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[Q] Stuck on bootloader menu

Hello,
i wantted to flash stock rogers ruu since my wifi woudnt connect and was showing me wifi error even after factory resetting. so i searched a bit and found that it could be kernal related and so decided to flash it completely fresh ruu . now i have unlocked the bootloader before but dint relock it and just flashed clean rom.. everything was well.. but after wifi error i decided to go back to stock.. so i had to relock the bootloader.. so i relocked it.. changed superCID to 11111 adn now when i want it to go to the previous rom .. it wont.. nor can i go to recovery.. any help?.. just want to go to stock rogers ruu...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658929
so now my current state is .. i can acess bootloader menu .. but cant boot to rom or recovery.. how can i flash an ruu then?
thanks

When you relock the bootloader you can only get to hboot. This is normal, happened to me all 6 times I relocked mine across 5 different phones. You have to run a RUU to be able to boot back into your phone. Just follow the instructions in the thread you linked.

_MetalHead_ said:
When you relock the bootloader you can only get to hboot. This is normal, happened to me all 6 times I relocked mine across 5 different phones. You have to run a RUU to be able to boot back into your phone. Just follow the instructions in the thread you linked.
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thanx.. yea its updating now...
if you dont mind me asking what is the wifi bug with htc one x which everyone talks about.. i thought its only related to the signal strength ..
mine one apparently wouldn't connect at all ..strange

jags_the1 said:
Hello,
i wantted to flash stock rogers ruu since my wifi woudnt connect and was showing me wifi error even after factory resetting. so i searched a bit and found that it could be kernal related and so decided to flash it completely fresh ruu . now i have unlocked the bootloader before but dint relock it and just flashed clean rom.. everything was well.. but after wifi error i decided to go back to stock.. so i had to relock the bootloader.. so i relocked it.. changed superCID to 11111 adn now when i want it to go to the previous rom .. it wont.. nor can i go to recovery.. any help?.. just want to go to stock rogers ruu...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658929
so now my current state is .. i can acess bootloader menu .. but cant boot to rom or recovery.. how can i flash an ruu then?
thanks
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I was having this same problem and it took a while before I could get it to work. Try opening a command window in the same location of your adb tools.
First, make sure you're in fastboot mode, then type 'fastboot oem rebootRUU'
Next, make sure you have the .zip RUU file in the same folder and type 'fastboot flash zip XXX.zip' (replace XXX with whatever it's called, of course)
Now, you can see what is actually happening when you are flashing the RUU. In my case, there was 2 points where it told me to "re-flush image immediately" or something like that. When I ran the last command again (fastboot flash zip XXX.zip) it went a bit further each try, but it took until the 3rd try before it was successful.
Hopefully this helps you out!

kilo89 said:
I was having this same problem and it took a while before I could get it to work. Try opening a command window in the same location of your adb tools.
First, make sure you're in fastboot mode, then type 'fastboot oem rebootRUU'
Next, make sure you have the .zip RUU file in the same folder and type 'fastboot flash zip XXX.zip' (replace XXX with whatever it's called, of course)
Now, you can see what is actually happening when you are flashing the RUU. In my case, there was 2 points where it told me to "re-flush image immediately" or something like that. When I ran the last command again (fastboot flash zip XXX.zip) it went a bit further each try, but it took until the 3rd try before it was successful.
Hopefully this helps you out!
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This is the information I had been hunting for. Thanks a lot!

i have no idea why it keep telling me failed (remonte: 43 main version check fail)
i tired many times already
still the same
a lil help here ...
kilo89 said:
I was having this same problem and it took a while before I could get it to work. Try opening a command window in the same location of your adb tools.
First, make sure you're in fastboot mode, then type 'fastboot oem rebootRUU'
Next, make sure you have the .zip RUU file in the same folder and type 'fastboot flash zip XXX.zip' (replace XXX with whatever it's called, of course)
Now, you can see what is actually happening when you are flashing the RUU. In my case, there was 2 points where it told me to "re-flush image immediately" or something like that. When I ran the last command again (fastboot flash zip XXX.zip) it went a bit further each try, but it took until the 3rd try before it was successful.
Hopefully this helps you out!
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madsatan said:
i have no idea why it keep telling me failed (remonte: 43 main version check fail)
i tired many times already
still the same
a lil help here ...
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nevermind
i figured it out

madsatan said:
nevermind
i figured it out
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what did you do? i get the same error 43 failed
please, Thanks

HELP: I cant install any ROM (noob here)

Hi there.
2 things before i explain the problem: 1) Yes, I'm a noob and 2) sorru for bad english.
So, today I was trying to install a different custom rom because the previous one (official ICS) was too slow, etc..
My desire S was a branded one, unlocked, etc.
Now I have:
UNLOCKED
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.02.0002
RADIO-3831.19.00.110
eMMC-boot
jul 31 2012,15:41:32
After trying to install the custom rom (fallout 5.0) etered the recovery and do a full wipe and a format. After that I copied on the sd card the ROM .zip and flashed from recovery. Always seem to be good, but when the phone rebooted, it was stucked on the white htc one screen.
I've tryied lot of guides and tool s here, but nothing helps me (5 hours on the forum).
A very big help will be very appreciated.
Thanks guys!

you need to flash boot.img after installing the rom

ContactFront said:
you need to flash boot.img after installing the rom
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Something appening now. I'm trying to reinstall the RUU ICS. Previously I cannot because I needed to relock it.
Now I need to know how to install the fallout without problems.
Do I simply flash it from recovery than flash the boot.img?
Thank you very much

Burpo said:
Something appening now. I'm trying to reinstall the RUU ICS. Previously I cannot because I needed to relock it.
Now I need to know how to install the fallout without problems.
Do I simply flash it from recovery than flash the boot.img?
Thank you very much
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yes.
flash your rom ->reboot into bootloader ->flash boot.img using fastboot command ->reboot your phone
every time you install a new custom rom, you need to flash the boot.img

ContactFront said:
yes.
flash your rom ->reboot into bootloader ->flash boot.img using fastboot command ->reboot your phone
every time you install a new custom rom, you need to flash the boot.img
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Do i have to re-unlok it before re-flash the rom?

