Okay so I know there's a plethora of stuff in forums about this but I have one quick question.
I had to swap my previous HTC DESIRE over because of a screen issue. My previous Desire had all the Telstra branding removed by my friend, however it was not 'rooted', I did not have that SuperUser app or anything, there was just no Bloatware from Telstra. I was still even able to update to Froyo wirelessly, through HTC updates.
All I want to know is how to do this because I'm pretty sure this isn't what you call rooting... I would go back to my friend to do it but he's currently in another country so I was hoping someone here could tell me exactly what it is he did/I have to do to get my phone back to that state.
It's like it was an outright HTC DESIRE with no branding, just as stock as they come. I'm not too interested in installing custom firmware or anything like that.
Hope this makes sense.
Paul.
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ok about to root and rom. will verizon know if i call them for service questions? what i mean is, i suppose for a tech support call they can do over-the-phone diagnostics. right? if i call for tech support are they able to determine i am rooted and rommed through their diagnostics?
would i need to return to stock prior to making a tech support call to verizon?
thanks
there are honestly very few reps that know anything about the phones they sell
I'm not sure why you'd call Verizon for diagnostics on a device that's not running their software anymore. I'd think talking to the dev would make more sense. I suppose the could tell, but care? Probably not. I told the manager where I got mine that I intended to root it as soon as I got home shd that my old Incredible was already rooted. His only question was how much better the battery life gets.
They will try to help you for sure but they may no be able to since you do not have stock. They can not look up your phone info on their end but they may ask you for info like software or info about the phone from about phone that could give it away. Honestly you're probably better off posting your issue on this forum and having XDA help.
They wouldn't be too helpful not because you rooted but because you have a different piece of software on your phone.
It'd be like calling Microsoft because your copy of Ubuntu is acting up.
>_> big red is all knowing >_> they will find you.. they will GET YOU! >_>
I don't think they can see what software you are using, but I do believe they may be able to see your radio version.
So what about if i pay my bill with the My Verizon app and the thunderbolt ( which they know i have) is not yet supported by them? Not that i care but id think that be a huge red flag lol
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littleguevara said:
So what about if i pay my bill with the My Verizon app and the thunderbolt ( which they know i have) is not yet supported by them? Not that i care but id think that be a huge red flag lol
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Anyone can google "My Verizon.apk Thunderbolt", download it, and put it on their phones. Even non rooted fellas. So no, this should not throw up any red flags other than you are using a modded application.
U r legally allowed to root so dont worry about it
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I did this a week ago, my TB lost 3G completely at the house and 4G only works in PHX. It just happens the wife's D1 had no 3G so I called and we went through some settings on the phone and they checked the IMEI number etc. Found out the following day after talking to several Verizon people that the issue was the SIM card on the phone so I took it in and they replaced it and that fixed it.
I was rooted when I called, I went back to stock before taking it in and replacing the SIM card. They knew nothing at all.
It would be wise to just find help elsewhere. I find that online support is better than verizons anyways
I am an AT&T tech rep, so I can only speak for here. Bu universally most of us, despite carrier, that know what they are doing will answer the same from what I've found.
When someone walks into the device support center with an obviously rooted I won't exchange it for them. I will help them, find answers, and tell them how to fix it. I will also explain any known problems, or past problems, I know about with various roms. But I won't exchange the phone. And it's not to be mean. But often times when a person does come in with a rooted phone the issue they are experiencing is with the radio they flashed or the rom they are using. I see this a lot with the Inspire as is.
If I deem it to be an actual hardware issue and I can very the rom is not the issue then I will tell them how to take the phone back to stock so I can exchange it. For the Inspire I keep a handy sd card with the stock image there that I can flash it back right away.
If I know a phone has been rooted and the person brings it back to me with it flashed back to stock, I will exchange it without a problem. The phone is still under warranty and the warranty does explain in most products that not current software alterations exist (Ie: rooting, clockwork mod, unlock boot loader). If it's back to stock then warranty guidelines are meet.
Now with that being said, I have physical access to the device. Over the phone, the only way they would really be able to know is if they asked the software version, baseband version, kernel version, etc... and knew what they were off hand. Things like that. They can't magically peer into your phone over the air to see what's going on with it. That's the reason for their little script techs over the phone have to run through.
