Hi, as my nexus s has recently been lost i decided its time to put a custom rom on my one s, i was about to unlock the bl on it and noticed the tamper banner on the bl screen, its also s-off with a cid of 11111111, i have attatched a pic of the bl screen for reference, As far as i know the one series cant as of yet cannot be s-off'ed like the older htc devices, how would this be possible on my device? It was bought from brand new quite a while ago and until now has always run the the stock rom with no root etcetc.. The only thing i can think of is i had it unlocked not long after purchasing it but not sure what method the shop used. When i access the bootloader on my one s i can choose what to do fastboot or recovery etc etc but on this one s i get the red htc disclaimer like pictured below when i select recovery, i have the latest cwm touch flashed but cannot get into it.. So how can i access recovery?? any help would be appreciated
Sorry about image quality its taken on an old webcam
Your bootloader is still locked, that would be my guess. That's why the pink banner at the top says "locked". Unlock that and you should have access to recovery.
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I have since unlocked the bootloader, and still getting the same problem, recovery just won't load, as with old HTC devices such as sensation, desire s, DHD bootloader unlock was not relevant if you had s-off not sure about the one series, my main question is how it's become s-off in the first place
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Keep the bootloader locked, don't use the HTCDev method to unlock it. You're extremely lucky to have S-OFF, this means that you can easily get your warranty back running an RUU, changing CID and fastboot oem writesecureflag 3. This will make it S-ON again, and no trace of it being S-OFF will be there.
The current method is HTCDev, which submits a Unique Device Identifier so they can decline your warranty due to an unlocked bootloader.
S-OFF is better than HTCDev for flashing ROMs, as it means you don't have to flash the boot.img seperately.
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Keep the bootloader locked, don't use the HTCDev method to unlock it. You're extremely lucky to have S-OFF, this means that you can easily get your warranty back running an RUU, changing CID and fastboot oem writesecureflag 3. This will make it S-ON again, and no trace of it being S-OFF will be there.
The current method is HTCDev, which submits a Unique Device Identifier so they can decline your warranty due to an unlocked bootloader.
S-OFF is better than HTCDev for flashing ROMs, as it means you don't have to flash the boot.img seperately.
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Hi thanks for your responce. Since I took those pics the bl has been unlocked, warranty I'm not too fussed about, the main issue I have is how its become s-off in the first place, and when I try to boot cwm I get the red message pictured in my first post, I've tried to flash a recovery via fastboot and.Rom manager and no luck what so ever, I've tried com touch and cwm standard aswell as twrp I have the s4 device and Im stuck lol. Jeez I miss my nexus already
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PEP-C is a friend of mine, I've just purchased the above mentioned one s for £150 but that's irrelevant, I have owned HTC devices before but never have I seen that red message pictured in the first post, it appears every time the phone boots up, any suggestions? My mate said he's had it from new but I'm not so sure.
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furrabbit.nh said:
PEP-C is a friend of mine, I've just purchased the above mentioned one s for £150 but that's irrelevant, I have owned HTC devices before but never have I seen that red message pictured in the first post, it appears every time the phone boots up, any suggestions? My mate said he's had it from new but I'm not so sure.
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Its a new thing HTC is doing. Normally pops up when you have a modified kernel/recovery.
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usaff22 said:
The current method is HTCDev, which submits a Unique Device Identifier so they can decline your warranty due to an unlocked bootloader.
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Man... I hate HTC sometimes haha
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Sgt-Hartley said:
Ahh thanks for clearing that up, I did wonder, all though it does show up even on a fully stock system, no root, stock recovery, as you can see from the pics in first post the BL was still locked when those snaps were taken, even though its s-off it would not let me flash a recovery for him without unlocking the BL after I typed the fastboot command it said not allowed or something similar.
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I have no idea how its like that, but that's normally why it shows up.
Maybe it has to do with it being S-off?
I do know however, that with S-off you can remove the red text. I'm sure someone here would know what to do.
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xxquicksh0txx said:
I have no idea how its like that, but that's normally why it shows up.
Maybe it has to do with it being S-off?
I do know however, that with S-off you can remove the red text. I'm sure someone here would know what to do.
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You can remove it, but messing around with it could brick your phone. I wouldn't even think about it.
