How to get s-off without sunshine - One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys. My m8 was s'onned on 4.4.4 and I'd lost my wifi. So I read somewhere you needed to downgrade and flash the OTA manually and for that I needed s'off. Now I really wouldn't mind paying the devs of sunshine 25$ for s'offing because let's face it, they're awesome and they probably have to charge much more for all the work they put in. But unfortunately for me, I'm a kid in my 12th grade and my dad isn't gonna buy me anything but guides for my studies LOL.
I couldn't use firewater because it said htc patched my device and I was out of luck.
So, on a hunch what I did was I flashed cm 11 and then I tried firewater and surprise!! it worked!! my device was s-off'ed
anyway after that I had to go back to the 4.4.3 stock and then upgrade using OTA and everything was alright.
So what I'm basically saying is if you're a cheap bastard like me and can't pay for sunshine and you love sense, you should try that method above. I can't guarantee it'll work for you but it's worth the try, eh?
Note: Please use the above method only if you cannot pay for sunshine. Plus sunshine is much easier to use and you don't have to go through all this hassle
Note 2: If this topic has already been covered by someone else, please feel free to point out so and close this thread.
Peace

Hello,
Wich Hboot had you before S-Off ?
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Here read this thread. There is NO "trick" to get firewater to work. It either does or does not ! Nothing more .... nothing less
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2923933
When firewater failed the phone was probably not "stock" enough.

aramiss said:
Hello,
Wich Hboot had you before S-Off ?
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I had 1.56

Mr Hofs said:
Here read this thread. There is NO "trick" to get firewater to work. It either does or does not ! Nothing more .... nothing less
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2923933
When firewater failed the phone was probably not "stock" enough.
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Not really. It was closest to stock as possible. I had the stock HTC Indian rom on 4.4.4.
Anyway, maybe I had a lucky device? Just posted this in case it helps someone like it did me.

jdgreat4 said:
I had 1.56
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Hboot 1.56 does not exist. It should be in the range of 3.16-3.19 ?!

Mr Hofs said:
Hboot 1.56 does not exist. It should be in the range of 3.16-3.19 ?!
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Crap, crap, crap sorry. I was confused with my m7. It was on 3.16

jdgreat4 said:
Hi guys. My m8 was s'onned on 4.4.4 and I'd lost my wifi. So I read somewhere you needed to downgrade and flash the OTA manually and for that I needed s'off. Now I really wouldn't mind paying the devs of sunshine 25$ for s'offing because let's face it, they're awesome and they probably have to charge much more for all the work they put in. But unfortunately for me, I'm a kid in my 12th grade and my dad isn't gonna buy me anything but guides for my studies LOL.
I couldn't use firewater because it said htc patched my device and I was out of luck.
So, on a hunch what I did was I flashed cm 11 and then I tried firewater and surprise!! it worked!! my device was s-off'ed
anyway after that I had to go back to the 4.4.3 stock and then upgrade using OTA and everything was alright.
So what I'm basically saying is if you're a cheap bastard like me and can't pay for sunshine and you love sense, you should try that method above. I can't guarantee it'll work for you but it's worth the try, eh?
Note: Please use the above method only if you cannot pay for sunshine. Plus sunshine is much easier to use and you don't have to go through all this hassle
Note 2: If this topic has already been covered by someone else, please feel free to point out so and close this thread.
Peace
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How did you get firewater? I thought it doesn't work anymore due to the discontinuation.

gainstatom said:
How did you get firewater? I thought it doesn't work anymore due to the discontinuation.
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check his date of posting..... it was still up at that date

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Any new S-Off way yet?

