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Help Needed to root my Desire S

Hi all,
I have just unlocked the bootloader from htcdev.com, the current HBOOT is 2.00002 and i tried using superclickuser after that to root the phone however superclickuser hangs during the rooting process. I also tried unlockroot same problem it says cant gain shellroot access. Can someone suggest to me what else i can use to root my phone with detailed instructions. When i tried clockword rom manager it says my phone isnt rooted? Can some1 help me out, please...
I am tired of waiting for HTC to release the ICS update and want to install a custom rom? any suggestions? cyanogenmod 9 isnt available for the desire s on their website, i am open to other stable fully functional roms.

cnkapadia said:
Hi all,
I have just unlocked the bootloader from htcdev.com, the current HBOOT is 2.00002 and i tried using superclickuser after that to root the phone however superclickuser hangs during the rooting process. I also tried unlockroot same problem it says cant gain shellroot access. Can someone suggest to me what else i can use to root my phone with detailed instructions. When i tried clockword rom manager it says my phone isnt rooted? Can some1 help me out, please...
I am tired of waiting for HTC to release the ICS update and want to install a custom rom? any suggestions? cyanogenmod 9 isnt available for the desire s on their website, i am open to other stable fully functional roms.
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Hello,
You just got another friend in the same boat.
I am too fed up with HTC & its service and want to root my phone, then backup the stock rom, after that try with Custom ROMs.
So far, I am only able to unlock the bootloader using HTC-dev way (I am HBOOT 2.00.0002)
SuperOneClick steps mentioned in xda is not working, It hangs and Step #7 and never goes past it.
I've checked and found over google that there are many users with 2.3.5 and above where SuperOneClick is not working.
I've also tried unlockroot[dot]com but no positive results...
Can anyone suggest if there is a way to root HTC Desire S 2.3.5 with HBOOT 02.00.0002 (HTC-Dev unlocked), so that I can backup the stock ROM first then go with Custom ROMs... ?
Any help / suggestions will be appreciated. :fingers-crossed:

There is a guide to do just this in the Index thread in the development forum. SuperOneClick won't work because the exploits it uses have been patched in the latest OTA by HTC.
If you don't want to install a custom ROM and just want root, then after you install the custom recovery flash superuser (attached) from it.

You only need to root your phone if you want root access on your current ROM. If you are going to flash a custom ROM, then root is not required. Most custom ROMs also come pre-rooted.
What you need it a custom recovery installed, and that just requires a copy of the recovery image.
I believe that you should be able to download 4EXT Touch Recovery, then flash the recovery.img from fastboot (because your phone is unlocked), then you can use 4EXT to backup your current ROM and flash a new one.
See link for Recovery Updater here:
madmaxx82 said:
Proudly presenting:
4EXT Recovery Touch
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Sent from my Desire S​

Kavrocks said:
There is a guide to do just this in the Index thread in the development forum. SuperOneClick won't work because the exploits it uses have been patched in the latest OTA by HTC.
If you don't want to install a custom ROM and just want root, then after you install the custom recovery flash superuser (attached) from it.
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BillGoss said:
You only need to root your phone if you want root access on your current ROM. If you are going to flash a custom ROM, then root is not required. Most custom ROMs also come pre-rooted.
What you need it a custom recovery installed, and that just requires a copy of the recovery image.
I believe that you should be able to download 4EXT Touch Recovery, then flash the recovery.img from fastboot (because your phone is unlocked), then you can use 4EXT to backup your current ROM and flash a new one.
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Thanks a Ton friends... :victory:
I have successfully rooted my HTC Desire S and your explanations were just perfect to teach me and boost my confidence.
I would just re-iterate the steps I have performed to ROOT my HTC Desire S especially for people who will soon start looking for steps after August 31st, since I'm pretty sure HTC will fail once again to deliver ICS updates by their given deadline.
Step. 0
Setup Android Tools folder on your PC (Windows)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272595
Step. 1
Unlock bootloader using HTC Dev (HBOOT 2.00.0002 S-ON)
Step. 2
Download 4EXT and copy the recovery.img into your Android Tools folder
Download SuperUser and copy the zip file into SD card
Step. 3
Flash your recovery with 4EXT (Go for Step. #3 in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100)
Power down from bootloader menu,
Step. 4
Enter into bootloader menu (Vol + / - and Power)
Goto Recovery (You should get into 4EXT Recovery) and install SuperUser by locating it from the SD Card
Reboot from 4EXT menu
You're Done... Your HTC Desire S is now ROOTed
Your Stock ROM is now rooted, you can backup the current ROM using 4EXT, then go ahead with installing any Custom ROM as per your choice.
EDIT: I re-flashed with 3.2-RC3 version of SuperUser (http://androidsu.com/superuser/) as the previous version was not working properly in giving root permission to other apps.
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Device: HTC Desire S (2.3.5 ROOTED)
HBOOT: 2.00.0002 S-ON
ROM: HTC ASIA_India STOCK ROM

