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3.18 ota question

I have been having serious internet problems on my pc. I can never get ruu to finish downloading with out errors. I do have the ota zip file. I'm rooted, super cid and s-off. Is it safe to update that way or should I keep trying to get ruu to download?
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Man! Why do want to ask such hard questions? I know you can install zip from sd but I could not say how safe it would be.
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I was able to when I had S-OFF and the bootloader unlocked. I RUUed to 2.20, then I applied the OTA update from the stock recovery. My phone is still kicking. I tried to get everything back to stock after that, changed to stock CID, wrote the secure flag, and then locked my bootloader. I regret doing that now as I no longer have a root method on 3.18.

That's why I'm hesitant lol I guess ill keep trying for the ruu to download. Unless I can get a 100% positive answer... I tried to dl it with my phone and straight talk just throttled me at about 450 megs so I figured I'd stop before they killed my data connection again. They shut my data off last most for like a week and a half
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I flashed the ota before the ruu was released, and I've been fine. You do have to have stock recovery in place, so you'll have to run the 2.20 ruu first. You can't flash the ota with a custom recovery.

iElvis said:
I flashed the ota before the ruu was released, and I've been fine. You do have to have stock recovery in place, so you'll have to run the 2.20 ruu first. You can't flash the ota with a custom recovery.
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Is stock recovery linked anyplace here? And can I fastboot flash it? Or do I have to ruu to get it back?
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31ken31 said:
Is stock recovery linked anyplace here? And can I fastboot flash it? Or do I have to ruu to get it back?
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The stock recovery is I'm the ota zip. Recovery or recovery_signed I think it's called
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exad said:
The stock recovery is I'm the ota zip. Recovery or recovery_signed I think it's called
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Ok found recovery buried deep in ota lol. So just flash via fastboot then install ota? I'm s-off so I won't have to relock?
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31ken31 said:
Ok found recovery buried deep in ota lol. So just flash via fastboot then install ota? I'm s-off so I won't have to relock?
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No need to relock since you're S-OFF, you can flash OTA via Stock recovery. I'm not sure what will happen if you're flashing over a custom rom... I've only ever flashed an OTA over stock ROM myself.

exad said:
No need to relock since you're S-OFF, you can flash OTA via Stock recovery. I'm not sure what will happen if you're flashing over a custom rom... I've only ever flashed an OTA over stock ROM myself.
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Oh s**t I didn't even think about that... Good call. I may have had a disater and no choice but to post a oops I f'ed up my phone thread lol I just may hold off till I can get RUU downloaded correctly.
The ota and ruu I think are like 2-3 mb different in size (ota smaller I think) what could be missing? Adb folders maybe?
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Or... Would wiping everything including system in twrp then flashing stock recovery then flashing ota work?
Just off phone with HTC tech support, second teir I guess. The first guy transferred me. Told them I was rooted and all and s-off. Direct from them they told me the ota completly wipes the OS it just retains certain folders for contacts and personal info.
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Should be Ok to run then.
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exad said:
Should be Ok to run then.
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Well it worked. Got a little worried being it took over a hour to complete the install.
And now I don't have to look at tampered flag anymore. Now for red text removal
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[Q] help needed for how to update the hboot to 2.14 from 1.09

Can anyone please tell me how can I update my hboot to 2.14
I heard that the latest carbonrom requires the hboot update and I'm on 1.09 right now. Thanks
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ZayedQamer.zq said:
Can anyone please tell me how can I update my hboot to 2.14
I heard that the latest carbonrom requires the hboot update and I'm on 1.09 right now. Thanks
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You need to run the 3.18 ruu. But before you do we need more info on your phone.
Are you s-on or off?
SuperCID?
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I ruud when I was on viper and s-off to 3.18. Hboot is 1.09
Yes, s-off and supercid
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If you're s-off, just plug in your phone and run the 3.18 ruu for your carrier.
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exad said:
If you're s-off, just plug in your phone and run the 3.18 ruu for your carrier.
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I'm not on atnt and in fact where I live there is no atnt.
If there is another method to independently update my hboot, can you please share?
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It doesn't matter, you can still run the att RUU to get the 2.14 hboot.
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You just need to run the ruu for the carrier your phone came from. It doesnt matter what carrier you're with now.
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exad said:
You just need to run the ruu for the carrier your phone came from. It doesnt matter what carrier you're with now.
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It'll be available on their website?
And is there a way to downgrade the ruu too?
Thank you so much for your support!
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exad said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
Why do you want to downgrade? Doesbt make much sense to go out of your way to do so.
You can however if you like but you will require s-off. Then you can run an older ruu Proust flash the 1.09 hboot manually if you like, though, as I said, there's really no point.
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I'm using miui right now and if I would like to return to this so will it run on 2.14ruu as well?
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Erm, the link you just posted doesn't work. Is it the correct one?
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ZayedQamer.zq said:
Erm, the link you just posted doesn't work. Is it the correct one?
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Sorry, I didn't copy the full link. I updated my previous post and here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37227608
MIUI will work on 2.14 hboot.
If it's the sense based, no extra steps.
If it's the CM10 based, you would need to downgrade Touchscreen Firmware for which you would need S-OFF

exad said:
Sorry, I didn't copy the full link. I updated my previous post and here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37227608
MIUI will work on 2.14 hboot.
If it's the sense based, no extra steps.
If it's the CM10 based, you would need to downgrade Touchscreen Firmware for which you would need S-OFF
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I don't think you need to downgrade TS firmware for CM with the 3.4 kernel. I could be wrong.

