[GUIDE] How To Root HBOOT 1.02/1.07 and gain S-OFF
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It shouldnt take that long to boot, or bootloop. Try doing a factory reset from hboot now that your on froyo, hopefully that will help.
Yeah thats what I was thinking that it was a bit odd so I went ahead and did the factory reset and that worked perfect running Froyo with root and s-on now about to add unrEVOked forever and then flash skyraider 4.2 after I'm finished backing up stock ROM. Thanks again for all your help you have been great! 
Luckily I'm starting to get the hang of this. Cheers bro!
Luckily I'm starting to get the hang of this. Cheers bro!
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I'm trying to do step 37:
"37. When your bootloader is done loading press volume up to flash the PB31IMG.zip"
I did copy the zip file "PB31IMG.zip" but it wont recognize it. I did all the steps leading up to this one which worked fine. I tried to redownload the zip file but no success.
Could it be related to the type of SD card?
Thanks for the great guide btw!
"37. When your bootloader is done loading press volume up to flash the PB31IMG.zip"
I did copy the zip file "PB31IMG.zip" but it wont recognize it. I did all the steps leading up to this one which worked fine. I tried to redownload the zip file but no success.
Could it be related to the type of SD card?
Thanks for the great guide btw!
Not the type, but it may have errors on it. Format it fat32 with a pc and try again. Or try downloading from a different source. http://pvillecomp.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Images/Froyo-Stock-recvery_PB31IMG.zip.
Thank you!
Thank you! Worked perfectly! I took over my wife's old DInc and turned S-ON and unrooted to sell the phone. However, I decided to use it for a while as I got bored with my Droid X. I unlocked the bootloader with HTC's tool, and thought I was stuck with S-ON on the new HBOOT. Not anymore!
Thank you! Worked perfectly! I took over my wife's old DInc and turned S-ON and unrooted to sell the phone. However, I decided to use it for a while as I got bored with my Droid X. I unlocked the bootloader with HTC's tool, and thought I was stuck with S-ON on the new HBOOT. Not anymore!
What Hboot do you need to skip the HTC method and just go ahead with Unrevoked.? I'm planning on buying my friends incredible for $10 later this week but I'm not sure what Hboot it has. I'll check when I get it but it would be nice if I could skip all that if i had the older Hboot you know.
With hboot 0.92 you can skip the htc unlock, flash the misc img, and then downgrade to 2.2 and use unrevoked. If its on froyo 2.2 already all you have to do is use unrevoked. Has the phone ever been rooted?
No it hasn't been rooted and I think its running 2.3 so it may be on the newer Hboot. Oh well doesn't hurt doing all those steps then hah. I'm just planning on using it as a mp3 but I feel like rooting it to give it a lil juice and maybe try out a couple ROMs when I'm bored. Thanks BTW.
Well if it is on 2.3.4 you will have to use this guide if your on hboot 1.02, or this guide here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1306400 if your on 0.92 or older.
So it worked in the begining for getting root and downgrading, but now it wont while trying to get s-off?
If thats the case im not sure. Did you enable usb debuging again since downgrading to 2.2? Try downloading the newest unrevoked from their site and see if that will work. 3.22 is only required for the downgrade part im pretty sure. You could try to when it gets stuck to disconnect the phone from the pc and then reconnect it.
I have the same problem. I did a factory reset and it looked like it was going to be stable, but then I started to actually use the phone and it is still doing the reboot thing.
I've also just noticed that although hboot is unlocked, I still have s-on. I ran through all the instructions step by step and everything completed successfully though.
I don't know what to do at this point. This phone has been a major pita to do this to! I've been trying to get it rooted since yesterday and I'm afraid of what to do next. I really have no idea where to go from here.
I should have just let the damn thing be. I'm going out of town tomorrow morning and it sure would be nice if I had a working phone with me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit 1: Tried clearing cache & davlik, continues to reboot. Tried fixing permissions in recovery, still rebooting. Seems that If I do a factory reset, it's stable. Until I actually use the phone. As soon as I go through the initial prompts, it reboots. Sometimes in the middle of going through the prompts, sometimes afterwards.
