Can't seem to find the magic incantation for searching. Sorry if this is redundant.
Installed WeakSauce on my HTC one M8, Marshmallow, Verizon. Clicking "INSTALL" does nothing - no error - no confirmation - it's like I never clicked the button. The app is running, I assume, because clicking "CANCEL", exits as expected.
dlm8751 said:
Can't seem to find the magic incantation for searching. Sorry if this is redundant.
Installed WeakSauce on my HTC one M8, Marshmallow, Verizon. Clicking "INSTALL" does nothing - no error - no confirmation - it's like I never clicked the button. The app is running, I assume, because clicking "CANCEL", exits as expected.
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Highly doubt weak sauce will work on marshmallow. Where did you see that it would?
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never saw anyone claiming it would work. but the author makes a claim that it may work on devices for which it was not originally intended. so i gave it a shot. it didn't work.
Weaksauce won't work on marshmallow, you should have unlocked before taking the ota. The "can't click install" issue isn't a weaksauce issue, its a Google "feature". Disable any apps that are using overlay (screen dimming apps are the most common).
--beaups
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Help!
First off sorry if it's an answered question already but I can't find it, but was wondering if I can get s-off on my damn phone with MM 6.0, or root any other way? Everything I seem to find does not work and it's becoming increasingly annoying. I tried sunshine also but it didn't ask for payment so I assume it's not compatible with MM or something. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
6FUepic said:
First off sorry if it's an answered question already but I can't find it, but was wondering if I can get s-off on my damn phone with MM 6.0, or root any other way? Everything I seem to find does not work and it's becoming increasingly annoying. I tried sunshine also but it didn't ask for payment so I assume it's not compatible with MM or something. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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If you are 100% stock and haven't tried other methods the latest sunshine should work. If not, run the latest signed ruu I have posted and try sunshine again. It should work.
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I am 100% stock and have tried other methods as well but don't work. Sunshine right now runs the tests and says it's good to go, but never gives me the option to buy and when it tries to petmroot it fails. I'll try the ruu you mentioned and go from there. Thanks for your reply
I'm pretty sure "weaksauce" was controlled "online" by the devs (Sunshine Crew) and a time came when they took it offline and rendered it useless due to some highschool B.S. bickering, crying and.... And SUNSHINE was born!!! @beaups or was this "online" idea creating and taking life from weaksauce another internet rant?? By the way, you guys who have been making it possible to free our HTC devices all this time deserve to by called RockStars.. And in cases making seeming impossible possible with only java code.. Einsteins of there trades/hobbys/passions. I gladly paid for Sunshine and I will again and again and again if I ever need to. I stated once before when people were *****ing about paying for it that they should get off their asses and develop something similar what does the same and put it out there for free or shut the f up. Or go talk to the bastards that sell you "your" that is "your" phone "your" phone locked down, kind of like a car that you can't turn the seatbelt Dinger off. even though it's "your" car
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Sunshine is what I've been trying to get to work but no success as of yet. I tried @dottat RUU 5.0.1 in the blue links but when I flashed it it said target reported max download size bla bla could not load zip. It's in the same folder as my htc-Fastboot is in. SD card won't work it says it's too big.
HTC6525LVW
STOCK ,LOCKED BL, S-ON
MM 6.0, 6.21.605.3
6FUepic said:
Sunshine is what I've been trying to get to work but no success as of yet. I tried @dottat RUU 5.0.1 in the blue links but when I flashed it it said target reported max download size bla bla could not load zip. It's in the same folder as my htc-Fastboot is in. SD card won't work it says it's too big.
HTC6525LVW
STOCK ,LOCKED BL, S-ON
MM 6.0, 6.21.605.3
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Use the suggested fastboot exe I have posted. Your fastboot doesn't know how to flash that.
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dottat said:
Use the suggested fastboot exe I have posted. Your fastboot doesn't know how to flash that.
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Your talking about this one? https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001612150
That's what I'm using
6FUepic said:
Your talking about this one? https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001612150
That's what I'm using
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Then you can't be using the right signed ruu or command. If you were, it wouldn't be sending large files. I can help you flash it remotely if you want.
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dottat said:
Then you can't be using the right signed ruu or command. If you were, it wouldn't be sending large files. I can help you flash it remotely if you want.
