Hey everyone. I have to send my device back to HTC and I am unlocked with S-off.
I need to get back to locked and S-on. Not Re-locked but locked.
I have done some searching and am finding various results on how to accomplish this. 1 way was to flash a RUU to achieve locked status. I did that twice and it hasn't worked.
I also saw to redo s-off. So does that mean doing the wire trick over again?
Some help would be appreciated.
brownsfan said:
Hey everyone. I have to send my device back to HTC and I am unlocked with S-off.
I need to get back to locked and S-on. Not Re-locked but locked.
I have done some searching and am finding various results on how to accomplish this. 1 way was to flash a RUU to achieve locked status. I did that twice and it hasn't worked.
I also saw to redo s-off. So does that mean doing the wire trick over again?
Some help would be appreciated.
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Why do you need to send your device back to HTC? If you're trying to claim warranty repairs, then what you're doing is potentially akin to fraud.
That said...yes, it IS possible to S-ON again, and it is also possible to change the Re-Locked watermark to Locked. But, if you don't do it right, you WILL brick your phone. Not as in "might" as you could do while S-Off, but WILL, as in ANY mistake will result in an unrecoverable phone (unless you have a friend who's extremely handy with JTAG).
Locked not Relocked
There are only 2 ways to remove the Relocked status when S-0ff::
First and the most effort is to S-0n then S-0ff again, yech.
Second, search for and find here on XDA, Scotty's little
flashable zip that changes it. He contributed a lot here.
Bing, bang, boom in one little flash.
p.s. be sure you are on a stock hBoot, not developer ones.
Thanks guys,
Im just going to send it back re-locked. I went back to s-on. I didnt want to just have it SAY locked, I wanted it to be Locked but no thanks to having to go through the s-off process.
Also in case you were interested the reason im sending it back is I think the processor is dying. I get system crashes and will get prompts that it is unresponsive. The phone sort of works but will crash after making phone calls and such.
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I want to warranty replace this rezound I just recieved from a friend. It has a charging port issue.It was UNLOCKED and rooted when i received it. I RELOCKED it and unrooted it, but now the bootloader says ****RELOCKED**** instead of ****LOCKED****. Is this going to be a problem, and if it is, how can i get the stock locked bootloader on it?
It won't be a problem for warranty. If you want it to go back, the only way to get back to factory locked is to s-off.
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Yeah, and then go back to s-on according to this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33788900&postcount=2
You need to s-off, which will make your phone say "locked and s-off", then s-on again which will keep it saying "locked" and also "s-on".
However, many people have gotten warranty replacements with phones that said "relocked", you can search and see if any of them had functioning screens when they did it, I believe so. HTC does allow you to unlock. But find some posts on people who've done it, don't take my word for it, since I don't want to be held responsible.
First of all, congrats to everyone for achieving S-OFF. The number of developers required to make this happen are too numerous to list. Thanks to all of you!
My understanding was that now that we have achieved S-OFF we will be able to fully revert back to a completely untraceable stock image. This means no ** TAMPERED ** or ** RELOCKED ** in the bootloader.
How is this accomplished? I've never done any development but unlock and tweak my phones as a hobby. My understanding is that we simply need a bootloader.zip and flash it to the phone, correct? Do one of these exist? What other options would I need to make it a FULL factory restore?
My searching has pointed to maybe flashing a decrypted RUU zip, but I don't think that contains the bootloader. Am I wrong?
Thanks in advance!
this ^^^
I use my phone as a media device when I ride my motorcycle (navigation, music, podcasts) and I am having problems with the headphone jack. Verizon has said I could send it in as a warranty claim but I dont want to have them see the bootloader unlocked/tampered with. Being able to flash back to stock without showing the "tampered" would be great, esp since it wasnt anything software/rooting wise that caused the device failure.
So I discovered a slight gap on certain edges of my One, which I got a week ago, and want to return it to AT&T for one that hopefully has no issues, but I've rooted, unlocked the bootloader, and flashed CM 10.1 on there. I searched through google and the forums here on XDA to find a method to relock the bootloader and go back to stock, but my search was fruitless. Apparently something called an RUU was needed? And according to the last post in this thread, that isn't available.
