yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC One S] :
:eek: i dont mind waiting, or paying. i just hope its true

RANDOM

: i remember the hd2 days, the first videos of wp7 on it came from china
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Word.

Me & Azzle ;-)

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Yeah.

I'm going to check more into it.
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Well hope you guys have good luck with your secret soff news! Hopefully it'll make you guys super heroes and gets us soff!

Can't wait!

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I'm waiting for some more news then I'll post more news.
[HTC One S] nickmv:
Keeping secretive on sharing information regarding S-OFF'ing the phone seems quite silly, downright childish, and more or less a slap to the face of the community.

I'd understand if someone made an entire ROM and mod tool and had tons of features and wanted to charge a few bucks, but someone wanting to profit greatly off something like this is a waste and an enemy to the community, in my opinion. They can go get rich elsewhere.

Also, I'm quite skeptical anyways.
[HTC One S] Reevine:
do you have a link to purchase S-OFF tool
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
It's a secret. They aren't saying anything yet lol. It's like 007 type of stuff apparently

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reevine:
LOL

Are you working on S-OFF yourself?
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
No sir I'm not. If I was and or got it I'd share it immediately

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

PM me if you want it.
[HTC One S] Dynam0:
+1

All this cloak and dagger stuff is ridiculous. I thought this forum was about the sharing of information.

Some of you should read the HOX S-OFF thread and see how it goes there. There are much more like minded people trying to solve a problem, that we all want a solution to.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Okay.

It's secret information that only me and Azzle know and it's about S-OFF work in progress.

It can't be leaked because the makers don't want it to be leaked.

I can only tell u a link to purchase S-OFF if you want.
[HTC One S] Adam5400:
The purchasable S-OFF is different from what you're keeping secret though, right?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Yes.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=10824156715

If you want to purchase S-OFF for your One S.
[HTC One S] Closed Source Project:
So to clear this up for people, the only purchasing going on here is if someone wants the Chinese version of S-Off. We have our own devs which will release a true version once they get it working (we can assume this will be free as that's just how XDA is). I personally do not trust the Chinese version, but that's my preference. To all who want legit S-OFF, just wait; devs are working on it currently. Just chill. The main thing we should focus our anger on is HTC not releasing the source code after so damn long... -1 for HTC...
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Well can't really be mad. They do legally have what, 90 days or something like that from release date?

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
No S-OFF is all the same.

This is a true version so you can't say "I don't trust the Chinese Version".

It's still S-OFF and won't brick your device.
[HTC One S] Adam5400:
Actually, I think according to GPL they're supposed to release it immediately, but I'm not sure if there's any real enforcement for GPL.
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Hmm ok. I thought they had a certain time frame

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] jriv:
Thats ship s-off anyway we want eng- soff ship s-off don't do ****. DON'T BUY THE CHINESE SHIP S-OFF FROM THAT LINK.it won't let u flash radio's or anything

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
You can't say that for sure. You haven't bought it and tried

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Yup. Look at the pic. It's still locked too

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Ah.

Thanks for letting us know.
[HTC One S] Hunt3r.j2:
You must be mistaken, because all S-OFF methods are designed to get SHIP S-OFF. ENG S-OFF is just a matter of flashing the engineering hboot after you get SHIP S-OFF.

The only difference between SHIP S-OFF and ENG S-OFF with the older phones is that engineering hboots let you flash unsigned images over fastboot.

The S-OFF method on taobao sounds like there's a guy with connections to an HTC repair center. Apparently, using an XTC clip with a software update that hasn't been located yet, it is possible to S-OFF at least the One X and One XL.
[HTC One S] jriv:
My bad just don't see the point in locked ship s-off plenty of people in the one x forums with ship s-off and still nothing.

