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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fltinstructor:
SouL Shadow it's a winner!!! I ran off the rabid racun, ran an ruu to 1.15 Hboot, rooted again just to try this out. With a Unbutu Live CD, I only clicked on about four commands to select yes or enter to begin the script. It's smoth as butter!! This has truly evolved to be extremely user friendly. :D

Thanks to you developers again and again!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] benny3:
This has to be the best thread yet. Awsome support with everyone willing to help and share with each other. Salute to you all...!!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sslbaron:
I think I'm having the same issue. Where can I get the 32-bit libs for Ubuntu?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] corcgaigh:
Agreed.

Great tool and like you said when needed the support has been there for those who need it. This ran flawlessly for me but I still check in most days just in case I might be able to lend a hand andto get the good vibe feeling from the success stories and thread in general
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] YoungCorruptionV2.0:
Why isn't this stickied??? Dev support is good and everyone is nice and friendly. Donations will come soon :) you guys deserve it and aren't mean like some other soff devs
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] noXcape:
Wow.... you realize u still have to lazypanda after the downgrade...lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] YoungCorruptionV2.0:
The person in charge of lazypanda were nice. I donated to that person only
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sslbaron:
H*ly sh*t!!! I have been trying to get s-off for about three days now. This worked perfectly using the ver 0.3.3 zip file. :victory:

Thank you for this easy to use HBoot downgrader. I knew it should work for my phone because it loved getting stuck in the QHSUSB mode using DirtyRacun. It would not get past that point. This seemed a whole ton easier too. Thanks again! :D

I figured out that the only way to get Unbuntu to work correctly on my computer was to uninstall the 64-bit edition and reinstall the 32-bit. It was a pain in the butt, but this worked like a champ once I did it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fltinstructor:
You didn't have to install Ubuntu on your computer. You can run it from a CD by clicking on the "Try it". It works the same. Glad you got it working. ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
Hey guys, I'm back from my trip to Canada.

HUGE thanks to both closeone and SoulShadow for picking up the slack while I was gone. I was trying to field questions on Saturday via Tapatalk while in the back of a car going to Canada and stopped in a coffee shop to upload a fix (which apparently didn't fix the problem).

My blood pressure thanks these guys.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Aside from the infinite loop, the biggest problem was detecting the drive with dmesg output. I noticed some versions have a space between the first "[" and the timestamp. The extra sed gets rid of that first "["

Big thanks to another user who showed me his dmesg output.

-SLS-
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
I bricked my EVO LTE today the phone is not responding and not being detected is there anyway to get it back up and running. any help is appreciated.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
Hey I got your PM.

A little background on this one. He ran the script looking for SuperCID only but didn't use the -s command line option.

Normally not a problem except he's already 1.12 and S-OFF.

So, what needs to be done now is to run the tool with the -d option to see if the phone will show its partitions. Otherwise the outlook is grim.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Any idea how far in the process it got?

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
So I run the script with the -d? I never got to the command line option.

I just rebooted to the recovery and rebooted and never came back up not responding.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Not quite sure I understand what happened.

Are you saying you just rebooted your phone and never actually ran the script?

If that's what happened then what were you doing before you rebooted?

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
i ran the script the script rebooted the phone to the recovery did what it had to do i guess then it rebooted the phone and the phone never came back up working. It has no power and I can't unbrick it. I was hope you guys may know something that I can do to get to the bootloader or something so I can unbrick it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Ah, ok.

First make sure your battery is charged.

If your not sure then hook it up to the wall charger for 30-60 min.

Now connect it to the computer.

Next, hold the power button for at least 30 seconds.

Now in the terminal run:

jet -u

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
Ok I'll give it a shot thanks but I have no power light. I know when it happen I had around 90% battery life.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
You won't see the power LED.

If you think it's charged enough then just skip over that step.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
I did an no luck.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] noXcape:
I had the same thing happen. I just payed the 35 dollar replacement fee :(
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
Shadow I just PM you.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Just woke up, saw your pm.

Your phone IS showing up. Which version of jet are you using?

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
I used 3.3b.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Can you send me the logfile.txt. either attach it in a pm or send me a pm with a pastebin link.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] corcgaigh:
Best of luck chubs.

Love your Rom
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chubbzlou:
Thanks Hope we could get it up and running. I have faith in these guys.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
I'll be repackaging whatever changed SLS had made into the zip in the OP tonight to avoid any version confusion.

Work has me tied up at the moment.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Hopefully. Based on the dmesg output, the phone is showing up, but it's not enumerating the partitions. It's gonna take some testing. Unfortunately I can't do that while working. (I drive a tractor trailer). Sorry to keep you waiting.

