GPe shipped with S-ON

[anon(654396)]

Thought they were shipped S-OFF as Phil's preview unit image showed his being S-OFF. Weird they now ship these units S-ON.

 

[mattopotamus]

What is s-off and s-on? I have been hearing about it recently. Is it something to do with the bootloader on HTC devices.

 

[scorpiodsu]

What is s-off and s-on? I have been hearing about it recently. Is it something to do with the bootloader on HTC devices.

S-off just gives full access and bypassing security restrictions. But with an unlocked bootloader and being able to flash having S-on is not as big of a deal as it used to be. It's much more easy to brick your device with S-off because you now have access to bypass restrictions that were protecting you. Good read below.

HTCdev - Unlock Bootloader

 

[mdandashly]

After unrooting, "Tampered: does not go away. This is an S-on feature.

 

[Raptor007]

You can remove the Tampered indicator.

 

[mdandashly]

You can remove the Tampered indicator.

How do I remove the tampered indicator? I have not been able to find a way to do this.

 

[karn101]

It's basically a security feature. The important issues it brings to flashers is that if you're S-ON, you cannot write to the /system while Android is booted (although some kernels know how to bypass this) and when flashing ROMs, you have to flash boot.img seperately.

Other than that, it doesn't make a big difference to most. As was said before, it's very hard to hard-brick an S-On device. For S-Off, you just need to read instructions carefully before doing anything.

 

[Raptor007]

When I get home I will look back through my notes and post back on how to do it. I do believe it requires S-Off to do it and some are not comfortable with going that far.

 

[Raptor007]

I would suggest reading this thread Vomer's Ultimate AIO Guide - S-OFF, SuperCID, Firmware Upgrade & Custom Recovery - xda-developers it should help.