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[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
If anyone is interested, the universal Rumrunner s-off exploit works for our Rezounds! I just got a new Rezound and used this method to obtain s-off. NO MORE WIRE TRICK! NO MORE WIPING OF INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL MEMORY! THE CURRENT ROM YOU ARE ON WILL NOT BE ERASED! YOUR CURRENT RECOVERY WILL NOT BE TOUCHED!

Disclaimer: I am not a Dev. I have no association/affiliation with Rumrunner and can provide no support. Try this at your own risk. It's not my fault if you Bork your phone!

www.rumrunner.us

The download for our phone can be found on page three of the Rumrunner site http://rumrunner.us/downloads-2/. It is under "Universal Downloads" and is called rumrunner_HTC_.0.5.0.

A few notes:

-You must be HTC dev unlocked

-You must be rooted

-You must have an unsecured kernel installed and a custom Rom

-HTC Sync has to be removed from your computer

-Proper HTC drivers installed

-ADB set up

-USB debugging enabled

-Fast boot disabled

-Internet connection

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Turn off all antivirus and firewall software! I can't stress this enough! (If you get rows and rows of dots and the program never finishes it is likely that you forgot to disable one or the other)

Make sure you have a backup on your SD card just in case something goes wrong!

Hook your phone up to your computer in "charge only" mode and run the soju.exe file as Administrator. It will reboot several times and do its magic. It may take 10-15 minutes (or more) to complete.

It took a while for me to get it right, but it does work!

EDIT: I WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST USING EITHER TWRP OR CWM AS YOUR RECOVERY WHEN RUNNING THIS PROGRAM. THE FEW PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS SEEMED TO BE USING AMONRA AT THE TIME.

Verified to work with: EclipticRez, PAC-man, Tachyon, Ineffabilis, Infection, CM, Carbon, and LiquidSmooth so far.

Your results may vary.

Please post in this thread if it works for you!

Your hboot version will remain the same and will still say "Tampered" and "Unlocked"!

To eliminate the "Tampered" flag see scotty1223's thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2589763

This is the original thread in the HTC One forum that I used for my HTC One http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2473644.

Please note the instructions are not the same for the Universal exploit. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE HTC ONE HBOOT!!!

I will not share any files from their site. Use the download links they provide, they work just fine:

"rumrunner s-off is the results of hundreds of hours of hard work by beaups and fuses. The binaries contained within the rumrunner package you download should not be shared, rehosted, bat’d, integrated into a one-click, repackaged, or otherwise distributed or reused. This software is NOT open source."

Credit:

@beaups @Fuses
[HTC Rezound] rezound4cure:
wow thanks for this , could never get the wire trick to work for me.

What kernal and ROM did u specifically use? what classifies as an unsecured kernal?

And also you just downloaded the generic download since we don't have a device specific one and just followed the instructions?

Can anyone else verify if this works
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
It worked for me. I used EclipticRez with the included funky kernel. HTC Dev unlocked and AmonRa recovery.

Yes, I just followed the generic instructions.
[HTC Rezound] corporal_hades:
site is down apparently, but interested to try this out if I can find the generic rumrunner file. care to share yours?
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Site works for me http://rumrunner.us/downloads-2/. I used the Windows 0.5.0 download.
[HTC Rezound] corporal_hades:
Just did this before leaving to work, and my phone is now S-OFF. How cool, no wire trick or anything, I started the process then got dressed for work and came back and it was done.
[HTC Rezound] Neo:
This is great news if it works without any possibility of bricking!
[HTC Rezound] corporal_hades:
You mean bricking while running this rumrunner or flashing a rom?
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
I believe he means while running the exploit. Once you are s-off, you are s-off! The chance of bricking at that point is totally up to the operator ;)
[HTC Rezound] blu422:
still can't seem to get the site working could you shoot me your copy? and i'm on pac man will that still work fine?
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
i was able to download last night....if you dont mind OP can i ad this to my s-off guide
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
I don't mind. So far we've only had two verified that have achieved s-off with it though. I would hope to see more.

