[GUIDE] How To Root HBOOT 1.02/1.07 and gain S-OFF

[rocksteady]

Use the dev comman to unlock the bootloader from adb fastboot mode. Then download the .92 hboot, link is here somewhere, then try to install cwm recovery.

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[dirkdigles]

Use the dev comman to unlock the bootloader from adb fastboot mode. Then download the .92 hboot, link is here somewhere, then try to install cwm recovery.

Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda premium

Ok managed to get HBOOT unlocked via HTCDev. Tried to install recovery per the guide, it appeared to install, but I can't boot into recovery - the phone just bootloops. Also, now when I'm booting into the OS, it bootloops after about 10 seconds into the lock screen... @#$%@#

Gonna see if I can somehow flash this .92 hboot...

EDIT: It failed the 0.92 hboot flash:

C:\miniadb_inc>fastboot flash zip PB31IMG-hboot-0.92.0000.zip
       sending 'zip' (2581 KB)... OKAY [  0.418s]
                 writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 6.291s

Also tried erasing recovery before flashing recovery.img ... FAILED

C:\adb>fastboot erase recovery
            erasing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.002s

 

[cmlusco]

Ok managed to get HBOOT unlocked via HTCDev. Tried to install recovery per the guide, it appeared to install, but I can't boot into recovery - the phone just bootloops. Also, now when I'm booting into the OS, it bootloops after about 10 seconds into the lock screen... @#$%@#

Gonna see if I can somehow flash this .92 hboot...

No offense to anyone, but how is going to .92 going to help? Not to mention you cant downgrade hboots unless your s-off, and the .92 hboot is not unlockable.

You need to get a working recovery on there, or do an ruu.

For recovery " fastboot erase recovery " then "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ". Enter these one at a time using fastboot.

If that dosent work, do an ruu. Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip, place it on your sdcard in no folders. Boot to hboot and wait a few secs, it should find the file amd prompt you to presd vol up to install. When done vol up to restart. Hopefully it will boot normally.

From there you can unlock the bootloader again by fastboot flashing the bin file they sent you the last time you unlocked. Then fastboot flash recovery and go from there.

 

[dirkdigles]

No offense to anyone, but how is going to .92 going to help? Not to mention you cant downgrade hboots unless your s-off, and the .92 hboot is not unlockable.

You need to get a working recovery on there, or do an ruu.

For recovery " fastboot erase recovery " then "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ". Enter these one at a time using fastboot.

If that dosent work, do an ruu. Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip, place it on your sdcard in no folders. Boot to hboot and wait a few secs, it should find the file amd prompt you to presd vol up to install. When done vol up to restart. Hopefully it will boot normally.

From there you can unlock the bootloader again by fastboot flashing the bin file they sent you the last time you unlocked. Then fastboot flash recovery and go from there.

Tried the RUU in your post. It loads in HBOOT and briefly gives the error "Wrong Zipped Image" and goes back to the HBOOT menu.

I reformatted the SD as FAT32 just to double check... also made sure to do an md5 check of the file. Still getting the "Wrong Zipped Image!" Note. I'm starting to think this phone has no hope.

... and now somehow recovery works. WTH. Ok continuing with guide...

Installed superuser. Bootlooping again. Surprise. Can't get back into recovery from HBOOT either.

 

[cmlusco]

Tried the RUU in your post. It loads in HBOOT and briefly gives the error "Wrong Zipped Image" and goes back to the HBOOT menu.

I reformatted the SD as FAT32 just to double check... also made sure to do an md5 check of the file. Still getting the "Wrong Zipped Image!" Note. I'm starting to think this phone has no hope.

... and now somehow recovery works. WTH. Ok continuing with guide...

Installed superuser. Bootlooping again. Surprise. Can't get back into recovery from HBOOT either.

That is weird. Have you tried a different recovery, like twrp or amon ra? I would do a factory reset from hboot, and then try to flash one of those recoveries instead of cwm.

 

[tronik]

Thanks for the tips on this version of hboot.

 

[chris_m128]

all of this still works perfectly on 1.07! except you need the newer version of the unrevoked-forever zip. Or you'll get the error code 6 when flashing in clockwork recovery

 

[Linch89]

im on 1.07 and i flashed the ruu, but the bootloader was bypassed any ideas?

 

[cmlusco]

im on 1.07 and i flashed the ruu, but the bootloader was bypassed any ideas?

What do you mean bypassed? It flashed everything else but not the bootloader?

