So I flashed the ICS OTA to see if my signal improved, and it was the same so I wish to install ARHD ICS but cannot without S-OFF and S-OFF is just all round useful.
I'm still S-ON with 1.27 hboot, and have managed to install ARHD but still S-ON. Does anyone know a way to get back to GB stock or S-OFF 1.27. I have tried an RUU but it always fails, and using A PG85IMG.zip doesn't work (just stays on parsing or reboots a lot).
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated and will do all I can to help myself and you guys.
Thank you.
Bump, really need help. I can't flash anything from bootloader, not RUU.zip or firmware, it just reboots or says parsing for a long time. Really need to fix this.
You can't S-OFF 1.27 yet
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You can't S-OFF 1.27 yet
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I understand that, but is there no way to get the phone into a state where I can use an RUU to downgrade to gingerbread? Like, at all?
No, as you don't have S-OFF
Although I believe a guide is being written to 'brick' the phone on purpose so you can downgrade it but it's not ready yet (not my work)
EddyOS said:
No, as you don't have S-OFF
Although I believe a guide is being written to 'brick' the phone on purpose so you can downgrade it but it's not ready yet (not my work)
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Alright thanks man I've seen your posts a lot so I trust you know your stuff a lot.
Guess I will stick with this for the time being, at least my phone works now.. kind of haha.
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So I am as excited as everyone else about s-off. Been waiting for awhile, but in the haste of everyone rooting their phone, I haven't been able to find a thread about restoring s-on in case of warranty work. Have I over looked something?
lots of views but no comments. This is from the IRC if interested
<splayer7> sorry if this has been asked, but what about resuming s-on for warranty work?
<hyuh> splayer7: no, not available
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lots of views but no comments. This is from the IRC if interested
<splayer7> sorry if this has been asked, but what about resuming s-on for warranty work?
<hyuh> splayer7: no, not available
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Exactly what has been said. There is no unrooting or S-On restoring at this time. I would just wait if you haven't already. HTC Released their source codes today. Its only a matter of time before an easier root is available with unroot, and S-on.
Was told that we could s-on by running the RUU. Here's a link to some I've found but haven't tested any of this. http://droidangel.blogspot.com/2011/06/htc-sensation-ruushipped-roms-packaged.html
kevinliu2336 said:
Was told that we could s-on by running the RUU. Here's a link to some I've found but haven't tested any of this. http://droidangel.blogspot.com/2011/06/htc-sensation-ruushipped-roms-packaged.html
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do we have any confirmation on this working correctly
Tried it, resets your ROM but doesn't reset s-off
Guys.. There is about a 25% chance at best that HTC will actually check the boot loader status before providing warranty service. Even if you are unlucky and they do, if you make enough noise they might make an exception and let you off the hook. I think that as long as the issue that you are trying to resolve isn't a direct result of s-off or root, it should be fine.
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So I am as excited as everyone else about s-off. Been waiting for awhile, but in the haste of everyone rooting their phone, I haven't been able to find a thread about restoring s-on in case of warranty work. Have I over looked something?
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Flash an official RUU, and the device will be S-ON! TESTED!
lge73 said:
Flash an official RUU, and the device will be S-ON! TESTED!
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Are you sure man? Somebody else above tested and found the opposite..
If the ruu is left untampered with, the boot image will be replaced with a stock one. Boot image is where your s-off lives. So in theory it should without a doubt work. You just have to make sure the boot image is in the ruu
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If the ruu is left untampered with, the boot image will be replaced with a stock one. Boot image is where your s-off lives. So in theory it should without a doubt work. You just have to make sure the boot image is in the ruu
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I used the rom.zip file included in an untouched RUU, and I checked it includes HBOOT, also saw version change when I went into HBOOT.
It does NOT reset S-OFF back to S-ON.
I dont know if when you flash it reads S-OFF so keeps it, for users who genuinely had S-OFF?
I have personally tested this, and can confirm that using HTC's stock RUU does not return the phone to S-ON. However, it did remove the top area that says revolutionary, so now it appears as though I have a factory S-OFF device
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bummer.. I really hope there is a way to reverse s-off, just in case. but then again, I do have insurance so I guess I could say it was 'stolen' if I really need to get it replaced
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For those worrying about warranty issues..
You can try flashing the correct RUU for your phone.
