[Q] Can't do S-Off... - HTC Sensation

[Q] Can't do S-Off... - HTC Sensation

Hi Everyone!
I'm pretty new to modding, etc but a few weeks ago I thought I'd have a play.
We have two HTC Sensations. Both were on stock ROM GB then upgraded to ICS. Both are on HBOOT 1.27.
I unlocked the bootloaders but couldn't get S-Off. The original plan was to flash CM11 onto the phones but because I couldn't get S-Off, I couldn't flash the firmware to go with CM11. So; I flashed CM10 (sultanxda) instead. That is pretty good but I want to know why I can't get S-Off when it seems that everyone else can.
I realised that I couldn't get S-Off while I had anything other than a stock ROM so yesterday I re-flashed just my phone with stock ICS.
However, I still cannot get S-Off! I've tried Juopunut but whenever I short it using a staple, it just restarts and says S-Off failed.
After trying this a few times, it (or something!) destroyed my 8gb SD card. The phone just says it needs reformatting but it won't reformat it.
I've put a 2gb card in which works but now I'm scared. Lol.
What am I doing wrong?
Antony
Current Setup:
Android 4.0.3
Sense 3.6
Software 3.33.401.53
Kernel 3.0.16

sirantonycartwright said:
Hi Everyone!
I'm pretty new to modding, etc but a few weeks ago I thought I'd have a play.
We have two HTC Sensations. Both were on stock ROM GB then upgraded to ICS. Both are on HBOOT 1.27.
I unlocked the bootloaders but couldn't get S-Off. The original plan was to flash CM11 onto the phones but because I couldn't get S-Off, I couldn't flash the firmware to go with CM11. So; I flashed CM10 (sultanxda) instead. That is pretty good but I want to know why I can't get S-Off when it seems that everyone else can.
I realised that I couldn't get S-Off while I had anything other than a stock ROM so yesterday I re-flashed just my phone with stock ICS.
However, I still cannot get S-Off! I've tried Juopunut but whenever I short it using a staple, it just restarts and says S-Off failed.
After trying this a few times, it (or something!) destroyed my 8gb SD card. The phone just says it needs reformatting but it won't reformat it.
I've put a 2gb card in which works but now I'm scared. Lol.
What am I doing wrong?
Antony
Current Setup:
Android 4.0.3
Sense 3.6
Software 3.33.401.53
Kernel 3.0.16
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just to know in any case you can flash cm11 without S-OFF since you have unlocked the bootloader
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
are you doing the timing correctly?(wire trick)

Related

[Q] HTC Thunderbolt Stock Original ROM

Hello I've been experimenting with some custom roms on a HTC Thunderbolt. The friend that owns it said he had a backup stock original rom that came with the phone, but all of sudden does not have it anymore. I am wondering if there is a way I can get the original stock Froyo 2.2 ROM that came with the Thunderbolt. Or even better the stock OTA Gingerbread 2.3 update that came in last week. I've found some stock roms online, but they all turned out to be invalid. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Here is one stock rom that I found:
PG05IMG_Mecha_VERIZON_WWE_1.70.605.0_Radio_1.39.00.0627r_NV_8k_1.41_9K_1.64_release_200422_signed.zip
but all the downloads of this file turn out be to invalid.

do you want to unroot? or do you want a rooted stock rom?
if you want to stay rooted,flash one of these in recovery:
froyo 1.70.605.0
gingerbread 2.11.605.3
RUUs if you want to unroot:
froyo 1.70.605.0 (note this is a .exe file)
gingerbread 2.11.605.3 this is a pg05img(install in hboot)
i checked the last 2 downloads and they are working fine.

