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[Guide] Newb guide to unlocking HBOOT 1.16.0000 and 2.00+ and flashing a custom ROM

There's no exploit that has been found yet to S-OFF your HBOOT 1.16.0000 Incredible S, but you can unlock the bootloader, flash a recovery image, and install a custom ROM.
If you're not sure about doing this, I'd advise against it - things can go wrong, and there is a chance you'll damage your phone. Also be aware that HTC's unlock process effectively voids your warranty, and it will erase everything on your phone, as if your stock ROM went back to how it was when you first bought the phone.
1. Go to http://htcdev.com/ and create a free account. Once done, click the "Unlock Bootloader" link, or click here. Note that the Incredible S v1.16.0000 wasn't listed at the time of writing this, but the process still works fine.
Follow the instructions there to the letter; it's a pretty simple process - the guide says you'll need HTC Sync installed, but you may just need USB drivers. I installed HTC Sync for this process and then uninstalled it from my PC afterwards.
Part of this process involves grabbing some files from the Android SDK; you might not have that installed, so download them HERE. Put them somewhere easy to find, like the root of your C: drive in a folder called "android" (I'll use this for the rest of the instructions).
2. You'll know the process is going well when your phone flashes up an image asking if you're sure you want to unlock your bootloader. If you're still sure, select yes, and the process will complete.
3. Once done, your phone's bootloader will be unlocked, enabling you to flash a recovery image.
4. Go to here and download the recovery image for the Incredible S. Put it in the "android" folder along with the other files needed for HTC's unlock process, above. This file is the ClockWorkMod recovery image for the IncS.
5. Shut down your phone. Plug it in via USB to your PC which you set up during the HTC unlock process. Hold volume down, and press power and the phone will boot into the bootloader. Wait for it to scan your SD card (takes a few seconds), then ensure "Fastboot" is highlighted and press power.
6. On your PC, load up a command prompt - open the Start menu, go to Run, and type "cmd".
7. In the command prompt window, type the following, assuming the HTC unlock files and the recovery image you downloaded in step 4 is all in C:android.
Code:
cd c:android
Then type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recovery_name.img>
Don't forget the .img on the end, and replace "recovery_name" with the specific name of the recovery image you want to use. For ClockWorkMod linked to in step 4, you'd type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.img
After a few seconds, ClockWordMod will have been flashed to your phone.
8. Reboot your phone, there should be an option in the fastboot menu (volume up and down to navigate, power to select). It should boot as per normal. Put it into USB disk mode, and download a ROM that you'd like to use. CyanogenMod is a good start: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-s
Download the ROM and place it in the root of your SD card (ie. not in any folders or anything).
9. Power off the phone. Hold volume down and press power to boot back into the bootloader. Use volume down to select "Recovery" and press power. ClockWorkMod recovery will load.
10. Using volume up/down and power to select, go down to Backup/Restore. Select it, then hit Backup. ClockWorkMod will backup your stock ROM in case there are any dramas and you want to go back to it.
11. After that (takes around 3-4 minutes), go back to the main menu. Select wipe data/factory reset and confirm. Go back to the main menu, select Advanced > Wipe Dalvik cache > confirm. Always best to do these 2 things before flashing a new ROM.
12. Go back to the main menu, and select "Install zip from SDcard". Next choose "Select Zip from SD card" and select the ROM you'd like to install. Confirm this action, and ClockWorkMod will install your new ROM. After that's done, shut the phone down.
13. Ordinarily you'd be done after that, and you could boot into your new ROM. However HBOOT 1.16 does some weird stuff and tends to cause issues; I think it interferes with the installation of the boot.img that ordinarily would be flashed with the ROM. Anyhow, grab the ROM that you downloaded earlier (CyanogenMod, in my example), and on your PC, unzip the file somewhere. Once unzipped, inside you'll see a file called "boot.img". Put this in the same folder as your other Android tools that you used earlier. Power your phone on, hold volume down, and instead of loading recovery by choosing "recovery", choose "usb fastboot".
14. Open up your command prompt again (Start > Run > "cmd"), and type (using the "android" folder for this example):
Code:
cd c:android
fastboot flash boot boot.img
This will flash the boot.img to your phone.
Power off the phone, reboot it, and you should be good to go. There may be more efficient ways to do some of the above, but I'm not a massive guru at this stuff, I just haaaate Sense and bloatware. If any gurus notice any errors, please let me know.
* Edit: Bear in mind that by default, a CM7 install won't include any Google apps (this includes the market app); this needs to be flashed as a separate update via recovery. At the time of writing, a link to information about the Google apps package for CM7 is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/t-1297579.html
Have updated the title as this should work with HBOOT 2.00+; haven't tested this myself though.
Apologies, not around this site too often these days, at least until an official ICS ROM is out, so I probably won't respond to PMs. Good luck, and hope the above info helps - but it may pay to do some due diligence yourself first, in case it's out of date.

