I'm returning the phone and I had it rooted with Fresh 1.0 on it.
I tried flashing the 1.29 RUU but its giving me a "ERROR[140]: BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR"
I don't know what to do now.
I created an update.zip style update that was modeled after the RUU. However a few days later I realized that I didn't create the proper permissions for the /data folder, leaving it unwriteable from adb. If you are just returning your phone then it will work fine for you. However you will still need to manually push the old recovery image back.
PM me if you want the update.zip.
Or if you feel like you can pull it off you can try the goldcard method to remove the update that Sprint put on there to prevent you from using the RUU.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5163950&postcount=2
do u really have to reflash it to stock?i just exchanged 2 of my htc heroes 1 was rooted and flashed to fresh 1.0 and looked nothing like the original, the other one was just rooted. they replaced both of them very fast with no problems, but ive only had the phone a week, and it was obvious that it was a manufacturers defect. just wanna know a definite answer so i know in the future.
Edit- also the employee who was exchanging my phones for new ones was really nice, she let me keep my charger my other battery and my other sd card. she said they were just going to ship them back anyway. so i returned my phones for defect and got 2 extra sd cards,chargers,and batterys. ive always had good luck with sprint lol.
flipzmode said:
Or if you feel like you can pull it off you can try the goldcard method to remove the update that Sprint put on there to prevent you from using the RUU.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5163950&postcount=2
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I made the goldcard and it still wont flash back to stock. It says ERROR[140]: BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.
Please get the correct ROM Update Utility and try again.
Any ideas?
pntballer1413 said:
do u really have to reflash it to stock?i just exchanged 2 of my htc heroes 1 was rooted and flashed to fresh 1.0 and looked nothing like the original, the other one was just rooted. they replaced both of them very fast with no problems, but ive only had the phone a week, and it was obvious that it was a manufacturers defect. just wanna know a definite answer so i know in the future.
Edit- also the employee who was exchanging my phones for new ones was really nice, she let me keep my charger my other battery and my other sd card. she said they were just going to ship them back anyway. so i returned my phones for defect and got 2 extra sd cards,chargers,and batterys. ive always had good luck with sprint lol.
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A friend actually wants to buy it now and I wanted to put it back to stock. If I can't get this done, I may have to go back to bestbuy and try to get them to exchange one for me.
I never imagined that getting it back to stock would be so difficult.
I nandroid'd back to my stock shipped state. Is there any problem with leaving it rooted?
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I nandroid'd back to my stock shipped state. Is there any problem with leaving it rooted?
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Shouldnt be any problem at all. If you're doubting it just take it back and swap it out.
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okay i really need some help.
ive tried all the steps to recover my phone.
i get to the g1 screen when i power it up.
i can still get in to recovery menu.
ive tried to do a wipe.
please i need help.
ive also tried reinstalling rc29 with the original spl
but my radio is still 2_22_19_26I
PLEASE I NEED HELP!
or if there is a way that i can make it look like i never touched it then im still able to return it
so anything would help. links also
if you put the DREAIMG.nbh on your phone via bootloader it will reset the radio and spl to stock and everything else will be stock so that you can return the phone as though you never did anything to it
sweet. i guess i cant fix my phone. good thing i only got it 3 days ago.
whats a good thing to tell them when returning my phone?
G-Fetus6 said:
sweet. i guess i cant fix my phone. good thing i only got it 3 days ago.
whats a good thing to tell them when returning my phone?
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if your phone is not messed up then there is no reason to return it. if you keep it at stock rc29 then it will update to 1.5 firmware within 72 hours supposedly or if you still want root follow these steps in this thread. this is the probably the most reliable way to root your phone, and since it is not as automated as some of the other threads, you might learn some things about your phone in the process http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
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if your phone is not messed up then there is no reason to return it. if you keep it at stock rc29 then it will update to 1.5 firmware within 72 hours supposedly or if you still want root follow these steps in this thread. this is the probably the most reliable way to root your phone, and since it is not as automated as some of the other threads, you might learn some things about your phone in the process http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
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well the thing is im stuck at the G1 boot screen.
and cant get it to do anything after that.
so i might as well save me time and just return it tomorrow
G-Fetus6 said:
well the thing is im stuck at the G1 boot screen.
and cant get it to do anything after that.
so i might as well save me time and just return it tomorrow
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do you have a modified recovery image on the phone or were you able to get that far. if not just take it by where you got it and tell them you got an ota update then wouldn't boot up past the g1 screen
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do you have a modified recovery image on the phone or were you able to get that far. if not just take it by where you got it and tell them you got an ota update then wouldn't boot up past the g1 screen
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i got that it back to looking stock. so that is better if they try to do a hard reset for me.
yeah ill just tell them that an ota did it. cuz the phone is only 3 days old so im sure theyll say "oh yeah it must of been cupcake"
thanks
I am fairly new to rooting, but thanks to this great website and all your inputs I have learned so much over the past month.
