I need some help. Does anyone know of a 2.1 Rom that is rooted?
Everything out there now but the official 2.1 RUU....if you have 2.1 one on your phone now and you aren't currently rooted, you are out of luck until they get a working exploit.
Not sure if that answered you question, you didn't leave a lot of details. FResh, Damage, or the Zen MY Touch Slide port are all 2.1 one roms that maintain root.
If you are looking for a bone stock 2.1 with root there is a SprintUpdate2.zip file Damage made the day..well hour.. it was droped.
did you run the Official Final Sprint RUU? If so, you have lost root access.
If you did not run the Official Final Sprint RUU (IE only ran a test RUU, or still on cupcake), then the answer to your question is that all of the custom roms in this section have root access
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Hi rooted my wildfire with unrevoked. Now i would unroot it to update with OTA and, I hope before Xmas, with Froyo.
In Superoneclick thread i read:
"Some devices have a NAND lock. SuperOneClick will only give a Shell root until you remove this lock.
The following phones can use unrevoked to remove this lock:
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- HTC Wildfire (HTC Buzz)"
If i'll install Superoneclick on my Wildfire rooted with unrevoked (and i think with nand unlock), will I be able to unroot in order to install OTA and then re-root?
Froyo still didnt hit WildFire, you can use this tool to download the OTA update manually
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786352
You can unroot by simply installing a corresponding RUU firmware (ie stock). This reflashes recovery, removing root.
However, I would strongly recommend you stayed away from returning to stock; we can't root stock 2.2 yet (not that it's even out yet). If you want to taste Froyo, simply flash Wildpuzzle, Cyanogen or Openfire (Wildpuzzle is closest to stock).
Furthermore, to reply to your post's question directly; there is no point in installing SuperOneClick. If you're already rooted, you can flash ROMs all you like, but without an AUFS kernel or similar, you still can't live write to system. There is no point to adding more root tools, to simply unroot, wait for Froyo, and then to not be able to reroot. If what you're wanting to do is update your Eclair OTA, so you don't have to wipe it but still get the update, then just OTA it in it's current state, and if needs be, unrevoke it again. There's little rigmarole necessary. Personally, the OTA does very little, though as I run custom like most on here, I get the latest Eclair build in my Wildpuzzle.
Hey guys!
I received and installed the new Android 2.2 update over OTA. But I lost my root access. I tried rooting with Unrevoked: no success. So I'm asking if anyone knows how could I root my wildfire now.
Please help
Reading really seems to be a problem around here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882192
You can't root the OTA, htc updated the hboot, so wait until unrevoked release an updated version.
I think you'll have to downgrade to an older RUU and root to flash a custom froyo, but I think the new hboot prevents this.
Leaves me wondering why you guys waited for official froyo and then decide to root lol.
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kevin2516 said:
You can't root the OTA, htc updated the hboot, so wait until unrevoked release an updated version.
I think you'll have to downgrade to an older RUU and root to flash a custom froyo, but I think the new hboot prevents this.
Leaves me wondering why you guys waited for official froyo and then decide to root lol.
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For example, I waited for the official FroYo for stability. I had my phone rooted, and I had installed RUU sometimes too (1.37 or 2.10 cn), and then Unrevoked, because they can be rooted. So I didn't think that now, I couldn't root the official froyo, so I tried it as I had already tried RUU's and succesfully rooted.
Some people is saying that there were a lot of adverts/advices saying not to install RUU's or OTA's because then they can't be rooted. But I'm relatively new on this so I didn't even see those posts. There are a lot and I didn't read all of them, so I didn't know.
When I saw official FroYo was out I decided to install it to then flash Jacob's kernel and being root. Before that, I had finally went back to stock 2.1, rooted and OC, because custom roms are often unstable.
Now, I'm waiting resigned to be able to root it and forget this nightmare of being enclosed in this ROM.
EDIT: And yes, the new hboot prevents downgrading...
Do you get now the reasons?
recently bought a HTC incredible S with 2.2.1 on it.
i want to put a custom ROM on at some point. but over the last couple of weeks it has been prompting me to accept an OTA update to 2.3.
interested to download it and see what the differences are, but not if it makes the phone harder to S-OFF and install a custom ROM later.
Can anyone advise please ?
With revolutionary it doesn't matter if its froyo or ginger its the same process. The only difference is the flashing of a radio. Obviously for gb you need a gb radio and froyo you need a froyo radio.
Hi.
