How to obtain s-off for One S(S4) Hboot 2.15 - HTC One S

I have a European One S (S4) with Hboot 2.15. Unlocked via htcdev. I cant figure out how to get s-off. Writing supercid doesnt work.. How to fix it?

S1pk3 said:
I have a European One S (S4) with Hboot 2.15. Unlocked via htcdev. I cant figure out how to get s-off. Writing supercid doesnt work.. How to fix it?
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Moonshine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325590
If you aren't on the supported firmware it won't work. So, if that doesn't work for you then I would just leave it S-on. It isn't hard to fastboot flash a boot.img before flashing a rom in recovery.

Ok, thanks for your reply. I want to flash cm 10.2. That should be possible without s-off?
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S1pk3 said:
Ok, thanks for your reply. I want to flash cm 10.2. That should be possible without s-off?
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Yeah. It is just recommended that you are s-off.
As the guy said before you need to flash boot.img (the kernel) afterwards.
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Will give it a try. Thanks.
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Stuck while flashing firmware in htc one s
I got stuck while installing htc one s with maximus hd..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2445392&highlight=sense+5
I did till fastboot flash recovery TWRP2.6.1.0.img ...but aftr fast boot reboot it dint take memory...without that i cant copy ROM to memory...i did unlock bootloader not s off.... i got an error99 while flashing firmware.. icant on the device now....please help me...

tivofool said:
Moonshine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325590
If you aren't on the supported firmware it won't work. So, if that doesn't work for you then I would just leave it S-on. It isn't hard to fastboot flash a boot.img before flashing a rom in recovery.
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I just noticed this thread.
I also have a similar problem. I cannot achieve s-off with my (S4) htc one s , running the exact same hboot as op.
To upgrade to jb 4.2.2 sense 5 which we should be getting for which we now won't despite them making the update.
Will we be able to upgrade to this new patch with s-on using the flash boot?

sylvantino said:
I just noticed this thread.
I also have a similar problem. I cannot achieve s-off with my (S4) htc one s , running the exact same hboot as op.
To upgrade to jb 4.2.2 sense 5 which we should be getting for which we now won't despite them making the update.
Will we be able to upgrade to this new patch with s-on using the flash boot?
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Maximus HD --- No you need S-off for this. The firmware updates your Hboot, Radio, and you flash a different recovery and finally Rom
You might check out other Rom's that have Sense 5 4.2.2 features. They do not require S-off like Maximus does.

Hi thanks for your reply.
Do you know of any such roms that don't require the s-off?
I installed odyssey, its got no google playstore..suddenly my computer no longer recognizes my sd card / phone.
I tried adb push, managed to get a stock orang001 tmobile uk package to the root folder, but when i turn off the mount, it says its bad..which is a little odd.
Seems thought I got odyssey installed / flashed etc, its so bare as its practically useless to me unless i have google, plus its got weird glitches on boot up, taking forever, always booting into the developers screen etc.

sylvantino said:
Hi thanks for your reply.
Do you know of any such roms that don't require the s-off?
I installed odyssey, its got no google playstore..suddenly my computer no longer recognizes my sd card / phone.
I tried adb push, managed to get a stock orang001 tmobile uk package to the root folder, but when i turn off the mount, it says its bad..which is a little odd.
Seems thought I got odyssey installed / flashed etc, its so bare as its practically useless to me unless i have google, plus its got weird glitches on boot up, taking forever, always booting into the developers screen etc.
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With Odyssey you have to flash slim gapps after you install the rom.
Your Sd card (partition) may be corrupted, the way to fix that is to put the stock recovery back on your phone then go to bootloader and "clear storage"
All of the other Roms don't require S-off, MagioRom is being actively developed with the sense 5 and 4.2.2.

tivofool said:
With Odyssey you have to flash slim gapps after you install the rom.
Your Sd card (partition) may be corrupted, the way to fix that is to put the stock recovery back on your phone then go to bootloader and "clear storage"
All of the other Roms don't require S-off, MagioRom is being actively developed with the sense 5 and 4.2.2.
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thanks for the information. i read through magiorom thread. trying to download now.seems a flaky webhost

tivofool said:
Moonshine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325590
If you aren't on the supported firmware it won't work. So, if that doesn't work for you then I would just leave it S-on. It isn't hard to fastboot flash a boot.img before flashing a rom in recovery.
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Hi would moonshine work for hboot 2.16 ?

