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How to Unroot Your Phone if Using Unrevoked 3

So, I had some trouble unrooting my Evo 4G today because I wanted to bring my phone in for a replacement. It's been awhile since I last rooted the device so I figured I could just download the appropriate zip files and get on with it. I ran into a few snags.
A little background of the phone:
-Rooted via Unrevoked 3
-Running the latest Radio 2.15.00.05.02
-S-OFF
So, this method works if you rooted your phone via Unrevoked3 or Unrevoked Forever. I was reading all over and many people flashed to sense ROMs and did many steps that weren't really needed. The way I did was very simple.
**If you did not root your phone via Unrevoked skip to Step 7.
1. Downgrade your Radio to 2.15.00.07.28 (Anything earlier than the previous update should work) at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=7154 All the radios should be located at the previous link.
2. Download the Unrevoked Forever S-ON zip file that is provided.
3. Move the S-ON zip file to the root of your SD card.
4. Flash the zip file so that your device now reads S-ON, NOT S-OFF.
5. Wipe Cache, Dalvik Cache, and Data.
6. Reboot into Bootloader and verify that you are now S-ON.
7. Download the PC36IMG.zip from http://www.4shared.com/file/5U4M4eVi/PC36IMG.html?cau2=403tNull
8. Move the PC36IMG zip file to the root of your SD card.
9. Reboot into Bootloader and the phone should recognize the PC36IMG and begin to finish the UNROOT process.
10. Follow on-screen instructions and apply the update and reboot the phone.
11. You are now UNROOTED!!!
I hope this little tutorial helped. It definitely is nice to finally unroot the device after all the problems I was running into.

NOW sticky it. lol

Does this enable S-On ?

nyc_zx10 said:
Does this enable S-On ?
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Step six...

Unroot for repair
Just in case anyone doing this for the first time, I recently took my evo in and exchanged for another. Make sure you remove all evidence of root from your sd card i.e. root explorer, my back up root TI(any root programs) and get the pc36img off there too. Now depending how cool your Sprint techs are they might not care. My particular store said they would blacklist my phone if they suspected it of root. That will ruin your plans of getting any service in the future, let alone the reason you came in. Their little "diagnostics" term to me says,"Let me check if I am going to dash your hopes of repair today." Or to be safer you could just pull the sd. Hopefully if you do forget you have cool techs that appreciate what we do here.

Just a heads up, the radio link is broken. I've been using the same one as well in my bookmarks. That thread is apparently no longer there?

when i try to flash the radio is comes up with a message saying something about "it was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the CWM 3.0 gingerbread based recovery, please switch to edify scripting" do i have to downgrade my CWM?

I'll give this process a 7 on the pucker scale, but it does work
I downgraded my cm image before I started just so I wouldn't have to deal with any errors
I then flashed the 2.15.00.07.28 radio
then flashed the s-on tool
then applied the pc36img.zip in bootloader
took a while but I am back up, and running unrooted

[email protected] said:
All this does is change S-OFF to S-ON. I still have SuperUser and can still run root apps with ease. I assume this hack is just for taking the phone in?
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Actually, after flashing the PC36IMG, that removes the root and puts the phone back to the initial state. It does put the phone to S-ON and remove SuperUser.

tkdkicker04 said:
Actually, after flashing the PC36IMG, that removes the root and puts the phone back to the initial state. It does put the phone to S-ON and remove SuperUser.
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If you do take it in do not let them update anything. I even signed a paper saying I didn't want a hard reset.
Sent from my PG86100 using XDA Premium App

Will this wipe all my contacts, messages, and apps? What app should I use to back everything up (Mybackup Pro, or Titanium Backup)?

Yes you will lose everything. Google should save your contacts to the cloud. Any installed apps can be redownloaded. You will lose any saved messages/text/etc.
Keep in mind "S-OFF" and having root privileges are two different things. You can be rooted and be S-ON, and S-OFF and not rooted (which would mean you flashed a ROM that didn't have the su binary which almost doesn't exist outside of stock).

Why is it necessary to downgrade the radio? Just curious. Mine is currently running 2.15.00.11.19.
Question two... is that PC36IMG linked the stock 2.3.3?

