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S-Off

I'm a little bit confused about S-Off. If I were to have S-Off would I not have to flash boot.img? What are the advantages of having S-Off?
Thank you
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You would not have to flash boot.img and also could give yourself supercid so you can flash any ruu. There is a lot more it allows you to do but that is all the general user would use it for
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s-off
open bank vault without security
s-on
closed bank vault with security guards armed with m16
s-on (unlocked) [htcdev]
locked bank vault without security. u get to mess with the outside but not the inside
get what i mean?

Ohh okay. That makes sense. Thank you both for the replies. To achieve S-Off is it a hardware or software modification?
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There are hardware and software ways, currently no way to get it altogether without the HTC DIAGS, javacard, and Y-cable. Basically no way for us end users.
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how close is S-OFF
I'm considering going for HTCDev, until S-OFF comes, but I've read somewhere that the HOX should receive S-OFF pretty soon.
I hate these kind of words "pretty soon, normal, common... " its seems bla-bla to me.
so in your opinion, how close is S-OFF?

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aviatorboy said:
I'm considering going for HTCDev, until S-OFF comes, but I've read somewhere that the HOX should receive S-OFF pretty soon.
I hate these kind of words "pretty soon, normal, common... " its seems bla-bla to me.
so in your opinion, how close is S-OFF?
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where?

uqadwe said:
where?
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michaldepta said:
http://www.52sjwx.com/read.php?tid=74092
there is , but need special rights on this forum to download (already registered user) , i think s-off will come in few days
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from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774195

how to change firmware from voda-203 to HTC__038 for htc one x

how to change firmware for htc one X
My Cid is voda-203
i want to change to HTC__038 that is asian indian firmware for htc one x.please help in this regarding the post.

Can't be done as you need S-OFF (which we don't have)

U cant. For that u need to have an s-off phone
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You can't unless you have S-off. And s-off is impossible unless you live in China. So you cannot change CID, must wait for your carrier to release JB and no one here knows how long that'll take.
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EddyOS said:
Can't be done as you need S-OFF (which we don't have)
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muid02 said:
U cant. For that u need to have an s-off phone
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tomascus said:
You can't unless you have S-off. And s-off is impossible unless you live in China. So you cannot change CID, must wait for your carrier to release JB and no one here knows how long that'll take.
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Was that really necessary? Three people saying that same thing three times?!... You gotta be kidding me...

nitrous² said:
Was that really necessary? Three people saying that same thing three times?!... You gotta be kidding me...
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you'll probably find that they were all typing the reply at the sametime

nitrous² said:
Was that really necessary? Three people saying that same thing three times?!... You gotta be kidding me...
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They were probably typing the reply at the same time.

how can i update to jelly beans now....

suhassetty said:
how can i update to jelly beans now....
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Did you read my reply? You must wait for your carrier

Title is misleading aswell, please change.

nitrous² said:
Was that really necessary? Three people saying that same thing three times?!... You gotta be kidding me...
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probably wrote the answer at the same time
08:59 AM

BenPope said:
They were probably typing the reply at the same time.
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bradmax57 said:
you'll probably find that they were all typing the reply at the sametime
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beanbean50 said:
probably wrote the answer at the same time
08:59 AM
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Three people answering again

TToivanen said:
Three people answering again
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(on purpose) :laugh:

TToivanen said:
Three people answering again
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I think that was intentional.

[Q] Does anyone understand Chinese here? This is about HTC ONE X

I need someone that speaks Chinese and has basic knowledge of Flashing roms, this is very important and might be a break-though for the HTC ONE X.
Please let me know by PM, thanks.
P.S. This might seem irrelevant, but it really is, and if there is success, what I am doing will donate greatly to the HTC ONE X society.

wow, whatsup man! :sly::sly:
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NickDunn said:
wow, whatsup man! :sly::sly:
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Working on finding how to S-OFF the livin hell of the HTC ONE X, and I need simple Chinese translation, Google translate is crap.
Do you know Chinese?

MosesTheTool said:
Working on finding how to S-OFF the livin hell of the HTC ONE X, and I need simple Chinese translation, Google translate is crap.
Do you know Chinese?
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Give a link or something

CrisisCorE said:
Give a link or something
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http://bbs.mumayi.com/thread-1510124-1-1.html

The last post on that thread is over a year old. I don't think it holds any more information than we already know about s-off

Stefan0vic said:
The last post on that thread is over a year old. I don't think it holds any more information than we already know about s-off
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agreed

Don't get me wrong btw, it might have some information we have yet to come across..
sorry I can't be of any help, i don't know chinese :crying:

Can't get you wrong in any way, a year.....the time that true s-off for the masses is invented it will be (would have been) world news !
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says to downgrade hboot from 1.12 to 0.95 then s-off will resolve
but looka t the screenshots date one is of october one is of july how this can be possible man!

http://bbs.mumayi.com/thread-860082-1-1.html
wth is this ?

