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Root UPdated and now Bootloader is locked HELP

scotty85 said:
awsome! almost forgot- pickup your cigar and blazer from the table :cool:

heres a direct link:
Patched (hard)hboot 1.04 for s-off/eng/fastboot - xda-developers

download the thunderbolt_patched_hboot.zip and open it up. inside youll find a PG05IMG file,and a text doccument. read the "readme" doccument so youll have the md5 sum. move the PG05IMG to the root of your sd card(make sure you delete your radio PG file first) and then check it on your phone with scary aliens AFV or with astro file manager(i prefer scary aliens app) and then boot into hboot and let it flash. make 100% sure you double and triple check the md5 because this is a new bootloader,and if you eff up the bootloader,your phone is a brick :eek:

what this does is prevent you from becoming s-on. there is some more discussion of it here: http://androidforums.com/thunderbolt-all-things-root/387290-permanent-s-off-here.html

let me know if you have any questions. if you had had this before,you wouldnt have had to go thru all this to re-root,lol. IMO its a great piece of mind.
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I download the patched hboot and checked md5 but it doesn't match the readme file....
 
the md5 listed on the readme file is the md5 for the PG05IMG on the inside. if you were checking the md5 of the entire download,it will indeed be a different md5.

if you are comparing the md5 of the download to the md5 yeahha listed for the download(Thunderbolt_Permanent_Patched_hboot.zip a562f759307722304e612a3fc269d324),and found it to be correct,it should be fine...

have you flashed it allready? if so please report back,you can never be too cautious with hboot flashing,especially when it involves the bootloader
 
chavo60 said:
I think it flashed... went super fast. How can i confirm?
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just reboot your phone,boot back into hboot. you should see a pink unlocked at the top... let it try and update the bootloader again,and it should say "bypassed" instead of flashin it. let it boot again,and this time take the PG05IMG file off the sd :)

there are some pics on the other thread,if you havent looked at it :)
 
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