So I've had the Rezound now for four days after coming from the Dinc2(rooted of course). And I will say the bloatware is driving me crazy. However having to unlock the bootloader thru HTC and still have have S-On bothers me some. So the question is is it worth going thru HTC (and do they keep records that you've unlocked your bootloader), or would it be best to wait for alpharev or someone like that. Thx in advance.
if bloat is the only thing bothering you why not temp root and freeze the bloat until we have true s-off
The chance of revolutionary creating s-off for us is growing slimmer by the day.
Also if you have the updated firmware you can't temp root. They took that away.
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EmerikL said:
The chance of revolutionary creating s-off for us is growing slimmer by the day.
Also if you have the updated firmware you can't temp root. They took that away.
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And I do.
Just HTC unlock and root. The odds of there being s-off anytime soon are very very slim. The odds of there ever being an s-off solution are about the same.
Yeah I would go ahead and unlock. I don't see any point in waiting, someone might have an s-off option in a few months but its just as likely or more likely that we will stay just like we are. I wouldn't have the phone if I was waiting for something that may never come before unlocking and upgrading to a better Rom. I don't see why a developer would put resources into figuring out how to do something that's already been done, while there are a lot of bragging rights to be had most of the really good developers working on this phone are working on things to move us forward.
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tekhna said:
Just HTC unlock and root. The odds of there being s-off anytime soon are very very slim. The odds of there ever being an s-off solution are about the same.
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Yeah I would go ahead and unlock. I don't see any point in waiting, someone might have an s-off option in a few months but its just as likely or more likely that we will stay just like we are. I wouldn't have the phone if I was waiting for something that may never come before unlocking and upgrading to a better Rom. I don't see why a developer would put resources into figuring out how to do something that's already been done, while there are a lot of bragging rights to be had most of the really good developers working on this phone are working on things to move us forward.
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Thanks alot guys very good points. I guess I was worried about the warranty, but the fact is I sent a fully rooted Dinc2 to back to Verizon and back no problems so I guess I'll take the plunge and root this thing tonight. Thx again
Now
Yes, it is TOTALLY worth doing now!
I used the HTC unlock method, adb'd the
Amon Ra recovery, used Amon Ra for rooting with
SU and Superuser, then used Titanium to take out
all the garbage. Removed about 15 items.
Now my stock phone starts up with a whole lot fewer
things running that I would never use, and battery life
is like my old Increidble 1.
The Rezound is FAST FAST FAST and does everything right.
The process to ge to your Titanium-revised setup is truly easy
and can be done with stuff found right here in the rezound
forums on XDA...
Just unlock... S-off probably isn't going to happen at this point.
It's worth it Bamf came out with a ROM that fixes a lot of the issues that ICS was having. Plus the tether works in infrastructure mode on ICS
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I have rooted every phone I have owned and unlocked my old windows phones and I am a ROM flashing Junkie. With that said I just got my 3D about a week ago or so and I am debating on rooting. First it looks like way to much work and that makes me unsure of doing it. The other part is, its pretty quick as it is. I love the speed but I am missing out on themes, mods and ROMS. With all that said is it worth doing right now? Should I do it, if so is it as lengthy as it seems to be? Just trying to get some advice.
I'd say, check your hboot. If it below 1.5 everything seems to work great with revolutionary. People seem to have a lot of problems with the current 1.5 HTC unlock method, such as it only really working when you boot recovery from a computer. Rumors are in the mill though that rev is coming out w a new 1.5 hboot root with true soff. So I'd say go if less than 1.5, wait if 1.5
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I have rooted every phone I have owned and unlocked my old windows phones and I am a ROM flashing Junkie. With that said I just got my 3D about a week ago or so and I am debating on rooting. First it looks like way to much work and that makes me unsure of doing it. The other part is, its pretty quick as it is. I love the speed but I am missing out on themes, mods and ROMS. With all that said is it worth doing right now? Should I do it, if so is it as lengthy as it seems to be? Just trying to get some advice.
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Like the Above post said... If you Don't have the 1.5 Hboot I'd Definitely Root it!
