yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Try a different version? I tried unsuccessfully with v1.2 and 2.1... Got it to work fine with v0.1

Sent from my HTC Ruby running Sense 3.6
[HTC Amaze 4G] cdnsniper827:
still no S=OFF :(

I keep getting this message:

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

Starting up......

Connecting to device...

Backing up......

/system/bin/su: permission denied

Transferring backups....

Secondary backup FAILED!!

Press ENTER to exit.....

antivirus is deactivated

phone is rooted and htc unlocked

Edit: Finally got it to backup... but now

Found device... Please wait...

Getting into bar.....

Raising Glass

SUCCESS - Taking a sip.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Buddies and Beer

Checking alcohol level......

Let's take one more......

S-OFF Failed

Errorcode: 66732337

ErrorMsg: Still sober

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....

every time.... its been about 10 times now... -_-
[HTC Amaze 4G] raefqadamani:
PLZ HELP>>> i have this msg in the picture below

and my AMAZE 4g info:

_____________________

****UNLOCKED****

RUBY PVT SHIP S-ON RL

HBOOT-1.90.0008

eMMC-boot

Nov 1 2011,16:50:47

_______________________
[HTC Amaze 4G] jgro1976:
Regarding J-bear's hboot, is it recommended? Can it be flashed later on? What benefits does it offer over the stock?

Edit: never mind, flashed it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] btr:
WooHoo! S-off. :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] marcusivany:


I tried downloading it a few more times and it keeps coming back with the same error every time. Not sure if the error said much more than that, I'm currently out of town but I can check when I get home
[HTC Amaze 4G] terahybrid:
you just are getting the wire trick timming wrong it took me 3 days to get it right, also if you have green looping arrows do controlbear -f to redo the process also try switching to a faster sd card at least 6 class

if your phone is rooted thats odd, do you have adb and flashboot drivers installed in your computer?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Y2Ne1:
tips on s-off

1st ... get the All in one kit

2nd .. find any wire that's rubber coated like pc wire i used the wire from a pc fan wire

3rd... look at the pic on what pin to use

4th.... let it do it's job takes ONLY 5min to get it done 2 mins if you done it b4 ;)

THanks For reading n learning a few tricks

NOW stay S-Off :cool:
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I used a twist tie from a loaf of bread... Worked great in case u don't have any spare wire
[HTC Amaze 4G] Zen2G:
If using windows make sure to run the program as admin.
[HTC Amaze 4G] DJ_Caibel:
I'm not so sure I'm down for hotwiring a phone... there's gotta be a more standard way of getting S-Off
[HTC Amaze 4G] electech_poc:
Can't wait to tell my coworker we can get s-off on his amaze! Thanks for kicking ass!
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
looks like JuopunutBear is famous ;)

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...-and-mytouch-4g-slide-thanks-to-juopunutbear/
[HTC Amaze 4G] BiznessMan:
How you people figure this **** out is beyond me. Wow

Good job getting this to work! Hoping to see some development finally come out of this neat little device
[HTC Amaze 4G] vrracing:
After a failed first try, my device rebooted and now ADB can't find it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] dharvey4651:
Seems I messed up pretty good... I tried to run the app and after numerous failed attempts, it finally started doing it's thing and then quit. Now I'm stuck in that screen that looks like a phone with an arrow and can't boot back into Android or into Recovery. I'm not entirely sure what to do to fix this... Anyone up for helping?
[HTC Amaze 4G] phoenix79:
I'm still wondering if it actually requires HTC unlock. Originally in the test thread, it didn't. Now it says it does
[HTC Amaze 4G] 2kwic25:
hope you backed up your sd card before doing this i think thats the only way you can get back into recovery i didnt do mine and was stuck on the same screen but i kept trying like 5 times before i did it right i didnt have the best wire either
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
did you see my post above? as long as you have that screen, you can keep running the program to retry the "wire trick"...
[HTC Amaze 4G] 2kwic25:
i cut up a old yellow Ethernet cord and used one of the wires from it and it worked for me it was thin but i cut both end so i can have a little wire showing and twist the one end i was using to make 2 clean contacts and BAM it wasnt sober anymore
[HTC Amaze 4G] kronickhigh:
Worked great, thank you

Did take a few tries though, but very happy with the results
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
took me about 6 or 7 tries to get the timing right, but I finally got it to work! Hot damn! Now I'm going to install me a custom splash screen. :D

