Anyone brave enough to test an hboot that removed the development test on boot?
Requirements:
S-Off
fastboot knowledge
Brave soul
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Before flash
Durring flash
After flash
Video of boot
Files:
will be sent a link on pm
Commands to run:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip hboot_nonag.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
I'm not s-off, but what does this do?
crazyg0od33 said:
I'm not s-off, but what does this do?
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When you're S-Off there's a little warning message that pops up on the splash screen on bootup, I'm guessing this gets rid of that. I am definitely not brave enough to try it, but it'd be cool if someone could confirm it worked.
PapaSmurf6768 said:
When you're S-Off there's a little warning message that pops up on the splash screen on bootup, I'm guessing this gets rid of that. I am definitely not brave enough to try it, but it'd be cool if someone could confirm it worked.
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Exactly that. If we wanted to we could add a custom message to it as well.
why not try and make a plug in for this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786498
unless it's been confirmed to not work on newer HTC devices?
It was a lot of fun playing with it on the HTC Inc4G LTE
unfortunately I don't know how to make the plug-in or I'd make one and try it when my phone comes back from Sonic.
andybones said:
why not try and make a plug in for this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786498
unless it's been confirmed to not work on newer HTC devices?
It was a lot of fun playing with it on the HTC Inc4G LTE
unfortunately I don't know how to make the plug-in or I'd make one and try it when my phone comes back from Sonic.
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I used it on my Sprint HTC One, but I think it was only for hboot 1.44
sofla2 said:
I used it on my Sprint HTC One, but I think it was only for hboot 1.44
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it has to be made for that specific phone and hboot.
otherwise you're asking for a brick
actually anytime you flash hboot you're risking a brick..
but we'd need someone to edit our current hbot and make a patch for this phone and this hboot.
andybones said:
it has to be made for that specific phone and hboot.
otherwise you're asking for a brick
actually anytime you flash hboot you're risking a brick..
but we'd need someone to edit our current hbot and make a patch for this phone and this hboot.
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Agreed any time you flash hboot you want to pray to your god that there's no power outages, the laptop battery will last, no one will trip on any cord between the computer and phone, cross your fingers and hold your breath. This one was pulled from my phone and modified so it is 1.54 for vzw.
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It is also noted if for any reason you s-on with a custom hboot you brick.
jmstumme said:
Agreed any time you flash hboot you want to pray to your god that there's no power outages, the laptop battery will last, no one will trip on any cord between the computer and phone, cross your fingers and hold your breath. This one was pulled from my phone and modified so it is 1.54 for vzw.
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It is also noted if for any reason you s-on with a custom hboot you brick.
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always ruu before you s-on for warranty purposes, most people do not need a custom bootloader unless it is part of an exploit
Updated with screenshots and videos
123421342 said:
always ruu before you s-on for warranty purposes, most people do not need a custom bootloader unless it is part of an exploit
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So it works then?
PapaSmurf6768 said:
So it works then?
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Works for me, I would like some testers before general. Release thought.
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PapaSmurf6768 said:
So it works then?
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I don't know how that relates to my comment. I was just letting people know there is no reason to flash a bootloader because of the HUGE risk of hard, hard brick and no benefits unless you are a hacker/developer. I am not unlocked but I would not try this anyway, no offense. What benefits does this carry? According to your pictures, this removed s-off and also locked the bootloader. Unless this removes all of those checks, it is stupid because we have no way to unlock.
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I don't know how that relates to my comment. I was just letting people know there is no reason to flash a bootloader because of the HUGE risk of hard, hard brick and no benefits unless you are a hacker/developer. I am not unlocked but I would not try this anyway, no offense. What benefits does this carry? According to your pictures, this removed s-off and also locked the bootloader. Unless this removes all of those checks, it is stupid because we have no way to unlock.
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Misquote, sorry. Meant to quote OP's post.
123421342 said:
I don't know how that relates to my comment. I was just letting people know there is no reason to flash a bootloader because of the HUGE risk of hard, hard brick and no benefits unless you are a hacker/developer. I am not unlocked but I would not try this anyway, no offense. What benefits does this carry? According to your pictures, this removed s-off and also locked the bootloader. Unless this removes all of those checks, it is stupid because we have no way to unlock.
