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[Q] HTC Sensation 4g How To Turn S-On?

Ok I have rooted and turned s-off as well as installed Sense O Maniac Sense. I have to send my phone to tmobile to get a replacement and I don't know how to turn S back On...I reflashed my backup of the original rom and need to turn S back On. How Can i Go About doing so? As well as unrooting It? Anyone please help me....links or links to download whatever I need to. I am still learning this stuff and this is my first sensation I have done. Thank you in advance.

Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 everything is in there. Good luck!

StefanB86 said:
Read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 everything is in there. Good luck!
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Do You Know If There Will Be An OTA Update For Ourphones? Ever Again?

tongueman87 said:
Do You Know If There Will Be An OTA Update For Ourphones? Ever Again?
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Yes, eventually to Sense 3.5 (2.3.5) and then awhile down to the road to ICS (hasn't been confirmed, but I'm pretty sure).

aNYthing24 said:
Yes, eventually to Sense 3.5 (2.3.5) and then awhile down to the road to ICS (hasn't been confirmed, but I'm pretty sure).
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Well I tried the Sense-o-Maniac 2.3.5 sense 3.5 rom and I didn't really like it I guess cause I didn't notice anything different. Other than some bloat removed and beats audio which I loved! But I watched my phone go from 100% to 95% in 10 minutes of just listening to music....Dont Know why though....I would like to know what are the best roms that any of you can advise me to try that is good on battery life and get quite a differnet kick out of it if that makes sense

I haven't tried a Sense ROM if you're looking for that. CM7 is pretty different from any sort of Sense ROM but people have some mixed reviews on the battery life. It's been ok to pretty good for me, but I have an extended battery and I underclock/undervolt and use a custom kernel.

You could try Leedroid 4.0. Works great MIUI is awesome too. I personally use kernels from Faux but you could use stock kernels or kernels from Bricked too.
Sent from my Sensation using Tapatalk

Ok problem I followed the steps to turn s back on and now its stuck at the boot loader screen i tried the following pull out battery and re-insert due to the security warning and then tried to re-run ruu.exe well everything went fine except one small thing signature error 132....so now my phone is stuck in the damn bootloader screen where i can pick boot loader reboot etc.....what do i do? Please ANY HELP?

Extract the ROM.zip from ruu rename PG58IMG.zip, put on root of sd card, boot to hboot and, when prompted, yes to flash.

Thank you alot. I downloaded a newer ruu and it worked. I am now s-on and factory 2.3.4 is there any way to flash sensation xl factory Rom without root? Just by using ruu?
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as far as i got it is your phone a 4g and u want to flash xl ruu ? at least u need supercid for that and dont nail me on that answer but i think u need root for supercid

Firmware flashing.

First off all i am a total noob.
I just want to flash the Virtuous Inquisition rom but i heard it needs some firmwares and stuff. there are to many details and i dont know which one i should do first.
im on hyper sensation (cm7) .
How is supercid, firmware and hboot helping?
Can someone provide me some intructions ?

ccs16rocks said:
First off all i am a total noob.
I just want to flash the Virtuous Inquisition rom but i heard it needs some firmwares and stuff. there are to many details and i dont know which one i should do first.
im on hyper sensation (cm7) .
How is supercid, firmware and hboot helping?
Can someone provide me some intructions ?
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Simple and easy! relax. heres what you need to do:
1. U must be rooted and s-off which I assume you are, right?
2. Do superCID, It is very easy and simple. Scroll down here and follow instruction on #4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300 Just download the adb tool, make sure you have htc synce installed in ur PC cause you need the HTC drivers and make sure your phone is plugged in as charge only. Also make sure you check usb debugging in settings.
Then basiclly follow the steps in # 4 .
3. Now after all that is done, it is time for the Firmware. Simple, download it from the posted link. Copy it and paste it into the root of your SD card. So you go computer >> Removable disk and paste it there. Now turn off your device. Then Boot your device holding power button + vol down button and you follow the screen just say yes! it will do itself until its done. Now shut ur phone down and removed the SD card. Plug it to your computer and removed the Firmware from your SD card. Then put the SD card back in phone, Boot your device holding power button + vol down button and do superwipe and then flash your ROM!!! you all set!! Again "Make sure u remove Firmware from SD card when its done installing or else you will end up in bootloops"!
Ejoy!

thank you. 2 more questions:
which firmware should i chose and i can still run gb on them ?

