Hi guys, brand new to the forum, member wise, but been using XDA site for years. Have had the Verizon HTC One since it was released in August and been patiently waiting for S-Off to be achievable. Awesome for Sonic buying a Java card and wish I could have sent mine to him but unfortunately did not have a backup phone to use.
I was wondering if someone could create a guide to complete S-Off with Beaup's mod? I don't want to brick my phone since it's the only one I have, so I figured this could be beneficial to everyone, not just me.
Thanks guys
If you follow his guide, it's pretty straight forward. It failed the first time for me because of either not having the stock kernel, or just a bad usb port, but that didn't brick my phone. It just didn't do anything. Tried it the second time and it worked like a charm.
SoCmodder said:
If you follow his guide, it's pretty straight forward. It failed the first time for me because of either not having the stock kernel, or just a bad usb port, but that didn't brick my phone. It just didn't do anything. Tried it the second time and it worked like a charm.
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Thanks man for clearing it up. Just kind of new to HTC in particular. First HTC phone. Was just kind of curious if I had to worry about anything different.
Im running nos sense but when i tried to go back to my backup of stock before root i got a md5 mismatch on cwm and so it wont backup to that. Does anybody know where i can get the stock rom to be able to run the s-off method. thanks
Aggies1288 said:
Im running nos sense but when i tried to go back to my backup of stock before root i got a md5 mismatch on cwm and so it wont backup to that. Does anybody know where i can get the stock rom to be able to run the s-off method. thanks
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You should be able to flash one of the stock based roms and make sure you have the stock kernel.
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SoCmodder said:
You should be able to flash one of the stock based roms and make sure you have the stock kernel.
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Oh ok cool. Would nos sense work or do I need to use like Andy's bonestock rom?
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I am trying to get my read on here to catch up to ROOTING and ROMs for the INC. I am used to z4root and loading .zips through clockwork. This seems a little more intense on the INC.
There any good one stop shop guides Im not finding searching this forum? I've found Unrevoked (which I need to make sure I will read to understand) and it looks like most are just using rom manager. Is it also easy to FLASH back to stock in case I mess up?
Thanks guys
I remember when I was in you shoes!! Everything you need to know is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=638 in the stickies. And yes returning to stock is very simple.
Ugh now I feel like a dope. Guess I could have searched "[Guide]" to find some goodies ahaha.
HaHa! No problem, we've all been there before!
don't worry about being worried or what not. We've all been there, me personally a few months ago.... now i'm flashing CM nightlies every other day.
Just be ready to unleash the power. haha
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don't worry about being worried or what not. We've all been there, me personally a few months ago.... now i'm flashing CM nightlies every other day.
Just be ready to unleash the power. haha
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+1. Can't. Leave. ****. Alone.
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Might I recommend continuing to flash via recovery. Reliance on ROM Manager seems to cause a lot more questions.
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Might I recommend continuing to flash via recovery. Reliance on ROM Manager seems to cause a lot more questions.
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Yeah I just did revoked and noticed this is clockwork just like the X. I can go ahead and just install the zip file for the ROM I want?
yup, easy as that. Make sure you have a good nandroid back up and wipe your data / catch / dalvik catch if your switching between roms.
good luck and nandroid nandroid nandroid!
Uh oh I only did a backup in clockwork after root =(
That's ok. The main thing is that you have a working back up (stock or not) to flash back to if something goes wrong.
keith.mcintyre26 said:
+1. Can't. Leave. ****. Alone.
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+10, I flashed between 4 ROMs in a day. A DAY. And got them all configured the way I wanted them.
Lol I think my first ROM (SR 3.5) I left on and alone for about...2 weeks? haha
hey everyone, I had clockwork recovery, which I wanted to get rid of. I got the stock recovery.img from htc vision wiki and flashed it using adb. but when i go to rom manager it still says current recovery:clock work. I cant even flash any alternate recovery in rom manager, because the option is not highlighted. I am just wondering is there any reason why i am unable to flash the stock recovery. Or is there anther recovery that I can download, and maybe try and flash that. Any help will be appreciated. thank you in advance.
