What's the difference between Unrevoked3 and Unrevoked Forever?

[tigerchant]

Title explains it all....what's the difference between unrevoked3 and unrevoked forever?

 

[Psycomantix]

Unrevoked Forever turns off your phone from S-on to S-Off allowing for customization and flashing roms. Unrevoked 3 is a rom that you can flash, its a custom operating system that you can change to different ones if you like. I started with Unrevoked 3 and now am on uncommon sense v1.0. its the "look" of the phone.

 

[Sere81]

you sure unrevoked 3 isn't just a root and reflash tool used to flash a custom recovery? I don't think it is a considered a "rom" in the same sense that uncommon, or virtuous is.

 

[rugbyua9]

you sure unrevoked 3 isn't just a root and reflash tool used to flash a custom recovery? I don't think it is a considered a "rom" in the same sense that uncommon, or virtuous is.

You are correct. Unrevoked 3 is a root and reflash tool and not a ROM (like SkyRaider, Virtuous, or Uncommon Sense).

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked2

 

[douger]

you sure unrevoked 3 isn't just a root and reflash tool used to flash a custom recovery? I don't think it is a considered a "rom" in the same sense that uncommon, or virtuous is.

It is a root tool.

Unrevoked was the original root tool, but had the vulnerability of having a stock ROM upgrade close off the exploits used to root.

Unrevoked Forever turns the "S" to off. Nothing now known can break root on phones so modified.

 

[milominderbinde]

Is unrevoked 3.2.1 the next generation of unrevoked forever?

DOes unrevoked forever do anything that unrevoked 3.2.1 does not? Don't they both set S-Off?

 

[318sugarhill]

I have a curious question about the two.

I have used unrevoked 3 but I know my phone is s-off. It says so in the bootloader. So, my question is do I need to run unrevoked forever? It says on their website that you can run an ota and still have root with forever. I have been running virtuous ROM which has the latest update incorporated into it. However, when I switch to my backups of other roms, they do NOT have the update, and I keep getting the update notification. With Forever, it says I should be able to run the update, and still keep root because of s-off, but my phone already tells me it is s-off. So now I'm really confused about unrevoked forever.