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[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thanks Scotty. I was wanting to do this myself!

Maybe you can add a link to my thread in your thread, lol :D

Just added your link to my OP.
[HTC Rezound] scotty1223:
done :D
[HTC Rezound] kcipopnevets:
Haha, this really works! Took only about 10 minutes on Infection! Thanks so much for spreading the word! :D
[HTC Rezound] jrredho:
So, after fruitlessly attempting all of this with my Windows 8.1 laptop (the fruitless part has to do with the not being able to figure out how to achieve a fastboot-compatible HTC driver under 8.1), I booted a live USB drive of the latest Linux Mint and was able to achieve what I think is S-Off.

Just to be specific, I came to this ROM from last year's Global leak after first updating the firmware (radios and hboot) to the latest model. I do not know whether the kernel that comes with that ROM is secure or not.

Under Mint, I downloaded and installed the adb and fastboot executables. I then downloaded the rumrunner tgz file and extracted the files in it.

Finally I fired up the rumrunner executable. It went through several procedures, then on the last step, it showed dots progressing for an hour and a half. I happened to get a text msg notification, so took a look and noticed that the USB device no longer showed as being mounted in the notification area. I ctrl-c'd out of the procedure, powered off my phone, re-booted to the bootloader, and saw the magic s-off word in the hboot header. I think that that means success. :)

Thanks for letting us all know about this avenue of getting to S-Off. It's clear that the Rezound will not be getting any more updates from HTC or Verizon, and having the flexibility to be able to go back to the RUUs is a big, big plus as developers work to keep our phones current.

cheers,

john
[HTC Rezound] scy1192:
I had the same problem with Windows 8.1. It's not the fastboot driver, it's the USB chipset driver. Either find one from your manufacturer or install the Windows 7 one; the one provided by Microsoft won't work correctly.
[HTC Rezound] jrredho:
Yeah, if you say so.

All I know is, I've spent several hours on several different occasions mucking about with various driver solutions I've seen on xda-developers for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. None have been robust, and, with 8.1, I *still* cannot figure things out. I give up.

I'm hanging with Linux or FreeBSD or whatever else flavor of OS that I run across that works. I'm done with the Windows and Android thing, particularly when combined with HTC.

cheers,

john
[HTC Rezound] sockaplaya14:
Awesome, I was totally NOT comfortable with the wire trick.
[HTC Rezound] rezound4cure:
Worked for me zero problems. Even got around to updating radios and hboot and everything went well.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
windows 7 is the only supported os for the drivers which i can give you....8 and 8.1 is full of thorns in all sides....its a crappy os that should not have been released as nothings compatible for it really...windows should focus on the same universal concept that linux does...windows i hate to say it is loosing the pc war to the great and powerful linux that i love...
[HTC Rezound] jrredho:
I hear ya!

The problem for me is that I have some essential programs that simply have no *nix alternative that are viable. I'm thinking Winamp, TOPO!, Garmin BaseCamp, etc. I simply have to use Windows for those. You know, *essential*. :)

Otherwise, I'd go full *nix, all the time, as I prefer any of them over any edition of Windows.

