yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Verrocio:
Let me also say i don't think they are being greedy. There isn't anything to suggest that their core motives are not sincere!!! and that they earned every penny of that 25$. I just think there is to much liability to the user to justify being hit with a 25$ price tag on top of the time and money (mainly just the time and efforts) the user has already gone through to get their perfect smartphone. In many cases like you just said tearing away from apple.

One of the main selling points of android smartphones is openness and freedom. In this case freedom is taken from the user and peace of mind along with it.

I think some other system should be considered because you are in a sense "leaving the patient on the battlefield".

Greedy ? No.

Slightly irresponsible? Absolutely.

Its also in a sense not a problem with what they are doing. So much as what they are encouraging others to do.

Now i don't want anyone to think i'm not being objective here. I like the fact that the tool first verifies if or not it will work properly before a POS is initiated. That's certainly a positive aspect that i think we can all agree on.

Another would be the seamless installation and no frills website as well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bankanidhi:
Sorry didn't mean to be that harsh. I was thinking how people who can't afford so much still can have the exploit. Well sorry to all . I will not come back to hurt any body again. Will just wait for cheaper or other alternatives.

Sorry guys.

Good luck everyone.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Fireflynj:
following this? htconeroot.com/htc-one-root/how-to-root-htc-one-m8/

I hope I didn't mess it up already, I was looking in 'fastboot' mode to verify it said 'unlocked' and it did,

and for some reason I click 'recovery' , duh!.. I didn't copy the files over yet.

so now I have a red triangle.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Riff76:
The 25 bucks was worth it for me. I had a phone that had a known issue with its radio (sprint). To relock with it saying locked in the bootloader and untampered got me a free replacement. They're checking now if it's been rooted. I would have been effed if I had to buy a whole new phone.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Fireflynj:
it's ok, I got it to reboot.

but would like to confirm what steps I need to do.

so, for me to install custom recovery, put the TWRP image file in root of internal memory and do to fastboot and click 'recovery'?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
No. You have fastboot setup rt on your pc?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Fireflynj:
Yea I do, I done it only once before with a Rezound, I was trying avoid it since I'm not comfortable with it.

I am looking to pick up at step 21 in this guide htconeroot.com/htc-one-root/how-to-root-htc-one-m8/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] littlegreenalien:
Love you guys!! Im now soff on htc one m7 1.57 hboot 4.4.2 sense 6
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Too entitled.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Show me a fully open source or fully unlocked out of box android. You can't, show me a fully open source and functional ROM, you can't.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cyrusct82:
WOW. 5$ for an m7? Send me one full functional as I need one for my wife and I will pay you back the phone and I will send you money to pay for SunShine. Total 30$ are we agree?

In my country I can't find one full functional under 300$. One with cracked display is 200$.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
If you have fastboot installed reboot to bootloader an move your twrp img to your platform tools folder plug phone to pc open cmd Window from that folder an type fastboot flash recovery nameofyourfile.img
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] pedyvirus:
I cant pay for sunshine because of my country :(

Can i pay sunshine without using phone? I can send the money with paypal but not with phone and using sunshine app
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
email jcase@cunninglogic.com and ill take care of you
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Fireflynj:
Done, also flashed SuperSU#. And Titanium backup works.

Thank you!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Verrocio:
Oh but i can my dear.

The OnePlusOne is just one example. The NEO900 and earlier brother devices are another. And as for a fully open rom you should take a serious look at replicant.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Bless your heart my dear

I have the oneplus one, I did a hell of a lot of research on it, including the lovely closed source bits. The majority of the vulns found in the audit were in the closed source aspects (because that was my focus) Im sorry to tell you this but it is far from fully open source. Neo900 doesn't appear to be android, nor appears to be even available. The website even states that not all parts of the Neo900 firmware will be open source.

Replicant also is not a fully open source functional firmware, but they have made a far better attempt at becoming fully open than anyone else.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Verrocio:
The NEO900 can be shipped with either full FOSS android (rep/or/CM11) or MAEMO, its currently taking pre-orders and it is very much available.

The OnePlusOne shipps with CM S11. The proprietary bits are only available for download after its turned on. So if you got one second hand you did yourself a disservice. Replicant (as does CM) has fully open versions available for users to both build and download with verifiable MD5s.

And now we are straying way OT here, no?. This is supposed to be a conversation about sunshine not who has the most open android smartphone out or what the most open rom is.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
The OnePlusOne ships with proprietary bits on board, it can't even boot without them so the thought that they are "downloaded after it is turned on, is a silly". Heck it even ships with google's apps, on /system, as they are authorized to do so now. None were bought second hand, all five were bought new. I have one here that has never been online, it (Gasp) has props on it.