cyberusman said:
Hi would moonshine work for hboot 2.16 ?
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No, it is hard enough to get it to work on the supported firmware. (I would love to be proven wrong, for the handful of people that need this)

tivofool said:
No, it is hard enough to get it to work on the supported firmware. (I would love to be proven wrong, for the handful of people that need this)
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Well i have hboot 2.16 and i need to s-off i get this error when trying to flash the ruu its error 99 unknown fail i get it twice

tivofool said:
Maximus HD --- No you need S-off for this. The firmware updates your Hboot, Radio, and you flash a different recovery and finally Rom
You might check out other Rom's that have Sense 5 4.2.2 features. They do not require S-off like Maximus does.
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I was able to load Maximus HD ROM with S-On but only issue I had was wireless.

santo_2k said:
I was able to load Maximus HD ROM with S-On but only issue I had was wireless.
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Please tell me how did you manage to install MaximusHD ROM without S-off!
I'm a little scared since I read they have a lot of problems while installing this ROM.
I'm using CM10.1 right now, but I would like to have sense 5 on my HTC One S.
I have unlocked boot loader and TWRP recovery.
I read there are other ROMS with sense 5 like MagioRom, which doesn't require S-Off (As far as I know)
Is there a great difference between MagioRom and MaxiumusHD? All I want is Sense 5 on my phone without all the terrible of S-offing!!
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rolo143 said:
Please tell me how did you manage to install MaximusHD ROM without S-off!
I'm a little scared since I read they have a lot of problems while installing this ROM.
I'm using CM10.1 right now, but I would like to have sense 5 on my HTC One S.
I have unlocked boot loader and TWRP recovery.
I read there are other ROMS with sense 5 like MagioRom, which doesn't require S-Off (As far as I know)
Is there a great difference between MagioRom and MaxiumusHD? All I want is Sense 5 on my phone without all the terrible of S-offing!!
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I tried Maximus with CWM, did i using sideload and them flash the boot.img file. but it was a disaster as my device didn't connect to wifi and had some call drops then I tried flashing twrp and then sideloaded magicrom 4.0 and flas boot.img, it looks lot better now but only issue right now is my phone keeps on rebooting and am still waiting for a stable rom to be released.

I read MagioRom comments and they say with that ROM phone reboots a lot. So I think the only way is with MaximusHD. The WiFi problem I think it can be fixed. I don't know about the call drops, but many have this ROM as daily use so I guess it's ok. I will try S-off with moonshine method, then try install Maximus. Hope my phone survives.
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Related

Please Help!

