The M8 is the first HTC phone I've had. I was a Motorola fan until they locked down their phones tight. I've S-Offed, rooted and bootloader unlocked and TWRP installed on my M8. I'm running a few mods through Xposed and have bloatware frozen with Titanium. I'm just curious if I need to S-on or relock the bootloader and flash the stock recovery to take the OTA? I've heard to wait for devs to get ahold of the update and check it out first but even then what preparations do I need to make? Would really appreciate the help guys. Thanks in advance.
In order to take the OTA you will pretty much have to go back to stock. I would wait until it drops and flash a custom version so you can keep all your tweaks.
If you WANT to accept the ota, I believe you will need stock ROM, stock kernel, and you will need stock recovery. Not sure about locked boot loader, but s off should be fine.
If you DONT want to accept the ota, flash a ROM like cleanrom with a custom recovery and hang tight until someone packages the firmware. For this you will need to use one of the two s off methods, firewater or sunshine s off
By that do you mean one that devs make flashable through custom recovery? Sorry I feel like a newb with this phone. Wish all manufacturers could just do things the same way. I definitely don't want to lose root or unlocked bootloader
Guess I'll just hang tight and see what other people are cooking up once the OTA drops
Mudvayne622 said:
By that do you mean one that devs make flashable through custom recovery? Sorry I feel like a newb with this phone. Wish all manufacturers could just do things the same way. I definitely don't want to lose root or unlocked bootloader
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sfobrien said:
Yes
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Great. Thanks for the help. Definitely like HTC better than Motorola already.
Yeah, I'm sure Scott will make a flashable zip of the stock rom. He's going to stock now to be able to pull files and such. Just wait it out till a flashable zip hits.
Will it be just like flashing on a Motorola? Flash from custom recovery and all my data settings stay just like if I took the OTA?
Mudvayne622 said:
Great. Thanks for the help. Definitely like HTC better than Motorola already.
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I agree, the HTC is an awesome device right out of the box. After tweaking it's even better !
Mudvayne622 said:
Will it be just like flashing on a Motorola? Flash from custom recovery and all my data settings stay just like if I took the OTA?
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I'd recommend a clean flash because its going from 4.4.2 to 4.4.3
No update until tomorrow...
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We believe we are near ready to ship our incredible/evo solution to security off. Note this means you would have TRUE subradio level security off, and no matter what hboot/radio you flashed this would remain unless you purposely ran the command to reenable. We need a few people to help test slowly so we don't mass release and run into issues. We need folks at various levels of hboot/radio/rom, but the big thing is don't be afraid to loose your data or even brick. It's possible. Though we have not seen a permabrick yet from this. Truthfully, in the entire line of work we've done, there has only been ONE unrecoverable brick. And based on new knowledge that one might even have been fixable.
If interested, please join freenode channel #xxxxxxxxxxxxr to test... First 2-3 people only. Thanks!
EDIT: We are done for the night. It's looking good. We had 4 of 4 tests perfectly successful and rooted. Expect a full release soon unless something comes up! Stay tuned to http://www.unrevoked.com/forever
Sure i'll test
I'll help.
0002 with Toast method HBOOT/ROOT on OTA 2.2 Root'ed.
Why not. I'll test.
(CM6)
I'm, in PM me.. would love to give this a shot.
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Sorry to the OP i had to go. Too many questions and its late for me. Sorry i'll test another time if possible.
I'll test if you still need ppl. (running fresh 2.2)
aldojr said:
Sorry to the OP i had to go. Too many questions and its late for me. Sorry i'll test another time if possible.
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Thanks for letting me know! We wondered what happened to you.
tried to join but the channel is full
Here we go...brick it up kiesha!
Shadowmite said:
...unless you purposely ran the command to reenable.
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1. I'm NOT a dev, but could sprint etc ever give an OTA which would run a script to reenable??
2. For the testers are you looking for unrooted users only? (I thought Matt said it would only work for those already unrooted.)
THANKS FOR ALL YOU GUYS DO!!!!
I'm down have two phones
so whats the word guys it would be nice to flash the ota and see the difference between stock and the roms so far
Will release soon
adeyo said:
1. I'm NOT a dev, but could sprint etc ever give an OTA which would run a script to reenable??
2. For the testers are you looking for unrooted users only? (I thought Matt said it would only work for those already unrooted.)
THANKS FOR ALL YOU GUYS DO!!!!
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Good question, yes there is ONE thing that could reenable this. But I don't think they'd use it as it would mess up all true testing phones out on the market. And this requires a custom recovery that can run unsigned zip's. That's about it.
