Hello all...
So i am on the Verizon Network (at least until i can get over to T-Mobile) and I am frustrated with Verizon because of their whole locked bootloader business.
I want to get the Galaxy S5 but i won't since its bootloader is locked just like the S4. Well the next hottest phone is out the HTC-One M8. Now i heard a rumor that there is a way to unlock the bootloader on the M8.
Can anyone confirm that this is true for the Verizon M8 HTC-ONE ?
I would really appreciate it any confirmation that anyone can give me.
-droidshadow
Yes.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-one-m8/general
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2697957
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2699169
Thanks a lot.........
Thank you to all who replied. This phone and and the firewater exploit may actually keep me on Verizon a bit longer. I am going to leave Verizon because of how they continue to lock their bootloaders but this is great news!
I wonder why it is that we can unlock this one but the galaxy series phones and others can not be unlocked?
Was it because this bootloader for the HTC m8 was not encrypted or is this due to htc-dev?
Still great news...I hope OmniRom makes a rom for this phone!
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I would stay away from T-Mobile, their coverage is horrible...I get full reception where people with T-Mobile have none. You may be able to buy the developer s5 if you really like the s5
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Ya I know that T-Mobile's 4G isn't the same as Verizon. I always have great coverage and speed with verizon but I pay an arm and leg. I pay for 10gb of data a month and that adds up.
I would rather have a phone that I can do whatever I want and now that T-Mobile offers unlimited data on their 4G network I think I am going to have to switch...
-droidshadow
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Anyone know what custom recovery is being used for the m8?
Any chance of TWRP or CWM recovery managers?...
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droidshadow said:
Anyone know what custom recovery is being used for the m8?
Any chance of TWRP or CWM recovery managers?...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2711051
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Hello comunity i just want to check if somebody esle at this point where our phone is locked and is kind of hard to get all the goodies that you can get with full root and unlock phone, think on return the phone and get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, this is just curiusiti and also get some recomendation
Edit: ps: We can get the Nexus for
1 cent from Amazon Wireless. Wich is a big save
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juancaperez2000 said:
Hello comunity i just want to check if somebody esle at this point where our phone is locked and is kind of hard to get all the goodies that you can get with full root and unlock phone, think on return the phone and get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, this is just curiusiti and also get some recomendation
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Well chap,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsyLBxY-Sik
In my personal opinion I think that would be foolish when we are almost about to have full aosp and Adam, along with the community, is working very hard on cracking the bootloader.
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I would keep it. Radio is better. Only by a little. Also i get 5+ hrs of screen time with s3 vs 2.5 on nexus.
There battery life alone is enough for me.
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keep it, the nexus hardware is outdated or atleast wait for the next Google phone.
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ruvort said:
In my personal opinion I think that would be foolish when we are almost about to have full aosp and Adam, along with the community, is working very hard on cracking the bootloader.
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thank you, that what i like from XDA community always helping that one of the part that make me refuse my iphone and go back to android this place, thank you again
headcheese said:
I would keep it. Radio is better. Only by a little. Also i get 5+ hrs of screen time with s3 vs 2.5 on nexus.
There battery life alone is enough for me.
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Say what you will about the SG3 radio... But I have never dropped a call or had a 4G outage since I purchased it on launch day. My Nexus however was a completely different story. The Nexus will give you a new rom to play with every night, but the GS3 will give you fewer headaches in the signal and battery departments.
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omnia38 said:
Say what you will about the SG3 radio... But I have never dropped a call or had a 4G outage since I purchased it on launch day. My Nexus however was a completely different story. The Nexus will give you a new rom to play with every night, but the GS3 will give you fewer headaches in the signal and battery departments.
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i just rooted and start to play with my GS3 running CM10 so far so good, even is to late to return it, but ass soon i follow all the steps i can keep playing with it, im pretty sure official CM coul hit Verizon GS3 sooooon
Sell your Samsung s3 for $550, buy a Nexus for $250-325, profit? That's if you don't like it..
I'll trade you my brand new certified like new replacement nexus.
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Do what you feel. It's your decision.
ruvort said:
In my personal opinion I think that would be foolish when we are almost about to have full aosp and Adam, along with the community, is working very hard on cracking the bootloader.
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I totally agree. There's a large bounty for getting this thing unlocked. It will be soon. Just be patient. Speaking of, where did the bounty thread move to?
Good bye HTC Rezound, hello Galaxy S3!
Even if the bootloader dont get unlocked, ill be happy using the kexec method...other than the extra 30 seconds boot time, I see no difference. Also our current flashig methods dont trip the flash counter since were Not flashing non-stock firmware in odin!
