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Unrevoked not working for OTA?

Anyone else having this problem?
I'm using Unrevoked 3.1 on Windows XP.
I've got USB debugging on and the drivers installed.
The phone reboots into HBoot but then never goes into recovery. Just reboots.
Anyone else having this problem? It is definitely screwing me over for 2.2 haha.

andrewzpsu said:
Anyone else having this problem?
I'm using Unrevoked 3.1 on Windows XP.
I've got USB debugging on and the drivers installed.
The phone reboots into HBoot but then never goes into recovery. Just reboots.
Anyone else having this problem? It is definitely screwing me over for 2.2 haha.
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Is superuser permissions installed? And if so what do u get when u open terminal emulator and type Su?
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tcberg2010 said:
Is superuser permissions installed? And if so what do u get when u open terminal emulator and type Su?
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Superuser will not install. Unrevoked just reboots the phone it seems... never going into the custom recovery or flashing SU.
Which is my problem haha. I want 2.2 but can't flash it without root.
If I lose root because of this and am the only one I'm not going to be a happy camper lol

Possible
After reading 700+ pages of the other thread I have decided to steer clear from the buggy-beta and wait for the OTA, but I have had trouble with v3.1 and a regular reboot, so I wanted to chime in with 1 question:
Is your phone hot while this is happening?
I returned my Incredible due to excessive heat triggering reboots. When the phone was in the warm-to-hot zone, I could NEVER get into recovery. I could get into HBOOT, choose recovery, and then it would do 2 reboots, the second one being a regular.
Only way i could get into recovery was with a fully charged overnight battery, first thing in the morning (phone nice and cool).

Just got into it. used the custom image... the new 2.5.0.4 (if I'm not mistaken).
It was weird, and it may not be the image... it may have just taken like 10 tries to do it.
I'm not even wasting my time loading the OS... just putting on Froyo right now while in clockwork.
Crossing my fingers that it loads!

andrewzpsu said:
Just got into it. used the custom image... the new 2.5.0.4 (if I'm not mistaken).
It was weird, and it may not be the image... it may have just taken like 10 tries to do it.
I'm not even wasting my time loading the OS... just putting on Froyo right now while in clockwork.
Crossing my fingers that it loads!
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Create nandroid backup before u do anything else, just in case.
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tcberg2010 said:
Create nandroid backup before u do anything else, just in case.
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I have backups pre-OTA.

andrewzpsu said:
I have backups pre-OTA.
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As long as u have extra protection in case the first layer fails you'll be alright
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seemed to work for me

having trouble after i got the new ota loaded. I get to the reboot phone reboots then unrevoked says waiting for phone to reboot any ideas didn't have this problem before?
edit: never mind got restarted computer life is good now

I am having the same issue. I have installed the drivers, then when I run the reflash tool it reboots my phone after about 3 seconds and loads up HBOOT and then from there it reboots my phone and the reflash tool either says "waiting on phone to reboot" or "installing image" or something like that but it just sits there for hours and doesn't progress. I have debugging enabled.
To add a little history, I already rooted using the hard method awhile back and then unrooted. Now I am trying to root again and can't.

Droid x ota is live now!!!!

Go to settings, about phone, software update and enjoy froyo goodness
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It's downloading!!! Thanks for the info!

well, i tried downloading and it failed? any extra steps to download? unroot or anything?

I was still rooted... Maybe the server's being swamped...

well it finished downloading. so i dont' know. tried doing unrooting with one click but not working so no im stuck. bootstrap or any app i need to uninstalled?
anyone extracting update.zip?

same here. i tried to install the update file but i reboot into clockworkmod recovery and it tells me i failed to update

Working good, now we'll need to divide the forum questions Before Froyo BF and After Froyo AF. No bugs yet, though flash doesn't quite match lip sync, not too sure if it's the site or not.

Worked great, tried flash and that works beautifully. Phone sure seems to be a bit smoother. I had rooted the phone and I unrooted it before performing the OTA update.
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Kcrang wonder what were doing wrong. Or app that's keeping us from updating.
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I think this bricked my phone. Stuck at the Moto logo now.

dadsterflip>
right now i'm thinking it's the clockworkmod, so i am re-installing the stock
if you go to rootzwiki's page, it should show you how to do, if that's your problem.

Well let me know if that method works for you .
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Ok, my way worked. All you need to do, is to hard reset, reactivate your phone, and download ota update. It totally worked!