Stefan0vic said:
The last post on that thread is over a year old. I don't think it holds any more information than we already know about s-off
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This doesn't hold information about S-OFF, but a glitch or something that supposedly works.. I know for a fact that the Chinese can S-OFF, trying to find out how.
Mr Hofs said:
Can't get you wrong in any way, a year.....the time that true s-off for the masses is invented it will be (would have been) world news !
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Hey Mr Hofs, if you remember, I had an issue with a messed up HTC ONE X a while ago, that HTC ONE X was S-OFFed for sure. I found out that they use a "GoldCard" and "HOX Files" so S-OFF devices, but this method is what a guy that does S-OFF gave me, he doesn't really cooperate with me, just gave me the link. The physical "GoldCard" is very expensive, costs almost like a new HOX, but I do wonder if this method should work.
luciferps said:
says to downgrade hboot from 1.12 to 0.95 then s-off will resolve
but looka t the screenshots date one is of october one is of july how this can be possible man!
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It does seem weird
luciferps said:
http://bbs.mumayi.com/forum.php?mod...reltid=1510124&pre_thread_id=0&pre_pos=9&ext=
wth is this ?
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This is for the Galaxy S4 or something, and it mentions HTC ONE S too.. dunno
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My question is (to the Chinese understanders) what are the exact instructions, I edit the TXT file that they mention, but do they say that I can change the Main-Version to whatever I want, and the CID to whatever I want??? or something else?
P.S., if you look on the last reply page on that Thread, you can see it is quite active, i see posts from "3 hours ago" saying "thanks" and what not. But you need to reply in order to download the file so it's not really an indication of this method working. :-\

Good luck, this stuff has been looked into time and time again. I don't give a flying hoot about s-off, flash via pc and plenty of custom roms to pick from.
Sent from my mind, eyes and fingers.

maxilick said:
Good luck, this stuff has been looked into time and time again. I don't give a flying hoot about s-off, flash via pc and plenty of custom roms to pick from.
Sent from my mind, eyes and fingers.
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Well we do appreciate your contribution, it's good to know you don't give a "flying hoot", thank you kindly.
Some of us are stuck because there is no S-OFF, I have two devices that are pretty much screwed until I can do the S-OFF.

The first step is already an epic fail,, downgrade the hboot to 0.95.....Uhm no way without s-off.....
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@MosesTheTool
Firstly your very welcome.
Secondly can you elaborate how the two HOX's are screwed.

Mr Hofs said:
The first step is already an epic fail,, downgrade the hboot to 0.95.....Uhm no way without s-off.....
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Google translate messes it up, i think he didn't say to downgrade to 0.95, i think it's the last step or something. It really needs a good translation from someone who knows Chinese.
maxilick said:
@MosesTheTool
Firstly your very welcome.
Secondly can you elaborate how the two HOX's are screwed.
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Like I said, the two HOXs came with an Australian CID OPTUS001. And a Version-Main: 4.29, which does not exist in the OPTUS001 CID RUUs, which means I couldn't use RUU to get back to stock in order to update later to JB.
I went through it with Waseem on this forum and we found out that the phones were definately S-OFFed. God knows why the heck someone did this, but Chinese have an S-OFF technology.
I coule buy the Goldcard for S-OFF, but it costs like 400$... So I am trying to find a cheaper way in their forums.
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Well i dare to say that you can better spend your time on useful things. They are trying to find a way to s-off for at least over 18 months now. No succes what so ever. Chances are very ....very small ! But if you do you are the man
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Mr Hofs said:
Well i dare to say that you can better spend your time on useful things. They are trying to find a way to s-off for at least over 18 months now. No succes what so ever. Chances are very ....very small ! But if you do you are the man
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Yeah and I am sure people that are much more talented than me in development are working on it. But the Chinese have a way of hiding stuff from the world, and they might've done something that works.
I had an idea to buy the Javacard and then "rent" it to anyone who needs S-OFF. But I am not sure people will be interested
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MosesTheTool said:
Yeah and I am sure people that are much more talented than me in development are working on it. But the Chinese have a way of hiding stuff from the world, and they might've done something that works.
I had an idea to buy the Javacard and then "rent" it to anyone who needs S-OFF. But I am not sure people will be interested
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Just like the Russians, they can s-off too
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[Q] Windows 8 -port- Tegra drivers

Hello Devs, after Nvidia released Tegra 3 drivers for windows 8, does that gives possibility for a windows 8 port to be released?
Please inform me if that is illegal so I don't start working on this project.

