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Dear friends,
Something interesting happened to my Cha Cha and I wanted to tell you about it.
I bought it about two months ago from Istanbul, Turkey where I live. But it was a product produced for Romania. (There were no sale from the legal distributor at the time) It was an unopened box and I opened it for the first time.
I bought it as my secondary phone. (Primary is a sgsII)
The first thing I did with the cha cha was to try to root it to be able to use "Market Enabler" (Paid market apps cant be used here). And after some XDA research I realized that my phone was S-ON (I'm 100% sure) and I had to find an XTC Clip to be able to root it. I search for it at the local GSM services etc. but could not find.
The firmware was 1.12.xxxx
A couple of weeks later, I found the battery life insufficent and search for a newer firmware thinking they could be manage to extend the battery life.
I found an Asian firmware RUU_Chacha_hTC_Asia_TW_1.25.709.1_Radio_47.17.35.3033H_7.48.35.14_2_release_199798_signed.exe and installed it.
Then a couple of days later I found a European firmware RUU_Chacha_HTC_Europe_1.33.401.1_Radio_47.17.35.3033H_7.48.35.14_2_release_204385_signed.exe and installed it to get rid of the Asian apps that I dont need.
Then today, I learnt that 1.52 OTA update is ready at XDA. To install it I turn the phone in recovery mode and I saw that it was S-OFF .
I have no idea how it happened but I wrote everything I did above.
By the way , After seeing it S-OFF, I've rooted the Cha Cha using the excellent tutorial prepared at XDA. And I installed Market Enabler.....
How could it be?
Thank you....
looks teasing!!!! but can anyone try this? i will give it a try this weekend
can this be confirmed? maybe the OTA version has a unlocked bootloader...
S-ON users could give it a try and post their results. Would be nice to know.
I am also very curious about it.
If one of the S-On Cha Cha owners can try installing those firmwares I will be happy too.
Thanks...
can you give us the source links where u have downloaded? may be it has some specific patch!!! i wil give it a try
also how did u installed the firmware thru gold card? or directly running the .exe file?
i tried installing RUU_Chacha_hTC_Asia_TW_1.25.709.1_Radio_47.17.35.3 033H_7.48.35.14_2_release_199798_signed.exe and it failed since i am already in 1.33. it wont allow me to flash lower version :-(
ajeevlal said:
can you give us the source links where u have downloaded? may be it has some specific patch!!! i wil give it a try
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i would also try it, with my Polish Orange S-ON ChaCha
The European RUU's you can find in the guide in my signature.
OK, I've got the collection of files.
Now... to be clear and not to mess everything.
My ChaCha is S-ON unbranded stock one with 1.18 bought in polish Orange
I have both windows & linux so what is the best method to apply updates mentioned above? Thank you in advance.
I used only the RUU exe files. No patch or something like that.
I was on 1.12xxxx firmware. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact code.
I used the ruu exe files I mentioned above. But I can't find the download links.
I wrote the exact file names. I think all the downlads with the same name will be the same files.
My phone was unbranded at the begining obviously.
I am very sorry that I can't provide more info.
All the Europe RUU's that were posted on this forum section (HTC ChaCha) are up there on the http server I provided in the guide.
Unfortunately I was not inspired enough to upload other regions. (Downloading from Asia to my Romanian hosting would take a lot anyways).
sirjohn78 said:
I used only the RUU exe files. No patch or something like that.
I was on 1.12xxxx firmware. Unfortunately I don't remember the exact code.
I used the ruu exe files I mentioned above. But I can't find the download links.
I wrote the exact file names. I think all the downlads with the same name will be the same files.
My phone was unbranded at the begining obviously.
I am very sorry that I can't provide more info.
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i believe you cannot update ur firmware thru ruu.exe when your phone is s-on, you have to use gold card to get the update, since you have updated using ruu.exe i doubt it might already s-off before the update.
meloos said:
OK, I've got the collection of files.
Now... to be clear and not to mess everything.
