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Question about rooting and APN settings

OK so I just bought an HTC one off contract and I was too lazy to go to Verizon to switch my micro for a nano so I decided to cut the sim myself. I got the right size everything works great I have 4g and everything but when I try to send a picture it says no APN specified on device. Anyone know how to fix this? Also when my sister tried to text me a picture it kept saying that same message over and over until about 10 minutes later it stopped and the picture came through somehow. Thanks in advance
Also my second question (I know this is a long shot but might as well ask) is there anyway to root the device without a computer? Mine broke and I'm going to be without one for at least a month. I need to try out all these customer ROMs lol

note3userr said:
OK so I just bought an HTC one off contract and I was too lazy to go to Verizon to switch my micro for a nano so I decided to cut the sim myself. I got the right size everything works great I have 4g and everything but when I try to send a picture it says no APN specified on device. Anyone know how to fix this? Also when my sister tried to text me a picture it kept saying that same message over and over until about 10 minutes later it stopped and the picture came through somehow. Thanks in advance
Also my second question (I know this is a long shot but might as well ask) is there anyway to root the device without a computer? Mine broke and I'm going to be without one for at least a month. I need to try out all these customer ROMs lol
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Can't be too sure about this but maybe TowelRoot? I heard in another thread that Geohot was working on making it work for the M8 with its /system partition locked off but I'm not sure if that's even possible so no guarantees. On the very slight chance you managed to S-OFF with Firewater and your computer broke from the awesomeness then you could probably use one of the many custom recovery installing apps on the Google Play Store to install CWM or TWRP and then just download the SuperSU zip file and boot into recovery & flash it.
If neither are gonna work with you then you could just use a friends computer or family members computer to S-OFF and then you could do the things I just stated without a doubt.

note3userr said:
OK so I just bought an HTC one off contract and I was too lazy to go to Verizon to switch my micro for a nano so I decided to cut the sim myself. I got the right size everything works great I have 4g and everything but when I try to send a picture it says no APN specified on device. Anyone know how to fix this? Also when my sister tried to text me a picture it kept saying that same message over and over until about 10 minutes later it stopped and the picture came through somehow. Thanks in advance
Also my second question (I know this is a long shot but might as well ask) is there anyway to root the device without a computer? Mine broke and I'm going to be without one for at least a month. I need to try out all these customer ROMs lol
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First question don't be lazy... second question sunshine is an application you can download and run on your phone for $25 made by the same devs that created firewater. don't be lazy and support the devs... http://theroot.ninja/

thunderbls said:
First question don't be lazy... second question sunshine is an application you can download and run on your phone for $25 made by the same devs that created firewater. don't be lazy and support the devs... http://theroot.ninja/
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Sunshine needs root permission to work. Lol

note3userr said:
Sunshine needs root permission to work. Lol
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Totally my bad sir... Thought it was for soff lol I need to pay more attention or well no just pay more attention.

OK so I managed to get s-off and unlocked boot loader and I have temp root with weak sauce. I'm trying to flash twrp and then SuperSU so I can have permanent root but I can't get this **** to work. Giving me a headache lol

note3userr said:
OK so I managed to get s-off and unlocked boot loader and I have temp root with weak sauce. I'm trying to flash twrp and then SuperSU so I can have permanent root but I can't get this **** to work. Giving me a headache lol
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What's happening.. Walk me through it.. That is if your still having a problem.

thunderbls said:
What's happening.. Walk me through it.. That is if your still having a problem.
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I was flashing twrp thought flashify and it was rebooting into fastboot instead of recovery. I downloaded the same file but from a different link and it magically work. I'm fully rooted now and running viperone thanks for all the help . BTW I got s-off with sunshine

note3userr said:
I was flashing twrp thought flashify and it was rebooting into fastboot instead of recovery. I downloaded the same file but from a different link and it magically work. I'm fully rooted now and running viperone thanks for all the help . BTW I got s-off with sunshine
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Awesome glad to hear it... And now the real fun begins.

S-Off

I just got my replacement phone after a cracked screen. I am attempting to s-off and I'm unable to achieve it. I get this error...
preparing, one moment
The first bottle is open
chugging..........
********** whelp, this sucks, firewater can not work on your device **********
********** no amount of reflashing, retrying, or ruuing will fix... **********
********** DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS!!!!!! **********
********** if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced **********
********** bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out. **********
I have done everything correctly and tried finding something online to help but with no success. If anyone has any ideas, it would be great.

