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(TUTORIAL) TO Go Back to stock if you screwed up 4G with caulkins wiimax update

ok let me get this straight some of u guys are getting confused.....
ok me and the op ...flashed the new damage control rom (with ota update)
and i also flashed the wiimax update from (calkulin)
as u guys know this update screwed alot of peoples 4g....
so even after flashing or restoring the 4g wouldnt work/..
so only way to get the 4g orking was to downgrade that 1.47 wii max update i repeat (calkulins)because that screwed up the 4g ,but since the stock rom has 1.32 and we had 1.47 we couldnt run the exe .....
so we did the steps below to get the 4g working aghain....so this is onlky if u upgraded calkulins wiimax and screwed up ur 4g.Hope it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701835
i followed these steps and instead of using adb like it says in the link i used android terminal to run the comand that starts in adb like in the link but insteas of adb this is what i used typed (su) with android terminal
start it with (su) as you see down here
su
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img
after i typed that in the android terminal i put in the pc36img.zip in my root of sd card
then
hold volume down + power to boot into hboot
- it should now find and verify the PC36IMG.zip on the root of your sdcard. itll show a blue status bar on the top right of the screen.
- after a minute or so it will ask u if u wanna flash SAY YES
- affter it flashes the PC36IMG.zip it will ask if you wanna reboot. SAY YES
then
After if finally boots you should see HTC quietly brilliant which hangs forever but it should eventually get past it. Once it does you will have the oldest everything.
then all i did was htc sync and then run the original stock rom wich i got from here wich is the first link
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/
then Perefect done hope to Help and special thanks to
JOcampo86
Tundricles
!OP!
Toastcfh
Thanks to those Guys that with all their stuff i put this together an dit works if you wanna go to stock or flash a Custom ROM from Scratch Hope It Helps!

Bookmarking this for when I get home

Im a Happy camper now
works for me im currently in stock an di updated to the newest upgrade for stock and im just gunna wait till something stable comes out

I dont get it. If you already are rooted with the stock and want to go to anything all you need to do is wipe and flash. If you want to go to a non rooted stock all you need to do is download the stock you want and run the exe. Why go through all of this?

webs05 said:
I dont get it. If you already are rooted with the stock and want to go to anything all you need to do is wipe and flash. If you want to go to a non rooted stock all you need to do is download the stock you want and run the exe. Why go through all of this?
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to go back to non-root stock just install the supersonic old file.

Let me explain....he flashed calkulin Wii max update Nd broke his 4g ..so every custom Rom or stock 4g wouldn't work,,,so he wanted to go back to stock but couldn't run the executive shipped .1 or .6 because he was getting the usb error or bootloader timed out ..because the stock exe us 1.39 n calkulins wiimax update is 1.47 so he had to downgrade to go back to stock......get it.....
webs05 said:
I dont get it. If you already are rooted with the stock and want to go to anything all you need to do is wipe and flash. If you want to go to a non rooted stock all you need to do is download the stock you want and run the exe. Why go through all of this?
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civic4982 said:
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to go back to non-root stock just install the supersonic old file.
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I am trying to go back to stock ROM from non-rooted 1.47.651.1, is that possible. I have read and read threads and I am now pretty confused??

The OP was probably not in the true sense of having the OTA applied because when he typed "su", he should have gotten an access denied because with the OTA applied, you can't get root access. I tried what he said worked for him and it all produces a permission denied.

Edgie311 said:
I am trying to go back to stock ROM from non-rooted 1.47.651.1, is that possible. I have read and read threads and I am now pretty confused??
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right now, not possible. Enjoy the great battery for now. I'm sure someone will come up with something.

$ cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
cannot create /data/flash_image: permission denied
Now what?

start by typing
su
cat \etc
brownhornet said:
$ cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
cannot create /data/flash_image: permission denied
Now what?
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ok let me get this straight some of u guys are getting confused.....
ok me and the op ...flashed the new damage control rom (with ota update)
and we also flashed the wiimax update from (calkulin)
as u guys know this update screwed alot of pples 4g....
so even after flashing or restoring the 4g wouldnt work/..
so only way to get the 4g orking was to downgrade that 1.47 wii max update i repeat (calkulins)because that screwed up the 4g ,but since the stock rom has 1.32 and we had 1.47 we couldnt run the exe .....
so we did the steps above to get the 4g working aghain....so this is onlky if u upgraded calkulins wiimax anbd screwed up ur 4g......

