I recently got a new HTC Amaze 4G for T-Mobile that has S-OFF and appears to be SIM Unlocked for other carriers.
Since S-OFF is rare on this phone does it mean that it has been factory SIM unlocked and does it mean it is worth more with S-OFF?
I really have no use for S-OFF and was wondering if I should sell it to someone that could put it to good use for development or something else? What could they do with S-OFF on the HTC Amaze 4G?
Thanks!
Dont sell and just share with the community. If its not s-off Eng then it won't matter anyway
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knifeproz said:
Dont sell and just share with the community. If its not s-off Eng then it won't matter anyway
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It says SHIP S-OFF. Is that useless then?
Trust me it's not useless.. Just that the eng s-off is more valuable to development then ship s-off. Idk if anyone has pulled the partitions from ship s-off I know x pulled them from his eng s-off.
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Thanks. THe previous poster said to share it instead of selling? What does that mean? Use development tools on it and share files or partitions from it? I'm not a dev. so it couldn't do much...
I think your best answer would be from one of our devs.. try pm'ing faux and nrg and get their opinion on wat to do
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aj_2423 said:
I think your best answer would be from one of our devs.. try pm'ing faux and nrg and get their opinion on wat to do
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What is nrg's Full alias on here? I wasn't able to find the right guy.
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What is nrg's Full alias on here? I wasn't able to find the right guy.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=458936
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I wanted to ask if you really need s-off to run CyanogenMod, I mean, I had a mytouch slide not soff and I was running cm7. The reason I ask is because lots of people say we need s off in order to get cm. Could someone clarify this??
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eggydrums said:
I wanted to ask if you really need s-off to run CyanogenMod, I mean, I had a mytouch slide not soff and I was running cm7. The reason I ask is because lots of people say we need s off in order to get cm. Could someone clarify this??
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not my aosp ics im working on you wont screw cm no need when you got evervolv ics
eggydrums said:
I wanted to ask if you really need s-off to run CyanogenMod, I mean, I had a mytouch slide not soff and I was running cm7. The reason I ask is because lots of people say we need s off in order to get cm. Could someone clarify this??
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No - you do not need S-OFF if you have an unlocked bootloader.
I recently got a new HTC Amaze 4G for T-Mobile that has SHIP S-OFF
What can one do with SHIP S-OFF on the HTC Amaze 4G?
Should one sell it to someone that could put it to good use for the community?
i THINK (im no expert here so im only guessing)
you need to
1 not update it yet.
2 read on the development forums and find the S off forum and check your versions of your phone to the ones that have been grabbed and if its a different version
3 create need to create dumps the entire phone. but im not sure.. really check the soff thread under development
this whole s off thing s on thing confuses me still since im coming off an N1 but i think i understand it.
lucky bastard! Kidding lol
Ashcunak said:
i THINK (im no expert here so im only guessing)
you need to
1 not update it yet.
2 read on the development forums and find the S off forum and check your versions of your phone to the ones that have been grabbed and if its a different version
3 create need to create dumps the entire phone. but im not sure.. really check the soff thread under development
this whole s off thing s on thing confuses me still since im coming off an N1 but i think i understand it.
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Not update it to what? ICS when it is released?
I think he meant don't do an htc firmware update
Yeah cause they've been having a hard time getting S-Off with this phone which is really holding back ROM development. It's the reason they cant slap a ICS ROM on there.
Xboarder already have a s-off device just like you did, it would be nice if you sale it to another high developer like faux123 he works with kernels he might figure out how the drivers works with a s-off amaze or to a coder, so these people can figure out all the drivers and how to get ours s-off
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Yeah cause they've been having a hard time getting S-Off with this phone which is really holding back ROM development. It's the reason they cant slap a ICS ROM on there.
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That's not the problem at all. The reason why ICS roms aren't going so well is because HTC hasn't released the drivers/code for WiFi, BT, etc, so these aren't working in ICS rom ports. S-ON is not much more than a minor annoyance and can be worked around. Once an ICS build has been leaked by HTC, ICS development should pick up.
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That's not the problem at all. The reason why ICS roms aren't going so well is because HTC hasn't released the drivers/code for WiFi, BT, etc, so these aren't working in ICS rom ports. S-ON is not much more than a minor annoyance and can be worked around. Once an ICS build has been leaked by HTC, ICS development should pick up.
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Max's CM9 currently has wifi. Wish the community would get that straight. :-(
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Accophox said:
Max's CM9 currently has wifi. Wish the community would get that straight. :-(
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My bad. They are having trouble with radios EXCEPT Wifi. Better?
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Max's CM9 currently has wifi. Wish the community would get that straight. :-(
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Thats great for him but without his source no one else can do anything, so we, the community, are still without it
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LS1_01 said:
I recently got a new HTC Amaze 4G for T-Mobile that has SHIP S-OFF
What can one do with SHIP S-OFF on the HTC Amaze 4G?
Should one sell it to someone that could put it to good use for the community?
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I think your best answer would be from one of our devs.. try pm'ing faux and nrg and get their opinion on wat to do
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Sorry i'm still new to the Amaze and that's the reason I was given for the lack of an ICS ROM. Apparently it was incorrect info, my bad.
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F033x said:
I think he meant don't do an htc firmware update
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Why what happens if you did?
Edit: Wtf, xda mobile derp.
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Edit: Wtf, xda mobile derp.
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Huh?
