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super slow after rooting

i used the method mentioned here
hxxp://theunlockr.com/2010/11/15/universal-android-rooting-method-visionary-method/
and it shows i still have SU permission... but everytime my phone re starts, it opens visionary and says rooting phone...
but the thing is, my phone is snail slow now... and when i go back to the main screen, it takes forever and says loading... then my normal screen shows up... its also taking forever to do simple things, such as open text msg's
any suggestions on this problem?

Lol i think you didnt properly s-off and prem-root your phone. Go to G2/disireZ android dev... locate the thread about prem rooting. There should be 3 methods. 1 gfree(safest) 2. Unforgivens method( fastest) and 3. Rage method( dont know) well yea... hope u get rooted and if anybody sees my post can you guys better explain lol thanks
Edit: lol just go to stickes and there should be a thread that talks about guilds and roms.
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shows my phone is rooted, and su lets me access it, also just tried to dl setcpu and it has access as well....
just the phone is still stupid slow.. and i want to fix that

Okay... what rom are u using?
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stock, i have not touched anything yet, tryign to get input on which is the best sense rom to dl...
basically i just want to clean up the phone, remove all bells crap from it, and speed it up a lil bit....

Quick thing i want u to do. Can u turn off your phone and hold vol down + power and tell me what it says on the upper left of the screen
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ya it says s-on still.... whats the easy way to get rid of this... and as i said i just want to speed up this phone a lil bit

Lol do you want full root? Or just speed up your phone?
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both, id like the option to upgrade to a nice optimized sense rom, and to speed up the phone

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833965 ( 1st method of prem rooting) (fastest)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...Subsidy_Unlock.2C_SuperCID.2C_and_Radio_S-OFF
( this is the gfree method the safest) i advice to follow this sinces its the safest
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but since it says my phone is rooted already, can this cause problems? or can i un root and re do it?

Lol alrighty. When you get prem-root/s-off you should flash virtuous Rom(sense) or cyan RC1 Rom(stock android feel).
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No lol you are not rooted. You have temp root. If your hboot says s-on then your not rooted. I advice not to mess with the prem root button on visionary.
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no no what im saying is that since my phone says its s-on still, but it says its rooted... how can i start fresh, by say unrooting my phone, or is there some way i can just hop in the middle here....
im new to all this and i dont want to screw up my phone lol

Your using visionary right? Since you have s-on after you reboot your phone it should be unrooted again. Just make sure you turn off the start at boot thing on visionary
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Dont use visionary, use the other two. There have been to many problems with Visionary.

i did turn it off, and setcpu still has access it says.... so where can i confirm on the phone is it is or is not rooted....

Does h-boot say S-Off?

Like i said before. Turn off your phone hold vol down + power. If it says s-off on the left top of the screen the your rooted. Well i used unforgivens way of prem rooting and no issues. S-off (security off)
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nope says s-on

Perm Root not working

I followed multiple steps for installing perm root on a friends Mytouch and for some reason we could not get the s-off feature to work. I noticed too we do have SU access via adb or terminal but I still never could get s-off. After we got root we used rom manager to install clockwork and after the fact it installed 3.0.2 i believe it completely borked the recovery. I stepped it down to 3.0.0 and still had the same issue. The main reason i wanted to get s-off was to adb flash the recovery but I got a signature fail. Any ideas or suggestions to get this working correctly? Rom Manager will not let me install 2x cwm basically stating it can not install it period. I also tried the batch file root method same issue. Thanks for your help in advance.

Please look at the "True permaroot and S-OFF" thread in Development section, and execute step-by-step.
If your friend's MT4G is running Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3), you'll need to use Gingerbreak instead of Visionary+ to get root access.

Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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dynamicj said:
Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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If you are following the ./gfree method step by step it will root your phone.
If you are using the root.sh script and it's not working chances are you may have a bad eMMC chipset and it will not root properly.
I know HTC said they would be pushing a update to close the exploit hole that is used to root our phones but i don't think it's been pushed yet.

Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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dynamicj said:
Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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HTC isn't "becoming a Motorola". HTC, is completely different. We do have a locked bootloader. But it's easily unlock-able whereas Moto's aren't.

Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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dynamicj said:
Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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I don't know what to tell you. There are several threads out there regarding how to root your phone. Both in a .gfree form and a root.sh form. One of those 2 work for 99.9% of EVERYONE.

You might try finding someone who put together a .zip that can be flashed through the android recovery(white screen with boot options, etc.). Otherwise you can get the RUU and return to stock. After that follow the directions step by step and DO NOT mix methods. This should result in an S-OFF root, if you did your homework correctly.
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I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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dynamicj said:
I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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Until you have "s-off" no recovery image will stick.

Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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dynamicj said:
Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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What method are you using?

I have tried them all
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dynamicj said:
I have tried them all
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What errors are you getting?

Just can not get it to go soff i have root in the device otherwise. Recovery also just shows a computer and cell phone icon after Rom manager install clockwork mod 3x. I am just trying to adb install a older cwm.
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As someone already explained before, when the security is on, no matter the amount of flashing you're going to try - it won't get you anywhere, since it won't be written to the actual ROM, and will be gone on restart.
Unless you pick a guide, follow it exactly, and post here everything that doesn't look proper - I don't think the forum can help you much.
Here's one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
Follow it and post anything that doesn't look good. Including your bootloader version.

The root is sticking on reboots but still no soff that's what i have been saying and i followed the guides to a t its not my first picnic rooting or roming a phone this one just has me stumped
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What does your bootloader show when you boot into it?
For the root to stick after boot, you had to have S-OFF, otherwise the eMMC wouldn't have been written to.
Having no info from you, as I said, it's impossible to help. If all this thread is just a complaint - by all means, but in that case there's no point in helping you. If you want help - you need to provide enough details for people to help you. Obviously, nobody can figure out anything from "I can't get s-off".

I do a adb reboot bootloader and i get us fast boot up top it says s-on but if i reboot to the os i still have root access for instance in titanium backup or Rom manager of that helps any
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Mytouch 4g

I know this isn't the right place, but I am new, so I can't post where needed. A few months ago I watched a YouTube video and rooted my phone and put CM7 Rom on it. I guess the video didn't do the backup part and since then I have lost all other back up options besides one I created last month. Is there anyway I can get my phone back to the original mytouch 4g before ginger bread? I used the gfree method, but as stated I can't restore before that because a backup was not done before the cm7 flash
Thanks in advanced

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059347
Download one of the Froyo based RUU's and follow instructions on how to flash it.

Thanks, but what is the Froyo

SuthernStyles said:
Thanks, but what is the Froyo
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Froyo is android 2.2. The version before Gingerbread (2.3).

Yeah, just looked it up. Thanks again

This does not work for me. And how do you open terminal on cpu?Terminal Emulator? Or is it commND PROMPT? Either way I cant get this to work. I need bettter instructions

SuthernStyles said:
I know this isn't the right place, but I am new, so I can't post where needed.
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Yes you can post where needed. New members can post in General and Q&A forums. You probably tried to post this in the Development forum...which was the WRONG forum, and indicates why we have the 10 post rule in place
So I've moved it to where you should have posted it.

SuthernStyles said:
I know this isn't the right place, but I am new, so I can't post where needed. A few months ago I watched a YouTube video and rooted my phone and put CM7 Rom on it. I guess the video didn't do the backup part and since then I have lost all other back up options besides one I created last month. Is there anyway I can get my phone back to the original mytouch 4g before ginger bread? I used the gfree method, but as stated I can't restore before that because a backup was not done before the cm7 flash
Thanks in advanced
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just flash the stock PD15IMG.zip file in bootloader.
PD15IMG.zip Android 2.2.1 Froyo
follow these instructions:
1) reboot to bootloader/hboot using power + volume DOWN buttons
2) bootloader will find the file
3) follow the onscreen instructions to flash it.
4) hit the thanks button.

saranhai said:
just flash the stock PD15IMG.zip file in bootloader.
PD15IMG.zip Android 2.2.1 Froyo
follow these instructions:
1) reboot to bootloader/hboot using power + volume DOWN buttons
2) bootloader will find the file
3) follow the onscreen instructions to flash it.
4) hit the thanks button.
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Does this lose root?
Edit: nevermind the file description says it all
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I did this, but its still CM7. Nothing changed at all? Lol

SuthernStyles said:
I did this, but its still CM7. Nothing changed at all? Lol
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Apparently not, saranhais thanks button is still unclicked but there's no way you did because pd15img.zip wipes away EVERYTHING
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Nicgraner said:
Apparently not, saranhais thanks button is still unclicked but there's no way you did because pd15img.zip wipes away EVERYTHING
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oh right, it won't work unless you click the thanks button. LOL jkkk...
hmm... i don't think you did it right...
can you please explain in detail what you did?

