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[Q] how to root desire s 2.3.5

i am having trouble rooting my htc desire s hboot 2.00.002 S-ON android version 2.3.5. can anyone help??

iGeoo said:
i am having trouble rooting my htc desire s hboot 2.00.002 S-ON android version 2.3.5. can anyone help??
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.............why???? Everytime again..
What kind of trouble do you have after doing what to your phone??
I would like to see a doctor curing people ota after they send an email "help me I'm sick"
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Hi there! this worked for me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390496

another method
first unlock bootloader through htcdev.com it isn't a big deal
make sure you have installed android sdk
download recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img and Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip I've attached it
(rename recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img to recovery.img)so you can flash it easily
than download android fastboot tools I've attached it
extract the fastboot-tools.zip to lets say C:\android
check out the 11.jpg
now turn on your phone into bootloader to do that push volume button down and power button than go into fastboot and plug your phone into usb
than run command and go to folder that you created lest say cd c:\android
than type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
done you've installed clockworkmod recovery
Now it's time to root your phone.
put Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip to sdcard root folder means just move it sdcard no subfolder
start your phone into cwm recovery to do that turn of your phone and again press volume down and power button
than scroll to recovery via volume up and down button than push power button when recovery highlight
and cwm will start up than select install zip from sdcard go to the Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip and select yes
phone is rooted
HOPE THIS HELP

niravnn said:
first unlock bootloader through htcdev.com it isn't a big deal
make sure you have installed android sdk
download recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img and Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip I've attached it
(rename recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img to recovery.img)so you can flash it easily
than download android fastboot tools I've attached it
extract the fastboot-tools.zip to lets say C:\android
check out the 11.jpg
now turn on your phone into bootloader to do that push volume button down and power button than go into fastboot and plug your phone into usb
than run command and go to folder that you created lest say cd c:\android
than type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
done you've installed clockworkmod recovery
Now it's time to root your phone.
put Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip to sdcard root folder means just move it sdcard no subfolder
start your phone into cwm recovery to do that turn of your phone and again press volume down and power button
than scroll to recovery via volume up and down button than push power button when recovery highlight
and cwm will start up than select install zip from sdcard go to the Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip and select yes
phone is rooted
HOPE THIS HELP
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Wow, quite a big solution, maybe you covered his problem. but I would never recommend to someone to use htcdev.
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Thanks for the helpful comment, i will try and report back

Thanks this resolved my problem.!
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Can I now install custom rom? It still says S-On but is now unlocked. Thanks
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darius0519 said:
Can I now install custom rom? It still says S-On but is now unlocked. Thanks
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If you unlocked with htcdev you can flash custom roms and you need to flash the boot.img separately
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@darius0519
Its bee said soooooo many times, I am shocked someone wouldn't find it.
Flash a custom recovery.... Using fastboot then follow what eyahl said.

eyahl said:
If you unlocked with htcdev you can flash custom roms and you need to flash the boot.img separately
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Thanks men! You're a genius!
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iGeoo said:
i am having trouble rooting my htc desire s hboot 2.00.002 S-ON android version 2.3.5. can anyone help??
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You can't root the phone unless you've S-OFF'd it... trouble is with v2.00.002 Hboot, then Revoutionary won't work (requires 0.98.0000 or 0.98.0002).
You can try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390496

anchemis said:
You can't root the phone unless you've S-OFF'd it... trouble is with v2.00.002 Hboot, then Revoutionary won't work (requires 0.98.0000 or 0.98.0002).
You can try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390496
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I have rooted my phone by unlocking the bootloader from htcdev. Then flashing cwm from fast boot. Once cwm image is flashed i booted to recovery and installed superuser to root my friends phone. It is still on s-on state but says unlocked. And now its rooted.
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darius0519 said:
I have rooted my phone by unlocking the bootloader from htcdev. Then flashing cwm from fast boot. Once cwm image is flashed i booted to recovery and installed superuser to root my friends phone. It is still on s-on state but says unlocked. And now its rooted.
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Interesting! Try using 4EXT recovery? I find it better than CWM. Ext4 file systems, mount USB in recovery mode, etc.