Thanks guys your work is amazing and WOW how easy can it get? MANY MANY MANY thanks this worked on my 2.1 rooted and was able to immediately upgrade to 2.2 without an issue with root of course.
And as well it work flawlessly on my already rooted and upgraded to 2.2 evo
WOOHOO!!! and here are a couple of pics for proof
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question for those that are testers, once you flashed a custom rom did it keep the 1.4pri
Will this work with stock ota 2.2?
Htc Evil Phone
jblazea50 said:
question for those that are testers, once you flashed a custom rom did it keep the 1.4pri
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Did not have the pri...
Phone must ALREADY be ROOTED so as far as I have read if you rooted you dont have the 1.4pri
I thought the PRI was tied to the Hboot though? If this actually installs the current stock Hboot (79.0000) shouldn't your PRI be 1.40?
What are you going to do first?
brick it
install recovery, backup, flash new ROM
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brick it
install recovery, backup, flash new ROM
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HA! Good one.
Once it's S-off its like a woman Stripping. So im going to play with it, poke it, swipe it, make it work faster, tweak it, turn it on, until its nice and ready for my custom rom to penetrate its memory.
Lol, only joking going to whack a custom rom on it and then skin it.
First thing I will do is create a post demanding where S-Off 2.0 is
Its much better.
ikhzter said:
Once it's S-off its like a woman Stripping. So im going to play with it, poke it, swipe it, make it work faster, tweak it, turn it on, until its nice and ready for my custom rom to penetrate its memory.
Lol, only joking going to whack a custom rom on it and then skin it.
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Which ROM will you choose?
Capy is awesome dev so this one will be good
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098703
meanwhile....
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Really increase the volume on the sucker so I can hear people on speaker phone.
And yes I have equalizer and Volume + installed and still sucks lol....
I agree with you on this one, very first thing is the VOLUME problem, hopefully a custom ROM will fix this by removing the software that limiting the volume sound of the speaker.
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Which ROM will you choose?
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LeeDroid of course, big fan of him since the DHD i bought in December, plus his custom Kernal is really good. my DHD was running on 1.8 GHZ
I installed adfree... One of the best apps in the market.
Tweet about it.
And then open a new thread on xda, screaming with all caps.
Can I have s-off on the existing official ROM without any data been lost?
After that, could I have permanent root? root persists even after reboot?
What else I can do after s-off except for flashing for a new ROM?
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LeeDroid of course, big fan of him since the DHD i bought in December, plus his custom Kernal is really good. my DHD was running on 1.8 GHZ
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Dude, do you mind showing us some screenshots of LEEdroid? I am very new to flashing. Thanks, man.
How can u raise the volume with s off?
lightforce said:
How can u raise the volume with s off?
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Download and run terminal emulator. Then type IDDQD. If that doesn't work, type IDKFA.
is there any way to just obtain root access without having to install a custom recovery? I would like to just have root on stock
I think every time you reboot the phone your recovery will be set back to stock. You have to flash CWM every time you need to use it.
Budge_uK said:
I think every time you reboot the phone your recovery will be set back to stock. You have to flash CWM every time you need to use it.
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This is incorrect. Once you flash a custom recovery it is there to stay unless you remove it. Now on too the real point. Why would you want to root and not have a custom recovery? The point of having root access is to be able to gain access to things you can't unrooted and top flash custom firmware, hacks, mods, etc. which you cannot do with stock recovery. Secondly why would you want to stay on stock gingerbread when there are TONS of beautiful ICS roms to run. If you really want to be stock then root and flash a deodexed stock ROM. If not try MIUI or a tweaked out ICS ROM.
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This is MIUI and it's beautiful.
Anyways...If your problem is with CWM in general then flash TWRP (great UI and all touch input) as far as rooting check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17300587 there are how to videos and what not. Look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9919944 for everything you need to get your phone connected to your computer (drivers, etc.) And here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21968928 for different recoveries.
Trust me, rooting and flashing custom firmware is the best thing you can do for your NS4G and is safe as long as you always follow instructions and keep a good stable nandroid backup just in case.
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There is great support here in our forums. If you have troubles or questions with anything it's just a post away to ask. We're all pretty nice here. Lol. Mostly.
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Its not that I am afraid to flash, I constantly flash roms but i am most comfortable with gingerbread and was wondering if i can just have it rooted without a custom recovery because I dont want to flash any other roms for the time being.
