[Q] How to check S-ON or S-OFF ? - General Questions and Answers

Hi there, I have a HTC desire S.... I wonder how to check if my phone is S-off or S-on.... How to check? anyone here can guide me ?

same here. I would like to find out too. can anyone explain. phone is o2 stock.

From the powered off state, hold volume down button and power button until the bootloader screen shows up. If you look as it goes through, it should say in the output S-on or S-off.
It will boot up normally if you leave it go so make sure to look quickly.

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[Q] Boot in recovery mode?

Have searched the forum, but can't find out what I'm doing wrong... something very obvious I bet!!!
Holding down the Vol-Down button and powering on doesn't cause the phone to go into recovery mode - it just boots normally - so I can't see if S-OFF, etc, is set?
This is a Vodafone Sensation that is a week old.
Anyone point me at my error?
You have to take battery out - reinsert
then hold volume down and power it on
Or turn off fastboot in power options menu
Phone is S-On, as expected...
i bought a second sensation...
i will have it tomorrow, or day after
i hope is s-off,
I picked one up on Sunday. Mine is Ship S-On as well.
HBOOT 1.17.0000
mine is S-ON bbuuaaaa
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.17.0008
eMMC-boot
May 13 2011,21:04:57
vladnosferatu said:
mine is S-ON bbuuaaaa
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.17.0008
eMMC-boot
May 13 2011,21:04:57
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Like you exactly.
My Sensation arrived today from vodafone Portugal.
How many contacts do you have at the back cover?
I have 4 only...
My display got blurred ...
It was Pyramid 3d rom tht im using ..suddenly my pones display ..got blurred ... calls are coming ..dragin here and there help me to atend the calls ..but not able to enter the recovery mode ..
plz help
i just bought a sensation, previous owner put beastmod_S v4 on it. so i assume it's rooted. how do i tell if it's s-off or not? (i dont' even know what s-off means lol.
Pretty much all stock phones come with S-ON unless specified otherwise.
If they shipped with S-OFF there would be no NAND Security.
Rooting htc sensation
Hi,
Please I need help rooting my htc sensation. I have installed the CWM5827.img using HTC One X, following all the guidelines.But my htc sensation does not boot into recovery mode in order to flash the CWM5827. It shows the "HALT" icon afterwards.
Any help pls.
To boot into recovery you pull battery put battery back in, press volume down and power at the same time and hold . Then you should see the boot loader come up and get into recovery mode. This should work. Hope this helps. Best wishes.if this does NOT work, what EXACTLY happens when you perform these steps? Please post your results. Perhaps it can help someone solve your issue better if you post your results you are experiencing when doing these steps. Does it only say HALT? Is there a symbol with it? I hope you get your issue resolved soon !
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ronniedchef said:
Hi,
Please I need help rooting my htc sensation. I have installed the CWM5827.img using HTC One X, following all the guidelines.But my htc sensation does not boot into recovery mode in order to flash the CWM5827. It shows the "HALT" icon afterwards.
Any help pls.
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My phone is kind of picky when getting it into recovery. I have to hit the volume down key just after the power button or it just powers on the phone. This boots into bootloader then use volume down to choose recovery and power button to select.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
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Problem checking if S-OFF or not? ....

Hi!
Tried this: "If you want to help, check if you have S-ON or S-OFF. Turn off the phone, reboot with the volume button held down, and check at the top of the white screen if it says "SHIP S-ON", "SHIP S-OFF" or "ENG S-OFF". S-ON is stock and not helpful, SHIP S-OFF could be useful, the really helpful ones are ENG S-OFF. Please don't post asking if you can help if you have S-ON."
The thing is that my device have a white screen with a red symbol so i can't see if i have S-OFF or nothing... i can't see this white screen the text talks about above... AND, my device does not have Swedish langauge... Isn't it available yet or where does my device come from?
Thanks in advanced!
ToddeSwe said:
Hi!
Tried this: "If you want to help, check if you have S-ON or S-OFF. Turn off the phone, reboot with the volume button held down, and check at the top of the white screen if it says "SHIP S-ON", "SHIP S-OFF" or "ENG S-OFF". S-ON is stock and not helpful, SHIP S-OFF could be useful, the really helpful ones are ENG S-OFF. Please don't post asking if you can help if you have S-ON."
The thing is that my device have a white screen with a red symbol so i can't see if i have S-OFF or nothing... i can't see this white screen the text talks about above... AND, my device does not have Swedish langauge... Isn't it available yet or where does my device come from?
Thanks in advanced!
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Take a picture of it for us, although this should be posted in the Q&A section. I'm sure a mod willl move it
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I had to turn off "fastboot" in Settings>Power, then power off phone, then hold the volume button & the power button @ the same time
Pull your battery and put it back and then hold volume down & power. Basicly its a hard reset.