IF that doesn't get rid of -revolutionary- s-off, then you can flash the ENG HBOOT (which gets rid of -revolutionary- but gives you ENG S-OFF) then you can flash the correct RUU for your region (which will definitely get rid of ENG S-OFF, and make you official stock HBOOT S-ON)
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Try flashing ENG HBOOT, then the RUU afterwards.
I am going to try to get my phone back to S-ON now, just to test everything
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Hmm, very odd indeed, after flashing the RUU I have 'stock' Radio S-OFF (no -Revolutionary-) , I tried fastboot oem write secuflag 1 and fastboot oem writecid HTC__001 but I am still Radio S-OFF.
Just so people know, flashing full RUUs, even HBOOTs do NOT get rid of Radio S-OFF. Thats why it is favored by people, it can only be turned S-ON specifically by tools which may be released for the Sensation in the near future. I thought these tools only sent the commands that I tried to change the Radio security status. It would appear not.
However
There is no need to worry, Radio S-OFF probably won't void your warranty (if you sent it to a HTC repair center), as long as you have the correct CID and ROM installed you should be fine.
If I remember correctly, with the past Android phones, some people randomly got S-OFF (like sensation users did) out of the box. The HTC repair center didn't care. They don't like custom ROMs, custom HBOOTs, rooted ROMs, etc
After finally managing to work around Windows 8 and its BS, I rooted and unlocked the bootloader on my AT&T One X.
I'm now at the point of trying to update HBoot so that I can use the JB Roms. The phone is currently still running ICS. I followed the tutorial on YouTube from"onexroot" using JBWFlasher. My HBOOT versin is 1.14 currently, Originally my phone was S-ON with a CID of "11111111". I S-OFF'ed the phone and changed the CID to HTC__001 and all the way down the list because I keep getting the error "FAILED (remote: 41 model id check fail)". No matter which CID I give the phone or if I attempt to update for a device with S-ON or S-OFF.
Not really sure what else to try at this point as I've searched here and all over Google. I didn't want to bother you guys with it but I don't know where else to go.
Thanks for any help in advance.
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After finally managing to work around Windows 8 and its BS, I rooted and unlocked the bootloader on my AT&T One X.
I'm now at the point of trying to update HBoot so that I can use the JB Roms. The phone is currently still running ICS. I followed the tutorial on YouTube from"onexroot" using JBWFlasher. My HBOOT versin is 1.14 currently, Originally my phone was S-ON with a CID of "11111111". I S-OFF'ed the phone and changed the CID to HTC__001 and all the way down the list because I keep getting the error "FAILED (remote: 41 model id check fail)". No matter which CID I give the phone or if I attempt to update for a device with S-ON or S-OFF.
Not really sure what else to try at this point as I've searched here and all over Google. I didn't want to bother you guys with it but I don't know where else to go.
Thanks for any help in advance.
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Unless I'm missing something, you don't need to update hboot to use JB ROMs. I never did and I've been using Sense and AOSP jellybean ROMs for the past 7 months or so.
RollTribe said:
Unless I'm missing something, you don't need to update hboot to use JB ROMs. I never did and I've been using Sense and AOSP jellybean ROMs for the past 7 months or so.
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Really? Everything I read today mentioned the need to update hboot. My concern is being able to recover from it if it fails.
Yeah there's no need to update anything, just flash a jb rom from recovery. Once you have s-off hboot version kinda becomes moot
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That model Id check fail is because your trying to flash a rom for the wrong phone.
Your lucky that's happening because usually it just bricks.
I should probably add that some people cannot boot newer JB Roms without updating hboot but that is not always the case and I still have no idea why it is so for some.
Yeah I should've asked... Do you have dual or quad core One X?
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That model Id check fail is because your trying to flash a rom for the wrong phone.
Your lucky that's happening because usually it just bricks.
I should probably add that some people cannot boot newer JB Roms without updating hboot but that is not always the case and I still have no idea why it is so for some.
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I hadn't even gotten to the step to flash the ROM at that point. It was just for the hboot.
Anyway, got it sorted now. Thanks for the help everyone.
Hey everybody,
after updating to JB with the official RUU found here, the gps is not working properly.. i find it very annoying.
so i decided to downgrade the hboot and try to run the ICS ruu..
i read the tutorial found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043
but it says not to do that if the JB RUU was used.
the question is - is there any other way to downgrade the hboot? and which hboot version do i need?
thanks!
Yossi
You should follow these instructions for getting s-off on your phone then.
It's way more comfortable and can easily be undone than the method you linked to.
