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Hey,
I know there's already a thread on this but I wanted to ask which order I need to carry out the process and any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to return my DHD as there are problems with the speaker. I have a new radio, eng-off, s-off and a custom ROM. Which ones do I revert first in order to return to stock without messing up the phone?
Thanks !
You may be able to get away with sending the phone back even if it's not on a stock ROM. I have read other posts on here where people have sent their phones in for repair with custom ROM's and HTC have not been bothered about it, and whenever you send your phone in for any type of repair - they will always wipe the phone and re-install the phone with the latest stock ROM.
From what you have described about the problems you have got with your phone, I imagine the first thing HTC will do before doing any physical repairs on the phone is to re-flash the phone with the latest stock ROM to see if it fixes any of the problems on the phone.
My DHD has been back to HTC twice for the same camera blur problem and I had previously rooted the phone, Radio S-OFF and installed a custom ROM but then I did revert it back to stock with Radio back to S-ON right before I sent it back to HTC for the repair. The first time it went back HTC, all they did was re-flash the phone with the latest stock ROM and sent the phone back to me and hoped that it cured the problem. Within 10 minutes of getting the phone back I knew that the problem was still present and then within a couple of days it was back with HTC again for the same problem and that is when they finally physically repaired the phone.
Edit - from what I have just found out, it doesn't matter which ROM you have installed but the most important thing is to make sure that you revert the phone's Radio back to S-ON before sending it back.
Liam
Thanks, so I just have to get radio S-on back? What about eng-on ? I used the two tools to do it originally, so I'll just have to use them again ?
otibarns said:
Thanks, so I just have to get radio S-on back? What about eng-on ? I used the two tools to do it originally, so I'll just have to use them again ?
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Yes that's right, just use the tool to revert them back to ON. When I did the process and after I used the tool to revert them back to ON, I just downloaded a stock RUU ROM that you run through Windows and then the program re-flashes your phone back to the stock ROM.
Liam
i would back to stock, just in case... i really don't think htc bothers with it, because it's way more simple to fix the phone than fight against the client.
but, since with the original RUU is very easy to back it to stock, i don't see why you shound't do...
regards!
Ok thanks. I have got radio back to S-ON but I still have eng-off. Will this matter? I can't seem to find out how to revert it back to on.
otibarns said:
Ok thanks. I have got radio back to S-ON but I still have eng-off. Will this matter? I can't seem to find out how to revert it back to on.
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Did you read the instructions in my tool's thread? It says pretty clearly there that you should run stock RUU
I've been thinking this for a while, since I have an issue with volume rockers (they aren't as outside the chassis as a friend's) from the very first moment I bought.
Does anybody have this issue? or think it's a hardware problem HTC would repair?
Ty
jkoljo said:
Did you read the instructions in my tool's thread? It says pretty clearly there that you should run stock RUU
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Ok So I just have to flash An RUU and ENG-OFF will dissapear? Thanks
otibarns said:
Ok So I just have to flash An RUU and ENG-OFF will dissapear? Thanks
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When you install an official RUU you revert to original factory state. I believe bootloader,root,ENG/SOFT-OFF etc... dissapears
otibarns said:
Ok So I just have to flash An RUU and ENG-OFF will dissapear? Thanks
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almost everything desappear by flashing original RUU, except Radio S-OFF, that can be changed by jkoljo's tool.
but, since you lose the root when you flash RUU, you will root your phone again with visionary, after that, use the jkoljo's tool to get s-on, unroot and uninstall visionary. done, just it.
Juduth said:
I've been thinking this for a while, since I have an issue with volume rockers (they aren't as outside the chassis as a friend's) from the very first moment I bought.
Does anybody have this issue? or think it's a hardware problem HTC would repair?