I've done everything (flash fallout 5.0 and after that flash boot.img). Still stuck on htc one white screen
EDIT: still stuck also with an other custom rom

Can you list all the things you did?
Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus

suku_patel_22 said:
Can you list all the things you did?
Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus
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I think that I cannot flash any custom rom because (I think) I have to downgrade the 2.02 hboot.
By the way here the list of things I did with
RUU ICS, UNLOCKED, SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL, HBOOT-2.02.0002:
- recovery (cyanogenmod) > full wipe, etc
- install from zip file > fallout 5.0
- flash boot.img
After that everything seems good but when the phone reboot, it will stuck into htc one white screen (or black whit an other rom).
Thanks for help
EDIT: the only thing I want is to flash and test every roms I want, without having always some king of problem.

What command did you use to flash boot.img. Try to be precise rather than just say i flashed the boot.Img.
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”* ~Epictetus

AW: HELP: I cant install any ROM (noob here)
To me it looks like you used the command "fastboot boot boot.img" instead of "fastboot flash boot boot.img", could that be the case?

teadrinker said:
To me it looks like you used the command "fastboot boot boot.img" instead of "fastboot flash boot boot.img", could that be the case?
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That was my thought
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”* ~Epictetus

Op seems to do first then read. The 2nd post should have solve his issue already.
FromA100

teadrinker said:
To me it looks like you used the command "fastboot boot boot.img" instead of "fastboot flash boot boot.img", could that be the case?
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Yep, maybe this is the reason of my fail. I think I lost one "flash"
I'll try later and let you know if everything is ok

So, I'm trying to flash the rom. I've wipe everything, than flashed the rom. Now I entered the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img". The prompt still show "waiting for device". What the hell?
"fastboot devices" didn't give me an answer same as "adb devices"

Uhm... Maybe I need to reinstall htc sync drivers? :angel:

Ok, nevermind, I needed to reinstall correct win7 64bit drivers.
So. I success with fastboot flash boot boot.img. The phone is still stuck on the HTC one white screen. FUUUUU!
EDIT: SUCCESS!
Just need to wait 5 mins!
Thank you all!

[Q] Sensation alive....sort of

Hello to all you phone guru's,
I am pretty much a noob, so go easy on me please.
Back story...I have been interested in electronic for years and though I am ok on the hardware side of things, the software and programming I struggle with, I am trying to learn but like any beginner there are hurdles at which I stumble and have to ask for help, hence my typing the post.
My trade is mechanics so if you would like any car advice and I can help my door is always open.
Anyway, I bought the sensation I have as a little project, so I could start learning while hopefully getting a nice operating phone out of it as well, it is operating as far as I can get it into hboot etc and it has Tea Win recovery which I can access but that's about it, it appears to have no OS on it, no image....nothing.
I have tried to follow several guides on this site concerning RUU's and images but have failed to have any success, I have ADB downloaded and drivers....the details I have been able to get off phone are as follows:
hboot-1.27.0000
radio-11.23.3504.07_M2
open adsp-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
eMMC-boot
jan 13th 2012.
unlocked s-on
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C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
SH16GV810960 recovery
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>
cid: H3G__001 =
H3G-UK
-------------------------------
So now I have shared my problem, please bring forth the solutions, to which I really hope there are some.
Is the phone dead never to be revived?
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any help is appreciated.

since you can boot to the bootloader your device is not dead
the only thing it needs is to flash a custom rom from recovery
i suggest to use 4ext recovery because you are on S-ON
follow only step 2 from here(flashing a recovery)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
then download your desired rom and put it in your sdcard
boot to the recovery
enable smartflash from 4ext
flash the rom
done

rzr86 said:
since you can boot to the bootloader your device is not dead
the only thing it needs is to flash a custom rom from recovery
i suggest to use 4ext recovery because you are on S-ON
follow only step 2 from here(flashing a recovery)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
then download your desired rom and put it in your sdcard
boot to the recovery
enable smartflash from 4ext
flash the rom
done
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Brilliant, thank you.
I will give it a go and post back if that ok?
One question, Will any uk RUU be ok, perhaps the latest ICS?

TommyTits said:
Brilliant, thank you.
I will give it a go and post back if that ok?
One question, Will any uk RUU be ok, perhaps the latest ICS?
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since you are on S-ON you can use only the one which corresponds to your region(same firmware or higher) and cid

Neeeeed more help please...
Unfortunately the already suggested ideas have not worked.
So here I am pleading for help again.
I have tried flashing a few roms, 2 of which have installed but not solved the problem and the rom apparently for my phone cid and mid didn't want to installed at all, I have tried flashing PG58.img but again it simply doesn't want to know, I can't s-off for the fact that when it comes to reboot it reboots into the problem which is getting stuck on htc screen then nothing, I've relocked and unlocked via dev, I've also tried editing cid in PG58 img then flashing...still no joy.
I am stuck completely, my eyes are boggling from the amount of threads and posts I've trawled through and im a gnats **** away from taking a hammer to the phone
Anyone out there that can help?

Solved....
Please close thread.

TommyTits said:
Please close thread.
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at least can you share us the solution so anyone else will benefit from it if it comes in a similar situation?

Absolutely...
rzr86 said:
at least can you share us the solution so anyone else will benefit from it if it comes in a similar situation?
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Of course you are correct sir, my apologies.
Tbh I thought that nobody would look at my post as im a noob...
Turned out to be that there was a rom (the stock one installed fresh) but no boot
So accessed the rom file copied boot.img and pasted into sdk platform-tools, which I am sure
y'all know is adb, so in fastboot usb....flashed boot boot.img a voila a phone that does not get
stuck on htc screen.
Have a wifi issue now though, which I think may be a rom thing....yet more investigation under way.
Thanks to rzr86 for the help and communications.

