Why is my security still on (S-On) after I have unlocked my bootloader?
Your device is shipped with Security on (S-ON) to protect your system software configuration (such as the bootloader, radio, boot, recovery, system and others). After you have unlocked the bootloader, however, you will have lifted the restrictions on boot, recovery and system. This means you can customize boot, recovery and system images on your phone as you desire. You can easily see that you have successfully unlocked the bootloader by looking at the top of the screen when entering the bootloader screen. Security is left on to protect things like the radio, and SIM lock.
If you should require support, please feel free to contact us via the support section of our website, http://www.htc.com
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/faq
Yea, I got that exact same answer. There was stuff before and after cuz I complained and asked about kernels and how they claim they're developer friendly but they really aren't. Funny though, exact same text...
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eliasadrian said:
Yea, I got that exact same answer. There was stuff before and after cuz I complained and asked about kernels and how they claim they're developer friendly but they really aren't. Funny though, exact same text...
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I completely agree. It seems as if the community has thrown in the towel on this S-Off issue. I don't see why a little pressure from us can't help change their minds.......
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Chance Ill said:
I completely agree. It seems as if the community has thrown in the towel on this S-Off issue. I don't see why a little pressure from us can't help change their minds.......
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I haven't given up just yet. I spent at least eight hours on it last night alone! I would like to think that I've made progress but...
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I haven't given up just yet. I spent at least eight hours on it last night alone! I would like to think that I've made progress but...
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We're all rooting for you, but as nice as it'd be for us it's kinda too late for HTC. The devs that would've bought this or the SGS2 already bought the other. Annoying. But still appreciate the effort!
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We're all rooting for you, but as nice as it'd be for us it's kinda too late for HTC. The devs that would've bought this or the SGS2 already bought the other. Annoying. But still appreciate the effort!
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Its never too late. The Amaze is too good of a device to let it go the way of the G2X.
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I haven't given up just yet. I spent at least eight hours on it last night alone! I would like to think that I've made progress but...
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Good. Let me know if i can be of any help.
For what it's worth, I'm still randomly emailing and tweeting them....hopefully they'll listen better this time. In reference to them "listening" to the dev community and letting us unlock bootloaders.
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For what it's worth, I'm still randomly emailing and tweeting them....hopefully they'll listen better this time. In reference to them "listening" to the dev community and letting us unlock bootloaders.
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im getting them annoyed!! on tweeter and emails!! what gets me is that this phone aint cheap and we buy them and as android suppost to be a open source htc doesnt,
i told them that is my phone and i can do whatever i want with it, they answered me saying that with s-off will void my warranty, my answer was well ****... you by giving us unlock bootloader it still voided my warranty so let us take advantage of this amazing phone
I've also email them hopefully we'll be heard..I suggest everyone email them we need a joint effort from the community they wont have a choice but to listen.
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im getting them annoyed!! on tweeter and emails!! what gets me is that this phone aint cheap and we buy them and as android suppost to be a open source htc doesnt,
i told them that is my phone and i can do whatever i want with it, they answered me saying that with s-off will void my warranty, my answer was well ****... you by giving us unlock bootloader it still voided my warranty so let us take advantage of this amazing phone
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So call back after your warranty and ask for it. They'll have no excuses then, right?
I wonder if HTC is waiting for ICS and then let something "leak" to obtain s-off.
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I wonder if HTC is waiting for ICS and then let something "leak" to obtain s-off.
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That'a actually another reason why I don't want to rush to obtain s-off because even if we get it we may lose it with the OTA. Would be our luck. We know that HTC read these so what's to stop them from being like "Huh. This Binary100100 bastard figured out how to get around s-on. Let's patch that with ICS! That'll show them!"
you have a point.. but what about if your wrong? i hope your right though
forgive my ignorance, But has any phone ever been granted S-off through HTC? If so...I hate them for not giving us S-off
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forgive my ignorance, But has any phone ever been granted S-off through HTC? If so...I hate them for not giving us S-off
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No, and most likely never will because it invalidates the very reason S-on is enabled. We've (the community) always developed a way to bypass the signature as far back as I can remember, but they've figured out a way to make it more difficult to accomplish with the Amaze.
