I was one of the unfortunate saps that had HBOOT 1.5 instead of 1.3 or 1.4. You could get S-OFF on everything but HBOOT 1.5. There had been talk on the XDA forums about trying to get HBOOT downgraded, but I figured it was just easier to ditch the phone than to wait with bated breath.

<quote><p>I would assume he means he would stick with dev devices. Which is what those of us who want an unlocked bootloader do now.</p></quote>

Yup. I've been buying HTC phones since they were doing Windows Mobile 6.x phones for T-Mobile (T-Mobile MDA/Wizard). I even took my HTC HD2 and learned to put Android on it. When I switched to Sprint, found that I couldn't do an S-OFF on my HTC Evo 3D, and had to jump through hoops just to change ROMs, I traded it in and "downgraded" to a Nexus S 4G. Best decision ever.

They might not listen, or they might -- who knows? <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/common/survey. aspx?scid=sw;en-gb;1348&showpage=1&WS=mscomukform1 ">Let Microsoft know about the mistake they're making by writing to them!</a> (I found the link at the torrent site for AutoPatcher.)