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Now that we have s-off what can we do with it?

I know there's a ton of things we can do with s-off like different ruu's and supercid but what else?
I'm an HTC noob and there are others like me, so for us, tell us what we can do and how to do it
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Lots. Major stuff:
-change CID
-remove red text on splash screen
-custom splash screens
-downgrade firmware

How do you change the red text? That's a big annoyance to me
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Also a question from a noob. What benefit is there for being able to do those sorts of things since we can already flash the same roms onto multiple versions of hardware (except for sprint)?

Thewildfoxcat said:
Also a question from a noob. What benefit is there for being able to do those sorts of things since we can already flash the same roms onto multiple versions of hardware (except for sprint)?
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normal users don't know what are the differences but S-OFF will give the devs a lot more space to develop and play on.
and most important, we can **** HTC warranty

spitfire2425 said:
How do you change the red text? That's a big annoyance to me
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Edited hboot. Someone needs to create one. It will come.

iElvis said:
Edited hboot. Someone needs to create one. It will come.
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If your looking to remove Tampered then you need to read the thread a bit more as you can re-run the process but with a command
that has -t on the end...

I've already done that.
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slyevo said:
If your looking to remove Tampered then you need to read the thread a bit more as you can re-run the process but with a command
that has -t on the end...
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They're talking about the red "This is for developmental purposes only... etc etc etc" on the white HTC splash screen when you first boot the phone.

Im on ATT HTC One, Once i'm on super CID, can i flash any RUU to my liking?
Hint - I plan to flash Dev edition RUU on it.

x017in said:
Im on ATT HTC One, Once i'm on super CID, can i flash any RUU to my liking?
Hint - I plan to flash Dev edition RUU on it.
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In theory yes. Its all the same hardware. And you can flash an Int. Rom

How to Remove Red Development Splash Screen for HTC Desire C

Hi,
Please guide me how to remove Red warning from start up splash screen...
and please make it simple as possible....
Thanks in Advance...

You have to relock bootloader. Unless we get S-OFF, there is no other way. :/
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Please guide me...with steps and i will relock the bootloader and s-off...
Don't know about s-off please make it simple...i'm newbie to this (((
Thanks for the fast reply

hotsamfisher said:
Please guide me...with steps and i will relock the bootloader and s-off...
Don't know about s-off please make it simple...i'm newbie to this (((
Thanks for the fast reply
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If you want your phone to be rooted, you're gonna have to deal with the sign. If you re lock the bootloader, it will go back to being as it came out of the box (stock). Then you can not use root

We don't have s-off and if you relock boot loader you won't be able to run a custom rom
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you can remove the red splash screen by flashing stock recovery

Makerrr said:
you can remove the red splash screen by flashing stock recovery
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and kernel

If it is really a bother to you I have found a solution to that somewhat bland screen.
DO NOT LOOK AT IT

saskrider said:
If it is really a bother to you I have found a solution to that somewhat bland screen.
DO NOT LOOK AT IT
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i find it to be most bemusing in my own opinion it reminds me that htc that said we would never have jb and now we have the latest jb

Its just a splash screen man, just dont look at it if ya dont want to
You can always relock your bootloader but it will make you lose the awesome root features, which i guess
are worth that screen

<CyberAnarchy> said:
Its just a splash screen man, just dont look at it if ya dont want to
You can always relock your bootloader but it will make you lose the awesome root features, which i guess
are worth that screen
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Exactly! And the poor screen appears only for a few seconds.

[Q] HELP with bootlooping please

So I was trying out different ROMS on my HTC ONE with sprint. But now no matter what rom i try, it bootloops withing less then a minute. I have even tried the most stable version of cyan... I do not have s-off.... This is my first HTC root and never had to mess with that in the past ... could this be my issue? and if so... how can i get s-off when i cant keep the phone on for longer then a minute

shawnd44 said:
So I was trying out different ROMS on my HTC ONE with sprint. But now no matter what rom i try, it bootloops withing less then a minute. I have even tried the most stable version of cyan... I do not have s-off.... This is my first HTC root and never had to mess with that in the past ... could this be my issue? and if so... how can i get s-off when i cant keep the phone on for longer then a minute
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/facepalm
List of ROMs you installed while "trying out different ROMs". Nine to ten odds you accidentally grabbed something out of the international forums.
Either way, you will likely need to RUU to stock.

More information please. Are you rooted? Do you have a custom recovery? Which is it? Have you tried to access your recovery? If you can get into recovery, you can flash a new ROM, if you have one in memory. If not, you can sideload one. And as the guy above posted, what ROMs have you tried to flash so far? You cannot flash any ROM that does not specifically say m7spr in the title. Ours is a different device, regardless of how they are the same hardware.

shawnd44 said:
So I was trying out different ROMS on my HTC ONE with sprint. But now no matter what rom i try, it bootloops withing less then a minute. I have even tried the most stable version of cyan... I do not have s-off.... This is my first HTC root and never had to mess with that in the past ... could this be my issue? and if so... how can i get s-off when i cant keep the phone on for longer then a minute
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You should be s-off before flashing any third-part roms or recovery...
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j_rivers said:
You should be s-off before flashing any third-part roms or recovery...
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Incorrect. S-ON and custom works fine as long as you're not trying to make changes to /system during runtime.

