I know htcdev works right now, but i'm worried by the time i get my phone, htc will have patched it.
Has anyone tried the conventional unlock method?
Moonshine does not work.
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I really would like to root, but I don't want to loose warranty. On htc sensation, team revolution achieved root without htc. Did someone managed this on one x? Or is even anybody investing effort in this direction?
Yeah, there is a way ... to get S-OFF But we dont have S-OFF yet ... so the stupid HTCdev is the only way we have for now.
Or maybe you are luck and your device is already S-OFF
edit: HERE you can follow the progress
Hey everyone, having an issue. I'm back to the OG and I got the 2.18 hboot and trying to root but stuck tryin to get s-off. Now the problem must be a driver or something. When I try using adb, it's not seeing the phone. When I connect my 3D and do adb get-serialno, works fine but when I do the same with the OG, nothing. I was going with the HTCdev unlock method, got unlocked but trying to get s-off with the method shown on Evo Hacks and need adb working.
Any thoughts what could be wrong or where I can get the right driver?
Never mind, figured it out, FINALLY. If anyone is having a similar problem, uninstall all HTC drivers and then plug the new phone in and let it try installing them again.
I have a Bell Canada HTC One M8 and just need root, no need for bootloader unlock, custom recovery or S-Off just root for some apps I have. Owned htc phones before and know the process of htcdev but want to avoid it to keep my warranty active.
Tried weaksause but it just FC's any other tricks?
I don't think it's possible to get root without unlocking the boot loader as you need to install/boot a custom recovery.
well weaksause allows temp root which is all I need.
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well weaksause allows temp root which is all I need.
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Which is for Verizon models and you already said it's not compatible.
Your only option is firewater temproot.
If it doesn't work, then you have to use htcdev.
ahh cool I'll try that, will the phone get wiped like when you unlock from htcdev?
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ahh cool I'll try that, will the phone get wiped like when you unlock from htcdev?
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any method you choose unlocking the bootloader will wipe your device.If you manage to get s-off you can always revert to 100% stock rom with warranty.
cool thanks, just gotta find win8.1 htc drivers. the one in hasoon toolkit don't work on my 64 bit win8.1. never installed htc sync or any of that crapware.
EDIT: installed the crapware and then uninstalled it but it kept the drivers.
Hello everyone,
I was hoping someone here can help point me in the right direction. I am trying to downgrade my stock t-mobile one m8 from lollipop back to kitkat. I have been very unimpressed with lollipop on this phone, as it has significantly hurt the experience of my phone. While I like some things, the loss of lock screen widgets to be replaced by notifications was a pretty big blow to me. While I could almost like the new notifications, I do not like how I constantly have my wifi calling notification on my lock screen. Sure I could disable it, but then it's disabled when my phone is unlocked too, and I do like to know if wifi calling is on and working. Same goes for things like Pandora.
I could almost live with that, but then HTC decided to remove Zoe video creation out of the gallery and made it standalone. Now it's a watered down version of itself, that forces me to have to upload my vids to htc before I can even save a copy of my own locally generated content. :/ That is some major BS. So, the last gallery app to have zoe vids built in, is only for kitkat. That pretty much sealed the deal for me to go back.
I have done some research, and I have downloaded the RUU that would take me back to 4.4.4. Only problem is my hboot is now newer, so the RUU fails with error 140. I see mention of having to s-off my phone to unlock the bootloader, to downgrade it, but I haven't found any explicit instructions for the m8 on t-mo.
Is this the best way to accomplish what I want? Can someone please point me in the right direction? I've been searching, but I'm still unsure what is going to be needed. I may be ok with staying with lollipop, if I can get the older version of gallery working on it. Anyone know if that's been done?
Thanks in advance!!
Running a previous RUU ("downgrade") is in fact only possible with S-off, as it seems you have already figured out.
S-off by sunshine ($25 US). Its an APK, and self-explanatory. You don't need any more additional guide.
You only need s-off to run a previous RUU ("downgrade"). Unlocked bootloader is not necessary. Although if you choose to pay for sunshine, you might research bootloader unlock and what that means, and see if you want it (since sunshine can also unlock the bootloader).
http://theroot.ninja/
I ran sunshine to see if my device would at least pass the pre-test. Says I need to pre-root my phone. Is there a preferred method to use? I see most of the methods require unlocking the bootloader, but doesn't sunshine take care of that if I want? I really just need temp root to get this to s-off, and then run the RUU. I do not really want to root it after I get this back to 4.4.4, unless I really need to to be able to install the older gallery app, or prevent an auto update to lollipop or something.
Thanks again!
I'm actually not that familiar with the details of sunshine, since I did s-off long ago using the (no longer working) firewater method. I do know there used to be a temp root option in sunshine. But Android 4.4.4 and 5.0 s-off was just added to sunshine version 3.x a few weeks ago. It seems HTC had patched the previous sunshine (version 2.x) exploit, so I'm guessing they patched the temp root as well. So since its asking for the phone to be rooted already, I gather from this that the temp root method does not work for those Android versions.
If that is the case, my previous statement that you don't need to unlock the bootloader is not completely correct (for your Android version). As the only way to root then would be to unlock the bootloader via HTCDev.com; than root by a few different methods (install TWRP and flash SU/SuperSU is probably the most straight-forward).
But perhaps some folks more familiar with the most up-to-date sunshine info can chime in and confirm.
Hello everyone,
I am owning 1 HTC M8T (China Mobile). I know this is world version but very special version that at the moment I try to search on the internet that no way to S Off my phone although I tried sunshine and some other ways. Anyone know how to S-OFF or anyway that I could flash a custom ROMs? I try some ROM it works but cannot turn on the WIFI and go back to find the way and they said I have to install RUU... and this way still require S OFF. So, I have to S-OFF to do anything.
Please help.
Sunshine is the ONLY way to s-off currently. So if that's not working its pretty much impossible to gain it.
You need to go ahead and unlock your bootloader before using Sunshine, in most cases anyway. And Sunshine is in fact the only method of getting S-Off as of the moment.