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Root Anyway to remove "RELOCKED - SECURITY WARNING"?

vincentallen2

vincentallen2

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Hay guys, it's been a while since I rooted my phone. After I got a replacement, I vowed not to root again unless I could remove that "RELOCKED - SECURITY WARNING" badge from the hboot screen (sprint gave me a really hard time. I Ended up having to go different route...)

I posted this question before on 2fastroms, and 2fast said that It could be done, but he never explained how. Hw said it had to do with the misc file or something like that. This is the only thing holding me back from rooting and enjoying roms again.

I know that we fresh new evo design developers now, so I was hoping I could that I could get assistance from them, but I'll gladly take help from anyone. I would be very appreciative :)
 
If someone is already unlocked or re-locked and willing to help with something, there may be a way with a flashable zip to change the lock flag status.

Tested and works on HTC rezound and HTC Evo 3d.
Currently waiting on an Evo V user to give me some info and it's possible that it would work for the Evo Design as well.

See my post here for Evo V users:
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-all-things-root/683278-need-evo-v-user-help-test-something.html

In that post there is a link to the instructions for what is needed and a link to the actual flashable zips that you can read about and see what we're doing.

The zips wouldn't be safe to test at this point. That link is just to show you what this is all for. But if someone who is unlocked can dump the mmcblk0p3 memory block, I can look at it and see if it is in the same as Evo 3d and Rezound. If so, the zips would be usable with your device as well.

So, c'mon someone with a design, help us with the lock flag status project!
 
Brian706 said:
If someone is already unlocked or re-locked and willing to help with something, there may be a way with a flashable zip to change the lock flag status.

Tested and works on HTC rezound and HTC Evo 3d.
Currently waiting on an Evo V user to give me some info and it's possible that it would work for the Evo Design as well.

See my post here for Evo V users:
http://androidforums.com/evo-v-4g-all-things-root/683278-need-evo-v-user-help-test-something.html

In that post there is a link to the instructions for what is needed and a link to the actual flashable zips that you can read about and see what we're doing.

The zips wouldn't be safe to test at this point. That link is just to show you what this is all for. But if someone who is unlocked can dump the mmcblk0p3 memory block, I can look at it and see if it is in the same as Evo 3d and Rezound. If so, the zips would be usable with your device as well.

So, c'mon someone with a design, help us with the lock flag status project!
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Id be more than willing to help as well.
I have a virgin (never rooted) sprint evo design 4g. If you tell us how to get that dump, you'll have a boost mobile mmcblk0p3 memory block from the person above me, and a Sprint version from myself :)
 
vincentallen2 said:
Id be more than willing to help as well.
I have a virgin (never rooted) sprint evo design 4g. If you tell us how to get that dump, you'll have a boost mobile mmcblk0p3 memory block from the person above me, and a Sprint version from myself :)
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Hey thank you! I appreciate your wanting to help. :)
Unfortunately an unlocked or relocked bootloader is a requirement for this though. Technically you could still dump the file but without being unlocked or relocked I wouldn't be able to see what I need to see :(
 
Brian706 said:
Hey thank you! I appreciate your wanting to help. :)
Unfortunately an unlocked or relocked bootloader is a requirement for this though. Technically you could still dump the file but without being unlocked or relocked I wouldn't be able to see what I need to see :(
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Hey, if it means I can start flashing again, its a sacrifice I have to make :D
Oh, and I'm loving the "Code Monkeys" avatar pic you have there :)
 
Whoever dumps that for me, shoot me a PM when you're finished.

Finally got someone to dump for the Evo V today, and looks like the zips will work for it. Working for several HTC phones so far, so there's a good chance that it will be the same for your phone as well!
 
Brian706 said:
Whoever dumps that for me, shoot me a PM when you're finished.

Finally got someone to dump for the Evo V today, and looks like the zips will work for it. Working for several HTC phones so far, so there's a good chance that it will be the same for your phone as well!
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im already working on a sprint version, I just rooted my phone
 
Im having a small problem, im running into this error when requesting the block:

c:\android>adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
su
shell@android:/ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard2/mmcblk0p3
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard2/mmcblk0p3
/sdcard2/mmcblk0p3: cannot open for write: No such file or directory
1|shell@android:/ #

am i doing something wrong?
 
got it figured out, I need to delete the "2" on "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard2/mmcblk0p3" and type "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p3"
this recognized my sd card.

Im sending you the link to my sprint htc evo design 4g block through pm =)
 
vincentallen2 said:
got it figured out, I need to delete the "2" on "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard2/mmcblk0p3" and type "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p3"
this recognized my sd card.

Im sending you the link to my sprint htc evo design 4g block through pm =)
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Well, I checked it out and it is a lot different looking than The rezound and the other evos.

Those zips aren't going to work with the Design. I am going to have Scotty look at it and see if there's anything that can be done. Basically see if the same thing can be created specifically for the device.

Thank you so much for dumping that for me!! I hope that something good will come from the info you provided!!
 
Brian706 said:
Well, I checked it out and it is a lot different looking than The rezound and the other evos.

Those zips aren't going to work with the Design. I am going to have Scotty look at it and see if there's anything that can be done. Basically see if the same thing can be created specifically for the device.

Thank you so much for dumping that for me!! I hope that something good will come from the info you provided!!
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No problem man! I'm just glad that I can help, and even more grateful that your willing to start this at all. THANK YOU, sir :D





ss2man44 said:
Yeah, that's gonna be a problem. Maybe sometime soon I can take a look at current methods of obtaining S-OFF for other phones and see if I can't use them as a starting point for S-OFF on the Kingdom.
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2fast did some research on it, when he attempted, he ended up bricking his device. I remember him saying that he almost had it figured out, but again, stopped speaking about the development on it.
 
vincentallen2 said:
Were you able to get in touch with Scotty? :)
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Hey! Yes I did :) I just messaged him today to ask him to speak in this thread actually. He will be able to explain everything much better than I can.

In short, your device uses an s2 single core processor so that lock flag is kept in a different location. He says they all seem to be the same for the s3 and s4 processors. But it's likely that the lock flag is in the same location for all the s2 processors.

He said if you are willing to dump all your partitions, he would be willing to sift through them to look for the lock flag. It's quite tedious as there is a lot to sift through!

I have asked him to give instructions on this for Exactly what he needs.
The only issue is that without s-off these flashable zips can't be used :/ so it's somewhat of a catch 22...

I'm trying to be hopeful though that something can come of this! Time to work on s-off design users. ;) get on it!
 
Brian706 said:
Hey! Yes I did :) I just messaged him today to ask him to speak in this thread actually. He will be able to explain everything much better than I can.

In short, your device uses an s2 single core processor so that lock flag is kept in a different location. He says they all seem to be the same for the s3 and s4 processors. But it's likely that the lock flag is in the same location for all the s2 processors.

He said if you are willing to dump all your partitions, he would be willing to sift through them to look for the lock flag. It's quite tedious as there is a lot to sift through!

I have asked him to give instructions on this for Exactly what he needs.
The only issue is that without s-off these flashable zips can't be used :/ so it's somewhat of a catch 22...

I'm trying to be hopeful though that something can come of this! Time to work on s-off design users. ;) get on it!
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Sweet! Thanks for speaking with him. As soon as instructions are layed out, i'll try to send you guys a copy of my partitions.

whats troubling me, why does it seem that the Design is the only one without S-OFF? The EVO 3D, OG Evo, and almost every other one (correct me if im wrong) has it. Whats different about this phone and the other cousins, and what do I need to do to find a solution? Phones like the ONE series should be more closely related to it than the 3D, correct?
 
vincentallen2 said:
Sweet! Thanks for speaking with him. As soon as instructions are layed out, i'll try to send you guys a copy of my partitions.

whats troubling me, why does it seem that the Design is the only one without S-OFF? The EVO 3D, OG Evo, and almost every other one (correct me if im wrong) has it. Whats different about this phone and the other cousins, and what do I need to do to find a solution? Phones like the ONE series should be more closely related to it than the 3D, correct?
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I will leave this to scotty to answer. He is the htc guru. He owns nearly every htc device. It's a hobby of his :)
I honestly couldn't tell you why there is no s-off for your phone :(
 
Brian706 said:
I will leave this to scotty to answer. He is the htc guru. He owns nearly every htc device. It's a hobby of his :)
I honestly couldn't tell you why there is no s-off for your phone :(
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Ok, Im eager to hear from the HTC Guru. I cant wait unlock (or at the very least, help) even more features on this phone. It has so much potential, and im glad that we're finally getting more than just one developer interested :D
 
hi vincentallen2,sorry for the delay in posting here, brian asked me to have a look a couple days ago... but its been a busy couple days! :o

as for why no s-off,i dont have a real good answer to that,other than the amount of people with this phone is considerably less than with others,so the number of devs working on it are considerabley less as well.

also seems that most of the threads i encounter when searching(i almost picked one up a few weeks ago) that there is for the most part no demand. the threads ive looked at pretty much all started with "how can i get s off" and ended with "you dont need it,htcdev unlock is just as good" :eek: :rolleyes:

i have no idea if this device has write protection on hboot,and the memory block where the "lock status flag" lives. if hboot is unprotected,it seems it should be possible to flash achieve hboot s-off,or enginerring s off with the install of a patched or eng hboot. we will have to research that and see what we can come up with.

in the mean time,if you wish to dump other partitions,we can scour them and look for the lock flag.

