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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zscomp:
You need to root your phone

Follow this guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] awes.fahmi:
Use VK Rom by JKay. It has an embedded recorder at the call screen and its good. Enjoy :D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Droidlover123:
Today i flashed jellyblast v3 which has its own custom kernal.before flashing i made a cwm backup....

But when i restored that backup it is still showing jellyblast custom kernal.so pls tell me how to revert back to stock one...

THANX.....i am currently on stock ddlf2.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Droidlover123:
Pls somebody upload stock kernal for ddlf2
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] anasdcool71:
After restoring the backup, it showed the name of the custom kernel? Backups restore kernel too, that's why it seems kinda weird.

Stock kernels, you can find them on doky73's or maroc-os's thread in the dev section. And stock kernel is one and same, it dosen't vary with DDLE1 or DDLF2, etc.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Droidlover123:
it shows:

2.6.35.7

kurotusugi@kuroz#18

do not know why that happened...

Pls can u post a link to kernal.thanx.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 and Duos 6102 Q&A, Help & Troubl] Deadly:
Actually it does. Not every time.. but it changes.. at least I have noticed when firmware updates are made...

hit thanks button! If above post helps u..

Sent from my GT-S6102
[HTC EVO 3D] Kiotofl:
Thanks for the tutorial, I'll let you know if I run into any issues. This will be the first time I root my Evo3D.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
OK, thanks and good luck!

I've updated the download file and the instructions to include the HTC USB drivers for those that don't have them installed already so everything should be in that file to get you to rooted and S-OFF.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] wwjoshdew:
O_o Thanks for this!
[HTC EVO 3D] rino655:
you sir, are a god among men. I will try this tonight and post the results.

Thanks!
[HTC EVO 3D] JohnnyBeGood113:
Just wanted to say big thank you for posting this guide!

I managed to get Hboot 1.58 S-off. I had 1 failure with JuopunutBear (wire trick) but after 2nd try I was able to succeed.

One advice I can give is to uninstall all drivers and HTC sync and install HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe from QADERSO\Root folder.

Everything else went smooth.

I've installed MeanROM ICS v2.6 | Sprint 2.89.651.2 but WiFi tether still does not work it seems like its matter of finding correct profile.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Thanks!

Are you using the WiFi Tether app that came with MeanROM ICS? What usually works with MeanROM ICS is the generic ICS profile with the routing fix checked. I believe the OP for MeanROM ICS says to check MSS clamping as well, but some of the newer versions of WiFi Tether don't have that option, and I've never needed it.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] JohnnyBeGood113:
I was trying to get WiFi Tether to work and it would not start correctly it would give "starting softap" and "WiFi interface" error is "Show Log".

I even uninstalled one that came with ROM and installed latest wifi_tether_v3_2-beta2.apk from their site and still would not work.

What worked for me is selecting Menu > Change Device-Profile and selecting Generic ICS/JB (wlan0) and of course selecting "MMS clamping" + "Routing fix"

I was just selecting "Generic" and it would not work.

Hope it helps out someone.
[HTC EVO 3D] mpgrimm2:
Nice guide Ramjet73. The way u put it together should get everyone around all the common errors.

I will definitely get this linked to my other threads as soon as I can.

Sent from my "Up all night, Sleep all day" EVO3D!
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Thanks ramjet73.

This is quite thorough. Very nice. :)

I'm almost wondering if I might be able to automate some of this somehow. Don't hold me to it though. I don't have a whole lot of time, but if I can, I'll see if I can maybe do that.

I guess then, that I'll "hold" the tenth spot just in case.

Thanks,

~co~

Edit: What in the world am I doing? Sorry ramjet73. Still if I come up with something, I'll message you.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
That would be great!

It would be nice to have it as automated as possible.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] closeone:
Beat me to my edit. :) I'll see if I can do something. but, no guarantees. :o

~co~

Edit: I reedited my edit and put back what was originally there, resulting in this post being edited from its original unedited state as well. <- Meta
[HTC EVO 3D] rosahas:
This is exactly what I was looking for

I am also looking to do my first root. I am still reading other posts. But, my main questions are around restoring the phone back to stock. I have Best Buy protection and if things go bad, I plan to use them and I am trying to figure out what steps I need to take to ensure I can potentially return back to the stock state before going down this path.

