[Q] Stock, rooted, TWRP installed... Can't reinstall Stock Recovery - AT&T HTC One (M7)

Hi...
Like the subject line says, I have an AT&T branded HTC One M8, I have unlocked using the HTC site, got root, and have TWRP installed... All working fine, but I want to get the latest OTA update, and haven't been able to get the stock recovery reloaded...
I have reviewed the threads about returning to stock, but they all seem to be for devices that are S-Off, and my device is still S-On...
Could someone give me the proper steps and proper order to be able to get the OTA updates?
Thanks in advance!

Sharpenologist said:
Hi...
Like the subject line says, I have an AT&T branded HTC One M8, I have unlocked using the HTC site, got root, and have TWRP installed... All working fine, but I want to get the latest OTA update, and haven't been able to get the stock recovery reloaded...
I have reviewed the threads about returning to stock, but they all seem to be for devices that are S-Off, and my device is still S-On...
Could someone give me the proper steps and proper order to be able to get the OTA updates?
Thanks in advance!
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You are in the M7 forum, you need to try the M8 forum.

majmoz said:
You are in the M7 forum, you need to try the M8 forum.
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Ooops!
My bad ...
Sorry!

Related

OTA Safe for 4g LTE ??

Hi...
i've rooted, HTC unlocked my Sprint Evo 4G LTE as well as flashed the MeanROM.
Will be safe for the OTA i will receive soon for 4G LTE from sprint if i use the "Original Stock" ROM from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766628&highlight=original+stock
Or do i have to do the whole relocking the bootloader and using RUU, etc?
Thanks in advance !
exitpr0gram said:
Hi...
i've rooted, HTC unlocked my Sprint Evo 4G LTE as well as flashed the MeanROM.
Will be safe for the OTA i will receive soon for 4G LTE from sprint if i use the "Original Stock" ROM from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766628&highlight=original+stock
Or do i have to do the whole relocking the bootloader and using RUU, etc?
Thanks in advance !
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never ever ever acceot a OTA from sprint!!! just flash the frimwear and radio zip in the bootloader.. and flash the new mean rom and u will be all set!!!!!
evo401 said:
never ever ever acceot a OTA from sprint!!! just flash the frimwear and radio zip in the bootloader.. and flash the new mean rom and u will be all set!!!!!
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So if i download that ROM that i linked to (Not the meanROM, the supposed stock ROM) and flashed it ... i still cannot accept any OTA updates?
I guess i just need an explanation as to why i can't receive OTAs on any ROM other than the official out of the box stock ROM. Is it the unlocked boot loader? Is is because it is rooted? Which ROMs will allow me to receive OTAs ?
If that is what's happening i would most definitely like to revert to stock as we have the new 4G LTE OTA update from Sprint coming soon here in, probably today, and i wont be around for my friend to flash his ROMs forever. It's starting to look like doing him a favor was a mistake. I should have only rooted it.
Any links, guides, or info about how to return his phone to stock as if right out of the box would be much appreciated. I made backups but i think he deleted them ...
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
exitpr0gram said:
So if i download that ROM that i linked to (Not the meanROM, the supposed stock ROM) and flashed it ... i still cannot accept any OTA updates?
I guess i just need an explanation as to why i can't receive OTAs on any ROM other than the official out of the box stock ROM. Is it the unlocked boot loader? Is is because it is rooted? Which ROMs will allow me to receive OTAs ?
If that is what's happening i would most definitely like to revert to stock as we have the new 4G LTE OTA update from Sprint coming soon here in, probably today, and i wont be around for my friend to flash his ROMs forever. It's starting to look like doing him a favor was a mistake. I should have only rooted it.
Any links, guides, or info about how to return his phone to stock as if right out of the box would be much appreciated. I made backups but i think he deleted them ...
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
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You never want to accept an OTA. Ever. If you do you can no longer gain s-off and it will severely hinder what you can flash from recovery.
Just flash any of the Roms and radios based on the newest update and you are done.
Once more for clarity...
NEVER ACCEPT AN OTA.
Teach your friend how to flash roms. Easy as pie
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
Rxpert said:
You never want to accept an OTA. Ever. If you do you can no longer gain s-off and it will severely hinder what you can flash from recovery.
Just flash any of the Roms and radios based on the newest update and you are done.
Once more for clarity...
NEVER ACCEPT AN OTA.
Teach your friend how to flash roms. Easy as pie
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 2
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Thank you for that explanation. Why else would the developers add firmware updates separately on their pages? I should have known.
My buddy did say that he accepted an OTA even tho i told him not to... he said it snuck up on him and wouldn't have known if he hadn't needed to use his phone at THAT moment.
Could this be why i cannot find the backup i created previously? Just wondering ... I can obviously flash and root etc but the "Devil is in to detail" and i don't have all the details yet.
Thanks again.
I could be way wrong here, but I don't believe you can accept the OTA with a custom recovery installed. I tried doing the OTA and it simply rebooted into TWRP. I tried installing it from there and it kept failing. So I think you do have to re-lock, RUU, then update, then reroot. That's the path I took.
Or do what everyone else is suggesting and flash what the devs made.

