Hi guys – just a quick question here :
- so I've decided to sell my M8, so I thought it best to get it back to stock, so I did the following :
1) flashed stock rom (from the XDA thread) to suit my CID.
2) flashed stock recovery (also from XDA) which obviously removed TWRP.
3) relocked the bootloader.
4) S-ON – I never actually managed to get S-OFF so this was a non issue.
Anyways, its all good, back to 100% stock, but there's a couple of issues.
1) when I set it up the language choices for English were US and British, non Aus.
2) I know there's an OTA 4.4.3 update but when I check for updates, it tells me there is no new update (I am with Vodafone).
Any advice would be awesome!
Hi
What is your current rom version in Settings -->About--> Software Info
What ROM and Recovery did you flash?
Its also possible that they are still rolling out 4.4.3 update to Vodafone Customers, they do release them in batches.
Shrubz
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OK. I'm a little bit lost in the HTC world!
I've had a Samsung Galaxy Note II for the last year and have just replaced it with the HTC ONE (M8). I found the whole rooting and ROM procedure relatively straight forward with the Note II. In a nutshell you:
1) Rooted with a Windows based application
2) Installed / Flashed a recovery system
3) Flashed a custom ROM using a Windows based application called ODIN
And that was that. Pretty straightforward. Having had a nose around the HTC forum it's awash with clever folk using abbreviations and acronyms like CID, RUU and S-OFF...!
My M8 is on EE network in the UK which I know is CID ORANG001. What I would like though is to convert my M8 to a generic European M8 so I can receive the latest HTC updates rather then await EE to push out their version. This therefore prompts me to ask the following questions:
1) Is this something we will be able to achieve?
2) What is the (potential) process to achieve this (assuming something similar for the M7 already exists)?
2) Will over the air updates work?
I've read numerous posts which seem contradicting. Some talk about a simple change of the CID others mention S-OFF as the GOD of everything related to the subject. If I were to guess, changing the CID seems too simple, but I'm guessing once changed to a generic EU CID it's possible to receive HTC's OTA updates? Or am I wrong there? Or having another guess I would assume I'd need to go down the lines similar to Samsung process of rooting or S-OFF (security off?) and flashing a generic stock EU ROM?
So what CAN currently be achieved and what CAN'T currently be achieved?
I guess I could do with a little background on these processes and the terminology used.
Any help, greatly appreciated.
Can :
Unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery to install a custom rom based on the latest firmware. You are depending on rom updates from the dev if he updates it to the latest software/firmware
Can't :
S-off
Change cid
Get ota via another rom
Run a ruu because they are simply not available
So to receive ota you need your original stock rom. And before you start messing around please make a stock nandroid backup and store it !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376
Chris_c81 said:
OK. I'm a little bit lost in the HTC world!
I've had a Samsung Galaxy Note II for the last year and have just replaced it with the HTC ONE (M8). I found the whole rooting and ROM procedure relatively straight forward with the Note II. In a nutshell you:
1) Rooted with a Windows based application
2) Installed / Flashed a recovery system
3) Flashed a custom ROM using a Windows based application called ODIN
And that was that. Pretty straightforward. Having had a nose around the HTC forum it's awash with clever folk using abbreviations and acronyms like CID, RUU and S-OFF...!
My M8 is on EE network in the UK which I know is CID ORANG001. What I would like though is to convert my M8 to a generic European M8 so I can receive the latest HTC updates rather then await EE to push out their version. This therefore prompts me to ask the following questions:
1) Is this something we will be able to achieve?
2) What is the (potential) process to achieve this (assuming something similar for the M7 already exists)?
2) Will over the air updates work?
I've read numerous posts which seem contradicting. Some talk about a simple change of the CID others mention S-OFF as the GOD of everything related to the subject. If I were to guess, changing the CID seems too simple, but I'm guessing once changed to a generic EU CID it's possible to receive HTC's OTA updates? Or am I wrong there? Or having another guess I would assume I'd need to go down the lines similar to Samsung process of rooting or S-OFF (security off?) and flashing a generic stock EU ROM?
So what CAN currently be achieved and what CAN'T currently be achieved?
I guess I could do with a little background on these processes and the terminology used.
Any help, greatly appreciated.
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Also not familiar anymore with HTC. After reading and reading and still not finding the exact answers to my questions, so I simply (after unlocking and flash TWRP recovery and backing up) tried to flash Virtuous ROM (1.54.401.5) over my German o2 device (1.12.206.17, CID O2___001). Everything worked except WiFi, so I tried a last call with mikes ARHD Rom 3.1, before going back to stock. And this ROM works brilliantly!