darius0519 said:
I have rooted my phone by unlocking the bootloader from htcdev. Then flashing cwm from fast boot. Once cwm image is flashed i booted to recovery and installed superuser to root my friends phone. It is still on s-on state but says unlocked. And now its rooted.
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In my opinion it is in any way better to s-off and not unlock with htcdev. anything you do will be much more easier when s-off (for example flashing ROM, no need to flash boot.img separately...) And also there's a bigger chance of voiding your warranty when using htcdev.
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eyahl said:
In my opinion it is in any way better to s-off and not unlock with htcdev. anything you do will be much more easier when s-off (for example flashing ROM, no need to flash boot.img separately...) And also there's a bigger chance of voiding your warranty when using htcdev.
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i thinks your right men. but i just don't have the guts to try to downgrade the hboot loader since i am only doing it for a friend. im afraid i may brick his phone.

[Q] Recovery does not start - new One S model?

Hi everybody,
I unlocked the bootloader of my One S successfully with htcdev.com and next I wanted to flash a recovery image via fastboot, what succeeded. I used this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583427
But when try to start the recovery, the phone hangs in the boot screen with the red text "This build is for development..." and does not start recovery.
I tried several recovery images for the ville but none could be started.
What i recognized is, that in the Video "How to Install Recovery in HTC One S" in the thread mentioned above, the Bootloader screen locks slightly different, than mine.
First of all, mine only says "Unlocked" but NOT "Tampered" and second the first green line says:
VILLEC2 PVT SHIP S-ON RL
whereas in the video one can see the line
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
I attached a pic of my bootloader.
So I think my phone is a newer One S, right? Is there already working Recovery out there?
Or am I missing something else?
Thx a lot in advance for any hint

Do you have CWM installed?

sure, as I wrote in my first post. I tried several CWM Recovery Images... the interim one, the actual original one for the One S... no image boots...

Well, it doesnt look like the your phone is rooted.

Try TWRP. Quality recovery.
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Tampered means rooted. Everything else looks updated. Try to root then see what happens. You may need to root to flash cwm over stock. Not really sure. I just do both always and they work.
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What am I missing?
I unlocked the Bootloader on htcdev.com, did the whole thing with entering the token, download the Unlock_code.bin, upload it to phone, said "Yes, unlock bootloader" and so on.. and the bootloader sais, it IS unlocked. If it where not, I wouldn't be able at all to flash a recovery image with fastboot, but this also succeeds (fastboot said "OKAY" when uploaded to phone and "OKAY" when flashed), right?
And the next step after unlocking bootloader IS flashing a recovery image like CWM for then using it to flash the Superuser.zip for gaining root, isn't it? Or am I completely wrong?

Try booting normaly and then connecting the phone to your computer and do adb reboot recovery i know i had problems similar to this when i first flashed a recovery and doing that for the first time fixed it
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You can gain root access through stock recovery as long as you unlocked bootloader. Did you try Hasoon2000's all in one tool kit?
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Yeah Try the adb reboot recovery method, If that fails, flash the superboot root image, then use something like rom manager to download CWM to the phone.

@stumpyz9: This did not work, same as if i would start recovery from Bootloader
@dooshbag45: I re-locked and unlocked the bootloader again, nothing changed, it is "UNLOCKED" but not "TAMPERED". Yes, I also tried Hasoon2000's Root Kit and recognized, it just does nothing other, than 1. unlock bootloader and 2. flash a Recovery Image. This had the identical result...
I meanwhile tried these recoveries:
r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img
recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.4-ville.img
recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-ville.img
twrp217.img (inculded in Hasoon2000's Kit)
CWM5824.img (inculded in Hasoon2000's Kit)
Now I tried to recover the stock recovery image from the modaco.com site, named "ville_recovery_signed.img"
but this doesn't start either... WTF...

Tampered does not mean ur rooted I had that problem left phone on stock for a week then tried same method again must of been doing Something wrong learn how to do it manually but if u can't download all in one toolkit HTC.one s I think that's what's it called it will unlock bootloader flash and root
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@azzledazzle: the superboot method didn't work either... downloaded it, fastbooted it, the phone boots but..... remains in the red-text screen as it does when try to boot a recovery image .... I really think it has something to do with the newer HBOOT Version and the "VILLEC2" thing.. something in booting images works other than in the version before...