Ultimately, the advice mentioned above about asking the dev or the rom thread is the best you'll get. Most times this is your best place to look after a custom rom has been flashed. If a problem is deemed hardware and not software and you have to have it exchanged, flash back to stock and take it in. No tech rep will care if it was flashed back to stock (unless they are having a really miserable day and can prove it's rooted. but that's few and far between and not specific to any company).
Hey guys, I'm going to be buying my first htc device when the amaze 4g comes out. I was just wondering if anyone knows if HTC has a flashing utility simular to Samsungs Odin. Odin has saved my butt on more than one occasion with my Samsung Vibrant and it is very nice to be able to return to stock firmware so easily. I loved the Samsung Vibrant after putting CM7 on it but I'm going with the HTC rather than the Samsung Galaxy S2 cause I want a device that feels like quality in my hand. Are HTC devices easy to root/unroot? Thanx in advance.
its called a RUU for Rom Utility Update. there is not one for the current shipped ROM but there is a zip file that you can put on your SD card and flash through hboot
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Hey guys, I'm going to be buying my first htc device when the amaze 4g comes out. I was just wondering if anyone knows if HTC has a flashing utility simular to Samsungs Odin. Odin has saved my butt on more than one occasion with my Samsung Vibrant and it is very nice to be able to return to stock firmware so easily. I loved the Samsung Vibrant after putting CM7 on it but I'm going with the HTC rather than the Samsung Galaxy S2 cause I want a device that feels like quality in my hand. Are HTC devices easy to root/unroot? Thanx in advance.
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Samsung phones are easier, by a lot. Nothing is really hard though once your finally figure it out. Create your gold cards(after finding an sdcard you don't care about), temp root a few times haha!
Would we still need recovery to flash the Rom though ?
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I'm an old hand at flashing Android phones, but just recently moved from my beloved HD2 to Atrix 4G. My phone came with 2.2 so there was no problem unlocking it etc. However, I'm playing with friend's 4G, she would like to try out ICS. The phone is on 4.5.141 OTA'd since new, rooted, locked bl and Sim unlocked.
Is there a safe way to unlock the BL on this phone? Most of the discussion on this forum deals with previously unlocked 4gs. Since this is not my handset, I thought I'd ask for a second opinion, in case my research led me down a garden path...
TIA
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So which does she want? Blur or ICS? Per your other post which was done around the same time you screwed up Blur launcher for her and want to know how to fix it. I'm figuring you should leave her phone alone!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1503585
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I'm figuring you should leave her phone alone!
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+1 hahaha.
A lot of what she wants from blur is already integrated into ICS. what she asked me for was ICS with blur.... There is also her desire to show up the other post doc in the lab who is being a Samsung boot boy - hence me messing with her phone. If she only didn't upgrade it would be easy.
Now that you know wayyyy too much info, can anyone answer the original question?
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My replacement Atrix came from Moto the same way, 4.5.141 and locked down. I've rooted it, but cant find any directions for unlocking it that didn't start with it being unlocked before this update. I've searched the forums without much luck. A point in the right direction would be awesome!
Kamikaze style?
Well, Nottach did it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22627280&postcount=2
He did it by hard bricking his phone though. So I wouldn't recommend it. But if you try, please, let us know
Can anyone point me to the best working method to get back to stock and s-off? I have the dreaded purple camera tint issue and need to send my phone back to HTC for repair. Seems like a bad idea to send a rooted phone back to HTC.. It also has a very small nick on it so I'm not sure that HTC would let me exchange for a new one.
Some of the methods to return to stock seem pretty old and as I experienced when trying to root and s-off this phone a month ago, dated tutorials for these things can sometimes soft brick your phone. I'd like to avoid that this time around! All I have done is root and s-off, so I'm still on the stock T-mobile KitKat rom. Hopefully this will make things easier? Any help is much appreciated.
Do an RUU. Super easy, stock and your phone is completely reset. I'm on my phone, so my link may not work, but that should be an up to date RUU. Google it if you have questions, but it's pretty simple. Do make sure you have a good HTC cable, a little time and no power issues. RUU won't cause you to lose S-OFF, so that's nice also.
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Hello guys,
I hope someone can help me.
My problem is:
I purchased a pre-used htc one m9 prime camera edition phone.
It was used abroad as a business phone, and mobile networks or simcards of my country, Latvia, cant be used on it.
I read that I can debrand the phone by changing it's cid, so I did. To do so I paid those 25$ dollars to get S-OFF with the sunshine app.
Now my phone is android 6, s-off, bootloader unlocked, super cid, with twrp custom recovery, all that works well.