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Hi thanks for your responce. Since I took those pics the bl has been unlocked, warranty I'm not too fussed about, the main issue I have is how its become s-off in the first place, and when I try to boot cwm I get the red message pictured in my first post, I've tried to flash a recovery via fastboot and.Rom manager and no luck what so ever, I've tried com touch and cwm standard aswell as twrp I have the s4 device and Im stuck lol. Jeez I miss my nexus already
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Try flashing a stock recovery, then flash the one from modaco. Apparently that one works best
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It is a s4 device right ? According to the hboot its a s4
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Mine is s off too and also with the red text when booting
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gock said:
Mine is s off too and also with the red text when booting
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Consider yourself extremely lucky too, I'd die to have S-OFF
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Sure does seem to be a rash of s-off devices popping up lately. Maybe we'll get lucky and somebody will wander over to the forums and help us with the method(s).
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Sure does seem to be a rash of s-off devices popping up lately. Maybe we'll get lucky and somebody will wander over to the forums and help us with the method(s).
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Why cant a dev ever get lucky lol.
Darknites said:
Why cant a dev ever get lucky lol.
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Even if a Dev gets lucky, there's nothing no one can do about it. It's how it got there that's important, not whether you have it or not.
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Mine is s off too and also with the red text when booting
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You get the red text if your boot image is not signed by HTC. Regardless of s-on/off.
And afaik, you get **TAMPERED** if your recovery image is not HTC signed.
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You get the red text if your boot image is not signed by HTC. Regardless of s-on/off.
And afaik, you get **TAMPERED** if your recovery image is not HTC signed.
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I have ***TAMPERED *** and I have the stock recovery and a locked bootloader. The only thing I have is su.bin and superuser.apk
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I have ***TAMPERED *** and I have the stock recovery and a locked bootloader. The only thing I have is su.bin and superuser.apk
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The s-off device of mine had tampered before I even unlocked the bootloader or even flashed custom recovery, I only bought it to sell but no I'm unsure, the one s and one x both seem to be.doing well even without s-off. As for the red message it only appears with custom Rom on my device, if on stock its not there.
Edit: Just to clear things up I now own the device mentioned in the first post
Edit 2: does anyone know if xtc clip can s-off the one series? Can't find any updated info
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gock said:
Mine is s off too and also with the red text when booting
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Did you ever get your phone sim unlocked via a third party company, if so what method did they use?
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aditya. said:
It is a s4 device right ? According to the hboot its a s4
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Yes it's s4
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Hi how do I make ny HTC one x look like when you first got it unrooted all of at&t apps .
Or can I send it to warranty rooted ?
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htcbrazilian said:
Hi how do I make ny HTC one x look like when you first got it unrooted all of at&t apps .
Or can I send it to warranty rooted ?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880608&highlight=stock
The bootloader screen will forever say "RELOCKED" though.
Would HTC still repair it
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Would HTC still repair it
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I don't work for HTC so I can't tell you. Are you paying for service? Or using your warranty? If you're trying to use warranty, it was voided the second the BL was unlocked. You may luck out and they might not check or see it. What's the worst that could happen? They send it back and say they can't service it?
If you bought it from AT&T, return it to AT&T. There have been a bunch of reports by folks on here that have had warranty honored by AT&T even though the bootloader is RELOCKED. And haven't seen any reports of AT&T doing otherwise.
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If you bought it from AT&T, return it to AT&T. There have been a bunch of reports by folks on here that have had warranty honored by AT&T even though the bootloader is RELOCKED. And haven't seen any reports of AT&T doing otherwise.
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I am have done that and they(att) did not charge me
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relock, run update, been a while but if I recall hboot didn't sat re-locked.
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relock, run update, been a while but if I recall hboot didn't sat re-locked.
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It will always only say RELOCKED. Only way for it to say LOCKED is if the bootloader was never unlocked. Some think the flag can be changed to LOCKED if we get S-Off. RUU will only remove the TAMPERED tag. It will not make it back to LOCKED.
With s-off we can make it say biscuits if we want
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With s-off we can make it say biscuits if we want
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Niceppl should get some biscuits
Mmm... biscuits
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With s-off we can make it say biscuits if we want
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With s-off you can also change the boot splash.
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Unless it's bricked, most carriers will still honor the warranty on an unlocked phone.
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With s-off you can also change the boot splash.
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but you can already change splash on certain hboot as it is.I was regretting unlocking my phone because it didn't seem to give advantage for much.
