.. for now Sensation is rooted (GB, s-off, stock) but I guess s-off will be gone after recovery, so is there a chance to root it again, but this time (after) OTA ICS?
thanks!
S-OFF isn't touched, so you can reflash CWM/4EXT via HBOOT once the update is done. You need to be 100% stock otherwise to get the official update, though
EddyOS said:
S-OFF isn't touched, so you can reflash CWM/4EXT via HBOOT once the update is done. You need to be 100% stock otherwise to get the official update, though
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.. I see, as I understand s-off wont be gone after recovery (with original RUU) and then I'll run OTA ICS, should I be able to root again when on ICS?
thanks!
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So when my girls phone gets the ICS update will i still be able to root it the same using the same method using Revolutionary as i did mine on stock from stock Gingerbread?
Not at present no - it's needs to be updated to work on the 1.27 HBOOT
Best thing is to go back to stock but leave it S-OFF - that way you can then flash CWM after it's updated
EddyOS said:
Not at present no - it's needs to be updated to work on the 1.27 HBOOT
Best thing is to go back to stock but leave it S-OFF - that way you can then flash CWM after it's updated
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Thanks, I had her wait to get rooted so we can see what that update is like at least on one of our phones...I already done mine when i first got it I couldnt wait lol
So I wonder what the time frame would be for someone to come up with a root method for the Sensation after the ICS update hits....or for Revolutionary to be upgraded to handle that
Because Im sure she will want me to root if she dont like the OTA update. And Im sure she will hit me with the "i thought you told me you would root it after we check out the update" yup opened my mouth to soon...
I'd S-OFF it now, then flash the stock recovery back onto it so you can get the OTA but still have the option if she doesn't like it
EddyOS said:
I'd S-OFF it now, then flash the stock recovery back onto it so you can get the OTA but still have the option if she doesn't like it
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ok so updating the phone after S off wont make it go back S on ?
Nope, it doesn't that
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Will I get the official OTA update if I have unlocked the bootloader via HTCdev method? Actually, I unlocked the bootloader via HTCdev on my sensation which is still in Android 2.3.4. (At that point I didn't know that doing that would not allow supercid and all that stuff.)
If I will get the update.. I just wanted to know after the official OTA update from HTC, will it be a like a new phone? (yeah, i know it will be factory reset.. but i wanted to know if my bootloader, rooting and etc. Will that remain?)
I want the all the rooting and unlocked bootloader not to stay so that i can start afresh with Revolutionary and flash one of the Sense 4 ROMs.. Please help!!
Thank you!
vipulnj said:
Will I get the official OTA update if I have unlocked the bootloader via HTCdev method? Actually, I unlocked the bootloader via HTCdev on my sensation which is still in Android 2.3.4. (At that point I didn't know that doing that would not allow supercid and all that stuff.)
If I will get the update.. I just wanted to know after the official OTA update from HTC, will it be a like a new phone? (yeah, i know it will be factory reset.. but i wanted to know if my bootloader, rooting and etc. Will that remain?)
I want the all the rooting and unlocked bootloader not to stay so that i can start afresh with Revolutionary and flash one of the Sense 4 ROMs.. Please help!!
Thank you!
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Yes you will receive OTA and bootloader will remain **unlocked**. All you need to receive OTA is stock rom, stock recovery and original cid (S-OFF or S-ON doesn't matter).
By the way if you are still on android 2.3.4 most probably your Hboot is 1.18 that means you can S-Off using Revolutionary and then supercid, root etc.. (you can revert easily to original cid and stock recovery anytime).
If you upgrade to ICS 4.0 with Hboot 1.27 you won't be able to S-OFF and supercid unless someone will find a solution. Actually Hboot 1.27 is not supported by Revolutionary.
Ota to ICS 4.0 will not factory reset your phone. Your data and apps will be untouched.
Honestly I don't understand if you are rooted or not. Unlocking bootloader by HtcDev doesn't mean you are rooted. Could you please clarify?
Hope it helps.
I never rooted my phone, it was done halfway there in procedure (never installed a custom ROM)
I had installed bootloader (4ext) and S-off
As of now on the phone I had a rom backup using 4ext for January (back when I was trying to root)
I waited long and hard for the OTA ICS update, which now I realize is out for Bell.