Noobie here..when you say hard set, what exactly do you mean. Do I need to unroot the phone first and then hardset, then go to (with verizon) *228 and ativate?

kcrang said:
Ok, my way worked. All you need to do, is to hard reset, reactivate your phone, and download ota update. It totally worked!
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Well... I tried factory reset and reactivated.. still gets hung up and resets after its reboot to the recovery screen. Comes back with "update failed"
The only thing I had done at one time or another was Koush's Clockwork boot and root.
I had unrooted and uninstalled Kouch's stuff.. then factory reset and reinstalled, same thing. The update will download.. boots to recovery screen, get 1/4 way, error triangle, reboot, "update failed"..
Any ideas? Is there something from Koush's stuff that is hanging around, evern after an uninstall?
I'd really like to get the OTA update!!
Thanks!

willy1234x1 said:
I think this bricked my phone. Stuck at the Moto logo now.
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Use SBF, you should be able to bring life back to your phone

Anyone know if I need to backup first? I haven't rooted it, I just have a couple dozen apps installed and don't want to lose my text messages and any other information.
Nevermind, I eventually figured out it saves your data.

Trying to get this update. I am rooted and am trying to complete the instruction from the first couple of posts. Setting/About Phone/System Updates
When I go to System update it tells me I have to hava a Motorola Account "System Update " is not available without a Motorola service account. Would you like to set up an account now?
When I choose setup it takes me to Setup Account menu. What account is it talking about? Anyone know?

Same here. I deleted pretty much anythig i could think of and still.nothing. maybe my framework? Anyone got a stock apk framework?
I did that one click root method an i tried doing the unroot and doesn't seem to work.
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paulsg63 said:
Well... I tried factory reset and reactivated.. still gets hung up and resets after its reboot to the recovery screen. Comes back with "update failed"
The only thing I had done at one time or another was Koush's Clockwork boot and root.
I had unrooted and uninstalled Kouch's stuff.. then factory reset and reinstalled, same thing. The update will download.. boots to recovery screen, get 1/4 way, error triangle, reboot, "update failed"..
Any ideas? Is there something from Koush's stuff that is hanging around, evern after an uninstall?
I'd really like to get the OTA update!!
Thanks!
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Seems like there are people that have just rooted that can get the update...
I had rooted at one point.. but also had the Koush bootloader on.. have recently uninistalled that.
Koush.. is there anything else I can do manually that will make my phone stock after uninstalling your Clockworks loader?
Please help!!!

[Q] z4root for htc evo shift

I just bought my htc evo shift...I was wondering if the z4root will work on this phone I have it downloaded n tried to install once but got scared and pulled the battery...can anyone tell me if this would be safe..I'm not trying to make my phone a paper wieght any info would be appreciated..

It works and is safe for temporary root only. Permanent root has not been established yet.

Already discussed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=906711

z4root does work on evo shift
z4root worked on the evo shift, but as a temporary root exactly perfect for me I just wanted the overclock option and wifi tether...whoo I'm excited...thanks to u all who helped.

mlucero312 said:
z4root worked on the evo shift, but as a temporary root exactly perfect for me I just wanted the overclock option and wifi tether...whoo I'm excited...thanks to u all who helped.
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there is no ability to overclock.

overclock dnt work on shift
I'm disapointed tht overclock dnt work...but atleast I got tether

z4root borked my phone so badly I had to hard reset. Made it freeze up and slow down to a crawl after reboot.

silex said:
z4root borked my phone so badly I had to hard reset. Made it freeze up and slow down to a crawl after reboot.
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Happened to me the first time I tried it to. Try again and I bet it works like a charm!

shift refusing to factory reset
So I'm in need of some assistance I installed z4root n decided to unroot n just stick to my factory settings...so I uninstalled all root apps and z4root n then I tried to do a factory reset n it just refuses to do it...I tried the holding the volume button down then power on it justs gets stuck at the screen which says htc. What do I need to do?

z4root destroyed my phone :'( it lags to hell now. I tried to reapply it as was suggested, but it doesn't show up on my applications list. I can't even reinstall it... it takes a long time to try and install it and then it says "Application not installed."

If you have the Superuser APK showing up go into Settings, Applications, and uninstall it. Then pull the battery or power down and restart.
That's what helped me.
It took a while but Z4 showed back up on mine and I was able to uninstall it. I'm using +Visionary now myself and it has been great, just have to uninstall Superuser everytime I power off.

I tried to use Z4 version 1.1 (the link downloaded that one) and it didnt work. It begun to do the root process and then it froze. I reset my phone and uninstalled it. Then I found out about the newer version 1.3 and tried that one and has worked flawlessly the 2 times I had to use it.

visionary+
Worked great, correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that z4root has been blocked with the evo shift. So after I messed up my 1st phone n replaced it n rooted with visionary+ n I like it..I. havnt tried the permaroot because I don't think its been worked out yet but if anyone has permarooted the evoshift let me know....I want to overclock my phone...so ill be waiting

For those of you breaking your phones with Z4root, you should definitely Run the RUU from Sprint in order to "unroot" and not just try to delete the items you installed in order to root in the first place. Download the proper HTC drivers or HTC Sync, download the RUU that can be found on the Android Development page on the Evo Shift Forums here at XDA, and Run the Ruu straight from your computer while having your phone plugged in and USB Debugging on OR you can do it from Recovery mode OR you can do it from Fastboot. Either way, as soon as you run the RUU, everything will be done for you and you won't have to do a thing but sit back and watch! Hope this helps.

z4root
Z4root is great and I don't blame it for my stupidy I messed woth some stuff I knew nothing about...