Overall, this is probably the simplest guide I have seen so far. Thanks again.. if you have any pointers for me around EVO 3D on Sprint, please let me know.

Thanks.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
If you choose the JuopunutBear bootloader as recommended and leave the bootloader status as ***LOCKED*** going back to complete stock is as easy as running the same 2.89.651.2 RUU.exe again, then issuing the "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" to set it back to radio S-ON. Verify that you have successfully flashed the stock 1.58 bootloader before issuing that command or you could brick the phone.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] wwjoshdew:
Question... If you have hboot 1.4, and run flash the latest update that has the new hboot, you ARE S-OFF, but it says LOCKED... Correct? Also, if you were to write the secure flag thing to S-ON, and you have the latest hboot, you are TRULY S-ON like you just bought your phone or never had S-OFF and updated, correct? Or is my hypothesis wrong?
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Yes, that's pretty much true, assuming you never HTC unlocked the phone or the S-OFF method you used returned the bootloader to the ***LOCKED*** status. I know the JBear method does just that, but I've never done the 1.4 downgrade. At one point mpgrimm2 said his bootloader showed ***UNLOCKED*** and I know he did the downgrade to hboot 1.4 to get S-OFF, so I'm not sure that method resets the bootloader S-OFF status.

In the worst case, if your bootloader is currently ***UNLOCKED*** and your radio is S-OFF, you could flash the RUU then set S-ON, root and do the wire trick to get the bootloader status back to ***LOCKED*** but that's a lot of work. OTOH, if you don't do that you can only set the bootloader status to ***RELOCKED*** with the "fastboot oem lock" command and that leaves a flag to HTC/Sprint that your phone was rooted. That's why I always recommend using a custom bootloader instead of HTC unlocking the stock bootloader if you are radio S-OFF and want to run more of the fastboot commands.

The custom bootloaders will usually mask the bootloader locked/unlocked status with a name like "Revolutionary" or "JuopunutBear" so the only way to verify what you currently have for your bootloader status is to flash a stock bootloader.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] mpgrimm2:
I had to reread the middle paragraph 3 times to understand it, but that's my understanding too. My hboot does say unlocked/relocked (RL) on it because I did the HTC Unlock at one point, without the Jbear for s-Off.

Sent from my "Up all night, Sleep all day" EVO3D!
[HTC EVO 3D] RevolcFael4:
I try to enter "fastboot devices" in the Quaderso\root directory, and it tells me

'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

What is the problem? I spent 2 hours on something that I will have problems with. Great.

Found out I had to move the files back to the Root Directory. Thanks for an awesome guide!
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Sounds like you are not in the the \quaderso\root directory when the "fastboot devices" command is being issued from the prompt. See tip #1 for Step2 to open a command prompt in the \qaderso\root directory.

You can also Start/Run "cmd" then use the "cd" command to navigate to the \qaderso\root directory. Either way you should issue a "dir" command from prompt to make sure the contents of the directory are as follows:

C:\tmp\QADERSO\Root>dir

Volume in drive C is OS

Volume Serial Number is 6CF6-A9B2

Directory of C:\tmp\QADERSO\Root

09/16/2012 03:07 AM <DIR> .

09/16/2012 03:07 AM <DIR> ..

09/05/2012 05:52 PM 7,047,406 4EXT_Recovery_Touch_v1.0.0.5_RC6.zip

05/07/2010 12:48 PM 578,611 adb.exe

05/07/2010 12:48 PM 96,256 AdbWinApi.dll

07/16/2011 01:05 PM 183,651 fastboot.exe

07/30/2011 10:31 AM 13,783,568 HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe

08/14/2012 05:09 PM 7,077,888 recovery.img

09/15/2012 05:53 PM 684,154 SuperSU-v0.96.zip

09/15/2012 06:48 PM 169,793 Unlock_Bootloader_Workflow.pdf

8 File(s) 29,621,327 bytes

2 Dir(s) 291,896,774,656 bytes free

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] wwjoshdew:
Yeah... I NEVER ONCE ran htc dev on my Evo 3D. The moment I bought it, I declined all updates and waited until THIS DAY happened, and S-OFF'd immediately. I knew better than to update, after knowing about all the trouble people had with the shift and the og evo. Updates are bad, mmmk?

