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[HTC One S] dharvey4651:
Figured I'd just post it.

Attached below you will find my 1.09 hboot with red disclaimer/watermark removed. It is also modified to say *** HTC ONE *** instead of *** TAMPERED ***.

Chances are that if you're coming from another hboot version, you won't see the *** HTC ONE *** because flashing from one hboot to another will remove the *** TAMPERED *** banner from your bootloader screen as long as you are S-OFF.

Installation instructions:

Place downloaded zip in whatever directory you have fastboot located. For me this is C:/Android

Reboot your phone into bootloader and make sure you see "Fastboot USB"

Enter command into command prompt: fastboot oem rebootRUU

Enter command into command prompt: fastboot flash zip PJ40IMG.zip

Wait for the progress bar to stop, and you see success in command prompt. The progress bar will not move all the way to the end but the command prompt on your PC will say success.

Enter command into command prompt: fastboot reboot-bootloader

Verify that the phone still boots into bootloader.

Enter command into command prompt: fastboot reboot or just navigate to reboot option in bootloader.

Red disclaimer/watermark should be gone from boot and you should now have the 1.09 hboot which allows for recoveries, radios and boots to be flashed from recovery.

ANYONE with S-OFF can follow this guide to lower your hboot from a 1.1x to 1.09.

DISCLAIMER

S-OFF IS REQUIRED, SUPERCID RECOMMENDED!!!

THIS GUIDE WORKED FOR ME WITHOUT ISSUE. IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY ONE OTHER AS WELL TO BE WORKING PERFECTLY AS WELL.

HAVING SAID THAT, THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM GUARANTEEING THIS WILL WORK FOR YOU!!! FOLLOW THIS GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I TAKE ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOUR PHONE MELTS, EXPLODES, GROWS WINGS AND FLIES AWAY OR JUST PLAIN BRICKS.

THIS WORKED FOR ME AND SHOULD WORK FOR YOU BUT UNDERSTAND THE RISK BEFORE FLASHING.

Zip is attached below.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
Not throwing a wrench into things but I find waaaaaayy too many people having issues, I don't think the One S is supposed to get S-Off and why would flashing a new ROM cancel out the S-Off??
[HTC One S] dharvey4651:
Flashing a new ROM, even an RUU will NOT cancel your S-OFF.

And NO device is supposed to have S-OFF unless it's an engineering device. People are having issues because they are creating issues. If they learned how to properly use fastboot commands and the order of things needing to be done, they wouldn't have so many problems.

Just Thursday, I flashed an RUU to pull an older hboot version from it. This locked my bootloader, installed an old radio, stock recovery and old hboot.

Without ever even booting into Android or unlocking the bootloader, with clean OLD RUU installed, I was able to flash hboot back to my custom one, flash radio to latest, flash latest twrp, flash root to my device and then unlock with htc-dev all before booting back into Android only to turn around and wipe it all out restoring Viper ROM.

If I can do all of this, so can they. They just need to learn how and stop screwing up their phones.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
People flashing the 2.1 version of Viper whom have done the S-Off procedure and it worked, have the S-Off not present afterwards so how did this happen?
[HTC One S] Behold_this:
Show me one person that says they lost s off at all, let alone after flashing a ROM. There is only one way to lose s off and that is by writing the secure flag to 3. A command I will not write out here because somebody will issue it without the proper precautions and brick their phone.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
Not just him either so maybe some reading up in the Viper thread (no disrespect intended), it's just one off hand.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2105863
[HTC One S] Behold_this:
Lmao, c'mon guy. the link you posted has nothing to do with s-off for one thing, simply links to the Viper 1s thread and for another thing nobody has lost s off. Looks like some reading is in order on your part;)
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
No matter how well it worked in the past: do NOT go about S-OFF'ing or Brick Downgrading your phone from a virtual machine. This simply is because the connections made in QDL mode are highly unstable and cannot be maintained well. It needs a very secure and proper cable connection with very reliable driver settings. This mainly applies to the Brick Downgrade which is using QDL Mode but not so much to S-OFF. However, the chances to mess something up from a VM are much higher simply because the connections have to run out of the VM into the physical layer and that always includes tricky code that can bug you. Without FULLY understanding how the connections are made and maintained, i would not even attempt to make it working. MUCH safer to go looking for a physical Win Machine you can use.