Is the RUU available now? Or is it currently impossible to relock the bootloader?
If so, would I be able to pull off just flashing the stock ROM back onto the phone and bringing it into AT&T? I feel like the only way they would realize something was different with the phone would be if they rebooted it, as I highly doubt most of the people in that store could even get into the bootloader screen. They had trouble syncing my google account.
Unless, of course, they send it back to the manufacturer and then THEY say that the warranty is voided because of the unlocked bootloader... but I don't know if they go through all that trouble in this situation?
Thanks for the help.
CAC1291 said:
So I discovered a slight gap on certain edges of my One, which I got a week ago, and want to return it to AT&T for one that hopefully has no issues, but I've rooted, unlocked the bootloader, and flashed CM 10.1 on there. I searched through google and the forums here on XDA to find a method to relock the bootloader and go back to stock, but my search was fruitless. Apparently something called an RUU was needed? And according to the last post in this thread, that isn't available.
Is the RUU available now? Or is it currently impossible to relock the bootloader?
If so, would I be able to pull off just flashing the stock ROM back onto the phone and bringing it into AT&T? I feel like the only way they would realize something was different with the phone would be if they rebooted it, as I highly doubt most of the people in that store could even get into the bootloader screen. They had trouble syncing my google account.
Unless, of course, they send it back to the manufacturer and then THEY say that the warranty is voided because of the unlocked bootloader... but I don't know if they go through all that trouble in this situation?
Thanks for the help.
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For a quick and easy way, just boot into fast boot and cmd "fastboot oem lock"
The only problem with that is that if they DO boot into the bootlaoder, it will say "RELOCKED" instead of "LOCKED"
The longer way, is to S-OFF (find it in the international forum) and then follow instructions there to put the "LOCKED" text back.
CAC1291 said:
So I discovered a slight gap on certain edges of my One, which I got a week ago, and want to return it to AT&T for one that hopefully has no issues, but I've rooted, unlocked the bootloader, and flashed CM 10.1 on there. I searched through google and the forums here on XDA to find a method to relock the bootloader and go back to stock, but my search was fruitless. Apparently something called an RUU was needed? And according to the last post in this thread, that isn't available.
Is the RUU available now? Or is it currently impossible to relock the bootloader?
If so, would I be able to pull off just flashing the stock ROM back onto the phone and bringing it into AT&T? I feel like the only way they would realize something was different with the phone would be if they rebooted it, as I highly doubt most of the people in that store could even get into the bootloader screen. They had trouble syncing my google account.
Unless, of course, they send it back to the manufacturer and then THEY say that the warranty is voided because of the unlocked bootloader... but I don't know if they go through all that trouble in this situation?
Thanks for the help.
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Get S-OFF, I was able to remove TAMPERED and change my UNLOCKED to LOCKED. You can also flash a modded HBoot that will take the red letters away and change the text from S-OFF to S-ON this will allow it to look like you never touched a thing
To get S-OFF I recommend http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314582
To mod your HBoot go through the post from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316726 (to download the HBOOT and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1786498 to download the tool to create the modified HBOOT
But to let you know, I have returned 2 HTC Ones with unlocked bootloaders and AT&T did not say anything. Just flash the stock rom, make sure fastboot in enabled and leave it booted to the set up screen. Above is for if you want to be thorough and make sure you cover all your bases.
Ok so I am aware of the thread that was created awhile back on using RUU to return to stock, but that didn't quite answer my questions so I am asking this question here and hopefully others in the future will benefit.
I am in need of getting my phone back to factory shipped conditions to get it replaced by Verizon. My headphone jack does not work at all and I just started getting sim card errors which I cannot deal with. So I need to fix this ASAP. The problem I forsee is that since I used Super CID to unlock the phone it has the red text error on bootup that says "this build is for development purposes.....blah blah" I imagine that Verizon will see this and tell me I voided my warranty and it is not their problem anymore. Here are my questions.