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If you look closely there are a few extra spaces in those lines. Basically it makes it look like its s-on and locked. I've found that it's easier to walk into a verizon store and get help when they dont think you've unlocked. It also removed the nag string on the boot splash when you flash a custom rom. I've been using something like this on my rezound for over a year and from the ppl in that forum there was a want for it. Yes hboot is a very dangerous part if you don't know what your flashing. If it makes anyone feel better they can do a binary compare of this hboot with an original hboot and see that only the strings were manipulated.
Basically it was something I wanted so I did it for this phone. If others want to use it that is fine too, I just don't want to release something that could potentially brick based off of my mistakes, but it's been working fine for me for over a day.
jmstumme said:
If you look closely there are a few extra spaces in those lines. Basically it makes it look like its s-on and locked. I've found that it's easier to walk into a verizon store and get help when they dont think you've unlocked. It also removed the nag string on the boot splash when you flash a custom rom. I've been using something like this on my rezound for over a year and from the ppl in that forum there was a want for it. Yes hboot is a very dangerous part if you don't know what your flashing. If it makes anyone feel better they can do a binary compare of this hboot with an original hboot and see that only the strings were manipulated.
Basically it was something I wanted so I did it for this phone. If others want to use it that is fine too, I just don't want to release something that could potentially brick based off of my mistakes, but it's been working fine for me for over a day.
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Sounds good, thanks for this. I won't flash it now because I don't need to risk it but if I ever need to bring the phone to Verizon then I'll keep this in mind.
jmstumme said:
If you look closely there are a few extra spaces in those lines. Basically it makes it look like its s-on and locked. I've found that it's easier to walk into a verizon store and get help when they dont think you've unlocked. It also removed the nag string on the boot splash when you flash a custom rom. I've been using something like this on my rezound for over a year and from the ppl in that forum there was a want for it. Yes hboot is a very dangerous part if you don't know what your flashing. If it makes anyone feel better they can do a binary compare of this hboot with an original hboot and see that only the strings were manipulated.
Basically it was something I wanted so I did it for this phone. If others want to use it that is fine too, I just don't want to release something that could potentially brick based off of my mistakes, but it's been working fine for me for over a day.
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Oh okay this is a good idea but risky. May be good for people sending it in but it can't fool command line right?
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123421342 said:
Oh okay this is a good idea but risky. May be good for people sending it in but it can't fool command line right?
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using xda app-developers app
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From what I seen in the rest of the hboot no, it looks like it's obvious that its custom, s-off, and unlocked. This should also not be used for insurance fraud in any form or fashion. This is more or less to get people to not freak out and for people that like the stock look. As far as risk goes, having an s-off phone is dangerous since you can access the raw devices.
Looks nice!
jmstumme said:
From what I seen in the rest of the hboot no, it looks like it's obvious that its custom, s-off, and unlocked. This should also not be used for insurance fraud in any form or fashion. This is more or less to get people to not freak out and for people that like the stock look. As far as risk goes, having an s-off phone is dangerous since you can access the raw devices.
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Is there an RUU for our phones that, when flashed, would bring us right back to factory untouched condition?
jmstumme said:
This should also not be used for insurance fraud in any form or fashion.
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godhamba said:
Looks nice!
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Is there an RUU for our phones that, when flashed, would bring us right back to factory untouched condition?
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Looks like this one should work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437436
Otherwise I still have the original hboot from my phone
Related
According to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632200 by 7pellc he was able to get his device into an unlocked state.
While flashing a RUU the process crashed at "WRITING USER DATA".
He then rebooted the phone and found the rom to be unusable, so he rebooted to HBOOT only to find it being stuck in RUU mode.
HBOOT still reported device to be LOCKED, and for some reason he rebooted to recovery, and then back into HBOOT finding the device in an unlocked state.
Instead of LOCKED/RELOCKED/UNLOCKED HBOOT reported only ******
He then fastboot flashed a boot.img which it accepted even though this device was never unlocked through HTCDev.
It seems to me that the exact procedure temporarily left the device in some form of unlocked state, and maybe the eMMC was actually unlocked.
If this was the case it should have been possible to perform fastboot commands to acheive SuperCID or even S-OFF:
fastboot oem writesecureflag 0
fastboot oem writecid 11111111
I am not sure anyone ever recreated his steps, and the important step is to reach the state where HBOOT reports only ****** instead of LOCKED states.
