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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.
Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

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.

[Q] how to s-off htc one m8 verizon

hello all
i want to s-off my HTC One m8 verizon but i can't because firewater is officially discontinued and i can't effort sunshine
if any one has firewater file saved so please send me i want to s-off my device
here is my facebook
facebook.com/hackerhgl

Hackerhgl said:
hello all
i want to s-off my HTC One m8 verizon but i can't because firewater is officially discontinued and i can't effort sunshine
if any one has firewater file saved so please send me i want to s-off my device
here is my facebook
facebook.com/hackerhgl
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Firewater won't work even if you have the files. It was server dependent. The server was shutdown. So if you had it and you ran it firewater would just hang and fail.
You need sunshine.

Thank you for reply
dottat said:
Firewater won't work even if you have the files. It was server dependent. The server was shutdown. So if you had it and you ran it firewater would just hang and fail.
You need sunshine.
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It means I can't s off my device

Hackerhgl said:
It means I can't s off my device
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If you can't use sunshine then yes. Sunshine is your only option.

Sunshine S-Off is the only option left on the M8 to my knowledge. Either you have the $25 or you don't. Depends on how badly you want S-OFF. It works perfectly on the current OTA (3.28.605.4)

Out of curiosity, why is there not the option to flash an old ruu via tricking the system into thinking it's running an older version...? I've seen such a thread for the M7 it is there no older firmware that was fully root/s-off'able? Anyone seen something like this..?

Arnold.1441 said:
Out of curiosity, why is there not the option to flash an old ruu via tricking the system into thinking it's running an older version...? I've seen such a thread for the M7 it is there no older firmware that was fully root/s-off'able? Anyone seen something like this..?
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No. Won't work. Hboot will give you an error if you try to load any firmware or ruu that have a version number that starts out with a number smaller than the previous.

dottat said:
No. Won't work. Hboot will give you an error if you try to load any firmware or ruu that have a version number that starts out with a number smaller than the previous.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618524
I'm not sure you followed my question...

Arnold.1441 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618524
I'm not sure you followed my question...
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I understood it completely. The guide you refer to is for boot loader unlockable phones for 1) and 2) their downgrade stayed in the same 3.x.x.x firmware realm.
If you had 3.28.605.1 you might be able to downgrade on the current 3.28.605.4. Get what I'm saying? Not like I wouldn't have tried this myself on the many phones I support because I really don't know what ruu's are. ??

FWIW They are currently working on sunshine 3.0 and that should work for the current 4.4.4 I guess it was a hit and miss deal with firewater depending on what chipset your phone had. It worked on some but not on others... I am patiently waiting for 3.0 to drop!

Let's all take a moment to realize how ****ing awful Verizon is for not allowing us to use HTCDEV to unlock our phones. I bought it. With my money. It's my device. I should be able to do with it what I please. **** them. If I had the money or time I would sue them for as much as I can.

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FWIW They are currently working on sunshine 3.0 and that should work for the current 4.4.4 I guess it was a hit and miss deal with firewater depending on what chipset your phone had. It worked on some but not on others... I am patiently waiting for 3.0 to drop!
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↑wait what?↓ does there currently exist a method that works for 3.28.605.4?
projektorboy said:
Sunshine S-Off is the only option left on the M8 to my knowledge. Either you have the $25 or you don't. Depends on how badly you want S-OFF. It works perfectly on the current OTA (3.28.605.4)
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I understood it completely. The guide you refer to is for boot loader unlockable phones for 1) and 2) their downgrade stayed in the same 3.x.x.x firmware realm.
If you had 3.28.605.1 you might be able to downgrade on the current 3.28.605.4. Get what I'm saying? Not like I wouldn't have tried this myself on the many phones I support because I really don't know what ruu's are.
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Ah... My bad. Sorry for doubting you there.... Your points are (unfortunately) both true and well articulated. Thanks for clearing that up. And yes, I will join in the moment of silence and silent raging at the horrible tyranny that is BIG RED... D*** them and their reliable coverage... (Although where I live their LTE speeds are horrible, beaten only by sprint in terms of lousiness... Although, in some areas sprint actually has LTE which is faster than Verizon's... Go figure)

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↑wait what?↓ does there currently exist a method that works for 3.28.605.4?
Ah... My bad. Sorry for doubting you there.... Your points are (unfortunately) both true and well articulated. Thanks for clearing that up. And yes, I will join in the moment of silence and silent raging at the horrible tyranny that is BIG RED... D*** them and their reliable coverage... (Although where I live their LTE speeds are horrible, beaten only by sprint in terms of lousiness... Although, in some areas sprint actually has LTE which is faster than Verizon's... Go figure)
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I am currently on 3.28.605.4 and sunshine does NOT work yet, it is a known issue. And lie I said it is a hit and miss deal per phone. Sunshine will perform a series of tests and let you know if it will work or not before asking you to commit to the 25 bones. C,mon 3.0!!!

Root = Impossible

There seems to be no possible way to root a Verizon HTC device now. I'm trying to root my M8 and every avenue I've tried, it's apparently impossible.
Sunshine didn't work.
Everyone says weak sauce no longer works.
HTCdev site didn't work.
I always run into the fact that I can't S-Off.
So... Is there now no possible way to root a Verizon HTC M8?
The main reason I want to root is for battery life. I'm desperate. I want the old battery saver feature back, that Verizon removed in the Marshmallow update. Losers. Why you eliminate such a helpful tool from a phone escapes me. Utter nonsense.
So, now I'm faced with the decision. Root my M8, or buy a new phone. Thing is, I'm not ready to upgrade. But I can't seem to find a way to root!
If anyone can offer ANY help here, I would be greatly, greatly, appreciative. My M8's battery is not what it used to be.

