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[Q] Upgrade TELUS HoX to newest firmware

I've been looking and have found that there is no RUU for the 3.17 Telus update, only OTA zips.
I would like to upgrade my phone to the newest firmware, and then re-unlock, and restore my rom from a nandroid backup.
Is there anyway that I can do this? Should I run the AT&T RUU and then proceed to unlock the normal way?
I am s-off before anyone yells at me.

What I did is ruu to ics, then check for updates. I have seen some 3.17 ota repack downloads but I prefer direct from the source.
Then installed twrp 2.3.x then downgraded touchscreen firmware to run AOSP. Though you don't need to do that unless you want to run AOSP.
Telus sucks at releasing RUUs, but the network here isn't as Saturated as some of the other guys
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exad said:
What I did is ruu to ics, then check for updates. I have seen some 3.17 ota repack downloads but I prefer direct from the source.
Then installed twrp 2.3.x then downgraded touchscreen firmware to run AOSP. Though you don't need to do that unless you want to run AOSP.
Telus sucks at releasing RUUs, but the network here isn't as Saturated as some of the other guys
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Ya that was my next option, just wanted to see if anyone had the RUU hiding somewhere. I don't run AOSP but I'll probably downgrade just in case I want to try a rom on the fly sometime

exad said:
What I did is ruu to ics, then check for updates. I have seen some 3.17 ota repack downloads but I prefer direct from the source.
Then installed twrp 2.3.x then downgraded touchscreen firmware to run AOSP. Though you don't need to do that unless you want to run AOSP.
Telus sucks at releasing RUUs, but the network here isn't as Saturated as some of the other guys
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I forgot to add, there is no need to re-unlock as there's no need to re-lock to RUU with S-OFF. Just keep it unlocked and then flash TWRP after. nice and easy. (I have done this myself so I am 100% positive)
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area51avenger said:
Ya that was my next option, just wanted to see if anyone had the RUU hiding somewhere. I don't run AOSP but I'll probably downgrade just in case I want to try a rom on the fly sometime
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I too searched high and low for the RUU. No such luck. Btw, it says your S-OFF in your signature lol

area51avenger said:
I've been looking and have found that there is no RUU for the 3.17 Telus update, only OTA zips.
I would like to upgrade my phone to the newest firmware, and then re-unlock, and restore my rom from a nandroid backup.
Is there anyway that I can do this? Should I run the AT&T RUU and then proceed to unlock the normal way?
I am s-off before anyone yells at me.
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Nevermind
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[q] htc one x future updates

Hi, I recently purchased an HTC one X and I get a message with red letters saying "this build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside of htc", also my htc has been ramdomly rebooting, I want to go back to the stock ROM because I think I might have a custom one and that can be the cause of the random rebooting.
I have the 4.1 oficial firmware but I am affraid to flash it because my phone can become a brick.... The phone was rooted with SuperSU but I have uninstalled it and checked with titanium and I can no longer get superuser rights(I suppose I have succesfully unrooted my phone), I have also checked on bootlader and I have S-ON so I dont know if I am under conditions to flash the oficial firmware without risk(I dont want a brik). I want the original firmware because of the upcoming 4.2 and sense 5.0 update HTC will be releasing.
Thanks in advace for your help.

DillingerErick said:
Hi, I recently purchased an HTC one X and I get a message with red letters saying "this build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside of htc", also my htc has been ramdomly rebooting, I want to go back to the stock ROM because I think I might have a custom one and that can be the cause of the random rebooting.
I have the 4.1 oficial firmware but I am affraid to flash it because my phone can become a brick.... The phone was rooted with SuperSU but I have uninstalled it and checked with titanium and I can no longer get superuser rights(I suppose I have succesfully unrooted my phone), I have also checked on bootlader and I have S-ON so I dont know if I am under conditions to flash the oficial firmware without risk(I dont want a brik). I want the original firmware because of the upcoming 4.2 and sense 5.0 update HTC will be releasing.
Thanks in advace for your help.
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Do s-off before you go stock or you will brick
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Really just that?
31ken31 said:
Do s-off before you go stock or you will brick
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Is that all??? with S-OFF there is absolute no risk of briking??

