It's looking like the OTA is breaking current root methods as well, though I've seen a couple of successes with rootkeeper.
Anybody see any corroborating evidence on XDA? I just haven't had a chance to get over there today.
Define success.
Loss of s-off, potentially forever? Loss of ability to flash radios, splash zips and kernels? Loss of working recovery functions we've taken for granted for over a month?
It's really simple - HTC tends to release updated bootloaders ONLY when the dev community has gotten around them.
As soon as Rxpert posted that there was a likely bootloader change this morning, it was obvious, the rest has simply been a matter of watching it unfold.
Both Regaw's one-click and the LazyPanda, as well as TWRP 2.1.8, were getting around HTC's intentions.
Forget Rootkeeper, forget going with the OTA.
There are zero reasons to Mickey Mouse around like that - none, zip, nada.
People bragging about success have yet to discover the pain that awaits them because they're trying to avoid full root (perm root + unlocked bootloader + custom recovery) and are simply trying to wish their way to success.
Others are singing the blues that the Rootkeeper approach left them high and dry (not Rootkeeper's fault - it was a fall-back method, and never required here).
Quote of the day goes to flex360 at XDA for someone claiming it was all peachy -
he correctly identified the OP as simply living in denial.
And my favorite off-forum remark today -
...the advice of "Don't accept OTA's when rooted" is relatively valid advice.
Yep. Correct. Exactly.
Just like the ocean is relatively wet.