TommyTits said:
Of course you are correct sir, my apologies.
Tbh I thought that nobody would look at my post as im a noob...
Turned out to be that there was a rom (the stock one installed fresh) but no boot
So accessed the rom file copied boot.img and pasted into sdk platform-tools, which I am sure
y'all know is adb, so in fastboot usb....flashed boot boot.img a voila a phone that does not get
stuck on htc screen.
Have a wifi issue now though, which I think may be a rom thing....yet more investigation under way.
Thanks to rzr86 for the help and communications.
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that's why i told you to enable smartflash from 4ext in my 2nd post
smartflash is doing exactly what you did manually(with boot.img)
in S-ON devices boot partition is still protected so recovery can't flash the boot.img while installation except if you have enabled smartflash previously
that's why for S-ON users 4ext is more preferable

rzr86 said:
that's why i told you to enable smartflash from 4ext in my 2nd post
smartflash is doing exactly what you did manually(with boot.img)
in S-ON devices boot partition is still protected so recovery can't flash the boot.img while installation except if you have enabled smartflash previously
that's why for S-ON users 4ext is more preferable
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Trust me my mate i tried what you said several times with 4ext and smartflash enabled only for it to start then abort install.
Hence my confusion and being stuck, i have no idea why it wouldn't install, i checked and double check that it was the right
boot img for rom but as i say it just refused to install boot img.

TommyTits said:
Trust me my mate i tried what you said several times with 4ext and smartflash enabled only for it to start then abort install.
Hence my confusion and being stuck, i have no idea why it wouldn't install, i checked and double check that it was the right
boot img for rom but as i say it just refused to install boot img.
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maybe you were enabling smartflash in the wrong time
you just enable it exactly before flashing a rom

[Q] Trying to upgrade HTC Desire S to HTC Android 4.0 (without Windows)

Thought I would try to upgrade Android from 2.3.5 to 4.0. HTC said it would work...
I've now got it stuck, though and can't move on. I do not own a Windows computer (I'm on Ubuntu).
What I did
I unlocked the phone using HTC's website tools. It uses adb, and you have to send some key to them and they generate an unlock code for you which you then do: fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
I downloaded the RUU (RUU_SAGA_ICS_35_S_HTC_EU_14.01.401.2_20.76.30.0835_3831.19.00.110_275068) from HTC.
Try 1: OpenRUU
I extracted the rom.zip file by using Wine, then searching on rom.zip. I moved it to ~/rom.zip
I then tried running the OpenRUU scripts which failed on attempting to flash (and failed on the automatic reflash attemtp, too):
sending 'zip' (410735 KB)... OKAY
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOzip header checking...
INFOzip info parsing...
FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)
Try2: using hboot
I then tried with the hboot script. This is not for the "desire S" and has the wrong code in for the renamed rom.zip file. I then tried manually putting rom.zip, renamed as PG88IMG.zip into the root of the SD card as clearly summarised at (1)
I booted up into fastboot and the phone opened the zip file but then said "Wrong zipped image!".
Try3: using WinXP in VirtualBox
I then tried to run the RUU exe file in an XP VirtualBox VM. To do this I enabled USB devices for the phone (i.e. added filters for it both in fastboot and android modes), installed the stuff (HTC Sync) and tried running the RUU file.
It keeps saying "error 170 usb connection error". I've tried with the phone turned on (normally) and plugged in via USB, in charge only, Disk Drive and in USB debugging modes. I've also tried with the phone in fastboot mode. I always get this error.
...disable VirtualBox's USB2.0 support
Then it's able to connect to the phone. It ran all the way through the update process except that (a) there was never a progress indicator on the phone itself, (b) at the end it gave an 155 "image error". The recovery process then didn't really relate to anything I could see on the phone. The phone is again back in a2.3.5, so at least not bricked.
Trying to re-lock bootloader...
Then I thought that maybe the bootloader should be locked again (step 11 at (2)) - I had skipped this step before because I thought "I've just UNlocked it, why would I now want to RElock it?". But this won't work either! In fastboot mode, from a terminal, I type
Code:
$ fastboot oem lock
... INFOLock successfully...
FAILED (status read failed (Protocol error))
then the phone reboots itself, and it still shows unlocked. My fastboot screen (in case it's useful) says:
Code:
*** UNLOCKED ***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0002
RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M
eMMC-boot
Aug 22 20111, 15:22:13
HBOOT
Can anybody help?!
Links: (1), (2) : see pastebin dot com slash 1wKTF8Am (I am not allowed to post links here)

Rename rom.zip to PG88IMG.zip (not .jpg) then put on the root of ur sdcard (not in any folder) then boot into bootloader, it should find it

jmcclue said:
Rename rom.zip to PG88IMG.zip (not .jpg)
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Doh! my bad - I had of course named it .zip not .jpg. (I have edited the post since). It WAS found by the phone, but error-ed after opening it, as described.

I flashed my RUU on Linux simply by doing:
Code:
fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash zip YOURRUUZIP.zip
fastboot flash zip YOURRUUZIP.zip
fastboot reboot
(yes, you flash it twice - it asks you 'please flush[sic] image again immediately' because it's upgrading your hboot)
obviously, replace YOURRUUZIP.zip with the zip file you extracted (e.g. PG88IMG.zip)
From the looks of your errors, though, it looks like your zip is simply corrupt...?

shinyblue said:
Doh! my bad - I had of course named it .zip not .jpg. (I have edited the post since). It WAS found by the phone, but error-ed after opening it, as described.
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What error exactly? What does it say?

