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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
Hello everyone I'm kinda new to rooting I haven't done it in a few years can someone explain what the difference I'd between rooting and s-off any help will be appreciated!

EDIT: nevermind
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
THANK YOU GUY"S,,,Decided to pull the trigger and just go for it. Ill be honest, YOU COULDNT HAVE DROVE A NEEDLE UP MY ASS WITH A JACKHAMMER !!! I am S-OFF. Thanks a bunch,,,Later,,,:cool:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] LiquidSolstice:
You guys KICK ASS. Not 30 minutes after recieving my phone, I rooted with Zedomax, and successfully achieved S-OFF. Thank you to everyone involved, here's another success story to add to the pile (Windows).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
Hey Liquid, You Uh gonna do some dev'in here like you did for the Heroc,,,,maybe,,,OK Pleeeeease:D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
ahh the good old days i just switched yesterday from my hero to the LTEvo it was a bittersweet day!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
I hear ya man, was a great phone in its time. JUst got to the LTE Saturday myself. Was really scared to try this S-off method but tried globes method and worked without a hitch, Nice to be in full control of my device man,,,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
is the globes an htc dev one or do i keep my warranty
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gerald410:
Awesome!, I hope I have the same success tomorrow.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
LOL na man his name is globatron, (Ithink i spelled that right, If not , sorry) you can find his advice on page 75 of this thread,,,good advice especially if your still stock outa the box...

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sorry man its 76, my bad
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
thanks ill go chech it out i want to unlock and whatnot but im just worried about bricking
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
CHeck this out. Out of all this crap ive been thru. It actually worked. But this is the Dummy phone LOL. I got my replacement, so i have to send this one back. But in between the process, there was an error trying to find the device, after the first reboot. Did anyone else get this as well? RElocked it, unlocked, and ran Regwa roomethod, then this. If anyone got this error please lemme know

I GOT S-Off ON A DEVICE I CANT USE...YAYYY!!!

LOL:silly::silly::silly::silly::silly::silly:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
Just unlocked everything went smooth took less than 5 minutes thank you for everything you guys are the best!

EDIT: found something odd i have s off now and everything but still get the red text on the htc splash screen
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdogg836:
LazyPanda S-Off does not remove the red text. But since you are now S-Off you can read up here. We have a tool to remove the red text, as well as modify the Pink Text and whether or not it says S-Off or something else. If this is helpful, don't forget to say thanks..... Regaw has really done good things for this phone. I've thanked him every chance I get.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] scataldo721:
thanks sorry i was reading some posts that said it did
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdogg836:
It's really easy to fix though. :laugh: You download that tool, pick the options you want and it creates the bootloader file. Then put in on your SD card and flash from bootloader.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mrrogers1:
Just wanted to add to the pile of THANK YOU for this posts! It was very straight forward and worked great. I did have to do some programming after I finished as the activation didn't take.

When I checked my MSID/MDN they were all kinds of wrong (though I did have Data already, not voice) so I changed back to my phone number, committed and BOOM! All good. :victory:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
wanted to add my method because i honestly believe theres something to it

If your rooted and running custom rom, RELOCK nd run stock ruu

When that finishes, uninstall everything HTC ,INCLUDING PREVIOUSLY LOADED DRIVERS and all programs that access your phone EXCEPT SDK.

Restart your computer

Reload your drivers and restart your computer again

Go to settings/ dev tools and check usb debugging and unknown sources

Go to power and un check fastboot

Go to wireless networks and turn on wifi

Open a command prompt and start SDK and make sure your phone is recognized

If it is close command prompt and all instances of internet explorer

Run regaws rooter

After phone has rebooted unplug and let settle for 5 mins

plug your phone back in check adb again if its recognized close adb and all instances of interbet exoorer

Recheck usb devugging and mock lications and uncheck fast boot again

Run lazy panda ,let it do its thing and voila,, you have s-off

Hope this works for you as smooth as it worked for me. WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM

,,,:cool:,,,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SPreston2001:
Why would you run Regaws rooter before running LazyPanda?? The whole purpose of the LazyPanda method is to give you S-Off, and unlock the bootloader without voiding your HTC warranty. Regaws method was before we had S-Off and made it extremely simple to gain a unlocked bootloader but it uses the HTCdev method which voids your warranty and it doesnt give you S-Off. You just need to be ROOTED to run this not unlocked. Honestly all you really need to do is, make sure you have a phone formatted sd card installed in your phone, obtain root, wipe your machine of any previously installed HTC software/drivers, install the HTC drivers included with LazyPanda, make sure USB debugging is checked, fastboot unchecked, and run the utility....
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
Lol, because the method you just stated has bricked alot of devices. Im not suggesting the method i used is the proper way or the way it should be done, just sharing the process which worked for me. And maybe for those who cant get the script to work can try it and have some success also. If a person doesnt mind voiding they can try it just depends on how bad they want s off. As i said Im just sharing the method I used that worked for me ,,,:cool:,,,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SPreston2001:
Ok fair enough, no harm intended lol. Just thought it was odd to run Regaws rooter then run LazyPanda but if thats what worked for you then thats cool. Ive unlocked 3 devices and didnt have a single problem with any of them. Im starting to see less and less disaster stories so maybe they updated the utility since reopening it...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Adam1422:
Quick question...

