yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi warstoke. First, have you pulled the battery out of your phone? The battery cannot be in while doing the downgrade. Make sure that you're holding the Vol - button as you're plugging in the phone. After it recognizes the device and flashes once, it'll ask you to unplug the phone, press enter, and repeat the process again. After that's done, pressing enter should take you back to the main menu.

If this is not working, ensure that the phone is truly bricked. Insert the battery, and wait about 8 seconds. Press the power button. If the screen powers on, you aren't bricked unfortunately. If you get a solid dim light (or no light at all), you should be able to unbrick the device.

If that doesn't work, pull out the battery and put it back in. Now connect the phone up to the AC adapter (not a USB port on your computer) and let it charge for a few hours.

I'm sure that the phone is fine. Because you got your phone from somewhere else, Sprint will likely not service it. I wouldn't worry about that at this point though. :)

I hope this helps,

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] warstoke:
ok im gonna try again from the live cd and see what floats
[HTC EVO 3D] warstoke:
ok tried again to no luck im gonna try taking it to the sprint store and act like i have no idea whats going on see if they can reflash it lol i called sprint and asked them what to do i did a update and now my phone wont start so they got a note on my account to repair or replace the phone
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
I would guess that the phone will still work. There are some cases where the CD won't work on some hardware. The solution has been to simply use a different computer. It may still simply be a case of the battery being dead, and/or, the phone isn't bricked. Now, if you bricked a phone that was S-OFF already, then it's permabricked (without jtagging the phone).

Just a note, if the phone wasn't already on the account, I'm not sure if they will do anything. I'm not sure what to say there.

Sorry,

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] mongolx:
I had same problem it was due to not having bricked device! Its all great now :)!

I'm sure that the phone is fine. Because you got your phone from somewhere else, Sprint will likely not service it. Just redo all steps. I wouldn't worry about that at this point though. :)
[HTC EVO 3D] warstoke:
well took to sprint lol they did try and flash it said the usb port was borked so they are going to get me a replacement i told them i bought it as a refurbished unit but they said according to the imei its still under the warrenty im not gonna complain with getting a new unit hopefully in better condition
[HTC EVO 3D] lowetax:
hit quote and you got thanked !

bring your refurb back here when you get it
[HTC EVO 3D] warstoke:
i def will once they get it in called to check before work today turns out they have a back order so 3 -5 days so hopefully monday maybe thursday
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Whoops. Hit quote and you got thanked!* :silly:

So. I'm kind of assuming you know each other? ;p

Gentleman lowetax might have gotten that thanks on purpose.

~co~

*I know that you were on your HP Touchpad, but check out the XDA 2013 Template on your computer (Template changer is at the bottom of the page in the lower left corner). The Thanks button is on the other side of the screen. ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] lowetax:
i don't know what all that means, but at the time i hit the wrong button.

nonetheless, i just wanted him to come back here, so the toolkit could set his phone free !
[HTC EVO 3D] Waffle97slayer:
I have run into a REAL problem. I am already at the downgrade part. Phone is bricked *red dim light* . I checked if my phone would be recognized and it was. Now I am in Step 1 ... Waiting for device... And my phone isn't being recognized ! I plug my phone in while holding down the volume button and nothing ! Please help :'(
[HTC EVO 3D] Astrikz:
Try putting your battery back on and see if your are able to enter into bootloader. If you can than you are not bricked.
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Thank you iTzLOLtrain. :) Waffle97slayer has contacted me over PM and I am working with him to get this solved.

~co~

Edit: By the way, you brought up an excellent point that I didn't think about specifically asking. Thanks! :)
[HTC EVO 3D] Waffle97slayer:
Nope no bootloader , I actually bricked it on my first try. My W7 Laptop recognizes my phone when I plug it in when holding down the volume button

Edit : Never Mind I got it :) thanks to closeone
[HTC EVO 3D] J3STUR:
I would really appreciate if someone could help me, I have search the treads already and couldn't find what i was looking for.

