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Ok, so i just flashed the yetirom on my phone. Its supposed to be the stock rom. So could i flash the nexus one update on my phone? will there be any side effects?
I'm not positive, but I believe if you flash a rom that isn't made for your phone, it'll brick the phone. Something about flashing a different radio. So i wouldn't do it, but i'm not an expert.
You need to do a search before posting... If you did, you would have learned that you need the proper hardware configerations installed within the OS for your phone otherwise it won't work...
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Alright thanks. That helps. I was soooooo close to flashing the manual nexus one froyo rom. Ah, well. Looks like ill need to wait a bit. So if i did this would it render the phone useless? (like the moto flashing days?) or do i just go into recovery and reflash?
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Alright thanks. That helps. I was soooooo close to flashing the manual nexus one froyo rom. Ah, well. Looks like ill need to wait a bit. So if i did this would it render the phone useless? (like the moto flashing days?) or do i just go into recovery and reflash?
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From what I hear, flashing another radio onto your phone will brick it completely and is not recoverable.
GSM and CDMA
Doesn't sound like they mix.
They don't. The Sprint CDMA Hero is a very difficult phone to brick...unless you flash a GSM Hero Rom. It isn't the rom that screws it up...it's flashing the radio.
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GSM and CDMA
Doesn't sound like they mix.
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YIKES.
Now i dont want to flash any roms lol. Ok, thanks for the help. So glad i didnt do that. I would be devastated.
mikerulez121 said:
YIKES.
Now i dont want to flash any roms lol. Ok, thanks for the help. So glad i didnt do that. I would be devastated.
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That's why it's good to ask before you just try things.
Hi
i already buy HTC HD2 T mobile version with full sim unlock..now i want to know if i reset my phone or flash another rom,need to sim unlock gain or nothing will happen,can i flash using HTC leo stock rom...need advice
once you sim unlock your phone it will stay unlock forever.
always flash the compatible T-mobile rom.
thanks for info...any suggestion for stock rom...is can or not i flash using HTC Leo stock rom.
saragoza said:
thanks for info...any suggestion for stock rom...is can or not i flash using HTC Leo stock rom.
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NO...do NOT flash a HTC Leo stock ROM on your T-Mobile HD2...
There is only one stock ROM upgrade for that phone, and it's available directly throught the support page for it on t-mobile.com.
There are plenty of custom ROM's you can apply to your T-Mobile HD2, but make sure they SPECIFICALLY say they're for the Tmo model vs. the regular Leo.
I Would recommend Energy Rom or Kumars rom. Energy has been rockin for me the past week.Trust me custom roms make this phone a whole different beast. Remember to flash a new rom you have to have HSPL3 flashed first. This may be why you didn't brick your phone when you tried to flash they Euro HD2 rom which will brick your phone. ALWAYS STAY IN THE TMOBILE ROM SECTION FOR HD2. While they are nearly the same phone they are different and you will brick your phone trying to run EURO HD2 roms on your TMO HD2. We got the good one too, we got 1GB of memory where they got 512MB. poor guys.
maxpower097 said:
we got the good one too, we got 1GB of memory where they got 512MB. poor guys.
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lol, if having "the good one" means also having the risky one with the built in perma brick noob grenade, give me the rubbish one that is almost impossible to brick any day!
samsamuel said:
...built in perma brick noob grenade...
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LOL!! Like the (rerun) episode of futurama I saw last night, where Bender had the doomsday bomb stuck inside him...
sirphunkee said:
LOL!! Like the (rerun) episode of futurama I saw last night, where Bender had the doomsday bomb stuck inside him...
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lmao yup, just like that.
When can people with Tmobile G2's expect Gingerbread?
xamadeix said:
When can people with Tmobile G2's expect Gingerbread?
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I'd imagine not for a while. It hasn't even been a month since it came out yet. I'm sure we will see it at some point in the next few months. I hope...
CM7 is being built from source in the dev forum. Gingerbread is technically out for the G2, just not officially. CM7 is better than anything T-mo will push out to us though.
Edit: Spelling errors..
But wasn't there some stuff that broke with CM6?