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I posted a full zip a few pages back. You could use/link to that from the op for now.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
Just noticed that. Added to OP. I owe you like 37 beers (after you park your rig :p)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Lol

So I got some fastboot variable checks, hboot, product, etc.. just not sure where to put them. There's a few ways the script can be run and I'm trying to figure out where to put these checks so we don't have to reboot in to fastboot more times than needed. Got a few other ideas to float by you as well. Hit me up on gtalk when you have time.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] matchosan:
Worked great, thanks
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] stanglifemike:
Any new news or word on this project? People using it with success or not? Just haven't seen any posts in this thread in a while...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] thoughtlesskyle:
Everyone in this thread except maybe 2 with other circumstances have gotten through it
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Yes, and there is plenty going on behind the scenes too! As the name suggests it has been successfully ported from the Evo LTE to the One X and hopefully others soon. Lately I've been working on bug fixes for the One X and rewriting the script to support some future features.

Right now it can be considered stable for Jewel (Evo LTE). Although with DirtyRacun s-off available for 1.15 and 1.19 HBOOTs, this isn't needed much right now.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
Successfully downgraded the new 2.03 HBOOT with this tool. I think it might indeed be update-resistant.

Great work :).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Nice. I'll add the new hboot to the database for the rewrite I'm working on. (It will include detection capabilities)

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
Something you might want to include in this tool is also a downgrade to the misc partition. I'm now getting an error when trying to upgrade to the 2.13 RUU that my main version is too new.

EDIT: And now I'm stuck relocked in HBOOT with the Security Warning . . . :(
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Hmm, I'll have to look in to that.

If you happen to get bored again, I could use some help. I need the full contents of each ruu version for this phone, along with full ota's, including any original scripts . I need this to compare the differences and to create checksums of everything so future versions of jet can identify existing versions already present on the emmc and look for damaged partitions that might be causing a brick.

I was going to do this myself, but I haven't had time to reboot my laptop in to windows to get the ruu contents.

You can pm me a link to them, if it's something you can do.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
That's interesting. If you're going to do that, you should definitely look at the misc partition, as the main version is stored there. Adjusting that to an older version is one of the keys to downgrading from a higher RUU version, even if the device is SuperCID.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ahecht:
Now that LazyPanda is no longer supported, will you update JET to flash the 1.15 or 1.19 HBOOTs so that DirtyRacun will work? As far as I know, this is the only viable S-OFF method for 2.09 phones.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Right now I'm waiting to see how captain_throwback makes out and if he has anymore suggestions. It's easy to swap the hboot images in the zip file. However I'm not able to change the op and yarrimapirate hasn't been around for a month now. I'll try contacting him later.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lawnguy:
Either way with the hboots. Thank you for continuing this work. Thank you for being available to help out.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
Some people have expressed the desire to show their appreciation for my help, past and future contributions to this project, and my future work toward greater unbricking support. I have not and do not plan to accept donations. However, if you choose to, you can donate to the Sandy Hook School Shooting fund set up by the United Way:

https://newtown.uwwesternct.org

As many people may know, 1 week ago today at about 9:30am one man broke in to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT located about 15 miles from where I live. In less than 10 minutes, the gunman proceeded to kill 6 adult staff and 20 school children ages 5-6 years old. Each victim was shot 3-11 times with a semi-automatic rifle equipped with hollow point bullets. While I was not directly affected by this, my father works near there and an aunt lives in Newtown and teaches at Newtown's Reed Intermediate School.

For more information about what happened:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/us/connecticut-school-shooting/index.html

If anyone chooses to make a donation, please keep it private and take pride in the fact that 100% of money collected will go to the families and first responders for funeral costs and any support needs.

Again, please do not post any replies to this message here. Lets keep this thread on or close to topic. This will be the only time I mention it here. Thank you.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
How difficult would it be to update this to use the 1.15 or 1.19 HBOOT for the downgrade (as an option)? I'd like to try the downgrade method again once I get my device back, as I think it can/will work if I can avoid the RUU portion of DirtyRacun (as the device will already be unlocked).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
It'd be as simple as replacing the hboot image that's bundled with jet with the desired hboot.

However... to use dirty racun you need to have used an ruu to ensure everything is what the program expects, including stock recovery. To use jet you need twrp.

Running dirty racun without following their instructions can result in a device stuck in qhsusb_dload mode and possibly a full brick.

I seriously suggest you don't try it again until we can figure out what caused your previous brick. Downgrading hboot alone isn't an issue. But trying to downgrade other firmware has proven many times now to be very risky.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
The RUU errored out on SuperCID a few times, so I think that might be where the issue is (one of the many bootloader checks/validations).

