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[Q] How to unlock bootloader Hboot 1.54

Hi, I have a hboot 1.54 HTC One, Can I use the All in One toolkit to unlock the bootloader or do I need to go the htcdev route?
Once unlocked and assuming I have to use htcdev can I then use the toolkit to flash cwm recovery?
Thanks for any help in advance.

kakkaroto said:
Hi, I have a hboot 1.54 HTC One, Can I use the All in One toolkit to unlock the bootloader or do I need to go the htcdev route?
Once unlocked and assuming I have to use htcdev can I then use the toolkit to flash cwm recovery?
Thanks for any help in advance.
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The AIO toolkit uses htcdev to unlock. And yes, the toolkit can install recovery.

iElvis said:
The AIO toolkit uses htcdev to unlock. And yes, the toolkit can install recovery.
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OK that makes sense, on the toolkit page it has the "register at htcdev" bit crossed out, so just wanted to confirm it was still required.
Thanks for your help.

kakkaroto said:
OK that makes sense, on the toolkit page it has the "register at htcdev" bit crossed out, so just wanted to confirm it was still required.
Thanks for your help.
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Well, there are only two ways to unlock, via htcdev or the revone s-off exploit (which doesn't work with 1.54 hboot). I don't know if the toolkit incorporated revone as I've never used toolkits or AIO solutions for my phone modding. Unlocking this phone is very easy.

iElvis said:
Well, there are only two ways to unlock, via htcdev or the revone s-off exploit (which doesn't work with 1.54 hboot). I don't know if the toolkit incorporated revone as I've never used toolkits or AIO solutions for my phone modding. Unlocking this phone is very easy.
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Yeah the toolkit uses revone which I know doesn't currently work with hboot 1.54. So I don't get to have s-off for now.

[Q] S-OFF Through HTC Dev with 1.54 Firmware

Hi guys,
just one quick question. I have my phone stuck in S-ON after upgrading into new firmware (HBOOT 1.54). It is clear that revone (the one I used to S-OFF the first time) is currently unable to S-OFF my phone right now. Therefore now I'm considering S-OFF through HTC Dev. Will HTC Dev S-OFF work with 1.54 HBOOT?
Another question would be, apart from getting wiped and lose some application, what disadvantage will S-OFF through HTC Dev brings?
Thanks for the help

you can unlock the bootloader and install custom roms/kernels but no s-off, which might be a problem if you need to send your phone to warranty because they could deny warranty on the re/unlocked status of the bootloader.

flamechamp said:
Hi guys,
just one quick question. I have my phone stuck in S-ON after upgrading into new firmware (HBOOT 1.54). It is clear that revone (the one I used to S-OFF the first time) is currently unable to S-OFF my phone right now. Therefore now I'm considering S-OFF through HTC Dev. Will HTC Dev S-OFF work with 1.54 HBOOT?
Another question would be, apart from getting wiped and lose some application, what disadvantage will S-OFF through HTC Dev brings?
Thanks for the help
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Why did you s-on in the first place? You can't s-off, you're stuck for now. HTC Dev can only unlock your bootloader.

redbull123 said:
Why did you s-on in the first place? You can't s-off, you're stuck for now. HTC Dev can only unlock your bootloader.
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I didn't S-ON it on purpose. It went S-ON automatically after firmware update and few resets. I have no slightest idea why it went S-ON. So... it seems I'm doomed for now...

godutch said:
you can unlock the bootloader and install custom roms/kernels but no s-off, which might be a problem if you need to send your phone to warranty because they could deny warranty on the re/unlocked status of the bootloader.
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how am I suppose to install custom ROMs when I'm S-On now? I can't even flash custom recovery right?

