Honeycomb to gingerbread downgrade for Official OTA [Procedure up]

kevinrocksman · Dec 28, 2011

when i do this procedure I cant open recovery. I have tried flashing express-twrp1.0.3.img, express-twrp1.0.3-HC.img and express-twrp1.0.3.img.... I cant get back into recovery unless i flash the honeycomb ruu back in this forum.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1409306

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I screwed up didnt I... I upgraded to 6.14.5555 hboot.... theres no way to put this back to 1.07... is there?

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i cant install a gingerbread rom now that ive upgraded to honeycomb can I...

kevinrocksman · Dec 28, 2011

im just a little confused. I go through the process of downgrading but I cant flash any recovery's except the one that came with the RUU. When my tablet starts up it has a million force closes and I cant do anything at all.. I dont under stand what Im doing wrong

sinner1168 · Dec 28, 2011

kevinrocksman said:
when i do this procedure I cant open recovery. I have tried flashing express-twrp1.0.3.img, express-twrp1.0.3-HC.img and express-twrp1.0.3.img.... I cant get back into recovery unless i flash the honeycomb ruu back in this forum.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1409306

---------- Post added at 10:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:57 AM ----------

I screwed up didnt I... I upgraded to 6.14.5555 hboot.... theres no way to put this back to 1.07... is there?

---------- Post added at 10:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 AM ----------

i cant install a gingerbread rom now that ive upgraded to honeycomb can I...

I used the recovery from post #1 and that worked with no problems. You might want to try that and see if it works for you. Also just asking to make sure but did you run the HTC bootloader unlock first?

globatron · Dec 28, 2011

kevinrocksman said:
I screwed up didnt I... I upgraded to 6.14.5555 hboot.... theres no way to put this back to 1.07... is there?

Hmm, maybe reading the instructions would have been a good idea, see line 2 in red at the top of the first post.

kevinrocksman · Dec 28, 2011

sinner1168 said:
I used the recovery from post #1 and that worked with no problems. You might want to try that and see if it works for you. Also just asking to make sure but did you run the HTC bootloader unlock first?

I did run the revolutionary tol when I had 1.07... but when I was following the 1st post with instructions to upgrade and unlock I thought I had to uograde...

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globatron said:
Hmm, maybe reading the instructions would have been a good idea, see line 2 in red at the top of the first post.

yep.. so im screwed. Awesome

Magnus_CA · Dec 29, 2011

globotron,

Thank you for all your work (and sticking with us) on the View.

Forgive me for this newbie question but I'm trying to be extra careful since I'm trying this on my wife's View...

If I'm currently on GB with S-ON and want to get to HC with S-OFF and custom recovery all I have to do is run the Revolutionary S-OFF method and accept the HC OTA update and the bootloader will remain unlocked and recovery will remain in place?

Maine_Coon · Dec 29, 2011

Magnus_CA said:
globotron,

Thank you for all your work (and sticking with us) on the View.

Forgive me for this newbie question but I'm trying to be extra careful since I'm trying this on my wife's View...

If I'm currently on GB with S-ON and want to get to HC with S-OFF and custom recovery all I have to do is run the Revolutionary S-OFF method and accept the HC OTA update and the bootloader will remain unlocked and recovery will remain in place?

No one asked me, but still..

No.
- first do s-off on GB thru revolutionary;
- then go there http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1409306
and follow the instructions.
Make sure you did NOT unlock your hboot thru the htc site.

and he is globatron, not globotron

Magnus_CA · Dec 29, 2011

Maine_Coon said:
No one asked me, but still..

No.
- first do s-off on GB thru revolutionary;
- then go there http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1409306
and follow the instructions.
Make sure you did NOT unlock your hboot thru the htc site.

Much thanks.

Maine_Coon said:
and he is globatron, not globotron

My most humble apologies for the spelling error.

geert56 · Dec 29, 2011

Biding my time....but how about Linux?

Indeed I knew that sooner or later we would have a fantastic downgrade procedure for the "fools" that rushed to accept the Honeycomb OTA. I am one of them! Thanks to the awesome work by globatron the method is sound and complete.

There's just one thing that I would like to see clarified: in what state is the View expected for the last step, i.e., running the big RUU.exe file (are we in the bootloader at that time)? And I assume that this must be done on a Windows box; how about Linux? All the other steps involving adb and fastboot are identical for Linux/Mac.
Is it possible to do everything but the last step on Linux and then plug the View into a Windows PC and run the RUU? Are the special fastboot drivers needed in that case? Or is there an alternative to "run the RUU" for Linux?

Sorry for the many questions. I hope someone has the answers.

sinner1168 · Dec 29, 2011

geert56 said:
Indeed I knew that sooner or later we would have a fantastic downgrade procedure for the "fools" that rushed to accept the Honeycomb OTA. I am one of them! Thanks to the awesome work by globatron the method is sound and complete.

