Hey all,
I just recently lost my HTC one M8 and replaced it with an HTC One M8 from HongKong. It just let me update to 4.4.3 but now won't let me update to 4.4.4 or even 5.0. I had an HTC One M8(x) previously and I am living and working in China but that updated fine. This new one however won't. It looks and feels real, is there an app that I can run which can detect if it's a fake?
Thanks guys. Any infro would be of help. I have 4 days left to return to them for a full refund.
Surely wherever you bought it from is a clue. If you bought it from a reputable store then it's real. No question.
Get an app from the playstore. Like device info or such. Just hit in that and something will pop up
Even better is to boot into the bootloader and post here what it says !
Hold power button & volume up, when the screen goes black you switch from volume up to down and keep them pressed until you see the bootloader
Hi guys,
so i just got an htc one m8 eye by a local retailer in my country, on my previous htc i had android 5.0.1 on it and wwas running smoothly. My question is that if i s-off and install a htc one m8 firmware and and full system and the device, will the camera cause any problem? i know the normal, original m8 has got a 4up shooter whereas the m8 eye has a 13mp.
will i encounter any problem if i do convert the phone into an european one?
They have some hardware differences so I don't think it will work.
You could very well brick. Not a great idea unless you find from a reliable source that it's possible.
I sold my HTC One-X+ and got an excellent condition HTC One M7 off Ebay.....BUT, turned on camera....pink screen appeared, hours later found out that it's a VERY common fault with the HTC One M7 etc.
So, Ebay are going to refund me and I'm thinking of getting the M8 Instead.
But before I do, can anyone confirm there are no camera issues or nightmares I need to be aware of etc.
Thanks.
Matt.
Hi everyone have gotten a opportunity to buy a HTC one m9 in mint condition but it is a test device it says and says not for sale on the back. Runs "tell HTC " in the background all the time also. So I am wondering if I could get and run a custom Rom or run the RUU for it and get rid of the message and have a working phone? Thanks in advance
Yesterday i received some ntag215 nfc tags. I immediately tried to read and write them but my htc showed no sign of recongnition. That same day and many days before i have used nfc to pay at the supermarket. This works perfectly. I found that it gives some kind of reaction when placing the tag on the front speaker. It knows its there but it cant seem to fully connect/read/write the tag. The transmitter just seems too weak. Is this a normal HTC 10 flaw? I still have 3 weeks of warranty so i might wanna get it replaced. Too bad i just applied a sick dBrand skin. If anyone has had this issue and mannaged to fix it in some way please let me know. The tags worked on other android devices. I tested it with a Sony Z3 compact.
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bamidrol said:
Yesterday i received some ntag215 nfc tags. I immediately tried to read and write them but my htc showed no sign of recongnition. That same day and many days before i have used nfc to pay at the supermarket. This works perfectly. I found that it gives some kind of reaction when placing the tag on the front speaker. It knows its there but it cant seem to fully connect/read/write the tag. The transmitter just seems too weak. Is this a normal HTC 10 flaw? I still have 3 weeks of warranty so i might wanna get it replaced. Too bad i just applied a sick dBrand skin. If anyone has had this issue and mannaged to fix it in some way please let me know. The tags worked on other android devices. I tested it with a Sony Z3 compact.
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I just check HTC 10NFC location is around rear camera.
I knew that already. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be able to read the taggs. Not on the back and not on the front. There must be more people having this issue.
It's a known problem with the HTC 10.
The NFC signal is not strong enough.
If you search for it here on XDA, there are some others threads. No solution for it yet.
I sent mine to HTC already. They said they repaired it, but it's still not working for me.
Sent from my HTC 10 using XDA Labs
NFC Tags do not work, if you ask HTC Customer support they will tell you that the phones NFC only works for Android Beam and other Active devices (which does work flawless) Scanning NFC Tags or Cards does simply not work.
