yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC One S] el7145:
I did PM Sality (the guy who claims to have found a method for s-off on his HTC DNA), and asked him if he was able to S-off his HOS (he took the picture of his DNA being S-off with his HOS), he stated "yes"

If this claim is true that would be great news.

*For the time being, take this with a grain of salt*
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
Ok, do you want to know how HTC sets s-off on the One series? Follow this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2047958 and you should land in my thread. I posted two videos. The first one shows an s-off process directly from HTC in a HTC repair shop. The second one is my attempt as an amateur :D. Also read the description in the thread for further information as for the One S the procedure should actually be the same.

A goldcard is actually a storage that's been formatted in a special way. It sounds very risky though.

-------update--------

I tried to flash the Diag with a goldcard. The file loads in the first attempt but after trying to load pj40diag.nbh it fails (wrong image) :(

Other than that, did you know that OTG is enabled in Bootloader while it's disabled in the OS? Is there already a mod that enables OTG in the OS?
[HTC One S] mugetsu666:
Ok as far as the OneS I have, if it's going towards getting us s-off it's for sale, but if it's just to use then I'm keeping as it's my only back up. If I'm going to sale it for just use then I can get more for it through my team website. I want to get us s-off that's the Only reason for me selling it.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
did some one tryed to flash the PJ40DIAG.zip ins fastboot?

fastboot flash zip PJ40DIAG.zip

i was able do run that comand in my HTC sensation, But from what i know, diag is for check phone partitions if are broken like eMMC and things like that. Dont know if in the HTC one S is like that.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
the kernel needs to enable that. and then it activates in the bootloader. thats why theres errors flashing the diag.nbh
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
Didn't worked either. I don't have the one s anymore, so I can't tell you what error showed up.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
phone needs to be flashed in RUU mode, ill check tomorow when my One S gets shipped!
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
I don't know if it's the same on the one s, but on the one X the phone will still check for correct signature even on RUU mode.
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
literally lol'd at this
[HTC One S] Reevine:
haha well back to the initial subject. Im currently on IRC #revolutionary watching like a hawk to see if anything pops up. Haven't seen snowwhite007 on yet but im sure he/she is busy. Hopefully with in a few days we might hear some positive news and get a peek at some progress. :D
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
Im also there too !! too scared to speak lol the rules are strict as hell
[HTC One S] Reevine:
The reason the rules are that way is because of the initial swarm of people when this was being developed. IRC channel was flooded with nonsense.
[HTC One S] :
The htc amaze s-off method required a wire trick (touching the metal part of the sd card with a bare wire). I'm hoping it's not that crazy for the one s, and hopefully its revertable.
[HTC One S] Reevine:
Yeah I was looking at that. I agree. S-OFF shouldn't have to be a hard hack. Software only for me please lol :p
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
similar method to the sensation too

EDIT: The Jp/Bear Method requires the wire in the hole, Ive noticed the One S has the holes just like the Amaze and Sensation... Only thing is im a bit wary of sticking a wire in it lol

whats the worst that could happen ?
[HTC One S] decalex:
Lol. Either u did or u didn't.
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
its either jizz or spilt mayonaisse from my sandwich
[HTC One S] snowwhite007:
short ur device. Anyway u need SD for this to work wire tricks will be a last resort starting at source is best and will be easier for everyone
[HTC One S] willumpie82:
Actualy, it has nothing to do with the sdcard, its about connecting the testpoint to a ground (negative) source, I expect the simcover will do. the phone becaumes a recovery USB device. with the right tools and firmware files we are good to go.
[HTC One S] Reevine:
either way it would be highly preferabel to avoid hard hacks.
[HTC One S] snowwhite007:
Iff this can be avoided it will be
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
can some one of you say me, how i can change the signature of the ruu's?
[HTC One S] encho:
Actually there's another method for Sensation, that's how I s-offed it. Did not involve any wires, just few minutes of fear :eek:
[HTC One S] -Leviathan-:
Any news from the Jp/Bear team?

Does anyone know if the s-off for this model is in the works from them?
[HTC One S] shootind5nukes:
Once you figure this out let us know, because then we won't need s-off......(no you can't)
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
S-OFF was being worked on but I bricked my device.

