Im seriously considering unlocking the bootloader. What are the pros and cons of doing this? Any replies are greatly appreciated..
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You can flash ROMs, radios, and kernels with an unlocked bootloader. Without it you cant.
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What are some advantages to that as opposed to waiting for an ota?
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All custom ROMs offer various mods, tweaks, and overall improvements to the Android experience versus stock ROMs. Generally the OTAs leak long before they're pushed out, and and devs always update their ROMs accordingly so you never have to worry about accepting an OTA. Check out the development section and read through some of the ROM threads and you'll see what I mean about the tweaks and mods. If you find a ROM you'd like to have on your phone, only way to do it is by unlocking the bootloader. It's a lot easier and safer than you might think.
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Im rooted on 1.85 stock rom. Does the one click unlock method still work?
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Yes sir it does.
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Will that automatically put a custom recovery on the phone or would I have to get one from somewhere.. Sorry for all the questions..
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No, you will have to flash the recovery yourself. There are a few threads in development for recoveries, and there are even a couple one click methods. Just look for them, should be on the first couple of pages.
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The only cons are a very small chance of bricking your phone and rendering it unusable (follow instructions and you should be fine). Also, as of now, once you unlock the bootloader you will not be able to take the phone back for warranty or other reasons. In the future there may be ways to undo this process, but none that I know of right now.
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The only cons are a very small chance of bricking your phone and rendering it unusable (follow instructions and you should be fine). Also, as of now, once you unlock the bootloader you will not be able to take the phone back for warranty or other reasons. In the future there may be ways to undo this process, but none that I know of right now.
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It is very difficult to brick a phone and 99 times out of 100 it's recoverable. If you follow directions and only flash stuff that is made for your phone, then you will not brick it. As far as warranty claims are concerned, if it's a hardware issue they will still more likely than not take care of it. I've exchanged a few HOXs, all for hardware issues, and not once did they check the bootloader to see if it was unlocked at one point.
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If your thorough in following directions, there's a thread I posted in development on unlocking your boot loader without voiding HTC warranty. Also if u do unlock, just go to the market and download goo manager beta. It will flash the recovery for you. Very nice tool to have.
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How many of you have bricked you phone trying to root and get s-off I want to try a custom rom on m my sensation but worried about bricking such an expensive phone . I've rooted many devices before but never an HTC so I have never done tthe s off thing
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fr0zenblood75 said:
How many of you have bricked you phone trying to root and get s-off I want to try a custom rom on m my sensation but worried about bricking such an expensive phone . I've rooted many devices before but never an HTC so I have never done tthe s off thing
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its easy but if you scared then you should probably not do it because scared leads to complacations
Not that I'm scared I don't panic or anything haha I mean is there more of a risk than other phones that are not HTC
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Let's just say I'm completely new to android, the sensation is my first android and first smartphone, and I have no background in computer knowledge other than what normal people know and I successfully S-OFFed my phone first time. Just follow the guide very closely and you should be fine, although I should note that some parts are in my opinion poorly written probably because of editing the op.
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Really so I guess if I do everything as followed there should be nothing to worry about thanks.
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just follow the instructions carefully and youll be fine. this is my first android device and first time ever s offing my phone and i successfully did it my first try
In my opinion, it's not harder than rooting a device using SuperOneClick (that I guess you know if you've rooted some devices already)
I would even say it's easier to use AlphaRev tool than writting codes with adb to have temp-root^^
I think the only risk would be to disconnect while making it S-off
Finally I think it's less risky than flashing a rom or a radio
I had this phone since it came out, and rooted and S-Off and I had tons of issues. Such as Wifi disconnecting and needing to restart the phone in order for it to work, also sometimes Wifi slowed down to a super crawl. Random reboots, etc. But this probably could of been credited to me dropping it all the time and messing up the internals.
I returned it and got a new one, updated to the latest and haven't rooted. Battery life is amazing, but too much bloatware!!!! Can I root and s-off the latest tmobile software? Cause I tried running the older RUU and that failed to install on my phone.
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Um... S-off? The One S?
But yeah unlocking and rooting should be no problem, just use htcs unlock method...
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xxquicksh0txx said:
Um... S-off? The One S?
But yeah unlocking and rooting should be no problem, just use htcs unlock method...
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You are saying that HTC them selves provided a rooting guide? If so can you provide a link for HTC Unlock method.
Thanks in advance
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You are saying that HTC them selves provided a rooting guide? If so can you provide a link for HTC Unlock method.
Thanks in advance
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No HTC does not provide a rooting guide. They simply make it easy for you to unlock the bootloader using http://www.htcdev.com/
Once the bootloader is unlock you can root via a few method. There's plenty of sticky thread in the dev section.
This is just one thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583427
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I had this phone since it came out, and rooted and S-Off and I had tons of issues. Such as Wifi disconnecting and needing to restart the phone in order for it to work, also sometimes Wifi slowed down to a super crawl. Random reboots, etc. But this probably could of been credited to me dropping it all the time and messing up the internals.
I returned it and got a new one, updated to the latest and haven't rooted. Battery life is amazing, but too much bloatware!!!! Can I root and s-off the latest tmobile software? Cause I tried running the older RUU and that failed to install on my phone.
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I recommend you install TWRP recovery so that you will find it simpler to flash roms. No need to fastboot flash boot.img.
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Wait so the latest update version from Tmobile can be rooted?
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Hgaara said:
Wait so the latest update version from Tmobile can be rooted?
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Please read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24806342#post24806342 especially the first part of that post, where a reasonable user kindly seems to suggest that a fellow user read very easy to find info instead of starting a thread. You must have posted that in anticipation of this thread?
