Hello from Canada! This is my first post here, although I've been on this site or other sites like it trying to find out how to fix my problem:
I have my old Rogers GSM HTC EVO 3D, running HBOOT 1.53.0007 (S-ON) and Android ICS 4.0, and I'm trying to give it to my friend who's a little short on cash.
Because he's not on Rogers like I am, I need to unlock it so that it works with his carrier. I've spent roughly 4 hours looking up ways to unlock this thing, including S-OFF, Rooting, HTC Unlocking and more, and by now the details are starting to bunch up and get confusing.
I'm not inept, just confused :silly: I'm a desktop/server software engineer and I have both a Linux machine and a Windows desktop at my disposal - that being said, what would I need to do to get this phone unlocked? Would you be willing to list out a few steps, hints or tips to get this rolling? I'd be really greatful.
I don't need anything fancy in the end, just a working unlocked phone.
If have a few other questions too, if you don't mind explaining for me:
How is GSM unlocking related to rooting, S-OFF, and other stuff?
Is a specific version of android tied to HBOOT? As in, can I keep ICS and still run HBOOT 1.49?
Taktician said:
Hello from Canada! This is my first post here, although I've been on this site or other sites like it trying to find out how to fix my problem:
I have my old Rogers GSM HTC EVO 3D, running HBOOT 1.53.0007 (S-ON) and Android ICS 4.0, and I'm trying to give it to my friend who's a little short on cash.
Because he's not on Rogers like I am, I need to unlock it so that it works with his carrier. I've spent roughly 4 hours looking up ways to unlock this thing, including S-OFF, Rooting, HTC Unlocking and more, and by now the details are starting to bunch up and get confusing.
I'm not inept, just confused :silly: I'm a desktop/server software engineer and I have both a Linux machine and a Windows desktop at my disposal - that being said, what would I need to do to get this phone unlocked? Would you be willing to list out a few steps, hints or tips to get this rolling? I'd be really greatful.
I don't need anything fancy in the end, just a working unlocked phone.
If have a few other questions too, if you don't mind explaining for me:
How is GSM unlocking related to rooting, S-OFF, and other stuff?
Is a specific version of android tied to HBOOT? As in, can I keep ICS and still run HBOOT 1.49?
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If I understand you correctly, your phone is working fine and you need to unlock SIM? If that's the case you don't need to unlock your bootloader, just go to HTCdev site and find SIM unlock tool.
So, answer to your aditional questions is
1. No, you dont need s-off or bootloader unlock
2.H-boot is tied to a specific Androud version but 1.49.xxx h-boot works with all Android versions
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Hi everyone,
So I have a Telus HTC Hero but I saw some rooted phones with custom firmwares on YouTube and got really interested. I searched on Google and saw that there is a "GoldCard" method. I successfully created a GoldCard but the RUU just wouldn't work.
Is there another method to rooting the Telus HTC Hero? The GoldCard method is a real pain, and if it's the only method, can you at least tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Just to confirm,... A telus hero is GSM isn't it?.... NOT CDMA?
As long as it is GSM,... Follow BTDAG's guide in my signature. It is very detailed, you cant go wrong.
I'd suggest giving the whole thing a read through before you start, including the FAQ at the bottom, that way you wont panic should anything pop up that surprises you.
hi all. well, as per the title. i have an evo 3d, with that hboot. and am stuck rooting it. i have unlocked it with the htc unlocker, but i cant do anything from there. and there is nothing on xda about it. i want to unlock it as my contract expires in 7 days, and im currently on vodafone, and want to swap to telstra. but i need to unlock it. and aparantly vodafones unlocking service isnt working.
so, what can i do? can i up or down grade it?
cheers
jbates58
com'on guys. surely someone can help me out here?
cheers
jbates58
Did you try Revolutionary?? before you did the htcdev??
i had a look, but they dont suppoert my hboot version of 1.49.0013. am i able to change the hboot?
cheers
jbates58
Hi all,
I got a HTC Flyer P512.
It is running a Eng build Honeycomb rom I guess.
Since it is not so stable and not localized to my place, I would like to flash it with a stock rom image.
But before that, I would like to know more about that since I am not not so familiar with that.
1. I see that my flyer is Eng S-Off, will it turn to Ship S-ON if I flash a stock rom for that?
2. If I make a full backup for that? Can all the things be able to restore back (include Eng S-OFF and rooted Eng build system) by that, and how?
Thanks for that.
I have little experience on handling Xoom but HBoot and RUU in flyer is new to me.
Start here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362639
and do some reading. Information is available for all your questions.
We didn't make a YouTube video because we are all so ugly the cameras cracked.
Thanks for your quick response.
I read the thread before.
According to this thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18508220&postcount=2
I found that my cidnum is 11111111
Which is not mentioned. However after I do some research, I found that it is a superCID.
Does it mean that My machine is S-OFF in permanently and can be able to flash any rom I want, and such kind of cid can not be changed by software in anyway?
Thanks!
OK, that's a new one to me. I recommend you contact Globaltron on the forum here and ask him. He's the expert on models, boot, etc.
That appears to be a US model, so you would have to flash a US RUU to return to stock if that is the case. Not sure what the effect of having Eng S-OFF is . If you do successfully flash a stock RUU it will return you to S-ON, locked. Then you have to go through the process to obtain S-OFF again
Thanks again!
My Flyer is got from Google ADL last year.
It is running an eng build Android 3.2 with testkey.
Therefore I am wondering if that is a engineering machine without any flashing limitation.
Thank you again.
studenttwok said:
Thanks again!
My Flyer is got from Google ADL last year.
