My girlfriend's ego 3d, which we purchased on release day, and used revolutionary for s-off, recently was damaged from liquid. The touchscreen did not register correctly any longer.
She took it into a local sprint store today, and a rep threatened to void her warranty because it was rooted. I didn't have a chance to unroot.
They ended up replacing the screen, and in the process, flashed her phone up to Hboot 1.5 and locked status. However, the phone is still s-off...
What are my options to reroot? HTC unlock, since it is s-off, or just load recovery from fastboot?
Thank you in advance.
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tallguywes said:
My girlfriend's ego 3d, which we purchased on release day, and used revolutionary for s-off, recently was damaged from liquid. The touchscreen did not register correctly any longer.
She took it into a local sprint store today, and a rep threatened to void her warranty because it was rooted. I didn't have a chance to unroot.
They ended up replacing the screen, and in the process, flashed her phone up to Hboot 1.5 and locked status. However, the phone is still s-off...
What are my options to reroot? HTC unlock, since it is s-off, or just load recovery from fastboot?
Thank you in advance.
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Since it's still S-off, all you need to do is flash a recovery, then flash a ROM. If you want to keep it stock rom but rooted, then once you flash recovery, just find an old SU.zip to flash. You can even downgrade your bootloader back to 1.4 if you wanted to.
Count your blessings that the assholes at sprint didn't revert your Evo3D to S-ON. Just flash a recovery in hboot and then flash a ROM from recovery. You're good to go.
Thank you! I had her on various roms, like Olympus and warm (warm was my fav), but I have never seen the battery life like the new HTC update and dual core script..
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The crazy part was seeing 1.5 Hboot and "locked" at the top in fastboot!
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tallguywes said:
The crazy part was seeing 1.5 Hboot and "locked" at the top in fastboot!
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I accidentally did that and about shat myself. lol Back to 1.4 and no issues shortly after though.
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http://twitter.com/#!/alpharevx/status/104312779334369280
<Warning> People on Evo 3D getting the new OTA: do not update yet, unless you've already ran Revolutionary to S-OFF.
Yezzir, just saw that
(I am Un-Rooted, But I want to root today!) Am I reading this correctly? do NOT update with the OTA (8/18/2011) update, UNLESS I am already rooted?
So if I root today is it safe to update with that OTA update that came out today *8/18/2011?
I think the update does patch the current root method.
Plus for piece of mind don't ever accept OTA updates from sprint or HTC if you like your root and s-off.
I don't know why some people insist on running a update knowing in the back of their mind they'll possibly/probably loose root, and who knows for how long. Just wait a day or two for the devs to implement it in their ROMs.
You can still take the update because HTC just released the bootloader unlocked method for the HTC EVO 3d.
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raymond4 said:
You can still take the update because HTC just released the bootloader unlocked method for the HTC EVO 3d
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I see absolutely no reason why you would say that...why lose warranty when we dont have to ?
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danny6514 said:
I see absolutely no reason why you would say that...why lose warranty when we dont have to ?
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I'm not telling people to update I'm just saying if they did they can still unlocked it with HTC method instead of waiting for revolutionary method.
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I'm not telling people to update I'm just saying if they did they can still unlocked it with HTC method instead of waiting for revolutionary method.
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I heard people were having problems with custom recovery with HTC unlocked bootloader.
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raymond4 said:
I'm not telling people to update I'm just saying if they did they can still unlocked it with HTC method instead of waiting for revolutionary method.
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Using thier method gets you nowhere.
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HTC unlocker = clusterfuck
Revolution = the correct way.
yea not understanding htc way ... unlocked bootloader but you still have s-on ?
Nobody even knows how HTC's unlock even works. There are Sensation users with S-Off and they used HTC's method. Unfortunately, there's about 10 posts like those above to 1 post of actual information about it.
Its looks like its a partial unlock.
I'm sticking with revolutionary, I have root, everything is working awesome, n I didn't lose my warranty
So your saying since I have s-off with revolutionary, I can take the update and still have s-off? Also will this update break root?
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steam374 said:
So your saying since I have s-off with revolutionary, I can take the update and still have s-off? Also will this update break root?
