[Android][Unlock/S-OFF] SunShine for modern Motorola & HTC devices

gatormark08 · Sep 22, 2014

I can't seem to get sunshine to work on m7vzw 5.28.605.2 update. Currently stock locked and s-on. I've tried rooting with towel root 3, sunshine runs and eventually tells me it can't acquire su access and to check if I'm rooted. I've uninstalled, rebooted and re ran sunshine and still no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

gatormark08 said:
I can't seem to get sunshine to work on m7vzw 5.28.605.2 update. Currently stock locked and s-on. I've tried rooting with towel root 3, sunshine runs and eventually tells me it can't acquire su access and to check if I'm rooted. I've uninstalled, rebooted and re ran sunshine and still no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

Un install towelroot, weaksauce, supersu or any root app. They can interfere at times.

Reboot,

Wait 2-3 min after booting, run sunshine

JoJo2211 · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
Sunshine does not root the device, only unlock and soff . install recovery and flash supersu from there

Hi there, I attempted to flash recovery in adb mode but i got a failed message in cmd. my phone is htc one max for verizon running 4.4.2.can you help. thanks

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

JoJo2211 said:
Hi there, I attempted to flash recovery in adb mode but i got a failed message in cmd. my phone is htc one max for verizon running 4.4.2.can you help. thanks

you need to do it in fastboot mode

see
http://wccftech.com/root-htc-one-max/

JoJo2211 · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
you need to do it in fastboot mode

see
http://wccftech.com/root-htc-one-max/

First of all, thank you for responding so fast!.
I did do it in fastboot mode. Do you think it maybe because My phone (HTC One Max Verizon) is on 4.4.2 firmware? I just updated it yesterday.
Thanks, once agian.

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

JoJo2211 said:
First of all, thank you for responding so fast!.
I did do it in fastboot mode. Do you think it maybe because My phone (HTC One Max Verizon) is on 4.4.2 firmware? I just updated it yesterday.
Thanks, once agian.

ah you had said adb ok

post full error here

JoJo2211 · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
ah you had said adb ok

post full error here

It says

sending 'recovery'(10004 KB)...
writing 'recovery'...
<bootloader> signature checking...
FAILED <remote: signature verify fail>
finished. total time: 2.136s

XAVlER · Sep 22, 2014

So sick and tired of DRM

First let me just say awesome work on this. It shows the developers put a lot of hard work into this.

However one great dealbreaker for me personally is that sunshine always requires a internet connection in order to work its magic.
Now coming from the apple camp this makes me incredibly angry.

I hope there will be a way to change this in the future.
No problem paying the 25$ to purchase sunshine or donating to firewater but the internet connection requirement is reminiscent of apples ipsw signing servers. And its something i'm trying desperately to avoid at all costs.

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

JoJo2211 said:
It says

sending 'recovery'(10004 KB)...
writing 'recovery'...
<bootloader> signature checking...
FAILED <remote: signature verify fail>
finished. total time: 2.136s

on the bootloader screen, up top, does it say s-off or s-on, and does it say locked or unlock or relocked?

XAVlER said:
First let me just say awesome work on this. It shows the developers put a lot of hard work into this.

However one great dealbreaker for me personally is that sunshine always requires a internet connection in order to work its magic.
Now coming from the apple camp this makes me incredibly angry. I hope there will be a way to change this in the future.
No problem paying the 25$ to purchase sunshine or donating to firewater but the internet connection requirement is reminiscent of apples ipsw signing servers. And its something i'm trying methodically to avoid.

Are you the person that I went over this with today in chat, . SunShine an app that typically needs to be used ONE time. 99.9% of people will use it just once. Those that do use it more than once, probably really don't have a reason, but went s-on/locked for an unneeded reason.

It needs internet access for about 5 seconds total, that is it. It doesnt need it constantly, or everyday but like 5 seconds for the entire lifespan of it on your phone.