I think if we make enough noise, perhaps they'll create a tool that allows overwriting the signature. My optimism always gets the best of me!
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No, and most likely never will because it invalidates the very reason S-on is enabled. We've (the community) always developed a way to bypass the signature as far back as I can remember, but they've figured out a way to make it more difficult to accomplish with the Amaze.
I think if we make enough noise, perhaps they'll create a tool that allows overwriting the signature. My optimism always gets the best of me!
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I believe its the lack of developers for the amaze, the rezound is newer than our phone and I believe they have achieved S-off, It's hard to say because that phone is a CDMA phone, but never the less if they have figured out a way to make it more difficult it should be for all the new HTC phones, which doesn't seem to be the case.
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I believe its the lack of developers for the amaze, the rezound is newer than our phone and I believe they have achieved S-off, It's hard to say because that phone is a CDMA phone, but never the less if they have figured out a way to make it more difficult it should be for all the new HTC phones, which doesn't seem to be the case.
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The rezound is S-on as well. It seems to me like every highend HTC device launched in the last 3-4 months have run into a brick wall in regards to s-off.
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The rezound is S-on as well. It seems to me like every highend HTC device launched in the last 3-4 months have run into a brick wall in regards to s-off.
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my mistake I was under the impression they had attained S-off, uh, HTC c'mon.
Maybe we should join up with some of these communities with recent HTC phones to fight for s-off
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Crying over a phone that has not been released cause it is locked is completely stupid. Whether it is locked and encrypted or has an instaroot button it will be hacked at some point. The only thing that changes is the method on doing so. If you have already made ur decision to not get this phone due to it being locked and encrypted then please navigate away from this section of the forum and please by all means please stop crying over this topic. The evo 3d is not unhackable it will be done its just a matter of time. If u make the decision not to get this phone at last use a better excuse. You nor.I know the ability of the devs so until they come out and say its impossible drop it and wipe ur tears.
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Why don't you go ask the guys over in the droid x section about encrypted bootloaders.
Says the guy that joined 2 months ago. GTFO.
You saying that its only a matter of time isn't helping either. In fact, its misleading considering that many phones in this position, notably the Droids, have yet to be cracked a year later. Besides, this is a EVO 3D topic on a home brew development site. It being incredibly limited to the purpose of this entire site is essential discussion.
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Try saying this to the many of users out there still locked down thinking their phones would eventually be cracked. Ya they're still waiting...
I'm not going to waste my time on "it might be done eventually" If and when it does get cracked the next big thing will probably be coming out. Patience is a virtue for suckers.
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You saying that its only a matter of time isn't helping either. In fact, its misleading considering that many phones in this position, notably the Droids, have yet to be cracked a year later. Besides, this is a EVO 3D topic on a home brew development site. It being incredibly limited to the purpose of this entire site is essential discussion.
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100% agree. I was debating myself between the 3D and the SGS2 so that I can have a beast of a phone and continue with MIUI, but now that choice I guess got easier.
Maybe my post was a bit rude I apologize for that. Its not that I think we should not discuss this. I just don't think we need 10 separate topics a day doing so. I also feel this being the sole reason some people are protesting getting this phone is a bit stupid when u balance the pros and cons of this phone. I have also read that there is someone attempting to develop a way to unlock locked phones using a similar method to jailbreaking iphone. I dont remember where on google I read that. I'm not telling u that to start rumors just trying to show u it is being worked on it is not going unnoticed by the devs.
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Maybe my post was a bit rude I apologize for that. Its not that I think we should not discuss this. I just don't think we need 10 separate topics a day doing so. I also feel this being the sole reason some people are protesting getting this phone is a bit stupid when u balance the pros and cons of this phone. I have also read that there is someone attempting to develop a way to unlock locked phones using a similar method to jailbreaking iphone. I dont remember where on google I read that. I'm not telling u that to start rumors just trying to show u it is being worked on it is not going unnoticed by the devs.
