Facepalm S-Off arrives for a few newer HTC devices

by Jared Peters on Feb 19th 2013, 10:27am
tagged droid dna, HTC, One S, One XL, s-off, XDA

Do you have an HTC Droid DNA, One XL, or One S? A few developers over on XDA have been hard work on a new little trick for you that will achieve S-Off on your device. All you need is a working ADB and fastboot to work with, as well as your locked device. Droid DNA users will also need SuperCID, which could be an issue if you’ve accepted the latest OTA update, but the developers have already promised a fix in the works for those users. Like always with experimental stuff like this, bricks can happen. If you’re not comfortable doing it, you shouldn’t do it at all. With that being said, if you’re ready to get your hands dirty, hit the link below to dive in.

source: XDA

45 Bucks To Get Your S-OFF For The HTC Droid DNA

by Rudy Rivapalacio on Feb 8th 2013, 3:44pm
tagged droid dna, HTC, Root, s-off

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The guys over at Mobile Tech Videos have a service that will grant you S-OFF status for the HTC Droid DNA. S-OFF is required to write to certain partitions on the device and achieve true-root privileges. The S-OFF granting service is similar to the process, called JTAG, they use to unbrick phones. It’s $45 bucks plus shipping and you’ll have to do without your phone for a few days. Check out the video below of the not-so-simple process.

Via: Droid Life
Source: Mobile Tech Videos

HTC One S Gets Root With MoDaCo’s Superboot

by Ed Caggiani on Mar 14th 2012, 1:37am
tagged bootloader, HTC One, HTC One S, modaco, Root, s-off, superboot

First, the HTC One X gets root before launch, and now the HTC One S follows suit using MoDaCo’s Superboot. Superboot is a script that you run on your computer when the device is connected via the USB cable that pushes all the necessary files to your phone to attain root.

The one caveat is that for this method to work, the phone needs to have S-OFF (which means the NAND portion of the device is writable) or needs an unlocked bootloader. As of this moment, none of the HTC One series of phones are available in the HTC bootloader unlock tool, but we’re hoping for that to change soon after launch. Once the phone’s bootloader is unlocked, just run Superboot and you’ll be riding the root train!

source: modaco

HTC Sensation spotted unlocked with S-off [Video]

by Robert Nazarian on Jul 20th 2011, 7:52am
tagged bootloader, development, HTC, rooting, s-off, Sensation, unlock

HTC promised unlocked bootloaders, but the Sensation won’t officially be unlocked until August/September, but who wants to wait? The folks at AlphaRev have been working hard and it looks like they have succeeded. These are the same guys who unlocked the Droid Incredible 2 which is already enjoying custom ROMs.

Hopefully a public release will be soon, but for now, check out the video clip.

[via androidcentral]