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[HTC One X] ch4kk:
US$ 20 from me
[HTC One X] wph:
- reserved 2 -
[HTC One X] abc27:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHBheXJMMjZsQ2RWNmo3NEVwTUIxdlE6MQ#gid=0

Use this. It's a much more elegant method.

Edit: Fixed a small error in the spreadsheet. Should be working now.
[HTC One X] Drefsab:
Put me in for £20 for now, I may add more later if the exploit is still not found but this next month i've got a lot more outgoings than usual.
[HTC One X] wph:
That is indeed quite a bit easier. I will update the first post with the spreadsheet.

edit: can you implement a feature that the minimum amount is 5 dollar/euro/pound?
[HTC One X] clyder:
I had posts like this several times on HD2 forums, so I will say it again. I will be very happy to donate for s-off about 20 euros, but my only problem is that I cant use Paypal from Serbia. So to do that I would need some other solution.
[HTC One X] abc27:
Already over €100 / $100 adjusted for exchange rates.
[HTC One X] Drefsab:
do you have a link to see the spreadsheet directly so we can see the totals? :)
[HTC One X] abc27:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArpcAQiUWv5XdHBheXJMMjZsQ2RWNmo3NEVwTUIxdlE#gid=0

There you go. It's at the confirmation page of the form too.
[HTC One X] Arkaknio:
Thanks for start that thread mates.

20€ here.

P.D: I think that topic can be improved a little, lot of people here aren't native english speakers (like me) and the word "bounty" can be unknown for them so I propose a topic like:

"[S-OFF BOUNTY] Donate here to archive S-OFF"

Include "Donate", that is a more common word onto the topic, will improve the visibility of the thread.
[HTC One X] lankyfish:
Unfortunately the student budget limits me but I am happy donating £10
[HTC One X] gaiden0000:
Put me down, for £10. Would do more but things pretty tight for a few months.

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC One X] p2nv:
$30 from me to the developer who achieves a safe way to get safety off :)

Sent from my HTC One X running LeeDroid eXtreme 5.0.0
[HTC One X] wph:
Any ideas on solutions that do work for people without access to PayPal?
[HTC One X] TommUK:
Direct Debit wire?

Postal Cheque?

Cheque?

I'm sure it can all be sorted.
[HTC One X] abc27:
I'm assuming that whoever posted as Mike1986 with €600 was a troll? It was flagged and deleted anyway.
[HTC One X] Willieumm:
I can do $10, maybe more but I'll pledge $10 for now.
[HTC One X] fstluxe:
20 USD
[HTC One X] sabret00the:
Ah, so this is the elusive bounty thread. It would seem a bunch of other ones have been closed.
[HTC One X] kryptoner:
And you made bounty thread 'bumpy thread' :D:D:D:D

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC One X] Ambious:
Wouldn't Kickstarter be an awesome platform for this?

I think it technically doesn't charge you unless the goal is achieved, or maybe it refunds you if it doesn't, either way - it seems like a good platform for bounties.
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
That would require a dev who starts the kick starter as he does the project then.

And we didn't find a dev who was willing or capable to do this...
[HTC One X] sartan:
15 Euro from me.
[HTC One X] ShyamSasi:
The problem is not may developers know about this since it's limited to this forum. If Moderators allow we could post it in generic Android thread or if XDA allows they could post it in XDA portal for more exposure.
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
When this topic was active I asked the mods to do so but they told me they can't due the xda rules and non commercial idea of this. Don't remember the exact answer
[HTC One X] strikerdj2011:
£30.00 from me like
[HTC One X] ShyamSasi:
Maybe someone can persuade some big gun like GSMArena or Engadge about it post. :)
[HTC One X] Michealtbh:
£10 here
[HTC One X] dontjudgeme:
Fantastic initiative! Hope this spurs on developers who have considered/are currently trying to crack S-OFF.

Best wishes to all those working on a solution for the whole community here! :good:
[HTC One X] sabret00the:
I'll add £15 if it's achieved in the next two months.
[HTC One X] mariusmax:
Gr8 ideea , i am ready to participate with 20eur ,but there is a big problem.

I know somebody and he says "is not worth to lose my job over this" if you get the ideea.
[HTC One X] budensik:
This very clever idea ,well i lost my job couple weeks ago but still can afford to send You guys $20 from Poland :).

But You know there is a one guy who's trying to sell his HOX for milions i guess.The reason i'm writing about it is that his HOX has S-off his

CID is 111111.