Lynt said:
There's no exploit that has been found yet to S-OFF your HBOOT 1.16.0000 Incredible S, but you can unlock the bootloader, flash a recovery image, and install a custom ROM.
If you're not sure about doing this, I'd advise against it - things can go wrong, and there is a chance you'll damage your phone. Also be aware that HTC's unlock process effectively voids your warranty, and it will erase everything on your phone, as if your stock ROM went back to how it was when you first bought the phone.
1. Go to http://htcdev.com/ and create a free account. Once done, click the "Unlock Bootloader" link, or click here. Note that the Incredible S v1.16.0000 wasn't listed at the time of writing this, but the process still works fine.
Follow the instructions there to the letter; it's a pretty simple process - the guide says you'll need HTC Sync installed, but you may just need USB drivers. I installed HTC Sync for this process and then uninstalled it from my PC afterwards.
Part of this process involves grabbing some files from the Android SDK; you might not have that installed, so download them HERE. Put them somewhere easy to find, like the root of your C: drive in a folder called "android" (I'll use this for the rest of the instructions).
2. You'll know the process is going well when your phone flashes up an image asking if you're sure you want to unlock your bootloader. If you're still sure, select yes, and the process will complete.
3. Once done, your phone's bootloader will be unlocked, enabling you to flash a recovery image.
4. Go to this thread and download the recovery image for the Incredible S. Put it in the "android" folder along with the other files needed for HTC's unlock process, above. This file is the ClockWorkMod recovery image for the IncS.
5. Shut down your phone. Plug it in via USB to your PC which you set up during the HTC unlock process. Hold volume down, and press power and the phone will boot into the bootloader. Wait for it to scan your SD card (takes a few seconds), then ensure "Fastboot" is highlighted and press power.
6. On your PC, load up a command prompt - open the Start menu, go to Run, and type "cmd".
7. In the command prompt window, type the following, assuming the HTC unlock files and the recovery image you downloaded in step 4 is all in C:\android.
Code:
cd c:\android
Then type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recovery_name.img>
Don't forget the .img on the end, and replace "recovery_name" with the specific name of the recovery image you want to use. For ClockWorkMod linked to in step 4, you'd type:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.im
After a few seconds, ClockWordMod will have been flashed to your phone.
8. Reboot your phone, there should be an option in the fastboot menu (volume up and down to navigate, power to select). It should boot as per normal. Put it into USB disk mode, and download a ROM that you'd like to use. CyanogenMod is a good start: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-s
Download the ROM and place it in the root of your SD card (ie. not in any folders or anything).
9. Power off the phone. Hold volume down and press power to boot back into the bootloader. Use volume down to select "Recovery" and press power. ClockWorkMod recovery will load.
10. Using volume up/down and power to select, go down to Backup/Restore. Select it, then hit Backup. ClockWorkMod will backup your stock ROM in case there are any dramas and you want to go back to it.
11. After that (takes around 3-4 minutes), go back to the main menu. Select wipe data/factory reset and confirm. Go back to the main menu, select Advanced > Wipe Dalvik cache > confirm. Always best to do these 2 things before flashing a new ROM.
12. Go back to the main menu, and select "Install zip from SDcard". Next choose "Select Zip from SD card" and select the ROM you'd like to install. Confirm this action, and ClockWorkMod will install your new ROM. After that's done, shut the phone down.
13. Ordinarily you'd be done after that, and you could boot into your new ROM. However HBOOT 1.16 does some weird stuff and tends to cause issues; I think it interferes with the installation of the boot.img that ordinarily would be flashed with the ROM. Anyhow, grab the ROM that you downloaded earlier (CyanogenMod, in my example), and on your PC, unzip the file somewhere. Once unzipped, inside you'll see a file called "boot.img". Put this in the same folder as your other Android tools that you used earlier.
14. Open up your command prompt again (Start > Run > "cmd"), and type (using the "android" folder for this example):
Code:
cd c:\android
fastboot flash boot boot.img
This will flash the boot.img to your phone.
Power off the phone, reboot it, and you should be good to go. There may be more efficient ways to do some of the above, but I'm not a massive guru at this stuff, I just haaaate Sense and bloatware. If any gurus notice any errors, please let me know.
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this line:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.im
should be:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.img

Thanks, fixed.

Lynt said:
Thanks, fixed.
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Np, I think this is a great idea btw.
This question comes up frequently.
Good work!

scoobysnacks said:
Np, I think this is a great idea btw.
This question comes up frequently.
Good work!
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I second that. Great job. Thanks for your contribution.

Excellent job Lynt, I will try this later...

Yeah good work dude. Should put a stop to the constant h-boot posts. We just need a mod to sticky this.

I bought one XTC Clip to unlock Incredible S but now i'm Xperia ARC.
If someone wants buy my XTC Clip, contact.
I sell by one lower price.

After flashing the boot.img, you may need to install the ROM one more time (if the phone cannot boot). But this time, do not wipe any cache. Just install the ROM from Recovery.

