Hi all,
Just moved over to the One X from a Desire HD where I had been running Leedroids custom ROMs.
Am loving the One X, but feel I should get another custom ROM on it to make the most of it. Was think of going with Android Revolution.
Anyway.....
I have forgotten the process involved and have tried unsucessfuly to find a 'how to' from scratch. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
At the moment my software info on the phone is as follows....
Android Version 4.1.1
HTC Sense Version 4+
Software number 3.14.401.31
HTC SDK API level 4.63
HTC Extension version HTCExtension_Sense45_1
Kernel Version
3.10-g9fb8f80
Baseband version 5.1204.162.29
Build number 3.14.401.31 C:128187 release-keys
I want to be sure I am ok to custom ROM and also can I backup what I have now, so I can restore back to stock should I need to send it back.
Its on the 02 network, but its unbranded and I think unlocked?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809141
Try this out.
Before that , hold power button and volume down button ( dont leave) for about 15 secs until a white screen with small letters shows up.
On the top either unlocked or locked should be written. Only proceed to install rom if you are unlocked.
If you are locked try this tool to unlock first
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604439
Check your hboot of its unlocked, hold the power button and the volume - button together until you are in the bootloader. It says on the top if its locked or unlocked. If its unlocked you can proceed
Then you need to learn fastboot commands, if you did not learn it already.
With the fastboot commands you have to flash a custom recovery and with that custom recovery you can make a nandroid backup of the stock rom. After that you can install custom roms.
Always keep in mind that you have to flash the boot.img (kernel) separate with fastboot commands to the phone and install the rom.zip from recovery
Cheers. It seems its locked. So, I will get it unlocked by 02 before I carry on.
On the tutorial link, I presume I follow the 'For Users Using Sense 4.1' instuctions?
Mate, SIM unlocking is not the case here. You need to unlock the bootloader.
TToivanen said:
Mate, SIM unlocking is not the case here. You need to unlock the bootloader.
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Ah, like S-OFF? Getting myself confused as I have four phones in front of me here and trying to sort them all out!
Thanks.
superdon said:
Ah, like S-OFF? Getting myself confused as I have four phones in front of me here and trying to sort them all out!
Thanks.
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There is currently no way for us to S-OFF our device. But unlocking the bootloader does a similar thing - it makes us capable of flashing stuff by allowing us to write some partitions that would otherwise be read only.
OK, so I folow the two links that {< r o N o $ provided.
At what point and how do I create a backup of the stock system? Is there a tutorial for that?
Listen:
NAND Backup straight away. (From Pure stock)
Goto HTCDev
Unlock Bootloader
Install SuperSU(this makes root)
Your now unlocked and rooted.
Find custom ROM.
Flash the custom ROM.
Flash the Boot.img
Wipe Cache/Dalvik.
Boot
Wilks3y said:
Listen:
NAND Backup straight away. (From Pure stock)
Goto HTCDev
Unlock Bootloader
Install SuperSU(this makes root)
Your now unlocked and rooted.
Find custom ROM.
Flash the custom ROM.
Flash the Boot.img
Wipe Cache/Dalvik.
Boot
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Eh, how does he do a nandroid backup without unlocking bootloader first??
And why would you root and then install a rooted custom ROM? LOL
More like this:
Goto HTCDev
Unlock Bootloader
Install a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP)
NAND Backup straight away. (From Pure stock)
COPY STOCK BACKUP TO PC
Find custom ROM.
WIPE
Flash the custom ROM.
Flash the Boot.img
Wipe Cache/Dalvik.
TToivanen said:
Eh, how does he do a nandroid backup without unlocking bootloader first??
And why would you root and then install a rooted custom ROM? LOL
More like this:
Goto HTCDev
Unlock Bootloader
Install a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP)
NAND Backup straight away. (From Pure stock)
COPY STOCK BACKUP TO PC
Find custom ROM.
WIPE
Flash the custom ROM.
Flash the Boot.img
Wipe Cache/Dalvik.
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Do this
Those that don't know,speak
Those that don't speak,know
TToivanen said:
Eh, how does he do a nandroid backup without unlocking bootloader first??
And why would you root and then install a rooted custom ROM? LOL
More like this:
Goto HTCDev
Unlock Bootloader
Install a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP)
NAND Backup straight away. (From Pure stock)
COPY STOCK BACKUP TO PC
Find custom ROM.
WIPE
Flash the custom ROM.
Flash the Boot.img
Wipe Cache/Dalvik.
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Good point
My bad
Thanks all. Will give it a try soon
Oke, feel free to ask here if you need help.
Hi there,
did some searching and red a lot about going from a rooted s-off device to completely stock (s-on, unrooted, ruu). But i want to know if it is possible to go from: s-off, rooted, custom rom to: s-on; unrooted; custom rom ?
Why? you ask. Because i use my old Desire for work (bring your own device (BYOD)). And byod uses MobileIron which detects s-off and root. Company policy is no rooted etc. phones allowed. So i thought, i can s-on en unroot but with a much better Mildwild GB rom.
Is it as easy as to flash the rom.zip and unroot ? or is there more ?
Why would you ever want to do that?
Chromium_ said:
Why would you ever want to do that?
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edited fist post. Because of company policy.
To remove s-off you would need to flash an ruu. Then you would have to unlock the phone via HTC dev in order to flash a custom recovery. After that you could flash whatever rom you want through the recovery, however most roms (including milwilds) come rooted. You could try removing the supersu/superuser apk as well as the su binary located inside of the rom zip, which may work, but it also may cause other issues.
So i am at noob at this but just asking before doing something wrong
Can i use rom updates from HTC while im rooted with a unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery and skydragon rom ???
I believe that will give you an RUU, which you technically can use to put your phone back into a stock state. I would recommend relocking your bootloader first if you dont have S-OFF, as it seems to get in the way of RUU's from time to time. Keep in mind that this process will put you back to stock Sense and will wipe your data.
dima470 said:
I would recommend relocking your bootloader first if you dont have S-OFF, as it seems to get in the way of RUU's from time to time.
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Unlocked bootloader will get in the way of RUU every time if you are s-on.
Relocked or locked bootloader is absolutely mandatory to run an official RUU with s-on.
Hi guys, so the owner wiped everything from the phone and he want it back to stock now
S-ON and no custom recovery installed,
I've googled for a method to turn S-OFF but they all require a rooted ROM. what to do?
thanks in advance.
I have answered how to s-off and root Desire HD before in many threats.You can see this post.
You can also check here a newest guide.In this guide as I think you are installing a prerooted rom instead of unlocking bootloader with htc_devs unlock and flashing custom recovery to root the device.
You can check an other helpful guide here.
Another Android noob here. I'm about to root my HTC One m8 so I can flash CyanogynMod. I want to be able to return everything to stock exactly the way as before so that I can reclaim my warranty. Is this possible? Can I back up the bootloader while in its locked state? After that, I would like to back everything up before rooting my device including radio/modem, IMEI number, ROM, and Kernel. How would I go about doing this? Would anything other than the stock ROM and boot loader be affected after rooting my device?
You can't backup a bootloader to return to LOCKED. But you can return it to LOCKED if you have s-off ($25 by sunshine app).
Depending on what version M8 you have, you can RUU back to stock to restore stock radio, recovery, ROM, kernel, etc. Or stock versions of many of these things can be found on this forum, negating the need to back them up or dump them yourself.
Once you unlock the bootloader and install TWRP custom recovery, you can use TWRP to backup your stock ROM and kernel before rooting (which is highly recommended), which (aside from the unlocked bootloader and stock recovery) are the only things that are affected by rooting.