This worked for me to go back to stock. Thank you!
Also, I can connect to 4G after flashing the shipped RUU. Make sure to say NO! to the OTA update it wants to DL. That hasn't been rooted once applied yet.

I think I get it, but for my own curiosity sake... once you flash a radio update and wimax update you can't flash stock? I was under the impression that stock would flash a radio, and ROM and wipe over anything pre-existing. Except if an OTA was applied.

Any idea if this would fix those that flashed the unrevoked update as well?
Anyone who lost 4G doing unrevoked try yet?
Sent from my EVO 4G using the XDA App.

Ok ...no u can't flash back to stock if u flash Wiimax update and radio...but we only flashed the wiimax update not the radio because calkulins released a wiimax update only first,,well a lot of users flashed it ,and it broke the 4g on almost all of us who flashed it..so how can u update a lower image....get it. Update 1.47 img to 1.32 ...?so there was a need to downgrade to get the stock back with out the wiimax update..so this is wa we dis to downgrade
webs05 said:
I think I get it, but for my own curiosity sake... once you flash a radio update and wimax update you can't flash stock? I was under the impression that stock would flash a radio, and ROM and wipe over anything pre-existing. Except if an OTA was applied.
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I flashed Neo's wimax and radio...so I'm pretty much screwed?

krosemm said:
I flashed Neo's wimax and radio...so I'm pretty much screwed?
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I may have also I forgot but I have 4G but right now it connects and disconnects seconds after so It may work or i may have a weak signal. Trying would not hurt

Shadow591 said:
I may have also I forgot but I have 4G but right now it connects and disconnects seconds after so It may work or i may have a weak signal. Trying would not hurt
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Yep I just noticed that. I felt the biggest relief when I saw the 4G icon but it keeps dropping...What up with that?
Btw I'm in downtown Chicago so I'm flooded with 4G.

krosemm said:
Yep I just noticed that. I felt the biggest relief when I saw the 4G icon but it keeps dropping...What up with that?
Btw I'm in downtown Chicago so I'm flooded with 4G.
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Mine also so I updated my PRL and Profile so I'm crossing my fingers so far, BTW Kansas City, 10 minutes from Sprint campus

[GUIDE] How To Unroot And Then Reroot With 4.24.651.1

You Must Be Rooted With S-OFF To Do This!
Seeing how there is no way to root 4.24 yet, I thought I would throw a little something together in case anyone needs to unroot before taking their phone into Sprint. This will return your phone to stock with S-ON while leaving a backdoor to reroot with. I have tested this as best I can without actually upgrading my hBoot (I want to keep the eng hboot), but there are no guarantees you won't run into issues. You also must flash the modified PC36IMG before setting S-ON in order for this to work.
While it would be trivial to create a script to automate this process, I wanted to make sure you know exactly what this does so it is easier to re-root. Plus there's no fun in having a script do all the work.
I've included all the files needed to use ADB and Fastboot on Windows, Linux and Macs. They have been renamed to match the operating system (eg. ADB for Windows is adbw, fastboot for Linux is fastbootl) and you may need to set the correct permissions in order to use them.
You will need:
Unrevoked Forever - The latest version of Unrevoked's S-OFF and S-ON tools
E4GUnroot.zip - The modified 4.24.651.1 PC36IMG zip and an unpacked copy of Amon RA's 1.8 recovery
Basic knowledge about ADB and Fastboot
Plenty of Battery Life
A little common sense
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How To Unroot:
Make a Nandroid with the Boot, System and Data partitions along with your .android folder.
Make sure you have Radio S-OFF and not S-OFF from the ENG hBoot. If your bootloader shows SHIP S-OFF you should be good, if it shows ENG S-OFF then you will want to run Unrevoked Forever to make sure S-OFF is set from the radio.
Use ADB to reboot into RUU mode.
Code:
adb reboot oem-78
Once in RUU mode flash the PC36IMG. Be very careful that you do not interrupt it, doing so can easily result in the permanent bricking of your phone.
Code:
fastboot flash zip PC36IMG_4.24.651.1_Rootable.zip
Watch the output and make sure it completes correctly. If you get an error saying something about "remote 90: hboot pre-update" flash it again.
When it's finished flashing reboot and make your way into the Recovery.
Code:
fastboot reboot
--or--
fastboot reboot-bootloader
The recovery may show a green arrow for a few moments, wait for it to turn into the Red Triangle with an Exclamation Mark inside of it. Then push Amon RA's recovery to the phone and bring up the UI.
Code:
adb push amon_ra_1.8-mod /
adb shell "busybox --install /sbin"
adb shell "nohup /sbin/recovery &"
Now that the Recovery is up, use it to flash Unrevoked's S-ON tool.
You are now fully unrooted with S-ON! After you remove your SD card there will be nothing on your phone to show it was rooted.
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How To Root Again:
Reboot into the Recovery and bring up Amon RA's recovery.
Run Unrevoked's S-OFF tool to unlock the NAND.
Flash your Recovery of choice and use it to restore your Nandroid
And that's it! You should be good to go again.
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As always, you and you alone are responsible for everything you do to your phone. This is for informational purposes only; neither XDA nor I can be held responsible for anything that happens as a result of doing this.
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Reserved...