Ok,
So I've used roms on my hd2 and one x, so I thought this would be simple on a friends sensation, oh how wrong was I.
I have unlocked the sensation via htcdev, installed clockworkmod and installed pyramids jellybean rom.
Now I have all sorts of issues, the rom boots then drops somehow straight to clockworkmod. I can't mount the sd card within clockworkmod to try a different rom and the phone is now useless, doh.
How can I fix this please guys?
Did you update the firmware? Are you s off or s on? If your s on you must flash boot image. Download 4 ext recovery, enable smart flash in 4ext. This way you can flash boot image. Please read flashing roms with s on. Also for that rom the firmware must also be upgraded. Let me link you to the guide to flashing roms with s on. This will help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
Someone more knowledgeable than myself can give you step by step instructions to get you out of this pinch. But in the mean time read the link I posted about flashing with s on. It will help in the future. Best wishes not to worry I'm sure you can fix this.
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daz1uk said:
Ok,
So I've used roms on my hd2 and one x, so I thought this would be simple on a friends sensation, oh how wrong was I.
I have unlocked the sensation via htcdev, installed clockworkmod and installed pyramids jellybean rom.
Now I have all sorts of issues, the rom boots then drops somehow straight to clockworkmod. I can't mount the sd card within clockworkmod to try a different rom and the phone is now useless, doh.
How can I fix this please guys?
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HTC Dev doesn't really unlock it. It only partially unlocks it.
It doesn't s-off the device so you don't have access to the system partition, meaning you can't properly install a custom ROM without a few extra steps. And I don't think you can do it at all with clockworkmod. You need 4EXT Recovery which can flash a ROM with s-on. There's a few extra steps to doing it but it works.
You also have to make sure you have the correct firmware. So if the device was previously on a Gingerbread ROM and you didn't upgrade firmware, it won't work.
Now, the part where it boots then drops back into recovery is weird.
Tell us exactly what steps you did so we can better determine where something went flukely.
I'm CERTAIN it's fixable though.
realsis said:
Did you update the firmware? Are you s off or s on? If your s on you must flash boot image. Download 4 ext recovery, enable smart flash in 4ext. This way you can flash boot image. Please read flashing roms with s on. Also for that rom the firmware must also be upgraded. Let me link you to the guide to flashing roms with s on. This will help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
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Thanks for responding.
I've got S-OFF and flashed boot.img with adb.
Will 4EXT allow me to mount the sd card?
Yes it should
Also some roms require 4ext it's a super easy touch recovery to use. You can download from here or the playstore.
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Skipjacks said:
HTC Dev doesn't really unlock it. It only partially unlocks it.
It doesn't s-off the device so you don't have access to the system partition, meaning you can't properly install a custom ROM without a few extra steps. And I don't think you can do it at all with clockworkmod. You need 4EXT Recovery which can flash a ROM with s-on. There's a few extra steps to doing it but it works.
You also have to make sure you have the correct firmware. So if the device was previously on a Gingerbread ROM and you didn't upgrade firmware, it won't work.
Now, the part where it boots then drops back into recovery is weird.
Tell us exactly what steps you did so we can better determine where something went flukely.
I'm CERTAIN it's fixable though.
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Yeah I'm certain it's fixable too , just not sure how, lol. I'll give 4EXT a shot. I have no idea how or why it drops straight to clockworkmod either, I would expect it to reboot to clockworkmod if anything, but it just kind of switches from the rom straight to it, very odd.
If you could point me to a firmware I might need I would be very grateful.
