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Easy Root for Most android 4.0/4.1 devices including One s

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
Check out that post someone has made a one click root method for Android 4.0/4.1 devices and it has been tested working on the One S (S4). It should also work for the S3 but has not been tested from what i can see, so if someone with an S3 wants to test and let everyone know please do .

clewis said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
Check out that post someone has made a one click root method for Android 4.0/4.1 devices and it has been tested working on the One S (S4). It should also work for the S3 but has not been tested from what i can see, so if someone with an S3 wants to test and let everyone know please do .
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Does this need unlocking the bootloader via HTCdev?

nor-ric said:
Does this need unlocking the bootloader via HTCdev?
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I dont think so!
Anyone must test it.
In this thread one member says it works but without any other infos like rom version etc.
An other member runs in trouble *tampered* (no real trouble i think) and resets the phone.
I will not brick my daily using one s and have no second one s for testing this script.

n0j0e said:
An other member runs in trouble *tampered* (no real trouble i think) and resets the phone.
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Tampered is a non-issue, since it goes away by simply flashing a ruu! Happened to me once and I've solved the issue this way without problems.
Let's hope this doesn't require unlocked bootloader! :fingers-crossed:

nor-ric said:
Tampered is a non-issue, since it goes away by simply flashing a ruu! Happened to me once and I've solved the issue this way without problems.
Let's hope this doesn't require unlocked bootloader! :fingers-crossed:
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I am that person, but the worst thing is that I don't have a T-Mobile UK RUU. Football hasn't released one and I am in deep crap because even factory reset doesn't help.
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RUU_Ville_U_TMOUS_1.84.531.2_R2_Radio_0.16.31501S.16_2_10.22.31501S.10L_release_263233_signed.exe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28365462&postcount=23
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76257867/R..._2_10.22.31501S.10L_release_263233_signed.exe

linar10 said:
RUU_Ville_U_TMOUS_1.84.531.2_R2_Radio_0.16.31501S.16_2_10.22.31501S.10L_release_263233_signed.exe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28365462&postcount=23
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76257867/R..._2_10.22.31501S.10L_release_263233_signed.exe
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That's tmobile usa, and not what he is looking for. He asked for tmobile uk's ruu.
usaff22 said:
I am that person, but the worst thing is that I don't have a T-Mobile UK RUU. Football hasn't released one and I am in deep crap because even factory reset doesn't help.
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2
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Behold_this said:
That's tmobile usa, and not what he is looking for. He asked for tmobile uk's ruu.
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Unless T-MOB005 is one of the supported CIDs, and I'm 90% sure it isn't, it won't work unfortunately.
Thanks for trying though.
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usaff22 said:
Unless T-MOB005 is one of the supported CIDs, and I'm 90% sure it isn't, it won't work unfortunately.
Thanks for trying though.
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2
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Your suspicion is correct. The only supported cid for the ruu the other guy linked to is T-MOB010 (and of course super cid 11111111). It only supports T-Mobile USA.

usaff22 said:
I am that person.
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2
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You are the one who gained root access but lost it after reboot? If that's the case it seems they've now found a fix for this.
By the way, were you bootloader-unlocked or completely stock when you tried rooting?
Thanks!

usaff22 said:
I am that person, but the worst thing is that I don't have a T-Mobile UK RUU. Football hasn't released one and I am in deep crap because even factory reset doesn't help.
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2
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Sorry I might be misunderstanding the problem, but couldn't download and flash the T-Mob UK Rom from HTCDev.com?

Please back to topic!

clewis said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
Check out that post someone has made a one click root method for Android 4.0/4.1 devices and it has been tested working on the One S (S4). It should also work for the S3 but has not been tested from what i can see, so if someone with an S3 wants to test and let everyone know please do .
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Thank you !!

ATSPerson said:
Sorry I might be misunderstanding the problem, but couldn't download and flash the T-Mob UK Rom from HTCDev.com?
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HTCDev have kernel source not RUUs

is it working ?
Can someone here confirm it's working ??
Stock or Unlocked (HTCDEV)

D3LTA said:
Can someone here confirm it's working ??
Stock or Unlocked (HTCDEV)
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It is confirmed as working on the linked page, but I can't get it working.
I am an experinced user, but cause I just joined the forum I cna't even post in the forum to find out why. When I access 'adb devices' through the android sdk in cmd it shows my device as there, but whenecer I run this script it tells me;
'ADB server didn't ACK *failed to start daemon * error: cannont connect to daemon'
I have the phone connected to the computer in USB debugging - am I missing something here?

