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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbaran:
I was going to try the 1.85 to .88 upgrade using a different goldcard method. Some sites say it should be a mirror (i.e. 12345>54321) while other sites say it should be a HEX reversal, which gives a totally different value. I was going to try the .85 to .88 upgrade using the HEX reversal method.

edit: i find it weird that my phone will load the PJ83IMG.zip from my SD card regardless of the CID I used to modify the header... it seems that it will load from an SD card regardless but only a proper CID and goldcard will allow for downgrade/other firmwares.

Perhaps our goldcard method is bad or it doesn't work on this phone.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Ah, I see. Sorry I misunderstood you.

I don't know that much about gold cards. Actually I know almost nothing. So wish I could help, but probably not.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
Anybody want to talk to this guy.. he might be of help, is the one with the s off tool
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbaran:
what's the IRC server he's on?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
he just told me, #wildfire
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] TKTAB911:
# is channel, We need the IRC server to connect to :b

--

http://www.simonsimons34.co.cc/irc.html

^Found it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
thanks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] snake3276120:
isn't the "one click root" already there...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] supercluver:
Doesn't work for 1.85 dude. Pretty sure in 50+ pages someone would have tried this already. :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
guys join us on irc, RIGHT NOW PLEASE!!!

http://www.simonsimons34.co.cc/irc.html
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Oh look, there's a thread here on XDA about how to root your HTC ONE X using a one click root method! I don't know why we were bothering to yack up 56 pages here trying to get root.

Sorry man, had to do it. Some clarification, this thread is a think tank thread for those trying to get v. 1.85 rooted. AT&T released the newer version and have been shipping phones with it preloaded. 1.85 has a root patch that keeps the one click root method from working, and the boot loader is locked. We can unlock the boot loader but for that we need root. We can root the phone but for that we need an unlocked boot loader.

Back on topic, I've been reading through the S-OFF thread. Some useful stuff there but I don't think its our miracle answer.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] expertzero1:
exellent!!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
I'm at my desk job right now. I'm pretty much paid to sit at a desk. Normally I don't have this much time.

So I've been googling it a lot. Looks like you can create a gold card using the internal storage and people have done. I am not sure that will help with flashing to 1.88 without having root or SuperCID but I've got a hunch that its a good start in the right direction.

Check this link out, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1639972&page=26

I've got my phone right here. I'd love to give it a try but at this point I'm afraid if it might not work and brick it or something. I've got stock 1.85.

Edit: It looks like this also uses the reversed CID method from the gold card helper tool. It seems people here are having problems with that. So I am not sure. But it does sound promising. I think I'm gonna try it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] 00_MACKIE_00:
That would be the worst thing you could ever do......Stay with what you got, Sprint blows so does their devices.

:D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] stumpyz9:
how does the evo lte suck? its our X with a kickstand and sd card slot and a bigger battery!!!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
Yea I had Sprint before and I didn't like it. I also thought the Evo 4g lte was extremely ugly from the pictures of it until I saw it in the the store yesterday. It really isn't that bad. I could live with the two-tone color back. It's just that the reason I buy Android's now is because of the open software. I didn't buy an iPhone again for a reason. I also didn't buy a One X to leave it stock. If I get the Evo, I come home, open it up, plug it into the computer, root, unlock bootloader, and flash roms/mods. If I wanted a locked down device I would have gotten an iPhone. There are some brilliant minds here at XDA. I'm SURE they are smarter than AT&T reps. Rooting this shouldn't be a problem. This is the first "Android" device I've seen this happen to. I'm starting to lose hope in it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Tiffany84:
Everyone just needs to be patient. I know it's easier said then done sometimes but we have the best developers on the planet on our side. Just have some faith. It WILL happen.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] patstock11:
Isn't the whole basis of android built on the idea of openness ? HTC needs to grow a set of balls n not be bullied by at&t
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbh87:
1.85 has only been out a few days, how could this be the only device you've seen this happen to? Some devices took weeks and even months. You purchased the device knowing that the dev unlock was not available from HTC so either deal with it or return/sale your phone and move on.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
1.85 has been "out" for more than two weeks actually. Don't want root? Fine, but you have no reason to crap on this thread.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
I'm saying that every device I can remember has gotten ROOT either before it's been shipped to consumers or the day or two after. I got my One X a week after it was released and there was root already. It's not my fault that I needed to exchange it. And it's also easy for people to say not to sweat it and chill out when they don't have to worry about it. Is your's rooted and unlocked?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] stumpyz9:
mine isnt rooted or unlocked, yet i can sit here and wait. its not that hard. just use the phone as a phone for a bit mmk? htc did a dam good job of fixing up sense and making usuable so mess around with that until something happens
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
I wonder if we can use another app to do what Ready-2-Go did. Like Top HD Games. Does that install apps or just redirect to the play store? Also, in the case of jcase's "non-legal" method, wouldn't taking advantage of all of these "security holes" be illegal?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbh87:
Until devices start shipping with the update it's irrelevant how long a leak has been out. This thread is just a place for people to come and complain, no thinking will be done here.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
ironic that you're complaining then eh?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] stumpyz9:
top hd games downloads them as a regular download, it doesnt so it the way ready-to-go did.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbh87:
Using the thread for it's intended purpose ;)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jesusdavid:
Maybe I'm missing something however I'm rooted and I'm on 1.85.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
Unless I'm reading your comment wrong, phones are shipping with the update. Picked mine up at AT&T and had 1.85 on it. And, is it really necessary to bother making your last comment? I don't understand why people have to treat others this way.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
you were able to root prior to getting 1.85.

