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Root [How To] Root 2.3.4/downgrade and Get S-off

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Put me in the list for people who successfully got my phone rooted!

Aside from my stupidy that added about seven hours to this (I thought my SD Card was internal memory for like three hours and used Unrevoked 3.32 at the beginning for almost two hours before I realized it), these instructions are pretty straight-forward for a noob such as myself and just wanted to say thanks again so...

Thank you! Also for the responses to my questions!
 
I used this thread to achieve root back in October. I was able to try various ROMs, from CM7 to MIUI to newer ICS alphas. I wanted to say thanks again.

For fear of messing with what I set up, I didn't get around to achieving S-Off until today. The instructions were, once again, easy to follow.

The downgrade was very easy. Just as noted as a possibility, the Unrevoked 3.32 did not, in the end get S-off. I had to flash the S-off tool in recovery, which was no problem.

Thanks!
 
noobROOTer said:
Okay guys, thank you soooo much for your time and patience, but finally after deleting and redownloading 23 different times, I finally got my phone rooted with s-off. You guys are all heroes in my book, thank you much!!
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way to go! do you have any idea what you may have done to finally get it working? you will be a hero to anyone with the same issue if your experiecnce can help figure it out!

Maverick812 said:
Put me in the list for people who successfully got my phone rooted!

Aside from my stupidy that added about seven hours to this (I thought my SD Card was internal memory for like three hours and used Unrevoked 3.32 at the beginning for almost two hours before I realized it), these instructions are pretty straight-forward for a noob such as myself and just wanted to say thanks again so...

Thank you! Also for the responses to my questions!
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zerbrechen said:
I used this thread to achieve root back in October. I was able to try various ROMs, from CM7 to MIUI to newer ICS alphas. I wanted to say thanks again.

For fear of messing with what I set up, I didn't get around to achieving S-Off until today. The instructions were, once again, easy to follow.

The downgrade was very easy. Just as noted as a possibility, the Unrevoked 3.32 did not, in the end get S-off. I had to flash the S-off tool in recovery, which was no problem.

Thanks!
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awsome! 3 more incredibles saved from the gloom and doom of s-on :D
 
I'm wondering why adb commands dont work for me anymore.

I even tired the simple "cd c:mini-adb_inc" in command prompt, and it tells me that the specified path isnt found. It's still there on my pc. It there a problem with my command prompt?

I want to try to push for apk files around and i don't have the slightest idea what i need to enter to be able to use those adb commands...
 
soystat said:
I'm wondering why adb commands dont work for me anymore.

I even tired the simple "cd c:mini-adb_inc" in command prompt, and it tells me that the specified path isnt found. It's still there on my pc. It there a problem with my command prompt?

I want to try to push for apk files around and i don't have the slightest idea what i need to enter to be able to use those adb commands...
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You should be typing
Code: 
cd C:\mini-adb_inc

If you are still getting it as an unknown path, first try navigating to that path using explorer, if it doesn't come up then the folder doesn't exist anymore.

If you are able to find the folder with explorer, look in the address bar, and double check the path with what you are typing into the command prompt. (it has to match exactly)
Sometimes you have to navigate the command prompt all the way back to the root of the C:\ first by typing
Code: 
cd ..
until the prompt just says C:\

So basically, if you are getting the unknown path error, you are typing something wrong.

This may also be helpful for you:
http://androidforums.com/faqs/443072-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-a.html
 
sdrawkcab25 said:
You should be typing
Code: 
cd C:\mini-adb_inc

If you are still getting it as an unknown path, first try navigating to that path using explorer, if it doesn't come up then the folder doesn't exist anymore.

If you are able to find the folder with explorer, look in the address bar, and double check the path with what you are typing into the command prompt. (it has to match exactly)
Sometimes you have to navigate the command prompt all the way back to the root of the C:\ first by typing
Code: 
cd ..
until the prompt just says C:\

So basically, if you are getting the unknown path error, you are typing something wrong.