[Q] HOX X+ International unlocked, rooted factory restore?

Hi,
I'm looking for a little help please. I have an international HOX X+ (on O2 ) that I unlocked and rooted using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213910&goto=newpost
At the time I did not want a ROM installed, just root so thats all I did. Since the release of Android 4.2.2 I wanted to get that installed, clearly the OTA update will not work with TWRP installed and I tried the Insertcoin 5.0.5 ROM, as that has all I need. But it simply fails with unable to load zip. (iirc)
Soo, I want to get my phone back to stock image - no twrp so that I can perform the OTA update and then re-root. Is this possible?
JAy3k1 said:
Hi,
I'm looking for a little help please. I have an international HOX X+ (on O2 ) that I unlocked and rooted using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2213910&goto=newpost
At the time I did not want a ROM installed, just root so thats all I did. Since the release of Android 4.2.2 I wanted to get that installed, clearly the OTA update will not work with TWRP installed and I tried the Insertcoin 5.0.5 ROM, as that has all I need. But it simply fails with unable to load zip. (iirc)
Soo, I want to get my phone back to stock image - no twrp so that I can perform the OTA update and then re-root. Is this possible?
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Yes, please follow this guide on how to unroot and relock the bootloader :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35897885#post35897885 Written by the amazing hasoon2000
This guide talks about how to reverse everything back to stock to get OTA updates. Best of luck
Ghand0ur said:
Yes, please follow this guide on how to unroot and relock the bootloader :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35897885#post35897885 Written by the amazing hasoon2000
This guide talks about how to reverse everything back to stock to get OTA updates. Best of luck
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Thank you very much Ghand0ur. I shall stick my head into this now...

