Originally Posted by sugarshock

You are talking about the command "fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.img" right?

I did do that before running the program. I've tried it twice with the same results.
When I enter the command, it says it worked but something must be wrong.

EDIT

Tried a third time, still no luck. Here is a step by step of what I'm doing:
1. Power off phone and get in to fastboot. Connect to pc and in cmd I enter fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.img, the command is executed successfully.
2.Right click ControlBear.exe and run as Admin.
3. Program auto-reboots my phone. When it's fully rebooted it says something like:
Backing up.....
No root detected in backup!
Secondary backup FAILED!!
press ENTER to exit.......

You've made sure you are running stock GB, or ICS ?
You've made sure to download the right controlbear for either GB, or ICS and the right OS, yes?
After the recovery image steps, you're rebooting the phone into the stock OS, and _then_ running controlbear, yes?

The only difference for me was I used a different root method, but it shouldn't matter.

I'm pretty sure I'm running stock ICS. In one of my previous attempts at rooting I attempted to change it, but I doubt it worked. Is there a way to check?

EDIT
So I'm just gonna try flashing to stock ROM anyway. Which one of the downloads do I select?

RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_Cingular_US_3.26.502.52_Radio _3.02.4740.14_34.22.701040.19L_release_243350_sign ed.exe

OR

RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_Cingular_US_3.26.502.56_Radio _3.02.4740.14_34.22.701040.19_release_246712_signe d.exe

They are both ICS, Cingular is supposed to work for my AT&T Vivid, so what do I choose? Here's the link:
http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/

Originally Posted by sugarshock

I'm pretty sure I'm running stock ICS. In one of my previous attempts at rooting I attempted to change it, but I doubt it worked. Is there a way to check?

EDIT
So I'm just gonna try flashing to stock ROM anyway. Which one of the downloads do I select?

RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_Cingular_US_3.26.502.52_Radio _3.02.4740.14_34.22.701040.19L_release_243350_sign ed.exe

OR

RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_Cingular_US_3.26.502.56_Radio _3.02.4740.14_34.22.701040.19_release_246712_signe d.exe

They are both ICS, Cingular is supposed to work for my AT&T Vivid, so what do I choose? Here's the link:
http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/

What hboot version are you running now?

Originally Posted by sugarshock

I'm pretty sure I'm running stock ICS. In one of my previous attempts at rooting I attempted to change it, but I doubt it worked. Is there a way to check?

EDIT
So I'm just gonna try flashing to stock ROM anyway. Which one of the downloads do I select?

RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_Cingular_US_3.26.502.52_Radio _3.02.4740.14_34.22.701040.19L_release_243350_sign ed.exe

OR

RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_Cingular_US_3.26.502.56_Radio _3.02.4740.14_34.22.701040.19_release_246712_signe d.exe

They are both ICS, Cingular is supposed to work for my AT&T Vivid, so what do I choose? Here's the link:
http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/

Or, you can download it directly from HTC
Page: http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-vi...ftware-updates
Direct link: http://dl3.htc.com/application/htc_v....502.56_US.exe

Thanks for the replies, I'll check the website out when I get home. My Hboot version 1.85.0025 if you still want to know.

Originally Posted by sugarshock

Thanks for the replies, I'll check the website out when I get home. My Hboot version 1.85.0025 if you still want to know.

The reason I didn't suggest dl'ing the ruu and runing it was to try and help you avoid the dreaded '34% ruu failed' error.

Can you join #htc-holiday on freenode.net ? I can try to help you from there. If I'm afk, there are others there that can help as well.

Originally Posted by sugarshock

Thanks for the replies, I'll check the website out when I get home. My Hboot version 1.85.0025 if you still want to know.

Hi,
I am having the exact same issue on my ATT HTC Vivid. Stuck at exactly the same step.

Did you resolve the issue?

Please help.

Thanks,
Bhavin

Originally Posted by bhavinjo

Hi,
I am having the exact same issue on my ATT HTC Vivid. Stuck at exactly the same step.

Did you resolve the issue?

Please help.

Thanks,
Bhavin

Hi sugarshock,
I had exactly the same error as u with same hboot version.

Do this

goto http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1498003

and download the tool

only perform recovery for ICS and then perm root

viola no more error message from control bear about root...

hope that helps...

I am not meaning to high jack this thread, but i just had a quick question, I only want root for things like freezing bloat, and on the off chance I decide to trade my Vivid for another phone i have 29 days left to make up my mind. Anyways if I flash WCX Recovery does the stock rom become rooted?

Originally Posted by kleeman7

I am not meaning to high jack this thread, but i just had a quick question, I only want root for things like freezing bloat, and on the off chance I decide to trade my Vivid for another phone i have 29 days left to make up my mind. Anyways if I flash WCX Recovery does the stock rom become rooted?

Yes, if u flash the rooted stock version

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