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Can't undo S-OFF

Hello all,
Was just wondering if anyone can help me as I am trying to unroot the phone to send back for warranty reasons as main speaker is not working anymore.
First restored the original partition 7 from gfree and ran its unroot
it put back the 0.86.0000 hboot but still showing S-OFF though.
tried to flash the PD15IMG.zip for gingerbread and let it do all the updates and is still on s-off but showing 0.86.0005 now.
When booting it gives the normal first vibration then about a second or two later I get another vibration.
Has all the right software just seems like something is different and not running 100% stock yet.
Any ideas what I am missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

M9x3mos said:
Hello all,
Was just wondering if anyone can help me as I am trying to unroot the phone to send back for warranty reasons as main speaker is not working anymore.
First restored the original partition 7 from gfree and ran its unroot
it put back the 0.86.0000 hboot but still showing S-OFF though.
tried to flash the PD15IMG.zip for gingerbread and let it do all the updates and is still on s-off but showing 0.86.0005 now.
When booting it gives the normal first vibration then about a second or two later I get another vibration.
Has all the right software just seems like something is different and not running 100% stock yet.
Any ideas what I am missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ive heard it can take a couple of tries of rooting and unrooting for it to show s-on. try rerooting it with the same method you used to root and then just get the stock pd15img to flash. Make sure you downgrade the bootloader first though if its now the gingerbread bootloader. Good Luck!

you mean the 0.86.0000 hboot?

M9x3mos said:
you mean the 0.86.0000 hboot?
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0.86.000 is the stock hboot, you should be good to go.

yeah that is what I had didn't help
I assume should be engineering hboot
do gfree procedures
then put 0.86.0000

[Q] Phone Won't Boot into OS

My Problem:
I cannot boot into the phone OS. I can get to the bootloader and CWM, but when trying to boot the phone normally, it just sits on the HTC splash screen.
What I Did:
I was trying to root my T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4G.
I went to HTC Dev and unlocked my bootloader. That went fine.
I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 only, I didn't. I skipped the S-OFF part. Stupid, I know. Not sure why exactly I did that, but I did.
I proceeded to flash CWM 4 and the su-2.3.6.3-ef-signed.zip which both worked fine. Then I flashed Virtuous Inquisition 3.0 without first doing a backup (again, I know, stupid). I rebooted and sat at the splashscreen for about 20 minutes (about 10 minutes longer than the Inquisition instructions indicate is the maximum anticipated time required).
At this point I went to the virtuous IRC and asked for help. They tried to help me, but we did not get far, other than determining that I had failed to S-OFF and supercid.
I tried using the RUU to return to stock. The first one I downloaded (RUU_Pyramid_TMOUS_1.29.531.2_Radio_10.42.9007.00P_10.11.9007.15_M_release_193714_sig) just crashed when I tried to run it. The second one (RUU_Pyramid_TMOUS_1.50.531.1_Radio_10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01_M_release_223976_sig) ran, but said it was the wrong image.
As far as I can tell, S-OFF requires being in the phone OS and using the Revolutionary tool. Without being able to put a stock ROM on there, getting a working ROM on the phone requires it being S-OFF. I think I may have really ruined my phone. Can anyone help?

Try reading here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469296 ... Just had a read through myself, and it seems that it might provide help with your situation
Worth a read/try

My Hero
You sir, are my hero (along with trkaaa). It worked! I am now able to boot into the phone OS and am S-OFF. :-D Thank you so much!

[Q] I am having trouble with my htc desire s

Hello to everyone specially to those who are very knowledgeable on hacking HTC Desire S.
I have manage to root my phone HTC desire s with an HBOOT version 2.00.002 the problem is it is not s-off. I want to make it S-off.
My currently installed rom is reaper v3.0.0 i want to change it to ice cream sandwich roms
My questions are.
Is it possible to go back to HTC Desire S original ROM i am from Philippines part of Asia
Why do i always stuck on HTC boot screen when I installed other ROM. I am really freaking out guys. I tried to install fallout v.3.0.0
Do I really need to be s-off to install other roms? I want to be s-off but i found some tutorials here that i really cant make to work. I am sure I followed the instructions carefully but it does not work for me.
Please help me guys I want to use my full potential of my phone. Thank you.

Google it, or search the forum for it:
"you have to flash boot.img through fastboot"
ANY guide for flashing ROMs will tell you that, if you unlocked with HTCDev tool. Quite hard to miss.

Based on what i read i think u will need to s-off to flash or even root.(maybe someone else can give u a better guide.)
It is best if you could mention which guide u used and then post what error u encountered at which point.

Judging by him able to root HBOOT 2.00 and running custom ROM, but using S-ON - the only option is that he unlocked by HTCDev. But of course, as it usually happens, he managed to skip reading important parts of the guide that mention what I wrote in the previous post.

this is what i did to my phone
This is what I did to my phone (exactly)
1. Unlock bootloader on HTCDEV.com
2. i dont know exactly if i installed hboot 2.00.002 but that's my version now
3. install a custom rom called reaper v3.0.0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100 << i followed this tutorial guys.
now what exactly what i want to do is
1. go back to my old htc phone. I want my HTC Desire S OS back. the original one but it seems i cant because when i installed an HTC rom, (or whatever you call it) my phone hangs up on the bootscreen "htc" and i dont know why.
guys im starting to freak out i dont know if i really messed up with my phone
somebody help me please

Read Q&A section. At the top there are at least 2 threads that deal with returning to stock, and one is pointing towards the other.