Ty
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well, is what you are talking about? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915895
thiagodark said:
well, is what you are talking about? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915895
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Not exactly but close. My volume rockers work, it's just they are sunken to bottom and haven't that normal touch i've seen on other DHDs
Anyway, thanks for linking post. I'll talk a bit there
hi there,
i have searched along the internet a lot time ago and i cant find guide to: how to get back my htc one m8 from s-off to s-on.
if there is a such guide, i would be happy to use it
meido132 said:
hi there,
i have searched along the internet a lot time ago and i cant find guide to: how to get back my htc one m8 from s-off to s-on.
if there is a such guide, i would be happy to use it
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fastboot oem writesecureflag 3
exad said:
fastboot oem writesecureflag 3
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that's it?
"writesecureflag 3" i need to write seprate or together?(write secure flag 3)
Nope as I wrote it.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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Nope as I wrote it.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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and what is gonna happen to the HTC? its gonna delete something(apps games etc)?
meido132 said:
and what is gonna happen to the HTC? its gonna delete something(apps games etc)?
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Nothing, all the command does is set the phone back to S-ON. You have to be 100% stock, and I mean 100%, otherwise it can possibly brick the phone
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Nothing, all the command does is set the phone back to S-ON. You have to be 100% stock, and I mean 100%, otherwise it can possibly brick the phone
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what is 100% stock?
bootloader relock/lock
recovery stock
the original apps
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meido132 said:
what is 100% stock?
bootloader relock/lock
recovery stock
the original apps
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Yep, everything as when you first got the phone - original everything
Also.. why are you going S-ON? Generally not recommended to do so
@EddyOS: I know, you must hate me, I keep asking you the same questions in different threads.
Why everything stock? Isn't it enough to revert those things protected by the security flag back to stock? (e.g. radio) One can have a custom ROM, recovery and unlocked bootloader staying S-ON, the phone is fine with that, so why should it be important to revert those things to stock?
Thanks.
it is not 100% stock, it throws a security flag on the m8. even running ruu afterwards will not remove it.
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...it can possibly brick the phone
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Black Antitoon said:
@EddyOS: I know, you must hate me, I keep asking you the same questions in different threads.
Why everything stock? Isn't it enough to revert those things protected by the security flag back to stock? (e.g. radio) One can have a custom ROM, recovery and unlocked bootloader staying S-ON, the phone is fine with that, so why should it be important to revert those things to stock?
Thanks.
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Don't ask me why it's just a lot of people have managed to brick their phone cause they've had a custom HBOOT (to remove the red writing), forgot it and bricked the phone
@an0ther: I'm not sure I understand what you said. You mean that even if you reset everything to stock (including s-on and the "tampered" banner) HTC will still be able to read another internal "tampered" flag? Or what else?
@EddyOS: thanks, so you are basically saying I am correct, and reverting everything to stock is a precaution to make sure nothing (like the HBOOT) has been forgotten, right?
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@an0ther: I'm not sure I understand what you said. You mean that even if you reset everything to stock (including s-on and the "tampered" banner) HTC will still be able to read another internal "tampered" flag? Or what else?
@EddyOS: thanks, so you are basically saying I am correct, and reverting everything to stock is a precaution to make sure nothing (like the HBOOT) has been forgotten, right?
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Yes. If you're certain it's stock then go ahead. Just remember you have been warned so on your head be it
Thank you again. I will say it's your fault when I forget my HBOOT and brick my phone.
SaHiLzZ said:
Also.. why are you going S-ON? Generally not recommended to do so
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because if i want to get OTA updates, i want that everything will be stock(recovery stock,s-on,unroot)
meido132 said:
because if i want to get OTA updates, i want that everything will be stock(recovery stock,s-on,unroot)
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You don't need to be S-ON to flash an OTA, just stock with everything else (I know cause I flashed the new OTA manually the other day and it worked fine )
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You don't need to be S-ON to flash an OTA, just stock with everything else (I know cause I flashed the new OTA manually the other day and it worked fine )
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where i can find the ota updates to flash them in my htc one m8? and how i can find my ruu of HTC ONE M8?
there is a new ota that size 70 mb with some improvements and i want to flash it like you said
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@an0ther: I'm not sure I understand what you said. You mean that even if you reset everything to stock (including s-on and the "tampered" banner) HTC will still be able to read another internal "tampered" flag? Or what else?