Yeah that's what I thought as well. Pretty bad that HTC even choose this chip. Even worse that HTC support Netherlands didn't even bother to tell me it just won't work. They offered a repair. But because I unlocked my device and run Leedroid it would cost me a fair amount. I refused. They honestly have a system that flags your device when you root it. That's insane
If you RUU that should wipe Root. Leaving you with an unlocked bootloader only.
The disclaimer that warranty is lost on unlock is mostly only show.
Don't know how it works with HTC.
The problem is that apparently HTC has a database of modified devices. Even when you reset the device they can see you modified it at some point. The guy told me the exact day and time I unlocked my phone. He even saw the exact time I first installed twrp recovery.
Woot? I totally understand unlocking, as this is done via Webpage from HTC.
But how the hell do they know when you installed a different recovery?
You can always revert back to exact stock settings / RUU / relock bootloader, but once you unlock through HTC Dev, they know your device was modified since you've entered your phone info into their database. Besides, anyone who unlocks the BL through HTC Dev knows what they're doing. Otherwise, they wouldn't be running adb commands, pulling tokens, and unlocking through their dev site. So yes, they know once you unlock that your device was modified. Even if you unlocked the bootloader, and then didn't do any modifications, I think the bigger question at this point would be... why the hell did you even bother doing that? (rhetorical/sarcastic question lol)
Which is why Sunshine can be SO FREAKING USEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL. I did S-OFF / BL LOCKED on my wife's (Verizon) phone since I got it for her months after release (unlike my phone, which was BL UNLOCKED, then S-OFF afterwards. i pre-ordered my device, US Unlocked variant, and unlocked it right out of the box through HTC Dev). I then proceeded to hardcore hard brick the phone months later when I stupidly wrongly flashed a lower partial firmware package after a bad update to Nougat firmware, instead of RUU'ing. The modified aboot that was already loaded was ultimately the phone's demise. But since HTC didn't have any record of modification to the device and it was totally hard bricked, it was warrantied without any problems. To them, it was just a phone that stopped working, no charge, no lights, no nothing. BTW, yes I did feel guilty about this..
Now if I did that with my US Unlocked HTC 10 with an unlocked bootloader logged in their database, it wouldn't have surprised me, nor would I have felt wronged, if they refused full warranty after such a problem.
WOW, THAT WAS WAY OFF TOPIC! But hopefully a lesson to someone..
As for the OP, back on topic!!:
I totally feel your pain. I bought a bunch of tags a month ago to write all the amiibos with special function in Breath of the Wild, just to find the damn phone not being able to write. Sometimes it would keep spasmodically beeping like it knew the tag was there, but never successfully write the tag. My only solution was to use a different phone, in my case my FreedomPop HTC M9. It shocked me that the HTC 10 had such a crap NFC chip and yet the M9 was fine. Oh well, I have all the exclusive Amiibo sets now, and the twilight bow, goddess sword, sword of the six sages, and fierce deity sword all hanging in my house in Hateno village. Plus a fully upgraded Fierce Deity armor set and Sky armor set, which shouldn't even be available yet! Oh my Lord... the amount of time I wasted farming those star fragments...
Good luck with the tags though OP! If possible, try installing TagMo on another Android device if you have any. It also worked on my wife's old Galaxy S5 and a Galaxy Note 2014 edition tablet...
Exactly the same scenario here bro. Wanted to make amiibos but found out the metal case of the 10 is just too distorting. I'll stick to using my old Z3 for now. Can you send me a zip with all amiibo data you used for the Tags? I made 20 already but especially the zelda ones seem to be the wrong amiibos. Getting shield from the one that should give me bows.
bamidrol said:
Exactly the same scenario here bro. Wanted to make amiibos but found out the metal case of the 10 is just too distorting. I'll stick to using my old Z3 for now. Can you send me a zip with all amiibo data you used for the Tags? I made 20 already but especially the zelda ones seem to be the wrong amiibos. Getting shield from the one that should give me bows.
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pm'ed. sorry it took so long