Yea, unless you need to flash the RUU for some other reason you should be able to go for S-OFF using Harmonia with the wire trick.
Good luck!
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Good luck!
ramjet73
Going for s-off using harmonia is what got me in this mess, either that or the fact that I have windows 7 64-bit. I might still flash the ruu and try the wire trick from there. At least now I have a little more know-how. Seriously, thanks a lot to all of you guys for helping me out. You really saved my ass on this one.
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recovery should be easily enuff accessed if he re- unlocks. However the hboot in the ota will need to be the same as the one in the ruu you're trying to flash.
If the ota hboot is newer,the ruu will pass the main version check,but still fail the hboot check.
The newer phones are unfortunately too smart to be tricked into downgrading hboot.
Just fyi, both the original release and the update contain hboot 1.57. I think the update just updated the radio and possibly something else.
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I would still run the RUU if you wan to try s-off again. I know it works for people on Harmony, but you had issues, so I would carefully follow all of the instructions to the letter.
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OK so I thought I was in the clear, but Im not. I flashed the file in recovery to make my image 1.000.000.0, so that I could run the ruu. Now Im getting:
ERROR [155]: Unknown error
It gives me the option to start te recovery process, so I did that, it told me the recovery was successful, I run the ruu again, and get the same error code 155. Im so freakin close. What do I need to flash to get this thing going, now that I can access recdovery, it should be a piece of cake, right? The ruu recognizes my image as 1.000.000.0, so that part worked, im lost again!
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That's exactly the problem! See you're learning. You answered your own question before I even got here!
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That's exactly the problem! See you're learning. You answered your own question before I even got here!
All you guys are so lucky I dont know where you live, or you would be receiving the gayest non-gay kiss of your life. You have no idea how excited I am to see this stock rom on my phone right now.
HAHA
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All you guys are so lucky I dont know where you live, or you would be receiving the gayest non-gay kiss of your life. You have no idea how excited I am to see this stock rom on my phone right now.
Ahahahahaha! Can I have a beer instead?
Glad you are back in action!!!
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Ahahahahaha! Can I have a beer instead?
Glad you are back in action!!!
Hell, I think I might crack a beer after that. CHEERS!
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need to relock your boot loader to run the ruu.
Edit: oops dint see there were more posts
Edit: oops dint see there were more posts
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All you guys are so lucky I dont know where you live, or you would be receiving the gayest non-gay kiss of your life. You have no idea how excited I am to see this stock rom on my phone right now.
Lol glad you are sorted
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I am quite aware where it came from,my daily driver Phone is a rezound
Yes it will effectively change the main version ,but it will not allow you to downgrade hboot,so ruus containing older hboots are off limits. Its main use is to set the main version so that hboot flashing of PxxxIMG files on s on phones is less fustrating
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Has anybody had any experience using controlbear with win 7 x64. Thats what I have. It says on unlimited.io website that you can't s-off with a pc running 64 bit. Is there a way around it if thats the case?
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They say the 64 bit drivers are unreliable. While some have used their tools on 64 bit and had great success,they dont reccomemd them for a reason. IMO you would be better off to borrow a 32 bit machine.
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As I said.. lots have had success. But do not expect them to help you on IRC if you have prollems and haven't followed directions exactly,right bhoff
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Well, as brian706 pointed out, the hboot was not changed with the Evo V OTA so the good news is that down leveling the mainver will let Evo V users that are S-ON and have flashed the OTA install the only RUU.exe currently available.I am quite aware where it came from,my daily driver Phone is a rezound
Yes it will effectively change the main version ,but it will not allow you to downgrade hboot,so ruus containing older hboots are off limits. Its main use is to set the main version so that hboot flashing of PxxxIMG files on s on phones is less fustrating
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I did the wire trick on two Evo 3D's using my 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate PC before they put that restriction on their website. The drivers I used aren't specifically 64 bit (at the time I was using the ones installed by HTC Sync) and if you start controlbear.exe on a 64 bit Windows system you will see that it has a "*32" next to it in the process list of Windows task manager, meaning it is running in 32 bit mode. Nonetheless, unlimited.io has taken the position that it's not supported so you can't go to them for help if it doesn't work.
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I think I'm going to be hard headed and try it again, because I dont know anybody with a 32 bit. Everybody seems to have 64 bit. And besides, I know how to fix it now, thanks to you guys!
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Sounds like his best solution would be burn a 32bit Mint or Ubuntu disk and run it from there.
Unetbootin and a flash drive would be optimal.
Then go into bios with, the flash drive in the usb port, and set it as the first boot drive.
Click try after it loads.
Unetbootin and a flash drive would be optimal.
Then go into bios with, the flash drive in the usb port, and set it as the first boot drive.
Click try after it loads.
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So, I decided to stay away from the s-off for now. Just downloaded 4EXT recovery, and am using MidnightRom. So far, I like it, much faster and smoother than stock, and my signal bars seem to be more stable as well. Maybe I don't even need to s-off, thanks to 4ext!
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