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Question about unroot

Hello. In case i'm interested on Unrooting the phone and installing the Original Rom wich came with my phone, in orther to update it (in case there is an interesting rom update) , do i have to do something special? Or can i run the exe update directly from the HTC site it'll unroot and restore everything as it was before with perfect SPL etc? Thanks

You shouldn't need to do anything else, just do what it says on the HTC website. I did it 2 times without any problems.
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thank you very much for the reply Best regards

alpharevx thinks that there hboot dose not kill sense

I asked at #alpharevx that we at xda are having problems with HTC sense where once we unlock are wildfire with there hboot it stops the htc wallpapers and settings from working and wedgets form loading if hard reset and there awaser was i was talking bull s**t
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Certainly not a kind answer....why... because i did downgrade to hboot 1.01.0001 and then installes ruu and... voila everything works... but s-off gone, also root binary... it wold be nicer they told you what thebproblem is, and why they renoved windows version beta...
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mine is working perfect m8.could.nt ask for more realy..everything is spot on for me.

dragdusan said:
... and why they renoved windows version beta...
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It's available again.

Yes. I saw that, and I'm glad for that... good job after all
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I went S-off with first alpharev x beta. No problems at all, but I left my stock froyo rom. I noticed many people flashing coocked Roms encountered this issue. There is even a fix for this. Could it be something generated by custom roms?
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robra001 said:
Could it be something generated by custom roms?
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Nope. Seems you are unaware of issue. The issue is small in my opinion. It is just after alpharevx s-off, formatting the phone will not load sense widgets and setup by default. But we can use then manually. Also HTC wallpapers and scenes will be missing. Wallpapers can be used if we have the picture files of them.
Just make a nandroid backup and format your phone to see it.
And I don't know whether it is due to alpharevx hboot or not. Because I don't know the technical aspects of it. And personally I don't think it is due to alpharevx hboot. If hboot has something to do with it, then why should be the old wildpuzzle Rom and Chinese froyo Rom HTCsetupwizzard.apk worked perfectly. And has anyone tried using setupwizzard.apk from any other official roms.
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I actually noticed this as well, as soon as I got S-OFF without changing anything, Sense just stopped working properly. Glad you reminded me of that as I was gonna go back to it because CM7 is proving to be unstable in the long run. I might just try another rom though.

Sendint back a S OFF phone to T mobile

Hi,
I have the MyTouch 4G Rooted thru GFREE mode. I did a Factory Reset, but obviusly i still have the S OFF.
Do you think i can just return to T Mobile like This? one of the keys is not working very well and i need this covered by the Warranty

Well I have heard they don't check very deep as long as you have a stock like or stock ROM. But you still run the risk... I would just follow the unrooting method and get it to 100% stock just to be sure they don't try to rape you.
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Definitely try to unroot it. Dont risk it, T-Mobile maybe a little more relaxed than other carriers but you never know.
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bigwillyg said:
Definitely try to unroot it. Dont risk it, T-Mobile maybe a little more relaxed than other carriers but you never know.
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Thanks for the advice. Ive tried to Unroot it but I havent be able to do it! Ggrr:-(

DANCCS said:
Thanks for the advice. Ive tried to Unroot it but I havent be able to do it! Ggrr:-(
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Don't worry about it. Read my previous comments on this issue here.

I had the same problem. I tried flashing a stock rom because some people said you lose s-off but no luck. I say wipe it. Root it again with gfree then unroot it with the gfree way. That worked for me.
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I've returned almost half a dozen rooted phone's back to TMO, haven't had a problem.

Don't Worry
Don't Worry man, I just had the same problem with the GFree method and I wasn't able to unroot it. I sent it back to T-mobile anyway and they didn't check and sent me a replacement!

You have?? Wow...I was willing to take that chance because I was having a hard time getting mines unrooted and asked around if anyone ever heard any stories or anyone personally that had their Warranty voided. That's a blessing nothing ever happened. I was told T-Mobile would say something so I focused on getting it Unrooted!

bro they rarely check for that, ive sent about 2 phones with s-off and ive gotten a replacement lol. good luck tho

You can unroot by following the TRUE method. In my case, I had root till I reflashed the stock image
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You can't get S-ON back without using your part7backup files. If you lost those, you can't get S-ON back at all.

panache omg please help me (reward included)

omg i think i ruined my htc panache phone while i was rooting it and stuff its stock on htc logo or bootloader i dont know what to do i just spent 499.99 on this phone. anyone that helps me im willing to give them free bluetooth headset brand new sealed or ps3 games that i havnt opened brand new sealed. please pm me some1, thanks

sofia-captivate said:
omg i think i ruined my htc panache phone while i was rooting it and stuff its stock on htc logo or bootloader i dont know what to do i just spent 499.99 on this phone. anyone that helps me im willing to give them free bluetooth headset brand new sealed or ps3 games that i havnt opened brand new sealed. please pm me some1, thanks
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That's nice of you but you don't have to offer anything on return. There's plenty of us that will help you out with no needed incentives.
But to answer your question, can you still get into your bootloader? Take battery off and put it back in. Then hold down Volume Down+Power button. If so, then all isn't lost. You can try to use the stock PD15IMG.zip for the Panache to put it back to stock.
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i pmed you
mackster248 said:
That's nice of you but you don't have to offer anything on return. There's plenty of us that will help you out with no needed incentives.
But to answer your question, can you still get into your bootloader? Take battery off and put it back in. Then hold down Volume Down+Power button. If so, then all isn't lost. You can try to use the stock PD15IMG.zip for the Panache to put it back to stock.
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Idk how to do that. I shouldn't of messed with it now the phone is useless. Cause these asians asking for 80$ at mall but its to much