Kavrocks said:
There is a guide to do just this in the Index thread in the development forum. SuperOneClick won't work because the exploits it uses have been patched in the latest OTA by HTC.
If you don't want to install a custom ROM and just want root, then after you install the custom recovery flash superuser (attached) from it.
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and how do i go back to original htc rom after flashing with ext??

ICS and back to Stock
cnkapadia said:
and how do i go back to original htc rom after flashing with ext??
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First of all, you mentioned that you were waiting for ICS. Well, it was released as a RUU (e.g. you loose all data), downloadable via HTCdev (I'm not allowed to post external links: htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads), enter "Desire S" as Device and "v4.0" as Android Version and you should see it (Desire S - HTC - WWE - RUU - N/A - v4.0 - 404.0MB - 14.01.401.2). You do not need to unlock or root to install it, if I remember right there were some information about people not being able to install it properly with an unlocked bootleader. Installing the update will lock the bootleader from what I've read.
You can also just flash a prepared version of this official update which preserves unlocked bootloaders, just search here. Not fully sure if that works with the HTC unlock, though, but I'm sure you should find it
Back to your question about reverting stock: you can always flash an unrooted stock rom, just search the forums.

cnkapadia said:
Hi all,
I have just unlocked the bootloader from htcdev.com, the current HBOOT is 2.00002 and i tried using superclickuser after that to root the phone however superclickuser hangs during the rooting process. I also tried unlockroot same problem it says cant gain shellroot access. Can someone suggest to me what else i can use to root my phone with detailed instructions. When i tried clockword rom manager it says my phone isnt rooted? Can some1 help me out, please...
I am tired of waiting for HTC to release the ICS update and want to install a custom rom? any suggestions? cyanogenmod 9 isnt available for the desire s on their website, i am open to other stable fully functional roms.
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I have used this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399331) guide and it worked like a charm...
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda app-developers app

Htc desire s
how i cant root my htc desire s without pc my htc desire s usb port is not working

Musht said:
how i cant root my htc desire s without pc my htc desire s usb port is not working
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U cant...
How do u charge ur phone if usb port is broke?

Firstly fix the USB port than take any step for rooting
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[Q] One S C2 / S3 Not compleating ROM flash?? Bricked?

Hey all, been a member here for years but dont post offten. Normally able to get the info i need from other posts but this time i am stuck Just wondering if anyone has had the same issue flashing a One S C2 with the S3 CPU that im having now. It was stuck with 4.0.3 with hboot 2.09.001, raido 16.05.2.24_M and CID OPTUS001...
Last night i dev unlocked it via the HTC site and flashed TWRP 2.4.4.0 recovery. Tried to put on luxandroidROM v4 but it failed part way through ROM install. The progess bar just got to a point and stopped?? I noticed i had a hboot that was too old for the JB ROM so tried BackToBasics v3 (ICS) ROM but that did the same thing...
Thinking it was maybe just a issue with the ROMs, i tried TrickDroid 6 and CM10 Unofficial build but that was doing the exact same thing... Tried redownloading all the ROMs and looking into SupoerCID but as other with the S3 CPU have reported, it all appears to have worked but does not change the CID Oddly enough when i was in ADB Shell while the phone was sitting on the TWRP recovery mode the SU command was not working. Relevent?
I'm now thinking the issue is the phone is not getting permissions to write the ROMs but have no idea how to correct this. I made sure TWRP has all sections mounted (not sure if this is needed as i normally use CWM) but didn't help.
TWRP keeps saying device isnt rooted when i go to reboot it but fails to root when i tell it to on exit. I have manually flashed SuperSU through TWRP and tried fixing permissions. Tried full factory wipe, Bulletproof-S3-1.3 Kernal and SuperSU again. Still nothing.
Not able to find a RUU for the OPTUS001 CID. Tried extracted version of RUU_VILLEC2_U_ICS_40_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.11.707.112_Radio_16.12.20.02U_16.05.20.16_M2 with CID changed in texts files but it still saied with carrier ID issue
This would be the first time i think i have bricked a phone Does anyone have any suggestions? At this point i would be happy for a nandroid backup to go back to sock and just like with 4.0.3