It is universal 3.33 let me get link also 3.32 will work on most ics roms but 3.33 is the newest I'm running jelly bean and use 3.33
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
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daz1uk said:
Thanks for responding.
I've got S-OFF and flashed boot.img with adb.
Will 4EXT allow me to mount the sd card?
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If you are s-off you shouldn't have to flash boot.img separately. It will do all that with the ROM flash.
Maybe that's what's screwy. Though a borked up ROM still shouldn't affect SD card mounting in recovery...that is really weird. Do you have a card reader that you can use to check the card out in your computer? I'm wondering if somehow you screwed up the card when flashing the ROM. Maybe it wont' mount because the card isn't formatted properly anymore. Stuff like that has happened before.
daz1uk said:
Yeah I'm certain it's fixable too , just not sure how, lol. I'll give 4EXT a shot. I have no idea how or why it drops straight to clockworkmod either, I would expect it to reboot to clockworkmod if anything, but it just kind of switches from the rom straight to it, very odd.
If you could point me to a firmware I might need I would be very grateful.
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Hi,
What does your bootloader say?
hboot etc.
Yes if your s off you simply flash from recovery without boot img. But do update your firmware.
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malybru said:
Hi,
What does your bootloader say?
hboot etc.
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Bootloader says:
S-ON
Ok, so I think I need to update the firmware?
I've installed EXT4, still cant mount sd, so can't revert to another rom.
daz1uk said:
Ok, so I think I need to update the firmware?
I've installed EXT4, still cant mount sd, so can't revert to another rom.
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Hi,
If you are s-on,you cannot update your firmware.
What is your hboot?
malybru said:
Hi,
If you are s-on,you cannot update your firmware.
What is your hboot?
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hboot 1.18.0000
Unlocked
S-ON
As far as I was aware S-ON just prevented the boot.img from being written via recovery, which can be done with adb. So the only reasons for these issues must be firmware version right?
daz1uk said:
hboot 1.18.0000
Unlocked
S-ON
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Hi,
It is a pity you went to HTC to unlock your phone.
I wonder if you can still s-off using revolutionary.
You are going to need to run a RUU,and hopefully get a working phone again.
Try and find a RUU HERE that matches your area and carrier.
daz1uk said:
hboot 1.18.0000
Unlocked
S-ON
As far as I was aware S-ON just prevented the boot.img from being written via recovery, which can be done with adb. So the only reasons for these issues must be firmware version right?
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Yup. If you have the 1.18 hboot you have Gingerbread firmware, which won't support Jellybean or ICS.
The good news is that you can flash a gingerbread rom and get the phone back to a working state right away if you need to get the phone back to the owner.
The RUU to restore is pretty simple. Then Revolutionary s-off proceedure is also extremely painless.
Reverting back to stock and starting over to s-off shouldn't take more than 15 minutes if you do it right. Then flashing the ICS/GB firmware (3.32 or 3.33) takes 3 minutes. Then the new rom takes 3 more minutes.
Just make sure you RUU to gingerbread and not to ICS. The ICS Hboots are harder to s-off. It's worth adding the extra step to flash the ICS/JB firmware later.
This is driving me nuts, tried 2 ruu's, both failed, if it was my phone it would be out the window!
daz1uk said:
This is driving me nuts, tried 2 ruu's, both failed, if it was my phone it would be out the window!
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Hi,
Are you Sensation,or Sensation XE?
daz1uk said:
This is driving me nuts, tried 2 ruu's, both failed, if it was my phone it would be out the window!
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Doh, my fault forgot to re-lock it, update is installing as I type, phew!
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[Q] From ICS to JB

