I'm rooted with s-off and had super cid but now I don't. I was wondering if that was possible now I can't flash radios and custom recoveries. Sooooo the question I have is how's was that possible I haven't done anything recently but flash the team win custom recovery and then back to clockwork that's it but know my hboot says locked at the top in pink
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in order to flash the ICS rom you had to have updated your radio. when you do that it updates your bootloader to hboot 1.20 and that is a locked bootloader but thats fine. we dont need it unlocked. and also you can run supercid again with fastboot even on the new hboot version.
Thanks that make sense so it doesn't matter everything else is okay
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Ok so I got a sensation off eBay and its on orange unlocked to any sim. I root and s off and flash a stock HTC Rom great.
1. How can I unroot to get back to original hboot but with stock current Rom for HTC sensation as if I brought sim free with out orange bloated stuff.
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I know you might think I am mad to want to un root but this is because I want to just get read of the orange stuff. If the flashed Rom is stock HTC will I get ota updates like everyone else would normally?
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Go read the stickies in the dev section..
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So to make it easy my question is if I am rooted with a stock Rom will I get ota updates or not?
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So to make it easy my question is if I am rooted with a stock Rom will I get ota updates or not?
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You can have s-off and stock ROM without root. S-off and root are not the same thing. Also, I believe you can be s-off with unrooted stock ROM and get official OTA's if you have the stock recovery. And to more directly answer your question, if you are running a rooted stock ROM (with stock recovery), you should be able to get OTA's but they might break root. That would be an easy fix since you would retain s-off and could just flash cwm and use that to flash su.
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Stock recovery meaning nandroid back up of a stock rom?
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If you want to go back to 100% but unbranded, you need to:
1. Write Super CID to the phone (see the S-Off guide in the Dev forum for details)
2. Flash the RUU you wish to use (either 1.45.401.3 of 1.73.401.4)
3. Write the stock CID to the phone (stock = HTC__001)
4. Then S-ON, again using the S-OFF guide
The phone will now bee 100% stock and unbranded. I'd personally stick to the non-XE ROMs as the OTA's will work without issues, can't comment on the XE RUU
I came from a mytouch 4g recently.
I already had adb setup for my mytouch 4g.
Do I need to install or do anything for it to work for my sensation?
Or am I good to go?
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mftek said:
I came from a mytouch 4g recently.
I already had adb setup for my mytouch 4g.
Do I need to install or do anything for it to work for my sensation?
Or am I good to go?
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Nope you are good to go. Flash away and have fun! Just make sure to read all the prerequisites prior to flashing, especially for the ICS.
For ICS:
Basically you need to of course, then, unlock, NANDROID, superCID, update firmware, don't revert back the hboot to 1.17 and use a super wipe script, wipe all old data and flash your rom.
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Nope you are good to go. Flash away and have fun! Just make sure to read all the prerequisites prior to flashing, especially for the ICS.
For ICS:
Basically you need to of course, then, unlock, NANDROID, superCID, update firmware, don't revert back the hboot to 1.17 and use a super wipe script, wipe all old data and flash your rom.
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Thanks bro
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kpjimmy said:
, don't revert back the hboot to 1.17 and use a super wipe script, wipe all old data and flash your rom.
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what will happen when revert to hboot 1.17
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what will happen when revert to hboot 1.17
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If you upgrade with the latest firmware (hboot 1.23), the newer roms will not boot up from hboot 1.17. Unless someone came across a fix.
And also keep in mind the hboot under 1.23 will say "LOCKED" but don't worry. You are still rooted.
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If you upgrade with the latest firmware (hboot 1.23), the newer roms will not boot up from hboot 1.17. Unless someone came across a fix.
And also keep in mind the hboot under 1.23 will say "LOCKED" but don't worry. You are still rooted.
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ah.thanks.. im on new firmware.but i got hboot 1.23 and its '**unlocked**'.how could this possible.
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Hello, due to a loooong story, I have hboot 1.23 and well as some of you may know its terrible, I now cannot flash any files at all via hboot and my firmware is 3.12 but the problem is I love ics and so, can anybody please find me any roms that have ics and run on firmware 3.12 not 3.24 or anything else. It will probably be android version 4.01 or could be 4.03 but it would have stated firmware 3.2. I don't mind even if the roms are outdated versions of the newest version of roms, such as arhd 6.0.0 instead of what is being used now.
Thanks.
Do you have s off? If you do just flash the firmware that has the 1.27 unlocked h boot 1.27 and flash the ICS Rom you want.
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no i dont have s-off.I tried to get to stock and wrote s-on incorrectly (apparently).
Now i can't really do anything until revolutionary updates, i have to stay with the ooooold roms.
COREDROID 4.0 works on 1.23, the problem is you can't flash radios which isn't in this ICS ROM. So you're s on. I am assuming you used HTC unlock. I assume you have root and custom recovery. What did you do exactly.
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I used to run Virtuous Inquisition on HBOOT 1.23, in fact I've only recently changed to 1.27.
How did you change to 1.27? I thought hboot 1.23 did not have firmware flashing or any advanced fastboot commands...
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COREDROID 4.0 works on 1.23, the problem is you can't flash radios which isn't in this ICS ROM. So you're s on. I am assuming you used HTC unlock. I assume you have root and custom recovery. What did you do exactly.
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Well yes. I had to use HTCdev because I wrote s on wrong and my bootloafer was locked so I ran htcdev, flashed recovery and now I'm s-on without being able to change ny hboot or anything at all now.
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How did you change to 1.27? I thought hboot 1.23 did not have firmware flashing or any advanced fastboot commands...