I wanna do that but i am afraid that i may end up making my device useless
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

Khair.wara said:
I wanna do that but i am afraid that i may end up making my device useless
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
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Hmmmm,there is always risk lies when you customize your phone..though should be minimal when you follow the step provided carefully,trade off for you to enjoy custom rom.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using Tapatalk

Khair.wara said:
I wanna do that but i am afraid that i may end up making my device useless
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
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You dun learn when u dun try. Go ahead, it's quite safe if u follow the steps carefully. You will be glad if u did. The custom ROMs are way better than the stock ones.

thanks mate! works perfect!
just need to add a little bit steps u were missing
after step 12, have to restart the phone to fastboot in order to flash boot.
another question, if i flash a custom rom, will it unlock my sim lock as well?
i cant find it out just bcos i already unlock my IS by purchased a unlock code online 3 weeks ago.
many thanks
and thanks and thanks again!

blkx_yang said:
thanks mate! works perfect!
just need to add a little bit steps u were missing
after step 12, have to restart the phone to fastboot in order to flash boot.
another question, if i flash a custom rom, will it unlock my sim lock as well?
i cant find it out just bcos i already unlock my IS by purchased a unlock code online 3 weeks ago.
many thanks
and thanks and thanks again!
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No flashing a custom ROM will not SIM Unlock a phone.

i heard some dude downgrade the HBOOT to 1.13 by using gold card.
i tired, but IS checked version somehow, said version is old.
can we flash UUR instead of flash a custom Rom? and if it works is that mean Hboot will be 1.13?
i tried before, got an error says unable to open the file. any ideas?

Just rooted thanks guys....for the tutorial....
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erkk......how to install market...?

have to flash an other zip, you can find it on htcdev.com 's forum
or give me ur email, ill email u

ryzer said:
Just rooted thanks guys....for the tutorial....
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erkk......how to install market...?
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Did you install Cyanogen? If so, go back to their download pages or forum thread for the IncS and get the "Gapps" or Google Apps installer.

Revolutionary
Use Revolutionary..Its easy
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www.revolutionary.io

Peekay_Subbu said:
Use Revolutionary..Its easy
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www.revolutionary.io
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Revolutionary.io does not work with this latest HBOOT version, thus the reason for this thread. You have to use the HTCDEV unlock method.

[Q] Vivid Boot Loop

Could i get some help... i have read and read. But my HTC vivid is stuck in boot loop. I was tring to install the [SUPERGUIDE] BOOTLOADER UNLOCK/PERMROOT/CWM/Flash ROM or Kernel/Revert to Stock in the Vivid forums.
Maybe a link?
Thanks if its posted already.

mikewilld said:
Could i get some help... i have read and read. But my HTC vivid is stuck in boot loop. I was tring to install the [SUPERGUIDE] BOOTLOADER UNLOCK/PERMROOT/CWM/Flash ROM or Kernel/Revert to Stock in the Vivid forums.
Maybe a link?
Thanks if its posted already.
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what?
all the info is right there. what exactly are you trying to do? i mean, that thread has literally tons of information in it....and without you specifying what EXACTLY you are trying to do, nobody can help you.

Have you tried relocking your bootloader and then running the RUU.
Are you able to get into fastboot?
Like PG said.....we need more to go on?
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium

I read the instructions and apparently i messed up somewhere. I can get in fast boot.
When i turn my phone on i see the white HTC logo shuts off and see the HTC logo again.

Also when i go in to hboot and go to recover i get a HTC logo and a quick blink of the next screen and then it goes into a boot loop again.

Try putting in hboot....then select fastboot.
Relock the bootloader "fastboot oem lock"
Download and run RUU.
Sent from my SGH-i937 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

i read to not do a OEM lock unless im sure i have the correct software on my device? how can i make sure?

mikewilld said:
i read to not do a OEM lock unless im sure i have the correct software on my device? how can i make sure?
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and WHERE does it say that?
6) (Optional) Return to stock (locked bootloader, unrooted, etc) (Many thanks to Pirateghost)
- First, you are going to need to re-lock your bootloader.
- Boot into H-Boot by powering off. Once off, power back on and hold VOL DOWN + POWER BUTTON, once in HBOOT go to "fastboot" and click the power button to select
- Download the adbfastbootrecovery zip from the bottom of the post and EXTRACT it to your desktop
- Go to your computer file explorer and find your desktop "folder", hold SHIFT and RIGHT CLICK, select open a command window here
- Run this code in the command prompt
Code:
fastboot oem lock
- Now reboot
- Now, we will flash you back to the original stock ROM you were on. There are two options for this, the second does NOT need a windows device.
FIRST OPTION (RUU)
- Pick the RUU for your specific device. For example, the one for AT&T has the word "Cingular" in it, the one for Rogers says "Rogers" in it.
- You will find the RUU's here http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/ (THANKS to user football)
- Once you download the correct RUU, make sure your phone is plugged in via USB to your computer and you have the correct drivers (or just HTC Sync) installed on your computer
- Run the executable and follow the steps to flash the stock ROM
- Once the ROM loads, you should be good to go
- If you returned to stock because of a bug or issue, and want to root again, make sure to go back and follow the steps PRECISELY to perm root, flash CWM, flash a ROM, flash a kernel, etc. Remember, flash ROM IMMEDIATELY after flashing the kernel
OR
SECOND OPTION (PH39IMG.zip flash)
- Put this file for AT&T or this file for Rogers on a microSD card as is (it should be named PH39IMG.zip)
- Power down the phone, insert microSD and boot back into bootloader (power button + vol down)
- It should automatically find the zip file and flash the stock image (this includes recovery, system, everything stock.)
- If you returned to stock because of a bug or issue, and want to root again, make sure to go back and follow the steps PRECISELY to perm root, flash CWM, flash a ROM, flash a kernel, etc. Remember, flash ROM IMMEDIATELY after flashing the kernel
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I have spent 3 hours working on this... and feel stupid... like the video said... I'm a n00b

