How to root your HTC One S (for Windows, Mac and Linux)

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invensmaster

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Just wanted to thank you, I was able to root my tmobile htc one s, i am up and running folowed the steps worked great,
What is worth saing from what i found i dont know if it will help or know i am just stating it from my experiance, It did not work from the first time i think it worked after i enabled allow unknown sources in security and i had to reboot bootloader.
Thanks again
 
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keverline

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I also used this successfully with the T-Mobile One S. Much like the previous poster, it took two attempts to get it to stick. I also turned on "Unknown Sources" before the second attempt, but cannot verify whether or not that made a difference or was merely coincidence. Either way, T-Mo users should be safe with this tool. Thanks Paul.
 
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kmao2004

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I was going through the process and got stuck at the place some other folks are; getting root to work. In an effort to troubleshoot this myself I reflashed the different recoveries and the interim one seemed to boot up fine. When root wouldn't stick I did a master reset.

This is where it gets bad - when root still wouldn't work I went to advanced and formatted everything. I did this because it worked on the GS2 when I would have problems. Now when I reboot it gets stuck on the HTC Quietly Brilliant screen. Please help even though I brought this on myself.

tl;dr

The phone is stuck on the htc start up screen and I cannot get it to boot up or into recovery. Please help!


Update: I can get into bootloader and also into recovery. I cannot mount the sdcard to push any files to the phone through adb though.
 
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buckbullstallion

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T-MOBILE 2 tries

I guess its confirmed that T-Mo may take 2 turns. also as noted and as done the phone is tampered with when you mess with the "LOCKED" files. no need to worry it just voids the warrenty.
 
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flight_guy747

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Apr 18, 2007
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Hello Paul!

superboot does not work on my device. I got my One S from amazon last week. it is not network branded and comes as HTC device. CID is HTC__002.

I unlocked bootloader via HTCDev site and it worked OK. then I installed boot.superboot.img as instructed. that (according to the CMD window) was a success too. when booting into bootloader do get the red warning screen (which I understand is normal) and can see still S-ON and the TAMPERED sign as well.

I tried several times as on some devices you need to do it more often. still the same results.

any ideas?? thank you very much!

device info:
hboot 1.06.0000
radio 0.15.31501S.19
CWM recovery 5.8.3.1
software 1.53.401.2
kernel 3.0.8-01050

Stefan
 
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juwls305

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Apr 25, 2010
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I cant unlock the bootloader to root, at htcdev, click unlock bootloader and nothing happens, no popup nothing, is it down? i know what I'm doing I've done this before but does anyone have a work around?
 
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ToterPunkt

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Nov 15, 2010
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Finally got root to work, is there anything i have to do in order to receive OTA updates? or will those work by themselves.

i've been having horrible call quality problems with this phone and was hoping the new update would fix that. otherwise is there a rom that could possibly update voice quality.
 
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    paulobrien
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    Introducing.... Superboot! :)

    Superboot is a boot.img that when booted, will root your device the first time you boot (installing su and the superuser APK). No need to flash any partitions, no need to mess around with ADB, no messing with the contents of your data partition, no overwriting the shipped ROM on your device, just boot the boot image using the instructions below and you're done!

    You will need to htcdev bootloader unlock your device to use this root solution.

    APPLY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

    The superboot image is also 'insecure', allowing you to use 'adb remount' as well as having full ADB root access to your device until such time as you reboot after running this process (it's a non permanent ADB root as it's a 'fastboot boot' and not a 'fastboot flash' but it IS a permanent root in all other regards!).

    How to use Superboot - Windows, Linux and OSX

    - Download the Superboot zip file above and extract to a directory
    - Put your device in bootloader mode - Turn off the phone then turn on with the 'volume down' button pressed to enter the bootloader, then pressing the power button again to enter fastboot.
    - WINDOWS - double click 'install-superboot-windows.bat'
    - MAC - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh' followed by './install-superboot-mac.sh'
    - LINUX - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh' followed by './install-superboot-linux.sh'

    Enjoy! ;)

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    PS If you find this useful, details on how to donate should you wish to do so are in the download topic at MoDaCo.
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    xkonni
    xkonni
    There is no official rooting method, just official bootloader unlock.
    Rooting is what you do afterwards.
    And it just refers to being able to su to root. For this 'fastboot flash' is not necessary if the needed files are copied by a 'fastboot boot'ed image.

    You could alter the ramdisk in order to create an insecure boot.img though and that needs to be flashed...



    Sent from my HTC One S
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    suhailtheboss
    just to let everyone know, it worked on my TMO USA version flawlessly.

    still have yet to flash CWM till i hear someone has got it going with no issues.
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    keverline
    I also used this successfully with the T-Mobile One S. Much like the previous poster, it took two attempts to get it to stick. I also turned on "Unknown Sources" before the second attempt, but cannot verify whether or not that made a difference or was merely coincidence. Either way, T-Mo users should be safe with this tool. Thanks Paul.
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    Sneakyghost
    Sneakyghost
    Well if you're unlocked already it's actually fairly simple.
    Grab a recovery from the forums (preferably TWRP, CWM has too many issues and not enough features that actually work - no usb storage mount for instance) and fastboot flash that.
    Afterwards get a SuperSU.zip from chainfire and flash that with the recovery. Then you have root.

    There isn't really a "permanent root" on the one s. If you change to any custom ROM it will have root integrated but it will also overwrite the root from your previous ROM. SuperSU is part of the system and cannot be kept separately.

    Sorry but I don't have the links available right now so you might want to go search for TWRP and SuperSU yourself. ;)

    Sent from a phone
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