyway i can do this on linux my buddy wiped my laptop and put ultimated edition, ubuntu on it...otherwise i will go to his house and use his windows machine....But I do get a tricolor screen, and I have the mgldr on there as well as hspl 2.08...Otherwise I will follow the help of the step by step instruction provided...

Is there a way i can get the all in one software for a linux computer...

plus I have no bootloader it says and i get error 260 or 206 cant commuicte with usb

ops6047 said:
plus I have no bootloader it says and i get error 260 or 206 cant commuicte with usb
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you have the Tri-Color screen. then you have bootloader, as for the USB thing that is supposed to be in the bottom, that will only appear after you connect the phone, VIA USB, to a PC. Now I don't know about the Linux situation, but word of advice, get your azz to your friends house cuz right now I don't think you wanna risk getting the phone even more f**ked up cuz of the PC software you have, well anyways do as I have stated, and that ROM i have linked is amazing fast and no issues watsoeever. And as for the ROM actually, Sergio is coming out with an update to 1.7, so try it out, and if you like it, go for 1.7. and actually, the process for flashing an update is not hard at all.

> as for your hd2, try flashing the original windows mobile rom,
Can someone help me with this.
I can not get the phone go in tri color screen mode.
Phone boots okay with Android installed but I like to switch back to T-Mobile WM version.
Power + Volume brings menu but does not force the phone in TRI color screen mode.
thanks,

malaeus said:
sorry all roms are flash at your own risk, if you bricked it. sorry
also, this is the WRONG forum to post this in, this is DEVELOPMENT not general or Q&A.
please post elsewhere, and do not post a new thread here ever again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OMG what a nice answer from a nice person, i dont like using bad language but u made me use it -and laud- in front of my kidds but u earned it, XDA is to help ppl, u may told him that in a nice way, and who are u to tell pplz not to post here again, are u the owner of XDA?
Thank u all guys for helping this person.
By the way, the only thing i regret after selling my lovely HD2 that i missed the hd2 forums and the kind pplz in it
Thank u guys for every thing
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

I think what malaeus meant was to not post in the development forum rather than to ask him to not post anywhere on XDA. I agree though that he could worded it with a little less inflammatory tone.
As for the OP, dude, you need to post all the details of what you have done for someone to be able to help you. Please post things like the current state of the phone (can it boot into bootloader or MAGLDR etc.)
Also your radio/ROM/MAGLDR version could help too.

I think the radio rom might be missing shouldnt it say that at top of bootloader magldr 1.13, hspl3 2.08, dont know the radio rom... I can do all the steps except when i get to the daf.exe file it says failed init. usb

[FLASHING ROMS] HTC EVO 4G 2.3 gingerbread how to flash roms

Hello again, everyone. This is going to be another one of my easy-to-understand, simplistic type tutorials. For all of the people that might not have an extensive knowledge of android and how to operate basic linux devices, this is going to be a noob level how-to on flashing roms. Most of these directions also go for kernels (not 100% of the time, but most), so just ask if you need help.
Alright, I'm going to assume that you're already rooted and have s-off, as well as a custom recovery menu, if not this tutorial will mean nothing to you. Go read my root tutorial if you need to accomplish this task.
My root tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228566
How to flash roms:
(Step 1) Finding a rom. May sound easy, but you have to figure out what you want, and more importantly, what you need. There is a very diverse selection of roms here on xda so reading up shouldn't be too much homework for y'all. If you're not willing to do this little amount of work to just read and see what you want and need, then you are hopeless in the first place. I will, however, help you if you are putting a significant amount of effort into this process.
(Step 2) Downloading the rom. This is not hard at all. I get all of my roms and kernels (not including my own) from xda, and downloading has always been a breeze. I can't remember now if you need to sign up for xda or not in order to access downloading. If so, then you should sign up anyway, xda is great! The easiest way to download roms is to download them on the computer then plug your phone in as usb drive and just place them on the root of you sdcard. There is another way though, and it isn't much more difficult. Just go to the market and download the xda app, you don't need the premium (unless you want it) the free version is good enough. The app is pretty much just a mobile translation of the actual site, so finding something on the app that you found on the computer isn't too much of a pain. Once you have found it in the app, just download it, and it should be placed in the folder sdcard>downloads.
(Step 3) Making a backup. Go into recovery by powering down the phone and holding volume down and the power button until the hboot menu appears. Make sure before you actually power down the phone, that you have fastboot turned off. If it is on, then the phone will automatically do the fastboot procedure, instead of going to the hboot menu. How to turn off fast boot: home>menu>settings>applications>fastboot. Make sure that it is unchecked. Okay, at this point we are at the hboot menu. It may check for an image, but shouldn't find one. Just let it do its thing. Volume down to recovery and select it by hitting power. The phone should reboot into recovery. This next part may have some variation because there are a couple of different custom recoveries. Most of them are all going to operate the same though. Once you are in recovery, volume down to "backup/restore". Select it. ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING ANYTHING, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT GOES WRONG!! Now select "backup". It will start backing everything up. It usually takes about five minutes so be patient, if it looks like it froze then just wait it is probably just rendering. After it has completed go back to the previous menu and proceed to the next step.
(Step 4) Flashing the rom. To do this, have the phone in recovery and volume down to "install zip from sdcard". Select this then volume down to and select "choose zip from sdcard". Now navigate to where you put the file and select it. If you did the method of downloading it on the computer then putting it on the root of the sdcard, then it should be on the current menu. If you downloaded it using the method of the app, then it should be in a folder called "download/". Finding it is really simple, just navigate the folders until you see it. Once you have found it, select it and install it. This process might take a couple of minutes. Once it has completed, you can select the reboot phone option and power that baby up.
(Step 5) Troubleshooting. If you are in a bootloop, (a bootloop is when the phone is stuck booting up) then just take the battery out, put it back in and power it up to try again. If it fails again, then go back into recovery. (like we did before^) This is the reason we made a backup. Just volume down to "backup/restore" select restore and select the image you would like to restore. Again, this may take a few minutes, just let the phone work. After it is done you can just boot it up and it is like you never did anything. If this happens, then this whole process was a fail. But, on the bright side, you made the backup (hopefully) and avoided having to flash a stock RUU or bricking your phone. Just try again with more roms, you'll get the hang of it.
Here is a very good aosp rom that I, in know way, take credit for: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178834&highlight=omgb
This rom was created by user: r2DoesInc
I am in no way affiliated with this user and have no right over his/her rom.
Remember, the rom page will probably have directions also. If it calls for specifics, then make sure to carry out those specifics!
Congratulations, you now know how to flash roms, even if you are a noob!
Thank you so much xda for making this site where fellow androdians can come together and help one another.
Thank you to all my supporters and I hope you all found this tutorial to be quite resourceful.