need help
Hey guys, I was trying to unroot my thunderbolt but jacked things up. I had it wipe all date, now will not boot Its still rooted. When i go into the reboot mood its by Revolutionary. Info it displays where it gives me options of fastboot, recover, factory reset, simlock, hboot usb and image crc is
Revolutionary
MECHA XD SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-6.O4.1002
MICROP-/
RADIO-1.49.00.0406v_1
eMMC-BOOT
Idk if that helps. It doesnt reboot or does a looping process. Just stays at the white htc screen and doesnt say anything, and is not the screen where it says htc quietly brilliant. When i go into recovery 4ext recovery touch is whats available, current rom:unknown. Im fairly new so i would greatly appreciate any help, I like this phone alot and would hate to use something else. I dont care if after everything is said and done its still rooted or not. I have my personal info still on my card and a backup on my computer so im safe on that and dont care if i lose everything on the phone.

Hey,
I wish I would have know you wanted an unrooted thunderbolt, I would have traded you. Currently looking for a way to root ICS with out a million step process.

[Q] Rooted but S-On, having problems Flashing

Hi all,
Have used the HTC Supertool v2 to root and (what I thought) was S-OFF my phone.
I then promptly flashed the phone and tried to install several different Roms (the usual popular ones) However I stupidly didn't notice that my S-OFF wasnt..and it is still S-ON.
So currently I'm left with a phone that I can't get to S-OFF as most of the tools I can find require me to be actually on the phone rather than in Hboot.
I can get into HBoot just fine (v 1.18) and can get into clockwork just fine. I've been searching around for the past 3 hours and I'm totally stuck.
Can anyone offer any suggestions, or have I totally bricked my phone ?
Many thanks
Aaron

Nevermind
I've managed to get a rom on, I think it maybe something to do with the fact my SD card is only 1gig so finding this tiny (128mb) rom has done something!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350492
Just in case anyone ever reads this with a similar problem!

revolotionary.io for s-off
Sensation XE tbc

[Q] Unroot Revolutionary HBOOT 6.98.1002

Hi there,
I've been at this all day. I rooted my Desire S a few months ago without issue. I can't seem to return my phone to stock. The reason I want to is I have an OTA update from Orange (France) for my Desire S. It'll bring it up to And 2.3.5 and Sense 3.0. I know I could probably find ROMs around, but I always like to take advantage of free operator updates, when I can. The update just will not install.
I've flashed the phone with hboot.img, 4EXT's image for the Desire S, ClockWorkMod, everything. Nothing has worked. I have tried lots of the guides and tutorials here, but nothing seems to return the phone to S-ON or remove the HBOOT 6.98... that it has.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
Thanks a million guys,
T

Flash an hboot 0.98.2000, then run an older/latest RUU, then apply update if you aren't on the latest.
It will be 10 times faster to just flash a pre rooted stock ROM or any sense 3 ROM. No point in "taking advantage" your logic there is flawed.

Try this post:GUIDE: new hboot 2.00.2002 for sense3.0 adnroid 2.3.5 which is very good or the other here: Guide: New hboot 2.00.2002 (ENG S-OFF)

[Q] [HELP] Flashed European ROM after 1.85 RUU and now my hboot is too new.

I had CM10 Nightlies running, and I decided I just wanted to be done and go back to full unrooted stock. So I downloaded the 1.85 RUU, relocked the BL, and ran the RUU.exe... After that it was just fine, but I realized I missed a lot of the basic things that come from having root. So I rerooted and installed TrickDroid... But The page I was on didn't clearly explain that it was for the European HTC One S. Trick Droid 8.1.0. So I flashed this, and upon running, it was messing up in a lot of ways. Can't explain it, but the point is that it was not something I'd use as a daily driver. I then went to do a full wipe and flash Team Venom's Sense ROM. Which I did.... but the wifi didn't work. AT ALL. Just doesn't turn on. I thought it was the ROM, so I wiped and installed MIUI. (Which I'm loving) But again, no wifi. PLUS Camera crashes. No error message, just closes. Can't use it at all. I realized my mistake with TrickDroid, and tried to reflash the RUU (after flashing a stock ROM and relocking BL etc) But it gives me ERROR 155 (UNKNOWN ERROR) - On my phone it says "Hboot version is too new!" It seems to me, that my Hboot is now the one from 2.35 RUU (Which noone officially has released) The only way I can imagine getting this, is with the european ROM. Can it do that? I have Hboot 1.14.0004
I'm out of ideas, and very very frustrated. I can't flash an RUU. And we don't have S-OFF, so downgrading my hboot isn't an option, right?
Please, anybody that can help will definitely get my verbal thanks as well as click on the button. I need someone to sort this out with me.
Thanks.
EDIT: I changed my CID to SUPERCID and flashed the European 2.21 RUU and I'm all set. Thanks a TON to this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927939
Not quite the same beginning situation, so hopefully people with MY situation will find this post and be helped!

