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Hello everyone.
I tried using Moonshine to S-OFF my HTC One S (villec2), which didn’t quite go as intended and now I’m stuck in a boot loop.
I downloaded Moonshine from the Moonshine website, under HTC One S – S3 model (ville_c2), first download for ROM version 3.19.401.101 (I got that version number from Software information somewhere in Settings). I then made sure that the phone had Fast boot disabled under power options, turned off the screen lock, connected the phone to the desktop (running Ubuntu 14.10) via the USB cable, and did sudo ./distiller. Moonshine did its magic for a few minutes and, in the end, the phone was powered off. However, when I powered it on, it got stuck in a boot loop.
Now, to solve this, I rebooted into recovery mode (I’ve got something that says CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4, not quite sure where I got that) and tried restoring the backup I had previously made and/or wiping caches, none of which seemed to help.
So here’s where I am now: I can boot into bootloader just fine. The bootloader says moonshine S-OFF on top. Normal boot is stuck in a boot loop; it shows the regular splash screen for a few seconds, then a window entitled Android is upgrading… and a spinning progress thingy along with Optimizing app 1 of 24. for a second, then Starting apps. for a few more seconds, then the screen just turns off and the loop begins anew. Occasionally I can see, for a brief moment, an error message right at the end; I can’t quite discern what it says, but it is about a crash of something with gapps in its name.
During the boot loop, I can connect to the phone using ADB (and by that I mean that I can access the shell with adb shell or reboot into bootloader or recovery with adb reboot bootloader or adb reboot recovery). Oddly enough, when I try to power down, the phone doesn’t power down but reboots into recovery instead. I tried powering it down by: holding the power button for a really long time (this, however, just restarts the boot loop); FASTBOOT → POWER DOWN from the bootloader; adb reboot -p; adb shell → reboot -p.
So, what do I do now? (I apologize if I made some obvious mistake with the procedure described above, or with making this post…)
EDIT: I also forgot to mention that the Moonshine directory seems to contain a file called boot_backup.img; can it help me with anything?
i have a problem with s-on. this app solved.
thanks for s-off
Hi, i want to thank all the people involved into moonshine's s-off solution for villec2. I've run it on 64-bit Debian Wheezy. It worked perfect. Finally my One S is free .
I can't thank you on solution thread because i have not enough posts to post anywhere.
The CID for my One S was ORANGB10. It was bought in ORANGE PL.
Thanks again.
moonshine on stock ICS
Moonshine on stock ICS?
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Moonshine on stock ICS 4.0.4?
moonshine on stock ICS
Moonshine on stock ICS 4.0.4?
Aleksic82 said:
Moonshine on stock ICS 4.0.4?
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moonshine request a jb bases rom but in runrummer dont say anything. They say runrummer run in a stock or another roM. So, checkout, try and coment!
JavierG123 said:
moonshine request a jb bases rom but in runrummer dont say anything. They say runrummer run in a stock or another roM. So, checkout, try and coment!
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I would recommend to have a close to stock ROM for rumrunner too. I remember I've used Viper at that time for this purpose
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Rapier said:
I would recommend to have a close to stock ROM for rumrunner too. I remember I've used Viper at that time for this purpose
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i have 4.1.1. 3.20.518.102 CL175688 release-keys. can i use rumrunner?
moonshine on stock ICS
Hi every one, greetings from Serbia!! I have couple problems on my Htc one s ville2. 1. Can't unlock relocked bootloader, i many time try, its finish every segment ok htcdev, cmd, token, bin code, mobile phone accept, i click yes on ulock htc screen on mobile and enter power buton, restart phone, and up system, every ok, but not unlocked in bootloader, stay relocked. Phone its s-on, my phone (ICS 4.0.4)find OTA update and download, but cant install update, Verification Failed. S-on its problematic? Why i can't unlocked bootloader, i want to install twpr and flash officiall (and root) OTA update on my Htc.