I first rooted my G1 using the 1-click method which was great, but now my earpiece has blown I will be receiving a new handset next week. So I learned how to properly downgrade and install stock firmware for my old handset.
When I receive my new handset, I decided to take the plunge and root the traditional way for 2 reasons.. 1- to learn a different way and 2- its possible the security hole may be patched by then rendering the 1-click useless.
Anyway, after reading all the varying posts on how to downgrade/root/flash custom rom I am still left with a little confusion so hopefully someone can clear this up for me.
When actually rooting, I have seen methods to type various things in the telnet window, and another method to just rerun the .apk and select "protect root". What is the difference between these two methods? Do they both accomplish the same task of making a permanent root? One method actually said to download the JFreke rom to fix permissions to root, bo no other method mentioned that. Is that even necessary?
Also, I know that with Cyanogen Roms I do not really need to flash to "hard spl" if I decide to stay with cm roms, and cm recovery also allows the use of nandroid backup as well. The only other argument I have seen is that a hard spl would potentially allow someone to "unbrick" a bricked phone, but from everything I have read, most people have bricked trying to flash the hard spl.
If I am going to stay with cm roms, is there any real benefit to a hard spl other than increasing the brick chance? If I do upgrade the spl, am I correct that it would be done last, after a potential radio update (assuming my replacement handset does not come with the latest radio)?
Sorry for all the questions, and thanks in advance for your help.
This is the best guide I found.
I have done 4 phones using this method with only 2 minor differences.
1) I format the sd card using a microsd card reader instead of the phone.
2) when it says What To Do Now That You Have Root don't download any of the builds listed there, just download the latest cyan stable rom.
This is the guide hehe forgot to link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Oh and don't worry about swap or apps2sd partitions until after you root and verify that the rom is working with no problems, this will limit the number of variables in case you have troubles.
Thanks for the input.
So do you install hard spl according to that guide or do you skip that and just install the cm rom?
I love the auto apps2sd of cm roms. My phone is currently back on stock cupcake and I miss having all my apps on my 500mb ext 3 partition!
yea you need HardSPL. and use the recovery linked in the guide. Install cyan's recovery later.
This to me is the easiest step by step visual rooting process have done 3 G1 with full success. The newest G1 I had would not let me do the 1 click rooting method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOo2V9qCauc&feature=related
maybeoneday said:
This to me is the easiest step by step visual rooting process have done 3 G1 with full success. The newest G1 I had would not let me do the 1 click rooting method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOo2V9qCauc&feature=related
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Yeah I figured the new handset would most likely be patched. What was the result when you tried the 1-click. Would the new phone just not let you install the 1-click apk?
One thing I might add is you can't brick your phone by flashing Hardspl. It's the "danger" spl that has the potential of bricking your phone. Just follow the traditional guide that fingerlickin provided and your good to go.
Thanks for the help!
Anytime.......
Nope sure wouldn't just kept telling me install aborted. I don't no why. It could be some kind of patch. But I went to old faithfull step by step you tube install. Its really a nice video. You can pause the video and root your phone right along with guy doing the video. he also gives you links on the side bar to all files needed in the rooting process.
oh I'm sorry, I actually have one more question.
After flashing the HardSPl, would there ever be a reason to revert back to the original g1 spl? For instance if I had to send a phone back to t-mo, would they know that I am using the hardspl if all I did was reload the dreaimg.rbh rc-29 downgrade, or does that also reflash the spl back to the original?
Yes you would want to unroot phone before sending it to Tmobile, they do not warrenty a rooted phone
Unrooting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
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oh I'm sorry, I actually have one more question.
After flashing the HardSPl, would there ever be a reason to revert back to the original g1 spl? For instance if I had to send a phone back to t-mo, would they know that I am using the hardspl if all I did was reload the dreaimg.rbh rc-29 downgrade, or does that also reflash the spl back to the original?
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You shouldn't ever have to go back. T-mo would prolly never check it. Many people have sent there phones in with root access and different things installed. But if you do get paranoid and ever have to do it, just flash RC29 and it will put everything back to stock.
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Yes you would want to unroot phone before sending it to Tmobile, they do not warrenty a rooted phone
Unrooting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
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I turned my phone in with root access and custom splash screen and they didn't say anything. You don't want to make it known that you have done anything to it, but they won't check. When they are sent in they just hook it up with jtag and reflash everything.
