This was previously rooted and unlocked, but I have been trying to re root phone after 4.4xxxx update. Now it is S-on and locked but I am unable to root now because firewater S -off and unlock process does not work. I believe because Supersu will not update and I don't have the binaries, yet the weaksauce app states that I am rooted.
Any suggestions?
dgub said:
This was previously rooted and unlocked, but I have been trying to re root phone after 4.4xxxx update. Now it is S-on and locked but I am unable to root now because firewater S -off and unlock process does not work. I believe because Supersu will not update and I don't have the binaries, yet the weaksauce app states that I am rooted.
Any suggestions?
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Why would you turn s on and relock ? None of this was required to root after the ota.
You cannot use weaksauce anymore and since you turned s on the old su app is now system protected meaning you cannot remove it. Your only option is sunshine and that will likely complain since you have an old su app installed that you cannot remove.
Try sunshine. When/if it fails pm me.
Thank you for the response.
Yeah I realized turning s-on and locking made the problem worse. I tried using Sunshine and that failed. It is a no go.
Would installing stock RUU work? Or is that not an option now since I locked it.
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dgub said:
Thank you for the response.
Yeah I realized turning s-on and locking made the problem worse. I tried using Sunshine and that failed. It is a no go.
Would installing stock RUU work? Or is that not an option now since I locked it.
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There is a encrypted ruu for s-on but you have to be on 1.55 before you locked your phone as you can't downgrade while s-on. So r you on 1.55.XXX.x os ?
I am currently on 22.21.605.2, so I don't think the stock RUU will work, though I haven't tried that yet. I did that originally when I initially started the process to update to 4.4
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dgub said:
I am currently on 22.21.605.2, so I don't think the stock RUU will work, though I haven't tried that yet. I did that originally when I initially started the process to update to 4.4
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It won't work. You would need a encrypted one off your base. I forgot you were s-on.
dgub said:
I am currently on 22.21.605.2, so I don't think the stock RUU will work, though I haven't tried that yet. I did that originally when I initially started the process to update to 4.4
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What I sent you will work.
I will give it a shot.thanks
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I unlocked the bootloader with HTCDEV; i tried SuperOneClick afterwards. At the first try the process came to a halt and the window didn't respond, then i disabled fastboot and tried again, the same situation occured. The process stops at the 7th step in SuperOneClickv2.2 shortfuse
My bootloader shows that it's ***UNLOCKED*** and S-On.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong? Is there another way other than SuperOneClick?
Do i have to format the SD card? Please Help.
Thanks.
rusor123 said:
I unlocked the bootloader with HTCDEV; i tried SuperOneClick afterwards. At the first try the process came to a halt and the window didn't respond, then i disabled fastboot and tried again, the same situation occured. The process stops at the 7th step in SuperOneClickv2.2 shortfuse
My bootloader shows that it's ***UNLOCKED*** and S-On.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong? Is there another way other than SuperOneClick?
Do i have to format the SD card? Please Help.
Thanks.
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Is the SuperUser app installed? If yes then the phone is rooted, which has nothing to do with unlocking the bootloader, it is still S-OFF'd.
S-OFF and rooting are slightly different things. You need to flash a different bootloader to S-OFF it.
If it didn't work you can use gingerbreak which is an apk file you run from your phone
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No there's no superuser app installed. The Phone's still in S-On State.
No there is no SuperUser app installed. The phone' s still under S-On State.
Can you tell me how to use gingerbreak to root the phone.
hello I'm also experiencing the same problem. Superoneclick do not respond when it reaches step 7. Pls comment if you have rooted ur phone already. thanks, i will be waiting for your result
Like I said, put it on your phone and install as a normal app. Open it and root your phone
Xda isn't letting me copy so you'll have to Google for it
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which one will I use gingerbreak apk or gingerbreak exploit apk?