Aquous said:
I flashed my RUU on Linux simply by doing:
Code:
fastboot oem lock
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As you'll see above - I can't do this, it errors about protocols and reboots the phone immediately!
Aquous said:
From the looks of your errors, though, it looks like your zip is simply corrupt...?
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Could be but I don't think so. I've extracted it twice, once under Windows and once under Wine and the md5s are the same. I have no way of testing the integrity of the file I downloaded since htc don't apparently provide any hashes, but I would think that the .exe file probably checks its own integrity before running.
Thanks anyway! it looks like I need to re-lock it as a first step, maybe.

jmcclue said:
What error exactly? What does it say?
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As posted: "Wrong zipped image!". Here's an (awful!) screenshot: (new members aren't allowed images...) i.imgur.com JqsG71r.png

shinyblue said:
As posted: "Wrong zipped image!". Here's an (awful!) screenshot: (new members aren't allowed images...) i.imgur.com JqsG71r.png
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and is the PG88IMG.zip on the root of ur sdcard? im guessing not coz that green writing comes up every time u enter bootloader. make sure the PG88IMG.zip is NOT inside a folder
EDIT: heres a wee guide my mate wrote, its for the htc desire but its the exact same method.
PG88IMG Method

jmcclue said:
and is the PG88IMG.zip on the root of ur sdcard?
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Yep. And the phone reads it all (takes it about 3 minutes to open, with the little vertical progress bar), then gives that error. The error goes away fast, so I had to make a video and freeze frame to get that picture.

shinyblue said:
Yep. And the phone reads it all (takes it about 3 minutes to open, with the little vertical progress bar), then gives that error. The error goes away fast, so I had to make a video and freeze frame to get that picture.
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Oh rite. Must be corrupt download id say, coz it should work. When u downloaded the ruu, was there a md5 next to the download? If so, check it, make sure it matched, if not then try re download the ruu and try again.

Good suggestion. Just done that and the md5s are the same. It's
RUU_SAGA_ICS_35_S_HTC_EU_14.01.401.2_20.76.30.0835_3831.19.00.110_275068.zip
from htcdev site.

shinyblue said:
Good suggestion. Just done that and the md5s are the same. It's
RUU_SAGA_ICS_35_S_HTC_EU_14.01.401.2_20.76.30.0835_3831.19.00.110_275068.zip
from htcdev site.
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Hmm strange one. I have that ruu on my laptop so il upload the PG88IMG tonight, i know it works coz i already used it. Only thing i can think why its not working is maybe something to do with taking the rom.zip from the ruu using ubuntu, i got no idea why tho.

jmcclue said:
Hmm strange one. I have that ruu on my laptop so il upload the PG88IMG tonight, i know it works coz i already used it. Only thing i can think why its not working is maybe something to do with taking the rom.zip from the ruu using ubuntu, i got no idea why tho.
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u can't use auto install from sdcard with s-on, u can flash ruu by using fastboot commands

turekk said:
u can't use auto install from sdcard with s-on, u can flash ruu by using fastboot commands
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Haha what a tit i am.
I know that u need to be s-off, cant believe i forgot, what a noob. I even made 16 hboots for the desire and 4ext recovery this way. Hope thats the last noobie moment for the year :sly:

shinyblue said:
As you'll see above - I can't do this, it errors about protocols and reboots the phone immediately!
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That's probably because you're trying to run this through VirtualBox - does this also happen if you use adb from within Ubuntu rather than putting VirtualBox between your OS and your phone for no reason?

Aquous said:
That's probably because you're trying to run this through VirtualBox - does this also happen if you use adb from within Ubuntu rather than putting VirtualBox between your OS and your phone for no reason?
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Maybe, but I think VirtualBox was working fine (e.g. HTC Sync worked).
As for "for no reason", I have read that the executable does quite a bit of stuff in terms of resetting various low level bits, and of course, being an HTC, there are hundreds of flash options, not just the usual handful.
I have been in touch with HTC directly (they told me initially the 4.0 upgrade was available), but they now say that this won't work with my phone.
I believe that the update is not accepted during the normal means because it is the WWE not the UK edition, and therefore the CID/MID do not match and are getting rejected because of S-ON.
Thing is, I don't want to risk bricking the phone by trying to get S-OFF and forcing the update because handsets are expensive! I've given up on this project for now...
Thanks to all for the help and advice.

shinyblue said:
As for "for no reason", I have read that the executable does quite a bit of stuff in terms of resetting various low level bits, and of course, being an HTC, there are hundreds of flash options, not just the usual handful.
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Nope, all it does is this:
Code:
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash zip YOURRUUZIP.zip
fastboot flash zip YOURRUUZIP.zip
fastboot reboot
This is what I did with my phone (I never ran the RUU) and it updated to ICS just fine.
I believe that the update is not accepted during the normal means because it is the WWE not the UK edition, and therefore the CID/MID do not match and are getting rejected because of S-ON.
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My phone wasn't WWE either and that was no problem for me.

Aquous said:
This is what I did with my phone (I never ran the RUU) and it updated to ICS just fine.
My phone wasn't WWE either and that was no problem for me.
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Was yours a Desire S? I was going on this article: http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/do-we-really-need-s-off.html

shinyblue said:
Was yours a Desire S? I was going on this article: http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/do-we-really-need-s-off.html
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Yeah it was a DS. The article you link to even mentions that flashing a WWE RUU should always be possible: 'Everyone can de-brand his device easily by flashing a stock system image' (although, that sentence continues, that will make you unable to receive carrier OTAs, but that doesn't matter for our device)

Can I confirm that
Aquous said:
Code:
fastboot flash zip YOURRUUZIP.zip
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means the whole RUU.zip as downloaded from HTC, or the rom.zip as extracted from running the .exe file within the downloaded RUU?
And also, http://www.htc1guru.com/2013/09/new-ruu-zips-posted/ says "You still need to have the proper CID for the RUU. You can run the RUU.zip with super CID, but you will have to lock your bootloader first."
AFAICS the RUU I have downloaded has a different CID so won't work. Also my bootloader is unlocked (and the oem lock command fails, as mentioned above). (And I'm S-ON.)