Anyways, I S-OFF'd that night and never looked back... Still have 1.4, and don't feel like giving up my virginity to HTC.

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO CLICK ME!
[HTC EVO 3D] mpgrimm2:
Sorry for the delay.

No, S-Off is not required if you just want "rooted Stock". HTC Unlock, with a custom recovery (ie, 4ext) and flashing SuperUser or SuperSu (for root) as in my HTC Unlock Guide will get you what you want.

On a separate note,

our resident E3D guy, Ramjet73, picked up RC status!

Congrats!
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Now that you are S-OFF you should be able to flash all the ROM's for the CDMA Evo 3D, but the JBear 1.58.5858 hboot installed by the wire trick is only required for the stock ROM and Cool ICS, and only works with ICS Sense based ROM's. For all other ROM's you will need to downgrade to a lower numbered hboot and you can find instructions for doing that in this post. My recommendation would be to go with either the JBear GB 1.50.5050 or Engineering (ENG) 1.04 version.

The 1.09.00.0706 firmware is the version included in the Sprint ICS 2.89.651.2 build and the one you want.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] bondbeau:
I spent an hour and a half on the phone with Virgin's Tech Support today (who are also the people who process RMA's etc.) after initially being told by regular support that I would just have to exchange my phone since the OTA didn't come to my device.

The tech person 'pushed' an OTA to my phone which forced a reactivation and such, but when all was said and done the software versions remained unchanged. And by searching the net while I was on the line, they eventually did believe me that there war a 1.14xxx version out there, so at least he knew I wasn't being a crank. Really, I believe he did make all the effort within his ability and authority, which I appreciated.

So, he eventually exhausted the possibilities and opened a ticket to Virgin's corporate headquarters "of the highest priority" and said that I would hear back from someone in 24-72 hours.

If nothing comes of it (which I suspect is highly likely) I guess I'll have to decide whether to abandon the EVO V, or try something else from this forum as you've suggested.

Perhaps it's just the nature of the technology world, but it does become very frustrating to me that even completely stock devices so often simply do not work the way they are intended. And somehow, oddly, we've largely come to accept that, regardless of who makes them or what they cost.

Much thanks again, and I will post here if anything new comes of this...
[HTC EVO 3D] rancur3p1c:
if I become in charge at a cellphone manufacturer (it's actually possible I will) I guarantee that I will personally QA all software updates for our flagship phone. It makes a world of a difference having hardware GPU acceleration running, I don't know why they don't make sure it is. And things like this, updating the baseband will help the signal presumably, why can't they get it to work? Silly...
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
Thanks a lot. I just didn't want to be unsure about the whole thing. It would've been so frustrating to have found out if i required s off. Thanks again.
[HTC EVO 3D] tclemens:
wow had not noticed that congrats ramjet
[HTC EVO 3D] fn_noobee:
Thanks for your guide. It took quite a few tries (and a soft-bricked phone the first attempt) but I am finally S-OFF thanks to your guide and the instructions on the JBear site! Keep up the good work. Now to flash the new radio update patch. Fingers crossed...
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
Thanks so much. I've successfully rooted. I might s off tomorrow. Perfect guide. Explains everything that's needed. I did this in about 20 minutes. Thanks again!!!!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] bondbeau:
Well, Virgin Mobile has not responded to their own "highest priority" support ticket regarding my EVO V not receiving the OTA firmware update...the lack of which, as of yesterday, made the device essentially unusable for texts or phone calls because of numerous errors.

So since I need a functioning phone, I've now deactivated the EVO V and gone back to my Optimus V, and am trying to decide whether to jump all the hoops in updating the firmware myself with the help of the good XDA folks.

