Hi All
I'm new to XDA forums but I've been a lurker for years. I've had a DHD for almost 2 years and I get the urge to root it an apply a custom ROM every now and then but always chicken out in case it gets bricked. Anyway, today I threw caution to the wind, used AAHK, rooted, and installed CFX's wicked 4.2.1 build (BR11?) and this thing is just amazing. It's like a brand new phone! No wonder the phone companies refuse to roll out OTA upgrades!
I've had my eye on the Nexus 4 - purely because one of the features I really like is the PhotoShere function of the camera. I found a Camera4.2 zip which is packaged with the photosphere feature, installed it and launched photoshpere on the phone. Initially, it seems fine but it the 3d-grid doesn't move when the phone is moved. I read up a little bit more on it and apparently the DHD doesn't have gyro-sensors? Is this true and is this a requirement for the photosphere app?
TIA.
Huskie.
It is true and Photosphere does need it.
Ah that's a shame.
Hello all,
I'm just wondering, do you guys notice or know of any real difference b/t the unlocked/non-carrier firmware that's out there and the carrier-specific firmware from T-Mobile for the M8? Is one considered better than the other?
Please share your thoughts with us!
Thank You,
RockStar2005
RockStar2005 said:
Hello all,
I'm just wondering, do you guys notice or know of any real difference b/t the unlocked/non-carrier firmware that's out there and the carrier-specific firmware from T-Mobile for the M8? Is one considered better than the other?
Please share your thoughts with us!
Thank You,
RockStar2005
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I know my experience with the M7 (yes i know its an M8 forum but still somewhat relevant) is Yes, the carrier firmware was better.
I had a Stock TMO branded M7. I did the full conversion to make it a GPe unit. It was nice but i had some signal issues. It was better with the TMO radios but ultimately i put it back to stock TMO and for me i got the best results like that.
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I know my experience with the M7 (yes i know its an M8 forum but still somewhat relevant) is Yes, the carrier firmware was better.
I had a Stock TMO branded M7. I did the full conversion to make it a GPe unit. It was nice but i had some signal issues. It was better with the TMO radios but ultimately i put it back to stock TMO and for me i got the best results like that.
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No I think the M7 experience is definitely still relevant!
Ok, you're the first one so far here to say that. So the radios change based on the firmware? Why is that? I mean, why would the radios be affected by the firmware? Seems to me it'd be better to leave the radios alone and let them remain how they came.
My previous OTA was from T-Mobile, but in order to get updated ViperOne M8, I had to get the firmware for 2.22 and T-Mo wasn't deploying it. They apparently just approved it on the 18th, but as u prob read above, I'm not even sure if they've deployed it, and what it contains. I seem to have as much signal quality as before. I just wish they'd have VoLTE deployed for the M8s. That would be great.
RockStar2005
I have been with T-Mobile less then 2 years. Prior to that i was with sprint over 10 years. I got most of my "radio" experience flashing different radios for the Samsung GS2.
That device was super finikey when it came to radios. I also found at the time that 3 different network vendors set up most of the CDMA network in the USA for Sprint. So for me having a specific radio work well meant that same one might not work so well up north. Samsung was also known to not have very good hardware / antennas (when i say radios i am referring to the firmware for the specific device.) So while my devices hardware stayed the same Samsung was making software tweaks during each revision of software.
But to keep it simple, Yes, different versions of radios can work differently in each device. Thats even with stock radios. Then if you add stuff like a GPe radio to a stock unit, or what i had with my M7 using a GPe ROM with a TMO radio. It always pains me to see people who post about using carrier A phone unlocked with carrier B network. Those people will never get the most out of their hardware network wise because carrier B has worked with the manufacturer to make sure their device is created to be specific to their network. Sure an unlocked will work but not at 100% efficiency. It could be a hardware limitation, could be some software that is baked into the ROM to make it work better, or even as simple as TMO baking in WiFi calling with their network.
I mean look what happened to the Note 3 for TMO. Originally it shipped with LTE not even enabled. The hardware was there then BAM, with an OTA LTE was enabled. Flash forward to the last few months, 2 separate updates for VoLTE. Those are radios updates that are specific to the hardware in the Note 3.
Hopefully someone else can chime in as well. Id hate to think im the only one.
Six,
No you explained that rather well! My cousin has the Note 3 so I know what u said about the last part (on VoLTE) is def true. I wish HTC would hurry the F up and give us M8 ppl VoLTE. Would be nice. And make it available everywhere, not just major cities (it's avail in Chicago, but I live 25-30 min away).
I have a buddy who works for U.S. Cellular corporate, and he said the same thing. Unlocked phones, esp ones sold by one carrier but used on another's network, don't work AS well as when the phone is made for your carrier's network. International phones at least I believe work fine if released OFFICIALLY in the U.S. (i.e., Sony's Xperia Z2, which is ONLY avail that way in the U.S.), because they've been tested on ALL carrier networks/bands, but that's diff than using say a Sprint phone on T-Mobile's network, I believe. (Or using a phone that wasn't approved for all the major U.S. carriers.)
So far you're the only who seems pro-carrier firmware/OTAs, but that's ok. That's why I started this thread, so I can get all sides of the story. But if you read the previous posts, the other posters make a compelling argument that's pro-noncarrier. It sounds like in my situation I'm fine, b/c I'm pretty sure the int't M8 was tested on T-Mo's bands already. The firmware would just go along with that same data, so I don't think I'm having any loss of quality. Now if I carrier-unlocked my phone and tried it on Sprint or Verizon, or even AT&T......... then I would expect a loss of quality at some level.
Thanks,
RockStar2005
Agreed. I see merits in both custom roms, stock roms, GPe Roms and Cyanogen.
Back in the GS2 days i was a big fan of using some of those custom ROMS guys would cook up. It fixed a lot of issues with Android.
But for ME, since 4.2.2 and up, i have been happy with stock ROMs.
In fact i almost always ran custom roms on my older devices and only recently started to leave them stock.
The last thing was when TMO gave me 3 GB free tethering, that was the last thing i might have rooted for.
My note 3 is stock, my M8 is still stock. and my back up M7 is stock (after putting GPe on it for a few weeks and testing stuff out).
I for one use my M8 as my daily phone and my Note 3 as my back up / game device.
For example, today at lunch i had local news streaming on my M8 while my Note 3 was tethered to my M8. On my Note 3 i was playing a few games while i waited for my food then answered a few emails and chatted with a friend on Hangouts.
With TMOs recent 4.4.3 update my M8 seems to run better then before and i feel im getting better battery life out of it.
Cant wait for my Note 3 to get 4.4.3 or 4.4.4. Also really looking forward to Android L on both of the units.
The way i look at it is what are YOUR pros and cons. LOL.
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Agreed. I see merits in both custom roms, stock roms, GPe Roms and Cyanogen.
Back in the GS2 days i was a big fan of using some of those custom ROMS guys would cook up. It fixed a lot of issues with Android.
But for ME, since 4.2.2 and up, i have been happy with stock ROMs.
In fact i almost always ran custom roms on my older devices and only recently started to leave them stock.
The last thing was when TMO gave me 3 GB free tethering, that was the last thing i might have rooted for.
My note 3 is stock, my M8 is still stock. and my back up M7 is stock (after putting GPe on it for a few weeks and testing stuff out).
I for one use my M8 as my daily phone and my Note 3 as my back up / game device.
For example, today at lunch i had local news streaming on my M8 while my Note 3 was tethered to my M8. On my Note 3 i was playing a few games while i waited for my food then answered a few emails and chatted with a friend on Hangouts.
With TMOs recent 4.4.3 update my M8 seems to run better then before and i feel im getting better battery life out of it.
Cant wait for my Note 3 to get 4.4.3 or 4.4.4. Also really looking forward to Android L on both of the units.
The way i look at it is what are YOUR pros and cons. LOL.
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My "pros and cons" list involves having all pros and NO cons! lol
I think I'll prob just wait for the T-Mo OTAs from now on, but then again, b/c I have ViperOne, I won't know when they get deployed unless I constantly revert back to stock. Ughh! I guess so far I haven't really noticed a difference in signal and call quality since installing a non-carrier firmware, though it's only been like not even 2 weeks yet since I did it.
That's cool though that you're so happy with it. Perhaps your posts are an indication that T-Mobile has gotten better with their overall quality, and so that's something to look forward to for when I do go back to stock (whenever that is lol).
Thank You,
RockStar2005
Most people make a big deal about carrier OTAs. So you really dont need to revert back to check for them. As long as your active on the boards you will know when a device gets an OTA.
I failed to mention that part of why im happy with stock is because devices are now getting to the point where they are so fast that having bloat ware on them doesnt noticeably slow down the devices like they used to. At least i dont notice it. Pluse with 4.2.2 they allow you to "disable" most apps you dont want to use. So thats another plus.
Back in the day i used to root and do the custom ROM for extra battery life, or tethering, or to make the device snappier.
I honestly would have thought that someone else might have chimed in by now and added their 2 cents.
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Most people make a big deal about carrier OTAs. So you really dont need to revert back to check for them. As long as your active on the boards you will know when a device gets an OTA.
I failed to mention that part of why im happy with stock is because devices are now getting to the point where they are so fast that having bloat ware on them doesnt noticeably slow down the devices like they used to. At least i dont notice it. Pluse with 4.2.2 they allow you to "disable" most apps you dont want to use. So thats another plus.
Back in the day i used to root and do the custom ROM for extra battery life, or tethering, or to make the device snappier.
I honestly would have thought that someone else might have chimed in by now and added their 2 cents.
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Six,
Yeah, that's true. Or I can check on T-Mobile's update site, though there may still be some delay b/c of how they deploy OTAs: http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-10366
I've noticed that too, and before I got ViperOne and also Titanium Backup, I was disabling several apps too. Though I prefer to just uninstall them.
RockStar2005
Six,
I talked to one of the ppl at Team Venom, and he said he has T-Mobile and recommends just taking T-Mobile's firmware updates for better cell reception. I'll do that from now on. But for now, if anyone is interested, I have here a link to the latest radio image file for the M8 (as of 8/27). Just download and "install flash" in TWRP.
And if you're rooted and want to get rid of the "red splash" screen during boot-up, try flashing the attached mod! :victory:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/beucjivbc4i9y3u/RadioUpdate_2.22.531.5_1.19.213311491.03G.zip
Thank You,
RockStar2005
So... My question now.. I'm one of those buy vzw m8 take over to T-Mobile. I'm running viper 2.3. It runs great. But vzw never updated to newest firmware.so my question I guess is... Can I flash a T-Mobile radio or firmware to my vzw phone? I kinda know the answer, but I'd rather ask. So if I can.. that'll be great!
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I know on the M7 that would brick the unit.
The CDMA and GSM units had different hardware and flashing any GSM ROM into a CDMA unit bricked them.
I want to say the same holds for the M8.
Can someone else confirm that for me?
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I know on the M7 that would brick the unit.
The CDMA and GSM units had different hardware and flashing any GSM ROM into a CDMA unit bricked them.
I want to say the same holds for the M8.
Can someone else confirm that for me?
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Yeah thanks I kinda figured that, but you know it never hurts to ask, especially if it has the potential to maybe work out.
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Then maybe would it be better for me when Verizon gets the ota for 4.4.3.... I should implement that, and then.... Redo my rom?
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Hi fellow HTC One enthusiasts
I just got an unlocked AT&T M8 a few days ago to upgrade from my Nexus 5 that I'm using on T-Mobile and really enjoying, especially the beautiful screen and exceptional build quality!
So here's my situation: First off, I'm pretty rusty with regards to general ROM installation stuff since I started using Nexus devices, but, being a Nexus enthusiast, the first thing I did when I received my M8 was unlock the boot loader and S-Off the device to fully convert the AT&T M8 to the GPE Lollipop version following this tutorial on YouTube .
So from that, I now have a bootloader-unlocked AT&T M8 with fully stock GPE software (eligible for OTA updates from Google like a Nexus device), S-Off through Sunshine and I believe no custom recovery.