And again, this is not my work.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
For those of you having trouble with the site, I don't know what to say except try a different browser or computer. I have never had any problems accessing it.

As far as whether it will work with Pacman or not, I have no idea. I was on EclipticRez when I ran it. All you can do is try it. From what I understand it won't hurt anything if it doesn't work.

I will not share any files from their site. This is on their front page:

" rumrunner s-off is the results of hundreds of hours of hard work by beaups and fuses. The binaries contained within the rumrunner package you download should not be shared, rehosted, bat’d, integrated into a one-click, repackaged, or otherwise distributed or reused. This software is NOT open source."
[HTC Rezound] wtfsykhang:
I can confirm I was able to achieve s-off with this. Had a few problems in the beginning but I was able to get it to work after awhile
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Can you describe the problems you were having so I can update the OP if necessary?

What rom and kernel were you using?

Thanks for verifying it works.
[HTC Rezound] wtfsykhang:
The first problem i had was that the first rom(using funky kernel 4.2) i was using got stuck at "must sanitize, skunky rum is nasty

hold please" and after that message it told me to exit the program. So i flashed eclipticRez with funky kernel and I was able to get past that but then i got "FATAL: Download updated package at ". Although i had disabled avg, i forgot to disable firewall as well. After disabling both of those the program was able to get me s-off
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thanks again for verifying it works. If you could, what rom and kernel were you using?
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thank you again. This is very useful.
[HTC Rezound] blu422:
thanks hopefully this will fix my problem

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....and I am successfully S-OFF. like they said before me the only problem was i forgot to disable stuff.

I am running Pacman the latest build 4.3 with whatever kernel that comes with and it worked beautifully, it took a while so make sure your disable timers have half an hourish just to be safe for me it took about 15-20 mins.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thank you for posting and verifying. It looks like Pacman works just fine as well :good:
[HTC Rezound] Hackenstein:
Look Ma', no wire trick.

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[HTC Rezound] Shoredid:
Great work

Worked on my Rezound running CleanROM ICSE 3.6. Not a hitch. You guys rock!
[HTC Rezound] Izeltokatl:
Thanks this worked GREAT. I had problems the first two times because I left my virus protection on, but after it was disabled I now have S-OFF!
[HTC Rezound] izzaeroth:
Worked for me but I had an issue where it ran for 45 mins and I lost connectivity to it and had to ruu to fix my system partition but noticed in hboot it had s-off :D
[HTC Rezound] Neo:
You are only bricked if the device won't even power on so don't panic. What you need to do is get a rom on your memory that you know works. Reboot into recovery and do a factory wipe. Flash the rom and them reboot to BOOTLOADER. You will now fastboot flash the boot.img included with that rom zip despite the fact that you have a S=OFF flag. This was the process you did prior to gaining S=OFF. That should gain you boot.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
This is common... But once your S-Off, your done, there is no "partial" S-off... Just flash ROM again or restore a nandroid and you should be good.

Edit: Never mind, I see you got it working.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Anyone know if this party is over?

Can't get website to load.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Works fine for me...

http://rumrunner.us

Just opened it fine.
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
Home now and it works here on my home isp. Didn't work at work and I also tethered to my phone and it didn't work with that connection either. Weird.

Thanks for checking!
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
...and 2 years later and I'm s-off!!! lol

No issues what so ever. Thanks for the thread Chillerman!
[HTC Rezound] ǀcey:
I'm very noob to all this ha

but i love to tinker :rolleyes:

Rumrunner did its job super fast...it took me lots longer

to re-install the win 7 android drivers....that was there but not working for some reason lol

S-off totally frees one from needing a PC...and I really wanted + need that at times.

The phone went into a bootloops + never ending boots too.

In bootlooping it was easy to load the bootloader. Hold Vol down + power

The never-ending boot modes really sucked -.-

The phone couldnt load the bootloader at all.

I tried everything to get it to the loader....

The only way was when I finally decided to try using what caused it to begin with ;)

I finally re-loaded rumrunner & let it run just til after updating..when it reboots the phone

and that worked great lol!!!