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If you take the ota through system updates and if you have a custom ROM and recovery it will not allow you to update. It will give you an error message. If you decide to lose the custom recovery and go forward with the ota it will lock your phone with S-on and you will have no way going back to 2.3.3. You will be stuck with lastest ota 2.3.4 with S-on and no root. Then if you decide after that you can't get back to 2.3.3 and think since you can't go back might as well go forward with HTC's bootloader unlock method. It will unlock the bootloader but you still will have S-on and noway of flashing a custom recovery which means no root. If your dying for this update check out the dev section and I believe you can update the prl, kernel, firmware mins the hboot. Check it out. If it was me I would wait for revolutionary or a team that knows what they are doing to release an rooted ota.
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If you take the ota through system updates and if you have a custom ROM and recovery it will not allow you to update. It will give you an error message. If you decide to lose the custom recovery and go forward with the ota it will lock your phone with S-on and you will have no way going back to 2.3.3. You will be stuck with lastest ota 2.3.4 with S-on and no root. Then if you decide after that you can't get back to 2.3.3 and think since you can't go back might as well go forward with HTC's bootloader unlock method. It will unlock the bootloader but you still will have S-on and noway of flashing a custom recovery which means no root. If your dying for this update check out the dev section and I believe you can update the prl, kernel, firmware mins the hboot. Check it out. If it was me I would wait for revolutionary or a team that knows what they are doing to release an rooted ota.
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This is all so confusing .... Haha
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Honestly I knw that the new update takes care of a few bugs but seriously why update n lose all these goodies when I had my og evo I know a few ppl who updated to 2.3.3 n after that they were stuck trying to go back while I was still enjoying cm7 lol just joking but on the real I would wait cuz is not like ur gaining a lot with the update
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This is all so confusing .... Haha
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Yes if you do the ota update you will lose everything...
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Will Revolutionary be working on a way to root hboot 1.5.000?
I updated my phone like an idiot, lost root, and now I want root again.
I'm not stupid enough to do the HTC unlock though.
Yeah just hold off for now.
I'm shocked that quite a few of you did this update before checking here to see if it was ok. Knowing how our brand of "freedom" is frowned upon.
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speedy0339 said:
Will Revolutionary be working on a way to root hboot 1.5.000?
I updated my phone like an idiot, lost root, and now I want root again.
I'm not stupid enough to do the HTC unlock though.
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Is your hboot still S-off? If so, youre probably able to reflash recovery and regain root
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You just need to follow the "UNROOT" instructions which will roll your Hboot back and then run Revolution again.... (*Or at least thats what I understand from all the reading I have done.) The method they used to get us permanent NAND unlock seems to truly be permanent so you just have to use the HTC Bootloader unlock, then use that to roll the HBOOT back in order to use Revolutionary.
*I have not done this and never will have to but this is my understanding. As always YMMV and if you BRICK IT,well, you already BOUGHT IT.
!!!!NEVER ACCEPT OTA UPDATES!!!!
mrrogers1 said:
You just need to follow the "UNROOT" instructions which will roll your Hboot back and then run Revolution again.... (*Or at least thats what I understand from all the reading I have done.)
!!!!NEVER ACCEPT OTA UPDATES!!!!
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It will read it as an old version and not let you update it
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It will read it as an old version and not let you update it
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Hit up that guy who posted that reply. I am pretty sure he did it and redid it a couple times. (*I think)
FORGET IT! That guy actually still had his S-off from Revolutionary and DID NOT take the OTA which is how your NAND was relocked. For now, either sit tight and wait, again, for Rev and Unrevoked to hopefully cook something up or use the HTC method and enjoy half root.
Sorry bud....
I hope so... I was chatting yesterday with them at their IRC channel and they were saying it may not happen....
I am sitting tight devs here do wonders
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Hit up that guy who posted that reply. I am pretty sure he did it and redid it a couple times. (*I think)
FORGET IT! That guy actually still had his S-off from Revolutionary and DID NOT take the OTA which is how your NAND was relocked. For now, either sit tight and wait, again, for Rev and Unrevoked to hopefully cook something up or use the HTC method and enjoy half root.
Sorry bud....
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I heard HTC released a bootloader unlock, am I wrong
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sand1303 said:
I heard HTC released a bootloader unlock, am I wrong
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It's not a full unlock, Nand is still locked & S-on rendering it useless.
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Ima sit tight.
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I'm having a replacement shipped to me Monday u guys think it will be 1.5? My evo,s front camera stopped working and I can't keep signal. They said it was a common problem on this phone. Free replacement
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filebug said:
I'm having a replacement shipped to me Monday u guys think it will be 1.5? My evo,s front camera stopped working and I can't keep signal. They said it was a common problem on this phone. Free replacement
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Highly doubt it will be 1.50.000
I had a complete stock 3D with OTA, HBoot 1.5, HTCdev Unlocked, S-ON (still)...