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That would be nice I'm having problems with this one. Isn't the blue link with 5.0.1. Zip the right RUU? and then I'm just doing the fastboot oem rebootRUU
Then fastboot flash zip 0p_____.zip
6FUepic said:
That would be nice I'm having problems with this one. Isn't the blue link with 5.0.1. Zip the right RUU? and then I'm just doing the fastboot oem rebootRUU
Then fastboot flash zip 0p_____.zip
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If you are using the correct fastboot the command would be
HTC_fastboot flash zip nameofzip.zip
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dottat said:
If you are using the correct fastboot the command would be
HTC_fastboot flash zip nameofzip.zip
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If you don't mind doing it remotely.... What do I need to do?
6FUepic said:
If you don't mind doing it remotely.... What do I need to do?
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Install team viewer and shoot me the id and passcode via pm so I can take a look at what you're doing.
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dottat said:
Install team viewer and shoot me the id and passcode via pm so I can take a look at what you're doing.
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Ok
dottat said:
Install team viewer and shoot me the id and passcode via pm so I can take a look at what you're doing.
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Are people actually managing to downgrade from Marshmallow to 5.x?
--beaups
beaups said:
Are people actually managing to downgrade from Marshmallow to 5.x?
--beaups
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Negative.
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Negative.
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So whys he trying to flash 5.0.1 ruu on his s-on MM device?
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A friend of mine asked if I could help him fix his phone. He is a noob and so am I but I have rooted several phones and flashed many ROMS on all sorts of phones with no issues. So I would a least say I am pretty tech savvy. Here is the dilemma- If I hold volume down and power I get a white screen with some options such as hboot, fastboot, recovery, factory reset, simlock & image crc. It also says S-On....which I believe is the problem. He says that he though he downgraded to 2.2 before rooting but couldn't be sure but says he was originally on 2.3.4. I can boot into recovery CWM, mount usb/SD and load roms but no matter what ROM I load it will never get passed the HTC screen. Can someone tell me or at least point me in the right direction as to how I can achieve S-Off? Also I must note that he made no backups prior to his rooting attempt (Ughhhh!). Is there an easy way to get S-Off when the phone seems to be unlocked, rooted & CMW installed? Thanks a bunch my fellow XDA Einsteins.
I didn't think you can have a recovery without s-off for the shift... You could run an RUU and use one of the root guides we have if someone with more experience can't cone up with an idea. Of he did downgrade to 2.2 he should of used the shiftrr.exe to root
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
I didn't think you can have a recovery without s-off for the shift... You could run an RUU and use one of the root guides we have if someone with more experience can't cone up with an idea. Of he did downgrade to 2.2 he should of used the shiftrr.exe to root
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You can with an unlocked boot loader.
VICODAN said:
You can with an unlocked boot loader.
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Oh really? I didn't know that
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Oh really? I didn't know that
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http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
It's in my root thread.
VICODAN said:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
It's in my root thread.
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Ah good to know. I never read your thread no offense since I rooted on 2.2
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Ah good to know. I never read your thread no offense since I rooted on 2.2
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No worries, no need. Not offended.
Sounds like something got screwed up during the RUU process of downgrading. I've run into a similar issue when running the ROM Update Utility and it put me back to s-on but It kept my custom recovery. Same thing, no matter what I flashed I couldn't get it to boot. Your best bet is probably going to be run the the RUU. It will depend on which version of bootloader is on the device to which RUU will work. I can't remember the specific number but I believe the 2.2 bootloader is something like 93xxx something or another. If that's the case then you should be able to run the old RUU, putting your back on 2.2 and continue rooting. If your bootloader version is higher (98xxx or something) you'll have to run the newest RUU in order for it to work.
I may be completely wrong here but when all else fails... RUU!
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crump84 said:
Sounds like something got screwed up during the RUU process of downgrading. I've run into a similar issue when running the ROM Update Utility and it put me back to s-on but It kept my custom recovery. Same thing, no matter what I flashed I couldn't get it to boot. Your best bet is probably going to be run the the RUU. It will depend on which version of bootloader is on the device to which RUU will work. I can't remember the specific number but I believe the 2.2 bootloader is something like 93xxx something or another. If that's the case then you should be able to run the old RUU, putting your back on 2.2 and continue rooting. If your bootloader version is higher (98xxx or something) you'll have to run the newest RUU in order for it to work.
I may be completely wrong here but when all else fails... RUU!