I am running the lazypanda 0.1.3 version and it says the following:

Starting up......

Connecting to device.....

searching device....

found device....

Device htc_jewel not supported at this time

quit....

press enter to exit....

is this due to my build.prop file being modified? any help would be much apprciated.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
Yes, it is. Make sure your build.prop entries are the same as the stock version.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SPreston2001:
Yep that would be the reason!

Oops! Captain beat me to it! lol
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
I hear ya man , be great if they did. Hate to see so many having so much trouble. But nice to hear of more success than failure. I guess its just trial and error finding what works per particular individual. Frankly your method is much easier. Hope folks can go that way instead of having to take the high road like i did. Especially those that arent very familiar with linux like myself. Anyways any success is a great success, so let us sip from the cup of destruction. ,,,:cool:,,,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Adam1422:
Please help!!!!!

Now its says waiting for device and in the device manager it has QHSUSB_DLOAD! That means Im bricked? Dont understand why as I had the drivers installed correctly! PLEASE HELP!!!!!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
sending you pm
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] drlzanej:
Case in point, mine said the same thing and said failed to load driversthought i was screwed, but script continued to run and still gave me s-off. Wonder why that is,,,
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] barleysoda:
I followed Post #475 instructions to a "T" and I had no problems. After one of the reboots Windows said something about a driver installer error but I ignored it and let it keep going. It finally finished and I have S-off.

I used Windows 7 32 bit and I believe I had the screw Apple edit (HTCLinkify) on my build.prop.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
you had the right drivers, windows was just confused

my drivers were screwed up (my fault), that's why i bricked

i let it go up to 800 and then opened a beer and learned a touch about linux

except how to pronounce it :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Look in the unbrick thread. There out there
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mhuggins:
Worked like a charm...... Thanks guys
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gcarpino:
Sorry to "crap-up" yet another post, but I must have been to busy having intamate relations with women and making money at my job to read 50+ pages of spiddle that is mostly none descriptive if you didn't already know what the subject was. I would like to thank you however for pointing me in the right direction. Now if only I could find that "Thank You" button....
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] regaw_leinad:
Quite the delayed response to his answer lol, but here - http://bit.ly/NvfphM
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] FusionX:
My s-off went off without a hitch. And my sd card is partitioned. I used my native ubuntu system... Not sure why some are bricking. But good thought!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] volk9029:
You cracked me up, lol. On the side note, some people need spoon feeding because their time is more precious.

Sent from my lair.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gerald410:
Did as well for me and my son thanks!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeisdasteve:
Mine got all the way to "Your phone screen will remain blank for approximately 30 seconds".

It started to install drivers. Failed.

Now I think I'm bricked.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] schmeggy929:
Well if you are bricked as I was, perform the fix and then bite the bullet again. Second time trying S-off worked like a charm!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdogg836:
HAHA! I found the thank you button for the awesome laugh. :good:

To be honest....most forums including this one have a search button. It allows you to weed through the 50+ pages of the thread and come up with an answer in a matter of seconds. It will definitely carve out that minute or two you need for the ladies.

In all seriousness though, there are issues that people were/are having with this method. I would say that if after reading the post I quoted as well as Regaw's link you still don't have a clue as to what S-Off provides you on this phone, wait to do it. You may find yourself with a bricked phone that only a Linux Live CD or Native Linux machine will be able to fix. It may cause you more grief than it's worth.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ovrrdrive:
Second time worked for me as well... I wonder if it had anything to do with running the second round in ubuntu. I figured I might as well stay in linux in case it bricked again but the second time was painless.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
especially considering, unless you want your name in blazing letters in the bootloader,

or publish your novel to the splash screen,

i could be wrong, but 99% of what most of need/want to do

can be done with the unlocker - without S-OFF.

btw - PROPS to Dan for his work on the above.

and mucho thanks to globatron for all he's done for the community.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jdogg836:
Very true, I myself took the jump because I wanted to eliminate the "relocked" message in the future.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
yup, future proof, and get it while you can (you never know)

have to be the the main reasons why you should jump onboard the S-OFF train.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Dark_shadow70:
great job...

