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[Q] Why S-off?

Hello guy's
I have been searching on xda and google, but did not find a clear answer for my question. I know that S-off allows you to do anything to your phone, and i read 'Alpharev'.
I have unlocked my bootloader, flashed the recovery and rooted my Sensation Hboot 1.27.. using the Hasoon All in one toolkit.
The phone is still s-on and i flashed cyanagenmod 9. All working.
The question is: Wat difference does it make when i make my phone s-off? Is it meaningfull to do it?
I am just a noob on this territory, so is it usefull for me to doe the ('risky') wire-trick to S-off my phone?
Thank you!

malcoe said:
Hello guy's
I have been searching on xda and google, but did not find a clear answer for my question. I know that S-off allows you to do anything to your phone, and i read 'Alpharev'.
I have unlocked my bootloader, flashed the recovery and rooted my Sensation Hboot 1.27.. using the Hasoon All in one toolkit.
The phone is still s-on and i flashed cyanagenmod 9. All working.
The question is: Wat difference does it make when i make my phone s-off? Is it meaningfull to do it?
I am just a noob on this territory, so is it usefull for me to doe the ('risky') wire-trick to S-off my phone?
Thank you!
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Hi,
S-off will enable you to flash different firmwares and radios,and any RUU.
Until you NEED to do any of those things,you are OK on s-on.

What the post above says, there's really no need to unless you're gonna be messing with radios, different firmware, cid, and stuff like that
Enviado desde mi HTC Sensation 4G

Okay, thank you very much!
Could you maybe tell me what I can do with that stuff? What does it mean and what are the benefits?

malcoe said:
Okay, thank you very much!
Could you maybe tell me what I can do with that stuff? What does it mean and what are the benefits?
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super cid you can flash any firmware region, but it is not required for your device's own firmware.. firmware upgrades are sometimes a must when flashing different roms (like going from gb to ics or vice versa) if you are already on ics I really don't think it's a benefit to upgrade to another ics firmware if yours works fine.. and you can flash different radios that might improve signal and better reception (results vary so only real way to know is to try one yourself) hope that was clear, that's as far as I know
Enviado desde mi HTC Sensation 4G

Like above post says, basically you have more freedom to do what you want with s off. Also flashing involves less steps with soff. I'm s off and I'm glad I did it. I can change radios firmwares, with ease.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.

serio22 said:
super cid you can flash any firmware region, but it is not required for your device's own firmware.. firmware upgrades are sometimes a must when flashing different roms (like going from gb to ics or vice versa) if you are already on ics I really don't think it's a benefit to upgrade to another ics firmware if yours works fine.. and you can flash different radios that might improve signal and better reception (results vary so only real way to know is to try one yourself) hope that was clear, that's as far as I know
Enviado desde mi HTC Sensation 4G
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realsis said:
Like above post says, basically you have more freedom to do what you want with s off. Also flashing involves less steps with soff. I'm s off and I'm glad I did it. I can change radios firmwares, with ease.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
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Thanks!
I flashed Miui but i was stuck on the Mi-logo when the phone was booting (I could not fix it). Then I flashed Cyanogenmod 9, but here i can't get my contacts back wich I placed on my SIM and Google account, pretty anoying..
Could this be a problem because I'm not S-off?
I realy liked Cyanogenmod 9 and Miui seems nice too, but ik can't get it work properly

This thread might help you. Have a look at it! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861

malcoe said:
Thanks!
I flashed Miui but i was stuck on the Mi-logo when the phone was booting (I could not fix it). Then I flashed Cyanogenmod 9, but here i can't get my contacts back wich I placed on my SIM and Google account, pretty anoying..
Could this be a problem because I'm not S-off?
I realy liked Cyanogenmod 9 and Miui seems nice too, but ik can't get it work properly
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Nope has nothing to do with not being soff. Did you flash the gapps addon for cm9?
For MIUI confirm which firmware version you need to run it (could be why)
Sent from my Sensation in UrQuan subspace

If you`re are an enthusiastic user i recommend to be S-OFF`ed.