I won't have to use this method, being rooted already, but will definitely help a lot of people. Also VERY clear, do good job man.

Agreed, great and useful guide.
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Good job and very educated post.

Just figured it may come in handy to someone, I had to unroot mine a few times to take it in to Sprint and I always did something similar to this to make it easier to reroot. If you wanted too you could even restore your data partition from a nandroid and remove all the root apps, that way your phone is still how you like it just unrooted for the time being.

Thank you sir. Very informative and useful post..

I have a question about this since it seems what your describing may help me. Since I got my E3d I have been playing around with my e4g and I upgraded mt hboot not realizing it would turn s-on. I know I'm still rooted since i have flashed at least 3 custom roms since then. I am on cm7.3 currently. For my case would using the unrevoked s-on/s-off tool to turn s-off work?

Great job here, hope I never have to use this though but should help many that need to take in their phone for service.

XpAcErX said:
I have a question about this since it seems what your describing may help me. Since I got my E3d I have been playing around with my e4g and I upgraded mt hboot not realizing it would turn s-on. I know I'm still rooted since i have flashed at least 3 custom roms since then. I am on cm7.3 currently. For my case would using the unrevoked s-on/s-off tool to turn s-off work?
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Try using unrevoked forever from the recovery. If your radio is updated it may not let you do it but it's worth a try
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xHausx said:
Try using unrevoked forever from the recovery. If your radio is updated it may not let you do it but it's worth a try
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Thanks for the reply but i see from their site that 2.15.00.05.02 is not on the supported list.

XpAcErX said:
Thanks for the reply but i see from their site that 2.15.00.05.02 is not on the supported list.
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Yeah, you'll most likely need to downgrade it first. I won't be getting home till late tonight or early in the morning but when I do I'll try to put some stuff together for you to downgrade with
Do you use a pc or linux?
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xHausx said:
Yeah, you'll most likely need to downgrade it first. I won't be getting home till late tonight or early in the morning but when I do I'll try to put some stuff together for you to downgrade with
Do you use a pc or linux?
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Thanks for your help, I have a pc.

Okay Haus. Now root my evo. Lol.
You can do it
Ill give you a hug from far away.
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XpAcErX said:
Thanks for your help, I have a pc.
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Sent a pm
tommytomatoe said:
Okay Haus. Now root my evo. Lol.
You can do it
Ill give you a hug from far away.
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You mean you lost root too? I'm working it but unfortunately I haven't had that much free time to do it. I get the feeling it won't be too much longer now though.

xHausx said:
Sent a pm
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Thanks, I'll dl and try it tonight.

hey xHausx
I've been with my Evo since the beginning so I have no issues, but a friend of mine just bought the Evo. Unfortunately, his came with gingerbread with 4.24.651. Since his is not rooted to begin with, we can't unroot and reroot, so is it safe to assume that this method will not work? If so, are there any known methods to root? thanks in advance....

heyman123 said:
so is it safe to assume that this method will not work? If so, are there any known methods to root? thanks in advance....
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Correct assumption and nope. Join the masses over in Q&A and General posting about this daily.

github said:
Correct assumption and nope. Join the masses over in Q&A and General posting about this daily.
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thanks for the response.
hmmm... well, all I can say is...... bummer! to my friend

aaaaaaand I'm back to s-off, thanks haus!