 

[Linch89]

Correct it won't downgrade I'm back on froyo but hboot is the same as before. Everything else worked perfectly this is an extremely helpful guide

 

[thejase]

I can use fastboot but I mean commands like fastboot flash and fastboot boot never worked for me. They should as I'm s-off but my conclusion is that the current boot loader doesn't allow fastboot to flash to a device.

I want it mainly to boot a boot.img without having to flash to the boot partition. Good for testing purposes.

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This is a great point! Basically load it to memory to play with, without making a full write of the recovery partition.

 

[cmlusco]

Correct it won't downgrade I'm back on froyo but hboot is the same as before. Everything else worked perfectly this is an extremely helpful guide

You dont really need to downgrade hboot just the radio. You need to be on the froyo radio to get s-off using the unrevoked s-off patch. Once s-off you can downgrade the bootloader if desired by flashing a PB31IMG.

 

[flipinfin]

Ok managed to get HBOOT unlocked via HTCDev. Tried to install recovery per the guide, it appeared to install, but I can't boot into recovery - the phone just bootloops. Also, now when I'm booting into the OS, it bootloops after about 10 seconds into the lock screen... @#$%@#

Gonna see if I can somehow flash this .92 hboot...

EDIT: It failed the 0.92 hboot flash:

C:\miniadb_inc>fastboot flash zip PB31IMG-hboot-0.92.0000.zip
       sending 'zip' (2581 KB)... OKAY [  0.418s]
                 writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
finished. total time: 6.291s

Also tried erasing recovery before flashing recovery.img ... FAILED

C:\adb>fastboot erase recovery
            erasing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.002s

You cant just flash a zip. You have to give fastboot specific command. Like fastboot flash recovery recovery.img fastboot flash boot boot.img. Though i looked at the file your trying to flash you have to rename that file to pb31img then drag and drop to root of sdcard so bootloader can flash it.

 

[flipinfin]

I have the same problem. I did a factory reset and it looked like it was going to be stable, but then I started to actually use the phone and it is still doing the reboot thing.

I've also just noticed that although hboot is unlocked, I still have s-on. I ran through all the instructions step by step and everything completed successfully though.

I don't know what to do at this point. This phone has been a major pita to do this to! I've been trying to get it rooted since yesterday and I'm afraid of what to do next. I really have no idea where to go from here.

I should have just let the damn thing be. I'm going out of town tomorrow morning and it sure would be nice if I had a working phone with me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit 1: Tried clearing cache & davlik, continues to reboot. Tried fixing permissions in recovery, still rebooting. Seems that If I do a factory reset, it's stable. Until I actually use the phone. As soon as I go through the initial prompts, it reboots. Sometimes in the middle of going through the prompts, sometimes afterwards.

Edit 2: Loaded the PB31IMG.zip file onto the SD card, loaded hboot, it saw it and had the blue bar along the side. Then it flashed something like "no image, wrong image" and then went back to the hboot screen. Loaded another PB31IMG.zip file that I had (Froyo-Stock-recvery_PB31IMG) on the SD card and had the same thing happen. Now when I load hboot and select the factory reset option, it loads the clockwordmod recovery 5.0.2.0 screen and sits there.

Edit 3: Tried going into safe mode to see what would happen. Got the initial setup screens. Pressed next, next, next, etc. then it rebooted. It stayed at unlock screen for a minute and then rebooted again. Then had the htc incredible white screen go into a reboot loop a couple times. Then it looked like it was going to boot fine, but it didn't. Out of ideas at the moment.

Edit 4: Just going through some saved postings and thought I'd try to manually push the recovery.img from unRevoked using the command "fastboot boot recovery.img". Nothing changed.

Edit 5: Followed the guide by scotty85 at http://androidforums.com/incredible...ow-unlock-downgrade-achieve-s-off-htcdev.html and found step I was missing. I now have hboot unlocked and s-off! However, I'm still on the newer hboot version (1.02.0000); should I try and downgrade that? Can I? And if so, how?

Edit 6: Since hboot is now unlocked and I have s-off, I decided to restore an image I made the other day with my old device that got replaced by this one. And of course, that was rebooting as well. So I loaded up a plain, fresh rom and that one is also rebooting.

I'm now convinced that I have bad hardware. I'm trying to un-root it and am not having much luck. I've gotten s-on now again and installed the default recovery. But I can't seem to get GB installed on it no matter what I try. I've tried the SD card way and the RUU, nothing is working.

Heck, right now my phone is stuck at the first htc incredible white screen. Not looking good.