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but you can already change splash on certain hboot as it is.I was regretting unlocking my phone because it didn't seem to give advantage for much.
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I was referring to htc devices in general.
I don't have the hox, so I don't know device specific stuff.
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Hi there!
I really would like to unlock my one S but I don't want to loose the warranty, I have seen this thread regarding the work that is under development for the one X http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604300 and I was wondering if something like this exist here too
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light_n_roses said:
Hi there!
O really would like to unlock my one S but I don't want to loose the warranty, I have seen this thread regarding the work that is under development for the one X http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604300 and I was wondering if something like this exist here too
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There isn't really any active work toward s-off for the One S. I think the hope is that anything the Att One-X guys come up with will work on or phone also. So there is still hope.
Also, you can unlock your phone without going through HTCdev. Therefore not losing your warrenty but you would need files from someones phone who is unlocked. The link below explains it but DO NOT try it with the files in the link as it won't work. You need the files from a One S.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732980
Well, I think that an exploit for the one X cannot be used for the one S because of different chip used on the devices... We have a Qualcomm one while the one X has tegra. I would check the link that you have pass me but I think that it will be hard to find someone who would pass me the right files...
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Well, I think that an exploit for the one X cannot be used for the one S because of different chip used on the devices... We have a Qualcomm one while the one X has tegra. I would check the link that you have pass me but I think that it will be hard to find someone who would pass me the right files...
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The AT&T (and some other NA carriers) One X (AKA One XL) has the MSM8960 which is also a S4 Krait+Adreno 225 combo, just with an LTE modem.
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Well, I think that an exploit for the one X cannot be used for the one S because of different chip used on the devices... We have a Qualcomm one while the one X has tegra. I would check the link that you have pass me but I think that it will be hard to find someone who would pass me the right files...
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It would work for sure. If someone has a device going back to t-mobile or HTC for replacement we could use their partitions.
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It would work for sure. If someone has a device going back to t-mobile or HTC for replacement we could use their partitions.
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Then the bootloader woukd NOT show the message tampered right??
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Then the bootloader woukd NOT show the message tampered right??
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TAMPERED isn't such a great issue. It goes away by just flashing a RUU.
The real issue is the RELOCKED message you get when relocking the bootloader. To prevent this RELOCKED message, and to have it displaying LOCKED isntead (this way the bootloader won't appear to have been ever unlocked), you have to achieve S-OFF. That's what they're working on, if I'm not mistaken.
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Then the bootloader would NOT show the message tampered right??
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It would still show tampered. The only reason you would want to do it this way is so your phone wouldn't show up in HTC's database of phones they unlocked. When you unlock through HTC Dev you agree that unlock the phone may void parts of your warranty.
And as the other poster above stated even if you locked the boot-loader again it would say Relocked instead of Locked. So there isn't really much a reason to do it this way.
Well I hope that a way to unlock the phone without leaving traces will eventually cames out. I do not want to use htcdev because I have to keep this phone for 30 months as I have taken it with an operator contract, so if something happen and I have unlocked it then I would have no warranty.
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I bought this phone outright, and I don't like the Telstra network so I put an Optus SIM in. Which works just fine, however I now have an issue which may or may not be related. I have unlocked my bootloader, and have obtained root. I cannot get s-off however, tried all the methods in this forum. And when I try to install a new Rom, such as cm10 and all nightly versions, venom viper, and all other Roms I have tried I cannot get passed the start up logo (or I just get a pure black screen). Yes I have waited and waited for extended periods of time but it won't load. No I'm not new to rooted phones, and have followed all insructions properly. Pls help me, I really hate all the Telstra bloatware on my phone.
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you have to fastboot flash the boot.img when you are s-on
Only problem is I used that stupid one xl one click toolbox for my root. Which has completely stuffed me up.I should have done it the hard way like I did with my incredible s. I just got lazy. Don't suppose you know how to get s-off, without the one click fixes. Unfortunately they arnt working on this phone to acheive s-off
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pretty sure you need supercid to s-off here is the s-off thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071
and how to get supercid on non att
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2212737
Thank you will give it a try tomorrow.
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your welcome
jerrycoffman45 said:
you have to fastboot flash the boot.img when you are s-on
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Not necessarily. It depends on your hboot version I believe.
I've never had to flash the boot image and I haven't done s-off.