Nicgraner said:
Apparently not, saranhais thanks button is still unclicked but there's no way you did because pd15img.zip wipes away EVERYTHING
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All it did was said it uploaded it or whatever and I restarted and all was same

I pressed power,volume down reboot ,boot loader, it says SD checking PDimg15 or whatever. Then starts downloading. Ask to update, I said yes. Then power off. All is same.

Any advice?

SuthernStyles said:
I pressed power,volume down reboot ,boot loader, it says SD checking PDimg15 or whatever. Then starts downloading. Ask to update, I said yes. Then power off. All is same.
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You're not supposed to power it off during the update...
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That's the only option it gives me after it

SuthernStyles said:
That's the only option it gives me after it
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Try redownloading or try using the 2.3 RUU
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Where can I get those? Ill look around

Seems while I'm uploading it says the file is actually PD15IAG instead of img file? Also how does it know what to load or upload doing this method

Help me brick my phone! (but stay under warranty!)

So! I called up HTC about my phone and how it's been turning off and the 3 vibrates and blinking LED. The guy told me I can send it back, but if they find anything out of warranty, I will be charged. I'm running CM7, and will be charged if they find it. However, since my phone can't be turned off, I can't boot into the bootloader to flash the PD15IMG for froyo. So I need your help to brick this phone so they can't see that I'm running CM7, but keep it under warranty!
Thanks!

theholyfork said:
So! I called up HTC about my phone and how it's been turning off and the 3 vibrates and blinking LED. The guy told me I can send it back, but if they find anything out of warranty, I will be charged. I'm running CM7, and will be charged if they find it. However, since my phone can't be turned off, I can't boot into the bootloader to flash the PD15IMG for froyo. So I need your help to brick this phone so they can't see that I'm running CM7, but keep it under warranty!
Thanks!
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Um. It can be turned off. Take the battery out.
and you don't need power buttons to boot into boot loader Esp if you are running CM7.
from your adb input either CMD on the computer or Terminal Emulator via the android market.
Code:
adb reboot bootloader

neidlinger said:
Um. It can be turned off. Take the battery out.
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They told me to take the battery out, but they said if they find any unrecognized software on it I'll be charged, so I'm assuming they'll be attempting to get into the phone lol.

theholyfork said:
They told me to take the battery out, but they said if they find any unrecognized software on it I'll be charged, so I'm assuming they'll be attempting to get into the phone lol.
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So why not use ADB to restore the part7***** backup, then boot into bootloader via adb and flash the PD15IMG?

neidlinger said:
So why not use ADB to restore the part7***** backup, then boot into bootloader via adb and flash the PD15IMG?
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I'll try that, but I'm worried about when I have to turn the phone off, because it could be hours before I get it back on again.

theholyfork said:
I'll try that, but I'm worried about when I have to turn the phone off, because it could be hours before I get it back on again.
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i can tell you, you will have to reboot the phone with ADB. It won't go into an "off" state. but it will be rebooted a few times via the process.

neidlinger said:
i can tell you, you will have to reboot the phone with ADB. It won't go into an "off" state. but it will be rebooted a few times via the process.
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Alright, I'll give it a shot then. Thanks!

