Hey guys, i currently have the fascinate rooted with the newest miui. was thinking about getting the inc2 bc my sd card mount is messed up and dont have insurance. looking through the roms i see alot say you have to have s-off. what does that mean? lol. Thanks in advance
[Q] s-off?
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It meas that all security checking done by the phone is turned off - what I mean by this is that normally an update/ROM would be digitally signed using a code/algorithm that HTC has - the phone would check the update/ROM file against the signature. If it doesn't match, then no update.
S-off turns off this checking, but in the process it unlocks the NAND flash and/or e-mmc card write protection so it is possible to write the the live filesystem from your running ROM.
S-off turns off this checking, but in the process it unlocks the NAND flash and/or e-mmc card write protection so it is possible to write the the live filesystem from your running ROM.
It should be noted that a software method for S-OFF is not yet released, but it is pending. No one really knows when, though.
Pay no attention to the troll. Root will be here and be stable.
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It basically means you can't permanently root it.
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Who's trolling? I'm not the one going around saying it's never going to happen...just noting it's not here yet. "yet" YET...as in it's coming.
What hboot version are you guys on? Alpharev recently cracked 1.02. Also htv has promised to roll out unlocked bootloader in the future as well as updating some current generation phones.
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Kingsway had a post under yours. He deleted making you think i was talking about you. I shoulda left my quote of him there. He is a troll.
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Ok. I knew there was one there and i was referring to you. Troll.
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My post we literally almost identical to nimdaes, but it's all good.
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