The goal: To first update the firmware to the very closest thing I can get to the elusive OTA it was supposed to receive automatically. Then, if successful to that extent, to decide where to go from there.

First question: Does the EVO V need to be 'currently' activated to be able to perform the steps in your guide Ramjet? It is still completely bone stock at the moment.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
No, the phone doesn't need to be activated to get root and S-OFF, but it will probably try to activate automatically after the wire trick. You can just cancel that and wait until the firmware from the OTA is flashed and you are ready to use the Evo V again.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] bondbeau:
Well, I decided to go for it, and as far as I can tell, it appears I am both rooted and S-OFF on the stock ROM! I just couldn't wait for Virgin's OTA update to fix the radio to show up (if ever).

Thanks much Ramjet for your very helpful guide! For a noob like myself, there were still a lot of questions that I thought maybe were at least somewhat unclear (such as I ended up downloading and running the JuopunutBear file called "Windows Ice Cream Sandwich (Virgin Mobile)" from unlimited.io's site instead of the one in your software package from the guide, because the one from your guide said "secondary backup failed" or some such when I ran it.) The one from unlimited.io went right through without error.

In any case, I eventually got it done. The only thing weird afterward was that nothing on the phone worked for maybe an hour or so. No data, calls, or texts went through. And then suddenly everything worked again, so I'm crossing my fingers it 'stays' working.

Ramjet, you said in your post below that after achieving root and S-Off, one can flash just the radio part of the OTA, and provided a link (though I'm too new to repost it here). I do see the zip file is downloadable from there, and it says it is flashable from the bootloader, but sadly, I do not know 'exactly' how to accomplish that?

It gets very confusing to me with everyone talking about which versions of hboot or ROM they're using, or so many other variables. I simply do not know what I can do and cannot do without damaging the phone yes?

1. For now, I think I just want to stay on the stock ROM, rooted and S-OFF, but to flash the radio firmware update to 1.09xxx instead of 1.06xxx. Because my primary goal, right now, is to improve radio reception and stop text message errors.

2. OR, if there is a way now to flash the entire Virgin OTA update that includes the radio firmware, I'd like to do that instead, but if I understood your previous remarks about that, that is not really possible in its entirety?

3. I'd also be perfectly happy to flash an entirely new ROM that already includes the radio firmware update, but every one I look at seems to introduce its own issues (as in some phone features like 3D don't work, or many many other problems). And I just don't know if I can properly handle such errors. Are there any ROMs I can use that you'd suggest do NOT create their own problems?

What steps now please? And thank you so very kindly...
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Any ROM you install will not include the radio firmware but you can flash the file I linked previously as a PG86IMG.zip using the instructions in this post for changing bootloaders. Even though that file contains radio firmware, it can be flashed the same way as a bootloader (hboot). Since you are staying on the stock ROM you can download the patches only file from this post and flash it with 4EXT recovery to apply the updates to the stock ROM and that should give you the benefit of the entire OTA. I would normally recommend flashing an RUU at the build level of the OTA, but there isn't one available yet.

Once you have the radio firmware updated to the OTA level and the stock ROM patched, you can flash another bootloader using that same post if you want to run GB or AOSP based ROM's, or just leave the JBear 1.57.5757 version that got installed as part of the wire trick procedure if you are planning to run only Sense based ICS ROM's including stock. The bootloader differences are explained in a thread linked from that post.

Good luck!

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
Hello again. I seem to have soft bricked my 3d. I booted into recovery and chose to restore from a back up. once finished i rebooted. My phone boots up, sits at the HTC logo screen then after about 20 seconds it reboots. I know how to fastboot and all that i just dont know what exactly to flash in order to get my phone running. any suggestions?
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
I don't mean to pick on you since I know other users do it as well, but please don't use the term "bricked" unless your phone is completely dead and you can't even power it on. What you are describing is a boot loop and it has nothing to do with bricking the phone.

What ROM are you attempting to flash and boot?