matekaneve said:
This thread might help you. Have a look at it! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
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I had already seen that guide, I did the same steps, but with the all in one toolkit by Rasoon.
Kohr-Ah said:
Nope has nothing to do with not being soff. Did you flash the gapps addon for cm9?
For MIUI confirm which firmware version you need to run it (could be why)
Sent from my Sensation in UrQuan subspace
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Yes i had allready flashed the Google apps. I now got it fixed by getting back to stock rom and synced the contacts once more.
But the strange thing is that CM9 still keeps saying: 'No contacts on SIM'.
For the firmware, I do not know which firmware is needed. Is it so that I need a ICS rom?, or must I look at the number, 3.33...
Thanks for all your help!
Edit: I know I need a ICS rom, flashing for instance gb is impossible without flashing firmware.. but must the numbers match?

handinar from
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If you`re are an enthusiastic user i recommend to be S-OFF`ed.
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I think it's all great, but I some terms and actions are a little over my head, so I don't excactly understand what the things mean when I'm s-off.
I'm totally new to the rooting and flashing, but I think it's fun to do.
For instance: What is Supercid/cid and RUU excactly?

malcoe said:
I had already seen that guide, I did the same steps, but with the all in one toolkit by Rasoon.
Yes i had allready flashed the Google apps. I now got it fixed by getting back to stock rom and synced the contacts once more.
But the strange thing is that CM9 still keeps saying: 'No contacts on SIM'.
For the firmware, I do not know which firmware is needed. Is it so that I need a ICS rom?, or must I look at the number, 3.33...
Thanks for all your help!
Edit: I know I need a ICS rom, flashing for instance gb is impossible without flashing firmware.. but must the numbers match?
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Well depends. I know some Miui 3.33 roms run awful on 3.32. Makes no sense as 3.33 was literally radio related update.
Otherwise yeah they should mat h. 3.32/3.33 seem to be backward compatible though.
SIM part though that is a new one to me
Sent from my Sensation in UrQuan subspace

[Help] Installing Rom

Hey there!
I'm new in this forum so yeah, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. So, here I go.
I have the HTC Sensation 4G and I'm trying to install the ViperS Rom 1.6.3 but I have a problem. I do everything, leave things at default, etc. but when it finishes installing and everything I get stuck at the Boot Animation Screen and it won't do anything else. So I would like to know if there's something else I should do to install it and make it work.
My HTC Sensation 4G has root access and everything else already. I backed up everything before installing the room, but everytime I try, I get stuck at the same screen and it does absolutely nothing.
Is there some kind of tutorial or step-by-step topic about how to install a Rom with suggestiongs or things like that? I'd really love to make it work but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I hope someone can help me because I'm going crazy! haha x)
Thank you,
Erick

ErickMozzarella said:
Hey there!
I'm new in this forum so yeah, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. So, here I go.
I have the HTC Sensation 4G and I'm trying to install the ViperS Rom 1.6.3 but I have a problem. I do everything, leave things at default, etc. but when it finishes installing and everything I get stuck at the Boot Animation Screen and it won't do anything else. So I would like to know if there's something else I should do to install it and make it work.
My HTC Sensation 4G has root access and everything else already. I backed up everything before installing the room, but everytime I try, I get stuck at the same screen and it does absolutely nothing.
Is there some kind of tutorial or step-by-step topic about how to install a Rom with suggestiongs or things like that? I'd really love to make it work but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I hope someone can help me because I'm going crazy! haha x)
Thank you,
Erick
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Hi,
Are you s-on?
What does your bootloader say?HBoot etc...
If you are,then, look HERE
Follow that guide ,and you will succeed.

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Have you wiped data before installing the ROM? And do you have the 1.2* hboot? If you have 1.1*, it would not work because this one doesn't work with Android 4.*.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app

malybru said:
Hi,
Are you s-on?
What does your bootloader say?HBoot etc...
If you are,then, look HERE
Follow that guide ,and you will succeed.
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Yes, I have s-on. I'll check it out, thank you very much!

LeMuecke said:
Have you wiped data before installing the ROM? And do you have the 1.2* hboot? If you have 1.1*, it would not work because this one doesn't work with Android 4.*.
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Yes I have wiped data before installing the ROM. and I have HBOOT 1.27 and s-on.
I'm gonna try to do what malybru told me to see if it works.
Thank you very much for taking some time to help me!

malybru said:
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Thank you very much! It worked what you suggested me!!! Now it's working perfectly!