My ChaCha is S-ON unbranded stock one with 1.18 bought in polish Orange
I have both windows & linux so what is the best method to apply updates mentioned above? Thank you in advance.
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Here is an explanation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17951272&postcount=44
But to summarize, under windows:
1-Create a gold card. A gold card is a modified SD card that allows the flashing of an unbrabded signed rom to a branded phone.
2-Connect the phone, run the ruu exe file, it will fail but there will be a c:/ruu_log folder with some text files. Open the most recent one and search for "Temp". Yu'll find something like:
<T065713><DEBUG><CMD>fastboot -s HT16SV409359 flash zip C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\{3C3FDAAB-88EB-4E41-BE57-66DBAFFA8970}\{50F2F878-636A-496F-A7CB-544C067E0C4B}\rom.zip</CMD>
Find this rom.zip.
3- Copy the rom.zip file to your SD card, name it PH06IMG.zip.
4- In your chacha, in settings-> energy disable fastboot.
5-Turn off your phone. Press "Vol-" + Power for 5 seconds. It will boot into bootloader and it will ask you to upgrade. Follow the instructions, you may need to do it more than once if it needs to update the bootloader.
6- When done, delete PH06IMG.zip from the SD.
WARNING: You will lose all your settings.
Please correct me if I made errors.
ajeevlal said:
i believe you cannot update ur firmware thru ruu.exe when your phone is s-on, you have to use gold card to get the update, since you have updated using ruu.exe i doubt it might already s-off before the update.
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Are you sure about it?
Is the gold card a must for updating with ruu .exe for unbranded phone ?
As far as I know it is needed if you want to upgrade the firmware of an branded phone. (Vodafone, orange etc.)
sirjohn78 said:
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Then a couple of days later I found a European firmware RUU_Chacha_HTC_Europe_1.33.401.1_Radio_47.17.35.3033H_7.48.35.14_2_release_204385_signed.exe and installed it to get rid of the Asian apps that I dont need.
Then today, I learnt that 1.52 OTA update is ready at XDA. To install it I turn the phone in recovery mode and I saw that it was S-OFF .
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The excerpt above states that S-OFF has been acquired from the 1.33 sw version. Do we have users with a lower version around? 1.18/1.21/1.22 to give this a try?
sirjohn78 said:
Are you sure about it?
Is the gold card a must for updating with ruu .exe for unbranded phone ?
As far as I know it is needed if you want to upgrade the firmware of an branded phone. (Vodafone, orange etc.)
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i believe so, i have unbranded phone with s-on, it didnt allowed me to update 1.33, so i used gold card to update!
now since i am already in 1.33 i was not able to go back to 1.25 and then back to 1.33 :-( as my device is s-on, evn with gold card since it will not allow me to downgrade....
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Alex C. said:
The excerpt above states that S-OFF has been acquired from the 1.33 sw version. Do we have users with a lower version around? 1.18/1.21/1.22 to give this a try?
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i had 1.18 and upgraded to 1.33 some time back and it didnt give me s-off
ajeevlal said:
i believe so, i have unbranded phone with s-on, it didnt allowed me to update 1.33, so i used gold card to update!
now since i am already in 1.33 i was not able to go back to 1.25 and then back to 1.33 :-( as my device is s-on, evn with gold card since it will not allow me to downgrade....
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i had 1.18 and upgraded to 1.33 some time back and it didnt give me s-off
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exactly same process here..
i neva gt SOFF
removed as i updated my previous post
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ajeevlal said:
can you give us the source links where u have downloaded? may be it has some specific patch!!! i wil give it a try
also how did u installed the firmware thru gold card? or directly running the .exe file?
i tried installing RUU_Chacha_hTC_Asia_TW_1.25.709.1_Radio_47.17.35.3 033H_7.48.35.14_2_release_199798_signed.exe and it failed since i am already in 1.33. it wont allow me to flash lower version :-(
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after long search, i found a way to downgrade my phone from hboot 1.05 to 1.04 and install RUU_Chacha_hTC_Asia_TW_1.25.709.1_Radio_47.17.35.3 033H_7.48.35.14_2_release_199798_signed.exe and found no s-off.
