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Root Thunderbolt Root/Unroot Thread

Wondering if anyone can help me.

I rooted my Thunderbolt using Revolutionary, and followed instructions to unroot today. I flashed the ruu in Hboot after changing the name to PG05IMG. Removed the PG05IMG form my SD card. Put the hboot only zip on there AFTER verifying the MD5 sums. Changed the name to PG05IMG. When I go to flash it in Hboot, it says "bypassed" then asks me to reboot system.

What did I do wrong? I am now unrooted, but still have S-off. Any help would be great.
 
You need to follow the instructions in the OP to remove the revolutionary hboot, you can't flash another hboot on top of it as it will block the flash
 
Yeahha said:
Do you still have the revolutionary hboot on the phone?
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im going to guess yes ;)

namoroman said:
When I go to flash it in Hboot, it says "bypassed" then asks me to reboot system.

What did I do wrong? I am now unrooted, but still have S-off. Any help would be great.
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you are not doing anything wrong,that is exactly how the "permanent" s-off revolutionary hboot is supposed to work. it protects you from accidentally becoming unrooted if you were to flash a RUU,or accept an OTA. no matter what hboot you flash,it will remain.

first question... why do you want to unroot? if you are simply "tired of being rooted" id strongly suggest you stop now. flashing the 1.70.605.0 firmware unrooted you and made you stock,wich exception of the hboot.

messing with your bootloader is risky business,as a bad flash,or something goes wrong,your phone is a paperweight,as its the bootloaders job to load everything else on the phone. the revolutionary hboot WILL NOT make your phone act any differently than if it had the stock hboot. it will not affect your ability to accept an OTA- you will recieve future updates with no issue.

taking it a step further,its safer,as an s-off hboot will let you flash older firmware if you want,making for a wider variety of things to flash if you were to become "soft bricked" and need to flash new firmware. it also has extended fastboot commands,wich could offer a way back to a working phone in other bricked situations.

however,if you need stock s-on for warranty purposes,youll have to carefully follow the dirctions in the first post to get rig of the revolutionary s-off hboot.

youll need to download the tbolt file,and enter some commands in "fastboot" to unlock the permanent hboot and replace it with one that you can overwrite with the "hboot only" file.
 
Thanks for the response. I started by simply wanting to unroot, now I've been having other issues with it and may need to replace the device altogether for warranty purposes. I am not sure what to do. I suppose I could wait and see if I do indeed need to warranty replace the tbolt. Is S-Off something they really look for?
 
They should but who knows Verizon Begins Charging Full Price of Warranty Phones if Rooted? (Updated) - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Update: Our friends at Verizon saw this post and wanted to reach out to clarify everything immediately. First up, is the fact that their policy says absolutely nothing about checking for root on devices. When a phone is received, a phone is checked for three things and that definitely isn’t one of them. They check to see if the box that the device was sent in is damaged, if the outside of the phone looks awful, and if it powers on – satisfy all of those and they move on to the next phone. So basically, these reports of being charged for a rooted phone simply mean that these people were sending in garbage phone with defects.
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Turns out after getting off the phone with Verizon I am going to be returning it for a warranty replacement. Do I take the chance on them discovering it has an S-Off bootloader, or risk permanently bricking it by possible messing up the instructions on the OP? Decisions, decisions.
 
All on you namoroman, if they reject the return for having it been rooted you will owe full price for the refirb, if it bricks then hopefully they wouldn't be able to tell WTF happened, if you unroot and have no issue then all is well. I know I would try to unroot but I gave up on warranty a long time ago
 
I am unrooted, all I have left is the S-off bootloader. If all they do is power the phone on and look, there will be no superuser, as the ROM is no longer rooted. They would have to hold volume down and power to boot into recovery to see the Revolutionary at the top and the S-off.
 
Correct, I don't know how much they actually look, per the update on droidlife I linked/quoted you wouldn't have an issue. I personally wouldn't want to risk it
 
Correct, I wouldn't want to risk sending in a phone and hoping they don't check as I wouldn't want to pay out of my pocket for a phone
 
Got ya. Well thanks for the help/advice. I'm about to attempt removing the permanent HBoot. Quick question, it doesn't specifically say to connect the phone to the computer via the cable in the instructions... is that just a given? Do I perform these steps with the phone hooked up to the computer?

*Edit* I got it. I now have stock Hboot and am going to flash to return to S-On. Almost there.
 
Yeahha said:
Correct, I wouldn't want to risk sending in a phone and hoping they don't check as I wouldn't want to pay out of my pocket for a phone
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agreed. i wouldnt risk it,either. if you have the insurance,you may just have to turn it into a warranty claim and pay the deductable if they try and charge you full price. if not,then youll have to pay full price.

if you got one coming,go ahead and do the steps. if you brick it,they wont have a clue why. but honestly,its not that hard,or that dangerous IF youre careful. i give that lecture so people wont eff with it un-neccessarily ;)
 
Fully 100% stock unrooted S-On Tbolt now. Thank you so much for the help. And thanks for writing the awesome step-by-step scotty85. No worries now!
 
I turned my tbolt into darkside with Revolutionary for a little while. I played with ROMs. I flashed the stock recovery. It was fine so I was trying to boot it into recovery for flashing other recovery ROMs. White screen stuck, I pulled the battery and put it back then boot it into recovery again. It still stuck. I pulled the battery again and put it back then boot it into recovery. It worked. Is it normal? If I'm tired of push the buttons, how do I use with ADB command with fastboot recovery without push the buttons? I know most of ROMs has fastboot recovery feature but not stock recovery.
 
if im understanding correctly,you can get into recovery with adb by making sure the device is recognized(type adb devices) then typing adb reboot recovery

however,if you mean the stock recovery as in the recovery that comes onthe phone,there wont be much you can do with it. it has no user interfce whatsoever,and pretty much is only good for manipulaitng the stock firmware,by the stock firmware. if that makes sense.

to flash roms,kernels,etc.,you will need a custom recovery such as amon_ra,clockwork,or twrp
 
scotty85 said:
if im understanding correctly,you can get into recovery with adb by making sure the device is recognized(type adb devices) then typing adb reboot recovery

however,if you mean the stock recovery as in the recovery that comes onthe phone,there wont be much you can do with it. it has no user interfce whatsoever,and pretty much is only good for manipulaitng the stock firmware,by the stock firmware. if that makes sense.

to flash roms,kernels,etc.,you will need a custom recovery such as amon_ra,clockwork,or twrp
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ADB command works well thanks. I ask you guys does Revolutionary CWM good as other CWMs? If I don't like Revolutionary CWM, how do I replace it with CWM, RZR. or TWRP? I do really need CWM UI on stock recovery instead of ADB command.
 
What clockwork did revolutionary install? If its still 4.0.x.x then there are newer ones,it would be to your advantage to change it.

You can find recoveries in pg05img format at the link above(radios,recoveries,hboot). Download the one you want to use,rename it PG05IMG and flash it in hboot. As with any hboot flash,make sure you delete or rename PG05IMG after you finish the flash :)
 
Depends what you mean by reactivate. You will have a working phone, but you will have to resign into google, and reset everything up
 
scotty85 said:
Depends what you mean by reactivate. You will have a working phone, but you will have to resign into google, and reset everything up
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I wasn't talking about the setup process, I meant like entering your Verizon passcode to get service. When you pull it out of the box in the mail you have to "activate" your phone. Thanks for clarifying.
 
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