If you can't get it to work use sunshine. It's 25 dollars but the only way. If you are following the right directions, have the proper drivers, and ask the other prerequisites, then you'll have to use it.

silver04v said:
If you can't get it to work use sunshine. It's 25 dollars but the only way. If you are following the right directions, have the proper drivers, and ask the other prerequisites, then you'll have to use it.
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I would rather not pay twice for this since I did donate after it was achieved. I'm running on a mac and I don't believe there are any drivers for mac from htc. I also don't think I have been doing anything different from when I did it on my first phone.

Well getting it working or posting is your only option. If you are sure you're following the directions then posting is your last option before they lock it down for good

silver04v said:
Well getting it working or posting is your only option. If you are sure you're following the directions then posting is your last option before they lock it down for good
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Yea, I guess I will have to do it by that. Kind of pissed but oh well. I tried a factory reset just to see and no good. Same spot and error it fails. Unless someone else has a suggestion, I'm going to hold off a little on the sunshine app. If no one has anything that might help, I will just use it. Thanks for all your help/responses.

I have seen others that listed recently that firewater still worked for them. While your using weaksause if you open your supersu does it keep saying it needs to update your binary then you hit continue and it fails then says reboot and try again but does this non stop ? If so maybe that could be the problem as it did that for me last week and I ended up submitting to the extortion and paying the $25 for sunshine. To me that is almost as bad as people that creat viruses then charge their victiims for the fix. If your supersu is doing that, maybe try downloading an older version of supersu off the net and installing it through an app like es file explorer, that would be of course after uninstalling your current version of supersu. I dont know but maybe you might be able to use superuser instead of supersu also if you have the same update binary issue I had.

rossida said:
I just got my replacement phone after a cracked screen. I am attempting to s-off and I'm unable to achieve it. I get this error...
preparing, one moment
The first bottle is open
chugging..........
********** whelp, this sucks, firewater can not work on your device **********
********** no amount of reflashing, retrying, or ruuing will fix... **********
********** DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS!!!!!! **********
********** if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced **********
********** bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out. **********
I have done everything correctly and tried finding something online to help but with no success. If anyone has any ideas, it would be great.
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There's no way firewater is going to work for you. What I would do is possibly get a hold of the developers, give them a receipt showing that you donated to them, and see if they will let you use sunshine without paying.
It has something to do with newer batches of M8's having slightly different hardware internals, which is causing unlocking variance. It won't be fixed because development is being poured into sunshine.
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Roefastford said:
I have seen others that listed recently that firewater still worked for them. While your using weaksause if you open your supersu does it keep saying it needs to update your binary then you hit continue and it fails then says reboot and try again but does this non stop ? If so maybe that could be the problem as it did that for me last week and I ended up submitting to the extortion and paying the $25 for sunshine. To me that is almost as bad as people that creat viruses then charge their victiims for the fix. If your supersu is doing that, maybe try downloading an older version of supersu off the net and installing it through an app like es file explorer, that would be of course after uninstalling your current version of supersu. I dont know but maybe you might be able to use superuser instead of supersu also if you have the same update binary issue I had.
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I tried using superuser and same thing. It needs to install the SU binary which always fails. Same with the current version of superSU. I tried running superSU 1.93, 1.94, and 2.00 with no luck of getting firewater to run correctly. IDK why this is happening as I have done this for 2 M8s with no problems. If anyone else has any ideas before I go ahead with sunshine, please don't hesitate to let me know.

BadUsername said:
There's no way firewater is going to work for you. What I would do is possibly get a hold of the developers, give them a receipt showing that you donated to them, and see if they will let you use sunshine without paying.
It has something to do with newer batches of M8's having slightly different hardware internals, which is causing unlocking variance. It won't be fixed because development is being poured into sunshine.
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Thanks for the reply. I guess I will have to use sunshine.

