[Q] cant seem to flash stock recovery - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

I have an At&t HTC one x, i need to return for a warranty replacement. I rooted and was running viper xl with TWRP recovery. I was able to run the RUU and everything is back to stock but no recovery just goes blank for a little bit and then I get the dreaded red triangle. I have been trying to use Hasoon's all in one kit to no avail. for some reason i cannot get fasboot to work on my computer. so I'm stuck with a phone that I'm a little nervous about sending back. I have searched and can't find a thread that works in my particular situation. Used all my lifelines called friends etc. XDA please help me, I have to go out of town for a week to run a summer camp and don't have anymore time to fool with it!

The screen with red triangle is stock recovery.
Are you going through AT&T for the warranty replacement? If so, AT&T doesn't give a poo whether the phone is stock or not. I have yet to hear a report of warranty service through AT&T being denied for unlocked bootloader, root, or even custom ROM installed on the phone. Of course, returning to stock (or close to stock) is the safest bet. But I wouldn't stress too much over it.

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[Q] Please Help! Important! Unrooting Question

hey guys,
bought my samsung captivate two days ago and i love it. from reading all the posts about how rooting is awesome i finally took the plunge and rooted my phone with the one click root program. followed the directions to the teeth, everything went fine. even went as far as downloading clockwork and backing up my rom.
few hours later, im totally blown that i rooted my phone. i realized i threw away my warranty.
is there ANY way to unroot the phone and make it totally stock and make it seem like the phone was never altered? i read some answers of "yeah" and some answers of "once your rooted, you can't get back" (i remember reading about an article about how some android phones like the nexus one, once you root theres no going back period). the program i used had a unroot button but im not sure if that would wipe everything away to factory settings and erase all traces of the root.
i know im effing stupid for not thinking it threw. but hey, its good that i came to my senses before i loaded up an os.
to be clear, my phone is just rooted. nothing else. im not running cognitive rom or anything. its running the stock samsung 2.1.
so can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me solve this problem?
im a total noob when it comes to android.
it took me 20 minutes doing that one click from reading the directions over and over again lol.
i need some step by step directions for stupid people
okay, so i followed the directions to unroot. the programs that were installed when i rooted seemed to have disappear. to be extra sure, i reformatted my sd card and than factory restored the phone (from settings/privacy). quick question though, after i pressed "factory reset" my phone rebooted and than for a quick second i saw the same screen i saw when i rooted (the black screen with the yellow font? looked like a system command prompt i guess). it came on for a sec and than disappeared and it booted regularly. did that happen because i did a factory reset or did that happen because im still rooted?
wtf is wrong with me. i just want my unrooted captivate back (and my warranty lol)
odin to stock with master clear.
There's a thread under android development something with "stock rom" that should restore your phone back to factory.
If you did all of that then you are definitely back to stock now & theres no way of detecting your phone was rooted. You could of gotten away with just using one click to unroot. Thats all I did when I returned mine after a week because my gps never worked at all. I dont think they even did anything to check if it was rooted or anything. Hows your gps on the new one by the way? Mines still bad but at least it sees some satellites now. My old one had a hardware problem where gps wouldn't do anything at all.
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When you use odin to flash back to stock does that restore the AT&T bloatware as well? Or should I use TiB when I first get the phone to get the bloatware back on?
Thanks,
JOe K.
After trying to exchange my phone for another phone (thinking the GPS is a hardware issue) I had rooted and flashed a custom rom. I reverted back using ODIN master clear and ODIN 2.1 rom (Which puts bloatware and everything on it) and there's no way to detect it. The only time it will truly void your warranty (I believe) if you go into the store with a custom rom or if you go into the store with a bricked phone and they figure out you were modifying your phone.
thanks for the answers guys! why is it that you cant "unroot" a nexus one? i heard they'll always be able to tell if your rooted once you do it.

[Q] VERIZON ERIS CLOCKWORK (any help appreciated)

Alright i'm new to rooting, but i'm almost certain i just bricked my new phone. Please don't give me a hard time since i'm just a kid! Well, back to the point. I've rooted my eris with the latest version of unrevoked and clockwork recovery. Now everytime i try to install a rom it is aborted during the copying process. Unfortunately the nandroid backup that i took before all of this has the same error when attempt to I restore! Also right now i'm just trying to get a rom on there so I can use amon ra recovery! Thanks in advance.
Aright, just yesterday while using RUU to restore my phone to normal in order to reroot, my phone just died. Now it doesn't activate the charging light or anything. It doesn't even turn on at all. If I take it into verizon for a warranty exchange, will they know that it has been rooted. (for clarification) THE PHONE DOES NOT BOOT AT ALL, IT IS UNRESPONSIVE AND SHOWS NO INDICATION OF CHARGING. please help
replacement for eris
Alright I'll be going into Verizon this weekend for a warranty replacement. Unfortunately, I need a cell phone NOW. What should I tell them? My phone is inoperable and when I called, they said that they have no eris's in stock. Do you think they can give me something equal. Like an incredible he he yah

[Q] Reverting Everything to Stock?

