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HTC One E8 bugs

Up until about a week ago, my HTC One E8 dual sim (M8SW - China Unicom) had been working perfectly, albeit only running android 4.4.2 as unknown to me when i bought it, it had been rooted and TWRP/Super SU installed (I assume because I'm in Australia and it's a chinese phone... ebay purchase...)
I'm not entirely sure why, but the battery life is now draining literally about twice as fast, and the google play services app seems to be using up a fair amount of the battery. I've tried a few apps (google services fix etc) to try to amend the problem, and have completely reset the phone, but haven't had any luck.
Just wanted some thoughts as to whether upgrading the phone to Android MM would fix this?
I've attempted to do so, but because my phone is rooted I can't get OTA updates. the other issue I have is that I can't get a copy of the stock recovery (the link provided at http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-e8/help/htc-one-e8-mid-cid-ruu-ota-twrp-t2903210 does not work...) and I believe I need to install the stock recovery to get the OTA updates. I'm not confident enough to try and install a custom rom and I have no issue with HTC 'bloatware'...
very much a rookie, but would appreciate if anyone is able to help as the phone is great and I'd rather not fork out the money for a new one just yet...
thanks

Hi there! I also bought a M8SW and also from eBay with the ROM in bootloop mode where the previous owner attempted to put in another ROM but failed but that's another story.
Not sure what's wrong with your phone battery drain but I initially finally got stock LP on mine and the battery life was good.
When I saw the MM update, I jumped on it straightaway but struggled to get OTA working as my initial LP was rooted with xposed hence my little journey to get back to stock LP and then OTA to MM here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-e8/general/tedious-update-m8sw-to-marshmallow-twrp-t3346318
I would say that MM seems to maybe drain the battery faster than LP but tbh, I love the super smooth stock Sense. Only thing to watchout for is that xposed on MM is not fully working for all the modules. That was nearly too much for me but I have stayed with MM with xposed with N-ify, Amplify, XNotifications and SenseToolBox - all semi working for the bits that I need.
My battery lasts for at least 2 days before I need to charge it. My typical usage is low: WhatsApp, twitter, FireFox and occasionally Music, News Republic and VLC to watch videos.
The E8 still cuts it I think. I don't play any games on it and recently I am using so called Sense8 HTC10 ROM which is pretty good - definitely recommend it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-e8/development/s-team-e8-s4-20-2x-ported-htc-10-sense-t3364650

I'm pretty keen to get a stock version of MM on the phone - provided I can get this issue sorted the phone will last me another year or two at least.
By the sound of things, if I want to get the stock version of MM or LP on my phone, I'll need to convert it to the European model?? is that an easy thing to do? I assume it's just installing a different ROM??
Alternatively, if I download the ROM you provided the link to, I should be able to install this onto my phone and have MM with this different version of sense?
thanks for your help!

[Completed] Note 4 unstable for seemingly no reason

Hey folks, first of all, sorry but I couldn't find anything that helped.
I have a Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910F (international Version); Codename: "trltexx") and had flashed an unofficial version of Cyanogenmod 14.1. Except for a few bugs, it was running fine.
I've then changed to Lineage OS 14.1, obviously unofficial as well. This was running fine too and had less bugs (i.e. camera was working unlike with CM).
Well, then, after about a week or so, the phone became unstable and just won't recover from it since then - at least two weeks.
System and Play Store apps/services began to crash (sometimes several at once), the device restarts/turns off randomly or keeps displaying the boot animation and won't turn on till I take the battery out and put it back in.
The weird thing is, these problems sometimes don't occur at all and everything runs nice and smooth and later, everything starts again and is even worse. It feels like the phone is destroying and recovering itself over and over again.
Right now, I'm running the latest version of Ressurrection Remix OS (V5.8.1./Android 7.1.1).
Well, I'd like to thank you in advance for your answers.

User422 said:
Hey folks, first of all, sorry but I couldn't find anything that helped.
I have a Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910F (international Version); Codename: "trltexx") and had flashed an unofficial version of Cyanogenmod 14.1. Except for a few bugs, it was running fine.
I've then changed to Lineage OS 14.1, obviously unofficial as well. This was running fine too and had less bugs (i.e. camera was working unlike with CM).
Well, then, after about a week or so, the phone became unstable and just won't recover from it since then - at least two weeks.
System and Play Store apps/services began to crash (sometimes several at once), the device restarts/turns off randomly or keeps displaying the boot animation and won't turn on till I take the battery out and put it back in.
The weird thing is, these problems sometimes don't occur at all and everything runs nice and smooth and later, everything starts again and is even worse. It feels like the phone is destroying and recovering itself over and over again.
Right now, I'm running the latest version of Ressurrection Remix OS (V5.8.1./Android 7.1.1).
Well, I'd like to thank you in advance for your answers.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. Have you tried asking in the rom threads to see if anyone else is having the same issues ? Unfortunately using cm/lineage based roms can have bugs as they are not based on samsung firmware
Regards
Sawdoctor

Hi, thanks for the answer. I wanted to say that I went down to resurrection remix Rom which is based on Android 6 (Marshmallow).
It's fine now.
Now I'm just looking to find a way to hide my root. Can't use my banking app anymore since I've rooted my device.

Update 2: The phone problems I have described reoccur over and over again. A factory reset via TWRP fixes that and then the phone slowly goes back to the old problems.
I don't know what to do anymore except for doing this over and over again.