I tried to apply the update, phone reboots and 4ext tries to perform the update and I get a path error SDCARD\download\ (update file name)
Alternatively I tried booting up 4EXT and using "update from zip", with the OTA update file, and that applies and reboots to a stuck HTC white screen.
I just want to get this OTA update installed, thanks for advice!!!
PS: I don't think a factory reset is possible, I don't know where the factory reset data is stored or if its gone
funkbro2 said:
I never rooted my phone, it was done halfway there in procedure (never installed a custom ROM)
I had installed bootloader (4ext) and S-off
As of now on the phone I had a rom backup using 4ext for January (back when I was trying to root)
I waited long and hard for the OTA ICS update, which now I realize is out for Bell.
I tried to apply the update, phone reboots and 4ext tries to perform the update and I get a path error SDCARD\download\ (update file name)
Alternatively I tried booting up 4EXT and using "update from zip", with the OTA update file, and that applies and reboots to a stuck HTC white screen.
I just want to get this OTA update installed, thanks for advice!!!
PS: I don't think a factory reset is possible, I don't know where the factory reset data is stored or if its gone
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man, mustn't update with official ota updates when you are rooted or s-off!
How can I s-on?
funkbro2 said:
How can I s-on?
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Dude for ota soff is fine... Just flash the stock recovery And make sure cid is unchanged.. Then apply the OTA again
(just get the stock recovery.img from any gb RUU and flash it via fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
That's all... Dont lose soff... SOFF is fine For ota
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funkbro2 said:
How can I s-on?
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you can be S=OFF but you must have stock recovery installed not 4ext and with the rooted part you will loose when you update, so just flash the stock recovery back on your phone and you are set to update.
What may work for you is to try to install the stock Gingerbread RUU for your phone first. Since you can't boot into GB, you may have to extract the rom.zip file from the RUU, rename it to PG58IMG.zip and place it in the root folder of your sdcard. Then restart your phone into the Bootloader and Gingerbread should reload. You do not need to be S-ON. If that is successful, your bootloader and recovery will be back to stock and you should still be S-OFF. The OTA should work at that point.
Now why would I need to reflash to a previous rom, if I never rooted?
My phone boots when I reverted to the Jan 5 rom backup (which is still phone original rom)
I can definitely try installing original gingerbread rom and then apply the OTA update as suggested
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Now why would I need to reflash to a previous rom, if I never rooted?
My phone boots when I reverted to the Jan 5 rom backup (which is still phone original rom)
I can definitely try installing original gingerbread rom and then apply the OTA update as suggested
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Didn't know you were able to recover from a backup. Thought you were stuck on the white HTC screen. In that case, go ahead and try to fall back to a stock recovery, then try to do the OTA.
OTA still fails for same reason
After downloading OTA update, clicking apply.. Phone restarts and loads up 4EXT which proceeds to apply update. And then results in the cannot load path error
funkbro2 said:
OTA still fails for same reason
After downloading OTA update, clicking apply.. Phone restarts and loads up 4EXT which proceeds to apply update. And then results in the cannot load path error
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As long as you don't have the stock recovery the OTA fails.. Read my previous post.. For God sake
Sent from my pyramid.. Through blazing fast sonic waves
Used RUU to flash back to "original"
Then did OTA update and it worked no problems
Now using ICS from OTA
Thank you everyone
ganeshp said:
Dude for ota soff is fine... Just flash the stock recovery And make sure cid is unchanged.. Then apply the OTA again
(just get the stock recovery.img from any gb RUU and flash it via fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img)
That's all... Dont lose soff... SOFF is fine For ota
Sent from my pyramid.. Through blazing fast sonic waves
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Will this work if I have SuperCID, or do I need to change it back?
Also, once OTA update is done, just reflash 4EXT and then SuperSU?
alza6991 said:
Will this work if I have SuperCID, or do I need to change it back?
Also, once OTA update is done, just reflash 4EXT and then SuperSU?
