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How to check s-off

Get,
I tried to check if ny sensation was s-off it on, but when I tried to go into the bootloader (holding power and volume down) it wouldn't do anything. I held it for like a minute and nothing happened until I let go off one of the buttons and then it turned on. What do I do? I realize that I probably do have s-on but I want to be sure.
Thanks for your help.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

This was taken from the stickied thread. Try this if not, i'm not sure.
Pull the battery out before you do it. OR to make things ALOT easier, before turning your sensation off go into settings,power, and uncheck the Fastboot option. Now when you turn the device off, it will fully power down instead of just going into a "sleep" mode. Now do it.

what mjm said, check and disable fastboot and try again.

restart your phone and when the screen turns off hold the volume down button... should boot into fastboot screen
hope this helps

ssh678 said:
Get,
I tried to check if ny sensation was s-off it on, but when I tried to go into the bootloader (holding power and volume down) it wouldn't do anything. I held it for like a minute and nothing happened until I let go off one of the buttons and then it turned on. What do I do? I realize that I probably do have s-on but I want to be sure.
Thanks for your help.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
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I'm really trying not to flame you, but this isn't the right place for this. There are riots about threads about S=off.
Pull your battery. Reinstall it. Vol down + Power. If it doesn't work pull the battery and try again.
Hope this helped...

ssh678 said:
Get,
I tried to check if ny sensation was s-off it on, but when I tried to go into the bootloader (holding power and volume down) it wouldn't do anything. I held it for like a minute and nothing happened until I let go off one of the buttons and then it turned on. What do I do? I realize that I probably do have s-on but I want to be sure.
Thanks for your help.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
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I know you're still fresh to the XDA scene and learning about your new phone, but I wanted to point out that there are different sections for different things. This question should be posted in the Q&A section of the forums located here. The development area of the forums is generally dedicated to advancement of Android development: be it new modifications, ROM creation, or feedback, etc. You'll save yourself a lot of 'trouble' if you post in the correct areas. You'll find most are pretty helpful here when you follow these guidelines. Congratulations on getting your new device; these are exciting times for the Sensation. Welcome to XDA

2Noob4U said:
I'm really trying not to flame you, but this isn't the right place for this. There are riots about threads about S=off.
Pull your battery. Reinstall it. Vol down + Power. If it doesn't work pull the battery and try again.
Hope this helped...
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ah, beat me to it.

Christopher3712 said:
ah, beat me to it.
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At least he didn't get lit up like a roman candle

No screen (black) but has sound MIUI update

Hi, I'm new here so don't know if i'm posting this in the right place but here it goes... Ok i gave my HTC Inspire to a friend to install the MIUI ROM to it. Afterwards it was running smoothly and had no problems with it. A few days later my Inspire notified me that it had an update to the ROM. At first i wasn't sure to install it because it is a custom ROM and not the default one, but did the update anyways through the phone. Again, the phone worked normal all day, but at some point the screen started glitching untill it turned completly off.
The one strange thing is that the phone seems to function normally because when charged and "turned on" i can hear the sounds and notifications(like email, text and app notifiactions). Also when i connect it to my computer, it recognizes the device.
That happened about three days ago and I have not been able to discover what really is the problem and how to fix it. If there's anyone that could help me i would REALLY appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
Marialo

most likely was a bad update.
You should boot into recovery and reinstall miui everything should be back.
Keep in mind the devs have to set miui for each device, chances are you updated to the wrong base.

That's what i thought but can't boot into recovery because i can't see the screen... Any advice on that?

Btw, thks for the quick response

Try shutting off the phone completely and booting into your bootloader the old fashioned way by holding down the volume down key, press power, and release volume down once you see the bootloader screen.
If your screen doesn't work during that, you may have a hardware problem on your hands.

