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[RUU] Official 2.31.651.7 in ZIP Format, Flashable from Fastboot

As the title says, here's the Rom.zip extracted from RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2.31.651.7_signed_release.exe for those that don't use Windows, or prefer to have their RUU in zip format.
This will flash your phone to 2.31.651.7 STOCK.
http://www.mediafire.com/?m6x4sr682ruk027
Simply rename this to HERCIMG.zip and place on the root of your SDCard.
Power your phone completely off.
Press and Hold VOL DOWN and POWER until your phone boots into HBoot mode.
Wait for it to verify the zip, then click <ACTION> (Trackball) to update, or <SEND> (Green Call) to cancel.
Enjoy!
Here's my guide to rooting .7:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804296

Personally..I want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
I have spent the last four hours searching for this. This needs to be stickied. I'm bookmarking it for sure. This got my phone unbricked..I thought all hope was lost and I would have to call in for warranty support (I got mine refurbed through Sprint last October..so I don't even know if I would still have any warranty support), and see if I could try my luck and getting it replaced, since that is what others have said to do as apparently this file from OP, did not exist.
And so for future reference, so that others don't go mindlessly searching through the forums.
If you
a.) Managed to overwrite your Recovery some how or completely delete it. (I did..and from searching this and many other forums over the past couple hours..I can see I wasn't the only one), and also have no boot (or a corrupted boot loop)
b.) Still have S-ON (You can find this out by powering off your phone and then pressing and holding the power button and the lower volume button), I recommend you turn S-Off for future reference if you're going to be dealing with customer ROMs a lot (so you don't have to go through the hell I just did..). See here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=759955
c.) Have an updated Hboot (1.47) (you can also find this info. in part b.)
....then you KNOW that you are stuck. Because you
a.) Cannot flash a ROM in Recovery because you cannot access it.
b.) You cannot access ADB because your phone won't go that far and will only go into fastboot..
c.) But even though you have access to fastboot you can't do ANYTHING like flash a recovery image or a ROM..or anything for that matter..because S is still ON. (this is the "not allow" messages you will see pop up.)
d.) You have bootloader 1.47 so if you for example, were like me couldn't use this file here.. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657086), because it would say there was a newer version and wouldn't install it.
So this file right here..was the only thing getting my phone back to a usable state. And considering that my searches have shown to pretty much give up all hope and have it sent it for warranty repair, then I think this thread deserves a bump for all those that have screwed up.
Yeah..I have to start ALL OVER now from a stock ROM (thank god for nandroid), but at least my phone isn't a dead brick.
Just thought this needed a well deserved bump.

I wonder if there is a RUU for the latest .2?

Wanted to say BIG THANKS. This worked like a charm to update prl/profile. Keeping two copies of this one on the sd and on the laptop. Thanks again.
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.

laie1472 said:
Wanted to say BIG THANKS. This worked like a charm to update prl/profile. Keeping two copies of this one on the sd and on the laptop. Thanks again.
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.
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Forgive me for seeming NOOBish... but I can use this to do the same, then restore Nandroid back and it will keep the PRL/Profile update?
Just wondering... lolz, thanks!

Yup But you will have to reroot. This takes root from you. You will have to reroot with the Hero rooter from Reg or Z4 or one click root. But read read read. And as far as the prl/profile yup it will stick. When your phone boots up after running this just go into settings and updates and choose update profile and update prl don't update firmware. I repeat don't update firmware. After that just reboot and check your prl should be 60675. After that reroot, then flash a recovery and then nand restore. Hope this helps good luck
Remember this returns you to stock you will loose root and recovery..
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.

Why don't you guys just flash NFX's or LS's already rooted and way faster stock sense ROM to update PRL, etc?
Running stock ROM has to be one of the worst things ever after being on custom ROMs for so long.

I tried flashing almost ever sense rom on here pmgrands port, ninfintes stock odex and deodex and his apps 2 sd builds he has like 4 or 6 different builds. Tried flashing liquids builds beta and stable. All gave me a error. So I had to use this. I couldn't flash any sense rom
and it was easier to use this than try to figure out y. If he can flash a sense rom then yea that's the easier way but if not this is a for sure way to get back to stock.
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.

laie1472 said:
I tried flashing almost ever sense rom on here pmgrands port, ninfintes stock odex and deodex and his apps 2 sd builds he has like 4 or 6 different builds. Tried flashing liquids builds beta and stable. All gave me a error. So I had to use this. I couldn't flash any sense rom
and it was easier to use this than try to figure out y. If he can flash a sense rom then yea that's the easier way but if not this is a for sure way to get back to stock.
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.
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I still have my original nandroid from before I flashed any ROMs and it takes me back to stock Sprint, where I do my updating. Is this faster than that?

jckeyser said:
I still have my original nandroid from before I flashed any ROMs and it takes me back to stock Sprint, where I do my updating. Is this faster than that?
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Yup. That's way better and faster. Just go into settings / updates. Then just update prl and profile. Don't update firmware. After you confirm that your updated just nand restore and you should be good.
Edit not sure if you would have to reroot.
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.