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hey everyone, I had clockwork recovery, which I wanted to get rid of. I got the stock recovery.img from htc vision wiki and flashed it using adb. but when i go to rom manager it still says current recovery:clock work. I cant even flash any alternate recovery in rom manager, because the option is not highlighted. I am just wondering is there any reason why i am unable to flash the stock recovery. Or is there anther recovery that I can download, and maybe try and flash that. Any help will be appreciated. thank you in advance.
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RM might be lieing to you since that header is meant to show you what CWM you have installed and what the latest CWM is. Try booting into recovery from the bootloader and see what's there.
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Pretty sure the OP is asking how to flash stock recovery or something other than clockworkmod.
My question is why? You don't have to flash newest cwm 5.X(you can flash older versions in RM) and there is a thread toget back to complete stock in dev section.
No alternate recoveries besides stock and cwm
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thanks for the replies guys. no i flashed the stock recovery through adb. it sucks there is only stock or cwm. anyways the reason i was trying to get back to stock recovery is that i know gingerbread is already or will be available for htc desire z. and when it is rooted i want to upgrade to it. but i cant upgrade if i have cwm. and i dont like the modified rom people have. any ideas?
never mind, you were right. rm was lieing. crap my phone get factory reset. i wasnt expecting that....could have warned me -_- anyways i am guessing now i can update. btw if i update, then download clockwork. can i restore to my nandroid, which will have the 2.2?
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thanks for the replies guys. no i flashed the stock recovery through adb. it sucks there is only stock or cwm. anyways the reason i was trying to get back to stock recovery is that i know gingerbread is already or will be available for htc desire z. and when it is rooted i want to upgrade to it. but i cant upgrade if i have cwm. and i dont like the modified rom people have. any ideas?
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It's already available for the G2 so it should be available for the DZ as well. Check the ROMs thread in the sticky, there's probably already a rooted version out that you could flash with CWM.
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never mind, you were right. rm was lieing. crap my phone get factory reset. i wasnt expecting that....could have warned me -_- anyways i am guessing now i can update. btw if i update, then download clockwork. can i restore to my nandroid, which will have the 2.2?
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Factory reset from flashing a recovery? That shouldn't have happened.
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well i pressed volume up and power. then it went in to hboot. then i pressed recovery. it went in to what looked liked the stock recovery. loaded something. next thing i know it was booting up with everything erased.
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well i pressed volume up and power. then it went in to hboot. then i pressed recovery. it went in to what looked liked the stock recovery. loaded something. next thing i know it was booting up with everything erased.
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Did you have a PC10IMG.zip file on the root of your sdcard?
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OriginalGabriel said:
Did you have a PC10IMG.zip file on the root of your sdcard?
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lmao i think i might have...ahh the stupid mistakes i make. anyways thanks a lot for your help. btw if i have permanent root, and i want to flash to stock. do i have to get rid of permroot before i can install an ota?
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thanks for the replies guys. no i flashed the stock recovery through adb. it sucks there is only stock or cwm. anyways the reason i was trying to get back to stock recovery is that i know gingerbread is already or will be available for htc desire z. and when it is rooted i want to upgrade to it. but i cant upgrade if i have cwm. and i dont like the modified rom people have. any ideas?
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You can definitely flash a pre-rooted 2.3 DZ build when you have CWM recovery lol.
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btw if i have permanent root, and i want to flash to stock. do i have to get rid of permroot before i can install an ota?
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You have to unroot, get back to a fully stock setup, THEN take the OTA.
I have absolutely no idea why you would do this though. You can get any number of 2.3.3+ based ROMs, both stock and modified, that can just be flashed via recovery. You can be on the latest build and keep your root. Why go through all the hassle to unroot and upgrade when you could just keep root?
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You can definitely flash a pre-rooted 2.3 DZ build when you have CWM recovery lol.
You have to unroot, get back to a fully stock setup, THEN take the OTA.
I have absolutely no idea why you would do this though. You can get any number of 2.3.3+ based ROMs, both stock and modified, that can just be flashed via recovery. You can be on the latest build and keep your root. Why go through all the hassle to unroot and upgrade when you could just keep root?