flamechamp said:
how am I suppose to install custom ROMs when I'm S-On now? I can't even flash custom recovery right?
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with htc dev unlock bootloader method you can, you dont need s-off to flash custom recovery and roms.
I know that could be somewhat confusing, but seems like you did not read enough

flamechamp said:
Hi guys,
just one quick question. I have my phone stuck in S-ON after upgrading into new firmware (HBOOT 1.54). It is clear that revone (the one I used to S-OFF the first time) is currently unable to S-OFF my phone right now. Therefore now I'm considering S-OFF through HTC Dev. Will HTC Dev S-OFF work with 1.54 HBOOT?
Another question would be, apart from getting wiped and lose some application, what disadvantage will S-OFF through HTC Dev brings?
Thanks for the help
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Yeah the word is devs are workingbpn that but I heard still long time away

SLver said:
with htc dev unlock bootloader method you can, you dont need s-off to flash custom recovery and roms.
I know that could be somewhat confusing, but seems like you did not read enough
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Any links maybe? Because as far as I know I need custom recovery to flash ROMs and to install custom recovery S-OFF is needed.
99piotrek said:
Yeah the word is devs are workingbpn that but I heard still long time away
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I do hope the REVOLUTIONARY team finishes their work quickly...

flamechamp said:
Any links maybe? Because as far as I know I need custom recovery to flash ROMs and to install custom recovery S-OFF is needed.
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With the HTC ONE toolkit you can unlock your bootloader and flash a custom recovery.
Very easy. I'm in the same situation at this moment. hboot 1.54.
I also got a question about this.
When I'm in the toolkit and I want to use the mainver error fix I always get Device not Found. Is this also because i'm on hboot 1.54 or maybe not a correct setting somwhere (adb?).

haenraets said:
With the HTC ONE toolkit you can unlock your bootloader and flash a custom recovery.
Very easy. I'm in the same situation at this moment. hboot 1.54.
I also got a question about this.
When I'm in the toolkit and I want to use the mainver error fix I always get Device not Found. Is this also because i'm on hboot 1.54 or maybe not a correct setting somwhere (adb?).
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Oh but I must unlock my RELOCKED bootloader to install the recovery right?

flamechamp said:
Oh but I must unlock my RELOCKED bootloader to install the recovery right?
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Yes... That is correct and once you unlock it you can use the all in one kit to flash a recovery and then you can flash the rom of your choice
Sent from my ViperOne

flamechamp said:
Oh but I must unlock my RELOCKED bootloader to install the recovery right?
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Yes, and you can do this with the toolkit.

leohdz148 said:
Yes... That is correct and once you unlock it you can use the all in one kit to flash a recovery and then you can flash the rom of your choice
Sent from my ViperOne
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haenraets said:
Yes, and you can do this with the toolkit.
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But through the toolkit, the unlocking process will use the HTC Dev method which erases the phone's internal memory and some part which contains some apps right? Any other cons which shouldn't I unlock through HTC Dev?

Here it is but be careful
flamechamp said:
Any links maybe? Because as far as I know I need custom recovery to flash ROMs and to install custom recovery S-OFF is needed.
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Go there, register an account
http://www.htcdev.com/
after that click on the "developer center" button and right in the middle you will find a "unlock bootloader" button
click on it, follow instructions, but make sure you have a full backup of your storage cause it will be erased
S-OFF is a security flag that gives you permission to "play" with organic partitions of the devices system in a way
you don't need it for having custom recovery, after you unlock you can flash a recovery the exact same way you did with S-OFF or restore a backup you did before reverting to complete stock
S-OFF for most users is only a solution to not losing warranty after unlocking as unlocking actually voids your software warranty and in a way the hardware warranty as HTC can claim that the unofficial software you used actually damaged the device.
If I helped to make you understand in any way I am glad but please if you don't understand what these procedures do or how they work in a general sense it's better not to use/perform them, if you are in any way like me who spent the better part of a salary to buy this phone it would be a shame wasting all that money bricking it out of ignorance, if not, it's still a shame.