1heffer said:
I'll trade you my brand new certified like new replacement nexus.
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Also willing to trade my near brand new Nexus (no scratches or marks on it as it was cased and screen covered) for an SIII. All original materials included.
slickrickstyles said:
Also willing to trade my near brand new Nexus (no scratches or marks on it as it was cased and screen covered) for an SIII. All original materials included.
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Cash on top?
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Cash on top?
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like?
I had an Epic Touch (on Sprint) and went to a Galaxy Nexus (on Verizon) then a S3 and IMO it's a huge upgrade. I absolutely love this phone and wouldn't even consider going back to a GNex. The only thing I don't like is the physical home button but a stable AOKP will resolve that. As for the locked boot loader I was a little concerned too but with Kexec it's irrelevant. They already have CM9/CM10/AOKP running on this phone. I'd rather just use Kexec knowing I can return to stock then void warranty with a bootloader unlock. JMO!
Both are great phones, I have the GS3 and my old man has the Nexus. Touchwiz isn't too bad if you get use to it.
Alright I got another phone to use pretty much as a backup and a well a data connection for my nexus 7. Now being stupid I ended up getting two of them via eBay. Anyone wants anything off the spare one just pm me with a price you know the jazz.
Now one of the phone is coming unlocked which I hope assumes it is s-off but I did read the forums and the methods are far different than my main sprint evo.
Any tips if I have to root it myself anything to watch for? I know for my evo it was just plug it in and it became s off and then rooted, but I see none of that for this phone which I guess I'll have to follow the door guides lol.
Also any info on the tmobile network.? Data speeds etc and its supposed 4g network
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Alright I got another phone to use pretty much as a backup and a well a data connection for my nexus 7. Now being stupid I ended up getting two of them via eBay. Anyone wants anything off the spare one just pm me with a price you know the jazz.
Now one of the phone is coming unlocked which I hope assumes it is s-off but I did read the forums and the methods are far different than my main sprint evo.
Any tips if I have to root it myself anything to watch for? I know for my evo it was just plug it in and it became s off and then rooted, but I see none of that for this phone which I guess I'll have to follow the door guides lol.
Also any info on the tmobile network.? Data speeds etc and its supposed 4g network
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Well you should boot into boot loader first to see if you're s-off or not. Also go into the dev section and read the sticky permroot and s-off guide. Follow it exactly (don't take any shortcuts) and you should be fine
Also it all depends on your service and plan. If you have good service and an unlimited plan you'll be happy.
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Yea I read those. Not some noon thank god because this one seems slightly more complicated then the average too and soff. I am waiting for both of them to come and I will check then. Sucks having to relean the rooting process.
And I was going to gt their 30$ unlimited data (5gb), and text plan from online prepaid. So I hope the data is at least better than my dedicated sprint phone.. data is practically edge speed..
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cmsjr123 said:
Yea I read those. Not some noon thank god because this one seems slightly more complicated then the average too and soff. I am waiting for both of them to come and I will check then. Sucks having to relean the rooting process.
And I was going to gt their 30$ unlimited data (5gb), and text plan from online prepaid. So I hope the data is at least better than my dedicated sprint phone.. data is practically edge speed..
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Lol what root process did you learn with the evo? I've rooted a couple of those in my day and its like crazy easy. This one is easy too, you just have to follow directions and it will come without trouble. I have simple mobile and I like it
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Well I used I think visionary at one point then another one click root method. Was damn easy jus
T plugged it in and click that's all haha.
And where does simple mobile do service ? I live in the California high desert so any good data speed is hard to come by.
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So do you have 2 glaciers or 2 nexus 7s?
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So do you have 2 glaciers or 2 nexus 7s?
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Glaciers lol hut someone offered me for it.
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If it was a nexus 7 ...
THEindian said:
If it was a nexus 7 ...
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Which I did part out
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Well I used I think visionary at one point then another one click root method. Was damn easy jus
T plugged it in and click that's all haha.
And where does simple mobile do service ? I live in the California high desert so any good data speed is hard to come by.
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I just saw this now, Simple Mobile is an MNVO of T-Mobile, so basically where T-Mobile gets service, you'll get service. They work off of T-Mobile's towers. Although, they do have some sort of cap, I switched my parents off of that and put them on Straight Talk. I wish I could pay that $90 for the "truly" unlimited everything plan, lmao.