Neo900 website clearly indicates that it is not entirely open source, nor can I find a link to purchase one (I would like to), it is clearly not available at this time. Looks like a fun device, when it is available I will order a couple for research.

The whole argument here is utterly silly, no one is forcing anyone to use SunShine. The whole "but android is suppose to be open source" argument is completely off the wall, the app isn't android. Most source written to run on Android is not open source, OEM roms are not generally open source, even ones like CM that have OSS versions of their firmware, don't ship firmware built from the OSS tree (neither does google use AOSP for nexus shipping firmware). PBLs, SBLs, basebands, graphic drivers, etc are generally not open source.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Verrocio:
I'm not AS familiar with the OPO as you might be. Obviously :eek:. I am actively involved with the NEO900 project we will have fully open versions available once we ship. patrons will have that option as well as the option to have the GSM modem shipped as a separate package entirely.

If you are looking for something you can buy RIGHT now however. Just look at its earlier brothers the GTA04 (or GTA02 if your on a budget) is a wonderful device and fully open. This too can be shipped with FOSS android. (rep or CM without the proprietary bits)

They too can have their GSM modems shipped separately.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
on the GTA02/4 or Neo900, are the basebands or boot stacks open? That would be what I am most interested in playing with.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Verrocio:
IIRC there are options available for open basebands YES. Further IIRC they are limited to edge data. That is when i last checked over a year ago however (for the GTA04). Things may have changed since then.

EDIT:

PS: If you are interested in the inner workings of GSM basebands themselves Osmocom is something you may also want to look at http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/

Last i checked tho they only got text and gprs data speeds working. Again this was over a year ago and i don't know whats changed since.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
No problem. Gals I could help get you going:)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Verrocio:
I was actually just speaking with someone in #NEO900 on freenode and he also confirmed 2G speeds only. But nothing is to say that won't change in the future after the NEO900 ships.

Further, For those interested.

2g combined with 802.11 *R*, would probably be the most practical use case.

Especially if a widely adopted open meshnet is put into play. This would eventually in a sense negate the need for a cell carrier down the road altogether. Add into the mix dead reckoning FM with RDS2.0,.. all kinds of win here :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hceuterpe:
I noticed after I ran sunshine on my M8 (it got me unlocked and S-OFF), I get the scary red lettering "proprietary development HTC only blah blah if you touch me now we'll sue you mumbo jumbo" overlaid in the white-backgroud/green-HTC splash screen. Did Firewater result in the same?

For some bizarre reason while I was still on 4.4.2 on VZW and managed to avoid the September update that supposedly breaks firewater, I got the whelp failure over a dozen times. Was there an interim update that broke firewater for VZW M8 phones, or was ability that taken out of firewater? I made a reasonable bounty donation when firewater was released for VZ M8 phones in April. I wonder if I procrastinated too long and lost my opportunity?

While a part of me thinks I had "double dip" in $$ to get S-OFF'ed, I suppose jcase gets a reward for being so prolific in releasing these avenues...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
Yes firewater does the same red writing warning. You can remove that by flash a modded hboot which will remove the red writing if you can't edit your own hboot. If you r on the m7 Vzw santod has a thread over there for this hboot.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Warning text happens any way you s-off, you can remove it.

As far as double dipping, SunShine and firewater are two entirely different things, and firewater was free, no fee was charged for it. I also had nothing to do with firewater
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hceuterpe:
Oh yeah, that's right...it was beaups and fuses for firewater. :silly:

Either way it was a well spent $25, since the former didn't work for me for some reason.:good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] exocetdj:
Hi Guys, After using the search function i have not been able to conclude whether this works on the one mini 2 or not. Has anyone tried this yet?

i am getting the wife one today and would like to remove some bloat ware etc. :good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bygrave:
ok wot am i missing weres the apk link
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
Its in OP. Rt under root ninja

Here is there link http://theroot.ninja/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
I believe not, but I haven't personally tested. Run it on the device, if it requests that you pay, it is going to work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] exocetdj:
Ok cheers will do
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Drummetje:
Thanks!

Just a thank you for getting my phone S-OFF. And compliments on how the app works! Very nifty piece of work :)

My 2 cents:

$25 dollars well spent. For that you get a stable clear app with good directions on whats gonna happen etc. Also it tells you up front if its going to work or not. And if not it probably gives you a reason as well as how to fix it so it will work. In my case I had ViperOne 2.4 installed. Sunshine app told me it cannot work with that rom and that I should install another rom (pref stock). So flashed back a backup with TWRP that I made right after the OTA stock update.