flamechamp said:
But through the toolkit, the unlocking process will use the HTC Dev method which erases the phone's internal memory and some part which contains some apps right? Any other cons which shouldn't I unlock through HTC Dev?
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Yea it wipes everything so I suggest you back up anything important to you before you unlock... And there aren't any other cons except the fact that it will wipe EVERYTHING (apps, contacts synced with phone, music, pictures, etc.), thats the only con to it
Sent from my ViperOne

I think there is some confusion here for the OP.
First, S-off and unlocking your bootloader are 2 completely different things. To install custom recoveries, and therefore custom Roms and kernels, you need an unlocked bootloader (I am not sue what all the talk of relocking was about). The only way for you to unlock at this point is with HTCdev, and this will wipe your device unfortunately. Their are guides to unlocking and rooting your phone in this very forum

dgtiii said:
I think there is some confusion here for the OP.
First, S-off and unlocking your bootloader are 2 completely different things. To install custom recoveries, and therefore custom Roms and kernels, you need an unlocked bootloader (I am not sue what all the talk of relocking was about). The only way for you to unlock at this point is with HTCdev, and this will wipe your device unfortunately. Their are guides to unlocking and rooting your phone in this very forum
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Yes, I got things mixed up. I got so frustrated with S-ON such that I forgot that the real problem is the RELOCKED status of my phone. Thanks for reminding me
But i do need S-OFF to flash splash screen right?

flamechamp said:
Yes, I got things mixed up. I got so frustrated with S-ON such that I forgot that the real problem is the RELOCKED status of my phone. Thanks for reminding me
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No problem, glad to help.....

flamechamp said:
Yes, I got things mixed up. I got so frustrated with S-ON such that I forgot that the real problem is the RELOCKED status of my phone. Thanks for reminding me
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??? There was no talk from anyone about 'relocking'. You were told about 5 times you had to unlock your bootloader.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium 4

redbull123 said:
??? There was no talk from anyone about 'relocking'. You were told about 5 times you had to unlock your bootloader.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium 4
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no, I got it relocked to update my firmware last time. But can't have it unlocked now. But now I know that using HTC Dev method, it will be solved.
But I do need S-OFF to flash splash screen right?

[HTC ONE] Unroot then root "security warning"

Hi guys,
After few months with my HTC One rooted and unlocked (running the Google developer edition 4.3), I wanted to unroot my phone (especially to use Barclay's app which doesn't work if the phone is rooted).
after a "fastboot oem lock", I have an "***Security warning ***" at boot. I know that I have to install everything using a RUU file, but when I try to, I've got another error message which say something like "can't install, hboot older".
Tried everything since few days and can't make it work. Any idea would be appreciated!
More details about my phone:
HTC One EE mobile UK (unbranded)
HBOOT-1.54.0000
Radio-4A.17.3250.14
OpenDSP-v31.120.274.0617
cid-HTC_001
Thanks!

Do you have the stock rom?
And however, for unroot you don't have to relock bootloader, but unroot lol
For the ruu, yes, you can downgrande only if you have the S-OFF

Guich said:
Do you have the stock rom?
And however, for unroot you don't have to relock bootloader, but unroot lol
For the ruu, yes, you can downgrande only if you have the S-OFF
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Yep, I currently got the stock rom.
What I would like is actually get my phone exactly the same than before I made all these geeky things (unroot, unlock...).
Thanks for your answer!

Is there anyway for me to run an "unlock" using fastboot?

MickCoelho said:
Is there anyway for me to run an "unlock" using fastboot?
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Re-unlock the bootloader with the code.bin of htc.
After flash the stock rom and the stock recovery and then relock the bootloader for returning stock and get the OTA

Guich said:
Re-unlock the bootloader with the code.bin of htc.
After flash the stock rom and the stock recovery and then relock the bootloader for returning stock and get the OTA
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Thanks mate.
Hopefully I'll find the correct way to do that, I guess there's thousands of tutorials relative to that

MickCoelho said:
Thanks mate.
Hopefully I'll find the correct way to do that, I guess there's thousands of tutorials relative to that
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I got the same situation..did you manage to fix it?

cz4r3n said:
I got the same situation..did you manage to fix it?
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Yep, it worked fine, I unlocked it back using the code.bin provided by HTC dev website and followed instructions to do it.