cheers,

john
[HTC Rezound] scotty1223:
just burn ubuntu to a live cd and boot it from that when you need to do "delicate" phone work. ive been doing that for awhile now,windows is too iffy when running phone tools.
[HTC Rezound] pmgreen:
Anyone do this on a MAC or just PC based boxes?
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
The downloads are for Windows and Linux...
[HTC Rezound] scy1192:
No idea why you say that it's crappy. I've used 8 as my main OS since release preview and havent had problems besides that fastboot issue. The driver model is the same as 7 (unlike with the notorious switch from XP to Vista) so the 7 drivers should definitely work.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
and this is where i dissagree...80% of windows 7 drivers will not work on 8 as it was made to handle things much differently...hence why it needed the bios change to uefi as anything prior ran on a completely different bios method....a good example would be tring to install android on an iphone...while it is possible and backbone is very similar...they use 2 completely different setups....same as is with 7 and prior compared to windows 8 and up....8 also still has many incompatibilities with many WINDOWS based programs closing off most of its universal abilities between windows systems...i think here is where they messed up and microsoft lost alot of customers to linux or other users just staying on an older windows system...businesses stay away from it as much as possible for this reason...hence why they mostly chose to update to 7 and not 8 because non of their programs will run on it due to these compatibility issues.....owning my own PC business...i can safely say a high majority of my customers come to me strictly for windows 8 removal and windows 7 or even XP install
[HTC Rezound] scy1192:
Windows 8 doesn't require UEFI nor does that matter at all beyond initializing the devices required to boot the OS. In fact, most Linux distros will work just fine with a UEFI boot, too. Also, you know as well as I do that users don't want to change because there's something inherently wrong with the OS under the hood, they want 7 back because that's what they're familiar with and having a full screen start menu confuses them. I could talk plenty about this as I've argued about Windows 8 many times on the internet and in real life, but this doesn't seem like the right place for it.
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
i disagree there too...theres an easy mod that can give you old start menu back...and actualy alot wont boot under uefi mode...7 or lower wont..ubuntu 12.04 or 13.04 wont...linux mint wont...requires bios "tweaking" in the setting for it to work...granted you can install it while its enabled it will not boot...tmanschuette can even back me on this one. and once the tweak is enabled in the bios 8 will then not boot at all....people choose 7 for the compatibilities and the stability...not because they arent used to the interface....as one can obviously tell...no one can get most of their stuff here thats meant for windows 7 (which you stated SHOULD be compatible) and clearly is not to work under 8 because of these compatibility bugs
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
no more flashing the boot image

I'm sorry maybe i missed it. What phone did you use this on to achieve s-off?

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I see that it was a rezound and that it works on hboot 2.28 which is what I am on. I havent seen if it will work on my rom cm10.2. Anybody know?
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
This IS a Rezound s-off thread after all.

It should work with your rom. Give it a try.
[HTC Rezound] tmanschuette:
Yep... Ended up frying my laptop trying different methods to get Mint to boot into UEFI mode. I REALLY don't recommend it. My disk should arrive from Dell soon, but the reps said my data is gone
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Perhaps this conversation can be taken to a different thread? :rolleyes:
[HTC Rezound] REV3NT3CH:
already did bud sorry for clogging the thread
[HTC Rezound] stankopp:
I have not been able to get 8.1 to work with any of the suggestions. I set up a Windows 7 machine just for this. I have achieved s-off! I am running CyanogenMod version 11-20131124-UNOFFICIAL-vigor Android version 4.4 and with kernel 3.0.101-gf844c0c (neo@TheMatrix #1 Mon Nov 25 00:09:19 MSK 2013 which came with the custom ROM).:good:

PS mine took less than 10 minutes and said, "WTF - what are you doing? Hit enter to exit.", when complete.

It left me in some half booted-to-boot-loader state and I had to pull the battery to shut down, but I saw the glorious s-off in the header before and after my reboot.

Everything seems to be working just fine now.:highfive:
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
Gonna try later today
[HTC Rezound] Li'l Android:
Success! Took about 12-15 min. running Infection 2.9.1
[HTC Rezound] XAlexander_AlexanderX:
When i first did the wire trick, i wasn't doing it right and the wire lit up and i thought my phone caught on fire :eek: . I'm glad that someone found a new way to s-off without forcing the phone into download mode via wire trick. Too bad my ReZ committed suicide on me by falling down the stairs :crying: .
[HTC Rezound] jagrave:
So I tried this, and after 45 minutes it still wasn't done and was just acting like it was trying boot into rom, then it'd go back to the white htc screen. I unplugged it and pulled battery and it's still doing the same thing.
[HTC Rezound] stankopp:
I actually had it working just fine in Windows 8 - then installed the 8.1 upgrade and it quit working along with other things. USB 3.0 seems to be a problem. My Edimax wireless ac adapter is very flaky under 8.1 while it was pretty stable under 8.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Pull the battery again and boot into boot loader (volume down + power). From there you can get into your recovery and install your backup.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
I believe since you are s-on you will have to fastboot flash your boot image as well. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

This is the first I've heard of this issue.
[HTC Rezound] jagrave:
I didn't try installing a backup, but I tried reinstalling Erez two different times and I still get bootloop. *bang head on wall* didn't backup.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Depending on your recovery you can sideload a ROM to your SD card and install it or use a different device to put a ROM on your card.
[HTC Rezound] jagrave:
I ended up having a backup that I had done previously. I restored it, and it said restore was successful. And it finally booted into it. Do you know why simply flashing a rom from recovery wouldn't work, but restoring one did? During the S-Off procedure I didn't make it past "pouring 2" or whatever it says. It was on that step for almost 1.5 hours. So I battery pulled. Couldn't boot into rom. But I noticed that Hboot did say it was s-off. But when I tried reflashing EclipticRez It would never boot. I kept getting the loading screen and then it'd go back to the white htc screen over and over. I also noticed that flashing Erez normally puts a PH file on my sd card, but these two times it did not. Is that b/c hboot says I'm s-off? and if so, do you know why it still wouldn't boot?

I think I'm going to rerun rumrunner and see if it finishes this time.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Because you are s-on and the boot image doesn't flash with the ROM, you have to fastboot flash it after the ROM install. There are several threads on how to do that.

Edit: never mind, I see you are saying it is s-off now. I'm not sure what happened.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
If it says you are s-off I wouldn't run it again.
[HTC Rezound] jagrave:
Yeah, I know that most roms you have to fastboot flash the boot.img but with Erez the Aroma installer puts the PH file on your sd, then when you boot to bootloader it's suppose to install it so that you don't have to fastboot flash it. That's worked for me every time I've installed it(Which is a lot, its my go to rom :) ). After Re-running the s-off, it stopped after pouring 1 and said that it was done. So does that mean that I'm now S-off and it should start installing the boot.imgs without fastboot right?
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Yes, you are now s-off and boot.img will install automatically. I'm glad it worked out.
[HTC Rezound] jagrave:
Thank you for your help! And I'm glad I didn't end up that one guy that messed up. lol. :)
[HTC Rezound] topgun1953:
A similar thing happened to me. It got hung up pouring 2 and wouldn't reboot. While trouble shooting I noticed I was s-off. Reflashing my rom and then restoring a nandroid worked fine for me....:good:
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
OMG!!!! I'm S-OFF. It ran perfect on first try with cyanogenmod 10.2, Flyhalf205 's latest build. No more flashing the boot image via fastboot!!! There are some amazing devs out there. Thanks again.
[HTC Rezound] ryryrocco:
I'm in the same boat. Except nothing will boot for me. I've tried my original Rom - erezv9 and tried restoring a backup as well. Just bootloops. Although it shows s off in the bootloader. About to try another sd card. Not sure if I should run rum runner again. Tried a different sd card - didn't work. I'm stuck.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Try flashing something that we know has a boot image in it like Tachyon, this sounds like a boot image issue.
[HTC Rezound] ryryrocco:
Def does. I get the white HTC screen, then a quick flash to another white HTC screen for a couple seconds each. Then the Erez boot screen for a few seconds then it repeats. I just fastboot flashed the lunar boot img just to see. No luck. Will try tachyon now.
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
What recovery are you using? You should be using TWRP or CWM, not Amon Ra... Wipe everything but the external SD, at least twice, and then flash and boot before restoring or doing anything.

I am not going to say that a failed attempt at going S-OFF could brick your device, it is possible, but extremely unlikely using this method with no wire trick since no physical electrical connection needs to be made and no custom Hboot is being flashed. If nothing else, now that you are S-OFF, try the RUU exe (not the flashable ZIP) of 3.14.605.12 to verify the phone is functional and correct any issues with the partitioning,
[HTC Rezound] ryryrocco:
OK reporting back

I was running TWRP. I got unable to mount partition errors (internal, emmc, sd) on the last attempt to reload erez/restore my backup. I loaded CWM recovery and flashed tachyon and I am back!!!

Now my problem is I don't know if I should try to reflash erezV9 or restore my backup (also erezV9) or just stick with tachyon. It seems pretty sweet so far. And I guess I achieved s off as well if tachyon loaded no problem, right?
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
You should be able to verify s-off if you reboot to bootloader and look under the word unlocked (see attachment). It should say either s-off or s-on.
[HTC Rezound] topgun1953:
Agree...that's exactly what I had. I can't remember the exact sequence of my troubleshooting, but I think I fastboot flashed a boot.img first and then noticed I was s-off. For me though, flashing eneffablilis deus from scratch worked. Only then did a restored nandroid work. Now, if you're s-on, nandroids don't contain a boot.img do they, so just trying that as a first resort wouldn't work.

I think my root cause was not having my anti-virus AND firewall turned off. EDIT: (oh...and my recovery is AmonRa)
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
I had some issues myself one of the times I ran it. It went into a mini boot loop between the white HTC screen and the erez boot animation. All I did was click outside the terminal command box to get rid of the cursor and then click back inside the box and the program finished and my boot loop stopped. I don't know if that means the program fell asleep or what. I was also on amonra.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
It seems there may be some commonalities with people that are having problems. Must of us were on EclipticRez with amonra as a recovery. It could be a coincidence, but I am going to suggest TWRP or CWM in the OP.
[HTC Rezound] topgun1953:
Back on rumrunner's page it says that if you are getting rows and rows of dots then you are likely experiencing a network issue like anti virus or firewall. That is why I decided to end the program after I had a screen full of dots :) :)
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Thanks, I highlighted that in the OP as well.
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
Although I was able to successfully complete this on my phone running tachyon I'm not having the same luck with my wife's phone. I did notice that I had amonra installed as the recovery on hers so I switched to twrp but didn't resolve the problem. I really can't event get the program started as it keeps saying no adb connection to device, and I do have debugging enabled and proper drivers are installed. If I type and enter adb devices in the command prompt I get "daemon not running, daemon started successfully, list of devices attached" , but is blank below that and lists nothing. Any thoughts? Only difference between our devices besides the prior installed recovery is the version of hboot and radios, hers are up to date.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Is fast boot disabled under power settings? Are you mounted as charge only? Other than that I would try rebooting your computer and the phone.
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
There is no power settings in tachyon to disable fast boot, mounts as charge only on connection. I had already tried rebooting phone and computer. Weird that I was able to issue fastboot commands to flash twrp but when using adb the device name doesn't display. It displays for my device when sending adb devices.........
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
I'm no expert on adb, maybe someone else can chime in?

Are you both on Tachyon?
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
I'm on cm 11 now, but was on tachyon when I successfully s_off with runmrunner
[HTC Rezound] topgun1953:
Definitely sounds like a communications issue. You are booted into your rom (and not the bootloader) when you begin, right?
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
I would check under developer options/root access and make sure you check "app and adb" option. You may not have enabled adb root access which is what you are using for this to work. You may have had it checked on your phone but not your wife's.

Edit: I'm almost sure that's what it is because I had same thing "daemon not running" then I checked app and adb root access and it worked flawlessly after that.
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
Thx, for replys. I am booted into the rom when I begin, and had already checked out the app and adb in dev options. I agree on the communication issue and feel it's probably my old dumb pc unable to distinguish two similar but different devices, even after trying multiple usb ports. I'm going to try on my office pc later to confirm my suspicion. Thx again
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
Update: well I finally got it to work on the home pc after thinking about it for a while. I ended up uninstalling the drivers, rebooting the computer, reinstalling the drivers, then connected her phone and let it do its thing. Once that completed adb recognized the device and rumrunner worked fine. Chalk another one up for tachyon :)
[HTC Rezound] Quantumrabbit:
I want to try this, but I can't get their website to load, nor can I found another place to download the exe... Anyone have a mirror or a non rumrunner.us link?

Their site came back up this morning... I ran rumrunner on Snuzzo's Carbon, whole process took about 6 minutes, now I'm S-Off and booted fine. It did clear out my theme and background, which is weird... and my exchange connections had to be re-activated.
[HTC Rezound] ryryrocco:
Just noticed I lost my internal storage after achieving s off using this. Won't mount at all. Anyone know how to fix this. Tried to search but wasn't sure if I need to ruu or of there was a better way.

External sd works fine.

Thanks.
[HTC Rezound] ncfoster:
Worked for me on CM 11 1/4 build. I was a dolt and didn't have the HTC driver installed. Thought it was referring to the drivers included with adb.

Everything seems kosher (5 minutes after I've done it anyhow).
[HTC Rezound] acejavelin:
Assuming you were on an ICS Hboot, try formatting it in recovery,also try plug it into a PC when it's up and running and see if it shows up in disk management and repartition/format the volume, and if that doesn't work try repartitioning the internal space with TWRP/CWM. All else fails you might have to run a full RUU (the exe version, not the ZIP images).
[HTC Rezound] ryryrocco:
My problem seemed to fix itself. I don't think it had to do with the s off procedure at all. I think it was due to the fact I was going to 4.3 (tachyon) from erez v9 (ICS). I just could not get the internal to show up on a PC or mounted to reformat in recovery. But yesterday I rebooted tachyon and when the ROM loaded I got a popup that my file system was invalid/unsupported - press OK to format. I now have my internal memory back.

Thanks to NEO for a really awesome ROM.
[HTC Rezound] kcirtap420:
I can't get this to work for me, I followed the instructions and still haven't gotten s-off. Ran it on carbon, eclipticrez, and now cm11 and nothing. Tried rebooting computer and my phone still nothing... Reinstalled drivers and SDK tools didn't help, can anyone think of something else to try or that could be preventing it from working? Would really like s-off lol

P.S. I thought it ran all the way thru each time it got to pouring then said wtf, what are you doing or something and press enter to exit.
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
My first thought was..... Did you disable anti-virus and firewall?

Edit: I just did this a week ago by the way and I was on cm11 also
[HTC Rezound] kcirtap420:
Yup, made sure everything was disabled and closed, and had all settings on phone set correct. Just tried again after double checking all settings still s-on.
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
How about under developer settings/root? Is it set to apps and adb? I made that mistake at first.

I also just remembered that I think HTC sync is supposed to be removed from the computer
[HTC Rezound] kcirtap420:
Check and check lol starting to go nuts seeing it work for everyone else! I'm flashing eclipticrezv8 now I'll try again after it settles down.
[HTC Rezound] Uncleheff:
Good luck!!! I'm sure you will figure it out. Mine took about 10 to 15 minutes and at times I thought it had stopped. I let it run and it finally finished. It's nice to be able to flash a rom and not have to flash the boot.img via fastboot.
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
The first time I ran soju.exe I did so right through the zip file and it would stop at pouting one...... after extracting the contents, like Windows recommend in the first place, it ran fine. Just FYI in case your making the same mistake.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
Have you actually gone into boot loader and check to see if you are s-off? Usually when it says that you are done.
[HTC Rezound] bjamm:
Didnt work for me with carbon, keeps giving me this..

Checking for updates......

Test 1: Rebooting into bootloader

Waiting for fastboot (5/120)

Waiting

Test 2: Booting device

Waiting for ADB (16/120)

must ferment longer...

must sanitize, skunky rum is nasty

hold please..............................................

[------------------------------------------------------------]

Rebooting into bootloader (again)

Waiting for fastboot (5/120)

FATAL: Download updated package at

Press ENTER to exit
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
This is a network issue. Make sure your antivirus/firewall is off and you have an internet connection.
[HTC Rezound] Chillerman:
EclipticRez has an s-on option in the aroma installer. You probably chose that and it flashed the boot.img for you.
[HTC Rezound] mike.s:
I must have tried under Windoze 4 times, and kept getting the "FATAL: Download updated package...". No firewall, fresh reboot, nothing else running, etc.

Finally, downloaded the Linux package and did it on a Linux machine. Worked perfectly the first time. You don't even have to deal with drivers.
[HTC Rezound] kcirtap420:
That's how I know it flashed though, it detects s-on or off, aroma said s-off detected and flashed boot right on the spot, booted up coming from cm11 without using hboot to flash it.
[HTC Rezound] JBS976:
Worked great for me on CM 10.1.3.1. Thanks to all involved. One question I have is do I have to re-lock the bootloader to run an RUU like I did before, as I am thinking about going back some and re-doing things?

Thanks,

Bryon
[HTC Rezound] lindsay56:
Rezound s-off

I wanted to Rumrunner s_off worked fantastic the first time. I am on Liquid-JB-v2.37 and the Kernel 3.0.100-gded5d30 neo@TheMatrix #1. Had to go pouring 3 times i guess cause it was so skunky but never had to anything but be patient. Remembered to turn off anti-virus and firewall off.:cool: