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HTC Sensation help

i am using HTC Sensation. I want to update its ROM, please tell me which ROM should be selected...
I am interested to install icecream sandwich with HTC Sense.....
Also please tell me how to install ROM in HTC Sensation...
Thanks...

oneandonly said:
i am using HTC Sensation. I want to update its ROM, please tell me which ROM should be selected...
I am interested to install icecream sandwich with HTC Sense.....
Also please tell me how to install ROM in HTC Sensation...
Thanks...
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Hi,
Are you s-off?

malybru said:
Hi,
Are you s-off?
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what's this?
i purchased in november 2011...

Read read read read read before u try anything. Just fyi. Learn about what you doing and what it does to your phone. Learn how to recover and backup. Jumping into this game isn't easy. And could brick your phone. But for starters you need to check here revolutionary.io to unlock, root, and install recovery. Also get S-OFF aka security off. Aka locked boot loader.
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oneandonly said:
what's this?
i purchased in november 2011...
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As RANDYRKELLY says: First thing is to read carefully, understand and learn. Search this forum for everything about rooting, s-off and flushing ROMS. There are great step-by-step how-to's in here, so that there's no need to explain it once more in a separate thread.
You should start here for example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300

Yes, it is said to read well and understand that you want to do and unlock the boot with better revolutionary than http://htcdev.com/, good luck

kenox7 said:
Yes, it is said to read well and understand that you want to do and unlock the boot with better revolutionary than http://htcdev.com/, good luck
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Do not use the htc unlock. Will not give you read write state. U need to use revolutionary cause it roots, unlock boot loader, and installs recovery. Please don't miss lead him.
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I said that after http://htcdev.com/ will not be able to flash custom kernel, and unlock a better revolutionary

your best bet is to stick to xda it has everything you need to root and flash whatever you want there are alot of threads that will explain what root off is and how to get it. it will aslo explain how to flash roms, and what that is good luck you can always post here in the q&a with any problems you have

thanks randy & kaym....
anyways its S-off...

RANDYRKELLY said:
Do not use the htc unlock. Will not give you read write state. U need to use revolutionary cause it roots, unlock boot loader, and installs recovery. Please don't miss lead him.
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Actually, your the one misleading people, revolutionary doesnt actually root a phone, it just gives an unlocked bootloader. Installing superuser from market is what gives apps root and a line in the build.prop file gives the user root permissions
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[Q] htcdev unlock to s-off ?

i have htcdev unlock and i want s-off for new radio ,help needed

adamfirari said:
i have htcdev unlock and i want s-off for new radio ,help needed
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Dude - seriously?
Please, read the damn forum - this has been answered hundreds of times over the last month or so and really isn't difficult.

SimonTS said:
Dude - seriously?
Please, read the damn forum - this has been answered hundreds of times over the last month or so and really isn't difficult.
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i searched for it and realy couldnt get a helpful thread for a noob i know i have to downgrade hboot but couldnt achive it .Finally i decided to make a thread .

Common sense bro. Know first how and why you're doing a step before proceeding. Then think.
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[Q] Official Android 4 installed (how do i root now?)

I installed the official ICS from HTC's website. its like a RUU or something. I'm real real noob and i kinda want to root now. Is it too late? or do i have to wait? O and further information I don't know what radios, roms, flashing... etc means. so ya!.. im a real noob sry guys.

Based on your description to yourself, as you real real real noob and does not know the meaning of the technical words and things done to your phone. I would strongly suggest to keep out of rooting. You might kill your phone.
Rooting is not for yourself, and for noobs, again based from on you self description.
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APPLEMYASS said:
I installed the official ICS from HTC's website. its like a RUU or something. I'm real real noob and i kinda want to root now. Is it too late? or do i have to wait? O and further information I don't know what radios, roms, flashing... etc means. so ya!.. im a real noob sry guys.
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OP, i would suggest that u take time to read the stickies. There are full of information inside in detail. And if u still need further detail then google is your friend.
The search button would do you a great help, no point posting the same question and waiting it to be answered as most question concerning rooting has been answered before, many times. As rooting is not something newly discovered for to this phone.
If you do not take the time to read then u will bump into many issue, that would of course not cost anyone in this forum any harm, but cost your phone to possibly brick.
Read the guides, read the pros and cons, and read the comments(don't be fooled by the number of complains, most of them have solutions and the methods are proven to work).
If you have doubt, search 1st, search 2nd, search google, try different words and finally only then post a question.