I don't think DirtyRacun touches any of the firmware partitions, honestly. I know LazyPanda didn't care. I'm willing to test it without running a full RUU. I think just flashing the signed boot.img, stock recovery.img and system.img from 2.13 should allow the Racun to find the necessary leftovers. I can change SuperCID and the main version on the misc partition while just being unlocked, so I think that'll set a workable template for DirtyRacun.

But I don't even have my phone back, yet, of course. I wouldn't recommend anyone else do it, obviously, but this is kind of what I do. And if it bricks again, I can still get a replacement through my job in about 4 weeks, so no worries. And then we can try your other potential brick-fix ;).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SouL Shadow:
The biggest problem there is that we have no idea at all what dirty racun does. But, if you're determined to try it anyway, lets work together. We can plan it out step by step, drawing off what we've already learned. Also have everything we need to fix any problem we encounter immediately when it happens. At the very worst we'll walk away with not only another brick, but a better understanding of what happened any why.

Again, I definitely do not recommend you or anyone else try this. Except for s-on ppl who take the ota, I don't see any need for anyone to downgrade hboot any time soon. It'll probably be months before we see phones shipping with the newest firmware, if ever. We're coming up on a year since this phone debuted and chances are we'll see yet another new "flagship" phone come along in the next few months. The OG Evo was much more popular than this and the SGS3, a nearly identical device to the EvoLte, seems to have drawn in most of the OG Evo users plus many more. All that adds up to less EvoLte's being sold, less stock being depleted and less new units being made. Meaning less chance of getting a new or refurbished unit with firmware higher than 1.19 hboot.

As I said before, if I can't stop you, at least let me help you every step of the way. So than we can try to prevent a brick or fix it before it becomes a total brick.

Perhaps someone from Team Unlimited would be willing to enlighten us as to how Dirty Racun works. Minus the actual exploit and in a private communication channel.

Also, if anyone else has any additional knowledge, please share. Help further the collective understanding of this device so that future development can be better, faster, and safer for everyone.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] louched1:
As far as being safer, I'd warn anyone who may be hanging on to an old copy of LazyPanda to make sure that they also have the PandaFinder unbricker. LazyPanda kept bricking my phone when I ran it on my PC and the unbricker brought it back everytime. The problem ended up being that LazyPanda was having problems detecting my phone when using a PC that had a dual boot. When I ran it on a PC that only had one OS it worked like a charm.

Before LazyPanda was discontinued I went to the IRC channel to report the bug, but the team was very unreceptive to the feedback. Based on the response I received and the fact that LazyPanda isn't supported anymore I'd venture a guess and say that this was never addressed, but I can't be certain. Even if it was addressed it would've been right at the end of life of LazyPanda and the copy that someone has could easily be an older copy without the included fix.

As an aside, the brickdetect.sh that came with the unbricker would also incorrectly locate my devices /dev/sd* address. Once again, I have no idea if a fix was ever implemented. The only thing I know for certain is that the problem was brought to their attention.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gpz1100:
With the original evo, flashing a current sense rom with a very old hboot would result in a bootloop. Running the risk of bricking mine, I never experimented to find out if update the hboot would allow a current sense rom to run or not. I was trading the device in and needed it to be functional.

However, I do wonder if having a current hboot plays some role in stability or other function when matched to current radios and other config/firmware files....
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dadanmakassar:
downgrade Hboot 2.09 latest JB

Hey guys..... I'm on Hboot 2.09 right now + s-off. How to downgrade it.....;););)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Sloth:
Use DirtyRacun http://unlimited.io/jewel.htm
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
Hey all,

Sorry for my extended absence. Life has thrown me a few curve balls and I've found myself with no time to myself.

It seems there is a new HBoot version that needs some bugfixing. Looks like SLS has continued being a hero here and on the OneX.

Hopefully I can get back in the game soon, if there's even a need for this anymore. A few months go by and I feel like I'm completely out of the loop.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mr nerd:
ok so i just tried this on my 1.19 s-off evo and it bricked my phone i cant seem to get it to unbrick at all...i did the reset tools and all nothing is working maybe its my phone not being detected by ubuntu 12.10? please can someone help me asap please please...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ahecht:
Why would you run this if you were already s-off?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mr nerd:
i wanted to downgrade my hboot..if you cant help please dont reply thanks..

holding the power button doesnt seem to do anything

i was at the part where it said waking up device and it never woke the device back up.

im not sure what i need to do or if im just SOL now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jschill31:
Hello,

Try holding the power button for 10 seconds or so to see if the soft keys flash. Make sure not to be plugged into USB while doing this. If it flashes 3 times it should reboot even if you have no display. Once it reboots plug it into your pc and listen to see if it gives the USB device confirmation sound. If you hear the sound there is some life, try reading through this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1948485

Cheers
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mr nerd:
sadly its not flashing...i must of really messed this up i guess...anything else i can try before i give up?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jschill31:
Hello,

It is a stretch but try plugging it into your OEM charger for a while and not a computer USB. I have heard that sometimes phones stop responding during a soft-brick if the battery level dips below 30%. Do you hear any "detection" sounds when you plug it into your PC?