1.85 itself has no known exploit.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] stumpyz9:
cuz you rooted and then flashed 1.85, if you start out on 1.85 you cant root. or maybe you have found some awesome rooting tool????
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] smokin1337:
Why not just unlock the bootloader and flash a rom that has root ? Root is just and app and binary and an edit to the ramdisk, all of which are in custom roms. Maybe i am missing something but as far as i know that should work. I am assuming you can unlock the bootloader on 1.85 and i know once that is done you can flash a rom so .....
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
Can't do any of that on 1.85. Its locked down tight!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbaran:
please try this! Perhaps using USB vs. internal is the reason our goldcard isn't working.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
I'm just concerned that if I mess it up I might brick it or who knows what. I've rooted phones before, got S-OFF, unlocked, etc. etc. But they were all easier and I don't think I've ever made a gold card. But it looks like the danger is minimal, perhaps not even there.

Can someone please link me the best (fastest) link for ruu 1.88? I know its in this thread somewhere but that'd take forever to find it.

Edit, never mind. I just searched the thread and it came up the first search.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/main/HTC_One_X_Developers/Team.Nocturnal/RUU/

It looks like the file is 600MB. I'm without WiFi here and I'm already nearing my 5GB limit so this will have to wait until later today. I don't know why I didn't just download 1.88 last night when I had my 20Mbps connection.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] xcsdm:
Gold Card

I'm sorry if I'm asking something that was elsewhere in the thread, or forum. I've read through about 100 pages of posts today, and my mind is a little blurred.

I'm curious about how these Gold Cards are being made. Every instruction I've seen involves putting the SD card into a phone, and running commands on that phone (usually using ADB).

I have my spiffy cable here. (Using a dual USB cable that came with a portable drive I don't use anymore. One plug is power only, other plug is power and data. Connect this with F2F adapter and micro usb cable)

How do I get from this point (That I believe the phone will be able to read the card) to get the IDs I need for a gold card?

I'm more than happy to guinea pig this a bit. I've got 29 days left to return, and an overly friendly rep at AT&T that would process a return for a bricked device.

XC
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] elusivebyte:
Here you go.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] beaups:
All I get when patching internal SD is a phone storage corrupt error when I unplug the usb cable. Then the phone wants to format it. It shouldn't work that way.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Is your method for creating the internal gold card the same (or similar) to the one that I linked?

I used to get those errors on a old SD card on my HTC Inspire. As far as I know (and I could be wrong...), the only reason it would think it is corrupted is if the card is formatted improperly. I've had a hard time using gparted to format sd cards for phone use. I must of been doing something wrong.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
WE NEED A JTAG!!! JOIN US ON IRC RIGHT NOW ACTIVE WORK GOING ON!

http://www.simonsimons34.co.cc/irc.html
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Freenode doesn't like my AT&T connection. Never has.

Oh well. I would appreciate it if you or someone else could relay what you've found here.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] agentdr8:
I think it was DG that posted that you have to be able to modify sector 2 of the internal sdcard for it to work. I'm guessing the goldcard apps/tools out there aren't really designed to overwrite that sector with the image, just sector 0.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] seh6183:
DG stated he was able to modify sector 2
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] beaups:
Any changes I make to sectors 1 or 2 are met with a "access denied" error.

Goldcard for SD-less HTC winmo7 phones is same method as we are using (usb cables) and it works.

Just for giggles I tried Windows option on the gold card image generation site.