Like wifi calling or something, I don't remember...
Everything is working for the most part with cm7 at this point. I'm running build 45 and I'm very satisfied.
[G2/HTC Vision]
Oh yeah, I would use CM7 but I dont really know how to root or even install cyanogen.
xamadeix said:
Oh yeah, I would use CM7 but I dont really know how to root or even install cyanogen.
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Then why the worry about Gingerbread??
cwirth7 said:
Then why the worry about Gingerbread??
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I'm guessing he wants to know when the official HTC Gingerbread releases. The one with Sense... Ugh.
My guess is in 2-3 months. I hope HTC are quick with this one. (Not that I will use it, atleast not a sense rom. I would go as far as Sense without rosie.)
The G2 doesn't use sense UI. Only the Desire Z does.
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xamadeix said:
Oh yeah, I would use CM7 but I dont really know how to root or even install cyanogen.
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Rooting the G2 doesn't take any special skill and the procedures that are written out here and on unlockr are proven to work. Once rooting to install Cyanogen all you need is to download ROM Manager from the Marketplace and it will handle installing recovery and allow you to download ROM for install without you having to worry about it.
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Rooting the G2 doesn't take any special skill and the procedures that are written out here and on unlockr are proven to work. Once rooting to install Cyanogen all you need is to download ROM Manager from the Marketplace and it will handle installing recovery and allow you to download ROM for install without you having to worry about it.
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No, don't use the unlockr tutorial, the one that I saw used the VISIONary way. Just root it with the instructions in our Wiki, that's the safest way to do it. But whatever you do, DON'T use VISIONary EVER, it bricks phones. ADB might not be the easiest to use for some, but at least it works. Some people have used the VISIONary method and it worked for them, but that method is a "fake" root, its about 90% real and that method is risky, it bricks some people's phones. If you root at all, its best to learn how to use ADB with the Rage and GFree method.
BTW, people were talking about the Sense UI, I think that its the most stupidest thing that when a manufacturer makes a UI, such as Touch Wiz, Moto Blur, or Sense, it is referred to as "bloatware" and needs to be removed, but when the community makes a UI such as the MIUI one, people call it the "most awesomest thing EVER!"
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BTW, people were talking about the Sense UI, I think that its the most stupidest thing that when a manufacturer makes a UI, such as Touch Wiz, Moto Blur, or Sense, it is referred to as "bloatware" and needs to be removed, but when the community makes a UI such as the MIUI one, people call it the "most awesomest thing EVER!"
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That's because the roms nd UIs built here are more customizable and enable features not available through stock roms...like wirless calling, rooting, it just gives more control. And yes! MIUI is awessomeee...my fav. Probably because it has everything I need.
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Off topic I suppose but Sense does have quite a few things that stock Android doesn't.
This bug alone keeps me off stock android including Gingerbread:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1180
However HTC mail which comes with Sense does not have that bug and let's me use an Android device for work.
Call it bloatware, call it what you will but for some of us using an Android device would not even be an option without Sense.
If one of the htc product that has sense comes out with gingerbread, I'm sure many chef will port it, including to desire z
xamadeix said:
Oh yeah, I would use CM7 but I dont really know how to root or even install cyanogen.
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Check the Development section. Rooting's easy and it's the first thing I did with my phone.
luis86dr said:
Everything is working for the most part with cm7 at this point. I'm running build 45 and I'm very satisfied.
[G2/HTC Vision]
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Does video playback work? Because that's the only remaining bug on GingerVillain.
Abra_Cadabra said:
Off topic I suppose but Sense does have quite a few things that stock Android doesn't.
This bug alone keeps me off stock android including Gingerbread:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1180
However HTC mail which comes with Sense does not have that bug and let's me use an Android device for work.
Call it bloatware, call it what you will but for some of us using an Android device would not even be an option without Sense.
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Did you ever bother to consider the fact that you have a smartphone? That means that you can install any email client that you want. If the default android email client doesn't have the features you want, INSTALL A DIFFERENT ONE!!!
