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Trying to Root Desire S

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to ask for help.
I am having an issue with the rooting of my Desire S.
I have downloaded Revolution, fre3vo, HTC drivers3.0.0.0.07
Followed a lot of instructions and have an issue with the HTC driver. I disable anti virus etc and run the driver to install, however it does not install. There is no status bar or a message saying it fully installed. I have run it as an Admin and same.
I am using Win 7 64 bit. Home Premium.

Try searching 'root desire s' on lifehacker site, used that as guide rooting my device, or check out my last posts on my profile, i have the links and the youtube link posted before.
Sent from my HTC Desire S

Mudrat63 said:
Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to ask for help.
I am having an issue with the rooting of my Desire S.
I have downloaded Revolution, fre3vo, HTC drivers3.0.0.0.07
Followed a lot of instructions and have an issue with the HTC driver. I disable anti virus etc and run the driver to install, however it does not install. There is no status bar or a message saying it fully installed. I have run it as an Admin and same.
I am using Win 7 64 bit. Home Premium.
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Hey man,
If your device info looks like this :
Saga PVT Ship S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0002
RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M
...you won't be able to root it. The only thing you can do is unlock the bootloader. This operation requires the unlocker from HTC which is actually free.
Take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314349
DON"T FORGET THIS IS ONLY FOR 2.3.5 and HBoot-2.00.0002.
So we have to wait...(I hope you have lower hboot and this will not be applicable to you)
Cheers

Sorry forgot to mention it has HBoot 098.0002

make sure that Debugging Mode is enabled on your phone.
here is a great guide to S-OFF your DS
Watch this (i got it from this Guide)
How to: S-OFF (Video)

endero said:
Hey man,
If your device info looks like this :
Saga PVT Ship S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0002
RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M
...you won't be able to root it. The only thing you can do is unlock the bootloader. This operation requires the unlocker from HTC which is actually free.
Take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314349
DON"T FORGET THIS IS ONLY FOR 2.3.5 and HBoot-2.00.0002.
So we have to wait...(I hope you have lower hboot and this will not be applicable to you)
Cheers
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Looks like someone's figured out a way to do it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314349&page=4

[Q] [Desire S] Revolutionary, S-OFF, need to update

Hey all. I posted this in the wrong forum by accident, so reposting here. Also, this may have been asked before but I did a search and couldn't find a thread quite like it!
I am currently running Android 2.3.3 and HTC Sense 2.1 on my HTC Desire S. I have used the Revolutionary method to S-OFF and root the phone, which allowed me to uninstall branded bloatware and add some interesting apps.
I have not been able to update the phone as quite frankly I have no idea what I'm doing, and the OTA update will brick the phone. Can anyone please tell me what I need to do to get the latest version of Android and HTC Sense?
I'm in the UK on the Three network. After doing an extensive search for the specific RUU matching that, I can't seem to find it unfortunately.
Many thanks for your time.

I'd suggest you just flash a custom sense rom from dev section, which is very easy to do. and a lot of those are better than the HTC ICS rom
If you really want to go back to stock HTC, follow this video guide, check video description for links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X71RtQQjbqk
You can find 3 branded RUU here, at the bottom of the list
http://www.shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Saga

Ahhh thanks so much for that list! There was a forum post I found with details on how to unroot, but all the links to the RUUs were dead. Does it matter which RUU I use so long as it's meant for the UK? I can't seem to find the one for Three network, unless it's under "H3G_UK"...

xTheLostProphetx said:
Ahhh thanks so much for that list! There was a forum post I found with details on how to unroot, but all the links to the RUUs were dead. Does it matter which RUU I use so long as it's meant for the UK? I can't seem to find the one for Three network, unless it's under "H3G_UK"...
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Is your phone branded? If not, just use the Europe ruu

thwbyan mon
Well it has a Three network splash screen and sadly it's still locked to the network, but other than that I don't think so

xTheLostProphetx said:
Ahhh thanks so much for that list! There was a forum post I found with details on how to unroot, but all the links to the RUUs were dead. Does it matter which RUU I use so long as it's meant for the UK? I can't seem to find the one for Three network, unless it's under "H3G_UK"...
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Yes that's the one

I'm very sorry to have to bump this, but I followed the instructions that I was given and ended up with the infamous Error [140].
While fastbooting, I now have:
***Security Warning***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0000
RADIO-38.03.02.14_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 10 2011,14:58:38
And when I try to use the OTA update, it goes straight into this Fastboot screen. I literally have no idea what's going on now.

xTheLostProphetx said:
I'm very sorry to have to bump this, but I followed the instructions that I was given and ended up with the infamous Error [140].
While fastbooting, I now have:
***Security Warning***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0000
RADIO-38.03.02.14_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 10 2011,14:58:38
And when I try to use the OTA update, it goes straight into this Fastboot screen. I literally have no idea what's going on now.
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you must install the original RUU, which will remove all your data and install original ROM Android 2.3.3, recovery, hboot and radio
i suggest RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.28.401.1_Radio_20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.11_M_release_177977_signed-ORIGINAL.exe from here http://www.androidfiles.org/ruu/?developer=Saga
or you can put this zip on your sd card, and install it from bootloader: http://dfiles.eu/files/bh4avk6uz (easier method)

Thank you for your link and RUU file. I tried running the Europe RUU.exe, but came up with "Error 131: Customer ID error". Still the same information in the bootloader as before though.

Sorry to bump this again, does anyone have a fix?
Or would it be easier to root and s-off once more then flash a rom that was similar to stock?

xTheLostProphetx said:
Sorry to bump this again, does anyone have a fix?
Or would it be easier to root and s-off once more then flash a rom that was similar to stock?
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probably be easier to s-off and flash ice cold, it's the closest to stock with none of the bugs of stock
Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.
Ryan Stiles

[Q/Help]Boot loops on various ROMS

Hi Guys (long time listener first time caller etc etc)
I finally got the courage to install a custom rom on to my HTC One XL (Telstra). After unlocking it installing the custom bootloader (2.5.0.0 TW) I have tried to install some roms and get no where with a few of them and boot loops if they actually install.
The two I can get to install but boot loop are ViperXL and cyanogenmod 10.0.
I am thinking I am doing something really simple wrong, but have tried a lot of things but no luck.
Details below; If there is anything else which might shed some light please let me know.
Evita PVT Ship s-on RL
HBoot-2.14.0000
RADIO-1.26a.32.45.1219
openDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-BOOT
nov 26 2012 18:37:14-1
Is anyone able to steer me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance, Jase

oh, I did install all of Telstra's updates prior to starting. The last one brought android up to 4.1.2 I think.

Jason Broadhurst said:
Hi Guys (long time listener first time caller etc etc)
I finally got the courage to install a custom rom on to my HTC One XL (Telstra). After unlocking it installing the custom bootloader (2.5.0.0 TW) I have tried to install some roms and get no where with a few of them and boot loops if they actually install.
The two I can get to install but boot loop are ViperXL and cyanogenmod 10.0.
I am thinking I am doing something really simple wrong, but have tried a lot of things but no luck.
Details below; If there is anything else which might shed some light please let me know.
Evita PVT Ship s-on RL
HBoot-2.14.0000
RADIO-1.26a.32.45.1219
openDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-BOOT
nov 26 2012 18:37:14-1
Is anyone able to steer me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance, Jase
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Welcome mate.
Couple of things...
The HBoot version you have won't allow you to update the boot.img of the rom your flashing as part of rom installation. You have 2 options - first is to s-off which pretty much lets you do whatever you like. Check in the original development thread for how to s-off if you're interested.
The second option is to flash (install) the boot.img in bootloader mode.
You can do that either before or after you flash the rom. Before I was s-off I did it both before and after.....
There's a few ways to do it including using adb or some apps will do it automatically for you. Take a look here for one example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1870455
And the second thing - good idea to post questions in the Q&A thread. More people look through there so you'll get your answer faster.

Get rid of twrp5.0, had the same issue, flaahed back to 2.3.3.1 and all is good...
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda premium

Thanks guys. I did the fastboot flash boot and it all came good.
Appreciate the help!

[Q] Help Needed

So I did a short search for the answer to this but seems like I cant quit find the answer or it just confusing me and im getting lost. I have an HTC Sensation T-Mobile From the USA model PG58100. This phone is I assume in a bootloop as when it turns on it just stays on the HTC screen. I put it in recovery mode and tried doing just the factory reset but the phone still loops after ward. So i know assume i have to reinstall the stock rom. this phone is not and has never been rooted to my knowledge as I did not receive this new so I am not 100% sure. here is what is displayed when i go into recovery mode
*** LOCKED***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.18.0000
eMMC-boot
Aug 2 2011,22:35:52
I have downloaded Elegencia Sence 4.1 V8.0.0 zip but I will install whatever you guys feel is best for me. I just need the phone back up and running. it does not need to be rooted or have anything special completely stock would be fine. The simplest way to get it working again is all I need. Thank you in advance.

Try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094380
There you have a bunch of RUUs try with some of TMOUS but choose some newer one.

Need help updating hboot via RUU, S-Off, etc.

I'm using CM10 and I've been wanting to update my S4 to a KitKat rom for some time and now that some stable builds are starting to come out I decided it was a good time.
On my first try flashing a new rom I got an error message asking for a newer version of hboot (mine is 1.14.0002 and it wanted 2.15.0000), so I looked around and found out I needed a RUU to update that, but since finding one for my phone is pretty difficult I decided to S-Off it, because apparently you can use any RUU that way.
Obviously it's not working, that's why I'm posting this. I did the htcdev method to unlock the phone back when I installed CM10 and to get S-Off I followed the rumrunner method. No problems whatsoever so far. They start appearing as soon as I try to update the 2.15.0000 RUU I downloaded from this other tutorial (the HTC Europe one, since I live here).
Following all the steps in that page I read about needing to change the phone's SuperCID to make it compatible with the RUU. First I tried with the default SCID that my phone had (VODAP304) with no luck. Then after a bit of searching I tried changing it to HTC__001 which seemed to be the correct one for the european RUU, but the same thing happened: it gives an incompatibility error, the process stops, the phone bootloops and I have to do a TWRP restore (the back up is from this morning and I made it just before attempting this, so no data loss of any kind)
These are the numbers bootloader gives me, if they're of any help:
***TAMPERED***
***UNLOCKED***
VLE PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
CID-VODAP304
HBOOT-1.14.0002
RADIO-1.08es.50.02.21
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012, 14:36:28
What exactly am I missing here to update the hboot?

You don't need to install RUU, you need to flash a new firmware. Take a look at [URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755" ]this [/URL] thread.
Sent from my HTC One S

ka_55 said:
You don't need to install RUU, you need to flash a new firmware. Take a look at [URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755" ]this [/URL] thread.
Sent from my HTC One S
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But isn't that for kernels? In several hours of research I haven't found one post about kernels for my issue
It does look similar to another method I've found recently that flashes the hboot through fastboot/recovery but users say it's much more risky

Rodrows said:
But isn't that for kernels? In several hours of research I haven't found one post about kernels for my issue
It does look similar to another method I've found recently that flashes the hboot through fastboot/recovery but users say it's much more risky
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Yes it's about kernels and the problem with the new roms is nothing but the kernel. So firmware update is enough as a solution. I don't think it's dangerous if you follow the instructions correctly. But you should follow them word to word with your own risk
Sent from my HTC One S