Are you trying to s-off or root? Root doesn't require s-off
If you are trying to get back to lollipop (since you don't seem happy with MM), s-off is required.
Sunshine worked fine for me, what error are you getting?
For Verizon M8, sunshine is your only real option unless you find someone in your area with a javacard. Htcdev and weaksauce won't work.

avg2424 said:
Are you trying to s-off or root? Root doesn't require s-off
If you are trying to get back to lollipop (since you don't seem happy with MM), s-off is required.
Sunshine worked fine for me, what error are you getting?
For Verizon M8, sunshine is your only real option unless you find someone in your area with a javacard. Htcdev and weaksauce won't work.
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Well, I first tried the dev site. Went through all the steps and then it said I had to do the whole s-off procedure, but I wasn't able to because Verizon doesn't allow it anymore supposedly.
So then I tried Sunshine. It essentially ran the temp boot, my phone reboots, and then... Nothing. Nothing happens. I go back to sunshine and it just restarts all the tests again and asks for a temp root. Going in circles basically...
I'm lost. But there's got to be a way...
I'd rather not have to go back to 5.1, because I like have Sense 7 with MM. But if I can't root and am faced with no other option, I will entertain the idea. At the end of the day, my battery life is more important to me than themes or just about anything else.

You can send it off to someone with a Java Card like us VZW M9 members have done/are doing.
Here is the thread, the OP shows a map where the ppl are located, you may get lucky and be able to meet someone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-one-m9/general/m9-java-card-t3063247

andybones said:
You can send it off to someone with a Java Card like us VZW M9 members have done/are doing.
Here is the thread, the OP shows a map where the ppl are located, you may get lucky and be able to meet someone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-one-m9/general/m9-java-card-t3063247
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That is really my last option.
I suppose this confirms it then: there really is no way to root a Verizon M8. Least ways, not without some special 'card'.

Warrior VII said:
That is really my last option.
I suppose this confirms it then: there really is no way to root a Verizon M8. Least ways, not without some special 'card'.
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I just confirmed that there is..
Up until about a month ago Sunshine worked.
MM just came out, you never want to take an OTA if you aren't rooted and don't know if the new OTA is rootable.
My suggestion is to just send it out.
I did it with my M9.
It's 100% worth it, you will be rooted and S-OFF with bootloader unlocked all the goodies, all the guys are great, usually get it done and sent back out the same day. You pay for shipping to and from and they can't charge so you toss them a "donation".

Warrior VII said:
That is really my last option.
I suppose this confirms it then: there really is no way to root a Verizon M8. Least ways, not without some special 'card'.
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You can send it my way and I will do it for you. Mail via USPS priority mail isn't bad at all.
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dottat said:
You can send it my way and I will do it for you. Mail via USPS priority mail isn't bad at all.
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Is it not something you could walk me through or do remotely?

Warrior VII said:
Is it not something you could walk me through it do remotely?
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No. The card must be in your phone.
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dottat said:
No. The card must be in your phone.
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Just got the phone rooted! Unlocked with sunshine and then got a friend to root for me.
Do you know if there is a way to enable power saver mode? Verizon disabled it, and I really want it back. Anyway to re-enable after root?

Warrior VII said:
Just got the phone rooted! Unlocked with sunshine and then got a friend to root for me.
Do you know if there is a way to enable power saver mode? Verizon disabled it, and I really want it back. Anyway to re-enable after root?
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Flash a rom that supports it or find the Android shell command that enables it. I have seen it posted a couple times. The only direct way I know of requires a wipe.
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SunShine works on the latest (as of March 8th 2016) Verizon m8 firmware, it will temproot, unlock and s-off the device
Warrior VII said:
There seems to be no possible way to root a Verizon HTC device now. I'm trying to root my M8 and every avenue I've tried, it's apparently impossible.
Sunshine didn't work.
Everyone says weak sauce no longer works.
HTCdev site didn't work.
I always run into the fact that I can't S-Off.
So... Is there now no possible way to root a Verizon HTC M8?
The main reason I want to root is for battery life. I'm desperate. I want the old battery saver feature back, that Verizon removed in the Marshmallow update. Losers. Why you eliminate such a helpful tool from a phone escapes me. Utter nonsense.
So, now I'm faced with the decision. Root my M8, or buy a new phone. Thing is, I'm not ready to upgrade. But I can't seem to find a way to root!
If anyone can offer ANY help here, I would be greatly, greatly, appreciative. My M8's battery is not what it used to be.
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jcase said:
SunShine works on the latest (as of March 8th 2016) Verizon m8 firmware, it will temproot, unlock and s-off the device
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Does SunShine still work on the Verizon m9 with 6.0 ?

bigbee8492 said:
Does SunShine still work on the Verizon m9 with 6.0 ?
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Yes but you need to be on 3.37.605.7, follow this to downgraded/update http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...t-unlock-s-verizon-m9-mm-3-37-605-13-t3457717

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Yes but you need to be on 3.37.605.7, follow this to downgraded/update http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...t-unlock-s-verizon-m9-mm-3-37-605-13-t3457717
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Hello! I just bought HTC m8 verizon version that is on android 6.0. I am unable to get Wifi hotspot and USB tethering turned ON. Can you just show me a path to accomplish the goal? I will do the rest myself. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

hmxmghl said:
Hello! I just bought HTC m8 verizon version that is on android 6.0. I am unable to get Wifi hotspot and USB tethering turned ON. Can you just show me a path to accomplish the goal? I will do the rest myself. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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Sorry not something I do