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Yes, you know when I water damaged my phone I (stupidly) was trying to RUU it while trying to fix it and the RUU failed and I got to a point where RUU was telling me that a newer version is installed.
Well the way I fixed it was by running RUU 2.3.4. All worked good after that.
Please refer to my post about how to flash misc.img in recovery since you can't get past the htc screen and this will allow you to get downgraded. If I can the post it's around here somewhere and I'll post a link to it.
Edit: here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27695411&postcount=254
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sparksco said:
Please refer to my post about how to flash misc.img in recovery since you can't get past the htc screen and this will allow you to get downgraded. If I can the post it's around here somewhere and I'll post a link to it.
Edit: here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27695411&postcount=254
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I found the post it's on Vicodan's thread
Hey guys as you can tell I made the switched after I had and unfortunate issue with my previous phone. Pretty much the act of god and stupid me I didnt have insurance on it so I had to start a new line and fork over the 220$ price tag, but anyways. I got the phone last night, and it's an amazing phone. For some reason i always been afraid to try out HTC. For some reason seemed to complex to me, but after I did more research it actually isn't.
I have a few questions and maybe I can get some help:
1) I follow root junky on youtube, and pretty much watched all his videos on the Verizon M8. From my understanding after reading through the forums that firewater will not work on newer m8 models, and that I would have to pay 25$ and get sunshine. This true about firewater? I had seen a few post about people saying it works, and more saying that it wont. I do have the newest sense 6, and and the update came to the phone.
2) I also noticed about the temporary root access apk, and that with a phone reboot it resets itself. So if i do the root and then obtain the root and use titanium back up that actually resets also?
3) I went threw the forum again about water proof/ dust proof, drop proof cases. Anyone here have one or used one and what do you think?
4) Lastly if I do the sunshine is that considered full root, and then I can add twrp through flashify, and then roms if I decide to go that route?
Thanks in advance,
the_rooter
Firewater is working on some people's still. It depends what hardware the phone has for some reason. So your process to root and soff will be, following the threads here.
Use weak sauce to temp root, download SuperSU after, do not open the app or anything. Don't try and update binaries or anything.
Then use firewater, using the correct directions, there's 3 different sets if I recall. Just pick the right one that is for using weak sauce root.
Then if firewater works great, you'll be soff and unlocked. If not, buy sunshine and run it. Then you'll get soff and unlocked.
You'll then get rid of SuperSU and uninstall weak sauce app as well.
Then flash a recovery. I'd suggest fastboot flashing it, but I guess flashify would work. But you'll already have fastboot working if you tried firewater so might as well flash twrp with fastboot.
Once you have your recovery, download the latest SuperSU zip found here in chainfires thread and flash it in twrp. Then reboot and you will be permanent rooted. Then you can flash all the Roms or whatever you want.
Hope that helps.
silver04v said:
Firewater is working on some people's still. It depends what hardware the phone has for some reason. So your process to root and soff will be, following the threads here.
Use weak sauce to temp root, download SuperSU after, do not open the app or anything. Don't try and update binaries or anything.
Then use firewater, using the correct directions, there's 3 different sets if I recall. Just pick the right one that is for using weak sauce root.
Then if firewater works great, you'll be soff and unlocked. If not, buy sunshine and run it. Then you'll get soff and unlocked.
You'll then get rid of SuperSU and uninstall weak sauce app as well.
Then flash a recovery. I'd suggest fastboot flashing it, but I guess flashify would work. But you'll already have fastboot working if you tried firewater so might as well flash twrp with fastboot.
Once you have your recovery, download the latest SuperSU zip found here in chainfires thread and flash it in twrp. Then reboot and you will be permanent rooted. Then you can flash all the Roms or whatever you want.
Hope that helps.
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Did anyone find out the difference in hardware the phones that work, and is there a way to check on that or no?
the_rooter said:
Did anyone find out the difference in hardware the phones that work, and is there a way to check on that or no?
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No, you just try firewater. It really is easy. And if it works great, if not, no big deal. It will tell you, whelp, this won't ever work for your device is it fails. Then just use sunshine. Just read the how to threads and it really is simple. Droidmodderx on YouTube has a couple videos that are Verizon specific that may lend a hand too.
silver04v said:
No, you just try firewater. It really is easy. And if it works great, if not, no big deal. It will tell you, whelp, this won't ever work for your device is it fails. Then just use sunshine. Just read the how to threads and it really is simple. Droidmodderx on YouTube has a couple videos that are Verizon specific that may lend a hand too.
