Originally Posted by Unknownforce

Load up the Linux CD and do Step two of my guide, sounds like it's bricked properly, did you get the success messages?

when trying closeone's cd it did not see the phone and gave nothing. tried it on 2 other pc's and same thing as well. as i said if i plug in usb to pc (non linux) drivers try and load but fails if i pull usb and put it back in i get 3 beeps thanks

Originally Posted by timezone12

when trying closeone's cd it did not see the phone and gave nothing. tried it on 2 other pc's and same thing as well. as i said if i plug in usb to pc (non linux) drivers try and load but fails if i pull usb and put it back in i get 3 beeps thanks

What does it show up in windows as?

Originally Posted by Unknownforce

What does it show up in windows as?

driver sw was not successfully installed QHSUSB_DLOAD that is on windows pc

ok while i was waiting for reply i downloaded straight Ubuntu and tried your (unknownforce) step 2 put files in home and commands went through fine but i get same thing holding down vol button plug in usb get no response. now is there hope for this or should i just take this to sprint store and see what they can do ? thanks for the help my friends

sorry if this has been posted somewhere already, but in attempting to brick the phone, after pulling the power cord, I have no dim red light at all, no response from the phone at all, on the charger or anything. is it okay to try and proceed with the downgrade? it seems completely bricked, I cant turn it on or anything.

EDIT: NEVERMIND, looks like the power cord was the problem, used a brand new OEM one and everythings gravy

Originally Posted by timezone12

ok while i was waiting for reply i downloaded straight Ubuntu and tried your (unknownforce) step 2 put files in home and commands went through fine but i get same thing holding down vol button plug in usb get no response. now is there hope for this or should i just take this to sprint store and see what they can do ? thanks for the help my friends

Are you holding down the vol down key while plugging it in, also do you have the battery out?

Oh, also in windows device manager, check to see if you see a Qualcomm MMC Storage Controller when you plug it in with vol-down held.

Originally Posted by Unknownforce

Are you holding down the vol down key while plugging it in, also do you have the battery out?

Oh, also in windows device manager, check to see if you see a Qualcomm MMC Storage Controller when you plug it in with vol-down held.

ok i figured out what it was my vol button was jamed (don't ask me how lol) took a pin and hit it it came up. now using closeone's cd i'm sitting at hboot 1.40 !!! on now to run 1.13 quick question do i just hit the exe file while in fastboot and let it go? thanks for the help
edit: ok 1.13 installing through fastboot then on to rev to get root thanks unknownforce

Originally Posted by Unknownforce

Don't try, just get a PG86IMG.zip file with the ENG Hboot in it and flash that, you're S-OFF, that means it doesn't check signatures on PG86IMG.zip files.

Or if you really want, just pull the hboot.img (which is 1.40.0000) from the tools.zip and call it hboot_1.40.0000_signedbyaa.nb0, put it in a zip file with the android-info.txt from a stock RUU zip file, place it on your sdcard called PG86IMG.zip and boot to bootloader and flash it there.

Or... if you have the 1.13 RUU already, pull the zip file from that, delete everything else but that hboot image file and the android-info.txt file and same thing, SD card and flash from bootloader.

Thank you for your help the other day. I flashed 1.4.0000 when I flashed my recovery and both work great. I am now back to 1.4 s-off

Finally got around to downgrading and I must say it worked awesome. Finally s-off!
woot woot!! The hardest part was getting my phone to brick. must of tried 10-15 times before it worked(slow count to 4 and it finally worked). Thanks OP and everyone else!

Man getting it to brick was a motha but if you have the right power source I tell what so I had the battery in hit the update count to 4 took the battery cover off took the battery out n was brick whala then hook it up to the power source and was brick then ran ruu rev waited for hands to come on then start flashing roms thanks unknownforce