XDA,
I successfully rooted my brand new 2.20 AT&T HTC One X, flashed CM10 rom and TWRP 2.2.3 custom recovery. Everything was going great; much love to the community and djrbliss. Here's my issue: Yesterday my phone went flying, hit the ground BLAM! and shattered the screen. I've therefore voided my warranty and it looks like theres no way out of this $600 accident. Panic mode....
But, I have a plan: I have premium accidental damage coverage. But in order for me to be elegible for a complete phone replacement I need to revert to the stock ROM, lock my bootloader, eliminate the custom recovery, and finally reset the flash counter with a USB jig. I need it to appear as though I havent changed a thing. Heres my question for you all: Is it possible to revert my phone completely? If I am successful, will AT&T notice? What steps should I take?
Any tips would be great. I'll keep you all updated on what develops.
-T
if the phone powers on and such you should be able to relock bootloader and run the ruu. thats all you really need to do for insurance claim. you cant remove the relocked bootloader message without s-off, but it shouldn't matter since your claiming physical damage.
Having a custom rom/bootloader shouldn't affect a physical warranty claim, but from the things I hear about AT&T I wouldn't be surprised
area51avenger said:
Having a custom rom/bootloader shouldn't affect a physical warranty claim, but from the things I hear about AT&T I wouldn't be surprised
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Looked into it, turns out at&t will charge $200 for a physical damage claim IF they decide its under warranty... Sucks. Looks like ill be buying and replacing the digitizer/lcd myself...
tom0779 said:
XDA,
I successfully rooted my brand new 2.20 AT&T HTC One X, flashed CM10 rom and TWRP 2.2.3 custom recovery. Everything was going great; much love to the community and djrbliss. Here's my issue: Yesterday my phone went flying, hit the ground BLAM! and shattered the screen. I've therefore voided my warranty and it looks like theres no way out of this $600 accident. Panic mode....
But, I have a plan: I have premium accidental damage coverage. But in order for me to be elegible for a complete phone replacement I need to revert to the stock ROM, lock my bootloader, eliminate the custom recovery, and finally reset the flash counter with a USB jig. I need it to appear as though I havent changed a thing. Heres my question for you all: Is it possible to revert my phone completely? If I am successful, will AT&T notice? What steps should I take?
Any tips would be great. I'll keep you all updated on what develops.
-T
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No way to completely take it back to stock. It will always say "RELOCKED". But to get to that point, you need to relock your phone and run the RUU. AT&T shouldn't care or check honestly.

Buying a rooted htc one x?