Rirere said:
Incorrect. S-ON and custom works fine as long as you're not trying to make changes to /system during runtime.
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Correct until you have a bad flash or flash a GSM Rom and need to RUU.
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Konfuzion said:
Correct until you have a bad flash or flash a GSM Rom and need to RUU.
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Which to me is essentially the same as saying "a case is not necessary to your phone until you smash your phone." Bad flashes do happen, I'll admit that, but they're rarer than they used to be. Flashing the wrong ROM has basically always been a cause for problems, and people need to take more care not to do it to begin with.

Rirere said:
Which to me is essentially the same as saying "a case is not necessary to your phone until you smash your phone." Bad flashes do happen, I'll admit that, but they're rarer than they used to be. Flashing the wrong ROM has basically always been a cause for problems, and people need to take more care not to do it to begin with.
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Yeah you should live life from that stand point dont wrap it until you get someone pregnant. And if you think people arent flashing GSM roms often you need to lurk this forum more, its like a plague for the HTC One.

Konfuzion said:
Yeah you should live life from that stand point dont wrap it until you get someone pregnant. And if you think people arent flashing GSM roms often you need to lurk this forum more, its like a plague for the HTC One.
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Wow, talk about hyperbolic exaggeration. I'm well aware that people are being idiots and flashing GSM ROMs, but if you don't know what you're doing you're just as likely to screw up getting S-OFF or fail to do an RUU. The point is that no amount of precautionary measures are going to save someone from carelessness.

Rirere said:
Wow, talk about hyperbolic exaggeration. I'm well aware that people are being idiots and flashing GSM ROMs, but if you don't know what you're doing you're just as likely to screw up getting S-OFF or fail to do an RUU. The point is that no amount of precautionary measures are going to save someone from carelessness.
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Yeah that's true, I guess there has just been many times I am trying to help someone with a soft brick and I wished they had s-off.
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Konfuzion said:
Yeah that's true, I guess there has just been many times I am trying to help someone with a soft brick and I wished they had s-off.
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Certainly fair, but I wish they'd generally read more in the first place.

Ooopps!

Guys... apologies if this is common, but I can't find an answer....
I've just managed to s-off my device, but now it shows locked on the bootloader and I can't seem to unlock it or flash a custom recovery again.What have I done here? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks :fingers-crossed:
... sorry, I meant to put this in the general forum!

grahamkdt said:
Guys... apologies if this is common, but I can't find an answer....
I've just managed to s-off my device, but now it shows locked on the bootloader and I can't seem to unlock it or flash a custom recovery again.What have I done here? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks :fingers-crossed:
... sorry, I meant to put this in the general forum!
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If you used revone to s-off, use it to unlock. The commands and instructions are in the OP of their thread.
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HTC ONE M7 Custom ROM issues

I have been using this forum for years and just now am posting for the first time.
I have a HTC ONE M7 originally from ATT that I used rum runner about a year ago to flash android HD which worked on the TMobile network about a year. Last month my phone went into bootloop and I could not flash a new rom or put any data on the internal storage at all. Long story short I used mkfs.ext4 to remount the data and no I can flash roms with no problem.
The issue I am having is that any rom(cyanogenmod,Viper,Android HD by Mike 1986) I flash just bootloops and wont load EXCEPT PAC-MAN pac_m7-lp-mr1-official-20150611.zip plus gapps. This load and run like a normal rom except the dialer doesn’t work, no sound, no video. It’s basically useless as far as doing anything other than playing a games and sending text messages. One more thing cyanogenmod will load but keeps resetting setup and if I push really fast I can get past the set up but will reset before i can really do anything.
I’m pretty much stumped at this point and any help is appreciated. Also my phone is S-On and using TWRP. Thanks advance.

insanitey1 said:
I have been using this forum for years and just now am posting for the first time.
I have a HTC ONE M7 originally from ATT that I used rum runner about a year ago to flash android HD which worked on the TMobile network about a year. Last month my phone went into bootloop and I could not flash a new rom or put any data on the internal storage at all. Long story short I used mkfs.ext4 to remount the data and no I can flash roms with no problem.
The issue I am having is that any rom(cyanogenmod,Viper,Android HD by Mike 1986) I flash just bootloops and wont load EXCEPT PAC-MAN pac_m7-lp-mr1-official-20150611.zip plus gapps. This load and run like a normal rom except the dialer doesn’t work, no sound, no video. It’s basically useless as far as doing anything other than playing a games and sending text messages. One more thing cyanogenmod will load but keeps resetting setup and if I push really fast I can get past the set up but will reset before i can really do anything.
I’m pretty much stumped at this point and any help is appreciated. Also my phone is S-On and using TWRP. Thanks advance.
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You cannot flash aosp roms unless your s-off.
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lambofgod13 said:
You cannot flash aosp roms unless your s-off.
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Says who?

