[Q] Need Help - Tried to S-Off with DirtyRacun

dante042 · Aug 8, 2014

Hey all,

I just tried to gain S-Off by using DirtyRacun. Everything went smoothly up until it got to "Is that a corndog?" at which point it hung and just generated periods. I've been trying to use RacunHunter, but with no luck. It just says "Waiting for device" and keeps pumping out periods. My phone is currently a complete brick and won't respond to anything.

Any advice?

Magnum_Enforcer · Aug 8, 2014

What Hboot version & firmware do you have currently?

dante042 · Aug 8, 2014

My phone is at least trying to respond this morning, though it's slow as hell. Fastboot shows my HBoot as 1.19.0001, and I have posted pictures of my software info screen. Let me know if you can't read them and I'll write the info out.

GuestK0087 · Aug 8, 2014

dante042 said:
My phone is at least trying to respond this morning, though it's slow as hell. Fastboot shows my HBoot as 1.19.0001, and I have posted pictures of my software info screen. Let me know if you can't read them and I'll write the info out.

Try facepalm. That method works for your software version and it's very easy to use.

dante042 · Aug 8, 2014

Evolution_Freak said:
Try facepalm. That method works for your software version and it's very easy to use.

I'll give that a shot later today. I have to work first :cowboy:

Magnum_Enforcer · Aug 8, 2014

Definitely go with Facepalm. Much easier to use and takes less than five minutes from start to finish.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2163013

Also, take a look at post #11 of the thread below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=

dante042 · Aug 9, 2014

Magnum_Enforcer said:
Definitely go with Facepalm. Much easier to use and takes less than five minutes from start to finish.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2163013

Also, take a look at post #11 of the thread below.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=

Your second link doesn't work. Thanks for the link to Facepalm though.

Sounds Facepalm is the way to go. My phone has been operational all day, no restarts or hard locks, but I haven't exactly been playing with it all day.

Magnum_Enforcer · Aug 9, 2014

Sorry about that. Try the link below. Post #11.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48339416

GuestK0087 · Aug 11, 2014

dante042 said:
Your second link doesn't work. Thanks for the link to Facepalm though.

Sounds Facepalm is the way to go. My phone has been operational all day, no restarts or hard locks, but I haven't exactly been playing with it all day.

Have you succeeded in getting S-off?

dante042 · Aug 11, 2014

Evolution_Freak said:
Have you succeeded in getting S-off?

Actually, my phone died late Friday night and I haven't been able to get it to respond to anything. I was hoping that waiting for a while would get it to respond like it did before. So far, no luck. The buttons do nothing and the charging light doesn't come on, either.

dante042 · Aug 13, 2014

So i've been trying to use the HTC Unbrick Project to get my phone back, but when I try to run the code in the last step, it throws back the following: "./emmc_recover: --backupafter: unknown option". Does anyone know why that would be?

EDIT: I posted this here because the last activity of the HTC Unbrick Project thread is from December 2013. I figured I could get better help here, rather than an old thread. Let me know if I should post there instead.

Magnum_Enforcer · Aug 14, 2014

Might want to see whether or not the OP of the Unbrick Project applies to your current situation, first off.

"Note: This will fix only devices which were bricked by turning S ON. And bricks caused by a damaged hboot via interrupted OTA update/RUU flash on a S-ON device. Any devices bricked with other ways are currently *not* supported."

dante042 · Aug 14, 2014

I'm not really sure what caused the turn off, which is a problem. I think it tried to say that there was an update available, and then shut off, but I can't really remember. I'm hoping that this could fix it.

Either way, the issue I just mentioned has to do with the program, not my phone.

dante042 · Aug 20, 2014

So I got my phone back up and running, but it won't go into fastboot. Every time I try to boot into fastboot, it skips the initial HTC screen and continues as though it were booting normally. I assume that means my HBoot is corrupt, but I don't know how to fix that.

Magnum_Enforcer · Aug 20, 2014

Does the phone boot to the operating system? If so, go to Menu>Settings>Power and make sure that Fastboot isn't checked.

dante042 · Aug 20, 2014

I could not find that option, and I wondered if that might have been it. Thanks! Now I get to root this thing and try facepalm.

dante042 · Aug 20, 2014

Alright! Finally succeeded in getting S-Off with Facepalm. I have run the official RUU for 3.16.651.16 and then got the OTA update to 3.16.651.3. I had to call Customer Service to fix an Error 16, but it works now.

I guess the question now is, is it worth upgrading to 4.13? I know it's not hard, but downgrading seems like a pain if I don't like it or it doesn't work well.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see that it's pretty easy if I use VipeRUU or even the stock RUU. Thanks for all of the help guys!

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