[Q] Soft bricked HTC One S (S4).. Which RUU to use? Have Fastboot Info

Hi everyone..
I am sitting on a One S which has an unlocked bootloader, is not S-off, Hboot 2.15.
Previously was rooted and had Viper Rom installed 3.1, experienced lot of random reboots, tried to go S-OFF with rumrunner and moonshine, without it working.
Tried to return to a nandroid backup (TrickDroid 9.0) but now system is not responding and results in a reboot after 1-2 minutes after rom is booted.
I would like to return to Stock Rom with a RUU, but I can't seem to find the right one and I really need some help..
Even if I found the right one I don't know how to install it because phone keeps rebooting and fastboot doesn't seem to work on Win 8.
HELP!!

Okay. I got fastboot to work on my girlfriends computer and windows 7..
I got the following from running "fastboot getvar all":
Code:
<bootloader> version: 0.5
<bootloader> version-bootloader: 2.15.0000
<bootloader> version-baseband: 1.15.50.05.29
<bootloader> version-spld: None
<bootloader> version-microp: None
<bootloader> version-main:
<bootloader> version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
<bootloader> serialno: H*************
<bootloader> imei: 35***********
<bootloader> product: vle
<bootloader> platform: HBOOT-8960
<bootloader> modelid: PJ4010000
<bootloader> cidnum: T-MOB101
<bootloader> battery-statis: good
<bootloader> battery-voltage: 3867mV
<bootloader> partition-layout: Generic
<bootloader> security: on
<bootloader> buildmode: SHIP
<bootloader> boot-mode: FASTBOOT
<bootloader> cimmitno-bootloader: dirty-64bedd38
<bootloader> hbootpreupdate: 11
<bootloader> gencheckpt: 0
Which RUU should I get my hands on?
And do I need to run any fastboot commands before I try installing the RUU?

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i've ****d mine to lmao

I tried all the RUU's on the RUU page from one of the sticky posts that had anything to do with T-mobile (since the device came with that as a splash screen) or Europe editions without any positive outcome.
I received Error 130 or 131 at all RUU installation that had either "Europe" or "TMO" in them..
I will keep on trying to find the right RUU, but I would really appreciate if someone had the answer and spoke up..
Thanks!

Hammerbak said:
I tried all the RUU's on the RUU page from one of the sticky posts that had anything to do with T-mobile (since the device came with that as a splash screen) or Europe editions without any positive outcome.
I received Error 130 or 131 at all RUU installation that had either "Europe" or "TMO" in them..
I will keep on trying to find the right RUU, but I would really appreciate if someone had the answer and spoke up..
Thanks!
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I have not seen a RUU that had a radio version that high. The highest version I have seen is 1.13. I think that's the problem.

Is there no way to downgrade the radio?
I mean I have access to fastboot and TWRP recovery..?
Maybe by using a nand backup or so?
Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app

Hammerbak said:
Is there no way to downgrade the radio?
I mean I have access to fastboot and TWRP recovery..?
Maybe by using a nand backup or so?
Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app
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AFAIK there is no way unless you are S-OFF. I'm not sure how you got a radio version that high. Someone with more knowledge needs to chime in.
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808phone said:
AFAIK there is no way unless you are S-OFF. I'm not sure how you got a radio version that high. Someone with more knowledge needs to chime in.
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Do a search on your radio version: google 1.15.50.05.29
Are you in the US? US T-Mobile??
Anyway, this was the closest info I found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2520005

808phone said:
AFAIK there is no way unless you are S-OFF. I'm not sure how you got a radio version that high. Someone with more knowledge needs to chime in.
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Do a search on your radio version: google 1.15.50.05.29
Are you in the US? US T-Mobile??
Anyway, this was the closest info I found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2520005
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Well, no I'm not in the US. I live in Denmark.
The phone however was bought in Germany 2 years ago, and was delivered from T-mobile I think.
I will give this a try.
However the reason I want to get back to STOCK is due to getting S-OFF.
If I can get the phone working as it is now with TrickDroid 9.0 ROM that would also suffice. At least for quite some time.
The problem I have with the ROM is that "system" stops responding on boot.
I am thinking that this problem could be due to kernel incompatibility because the phone had the Viper One ROM before, which I think flashed another kernel together with the ROM.
Could this be the problem and could it be solved with flashing a new kernel?
However is it possible to flash a kernel without the use of the recovery?
I can't mount the internal memory and the phone has no slot for a SD card
Again.. Thanks!

I would post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2110195&page=183
This seems to be the place to get help.
Did you do an md5 on the files before flashing? Do you remember flashing boot.img from TrickDroid?

808phone said:
I would post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2110195&page=183
This seems to be the place to get help.
Did you do an md5 on the files before flashing? Do you remember flashing boot.img from TrickDroid?
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Already did post in there, with no responses so far..
Well I had TrickDroid 9.0 running fine before I updated to Viper One ROM, and this was when problems started happening.
Then I went back with a NAND restore from recovery..
I don't remember flashing the boot.img, as I thought that followed along when I flashed the TrickDroid ROM, but since I think that doing a NAND recovery, doesn't bring a long the kernel I guess that if I installed the kernel from TrickDroid I could get the phone working with this.. What do you think?
Which file contains the kernel..? Is that the boot.img?
Once again, thanks for putting an interest in this post and helping me out! You're a lifesaver so far!