This is absolutely nothing like apple signing ipsw, and it will not be changed. If you want a solution that doesn't need an internet, look into one of the emmc writing tools like easy-jtag. Well not that still needs internet to update itself.

The only way this changes, if when people stop stealing, we grew tired of seeing our works packaged by shady companies and sold as hardware dongles for unlocking, or the "refurb companies" running them 1000x a day, while ignoring the commercial usage clause in the licenses.

JoJo2211 · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
on the bootloader screen, up top, does it say s-off or s-on, and does it say locked or unlock or relocked?

Are you the person that I went over this with today in chat, . SunShine an app that typically needs to be used ONE time. 99.9% of people will use it just once. Those that do use it more than once, probably really don't have a reason, but went s-on/locked for an unneeded reason.

It needs internet access for about 5 seconds total, that is it. It doesnt need it constantly, or everyday but like 5 seconds for the entire lifespan of it on your phone.

This is absolutely nothing like apple signing ipsw, and it will not be changed. If you want a solution that doesn't need an internet, look into one of the emmc writing tools like easy-jtag. Well not that still needs internet to update itself.

The only way this changes, if when people stop stealing, we grew tired of seeing our works packaged by shady companies and sold as hardware dongles for unlocking, or the "refurb companies" running them 1000x a day, while ignoring the commercial usage clause in the licenses.

it's S-ON and Locked

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

JoJo2211 said:
it's S-ON and Locked

Ok, you need to use SunShine, or firewater to s-off/unlock it. Then you can root it

JoJo2211 · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
Ok, you need to use SunShine, or firewater to s-off/unlock it. Then you can root it

Thank you!

XAVlER · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
Are you the person that I went over this with today in chat, . SunShine an app that typically needs to be used ONE time. 99.9% of people will use it just once. Those that do use it more than once, probably really don't have a reason, but went s-on/locked for an unneeded reason.

It needs internet access for about 5 seconds total, that is it. It doesnt need it constantly, or everyday but like 5 seconds for the entire lifespan of it on your phone.

This is absolutely nothing like apple signing ipsw, and it will not be changed. If you want a solution that doesn't need an internet.

The only way this changes, if when people stop stealing, we grew tired of seeing our works packaged by shady companies and sold as hardware dongles for unlocking, or the "refurb companies" running them 1000x a day, while ignoring the commercial usage clause in the licenses.

No. Today is the first time we have spoken.

In a sense it is very much like apples ipsw servers. Their servers also require a internet connection for a few seconds while it fetches shsh blobs for a downloaded firmware.

And I'm sorry people have been steeling your hard work. That shouldn't discourage you to combat this through more sane approaches other than resorting to a digital rights media approach. Simple encryption in the app might be one approach. A MD5 database with salted hashes of legit serial numbers with corresponding IMEI or ESNs might be another approach.

It would take a hacker about 10,000 years to break a SHA-1 database with a 1024bit encrypted salted hash.

As for sunshine only needing a connection once for people with direct access to the internet that might be all hunky dory, but for those of us behind firewalls (multiple ones in my case) its a completely different ballgame.

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

XAVlER said:
No. Today is the first time we have spoken.

In a sense it is very much like apples ipsw servers. Their servers also require a internet connection for a few seconds while it fetches shsh blobs for a downloaded firmware.

And I'm sorry people have been steeling your hard work. That shouldn't discourage you to combat this through more sane approaches other than resorting to a digital rights media approach. Simple encryption in the app might be one approach. A MD5 database with salted hashes of legit serial numbers with corresponding IMEI or ESNs might be another approach.

It would take a hacker about 10,000 years to break a SHA-1 database with a 1024bit encrypted salted hash.

As for sunshine only needing a connection once for people with direct access to the internet that might be all hunky dory, but for those of us behind firewalls (multiple ones in my case) its a completely different ballgame.

It functions nothing like how ipsw, I do believe you are the person that was talking to me today or associated with him, you two are using the exact same arguments, flawed in the same ways.