[Q] Need some help badly, I just messed up my phone

OK i will admit I am over my head on this one. Frustration kicked in and I think I just lost all the data on my phone (pics and videos and everything which is the worst part). Here's the story.
I was originally on Team Venom 4.2 and was having random reboots.
I tried fixing by updating the Radio to ATT 3.18: http://d-h.st/DcT in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694012 I flashed WITh the RIL (under the line that says do not flash these with newer roms) yeah I know.
flashed 3.18 again without RIL (above the 'do not flash' line
flashed att 2.0 radio
so now my radio still isnt working, tries to prepare sim card and will not work.
now I am trying to flash a new ROM to rewrite everything. tried to install android revolution HD. http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com/p/android-revolution-hd-mirror-site-var.html
flashed the android revolution boot.img file and attempted to flash the android revolution rom and would not flash, rebooted twrp after 30%
messed around in twrp a bit and hit factory reset. thought that would do a reboot of the android install. looks like i just formatted my sd card AND deleted android operating system. i cannot reboot into system 'no android os installed' and under twrp file manager i have NOTHING LEFT in my sd card. except the twrp folder. the phone has not been rebooted since.
DID I JUST LOSE EVERYTHING?
i am seriously interested in getting the pictures and data off the sd partition somehow. that is my main concern, i will deal with reinstalling android afterward.
any help will be rewarded, thank you in advance.

beppomarx said:
OK i will admit I am over my head on this one. Frustration kicked in and I think I just lost all the data on my phone (pics and videos and everything which is the worst part). Here's the story.
I was originally on Team Venom 4.2 and was having random reboots.
I tried fixing by updating the Radio to ATT 3.18: http://d-h.st/DcT in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694012 I flashed WITh the RIL (under the line that says do not flash these with newer roms) yeah I know.
flashed 3.18 again without RIL (above the 'do not flash' line
flashed att 2.0 radio
so now my radio still isnt working, tries to prepare sim card and will not work.
now I am trying to flash a new ROM to rewrite everything. tried to install android revolution HD. http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com/p/android-revolution-hd-mirror-site-var.html
flashed the android revolution boot.img file and attempted to flash the android revolution rom and would not flash, rebooted twrp after 30%
messed around in twrp a bit and hit factory reset. thought that would do a reboot of the android install. looks like i just formatted my sd card AND deleted android operating system. i cannot reboot into system 'no android os installed' and under twrp file manager i have NOTHING LEFT in my sd card. except the twrp folder. the phone has not been rebooted since.
DID I JUST LOSE EVERYTHING?
i am seriously interested in getting the pictures and data off the sd partition somehow. that is my main concern, i will deal with reinstalling android afterward.
any help will be rewarded, thank you in advance.
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Ok, first, you're all over the place. Why did you install a radio+RIL when it explicitly tells you not to? It's actions like this that get people like you into a lot of trouble and destroys phones.
Secondly, there is no Android Revolution HD for this device. I believe you have the HTC One XL / at&t One X (Evita) judging from your post, but like I said there's no ARHD ROM for the Evita, only for the HTC One X (Endeavoru). This leads me to believe that you're jumping between the two device forums, very bad idea, none of the stuff from the Endeavoru forum is compatible with our phone.
You're lucky the ROM install stopped otherwise you would have bricked your phone. Long story short, you have no OS because the ROM install didn't complete, you have a corrupt boot partition because you flashed the ARHD boot.img which isn't compatible. In future do not stray outside our device forum for any reason at all. Here's our forum main page, bookmark it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1538
Next. Performing a factory reset in TWRP recovery does not wipe user data (images/music etc). I'm not sure what you've done but the factory reset in recovery wasn't it. A factory reset performed in the bootloader does however corrupt the sd card, so never do a factory reset from the bootloader.
You might have a chance at saving some of your data using a data recovery tool in Windows. You'll need to mount usb storage in TWRP for Windows to access the sd. Do not under any circumstances do any writing to the sd card before you attempt to save your data.
In conclusion, you've made numerous mistakes with your device. You need to slow down a bit and educate yourself a bit better, a lack of knowledge when it comes to modifying devices is a very dangerous thing.
Please post the first five lines of your bootloader.
Sent from my Evita.