Virtuous inquisition runs on the 3.24 firmware(I believe, haven't checked the thread in a few days,) so I would flash the 3.24 firmware. Firmware 3.24 and above isn't compatible with gb roms though, so you'd have to flash older firmware if you wanted to revert to gb afterwards. Hope I helped
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jiggaman508 said:
Firmware 3.24 and above isn't compatible with gb roms though, so you'd have to flash older firmware if you wanted to revert to gb afterwards.
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And that's the reason why you should have SuperCID first, so you can downgrade back to GB ROM.

If you're that much of a n00b then you shouldn't do ANYTHING until you know what you're doing. What if something goes wrong? Do you know the RUU to use to get back to stock?
Search and find the answers as knowledge is power!

I'd tend to side with Eddyos on this one. Flashing the newest firmware does give you ICS but it also complicates your life because it is more difficult to go back to GB. Personally I'm waiting for an actual official htc released ICS rom before I make the jump, GB does everything I need and want and doesn't give me any problems at all. I see you're on cm7 right now, have you tried any of the 3.0 or 3.5 rom's yet? If not, I'd give those a try first before jumping into the firmware upgrade and ICS, but it's all up to you in the end though, weigh the benefits vs the issues and decide for yourself if it's worth it.

I agree with ^^^^, flashed the ICS firmware on my phone, and while i like alot of the new functionality and visual look of it, it is definitely not complete.
Give it a few weeks and then make the move

Lol thats a bit harsh. A noob must learn by experience.
EddyOS said:
If you're that much of a n00b then you shouldn't do ANYTHING until you know what you're doing. What if something goes wrong? Do you know the RUU to use to get back to stock?
Search and find the answers as knowledge is power!
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Its easy stuff man dont be scared.
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kingston73 said:
I'd tend to side with Eddyos on this one. Flashing the newest firmware does give you ICS but it also complicates your life because it is more difficult to go back to GB. Personally I'm waiting for an actual official htc released ICS rom before I make the jump, GB does everything I need and want and doesn't give me any problems at all. I see you're on cm7 right now, have you tried any of the 3.0 or 3.5 rom's yet? If not, I'd give those a try first before jumping into the firmware upgrade and ICS, but it's all up to you in the end though, weigh the benefits vs the issues and decide for yourself if it's worth it.
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Nicely said Wait for the official release and try GB ROMs for now..and there are plenty of them to TRY

How to re-flash completely non-touched STOCK ROM on HTC Sensation?

Hi. I'm a new user of this magnificient device since last Friday. Today, as I wanted to try the camera hq mod, I installed ARHD and didn't like it at all. Performance was noticeably better with stock rom and benchmarks gave me better scores. Right now I installed arhd's chef stock odexed rom and I'm not satisfied either.
So, I want to go back to stock ROM and my phone to behave as if nothing happened today. I don't mind about S-OFF and so on, I don't want to make it S-ON again, although it would be good. I just want to go back to stock rom.
In order to do this, I downloaded the latest RUU (RUU_PYRAMID_ICS_HTC_Europe_3.32.401.5) and tried to install it, but it gives me an error at the beggining.
Thanks in advance

What does it say in h boot? You need to provide all of the information from h boot.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G with Beats Audio using xda premium

My phone is rooted with Juopounutbear with its hboot version 1.27.0000.

You need to downgrade your h boot to 1.17 to flash back to GB ROM. Then run the ruu,exe to return to stock. 1.27 h boot is for ICS only and is incompatible with GB. This is based on what I've been reading here on the forums.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G with Beats Audio using xda premium

resadent said:
Hi. I'm a new user of this magnificient device since last Friday. Today, as I wanted to try the camera hq mod, I installed ARHD and didn't like it at all. Performance was noticeably better with stock rom and benchmarks gave me better scores. Right now I installed arhd's chef stock odexed rom and I'm not satisfied either.
So, I want to go back to stock ROM and my phone to behave as if nothing happened today. I don't mind about S-OFF and so on, I don't want to make it S-ON again, although it would be good. I just want to go back to stock rom.
In order to do this, I downloaded the latest RUU (RUU_PYRAMID_ICS_HTC_Europe_3.32.401.5) and tried to install it, but it gives me an error at the beggining.
Thanks in advance
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as you are soff the only reason the ruu failed was because of cid error..
try checking your cid . "fastboot getvar cid"
if its HTC__001 then the above ruu works for you...
i recommend you to go for supercid ...ie cid as 11111111 this will give you the privilege to run any RUU... at the cost of not having updates..form HTC
to do that
1.go to fastboot on your device and connect it to your pc
2.type "fastboot oem writecid 11111111" without quotes and the cid should be eight 1's.
then run the RUU you are having...that should work...
if you want to recieve updates from HTC ...you can change your cid to any braned/unbranded version...
you can use the above command to change your cid to any value
( i recommend to have HTC__001 as its European unbranded and the device with this cid always receives updates first)