It is running an eng build Android 3.2 with testkey.
Therefore I am wondering if that is a engineering machine without any flashing limitation.
Thank you again.
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If you saw my post on general subforum, you may noticed we have same flyer model. Which from contacting with Globaltron is Prerelease Engineering Model of Htc Flyer.
I also get the cid: 11111111 from my device.
I'm trying to install a stock wwe rom now and see what will happen.
Thanks or your reply.
I use RUU to updae my flyer to HK wifi room.
It works!
It turns from ENG S-OFF to SHIP S-OFF.
Cid remains 11111111
That is expected, you had ENG not SHIP s-off. Run revolutionary to get S-OFF again.
Hi
I am new to the forums and read the forum post, i needed to in devs for this. However since I cannot actually post there and get some help until i get 10 posts, I thought I might post here. I am completely lost in these forums hehe
Anyway to the point.
I have a European HTC One S (S4) sim is unlocked, bootloader unlocked and rooted phone. It shows on bootloader screen tampered and unlocked.
However my hboot is 1.15.0000
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
The reason I wanted to get s-off is so i can download and install the latest 4.2.2 sense 5 update, but apparently cannot with s-on? I actually thought it didn't matter if it was on or off, most roms can be flashed regardless as long as bootloader and is rooted?
Basically, I need some advice / help for a newbie to allow me to achieve s-off with all the above done (i guess the chance for bricking is really small compared to when rooting?). I really do not want to brick my phone, and I have no idea about supercid or whether its even needed on the european models, since there does appear to be differences in the software.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give to me
Any help would be appreciated.
sylvantino said:
Hi
I am new to the forums and read the forum post, i needed to in devs for this. However since I cannot actually post there and get some help until i get 10 posts, I thought I might post here. I am completely lost in these forums hehe
Anyway to the point.
I have a European HTC One S (S4) sim is unlocked, bootloader unlocked and rooted phone. It shows on bootloader screen tampered and unlocked.
However my hboot is 1.15.0000
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
The reason I wanted to get s-off is so i can download and install the latest 4.2.2 sense 5 update, but apparently cannot with s-on? I actually thought it didn't matter if it was on or off, most roms can be flashed regardless as long as bootloader and is rooted?
Basically, I need some advice / help for a newbie to allow me to achieve s-off with all the above done (i guess the chance for bricking is really small compared to when rooting?). I really do not want to brick my phone, and I have no idea about supercid or whether its even needed on the european models, since there does appear to be differences in the software.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give to me
Any help would be appreciated.
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for some reason it wouldn't let edit the initial post to add this link in ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155135 this is outdated for me, because the latest hboot is 2.15.0000
Hey everybody!
I've search a lot of threads but I can't find the information that I am looking for but I'm trying to unlock my bootloader through the HTCDev method, it all went great but I needed to update through a so called Rom Update Utility.
First of all, I'm not familiar with RUU's and my knowledge of rooting is only a simple Desire S. Second, I know my CID is HTC_Dutch (HTC__E11), and I can't find the RUU for that at HTCDev, I first tried HTC_EU because I didn't know my CID yet. I'm not sure what the do at this very moment.
The info I know:
PROTODUG PVT SHIP S-ON RH
HBOOT-1.15.0002
RADIO-10.09.45D.25
Additional info:
Name: HTC Desire X dual sim
Software: 2.28.401.1
In the case anyone needs more information, please tell me what and if it's advanced to get that information please explain how to get my hands on it.
Thnx for reading, hope someone can help me out.
hitmoky said:
Hey everybody!
I've search a lot of threads but I can't find the information that I am looking for but I'm trying to unlock my bootloader through the HTCDev method, it all went great but I needed to update through a so called Rom Update Utility.
First of all, I'm not familiar with RUU's and my knowledge of rooting is only a simple Desire S. Second, I know my CID is HTC_Dutch (HTC__E11), and I can't find the RUU for that at HTCDev, I first tried HTC_EU because I didn't know my CID yet. I'm not sure what the do at this very moment.
The info I know:
PROTODUG PVT SHIP S-ON RH
HBOOT-1.15.0002
RADIO-10.09.45D.25
Additional info:
Name: HTC Desire X dual sim
Software: 2.28.401.1
In the case anyone needs more information, please tell me what and if it's advanced to get that information please explain how to get my hands on it.
Thnx for reading, hope someone can help me out.
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Next time search (better) here is all the stuff you need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537913
Thread doesn't cover my problem.
GtrCraft said:
Next time search (better) here is all the stuff you need: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537913
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I've look into that thread before but it doesn't cover my RUU problem, I first need to unlock my bootloader as listed in that thread for that I need to upgrade. If been trying to upgrade it with RUU HTC_EU (RUU gave me version 2.35.0.0), but I came upon an error with something about the wrong device ID with the description that I needed an other RUU.
Solved!
hitmoky said:
I've look into that thread before but it doesn't cover my RUU problem, I first need to unlock my bootloader as listed in that thread for that I need to upgrade. If been trying to upgrade it with RUU HTC_EU (RUU gave me version 2.35.0.0), but I came upon an error with something about the wrong device ID with the description that I needed an other RUU.
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Apparently I missed the sentence "choose the option: All other devices", I thought it would be covered under the Desire* option at HTCDev. My apologies and thanks for the help!
hitmoky said:
Apparently I missed the sentence "choose the option: All other devices", I thought it would be covered under the Desire* option at HTCDev. My apologies and thanks for the help!
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There is a thanks button for that
There aren't any RUU's for the Dual sim DX and don't try to install the single sim version. Data will not work anymore