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[HTC Amaze 4G] F9zSlavik:
Is my phoned bricked? I did the S-Off, did it a few times, on this last one though, it turns off, and it did not turn back on and I have a QHSUSB_DLOAD with a exclamation mark under control panel. My phone dead?

Help ;/

If I remove the battery the phone turns right on, but it takes me to the arron going around another arrow pointing bottom. When I try to do the wire trick, it shuts off and wont turn back on and I get that QHSUSB_DLOAD.

Am I just not timing it right?

As far as controlbear, it says *** daemon still not runningeroor: cannot connect to daemon
[HTC Amaze 4G] verkion:
So, I managed to get this working after a whole lot of tries. Timing wasn't the issue for me. The originally created/extracted files onto the SD-Card were. Once I used another SD Card (I guess I could have formatted the original one I was using), ensuring I ran the S=Off program as Administrator, the process was straightforward.

For those of you with the QHSUSB_DLOAD problem...it ISN'T bricked. I found that if I unplugged the USB cable, then battery pulled, then turned it back on into Bootloader and finally, plugged in the USB cable again, the S=Off program would find the phone and basically tell you S=Off failed and that you could try again.

Thanks!

verkion
[HTC Amaze 4G] F9zSlavik:
Was i suppose to extract it onto the sd card? Dont remember the intruction mentioning anything about that. I still havent been able to do it yet. Let me know if I need to extract/add the files onto the sd card?
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
I got the QHSUSB_DLOAD once and have gotten the other message multiple times. Also have gotten other messages about daemon. I give up. Guess I will stay s-on forever unless a better and easier way comes along.

Sent from my amazingly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
If that's what we were supposed to do, it would've been nice to know. That's essential information

Sent from my amazingly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] F9zSlavik:
I don't know either and I've been without a phone for over an hour. Not sure what I am doing wrong, if someone could share some light I would appreciate it alot.

I just keep going back to the arrow screen and I am getting an error with controlbear.

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I might decide to abandon this S-Off for now, what did u do to boot up normally?

When it boots it keeps booting into RECOVERY
[HTC Amaze 4G] verkion:
No...you do NOT have to manually extract anything to the SD Card. The program preps stuff on the microSD card though and YOU HAVE TO RUN IT WITH ADMIN permissions. i.e. in Vista/7 you have to right click on the executable and select "Run as Administrator" Don't do this, and it will still appear to work/go to the arrow screen etc. and you can wire-trick to your hearts content BUT IT WILL NOT WORK. The instructions DO mention this, but they should have Caps, bolded and italicized it...

Thanks!

verkion
[HTC Amaze 4G] F9zSlavik:
I don't understand, you say DON'T DO THIS, do what?

What am I doing wrong? I ran this with ADMIN Permissions
[HTC Amaze 4G] gaww:
I don't think you have to run as administrator. I stopped doing that after a few tries, and it then went through (the timing IS everything) .

I used the 2nd Beta version (as it was not supposed to wipe the SD - which I backed up just in case anyway), and it finally worked and did not wipe the SD card.

Now on to ICS....
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
I just unplugged the USB cable and then pulled the battery. I never got the screen with the arrows

Sent from my amazingly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] F9zSlavik:
Guys I need help, finally the program moved and said to do the wire trick, I did it, made some weird comments about beer, then it said S-OFF Failed, pres enter to quit.

I tried restarting Control bear but it says

======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

** daemon still not runningerror: cannot connect to daemon

Connect device...

Press ENTER to exit.....

And I still have the arrows even after restarting it. What do i do?
[HTC Amaze 4G] hyphydragon:
why is everyone having problems with the wire trick, I did it first try it was simple
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmylanman:
S-Off worked on the second try!

Thanks a million!
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
who has s-off?

<------this guy! :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] F9zSlavik:
I have no idea I followed the instruction now I can't do anything with my phone as I am stuck at the arrow screen.
[HTC Amaze 4G] amad99:
Has anyone tried this using a mac? If so, could u post instructions?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Zeusus:
Well this has been a 600$ mistake. 2 days straight, likely 1000+ tries and I am still stuck with green arrows.

I am curious if someone knows away to back out of this..... I really need to know (not tips on how to make pin connections, but actually how to get out of the green arrows).

I have tried RUU, etc... and nothing.

I need my phone, if it doesn't work tomorrow, I am going to buy something new and try to sell this "almost S-Off" brick
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
from these comments i dont think i am going to try this
[HTC Amaze 4G] d3vilskid:
A how to guide for sensation, should work on the amaze same program and board is similar. Wife has one. Since some are struggling I think this would be useful.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25202517

Edit: sry about that link up and working.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
not a valid link
[HTC Amaze 4G] Zeusus:
Broken link...
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
What kind of "wire" are you using, and how long is it?
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmylanman:
When I got the green arrows after my failure, I just ran the program again, and it did its thing as if the phone didn't have the green arrows. Did you try to run the program again?