Hi, I have a HTC ONE XL for AT&T with S-OFF and unlocked bootloader. I have the nocturnal ROM based on ICS. Also HBOOT 1.01.0000.
I want to install a rom based on JB (This particular CleanROM 6.5 - ★ | Jellybean 4.1.1! |).
My question is with this hboot, can i flash a jb rom from ICS? Because I'm not sure if flash from recovery the zip of this rom bricked me.
It won't brick you. I'm not sure if you'll experience issues using such an old firmware with a ROM based on the latest softwate
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Thanks. Is there any way to update the software?
Rafanjani said:
Thanks. Is there any way to update the software?
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Yes install the Ruu, then push twrp, then install CR. This will give you the latest firmware. CR by itself does not so it, and some gave experienced random reboots with older wifi firmware. Just be aware that a small subset of HOXL phones do not work well with Maps/nav under JB
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GroovyGeek said:
Yes install the Ruu, then push twrp, then install CR. This will give you the latest firmware. CR by itself does not so it, and some gave experienced random reboots with older wifi firmware. Just be aware that a small subset of HOXL phones do not work well with Maps/nav under JB
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thanks for reply! I did brick my phone when i try to install an official ruu 2 months ago, but i did fix this ($$$$). The problem is that I can not install because I have CID 111111 and CR root, bootloader unlocked etc
With s-off you won't brick running an ruu. Though my phone will no longer ruu properly but that's another story. I may post a thread about it in case others experience it so they know how to recover.
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exad said:
Though my phone will no longer ruu properly but that's another story. I may post a thread about it in case others experience it so they know how to recover.
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I'm curious about this. What happened?
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ECEXCURSION said:
I'm curious about this. What happened?
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Something went wrong while RUUing and my hboot partition cannot be written over without clearing the cache first. So the RUU will get to the end and then fail. Everything flashed except the hboot. It's kind of funny because it looks like a brick when it happens but it remains in RUU mode so I can just fastboot flash the hboot seperately after and everything works but RUUs will no longer complete successfully Always half bricks.
How did it happen? Well I think it's because I was RUUing in a VM as I was running linux exclusively at the time. But during RUU the phone looses connection and I have to manually reconnect to my phone and I didn't realize so it interrupted the RUU. I'm just lucky I didn't end up with a full brick! ^_^
exad said:
Something went wrong while RUUing and my hboot partition cannot be written over without clearing the cache first. So the RUU will get to the end and then fail. Everything flashed except the hboot. It's kind of funny because it looks like a brick when it happens but it remains in RUU mode so I can just fastboot flash the hboot seperately after and everything works but RUUs will no longer complete successfully Always half bricks.
How did it happen? Well I think it's because I was RUUing in a VM as I was running linux exclusively at the time. But during RUU the phone looses connection and I have to manually reconnect to my phone and I didn't realize so it interrupted the RUU. I'm just lucky I didn't end up with a full brick! ^_^
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how i can flash hboot using fastboot? I wish to have jb
Rafanjani said:
how i can flash hboot using fastboot? I wish to have jb
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flashing hboot with fastboot won't give you JB......
Is your phone S-ON or S-OFF?
SuperCID? Yes or no?
Bootloader locked or unlocked?
exad said:
flashing hboot with fastboot won't give you JB......
Is your phone S-ON or S-OFF?
SuperCID? Yes or no?
Bootloader locked or unlocked?
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I know! but it's the first step to upgrade to jb
Rafanjani said:
I know! but it's the first step to upgrade to jb
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No it isn't

Unable to install ROMs after failed ViperRom Install? Possibly now a paperweight.