rain987 said:
OP, i would suggest that u take time to read the stickies. There are full of information inside in detail. And if u still need further detail then google is your friend.
The search button would do you a great help, no point posting the same question and waiting it to be answered as most question concerning rooting has been answered before, many times. As rooting is not something newly discovered for to this phone.
If you do not take the time to read then u will bump into many issue, that would of course not cost anyone in this forum any harm, but cost your phone to possibly brick.
Read the guides, read the pros and cons, and read the comments(don't be fooled by the number of complains, most of them have solutions and the methods are proven to work).
If you have doubt, search 1st, search 2nd, search google, try different words and finally only then post a question.
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kk ty for the reply but wat i rlly meant is that i can't really find any articles about how to root a htc desire s with android 4 installed. I read alot of posts and i tried the power with colume down button to check my hboot version but it just flashes a white frame and then turns black. Of course i would be glad if you could tell me a post that explains how to root a desire s with ics installed

Skanob said:
Based on your description to yourself, as you real real real noob and does not know the meaning of the technical words and things done to your phone. I would strongly suggest to keep out of rooting. You might kill your phone.
Rooting is not for yourself, and for noobs, again based from on you self description.
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ty for emphasizing on my noob"ness" and i had started to read alot of posts and you know im starting to get the stuff. But can you help me on my question?? do you know how to s-off the desire s with ics installed or where i could get more information on this? thx for replying tho!!

The information is all over the forum. At least one of the guides that is good for Gingerbread, is good for ICS too. Until you have enough knowledge to figure this stuff out yourself, I'd suggest, as others, to stay away from rooting. I don't want to answer another barrage of questions "this doesn't work and that doesn't work, I'm stuck with a non-working phone, what do I do now", and in fact I won't answer. If enough of those few that can answer will be annoyed to the point where they won't bother answering - you'll be left with a non-working phone and no help.

You have two options, and both are well documented in these forums.
1. (recommended): downgrade your hboot (and with it the system software, but afterwards you can install what you want) and then get s-off
2. : unlock your phone on the htc-dev website, lose any warranty, always need to flash boot.img by fastboot from pc etc.
Guides for both these options should be quickly found on these forums through searching.
You have hboot 2.xx.xxxx. that's why you can't get s-off without downgrading.

teadrinker said:
1. (recommended): downgrade your hboot (and with it the system software, but afterwards you can install what you want) and then get s-off
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AFAIK it is not possible to downgrade hboot on ICS RUU without root. And you can't get root without unlock via htc-dev.
So you need to unlock via htc-dev!
Correct me if I'm wrong and please share a link.
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APPLEMYASS said:
I installed the official ICS from HTC's website. its like a RUU or something. I'm real real noob and i kinda want to root now. Is it too late? or do i have to wait? O and further information I don't know what radios, roms, flashing... etc means. so ya!.. im a real noob sry guys.
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May I ask how the official release is working? Did it slow down your phone?
Thanks

colarus said:
AFAIK it is not possible to downgrade hboot on ICS RUU without root. And you can't get root without unlock via htc-dev.
So you need to unlock via htc-dev!
Correct me if I'm wrong and please share a link.
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Indeed, AFAIK you can't get root in ICS without HTCDev unlock.
So you can either HTCDev unlock and root, or you can HTCDev unlock, root, relock, downgrade, S-OFF, upgrade bootloader, and then do whatever you want.
Guides for both of those methods exist.

Jack_R1 said:
Indeed, AFAIK you can't get root in ICS without HTCDev unlock.
So you can either HTCDev unlock and root, or you can HTCDev unlock, root, relock, downgrade, S-OFF, upgrade bootloader, and then do whatever you want.
Guides for both of those methods exist.
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Is temp root by superoneclick, zergrush... not possible on ICS? It worked on GB with hboot 2.
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teadrinker said:
Is temp root by superoneclick, zergrush... not possible on ICS? It worked on GB with hboot 2.
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than what to do

teadrinker said:
Is temp root by superoneclick, zergrush... not possible on ICS? It worked on GB with hboot 2.
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arjun1459 said:
than what to do
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This is why people start getting annoyed with the 'noobs' on the forums. You ask questions, get them answered by guys like Jack_R1 who know what they are talking about and then just ignore them, or ask the same damn question again.

APPLEMYASS said:
I installed the official ICS from HTC's website. its like a RUU or something. I'm real real noob and i kinda want to root now. Is it too late? or do i have to wait? O and further information I don't know what radios, roms, flashing... etc means. so ya!.. im a real noob sry guys.
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Well for any noob the internet is a great place to start especially XDA
As people have instructed already these forums are full of wisdom, and Im sure the answer is in one of the many threads.
But at a high level this is what I did:
1.Installed the official ICS update from HTC using the RUU.
2.Unlocked the phone via HTC dev website instructions.
3.Rooted the phone using SuperOneClick(Flashed it via recovery)
But I really dont understand why you would want to root the stock rom as it does not even support overclocking, I mean the kernel.
Im using Fallout V5.0 and I assure you thats its way better than stock
Note: If all this seems like greek and latin to you, please refrain from rooting your device and hence avoid any possible damage to your phone.

