How do you (s-off) one s - HTC One S

Hey was wondering if anyone could tell me how I (s-off) my device I noticed some ROMs need you to (s-off) device to install them. Can anyone help thanks
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tr1gg3r84 said:
Hey was wondering if anyone could tell me how I (s-off) my device I noticed some ROMs need you to (s-off) device to install them. Can anyone help thanks
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There is currently no way to s-off the HTC One S. Best you can do is bootloader unlock.

My phone is boot load unlocked but I tryed installing vemon ROM but when I install it and reboot it gets stuck on load up for some reason. But on install it says something about being (s-off) I don't understand what its asking for then :/
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Luckily you probably misnoticed that, no One S ROM needs S-Off to install AFAIK.

OK so why does it not boot up when I install the vemon rom? It shows blank black screen...
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tr1gg3r84 said:
OK so why does it not boot up when I install the vemon rom? It shows blank black screen...
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You need to flash the boot.img in fast boot.
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Talk about not reading instructions on how to flash a rom.
HTC One S TmoUS

I did that but takes ages to boot up left it a hour and it still on HTC one boot screen..
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tr1gg3r84 said:
I did that but takes ages to boot up left it a hour and it still on HTC one boot screen..
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Did what? Anyways this is a symptom of not flashing the boot.img properly. Do it using fastboot, there is a whole guide on doing this stickied in the development section.

Do like others have said, fastboot boot.img or try using TWRP recovery.

One of the rom threads has a boot.img script. Just replace the boot image on that script folder with yours and run the script.
HTC One S TmoUS

Maybe it isn't the boot.img..maybe he chose full wipe in AROMA and it didn't flash. Try flashing by manually full wiping and then not full wiping in AROMA, then it should boot after you fastboot the boot.img.

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Every ROM Stuck on boot screen

I have rooted my sensation for the first time and I have S ON and it is unlocked but I have tried Insert Coin, Ordroid, and and Virtuous and all have been stuck in the boot screen. Help please.
P. S. I have HBOOT 1.27.0000
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Hani24 said:
I have rooted my sensation for the first time and I have S ON and it is unlocked but I have tried Insert Coin, Ordroid, and and Virtuous and all have been stuck in the boot screen. Help please.
P. S. I have HBOOT 1.27.0000
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Hi,
Please follow THIS THREAD
Take the Rom.zip file that you have flashed and you will need to go to your pc or laptop and unzip it and then it will create a folder and then you will open that folder and scroll down and you will see a folder that will say kernel open it and you will see a file called boot.img you will copy it to the same folder that you have your adb and fastboot drivers in and then open up your cmd and type your commands to get your fastboot driver's working and then typ fastboot flash boot boot.IMG press enter and then type fastboot reboot and watch the magic
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And to flash those rom's you have listed you will need to flash the correct firmware and you need to have s off first before you can flash ics rom's
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But what exactly do i type in command line prompt to get the fastboot driver working
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Man use the same method you used when you rooted your phone
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I didnt need command to root it
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fastboot flash boot [your boot.img location]
i think youd bettery make your phone s-off.
The instuctions are in the first post I sent you oh about six post down read it the answer's are there
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You want to have s-OFF not on.
Soff you will have more capability. So you will want to s off
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can you please follow the extra 1 step ..from the link given by malybru(2nd or 3rd post i think) ..atleast you will come out of bootloop after that ..then you can try SOFF or whatever
I turned s off and I flashed ordroid v9 and it was stuck on the white HTC screen. It turned black for like three seconds then returned to the HTC boot screen.
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Did you follow the thread that malybru linked to? I am on hboot 1.27 and s-on and I can flash every ICS rom out there that supports firmware 3.32-3.34, which is by far the most, if not all.
And thank you malybru for pointing me in the right direction.
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Hani24 said:
I turned s off and I flashed ordroid v9 and it was stuck on the white HTC screen. It turned black for like three seconds then returned to the HTC boot screen.
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what do you mean you turned s off? Did you follow the procedure to s off the device because s off is not a button you can turn off. It is a procedure to disable security. Once your s off you can flash without trouble. Please read the link provided to the procedure. If you are s off you should not have these issues.
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Yes I followed the procedure and now I have s off. When I flashed ordroid it didn't even reach the beats audio boot screen as I said before it shows the.white HTC logo screen, turns black, then goes back to the HTC screen.
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Are you supercid? Maybe try that if youre not yet
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Did you use the correct 3.32 firmware? If
Not thats the issue. All ics roms must have 3.32 firmware.
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1. RUU back to latest stable, that way you have all of the proper bootloaders and radios.
2. Follow numerous guides in dev section about S-Off and flashing the correct firmware.
3. Flash recovery.
4. Flash rom of your choice.
Should get it all taken care of for you. Good luck! :cyclops:
Finally I got it to work on ordroid so I can tell the changes (volume,settings, etc) but when I go home it says loading then says 'unfortunately, HTC has stopped"
Then I return to my previous launcher. THIS ISN'T OVER
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Cant load any Rom but Venom.