Why would you want to run windows when we have android
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Mr Hofs said:
Why would you want to run windows when we have android
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It's nice to have something running on our phones that shouldn't, that's what this websites about lol, porting Windows RT on the HD2 was allowed, I don't see why not for the One X
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Mr Hofs said:
Why would you want to run windows when we have android
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Want to full my freetime creatively, and main reason is change. Smthing new
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You can try to S-OFF

humzaahmed155 said:
It's nice to have something running on our phones that shouldn't, that's what this websites about lol, porting Windows RT on the HD2 was allowed, I don't see why not for the One X
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Good answer!
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jonhyxda said:
You can try to S-OFF
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Wasn't that deemed impossible by devs?
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I dont think that its impossible, maybe very very difficult, but not impossible.

And to be clear, my previous answer was not to discourage you in any way ! It was more out of a joking point of view, please port whatever you wish
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I don't think Windows RT has been ported to any unofficial device yet. I'm not sure if it's possible since the OS itself is closed source., and drivers can only help so much. It would be interesting to see someone try, though.

jonhyxda said:
You can try to S-OFF
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humzaahmed155 said:
Wasn't that deemed impossible by devs?
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jonhyxda said:
I dont think that its impossible, maybe very very difficult, but not impossible.
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where has everyone been hiding?, it most certainly is possible>>>>>http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/Unlocking/htc_s-off_service.htm and for only a few quid. also available in us, china and russia. sorry for OT, I couldn't resist

nogotaclue said:
where has everyone been hiding?, it most certainly is possible>>>>>http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/Unlocking/htc_s-off_service.htm and for only a few quid. also available in us, china and russia. sorry for OT, I couldn't resist
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[OT] Soff services online will normally hard patch the phone using a JTAG or XTC-Clip.
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humzaahmed155 said:
[OT] Soff services online will normally hard patch the phone using a JTAG or XTC-Clip.
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java card

nogotaclue said:
java card
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That too, though xtc clips have been irrelevant for a couple generations of HTC phones now
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nogotaclue said:
where has everyone been hiding?, it most certainly is possible>>>>>http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/Unlocking/htc_s-off_service.htm and for only a few quid. also available in us, china and russia. sorry for OT, I couldn't resist
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I know that, already read the thread with that.
I'm talking about a software solution to S-OFF.
But S-OFF is other thing, other thread.
Windows port, i think it's a good use to your time

jonhyxda said:
I know that, already read the thread with that.
I'm talking about a software solution to S-OFF.
But S-OFF is other thing, other thread.
Windows port, i think it's a good use to your time
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Another thing we should probably consider is: Will our bootloaders allow NT kernels to boot on our device? If so, wouldn't we need s-off anyway?
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humzaahmed155 said:
Another thing we should probably consider is: Will our bootloaders allow NT kernels to boot on our device? If so, wouldn't we need s-off anyway?
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I think we would need s off....:/ without we cant flash any other kernel then from HTC/nvidia source etc....
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[Q] S-OFF Impossible

So can we safely say that S-OFF for the tegra HOX is impossible? Atleast not by shipping your phone so it can be done else where?

aromerblz said:
So can we safely say that S-OFF for the tegra HOX is impossible? Atleast not by shipping your phone so it can be done else where?
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In theory, it's not impossible.. I still have hope..

LuisDias said:
In theory, it's not impossible.. I still have hope..
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I've read a million and one threads about an S-OFF method for the masses but all seem to have hit a dead end. More over I don't see any new developments on this. But I do still have hope that one day it will be possible.

aromerblz said:
So can we safely say that S-OFF for the tegra HOX is impossible? Atleast not by shipping your phone so it can be done else where?
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You need a y cable, htc signed javacard and a clean s58 diag file
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FaiselW said:
You need a y cable, htc signed javacard and a clean s58 diag file
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Yeah we know what the required tools are. But how to get them..that's been the biggest issue ever since. If repairshops that are non- HTC can do them.. How they got the signed Java card and clean S58 diag file? A real mystery.. Maybe they found another way around it.

Please spend your time useful, after 2 years of efforts/testing/searching for s-off there is no s-off for the masses. It will stay that way........

Mr Hofs said:
Please spend your time useful, after 2 years of efforts/testing/searching for s-off there is no s-off for the masses. It will stay that way........
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Maybe to some people it's a waste of time but others still have hope.. and "It will stay that way........"

aromerblz said:
Maybe to some people it's a waste of time but others still have hope.. and "It will stay that way........"
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ow you are free to wait as long as you like, but for the masses it really isn't going to happen

Mr Hofs said:
ow you are free to wait as long as you like, but for the masses it really isn't going to happen
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Yeah that's what a plan to do.. :laugh: