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[Verizon HTC One (M8)] tanium:
Hello all

I been reading the new HTC one m8 section of xda daily.

We see some topics for bounty.

Also the java one for paying the 30 bucks and mailing your device away to someone.

Just very curious to hear if anyone knows if we have actual devs working on the s-off process for our m8's.

It would be very cool to see a we are getting close to a crack for s-off.

How many of you are sending your phone's to that java unlock guy?

This is no eta question.

Just is anyone working on s-off for verizon M8.

Thanks for any reply
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Mike02z:
jcase and beaups are working on it. With those 2 guys, I have no doubt they will find an S-Off exploit.

As for Sonic's S-Off service, I trust Sonic 100% with my phone. I do not trust the USPS or any other carrier with my phone. Just will not send it away. We have root and Xposed and that will hold me for now.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] BladeRunner:
Check the s-off bounty thread, post # 152
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cntryby429:
Absolutely. beaups is on it and from what I hear he's the man. There's chatter coming out right now about it being done with a teasing tweet they just sent out.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tepifan:
http://t.co/3h75NnAsIZ

Looks like it's been achieved. Just the waiting game now for it to be released.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Karl:
oh damn think i had a accident :highfive:: good: :p
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dchandler326:
I asked jcase if he was still working on it the other night and he told me he moved on to the M9 and be isn't working on it anymore.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Mike02z:
Oh man, those guys ROCK! Can't wait for firewater!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] tanium:
Now your talking :)

I knew they could do it.

I'm not sure about the guy or gal going by the b name.

But been following J for a long time, I remember when they found the first way to crack the thunder bolt.

This was an awesome response :) those guys fricking rock
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Mike02z:
beaups was the one who came up with rumrunner which provided S-Off to us former M7 owners..

Off topic, did you once have a SGN and on Sourcery rom? Your name looks familiar from IRC
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] tanium:
Yep that be me.

You are the motor bike guy :)

I jumped to the s4 then the M8
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Mike02z:
Cool. SGN->SIII->M7->M8 here.
[One (M8) General] graffixnyc:
https://twitter.com/firewaterdevs/status/452269087083614208/photo/1
[One (M8) General] drakeymcmb:
Yes, Cant wait!!! Awesome news!
[One (M8) General] Tikerz:
Heck yeah!

Wow, on VZW M8 too.
[One (M8) General] NJGSII:
Sweet. Death to the red writing on the boot screen!
[One (M8) General] brandonair95:
Quick question: When root and S-Off are officially released will they work with all versions of the One M8 or are they carrier specific?

This'll be my first HTC phone since the T-Mobile only HTC Sensation 4g was released so I don't know how HTC handles multi carrier phones.
[One (M8) General] NJGSII:
All versions should be a go. The M8 in the pic is a Verizon one,
[One (M8) General] CB620:
I love this device
[One (M8) General] seanyuan62:
Great news!!
[One (M8) General] StormCell:
Now that's what I'm talking about! Goodbye big red boot screen. Can't wait.
[One (M8) General] EtherealRemnant:
Hell yes! That was FAST!

I get mine on the 11th, I can't wait. S-OFF is icing on the cake!!!
[One (M8) General] fernando sor:
Ahh Damn dude any m8s sold on official launch day have a different hboot. Tough luck.

Jk
[One (M8) General] housry23:
This is excellent news indeed.
[One (M8) General] graffixnyc:
Ans I have a GPE Conversion zip ready to test as soon as S-off hits :P
[One (M8) General] housry23:
Awesome! Just what I was hoping to hear. Hit me up on hangouts if you need additional testers ?
[One (M8) General] Chris_c81:
Sooo...

Once this releases, I can flash a generic stock HTC Sense ROM (I have a carrier variant at moment) and use OTA update?
[One (M8) General] ste1164:
As long as the model is compatible then yes.
[One (M8) General] v1rk:
ready and waiting for the release
[One (M8) General] Onem8:
Can't wait :))))
[One (M8) General] scotty1223:
I am good to go with adb mid changes for full conversion, as well as adb lock/unlock and remove tampered.

Just need to make up some threads :)
[One (M8) General] shankly1985:
Thanks

For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. :good:
[One (M8) General] DelBoy:
Versions that come to HTC subsidiaries(I mean early versions, develepor versions, test verions, versions that will go to medias on test) are always s-off and supercid.

I have received One X, One M7, One Mini, One Max, Desire 601, Desire 500, One M8 and they were all like that.

Every phone I have received to test them for local magazine, except this M8.
[One (M8) General] vimto25:
How do I check to see if my device is s-off? Its been a long time I played around with a android device been with apple far to long
[One (M8) General] Shebee:
Reboot to bootloader, it will say S-ON or S-OFF.

BUT, now that my device is S-OFF (I got the whelp message 4 times or something, thought it wouldn't work), what are the mods I can do now?
[One (M8) General] comstar:
Are you saying that you got the whelp message and did nothing except keep trying and it finally worked? I gave up after two tries, especially since everyone kept saying if you get that message that it will never work.
[One (M8) General] Migwickert:
Yeah, that's interesting...I kept trying and trying and still received the same message.
[One (M8) General] invano:
Fortunately s-off at first try on my wwe m8 (cid htc__001).

Thanks to the fifth bottle :laugh:
[One (M8) General] blackice666:
Just please be a little bit more specific, because there are a lot of people in here which got the whelp message, and never managed to S-OFF. You are saying that first u got the whelp message and after that u retried, and u ended up getting S-OFF?

Did u retry the whole procedure or just the "/data/local/tmp/firewater" command?
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
i think whelp turns up in other parts of the procedure but if he got s off then he cant have got the main Whelp message saying no amount of whatever will change etc at the start.
[One (M8) General] broncogr:
^^ What he said..

If you get the whelp message saying that firewater wont work on your device then it just wont
[One (M8) General] blackice666:
Yes, I knew that from the other posts... But when you are desperate you try to believe in miracles :P
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
there is a bounty thread for these type of devices so a quick pledge in there maybe more beneficial than just speculation here ;):D

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Best make a pledge to see if we can intice someone to do aomething about it as u will have more chance of making an iphone awesome
[One (M8) General] blackice666:
I already pledged there :)
[One (M8) General] thekalby:
Since my m8 is a little messed up, I'm considering buying a new ATT one on ebay. Can all the ATT ones get s-off? Has anyone with an ATT M8 ever had problems getting s-off?

I don't really understand which specific m8 variants have problems with firewater?
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
Some have s-off, some could not get it. There is no specific carrier, serial number, etc. to identify if you will be able to achieve s-off at the moment.

If you feel lucky then try it. I think more people are able to get it than people that can't so odds should be on your side.
[One (M8) General] phatmanxxl:
Welp, downloaded the supposed new firewater and ran it, stopped at the first bottle. Ran it three times
[One (M8) General] Oditius:
I just tried Firewater and got S-Off on my AT&T M8..
[One (M8) General] thekalby:
Are newer models more likely to be stuck with S-On?
[One (M8) General] nxkr:
Guys I am new to htc switched from z1.. Whats S-Off??
[One (M8) General] oRAirwolf:
http://bit.ly/1pc6ruL
[One (M8) General] .TanTien:
It is a security feature of HTC that prevents the user from flashing e.g. kernels from recovery, changing cid etc. S-Off just means that this security feature is turned off and that you can change/modify pretty much everything on the phone. You will need it to debrand your phone and with s-off it will be easier to flash roms etc.
[One (M8) General] nO.One2:
need s-off for CID T-MOB101 :((
[One (M8) General] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
mine too -.-
[One (M8) General] phatmanxxl:
I need S-off for various reasons.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
LA DE DA DE DA:eek:
[One (M8) General] Ashaman_Kupo:
So I tried this exploit but after the first command..nothing happens. Yes my phone reboots then I enter the second line and nothing... Then my phone hours into a reboot frenzy and the only way I stopped it was by going into recovery and factory resetting. My phone has rebooted a couple times after doing that.

Can anyone tell me if I need to do something else to get back to normality. I don't care about s-off anymore. I just want a non rebooting phone.

Should I just flash a rom and that will cure my random boots?
[One (M8) General] Garmig:
Whelp! :fingers-crossed:

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[One (M8) General] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
we will get within the next week or two a working exploit for all devices...I would just wait a bit ;)

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[One (M8) General] oRAirwolf:
I just did a pee-pee dance.
[One (M8) General] npalmy:
yeah!
[One (M8) General] Puff1911:
You know this for fact? :D just need to know how excited i should get..
[One (M8) General] stathis95194:
Well beaups hinted on it in the bounty thread and there is also a photo from a tweet floating around so my guess is you should be quite excited ?
[One (M8) General] Puff1911:
well then! :) let me go dust off my M8 phones :D
[One (M8) General] Eiad Ajam:
some noob questions :D

i'v seen s-off in the m8 toolkit on this thread :-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2694925

what's the difference between this thread and that ?
[One (M8) General] blackice666:
It uses the same tool, but it does the job of entering the commands, so you dont have to do it manualy.
[One (M8) General] dying4004:
hopefully we will get the new s-ff soon. :)
[One (M8) General] Nilepiels:
I think we got s-off;

https://twitter.com/TeamAndIRC/status/481151769716609024
[One (M8) General] RENEGAD3:
I havnt even attempted to soff/unlock/root yet. ive been waiting for rock solid releases and 100% working exploits before i try, this looks promising
[One (M8) General] kilian7th:
It works, oh yeah, really happy to have paid 25$ to this team !!!
[One (M8) General] Electronic Punk:
Nice job Sunshine team :)

I guess those who pledged know where to go instead :)
[One (M8) General] pks4510:
Sir,

Do I need to unlock bootloader & install custom recovery & root the device before running this application(Sunshine) to achieve S-Off ?

Thanks.
[One (M8) General] Jyotirdeb:
Just unlock the bootloader and root it via fastboot boot command.
[One (M8) General] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
he can't root via fastboot, if he flashed custom recovery he can flash a superSU zip...then it's rooted :)

and for the guy who asked that, you just need to be on stock as possible Rom with stock kernel and rooted, then it will work

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[One (M8) General] Jyotirdeb:
Funny :p I meant that unlock the bootloader then if he wants to only root his device then he can root his device by booting not flashing the custom recovery.so he will have stock recovery.Also I know the fastboot cant be rooted :silly:
[One (M8) General] pks4510:
Sir, It is a bit confusing for me. May I request you to kindly explain " he can root his device by booting not flashing the custom recovery". Also I will appreciate if you can explain the whole process stepwise. Thanks & Regards
[One (M8) General] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
I really don't know for what we do have the guides how to root etc, if Many ppl doesn't even bother to read them -.- it's well explained in different threads/guides...

Always the same -.-
[One (M8) General] snake3276120:
Can I root my M8 UL without unlocking bootloader? I know the S-Off is here, but if I unlock bootloader from htcdev, they probably have my phone's serial numbers (I don't remember what it is called, but the numbers shown in bootloader). I'm just afraid of voiding my warranty.
[One (M8) General] skinsfanbdh:
do a search. there is a way to unlock bootloader without using htc dev
[One (M8) General] beaups:
you should be able to use the latest version of towel root (in temp root mode), then use sunshine.
[One (M8) General] snake3276120:
Sir, thanks for your reply, but I only found this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708571
[One (M8) General] lucky_strike33:
You have to be s off to unlock the boot loader. Be sure to install super user
[One (M8) General] snake3276120:
I tried to use towel root, and it is working. However, the su binary is not located at /system/xbin/su, but somewhere like /sbin/su, and sunshine are not able to locate the su binary. I tried to mount /system for writing, and copy su there, and it is not working. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Yea, that's exactly what I think, while the guy I quoted said I should search unlock bootloader without htc dev...
[One (M8) General] beaups:
Yeah I spoke too soon. We are working on updating sunshine with towelroot compatibility.
[One (M8) General] afilopou:
Everything works fine with latest sunshine (1.1). Temproot with v3 towelroot and s-off-bootloader unlock with sunshine.
[One (M8) General] donciclon:
I know this is silly, and I should leave well enough alone but I'm an eccentric.

I'm already s-off through firewater. My issue is that I can't flash radios using fastboot commands. I get the 'failed: remote not allowed' error. I had been able to flash them before, but I think something broke during some flashing frenzy. I'm wonder if maybe going s-on and running sunshine might fix it?

I did re-lock the bootloader once and unlocked it again, maybe that could be the cause. If so, would running sunshine do anything?

**Edit for getting rid of some of my ignorance** - So i came across some info regarding this fastboot issue and as I understand it, it has more to do with the bootloader than anything else. That being said I think I know the answer to my question now. Despite my bootloader being unlocked, after the relocking, it may not be 'really' unlocked fully. Must do more research.
[One (M8) General] Chris_c81:
In what sense? Differing M8 models?
[One (M8) General] ste1164:
Some have different bands and model numbers.
[One (M8) General] thatbimmerkid:
If I have the developer edition do I need s_off ?
[One (M8) General] KidCarter93:
If you need to ask whether or not you need S-Off, it's safe to say you don't need S-Off ;)
[One (M8) General] thatbimmerkid:
But I'm willing to learn :)
[One (M8) General] dazbutler1:
once you have s-off you can change cid to anything for example supercid. then flash any rom. I'm also waiting for s-off as mine is 3uk variant and want to flash wwe rom + firmware
[One (M8) General] onthezone:
Go into your bootloader and look to see if your phone is s-off already. I'm not sure if it already has s-off but your bootloader should be unlocked already though.
[One (M8) General] ThePhoneGeek:
Ahh cr@p... I was hoping it would take longer as I haven't bought mine yet and was going to wait for a few things to be done s-off being one of them. :) Now I may have to buy one sooner...

MG
[One (M8) General] sbiricuda:
[MENTION=3537886]graffixnyc[/MENTION]

I'm not a real expert of the topic (and I come from a Samsung where S-Off and unlocked bootloader were not usually discussed), and I searched a little on the Internet why users were so exctied about this news.

I ended up on this page:

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/04/why-you-want-root-and-s-off-on-htc-devices.html

You might want to put it in the OP.

If it is not the case, it could still be helpful for other newbies.
[One (M8) General] Electronic Punk:
Might just be coincidence but it might be a little longer:

https://twitter.com/TeamAndIRC/status/452488279821410304

But it might be unrelated to the S-Off itself!
[One (M8) General] luckymicheal:
Oh man. Was looking forward to it.
[One (M8) General] Chris_c81:
To be honest I'm not partial to being guinea pig! I'll be holding out till the procedure is rock solid!
[One (M8) General] mchief298:
Jcase said it had nothing to do with s-off in the Verizon forums.

M8, nuff said.
[One (M8) General] MassStash:
Hmmmmmmmmmm

~m8whl modded stock

2.265 Max ¦ 300 Min

ondemand

row
[One (M8) General] Root-Maniac:
Thats what he thinks, LOL
[One (M8) General] MassStash:
? = perhaps detouring "when do I have itz" Q's?

~m8whl modded stock

2.265 Max ¦ 300 Min

ondemand

row
[One (M8) General] Rad0201:
Can't wait
[One (M8) General] Onem8:
+1
[One (M8) General] Coughs:
I'm new to Android and these forums and I was wondering how long does it usually take to get a GPE conversion kit for the HTC One M8? is it a easy procedure for a noob like me? Thanks. I really do not like sense.
[One (M8) General] Electronic Punk:
http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/development

Has several GP editions, so it does not require S-Off to achieve.
[One (M8) General] Coughs:
Thank you. Do you know if these will get OTA updates?
[One (M8) General] Electronic Punk:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2706441

Perhaps that one as it says it is unmodified, you will need to restore a stock recovery afterwards I suspect and perhaps even relock, but you are best asking on that thread rather than here.
[One (M8) General] an0ther:
No they will not get official updates. Only if the creator pushes their own updates. Once soff is achieved you can truly convert to gpe and it will get updates from Google as long as you are running that stock recovery.
[One (M8) General] Coughs:
Thanks for clearing that up I guess I will have to wait for s-off. Do you know how long s-off usually takes to get? a few months?

also if you have time I'd love if you could check out my thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2707967
[One (M8) General] Chris_c81:
Within weeks I'd guesstimate. One tweet came out a couple days ago suggesting S-OFF is just round the corner.
[One (M8) General] MassStash:
then jcase said it bricked, but then someone said the beaups said it wasn't a brick from the s-off, so idk haha. I'm hoping it was a detourant to people asking "when I haves itz??" haha
[One (M8) General] benjamin.j.goodwin:
[MENTION=420012]firewater[/MENTION]devs: firewater is released for m8, visit http://t.co/JDikkVwMNP

Grabbed that from their Twitter.
[One (M8) General] henv:
Saw the following post from firewater on Twitter: firewater is released for m8.

Too bad I don't have time now. Will try tomorrow.

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One_M8
[One (M8) General] nugzo:
Its in orig dev section. i just ran it on my ATT M8 and s-off in under 2 minutes ;)
[One (M8) General] wase4711:
firewater FTW!
[One (M8) General] Mycologist:
Worked great for me, used OSX 10.8.5
[One (M8) General] fix-this!:
Damn this has to be the fastest development ive ever seen for a phone. soo glad i picked this instead of the s5. Cant wait to fully convert my m8 to a GPE.
[One (M8) General] littlegreenalien:
development is great. I'm getting my htc m8 on Friday when it releases on tmobile
[One (M8) General] manup456:
Yeah the process is super easy all we need is red text removal
[One (M8) General] CB620:
Supercid anyone?
[One (M8) General] djkinetic:
yup fastboot oem writecid 11111111
[One (M8) General] rbouza1:
graffix! wheres that conversion bro
[One (M8) General] onthezone:
Maybe testing the conversion :D
[One (M8) General] rbouza1:
i feel wrong with gpe on sense firmware
[One (M8) General] CB620:
This is ridiculous.... Can't wait for full on dev to jump off.
[One (M8) General] WorldIRC:
Can't believe how quick this came!
[One (M8) General] graffixnyc:
Tested and am uploading my full GPE edition conversion RUU Now :)
[One (M8) General] onthezone:
Awesome! I can't wait to go home and convert! Thanks thanks thanks!
[One (M8) General] WorldIRC:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708565

Remove your tampered flag!
[One (M8) General] djkinetic:
only thing left is to get to hex editing the hboot to remove the red dev text.
[One (M8) General] andybones:
This is awesome!!

I can't believe how fast these guys did this!

Please send donations! they deserve it!
[One (M8) General] bgtrack:
Yes now to covert!
[One (M8) General] E_n_T:
I use international unlocked device. Been trying seversl times. Cant seem to get it to work. :(

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[One (M8) General] Cambridge:
The same here. International Device. It doesen't work. Tryed 10 Times on various Mashines. (Win7, Win8)
[One (M8) General] E_n_T:
now thats a real bummer. well well.. perhaps there will be a new version out for our devices. im thinking i should try and go back to stock and try the other method with temproot. would be sweet to get it working :)
[One (M8) General] Electronic Punk:
I suspect not, I haven't seen it work on EU devices but I have seen it work on US ones with the same ROM I use. Patience will win :)
[One (M8) General] E_n_T:
This is My version of device.

iOS 7 up my iBUM
[One (M8) General] MassStash:
Swear I read someone say it should work

~Jflteusc on OctOS

KToonsez Kernel

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[One (M8) General] wineds:
Weaksauce still needs to be improved so that it works on international models. HTCDev is a crock and voids warranty.
[One (M8) General] alberto888zz:
This is my M8

Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk
[One (M8) General] graffixnyc:
Yeah but you do realize you can fight them and say even though you requested the unlock code you never used it.. Requesting the unlock code and using it are two different things.. If you unlock and then we can make it say "locked" and not "relocked" with s-off they won't know you ever used it.. Just make sure when you do unlock that you keep it in airplane mode until you can s-off... (in case it transmits the status to HTC..)
[One (M8) General] wineds:
Thanks graffixnyc
[One (M8) General] konfuzio:
S-OFF works for M8 int. Vodafone

Hi guys,

S-Off is working for me. Try this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51769171&postcount=640

Big THX to "Onem8"
[One (M8) General] Kiray1982:
how to disable s-off?or how to lock the bootloader for "locked" not "relocked"...

currently im s-on htcev unlocked, but need to return my device :(
[One (M8) General] graffixnyc:
look here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2710503

In the op under FAUX. It will show locked, and s-on even if it's unlocked and s-off..
[One (M8) General] snake3276120:
So, is the S-OFF for M8_UL available now? I checked firewater, it looks like that's for the Verizon version.
[One (M8) General] tomoffel:
I think not, just tried with my m8_ul und the temproot neither the weaksauce method worked for me :(
[One (M8) General] Tiann:
Tried for nearly 3 days to try to get S-Off on my 3UK Model M8.

No luck until I did the file transfer method. Rooted in 2 bottles.

Proud owned of a S-Off'd First Mate.
[One (M8) General] californiarailroader:
US based AT&T HTC One M8 and S-Off here.
[One (M8) General] Beastlee:
Can you elaborate? I haven't found any information on this method and unfortunately weak sauce isn't working on my M8_UL.

Thanks

Lee
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
Firewater does not seem to be working on UNBRANDED European (#.##.401.#) full stop at the moment so anyone with that will need to wait. I have no problem waiting as they will nail it and I have not had m8 long. :good:
[One (M8) General] v1rk:
I'm sure yours is #.##.420.# :p
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
Apparently pushing a gb sized file to phone storage when firewater says preparing, one moment works on the aforementioned device
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
very true hahahhaaha
[One (M8) General] dying4004:
is there any specific version or specific firmware that is not compatible with firewater s-off?

mine is australian unlocked but firewater doesnt work in stock and custom rom.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
If you get the attached message, s off will not work :(

Also looks like they have closed s off thread. Hopeful that they find something now they have peace and quiet lol!