Need factory EVO.

[Chimb]

Hey everybody. I got my Evo from a friend that had it for Christmas. He was big into ROMs and I would like to get my complete factory setup back, no root, nothing. And something that can be updated through Sprint to the latest Android. This would be a huge help. I have a "stock" ROM right now but it won't update to the latest Android.

[Captain_Throwback]

Originally Posted by KIOWA69

What hboot does it have? You are going to have to give some more information, if he got it this past Christmas then it should have came with Gingerbread on it which means he rooted it with Revolutionary, we'll be able to get you back on a stock ROM but to my knowledge you will still be able to see that it was rooted if they (Sprint Repair if you had to get it serviced) if they really look at the phone.

Not so. There are methods for getting a Revolutionary rooted device back to full stock.

[KIOWA69]

Originally Posted by Captain_Throwback

Not so. There are methods for getting a Revolutionary rooted device back to full stock.

Yeah you can put a stock ROM back on it, but to my knowledge you'll still see that it was once rooted with Revolutionary, just like it was with Unrevoked, might be wrong but I haven't read anything differently.

[Captain_Throwback]

Originally Posted by KIOWA69

Yeah you can put a stock ROM back on it, but to my knowledge you'll still see that it was once rooted with Revolutionary, just like it was with Unrevoked, might be wrong but I haven't read anything differently.

I'm not sure what you mean. With unrevoked you can re-lock the NAND and flash a stock ROM so that it doesn't appear that the device was ever unlocked/rooted. You can do the same with Revolutionary. I can point you in the direction of these methods, if you'd like.

[KIOWA69]

What I'm saying is that even if you run a stock RUU and get everything back to stock you'll see that it says Revolutionary at the top of the bootloader, at least that's how it was the last time I checked, could have found a way around it by now, but I haven't researched it because I don't need to return my phone to stock, and don't plan on it, and to tell the truth I wouldn't even worry about it even if I had to take my phone in for service, I would just run a stock RUU and be done with it.

[Captain_Throwback]

Originally Posted by KIOWA69

What I'm saying is that even if you run a stock RUU and get everything back to stock you'll see that it says Revolutionary at the top of the bootloader, at least that's how it was the last time I checked, could have found a way around it by now, but I haven't researched it because I don't need to return my phone to stock, and don't plan on it, and to tell the truth I wouldn't even worry about it even if I had to take my phone in for service, I would just run a stock RUU and be done with it.

I understand what you're saying, and I'm telling you there is a way to remove it. I know, because I'm the one that figured out how to do it. And that was quite a while ago.

EDIT: See here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1#post16949711

[KIOWA69]

Ok I thought I recognized your name from XDA lol, my apologies I thought that you didn't understand / I wasn't typing what I meant, actually I had read that before now that you brought it up but I forgot that I read that, thanks for setting me straight.