Nonononono there's a tradeoff. Because once you supercid you brick if you ruu while s-on. So you need to s-off so as not to brick while RUUing. Technically because there are no longer security checks you have a greater amount of risk If you do something stupid.
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Just flash a stock rooted Rom would be my advice.. what are you gaining from ruu? Look at cleanrom, it's forsurely the most stable for this phone... Just my 2 cents cause if ya don't know what you're doing or are comfortable using adb odds are is you will booger up your new to you phone..
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sinco54 said:
what are you gaining from ruu? Look at cleanrom, it's forsurely the most stable for this phone...
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Updated firmware that is not part of the ROM. If you read the top post of CleanROM, its recommended to RUU first. Its not "required", but some folks have found it helpful to resolve some issues, like random reboots.
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DillingerErick said:
with S-OFF there is absolute no risk of briking??
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Nothing you do to your phone can remove all risk of bricking when you flash. There is always a risk.
But if you have S-On and SuperCID, and try to install certain OTAs or RUUs, a brick is certain (known brick condition).

redpoint73 said:
Updated firmware that is not part of the ROM. If you read the top post of CleanROM, its recommended to RUU first. Its not "required", but some folks have found it helpful to resolve some issues, like random reboots.
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Nothing you do to your phone can remove all risk of bricking when you flash. There is always a risk.
But if you have S-On and SuperCID, and try to install certain OTAs or RUUs, a brick is certain (known brick condition).
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181399
Maybe I'm mis reading it or not seeing where it says ruu is recommended..
If I've missed it my apologies but I hve never ruu'ed and I've flashed every available Rom more then once for this handset since last April...
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sinco54 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181399
Maybe I'm mis reading it or not seeing where it says ruu is recommended..
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You are confused about what CleanROM is. That is just the stock rooted ROM, not CleanROM.
This is CleanROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655011
In the top post you will see under Installation: •Highly recomend lates Jellybean firmware and S-Off!
Scrosler doesn't explicitly say "RUU", but this is what he means.

redpoint73 said:
You are confused about what CleanROM is. That is just the stock rooted ROM, not CleanROM.
This is CleanROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1655011
In the top post you will see under Installation: •Highly recomend lates Jellybean firmware and S-Off!
Scrosler doesn't explicitly say "RUU", but this is what he means.
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Oh ok, I didn't know that's what that meant lol, I thought it meant something entirely different. Thanks for clarifying for not only me but also the opie..
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First TY all for the responses, Is not my first time flashing custom roms but this is my first HTC phone and I am a little confused with all the s-off and ruu stuff
That is my software info and I have S-on, also I have unrooted, the phone had supersu but no more, what else do I have to do and what Rom do you recomend???
I really want to be able to install oficial updates without trouble.
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you are currently on the latest software. I would recommend S-OFF if you plan to take official updates. If you're confused about terminology, there's a thread in my siganture "Are you ready to root?" That explains a lot of the terminology.
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So I just need to s-off for oficial updates is that watt you are saying?? If so how can I s-off??
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There's a sticky in the android original dev section.
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DillingerErick said:
So I just need to s-off for oficial updates is that watt you are saying?? If so how can I s-off??
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If you are S-on and SuperCID (which your phone likely is), and try to take the 3.18 Jellybean OTA, or run the 3.18 RUU, you will brick.
S-off will at least prevent bricking from this particular condition. The other option is change back to the AT&T CID.

PAC Rom

Hey all, I've just switched to this ATT One X and I'm looking for a little guidance. I've rooted, unlocked bootloader, and flashed TWRP. I've also downloaded PAC and GAPPs. That being said, I've read a little about flashing a Rom and a boot.img seperately which would be new to me. I didn't see anything mentioning that process on the PAC thread so I'm assuming that I just wipe data, flash Rom, wipe cache and dalvik, flash gapps and reboot? If there is something I'm missing, could anybody help? Thanks in advance!
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If you are s-off you do not have to flash the boot.img seperately. If you are s-on you have to flash the boot.img with fastboot from a computer.
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mmmatt312 said:
If you are s-off you do not have to flash the boot.img seperately. If you are s-on you have to flash the boot.img with fastboot from a computer.
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Thanks! Im s-on at the moment so I'll look into getting s-off when I get some free time. Hopefully adb will cooperate with me, we have a love/hate relationship....
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Quick question, flash the whole rom zip, then the boot.img, then gaaps?
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I'm pretty sure you can flash the boot.img with fastboot before or after the rom. But flash gapps after you flash the rom. The way I used to do it(when I was s-on) was flash rom, flash gapps, then flash the boot.img from the terminal using fastboot.
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flash boot.img first then rom and gapps, but definately do s-off you don't wanna end up forgetting that flashing 3.17/3.18 with s-on + supercid will brick your phone.