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So you created a new thread to complain about people complaining.. that makes complete sense
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Vvlioncourtvv said:
Crying over a phone that has not been released cause it is locked is completely stupid. Whether it is locked and encrypted or has an instaroot button it will be hacked at some point. The only thing that changes is the method on doing so. If you have already made ur decision to not get this phone due to it being locked and encrypted then please navigate away from this section of the forum and please by all means please stop crying over this topic. The evo 3d is not unhackable it will be done its just a matter of time. If u make the decision not to get this phone at last use a better excuse. You nor.I know the ability of the devs so until they come out and say its impossible drop it and wipe ur tears.
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Why dont you stop crying, about people crying, about the EVO 3D being encrypted.
Vvlioncourtvv said:
Crying over a phone that has not been released cause it is locked is completely stupid. Whether it is locked and encrypted or has an instaroot button it will be hacked at some point. The only thing that changes is the method on doing so. If you have already made ur decision to not get this phone due to it being locked and encrypted then please navigate away from this section of the forum and please by all means please stop crying over this topic. The evo 3d is not unhackable it will be done its just a matter of time. If u make the decision not to get this phone at last use a better excuse. You nor.I know the ability of the devs so until they come out and say its impossible drop it and wipe ur tears.
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you clearly have no idea what your talking about
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Another great Peter Griffin moment.........
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The problem with motorola phones isn't the encryption. its the fact that it re-locks once un-encrypted. they've gotten to the point of un-encrypting it, just the re-locking problem is the issue.
eck0728 said:
The problem with motorola phones isn't the encryption. its the fact that it re-locks once un-encrypted. they've gotten to the point of un-encrypting it, just the re-locking problem is the issue.
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Doesn't change the fact that it's been well over a year and the problem still exists. The point is, yes it's POSSIBLE that this will be rootable at some point, but it's more likely that by that time there will be much better, easily rootable tech (i.e. Nexus 3) on the market.
It's not bad to have hope for a bootloader solution.
A bootloader unlock may never happen, though. You can hope for a bootloader bypass though. Just look at the Atrix. We have a bypass ready, we just need a kernel
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Vvlioncourtvv said:
Crying over a phone that has not been released cause it is locked is completely stupid. Whether it is locked and encrypted or has an instaroot button it will be hacked at some point. The only thing that changes is the method on doing so. If you have already made ur decision to not get this phone due to it being locked and encrypted then please navigate away from this section of the forum and please by all means please stop crying over this topic. The evo 3d is not unhackable it will be done its just a matter of time. If u make the decision not to get this phone at last use a better excuse. You nor.I know the ability of the devs so until they come out and say its impossible drop it and wipe ur tears.
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You need to stop putting so much faith into the devs. We all love them to death but we just can't do everything. If it's anything like the way Motorola locked their devices down, the odds are against us. 256 bit encryption is crazy. LOL
wasn't android police the same site talking about how the tbolt was "locked down encrypted and unhackable" lol
why do people still pay attention to that site?
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wasn't android police the same site talking about how the tbolt was "locked down encrypted and unhackable" lol
why do people still pay attention to that site?
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The T-Bolt was locked down tight, but aleaked RUU prior to release was exploitable. It's literally the ONLY reason they're able to customize it.
King_tee said:
Why don't you go ask the guys over in the droid x section about encrypted bootloaders.
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I thought they said that they were going to ship the 3D with an unlocked bootloader? What happened to that? Remember the facebook riot?
jedinegotiator said:
I thought they said that they were going to ship the 3D with an unlocked bootloader? What happened to that? Remember the facebook riot?
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My avatar says it all
Ha....
Well one more thing. Apparently the flashlight app came out. I read it is in the HTC HUb but I checked and all that is in the hub is LinkedIn for HTC Sense.
Why dont I see the flashlight app?
They never said it would ship unlocked, just that they would unlock it.
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They never said it would ship unlocked, just that they would unlock it.
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So...when? 10 years later? Damn marketing gimmicks!
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They never said it would ship unlocked, just that they would unlock it.
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There were a few cho emails in that time frame posted on FB stating it would be unlocked on shipment.
First of, thank you for trolling OP.
HTC's official statement on the evo 3d.
The phone was too far into production at the time of the unlocked bootloader announcement to be shipped with one. However they are working on unlocking the bootloader soon.
Now, I may be mistaken here, but Sprint also has say in what software the phone gets or has, and if they say no I'm pretty sure the locked bootloader stays.