Here is the post containing the Radios and more...
[ Radios ][ 7-4 ] All EVO Radio, WiMAX, PRI, NV & HBoot versions
For anyone having trouble flashing the Radios using ClockworkMod either:
1) Downgrade your CWM to 2.5.0.7 (within ROM Manager)
or
2) Using ROM Manager (or manually) Flash Alternative [Recovery] [09-Feb-2011] RA-supersonic-v2.3
To be able to use CWM nandroids in Amon_RA's Recovery you need to:
1) Make a folder on the root of your SD Card called Nandroid
2) Create a Nandroid using Amon_RA
3) Amon_RA will create another folder inside Nandroid
4) Place your nandroid that you made in CMW inside the folder that Amon_RA creates along with that nandroid too
Hope this helps people... If in fact it does please leave a thanks

Warning warning warning proceed at own risk etc etc
I used these instructions but in a different way.
1) I downgraded the radio. I still don't know why, it wasn't stated, but I went ahead and did it.
2) I downloaded the new radio and the unrevoked s-on tool (since I used unrevoked to root this phone in the first place)
3) I copied both the radio and s-on to my sd card while Evo was plugged into my PC via Disk Storage
4) On Amon's 2.3 recovery, I flashed the radio, let it do its thing and reboot and do its next lil thing it wants to do
5) Flashed the s-on. After it was done, I went back to the main menu of Amon's recovery and selected power off
6) Holding VOL+D and power, booted into the bootloader and saw it was S-ON.
7) Went through hboot to boot into recovery, then power off
8) Pulled battery to get to the sd card and put it into my PC so I could copy the PC36IMG.zip to it. Im really not convinced that its a big deal to copy this zip along with the radio and unrevoked s-on tool at the same time, except that it might idiot-proof flashing the pc36img prematurely. Then again, the instructions state to move it to the sd card...how? It can be done over ADB but theres not instructions given.
9) Put Sd card with PC36img copied to it onto the Evo, held VOL+D and power, booted into bootloader, it found PC36img, applied update and rebooted.
The linked PC36img is to android 2.2, on which im now unrooted.

cabbieBot said:
Warning warning warning proceed at own risk etc etc
I used these instructions but in a different way.
1) I downgraded the radio. I still don't know why, it wasn't stated, but I went ahead and did it.
2) I downloaded the new radio and the unrevoked s-on tool (since I used unrevoked to root this phone in the first place)
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I think that the reason why you need an older radio is because if they saw that you had the newest radio released w/ the 2.3.3 and your on 2.2 it might look a little funny... this is my educated guess

.torrented said:
I think that the reason why you need an older radio is because if they saw that you had the newest radio released w/ the 2.3.3 and your on 2.2 it might look a little funny... this is my educated guess
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that makes sense. so there isnt a 2.3.3 image to flash? or is there a reason to not want to do it if there it is?

cabbieBot said:
that makes sense. so there isnt a 2.3.3 image to flash? or is there a reason to not want to do it if there it is?
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well when sprint released the latest OTA its a packaged deal you get all of the stuff (radio hboot PRI/NV ect.) well if you only have 1 of the many different things like the latest radio but not the latest hboot or w/e then i would assume that the phone has been rooted. so you wouldnt want the 4.24 software update and have all of the older firmware... im really not too sure and i could be wrong but this would seem pretty logic (to me)
oh and flashing the 2.3.3 image would render it unrootable

cabbieBot said:
Warning warning warning proceed at own risk etc etc
I used these instructions but in a different way.
1) I downgraded the radio. I still don't know why, it wasn't stated, but I went ahead and did it.
2) I downloaded the new radio and the unrevoked s-on tool (since I used unrevoked to root this phone in the first place)
3) I copied both the radio and s-on to my sd card while Evo was plugged into my PC via Disk Storage
4) On Amon's 2.3 recovery, I flashed the radio, let it do its thing and reboot and do its next lil thing it wants to do
5) Flashed the s-on. After it was done, I went back to the main menu of Amon's recovery and selected power off
6) Holding VOL+D and power, booted into the bootloader and saw it was S-ON.
7) Went through hboot to boot into recovery, then power off
8) Pulled battery to get to the sd card and put it into my PC so I could copy the PC36IMG.zip to it. Im really not convinced that its a big deal to copy this zip along with the radio and unrevoked s-on tool at the same time, except that it might idiot-proof flashing the pc36img prematurely. Then again, the instructions state to move it to the sd card...how? It can be done over ADB but theres not instructions given.
9) Put Sd card with PC36img copied to it onto the Evo, held VOL+D and power, booted into bootloader, it found PC36img, applied update and rebooted.
The linked PC36img is to android 2.2, on which im now unrooted.
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To answer your first question, after doing my research and by trial and error, I ran into several errors and problems having the latest radios and HBOOT. The alternative to fix this problem was to downgrade the radio.
The reason why it's easier to move the PC36IMG after you are S-ON is to make sure that you do not make the mistake of updating prematurely. Mistakes can happen and if you move too fast, accidents may happen. This was done to insure that needless accidents don't happen. The way you move the file to the SD card is by enabling USB mode while in recovery mode (Amon RA and Clockwork). The disk drive appears on your computer, and you click and drag the files just like normal.
The PC36IMG contains Android 2.2