Help s-off htc raider roger

Old beer detected...... Please wait......
Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Backing up......
/system/bin/su: permission denied
Transferring backups....
Secondary backup FAILED!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
why ?? tell me , please ...thanks

No SU == No root rights.
*nix command:
su root
user becomes root.
no su no root.
know su know root.

Hello. I have HTC Vivid (AT&T).
I do like this ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836 ):
1. ***(BEFORE YOU BEGIN)
2. 1) Unlock the bootloader via HTCdev website
3. 2) S Off the device (Thanks to Juopunutbear team and WildChild)
(to article ...
- You are now ready to S-OFF
- Go to the link below and click the URL in the first post and follow the instructions
But when i do 'S-OFF' ( http://unlimited.io/juopunutbear-public-beta-0-1/instructions/ ) and run C:/ControlBearRelease_holiday_ICS_WIN/ControlBear.exe , program say:
Code:
======== ControlBear 0.5 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....but device has no root!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
what's wrong?

I'm trapped in the same part as well. cannot seem to get any further than the guy above me.

nanonames said:
Hello. I have HTC Vivid (AT&T).
I do like this ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836 ):
1. ***(BEFORE YOU BEGIN)
2. 1) Unlock the bootloader via HTCdev website
3. 2) S Off the device (Thanks to Juopunutbear team and WildChild)
(to article ...
- You are now ready to S-OFF
- Go to the link below and click the URL in the first post and follow the instructions
But when i do 'S-OFF' ( http://unlimited.io/juopunutbear-public-beta-0-1/instructions/ ) and run C:/ControlBearRelease_holiday_ICS_WIN/ControlBear.exe , program say:
Code:
======== ControlBear 0.5 beta for JuopunutBear S-OFF ==========
Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....but device has no root!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
what's wrong?
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Try putting your phone into hboot and run it again. Keep me on touch
Sent from my HTC Raider 4G LTE running ICS.

root by downloading su binary and SuperUser.apk from
HTML:
http://androidsu.com/superuser/
and put them on the root of your SD card. then install the .zip files from recovery

trandongchau said:
Old beer detected...... Please wait......
Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Backing up......
/system/bin/su: permission denied
Transferring backups....
Secondary backup FAILED!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
why ?? tell me , please ...thanks
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Please look for my thread on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676977 which will help you get your phone rooted as well as then help you get the S OFF
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ideaLduK said:
Try putting your phone into hboot and run it again. Keep me on touch
Sent from my HTC Raider 4G LTE running ICS.
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Please look for my thread on http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1676977 which will help you get your phone rooted as well as then help you get the S OFF

s-off htc raider
using superguide...i am stuck at the point where i must install VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip via recovery from sdcard... can't find any option to install from sd card.. what gives?

Try looking in exe.sd , that is the root of the sd card sd is the phones internal sd .

trebligrefoh said:
using superguide...i am stuck at the point where i must install VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip via recovery from sdcard... can't find any option to install from sd card.. what gives?
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If you need to flash zips via recovery, you will need a custom recovery (for example, clockworkmod a.k.a CWM recovery.) If your bootloader is unlocked, you can use Hasoon2000's Vivid Toolkit to flash one. ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498003 ). It can flash CWM custom recovery quickly via fastboot. (I believe your bootloader will need to be unlocked before doing this.)
Then when you go into recovery, you will be able to flash the VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2_zip. Hopefully that will get you rooted so you can continue the S-OFF process.

htc sensation hboot 1.27 finally rooted
In regards to the following problem with htc sensation hboot 1.27 and rooting using the controlbear program
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....but device has no root!!
Press ENTER to exit.....[/CODE]
I just unlocked the phone using the HTCdev instructions. So the phone said unlocked S-ON
But I was still stuck trying to get it to be S-OFF. I tried using the windows control bear release and got the error above . . .device has not root.
I decided to try the "root-sensation-zip" file at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661631
It worked perfectly. I unzipped it in windows, plugged in the phone into usb with phone being on home screen. Clicked the "root" file on my laptop and it started working. It restarted my phone and asked to hit enter, it did it 3 times. After 3rd time, the phone is not booted. I was able to install titanium backup and superuser apps and they worked and said super user is on. However, when I restarted the phone it still said S-ON. I guess I could have left the things the way they were but I didn't . . .I wanted S-OFF.
So I decided to run the control bear program again, this time it worked as the phone now had root access. All I had to do is continue the instructions and do the wire trick. After doing the wire trick (i used a paper clip and put electrical tape where I was holding the two sides, so my fingers wouldn;t touch the paper clip) everything worked (after like 15-20 tries, lol - I almost gave up). Also I accidentally unplugged the usb cord because when the program said to do the wires I noticed I didn;t take the back cover off. So I had to turn off the program and unplug. Oh well, everything worked.
See pictures of the wire trick below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614617