[Q] htc one m8 help

Hello guys
I have HTC one m8 att
Running 4.4.4
I can't access recovery mod and I can't do a factory rest
Hmm
No update available in the setting
I should find lollipop update
Tried setting rest
And hard rest
Can U help?...
Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Please standby while we have your thread/question moved to the appropriate sub-forum for your device.
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AT&T HTC One (M8)
Within that section you will find a dedicated q&a sub-forum (this is where your thread is going to be moved to):
AT&T One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!
alajrami said:
Hello guys
I have HTC one m8 att
Running 4.4.4
I can't access recovery mod and I can't do a factory rest
Hmm
No update available in the setting
I should find lollipop update
Tried setting rest
And hard rest
Can U help?...
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What happens when you boot into bootloader and select recovery?
Lollopop has not been released yet for AT&T version. 4.4.4 was just released a couple weeks ago.
It boot back into Bootloader
alajrami said:
It boot back into Bootloader
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Is the phone modded or not (bootloader locked or unlocked, custom recovery, root, etc.).
Are you trying to access stock recovery or custom recovery?
I bought the device with stock ruu
Then I unlocked the Bootloader
Suddenly every thing went bad like I mentioned
Now the Bootloader is relocked
I want to instale a stock Rom
The phone won't even do a factory rest
alajrami said:
I bought the device with stock ruu
Then I unlocked the Bootloader
Suddenly every thing went bad like I mentioned
Now the Bootloader is relocked
I want to instale a stock Rom
The phone won't even do a factory rest
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Run the RUU. This should fix whatever is going on with recovery (assume you want stock recovery, as you haven't specified) as well as get you back on stock AT&T ROM.
My guess is that you just have a custom recovery install gone bad. Since you unlocked the bootloader, assume you tried to install custom recovery (as there would be no other reason to unlock the bootloader).
I tried to install the ruu but the phone doesn't accept it
Tried using adb to install it..
alajrami said:
I tried to install the ruu but the phone doesn't accept it
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What error code?
Make sure its an RUU meant for AT&T. Hboot version of the RUU must be equal or greater than what is on the phone (no "downgrading" allowed unless you are s-off).
Tell me you hboot number, and I can tell you what AT&T RUU to use.
How did you update to 4.4.4?
I tried the same ruu on mobile 4.4.4
Even tried official lollipop from HTC site
Means no downgrading attempt
Anyway adb gives me 12 something error
About the ruu version error
But am sure am using the right ruu
alajrami said:
I tried the same ruu on mobile 4.4.4
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That means nothing to me. What do you mean "same ruu". What is the file name exactly?
alajrami said:
Even tried official lollipop from HTC site
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There is no Lollipop RUU for AT&T. You can't run another carrier's RUU (unless you have s-off and change CID). So that means you are running the wrong RUU.
alajrami said:
But am sure am using the right ruu
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From the previous comment, I'm not so sure that is the case.
You didn't answer my question about what hboot number is on the phone currently.
You also did not answer my question on how you updated to 4.4.4.
Hboot 3.19.0.0000
The 4.4.4 has been auto updated before I unlocked the Bootloader
alajrami said:
Hboot 3.19.0.0000
The 4.4.4 has been auto updated before I unlocked the Bootloader
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If you are s-on, this is the only RUU that will work: http://dl3.htc.com/application/RUU_M8_[email protected]41216A_40.34.C35006.02_F_release_407726_signed_2.exe
Thanks a lot I will try it and give u feed back about it
Error (132): signature error
Device information
alajrami said:
Device information
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That is not a valid AT&T 4.4.4 software number. Are you sure you have the AT&T version? It has the AT&T "globe" logo on the back; and all the stock AT&T ROMs similarly have the AT&T logo on the boot screen.
You should also do adb getvar all, and post the output (be sure to delete IMEI and serial numbers, as there are personal info and should not be posted on a public forum);.
That's a euro build, not sure of the local of it, anything .401 is euro, .502 would be AT&T. I believe your in the wrong section for your device. I would check in euro/international forum for the M8 for possible rom match.

[Q] How to achieve S-OFF?

