Question for the new tmo update - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok I'm a rooted user here, but just a question, can I do the ota update via my phone and lose my soff setting from my root? Or will it properly update the device with keeping the soff? I was really thinking of keeping the royal ginger I have at the moment, but don't want to risk the soff going to son and thus screwing my phone, advice? Thanks.
One more thing, if I don't update via the servers how soon after will the port be avail with all the cool stuff I'm using now?
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jay4mont78 said:
Ok I'm a rooted user here, but just a question, can I do the ota update via my phone and lose my soff setting from my root? Or will it properly update the device with keeping the soff? I was really thinking of keeping the royal ginger I have at the moment, but don't want to risk the soff going to son and thus screwing my phone, advice? Thanks.
One more thing, if I don't update via the servers how soon after will the port be avail with all the cool stuff I'm using now?
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If your using royal ginger you will not be offered the update. If your on a stock Rom that's rooted yes you will be offered the update and it more than likely would come with a new hboot. Which means yes you would root and your s-off
Shouldn't take long if not minutes for it to be rooted again.
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Un-rooting mt3g

K. Rooted my sons phone to put cm6 on it. Nandroid backup of his 1.6 before I installed it.
Reflashed the 1.6 so he can get the OTA 2.2. So, now he has 1.6 but is still rooted.
Now how do I unroot it?
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You shouldn't need to do anything else. The update will overwrite the custom recovery which should be the last thing left of your being "rooted".
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Thanks. Just making sure. He hasn't had any notifications of any update yet.
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I just thought about something, how did you root it in the first place? If you used the Androot method you will need to re-run the program selecting the unroot option, then I would suggest also doing a factory reset. Reason being is that with the Androot method you would have rooted the phone as the first step so you could use ROM manager to create the backup and to flash a new recovery.
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Man. It's been so long I can't remember... I know I used terminal on my g1 and rooted his phone about the same time and I'm pretty sure I used the method on the cyanogen wiki. I will have to go look at that.
Still nothing being reported on his phone about any updates....
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Okay. Checked on the cyanogen wiki and I am now positive I used the security hole in 1.5 method ny flashing a new SAPP.IMG file.
But, my question remains. The phone is still rooted and on 1.6, will it get the OTA update? I guess I could just wait until the weekend is over to see. Nothing so far....
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U flashed the sapping? ure supposed to hboot it (volume down and power, that should wipe everything including root, do not root again, do a manual update to donut then froyo if u want
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K I'll try that. Thanks.
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NVM
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Unrooting

Can anyone confirm that if u update with a official update, u will be unrooted
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Absolutely, and you may very well end up in a situation where it will be incredibly hard to get rooted again.
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So u recommend not to update?
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I wouldn't unless you are having problems with the phone or you are going to send it back to art.
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Unroot went ok
Javi97100 said:
Can anyone confirm that if u update with a official update, u will be unrooted
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I unrooted last week just to see if I could just in case I had to return to AT&T, it wasn't easy, but finally got it to work. I then used the LINUX(built a LINUX: UBUNTU bootable CD) method of rooting again, went flawlessly; no issues at all.
I un-rooted last night booting into Fastboot USB and running the ATT stock ROM given on the HTC website... finished in 5 minutes. Had to fix something un-related, but it was a good test to see if I could un-root.
Then I just used unrevoked3 to root again; no problems.

[Q] does unrevoked work for rooting DHD?

does ubrevoked work for rooting DHD because the root method is abit complicated I heard unrevoked roots any 2.2 device which run 2.2 out of the box.
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Have a look for visionary+
Not sure if Unrevoked is only for the original Desire but the above will do the job nicely.
Is it an easy root? That's all I want a a few clicks and walla a rooted DHD
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Doesn't come much easier, run the app and hit root! If that's all you want then you're done!
If you want to start flashing custom roms though you will need to s-off your phone though. A little more in depth but still not too bad.
That's the what is s off also I might as well root after the official gingerbread release or should I just root now?
Which would be best.
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Depends what you want to do with the DHD ... I forgot to mention also that you will need a custom recovery image if you want to start flashing roms. Again, all pretty straight forward if you follow the instrucitons to the letter.
Have a read here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841076
unrevoked DOESN'T Work for DHD, ive already tried, and bricked my device!!!!!
hope thats big enough for you lol
If I use visionary will I be able to get OTA updates from my provider/HTC?
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fkofilee said:
unrevoked DOESN'T Work for DHD, ive already tried, and bricked my device!!!!!
hope thats big enough for you lol
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Ok mate got it.
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Aamir.Badat said:
If I use visionary will I be able to get OTA updates from my provider/HTC?
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I suspect that afte rooting you'll not be too bothered about ota updates from your carrier as the stock unbranded rom is likely to get updates sooner and the custom roms will always incorporate the latest releases anyway.
In answer to the question though I'm not sure in all honesty.
thanks for all your help.

Flash a new radio on a unrooted phone.

Is it possible.
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I'm pretty sure it is but personally I wouldn't try it.
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If I remember correctly you can't. You need to be fully rooted meaning s-off. Basically s-off means radio sercurity off,among other things turned off. If you try to flash anything through clocklworkmod recovery without s-off,either nothing will happen or your phone will be bricked an you will have to buy a complete new phone. Best thing to do is fully root(s-off). If you need help rooting your phone,send me a pm,an ill help you out.
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Mr.Highway said:
If I remember correctly you can't. You need to be fully rooted meaning s-off. Basically s-off means radio sercurity off,among other things turned off. If you try to flash anything through clocklworkmod recovery without s-off,either nothing will happen or your phone will be bricked an you will have to buy a complete new phone. Best thing to do is fully root(s-off). If you need help rooting your phone,send me a pm,an ill help you out.
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You're right that you must be rooted to flash in recovery, but you do not flash radios in recovery. They are flashed in the bootloader, and I'm not sure root access is required to flash a PD15IMG.zip file in the bootloader. I'm leaning towards root not being required, but I don't know for sure. Might as well go ahead and try it. The worst that could happen is you get the "access denied" message and the installation aborts.
I was thinking that about the radio, I just flashed my first one. After having my phone rooted for 6months. Only reason why I said root the phone. Is to make sure he has full control over the phone. An it takes some risks out,some but not all.
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Yea, I was about to say you don't use cwm to flash a new radio but you got it. : P lol
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Thanks for all the feedback everyone. Its my girls phone, she wanted the latest but won't let me root it. (Personally I have no idea why) girls I tell ya. Haha. Thanks again everyone.
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If you ever need anymore help,feel free to send me a message.
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Radios can be flashed in bootloader - otherwise stock firmware updates wouldn't be able to upgrade radios - but they most probably need to be signed to be flashed by S-ON bootloader. In that case, the answer to the OP would be "no".

New update 2.3.4 root?

Has anyone had anyluck rooting the new update I took my rooted froyo in store the updated it but lost root but (s-off) still showing and I can't reroot
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Google:
"fre3vo downgrade root mytouch 4g"
Or just read the first couple of pages on the forum. It has been mentioned already a hundred times, probably.
Not wanting to downgrade
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To reroot at this point you may have to downgrade then select a gingerbread sense rom from the dev section. Some of them are pretty good. If you still don't want to, you'll probably just have to wait it out.
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