HTC checks the signatures on the HBoot so if you modify 1 line of text it bricks and stops it from booting etc.

mmcblk0p12 is the HBoot for anybody whos wondering.
[HTC One S] globatron:
Reviewers, can you take a look at Dexter93's sensation unbricking thread and see if the same situation exists on the One S. Not relevant to S-OFF but a good to know.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I haven't spoke to you in so long.

Care to PM me?

I'll look into it for you.
[HTC One S] slainbybeats:
Wasnt it you who wanted to release some stuff in January? :what:
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
if the diag is original there sould be no problem
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
The thing is, to flash the diag you need supercid or you find a way to bypass cid check. Or you find a diag that matches to your cid OR you change the cid of the diag without breaking its signature.
[HTC One S] Darknites:
We have SuperCID so that shouldn't be an issue.
[HTC One S] :
I have an idea , look the way we downgrade boatloader , the process is first we create a brick and flash the older hboot in the download mode. Right yeah ? My idea is instead of flashing the older hboot we could try flashing a modded insecure hboot.nbo with s-off like in evo 4g lte , just a guess , we may take help from those devs
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
the thing is if you flash a moded HBOOT.nbh you brick the phone, atleast thats all i can read. did some one tryied to find the revolutionary devs? they can help, no with an unlock so fast, but they can point us to the right direction.
[HTC One S] mteezey:
All of their exploits use an external sd card(at least the ones I've seen this far). Really though I don't think there has been anyone in close enough with them to try to reach out for us. I know they only deal with quallcomm phones which is why they hvet touched the one x. Not sure why this device never hit the spotlight of that type of development.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
check the HTC droid DNA, it got s-off w/o sdcard, the S-off changed in devices w/o.

S-off is posible , it just need a lot of work to be done.

can we go here and ask for help?

http://unlimited.io/support.htm

fallow the IRC chat rules. :)

if we want s-off, we should get help and every One S involved in to this, not only get a Thread.
[HTC One S] el7145:
where do you see anyone that has achieved s-off, with any credibility, hopefully your not referring to the "S-off is Possible" thread?
[HTC One S] TheCrow1372:
I know its a different One device but you guys have been on this thread right?:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2037750

I just watched a vid on YouTube and have no idea who created the method You need a Y-Cable, HTC signed Javacard, Clean S58 DIAG file.

and I don't think I can post it but they've done it with this guy's One X, just don't know if anyone has seen it? (can I post the link)?
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
http://www.52sjwx.com/read.php?tid=74073

china china got all!
[HTC One S] Super_Dork_42:
What is that?
[HTC One S] alexskin:
has anyone tried it ???

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it's the file we need to flash to get s-off
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
well we need a clean s58 file for that, aparently this one is, but we dont know yet, untill we download it
[HTC One S] alexskin:
tried to download it, but i can't, as the majority of people who've seen that thread :))
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
also this guy posted a PJ40DIAG.zip that is for a Tegra3 device (HTC one X tegra3 international) and not for the HTC one S, thats why people get a signature check error flashing it.

Im not a great dev for HTC, i was using samsung and motorola most of the time, but a good Hex Edditor can save you live and your device.

be carefull of what you flash it can cost you money and time!!!
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
It was me who posted the file and I want to say sorry!!! I was told that the diag is a cid changer for the HTC ONE S! It was a guy from XDA.cn

I apologize in front of everyone here on XDA!! Sorry! I should've test the file before I post it here!
[HTC One S] mugetsu666:
Hey man at least u where trying to help. Thanks man.
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
No one will manage to brick his device when loading or flashing this file! The phone will check for the signature/mainversion/cid etc. and because the file is meant to be loaded on the One X (S720e) it won't let you load or flash it! For information purposes I'm gonna let the download link up. But please refrain from flashing or loading the file!!! You've been warned!!
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
easy bro! no big deal xD, atleas you know now that this is the eng bootloader of HTC one X tegra3 device xD :) thats awesome! xD thanx for the reaserch :) keep it up! i hope that we get s-off soon! i found a lot of pages with diag files for One S but cant download them :( one is in arab lang -_-
[HTC One S] nitrous²:
Thanks. This is not a eng bootloader, its one of thousands of f*cking hoaxes from XDA.cn against XDA-Developers.com. Anyways.

