unrevoked forever

[tool2269]

Originally Posted by Journeyjeans

The key with Unrevoked is not to be part of the first wave, lol!

LOL yeah aint that the truth. sucks to be the early adopter guinea pigs

[MrDSL]

Originally Posted by Journeyjeans

Yes it does. If Google wasn't so closed source, our phones would ship with Root instead of us worrying about bricking our phones trying to get it.

RIGHT!! Because Google is responisble for HTC,Motorola what have you locking their devices out right? As with global warming Google is at fault there to..

Well said buddy!

[Journeyjeans]

Originally Posted by MrDSL

RIGHT!! Because Google is responisble for HTC,Motorola what have you locking their devices out right? As with global warming Google is at fault there to..

Well said buddy!

Hmmm, IIRC, even though HTC made Google's G1 and Nexus One handsets, Google had their fingerprints all over them.....and they didn't come Rooted.

I guess the "Google Experience" doesn't include flashing ROMs, lol!

[clockcycle]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

looks like the roots coming back soon

http://unrevoked.com/forever

ps you do this you can never bring your phone into a repair shop for repairs as there is no way to reverse this and they can tell

According to the wiki; As with all hacks to your phone's firmware, setting your phone S-OFF will void the warranty on your phone. Do not take your phone in for support until you have set your phone S-ON and removed all custom modifications. Damaging your phone by flashing a custom bootloader, or other unusual combinations of firmware, is not covered under warranty; although your carrier may not check to see if your phone was modified, please be honest.

I have not done this mod yet, but it seems that it is reversible

From the FAQ; How can this be removed or undone if I need to take my phone in for service?
We have not yet developed a tool to reset the phone to S-ON. In the future, we may create one; in the interim, you should not rely on the existence of such a tool.

..but not as of yet.. lol

In addition, also stated in the Wiki;

Supported Devices

At this time, the following devices are supported.

HTC Droid Incredible, running radio baseband versions:
1.00.03.04.06
2.05.00.06.11
2.07.00.07.16
2.15.00.07.28
HTC EVO 4G, running radio baseband versions:
1.39.00.04.26
2.05.00.06.10
2.15.00.07.28 <-- Only way to get here is to have taken xx.3 oxx.6 OTA.

So this *should* mean it is compatible with the current OTA. Except that I am not sure if the unrevoked3 recovery reflash tool works on OTA updated phones.. They make it seems so.. I guess we will have to try it..

[clockcycle]

For reference, I am on stock non-rooted with xx.3 OTA updated with the full RUU to xx.6 OTA.

Ok, this is what I just did, i will update this as I try very step and give you guys the results.

In following the current insctructions, I downloaded the files linked in the wiki.

Since I am not rooted and do not have a custom recovery, it is required I download and install unrevoked3 and have it reflash it's custom recovery to proceed with the unrevoked forever mod.

PROGRESS:
1. I just did this and it failed "Main Version is older!".. it may have been that I already had some *.img files on my sd, so I am gonna delete them and try unrevoked3 again.
2. I missed a step, dangerous thing not paying attention may = brick. Deleted the files on my sdcard, this time I scrolled down to Hboot USB, it had me install the drivers from their site. But it doesn't seem to have pushed any files over to flash..
3. Tried again, unrevoked3 went through it thing this time and rebooted the phone. Waiting for reboot, the unrevoked3 tool comes back with "Failed to flash recovery image".

So just for ships and kibbles, I have actually gone step by step and confirmed, it either requires you have been rooted or able to root using unrevoked3 (3.1) or other method and that it does not work on a stock non-rooted phone with OTA 2.2 update installed. Until there is a 2.2 compatible root solution. (note; no phones were hurt during this testing)

EDIT: Reading further on other sites, comments of others that have tried seem to be mixed or not having enough details. As it stands looks like it does not work on non-rooted phones already on 2.2. One user claims to have been on 0.79 HBoot and it worked for him, but he does not mention if he was already rooted.

NOTE: "...the exploit cannot yet be applied to the 2.2 OTA." source http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750273

[reekotubbs]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

no it states use unrevoked 3 to root, nothing says if you updated to the .6 updates stock you can't do this

unrevoked instructions have always been so-so

It's funny because every body reads the same stuff, but some people only pull what they want from it.