KoolKidsKlub said:
No, don't use the unlockr tutorial, the one that I saw used the VISIONary way. Just root it with the instructions in our Wiki, that's the safest way to do it. But whatever you do, DON'T use VISIONary EVER, it bricks phones. ADB might not be the easiest to use for some, but at least it works. Some people have used the VISIONary method and it worked for them, but that method is a "fake" root, its about 90% real and that method is risky, it bricks some people's phones. If you root at all, its best to learn how to use ADB with the Rage and GFree method.
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You're being a little harsh there. In fact, visionary has never bricked a single phone EVER. What it can do, under some circumstances, is corrupt the system partition, which is TRIVIAL to repair. Especially since the first step after visionary is to gfree it.
ALL THAT VISIONARY IS, IS A TEMPROOT.
The reason why it can cause issues is that you can end up in a state where you are synchronizing a broken filesystem cache with the root filesystem. That is all. This is NOT a brick.
The ONLY known bricked VISION was produced by scotty2 while trying out a radio command that repartitioned the eMMC and broke the radio. Visionary has NOT bricked even ONE phone.
Hey I want to know something. I rooted with visionary a month ago and now I can't flash any themes, it just say installation aborted. Do you think it has anything to do with visionary. And if it is, what can I do to reverse the effect or even fix it? Thanks.
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JuiceHD2 said:
Hey I want to know something. I rooted with visionary a month ago and now I can't flash any themes, it just say installation aborted. Do you think it has anything to do with visionary. And if it is, what can I do to reverse the effect or even fix it? Thanks.
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Uninstall Visionary and use either rage or gfree.
Ok so I did a stupid thing and ran the exe file of the canadian version gb sense leak and ended up with latest botloader, radio and everything and lost root. Now though I still see S-OFF on bootloader I am unable to root using non-visionary gfree method described at this link. I get stuck at step 9 while trying to gain temporary root. I see "Forked #### childs", reset terminal but when i try to launch terminal again it wont open and phone becomes very very slow and sometimes freezes.
Could someone please guide how to root this guy again (if at all its possible as yet)? I have attached a screenshot from the bootloader screen.
I like this rom though, its so smooth and of course I can live with it but I cooked my own version of it removing all the bloats and replacing a few things ( I hate music app on this - forgets shuffle settings every now and then) and wanted to try it
Haha that's a bit funny. You may have to wait for the phone to be released and rooted.
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kimbernator said:
Haha that's a bit funny. You may have to wait for the phone to be released and rooted.
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Ohh man. But its good that its being releasing this week by mobilicity. I guess I have to wait for a dev to purchase that phone
EDIT: Unless its really a judgement day this Saturday. Either way, I would be a happy man (or a happy zombie)
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Ohh man. But its good that its being releasing this week by mobilicity. I guess I have to wait for a dev to purchase that phone
EDIT: Unless its really a judgement day this Saturday. Either way, I would be a happy man (or a happy zombie)
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Ugh, don't even get me started on that theory...
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Ugh, don't even get me started on that theory...
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Lol,sum reason found that comment funny....
Mytouch 4g-white
Permrooted s-off
Root Method-gfree
CWR-3.0.2.4
Rom-Royalginger v2.1
Kernel-Ckisgen~smartass~v1.2
Root by SuperOneClick, using Gingerbreak method. Look in Nexus forums, if you want more guidance on that. Should be as simple as downloading SuperOneClick, enabling ADB debugging on the device, connecting it and running SOC.
Thanks Jack! Will give it a try.
If you have S=OFF, you should be able to flash custom recovery (ClockworkMod) via fastboot and then flash whatever rooted ROM you want. Do you want this particular ROM you have right now for any reason? If not, just flash something else.
SuperOneClick using gingerbreak does not work.
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AbbaSou said:
If you have S=OFF, you should be able to flash custom recovery (ClockworkMod) via fastboot and then flash whatever rooted ROM you want. Do you want this particular ROM you have right now for any reason? If not, just flash something else.
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Sorry for sounding like noob but how do I flash CWM via fastboot?
nevermid. found option94's guide to install cwm through adb. but still it doesnt work, i get "remote: not allowed". I guess I dont have true S-OFF even though bootloader shows S-OFF.