As of right now I can't load any Rom except for venom. I don't know what is stopping my phone from working.
Background, dropped phone in the toilet, dried it out and everything worked. Went to change roms and something got messed up during the install which cause the phone to have no Os and no usb support. Got all of that straight, reloaded the phone back to stock, rooted it again, unlocked it, and loaded venom.
I have tried to load other roms but it will install in recovery but after reboot it will stay on the loading screen for the rom.
Any help will be great. Thanks!
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What hboot? What roms are failing? What version of viperxl is running fine?
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Hboot 1.14.
Roms that failed:
Jellybam
HatkaXL
ElementalXL
CM 10
ViperXL 3.0 is running fine now.
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You have to flash the boot.img
Hate to sound like I haven't been doing this for a while but where do I get the boot.img?
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usmcpunk said:
Hate to sound like I haven't been doing this for a while but where do I get the boot.img?
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*facepalm* all roms have there own boot.img. if you open your Rom you'll see what says boot. That is it and you go into fastboot and flash it or use the flash gui app
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Thanks. I only ask because I have never had this issue before.
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usmcpunk said:
Thanks. I only ask because I have never had this issue before.
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Venom has a way of flashing the boot.img for you...but otherwise since you're on hboot 1=14 you have to manually flash the boot img....dont worry that's why were here to help!
usmcpunk said:
Thanks. I only ask because I have never had this issue before.
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Unfortunately it sounds like when you reflashed to stock you upgraded the hboot, which in turn makes it so you have to flash the boot.img through fastboot. It's unfortunate, but there is a JET tool if you're experienced in Linux to downgrade your hboot. but, like I said, don't do it unless you're confident.
Thanks guy. I got it to work with the flash GUI. Back to clean Rom!
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Reflashing boot IMG each time?

I have AOKP on my att HTC. I already flashed the boot IMG manually, if I want to try out CM10 do I have to flash the boot IMG of cm10 again? Also when updating the same ROM is this neccesary again?
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If you are on hboot 1.14, yes you should flash the boot IMG every time you flash a new ROM. Not technically necessary for a ROM update but good to do just in case.
You can always just S-OFF though, then you don't need to worry about it.
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exad said:
If you are on hboot 1.14, yes you should flash the boot IMG every time you flash a new ROM. Not technically necessary for a ROM update but good to do just in case.
You can always just S-OFF though, then you don't need to worry about it.
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QBking said on his video that getting S off can brick your phone so I am a little weary.
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It is actually a very simple process. All I did was copy and paste the commands from the facepalm method. Worked like a charm. Makes flashing a whole lot easier.
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The only issue i had while getting s-off was the phone being "offline" but a simple unplug and replug fixed that. It was a simple process overall
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I would say the bigger risk is not understanding what s-off is actually doing. Because there's no security checks, if you don't know what you're doing you can easily brick flashing the wrong thing. If you're smart about it, take your time and know what it is your flashing, you shouldn't have any problems.
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Thanks guys I am simply using the Flash GUI app its awesome because it flashes the boot IMG.
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Can't flash rom..

