Guess who is coming to the party?

Scott · Mar 10, 2014

Hey guys,

My One Max will be here wednesday. Found a good deal on Swappa and decided I miss Sense too much to remain loyal to Samsung.

I do have a couple questions. With all convoluted postings I can not find any basic details I need.

1. Is this unlockable via HTC Dev?

2. Whats the skinny on preferred method of unlocking?

I dont care so much about S-OFF unless its one of those type that prevent custom kernels from flashing. Then I will go S-OFF.

What do you guys have for best practices on getting this unlocked?

I am pretty damned amped up to get this big bastard!

berdo · Mar 10, 2014

Saaaaaaweeet.

I found that the rumrunner* s-off was the easiest way to root and unlock the Verizon version. Did not require anything from htcdev.com.

http://rumrunner.us/

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Jiggity Janx · Mar 10, 2014

Hellz yeah!

Soff and rooted my 2 Verizon Max with rumrunner. Other versions had issues with rumrunner so had to use firewater.

Ie no unlocking bootloader through htcdev for verizon version. Have to soff, unlock and root with rumrunner/firewater. Can s-on after that if you really want.

piscesjoey · Mar 10, 2014

scrosler said:
Hey guys,

My One Max will be here wednesday. Found a good deal on Swappa and decided I miss Sense too much to remain loyal to Samsung.

I do have a couple questions. With all convoluted postings I can not find any basic details I need.

1. Is this unlockable via HTC Dev?

2. Whats the skinny on preferred method of unlocking?

I dont care so much about S-OFF unless its one of those type that prevent custom kernels from flashing. Then I will go S-OFF.

What do you guys have for best practices on getting this unlocked?

I am pretty damned amped up to get this big bastard!

Oh hell yeah it's Clean ROM time! I have the Sprint version & I unlocked mines via HTC Dev & then S-off using rumrunner. You'll love the Max Scott guaranteed, & Samsung can kick rocks with their enforcing of Knox on all of their users.

Sent from One Maximum phone

tjdub · Mar 10, 2014

It's cool to see a lot of the rezound guys coming to this device, welcome

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Scott · Mar 10, 2014

berdo said:
berdo said:

Saaaaaaweeet.

I found that the rumrunner* s-off was the easiest way to root and unlock the Verizon version. Did not require anything from htcdev.com.

http://rumrunner.us/

Sent from my HTC6600LVW using xda app-developers app

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Jiggity Janx said:

Hellz yeah!

Soff and rooted my 2 Verizon Max with rumrunner. Other versions had issues with rumrunner so had to use firewater.

Ie no unlocking bootloader through htcdev for verizon version. Have to soff, unlock and root with rumrunner/firewater. Can s-on after that if you really want.

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piscesjoey said:

Oh hell yeah it's Clean ROM time! I have the Sprint version & I unlocked mines via HTC Dev & then S-off using rumrunner. You'll love the Max Scott guaranteed, & Samsung can kick rocks with their enforcing of Knox on all of their users.

Sent from One Maximum phone

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So let me get this straight then..

Rum runner is best to get S-Off.

You dont need to be unlocked for rumrunner?

Once S-Off the normal rules apply? Can unlock bootloader and relock it using super CID like all other HTC phones?

Scott · Mar 10, 2014

And thanks guys!

piscesjoey · Mar 11, 2014

scrosler said:
So let me get this straight then..

Rum runner is best to get S-Off.

You dont need to be unlocked for rumrunner?

Once S-Off the normal rules apply? Can unlock bootloader and relock it using super CID like all other HTC phones?

If you're on Verizon of course HTC Dev won't work so just run rumrunner & it'll do everything for you.

Sent from One Maximum phone

Jiggity Janx · Mar 11, 2014

scrosler said:
So let me get this straight then..

Rum runner is best to get S-Off.

You dont need to be unlocked for rumrunner?

Once S-Off the normal rules apply? Can unlock bootloader and relock it using super CID like all other HTC phones?

You dont need to be unlocked for rumrunner with the verizon version. All other versions you are supposed to unlock with htcdev before soff. Rumrunner soff, unlocks bootloader and roots verizon version.

You can supercid once soff if you want. As you know supercid is to flash ruus from other versions onto your version (mainly for international gsm versions). You likely wont want to flash other versions on a verizon Max.

iondokk · Mar 11, 2014

Sprint or Verison Scros...

Ahhhh... Max Venom injection! Much better now...

sanchitgrover · Mar 11, 2014

Sir, if you are getting the sprint model then
You need to unlock it using htc dev and then run rumrunner .

If you are getting a verizon model ,
Then just run the rumrunner it will take care of everything

Scott · Mar 11, 2014

Verizon

Scott · Mar 11, 2014

One last question before I close this thread...

Is rumrunner restricted to any specific hboot version?

And thanks for the info guys. Makes it a lot quicker. I dont like rootiung and unlocking any more than the next guy. I just love makin' the ROMS!

pradeepvizz · Mar 11, 2014

scrosler said:
One last question before I close this thread...

Is rumrunner restricted to any specific hboot version?

And thanks for the info guys. Makes it a lot quicker. I dont like rootiung and unlocking any more than the next guy. I just love makin' the ROMS!

For Verizon, rumrunner seems to be the only option that works irrespective of the hboot (hope my memory is right)

and WELCOME!!!

tjdub · Mar 11, 2014

I'm on Verizon and used rumrunner with no problem at all just remember that you will not be able to use the finger print scanner after you finish, runrunner unlocks you bootloader as well as soff

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Scott · Mar 11, 2014

tjdub said:
I'm on Verizon and used rumrunner with no problem at all just remember that you will not be able to use the finger print scanner after you finish, runrunner unlocks you bootloader as well as soff

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Right but I was also reading that you could restore the functionality of the fingerprint scanner. Is that not correct?

Here is the thread I am referring to: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2540004

tjdub · Mar 11, 2014

Yes you only need to relock and change the flag and everything works just fine. Hope you enjoy the phone I'm very impressed with it myself

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Scott · Mar 11, 2014

Awesome!

I got all the info I needed...

Stay tuned for CleanROM!

Thanks guys!

-Scott

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