Hello, I just bought a used AT&T M8 and am trying to convert it back to sense. Im not familiar with messing with HTCs. I see in hboot that it is unlocked and s-off. It looks like they put pure google on it. Ive been looking and seeing different instructionson gett phone back to stock but they seem scattered. I saw and tried running official ruu for 1.58 found in another thread but only get to the point where it tries to reboot into boot loader and then it says it cant and to find a ruu compatible with my device. I cant tell what custom recovery it has. Everytime in hboot when i choose recovery it just hangs and says bad command. Can somebody tell me instructions on how to run this ruu?
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Okay, making some progress. Pushed latest TWRP via fastboot. I'm assuming if I flash stock ROM and then push stock recovery via fastboot, then you I should be able to run ruu?
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ILuvRice said:
Okay, making some progress. Pushed latest TWRP via fastboot. I'm assuming if I flash stock ROM and then push stock recovery via fastboot, then you I should be able to run ruu?
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In your boot loader, what os does it say you have? We need to know if they did a true gpe conversion or just a rom. Does it have 3 android guys on skateboards or something else?
On the boot loader, it just says os-. I have attached a pic of my boot loader. Thanks for responding.
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ILuvRice said:
On the boot loader, it just says os-. I have attached a pic of my boot loader. Thanks for responding.
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You are on an gpe conversion and cannot flash sense roms. You need to follow this guide to get back to sense
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523
Make sure you change your cid to 11111111 before doing anything, it says to do this in the guide, but just saying
Update if anyone is interested, was able to flash a stock rooted Rom after following steps from thread posted above.
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ILuvRice said:
Okay, making some progress. Pushed latest TWRP via fastboot. I'm assuming if I flash stock ROM and then push stock recovery via fastboot, then you I should be able to run ruu?
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I know you solved your issue another way. But just so you know (and others, too) an RUU does not typically require stock recovery; while OTA does require stock recovery (probably the reason for the confusion).
Thanks. I ended up just flashing the RUU yesterday with stock rooted Rom and TWRP. This is why I love XDA. I was able to buy a M8 pretty cheap and thanks to people here, I was able to get it going.?
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HI. I have a big problem... I tried flashing an OTA file with CWM recovery, and now I get to the HTC white screen with no Quitely brillant below
My hboot is unlocked and I am s-on
I could probable y access fastboot, though I cannot tell right now I cannot use it on the computer I have, but if I access fastboot I have the regular options, and the buttons works. if I choose recovey , I see a android CWM and a small bue progress bar and it reboots back to "Normal" wich is being the white HTC screen right now
I am able to access Hboot which makes me think that I can probably get out of this by flashing back my original RUU.
Pleasae tell me that i am right:
I thought of trying a factory reste to start with , but I am not sure this will work because of the recovery I installed.
My hboot is unlocked.
is it bad Doctor?:crying:
try flashing the stock recovery, then flash the ruu again.
it seems to be leading to something like this ... I'll try
And it worked!!!
I was able to relock the hboot prior to running videotron Ruu executable file. This worked like a charm... I have learned my lesson. I'll wait for my turn to be pushed. Thank you all.
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Flynch3211 said:
And it worked!!!
I was able to relock the hboot prior to running videotron Ruu executable file. This worked like a charm... I have learned my lesson. I'll wait for my turn to be pushed. Thank you all.
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Good to hear it worked
Would'it worked if I would've left the boot loader unlocked??
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Would'it worked if I would've left the boot loader unlocked??
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no, the bootloader needs to be locked to flash any ruu file
Dude flash stock recovery relock boot loader then flash the RUU most recent one. And if your gonna unlock boot again and flash another custom recovery us 4ext its the best one in my opinion a lot of options very simple nice user interface no troubles as of yet. Plus it basically like having S-Off cause of smart flash it flashes kernels together with rom. Its 3.00$ on market or you can get it for free from internet or other apps. If anything feel free to pm me
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Thanks, but right nowi'm kind of being chicken. Anyway, the OTA file came in anyway, by regular means, so my goal has been acheived.. but I'll chek it out eventually.
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OK so I used the bootloader to flash the 3 option in Haus's thread and every thing is working. But....
Now on the bootloader screen it says locked tampered then S-off.
I was told the locked was just wat it was saying and didn't matter.
So do I have a locked boot loader? And does that even matter for anything or was it just required to get root plus S-off?
Did I mess up getting the newest hboot from the firmware? I was told I needed it to run meanbean.
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I'm not sure what u flashed but it sounds like you flashed the whole thing which means you have stock recovery now. Either fastboot flash recovery image or download thru goo manager.
Once you have a custom recovery installed your all set. Don't worry about the locked on your bootloader
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OK so I used the bootloader to flash the 3 option in Haus's thread and every thing is working. But....
Now on the bootloader screen it says locked tampered then S-off.
I was told the locked was just wat it was saying and didn't matter.
So do I have a locked boot loader? And does that even matter for anything or was it just required to get root plus S-off?
Did I mess up getting the newest hboot from the firmware? I was told I needed it to run meanbean.
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You should have flashed the first file the one with no kernel,hboot, or stock recovery that would have updated everything you needed to be updated
So did I mess anything up? I was able to flash mean bean without any issues.
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So did I mess anything up? I was able to flash mean bean without any issues.