Are you able to boot to your recovery?
If you did not untick "Fastboot" in settings. You will need to take off your battery for 5 seconds, then put it back and then, press your volume down button and your power button at the same time. Press for like 5 seconds and wait to boot into recovery mode.
Follow step number 5... try flashing the boot.img...

S-off and im 1.45, but cant root

Ok heres the deal. I got the MT4G slide in jan. I rooted it & gained s-off with the revoloutionary tool. When t mobile rolled out the ota, I installed & I lost my root capabilities. Now i have been looking through the threads trying to figure out how to root my phone. Wen i put my phone into boot loader, it says s-off with 1.45. the other threads that I have seen are 1.55 with s-on. Is there something that I am missing, I want to install cmn 9 or a ics rom. Could somebody point me in the right direction as far as what I am doing wrong. I tried the all in one tool, but I got lost when I has to ue the sdk installer on htcdev. thanks in advance for the help

Try pushing CWM via adb then use that to flash su. There are instructions in one of the stickies. You could do it all in adb of you wanted to.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

jbright407 said:
Ok heres the deal. I got the MT4G slide in jan. I rooted it & gained s-off with the revoloutionary tool. When t mobile rolled out the ota, I installed & I lost my root capabilities. Now i have been looking through the threads trying to figure out how to root my phone. Wen i put my phone into boot loader, it says s-off with 1.45. the other threads that I have seen are 1.55 with s-on. Is there something that I am missing, I want to install cmn 9 or a ics rom. Could somebody point me in the right direction as far as what I am doing wrong. I tried the all in one tool, but I got lost when I has to ue the sdk installer on htcdev. thanks in advance for the help
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When you go into your bootloader, does it say "locked" or "unlocked?" If it's locked, go to HTCdev and unlock it THEN flash CWM recovery via Fastboot.

If you are S-Off, go into bootloader. What does the top say? Revolutionary? Locked? Unlocked? Relocked? If it says Locked/Unlocked/Relocked, you need to flash the Rev HBOOT.

Ok thanks for the pointers. At the top of the screen it says locked. So ill try the dtc dev route. I got hung up on the part when i have to install the sdk & find the files that I have renamed. Is there a video tutorial of the process or is there something I am missing. I have experience with rooting, I have rooter hd2s, my transformer & several evos. I just cant understand that 1 portion of it. Thanks for the fast responses and the help, I didnt think it would be that immediate. I am just tired of not having ics on my phone, but I have it on all of my other devices, .

[Q] Cannot flash Sensation with S-on and formatted memory!!! HELP!! PLEASE!!

Hello all, I apologize if this or similar has been posted ahead of time. I've have been searching the forums and Google for the past 4 days trying to figure this out. I'm lost...
Just to be known, I am not a "complete" noob on rooting/hacking phones. I am however a noob on this Sensation..
So a few days ago I got this phone. I had all intentions of running rooted custom roms. I've followed every turtorial I could find on it. I see there were two ways: Through SDK and the All-in-one kit v1.0
I tried using the SDK first... the problem I had with it was I would get a "failed to fetch URL"
So I would have to close down. Then after that I couldn't get "revision 5" to load up to tick on it.
Obviously it wasn't working correctly or somthing was wrong with drivers? I did install HTC Sync AND latest Java.
I dunno?
Next I went to use the All-In-One toolkit
Seemed better and easier. I went through the steps of unlocking the Bootloader - DONE!
Next I went to flash recovery.. Well I got stuck. It wouldn't load.
Well this next step is probably where I went wrong...
I was trying to move clutter off my desktop and was clicking on things... I happen to hit the "Stock kernel" button. Wouldn't be a problem except the tool kit is used for the HTC One X (although it is said to also be used for the Sensation). I'm thinking maybe I loaded thr One X kernel?
Basically, after that I am stuck on the HTC wite screen. I can get into bootloader, Fastboot, and now CWMrecovery (although recovery is giving me issues too. Can't mount USB and half the time wont run SuperWipe, will say aborted status 1 and sometimes 7)
There is current rom in the phone so I cannot boot into anything and I wasn't able to do "perm root" because of my accident.
I'm stuck and I've run out of options. Is it bricked? What can I do to get back to stock to atleast start over and get S-OFF?
I do have the OTA ICS update 1.27 if that helps.
Please, any help is greatly appreciated!!!!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
look here
first flash 4ext recovery then is easy

Thanks for replying back so quickly! That is the actual thread I've been trying to follow. My problem with it is I can't get command prompt to work right? I follow the directions but every time I keep getting "not found" in the directories. Is it something on my comp I'm not doing right?

BlastDrumBeater said:
Thanks for replying back so quickly! That is the actual thread I've been trying to follow. My problem with it is I can't get command prompt to work right? I follow the directions but every time I keep getting "not found" in the directories. Is it something on my comp I'm not doing right?
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if you are trying to flash 4ext recovery then did you open the command prompt in the folder where adb and fastboot files are located?
if yes then did you have installed htc drivers?
best wishes
big mistake that you used kernel from that tool
i used the same tool to root my device but never flashed that kernel because it is for one x
never do steps that are not mentioning

Hi.
Your phone is not bricked..
Please look HERE
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda premium