.torrented said:
Here is the post containing the Radios and more...
[ Radios ][ 7-4 ] All EVO Radio, WiMAX, PRI, NV & HBoot versions
For anyone having trouble flashing the Radios using ClockworkMod either:
1) Downgrade your CWM to 2.5.0.7 (within ROM Manager)
or
2) Using ROM Manager (or manually) Flash Alternative [Recovery] [09-Feb-2011] RA-supersonic-v2.3
To be able to use CWM nandroids in Amon_RA's Recovery you need to:
1) Make a folder on the root of your SD Card called Nandroid
2) Create a Nandroid using Amon_RA
3) Amon_RA will create another folder inside Nandroid
4) Place your nandroid that you made in CMW inside the folder that Amon_RA creates along with that nandroid too
Hope this helps people... If in fact it does please leave a thanks
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Thanks for this man. I was having trouble finding a working link.

ClearDroid V1.2.12

Hey guys, I installed the GB ATT rooted updated, and had the horrible SMS and GPS issue, so I decided to go with ClearDroid. I've loaded ROMs before, both on this Inspire and my G1, but when I download the latest cleardroid, rename it and try to HBOOT load it, it gets to parsing and then just goes back to the HBOOT home screen, I tried downloading again to make sure I didn't have a corrupted file, but still failed. Any ideas, I have the latest radio and S-OFF.

If I understand you correctly, you are trying to flash a rom in Hboot. Roms are flashed through recovery. You don't rename them. You boot into CWM recovery, wipe if necessary, and select install zip from sd card. Select the rom zip and flash.

OMG, sorry to take you're time, you're exactly right, what threw me off was in the developer's post, it has the instructions to rename to the PB98IMG zip and flash, my fault, sorry guys and thanks for the help

That's for the radio in the main post for updating on the new ril in his latest versions
sent from my Inspire 4G running ClearDroid 1.1.51

[Q] Flashing without Radio

Hey All,
This is my first post, and yes i have searched around xda to find an answer to my question, but nothing seems to suite exactly the response i am looking for, or better yet a solution.
I am currently trying to flash a custom rom however the rom comes packed with a radio in itself for my NEXUS S I9020A
My question is, I am satisfied with the radio i currently have, is there a possibility to flash a rom without the radio?
I tried unzipping the ZIP file and deleted the radio.img file that was in it. And re-zipped the file using my OSX standard zipping utility. However when i load it up and flash it through CWM, it says installation failed.
Any ideas or suggestions on how i could flash a rom by rezipping a ROM without radio?

i radio a required in order to make call and for data connection. why do you want a rom without radio?

luv2vexx said:
i radio a required in order to make call and for data connection. why do you want a rom without radio?
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Most likely because he is trying to flash a rom that contains a radio that is not compatible with his phone. If the rom does not contain a new radio, the old one remains on the phone.
A lot of people are doing this to get ICS on their 9020a using a modified rom from the 9020t (minus the radio).

fobstar said:
Hey All,
This is my first post, and yes i have searched around xda to find an answer to my question, but nothing seems to suite exactly the response i am looking for, or better yet a solution.
I am currently trying to flash a custom rom however the rom comes packed with a radio in itself for my NEXUS S I9020A
My question is, I am satisfied with the radio i currently have, is there a possibility to flash a rom without the radio?
I tried unzipping the ZIP file and deleted the radio.img file that was in it. And re-zipped the file using my OSX standard zipping utility. However when i load it up and flash it through CWM, it says installation failed.
Any ideas or suggestions on how i could flash a rom by rezipping a ROM without radio?
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Instead of messing with the custom rom zip file, why don't you just get the correct radio for your Nexus S I9020A phone from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116884 then put both the rom zip file & radio zip on your sd-card & just flash the rom first then radio whilst in cwm recovery!?