OT: dude, weren't we also trying to find a solution to unlock the bootloader of the moto defy? I think I remember you. You sold yours, didn't you? Dude I don't know why we always find those locked devices, they seem to attract us. Maybe we love the challenge :D I remember all the sh*storms against moto where everyone freaked out like hell :D the same story again huh? :D
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
off topic

i remember you perfectly :) i talked to you one or 2 times when epsylon3 briked his device making a USB factory cable xD.

i was in a Unlocked by factory T mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 T989, porting miui, recoverys and you know any kind of exploit, i decided to trade my hercules for this one (htc one s) and this phone fits my android hunger. small, lightweight :P.

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now on topic

in the screen above it says eng boot , i compared to one of the hboot of the one s, the first lines tell what hboot is, and the 2 or 3 line says for what devices, but it have missing files.

i hope that all the HTC One line, gets S-Off, HTC one X att version have S-off by spoofing some partitions, HTC one S have the samepartitions, in sizes and blocks, so i swear tha HOS can do it the same way, but we need to sacrifice a HOS to really test the Exploit.
[HTC One S] mteezey:
I've got a lead on a one S for a hundred bucks just hoping it's not sold by the time I can actually get it. Fingers crossed. If so I will sacrifice away.
[HTC One S] :
I saw a one s for 99.7$ buy it now with a shattered glass but display was visible but its sold out now
[HTC One S] ZzB3B0zZ:
Guys in htcdev you can find the kernel source already hope thos help to finally get s=off. Piss me off not to get WiFi function on any good roms for this device and the unbrick/downgrade project its kinda scary.

http://htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads from my HTC VLE_U using xda app-developers app
[HTC One S] :
+1 for the wifi
[HTC One S] Darknites:
They look old and its not going to help with S-Off.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
theres no official rom out, that means no kernel source at the moment.

and kernel wont help for S-OFF, a radio can(sort of) who knows
[HTC One S] ZzB3B0zZ:
Well I'm staying stock rooted until s=off It's complete maybe later I play with the downgrade/unbrick stuff.

Subscribing here hoping to see good news soon
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
If this was going to happen wouldn't it of been done by now?

What I mean is, if it hasn't been found by now is anyone really going to try?

I'm kinda new to the s-off thing so Idk about it.

I had the G1 but didn't have s-off so this is the only android phone I had to deal with s-off
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Ya I don't see use getting it. We losing devs not gaining them :(.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
Sensation waited like a full year i think and they have it ;) now, well late but the got it.

Hopefully 4ext recovery is near the best recovery for htc s-on devices, so bye bye for htcdumlock ;)
[HTC One S] usaff22:
Nope, Sensation got it about two months after release. They had Revolutionary, and the ICS update introduced a new HBOOT ver. That got S-OFF'ed by Juopunutbear.
[HTC One S] :
Amen to 4ext! Was gutted to see we didn't have it on the One S, so miss the control panel and working from within a rom.
[HTC One S] Darknites:
I not used 4ext before but someone else said someone was making it but are you saying it can flash the boot.img without messing about?
[HTC One S] ZzB3B0zZ:
I used 4ext recovery before with evo 4g and evo 3d both from sprint and it was 99.9% perfect I'm looking forward to have it on this device.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
yes it can flash boot.img w/o scripts and **** :) , i used i on the sensation and was amazing, backups are super fast and its fully themable :).

it detectes if your device is s-off or s-on and boom,it make his magic.

