Runnymede S-OFF
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I am S-OFF since day 1 i bought this phone, had no problems with it, and also, because many threads out there are old and things can be difficult to get by, i made a tool that i can see nobody tries to use it, the tool can be found in my signature.
It S-OFF's your phone, installs the right recovery, you can even upgrade or downgrade the baseband/radio if you are s-off, so i really don't know from where everybody get this huge amount of problems with S-OFF, as it was meant to be the best way to go in order to have a seamless experience with custom ROM development/testing.
Don't know if this helps or not, but this is what i think right now
It S-OFF's your phone, installs the right recovery, you can even upgrade or downgrade the baseband/radio if you are s-off, so i really don't know from where everybody get this huge amount of problems with S-OFF, as it was meant to be the best way to go in order to have a seamless experience with custom ROM development/testing.
Don't know if this helps or not, but this is what i think right now
I am S-OFF since day 1 i bought this phone, had no problems with it, and also, because many threads out there are old and things can be difficult to get by, i made a tool that i can see nobody tries to use it, the tool can be found in my signature.
It S-OFF's your phone, installs the right recovery, you can even upgrade or downgrade the baseband/radio if you are s-off, so i really don't know from where everybody get this huge amount of problems with S-OFF, as it was meant to be the best way to go in order to have a seamless experience with custom ROM development/testing.
Don't know if this helps or not, but this is what i think right now
I have tried your multi tool. Not good enough for my problem. S-OFF is real pain in backside with unlimited.io hboot.Flash their hboot and find a recovery which works with their protected/unprotected ics hboot.
Well, if you really want to have everything fully working, the best way to go is to flash an Upnprotected S-OFF, flash a RUU and unlock/S-OFF again, in order to have everything working, install a ICS RUU and so on. This should work!
Thank you for your help. I had tried this before and it did not work,
Used Unprotected S-OFF for ICS from unlimited.io
Flashed ICS Hboot 1.28 (this was extracted from rom.zip from ICS RUU
This just made S-Off back to S-On
I will try the steps you have suggested and let you know.
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When I try the adb,
It gives me error saying can't find su.
I am rooted, unlocked bootloader with CMW recovery 5.5.0.4!
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Ok so I can reach up to SU now but when I do the # dd ...... command, it can't find it. No directory error?!
What am I doing wrong here? Anyone?
It gives me error saying can't find su.
I am rooted, unlocked bootloader with CMW recovery 5.5.0.4!
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Ok so I can reach up to SU now but when I do the # dd ...... command, it can't find it. No directory error?!
What am I doing wrong here? Anyone?
try flashing fardjadb hboot so that u can excute that command u r talking about
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To avoid any problems of S-OFF-ing, use the tool proided by me, this is the last time i say this!
Also, you need to be fully booted not from recovery, not from fastoot, booted and rooted, hit the tool and press S-OFF and wait for the magic!
[Why does people kill their heads when i killed mine to make a tool to get things done?]
This thread is old, do not try to install Fardjab's hboot as it's old, not fully S-OFF and the fully working is from unlimited.io.
Thanks for sharing,
Which one I have to download , my phone details are as follow
Android version
4.0.3
Baseband version
20.5101.30.0822U_3822.10.10.12_M
Build number
3 Musketeers Total sensless
Hboot deatils is as follow
UNLOCKED
RUNNYMEDE PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT 1.25-0004
RADIO-3822.10.10.12_M
eMMC-boot
My problem is that my phone always asked for pin code when its restart although there is no pin code on sim. I try different sims but same.
all you have to do is flash protected JB(JellyBean) hboot and you r gud to go
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There is no Protected JB hboot. there are hboot for GB and ICS. Sorry me newbie and afraid to brick this phone so I am taking so much care.
thanks
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Sir, you mean GB protected hboot?
http://unlimited.io/runnymede.htm go here.. look under "downloads" heading in the upper right corner .. u'll find four hboots , choose protected ICS NOT JB.. sorry my mistake
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By the way thr isnt anything called "bricking a phone" unless you hit it with a hammer.
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By the way thr isnt anything called "bricking a phone" unless you hit it with a hammer.
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sir I am thankful for you support.
I flash 1st step succesfully. I write hboot in normal phone ON with adb command "adb push hboot_7230ddr2_Runnymede_6.25.4444.nb0 /data/local/tmp"
but when i do 2nd step adb shell in fastboot mode result in "error: device not found"
any idea?
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cd u plz tell wht r the tools u r using e.g. adb tools etc
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i think u shd flash by accessing fastboot not with the phone in normal homescreen on.. if u dont know how its by pressing power + volume down simultaneously.
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i think u shd flash by accessing fastboot not with the phone in normal homescreen on.. if u dont know how its by pressing power + volume down simultaneously.
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ok .. download hboot flash it but from the recovery screen not normal homescreen and tell me wht happens
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P.S. make sure u flash the unlimited.io recovery first from the same webpage.. gud luck
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---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:20 PM ----------
P.S. make sure u flash the unlimited.io recovery first from the same webpage.. gud luck
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27Runnymede S-OFF
Since we didn't have S-OFF on Runnymede, I decided to work on it, and here is the result:
It's basically a patched bootloader that pretends S-OFF (not to be confused with Radio S-OFF.)
