[Guide] Quick And Dirty Return to 100% Stock for Evo 3D/V (S-OFF Only)

ramjet73 · Feb 7, 2013

It seems like the questions about returning to 100% stock are coming up more often lately, possibly because more users are moving on to other devices. Whatever the reason, I thought a simple guide might be useful to avoid having to duplicate this info in other threads and PM's.

This procedure should work for any CDMA or GSM Evo 3D/V that is S-OFF. There is no way to get an S-ON device that has been HTC unlocked back to 100% stock since relocking the bootloader will result in a status of "relocked".

Here are the steps to do it:

1. Flash the "query_bootloader.zip" file attached to this post in recovery. If the status message shows your bootloader is "unlocked" or "relocked" flash the "lock_bootloader.zip" file from the same post to reset it to "locked".

2. Download an RUU.exe (Windows) or RUU.zip (bootloader) file for your model from this page and flash it using the appropriate method.

If you use the .exe version from Windows it works best if you put the phone into "fastboot USB" mode, and you may have to cancel the RUU utility and restart if it hangs after flashing the stock bootloader when you start with a custom hboot installed.

To flash the RUU.zip via the bootloader it must be renamed to PG86IMG.zip and placed in the root of your SD card, and may need to be flashed twice if a custom hboot is installed the first time it is flashed.

I recommend using the latest version for your model but any compatible RUU can be flashed while S-OFF. It's also a good idea to boot the ROM without doing any setup after flashing the RUU to make sure the ROM has been reset to the stock version.

3. Confirm that the bootloader shows "***LOCKED***" on the top line of the screen and the HBOOT version is a stock bootloader for your device.

4. Issue the "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" command from a PC.
Note: Make 100% sure you have the stock bootloader installed before issuing this command or you will brick your phone.

Your phone will now be 100% stock.

ramjet73

dR.BaNaNe · Feb 13, 2013

Thanks for the nice toturial but i´m just wondering one thing.
If you fail with the command

Code:

fastboot oem writesecureflag 3

, will your phone get hardbricked or is it possible to flash a recovery and start over again with fastboot?

ramjet73 · Feb 13, 2013

dR.BaNaNe said:
Thanks for the nice toturial but i´m just wondering one thing.
If you fail with the command

Code:

fastboot oem writesecureflag 3

, will your phone get hardbricked or is it possible to flash a recovery and start over again with fastboot?

If that command fails nothing will happen and your phone will stay S-OFF but the odds of that happening are very small unless your phone is not in "fastboot usb" mode when you issue it.

The risk involves issuing that command when you have a custom hboot like JBear or Revolutionary installed because those bootloaders are not signed and will cause the phone to brick. In that scenario you would not be able to get into recovery.

ramjet73

dR.BaNaNe · Feb 13, 2013

Ok thanks man.

matt965 · Feb 24, 2013

Ok, in the RUU's I can download I have 2 problems:

1) How do I know which one to download? I see a few that have Sprint ICS. I have the Virgin Mobile phone Evo V 4g. Which one would I get?
2) I have already tried downloading a few of them, and each time it stops at a different point and windows says the zip file is not valid. Is there another place I can download the correct RUU?

I need to get this done soon as I have a replacement headed this way.

ramjet73 · Feb 24, 2013

matt965 said:
Ok, in the RUU's I can download I have 2 problems:

1) How do I know which one to download? I see a few that have Sprint ICS. I have the Virgin Mobile phone Evo V 4g. Which one would I get?

This is the correct RUU for your phone.

2) I have already tried downloading a few of them, and each time it stops at a different point and windows says the zip file is not valid. Is there another place I can download the correct RUU?

If that link doesn't work for you the same RUU is available here, including an MD5 checksum you can use to verify the download.