When I did it a second time, it worked like a charm. Just make sure you get the timing right, it took me a few tries to get the timing correct.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Zeusus:
I've tried a paperclip, copper-solid core, speaker wire, twist tie.

I don't really know what to do at this point. I understand that it is under my own risk, just stuck......

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======== ControlBear version 0.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Waiting device

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.....

No matter what I do... this is what the results are....
[HTC Amaze 4G] d3vilskid:
Sorry about the broken link earlier. Just edit that post and updated the link. Will add it here too.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25202517
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
I know that the instructions say not to touch the end of the wire, but I was firmly holding the grounded end down with my finger to make sure there was a solid connection. I used the end of a speaker wire that was roughly 4 inches long. Have you tried holding the grounded end down with your finger?

Also the timing has to be almost flawless. Touch it to the pin and lift it off as soon as you hear the windows "usb disconnect" sound. Then quickly touch it again and pull it back away. I don't know if this will help you, but I hope that you can find some use for it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmylanman:
Huh, I guess Windows users have it easy, I didn't know it made a sound to say it disconnected (I was using Linux).
[HTC Amaze 4G] Opentang:
Any documentation for flashing different hboot versions? Would like ENG instead of SHIP S-OFF.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Zeusus:
pretty sure it is a brick..... I am still going, this will make almost 3 days.... and hours and hours invested...
[HTC Amaze 4G] mattw525:
Thank you for the tip! I tried about 20 times before reading your post! "touch 1 miss-iss-ip touch" it is!
[HTC Amaze 4G] lebmb:
for the guys having problems and getting stuck, out of curiosity where did you put the folder? i had similar issues and tried multiple times and i knew it wasn't my timing, i had my folder on the desktop, for the heck of it i moved it to c:\ and boom worked on first try. and for the one who wants to sell it s-off, i wouldn't do it.

for those on macs, i read someone earlier that just loaded windows from an emulator and got it to work like that
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
S-off failed..

edit: my timing was off and was getting the error. did timing correct from that one guys video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDSwQbCVF8&feature=youtu.be around 1:54 it shows how fast you should do it. i just used normal speaker wire and twisted the ends really tight.

S-off achieved :D

to the guy having problems; close the program completely and re run it. i had to at least 4 times and finally got it. the first backup it made was messed up and i had to re-extract the file to my C drive and it worked.
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Congrats. :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
okay.. so my hboot says. "RUBY PVT SHIP S-OFF RL"

whenever i reboot my phone it goes directly to that all black screen with the green phone that look like the HTC hero gsm version. wtf?

edit: phone wont go into recovery or anything.. only goes into bootloader.. i hope my phone didnt get wiped
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
now i re flashed recovery. still getting this screen
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
Im trying to figure out which version is safer to use - 0.1 or 0.2 - so those with s-off and no problems whatsoever, can you tell me which version you used, please? Thanx.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Opentang:
I had similar issue; selected factory reset in bootloader after flashing cwm via usb fastboot, and it took me to recovery. May give it a try?
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
idk if you're talking to me but i tried factory reset through CWM and still didnt work.. i dont get why i would be stuck there..

does anybody know a way i can backup my internal sdcard to my computer through CWM or fastboot/hboot? thanks..
[HTC Amaze 4G] Zeusus:
FINALLY! lol... I paid attention to the logs and for some reason it only worked for me after NOT using admin... strange...

Well at least that saves me 600 bux
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
You need to flash the ENG H-Boot again.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
are you kidding me.. i just wiped my phone and was about to flash another rom lol. that should have been on the instructions...

edit: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25227322&postcount=226 flash the hboot in this post. changed hboot but still wont boot. wtf
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Haha I think someone posted it on about page 26ish.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
oh lol, well i edit my post. i flash http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25227322&postcount=226

that hboot and no effect. still get that screen -_-
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Hmmm. So have you even tried installing the ICS leak or is it doing this as soon as you got S-OFF?
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
as soon as i got s-off. i want to install the leak but i havent backed up all my crap on my internal sdcard yet. i didnt know the leak would wipe it :( now i have no way of backing it up (that i know of)

i can get into hboot/fastboot and i can get into CWM.
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Well if you got the H-BOOT to flash correctly, try flashing CWM again using Binary's method in the how to root the Amaze post. Maybe you can get back into recovery and restore a nandroid backup.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
i am able to get into my recovery.. thing is, i didnt even do a nandroid backup. i dont care about my apps or anything. just the file that are on my internal sdcard. do you know of a way i can backup all that through either recovery (CWM), or hboot? lol

as i type im installing another ROM to see if it works

edit: worked :D just needed to reinstall a rom, okay im going to backup my crap then install ICS :DD
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Awesome! glad you got it working!