Also I'm donating $100 to you guys! Thanks so much!
[HTC Amaze 4G] ThaPirato:
Awesome job ;) It took a few attempts but I'm happily S-OFF(though i didn't backup sdcard & lost everything but meh idc) i used a empty sd card then put my original card back in & it was empty.Like a few people said MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR SD CARD 1ST or you will lose everything like me it seems. :eek:
[HTC Amaze 4G] dj tray:
The wire from a bread bag can be used for the wire trick :D thats what i used
[HTC Amaze 4G] Opentang:
I'm having the same issue? No matter how many attempts
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
You literally have to get the timing down perfect. quick touch, wait 1.75 seconds, quick touch again. I had to try about 7 times, but it will work as soon as you get it down.
[HTC Amaze 4G] KnowledgeBroker:
It is funny, but I'm not at all concerned about this process, I'm only concerned if someone makes a rom that messed up the radio or something else important..

I'm all for more development, but until it starts happening I'd rather keep my phone's perma-condom on.

Besides, I could still flash any rom that gets developed with a few extra steps couldn't I? I don't care about splash screen in the least.. only new roms.
[HTC Amaze 4G] xxquicksh0txx:
You don't flash radios when you flash a Rom, you have to do that in bootloader.

That's how its been on all of my older phones anyways...
[HTC Amaze 4G] KnowledgeBroker:
My samsung vibrant you could flash radios and everything in recovery, there was none of this s-off and bootloader stuff.. those were the good old days, lol.
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
I think S-OFF is only in HTC phones (HTC HBoot/bootloader thing) if I'm not mistaken.
[HTC Amaze 4G] vrracing:
after trying to get this to work for a while now, adb still cant find my device unless it is in recovery. once in recovery i noticed it cant mount cache/recovery/log, cache/recovery/last_log and a few others. anyone have an idea as to what happened or how i might fix this?

edit:in my mounts and storage menu, i get error mounting messages for everything.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
Not unless you know something no one else does. This is it for now.
[HTC Amaze 4G] krook6023:
It's not hotwiring it's a wire trick...smh
[HTC Amaze 4G] j181:
What is the modified hboot? Is it better to use it over the one that is already on the phone? I noticed it at the end of the process and I noticed it is available as a seperate download on the juoponut website, but I have no idea weather I should use it or not. I did a lot of searching, but I cant find anything that really talks about the modified hboot.

Also, would I need the stock version of ics to install the modified hboot? I am currently on the stock GB rom, but I plan on installing one of the custom ics roms.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Hotwiring? Lmao doh'kay

It's the only way man. Thank HTC for that stupid shiz :mad:
[HTC Amaze 4G] dirtyglacier:
Is 22/2 gauge low voltage power wire OK to use to attempt s off?? or even 18/2 gauge wire??? I have all this wire just don't know if there good to use or not. Any advice?? Thanx...
[HTC Amaze 4G] eggydrums:
Lol dude honestly I used... A bread wire insulated with some duct tape lol worked for me

Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[HTC Amaze 4G] dirtyglacier:
So basically any wire is acceptable as long as its insulated and fits in the hole?
[HTC Amaze 4G] justin lamantia:
Wifee got the ota and updated to ics but ? Know would the wire trik work with ics
[HTC Amaze 4G] dirtyglacier:
It should as long as u choose the ics version of control bear
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Mine had some weird error and now its stuck on the Bear animation. It wont even boot. It goes into fastboot, but there is no recovery anymore. Really weird. Hence why I waited to do this. Figured I might ruin the phone. My computer wont detect the phone anymore either. It just boots into the little Juopenutbear icon and sits there. I cant get a recovery on it or anything

UPDATE: Well I got the phone working after hours of non successful tries. I still don't have S-Off. Will update more tomorrow...today later.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Yes... I also used a twist tie that I stopped the ends of. Worked 1st try
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Think speaker wire is my problem? I mean I felt like a retard after last night.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Imma try a twisty tie
[HTC Amaze 4G] Babydollll:
I used 20G AWS Solid Core wire. Worked perfectly (once I got the timing down ;) )
[HTC Amaze 4G] DJ_Caibel:
I attempted the wire-trick about 7 times now and it keeps failing. Now my phone is softbricked. Any tips on getting it functional again?
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
If you can get into bootloader redo the update there. Once it updates it will over write the bear animation. That is how i fixed mine.
[HTC Amaze 4G] DJ_Caibel:
Like the PH85IMG update? I've tried that. It loads completely, I reboot and it's still bricked. Gets to the HTC splash screen, then goes to a black screen with the green arrows over a phone since there is no OS loaded on it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Reflash stock recovery and lock the boot loader with the all in one tool and then try to apply the ICS update. Is that what you did?