[RECOVERY] ClockWorkMod Recovery [Updated 7/22/12 - New Info]

EDIT: Koush is working hard on compiling CWM6 for all the newer devices. He already has a working version for the international S3 up so we should be looking at getting it here shortly. Notable differences, 720p support. Once it is official for us I will post it. If it is fully functional I will remove everything except my port, and the stock option that way people are not confused, but can still have some preference if need be.
Edit 2: When pushing a new recovery do it TWICE before using. I know mine works fine. My version should display as v.5.8.4.5
Edit 3: ROM Manager does NOT work with any recovery except the official recovery by Koush. You CAN boot into recovery via ROM Manger on the others, but that is it.
I am not responsible for your newly formed brick! I am also not an ADB expert, please search if you need help! ROM Manager DOES work with this version, you must install recovery manually first, then use ROM Manager to boot into recovery. Since we don't have any custom ROM's yet I can't say it works to install them.
Use whatever method you are comfortable with to push this, be it ADB or Terminal Emulator. CWM Standard can be installed via ROM Manager. The direct link for the Touch version is posted below to avoid purchase costs. Not superseding paying, Koush specified that pushing the recovery manually is free of charge.
Terminal Emulator commands: (Thanks - pdinphx)
Remember to change the name of the recovery, OR change the command line to reflect the name of the recovery! (Replace recovery.img with the appropriate img file name.)
$ su
# dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
# reboot recovery
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Lastly, DO NOT donate to me for this, PERIOD. This is none of my work, all I did was push a couple buttons.
Credit: Koush for Recovery Builder (and for the Official Sprint Version)
Samsung for everything essentially
And everyone who made a tutorial for Terminal Emulator and/or ADB that people might be using.
All Recoveries:
Touch - My CWR Touch Port
Stock Recovery - from Sammy's update (this is the stock Android recovery)
CWM Recovery Official Standard: http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.9-d2vzw.img
CWM Recovery Official d2spr Touch http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.9-d2spr.img

How would this work if we use recovery for custom kernels?

Let me figure out one thing at a time, lol. I am a newb dev. I know almost nothing about custom kernels aside from how to flash them on a device with an unlocked bootloader.

AtLemacks said:
Placeholder.
I am currently using the Recovery Builder Koush made for CWR. If anyone beats me to the punch, let me know because we don't need a thousand different CWR versions. I planned on building a touch version.
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good luck with this, i've tried several recovery.img's on his builder site
none of them worked for me
since he doesn't have source (i still dont understand why) it might be a bit
do we have twrp for this?

I don't think we have any recoveries aside from the one you ported. You input the image from the update tar?

AtLemacks said:
I don't think we have any recoveries aside from the one you ported. You input the image from the update tar?
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i didn't port that recovery, its the exact one from the e4gt team
i tried using the one from the stock image (in the sticky on this forum)
i think we might have better luck (although more work) getting TWRP going on this
we have source code with that, plus it has more features

True... Is anyone from TWRP getting the phone?
Took nearly 10 minutes but I got a recovery output img from the builder. I am about to jump off here really quickly though, I have to be up at 4:30am. I'll PM you the img and you can take a look.

invisiblek said:
i didn't port that recovery, its the exact one from the e4gt team
i tried using the one from the stock image (in the sticky on this forum)
i think we might have better luck (although more work) getting TWRP going on this
we have source code with that, plus it has more features
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Just used TWRP today for the first time on my Prime. I really like it and was hoping it would come to this. My vote goes to TWRP. I'm no good with dev work but can try and help out if needed. I'm a good tester lol

Haro912 said:
Just used TWRP today for the first time on my Prime. I really like it and was hoping it would come to this. My vote goes to TWRP. I'm no good with dev work but can try and help out if needed. I'm a good tester lol
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In my experience, never test what a dev wont test, lol. I'll gladly brick my phone as I have backups. I wouldn't push something I am not sure about onto you.