Ok thanks; will try that then.

marialo said:
Ok thanks; will try that then.
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or while the phone's on, if you have ADB installed - open a cmd prompt and navigate to where ADB is and type "adb reboot recovery"

Yup try what they said that should work. If not ruu the ruin and really root
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Ok, tried with the volume and power button, but nothing happened. Thanks for the advice, but I'm kind of new with all this and don't really know how to do the other stuff that you guys told me to do... :S Should I get someone that knows a bit more or is it something that i could do with a little info. from the internet?

anudist said:
Try shutting off the phone completely and booting into your bootloader the old fashioned way by holding down the volume down key, press power, and release volume down once you see the bootloader screen.
If your screen doesn't work during that, you may have a hardware problem on your hands.
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I don't know if you would know but... If it were hardware problems; you think I could claim that to htc? Since the phone hasn't had any accidents or anything... :/

marialo said:
I don't know if you would know but... If it were hardware problems; you think I could claim that to htc? Since the phone hasn't had any accidents or anything... :/
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If its rooted warranty won't cover this. Get the ruu (stock exe) from the HTC support site and run it. If the phone still has a black screen after its been returned to stock then the problem is hardware related
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Sensation.. Hardware or Software problems?

Okay so I posted I believe a few weeks ago about this, I dont know if this is software related or hardware but, It's like i'll press the power button to turn the screen off.. it turns back on after on quick click of the power button. If i hold down the power button.. this will make the screen power off once released..This continue to happens...
Now.. If this isn't software related.. What do I do? I'll need to unroot. I hate to talk about sketch things but it doesn't show the revoked bootloader..
It just says "PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL" "HBOOT-1.17.008" and the stock T-Mobile 2.3.4 radio.
Can I return this.. if I needed to go this route.

Maybe its just me, but i can't understand what your problem is.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

xamadeix said:
Okay so I posted I believe a few weeks ago about this, I dont know if this is software related or hardware but, It's like i'll press the power button to turn the screen off.. it turns back on after on quick click of the power button. If i hold down the power button.. this will make the screen power off once released..This continue to happens...
Now.. If this isn't software related.. What do I do? I'll need to unroot. I hate to talk about sketch things but it doesn't show the revoked bootloader..
It just says "PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL" "HBOOT-1.17.008" and the stock T-Mobile 2.3.4 radio.
Can I return this.. if I needed to go this route.
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Use the search and you'll find threads about this. It is a glitch that started happening after the most recent update. Another ota is on the way and we are hoping it gets fixed with that.
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Man I'm so glad I got rid of this piece of **** phone. The sensations one of the worst phone if it's not rooted.

barondebxl said:
Man I'm so glad I got rid of this piece of **** phone. The sensations one of the worst phone if it's not rooted.
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Well it works flawlessy to me

BRICKED after deleting a file !!! HELP PLEASE...

Ok, so I had recently flashed MIUI sense based, I realized it wasn't for me so I restored my backup of TrickDroid 6.1. After doing this I went through and decided to delete some some stuff because my space was getting low (not 5mb low, more like maybe 1/2gb), I went to delete the MIUI v4 2.7.6 file and the phone appeared to go into standby... I tried to wake it up again with no luck. Plugging it into a charger does nothing, no red light; no green light. I'm unable to get into bootloader mode, no matter how long I hold down the "down volume + power" combo or any variation of it.
I need one of the gurus to help please !!!!

maybe post this in general or q&a?
any adb connection? if it's in standby then you may be able to move along to the next step
could just be a SOD (sleep of death)
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calming said:
Ok, so I had recently flashed MIUI sense based, I realized it wasn't for me so I restored my backup of TrickDroid 6.1. After doing this I went through and decided to delete some some stuff because my space was getting low (not 5mb low, more like maybe 1/2gb), I went to delete the MIUI v4 2.7.6 file and the phone appeared to go into standby... I tried to wake it up again with no luck. Plugging it into a charger does nothing, no red light; no green light. I'm unable to get into bootloader mode, no matter how long I hold down the "down volume + power" combo or any variation of it.
I need one of the gurus to help please !!!!
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Did u try hold the power? It'll reboot?then hold volume down about 10s.it should go to bootloader
2nd Option: use all-in-one tool kit.it has a command to reboot.
And don't post question or help here.read the rule.
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Sorry about posting in this section, I assumed I'd get a quicker response.
I tried the All-In-One Kit thing... doesn't work "error: device not found"
I cannot get the phone to power on at all, no bootloader, no splash screen, nothing recognized by my pc. I get a "QHUSB_DLOAD NO DRIVER FOUND"
Thoughts?