you guys are f.. awesome I just grew the balls to do this after days of thinking about it for a few days because I wasn't sure I cleared the wallet before they blocked it, I was unrooted stock, never used ubuntu before but i decided to do it there, rooted using this

http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-root/how-to-root-htc-evo-4g-lte-on-linuxubuntu/

then edited my built prop(just to make sure I cleared wallet from inside wallet)

got a CLEAN 8GBsd card in the phone and fed the panda (everything in ubuntu)

worked GREAT took about 30 min total. hardest part was flashing TWRP recovery after I did all this, (fastboot was giving me an error) but I did it with terminal emulator and it worked...

http://www.androidauthority.com/evo-4g-lte-install-twrp-recovery-93953/

call, text, data, EVERYTHING WORKS.. awesome job guys.

paypal love is on the way..;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
ditto with the brewskys ... enjoy
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] marvinlh:
im going to finally give this a try, im using windows 32bit, i downloaded FeedPanda-RELEASE-Jewel-WIN.zip, extracted it and got 2 files ip_hboot and freepanda. i downloaded and tried to install the htc drivers but not sure if it installed correctly, i didnt get a message or anything saying install complete, now when i click run, nuthin happens. i have 2 questions, do i need PJ75IMG.zip ( fasboot flash enabled hboot )? and what do i do next?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] thicklizard:
On your phone do you have usb debugging enabled? It in settings under developer options
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
wait one second !

that's what happened with me with the drivers,

and i got messed up. the nothing happens part.

i would go into control panel and remove htc sync (if there)

and remove htc driver

then reboot and install the driver from the lazypanda link

post # 475 is a good guideline to follow
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] marvinlh:
im kinda stuck on the bootanimation screen, and the lazy panda says that my screen is going blank for 30 seconds, its at 400 seconds now, what do i do now?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
check your pm
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] BPHusker:
I'm about to jump in and use LazyPanda. I do have a question: I see many people saying to use an old sd card and format it, is that only needed for the method and then I can put my normal card back in?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chefonthego:
Best Buy

I Just want to return my phone to best buy for an exchange. i have a few scratches on it, Dummy me took it to the beach, I have it rooted with Team Win Recovery 2.1.8 using the 1 click thing. I have Liquidsmooth 1.52 Rom on it. What do I need to do in detail to return it ? get the red letters off at boot right ?? save me 80 pages of reading. what do i need to do ??
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
he's following post 475

question:

do you need sdk adb installed and working

to have lazypanda s-off work ???

he is unlocked with twrp recovery

and now going to use the unbricker
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] thicklizard:
I don't think he needs sdk tools installred.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] BPHusker:
I just bit the bullet and followed post #475 to a T. I now have a S-OFF phone. =D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Nygel:
I installed SDK to verify my pc can communicate with my phone. Also I went into fastboot and verify the drivers were pushed from the phone to the pc, and on the reboot I verified again before I ran LazyPanda. Then I held my breath
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
cool.

just curious were you stock rooted ?

or did you flash Fresh 5.1.1 or what ROM were you on ?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] BPHusker:
I was - stock rooted with Zedomax.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mrrogers1:
I think you are in the wrong place... Try this.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Irish Enigma:
Can you guys help us out over at AT&T One X forums for s-off???
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mcwups1:
I did this, and was successful.

Now, I know why I needed to do this on the OG Evo, but why do we need to do it with the LTE?

What are the benefits?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] joshuaw84:
Just future proofing yourself, also as a posed to HTC dev route they carry no record of the unlock.

sent from my LTEvo
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
LazyPanda is the second release from team Unlimited.IO.

It is a tool for gaining (radio) S-OFF on one or more HTC phones

and flashing a custom bootloader that supports full write/erase fastboot commands.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
sorry but what command do you type in Terminal to switch to Documents or Downloads ?

helping Marvin with unbricker
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] wisper2000:
I reseved s-off with out any problem. But 10 minutes after I couldn't send or get texts and when making calls I got an error 16. If you just stay on the line after the error it will then sent you to a person from sprint. They will then up date your phone.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Captain_Throwback:
cd Downloads or cd Documents

(folder names are case-sensitive)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
cd /home/bruce/Documents

you moron. only takes 5 minutes to find out for yourself.

have a nice day
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SPreston2001:
Got my replacement phone today, rooted, feed the panda, and flashed twrp! Another success story lol.

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Thats a network error code. Try updating your profile and prl and see if that helps. If it doesnt, call Sprint and they should be able to reset your data profile and get you up and running.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
thanks. it was funky running the ubuntu live cd

trying to get into Documents in Terminal

oh well, Marvin is unbricked and preparing to S-OFF !
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] wisper2000:
Yeah I had to call sprint
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mcwups1:
Had to do the same thing.

Will happen at some point to everyone who gets S-Off from what it appears. Many others said the same thing in the Q&A Forums.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] regaw_leinad:
Actually never happened to me, and I've run this process over 15 times. Not sure why it never happened to me though, seeing all the people this affects.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Tiffany84:
I remember the same thing happening on the revolutionary s-off for the 3D. Some people had to call Sprint and others including myself were fine. Kinda weird.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Holy hell!!!