But I would also be happy if the OP questions could be answered...
@Mr Hofs
1. the WiFi problem discribed above could be firmware related?
2. When my Provider o2 brings out an update with firmware, can I simply relock bootloader and push the (perhaps) available firmware.zip it to the device via fastboot like mike explains in his firmware thread?
Edit :
Well that would be weird as both roms the OP flashed are based on 1.54.401 so i would say no.....
Mr Hofs said:
Can :
Unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery to install a custom rom based on the latest firmware. You are depending on rom updates from the dev if he updates it to the latest software/firmware
Can't :
S-off
Change cid
Get ota via another rom
Run a ruu because they are simply not available
So to receive ota you need your original stock rom. And before you start messing around please make a stock nandroid backup and store it !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376
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OK thanks. Few more questions if I may.
So from the "can't" list, IF we can get the ability to change CID and have S-OFF in the future, would it provide the ability to receive OTA updates when HTC push them out, or are OTA updates simply out of the game entirely?
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Yes that should be possible , all you need then is
Changed cid
Stock rom
Stock kernel
Stock recovery
Or the ruu (if available)
Then the phone is ready for ota updates.
Mr Hofs said:
Yes that should be possible , all you need then is
Changed cid
Stock rom
Stock kernel
Stock recovery
Or the ruu (if available)
Then the phone is ready for ota updates.
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Great thanks. Last question then, what is RUU?
I'll keep your thread bookmarked and attempt to get a backup in there.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
A ruu is a Rom Update Utility and it contains the rom, kernel, firmware, recovery (and some more stuff). When a ruu is installed its like the phone is factory stock.
Mr Hofs said:
A ruu is a Rom Update Utility and it contains the rom, kernel, firmware, recovery (and some more stuff). When a ruu is installed its like the phone is factory stock.
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OK brilliant thanks. Really appreciate your help.
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Hello!
I recently bought a HTC One m8 used. Sadly i did not check up on the Software and it was pre-rooted and had some older version of Viper Rom on it (2.7 i think). It was also s-on and had that bug (i believe it was a TWRP one) so it would not show me the CID nor the current version it was on. So my thought was that id like to initially get to the point where i would recieve OTA Updates again so i could update the base system to install any ROM id like. After doing research for hours and trying various stuff it seemed i could not get back to stock without the CID. So what i initially did then was use Method 2 described in this thread to Upgrade the Firmware which is now 3.28.401.9. I then change the CID to the google OTA Update one and installed the Google Play Edition Rom. The ROM was kinda buggy and did not work properly tho (i assume its still an issue that the underlying Firmware is not up-to-date enough) so i went back, changed the CID to HTC__001 and installed the stock 3.28.401.9 Rom + Recovery hoping the OTA Updates would come. It has not yet happened and i am not sure it will.
So here is my question: Will OTA Updates come if my initial CID does not match the CID i currently have even if i set it with fastboot? Is there a way for me to figure out my initial CID at this point? All i really want are working OTA Updates, after that i can install any ROM anyway, but this seems to elude me.
Thanks you!
Best Regards
ly
lyeeth said:
Hello!
I recently bought a HTC One m8 used. Sadly i did not check up on the Software and it was pre-rooted and had some older version of Viper Rom on it (2.7 i think). It was also s-on and had that bug (i believe it was a TWRP one) so it would not show me the CID nor the current version it was on. So my thought was that id like to initially get to the point where i would recieve OTA Updates again so i could update the base system to install any ROM id like. After doing research for hours and trying various stuff it seemed i could not get back to stock without the CID. So what i initially did then was use Method 2 described in this thread to Upgrade the Firmware which is now 3.28.401.9. I then change the CID to the google OTA Update one and installed the Google Play Edition Rom. The ROM was kinda buggy and did not work properly tho (i assume its still an issue that the underlying Firmware is not up-to-date enough) so i went back, changed the CID to HTC__001 and installed the stock 3.28.401.9 Rom + Recovery hoping the OTA Updates would come. It has not yet happened and i am not sure it will.
So here is my question: Will OTA Updates come if my initial CID does not match the CID i currently have even if i set it with fastboot? Is there a way for me to figure out my initial CID at this point? All i really want are working OTA Updates, after that i can install any ROM anyway, but this seems to elude me.
Thanks you!