I would love to try this out myself, but I sold my HOX when SGS3 came out as it was a true unlocked device.
Some of my friends still has this phone, and they come to me when something is wrong with it, and if I can persuade them to try this on their phones I would like to try it ofcourse.
I am really sorry if anyone actually recreated the exact steps, but I have read all the threads about S-OFF, and couldn't find someone who performed the opreation, but if I'm mistaken I'm sorry, and this thread can be closed.
S-OFF not possible !
Mr Hofs said:
S-OFF not possible !
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Please refrain from posting here if you can't contribute with anything!
spngbb said:
Please refrain from posting here if you can't contribute with anything!
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But he's speaking the truth.. S-OFF isn't possible, and if you did some research you would know that Please refrain from asking questions before doing your research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
Actually if the emmc was unlocked as the op describes then it would be possible but I'm very sceptical that it actually was.
During the ruu sequence the emmc is indeed unlocked however upon rebooting it gets locked again
This is the same principal that the soff for xl uses however they strictly say you mustn't power off your device because it relocks the security.
I have spent some time looking at this exploit.
It is technically possible to have the emmc unlocked and accept fastboot commands by flashing an updated firmware. (Note it has to be an update and not the same as you already have)
Once first flash of the firmware you get an error and then have to flash again straight away but if you don't flash again you can run other commands with the emmc unlocked.
This is where this method hits a dead end.
In order to progress further we need to be in android which would normally be done with
Fastboot boot boot.IMG or fastboot oem boot however since early hboot versions. I think 1.12. this ability was removed and the command just either errors or crashes the device
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Agil1ty said:
But he's speaking the truth.. S-OFF isn't possible, and if you did some research you would know that Please refrain from asking questions before doing your research.
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Oh wel, oh well...
I know that the S-OFF progress by xmoo and others has stopped/is on-hold, but saying that S-OFF is impossible is a bad attitude to solving a problem.
I did my research and did not find someone who tested out this method. So, really if you have nothing to contribute with, then please go find someone else to annoy!
bagofcrap24 said:
Actually if the emmc was unlocked as the op describes then it would be possible but I'm very sceptical that it actually was.
During the ruu sequence the emmc is indeed unlocked however upon rebooting it gets locked again
This is the same principal that the soff for xl uses however they strictly say you mustn't power off your device because it relocks the security.
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Actually I came up with this idea after reading the threads about the new S-OFF method for XL.
I don't think the eMMC is actually unlocked in the RUU process, the key to achieveing this lies in the sequence of boot back and fourth from RUU mode to the stock recovery and then back to HBOOT.
If the theory is worth anything something happens in the process making HBOOT not recognize the secureflag thus reporting only *****
Ofcourse this is all theory, but who knows
As mentioned in my first post, I cannot test this out myself, and I would never have brought this up if I was able to test it and found it not to be working!
Just telling the truth ..... Sorry for letting you know a fact at the moment.
And you could be a bit nicer you know. I was not rude, bad mouthed or aggressive towards you in any way.....so i expect it the same the other way around !
spngbb said:
Oh wel, oh well...
I know that the S-OFF progress by xmoo and others has stopped/is on-hold, but saying that S-OFF is impossible is a bad attitude to solving a problem.
I did my research and did not find someone who tested out this method. So, really if you have nothing to contribute with, then please go find someone else to annoy!
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Now now, there is no excuse to behave this way.
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Mr Hofs said:
Just telling the truth ..... Sorry for letting you know a fact at the moment.
And you could be a bit nicer you know. I was not rude, bad mouthed or aggressive towards you in any way.....so i expect it the same the other way around !
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Sorry, but a statement like your first post in this thread is just pointless. So rude or not... We can call it stupid if you prefer!
maxilick said:
Now now, there is no excuse to behave this way.
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I don't follow exactly... I said please
spngbb said:
Sorry, but a statement like your first post in this thread is just pointless. So rude or not... We can call it stupid if you prefer!
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Pfffff stupid......yeah well i can say a lot about that but i won't. Its pointless and leading to nowhere ! I will let it rest here....because you are so smart
Good luck with your s-off.....
spngbb said:
Sorry, but a statement like your first post in this thread is just pointless. So rude or not... We can call it stupid if you prefer!