Reinstalled Sunshine and (as many before me) it went as a breeze. It checked my phone, told me it can do S-OFF, asked me for payment, did some more checks, rebooted, checked my phone again, S-OFFed it and shut down my phone nice and clean. Ofcourse I went straight to the bootloader and indeed it was S-OFF as expected.

Thanks again!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zombie.raised:
I can pay by paypal directly and not through the app. I am not sure how that would work after that do I get code that confirm I paid.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] p53:
[MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION], I had run the Sunshine (latest version) to achieve S-Off my M8, but it returned me with a "Root Not Found!" error dialogue box after I clicked on "TempRoot". I would like to gain S-Off to flash H/K mod as well as the Viper rom. Could you point me the right way to use the Sunshine or I need to wait for update with better support?

I have accepted the latest OTA updating to 4.4.3 before reading the warning message in this thread.

More details of My M8:

***LOCKED***

MS_UL PVT SHIP S-ON

HB00T-3.18.0.0000

RADIO-INVALID_VER_INFO

OpenDSP-INVALID_VER_INFO

OS-2.11.708.2

CIDNUM: HTC_622 (I saw there a few users also have update issues but with different error dialogue)

Thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
email me

Uninstall towelroot, sunshine, supersu, weaksauce, any root related app.

Reboot

install sunshine, wait ~3 minutes after boot to run it, after hitting temproot, give it a few seconds before hitting ok on the next dialog
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] p53:
Thanks for quick reply.

I uninstalled sunshine and rebooted. Followed the steps what you advised (waited about 1 min to click ok). However, it still gave me the no root error dialog.

Fyi, I did have installed towelroot and try to gain root, but failed. Then I uninstalled it immediately. I also had tried weaksauce too.

Pls give me some hints to get S-Off. Hope it won't bother too much.

Thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Come see me in the sunshine support chat tomorrow
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] joncool:
app help

im wondering if you could help me out as well. I run the app and say yes to temp root and then it goes on a loading sign. I never get su asking anything. if the screen goes off the phone reboots. im on sense 5 htc one x att.

p.s never mind what I had to do was turn screen dimming to never shut off. for anyone els with that problem.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lexuz:
Sorry off topic
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Come see me in the sunshine support chat
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] joncool:
Thanks I got it I'm now fully s off,d and rooted with custom recovery. Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Emme_Toby:
I am trying to achieve S-off on an HTC M8 locked to Sprint. I have downloaded Sunshine and run it. I get the following message:

"Bad Kernel. We don't like your kernel. It is unfriendly to us. Please load a stock Kernel"

What would be a friendly Kernel, and where would I find a thread explaining how to do it?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] beaups:
Flash a stock ROM and kernel.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] morzhoff:
Phishing

After paying by credit card, inside the app itself (not paypal) and S-OFF'ing the device everything was fine. But soon I've started to get some weird billings of that credit card I used (of course, the card was immediately cancelled and authorities informed about that incident). I've scanned my phone and found a suspicious app: "com.android.hackyoupayus" which already has SU permissions granted, according to SuperSU. Googled it and found an interesting thread here, on xda:

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-htc-one-m8/help/question-weird-su-program-t2839750

Fascinating!..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Uzephi:
Since you are the only user with CC issues, I bring it down to not being this app that caused it. com.android.hackyoupayus is sunshine, that is the reason it has su permissions. Nothing to be alarmed here, move along ;)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] morzhoff:
There are no accidents ;) (C) Master Oogway

Wouldn't you be alarmed when seeing, say, a process named like "heywehackedyouandgotyourmoney.exe" running under administrator's privileges on your PC, and then CC phishing right after this? Something tells me you would :)

And what makes you think I'm the only user with CC issues? The fact that it is the first post about it?

Technically there could me many reasons: the app itself may cause it, unsecure payment procedure etc.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] beaups:
We use PayPal's secure api for processing payments. Hackyoupayus is, in fact, sunshine. Sunshine does not "see" not see or collect your payment information. You are dealing directly with PayPal in the app.

If this concerns anyone, we are always happy to take manual payments outside of the app, but I can assure you we have nothing to do with your credit card information being stolen or leaked.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] beaups:
oops, double post
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wildcontigo:
When unlocking the M7 through HTCdev we lose some htc apps such as the flashlight and calculator. For some reason they are factory located in the wrong partition. Does this happen when unlocking the bootloader with sunshine?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] beaups:
If the issue is them being in the data partition then you should NOT see that behavior with sunshine. Sunshine does not wipe your data.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
If you want to make accusations, please make them straight up and don't hint about them.

Your credit card is billed through PayPal's own code, we never see any of it, nor can we. It securely (https) transmitted through paypal's own SDK, using their own API to their own servers.

