[Guide] Unlocking, Rooting, ROM'ing, and FAQ

[MrSmith317]

Just a quick update... I flashed a stock rooted ROM and gained root. I'm just wondering if I flash another ROM, one that isn't rooted, will I retain root access?

Sorry didn't see your question until now. No, root is per ROM and will be overwritted by the next ROM.

[SHAK3R]

Hey real quick, Is this write up is still good for everything %100 Stock and OTA ICS. All links within the guide still good??

Does it matter what recovery I download being I'm OTA ICS??

Lastly (I hope) If you had to choose which recovery would you download

Source: [Recovery] Amon Ra style vigor - xda-developers

older version 3.14 recovery-ra-vigor-3.14-gnm.img
md5 915d5e3cb662076f36f3d6e54759e951 recovery-ra-vigor-3.14-gnm.img

Lastest version 3.15 & changelog are here V3.15

The time has come for me to root my Rezound, Thanks in advance.

[professorpaddle]

So I have 2 rezounds now. My original one is s-off with scotts clean rom. The bluetooth radio died in it so Verizon sent me a new one but accidentally mailed me an htc thunderbolt. I went down to the store and they switched the thunderbolt out for a new rezound so now I have two and the new one has a working bluetooth radio.

Problem is that the new one is running the latest OTA ICS and I thought I would unlock and root it before deciding if I was going to use clean rom, a different one etc... The thing is that I can't get too root. Doing all the steps. Tried flashing SU and installing it from google market. Neither work. At this point I figure I will just use scotts since there were not real big differences between the OTA and his except the bloatware and little tools. So the question I have is does anyone know if there is a new process like SHAK3R is asking about for OTA ICS rezounds, because the old process no likey. I figure I will give this a few days and dig around before flashing Scotts and starting over with that.

[Dassh]

Hey real quick, Is this write up is still good for everything %100 Stock and OTA ICS. All links within the guide still good??

Does it matter what recovery I download being I'm OTA ICS??

Lastly (I hope) If you had to choose which recovery would you download

The time has come for me to root my Rezound, Thanks in advance.

I believe all the links are still good. I would suggest Amon Ra 3.15 as the recovery. I've seen people have problems with cwm on this phone.

[Dassh]

So I have 2 rezounds now. My original one is s-off with scotts clean rom. The bluetooth radio died in it so Verizon sent me a new one but accidentally mailed me an htc thunderbolt. I went down to the store and they switched the thunderbolt out for a new rezound so now I have two and the new one has a working bluetooth radio.

Problem is that the new one is running the latest OTA ICS and I thought I would unlock and root it before deciding if I was going to use clean rom, a different one etc... The thing is that I can't get too root. Doing all the steps. Tried flashing SU and installing it from google market. Neither work. At this point I figure I will just use scotts since there were not real big differences between the OTA and his except the bloatware and little tools. So the question I have is does anyone know if there is a new process like SHAK3R is asking about for OTA ICS rezounds, because the old process no likey. I figure I will give this a few days and dig around before flashing Scotts and starting over with that.

You have to flash the supersu zip to root ics. I think Mr. Smith has a link in the op. The rest of the process to root is the same.

[MrSmith317]

Hey real quick, Is this write up is still good for everything 0 Stock and OTA ICS. All links within the guide still good??

Does it matter what recovery I download being I'm OTA ICS??

Lastly (I hope) If you had to choose which recovery would you download



The time has come for me to root my Rezound, Thanks in advance.

As Dassh mentioned above, everything is still good. I had an older link to AmonRa but that's partially because that's the version I was using at the time, but I tried to link to the developer pages rather than the direct DL.

So I have 2 rezounds now. My original one is s-off with scotts clean rom. The bluetooth radio died in it so Verizon sent me a new one but accidentally mailed me an htc thunderbolt. I went down to the store and they switched the thunderbolt out for a new rezound so now I have two and the new one has a working bluetooth radio.

Problem is that the new one is running the latest OTA ICS and I thought I would unlock and root it before deciding if I was going to use clean rom, a different one etc... The thing is that I can't get too root. Doing all the steps. Tried flashing SU and installing it from google market. Neither work. At this point I figure I will just use scotts since there were not real big differences between the OTA and his except the bloatware and little tools. So the question I have is does anyone know if there is a new process like SHAK3R is asking about for OTA ICS rezounds, because the old process no likey. I figure I will give this a few days and dig around before flashing Scotts and starting over with that.

Prof, try installing superuser and supersu at the same time. I prefer the flashable supersu. Some people have had more success going with an older supersu from here:Superuser

[professorpaddle]

Yea so I flashed an older version of SU 3.1 and that worked. The downloaded install from the GOogle store and the newest version did not.... not sure why.

I figure I will tinker around with the OTA before moving onto a different ROM.

Out of curiousity when I was installing recovery I forgot that I had a verizon hard copy of ICS labelled as PH98IMG.zip which started loading I yanked the battery out and then took it off the sd card ... rebooted and the bootloader was now labelled *** Tampered *** ... I know dumb mistake. Doesn't seem to make a difference from what I have read but any suggestions on how to flash the original bootloader back on or reset it would be cool so If I ever did turn the phone back in it would not be like that.

THanks

[MrSmith317]

The **Tampered** isn't a big deal. It will do that anyway on some of the RUUs out there. I know mine did from loading 3.14.605.10 I believe. So don't worry about it too much.

[SHAK3R]

Well I was hoping my last question would of been my last but it isn't.

I just got home from work and about to start the process of rooting and thought of one more thing. Where and when does the S On/Off come into play. Oh and thanks for the previous responses to my earlier post.

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[MrSmith317]

Don't worry about s-off, it's for people that want to drop a step in the flashing process so they can flash the phone like every other handset out there.