Just in case votes are being counted <wink> I vote TWRP.
Sent through mental telepathy...or my G-Nex

AtLemacks said:
In my experience, never test what a dev wont test, lol. I'll gladly brick my phone as I have backups. I wouldn't push something I am not sure about onto you.
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If the dev won't put on it a phone they own then it won't go on mine. But if they have it and aren't having issues then I will test and see if I get any. 2 people never use their hone the same way.

http://goo.im/devs/birdman/twrp8.img
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Mean Sixteen said:
Just in case votes are being counted <wink> I vote TWRP.
Sent through mental telepathy...or my G-Nex
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I second this. I have never liked CWM. Rather have Amon Ra but this isn't an HTC phone. Lol.
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda app-developers app

For all you that like TWRP!! Here you go!​

Woo Hoo. Now if I could only make it Tuesday NOW so I could root mine and install TWRP.
Can't wait and I am guessing I will be able to flash a custom kernel by then.
Sent through Mental Telepathy...or my TF201

For those potentially still interested I will try to work on this more tonight and test it out. I had to work 5 hours late due to a big fire/hazmat call at a factory out here. I smell like peppermint now because it was a potpourri fragrance plant -_-... Post progress of my testing later.

appdroid said:
For all you that like TWRP!! Here you go!​
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Can't wait to flash this tomorrow.
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NightxFall said:
Can't wait to flash this tomorrow.
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flash it just like cwm in the root thread
i'm going to update the thread on that too, thanks for reminding me

invisiblek said:
flash it just like cwm in the root thread
i'm going to update the thread on that too, thanks for reminding me
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anybody have any luck with TWRP seeing internal sd contents?
**edit** or cwm for that matter?

Nope, testing right now finally. No luck even booting.

CM10 soft brick?

Hey guys, so I attempted to install cm10 last night on my skyrocket but as you can probabably guess it didn't go as planned. As soon as cwm6 went to install the zip it came up as "bad" within cwm and would not intall the rom. I had checked the md5 after it was on my sdcard and before installing. I was rooted, but running stock ics through kies with att. Installing cwm and rooting went flawlessly. Ive been reading up for days into different roms and installation methods so I didnt have any hesitatiions when it came time to pull the trigger. I backed up all my apps with Tibu and had a nand of my stock rom made with my current version of cwm. When i went to install my backup all ii get in cwm is "no files" and they are on my ext_sd. So right now all i can do is boot into cwm, but if i try to reboot the system it just hangs on the samsung logo. I know this has been reported a million times, but what i haven't found is someone that has a nand made but a "no files" notification from cwm when trying to access it. i would really appreciate any help you guys can offer thanks a lot

What could have happened is that either: your backup was moved from clockworkmod/backup directory or your sd card is unable to be mounted! Are you able to boot into download mode? If you can flashing a stock rom seems to be the only solution...unless you want to try re-flashing the rom? If you can't boot into download then A USB Jig seems like the only option left...
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UltimateAnas said:
What could have happened is that either: your backup was moved from clockworkmod/backup directory or your sd card is unable to be mounted! Are you able to boot into download mode? If you can flashing a stock rom seems to be the only solution...unless you want to try re-flashing the rom? If you can't boot into download then A USB Jig seems like the only option left...
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Yeah, i can boot into download mode. First, thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, but my brain is absolute mush after trying to figure out ways to get this under control. I almost called out of work today to spend more time with this, unfortunately i have a working dog so i cant call out unless she is sick for some reason so that is not really an option. So if i understand this correctly I would have to use odin to flash a stock rom and if that is the case wouldn't it have to be in tar format? Thanks

Its alright+yeah, using odin and yeah either .tar OR .tar.md5!
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alright, ill try that. Now off to find a stock rom out there in tar format. Thanks again!