calming said:
Sorry about posting in this section, I assumed I'd get a quicker response.
I tried the All-In-One Kit thing... doesn't work "error: device not found"
I cannot get the phone to power on at all, no bootloader, no splash screen, nothing recognized by my pc. I get a "QHUSB_DLOAD NO DRIVER FOUND"
Thoughts?
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If it can't boot or use adb command.i think u should contact with HTC for helps,or at least where u buy the mobile. And of couse u still have Warranty.
It may be a hardware problem.We here can only try if it is a software problem.at ur position,the device can't be recognized by Computer/Laptop (before this,it worked well right?),then i think bad luck.
Don't be despair, it'll have some way to solve.
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Sorry to tell you man the same thing just happened to me. I just got a replacement from T-Mobile. You will not get that thing back on. Just call T-Mobile and tell them it won't power on nor will it charge. It's funny because I was adding music to mine when it happened. If it happened the same way mine did then you will notice it was really hot when it shut off. The MDJ kernel overheated the Processor and killed it. Once that happens the device is a useless brick. I'm trading my replacement for another phone because this phone happens to overheat a lot.

Azuske said:
Sorry to tell you man the same thing just happened to me. I just got a replacement from T-Mobile. You will not get that thing back on. Just call T-Mobile and tell them it won't power on nor will it charge. It's funny because I was adding music to mine when it happened. If it happened the same way mine did then you will notice it was really hot when it shut off. The MDJ kernel overheated the Processor and killed it. Once that happens the device is a useless brick. I'm trading my replacement for another phone because this phone happens to overheat a lot.
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Yup, same here, overheated while using fpse, died suddenly and wouldn't even charge. Tmo overnighted a replacement.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using Tapatalk 2

Thanks everyone for the help... At least I know what I have going on... Already started re-downloading a buttload of stuff to get back on track. I don't normally backup my Nandroids or my TB files to my PC, maybe I should start.
Going tomorrow to the Tmo store to get the replacement sent overnight.
Thanks again.

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this exact thing happened to me twice. i dont get it. is it overheating or whats going on? it happened twice both times i was deleting a very large file 100 mb plus i have to call tmobile in the morning =/
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no one else knows of anything that might be able to revive my phone?
just read that it is most likely the processor a couple post up. =/ damn. im going to look into trading this phone for another

this has just happenmed to me to. was fully charged thought battery was low after it switched off managed to reboot see battery was full before crapping out completely. wont charge wont recognize in adb. Really dissappointed in my loss of data. i also imported this phone and had it running on att anyone know how good htc warranty service is bc tmobile is a no go for me

Urgent Help needed on HTC Sensation :(

Hey Everyone :crying:
I've had my HTC Sensation since around late October 2011, and thus far it's been a pretty great phone, however an hour or so ago my phone stopped doing what I was doing (playing Need for Speed) and let out a very high pitch squeal and the screen went black, it just stopped responding to anything I did. It wouldn't turn on, It won't charge, and the only thing it does when I plug it in to USB is play the external hardware sound on my computer.
When I first heard the high pitch squeal the phone was insanely hot at the bottom, I understand that the CPU/Hard drive/Charging components are stored at the bottom of the phone so I'm praying nothing down there is fried, but I thought i'd get some opinions from others before I went down the contact HTC Warranty road.
The battery was quite hot when I took it out but it cooled quite quickly and so did the phone itself. The phone wasn't on charge when this happened so I'm not quite sure what's going on here.
Being without a phone is a big burden to me and I don't want to have to send it in for repairs unless absolutely necessary, so any advice would be appreciated.
And yes, I have tried the volume-down and volume up and power button press, it gave off a vibration once during this process which I repeatedly tried over the course of an hour, I've taken the battery out, I've tried a spare battery, I've left the phone and battery disconnected and untouched for an hour and repeated processes above but to no avail, I've tried a spare back cover, checked all contacts are making a good solid contact, I've tried everything that people mentioned on the site, so I'm pretty much just trying to figure out which piece of hardware has packed up on me and how screwed I am
Oh, and I have the phone rooted. It's running Elegancia Sense 4 v2.7.0 with SebastionFM 1.5.2 Kernel.
:crying: :crying: :crying:

If it recognises your phone as in download mode when you connect to pc then its bricked and not recoverable.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using Tapatalk 2

