Root htcdev unlock currently not working

[scotty85]

as per this thread,looks like vzw striked again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004713

watch that thread or the root section for updates,as long as a temp root method can be found,its possible the CID trick that worked for the inc 4g will work here as well.

 

[scotty85]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2009064

unofficial unlock is coming

 

[Ibrick]

Word! JCase is a beast on these HTC phones. I was so pissed at VZ when I started that thread on XDA.. picked up the phone anyway since they were so confident in another root method.

So you picking one of these up Scotty? Even coming from my GNex which I had running like clockwork, this thing is on a whole other level. So sweet..

 

[scotty85]

while im not intending to sign any more vzw contracts,due to my phone ADD im sure i will be picking up one of these at some point when they become more abundant on local craiglists,lol

i have a factory s-off international one X,wich is pretty close in its awsomeness. having that helps quite a bit to wait for a used DNA. im glad htc has come out with something to sway you gnex-ers back to this side of the fence

i hope to be wrong,but "unofficial" htcdev may be the best we can hope for,judging by the s-off progress on the other no-removeable sd devices

im fairly confident the delay in releasing it is all to do with the temp root method. it took the att one xl guys a long time to finally find a new temp root for the latest release firmware. the changing CID part is fairly straightforward once youve got that "#" in an adb shell(assuming thats what theyre doing)

good to see you in here :smokingsomb:

 

[AntimonyER]

I'm watching it in here, but not sure if I will go through this or not. I unlocked, rooted and ROM'd on the GNex because it was just so easy, but my previous HTC devices I never did, just never felt the need. But scotty, the phone is a beast, so if you get a chance, grab one!

 

[Ibrick]

while im not intending to sign any more vzw contracts,due to my phone ADD im sure i will be picking up one of these at some point when they become more abundant on local craiglists,lol

i have a factory s-off international one X,wich is pretty close in its awsomeness. having that helps quite a bit to wait for a used DNA. im glad htc has come out with something to sway you gnex-ers back to this side of the fence

i hope to be wrong,but "unofficial" htcdev may be the best we can hope for,judging by the s-off progress on the other no-removeable sd devices

im fairly confident the delay in releasing it is all to do with the temp root method. it took the att one xl guys a long time to finally find a new temp root for the latest release firmware. the changing CID part is fairly straightforward once youve got that "#" in an adb shell(assuming thats what theyre doing)

good to see you in here :smokingsomb:

I'll bet that OneX helps, its too bad HTC doesn't have the clout of Apple or Sammy to get off these carrier exclusive deals. Although having the DNA as a world phone is pretty sweet, so at least ATT and TMo customers aren't left out if they want a DNA.

Shouldn't take too long to find a decent one on CL or Swappa. That's how I picked up my GNex back sometime in Spring. Sucks paying outright for phones, but raping VZ each month on my grandfathered unlimited plan takes the sting out of it..

 

[scotty85]

Sucks paying outright for phones, but raping VZ each month on my grandfathered unlimited plan takes the sting out of it..

bwahaha! i hear you there,lol. that one reason i dont want to sign any more... i think they will let you have one more contract,then after that theyll try and force you to "upgrade" to a tiered plan.

 

[Bob Cat]

Sucks paying outright for phones, but raping VZ each month on my grandfathered unlimited plan takes the sting out of it..

I hear ya on that one too. I just couldn't wait. I had to have it now.

 

[iowabowtech]

i hope to be wrong,but "unofficial" htcdev may be the best we can hope for,judging by the s-off progress on the other no-removeable sd devices

My fear as well. I miss the loveliness that is the HTC bootloader but I'm beginning to think that HTCdev and associated changes were almost counterproductive in some ways. S-Off is harder to come by every day and is an absolute must for me. Especially when I can order an unlocked Nexus and not stress about it.

 

[Ibrick]

Unfortunately it looks like this is the future unless the courts get involved over what it means to own a device.

It'll probably be Nexus devices on Google wireless if you want complete access to all parts of your phone. The carriers just have too much power in the US.

*edit

On another note, phone is rooted, pretty straight forward, just a lot of steps.

One thing I noticed that I didn't see on some other screen shots, is above the 'unlocked' in grey it says 'tampered'. It was right after flashing TWRP so maybe changing out the stock recovery is 'tampering' who knows, just the first time I've ever seen that.

 

[scotty85]

Unfortunately it looks like this is the future unless the courts get involved over what it means to own a device.

It'll probably be Nexus devices on Google wireless if you want complete access to all parts of your phone. The carriers just have too much power in the US.

