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[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mjgreenjr:
For those of you that have been successful, is it normal that 85-90% of the time when you run ControlBear.exe that you don't even get to the 'Do wire-trick' part? I think I've gotten to that part about 15 times now but apparently my timing just sucks. I'm only gotten the wire-trick twice in a row once. Usually I have to start up ControlBear 10-20 times again before it goes back into wire-trick mode.

This is how I spent the last 15 or so minutes of my life:

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: adb server is out of date. killing...
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error:

No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Connect device...
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
/system/bin/sh: /data/local/J╨♫♥
No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error:
Connect device...
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: adb server is out of date. killing...
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error:

No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: adb server is out of date. killing...
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error:

No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: /system/bin/sh: /data/local/JuopunutBear: not found

No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
/system/bin/sh: /data/local/J╨♫Ö
No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

C:\soff2>ControlBear.exe
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Found backups!
Error message: adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
/system/bin/sh: /data/local/J╨♫>
No beer for bear tonight :(
Press ENTER to exit.....

Is that normal?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] rquiett:
Looks like you have an issue with your adb setup. Try updating your Android sdk
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] carlosjcar:
Got mine done on second try with an insulated paperclip.

found the warranty stickers on eB.. for less than 20 bucks for if i need to return .

now we need a return to stock kit.:D
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Allegedly, some people had S-Off out of the box.

Also, my ATT Vivid never came with a warranty sticker on the screw. That's probably not good, huh? Though the more pressing matter is that the screw is no longer there courtesy of S-Off.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Jaxellis:
Got S-OFF with sticker still fine and dandy back on it :D Awesome!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] valve timing:
Congrats man
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] akafarmer:
Anyway to turn S-OFF to S-ON? gotta send it in for a warranty issue, nothing related to your thread. This ***** overheats when I am running numerous apps...no bueno :(
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Jaxellis:
Thanks :) Only one problem...

I got the SD card error and i tried this

*DAMN MY PHONE always lying to me when i think i fix it*

Tried the busybox thing but it said device not found on phone and gave me BS on pc...

Can someone supply me with step by step instructions on how to fix?

*NEVERMIND FIXED!*

repartitions SD card in WCX's recovery rebooted formated SD Card and worked

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As long as it doesnt restart due to heat it should be fine... I know what you mean xD I get my phone pretty hot myself ;)
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Fuses:
HTC sync is shutting down ControlBear adb connection. Uninstall HTC sync, reboot pc and try again.

Also, download latest ControlBear from http://unlimited.io
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] rajbsn:
JuopunutBear Screen Bootloop..Please Help!!

I have successfully done the wire trick and the S-OFF is complete. I have also said yes to install the HBOOt at the end it also completed successfully. But after this process the phone stucks on JuopunutBear Screen and goes into boot loop. I can still get in to Recovery by holding the Vol and power button. I'm not sure it's the HBOOT i have flashed or something else. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

** Edit

The bootloop issues was resolved after flashing the boot_backup.img
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] fredy915:
very cool that we now have S-off , im going to wait for a safer version :) i dont like messing with the inside of my phone , kudos on the work :)
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] tanner4137:
How likely is something like this going to come out?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] cruzin_cruzing:
Highly unlikely, this exploit in itself took a lot to figure out. Plus, you're not really messing with the insides of your phone. The Rezound and Amaze have the same pins except they're not underneath a panel.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] fredy915:
where are they on the vivid ? I'll give it a head I don't have much to loose then
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ki11bert:
I have been searching to find put exactly what the wire trick is doing. Can someone explain the operation behind it?

Thanks!

Kill
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] citsong:
Noticed the site now has different HBoots for download. Does this mean you can just download the corresponding hboots instead of having to run all the ruu's to be able to update to ICS or go back to GB? Already running on ICS but just curious and thought I'd ask in case it makes getting ICS up and running a bit easier for others
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] doktor buknasty:
The website explains it all. Check the first post of this thread for the link.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Hm, can anyone extract the stock HBOOTs from the RUU? Might be a good idea to catalog those so that we don't need to download the massive (and slow) RUUs.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] homeslice976:
The hboots in the RUUs appear to be in .nbo format. I don't know if this would flash packed in a PH39IMG or not . I'm not s-off so can't test. I do have 9/10 of the RUUs downloaded though. If someone can confirm whether or not .nbo will flash in bootloader as a PH39IMG.zip I'll gladly package them
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] come at me bro:
It's pulling a dev or engineer menu so to speak hard to explain
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] fredy915:
thanks .. one question I just took off the little panel off and the hole where im suppose to put my wire on does not look like the one in the picture , mine is not punctured like that it's flat ...