So I recently got a new device since I lost my 4g on my last htc one s and unlocked bootloader, flashed recovery, rooted, all that good jazz but for some reason I flash a custom rom and it doesn't get past the htc boot screen. I was able to flash new roms on my last htc one s no problem but can't for some reason. The only difference I can say is that this new one received the ota jb update. Any advice? I'd like to be able to get back to my jb roms...
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Pandahands66 said:
So I recently got a new device since I lost my 4g on my last htc one s and unlocked bootloader, flashed recovery, rooted, all that good jazz but for some reason I flash a custom rom and it doesn't get past the htc boot screen. I was able to flash new roms on my last htc one s no problem but can't for some reason. The only difference I can say is that this new one received the ota jb update. Any advice? I'd like to be able to get back to my jb roms...
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did you flash the boot.img file?
I didn't but the roms I've tried flashing didn't require that. Or at least I didn't think so. I.e. Slimrom and deviantx....
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Pandahands66 said:
I didn't but the roms I've tried flashing didn't require that. Or at least I didn't think so. I.e. Slimrom and deviantx....
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i maybe wrong with this but if your s-off you dont need to flash the boot.img, but if your s-on then u need to flash the boot.img
So.... totally neglected to s-off so yes I had to flash boot.img. I'm good to go. Thanks for the help a lot!
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Unlocked 3.18 Now What?

Now that we have the exploit to unlock the bootloader on 3.18, I thought I would give you the run down on what to expect.
The first thing that you need to know is that your hboot version will not allow you to flash custom roms properly. You will have to manually flash the boot image: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136172 . Flashing roms without doing this manually requires a method called S-Off in witch you remove security: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071 If you are thinking about flashing aosp based roms you will have to s-off "FIRST" and downgrade your touch screen for them to work properly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2159863
Hopefully this will eliminate some confusion and help you on your way.
Venomtester said:
Now that we have the exploit to unlock the bootloader on 3.18, I thought I would give you the run down on what to expect.
The first thing that you need to know is that your hboot version will not allow you to flash custom roms properly. You will have to manually flash the boot image: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136172 . Flashing roms without doing this manually requires a method called S-Off in witch you remove security: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071 If you are thinking about flashing aosp based roms you will have to s-off "FIRST" and downgrade your touch screen for them to work properly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2159863
Hopefully this will eliminate some confusion and help you on your way.
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Great info! where's the thread where they are discussing the 3.18 unlock?
Android Development. I can confirm this is a working method.
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Venomtester said:
Android Development. I can confirm this is a working method.
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Well thanks again for the info! I just had some bad luck with my phone and had it repaired from htc just to get it back fresh with the 3.18 software... This is wonderful news. thanks again for bringing it to my attention.
mkalbarc said:
Well thanks again for the info! I just had some bad luck with my phone and had it repaired from htc just to get it back fresh with the 3.18 software... This is wonderful news. thanks again for bringing it to my attention.
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If you need a windows script I can send it to you. I've just been busy so i havent shared it.
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Megadoug13 said:
If you need a windows script I can send it to you. I've just been busy so i havent shared it.
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Sure! I'll send you a PM with my email
Thanks again guys!
Thanks Venomtester for the info. Viperxl here I come lol.
Megadoug13 said:
If you need a windows script I can send it to you. I've just been busy so i havent shared it.
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If you wanna share that with me I'll put it in the main thread. Thanks for the contribution.
mkalbarc said:
Great info! where's the thread where they are discussing the 3.18 unlock?
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Go here : [ROOT] HTC One X AT&T 3.18
I have been unlocked and have superCID, when trying to flash custom recovery via the fast boot it seems to install fine but when i reboot into recovery the recovery is blank any ideas? What are the steps i should properly take to gain Root,s-off etc. Any assistance would be aprpeciated.
Did you unlock bootloader via HTC dev?
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Yes sir cid is 11111 via fastboot auth
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What I am asking is if you went to the HTC dev site and received an unlock token to unlock the boot loader after gaining temp root. If so you can download goo manager from play store search for twrp and it will install it for you. Make sure you stay with 2.3..... 2.4 has issues wiping on our phones.
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You will also need to install super user.
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When I flashed the twrp via fastboot after HTC dev boot unlock and try to reboot into recovery it's just a blank screen after the red HTC warning
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You need to flash super user.
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flipper79 said:
When I flashed the twrp via fastboot after HTC dev boot unlock and try to reboot into recovery it's just a blank screen after the red HTC warning
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you need to hold the volume down button and power. once you get into the bootscreen choose recovery. This will load up TWRP. Once your in you can gain SU by going to advanced and fixing permissions I believe. Also note when installing custom roms you must do a complete data wipe/cache/dalvik/system or you might have boot loops or no boot at all.
You gain such by flashing su in recovery.
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How do I put su on my one x I have unlocked it. No twrp. I tried s-off but there's no su. Need help
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Flash twrp and use it to install su
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