I miss my Vivid (Raider)
I remember when going through the superguide and all the helpful threads, I wrote down each thing step-by-step for my own reference. This was some time ago, but hopefully it will help some of you that are having trouble. This lump of information is mainly for the Canadian HTC Vivid (known as Raider) and starts from right out-of-the-box.
SECTION 1: STARTING FRESH WITH STOCK ICS RUU
To start, install the stock Bell ICS RUU (Or Rogers). If you've already been messing with your phone, you should know that in order to flash any stock RUU, your bootloader must be locked/relocked! Else it will refuse to flash.
(I used RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_BM_3.38.666.2_Radio_3.04.4740.11_34.29.701040.22_release_255916_signed.exe) Note that you can't flash a Bell RUU to a Rogers phone (and vice-versa) - if you want to, you will need to change your CID to the SuperCID for that (and I'm not sure if that requires simply the bootloader unlock or bootloader + s-off).
**You should use this opportunity to make sure you have the appropriate drivers installed on your computer so it can communicate with your phone via Fastboot, ADB, etc.!
Filename: HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe
SECTION 2: UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER
Next, unlock your bootloader.
-Sign up at htcdev.com
-Log in (make sure youre logged in!)
-Click Unlock bootloader
-Follow Instructions
SECTION 3: S-OFF!
Note that S-OFF stays (i.e. if you install a stock RUU rom to your phone, it won't turn S-ON), so you only have to do this procedure once!
1) Since your bootloader is unlocked, you are almost ready to S-OFF
2) Download the WCXJB ROOT PACK.zip to your hard drive and UNZIP it (to, say, C:\temp\SOFF)
3) On your phone, make sure in your settings, USB Debugging is ENABLED in development
4) Turn off your phone, pull battery, put battery back.
5) Turn it back on by holding VOLUMEDOWN + POWER
6) Use the volume rocker and power button to select fastboot
7) Connect your phone to your PC
8) Open a command prompt window.
Commands:
C:
cd \temp\SOFF
fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.img
9) Now you can reboot your phone
10) Download and put Vivid_CWM_Root_VER2.zip file on root of internal sdcard (aka NOT in any folders)
11) Boot into H-Boot like you did before (turn off phone, turn back on holding power + vol down), and use the volume rockers to go to "recovery" and press the power button to select it
12) Select "install zip from sdcard"
13) Select the VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip to flash it. Then select "reboot"
14) You are now perma-rooted in preparation of the S-OFF procedure.
15) Turn off phone. Remove the SIM Card, the MicroSD card and the battery.
*-You will need a spare, formatted MicroSD card inserted. Do not use your regular MicroSD card because it may become corrupted/wiped during the S-OFF process!
*-Make sure your battery is fully charged!
*-You will also need a short length of insulated wire, so you can connect the 2 points during the S-OFF procedure.
*-Beside the MicroSD slot, is a small screw holding in a square panel.
The screw is covered by a VOID sticker. Removing this will void your warranty!
Put the screw and square panel somewhere safe.
Look at the JPG (vivid---wire-trick-location.jpg) - this is available in this thread above, I believe (thank you vova953).
The point indicated is what you need to ground (to the GND) point
You will of course do this with your short length of insulated wire!
Be sure the exposed part of the wire isnt so thick that it will touch other points!
The point is kind of small! The ground point is pretty big and easy to hit.
16) Put battery back in, and the SPARE MICROSD - not your usual MicroSD. Keep that safe.
17) Boot phone normally. Make sure (again) USB debugging is enabled in Developer options of the Settings!
18) Download CONTROLBEAR from Juopunutbear at http://unlimited.io
Since you are on official ICS, you want the ICS version for the HTC Vivid.
I belive the filename is ControlBearRelease_holiday_ICS_WIN.zip
***crap - I just noticed upon visiting the site that they dropped all Windows support! Too bad for us... I have the file still if anyone needs it.
19) Unzip the CONTROLBEAR zip to an easy to access path (like C:\temp\SOFF2)
20) Run controlbear as admin(windows) or root or using sudo on linux
Now get your insulated wire and get ready! Only connect the 2 points when instructed.
You will have to watch and wait for it to tell you.
Do not press any of the buttons on the phone during the process.
When you are instructed to do the wire trick, briefly connect
the point and the GND point using the wire, then wait approximately 1.75
seconds and then again connect the 2 contacts together.
Allow the program to continue.
