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[Q] Rooting Incredible S with Unrevoked 3

Hi all,
I am newbie in this foruma nd new in Android. I am going to get the Incredible S later this week. I would like to try to root the Incredible S. I read some of the treads, but I am a bit confuse here, hope someone can help me out. Here are my questions.
1) Can I root my phone with Unrevoked3 ? If so can I use the S-On tools to put it back to s-on for warranty ?
2) Before I do the root, I would like to backup my Rom. All I need to do is go to Hboot and choose backup. It will save my rom image right? If any bad thing happen, I can S-On than put it back my rom and everything will back to the factory setting ?
3)How would I know if my phone been rooted? I saw a thread said if there is an Icon (superuser) in the menu it means I am rooted?
I know these are stupid questions, hope someone can help me out in here.
Thanks in advance

wilson0917 said:
Hi all,
I am newbie in this foruma nd new in Android. I am going to get the Incredible S later this week. I would like to try to root the Incredible S. I read some of the treads, but I am a bit confuse here, hope someone can help me out. Here are my questions.
1) Can I root my phone with Unrevoked3 ? If so can I use the S-On tools to put it back to s-on for warranty ?
2) Before I do the root, I would like to backup my Rom. All I need to do is go to Hboot and choose backup. It will save my rom image right? If any bad thing happen, I can S-On than put it back my rom and everything will back to the factory setting ?
3)How would I know if my phone been rooted? I saw a thread said if there is an Icon (superuser) in the menu it means I am rooted?
I know these are stupid questions, hope someone can help me out in here.
Thanks in advance
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1. No, Unrevoked3 does not work on the Incredible S. You need to use AlphaRev/Unrevoked Revolutionary (http://revolutionary.io/)
2. You need to have a custom recovery in place such as ClockworkMod to backup image of your ROM. Revolutionary has an option to install ClockworkMod during it's procedure. In order to restore the phone to factory settings, you need to make sure you have a RUU (Rom Update Utility) that matches your phone's version.
3. After you install ClockworkMod, you will need to manually root and add superuser to your phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694

Thank you very much for the reply. I will definately giong to give it a try. Another question here, after I applied Revolutionary and the phone will become S-off. And I want to put back the factory image back, will the phone switch back to S-ON ?? From other threads, I think it will void the warranty if the phone is S-ON
Thank you very much

You can put your phone back to S-ON yes. Make sure you haven't updated your phone to 2.30.405.1 or you can't root or S-OFF your device.

Great thanks. So here is my steps for turn the IncS to S-Off and backup right ?
First I will have to use Revolutionary to turn the S-OFF
than I will use ClockworkMOd to backup my factory ROM (just in case i need to turn it back to S-ON and factory setting for warranty)
Once I am S-OFF i will be able to use one of the image for Root
Thank you very much for all the helps guys. I will give it a try and see how it goes.

wilson0917 said:
Thank you very much for the reply. I will definately giong to give it a try. Another question here, after I applied Revolutionary and the phone will become S-off. And I want to put back the factory image back, will the phone switch back to S-ON ?? From other threads, I think it will void the warranty if the phone is S-ON
Thank you very much
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You have to flash RUU according to your IS version. It does full restore your device to factory state. So yes it includes S-on and Htc official Rom so it would be just like when it came out of the box.
Edit: What's your software number? You may check at Settings / About phone. You need that to flash properly RUU to your device.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

Hi thiagofbrito, thanks for the reply. Sorry I don't have my INcS yet, still waiting for it, but I will check the software #.
By the way , if I used clockworkmod. I can backup my ROM right? So if anything happen can I use that backup and rest it as Factory Setting with S-ON ?
Don't really undersatnd what is the RUU use for?
Thanks

wilson0917 said:
Hi thiagofbrito, thanks for the reply. Sorry I don't have my INcS yet, still waiting for it, but I will check the software #.
By the way , if I used clockworkmod. I can backup my ROM right? So if anything happen can I use that backup and rest it as Factory Setting with S-ON ?
Don't really undersatnd what is the RUU use for?
Thanks
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Not exactly. ClockworkMod backup and restore only saves and restores the whole ROM image, but not the SecurityFlag setting (S-OFF/S-ON), so restoring a CWM backup will not return you to S-ON state.
This is where the RUU comes into play. As long as you have the RUU for your particular phone and carrier, that is what you would use to return the phone to a full Factory Setting complete with S-ON. In the Development section there is a thread that has alot of the shipped RUUs for the IncS.