Aleksic82 said:
Hi every one, greetings from Serbia!! I have couple problems on my Htc one s ville2. 1. Can't unlock relocked bootloader, i many time try, its finish every segment ok htcdev, cmd, token, bin code, mobile phone accept, i click yes on ulock htc screen on mobile and enter power buton, restart phone, and up system, every ok, but not unlocked in bootloader, stay relocked. Phone its s-on, my phone (ICS 4.0.4)find OTA update and download, but cant install update, Verification Failed. S-on its problematic? Why i can't unlocked bootloader, i want to install twpr and flash officiall (and root) OTA update on my Htc.
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Search a RUU for your phone. maybe that work
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Yes i m, flash RUU and after that, i try to unlock bootloader, but i can't , many time i try... After that, in software update find last update, and downloading, every ok, but can't install, variant system version-raport. Any solution?
Aleksic82 said:
Hi every one, greetings from Serbia!! I have couple problems on my Htc one s ville2. 1. Can't unlock relocked bootloader, i many time try, its finish every segment ok htcdev, cmd, token, bin code, mobile phone accept, i click yes on ulock htc screen on mobile and enter power buton, restart phone, and up system, every ok, but not unlocked in bootloader, stay relocked. Phone its s-on, my phone (ICS 4.0.4)find OTA update and download, but cant install update, Verification Failed. S-on its problematic? Why i can't unlocked bootloader, i want to install twpr and flash officiall (and root) OTA update on my Htc.
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Here is the thread for Ville S4 dunno anything about C2 and I won't recommend you to flash or use any procedure from here unless it's stated that works for C2. You might risk bricking your device otherwise
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Ok, i understand that. I have one question for every one, can i install ota update on s-on, s-off its need or not? I have on my htc one s ville 2 s-on, i cant unlock bootloader, always relocked, many, many times i try, one_kit_v, or easy Unlock tools or direct on htcdev, always phone acept comand end always acept on screen yes unlock press power key, but stay relocked. In app get cid from gp, says htc__044-asia wwe, but in cmd fastboot getvar cid stay 11111, im confused, many question, but no answer, i hope so its riff jtag box not only solution on my phone. Thanks anyway!
I guess having S-On for Ville C2 means same thing...that is, you must flash kernel in fastboot mode after every ROM flash.
So you could use OTA but after installing OTA you have to go to fastboot and flash the kernel from that OTA. It also means you should open the OTA zip on your PC and extract it from there to have it at hand when needed
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Rapier said:
I guess having S-On for Ville C2 means same thing...that is, you must flash kernel in fastboot mode after every ROM flash.
So you could use OTA but after installing OTA you have to go to fastboot and flash the kernel from that OTA. It also means you should open the OTA zip on your PC and extract it from there to have it at hand when needed
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Thanks man.
Flash kernel after RUU exe ICS update? I can't OTA install, phone its find, download but cat't, verifact- variant system version, can't install. From recovery, recovery error flash zip, cant find update, i think this problem caused s-on.
Aleksic82 said:
Ok, i understand that. I have one question for every one, can i install ota update on s-on, s-off its need or not? I have on my htc one s ville 2 s-on, i cant unlock bootloader, always relocked, many, many times i try, one_kit_v, or easy Unlock tools or direct on htcdev, always phone acept comand end always acept on screen yes unlock press power key, but stay relocked. In app get cid from gp, says htc__044-asia wwe, but in cmd fastboot getvar cid stay 11111, im confused, many question, but no answer, i hope so its riff jtag box not only solution on my phone. Thanks anyway!
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Aleksic82 said:
Ok, i understand that. I have one question for every one, can i install ota update on s-on, s-off its need or not? I have on my htc one s ville 2 s-on, i cant unlock bootloader, always relocked, many, many times i try, one_kit_v, or easy Unlock tools or direct on htcdev, always phone acept comand end always acept on screen yes unlock press power key, but stay relocked. In app get cid from gp, says htc__044-asia wwe, but in cmd fastboot getvar cid stay 11111, im confused, many question, but no answer, i hope so its riff jtag box not only solution on my phone. Thanks anyway!