I don't follow exactly... I said please
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Pointless going on with this if you can't see, have a great day.
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I bought this one x which comes with locked bootloader, no root,
Stock recovery with s off and super CID(111111). It is prompting an ota update to 1.28.708.10
Is it alright to install the OTA? Will I lose S-off or the super CID? Any harm in flashing
the OTA with S-Off?
No just install it. 1.28 software is very old btw ! Jellybean latest software is already up to 3.14 - 3.20 .....
And you cant have S-OFF on your Device, only unlocked bootloader
And yes you can update
3498BoyZ said:
And you cant have S-OFF on your Device, only unlocked bootloader
And yes you can update
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Yes he can because some hox come with factory s off
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Thnks but why some HOX came with S-OFF ?
china and s-off
3498BoyZ said:
Thnks but why some HOX came with S-OFF ?
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there are a few places, using official htc software, in china that you can send your HOX to get s-off, some people did, sold their devices and some lucky guy got it, there are of course the preview devices that were sent to sites, magazines and some devs with s-off from HTC, so yes, there are s-off'ed HOXs running in the wild, if I could I would send mine too.
Some phones come back from repair with s-off.....some come out the factory with s-off.....
Just happend to some !
You can also run the 3.14.708 ruu which you can download from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189048
Then you have stock JB software on your phone.
Thanks a lot guys! I am OTAing at the moment, installing the 3.14.708.28 right now, Chinese people have a way to get phones s-off and super CID. Not sure exactly how they do it but I got it like this, it is refurbished though. So basically after unlocking the bootloader,root and a custom recovery I can flash a rom just like old gen phones.. Copy the zip to sd, perform wipes and install zip from sd.. No need to flash the boot.img seperately from fastboot.. Is that true?
Basically its true yes, but.....many rom devs took out the boot.img flash script because not many people have a s-off device.
Do if you hit a bootloop its wise to flash the boot.img manually
Thanks a lot for the information Mr Hofs, really appreciate it!
So all is fine now ?
crossmission said:
there are a few places, using official htc software, in china that you can send your HOX to get s-off, some people did, sold their devices and some lucky guy got it, there are of course the preview devices that were sent to sites, magazines and some devs with s-off from HTC, so yes, there are s-off'ed HOXs running in the wild, if I could I would send mine too.
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i got a couple of these off of ebay. pre-released htc one x+ att
Tmobilefan906 said:
i got a couple of these off of ebay. pre-released htc one x+ att
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You really need to stay away from the hox section. This all is NOT for the hox +.
Mr Hofs said:
You really need to stay away from the hox section. This all is NOT for the hox +.
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Yea...it's been a long time owning a HTC one x variant.. good thing I'm knowledgeable on things lol...it is nice that I got a couple of these pre-s offd.. I can supercid via fastboot as I already have s off
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You really need to stay away from the hox section. This all is NOT for the hox +.
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if i wanted to flash the ruu with the 2.15 radio from androidruu, do i still need to lock the bootloader even though im already s off?
Tmobilefan906 said:
Yea...it's been a long time owning a HTC one x variant.. good thing I'm knowledgeable on things lol...it is nice that I got a couple of these pre-s offd.. I can supercid via fastboot as I already have s off
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if i wanted to flash the ruu with the 2.15 radio from androidruu, do i still need to lock the bootloader even though im already s off?
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Not sure anymore, but what you need to do is to start the conversations about this phone in the hox + section because it can be confusing for hox owners.
Mr Hofs said:
Not sure anymore, but what you need to do is to start the conversations about this phone in the hox + section because it can be confusing for hox owners.
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I'm sorry. I posted on this thread cuz u were one of the very few that had a more recent post.
Tmobilefan906 said:
I'm sorry. I posted on this thread cuz u were one of the very few that had a more recent post.
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You do know that my comment is from 2013, yes?
lol
So, if you're S-OFF you can flash the radio separately if I remember correct.