[Q] Can't see bootloader screen.

Hi everyone,
I've got a Desire S on 3 UK. I wan't to get S-Off and root.
In trying to check whether I have S-Off or not already, I realised that I can't access the bootloader screen (i.e. by holding volume down when powering on).
The first thing that I see is the 3 UK splash screen.
I'm just wondering if there is something different about this device?
Has anyone else seen this?
iTroll said:
Hi everyone,
I've got a Desire S on 3 UK. I wan't to get S-Off and root.
In trying to check whether I have S-Off or not already, I realised that I can't access the bootloader screen (i.e. by holding volume down when powering on).
The first thing that I see is the 3 UK splash screen.
I'm just wondering if there is something different about this device?
Has anyone else seen this?
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Remove the battery once you've turned the device it off, or disable fast boot from within settings> power as device isn't correctly being powered down when it's on.
And you should get into bootloader fine.
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i had that problem. Have you tried taking out the battery, putting it back in and then pressing volume down and the power button?
EDIT?: beat me to it!
Thanks guys!
Turned off fast-boot and confirmed S-On.
Well that was easy, alpharevx + gingerbreak on current 3 UK rom worked a treat!
Thanks!
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

[Q] Root My Htc Chacha - i amtotally ignorant here, plz help

using htc chacha in india. need to root my phone, but how do i know my phone is s-on or s-off ?
m feeling like dumb understanding all this
Untick fastboot from "settings>power" and turn off the phone. Then, turn on the phone holding "Volume Down" and "Power" buttons simultaneously for 5 secs. If you do it correctly, you will be in bootloader, there on the first line you can see whether it is S-OFF or S-ON.

[Q] How do I update RUU 3.18?

Hi there,
I know this might seem like a really dumb question, but I was wondering if someone can point me the way to updating my One XL to this firmware or whatever this is. I really wanna try the newer CM for the phone.
Thanks in advance!
You need s-off first, do you have s-off?
Sent from my Evita
Man I would love to know what that means, but my friend helped me root my phone last year. How can I check whether s-off is enabled or not? If not, can you direct me somewhere I can do this?
Sorry for the super noob questions.
Thanks man
Oh, I see. This is why I'm totally against people rooting phones for other people. Now you have an unlocked/rooted device but you have no idea what you're doing. You're gonna need to do a lot of learning. I need to see your bootloader details, to boot into the bootloader there are two methods.
With phone powered on
Hold the volume down button, then hold the power button (so you're holding both buttons together), the button lights will start to flash, they will stop flashing and the screen will go blank, after a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume down button until you reach the white screen with text, this is your bootloader.
With phone powered off
Hold the volume down button, then hold the power button (so you're holding both buttons together), after a couple of seconds let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume down button until you reach the white screen with text, this is your bootloader.
Please post the first five lines.
Sent from my Evita
Thanks for the help man! Really appreciate it man!
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.11.0000
RADIO-0.18as. 32. 09. 28L
OpenDSP-v28. 1. 0. 32. 0504
eMMC-boot
You need to get s-off so you can run the 3.18 RUU, do you have SuperCID? You can check your CID by issuing this fastboot command
Code:
fastboot oem readcid
Sent from my Evita
timmaaa said:
This is why I'm totally against people rooting phones for other people. Now you have an unlocked/rooted device but you have no idea what you're doing. You're gonna need to do a lot of learning.
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Completely agree on these points. An owner with a modified device, that doesn't understand the basic concepts of what is modified is very dangerous for a variety of reasons.
This is one perfect example, if you had run the 3.18 RUU with S-on (which you have) and SuperCID (which you probably also have) would have instantly bricked the phone.
Its a very good thing you asked, before proceeding.

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