donkeykong1 said:
Says who?
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Says every dev I've ever asked about it when i was attempting to flash their gpe or aosp roms.
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lambofgod13 said:
Says every dev I've ever asked about it when i was attempting to flash their gpe or aosp roms.
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How do you explain my s-on M7 running CM ROM then?

donkeykong1 said:
How do you explain my s-on M7 running CM ROM then?
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The thread here was asking why he was having issues, it is known that if your s-on you will and can have major problems on gpe and aosp roms, I'm not here to argue with you. If your not contributing to helping him then why are you commenting on his thread?
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lambofgod13 said:
The thread here was asking why he was having issues, it is insured l known that if your s-on you will and can have major problems on gpe and aosp roms, I'm not here to argue with you. If your not contributing to helping him then why are you commenting on his thread?
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My point is that you can run AOSP ROMs on s-on phone. The fact that all those ROMs have bugs does not have anything to do with security status of the phone

donkeykong1 said:
My point is that you can run AOSP ROMs on s-on phone. The fact that all those ROMs have bugs does not have anything to do with security status of the phone
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it's about the unsecured bootloader. *Htc *won't allow the phone to install unsecured... IE: non htc signed firmware, *if the bootloader is secured.So, *if you are installing a modified htc firmware, *it's okay.. But when you go to install aosp, *htc doesn't recognize that as legitimite firmware. Quoted from a dev that makes both sense and gpe/aosp roms. Go argue with him.
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You will find a couple of them that will work and some won't work, depends on how the dev signed the rom.
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lambofgod13 said:
it's about the unsecured bootloader. *Htc *won't allow the phone to install unsecured... IE: non htc signed firmware, *if the bootloader is secured.So, *if you are installing a modified htc firmware, *it's okay.. But when you go to install aosp, *htc doesn't recognize that as legitimite firmware. Quoted from a dev that makes both sense and gpe/aosp roms. Go argue with him.
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You will find a couple of them that will work and some won't work, depends on how the dev signed the rom.
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Can you please provide a link to something that explains unsecured bootloader? This is the first time I hear about that. And this is a legitimate question, not arguing in any way. I just want to learn

donkeykong1 said:
Can you please provide a link to something that explains unsecured bootloader? This is the first time I hear about that. And this is a legitimate question, not arguing in any way. I just want to learn
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Yeah, i don't have time to look it up. I know that's the case because when i was s-on i would have trouble with aosp roms, now that I've been s- off I've never had trouble. Look around the threads you'll see allot of info on it. Sorry i don't have time to find it for you.
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lambofgod13 said:
The thread here was asking why he was having issues, it is known that if your s-on you will and can have major problems on gpe and aosp roms
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You don't need s-off to flash any roms (as opposed to a Firmware/RUU).
If your not contributing to helping him then why are you commenting on his thread?
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Because you are giving incorrect information which could confuse the OP of this thread, even if I know you have good intentions and only wants to help him. Giving clarifications to avoid confusion is a contribution.
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it's about the unsecured bootloader. *Htc *won't allow the phone to install unsecured... IE: non htc signed firmware
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Right, you can't install an unsigned firmware on a s-on (secured) bootloader but a ROM is not a firmware. A rom is only flashing on the /system /data and /radio partitions which can easily be flashed with whatever you want as long as you have an unlocked bootloader, there is no htc signature needed to flash these partitions (and the recovery partition). Anyway, the signature verification is disabled when you unlock the bootloader (hence why you need to relock the bootloader if flashing a firmware or RUU on a S-ON phone)
The firmware contain the hboot, adsp, secondary bootloaders, drivers, etc... The official firmware is signed with HTC key and can be flashed on a S-ON phone + locked or re-locked bootloader. An unofficial/modded firmware (firmware is not a rom) can only be flashed on a S-OFF phone.
So in short, you don't need S-OFF to flash a rom, a recovery or a radio. These partitions are not secured.
*if the bootloader is secured.So, *if you are installing a modified htc firmware
*it's okay.. But when you go to install aosp, *htc doesn't recognize that as legitimite firmware. Quoted from a dev that makes both sense and gpe/aosp roms. Go argue with him.
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I'll be more than happy to talk with this dev. You have probably misinterpreted what he said.
depends on how the dev signed the rom.
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No...
Btw not trying to be rude with you and I hope you understand the difference between firmware/roms S-OFF/S-ON now. If not clear I'll be happy to answer your questions.
Now back to the OP
@insanitey1 can you post the output of "fastboot getvar all" (don't post your imei/sn). Also need to know what recovery (name + version) you are using.
Roms based on CM must be flashed using at least twrp 2.7.1.1. All Sense based roms must be flashed with least twrp 2.6.3.3. Also , all newer Sense roms (lollipop versions) need one of the latest(7.xx.xxx.x) firmware version( or version-main if you prefer) installed on your phone You can see your version-main when booted in the bootloader menu or from the "fastboot getvar all" output.