Kill adb.exe in taakmanager and rerun the bat file....
You cant run 2 adb.exe same time..
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It seems it is not working with 2.21 and newest 2.31 rom. European rom
Code:
Device type:
1) Normal
2) Special (for example: Sony Tablet S, Medion Lifetab)
x) Unroot
Make a choice: 1
Checking if i should run in Normal Mode or special Sony Mode
Please connect your device with USB-Debugging enabled now
remote object '/system/app/Backup-Restore.apk' does not exist
Normal Mode enabled!
Pushing busybox....
3201 KB/s (1085140 bytes in 0.331s)
Pushing su binary ....
2721 KB/s (91980 bytes in 0.033s)
Pushing Superuser app
3801 KB/s (996704 bytes in 0.256s)
Making busybox runable ...
Please look at your device and click RESTORE!
If all is successful i will tell you, if not this shell will run forever.
Running ...
Successful, going to reboot your device!
Waiting for device to show up again....
Going to copy files to it's place
mount: permission denied (are you root?) <--------------- Thats the Problem
You can close all open command-prompts now!
After reboot all is done! Have fun!
Bin4ry
Druk op een toets om door te gaan. . .

it is OK for One S?

Confirm...Will not work on HTC
Yes, not possible with this dammit
Im losing my faith in getting root without unlocking bootloader
from my HTC One S using xda premium

Maybe it doesn't work due to the buggy backup/restore feature in htc software? This exploit is based upon that feature, if I understand correctly.
Also, I took a look in the One X forum but didn't found any topic related to this way of rooting. Did they succeed with the One X?

[Q] Reasons for RUU not working?

I took my HTC One S to the HTC Care shop to flash the Stock ROM. After 3 hours when I returned back the guy told me No cant do with no explanation. He said there was some hardware issue. I had handed over the phone with OEM relocked. After getting it back I restored it back to the backup of I had and looks like as it was when I had given it to them.
I have not faced any issues with the phone, just wanted to update the version from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4. I do not have my stock backup.
What are the known causes a RUU not working? I am planning on getting the RUU from someone on the forum but do want to get the wrong version or something. My specs are in my signature. If someone can tell me what exactly I need to look for when getting an RUU. Also does the HBOOT need to be the same that you own or can be higher to flash?
I am thinking that the idiots at HTC do not have the right ROM and hence asking me to deposit the phone in order to cover their own tracks. But thats just being hopeful. Can anyone help??

fatpanda0 said:
I took my HTC One S to the HTC Care shop to flash the Stock ROM. After 3 hours when I returned back the guy told me No cant do with no explanation. He said there was some hardware issue. I had handed over the phone with OEM relocked. After getting it back I restored it back to the backup of I had and looks like as it was when I had given it to them.
I have not faced any issues with the phone, just wanted to update the version from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4. I do not have my stock backup.
What are the known causes a RUU not working? I am planning on getting the RUU from someone on the forum but do want to get the wrong version or something. My specs are in my signature. If someone can tell me what exactly I need to look for when getting an RUU. Also does the HBOOT need to be the same that you own or can be higher to flash?
I am thinking that the idiots at HTC do not have the right ROM and hence asking me to deposit the phone in order to cover their own tracks. But thats just being hopeful. Can anyone help??
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If you can root then you could SuperCID which would let you use any RUU.

Darknites said:
If you can root then you could SuperCID which would let you use any RUU.
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There is no S-OFF on HOS. The process for SuperCID is not out for HTC One S (S3). The posts have been quite explicit that the process mentioned will brick this version.

fatpanda0 said:
There is no S-OFF on HOS. The process for SuperCID is not out for HTC One S (S3). The posts have been quite explicit that the process mentioned will brick this version.
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Sorry missed that you on S3 sorry.

RUU
fatpanda0 said:
I took my HTC One S to the HTC Care shop to flash the Stock ROM. After 3 hours when I returned back the guy told me No cant do with no explanation. He said there was some hardware issue. I had handed over the phone with OEM relocked. After getting it back I restored it back to the backup of I had and looks like as it was when I had given it to them.
I have not faced any issues with the phone, just wanted to update the version from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4. I do not have my stock backup.
What are the known causes a RUU not working? I am planning on getting the RUU from someone on the forum but do want to get the wrong version or something. My specs are in my signature. If someone can tell me what exactly I need to look for when getting an RUU. Also does the HBOOT need to be the same that you own or can be higher to flash?
I am thinking that the idiots at HTC do not have the right ROM and hence asking me to deposit the phone in order to cover their own tracks. But thats just being hopeful. Can anyone help??
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I had a similar problem a couple months ago. I tried almost every RUU available but luckily i managed to find one that worked, its called "OTA_Ville_U_ICS_40_S_HTC_Europe_2.31.401.5-1.78.401.2_release_275773ape8z1mahr0gt8fg". What a mouthful right lol, i'm not 100% sure it'll work for you because you have an S3 chip but it's worth a try. You can find it on filefactory and btw make sure your bootloader is locked.
Hope this helps