IIRC, you decided to stop after rooting and stay S-ON, so you probably don't have a bootable kernel installed and therefore can't use the 4EXT SmartFlash feature. Your best bet is to use the "fastboot boot recovery.img" command (where "recovery.img" is the name of your custom recovery) to start recovery in a mode where it can flash the boot partition (boot.img) then restore or re-flash whatever ROM you are trying to run. Make sure to disable SmartFlash (S-ON) in the 4EXT tools menu until you have a bootable kernel.

Things will be a lot easier for you if you take the next step and get S-OFF.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
I was trying to restore a rom. it is the stock ics. after the restore process i powered down and booted normally. now im getting bootloop. however i can still boot into recovery. i powered on the device with vol down and power and selsected fastboot. i opened the cmd in the qaderso and when i run the command fastboot devices nothing shows up like the phone isnt being recognized... could i be able to run the ruu and re root? much thanks!

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Is there anything that can maybe be done from recovery? i can flash somthing maybe?
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
No, if your kernel is not bootable you need to restore your backup after starting recovery via fastboot.

Remove/replace your battery, then get into fastboot by holding Power+VolumeDown until the bootloader starts. Connect the USB cable and make sure the bootloader shows "fastboot usb" and issue the "fastboot devices" command from the \QADERSO\Root directory to make sure you are connected, then try the fastboot command to boot into recovery from my prior post.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
i can get into recovery and all and even when i restore my rom the phone still bootloops. i just restored again im going to see if it boots up.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Are you getting into recovery using the fastboot command I gave you? Starting recovery from the bootloader menu isn't the same thing and won't work.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
i can get into recovery via vol down power. i am trying to get fastboot to recognize my device but it will not connect. the phone screen reads FASTBOOT USB but when i try to run a command nothing happens.

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okay ive gotten fastboot working. i did the comand and the phone just shut down and still has the problem. what exactly should i command.

edit:::okay i retyped the cammand and now im inside recovery. what now?

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how can i flash the boot.img now? i am in recovery.
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Once you have started recovery from the fastboot command, just run your restore again. This time the boot.img can be restored from recovery as long as you disable the SmartFlash (S-ON) feature in the 4EXT recovery tools menu.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
okay i disabled the smart flash under tools and now i am restoring.

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still nothing. still bootlooping. anything else?
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
And you started recovery using the fastboot command for the last restore? If so, I would suggest downloading a "stockish" ROM like MeanROM ICS or Common Sense and flash it using the same fastboot command to start recovery with SmartFlash/S-ON disabled in 4EXT. Note that you have to do that every time you enter 4EXT recovery since the config file maintained by the app controls whether or not that option is on at startup. You should also perform the "format all partitions except SD card" in the format/wipe menu of 4EXT before flashing the ROM.

Effectively, booting recovery with fastboot and disabling SmartFlash allows you to flash ROM's the way you could without fastboot if you were S-OFF.

If that doesn't work, it probably means relocking the bootloader and flashing the RUU.exe again just to make sure that everything is still OK with your phone.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
well i booted into recovery with fastboot boot recovery.img, disabled smartflash, restored to my stock rom, rebooted and theres still a loop. i did the same thing but then flashed a different version of the stock rom, and still bootlooping. how would i go about running the ruu if i cant get the phone to boot? can i just put something on the sd card that when i boot into bootloader is just picks up the file and restores everything? sorry for the noob questions i havent really been this deep into problems like these in a while. in the meantime im going to try and get that meanrom or commonsense to work. Thanks for all your help. also what is a super wipe? im reading that it helps with flashing?

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How woyuld i go about flashing the ruu after locking the bootloader??
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
See Step1 of this guide. And there are tips and references for Step1 towards the end of the OP and a link for troubleshooting info after Step3.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
the ruu tells me that the phone should be on for the process?
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
First tip for Step1:

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] AGoogleUser:
ahh yes... i am sorry. i just read that. thanks.

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okay i ran fastboot oem lock and the phone rebooted and now says ***RELOCKED*** then under that line it says ***security warning*** what does that mean?
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
That's normal. I think it may be because you have a custom recovery installed but I'm not sure. Just continue with the process.

I didn't realize that this was going to be a step by step thing so let's take it to private messaging (PM) since this discussion has already taken a lot of space in the thread and you've just started the guide.

ramjet73