Rebooting into bootloader through ADB is a no go. Phone is off and wont turn back on now
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theholyfork said:
Rebooting into bootloader through ADB is a no go. Phone is off and wont turn back on now
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Step 1) go to local hunting/sports store
Step 2) buy stun gun
Step 3) take off back cover of phone. Turn on stun gun. Run it along phone
Step 4) you're done
I've also read hooking up positive and negative leads to a car battery does the trick, although I wouldn't suggest that..
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Nicgraner said:
Step 1) go to local hunting/sports store
Step 2) buy stun gun
Step 3) take off back cover of phone. Turn on stun gun. Run it along phone
Step 4) you're done
I've also read hooking up positive and negative leads to a car battery does the trick, although I wouldn't suggest that..
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Lmao good one.
Does anyone know if S-Off voids your warranty? Or if flashing the stock PD15IMG turns S-On? Cause I got it to turn on and was able to flash the Froyo PD15IMG
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theholyfork said:
Lmao good one.
Does anyone know if S-Off voids your warranty? Or if flashing the stock PD15IMG turns S-On? Cause I got it to turn on and was able to flash the Froyo PD15IMG
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If you're "s-on" with 2.2.x you should be okay.
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neidlinger said:
If you're "s-on" with 2.2.x you should be okay.
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Does flashing the froyo PD15IMG restore s-on? Cause if it doesnt I'm s-off still
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theholyfork said:
Does flashing the froyo PD15IMG restore s-on? Cause if it doesnt I'm s-off still
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it should... unless you rooted using the gfree method...
then you need the part7backup file...

saranhai said:
it should... unless you rooted using the gfree method...
then you need the part7backup file...
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Aaand I did. Can I temp root with visionary and do this? Or do I have to reroot through .gfree?
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theholyfork said:
Aaand I did. Can I temp root with visionary and do this? Or do I have to reroot through .gfree?
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since you are s-off you can just temp root > perm root with VISIONary.

I bricked my first mt4g almost a year ago.
I was rooted via gfree but never did the eng-hboot, so I decided to return to stock cause I thought something was wrong with my phone and that restoring can't be any harder than apple devices...boy was i wrong. I flashed the stock img in hboot and it was game over. T-mo sent me a replacement though cause they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it, it said i had s-on and everything [^_^[]

I2IEAILiiTY said:
I bricked my first mt4g almost a year ago.
I was rooted via gfree but never did the eng-hboot, so I decided to return to stock cause I thought something was wrong with my phone and that restoring can't be any harder than apple devices...boy was i wrong. I flashed the stock img in hboot and it was game over. T-mo sent me a replacement though cause they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it, it said i had s-on and everything [^_^[]
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Nice lol. I was able to get s-on again so I'll be sending it back today without worry!
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[Q] Help! Power Button Broken, Cant reboot into bootloader (calling all gurus)

Trying to return phone to stock and CANNOT enter the bootloader for it to recognize my stock image on the sd card because the darn power button is broken/stuck.
I try adb reboot bootloader and that sends me into FASTBOOT, NOT bootloader
any other way to get to bootloader (without use of the power button) or flash back the stock rom?
Thanks!

There is an app on market called quick boot that you could try. Hope it doesn't boot into fastboot too. Otherwise just try to flash an unrooted stock rom, that might work for what you need.
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I use an app called Widgetsoid, which includes the ability to make a widget that can reboot your phone, Can be set up so that you choose how to reboot (Recovery, Power off, etc).
Requires SU access to reboot with the widget, and please be aware that when I had a couple different roms, the widget simply failed to reboot at all -- for example it works fine when I'm running Darkside Sense 4.0, failed to work at all on meXdroidMod Ghost Chili's rom.
Hope this might help ya out

I found an app called button remapper thanks to I forgot who.
It will remap power,but...
It will not work to turn the phone on,and once you use it to get to recovery,you will need the power button to scroll through,so you'd still be in trouble if its completely broke.
Pm me and I could send you the file when I'm on the computer tonight.
If you want to try.
Or search for button remapper on xda.I don't think its in the market.
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Can't you use the trackpad in recovery to navigate?
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Dwill107 said:
Can't you use the trackpad in recovery to navigate?
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yeah, it's what you're supposed to do lol

