luxor99

I tried to root my Aria which has just been updated with the latest Froyo ROM from the HTC site. At the end of the process I get "is your firmware too new error"

I tried the tips on this thread, like trying unrevoked 3.21,etc, but nothing works.

With the upgrade to Froyo, my HBOOT is now 1.02.000

So can this be rooted or not?

JB in AZ

Welcome to the forums! Moved your post to the HTC Aria forum where others with the same phone will be better able to assist you.

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Last edited by JB in AZ; March 4th, 2011 at 11:15 AM.

tpbklake

Yeah, no with that version of HBOOT on your Aria you will not be able to root it.

luxor99

That's what I feared.

Is there any way to "downgrade"...go back to a lower version of HBOOT?

tpbklake

If you use a 2.1 RUU to downgrade, it does downgrade the actual ROM, but it does not over write the HBOOT loader with the older version, so you would then be left with a non-rootable Android 2.1 Aria...

markbc

I had this same problem.
So far I have found no solution.
I think we need to wait for someone to update Unrevoked
in a way that will work for the Froyo implementation on HTC Aria ;-(
Not sure if or when that could occur --but I hope it does.

tpbklake

This is not unique to the Aria, there are a lot of HTC devices that have been affected. I know the Unrevoked team ran into this with the Wildfire Froyo update, but to date no one has been able to find a new rootable exploit in the new HTC HBOOT loader, so until an exploit has been discovered, there is nothing that the Unrevoke team can use to 'fix' their program.

markbc

Thanks --good point, it is a bigger problem than just for the HTC Aria. The wider scope of the problem -more models getting the new (locked down) HTC HBOOT Loader in updates might have one good point if it results in a fix for other HTC models which might be applicable to HTC Arias as well.

luke_farmer

with not being able to root my Aria in 2.2 , is the BOOTLOADER stored on the phone or SD CARD??? what if i copied all data from my SD CARD to my PC, then erased my SD CARD and RE-FORMATTED the SD CARD? would that do anything once the SD CARD is RE-FORMATTED??

markbc

Hi Luke

I don't think that can work --I think the bootloader is located in the Cell phone as a component of the ROM. With or without the SD Card you still have a bootloader to start the system ,;-( (sorry that may not be very technical -but I have never heard of linking the ability to boot with SD card -except that the SD card can hold the new rom and data for the phone when upgrading. . . .
hope this helps!
Mark