Purchased a JavaCard for S-OFF

Sonic2756 · Sep 1, 2013

Since I got a whole bunch of PM's regarding this, I decided to make a thread generalizing everything.

Last week, I was denied the ability of unlocking my bootloader a mere hour before getting home I decided to find some other way to free my phone.

A few friends and I pooled together and purchased a JavaCard and the required files to be able to do things like S-OFF, factory unlock, etc.

Everything wont be here till next week (Tuesday/Wednesday) so I won't be able to provide proof and all that until then. However, I will be able to do 5-10 S-OFF's free of charge to any known devs who feel they would be able to use an S-OFF'd phone to provide the community with a public way to unlock our bootloaders/S-OFF etc. To anyone else, I'll be able to do about 250 phones or so via this one card. If anyone wants to talk more about this over PM feel free to contact me.

Edit: To clear up confusion. You CAN unlock your bootloader with S-OFF. You just have to change your CID via fastboot and unlock via HTCDev.

iAmSilvercat · Sep 1, 2013

Really looking forward to this. Really tired of Verizon treating customers like ****

Check your PM btw.

coldconfession13 · Sep 1, 2013

If I am unlocked and romd up would s off be useful?

Sent from my HTC One VZW using Tapatalk 4

isoh · Sep 1, 2013

coldconfession13 said:
If I am unlocked and romd up would s off be useful?

Sent from my HTC One VZW using Tapatalk 4

You can flash custom radios and RUUs with S-OFF. Without it you can't. can also change your CID to use supercid

Sonic2756 · Sep 1, 2013

coldconfession13 said:
If I am unlocked and romd up would s off be useful?

Sent from my HTC One VZW using Tapatalk 4

If you want to flash different radios or change your RUU or something like that then yeah. Look up what S-OFF can do for you

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Hand76 · Sep 1, 2013

Can someone explain what a Javacard is? How it works? Does the phone have to be mailed to the person doing it?

Sonic2756 · Sep 1, 2013

Hand76 said:
Can someone explain what a Javacard is? How it works? Does the phone have to be mailed to the person doing it?

A JavaCard is a signed micro SD from HTC with some diag files on it. I'm not quite sure how it works as I don't have it yet

. However I do know that I can achieve S-OFF with it so I can change my CID. Which means I can unlock my bootloader

.

But yes your phone has to be mailed to whoever has the card.

isoh · Sep 1, 2013

Hand76 said:
Can someone explain what a Javacard is? How it works? Does the phone have to be mailed to the person doing it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVSGqXn4wX0 That's a video of a Java Card on a One. It has some files on it signed by HTC used by them in factories to mess with the phone.

Hand76 · Sep 1, 2013

Cool thanks. One last thing is how come it only has 250 uses? Not complaining just trying to understand.

Sonic2756 · Sep 1, 2013

Hand76 said:
Cool thanks. One last thing is how come it only has 250 uses? Not complaining just trying to understand.

Because it's "credit" based. The card has 500 credits.

S-Off costs 2 credits.
Unlocks cost 1.

Hand76 · Sep 1, 2013

Awesome good stuff.

isoh · Sep 1, 2013

Hand76 said:
Cool thanks. One last thing is how come it only has 250 uses? Not complaining just trying to understand.

From what I can guess it only has a limited number of signatures it can use. Not sure why it works this way.

cstrife999 · Sep 1, 2013

isoh said:
From what I can guess it only has a limited number of signatures it can use. Not sure why it works this way.

I'm going to assume to prevent something like this. Or more so limiting people unlocking other phones.

isoh · Sep 1, 2013

cstrife999 said:
I'm going to assume to prevent something like this. Or more so limiting people unlocking other phones.

You're probably right, It's probably coded into the digital signature used by the phone to validate the card, or at least that's my best guess at what happens.

Gornul · Sep 1, 2013

Possible to reserve a space for when you're up and running and after you've handled any still-locked Devs (who are obviously priority)?

crazyg0od33 · Sep 1, 2013

what if we only wanted unlock but had no interest in S-off for now?

Sonic2756 · Sep 1, 2013

crazyg0od33 said:
what if we only wanted unlock but had no interest in S-off for now?

Unlock as in carrier unlock or bootloader unlock?

josh995 · Sep 1, 2013

Sonic2756 said:
Unlock as in carrier unlock or bootloader unlock?

Bootloader. Everyone on this forum wants boot loader unlock. I think the Verizon HTC One is already carrier unlocked due to the agreements for the 700MHz Verizon purchased. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I have the same question as crazyg0od33. We can do just unlock right, we don't have to have s-off?

Sonic2756 · Sep 1, 2013

josh995 said:
Bootloader. Everyone on this forum wants boot loader unlock. I'm think the Verizon HTC One is already carrier unlocked due to the agreements for the 700MHz Verizon purchased. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

OP: I have the same question as crazyg0od33. We can do just unlock right, we don't have to have s-off?

I was referring to carrier unlocks. I forgot about the FCC agreements VZW made. But yeah its only S-OFF. You'd have to get your phone S-OFF'd and then change the CID and unlock via HTCDev.

crazyg0od33 · Sep 1, 2013

Sonic2756 said:
I was referring to carrier unlocks. I forgot about the FCC agreements VZW made. But yeah its only S-OFF. You'd have to get your phone S-OFF'd and then change the CID and unlock via HTCDev.

Oh ok - when I saw 1 credit to unlock I figured it meant you could bootloader unlock with the card and have another credit left over

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