[HTC Wildfire S] AlsoW:
What to do after S-off

Well, the bad news is that GingerBreak 1.2 does NOT work on the HTC Wildfire S on the Three network with S-Off. :mad:

I don't want to flash a custom ROM as the UK three network has some useful aspects... And I wanted to get in with root so that I could backup incase I ever needed to get back to this state. :confused:

As it is I think I found a solution: ;)

I've detailed as much as I can so that it helps others.

Remember- this is a community, so this is my attempt to feed back in :cool:

Noobies Steps to HTC Wildfire S Root Heaven

This has been published in the XTC Clip thread as others due to get the Clip might find it useful. At time of writing the clip is the ONLY known way to get the phone to "S-Off" (ie the state where you can root it)(btw I appear to be able to use other SIM cards since the S-Off process :D)

So after you've got S-Off you still can't get SuperUser or BusyBox working and Root Checker on an "Advanced check" looks semi-happy and gives you something like:

Well the nice thing is the hard bit's done!

From here on in I think there's a chance that any phone with S-Off might be able to follow this (but it's at your risk! :eek:).

So the good news is someone else has done a LOAD of the work. Hats off to Heritz for this :cool:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1195275

If you turned on USB debugging mode to try Gingerbreak, turn it off before doing this... Not sure if that's what caused the issue at one point, but still, worth a try.

ALWAYS reboot between each stage. It got stuck just doing nothing on the BusyBox upgrade below until I rebooted and tried again.

Backing up

Between stage 1 and stage 2 I noticed that there was an option to "Backup" and then also unmount the sd-card, of course I did this! Not sure how to use the system.img etc, but at least having it is a good start! :rolleyes:

(If someone knows how to extract the ROM from that I would be very happy to do so to feed in to the community :confused: )

Updating

Note that as soon as I did this I updated BusyBox from 1.17.2 to the latest 1.18.4 (it worked which was the first issue previously!). (MAKE SURE YOU REBOOT BEFORE TRYING- otherwise you just sit waiting with it circling doing nothing. (Made me feel like home with a windows hour glass for ages with bugger all happening.)

Backup... again!

Next thing on the list was "Titanium Backup" to back up the rest. Install it (superuser should check do you want to give it permission).

Middle button for Backup/Restore.

I then pressed the Menu Button and chose Batch (easier than backing up one at a time!).

Then on the list of things you can backup, well to be honest I just ran each one in turn. :D

It will take a little while- but peace of mind is worth a lot ;)

It also allows you to uninstall some of those lovely apps (like Monopoly Here and Now!) which Three install by default! I did check, them seem to reinstall fine from the backup.

(Not sure what the different smilies etc mean in Titanium Backup? On the overview page of Titanium Backup press the menu button and then Legend.)

So I hope that helps people... I'm off to charge, copy my SD backups to some where safe and sleep :D

(I always post verbose so that other searching have more chance of finding the solution- I've had my share of time searching forums and reading :D)