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If you have s off you can flash any firmware with 1.23. Why do you refuse to understand that 1.23 s on is your problem, yes you are in fact stuck there. No matter how many threads you ask the same thing in, sorry but it's the truth.
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Well I just got my sensation 4g and did sone researching.... I know its been out for awhile so I was wondering where do I start... Whats the most up to date way to root ny phone (assuming theres more than one way) and whats a good rom? (I like using sense lol).
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Well I just got my sensation 4g and did sone researching.... I know its been out for awhile so I was wondering where do I start... Whats the most up to date way to root ny phone (assuming theres more than one way) and whats a good rom? (I like using sense lol).
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G'day champ,
Welcome back, begin with the guides provided below.
1. S-off, unlock, recovery, root & SuperCID
[Guide] to Installing S-off, Unlocking, ClockWork, Root, SuperCID & S-on
2. Install the latest firmware, 3.32 is needed for the latest base.
[Firmware][Mar 30]User-Friendly Firmware 1.17/3.12/3.24,3.30 & 3.32 Unlocked
3. Flash a ROM, Android Revolution HD(ARHD) is the most popular(for good reason)
[ROM] Android Revolution HD 6.5.5 | ICS | High Quality & Performance | 3.32.401.105
After all that, feel free to learn what you will, there's plenty to learn, it just requires reading, and problems, there's guides all over the Sensation forums, generally within the first couple of pages.
Thank you for all that. What is the firmware step for??
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Sinistah_ said:
Thank you for all that. What is the firmware step for??
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Its what all the newer roms require to flash.
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another question i have is, do i have to do the super cid thing if i want to root my phone or is that optional??
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Sinistah_ said:
another question i have is, do i have to do the super cid thing if i want to root my phone or is that optional??
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You definitely want to super cid.
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Rhiannon224 said:
You definitely want to super cid.
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For what reasons exactly
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You can root without doing supercid. Supercid is optional.
It allows you more flexibility though. Useful if you want to flash other areas/carriers rom. Personally I prefer to keep original cid.
Recently I couldn't receive ota update to ICS because I was supercid, then reverted to the original one and suddenly I received the Ota update notice.
It's up to you whether supercid or not and it's not a real concern because you can revert at anytime.
What is your current hboot version? Power off, pull battery, press & hold vol down and power to enter bootloader and read it off.
You have to check your hboot is supported by revolutionary- the tool to give you s-off.
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And the OTA thing... Say i update my phone..will i lose root n such..
Thanks.
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Yes you will lose everything and bootloader will become 1.27 (which is unsupported by revolutionary) Unless you have S-OFF before the update that is.
As for SuperCID, Its optional but HIGHLY recommended, As said before, it allows you to flash any firmware from any region....
If you dont have it, You MUST make sure it matches your CID or it wont boot... It can also be tricky to find one for your region (depending where you are)
It only takes a second, And its permanent and reversible
When i switch from rom to rom... Do i superwipe then flash rom everytime??
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You can do, but its not necessary, Have a look at the installation guide for the ROM your going to flash.... Usually if you are updating the same ROM wipe isnt needed..
If you are going to a different ROM altogether, A wipe is a MUST
Hi I got this cell with pre installed insert coin rom in bootloader it showed revolutionary and S-off
And hboot 1.27
I installed stock 3.30.401 ruu
And now it shows locked
My cell is rooted and everything is working fine
I installed clockworkmod I don't have stock recovery
Can I install that mod for camera to improve its quality
And can I install any rom?
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xunair said:
Hi I got this cell with pre installed insert coin rom in bootloader it showed revolutionary and S-off
And hboot 1.27
I installed stock 3.32.401 ruu
And now it shows locked
My cell is rooted and everything is working fine
I installed clockworkmod I don't have stock recovery
Can I install that mod for camera to improve its quality
And can I install any rom?
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Yeah, you can install anything if you're S-Off but you might wanna check if you have super CID. Also if you want a fully unlocked bootloader install 3.32 universal firmware
Super Cid is 1111111 yea maybe more or less 1
And mid is PG5813000
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Where can I get universal firmware?
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xunair said:
Where can I get universal firmware?
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Look in the dev section, there is a thread thats really hard to miss about universal firmware.
Your phone says LOCKED because you havent htcdev unlocked but you are S-OFF so you dont need to htcdev unlock and it is better that you dont because you keep your warrenty if your not. S-OFF is also better because it unlocks all partitions and not just the recovery partition
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Look in the dev section, there is a thread thats really hard to miss about universal firmware.
Your phone says LOCKED because you havent htcdev unlocked but you are S-OFF so you dont need to htcdev unlock and it is better that you dont because you keep your warrenty if your not. S-OFF is also better because it unlocks all partitions and not just the recovery partition
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If I install stock latest firmware the S-off won't change? And I don't even have to root again?
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Yeah you're always gonna be S-off. Root wont go away either, and most if not all roms these days are rooted.
Thanks everyone
I'm on 3.30.401 with sense 3.6
What's your battery timing? On stock?
I installed beats audio installer from play store by rockdev. Not sure if the music really improved.
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Guys my phone restarts while using
Don't know what's wrong it happened three times.
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xunair said:
Thanks everyone
I'm on 3.30.401 with sense 3.6
What's your battery timing? On stock?
I installed beats audio installer from play store by rockdev. Not sure if the music really improved.
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Beats is just an EQ profile, download somthing like PowerAMP which is my personal favourite and has a user-definable custom EQ.
Others also say DSP manager is extremely good as well so that could be worth a try