Thanks for the reply's all... I like Sense and have NFX rom on my Hero, loaded a few ROMS but they won't update, so no worries, when I have some free time I'll sit and do it then. I don't like the one click rooters nor the clockwork recovery, I guess I'm old school and do it the hard way, lol, but thanks for letting me know it'll work (prl update) and stay on the handset!
Regards!

Without opening a huge can of worms I would like to know whats the best newest rom out there with sense I just searched for like 3 hours and lot of threads are old and I want what ever is new with sense also would like to upgrade to 2.2 im on Honeybun v.-2 lite firmware 2.1 update1

Gelladuga69 said:
Why don't you guys just flash NFX's or LS's already rooted and way faster stock sense ROM to update PRL, etc?
Running stock ROM has to be one of the worst things ever after being on custom ROMs for so long.
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you got a link ? Im searching now

laie1472 said:
Yup. That's way better and faster. Just go into settings / updates. Then just update prl and profile. Don't update firmware. After you confirm that your updated just nand restore and you should be good.
Edit not sure if you would have to reroot.
Yea it's me Again. With the
Modified .HERO.
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No need to reroot because it was a nandroid. Can't make a nandroid if you're not rooted.
Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA running Android 2.3

Does anybody have the original MD5 checksum for this file? I wanna make sure this file downloaded properly. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: efa439da700b5fad7ea49915ef7d2866
Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA running Android 2.3

does this work with any version of HBOOT? The phone I am dealing with has stock 1.5

mrtimo said:
does this work with any version of HBOOT? The phone I am dealing with has stock 1.5
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What? Is your phone even rooted? Sprint upgraded to 2.1 a LONG time ago, the update is available at www.htc.com

It worked for me a while ago, but my dad just got a new hero so I tried using this, and it wouldn't recognize the image file.. any thoughts?

systemshock869 said:
It worked for me a while ago, but my dad just got a new hero so I tried using this, and it wouldn't recognize the image file.. any thoughts?
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yeah, this only works if he has an S-off bootloader, which he doesn't have if it's a new hero.

il Duce said:
yeah, this only works if he has an S-off bootloader, which he doesn't have if it's a new hero.
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According to the OP this one was extracted from the RUU, so it *should* work S-ON.

want to go back to plain stock rom

how do I do that? since I just rooted and got s off today i dont like the rom i put on and would rather go back to the ota update which had my phone running smooth.

I'm assuming since you had the capacity to s-off your device, that you also read that you should make a nandroid backup. If u didn't then you are not out of luck but hopefully you learned your lesson. You have to flash a stock ruu for your phone. I'm %100 sure that a simple search would yield your intended results. But there ya go anyways.

Orrr just use the RUU.

Thanks I'll search for that now
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konflikt1911 said:
how do I do that? since I just rooted and got s off today i dont like the rom i put on and would rather go back to the ota update which had my phone running smooth.
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If you followed the instructions, you ran backup in recovery. So restore from the backup in recovery.

Rooting and back to stock.

I am new to this rooting stuff and been spent most of yesterday learning and asking questions. Here is what I did and some questions I got from it.
1. I rooted using the guide from ace hack it, took me a few tries but got it working.
2. Noticed I went from GB 2.3 to 2.2 after it. So is there a way to get to 2.3. This will lead to another question a few.
3. I loaded my first Rom off the SD and it was Leedriod. That gave GB 2.3 but was having difficulty with gps. But I was happy to know the rooting and Rom laps worked for me.
4. So I tried the offical ATT RUU through usb and HTC sense. It worked but also put me back to stock. Is this a way of putting your phone back to stock? I do have ace hack it on the phone because when I reboot I can get into it but if I select recovery from the menu it seems to lockup my phone.
5. Is the term Rom and RUU interchangeable? I see people using both or am I reading it wrong?
Thanks for any help. I have been reading pages of this stuff and its making my head spin. I just wanted to ask some questions to help understand this better, since I'm new to it.
Sent from my Inspire 4g using XDA App

Oh I forgot one.
A lot of instruction say to 'clear cache'. How do you do that? Is that the wipe cache option I see from the ace hack it menu?
Thanks
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Ruu=Radio Update Utility
Rom=the OS you see/use on the phone.
When you ran the Ruu, you unrooted your phone. You'll have to rerun the Hack Kit to regain root but not S-off and to be able to flash a different (preferably custom) rom.
Do you have a preference for Sense or AOSP?

