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Anyway to s off apart from xtc clip

My gf has this pile of junk and i wanna root it but can't find anything apart from get an xtc clip. Is there another way to do it yet . I see alpharev also has nothing also

No. Only xtc clip can do it

Pile of junk? Way to get help.
Sent from my A810e using Tapatalk

qbert456 said:
Pile of junk? Way to get help.
Sent from my A810e using Tapatalk
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It really is tho so there's no need to beat around the bush

No, there's no way to get S-OFF apart from using a XTC Clip.
What you can get is a temp root while S-ON, but without write permission in system directories.
I'm not sure about this (someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe you can't even flash OTA Factory ROMs without S-OFFing this phone.

It is what it is, if you want a high end android look elsewhere- if you want a keyboard there ain't many options.
It could be better I agree- but junk?
I prefer it to a desire-z that I had before!
Sent from my A810e using Tapatalk

astro11 said:
I'm not sure about this (someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe you can't even flash OTA Factory ROMs without S-OFFing this phone.
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you cannot apply OTA updates, but can flash official RUU using the gold card method

ajeevlal said:
you cannot apply OTA updates, but can flash official RUU using the gold card method
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this question can be really stupid, but what is the difference between OTA updates and official RUUs?
actually, what is the difference between a ROM and a RUU? What does it mean?

Does anyone tried androidadvices.com/root-install-custom-recovery-htc-chacha-tutorial ?

I have simlocked phone, so i don't know, should i try this?
I don't know how to unlock phone, for free?

wanderer_wk said:
Does anyone tried androidadvices.com/root-install-custom-recovery-htc-chacha-tutorial ?
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curious. i'll try this when I go home tonight.
since I'm in Brazil, I had to unlock my phone... paid 10 USD for it. it's just a code, there are a lot of websites which generate them automagically if you send your ChaCha's IMEI and 10 bucks.

wanderer_wk said:
Does anyone tried androidadvices.com/root-install-custom-recovery-htc-chacha-tutorial ?
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That doesn't tell us how to S-OFF. Just install a recovery, which we already have a guide for.

astro11 said:
curious. i'll try this when I go home tonight.
since I'm in Brazil, I had to unlock my phone... paid 10 USD for it. it's just a code, there are a lot of websites which generate them automagically if you send your ChaCha's IMEI and 10 bucks.
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In my country paypal don't work. 10 bucks is not problem, but how to pay 10$ is problem

qzfive said:
That doesn't tell us how to S-OFF. Just install a recovery, which we already have a guide for.
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but we can't install a custom recovery being S-ON. can we?
actually, I'm trying to understand what S-ON users can do... I already know that it's impossible to install OTA ROMs, but it's possible to temproot if you have a specific ROM version.
well, I think I've read so many posts and threads that I'm already confusing the information on my head.

astro11 said:
but we can't install a custom recovery being S-ON. can we?
actually, I'm trying to understand what S-ON users can do... I already know that it's impossible to install OTA ROMs, but it's possible to temproot if you have a specific ROM version.
well, I think I've read so many posts and threads that I'm already confusing the information on my head.
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Truly, you are confused
S-ON users have little power of their mobile device.. They cannot install a custom recovery, a custom rom, a different area/language rom (for example, I cannot install Asia rom on my Europe ChaCha since the CIDs are different) and so on. Yet I find it hard to believe that flashing CWM over the S-ON HBOOT will give you S-OFF. The engineering S-ON is a security flag set for bootloader protection.
If anyone wants to try this, feel free to do it but don't get your hopes up and don't be mad if it won't work. As you can see in the link, on the last page, they have a screenshot with a so called S-OFF'ed device, yet HBOOT is still S-ON. So there is no proof of it.

Anyone tryed this yet?

liderzre said:
Anyone tryed this yet?
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+1!
I am about to try though but as Alex says, they show a picture with the ChaCha still being S-ON.
I am searching in the Netherlands here to get my hands on a clip to S-OFF my ChaCha but so far no luck
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edit: I think the post author just copied the tut posted on this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15954564&postcount=1

astro11 said:
No, there's no way to get S-OFF apart from using a XTC Clip.
What you can get is a temp root while S-ON, but without write permission in system directories.
I'm not sure about this (someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe you can't even flash OTA Factory ROMs without S-OFFing this phone.
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It's true. I've tried and tried so many times and it's a no go. I hate S-ON. :'(
ajeevlal said:
you cannot apply OTA updates, but can flash official RUU using the gold card method
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I'll try this next... I hope it works because I just really want my stock ROM back.... My old working stock ROM... Stupid of me not to make a Nandroid backup via CWM when all was working fine.... :'(

Can anyone provide me the image of a s-off Htc Chacha and the same ones s-on?