Sorry to tag onto this thread but 1 more question.....if the IS is already set up and now would like to get it rooted, following the procedure won't reset the device and clearing out the data right? I know using Unrevoked won't clear the data but not sure about this one. Kindly confirm

Scann69 said:
Sorry to tag onto this thread but 1 more question.....if the IS is already set up and now would like to get it rooted, following the procedure won't reset the device and clearing out the data right? I know using Unrevoked won't clear the data but not sure about this one. Kindly confirm
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No, the S-OFF and rooting process will not wipe out your existing apps or data.

Hi, I just received my IS, the phone already S-OFF , android version 2.3.3 , but it has some app I don't want. I know that I need to rooted before I remove those, can I root this phone ? Or I need to follow the unrevoked 3 proceduce and flash the custom rom ?
Thanks

wilson0917 said:
Hi, I just received my IS, the phone already S-OFF , android version 2.3.3 , but it has some app I don't want. I know that I need to rooted before I remove those, can I root this phone ? Or I need to follow the unrevoked 3 proceduce and flash the custom rom ?
Thanks
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Here is the procedure you should follow since you already have S-Off.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694

Thanks tpbklake , I also download the RUU. which is 20.2805.30. Just incase I need the factory reset and I need to put back the RUU right, will it still S-OFF ?? Since my IS already S-OFF
Thanks

I read the forum, i am in HBOOT menu, but I don't see Fastboot USB
i saw Fastboot, than it load the SD image, i connect my phone to USB , but i don't see Fastboot USB mode , can someone help please ?
Thanks

wilson0917 said:
I read the forum, i am in HBOOT menu, but I don't see Fastboot USB
i saw Fastboot, than it load the SD image, i connect my phone to USB , but i don't see Fastboot USB mode , can someone help please ?
Thanks
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You need to have the HTC drivers installed.
http://downloads.unrevoked.com/HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe

I already did have the HTC driver installed. But when I boot the device in HBOOT, my PC wouldn't detect it right? or it suppose to detect it ? thanks

just tried again, now I can see the Fastboot USB, and when I do fastboot recovery (image) it showed writing recovery failed (remote not allowed)
is there something I missed ?
Thanks

wilson0917 said:
just tried again, now I can see the Fastboot USB, and when I do fastboot recovery (image) it showed writing recovery failed (remote not allowed)
is there something I missed ?
Thanks
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No you haven't missed anything. The procedure instructions were for gaining S-Off using Revolutionary which installs a modified hboot that contains additional fast boot commands. So you must have a XTC clipped S-Off, so you simply need to install ClockworkMod by copying a PG32IMG.zip file to your SD card and letting the boot loader install it.
Shouldn't this be more like..
1. Download CMW's zip file (Available in this thread here)
2. Make sure the file is named "PG32IMG.zip" without quotes.
3. Put file in your SD card
4. Switch off phone
5. Pull out the battery and wait 5 seconds. Put the battery back in again. (This step is needed in case fast boot is enabled..)
6. Press vol down+power. HBoot (white screen with 3 android logos at the bottom) should load.
7. Wait a while.. it should pick up on your PG32IMG.zip automatically and install your custom recovery
8. Reboot into your OS and remove the zip
9. Go back into HBoot and then recovery. Use as you please (I suggest you take a backup first then proceed to flashing or doing anything else you might fancy )