Is there a new way to achieve S-Off ? I tried Firewater but I get the message that HTC has blocked that way of getting s-Off I guess cause my phone was updated.
Andr3w151 said:
Is there a new way to achieve S-Off ? I tried Firewater but I get the message that HTC has blocked that way of getting s-Off I guess cause my phone was updated.
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yeah its called sunshine something. just google sunshine s off . oh its also 25 bucks
Yes. Sunshine. It is$25
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Andr3w151 said:
Is there a new way to achieve S-Off ? I tried Firewater but I get the message that HTC has blocked that way of getting s-Off I guess cause my phone was updated.
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sunshine.. but its for 25$ http://theroot.ninja/
Ok thanks, $25 isn't bad at all I'm surprised cause all my other phones I've ever did S-Off on the software was free but I don't mind supporting the developers, they deserve it. Thanks again
Andr3w151 said:
Ok thanks, $25 isn't bad at all I'm surprised cause all my other phones I've ever did S-Off on the software was free but I don't mind supporting the developers, they deserve it. Thanks again
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It is better to give 25$ to unlock everything rather than to pay some guy who only sim unlocks it.
Jyotirdeb said:
It is better to give 25$ to unlock everything rather than to pay some guy who only sim unlocks it.
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Yeah I agree and it's the least I could since I'm always flashing a Rom or mod that someone makes and doesn't charge, so I always like to give back to this community of developers. This community has always been there for me thru every phone I've had, and the people that use it always help each other out. Can't wait till payday cause it's the first thing I'm doing with my paycheck lol
On http://theroot.ninja/ i downloaded the APK, im going to have to install a stock rom due to it says it wont work on insert coins rom, but a quick question before i do any of that when does it ask me to donate the $25 ? after it runs its test to make sure it works and also what kind of payments do they accept? if anyone knows thanks in advance everyone!
I was patient and didnt unlock via htcdev, i waitied until sunshine and used towelroot v3 and sunshie together and couldnt be happyer.... no tampered flag, no red text. percetion!
RENEGAD3 said:
I was patient and didnt unlock via htcdev, i waitied until sunshine and used towelroot v3 and sunshie together and couldnt be happyer.... no tampered flag, no red text. percetion!
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Guess you haven't flashed a recovery yet
an0ther said:
Guess you haven't flashed a recovery yet
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Not yet still stock and unrooted haha will flashing a recovery make things turn red and tampered?
RENEGAD3 said:
Not yet still stock and unrooted haha will flashing a recovery make things turn red and tampered?
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Yes, but you can remove them with soff
an0ther said:
Yes, but you can remove them with soff
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Ahh i thought it was the htcdev method that gave you tampered flag and red text as when i used htcdev to unlock my one s a few years ago i got tampered and red text before i flashed custom recovery and gained s off
RENEGAD3 said:
Ahh i thought it was the htcdev method that gave you tampered flag and red text as when i used htcdev to unlock my one s a few years ago i got tampered and red text before i flashed custom recovery and gained s off
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It does the same as One S but with S-Off you can change it.
Droid DNA
Any other way to pay becos m in Nigeria and none of the payment methods seems to work or any oda free unlock bootloader and s-off method for hboot 1.57 and kitkat 4.4.2 on Droid DNA
Yucee said:
Any other way to pay becos m in Nigeria and none of the payment methods seems to work or any oda free unlock bootloader and s-off method for hboot 1.57 and kitkat 4.4.2 on Droid DNA
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This thread hasn't been used for over a year, AND you have a different phone.
FYI this is the HTC One M8 forum !

Hello

I am switching to T-Mobile and I was wondering if you still have to pay for soff and or would it be possible to get soff the other way I think firewater?
By the way i am getting another m8
25$
Sandman9043 said:
I am switching to T-Mobile and I was wondering if you still have to pay for soff and or would it be possible to get soff the other way I think firewater?
By the way i am getting another m8
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Try firewater first and if that doesn't work then u have to use sunshine.
If you don't get the whelp message on firewater keep trying and it should work.
twinnfamous said:
Try firewater first and if that doesn't work then u have to use sunshine.
If you don't get the whelp message on firewater keep trying and it should work.
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What is the determining factors for firewater to work? I have givin up on that and I'm not about to pay 25. S off is something I can live without.
chuck24 said:
What is the determining factors for firewater to work? I have givin up on that and I'm not about to pay 25. S off is something I can live without.
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Check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2725099
It will give u more info.
I know on the m7 it didn't work on phones with emmc 9001 serial. I have got two T-Mobile HTC m8s and firewater worked on both with no problems.
Just flash viper or arhd and try they both have an unsecured boot.img.
And go to the built in superuser app and change settings to apps and adb then try.
If your just gonna flash roms and aren't into development like some then you don't need s-off.
There's a lot of people that don't understand s-off and brick there phones by flashing something that was not for their phone.
So be careful of what you flash if u s-off.
On my m8 my emmc serial begins with 1501.
On play store there's an app called emmc brick bug checker. Use it and it will show you your emmc
twinnfamous said:
Check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2725099
It will give u more info.
I know on the m7 it didn't work on phones with emmc 9001 serial. I have got two T-Mobile HTC m8s and firewater worked on both with no problems.
Just flash viper or arhd and try they both have an unsecured boot.img.
And go to the built in superuser app and change settings to apps and adb then try.
If your just gonna flash roms and aren't into development like some then you don't need s-off.
There's a lot of people that don't understand s-off and brick there phones by flashing something that was not for their phone.
So be careful of what you flash if u s-off.
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Thank you for sharing the info... This is my first HTC. Long term Samsung user at first.
Thanks everyone for the information i had the first round of the M8 from Sprint i didn't have to worry about anything but when I get it i try firewater

Firewater

Can some1 pls send me mediafire or whatever custom link of Firewater because the site is down and i don't have it on my laptop?
Wanna s-off
93boba said:
Can some1 pls send me mediafire or whatever custom link of Firewater because the site is down and i don't have it on my laptop?
Wanna s-off
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firewater is discontinued, even if you have the file it wont work, cause it need's to contact the devs' server, and it was not very reliable on the M8 anyway
only s-off method is sunshine (paid app $25)
nkk71 said:
firewater is discontinued, even if you have the file it wont work, cause it need's to contact the devs' server, and it was not very reliable on the M8 anyway
only s-off method is sunshine (paid app $25)
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Oh, thats bad. I hope it's not permanently
93boba said:
Oh, thats bad. I hope it's not permanently
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it is permanently discontinued, sorry
93boba said:
Oh, thats bad. I hope it's not permanently
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Spend the $25. It will save you from a lot of headaches.
Without it, whenever you need to update your firmware, you will have to flash a stock backup, flash a stock recovery, take the OTAs from your carrier, re-unlock your bootloader, flash a custom recovery, and flash superuser to reroot.
With S-Off, you just flash the firmware and you are done.
xunholyx said:
Spend the $25. It will save you from a lot of headaches.
Without it, whenever you need to update your firmware, you will have to flash a stock backup, flash a stock recovery, take the OTAs from your carrier, re-unlock your bootloader, flash a custom recovery, and flash superuser to reroot.
With S-Off, you just flash the firmware and you are done.
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All good except the relocking/unlocking the bootloader. That's not needed when you go back to stock with a nandroid in order to get ota's
Mr Hofs said:
All good except the relocking/unlocking the bootloader. That's not needed when you go back to stock with a nandroid in order to get ota's
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I thought the bootloader gets locked when you take the OTA. But I wouldn't know personally. I haven't ever taken an OTA before. Never needed to on any device.
EDIT: It's early for me. I'm only on my second coffee. I'm thinking RUUs
xunholyx said:
I thought the bootloader gets locked when you take the OTA. But I wouldn't know personally. I haven't ever taken an OTA before. Never needed to on any device.
EDIT: It's early for me. I'm only on my second coffee. I'm thinking RUUs
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Haha no an ota does not relock the bootloader.
xunholyx said:
Spend the $25. It will save you from a lot of headaches.
Without it, whenever you need to update your firmware, you will have to flash a stock backup, flash a stock recovery, take the OTAs from your carrier, re-unlock your bootloader, flash a custom recovery, and flash superuser to reroot.
With S-Off, you just flash the firmware and you are done.
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You must work for Sunshine team because i was looking around for a straight answer which push me to get S-OFF. I consider S-OFF just because Adaway and how much i hate ads, it's just annoying and my phone feels cheap with all of them; so i wish that once i get Sunshine and get S-OFF, it could work.
Just a question before pulling: I have the Malasyan or sorta version of the M8, the M8X running lollipop with bootloader unlocked and rooted, would Sunshine works?
Thanks for help.
CM17X said:
You must work for Sunshine team because i was looking around for a straight answer which push me to get S-OFF. I consider S-OFF just because Adaway and how much i hate ads, it's just annoying and my phone feels cheap with all of them; so i wish that once i get Sunshine and get S-OFF, it could work.
Just a question before pulling: I have the Malasyan or sorta version of the M8, the M8X running lollipop with bootloader unlocked and rooted, would Sunshine works?
Thanks for help.
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It was a straight answer. Firewater doesn't work anymore, because HTC patched all of the exploits. And no, I don't work with Sunshine. It's just that it is the ONLY way to gain S-Off now. I actually used Firewater back when the M8 was just released and out for maybe a month, and before the exploits were patched.
I'm not sure if it will work for device or not. When you run it, it does a diagnostic check of your phone first, and you are only prompted to pay if it will work for you.
xunholyx said:
It was a straight answer. Firewater doesn't work anymore, because HTC patched all of the exploits. And no, I don't work with Sunshine. It's just that it is the ONLY way to gain S-Off now. I actually used Firewater back when the M8 was just released and out for maybe a month, and before the exploits were patched.
I'm not sure if it will work for device or not. When you run it, it does a diagnostic check of your phone first, and you are only prompted to pay if it will work for you.
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The last tip is about the prompting if it works makes the deal.
Do not worry, i wasn't suggesting that you WORK for them but that you MUST, because of your reply i'm getting it.
Thanks for the help!

