yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
What do you mean? My exchange is also on its way now. Any chance that we cannot apply s-off on our new phones??
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Yeah, I used paper clip too. And of course, the perfect timing to touch the ground. :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] underamoon:
Can I do the same thing that the exe for S-Off does, in the terminal? What commands would I use.
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
no....
[HTC Amaze 4G] Flipnfr3ak:
I thought you're phone is working? Anyways I have my new amaze now and

I just kept s on and flashed the leak.....I was trying s off But. Still couldn't get it lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] ming3r:
Just ran it...it didn't delete my SD card. Sweet.
[HTC Amaze 4G] dcmtnbkr:
So, I'm going to try this tonight with the stock rom, the stock bootloader, and the stock recovery. Anybody think this should cause a problem?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
I agree with you but people will do what people can. Doesn't matter one way or the other. It is there personal preference.
[HTC Amaze 4G] defmute:
Quick tip: Before even attempting the wire step, sit there with a stop watch and come up with a word/phase to make sure you have the right timing.

Example: you can't count 1mississippi and have it work, but you could count one-miss-iss-ipp-i.

Difference being where you say the phrase as 1 word in just under a second vs casually saying each syllable.

This is completely obvious, but I bet very few people (and almost everyone who had trouble) didn't do this prior to starting.
[HTC Amaze 4G] keawai:
Wow! Thanks for S-OFF!

Thanks for figuring this method out.

I ran through it three times and probably was a little off on the wire timing. But I didn't count at all, tapped once when the program stated to, and it seemed to run through the program seamlessly each time and then received S-OFF on the third try.

Thanks again!!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Opentang:
Whenever I flash jb_hboot.zip from the download section on http://unlimited.io/hboot-downloads/, after typing "fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip" it starts to load and the progress bar sticks at roughly 75% and never completes, thoughts?

Edit* after several attempts of flashing the .zip, I let it sit on 75% for roughly 5 minutes, never fully completed. Typed the command "fastboot reboot" and phone rebooted correctly. Went back into the bootloader and sure enough, SHIP S-OFF (1.93.2222)!
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
YES I GOT S-OFF HOLY JESUSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best MOMENT OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Guys help :( after i S-OFFd it keeps bringing me to Juponutbeat Screen
[HTC Amaze 4G] phanompin23:
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Made my day!
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
haha -_- but seriously what do i need to do, i flashed a rom and it keeps bringing me to that screen -_-
[HTC Amaze 4G] Clom801:
Any way we could get root without going through HTC? Anyone working on a method. I just got my amaze
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
Have you installed a custom recovery? I had to install CWM before I could run a rom.
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
i installed a rom with 4EXT

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Yea NVM, i had to use CWM because 4EXT needs to know if my device is S-ON or not :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
All good and up and running?
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
yup

Hboot ENG S-OFF

ICS Radio

Speed Rom 2.3.0 :D

i never had a "Heart Attack" S-OFF method like this before so this is a first for me XD
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
I agree, I just feel so lucky that I got it very quick. Glad your done with it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] bilek06:
yes, you're done:D:D

Thank you very much for this work ;);)

Amaze 4G : Juopunutbear S-OFF & CID is 11111111 :D:D:rolleyes:
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
congrats man! bout time you took the leap :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
:D glad i did, good thing once you start you have to finish, if not i might of quit half way
[HTC Amaze 4G] KnowledgeBroker:
Do you mean unlock bootloader? Root works just fine and has nothing to do with HTC.. neither does S-off. The only think that we need them for is unlocking bootloader, and that works fine too.

If you are looking for root(as in what you type wasn't a typo) there are tons of posts that explain how in the leaked ICS thread.

And I will say, even though you just got your amaze- you have to use that search button-- there are tons of posts explaining anything you might want to do, and they aren't buried very deep.. just use the right search terms or go to the threads that say something like "look here FIRST for ICS"..
[HTC Amaze 4G] RavenII:
2 quesions...is this S-Off permanent? (like unrEVOked Forever's S-Off?) anddd...is there a way to revert to S-On? JUST in case?

I just bought an Amaze for my girl...it's HBOOT-1.90.0008
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
all that is for is to determine how it handles the flashing of kernels... it doesn't effect anything else...

if you answer yes to s-on then it uses the "smartflash" trick to flash the kernel with an extra reboot... but if you answer no then it just handles the kernel as you are used to with other s-off devices... but the "s-on" method works for both s-on, or s-off, doesn't matter.... just wanted to clarify... as I seriously doubt having CWM is a requirement, actually I know so, because I had 4EXT installed when I S-OFF'd
[HTC Amaze 4G] C@rn@ge:
For some reason I have the urge to go drink beer after doing this s-off thing. Weird really...

As for the wire, I used the original twist tie that came with the Amaze in box that held the usb cable together. Happy "s-oofing".:D
[HTC Amaze 4G] Jaimesco12:
How can i get insulated wire can i strip down some usb cables lol? and will this bulletproof v2.5.0 unlocked?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
You can use a coated paperclip also.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Accophox:
Arguably, you probably could get away with a paperclip wrapped in scotch tape even. I did my S-OFF without any sort of insulation on the paperclip, though I did make sure to touch a grounded surface first though.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Clom801:
Uh, to get root don't you have to go THROUGH HTC to unlock the bootloader? I have not seen any other way.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I'm rooted ics with a "locked" bootloader... S=off :D

Sent from my HTC Ruby running Sense 3.6
[HTC Amaze 4G] EclipzeRemix:
S-OFF is the same as unlocking bootloader.....and much more...............MUCH MUCH more
[HTC Amaze 4G] windcan:
few questions just to confirm

I have read through all the posts and am about to try to get s off.

few questions just to confirm if someone can help me, thanks

-the download tool windows gb md 5 vs windows ics md5, you choose the one appropriate to your current rom prior to getting s off correct?

-how do you "verify" it after you download it?

-how do i know if i have the most current fastboot and adb drivers?

thanks very much
[HTC Amaze 4G] Clom801:
If you have s-off you have unlocked you're bootloader. Did you go through HTC? Cause if you did your warranty is now void. :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] ryuken11221:
What's the point in having a unlocked boot loader if you have s-off oh and if you unlocked it with HTC before and are now relocked does that mean my warranty is back in place
[HTC Amaze 4G] govindar77:
Hi all -

I performed S-Off on my Amaze, successfully, but when it asked me if I wanted to flash H-Boot file, I chose NO.

Now when I try to flash a radio.img file, I get an error.

I see on other forums that I needed to flash the custom HBoot file. Any way to do it now, after the fact?

Thanks,
[HTC Amaze 4G] C@rn@ge:
Download the current os you're on. If your phone is gb download gb.

It will say s-off when you're on bootloader.

If your phone can be detected when you run juopunut then you're fine.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Clom801:
I don't think so
[HTC Amaze 4G] Freediver:
See this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25177626&postcount=148
[HTC Amaze 4G] C@rn@ge:
How are you flashing the radio file? Recovery or bootloader?
[HTC Amaze 4G] ed116:
Quick Question: If i install the S-OFF and my device bricks mid S-OFF, aka does not turn on anymore, could i send it in to HTC For repair?
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
just do it ed, youll be fine. i think theres only 1 known case of being bricked beyond recovery. get on with it man :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] windcan:
is it just my timing?

Hi,

I cannot get through the s-off process.

I either:

1-complete the second wire touch and it cycles through with error code saying s-off failed, still sober, ...

or

2 - after second wire tap it hangs saying found device ... wait ... and nothing happens

I also have the green arrow and phone image stuck on my screen

is it safe to assume I have everything else right, adb, fastboot drivers, wire length and gauge, I uninstalled htc sync (htc drivers still installed), I kill adb process prior to attempting s-off

I have tried so many times and I find it hard to believe I have been off every time with timing.

Thanks I appreciate any help I can get
[HTC Amaze 4G] defmute:
This happened to me as well, took 30 minutes of resetting and retrying.

Once I sat down with a stop watch and practiced touching twice in the 1.75 seconds I got it almost immediately the next time I actually did it.

Just practice the timing first.
[HTC Amaze 4G] windcan:
I finally got it

what my problem was from what I can deduce was that i had other or too many other programs open while doing the wire trick. as soon as i closed everything else and did it, it worked.

if you are having problems, give this a try

unfortunately i am now stuck part way through supercid :(

crossing my fingers
[HTC Amaze 4G] tha23kidd:
If I flashed the lastest ICS RUU can I still use this method to obtain s-off
[HTC Amaze 4G] F033x:
unlimited.io

the newest beta supports ics,

took me like 4 seconds to search
[HTC Amaze 4G] tha23kidd:
My bootloader says s-off but trying to flash the juopunut bear h boot with fastboot command I get remote: access denied anybody know what could be the issue
[HTC Amaze 4G] F033x:
there could be a number of reasons why its giving you that error, best thing to do is just rename to PH85IMG.ZIP and flashing the hboot through bootloader when its loaded on your ext_sd.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stevedebi:
Actually, the warning on HTC is that it MAY void your warranty. They are worried about people bricking their phones. If you have a hardware part that dies, like the buttons, the screen backlight, or that sort of thing, people have in fact gotten warranty service from HTC to fix those issues.
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
That's because you have to have the jb-hboot to use that command... As the other person said you must flash as an update zip

sent on a mastadon by way of intercontinental epic journey
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
Well...I have tried with all versions to get S-OFF on my Amaze with no luck. I have only gotten as far as the wire trick one time, and now just this:

======== ControlBear 0.4 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Rebooting from bootloader

Waiting...

...Waiting

Detecting...Starting up......

Connecting to device...

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.....

I have tried rebooting the phone into fastboot, tried again without rebooting into fastboot, tried adb kill-server from another elevated command prompt with all of the above...all with no luck. For whatever reason, and I have not seen anyone else say they have had to do this, I have to adb push the jb_boot.img to /data/local/tmp/ or it will just quit and say to press ENTER to exit. I am about to just give up on this, but will ask for help this last time. If anyone has any suggestions, I am open to give them a try. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 if that matters.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Clom801:
I got the error: old beer detected fatal error. #sad panda # :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Any solution?

Ok, my replacement phone arrived today (I ordered one cause I thought I bricked mine, but managed to fixed it), running 2.3.4 (if I'm not mistaken).

Since Android Revolution rom requires s-off, I tried to do it "again." Managed to unlock my bootloader and root the phone. Now, when I reach the "wire-trick" stage, I always ended up getting a "still sober" result. Believe it or not, I've tried it for more than fifty times. That's more than seven hours of trying and I cannot get the phone out of that green arrow thing.

Now, I just wanted to use the phone even without s-off, so I flashed Android Revolution even I'm s-on thinking it would make the phone out of the green arrow loop.

It didn't work. I successfully flashed the rom, but I'm still on the green arrow loop. How can I get past that thing?

Or should I ask, how can we cancel the processs of doing this s-off? It's looping on that part because the wire-trick is not successful. Meaning, if I didn't manage to do it right, my phone is useless.

Now that the stock 2.3.4 tmobile rom was overwritten by Android Revolution, and I'm stuck on the green arrow loop, what can I do to make my phone back???
[HTC Amaze 4G] govindar77:
I believe you boot to bootloader and flash a recovery. That should fix your problem. First unlock your bootloader, though.

To flash recovery - Use the PH85IMG.zip in the root of the external SD card method. Or you could flash using fastboot. Or you could use this - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20988390&postcount=3

EDIT - I'd use the last method I posted. In fact, at the bottom of the post is a link to an all-in-one toolkit that might be easiest to use.

Good Luck!
[HTC Amaze 4G] thendless:
I spent the last 4 days trying to get S-OFF and i was able to do it within 3 minutes after switching over to my 10 foot coax cable. I highly recommend people try this cable out first, other types of wires did not work at all for me. I spent so much time reading the 70 some pages in this thread and searching the whole forum constantly. I tried absolutely everything and i can say i am an expert at the process now hahah... However all this time probably would have been saved if I had just used the coax cable at start.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Thanks for your help. What I did was, relocked my bootloader and installed tmobile official ICS (PH85IMG.zip).

Phone works now, but my sd card is useless. I believe controlbear will restore it to its state when you manage to do s-off right?

Is there any commands to do that without doing s-off?

I need my files on my sd card.

I also deleted the backups that was made by controlbear since it was for GB. Now that I have ICS, I downloaded the one for it.

Will controlbear still be able to fix my sd card even without the backups that was previously made by controlbear(GB version)??

I know, I should have made a backup of the sd card, but when I did it on my first amaze, controlbear manages to restore my sd card to its working state.
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
I need beer now seriously

OMG IS FINALLY OVER ＼(◎o◎)／

I tried for a whole day and last night, here are my findings if you get the screen with the looping arrows it will never work at least it didnt for me, you have to get the screen with one arrow pointing down, I switched to a faster SD card class 6, I did get the phone wont turn on several times first time I shat my pants, all you have to do is pull usb pull batt wait 2 secs... put batt then hold power for 6 to 10 seconds or

do the wire trick once and it will restart the phone

. if your phone turns into fastboot first it's not going to work at least for me it didnt.

worked fine with the following:

recovery: 4EXT touch 1.0.0.5 RC3

ROM: Quicksense 3.0.0

Kernel: Faux v13 or 008b13

energy ROM did not work for me I believe only because juopunutBear flashed bad only my guess now since the looping arrows mean you need to redo the process I'm guessing that as well.

if you're stuck and want to quit trying or have the looping arrows fastboot flash boot and recovery images that ControlBear did for you, then try again later.

this might be my last HTC since the good old win mobile HTC days if they don't get their act together and let me own my device, sorry but you will break your devices song is old and rancid.

PS I also fell victim of SD card wipe but totally my fault my laziness fault

I'm going to frame my wire as well we are best friends now :D

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flash your backups that controlbear.exe did put the phone in bootloader "fastboot" then do this:

fastboot flash boot boot_backup.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery_backup.img

this will restore it back

Edit: oops sorry skiped your last post, I'll leave this here for reference thou.
[HTC Amaze 4G] tha23kidd:
You can also use controlbear -f using command prompt it flashed the backups back to the phone
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
now you tell me :eek:

edit: how come nobody is listing the success in what rom kernel recovery, I only saw a brief energy rom ok and I tried 4 different roms somewhere else, it would of been nice when I started reading at page 1

edit: I'm going to frame my wire as well we are best friends now :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] tha23kidd:
My bad lol I hadn't checked the forum but now hopefully people will see my post I was stuck with the three arrows but used controlbear -f with command prompt and booted right back into the Rom I was using before attempting s-off
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
just for the sdcard

I tried those commands, but it will only restore my recovery and boot. Not the "sdcard.img"

I hope there's a solution for this..
[HTC Amaze 4G] tha23kidd:
Did you not back up to pc?
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
No, that's why I'm finding a way to restore it back.
[HTC Amaze 4G] 3oudreaux:
Worked for me, finally. I had to unplug usb and take the battery out a few times to get it to run control bear but in the end it worked. If you cant get it my advice is to try different wire(paperclip worked for me) and be patient. That and a stop watch can help with getting the timing down. Good luck.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ben200451:
Starting to get soo pissed off, could someone please help me? I keep running into this problem as this is as far as I can get.

======== ControlBear 0.4 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Old beer detected...... Please wait......

Rebooting from bootloader

Waiting...

...Waiting

Detecting...Starting up......

Connecting to device...

Backing up......

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

Transferring backups....

Backup ok!!

* daemon not running. starting it now *

* daemon started successfully *

Cannot open file /data/local/tmp/jb_boot.img

Using eMMC dev /dev/block/mmcblk0

Using MMC dev /dev/block/mmcblk1

Boot partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p22

Recovery partition is /dev/block/mmcblk0p23

Is information correct? You have 5 seconds time to press CTRL+C

Finding some beer.....

Found first....

No Juopunutbear boot image found

Failed at (2.1) step....

Cannot enter JuopunutBear boot-mode

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....

What do I do to keep going and get around this?
[HTC Amaze 4G] dave99999:
Thanks to all--First Try Success!

I've been reading everything here for a week.

I had a completely stock Amaze, upgraded to the first ICS leak.

Today, I rooted following Binary's instructions.

Then, I very carefully followed the S-Off instructions to the letter, and success.

Points I think helped:

1: a regular paperclip with central section covered in packing tape

2: I uninstalled HTC Sync

3: I had a metronome going at 34bpm to time the wire trick. I didn't let the USB disconnect sound change my timing--just went with the metronome.

All went smooth as butter.

Thanks to all of you for making me brave enough to try this. To those who are nervous, just read EVERYTHING.

With gratitude to everyone of the 750+ preceding posts, to the unlimited.io team, and all of XDA.
[HTC Amaze 4G] zPacKRat:
unlocked? rooted?
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
This is the same issue I was having where I ended up using abd push to push the file to the location above(/data/local/tmp/), but still can't manage to get S-OFF. After pushing the file to /data/local/tmp/ it went further, but stopped, and trying to run it again only gets me this:

I had to re-lock the bootloader, flash the stock RUU to get my phone off of the green arrow screen, unlock the bootloader again, flash the recovery again, and then restore my backup. I'd like to get S-OFF, but am stuck. Any help is appreciated.
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
H

Looks like your adb is not working, try to update it or disable your firewall if any, did you ever installed the fast boot driver?

Edit sorry I saw that it is rebooting from fastboot

Unzip the folder in a clean location and try again don't delete your old folder with your backups
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
I've tried from different folders several times before, and got the same results. The adb is extracted to a temp folder automatically by the controlbear.exe file.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ben200451:
Bootloader is unlocked

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Nothings working -_-, part of the problem is that Im really a noob at this kind of stuff. Anyone in the Saskatoon sk area? I will personally pay you money to do this for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
did you guys tried / updated adb? to the current one, the other error is odd not getting ACK is firewall issue, the one other by some reason the adb gets killed by the OS once you start the adb on cmd / command it doesnt need to restart

my bad if you did all those obvious things already
[HTC Amaze 4G] ben200451:
What do you mean update adb?
[HTC Amaze 4G] dgrwe2512:
Awesome! Worked on the second try, you da MAN!

edit.... By the way, I never could see ADB under device manager, don't even think it installed. Only thing that showed up there was "My HTC" and I decided to try it anyway and it worked just fine. On my first attempt I had the wire on the SD slot "GND" , and tried to touch the pin twice but the hole was to small to get it in the second time fast enough. So on my second attempt, I left the wire on the pin, counted 1 second and bumped the GND again, success! Thanks to everyone who worked on this!
[HTC Amaze 4G] marcusivany:
Has anyone else had the trouble where it doesn't even start and just says "critical error: files are missing" ?
[HTC Amaze 4G] josefgabriel:
SD card now showing 128K capacity?

Tried to get S off for like half an hour. Would find the device every time and I would try for a while then start over. Finally I said I will just try to go back to where I was. Not I put the 16G card into an external reader and its showing 16K capacity. Tried several ways to reformat. Any ideas?

I let android reformat it. Worked.
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
I finally have S-OFF on my Amaze! I decided to try from my fiancee's computer instead of mine, and I got it in 2 tries. For whatever reason, ControlBear didn't like my computer, which is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, so I decided to try from her's, which is running Vista Home Basic 32-bit. Thanks to those who tried to help me with the problems I was having earlier!
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
open android sdk manager then it'll show you if there is updates, update your tools

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thats odd download the package again, and/or can you post the whole error that you get in the terminal/console
[HTC Amaze 4G] ben200451:
Yeah its updated, I think im giving up and going to but the Galaxy SIII, this really sucks.
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
I'm not sure if this is possible, but have you tried doing this while windows is in safe-mode? (ie: very minimal amount of anything running that could possibly interfere?)

also, what are you using for a wire? (I apologize if you've answered this already)
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
Or

:D

Don't give up something is wrong with your computer try on another one, I felt that way too after trying for a whole day this is so poorly documented it's not funny I think I'm the only one that listed in what combination it worked also just learned about the controlbear -f to redo the backups