Thought I was screwed when I wanted to root but follow Zedomax's instructions in the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225974
I'm successfully running Cho's rom from MikMik. Downside is you have to use CWM but it still works!!!
Easiest root I've ever done!!
But you still have to do HTCs method I'm waiting so I don't have to
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speedy0339 said:
Will Revolutionary be working on a way to root hboot 1.5.000?
I updated my phone like an idiot, lost root, and now I want root again.
I'm not stupid enough to do the HTC unlock though.
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All I can really say is why would you update ur phone? Are u new to Android? If so then I understand otherwise why???
Opman711 said:
I had a complete stock 3D with OTA, HBoot 1.5, HTCdev Unlocked, S-ON (still)...
Thought I was screwed when I wanted to root but follow Zedomax's instructions in the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225974
I'm successfully running Cho's rom from MikMik. Downside is you have to use CWM but it still works!!!
Easiest root I've ever done!!
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Too bad you did get a chance to do Revolutionary, THAT is the easiest (well, next to Unrevokded) that I have ever seen.
Yeah, but now you have voided your warranty.
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Yeah, but now you have voided your warranty.
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Huh? Not sure I follow.
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Huh? Not sure I follow.
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You used HTC's unlock method, so you voided your warranty...
So I was doing all the downgrade stuff..
Downgraded, got as far as the Revolutionary S-Off part, then when I was gonna update my radios I ****ed up and copied the wrong zip and flashed the first 2.11 RUU and it took me back to 1.5 locked.
I was so tired had been at it for hours so I'm like **** I'll just start again I guess this time will be easy, I bricked my phone through the method but then I read if you were already s-off that was perma brick?
I read that after I tried running the live cd tool and it wouldn't recognize the phone, please tell me my 2 week old baby isn't gone...
I do get the red dim light still idk if that matters but I can't turn it on or go into the bootloader
The last I heard if you do the downgrade with S-off your phone becomes a paper weight.
I got frustrated at what I did and was so tired I didn't re-read I just repeated the process then I read I had bricked it since it was already s-off..
is it gone?
As far as I know its gone! on the bright side you now have a nice expensive paper weight!
Sorry for your loss. Its a hard lesson learned.
Your best bet is to take it back to Sprint and tell them it stopped working, and see if they trade it in for you. I've read that a guy on this forum did that and they charged him like $35
for new device. Time to use your communication skills. I just sent mine to HTC for repair because I don't have a Sprint account, I'm using Google Voice for the moment. Just tell the Sprint rep how much you love them and their service and how you'd recommend them to family & friends and all that, they might just help you out. I'm missing my E3D already:'(
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spirithandler said:
As far as I know its gone! on the bright side you now have a nice expensive paper weight!
Sorry for your loss. Its a hard lesson learned.
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That's really low down, at least offer the brother a solution. Don't just compound him misery. If you don't have anything good to say, then say nothing at all.
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Question what custom recovery do you have installed
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so technically as long as i do that writeseureflag 3 or what ever command and turn s-off to s-on i can do any upgrade i want and then always revert the hboot back again later? and not have a paper weight ?
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so technically as long as i do that writeseureflag 3 or what ever command and turn s-off to s-on i can do any upgrade i want and then always revert the hboot back again later? and not have a paper weight ?
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Not exactly, you can take any update you want to with s-off, and s-off will stick. I've run the 2.17 RUU with s-off and it put on hboot 1.5 locked, but since I still had s-off, I just flashed a custom recovery and then flashed hboot 1.4 without ever unlocking, the s-off overrides the lock.
I wouldn't do fastboot oem writesecureflag 3 unless I absolutely had to, like if I was selling my phone and they didn't want s-off. The op only has problems because he was s-off and then did unknowns brick method.
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Question what custom recovery do you have installed
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I am currently using 4ext (see my sig), but have enjoyed using TWRP 2.0 as well.
I'm having to come over via insurance and the 3d is what I get. I have a few questions. Is obtaining root on the 3d a difficult process, as doing it on the 4g was simple. Ive noticed that there are 2 different models. CDMA or the other one which one is the one being given out. And overall how has everyones experience been with this phone. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Is obtaining root on the 3d a difficult process, as doing it on the 4g was simple.
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If your hboot is 1.4, you can root with Revolutionary. If it's 1.5, you will have to use the hboot downgrade method, found in the stickies.