Before we had s-off I downgraded a couple of times by bricking/unbricking my device. I was successful, even after the JB OTA with super-cid, maybe I was just one of the lucky ones. Idk.
If you decide for bricking/unbricking, the downgraded bootloader version on your S4 (you're shure about that?) should not be higher but 1.06 or 1.09. Else it's useless.
rootrider said:
You should follow these instructions for getting s-off on your phone then.
It's way more comfortable and can easily be undone than the method you linked to.
Before we had s-off I downgraded a couple of times by bricking/unbricking my device. I was successful, even after the JB OTA with super-cid, maybe I was just one of the lucky ones. Idk.
If you decide for bricking/unbricking, the downgraded bootloader version on your S4 (you're shure about that?) should not be higher but 1.06 or 1.09. Else it's useless.
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I can second that. I've downgraded and sent s off. S off wasn't as scary as I thought. It was actually easier than downgrading.
Good luck.
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I ran the JB RUU and my GPS isn't working right either. When I previously updated to JB via OTA, the GPS worked. Have you tried just running the RUU again? Maybe that will fix it.
thanks for your reply!
why do i need s-off? what is the next step after doing so?
and are you sure that it it is more safe than following the guide i attached?
thanks!
Yossi
You should do a search on s-off. It switches off the security flag on the phone and simply said it allows you to flash whatever you want on your phone to any partition on your phone. Bootloader version will be of no importance anymore as it simply overrides it...
Downgrading your bootloader is a complicated process, transferring a new bootloader in very little chunks on your phone via the integrated modem using linux. All clear so far?! :laugh:
Compared to all that, facepalm s-off is really easy... and much more efficient. Downgrading bootloader was/is a pain in the ass. I'm glad this is depracted by the s-off.
thanks all!
i know about S-OFFing from my old desire, but thanks for your explanation.
i guess i should try running the RUU again before.
Was on the Desire before the One S. :good:
Jep - RUU is pretty good to go. Just keep away from the TMO US JB OTA. This one might make it impossible to s-off your phone, as it might write protect the partition for s-cid.
so.. i followed the instructions - rooted my phone, changed to supercid and all..
but the S-OFF failed :\ i followed the instructions but when i rebooted to fastoot it's still "VLE PVT SHIP S-ON"
should i try to do that again? isn't it risky?
Please be more specific - what were you doing when what failed?
Else: repeat it until it works!
everything worked - i have a rooted phone with super-cid.
i followed the instructions and it seems like everything went according to the instructions. but it wasn't successful since i still see "S-ON" on fastboot.
are you sure i can do this again?
Very shure. I had some issues as well with my data connection and had to repeat that a couple of times.
yossif89 said:
i followed the instructions and it seems like everything went according to the instructions. but it wasn't successful since i still see "S-ON" on fastboot.
are you sure i can do this again?
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At step 5 you MUST get the error 'remote 92 supercid' and not 'remote 99 unknown'.
If you get 99, the first thing to try is just power down completely, wait a few seconds, boot back into fastboot and try again. If that doesn't fix it, I don't know really but read around the facepalm thread, search for '99'.
thanks!
meanwhile i've read a lot and tried again - the problem is "error 99" and not 92..
i'm trying to fix it..
First, let me apologize for probably posting something that's been answered. Unfortunately, the forum search is down right now and I've been working on this for hours and gotten no where. I've been away from updating my phone for a long time and need something more stable.
I'd like to upgrade to Maximus 10 ROM. I'm on H-Boot 1.06. Now I think I need a higher H-Boot and maybe Super CID, but I haven't had any luck with any of those. I tried using Moonshine and that stops working when it tries to ADB, for some reason that I haven't been able to figure out.
Basically, can someone give me a quick rundown of what/where I need to go to get my phone updated for Maximus? Many thanks!
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First, let me apologize for probably posting something that's been answered. Unfortunately, the forum search is down right now and I've been working on this for hours and gotten no where. I've been away from updating my phone for a long time and need something more stable.
I'd like to upgrade to Maximus 10 ROM. I'm on H-Boot 1.06. Now I think I need a higher H-Boot and maybe Super CID, but I haven't had any luck with any of those. I tried using Moonshine and that stops working when it tries to ADB, for some reason that I haven't been able to figure out.
Basically, can someone give me a quick rundown of what/where I need to go to get my phone updated for Maximus? Many thanks!
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Moonshine is definitely easy, when it works.