EDIT: everything worked out ! :) i now have S-off on my vivid :D
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jmone:
So was mine (filled with solder) but it is the correct contact point
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] fredy915:
ok now that i have S-off , im having one problem i have boot im to recovery im stuck a htc boot screen.

and now it wont boot past the htc boot screen i know its not your fault i know its me lol

Edit: all fixed now i just flashed a new recovery
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] robjvan:
Confirmed working on Rogers Raider. Now trying various ICS roms, thanks VERY much to all involved!!!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] 903tex:
Very easy and simple to do! now can flash different ics roms! Thanks for those who help make this happen!

Haha we should start a pic thread with what you use to to do the wire trick

Here's my tool. Two twist ties and electrical tape
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Here.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] supercobaltss:
nevermind got it
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] 903tex:
Could only find twist ties had in drawer lol. Took my second try.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] chachin:
This happen while i was trying the wire trick :(
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jmone:
Yeah - only saw that 20 times before I got the timing right. Keep going.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Marshmellow92:
can i get back to s on?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] trock62:
First try, was not as bad as I thought. I will say make sure your put anouther SD in before doing this. It was very easy to do I think. Used a long wire made from a phone cord with alittle tape on the ends to make it easyier to hold. Held the wire on the one point and touched the sd ground spot. Was alittle scare of touching wires to the phone but was no issue in the end. I have S-Off now hoooaaaarrraaaay

Thanks:D
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] hameed14:
Confirmed to work on Bell Raider. It feels good being able to upgrade the hboot to get ICS :)
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Sizzlincok:
what are you guys usingto root your phones?

im following the super guide and cant get root to stick to my stock rom...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ccb101:
Are you using stock ics? If so if you installed wcxrecovery there's a option to root while your in recovery

The super guide is a bit outta date last time I checked
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Just did some research: the JB HBOOT is in .nb0 format too. Would it theoretically be possible to then just take an RUU's HBOOT and just do a simple replacement in the JB_HBOOT zip file? If so, I'll gladly do it, provided that I can get people to send me the nb0 files from the RUUs.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] slapshot30:
Root won't work on the stock ROM unless you use ota rootkeeper. Try flashing a custom ROM and kernel and it should stick.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Sizzlincok:
okay i got it rooted and got s- off now.

one more question..

im not sure if i have the ics hboot installed..

at the end of the s-off process it asked if i wanted to install the new hboot and i said yes. but everytime i try to flash ics roms i just get boot loops. i tried different kernels but that didnt fix it.

whenever i try to update the hboot it just says something about the id doesnt match and wont install.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] slapshot30:
Try using the guide in my signature. Start at the step regarding updating hboot.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Sizzlincok:
i have tried it and i end up with this error message

C:\Users\VINA\Desktop\WCXJB_ROOT_PACK\WCXJB_ROOT_PACK>fastboot flash zip jb_hboo

t.zip

sending 'zip' (379 KB)... OKAY [ 0.249s]

writing 'zip'... INFOzip header checking...

INFOzip info parsing...

INFOchecking model ID...

FAILED (remote: 41 model id check fail)

finished. total time: 2.200s
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] citsong:
did you do fastboot oem writecid 11111111

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I originally used this guide to get the ics hboot before they had it up on their site.. can try the steps in there if that way isn't working

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1612685
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Sizzlincok:
thanks i got that to work now

but im still getting boot loops for ics roms

i dont know what im doing wrong...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] citsong:
which rom are you trying to flash? Does it have a kernal included in it with the script to flash everything in recovery? Not sure about the how the hboot only upgrade process works but you might not have the proper kernal.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Sizzlincok:
i tired dark raider and holics

dark raider has a kernel built into his aroma installer and for holics i took the kernel form the zip file and manually flashed it

still no luck
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ki11bert:
Well....

I finally did it. I managed to s off and load dark raider latest. However, I ran into a very very scary issue. On my initial attempt, I backed up the sdcard, disabled antivirus, checked adb and fastboot, charge only, and ran the bat file... It proceeded normally all the way up to the wire trick part. Having had entirely too much coffee, my hands were shaky and I became worried that I would jab myself in the eye with the wire tool instead of landing the leads on the appropriate areas. It prompted me to do the trick so I went for it, shaking like a fig leaf in a hurricane. The phone rebooted, the prompt began to count and wait for the phone........... Nothing........ Oh crap.....

The program went into some sort of a boot loop looking for the phone, stopping, rebooting, etc. The phone was at the green "juopunutbear" screen. After 5 minutes of nothing but fear and errors, I pulled the battery. Doh. That's where it got hectic. The process thus far had nixed both recovery and my rooted stock ics boot. Remain calm. Using my halfwit, I used the all-in-one toolkit to flash the ics recovery! Success! I went into recovery and wiped everything. Upon wiping the sdcard I got an error.. it was nowhere to be found. I had to repartition it completely in order for it to be seen by recovery. I then restarted my computer and my phone. The phone went into hboot by itself. I then ran the bat again. It spoke of beer and friends and then asked me to do the wire trick again. Having been through the stress before, my hands were now calm.. success!.... Except it left me at the juopunutbear screen to fend for myself. No worries, I rebooted to recovery and enabled USB for the ad card and moved over the dark raider zip. The rest is history! Woohoo.

Thanks for such a great tutorial and sorry for the short story.

Kill
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] 903tex:
The last part all you had to do was fastboot flash the backup boot.img

And then you would have booted on the stock Rom. Then use wcxrecovery you could have installed root. But either way glad you got it working out for you
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] zombie.raised:
I am on same boat. I am going to try what you tried with CID stuff hope this allows me to change the H-BOOT
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zarboz:
1)fastboot oem rebootRUU -> To reboot the phone in RUU mode (case sensitive command!)

2) fastboot flash zip jboot.zip (the hboot from juopunutbear folder )

3) fastboot reboot
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] zombie.raised:
For some reason the zip would never get flashed completely. Eventually after reading a bit found that flashing via rru and going to stock ics was easiest way to update hboot version.

Sent from my HTC PH39100
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zarboz:
Yeah it won't show a complete status bar but if you read the fastboot output it will say success
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] zombie.raised:
I thought so too, but than when I checked the H-BOOT version it was unchanged. Not sure if it was just me seeing this but if any one else see's this using the RUU (EXE) and going to stock ICS may be a solution and after that you are free to flash custom ROM.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Zarboz:
It's funny you say that because last night I was unable to update my recovery with fastboot commands until I reflashed the hboot from juopunutbears site .. I used the first revision ofvthe tool they put out as well

After updating my hboot with the one on their site my writes actually wrote. If that makes sense
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] JoHnGr0n3:
Please can anyone help me!

I still have the juopunut screen and none of the solutions so far has worked.

I think my usb debug mode was turned off during the process, does anyone know how to turn it on again via the device itself??? either in linux or windows???

Please please I need help!!!

I tried every one of the solutions of this problem, like running the commands (no debug), flashing (no recovery after the process), following the instructions where I left off, and nothing!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] zombie.raised:
You mean you are stuck at the wire trick step

Sent from my HTC PH39100
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] JoHnGr0n3:
Actually i did the wire trick, but i apparently did not work.

My device now wont full boot, meaning it just stays in the juopunut bear screen.

I CAN make it boot into the bootloader (Unlocked, S-ON) but i cannot go into recovery because the method erased my sd-card.

I tried to fastboot to run the commands and my PC won't detect it and switch from "fastboot" to "fastboot usb" in the device which only happenned when the debugging mode was off, so now I think is was turned off sometime along the process. and i don't know how to turn it back on via only the device.

My phone is now in a rebooting cycle jo juipunut screen, but nothing else. just saying in case this matters a bit.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] zombie.raised:
Than I don't think the wire trick worked, and you can run the ControlBear exe again, It may give an error message 1st time just pull the battery and put it back and run it again.

I went through similar panic mode.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] trahajopro86:
I had this same thing happen to me and here is what I did

1. Download the all-in-one vivid toolkit

2. Download you choice of ICS rom to your microSD card

3. pull battery on phone and put MicroSD card in

4. power on the phone while holding volume down button (to get to fastboot)

5. run all-in-one tool and install a recovery image

6. pull battery again and power on while holding volume down again

7. select install zip and browse to the rom you put on your microSD

8. reboot

You should be good to go... at least I was.

-Tracy
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] JoHnGr0n3:
Problem solved!!! =)

It was a hardware issue.

The connector under the little cover lossen a bit and that was the problem, I pushed it back to fit its place and the process continued as indicated.

Anyway thank you all for your responses.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Cor-master:
My vivid is covered with a panel that has a screw with a label that says VOID on it. I realy don't want to void my warrenty is there any other way?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Nope.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] tanner4137:
There are so many people here complaining about it not working, its making me nervous to try! Lol
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] JEANRIVERA:
If you are worry about the sticker you can get it @ eBay
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Marshmellow92:
itvwirks you just have to follow instructions carefully and make sure you do the wire trick exactly
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Cor-master:
OK please excuse my ignorance. Apparently I don't even need s-off at this point so carry on! Sorry I'm in a new world now all I knew about rooting and installing custom roms began and ended with the Samsung Captivate. I did successfully root and s-off my flyer last week so I'm learning slowly.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] poncespr:
After nearly having a heart attack from fear of screwing my Vivid, I'm S-OFF!

And I am far from technically inclined.

Just follow instructions to the T.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ismoore:
Works Great....

Thank you! Got it on my 3rd try.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] tanner4137:
S-Off complete :D Now should I be able to flash any ROM for ATT?

*Edit* I'm having issues getting my SD card to work now. When I boot my phone up, I get a notification saying "Blank SD card, SD card is blank or has unsupported file system" When I touch the notification, it says

"Format SD card

Are you sure you want to format the SD card? All data on your card will be lost"

When I select format, it just closes. What do I do? I have tried rebooting but that didn't help.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
S-Off wipes your SD card. You need to reformat it; if you can't on your phone, do it on your computer.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] tanner4137:
After trying to format it on my computer, I get this error "The disk drive is Write protected" What does that mean?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Exactly what it sounds like. You can't write to the disk for some reason.

Do me a favor, look in "Computer" or whatever its Mac OS/Linux equivalent is, and look to see if it is properly recognizing your drive (i.e. the size should check out to whatever your card is, or it should prompt you to reformat). This tests if you can read from the disk or not. If not, try removing your SD, turn on, put the SD in again, and turn on again. Reformat if it lets you.

If it is still giving you the "blank SD card" or asking you to insert one in your computer's OS, and you still can't format it, you're down to two options:

Your SD card is dead, forever.

Some partitions got screwed up on your card.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] tanner4137:
I fixed it. It turned out it was the adapter! lol

*Edit*

I still can't make nandroid back-ups or put anything on the sd card
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] doktor buknasty:
Try formatting the sdcard thru recovery
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] reckless_sk8r:
Had that problem myself.. I managed to fix it by formatting it again through the phone's storage while mounting it.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] djstepanich:
I also had the problem when it said it wasn't rooted. I fixed this by booting into recovery and then installing Super User from the recovery menu. Then everything worked nicely.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jfellon:
Took 4 times but I got it done I had messed up on the wire trick letting off to soon...lol
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] oneslow5oh:
having some trouble.. my phone is on the juopunutbear screen and i tried doing the wire trick and i didnt get it in time so the cmd prompt didnt do anything else so i closed it out and now whenever i run the controlbear program this comes up(see attachment) any info would be awesome and hope you guys can help me resolve this. thanks guys!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] oneslow5oh:
nvm got that issue resolved but now im confused as to where to put the wire.. in the instructions it says the lower of the 2 holes but i only see one on mine.. are they talking about the screw hole?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Mad Medik:
We are still talking about your phone, right? :D
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] :
My device didn't have a hole it was filled, but it still worked. It is not the hole the screw was in. Just pay close attention to where they are making contact on the video.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
i c wut u did thar.

Once you open the panel, there's a large gap. In the large gap, you should see some metal-coloured spots. You're aiming for the middle one.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Dl123:
I have a quick question if i get s-off will i loose all my data on the phone will the phone to do a factory reset or will it just be the way it is right now??I want to get s-off but i dont want to loose all of my data.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Marshmellow92:
It will be formatting your SD card
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Dl123:
but will the data on the phone itself stay or will it be factory reseted??Because i dont want to loose my rom and all the data and settings on my phone. Thank you
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] citsong:
I can't remember if I lost my data or not b/c I ended up flashing to ics once I had s-off. Best bet is to make a nandroid backup so you can go back to those settings if everything gets wiped. If you change the hboot it probably will wipe everything. If you like the way your phone is right now why do you want s-off? Probably just easier if you are happier with what you have at the moment to wait and do s-off when you are planning on changing everything like flashing a new rom or when you want the new hboot.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] rignfool:
I just did the s-off procedure the other day... Didn't lose anything on either internal or external sdcard
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] citsong:
Guess I was wrong. Thought with a change like that it would end up with a factory reset. Did you install a new HBoot or just keep your existing one?