*edit

On another note, phone is rooted, pretty straight forward, just a lot of steps.

One thing I noticed that I didn't see on some other screen shots, is above the 'unlocked' in grey it says 'tampered'. It was right after flashing TWRP so maybe changing out the stock recovery is 'tampering' who knows, just the first time I've ever seen that.

congrats! cigar and jacket on the table

on the tampered you are exactly correct- that appears when you install a custom recovery. unfortunately ive seen it quite a bit. its a new "feature" of ICS. it didnt show up like that on the rezound,on gingerbread. as soon as we started getting full leaks,boom!there it was. really freaked people out at first,lol.

i agree with your other points completely. nexus devices on google wireless. hmm :smokingsomb:

can you do something for me?
-put the phone in fastboot,open cmd,and enter
fastboot getvar cid
or
fastboot getvar all

and tell me what the cid is.

also,since you cant write to system from the OS,can you confirm apps like root explorer and titanium backup dont really work(at least as far as deleting or restoring system apps is concerned)?

My fear as well. I miss the loveliness that is the HTC bootloader but I'm beginning to think that HTCdev and associated changes were almost counterproductive in some ways. S-Off is harder to come by every day and is an absolute must for me. Especially when I can order an unlocked Nexus and not stress about it.

its a must for me also,and a big reason i didnt jump on this bandwagon. ive been watching the soff progress of the other non removable sd phones for some time,and its not looking good. current processor exploits are actually using an sd card,and the internal,non removeable sds to not appear until too late in the boot process to use the same exploits. im not so sure a practical means of s off will ever exist for the one series(including the dna).

what we really need is someone at htc to start leaking factory diag files,so that there could be born a "second generation xtc clip"

i agree with your statement. on the other hand,i think that phones becoming more locked down was inevitable as they become more complex(read:more expensive to replace ),and at least htcdev gives us a reliable means of root access to make other exploits work. none of the jpbear phones would have s-off if they couldnt be htcdev unlocked first.well,thats not entirely true- the sensation has a temp root/no htcdev unlock method.

 

[Ibrick]

congrats! cigar and jacket on the table

on the tampered you are exactly correct- that appears when you install a custom recovery. unfortunately ive seen it quite a bit. its a new "feature" of ICS. it didnt show up like that on the rezound,on gingerbread. as soon as we started getting full leaks,boom!there it was. really freaked people out at first,lol.

i agree with your other points completely. nexus devices on google wireless. hmm :smokingsomb:

can you do something for me?
-put the phone in fastboot,open cmd,and enter
fastboot getvar cid
or
fastboot getvar all

and tell me what the cid is.

also,since you cant write to system from the OS,can you confirm apps like root explorer and titanium backup dont really work(at least as far as deleting or restoring system apps is concerned)?



its a must for me also,and a big reason i didnt jump on this bandwagon. ive been watching the soff progress of the other non removable sd phones for some time,and its not looking good. current processor exploits are actually using an sd card,and the internal,non removeable sds to not appear until too late in the boot process to use the same exploits. im not so sure a practical means of s off will ever exist for the one series(including the dna).

what we really need is someone at htc to start leaking factory diag files,so that there could be born a "second generation xtc clip"

i agree with your statement. on the other hand,i think that phones becoming more locked down was inevitable as they become more complex(read:more expensive to replace ),and at least htcdev gives us a reliable means of root access to make other exploits work. none of the jpbear phones would have s-off if they couldnt be htcdev unlocked first.well,thats not entirely true- the sensation has a temp root/no htcdev unlock method.

version: 0.5
version-bootloader: 1.33.0001
version-baseband: 1.00.00.1023_3
version-cpld: None
version-microp: None
version-main: 1.15.605.4
version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
serialno: FA2B9S******
imei: 9900006********
meid: 9900006********
product: monarudo
platform: HBOOT-8064
modelid: PL8320000
cidnum: 11111111
battery-status: good
battery-voltage: 3867mV
partition-layout: Generic
security: on
build-mode: SHIP
boot-mode: FASTBOOT
commitno-bootloader: 041a62aa
hbootpreupdate: 11
gencheckpt: 0

There you go, in case anything else you wanted to check out.

The jacket and cigar much appreciated, last phone I rooted was the TBolt so it's been a while. Don't really count the GNex, maybe a motel bath robe and a Dutch Masters for unlocking one of those..

The 'tampered' definitely freaked me out there for a minute, I went from the Bolt to the GNex so never rooted an HTC phone post GB. HTCdev should really put in a warning for that, or maybe they did and I skipped over it straight to the 'gimmie my token' step.