Thanks guys... I'm going to try and change my CID to normal as you say. Hope I can maintain my recovery at least.
PS: It's working ! Hope now I can make a nandroid backup of everything and be more safe about this

resadent said:
Hi. I'm a new user of this magnificient device since last Friday. Today, as I wanted to try the camera hq mod, I installed ARHD and didn't like it at all. Performance was noticeably better with stock rom and benchmarks gave me better scores. Right now I installed arhd's chef stock odexed rom and I'm not satisfied either.
So, I want to go back to stock ROM and my phone to behave as if nothing happened today. I don't mind about S-OFF and so on, I don't want to make it S-ON again, although it would be good. I just want to go back to stock rom.
In order to do this, I downloaded the latest RUU (RUU_PYRAMID_ICS_HTC_Europe_3.32.401.5) and tried to install it, but it gives me an error at the beggining.
Thanks in advance
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I had stock for about 3 months and now I've been using ARHD for a few months more, it's great, so much better in my opinion. Which kernel did you select?
If you have problems, pop a post into the ARHD thread, they're a friendly bunch and someone may be able to investigate why you are getting problems, because it *should* be a much better experience.

Running an RUU will unroot your device and give you the stock recovery. However, AFAIK, it won't remove your S-OFF (completely, but you might have to run Revolutionary again just to make sure it's alright)

chrisw99 said:
I had stock for about 3 months and now I've been using ARHD for a few months more, it's great, so much better in my opinion. Which kernel did you select?
If you have problems, pop a post into the ARHD thread, they're a friendly bunch and someone may be able to investigate why you are getting problems, because it *should* be a much better experience.
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100% stock freed phone without mods and bad experience? that was absolutely not my case, the performance of my phone was just fantastic, everything was snappy, Nenamark gave me more performance, Vellamo did the same and battery life wasn't bad at all.
Now I have ARHD ROM with sebastianfm's kernel, which is the one who gets closest to my stock phone performance. Battery life really sucks but I can cope with that.
usaff22 said:
Running an RUU will unroot your device and give you the stock recovery. However, AFAIK, it won't remove your S-OFF (completely, but you might have to run Revolutionary again just to make sure it's alright)
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I knew it would, and that's why I unlocked my bootloader again, instaled 4ext touch and made a nandroid backup. Then went back to ARHD because I missed my mods.

[Q] Sensation died whilst in use, won't charge, won't switch on.

As the title states, I have a possible brick on my hands, the phone isn't mine and the person who uses it doesn't really mess with overclocking and such, it was running Miks rom GSM, and not overclocked (running at 1.18ghz) No overvolt either, it is an s-off device, before this it was a fully functional sensation.
Basically what i'm told is that the phone was in use and it just switched off.
No lights, no power, have tried three batteries, about 10 chargers, different usb cables, can't get to bootloader or recovery, adb won't recognise it, it appears to be just a dead phone, personally i'm guessing it's the mainboard but i thought i'd ask anyway, there are no signs of water damage or major droppage.
Popped over to dexters unbricking project but as i said the phone won't come on so it won't work.
As i said before it's not my phone, but i'd like to do a friend a favour if i could.
Any ideas?
Before anyone asks, I cannot get to the bootloader or recovery.
Many thanks.

Hope you get it working..but it's becoming quite common and no one seems to have any ideas. Mine did the same thing...and I just had the motherboard repaired!

Yeah, here is the other thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624293
On such a popular Rom it is a bit unsettling.
Is it firmware, radio, kernel, or rom?
I hadn't seen this many Sensations die like this back on Gingerbread.

I am not sure...seems to have happened on a few different ROMs...so maybe it's not a specific ROM? I just got mine back and rooted and S-off as I needed the root to unlock the simlock...but I am scared of installing any custom ROMs or radio etc....I am thinking maybe I'll just wait for the official t-mobile ICS update...

gustav30 said:
Yeah, here is the other thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624293
On such a popular Rom it is a bit unsettling.
Is it firmware, radio, kernel, or rom?
I hadn't seen this many Sensations die like this back on Gingerbread.
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I'll be starting a thread to determine just that... I have my suspicions, but I'd like to know in one place what everyone was running.

I was running ARHD 6.6.2 Just flashed the ROM.. and seem to flash fine, able to boot up. Even reinstalled all the apps...then while calling...had this long tone from the phone...and phone was unresponsive...I pressed power button.. and it turned off.
The first time..it actually turned back on....so I thought maybe it's an issue with reinstalling the apps. Then when I called again...after 30sec-1 min...same tone again...then phone turned off and never turned on again...Battery was 100% charged.
I updated the correct firmware since I was already using insertcoin ICS ROM for a while before changing to ARHD 6.6.2
I am scared of installing a custom ROM now....I have rooted the phone again, S-off, Clockwork, superCID....but I am thinking maybe I should just wait for teh official update for ICS and leave it as that.
Can I just to OTA update when it comes out?

newr said:
Can I just to OTA update when it comes out?
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Change your CID back to T-MOB010 and you can...
FWIW, what kernel were you running when it took a dump?

I didn't install any custom kernel...I just installed the firmware as suggested.. and also the radio file that ARHD page says we should flash for T-mobile phones....
then flash the ROM as usual. Everything worked...the phone died while running the ROM.
So I need to change CID again to do OTA update? It's ok to leave it rooted, Clockwork, and S-off? Maybe I shouldn't have changed to super CID then?

newr said:
I didn't install any custom kernel...I just installed the firmware as suggested.. and also the radio file that ARHD page says we should flash for T-mobile phones....
then flash the ROM as usual. Everything worked...the phone died while running the ROM.
So I need to change CID again to do OTA update? It's ok to leave it rooted, Clockwork, and S-off? Maybe I shouldn't have changed to super CID then?
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You can leave it rooted and s-off (in fact you WANT to keep s-off), make sure your stock rom is un-modified, and you need to go back to stock recovery. If you leave superCID then it will not detect the update. It needs to refer to CID to find the correct update package for your device...

I haven't modify the Rom that's on here now. So stock recovery means removing clockwork ? And changing CID...is there a tutorial to do that?..

newr said:
I was running ARHD 6.6.2 Just flashed the ROM.. and seem to flash fine, able to boot up. Even reinstalled all the apps...then while calling...had this long tone from the phone...and phone was unresponsive...I pressed power button.. and it turned off.
The first time..it actually turned back on....so I thought maybe it's an issue with reinstalling the apps. Then when I called again...after 30sec-1 min...same tone again...then phone turned off and never turned on again...Battery was 100% charged.
I updated the correct firmware since I was already using insertcoin ICS ROM for a while before changing to ARHD 6.6.2
I am scared of installing a custom ROM now....I have rooted the phone again, S-off, Clockwork, superCID....but I am thinking maybe I should just wait for teh official update for ICS and leave it as that.
Can I just to OTA update when it comes out?
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Did you try flashing the new 6.6.4 ARID? Came out on May 6th
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another one with the same problem :S

namila007 said:
another one with the same problem :S
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But is it a HTC problem or a flashing custom stuff problem?
I don't know what I should do now...if I should just wait for ICS update...but now I'll have to remove superCID and somehow flash stock recovery or something

[Q] whats the best way to get a jb/sense rom running smooth?

so ive tried all of the new jb sense roms. but i cant get wifi to stay on and i also cant remove the system apps. like google+.
other than that they just dont seem to be butter smooth.
I noticed there is an official ota update. so i figure all the developers will be focusing on these newer jb sense official based roms.
so it seems to be inevitable that i will need one as a daily driver.
I have the elemental kernal with initd.
I have flashed new 1.11 radio and the wifi partitions.
The wifi does seem to work a little better with the kernal but not when i need it the most. like when i have no 4g.
I am on 1.06 hboot still.
I was going to update but honestly i couldnt find proper instructions. I have the wrong cid for the one i tried to update with.
Then i kept finding all the things you cant do above 1.14 hboot.
My questions are.
Do i need the new hboot. or is there a good reliable way to get it running smooth on the 1.06.?
If so is there a link to some good instructions and a DL link? because i must keep looking passed it.
And if i upgrade, how impossible is it to downgrade? i swear i read you need linux.
Thanks.

I was on hboot 1.14 and basically sux cuz of limitation in flashing. So i successfully downgrade to 1.06. However 1.06 is buggy, now i'm on 1.09. ROM I use is ASBS along with Elemental-S-JB, Wifi Partition, and Sense Radio US 1.11t. I flash these all at one before rebooting the phone. Then i install Kernel Tuner. Phone is running at OC 1.8 and so far very smooth plus battery still good. Fully charge at 6:30am now 9:18am EST and only losing 9%. Power saver is off. Had no problem wifi issue or anything

cat2115 said:
I was on hboot 1.14 and basically sux cuz of limitation in flashing. So i successfully downgrade to 1.06. However 1.06 is buggy, now i'm on 1.09. ROM I use is ASBS along with Elemental-S-JB, Wifi Partition, and Sense Radio US 1.11t. I flash these all at one before rebooting the phone. Then i install Kernel Tuner. Phone is running at OC 1.8 and so far very smooth plus battery still good. Fully charge at 6:30am now 9:18am EST and only losing 9%. Power saver is off. Had no problem wifi issue or anything
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What's buggy with 1.06?