I flashed stock android 6.0 rom over android 6.0 that I already had, I used these files,
only files I found for this phone model:
https://mega.nz/#F!MNZjhTbY!TBD3jAMDa88PxmqEOLX9nQ!oYhkBCpB
Since it's Europe's rom, hoped that it would reinstall radio and I could insert my sim and connect to local networks,
but after all that still there is no service when I boot up the phone.
So, have I wasted my money on that useless sunshine app and this phone on which there isn't even any custom
rom development, and on which firmwares are rare to find? Or am I doing something wrong?
In download mode it says, radio-unknown, so I think radio hasn't been replaced still,
if I could find a 5.0 lollipop rom, I could flash it and it would replace marshmallow 6.0 modem,
but I can't find it anywhere.
Or is this some kind of sim lock that can't be solved without paying for some sim unlock code? I thought sunshine app would be enough.
I don't want to give up yet after all the time and money I invested in this phone.
I attach some screens of my bootloader and download mode.
Any help is much appreciated ^_^)/
Thanks in advance!
Alright, been fighting with it with no success. I flashed wwe marshmallow rom, on it I got few otas,
I got excited and hoped it would fix the mobile network issue, but they didn't fix the unknown radio issue at all.
Tried few others I could find for free.
Only other rom I had hopes for that I could download for free for my phone was lollipop for asia region,
but I cant install it even with super cid, s-off and unlocked bootloader.
For all other lp roms you have to pay. Pay for s-off, pay for sim unlock, pay for stock rom, yaaay htc is awesome.
My conclusion, super cid is a big fat lie and no, nobody with super cid can install roms from any region as I read here in this forum, you cant even install asia rom over eur device, speaking with first hand experience.
so anyone who reads this thread and thinks they can easily fix mobile network issues on htc phones, unlock carriers and do miracles with s-off,
please don't unlock s-off, dont waste your money, you wont get anywhere, you wont be able to do anything, at least for this phone model.
Htc phones are a big ripoff, I will never buy any htc phone again, you have to pay for everything, even to get stock roms! o_0 and nobody mysteriously on whole internet doesn't have them anymore, except the guys who sell them.
And any developer who develops a rom for any htc one phone with their s-off scam is kind a dumb since end users cant flash their dumb roms without paying a bunch of cash to a party app to get their phone s-off.
How the community is even supporting this nonsense! You have to be a cow if you think its normal and if you support this thief system.
Anyway, now I am about to try and flash a rom from a different phone, form htc one m9+ since it has the same mtk chipset as my htc one m9 prime camera edition I think it should work.
Or anyone advises me not to? Thanks
But who cares if it bricks it.
I thought this is a pro master forum, with people who could help, but obviously everyone here in an amateur,
with not even a single tip, as always, users have to fight alone~
If I will find a solution, I will try to update this thread for those who are in need.
But after all the time and money this htc phone stolen from me, weary I am and ready to throw it out in the garbage,
thats what I suggest anyone with htc phone, just throw them out. So dont have high hopes, your device may just be unrecoverable, dont waste your own time with it, learn from me.
Hi, @elviss_f ! Did you find any solutions for your problem? I have an HTC M9e and I'm thinking to s-off it. But, since it has a Taiwan firmware on it, I'm afraid that the same problem will appear when I install an European firmware. Any advice will be very useful. Thank you!
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Hi, @elviss_f ! Did you find any solutions for your problem? I have an HTC M9e and I'm thinking to s-off it. But, since it has a Taiwan firmware on it, I'm afraid that the same problem will appear when I install an European firmware. Any advice will be very useful. Thank you!
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Hello.
I have not found the solution. I have searched many forums asked help to russian at 4pda,
spent weeks trying to fix it with roms I found, but this problem never disappears.
If you will buy s-off from sunshine app you will really regret it, because you wont
be able to use it for anything, there are no custom roms for m9e or m9s. And you wont be able to fix it by yourself. You better spend 25$ on something more worthy. Don't do the same mistake as I did.
As I understood, modem reainstall can't fix it, and roms you flash dont really even overflash modems. Rolling back to stock doesnt help either.
For this device, rom of different region wont allow you to use other carriers.
Don't waste your time and nerves on this, if you really wanna fix it,
I guess only way is to bring it to service center, and they will do it for you for about 45euros, that's very expensive and is't worth it. There are many much better phones to use.
Now I am selling the phone and got myself an android nokia 6, very happy with it.
You should get a different phone too.
Hope it helps.