You shouldn't be opening SuperSU at all after installing weak sauce. You just install weak sauce. Install SuperSU and continue on with firewater. Then when you ask for root in terminal make sure your phone is on so you can grant root. Should work.

silver04v said:
You shouldn't be opening SuperSU at all after installing weak sauce. You just install weak sauce. Install SuperSU and continue on with firewater. Then when you ask for root in terminal make sure your phone is on so you can grant root. Should work.
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I opened supersu and updated binaries right after I installed weaksauce. When I went to run Firewater, it worked for me the first time. Supersu is not the problem here, it's hardware variance with new batches of M8's.
If you're getting that fail message, you have to use sunshine. There is no way around it unless firewater is updated. Sunshine is the only method being updated to deal with this variance.
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BadUsername said:
I opened supersu and updated binaries right after I installed weaksauce. When I went to run Firewater, it worked for me the first time. Supersu is not the problem here, it's hardware variance with new batches of M8's.
If you're getting that fail message, you have to use sunshine. There is no way around it unless firewater is updated. Sunshine is the only method being updated to deal with this variance.
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Maybe what you did but it's an unneeded step that's not part of the directions. I didn't do that and firewater worked first try for me as well.

silver04v said:
Maybe what you did but it's an unneeded step that's not part of the directions. I didn't do that and firewater worked first try for me as well.
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I was just pointing it out just to show it did work with supersu being opened and updated before running firewater. Just helping out with the troubleshooting in case that was a potential issue.
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Outside of the screens mine is a sharp by the way.. I wonder what the other internals are used that differ from one batch to another. Here's my thing if something was patched with an update or hardware changed causing the exploit not to work they found a way around it with sunshine and are now charging for their work. This makes perfect sense to me they put in the effort and work in order for us (who can't won't or don't know how)to unchain our devices. I can give you a long list of things I pay for that I don't take full advantage of but if I had to use sunshine it wouldnt be on that list. With that being said i still encourage anyone to try and use firewater first : )

[Q] Just bought a brand new HTC M8 need help

The phone is still on 4.4.2 and tried to OTA update but I quickly caught it and put on airplane mode and disabled all radios.
So the question is, how can I root it and S off?
Android Version:4.4.2
Software Number 1.55.605.2
Kernel 3.4.0-gfa487c9
[email protected] #1

Root with WeakSauce, then find Firewater to unlock that thing immediately. After you're unlocked, then use the RUU running around here to update.
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Is Forrester an app? Also whats RUU?

No harm but honestly, don't you think somebody has posted this somewhere on a development forum for such a popular device. Go to the HTC one m8 general forum and then look at the posts. Somebody has completed a thread specifically detailing how to root, s-off, bootloader unlock, and flash a custom recovery.

nervana1 said:
Is Forrester an app? Also whats RUU?
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Firewater, sorry, my phone auto corrected and you saw my post before I could edit it.
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awesome tyvm

whelp, this sucks, firewater can not work on your device
no amount of reflashing, retrying, or ruuing will fix...
DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS!!!!!!
if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced
bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out.
Keep getting this sadly

nervana1 said:
whelp, this sucks, firewater can not work on your device
no amount of reflashing, retrying, or ruuing will fix...
DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS!!!!!!
if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced
bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out.
Keep getting this sadly
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Uninstall supersu and weaksauce, then install weaksauce then install supersu but DO NOT OPEN SUPERSU ever not until after your done with firewater. When your phone reboots while using firewater right after android loads open the weaksauce app and make sure it shows you have root access. This is where it usually fails because weaksauce is not giving root access during the use of firewater, when you manually open weaksauce it will give root access then firewater will work.

tried and it did not work, this is driving me nuts

Just use the sunshine method if the others not working. I mean that's what I would do.
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nervana1 said:
tried and it did not work, this is driving me nuts
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After adb reboot and before running the rest of the command open weaksauce. Then continue.

dottat said:
After adb reboot and before running the rest of the command open weaksauce. Then continue.
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Exactly that was what I listed lol. Because sometimes weaksauce will not give root access and if it does not then trying the rest of firewater will not work, you open weaksauce and make sure it confirms you have root access otherwise reboot phone and start over just never open supersu until after firewater has given you s-off. This is where many people cant get firewater to work because they are assuming weaksauce gave them root and it may take weaksauce a while to give root access so you need to open weaksauce then finish with the steps on firewater. It took me a few m8's to figure out but it really makes a lot of sense.