RollTribe said:
I don't think you need to downgrade TS firmware for CM with the 3.4 kernel. I could be wrong.
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Isn't the MIUI based from CM10 not using 3.4 kernel yet?..

exad said:
Isn't the MIUI based from CM10 not using 3.4 kernel yet?..
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True... It hasn't been updated in a while has it? I want thinking about that, because most of the big rooms Roms have updated to 3.4

RollTribe said:
True... It hasn't been updated in a while has it? I want thinking about that, because most of the big rooms Roms have updated to 3.4
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Yeah It's been a while, I don't really use MIUI, I just check threads out when people ask about them and I remember looking into the MIUI roms a couple days ago.

exad said:
Yeah It's been a while, I don't really use MIUI, I just check threads out when people ask about them and I remember looking into the MIUI roms a couple days ago.
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Oh wow I misread your post completely. I thought your referring to all CM10 based ROMs .
Also, @OP, if you like MIUI, you might want to give Avatar ROM a look.

[Q] Any way to get stock recovery on htc one xl evita

Are there any ways to get stock recovery on my htc one xl evita?So that i can get the ota update for my phone.It is currently in clockwork mod recovery.

anirudhars said:
Are there any ways to get stock recovery on my htc one xl evita?So that i can get the ota update for my phone.It is currently in clockwork mod recovery.
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S-off then run ruu
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31ken31 said:
S-off then run ruu
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^^this
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31ken31 said:
S-off then run ruu
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can you please eloborate

31ken31 said:
S-off then run ruu
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I have stock rom. But its rooted.Supercid is 11111111 and S-OFF.I unrooted it using the unroot option in the superuser.But i need the stock recovery so that i can get the ota update.

All you need to do is run the appropriate RUU for your phone. Look in the resource thread that is a sticky in the Android Development section, you'll find links there.
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While it's easier just to RUU, it is also possible to extract the recovery image from an OTA zip file.

exad said:
While it's easier just to RUU, it is also possible to extract the recovery image from an OTA zip file.
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He wants the stock recovery so he can update via the ota. I figured less work to just run the ruu.
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I agree. I just like throwing in alternative solutions for learning purposes. Ruuing is certainly the easiest
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HTC One S Hboots and Kernels clarification please

so if I'm S-OFF and on hboot 1.14 does that mean I can just flash a new hboot to run the 3.4 kernel and once I upgrade my hboot can I still use the older kernels?
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Yes you need hboot 2.15 to run 3.4 kernel. There's a workaround posted in the forums for using older hboot with the new kernel, but it's not supported by CM.
And yes you can still run old kernel with new hboot.
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abracadabra11 said:
Yes you need hboot 2.15 to run 3.4 kernel. There's a workaround posted in the forums for using older hboot with the new kernel, but it's not supported by CM.
And yes you can still run old kernel with new hboot.
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I noticed in your signature " CM Stock" - can you tell me how to get this stock kernel ? I know how to flash this boot.img but need to know where I can get it ?
I am having 'stuck in Edge" issue - used to get 4g but not anymore.. would like to see if it's to do with the kernel that I have.

Well to get the kernel you need to open the ROM zip file and extract the boot.img file. Then use fastboot to fastboot flash boot boot.img
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abracadabra11 said:
Well to get the kernel you need to open the ROM zip file and extract the boot.img file. Then use fastboot to fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I know that the boot.img file is in the zip file, what I meant to ask was where do I get the stock ROM (so i can open it up and get the boot.img)
Also, what do I need to worry about before I apply this boot.img - do I need to make sure my hboot is compatible somehow?

get.cm
hboot 2.15 should be used for all 3.4 kernel ROMs
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abracadabra11 said:
get.cm
hboot 2.15 should be used for all 3.4 kernel ROMs
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Thank you for your guidance on kernel/hboot...
what do you mean "get. cm" ??
Where do i get stock boot.img??

abracadabra11 said:
Yes you need hboot 2.15 to run 3.4 kernel. There's a workaround posted in the forums for using older hboot with the new kernel, but it's not supported by CM.
And yes you can still run old kernel with new hboot.
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Okay sweet thank you I was also wondering where I can get the 2.15 hboot to flash? Or do I have to relock everything and then use the ruu to upgrade to that?
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You are not able to superCID though if you have 2.15 hboot, so keep that in mind.
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DroidLuvver said:
Thank you for your guidance on kernel/hboot...
what do you mean "get. cm" ??
Where do i get stock boot.img??
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http://get.cm/?device=ville&type=RC
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Updating firmware

Try to update firmware that goes with the new sense 4.22. The only problem is when I get to fastboot flash zip ......... It won't go through. I updated when 4.3 came out with the the file provided by h8 on cyanogen mod. It was an application though. The one provided by turge is a zip file. I renamed the firmware zip file to evita just because it is so long. Any idea what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks in advance
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What do you mean it won't go through? Are you s-off? What does the command prompt return?
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Yes s off and it says file not found I think I can't exactly remember. I put the zip in my directory but do I unzip it
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You're not meant to unzip it.
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timmaaa said:
You're not meant to unzip it.
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Okay just did it again and it went through this time. Now its on the black htc screen with the green loading bar. it has just a little bit left at the end this is when i command to fastboot reboot bootloader. correct

Everything is good now thanks for your help
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No problems.
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