Ive noticed that there are 2 different models. CDMA or the other one which one is the one being given out.
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If you're on Sprint, you have the CDMA version.
It isn't hard at all, if you understand adb. You can root with revolutionary on hboot 1.4 or downgrade if you have hboot 1.5. If you dont want to downgrade try the juopunutbear tool for s-off. It work the first try for me.
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dr.chucky said:
It isn't hard at all, if you understand adb. You can root with revolutionary on hboot 1.4 or downgrade if you have hboot 1.5. If you dont want to downgrade try the juopunutbear tool for s-off. It work the first try for me.
You can also go to HTCDEV.COM. They are very good in helping you unlock your bootloader
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Welcome bud, I also got an evo 3d through insurance. Although I think the 4g had a better camera and I miss the looks, the 3d is a lot faster and has a much better screen. I've learned to love it.
Easiest way to do things is follow the htcdev.com unlock process to unlock the bootloader. Install superuser of course, then get 4ext recovery. There is a free version but I would highly recommend getting the paid version as I think it includes the app that lets you control everything from outside recovery. This has a smart flash feature for those who're left with s-on from the HTC unlock and hboot 1.5. It will let you install kernels like you normally would through recovery.
Only problem is, with any sense 3.6 ICS Rom you will have to use chads HTC leak kernel or else you will get boot loops. However 3d and USB mount won't work but you can always mount through recovery.
If you don't want to deal with all that, you can try the wire trick method to get s-off on hboot 1.5 so you can use the stock kernel on sense 3.6. It's stickied here in development. Hope all that helps.
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ncfastls1 said:
Welcome bud, I also got an evo 3d through insurance. Although I think the 4g had a better camera and I miss the looks, the 3d is a lot faster and has a much better screen. I've learned to love it.
Easiest way to do things is follow the htcdev.com unlock process to unlock the bootloader. Install superuser of course, then get 4ext recovery. There is a free version but I would highly recommend getting the paid version as I think it includes the app that lets you control everything from outside recovery. This has a smart flash feature for those who're left with s-on from the HTC unlock and hboot 1.5. It will let you install kernels like you normally would through recovery.
Only problem is, with any sense 3.6 ICS Rom you will have to use chads HTC leak kernel or else you will get boot loops. However 3d and USB mount won't work but you can always mount through recovery.
If you don't want to deal with all that, you can try the wire trick method to get s-off on hboot 1.5 so you can use the stock kernel on sense 3.6. It's stickied here in development. Hope all that helps.
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Don't misinform. I'm using stock HTC 3.0.16 kernel. Boots perfectly.
EDIT: Didn't read that last part. The reason people were getting boot loops, I believe, was the outdated adsp.img.
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Don't misinform. I'm using stock HTC 3.0.16 kernel. Boots perfectly.
EDIT: Didn't read that last part. The reason people were getting boot loops, I believe, was the outdated adsp.img.
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Looks like you don't have hboot 1.5 and are s-off...that's why. I was going under the assumption that every 3D is coming with hboot 1.5, and has for a while since I got mine back in november with 1.5.
So did they finally run out of the og evo? They are replacing them with 3d's
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Yea I got my 3D 6 mths ago for replacement for the 4G.
Welcome to 3D land. I've been happy with mine and still love this phone.
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So did they finally run out of the og evo? They are replacing them with 3d's
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I think so.
But what I think is funny is that sprint still sells the og, but not the 3d.
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VictoriousShooter said:
I think so.
But what I think is funny is that sprint still sells the og, but not the 3d.
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Funny. They must be handing out refurb 3d's
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The thing about the 3d is that its a way better phone than 4G. Except for camera of course. But I think all the 3d's come with S-on and H-boot 1.5. HTCDEV really helped me out. When u root, try WarmTwoPointThree ROM. Even faster loadup time and comes with beats audio
Thanks for the feedback.. Im not going to lie. I love my ole evo but the last time I dropped it Did something to the Battery. I have a 3500 ex battery that if in the phone it will shut off every 10 to 20 mins. that and the charging port is failing. At least I get another HTC.
Is there a new RUU for our phone? I have to return the phone to sprint unrooted with s-on.
Thanks
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Is there a new RUU for our phone? I have to return the phone to sprint unrooted with s-on.
Thanks
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Not for 3.16 yet. All others can be located @ unlimited.io
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Miss football. Sadly now that he is mia. We may never see one.
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Why don't you just use the boot loader modify script to make the phone appear s-on with the latest hboot. I think that should satisfy the sprint techs
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