The root/ROM community in Android may not be as big as it once was, but there are still hardcore enthusiasts out there who refuse to buy any phone unless its software is modifiable. For those of you, there’s good news – SunShine now supports S-OFF for HTC’s latest flagship, the U11.
Hot off the fire that is @firewaterdevs SunShine now supports S-OFF for the HTC U11. https://t.co/nDGezwnUHW
— Jon Sawyer (@jcase) August 26, 2017
If you don’t know what S-OFF is, it’s essentially an unlocking of HTC phones’ security that enables users to modify system partitions (and have them survive reboots) and flash unsigned firmware zip files (see this XDA forums post for a more detailed explanation).
S-OFF is now available for the HTC U11 via SunShine was written by the awesome team at Android Police.