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Sim-unlock the HTC Legend through rooting/hacking?

My friend has decided to buy an HTC Legend and we found out that unlocking it will work on his desired carrier, although he would prefer if he could save some money through hacking (I was going to root it for him anyway). So is there any method?
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good bye

leaving my vivid for its bigger brother the one x , loved this phone despite the little devs this phone will now be just for play and other random thing ,

fredy915 said:
leaving my vivid for its bigger brother the one x , loved this phone despite the little devs this phone will now be just for play and other random thing ,
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Not gonna wait for the One X+?
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I too, will be leaving the Vivid when my contract is up. Great "first phone" for Android, but moving on to the SGS3.

fredy915 said:
leaving my vivid for its bigger brother the one x , loved this phone despite the little devs this phone will now be just for play and other random thing ,
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keep in mind if you're getting a One X and it comes with 2.20 on it, there's no root available yet. So it doesn't matter how many devs they have for the device, until they achieve root you won't be able to use any of their stuff.

homeslice976 said:
keep in mind if you're getting a One X and it comes with 2.20 on it, there's no root available yet. So it doesn't matter how many devs they have for the device, until they achieve root you won't be able to use any of their stuff.
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yep so the vivid is currently looking like a better option LOL

Got the Vivid when it first came out - this phone can't help but create mixed feelings:
Cons:
- Phone is heavy
- Battery life so-so, especially now that LTE is active
- Difficulty to unlock the phone means limited developers
Pros:
- Nice big screen with good quality (at full-brightness, nearly as good as S3 or HTC One X)
- Good camera and GPS (coming from the Captivate which was disastrous in both lol)
- Has FM radio, external SD cards and removable batteries - most of the top Android phones these days are missing at least one of these
The difficulty to develop is probably the biggest downside, but after almost a year I've finally dived into custom ROMs. Unlocked the bootloader, got S-Off thanks to the wire trick, even SIM Unlocked! Using Holis ROM, which is great, should tide me over until next spring when I'm eligible for an upgrade.
So in conclusion, while the Vivid was subpar under GB, since ICS came out it's been really nice. But I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone buying this phone unless it was cheap.

What is a vivid. Its not available in the UK
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homeslice976 said:
keep in mind if you're getting a One X and it comes with 2.20 on it, there's no root available yet. So it doesn't matter how many devs they have for the device, until they achieve root you won't be able to use any of their stuff.
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Htcdev unlock it an you're set. Same as vivid.
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Can't unlock the att one x (xl) without super cid which requires root. 2.20 has no root, so no HTCdev unlock. Att won't allow the bootloader to be unlocked
The intl one x as well as the s and v are htcdev unlockable

weeo said:
What is a vivid. Its not available in the UK
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I think it's either called the Raider or the Velocity in the UK. As far as I know, it's Raider in Canada (I can confirm that one at least since I own one), and Velocity in Aus/NZ.

ess.boyer said:
I think it's either called the Raider or the Velocity in the UK. As far as I know, it's Raider in Canada (I can confirm that one at least since I own one), and Velocity in Aus/NZ.
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I believe the Velocity is for China/ Korea

It is known by 3 names:
Vivid for the US
Velocity for Australia
Raider 4G everywhere else
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grunt0300 said:
I too, will be leaving the Vivid when my contract is up. Great "first phone" for Android, but moving on to the SGS3.
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This is exactly what I did. I have had the S3 for three weeks and it's so much better.
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ENvisiNKeD said:
Not gonna wait for the One X+?
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I bought this off contract lol just waiting a few more days to get the one x +
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homeslice976 said:
Can't unlock the att one x (xl) without super cid which requires root. 2.20 has no root, so no HTCdev unlock. Att won't allow the bootloader to be unlocked
The intl one x as well as the s and v are htcdev unlockable
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Already have boot loader unlocked and running a custom with 2.20 loving this phone just can't wait to get the one x + or if they make a nexus 4 with 32gig like that did the nexus 7 I'll get betting that instead so I'm just going to wait a few months or so and see what happens
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fredy915 said:
Already have boot loader unlocked and running a custom with 2.20 loving this phone just can't wait to get the one x + or if they make a nexus 4 with 32gig like that did the nexus 7 I'll get betting that instead so I'm just going to wait a few months or so and see what happens
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Yes, root for 2.20 was accomplished a few weeks or so after I posted that. Awesome what the dev community can do

homeslice976 said:
Yes, root for 2.20 was accomplished a few weeks or so after I posted that. It was wonderful news
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Yeah it was nice only had stock for about 2 weeks then once root was achieved bam loll rooted this baby
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I bounced out for lgog! The best phone out today. Ips, s4 pro, 2 gig ram,16 gig internal, removable SD slot, lte, unlock bl, also support
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It was a good run, but I think I'm going to retire my Vivid and get a One X+. Thanks to all the devs who continued to support the phone, after the situation. It's been great guys, thanks for making a great community around this little phone.