[Q] [URGENT!] Bootlooping due to flash wrong PG58IMG

Hi all,
I have a problem with my Sensation due to my own fault.
I want to flash ARHD ICS rom to my phone, and I started with rooting my Sensation. I followed all instruction til installing the Recovery (PG58IMG).
I downloaded two versions of PG58IMG (one for ICS and one for the other), but I copied the firmware for ICS version to my SD card and already installed it. Now, my phone already S-off but cannot reboot into homescreen. It keeps rebooting it self in white hTC screen (after I installed the ICS firmware).
I don't know how to fix. I tried to read the troubleshoot in the post but I still cannot fix it. Does anyone have a solution??
Thanks in advance

chuz said:
Hi all,
I have a problem with my Sensation due to my own fault.
I want to flash ARHD ICS rom to my phone, and I started with rooting my Sensation. I followed all instruction til installing the Recovery (PG58IMG).
I downloaded two versions of PG58IMG (one for ICS and one for the other), but I copied the firmware for ICS version to my SD card and already installed it. Now, my phone already S-off but cannot reboot into homescreen. It keeps rebooting it self in white hTC screen (after I installed the ICS firmware).
I don't know how to fix. I tried to read the troubleshoot in the post but I still cannot fix it. Does anyone have a solution??
Thanks in advance
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If I understand you correctly you flashed the firmware upgrade BEFORE you flashed the new ICS rom? If so you'll need to get your sdcard card out (and get your computer to read it) so you can rename the PG85img on your sdcard so you can get back into recovery so you can flash the new ICS rom.

runderekrun said:
If I understand you correctly you flashed the firmware upgrade BEFORE you flashed the new ICS rom? If so you'll need to get your sdcard card out (and get your computer to read it) so you can rename the PG85img on your sdcard so you can get back into recovery so you can flash the new ICS rom.
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Yes, I flashed the upgraded firmware before not only I flashed ICS rom, but also I get rooted. Now, I can't flash any rom as well as su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip or su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip.
It still keep bootlooping. I tried to flash the other firmware, but it showed 'CID incorrect'. I don't know how to fix now

Did you check MD5 Sums before you flashed the ROM because it sounds like a bad download so re-download the ROM and reflash

Jonny said:
Did you check MD5 Sums before you flashed the ROM because it sounds like a bad download so re-download the ROM and reflash
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I did check MD5 sums for all files I downloaded and it is corrected.
Now, I'm curious that whether it is possible to flash the upgraded firmware before being rooted.

And of course you need to be using the right version of the firmware for the rom you want to flash. Mike's latest uses 3.24 per here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
I don't know if you can get into fastboot or not, but you should be able to check the CID of your phone there, and download the right firmware for your phone. If your phone is carrier independent (i.e. didn't get on contract) then the HTC__xxx variety should be good.

airzone said:
And of course you need to be using the right version of the firmware for the rom you want to flash. Mike's latest uses 3.24 per here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
I don't know if you can get into fastboot or not, but you should be able to check the CID of your phone there, and download the right firmware for your phone. If your phone is carrier independent (i.e. didn't get on contract) then the HTC__xxx variety should be good.
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Thank you so much for your link. I can boot my Sensation into the homescreen now. For my problem, I have to download and flash the older version (3.17) to fix it.
Thanks all of you for your reply again.

+1 for me, solve with a new download .