So i think he just suppose to trade his phone with one of dev and it would help with progress
[HTC One X] Michealtbh:
There are a few s-off devices in the wild, unfortunately that doesn't help us
[HTC One X] nitrous²:
AW: [S-Off Bounty Topic] Donate for S-Off (more than $ 1900 at 29 May)

There's still some progress. I get pm'd now and then from people. Nothing really breakthroughish but at least something. I'd say give it a couple of months and then you can see what you could do with this thread.

For the others; stop pm'ing me! I'll let you updated!

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[HTC One X] tessut:
AW: [S-Off Bounty Topic] Donate for S-Off (more than $ 1900 at 29 May)

Can you tease a little Bit of ya work ?
[HTC One X] nitrous²:
AW: [S-Off Bounty Topic] Donate for S-Off (more than $ 1900 at 29 May)

I'm not really the one who works an a solution. It's more that people who are actually working on it get in touch with me. Mainly because they see my post on the dev section and thin I'd be the one who provided the info. In fact, I just gathered them in one post, so Nobody has to waste time on searches.

But if you want info; I have a contact who'd sell me the correct diag file. He sent me the hex info of the diag and it does contain the "clean s58 data" string. Also got a confirmation of a recognized dev about its credibility. But as everyone knows, it doesn't mean anything to have the file without a Javacard...

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[HTC One X] paul_59:
It would be interesting to know what price your contact wanted for the clean s58 diag file for tegra 3 based HTC One X. To compare with the Moscow based repair centre that is offering an S off service by sending your one X to them for 2500 roubles , currently £53, ($81)
[HTC One X] BlueSingA:
I have no idea what happened to the donations, but if any of that money is around I'd bet it on TeamAndIRC (Justin Case) that was behind many of the S-offed devices recently with Qualcomm chips. He's very interested in S-offing our Tegra 3 devices because he likes challenges, and he was looking a month or two back ago for a cheap HOX to purchase off and get to work. I don't know if he's got one by now.

Other than that S-off development looks pretty dead to me.. I know Trip has made a really good progress when his device was unusable and has some ideas laying on the table but he's not working on it because of fear of breaking it again.
[HTC One X] nitrous²:
AW: [S-Off Bounty Topic] Donate for S-Off (more than $ 1900 at 29 May)

Right, someone should direct them to xmoo. He's selling his s-off One X for ~290€ or something. Or he already sold it, am not sure.

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[HTC One X] ace9988:
how long did it take revolutionary team to get s-off for sensation/e3d?
[HTC One X] tessut:
You Know that tegra 3 is a real pain in the Ass to hack in ?
[HTC One X] ace9988:
i am aware of that and it wasn't a rhetorical question, it was just a question because for some reason i seem to think it took them a similar amount of time (9m to a year) i.e. it will be just as difficult if not harder to get s-off on the HOX
[HTC One X] abc27:
Can people please stick to the spreadsheet instead of posting on the thread with their pledges? Things will be messy if there are two different lists.
[HTC One X] Victor.S:
5 euro on my account~!
[HTC One X] n1kon:
In for £15. Sheet updated.
[HTC One X] SB13X:
£10 down for me at the minute and for every payday until it happens.
[HTC One X] doublecheese:
I did not make up my mind yet but i am guessing I will pay a minimum of 100$, when I make my mind I will fill the spreadsheet.
[HTC One X] wph:
Already close to 400 dollars!
[HTC One X] fstluxe:
I donate 20 USD!
[HTC One X] abc27:
It's actually $440... there was a slight error in the exchange rate algorithm :p

Edit: Nearly $500 now.

Five seconds later: $504 :)
[HTC One X] Bonzo87:
25USD for a S-OFF on HBOOT 0.93 ;)
[HTC One X] abc27:
Add your pledge to the spreadsheet!
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
504 dollars now haha ;)

Signed up with 30 dollars
[HTC One X] Evil-Dragon:
Already over 400. Never got chance to post but I pledged £20. To those pledging money please only do it if you can actually give the money if someone delivers s-off. Otherwise it's a waste of time.
[HTC One X] :
Okay I'm in but how do we pay up?
[HTC One X] TommUK:
Over 400 quid already....

If only I had the know how to Try and Figure out S-off :p
[HTC One X] wph:
That is up for debate, either I or someone from the forums we trust can collect the money in some kind of way or we can pay the developer directly when S-Off is achieved.
[HTC One X] :
No worries. Thanks again.
[HTC One X] Orca74:
25 Euro from me, now...