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I just paid the 25 dollars and now I am root free s off and twrp
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Check out the 2 other posts many get firewater to work using superuser with weaksauce app instead of supersu. Check out the two other posts below first is the main one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...firewater-s-off-fail-bottle-chugging-t2821691
I got it up and running. Right now trying gpe
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Roefastford said:
Check out the 2 other posts many get firewater to work using superuser with weaksauce app instead of supersu. Check out the two other posts below first is the main one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2787587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...firewater-s-off-fail-bottle-chugging-t2821691
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After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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the_rooter said:
After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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Once your s-off you will stay s-off unless they release an update ota and it can affect s-off and you flash it, in that case sunshine is supposed to work for your device once again. Just dont flash any new update until you know for sure that it wont affect s-off.
the_rooter said:
After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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Pretty sure once you're s-off, you're s-off until you restore s-on. Flashing a custom rom won't change the secure write status.
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the_rooter said:
After getting s off I am on a custom rom and recovery question is. If I wanna do S-OFF I JUST run sunshine again correct? I can just keep doing that back and forth?
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Once your soff and custom recovery there is no need to complete this process again your done with it. You can flash ROMs in recovery if you don't like it.. Wipe and load something else : )
Edit.... Lol two of you beat me to the answer...
thunderbls said:
Once your soff and custom recovery there is no need to complete this process again your done with it. You can flash ROMs in recovery if you don't like it.. Wipe and load something else : )
Edit.... Lol two of you beat me to the answer...
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Thanks guys for the answers I don't plan on s-off just thinking more about if and when it comes time to sell to someone. Right now I am using gpe rom and it's running great.
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Hey,
I have a m8 and recently the camera app just does not work. I tired factory reseting, clearing data and chace...trying safe mode and the camera cannot load. In snapchap, the rear camera works but only the top camera used for distance so it's essentially dead. The selfie and main rear camera just don't work. I don't know what's up.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks!
That's probably a good thing. Now you can quit wasting your time trying to take a good picture with the M8's crappy camera. LOL
Sorry, I have no idea how to fix it.
Yeah that wasn't helpful...and I find the camera quality to be sufficient.
I bought my m8 from the verizon kisok from costco about 10 months ago so it's under a year. Perhaps I should call verizon tomorrow and see what they can do? The website says itll be free if its under a year, but my phone is rooted so I'm a little anxious. I'm not interested in a 400 fee for modifying my phone.
Anyone deal with their (verizon) repair center before?I could also try sending it back to htc?
Zealex said:
Yeah that wasn't helpful...and I find the camera quality to be sufficient.
I bought my m8 from the verizon kisok from costco about 10 months ago so it's under a year. Perhaps I should call verizon tomorrow and see what they can do? The website says itll be free if its under a year, but my phone is rooted so I'm a little anxious. I'm not interested in a 400 fee for modifying my phone.
Anyone deal with their (verizon) repair center before?I could also try sending it back to htc?
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You can always revert that if you decide to send it in. I take it you tried ruu already?
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dottat said:
You can always revert that if you decide to send it in. I take it you tried ruu already?
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No I havent. I rooted using sunshine so I imagine s-off is good. If I can restore my phone to as if it wasn't modified then I will read about it. I just heard some horry stories of people getting caught and fined my their carriers so I'm anxious and wanted some feedback haha.
Zealex said:
No I havent. I rooted using sunshine so I imagine s-off is good. If I can restore my phone to as if it wasn't modified then I will read about it. I just heard some horry stories of people getting caught and fined my their carriers so I'm anxious and wanted some feedback haha.
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Ruu doesn't change s-off status or boot loader status. Run the ruu and see if the camera behaves. If not we can lock it back up for warranty work.
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dottat said:
Ruu doesn't change s-off status or boot loader status. Run the ruu and see if the camera behaves. If not we can lock it back up for warranty work.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...zip-ruu-m8vzw-5-0-1-s-off-onlynewest-t3047103
This guide correct? It will return my phone to stock (and rooted). If this doesn't work, then I'll need to restore to stock and ship my phone by contacting Verizon?