Edit 2: Loaded the PB31IMG.zip file onto the SD card, loaded hboot, it saw it and had the blue bar along the side. Then it flashed something like "no image, wrong image" and then went back to the hboot screen. Loaded another PB31IMG.zip file that I had (Froyo-Stock-recvery_PB31IMG) on the SD card and had the same thing happen. Now when I load hboot and select the factory reset option, it loads the clockwordmod recovery 5.0.2.0 screen and sits there.
Edit 3: Tried going into safe mode to see what would happen. Got the initial setup screens. Pressed next, next, next, etc. then it rebooted. It stayed at unlock screen for a minute and then rebooted again. Then had the htc incredible white screen go into a reboot loop a couple times. Then it looked like it was going to boot fine, but it didn't. Out of ideas at the moment.
Edit 4: Just going through some saved postings and thought I'd try to manually push the recovery.img from unRevoked using the command "fastboot boot recovery.img". Nothing changed.
Edit 5: Followed the guide by scotty85 at http://androidforums.com/incredible...ow-unlock-downgrade-achieve-s-off-htcdev.html and found step I was missing. I now have hboot unlocked and s-off! However, I'm still on the newer hboot version (1.02.0000); should I try and downgrade that? Can I? And if so, how?
Edit 6: Since hboot is now unlocked and I have s-off, I decided to restore an image I made the other day with my old device that got replaced by this one. And of course, that was rebooting as well. So I loaded up a plain, fresh rom and that one is also rebooting.
I'm now convinced that I have bad hardware. I'm trying to un-root it and am not having much luck. I've gotten s-on now again and installed the default recovery. But I can't seem to get GB installed on it no matter what I try. I've tried the SD card way and the RUU, nothing is working.
Heck, right now my phone is stuck at the first htc incredible white screen. Not looking good.
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This is the htc incredible thread. This may work on your phone, but you would need to find and substute the correct files.
So I went and got another Dinc and followed the steps all over again and for some reason everything says it worked but I'm sitting here looking at Unlocked with S-ON w/ hboot-1.02. I'm thinking it may have been an error with unrEVOked so will try it again and see what happens.
Edit: So unrEVOked left me an error after it booted to recovery I got a few errors.
Verifying SD card marker...
SD card marker not found...
Checking internal SD crd marker...
Error verifying extendedcommand.
Error processing ROM Manager script. Please verify you have ROM manager v4.4.0.0 or higher.
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log
So does this mean I may need to create a partition on my SD card? From what I remember I didn't have that issue when I rooted my other Dinc so I figured I would throw this out there.
Edit: So unrEVOked left me an error after it booted to recovery I got a few errors.
Verifying SD card marker...
SD card marker not found...
Checking internal SD crd marker...
Error verifying extendedcommand.
Error processing ROM Manager script. Please verify you have ROM manager v4.4.0.0 or higher.
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log
So does this mean I may need to create a partition on my SD card? From what I remember I didn't have that issue when I rooted my other Dinc so I figured I would throw this out there.
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I would reformat the sdcard, no need for any partitions. Did unrevoked give you root? Also make sure your using unrevoked 3.22 not the latest one.
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19I am in no way responsible if you turn your phone into an expensive brick. Unlocking bootloaders is technical, and can be hazardous to your devices health if you don’t understand what you are doing.
REQUIRED: ADB, fastboot, and all related drivers setup and working on your pc. If you do not have adb setup download this http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/adb_fastboot.zip, and extract the files to some place like C:\adb and also download these required drivers http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install.
1. Head over to HTC Dev http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/.
2. Create a account or sign in (you must use your real email address).
3. Go to unlock bootloader.
4. Select “HTC DROID INCREDIBLE*”.
5. Follow the directions and install all the software provided and you will end up with a unlocked bootloader with s-on. Save a copy of the unlock_code.bin to your pc, so you have it after dooing the froyo ruu.