It took my a while and I finally got my phone S-OFF and rooted. I just got a few questions
1)I want to use ICS but I don't like the laggy Sense. There seems to be at least few bugs in every custom ROM, so I'd like to stick with stock ROMs. But is there a way to "get rid of sense" or to at least mod it to be faster? Or perhaps there is another solution?
2)I read that if I use OTA updates my recovery will revert back to stock (using CWM). Is that the same case when using official RUU's ?
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Hi.
It took my a while and I finally got my phone S-OFF and rooted. I just got a few questions
1)I want to use ICS but I don't like the laggy Sense. There seems to be at least few bugs in every custom ROM, so I'd like to stick with stock ROMs. But is there a way to "get rid of sense" or to at least mod it to be faster? Or perhaps there is another solution?
2)I read that if I use OTA updates my recovery will revert back to stock (using CWM). Is that the same case when using official RUU's ?
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Now that you have S-OFF, stay away from any official HTC OTA or RUU because they will leave your phone in an unbootable state and will be very frustrating for a noob.
There are several ICS ROMs both with and without Sense. You just need to try them and find one you like. Just remember that once the ICS kernel source for the IncS is released by HTC, some of the custom ROM issues may be solved.
tripleJohn said:
Hi.
It took my a while and I finally got my phone S-OFF and rooted. I just got a few questions
1)I want to use ICS but I don't like the laggy Sense. There seems to be at least few bugs in every custom ROM, so I'd like to stick with stock ROMs. But is there a way to "get rid of sense" or to at least mod it to be faster? Or perhaps there is another solution?
2)I read that if I use OTA updates my recovery will revert back to stock (using CWM). Is that the same case when using official RUU's ?
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If u want ICS without sense, one of the smoothest rom is icecoldsandwich, works really well!
agree, icecoldsandwish is the best no sense rom
for sense you can use project x or cool droid
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Now that you have S-OFF, stay away from any official HTC OTA or RUU because they will leave your phone in an unbootable state and will be very frustrating for a noob.
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Hmmm.... Why is that so? I somewhere red that S-Off has got nothing to do with OTA.
I think it has to do with the OTA overwriting the bootloader,
by the way recommend IceCold too, there's only one thing that still keeps me on CM 7, on IceCold for some reason on-screen controls of several games don't work
I'm already trying out Ice Cold Sandwich, however I'still got a few questions:
Why do official RUU's will leave my phone in unbootable state
Should I use software like Rom manager or Root explorer ? I heard they have caused problems to other users.
If I make a backup with CWM, that counts as nandroid backup and you need root permissions for it (right?) . I was able to make backup of my stock ROM without root permissions and with S-ON. Is there a difference between those two?
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I think it has to do with the OTA overwriting the bootloader,
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But I could re-lock my bootloader before running RUU. Would that make any difference?
tripleJohn said:
I'm already trying out Ice Cold Sandwich, however I'still got a few questions:
Why do official RUU's will leave my phone in unbootable state
Should I use software like Rom manager or Root explorer ? I heard they have caused problems to other users.
If I make a backup with CWM, that counts as nandroid backup and you need root permissions for it (right?) . I was able to make backup of my stock ROM without root permissions and with S-ON. Is there a difference between those two?
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1. Beacause it overwrites stuff in the bootloader like recovery...
2. Yeah, you really should have a file explorer with root access. I use ES File Explorer
3. If you're doing a nandroid backup in recovery you just need CMW to restore it. But for that u need root permission And since you're S-OFF now, you couldn't make a backup of your S-ON stuff It's just the ROM that stays but your phone is S-OFF now no matter if you restore your backup
tripleJohn said:
I'm already trying out Ice Cold Sandwich, however I'still got a few questions:
Why do official RUU's will leave my phone in unbootable state
Should I use software like Rom manager or Root explorer ? I heard they have caused problems to other users.
If I make a backup with CWM, that counts as nandroid backup and you need root permissions for it (right?) . I was able to make backup of my stock ROM without root permissions and with S-ON. Is there a difference between those two?
But I could re-lock my bootloader before running RUU. Would that make any difference?
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The problem with both the GB 2.3.5/Sense 3.0 RUU and the ICS 4.0.4/Sense 3.6 is that they introduced a new /lib partition that needs the latest HTC HBOOT to execute correctly.
With the Revolutionary HBOOT in place, it is designed to not allow itself to be overwritten, thus if you attempt to install either one of these RUUs, all of the pieces will get installed correctly except for the new HTC HBOOT, thus when you attempt to boot the phone, it attempts to mount the /lib partition and the Revolutionary HBOOT has no idea what that is and the ROM freezes at the point and will not boot.