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yea i know i could. but ahh most of the roms that are 2.3 are for the u.s. i want something more canada based. if you know of any, do share. cause i dont want to have to go through all the apps and see which ones work in canada and which ones dont. what is the best 2.3 sense based rom that i can get? thanks btw.
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yea i know i could. but ahh most of the roms that are 2.3 are for the u.s. i want something more canada based. if you know of any, do share. cause i dont want to have to go through all the apps and see which ones work in canada and which ones dont. what is the best 2.3 sense based rom that i can get? thanks btw.
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Not sure which apps youre referring to that aren't going to work in Canada... anything you use on your current ROM probably works on the 2.3 rooted Sense based ROMs lol.
The DZ is the G2 in the USA, and has completely different firmware. It doesn't have HTC sense. So you probably won't find many HTC Sense based ROMs that are "for the u.s." as you put it...
People like Virtuous unity. Its 2.3 based Sense with some Sense 3.0 flares. There are also a few stock pre-rooted OTA DZ builds out there. Go take a look in the dev section. If you like Sense, there are plenty of options for this device.
no i meant the rom that i will get has some apps that dont work in canada. anyways, what do you think is the best sense based rom with 2.3? post a link if possible. thanks.
HeatRyder said:
no i meant the rom that i will get has some apps that dont work in canada. anyways, what do you think is the best sense based rom with 2.3? post a link if possible. thanks.
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I don't use Sense (don't like it) and I wouldn't wanna make a recommendation because I'm not very versed on them.
There are several options, I suggest you try them all and choose which you like. Lots of people like Virtuous Unity.
which tends to crash more? miui or virtuous unity?
Hey guys, gotta make this quick. As of lately, I unlocked my bootloader with the intentions of installing a different ROM. I've tried nearly every ROM (including the stock de/odexed ones) and nothing will stay on. With every flash I have done a FULL wipe and flashed correct boot.imgs, but still nothing more than being rebooted a minute after the ROM starts up. I need this phone to run again because I can't stand the loaner I have.
Did you do the OTA Update?
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Did you do the OTA Update?
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I suppose I can give it a go... but do you have any idea of what's making everything fail so horribly? Because honestly, HTC devices are a whole new ballpark to me.
the 3 ROMS whichu cant ignore are
CM10
AOKP JB
PACman ROM
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I suppose I can give it a go... but do you have any idea of what's making everything fail so horribly? Because honestly, HTC devices are a whole new ballpark to me.
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He asked because the OTA update will cause exactly what you describe.
I would revert back to pre-OTA by running the RUU and then relock/reroot/rerom from there.
MasterTec said:
He asked because the OTA update will cause exactly what you describe.
I would revert back to pre-OTA by running the RUU and then relock/reroot/rerom from there.
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What he said. The OTA update will cause Custom roms and kernels not to boot. So the RUU will fix the problem.
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What he said. The OTA update will cause Custom roms and kernels not to boot. So the RUU will fix the problem.
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Where would I find an Ubuntu-friendly RUU? My Win7 partition decided to s#!t the bed so I'm stuck running on Ubuntu 12.10 until I can get an external HDD to back up all of my Windows files. Thanks.
EDIT: If there is no "Ubuntu-friendly" version, does it atleast play nicely with Wine? This has become a pain in the tush and honestly, I'd just love to get this over with so I can have a functioning phone again. Not to mention get some of that JellyBean goodness.
EDIT #2: Nevermind! I figured it out and now it's all good in the hood.
I guess it's self explanatory... I'm rather new to HTC devices, and coming from the Sprint S2, I'm not used to having a recovery that's separate from the kernel. So where could I get an image of the stock recovery for the ONE in case I ever do have to "warranty" the device?
I used to keep a nandroid of the base gingerbread ROM and the kernel for my S2 in the case that happened and I had to use them twice. So it'd be nice to have a folder stored deep in my storage drive with the right files for my ONE.
I have seen a couple of the stock ROM images, but I'm not sure that they are the 4.2.2 it came with. Anyone help me out with these? I'd be grateful!