Sorry for the OT but i haven't seen you on our Beta Chat since like freaking ages.... Hope you're well though buddy.

---------- Post added at 10:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:12 AM ----------

If you have some very good picture with loads of colors and edges and blurs, like some standardazid reference picture, you can see the BRAVIA impact on that picture before and after enabling BRAVIA. It is nothing u can actually actively "use". It is just making picture and video display on the phone screen better.

And regarding XLOUD: same for sound. Its just intended to increase volume and better up sound quality, however, that one i find quite useless, as most sound mods. If it was my ROM, i had not included it.

The Devs chose to not listen to my ranting in the Beta Chat though ￼

---------- Post added at 10:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 AM ----------

That just means you haven't found all bugs yet ￼

Some things most definitely do NOT work, like the Backlight brightness tweaks for instance.

[EDIT]

The two Devs tricked me while i was working all week, just figured tweaks changed again since i updated the DOC. Release has different tweaks than Beta.

Oh well... some job to do before i can continue trolling you here ￼
[HTC One S] dharvey4651:
Agreed. The only way to get rid of S-Off is by writing the secure flag to 3.

NOT A SINGLE ROM ON XDA will do this to your phone. This is something you have to do on your own and it requires research on your part to figure out how.

A ROM is just a system image. Maybe a boot image if it's also included.

It is not possible in any way for a ROM to reset the secure flag to 3. PERIOD. Not even an RUU will do this. Trust me, I did it just this past Thursday.

I also changed 3 different hboot versions and still never lost S-Off.
[HTC One S] Behold_this:
Again these quotes have nothing to do with s-off except for the first part of Sneaky's which simply says not to do it on a virtual machine . you are majorly confused
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
For those who had s-off w/1.14.005 hboot, do you encounter the black screen problem? Even a hard reboot still no good. just black screen. hope some1 can help

ok here what i encounter with 2 HOS phone. both are s-off. When flashing viperROM doesn't matter v2.0.0 or v2.1.0 it doesn't work. I think it's still need fastboot boot boot.img.

From a clean unlock bl and rooted (no rom ever flashed, pure ics tmobile stock), boot into twrp v2.1.0 or v2.0.0, full wipe, then flash ROM... flash successful then it reboot. HTC One S appear w/no red warming, and a few second it just black screen, even a hard reboot still no good. just black screen

The work-around that make it works was i flash Rom-Android_Sense_Best_Stock this first. Then phone reboot and see htc one s, i hold power and vol to go into BL, then i flash viperROM doing a full wipe in twrp. flash the ROM and it works.
[HTC One S] Behold_this:
The last thing I'm going to say on the matter, the reason sometimes you have to flash a boot image is because the script that flashes the rom doesn't do it on its own. Again this is not an issue with s-off.
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
@Behold sorry for (maybe) my confusion lol, still unsure if I'd go ahead with S-Off sorry but nice chat lol :thumbup::D;):beer:
[HTC One S] dharvey4651:
The reason your phone is not booting has nothing to do with S-Off. You flashed a ROM from a full wipe with no boot kernel.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

That's what you need to do. As far as S-Off is concerned, you still cannot flash boot from recovery on higher hboots. This is an hboot limitation. Again, not an S-Off limitation.

Downgrade your hboot using my guide above and fastboot flash your boot.img. Once you do you'll be able to flash kernels, recoveries, radios and maybe some other stuff too. From recovery. Not fastboot unless HTC-Dev unlocked.

Keep in mind that the S-Off that we have is only as good as the hboot on your device and in our cases, it sucks because we don't have an engineering hboot.

Flash the ROM in recovery, reboot to bootloader, flash the boot.img with fastboot and enjoy the ROM. Again.. Not an S-Off issue so if you have issues with Viper ROM and it's not S-Off related, please... PLEEAASE take it to the Viper thread and stop with the off-topic nonsense.

Rant over...
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
i just s-off a ATT One X , HTC One S and a DNA, flashed venom to them, none lost s-off, and they are running better with team venom fw than the stock one :highfive:
[HTC One S] scotty1223:
What?? You should not need an older hboot for recovery to flash boot with s off. If recovery is not flashing boot with s off,it may just be that Roms are not scripted to flash it.