Note: it may take several attempts of running the program in order to obtain the correct timing for the wire trick.
After doing the “wire-trick” your phone will reboot.
If you see the following message from ControlBear after doing the wire trick:
ErrorMsg: Still sober.
This means that you have been unsuccessful in implementing the wire-trick. Run ControlBear again.
The usual cause for this is that you failed to perform 2 clean contacts
or mis-timed the wire trick (or you didnt flash the perm root before
starting - but that was indicated above, so you probably have done that.)
Your phone will reboot several times during the process, this is normal. ControlBear will tell you when it has finished whether successfully or not.
Once your phone is rebooted and back to normal, you can shut it off, pull the battery, put the square panel and screw back, and put your regular MicroSD back (as well as your SIM card).
SECTION 4: FLASHING CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY
(Optional but recommended! It's a great Recovery
Note that if you want to install WCX's rom, you will need to have WCX's recovery to flash it!
So don't use Clockworkmod at all if you plan on flashing WCX's roms.)
1) Put your phone into bootloader mode by turning it on with VOLDOWN+POWER.
(You will have to pull the battery to make sure the phone is fully off before doing this)
2) In the bootloader use the volume buttons to choose Fastboot
and hit POWER to select it.
3) Download Clockworkmod recovery (filename: CWM-beta2.img) and put it in an easy path
(like C:\temp\cwmrecovery)
4) Copy the adb and fastboot package to this same folder (c:\temp\cwmrecovery)
5) Go to command prompt and:
C:
cd\temp\cwmrecovery
fastboot flash recovery CWM-beta2.img
6) Clockworkmod recovery will be flashed. You can get to it by booting your phone into
bootloader mode, then choosing Recovery
SECTION 5: INSTALLING CUSTOM ROMS
If you S-OFF'd successfully, custom roms will install fully (kernel and everything) so you will not have to flash the kernel separately.
If you don't want to S-OFF (or were unsuccessful with S-OFF and simply can't do it), it is important to understand that when you install a custom rom, the kernel for that rom (or whatever compatible kernel) needs to be flashed separately before or after the rom is flashed!! This will be addressed in the steps below.
1) Download the ROM you want (any ICS-based custom rom) and copy its .ZIP file to your MicroSD card
2) Get into Recovery mode (by booting phone into bootloader mode and choosing Recovery)
3) MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT ROM - VERY IMPORTANT.
Just use the volume keys to go to Backup and choose it by hitting POWER.
This will help you get back to normal if the rom you install doesnt work
or if you just dont like the rom you have installed.
Make sure your MicroSD card has lots of space
The backup takes under 1 gig but you'll want more space for more backups/roms later.
4) Now that the backup is done: In Clockworkmod recovery, go back to the main menu.
5) WIPES - Now we should do the 4 wipes. Choose Wipe Data, Wipe Cache, then go into Advanced, and choose Wipe Dalvik cache, then go into Mounts and Storage and choose Format /system.
6) Now from the main menu of clockworkmod, you can choose "install .zip from sdcard"
7) Choose the zip of the rom you wish to install (remember you copied it to your MicroSD card
in step 1 so it should be listed.). When the install is finished, it may offer to reboot
your phone. S-OFF users can go ahead. If you didn't S-OFF, you should probably pull the battery after choosing reboot.
8) IF YOU ARE S-OFF, YOU ARE DONE - IF YOU DIDNT S-OFF YOUR PHONE, YOU MUST CONTINUE SO YOU CAN FLASH THE APPROPRIATE KERNEL FOR THE ROM!
9) Get phone into bootloader mode by holding VOLDOWN+POWER. Choose FASTBOOT.
10) On your PC, open the ZIP that has the ROM you just installed. In the zip
will be a file called "boot.img".
***NOTE that some roms have multiple kernels to offer during the install process.
***Try to identify which boot.img is the kernel you want. I believe that any of them should work, as they were all built for that ROM specifically. But I'm not certain...
11) Copy the boot.img to an easy path (like C:\temp\whateverromkernel)
Copy your ADB/Fastboot package to that folder as well so you can run everything from there.
12) In command prompt:
C:
CD\temp\whateverromkernel
fastboot flash boot boot.img
13) The kernel will be flashed. Once it's done, you can restart the phone, and boot into the ROM!
**NOTE** if you're ever having trouble (whether s-on or s-off) flashing kernels (i.e. its saying its not allowed or something), your phone may have to experience the flashing of an 'insecure' kernel. kozmikkick's "stockish" kernel is an insecure boot.img that, once flashed, will allow you to flash whatever kernel's you want (you only have to flash the insecure boot.img once and then you'll be good)

