Hi guys,
So I'm currently running AOKP 4.2.2, HBOOT 1.09, and have S-OFF. I know I need to be on stock Sense to do a SIM unlock. Can I just flash one of the Sense ROMs out there, and then restore my current phone from a backup, or do I have to do a full RUU with an unmodified AT&T OTA?. If it's the latter, will I lose S-OFF/Recovery or anything else important, or should I still just be able to restore from a backup. Thanks.
A Sense rom should be all you need.
A ruu will wipe your internal storage and recovery but not your sdcard.
Only way to lose s-off is to manually change it back.
Just flash a Sense custom ROM. SIM unlock, then you can go back to AOKP.
Great, thanks a lot!
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From what I've seen, it seems like most people root their stock ROM, back that up, and then start playing with other ROMs. While I understand that there is a way to go from S-OFF back to S-ON if you really need to, I would prefer to have a backup of my completely stock S-ON ROM, and then start playing with other ROMs. Is this possible? I did a search and found 1 thread that seemed relevant:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1206911&highlight=backup
The last post seems to answer the OP's problem, but he refers to Revolutionary S-OFF in order to get the backup (which doesn't make sense to me: S-OFF'ing the phone in order to make a backup of the unrooted stock ROM?). What is the real way to backup the completely stock S-ON ROM before playing with ROMs?
S-ON/OFF is independent of the ROM so there really is no such thing as an S-ON ROM. There's just a ROM on a S-ON device. Obviously that ROM would be stock because you cannot get an unofficial ROM on an S-ON device.
To make a full backup would need to be S-OFF with custom recovery (using the Revolutionary tool). Later on, if you wanted to revert back to stock, you could restore that back up and then switch back to S-ON.
My device information
Android Version
2.3.5
HTC Sense Version
3.0
Software Number
2.15.707.2
Kernel Version
2.6.35.10
HBoot
2.00.0002
Unlocked by HTCDev and rooted by flashing cwm-4.0.1.4-saga.img and su-3.0-efgh-signed and now I want to revert it back to stock rom and relock my bootloader..
now my problems are
1. factory reset is not working if i relocked my bootloader
2. i want to remove the root of my nandroid backup
3. if possible how to downgrade without turning s-off?
You probably want to apply a RUU, it will reset everything to stock. Make sure you get the oldest one so you can easily get back to S-OFF with Revolutionary.
I don't know if "unrooting" a backup is possible.
Well I hope you did a backup?
Just restore your backup afterwards flash original recovery...look @modaco for that...and relock your bootloader ^^
...RUU isn't that easy to find for every rom...
You want to get back to retail status or did I get it wrong?
Hello, gonna ask here because I'm newbie in this things and I don't get a a lot of things
I've a Desire S and the only thing I did was installing the ICS RUU that came out this summer. I'm currently having some problems with the phone so I want to change the ROM to see if I've a better performance. I'm looking for info to start rooting and I saw I've HBOOT v.2.02.002 that I guess came with the RUU.
What do I've to do now to root it? Should I downgrade the hboot to 09.xx to use Revolutionary and that will root it? And in what point the unlock bootloader from htcdev comes in?
Lets see if I can get started because I've read a lot of guides but still have no clue of where should I move :|
Thanks!
I would advise you to read through this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186401
I'm currrently using Flinnys Andromadus Build of JB (10.1) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031694
That one gave me a much more responsive phone.
What you need to know:
You do not necessarily need S-OFF, S-ON but DEV-Unlocked is enough
Use the recovery (I use 4EXT) to make a backup (that's what's called a nandroid backup) before wiping and flashing a new ROM
If you change ROMs, ALWAYS wipe your phone (not the SD-Card) completely, unless you know exactly what you are doing
So basically
DEV Unlock your phone
install 4EXT recovery
install some kind of backup tool for your apps (TItanium Backup is good)
Do a backup of all apps via Titanium Backup
Do a Nandroid Backup
Wipe phone
Flash ROM
Flash Kernel (boot.img) (you need to do this separately on S-ON phones)
enjoy
This is a good guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100
So guys, I have the latest update on my phone from yesterday. but I would like to try cm10.
But if i won't like it I would like to go back to Stock.
But the problem is that I have no idea how I should do all that stuff like s-off, and SuperCID.
My only rooting and flashing experience is with samsung phones. And I am a bit scared to ruin my HTC One S S4
PS. I have read alot about all that stuff on the forums, but it still isn't clear for me
You don't need s-off, altho it's nice to have.
Just unlock and flash a recovery. Then before you flash a custom ROM, make a nandroid backup in recovery. After you played with your custom ROM, you can restore your nandroid backup and you're back.
For details on how to unlock, fastboot, backup, restore, flash, etc.. read around.
-Jobo
touch of jobo said:
You don't need s-off, altho it's nice to have.
Just unlock and flash a recovery. Then before you flash a custom ROM, make a nandroid backup in recovery. After you played with your custom ROM, you can restore your nandroid backup and you're back.
For details on how to unlock, fastboot, backup, restore, flash, etc.. read around.
-Jobo
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Yeah but with SuperCID I read about issues like bricking when going back to stock.
You don't need S-Off to flash custom recoveries and ROMs.
If you do get S-Off, you can then change CID (back) to HTC__001
Bricking on superCID has only happened when accepting JB OTA as far as I know.
touch of jobo said:
You don't need S-Off to flash custom recoveries and ROMs.
If you do get S-Off, you can then change CID (back) to HTC__001
Bricking on superCID has only happened when accepting JB OTA as far as I know.
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Thanks, I am now: S-OFF, ROOTED, SUPERCID and CUSTOM ROM!
Hello all...
Probably a daft question to most on here, but anyway....
HOX+ on O2, 4.2.2 sense5, CID O2___001
If I unlock and root it, WITHOUT flashing custom ROM, and then backup the stock OS, with CMD etc, can I then restore the backup so that the phone is unrooted and the bootloader re locked ?
Is it as simple as 'restoring', and the device is back to 'completely stock' in case of further OTA updates ?
Thanks