disable OTA -prior to root?
Been looking around for a solid answer to this and haven't been able to find one. Since this thread is essentially what I am looking to do (get M8 now, hope it still has 4.4.3 or lower) and unlock and root prior to taking any OTA, figured I would ask here as it very much related to the OP.
Is there a way to disable the OTA update prior to being rooted? I'll need to turn on the phone after I receive it and it will go through the normal setup so I can check the OS version prior to running any unlock/root method. During this time I am sure VZW will try and push the OTA. I know I can 'postpone' the install (usually) but wasn't sure if there was a better, more permanent way to lock out the OTA from happening just to be safe.
Thanks

surfmly said:
Been looking around for a solid answer to this and haven't been able to find one. Since this thread is essentially what I am looking to do (get M8 now, hope it still has 4.4.3 or lower) and unlock and root prior to taking any OTA, figured I would ask here as it very much related to the OP.
Is there a way to disable the OTA update prior to being rooted? I'll need to turn on the phone after I receive it and it will go through the normal setup so I can check the OS version prior to running any unlock/root method. During this time I am sure VZW will try and push the OTA. I know I can 'postpone' the install (usually) but wasn't sure if there was a better, more permanent way to lock out the OTA from happening just to be safe.
Thanks
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The ota you can chose to not install it just dont hit install and dont mess with the update at all, and try firewater but from what I have seen posted most cant get it to work any more, my advice is try a few times and look at the tips listed in various posts but be prepared to have to use sunshine. Its $25 but if you have to use it then you have to use it, otherwise you will just be wasting your time where you could be enjoying the benefits of s-off. Either that or sell it and go with at&t or tmobile and use htc dev for free and live fine with s-on, those are pretty much your only choices, good luck and enjoy when your unlocked.

M9guy said:
The ota you can chose to not install it just dont hit install and dont mess with the update at all, and try firewater but from what I have seen posted most cant get it to work any more, my advice is try a few times and look at the tips listed in various posts but be prepared to have to use sunshine. Its $25 but if you have to use it then you have to use it, otherwise you will just be wasting your time where you could be enjoying the benefits of s-off. Either that or sell it and go with at&t or tmobile and use htc dev for free and live fine with s-on, those are pretty much your only choices, good luck and enjoy when your unlocked.
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That is exactly what I did. Could not get Firewater to work, so went with Sunshine and worked like a charm. I now have TWRP and SuperSU installed and ready to go.
One question though - the OTA file did get downloaded and it was big...... anyone know where that file gets downloaded to so I can delete it to free up space? Been searching on the phone and online and can't find a good answer (it isn't in cache).

surfmly said:
That is exactly what I did. Could not get Firewater to work, so went with Sunshine and worked like a charm. I now have TWRP and SuperSU installed and ready to go.
One question though - the OTA file did get downloaded and it was big...... anyone know where that file gets downloaded to so I can delete it to free up space? Been searching on the phone and online and can't find a good answer (it isn't in cache).
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You did look in download on your internal memory right ? You could just do a full wipe of everything except ext sd card, then just make sure everything except ext sd is selected, or take sd out. Just have your rom of choice on your sd card ie mine would be viperone 3.1.0 lol. Another thing to get a full wipe make sure everything is mounted in the twrp mount settings.
If my suggestions help you please hit the thanks option at the bottom left of my post please.

Question about Sunshine

I just got an HTC One M8 today and I want to get it to s off and install CyanogenMod. I'm on the 4.4.4 build and I have root with Sunshine but when I grant it root and it does the compatibility check it says "At this time, SunShine cannot work on your phone"
Is there a fix for this or do I have to wait for Sunshine 3?

ericperkun said:
I just got an HTC One M8 today and I want to get it to s off and install CyanogenMod. I'm on the 4.4.4 build and I have root with Sunshine but when I grant it root and it does the compatibility check it says "At this time, SunShine cannot work on your phone"
Is there a fix for this or do I have to wait for Sunshine 3?
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You must wait. Sorry.

ericperkun said:
I just got an HTC One M8 today and I want to get it to s off and install CyanogenMod. I'm on the 4.4.4 build and I have root with Sunshine but when I grant it root and it does the compatibility check it says "At this time, SunShine cannot work on your phone"
Is there a fix for this or do I have to wait for Sunshine 3?
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I would give it a couple more tries. When I did mine it took me like 3 tries as it kept failing. I had to reboot and run it again. Are you running sunshine while you have root access with weaksauce2 ? I think you need to be and open weaksauce2 to make sure it shows you have root access. And if it reboots then does nothing for a whiles try opening weaksauce2 and see if that lets it work. I would say give it a couple more tries it cant hurt but may help.