$40 reward to whoever provides me the info i need to fix this

On the s4 versions of TWRP newer than 2.4.0.0 have issues. I'm not sure if they affect the c2 version but I shouldn't hurt to try an older version.
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TWRP 2.4.4.0 has known bugs. Downgrade to 2.3.3.0 or 2.3.3.7.
And remember to open (BUT NOT EXTRACT) the .zip and to copy and paste the boot.img into your fastboot working environment and manually flash it with this command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then try to flash the ROM that you got the boot.img from. This should work.
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Managed to get this working, figured i would post in case anyone else runs in this issue.
Tried multiple versions of TWRP and no matter what one i tried the roms were unable to write to the stoage. Had to format the phone storage using boot cd - I used GParted through a virtual to do so.
Once that was done TWRP 2.4.4.0 worked fine to flash rom. Still stuck with 4.0.3 with hboot 2.09.001 due to the optus CID but phone is atleast alive. Thanks all for the input

[Q] I Can't flash anything from TWRP...Help please!!

Hi all,
a friend of mine has bought his HTC One S 3 days ago, but after using the all in one toolkit we aren't able to flash anything....Let me explain better:
1) we follwed everything step by step (unloocking and rooting) with success
2) we can mount the sd card from the recovery and copy any ROM
3) when flashing nothing happens, just errors messages (we tried with Viper and TrickDroid)
4) As far as I understood, the boot.img must be flashed AFTER flashing the ROM, not before, right?
The CID phone is vodap102. It was updated to the latest JB before messin'it up....so it has Hboot 2.15. The latest RUU for this Cid is unavailable so we can't back to stock...how can we solve this?? any idea???
Please help us, we're quite desperate :crying:
Thanks a million guys!
P.S. Just noticed that when rebooting from the recovery it say that SuperSU is not installed and can't be pushed to the sd .....if I install it manually says "successful", but that message, when rebooting, appears again...

Try with older version of twrp
Verstuurd van mijn One S met Tapatalk

Solved!
real187 said:
Try with older version of twrp
Verstuurd van mijn One S met Tapatalk
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Great, after thousand of various recoveries we found the right one (TWRP 2.2.2.0) and we flashed Viper's ROM!
Thank you man!:good:

Where did you get that you have to flash the boot.img after the whole ROM?
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Before or after..doesn't matter
HTC_One_S | S-OFF | DeviantXone | Bubba_3.7b_SoftOV

TWRP v 2.2.2.1 I can't flash Jelly Bean 4.2.2 .zip on HTC one s (s3)
HI, my device is an HTC ONE S (s3)... I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted it... it's ok... For recovery mode I installed TWRP v 2.2.2.1.... I've wiped the cache and made a factory reset... BUT when I try to flash the zip which contains the jelly bean 4.2.2 I get a message saying: FAILED when i was trying to install it... PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CUZ I THINK I CAN'T DO TOO MUCH WITHOUT AN OS ON MY DEVICE... I'M NOW JUST IN TWRP... HELP PLEASE........

Hi, One HTC S (S3) there is no ROM 4.2.2. Did you use the wrong ROM (S4)

mikebryant2807 said:
HI, my device is an HTC ONE S (s3)... I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted it... it's ok... For recovery mode I installed TWRP v 2.2.2.1.... I've wiped the cache and made a factory reset... BUT when I try to flash the zip which contains the jelly bean 4.2.2 I get a message saying: FAILED when i was trying to install it... PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CUZ I THINK I CAN'T DO TOO MUCH WITHOUT AN OS ON MY DEVICE... I'M NOW JUST IN TWRP... HELP PLEASE........
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As the poster above said, it's good that the 4.2.2 ROM wouldn't flash, or your device would have bricked by now with possibly no means to recover it. Flash a ROM from the S3 Development section.