This is resolved...
Care to expand on the solution please? This may help someone else...
Sure. Flashed hboot-flashable stock 2.2.1 image from this thread then rooted (used SuperOneClick this time) and back on rooted custom gb sense.
So can you get true S-Off like in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
with the Panache?
I just bought a Mytouch from Newegg, and the only thing that bugs me about it is the Mytouch logo. Also, i feel I can rely on Newegg a little better for Warranty claims, than Mobilicity's "approximated 1 month till we get your something, not sure what phone" for my N1.
'Scuse the rant
But seriously, isn't it harder to root/mod the Panache? Thats the feeling i have gotten. What about your SLCD and EMMC versions?
Thanks for your advice on this.
Edit: At this price point I'm not sure if it matters to some, but the Panache with taxes costs $90 more than the Newegg Mytouch with free shipping and tax. $564 vs $474
ROM_Guest said:
So can you get true S-Off like in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
with the Panache?
I just bought a Mytouch from Newegg, and the only thing that bugs me about it is the Mytouch logo. Also, i feel I can rely on Newegg a little better for Warranty claims, than Mobilicity's "approximated 1 month till we get your something, not sure what phone" for my N1.
'Scuse the rant
But seriously, isn't it harder to root/mod the Panache? Thats the feeling i have gotten. What about your SLCD and EMMC versions?
Thanks for your advice on this.
Edit: At this price point I'm not sure if it matters to some, but the Panache with taxes costs $90 more than the Newegg Mytouch with free shipping and tax. $564 vs $474
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As of yet the Panache has not been rooted nor has the new bootloader been cracked.
Thank you again mr mystery.
Thats too bad. It is a beautiful phone.
panache not rooted yes as its pretty new, give some time.
panache bootloader is different story as i myself is using MT4G on panache ROM that i flashed using the RUU.
i had S-off before so thats why maybe but atleast on mt4g u can get root using gingerbreak. if u manage to use the RUU by mistake.
Hi,
Just wanted to see how much interest is there in getting S-OFF for our HTC One phones. I personally could use this for testing Tmobile radios on the HTC Dev Edition phones. What are some of your interest and thoughts about S-Off. Most importantly, why is it important to you?
Interest? Sure. Able to do it? No idea. The HoX is still locked up tight. And for most people, S-Off would just mean easier to flash kernels, ability to flash radios and downgrade HBOOT so that it says LOCKED instead of RELOCKED for warranty purposes.
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Interest? Sure. Able to do it? No idea. The HoX is still locked up tight. And for most people, S-Off would just mean easier to flash kernels, ability to flash radios and downgrade HBOOT so that it says LOCKED instead of RELOCKED for warranty purposes.
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Could you please educate me more about the HoX? Thanks
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Could you please educate me more about the HoX? Thanks
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Most HTC devices now are S-On (at least the recently released ones from 2011-2013). What they do have though is an unlocked bootloader. That means you can install a custom recovery like CWRM or TWRP, and you can flash kernels through Fastboot. S-Off gives the ability to flash kernels from within the recovery (Fastboot requires a USB cable and a computer) and also the ability to flash radios.
With the HoX (HTC One X, and all phones unlocked through HTCDEV), when you unlock your bootloader it will say UNLOCKED (as opposed to Locked when stock). Relocking the bootloader will say RE-LOCKED, but not LOCKED. This means HTC can see that you have unlocked the bootloader and they can, and depending on luck, wil reject your warranty claim.
With S-Off we can overwrite the HBOOT and downgrade to an older version where it still says LOCKED, send that back for warranty and all will be well
Not sure about the Tegra3 version of the HOX, but the S3 version of the HOX has achieved S-OFF for awhile now. There is definitely interest in ALL HTC devices to achieve S-OFF. Just a matter of time before devs crack the code.
getting the Tmobile AWS radio to work on the dev version would be my top interest
illestfob said:
getting the Tmobile AWS radio to work on the dev version would be my top interest
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Don't hold your breath, I doubt this will work.