Thanks for the reply. My HTC is not XTC cliped. I bought this at a retail store. When I checked the HBOOT is already S-OFF. So as you said, all I need to do is download the ClockMod and rename is as the zip file
Thanks

Hi tpbklake ,
Ok I tried to the instruction you provide earlier. I got the zip file, renamed and placed it on the SD card. HBOOT than I can see the HTC is saying Parsing the zip file, than i turn off the device and remove the Zip file from the SD card. And go back to HBOOT again choose recovery , and it show the red exclaimation mark . .. I don't know what happen in here, can someoen please help ?
Thanks

htc freezing on white/logo startup screen

Hi, I tried to update the system on my phone and when it did a reboot after updating and installing, it is freezing on the white/logo startup screen. how can i proceed...?

Remove the battery to turn the phone off, and when turning back on, hold down the power+volume up buttons. This will put your phone in hboot mode and allow you to reflash your ROM from there.
Good luck.
Sent from my Incredible S using xda premium

thanks. Yes i did make it to that step. now i need to flash the official rom for my model which is S710e, but i found so many links that i'm confused which one is the official...can i have some indication...
thanks in advance

If you flashed a custom rom and it is stuck in white screen with logo, your boot partition is messed up. But no worries you can fix it.
Extract the boot.img file out of your custom rom (zip-file).
download the SDK files
put the boot.img in the same folder as the files
Boot phone in fast boot
connect phone through usb with a computer
open command prompt on the pc an go to folder
use command fastboot flash boot boot.img
wait 2 secs
reboot
whole proces takes maybe 10 min, very easy to do.

no i did not flash a custom rom. i just did a system update which was prompted to me on the phone itself; when i did this it got stuck on reboot. then i did a factory reset but it was in vain.
at this point what i want is to have my phone back as it was in the beginning...so I wish to know how i can flash a stock rom so that it will become like brand new. thanks.

atlam83 said:
... I wish to know how i can flash a stock rom so that it will become like brand new. thanks.
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First, you have to know what your mainver is:
Boot into fastboot, open a cmd window in windows and type this:
Code:
fastboot getvar mainver
This will give you your mainver (e.g. 2.12.708.4)
And go here: http://www.filefactory.com/f/e45d6fe3dcf51228/
You'll find shipped rom list. The filenames are in format like this: RUU_[name][mainver][radio_version]_signed.exe You must select ones with WWE prefixes (for multi-language support) and higher mainvers than yours! For example, if your mainver is 2.12.708.4, then you can select RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_Sasktel_Canada_WWE_2.33.669.2_Radio_20.2810.30.085AU_3805.06.03.16_M_release_203211_signed (this one's mainver is 2.33.669.2) in the shipped rom list.
Once you've downloaded, you'll face another problem: Flashing.
Flashing is not a real problem but needs some trickies.
The question: Have you rooted your phone?
If yes, this thread is your flashlight to enlighten your way..
If no, you have to obtain a goldcard. A goldcard is a special microSD which prevents the phone to check cid (Customer ID) while trying to flash an original rom. If you haven't created a goldcard yet and cannot boot your phone properly, find another Android based phone and insert your microSD card into it. Then read this thread to create your gold card. Once you've created your goldcard, then it's so easy for you to flash your original rom. Follow the steps in the link above (explaining how to flash).
hth.
-R

i downloaded and flashed a stock rom on my phone by placing the PG32IMG.zip file in my sd card . the update was completed successfully however the phone still got stuck in the htc startup screen. any ideas what the problem might be?
I haven't tried the goldcard yet however.

atlam83 said:
i downloaded and flashed a stock rom on my phone by placing the PG32IMG.zip file in my sd card . the update was completed successfully however the phone still got stuck in the htc startup screen. any ideas what the problem might be?
I haven't tried the goldcard yet however.
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Did you previously use Revolutionary to gain S-Off on your phone. If so by trying to install the OTA update, you now have a HBOOT ROM mismatch. The OTA update requires that the HTC HBOOT 2.00.0000 be installed, but the Revolutionary S-Off HBOOT prevented the OTA from overwriting the hboot, thus creating the situation you are in.
Follow steps 1 - 2c on this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15732727&postcount=14
The find the OTA file on your SD card and extract the file firmware.zip.
Copy this to the root of your SD card and rename it PG32IMG.zip and then reboot into bootloader and it should reflash the correct HBOOT and you should be good to go.