Can't use Android 6.0 ROMs

I have tried lots of Android 6.0 based ROMs available right now ( maximusHD, Viper,CM Nightly, etc..) but non of them really worked. My phone is on 2.x.xx.x firmware and running maximusHD 6.0. Please help !!!
You need to upgrade your firmware. MM roms won't run on 2.xx firmware. This has been discussed about eighty bajillion times.
Are there any ways to upgrade my firmware without S-OFF it? Finding a person to perform S-OFF on my phone is very hard in my area so i just wanna ask
Donezo said:
Are there any ways to upgrade my firmware without S-OFF it? Finding a person to perform S-OFF on my phone is very hard in my area so i just wanna ask
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Not sure why you need someone to soff your phone. You download the sunshine app let it run its test then pay for it in 5 minutes your soff
http://theroot.ninja
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Donezo said:
Are there any ways to upgrade my firmware without S-OFF it? Finding a person to perform S-OFF on my phone is very hard in my area so i just wanna ask
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The only other way is to get a java card or xtc clip and do it yourself. But that will cost far more than sunshine.
iElvis said:
The only other way is to get a java card or xtc clip and do it yourself. But that will cost far more than sunshine.
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And a lot more chance of borking the phone too.. Sunshine is a great app and well worth the money to s-off.
Beamed in by telepathy.

How to S-OFF for free on Nougat?