Doesn't HTC have a once year warranty? Then send that puppy in because that's a hardware issue if I've ever heard one. The only other time I heard about someone with a Sensation's phone making that noise, they had to send it in.
Sorry bud. The intensity of the heat you're saying was applied to the phone's components (through no fault of your own unless you were overclocking) might have fried something inside.
It could easily be that something has unbinded from the motherboard
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app

Yes by the phone making that sound I would agree you need to send it in for repairs. As mentioned your motherboard likely has a problem. I wish you the best and keep us posted on what's happening with the repair. Good luck.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium

Sounds to me like yet another case of sudent hardware failure. I hate it happened to you my friend but as others have mentioned send it in for a warranty replacement. The hardware is fried so HTC will not be able to tell that it was running a custom ROM.

monkor said:
Doesn't HTC have a once year warranty? Then send that puppy in because that's a hardware issue if I've ever heard one. The only other time I heard about someone with a Sensation's phone making that noise, they had to send it in.
Sorry bud. The intensity of the heat you're saying was applied to the phone's components (through no fault of your own unless you were overclocking) might have fried something inside.
It could easily be that something has unbinded from the motherboard
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I sincerely hope not as my handset has already been repaired once this year already having several major components replaced.

realsis said:
Yes by the phone making that sound I would agree you need to send it in for repairs. As mentioned your motherboard likely has a problem. I wish you the best and keep us posted on what's happening with the repair. Good luck.
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Well the ball is rolling with HTC now as I have sent the first email to start warranty return process, no doubt i'll be back on here when the handset reurns lol or when I decide to take the plunge and go for the HTC One X :cyclops:

realsis said:
Yes by the phone making that sound I would agree you need to send it in for repairs. As mentioned your motherboard likely has a problem. I wish you the best and keep us posted on what's happening with the repair. Good luck.
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Well my handset is back from HTC and fully repaired but it is S-ON now and has hboot 1.27.000 so unsure how to S-OFF now

1t5_Luc1f3r said:
Well my handset is back from HTC and fully repaired but it is S-ON now and has hboot 1.27.000 so unsure how to S-OFF now
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juopunutbear my friend ..juopunutbear
check my signature for the guide (i think you cant do HTC-DEV unlock as the mobo got replaced )

ganeshp said:
juopunutbear my friend ..juopunutbear
check my signature for the guide (i think you cant do HTC-DEV unlock as the mobo got replaced )
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No i can't do HTCDev unlock as yes my mobo has been replaced and juopunutbear say's i need this to work so i am confused.

if i remember well there is a guide before do htcdev unlock for those who were changing motherboard and couldn't achieve unlocked bootloader because of different imei

1t5_Luc1f3r said:
No i can't do HTCDev unlock as yes my mobo has been replaced and juopunutbear say's i need this to work so i am confused.
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check the soff guide in my signature ...it doesnt require HTC-DEV unlock !!

ganeshp said:
check the soff guide in my signature ...it doesnt require HTC-DEV unlock !!
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When i do "the wire tricn 2nd touch phone stays on a blank black screen and does nothing.... oh and the sdcard is not recognised after doing this and the phone keeps going to QHSUSB_DLOAD

I'm sorry to say but I believe that QHSUSB_DLOAD is a true brick. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong! but I believe your device is truely
bricked. You can however try the unbricking project. I believe you can find the guide in android sensation development. I do wish you the best and sorry to be the barrer of bad news. Hopefully the guide will work for you.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.

1t5_Luc1f3r said:
When i do "the wire tricn 2nd touch phone stays on a blank black screen and does nothing.... oh and the sdcard is not recognised after doing this and the phone keeps going to QHSUSB_DLOAD
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realsis said:
I'm sorry to say but I believe that QHSUSB_DLOAD is a true brick. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong! but I believe your device is truely
bricked. You can however try the unbricking project. I believe you can find the guide in android sensation development. I do wish you the best and sorry to be the barrer of bad news. Hopefully the guide will work for you.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
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no no its not a brick !!!! the phone went to deep sleep state. QHSUSB_DLOAD can be achieved million ways and it not always corresponds to true brick
OP..
remove battery , sim and sdcard and charge the phone via power outlet for 6-7 hours then the phone should boot up (be sure to have a good charger ..or the original htc charger )

Ok thanks I was thinking that was what they called a true brick. Thank you for correcting that.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.