Thanks very much tpbklake, I managed to solve my issue following the thread you indicated. its been 3 weeks since last i used my mobile. Send it to various ppl including HTC (which did not want to fix my mobile) and no one fixed it. have tried that thread and now its fine working again )

HTC freezing on thie logo startup screen
Hi
Im new here I had read the all similar threads that the forum found but no one could help me to solve my problem.
Im using Android 2.3.3 and
Sense 2.1,
HBOOT : 6.13.1002
My baseband version is 3822.10.08.28_M
I recived an OTA update with Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3.0 and I proceeded with it, everything goes well until the phone restarts and stay freeze in the green HTC logo. Nothing else happens.
plz give me a link for the official ROM for Incredible S 710e.I tried the links but it didnt work for me...
hope someone could help me.. :'(

Aniok said:
Hi
Im new here I had read the all similar threads that the forum found but no one could help me to solve my problem.
Im using Android 2.3.3 and
Sense 2.1,
HBOOT : 6.13.1002
My baseband version is 3822.10.08.28_M
I recived an OTA update with Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3.0 and I proceeded with it, everything goes well until the phone restarts and stay freeze in the green HTC logo. Nothing else happens.
plz give me a link for the official ROM for Incredible S 710e.I tried the links but it didnt work for me...
hope someone could help me.. :'(
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All you need to do is go to the Development section and upgrade from Revolutionary HBOOT 6.13.1002 to BlackRose 2.02.0002. That will allow your phone to boot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509236

Thanx
..
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

[Q] How to gain S-off on hboot 2.00.0001

Hello guys,
I have little trouble here, I own Incredible S with andorid 2.3.5 and HTC sense 3.0
and I was going to root it but befor rooting I needed to S-off and managed to do so.
Problem is that I failed, i tryed almost everthing, including revolutionary which I liked most but it doesn't work because of unsupported bhoot version.
supported versions are 1.09 and 1.13 But I have 2.00.0001 so it doesn't work..
I'm almost noob in android but want to have phone rooted so please give me some advice..
What is the easiest way to S off or to downgrade hboot to 1.13 or 1.09 (I don't even know if it's possible..)?
Thank you very much,
Nick.

nikabika97 said:
Hello guys,
I have little trouble here, I own Incredible S with andorid 2.3.5 and HTC sense 3.0
and I was going to root it but befor rooting I needed to S-off and managed to do so.
Problem is that I failed, i tryed almost everthing, including revolutionary which I liked most but it doesn't work because of unsupported bhoot version.
supported versions are 1.09 and 1.13 But I have 2.00.0001 so it doesn't work..
I'm almost noob in android but want to have phone rooted so please give me some advice..
What is the easiest way to S off or to downgrade hboot to 1.13 or 1.09 (I don't even know if it's possible..)?
Thank you very much,
Nick.
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If you want true S-Off then this is your only solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373697
If you just want root and don't care about acknowledging to HTC that you are doing so, then check out the unlock procedure at HTCDEV.com. Note you will have to give HTC info about your phone that potentially void a warranty claim.