Feel like a noob posting this, but I've been trying to fix this problem for the past 24hrs with no luck.
This is the first HTC device I've rooted in nearly a year, and I have to say even though it's pretty, I'm really disliking the evita.
I rooted it using Hasoon's toolkit, and other than being unable to install twrp (or cwm), or getting s-off, it all went well. I just pushed twrp 2.5 to my phone and left s-on until the toolkit gets updated. (not sure how to do this using adb, it's been awhile. ) I have a working hboot, fastboot, and twrp install, and even usb mass storage is working from twrp.
Now, the horror begins. I downloaded team vipers jb rom, and it seemed that the flash went perfectly. But it went into a loop and it seemed to have really messed up the internal sd. Couln't mount it, twrp couldn't find it during my attempts to install other roms or even a factory ruu. I found nocturnals sd fix and that worked like magic, but now twrp will not install any other roms, and everytime I try to push a factory ruu I get a parsing error? On my first attempt at restoring a factory ruu, I forgot that my cid was "1111111" and the bootloader was unlocked so it would fail immediatly. But, even with s-on I managed to get my cid to CWS__001 (ATT's cid) and relocked the bootloader temporarily. But this still didn't change things. Don't know if it matters, but I used hasoons toolkit to push the ruu to my phone and it's during this I get parsing errors. Attempting to install a rom through twrp (CM10, a stock rooted rom, etc.) will immediatly fail also. It says "error executing updater binary in zip and something else that I'll post after trying a CM nightly install.
Update: CM Nightly hangs at the HTC splash screen :crying:
Sorry it's alot to read, but I'm feeling lost at this point...
Ayahuascaa said:
Feel like a noob posting this, but I've been trying to fix this problem for the past 24hrs with no luck.
This is the first HTC device I've rooted in nearly a year, and I have to say even though it's pretty, I'm really disliking the evita.
I rooted it using Hasoon's toolkit, and other than being unable to install twrp (or cwm), or getting s-off, it all went well. I just pushed twrp 2.5 to my phone and left s-on until the toolkit gets updated. (not sure how to do this using adb, it's been awhile. ) I have a working hboot, fastboot, and twrp install, and even usb mass storage is working from twrp.
Now, the horror begins. I downloaded team vipers jb rom, and it seemed that the flash went perfectly. But it went into a loop and it seemed to have really messed up the internal sd. Couln't mount it, twrp couldn't find it during my attempts to install other roms or even a factory ruu. I found nocturnals sd fix and that worked like magic, but now twrp will not install any other roms, and everytime I try to push a factory ruu I get a parsing error? On my first attempt at restoring a factory ruu, I forgot that my cid was "1111111" and the bootloader was unlocked so it would fail immediatly. But, even with s-on I managed to get my cid to CWS__001 (ATT's cid) and relocked the bootloader temporarily. But this still didn't change things. Don't know if it matters, but I used hasoons toolkit to push the ruu to my phone and it's during this I get parsing errors. Attempting to install a rom through twrp (CM10, a stock rooted rom, etc.) will immediatly fail also. It says "error executing updater binary in zip and something else that I'll post after trying a CM nightly install.
Update: CM Nightly hangs at the HTC splash screen :crying:
Sorry it's alot to read, but I'm feeling lost at this point...
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I think that if you don't have S-OFF, you need to manually flash boot.img as well when installing a ROM. Also, I had issues flashing ROMs with TWRP 2.5. Try 2.3.3.1.
watameron said:
I think that if you don't have S-OFF, you need to manually flash boot.img as well when installing a ROM. Also, I had issues flashing ROMs with TWRP 2.5. Try 2.3.3.1.
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Hmm... That could explain alot.
I'll try it and let you know what happens.
I have tried the 2.3.3.1 build of twrp, but for some reason the touchscreen doesn't work.
Ayahuascaa said:
Hmm... That could explain alot.
I'll try it and let you know what happens.
I have tried the 2.3.3.1 build of twrp, but for some reason the touchscreen doesn't work.
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What HBOOT version do you have?
Did you install Viper or ViperXL? ViperXL is what you want for the EVITA.
redpoint73 said:
Did you install Viper or ViperXL? ViperXL is what you want for the EVITA.
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ViperXL JB
and my hboot is 2.14
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ViperXL JB
and my hboot is 2.14
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TWRP 2.3.3.1 should have a working touchscreen with hboot 2.14 are you sure you didn't try 2.3.3.0? that one requires you to downgrade touchscreen firmware first.
You need to fastboot flash boot boot.img where boot.img is extracted from the rom you're flashing if you're s-on and hboot >= 1.14.
If you have SuperCID, do not RUU without S-OFF or you really will have a paperweight.
exad said:
TWRP 2.3.3.1 should have a working touchscreen with hboot 2.14 are you sure you didn't try 2.3.3.0? that one requires you to downgrade touchscreen firmware first.
You need to fastboot flash boot boot.img where boot.img is extracted from the rom you're flashing if you're s-on and hboot >= 1.14.
If you have SuperCID, do not RUU without S-OFF or you really will have a paperweight.
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Hmm.. I could have. I did it last night after two hours of frustration.
And I just did that to a new install of Nocturnal's rom, but with no luck. It still just hangs at the HTC dev warning screen. I'm going to try re downloading the ViperXL rom and hope I just had a bad copy..
heh. I did that without thinking last night and spent an hour trying to reverse the damage I did. Not only did I have s-on, but my cid was still "1111111".
./
Androidfilehost is only giving me ~50Kbps, so viper's rom has 3 hours left,
but Cleanrom is almost done.
Is there anyway to s-off the evita without booting into an os?
If not, can someone point me to a thread explaining how to manually s-off?
It seems that it's the cause for all this trouble I'm having and I've never had to do manually.
Thank you everyone for your help,
my phone still doesn't have a working os but I do feel like I'm getting somewhere.
Edit: How many of you have had problems installing roms with twrp 2.5.5.0? I'm thinking about trying 2.3.3.1. I thought this was what I flashed last night, but my touchscreen didn't work and according to exad's post I probably had the wrong one.
Use twrp 2.3.3.1 all versions above 2.4 have one issue or another.
You need a Rom installed and usb debugging turned on to s-off.
Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071
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exad said:
Use twrp 2.3.3.1 all versions above 2.4 have one issue or another.
You need a Rom installed and usb debugging turned on to s-off.
Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071
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Thanks,
It seems that now 2.5.5.0 just skips the install and tells me that it was successful...
If so that would explain the hangups on the dev screen.
Ayahuascaa said:
Thanks,
It seems that now 2.5.5.0 just skips the install and tells me that it was successful...
If so that would explain the hangups on the dev screen.
Edit: Can you point me to a link for twrp 2.3.3.1? The only thread on xda for that build doesn't have working download links
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http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/evita/openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.1-evita.img
Md5: d903047e6e871acb8f99834c30eb8307
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http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/evita/openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.1-evita.img
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CleanRom boots!
Thanks again to everyone who helped and exad for the 2.3.3.1 link,