the seller stated that the following "this phone is rooted (with stock rom) and has the "Team Win" custom recovery for those of you who like to flash custom roms, kernels, apps, whatever (if you don't know what either of ths mean, don't worry about it)... "
I have not rooted an htc one x because I'm afraid of losing some of the functions the stock rom has, So my question to you guys is, Can I restore this back to stock rom? I'm confused when he said he rooted it with stock rom.. and what is team win custom recovery? If I just wanted to restore the htc one x to its original factory state is that possible?
Its possible but the warranty on the phone is void as the bootloader is surely unlocked and will show relocked if you restore it. And restoring it could prove to be somewhat of a task as you'll need to determine the ruu for that phone.. What carrier did he purchase the phone from? There's a chance the Cid of the phone has been changed so you may have to change the Cid back before running an ruu. The rom he has loaded is probably the stock rom with root so I don't see any reason for it to run any differently.
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what @exad said, plus there are a number of rooted stock roms available that are, well, stock, so I wouldn't worry too much about losing any features.
'Team Win custom recovery' is just a recovery 'program' you can use to flash custom roms and enhancements.
exad said:
Its possible but the warranty on the phone is void as the bootloader is surely unlocked and will show relocked if you restore it. And restoring it could prove to be somewhat of a task as you'll need to determine the ruu for that phone.. What carrier did he purchase the phone from? There's a chance the Cid of the phone has been changed so you may have to change the Cid back before running an ruu. The rom he has loaded is probably the stock rom with root so I don't see any reason for it to run any differently.
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I thought if you purchase the phone from someone else the warranty is automatically void hence you're not the original owner. He purchased it from at&t, and as for the rooting, if it is indeed rooted with stock rom and no functions of the stock rom are lost,What's the purpose of stock rom with root? I thought the whole point of rooting your phone was so you get custom roms, but than again I'm no expert
here are his exact words
"Excellent condition ATT smartphone. I only used this phone for about a month and bought it brand new. Had a ballistics case on it since day 1 and the screens condition is flawless. Switched carries recently and of course need the money for a new phone. Also, this phone is rooted (with stock rom) and has the "Team Win" custom recovery for those of you who like to flash custom roms, kernels, apps, whatever (if you don't know what either of ths mean, don't worry about it)... "
Having root allows you to make changes to the system partition. Basically you can have the stock Rom but get rid of all the bloat and extra apps that AT&T includes which would otherwise be permanent
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I have not rooted an htc one x because I'm afraid of losing some of the functions the stock rom has,
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What functions? Root is only a change in permissions. It gives you access to the system files, that are normally not accessible. Root doesn't take away any functions.
Only exceptions, is that you sometimes can't get OTA firmware updates if you are rooted. Or installing them may result in the phone not booting properly. For most folks on here, this isn't a factor, since people what mod their phones and install custom ROMs typically don't want the OTAs anyway. Also, I think movies purchased from the Play store might not work if you are rooted. But I never buy/watch those, so I might not have the latest info there.
Now in your case, if you want to keep the phone bone stock, and still get OTA updates, you might just look for another purchase. Yes, the phone can be returned to near stock condition. But it requires you learning some things you don't already know:
- Download and install fastboot files
- Install HTC drivers or HTC sync (if not already installed)
- Use fastboot to relock the bootloader
- Download and run the appropriate RUU (ROM Update Utility) which will return your phone to near stock condition
If you are willing and interested in learning a few things about how the phone works, then it might still be a good purchase. Otherwise, if you just want to get a stock phone, and not have to mess with it, you might just look at buying elsewhere. There should be plenty of other decent options for unrooted One X phones.
Also note that I say the phone can be restored to "near" stock. The bootloader will only say RELOCKED, instead of LOCKED. Once the bootloader is unlocked, it can't be changed back to LOCKED, only RELOCKED. And this may have warranty implications.

What software should I put on GS3 for sale?

Hey all,
I recently sold my phone running CM 10 on eBay and the buyer said the phone is for her son, so she didn't know what software he wants on it....I figure I would be best off just sending it to them stock (stock firmware, unrooted, locked bootloader).
Is there anyway I can do this besides using Odin? I'm currently using a Mac, so anything method that I can use on OS X would be great, but if not, I can just get hold of a PC and do it via Odin if necessary
Heimdall would be your solution. It's a cross platform Odin alternative and there are native versions for PC, Mac, and Linux. The XDA thread is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
It uses the same tar files that Odin would. As far as the software, I would run a stock unrooted TW for the kid personally. That way his mom can't come back and harass you about something he did because you left him with dangerous software. If he roots it and then breaks it, it's his own fault. Just tell her you left it on a stock version with no inherent risk involved, but just incase he needs to know (have her not tell the kid) the bootloader is already unlocked.
I would do stock rooted. Rooted is always a plus and may get you a few more dollars for it. Then people could choose their own ROM if they so desire. I know I desire just being stock rooted
shredder47 said:
Hey all,
I recently sold my phone running CM 10 on eBay and the buyer said the phone is for her son, so she didn't know what software he wants on it....I figure I would be best off just sending it to them stock (stock firmware, unrooted, locked bootloader).
Is there anyway I can do this besides using Odin? I'm currently using a Mac, so anything method that I can use on OS X would be great, but if not, I can just get hold of a PC and do it via Odin if necessary
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Make it Stock, locked! incase they dont like the way the phone run, they can always blame you for modding and make you take it back! and it acts as a negative point in Dispute even though you mention it!
I ended up just Odin'ing it back to stock! Thanks guys
shredder47 said:
I ended up just Odin'ing it back to stock! Thanks guys
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Definitely a good call... I do that with every phone I sell.
The way I see it is that if they're not intelligent / motivated / tech savvy enough to root and load something custom on their own then they'll probably have a hell of a time navigating the random problems you'd encounter running anything other than stock.

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