This question was asked but not the answer i seek. But I want to S-off my vivid and I saw juopunutbear method but im thinking that cant be the only way to S-off the vivid.
So I ask is there any other way do S-off the vivid and avoid the Juopunutbear's method.
I highly doubt HTC made the only way to S-off the vivid is to go that route but im just wondering.
At the moment the wire trick is the only way to get s-off.
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I have tried both moonshine and revone and cant seem to get s-off on my HTC One M7. When I try on Moonshine it gets to the adb part and times out and says for me to fix it. When I try revone, I get an error code -6. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?
DevinM7 said:
I have tried both moonshine and revone and cant seem to get s-off on my HTC One M7. When I try on Moonshine it gets to the adb part and times out and says for me to fix it. When I try revone, I get an error code -6. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?
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Need more info. Specifically, what is your Hboot version?
I'm a complete noob man. I recently moved over from iphone to android. Where do I find out my HBoot version?
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Complete noobs shouldn't S-off
#justsayin
adb reboot bootloader
look at the top for hboot version.
If it says 1.54 you can't S-off
DevinM7 said:
I'm a complete noob man. I recently moved over from iphone to android. Where do I find out my HBoot version?
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That's cool bro, me too not that long ago. HTC One is my first Android, and I love it. Reboot into bootloader (hold down volume and power simultaneously, phone will reboot into bootloader mode). You'll see your Hboot version there. S-off only works on Hboot 1.44.
A word of caution from one noob to another. S-off is serious stuff, and not really needed for 90% of the mods here at xda. You can flash custom roms and recoveries, and radios, all without S-off. Just be careful, and read Everything. I mean it, I have spent countless hours here at xda reading before I did anything. The community here is very willing to help, as am I.
What have you done to your phone thus far? Unlocked? Rooted? Custom recovery or ROM?
Appreciate it guys. Yea I'm running HBoot 1.44, so I guess that solves that, lol. Yea I have rooted my phone with TWRP recovery. I was really hoping to turn s-off so I could switch over to Google play edition. Any suggestions on roms and other stuff to try out? And Thanks for being helpful and patient with me. Unfortunately I'm used to dealing with jailbroken iPhones.
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DevinM7 said:
Appreciate it guys. Yea I'm running HBoot 1.44, so I guess that solves that, lol. Yea I have rooted my phone with TWRP recovery. I was really hoping to turn s-off so I could switch over to Google play edition. Any suggestions on roms and other stuff to try out? And Thanks for being helpful and patient with me. Unfortunately I'm used to dealing with jailbroken iPhones.
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1.44 CAN be S-off'ed
DevinM7 said:
Appreciate it guys. Yea I'm running HBoot 1.44, so I guess that solves that, lol. Yea I have rooted my phone with TWRP recovery. I was really hoping to turn s-off so I could switch over to Google play edition. Any suggestions on time and other stuff to try out? And Thanks for being helpful and patient with me. Unfortunately I'm used to dealing with jailbroken iPhones.
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The fact that you're coming from the jailbreak community is good, imo. Thing is, it's practically impossible to brick an iPhone, even a jail broken one, as you could always just restore the iPhone. S-off definitely gives you the opportunity (possible but not probable, depends on what you do) to brick your phone permanently. That being said, I used Revone and it worked well and easily. Read and follow the instructions in the OP for Revone to a T. I recommend reading about the first 50 pages in that thread before you try anything also (ignore the last half of the Revone thread for the most part, just page after page of people shocked and complaining the can't S-off Hboot 1.54). Some people get Revone to work pretty easily, some try 20 times and then it just works.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390346 is a rom for GpE 4.3 that you could flash right now as you are, but yeah, you have to be S-off to fully convert.
From spending so much time here lately, some observations one noob to another:
-Either stay stock or go custom (I recommend custom), and stick to it. A lot of people here went custom (including S-off), and f'd up their Ones trying frantically to get back to stock for an OTA. Forums were littered with people who messed that up.
-Careful with TWRP. I use it and like it, but be very careful when you are wiping Dalvik/cache. Ton of people here blaze through the wipe options, then all it takes is a swipe, and suddenly they've erased everything and can't boot their phone. Just always triple check before that final swipe.
-if you modify your Hboot in any way, never ever go S-on until you flash a stock Hboot. Doing so will permanently brick your phone. I can't think of a reason to ever go S-on, but that was part if the whole return to stock for OTA scenario.
Hope this all helps!
Thanks so much for your help man. You have been a great help. So let me make sure I have this right. I have to change my HBoot version to be able to s-off at this point?
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DevinM7 said:
Thanks so much for your help man. You have been a great help. So let me make sure I have this right. I have to change my HBoot version to be able to s-off at this point?
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You're welcome, happy to help!
No! If you are n Hboot 1.44, you should be able to go S-off fine. I recommend Revone, only because that's what I used. Just read, read, read, and follow the instructions to the letter.
Thanks! Do you know the URL to the OP for revone?
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DevinM7 said:
Thanks! Do you know the URL to the OP for revone?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314582
Here yah go, no problem
Okay, so here goes...
A friend of a friend has a AT&T 64GB HTC One (in silver, if anyone cares...)
I, being the phone guru in the eastern parts of the GTA in Ontario (Yes, I am a Canadian, )
was contacted earlier this week to solve a rather confusing issue to which I find myself rather dumbfounded.