@EddyOS: thanks, so you are basically saying I am correct, and reverting everything to stock is a precaution to make sure nothing (like the HBOOT) has been forgotten, right?
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Yes, there is no way that HTC will not know that you have messed with the phone. You don't need s-on for ota updates, in fact, if you are s-off, you don't even need to lock your boot loader. Anyways, you can just dl ota updates just as easy.
At&t 1.58.502.1
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Yes. If you're certain it's stock then go ahead. Just remember you have been warned so on your head be it
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I have this version of software for AT&T, and I would like to know: If I remove tampered flag and reset to locked and S-ON and then restore using a SIGNED RUU EXE FILE for this software version, will I be ok (as in not get a security warning and look 100% stock)?
My camera broke on my m8 and I need to send it in to have to replaced. My phone is rooted so how do I unroot it before I send it back? I have s on is that a problem?
rtubbs85 said:
My camera broke on my m8 and I need to send it in to have to replaced. My phone is rooted so how do I unroot it before I send it back? I have s on is that a problem?
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How did it break ? Do you mean, the camera lens cover breaking, or the entire camera breaking ? There are many threads on going back to 100% stock technically. You're lucky that you have S-ON. There's no way of getting back to S-ON once you're S-OFF, apart from resetting the tamper flags. May be the below thread will help you. Can you post an image of your broken camera ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751011
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How did it break ? Do you mean, the camera lens cover breaking, or the entire camera breaking ? There are many threads on going back to 100% stock technically. You're lucky that you have S-ON. There's no way of getting back to S-ON once you're S-OFF, apart from resetting the tamper flags. May be the below thread will help you. Can you post an image of your broken camera ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751011
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You can go S-ON if you're S-OFF though it's not really recommended it might give a security warning flag.
Being S-ON to go back 100% to stock would not make him lucky.
He can't follow that guide as that guide needs to make changes that you can only do if you're S-OFF i.e Changing bootloader status to locked instead of re-locked.
If anything it's unfortunate that he isn't S-OFF as that would make going back to stock easier.
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You can go S-ON if you're S-OFF though it's not really recommended it might give a security warning flag.
Being S-ON to go back 100% to stock would not make him lucky.
He can't follow that guide as that guide needs to make changes that you can only do if you're S-OFF i.e Changing bootloader status to locked instead of re-locked.
If anything it's unfortunate that he isn't S-OFF as that would make going back to stock easier.
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Yeah. I wasn't sure of the link I attached. I mentioned the same while replying to the thread starter.
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Yeah. I wasn't sure of the link I attached. I mentioned the same while replying to the thread starter.
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Yeah well, lucky for us he gives us absolutely no useful information to go on, leaving us plenty of room for speculation :rolleyes
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How did it break ? Do you mean, the camera lens cover breaking, or the entire camera breaking ? There are many threads on going back to 100% stock technically. You're lucky that you have S-ON. There's no way of getting back to S-ON once you're S-OFF, apart from resetting the tamper flags. May be the below thread will help you. Can you post an image of your broken camera ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751011
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When I open the HTC camera or google app it says can't connect to camera I didn't mean it's broken like the lens it just has a black screen. I even tried different roms and same issue
rtubbs85 said:
When I open the HTC camera or google app it says can't connect to camera I didn't mean it's broken like the lens it just has a black screen. I even tried different roms and same issue
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Too hard to guess from here. It could be either a hardware fault or a software fault. Did you try installing the stock Rom ? If it doesn't work then a repair is a must.
No I haven't tried the stock one yet is there a tread for one?
If u install the stock rom will that make me lose root?
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If u install the stock rom will that make me lose root?
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Technically, yes. Most stock roms aren't rooted. Anyways, you can re-root the device by flashing supersu in the recovery.
Is yours an unlocked international One M8, or a carrier locked ?
Tej XFire said:
Technically, yes. Most stock roms aren't rooted. Anyways, you can re-root the device by flashing supersu in the recovery.
Is yours an unlocked international One M8, or a carrier locked ?
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It's an att version
I have a carrier locked M8 that is rooted but S-On.