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[HTC One X] Andy:
I'll take your money ;)
[HTC One X] demajoor:
donation made

does someone have contact when it has been arrived?
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
donation done. now someone needs to remind me if we need to pay xD.

Perhaps a new spreadsheet with a hidden e-mail column would be better? So you can contact us as soon as we can pay our money ;)

so now only one more thing is missing...

... the person who is able to bring us s-off ;)
[HTC One X] wph:
If S-Off arrives, it will be known very fast on these forums, don't worry about that.
[HTC One X] wph:
If you give us S-Off you can ;-)
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
ah one more thing.

rate this thread. give the author a thanks for the cool spreadsheet, and tweet and post about this xD

perhaps this will speed up everything too. A bit at least...
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
Contacted xda guys to feature this on the portal. Hope that helps
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
it seems that "sh1re" is no valid xda user. 95 British Pound would have been great...

can someone double check this?

oh and a portal feature would be great. (i think) ;)

orb3000 also retweetet the link to this thread to his over 700 followers ;)
[HTC One X] eggyenergy:
Is this s-off means every bootloader? Im stuck at 042 i believe, unlocked and no CID anymore? If its possible to upgrade pleas somebody pm me? If s-off every bootloader ill put in an nice amount of money for our hero
[HTC One X] abc27:
Deleted a few BS entries. The threshold has now been set at 50. Anyone who wants to pledge more than 50 must PM me first or their pledge will be removed.

As for payment details... at the end i'll generate a list of usernames and pledges and post them here. Whoever is collecting the bounty can then organise something with everyone.
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
That's not sure right now afaik...

HTC could have fixed an exploit with new hboot but let's see if someone comes up with a solution.
[HTC One X] eggyenergy:
Would be so nice, im littlery bummed with this cursed bootloader haha, no new firmware nothing haha
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
i'm already on the newer hboot so i hope i'll still see s-off xD.

had to update because the previous version was slow for me ^^

we will see ;)

perhaps a column to enter the hboot version would be good?
[HTC One X] TommUK:
Just a suggestion.

How about Maintaining a list of the people that have Donated in the OP or a seperate thread.

and Including a 'High rollers' section at the top, for maybe people that donate £40+ or so, could be a little extra incentive.

Waiting till end of the week to judge how much I can donate :)
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
Sry guys.... But it's understandable.

Hi Jonas,

Unfortunately, petitions are borderline to even allow on the XDA forums, and as such we can't feature them on the XDA Portal, which is our public face. It's just too risky in case something goes wrong. Sorry!

Will
[HTC One X] fstluxe:
Please change it in : The group that manages to get S-OFF, gets the DOnation!

If you dont do this, people will sart working on their own, and the process will slow down!!! couple devs to gether, will speed the proces and 1+1=3.. You get the point right?? So the donation is For the group, and NOT for the person. Thats unfair.

Please change your first post ASAP.
[HTC One X] buddovit:
Any chance adding the Australian dollar to the form?

Cheers,

B
[HTC One X] Xphoid:
Count me in... + €20... added to spreadsheet...

PS: but a good tutorial will be highly appreciated when the S-OFF achieved, since this is my first Android :rolleyes:
[HTC One X] abc27:
I can't unfortunately. Just enter the equivalent in US dollars or the currency of your choice. It's not a binding contract anyway so there's no need for precision or anything.
[HTC One X] wph:
I changed the post and added two paragraphs of text with a bit of explanation. Ofcourse when a group of devs works together the donation is for the group, I thought that was self-explanatory. But for clarity I changed the text in "group or person", with a paragraph of text with explanation.

(btw. to the poster: a bit more friendly than typing "ASAP" is appreciated. (Zeker tegen een mede Zeeuw ;)))
[HTC One X] eggyenergy:
Niet alleen zeeland, het westland doet ook mee haha!
[HTC One X] buddovit:
$10 in, fingers crossed and good luck :thumbup:
[HTC One X] wph:
For now I'm going to sleep. By the time I wake up I'm sure we're above 1000 dollars. Maybe even above 1000 euro's or even more spectacular, above 1000 pounds. And that for a topic only started five hours ago.

Thanks all for the great response!
[HTC One X] Drefsab:
yup im very impressed with the response so far, I like many cant throw in a large sum right now but several smaller sums quickly add up. I've seen many bounty threads get good results in the past for other projects so its well worth doing.
[HTC One X] :
I have to disagree with this

Sent from my HTC Desire HD
[HTC One X] nikorette:
30 AUD here. Worth more than the us dollar :P nice work op almost a thousand us dollars in one day. Is love to know how to dev haha gl any devs on this
[HTC One X] ali3nfr3ak:
$30 NZD , :)
[HTC One X] doublecheese:
Ok , spreadsheet done.