Hello,
I'm currently trying to find out how to install a rom matching to my region. I understand that I need S-OFF for that.
Sadly, I cannot find out how to make s-off. All I hear, even in those threads here, is advertisement for an app where you actually pay for a developer functionality (Sunshine). I also tried rumrunner, but that didnt work either.
It was rumrunner 0.5 on my M9 with Version 4.30.617.2. My current cid is: BS_US002
There is no other way to S-OFF your phone unless Sunshine.
I had to do it too.
Yeah it cost money but its really easy.
As stated, no way. You have 3 options, all will cost.
1. Sunshine app.
2. XTClip. (I think thats the name?).
3. Take it to a phone repair shop.
Otherwise, no free way. Sunshine app is worth paying for as it walks you through the process. If you have any problems they (the devs) will help you sort it out. Your money goes to paying staff for the hard work they do finding exploits to give us, the common everyday users, a little bit of freedom from these ever increasingly over-zealous corporations who will do anything to put us in a box and feed us crumbs so we do what they want so they can monitise us.
Beamed in by telepathy.
Like in many, many other threads, YOU CANNOT get sunshine for free. To be honest it even isn't that expensive. It is worth it as the app is so simple. The devs that created it have bricked a lot of m9's in the process of getting s-off for us.
Anyway, u still can't use sunshine on nougat. Use this thread (https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...one-m9-nougat-downgrade-s-off-t3554665/page2)
to help u to downgrade to marshmallow and run sunshine.
Hope this helps,
Jev
@jevtheboss
I don't know where you got that information from. C.f.: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q8GKXw3EDVGtAoiu36MdeVqMPRJba1WlF5TZXKQgNgA/htmlview
Only temp-root isn't supported on nougat. But that's not a big deal since you can just unlock the bootloader and flash SuperSU or Magisk via TWRP.
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@jevtheboss
I don't know where you got that information from. C.f.: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q8GKXw3EDVGtAoiu36MdeVqMPRJba1WlF5TZXKQgNgA/htmlview
Only temp-root isn't supported on nougat. But that's not a big deal since you can just unlock the bootloader and flash SuperSU or Magisk via TWRP.
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Oh, I was pretty sure I read that it didn't work on nougat. Jeez, I went through all that guide to downgrade to marshmallow for nothing. Dang it.
EDIT: Just checked the sunshine website and it has been updated since I last attempted s-off. Sorry, I'll stop suggesting that downgrade now!
Anyway thanks,
Jev
HTC M9
Hello every one, I'm new in HTC, I tried to install a new rom on my HTC M9 (stuck in bootloop) but it's not working, I've tried factory reset, many roms, I read almost all posts on the net (blogs) without success.
Model : HTC_HIMAUHL
Build : 3.35.401.12
CID : HTC__247
HBoot : 1.0.0.0000
MID : 0PJA10000
Security : CURITY FAILED (REMOTE: UNKNOWN COMMAND)
Region : HTC-FRA-Bouygues
I tried to set my phone S-off without success as well, unfortunately I have no way to pay sunshine for that, I live in a third world country.
please could you help, and thx in davance.
Please read the ReadMe thread. The RUU section of that thread contains everything you need for recovering your phone.
There still is no free S-OFF method and chances are high that there never will be one.
Just a friendly advice: I'd delete my IMEI from my post if I were you. Others can use it for scam.
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Flippy498 said:
Please read the ReadMe thread. The RUU section of that thread contains everything you need for recovering your phone.
There still is no free S-OFF method and chances are high that there never will be one.
Just a friendly advice: I'd delete my IMEI from my post if I were you. Others can use it for scam.
Sent from my HTC One M9 using XDA Labs
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Thx a lot for the advice, I'll have a look on the ReadMe thread.
RaviorMetal said:
Hello,
I'm currently trying to find out how to install a rom matching to my region. I understand that I need S-OFF for that.
Sadly, I cannot find out how to make s-off. All I hear, even in those threads here, is advertisement for an app where you actually pay for a developer functionality (Sunshine). I also tried rumrunner, but that didnt work either.
It was rumrunner 0.5 on my M9 with Version 4.30.617.2. My current cid is: BS_US002
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Hi,
I just unlocked my bootloader through HTCDEV.COM last night, and found that somehow it also resulted in S-OFF.
I was planning to try Chimera Tool and Fire Water, But I'm so happy to see its S-OFF without going into any of those...
shahin.meeran said:
Hi,
I just unlocked my bootloader through HTCDEV.COM last night, and found that somehow it also resulted in S-OFF.
I was planning to try Chimera Tool and Fire Water, But I'm so happy to see its S-OFF without going into any of those...
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That's not possible. HTCdev can only be used for unlocking the bootloader since HTC doesn't want users to get S-OFF on their devices. They definitely won't provide a way to get S-OFF. Chances are high that the device was already set S-OFF by a previous owner.
Firewater isn't compatible with the M9, btw. I haven't heard about chimera tool, though.
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It wasn't when I bought it 2 years ago. This is a T-Mobile version.
I don't expect you to believe, but mine is S-OFF from yesterday. Now planning to install Viper Rom
Hi,
So I did a dumb thing I paid for the 'sunshine app'
With the 'Out-of-app' purchase and then downloaded the app but the app crashes every time...
So I think I fu**** up this time

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