Is there a way to achieve S-OFF as of this year? I have been browsing the xda ATT HTC One m8 forums for awhile and I came across firewater and sunshine. Firewater has been discontinued and with sunshine I keep getting an error message saying "Sunshine can not be used with your device as it is. You need to flash a stock ROM, or a nearer stock ROM." I'm on a stock Sense ROM(with some mods of course) but it's stock enough right? I want to get S-OFF because I eventually want to change my phone into the Google Play Edition device. Any help or direction/s to a thread with info or your own instructions will be greatly appreciated.
Backup and Restore a Stock
iTzz_KAMIKAZE said:
Is there a way to achieve S-OFF as of this year? I have been browsing the xda ATT HTC One m8 forums for awhile and I came across firewater and sunshine. Firewater has been discontinued and with sunshine I keep getting an error message saying "Sunshine can not be used with your device as it is. You need to flash a stock ROM, or a nearer stock ROM." I'm on a stock Sense ROM(with some mods of course) but it's stock enough right? I want to get S-OFF because I eventually want to change my phone into the Google Play Edition device. Any help or direction/s to a thread with info or your own instructions will be greatly appreciated.
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Since you are going to change out to GPE, you may as well bite the bullet and send your phone back to stock, then run Sunshine.
I did and am now running Developer Edition happily.
iTzz_KAMIKAZE said:
Is there a way to achieve S-OFF as of this year? I have been browsing the xda ATT HTC One m8 forums for awhile and I came across firewater and sunshine. Firewater has been discontinued and with sunshine I keep getting an error message saying "Sunshine can not be used with your device as it is. You need to flash a stock ROM, or a nearer stock ROM." I'm on a stock Sense ROM(with some mods of course) but it's stock enough right? I want to get S-OFF because I eventually want to change my phone into the Google Play Edition device. Any help or direction/s to a thread with info or your own instructions will be greatly appreciated.
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Specifically...You need the kernel to be 100% stock. Grab the boot.img from the firmware zip that matches your phone and flash it via fastboot. Sunshine will then work.
Where can I find the boot.img? And what does the boot.img do?(what is it)
Has anyone heard of Moonshine? I've seen that and they claim s-off and it's free. I really don't want to pay $25 to s-off my device. Thanks in advance!
iTzz_KAMIKAZE said:
Where can I find the boot.img? And what does the boot.img do?(what is it)
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That's your kernel. Stock ones can be found in firmware.zip that are included in the ota zip
Jayanyway said:
Has anyone heard of Moonshine? I've seen that and they claim s-off and it's free. I really don't want to pay $25 to s-off my device. Thanks in advance!
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Moonshine is old, and never worked for the M8.
Sunshine is the only option.
dottat said:
That's your kernel. Stock ones can be found in firmware.zip that are included in the ota zip
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I am downloading an OTA zip found at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...nt/att-stock-backups-recoveries-otas-t2855966
and I want to know how to flash the boot.img and will I need to do anything afterwards? Will I need to use adb or fastboot and if so, what commands do I use? When or if i flash the boot.img will I need to flash a new ROM with it? Or if there is a thread for doing this?
iTzz_KAMIKAZE said:
I am downloading an OTA zip found at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...nt/att-stock-backups-recoveries-otas-t2855966
and I want to know how to flash the boot.img and will I need to do anything afterwards? Will I need to use adb or fastboot and if so, what commands do I use? When or if i flash the boot.img will I need to flash a new ROM with it? Or if there is a thread for doing this?
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Fastboot flash boot boot.img
dottat said:
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I just flashed the boot.img and now I'm on kernal version 3.4.0-gaabcaed. I tried to use sunshine but it said the same thing as before. Any suggestions?
What is you hboot number?
I just converted my AT&T M8 into GPE device. I searched enough for a week before realizing that there is no way to S-OFF without sunshine. I eventually paid the $25 and am happily running an S-OFF device now. Moonshine didn't work and firewater is discontinued.
neox3d said:
I just converted my AT&T M8 into GPE device. I searched enough for a week before realizing that there is no way to S-OFF without sunshine. I eventually paid the $25 and am happily running an S-OFF device now. Moonshine didn't work and firewater is discontinued.
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The OP has clearly stated that they are trying to use sunshine, but its not working for them.
Stock ROM and stock kernel are best for sunshine (and not having these may be interfering). Or being on hboot 3.19 renders sunshine unable to s-off (and you can't downgrade hboot with s-on by definition); which is why I asked OP what hboot is currently on the device.
I have a similar problem - here's the twist:
Hboot *IS* 3.19. Sunshine didn't work, and the message was simply: phone incompatible, it's a known issue, we're working on it.
AND... I don't KNOW my firmware version, because I used a version of twrp when rooting the phone that had a bug with just that effect - you can't see your firmware version.
I wanted S-off specifically so as to flash the latest ATT firmware to alleviate that problem.
The ultimate goal is to get viper on the phone.
What can I do? Thanks to all in advance!
Wombat Pete said:
I have a similar problem - here's the twist:
Hboot *IS* 3.19. Sunshine didn't work, and the message was simply: phone incompatible, it's a known issue, we're working on it.
AND... I don't KNOW my firmware version, because I used a version of twrp when rooting the phone that had a bug with just that effect - you can't see your firmware version.
I wanted S-off specifically so as to flash the latest ATT firmware to alleviate that problem.
The ultimate goal is to get viper on the phone.
What can I do? Thanks to all in advance!
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Hboot 3.19 and s-on (on an AT&T M8) means you are on 3.28 firmware (Android 4.4.4).
So sunshine won't work, and you won't be able to update the firmware to run any Sense Lollipop ROMs until either sunshine is updated to support your hboot (new exploit needs to be found, basically) or AT&T releases the LP update (after which you can update the firmware by "official" means).
I responded to your other thread, so you can read a more detailed explanation of "firmware number" there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59480010&postcount=19

[Q] I am a noob help me !

