[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
Mate thanks for that. I figured the error out anyway. Its been the downloads from Football's mirror. In Fact, i had 5 corrupted RUU's and didn't notice until now because i never ran them all. The Downloads errored out on 99,9% over and over again. I could manage to pull 4 of the 5 off the filefactory link, the Asia RUU (thank god hardly needed) refused to download intact. I also removed that from my mirror now and don't have hboot or any parts of it. I don't actually care either.

Considered that too but seeing my 1.06 giving me buggy aches already i didn't want to go back even more. I believe there is no real gain for us. IF there are less restrictions it will only be of any interest to those who are totally familiar with the structure and logic in the HTC firmware so they can experiment with things... So. Concluding: for us, no gain from flashing 1.04.

AbsolutelyGrim answered that very same question already a few pages back. The file can be renamed to *.nb0 and flashed via Ubuntu.

Flashing hboot from bootloader does of course theoretically work because the live bootloader resides in RAM, it is not run from its store. Think about Dumlock in TWRP. How das that work? Yes. Flashing the Partition it is currently active in. Theoretically. Or something like that. Little mindbender. It would work however, if it wasn't locked away behind the s-on switch.

This IS required to flash a lower RUU than you already have but in order to make this work, your hboot needs to go down too, first. You cannot trick the Chip into a downgrade by only editing 0p23 with an older software number. I hoped that too a while ago but its just wishful thinking...

The other idea: no go. do you think HTC forgot to include a checksum verifier in their RUU's? You think they didn't think of this nifty little trick? Of course if you exchange any images in the ROM.zip the RUU will refuse to run. Try anyway if you like. :D no better learning than by trial and error if you have no comprehensive documentation available.

Here are all WiFi-Partitions from all RUU's: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zesmvz22sbkhvi0/V9ouUgvOUV for you to experiment with once you guys managed to downgrade.

In that folder is a zip for easy recovery flashing. just open that zip with 7zip (best option. If you use WinRAR, make sure to set the compression level to "store" e.g no compression or the zip will not flash.7zip keeps the original compression level when dragging files inside) and drag the two partition images into the zip on top level, besides the meta-inf folder. Then copy to sd and flash in recovery.

You find Tecardo's Radio Flasher linked in my Signature too for getting the corresponding radios. Plus, Tecardo is working on integrating the extra partitions into the flasher so effectively, this forum has a single radio installer available.

To sum it up:

- Grim gave us a downgrade-explainer with a nice tool from Fusion (i think Sensation Forum)

- Football gives us the RUU's

- Tecardo, Touch of Jobo and xxMrHyde are working hard to make changing radios easy as ever

- Grankin01 from the One X forum has given us an easy explainer of how to obtain SuperCID (or derived from that, how to change CID)

- Me humble nothing is currently working on automating the SuperCID into a batch script (it does work, yeah! mighty tools available on the net!) but i am struggling with understanding scripting. I am dumb but nosy and never satisfied. Dangerous combination. But i will have some nice tool for you guys handy sometime.

What is missing? A tools-port from Linux to windows to make Windows recognize and communicate with the Qualcomm chip like it does under linux. Then someone to write emmc_recover for windows. Then some bored programmer who throws all the above into one mighty multitool that allows us to change everything on the fly. Then we are very close to an s-off phone...