This may also be helpful for you:
http://androidforums.com/faqs/443072-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-a.html
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wow, it's funny, cause I could have sworn that "cd c:mini-adb_inc" worked when i rooted my phone at the beginning of the year, but yeah, you're right. That forward-slash did it.
 
When using the Windows command prompt (Win7), I had the same problem changing to the adb directory. I tried everything. Strangely, I simply renamed the folder to MINI and using the command:

cd C:\MINI

I was able to continue. Anyone know why I had to do that?
 
zerbrechen said:
When using the Windows command prompt (Win7), I had the same problem changing to the adb directory. I tried everything. Strangely, I simply renamed the folder to MINI and using the command:

cd C:\MINI

I was able to continue. Anyone know why I had to do that?
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Someone else had a similar problem, where they couldn't use the "dash (-)" and had to rename their folder also, I've personally never had the problem on windows 7, but it's not unheard of for Windows to get confused.
 
Gentlement - I have downgraded, rooted and s-offed my phone. I have even installed the customer unrevoked splash screen. Thank you for this!

HTC Droid Incredible / Verizon.
 
Need some help! I followed everything just as it said and when it get's to hboot, it is saying PB31IMG.zip not found. I checked it with a file manager on the phone and it is saying .zip. At the hboot It's saying like 3 other things but it's to fast for me to read.


Edit: Got it working. Not sure what was going on but I ran through everything one more time and it worked! Thanks!
 
Duke82ish said:
Need some help! I followed everything just as it said and when it get's to hboot, it is saying PB31IMG.zip not found. I checked it with a file manager on the phone and it is saying .zip. At the hboot It's saying like 3 other things but it's to fast for me to read.
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The file is on the ROOT of the SD card and the SD card is formatted to FAT32?
 
-make sure sd card is FAT32
-make sure PB31IMG is not on phone memory

if PB31IMG is truly named correctly,then those 2 tings are the onlyu reason it wont be found.
 
Duke82ish said:
Need some help! I followed everything just as it said and when it get's to hboot, it is saying PB31IMG.zip not found. I checked it with a file manager on the phone and it is saying .zip. At the hboot It's saying like 3 other things but it's to fast for me to read.


Edit: Got it working. Not sure what was going on but I ran through everything one more time and it worked! Thanks!
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A few things I encountered:

  • Case sensitive...pb31img.zip is not PB31IMG.zip is not PB31IMG.ZIP
  • If you downloaded your zip file on windows, the file could very well have been named PB31IMG.ZIP.ZIP. This is unlikely since you used file manager, so really this is for the benefit of others reading this thread.
  • Mountpoints in *nix are odd. Case in point, I can sometimes pull my SD card, do an LS in the terminal and it will list files as being mounted at /sdcard when the sdcard is not in the phone. Using your boot utility, unmount the sd card then remount the sd card, then the files should be visible.
  • Clear the caches (dalvik, adb) and user data.
  • Make sure you've fully formatted your SD card as FAT32 with 4KB sectors. A quick format won't do it.
After I got my phone rooted (yay), I tried to install cyanogenmod 7 nightly, and nothing worked right. I did stable, and everything worked wrong (didn't even have phone). Once I did a full format, cleared my caches, mounted my card and flashed the ruu, my phone worked like a champ. (took me another 10 minutes to figure out that I had to then flash the google apps.)


I love my new phone. I would have rooted it a long time ago if I knew it could be this good.
 
copied wrong adb push flash_image /data/local/

that is what I am putting inbtw, lol, i saw in a prior post and I am in the dayton area ;-)
 
I have tried it with and wthout the space between image and / no luck

i also tried downloading abd again and overwriting files....no luck with that either
 
I think its a simple reporting error. Try and continue on and see if the other commands and downgrade are successful

(Obviously it didnt take 76044 sexnds to flash :eek: )
 
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