As far as Root Explorer and TiBu, I have them both installed, but more so that I like Root Explorer as a basic file explorer. Can't do anything to system partitions though. I tried deleting a couple system apps and they delete but pop right back up after a reboot. I would imagine restoring apps would work, until you rebooted and they disappeared again. Ad blockers of course don't work either, which is really shitty since I forgot almost every damn app has adds plastered all over the place..

Right now there's a couple de-bloat zip's to flash in recovery so it's not all bad. I'm sure once we get some decent ROM's in place I'll feel a little better about this whole S-on thing.

I figure the only way to modify the build.prop would be through a zip file?

I'd like to get some of my standard mods in there, and maybe play with the lcd_density. Stock is 480 on this beast!

 

[scotty85]

cool! thanks for the output,its pretty much wat i expected to see.i hated to keep saying supercid without knowing for sure,tho.

im really wondering if theyll find a way to disable the system WP,or if were really stuck with that forever. im sure we can adapt... for those that like to chagne certain things,im sure you could whip up a recovery file with a new build.prop or whatver,containg your mods. or if flashing a custom rom,you could just open up the rom and modify its files before flashing.

i really hope devs just start scripting roms to install the boot image. that way you can fastboot boot recovery and then just flash the roms normally. otherwise,youll need to deal with installing the boot image seperately every time you flash the rom. its a huge PITA. for the rezound, devs came up with all sorts of dumb ways to "auto install" the boot image,wich,IMO,just made it more complicated and confusing.

we can only modify system,boot,and recovery. another thing thats different about this phone is with s-on,PxxxIMG file flashing is a PITA,as the main version number onthe android info document is now important,with s-on. to use these types of files youll need to modify the main version on the text document to that or higher than your current,or the file will not flash,causing much fustration further,you cant flash PxxxIMG files from the internal sd card,so flashing these types of files HAS to be done from fastboot,via RUU mode and the fastboot flash zip command.

the 100% easiest thing to do is just fastboot flash new recoveries and boot images,and not even mess with PxxxIMG files.

if you need to run an official ruu,you need to relock to run anything signed by htc and containing images other than boot/system/recovery. easier way to run them,is to just run the .exe. rom.zip can be extracted and run from fastboot,or in a pinch,via an external sd card in a card adapter and OTG cable,assuming this phone to work like the one X.

hang onto your original unlock token,you can use it to re-unlock if you need to lock for some reason,

just a couple things off the top of my head,from my s-on flashing experiences. alot is different than with an s-off htc or unlocked gnex. but im sure youll pick up on it pretty quick,youll just need to learn some new ways to skin the cat

these bad boys are starting to pop up allready,but folks are still wanting $500+ for em so ill have to wait a bit,and keep fingers crossed an OTA doesnt wipe out the temp root method!

 

[Fruban]

I'm glad to see you guys were able to root... I'm considering getting one of these, maybe the employee edition after I start working for VZW in Jan and start making some money. I have a TB right now running liquid ICS 1.5 MR3 with the ICS/GB hybrid radio, and got Google Now on their as well (everything work nearly flawlessly)! I never liked Sense, and have always preferred the AOSP ROMs I've tried; I used CM7 for a while.

I'm wondering if by the time I got a phone like this, maybe Feb or March, how likely would it be for me to find a) an easier root method and, more importantly, and b) an AOSP or Senseless ROM that keeps the best features that the phone comes with working great.

 

[scotty85]

I'm glad to see you guys were able to root... I'm considering getting one of these, maybe the employee edition after I start working for VZW in Jan and start making some money. I have a TB right now running liquid ICS 1.5 MR3 with the ICS/GB hybrid radio, and got Google Now on their as well (everything work nearly flawlessly)! I never liked Sense, and have always preferred the AOSP ROMs I've tried; I used CM7 for a while.

I'm wondering if by the time I got a phone like this, maybe Feb or March, how likely would it be for me to find a) an easier root method and, more importantly, and b) an AOSP or Senseless ROM that keeps the best features that the phone comes with working great.

updates may or may not patch the current root method. new doors may or may not open. so,there may be an easier root method,it may be the same,or there may not be one at all

sorry for the vaugeness,but since this phone(thanks vzw ) is not supported by officail unlock,it all depends on a temp root method for CID change trickery. we just done know what will happen.

as for AOSP,developemnt is slow on vzw's dual radio LTE phones,as the RIL is hard to figure out when building from scratch.

the chances for a good senseless rom,however,im sure are excellent!