I see a lot of confusion and misconceptions going on in this thread.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
venom rom for one s, have ben not update to flash boot.img from recovery
[HTC One S] provaleriy:
How to flash latest EU radio with S-OFF?

How to flash latest EU (1.11) radio with S-OFF? Where I can find zip?
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

You can find the radio installer from Tecardo in his own thread here in the development section. With that installer you can choose all radios and try them out. It now works really good on s-off.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

Will also do soff version with Rcdata and tz included
[HTC One S] Opentang:
Is it possible to change the hboot background/wallpaper to something custom? :)

Regards,

Opentang
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

No
[HTC One S] rootrider:
You mean the splash screen? If yes go here.

If no, yeah then not. :cyclops:
[HTC One S] cyriantherockstar:
i was able to successfully s-off using a virtual machine :)
[HTC One S] loo432:
Why use a virtual machine? I s-off'd using windows just fine. It's all adb and fast boot commands. No need for a virtual machine
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

I never said it doesn't work with a VM, I said it's much more dangerous than with a physical machine and added, that one shouldn't do it unless knowing exactly what one is doing there.

Of course we will see various answers now stating that I'm generally wrong, so I add that I was only expressing my opinion and wish not to further discuss it unless someone has good proof that I'm wrong. Then I'd be glad to learn something.

sent from viper 2.1
[HTC One S] touch of jobo:
Oh nooo.. Someone is

wrong

on the internet! [xkcd.com/386] :p

If it is just you typing adb/fastboot/shell commands at your device, I'd say it doesnt matter too much and you can just use a virtual machine. But as loo432 pointed out, in that case there is no need since we have adb and fastboot on all platforms. (No offense to you BeOS freaks out there..)

For automated processes that are time critical and involve mode switching, such as running a RUU, or the brick-downgrade thing, or the old alpharev s-off for N1/Bravo, things like that, I would also recommend to

not

use a VM, so as to prevent issues from mapping USB ports from the host machine to the guest machine.
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

Thanks for clarifying my noobish attempts to sound like I knew anything at all :)

Will you stop messing with my quotes now? :D

sent from viper 2.1
[HTC One S] roakes:
Is there a way to permanently flash a radio? Just I used the radio installer to apply the 1.11 EU but then found that latest CM10.1 had reset it, not a big issue just annoying if I forget :)
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

I have two installers.

Cm10 installer needs to be runned on cm10. As sense and cm use different radio
[HTC One S] roakes:
Sorry yes I have been using the CM10 Temporary Radio Installer. I guess the clue is in the name that it's temporary and it clearly says in the Aroma installer that it needs to be run every time the ROM is updated, just wondered if with S-OFF it's possible to permanently flash it. Or is that HBOOT problem since I'm on 1.14.0002?
[HTC One S] droidkevlar:
If you use CM, it doesnt matter what radio is perm flashed as it doesnt check the same place for radio. You can still perm flash, but you will still have to flash a radio each time using CM. To perm flash, use tecardo's sense installer if you have s-off. It will then reflect in fastboot.
[HTC One S] alexskin:
Will it be another way to s-off that does not involve unlocking the bootloader via htcdev?
[HTC One S] mteezey:
Not that I know of ATM. If we could figure out a way to temp root to give adb root permissions then it would be possible.
[HTC One S] nor-ric:
+1 for this

I'm waiting for this too. I think there are a lot of people that don't want to unlock the bootloader (mainly for warranty void) but still do want to gain root access.

Let's hope the devs won't give up on this! :good:
[HTC One S] Super_Dork_42:
So I need someone to tell me straight up. Has anyone that went ahead with the OTA security update achieved s-off since then?
[HTC One S] djsubtronic:
Unlocking your bootloader does not void your warranty. Only should something go wrong directly as a result of you unlocking it, will your warranty be void. Relocked phones are back under warranty no problems.
[HTC One S] atown706:
How's this? It says if you unlock your bootloader, your warranty will be voided. If I remember correctly.
[HTC One S] mteezey:
It actually says "may" be void. You need to look at your actual warranty that came with the phone. If it doesn't specifically say unlocking your boot loader will void your warranty then your good to go.
[HTC One S] Cofreddi:
Im sorry i read like 20 pages and couldn't find any where if there is actually an s-off for the one s or not... Can u just tell me or point me to the right direction? Cuz im Tmobile user and freaking tired of waiting for the JB update... I wana root and flash viper one s.