I need to get this done soon as I have a replacement headed this way.

birddseedd · Feb 25, 2013

ramjet73 said:
1. Flash the "query_bootloader.zip" file attached to this post in recovery. If the status message shows your bootloader is "unlocked" or "relocked" flash the "lock_bootloader.zip" file from the same post to reset it to "locked".

how do i do this if i have no working recovery? iv been trying to ruu with RUU_Shooter_S_Sprint_WWE_2.08.651.3_Radio_0.97.10.0808_NV_SPCS_1.31_003_release_219445_signed.exe

iv tried many ruu's but only 2 have ever gone through. when it does i just get reboots on htc screen. recovery does not seem to work.

thanks for the help. hope i havnt bricked my phone

ramjet73 · Feb 25, 2013

birddseedd said:
how do i do this if i have no working recovery? iv been trying to ruu with RUU_Shooter_S_Sprint_WWE_2.08.651.3_Radio_0.97.10.0808_NV_SPCS_1.31_003_release_219445_signed.exe

iv tried many ruu's but only 2 have ever gone through. when it does i just get reboots on htc screen. recovery does not seem to work.

thanks for the help. hope i havnt bricked my phone

This is the wrong thread for what you need to do and I posted a link to the correct guide in the thread you opened in the development forum that got moved to Q&A.

When you are ready to download the RUU look for the 2.89.651.2 version.

ramjet73

matt965 · Feb 25, 2013

thank you ramjet for the link. my phone is now 99% stock. The 1% is because of the S-OFF part of the bootloader. It shows it is locked so that's good, but I think that means I can't turn S-ON, as it says in the first post. Oh well, hopefully they will accept it like that.

birddseedd · Feb 25, 2013

matt965 said:
thank you ramjet for the link. my phone is now 99% stock. The 1% is because of the S-OFF part of the bootloader. It shows it is locked so that's good, but I think that means I can't turn S-ON, as it says in the first post. Oh well, hopefully they will accept it like that.

if you figure out how to get jb roms to boot post back so we all can know how

matt965 · Feb 26, 2013

birddseedd said:
if you figure out how to get jb roms to boot post back so we all can know how

JB roms don't boot with this phone??? Strange since mine booted just fine with them.

ramjet73 · Feb 26, 2013

matt965 said:
JB roms don't boot with this phone??? Strange since mine booted just fine with them.

They do.

This is the wrong thread to discuss booting JB ROM's and I don't know why he posted that here.

ramjet73

iconias · Feb 26, 2013

Thanks for this thread, great to go back to 100% stock for warranty purposes...

But for sellers who's warranty has run out, the newest JB or ICS rom is the best

occulus · Mar 11, 2013

Which RUU do i use for a Sprint Evo 3?

I'd like to follow the instructions here; you pointed me to this OP in another reply when I asked how to go back to stock, but I don't know which one to use. I'm on hboot 1.50.5050 running CM 10.1 on a Sprint Evo 3D, using "Wild for the Night" and I want to go back to 100% stock, S-ON, unrooted, locked.

Is 'WWE' the US version? I know not to use RUUs for other countries but I can't tell which to use from the list.

(I used the jbear wire trick and have Ext4 installed if it makes any difference.)

ramjet73 · Mar 11, 2013

occulus said:
I'd like to follow the instructions here; you pointed me to this OP in another reply when I asked how to go back to stock, but I don't know which one to use. I'm on hboot 1.50.5050 running CM 10.1 on a Sprint Evo 3D, using "Wild for the Night" and I want to go back to 100% stock, S-ON, unrooted, locked.

This is the RUU you want to use.

ramjet73

t_mcpardi · Mar 13, 2013

Does it work for EVO 3D GSM with Revolutionary?

Sorry for my english.

raptoro07 · Mar 13, 2013

ramjet73 said:
This procedure should work for any CDMA or GSM Evo 3D/V that is S-OFF. There is no way to get an S-ON device that has been HTC unlocked back to 100% stock since relocking the bootloader will result in a status of "relocked".

t_mcpardi said:
Does it work for EVO 3D GSM with Revolutionary?

Sorry for my english.

Probably not, since ramjet said that in the OP.

ramjet73 · Mar 13, 2013

t_mcpardi said:
Does it work for EVO 3D GSM with Revolutionary?

Sorry for my english.

raptoro07 said:
Probably not, since ramjet said that in the OP.

If he has Revolutionary and is S-OFF this guide should work as long as the RUU is available for the model of his phone. That's the only thing that is specific to the GSM or CDMA model.

ramjet73

rafylora1230 · Mar 29, 2013

Which ruu do I use I'm running hboot 1.50.5050 and bootloader is unlocked

ramjet73 · Mar 29, 2013

rafylora1230 said:
Which ruu do I use I'm running hboot 1.50.5050 and bootloader is unlocked

The hboot doesn't matter, but if you are on Virgin Mobile you need this one.

ramjet73

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