[WIP][DEV] S-Off [off-topic discussion prohibited]

sk806 · May 7, 2012

Hi All,

OK, bootloader is unlocked, I am working on recovery, so the next challenge is....................S-OFF!!! Aw, f%@ck, I thought i had my life back...

I invite all users with ideas and/or knowledge to jump in and tell me what they think I am doing right and what makes me a moron. I have no pride, so lay it on me.

I will post progress reports in Post #2.

Anyway, here's to getting this done quickly.

Steve

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sk806 · May 7, 2012

Progress Reports

Just starting out...

sk806 · May 7, 2012

One More

This is just in case...

JSLEnterprises · May 7, 2012

Excellent.

sk806 · May 7, 2012

JSLEnterprises said:
Excellent.

Thought I'd get out of your thread and the root thread....

JSLEnterprises · May 7, 2012

sk806 said:
Thought I'd get out of your thread and the root thread....

I had to send another message to red not to reopen the think tank thread (title would have been edited obviously), but to still go ahead with the cleanups... lol

killathenoob · May 7, 2012

Sorry if I'm totally off base here but I do believe reading on XDA somewhere that with the HTC One series phones when you unlock the bootloader it locks the phone from being able to flash recoverys.

This is the reason why I have waited to do the bootloader unlock I didnt want to screw myself from ever being able to flash custom roms.

equlizer · May 7, 2012

you have to use this unlock method for the bootloader so why would it screw anything else up? It opens up all possibilities, not close them.

sk806 · May 7, 2012

killathenoob said:
Sorry if I'm totally off base here but I do believe reading on XDA somewhere that with the HTC One series phones when you unlock the bootloader it locks the phone from being able to flash recoverys.

This is the reason why I have waited to do the bootloader unlock I didnt want to screw myself from ever being able to flash custom roms.

Nope. I have flashed CWM recovery at least 4 times on an international One X AFTER unlocking the bootloader. I wish that were it...

.

I think you may be thinking of firmware, which is a real mess, because unlocking your bootloader can set your CID to "none", and thus, you can't flash different firmware (i.e., an EU firmware on an Asian phone)...not that that would matter for these carrier-branded phones...

kennethpenn · May 7, 2012

Good job and great progress. Unfortunately, none of us AT&T users can join in on the fun.

JSLEnterprises · May 7, 2012

killathenoob said:
Sorry if I'm totally off base here but I do believe reading on XDA somewhere that with the HTC One series phones when you unlock the bootloader it locks the phone from being able to flash recoverys.

This is the reason why I have waited to do the bootloader unlock I didnt want to screw myself from ever being able to flash custom roms.

If that was completely true, then the Tegra 3 model's would not have cwm recovery... yet they do.
We just havent figured out a working method for ours.

LNKNPRKFN · May 7, 2012

JSLEnterprises said:
If that was completely true, then the Tegra 3 model's would not have cwm recovery... yet they do.
We just havent figured out a working method for ours.

i think what Killathehnoob is trying to say is that its only the ROGERS version of the ONE X that when unlocking the BLer HTC has somehow lock the other partitions so that custom recoveries and kernels are not able to be flashed to the phone...which essentially could be the case because all they said they will "unlock" the BLer...BUT they never said they would NOT do anything else in the process. maybe its a possibillity that has been over looked...just THINK TANKING is all

JSLEnterprises · May 7, 2012

LNKNPRKFN said:
i think what Killathehnoob is trying to say is that its only the ROGERS version of the ONE X that when unlocking the BLer HTC has somehow lock the other partitions so that custom recoveries and kernels are not able to be flashed to the phone...which essentially could be the case because all they said they will "unlock" the BLer...BUT they never said they would NOT do anything else in the process. maybe its a possibillity that has been over looked...

I understand what you mean

I wonder if the fact that its new proprietary qualcomm chip is the reason why its being 'limited'... so we may have to rethink the whole initialization process.
we cant even get to the point that the logcat is able to start logging. So we're flying blind.
We've extended the time between loading to the soft reboot after the flash... but that doesnt tell us much.

killathenoob · May 7, 2012

I found the artice I read check it out

http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/05/02/i...bootloader-unlock-tool-on-one-series-devices/

sk806 · May 7, 2012

killathenoob said:
I found the artice I read check it out

http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/05/02/i...bootloader-unlock-tool-on-one-series-devices/

Interesting. I think the lack is fastboot boot is what they are referring to. This would prevent custom kernel development on an s-off device, but should still allow flashing of insecure stock boot images, as with the int. HOX, althoug i read it again, anf maybe they are talking about more than that. I am not sure that the article is saying that there is something different with the Rogers version vs other versions, but it seems like there may be, and obviously with the Att version. I think I will spend a day just reading, trying to pick other devs' brains, and start fresh...thanks for the input.

Steve

JSLEnterprises · May 7, 2012

sk806 said:
Interesting. I think the lack is fastboot boot is what they are referring to. This would prevent custom kernels being flashed on an s-off device, but should still allow flashing of insecure stock boot images, as with the int. HOX. I am not sure that the article is saying that there is something different with the Rogers version, but it seems like there may be, and obviously with the Att version. I think I will spend a day just reading, trying to pick other devs' brains, and start fresh...thanks for the input.

Steve

The 'fastboot boot' command works however, its how we got root in the first place.

... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.

sk806 · May 7, 2012

killathenoob said:
I found the artice I read check it out

http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/05/02/i...bootloader-unlock-tool-on-one-series-devices/

Here is the actual rootzwikk article

http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/dear-htc-can-we-have-our-phones-back-r709

sk806 · May 7, 2012

JSLEnterprises said:
The fastboot boot command works however, its how we got root in the first place.

... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.

Whoa, very interesting. I was certain it did not on the Int one x.

sk806 · May 7, 2012

JSLEnterprises said:
The 'fastboot boot' command works however, its how we got root in the first place.

... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.

Just to be clear, you are not referring to fastboot flash boot, right?

Edit, nevermind, jut looked at Paul's post, it is fastboot boot. Wow.

sk806 · May 7, 2012

killathenoob said:
I found the artice I read check it out

http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/05/02/i...bootloader-unlock-tool-on-one-series-devices/

Again thanks for this. Back to the drawing board!!!!

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