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stick to this developers website :)

http://www.4ext.net/status_update.php

as soon it gets alpha, all the HTC One line will get it :) it was stated in 31/dic/2012

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something like that lol
[HTC One S] AKToronto:
I think we also just have to follow the S-Off progress over at the Evita forums too. It seems as if the flag may be in a similar partition in the One S as it is in the One X. Once more work and more solutions arise in One X, we may also get devs and others getting curious about porting those solutions to the One S... I think the bootloader downgrade solutions started like that too.
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Sounds good even though I don't need it but always willing to try new things.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
if you are talking about the HTC One X ATT version then yes,if they got s-off ours can get it. but if you talk about the HTC one X international tegra 3 den forget about it.
[HTC One S] klin1344:
The evita is the att one x. The tegra 3 one x is endeavoru.
[HTC One S] kirkcody:
HAS ANYONE TALKED TO THESE GUYS?????? WHAT METHODS DID THEY USE????????? http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...s-s-off-for-hboot-1-151-19-without-downgrade/ :confused:
[HTC One S] invasion2:
HAVE YOU LEARNED TO TAKE OFF THE CAPS BUTTON?

Sent from my HTC One S running ViperOneS!
[HTC One S] essentialmindz:
i thought it would be fun to write them, they respond pretty fast, lol...

Dear [me],

I can understand your concern about HTC not offering S-off on our devices. Thank you for sharing your feedback. I will be happy to explain one of the main reasons we do not offer S-off.

S-* blocks access to certain partitions of the device. This ensures that a carrier branded device cannot be unlocked from the branded network and put on another network by a customer. For HTC to offer this, we would be breaking FCC regulations. When buying a carrier branded device, the customer as well as the carrier has a ‘stake’ in the phone. Because of this contract between customer and carrier, HTC cannot offer the unlock via S-off or PUK code. Doing so would void the contract between customer and carrier and thus break the law as HTC does not have a ‘stake’ in the contract, [me].

I hope this answers any of your questions as to why HTC cannot provide S-off on all of our devices. As much as we would love to facilitate our Customers’ requests in this matter, we are legally unable to. I appreciate you taking the time to write in to me today. I hope you have a great upcoming week!

Let me know if I have successfully answered your question, please click here to complete this.

To send a reply to this message, please click here.

Sincerely,

[her]

HTC
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
But there is already a way to unlock your htc 1s so it can be used on other carriers that's a bs excuse.

Once you purchase the device with contract its yours to keep
[HTC One S] slainbybeats:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

There is a way, but it isn't provided by HTC. They don't want to be responsible, that's the point.
[HTC One S] mteezey:
HTC can't consider the methods to community has came up with to carrier unlock when responding to these type of emails. Bs excuse yes. But I think you need to look at your contract a little closer that phone isn't technically "yours" until you fullfill the terms. Hence the early termination fees and other tactics to make sure they get every penny for the phone. Unless you pay full price for the phone its really not yours. I even bought mine on value plan and paid it off once I got my rebate and they still tried to charge me full price when I had to send it back and they sent me a replacement and this was within warranty . end rant* not taking HTC side but they do have a point as far as the legality goes :(
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
Go to unlimited.io

Get to IRC chat and look for fuses, he s-off his one s.
[HTC One S] kirkcody:
Hey Blackwing182 on their irc do they provide instructions for the method ?
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
from what they spoked to me, its very dangerous, it can brick the phone, in other words, is not friendly for do it.

some one with good knoledge can try to make a script to make it easy for us, but the risk is that they can brick the phone in a moment.
[HTC One S] droidkevlar:
That is pretty much with any phone when you first try to get s-off...then after a lil bit, they make it easier and find other methods of doing it. do you have the steps to do it?
[HTC One S] kirkcody:
I'll be a guinea pig idc about this phone I'm a authorized T-Mobile dealer and I'm here to tell you tmo nor htc don't give a rats a** about this phone its not even a year old and T-Mobile deemed it end of life and as far as HTC goes, well I guess them and Sammy did some kind of mind swap.....no more customer loyalty out of HTC....so this is my last device from them after only owning HTC products. ps. Sorry for the rant.
[HTC One S] slainbybeats:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

I would go for testing it if tecardo could solve the brick with his jtag method. Got a little Linux experience, though I don't know if it is needed. Would be nice if they could tell us how they did it. We are still responsible for our phones by ourselves.
[HTC One S] PeQuEsan:
We don't even know if it's 100% software or not...