My HBOOT is 1.5 so I guess I am waiting.
ive got a feeling the 605.5 update was the update we were supposed to get, but maybe vzw decided on holding on to it till they can patch the current s-off exploit.
call me cynical but coming from a droid x and i remember these type of things happening before with moto and vzw...to the point where devs waited for a new update before revealing how to get root or run cm9 using the 2nd init...
perhaps we should have waited for ics to drop first before unveiling s-off...
It was gonna be launched on other phones regardless.
I highly doubt it..we are a minority to the rest of verizon rezound users...so i doubt they would postpone it....but i can be wrong with some of big reds past behaviors
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My worst fear about it is that it is worse than the newest (5/7) leak and has S-OFF patched with hboot 2.26 or something. So people on the official track are screwed.
Hopefully that doesn't happen though.
just saying vzw is not above going all out against the dev community...even the gnex updates are subject to verizons approval even though the carriers were supposed to be cut out of the loop...vzw does not like anything they dont get money from that they could be charging for...extra functionality w/ no money=evil bad murder kill to them
it's more likely that verizon postponed it for a business reason, like waiting for the inc 4g to drop. it's a flagship device and they're going to want it to be the first HTC with ICS.
exactly my point...technically the only thing holding us back is kernel source which wont come out till the official ics is released...lets say, if they did decide to patch s-off first and then release ics we would either have to stick to these leaks or upgrade to the official...upgrading to the official and presumably a new hboot which would then leave us at the mercy of verizon until devs can find another s-off exploit., if they can...i know there will always be workarounds and exploits to be had but dev unlock and s-off gave us the keys to the kingdom but what if vzw changes the locks completely
Even if the OTA patches the S Off exploit, then we just don't take the OTA, and wait for our devs to use the OTA as the base for their ROMs.....that's how we used to do things on the OG EVO. Once you're rooted, you never, ever, took an OTA. I don't even think they could turn the security flag back on with an OTA update if they wanted to, but I'm not sure. I'm sure there's someone far more knowledgeable who can confirm or deny the truth of that.
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exactly my point...technically the only thing holding us back is kernel source which wont come out till the official ics is released...lets say, if they did decide to patch s-off first and then release ics we would either have to stick to these leaks or upgrade to the official...upgrading to the official and presumably a new hboot which would then leave us at the mercy of verizon until devs can find another s-off exploit., if they can...i know there will always be workarounds and exploits to be had but dev unlock and s-off gave us the keys to the kingdom but what if vzw changes the locks completely
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What would that do for those who don't have s off?
I'm running stock gb, rooted, that's all. I was going to wait until the update then s off.
Are you saying I should s off now? While I have the chance? Im not skilled or comfortable enough with flashing yet, to flash everything seperate like you can with s off. The main reason I would want s off is so that I can go back to complete stock, and locked. Is that enough to do s off?
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What would that do for those who don't have s off?
I'm running stock gb, rooted, that's all. I was going to wait until the update then s off.
Are you saying I should s off now? While I have the chance? Im not skilled or comfortable enough with flashing yet, to flash everything seperate like you can with s off. The main reason I would want s off is so that I can go back to complete stock, and locked. Is that enough to do s off?
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Yes...absolutely! You don't need to flash separate radios and kernels if you don't want. You should do it now just in case...
if youre not comfortable with s-off then dont do it...as im sure htc will not revoke our ability to unlock the bootloader, and you dont need s-off to gain root...im just wondering for those of us that have s-off if we just made it harder for ourselves by unveiling the s-off method before we had the official ics and source... but as tspderek said, it may have just been a decision to sell a few more of the newer phones
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What would that do for those who don't have s off?
I'm running stock gb, rooted, that's all. I was going to wait until the update then s off.
Are you saying I should s off now? While I have the chance? Im not skilled or comfortable enough with flashing yet, to flash everything seperate like you can with s off. The main reason I would want s off is so that I can go back to complete stock, and locked. Is that enough to do s off?
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I would get it done now. There's a chance, albeit small, that HTC patches the new HBOOT to block the exploit. Considering the steps we take to get S OFF, I'd doubt it though.
I understand people wanting to wait todo SOFF or being a little scared of the risks but i don't think anyone should be waiting or worried at this.
The SOFF method has been out for a while now, and alot of successful runs, with alot of troubleshoot threads, solutions - why be scared and wait? Id say just do it. Its running great for everyone whos done it and it gives you way more options with your device if you need to switch between firmware at this time. Why restrict yourself ?