how do i root the htc one m8 I am familiar with rooting as i had a s4 rooted with gpe but i am confused with the htc one m8 plz help
xCellHD said:
how do i root the htc one m8 I am familiar with rooting as i had a s4 rooted with gpe but i am confused with the htc one m8 plz help
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How to root (with links) is explained on my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751432
Also, much of the "HTC specific" lingo is explained here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52484527
I would suggest reading up (and making sure you understand all the terms and processes) for at least a couple hours before trying anything on the phone. I do this every time I buy a new device, even having own quite a few HTC phones. In fact, I usually start reading and researching before I have the phone in hand.
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also is there a way were i can go back to stock when i need to thanks
xCellHD said:
also is there a way were i can go back to stock when i need to thanks
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If your talking about ROM, then take a full backup of your ROM before flashing custom ROM using titanium/nandroid etc.
Or if your talking about root,
Just unroot using unroot apps from play store or the respected app you get after rooting.
xCellHD said:
also is there a way were i can go back to stock when i need to thanks
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As the above reply stated, it depends on what you are talking about.
If you just want the stock ROM, recovery, etc. one option is to relock the bootloader and just run the RUU. It will return you to stock software. The only thing not "stock" will be the bootloader will say RELOCKED instead of LOCKED. You need s-off to make it say LOCKED again (after unlocking it).
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so this is what i want to do i want to unlock bootloader then root which i know how to do but i was woundering would i be able to install this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-htc-one-m8/development/rom-sd-4-0-sense7-port-sdkernel-t3062367
would i be able to install that rom soon as i am done unlocking the bootloader and rooting or would i have extra stuff sorry for the dumb questions
xCellHD said:
so this is what i want to do i want to unlock bootloader then root which i know how to do but i was woundering would i be able to install this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-htc-one-m8/development/rom-sd-4-0-sense7-port-sdkernel-t3062367
would i be able to install that rom soon as i am done unlocking the bootloader and rooting or would i have extra stuff sorry for the dumb questions
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What are your current hboot and radio numbers?
redpoint73 said:
What are your current hboot and radio numbers?
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my hboot is 3.19 and my radio is [email protected]
xCellHD said:
my hboot is 3.19 and my radio is [email protected]
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You should be good to go, then. Just unlock the bootloader, install custom recovery and flash the Skydragon ROM you linked.
would i need to be s-off and would i be able to go back stock and relock the bootloader with s-on again sorry for the manny questions i am new to this phone
xCellHD said:
would i need to be s-off and would i be able to go back stock and relock the bootloader with s-on again sorry for the manny questions i am new to this phone
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You can return to stock with a RELOCKED bootloader with s-on.
You do need s-off if you want to make the bootloader say LOCKED as it was from the factory. But the only reason to ever do this is for warranty purposes. And if you bought the phone from AT&T, you should note that your warranty is through AT&T, not HTC. And AT&T doesn't give a crap if the bootloader is unlocked, or whatever (folks have even successfully sent in phones for warranty with custom ROMs on them).
If you are seeing warranty service through HTC (you didn't purchase from AT&T) that is another story. But that is the only reason I'd bother going back to LOCKED.
In normal usage, I recommend leaving the bootloader UNLOCKED as it give you more flexibility to flash ROMs whenever you want, etc. The only reason IMO to relock the bootloader in normal usage is to run the RUU.
S-off is nice have if you want to flash radios, modified hboots, and some other things (you also don't need to relock to RUU with s-off). It certainly doesn't hurt, and some folks like to make the phone as customizable as possible right away. In fact, I did s-off to the phone the second day I had it (although s-off was free back then). But for you, its not strictly "needed" at this time unless you want to do the things mentioned.
so heres the thing again sorry for the manny questions i am just making sure if i do this everything will work so heres the thing the rom i linked if i were to flash it will my at&t sevice work since it would be a different baseband
can you link me the latest twrp recovery for the at&t htc m8 so i can flash once i unlock the boatloader
xCellHD said:
can you link me the latest twrp recovery for the at&t htc m8 so i can flash once i unlock the boatloader
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https://twrp.me/devices/htconem8gsm.html
the latest twrp 2.8.6.0 should work with my at&t m8 ?
xCellHD said:
so heres the thing again sorry for the manny questions i am just making sure if i do this everything will work so heres the thing the rom i linked if i were to flash it will my at&t sevice work since it would be a different baseband
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The baseband isn't determined by the ROM, its determined by flashing a different baseband/radio (which requires s-off).
There are some folks that have had issues on AT&T's LTE network using some custom ROMs. Namely, not receiving or sending voice calls while on LTE. But this seems somewhat random, and not the ROMs fault per se; but probably changes that AT&T is making to their network. The most you can do is flash the Skydragon ROM, and if you have problems, try another ROM or revert to stock.
Make a backup of your stock ROM with TWRP before you flash anything, to be sure you have something to revert to if you have problems. This is good general advice before you flash any custom ROMs, root mods, etc.
I'm using the ROM your linked (Skydragon Sense 7) on AT&T, and it works fine for me.

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