There's just one thing that I would like to see clarified: in what state is the View expected for the last step, i.e., running the big RUU.exe file (are we in the bootloader at that time)? And I assume that this must be done on a Windows box; how about Linux? All the other steps involving adb and fastboot are identical for Linux/Mac.
Is it possible to do everything but the last step on Linux and then plug the View into a Windows PC and run the RUU? Are the special fastboot drivers needed in that case? Or is there an alternative to "run the RUU" for Linux?

Sorry for the many questions. I hope someone has the answers.

If you look at the steps just past the Windows installation steps, there are the downloads and steps to use Linux. Also your View should be on and booted to Android to run the big RUU.

globatron · Dec 29, 2011

geert56 said:
Indeed I knew that sooner or later we would have a fantastic downgrade procedure for the "fools" that rushed to accept the Honeycomb OTA. I am one of them! Thanks to the awesome work by globatron the method is sound and complete.

There's just one thing that I would like to see clarified: in what state is the View expected for the last step, i.e., running the big RUU.exe file (are we in the bootloader at that time)? And I assume that this must be done on a Windows box; how about Linux? All the other steps involving adb and fastboot are identical for Linux/Mac.
Is it possible to do everything but the last step on Linux and then plug the View into a Windows PC and run the RUU? Are the special fastboot drivers needed in that case? Or is there an alternative to "run the RUU" for Linux?

Sorry for the many questions. I hope someone has the answers.

unruu: http://www.multiupload.com/TKROLFQLSK

geert56 · Dec 29, 2011

Downgrade from HC to GB - Linux

I think I have all pieces together now. Globatron, maybe you mixed up your various posts in your mind: The #1 of this thread does not explicitly mention the "unruu" step to get rom.zip. I see the post was edited overnight and now adds the flashing of rom.zip instead of running RUU.exe.

To summarize, for Linux:

Get the rom.zip file from the big RUU.exe file by:

# unruu -k RUU.exe

It might be obvious to you, but it would still merit a mention that doing this procedure you will reset your device to factory settings, hence you lose all your account settings and installed apps. The very first step, i.e., unlocking the bootloader via the htcdev.com method implies this.

Thanks for all the great work.

wyldkard · Dec 29, 2011

This thread should definitely be a sticky.

Sent from my PG41200 using xda premium

GODZSON · Dec 29, 2011

Thread info

Stickied

I'm not over this forum but I did request it..

Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year!

bsoplinger · Dec 30, 2011

Ran the steps up to the final one. I've been staring at my Mac for 15ish minutes now but nothing seems to have happened. My View is on a black screen with a large HTC in the middle. Any idea what I did wrong? I'm expecting that the fastboot command will do something like tell me it was done or xxx bytes transferred or just the all caps OKAY that the other commands generated.

MacBookPro: platform-tools bsoplinger$ fastboot flash zip RUU_Express_Sprint_WWE_1.22.651.1_Radio_1.05.11.0531_NV_2.28_SPCS_release_198141_signed.zip
sending 'zip' (529436 KB)... INFOstart check_usb: usb_ep0: type=128, request=6

globatron · Dec 30, 2011

Seems to be a mac issue, try again with sudo. If that doesn't work if you can bootcamp (not a virtual machine) to windows to complete do that, if not you can do the linux procedure using a 32bit ubuntu live cd.

garycfp · Dec 31, 2011

Help!!!
I had HC running and tried to use this procedure. Ican do the flash recovery but when I go to the reboot to revovery I get the soft brick white screen.

Revolutionary shows
EXPRESS PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6 14.5555
MICROP-06567
RADIO-1.05.11.0531
eMMC-BOOT

i cannot get to cwm.

Would appreciete forum help.

globatron · Dec 31, 2011

Of course you get the soft brick, you were told not to do this if you were S-OFF. It's line two in red.

download this: https://rapidshare.com/files/1100315444/dumb-ass.zip MD5=168eb8a87f58c7f37bf62c23b14646a9

Put your view in fastboot mode:

Code:

fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip dumb-ass.zip

Then run the RUU.

Maine_Coon · Dec 31, 2011

loved the name of the zip.
sorry, couldn't resist

bsoplinger · Dec 31, 2011

globatron said:
Seems to be a mac issue, try again with sudo. If that doesn't work if you can bootcamp (not a virtual machine) to windows to complete do that, if not you can do the linux procedure using a 32bit ubuntu live cd.

sudo didn't help. Bootcamp boot to Windows 7 64 bit did the trick. Since I had to do that for the next step (Revolutionary + root) wasn't a big deal. Still I wish I knew why it failed.

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