[HTC Desire S] ben_s247:
It's the steps I took to get s-off after upgrading the phone and keeping it until the warranty wore out

1.Follow amidabuddha’s guide to abd and fast boot installation(be sure to thank him its the button on the bottom left of the post)

here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1272595

2.Go to http://www.htcdev.com/ and follow the instructions to unlock your phone

“note use all other supported models”

3.Install this program onto your phone http://www.4ext.net/get.php?apk

and use it download the latest stable version of recovery and transfer and unzip recovery.img file to where you installed fastboot and abd on your computer.

4.On your phone go to settings/power and make sure fastboot is turned off and then turn off.

Hold the vol down button and power button until you enter the bootloader connect the usb and select fastboot using the power button as select and vol buttons as up and down

5.Now on the computer go to where you installed fastboot and abd and right click while holding shift and select open command window here.

Type the following into the command window

fastboot getvar cid(“write this down and keep it for future knowledge”)

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Extrecovery should now be installed

Now type:

fastboot reboot-bootloader

And select recovery from the menu

6.In recovery go to install from sd card and then choose a zip from sd card

Should be something like this cwm-superSu-v0.94.zip

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1742522 (“you can download it from here plz thank ArcMan09”)

7.reboot the phone this time letting it boot up

connect the usb select charge only

in the command console

type

adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version

adb shell

su

cd /data/local/tmp

./misc_version –s 1.27.405.6

Exit

adb reboot-bootloader

What was entered above should now actually appear in fastboot

8.now use

fastboot oem lock

Whole bunch of stuff comes up but most likely your now locked again

9.Go here

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=YcnM8Sr9

rember that thing I told you to write down find it in the table and take note

in fact write the corresponding one down as this is tell you the ruu you must download

Now open the required ruu on the computer

You can download from here(“plz thank football”)it’s the button on the bottom left of posts

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1002506

it should be something like this:(this may not be the right one for your phone you should have checked above)

RUU_Saga_hTC_Asia_India_1.47.720.1_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199605_signed

10.connnect your phone to your computer in fastboot like before

open the ruu on the computer

let it run following the instructions

now if you check the hboot it should say your have something 0.98.0000 S-ON

this means you can now use http://revolutionary.io to s-off your phone

now go back up and flash your desired recovery and rom of your choosing as well as superuser

I recommend the recovery we installed before("you will have to flash this through fast boot again")

Either

Viper Saga

or

Fallout Evolution

Both are senses roms

Recommended things to install after rooting your phone

a rom backup app:Rom manager:might come with the rom

an antivirus: avast(“you can use the root install method”)

4ext recovery control-(or updater for free but control will save you a lot of time)

Superuser but that will likely come with the rom but if it doesn’t

What ever else you want your done your phone is rooted and

I'm pretty sure this is how I did it please post questions or mistakes I've made on the board and remember to thank the creator of each of the links(it takes a lot of time to write these out) I'm really just collating them into something nice and easy to read as I jumped around forums trying to find the answer.

Hope this helps

I Would Like to thank some outstanding members that have helped me create this guide (please thank them they absolutely deserve it)

amidabuddha

n0elite

Skanob

Football

ArcMan09

if I have missed anyone im very sorry i've far too many pages up here just trying to recreate what steps I took to complete this task.