Same (poor) results.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] agentdr8:
They're talking JTAG stuff in irc. That would be really inconvenient for most people if that's the only method for 1.85. From my limited research it seems that ORT-JTAG's latest version supports MSM8X60 for IMEI/SN/CID changing. That's one avenue to get the BL unlocked again. Seems a bit steep though just for that (~$150 + S/H). If it turns out that's the only way, then maybe the bounty could be used towards a single JTAG device and people can ship their HOX's off to the designated CID-changer person.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
He wants jtag info to find an exploit. Lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
edited
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ThaDeanesta:
I know someone who does have one (If i remember correctly.) but, the phone does have to be taken apart to access the JTAG Headers. might be a pain.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] galfert:
What are those 5 contacts on the outside of the HOX? They can't all be for charging??? Maybe there is something to tap into there. Anyone have any info on the 5 external contacts and where they map to.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] beaups:
FYI on the goldcard front, newer htc phones aren't working in general on the revskills site. That is our issue with GC method. I opened a ticket and we'll see if we have any shot.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] venelar:
Docks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbaran:
awesome.

is there a manual goldcard creation procedure that does not use that site?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
So there's power and i/o
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dkirchik:
The HOX pogo pins uses the same micro USB 5 pin pinout from left to right (camera facing your left shoulder)

Edit here :)

Pin Name Cable color Description

1 VCC Red +5 VDC

2 D- White Data -

3 D+ Green Data +

X ID May be N/C, GND or used as an attached device presence indicator (shorted to GND with resistor)

4 GND Black Ground
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] galfert:
So what if the pogo pins are actually like a way for the HOX to think it has an internal SD Card. Maybe this might ease Gold Card testing.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jiggytom:
Don't see any activity on IRC lol...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dkirchik:
You'd have to have the dock.. or make the dock with a SD card reader or USB Female plug in. Can make it on a rasbery pi or arduino
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] c5satellite2:
Tons of activity on irc, been watching for over an hour and they are working pretty hard

Sent from my ATT One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jiggytom:
freenode right? What's the channel? just #?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
join #wildfires
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jiggytom:
ah, someone posted #wildfire before...that explains alot.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] elusivebyte:
Ha! Can someone just post the server info? I looked on FreeNode, and the #wildfire channel was empty.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dedzombie:
#wildfireS
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] G-Bus:
Damn it, I cant beleive its THIS hard to get this phone unlocked from at&ts bull****. Does this mean that for once the provider is stronger than the devs in terms of programming skills?

In the end if a dev ends up doing it by taking his phone apart and chaging IMEI etc... Most prolly no body else is going to do it since its way too complicated and dangerous. It definately sucks tough because 1.85 didn't come out yesturday either...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ShotSkydiver:
Just as a note, as I'm sure everyone else already knows, the internal SD goldcard doesn't work. The goldcard tool told me it was successful, and I copied the 1.88 rom.zip to the SD, renamed it to PG58IMG.zip, and booted into the bootloader, and nothing happened.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mbaran:
Should be PJ83IMG.zip
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
For those here not following IRC, there is a root option for 1.85. It does look very promising.

I've just started downloading 1.88 though. I'm tempted to give it a go, but it sounds like it won't work.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ShotSkydiver:
Oh, thanks, but it still does nothing.... weirdly, it doesn't even go through the checks of seeing if there's a valid zip file on the card.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] droidiac13:
Heading to irc now!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ShotSkydiver:
What? I keep connecting to IRC at #wildfires with the link provided and it's just me, @ChanServ, and @jmz in the chat room.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Don't use the link provided, thats a different server. You want to join freenode. Use a client or webchat.freenode.net. The channel is #wildfires.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] seh6183:
This is the same problem everyone is having while trying to use the internal SD. I don't think it would work anyway as it fails with the external SD setup. Its just too locked up and won't allow an install of a firmware thats from a different region/device.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
let's get beaups to join us in irc.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
I bet he's one of those weirdos that has a life. I hate it when people have a life. :)

---------- Post added at 03:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:57 AM ----------

IRC has died down and they are now working on S-OFF on previously unlocked HTC ONE X's.

I think anyway you slice it or dice it, its going to take a while to get root on 1.85. There is a viable option. Not sure I'd want to talk about it here as we don't want to leak it out before it is really... done. But its complicated.

The goldcard method doesn't sound like it'll work for stock CID. I've not tried it myself (though I almost did about an hour ago), though it seems everyone here that tried it has failed. Unless it is a problem with the goldcard method, it seems that it just won't work.

