Had this phone for around a month and i'm really happy with it apart from the 3 network branding on startup. The phone is S-ON and showing HBOOT-1.57.000 in the bootloader.
I have looked on youtube and someone claims to of put a custom rom on their 1.57 phone even though the phone is still S-ON? Is this possible? If so would I be able to put a stock rom onto it to remove the branding with it still being S-ON?
Thanks in advance.
scorpionatthepc said:
Had this phone for around a month and i'm really happy with it apart from the 3 network branding on startup. The phone is S-ON and showing HBOOT-1.57.000 in the bootloader.
I have looked on youtube and someone claims to of put a custom rom on their 1.57 phone even though the phone is still S-ON? Is this possible? If so would I be able to put a stock rom onto it to remove the branding with it still being S-ON?
Thanks in advance.
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You can flash custom roms on s-on phones. All you need is the bootloader to be unlocked and a custom recovery installed.
Returning back to stock might require S-off depending if you need to run an older version RUU to restore the phone. S-OFF is also required to reset the bootloader flag to LOCKED (not RE-LOCKED) and to remove the TAMPERED flag.
Ok thanks for that.
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Hi everyone,
I have been using android for a couple of years now but first reasontly I got an interest for modifying the software.
After reading numerous of hours on the forums I still have´nt found a thread giving me all the answers for the bootloader setup and what do the different statements mean for you and your phone.
Ex. my One´s bootloader says following:
TAMPERED - Is this good or bad?
UNLOCKED - Why has it not gone back to locked after I flashed a custom ROM and why is S-ON back again.
S-ON - Any danger by keeping this S-OFF all the time? Before I flashed I believe it said "S-ON RL" Now it says S-ON RH?
HBOOT - Any good reasons to mess with this?
RADIO - Same question as above.
xtra:
OpenDSP-v26.120.276.0202 - Whats this?`
eMMC-boot - Whats this?
The date written is the date it was flashed by the vendor?
Thanks for any answers and I hope someone can help me clear my head!
Groovi80 said:
Hi everyone,
I have been using android for a couple of years now but first reasontly I got an interest for modifying the software.
After reading numerous of hours on the forums I still have´nt found a thread giving me all the answers for the bootloader setup and what do the different statements mean for you and your phone.
Ex. my One´s bootloader says following:
TAMPERED - Is this good or bad?
UNLOCKED - Why has it not gone back to locked after I flashed a custom ROM and why is S-ON back again.
S-ON - Any danger by keeping this S-OFF all the time? Before I flashed I believe it said "S-ON RL" Now it says S-ON RH?
HBOOT - Any good reasons to mess with this?
RADIO - Same question as above.
xtra:
OpenDSP-v26.120.276.0202 - Whats this?`
eMMC-boot - Whats this?
The date written is the date it was flashed by the vendor?
Thanks for any answers and I hope someone can help me clear my head!
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Tampered means you have unsigned software running on your device
Unlocked means you unlocked you bootloader and won't change back until you relock it, and s-on will stay s-on unless you s-off your device
Stay s-on if you don't know the benefits of s-off, it increases your chance of bricking the device
Hboot-you couldn't mess with it if you wanted without s-off, don't mess with it
Radio-It's just best to stay with your stock radio firmware
Those others are just information about the device. Not really sure. These are things you need not worry about, just keep on flashing roms and you will be fine.
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superchilpil said:
Tampered means you have unsigned software running on your device
Unlocked means you unlocked you bootloader and won't change back until you relock it, and s-on will stay s-on unless you s-off your device
Stay s-on if you don't know the benefits of s-off, it increases your chance of bricking the device
Hboot-you couldn't mess with it if you wanted without s-off, don't mess with it
Radio-It's just best to stay with your stock radio firmware
Those others are just information about the device. Not really sure. These are things you need not worry about, just keep on flashing roms and you will be fine.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4
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Thanks for the fast reply Superchillpill.
I am using Trickdroid ROM, so this has to be signed by who in order to remove the TAMPERED from my phone?
Is there any point relocking the bootloader?
And do I not need to S-OFF again in order to flash another custom ROM?