Can't S-Off for the life of me

Hey guys,
I have an HTC One X with the bootloader unlocked that has Venom Viper installed on it and I want to S-OFF the phone so that I can install the beast mode kernel. I want to do this because the phone has some issues like a dropping SIM card and random reboots. I have another friend with the same phone that I installed Viper on and she had the same issues. I over the phone talked her through the S-OFF method and once we finally got it and installed the kernel the phone worked perfectly.
One thing that was odd is that the method (FacePalm) wasn't working until we flashed the phone back to stock (not a backup but a stock release with a flashable SU bin that was on XDA somewhere). Once we did that the phone was S-OFF after rebooting into the bootloader.
This time around though I'm starting to wonder whether the fact it worked when we flashed back to stock was a coincidence because I did the SAME EXACT THING with this current phone, flashed to the same stock rom with the same method of SU, and it just won't work. I run through the whole process and get no errors (except when you are supposed to) and when I reboot into recovery it is not S-OFF. One thing I noticed though is that on another site it said "The last step is to confirm the SU request you get on your phone". I cannot remember if my friend got a popup but on this phone I never get one.
Therfore I am thinking the problem is with the flashable SU bin not working properly and was going to ask if anyone had their hands on a prerooted stock. There is a thread for one on here but the link is dead.
So basically does anyone have such a rom or know anything about the S-OFF method only working with stock or odex/deodex or something of that sort.
Thanks.
I got s-off with viper
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area51avenger said:
I got s-off with viper
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I guess Ill just keep trying it. Did you use the files from xda?
Do you have the One X (Endeavoru) or the One XL (Evita)?
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timmaaa said:
Do you have the One X (Endeavoru) or the One XL (Evita)?
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Just the X (Endeavoru)
Ok you're in the wrong forum then, this is the One XL forum.
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Ok you're in the wrong forum then, this is the One XL forum.
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Actually it is the XL I just forget its not called that. Im sure because its black, from AT&T, and not the international version.
The colour is irrelevant, but if it's from at&t you have the Evita. Are you sure you have superuser installed and usb debugging is enabled in developer options? Which Android version is the ROM you're using?
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The colour is irrelevant, but if it's from at&t you have the Evita. Are you sure you have superuser installed and usb debugging is enabled in developer options? Which Android version is the ROM you're using?
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Ya both because i saw the SU app and I used adb so debugging is enabled.
Android ver 4.2.2
Downgrade to Android 4.0 or 4.1, people have had heaps of problems getting s-off while on a 4.2 ROM.
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timmaaa said:
Downgrade to Android 4.0 or 4.1, people have had heaps of problems getting s-off while on a 4.2 ROM.
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Ok thanks for the tip.
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Downgrade to Android 4.0 or 4.1, people have had heaps of problems getting s-off while on a 4.2 ROM.
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Sigh. After trying to flash a 4.1.1 Rom the phone now boot loops and flashing any other rooms or restoring the TWRP backup (just system, boot, and data) that I had of viper have had no effect.
Did you flash the boot.img via fastboot?
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Did you flash the boot.img via fastboot?
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Not during the first boot, but after I realized my error I rebooted into fastboot and did it. Is it imperative that its done before booting?
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OK so I just tried flashing the stock rom I tried for S-OFF before and even flashed the boot.img and its still boot looping.
It pisses me off that the security system has to be this obnoxious. I'm used to my own samsung phones where theres barely any security and bricking is practically impossible with Odin.
It isn't obnoxious if you know what you're doing. You're s-on so you must flash the boot.img for each ROM every time you flash a ROM. Install ROM, reboot to bootloader, flash boot.img, reboot to system. Once you have s-off you will no longer need to do this. Are you flashing the right boot.img?
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It isn't obnoxious if you know what you're doing. You're s-on so you must flash the boot.img for each ROM every time you flash a ROM. Install ROM, reboot to bootloader, flash boot.img, reboot to system. Once you have s-off you will no longer need to do this. Are you flashing the right boot.img?
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Ok well, I changed ONE simple thing that I would think wouldn't matter, but apparently it does. Instead of rebooting after the rom flashing and then during the boot loop holding vol down and power to get into bootloader again, AND THEN flashing the boot.img, I simply hit home in twrp after flashing the room and used the "reboot" function to go directly to boot loader and then flashed the boot.img
The phone now got past the developer warning screen and is showing the htc one beats audio screen. However it now seems to be frozen there :|
This is the rom I used: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181891
It is a step further at least, and now that I see how to properly flash the boot.img I will try a few other roms and see if they work any better, unless you have any other suggestions.
It looks as though you've done it correctly. Which recovery version are you using?
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It looks as though you've done it correctly. Which recovery version are you using?
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2.6.3.0
Are you certain you're flashing the boot.img from the ROM you've just installed and not another one by mistake? TWRP 2.6.3 should be ok, but you could try 2.6 instead if you want to, I've seen a couple of bugs on 2.6.3 but I can't remember what they were.
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Are you certain you're flashing the boot.img from the ROM you've just installed and not another one by mistake? TWRP 2.6.3 should be ok, but you could try 2.6 instead if you want to, I've seen a couple of bugs on 2.6.3 but I can't remember what they were.
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Yes I am sure. Ill try a different ROM snd if that doesn't work ill downgrade TWRP