Okay so should I try this if I dont have a HTC charger, I lost mine the other day and have been using a different one and Im pretty sure it doesnt put as much power out and takes a little longer to charge, it is a blackberry charger and it seperates like the HTC cable to usb connector. And also Will happen if its not enough power?
[HTC EVO 3D] Waffle97slayer:
I used a Motorolla charger *Ecomoto* and it worked . If its not enough power then, when u take of the battery and leave it with just USB, it might not stay on . (Atleast that's what I think )
[HTC EVO 3D] J3STUR:
Okay thanks yeah I just read something like that, i just dont wanna dont want it to mess up anything if it goes off so ill keep reading, I think its fine to try but im going thru alot of these pages, i figure it out.
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi J3STUR.

You may always do it with a battery pull. You're just aiming to pull the battery at the right time instead of the power cable. That has been quite successful for people who have had problems with the phone turning off right as it started the update. I've also recommended it to people that have trouble getting it to work by pulling the power cord. :)

~co~

Edit: It's also fine to try it with another power adapter. It may still work fine. I know though, that your computer's USB port doesn't put out enough electricity to keep it on.
[HTC EVO 3D] patelkedar91:
Thanks for this!

Sorry stupid question, but how does the USB boot straight from win7?

There are no onscreen instructions for me =/.

I feel stupid -- can't even get past #4.
[HTC EVO 3D] Waffle97slayer:
Turn the computer off then on and go to the boot menu . You should see in the bottom something like F12:Boot Menu or vice versa in the bortom of the screen . Once in the boot menu , boot your USB. Hope i helped , I also had the same problem !
[HTC EVO 3D] simpleman4:
bricked 3d freezes linux

Maybe this is the right place to ask this. I tried downgrading my hboot from the method on htcevohacks and now when i connect it to ubuntu it freezes my linux box and i have to hard reset the computer. any help or is my phone worthless now?
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
This should be fine. There were some cases where the graphical environment in Ubuntu might crash. Your phone is fine. The video posted at HTCEVOHacks differs quite a bit from how the downgrade process works now.

My guess is that you ran the 'emmc_recover' utility and let the image flash to your phone. If that's the case, go ahead, stick in the battery, and power the unit on (hold vol - and press power). If your HBOOT version is 1.40, you're ready to run Revolutionary and flash your custom recovery.

If this isn't the case, I would recommend that you take a look at either Unknownforce's thread or Post #1, and #3 in this thread. Find where you left off, and pick up from here. If the phone is still in a bricked state, go ahead and either download the latest version of Unknownforce's tool, or the Toolkit live CD in this post. Then proceed with the unbricking process again.

I hope this helps, :)

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] patelkedar91:
Alright -- got pretty far.

When I run Revolutionary though, I get "invalid beta key... aborting" everytime. Been doing it several times and I made sure the caps were right and everything.

I did Linux key first about 5-10 times... then did Windows key a couple times.

Still no go. Any help?
[HTC EVO 3D] Astrikz:
Thet keys are very case sensitive.

I had a key with a lower case L and ended up realizing it was a capital i.

same with 0 and O just make sure everything is the same.
[HTC EVO 3D] patelkedar91:
Whoops, I'm stupid. Forgot the revolutionary tool gives you a serial number.

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 04:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:29 PM ----------

So I went through all the steps!

Thanks LOLtrain and waffleslayer for answering my questions.

Thanks a BUNCH to closeone.-- I thought I was a goner when I got my phone back from HTC Repair with 1.5 S-ON (it was 1.4 S-ON when I sent it to them). You're a lifesaver... now I can go study abroad with much better battery life, and ICS :laugh: .

I can't believe something so easy and simple was made. So big thumbs up to unknownforce and closeone for bringing something so user friendly to the table. :good:
[HTC EVO 3D] simpleman4:
looks like it was ubuntu's graphical interface. so much for trusting ubuntu in a time of need. off to the next step.

---------- Post added at 10:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:40 AM ----------

Actually I dont remember what to do next. i have the phone downgraded to hboot 1.4 with S-ON any tips on what to do next?
[HTC EVO 3D] Derangedpony:
May be a stupid question, but what will the tool say if it recognizes my phone. When I boot it up not it saids something like "Com port 2.1:1.5......" but wont let me type anything. Am I good, just want to make sure before I brick. Thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Thanks Waffle97slayer and iTzLOLtrain for helping out. ;)

--

You should be able to proceed to step 28 of the guide in post #3. :) If you don't run Windows, you can use the zipped 1.13 RUU. Just make sure not to rerun the 2.17 RUU again.