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1-. if you want to install another RUU different at you CID you need be a S-OFF and SuperCID.
2-. if you want to install .zip rom flashed from recovery you DONT need be a S-OFF, but, after flash a rom you need flash boot.mg from fastboot.
3-.The problem with unlock boot loader its very strange, i relock and unlock boot loader a lot of time and no problems.
Hey guys
I sincerely apologize in advance if this is wrong thread to post such question in. Please be so kind to redirect me to the right thread, I just got registered
Here's my problem. Couple of days ago my phone (HTC One S, villec2, S-ON, here's the picture from bootloader http://tinypic.com/r/qo87k6/8) started behaving somewhat out of the order. Every process that was there, everything started throwing out errors with the likes of Google play has stopped working, Music has stopped working, Messages has stopped working, nothing was the same as it was before that. And nothing else like cleaning the phone with some apps from Google Play didn't help. Therefore, I decided to install myself a custom ROM
Phone was already rooted two days after I got it. It was pretty straightforward process really. That was two years ago. I needed root acess to install some app that required root acess, don't ask me which app was this because I don't remember, honestly. It also installed TWRP 2.6.0.0 and SuperSU
I downloaded ROM (this one in particular http://www.android.gs/update-htc-one-s-to-android-5-1-1-lollipop-with-resurrection-remix-5-4-4-custom-rom/), followed instructions, got into TWRP and this is when the turd hit the fan. Instructions said that I need to wipe my phone. I did just that, with one exepction - I wiped everything from my phone. Spare me saying that I'm an idiot, I've got over that fact already
Basically, TWRP said that no OS is installed. Everything was wiped out from internal SD card aswell, including my ROM file that I put on the phone. I tried with mounting USB storage, which got me into the SD card on my PC and I've put ROM file on it again. So I tried flashing the ROM with TWRP but it kept telling me that my device is not supported to install this ROM
So I was stuck in bootloader with option to flash TWRP.img file from fastboot enviroment on PC, nothing more than that
I've tried at least 4 different ROM-s. One got installed on my phone but when I rebooted my device it got stuck on HTC logo screen and kept rebooting (boot loop I think it's called) until I manually got into bootloader with combination of power down+volume down button
So I started looking for solutions. I found out, that there's two different "flavours" of HTC One S. One is ville, the other one is villec2, which I have. I've read all about RUU files that can help me recover my phone but after searching through http://androidruu.com/?developer=VilleC2 I found nothing that can help me. I've downloaded two different RUU's, locked and unlocked bootloader twice, rebooted RUU but none of them was compatible with my phone
I've seen something about OTA manual updates, which I also tried but it didn't do anything. I've tried flashing firmware.zip that I got from OTA update file, flashed boot.img but then the phone got to the point where it should update but it kept showing me red triangle. The only option was, again, to boot it into bootloader and I was back at square one
Then I read something about turning your phone S-OFF with that moonshine software and about installing any RUU I want without complications. So I got one and realized that I can't do anything with it because my phone only boots in bootloader and as far as I understand, you need to run distiller.exe while the device is turned on and it has to be in Android OS. Which is not an option with me, because as I said, I can only boot my phone into bootloader and then boot something else via fastboot commands on my PC
Am I screwed here? I've tried literally every single thing, I've looked over dozens of recovery guides for this phone but none of them worked for me. I heard that I need exactly the same ROM (matching CID and everything) that was previously installed on the device. Thing is that I didn't do any backup of stock ROM before all that fiasco. I've tried this site too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2200930 but all links seem dead, because it only shows me some advertisement things and nothing else
I know I got myself in a situation where anyone with a bit more brain than me would use this bricked phone as a paperweight but I'm stubborn enough to try just about everything to revive my device. At this moment it's stuck in bootloop. I can't boot into recovery because it only keeps rebooting over and over and over again. Fastboot recognizes my device if I type fastboot devices into command prompt but that's just about it
So please, if somebody has the slightest idea what am I to do, tell me all about it because I've ran out of ideas and there's nothing more to my knowledge to try at this point. Thanks in advance!