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I guess it's self explanatory... I'm rather new to HTC devices, and coming from the Sprint S2, I'm not used to having a recovery that's separate from the kernel. So where could I get an image of the stock recovery for the ONE in case I ever do have to "warranty" the device?
I used to keep a nandroid of the base gingerbread ROM and the kernel for my S2 in the case that happened and I had to use them twice. So it'd be nice to have a folder stored deep in my storage drive with the right files for my ONE.
I have seen a couple of the stock ROM images, but I'm not sure that they are the 4.2.2 it came with. Anyone help me out with these? I'd be grateful!
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So your looking for the files that will get you back to stock in case of a warranty issue?
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There is a guide somewhere in the development section that can get you back to stock with a S-on and the security flag reset. Its a lengthy process not like flashing a tar file in Odin thats for sure.
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@steddora This is probably what you are looking for
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46286588
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@steddora This is probably what you are looking for
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46286588
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I've looked through that thread a hundred times. Is the ruu the recovery image? Also need a stock rom image? And if I ever switch out the kernel, well I'd need that too.
But the process doesn't scare me at all, coming from a Linux user of quite a few years. I just have to have the files to do it and to make my personal guide to work it for later.
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I've looked through that thread a hundred times. Is the ruu the recovery image? Also need a stock rom image? And if I ever switch out the kernel, well I'd need that too.
But the process doesn't scare me at all, coming from a Linux user of quite a few years. I just have to have the files to do it and to make my personal guide to work it for later.
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So did you s-off and flash a custom recovery?
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steddora said:
I've looked through that thread a hundred times. Is the ruu the recovery image? Also need a stock rom image? And if I ever switch out the kernel, well I'd need that too.
But the process doesn't scare me at all, coming from a Linux user of quite a few years. I just have to have the files to do it and to make my personal guide to work it for later.
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The ruu is an all in one. It includes but is not limited to hboot, recovery, system, boot and radio partitions. It will flash your partitions back to stock.
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So did you s-off and flash a custom recovery?
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Absolutely. Had to have my phone at least de-bloated. lmao Just learning all I can about the device though. Like I said, I came from a phone who's kernel and recovery were packed together and you could pretty much do anything you wanted from recovery without adb/fastboot at all. TWRP for me it is though, pretty nice and I like it a bit more than CWM.
just got s-off from Sonic, it is also unlocked & rooted with clockwork recovery.
I really want the google edition rom on my phone, but I cannot get the phone to be recognized under fastboot usb ( I am on ubuntu ) to change the CID. So.. my question is.. can I just download the ruu for google edition to my internal memory, boot into clockwork and flash if from there ? Or will it mess it up ?
Anyhelp would be much , much appriciated.
ps. did a backup of my current rom under clockwork.
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just got s-off from Sonic, it is also unlocked & rooted with clockwork recovery.
I really want the google edition rom on my phone, but I cannot get the phone to be recognized under fastboot usb ( I am on ubuntu ) to change the CID. So.. my question is.. can I just download the ruu for google edition to my internal memory, boot into clockwork and flash if from there ? Or will it mess it up ?
Anyhelp would be much , much appriciated.
ps. did a backup of my current rom under clockwork.
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I would not advise doing this, even if you edit the CID on the device or in the android info.text in the RUU first.
The stock Google Edition Rom is GSM and not going to work as desired/or at all on Verizon without modifications made to it.
You have gone through with getting S-Off and are gonna want to be able to use fastboot.
It's a necessity if you plan on modding your phone really.
Aside from this, you must have had it working before,...how did you unlock your bootloader or load a recovery?
I would suggest getting fastboot to work again and probably not flashing a GSM based rom.
oh no.. this sucks.. I really hoped I can get G. edition on the phone.. so.. are there pure android versions for htc one then ? I really don't care what it is. I just want stock android 4.2.2 or 4.3 on the phone.. I know CM is still flaky, from what I understand.
My phone got unlocked with sonic card. I was never able for the OS to recognize my device under fastboot usb, both of my htc ones. Not sure why, they just won't shop up. But anyways, I have recovery working.. What version would you suggest I flash ?
