[HOW TO] Return to 100% stock 1.13.651.7 / ROM - Recovery - S-ON!

Scott · Jul 30, 2011

This method will only work for people that have hboot 1.4. If you are on hboot 1.5, which is the Sprints latest OTA as of 8/18/2011 then this will not work for you! Warning, never accept OTA's!

I am writing this because I had to do it. I hosed my phone and could not get it to boot into OS. I did get it to boot into hboot, and fast boot. This will work if you can get that far.

1. Download the stock ROM ZIP image from here: Sprint Stock ROM Image v 1.1.3.651.7

2. Copy it to SD Card

3. Reboot phone into hboot mode by holding volume down and then press power. Keep volume down held until you boot into hboot mode.

4. In hboot mode the phone will scan the SD card with the image. Once it finds it will ask you if you want to update. Press "Power" to update.

5. Wait.... For a while. When it gets to "system" it will loop a few times. Its quite nerve wracking actually but after about 5 or 6 times it will complete.

6. Once the entire flash is complete it will prompt you to "press power to reboot." Press power and your phone will reboot to 100% stock ROM.

7. Once the phone has been flashed you will need to set the secure flag on the radio for S-ON to do this use "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" Make sure you are in fastboot menu. To do this power down and hold power down while powering up and select fastboot. I have attached the fast boot and adb files to the post.

**This has only been tested on with TeamWin recovery and phone was already at the v 1.13.651.7

Hit the THANKS button if I just helped you get back to square one! lol

cabbieBot · Jul 30, 2011

Thanks for this.

cheflarry · Jul 30, 2011

Does this turn s on? Unroot?

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iliapiano · Jul 30, 2011

Does this method provides s-on

Scott · Jul 30, 2011

cheflarry said:
Does this turn s on? Unroot?

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iliapiano said:
Does this method provides s-on

It unroots because you are returning to 100% stock image and recovery.

It does retain s-off. I thought it would turn s-on but it didint...

I am also not sure if you would need to rerun the S-off "fix" or if you could just flash teamwin recovery. Be cautious until I find out. I will pop in the revx chan and ask to see if what they think.

kaos420 · Jul 30, 2011

cheflarry said:
Does this turn s on? Unroot?

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of course it does.

Scott · Jul 30, 2011

FYI: Ok, although it says s-off it wouldn't let me write the recovery so I had to reapply the s-off fix from revolutionary. Works good now though!

Using this method you are at 100% stock.

cheflarry · Jul 30, 2011

scrosler said:
FYI: Ok, although it says s-off it wouldn't let me write the recovery so I had to reapply the s-off fix from revolutionary. Works good now though!

Using this method you are at 100% stock.

So it's stock but u can't return for repairs because it says s off

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firsttimer44 · Jul 30, 2011

Some phones shipped s-off so I imagine you could use that as an argument. I doubt they will fight you too hard.

housry23 · Jul 30, 2011

Just a FYI, the mode you boot into and let it scan the card for the PG86IMG is not recovery mode, but hboot. Not bashing because I appreciate the effort here scrosler, I am just trying to keep this as unconfusing(is that a word?) as possible, because recovery is actually Clockwork or TWRP.

eman3316@optonline.net · Jul 30, 2011

housry23 said:
Just a FYI, the mode you boot into and let it scan the card for the PG86IMG is not recovery mode, but hboot. Not bashing because I appreciate the effort here scrosler, I am just trying to keep this as unconfusing(is that a word?) as possible, because recovery is actually Clockwork or TWRP.

^^^ This

An easy way to get into the bootloader is to download quick boot from the market.

Scott · Jul 30, 2011

firsttimer44 said:
Some phones shipped s-off so I imagine you could use that as an argument. I doubt they will fight you too hard.

Yep, they did. Thats why I am not worried.

housry23 said:
Just a FYI, the mode you boot into and let it scan the card for the PG86IMG is not recovery mode, but hboot. Not bashing because I appreciate the effort here scrosler, I am just trying to keep this as unconfusing(is that a word?) as possible, because recovery is actually Clockwork or TWRP.

Point taken. Post updated. If I have used the wrong word again please let me know. Very tired. havent slept since the release of s-off and twrp

Im sure you can understand that...

And no.. unconfusing is not a word... well it is because you just posted it but its not a recognized word. You could say "least confusing" in replace of your "unconfusing" lol

But either way, that was good catch. Thanks!

Scott · Jul 31, 2011

Ok, I updated the op to include the S-ON command string. Big thanks to rtbluver for pointing that out!

chlehqls · Jul 31, 2011

So with this, would I be able to send in my unit for repairs? I have camera freezing issues, so I may just bite the bullet and send it in soon.

Thanks for this!

Scoop003 · Jul 31, 2011

Just a heads up for those looking to return, the AlphaRevX/Unrevoked method puts "revolutionary" above the S-off notation in hboot, so that might be a dead giveaway to Sprint that your phone didn't ship S-off. Best to get back to S-on to be safe.

will survive · Jul 31, 2011

getting this error:

(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.008s]
finished. total time: 0.008s

i'm pretty sure everything is installed correctly as far as drivers and sdk goes. just for good measure i uninstalled and reinstalled fastboot drivers from the revo wiki and the sdk. so when i go into the directory where the adb and fastboot files are, i enter "fastboot devices" and it sees my device... don't really know whats going on, not that i need to return phone, yet, but just want to learn to get it back to s-on just in case. a little frustrating right know. its gonna b a long night...

edit: i tried to run the revol s-off tool again and when i enter the beta key it says that my device software is not supported at this time... another road block.

Scoop003 · Jul 31, 2011

I'm getting the same error, and the bad news is, I need to return my device

Scott · Jul 31, 2011

Everyone seems to get it. Sorry guys. Im sure someone will find out how to do it.

chlehqls · Jul 31, 2011

Scoop003 said:
Just a heads up for those looking to return, the AlphaRevX/Unrevoked method puts "revolutionary" above the S-off notation in hboot, so that might be a dead giveaway to Sprint that your phone didn't ship S-off. Best to get back to S-on to be safe.

I did this method and the Revolutionary logo up top went away. It does say S-OFF though, so we may be able to fool HTC in telling them that it was shipped that way.

I don't know. I rather just revert back to normal since I want to send this unit in for repairs soon.

KMac Tilt · Aug 1, 2011

Use this command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" instead of "fastboot oem setsecureflag 3" This will turn S-ON and it worked for me!

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