Nice!
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
"Verify the MD5 checksum for your download"

What do they mean by that?
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
Now this is what I keep getting. If I hit control+c it closes the window. If I do nothing then it says what it says.

Anyone have any ideas?

Sent from my amazingly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] lebmb:
lol that's good, you know i woulda gladly gave you $200 for it as is LOL but what happened with you was no reason to give up. it seems like it but it's not

so since money saved is money earned, how are we splitting that $600 LOL jk
[HTC Amaze 4G] stratax:
thats normal dont hit anything
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
======== ControlBear version 0.2.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Backing up......

Program requires root, sorry.

Transferring backups....

Backup FAILED!!

Exiting!!

Press ENTER to exit.....

well this isn't very much fun

adb debugging on

charge only

is this because I extracted controlbear to my desktop? anything???
[HTC Amaze 4G] RickyG3188:
Is there any way to abandon this? I've made sure the sticker isn't covering the pin, I've used different wires, I almost never here the noise when I do the wire trick. I just want my phone the way it was, any way to undo this? Thanks in advance
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
If I don't hit anything, it just says Quit then Hit Enter To Exit. Just like what it shows in the picture.

Sent from my amazingly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] djanness:
Thank you for your recommendation, the timing and the windows usb sounds are all sync'd for the video and if you watch how fast I did it and the sound along with it you will get S-off right away, the 20 awg solid core wire works the best too the trick is to have like 6 inches of wire so your not messing with a short wire and you have more control. again thanks for the kudos.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hzm82:
Took me about 15 tries. I found out that my paper clip was too long and it finally worked after I cut it shorter. If your windows computer is making the hardware found noise "dam dum" after the first contact, all you need to work on is your timing. I found my timing after saying "One one Thou" CONTACT. (My wife gave me a weird look because I was saying that so much)

If you don't hear any noise from your speakers sometime is wrong with your contact points.

Thank you and thanks everyone in here for all the helpful hints.
[HTC Amaze 4G] djanness:
I used 0.1 and had the best success without any major SD card problems.

the only problem is that it will wipe your card, and you will need to format the card again to gain it partition back, using windows format tool and fat32 and i turned off quick format.
[HTC Amaze 4G] truckerdewd:
Sent from my amazingly brilliant Amaze 4G using my fingers. Duh!!!
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Where can I get 0.1?

0.2.1 is giving me the error I posted above
[HTC Amaze 4G] djanness:
http://www.4shared.com/zip/8MDcEfld/ControlBearRelease-ruby-window.html?

I just uploaded it here you go
[HTC Amaze 4G] mcv50:
At first I was getting the same failed messages, but then again is it just me or did the instructions kind of suck??? After thinking I bricked my phone, I used the [TOOL] HTC Amaze 4G All-In-One Toolkit V3.0 [3-22-2012] [PERM ROOT] [Noob-Proof] to get my phone to boot normal again.

After it booted up, I then loaded the "ControlBear" exe on my desktop. Since I am using Win 7, I did a "run as administrator" to gain full control of the app. Let me back up for a moment...

I have a T Mobile HTC Amaze 4G. I legitimately unlocked the bootloader through HTC. I then rooted my phone. I used the All-In-One Toolkit to load the stock T Mobile radio (worked for me).

OK, back to what I did... I plugged in my phone via USB, left the default to "charge only". I also had the debugging mode enabled. Then on the PC I ran the ControlBear app using the run as admin.

The app told me to do the "wire trick". I simply used a thin paper clip. Held the clip on the micro sd holder (the metal part) then pushed the clip through the left hole to the left of the camera lens. ***I touched the metal in the hole for a split second, I saw the screen go blank, waited for about 2 seconds, ( one one thousand, two one thousand), then I pushed the clip into the hole again. Now the ControlBear app said some crap about seeing the sun, everything looks good... then I was finished. S is now off.

This is the procedure I did about 12 hours ago, so forgive me for my lack of greater details.

This YouTube tutorial helped me tremendously...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDSwQbCVF8

Here is the ControlBear that I used -- http://unlimited.io/content/files/ControlBearRelease_ruby_GB_WIN.zip

Photos and another video can be found here --> http://unlimited.io/juopunutbear-public-beta-0-1/instructions/htc-amaze/
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Thanks (only 8/day :()
[HTC Amaze 4G] Opentang:
Was talking to you in post above, forgot the quotes. Have you tried flashing a ROM over a clean wipe, and then flashing the appropriate boot.img through fastboot?
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
FML

======== ControlBear version 0.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

Program requires root, sorry.