Maybe it's time to reinstall my old-old IRC client... :P

bye!
[HTC One S] essentialmindz:
I went to the channel and spoke to fuses... he is not planning on making any releases for one s... He claims that he is able to get s-off on One S but doesn't planning on sharing that info just yet. If a release is made someone from unlimited will post a thread in XDA..... so....
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Sorry but that's just weird. If he knows how to then what's the big deal on sharing.

From past experience when someone says something like that it was because they don't really know.

There's no reason to not share. It's not like we can sue him if we brick our phone.

That's just my two cents on the subject.
[HTC One S] mugetsu666:
Couldn't agree more
[HTC One S] mteezey:
Its probably a good possibility that whatever the method used to s-off this phone could be easily patched by HTC. Therefore deeming it useless for future/better devices. So in the logical mind(them) "why waste this method on the one s?" I know in all of us one s owners minds this is the greatest phone ever... But seriously we all need to look at the big picture. This is just speculation from me as to why they would keep the method to themselves. On top of it being a good possibility that the method would or could be hardware related and involve opening up our phones which most people couldn't do if they wanted to anyways. The object for community tools is software only. As always.
[HTC One S] Super_Dork_42:
(dumb and dumber voice) So, you're saying there's a chance?
[HTC One S] jotha:
Thread cleaned

I suggest you all stop arguing. If you don't, you force me to enter that brawl and somehow I get the feeling I have the better arguments ;).

Stay on topic, please.
[HTC One S] chong67:
Why is there still no s-off on this phone? Lack of interest by the elite right?
[HTC One S] Behold_this:
More like a lack of necessity...but probably a little lack of interest too.
[HTC One S] chong67:
I see.

Some people say rooted with s-on means cant update the radio.

HTC did play cat n mouse with their phone on the HTC 4G LTE and each time from 1.12 to 1.19 are all broken.
[HTC One S] Behold_this:
I'm unlocked/rooted, s-on and can update the radio all I want no problem and other partitions as well. You just need hboot 1.09 or lower. If you don't have that you can downgrade, so like I said there really is no necessity.
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Yep I can flash a sweet boot splash, thats all I needed lol.
[HTC One S] Reevine:
Update

Currently seeing if I can get my hands on a diag file used for S-OFF by HTC.

I had my HTC One S stolen though so I haven't been able to make much progress on S-OFF since then :P

If I can get my hands on the HBOOT diag file or engineer a diag from update I'll look into getting another HTC One S to finish S-OFF work.
[HTC One S] Super_Dork_42:
Dude that sucks. If I had money I'd donate to help out.
[HTC One S] blackwing182:
Every stuff you found, you can give it to me, i have, 2 phones, and i can brake this one testing stuff, just let me know
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I have Riffbox now at home. Will make JIG for it, so until end of next week i could be ready.

PS: I had S-OFF and tryed to get to S-Diag mode: But phone freezes and reboots into s-off.
[HTC One S] PeQuEsan:
Good to see you here tecardo. :thumbup:

Desde el móvil...
[HTC One S] htcsensation:
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/htc-one-s-s-off-modification-service/
[HTC One S] Reevine:
It's all good. Thanks for the support though :)
[HTC One S] Reevine:
Thanks for joining us here Tecardo! Yeah I was able to get s-off and was running into the same issue. That's why I'm trying to do it via the diag mode because it isn't a full s-off. The only thing that was turned off was the security flag but on HTC newer HBOOTs there are extra security measures which is the difficulty. With the proper diag file and signed authentication you can do a "factory" S-OFF which will fully turn off all the security. Hopefully I can finish the engineered signed Javacard for the factory s-off. I'm working on that now.

here's the newest diag file if you need it: Diag Zip
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

Can't download them :)

Can you upload as zip anywhere?

This gold Card isn't for the one s, or?

PS: every active s-off dev will get the Unbrick from me for free. Excluding shipping. Active development is: has some know how and can answer me some questions about one s and soff

:)
[HTC One S] Darknites:
Here you go.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
AW: [Discussion]HTC One S [S-OFF]

Thanks :)
[HTC One S] russellhoff:
A newbie engineer

So, can be said that s-off has been achieved?? Via jig or software tool?

pd: sorry, but i can't read all the thread...