[Q] Stock HTC Sensation Telstra RUU

So recently my phone started having issues with the wireless and bluetooth, I've asked a few times on XDA-Developers on what might be causing this problem, but no one seems to know.
I've finally decided to do a warranty job on it, as no amount of ROM, radio, or kernal flashing is fixing it.
I'm up to rebranding my phone, and I was wondering if anyone had a copy of the stock HTC Sensation Telstra ROM, and anything else I may need apart from that when doing a warranty job?

There is a stock RUU listed in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
I have flashed it before.

That Telstra RUU installs with the greatest of ease
You will also need to S-ON your phone. Find the guide in the stickies at the top of the dev forum and read, read, read before you start. Those that don't read the instructions end up with an expensive paperweight

tlgerdes said:
There is a stock RUU listed in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
I have flashed it before.
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Yeah, that one didn't work for me sorry mate.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22179503&postcount=193

ReeF666 said:
Yeah, that one didn't work for me sorry mate.
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When you say it didnt work, do you mean you couldnt download it or couldnt flash it?

tlgerdes said:
When you say it didnt work, do you mean you couldnt download it or couldnt flash it?
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Greatly sorry about the fuss, it just required me to try it over and over again about 20 odd times before it finally worked. It also requires you to take yourself to the Bootloader via ADB.

ReeF666 said:
Greatly sorry about the fuss, it just required me to try it over and over again about 20 odd times before it finally worked. It also requires you to take yourself to the Bootloader via ADB.
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Glad you got it going

Reverting OTA?

The latest OTA update has made my phone useless as a
phone, as it now gets no mobile reception...
Is there a way to reverse this upgrade?
My other option is a custom ROM, but i would prefer to stay stock at the moment if at all possible.

you can always run an RUU - One that doesnt contain the update

I was just educating myself on RUUs.
does it matter which one i run? i think my phone is unlocked/unbranded (i bought it second hand) but i'm not sure
EDIT: Nevermind, i checked my baseband against the list of RUUs and found that it is in fact unbranded. Now i know which one to get... just need FileFsctory to let me get it...

which is it you need ? Chances are there's a mirror somewhere

found a mirror, thanks

back to start... i tried to install the 1.53 version and it game an error 140 (bootloader)

I think its because the OTA updated the bootloader !
you cannot downgrade using RUU unless you have S-OFF

Well, i guess i'll have to root and install a custom ROM.
Thanks for the help!

what part do you want to revert ? The radio update ? Cause if so, there is a way to do this

Yeah, the radio. When i was 0.15 radio it worked, now with 0.16 it doesn't

Ok have a look at this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684477
I dont think you have to have CWM installed on your device, You just need it on your PC, So you can boot into it.

Thanks! can't seem to find a 0.15 radio though

kuroyume_cl said:
The latest OTA update has made my phone useless as a
phone, as it now gets no mobile reception...
Is there a way to reverse this upgrade?
My other option is a custom ROM, but i would prefer to stay stock at the moment if at all possible.
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OP does know the consequences of rooting devices right? It avoids your warrenty.
So just want to make sure, do you not get reception anywhere or only at certain area? If the former, it may indicate a fault on your phone caused by the update and you should not deal with it by rooting cos there is a chance rooting and downgrading may not fix it then you would have no where to go. The right move IMO, is to take the phone back to point of sale and demand an exchange. Most of users like me do not have such problem after update.
Just to remind, if you know what you are doing, by all means.
Sent from my HTC One S using XDA

kuroyume_cl said:
Thanks! can't seem to find a 0.15 radio though
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extract it from an ruu

h.han said:
OP does know the consequences of rooting devices right? It avoids your warrenty.
So just want to make sure, do you not get reception anywhere or only at certain area? If the former, it may indicate a fault on your phone caused by the update and you should not deal with it by rooting cos there is a chance rooting and downgrading may not fix it then you would have no where to go. The right move IMO, is to take the phone back to point of sale and demand an exchange. Most of users like me do not have such problem after update.
Just to remind, if you know what you are doing, by all means.
Sent from my HTC One S using XDA
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The point of sale is a few thousand kilometers away
No warranty in my country, so i have to figure this out by myself
I have rooted and installed roms on previous phones, but this one seems more... complicated
azzledazzle said:
extract it from an ruu
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how? (sorry about all of this, but never had an HTC before)

kuroyume_cl said:
how? (sorry about all of this, but never had an HTC before)
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Look here http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/extract-rom-from-ruu once extracted the rom.zip, open it up and take out the radio.img.
put it in the place where you keep all your adb stuff. and flash it using the method linked a few posts back

Went though the whole process but baseband version still reads 0.16xxxxxxxx
It doesn't seem to have worked

Well, at this point i'm fairly certain i need to rollback my radio, as i installed CM9 and still no cell signal. I checked and it had the same baseband as the 1.78 ROM.

Can't Get Back To Unrooted Stock No Matter What I Try

Last week I went back to stock to familiarize myself with the process (which unfortunately brought my HBoot to 1.14). I also decided to try out TWRP when I rooted again. But before I could finish up I hit a button in TWRP that didn't need any confirmation. I don't remember which button because it did what it did quicker than I could notice. After that I couldn't even flash a ROM because I couldn't mount the sd card and whatever happened erased everything on my phone but I ended up figuring that out.Now I'm on ViperOneS but I can't unroot. I can't flash either of the RUU (Error 155) that are for T-Mobile US I even changed my CID to 11111111 but no dice(and yes I did flash the stock recovery and boot before relocking). The only thing I can do to get close to unrooted stock is flash the nandroid of a rooted stock ROM. Now I haven't mentioned every method I've tried, so before I start getting bashed for not searching, I want to mention that I've been at this for about 4 days and I have tried EVERYTHING that I've found on XDA and other forums but nothings worked. Is it my HBoot that prevents from doing anything? Should get another One S? Or should I just be thankful that I have a functioning phone?
Sorry for the long winded post but I wanted to make sure I put in as much detail as possible.

antny said:
Last week I went back to stock to familiarize myself with the process (which unfortunately brought my HBoot to 1.14). I also decided to try out TWRP when I rooted again. But before I could finish up I hit a button in TWRP that didn't need any confirmation. I don't remember which button because it did what it did quicker than I could notice. After that I couldn't even flash a ROM because I couldn't mount the sd card and whatever happened erased everything on my phone but I ended up figuring that out.Now I'm on ViperOneS but I can't unroot. I can't flash either of the RUU (Error 155) that are for T-Mobile US I even changed my CID to 11111111 but no dice(and yes I did flash the stock recovery and boot before relocking). The only thing I can do to get close to unrooted stock is flash the nandroid of a rooted stock ROM. Now I haven't mentioned every method I've tried, so before I start getting bashed for not searching, I want to mention that I've been at this for about 4 days and I have tried EVERYTHING that I've found on XDA and other forums but nothings worked. Is it my HBoot that prevents from doing anything? Should get another One S? Or should I just be thankful that I have a functioning phone?
Sorry for the long winded post but I wanted to make sure I put in as much detail as possible.
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It's most likely your hboot that prevents the RUU's from working. You can only use a RUU that contain a hboot of 1.14 or higher.
Since your signature says HBoot: 1.14 & Radio: 1.08ts.50.02.16_10.08e.50.04L. I assume you updated via the T-mobile US OTA, is that correct?
What's interesting is that other hboots in the 1.14 family are listed as 1.14.0002 but the T-mobile OTA the hboot is labeled 1.14.0004. I haven't seen anyone state if this is will prevent "downgrading" to 1.14.002 and don't feel like finding out myself.
What RUU are you trying?

dc211 said:
It's most likely your hboot that prevents the RUU's from working. You can only use a RUU that contain a hboot of 1.14 or higher.
Since your signature says HBoot: 1.14 & Radio: 1.08ts.50.02.16_10.08e.50.04L. I assume you updated via the T-mobile US OTA, is that correct?
What's interesting is that other hboots in the 1.14 family are listed as 1.14.0002 but the T-mobile OTA the hboot is labeled 1.14.0004. I haven't seen anyone state if this is will prevent "downgrading" to 1.14.002 and don't feel like finding out myself.
What RUU are you trying?
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Yeah it was the T-Mobile OTA, worst decision ever... I've tried both the 1.84 and 1.53 T-Mo RRU's multiple times and since I changed my CID I've thought of trying another carriers but I don't want to possibly make things worse.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium

antny said:
Yeah it was the T-Mobile OTA, worst decision ever... I've tried both the 1.84 and 1.53 T-Mo RRU's multiple times and since I changed my CID I've thought of trying another carriers but I don't want to possibly make things worse.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
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I feel your pain. I updated with the OTA that moved us to hboot 1.13 before anyone said they changed the security :crying:.
The 1.84 and 1.53 RUU's wouldn't work for sure. 1.84 has the 1.13 hboot and 1.53 has the 1.09 hboot. Your only hope of using an RUU at this time is one of the Europe RUU's. The good news is that you already moved to supercid so you got that out of the way.
The ones that might work are the ones labeled "RUU_Ville_U_ICE_40_S_Europe_2.xxxxxx"
Here you can get the 2.21 RUU I can't recall if it's the 4.0.4 based one though. Not really sure where to get the other ones as file factory changed their download rules.
http://www.mediafire.com/?xlklqrlljb2zt#r9489rkr82wh2
You might need to click the "mainver error fix" on the on the All-in-one tool kit to get them to work since you would be downgrading the rom.
And if you do use that RUU from mediafire you can go here and click the thanks button for SneakyGhost for putting up the RUU for you to download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32262143&postcount=153
Then go here and click the thanks button for Football since he's the only source of RUU's there is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23542379&postcount=1
Good luck.

I've downgraded from 2.31 to 2.21, I know both have HBOOT 1.14 but not exactly sure if they have the exact identical numbers after the 1.14.
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antny said:
Yeah it was the T-Mobile OTA, worst decision ever... I've tried both the 1.84 and 1.53 T-Mo RRU's multiple times and since I changed my CID I've thought of trying another carriers but I don't want to possibly make things worse.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
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2.21 RUU worked better for me than the T-Mobile stock Rom, it doesn't have w Wi-Fi calling do if that's a must for you only hope is to wait for the T-Mobile 2.35 RUU to be released.
HTC One S

dc211 said:
I feel your pain. I updated with the OTA that moved us to hboot 1.13 before anyone said they changed the security :crying:.
The 1.84 and 1.53 RUU's wouldn't work for sure. 1.84 has the 1.13 hboot and 1.53 has the 1.09 hboot. Your only hope of using an RUU at this time is one of the Europe RUU's. The good news is that you already moved to supercid so you got that out of the way.
The ones that might work are the ones labeled "RUU_Ville_U_ICE_40_S_Europe_2.xxxxxx"
Here you can get the 2.21 RUU I can't recall if it's the 4.0.4 based one though. Not really sure where to get the other ones as file factory changed their download rules.
http://www.mediafire.com/?xlklqrlljb2zt#r9489rkr82wh2
You might need to click the "mainver error fix" on the on the All-in-one tool kit to get them to work since you would be downgrading the rom.
And if you do use that RUU from mediafire you can go here and click the thanks button for SneakyGhost for putting up the RUU for you to download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32262143&postcount=153
Then go here and click the thanks button for Football since he's the only source of RUU's there is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23542379&postcount=1
Good luck.
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I've thanked Football and gone to the link you provided but I don't get the whole Pt.1,2 and 3 thing. What am I supposed to do with that?
Edit: All good, just got it from the Dropbox link.... T-Mobile and Easy Tether don't mix.
fmedrano1977 said:
I've downgraded from 2.31 to 2.21, I know both have HBOOT 1.14 but not exactly sure if they have the exact identical numbers after the 1.14.
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2.21 RUU worked better for me than the T-Mobile stock Rom, it doesn't have w Wi-Fi calling do if that's a must for you only hope is to wait for the T-Mobile 2.35 RUU to be released.
HTC One S
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I don't really care about wifi calling, cool feature but I hardly use it. Is it 4.0.4 and Sense 4.1 though? It wouldnt stop me from using it if it wasn't but I'm just curious haha.

4.0.4 and Sense 4.0
HTC One S

fmedrano1977 said:
4.0.4 and Sense 4.0
HTC One S
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Cool Cool Cool thanks

Ah! Great success. I'm now running the European 2.21 RUU and it's great. Thanks again guys. Hopefully if someone's in the same position as I was they'll find this useful.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium

antny said:
Ah! Great success. I'm now running the European 2.21 RUU and it's great. Thanks again guys. Hopefully if someone's in the same position as I was they'll find this useful.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
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Glad it worked out for you.

antny said:
Ah! Great success. I'm now running the European 2.21 RUU and it's great. Thanks again guys. Hopefully if someone's in the same position as I was they'll find this useful.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
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One last thing I did after installing that RUU was edit the build.prop to match some lines from the T-Mobile one:
ro.ril.hsdpa.category=24
ro.ril.hsupa.category=6
ro.ril.hsxpa=4
ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule=2
ro.ril.radio.svn=1
Make sure those match, these have given me the fastest DL speeds.
HTC One S

Yes! Thank you. This seems to be what I'm looking for. You can see the question I posted recently about this similar issue. But I also don't understand the part 1, 2, and 3 thing. Help?