If you are not s-off then you need to flash the boot.IMG.
If you didn't do this, then could be the problem. AFAIK the boot.IMG contains the kernel.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/79408-fastboot-flash-boot-bootimg/
Here's another link that might help.
http://www.guidingtech.com/12705/solve-boot-loop-htc-one-x-custom-rom/

Latest radio for WWE devices was 1.15 and it's not a problem you have that. For me it proved to be better than 1.20 which is coming from the leaked firmware 2.16 so it's unofficial. You can't flash a different radio unless you're S-Off or have a lower hboot (1.09 or below) which you don't have. Stay with 1.15 it is OK
If you're S-On you MUST flash the ROM kernel EVERY time after you flash a ROM. This is done by extracting the boot.img from the ROM ZIP and flash it via fastboot command (fastboot flash boot boot.img). Also no nandroid restore will flash back the kernel from the backup since it is not possible to write to that partition if you're S-On
Now, what options do you have... First you must decide WHICH ROM do you want on your phone. If it's latest Viper you would like, fine, it's a very good ROM, stable and with lot of customization and support. What you should do is like this:
1. Download the ROM, save it on your pc and check MD5 sum
2. Extract the boot.img from it. This is a little bit tricky since Viper use an Aroma installer and it's made for both 2.15 and 2.16 hboots. So the boot.img is not in the ususal place in the zip file (that is the root of it) and also it is not called plain boot.img. It is located somewhere in the ZIP folders (sorry but I don't use Viper and don't have the zip at hand to tell you exactly where to look) and it should be named something like boot_2.15.img (or something like this). Look into the ZIP and try to locate this file, you should find 2 files named similar one with 2.15 and one with 2.16 in their names. The one you need is the one containing 2.15 in the name. Extract that one on your pc
3. I assume that you have ADB/fastboot working and you can launch the fastboot command from any directory on your pc (it's in the PATH). If not it could be that command will not work. In this case copy the extracted boot_2.15.img in the folder where you have fastboot (usually Android-SDK/platform-tools) and open a command prompt there
4. Restart the phone in recovery and mount the USB storage from it. You should see it after a while on your PC. Don't worry if it doesn't appear instantly, but it shouldn't take more than 1-2 min. Eventually unplug the phone and plug it again into USB. If you cannot mount the USB and have it accessible from PC we have to try the ADB Sideload but first we'll see if you get there and we need this. For now I presume you can mount USB and you can access it from PC. OK, now copy the ROM ZIP on your sdcard in a folder you'll remember
5. Now flash the ROM in recovery as you normal do and wipe cache/dalvik when prompted to
6. Restart your phone in bootloader and plug it in the USB. Go to fastboot and on screen you should see "FASTBOOT USB". Issue on the pc in the opened command prompt the command "fastboot devices". It should return the device id and that's the proof the device is recognised by the fastboot command. If you have returned an blank response or something like an error, check if drivers and everything on your PC is installed properly for fastboot to work
7. If "fastboot devices" returns something (should look like "FA2BGW... fastboot") then you're good to go. Issue from the same command prompt the command "fastboot flash boot boot_2.15.img" (replace boot_2.15.img with the actual name of the file you have extracted from the ROM zip)
8. Restart to system
At this point you should have Viper 3.1.0 flashed and working. Check and setup the ROM then you may want to download the 2 OTA updates and install them to get to the latest 2.1.3
let us know how it went and where are you stuck. Note every error message you might get and better ask first than be sorry later...
Good luck

Rapier said:
Latest radio for WWE devices was 1.15 and it's not a problem you have that. For me it proved to be better than 1.20 which is coming from the leaked firmware 2.16 so it's unofficial. You can't flash a different radio unless you're S-Off or have a lower hboot (1.09 or below) which you don't have. Stay with 1.15 it is OK
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Could you maybe provide a link to the WWE RUU that has the 1.15 Radio? I have been searching almost everywhere unable to find it and I would really like to go back to stock so that I can use rumrunner or moonshine to get S-off and avoid all the hassle that I have right now.. xD
Rapier said:
If you're S-On you MUST flash the ROM kernel EVERY time after you flash a ROM. This is done by extracting the boot.img from the ROM ZIP and flash it via fastboot command (fastboot flash boot boot.img). Also no nandroid restore will flash back the kernel from the backup since it is not possible to write to that partition if you're S-On
Now, what options do you have... First you must decide WHICH ROM do you want on your phone. If it's latest Viper you would like, fine, it's a very good ROM, stable and with lot of customization and support. What you should do is like this:
1. Download the ROM, save it on your pc and check MD5 sum
2. Extract the boot.img from it. This is a little bit tricky since Viper use an Aroma installer and it's made for both 2.15 and 2.16 hboots. So the boot.img is not in the ususal place in the zip file (that is the root of it) and also it is not called plain boot.img. It is located somewhere in the ZIP folders (sorry but I don't use Viper and don't have the zip at hand to tell you exactly where to look) and it should be named something like boot_2.15.img (or something like this). Look into the ZIP and try to locate this file, you should find 2 files named similar one with 2.15 and one with 2.16 in their names. The one you need is the one containing 2.15 in the name. Extract that one on your pc
3. I assume that you have ADB/fastboot working and you can launch the fastboot command from any directory on your pc (it's in the PATH). If not it could be that command will not work. In this case copy the extracted boot_2.15.img in the folder where you have fastboot (usually Android-SDK/platform-tools) and open a command prompt there
4. Restart the phone in recovery and mount the USB storage from it. You should see it after a while on your PC. Don't worry if it doesn't appear instantly, but it shouldn't take more than 1-2 min. Eventually unplug the phone and plug it again into USB. If you cannot mount the USB and have it accessible from PC we have to try the ADB Sideload but first we'll see if you get there and we need this. For now I presume you can mount USB and you can access it from PC. OK, now copy the ROM ZIP on your sdcard in a folder you'll remember
5. Now flash the ROM in recovery as you normal do and wipe cache/dalvik when prompted to
6. Restart your phone in bootloader and plug it in the USB. Go to fastboot and on screen you should see "FASTBOOT USB". Issue on the pc in the opened command prompt the command "fastboot devices". It should return the device id and that's the proof the device is recognised by the fastboot command. If you have returned an blank response or something like an error, check if drivers and everything on your PC is installed properly for fastboot to work
7. If "fastboot devices" returns something (should look like "FA2BGW... fastboot") then you're good to go. Issue from the same command prompt the command "fastboot flash boot boot_2.15.img" (replace boot_2.15.img with the actual name of the file you have extracted from the ROM zip)
8. Restart to system
At this point you should have Viper 3.1.0 flashed and working. Check and setup the ROM then you may want to download the 2 OTA updates and install them to get to the latest 2.1.3
let us know how it went and where are you stuck. Note every error message you might get and better ask first than be sorry later...
Good luck
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Thanks.
There's definitively a lot I will have to work with.
As far as I know I can't mount the Internal memory over the USB while in recovery (I have no SD-card slot in my One S), however I will check it out later and get back to you.
I would very much like to get back to TrickDroid first of all, since it's the ROM already installed on the device I think I only have to flash the kernel and then it should be working.
If it is so I can then put Viper One ROM on the phone and flash that using the procedure that you described above.
However I am unable to find the TrickDroid 9.0 ROM since the ROM seems to have gone out of development.. Or at least that is my guess. If I'm lucky I have it somewhere on my old laptop and can get the boot.img from there. And as well I know how fastboot and ADB works, I just need the commands that I will be using.
I will try to find the TrickDroid boot.img and flash that using fastboot and then I will get back to you.
If I don't find it, is it then possible that another kernel might support TrickDroid (like ElementalX or whatever it is called)?