Well, main reason of rooting is to install georgian fonts.
As far as i know there is no way to install fonts on unrooted phone soo will that method help me to use fonts after rooting?

nikabika97 said:
Well, main reason of rooting is to install georgian fonts.
As far as i know there is no way to install fonts on unrooted phone soo will that method help me to use fonts after rooting?
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If after you unlock the bootloader, you would then be able to flash a custom recovery and this would allow you to flash the latest versio of SU-3.0.xxx.zip which would root your phone and allow you to install fonts.

thanks mate, is there any noob friendly guide to install SU ?

nikabika97 said:
thanks mate, is there any noob friendly guide to install SU ?
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This thread tells you how to install ClockworkMod and flash su-3.0.xxx.zip.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694&highlight=revolutionary

Well, I started unlocking bootloader w=from HTCdev but when I opened boot menu, it started some checkings ans stuff and then I got this message:
Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Press <POWER> to reboot.
what should I do?

nikabika97 said:
Well, I started unlocking bootloader w=from HTCdev but when I opened boot menu, it started some checkings ans stuff and then I got this message:
Main Version is older!
Update Fail!
Press <POWER> to reboot.
what should I do?
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Is it possible that you have a file named PG32IMG.zip on your SD card? That's what it sounds like is happening. Delete this file and then start the process again.

Help with ROM

Well I am fairly new to here so I might not be the best in asking and explaining.
I would like to install this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685433
But cannot seem to find a step by step instruction how to. I am very new to installing a ROM and need a lot of help that is much appreciated. Thanks

is your bootloader unlocked and/or are you s-off? do you have already flashed a recovery?

First of all I have no idea what or how bootloader is and what s-off and what is flashing a recovery?
I understand I am a total noob haha.

Read the stickies, they will bring you a lot further
First you will need to security-off your cellphone.
Afterwards you'll have to root the phone.
And then the custom rom fun begins!

So lemme understand, first I have to do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373697
Even for the ROM I want to run?

First you will have to find out what your Hboot version is.
You can do this by first shutting down the phone, and then holding on the volume down button while pushing the power button (no need to hold the power button).
Then you will have to search for a topic that shows you an S-OFF method for your Hboot version.

I wonder if you can help me find one for my specific version:
this is what I got
*** LOCKED ***
VIV PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.01.0001
RADIO-2822.01.08.14_M
eMMC-boot

not necessarily. you can unlock via htcdev.com/bootloader. this allows you to flash a recovery. it voids your varanty tho. if you want to go the "hard way" you follow the downgrade tutorial. your waranty will not void and you can unlock the full potential of your phone.
anyway: you need to perform one of those steps to flash a recovery what you need to flash a rom.

Ok so I have completed the one from htc, now how to I proceed to doing this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685433

Not to be anoyying or anything but can someone please help me out, I have a clean phone I would like to get this ASAP so I can continue using my phone.

Mattviahtc said:
Ok so I have completed the one from htc, now how to I proceed to doing this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1685433
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have you already flashed a recovery? if not, follow this steps, to step 8: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337105
after that you are ready to flash a rom. download the rom you want to flash and follow the instruction 8 to 14. in that example the author used cyanogenmod as rom but you can flash every rom the same way.
i just dont know if lpremix is functional at the moment. yesterday it gave me a bootloop.

For that specific one I want to install I need to install blackrose first, how do I proceed to doing that?

Since you are on hboot 2.0 already I don't think you need blackrose. If you want to install blackrose you have to gain s-off via revolutionary. If I were you I would try without blackrose and if it does not work I'd try to use niks ics Rom to see if the fault is because of blackrose. If it is you have to downgrade your hboot and gain s-off. There is a tutorial in the development forum.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA

Well I have done it all and booted but now it had been around 20 mins with just the htc logo and it seems to be getting warm. Should I wait some more? It seems its a very big file so I think it should take a while to boot for the first time.

Mattviahtc said:
Well I have done it all and booted but now it had been around 20 mins with just the htc logo and it seems to be getting warm. Should I wait some more? It seems its a very big file so I think it should take a while to boot for the first time.
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Have you fastboot flashed your boot.img? It wont boot without it.
Look up a guide in this forum because I don't know off the top of my head

20 minutes with the htc logo does not sound like booting at all
please try to flash niks we want ics rom, even if it is not sense4. it should boot after a maximum of 5 minutes. if that works you have to wait for a sense4 release that actually is confirmed to work.
edit: yeah and if you are still on your unlocked and s-on, dont forget to flash boot.img manually as markj338 stated above.