Now for the reality, most of the people crying about unlocking the bootloader have no idea what they are talking about. What you should be eager for is a sticky root so we can push a recovery. Then we can start developing roms.
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There were a few cho emails in that time frame posted on FB stating it would be unlocked on shipment.
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You'll have to find those and quote it, because I never seen one where they stated it would ship unlocked. I got a response via e-mail during that time and this is what it said:
Dear Friend,
Thank you for your support to htc. We hear your concern. And we take it seriously and now we will unlock it.
Our original intent was to reduce the potential quality problem when user upgrade their phone.
Any way we will unlock it. Customer satisfaction is very important for us and we want you have a good experience when you deal with htc.
Thanks again for your support.
Best Regards.
Peter
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Ha....
Well one more thing. Apparently the flashlight app came out. I read it is in the HTC HUb but I checked and all that is in the hub is LinkedIn for HTC Sense.
Why dont I see the flashlight app?
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Reboot your phone. I did for other reasons and it came up as a notification that it was available. Good to finally have that!
P.S.: The lights are soooo bright!
Welcome back to Planet earth.
xjman said:
First of, thank you for trolling OP.
HTC's official statement on the evo 3d.
The phone was too far into production at the time of the unlocked bootloader announcement to be shipped with one. However they are working on unlocking the bootloader soon.
Now, I may be mistaken here, but Sprint also has say in what software the phone gets or has, and if they say no I'm pretty sure the locked bootloader stays.
Now for the reality, most of the people crying about unlocking the bootloader have no idea what they are talking about. What you should be eager for is a sticky root so we can push a recovery. Then we can start developing roms.
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Your the one trolling. I am asking a legitimate question. I didnt claim to know anything so yeah I dont know what I am talking about. I made the thread to ask a question.
I was just a little confused as to why it wasnt unlocked as they said so I made the thread to get an explanation.
Then a proper title would have been "Why has HTC not unlocked the bootloader yet", not HTC lies? That is the trolling I was speaking of.
I was offering legit reasons why it may not be. If what I suspect is true we may want to be pushing for unlocked emmc/nands because if I'm not mistaken you can unlock the bootloader, and leave the nand locked and prevent anyone from changing the partitions even with root. That can mean no recovery, no roms, ect.
I can't 100% prove it yet, but I have that feeling. Hopefully someone from teamwin can prove that wrong.
Explanation is they didn't and working on it. but why are we all going after HTC it should he Sprint we go after it is there phone and if we push them the they push HTC so go email Sprint as well. They have final say in the hole thing. So if the 3d don't sell Sprint and HTC lose money and customers.
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To avoid making another thread why cant I see the flashlight app? I rebooted my phone but its still not in the hub. The only thing under apps/plugins is linkedin
EDIT: Found problem I had to go into settings and enable sync HTC Hub.
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To avoid making another thread why cant I see the flashlight app? I rebooted my phone but its still not in the hub. The only thing under apps/plugins is linkedin
EDIT: Found problem I had to go into settings and enable sync HTC Hub.
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Lol that would help at least you found what was wrong.
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Now it shows but when I click it it says application not found...
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Now it shows but when I click it it says application not found...
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Just uninstalled it and reinstalled it so I don't know bro.
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Now it shows but when I click it it says application not found...
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The only app displaying for me in HTC hub is LinkedIn. Don't feel left out. lol
Go to the "Faq page" by RVDigital. Halfway down there is a link for the Flashlight.apk. Download it and install it with a file manager. That's what I ended up doing Saturday night.
***Here's the link*** Halfway down in the OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1140578
hockeyfamily737 said:
Go to the "Faq page" by RVDigital. Halfway down there is a link for the Flashlight.apk. Download it and install it with a file manager. That's what I ended up doing Saturday night.
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That or just get search light from the market. It works great.
May not be in the proper section but I would hope this gives more exposure to DEVS in this section. Please move to proper section if you feel the need
All Rezound Devs-
I have a spare rezound for 5 days that in the end must be bricked prior to going back to warranty center.
I am offering to beta/experiment for you this weekend.
I can have a linux setup if need be.
Id rather let the community use me to test things rather than a dev kill their device and slow down dev progress.