i was already using RUU_Chacha_HTC_Europe_1.33.401.1_Radio_47.17.35.30 33H_7.48.35.14_2_release_204385_signed.exe and there was no s-off either.
sirjohn78 - did u do anything other than flashing these roms? if you have any rom backups in ur pc, then please upload
meloos said:
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i would also try it, with my Polish Orange S-ON ChaCha
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did you tried it? any updates?
Tester
Hello, I own HTC Chacha with Asian firmware 1.21.
I upgraded to 1.25.xx TW from 1.21.xx like mentioned above and it's still S-ON. After that i upgraded to 1.33 Euro and S-ON is still there. I'm not sure Euro OTA 1.52 will fix S-ON.
Seems 1.52 doesn't fix dialer bug, its quite disappointing. Anyways thank you XDA members.
Ok So my friend from work wanted his sensation rooted after I did mine. He has S-OFF and has sucessfully permanently rooted it with the SU-bin 3.03 blah blah zip file. I've succesfully rooted my own with CID of 11111111 and used 4EXT recovery to install the 3.24 firmware. He, however, gets the known boot loop problem, which I know is due to firmware not being upgraded. I can't for the life of me connect his phone and have ADB connect to it to change his CID.
I've got the same exact model phone, down to the same carrier, so I have the HTC sensation USB drivers (HTC sync) installed on my pc. It won't detect it though because of it not being able to boot into android's OS.
I'm attempting to download a rom that is based off of the stock firmware hoping this will solve my problem, but wouldn't mind any insight on it.
Well, if i got it right you just need to pick a firmware flashable for that phone without supercid, am i right? In that case there's the topic where you can find all firmware adjusted to a particular CID, grab that from your phone, put into your sd (you may want to put a ROM to flash too), then put your SD with the matching firmware onto his phone, reboot and it's done! Finally swap again the SD card.
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Well, if i got it right you just need to pick a firmware flashable for that phone without supercid, am i right? In that case there's the topic where you can find all firmware adjusted to a particular CID, grab that from your phone, put into your sd (you may want to put a ROM to flash too), then put your SD with the matching firmware onto his phone, reboot and it's done! Finally swap again the SD card.
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Yes I would think so, but I can't figure out what current CID he has on his phone because I can't boot up into android's OS and connect to my phone on my PC with ADB (adb devices shows up, but when I try to set the CID it wont work).
Fails to "set" or fails just the command? Because if its only a "set" issue, the command may (unlikely) work and show you the cid! Or we can try to find it out with some info like brand/country/etc ..
Figured it out, had to do with the sync cable I was using. used a different one and i was able to set the CID to 1111111 or w/e. Installed the new firmware and the silly boot loop stopped.
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i have an htc chacha which is s-on, i want to unlock the bootloader since i need to root my device. the problem is that i didn't find an RUU for my phone's version which is 1.54.401.3 can anyone please help me
those are my software information :
-android version
2.3.5
-htc sense version
2.1 for messenger
-software number
1.54.401.3
can i get some help please
Try this tutorial.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21491536
TT by Galaxy S
it doesn't work
i tried it before, the main problem is the Official Unlock via HTCdev doesn't serve an RUU for my phone's version which is 1.54.401.3 i have no idea what to do!
Can't run RUU due to upgraded ROM
Hi,
I'm having the same problem. My phone had a software update recently which upgraded the rom to 1.54.401.3 and now I can't use the RUU tool, as it requires 1.54.401.2.
Is there any way to downgrade back to 1.54.401.2 so we can use the RUU tool?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320392
Hi,
I have tried the above link as well and can't get past step 1.