As for your last question, now that you have the Revolutionary S-OFF HBOOT in place, you are no longer running the HTC HBOOT that is lockable/unlockable, so it is not really relevant to your phone anymore.
I am trying to work out whether to OTA update to ICS or go S-OFF, unlock and load a custom ROM.
I'm currently running locked BL, S-ON, Stock 2.3.5 (Sense 3.0) ROM.
I have read up on downgrading HBOOT to get S-OFF via revolutionary but I got HBOOT 2.01.0001 and haven't been able to find any thread saying whether tacoexploit works. I know if I OTA upgrade to ICS, and HBOOT 2.02.0000, I will only be able to unlock BL via HTCDEV and will not able to get full S-OFF until someone comes up with a method.
I have unlocked and flashed custom recovery/ROMs/Radios etc. on ZTE Blade, ZTE Skate, Motorola Atrix and HTC Desire (damn, I love 4Ext) without any problems but still consider myself a noob because, well you know, if you don't build your own ROMs...
I still have about a year or so on the warranty and custom ROMs always seem to have some kind of problem. So I just can't make my mind up as to what would be the right move.
Please, any info, suggestions or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
gandalf_grey91 said:
I am trying to work out whether to OTA update to ICS or go S-OFF, unlock and load a custom ROM.
I'm currently running locked BL, S-ON, Stock 2.3.5 (Sense 3.0) ROM.
I have read up on downgrading HBOOT to get S-OFF via revolutionary but I got HBOOT 2.01.0001 and haven't been able to find any thread saying whether tacoexploit works. I know if I OTA upgrade to ICS, and HBOOT 2.02.0000, I will only be able to unlock BL via HTCDEV and will not able to get full S-OFF until someone comes up with a method.
I have unlocked and flashed custom recovery/ROMs/Radios etc. on ZTE Blade, ZTE Skate, Motorola Atrix and HTC Desire (damn, I love 4Ext) without any problems but still consider myself a noob because, well you know, if you don't build your own ROMs...
I still have about a year or so on the warranty and custom ROMs always seem to have some kind of problem. So I just can't make my mind up as to what would be the right move.
Please, any info, suggestions or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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you can always try run this downgrader here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705913 i would s off now because there might not be another exploit found for a very long time. you can always install a stock rooted rom through recovery. theres a thread on the development thread. thats if you still want stock rom.
gandalf_grey91 said:
I am trying to work out whether to OTA update to ICS or go S-OFF, unlock and load a custom ROM.
I'm currently running locked BL, S-ON, Stock 2.3.5 (Sense 3.0) ROM.
I have read up on downgrading HBOOT to get S-OFF via revolutionary but I got HBOOT 2.01.0001 and haven't been able to find any thread saying whether tacoexploit works. I know if I OTA upgrade to ICS, and HBOOT 2.02.0000, I will only be able to unlock BL via HTCDEV and will not able to get full S-OFF until someone comes up with a method.
I have unlocked and flashed custom recovery/ROMs/Radios etc. on ZTE Blade, ZTE Skate, Motorola Atrix and HTC Desire (damn, I love 4Ext) without any problems but still consider myself a noob because, well you know, if you don't build your own ROMs...
I still have about a year or so on the warranty and custom ROMs always seem to have some kind of problem. So I just can't make my mind up as to what would be the right move.
Please, any info, suggestions or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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The script and tacoroot exploit still work with HBOOT 2.01.0001, so you should be good to go.
naathaanb96 said:
you can always try run this downgrader here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705913 i would s off now because there might not be another exploit found for a very long time. you can always install a stock rooted rom through recovery. theres a thread on the development thread. thats if you still want stock rom.
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Yeah, that is my fear, it may be a long time before an exploit is found for the latest HBOOT. I also figure that there will never be an official JB ROM update from HTC for the beloved Inc S. While I have maintain my warranty for as long as I have, it does feel like the right time to fully unlock. My Inc S has never given me any trouble at all, so I'm not worried about losing the warranty. I just love the phone and want to keep it working well for as long a possible. ROM-wise, I think ARHD looks stock enough to be super stable and tweaked enough to be nice and slick.
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The script and tacoroot exploit still work with HBOOT 2.01.0001, so you should be good to go.
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Many Thanks for putting my mind at rest. That is what I needed to confirm before I started.
I did the downgrade from the latest ota and it worked perfectly
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