ganeshp said:
no no its not a brick !!!! the phone went to deep sleep state. QHSUSB_DLOAD can be achieved million ways and it not always corresponds to true brick
OP..
remove battery , sim and sdcard and charge the phone via power outlet for 6-7 hours then the phone should boot up (be sure to have a good charger ..or the original htc charger )
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Thanks, device is NOT bricked as when i get blank screen after 2nd wire touch if i remove battery and reinsert and reboot phone it goes back to temp root status bar screen ready to run juopunutbear S-OFF, i just do not seem to be able to achieve S-OFF as each and every time i do 2nd wire press it goes to QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, i have now been trying to S-OFF for over 8 hours following instructions to the letter. so basically my repaired sensation is useless as it is simlocked and has horrendous bloated orange firmware on it :crying: :crying:

1t5_Luc1f3r said:
Thanks, device is NOT bricked as when i get blank screen after 2nd wire touch if i remove battery and reinsert and reboot phone it goes back to temp root status bar screen ready to run juopunutbear S-OFF, i just do not seem to be able to achieve S-OFF as each and every time i do 2nd wire press it goes to QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, i have now been trying to S-OFF for over 8 hours following instructions to the letter. so basically my repaired sensation is useless as it is simlocked and has horrendous bloated orange firmware on it :crying: :crying:
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ohh man 8 hours ? thats a lot ...try to reduce the time ..0.5 sec tap ---1.5 sec gap ---0.5 sec tap
also if possible change the wire

ganeshp said:
ohh man 8 hours ? thats a lot ...try to reduce the time ..0.5 sec tap ---1.5 sec gap ---0.5 sec tap
also if possible change the wire
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Well to keep you updated I have today spent a further 5 hours so far trying to unlock bootloader and S-OFF with the wire trick... :crying:
I have tried a paper clip and multicore and single core ethernet cable and when ever I seem to get the timing right for wire trick on the 2nd touch it sends my handset into QHSUSB_DLOAD mode
I know it is my timing that is at fault and not the software, just getting square eyes from watching the wire trick video, (I sort of have been trying to say "half, 1, 2, half) which when I watch the video back it looks right but all i get is a totally black screen and no led lights, if i touch a 3rd time it goes into QHSUSB_DLOAD mode and a 4th touch brings it back to temproot status bar screen.
What would be helpful was if there was an audiable tone to know exactly when contact is made in the video as the finger kind of blocks the view (just an observation as the timing is crucial) or is that me just being picky as I don't seem to get the timing right lol
I'll keep going till I get it right as the phone is useless in it's current configuration to me with a locked bootloader and S-ON with bloated Orange firmware.
Just a thought, I have an old version of the Orange RUU which was gingerbread I believe, if I was to flash that would I be able to reverse bootloader to 1.17 ?

1t5_Luc1f3r said:
Well to keep you updated I have today spent a further 5 hours so far trying to unlock bootloader and S-OFF with the wire trick... :crying:
I have tried a paper clip and multicore and single core ethernet cable and when ever I seem to get the timing right for wire trick on the 2nd touch it sends my handset into QHSUSB_DLOAD mode
I know it is my timing that is at fault and not the software, just getting square eyes from watching the wire trick video, (I sort of have been trying to say "half, 1, 2, half) which when I watch the video back it looks right but all i get is a totally black screen and no led lights, if i touch a 3rd time it goes into QHSUSB_DLOAD mode and a 4th touch brings it back to temproot status bar screen.
What would be helpful was if there was an audiable tone to know exactly when contact is made in the video as the finger kind of blocks the view (just an observation as the timing is crucial) or is that me just being picky as I don't seem to get the timing right lol
I'll keep going till I get it right as the phone is useless in it's current configuration to me with a locked bootloader and S-ON with bloated Orange firmware.
Just a thought, I have an old version of the Orange RUU which was gingerbread I believe, if I was to flash that would I be able to reverse bootloader to 1.17 ?
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That's sad man timing is failing it seems.. Or the wire is bad.. Did you reduced the wire trick timing phase like this?
0.5 sec tap - - 1.5 sec pause- - 0.5 sec tap
Btw you can't use a ruu to downgrade as long as you are SON man
Join the juopunutbear irc channel.. And seek their help live.. They can surely help you wire trick timing
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