DoogleDood said:
Yes! Thank you. This seems to be what I'm looking for. You can see the question I posted recently about this similar issue. But I also don't understand the part 1, 2, and 3 thing. Help?
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What are you trying to do?
HTC One S

Nevermind I got it! I wasn't sure if the 3 "parts" of the EU RUU needed to be combined or... what. But upon extracting I found the full file.

fmedrano1977 said:
One last thing I did after installing that RUU was edit the build.prop to match some lines from the T-Mobile one:
ro.ril.hsdpa.category=24
ro.ril.hsupa.category=6
ro.ril.hsxpa=4
ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule=2
ro.ril.radio.svn=1
Make sure those match, these have given me the fastest DL speeds.
HTC One S
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Why thank you sir.

antny said:
Why thank you sir.
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Please someone help me I just flashed axiom rom wifif won't work I tryd other roms too, wifi won't work how can I fix this ??
Do I need to flash a RUU I am new to this. I had th latest tmo update before I rooted the phone people says that's why wifi won't work in other thread.
Please help me fix this !!!

johnyguy said:
Please someone help me I just flashed axiom rom wifif won't work I tryd other roms too, wifi won't work how can I fix this ??
Do I need to flash a RUU I am new to this. I had th latest tmo update before I rooted the phone people says that's why wifi won't work in other thread.
Please help me fix this !!!
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I'm honestly not to sure on how to fix this. I've searched it before I went back to stock (going back to stock is a definite fix) and couldn't find much on it. I'm sure something has developed from it by now though. Actually :: navigates to another tab:: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900644 if it's compatible with your ROM, this kernel claims to have a fix for wifi and sound (I don't know what the sound issue is all about) but try that, it might work. But most importantly search, read, search and read some more, especially since you're new to this, I've rooted many phones and I still had problems with the One S. Good luck!

Found RUU 2.35 and finally got my phone back to stock. I posted info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941402

sylvestk said:
Found RUU 2.35 and finally got my phone back to stock. I posted info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941402
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That release gives you the no data when screen is off issue.
HTC One S

Need help finding correct RUU to return to stock

I'd like to return to stock JB for moonshine S-OFF, and the software version that was last installed before I rooted was 3.14.531.17 710RD. This was the small update that was released to fix the battery drain after the release of JB for the One S. It was released right after 3.14.531.11, which I see an RUU for. My question is: Can I use the 3.14.531.11 RUU (detailed RUU name: RUU_Ville_U_JB_45_S_TMOUS_3.14.531.11_Radio_1.13.50.05.31_10.30.50.08L_release_309489_signed_ICS_2) even though I upgraded, before rooting and installing CM10.1, to 3.14.531.17? All other relevant information matches.
Thanks.
EDIT: Nevermind, stupid question. Of course that number denotes the software version so I'll be fine for S-OFF as long as I don't OTA upgrade to 3.14.531.17.

can someone confirm this? been trying to find info on this, having no luck.

I don't know if you need them to match but I do know here is the link for the last updates RUU

noknife said:
can someone confirm this? been trying to find info on this, having no luck.
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Yes, this is correct. Use that RUU.exe to return to stock, and it will also work when using Moonshine.
That RUU.exe is for U.S. tmobile users.

tivofool said:
Yes, this is correct. Use that RUU.exe to return to stock, and it will also work when using Moonshine.
That RUU.exe is for U.S. tmobile users.
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Thanks for the info. Would have responded sooner but didn't notice your response till now. still quite knew to android (haven't even owned mine a month) , so have been reading A LOT.. You knew exactly what I was trying to achieve there. Success!! Got s-off, and supercid. Running MaximusHD 10.0.0 right now. One more quick question though if you don't mind. Can there be issues switching between mods, as long as I don't go ruu obviously. Thanks for your time.

noknife said:
snipped.... Can there be issues switching between mods, as long as I don't go ruu obviously. Thanks for your time.
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Mods? I don't use any mods on Maximus, so I don't know about that.
If you mean switching between ROMs when you have Maximus installed, then yes, you need to downgrade your firmware to try any other rom after Maximus is installed.

tivofool said:
Mods? I don't use any mods on Maximus, so I don't know about that.
If you mean switching between ROMs when you have Maximus installed, then yes, you need to downgrade your firmware to try any other rom after Maximus is installed.
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ha, yeah meant roms, still getting used to the auto correct. not only first android, first smart phone.ha. that's the answer i was looking for. thanks for reading between my clumsiness, think i'll leave her alone for now then. it's easy enough so far, but all it takes is once. thanks for the info