---------- Post added at 03:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:08 PM ----------

Is it essential to flash the bear hboot? I have superuser now on ICS

---------- Post added at 04:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------

Back to this again myself. Very frustrating. I do the wire trick andc i hear the usb kicking on and off. All the sudden my phone goes off and never turns back on. Is everyone doing this with the ICS version or no?
[HTC Amaze 4G] JiraffeLeung:
Sweet! SUCCESSFUL FOR ME. AMAZE 4G is now S-OFF!

The whole process wasn't hard.

THINGS TO NOTE:

1) My PAPERCLIP did not fit, if you are planning to use a paperclip, use one that is SMALL and tiny in diameter. A normal sized paper clip will NOT fit.

2) I used a old Audio/Visual cable, and stripped both ends. It worked

great

for me, and took only 3 tries. It was a bit flimsy, but that was the only problem.

3) Use a phrase to get a time estimate of 1.75 seconds. I simply used "1 2 3" as my phrase, practiced it, and perfected it to around 1.6 - 1.8 seconds. Works like a charm.

4) Make sure you read to the bottom of the instructions on his webpage, to avoid shock damage to your phone.

GOODLUCK
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Did u use his hboot or did u just unlock the normal
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I did s=off wire trick with stock hboot. You don't get to flash a new hboot until u get s=off
[HTC Amaze 4G] jjlean:
Oh, yea.. my bad. Well, I messaged ya, but for everyone else I think I'm staying on ICS with s-on. I have come close to losing my phone a few times in the last 24 hrs. Guess I am not very bright on this phone. :confused:
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Nobody is until they learn and gain experience :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] DJ_Caibel:
I used Control Bear and it got rid of my custom recovery along with the OS. I used the all-in-one tool to flash the stock T-Mobile kernel and relock the bootloader (as mine was unlocked via HTC). Once that was done I was able to flash the stock ICS RUU. I just needed to get it back to stock to send it in for a warranty issue though, so I didn't bother attempting the S-Off again.
[HTC Amaze 4G] coolloser:
It's a sunny day!

Took me two hours. (yawn) I used an end of speaker wire about 3 inches long. Many battery pulls when stuck on "waiting for device" later and I'm a happy camper. To all the discouraged folks: keep at it, when you least expect it, it will work. As long as you can hear the windows disconnect, it WILL succeed eventually.
[HTC Amaze 4G] tonyio:
>fastboot flash zip jb_hboot.zip

sending 'zip' (396 KB)... OKAY [ 0.243s]

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

INFOzip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 99 unknown fail)

finished. total time: 3.774s
[HTC Amaze 4G] seattleboi1982:
here's what mine shows, what is going on?

======== ControlBear 0.5 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Rebooting from bootloader

Waiting...

...Waiting

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

Connecting to device...

Searching device.....

Found 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.

Do not remove sdcard from phone

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

Do not remove sdcard from phone

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

=== Waiting device....

(18/45)

Found device... Please wait...

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

=== Waiting device....

Found device... Please wait...

Cannot find bear..... is bar closed?..Press ENTER to exit.....
[HTC Amaze 4G] cazper210:
EVERTIME

Getting into bar.....

Raising Glass

SUCCESS - Taking a sip.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Beer is tasty.

SUCCESS - Buddies and Beer

Checking alcohol level......

Let's take one more......

S-OFF Failed

Errorcode: 66732337

ErrorMsg: Still sober

Quit....
[HTC Amaze 4G] yrv_13:
Thanks man ive been looking everywhere for the exact size of wire and was unsure if itll work w that kind of wire thats the only reason i havent atempted to s=of. Ill try it now;)
[HTC Amaze 4G] cazper210:
i used the wire from the wonder bread lol it works good
[HTC Amaze 4G] jaymelu:
What did i do wrong

So it says s-off now how do I get out of recovery or the black screen? am I bricked?
[HTC Amaze 4G] cazper210:
did u flash the jb_hboot zip through fastboot to get the custom hboot then redo the task like reflash recovery and what not
[HTC Amaze 4G] jaymelu:
I flashed the Jboot but I didnt know how to manually flash the recovery. So I used Hassoon's tool to flash CWM and then I just flashed a custom ROM. That revived my phone.
[HTC Amaze 4G] cazper210:
ok cool ur set then next cutomer lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] metro44060:
Help im stuck!