HTC one S using xda premium
[HTC One S] gemarcano:
Google HTC One S Facepalm, or search for Facepalm in the forums. That's the name of the exploit used to gain S-Off. As for rooting and flashing, you don't need S-Off for that, just unlocking the boot loader, which is mandatory for S-Off anyway (there's no dodging htcdev unlocking afaik).
[HTC One S] fmedrano1977:
Waiting for this

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] alexskin:
+ 1 for this
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

Delayed cause of collecting files.

Posted with the HTC One.
[HTC One S] usaff22:
What I would really look forward to with S-OFF would be if we could flash bootloaders and stock ROMs when phones are in an unusable state, QHSUSB_DLOAD.

Like Samsung's odin software, a GUI which would be easy to just flash a stock ROM, or reflash the whole device if something goes wrong.
[HTC One S] touch of jobo:
Here are a bunch of rcdata files. You already have all the tz images I have.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

Thanks.

P s guys. I have windows qhusb drivers

Posted with the HTC One.
[HTC One S] usaff22:
I found the QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers for 64 bit, but no 32 bit drivers.

And there is nothing I can do with them when a device is in that state unfortunately. Only way I know of is JTAG, which requires hardware.

(PS I don't have a brick luckily, so I don't need this software :p)
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

I will post them here for xda.

Posted with the HTC One.
[HTC One S] RussianBear:
Qpst can do all of that. However, the qhsusb mode has different stages, and the phone needs to be in the correct one. And, of course, we need the signed hex for htc. That and many other reasons why I'm never buying another htc phone, unless they pair up with Google and make a nexus phone.
[HTC One S] usaff22:
Which hex do you mean? I have MPRG8960.hex and 8960_msimage.mbn, if you need it. Would it be possible to rescue a phone in QHSUSB_DLOAD if the partitions are not enumerated in Linux?
[HTC One S] RussianBear:
That hex isn't signed, most likely, otherwise darkspr1te would've resurrected a few of these already.
[HTC One S] Super_Dork_42:
I asked this before but never got a response. I haven't done the security update. Does it affect s-off ability? has anyone achieved s-off after they updated?
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
What security update?
[HTC One S] scotty1223:
the security update my prevent you from superCIDing. why would you want to wait? s-off now while you have the oportunity. you can change your cid back to stock and take the OTA after,if you really want to.
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
Oh I think I've heard about this actually don't do the updates most of the time like 99% you should never do stock updates... They just add more restrictions

And the update makes one of them mckb... Whatever files readable only so u can't modify it and gain soff
[HTC One S] Super_Dork_42:
Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.
[HTC One S] umhhmm:
htc one s s-off

i dont know if this is news or not but i have achieved s-off with rumrunner on my one s it was very simple , i found a thread @ http://htconeroot.com/htc-one-tutorials/how-to-get-s-off-on-htc-one, this link i know they do not say one s but they do say many htc devices so , i followed the [Tutorial]Root, Unlock, Recovery and flashing a Custom ROM here on XDA by troxx\flow, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1583427 . then decided that i need s-off to use a lot of the roms out there so i found this thread about s-off htc one during my search so upon reading and watching the video i found that it is for the one s as well, so after three attempts i found that it work perfect so the first two attempts i found an error messages that there was a fatal error and the programme says hit enter to exit so i did, there was no problems with that by the way , so and went on to read some more and found that all security has to be disabled , antivirus and what ever else you are running on your windows machine so i completely uninstalled my antivirus just to make sure i had covered all the bases , and at that point the third try after about 10 minutes letting the programme run its course i had achieved s-off , i also found that in their description you need to watch your phone and keep giving permission but being that i had already installed supersu i only needed to grant access once after that it gave access it self so really i only had to watch for the request once . hoping this helps out .P.S this will work on any htc one s. if you look at the download page there are two options one for international and one for Verizon. my one s is from rogers so i used the international one .
[HTC One S] Flashalot:
Uhmm this hasn't been posted in for about 4 months