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oh no.. this sucks.. I really hoped I can get G. edition on the phone.. so.. are there pure android versions for htc one then ? I really don't care what it is. I just want stock android 4.2.2 or 4.3 on the phone.. I know CM is still flaky, from what I understand.
My phone got unlocked with sonic card. I was never able for the OS to recognize my device under fastboot usb, both of my htc ones. Not sure why, they just won't shop up. But anyways, I have recovery working.. What version would you suggest I flash ?
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I ran GPE for a while before the official PAC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2416875
pizzasauce, did you change CID as well ? Have you run into any issues running GPE ? I don't know what PAC is, googled it and it looks like another rom. Why you like it better than stock andr. ?
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pizzasauce, did you change CID as well ? Have you run into any issues running GPE ? I don't know what PAC is, googled it and it looks like another rom. Why you like it better than stock andr. ?
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There's no need to change CID at all. Just flash newtoroot's GPE rom and you'll get what you're looking for, a pure stock android rom. I'm running it myself lol
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There's no need to change CID at all. Just flash newtoroot's GPE rom and you'll get what you're looking for, a pure stock android rom. I'm running it myself lol
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thanks! Thats what I thought.. I assume you just flashed it through a recovery ?
Do you guys have any tips for making sure that I don't Bork my radios when installing the GPE ROM? Happened to me last time I flashed and I had to RUU back to stock (restoring my nandroid stock through CWM did not work)
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BaBnkr said:
Do you guys have any tips for making sure that I don't Bork my radios when installing the GPE ROM? Happened to me last time I flashed and I had to RUU back to stock (restoring my nandroid stock through CWM did not work)
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didn't have any problems with radio. I needed to flash back to stock before flashing this, but right now it is my driver. Beautiful battery life, fast, with beats audio. Love it.
santod040 said:
I would not advise doing this, even if you edit the CID on the device or in the android info.text in the RUU first.
The stock Google Edition Rom is GSM and not going to work as desired/or at all on Verizon without modifications made to it.
You have gone through with getting S-Off and are gonna want to be able to use fastboot.
It's a necessity if you plan on modding your phone really.
Aside from this, you must have had it working before,...how did you unlock your bootloader or load a recovery?
I would suggest getting fastboot to work again and probably not flashing a GSM based rom.
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I had issues with the GPE GSM functionality added ROM. I installed that and while it says it's the Verizon version just with GSM support it majorly janked up my phone. Lost carrier signal and went into endless data roam. I had to reflash the decrypted RUU to get everything back to normal. I have been a little leery of AOSP Roms since bc I had the same issues on CM and Liquid Smooth.
I installed Mokee yesterday and it has been decent save for the terrible battery life.
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I had issues with the GPE GSM functionality added ROM. I installed that and while it says it's the Verizon version just with GSM support it majorly janked up my phone. Lost carrier signal and went into endless data roam. I had to reflash the decrypted RUU to get everything back to normal. I have been a little leery of AOSP Roms since bc I had the same issues on CM and Liquid Smooth.
I installed Mokee yesterday and it has been decent save for the terrible battery life.
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Yeah I keep hearing about it happening to people. I'm using the gpe right now and all is well. It also seems like If you come from another non sense rom to a new non sense rom, you'll have issues but if you flash from sense it'll turn out alright. Not sure why, but that seems like the consensus to not have any messed up radios or whatever. I came from bonestock and I haven't had any issues using this rom in over a week.
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thanks! Thats what I thought.. I assume you just flashed it through a recovery ?
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Yeah just flash through recovery like you would any other rom, even though you probably already are running it by now lol
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Zynesterysdan said:
Yeah I keep hearing about it happening to people. I'm using the gpe right now and all is well. It also seems like If you come from another non sense rom to a new non sense rom, you'll have issues but if you flash from sense it'll turn out alright. Not sure why, but that seems like the consensus to not have any messed up radios or whatever. I came from bonestock and I haven't had any issues using this rom in over a week.
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Yeah just flash through recovery like you would any other rom, even though you probably already are running it by now lol
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Yeah I'm using bonestock now. I had issues going to GPE and back. It was all good in GPE and I didn't get the issue until I restored nandroid.
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