If we used a local database, without internet connection, and everything was done locally to the device, it would take a matter of hours to figure it out, not 10,000 years.

If your firewalls are preventing you from using sunshine, turn mobile data on, or hop on a wifi hotspot somewhere else for a few seconds.

XAVlER · Sep 22, 2014

Please keep a open mind.

jcase said:
It functions nothing like how ipsw, I do believe you are the person that was talking to me today or associated with him, you two are using the exact same arguments, flawed in the same ways.

If we used a local database, without internet connection, and everything was done locally to the device, it would take a matter of hours to figure it out, not 10,000 years.

If your firewalls are preventing you from using sunshine, turn mobile data on, or hop on a wifi hotspot somewhere else for a few seconds.

jcase.

I still see a correlation between how apple signs its firmware files and how sunshine works. Perhaps my understanding of things is wrong but that is the way i see it.

And if it takes someone only a matter of hours to figure out then that is a issue with how well your encryption is designed.

My firewalls don't function like common ones you might know of do. I'm very much in the midst of a petri dish. I wish it were a simple matter of turning on mobile data or going through a proxy server, its not even close to that simple.

I think you should reconsider what you're doing here. Your wallets would certainly thank you in the long run.

Whatever similarities you may have had with someone else in chat i can't speak of but it sounds like i'm not the only one with such concerns.

There is no doubt that you have put much hard work into sunshine and firewater and i can't blame you for wanting to do everything you can to protect your interests.
Suffice to say, I hope you guys can keep an open mind moving forward.

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

XAVlER said:
jcase.

I still see a correlation between how apple signs its firmware files and how sunshine works. Perhaps my understanding of things is wrong but that is the way i see it.

And if it takes someone only a matter of hours to figure out then that is a issue with how well your encryption is designed.

My firewalls don't function like common ones you might know of do. I'm very much in the midst of a petri dish. I wish it were a simple matter of turning on mobile data or going through a proxy server, its not even close to that simple.

I think you should reconsider what you're doing here. Your wallets would certainly thank you in the long run.

Whatever similarities you may have had with someone else in chat i can't speak of but it sounds like i'm not the only one with such concerns.

There is no doubt that you have put much hard work into sunshine and firewater and i can't blame you for wanting to do everything you can to protect your interests.
Suffice to say, I hope you guys can keep an open mind moving forward.

Your understanding of both is very flawed if you think they are similar in any way at all.

Local encryption is ALWAYS trivial, if the key and the encrypted data is stored in the same place, its like putting your house key under the door mat. If it takes a person more than a few days to figure out locally encrypted data, when the data, key and algorithm is in front of you, then their skill set is the issue. Encryption has to be reversible, and when all the pieces are in your face, it is a cake walk. You haven't designed successful DRM before.

If you can access my website, then your firewalls wouldn't prevent sunshine from working. If you are in a situation where you security requires such scrutiny, then you know better than turning off all the signature validation on your device, and rooting it.

Our setup works, results in few complaints, and keeps the option lasting longer. If we went with local encryption of a serial database, or anything of the sorts, HTC would figure it out in matter of hours, and the tool would be useless.

Our licensing is not changing, end of discussion.

XAVlER · Sep 22, 2014

jcase said:
HTC would figure it out in matter of hours, and the tool would be useless.

Our licensing is not changing, end of discussion.

That is certainly something i didn't take into account.

Well like i said please try and keep a open mind. Good luck to you all and godspeed.

kennyk3n · Sep 22, 2014

Thanks a lot this worked on my Aio Moto G :victory:

E_n_T · Sep 22, 2014

im about to get a one m8 tomorrow. its a stock version not bound by any carrier. do i need to be unlocked bootloader or will this work on locked bootloader aswell?

jcase · Sep 22, 2014

E_n_T said:
im about to get a one m8 tomorrow. its a stock version not bound by any carrier. do i need to be unlocked bootloader or will this work on locked bootloader aswell?

This will s-off, and unlock at the same time

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