You should visit: www.sammobile.com +anytime!
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southygov said:
alright, ill try that. Now off to find a stock rom out there in tar format. Thanks again!
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The links to stock and more are in the 1st link I'm my sig, newbs have to learn the hard way when its so easy to just read the stickies first instead of just flashing the first ROM they see
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MY STICKIES
| ROMS | KERNELS | FIRMWARE | RADIOS | HOWTO'S | GUIDES | INFo |
NEWB GUIDES TO: RESTORE TO STOCK | USE ODIN | INSTALL CWM | ROOT |

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vincom said:
The links to stock and more are in the 1st link I'm my sig, newbs have to learn the hard way when its so easy to just read the stickies first instead of just flashing the first ROM they see
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| ROMS | KERNELS | FIRMWARE | RADIOS | HOWTO'S | GUIDES | INFo |
NEWB GUIDES TO: RESTORE TO STOCK | USE ODIN | INSTALL CWM | ROOT |
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Hey Vin, thanks for the reply. Believe me i didn't flash the first rom i saw. I've been looking into different roms for a while before I decided to root and rom. I may be a newb and i accept that, but im not wreckless. Again, i'll check your sig and see if i can find something there to help myself out

southygov said:
Hey Vin, thanks for the reply. Believe me i didn't flash the first rom i saw. I've been looking into different roms for a while before I decided to root and rom. I may be a newb and i accept that, but im not wreckless. Again, i'll check your sig and see if i can find something there to help myself out
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for our phones root is not required to flash custom roms, so read just a tad bit more, im just saying

Hey Vin, I hear ya. I just wanted to have it rooted first and then check out different roms to decide what if any i wanted to flash. In any event, I was able to use your post to flash the 4.0.3 tar and now I'm up and running. Thanks so much. I understand that the custom roms are already rooted, what I don't was confusing was why it made a difference flashing when already rooted as opposed to being stock and then flashing. With our phone is it generally safer to flash from an unrooted phone? My last phone was an inspire so I guess reading up on how to root an htc and then moving to Samsung i expected more roadblocks. Anyway Vin thanks as you can see the "sent from" line all is good.
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doesnt matter, when flashing a rom, stock or custom, the previous "su" root file gets wiped

southygov said:
Hey Vin, I hear ya. I just wanted to have it rooted first and then check out different roms to decide what if any i wanted to flash. In any event, I was able to use your post to flash the 4.0.3 tar and now I'm up and running. Thanks so much. I understand that the custom roms are already rooted, what I don't was confusing was why it made a difference flashing when already rooted as opposed to being stock and then flashing. With our phone is it generally safer to flash from an unrooted phone? My last phone was an inspire so I guess reading up on how to root an htc and then moving to Samsung i expected more roadblocks. Anyway Vin thanks as you can see the "sent from" line all is good.
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You do have a point. I owned three HTC phones before going over to the skyrocket, and expected hell on earth to get rooted and ROMed. ANYBODY HAVE A REZOUND? Jeeez. But, vin is also right. I researched for an hour before doing anything with my skyrocket, and the FIRST thing I did was set up a recovery and backup the stock ROM. Not trying to harp on you, just want to have a post for others that RESEARCH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP IN CUSTOMIZING YOUR PHONE! All phones are different, some of the same models can't share ROMs. So be careful....

mbmloader.img and mbm.img from unlocked dev atrix 2 set

READ CAREFULLY ONLY FOR DEVS, YOU MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE
I have atrix 2 mobile . It's bootloader is unlocked since in fastboot mode it says Ap fastboot flash mode(NS)
If anyone need mbmloader.img and mbm.img , ive attached the two file below.
What I did is I used this command
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 of=/sdcard/mbmloader.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 of=/sdcard/mbm.img
and took the mbmloader.img and mbm.img and uploaded directly here. May be this can help other developer to unlock their device.

amritn said:
I have atrix 2 mobile which is a developer atrix 2. It's bootloader is unlocked since in fastboot mode it says Ap fastboot flash mode(NS)
If anyone need mbmloader.img and mbm.img , ive attached the two file below.
What I did is I used this command
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 of=/sdcard/mbmloader.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 of=/sdcard/mbm.img
and took the mbmloader.img and mbm.img and uploaded directly here. May be this can help other developer to unlock their device.
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To everyone, pls don't flash these. Its only for devs.
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That's cool...hard to believe though.

anyone play with this yet?
I am pulling it down now.
I wish I know how you ended up with this ON your phone. The only thing that sucks is this is the GB bootloader and not the ICS one.