This thread is dead please don't bring it up
[HTC One S] nojoboy:
How I did It

I got s-off my running RUU and returning to stock. I then used moonshine S-Off.
[HTC One S] Adam5400:
Well, you can flash anything you want to the hboot partition even if its not signed, as Reviewers demonstrated (it'll fail at boot). The signature is checked on boot, not when you're writing to the partition. (That may be what you're trying to say, I dunno) But I knew that when I was flashing and make sure it was signed first. The signature appears to be in the header of the hboot image, just below the versioning information.
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
Is it that little progress bar thing on the right top corner every time it boots? I don't remember seeing that on previous HTC devices. @reviewers, did you get that s-off hboot?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
No. It has nothing to do with it.

I didn't get the S-OFF HBoot he haven't been on Google Talk.
[HTC One S] Closed Source Project:
Guys, I'm sure I'm misplaced but I want to help as much as possible. Back on my HTC Nexus One, we achieved a custom S-OFF known as Blackrose. Here is the thread if you want to check it out or contact the dev and see if s/he can help in any way possible:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1270589

Again, I am sorry if this helps none; just throwing something else out there.
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
You explained it better than me yes.. Thanks !

This isnt gonna be an easy job, But im sure its gonna happen soon..

Id be lying if i said i knew anything about it... Im my mind its easy lol, Just refer to a similar device, But my head is one massive fairytale land.

I have faith in the devs !! so keep trying and trying !! it will pay off soon :)
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Azzle PM me I have to tell you something good ;-)
[HTC One S] Skyman1:
Good Luck!!!!!!
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I'm gonna check to see if this thread can be stickied.
[HTC One S] encho:
Why? This is a discussion thread, when we actually have real s-off we can have a new one with clear instructions in the first post. And in the dev section.
[HTC One S] Adam5400:
Can someone check the contents of their mmcblk0p8? On the AT&T HTC One X board everyone's appears to be filled with stuff except for one person with S-OFF (His is zeroed out). Mine is also zeroed out, and I'm not sure if it's because of the different device or something else.
[HTC One S] Reevine:
Mine is also zeroed out. I'm not familiar with what the purpose of this file is for. What is the info from mmcblk0p8 used for?
[HTC One S] Reevine:
Any new news on S-OFF progress?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
If I'm correct mmcblk0p8 is the One X HBoot the One S's have a different HBoot so it won't help us.

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Yes.

Amazing news

Just can't release any information.

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
You could wait or purchase S-OFF for $200. Which one will it be ;-)

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] twiztidnutzzzzz:
Wow only $200 .that's a damn good deal ..
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
If your willing to purchase lmk.

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
how do you mean ?? How can you buy S-OFF ??
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
There's a tool I'm guessing a software tool the Chinese are willing to sell.

Problem is I'm not sure if its only a 1 time tool or for everybody .

If its for everybody we can all chip in $200 if its 1 let 1 person purchase S-OFF if you purchase it for $200 and it can be used multiple times release it.

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
Oooh I see, Still, Im sceptical as to whether this would work, I wouldnt want to invest £200 of my own money on a whim lol

I guess if 20 people chipped in £10 that wouldnt be so bad, But then again if its like you say and only valid for one device, Its also a bit of a waste too !

To be honest, My faith lies with the Revolutionary team, Im sure one day they will start working on this device and get it working, Id much rather donate £200 to them than i would to the chinese

And thats not a racist comment !
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I feel the same way azzle.

Just said that to see who would want to do it

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Its 200.00 yen not USD going to have to translate the price

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
that equals £1.64 ???? that cannot be right lol link me ?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
It looks like its about $2.50USD as I translated it to yen.

Sent from my Ville
[HTC One S] 2-propanol:
It seems questionable that someone from China preferres japanese money, or not?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Still.

Chinese money --> Transferred to USD it shows like $2.50.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
So are you saying you have information that can help with s-off, but are withholding it?
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
Its a secret ;) !!

Respect the guys wishes !

Oh and if you're wondering.....I know too ! lol