Honestly, I'm not sure what you're seeing. Did you get the Blue Toolkit menu?

When the Toolkit starts booting, it should start say to press enter or wait five seconds. Then, it proceeds to go through a short loading process. Finally, you'll be presented with the HBOOT Downgrade Toolkit Menu. Top left of the screen should say the name of the name and version number. Top right should say EVO 3D CDMA (SHOOTER).

If you haven't seen any of that, it's likely that you need to change your boot options to boot from the CD or USB Flash Drive. If you're using a USB flash drive, I would recommend that you burn a CD instead.

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] Derangedpony:
Yeah, I'm not sure whats up with this computer. It goes to the black screen that saids enter and then it goes to the blue menus screen but at the bottom it saids "hub 2-105:1.0: activate --> -28"

Oh well, tried it on my other computer and works fine, Thanks!
[HTC EVO 3D] warstoke:
well finaly got my new phone but for somereason the cd isnt reconizing my phone on any of the usb ports so i guess im gonna have to try a diff computer
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi Warstoke, make sure that the phone is booted up into the bootloader in FASTBOOT USB mode. While the phone is powered off, hold down the Vol - and Power buttons. Then press the power button again to go into FASTBOOT mode.

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] Waffle97slayer:
Yea I also had the same problem , in my friends phone . But its now fixed . Didn't know u had to go to fastboot !
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
I see that you edited your post, Waffle97slayer. I'll just fix mine as well. ;)

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] Waffle97slayer:
Yea , I didn't read what he wrote -_-'. Lol but I came here because my friends phone wasn't being recognized . Thanks for helping :). Time to downgrade again !
[HTC EVO 3D] brad2taylor:
Should I be able to un-root my phone using the method in this video after using the downgrade toolkit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsJ3klORqM

Anybody have a better suggestion?

I appreciate the help!
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi brad2taylor, are you trying to turn S-ON again?

If so, you should be able to run the 2.17 RUU.

After doing so, run the command.

fastboot oem writesecureflag 3

Make sure to run the stock RUU first, or you will not be able to turn on the phone. (Revolutionary HBOOT)

And you'll get a Security Error - Which won't let you use the phone until an RUU is run.

If you're just taking it in for warranty purposes, you shouldn't even need to do this (Sprint doesn't care). If you're selling the phone, then that would work to restore it back to stock.

If you don't have to do this, don't. ;)

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] brad2taylor:
I heard they dont care and dropped it off at a store today.. I double checked with a guy on the floor and he said the same.. but the tech called back an hour later saying he wouldnt work on it.. so here I am, returning to s-on :(

But thanks for the quick reply brutha! And thanks again for the toolkit!

Success! S-on never looked so good :/ I'll be back tomorrow to s-off yet again.. luckily I've had great luck bricking the last two times I've done this! Third then first try ;)
[HTC EVO 3D] austin420:
zomg. guys tell me if im a ****ing idiot, but i swear i just found the best way to do the perma brick part of the method. i tried to do this about 35 times, with no luck. i just cant get the charger to pull and go back in easily or quickly. i seem to stumble at this part every time. finally, i got, by pure chance. everything was good.

a few days later, i was going to do a friend of mines 3d, and tried about 6 times. i was about to give up, but thought about this! instead of dealing with a tiny little usb port and a brand new cable(witch seemed extra stiff), i decied to pull the charger from the wall instead.

hot damn, it was easy. i got it on the first try. way easier than trying to jam a usb cable back in there with a quikness.

thanks for all this, and i hope my tip helps someone.
[HTC EVO 3D] G.Newton:
I bricked first time, but I also was clumsy when putting the usb plug in. I missed it like twice lol. Maybe each phone is different.
[HTC EVO 3D] warstoke:
oki dokie well it detects it under status check

i haven't bricked it yet but under serial number it gives me a bunch of "?" marks is that normal

this was a lot less confusing on my old evo shift
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Well. I thought I remember fixing that. In my testing, when it displayed the serial number as a bunch of question marks, the phone wasn't completely through its boot phase before something was pulled from it. Is it normal? Well, a better question in this case is. Is there anything wrong? No. I apologize for the confusion. It's all cosmetic. You're safe to continue. Displaying the serial number was a little bonus that I threw in there because it was useful for some people, and it was a simple thing to do. If the phone reboots, it's done enough for me to say that the test went successfully.