Definitely s-off.
no reason not to.
Especially if you are still on the stock GB OTA release. It took me all of 3 minutes... start to finish. I'll even mail you my wire-trick wire if you need it
no. you need a blank sd card, that's all. when i did s-off i popped in my sd card, started the process, got it on the first go, installed the juopunutbear hboot, flashed recovery, and booted right back into my rom.
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Doesn't S-OFF require you to unlock the bootloader, and by unlocking the bootloader format your phone?
I'm completely stock without root and having to re-setup my phone is one of the main reasons I have not done the S-OFF yet.
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yes, you must unlock your bootloader... and root your phone (via installing amonRA recovery is easiest)
then you are ready to s-off.
I was stock GB phone, I unlocked/rooted and s-off'd it didn't take long at all.
yes you'll have to re-set up some things on your phone, but that's ok, you'll be fresh! All my important stuff is sync'd with google so I'm pretty rapid at wiping and starting from scratch. The benefits after doing this will far outdo any inconvenience of setting your phone up again. You can run a nandroid backup after you flash amonRA before doing s-off as well if you want, but the unlock procedure does give you a wipe unfortunately :-\ use Titanium Backup for your apps if you want to keep specific data about them, otherwise just re-install after you get setup again.
s-offing with a stock GingerBread phone is easy and fast.
Isnt the S-OFF method more hardware related than software related. That's why they tested it on all the S3 phones? Plus, I dont see VZW worrying about the few hundred of us that actually did S-OFF. We're such a small portion of overall users. I would think they would hold it back over greed rather than hardware exploits. Such as Droid Inc 4G is about to drop with ICS and Sense 4. They'd rather people buy that than this phone.
It's both hardware and software dependent IIRC
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Isnt the S-OFF method more hardware related than software related. That's why they tested it on all the S3 phones? Plus, I dont see VZW worrying about the few hundred of us that actually did S-OFF. We're such a small portion of overall users. I would think they would hold it back over greed rather than hardware exploits. Such as Droid Inc 4G is about to drop with ICS and Sense 4. They'd rather people buy that than this phone.
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This. But I think the exploit is both hardware and software, so theoretically they could patch the software side, if they cared enough to.
For new users, just my advice, worrying about this is pointless, it's kinda like us making threads that say next summer gas will be $7 a gallon (or $6 liter) and you keep yourself awake at night worrying about the "what ifs".
Getting my rezound today, although not a poster a very frequent lurker. My question is, I rooted my Eris almost immediately after I got it, and I rooted my Incredible the day I got it. Should I rooy my Rezound immediately?? I have read about some warranty issues with the phone and I see it is a hassle to get back to stock. As for my tech knowledge I can root and flash but I am not a programmer. Thanks for the help.
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Getting my rezound today, although not a poster a very frequent lurker. My question is, I rooted my Eris almost immediately after I got it, and I rooted my Incredible the day I got it. Should I rooy my Rezound immediately?? I have read about some warranty issues with the phone and I see it is a hassle to get back to stock. As for my tech knowledge I can root and flash but I am not a programmer. Thanks for the help.
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do as i say:
1. HTC Dev unlock
2. flash amonRa Recovery
3. Root
4. s-off
at this point you will be **LOCKED** and s-off. Do whatever you want to it at this point, just don't HTCDev Unlock again. If you need to get back to stock from this point for warranty fears... just flash the latest official software via RUU, and run the s-on procedure, you will then be **LOCKED** and s-on, and fully stock.
peace.
join us on irc. links below.
Download the all in one tool from the stickies section. You can do everything but s off with it.
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Download the all in one tool from the stickies section. You can do everything but s off with it.
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yeah the all-in-one tool is nice for getting you through the htcdev unlock process in a pinch... an getting amonRA installed... but it's root script doesn't work right (at least not on ics)-- i wrote a fixed one. and I question it's kernels..etc.
mpominville said:
Getting my rezound today, although not a poster a very frequent lurker. My question is, I rooted my Eris almost immediately after I got it, and I rooted my Incredible the day I got it. Should I rooy my Rezound immediately?? I have read about some warranty issues with the phone and I see it is a hassle to get back to stock. As for my tech knowledge I can root and flash but I am not a programmer. Thanks for the help.