Yes "com.android.hackyoupayus" is SunShine, it is listed in SuperSU, because you granted it access to supersu when you used it, and unless you reinstalled it, it is no longer installed. Would it be better if we gave it the package name of com.android.stopwiththeconspiracytheories? or com.android.roses? Trust me, if we wanted to rootkit you, we would go for a far lower level than an application, we would target the baseband, or bootloaders.

Please do inform the authorities, you can give them my phone number if you want, 360-sevennineseven-5456. I regularly work with law enforcement regarding mobile device forensics, we have nothing to hide, and I am more than willing to talk to them.

Our payment procedure is one of the most secure, paypal runs non stop bug bounties and pays good money to people who find issues with it, and we process entirely through paypal.

Unless there was a massive compromise of paypal, your odd billings are not the result of sunshine, and you have no evidence to link it to sunshine.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] morzhoff:
I entered my credit card information within the app during the process, not my paypal account. So the app "sees" this information.

Even when processing payment directly from the credit card?

And why does the com.android.hackyoupayus stays in the system after the job is done? What this app is for? I didn't find anything about this thing on the official site, but I did find on this forum... I can understand that Sunshine requires root and SU permissions to do its job, but why silently planting an unspecified app into the system?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] beaups:
No. The app does not see your information. I suggest you research how secure api's work, paypal's api is publicly available. I suppose it's harder for you to research their API than visit this site and register, only to make false accusations. EDIT: to clarify. We are not "silently planting an unspecified app". com.hackyoupayus IS sunshine. It's not some extra, secret app. It's the app you installed.

Sunshine removes itself from your device. Unless you reinstalled it, it's gone. Are you referring to a leftover empty directory? Does that frighten you?

Please don't come here spreading FUD.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
The credit card is processed through a secure webview loaded through the paypal SDK. The app can't see the information.

It doesn't say in the system, it never plants an unspecified app anywhere. The app uninstalls itself as soon as it is done. All you are seeing is a log entry from where you granted sunshine su permissions. If you want to make accusations, please go ahead and report us to the authorities for whatever contrived thing you believe we did. We are more than willing to cooperate with them. You can give them my phone number, from the post above and they are welcome to contact me.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chrisbb61:
Reboots my Verizon HTC One M8

Verizon HTC One M8. Running Android 4.4.3, stock ROM, Nova Launcher. Weaksauce, towelroot don't work..

Sunshine reboots my device when doing it's first set of Compatibility Tests.

I screwed up by upgrading to 4.4.3. I'm desperate to root my phone again.

Am I doing something wrong?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
Uninstall supersu, weaksauce, and towel root.

Reboot

wait 3 minutes after reboot, run sunshine
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chrisbb61:
Sunshine and my Verizon HTC One M8 -- What do I do next?

Verizon HTC One M8. Running Android 4.4.3, stock ROM, Nova Launcher. Weaksauce, towelroot don't work..

I installed Sunshine. Although my phone reports is has been tampered with it also reports that it is S-OFF

I still don't have root and still don't know how to get root.

What am I supposed to do next?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
How bout trying google....search how to root whateveryournameofyourdevice is an it should pop up many tutorials or go to YouTube an look it up...my guess is if you don't know how to root you don't have adb/fastboot installed so you might want to try figuring that out as you have to fastboot your recovery.img an inside that is where you gain root. You can pm me if you need lil help I don't mind. An [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] I can't believe what I read in here today wow some people.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] chrisbb61:
Verizon is the problem

I am sure I am one of those peeps.. My problem (one of many) is Verizon is screwing me. none of tutorials apply to me. I know I've tried many, many. I cannot unlock my bootloader. I can look for a tutorial on how to do a flash recovery and install SuperSU. Alas, I'm not supposed to need SuperSU. It's OK to laugh at me. Where is the Jack Daniels?

---------- Post added at 10:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:40 PM ----------

I do have adb and fastboot installed.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
Send me a pm an I'll help you real quick if your s-off an have fastboot I'll fix all your issues in 10 mins. ;) I'm Vzw too so no worries hmu
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jcase:
For the lazy (like me) that dont want to install a custom recovery, this will probably root you. install it, run it, should reboot the device, then install supersu

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-idfoGaBodCakNGcEktbWlxOHM/edit?usp=sharing

Proper route would be to install twrp and flash su

ya....
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Riff76:
Wow, I can vouch for these guys they do honest work and saved me a ton from replacing my phone when my original m8 radio's got fried. I son'd and locked bootloader with no sign of tampering.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] boldfilter:
Dang, I wanna try this, but my bootloader is already unlocked
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tigerstown:
Did it say it wouldn't work on your device?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Reckoning:
So, basically if I'm on a Verizon Moto G with 4.4.4 I'm SOL for now, amirite?