US $ 100.- for now and might donate even more later.
[HTC One X] ytwytw:
$20 IN

wish to have s-off for both S4 & T3 HOX
[HTC One X] Arkaknio:
WOW, almost 1.000€ in just one day. This can be epic!!
[HTC One X] lainen73:
25 € donated
[HTC One X] KrisPerry:
£15 pledged
[HTC One X] beanbean50:
@OP

ok i'm gonna be the party pooper here by saying I don't think this is the correct approach, you mentioned about having the htc Desire before so you may recall the months that went by trying to get a working camera with the ported roms?

A bounty was raised for that project ($500+ if i'm not mistaken) and in the end it was the truly awesome dev 'SNQ' who fixed it and he didn't even bother collecting the reward.

I'm not taking anything away from the kind and generous pledgers but as mentioned it might make people work and think alone instead of as a community which is what XDA is all about.
[HTC One X] doublecheese:
so ? and ?

Just get along man , pledge or not , no need to break the positive momentum here
[HTC One X] beanbean50:
sorry, I guess what i'm trying to say is that throwing lots of money at things isn't always the answer
[HTC One X] ceo.mtcl:
...kindly shut up.

Contributed fifteen bucks to the list. It means a lot for us to atleast dream about it.

Sent from my HTC One X on Leedroid's ROM v5.0.0.
[HTC One X] beanbean50:
please mind your manners
[HTC One X] Rekoil:
Look guys, this is great, but they are all just numbers on a page...
[HTC One X] ceo.mtcl:
please stop trolling then.

Sent from my HTC One X on Leedroid's ROM v5.0.0.
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
We are just trying to engage somebody by giving him the opportunity to get some money for his hard work.

That group or person can take the money or they don't.

It's just to motivate those talented guys to help us and if you look at the total it shows that people are having a high demand on a soff solution.
[HTC One X] deathbringer:
whoever started this has good intentions. whether the person who makes s-off possible wants the money or not, that's entirely up to that person. if no one claims the money, just donate it to charity / the red cross / etc. no point in arguing about this.

however, i believe we're in for a very long wait. the Desire took a year, and even the Sensation XL is still on s-on *but are getting close). maybe they should start another fundraiser like this. :)
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
You still have to pm the creator of the spreedsheet / thread to enable your donation. It's >50 so it's still a not allowed one..
[HTC One X] doublecheese:
I already did PM'ed at 05.00 in the morning , but he did not reply back yet.
[HTC One X] Drefsab:
The point of this is motivation get people looking into it. Who knows you may get some underpaid tech at HTC who knows how to access APX mode or such who decideds to hell with it he and his family deserves a nice holiday or something and leaks the info.

You may just get skilled hardware/software hackers who have other projects but put more time into this thinking of the reward.

Sure someone may choose not to claim the bounty it doesn't mean its not worth putting up there.
[HTC One X] wph:
I forwarded your PM to abc27, the is the owner of the spreadsheet, but you couldn't know that. I updated the first post with that info, so if other people want to donate such generous amounts of money, they PM the right person. It also reminds me that we have to sort that out, so I can also make changes in the spreadsheet. But that will be fixed later today I think.
[HTC One X] doublecheese:
I PM'ed you because it says with GREEN on the Spreadsheet Column "i 2" to PM you for amounts over 50.-

I think you need to change that also on the spreadsheet.
[HTC One X] wph:
The spreadsheet is correct, it says "PM "abc27" on XDA with the details of the bogus entry. If you wish to pledge more than 50, PM me to unblock your entry."

But in this topic it was a bit hidden, but that's fixed now.
[HTC One X] bleary:
£20 from me for a great cause!!
[HTC One X] abc27:
I've unblocked doublecheese's entry this morning.

@wph: If you want edit access, PM me your gmail address.
[HTC One X] doublecheese:
I think I know what was wrong there , it says PM "abc27" for bogus entries and then it says PM "me" the "me" should be replaced with "abc27" because since you are the original thread started I thought yourself as "me" not abc27

Anyway , now is clear I guess, but it would be nice if "abc27" replace "me" with "abc27" to make things more clear.
[HTC One X] wph:
You are right, didn't read it in that way myself.
[HTC One X] wph:
Send you a PM :)
[HTC One X] nikorette:
Ok moving on. Anyone that knows of any jailbreak/rooting/fw hacking guys or groups should link em to this thread. I'll post this to afew people I know and just throw up afew threads on different 4chan boards. Most of them are pretty money hungry.