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You shouldn't ever have to go back. T-mo would prolly never check it. Many people have sent there phones in with root access and different things installed. But if you do get paranoid and ever have to do it, just flash RC29 and it will put everything back to stock.
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Ok thanks that is what I figured. I actually just unrooted my phone yesterday from cyanogens rom, but I never flashed the SPL (did the 1-click thing originally), but now that I am going to do the original method I wanted to be sure.
I can't wait for my replacement phone to get here next week, because using the stock cupcake rom sux!
Anyway, thanks to everyone who gave their input and helped me learn even more about the process! You all rock!
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I turned my phone in with root access and custom splash screen and they didn't say anything. You don't want to make it known that you have done anything to it, but they won't check. When they are sent in they just hook it up with jtag and reflash everything.
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Really, thats music to my ears. I have often thought it would be a pain if something broke on the phone and I had to try to unroot it before I sent it in. uhhhh like a bricked phone
I work in an electronics repair company and I agree with supremeteam256 about sending your phone in rooted. Our techs don't check for tampering, they just plug it in and use the programs my department writes to test and reflash the devices. Of course our devices are much more complicated but the same NON-Communication between customer service and technicians still exist.
I think the biggest reason for this is because the techs just aren't interested in explaining the technical details to a customer service rep because all they ever get is "huh? wtf is a bootloader?"
Disclaimer:
I'm not claiming that HTC or TMobile will not check or notice that you have rooted your phone. Just illustrating that the repair techs don't want to talk to customer service anymore than you do and would rather just fix the phone and move on to the next one.
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I work in an electronics repair company and I agree with supremeteam256 about sending your phone in rooted. Our techs don't check for tampering, they just plug it in and use the programs my department writes to test and reflash the devices. Of course our devices are much more complicated but the same NON-Communication between customer service and technicians still exist.
I think the biggest reason for this is because the techs just aren't interested in explaining the technical details to a customer service rep because all they ever get is "huh? wtf is a bootloader?"
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Nice breakdown.
Anyone willing to help out? The solution should be a sticky!
Basically like a lot of you guys I flashed the 6.16.217 ICS. But I need to send in my phone for warranty. Is it possible to flash back to 6.13.219 or 6.13.215?
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Anyone willing to help out? The solution should be a sticky!
Basically like a lot of you guys I flashed the 6.16.217 ICS. But I need to send in my phone for warranty. Is it possible to flash back to 6.13.219 or 6.13.215?
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I don't believe there is a solution at this point in time. The phone will not allow an older boot image on for whatever reason. You might be better off just running SBF on the phone and sending it in without boot. They should repair it anyways and will flash the original software on it...
The actual reason is that the touchscreen went bad. So I could flash an SBF then it would look like just a dead phone, they'd flash it, then realize the touchscreen didnt work and authorize me a new Droid 4. That should do the trick! Thanks danifunker!
the power button broke on mine, i called and said it was bricked, they sent me a new one and i bricked the one to send it in
You have to send it in before you get a new one? With mine on Verizon, my phone would boot, but had lost SIM card function so I had no service, etc, and a new Sim card didn't work. I just took it in to the store, and the guy looked at it, tried a new Sim, and it didn't work, so he just ordered a new one to be shipped to me. It was running the ICS leak as well. I sent my old one back and didn't have any issues with VZW.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
There is now a retail/stock GB fastboot thanks to Eternity.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622256
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There is now a retail/stock GB fastboot thanks to Eternity.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622256
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Unfortunately these don't work with the ICS Leaks. There is no way back to GB from ICS. I'd just brick it with trying to roll it back and let them deal with it. They can't tell anything more. I'd first factory wipe it though before doing the soft brick on it though.
Hello guys. I switched to AT&T today because I am seriously out of Sprint coverage nowadays. I am expecting to get a bill for my m8 since I left before I had paid off my phone. When sending back my phone, is it neccessary to unroot, flash stock recovery, relock, etc?
I changed my CID number in order to remove the tampered signal, I think. So I have no idea which stock nandroid backup to download here. Also, half the links for unrooting instructions here are dead, most importantly the file needed for flashing to unroot. So basically, this is just a headache and I dont want to deal with it.
I sent sprint a rooted HTC EVO 4G back when I had broken the screen and they sent me another for insurance purposes. They never said anything.
So what should I do? Aren't they just going to put a new shell on it and make it look new and sell it to someone?
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Hello guys. I switched to AT&T today because I am seriously out of Sprint coverage nowadays. I am expecting to get a bill for my m8 since I left before I had paid off my phone. When sending back my phone, is it neccessary to unroot, flash stock recovery, relock, etc?