However, I'm having trouble figuring out the LTE/data signal on T-Mobile and some slow Wifi issues that I'd been having since before converting to GPE. I've tried changing the APN's to numerous different ones and the average LTE speeds I've been getting is about 1-4 Mbps here in the Los Angeles suburb area whereas with my Nexus 5, I was receiving at least15-20 on a regular basis. On top of that, the stock Google camera performs horribly on this device and I would love to use the HTC Sense camera instead but I've read that HTC Camera APK is incompatible with Vanilla Android.
So I looked around to remedy these two problems that I have with the signal and camera and I figured that the best solution is to install this ROM on XDA called LolliGPE which is a Multi-carrier ROM that is based on GPE Lollipop and is mostly vanilla with some Sense apps (including the HTC Camera app).
However, reading the instructions, it has a prerequisite that is emphasized quite a bit throughout the thread:
A. Update your device to your carrier's 4.4.4 Firmware BEFORE flashing anything here. Google it.
So that's where it gets confusing for me (and I've spent a few hours "Googling it" and on XDA to try to figure out an approach).
*Which carrier's firmware do I flash (AT&T, the phone's intended carrier vs. T-Mobile, the carrier I'm subscribed to)?
I'm about 80% sure that it's T-Mobile's firmware that I need since I'll be using the phone with T-Mobile, but I need to make sure, and also need to know which one to flash since bricking this beautiful device would wreck my soul.
I've read that having S-off is pretty crucial to simplifying the process and I'm pretty glad to have paid for Sunshine, so I at least have that going for me.
So in conclusion, if anyone could guide me towards the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for making it all the way down here, sorry for the wall of text!
If you used the 5.0.1 RUU that graffixnyc posted your FW is already up-to-date and on the right version. What you need to do is add the APN to the phone manually. Funny that Google didn't pre-load the US APNs into the ROM as (technically) the GPe M8 is US-only yet it has the UK APNs in it...
Thanks for the input Eddy! 5.0.1 did have APN's preloaded in it upon installment but I was getting really slow speeds with it, so I spent the next two hours after that trying a multitude of other APN's from all over the web and the best one I found netted me an average Down of about 7 Mbps.
If I'm at the latest firmware, can I proceed to installing LolliGPE then?
Also, I'm wondering if flashing T-Mobile specific radios will help me with the issues that I'm having
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I did use the 5.0.1 RUU from graffixnyc
You should be OK to flash the new ROM so long as it is based on the GPe build (due to partition sizes). Other than that I can't really comment as my 4G speeds were the same or better than when using Sense so didn't ever look into anything else
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You should be OK to flash the new ROM so long as it is based on the GPe build (due to partition sizes). Other than that I can't really comment as my 4G speeds were the same or better than when using Sense so didn't ever look into anything else
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I see, thanks for the help Eddy, you're the man!
If I were to update my firmware in the future, would I be updating to T-Mobile's (my carrier I'm subscribed to) or AT&T's, the phones original carrier?
As your phone is now GPe all updates are from HTC/Google and are nothing to do with your carrier
Good Morning Guys this is my first post here and also my reason for being in here.
I bought a HTC One m7 a year ago from Dubai with Verizon. but that's not a problem. I see in other HTCs that Purple camera problem is not so much in Android 4.2.2 but once they upgrade it to 4.4.2 or whatever, even place is not so dark screen turns pink. Now, my question is not about how to get rid of it because i love camera in 4.2.2 even it's just 4 mp. I'm just asking if there is anyone who runs custom or official Android 4.4.4 or if it arrived Android 5.0, on rooted or non-rooted HTC One m7, does problem still exists or not? i want upgrade my phone but still waiting because of camera problem. Waiting for your answers.
Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum for more relevant answers.
Stand by
Good luck
The camera issue you are talking about is hardware and HTC knows this. Only way to truly remove it is to replace the camera chip in the phone.
Yes I know this is WAY early since the devs haven't even had a chance to put many ROMs out.
I just upgraded from the M7 GPE conversion to the m9, since it seems the GPE devices are no longer I wanted to get some opinions on a similar ROM from a devteam I might be on the lookout for and tryout. I used to run Cyanongen on some of my other devices but never strayed to far outside of the GPE/Cyan box and I'm not a big fan of Sense. Anyone got any advice?