[HTC Rezound] jefffeely:
I honestly assumed that all the all knowing people in this forum would already know why one would want to be able to access our phone with QPST. I've only been doing HTC dev for a couple days and I already figured it out.

Off the top of my head:

Back up NV ram without being in recovery

Full access to EFS

Access to change all NV variables

Radio troubleshooting

Radio transmit power

A real world example would be the ability to trouble shoot the SMS problems associated with using the Rezound on non-Verizon networks.

I wasn't even looking for any of this. All I wanted to do was turn on the serial output over USB, but I came across this information and I thought someone else would find it useful. As I've said before, people thought it was useful for other phones. How was I to know that it would be received as such here.

I know that a lot of you already know this stuff. The problem is that since it was assumed we wouldn't have S-OFF no one has posted it for our phone. That means that the people who are doing dev work more complicated than changing font size in a ROM have had to look elsewhere for information. I haven't posted a single thing in this dev forum that wasn't posted in another HTC phone's dev forum. I also haven't posted anything that was already clearly answered in a post in the rezound forums. I personally think that everything I have posted is relevent to dev work. Other forums have used blurry-cam shots for developing S-OFF. It was reasonable to think that clear highres shots might be useful for something. People are still locking and unlocking their bootloaders. It was reasonable to think that having super CID so that you wouldn't have to lock the bootloaders before flashing an RUU would be useful to some. Personally, I like being able to have my hboot not say "locked". If nothing else, how is that any different from people who like a different splash screen for their phone? I can guarantee I've spent more time in hboot than anyone here has spent looking at their splash screen. Aside from that, I actually have come across some very minuscule things that superCID brings that I can't articulate right now. I'm way too pissed off to get that technical. Maybe it is worthless, but with the work I'm doing it would be stupid to not consider it. Until I posted here I had no clue people would think it was worthless and there wasn't anything in any of our forums to suggest otherwise.

I could go on, but I'll change direction a bit. I'm working on getting 100% pure AOSP working with a current 3.3 kernel and a new customized hboot. I already have the kernel compiled and semi-working and would be in the same place with AOSP but google made changes to their build process in the last month and I ended up with a corrupted build tree. I haven't wanted to say anything because a. I don't want to get people excited if it ended up not working or I decide something else is more interesting, and b. because I want to have something that is past the pre-alpha stage before I say anything.

EVERYTHING I have posted is useful information for the DEV work I am doing. I just wasted 5+ hours dealing with the fact I thought someone else might like the info and having to deal with the snooty people that ruin XDA for the people like me who are doing this kind of work for the pure thrill of the fact that it is borderline impossible. I personally think AOSP is flawed at its core and is ultimately a waste of time, but I don't care because it is still something fun to work on and I'd like to think that I can ultimately make a tiny difference towards fixing the issues I see with it. Discussions like this just make me want to delete my account and just keep the info to myself.