S-OFF or S-ON

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Im thinking of S-OFF-ing my device (Unlocking bootloader). I want to ask did anybody did it on our tattoo, what are the ups and downs, what are the chances of hard bricking my device, will i still be able to flash roms via CWM, and the most important, is it worth it ???

Originally Posted by kemoba

Im thinking of S-OFF-ing my device (Unlocking bootloader). I want to ask did anybody did it on our tattoo, what are the ups and downs, what are the chances of hard bricking my device, will i still be able to flash roms via CWM, and the most important, is it worth it ???

1.) No, I hadn't.
2.) You can write data directly into system without booting into recovery and there's no downs, only better
3.) Your Click may go to eternity sleep if something goes wrong. but believe me, I've S-OFFed my Desire, not my previous Click as it's already factoried s-off. Nothing bad happens:beer:
4.) S-offing will NOT touch your recovery.
5.) The risks are very low, but if you mess up service again so it's worth, I recommend. Download from HTCDev site. Revolutionary's unfortunately not into this.

Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app

Originally Posted by kemoba

Im thinking of S-OFF-ing my device (Unlocking bootloader). I want to ask did anybody did it on our tattoo, what are the ups and downs, what are the chances of hard bricking my device, will i still be able to flash roms via CWM, and the most important, is it worth it ???

If you're thinking about using htcdev boot unlocker, it won't S-Off your phone. It would just let you flash custom recovery and such which we can do already. Therefore in my view, it's not necessary to do it.

If you actually get an S-Off done(paid solution), it still won't be very useful as most of the things that we usually want like downgrading/upgrading we can do with the help of gold card and some other tricks posted in this forum.

I got S-off done as I wanted to be able to change mid but I later found out that I couldn't do it with stock hboot as it provides a curtailed list of fastboot oem commands in comparison to Eng-hboot. I thought S-Off would help me change the model id(mid). If there was a way a to directly alter mid in NVRAM then it would be helpful but for now the money spent on S-Off is a waste.

Wish there was an ENG hboot available for our Tattoo.

Hope this info will be useful.