I tried and tried for 2 days every which way + some to flash or instal new boot + rom images with out unlocking but nothing worked even when fastboot adb told me it did. Recovery logs were saying emmc is bugged with some scattered nblk errors. Old recovery was still there and looked like it was working + still booting(CWM), but I guess now that it really wasn't :eek:

WTH since it was all messed up with now a bad emmc. I installed the global update , while it was still looping and doing never ending boots and still locked. Then I unlocked.

The new recovery I wanted badly was CWM Touch but that wouldn't flash or install

I ended up trying TWRP it went in fast n sweet along with the latest CM KK rom tyg! :laugh: I was so happy when I found out TWRP is touch too lol!

The only way I was able to do any and all of it was by just from reading everyone's post in this thread and the other 2 I linked above.

:good: Cheers to all of you!

Huggz,

Icey
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
-You must have an unsecured kernel installed and a custom Rom

Not trying to sound like a scrub but I'm not able to get any kind of ROM working on my phone for some reason...

using Clockwork here. I down load the zip and load it threw recover and the phone just reboots and hangs on the boot screen forever unless I do a restore I can then only get the phone to work again. :/

is there a guide to show me how to properly do this?

I know how to do it with S-OFF but I'm S-ON and trying to do this method to obtain S-OFF so I don't have any problems trying to try out all these awesome roms on the site

the big thing for me to achieve this is the requirement*

-You must have an unsecured kernel installed and a custom Rom

I have installed a Snuzzo funky kernel but I'm not sure what that applies to context here or not and I'm not able to get past the boot loader when installing a custom rom threw recovery ( i know most of them require S-OFF)

I would love to be on android 4.1 or above Cyanogen looks great, but... that whole camera app not working as well as the recording videos and streaming hd videos bug going on there might be a bit too dramatic for me as those practical applications are very important imo. Plus I do not have S-OFF and those roms seem to require this feature.

would love to try and test all the roms so I can find a working rom with 4.1 android and with out the bugs of the working camera video hd streaming etc

What I don't understand how to do is it mentions verifyed roms that work to do the rumrunner I tried LiquidSmooth as well as a couple others and it just gets stuck on the boot so how would I be able to even do this and get past this part "You must have an unsecured kernel installed and a custom Rom"

Any help is much appreciated
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
It's been awhile since I been on here but if I remember correctly you have to flash the boot.img file in fastboot after you flash the ROM if you are s-on
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
and this is using ABD right with my phone connected to the computer ? Once I have that whats the commands I have to use to do this.
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
Yes using adb and hooked up to the computer. S-on step by step instructions are at the link here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2535777. Under frequently asked questions. I think Q3. This is also a good working cm11 ROM based on KitKat Android 4.4.4. I have this one currently on my rezound. Everything works but camera as noted in the thread but all you have to do is reboot and you get another 3 videos.i hope this helps:)
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
oh I get it now. thanks for the help bro!

Know of any roms after ICS android v 4.1 + that dont that the camera bug ?
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
Yes let me find them and later I provide links

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Btw I'm at work right now so it may be later on tonight
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
Much Obliged
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
I will message you directly on here so we don't clutter up this thread with links to other threads
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
Today there was no problem getting S-OFF

Downloaded i386 copy of ubuntu burned with nero to dvd-r. Rebooted PC held in DEL switched bios to load cd. booted up "livecd" (try ubunut) Launch terminal sudo apt install jre...

downloaded sdk ran updated closed re opened verified sdk closed. download rumrunner extracted open terminal again hit the magic keystrokes

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

sudo ./soju

http://pastebin.com/ieAEZLDT

Well... After 3 hours falling asleep while watching TV I get up to check it I'm getting dots like crazy and my phone its a lil hot I'm like sheet the battery prob gonna die so I close terminal and pull battery put it back in hold vol down + power... DANG DANIEL I notice it says S-OFF, but it says battery is low...so I have it charging now will work with roms later hopefully I'm not stuck in a boot loop. I have a back up of my sdcard on my desktop fingers crossed I don't have to look in to RUU cuz I don't know anything about that lel

Now I'd like to look in to a Custom ROM that enables me the use of these features:

*Android version 4.1 or above

*A fully working Camera app with no bugs what so ever. ( not the restart phone after 3 videos )

*Ability to stream HD content with no bugs as well. ( no issues with HD playback via youtube-netflix-pornhub lol )

*Access to create a swap file ( ROEHSOFT Memory Info & Swap / ROEHSOFT RAM Expander )

Anyone know of any good ROMs? Message me pls and thx also big ups to the devs of rumrunner and all the support and this community

Cheers!
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
You have to step down to the ICS/Jelly Bean roms for stability, all KK roms have the issues listed above. This device is basically dead, there hasn't been any active development in over a year and all devs have abandoned the device and moved on to other devices. What's there is what you get, do try to your hearts content from the handful that are still available... The biggest problem we have seen lately is finding the ROM images, most have been abandoned and deleted from their repositories.

I'd say try starting with Tachyon.
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
found a 2015 build of CM11 seems to be ok idk if it has camera issues as I'm still trying to restore all my apps and settings. but I dont see any HD streaming play back issues only issues I can see so far is that I can't get rid of "Google Now or the Google App" I did buy a app off the market that lets me hide them from the market so I dont have to update these 2 apps as long as they stay the version they are and not updated my phone seems to run good.

I was originally on ICS and tbh I didn't like that flavor KK is okay tho its not no lollipop or above lol I'm fine with KK hopefully It stays good or I'll have to go back to 4.0.3 :/

Also I tried the latest version of Tachyon and for some reason it ran super buggy on my device I had to trash it.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
I know that build... And the developer... It continues to have the camera issue and I know he works on it from time to time but is basically up against a brick wall.
[HTC Rezound] meistfx:
Yeah I've noticed that so I'm going with CM 10.2 JB 4.3 as of now as I can see that's my best option I guess everything looks dead :/ I figured KK would be fully working by now but I guess not.
[HTC Rezound] kashifgulfaam:
thanks sir its works well on my rezound
[HTC Rezound] Tmobilefan906:
rumrunner has been running for over an hour. still doing the reboots and with the periods in the soju window. how long does this take before its been too long? how can i safely stop the exe if it is not working? thanks guys

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Power went out on my PC, now I can't flash a ROM. Noticed in recovery that all my zips are gone. Tried booting normally to run rumrunner again and it won't work. Please help. It does say s off in bl though
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
rebooted about 20 times probably more i left my house for an hour+. when i came home IT WORKED!!!! Thanks.

i also used ecliptic rom since it was stated to work with it.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thanks. It went into a mini boot loop when I did it. I just had to be patient and it finally finished. :laugh:
[HTC Rezound] corporal_hades:
I'm using LiquidSmooth 2.37 with whatever kernel is included
[HTC Rezound] iamwalterwhite:
This is incredible. I've been s-off since juopunutbear figured it out, but this is still amazing.
[HTC Rezound] scy1192:
I can also confirm. Bootloader shows S-OFF
[HTC Rezound] topgun1953:
Worked for me on my 'new' backup rezound. Ineffab with Funky Kernel. Forgot to disable virus an firewall first time. Second time it seemed to get hung up while 'pouring 2'. I let it run about an hour and finally gave up and stopped it. Phone wouldn't boot into the rom so I tried flashing a boot.img...no luck and then just flashed the rom again and restored a nandroid. When I flashed the boot.img...I noticed my phone was s-OFF !!! :D:D So, not sure what the deal was...but I"m good now. Run on an Win XP computer.
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
Worked perfectly with Tachyon 1.2!
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Looks like it is a good idea to have a backup ROM on your SD card before running this. Added to OP.
[HTC Rezound] Eddie Hicks:
I'm rooted and unlocked but I do not have a custom rom. I want to get my Rezound back to stock and my understanding is that you have to be s-off first. Is it really necessary to have a custom rom for this process? And if so what is a good choice of rom to use? Thanks
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Yes it is necessary to have a custom ROM and unsecured kernel. I ran the program several times with various setups on my phone. Each time it failed it told me I needed this or that until I finally made it work with the instructions in the OP.