lonegunman0 said:
I had a similar problem a couple months ago. I tried almost every RUU available but luckily i managed to find one that worked, its called "OTA_Ville_U_ICS_40_S_HTC_Europe_2.31.401.5-1.78.401.2_release_275773ape8z1mahr0gt8fg". What a mouthful right lol, i'm not 100% sure it'll work for you because you have an S3 chip but it's worth a try. You can find it on filefactory and btw make sure your bootloader is locked.
Hope this helps
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All I am on HTC India. But what I am unable to understand is why would the HTC Service Center be unable to flash either??!!

fatpanda0 said:
All I am on HTC India. But what I am unable to understand is why would the HTC Service Center be unable to flash either??!!
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If they can't fix it they need to replace it.

Darknites said:
If they can't fix it they need to replace it.
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Well considering that its rooted and on a custom ROM do I still have the right to demand a replacement. Plus the service center ppl say it will take a month for them to get a verdict back. So was hoping to exhaust all options before taking the final step.

fatpanda0 said:
Well considering that its rooted and on a custom ROM do I still have the right to demand a replacement. Plus the service center ppl say it will take a month for them to get a verdict back. So was hoping to exhaust all options before taking the final step.
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I just don't see how you going to do it if they can't. Try getting them to try again and if they still can't get it to work then have them send it off. Or just not care about it and update to a rom that has 4.0.4.

Darknites said:
I just don't see how you going to do it if they can't. Try getting them to try again and if they still can't get it to work then have them send it off. Or just not care about it and update to a rom that has 4.0.4.
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dude thats exactly what i wanna do. i really dont need stock. just need to update to 4.0.4 so that i can use a custom rom. HOS has this issue that you cant update to 4.0.4 straight up. Need to get upgrade to stock 4.0.4 then revert back to any other ROM.
As you can see its totally effed up!

fatpanda0 said:
dude thats exactly what i wanna do. i really dont need stock. just need to update to 4.0.4 so that i can use a custom rom. HOS has this issue that you cant update to 4.0.4 straight up. Need to get upgrade to stock 4.0.4 then revert back to any other ROM.
As you can see its totally effed up!
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I don't understand your issue, are you saying you can't use a 4.0.4 rom because I don't see why you can't I have done it and I don't see why it wouldn't work on the S3 too.

Darknites said:
I don't understand your issue, are you saying you can't use a 4.0.4 rom because I don't see why you can't I have done it and I don't see why it wouldn't work on the S3 too.
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Did you do it after upgrading your stock to 4.0.4 or before it? Cuz last time I checked you CAN NOT use a custom 4.0.4 based ROM on a 4.0.3 based HOS. There is an HBOOT conflict. Anyways there are practically only 2 ROMs available for the HTC One S (S3). The TD v4 gives me bootloops (tried and failed) and the other is mcOneS3 which I havent tried but have in good faith that I WONT WORK before! reference to post #8
So if you have found a workaround I am all ears, (eyes in this case)!!

fatpanda0 said:
Did you do it after upgrading your stock to 4.0.4 or before it? Cuz last time I checked you CAN NOT use a custom 4.0.4 based ROM on a 4.0.3 based HOS. There is an HBOOT conflict. Anyways there are practically only 2 ROMs available for the HTC One S (S3). The TD v4 gives me bootloops (tried and failed) and the other is mcOneS3 which I havent tried but have in good faith that I WONT WORK before! reference to post #8
So if you have found a workaround I am all ears, (eyes in this case)!!
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Ya 4.0.4 worked fine on 4.0.3 and now 4.1.1 works on 4.0.4 so guess HTC really have screwed you guys over.

Darknites said:
Ya 4.0.4 worked fine on 4.0.3 and now 4.1.1 works on 4.0.4 so guess HTC really have screwed you guys over.
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Tell me about it. its not a bad phone but the lack of options customize like custom ROMs really pisses me off. You have just given me one more to hate the S3 version!!
well just waiting for a 4.0.4 nandroid from someone to see if that works. else will personally ask football for an RUU.

Your One S must be having a higher hboot version than their RUU at htc service centre. Downgrade your hboot version to stock for RUU to work properly.

Merrymustu said:
Your One S must be having a higher hboot version than their RUU at htc service centre. Downgrade your hboot version to stock for RUU to work properly.
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So If I have a RUU with correct CID but a higher HBOOT version I am good to go??

The hboot version of the RUU should be the same or higher than you currently have in order for it to work. The CID should also be the same that is _038 in our case. If you find a suitable RUU please post a link to the upload, we Indians are in a dire need of an RUU.

Merrymustu said:
The hboot version of the RUU should be the same or higher than you currently have in order for it to work. The CID should also be the same that is _038 in our case. If you find a suitable RUU please post a link to the upload, we Indians are in a dire need of an RUU.
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you bet. I have spoken to football and he says it can be obtained, but at a price! So making sure that I get the right one. Also just heard that we may be getting JB sometime in future. Shot a mail to HTC today to see when it will be available. Lets see!! If they say more than 3 months then might as well get that bloody RUU. Hating this disabled feeling.
PS: are you on One S too?? Are you rooted? if so can you upload me your stock backup??????

You two should go half's on the RUU if you do get it.

Darknites said:
You two should go half's on the RUU if you do get it.
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hmm that will be easier on the pocket.:good: Is there a way to enable subscription just by replying to a post. It is so difficult to keep track of where you have been. I tried helping a dude earlier and completely forgot the post heading now, I doubt i will be going back there unless I have a message somewhere telling me that I am needed! Do you get what i mean?

M8 Verizon not able to be unlocked through HTC Dev

Looks like you can't unlock the bootloader through HTC Dev on the VZW M8 Just got mine and tried and get the dreaded Error 160 MID Not Allowed.

Ohhhhh, that is garbage
Sent from my VS980 4G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Good ol Verizon locking their phones down again
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

bloodiedwraith said:
Looks like you can't unlock the bootloader through HTC Dev on the VZW M8 Just got mine and tried and get the dreaded Error 160 MID Not Allowed.
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IM sure someone will find way!

Why don't you try firewater s-off to see if the exploit still works? Please report back with your findings.
eidt: devs have said it could brick device, would not recommend doing it.

Thread Moved over to the Verizon M8 forum as it makes more sense to be here than the International forum
Regards,
- KidCarter93
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bloodiedwraith said:
Looks like you can't unlock the bootloader through HTC Dev on the VZW M8 Just got mine and tried and get the dreaded Error 160 MID Not Allowed.
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Just Tried. Can't Believe big red would do this to us. Time to dig out that ice cream and just wait till either community cracks it or htc actually lets us through.

FadedLite said:
Can't Believe big red would do this to us.
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REALLY? This was the most predictable thing that Verizon could of done. Besides scribbling on the home power button and etching on the back,
"Dear consumers, we don't care..."
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Verizon Rage.... |
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Not sure why anyone is suprised. Those of us with the M7 knew this month's ago. For the first day after the M7 was released you could use HTC DEV unlock then VZ made HTC lock that down for the M7.
I too hoped maybe VZ had not gotten to HTC yet for the M8 so I tried but no luck. Will need to wait for rumrunner or firewater to be updated to support the M8. It may take a while....

Mike02z said:
Not sure why anyone is suprised. Those of us with the M7 knew this month's ago. For the first day after the M7 was released you could use HTC DEV unlock then VZ made HTC lock that down for the M7.
I too hoped maybe VZ had not gotten to HTC yet for the M8 so I tried but no luck. Will need to wait for rumrunner or firewater to be updated to support the M8. It may take a while....
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I'm coming from a Note 3 so I'm not familiar with the M7, did rumrunner or Firewater allow for running custom asop roms?
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PhilPan said:
I'm coming from a Note 3 so I'm not familiar with the M7, did rumrunner or Firewater allow for running custom asop roms?
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Yes sir. Rumrunner gave you S-Off which is "Signature Off". Once that is set, you can flash custom recoveries and then custom rom's. It took months for the team to get this working and I know it did not work on 4.4.2. I think we are in for a long wait. If you bought this hoping you could get custom rom's you might want to reconsdier. If you like the phone and can live with it stock for a few months, it's a great device.
The M7 was the best phone I ever had and I swap phones a lot.