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No you just did the same as taking the OTA as far as I can tell. As long as everything is working you should be fine
Hey all,
so I've come into a bit of a conundrum. I was playing with the MaximusHD Jellybean 4.3 ROM. It was alright, but not for me. So I decided to flash back to stock. After a bit of finagling, I got a Stock Rooted 4.1.2 ROM for my phone, and was able to flash it. But now, I can't RUU my phone back to complete stock. Relocking the bootloader produces a **Security warning**, which prevents booting. Now, with an unlocked bootloader the stock ROM boots fine -- but locked, it doesn't boot and goes directly to bootloader. Can someone please walk me through getting my phone back to normal? I've used the RUU before to return to complete stock once before, except I'm not sure what I've done wrong this time around. Any help is appreciated. Also, I have TWRP recovery (latest version), unfortunately without a Nandroid backup
My phone works fine right now -- albeit rooted. Thank you!
Try flashing a stock recovery before relocking.
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Are you s off?
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Exact same problem here
Hi,
I have the exact same problem here, i've had my HTC One with a 2-year plan @t-mobile but with the stock rom i haven't had any t-mobile bloatware/splash screen. Is that normal?
Also if i flash a stock t-mobile rom it hangs at the bootloader.
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Are you s off?
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I don't have S-OFF, but I can get it if necessary. Will that help me any?
Yes it will help. I am no dev. Once your s off you won't need to lock your device and can run ruu
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lampel said:
Try flashing a stock recovery before relocking.
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Will this allow booting to my rooted ROM / will it remove the **Security warning** that prevents booting?
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Will this allow booting to my rooted ROM / will it remove the **Security warning** that prevents booting?
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It should.
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nanobutter said:
It should.
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Unfortunately, flashing a stock recovery just prevented my device from booting normally. I had to reflash TWRP to get it to boot properly... unless I just didn't give the boot process enough time on the stock recovery.
You can put any recovery on your phone, lock it, and run fastboot rebootRUU from hboot to run the RUU.
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You can put any recovery on your phone, lock it, and run fastboot rebootRUU from hboot to run the RUU.
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Wonderful! I'll try this after school today. Will report back...
word, let me know if you have any trouble. :good:
So here's the situation, I rooted my phone. Decided to switch around ROMS (ViperX+ and CyanMod 10.2). But neither of them booted. I accidently wiped my whole SD and Data so nothings on my device anymore, No OS or ROMS to flash. Finally was able to push a file through "adb push /Vipers+ /sdcard" . but then that OS did not work either. And it was built exactly for my phone (AT&T One X+). So I know the ROM should be working. So now little scared me just wants to go back to stock and unroot the phone. The issue is I can't find the right RUU. If anyone could help me with finding that I would be most grateful... PS, my boot loader is version 1.49.0000 and I'm s-on (Obviously) and my Cid is CWS__001
Flash the boot.img for Viper...
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TWRP does that for you I thought. You are saying there is hope?
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LClark253 said:
TWRP does that for you I thought. You are saying there is hope?
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no, kernel has to be flashed manually because we're s-on
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TWRP does that for you I thought. You are saying there is hope?
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^^^^
Like he said
You can't flash kernel through recovery with S-On devices. You have to extract it from the rom.zip and flash through fastboot...
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ViperX+ is an international ROM and can't be installed on an AT&T phone.
ViperXL is is for AT&T/Tellus
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So here's the situation, I rooted my phone. Decided to switch around ROMS (ViperX+ and CyanMod 10.2). But neither of them booted. I accidently wiped my whole SD and Data so nothings on my device anymore, No OS or ROMS to flash. Finally was able to push a file through "adb push /Vipers+ /sdcard" . but then that OS did not work either. And it was built exactly for my phone (AT&T One X+). So I know the ROM should be working. So now little scared me just wants to go back to stock and unroot the phone. The issue is I can't find the right RUU. If anyone could help me with finding that I would be most grateful... PS, my boot loader is version 1.49.0000 and I'm s-on (Obviously) and my Cid is CWS__001
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Did you manage to get it working?
I'm so sorry for not replying ( but yes I got my phone running again! A big thanks to you guys!! <3 fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I'm stuck in a type of boot loop where the phone will try to boot for about 15 seconds and the reboot into recovery.
I'm currently unlocked, root and s-off
I can access twrp and bootloader
What I did: I was using the Google RUU on my device and decided to flash Viper One. I flashed Viper One and it went through the entire process but at the end said FAILED installer 7.
Rebooted and now I'm stuck.
adb sideload fails
Flashing from external SD fails
Bootloader screen shows android laying down
Just trying to figure out how to save the device if possible.
If you converted with ruu the partitions are not big enough for sense roms. There are plenty of guides on how to get back to sense. You will need to flash a gpe Rom first.
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an0ther said:
If you converted with ruu the partitions are not big enough for sense roms. There are plenty of guides on how to get back to sense. You will need to flash a gpe Rom first.
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I tried flashing the RUU gpe so maybe that's my issue.
Where can I get the gpe rom.
Search don't come up with much.
umjammerlammy said:
I tried flashing the RUU gpe so maybe that's my issue.
Where can I get the gpe rom.
Search don't come up with much.
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Read this thread carefully: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708589
jdk2 said:
Read this thread carefully: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708589
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Sweet baby jesus, that worked!
THANK YOU!