Groovi80 said:
Thanks for the fast reply Superchillpill.
I am using Trickdroid ROM, so this has to be signed by who in order to remove the TAMPERED from my phone?
Is there any point relocking the bootloader?
And do I not need to S-OFF again in order to flash another custom ROM?
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By HTC, the tampered isn't going to go away basically. Unless you s-off your device
No there isn't any point, you need an unlocked bootloader to flash custom roms.
S-off is not needed with an unlocked bootloader
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eMMC-boot, if I'm not mistaken, means the phone has booted from its onboard system rather than fastboot boot mode. This is something you don't need to worry about unless you're a developer or advanced user.
Open DSP is the digital signal processing framework. Again, nothing you need to worry about unless you're a dev.
I attempted to flash my UK Vodafone HTC One as I wanted Android Revolutiion HD ROM on my phone, i've sort of got half way and i'm not sure how to continue (or if I should)
So i've unlocked the bootloader, and flashed the clockwork recovery so my phone now says *TAMPERED*
It is still S-On and is on HBOOT 1.54 - having read around this cannot be done, right?
Also, one other quick question. If I ever wanted to go back to complete stock, how can I do this? I can't seem to find the RUU for my phone, and how would I remove *TAMPERED*
Here is my radio version: 4A.17.3250.14
ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED GUYS! I've rooted other HTC's before but not the One yet
You can't go S-Off on 1.54
You could just flash the stock rom and stock recovery, which has the same result as an RUU/
Tampered is removed when you lock, but you can't remove -relocked- without S-Off
Thanks for your reply.
So what you're saying is in the situation I am in at the moment, I can't flash the ARHD ROM to my phone without being S-OFF first?
It's basically just a waiting game for S-OFF to become available for 1.54 and then I could just flash the stock ROM and recovery and then S-OFF to remove the TAMPERED or RELOCKED.
This will be just incase id ever need to send the phone off to Vodafone for whatever reason
Hi all,
As the title suggests I need to get my HTC One back to S-On to send it back for repair, as I'm from Australia there is no RUU available for my Carrier but I have flashed back to stock using a Guru Nandroid, currently it's Bootloader is locked it's CID is OPTUS001 (default) and HBoot 1.55 S-Off which I need to get back to on and it's had it's latest OTA installed.
Earlier today I did achieve S-Off and locked but ended up with the tamper flag above locked which obviously couldn't be returned like that.
At the moment I am wondering if I need to downgrade just HBoot to 1.44 so I can S-On again but I'm worried it will show tampered again after I S-On like it did before, now in further if this is the only way to do it how can I get HBoot 1.55 back in after I S-On, I haven't found any firmware downloads out there at all specific to my device.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Just leave it s off its not a problem. As long as tampered is gone and boot loader is locked that is fine
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Ok thank you for the reply, I have tried so many different things today and to be honest I'm surprised it's not bricked doing some of the things I have done, cheers.
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Going from s off to s on is actually one of the easiest ways to brick your phone if your not careful. There really is no need. Some phones actually come out of the factory s off. And with warranty repairs I've heard of plenty of people with custom roms and unlocked bootloaders get it fixed no problem. Yours sounds fine
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Sojourner353 said:
Hi all,
As the title suggests I need to get my HTC One back to S-On to send it back for repair, as I'm from Australia there is no RUU available for my Carrier but I have flashed back to stock using a Guru Nandroid, currently it's Bootloader is locked it's CID is OPTUS001 (default) and HBoot 1.55 S-Off which I need to get back to on and it's had it's latest OTA installed.
Earlier today I did achieve S-Off and locked but ended up with the tamper flag above locked which obviously couldn't be returned like that.