It clearly states that you have to be rooted first before you can apply unrevoked forever, it also states that you can use unrevoked3 to accomplish root. Everyone on this site knows that you could not root using unrevoked3 on 2.2 before they came out with unrevoked forever, so what makes you think that it will all of a sudden work just because they released unrevoked forever.

They are clearly stating that if you have a rooted version of 2.2, in which case you would have had to root using one of the many methods on 1.47 before going up to 2.2 (unrevoked3, toast root 1 and 2, etc), that you can use unrevoked forever to apply the s-off exploit.

As clockcycle has just stated in the previous post his attempt failed. And I don't think its because he had another .img file on his SD, its for the same reason that unrevoked3 failed for every user that has did the OTA of 2.2 and was stuck there with only a hope that someone would root OTA 2.2.

If you feel I am wrong update to OTA 2.2 stock unrooted and try for yourself and see if you, me or the instructions are misleading.

[reekotubbs]

Originally Posted by clockcycle

For reference, I am on stock non-rooted with xx.3 OTA updated with the full RUU to xx.6 OTA.

Ok, this is what I just did, i will update this as I try very step and give you guys the results.

In following the current insctructions, I downloaded the files linked in the wiki.

Since I am not rooted and do not have a custom recovery, it is required I download and install unrevoked3 and have it reflash it's custom recovery to proceed with the unrevoked forever mod.

PROGRESS:
1. I just did this and it failed.. it may have been that I already had some *.img files on my sd, so I am gonna delete them and try unrevoked3 again.
2. I missed a step, dangerous thing not paying attention may = brick. Deleted the files on my sdcard, this time I scrolled down to Hboot USB, it had me install the drivers from their site. But it doesn't seem to have pushed any files over to flash..
3. Tried again, unrevoked3 went through it thing this time and rebooted the phone. Waiting for reboot, the unrevoked3 tool comes back with "Failed to flash recovery image".

So just for ships and kibbles, I have actually gone step by step and confirmed, it either requires you have been rooted or able to root using unrevoked3 (3.1) and that it does not work on a stock non-rooted phone with OTA 2.2 update installed. Until there is a 2.2 compatible root solution. (note; not phones were hurt during this testing)

EDIT: Reading further on other sites, comments of others that have tried seem to be mixed or not having enough details. As it stands looks like it does not work on non-rooted phones already on 2.2. One user claims to have been on 0.79 HBoot and it worked for him, but he does not mention if he was already rooted.

NOTE: "...the exploit cannot yet be applied to the 2.2 OTA." source http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750273

If you use unrevoked3 to root 1.47, I believe you stay on hboot 0.79, so those users most likely used that method, other methods used to root used hboot 0.76, which also changed PRI from 1.40 (stock) to 1.34 (eng).

I'm still wondering if anyone who had stock 1.47 with PRI 1.40, did the unrevoked forever, if so did the PRI stay at 1.40 or change to something new? or does anyone know how to email the unrevoked team to ask them this question?

[urvi]

The more i read the more I seem to get confused with all this. This is where I am right now.

Did unrevoked 1,2 and 3 (since i got the phone).
Flashed the fixed 1.47 unrevoked OTA.
Still on 2.1.

As I understand it:
I flash unrevoked forever.
Flash stock recovery (have to find it still.)
Flash the 2.2 OTA.
Then flash a custom recovery (Clock or Amon).

Is it that simple or am I missing something?

[freeza]

Originally Posted by clockcycle

2.15.00.07.28 <-- Only way to get here is to have taken xx.3 oxx.6 OTA.

So this *should* mean it is compatible with the current OTA. Except that I am not sure if the unrevoked3 recovery reflash tool works on OTA updated phones.. They make it seems so.. I guess we will have to try it..

Nah, there is a flashable radio on XDA that will give you this baseband.

I currently have it while still running software 1.32 lol

[freeza]

Originally Posted by urvi

The more i read the more I seem to get confused with all this. This is where I am right now.

Did unrevoked 1,2 and 3 (since i got the phone).
Flashed the fixed 1.47 unrevoked OTA.
Still on 2.1.

As I understand it:
I flash unrevoked forever.
Flash stock recovery (have to find it still.)
Flash the 2.2 OTA.
Then flash a custom recovery (Clock or Amon).

Is it that simple or am I missing something?

PRETTY MUCH, except if you are going to flash an OTA compiled update through recovery, no need to flash a stock recovery. You only need to flash a stock recovery if you are going to use an official RUU OR perform the OTA update from within android settings>system updates>HTC software update