If you dont brick this phone I will LOL
Please feel free to PM me and we can set up a time, via gtalk/irc etc
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May not be in the proper section but I would hope this gives more exposure to DEVS in this section. Please move to proper section if you feel the need
All Rezound Devs-
I have a spare rezound for 5 days that in the end must be bricked prior to going back to warranty center.
I am offering to beta/experiment for you this weekend.
I can have a linux setup if need be.
Id rather let the community use me to test things rather than a dev kill their device and slow down dev progress.
If you dont brick this phone I will LOL
Please feel free to PM me and we can set up a time, via gtalk/irc etc
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this would have been great before s-off was released, now im not too sure theres much to test, but I'd talk to con, he's always got new things to try lol.
nolimitzr2 said:
May not be in the proper section but I would hope this gives more exposure to DEVS in this section. Please move to proper section if you feel the need
All Rezound Devs-
I have a spare rezound for 5 days that in the end must be bricked prior to going back to warranty center.
I am offering to beta/experiment for you this weekend.
I can have a linux setup if need be.
Id rather let the community use me to test things rather than a dev kill their device and slow down dev progress.
If you dont brick this phone I will LOL
Please feel free to PM me and we can set up a time, via gtalk/irc etc
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Sounds like insurance fraud to me. Thanks for raising my deductible!
bwthor20 said:
Sounds like insurance fraud to me. Thanks for raising my deductible!
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Let's not start one of these arguments
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agreeed dude no reason to comment about fraud... his one return is not going to change the price
Warranty replacment not insurance,
Can you test its rigidity by throwing it off a ten story building?
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Can you test its rigidity by throwing it off a ten story building?
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Dude I'm in the sticks, no buildings remotely close to that size. Lol but I can say I've seen droid 2 used as a wheel chock
If you really need to brick and a dev does not come to you. Pull the battery and usb during an hboot flash or s-on while on an eng/patched hboot.
theres a pretty simple way to brick your phone.
flash a bad radio.
pull batt during radio install.
anything radio lol.
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Warranty replacment not insurance,
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Warranties are technically insurance.
nolimitzr2 said:
Dude I'm in the sticks, no buildings remotely close to that size. Lol but I can say I've seen droid 2 used as a wheel chock
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Lol. I did toss my DROID x before. Nothing happened.
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One thing to try- hex edit an hboot to change the Juoponutbear tag to something else. Like your name? Idk that might be fun.. it would brick too if it didn't work so win/win
con247 said:
One thing to try- hex edit an hboot to change the Juoponutbear tag to something else. Like your name? Idk that might be fun.. it would brick too if it didn't work so win/win
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He should change it to say RICK ROLLED!
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con247 said:
One thing to try- hex edit an hboot to change the Juoponutbear tag to something else. Like your name? Idk that might be fun.. it would brick too if it didn't work so win/win
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This! I dont mind what my hboot says, but it would be nice to have it say something other than Juopunutbear or whatever. Going to have to start explaining that to friends who play on my phone LOL
ih8mydroid said:
This! I dont mind what my hboot says, but it would be nice to have it say something other than Juopunutbear or whatever. Going to have to start explaining that to friends who play on my phone LOL
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You let your friends play with your bootloader? Lol
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You let your friends play with your bootloader? Lol
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Huh, huh-huh. You said bootloader.
Can you test it's bullet resistance?
Flash hboot from another device
I've always wanted to know how long under water it can stay before it becomes a paperweight.
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AndroidGraphix said:
I've always wanted to know how long under water it can stay before it becomes a paperweight.
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There's liquipel coating to make phones submersible, its like 70.00 to send out and have done.
On a side note on warranty replacement number 2 the search key doesn't light up much, but I can tell by looking last person who had this was in Cambridge Massachusetts, further inspection into epst shows they made 91hrs of calls on it, phone was refurbished on 4/17/2012 too lol
So, I am new to rooting and kind of worried about rooting and worried about screwing up my device. I found this on google and the youtube reviews seems pretty legit. Anyone here try it before, I make the jump? Thanks a dollar. http://www.halfcab123.com/
Why would you pay someone to mess with your phone
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There are lots of guides here on the forums that will walk you through the process. We were all noobies at one point in tome and there's lots to be learned from one another.