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HTC One S] Closed Source Project:
I would like to thank you but I reached my max for the day. On another note, yes, I do have a right to not trust the Chinese version, which is why I said it's my personal preference...
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Right. I was talking to reviewers since he's told me he hadn't bought it

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
I always had SHIP S-OFF on my HTC Desire, and I was able to flash absolutely anything. On the older HTC Magic, you had to have either an "imperfect" SPL (HBOOT) or the engineering SPL, but with the Desire, it didn't seem to matter.

What I do notice though is that, while the taobao guy has SuperCID (1111111), he doesn't actually have a radio...

It's cheap though (200 yuan = $30 US), it's not "yen" like Reviewers thought (Japan and China is not the same country dude)

I would try it, but I'm just too afraid to brick my phone :(
[HTC One S] decalex:
GPL enforcement team

(still in alpha tho)
[HTC One S] Totòòò:
htc will never provide soff. the only way is to open a bounty thread and hope somebody will take it seriously and work on the soff so at the end they get the whole bounty:)
[HTC One S] raikesy:
A bounty is a bad idea and absolutely the wrong way to go about it...
[HTC One S] Totòòò:
Explain why?
[HTC One S] raikesy:
I also follow the One X S-OFF thread, they started a bounty and then not long after regretted it. It goes against the ethos of XDA, doesn't encourage sharing, promotes secrecy and is generally not conducive to open development.
[HTC One S] Totòòò:
Idnt follow one x forum anymore since i got tired of returning faulty devices they kept sending me, but bounty will serve as a good incentive. The ethos of XDA is gone since long time. If you want soff some time soon bounty thread will do it.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Don't agree. With a bounty information will simply not be shared, and it has been proven over on the One X thread that it does not work, they still are chasing S-OFF and have actually lost some good developers specifically because of the bounty..
[HTC One S] Reevine:
I'd rather hear about S-OFF progress than opinions about bounty threads. Perhaps this debate could be continued via PM? Thanks :D

There are a few developers working on this now so any updates on progress would be greatly appreciated. Are there still issues with bricking the device with making just simple changes to the HBoot?
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
I'll do it. Unless I'm an idiot and don't understand sarcasm. If it's some Chinese software. Bargin with the person. Cut the price down to 100 yuan lol. 200 is only around 30 bucks. Everyone chip in a few and we're good to go.
[HTC One S] Totòòò:
I think that u take for granted that devs will work separately but that is not true. Soff is a big project takes long time and many devs have their teams and friends they can decide to work together so thats not a problem. Anyways usually devs hate getting soff for a device whose kernel source hasnt been released yet(as far as iknow)
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
Me too, Id chip in also, But, The whole site is in chinese, I will assume the instructions are too !!

I wouldnt trust my inner chinese side to get me through the process. However, I could go to the local takeaway and get them to do it :p

Im happy to contribute towards the payment, But not to take part in the flashing, Until we know its 100% safe
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Ah. Who wants to pay the $30?

I'll translate the site and buy it and see if it's S-OFF for me/everybody..

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Call me the brickah cause you know I bricked devices already got dat warrenty on deck.

I'll try it ;-)

Haha.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I don't have money but.

Who would want to add $10 $10 $10 to get this S-OFF and I'll test it?

If it's software we can all use it..
[HTC One S] frazzeld:
Where's the link to this Chinese web site?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
It's not software as you have to pay for shipping so not sure.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=10824156715
[HTC One S] frazzeld:
Looks like its a knock off phone for sale.....

Similar artical here: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/htc-one-s-knock-off-in-china-to-be-priced-below-200/
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Is that the secret information? Or is there more secrets to come?
[HTC One S] biggyt:
Good work ;)
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
This super secret link that reviewers likes to make you think is some kind of cool thing he found is right in the soff OP thread in the one x forums.

They have a lot of good stuff going on over there. Keep an eye on that thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24963596

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Yup, I keep an eye on the One X and One XL S-OFF threads, which is why I had doubts on reviewers claims.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
This isn't a secret.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I wasent talking about that...

I was talking about something else S-OFF related dude .