[Q] Htc one s maximus rom boot loops couple of times then boots into android

I had s-off on my htc one s. When i s-offed my hboot automatically got upgraded to 2.16. I ran a command the changes the secrity flag to s-on but all the software on my htc is for s-off/ Is there a fix besides jtaging
I gues you're stock with hboot 2.16 for now. Just use any Rom that runs on that hboot like magio, maximus or source.
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tominozh said:
I gues you're stock with hboot 2.16 for now. Just use any Rom that runs on that hboot like magio, maximus or source.
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But i didnt install the original firmware all i did was change the flag from on-off doesnt this mean im still s-off?
cyberusman said:
But i didnt install the original firmware all i did was change the flag from on-off doesnt this mean im still s-off?
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What do you mean by "original firmware"? You meant you've flashed firmware.zip from maximushd to upgrade for 2.16 and then run the s-on command? If so and you have 2.16, radio 1.20?
Just make sure you haveflashed modded recovery that works with 2.16 firmware, then adb push maximushd rom zip to your sd card, flash from recovery, make sure you fastboot flash boot.img and you're good to go.
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tominozh said:
What do you mean by "original firmware"? You meant you've flashed firmware.zip from maximushd to upgrade for 2.16 and then run the s-on command? If so and you have 2.16, radio 1.20?
Just make sure you haveflashed modded recovery that works with 2.16 firmware, then adb push maximushd rom zip to your sd card, flash from recovery, make sure you fastboot flash boot.img and you're good to go.
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yes thats what happend
will s-off work with maximusrom?
So you have fully working rom on your phone?
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cyberusman said:
will s-off work with maximusrom?
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You got it little bit confused. You need s-OFF for upgrade to 2.16 or for downgrade the firmware back to 2.15. If you got upgraded your phone to 2.16 and then put your phone to s-on then that's it. There may be a way to gain s-OFF again but you just have to try or the guys that brought us facepalm and moonshine need to add support for new 401.xx firmware. You can ask them nicely on IRC (link to their IRC channel is in the OP of their thread) and see what they say/can do.
But for now you're stocked with hboot 2.16 so you can only run roms that use the same partions layout. (maximus, source, magio and I could see some CM 11 builds already as well).
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tominozh said:
You got it little bit confused. You need s-OFF for upgrade to 2.16 or for downgrade the firmware back to 2.15. If you got upgraded your phone to 2.16 and then put your phone to s-on then that's it. There may be a way to gain s-OFF again but you just have to try or the guys that brought us facepalm and moonshine need to add support for new 401.xx firmware. You can ask them nicely on IRC (link to their IRC channel is in the OP of their thread) and see what they say/can do.
But for now you're stocked with hboot 2.16 so you can only run roms that use the same partions layout. (maximus, source, magio and I could see some CM 11 builds already as well).
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Okay Thank you for the information! Im going to flash the maximus rom tomorow.
EDIT: What is the fastest most stable rom from the list you gave above? Because i want a stock rom that everything works. Any Advice? Thanks in advance
Another EDIT: Will i have to follow the same instuctions that are on the rom forum page, or do i just install the rom and flash the boot?
Dude why are u over complicating everything it's not hard. If you don't understand what your doing you should have never rooted your device a bit stupid to upgrade to 2.16 and then go s-on
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Accountban said:
Dude why are u over complicating everything it's not hard. If you don't understand what your doing you should have never rooted your device a bit stupid to upgrade to 2.16 and then go s-on
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Well i do know what im doing. I just want to know if i have to follow the exact instructions, or if i have to just flash the rom and flash boot img
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Well i do know what im doing. I just want to know if i have to follow the exact instructions, or if i have to just flash the rom and flash boot img
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Just flash rom and boot.img
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THANKYOU tominozh, YOUR THE BEST!
Thanks for all the help tominozh, I really appreciate it, best of luck in the future. I will click thank button on all your posts. You are the best person ever! Thank you for all your time and effort
Sincerely, cyberusman
tominozh said:
Just flash rom and boot.img
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Thanks i flashed the rom. Everything is working. I just turned off my phone now it is boot looping! What do i do?
Instructions are there for a reason follow them idiot all of them end off... If you only needed to use a few steps the developer wouldn't add extra ones
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Just flash rom and boot.img
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I have successfully installed maximus rom 10.00. The problem is when i power off the phone it boot loops about 2-7 minutes give or take a minute , then it goes android into after boot looping for about 2-7 minutes . So i cant shut off the phone and also how would i fix this whole boot looping problem?. Any ideas?

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