BenPope said:
Don't hold your breath, I doubt this will work.
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its a slight crap shoot, but i live in a refarmed area so it should be liveable until LTE gets turned on.
I usually restrict my current phone (G2) to only edge anyway to conserve battery life
I think the problem with the HTC One X was the fact that it was Tegra and not Qualcomm - most of the major players in s-off work with Qualcomm chips. I remember when I had the One X about a year ago - rumour had it that the likes of revolutionary didn't want to work with Tegra hardware.
Things might be better for the One.
Out of interest did the One S get s-off?
Well with big devs getting it like Steve Kondik (CM) Koushik Dutta (CWM) etc I think the dev support will be strong on this one
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Most HTC devices now are S-On (at least the recently released ones from 2011-2013). What they do have though is an unlocked bootloader. That means you can install a custom recovery like CWRM or TWRP, and you can flash kernels through Fastboot. S-Off gives the ability to flash kernels from within the recovery (Fastboot requires a USB cable and a computer) and also the ability to flash radios.
With the HoX (HTC One X, and all phones unlocked through HTCDEV), when you unlock your bootloader it will say UNLOCKED (as opposed to Locked when stock). Relocking the bootloader will say RE-LOCKED, but not LOCKED. This means HTC can see that you have unlocked the bootloader and they can, and depending on luck, wil reject your warranty claim.
With S-Off we can overwrite the HBOOT and downgrade to an older version where it still says LOCKED, send that back for warranty and all will be well
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Thanks for the education man! I really think we can get this one done though because it's from Qualcomm as opposed to Tegra right?
Anyways, s-off is extremely important for warranty purposes I see Guess I should return my developer edition back right?
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Don't hold your breath, I doubt this will work.
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Why is this? I actually bought the developer phone for the sole purpose of this working on TMobile network 1700 3G. I'm not refarmed to 1900 yet which means Edge speeds -_-. Gotta give us some hope! Lol
huwwatkins said:
I think the problem with the HTC One X was the fact that it was Tegra and not Qualcomm - most of the major players in s-off work with Qualcomm chips. I remember when I had the One X about a year ago - rumour had it that the likes of revolutionary didn't want to work with Tegra hardware.
Things might be better for the One.
Out of interest did the One S get s-off?
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Good point! Qualcomm does seem fairly easy to hack with all the s3 and soon s4 out.
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ArmedandDangerous said:
Most HTC devices now are S-On (at least the recently released ones from 2011-2013). What they do have though is an unlocked bootloader. That means you can install a custom recovery like CWRM or TWRP, and you can flash kernels through Fastboot. S-Off gives the ability to flash kernels from within the recovery (Fastboot requires a USB cable and a computer) and also the ability to flash radios.
With the HoX (HTC One X, and all phones unlocked through HTCDEV), when you unlock your bootloader it will say UNLOCKED (as opposed to Locked when stock). Relocking the bootloader will say RE-LOCKED, but not LOCKED. This means HTC can see that you have unlocked the bootloader and they can, and depending on luck, wil reject your warranty claim.
With S-Off we can overwrite the HBOOT and downgrade to an older version where it still says LOCKED, send that back for warranty and all will be well
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Dont need s-off for Radios or flashing kernels through recovery. There is a work around for all of that. We can change radios and flash kernels through recovery on this HTC One. The Renovate rom says the kernel is flashed with the rom install. You can install radios by installing radio to different partition then symlink to the new radio. Turge will be posting more about it soon. For now here is the thread where i tested this for him. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2243159 So we should be able to test the tmobile radio soon enough.
And yeah it's the tegra devices that are having the hardest time with s-off. The ATT One X (qualcom) THe DNA are both s-off. Since this is also qualcom, i have high hopes for s-off soon. Although it is not as important as it once was.
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Dont need s-off for Radios or flashing kernels through recovery. There is a work around for all of that. We can change radios and flash kernels through recovery on this HTC One. The Renovate rom says the kernel is flashed with the rom install. You can install radios by installing radio to different partition then symlink to the new radio. Turge will be posting more about it soon. For now here is the thread where i tested this for him. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2243159 So we should be able to test the tmobile radio soon enough.