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probably you have to change your cid to original
and yes after ota update flash 4ext again
rzr86 said:
probably you have to change your cid to original
and yes after ota update flash 4ext again
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Posted in help thread, but asking you as well:
My phone is HTC Sensation XE, from Australia on Vodafone network.
I need to change my CID back to original, but I can't remember if it was:
HTC-Australia HTC__023
Hutch-Australia HUTCH001
VODA-Australia VODAP021
In Australia, the network is Vodafone-Hutchinson together, so I don't know which one to take.
Not sure what for, but x.xx.862.x - Voda-Hutch AU (Australia) is my provider/location code.
Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance.
alza6991 said:
Posted in help thread, but asking you as well:
My phone is HTC Sensation XE, from Australia on Vodafone network.
I need to change my CID back to original, but I can't remember if it was:
HTC-Australia HTC__023
Hutch-Australia HUTCH001
VODA-Australia VODAP021
In Australia, the network is Vodafone-Hutchinson together, so I don't know which one to take.
Not sure what for, but x.xx.862.x - Voda-Hutch AU (Australia) is my provider/location code.
Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance.
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install cid getter app from play store
it will show the original cid
Hi, guys, first of all I'm an absolute noob so bear with me if I didn't found all the answer even after having searched through the forum.
My big question is about the re-engineered HBOOT 2.00.002. I have a virginal Desire S, non s-off'ed and non rooted, HBOOT is the latest, that is 2.00.002. I want to load the latest official ICS rom from htc and, as I think I understood, HBOOT must be latest version, therefore non s-off since there is no way to s-off that version. But I also would like to just go to CM10 in the future.
Then I read about the re-engineered HBOOT 2.00.002. This HBOOT should give me s-off and the ability to load the ruu rom. Only catch is that you should re-partition the phone. And that's when things get weird. Does I need to do the re-partitioning before installing the ruu ICS rom after installing the re-engineered HBOOT? If so, in order to install the ruu ICS rom, does I need to have any working rom on the phone, that is, does I need to do the nandroid backup to have back my ginger bread 2.3.5 before installing the ruu ics rom?
And going on, currently there is any way to root the phone while on ICS htc stock rom?
But most important of all, what this re-enginnered hboot really is? The revoked/revolutionary mod only works on hboot versions before the 2.xxxx. Is this re-engineered hboot a 2.00.002 official hboot that has been modified to be s-off or is it a previous hboot s-off'ed via revolution but with a different version number?
Thank you all,
Vincent.
zipponap said:
Hi, guys, first of all I'm an absolute noob so bear with me if I didn't found all the answer even after having searched through the forum.
My big question is about the re-engineered HBOOT 2.00.002. I have a virginal Desire S, non s-off'ed and non rooted, HBOOT is the latest, that is 2.00.002. I want to load the latest official ICS rom from htc and, as I think I understood, HBOOT must be latest version, therefore non s-off since there is no way to s-off that version. But I also would like to just go to CM10 in the future.
Then I read about the re-engineered HBOOT 2.00.002. This HBOOT should give me s-off and the ability to load the ruu rom. Only catch is that you should re-partition the phone. And that's when things get weird. Does I need to do the re-partitioning before installing the ruu ICS rom after installing the re-engineered HBOOT? If so, in order to install the ruu ICS rom, does I need to have any working rom on the phone, that is, does I need to do the nandroid backup to have back my ginger bread 2.3.5 before installing the ruu ics rom?
And going on, currently there is any way to root the phone while on ICS htc stock rom?
But most important of all, what this re-enginnered hboot really is? The revoked/revolutionary mod only works on hboot versions before the 2.xxxx. Is this re-engineered hboot a 2.00.002 official hboot that has been modified to be s-off or is it a previous hboot s-off'ed via revolution but with a different version number?
Thank you all,
Vincent.
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If I was you I would forget about the re-engineered HBOOT and just run the RUU and put ICS on your phone.
The re-engineered HBOOT is only for people who have S-Offed using the revolutionary method and have had trouble with the Android 4.0 Sense ROMs. You have absolutely no need to use it now.
If you want CM10 in the future then all you need to do is unlock your bootloader with htcdev, flash a new recovery (4EXT or CWM) and install CM10 from your custom recovery. You will be required to flash the boot.img file separately if you are S-On.