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] chaos67731:
Well, I have been trying this for about 2 hours and cant get it to brick...

BUT the phone will not turn on, every time I go to boot the phone it goes in to bootloader and has an error'..

Is there a way to just the phone back to working seeing that I have to leave soon?
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi chaos67731,

What kind of error are you getting?

Yes, you can restore the phone back to a running state by rerunning the 2.17 RUU all the way through from the bootloader.

Sorry,

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] chaos67731:
When I go to turn the phone on it says this at the top..

I think its going rite to the bootloader.

*** LOCHED ***

*** Security Warning ***

So far I have unpluged the phone about 30 times and cant get it to really brick, when I plug the phone back in the dim red light blincks..

And I have no idea on how to fix it from this point??
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
If it's loading the RUU, then nothing is wrong. It's about the timing. You may want to try it by pulling the battery instead of the cable, some people have reported better luck doing that.

Loading the RUU all the way through will get rid of that error. It will not affect the bricking process if you don't load it however.

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] GWashington:
Hey closeone,

You answered a couple of questions for me a while back when I rooted my 3VO using your tools. Thanks again!

I am about to root another 3VO & my memory is failing & have thus confused myself! Your directions include links to a 2.17 RUU & a 1.13 exe. Unknownforce also includes attachments to a 2.17 RUU, a 1.13 exe, & a "downgrade" file, however his 2.17 RUU file is much smaller than yours, which indicates that it is not the same as yours.

I am having trouble remember whether I need to use both your files, & his files, or just yours, considering I will be running your toolkit? Does that make sense?

Thanks in advance!
[HTC EVO 3D] chaos67731:
This worked!

Hey closeone,

Thanks for the help, after about 100 pulls I was able to get the 3D bricked! :)

To anyone trying this, really bricking the Evo is the hardest part. Other than bricking everything else is just as laid out in the steps.

Thanks for this great information! Now I just have to do it again on another EVO 3D.
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Wonderful! Never been so satisfied to actually brick a phone before, I bet. ;)

I remember your name from the thread, GWashington. ;) I wouldn't worry too much about where you got the RUU from, as long as it's the correct version. If you still have the files from before, then you can use those. You say that his 2.17 RUU is much smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a small difference between them, but if there is a large size difference between them, then you may want to just go through and redownload the RUU.

I used this one.

If you're using the HBOOT Downgrade Toolkit, you'll only need the two RUUs, the toolkit, and (optionally (but recommended) the 2.17 firmware (not RUU) upgrade from here.

Make sure to check that you have the latest version of the Toolkit, as there have been various fixes. Also, make sure to check out the guides in post #3 for the full up-to-date guide. :)

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] chaos67731:
:) Out of all the phones I have had I have never had to try so hard to brick a phone! lol
[HTC EVO 3D] GWashington:
Thanks for the reply! Just to clarify, I wasn't concerned w/ where I got the RUU, I just wanted to be sure that your RUU & Unknowns were the same, & that I your steps to use that RUU & his were one in the same, & not two separate steps. I thought this was the case, but was having a brain cramp of sorts, overly thought, & confused myself :D

I am using most of the files from my earlier rooting experience, just not the one(s) named "PG86IMG", as I have more than 1 file with that name & am not clear on which is which! Safer to re-download.

In regards to the size of his attached file being much smaller in size...have a look for yourself:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1039641&d=1336092504

This is Unknown's 2.17 ZIP image...I think? :confused:

Thanks again for your support...above & beyond sir!
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
That zip contains just the 1.40 bootloader. It isn't a full RUU. The one I linked you to is the 2.17 RUU. Make sure you have both the full 2.17 RUU and the 1.13 executable RUU.

Also, I'm not sure which version of the Toolkit you have, but likely you have an older version. I would recommend that you pick up the latest because the instructions will line up best with the newest.