The vibrator motor on my phone quit and both HTC and my wireless provider have deemed it a hardware error that require repair. The device is under warranty. I need to send it in to get repaired. Given that it's still S-On, do I just need to restore the stock recovery and OS before sending it in?
Probably not safe to assume that because it's a hardware issue, the software doesn't matter?
A lot of times you can get away with sending in a modded phone. Most of those techs aren't smart enough (no offence) to notice things like that unless its major i.e the red text on the boot up screen, or a sense m8 running miui or maybe even GPE stuff. I would flash a sense ROM and a "no red text" bootloader before I send it in.
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A lot of times you can get away with sending in a modded phone. Most of those techs aren't smart enough (no offence) to notice things like that unless its major i.e the red text on the boot up screen, or a sense m8 running miui or maybe even GPE stuff. I would flash a sense ROM and a "no red text" bootloader before I send it in.
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But do you only get one shot at it? If they uncover its modded, surely they make record of it? Not like I could send it in, they send it back because it's modded, and then I could do a deeper clean (100% back to stock) before sending it back again, right?
Am I safer to clean it up entirely before sending it in?
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But do you only get one shot at it? If they uncover its modded, surely they make record of it? Not like I could send it in, they send it back because it's modded, and then I could do a deeper clean (100% back to stock) before sending it back again, right?
Am I safer to clean it up entirely before sending it in?
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Correct, it would be safer to do a 100% cleasn stock restore just make a backup so you can slrestore it when you get it back.
josh.walker.9242 said:
Correct, it would be safer to do a 100% cleasn stock restore just make a backup so you can slrestore it when you get it back.
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I'm following the steps in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710735
It says I need to be S-Off to remove the red-text from the bootloader screen but then warns against switching back to S-On.
Is S-Off a flag to techs that the phone is tampered? Anything else I should consider before going S-Off without a way back or is S-Off really my only option to return my phone to a repairable/warranty-able state?
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I'm following the steps in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710735
It says I need to be S-Off to remove the red-text from the bootloader screen but then warns against switching back to S-On.
Is S-Off a flag to techs that the phone is tampered? Anything else I should consider before going S-Off without a way back or is S-Off really my only option to return my phone to a repairable/warranty-able state?
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This thread explains S-Off - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680928.
Here's another good read - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2718106.
I would suggest going S-Off to flash the stock or no red text bootloader, then relocking the bootloader and going S-On until you get the phone back.
Hey all
I recently unlocked my bootloader and s-off, but when I was setting up my HTC001 M9, I noticed this Red text in the legal jargon just after the first language screen. Is this text part of the legal setup we agree to, or is it because i debranded my M9, which is a full EE UK device bought on a contract.
You do have to scroll down to see it.. youll find it.. if you go into App drawer > setup Icon... dont worry.. you can just back up and come out of setup process.
Thanks
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NightOrchid said:
Hey all
I recently unlocked my bootloader and s-off, but when I was setting up my HTC001 M9, I noticed this Red text in the legal jargon just after the first language screen. Is this text part of the legal setup we agree to, or is it because i debranded my M9, which is a full EE UK device bought on a contract.
You do have to scroll down to see it.. youll find it.. if you go into App drawer > setup Icon... dont worry.. you can just back up and come out of setup process.
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That happens when you S-off.
jollywhitefoot said:
That happens when you S-off.
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Thats fine, thanks for the heads up, so I take S-ON would remove it
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Thats fine, thanks for the heads up, so I take S-ON would remove it
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That's correct....but why would you do that???
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I have a question about this. Is this reporting software something to be concerned about for battery life/performance/privacy/etc. reasons? Other than switching to s-on, is there any other way to get rid of it, such as installing a non-stock ROM or deleting a file or something?
It's nothing to worry about. It's fixed by going back to a stock state.
Beamed in by telepathy.
shivadow said:
It's nothing to worry about. It's fixed by going back to a stock state.
Beamed in by telepathy.
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Buddy how to revert back to stock lollipop from stock marshmallow, with s-off and unlocked bootloader??