But, despite it being a beautiful phone with a good camera and arguably
the best form factor ever with the three capacitive buttons that can be
swiped for screen on-off and the 2.5D display,
it's a REALLY old phone, and unless you got it for under 70 bucks
it's not worth the money and the time unless you're an enthusiast and you want the experience of owning it.
if you flash a stock RUU I believe you will lose s-off or maybe it won't even flash. Do some research on both HOX and HOX+ forums since they run similar chipset(the + is just factory oveclocked).
crossmission said:
You do know that my comment is from 2013, yes?
lol
So, if you're S-OFF you can flash the radio separately if I remember correct.
But, despite it being a beautiful phone with a good camera and arguably
the best form factor ever with the three capacitive buttons that can be
swiped for screen on-off and the 2.5D display,
it's a REALLY old phone, and unless you got it for under 70 bucks
it's not worth the money and the time unless you're an enthusiast and you want the experience of owning it.
if you flash a stock RUU I believe you will lose s-off or maybe it won't even flash. Do some research on both HOX and HOX+ forums since they run similar chipset(the + is just factory oveclocked).
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I meant the entire ruu..I only mentioned the radio as I see that evitare only has three ruu. I thought if we were s off, we could run any regional ruu. As long as it's meant for this device
crossmission said:
You do know that my comment is from 2013, yes?
lol
So, if you're S-OFF you can flash the radio separately if I remember correct.
But, despite it being a beautiful phone with a good camera and arguably
the best form factor ever with the three capacitive buttons that can be
swiped for screen on-off and the 2.5D display,
it's a REALLY old phone, and unless you got it for under 70 bucks
it's not worth the money and the time unless you're an enthusiast and you want the experience of owning it.
if you flash a stock RUU I believe you will lose s-off or maybe it won't even flash. Do some research on both HOX and HOX+ forums since they run similar chipset(the + is just factory oveclocked).
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I have s off and I still had to fastboot flash boot.img. Why?
Tmobilefan906 said:
I have s off and I still had to fastboot flash boot.img. Why?
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I can't remember anymore, it's been 4 years since I last played with the HOX, I believe that all the procedures remain the same since it's an older device and noone bothered to look into it more since it was running a Tegra chip, that made it a difficult device to work with as for example NVIDIA never open sourced the kernel and everything had to be written from zero.
Being S-OFF on the HOX just gives you the luxury of flashing radios separately and engineering bootloaders (I think) and being able to return the phone to untampered for warranty purposes.
I know I'm not a big help but this is the reason I turned to Qualcomm based devices that are easier to get custom kernels and ROMs then.
Also bear in mind that I'd spend dozens of hours researching for that device progressively with the development so I could see the steps on new things one by one, there's probably a megathread with all that info somewhere in here.
EDIT: Why do you need a different region RUU? Do you need to keep it stock? There aren't any updates anymore, if you like the stock look try Android Revolution ROM by mike1986, it's not being developed anymore but it's a great rom with great battery life and all the HTC goodness without anything else bogging it down.
I'd love to get my hands on an S-off hox+ or even a normal one. that feeling it had in your hands was amazing.
Has VZW or HTC ever issued an update or other means by which they have remotely flipped the switch back to S-On? Why is there so much concern about this posted in various threads? Am I missing something?
godhamba said:
Has VZW or HTC ever issued an update or other means by which they have remotely flipped the switch back to S-On? Why is there so much concern about this posted in various threads? Am I missing something?
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There are a few who are worried. But overall there is nothing to be afraid of.
Just whatever you do, DON'T take any OTAs!
godhamba said:
Has VZW or HTC ever issued an update or other means by which they have remotely flipped the switch back to S-On? Why is there so much concern about this posted in various threads? Am I missing something?
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Basically, it is technically possible to turn a phone S-ON with an OTA. I don't believe it has ever been done however.
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GrayTheWolf said:
There are a few who are worried. But overall there is nothing to be afraid of.
Just whatever you do, DON'T take any OTAs!
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I was one of those worried. The only reason I had asked is because if I sent my phone in to get S-Off (which I'm pretty sure I will) and development never really takes off after that, I don't want to be stuck on 4.2.2 for the entirety of my time with this phone. I wanted to know if I COULD take that OTA at some point without bricking the phone. I was told if I changed the CID back to VZW__001, then I wouldnt brick if I did an OTA...
crazyg0od33 said:
I was one of those worried. The only reason I had asked is because if I sent my phone in to get S-Off (which I'm pretty sure I will) and development never really takes off after that, I don't want to be stuck on 4.2.2 for the entirety of my time with this phone. I wanted to know if I COULD take that OTA at some point without bricking the phone. I was told if I changed the CID back to VZW__001, then I wouldnt brick if I did an OTA...
