[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] E:V:A:
So while the drama was being verbalized here, I went on to check up on some

other stuff. Also tried to follow up some great ideas in old posts (in this

thread), that (seem) to have been forgotten (or at least not publicly followed

up here.)

But before anything else, I'd just like to make two comments. There's

definitely been some rather counterproductive communication problems between

us, here. Each one of us have our own reasons and responsibilities for that.

On the one hand, one can always say things in more "politically correct" or in

a more emotionally respectful manner. But on the other hand, we're also

responsible for "trying" to understand each other. Fortunately or

unfortunately, depending how you like to look at it, that also means that it

is ones own choice, whether or not to be insulted, for whatever reason. Unless

of course there is a direct personal attack. Fortunately this have not been

the case, but pretty darn close. Also, don't forget that misquoting someone

is also a form of insult. So let's not go there again!

Second, I just want to clarify, that I have never requested or demanded

that anyone should do anything they're not comfortable doing. So unless I

specifically mention someone by name or directly refer to someones post,

I am talking to whomever happen to read that post. It could be that I erred

in thinking that there would be a least a few more than 3-5 people actively

working on a solution, in a thread marked as development. We all have a very wide

background of knowledge and it's really a challenge to be able to tap all this

into something effective and constructive. We can never expect that someone

who is great at shuffling bits around in assembly, should know anything about

switching and tweaking signals inside a highly advanced mobile device.

But we are grown ups (at least fairly so), so we should know our own

limitations and how far we want to push it. The good news is that there

is so much here to learn for everyone!

So can we move on now?

Great!

Let me start with this.

@18th.abn:

I believed you when you said you had tested the outer (non-wire-trick) pad.

But I also know what happened. You see, the PCB are covered by multiple layers

of various coatings. You have the silk-screen (the green stuff) and you have

other types of clear and transparent lacquer that covers all of the non-connected

pads of the PCB, even though it look nice and shiny to you, you actually have to

scratch this stuff off, before getting a connection. When you tested that outer

pad you probably didn't reach down the hole, far enough or hard enough to poke a

hole in that layer. I made one last picture to convince you that also the outer

solder test/pin/pad/hole (whatever you wanna call it) is also connected to ground

(GND), like the SIM casing. How do I know this is ground? Just because it is

connected to the SIM housing and is wide. (There are of course hundreds of other

signal lines that have the same color, but these are signals, and not connected

to GND. (Please note that I have not even mentioned the wire-trick pad

(signal X in photo), we just don't know what this is connected to.)

I hope this clarifies this mystery.

The last picture of this... I promise.

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Then I followed up on wdkingery's link to a Chinese S-OFF device. I managed to find the photos,

and they are like this. But unless you can find someone who can read Chinese, I'm

afraid they gonna be of little use. In addition I think it's all for the Tegra-3

based phones. But it would have been nice to be able to confirm as fact that

this is a no go... Chinese anyone?

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As a side observation and just for everybody's reference. Apparently there are

several more devices labelled as "HTC One XL", in China. It's mess really, especially

since these HOXL devices are using the Tegra-3 instead. In china they sell:

The HTC One XL and One XL X325s, both are Tegra-3's...and there are more!

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Now to the interesting post... It's the one where JeepFreak found Scotty Walker's

wpthis.c program. It seem to me that this was not followed up on, or if it was it

was not discussed further in this thread, as far as I have searched.

Two questions for JeepFreak:

1) Did you get any response to your email, from Scotty?

2) Did anyone try to recompile this code with appropriate modifications?

I am not sure, but I think we might have everything we need for this. (?)

Although I have not been able to identify the GPIO's, because of lack of

information.

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Then rohan32 made a post about the Lazy Panda code. Was that a method we could use?

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If anyone could post the results from the command (below), as it may help me identify where

the power-rail is and what USB switches) they're using.

busybox ls -al /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/

You probably need to be rooted to do that.

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Does anyone know of some website where you can buy HTC One XL spareparts?

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Finally, does your boot loader support the this command?

fastboot oem device-info