[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] E:V:A:
Hey Guys!

I can only begin to imagine all the frustration we all have in this thread, for many different reasons. Yes, most of you have been quite helpful, but what's more surprising, and what's also at issue, is how few people are actually trying to do something, including helping out here. What I mean is, that out of, I don't know how many, but guess at least 10,000's (?) of HOXL owners, that there are barely a handful who bother to help out in this thread. The other "thing" is that I can't help getting the feeling that this thread has been cursed in some way. Why doesn't the people who have years of HTC rooting and unlocking experience help out? The only sign of those guys are some occasional comment, along the lines of "that's wrong", "that won't work" or "I'm not going to help you out." I.e. Not very helpful at all!

Why their silence and absence?

Or perhaps I'm overly sensitive here, but I can't help being frustrated by the lack of initiative, solution/organization strategy and low technical content of any thread marked as "development". We've already talked about this, and I'm sure you agree with me. But still nothing have been done about it. I've tried my best to provide clear and highly technical info, however little that has been, but it's been mostly met with some noticeable degree of doubt at best, or completely ignored at worst.

Well, there are many ways to write to a device apart from using "dd". But I was hoping to hear that it was a little more advanced than that. Beside, I don't see how you can corrupt HBOOT, wait for USB enumeration and measure the time it takes and write to X with a simple "dd"...

It seem more like trial-and-error, as you'd have to precisely time (and detect) the point at which you're making your device go into download mode, to that when you hit your "dd", if that's what you do. This was definitely not clear from your previous posts.

In fact I was quite sure you were using some other tools (like QPST etc) to flash or write to you device.

I see your point, bad wording on my behalf. Sorry for that. Nothing here is obvious. In addition I was confused by at least two things. For one that, that I confused "p3" "with "SBL3" in the discussion. Thus I was wondering how you could corrupt something that was perma WP. Second I thought you'd somehow had changed the entire bootchain, not only one of the 6 (PBL, SBL1-3,TZ,HBOOT), while purposely corrupting SBL3.

If you really think the partition names tell the whole story... we'll then I have nothing to add. Perhaps I just know too much for my own good ;)

But I can tell you that on some other devices, "splash.nb0" doesn't just contain a splash image, if that what people here believe. It contains a whole load of other essential stuff. (Why would you waste an entire partition to save one image!? Does that make sense?)

That answer is very distressing! (Which mean that you've never heard of any ROM or other update, change the partitioning, and neither of changing from ext3 to ext4, etc etc.) In addition, you don't seem to have the faintest idea of what's on any of the other 12 partitions, that doesn't even have a name nor an type id, as already shown in that post, and that is worrying me and should worry everyone else as well. In particular if you hope to flash back the original structure after having correctly flashed a new bootchain. Right?

That's right, because I don't have any issues with telling people what I don't know. And that is why I ask a lot of questions. Or do you only pretend to know it all? ;)

Second about your device, you said it didn't have any (working) screen, and that you'd send it without it, AFAICR. How do you suggest that I can see how far it gets in the bootchain, without any instruments? So I asked if it had any additional outputs, like some kind of video out? Does that sound strange to you?

You're just being very rude and childish. You take this way too personal and perhaps this explains the absence and silence of some of the other key HTC S-OFF develpers? They're simply fed up with personal attacks, drama and statements like above, every 20 or so pages.

Personally, I think you have been one of the most helpful in this thread, but at the same time quite difficult. So if this is the best this thread have to offer, then I'm happily out as well. I'm a HW problem solver and solution seeker, not a social worker.

See, that was a simple answer to a simple question. Thank you. But I'm also trying to understand what you mean with "executes the emmc recovery mode". What is executed and what is recovered, and how? Are you talking about EhostDL (DLOAD) or something else?

Primarily beacuse someone else said they were going to do it, "in a few days". Secondarily, because I don't have a device to test it on.

Was not answered from what I had seen at the time of that post, where I asked about. But thanks anyway.

Bye bye.

I think it's just the right thing for me to do.

I was being ironic! There is a sign for that, I should have used it. ؟