FadedLite said:
Just Tried. Can't Believe big red would do this to us.
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That's sarcasm, right?

it will get unlocked. name another htc phone that hasn't?

oneandroidnut said:
it will get unlocked. name another htc phone that hasn't?
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The stock One with 4.4.2 has not been able to achieve S-Off without a Java card. At lest not last time I looked.

Mike02z said:
The stock One with 4.4.2 has not been able to achieve S-Off without a Java card. At lest not last time I looked.
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oh boy not good LOL

This phone has an sd slot. The earlier one didn't. Easier to hack from what I remember

Well what about root? With xposed, root alone can provide a lot of nice added functionality before the bootloader is figured out

Just picked up the M8. Tried HTC Dev and failed

ocman40 said:
This phone has an sd slot. The earlier one didn't. Easier to hack from what I remember
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Couldn't agree more. I'm fine if we get custom recovery at some point but I'd really love to get titanium on and remove some of this Verizon crap... I mean stuff....
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myron317 said:
Couldn't agree more. I'm fine if we get custom recovery at some point but I'd really love to get titanium on and remove some of this Verizon crap... I mean stuff....
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I disabled it all until then.

[Q] Verizon HTC One M8 su binary can't install

I have looked through a lot of threads and a lot of searches later I am still stumped. No matter what I try I can not get the SU binary to update so that way I can get firewater to work properly. It keeps giving me the Whelp this isn't going to work on your device and I have a feeling that the SU binaries is the problem. I could be wrong, but I am desperate to get this to work. I'm sure a step by step instruction is out there somewhere, but i can't seem to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787587
Here is one thread you can read thru people having same issues. Myself if I was you I would check out the sunshine app. It s-off for you.
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Nekron9891 said:
I have looked through a lot of threads and a lot of searches later I am still stumped. No matter what I try I can not get the SU binary to update so that way I can get firewater to work properly. It keeps giving me the Whelp this isn't going to work on your device and I have a feeling that the SU binaries is the problem. I could be wrong, but I am desperate to get this to work. I'm sure a step by step instruction is out there somewhere, but i can't seem to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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I meant to quote you.
sent from my Red HTC M8 using Tapatalk because all Xda apps f/c ?

Did you catch it on your phone when it ask you to grant su on the phone after the su command in your steps?

Tigerstown said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787587
Here is one thread you can read thru people having same issues. Myself if I was you I would check out the sunshine app. It s-off for you.
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I meant to quote you.
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I came across that thread, but from what i saw no one had a soluttion to the issue that worked for me :/ unfortunately. and as for sunshine I am currently broke right now and can't afford to pay for it.
silver04v said:
Did you catch it on your phone when it ask you to grant su on the phone after the su command in your steps?
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I did catch it and as it turns out firewater just doesn't work on my phone for some reason. firewater is supposed to work on my verizon HTC One M8 and unfortunately I am out of luck in this. I suppose I am forced to wait until another method to s-off my phone is available.

Nekron9891 said:
I came across that thread, but from what i saw no one had a soluttion to the issue that worked for me :/ unfortunately. and as for sunshine I am currently broke right now and can't afford to pay for it.
I did catch it and as it turns out firewater just doesn't work on my phone for some reason. firewater is supposed to work on my verizon HTC One M8 and unfortunately I am out of luck in this. I suppose I am forced to wait until another method to s-off my phone is available.
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Sunshine with s-off your phone rt now. Just google it an you will see.
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Tigerstown said:
Sunshine with s-off your phone rt now. Just google it an you will see.
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I understand that it will give me S-Off now but as I said before I am currently broke. So i am hoping an alternative to Firewater and Sunshine will come soon.

Nekron9891 said:
I understand that it will give me S-Off now but as I said before I am currently broke. So i am hoping an alternative to Firewater and Sunshine will come soon.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54010625
Check this post out someone posted today the got a new red m8 yesterday an ran firewater today for s-off.
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Tigerstown said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54010625
Check this post out someone posted today the got a new red m8 yesterday an ran firewater today for s-off.
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I read through everything on that thread and tried getting the 1.84 SuperSU and it didn't have the binary issue. However, it still didn't have firewater work. I still got the Whelp message. I guess for whatever reason my Verizon M8 hates firewater. I'll just have to wait for an update to firewater or an alternative to firewater and sunshine. Thanks anyway.