dottat said:
You must wait. Sorry.
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I thought so, that sucks. Oh well hopefully it comes out soon.
M9guy said:
I would give it a couple more tries. When I did mine it took me like 3 tries as it kept failing. I had to reboot and run it again. Are you running sunshine while you have root access with weaksauce2 ? I think you need to be and open weaksauce2 to make sure it shows you have root access. And if it reboots then does nothing for a whiles try opening weaksauce2 and see if that lets it work. I would say give it a couple more tries it cant hurt but may help.
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Yeah I had root with WeakSauce2 when I used it and I tried a bunch of times.

ericperkun said:
Yeah I had root with WeakSauce2 when I used it and I tried a bunch of times.
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This seems like a long shot but I think I've read that the new sunshine has weaksauce baked in. Have you tried uninstalling your standalone weaksauce and running sunshine as is? It's worth a shot.

ericperkun said:
I just got an HTC One M8 today and I want to get it to s off and install CyanogenMod. I'm on the 4.4.4 build and I have root with Sunshine but when I grant it root and it does the compatibility check it says "At this time, SunShine cannot work on your phone"
Is there a fix for this or do I have to wait for Sunshine 3?
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It worked for me, current Sunshine...
I have M8 that came with 4.4.4 ... After days of research I finally just tried WeakSauce2 (It worked, gained temp root) ... Make sure you are using WeakSauce2 and not the original.
Then reluctantly, I tried Sunshine and it said it wouldn't work, as you stated. But I tried anyway. ... And it worked FIRST TRY.
I hate the fact that they charge (and charge so much) for it, but it was one of those I'm determined type things... I really hope the that trend of charging so much doesn't catch on. I'm all for donate or a couple of bucks but dammnnn come on... It's supposed to be for fun and everything, not to make thousands of dollars...
Anyways, the current sunshine worked for me, on 4.4.4 , and yes I am sure It was 4.4.4 KitKat and not 4.4.3 ....
Good luck.

My M8 is coming Friday. Do I go straight to Sunshine or do I need to Weaksauce2 first. I thought Weaksauce was now part of sunshine.
Thanks.

schneid said:
My M8 is coming Friday. Do I go straight to Sunshine or do I need to Weaksauce2 first. I thought Weaksauce was now part of sunshine.
Thanks.
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Like I said, I first only used WeakSauce2. I rebooted the phone several times just playing with the phone and re-ran weaksauce2 several times also (just playing, testing root, etc... ) - Days later I finally decided to just try Sunshine one night. I left Weaksuace2 running, ran Sunshine, and it worked.
I don't know if it is 'baked in' or not, but this was my experience.

schneid said:
My M8 is coming Friday. Do I go straight to Sunshine or do I need to Weaksauce2 first. I thought Weaksauce was now part of sunshine.
Thanks.
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Running weaksauce isn't needed. I'd try sunshine first as soon as you boot up your phone, if it doesn't work weaksauce may allow it to work after running it.

No Joy
Phone came with 4.4.4. Tried Sunshine. Failed. Weaksauce2 gives TempRoot. Weaksauce2 plus Sunshine fails. Manually installed SU. Kept screwing around and ran Flashify to TWRP. Phone booted to a scary red triangle. After awhile booted normally. Decided to start over and did a factory reset.
Did learn I didn't need a SIM Cutter or a trip to Verizon for a Nano SIM. It came with a VZW SIM and VZW has an online app to activate a replacement phone. Enter MEI, SIM ID, they text a code, you enter it, BAM, your done.
Not sure where to go from here. I'd pay way more than $25 for root. Really surprised this phone came from Amazon with 4.4.4. Always been able to get root before locked out. Missing my rooted S3 already other than it was old and slow..
All I really want is TiBu and Tether. Can I do that with just Weaksauce2 TempRoot? Does Freezing "Updater" block further updates so I can deny them until safe?
Thanks

