I've just bought the Wildfire S for a week, and after a while reading threads in here, i have a question: Is the Wildfire S, along with other HTC phones with a S letter and the Sensation, have a new bootloader that prevent us from S-offing and rooting, and the solution is getting a XTC clip (now), the AlpharevX or other tools (future), or HTC remove the barrier?
Can someone tell me is that true?
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New phones should no longer come with a locked bootloader (s-on vs s-off). I highly doubt that HTC will release updates for phones that have already been distributed to resellers, so for those phones your only option is to use either an XTC clip (works for all htc models) or AlphaRevX (only works on a select few models).
After unlocking the bootloader you can root any of the HTC phones.
XTC clip is the only option to unlock the phone to allow rooting. There may be an update in the future where HTC unlock the bootloaders and I believe the S range will be unlocked.
And there is a possibility that the alpharevx team are working on the wildfire s
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Hi,
Im kinda new in wildfire stuff and i didnt find a simple answer for my question using search so.
When i use xtc clip to s-off my wildfire, does this allow me directly to install any ROM i want, or should i use any other tricks/tools to do so?
Thanks
I've done a little research on this. And theoretically you should be able to flash the old 0.80 hboot as when s-off is achevied with xtc clip or jtag etc there are no signature checks performed which would then allow you to root the old hboot with unrevoked and flash custom Rom. As for flashing the hboot I'm not aware if the xtc clip can do it directly. But the jtag clip can for sure.
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Yes I can confirm this as I have an XTC Clip in my store.
It completely removes all S58 security data to leave the handset fully factory unlocked, super CID & S-Off, all without even rooting or flashing the phone, this clip is awesome and totally rocks my shop.
BR
Hello!
I just recently brought a htc wildfire S. I thought it would be easy to s-off just like my other htc (Desire HD).
But the question is, if the update; updates the HBOOT, can`t we find a matching HBOOT of the Hboot from a other device? Like HBOOT 1.03 and find another device which has the same HBOOT, and use their method to S-OFF?
i think every device has another... (but im not sure!)
Every device, wildfire, wildfire s, desire and not the same hboot, so they are not compatible.
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Yes, thats why we want, that devs come and try to unlock bootloader of the wildfire s.
Next time, pls look for the threads they are here in forum. We have enough s-off requests, pls go in the threads
Managed to get an ICS Rom on my HTC Legend.
I've got my hands on a Desire now and I'd like to do the same.
K900 and Sandvold both have pretty spiffy roms, what are the differences?
Once I unlock the bootloader what additional steps are there compared to the legend?
Thanks
The steps are basicaly the same for Desire and Legend, but depending on ur hboot version, it could be easier to use unrevoked or revolutionary instead of official bootloader unlock because those tools are rooting the phone at the same time. The difference between s-off and htc bootloader unlock is that s-off unlocks radio partition and one more, im unsure witch.
I have root (Hboot 0.8) on my Wildfire but unfortunately it is the A3335 variant which according to some here is difficult to S-OFF without using XTC Clip.
I started off with Revolutionary but hit a wall with Hboot it needs. So got a Goldcard but then worried about possibility of screwing up my radio (Telstra Next G) changing to HBoot 1.01 - advised don't try it on A3335 (due to some NAND error with Revolutionary??)
If there is already a thread or guide on this I missed I do apologise but the threads I saw are quite old and just say it is either impossible without XTC clip, or difficult without- or advise don't try it on A3335 (due to some NAND error)- others suggest HTCdev are nearly there with a way to S-OFF.
Could someone please update me with the latest- my old Wildfire is sitting around and I'd like to experiment with a few different kernels which require S-OFF.
I don't care about warranty or rolling back, so anything goes- but if the Radio is screwed it wont be much use as a phone!
Hi every body,
I want the list of htc phones which can be s-off now.
and I want to know why some htc phones can not be s-offed ?(why there is not a commun tool for s-off all htc phones ?)
thanks.