Mine is stuck here any idea on what to do next?

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

Do not remove sdcard from phone

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

=== Waiting device....

(11/45)error: protocol fault (no status)

(12/45)** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

(13/45)** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

(14/45)** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

(15/45)** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

(16/45)** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

(17/45)
[HTC Amaze 4G] cazper210:
just redo i went into task manager then processes and killed the adb and reran the program
[HTC Amaze 4G] bilaliz:
noob alert :p

so i did the HTCDev unlock and all, i think i have the stock room (HBOOT-1.09.0008) <- does this help?

i go into fastboot connect USB and run controlbear, and here is what i get.

======== ControlBear 0.6 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Rebooting from bootloader

Waiting...

...Waiting

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

Connecting to device...

Searching device.....

Found device.....but device has no root!!

Press ENTER to exit.....

what do i do from here.
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
Finally after almost 2 months and giving up, I now have s-off. Thanks to all.

Sent from my wickedly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] cazper210:
u was suppose to root your device idk how to keep the program out of it but i was rooted before i even started
[HTC Amaze 4G] bilaliz:
you were right, i thought hasoon20000's tool would have done the trick, but i guess it didnt, i then had to download the Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip and do it that way. s-offed now

thx for your help
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
His name is Hasoon2000 and why the Hell would you think that? This has always been the only way. :confused: Hasoon's OP doesn't say that it does.

Sent from my HTC Ruby

HTC Amaze 4g BIBLE- Google.doc Updated Often

The Ultimate Guide to Everything Amaze-ing!(Amaze 4g BIBLE!)
[HTC Amaze 4G] superevilllama:
As this is a tool that most poeple only use once, and the process has not changed since it was released, I am trying to determine what would possibly lead anyone to post anything but thanks in this thread at this present time.

Any questions you may have, more than likely after 83 pages of info for a tool that again hasn't changed since it was released, have probably been answered.

A quick search, not even having to read all 83 pages, should get you the information you are looking for. My thought process is telling me that if you are unable to use the search feature, you more than likely also not ready to do what is required to achieve S-OFF (wire trick) althought it really is not complicated, but more a matter of timing.

At some point I think a thread like this should be closed and left stickied as a reference only, or open only for thanks posts.. just my 60 cents on the matter.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I will add $.40 to make it a dollar

Sent from my HTC Ruby

HTC Amaze 4g BIBLE- Google.doc Updated Often

The Ultimate Guide to Everything Amaze-ing!(Amaze 4g BIBLE!)
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
I will also request the closing... there is IRC if you have issues, there is always someone around to help via IRC... the completely senseless "issue" posts only add to the confusion of a very simple process...
[HTC Amaze 4G] wardfan220:
Agreed, since there's nothing new to this post, it's closed.

However, if something changes, send a pm to me or another mod and we'll reopen it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] 2kwic25:
i did this to get my recovery back working cause i didnt back up my sd card and 4ext would not mount my sd card or anything but i think you need to format the sd card first then do the steps i may be wrong but you can try

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1612451
[HTC Amaze 4G] charlatan01:
Done and done. Took three app runs to get the timing down, but worked like a charm. Thanks SOOO MUCH.

Get some sleep.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Amiganaut:
Heads up, this wiped my INTERNAL sdcard memory as well as my EXTERNAL microsd, so be aware you need to back up from both places.
[HTC Amaze 4G] electronicrice:
My Internal SD is fine. Everything is still there. Ran this and successfully got S-Off on 2 phones. Second one took on the first try.
[HTC Amaze 4G] krook6023:
This works great, will donate my pledge since my Amaze is now s-off!! First thing I did was flash this splash...NO MOAR WHITE!!!!

It is attached, unzip and then it be can flashed via fastboot;

fastboot splash splash1 splash_black.img
[HTC Amaze 4G] Bronyr:
Just realized same here. No biggie though...
[HTC Amaze 4G] blast0id:
brilliant, unfortunately, is misspelled... hehe...
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
S-Off worked fine, yet another happy customer.