@OP - did you need to s-off for any specific reason? You don't need to do this to flash a custom ROM. It's not required unless you want to reove the tampered text from the boot loader.
It makes life easier to have s-off. Besides I have issues with not having full access to something I have bought outright....lol
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I s-off'd my HOXL because it makes it much safer from my own boneheaded mistakes. If I had done something silly like flashing the OTA RUU then I wouldn't be completely screwed.
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ok i downloaded the kit but hit the 2.20 instead of hitting the 3.18 phones unlocked but wont flash recovery phone still works how can i fixed this to finish rooting it
Ehhh... What? Please be more clear. It's a feat to troubleshoot issues through a forum as it is, let alone without all the information. Explain exactly what you've done. What carrier your phone is from, etc.
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exad said:
Ehhh... What?
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THE ALL IN ONE KIT BY HASOON it has 2.20 and 3.18 my phone is 3.18 i hit 2.20 and went threw the steps and it unlocked my phone but wen i try and flash recovery nothing happens
Ok so you went to HTCDEV and unlocked the phone and flashed the unlock code and in your bootloader it says tampered and unlocked?
The reason I ask is the 2.20 method won't even come close to working on 3.18
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Ehhh... What? Please be more clear. It's a feat to troubleshoot issues through a forum as it is, let alone without all the information. Explain exactly what you've done. What carrier your phone is from, etc.
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at&t htc one x 4.1.1 3.18 firmware i unlocked my phone using the 2.20 xfactor instead of using the motochopper 3.18 when i try to flash recovery i hit the TWRP 2.5.0.0 nunthin happens ok then i hit your own recovery the cmd pops and at top has device not found
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Ok so you went to HTCDEV and unlocked the phone and flashed the unlock code and in your bootloader it says tampered and unlocked?
The reason I ask is the 2.20 method won't even come close to working on 3.18
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yes phone unlocked im pretty sure i hit 2.20 but tryin to flash nothing works
ware84 said:
yes phone unlocked im pretty sure i hit 2.20 but tryin to flash nothing works
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Is your phone in fastboot mode while trying to flash recovery?
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Is your phone in fastboot mode while trying to flash recovery?
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yes turning it off now and then tryin again will let u know thank u for helpin
still nothing i dont what im doing wrong lol im lost
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still nothing i dont what im doing wrong lol im lost
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I replied to your PM.
This issue has been resolved.
The new update for the One XL came out a few weeks ago, and I updated my phone, before the update, my phone was s-off, now, its s-on D:
My Software number now is 5.05.707.1
Kernel Version is 3.4.10-g5f4de050
Android version is 4.2 2
Hboot version is 2.15
Bootloader is unlocked
Just wondering, is it possible to s-off again? And what TWRP2 version do I flash for my phone, can you post a link please? I might want to flash it.
All help is greatly appreciated
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Do u have an unlocked bootloader?
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How can we come to know about wheather bootloader is locked or unlocked is it mention somewhere in phone
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Yep my bootloader is unlocked
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haq.adnan said:
How can we come to know about wheather bootloader is locked or unlocked is it mention somewhere in phone
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Turn off your phone, and when you want to turn it on, hold down the power button and the Volume Down button. And then you will enter bootloader mode. The top left tells you whether your bootloader is unlocked or not (*UNLOCKED* or *LOCKED*) If there is a *TAMPERED* above it, it means that your phone is rooted
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Successfully rooted my phone!!! Now running CyanogenMod 10.1
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before the update, my phone was s-off, now, its s-on
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You sure? Its very unusual for an update to have changed the security flag. Has anyone else that has updated to Sense 5 experienced this?
Root for any version except AT&T (US) is the same as before just unlock the bootloader via htcdev.com, install custom recovery, and flash SU or a rooted ROM.
Since your bootloader is unlocked, that step does not need to be done. To find TWRP just look at my Index thread sticky at the top of the General forum; or just look in Development.
If you want s-off again, then SuperCID (if not any longer) and try the facepalm exploit again. I don't know if anyone has verified if it still works after the Sense 5 update. But if not, the only way to find out, is to try it . . .
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Cthdarren said:
Successfully rooted my phone!!! Now running CyanogenMod 10.1
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Why on earth did you update, if the goal was to get on CM10.1???
I can't understand why folks are so anxious to install a new OTA, when they are already modded. And I don't think you know why you did it, either.