youll do this basically like you dumped mmcblk0p3. first you can enter a shell,and see what partitions you have numbered allready:

adb shell

cat /proc/emmc

that should spit out a list something like this:
Code: 
root@android:/ #[COLOR="Red"] cat /proc/emmc[/COLOR]
cat /proc/emmc
dev:        size     erasesize name
mmcblk0p23: 000ffa00 00000200 "misc"
mmcblk0p22: 00fffe00 00000200 "recovery"
mmcblk0p21: 01000000 00000200 "boot"
mmcblk0p33: 67fffc00 00000200 "system"
mmcblk0p30: 00140200 00000200 "local"
mmcblk0p34: 0ffffe00 00000200 "cache"
mmcblk0p35: 97fffe00 00000200 "userdata"
mmcblk0p26: 01400000 00000200 "devlog"
mmcblk0p28: 00040000 00000200 "pdata"
mmcblk0p36: 27be00000 00000200 "fat"
mmcblk0p31: 00010000 00000200 "extra"
mmcblk0p17: 02d00000 00000200 "radio"
mmcblk0p18: 00a00000 00000200 "adsp"
mmcblk0p16: 00100000 00000200 "dsps"
mmcblk0p19: 00500000 00000200 "wcnss"
mmcblk0p20: 007ffa00 00000200 "radio_config"
mmcblk0p24: 00400000 00000200 "modem_st1"
mmcblk0p25: 00400000 00000200 "modem_st2"

you can prolly pretty safely skip those partitions when youre dumping.

after that,just entering the command,substituting "3" for the rest of the numbers:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p1

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p2

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p4

and so on,up to 31(ish)

then pull them one just as you did before:
adb pull /sdcard/mmcblk0p1

adb pull /sdcard/mmcblk0p2

etc.

or,just mount your sd card to the pc,and then you can drag a drop them all to the PC to zip and upload for us.

dont feel you have to do them all at once,it is pretty tedious dumping them,as the larger partitions can take a few minutes(definately skip "system" it takes foreeeeeva :eek:) do them a few a day,or whatever,if you want :)

i will pm 2fast and see if he has anything useful to share.

we cant make any promises this will lead to somewhere,but we can certainly give it our best shot :smokingsomb:
 
scotty85 said:
hi vincentallen2,sorry for the delay in posting here, brian asked me to have a look a couple days ago... but its been a busy couple days! :o

as for why no s-off,i dont have a real good answer to that,other than the amount of people with this phone is considerably less than with others,so the number of devs working on it are considerabley less as well.

also seems that most of the threads i encounter when searching(i almost picked one up a few weeks ago) that there is for the most part no demand. the threads ive looked at pretty much all started with "how can i get s off" and ended with "you dont need it,htcdev unlock is just as good" :eek: :rolleyes:

i have no idea if this device has write protection on hboot,and the memory block where the "lock status flag" lives. if hboot is unprotected,it seems it should be possible to flash achieve hboot s-off,or enginerring s off with the install of a patched or eng hboot. we will have to research that and see what we can come up with.

in the mean time,if you wish to dump other partitions,we can scour them and look for the lock flag.

youll do this basically like you dumped mmcblk0p3. first you can enter a shell,and see what partitions you have numbered allready:

adb shell

cat /proc/emmc

that should spit out a list something like this:
Code: 
root@android:/ #[COLOR="Red"] cat /proc/emmc[/COLOR]
cat /proc/emmc
dev:        size     erasesize name
mmcblk0p23: 000ffa00 00000200 "misc"
mmcblk0p22: 00fffe00 00000200 "recovery"
mmcblk0p21: 01000000 00000200 "boot"
mmcblk0p33: 67fffc00 00000200 "system"
mmcblk0p30: 00140200 00000200 "local"
mmcblk0p34: 0ffffe00 00000200 "cache"
mmcblk0p35: 97fffe00 00000200 "userdata"
mmcblk0p26: 01400000 00000200 "devlog"
mmcblk0p28: 00040000 00000200 "pdata"
mmcblk0p36: 27be00000 00000200 "fat"
mmcblk0p31: 00010000 00000200 "extra"
mmcblk0p17: 02d00000 00000200 "radio"
mmcblk0p18: 00a00000 00000200 "adsp"
mmcblk0p16: 00100000 00000200 "dsps"
mmcblk0p19: 00500000 00000200 "wcnss"
mmcblk0p20: 007ffa00 00000200 "radio_config"
mmcblk0p24: 00400000 00000200 "modem_st1"
mmcblk0p25: 00400000 00000200 "modem_st2"

you can prolly pretty safely skip those partitions when youre dumping.

after that,just entering the command,substituting "3" for the rest of the numbers:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p1

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p2

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p4

and so on,up to 31(ish)

then pull them one just as you did before:
adb pull /sdcard/mmcblk0p1

adb pull /sdcard/mmcblk0p2

etc.

or,just mount your sd card to the pc,and then you can drag a drop them all to the PC to zip and upload for us.

dont feel you have to do them all at once,it is pretty tedious dumping them,as the larger partitions can take a few minutes(definately skip "system" it takes foreeeeeva :eek:) do them a few a day,or whatever,if you want :)

i will pm 2fast and see if he has anything useful to share.

we cant make any promises this will lead to somewhere,but we can certainly give it our best shot :smokingsomb:
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SWEET! Thank you so much for helping us out Guru :D I'll stop playing halo 4 and have a crack at this.
this should take like an hour or so?
 
scotty85 said:
Yes... Prolly less. 2fastroms isn't working for me at the moment,but ill try again tomoro. Just upload whatever you dump,and send us a link :)
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I just sent you and Brian a link to the mmcblocks. It literally took less than 5 mins to do :D. I did blocks 1 through 50.

and 2fastroms isnt up at the moment. He hasnt paid his bill for the site in a little while
 
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