The ROM you use is up to you, but make sure it has a custom kernel (not stock). I used EclipticRez, but I am not sure it matters.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
now that im s-off i think i should update my hboot from 2.25.000 to what though 2.28??
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
So I am counting 8 successful S-Off procedures by 8 different users in this thread so far, and not a single brick, or even a failure so far? So far that seems better than using ControlBear.

Can anyone verify Hboot version after this? Is it actually replacing Hboot with a custom one like the Windows Juopunutbear app did or is just doing it with the native Hboot?

It appears my question was answered well posting the question... The answer would be yes, you should be able to flash ANYTHING to the phone well S-Off, it won't stop you or take away S-Off, but remember that there are no checks or safeguards anymore, so flash things like Hboot, radios, and recoveries with caution.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
It does not replace the hboot. It just changes the s-on flag to s-off. I think the chances of bricking with this exploit are pretty slim. I haven't seen anyone complain of a brick in the HTC One forums. It doesn't mess with much of the phone's systems from what I can tell, but I'm not a Dev.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
does it matter what hboot they all say for ics or gb? anyone link me to the right thread please.
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
My hboot didn't change, still 2.27 :)
[HTC Rezound] scotty1223:
Lol I did the same thing a few days ago,but hadn't gotten to posting anything. I was s off prior,and downgraded to 3.14.605.12 to ease the process of re-s offing if it didn't work. I tried stock rooted,funky kernel,and eventually had success with a plain Jane stock rooted 3.14 rom(I forget wich one atm,ill have to go back and figure it out).

The important thing is the unsecure kernel.

I ran the rumrunner universal too from an ubuntu live cd

Thanks for sharing... I'm fairly certain it will work on other s3 devices as well. :)
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Kinda, I would stick with with latest which is 2.28. The latest radios and hboot ONLY for S-OFF users is available here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12405441/new.global.firm.PH98IMG.zip and from this post.

Not sure if you can flash is recovery, but is should be like any other manual update, just rename to PH98IMG.zip and place on root of SD card and reboot into Hboot, the rest should be automatic.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thanks for sharing. So it doesn't need a custom ROM to work? Just an unsecured kernel? I guess I should update the OP.

Edit: never mind, I see you did use a custom ROM of sorts.
[HTC Rezound] 4218kris:
will i need to reflash anyting after like recovery or rom?
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
No... the one I linked above only contains the radios and Hboot, it won't touch recovery, boot image, or ROM. Just flash and reboot, although it isn't necessary I would still wipe cache/dalvik, force of habit I guess.
[HTC Rezound] jrredho:
Has anyone actually tried to do the procedure with the stock kernel?

Fwiw, I read this in the download instructions : "We DO prefer users have an unsecure kernel, but that is not required." That seems to contradict the quoted statement...

curiously,

john
[HTC Rezound] scotty1223:
Yes,I did flash a stock rooted rom. I don't believe there was anything special about the rom itself,but I can't say for sure. I was looking into turning the secure flag off on an otherwise stock kernel,and testing that with the completely stock rom,but tried the rom flash cause it was easier. I may still give the kernal a shot... I'll let you know if i find it to be true,and maybe offer a newer insecure kernel.

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Yes,i tried I thAT way and it failed. Its my understanding from his comments that chillerman did as well.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Yes, I have tried the stock kernel and stock rom and many other combinations. The program could not "break through" the stock kernel for lack of a better term. It said something like "the bottle cap is on really tight!". It told me I needed to be on an unsecured kernel.

You are more than welcome to try and run it with whatever setup you have and let me know how it works. It won't hurt anything to try.
[HTC Rezound] jrredho:
As you can tell, I didn't read the entire thread closely and missed where you stated (probably multiple times) that you had tried it yourself. Sorry. Thanks for straightening me out! :)

I'm on (what I've learned is) the "pseudo" latest OTA, which is close to the stock, rooted ROM and the latest Hboot/Firmware. I don't know if the kernel is stock or not in that ROM, but I'll try this later today and let you know what I learn.

cheers,

john
[HTC Rezound] scotty1223:
for those of you that want to run a stock hboot and elimate the tampered banner from hboot:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2589763