1. If I use RUU will it remove this message from the startup splash screen?
2. I am S-off, do I need to be s-on before I do this or will RUU put me S-on
3. People were saying it says "relocked" instead of "locked" on the bootloader screen. Is this going to be a problem as well?
4. Will I be able to get unlock, root, and s-off on the replacement phone?
I am going to continue searching the forums in case the answer is out there spread throughout many posts, but if anyone knows the answer or can help I would greatly appreciate it. Knowing the answer to this will be very helpful to many people I suspect.
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Imacellist said:
Ok so I am aware of the thread that was created awhile back on using RUU to return to stock, but that didn't quite answer my questions so I am asking this question here and hopefully others in the future will benefit.
I am in need of getting my phone back to factory shipped conditions to get it replaced by Verizon. My headphone jack does not work at all and I just started getting sim card errors which I cannot deal with. So I need to fix this ASAP. The problem I forsee is that since I used Super CID to unlock the phone it has the red text error on bootup that says "this build is for development purposes.....blah blah" I imagine that Verizon will see this and tell me I voided my warranty and it is not their problem anymore. Here are my questions.
1. If I use RUU will it remove this message from the startup splash screen?
2. I am S-off, do I need to be s-on before I do this or will RUU put me S-on
3. People were saying it says "relocked" instead of "locked" on the bootloader screen. Is this going to be a problem as well?
4. Will I be able to get unlock, root, and s-off on the replacement phone?
I am going to continue searching the forums in case the answer is out there spread throughout many posts, but if anyone knows the answer or can help I would greatly appreciate it. Knowing the answer to this will be very helpful to many people I suspect.
Original return to stock thread
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Compliments of Phaded...well for combining everything in a great easy how to and the Scotty guy who originally posted it somewhere...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293919
bakemcbride21 said:
Compliments of Phaded...well for combining everything in a great easy how to and the Scotty guy who originally posted it somewhere...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293919
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Beautiful. This is why I love the android community. So willing to help others. Thank you very much.
And to answer your last question, yes, you will be able to S-Off and Unlock your replacement phone.
There are 2 new methods available as of last week for 2.06 (latest firmware).
Okay I tried reading some stuff and have no clue, I am a total newb at this. I have NOT rooted my phone or put a custom ROM on. I stopped using the phone like 3 months ago when I upgraded, and today I decide I want to sell it but when I try to do a Master Reset the bootloader says "Tampered" and "Locked". I do see the it is S-On. I have no clue what these things means, but this is what I read when I was doing research. I did the System Updates, but again, did nothing custom personally. I need to hard reset the phone, please help!
SDotx13 said:
Okay I tried reading some stuff and have no clue, I am a total newb at this. I have NOT rooted my phone or put a custom ROM on. I stopped using the phone like 3 months ago when I upgraded, and today I decide I want to sell it but when I try to do a Master Reset the bootloader says "Tampered" and "Locked". I do see the it is S-On. I have no clue what these things means, but this is what I read when I was doing research. I did the System Updates, but again, did nothing custom personally. I need to hard reset the phone, please help!
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The "Tampered" means that the bootloader was unlocked at one time and the "Locked" means that the bootloader is Locked. If you bought it off of someone, they might have done it and didn't do a good job of ensuring the "Tampered" was removed. In order to remove the "Tampered" you would have to be S-OFF. You can still do a phone reset in Settings and it will remove all of your personal data but it will remain "Tampered" and "Locked".
majmoz said:
The "Tampered" means that the bootloader was unlocked at one time and the "Locked" means that the bootloader is Locked. If you bought it off of someone, they might have done it and didn't do a good job of ensuring the "Tampered" was removed. In order to remove the "Tampered" you would have to be S-OFF. You can still do a phone reset in Settings and it will remove all of your personal data but it will remain "Tampered" and "Locked".
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I bought the phone NEW, not used. I did a Factory Reset once before just fine. The phone is S-On. I called TMobile and HTC and neither could help.