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When 4.3 is released, a rooted version will be available within a day or two. There is literally no reason to take an OTA ever.
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m4rk0358 said:
When 4.3 is released, a rooted version will be available within a day or two. There is literally no reason to take an OTA ever.
sent from my HTC one
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That's what I figured. But better to know than not know
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The fuss is if your phone is ever turned back to S-ON after having been S-OFF, there is a high chance that it will instantly brick itself if you have loaded unsigned firmware onto the device.
If I go S-OFF, proceed to unlock boot loader, install clockwork mid recovery and just debloat my phone or flash a ROM, I should fear bricking if S-ON is switched back on?
CNexus said:
The fuss is if your phone is ever turned back to S-ON after having been S-OFF, there is a high chance that it will instantly brick itself if you have loaded unsigned firmware onto the device.
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godhamba said:
If I go S-OFF, proceed to unlock boot loader, install clockwork mid recovery and just debloat my phone or flash a ROM, I should fear bricking if S-ON is switched back on?
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but no, no worries with a custom ROM and recovery. Only for unsigned firmware, something like a custom hboot for example.
peteschlabar said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but no, no worries with a custom ROM and recovery. Only for unsigned firmware, something like a custom hboot for example.
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This is correct. If you flash an unsigned HBOOT and the flag goes S-ON somehow, the phone will refuse to boot because of the failed security check on the HBOOT. Besides that you're fine.
The guy that was using this phone said he hit factory reset, When i got the phone, it was in bootloop. I couldn't get in TWRP so i re-flashed that via hboot and was able to get into TWRP, but if I wipe Data, the phone resets. So basically since all roms wipe data pertty much,m I cant flash a custom rom. I can get into TWRP/Hboot but not much else. Anyone have any ideas how I can get this back to stock, it was HTC Dev unlocked at one point. But now I dont know whats going on with it. Its going to another user so i dont care if if all gets wiped, i just need a working phone.
oh I also was going to fastboot flash an encrypted RUU from another thread in her, but it says i need to fastboot oem rebootRUU, when i do that though, the phone reboots, then goes into its usual reboot routine
please help!
krayzee said:
The guy that was using this phone said he hit factory reset, When i got the phone, it was in bootloop. I couldn't get in TWRP so i re-flashed that via hboot and was able to get into TWRP, but if I wipe Data, the phone resets. So basically since all roms wipe data pertty much,m I cant flash a custom rom. I can get into TWRP/Hboot but not much else. Anyone have any ideas how I can get this back to stock, it was HTC Dev unlocked at one point. But now I dont know whats going on with it. Its going to another user so i dont care if if all gets wiped, i just need a working phone.
oh I also was going to fastboot flash an encrypted RUU from another thread in her, but it says i need to fastboot oem rebootRUU, when i do that though, the phone reboots, then goes into its usual reboot routine
please help!
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I'd send to Sonic see if he can just S-OFF it for you. He may not be able to but I have no idea. That would be my first thought to do.
Other than than, since you are S-ON, you cannot flash the provided RUU, figure out a way to use that ruuveal tool.
If I knew how I'd be uploading it for you by now.
andybones said:
I'd send to Sonic see if he can just S-OFF it for you. He may not be able to but I have no idea. That would be my first thought to do.
Other than than, since you are S-ON, you cannot flash the provided RUU, figure out a way to use that ruuveal tool.
If I knew how I'd be uploading it for you by now.
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If I'm not mistaken and I don't think I am....
That RUU will not do anyone that is still S-on any good.
In order to flash an RUU while S-on, it must be signed using HTCs signature.
So while it wasnt that difficult to encrypt it, its fairly useless for most people right now.
So I see no need to upload it at this point and cause any further confusion.
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santod040 said:
If I'm not mistaken and I don't think I am....
That RUU will not do anyone that is still S-on any good.
In order to flash an RUU while S-on, it must be signed using HTCs signature.
So while it wasnt that difficult to encrypt it, its fairly useless for most people right now.
So I see no need to upload it at this point and cause any further confusion.
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My apologies.