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I'll be the one cautionary advisor.
DON'T root your Rezound until you've had a chance to play with it at least a month.
What happens if you root it today and have to swap it out tomorrow under warranty?
There are no confirmed reports of being charged for a returned rooted phone, but rooting does put you at risk. And there are plenty of confirmed reports of hardware issues.
Give yourself some time to make sure you have a good phone.
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WookieFan said:
I'll be the one cautionary advisor.
DON'T root your Rezound until you've had a chance to play with it at least a month.
What happens if you root it today and have to swap it out tomorrow under warranty?
There are no confirmed reports of being charged for a returned rooted phone, but rooting does put you at risk. And there are plenty of confirmed reports of hardware issues.
Give yourself some time to make sure you have a good phone.
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I completely agree with this. You have 14 days to play with your Rezound and decide if you want to keep it.
If developer support is important to you and you're hoping to get a slew of AOSP options, you might want to think twice. AOSP is coming, but we have no idea in what capacity it will be supported or if we'll get an official CM9 or what.
If you love Sense and want nothing more than Sense ROMs, then stick around; there are tons of them in all sorts of variants (Sense 3.6 & 4.0).
It's a fantastic device no matter how you look at it. The hardware is truly superb. Just make sure it's right for you.
I rooted mine after two days. It's easy, just READ EVERYTHING. Especially the s-off process. I haven't s-off yet though. I don't see the need yet til after official ota comes out
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Evocm7 said:
I rooted mine after two days. It's easy, just READ EVERYTHING. Especially the s-off process. I haven't s-off yet though. I don't see the need yet til after official ota comes out
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If you're going to root, you might as well do S-Off if you have the time and patience to read through all of the material. You can actually return the phone to stock, ROM installation is easier and more straightforward, you can switch radios if needed and RUU upgrade or downgrade.
The biggest reason to do it now is that there's no guarantee that S-Off will work in the future. I held off doing S-Off for a few weeks at first (mostly because of lack of time), but looking back I would have done it sooner if I could have. Pretty much all of the bugs have been encountered and sorted out.
yeah, if you're nervous or want some real-time walk through of your s-off process and what not, join us on irc... and be patient, once one of us is around we'll get you through it, we've done it for others a dozen times at least now and all have been successful.
Root in exactly 29 days, 23hours and 59minutes after you first turned it on. Timing is extremely important!!
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If you're going to root, you might as well do S-Off if you have the time and patience to read through all of the material. You can actually return the phone to stock, ROM installation is easier and more straightforward, you can switch radios if needed and RUU upgrade or downgrade.
The biggest reason to do it now is that there's no guarantee that S-Off will work in the future. I held off doing S-Off for a few weeks at first (mostly because of lack of time), but looking back I would have done it sooner if I could have. Pretty much all of the bugs have been encountered and sorted out.
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Ya I know. I'm going to s-off soon since the ota will be out somewhat soon. I just saw no point in s-off with no official radios to flash and flashing kernel in bootloader and fastboot is no big deal to me. When I got my rezound, s-off was still somewhat uncommon but now it isn't. I really want to have everything figured out first before I do it and make sure I understand everything before I attempt so I don't end up like these other people posting "ahhh I bricked my phone with s-off!!!!" Even though they really didn't and just made a mistake due to ignorance or not paying attention. After you obtain s-off in control bear, you just flash an ruu in bootloader? Is that right?
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I rooted mine 10 minutes after I got it out of the box. If you end up not liking it, you could always trade or sell it. If you try to exchange it in the 14 day period Verizon charges a $35 restocking fee. If you have issues and want it exchanged just call customer service and tell them you have already tried multiple factory data resets and the problem persists. Just go s-off and enjoy it.
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Thanks for the help. I really dont have any issues with root and s off. I was just looking for some second opinions. If the phone has warranty issues I feel I can get it back. So root on day 1
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you just flash an ruu in bootloader? Is that right?
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Just need to create a nandroid containing at least boot image. ControlBear, IIRC, reboots you to recovery once completed, so you can then restore boot. As it does all the work from the boot partition.
@OP
Wait about a week. Any defects should show within that time.