[Q]

hey all..so im a total noob at this and im so lost right now..i am trying to s off this htc holiday,,
this is where i am at so far...i have restored to factory flash from this thread,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013122
i then did the htc dev unlock and rooted the phone using this method 2) S Off the device (Juopunutbear/WildChild)
- MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON A STOCK ROM WITH AN UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER
- Download the WCXJB ROOT PACK zip below to your desktop and UNZIP it
- On your phone, make sure in your settings, USB Debugging is ENABLED in development
- Turn off your phone, turn it back on my holding power + volume down
- Use the volume rocker and power button to select fastboot
- Connect your phone to your PC
- Inside the WCXJB ROOT PACK, click shift + right click and select "Open command window here"
- Enter in these commands without the quotes
- "fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.img"
- Now you can boot up your phone
- Download and put Vivid_CWM_Root_VER2 zip file on root of internal sdcard (aka NOT in any folders)
- Boot into H-Boot like you did before (turn off phone, turn back on holding power + vol down), and use the volume rockers to go to "recovery" and press the power button to select it
- Select "install zip from sdcard"
- Select the VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip through recovery and then reboot your phone
- You are now ready to S-OFF
i have su and root checker comes back rooted..
but in the superguide it says i should now flash kernal and matching rom???? i wont be stock then so how can i s off???
after gaining my root the way above i ran control bear and this is what i get.first pic..second pic is my menu if it helps..
any suggestions or a good walk through maybe..thanks alot eh..been at this two days..all i wanna do is s off..
have been following the step guide here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836

Did you do the 2nd part of the instructions you posted?
"Download and put Vivid_CWM_Root_VER2 zip file on root of internal sdcard (aka NOT in any folders)
- Boot into H-Boot like you did before (turn off phone, turn back on holding power + vol down), and use the volume rockers to go to "recovery" and press the power button to select it
- Select "install zip from sdcard"
- Select the VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip through recovery and then reboot your phone
- You are now ready to S-OFF"
The CWM (ClockWorkMod) is a back up utility. It is what comes up when you select Recovery (right under Fastboot). I suggest you run it once you achieve your s-off. It will back up your phone onto the MicroSD card you've put in near the battery.
On another note:
I suggest you flash to Super CID once you get s-off to work. I had to try 4x or 5x to get the wire trick to take for s-off, but it did work in the end.
super CID allows you to flash any rom from any country without issue.
Here's what mine looks like:

yes i did the second part i have superuser now..and it did authenticate root checker, so its working..kinda why im stumped..
and Controlbear finds device and doesnt give root error just the one mentioned in pic..ty for reply and help btw...
Spazmogen said:
Did you do the 2nd part of the instructions you posted?
"Download and put Vivid_CWM_Root_VER2 zip file on root of internal sdcard (aka NOT in any folders)
- Boot into H-Boot like you did before (turn off phone, turn back on holding power + vol down), and use the volume rockers to go to "recovery" and press the power button to select it
- Select "install zip from sdcard"
- Select the VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip through recovery and then reboot your phone
- You are now ready to S-OFF"
The CWM (ClockWorkMod) is a back up utility. It is what comes up when you select Recovery (right under Fastboot). I suggest you run it once you achieve your s-off. It will back up your phone onto the MicroSD card you've put in near the battery.
On another note:
I suggest you flash to Super CID once you get s-off to work. I had to try 4x or 5x to get the wire trick to take for s-off, but it did work in the end.
super CID allows you to flash any rom from any country without issue.
Here's what mine looks like:
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Ensure USB debugging is enabled in your settings (under Development tab).
Go into the SuperUser program (in your apps) and tap to update the binary file.
I suggest running the Control Bear process again and of course the wire trick when it tells you to.
I was rooted and had CWM installed before I tried to s-off.
Check your Recovery. It should look like this:
If your recovery does not, I suggest running the install of it again.
You sound as though you're 1/2 way to getting the s-off done. Stick with it.

I can't explain how to fix... but your problem is you're not able to grant root via ADB...
I know one solution is to use faux's kernel
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk 2

yep thats my recovery..used it to flash the vivid cmw..
and yep debugging is on or control doesnt find device..

tindean said:
if i cmd the adb devices,,my device shows up as well when i fastboot devices my phone shows up? is this what you meant??
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No... just because and can see it... doesn't mean you have root...
Like I said... you can most likely fix it by flashing faux's kernel...
I think 'adb remount' is the command to check for root via adb
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk 2

i flashed with grouper-faux123-reset-kernel-4.1.2 and i still have the same error in pic above in controlbear??
anything else i can give a try?thanks

is it possible to use a rooted rom and still s off?

you flashed a nexus 7 kernel.........

ok ty..my phone still works lol..flashing back to stalk now..starting over thanks eh...
if i had have flashed with proper flash think it would have made adb root?

reflashed to stock rogers ruu..rooted with wcjxb and vivid cwm...then flashed boot.img(faux) from darkraider 155. im still getting the original error in control bear about secondary backup...whats to do??

Did you ever launch the SuperUser app and update its binary as I suggested previously? It may not help, but it sure won't hurt.
You'll know for certain if you're rooted if you can do that.

morning..yes i tried the su update..is this proper in the pic..
i can fastboot adb devices and fastboot devices. when i try adb remount it returns an error tho..im stumped...
thanks for all the help here btw..i made a mess around here a lil..