Just flash the Mod, the bootloop is normal.
I got the same problem, before i flashed Revolution Rom i used that radio package. After the radio package flash, my phone wass stuck in a bootloop.
I took the memory card out en removed the zip file en flashed the revolution rom. After that my phone started normal.
SOrry for the bad enlgish.
Good luck mate.

hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol
anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID
when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??
so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.
so what did i do wrong?
a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?
thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...
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also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.

nevermind, figured it out and got it work! the new ics is pretty sweet!!
thanks for everything- towards all the developers and testers on here

Cool. The answer is yes of course. The firmware file contains a specific radio / hboot / etc version. The ROM you download and install is dependent on certain combinations of the firmware versions you have. The super cid just allows you to flash any of the firmwares available here... Otherwise you have to find the specific one for your region and/or carrier.
Also, don't forget you can use an adb logcat while your phone is booting to see if you can diagnose any boot-looping issues. Just run that command on your PC with your phone attached via USB cable

Kawirider594 said:
hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol
anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID
when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??
so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.
so what did i do wrong?
a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?
thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...
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also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.
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To do so,
1. Download the correct firmware version ( PG58IMG.zip V3.24 ) and copy it to the root of your SDCARD.
Be 200% sure that the downloaded zip file is not corrupted. ( Check the MD5 checksum after you download)
2. Pull Back the battery and wait for a minute.
3. Put the battery and press POWER+VOLUME Down Key together.
4. Your phone will detect the firmware.
5. Follow the screen and complete the flashing.
6. Download the ICS based ROM of your favor.
7. Boot into recovery and flash your rom.

Kawirider594 said:
hey, guys i just had the same problem, kinda. lol
anyways my phone is rooted, s-off and superCID
when i went to install the new ics rom i did everything this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
said to do and when the new root booted up for the first time, it would go up to the beats audio logo,( the ics rom with beats audio (xe)) then like restart back to the htc startup logo, then beats again then htc again, it just kept doing this..??
so i just deleated everything and restored back to origional backup rom.
so what did i do wrong?
a bad download link/file? can u give me a good one?
thanks, any help is greatly appreciated as iam totally lost right now...
edit:
also do i even need this file (PG58IMG.zip.) to flash the ics rom if my phone is superCID ??? iam confused on that part.
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No you didn't do everything the thread said to do because you're stuck in a bootloop. And yes, you must have correct firmware to run any ICS ROM.
1. SuperCID.
2. Load correct firmware for ROM version you wish to flash (there are 3 different firmwares, 3.06, 3.12 and 3.24. Make sure you've got the right one.
Put PG58IMG.zip on the root of your damn SD card.
Put the ROM you want on the root of your damn SD card.
Put a wipe or superwipe script on the root of your damn SD card.
So far it's easy, no?
Boot to bootloader, select FASTBOOT, select yes to update.
Watch the phone. You should see it flash some partitions, reboot itself, then flash the radio and some other crap.
When done you should be at correct HBOOT and radio.
Now, pull the battery. Pull the SD card.
Insert the battery. Start the phone with power + Volume down.
Move cursor to recovery.
Insert SD card and select recovery.
Flash the wipe script, flash the ROM.
Now if you did everything exactly like this, you will boot to normal phone in about 10 minutes or so.
This has been spelled out 50 times in 50 threads, including threads devoted to nothing but this procedure.
Your phone is a machine. It can only do what you tell it to do. If you screw up, it's screwed up. If you do everything exactly right, in the right order, carefully checking each step, your phone will behave.
Try again.
Do it right. Do it carefully.
P.

[Q] Virtuous Saga v.1.0.0

concerning the stated rom by mdeejay, so i gather that the firmware is the radio, will this affect the next time i flash a different rom??
just for my knowledge anyone care enuf to explain how does the radio(mobile signal) relates with the rom??

No, the next time you flash a rom the radio will remain, the same and will not cause any issue in an ideal scenario
Signal strength depends on the radio and not on the ROM. However the number of signal bars displayed depends on the ROM .
Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!

ok just one quicky. i read that all i need to do is put the PG88IMG and reboot then flash, then flash the rom, before rebooting del/rename the radio zip then reboot to use. did i miss anything?? sorry if i sound like wuss. asked my friend and was told that flashing radio can have dier consequences.

Yep. Just boot into the bootloader and the radio will flash itself. Just make sure the zip is on the root of the sd card.

thanks you suku_patel_22 and dan-fish.
each day i grew in knowledge thanks to ppl like you

No problem! The radio can also be flashed with fastboot if you have it. At least with fastboot you won't have to delete it after. All you need to do is extract the zip. Use CMD to go to the directory which contains the radio and issue the command
fastboot flash radio (file name).img
I prefer this way but if you don't use fastboot then just stick with the bootloader.

had a successful flash. thanks again guys.