I have unlocked bootloader, hboot 2.00.0002, s-on.
planning to install custom recovery but dont know yet which one is good
here you go. Let me know if it works
credits to chainfire for gingerbreak
i read some posts that with s-on it only makes temp root.
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i read some posts that with s-on it only makes temp root.
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Did you try it out? Please tell me if you get permanent root.
If you have unlocked with with htc-dev it should give you perma-root
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dan-fish said:
If you have unlocked with with htc-dev it should give you perma-root
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Alryt then i'll try it out, and let u knw... thanks man!!
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Alryt then i'll try it out, and let u knw... thanks man!!
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so how is it? did it give you permanent root?
It did not work, it shows a message- "rooting...running exploit... device will reboot on success". I waited patiently for about 6 minutes nothing happened then i closed it.
How long does it usually take??
Should be quick. Follow this guide. Might help you understand why superoneclick isn't working
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23140499
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After installing CM7, the CM7 logo keeps on appearing over and over again with the loading logo. Please HELP???
Probably means you didn't do a full wipe.
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Did you enable USB Debugging and are the drivers installed (NO HTC SYNC)?
Just enable them under:
Home-Menu-Settings-Applications-Development-USB Debugging
rusor123 said:
It did not work, it shows a message- "rooting...running exploit... device will reboot on success". I waited patiently for about 6 minutes nothing happened then i closed it.
How long does it usually take??
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Probably means you didn't do a full wipe.
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Your were right... i haven't wiped the cache properly. Thanks a lot man. My DS is finally rooted with custom ROM (CM7). I do miss Sense, but its much faster. BTW i cannot seem to install Google Maps, it's not supported for my region. Do you know a way to install it by unlocking Google Play?
The update to 4.0.4 for the ATT HTC One X has arrived! Unfortunately, everytime I update, everything looks good until it restarts to begin the installation of the update procedure. It gets about a 3rd done before it stops, then shows a red triangle for about a minute and restarts back. Saying that the "update was unsuccessful". What am I doing wrong? I am rooted on 1.85. The bootloader is "relocked". Any suggestions would be great.
niceppl said:
which ruu are u trying to flash...
there isnt a ruu for 2.20 yet...
the patched ruu isnt an ruu....
the signature on it is not correct
the only way u can flash is with s-off
you can get 2.20
by ruu 1.85 then dl and copy the ota .zip someone else extracted put on sdcard
and flash it with stock recovery.
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this
niceppl said:
this
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Thanks, but I found out the stock recovery in my recently relocked phone was gone. I flashed the RUU the way I was supposed to (1.85) and It turns out, the bootloader became "tampered" again. I have no idea how that happened. But it's all good now. Currently finishing up installing all my apps the old fashioned way since I lost root (eh, didn't need it anyway)
See my posts in the PSA thread in General. I'm rooted on 1.85 but never unlocked. My update failed exactly the same way as yours. Still no luck.
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Same here. Must be a root issue.
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FWIW there's a 2.20 RUU on HTC.com now
If you deleted any system apps then the OTA will fail. You'll need to reinstall them or RUU back to stock before you try to update.
akvtiger said:
Same here. Must be a root issue.
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It is a root issue, rooting my phone changed the filmware version to include "R2" at the end. Not a big thing, but enough to completely f*ck up my phone when it was time to update. No more rooting for me til I gain the courage again... And root is found for 4.0.4.
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If you deleted any system apps then the OTA will fail. You'll need to reinstall them or RUU back to stock before you try to update.
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That must've been another problem. I tried to push google now to my phone, then i found out it sucked and took it off. I thought i put the other file back on, but i guess something went wrong.
gunnyman said:
FWIW there's a 2.20 RUU on HTC.com now
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I didn't know that. I was looking all over for it yesterday. Thank you.
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So, I've been trying to use this method to root by AT&T HTC One X
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644167
Attached is the software information of my phone...