Cheers
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mr nerd:
linux doesnt make detection noises...when i go home i can try on my windows computer

thats not for a few hours tho...so i wont know till then should i just charge it then try it in like 20 mins?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
For the record, there's no reason the downgrade your HBOOT. And even if you wanted to, if you're S-OFF, all you have to do is flash it through the bootloader. There's no tool necessary. This is a cautionary tale for everyone to make sure you understand how to use your device if you S-OFF.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mr nerd:
yeah i knew that...couldnt find any of them doesnt matter anymore its just a phone anyways...im glad we cant brick lives rofl....just randomly downloading randomcrap.txt to peoples emmc or w.e lol people just frozen in the street.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jkt97401:
If you wanted to upgrade or downgrade hboot all you have to do is flash the proper hboot in the bootloader? Did I understand this correctly?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Kisakuku:
Correct (if S-OFF).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ahecht:
If I remember correctly from the original downgrade threads, trying this method while s-off will lead to a permabrick since being s-off disables the failsafe mode that the downgrade procedure forces the phone into by corrupting the flash.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] curiousGeorge:
I'm horribly bricked right now. It happened when I was trying to upgrade my firmware to "PJ75IMG_Jewel_3.16.651.3_Firmware". All went fine but the restart left it completely bricked in QHSUSB_DLOAD mode. I tried the three unbrick files from unlimited.io but they did nothing. The two "S-OFF" based tools said they couldn't detect my device (even though it was listed as Qualcomm Inc Modem QDL mode in lsusb), and the third (pblclear) said it cleared the PBL but nothing happened.

Will this be able to do anything further?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mr nerd:
Did you try to turn it on and off and try again?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
^M means it has Windows style LFs. Did you open the script file in a Windows editor for some reason?

I just double checked, it's saved in UNIX encoding.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] popper668:
do it

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its all good
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] closeone:
Sorry for thread hijacking, yarr.

EVOMIKE025, hopefully, if things turn out okay, I have a build of the Live CD that I'm going to run by a single tester who wanted to test. If all goes well, I will grab a couple more testers. If everything works as planned then, I might have that build up tonight (more likely tomorrow, but wishful thinking).

~co~
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] popper668:
running now :laugh::good::laugh:

rebooting recovery :laugh::good::good:

the process can not be stopped after this Continue? HELL YEAH :good::good::good:

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awww crap i think my blood pressure just doubled, but i took my meds to day so i will recover. :cyclops::cyclops::cyclops:

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it writing now, F'in awesome:good::good::good:

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do you think this may work on the device that i bricked by "accidentally" bricked by reverting firmware??
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] DooneyInThaA:
Will this work on 64-bit linux ubuntu?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] popper668:
i think its only 32 but may be wrong

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awesome and i ran it on the latest ViperRom

woooooooo 1.12

now to feed the panda:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
Won't work on 64 natively without downloading the 32 bit libraries and run the downgrade package like that
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] EVOMIKE025:
Awesome. I'm sitting here debating back and forth to go for it as I see so many people having successes. I wouldnt mind being of the ones to test the LiveCD when you are ready for testing, just let me know.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
I am about to RUU back to stock and S-ON my device just to try this out. Is there something wrong with me?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] popper668:
im feeding the panda with Fresh Rom and ITS awesome ;);););););)

it works very well Yarr, way cool thanks

hope you like a little $ because I didn't get you any thing else..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] {ParanoiA}:
No, cuz you're the Captain. Anyone else, Yes
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] baknblack:
Yep, lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
I see no hijack here. :good:

One of my todo's is to add a recovery only option, which attempts to flash 1.12 and a generated P4 file to an already bricked device. There's a chance that may work.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch

Dooooo eeeeeeet!

<3
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cloaker:
So I just ran this, and it seems I'm stuck on "Reset command sent", any ideas?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] yarrimapirate:
Follow the instructions in the FAQ for "Waiting device...."

The same limitation causes your problem.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cloaker:
Thank you sir!

EDIT: After trying all 3 options for this problem, I'm still getting no response from the device or the terminal. The USB didn't come unplugged for certain.