HTC One - S-Off Achieved

[zerogear]

http://androidspin.com/2013/05/01/htc-one-s-off-achieved-htc-users-can-now-rejoice-as-well/

 

[jacktesterson]

Great news for HTC One owners - I hate the whole "S-On" restrictions on HTC phones but never really looked into what it truly is.

 

[zerogear]

Great news for HTC One owners - I hate the whole "S-On" restrictions on HTC phones but never really looked into what it truly is.

It's usually for flashing restricted areas, like custom recoveries for nandroid backups and custom roms. Samsung usually have a 'custom flash' counter, so while it's not locked, it does void warranty.

 

[ChronoReverse]

That's awesome! It took them a year to get it for the Snapdragon One X's (and never achieved for the Tegra3 ones).

It's good that the One is Snapdragon.

 

[s44]

The bad: there's no released way to do this; the folks who figured it out are charging money per device
The good: S-ON on this device doesn't protect the kernel, recovery, or system once you go through the bootloader unlock process. So it's not as big a deal as on previous HTC models.

 

[zerogear]

Yeah, I'm hoping that it won't be long before community devs figure it out, since it was already done.

 

[dawheat]

$30? Part of me believes they can and should monetize their work, but it feels so unlike the open dev community that's made Android what it is today.

 

[turn_pike]

Well, most people wont need S-off

Check out this post explaining the difference between S-Off and Unlocked.

To put things in perspective (and these are my/+CyanogenMod's opinions); I'm not particularly concerned about devices being S-OFF. Even if they were, I wouldn't want to (or be able to) make changes to the radio anyways. I do want my phones to be unlocked so I can flash custom firmware, and I can do that.

Until such time when custom firmware for radio is flourishing, I would leave my S .. on.

 

[gorcorps]

$30? Part of me believes they can and should monetize their work, but it feels so unlike the open dev community that's made Android what it is today.

Yeah, I'm torn. I mean if they're truly the first to do this successfully I suppose they deserve some compensation for it. Especially because it's probably just a matter of patience. If they did it, then there's not much stopping the rest of the "free" community from doing it too. So I guess it's just a matter of if you're willing to pay to get it now.

 

[vshah]

whatever. not really needed on the One. can flash most everything you would want to without it.