I had a simular issue. Try this.

step 1 download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Image...WWE_4.08.605.15-4.08.605.2_release_264040.zip

step 2 boot into recovery and mount usb and drag and drop the file then rename to update unmount.

step 3 apply update from sdcard and choose the file update.

 

[cmlusco]

I had a simular issue. Try this.

step 1 download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Image...WWE_4.08.605.15-4.08.605.2_release_264040.zip

step 2 boot into recovery and mount usb and drag and drop the file then rename to update unmount.

step 3 apply update from sdcard and choose the file update.

That file is for updating from 4.08.605.2 to 4.08.605.15, it is not an ruu, and will not work unless your stock.

If your s-off now all you need to do is flash cwm recovery, do a full wipe, and then flash a rom of your choosing. There is no need to downgrade hboot, or do anything else if your s-off.

If your having trouble with hboot finding PB31IMG files, reformat your sdcard fat32 and try again. Even if its already fat32, format it again.

 

[flipinfin]

That file is for updating from 4.08.605.2 to 4.08.605.15, it is not an ruu, and will not work unless your stock.

If your s-off now all you need to do is flash cwm recovery, do a full wipe, and then flash a rom of your choosing. There is no need to downgrade hboot, or do anything else if your s-off.

If your having trouble with hboot finding PB31IMG files, reformat your sdcard fat32 and try again. Even if its already fat32, format it again.

I thought that was a update because after i recovered my phone it said you have updated your phone to 4.08. etc with that file complete after bootup. MIght be the wrong file. i appologize. Though i semi bricked the phone. Alls i did was take the stock pbm31img from here and extracted the file and flashed recovery, boot and system through fastboot. then flashed that file through original recovery. I basically used my phone as a ginue pig

 

[nycionx]

following your guide, cmlusco, i got stuck on step 20. getting an error message: Installation aborted. saying there is an error in su.zip?? i dont understand..?


-- Installing: /sdcard/su.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
E:Error in /sdcard/su.zip
(Status 0)
Installation aborted

any help is appreciated!

btw my phone is an HTC Legend HBOOT 1.02. I got it unlocked via htcdev site, i also used super tool v3 to unroot...worked somewhat.
then i did the stuff on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290841 [RECOVERY][S-ON][S-OFF][Unlocked] Clockwork 5.0.2.0 and 5.0.2.8 for Htc legend

 

[cmlusco]

following your guide, cmlusco, i got stuck on step 20. getting an error message: Installation aborted. saying there is an error in su.zip?? i dont understand..?


-- Installing: /sdcard/su.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
E:Error in /sdcard/su.zip
(Status 0)
Installation aborted

any help is appreciated!

btw my phone is an HTC Legend HBOOT 1.02. I got it unlocked via htcdev site, i also used super tool v3 to unroot...worked somewhat.
then i did the stuff on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290841 [RECOVERY][S-ON][S-OFF][Unlocked] Clockwork 5.0.2.0 and 5.0.2.8 for Htc legend

Have you tried redownloading the su file, it may have gotten corrupted during download or transfer to the phone. http://dinc.does-it.net/SuperUser/SuperUser_3.1.1.zip and here is the md5 so you can make sure its not corrupt. http://dinc.does-it.net/SuperUser/SuperUser_3.1.1.zip.md5

But it could be because its not technically fot your phone its for the incredible. Cwm site says status 0 refers to an incompatible update binary. They say to replace the binary with a compatible one and try again.

 

[bluedevil493]

I am having trouble at step 27. When I hit update on the su binary it goes through the process and its green until the last line where it says "gaining root access... fail! Any ideas on how to fix this or what I could try?

This is the full log when I check for updates in superuser:

Downloading manifest... okay
Parsing manifest... okay
latest version = 3.1.1
Checking installed version = 3.1.1
Unpacking sutools... okay!
Checking current install path... /system/bin/su
Downloading new binary... okay!
Gaining root access... fail

Also when I installed BusyBox I was not given a notification from SuperUser to allow or deny permission to BusyBox.

 

[cmlusco]

I am having trouble at step 27. When I hit update on the su binary it goes through the process and its green until the last line where it says "gaining root access... fail! Any ideas on how to fix this or what I could try?

This is the full log when I check for updates in superuser:

Downloading manifest... okay
Parsing manifest... okay
latest version = 3.1.1
Checking installed version = 3.1.1
Unpacking sutools... okay!
Checking current install path... /system/bin/su
Downloading new binary... okay!
Gaining root access... fail

Also when I installed BusyBox I was not given a notification from SuperUser to allow or deny permission to BusyBox.

Try reflashing su again thru recovery.