How to s-off

Please help me,I am s-on,unlocked with hboot 2.000.02....I want to flash kernel directly from recovery so I understand that if I have s-off it won't be a problem...I read many topics but my problem is that I have root,unlocked and how can I make my desire s to s-off?
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petrevirgil said:
Please help me,I am s-on,unlocked with hboot 2.000.02....I want to flash kernel directly from recovery so I understand that if I have s-off it won't be a problem...I read many topics but my problem is that I have root,unlocked and how can I make my desire s to s-off?
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I'm sorry because you're not going to like me much - but your problem is that you are too lazy to read. If you have read through the Index thread and still can't work it out then leave your phone alone.
EVERYTHING you need is there or available by searching and reading.

[Q/A][VILLEC2][ONE S C2] is there a S-OFF?

been reading about s-off and stuff like that and trying out things like that but it just wouldn't work,so i am curious is there a S-OFF for my device? or for all the S3 One S C2? all i can see is s4 variants..

nope, no s-off
[16:26] <jcase> lux, get supercid on your device
[16:26] <jcase> if possible
[16:26] <jcase> then come see me
[16:26] <dert> well i dont know lux, i m just curious with my s4 s.off i can run ruu
[16:26] <dert> ok thank jcase!!!!;-
[16:27] <lux> no method for geting superCid on s3
[16:27] <jcase> no method for s-off at this time then
[16:27] <lux> ok
[16:27] <jcase> lux, if the Htc One community wants to get an s3 model to me, i'll look at it
[16:28] <jcase> with the full knowledge ill possibly brick it
[16:28] <jcase> and most likely wont send it back
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AW: [Q/A][VILLEC2][ONE S C2] is there a S-OFF?
Wrong place to ask questions my friend.
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Bipe said:
nope, no s-off
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so when will there be?

CrayzyBoy said:
Wrong place to ask questions my friend.
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im sorry my friend im just eager to know about the s-off because i cant do anything..

If they don't get the device most likely never

Bipe said:
If they don't get the device most likely never
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its really poor support for s3 version...i hope htc wont deny us s3 variants in getting keylime pie

I saw one HOS S3 member in the forum with S-OFF and supercid.
He told me that he buyed the phone so from an other guy.
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Did he tell you how the got s-off?
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He buyed it so.
And he is a noob
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beni8978 said:
He buyed it so.
And he is a noob
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okay.. so lets just hope that someone will make s-off happen for our device

Maybe start with supercid first
i understood that we need to get supercid before we can get s-off?
So i think we have to start dig around mmcblks with a hex editor to achive that.
i did a little search and i think it could be somewhere in /misc, but don't let my n00biness guide you wrong. they have it in S4 on mmcblk04. i did same mod to my HOSs3 but cid didn't change so the S4-method doesn't work . Does anyone have any knowledge about the whereabouts of the cid?

yes, superCID is starting point for getting s-off

ilmawi said:
i understood that we need to get supercid before we can get s-off?
So i think we have to start dig around mmcblks with a hex editor to achive that.
i did a little search and i think it could be somewhere in /misc, but don't let my n00biness guide you wrong. they have it in S4 on mmcblk04. i did same mod to my HOSs3 but cid didn't change so the S4-method doesn't work . Does anyone have any knowledge about the whereabouts of the cid?
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In fact, with this method cid will change. But spl will re-write it back at next boot. So it is not mmcblk0p4.

xander1993 said:
okay.. so lets just hope that someone will make s-off happen for our device
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Just sitting there and doing nothing won't do anything. If you have basic knowledge of the Android/HTC filesystem and some adb commands you can try different things if they work. I'm searching on the internet how other HTC devices got supercid and I try the same thing on the One S. But it's not working out well because of the r/w bug on Trickdroid 6.

.TanTien said:
Just sitting there and doing nothing won't do anything. If you have basic knowledge of the Android/HTC filesystem and some adb commands you can try different things if they work. I'm searching on the internet how other HTC devices got supercid and I try the same thing on the One S. But it's not working out well because of the r/w bug on Trickdroid 6.
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Must to try on 4.0.4
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beni8978 said:
Must to try on 4.0.4
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Yep and I'll do it in a couple of days.
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.TanTien said:
Yep and I'll do it in a couple of days.
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ive already tried in 4.0.4 nothing happened, try in cyanogenmod

Maybe it could be in mmcblk0p16? That is where /misc is, i think...? I browsed other phone's subforums to find a clue where to start and on some phones use this place for cid.
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i will try to get al mmcxxxxx files and open it and maybe look for some clue and be back if i found something
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