Thanks
Zealex said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...zip-ruu-m8vzw-5-0-1-s-off-onlynewest-t3047103
This guide correct? It will return my phone to stock (and rooted). If this doesn't work, then I'll need to restore to stock and ship my phone by contacting Verizon?
Thanks
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If that doesn't work let me know before you get ready to contact vzw or htc
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dottat said:
If that doesn't work let me know before you get ready to contact vzw or htc
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Hey,
Hope you had a good weekend. Tried using the downloaded app in the description but fastboot kept failing. REbooted into my bootloader, which isnt twrp anymore....rebooted android and despite the failed FUU it is stock, but my camera does not work. My recovery is stock (i think?) and no longer TWRP. My bootloader still says *Software status: offical **unlocked**
How should I proceed for sending my phone to verizon? I want to remove any traces of modifcations so my request isnt void. since I have until the end of October I can hopefully get it fixed. WOuld like to send it out in the next couple of days!
Thanks again!
Zealex said:
Hey,
Hope you had a good weekend. Tried using the downloaded app in the description but fastboot kept failing. REbooted into my bootloader, which isnt twrp anymore....rebooted android and despite the failed FUU it is stock, but my camera does not work. My recovery is stock (i think?) and no longer TWRP. My bootloader still says *Software status: offical **unlocked**
How should I proceed for sending my phone to verizon? I want to remove any traces of modifcations so my request isnt void. since I have until the end of October I can hopefully get it fixed. WOuld like to send it out in the next couple of days!
Thanks again!
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Want to do it via team viewer or all by yourself?
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dottat said:
Want to do it via team viewer or all by yourself?
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I could do it by myself, however if I find it hard perhaps we could schedule a time for team viewer?
I'd hate to inconvenience you like that.
Zealex said:
I could do it by myself, however if I find it hard perhaps we could schedule a time for team viewer?
I'd hate to inconvenience you like that.
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Lol. It would take longer for me to type it out again or even go find the post where I spelled it out than to show you it over teamviewer
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dottat said:
Lol. It would take longer for me to type it out again or even go find the post where I spelled it out than to show you it over teamviewer
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708571
??
How long would it take? I could perhaps do team viewer but I don't know if I'll have a chance tonight since im running around haha
also if I need to forward ports im on a campus so I'm unsure if I'll be able to do that to utilize teamviewer.
Zealex said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708571
??
How long would it take? I could perhaps do team viewer but I don't know if I'll have a chance tonight since im running around haha
also if I need to forward ports im on a campus so I'm unsure if I'll be able to do that to utilize teamviewer.
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Here's the post lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=61772177
Give it a try
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dottat said:
Here's the post lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=61772177
Give it a try
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so do I follow the quoted text ? I don't have TWRP but you said thats a crazy method haha.
Zealex said:
so do I follow the quoted text ? I don't have TWRP but you said thats a crazy method haha.
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Yeah. Simply flash twrp from fastboot and pick it up from there
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dottat said:
Yeah. Simply flash twrp from fastboot and pick it up from there
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boot phone into twrp recovery,
load fastboot and run those commands?
dottat said:
Yeah. Simply flash twrp from fastboot and pick it up from there
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I have time off tomorrow so I'm going to do this and hopefully return my phone sunday. Am I just applying your post or am I doing the first post? There's a multitude of directions so I don't want to execute the wrong thing.
Ran echo -ne '\x00\x00\x00\x00' | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 bs=1 seek=33796 on terminal on my phone and permission was denied.
Zealex said:
I have time off tomorrow so I'm going to do this and hopefully return my phone sunday. Am I just applying your post or am I doing the first post? There's a multitude of directions so I don't want to execute the wrong thing.
Ran echo -ne '\x00\x00\x00\x00' | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 bs=1 seek=33796 on terminal on my phone and permission was denied.
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Were you booted into twrp?
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Were you booted into twrp?
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went into twrp terminal emulator.
typed echo blah blah
exited and rebooted into botloader....it shows Software Status: Offical and ***locked ***
I ran the applicable s-on RUU and removed root I believe (i didnt see supersu anymore but my apps werent deleted)
now I turned usb debugging on and used adb to reboot into bootloader and turned fastboot on and ran:
Fastboot oem writesecureflag 3. and I got some weird text in the command prompt.. I ran the code again and the second time the text ended with permission denied so I assume my phone is ready to be shipped for repairs?