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
[HTC Amaze 4G] lebmb:
is your binary and su updated to latest?
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
it was the first thing I thought to check... I updated anyway twice

Edit: Just updated them 6 more times and still same message
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
Try rebooting after you've updated them and see if that helps.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
that didn't work either :mad:
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
What version of the s-off thing are you using? 0.1 or 0.2?
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
Ran 0.1 twice, got "no beer for bear tonight" each time. Phones rooted, usb debugging on, everything was set up according to the instructions, what could be the problem, my sdcard?
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
ive got a copy of 0.1 if anyone needs it. its what i used and i had no issues
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I tried 0.1 and 0.2.1
[HTC Amaze 4G] djanness:
did you follow the steps in my video and read the detailed instructions in the video notes? Take note on the timing (video in my sig)
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
This is a problem they corrected in 0.2...maybe they forgot they left some code in the program that prevented it from working after a certain time??

http://unlimited.io/changelog/

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Maybe try loading one of your nandroid backups and see if it will run from a different rom.
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
wish i could help man :( try hitting up globatron on their irc channel
[HTC Amaze 4G] djanness:
0.1 = Original code (wipes SD) // 0.2 has backup added (had issues with backup not working on all phones) // 0.21 is a fix for the backup to work correctly but can also kill you SD card.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Mr mako was in stock rom but I will try
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
Didnt get to the wire trick at all, both times it took like 10 secs after running the

exe as admin, then the message appeared. Didnt affect the phone as well, still working as before =) adb and fastboot should be working, i copied and pasted adb.exe, adbwinapi.dll, adbwinusbapi.dll, and fasboot.exe in the s-off folder to make sure its will work... Im reformating the sdcard and will try again.

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Kills it how, makes it unusable forever?

Also, where did you guys see 0.21, when i go to the changelog i see 0.3, but when i downloaded the zip for Amaze, its name and size was exactly the same as 0.2
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
switched to andrev hd and it gave me this message when I tried

======== ControlBear version 0.1 for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========

Starting up......

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.....

Rebooting.......

/system/bin/reboot: no such tool

Quit....

Press ENTER to exit.....

EDIT

I tried again and got this

Do not remove sdcard from phone

Do wire-trick now!! Look instructions at web

Waiting device....

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......

Seems to be just right.....

Let's take one more......
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
Let it finish its work, I think you are fine now. You did it with 0.1, right?
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
yeah but it's been hanging there for like 5 minutes
[HTC Amaze 4G] MildewMan:
It's a start at least. Just keep tinkering with it. I'm sure you can figure it out. I gotta get some rest though. Sorry I can't stay to brainstorm with you more.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
this was a bad idea...

my bootloader says I have s=off but it keeps going back to green arrows when I try to reboot it
[HTC Amaze 4G] lebmb:
where is your folder placed? try putting it on the c drive root if you can

what os are you running? also 32 or 64 bit?

are you running as admin?

try another usb cable / port and avoid hubs and front ports if possible
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I extracted everything to desktop. It says I have s+off but cant boot past green arrows. If I move everything to root of sd, how do I try again if I can't boot?

I unplugged and rebooted and it's booting. I'm gonna go to bootloader to see
[HTC Amaze 4G] lebmb:
you should be able to boot into recovery, if not flash one through fastboot

and then if you are able to boot into recovery then flash the rom again without wipe

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just close the program, go into task manager and end process tree for adb

copy folder to your c:\ drive root not sd card

try again if my previous recovery/rom flash idea didn't work
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I got s=off!

even though it's a new day, they're not letting me thank those that helped... I will do so tomorrow... What a nightmare... thanks. I'm gonna flash ENG Hboot and go to bed. ICS tomorrow
[HTC Amaze 4G] lebmb:
awesome

im out too, gota be up at 7 for a job interview

YIKES lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] fullmetal2k:
can't get s-off dunno if I'm getting the timing wrong or what but been at it for a while and still nothing, any advice?

nevermind finally got it :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] mrmako777:
Good stuff man! :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] Ek07:
i always get an errorat the end

i cant seem to to get after the wire trick at the end it comes out with and error i already try like 40 times smh
[HTC Amaze 4G] lgtsanev:
Got S-Off! :D

Used 0.2.1, very easy! Initially I got "adb server can't ACK" so I had to uninstall Droid Explorer because its adb was constantly on. Then - a piece of cake. Got the messages that end with "u have 5 seconds to press Control+C", didnt touch anything and the beer started loading. After the wire trick the phone restarted several times till finally i got the message that s-off was successful. Good luck to the rest of you, i'll be throwing donation money next week when i get my own donation from work =)
[HTC Amaze 4G] asimons81:
Guys, I'm having a really dumb issue. Where is the GND contact? Am I basically just touching the metal casing that houses the SD card??
[HTC Amaze 4G] ATech:
Yes dude.
[HTC Amaze 4G] djanness:
Yes people are getting it!
[HTC Amaze 4G] xndabox:
every time i stick the paper clip into the first hole, my phone restarts. Is that normal?

Edit: somehow it worked without the grd, i just had to stick the wire into the 1st hole twice... weird.