I run the .bat file and everything works and my phone reboots three times but then I try to load SuperSU but it says su binary code not installed which leads me to believe that the phone isn't rooted?
Any advice on how to get it to work?
Cheers,
What Hboot version do you have? Go into boot loader by turning the phone off, hold the volume down button and press the power button. Let us know what it says?
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subarudroid said:
what hboot version do you have? Go into boot loader by turning the phone off, hold the volume down button and press the power button. Let us know what it says?
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hboot-2.14.000
Did you buy that phone second hand? Is the bootloader locked? Unlocked? Relocked? Does it say s-on? Or S-off?
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No, I bought it new. Its locked and s-on
akaeavaian said:
No, I bought it new. Its locked and s-on
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Well that's odd since you're software says 1.73 but your hboot is of 3.18.
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nah hboot is 2.14
Post a photo of your bootloader screen, because what you're describing is virtually impossible.
The only way you could be on hboot 2.14 and 1.73 software is if you got a refurb that was previously on 2.20 or earlier, was rooted, unlocked, s-off, had the 3.18 ruu run, then the 1.73 stock rom installed, then relocked and s-on, and no one at AT&T bothered to clean up the mess.
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Post a photo of your bootloader screen, because what you're describing is virtually impossible.
The only way you could be on hboot 2.14 and 1.73 software is if you got a refurb that was previously on 2.20 or earlier, was rooted, unlocked, s-off, had the 3.18 ruu run, then the 1.73 stock rom installed, then relocked and s-on, and no one at AT&T bothered to clean up the mess.
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Lmao that's sounds exactly like what would happen.
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That sounds complicated
but here you go...
Looks like youre going to have to wait. no exploit for att on that version. Pisses me off that Rogers can still unlock and s-off. I want to say horrible things about att. Can we turn this into a AT&T bashing thread now?
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subarudroid said:
Looks like youre going to have to wait. no exploit for att on that version. Pisses me off that Rogers can still unlock and s-off. I want to say horrible things about att. Can we turn this into a AT&T bashing thread now?
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can telestra too? telus can aswell.
Again another reason to bash AT&T
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akaeavaian said:
That sounds complicated
but here you go...
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I'm sorry, even seeing it, I don't believe it. I just don't see how this could be possible.
In any case, the 1.73 root method might work, but with that hboot, you can't change cid, and thus can't unlock or flash a custom recovery, which means you can't get permanent root. You're stuck where you are, wherever that is.
They don't send ota's for the hboot right? I was on 2.20 few and 1.14 hboot. And got it refurb back in December
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Ota does affect the hboot... Yes. But there's not an Ota that changes just the hboot. This must have been previously rooted. Most likely this phone was at some point unlocked and rooted, the person who returned it most likely updated to 3.18 after bootloader unlock/soff, had issues, Relocked and s-on, ruu to 1.73, returned to HTC where HTC fixed and repackaged without updating the software.
*edit* sorry that makes no sense.. Ruu would have downgraded the hboot too.. Just woke up -_-
We may never know what happened to thus phone lol.
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Ota does affect the hboot... Yes. But there's not an Ota that changes just the hboot. This must have been previously rooted. Most likely this phone was at some point unlocked and rooted, the person who returned it most likely updated to 3.18 after bootloader unlock/soff, had issues, Relocked and s-on, ruu to 1.73, returned to HTC where HTC fixed and repackaged without updating the software.
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Aha! So it couldn't have been new. Unless he had warranty. something isn't right.
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Yup, he's got an ICS Rom with a locked 2.14 hboot. Now that's f'd up.
exad said:
We may never know what happened to thus phone lol.
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I think it's possible to get that configuration:
-phone was originally on ICS
-root, unlock, and s-off
-apply 3.17 or 3.18 ruu to get 2.14 hboot. This would also remove the TAMPERED flag
-flash rooted stock 1.73 rom
-edit p3 or flash scotty's zips to relock and restore LOCKED text
-remove root
-restore s-on
-return phone to AT&T
I just don't see why anyone would do it or how it would survive the refurb process.
soo...err....is there anything I can do? I got it through Costco though...if that changes anything...