schneid said:
Phone came with 4.4.4. Tried Sunshine. Failed. Weaksauce2 gives TempRoot. Weaksauce2 plus Sunshine fails. Manually installed SU. Kept screwing around and ran Flashify to TWRP. Phone booted to a scary red triangle. After awhile booted normally. Decided to start over and did a factory reset.
Did learn I didn't need a SIM Cutter or a trip to Verizon for a Nano SIM. It came with a VZW SIM and VZW has an online app to activate a replacement phone. Enter MEI, SIM ID, they text a code, you enter it, BAM, your done.
Not sure where to go from here. I'd pay way more than $25 for root. Really surprised this phone came from Amazon with 4.4.4. Always been able to get root before locked out. Missing my rooted S3 already other than it was old and slow..
All I really want is TiBu and Tether. Can I do that with just Weaksauce2 TempRoot? Does Freezing "Updater" block further updates so I can deny them until safe?
Thanks
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I'm talking out of my @SS right now, but can you Unmount filesystem and then Remount as Read-Write while you have temp root, and then try Sunshine ? Im not sure that would make any difference at all, but If I was stuck I would try at least ...
Could you also use a Firewall and program like Autostarts to block and disable updater as well as disable it ? Again, I don't know, just saying...

schneid said:
Phone came with 4.4.4. Tried Sunshine. Failed. Weaksauce2 gives TempRoot. Weaksauce2 plus Sunshine fails. Manually installed SU. Kept screwing around and ran Flashify to TWRP. Phone booted to a scary red triangle. After awhile booted normally. Decided to start over and did a factory reset.
Did learn I didn't need a SIM Cutter or a trip to Verizon for a Nano SIM. It came with a VZW SIM and VZW has an online app to activate a replacement phone. Enter MEI, SIM ID, they text a code, you enter it, BAM, your done.
Not sure where to go from here. I'd pay way more than $25 for root. Really surprised this phone came from Amazon with 4.4.4. Always been able to get root before locked out. Missing my rooted S3 already other than it was old and slow..
All I really want is TiBu and Tether. Can I do that with just Weaksauce2 TempRoot? Does Freezing "Updater" block further updates so I can deny them until safe?
Thanks
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Freezing updater would probably stop further updates, but you may want to take it if the next version of sunshine will work on it.
You just need to wait for the next version of sunshine to come out. Jcase and beaups want to wait for the lollipop release so the next version of sunshine will work on it. You did about all you could do for now, so you just have to wait for the update.

BaLLZaCH said:
I'm talking out of my @SS right now, but can you Unmount filesystem and then Remount as Read-Write while you have temp root, and then try Sunshine ? Im not sure that would make any difference at all, but If I was stuck I would try at least ...
Could you also use a Firewall and program like Autostarts to block and disable updater as well as disable it ? Again, I don't know, just saying...
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No. With s-on write protection is enabled on /system. Any changes you make will revert on reboot.

Sprint version bricked?

Recently tried to unroot due to issues with the vibrate motor not working for any notifications or anything. Also, apps started to fail more frequently it was all just becoming a big headache. I had thought for sure I enabled OEM unlocking but at this point its obvious I did not. Currently I can not get phone to boot besides to the encryption page and no idea what pin code would be. I have tried everything imaginable under the sun. In adb I ran the oem unlock string which caused all these issues. If I try to boot into recovery I get the message "Your device is corrupt. It cant be trusted and will not boot". If I try to boot normally i get the message "Your device has loaded a different operating system" then boots to the encryption lock page. I have placed the RUU and other files and attempted the SD card way of running the files to no avail. Does anyone have any other advice to getting this thing back on?
Edit: this can be closed. I flashed nearly every file I could find but nothing would take. Doing it both the adb and SD card method. Finally, I found the zip that the phone finally liked and it finally flashed. OH man cant be any happier to finally have my baby back on. Anyone else become stuck in this issue, just do as others have said, find the correct zip, flash it, and all will be ok.

mbaseball3 said:
Recently tried to unroot due to issues with the vibrate motor not working for any notifications or anything. Also, apps started to fail more frequently it was all just becoming a big headache. I had thought for sure I enabled OEM unlocking but at this point its obvious I did not. Currently I can not get phone to boot besides to the encryption page and no idea what pin code would be. I have tried everything imaginable under the sun. In adb I ran the oem unlock string which caused all these issues. If I try to boot into recovery I get the message "Your device is corrupt. It cant be trusted and will not boot". If I try to boot normally i get the message "Your device has loaded a different operating system" then boots to the encryption lock page. I have placed the RUU and other files and attempted the SD card way of running the files to no avail. Does anyone have any other advice to getting this thing back on?
Edit: this can be closed. I flashed nearly every file I could find but nothing would take. Doing it both the adb and SD card method. Finally, I found the zip that the phone finally liked and it finally flashed. OH man cant be any happier to finally have my baby back on. Anyone else become stuck in this issue, just do as others have said, find the correct zip, flash it, and all will be ok.
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I'm in this predicament at the moment. I am not able to find the zip file with the same OS as my phone (2.42.617.6)
I am looking at this spreadsheet to locate the correct zip file. Could anyone help me, please? Thanks.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15JL3tRWDSVOUKo_revEYtQ_tRcOSJ0vWcvk8a7TK8Hk/edit#gid=0