Can’t Flash Anything on TWRP
Hello,
I’m using a Kindle Fire HD ( 1st Gen ). I rooted it and I’m running on CyanogenMod 9 ,Android version 4.0.4 . I also have TWRP installed,version 2.2.2.1 .I have decided to sell my Kindle Fire but I have to unroot it first. So I booted into TWRP 2.2.2.1 and tried to flash the Kindle Fire update bin file which is zipped. After flashing it, it says “ Error flashing zip ‘/sdcard/update-kindle-6.3.2_DO1E_4110520.BIN.ZIP’”.What should I do to unroot my kindle now? Please Help !!! :crying:

[Q] Htc one x+ CM10.1 stuck on load!

Hello everybody, i'm new to the Android world (i come from iOS), and obviously i wanted to root, flash rom and etc...
My problem comes when i tried to flash CM10.1 (the one from lliar) after rooting and flashing recovery, until now all ok, i flashed CM but i forgot to flash the boot.img so i got stuck in the cyanogenmod loading screen!
"Haven't you try to boot in bootloader?" Yes, i tried also to boot recovery, but the all-in-one tool by hasoon2000 i used to root, gives me an error in the prompt that says: "error:device not found", so i can't boot in bootloader and recovery.
I haven't found anything about my problem on xda or google, but i know that i can solve it, question is: how?
Please help me, i really don't know what to do.
Thanks to all, davisons95

Are you able to get into recovery? You haven't said anything that you can get into recovery if so try flashing a stock Rom.
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stuck too
Hi there.
I habe a similar issue with my one x+
Here's what I die:
- i rootet the mobile
- flashed twrp 2.6.0.0
- used factory reset Form bootloader
- used twrp install Tod flash the hox+ release for CM10.1 and gapps
- wiped cache/davelik
- reboot system via twrp after successful flashing the Roms
- Ende up each time I reboot in twrp AS if the flashing failed somehow
Any ideas how to geht oft of this?
Any tips in ADB sideload?
please help, any advise appreciated, THX.

Cyanogenmod 9 Bootloop - How to get out?

Hello Community,
last weekend I tried to install Cyanogenmod 9.1 on a HTC Sensation XE and I think I caused something like a soft-brick. Everytime I want to boot, Cyanogenmod gets stuck in the Boot animation. Unfortunately I installed the ROM without doing the S-Off. Maybe that's the reason for it. All tutorials I found for doing this need a running operating system, but I don't have one because cyanogenmod is stuck in the Boot animation. On top of that, I'm not entirely sure the root was succesfull. I installed Super User, but how can I check, whether the root was succesfull?
However, I don't know what to do next. I think I have to install any stock rom, which runs on the HTC Sensation XE and doesn't need the S-Off. Please give me some advice.
The device is unlocked and the CWM recovery version is 5.0.2.0
greets

Dr. Bob! said:
Hello Community,
last weekend I tried to install Cyanogenmod 9.1 on a HTC Sensation XE and I think I caused something like a soft-brick. Everytime I want to boot, Cyanogenmod gets stuck in the Boot animation. Unfortunately I installed the ROM without doing the S-Off. Maybe that's the reason for it. All tutorials I found for doing this need a running operating system, but I don't have one because cyanogenmod is stuck in the Boot animation. On top of that, I'm not entirely sure the root was succesfull. I installed Super User, but how can I check, whether the root was succesfull?
However, I don't know what to do next. I think I have to install any stock rom, which runs on the HTC Sensation XE and doesn't need the S-Off. Please give me some advice.
The device is unlocked and the CWM recovery version is 5.0.2.0
greets
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you need to flash the boot.img of the rom via fastboot command
the command is fastboot flash boot boot.img
or you can change your recovery to 4ext
it has a feature which is called smartflash
enable smartflash exactly before flashing the rom