Hammerbak said:
Could you maybe provide a link to the WWE RUU that has the 1.15 Radio? I have been searching almost everywhere unable to find it and I would really like to go back to stock so that I can use rumrunner or moonshine to get S-off and avoid all the hassle that I have right now.. xD...
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HERE is a list with all RUUs, taken from dev section. Find what you may need
Hammerbak said:
...As far as I know I can't mount the Internal memory over the USB while in recovery (I have no SD-card slot in my One S), however I will check it out later and get back to you...
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No, you don't have a card slot but you should be able to mount the internal memory as an sdcard
Hammerbak said:
If I don't find it, is it then possible that another kernel might support TrickDroid (like ElementalX or whatever it is called)?
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Yes, you could flash ElementalX but that was gone further to support the newer ROMs like Viper 3.x. I think it's a better idea to flash Buletproof kernel (also by flar2) that was compatible with older Sense ROMs. It similar with Elemental but more stable and close to stock with some added goodies

Sounds good. I would try and flash that boot.img. I had a similar problem but was able to find an RUU that worked.
Maybe you just missed this part (or not)
Reboot into bootloader
Go into fastboot mode
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
Reboot
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I should point out that I did NOT have success with ViperOneS. It looks awesome and did lots of things well except hold onto calls! Every time I would make a call, it would hang up for no reason. This problem apparently doesn't happen to everyone, but it did to me.
BTW: I have CM11 running so smoothly on my HTC One S. Pretty much all of my major issues are fixed. Only the limitations of google remain.

Rapier said:
HERE is a list with all RUUs, taken from dev section. Find what you may need
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I tried all the "Europe" and "TMO" version already.
Will try the WWE versions in the coming days if I get time. However it doesn't look like there is no 1.15 Radio ones..
Rapier said:
You could flash ElementalX but that was gone further to support the newer ROMs like Viper 3.x. I think it's a better idea to flash Buletproof kernel (also by flar2) that was compatible with older Sense ROMs. It similar with Elemental but more stable and close to stock with some added goodies
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As far as I could read on the bulletproof kernel page, it requires S-OFF if you're going to use v. 2.x+. I guess I would have to use the version just before 2.0 which is 1.4?
I downloaded the 1.4 version and it contains 4 folders:
boot
kernel
META-INF
system
Is the boot image that is found in the boot folder the only file I will need to flash to install the bulletproof kernel 1.4? Installation on the page said I would need to flash it from recovery, but I am unable to go into recovery. Aka I found a huge problem. Since I tried to install some RUU's I am no longer able to get into recovery because I locked the bootloader..
What do I need to do?
I would suppose that I needed to flash the boot.img from the bulletproof kernel, while being in fastboot, but I don't know how that works with the bootloader being "relocked" so I will stand by for an answer..
Another thing I could do would be to go to the HTCDev page and try to unlock the bootloader again..
Which would you recommend?