I figured that I had to rerun which is ok with me.
I don't really use sense because there aren't many options to it. So I would try asop but o don't know what is
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Tx Redneck said:
Ruu=Radio Update Utility
Rom=the OS you see/use on the phone.
When you ran the Ruu, you unrooted your phone. You'll have to rerun the Hack Kit to regain root but not S-off and to be able to flash a different (preferably custom) rom.
Do you have a preference for Sense or AOSP?
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If you're S-OFF, all you have to do is flash ClockWorkMod recovery to regain root; no need to redo the whole hack kit.

Duffmantp said:
I figured that I had to rerun which is ok with me.
I don't really use sense because there aren't many options to it. So I would try asop but o don't know what is
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If you ran the RUU, it will return you to a stock ROM, but you are still S-OFF which is the biggest hurdle in rooting your phone. If you want to root after running the RUU, just flash ClockWorkMod recovery via HBOOT and then install a rooted ROM.

That's dang good info. From what I knew, you had to rerun part of the hack kit to reboot. How does flashing CWM root the stock rom?
Gene Poole said:
If you ran the RUU, it will return you to a stock ROM, but you are still S-OFF which is the biggest hurdle in rooting your phone. If you want to root after running the RUU, just flash ClockWorkMod recovery via HBOOT and then install a rooted ROM.
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Hey Tx, RUU actually stands for ROM Update Utility. Just didn't want to get others reading that confused.

Agoattamer said:
Hey Tx, RUU actually stands for ROM Update Utility. Just didn't want to get others reading that confused.
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It appears we're both half right.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=WallabyFAQ#What_does_RUU_stand_for.3F
What does RUU stand for?
It stands for Radio Unit Upgrade. But please forget this name: it is confusing, because it upgrade the Radio Rom & the OS ROM, or only one of them.
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Tx Redneck said:
That's dang good info. From what I knew, you had to rerun part of the hack kit to reboot. How does flashing CWM root the stock rom?
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It doesn't, but once CWM is installed, you can install any of the multitude of rooted ROMs available.

Gene Poole said:
It doesn't, but once CWM is installed, you can install any of the multitude of rooted ROMs available.
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Ahhh, that's snicky.[insert Desi Arnaz voice to say snicky]

Tx Redneck said:
It appears we're both half right.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=WallabyFAQ#What_does_RUU_stand_for.3F
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Easy enough to get the real answer. When I first saw you call it Radio Update Utility it didn't sound right. So I googled it. I saw about 4 names that people gave it including Radio Unit Upgrade but then I thought where did I see it before. Oh yes, right from the upgrade utility.

So I tried recovery again. And my phone keeps getting locked up. The device appears with a red triangle with a red exclamation mark. So i tried the downgrade from the hack it kit. It worked but i still get the same thing. So i tried reverse gold card and i got a error. The same that i got before i reformatted the SD to get the root to work.
So later today, I will reformat and run the hack kit again. I am probably going to try Coredroid ROM.

Help please. Can you run RUU without root access

I'm on 1.85 was rooted but had not unlocked bootloader, I tried updating the software to 4.0.4 but it didnt work so then I used SuperUser to remove root. Still didn't work. I factory reset. still didnt work. I think the problem lies in that I had deleted the AT&T ready2go app. But I am running stock everything without anything else changed.
I think my only option is to run RUU 1.85 and then try to update that way. my question is now that I'm not rooted can I run RUU on a windows computer and will anything bad happen if I'm unrooted?
Sorry if this is a noob question. I tried searching.
Could missing at&t ready2go really be that big of a deal for updating?

Yes that will work fine.

gunnyman said:
Yes that will work fine.
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Thank you gunnyman. you're awesome and extremely helpful I've been a closet XDA reader for a few months now.
On another note, could me just simply rooting again and installing my at&t ready to go app from my tittanium backup solve my update woes?

No idea. But I'm sure if you're patient a stock rooted flashable release will be out.