Is there any one that can help us S-ON'ers that are stuck on 1.54.401.3
Is there anyone that can create an updated RUU tool?
xtc clip
Hi guys if you need help with s-off I can help you. I've got xtc clip if you live near Edinburgh Scotland I can do it for 5£. I just s-off my chacha yesterday.
Cheers
Cant get RUU same as others stuck on 2.3.5 build:1.54.401.3
hiya, i am a new Htc Chacha User and i really want a custom ROM
1st of all i really do appreciate the work that Htc chacha developers are doing really really great job... But i am stuck on 2.3.5 build:1.54.401.3....
The only way is to downgrade
but the downgrade guide has broken links and i cannot follow the whole process ...
please anyone try to get us a new guide of how to downgrade from 2.3.5 build:1.54.401.3...
i've swiped the whole forum but couldn't find anything helpful.... bits and pieces here n there that doesnt make any sense ..
please help us
Thanks mRzaame.
Thanks dude if i were near abt ur place i woulnt mind at all .... But i am stuck in bolton for a while
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using XDA
no bother at all
finally i found the solution!
nobody need to downgrade, and you don't even need to download the RUU 1.54.401.3. just skip this step 1 of unlock and go directly to step 2,
i did it my phone now is unlocked and i rooted it!
but before you go to step 2 make sure to enable USB debugging. (From the Home screen, MENU > Settings > Applications > Development > Check USB debugging)
Connect your phone to the computer using the USB cable that came with your phone. Wait a moment for your computer to identify your phone, this may take a few minutes
Very nice marwanbaradii!
its working
Tnx that was the solutions i needed
Hi marwanbaradii . I need to know what step 2 is and how to go about it?
Thanks
stuck with <waiting for device>
hi i tried everything given everywhere to unclock my bootloader. But still stuck on <waiting for device>. I need help on-
1) installing the drivers. (i guess i have)
2) how to overcome this waiting for device problem.
my device is connected when it is on, but when i go to fastboot menu after switching it off.. it gets disconnected and the computer says "usb device not recognised".
Thanks fr any help.
controlpete said:
Hi guys if you need help with s-off I can help you. I've got xtc clip if you live near Edinburgh Scotland I can do it for 5£. I just s-off my chacha yesterday.
Cheers
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cant you provided for free it will be awesome!
Hey Guys,
i really hope you can help me.
the desire S from Girlfriend want to send it back to repair (buttons wont work after an month...)
and wanted to S-ON / Stock Rom.
i tried to flash Hboot 2.00.2002 back from an "how to" and installing the Stock Rom from an RUU.
RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.9_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_234765_signed
Updating from:
2.10.401.9
to
2.10.401.9
Wont work, it Says: wrong User Ident (Error:131)
i got Hboot 98.0000 on it & S-ON
cant reflash an recovery via fastboot... wrongt signature :/
what i have to do now?
thank you all,
regards geri
this like other subjects has been discussed over and over again.
1. I think there are some problems with the **401.9 RUU, i never managed to flash it.
2. First of all try to find your CID number to find the appropiate RUU.
3. If you don't find a suitable RUU, just make a GOLD CARD and flash any RUU, i recommend ***401.8 WWE
4. The quickest, better solution for you is the search button.
Good luck!
hey if you have bricked that phone ,
i suggest you to go to the nearest htc service center and pay the money
and they will be solve your problem.
because no more experiment on other's phone.
OK.
Hello, I am an htc one s user on wind mobile (a small carrier in canada) and I would like to s-off. However, I cannot seem to find an RUU for my phone and I did not make a nandroid backup with I first unlocked my bootloader. Looking in androidruu, I came across one from Telus. My question is,
Am I able to use an ruu for a carrier that isn't mine? What exactly are the requirements?
I saw a thread saying that it just needed to have a higher firmware and hboot.
Additionally, if I download a zip, do I simply flash it in recovery like a normal custom rom? I can't seem to find an .exe anywhere.
Lastly, if anyone has a nandroid backup that will work with my phone, that would help me the most. Thank you.
I attached a screenshot of my firmware below.