The following commands have been tested and working correctly:
erase (system, recovery, boot)
flash (zip, system, recovery, boot, hboot, radio)
boot
It also by passes the CID check(See the next post for a workaround.)
and here is the flash "zip", "hboot", and "recovery" demo:
It's still under development; since many people asked me to release it, I decided to release a public beta:
Download (Windows Only)(link removed, see below)
Open the attached file and follow the instructions.
You'll need to install a stock RUU (or if not available, you can flash this stock recovery posted by fshami on an unlocked device) and install HTC Sync Drivers.
Note that this is not guaranteed to work and I won't take any responsibilities if something bad happened to your device.
My farewells
I had lots of fun modifying Runnymede HBOOT and it was a great experience. I want to say thanks to all of the testers for their feedback and also for being nice and patient (maybe I should have released this after my exams, so I'd have enough time to work on it), and I'm sorry for the problems you may have faced because of the incompleteness of my work.
Recently unlimited.io guys (known for Juopunutbear S-OFF) provided their patched HBOOTs. Apparently these are available for GB and ICS, by-pass CID check and have optional update protection:
http://unlimited.io/runnymede said:
See this post.14How to install RUUs with different CIDs
You won't get Radio S-OFF with flashing this HBOOT. Having this said, even if you enable writeCID function in HBOOT you can't change the CID.
I thought people prefer to install one of the custom ROMs floating around in Development Section and flashing the Radio separately rather than upgrading to ICS using RUUs... well I thought wrong
And for those having problems with CID, here is a workaround:
First thing you need to do is to extract the rom.zip file from the RUU. I believe Shen posted a video on XDA-TV showing this, here is a quick how-to however:
- Open the RUU.
- After the Welcome screen has shown up, open %temp% in explorer (ie. Meta/Win-Key + R, type %temp% and press enter)
- Sort items by Date modified and open the most recent modified folder having a name like {3F99782F-1E57-40F2-9F33-D48C3DC171C5}
- Search for rom.zip and move/copy it to somewhere else.
- Close the RUU.
Now downloadSigTool(link removed, see the first post) and place it beside the rom.zip file. Open Command-Prompt, navigate to the relevant directory and execute the following:
the expected output is:Code:SigTool rip rom.zip
Extract the signature-ripped rom.zip file.Code:Creating backup... Ripping signature... Done.
Open android-info.txt in a *nix end of line aware text editor (ex. Notepad++). You should see something like the following:
Add your phone CIDCode:modelid: PI3920000 cidnum: HTC__001 cidnum: HTC__E11 cidnum: HTC__203 cidnum: HTC__102 cidnum: HTC__405 cidnum: HTC__Y13 cidnum: HTC__A07 cidnum: HTC__304 cidnum: HTC__032 cidnum: HTC__J15 cidnum: HTC__016 mainver: 1.05.111.8 hbootpreupdate:12
If you don't know your CID you can get it this way:
While your phone is in bootloader mode and connected in FASTBOOT-USB mode, execute this:
it should output something like cid: T-MOB101Code:fastboot getvar cid
then add a new line (cidnum: <YOURCIDNUM>) below the modelid in android-info.txt so it looks like:
Save changes and close the editor.HTML:modelid: PI3920000cidnum: T-MOB101...
This is very important:
In extracted contents you should see a file with hboot name prefix, exclude/take it away and repack other files. I assume you'll choose rom-new.zip for the archive name.
Now you should null sign (that's how I like to call it) the file:
and flash the null-signed rom zip file:Code:SigTool nullsign rom-new.zip
when finished, flash the 1.28 hboot you moved away before:Code:fastboot flash zip rom-new.zip
Reboot your device.Code:fastboot flash hboot hboot_*.nb0
I know this is not the easiest guide ever but I really don't have enough time to create a one-click tool for this. Needless to say that this is not guaranteed to work and I won't take any responsibilities if you bricked your phone.
Take care7
Guys please be careful when playing with HBOOT, Radio, etc.
Here is the easy way to unbrick:
1. Flash your unlock token on 1.28 if it's (re)locked.
2. Boot into a working recovery.
3. Download this and push it to /tmp (adb push fardjadb_runnymede.nb0 /tmp)
4. get into adb shell and execute dd if=/tmp/fardjadb_runnymede.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
5. reboot bootloader
6. Download this and flash it to the misc partition (fastboot flash misc supermisc)
7. fastboot reboot-bootloader
8. Install a stock RUU
* As alfchin said, if you want to flash RUUs with different CIDs, extract the zip, open android-info.txt, change CID, repack and flash with fastboot flash zip ...6What don't you understand? S-Off means security off, the standard way of acheiving S-Off is by switching off the security flag held on the radio partition. This is commonly known as Radio S-Off. There is also another type of S-Off called engeneering S-Off, this is acheived by flashing a special engeering bootloader (hboot) after you already have standard S-Off.
Now this is neither, This is a special modifed version of the standard HTC hboot by fardjab, this hboot tricks the device into thinking it is S-Off and allows end users to perform security protected actions. But unlike "real" S-Off this is not perm, flashing a stock HTC hboot or RUU will return you back to S-On status.
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mmhh..sorry ieftm...but i have a similiar thinking...maybe you can clear this..
i had maked a donation thread...and some of us and also i maked a donation...but all response what i got from you guys was you kicked me from chat and say "read through the lines" this is not friendly....so maybe you can clear this situation...i also write emails and got no response...with kind regards...Alex