[ROM][VILLEPLUS][SE] Stock Rooted Odex/Deodex

Disclaimer: Flash this ROM at your own risk. I am not responsible for what you do on your device. I left this stock to provide a base for anybody that wants to use it. Mod this rom how you want. Just please remember to give credit where credit is due.
THIS IS ONLY FOR THE HTC ONE S SPECIAL EDITION. IF YOU DON'T HAVE 64GB INTERNAL STORAGE THEN DON'T FLASH THIS.
This is a pure stock rooted rom. It has items like busybox, init.d support and so forth. No apps were added or removed. Both Odexed and Deodexed versions below.
Downloads

Hi mate,
can you tell which software version exactly and is this a WWE variant?
I ask because i got a Villeplus as a present from some HTC manager and it had a Firmware on it which was WWE and newer than the Asia RUU that has been floating around for a while, BUT, i forgot to pull a full backup before getting rid of stuff in it. So, now i have a (nearly) full raw partition dump but i am lacking data partition (10GB was too large, aborted pull cuz i thought it was stuck) and i also got rid of some system apps i didn't want, so basically screwed up.
Now i wonder if this is maybe the variant i am after? The 1.14.999.50. 710RD (with all WWE languages) and not 1.14.709.16 which is only Thai/Chinese/English?
Plus, is it already adjusted to run on the Ville or is it screwing the partitioning? Cuz i need one that's ok to run on the Villeplus...

Sneakyghost said:
Hi mate,
can you tell which software version exactly and is this a WWE variant?
I ask because i got a Villeplus as a present from some HTC manager and it had a Firmware on it which was WWE and newer than the Asia RUU that has been floating around for a while, BUT, i forgot to pull a full backup before getting rid of stuff in it. So, now i have a (nearly) full raw partition dump but i am lacking data partition (10GB was too large, aborted pull cuz i thought it was stuck) and i also got rid of some system apps i didn't want, so basically screwed up.
Now i wonder if this is maybe the variant i am after? The 1.14.999.50. 710RD (with all WWE languages) and not 1.14.709.16 which is only Thai/Chinese/English?
Plus, is it already adjusted to run on the Ville or is it screwing the partitioning? Cuz i need one that's ok to run on the Villeplus...
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This is based on the one already floating around. So not the wwe version. Come to think of it that's what was on my device before I screwed up my device. If you have a full system dump I can make these for it too. Unless its broken. This is working fine on my villeplus without issue. I tested them both on it
Edit: I'm going to try and get the wwe ruu. Its missing from my site anyways
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium

jmztaylor said:
This is based on the one already floating around. So not the wwe version. Come to think of it that's what was on my device before I screwed up my device. If you have a full system dump I can make these for it too. Unless its broken. This is working fine on my villeplus without issue. I tested them both on it
Edit: I'm going to try and get the wwe ruu. Its missing from my site anyways
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
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Asked my manager "Friend" from HTC for it. No reply, no way we're gonna get that RUU unless you got a leak source still.
That RUU would be extremely handy as i want to get Viper running on it and Torxx could need the RUU to check out a few things.
And i am currently trying to find my way through HTC's partition wizzardry blindfolded (total beginner with this). All partitions are at the exact same addresses, the Ville RUU's run on it too but the Mounts are screwed in the flashed Ville RUU afterwards so i have no idea where else to look.
Next thing i'm gonna do is pull a RAW Dump of my Ville and write it over to the Plus without mmcblk0p3 to not risk any serious sh!t (hboot from Ville already been on it and working) and then see if the Partitions are still messed up (maybe clear storage with Ville Stock Recovery helps fixing that then??).

Sneakyghost said:
Asked my manager "Friend" from HTC for it. No reply, no way we're gonna get that RUU unless you got a leak source still.
That RUU would be extremely handy as i want to get Viper running on it and Torxx could need the RUU to check out a few things.
And i am currently trying to find my way through HTC's partition wizzardry blindfolded (total beginner with this). All partitions are at the exact same addresses, the Ville RUU's run on it too but the Mounts are screwed in the flashed Ville RUU afterwards so i have no idea where else to look.
Next thing i'm gonna do is pull a RAW Dump of my Ville and write it over to the Plus without mmcblk0p3 to not risk any serious sh!t (hboot from Ville already been on it and working) and then see if the Partitions are still messed up (maybe clear storage with Ville Stock Recovery helps fixing that then??).
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Are you saying that the villeplus ruu that exists now doesn't work for you?
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jmztaylor said:
Are you saying that the villeplus ruu that exists now doesn't work for you?
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
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Oh yes it does. It's just not available in my "Native" language (De-de).
Also, since i want to ready that fone for my wife who's speaking french natively i would love to have THAT on it too lol.