i could have sworn i got the android revolution rom from the att one x forum but i suppose not....
ok guys thanks so much so far i will pick up again after work today.
bootloader says:
TAMPERED
UNLOCKED
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.09.000
RADIO-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-boot
Apr 2 2012,21:08:24
I'm 99.9% i was s-off before this all...

There isn't and never has been an Android Revolution ROM in this forum. It's kinda easy to make the mistake, the forums are named similarly.
I'm 99.9% sure you weren't s-off before all this. A phone can't change the security status without you doing it manually. It just can't happen. Did you actually go through either the Facepalm or Rumrunner s-off processes?
Well, you definitely have the Evita (HTC One XL / at&t One X) so make sure you stay within the forum I linked to earlier.
Good luck with attempting to recover your data, I hope you get at least some of it back.
Sent from my Evita.

Ok so as far as mounting my sd card in twrp, there's something up with my screen touch input I think... I am not able to click that particular box in the 'mount' menu. It seems like that part of the screen was not clickable when installing roms and such but once I get into android everything works perfectly.
Is there a way to rotate the screen in twrp?
Also by looking at my bootloader info once I get my sd card mounted and recovered best as I can, what is my best plan of action? Re-lock and flash a stock att ruu and begin from scratch or what? Or just try and load a correct radio and rom? I'm not a complete newbie I know I made a foolish mistake but I have done this quite a few times playing on the inspire, cha-cha, my kids nabi 2 tablets and on this att one x. This is the first time I have gotten really stuck in probably 35 flashes. Just this time I might be over my head...

To be honest I've never tried rotating the screen while in recovery, so I'm not sure about that. Exactly which recovery type (CWM/TWRP) and version number are you using?
I think your best plan of action would be to run an RUU, this will bring everything back to the way it should be. You're lucky in the sense that you're still on quite an early firmware version, so you should have a couple of RUU options. One thing to be careful of though, absolutely do not run a jb RUU if you have SuperCID, it will brick your device. SuperCID + s-on + jb RUU = brick. We should check your CID just in case, connect your phone in fastboot mode and issue this command:
Code:
fastboot oem readcid
Sent from my Evita.

beppomarx said:
i could have sworn i got the android revolution rom from the att one x forum but i suppose not....
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There is absolutely no ARHD ROM for EVITA. You've made a grave error, and as timmaaa mentioned, you are lucky your phone isn't a paperweight now.
EVDEAVORU is partitioned completely differently from EVITA, so all bets are pretty much off on whether your data is still intact or not. The ROM itself may have overwritten your data. Also, if you happened to do a factory reset in hboot instead of TWRP (as you mentioned) this will corrupt the SD card on modded EVITAs (known issue, and somewhat common error).
Your best bet is to get the phone back up and running using timmaaa instructions. Then see if the files are still on the SD. If the data files aren't easily visible, you can also try data recovery programs to see if they can be salvaged (sometimes corrupted files get dumped to a temp folder, or otherwise recoverable).
But I wouldn't hold my breath on recovering the files. This is what always puzzles me (why folks never back their data, then freak out when its gone of damaged). If your data is important to you, its important enough to back up. And there are so many easy methods to do so (with built-in cloud backup apps and whatnot) yet so many folks neglect to do that. And all you are left with is regret when things do south. Its pretty much a no-brainer to backup anything important to you when modding the phone. I'm puzzling why so many folks never do it.