Don't post without knowing.

Plus I wanted to keep it via PM to test it out first .
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Whatever man. It's right in another thread. After just week on these one S boards I don't have confidence in your many claims of what "you" find and do.

But I'll also be first to apologize if this other mysterious secret you have is real... Guess we'll see since you're holding from the community...that is if you're holding anything

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
That link I posted was in the One X forum but it said for "One S" as well if you purchase it.

I didn't want to post it here cause I actually wanted to get it tested before releasing something you can get scammed/brick your device from.

Ask Azzledazzle dude.

He's the only person in the community that I trust and that actually knows.

Me and him can't say anything because the developers don't want to leak anything.

I could only say it's about S-OFF as I hear from sources.
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
I can vouch for that !!

Just have patience in knowing that S-OFF is being worked on, The developers working on it dont want to be bombarded with ETA's and such, keeping it quiet gives them the time and focus they need to crack this !!

please dont start a war :)
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Confirmation ^
[HTC One S] tenchu_712:
*************del*********
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Yup that's what they're saying. They have tight dev hook ups

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Really dude stop posting worthless comments in the thread.

I know and spoke to a few people who made/did S-OFF for a device and one of em is working for our device.

Stop.
[HTC One S] eminembdg:
Umm.... I was answering his question. Told him you're working close with devs working on soff. Now stop harassing me while I help you and your dev connections

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
I'm not harassing.

I thought you meant it sarcasm as it looked like it.

K.
[HTC One S] dc211:
Lets go ahead and close this thread. The OP's question has been answered and there is NO development being spoken about. It's only getting dumber as it goes on.
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
No.

I want this thread to actually stay open if it closes I'll make one and get it stickied.

How will progress of it be tracked? Good discussion If you don't like the thread you don't have to visit it.
[HTC One S] shinkinrui:
No offense, but exactly what progress are you tracking? You basically said "I've got amazing news but can't post about it!" Then after a couple days of hype and people doubting the veracity of your amazing news, you said "I talked to someone and they are working on it." This is progress? The only purpose this thread is currently serving is for you to say "I can't tell you about progress, but it's coming guys, me and my secret club of people are awesome and will hook you up eventually," and the drama that will come of that.

If you didn't want hype and inevitable doubt, why even make these posts in the first place unless you've got actual progress to report?

Sorry to criticize, but I'm growing weary of seeing there are new posts in this thread only to see that it's you saying "I've got a seeeee-creeeet!" or people arguing with you.
[HTC One S] dc211:
Here let me paraphrase the recent progress.

Pretend for a second the following conversation between little girls.

[Linda] I know a secret you don't know. Neener-neener-neener

[Wanda] What the secret ?

[Linda] I'm not going to tell you. I'm only going to tell Susie.

[Susie] What's the secret?

[Linda] My friend is making cookies but he isn't done yet.

[Susie] Oh so we can't eat cookies yet?

[Linda] No
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Okay dude listen.

It's progress by saying there still working on it and I get what your saying but.

I'm only listening to a fellow developer.

I don't want to post who's doing it to get bombarded with PM's etc.

Okay.

I said it's a secret cause the developers don't want to be bothered.

God damn!
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
What ?!?!

This is getting a little out of hand. Do we need to resort to these levels ??

Do you really want to know the team working on S-OFF ?? Knowing that others may bombard them with stupid questions and put them off the whole project ??

Its in progress, Enough said. !!
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Totally a different situation.

Wanda wanted to know the secret while Susie was acting like a bi***

The difference is the people who I contacted don't want to be PM'd or bothered.

This is my second attempt to bring some type of contacting/S-OFF to this device.

I even messaged a few developers to come here.

- DooMLoRD

- viperboy-

- LeeDroid

- benjamin.j.goodwin

etc.

Still no gratitude.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Sorry dude, posting rubbish does not justify this thread being open. This thread should be closed as, like you said, work is being done via PM. Once said work is complete and S-OFF acheived, THEN open a new thread. Makes sense?
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Makes sense but.

Keep it open for anybody who has questions about S-OFF/who want to talk about it.
[HTC One S] shinkinrui:
I'm not saying you need to reveal your secrets. I can accept the privacy of devs who don't want the exact drama we're seeing here to come knocking at their doors. I'm not asking you to prove yourself. I'm not saying you're full of it. I'm not even being hostile with you.

What I'm saying is, it makes a lot more sense to stop posting about it until there's real progress to report. Basically, take your secret club's own advice:
[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
well i dont want to get involved in some mega dispute with everyone, I havent posted much in this thread.

All i know is its being worked on, I DO NOT no any more than that. Im not a CIA agent keeping classified information away from the public.

Im just trying to stop everyone verbally killing each other, The threads open to discussion about S-OFF, What is can do, Whats the benefits and so on....

If the thread gets closed so be it! Like i say, All i know is that S-OFF is in development thats it !
[HTC One S] Reviewers:
Just keep the thread open for discussion guys.

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Just tried purchasing S-OFF w/ Shootind5Nukes and it only accepts Chinese Banks/Credit Cards so nogo.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
I am running Lithium as my rom, which has beats audio installed. This has caused some problems for me, as it lowers audio quality when using poweramp. If you disagree, keep it to yourself and don't tell me I am wrong in this thread. Wow, that just sounded a lot meaner than it was meant to. Anyways, is there any way to remove it completely?
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
I was looking at that at one time... and I started writing down all of the files that get installed with the mod... but then I got to the /system/etc/ folder and gave up...

If you're feeling motivated, check out the attached zip for everything it installs, and then you could attempt to remove those files... by your method of choice.

NOTE: NO ONE SHOULD ATTEMPT TO FLASH THE ATTACHMENT - sorry for yelling, but it's not a flashable zip, just the system folder from the BeatsAudiob0314.zip for reference...

You should probably cross-reference and take the proper files from a stock ROM you have lying around though, because a few of the files are replaced, like /system/etc/media_profiles.xml and /lib/libreverbwrapper.so & libvisualizer.so (and possibly others?)... In fact, if you do manage to do all of that it would definitely be worth making a "remove beats audio" script/zip :D
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
Well, I removed it from the rom after setting it up with rom kitchen. This has worked before, but now it will not flash, I get an error in CWM that says something about status 0 and it aborts the zip install I think that has something to do with the update binary. anyone have any ideas?
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Yea, that sounds like an updater-script or update-binary file issue... You could try borrowing the META-INF folder from a different flashable rom...

Or maybe you could remove the necessary files through adb in recovery (or make a script if you can - that's beyond me) and make a smaller update.zip with the files you need to replace. I have much better luck making small flashable zips as opposed to full roms. Either way, good luck! And keep us posted..
[Motorola Atrix 2] farshad525hou:
Status 0 refers to an issue eighths updater-script. Make sure you have a semicolon at the end of every line, and the line endings are in Linux format if you using windows.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
...and a blank line at the bottom of the script..

Another thought... don't know how well it would work but - you could possibly make a cwm backup, get it on to your comp, open the system.ext3.tar with 7-zip, and do all of your deleting/replacing through 7-zip... then close her up, move it back to your sdcard and restore as normal (or restore system only).. obviously not touching the name or md5 sum..

again, never tried anything like that, but it sounds possible (in my head at least)...

"I claim no responsibility, etc, etc...";)
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
well all I need to do is replace and delete the right files, I am almost done with a flashable zip to just do that. do you know if the files that were listed as needing to be replaced instead of deleted (which is true) will work on all devices? I would like to post this for other device users to use if so.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
That I do not know.

But, if you could do it for our phone first (keep it in the family :)), I'm sure others would eventually port it to their device if it doesn't work right.. sounds like it'd be a very useful "anti-mod", if you will...

EDIT: Just found an unistall zip by H3ROS here (check posts #18 & 20). But, I think it's a dud.. I opened the zip and it's only the pvplayer.cfg.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
all right, I will finish it with what I have for replacements on our phone, then see if anyone else will test it on some others. is there a good way to make sure it worked other than making sure nothing is force closing and the files are gone?
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
That's probably the best you can do.. if it boots, no FC's, audio still works, files gone, then you're probably good to go. I would offer to test it but I got no beats mod installed right now... Did you successfully remove it on yours?
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
not yet, there are a ton of files and I have to manually type out all the file names into the zip updater file, so it is taking forever, I'm getting close though. I will put it up in an hour or so, assuming it works.
[Motorola Atrix 2] samsgun357:
What a pain in the arse. I installed beats, to my dismay, it hurt sound quality. The voodoo sound mod is much better. If you made a backup, I didn't, prior to install you are in good shape otherwise, full wipe and reinstall rom. It would be great if someone made an uninstall zip. Good luck!

Vibrant

Ics passion
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
my uninstall zip will be up in less than an hour, assuming I am not doing it completely wrong! It should work on the Atrix 2, but some files get replaced, not deleted. I think this should be fine, cross platform but you know the drill, not my problem if it does something bad and all that stuff.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
getting status 0with the zip even though I wrote it in Ubuntu. any ideas
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
I could take a look at your updater-script and see if I notice anything out of the ordinary - if you post or pm it..
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
will do thanks
[Motorola Atrix 2] farshad525hou:
Do you mind PM'ing it to me as well?
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
Well it is not giving that error anymore, but now it just goes from opening, then aborts right away?!?!?!
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
well the updater script is fixed a little, but it still just aborts right away with no error message. Any ideas
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Haha.. yea, I wish cogeary was here!:)

Man, them scripts... I don't know, lemme look at a few different ones to try and get some ideas.

You send it off to farshad525hou? This is a good enough cause for a community effort... not to bash beats, but - we need options!

I guess that's what we get for having, ahem (excuse me), "unofficial" copies...

You see that the zips have been pulled from xda threads? http://www.xda-developers.com/android/beats-audio-now-available-on-any-gingerbread-rom/ - check the last line.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
I'm not sure it is even the script any more since there are no errors. If I send you the whole zip will you try and flash it? make a backup first just in case though if you do try it. Also, do I need to sign it? it seems to be fine without being signed as long as signature verification is off in cwm.

EDIT: by the way you can still find the scripts, they have just been moved to a new thread.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Do you have the edison file?

If you do, then you can have the rom kitchen build the script for you.

If you don't have the edison file I can give you a link to grab it

Jim
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
I do, but this is a custom script that needs to delete certain files, so it won't really help. I'm sure there is just one stupid thing I have done wrong.
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
I'll take a look at it later for sure, I got some things to do first.

But I would definitely sign the zip. I use Sign+ by olboss. Just make a zip of the system and META-INF folders - make sure the META-INF folder has only the com folder inside, no previous signatures can be there (or maybe it will write over those..?) - anyway, then drop that zip into sign+ (signing it will create three new files in the meta-inf folder).

I knew about the signature check option in cwm, but was never brave enough to try it...
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
Got it all working, still not signed, but I can do that later, Here is the first release of it, would be great if a few people could test this and confirm it works. https://www.dropbox.com/s/our3w1f6xqtjraa/Beats-Remover.zip

I did not even need to wipe cache or dalvik. Thanks for everyone'ss help. I will sign it and reupload tomorrow
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Pm the whole zip to me, and I will see what I can do.

Jim
[Motorola Atrix 2] lkrasner:
it's all working now, see my previous post, thanks anyways though. it was all me being stupid. as usual
[Motorola Atrix 2] alteredlikeness:
Very cool. Nice job. I would test but got no beats atm, as i said before.

You should update the op once it's tested, tried and true... solved!