Just in case any newbies like me are wondering, deleting the app AT&T Ready2GO may cause your update to not work.
I went back to my titanium backup and reinstalled the backup of the app. Worked like a charm on the first try.. amazing.

you can run the 2.20 ruu
http://dl3.htc.com/application/htc_one_x_RUU_2.20.502.7_att_us_08022012.exe

Rickytickytabi said:
Just in case any newbies like me are wondering, deleting the app AT&T Ready2GO may cause your update to not work.
I went back to my titanium backup and reinstalled the backup of the app. Worked like a charm on the first try.. amazing.
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Deleting ANY system app will prevent the OTA from working.

[Q] REQUEST: Bell HTC One S JB Nandroid Backup

First off I have to say this is my first post here. I am a long time user of these forums and I cannot praise them for all the great stuff here. I have used them for my Galaxy Nexus and now my Nexus 4. However, my wife's One S is having some problems.
With the OTA of JB it started to act funny, losing and disabling WiFi. So naturally I decided to root the phone and try some other ROMs and see how that worked out. I did take a nan droid backup at almost every step, except just before I rooted it. I attempted to send it back for repair and they denied it saying the phone was tampered, naturally.
I would like to try running it on stock rom, but I do not have the ruu and do not have a nandroid backup before I rooted it. My rooted nandroid back is throwing errors on start up and generally acting not very nice.
Anyone having a bell stock nandroid willing to share with me would be appreciated. I wish I never did the ota of jb... Hind sight is always 20-20 I guess.
Any help would be appreciated.
RTNetwork

RTNetwork said:
First off I have to say this is my first post here. I am a long time user of these forums and I cannot praise them for all the great stuff here. I have used them for my Galaxy Nexus and now my Nexus 4. However, my wife's One S is having some problems.
With the OTA of JB it started to act funny, losing and disabling WiFi. So naturally I decided to root the phone and try some other ROMs and see how that worked out. I did take a nan droid backup at almost every step, except just before I rooted it. I attempted to send it back for repair and they denied it saying the phone was tampered, naturally.
I would like to try running it on stock rom, but I do not have the ruu and do not have a nandroid backup before I rooted it. My rooted nandroid back is throwing errors on start up and generally acting not very nice.
Anyone having a bell stock nandroid willing to share with me would be appreciated. I wish I never did the ota of jb... Hind sight is always 20-20 I guess.
Any help would be appreciated.
RTNetwork
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Tell you what, I have the same problem and even the same carrier phone, BELL HTC One S.
The missing RUU for JB is such a pain. Though I didn't face any problems with WiFi or data connection.
I have rooted my phone and don't have a pre-root nandroid backup.
But here is what you can do to bring it back top stock ICS/JB.
1. S-OFF using moonshine method. (It supports BELL firmware 3.16.666.9 JB)
2. Run an ICS RUU which is present there for BELL.
Afterwards, you can decide whether you want to stay on ICS or update to JB via OTA on phone. Then you can make a nandroid backup too and S-ON back again.
Good luck.
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khan.orak said:
Tell you what, I have the same problem and even the same carrier phone, BELL HTC One S.
The missing RUU for JB is such a pain. Though I didn't face any problems with WiFi or data connection.
I have rooted my phone and don't have a pre-root nandroid backup.
But here is what you can do to bring it back top stock ICS/JB.
1. S-OFF using moonshine method. (It supports BELL firmware 3.16.666.9 JB)
2. Run an ICS RUU which is present there for BELL.
Afterwards, you can decide whether you want to stay on ICS or update to JB via OTA on phone. Then you can make a nandroid backup too and S-ON back again.
Good luck.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
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I was not aware we had a method to s-off once we moved to jb. I'll look into that. Thank you!
Is it worthwhile to super cid, then?

RTNetwork said:
I was not aware we had a method to s-off once we moved to jb. I'll look into that. Thank you!
Is it worthwhile to super cid, then?
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No no, we don't need to superCID at all. And i would definitely advise against it for any reason add many people have reported bricks with SuperCID. Moonshine method is good, try that.
Though it has been reported successful with Ubuntu and other Linux distro's more often than with windows. HTC Sync Manager poses problem.
Study the thread, you'll get ample info.
Good luck
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RTNetwork said:
I was not aware we had a method to s-off once we moved to jb. I'll look into that. Thank you!
Is it worthwhile to super cid, then?
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You might also want to study this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2164783 thread.
Couple of guys recently reported they had success flashing the OTA.zip which is available for BELL JB. The guide is for the S3 variant but the principle is same since you are on stock JellyBean.
Though if you want to revert to ICS you have to follow the method I advised in my previous post.
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