The problem here is that the op tried rooting the panache the same way they rooted theirs friends mytouch 4g. Problem with this is that the panache come with gingerbread already. So they will have to downgrade.
I figured these steps will downgrade their panache with the stock US 2.2.
febycv said:
To make the process very simple, try this method.
Just follow this steps for an error free downgrade.
1. Download the rom here.
2. Rename it to PD15IMG.zip
2. Place it on the root of your sd card.
3. Switch On your phone while holding the Power button & the down volume button.
4. The hboot menu will update your phone (do according to the hboot instructions).
The original bootloader is 0.86.0000
Now reboot & enjoy your update......This is the original T-mobile 2.2.1 version....so no worries.....
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Can some one confirm these steps will work.
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coupetastic-droid said:
The problem here is that the op tried rooting the panache the same way they rooted theirs friends mytouch 4g. Problem with this is that the panache come with gingerbread already. So they will have to downgrade.
I figured these steps will downgrade their panache with the stock US 2.2.
Can some one confirm these steps will work.
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Those steps wont work. You need the instructions on the G2 section. I'm on my phone so I can't link,but its in there. You meed to downgrade back to froyo. ADB is also required. So hopefully you know how to do that.
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mackster248 said:
Those steps wont work. You need the instructions on the G2 section. I'm on my phone so I can't link,but its in there. You meed to downgrade back to froyo. ADB is also required. So hopefully you know how to do that.
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The rom in those steps is the unrooted froyo rom.
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If you are using the Panache, you should be doing this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16858971&postcount=98
It sounds to me like you need a gold card to downgrade your panache to the old android software. Too bad in order to make a gold card you need access to the panache to push the PD15IMG.zip into the card... You can always ask around to see if anyone in your area has a gold card for the panache u can borrow in order to fix your phone.

She is doing this guide. Actually, I've temp-rooted her phone and "updated" the MISC partition for downgrade, but she didn't have a card reader ready for making a goldcard, and the next day she already managed to reboot her phone and get stuck. So the only thing she needs is a goldcard.
The problem currently is getting CID out of this phone, I'm not sure stock bootloader shows it, and it's required for goldcard. If anyone knows Panache's CID - please share. If not - Panache RUU will be required to return to stock, but there is not a single link on the net now. So if anyone has it - please share, too.

Make a gold card for her using this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970157 ? If you have the panache just insert a 1 gig card into the phone and enable disc mode.
1) Format it first
2) Click MMC2 and click get CID
3) Click on the website on the lower part and paste the CID number onto the form
4) go to email download image
5) Load the image and patch it and you'll have a semi ready gold card.
6) Put the phone back in charge/debug mode and push the PD15img.zip file through and it should revert it to mytouch4g stock.
Ps. I just rooted my panache two days ago and Im successfully running VU rom.

The problem with this guide is that it doesn't explicitly say that the phone needs to be fully booted into Android and with USB debugging enabled - but it needs to be. So if the phone doesn't boot, this guide is worthless. See the method this guide is referring to for getting CID out of the phone, and you'll understand.
In any case, the problem is fixed (or actually, there was no problem), the phone is booting. Hopefully, everything will remain ok.

Yea. The last time I gtalked her she was able to boot into the device. Also she did tell me when trying to flash the stock 2.2 unrooted rom from hboot
She did mention something about CID. Hope she can figure out. I don't use adb because I can't get it to ever work on none of the pc's I use so I don't know adb yet. So I won't be able to help her in that part.
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New to HTC DHD ... BUT !!!

Hai guys ...
i purchased a new DHD 2 monthes ago ..
im considering rooting and installing a new ROM ..
BUT !!
It comes with android 2.3.3 , software no. is 2.37.707.3
can that be rooted or what ?
its my first android device ... still dont understand anything but everytime i search on google how to root it .. i find results on the ''froyo'' not gingerbread ...
i also need to backup the stock ROM in case i needed to re-install it ...
Any help ???
thank you ...

Please read the forum rules, use search first.
But it seems you are lazy ass
You must downgrade first to root (works for me months ago build ver. 2.37):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152233

ya .. im kinda lazy ass :-D LOL ... thanks bud anyway ...

Use AAHK
You can use AAHK to root and get s-off in one step without manually downgrading first. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1259821

There are a few links or resources via my sig (here).

Htc Desire hd
Try the ace hack kit. works a treat. I messed it first time simply by doing quick format on my sd,always and always format it properly haha.
But no,ace hack kit took me 15 minutes,now ive tried loads of roms
Always back to android Rev mind.

anyway i can backup my current stock rom ??

BLOODY_STONE said:
anyway i can backup my current stock rom ??
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if you are rooted then you can use RomManager (clockworkmod).

u have to downgrade 1.7 with RUU

stevysg said:
u have to downgrade 1.7 with RUU
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For those saying you have to downgrade you have no idea what you are talking about. Especially when you resort to name calling. The Advanced Ace Hack Kit does not require ROM downgrading. It only downgrades radio and kernal. It is the only currently supported method available. Others have been discontinued or do not work anymore.

Desire hd 2? hasn't that been announced as HTC sensation?
Either you mean desire hd or sensation
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"2" goes with "months ago", not with "dhd"...
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I knew it would come back at me not to read everything
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Will I be able to backup my Orange UK Rom and reflash it later if need be ?
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I did it and installed Android Revolution HD ... BUT
it doesnt read arabic on websites ...
any solutions ?

Agoattamer said:
For those saying you have to downgrade you have no idea what you are talking about. Especially when you resort to name calling. The Advanced Ace Hack Kit does not require ROM downgrading. It only downgrades radio and kernal. It is the only currently supported method available. Others have been discontinued or do not work anymore.
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well never heard of the ace hack kit, but i followed this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
which is still working (just got my desire hd back from customer support and unlocked it with the method from my attached link)