[Verizon HTC One (M7)] xenacick:
So I have been out of the XDA loop for a while as I had to send my shiny rooted Verizon HTC One (m7) back for warranty exchange because the sound card went out. The phone they replaced it with was refurbished and already was running KK 4.4. so I was stuck with the POS, until recently, when it took the sense 6 update all by itself, and broke itself! :)

Celebrate!!! Because they replaced that with a NEW HTC One (m7) that is fully stock, but running all OG software, see below:

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.54.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.12.42.0731

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 1.10.605.8

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON

(bootloader) serialno: X

(bootloader) imei: X

(bootloader) meid: X

(bootloader) product: m7_wlv

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064

(bootloader) modelid: PN0731000

(bootloader) cidnum: VZW__001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4124mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-97af273845

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

However, now that I have been attempting to get my root back (I've missed it sooo much!!!!) I have realized I may have celebrated too soon.

SO my question is: Even though this is the first release version on this phone variant for Verizon (still not able to HTCdev unlock), did they patch the exploits to perm Root, unlock bootloader, S-off all that? Or is it just on the much later versions of the Android OS?

I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I simply have spent days searching the forums and internet looking for an answer to this, and simply cannot find one. :crying:

I have tried both firewater (weaksauce gains temp root fine, and the temp root method gains root just fine) but when I run firewater it hangs, and rumrunner, which seems like its running just fine, then ends up saying something along the lines of "Failed.....F*&% It!" and begins to run lines and lines of dots. Which I know usually is related to a security or firewall issue, but I have made sure multiple times all of that is absolutely off on my PC, and I have NO android related software (besides adb & fastboot) installed on my PC.

The only other thing I can think of to do is to roll back my HTC drivers to those which would have been the latest when 4.2.2 sense 5 HBoot 1.54 etc.etc. came out, and see if that makes a difference, but I cannot find info as to which drivers those would be either!

So I turn to the trusted community for some help and hopefully answers.

Thanks guys, pre-help, it's always nice to know I can ask!

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UPDATE

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I thought I would run rumrunner again to just give people an exact copy of what it says, every time I run it:

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!! Do NOT for any reason taunt, unplug, drop, eat or pet your device

Please wait....

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Checking for updates......

Test 1: Rebooting into bootloader

Waiting for fastboot (15/120)

Waiting

Test 2: Booting device

Waiting for ADB (29/120)

Device detected.....................

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Rebooting into bootloader (again)

Waiting for fastboot (7/120)

FATAL: Fu@k it

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Also, forgot to mention, that since I can use firewater with the temproot method partially sucessfully, I now have a bootloader that is still locked and S-on, but has a ***Tampered*** flag at the top in black. :(