So this is useless to ics users?

jimbridgman said:
anyone play with this yet?
I am pulling it down now.
I wish I know how you ended up with this ON your phone. The only thing that sucks is this is the GB bootloader and not the ICS one.
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Did the first ICS leak change the bootloader? If so, can it be downgraded? I never went past leak #1 just in case I ever needed to revert to GB.
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Scottyfer said:
Did the first ICS leak change the bootloader? If so, can it be downgraded? I never went past leak #1 just in case I ever needed to revert to GB.
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You can go back to GB if you are on leak 1. Jim has his own thread explaining how.

Ok jim when I run your command on cmd i get following
C:\Users\dhurba\Downloads\Compressed\RAZRi_Root_Wi ndows>adb shell
[email protected]:/$ su
su
[email protected]:/# cd /proc
cd /proc
[email protected]:/proc# cat omap_dev_type
cat omap_dev_type
OMAP Device Type :NS
[email protected]:/proc#
jimbridgman said:
anyone play with this yet?
I am pulling it down now.
I wish I know how you ended up with this ON your phone. The only thing that sucks is this is the GB bootloader and not the ICS one.
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amritn said:
Ok jim when I run your command on cmd i get following
C:\Users\dhurba\Downloads\Compressed\RAZRi_Root_Wi ndows>adb shell
[email protected]:/$ su
su
[email protected]:/# cd /proc
cd /proc
[email protected]:/proc# cat omap_dev_type
cat omap_dev_type
OMAP Device Type :NS
[email protected]:/proc#
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That is AWESOME!!! that means that you have the Efuses set as an NS device. Where did you buy your phone from? They did make a developer version of the A2, but it was very hard to get a dev version, but somehow you have the efuse set up in the same way the dev version of the A2 is.
And to everyone who is wondering, yes the leak 1 did flash a different bootloader version a.73, and the GB version should be A.72 and no you can not go backwards. The way I was able to back to GB from leak one is by NOT flashing the bootloaders, since the A.72 and A.73 allow the GB and ICS softwares to run at the bootloader check.
Yes this will not work unless you have the SAME version of the bootloader. This is exactly the same as the NS bootloader that we saw in the GB version of the firmware we had. I did a little comparison and it is an exact match.

I seen that in the china forum they are looking into this..... They said there is going to be a BIG surprise soon?????

Jim i didn't notice HS and NS before , I tried everything to upgrade to ICS and Jb,
When I upgraded to ICS or Jb the bootloader version goes to A.73 and when downgraded to gb the bootloader version showed A.68.
May be My device was a dev device or may be There is something inside Chinese fastboot firmware which may help to unlock bootloader.
Ok here is what I learnt.
1 When we flash fastboot firmware from China using RSD every thing flashes except mbmloader_ns.bin or mbmloader_hs.bin , they are inside ota folder
so they don't flash, this makes easy for other device to upgrade to chinese firmware.
2 May be none has flashed mbmloader_ns.bin using fastboot command moto-fastboot.exe flash mbmloader mbmloader_ns.bin , this had helped me to flash mbmloader, may be I unlocked using the mbmloader_ns.bin inside chinese firmware or may be my device was unlocked from begining( I didn't noticed until some one told me )
3 Pls look at the mbmloader_ns.bin in chinese firmware. This may give some hint.
jimbridgman said:
That is AWESOME!!! that means that you have the Efuses set as an NS device. Where did you buy your phone from? They did make a developer version of the A2, but it was very hard to get a dev version, but somehow you have the efuse set up in the same way the dev version of the A2 is.
And to everyone who is wondering, yes the leak 1 did flash a different bootloader version a.73, and the GB version should be A.72 and no you can not go backwards. The way I was able to back to GB from leak one is by NOT flashing the bootloaders, since the A.72 and A.73 allow the GB and ICS softwares to run at the bootloader check.
Yes this will not work unless you have the SAME version of the bootloader. This is exactly the same as the NS bootloader that we saw in the GB version of the firmware we had. I did a little comparison and it is an exact match.
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Wow. It is for real. Very cool..
Too bad I OTA'd to final ICS. But, the wife is still running 2.3.6 (Romulus) on her A2
And I've grown to enjoy the surprises from the Asian lands..
I'll start digging into this soon too.
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Hi jim.. Just a quick query.. I am on official ICS rooted (a2 international) and i had read somewhere in the posts that i can switch back to GB.. So can i go ahead and do that n try flashing this mbmloader.img ? Coz according to what i understand.. This should bring my bootloader version to a.68 ? Please correct me if i am wrong.. Just a lil excited to try this out..
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mmotorwala said:
Hi jim.. Just a quick query.. I am on official ICS rooted (a2 international) and i had read somewhere in the posts that i can switch back to GB.. So can i go ahead and do that n try flashing this mbmloader.img ? Coz according to what i understand.. This should bring my bootloader version to a.68 ? Please correct me if i am wrong.. Just a lil excited to try this out..
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DO NOT FLASH THIS! You will surely brick if you flash this boot loader. This boot loader is GB based. Don't flash it!

