My gf has this pile of junk and i wanna root it but can't find anything apart from get an xtc clip. Is there another way to do it yet . I see alpharev also has nothing also
Anyway to s off apart from xtc clip
- Thread starter adz63
- Start date
No, there's no way to get S-OFF apart from using a XTC Clip.
What you can get is a temp root while S-ON, but without write permission in system directories.
I'm not sure about this (someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe you can't even flash OTA Factory ROMs without S-OFFing this phone.
What you can get is a temp root while S-ON, but without write permission in system directories.
I'm not sure about this (someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe you can't even flash OTA Factory ROMs without S-OFFing this phone.
you cannot apply OTA updates, but can flash official RUU using the gold card method
this question can be really stupid, but what is the difference between OTA updates and official RUUs?
actually, what is the difference between a ROM and a RUU? What does it mean?
curious. i'll try this when I go home tonight.
since I'm in Brazil, I had to unlock my phone... paid 10 USD for it. it's just a code, there are a lot of websites which generate them automagically if you send your ChaCha's IMEI and 10 bucks.
That doesn't tell us how to S-OFF. Just install a recovery, which we already have a guide for.
In my country paypal don't work. 10 bucks is not problem, but how to pay 10$ is problem
but we can't install a custom recovery being S-ON. can we?
actually, I'm trying to understand what S-ON users can do... I already know that it's impossible to install OTA ROMs, but it's possible to temproot if you have a specific ROM version.
well, I think I've read so many posts and threads that I'm already confusing the information on my head.
Truly, you are confused
S-ON users have little power of their mobile device.. They cannot install a custom recovery, a custom rom, a different area/language rom (for example, I cannot install Asia rom on my Europe ChaCha since the CIDs are different) and so on. Yet I find it hard to believe that flashing CWM over the S-ON HBOOT will give you S-OFF. The engineering S-ON is a security flag set for bootloader protection.
If anyone wants to try this, feel free to do it but don't get your hopes up and don't be mad if it won't work. As you can see in the link, on the last page, they have a screenshot with a so called S-OFF'ed device, yet HBOOT is still S-ON. So there is no proof of it.
+1!
I am about to try though but as Alex says, they show a picture with the ChaCha still being S-ON.
I am searching in the Netherlands here to get my hands on a clip to S-OFF my ChaCha but so far no luck
----
edit: I think the post author just copied the tut posted on this thread
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15954564&postcount=1
Last edited:
It's true. I've tried and tried so many times and it's a no go. I hate S-ON. :'(
I'll try this next... I hope it works because I just really want my stock ROM back.... My old working stock ROM... Stupid of me not to make a Nandroid backup via CWM when all was working fine.... :'(
Similar threads