I think I will wait for something permanent do I don't potentially mess up my phone after all the hours I put in to set it up.
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My "uptime" so far is 169:17:40 and counting since I rooted my phone with Z4Root. I can't wait for perma root...
What's your uptime so far...?

z4root works fine for me as long as I run it immediately after reboot. Otherwise, it can hang, or reboot the phone into a weird state, etc.

I'm using visionary+ now...I heard that the permaroot they use for the htc desire will work on the shift since they are basiclly the same phone...z4root takes up 24mb n visionary takes up like 2.8mb of space so I decided to stick with visionary+
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Oh n temporary root will not likely mess ur phone up since pretty much everything stays stock
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Stuck on "falshboot flash recovery recovery.img"

Trying to get CWM again on my phone so I can update to the newer 2.3.3
When I try get into Bootloader I select recovery then it just reboots.
So I found out that you have to reflash CWM everytime so I got the file and am trying to do it but it's stuck.
It was successful before but it's not working now, I don't know what the problem is.
any help is appreciacted.
adb devices lists the phone alright. attached image.
Peace.
IronSingh

ok nvm got it to work, Fastboot commands only work when in Bootloader.
Peace.
IronSingh

Easiest Way To Get Root On 2.3.3
IronSingh said:
ok nvm got it to work, Fastboot commands only work when in Bootloader.
Peace.
IronSingh
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if you have clockwork mod use this as a restore and you will have a rooted 2.3.3 its the easiest way to do it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?c1ww7zb837uycbk
just unzip and put the backup folder in your clockworkmod recovery folder boot into recovery and restore 2.3.3 takes 2 minutes and you will boot up with a rooted 2.3.3

thanks for responding but I already got it working.
I got it from here, went in CWM and installed it as zip.
took 1 minute to patch and about 10 minutes at the X logo.
Working fine, I was already rooted, didn't loose root.
I lost swype though that is a major bummer.
Peace.
IronSingh

Swype works fine with 2.3.3, why did you lose it?
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It probably broke on new flash and he didn't reinstall
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kenvan19 said:
It probably broke on new flash and he didn't reinstall
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I went to the Swype forum it was suggested to reinstall I did that it is working fine now.
There is a problem where when you double tap on the word it doesn't list the choices instead it gives you the Cut Copy menu.
Peace.
IronSingh

[Q] S4 I9505 wont reboot into recovery after CF Auto root

Hi all hope ye can help. I attempted, unsuccessfully, to root my I9505 using the CF auto root method as described on this forum. It appeared to be successful on Odin but when the device rebooted i noticed thatb the red android didnt appear and that no apps could get root access. I followed Chainfires advice that states that manually rebooting the device into recovery would initiate the process. When i attempt to reboot into recovery (using the three button method) the phone device vibrates to acknowledge turning on however the screen stays black. It remains like this for quite some time until i let go of the buttons where it will vibrate again before switching off. Has anybody any ideas in how to rectify this?? (Rebooting into recovery from ROM manager causes the app to freeze)

EDIT: While attemptimg manual reboot into recovery, the splash screen appears with tiny blue writing and the screen then goes blan

does the download mode work??

Blackwolf10 said:
does the download mode work??
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Yes download mode works fine

darg said:
Yes download mode works fine
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good that means ur device is safe
so do u have superuser installed if yes try updating or re install from market and then get titanium backup to see if it gets root thats all i know

Blackwolf10 said:
good that means ur device is safe
so do u have superuser installed if yes try updating or re install from market and then get titanium backup to see if it gets root thats all i know
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Thanks for your quick reply. I have downloaded both apps and attempted what you have suggested. The superuser app can update but is unable to get root access while TB looks for root rights. In the process of restoring the firmware through kies and will try afresh

I've managed to boot into recovery only using the three-button combo.
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darg said:
Thanks for your quick reply. I have download both apps and attempted what you have suggested. The superuser app trican update but is unable to get root access while TB looks for root rights. In the process of restoring the firmware through kies and will try afresh
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ok mate hope this works out good for you this time
and don't forget to do all the steps from chainfire's post maybe u forgot something or check people's comments to see if anyone has the same problem as u

Try re-rooting your device.
CF-Auto-Root​

Tried three times with the same result unfortunately

darg said:
Tried three times with the same result unfortunately
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how is the thing going so far if it doesn't work you can always flash a pre rooted Rom via odin and thanks for being nice with the thanks button u made my day

Try this Pre-Rooted Stock ROM for ODIN ​