Post all of your questions and statements here. If I don't immediately respond that means I am asleep, at school, or at work. Yes, I am just a high school student, but that in now way makes me any less eligible of being a genius than anyone else.

soo pumped
finally got my evo 4g root tried miui thought it was incredible...until i tried cm7 rc1.....completely flawless but i cant find the savaged kernel to pair it....

You should try that rom that I linked. It's really refreshing to experience true gingerbread 2.3.5. I love it and I use it as my daily rom. But cm7 is pretty amazing also.

dont know why i was so dumb i went with rc1... rc4 is even better ...what link? ill check it out i just am still confused about flashing a rom and kernel i know fn noob haha
sorry for the edit i meant to say im confused about flashing them both because the evo has been out for so long but it seems like there isnt that much for them or way too much there isnt really an optimal flash yet with both kernel and rom

I think it's a little bizarre to assume that someone can root the phone, s-off, and get a custom recovery on the phone but not flash a rom.....

deathsled said:
I think it's a little bizarre to assume that someone can root the phone, s-off, and get a custom recovery on the phone but not flash a rom.....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha, I agree. But still, if you used revolutionary to root, like in my tutorial, then it was all automated. By using that method, the user doesn't have barely anything to do except for some small stuff like taking out the battery and turning some functions off. I'm just being helpful because I too was once a noob.

This was super helpful thanks for the guide
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³

infamousteeboy said:
This was super helpful thanks for the guide
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gracias. Hit that thanks button if it helped!

Thank you for posting this guide, as this helped me to install MIUI.

YouThere said:
Thank you for posting this guide, as this helped me to install MIUI.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You are very welcome. Hit the thanks button if ya want.

ceng7904 said:
Gracias. Hit that thanks button if it helped!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll have to do it tomorrow...I got hit with
"You are only limited 5 thanks per day"
LOL but I will hit the thanks for sure in the morning!
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³ *ROOTED*

infamousteeboy said:
I'll have to do it tomorrow...I got hit with
"You are only limited 5 thanks per day"
LOL but I will hit the thanks for sure in the morning!
Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch, evO²·³·³ *ROOTED*
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you...

Well what happens when your SD won't mount as disk drive
Sent From KaoMinerva

I am new, but I have a question why you didn't mention wiping things before flashing the rom? While I saw many other tutorials emphasized on wiping menu in the recovery mode.
Is that really a necessary step or not?

yww325 said:
I am new, but I have a question why you didn't mention wiping things before flashing the rom? While I saw many other tutorials emphasized on wiping menu in the recovery mode.
Is that really a necessary step or not?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It is necessary, believe me. Wiping everything in recovery except for SD card is important between ROM switches. Otherwise you will run into so many issues.
Sent from my HTC Evo using xda premium

thank you.