Just download all in one toolkit HTC one s
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@k1llacanon: The All-in-one toolkit didn't work as I posted earlier. This was one of the first things I tried...

I had that problem when rooting mine left it for a week learnt more about my phone and did it and it worked u must be doing Something wrong
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Direct fastboot booting of a recovery image also does not work:
"fastboot boot r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img"
same result...
@k1llacanon: This is not the first phone I root... did it with the Wildfire S and the old Desire... it worked the same way... unlock bootloader, flash recovery image.. what can be done wrong with these 2 simple steps? What did you do other?

Have you got
Fastboot (unticked)
USB Debugging (ticked)

snoopy1978 said:
Direct fastboot booting of a recovery image also does not work:
"fastboot boot r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img"
same result...
@k1llacanon: This is not the first phone I root... did it with the Wildfire S and the old Desire... it worked the same way... unlock bootloader, flash recovery image.. what can be done wrong with these 2 simple steps? What did you do other?
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Dont pay attention to that idiot, he obviously has no idea what hes doing either.
And if you think it is because of this newer version have you checked to see if anyone else with the newer version has been having the same problems? Just to confirm thats it
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stumpyz9 said:
Dont pay attention to that idiot, he obviously has no idea what hes doing either.
And if you think it is because of this newer version have you checked to see if anyone else with the newer version has been having the same problems? Just to confirm thats it
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Stfu
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HOX SV 1.94.631 help to install custom rom

I got my HOX about 2 weeks now. I really want to flash it with a custom Rom. Tried lots of rooting instructions with no success. Phone is now back to factory reset using RRU method. I got the bootloader unlock. No success loading Clockworkmod on boatloader recovery.

sherwinator said:
I got my HOX about 2 weeks now. I really want to flash it with a custom Rom. Tried lots of rooting instructions with no success. Phone is now back to factory reset using RRU method. I got the bootloader unlock. No success loading Clockworkmod on boatloader recovery.
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I have the same issue but it says my phone says it is tapered. I want to go back to stock at least. What instructions did you follow for that?

ironnik said:
I have the same issue but it says my phone says it is tapered. I want to go back to stock at least. What instructions did you follow for that?
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not sure how to remove the "tampered" status but i got it back to stock using RRU method and load a stock Rogers Rom. you need to re-lock it before using RRU. my status now is Tampered and Relock.

sherwinator said:
not sure how to remove the "tampered" status but i got it back to stock using RRU method and load a stock Rogers Rom. you need to re-lock it before using RRU. my status now is Tampered and Relock.
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Did you use the 1.94 RUU or did you try to Flash the 1.73 original?

You must root on 1.85. Scripts don't work on any other version.

XNine said:
You must root on 1.85. Scripts don't work on any other version.
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Can I just use RRU to go back to 1.85? Please attach a link.
Thanks

ericth18 said:
Best way to root at this moment would be to unlock your bootloader using HTCDEV and flash TWRP recovery and then flash CleanRom 4.5 which will give you root as long as you kepp that rom on your phone. There could be other roms out there that will give you root access but I've flashed a few and CleanRom 4.5 was the only one that got me rooted. Until they come up with a way to perm root on 1.94 I suggest using this method.
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If your bootloader is unlocked, you can root with any ROM.

If you unlock and flash a recovery-
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img
and you cant get it to boot the custom recovery heres the trick, after you flash the recovery type
fastboot boot nameofrecovery.img

Butters619 said:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can root with any ROM.
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If this is true, then why can't anyone root their 2.2x phones?

thechilipepper said:
If this is true, then why can't anyone root their 2.2x phones?
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Cuz att doesn't let us bl unlock our phone HTC dev blocks our cid

Whyyyy is this in general? Please keep all question/help threads in the Q&A section only. Thank you.
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[HELP] This Build is for Devlopment purposes only bootloop, HELP!