[Q] HTC One with branding

I can get the HTC One with Vodafone Branding for 360 Euro .. I haven't had a branded device before,
what are the downsides besides no OTA from HTC?
Is there a way to unbrand the phone?

You can root mate to get rid of branded bloatware. If not though your limited to carrier pushed out updates and if they do the cid way again regardless of if your rooted or not your stuffed
Shouldn't stop you getting it though. Hopefully HTC won't do the cid way again
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arknailed7754 said:
You can root mate to get rid of branded bloatware. If not though your limited to carrier pushed out updates and if they do the cid way again regardless of if your rooted or not your stuffed
Shouldn't stop you getting it though. Hopefully HTC won't do the cid way again
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They always do the cid way if there is carrier bloat. Because it's the carrier pushing out the software not HTC
Just hope for s-off or supercid
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How likely will there be supercid or s-off?
For 360 it is a good deal, so I would be ready to take a small risk haha

voltron2k11 said:
How likely will there be supercid or s-off?
For 360 it is a good deal, so I would be ready to take a small risk haha
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We won't know until the device is released, more people have a chance to try
And those who already have a device that are working on it will remain quiet until it's released
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I heard that with previous devices like the One S or One X+ there have been problems with getting s-off on bloated phones and changing the cid ..

voltron2k11 said:
I heard that with previous devices like the One S or One X+ there have been problems with getting s-off on bloated phones and changing the cid ..
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There's always an exploit, they just haven't found it yet
We can only hope
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the One X was just left to eat dust.. while its cousins and brothers "The EVO 4G LTE, DNA etc" got s-off days or a few months after release

YoungAceAtlanta said:
the One X was just left to eat dust.. while its cousins and brothers "The EVO 4G LTE, DNA etc" got s-off days or a few months after release
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The devices with sd cards are easier to exploit to begin with, especially the Qualcomm ones
They also recently found a common exploit with the Qualcomm processors
Since the one will have a Qualcomm processor we can hope a similar exploit is found
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Thanks for the info .. I guess I will just go for it
It's a great phone even when I can't get it exploited.

voltron2k11 said:
Thanks for the info .. I guess I will just go for it
It's a great phone even when I can't get it exploited.
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My suggestion to all is to never buy a phone (besides a nexus) that you aren't happy to have with the stock software, just in case
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That is how I felt about it, but it's a bargain for a great phone with already awesome software
I can wait for custom roms or go without

hey I'm new to HTC phones so whats the difference with bootloader unlock, s-off, and supercid?

ross1998 said:
hey I'm new to HTC phones so whats the difference with bootloader unlock, s-off, and supercid?
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unlocking the bootloader let's you mess with the /system, flashing kernel & recovery partition(using a PC only). Setting the phone to S-Off let's you flash kernels, baseband/radio, recovery, hboot(through your phone directly), Super CID I'd like to know also. This CID thing just came out on the One series so no idea what is it.

CID is HTC's way to differentiate between carrier and regional devices, also that's how they push updates and they started CIDs a while ago...
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[Q] interchangable?

Hey guys just a question regarding the roms for the one, I see for some reason development in the sprint one section is rather slow compared to the other versions. I see when I go to the general HTC one forum the roms say "supports all HTC one models" does this mean I can use on my sprint one? I would assume not because of radio issues?
Thanks in advance for the replys.

No. Only flash roms designed for the Sprint One. Give development time... It will pick up.
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Quality over quantity. We have root, and a few ROMs. The Evo3D took forever to break in and just exploded after a bit.
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really are ones were just released they had there's a month or more longer
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Beanflinger stock Rom missing on HTC one?

Anyone point me in the rite direction on how to get the beanflinger game / daydream unlocked on the htc one as I cannot for the life of me where as on my sgs4 it works immediately? Thanks
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I'd like to find out how this can be unlocked on the Verizon HTC one. Is it even possible?