I changed my CID number in order to remove the tampered signal, I think. So I have no idea which stock nandroid backup to download here. Also, half the links for unrooting instructions here are dead, most importantly the file needed for flashing to unroot. So basically, this is just a headache and I dont want to deal with it.
I sent sprint a rooted HTC EVO 4G back when I had broken the screen and they sent me another for insurance purposes. They never said anything.
So what should I do? Aren't they just going to put a new shell on it and make it look new and sell it to someone?
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I guess that would depend on who receives it at the return center. Chances are that if they plan on resale they will wipe everything and run an RUU or the complete reset version of it if there is one (which most of us wish there was and we could get our hands on)
If that is the case you can always run the latest RUU on your own before sending it in.
So I messed up...Was trying to root and got stuck in a bootloop after flashing MAGISK, so I tried to just reflash the stock image...
I flashed successfully and got out of the bootloop but my wifi stopped working, so I rebooted and tried to reflash with the Pie image instead of oreo. For some reason I was getting errors so I got this bright idea to run the commands one by one in the Flash-All.bat.
But I still kept getting errors so I thought id reboot the bootloader and try again...thats where everything went south..Screen went black cant get to fastboot mode cant get to recovey..Pc recogizes the phone as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" Bashing my head finding old LG threads that cant work for the razer, I dont know what to do...Any suggestions? Or am i just completely screwed.
Bad news I'm afraid but that's a hard brick you've got there there's nothing you can do to fix that afaik.
Mate, try this link? I googled around for you and this came up. Worth a shot -- best case it fixes it, worst case you're back to square one.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/guide-fixing-hard-bricks-t3403868
w00tnezz said:
Mate, try this link? I googled around for you and this came up. Worth a shot -- best case it fixes it, worst case you're back to square one.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/guide-fixing-hard-bricks-t3403868
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I saw that link on my hunt but I can't use it because the files provided are specific to LG L70 devices, the Razer doesn't use TOT files for firmware they use I'm going file's and the software he provided (which I tried) can only flash tot files.
Thank you though!
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Bad news I'm afraid but that's a hard brick you've got there there's nothing you can do to fix that afaik.
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Yeah that's what I was afraid of. Well luckily I am able to get it replaced... maybe not the most honest way but I only had it for a day so I went to where I bought it and told them it stopped working and they are sending me a replacement. Since it doesn't actually turn on they can't see that I unlocked the bootloader.... however...I'm still gonna try to root it I'll be more careful but I need root! I've been rooted since way back in Evo4g and Galaxy S1 days I use allot of root features I just can't give up..it's why I dropped Samsungs and went to Razer since Samsung started locking bootloader's... anyway hope it goes better the second time around lol
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Yeah that's what I was afraid of. Well luckily I am able to get it replaced... maybe not the most honest way but I only had it for a day so I went to where I bought it and told them it stopped working and they are sending me a replacement. Since it doesn't actually turn on they can't see that I unlocked the bootloader.... however...I'm still gonna try to root it I'll be more careful but I need root! I've been rooted since way back in Evo4g and Galaxy S1 days I use allot of root features I just can't give up..it's why I dropped Samsungs and went to Razer since Samsung started locking bootloader's... anyway hope it goes better the second time around lol
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I'm glad you're getting it replaced! May I ask what factory image did you try to flash onto the device? Pie MR0 or MR1?
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I'm glad you're getting it replaced! May I ask what factory image did you try to flash onto the device? Pie MR0 or MR1?
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It was MR1 from March 2019 the 9.0 one.
Just an update got my replacement and rooted it! I didnt bother with the TWRP method I just patched my boot image with Magisk and BAM! anyway now im happy time to transfer over my old phone stuff and im good!
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I use allot of root features I just can't give up
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With the lack of Custom ROMs what root features are you looking for exactly?
I just ordered mine today and like you I've rooted all my past phones except my current LG G6 (which can't be hence my upgrade)
The only thing I usually really need root access for is the free tethering without AT&T knowing and I was able to do that to the G6 without root.
Not trying to be mean or anything I'm just curious.
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With the lack of Custom ROMs what root features are you looking for exactly?
I just ordered mine today and like you I've rooted all my past phones except my current LG G6 (which can't be hence my upgrade)
The only thing I usually really need root access for is the free tethering without AT&T knowing and I was able to do that to the G6 without root.
Not trying to be mean or anything I'm just curious.
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Block ads.
Overclock for speed
underclock for battery.
Remove bloatware
Change boot animations
Thats just some of many more...
A whole world of possibilities woth root beyond tetheting and roms.
Sorry for the months later answer i just saw this.
Btw i got this thing replaced and rooted the second time around just fine im very happy now