6. Enter FASTBOOT again on your phone.
7.Open the command prompt again on your pc to where adb.exe is. (ie. C:\android-sdk\platform-tools or C:\adb
8. Download this - CWM recovery 5.0.2.0 http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/recovery.img, and place it in the same folder as fastboot (where you put unlock_code.bin ie. C:\adb).
9. For simplicity’s sake rename the above file to recovery.img if it doesn’t already save it as recovery.img.
10. In your command prompt navigate to the folder containing your fastboot files and recovery.img
11. Enter the following in the command prompt:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Code:
12. Once that completes navigate to recovery on your phone and press power to select it.
13. Once CWM recovery boots on your phone use the volume up and down to pick "Mounts and storage" press the trackball to select it.
14. Select "Mount usb storage".
15. Take this zip and drag it to the root of your SD card http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/su.zip
16. On your phone press the trackball to unmount your usb storage.
17. Select go back.
18. Select install zip from SD card.
19. Choose zip from sd card.
20. Select the su.zip file we just downloaded and press the trackball to flash.
21. Reboot the phone.
22. Once your phone is booted go to the market and search "superuser".
23. Download and install superuser.
24. Search "busybox".
25. Use one of the busybox installers and install busybox (hit allow on the su notification).
26. Enter superuser app, press the menu button on your phone, select preferences, then scroll down to su-binary.
27. Hit update, and allow the prompt, if all the output is in green then you have full root congrats!!!.
For Those who wish to take it one step further and achieve s-off with unrevoked.
This process will format your phone I recommend making a nandroid, and running a program like Titanium Backup along with MyBackup to backup all your apps/data, and sync your contacts to google before you go any further.
28. Reboot your phone, and enable usb debugging.
29. Place these 2 files, unzipped on the root of your SD card. Do not put them in a folder, just drop the files right to your card. http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/flash_mtd.zip
30. Set your phone to charge only.
31. Open the command prompt on your PC and navigate to the same folder as your fastboot files in the step above for example: cd c:\android-sdk\platform-tools\ or C:\adb
32. Type the following into the command prompt pressing the enter key at the end of each line:
Code:
adb shell
You should get a dollar sign $
Code:
su
You should now get a pound sign #
Code:
cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image
Code:
chmod 755 /data/flash_image
Code:
/data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd0.img
33. Now set your phone to disk drive mode and place this zip on the root of your SD card (do not unzip) http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/3.26.605.1/PB31IMG.zip
34. Rename the above file to PB31IMG
35. Set your phone to charge only
36. At this step you have 2 options you can pull the battery of your phone and put it back in then hold volume down and pres power to enter the bootloader or you can go back to your command prompt and type the following:
Code:
exit
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
37. When your bootloader is done loading press volume up to flash the PB31IMG.zip
38. Your phone will reboot the bootloader once during this process, don’t be alarmed just wait for it to finish, when done it will ask you to press volume up to restart the phone
39. When done remove the PB31IMG file from your sd card
40. Congratulations you are now back to stock 2.2 froyo
41. Put the unlock_code.bin file in the same folder with the fastboote.exe file if its not already there. Go to fastboot on the phone. Open a commant prompt to the folder where the files are.
42. Type the folowing:
Code:
fastboot flash unlocktoken unlock_code.bin
Code:
43. Fastboot flash cwm recovery.img again.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Code.
44. Flash the su.zip file thru recovery.
45. Flash the unrevoked forever s-off patch thru recovery http://dinc.does-it.net/Guide_Root_New_Hboot/unrevoked-forever.zip
You should now be rooted and s-off.2
No reason to update and is reccomended that you dont. This is just for people who got an inc recently that came with the new hboot.2Okay folks. here are links to some of the main files I have, Enjoy! Thanks to the Dev that brought this in the beginning.
The file labeled "HTCdev.com Unlock Records or Procedures" has all the main stuff.
HTC Archives1
I believe it does. The new hboot is fastboot compatible, it is required to get the info for the unlock code. The 0.92 hboot is also fastboot compatible, i have always been able to use fastboot on it. Is that what you ment?
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