Hi Kavrocks, thank for your prompt answer. I'll surely follow your advice, it's the easiest way and my first goal is to get an easy ICS on my phone. My only doubt is about being able to get to cm10 or whatever else since no rooting hack has already been developed for the new ICS rom.
Do you think HTC will push updates on the new ICS rom or, being it for developer only, it will be just stuck to its original state?
Kavrocks said:
If I was you I would forget about the re-engineered HBOOT and just run the RUU and put ICS on your phone.
The re-engineered HBOOT is only for people who have S-Offed using the revolutionary method and have had trouble with the Android 4.0 Sense ROMs. You have absolutely no need to use it now.
If you want CM10 in the future then all you need to do is unlock your bootloader with htcdev, flash a new recovery (4EXT or CWM) and install CM10 from your custom recovery. You will be required to flash the boot.img file separately if you are S-On.
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Hi Kavrocks, thank for your prompt answer. I'll surely follow your advice, it's the easiest way and my first goal is to get an easy ICS on my phone. My only doubt is about being able to get to cm10 or whatever else since no rooting hack has already been developed for the new ICS rom.
Do you think HTC will push updates on the new ICS rom or, being it for developer only, it will be just stuck to its original state?
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Original.
By what I understand, now that an official ICS ROM is out and thus binary drivers are available, we should expect a fully working non-original ROM in a short time. How much time do you think it will take for the CMx developer to integrate the binaries into the CMx ROM?
zipponap said:
My only doubt is about being able to get to cm10 or whatever else since no rooting hack has already been developed for the new ICS rom.
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Don't tell this my Desire S, HBOOT 2.00.002, S-ON, unlocked with stock ICS and root
Just do this:
- unlock your phone: www.htcdev.com
- Install stock ICS
- install a custom recovery using fastboot
- install superuser using custom recovery
Ok, I've succesfully got ICS on my Desire, eventhough I had to do a 'fastboot oem lock' to get past a 155 error. Now, would you please be so kind to tell me the exact filename of the superuser exploit that you have applied on ICS? I'm asking this to you because I've tried the 3.1.3 on GB2.3.5 and it always hang on 'waiting root access right'.
Thank you.
Vincenzo.
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Don't tell this my Desire S, HBOOT 2.00.002, S-ON, unlocked with stock ICS and root
Just do this:
- unlock your phone:
- Install stock ICS
- install a custom recovery using fastboot
- install superuser using custom recovery
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Ok, I'll answer to myself, use the CWM-SuperSU-v0.95.zip archive. It works with ICS.
zipponap said:
Ok, I've succesfully got ICS on my Desire, eventhough I had to do a 'fastboot oem lock' to get past a 155 error. Now, would you please be so kind to tell me the exact filename of the superuser exploit that you have applied on ICS? I'm asking this to you because I've tried the 3.1.3 on GB2.3.5 and it always hang on 'waiting root access right'.
Thank you.
Vincenzo.
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I got the backup of stock jelly bean 4.1.2 that i did when it was released. I am using TWRP and my Hboot is unlocked and its set to s-off i also got supercid and i am rooted.
What i am wondering do i have to turn s-off to s-on to install over the air updates?
Also i replaced my splash screen, would i need to replace that with the original before the OTA will work?
Which s-on should i use to get s-off back to s-on cause i used facepalm's s-off method.
Reason i am asking is when i checked for updates i had a 15 mb update (yes i haven't checked for a long time for updates) and when i went into my Cricket store to get more screen protectors i seen they was advertising the update to 4.2.2 so i wanted to go back to stock so i can get the update.
You have noticed that there is a RUU with 4.2.2 for your device out?
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You have noticed that there is a RUU with 4.2.2 for your device out?
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I forgot to say my 4.1.2 is stock.
Is that untouched and full stock still odexed?
Why is it an exe?
And do i just flash it in recovery with out doing all that extra work of turn stuff on then off again lol.
Edit: Sorry i just never used an ruu before.
The RUU runs on your computer like a program. Hence the .exe
HTC One SV - K2_PLC_CL
It wipes all your data, but S-off will remain.