Nice! I'm looking into s-off as of now, but what did you mean by flashing 3.17/3.18? I'm on 3.18 and I believe I have superCID. Does that mean I should hold off on flashing until I'm s-off?
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No you can flash now. We weren't aware that you're already on the 3.18 firmware. If you weren't on that firmware you would have needed to RUU up to it in order to flash the ROM, and the warning was to get s-off before running the RUU because s-on + SuperCID + RUU = brick. So, go ahead and flash the ROM.
PS. In future, make sure you provide all relevant information (current firmware/current recovery/s-off or s-on status). This information is needed to help, and it also stops this kind of confusion.
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timmaaa said:
No you can flash now. We weren't aware that you're already on the 3.18 firmware. If you weren't on that firmware you would have needed to RUU up to it in order to flash the ROM, and the warning was to get s-off before running the RUU because s-on + SuperCID + RUU = brick. So, go ahead and flash the ROM.
PS. In future, make sure you provide all relevant information (current firmware/current recovery/s-off or s-on status). This information is needed to help, and it also stops this kind of confusion.
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Sorry for the confusion. Trying to gather as much knowledge on this as possible and didn't think to mention that I did the ota update to 3.18. I appreciate the help guys and hopefully soon I'll have a custom Rom running on this thing :thumbup:
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Successfully flashed PAC and ended up using the app posted here. Worked like a charm! Thanks for all the help guys!
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[Firmware] 3.18.709.2 red-warning removed plus TRWP

For those of you who want to try the new 3.18.709.2 firmware.
Here is a custom package I made, containing all the 3.18.709.2 files but recovery
is changed for TRWP recovery 2.6.3.0
Also the RED WARNING from the Hboot is removed!
I am running this firmware at the moment, and everything is fine!
Check screenshot for information of the new Radio, enjoy!
Warning:
The boot.img from 3.18.709.2 doesn't like the 3.17 ROM's at the moment, so Camera won't work!
You can fix it by flashing Elemental or Bulletproof or the stock boot.img from 3.17.
If you flashed the firmware package first and after that you flashed a 3.17 ROM you won't have this problem
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Flashed it all OK thanks for sharing mate.

Is it possible to brick with a modified hboot abd s-on? Shouldnt there be a warning?
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Android The Greek said:
Is it possible to brick with a modified hboot abd s-on? Shouldnt there be a warning?
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I don't think you can even flash this if S-on

Android The Greek said:
Is it possible to brick with a modified hboot abd s-on? Shouldnt there be a warning?
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You must be S-OFF else you can't flash custom firmware

victoryo said:
You must be S-OFF else you can't flash custom firmware
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Isn't it possible to s-on after you flash this or no? If an inexperienced person just so happen to want to be son.... I know the consequences
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Android The Greek said:
Isn't it possible to s-on after you flash this or no? If an inexperienced person just so happen to want to be son.... I know the consequences
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flashing firmware will not put you back to s-on. At least none have to this point.

.....never mind I am not new at this I know what soff is what hboot is. I am just saying if someone just so happened to flash this in fastboot, then son they will brick. But maybe I am wrong
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Will flashing this firmware wipe internal storage?

Android The Greek said:
.....never mind I am not new at this I know what soff is what hboot is. I am just saying if someone just so happened to flash this in fastboot, then son they will brick. But maybe I am wrong
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thats correct. if you go back to s-on with a modified hboot it will brick your device.

Android The Greek said:
.....never mind I am not new at this I know what soff is what hboot is. I am just saying if someone just so happened to flash this in fastboot, then son they will brick. But maybe I am wrong
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If you're S-On then the device won't let you flash this. No harm can be done.

BB88 said:
Will flashing this firmware wipe internal storage?
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Nope it won't

BB88 said:
Will flashing this firmware wipe internal storage?
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No

My camera doesnt work any more after the flash....i get a black screen..

gianton said:
If you're S-On then the device won't let you flash this. No harm can be done.
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I am talking about someone s-on after the flash the modified hboot... Not trying to flash this with s-on
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john291 said:
My camera doesnt work any more after the flash....i get a black screen..
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No such problem here.

john291 said:
My camera doesnt work any more after the flash....i get a black screen..
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Got same problem
The boot.img from 3.18.709.2 doesn't like the 3.17 ROM
You can fix it by flashing Elemental or Bulletproof or the stock boot.img from 3.17.
If you flashed the firmware package first and after that you flashed a 3.17 ROM you also won't have such a problem!