I had no problems rooting and getting s-off on my M8 months ago when the exploit was released. I used the weaksauce/firewater method. Now when I try to do the same thing to my gf's M8 it won't work. It's running stock 4.4.2. any ideas? I run weaksauce -> download/run supersu -> try to update the binaries but it keeps saying installation failed. need help! thanks
irbane said:
I had no problems rooting and getting s-off on my M8 months ago when the exploit was released. I used the weaksauce/firewater method. Now when I try to do the same thing to my gf's M8 it won't work. It's running stock 4.4.2. any ideas? I run weaksauce -> download/run supersu -> try to update the binaries but it keeps saying installation failed. need help! thanks
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Reboot your phone. Wait for a pop up message that shows phone is rooted then run super su? Have you downloaded any rooted apps like root explorer? Reason I asked is because once you run the app supoeruser should pop up.
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irbane said:
I had no problems rooting and getting s-off on my M8 months ago when the exploit was released. I used the weaksauce/firewater method. Now when I try to do the same thing to my gf's M8 it won't work. It's running stock 4.4.2. any ideas? I run weaksauce -> download/run supersu -> try to update the binaries but it keeps saying installation failed. need help! thanks
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You're getting stuck on weaksauce? Try to uninstall everything, reboot, then re-download weaksauce and install again. Sometimes the root won't apply correctly.
If firewater doesn't work, you might have to use sunshine.
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lucky_strike33 said:
Reboot your phone. Wait for a pop up message that shows phone is rooted then run super su? Have you downloaded any rooted apps like root explorer? Reason I asked is because once you run the app supoeruser should pop up.
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BadUsername said:
You're getting stuck on weaksauce? Try to uninstall everything, reboot, then re-download weaksauce and install again. Sometimes the root won't apply correctly.
If firewater doesn't work, you might have to use sunshine.
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no rooted apps. I factory reset her phone before trying the root/s-off and it wouldn't take. after i reboot the phone, the toast message doesnt show up unless i run weaksauce again
It just takes a couple minutes to reroot after every reboot. And where in the instructions are you seeing to download and run supersu? Don't do that.
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no rooted apps. I factory reset her phone before trying the root/s-off and it wouldn't take. after i reboot the phone, the toast message doesnt show up unless i run weaksauce again
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I had the same issue when I first installed weaksauce. It was weird, root checker said I was rooted, but weaksauce would not reroot when I rebooted my device. I just downloaded a fresh copy and ran it again, and it worked perfectly the second time.
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Hey guys as you can tell I made the switched after I had and unfortunate issue with my previous phone. Pretty much the act of god and stupid me I didnt have insurance on it so I had to start a new line and fork over the 220$ price tag, but anyways. I got the phone last night, and it's an amazing phone. For some reason i always been afraid to try out HTC. For some reason seemed to complex to me, but after I did more research it actually isn't.
I have a few questions and maybe I can get some help:
1) I follow root junky on youtube, and pretty much watched all his videos on the Verizon M8. From my understanding after reading through the forums that firewater will not work on newer m8 models, and that I would have to pay 25$ and get sunshine. This true about firewater? I had seen a few post about people saying it works, and more saying that it wont. I do have the newest sense 6, and and the update came to the phone.
2) I also noticed about the temporary root access apk, and that with a phone reboot it resets itself. So if i do the root and then obtain the root and use titanium back up that actually resets also?
3) I went threw the forum again about water proof/ dust proof, drop proof cases. Anyone here have one or used one and what do you think?
4) Lastly if I do the sunshine is that considered full root, and then I can add twrp through flashify, and then roms if I decide to go that route?
Thanks in advance,
the_rooter
Firewater is working on some people's still. It depends what hardware the phone has for some reason. So your process to root and soff will be, following the threads here.