Hammerbak said:
I tried all the "Europe" and "TMO" version already.
Will try the WWE versions in the coming days if I get time. However it doesn't look like there is no 1.15 Radio ones..
As far as I could read on the bulletproof kernel page, it requires S-OFF if you're going to use v. 2.x+. I guess I would have to use the version just before 2.0 which is 1.4?
I downloaded the 1.4 version and it contains 4 folders:
boot
kernel
META-INF
system
Is the boot image that is found in the boot folder the only file I will need to flash to install the bulletproof kernel 1.4? Installation on the page said I would need to flash it from recovery, but I am unable to go into recovery. Aka I found a huge problem. Since I tried to install some RUU's I am no longer able to get into recovery because I locked the bootloader..
What do I need to do?
I would suppose that I needed to flash the boot.img from the bulletproof kernel, while being in fastboot, but I don't know how that works with the bootloader being "relocked" so I will stand by for an answer
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OK, so it's like this. You're right, I forgot that some kernel zips don't contain the boot.img itself, instead they extract the boot.img from your current ROM and repack it, that's why it is required to have S-Off because this operation can be made only in recovery (or by repacking the kernel on your pc but that's more complex and don't want to go through it since it requires Linux and other things). You should find an older kernel ZIP like the 1.4 you mentioned and use the boot.img from it.
Also you should unlock the device again at HTC dev to be able to flash the kernel in fastboot. After unlocking you can re-flash TWRP recovery and If I was you I would rather flash Viper 3.x ROM from recovery then flash the boot.img from it in fastboot, instead of trying to get a boot.img that works with TrickDroid
Now to the radio...latest US radio was 1.11 and latest Europe radio was 1.13. That's why you could not find 1.15 radio in those RUU. Version. 1.15 should be in a WWE RUU but I don't know exactly in which one. Initially I had 1.09es radio and only after changing to another hboot I was able to flash a different one. And I've upgraded my radio via tecardo's zip flashable in recovery since my hboot allows it even if I am not S-Off. There were some older hboots like 1.09 and 1.06 that allows almost everything a S-Off will allow (flashing radios and kernels from recovery that is)
If you're at this point (almost stock) I would try to flash a stock RUU (any stock RUU) and try to get S-Off first. If you previously tried to get S-Off while you were on Viper...that could be the problem. I heard many people having issues or not able to properly S-Off due to the fact they were not on stock ROM. Maybe now it's a good point to start over since you don't have anything to loose anyway. Then the things will be much easier, you could upgrade your radio from the ZIP directly, without the need to flash a RUU for that. If you don't want to try that again, just follow my advice above: unlock the bootloader again on HTC dev site, flash TWRP recovery then flash Viper 3.x and it's kernel in fastboot. You'll end up with an S-On device running on 2.15 firmware and latest Viper. Only downside to this is that you will be stuck with your current radio (the one from the RUU you flashed). You could even flash an AOSP KK ROM if you like, the same way

Rapier said:
OK, so it's like this. You're right, I forgot that some kernel zips don't contain the boot.img itself, instead they extract the boot.img from your current ROM and repack it, that's why it is required to have S-Off because this operation can be made only in recovery (or by repacking the kernel on your pc but that's more complex and don't want to go through it since it requires Linux and other things). You should find an older kernel ZIP like the 1.4 you mentioned and use the boot.img from it.
Also you should unlock the device again at HTC dev to be able to flash the kernel in fastboot. After unlocking you can re-flash TWRP recovery and If I was you I would rather flash Viper 3.x ROM from recovery then flash the boot.img from it in fastboot, instead of trying to get a boot.img that works with TrickDroid
Now to the radio...latest US radio was 1.11 and latest Europe radio was 1.13. That's why you could not find 1.15 radio in those RUU. Version. 1.15 should be in a WWE RUU but I don't know exactly in which one. Initially I had 1.09es radio and only after changing to another hboot I was able to flash a different one. And I've upgraded my radio via tecardo's zip flashable in recovery since my hboot allows it even if I am not S-Off. There were some older hboots like 1.09 and 1.06 that allows almost everything a S-Off will allow (flashing radios and kernels from recovery that is)
If you're at this point (almost stock) I would try to flash a stock RUU (any stock RUU) and try to get S-Off first. If you previously tried to get S-Off while you were on Viper...that could be the problem. I heard many people having issues or not able to properly S-Off due to the fact they were not on stock ROM. Maybe now it's a good point to start over since you don't have anything to loose anyway. Then the things will be much easier, you could upgrade your radio from the ZIP directly, without the need to flash a RUU for that. If you don't want to try that again, just follow my advice above: unlock the bootloader again on HTC dev site, flash TWRP recovery then flash Viper 3.x and it's kernel in fastboot. You'll end up with an S-On device running on 2.15 firmware and latest Viper. Only downside to this is that you will be stuck with your current radio (the one from the RUU you flashed)
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Okay. Just to put in aspect I have the following choices:
Try to gain S-OFF as phone is now with rumrunner or moonshine
Try to get TrickDroid to work by flashing a kernel that is supported
Try to flash Viper and it's kernel from fastboot
If I try to gain S-OFF using rumrunner, do I still need to unlock the bootloader through HTCDevs?
I will try the first mentioned choice first, since gaining S-OFF would ease stuff up quite a bit.
If I can't gain S-OFF using rumrunner I will try to use moonshine.
If that doesn't work either I will be happy with just getting TrickDroid 9.0 to work as a starter.. Step by step procedure to actually gaining a working device firstly.
Then I can start thinking of how to get Viper One working after that or going back to stock to try the S-OFF methods once again.
My list of intentions is to:
Get S-OFF - whether it works or not
Getting the device to be booted and actually perform phone calls and etc.
Research the method and possibilites of getting back to stock to try S-OFF again.
Plan further upgrades to either new ROMs and/or Kernels

I'm pretty sure rumrunner and moonshine.io are similar. hmmmm after re-reading... you might have to be boot loader unlocked.
"WHAT RUMRUNNER CAN DO FOR YOU:
S-OFF Your HTC device
Unlock your bootloader (devices that are blocked by htcdev only, e.g. Verizon HTC One)"
Hard to tell. I know that someone got their ONE S - S-OFF using moonshine and they did NOT unlock the boot loader.
Good luck.

808phone said:
I'm pretty sure rumrunner and moonshine.io are similar. hmmmm after re-reading... you might have to be boot loader unlocked.
"WHAT RUMRUNNER CAN DO FOR YOU:
S-OFF Your HTC device
Unlock your bootloader (devices that are blocked by htcdev only, e.g. Verizon HTC One)"
Hard to tell. I know that someone got their ONE S - S-OFF using moonshine and they did NOT unlock the boot loader.
Good luck.
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Okay.
Is was just about to write what you put in your edit. Haha lazy me.. xD
Well I guess as a starter I can go and unlock the bootloader, flash a recovery and try rumrunner.
When I get the recovery working I can start to plan what to do next
EDIT:
Bootloader is unlocked now and for some reason recovery wasn't removed
so I have unlocked bootloader and have a working recovery now.
Will try rumrunner S-OFF now..