If anyone went to http://www.unlimited.io/juopunutbear.htm recently, it explains you have to do use Ubuntu 12.04 (and newer) 32bit only, and the guides here are out dated, I went from the s-off method here, to s-on, and ran Ubuntu and s-off'd again using the updated method and I have less problems than I did before.

read that but ive read windows version should work?? hmmm ill try the process on another machine running ubuntu or 7..
thanks

It should work. I've been using the original method for about a year and 0 problems.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
It should work. I've been using the original method for about a year and 0 problems.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Lol. Yep Shadow, I think the same! Has to be something
Small I'm missing. Thanks again. Don't know where to go from here

Finally got it. Thanks for your replies.
Just realized I may have gotten more help with a thread title.
Thanks again

Alternative SIM Unlock (Try if nothing else works)

After searching for hours and finding links to links and threads with broken links I figured I'd help out anyone who finds themselves in my situation.
I'll assume you already know that your warranty is void. If you visit this site you may as well already know that much
Start here if your bootloader is locked​
First thing you want to do is download HTC Sync for your drivers here.
Plug it in and wait for it to connect. Some times disabling HTC Sync in the settings helps get it going. If it just won't start, go to your device manager and delete(uninstall) the driver for it. It's usually under USB Host or something similar.
Go to your settings and disable fast reboot, then power off your phone. If you don't do this you may have to wait an additional 10 seconds after it starts booting.
Now go to HTC Dev's Unlock Bootloader section and from the dropdown menu select the last option "All other supported phones". If you do not have an account you'll be prompted to register. Do it, it's free. From there follow their guide and you'll be supplied with a file to flash that will unlock your bootloader.
Once you have this file save it from the email to your adb/fastboot folder and make sure it's named Unlock_Code.bin then while in fastboot mode in the phone you want to give the command to flash it
Code:
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
Congrats! You now have an unlocked Bootloader. You can see this in the bootloader (vol- and power) screen at the top. It will now say "Unlocked" highlighted in purple.
Start here if your bootloader is unlocked but you are S-on​
Before we start we need to obtain root and get a custom recovery. Since we're already back in the bootloader checking to see if we're unlocked let's go to fastboot again. Now take that file I just linked you and put it in with the others from before in the ADB/Fastboot folder and rename it to "recovery.img". Go back to the command prompt window and type this code in:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
*Note* if you did not rename the file to recovery.img then this code will not work.
Once this is finished you'll still be in the bootloader so let's take if for a spin! Select Bootloader with the volume button and press power to select it. Now go down to "Recovery" and press power. Once you leave here and reboot to system it will ask if you want to have root because it's nice like that. Swipe the bar for yes, cancel for no. It's not really important now but you can stop there if you don't want the SIM Unlock.
Now for getting rid of S-on.
S-on seems to be some sort of secondary lock. I believe it stops you from flashing custom roms... whatever, we don't want to be locked out from our own device! Let's get rid of it with Firewater!
At this point it's probably easier to point you to a more thorough guide. Here.
Start here if your bootloader is unlocked and you are S-off​
At this point I want to point you to the bottom where all the links are. Download the 4.1 rom and the RUU flash tool. These are relatively big files so they can download while you finish reading.
If you're like me the RUU tool will not work for you on a 4.3 rom so what we're going to do is flash the 4.1 rom via TWRP.
First take the 4.1 rom you downloaded and put it in the root directory of your SD card. If you want to test it (I didn't but I put it there for you) you can also flash the touch screen img through fastboot. If not, continue on with the rest of the guide.
Power down and hold vol- and power to get into your bootloader. Use vol- to select recovery and press power to enter. Now we want to wipe data and do a factory reset so tap "Wipe" and slide the bar. Once this is done tap "Back" and the back button on the bottom right. Next, tap Install and scroll down to EclipticOne.zip (I used 3.0) tap it and slide the bar to install. It takes about 3 minutes. Once it's sucessful go ahead and reboot to system.
Now you'll notice the touchscreen is broken. Not to fear, we can fix that by flashing the firmware for 4.1 with the RUU program. It acts like a setup at first but it's a firmware flashing tool. Just follow the directions and wait (around 6 minutes for me but it says 10).
But wait! We're still not done! This removed our root so we want to let it boot up completely then go back to our recovery and on exiting (reboot into system) it will ask if we want to have root. Slide the bar to accept and wait for boot. Once it does find the SuperSU app and open it. It will tell you you're not done yet so select TWRP to let it install itself for you.
Now we're at the final stretch! Search the Play Store for Sprint Unlock Helper and download it. Open it up and follow the instructions there and... Well I'm still not there yet so give me a minute... Currently rebooting from TWRP root right now.
Okay, so it worked! Also, I had flashed a changed OMAD file in the begining and when I touched simlock it didn't work but I put in a sim card and changed to GSM so... Hell yeah. Hopefully this works for you too!
Link for Firewater
http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/
Firewater Guide link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632351
Link for HTC Dev
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Link for Sprint TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2652498
Link for RUU Flashing Tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2508907
Link for 4.1 ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2324338
Link for 4.1 Touch Screen Firmware
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46225907