Tiff, how are ya? Did u ditch the SGSII for the EVo? Or did u jump to the SGSIII?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
happen to me with the 3d and now with the LTE...:o
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Tiffany84:
Hey!! I'm ok. I still have the S2 but it's not activated. I switched to AT&T and got the One X and a Galaxy Note but I'm going to try and exchange the Note for a S3 before my 30 days is up.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mikshepard:
Ran LazyPanda and it bricked the phone. I ran the unbricking method on the site and it fixed it right up. I realized that I didn't change my build.prop back to stock, so I did that and re-ran the FeedPanda script, S-Off was achieved sucessfully! Thanks for posting this, and many thanks to all for creating the fix to the brick, that really saved me.

-Mike
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
not everyone
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] marvinlh:
Dude you are awesome, spent your whole 4th of July helping me unbrick my phone, thanks to you again and to lazy panda for creating the unbricker tool.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SiGuy11:
I can't seem to find the search the thread option... Did they change the forum??

I see that the OP says we need a linux machine but I am reading plenty of people that are using windows 7 64bit. What do I do? I too am running Windows 7 64bit. Stock and unrooted.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] cquinn:
search is down - just wail it'll come back.

go to post #768 for your instructions
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SPreston2001:
You first need to ROOT your device then yes you can run the utility using Win7 64bit. Im running the same OS and have ran this utility 4 times with success. Just download the windows version of the utility on the webpage.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lowetax:
MARVIN ! send some of that creole up this way man ! :)

glad to help. did you give the s-off another try,

with the setup we discussed ?

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#475 works well too !

a clean rom, no mods, no build.prop changes

phone formatted sd card,

uninstall htc sync and htc driver, reboot pc

install htc driver (from lazypanda link) and reboot pc

test connectivity to phone, unplug, plug in and test again

wifi and debugging on

run as administrator and Profit !
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] henderjr:
I went ahead and installed Ubuntu on an old laptop of mine and the tool worked great! Thanks to the DEVs!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SiGuy11:
That explains it!

Thanks pal.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] chefonthego:
I want to remove the Red Txt Developer warning when it boots up, how do I do that ? I'm using a 32 bit xp machine
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
Stupid question... I have the bootloader unlocked via htcdev. Why do I want or need s- off? I apologize for my noobness it's just that my phone is set up nicely and I want to make sure that it's worth it to do.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] reverepats:
Most people (including myself) have had more luck by Re-locking the Bootloader and running g the RUU. Basically start all over again f om scratch. First time I ran it, I was HTC unlock and bricked my baby. Some have had luck with it while others hasn't. I would recommend starting from scratch. But those are my thoughts of course.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Triny511:
This question has been asked a lot. From my reading, the only benefit I can see is that if one needs to return it, it can be set completely back to stock without any noticeable tampering on the device. (Although if it was needed to be S-off, you could just do that before you returned it anyway, if it was ever needed) That & the dev only red text being able to go away, plus a little customization on the bootloader text which I couldn't see why anyone would care about. I honestly want to do it, just because it's available. There's no logical reason that I can see as of right now. As soon as the venom ROM is available, I'm going to S-off my device & flash since I'll be losing everything anyways, why not relock the bootloader & set to S-off if you're flashing. :good:
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SPreston2001:
Just read the thread titles here in the development section. Theres a mod titled "Remove Red HTC Developer Splash Screen Text" that does exactly that.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] leerage:
Another reason is if HTC figures out how to patch the exploit used in LazyPanda, it may not be available with a future bootloader update.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
So, is that a yes do it or no, wait?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Shadnic:
So I've searched this thread, and several people have claimed to have success running this on windows 8. I'm on Windows 8 and when I try to install the drivers, I get "This installer is not supported on this operating system!". I've tried several things, including running in compatibility mode, but they just won't go at all.

If you want to know why I don't just run it on linux, I know I could work around this by booting from liveCD or something, however at the "moment" I can't do that. It's a long story, but I'm between two computers and the one I'm using (my functional one) doesen't have a CD drive and the bios won't recognize usb boot drives, and my other pc (which I'll soon switch to) doesn't have a motherboard because it was faulty and had to be sent back....(hopefully it's coming back tomorrow!)

How did those of you on Windows 8 get this to work? If there's "nothing" I can do, then I suppose I'll just wait for my new mobo to get here so I can do everything on my new computer :/
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lanewhit:
Can you point me to the direction to relock and run the RUU? I appreciate the help.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] {ParanoiA}:
Look what I found using the search...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1744700
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] regaw_leinad:
Just remember to try and look through and/or search the development section before posting a question. This is my guide/tool to go from S-OFF to stock S-ON. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1744700