Just read everything over a few times before you try anything. And if you get stuck, just ask for help everyone here is very helpful.
Hope this helps.
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Just look up Hasoon's all in one tool kit in the dev section. It's pretty much foolproof for noobs to get unlocked and rooted.
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donothurtme said:
So, I am new to rooting and kind of worried about rooting and worried about screwing up my device. I found this on google and the youtube reviews seems pretty legit. Anyone here try it before, I make the jump? Thanks a dollar. http://www.halfcab123.com/
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Dont do it, get yourself an iphone.
Blkegk said:
Dont do it, get yourself an iphone.
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basically. Lol.
donothurtme said:
So, I am new to rooting and kind of worried about rooting and worried about screwing up my device. I found this on google and the youtube reviews seems pretty legit. Anyone here try it before, I make the jump? Thanks a dollar. http://www.halfcab123.com/
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Honestly it's not as horrifying as some may think. It's quite simple. Just read the guides and make sure you have everything you need at your fingertips. It would be good for you to learn since you will be flashing roms and such. It's almost like shaking hands and saying hello to your phone. (lol)
Just stay s-on until you get comfortable flashing and its virtually impossible to hard brick your phone.
Search and read...
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Hmm halfcab you say?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756321&highlight=half
fo0you said:
Hmm halfcab you say?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756321&highlight=half
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wondered if someone was going to bring that up. No way I'm letting someone who profits from other's devving touch my phone.
Antoine.WG said:
Just stay s-on until you get comfortable flashing and its virtually impossible to hard brick your phone.
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Or just never S-OFF. I never did, and have been doing great with ROMs and kernels.
Also, to the OP, just do it yourself. It's a valuable lesson in not wasting money, and you learn something new.
A2Aegis said:
Or just never S-OFF. I never did, and have been doing great with ROMs and kernels.
Also, to the OP, just do it yourself. It's a valuable lesson in not wasting money, and you learn something new.
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Chad himself is even very against s-offing. Fastboot doesn't really take that long, but I do most of my flashing away from the computer. To each their own I suppose. (I'm s-off btw)
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Agreed with everyone man.. Im by no means dev, or even a themer just a user but just simply reading and chatting with people on the forums being polite will get you along way.. if there's anything your wanting to learn I'm always available to simply chat to, like I said I'm no one special but I know the simple things, flashing, fastboot commands, I can even walk you thru simply rooting or going the whole nine yards with the s-off thing.. I do promis you tho in the end any thing you learn will be useful in the future.. you'll always wanna flash a new Rom, or kernel, or even a new mod for sense 4.x you like.. but, YOU will wanna be the one to do it not send it in again, or something silly like that.. my gtalk [email protected]. But my advice is always read, search and read some more.. and if you still can't find what your looking for ask a questio. Good luck bro.
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I was unsuccessful with getting S-Off on my phone (about 120-ish attempts) so I just use an app called HTC dumlock. It works by copying my recovery to my boot partition and booting to that. It allows me to flash kernels as if I had S-Off. The only disadvantage is that it's an app and does require a working ROM so a borked flash means I have to fall back to fastboot.
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First, for them to root your phone remotely you'd have to give them remote access to your pc. No way I'd trust these clowns with that.
Second, rooting the phone is easy, all you really need to do is get your unlock code from HTC and follow the instructions here on XDA. It's really easy and there are a lot of people here who will help if you need it. The only really tricky thing is s-off, and they can't help you with that remotely since it requires access to your phone.
Now, if you're new to rooting you probably shouldn't go s-off just yet anyway, but that's another topic altogether. Regardless, if these guys root your phone you'll be s-on. The extra steps for s-on flashing aren't difficult, but unless you want to pay them to flash every rom you try you need to learn how to do it yourself. I don't know about everyone else, but I go through phases where I'll change roms several times a week or even daily just to try stuff out.
Third, these halfcab guys are selling other people's roms. Under terms of open source that isn't illegal, but that doesn't make it right. You can download them for free and if anyone deserves money for a rom its the dev who worked on it. They'll take donations! (I think I even saw where halfcab was selling unlock codes. HTC would probably take issue with that.)