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Ya I know. I'm going to s-off soon since the ota will be out somewhat soon. I just saw no point in s-off with no official radios to flash and flashing kernel in bootloader and fastboot is no big deal to me. When I got my rezound, s-off was still somewhat uncommon but now it isn't. I really want to have everything figured out first before I do it and make sure I understand everything before I attempt so I don't end up like these other people posting "ahhh I bricked my phone with s-off!!!!" Even though they really didn't and just made a mistake due to ignorance or not paying attention. After you obtain s-off in control bear, you just flash an ruu in bootloader? Is that right?
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After you obtain S-Off, what you do next depends on what you want to do with your phone. If you want to upgrade/downgrade the radios, hboot, and firmware, go ahead and flash an RUU in the bootloader. The 3.13 and 3.14 leaks are fairly stable, though I had better luck with the 3.13 radios (which are the same as 3.11). You can then reinstall your recovery (for example, use a PH98IMG.zip to flash AmonRa back on your phone), and restore a nandroid if you want. Otherwise you can just install a new ROM. Depending what firmware you're already on (leak or OTA), you may need to flash the appropriate file to get your nandroid backup to run properly, as the newer firmware changes the SD card mount points. But from now on when you do nandroid restores it will properly restore your kernel. Similarly most new ROMs are oriented towards S-Off devices, and will just require you to flash once in recovery and not go through the install kernel in bootloader process any more.
Edit: You probably have already read this, but do not unlock your phone again after getting S-Off. You can't get back to the "Locked" status without redoing the S-Off procedure. Either flash one of the modified Hboots, or simply flash the PH98IMG.zip version of your recovery of choice. I'm on the stock hboot and did the latter.
Do it right meow!
How long will it take you to find a paperclip?
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BTW you guys really get into some detail. All he asked was how long he should wait. You guys are like typing out books and ****..
I'm already rooted.
I already did the htc dev unlock.
Why do I need S-Off?
arozer said:
I'm already rooted.
I already did the htc dev unlock.
Why do I need S-Off?
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yup u needs it.. who wouldnt want s-off!!
the main advantage of doing it is future-proofing, because there's always the chance that HTC might patch the exploit used to gain S-Off.
on the other side of the coin, there's the risk of bricking, but considering there's a method to un-brick the phone, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to bring back if it bricks.
as it stands, right now there are no big advantages or differences between S-Off and the HTC unlock, because kernels can be flashed from recovery, and even the radios can be updated. I personally was HTC Unlocked, but waited until the Unbricking method before taking the plunge for S-Off, and worked the first time.
good luck!
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I'm already rooted.
I already did the htc dev unlock.
Why do I need S-Off?
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Honestly, you probably don't need S-OFF considering we can flash radios without S-OFF. The only advantage is flashing unsigned .zip files through the bootloader, and most of the time you are going to be flashing from recovery anyways, so in all reality, you probably won't need it. I suppose if you don't like seeing tampered plastered all over your bootloader or the red HTC warning message when you boot your phone, then sure, S-OFF is needed to get rid of that stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5VU8VGGNJY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This guy has some interesting things to say about the whole root concept and he mentioned something about cyanogens idea of removing root but leaving the system open for the user
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miguelfp1 said:
the main advantage of doing it is future-proofing, because there's always the chance that HTC might patch the exploit used to gain S-Off.
on the other side of the coin, there's the risk of bricking, but considering there's a method to un-brick the phone, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to bring back if it bricks.
as it stands, right now there are no big advantages or differences between S-Off and the HTC unlock, because kernels can be flashed from recovery, and even the radios can be updated. I personally was HTC Unlocked, but waited until the Unbricking method before taking the plunge for S-Off, and worked the first time.
good luck!
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but if youre rooted, doesnt that effectively takes you off of the htc upgrade path. its like with the 3d, as long as you were bootloader 1.4 then you were good, because roms werent going to upgrade you to 1.5. or am i missing something?
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but if youre rooted, doesnt that effectively takes you off of the htc upgrade path. its like with the 3d, as long as you were bootloader 1.4 then you were good, because roms werent going to upgrade you to 1.5. or am i missing something?
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your point is correct, but also stuff may always happen, so S-Off is kind of a protection layer for us, at least that's how I look at it
nonetheless, what's been previously said is true, no much difference or benefit to it right now
Even with S-OFF you can still run a stock RUU and it would overwrite the bootloader with one that is locked. OTA updates-same thing. That's why when you see devs posting stock, rooted ROMs, any bootloader updates are usually removed from the .zip file.