It was to my understanding that you could use the "ruuveal" tool mentioned in the OP of that thread to encrypt the file and it would work for S-ON users. Not really sure why he'd say to use the tool and that it would work.. if it wouldn't.
Just my impression, again sorry if I am wrong.
andybones said:
My apologies.
It was to my understanding that you could use the "ruuveal" tool mentioned in the OP of that thread to encrypt the file and it would work for S-ON users. Not really sure why he'd say to use the tool and that it would work.. if it wouldn't.
Just my impression, again sorry if I am wrong.
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No worries...I didn't understand why the OP states that either to be honest.
I was gonna mention it in his thread sooner but since the decrypted one wasn't even up yet when I thought about it, I figured it didn't matter much.
But yeah, as far as I know, it wouldn't work while s-on.
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santod040 said:
No worries...I didn't understand why the OP states that either to be honest.
I was gonna mention it in his thread sooner but since the decrypted one wasn't even up yet when I thought about it, I figured it didn't matter much.
But yeah, as far as I know, it wouldn't work while s-on.
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did someone flash a gsm rom on it per chance? if thats the case,its not dead,but you will need to wait for a signed ruu. or send it to sonic so he can s-off it,and then you can run the unsinged one
Hello. I have an HTC ONE M8 CID : ORANG001. Bootloader LOCKED and S-ON. Running : Android 4.4.3
It is carrier unlocked, I can use whatever sim I like with this phone. Now, I want to get rid off ORANG001 and change it with a HTC__001 or some other CID so I can receive updates directly from HTC.
Does anyone know some safe steps to accomplish this ? Or I can change somehow the recovery with another one ? I think ORANG001 means that is orange stock recovery. It's not carrier locked, but still, I want to replace the ORANG001.
PoweredTek said:
Hello. I have an HTC ONE M8 CID : ORANG001. Bootloader LOCKED and S-ON. Running : Android 4.4.3
It is carrier unlocked, I can use whatever sim I like with this phone. Now, I want to get rid off ORANG001 and change it with a HTC__001 or some other CID so I can receive updates directly from HTC.
Does anyone know some safe steps to accomplish this ? Or I can change somehow the recovery with another one ? I think ORANG001 means that is orange stock recovery. It's not carrier locked, but still, I want to replace the ORANG001.
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You need s-off to chance your cid...
After this you can play with you phone as you wish, even convert it to GPE edition...
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lukes91 said:
You need s-off to chance your cid...
After this you can play with you phone as you wish, even convert it to GPE edition...
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After S-OFF can I still receive official updates from HTC ?
PoweredTek said:
After S-OFF can I still receive official updates from HTC ?
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Yes, you can
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PoweredTek said:
After S-OFF can I still receive official updates from HTC ?
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Only if you have stock rom and recovery. But if you go that far down, may as well download it from here and flash it yourself.
PcFish said:
Only if you have stock rom and recovery. But if you go that far down, may as well download it from here and flash it yourself.
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Yeah but to S-OFF one must be rooted first, right?
UPDATE : I just unlocked the bootloader. I want to root the device but what TWRP should I flash ?
UPDATE : Rooted the device and installed SuperSU via TWRP. Next, getting S-OFF.
UPDATE : I get this message while flashing firewater : firewater can not work on your device.
Until I manage to S-OFF can I flash through TWRP a custom ROM like CM for example ? Or S-OFF is a must for doing this ?
PoweredTek said:
Yeah but to S-OFF one must be rooted first, right?
UPDATE : I just unlocked the bootloader. I want to root the device but what TWRP should I flash ?
UPDATE : Rooted the device and installed SuperSU via TWRP. Next, getting S-OFF.
UPDATE : I get this message while flashing firewater : firewater can not work on your device.
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For firewater yes, I'm not familiar with the other methods.
If it's saying it doesn't work for your device, you're out of luck, unless you try the other methods. Which you do at your own risk obviously.
PcFish said:
For firewater yes, I'm not familiar with the other methods.
If it's saying it doesn't work for your device, you're out of luck, unless you try the other methods. Which you do at your own risk obviously.
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What are the other methods, and I cannot install a custom ROM like CM with S-ON right ?
PoweredTek said:
What are the other methods, and I cannot install a custom ROM like CM with S-ON right ?
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Sunshine? I forget the names.