Maybe this will help out on unlocking our phones...eventually.

Maribou said:
DO NOT FLASH THIS! You will surely brick if you flash this boot loader. This boot loader is GB based. Don't flash it!
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well what i m trying to say here is.. can i first flash GB via RSDlite and then flash these files ? ppl have flashed GB in past from ICS and they have succeded on their A2 international version.. if so..i am willing and take a chance..
sent from an unimaginably curious mind !

These are the same files on the leak.....

hankbizzo5 said:
These are the same files on the leak.....
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u mean ics leak? or JB ?
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jimbridgman said:
That is AWESOME!!! that means that you have the Efuses set as an NS device. Where did you buy your phone from? They did make a developer version of the A2, but it was very hard to get a dev version, but somehow you have the efuse set up in the same way the dev version of the A2 is.
And to everyone who is wondering, yes the leak 1 did flash a different bootloader version a.73, and the GB version should be A.72 and no you can not go backwards. The way I was able to back to GB from leak one is by NOT flashing the bootloaders, since the A.72 and A.73 allow the GB and ICS softwares to run at the bootloader check.
Yes this will not work unless you have the SAME version of the bootloader. This is exactly the same as the NS bootloader that we saw in the GB version of the firmware we had. I did a little comparison and it is an exact match.
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Does anyone read these threads or do they just randomly post things?????

mmotorwala said:
well what i m trying to say here is.. can i first flash GB via RSDlite and then flash these files ? ppl have flashed GB in past from ICS and they have succeded on their A2 international version.. if so..i am willing and take a chance..
sent from an unimaginably curious mind !
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All right. Let me clear a few things up. If your phone is the INTERNATIONAL OR RETAIL version, I repeat. INTERNATIONAL OR RETAIL you CAN GO BACK and forth to GB from JB, or ICS. I do that. There are some minor changes you will have to do though. You can't do that only on ATT final ICS. Now, whatever you do, pls DO NOT FLASH ANY FILES FROM THIS THREAD. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT MBMLOADER OR MBM EXACTLY ARE, PLEASE LEAVE THIS THREAD. DO A SEARCH, UNDERSTAND AND COME BACK IF INTERESTED. LET THIS THREAD BE ONLY FOR DEVS.
@Jim the op said in a pm that on the back its written "This device is not authorized as required by the rules of FCC". It doesn't appear to be a dev version exactly. Just a eng phone used by a moto engineer. My guess as to what happened is, the moto engineer gave the phone to his son or some other relative as it is eol'd and he won't need to dev for it. The person who now had put it up for sale over eBay. The op (amritin) bought that. And I am trying to look for differences.. also, wanted to mention the CDT theory that you can't go back if the version number is increased appears to be applicable only for carrier based devices. On mine, I can flash the GB CDT without any issues. (Please don't try this. ) and I can also flash the uboot and xloader (I think its a good idea to use these instead of the regular ones so that no one tries anything stupid. ) from any version.
Oh and one more thing. My phone doesn't let me use fastboot boot command even if the boot image is the moto signed one from fxz. It returns command restricted. That's why I asked him to try that. I don't know how you managed to use the command.
@altered this is kinda interesting
Code:
CPFROM HAL API is in PPA
may help with the black screen issue?