Android The Greek said:
I am talking about someone s-on after the flash the modified hboot... Not trying to flash this with s-on
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That's a general issue with custom hboot, discussed already here.
BTW, if you got S-Off with revone you should update to v0.2.1 that prevents exactly this:
UPDATED revone binary (v0.2.1)
* Safety update: No longer allows -s 3 since this can lead to bricks with custom HBOOTs, use: fastboot oem writesecureflag 3 (which is safer - and checks such things)
* Fix: delusions of grandeur - revone now no longer reports success when it fails.
* Outside chance some previous failures will now be successful but most likely they will just correctly report failure.
Please note that due to the safety update ALL previous versions have been replaced with v0.2.1 and are hence no longer supported.
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i reflashed the rom now al is okay again...

victoryo said:
Got same problem
The boot.img from 3.18.709.2 doesn't like the 3.17 ROM
You can fix it by flashing Elemental or Bulletproof or the stock boot.img from 3.17.
If you flashed the firmware package first and after that you flashed a 3.17 ROM you also won't have such a problem!
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I removed boot.img from your zip file as well as recovery.img, that's why I have no issues with the camera.

Need suggestion

I am on ics 2.20 build with unlocked bootloader and twrp , I need a sense 5 Rom plz someone suggest which can I flash ,I saw cleanrom but it needs s off and 4.1 jb firmware
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mahesh48 said:
I have ics 2.20 firmware and rooted it with unlocked bootloader ,can I update this by using twrp/ cwm recovery .the file i have is this OTA_EVITA_UL_JB_45_S_Cingular_US_3.18.502.6_0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34_release_3061616bcty3drvawwo01k.zip
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All of the Sense 5 ROMs need the firmware upgrade. Why not just get s-off and update your firmware?
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How do I get soff and upgrade
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Help me through upgrading firmware
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You need s-off first. But you'll need to flash a ROM with an insecure kernel for s-off to work. One of the 4.1 ROMs should be fine.
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No. OTA can only be flashed with stock recovery and you must come from EXACTLY the ROM/firmware the OTA was to officially update from.
You also can not flash firmware.zip from CWM or TWRP but instead use rebootRUU mode.
From recovery depending on hboot and s-off status you may be able to change the radio and boot image. You should assume CWM and TWRP is only to replace /system, everything else has a different procedure.

mahesh48 said:
I have ics 2.20 firmware and rooted it with unlocked bootloader ,can I update this by using twrp/ cwm recovery .the file i have is this OTA_EVITA_UL_JB_45_S_Cingular_US_3.18.502.6_0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34_release_3061616bcty3drvawwo01k.zip
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No you can't. I've told you exactly what you need to do already. Have you gotten s-off?
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How to soff it's lengthy procedure or help me in returning to my stock recovery
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I gave you a link for the s-off procedure. I also told you what version ROM you need to flash first to have the best chance of it working. Are you not reading my posts? What gave you the idea that flashing an OTA with TWRP would help after I've already given you the answer you need?
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I saw somewhere around tat can update via custom recovery
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I don't want to s off I just want a stock recovery of 2.20 firmware , as u suggested to soff and flashing Similar unkernel and all tat stuff is very lengthy ,so I decided to install stock recovery and then update by ota.zip so if u can help me with stock recovery of 2.20 firmware plz do
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No, updating by that method is the harder way to do it. But hey, what do I know.
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How can I get the stock recovery of that particular firmware
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You need a tool to extract the file.
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Which tool I have hasoons toolkit
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Are you even going to attempt to do any of the work for yourself? Search how to extract RUU.
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I've already told him that here but he didn't listen and has created yet another duplicate thread.
@mahesh48 you've already been told not to create duplicate threads.
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Why do you bother asking questions if you're not going to listen to the advice you're given?
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Mr timaaa u only adviced me but I searched bit around and found that there is a stock Rom based on the 2.20 firmware so I thought of getting it from one of those Rom users
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The ROM does not contain the recovery, it is a ROM. The RUU contains the recovery. That's why I said you need to extract it from the RUU. I'm happy to help people but if you're not going to listen why would I bother?
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I don't even know why you think you need to install the 3.18 OTA anyway. It isn't even the firmware you need. You will still need to get s-off so you can update your firmware to the correct version anyway. You're just creating more work for yourself. I did tell you that but you didn't listen to that either.
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Did u mean that only if I s off I can flash sense 5 roms?
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