Thanks guys
[HTC Amaze 4G] PeterC18st:
After a few tries it worked and now I'm S-Off. Like the above comments I too lost my sdcard files. Wish there was a warning I would have swapped out a blank one to perform the procedure. Oh well. Cheers to the dev's that figured this out.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ryuken11221:
Dude I'm doing this in the morning
[HTC Amaze 4G] djdeviance:
I don't know if anyone had trouble with this but this was pretty damn easy...S-OFF over here with no issues.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jimczyz:
Third time was a charm for me. GREAT job guys. My pledge is on it's way!

Confirmation number: 9HY8905292608704M.
[HTC Amaze 4G] dharvey4651:
Finally got it... After nearly 3 hours of non stop trying.

Now that this is out of the way... Does anyone have a copy of the ENG hboot?
[HTC Amaze 4G] hnt20:
nice and easy. got my S-OFF within 30 minutes :) sent my pledge already..

thanks guys for your great work.
[HTC Amaze 4G] vrracing:
What problem were you having because my device still wont even boot past the white HTC logo.
[HTC Amaze 4G] dj tray:
I found out the hard way as well
[HTC Amaze 4G] electronicrice:
Here ya go.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivcri7q0ap8uo1e/ph85imgeng-1.90.2005.zip
[HTC Amaze 4G] dharvey4651:
I couldn't get the timing down. I finally did and successfully flashed S-Off

Thank you good sir. I'm not ENG S-OFF with a LOCKED bootloader. :eek:

Never thought I'd see the day. Now to see if I can re-unlock it with the HTC Unlocker method and have the best of both worlds.

EDIT:: Seems it's not possible. Maybe due to the new hboot on the device.
[HTC Amaze 4G] electronicrice:
Assuming that fastboot commands are the same, the "writesecureflag 3" command should relock the phone to S-ON with a "***Locked***" indicator in bootloader AFTER ensuring a stock non-rooted ROM is flashed back to the phone. That should in theory, restore the phone back to factory condition. Not entirely sure as I haven't tested it, but maybe one of the devs can chime in.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Binary said a while ago that a hardware hack may be needed to get S-OFF. It seems HTC goes to extremes to prevent us from having it, not that they are really succeeding. Great job.

Sent from my HTC Amaze 4G
[HTC Amaze 4G] probablecauz69:
this worked first time for me also after trying for over an hour with a small gauge wire:D
[HTC Amaze 4G] 2kwic25:
did you get s-off ? and now it wont boot pass screen?
[HTC Amaze 4G] F033x:
ive done the steps, it reboots, but nothing ever happens, just keeps going through a normal boot and gives me the "still sober" error. not to mention my sd card is somehow wiped.

adb recognizes the devices, im in debugging and have it as a disk drive..not sure why i cant seem to land s-off

EDIT: after like 45 tries i got it, thank you.
[HTC Amaze 4G] vrracing:
No S-Off and now when i plug into the computer its telling me it cant find the driver for qhsusb_dload. according to my searching, im screwed.
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
Yep, its hard bricked, hope you have an insurance...
[HTC Amaze 4G] vrracing:
no insurance. i bought it outright so that wasnt an option.

---------- Post added at 04:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:07 AM ----------

am i the first person to get qhsusb_dload on the amaze?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Opentang:
I've got S-OFF now, however phone still boots into the green arrow screen after loading the splash screen? Can boot into hboot and recovery, just when I try to reboot, I end up back on the green arrow screen?

*Edit* After 15 wire tricks, multiple scares, crys, prayers, and magical dances ---> was able to superwipe in Recovery and restore a backup. Phone booted with no issue, viola!

My soul has been restored and will be donating!
[HTC Amaze 4G] eggydrums:
Lol I've had to do those same dances and prayers before! I think I'm gonna wait some time so I cam think whether I'm gonna do this

Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using Xparent Green Tapatalk 2
[HTC Amaze 4G] verkion:
How long did you guys have to wait after doing the wire-trick for it to reboot? Mine normally goes to a black screen and I end up having to unplug the device, pull battery, put battery back in, plug back into USB and boot and try again...

Thanks!

verkion
[HTC Amaze 4G] CalicoJeb:
See Part of the instructions below, come on folks .... read the stuff

They laid it all out on the site, hard to ask for more than that warning :)

**Have a spare microSD card, or to have backed up all contents of your SDcard, the card will be wiped****