You should consider yourself lucky with that low of a HBoot.
You could use Facepalm S-off (most who have updated their phone to Jelly Bean and 2.15 hboot cannot use it.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155135
After you s-off you could skip onto maximus if you wanted.
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Moonshine is definitely easy, when it works.
You should consider yourself lucky with that low of a HBoot.
You could use Facepalm S-off (most who have updated their phone to Jelly Bean and 2.15 hboot cannot use it.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155135
After you s-off you could skip onto maximus if you wanted.
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Thanks for your help. I've tried Facepalm S-off and it doesn't work (I'm guessing because I'm not SuperCID which I also can't get to work?) I keep getting error Remote: 99 unknown fail after pushing PJ4010000-OneS.zip even after wiping cache, powering down, etc. I've continued on with the rest of the steps and I'm still S-On.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
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Thanks for your help. I've tried Facepalm S-off and it doesn't work (I'm guessing because I'm not SuperCID which I also can't get to work?) I keep getting error Remote: 99 unknown fail after pushing PJ4010000-OneS.zip even after wiping cache, powering down, etc. I've continued on with the rest of the steps and I'm still S-On.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
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Your missing supercid
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I read that what the s-off does is basically buy you time so you dont have to flash the boot.img on your pc. The Maximus HD rom says you must have your s-off, but how about if I have my s-on, but flash the boot.img, will it be the same thing?
Thanks
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elias.acab said:
I read that what the s-off does is basically buy you time so you dont have to flash the boot.img on your pc. The Maximus HD rom says you must have your s-off, but how about if I have my s-on, but flash the boot.img, will it be the same thing?
Thanks
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No, the reason you need S-OFF for MaximusHD is because that ROM requires a leaked unsigned firmware, which you can only flash if you're S-OFF.
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No, the reason you need S-OFF for MaximusHD is because that ROM requires a leaked unsigned firmware, which you can only flash if you're S-OFF.
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Oh I see, thanks!
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Hey, listen!
Please somebody help me. I have rooted and unlocked bootloader on my HTC One S. I want to install MaximusHD ROM on my phone, but I'm pretty sure I'm not S-off.
I have CM10.1 ROM installed on my phone.
Can somebody please tell me which guide should I follow so I can be S-off and install the desired ROM (MaximusHD)???
Also, with s-off the red letters disappear from splash screen? Thanks in advance. I really hope you can help me. I want sense 5 on my phone.
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rolo143 said:
Hey, listen!
Please somebody help me. I have rooted and unlocked bootloader on my HTC One S. I want to install MaximusHD ROM on my phone, but I'm pretty sure I'm not S-off.
I have CM10.1 ROM installed on my phone.
Can somebody please tell me which guide should I follow so I can be S-off and install the desired ROM (MaximusHD)???
Also, with s-off the red letters disappear from splash screen? Thanks in advance. I really hope you can help me. I want sense 5 on my phone.
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Moonshine S-OFF: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325590
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Facepalm S-OFF: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155135
Absolutely right.
And how to remove the red warning text you can find here.
Keep in mind that once you're s-off and want to return to s-on (warranty, whatever...) you'll need to reflash any stock bootloader. Else you'll definitely brick your phone. Best thing is to run any RUU before you set s-on flag on your phone then. It'll automatically restore the stock bootloader that comes with it.
S-off to install Maximus then S-on for final step. It's Ok.
I must do S-on because I get boot loops. Flashed Temporary radio 1.13 because it restarted auto.
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S-off to install Maximus then S-on for final step. It's Ok.
I must do S-on because I get boot loops. Flashed Temporary radio 1.13 because it restarted auto.
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So it's very unstable with s-off?
I mean if I'm going to have WiFi trouble and radio and bootloops I guess is better with s-on?
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rolo143 said:
So it's very unstable with s-off?
I mean if I'm going to have WiFi trouble and radio and bootloops I guess is better with s-on?
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Your device must have s-off without s-off you WON'T BE ABLE TO RUN ROM.
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Try S-off first. Do it right way.
Then if you can't do anything to get it running or get boot loops, you should try S-on.
I feel it's perfect after 2 day and nothing worry about that.. Flash Temporary-Radio-Installer-V4 if your phone auto restart.
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Try S-off first. Do it right way.
Then if you can't do anything to get it running or get boot loops, you should try S-on.
I feel it's perfect after 2 day and nothing worry about that.. Flash Temporary-Radio-Installer-V4 if your phone auto restart.