PROBLEM: Phone-owner rooted, unlocked the bootloader and s-off'ed using RevOne (before 1.54 hboot as not currently possible as of today). He attempted a Google Edition conversion with success or so he thought, now the phone works fine except for any carrier based service of any kind, sim is detected but, no service of any kind works. During the conversion he re-locked bootloader, flipped s-off to s-on and unrooted. Root has been re-achieved, and I'm looking into HBOOT version for s-off and the ability to re-unlock bootloader. TWRP is the currently installed recovery, when a sense-based rom is installed, it says sim is locked. I'm quite adept at android everything and this kind of stumps me and is my first take at HTC One development.
Any help greatly appreciated, thanks!
UPDATE: HBOOT is 1.54 and is S-ON
I don't have a solution but I remember reading on XDA that you will screw up your phone if you switch s-off to s-on after doing the conversion.
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austriak said:
I don't have a solution but I remember reading on XDA that you will screw up your phone if you switch s-off to s-on after doing the conversion.
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Any ideas on where you read this or if anyone knows, I'm eager to know as I was offered to buy the dilema-ridden HTC One.
Thanks
Sounds like he screwed up his phone like some others did who were not careful enough about the GE conversion. What he did was input a conflicting MID/CID then locked that bad configuration down.
From what I've heard, installing a 4.3 rom may solve the issue. You can't currently s-off because the 1.54 hboot closed the exploit.
You could be buying an expensive mp3 player, so be careful.
I recently got a HTC One and ive managed to unlock and root.
I've read quite a lot about S-Off, and im still undecided whether or not I actually need it!
Is it really necessary? benefits from using it at the moment?
Changing CID & MID/ superCID would be my only task after s-off.. You can then flash RUUs of other CID/MID, and also flash older RUUs.. You can also flash a custom hboot
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If you can, do it!
You can return stock and you can downgrade your hboot and much more!
Do it, do it, do it if you have the 1.44 hboot
If you could s-off, do it. If you can't who cares? S-off is overrated in my book.
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Absolutely you should do it if you can. I just found out yesterday that my phone may go in for warranty or I might have to downgrade firmware. Thanks to s-off I can revert to stock. Do it!
There's no harm in doing it and it's a fairly simple task.
Follow the links in the tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4BWxtjaamM
Bear with me as this is my first HTC device in a long time. I got it used and the bootloader is unlocked but says **TAMPERED**. I understand I could relock it and return it to stock but it seems I need S-OFF in order to do this. Currently, the phone is still S-ON. What would be the correct steps in getting rid of the tampered message? If you can just guide me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
There are plenty of guides to s-off, look in the original development section...
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There are plenty of guides to s-off, look in the original development section...
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So, I do need S-OFF to relock? I know there are guides but not sure which is the first step.
Nicraz said:
Bear with me as this is my first HTC device in a long time. I got it used and the bootloader is unlocked but says **TAMPERED**. I understand I could relock it and return it to stock but it seems I need S-OFF in order to do this. Currently, the phone is still S-ON. What would be the correct steps in getting rid of the tampered message? If you can just guide me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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Get s-off using revone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314582
And don't go s-on again unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. There are quite a few prerequisites for s-on, otherwise you'll brick your phone!!!
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So, I do need S-OFF to relock? I know there are guides but not sure which is the first step.
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You don't need it to relock, but it will say "Relocked" instead of "Locked"
With S-off you can change it to back Locked, like it was never touched.
The s-off guides have a list of requirements that you need before you get started if you do go that path.
Are you trying to make it look completely stock? Or just relocking? They require completely different things.
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Doesn't 'tampered' just mean it's still got the custom recovery on it? Sure I've read if you get the stock one back on it goes away
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You don't need it to relock, but it will say "Relocked" instead of "Locked"
With S-off you can change it to back Locked, like it was never touched.
The s-off guides have a list of requirements that you need before you get started if you do go that path.
Are you trying to make it look completely stock? Or just relocking? They require completely different things.
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I'll head over there and make sure to read.
I'm a bit hesitant of doing anything with it. I was looking to just change it back to stock completely and possibly selling it. People who don't really root their phones may be turned off by the whole tampered thing, especially if they want to send it back to HTC for repair or something.
Nicraz said:
I'll head over there and make sure to read.
I'm a bit hesitant of doing anything with it. I was looking to just change it back to stock completely and possibly selling it. People who don't really root their phones may be turned off by the whole tampered thing, especially if they want to send it back to HTC for repair or something.
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Once you're s-off you can remove the tampered sign, and even lock (as opposed to relocked) using revone.
As long as you're on hboot 1.44.
You can even keep it s-off because some phones come s-off by default so service centers shouldnt be able to complain about that.
Do quite a bit of reading if you do want to go back to s-on, otherwise a brick can happen!
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Once you're s-off you can remove the tampered sign, and even lock (as opposed to relocked) using revone.
As long as you're on hboot 1.44.
You can even keep it s-off because some phones come s-off by default so service centers shouldnt be able to complain about that.
Do quite a bit of reading if you do want to go back to s-on, otherwise a brick can happen!
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Thank you very much. I just wanted a bit of guidance on what direction to take. Thanks again!!
My htc one is hboot1.57 model:801S
I can't sOff it by using firewater or other way I find.
Could you tell me how to SOff it?
debut said:
My htc one is hboot1.57 model:801S
I can't sOff it by using firewater or other way I find.
Could you tell me how to SOff it?
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Try Sunshine S-Off, not free though, but a one time cost per device.
debut said:
My htc one is hboot1.57 model:801S
I can't sOff it by using firewater or other way I find.
Could you tell me how to SOff it?
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firewater is dead
use sunshine like said above