Yup. Don't overthink this. That's when things you don't want to happen, happen. :laugh:

Thanks for the complement. I'm glad I can be of service. ;)

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] Merckle:
Taking it that this wouldnt fix the VM Virus? I searched on here but only gave me 3 results that really didnt answer if it would.
[HTC EVO 3D] GWashington:
I have your newest version, I think... 0.8.2

This is not important, but if you're so inclined, I'm curious to know why you use the full RUU & Unknown does not? :)

I am off to root yet another device. Wish me well & thanks again!
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Contacted and talked about this.

Unknownforce uses the full RUU as well.

The downgrade.zip and PG86IMG.zip containing the 1.40.0000 hboot image are at the bottom of his thread. RUUs aren't the only things that can be flashed from PG86IMG zip files. :)

Trust me, if there was a smaller one, we'd both be using it. ;)

That smaller zip file won't even flash without S-OFF (and custom HBOOT IIRC). The phone does a signature check to ensure that the file is from HTC.

I wish you the best,

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] a.k.a.jus.cuz:
burning toolkit on cd w/ mac

im trying to burn the live cd on my mac using disk utility but the burn keeps failing saying unable to verify disk data. its is the newest version of the iso by the way. anyone know about this?
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi a.k.a.jus.cuz.

I can't give you too much support on the Mac side of things because I don't have one, but there are a few things you should make sure about.

You may have gotten a bad download. You may want to download it again.

Check out this tutorial by lpjzfan2005.

If things are still giving you trouble, I'd suggest you burn the CD on a different computer, or if not, try to turn off Disc Verification. I can't exactly recommend that, as the disc might be actually burning bad.

Best of luck,

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] scott420:
I'm 1.40 and trying to run the rev and it just says waiting for device any help plz n ty
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi scott420,

Make sure that you are booted up into Android, and that you have USB debugging checked (Settings > Applications > Developer Options > USB Debugging). If you're running it from the CD, that should get you there. If you're running it from Windows, you'll also need the Fastboot drivers. You may have already installed these.

It will appear to fail when you run it. Just reboot the phone and run Revolutionary again (3-4 times). When you see the -Revolutionary- banner in the bootloader, you're done. More instructions are in the third post (if needed). ;)

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] vestaviajag:
Hey all. This was remarkably easy, as I have some knowledge and thought this was going to be too big/hard for me. But it turned out easier than I thought (although the bricking part was tricky, just took some time).

I finally bricked the device. I went through the steps on the CD, and it said SUCCESS. Now when I try to boot the phone for the next step, it goes straight to bootloader.

I checked the phone, the Volume - button seems ok, but for some reason, no matter if I'm on AC power or battery power, every time I try to start the phone, it goes straight to bootloader.

I was 1.50 S-Off when I started this process, and now reading 1.40 S-On.\

Has any one experienced this "bootloader boot loop" issue?

Update: I am re running the 2.17 zip in attempts to kind of start over a few steps back, and now as it's updating it says I'm back to 1.50 S-On. We'll see how it goes.
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Hi vestaviajag,

I'm glad that the initial steps went smoothly for you.

There were a few more steps to the process. You needed to run Revolutionary for S-OFF, flash a recovery image, and a custom ROM. Instructions are in post #3 of this thread. Also, with all due respect, I don't believe that you could have been S-OFF when you started this. If you had bricked your phone with S-OFF, it would not have recovered.

By flashing the 2.17 RUU, I'm sorry, but you'll have to start over from the beginning. That upgraded your phone back to HBOOT 1.50. To downgrade, you'll have to brick again. Just make absolutely certain that you are S-ON before you brick.

Sorry,

~co~
[HTC EVO 3D] vestaviajag:
When reading the instructions, it said after it was finished downgrading to 1.40 to unplug and reboot as to run the 1.13 RUU.exe

Was I suppose to do all of that immediately after downgrading my Hboot?

Instructions are in post #3 of this thread.

I was S-OFF and HBoot 1.40 when I started all of this today. Reason being somewhere along the way something got messed up and I couldn't flash AOSP ROMS (they gave me bootloop). I tried everything and after 2 weeks of searching/asking, the only suggestion I hadn't tried was upgrading, S-ON, then downgrading.

Before starting your steps I upgraded to 1.50 and relocked my phone. Before I started these steps I was S-ON and 1.50.

I anticipated this, which is ok. I was stuck as after I downgraded the HBoot, it only sent me to bootloader, no matter what. I figured my battery died in the process and it didn't do everything it was suppose to.