You only need an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery to install custom roms.
PcFish said:
Sunshine? I forget the names.
You only need an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery to install custom roms.
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Then what is the purpose of S-OFF ?
PoweredTek said:
Then what is the purpose of S-OFF ?
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You can flash whatever rom you like without s-off...
S-off is required to write to all partitions, change cid and so on (google and xda are your friends)... You can still achieve this by flashing a stock-like rom like arhd or maximus te and paying 25 bucks to Sunshine developers...
lukes91 said:
You can flash whatever rom you like without s-off...
S-off is required to write to all partitions, change cid and so on (google and xda are your friends)... You can still achieve this by flashing a stock-like rom like arhd or maximus te and paying 25 bucks to Sunshine developers...
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I have CM11. Next step, S--OFF via SunShine.
PoweredTek said:
I have CM11. Next step, S--OFF via SunShine.
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Sunshine requires the stock sense rom .. i hope you made a nandriod
or you can just flash this
http://www.androidrevolution.org/downloader/download.php?file=One_M8_2.22.401.4_odexed.zip
once your s-off I recommend this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/general/change-wwe-m8-to-dev-edition-ota-t2826567
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I have CM11. Next step, S--OFF via SunShine.
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Are you sure you need s-off?
From your posts, I can plainly tell you are a noob. (no offence, that just what we call the new to rooting people here.)
S-on is there to protect your device from becoming bricked when you flash something you shouldn't be.
With S-off, if you screw up, your $700 phone might be turned into a paperweight with absolutely zero chance that the warranty is still valid.
If you want my advice, don't go S-off till you know what you are doing.
xunholyx said:
Are you sure you need s-off?
From your posts, I can plainly tell you are a noob. (no offence, that just what we call the new to rooting people here.)
S-on is there to protect your device from becoming bricked when you flash something you shouldn't be.
With S-off, if you screw up, your $700 phone might be turned into a paperweight with absolutely zero chance that the warranty is still valid.
If you want my advice, don't go S-off till you know what you are doing.
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I just S-OFF. So I think you were wrong.
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I just S-OFF. So I think you were wrong.
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I didn't say you won't be able to s-off, I asked you if you needed it.
Why do you need S-off? Do you even know what s-off is for?
Or do you just want it because you think it's cool?
Anyways, happy flashing dude.
I have a feeling that in a week or two, you'll be back on this forum begging for help, and I'll say to you, "I told you so!" But I really hope not.
Have fun, and be careful what you flash now.
No joke.
EDIT: I see now where you thought I was wrong. I didn't mean you will bugger your phone while doing the S-off, I meant you may bugger it up after, because you are S-off.
xunholyx said:
I didn't say you won't be able to s-off, I asked you if you needed it.
Why do you need S-off? Do you even know what s-off is for?
Or do you just want it because you think it's cool?
Anyways, happy flashing dude.
I have a feeling that in a week or two, you'll be back on this forum begging for help, and I'll say to you, "I told you so!" But I really hope not.
Have fun, and be careful what you flash now.
No joke.
EDIT: I see now where you thought I was wrong. I didn't mean you will bugger your phone while doing the S-off, I meant you may bugger it up after, because you are S-off.
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For example the red text cannot be removed with S-ON.
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For example the red text cannot be removed with S-ON.
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I got this reply just after I PMed you.
I think you are going to be just fine.
Keep reading and learning, and don't be afraid to ask questions.
You got this buddy.
xunholyx said:
I got this reply just after I PMed you.
I think you are going to be just fine.
Keep reading and learning, and don't be afraid to ask questions.
You got this buddy.
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There is no PM.
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There is no PM.
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I sent a PM then, and have just sent a new one two minutes ago before I saw this post.
Also, I just tried to send a friend request that didn't deliver because there was no friend button for it?
The junior status maybe?
Anyways, the gist of it was this:
I was very mistaken about you. You are obviously not a noob from what I've seen on subsequent posts, you are just an M8 noob. I was in your position once, and I get it 100%
The thing is, on the Q&A, I get sick of the same questions over and over and over.
And also, people getting into soft brick trouble because of s-off.
I have no worries about you though buddy.
You will be just fine. It's not really that hard. Just different than the rest.
It's worth it though. The M8 is SOOO nice!