Fourth, they're selling WiFi tether. Again, it's free to download. Most ROMS come with it anyway.
So short answer to the OP is no, it isn't legit. It's a ripoff and could leave you with major headaches if you don't learn how to do this stuff yourself anyway. It certainly won't be as convenient as it may sound.
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Is that legal to root and charge for a free tethering app Lol, what a joke of a site.
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First, for them to root your phone remotely you'd have to give them remote access to your pc. No way I'd trust these clowns with that.
Second, rooting the phone is easy, all you really need to do is get your unlock code from HTC and follow the instructions here on XDA. It's really easy and there are a lot of people here who will help if you need it. The only really tricky thing is s-off, and they can't help you with that remotely since it requires access to your phone.
Now, if you're new to rooting you probably shouldn't go s-off just yet anyway, but that's another topic altogether. Regardless, if these guys root your phone you'll be s-on. The extra steps for s-on flashing aren't difficult, but unless you want to pay them to flash every rom you try you need to learn how to do it yourself. I don't know about everyone else, but I go through phases where I'll change roms several times a week or even daily just to try stuff out.
Third, these halfcab guys are selling other people's roms. Under terms of open source that isn't illegal, but that doesn't make it right. You can download them for free and if anyone deserves money for a rom its the dev who worked on it. They'll take donations! (I think I even saw where halfcab was selling unlock codes. HTC would probably take issue with that.)
Fourth, they're selling WiFi tether. Again, it's free to download. Most ROMS come with it anyway.
So short answer to the OP is no, it isn't legit. It's a ripoff and could leave you with major headaches if you don't learn how to do this stuff yourself anyway. It certainly won't be as convenient as it may sound.
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Couldn't of said it better
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Left those idiots at that site a nice little message and emailed WiFi tether and HTC.
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fo0you said:
Hmm halfcab you say?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756321&highlight=half
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Soooooo glad you brought this back up! I was gonna search for it! Lol! Halfcab...... silly
I will say however that those were dark days for the rezound and it was quite impressive how the community came together to hack and shut down his website, find out his name and address, spam his email, post pictures of his house, and basically just destroy him. Lol!!! Good times good times.
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First, for them to root your phone remotely you'd have to give them remote access to your pc. No way I'd trust these clowns with that.
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So short answer to the OP is no, it isn't legit. It's a ripoff and could leave you with major headaches if you don't learn how to do this stuff yourself anyway. It certainly won't be as convenient as it may sound.
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Please don't support someone who sells someone else's work as their own. There may be no law against it, but that doesn't make it right.
And no, rooting / s-offing your phone isn't easy the first time, but you can do it if you read and then ask questions like everyone else has said.
If you're that interested in rooting, you'll be glad you learned to do it yourself.
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Don't pay people to do it, you'll be calling them weekly on how to fix stuff. You need to know how to look at an issue solve it and perform the steps necessary to keeping the device going smoothly. If you don't learn the terminology and what each thing does you will be lost forever. I did it for my brother and I get calls all them time How do i do this? its terrible. If your not willing to put some time into it then like they said buy an Iphone. Once you learn though its exciting and fun and its a community everyone here wants more people to learn it makes the platform great.
well the droid DNA and the One S and the One XL just got s-off!! also i was just on twitter and jcase said that it will work on the evo 4g LTE also it it looks mad easy! he said if we want it they will support it :good: no sdcard needed either! check it out its called #facepalm S-OFF! for all modern HTC phones
this is what jcase said he needs...-jcase- "I need an update.zip, link to a supercid procedure, and a s-on user with supercid and root".. i have no clue what that is but im sure someone here can help get what he needs to get this goin
Why the hell do you want to waste an exploit on this device if we already have one? It's not a problem also we dont have a superCID procedure. You're sitting here wanting S-off on a device that's already been hacked not only that, you have no idea what most of this **** even is. How can you expect to be of any use when debugging something when you don't know what SuperCID is. This is a useless thread and completely unecessary. We already have an s-off exploit, lets not waste it until a future update we can't get past?