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JuopunutBear and team have done it again. S-OFF for the EVO 4G LTE!
Root is required. Unlocked is NOT required... but supported! Support for Linux and Windows.
S-OFF: http://unlimited.io/lazypanda-s-off-public-beta/
Remove HTC Dev red watermark (after you S-OFF): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738462
If you had issues with LazyPanda, and now your device is unresponsive: 1st go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738481 2nd go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737428
My experience with LazyPanda: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27989772&postcount=208
Cool.
Looks promising although since I've already unlocked via HTC dev what's the advantage of s off..as I understand we can already flash radios etc..also it requires root..how is that possible if u didn't unlock with HTC dev
I'm rooted but not unlocked with HTCdev. They are 2 different things.
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firmbiz94 said:
Looks promising although since I've already unlocked via HTC dev what's the advantage of s off..as I understand we can already flash radios etc..also it requires root..how is that possible if u didn't unlock with HTC dev
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You can root without unlocking. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671577
Nice!
I did the whole one click regaw method..any benefits for.someone in that boat
sweet!! i've been holding out from using the HTCDev unlock so HTC wont void my warranty. i knew our devs would come thru and give us S-Off
unknown1205 said:
sweet!! i've been holding out from using the HTCDev unlock so HTC wont void my warranty. i knew our devs would come thru and give us S-Off
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So you're not using any type of insurance at this time?
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why not? worked like a charm, right out of the box
Has any one ran this?
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My nipples are hard
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I ran it even though I already unlocked and had no problem at all. But people keep reporting they are bricking so you might not want to jump in head first.
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i just ran it worked just perfect!!!!! how do we get that htc unlock stuff on the screen to go away??? cause i did the htc unlock thing before this..
evo401 said:
i just ran it worked just perfect!!!!! how do we get that htc unlock stuff on the screen to go away??? cause i did the htc unlock thing before this..
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+1
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So you're not using any type of insurance at this time?
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why would i want to pay for insurance? my phone is covered under 1 year warranty. i change phones every year anyways. i never buy warranty for anything
So does this essentially unlock the bootloader and give s-off?
So can I run this with an unrooted phone? I was reading the pre requisite and said you needed to be rooted/temp, which doesn't that mean htcdev unlocked?
I want to avoid htcdev unlock...
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SPreston2001 said:
So does this essentially unlock the bootloader and give s-off?
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Its basically what every has already done except your phone will say S-off instead of S-on....no additional features. U can do everything u were able to do before.
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Cool. Once someone has a write up or script to relock, unroot, unlock again with s-off and reroot so i don't get that red text on boot let me know. That would be the only reason i care about this.
Hopefully the devs didn't waste a good exploit that could have been used on a phone that needed it.
Hi guys, going to sell the Evo LTE to someone and want to get s-on before the sale. How would I do so? Thanks in advance.
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Just use the bootloader customizer tool.
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Just use the bootloader customizer tool.
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Probably not a good idea, since it would still be S-off. Could be a headache for the future owner if they aren't aware.
OP, if you used Lazy Panda to get S-off, check out the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1744700
Otherwise, check the Development forum.
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Why would you want to s-on? Chances are the buyer won't even know anything about it. And if they do realize then they'd probably appreciate it. Just my thoughts...
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Jw cuz I might be getting one soon and I could never figure out how to s-off my amaze LOL well I hope the one doesn't require it
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Class_of_punk26 said:
Jw cuz I might be getting one soon and I could never figure out how to s-off my amaze LOL well I hope the one doesn't require it
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I wonder if setting S-off would help the camera problem i am having with my One. I posted the problem a few minutes ago. My question is what is S-On or S-off mean? I saw when I was rooting my phone and flashing a custom kernel....
Can I ask what the two of you are even talking about ? I don't think you know .
No htc phone requires soff it's optional thing when available .And not always easy to achieve with HTC.You must gain an unlocked bootloader before you can root once you unlock and root you then can soff if it's been achieved for the specific device that one is attempting soff with.
It has nothing to do with needing it for root or needing it at all, soff just gives us the complete total control to flash kernels roms and a ton more of tech stuff.
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SonneKonig said:
I wonder if setting S-off would help the camera problem i am having with my One. I posted the problem a few minutes ago. My question is what is S-On or S-off mean? I saw when I was rooting my phone and flashing a custom kernel....
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S-off @ S -on means Security on Security off
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Thanks for the real answer. My One is unlocked, rooted, and running ElementalX kernel. Don't know if S is on or off or even how to change it from one to the other
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SonneKonig said:
Thanks for the real answer. My One is unlocked, rooted, and running ElementalX kernel. Don't know if S is on or off or even how to change it from one to the other
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It is s ON. If you go into recovery you can view it.
Edited: I accidentally said s off earlier! I wish...
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SonneKonig said:
Thanks for the real answer. My One is unlocked, rooted, and running ElementalX kernel. Don't know if S is on or off or even how to change it from one to the other
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You can't change soff or s on the way u think .It's not anything to do with what you are thinking.
Soff is very hard to achieve it takes great minds to do so . This is why HTC is greatly difficult to hack over the Samsung devices .
You don't need soff so stop worrying about it .trust me ,cause the HTC one is like the nexus models they work the same soff isn't needed really where as any other HTC soff phone is needed to flash roms in there entirety.
Without soff on most HTC phones you have to flash roms in pieces like boot.img has to be done from a pc before flashing the rom ,whereas the One can still do all that with s On.
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