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I highly suggest AGAINST going S-ON with Maximus.
If you S-ON, you cannot flash an RUU to lower your hboot back down to hboot 2.15. This means you will be unable to revert back to an older rom or to use the current CM roms.
S-ON while on HBOOT 2.16 is a dead-end and you're forcing yourself to be on either Maximus or another rom that is compatible with 2.16 like Magio. Until someone figures out how to S-OFF while on hboot 2.16, you're stuck with it.
If you're S-OFF, installed Maximus, and you're experiencing bootloop problems and radio problems. Please look into the rcdata partition fix that me and many other HTC One S users were experiencing. Don't S-ON until you give this a try.
tsphan said:
I highly suggest AGAINST going S-ON with Maximus.
If you S-ON, you cannot flash an RUU to lower your hboot back down to hboot 2.15. This means you will be unable to revert back to an older rom or to use the current CM roms.
S-ON while on HBOOT 2.16 is a dead-end and you're forcing yourself to be on either Maximus or another rom that is compatible with 2.16 like Magio. Until someone figures out how to S-OFF while on hboot 2.16, you're stuck with it.
If you're S-OFF, installed Maximus, and you're experiencing bootloop problems and radio problems. Please look into the rcdata partition fix that me and many other HTC One S users were experiencing. Don't S-ON until you give this a try.
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you're right but I don't see any problem when I try the rcdata fix.
b) Type "mount" to see a list of mounts. I saw that the data block (p35) was being mounted again in /sdcard, which should be (p36). Checking /etc/fstab shows that the /sdcard was commented out!
I can do S-Off with hboot 2.16.
flashed with s-on
I am very new to Android, having been converted from iOS. I had extensive experience with jailbreaking and all that.. flashing Windows Mobile with my HTC TyTn as well.
After having my One for almost 3 months I decided to root it and explore other ROMs. Rooting wasn't an issue and I flashed MaxiumusHD 14 which was replaced within 2 weeks with version 20. Everything went well and I've got battery life that certainly exceeds, by a long shot, versus stock battery consumption rate. (Juice Defender and Profile Scheduler definitely help there too). Original stock ROM consumed a lot of power with the HTCCheckIn service. Noticed that here in Brazil I believe my battery life is worse than when I purchased the phone in Canada, I believe it's due to poor service coverage areas (weak data signals, in particular).
As I learn more, I realize that I don't believe that any of the steps I performed to root and install Clockwork involved making S-OFF active. My bootloader shows S-ON. ROM works fine and I didn't get any errors in flashing. How is that possible?
Am I missing something obvious here?
Should I do moonshine S-OFF and flash again?
I've frozen the updater using Titanium Backup (purchased that, it's great) so that I don't keep getting pestered to update to Maximus 21. I just flashed 20! (and I see no issues and nothing in the change log seems to be a huge selling point).
Thanks for the assistance with this newbie.
Matt
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I am very new to Android, having been converted from iOS. I had extensive experience with jailbreaking and all that.. flashing Windows Mobile with my HTC TyTn as well.
After having my One for almost 3 months I decided to root it and explore other ROMs. Rooting wasn't an issue and I flashed MaxiumusHD 14 which was replaced within 2 weeks with version 20. Everything went well and I've got battery life that certainly exceeds, by a long shot, versus stock battery consumption rate. (Juice Defender and Profile Scheduler definitely help there too). Original stock ROM consumed a lot of power with the HTCCheckIn service. Noticed that here in Brazil I believe my battery life is worse than when I purchased the phone in Canada, I believe it's due to poor service coverage areas (weak data signals, in particular).
As I learn more, I realize that I don't believe that any of the steps I performed to root and install Clockwork involved making S-OFF active. My bootloader shows S-ON. ROM works fine and I didn't get any errors in flashing. How is that possible?
Am I missing something obvious here?
Should I do moonshine S-OFF and flash again?
I've frozen the updater using Titanium Backup (purchased that, it's great) so that I don't keep getting pestered to update to Maximus 21. I just flashed 20! (and I see no issues and nothing in the change log seems to be a huge selling point).
Thanks for the assistance with this newbie.
Matt
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I would post this question again in the HTC One section, this is the HTC One S section. They would most likely be able to help you.
tivofool said:
I would post this question again in the HTC One section, this is the HTC One S section. They would most likely be able to help you.
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Ok, will do. Sorry I didn't notice the S. Thanks