Jcase, thank you so much for your time on this. Those of us who think rational, greatly appreciate it. Those who do not, shouldn't be here.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Tiffany84:
Jcase I believe could really help those of us who are stuck but I think he's just getting sick of dealing with people telling him how he should deal with HIS work and its a shame because the guy has SO much knowledge. I want root just as bad as anyone but people need to realize, what someone does with THERE work and THERE findings is THERE prerogative and if I or anyone else doesn't agree with it then we have every right to find an exploit ourselves. But please don't send offensive messages to one of the few people that could possibly help us.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Yes, I agree. I'm amazed how much people beg for more and never want to pay a dime and then if something doesn't go the way the wanted it to, they blame the maker. When they had no way of making a root exploit themself.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] venelar:
This
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] snake3276120:
ic, I'm 1.72
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
Can we get a root discussion going again in this thread? The IRC for root on 1.85 has stopped and now it's for s-off for people who are already unlocked and rooted. I feel we should worry about rooting 1.85 first. People don't really need s-off right now if they are unlocked and rooted. At least they can flash roms, mods, and kernels. We can do nothing but sit at stock. S-off is just a bonus.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Yeah I agree. Though I've been told that they will be working on it. Kind of a disappointment but I understand. It was nice of them to give what they gave.

As for the gold card method, has anyone looked into (in detail) why exactly it is not working? I was going to try it myself using my internal SD card (have the ruu finally) but then I've heard a few people here say that it doesn't work and they were using the same method I was going to use.

If we are to downgrade, we need to upgrade to 1.88 first and that seems to be rather tricky with stock CID.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mr2sweet:
idea?

Sorry if this has been thought of but it just occurred to me. Since 1.88 ruu allows us to downgrade why cant we just take that one part of the ruu out and swap it into the 1.85 ruu and leave the rest the same and try to flash the 1.85 ruu again and then downgrade that? Just a thought. I know there are a lot of sig checks but if that one part isnt checked hopefully it would go through. It's worth a shot I guess, but I don't know what part of the 1.88 ruu would need to be swapped in.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Sounds tricky. So far we haven't been able to upgrade to 1.88. I'm not so sure flashing 1.85 would be much different. Also it does need to be a signed ruu, as far as I know. Pretty sure I'm correct on that. So if you change it too much, it won't work at all.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] venelar:
Correct. It breaks signature.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mr2sweet:
I know it needs to be signed that's why I'm suggesting to just change that one little part that allows the downgrade. Since our phones will let us ruu 1.85 already we could basically have a 1.85 ruu that allows for downgrade because of the part we swap in from the 1.88 ruu. If it were to go through in theory we would be able to downgrade the custom 1.85 ruu to the 1.73 or 1.82 ruu....again just a thought...does anyone know what part of the 1.88 ruu allows for the downgrade?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] venelar:
If you swap parts, it breaks signature. Can't mismatch.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
No, it just won't work. Sadly.

Anyways, they have gone back to talking about 1.85 root in the IRC channel. You might want to check it out. I'm off to bed.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] stumpyz9:
Once i get ahold of another phone im going to retry the downgrade thing, i know it seems pointless but i just made my fancy cable :) so hopefully i can get that to work
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mr2sweet:
question

How far have people gotten when trying to flash the 1.88 ruu by itself? does it do sig checks all the way throughout the flash or just at the beginning?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JeepFreak:
That's cause he's on a lot of ignore lists!

Billy
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ChongoDroid:
Did you put "I'm fat" in your sig because of me? :D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nugzo:
Tried gold card from 1.88 to 1.73 and no go. Older Mainversion. Made gold card in a nexus 1. you use the backwards cid for the gold card image right? Any way of knowing if the gold card is any good?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Well that's already been tested and it was confirmed that downgrading does work. So I don't know what you are doing wrong but it should work. Really though, unless someone can figure out how to get the gold cards to work I think this is just a waste of time. If you try the same thing over and over again, you'll get the same results.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nugzo:
was there anything meaningful in your comment? if it dont work you are doing something wrong..hmmm cos 1 person did it twice, then failed the 3rd time .soo you say it works then you say we need to figure out how to make it work. doesnt make any sense.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] shgadwa:
Nah I'm sorry I'm just running late as always. Always in a hurry. I didnt have time to answer your question completely but I do know beaups did it. Also when he first did it twice then failed the 3rd, he was superCID. now at stock he cannot achieve the same results. Like I said, I could tell you or you cold read it yourself. I gotta go...
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] attn1:
The purpose of a goldcard is to override CID. It does not override mainversion. If you have superCID or you already have the CID for the target update, the goldcard serves no purpose whatsoever.