And yeah it's the tegra devices that are having the hardest time with s-off. The ATT One X (qualcom) THe DNA are both s-off. Since this is also qualcom, i have high hopes for s-off soon. Although it is not as important as it once was.
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I was mostly referring to the HoX, as mine is the Tegra one, and there is no workaround to flashing kernels or radios without ADB But yes I did read that on the One, it can be done through recovery although S-On. Would still love S-Off though for HBOOT downgrading
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I was mostly referring to the HoX, as mine is the Tegra one, and there is no workaround to flashing kernels or radios without ADB But yes I did read that on the One, it can be done through recovery although S-On. Would still love S-Off though for HBOOT downgrading
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Yes i totally agree. S-off is what we all want. Just not as important as it once was.. :fingers-crossed: we'll get it. I'd even make a bet that we have it in less than 60 days from now I did see somewhere that there is a suprcid method being worked on also.. That would be great as well :good:
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Yes i totally agree. S-off is what we all want. Just not as important as it once was.. :fingers-crossed: we'll get it. I'd even make a bet that we have it in less than 60 days from now I did see somewhere that there is a suprcid method being worked on also.. That would be great as well :good:
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Just in time for me to wait out supply and batch issues from my telco, should start being available in early to mid May
First Android device I haven't rooted due to the Warranty issues with HTC ( How they are a right pain somtimes! ). Once S-OFF becomes available I will happily go ahead and unlock my boot loader etc. For now everything is fine without root
also would like super cid or S-off even better. to flash other region roms. INT RUUs etc . and we all know how ATT likes to software update HBOOT versions and no way to downgrade without S-OFF
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Dont need s-off for Radios or flashing kernels through recovery. There is a work around for all of that. We can change radios and flash kernels through recovery on this HTC One. The Renovate rom says the kernel is flashed with the rom install. You can install radios by installing radio to different partition then symlink to the new radio. Turge will be posting more about it soon. For now here is the thread where i tested this for him. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2243159 So we should be able to test the tmobile radio soon enough.
And yeah it's the tegra devices that are having the hardest time with s-off. The ATT One X (qualcom) THe DNA are both s-off. Since this is also qualcom, i have high hopes for s-off soon. Although it is not as important as it once was.
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Ha! There is hope to flashing radios without S-OFF. I wonder if we can get a developer to try to get T-Mobile radios and flash them over to our Developer Edition phones. Meh, essentially they are ATT Htc Ones without restrictions
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also would like super cid or S-off even better. to flash other region roms. INT RUUs etc . and we all know how ATT likes to software update HBOOT versions and no way to downgrade without S-OFF
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+1
BTW, I'm very curious what the cid is for the dev model.
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ArmedandDangerous said:
Interest? Sure. Able to do it? No idea. The HoX is still locked up tight. And for most people, S-Off would just mean easier to flash kernels, ability to flash radios and downgrade HBOOT so that it says LOCKED instead of RELOCKED for warranty purposes.
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That's not exactly true. Downgrading hboot will still be relocked. There is a "lock status flag" that must be reset in order to become locked again.
S off does remove write protection on mmcblk0p3 where the lock flag lives,allowing the user to reset it and become locked again. User S_trace initially figured out what was going on and posted a flashable zip file. We have modded the zip(removed the device check) and i have threads in several forums,titled [how to]reset your lock status flag if you'd like a little more info/detail. The flag thus far has been the same in all s3 and all dual/quad core s4 devices.
The fact that the radio partition is currently writeable from recovery,is likely a fluke that will be "fixed" with newer hboots,so I'd advise those of you that like this feature to not update
Even tho the radio itself can be chanaged,other firmware cannot. Thus the newer radios may not be optimized with the older firmware remaining on the phone.(read: the new radios may not be working as good as you think they are)
My personal interest in s off is to change cid,and eliminate the security checks that prevent other carrier/regional ruus from flashing,and from going backwards in firmware. I also like to change the splash image
I cannot truly enjoy an s on device,and won't get one unless some means of s off becomes available.
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