Darknites said:
What's buggy with 1.06?
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It's hard to get into BL when power +vol down and took very long just to boot into BL or TWRP. I remember when I was on 1.14 and previous phone 1.09, it's faster compare to 1.06. No software to compare just with naked eyes.
To OP:
I removed some apk i do not need from the JB ROM. I use WinRar to delete the apk inside the zip. I'm a zero percentage with linux, but the guide is very step by step in downgrading Hboot. Just to remember, when copy&paste make sure to change "sd* " to your corresponding sd*. The OP quoted with sdc on the code.

cat2115 said:
It's hard to get into BL when power +vol down and took very long just to boot into BL or TWRP. I remember when I was on 1.14 and previous phone 1.09, it's faster compare to 1.06. No software to compare just with naked eyes.
To OP:
I removed some apk i do not need from the JB ROM. I use WinRar to delete the apk inside the zip. I'm a zero percentage with linux, but the guide is very step by step in downgrading Hboot. Just to remember, when copy&paste make sure to change "sd* " to your corresponding sd*. The OP quoted with sdc on the code.
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I also find it slower but not harder its the same as before.

Darknites said:
I also find it slower but not harder its the same as before.
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Now that's i'm on "downgrade to 1.09 from 1.14", seem to be better than 1.06 and getting to BL & twrp recovery seem to be faster (power+vol down) too.

cat2115 said:
Now that's i'm on "downgrade to 1.09 from 1.14", seem to be better than 1.06 and getting to BL & twrp recovery seem to be faster (power+vol down) too.
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I just stick to 1.06 what's 2 seconds when the downgrade has save me loads of time.

does anyone know if updating the hboot will fix the bugs assosiated with the new sense jb roms?
usually once theres an official update the roms run perfect so i wont have to worry about installing another ics rom.
the rom i likes before was one maximus, just works everytime. big fan of energy since the hd2 but i could never get wifi working on that either.
You know. looking back, all the apps i removed actually removed. except google plus. hmmm.
Maybe ill remove it in winrar like said before. i assume you need to remove more than just the apk though. guess thats another thread though.

As far as JB and Sense goes, I think we'll have to wait for the kernel source before we start seeing jb sense roms that works smooth and good. Alt. wait for HTC to release OTA updates..
My suggestion is to stick with ICS if you want sense, or an AOSP rom like cm10 if you want JB, for now.
I heard(well, read, if we are to be picky ) somewhere that the JB kernel from HTC blocks all write access to /system/, regardless of being root or not (retarded move, if you ask me).
So if thats true, the only way to remove system apps is to remove them from the rom image before flashing ...
Removing the .apk's from /system/apps should be enough.

Goatshocker said:
As far as JB and Sense goes, I think we'll have to wait for the kernel source before we start seeing jb sense roms that works smooth and good. Alt. wait for HTC to release OTA updates..
My suggestion is to stick with ICS if you want sense, or an AOSP rom like cm10 if you want JB, for now.
I heard(well, read, if we are to be picky ) somewhere that the JB kernel from HTC blocks all write access to /system/, regardless of being root or not (retarded move, if you ask me).
So if thats true, the only way to remove system apps is to remove them from the rom image before flashing ...
Removing the .apk's from /system/apps should be enough.
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Em what we have full root and can delete stuff from system.
myphonesbetter, I use WinRar myself and find it a better way of removing stuff.

Darknites said:
Em what we have full root and can delete stuff from system.
myphonesbetter, I use WinRar myself and find it a better way of removing stuff.
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Yah i could delete some things but some things wont delete. like google plus. and i think google plus is installed by goo.im or whatever. so i cant delete it from the zip file.
And I was under the impression that we had the official ota update. guess not. ill wait a little longer.

But we have jb ota since Xmas. Maybe you meant ruu jb.
BTW I updated my hboot and never had any issue (WiFi....) with any ROM based on htc jb.
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myphonesbetter said:
Yah i could delete some things but some things wont delete. like google plus. and i think google plus is installed by goo.im or whatever. so i cant delete it from the zip file.
And I was under the impression that we had the official ota update. guess not. ill wait a little longer.
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You could give this a try here.