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Election Day said:
Only if you install a custom ROM. The stock ROM reflashes the stock recovery on every boot.
It can be disabled by removing or renaming /system/etc/install-recovery.sh though.
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Ahhh I forgot about that.
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Sense 5 icons mod, grabbed it from One S forum -> link
Flash it through TWRP and that should be it.
...but just in case, do nandroid backup first - it cant hurt
loCe45 said:
Sense 5 icons mod, grabbed it from One S forum -> link
Flash it through TWRP and that should be it.
...but just in case, do nandroid backup first - it cant hurt
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There is no root necessary?
You need a recovery to flash, so you must be at least unlocked with custom recovery.
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You need a recovery to flash, so you must be at least unlocked with custom recovery.
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So only instal with TWRP don't work?
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So only instal with TWRP don't work?
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TWRP = Team Win Recovery Project
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TWRP = Team Win Recovery Project
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I'm a noob at this kind off stuff. I tried to flash a rom on my One S. That won't work. So I have to buy a new One SV. So i'm very carefull now with my phone .
Is there some readme or how to install-guide or something?
[GUIDE] Root for HTC One SV
[Recovery] TWRP Recovery 2.x
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[GUIDE] Root for HTC One SV
[Recovery] TWRP Recovery 2.x
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Thats too much work for me. I don't want my phone crashes hehe. I'll just wait till the official update.
Petert87 said:
Thats too much work for me. I don't want my phone crashes hehe. I'll just wait till the official update.
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are you serious?
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are you serious?
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Yes I am. I don't want to do some stuff that I dont have any knowledge.
If its possible that I only have to instal it with TWRP, thats easy. But root and stuff. The last time I did it with my One S, it went wrong.
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Yes I am. I don't want to do some stuff that I dont have any knowledge.
If its possible that I only have to instal it with TWRP, thats easy. But root and stuff. The last time I did it with my One S, it went wrong.
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I'm not be the genius, but i can flash items
And I have changed some icons except. Vibrate, Silent and Statusbar background.
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ok so i finally decided to unlock the bootloader via sunshine app, it all went successfully even though the phone didnt restart itself, i had to manually restart it. i am right now on 4.4.4 rooted with 4.4 safestrap recovery. anything you guys recommend me doing as far as the goodies... like new custom rom, kernels etc? first time i unlock a bootloader so just gathering some ideas of where to start tinkering.
ceelos218 said:
ok so i finally decided to unlock the bootloader via sunshine app, it all went successfully even though the phone didnt restart itself, i had to manually restart it. i am right now on 4.4.4 rooted with 4.4 safestrap recovery. anything you guys recommend me doing as far as the goodies... like new custom rom, kernels etc? first time i unlock a bootloader so just gathering some ideas of where to start tinkering.
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Ditch safestrap and get twrp recovery. Then run @Topsnake's snake venom rom.
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Caseyk621 said:
Ditch safestrap and get twrp recovery. Then run @Topsnake's snake venom rom.
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thanks for the suggestion. : )
Caseyk621 said:
Ditch safestrap and get twrp recovery. Then run @Topsnake's snake venom rom.
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You're a great american.
can anyone help me with this, im trying to flash twrp img but i keep getting variable not supported. already have usb drivers installed and adb is connecting fine. not sure why i cant flash.
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can anyone help me with this, im trying to flash twrp img but i keep getting variable not supported. already have usb drivers installed and adb is connecting fine. not sure why i cant flash.
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ended up flashing this version twrp-2.6.3.1-ghost-4.4 and it went thru fine... i have trwp installed successfully. now on to topsnakes goodies xD
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Ditch safestrap and get twrp recovery. Then run @Topsnake's snake venom rom.
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Link to ROM?
Carrzy said:
Link to ROM?
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I know there are so many for our phone its hard to sort through them all. Lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2828366
[4.4.4][CDMA]Snake's Venom 4.4.4 Moto X Port Build #96 For XT1080/M/1030
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Caseyk621 said:
I know there are so many for our phone its hard to sort through them all. Lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2828366
[4.4.4][CDMA]Snake's Venom 4.4.4 Moto X Port Build #96 For XT1080/M/1030
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Yeahhhh I see the sarcasm. Lol but the last two ROMs I tried didn't work quite right so I figured I'd just ask.. Thanks again Casey!
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Yeahhhh I see the sarcasm. Lol but the last two ROMs I tried didn't work quite right so I figured I'd just ask.. Thanks again Casey!
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Mine is, for the most part, a well oiled sex machine that every once in awhile blows out its knee cap.