HTC Thunderbolt revolutionary root, ota accidentally installed

[Frandiglious]

NEED HELP! i have an HTC Thunderbolt. i rooted the device with revolutionary. shortly after, i accidentally accepted an ota update to the latest firmware. now, when i try to get into recovery, i get a white HTC screen, and then the update screen (black with a picture of the device and a green downward arrow) and after a few seconds, the arrow turns red. the device is fully functional, but i can not get into recovery. i would like to clear the cache and re-root using a custom rom to avoid this issue in the first place. i am new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. i have found a couple of videos on youtube on unrooting, but the stock firmware file needed to do so has been removed from the internet it seems. any ideas??

 

[lou1210]

If you hold down power and volume at power up, it should get you into recovery. Good luck. Hope this helps.

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[Frandiglious]

Re: HTC Thunderbolt revolutionary root, ota accidentally installe

thank you for the reply, but i understand how to get to recovery...my problem is when i select it, it automatically tries to software update. it doesnt even make it into recovery.

 

[z71kris]

Re: HTC Thunderbolt revolutionary root, ota accidentally installe

take your SD card out and put it in an adapter and put it in your computer, and delete the update file... it should be named the PG05IMG...then try booting back into recovery, find new ROM, download, put in SD card, and then flash new ROM...

 

[frellingfrakker]

Re: HTC Thunderbolt revolutionary root, ota accidentally installe

Also, check out Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper from the market. It's free and allows you to regain root access if you accidentally install an OTA that takes it away. I used it on my Transformer Prime and it worked so I installed it on my Bolt in case I ever need it, but I'm AOSP so I shouldn't.

 

[rcmarks314]

Re: HTC Thunderbolt revolutionary root, ota accidentally installe

When you try to go into recovery does it say s on or s off? if it's on you've lost root and will need to flash a 2.11.605.5 RUU and reroot.

 

[jackmei2]

Re: HTC Thunderbolt revolutionary root, ota accidentally installe

I'm guessing your CWM was overwritten and you just need to flash it again. if you re-run the revolutionary tool, it will tell you it's already S-Off and you can then flash the latest CWM recovery to the device. try that out.

or here, you can flash cwm from the bootloader: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179386

assuming you are still S-off, but you should be since revolutionary is a permanent S-Off...