saranhai said:
yeah, it's what you're supposed to do lol
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That's what I thought. Its how I get around in recovery, I hate our power button
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Oh come on.
How about if you go to install zip from sdcard,or wipe/reset,did I miss something where you can use the trackpad to go back,when there is no go back option?or like I was saying,you would need to hit that trusty power button to ho back.
I don't know,I might have missed it after flashing about 500times.
But pretty sure I use the power button all the time to go back after wiping data,then cache,power to ho back,wipe dalvik,power to go back,install zip from sdcard,power to go back,then reboot system.
Have I been doing it wrong?
Btw,this android keypad on tdj's 7.2 just fast.whoohoo.
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Oh yeah.lol that.smartbutt.
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Oh ummm.forgot about the back button.my bad.lol.
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sunlaw2 said:
Oh ummm.forgot about the back button.my bad.lol.
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You do realize there's an edit button, right? And power button does not function as a back key (or at least never has for me..
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Hardly ever say this,nut you do realize you can **** off! Edit that *****.
Edit:just kidding,but **** off.
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Getting a bit sidetracked here, I am trying to revert to stock ROM and cannot because the Power button is broken on this piece of crap and I cannot get to bootloader.
• adb reboot bootloader and that sends me into FASTBOOT, NOT bootloader and does not load image
• no option in Settings > Power or Settings > Applications to disable fastboot (I have gingerbread)
• using CWM recovered > Install zip from file does not work
Can anyone advise a way to revert to stock image without HBOOT, that actually works and does not require the power button?
P.S. this whole thing has really made be disenchanted with the mess that is android right now. Since it seems that it really android is not open or owned by google. Instead owned by the carriers. I should not feel like a criminal for wanting a basic android phone. Makes me almost want to scrap and get an iPhone.

Firstly, its not the Android OS that's the problem. Its your broken ass phone so calm down. If your thinking Android is not open, go ahead and get an iPhone and you'll see what a not open OS is really like.
Secondly...
I read you have Clockwork recovery installed. Flashing this image through Clockwork will at least make it look stock. It is said you will lose root but probably keep S-ON.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
You might also want to check out this program here before you try the link above. I havent used it but it seems like it might be something worth checking out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915

@ajm
Why are you trying to revert to stock if you don't mind me asking? Are u sending it to HTC for them to fix it? They wont care if your rooted they will just wipe your phone and put in the mysense gingerbread rom. I highly advise u to contact HTC and check your warranty. I sent in NY CM7 mt4g and they fixed the power button for free.

Kevinthebox said:
@ajm
Why are you trying to revert to stock if you don't mind me asking? Are u sending it to HTC for them to fix it? They wont care if your rooted they will just wipe your phone and put in the mysense gingerbread rom. I highly advise u to contact HTC and check your warranty. I sent in NY CM7 mt4g and they fixed the power button for free.
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Sending it to t-mobile, not HTC for return (they already sent replacement); I thought they would mind??

silentsnow31802 said:
Firstly, its not the Android OS that's the problem. Its your broken ass phone so calm down. If your thinking Android is not open, go ahead and get an iPhone and you'll see what a not open OS is really like.
Secondly...
I read you have Clockwork recovery installed. Flashing this image through Clockwork will at least make it look stock. It is said you will lose root but probably keep S-ON.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
You might also want to check out this program here before you try the link above. I havent used it but it seems like it might be something worth checking out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915
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Thanks, frustrated is all. Taking it out on Android OS, but really peeved at GOOG
- for having caved into the carriers by letting them bastardize the OS with their mods, forcing me to feel like criminal in modding and jumping through hoops to get a vastly better experience
- for not outbidding verizion on that wireless spectrum and becoming a carrier themselves
Was original N1 owner (first week) and will prob sqitch to galaxy nexus (as soon as they get on more carriers)
Thanks on the suggestions, tried to reflash through CWM several times and keeps giving me installation aborted.. will download again (in case is corrupted) and try again; Interesting other suggestion, will take a look at, but not much time, have to send back replacement tomor
Thx again

You can also try this. It is a nandroid restore somebody made. It seems a bit more involved because it looks like you need to use an older version of clockwork recovery. If I am correct you can find an older version of the recovery and flash it through rom manager, but dont quote me on that one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845756
When I had a MT4G and the EMMC chip died I hooked the phone to a 12 volt battery and fried it. I then called and told them I plugged the phone in to charge one night and the next morning it would not power on. They replaced it no questions asked and I never heard anything about it again.

My mom's power button went out as well. Tmo and HTC flat out refused a replacement MT4G, Saying it was a "known issue". I called them about 10 times total about this problem. They just want to sell me another phone. Full price. Since i've called them so many times they wont even do a Insurance claim.
If this is a "known problem" why the f isn't it being taken care of properly?
Has anyone else had this problem with customer service?