ceng7904 said:
Post all of your questions and statements here. If I don't immediately respond that means I am asleep, at school, or at work. Yes, I am just a high school student, but that in now way makes me any less eligible of being a genius than anyone else.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Once you have successfully flashed a ROM do you need to keep the Zip file for it on your SD Card in order for it to work or can you delete the zip file?

scrappa_doozie said:
Once you have successfully flashed a ROM do you need to keep the Zip file for it on your SD Card in order for it to work or can you delete the zip file?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can delete the Zip off your card once you are done flashing!
Sent from my PC36100 using xda premium

Thanks for posting this guide. It was huge helping me Root my first phone! I spent a ton of time researching, trying to soak it all in before I attempted to root and this thread was awesome!
Thank you

[Q] In need of some serious help and advice primarily with rooting

Model# SM-N900T
Android Version# 4.4.2
Baseband# N900TUVUENK3
Kernel# 3.4.0-2587359
Build# K0T49H.N900TUVUENK3
Security Software# MDF v1.0 Release 3
I'm kinda new to this whole XDA developers website (don’t let when I joined fool you) I’ve always heard that the XDA community are very helpful and I am in need of some serious help. I've had my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for quite some time now, but now it has started to crash and slow down I was wondering if rooting it might fix this problem.
If so then how and where do I even begin? Do I even need to root it?
Also if and when I root I want to get rid of all of the bloat ware apps how do I do this?
Please someone teach me I’m willing to learn, so be detailed and dumb it down as much as possible.
I want to say thank ahead of time to anyone that responds! :highfive:

First off, rooting is nothing to be scared off. As long as you have a little bit of knowledge and some common sense it's pretty straight forward.
To root you just need a couple of things, and this will trip knox too if I remember rightly, but if your phone is out of warranty then it doesn't really matter to much.
Firstly you will want odin - this will put the files onto the phone using a PC and USB cable.
Secondly you'll need the .tar file that contains the "root" files. I used CF-Auto-Root by Chain fire.
Head to http://autoroot.chainfire.eu and find the right file for your phone model.
This also contains Odin too.
So unzip the CF-Auto-Root zip file on your PC, and you'll find odin.exe and the CF-Auto-Root.tar.md5 files along with a couple of dll files and an ini file.
Open the odin.exe and you'll have a screen pop up which may look pretty daunting but fear not, it's not bad, it's actually really easy and you'll love it.
Now turn off your phone and once it's completely powered off, hold volume down button, the home button together and then hold the power button. The phone will boot into download mode... You'll see a screen saying to press volume up to continue or cancel by pressing volume down. You'll need to continue so hit volume UP.
Now plug the phone into the PC and wait a few minutes while the drivers are installed. You will notice on the odin program that at the top, a bar has lit up saying "comxxx" (where xxx is will be a number. This is the com port your phone is connected to)
Now comes the bit you need to get right....
Click the PDA or AP button (depending on version of odin) on the right side of odin and then select the CF-Auto-Root.tar.md5 file. It will load it into odin ready to flash across to the phone.... Make sure auto reboot and f reset time are the only boxes checked on the left side.
Now comes the really difficult bit, you need to pay attention here...
Click the "START" button.
Thats pretty much it. The phone will reboot and once it's rebooted, go into your apps and see if supersu is there. If it is just open it up and update the binaries if it asks you to.
Congratulations, your phone is now rooted.
I recommend using a custom recovery like philz or TWRP and make nandroid backups before you do anything else, so if something goes wrong you can always go back and restore.
You can also flash custom roms which may help your phone go fast again. I recommend audax roms or echoe roms.

OMG!! Thank you!!! so simple!!!!! Just a few more questions before I start.
1. What is a "custom recovery" and how do I use it?
2. What are "Custom Roms" for and how do I flash them?
3. What is supersu for? (I've been reading that everywhere)[/B]
4. Do you recommend buying titanium backup?

EstradaKing said:
OMG!! Thank you!!! so simple!!!!! Just a few more questions before I start.
1. What is a "custom recovery" and how do I use it?
2. What are "Custom Roms" for and how do I flash them?
3. What is supersu for? (I've been reading that everywhere)[/B]
4. Do you recommend buying titanium backup?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
1. Custom Recovery is a recovery where you can a lot of stuffs which are not supported in stock recovery. Like flashing a zip package to be able to install it, be it a ROM or a small mod or whatever. Then you can take Nandroid backups too from it, along with so many other options.
2. Custom ROMs, same. ROMs which have a lot of customisation ability unlike stock ROMs, some custom ROMs come with some more pre bundled.
3. SuperSU is an app which is a must for rooted devices. It gives administrative level permission to apps, without it you won't be able to run some apps which needs root access. It can be found on Play Store, but better way to install it from a custom recovery after downloading the latest zip package of SuperSU.
4. Yes, very much, that is one of those apps which is a must have for Android.
Also one thing about XDA, when you are thanking someone, just use the Thanks button. I could not care less about it but believe me a lot of people prefer that.