I'm rooted and s-off running latest firmware. Everything works, normal boot, recovery, even fastboot commands via usb work, but nothing shows on the screen in the bootloader so I can't see the menu options.
I tried re-applying the latest firmware via fastboot usb, but it made no difference.
I also tried power off and on with power + both volume, just up, just down, no difference.
Could it be hardware?
deefster said:
I'm rooted and s-off running latest firmware. Everything works, normal boot, recovery, even fastboot commands via usb work, but nothing shows on the screen in the bootloader so I can't see the menu options.
I tried re-applying the latest firmware via fastboot usb, but it made no difference.
I also tried power off and on with power + both volume, just up, just down, no difference.
Could it be hardware?
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What about trying to RUU the device?
I thought about that, and did download an RUU, but Is therea way to do that without being able to see the screen?
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deefster said:
I thought about that, and did download an RUU, but Is therea way to do that without being able to see the screen?
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You can try:
fastboot oem rebootRUU (this puts the device in RUU mode)
fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip
I use this file: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347812372
I open with 7-zip, then go to the 'com' folder and grab the rom.zip and rename it placing it where your adb stuff is.
I do not know what, if any screens will say to do this and I have NEVER done it this way. I just get the file and place it on my ext_sd card so someone else might want to chime in if that is the correct way to pull this off or not?
OR
You could just place that 0P6BIMG.zip on the root of the SD card, reboot to bootloader wait like 10 minutes to be safe, press the up arrow and then power... that should kick it off if memory serves me correctly.
Hope some of that helps
Gonna try the RUU mode and give it a shot. Not sure if it'll work, but either way, thanks for the feedback
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I would try an exe version of ruu that you run on a pc. As I recall it requires no interaction on the phone itself.
cntryby429 said:
I would try an exe version of ruu that you run on a pc. As I recall it requires no interaction on the phone itself.
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i never thought of that lolz
carm01 said:
i never thought of that lolz
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It's also packed with the correct version of fastboot too.... ?
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deefster said:
Gonna try the RUU mode and give it a shot. Not sure if it'll work, but either way, thanks for the feedback
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Curious if that works. I sorta think I may know what it is if it doesn't.
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dottat said:
Curious if that works. I sorta think I may know what it is if it doesn't.
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RUU applied successfully, but bootloader is still black screen
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dottat said:
Curious if that works. I sorta think I may know what it is if it doesn't.
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Any ideas +dottat?
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Stock, uprooted, locked bootloader... Through March got my OTA updates like clockwork. Nothing since. VZW support said they have been delaying the releases in batches but it has been a long time.
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Stock, uprooted, locked bootloader... Through March got my OTA updates like clockwork. Nothing since. VZW support said they have been delaying the releases in batches but it has been a long time.
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At this point I'd just sideload it.
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bobby janow said:
At this point I'd just sideload it.
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Can I sideload if my bootloader is locked? I can't seem to find a clear answer on that. I can't unlock because the mobile device management we use for work checks for it. This is my first stock and locked device since I took my Droid Charge out of the box years ago so I don't know what I can and can't do. Thanks!
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tfly212 said:
Can I sideload if my bootloader is locked? I can't seem to find a clear answer on that. I can't unlock because the mobile device management we use for work checks for it. This is my first stock and locked device since I took my Droid Charge out of the box years ago so I don't know what I can and can't do. Thanks!
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Yes you can sideload the full OTA. Instructions and files are here: https://developers.google.com/android/ota Just make sure you download the correct one. I believe there are 3 different ones, Verizon, Google and Dutch or German. It's really the only thing you can do with a locked bootloader other than factory reset. Well one other thing you can do is unlock the bootloader, install what you want, then relock it. Not sure though if that will trigger a warning from corporate so I'd avoid that route.
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Yes you can sideload the full OTA. Instructions and files are here: https://developers.google.com/android/ota Just make sure you download the correct one. I believe there are 3 different ones, Verizon, Google and Dutch or German. It's really the only thing you can do with a locked bootloader other than factory reset. Well one other thing you can do is unlock the bootloader, install what you want, then relock it. Not sure though if that will trigger a warning from corporate so I'd avoid that route.
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Finally got around to sideloading the update. Worked like a charm. I missed the long boot "oh no I'm bootlooped.. Oh wait I'm not" feeling from my crack flashing days haha.
Thanks!
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