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I'm already rooted.
I already did the htc dev unlock.
Why do I need S-Off?
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Without s off, all those roms can be installed without issues? Because I see some roms says it needs to be s off. Kindly advise.
I did the unlock and thought it was pretty cool, when i flashed roms i always had problems though , once i did the s-off, i have had no problems whatsoever flashing anything. I'm still learning this stuff but from what i have figured out, it's the way to go. Facepalm and unlimited.io have methods for going s-off, facepalm i hear is pretty quick and only takes a couple minutes. And if you don't like it, viperboy just released a way to put your phone back to stock, but you have to be s-off to use it. It's worth it.. Painless and you get so much more out of these phones... Just make sure you back up with twrp.
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I did the unlock and thought it was pretty cool, when i flashed roms i always had problems though , once i did the s-off, i have had no problems whatsoever flashing anything. I'm still learning this stuff but from what i have figured out, it's the way to go. Facepalm and unlimited.io have methods for going s-off, facepalm i hear is pretty quick and only takes a couple minutes. And if you don't like it, viperboy just released a way to put your phone back to stock, but you have to be s-off to use it. It's worth it.. Painless and you get so much more out of these phones... Just make sure you back up with twrp.
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unlimited.io do not support hboot 1.27.
Take the ota and then s-off...
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I'm S-On and have no problem installing any roms whatsoever... even non-sense. Just make sure you read before installing roms. Never saw any advantages to S-Off so I never made the plunge.
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My 2 cents:
Do you need s-off? No.
Do you need root? No.
Do you need a smart phone? No.
You don't NEED any of those things. I have friends that still use regular phones that are pretty far from smart phones, and they will never switch...and they are happy.
I have friends that have smart phones and have them rooted, but not s-off. They will never s-off...and they are happy.
I have friends that have smart phones, have root, AND are s-off. They will never go back to the way it was before, and they are happy, but are wondering why people don't just save themselves the trouble of having to do things the long way with time wasting that could be applied elsewhere.
I even have friends that want to root, s-off, but because they don't know how to read and/or follow directions, they ruin their phone. And they are.....well, they're not happy, but that's beside the point.
S-Off if you want to, if you want control of your phone with less hoops. If you don't want to, its OK...if the ROM doesn't already compensate for the people who are s-on, then there are others to use.
Up to you. Kind of a shame to go 3/4 of the way down the rabbit hole and then give up, though.
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Silly Question....but I've only owned one HTC Device before, the BLUNDERBolt.....
My phone has been rotted (thanks to the instructions on Dev Help), but it's still S-On. I thought unlocking the bootloader would mean S-Off? Am I correct that we don't truly have a rooted device (since we can't make changes to the System partition) until we have S-Off?
Sort of...
Unlocked and root allows us access to custom recoveries and some apps that require root. We can make changes to the system through recovery only. It is the long road to make changes to system. Once we do get S-OFF we will be able to access system through file managers.
It's going to be like the early days of the ReZound all over again. Let's hope we get S-OFF before a lot of custom roms start showing up. Having to fastboot kernels after flashing the roms was a little time consuming and more advanced than what the normal rom flashing community was used to.
why does everybody hate the tunderbolt? it was a great device! and swifty is right. with S-off things will start to take off if we ever get s-off. sure hope somebody finds a way to unleash this beast!!
luke1333 said:
why does everybody hate the tunderbolt? it was a great device! and swifty is right. with S-off things will start to take off if we ever get s-off. sure hope somebody finds a way to unleash this beast!!
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I went through 3 devices due hardware issues. My co-worker is on his 4th.
Blunderbolt Ha!
tdetroit said:
I went through 3 devices due hardware issues. My co-worker is on his 4th.
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It is amazing how much heavier the Thunderbolt is than the DNA. It's like a CRT compared to LED.
hobie5 said:
It is amazing how much heavier the Thunderbolt is than the DNA. It's like a CRT compared to LED.
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This gave me flashbacks ot the horror when we would get ashipment of 50 new CRT monitors for the computer lab back in the day....much heavier than 50 LED monitors...lol. UPS guy HATED US!