HTC thunderbolt flashing back to stock

[krayman bauer]

Didn't know where to post this but may have found an easier way to flash a stock image on my tb. Hoping I didn't frig anything up so wanted another opinion. Downloaded the stock image for my tb the other night. Copied t to my root of my SD card and renamed it pg05IMG...whatever it is supposed to be named. Booted into hboot. It found the ' update' and I had made a android before hand so I excepted it and bam! Now I am unrooted and also showing Mecha with s-on in hboot.....everything seems to work. Any chance of damage? Was wondering earlier why the unroot process needed to push files such as busybox and misc.img through adb which is why I attempted this ..did I successfully bypass those steps? Anyone else want to give it a go for me?

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[krayman bauer]

Almost forgot to post my software version currently as 1.12.605.6

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[welterbf123]

Good catch, but this is nothing new! It's the easiest way to unroot.

 

[lazarus2297]

I did the same thing... bypassing pushing files with adb and it worked fine I am not sure why the instructions on xda say to push those files then flash

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[krayman bauer]

sweet! Glad to her from others who have done it too...hell of a lot quicker!

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[Hateslinger]

I would never want to go back to stock after being rooted.

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[sk8]

This is the best method, keep a stock pg05img.zip on your sdcard and rename it. Just incase you need to go back to stock s-off.

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[beezie]

may be a stupid question. but i'm having soooo many problems trying to unroot my phone, how the heck do i "hboot" i come from a D2, HTC & Motorola are so different !

 

[beezie]

nvmd. figured it out, and it didn't work. i'm having so much trouble trying to get my software version back to stock

 

[xeene]

I would never want to go back to stock after being rooted.

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Not even for gingerbread update?

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[Hateslinger]

Maybe I'm ignorant but what is so great about the gingerbread update?

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[WorldOfJohnboy]

Maybe I'm ignorant but what is so great about the gingerbread update?

Here is what is supposedly going to be on the Gingerbread update:

New User Features
UI refinements for simplicity and speed
Faster, more intuitive text input
One-touch word selection and copy/paste
Improved power management
Control over applications
Internet calling
Near-field communications
Downloads management

Enhancements for gaming
Performance
Native input and sensor events
Open API for native audio
Native graphics management
Native access to Activity lifecycle, window management
Native access to assets, storage
Robust native development environment

New forms of communication
Internet telephony
Near Field Communications (NFC

Rich multimedia
Mixable audio effects
Support for new media formats
Access to multiple cameras

New Platform Technologies
Media Framework
New media framework fully replaces OpenCore, maintaining all previous codec/container support for encoding and decoding.
Integrated support for the VP8 open video compression format and the WebM open container format
Adds AAC encoding and AMR wideband encoding
Linux Kernel
Upgraded to 2.6.35
Networking
SIP stack, configurable by device manufacturer
Support for Near Field Communications (NFC), configurable by device manufacturer
Updated BlueZ stack
Dalvik runtime
Dalvik VM:
Concurrent garbage collector (target sub-3ms pauses)
Adds further JIT (code-generation) optimizations
Improved code verification
StrictMode debugging, for identifying performance and memory issues
Core libraries:
Expanded I18N support (full worldwide encodings, more locales)
Faster Formatter and number formatting. For example, float formatting is 2.5x faster.
HTTP responses are gzipped by default. XML and JSON API response sizes may be reduced by 60% or more.
New collections and utilities APIs
Improved network APIs
Improved file read and write controls
Updated JDBC
Updates from upstream projects:
OpenSSL 1.0.0a
BouncyCastle 1.45
ICU 4.4
zlib 1.2.5

Honestly though, I guarantee you that all the Devs will have a Gingerbread Custom ROM shortly before or after the official update is released anyway. The only reason I can think of to go back to unRooted is if you are selling or returning the phone. Or you just like the "safety blanket" of getting support from Verizon/HTC.