[Q] How to install stock recovery back on Stock 4.4.2 rom on htc one M7

I have unlocked the bootloader, rooted my device and using TWRP custom recovery . Currently im running stock 4.4.2 with sense 6 that i restored from the nandroid backup that i made after rooting the phone. Now i want to go back to stock recovery , LOCK my bootloader not relocked and unroot the device. CID _038 and hboot 1.57

You need S Off
Locked instead of relock needed S Off hboot 1.57 is very difficult to hack
from HTC One

yatindroid said:
You need S Off
Locked instead of relock needed S Off hboot 1.57 is very difficult to hack
from HTC One
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Thanks for quick reply. so ur saying that there is no way to lock the bootloader on hboot 1.57 yet

kanavcheema said:
Thanks for quick reply. so ur saying that there is no way to lock the bootloader on hboot 1.57 yet
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you can relock anytime
You want Lock that's difficult
from HTC One

yatindroid said:
you can relock anytime
You want Lock that's difficult
from HTC One
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kay so can u please provide me with sone latest links for websites or blogs explaining the same for my indian model

kanavcheema said:
kay so can u please provide me with sone latest links for websites or blogs explaining the same for my indian model
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if you wan't the booloader to be "LOCKED" not "RE-LOCKED" you will need S-OFF as yatindroid said. Try firewater s-off. If you get the "whelp" message, then there is nothing to do for now.

but as i have stated that im on hboot 1.57 and yatin said that its difficult to get locked status in this case. If u know anything about this ill be glad n after getting s off what should be next steps in detail tutorial will be appreciated
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Error downgrading from Lollipop to 4.x in RUU

My Sprint HTC M8 is on 4.25.654.14 (Lollipop). I want to downgrade the OS to 4.4.2. So I looked at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173
I downloaded Sprint_HTC_One_M8_1.54.651.10_RUU.zip, extracted 0P6BIMG.zip, and renamed it to rom.zip. Run ARUWizard.exe & follow the steps. Here is errror I met:
ERROR[140]: BOOTLOADER VERSION ERROR
How to bypass this error and downgrade the OS in RUU? Your help is appreciated.

You can't downgrade unless you are s-off.

Thank you, BD619. Can you please point me to a thread that shows how to free S-OFF my M8? Please forgive me, I am new to HTC ONE.. (I owned an EVO 4G long long time ago)

ctzw said:
Thank you, BD619. Can you please point me to a thread that shows how to free S-OFF my M8? Please forgive me, I am new to HTC ONE.. (I owned an EVO 4G long long time ago)
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The only option is Sunshine which is $25.00.
None of the free methods work on the M8 anymore, due to HTC patching the exploit.

BD619 said:
The only option is Sunshine which is $25.00.
None of the free methods work on the M8 anymore, due to HTC patching the exploit.
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That's bad..... Not sure if I would spend $25 on that..... I am looking at the tutorials on how to unlock and root the phone. Does that mean, I can still flash custmoized ROMs through CMW or TWRP? If yes, then what functions are restricted with S-ON (besides downgrading)?

ctzw said:
That's bad..... Not sure if I would spend $25 on that..... I am looking at the tutorials on how to unlock and root the phone. Does that mean, I can still flash custmoized ROMs through CMW or TWRP? If yes, then what functions are restricted with S-ON (besides downgrading)?
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[Tutorial][Resource][Root]Unlock-Recovery-SuperSU for HTC One(M8)-Sprint-m8_whl
S-OFF is not required to flash roms...however most of the newer roms require your firmware to be the latest, meaning everytime there is an HTC update you would need to update your firmware in order for the rom to work correctly.
Being s-off makes it alot easier to update firmware.