mauiblue said:
I'm in this predicament at the moment. I am not able to find the zip file with the same OS as my phone (2.42.617.6)
I am looking at this spreadsheet to locate the correct zip file. Could anyone help me, please? Thanks.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15JL3tRWDSVOUKo_revEYtQ_tRcOSJ0vWcvk8a7TK8Hk/edit#gid=0
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38 or 39 should work. The last octet doesn't matter as that is just sub version. So long as the first 3 octets match ie 2.42.617, your good to go.

shivadow said:
38 or 39 should work. The last octet doesn't matter as that is just sub version. So long as the first 3 octets match ie 2.42.617, your good to go.
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Thanks shivadow for responding to my post. So I downloaded one of the one of the latest versions (from the zip variant link) and renamed it "firmware.zip" I am using ADB to do the process (https://forum.xda-developers.com/u11/how-to/collection-htcu-u11-ruu-firmware-t3612048) and I get this error:
C:\adb>fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
target reported max download size of 2399200000 bytes
error: cannot load 'firmware.zip'
I renamed it a couple other times and I still get that error above. My phone (U11) is in the download mode. Just for giggles when I type in on the command prompt "fastboot oem rebootRUU" I get to a screen that has HTC on it and says and the warning "Security Warning. If you flash this phone with any ROM that was not officially released by HTC you take the risk of releasing...." When I give the command to flash the zip file I get the same error as above.
I am hopeful that I can get this phone back to normal running status. I just need to get the right commands and files to do this.
I appreciate any and all help to get my phone back to normal again. Aloha.

Sorry just saw all the updates. Notifications turned off apparently. Since I was able to get phone back on I can say it's not like it used to. I've tried to run the RUU which fails every time. And my signal has turned to absolute crap; constant dropped signal and barely any LTE. So, I'm no help since all I've done is get the phone on but not working properly lol.
mauiblue said:
I'm in this predicament at the moment. I am not able to find the zip file with the same OS as my phone (2.42.617.6)
I am looking at this spreadsheet to locate the correct zip file. Could anyone help me, please? Thanks.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15JL3tRWDSVOUKo_revEYtQ_tRcOSJ0vWcvk8a7TK8Hk/edit#gid=0
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mbaseball3 said:
Sorry just saw all the updates. Notifications turned off apparently. Since I was able to get phone back on I can say it's not like it used to. I've tried to run the RUU which fails every time. And my signal has turned to absolute crap; constant dropped signal and barely any LTE. So, I'm no help since all I've done is get the phone on but not working properly lol.
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Aloha and thanks for taking the time to respond. Well you got farther than me as I was not able to get my phone out of trouble. Tomorrow will make two weeks since I sent my phone out to HTC. I just got the new HTC U12+ yesterday as I can't go without a reliable set because I need one for my jobs.
Next time if I do unlock the bootloader on any phone I will figure out how to do the process of rooting, updating, and not bricking the phone.
I hope you sort things out with your phone.
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I'm not sure about getting further when it feels messed up still, ha. Yeah I get ya though, had the same experience freaking out that I wouldn't have a phone for work. Fortunately I had my cracked screen m10 that served as a backup until I was able to get the u11 to boot. I swear the last phones I rooted were less hassle than these more complex devices. Hope HTC can get it figured out for you.
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Aloha and thanks for taking the time to respond. Well you got farther than me as I was not able to get my phone out of trouble. Tomorrow will make two weeks since I sent my phone out to HTC. I just got the new HTC U12+ yesterday as I can't go without a reliable set because I need one for my jobs.
Next time if I do unlock the bootloader on any phone I will figure out how to do the process of rooting, updating, and not bricking the phone.
I hope you sort things out with your phone.
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I agree that the past phones were not so hard to unlock, root, update, and tweak. Now with the U12+ dual A/B slot partition and multiple files that are needed to root the phone it can be overwhelming.
I'm sure HTC will be able fix the phone but at what cost? I'm just waiting it out and hoping for the best.
Aloha!
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