Forgive me for my noobishness but I am in desperate need of help.
So after using the easy way out to root my One X (onexroot[dot]com) not only did my device not root (phone's bootloader unlocked) but whenever I try to do a factory reset, update the software or go into recovery mode it goes into the "This build is only for development purposes..." boot screen and restarts, without updating or anything. My phone is locked to the Canadian Rogers network (evita build). Also i cant find the Rogers RUU anywhere (found some links but all didn't work). Any and all help would be greatly appreciated (don't flame this noob please )

Have you tried to get into bootloader by using power+volume down? Not sure what's going on you need to be able to get into bootloader to run a ruu
Also you shouldn't need to root... Only att users needed a root process... All others simply can unlock using g htcdev, fastboot a recovery, and flash a rooted rom...
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InflatedTitan said:
Have you tried to get into bootloader by using power+volume down? Not sure what's going on you need to be able to get into bootloader to run a ruu
Also you shouldn't need to root... Only att users needed a root process... All others simply can unlock using g htcdev, fastboot a recovery, and flash a rooted rom...
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Im just a hard ass noob I guess , I can get into the bootloader, just when I try and go into recovery mode or have a factory reset it goes into the dev only screen, but I found a RUU and hopefully it'll solve the problem

ethopianprince said:
Im just a hard ass noob I guess , I can get into the bootloader, just when I try and go into recovery mode or have a factory reset it goes into the dev only screen, but I found a RUU and hopefully it'll solve the problem
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It should hopefully!! You have to be in fastboot to run the ruu.. Make sure when you're in bootloader, it says "fastboot usb" in red.
If the above step is good to go, make sure you have the correct ruu to match the firmware that you're on. You should be good to go
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Cough cough fastboot oem lock first cough cough

all good now
InflatedTitan said:
It should hopefully!! You have to be in fastboot to run the ruu.. Make sure when you're in bootloader, it says "fastboot usb" in red.
If the above step is good to go, make sure you have the correct ruu to match the firmware that you're on. You should be good to go
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Thanks for your help! after using the RUU, everything is back to normal, just gotta unlock it again and I should be good.
Thanks

a box of kittens said:
Cough cough fastboot oem lock first cough cough
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Either I skimmed through it and missed it or he edited it lol.. I thought he only tried to root and failed
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Oops I read through that too quickly I guess

[Q] [villec2] Only Bootloader. No os installed.

Hello !
I'm new here and have a Problem.. I think you guys can help me the best.
Sorry if my English isn't the best I'm from Germany.
So i unlocked my villec2 with the tool from htcdev.com. All fine.
Then if flashed with twrp(?) and it worked.. kinda..^^
Then i rooted with SuperSu i think 0.97 or something it worked also my phone booted an i installed some apps... like whatsapp.
Then i rebooted but it stucks on the start screen "htc One"
I went into the recovery mode an thought "Wipe System" would help me and clear something.. But it formated it and now there is now Os installed.
I can go to the Bootloader but not more.
Now i tried to install an RUU but i keep getting the Error 170/171 after it says Waiting for Bootloader(Warten auf Boatloader),
I don't know what i have to do and i don't know if have still garante on the phone after unlocking and relocking the bootloader.
I hope you can help me you are my last chance !
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Now it says i have the wrong ROM and i need to get the right.. But where I get the Right ROM? Unbranded c2?

Do you want to go back to stock rom via ruu? Or push a custom Rom to phone so you can flash?
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lampel said:
Do you want to go back to stock rom via ruu? Or push a custom Rom to phone so you can flash?
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You can get a custom ROM in the c2 dev section.. Make sure you have s3 recovery installed and don't forget to flash boot.IMG sounds like that's where you went wrong the first time...
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Or when running the RUU, make sure you are in FASTBOOT USB not HBOOT USB. If you're in HBOOT USB, select fastboot in the bootloader by navigating up and down with the volume keys and selecting with the power button.
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usaff22 said:
Or when running the RUU, make sure you are in FASTBOOT USB not HBOOT USB. If you're in HBOOT USB, select fastboot in the bootloader by navigating up and down with the volume keys and selecting with the power button.
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Wehre can i get the right RUU? I thought it had the right but it says i have the wrong :S

Zaitout said:
Wehre can i get the right RUU? I thought it had the right but it says i have the wrong :S
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You'll have to search it out... All I have is s4 ruus
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