No service when upgrading to Nougat

Hello all. I haven't upgraded my phone in quite some time, and I'm a bit dizzy trying to find information here. I'm on a resurrection remix MM rom from last year. I initially downloaded and installed a few different custom roms with N, but none of them are working for cell network or wifi. After a bit of research, I figured out a possible culprit was my modem was out of date (which is very likely). I haven't upgraded this thing in forever! I'm on a G900P and I have no idea what to do at this point. I'm finding plenty of references to different updates that happened, but I can't tell what came when.
What's the latest version, what do I need to flash, and where do I find it? Is it possible to just flash the modem and fix my issues, or do I need to go full stock first?

SIM Unlocked G920W8, 9.0 and 10.0 ROMs no longer detect SIM.

*SOLVED: see reply*
The ROM I used before was LineageOS [10.0] and used a custom ROM with Android 9 before that. Needed to unlock my phone, and couldn't do that on Lineage, and had troubles flashing firmware with Odin, so I ended up using FrankensteinS6. The Stock kernel seems to let me input the NCK, and unlock the phone. So that's luckily finally over.
For about 4 days now I've been formatting phone and trying again and again. FrankensteinS6 works, some other 6.0/7.0 ROMs work. But LineageOS now enters a bootloop, and Pixel Experience (9.0 and 10.0) and Evolution X 10.0 don't detect the SIM. The ones that don't detect SIM also show no IMEI, which was worrying at first because I though I lost a partition.
Possibly related, the ROM of Pixel Experience Android 10.0 for G920W8 will not install because (paraphrasing) "This device is zeroflte, this file is for zerofltecan, zeroflte***, zeroflte***" claiming that my phone isn't one of those models. I got this S6 from Bell Canada, and I still have even the sticker that says it is a G920W8, not G920F. However, the Pixel Experience ROM for G920F flashes fine (sans the main problem).
I don't know the exact LineageOS ROM I used before, but I've tried all of their 10.0 releases, tried redownloading, and I get the bootloop every time. I see some info online of flashing modem firmware, but... I don't even know where to start with that. As I mentioned at the start, Odin is crapping out. I couldn't flash firmware with it, because it would reject the phone right after I started flashing. Anything I could do within TWRP would be great. I moved it back to FrankensteinS6 for my sanity, I started doing this Sunday and I'm starting to repeat steps over and over hoping that it just solves itself.
I tried to keep this straightforward, and I'm sure I did a bad job. I can extrapolate on what I have attempted. Please tell me what I have to do to get an android 10 ROM working on this old beauty again.

I do not have all the solutions. As per my tests with my SM-G920W8. I have managed to find ROMS and try them out. I have only seen Nougat 7.0 ROMS to work almost flawlessly. NOT 7.1.2, important, 7.0 only.
I have also tested some Pie and v10 ROMS like Pixel Experience. The ROMS boot nicely but since I do not use a SIM card to call as I use SIP phone numbers and require WiFi. But that left asside, I came upon serious camera issues no matter what I try. Up to now, SamStock ROM is pretty much the best Stock ROM I found but I always need to run the Magisk UNINSTALLER before re-installing the latest Magisk version..
As for Kernels, well, Anything that is oriented with Lineage OS, I've had camera issues even with Nougat v7.0. So basically, the only ROMS I found good, as of today, for now, are stock ROMS v7.0. But, to do your tests, Even if you have a 920F ROM, you can download a 920W8 kernel as long as you download a kernel which supports your installed Android version. Also make sure to download the proper Stock or AOSP kernel (AOSP for LineageOS). There's not many but there's a few ones that work properly.
Another option is to download an AOSP ROM that works for W8 phones, unzip the file and grab the boot file inside corresponding to the W8 or T-Mobile version. You simply unzip your real ROM you want top install, replace the boot file for the one you got and rezip it. This made my phone boot properly for some F version ROMS but again, not without issues. That's why, I really suggest v7.0 Srock ROMS. I hope this helps you a bit. Again, you can have your own tests and other users may have other answers, but this is based off over 30 bootloops in my case of trying to mod a ROM for the W8 model. It's not easy to find a good one for Canada, I admit!!!

I flashed TWRP years ago, and I found out that I had a G920F version flashed. I don't know why Lineage allowed me to use SIM before, but rectifying this issue seems to made the SIM work in newer versions.
I don't know what the S6's predisposition to having crashing cameras is, but I have avoided this in the past by using custom camera apps, like Open Camera. This has saved me every time.
As for the boot loops... I think another thing that helped is that "format data" doesn't wipe the OS. When you are in recovery, having issues with bootloops in various ROMs, try advanced wipe, and wipe the system. It didn't fix right away, but the time I got Pixel Experience 10 up and running that was the trick.

Am i the only one that cant use roms (without google) obove android 7.0?

Hello
I am searching for a de-googled rom that has none of the following problems.
- Echo in calls for caller
- No sound during phone calls (i had this problem with my last rom which was cdroid)
- random disconnecting wifi and bt
- very bad battery life
- ussd codes dont work in any of them but i was to understand that had something to do with the missing samsung dialer app.
I have tried almost every single rom available and they all have at least the echo and wifi problems.
How is it possible that they all have that? The only roms that dont have it are roms below 7.0.1 and they are either not aosp or the links are dead.
I have finally flashed back to the latest stock rom and all the issues went away but now my phone is infected with google and bloat again.
Im on G920FXXS6ETI6 firmware now with PHN region
Are there any roms out there that work?
Or ami doing something wrong? I always follow the instructions that come with the roms so i asume what im doing is right.
Anyone else have these problems?

I fixed the issue by getting a pixel 3a and installing grapheneOS on is.
It runs like a charm and has none of the problems i had.

Thanks for info. I have been battling too.