[Verizon HTC One (M8)] ashenefield:
Firewater not working on newer VZW M8 One???

Ok I have done TONS of rooting and have s-offed many htc devices in the past....some were a little stubborn but I got it to work no problem. That being said my point is I am farrr from a rooting rookie. I am very good at code and following prompts and have a lot of experience using command prompt.

Here is what I have run into...much like some other members on here I have the newer htc one m8 from vzw...in gun metal grey.

phone was purchased yesterday 8/12/14. I will start by posting all the info about this phone.

HBOOT:-3.16.0.0000

Radio-0.89.20.0321

OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311

OS-1.55.605.2

eMMC-boot 2048MB

Apr 1 2014,00:26:53.0

This is everything on my Hboot screen. Now lets start with what I have done. I installed Weaksauce, and tried Supersu 1.94 and 2.0 both gave me root (absolutely no luck with superuser). I dled and installed HTC sync and uninstalled Sync leaving the drivers. I disabled the av on my cpu. I installed adb on pc. I went to Firewater page and used the proper directions for Weaksauce method.

Now on the phone end....bone stock...no mods...dev options enabled USB debug enabled, fast boot turned off, NO lock screen enabled, Performance mode turned off, DID NOT open Supersu either time at first but upon failure and retry at like retry number 200 or so I tried updating binaries with no success in v2.0....so I opted to rip it out and try v 1.94 instead....no difference at all either with the allowed auto update from play store or without it.

Now here are the results.....shortened because I have tried different machines, ports etc all exactly the same result. In CMD prompt from within adb folder adb devices....phone listed, adb reboot....all good, wait till root activated displays on home screen of phone, next command...all good, adb shell....all good, next command....all good, su.....prompted on phone that adb shell granted root access and asked for super user grant I granted it, last command....all good firewater ran and prompts for yes or no....Yes....returns Yes and runs script on pc, EVERY TIME with ABSOLUTELY no change it will open and start chugging first bottle and then pop the dreaded Whelp message then after 5 seconds or so it pops back up with the line in cmd showing root access is still active and granted as per the # at the end of the root...prompt.

Now I have tried this Firewater hack in every combination possible with EXACTLY the same result. At this point I have to assume that Firewater exploit has been patched or that the dev possibly disabled it to profit from Sunshine. Question is if the dev did disable it why leave the firewater instructions up and still have the downloads enabled? I think that VZW and HTC found it and patched it.

It might be worth mentioning I tried the bootloader unlock using htc.dev as well.....no go it comes up error code 160 MID not allowed.....good ol vzw and their paranoia I suppose. I just hope we find a work around to this and the s-off issue. If anyone else can think of anything else to try (besides coughing up 25.00 to take a chance on sunshine after my brother just did it and after he rebooted his phone yesterday morning it loops to a black screen and refuses to boot) please let me know.