Sneakyghost said:
Oh yes it does. It's just not available in my "Native" language (De-de).
Also, since i want to ready that fone for my wife who's speaking french natively i would love to have THAT on it too lol.
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ah ok. well i got my feelers out to some people. I will see what i come up with

jmztaylor said:
ah ok. well i got my feelers out to some people. I will see what i come up with
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Hi mate, i got the RUU from some nice person.
You can draw your feelers back in.
Thanks mate.
Tbh. I didn't expect to see a positive reply from that person but indeed, it even came with explicit permission to share on XDA.

Sneakyghost said:
Hi mate, i got the RUU from some nice person.
You can draw your feelers back in.
Thanks mate.
Tbh. I didn't expect to see a positive reply from that person but indeed, it even came with explicit permission to share on XDA.
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If you don't mind can you hop over to http://upload.androidfiles.org and upload it so I can add it to my ruu repo? Thanks
I will also create the Odex/Deodex roms also
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jmztaylor said:
If you don't mind can you hop over to http://upload.androidfiles.org and upload it so I can add it to my ruu repo? Thanks
I will also create the Odex/Deodex roms also
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
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Uploading. Will be there in about 10 minutes. Didn't know you had an upload function in your site. Thanks.
[EDIT]
well, upload is being a bit on the slow side as it looks like. Will rather be 15-20 minutes

warning... if you flash this make sure you backup your whole sdcard b/c is gonna wipe it
Edit: NVM all of my files are still there but accessible only from within recovery (thanks God!)

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It's a Ville Plus ROM. Not for the Ville.
Your files can be found in data/media most likely. Have a look there.
sent from viper 2.1

I uploaded the wwe Odex/Deodex files. Thanks!
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Thanks mate. Same links in my WWE RUU thread.
Also since you didn't have the idea to provide us with a copy of your decrypt I asked zarboz and he did it for us. If anyone needs the ROM.zip in decrypted state, it can be found in the wwe RUU thread. Just because there's quite a few people not using Linux and hence not able to use ruuveal themselves...
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i can't install it my TWRP says Faild!
I have a One S S4.
what am I doing wrong?

Specimann said:
i can't install it my TWRP says Faild!
I have a One S S4.
what am I doing wrong?
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Flashing the wrong Rom. This is only for the HTC One S Special Edition. If you don't have 64GB internal sdcard then this isn't for you
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It should flash actually. It can also be that dude uses later TWRP variants which are broken and don't flash stuff. He didn't specify.
There's one guy further up who did flash it to the Ville. It's just screwing up the mounts actually.
Sent from Viper 2.2

will the Ville PLUS(SE) see any future custom roms? just wondering not really asking a eta just curious as most is just for VILLE

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Unlikely. There's hardly any devices outside Taiwan. Just a very few. No dev will find that attractive unless one of them has an SE himself.
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thanks for the reply

touch screen not working after installing ROM

my phone did not react after i install a new ROM . But in recovery mode, everything works fine. Did i install it in the wrong way ?

Affixation said:
my phone did not react after i install a new ROM . But in recovery mode, everything works fine. Did i install it in the wrong way ?
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Thanks for giving us all the pertinent information to help us help you.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

You need to supply more information I think. Get ready to eat some flame, lol
HBOOT version, ROM name, recovery version, Sense or AOSP
I know that if you have the latest HBOOT, HTC updated the touchscreen drivers so that it makes AOSP ROMs nonfunctional. There is a thread here somewhere that helps you revert your touchscreen drivers if you have S-OFF.

Athrun88 said:
You need to supply more information I think. Get ready to eat some flame, lol
HBOOT version, ROM name, recovery version, Sense or AOSP
I know that if you have the latest HBOOT, HTC updated the touchscreen drivers so that it makes AOSP ROMs nonfunctional. There is a thread here somewhere that helps you revert your touchscreen drivers if you have S-OFF.
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Hboot :2.14
Trying out cyanamod 10.1
Sry if i did not say this.