So since I have the 1.09.000 hboot i am going to download and install this:
1.85.502.3
File Timestamp: 25/05/12
Publically Seen: 06/06/12
Android: 4.0.3
Kernel: 3.0.8-01155-gca24d1e
hboot: 1.09.0000
radio: 0.17.32.09.12_10.86.32.08
adsp: 28.1.0.32.0504
wcnss: 1031120A
tp_syn3202: 3.0_PR1100755
tz: 001.031.511
sbl1: 001.031.503
sbl2: 001.031.501
sbl3: 001.031.502
OTA: OTA_Evita_UL_Cingular_US_1.85.502.3_R2_NEW_NFCPHON ESTORAGE-1.73.502.1_release_263287jkmeqj8u75z409z9.zip
RUU: RUU_Evita_UL_Cingular_US_1.85.502.3_R2_Radio_0.17. 32.09.12_10.86.32.08L_release_262092_signed.exe (Download)
Source: evita-ics-crc-3.0.8-271616b.zip
is this my best bet? I am going to try and check my CID status right now just need to download the android SDK and get that going...
**EDIT**
my CID is 11111111. is that superCID?
**EDIT**
looking for a way to remove superCID. If i just go S-off am i OK to run a RUU or should I keep looking to change my CID back?
**EDIT**
just downloaded WinDrid HTC One XL Toolkit and seems to be up and running fine. my plan so far is to S-off and run the RUU I posted above but I will wait for someone to chime in before I do anything else.. I feel like I am on the edge here and don't want to brick it... I can't find any way so far to return my CID but from what I read if I am S-off it should keep me safe.

S-off won't work unless you're able to boot into a ROM. I'd forget about using a toolkit for now, it completely bypasses some much needed learning, and doesn't always work anyway. I believe all you need to do is relock your bootloader and then run the RUU.
Sent from my Evita.

Ok I will look into how to re-lock that after work today. Can anyone else confirm this? Not that I don't trust you but wording it like 'I believe this will work' makes me ask again...

I'm 99.99% sure it's only the jb and above RUU that you need to worry about while s-on and SuperCID.
Sent from my Evita.

timmaaa said:
I'm 99.99% sure it's only the jb and above RUU that you need to worry about while s-on and SuperCID.
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ICS RUUs are free of the S-on and SuperCID bug. Plenty of folks have flashed that RUU (such as 2.20) with SuperCID with no issue.

so I am going to relock the bootloader, it's as simple as 'fastboot oem lock'? that's it? before doing so should i bother s-off first? here's my plan of action:
s-off
relock bootloader
run 2.20.502.7 ruu
unlock bootloader again
install twrp
load custom rom
that should work correct?

If you s-off first, I believe you do not need to relock the bootloader to run the RUU. Just s-off, then run the RUU.

As I've previously mentioned, you won't be able to get s-off unless your phone will boot a ROM. The above process looks right.
Sent from my Evita.

got back to stock just fine, now to work my way back to modded. You guys are the best thank you a million.

Please hit the thanks button on any post that you've found helpful on XDA.
Sent from my Evita.

Remember also to either s-off or change cid back to normal, it will assist in the future if you get in a jam like this.
Although s-off and flashing a rom for a different phone(like you did) may have ended up much worse as some of the checks that likely saved you will be disabled.
At very least do not OTA/RUU update to Jellybean while you are s-on and supercid!

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