At the moment I am wondering if I need to downgrade just HBoot to 1.44 so I can S-On again but I'm worried it will show tampered again after I S-On like it did before, now in further if this is the only way to do it how can I get HBoot 1.55 back in after I S-On, I haven't found any firmware downloads out there at all specific to my device.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Reason I ask is because everyone here recommends you leave your phone S-off when returning to stock. My phone is a carrier based phone (O2-UK)
I figured that all phones under 02-UK are shipped as s-on (from experience only, I worked with 02 and only had a few HTC phones where I checked and they were S-on)
My phone has to be sent back for repair. At present it is S-off with locked boot loader and completely stock Rom. I can easily go back to S-on if needed so this is out of curiosity
stovie_steve said:
Reason I ask is because everyone here recommends you leave your phone S-off when returning to stock. My phone is a carrier based phone (O2-UK)
I figured that all phones under 02-UK are shipped as s-on (from experience only, I worked with 02 and only had a few HTC phones where I checked and they were S-on)
My phone has to be sent back for repair. At present it is S-off with locked boot loader and completely stock Rom. I can easily go back to S-on if needed so this is out of curiosity
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it's getting harder to get s-off (no phones ship with s-off)
that's why everyone recommends leaving it s-off until the last possible second
Yeah I know that as well
The issue is if I go s on for repairs now on hboot 1.56 I will get a **TAMPER DETECTED** message and need to unlock via HTC dev again
If I NEED s on I can downgrade the hboot to 1.44, install an earlier 1.29.xxx.x Rom and return to S-on and accept OTA's til latest version
So it's either send it off now as is and hope for the best or just suck it up and go back to s-on
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In response to my Q below, a user wrote that if I go S-ON (to take the phone into repair) I can never go S-ON again. Is that true? I've restored my phone 100% to stock HBOOT, recovery OS etc. and I'm presently at HBOOT 1.57 and have locked the bootloader and have "*** LOCKED ***". So the only thing left is to go S-ON. But I'm wondering if this means I can never go S-ON again.
Thanks!
The original question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one/help/restore-m7-to-stock-q-hboot-t2999854
kenzorio said:
In response to my Q below, a user wrote that if I go S-ON (to take the phone into repair) I can never go S-ON again. Is that true? I've restored my phone 100% to stock HBOOT, recovery OS etc. and I'm presently at HBOOT 1.57 and have locked the bootloader and have "*** LOCKED ***". So the only thing left is to go S-ON. But I'm wondering if this means I can never go S-ON again.
Thanks!
The original question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one/help/restore-m7-to-stock-q-hboot-t2999854
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You can go S On again any time
He advised you should not make it S On
because keep your SOff is beneficial
your phone is GPE so that's had firmware problem after 1.55 locking Bootloader it cant be unlocked if you are on S On that time
if you keep S Off you can Unlock your phone easily
as you know 1st time you need Unlock Bootloader then you make S Off but if you update Hboot then Lock Bootloader then S On its quiet hard to make it S Off again and using root custom Roms etc
IF YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ANSWER DONT WRITE A NEW THREAD ASK AGAIN IN SAME THREAD WE WILL HELP YOU THERE
kenzorio said:
In response to my Q below, a user wrote that if I go S-ON (to take the phone into repair) I can never go S-ON again. Is that true? I've restored my phone 100% to stock HBOOT, recovery OS etc. and I'm presently at HBOOT 1.57 and have locked the bootloader and have "*** LOCKED ***". So the only thing left is to go S-ON. But I'm wondering if this means I can never go S-ON again.
Thanks!
The original question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one/help/restore-m7-to-stock-q-hboot-t2999854
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I did not mean you can never go s-off again. Most likely you phone will be returned with the latest software and hboot 1.57 installed and you'll have to pay to s-off. Many here have sent their phone to repair with s-off and had no problems getting repair.
and their phones were returned to them still s-off
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I did not mean you can never go s-off again. Most likely you phone will be returned with the latest software and hboot 1.57 installed and you'll have to pay to s-off. Many here have sent their phone to repair with s-off and had no problems getting repair.
and their phones were returned to them still s-off
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OK just to clarify - it originally wasn't a GPE. I converted it to GPE, and now I converted it back to stock (incl HBOOT, recovery etc.). Btw, in the post I mistakenly asked if it meant I could never go S-ON again. What I meant to ask was if I couldn't get S-OFF again!
But you say I have to pay to get S-OFF again. Is that because Sunshine is the only way to get S-OFF with HBOOT >= 1.57? Any chance that a free tool will come out that works as well?
Thanks
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