I have done that now when I boot it just starts the HTC logo and after a while it goes to Recolutionary

Now I really do need help ASAP as I cant even recieve calls and texts since im not in any ROM.

since you are bootlooping now to recovery we can clearly state that the rom you are using does not work. download a rom that is known to work 100% (android 2.3 (like ARHD or nik trinity) roms or niks android 4 rom). flash that rom.
the sense4 roms do not work 100% at this moment.

I have also tried this one now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687777
Yet still the same error, can you please link me to one that you mentioned?
Edit: I have also tried restoring, still keep getting this problem :l
Edit yet again: Apparently I need Blackrose for both of them. How can I install it since its ment to be installed when your booted into a ROM?

Info about reverting to stock for RMA ( for personal purpose and new guide)

Hello guys, sadly I have to RMA my phone due partially broken digitizer, so now I'm in the process to revert to stock my phone...
I've gathered a lot of information but since it's a particular case I would like to have some thoughts about it, later I'll write a guide after reverting my phone for people in my situation...
Assuming that my phone is like in signature the follow steps are right?
1. uninstall blackrose ( Uninstall(revert to HBOOT 1.13.0000): BlackRose_IS.exe /uninstall ) - it should install stock 1.13 hboot right?
2. download RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.30.405.1_Radio_20.2808.30.085AU_3805.06.03.03_M_release_199308_signed ( http://d-h.st/vgw , it's the same that I used to downgrade the phone to revolutionary unlock, linked in nonverbose 3D ) Obviously I want to flash a version which I could s-off again without HTC-DEV after RMA, so it should be this one...
BTW is this rom OK? Won't I have issue from changing from ics to gingerbread? ( if I recall it's a brick if I downgrade to froyo)
3. phone will reboot in bootloader, maybe showing security flag/issue
4. fastboot usb via recovery and launch the previous RUU... - I really don't remember, are RUU installed via fastboot usb (recovery) or usb debugging ( so with operative phone?)
5. There will be some custom recovery leftover?? or it's a ALL DONE send it to HTC for repair???
p.s: is a goldcard needed or it's a plus?
Thank you.

bob8x said:
Hello guys, sadly I have to RMA my phone due partially broken digitizer, so now I'm in the process to revert to stock my phone...
I've gathered a lot of information but since it's a particular case I would like to have some thoughts about it, later I'll write a guide after reverting my phone for people in my situation...
Assuming that my phone is like in signature the follow steps are right?
1. uninstall blackrose ( Uninstall(revert to HBOOT 1.13.0000): BlackRose_IS.exe /uninstall ) - it should install stock 1.13 hboot right?
2. download RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_HTC_WWE_2.30.405.1_Radio_20.2808.30.085AU_3805.06.03.03_M_release_199308_signed ( http://d-h.st/vgw , it's the same that I used to downgrade the phone to revolutionary unlock, linked in nonverbose 3D ) Obviously I want to flash a version which I could s-off again without HTC-DEV after RMA, so it should be this one...
BTW is this rom OK? Won't I have issue from changing from ics to gingerbread? ( if I recall it's a brick if I downgrade to froyo)
3. phone will reboot in bootloader, maybe showing security flag/issue
4. fastboot usb via recovery and launch the previous RUU... - I really don't remember, are RUU installed via fastboot usb (recovery) or usb debugging ( so with operative phone?)
5. There will be some custom recovery leftover?? or it's a ALL DONE send it to HTC for repair???
p.s: is a goldcard needed or it's a plus?
Thank you.
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Looks like you have done your research well. Yes those steps should work for you. You will be better off if you use a goldcard just to be on the safe side.

tpbklake said:
Looks like you have done your research well. Yes those steps should work for you. You will be better off if you use a goldcard just to be on the safe side.
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Thank you tpkblake, I've managed to go full stock. after getting my phone back or at least some communincation from serivce center about my phone, I'll PM somene to add this small guide for reverting from blackrose...:good::good::good: