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[HTC Amaze 4G] NeonMonster:
I was using CapROM's last Gingerbread rom. I believe it was based of the TMO 1.43 radio. And i was using the latest 0.4 Juopunutbear.

Should I try a earlier version of JB? Both my SD card and internal got wiped last night so I don't care if I use a older version of JB and it erases my cards.

Have you checked to make sure you have the latest HTC drivers installed? My laptop had SOME of the correct drivers, but it couldn't see my Amaze in Fastboot until I installed the correct drivers. ALSO do you have HTC Sync or another program that is stealing the ADB resources instead of Juopunutbear?

EDIT:

Okay, I'm having NEW problems. I'm on ICS Leak, with S-ON, and I just tried to use the Juopunutbear ICS. Instead of going to the normal Green Arrows screen, it goes to a Juopunutbear download screen. The prompt asks for the Wiretrick, and after doing it, phone reboots, and the prompt on JB goes back to the FINDING BEER, DO WIRETRICK. It repeated that 3x asking me to do the wire trick 3 times in a row, before my computer shows the USB drive as QSHUSB_DLOAD, then the phone completely shuts off and JB doesn't see it anymore.

I had to pull battery to turn it back on. Am I risking bricking my phone? The ICS version seems to be much different than GB version,

EDITEDIT:

I'm not sure how to get out of the JuopunutBear recovery screen? I flashed the ICS RUU from Bootloader again, but it still goes to the green/black screen.

Before I was flashing Fauxs Kernal through HansoonsAIO program to get out of the recovery screen. But now I don't have a ICS Kernal to flash to get out?
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
If u still want v0.1, send me a pm

Sent from my iced out HTC Ruby
[HTC Amaze 4G] frodoboy:
HTC sync is referring to your computer. If you have HTC Sync installed on your computer, uninstall it. Then make sure ADB is NOT running in Processes in Task Manager. Then try it again. Once I did that, got it on third try.
[HTC Amaze 4G] SBGS-FTW:
to recover ur SD, find a GParted iso and create a bootable disc or usb drive. follow the instructions and u should be good to go.

...

make sure u format the right drive.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jwds1978:
T-Mobile?

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Sent via Tapatalk 2 from my TELUS HTC Amaze 4G on the Fido network.
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
Ok, I'm about to give up on this. I have been trying for the last couple of days to get S-OFF, but have had no luck. This is as far as I have been able to get:

======== ControlBear version 0.2.2 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Connecting to device...

Found backups!

adb server is out of date. killing...

* 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.....

I have extracted the zip to it's own directory, and run ControlBear as Administrator, but can't get any further. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium x64, and my bootloader is unlocked. Any ideas are appreciated.
[HTC Amaze 4G] frodoboy:
When you say "extracted the zip in it's own directory" do you mean the ControlBear zip or the jbhboot.zip within controlbear? If you did the latter, you screwed up. It has to remain a zip. just trying to help...:confused:
[HTC Amaze 4G] arcadeon54:
i had energy rom and i got s-off on my first try vith version 0.2.2
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
Sorry, I meant the ControlBear zip.
[HTC Amaze 4G] NeonMonster:
Make sure the Control Bear you extracted should have THREE FILES. Controlbear, HBOOT, and BOOT. There should also be a MD5 file, and all three files should be checked to make sure the sums are the same. Otherwise, its probably corrupt. ALSO, make sure NONE of the files are renamed. Even the original folder that the files are unzipped to.

I'm considering trying to do JB again on my ICS rom, but honestly don't see much reason. The boot image changed when I flashed the rom in 4EXT anyway? So i'm not sure what the point in S-OFFing would be other than to flash kernals/radios in recovery.
[HTC Amaze 4G] InfinitiGuy:
Worked for me. I'm now at S-OFF after about 10 tries.
[HTC Amaze 4G] lamenramen:
What are the chances that S-Off will be obtainable using an easier method?

This seems hit or miss, and by quite a few "senior" members of this forum.

I'm not inclined to spend days trying to figure out why it's not working for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] misfit61871:
Yes you can OC/UC without s-off.

Sent from the morgue.
[HTC Amaze 4G] a.benjamin76:
and i can put custom roms on with just the root?
[HTC Amaze 4G] frodoboy:
yes
[HTC Amaze 4G] FrankRNC:
I had a lot of problems gaining S-Off with my first HTC Amaze, but eventually got there through trial and error (and a little XDA assist). I saw the change log for 0.4 and see that each of the issues I had on first phone were listed as corrected. Gave it a shot with 0.4 on my wifes HTC Amaze and sailed right through the procedure on one try. Took about 3 minutes.

Thank you for the update!
[HTC Amaze 4G] windcan:
s-off assistance

Hello I am looking for a bit more clarification and assistance before attempting to start this process for myself to feel comfortable and confident I can complete it.

I currently have my bootloader unlocked from HTC and am rooted with an Energy gingerbread ROM. I want s-off, to start with, but am not totally clear how to get there as well as what happens once I am s-off (i believe I will have to then re-unlock boot loader as well as re-root, then flash other ROMs likely too)?

I am also in Canada and on the Wind network. I understand you have to go back to stock rom before starting s-off process, is this right? If so I am not sure how to get there although I have downloaded what I think are 2 original ROMs for Wind but they are both "exe" files I don't know how to load ROMs like this as I have only flashed ROMs that are zip files via CWM recovery.

If there is someone out there that would be interested in helping me out for my situation I would be greatly appreciated. If taking this offline via PM or email is fine if preferred or appropriate.
[HTC Amaze 4G] romerovallin:
Is anyone able to help me? I keep getting this error.

Sent from my HTC Rover
[HTC Amaze 4G] frodoboy:
I did mine with Energy ROM installed. I don't know about Wind network. Don't think it makes a difference. You don't have to re-unlock with S-Off. That's the whole purpose of S-Off.

I'd use version .4 (latest), uninstall HTC Sync on your computer and kill adb in task manager and make sure your system sounds slider is up so you can hear a sound when you plug in the usb cable.

Also use a blank SD card or

back yours up

as it might get erased during the process.

Unzip ControlBear to the root of your computer and have the wire ready to go. Follow the directions.

When it says to do wire trick, put one end in the hole and leave it there.

Push other end down onto ground.

Wait for usb sound.

Lift up immediately and at same time say "one one thou>"

Immediately touch the wire to ground again just briefly and then put wire away. Then it should finish with no problem. If it doesn't take, just restart the program and try the wire trick again. As everyone says, timing is everything here!

Then, most are suggesting to put the Eng bootloader on the phone (instructions in OP) and then flash your ROM.
[HTC Amaze 4G] a.benjamin76:
something about putting a wire to my new phone and short circuiting it just doesnt sound too appealing lol. I'm sure its working for everyone, but i think i'll just wait a couple months to see if a new method comes out. thanks for all the hard work guys
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
what do you think happens every time you turn a light switch on or off? there won't be a new method...
[HTC Amaze 4G] a.benjamin76:
$5 light .....$600 phone . gaahhhh all this talk im reading up on is more and more convincing me to try it!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Just check for a sticker that might be over the needed pin before you start.

---------- Post added at 12:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:06 PM ----------

Do you have any other Android devices connected to your pc?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jaron001:
======== ControlBear 0.4 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Connecting to device...

Found backups!

Making room for beer......

Loading sixpacks on sdcard......

Loaded......

Do not remove sdcard from phone

Do wire-trick now!! Check the instructions at http://unlimited.io

Do not remove sdcard from phone

Do wire-trick now!! Check the instructions at http://unlimited.io

Do not remove sdcard from phone

Do wire-trick now!! Check the instructions at http://unlimited.io

Do not remove sdcard from phone

Do wire-trick now!! Check the instructions at http://unlimited.io

=== Waiting device....

(16/45)

Found device... Please wait...

it just stays at found device please wait any help?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jaron001:
S-OFF! all i did was tried to hold the wire with my left hand and hit the ground with my right. instead of holding with my right
[HTC Amaze 4G] inuyasha1999:
Everything was correct, but still couldn't get it to run properly. I'll try v0.4 sometime later to see if it will work for me. Thanks for your help.
[HTC Amaze 4G] romerovallin:
Nope. That's what's weird. Maybe I'll try another download. I could've gotten a bad one maybe. Or maybe restart my computer.

Sent from my HTC Rover
[HTC Amaze 4G] keji13:
Hey soo is that wire trick absolutely necessary n if so where would i get one of these wires? sorry for the noob questions just a little iffy bout the wire thing. im on S-On i just want ics theres a method with relocking the bootloader n reverting to stock recovery but im not sure if that means ill have stock ics with no root. id like to maintain root.

also how come my mom has htc sensation s-on and shes capable of flashing both ics and the firmware with no problem.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ferincr:
Take this from another noobie, from one noob to another...

If you don't know what you are doing the best thing you can do is go to page one and read through.

All the ninfo is here and been posted many times.

The only reason I'm saying this is because I got lucky with s-off even I read everything here if you don't know what are about to do and you get stuck like some people did you'll be freaking out.

Just my $0.02
[HTC Amaze 4G] darkmeridian:
Use coaxial cable. If you have the label of death, don't scrape it off. The circuit board comes off really easily. Instead, get a Torx 5 screw driver and take the cover off carefully and remove the sticker. Speaking from experience as a dude who scraped a damned hole onto the circuit board and will never have S-OFF. Lol.
[HTC Amaze 4G] kaabob:
U will loose root with a ICS RUU update, but will retain S-off if already obtained.

After ICS update: Unlock bootloader, flash custom recovery, flash superuser.zip for root.

Wait a sec... Same exact steps for root :P
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
oh man =(

sorry to hear that, so you couldn't even complete after removing the casing? ouch!
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
1. Have you tried running the "adb devices" command to see if it returns more than one device? It seems odd that it would say more than one device unless there is something else running.

2. Try "adb kill-server" and then run it again.

3. Do you have another PC you could try it on if that doesn't work?
[HTC Amaze 4G] darkmeridian:
I scraped the contact right off the board with a paperclip. So no s-off for me. Just be careful if you have the label.
[HTC Amaze 4G] mindspec808:
is there a mac version

or is the linux download the same....cant quite get this to open up in terminal getting this error

-bash: /Users/Mindspec/Downloads/ControlBearRelease_ruby_GB_LINUX/ControlBear: cannot execute binary file
[HTC Amaze 4G] brianbmb:
Trying to get the timing down on this but not having luck so far. Anyone have any idea why, after doing the wire trick, sometimes my phone boots back up by itself and sometimes it doesn't?

It will stay powered off and other times it powers back up just like it is supposed to do.

Edit: Ok, apparently I'm just dumb. Could not get it after many attempts. Finally gave up. If anyone lives in the Jacksonville, FL area and wants to help me out there is a case of beer in it for you.
[HTC Amaze 4G] napajs13:
It's all a timing thing. When I tried it about 5 times, I wanted to give up. It took about 12 times for me to get it. When I finally did get it, I pressed a little harder on the grounding side when I swiped and it worked. Some people get it fast, some take a hundred times. :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] sharmy3:
+1

Its the timing thing. It took me about 50 times and 2 different pieces of wires. Patience, patience.. :)

---Sharmy
[HTC Amaze 4G] neo2020:
htc vivid s-off

I have gotten s-off. installed juo hboot, but phone says network locked. Sim network unlock pin? Anyone can help me with this?

Juopunut bear

holiday pvt ship s-off rl

hboot 1.85.2525

microp-0360

openADSP v02.6.0.2226.00.0202

emmc-boot
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1612475
[HTC Amaze 4G] Bicster_:
S-OFF worked fine with beastmod v2.2.0. Thanks!

I used a wire from a breadboarding kit. It was necessary to apply a lot of pressure to the contact point to make it work, but I did it on the 2nd attempt.
[HTC Amaze 4G] NeonMonster:
Does anyone know the difference between the JB for ICS and GB??

I never got the strange Juopunutbear green download screen until I used JB for the ICS leak.
[HTC Amaze 4G] neo2020:
I update the hboot to 1.93.2222? still locked network?

I see I should be on 1.93.0002 but flashed the wrong file i guess. I get writing hboot then failed (remote: image error) platform check fail with 1.93.002zip.

This is for a htc VIVID for At&t (anyone have 1.93.0002 for att) And how to downgrade hboot now? plenty thanks
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
Vivid? You're in the wrong place I think...
[HTC Amaze 4G] Flipnfr3ak:
ok i give up already.......ive been trying all day to s-off and i cant get it.......i just got my phone back to from tmobile after bricking the first one trying to s-off.....anyone from hawaii can help me out???
[HTC Amaze 4G] blitz911:
Sucks that you bricked it man..I tried for like 10 hours and still couldn't get it:confused:. I always got stuck with "Found device..please wait.." I just wanted to get the arrows off the screen and use the phone, so I flashed Faux123's kernel from the toolkit and it booted up fine after that. I'm done trying to get s-off for now..but i may try again soon..
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
I think I have a dead phone. I touched the ground longer than two seconds and now the phone won't turn on. It won't charge, or even get to bootloader. It's like there's no battery installed.

Are there any solutions that you might know of? Still hoping that it's not bricked since I just bought the phone to someone in CL used.

I'm doubt if tmobile will entertain and give me a replacement phone since my phone has a small scratch on the side. They might think that I dropped the phone or something similar.

I'm clueless now. Just crossing my fingers that someone here had the same situation as mine and got his phone working again without sending the phone back to tmobile.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Flipnfr3ak:
guess what? not to be rude or mean but this happen to me. i had to send it back to tmobile.....:( but hyuh them suggested that you leave everything out, sd card, sim card, battery and battery cover off for at least 24 hrs.....and see if it turns on. if it doesnt then try leaving it on the charge for about an hour after.....if that doesnt work then try with a new battery.....if that still doesnt work then all hope is gone......i spent an entire day on IRC with them trying
[HTC Amaze 4G] Y2Ne1:
i jut got this amaze a week ago had the N1 n well i WANT to s-off but not with no wire trick sorry dont feel like begging people for money :P worked 78hours to pay for this phone myself ..... i'll just wait till someone else can make a easy 1-2-3 steps b4 i s-0ff ....i do wanna thank all the developers who made this s-off possible YOU GUYS ARE EPIC :D but i'll wait a YEAR if i have to to have s-off lmfao :rolleyes: i just dont wanna F this phone up ........ btw im on energy rom GB version trying to go ICS :p gonna install Speed Rom ICS 2.2.0 then try the new ICS Energy rom ....
[HTC Amaze 4G] bige914:
It fukin worked success

Thx to this great dev my wonderful phone has been s-off'd only took me 3 try's, im very happy! Cant wait to install ics on this baby yeeeehhhhaaaaaa!!! :d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d
[HTC Amaze 4G] stixzadinya:
Same thing happened to me last night. Did the wire trick but my phone never booted back up. It was basically bricked (nothing I did turned it on). Pissed, I removed everything and got my phone ready to send back for a warranty exchange but then I read Flipnfr3ak's post and thought give it one more chance. I've put the battery back in and now it's ALIVE!!! Though, it doesn't boot into the stock ROM but I can get to HBOOT and recovery.

chauza01, try Flipnfr3ak's suggestions and leave everything out for at least 12 hours (this is what I did) and give it another try. It worked for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Really?? That's good news then. Did you also touched the ground longer that what said on the instructions?

---------- Post added at 09:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:37 PM ----------

T-Mobile couldn't help me regarding the warranty since I am not the one who bought the phone from them. My option is to call HTC for warranty. Anyone here had an experience with their warranty service? How long will it take for them to send a replacement phone?

Still waiting for few more hours before I try to put the battery back in. I hope it will power on this time.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Marquis63:
Me to first try, now my Hboot screen reads

JuopunutBear

Ruby pvt ship S-OFF RL

HBoot-1.93.2222

OpenADSP-v02.60.2226.00.0202

eMMC-boot

MAR 15 2012:21:46:51

I applied the JBear hboot, maybe that's why its not Hboot1.93.0002

And I'm still rooted WOOT:)
[HTC Amaze 4G] stixzadinya:
I counted "one one thousand" but I think the second time I tried to touch the ground I accidentally lifted up the wire touching the pin . I'm going to try again tonight.

Good luck with your phone!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
No options left

So like I said, T-Mobile can't help me with the warranty as I am not the one who bought the phone from them. Called HTC and said that they are not sending replacement or new phones, they will just repair my phone.

I will have to send my phone to them, then they will troubleshoot the issue and see if the problem is covered by the limited warranty. I am not sure about that since I did this wire trick and unlocked my bootloader through their website.

I'm almost hopeless now. I need to wait 10 more hours before I can try to put the battery back in. Since two members here got their phone working again by doing that, I think I have a different issues. Flipnfr3ak posted that when he connects the phone to his PC without the battery, the screen flickers or something similar. In my case, there is none. Nothing happens at all. That gives me the idea that your phones are just semi-bricked. While mine is totally dead.

I just bought this phone a week ago, and now I got a brick just because I followed the wire trick instructions incorrectly. I don't know what to do now. Really frustrated and hopeless about what happened. Still glad that most of you guys here didn't brick your phones.

---------- Post added at 10:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:12 PM ----------

So when you realized that your phone is bricked, what happens when you try to charge it? Does the led lit up? How about connecting the phone to PC with or without battery?

In my case, whatever I do, there's no sign of life. Charge it to wall charger - led would not lit. I even left it plugged in for more than five hours. Removed the battery and plugged to PC, same thing happens.

Now, I'm just waiting for few more hours to see if your suggestion will solve my problem. Just remove both battery and cover and let it sit for 12 hours? Then plug the battery and try again?

Technically, I don't know if that would make my phone boot up again. But since you guys had successfully revive your phones by doing that, I'll just follow what you said.

Thanks
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
well even though small, devices have capacitors which can store a charge for hours... you can possibly speed up the discharge by pressing the buttons on the phone while the battery, sim and sd card are removed... namely the power button...
[HTC Amaze 4G] stixzadinya:
chauza01, my phone was dead as a doornail. Nothing worked... no light, no screen flicker, computer never registered it... nooooothing no matter what I did. Since it was a replacement phone, I figured to return it so I put it back in it's box removing everything from the phone.

By chance I decided to see if I can turn it on and it just worked. I about **** myself in disbelief when I saw my phone boot up but after reading benjamminzIS post I believe that's exactly what happened. The charge in my phone dissipated enough to work again. Just wait it out and for some reason it doesn't turn on after the twelfth hour, wait a little bit more.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Wow! That's great to hear then. Will post results tomorrow morning. :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] dcmtnbkr:
Did you ever try this and if so did it work? If you dont want to try it, i have a dead pixel with insurance and wouldnt mind sending my phone back for a new one if this didnt work.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Flipnfr3ak:
im glad i was the first one that bricked the amaze and still the only one after of doing the s-off..... i left my phone of the charge and everything removed for 36 hours!! lol. nothing happened.....my phone even stopped flicking..... when my replacement came in i even tried one last time to get it booting and it did nothing......anyways....dont thank me...thank hyuh and the crew for helping me out. i think if i wasnt the first one that screwed up then it might have been possible that you guys would have been stuck....
[HTC Amaze 4G] mayoni:
This is great. I've S-OFFed. Then I had to unlock the phone again, and do the superCID. Everything is great!
[HTC Amaze 4G] stixzadinya:
I was able to get S-Off. At first it gave me an error code: 66732337 but I just closed out the cmd prompt and retired it again... took about 4 tries.

chauza01, you can do it, man!!! I believe :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Marquis63:
Obviously if you're on a GB Rom use the GB JBear, if you're on the leaked ICS Rom use the ICS Jbear, READ,READ,READ and Read again, PUUleeeeese! I'm 65yrs Old, barely computer literate, and I have the Common sense to Read if I don't know. Not Flaming you, just saying use your brain :-)
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
unlocking is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY after s-off... why do people keep doing it??? :confused:
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
Mostly a vanity thing. Got to remember, we were not able to do much to this phone for a while so, whatever we can now, we will I guess.
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
if you're going to do something "more" install the jb_hboot... at least THAT gives you more functionality... honestly... I'm scratching my head over here... lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Hahaha! The phone turns on! Will have to do wire trick again..
[HTC Amaze 4G] chauza01:
Looks good!
[HTC Amaze 4G] desenuts:
idk if anybody has said this yet but this process is alot easier when you have flat tips. like use a paper clip thats your best bet. i got it done on the first try with the paper clip.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Flipnfr3ak:
IM having doubts now you guys.....good to see your phone is working again. I'm worried about my exchange now..... But I just Couldn't get mines started.....haha and you got s off....
[HTC Amaze 4G] aladdiniii:
Took me about 23 attempts to get to work, but it did. Using the solid core of a coaxial cable helped.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stixzadinya:
Attaboy!! We're like Dr. Frankenstein resurrecting our Amaze monsters from the dead :D