This needs as much exposure as possible to have any chance of succeeding. Anywhere you can think of post it.
[HTC One X] Htc_One_X:
I just sincerely hope that all the pledges are indeed real and meaningful. IF the bounty is not collected, or we are unable to get S-Off, I agree that the bounty should be split to our chosen charities..... And let's hope that this truly massive bounty is incentive enough for aspiring new devs.
[HTC One X] jmpmjmpm:
The bounty should automatically be paid to the dev or team that publishes s-off via their donate buttons/links with the message "xda one x soff" or similar. They shouldn't have to ask for it. This is a pledge list, not a collecting pot. I have pledged that I promise to pay the dev £20 DIRECTLY. No s-off no donation so no need to worry about where the money will go if soff doesn't come coz there will be no money :)
[HTC One X] jonas2295:
Paul o Brien seems to have been working on s off :) or at least rooting

Source :

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulOBrien/tweets

Looks promising although it's still being tested.
[HTC One X] broncogr:
Hey guys.

Just wanted to let you know that posting a bounty thread comes with great responsibility..

Responsibility towards those that donate so that they are not scamed,

and responsibility towards the devs that will achieve S-OFF...

Not an issue to be taken lightly...

Cheers :)
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
I think the creator of this thread is aware of this.

At the moment no-one had to pay anything, and as far as i followed this thread, we will only pay if there is a real solution. The creator also removes all fake entries, and only people which are members on xda are allowed.

Most of us are fair and hold their promises, i hope ;).

We want to give something back. I think devs will also be happy about some help ;)

(Oh and i'm aware of the fact, that it can happen that someone doesn't pay, or that it can happen that the dev who achieves s-off won't get the money. So yeah, i know what you mean. But i still trust in humans, or better said XDA-Members ;))
[HTC One X] Traniz:
Actually the worst scenario would to ban a user that scams since people willingly donated.
[HTC One X] crsnwby:
Why do people keep doing this, for xbox, for PS3, now for phones. Giving someone money will not speed up the process, these people do it for the challenge not to make money. As with all the other ones someone will just rip off the donators.
[HTC One X] mikep1993:
Yeah if it doesn't speed up anything it's no problem.

Why do you think it's wrong. They don't have to take the money. If they want they get a bit from their hard work, if they don't want it, yeah no problem. So it's only positiv.

To bring another example. Even if they do it for the challenge, they have a life and need to pay bills. We use their service and want to give something back. You don't have to pay something to, it's up to you.

But if you go into a job you will pay the products too. Right? Their product is s-off, and yeah.

So please don't be that unfair.

And we won't give the money to someone who has not done a job. It's always known who was the one / who was the group who was able to solve the problem.
[HTC One X] :
I don't think it's not a bad thing. Because the dev/s might have to sacrifice their own HTC device (disassemble it) or brick it to get S-OFF.

The way I see it, the bounty is to compensate them for their hard work.
[HTC One X] Htc_One_X:
To be honest with you meant this is NOT meant to speed up the process, but to compensate for either loss of earnings, loss of equipment, ( Damaged one x ?? )

To cover bills etc, we are not doing it to speed this up, we understand as a community that things like this require MANY hours of labour intensive work, and due to that they may not go in to work or have had to buy items or even a new phone just for developing---As many have also said He / She or They do not have to nor will they necessarily take the bounty or even do it for the cash . . . You know as we as a "COMMUNITY" Want this done, we are willing to offer compensation for efforts etc, Failing that the money shall go to a respected charity of organisation . . . This is not greed this merely shows we care, now stop beating those who have pledged ( Inc me ) with your dtick or miserableness and go poach someones else's thread, This thread was created with GOOD Intentions at heart now leave it be. EOR.
[HTC One X] wph:
Yes, I know there is a responsibility. But I haven't collected any money, people just promised to donate the promised amount to the developer who achieves S-Off. In case this is achieved, we can work out the best plan to pay that developer. That can be paying him/her/them directly or someone can collect the money. That doesn't have to be me, that can also be someone we all trust. I'm not in this to scam people.
[HTC One X] fstluxe:
Guys,

I just sent Cotulla A PM . I'm pretty sure he can do this JOB!

He is the King. He did great things for the HD2!

He is the KING/ GOD
[HTC One X] angusc:
I'm in for GBP 20.00.

Sent witH desire from OneX
[HTC One X] gdelrosario:
in for 10usd :D