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What is hboot?

So I've had my phone for over a year now, am s-off and flashed numerous ROMs, but not quite sure what the hboot is? I am s-off via alpha rev and currently running 4ext recovery touch. I have hboot 1.09.1000, but some new ROMs are saying I need blackrose to flash, especially tpblake's new ROMs. Is this the case as not really keen on changing my hboot, considering I don't even know what it is!
Thanks in advance from a rather sheepish member
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VaderXI said:
So I've had my phone for over a year now, am s-off and flashed numerous ROMs, but not quite sure what the hboot is? I am s-off via alpha rev and currently running 4ext recovery touch. I have hboot 1.09.1000, but some new ROMs are saying I need blackrose to flash, especially tpblake's new ROMs. Is this the case as not really keen on changing my hboot, considering I don't even know what it is!
Thanks in advance from a rather sheepish member
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In your case, the AlphaRevX HBOOT 1.09.1000 is what is allowing your phone to be S-OFF. Another term for HBOOT is the bootloader.
In your case, you are running a modified bootloader that has the SECURITY_FLAG turned OFF, thus the acronym S-OFF.

Can I flash with this or should I update to blackrose as you say in your ROM thread
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VaderXI said:
Can I flash with this or should I update to blackrose as you say in your ROM thread
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You can flash most of the custom ROMs with your current HBOOT just fine. You could easily upgrade to BlackRose just fine without losing anything. It is really up to you. What do you want to flash?

Yours!
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tpbklake said:
You can flash most of the custom ROMs with your current HBOOT just fine. You could easily upgrade to BlackRose just fine without losing anything. It is really up to you. What do you want to flash?
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VaderXI said:
Yours!
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Yes then you will need to upgrade your HBOOT to BlackRose in order to flash the stock, rooted ICS ROMs I have posted.
Go read the BlackRose link I posted on the stock, rooted ICS ROM thread.

tpbklake said:
Yes then you will need to upgrade your HBOOT to BlackRose in order to flash the stock, rooted ICS ROMs I have posted.
Go read the BlackRose link I posted on the stock, rooted ICS ROM thread.
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Yep all installing blackrose involves, provided that you have set up for it is for you to click on the .exe and it does it all for you. I for one was amazed by the simplicity when I finally flashed it yesterday. Not much to be scared of (I was a bit scared of playing with partitions and hboots)
#my2cents

S-off achieved.. what now?

Hey.
Managed to s-off my HTC incredible s with revolutionary, All works well and no issues. But what are the bennifits of this? Can I flash any rom made for my incS with out fastbooting the boot.img? I'm confused because some roms still don't boot.
Thanks :thumbup:
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firescotti255 said:
Hey.
Managed to s-off my HTC incredible s with revolutionary, All works well and no issues. But what are the bennifits of this? Can I flash any rom made for my incS with out fastbooting the boot.img? I'm confused because some roms still don't boot.
Thanks :thumbup:
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Yes with Revolutionary S-OFF you will be able to flash custom ROMs while in recovery without needing to manually flash the boot.img in FASTBOOT mode.
There are several reasons why some ROMs may not boot. If you allowed Revolutionary to install Revolutionary CWM recovery, then that is an older version. You may want to install 4EXT touch recovery instead. In other cases, the ROMs have specific wipe instructions that you must follow before you flash the ROM. If you do not follow them, it could cause issues with the ROM.
If you have problems with specific ROMs, then I would search the ROM's thread to see if others have run into the issue or if more detailed process may have been posted based on users' experiences.

Okay thanks, I don't use clockwork mod I had flashed 4EXTRecovery flashed with recovery.img. I will give a look into into it and play with some roms then get back to you. Thanks
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Back to beginning

I unlocked the bootloader, flashed custom recoverry and flashed an custom rom.
Now i want my phone back too factory settings. THis includes:
- Re-lock bootloader
- Stock recovery
- Stock Rom
Whats the best way too do this?
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ramon.nmgn said:
I unlocked the bootloader, flashed custom recoverry and flashed an custom rom.
Now i want my phone back too factory settings. THis includes:
- Re-lock bootloader
- Stock recovery
- Stock Rom
Whats the best way too do this?
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Buy a new One?
Just kidding. Don't know.

Hi
Greetings,
1.you will have to download the stock Rom.and install. link to latest stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2224752
2. You will have to remove the custom recovery and install stock one
3 you can relock the downloader vai fastboot
May I ask why you want to go to stock
**If m wrong someone correct me
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Return my phone for a new one. This one had build issues. Thank you, Where can i find stick recovery?
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Hi
Greetings,
Here is the stock recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38504123
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4.3 update

Hi I am rooted and unlocked on sprint HTC one 4.1.2 stock. I want to RUU back to unrooted stock so I can get the 4.3 ota. Do I .wed do relock the bootloader? Ps. I have twrp installed.
Thanks
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dug13 said:
Hi I am rooted and unlocked on sprint HTC one 4.1.2 stock. I want to RUU back to unrooted stock so I can get the 4.3 ota. Do I .wed do relock the bootloader? Ps. I have twrp installed.
Thanks
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Why are you hanging out here bro? Head over to the Sprint forums!
Anyway, dont do that! Why not flash OMJ's ROM? There are a couple of bugs, I believe, but they're probably minor.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467607
Anyway, the only req for taking update is stock recovery. And stock ROM, of course. You can flash the stock recovery.
No need to RUU or relock boot loader.

Converting to GPE Edition, RUU or Bigxie method?

Hi guys, I wanted to try the Google play edition ROM and I have between doing some research but I'm still a bit confused.. Is there any difference in using the RUU method (which looks much more complicated) and just flashing bigxie's GPE ROM? Which is easier and better? Hope u guys can answer my questions and thanks in advance..
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Dont accept OTA if you install a custom GPE rom, specially if you are S-ON.
On RUU you can install OTA

SaHiLzZ said:
Dont accept OTA if you install a custom GPE rom, specially if you are S-ON.
On RUU you can install OTA
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Isn't bigxie's Rom is totally stock GPE so it's ok to install OTA?
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No it is not. Custom roms are not meant for OTA>. You can update on your peril.