I have the S4 T-Mobile One S and was wondering if the htcdev bootloader unlock tool is safe, since I've seen a bunch of soft brick threads, also is that all I need to do to get a Rom on the phone? I don't have any expierience with flashing or modding on HTC phones, only on Motorola phones. Any other flashing information is appreciated. Thanks
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Yes it is safe.
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Torxx wrote a step by step post in the development section. It's stickied. I used it to unlock and flash my phone. Works great.
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Torxx wrote a step by step post in the development section. It's stickied. I used it to unlock and flash my phone. Works great.
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+1
But, i would scan several threads on unlocking read his to get a good feel on the process. Highlighting the correct text to copy/paste for the token is important--I missed it first time and included to much text--
The phone won't boot or do nothing. Plug into wall....nothing at all nothing......
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Completely stock BTW. This thing is bricked
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Did you have super cid before update? This new update isn't good, in future you can download safer versions on xda. Id try plugging phone in wall charger for a day or so. Good luck
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Always remember: NEVER PERFORM OFFICIAL CARRIER UPDATES! That is all. As for your question, it seems like it is bricked. Can you even boot into bootloader? What was your battery on? Also, were you rooted, s-off, unlocked BL? Need a bit more details. If not, you may need to send your phone to be JTAG. People all over the forums, suggest a website, that will do it for $60. Which is best compared to sending it to HTC or AT&T
He said the phone is completely stock. There is the unlikely event of official updates bricking phones. Its their update that bricked it, so the carrier or HTC need to replace or repair the phone for you.
Yeah I did it through HTC sync. It did the update then when it said rebooting device it never rebooted. Lol sending it off today:/ I should have rooted this thing long ago......
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Hi guys,
I'm looking to root my HTC One S (S4 Plus) to remove junky bloatware by Vodafone and to change the crappy Vodafone bootloader which seems to have knocked out the startup HTC sound of the device (and yes I have tried adjusting volumes).
I really don't want to brick the device as it's still 10 months until my contract is over. I've never rooted a phone before either.
Do you have any advise and perhaps some tools for newbies?
Thank you!
Hassoon2000's toolkit works great
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skinzy98 said:
Hassoon2000's toolkit works great
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Thank you for the suggestion.
Are there any side effects to rooting apart from the obvious bricking possibility?
It does void your warranty
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It does void your warranty
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I've had the device for 14 months so my warranty no longer exists anyway.
Anything else?
Not that I can think if. Really quick did you take the jellybean ota update?
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Not that I can think if. Really quick did you take the jellybean ota update?
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I'm assuming you mean the recent 4.1.1 update from T-Mobile? I live in the UK. Vodafone sent out the 4.1.1 update back on December 25.
Well you can unlock boot loader but I think you need to use moonshine s-ofd to get s-off if your going to do it
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Well you can unlock boot loader but I think you need to use moonshine s-ofd to get s-off if your going to do it
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Okay, thank you for the help.
You don't have to s-off, do you? I'm still running SON & had the latest update as well. Did have to use the htcdev website to unlock the bootloader, but it's alot easyer. Considering you're not really going to be a power user, that might just be the way to go...
Just remember you have to flash the boot.img using fastboot if you're going to use custom roms, appart from that I've not had any problems with it.
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You don't have to s-off, do you? I'm still running SON & had the latest update as well. Did have to use the htcdev website to unlock the bootloader, but it's alot easyer. Considering you're not really going to be a power user, that might just be the way to go...
Just remember you have to flash the boot.img using fastboot if you're going to use custom roms, appart from that I've not had any problems with it.
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I'm looking to unlock the bootloader/root the device while still being able to download OTA updates (if anymore come...) and keep HTC Sense, if that's possible?
Simply to remove Vodafone's crappy bootloader that seems to have affected my phone's default bootup. My One S doesn't play the HTC startup sound, but my girlfriend's does and we're both under Vodafone via 24-month contract that ends in May.
I've used this procedure:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583427
Works pretty well .
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I'm looking to unlock the bootloader/root the device while still being able to download OTA updates (if anymore come...) and keep HTC Sense, if that's possible?
Simply to remove Vodafone's crappy bootloader that seems to have affected my phone's default bootup. My One S doesn't play the HTC startup sound, but my girlfriend's does and we're both under Vodafone via 24-month contract that ends in May.
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You can not still receive otas while rooted it will brick your device in pretty sure
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You can not still receive otas while rooted it will brick your device in pretty sure
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I see. Android not such an open platform, after all.
Well.its because it has sense overlay while stock and all those are not built on that
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Well.its because it has sense overlay while stock and all those are not built on that
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Sure, but bootloaders shouldn't be locked anyway, especially HTC's (according to them)...
Well that's HTC for you
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Well that's HTC for you
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I guess. The One series (2012 and 2013) isn't even listed on the HTCDev website to unlock the bootloader. Perhaps Vodafone took the liberty of locking it instead? They've already plastered crap in the app drawer, that it wouldn't surprise me.
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I guess. The One series (2012 and 2013) isn't even listed on the HTCDev website to unlock the bootloader. Perhaps Vodafone took the liberty of locking it instead? They've already plastered crap in the app drawer, that it wouldn't surprise me.
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Yeah some carriers also do it
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Yeah some carriers also do it
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Well, I'm guessing custom ROMs would provide the latest version of Android wouldn't they? So I doubt OTA updates would be necessary (especially since HTC just ditched this damn phone). My only concern is if I could get Sense 5.0 as well?
I've heard of TrickDroid 10 having Sense included? I'd expect this phone to support the latest versions with it being fairly powerful.