Use weak sauce to temp root, download SuperSU after, do not open the app or anything. Don't try and update binaries or anything.
Then use firewater, using the correct directions, there's 3 different sets if I recall. Just pick the right one that is for using weak sauce root.
Then if firewater works great, you'll be soff and unlocked. If not, buy sunshine and run it. Then you'll get soff and unlocked.
You'll then get rid of SuperSU and uninstall weak sauce app as well.
Then flash a recovery. I'd suggest fastboot flashing it, but I guess flashify would work. But you'll already have fastboot working if you tried firewater so might as well flash twrp with fastboot.
Once you have your recovery, download the latest SuperSU zip found here in chainfires thread and flash it in twrp. Then reboot and you will be permanent rooted. Then you can flash all the Roms or whatever you want.
Hope that helps.
silver04v said:
Firewater is working on some people's still. It depends what hardware the phone has for some reason. So your process to root and soff will be, following the threads here.
Use weak sauce to temp root, download SuperSU after, do not open the app or anything. Don't try and update binaries or anything.
Then use firewater, using the correct directions, there's 3 different sets if I recall. Just pick the right one that is for using weak sauce root.
Then if firewater works great, you'll be soff and unlocked. If not, buy sunshine and run it. Then you'll get soff and unlocked.
You'll then get rid of SuperSU and uninstall weak sauce app as well.
Then flash a recovery. I'd suggest fastboot flashing it, but I guess flashify would work. But you'll already have fastboot working if you tried firewater so might as well flash twrp with fastboot.
Once you have your recovery, download the latest SuperSU zip found here in chainfires thread and flash it in twrp. Then reboot and you will be permanent rooted. Then you can flash all the Roms or whatever you want.
Hope that helps.
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Did anyone find out the difference in hardware the phones that work, and is there a way to check on that or no?
the_rooter said:
Did anyone find out the difference in hardware the phones that work, and is there a way to check on that or no?
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No, you just try firewater. It really is easy. And if it works great, if not, no big deal. It will tell you, whelp, this won't ever work for your device is it fails. Then just use sunshine. Just read the how to threads and it really is simple. Droidmodderx on YouTube has a couple videos that are Verizon specific that may lend a hand too.
silver04v said:
No, you just try firewater. It really is easy. And if it works great, if not, no big deal. It will tell you, whelp, this won't ever work for your device is it fails. Then just use sunshine. Just read the how to threads and it really is simple. Droidmodderx on YouTube has a couple videos that are Verizon specific that may lend a hand too.
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I just paid the 25 dollars and now I am root free s off and twrp
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Check out the 2 other posts many get firewater to work using superuser with weaksauce app instead of supersu. Check out the two other posts below first is the main one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...firewater-s-off-fail-bottle-chugging-t2821691
I got it up and running. Right now trying gpe
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Roefastford said:
Check out the 2 other posts many get firewater to work using superuser with weaksauce app instead of supersu. Check out the two other posts below first is the main one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...firewater-s-off-fail-bottle-chugging-t2821691
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After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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Once your s-off you will stay s-off unless they release an update ota and it can affect s-off and you flash it, in that case sunshine is supposed to work for your device once again. Just dont flash any new update until you know for sure that it wont affect s-off.
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After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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Pretty sure once you're s-off, you're s-off until you restore s-on. Flashing a custom rom won't change the secure write status.
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After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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Once your soff and custom recovery there is no need to complete this process again your done with it. You can flash ROMs in recovery if you don't like it.. Wipe and load something else : )
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Once your soff and custom recovery there is no need to complete this process again your done with it. You can flash ROMs in recovery if you don't like it.. Wipe and load something else : )
Edit.... Lol two of you beat me to the answer...
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Thanks guys for the answers I don't plan on s-off just thinking more about if and when it comes time to sell to someone. Right now I am using gpe rom and it's running great.
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