Nekron9891 said:
I read through everything on that thread and tried getting the 1.84 SuperSU and it didn't have the binary issue. However, it still didn't have firewater work. I still got the Whelp message. I guess for whatever reason my Verizon M8 hates firewater. I'll just have to wait for an update to firewater or an alternative to firewater and sunshine. Thanks anyway.
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You could be waiting for a long time.... Sunshine is the commercial successor to firewater. Why would they update the free Firewater if they are trying to sell Sunshine?
I wouldn't put any money on the odds of an alternative to firewater/sunshine coming out anytime soon (if ever) either......
$25 is the equivalent of 5 grande lattes with an extra shot. Most people can save that kind of money within a week - maybe two.
I would be curious to learn why Firewater works on some phones with the latest firmware, hboot, radio etc and doesn't on others which seem to have the same specs! Can anybody shed any light on that????

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You could be waiting for a long time.... Sunshine is the commercial successor to firewater. Why would they update the free Firewater if they are trying to sell Sunshine?
I wouldn't put any money on the odds of an alternative to firewater/sunshine coming out anytime soon (if ever) either......
$25 is the equivalent of 5 grande lattes with an extra shot. Most people can save that kind of money within a week - maybe two.
I would be curious to learn why Firewater works on some phones with the latest firmware, hboot, radio etc and doesn't on others which seem to have the same specs! Can anybody shed any light on that????
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It's a great question one I have had since a bunch of threads popped up with people having firewater issues. I agree with you though $25 in the grand scheme of things isn't that much. I am feeling sleepy time for a latte : )

berndblb said:
I would be curious to learn why Firewater works on some phones with the latest firmware, hboot, radio etc and doesn't on others which seem to have the same specs! Can anybody shed any light on that????
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I just received a warranty replacement of my Verizon HTC One M8. My older unit had never taken the 1.55 OTA, I had simply flashed the radio and portions of the ROM via TWRP. The replacement unit had 1.55 on it before I could do anything. While I was able to use weaksauce to root, root was extremely unreliable, sometimes taking multiple reboots, and, as the OP points out, I could never get the binaries to download. Then I ran firewater (several tries) and got the same results, "whelp.....you're outta luck."
Yeah, that's $25 I could have spent elsewhere, but it's not unreasonable for Sunrise. Fact is that it gets S-OFF without wiping a thing, and for that alone and the time saved it's worth it.

[Q] S-OFF for LP

Hey everyone, just recently acquired a HTC M8 for Verizon and I need to get S-OFF achieved. Just to make sure that I've been reading correctly I need to gain temporary root for Sunshine to do its thing for S-OFF.
The phone is on LP 5.0.1 with 4.17.605.9 for the Software number. Is this the correct way to get TWRP and custom ROMs going, its been a while since I've owned a HTC.

Been doing some searching through the forums. It seems some people had issues with sunshine and LP. Anyone know if I'll end with a paperweight or what?

Beeko said:
Been doing some searching through the forums. It seems some people had issues with sunshine and LP. Anyone know if I'll end with a paperweight or what?
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you could always update it to mm. sunshine worked fine for me

izzaeroth said:
you could always update it to mm. sunshine worked fine for me
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Interesting, usually it's the other way around. Is there an RUU available (is that still an HTC thing?)

Beeko said:
Interesting, usually it's the other way around. Is there an RUU available (is that still an HTC thing?)
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yep, still a htc thing. heres the link you will want. just look for the signed ones, the hboot flashable one or i think the fuu will work
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2883845

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yep, still a htc thing. heres the link you will want. just look for the signed ones, the hboot flashable one or i think the fuu will work
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2883845
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Alright, just to make sure I've got the steps correct. First I should update to MM (I'm gonna do HBoot). Once MM boots up then I run sunshine and let it do its thing. After sunshine I should be S-OFF and allowed to install TWRP?

Beeko said:
Alright, just to make sure I've got the steps correct. First I should update to MM (I'm gonna do HBoot). Once MM boots up then I run sunshine and let it do its thing. After sunshine I should be S-OFF and allowed to install TWRP?
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thats correct [emoji106]

@Beeko did you win?

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@Beeko did you win?
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Haven't been able to flash yet, will probably get to it today. Thanks for the help man I really appreciate it, gonna have to see if I can get something built for it afterwards.

So I ended up getting it done over my weekend without any hiccups. Hboot upgrade to MM through the link provided. Sideloaded sunshine and followed the steps without issue, thanks for the help man.

Beeko said:
So I ended up getting it done over my weekend without any hiccups. Hboot upgrade to MM through the link provided. Sideloaded sunshine and followed the steps without issue, thanks for the help man.
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awesome, glad you got it sorted