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Why the hell do you want to waste an exploit on this device if we already have one? It's not a problem also we dont have a superCID procedure. You're sitting here wanting S-off on a device that's already been hacked not only that, you have no idea what most of this **** even is. How can you expect to be of any use when debugging something when you don't know what SuperCID is. This is a useless thread and completely unecessary. We already have an s-off exploit, lets not waste it until a future update we can't get past?
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lol.. bad day guy... are u mad guy?? dont throw your pocket protector me!!
On second thought, you're not worth this. Hope you enjoy a wasted exploit.
I miss the gold card days
The exploit we have now is "mad easy"..guess I don't see why we'd need another.
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I just tried this one. It seems to work, although i was s-off by LP. I am still s-off. I just run it over the top right?
evo401 said:
lol.. bad day guy... are u mad guy?? dont throw your pocket protector me!!
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It's not a matter of him being mad, it's a matter of you starting an unwarranted thread about an exploit that isn't necessary for our device.
While jcase's method could possibly be adapted to our device, it would be unnecessary for jcase to dedicate time to a device with an existing, and fairly simple s-off method, when he could be dedicating time to devices that have nothing currently.
Feel free to ask if I'm mad, because I'm not. The only people that should be mad, were the ones that ever followed your advice, now that it is apparent that you don't understand the device you hold in your hand.
evo401 said:
lol.. bad day guy... are u mad guy?? dont throw your pocket protector me!!
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Lolol
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So, I'm guessing this superCID is some sort of souped up caller ID?
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I sense a lot of unnecessary tension in this thread.
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jesuscash said:
I sense a lot of tension in this unnecessary thread.
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Fixed it for ya
Vinchenzop said:
It's not a matter of him being mad, it's a matter of you starting an unwarranted thread about an exploit that isn't necessary for our device.
While jcase's method could possibly be adapted to our device, it would be unnecessary for jcase to dedicate time to a device with an existing, and fairly simple s-off method, when he could be dedicating time to devices that have nothing currently.
Feel free to ask if I'm mad, because I'm not. The only people that should be mad, were the ones that ever followed your advice, now that it is apparent that you don't understand the device you hold in your hand.
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u seem mad.. are u sure your not mad??? wait your gonna throw your keyboard at me next rite!! dont say thing that u wouldnt say in REAL life guy..
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I sense a lot of unnecessary tension in this thread.
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lol.. i kno it rite.. im getting jumped by Revenge of the nerds ima see if a mod will close this before i get in trouble
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Why the hell do you want to waste an exploit on this device if we already have one? It's not a problem also we dont have a superCID procedure. You're sitting here wanting S-off on a device that's already been hacked not only that, you have no idea what most of this **** even is. How can you expect to be of any use when debugging something when you don't know what SuperCID is. This is a useless thread and completely unecessary. We already have an s-off exploit, lets not waste it until a future update we can't get past?
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I don't see you posting this **** on other threads when they useless and completely unecessary,,there are plenty more
And hope you don't take this the wrong way but when people flip out like this just makes them self look stupid
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This thread is hilarious. Definitely made my day. This should be the new flaming spot. Everybody let loose and take out some anger on the person above you! Time to show your inner internet gangster! Lmfao. You can all go S-OFF! Lol.
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evo401 said:
u seem mad.. are u sure your not mad??? wait your gonna throw your keyboard at me next rite!! dont say thing that u wouldnt say in REAL life guy..
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evo401 said:
lol.. i kno it rite.. im getting jumped by Revenge of the nerds ima see if a mod will close this before i get in trouble
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It's refreshing to see that you just prove my perception of you as an individual with your quick resort to the standard Internet tough guy and 'you wouldn't say that in real life' antics. Be certain, that I would, as I am no different regardless of my settings.
You made a senseless thread, because you wanted thanks or something. Then when it's brought to attention, you get all gangster as though anyone cares.
Your profile says that android saves and keeps you out of trouble... How about just growing up, taking responsibility for actions, and being an adult. Your ghetto, tough guy act makes you seem very unintelligent and uneducated.
I'll be exiting this thread now, as it has nothing more to offer besides aggravation due to your feeble minded ways.
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evo401 said:
lol.. i kno it rite.. im getting jumped by Revenge of the nerds ima see if a mod will close this before i get in trouble
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What are you, five years old?