[Q] New HTC One -- Where to start?

cpurick said:

Browsed the stickies for this stuff, but the closest I found was a pretty old post from before Verizon shut down S-Off.

I have a new HTC One w/ build 1.10.605.8 (Android 4.2.2/Sense 5.0). How far behind is this? Does it mean I have a better chance for exploits to work? I'm making a point of not putting the phone into a position where it might take an OTA. Presumably hacking the phone gets harder with the latest builds.

I would like to root this, if possible. If I can unlock the bootloader that's even better. S-Off not as important, but I'll do it if it's the pathway to an unlocked boot. I'm guessing there are still ways to unlock this (or equivalent) since Big Red shut down our HTC Dev?

Is there a current thread discussing this? Maybe somebody can show me where the latest info is. Or at least tell me what the general strategy is for customizing this device, if it's possible.

I'm pretty comfortable with this stuff; I once had to use a wire to S-Off an HTC Rezound. I just need to know where to go to find the current tools.

I saw references to weaksauce, rumrunner and firewater. Are these current? Can someone steer me toward the latest and greatest???

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cpurick said:

Thank you very much.

Looks like this tool sets S-Off? Does that disable/bypass the signature checks in the bootloader, or does it allow install of an alternate bootloader? How do I get from S-Off to a custom ROM?

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cpurick said:

And I can do that even though I can't technically unlock the bootloader?

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cpurick said:

And I can do that even though I can't technically unlock the bootloader?

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cpurick said:

And I can do that even though I can't technically unlock the bootloader?

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cpurick said:

I used rumrunner because my older build was identified as being vulnerable to that exploit. I'm not sure about the interactions between S-Off and Bootloader because the device+build-specific rumrunner did both S-Off and unlocked BL in addition to rooting it. It says "unlock" but the experience looked like an engineering bootloader had been installed. The phone acquired a proprietary HTC disclaimer at startup.

If you have an early enough build, I would definitely recommend rumrunner for unlocking it. That program totally pwned the phone.

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