Ohmygod. You need to learn how to read. MULTIPLE threads on what you need to do and why this happened
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

Kole_Ackerson said:
Ohmygod. You need to learn how to read. MULTIPLE threads on what you need to do and why this happened
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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Sry. I will go and check them out

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38938504
Sent from my HTC One XL

Wow, it's plastered all over the place about the touchscreen issue. Ever heard of the search button, or maybe READ the thread of the Rom you are installing prior to flashing wildly. 50%+ of the posts here have been answered repeatedly or addressed in the first few posts of the thread. You should ALWAYS read first!
Sent from the HOXL dimension of S-OFF

[How-To] Downgrade your Touch Panel's firmware (and upgrade back)
idiots don't search and definately don't look at the Sticky

DvineLord said:
[How-To] Downgrade your Touch Panel's firmware (and upgrade back)
idiots don't search and definately don't look at the Sticky
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Currently searching this exact issue for a friends daughters HTC (did an OTA with almost dead batt, corrupt ROM, no getting in to S-off, etc., so flashing a stock ROM works, but no TP), here's your link: "Invalid thread specified. This can happen for a variety of reasons-- most likely because the thread or post you are trying to view has been moved or deleted. Please return to the forum home and browse for another similiar post."

New update for HTC One S S3!

Hello, there is new update for the S3 device! I've updated and the problem with the camera and the speakers are solved!
Also I think that the music crackling is fixed also!
"Software update: 3.19.751.102 (37.76MB)
This update contains important enhancements and bug fixes, including:
- System performance and stability enhancement"

what is your CID ....?

HTC__621

Nandroid?

who will be able to send updating?

torxx said:
Nandroid?
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Sorry, I was so excited and wanted to install that I forgot to make one...

He means the nandroid of this new one. Make it now.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda app-developers app

qzem said:
He means the nandroid of this new one. Make it now.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda app-developers app
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Ok, I'd love to if you tell me how to do it... My device is not rooted and complete stock. Is there any app for this?

alxalx said:
Ok, I'd love to if you tell me how to do it... My device is not rooted and complete stock. Is there any app for this?
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Well you need to unlock bootlader, you can do that with official htc website, then you need to root your phone and flash custom recovery. After that you can do nandorid backup in custom recovery. All the information you need is here.

qzem said:
Well you need to unlock bootlader, you can do that with official htc website, then you need to root your phone and flash custom recovery. After that you can do nandorid backup in custom recovery. All the information you need is here.
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I think it's quite difficult for me to do that and my warranty will go away... Really, is there no other way for this? Sorry, I really want to help, but I think I'll brick my phone if do that...

Im on 4.0.4 (cid 032) and still no update for me (checked minute ago )

alxalx said:
I think it's quite difficult for me to do that and my warranty will go away... Really, is there no other way for this? Sorry, I really want to help, but I think I'll brick my phone if do that...
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You can try with this tool, it suppose to work on all devices even with unlocked bootlader and unrooted phone.

just updated my phone too. i didn't even know that there was some issues with the camera and the speakers. my phone is having problems with some evil demons inside it, i only hope that this update exorcised it!!!!
isn't there some release notes for this update, so that we know what are the improvements and what bugs were fixed?

it's probably the bugs that are inside stock jellybean . someone back it up so we could use the update copy of the jellybean stock rom but for the hboot 2.11 like me we will have a slight problem dude the different hboot

zoreli said:
Im on 4.0.4 (cid 032) and still no update for me (checked minute ago )
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I had 4.0.4 and CID 032, but i followed this guide, and now i have 4.1.1 stock, with custom recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175411 or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38439552&postcount=1

mihaibuda said:
I had 4.0.4 and CID 032, but i followed this guide, and now i have 4.1.1 stock, with custom recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175411 or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38439552&postcount=1
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How about battery life, is a diference between ics and jelly bean ?
any annoyng bugs?

after yesterday's update, i can say that the problems i had with my phone are gone. i hope. maybe now, htc will start the updates for the all other regions, not only for taiwan.

twtysvn said:
after yesterday's update, i can say that the problems i had with my phone are gone. i hope. maybe now, htc will start the updates for the all other regions, not only for taiwan.
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Excellent news, we wait for updating for others CID_S, children who can lay out updatings on a forum?

Can some of you that updated the phone with this latest update, please make system dump.

wen would it arrive on CID 044??