AT&T is offering a limited HTC One Developer Edition with unlocked bootloader and it is already available on pre-order. However, even if if you’ve decided to get the regular HTC One from AT&T and want to get its bootloader unlocked, there’s nothing to worry about.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/att-htc-one-bootloader-is-unlockable-via-htcdev/
official launch april 19th.
It's been discussed in the One forums. But apparently AT&T plans to close this door on launch day.
Before you get too excited, though, HTC's affirmed to us that AT&T's One will not be supported by the HTCdev unlock service, which will effectively render its bootloader untouchable.
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You got to be kidding me?!?! That's just crazy.
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Venomtester said:
You got to be kidding me?!?! I really love my phone but if HTC doesn't do something about this I will never buy another product from them and AT&T can bite me. That's just crazy.
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Same reason its best to get an iPhone 5 from Verizon, versus AT&T. They love to lock down EVERYTHING. Trust me, i used to work for them.
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Oh no. Lol. No way I'm ever getting an i anything. I will stay with android. No offense. Just partial to Droid.
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Venomtester said:
Oh no. Lol. No way I'm ever getting an i anything. I will stay with android. No offense. Just partial to Droid.
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Oh I agree. I had an iPhone 5, unimpressed. Hell I liked the 3gs better. Any who, this is the best.
But I was making a point about AT&T and their lock down process.
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But I was making a point about AT&T and their lock down process.
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Verizon is worse. They've in the past sent updates that intentionally soft-bricked rooted phones to force people to take them to Verizon stores to be unrooted.
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Verizon is worse. They've in the past sent updates that intentionally soft-bricked rooted phones to force people to take them to Verizon stores to be unrooted.
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Wow. I didn't know that. It's weird because they sim unlocked their phone from the get.
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In addition to the guarantee of being bootloader unlocked (as opposed to this game of maybe/maybe not for the AT&T version), the Dev Edition is also SIM unlocked, and free of AT&T bloat (unbranded version of the ROM) for the same unsubsidized price as the AT&T version (for those that aren't eligible for an upgrade yet).
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Wow. I didn't know that. It's weird because they sim unlocked their phone from the get.
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Here's but one example.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2199042
Im probably going to get a T-Mobile version instead of dev edition. In a perfect world I could buy the dev edition 64gbyte version and flash a T-Mobile radio to enable all bands ever... But the dev version isn't even s-off (who does that, honestly)... So I'm opting for the T-Mobile version. LTE eats too much battery IMO.
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I am going to buy the S4 soon and my brother said he would take my S3 off my hands, but he is on Sprint. So anyway...is it possible to flash over? ...I know LTE wouldn't work. But that's OK with him.
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You can't flash over but you can SIM unlock the phone.
Not Sure
You cannot but I really doubt why not, both are CDMA so there should work, will search and update if I find the anything regarding this.
Hardware supports completely different frequencies so assuming you got it to work, you either wouldn't get signal, or it'd be so weak it'd be unusable.
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So, title says it all. Is it possible to buy a factory unlocked note 5 (like say...perhaps from Ebay), root it and then use it on Verizon?
Yea but you might not get 4glte only 3g, why would you do that though when the Verizon note 5 has already been rooted?
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YousKoose said:
Yea but you might not get 4glte only 3g, why would you do that though when the Verizon note 5 has already been rooted?
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Thank you for your quick response. I haven't seen where the Verizon variant has been rooted. Do you have a link?
http://www.iroot.com/how-to-articles/how-to-root-samsung-note-5.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...elopment/finally-root-verizon-note-5-t3368127
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http://www.iroot.com/how-to-articles/how-to-root-samsung-note-5.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...elopment/finally-root-verizon-note-5-t3368127
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iroot doesn't work for Verizon and in the second link it doesn't work for Verizon, either.
Yah your right I didn't fully read through the comments, u can use a T-Mobile for Verizon I did it for the note 4 before it got rooted and worked on Verizon without 4g, but I was getting really fast 3g speeds at least 10/20 mbps, the note 4 is also a great phone that is rooted on verizon
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Yah your right I didn't fully read through the comments, u can use a T-Mobile for Verizon I did it for the note 4 before it got rooted and worked on Verizon without 4g, but I was getting really fast 3g speeds at least 10/20 mbps, the note 4 is also a great phone that is rooted on verizon
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Thnx. I was considering the Note 4 but am quite frustrated with how Verizon is trying to lock us down lately. While I've had Samsung devices for a long time, I'm now thinking about the Nexus 6P...
I would go with nexus for sure or one plus devixe, but the note 4 retail editions have now all been successful in converting to developer editions witch is really dope, it brought life back to my device.
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