Best Regards
ly
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as far as I know the stock 3.28.401.9 Rom + Recovery is the newest version. Your not getting updates because their are none
clsA said:
as far as I know the stock 3.28.401.9 Rom + Recovery is the newest version. Your not getting updates because their are none
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That makes me happy to hear. I'll just wait and hope for an early Lollipop then. Thank you!
lyeeth said:
That makes me happy to hear. I'll just wait and hope for an early Lollipop then. Thank you!
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I do see a 3.29.401.9 firmware but I think it was a small OTA fix
try pushing your date ahead and trying to find it
Hi all,
so I got my M8 like three weeks ago and made the ultimate mistake of not backing up MY factory ROM before flashing stuff. I went ahead and, following a guide from 'teh internets', turned my phone into a Google Play Edition after a successful S-Off with SunShine. About a week later, I started missing some Sense features and tried to revert back to stock which proved difficult at first due to partition size issues. Finally, I was successfully following a mixture of several guides in this very forum, flashing different combinations and versions of stock ROMs, firmwares and recoveries. I'm on Sense again. Last thing I can't get rid of is a message in HTC Tell that's talking about a testing device and how I could not turn off HTC Tell for that reason.
Long story short, I do now have a phone that reads:
Code:
*** Software status: Official ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
M8_UL PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-HTC__102
HBOOT-3.19.0.0000
RADIO-XXX
OpenDSP-XXX
OS-3.28.401.7
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Oct 10 2014,00:20:35.0
Unfortunately, I do not exactly remember which Recovery I flashed last. I'm pretty sure it was one from the Stock Backup & OTA Collection thread. If I go into recovery, I get a red triangle and nothing happens.
Now for my question, I want some features of Lollipop really bad and I know HTC is going to come out with their Lollipop-Sense in about two weeks. I would gladly wait and go for it instead of starting over and turn my phone into a GPE again. Question is, will I get the Sense OTA or is there anything that will keep me from it?
Thanks a lot for reading and any information I got (and hopefully will get in the future) from the folks on this awesome forum!
If you are on the appropriate stock ROM for your CID, and corresponding stock recovery, you will get the OTA.
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jndvid said:
Unfortunately, I do not exactly remember which Recovery I flashed last. I'm pretty sure it was one from the Stock Backup & OTA Collection thread. If I go into recovery, I get a red triangle and nothing happens.
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Red triangle is stock recovery. However, its not clear whether its the right stock recovery. You need to be on the stock ROM for your CID, and the recovery needs to be the one that matches that software number. Just find the stock ROM (and corresponding recovery) for your CID on the following thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376
There is no harm in restoring the correct stock ROM and recovery over whatever you have now (whether the current state is correct for your CID or not). But being on the correct stock ROM and recovery will put you in the right place for OTA.
Thanks for the explanation.
So it is safe to assume that if I flash TWRP now and restore the 3.28.401.6 nandroid and recovery from this thread, I should A) get the OTA from .6 to .9 and later on B) the Sense-Lollipop OTA?
Sorry for the redundancy of my question but without a speedy internet connection, downloading ROMs is a time-consuming project, so I want to get it right the first time now.
jndvid said:
So it is safe to assume that if I flash TWRP now and restore the 3.28.401.6 nandroid and recovery from this thread, I should A) get the OTA from .6 to .9 and later on B) the Sense-Lollipop OTA?
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If you restore to .6, it won't install the .6 OTA since its already on that version. But yes, it should install any "more up-to-date" OTAs (and then any future OTAs as they are released) in sequence once you return to stock and check for updates.
Thanks again. I will report back after flashing.
Well, it worked - I think. However, a little more research showed that the red text in HTC Tell is present because I unlocked my phone, particularly the bootloader, via HTCDev. I will consider to revert that change in the future.
I restored (via TWRP) the stock 3.28.401.6 and flashed the corresponding stock recovery. Unfortunately, no update is to be found yet (according to the OTA collection, there should be an update from .6 to .9 which I hoped to get automagically or on manual query in phone settings).
For the time being, I can download the OTA myself from the awesome collection and then update manually through stock recovery, I suppose.
jndvid said:
Well, it worked - I think. However, a little more research showed that the red text in HTC Tell is present because I unlocked my phone, particularly the bootloader, via HTCDev. I will consider to revert that change in the future.
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The device will come up as a "test device" since its s-off.
jndvid said:
I restored (via TWRP) the stock 3.28.401.6 and flashed the corresponding stock recovery. Unfortunately, no update is to be found yet (according to the OTA collection, there should be an update from .6 to .9 which I hoped to get automagically or on manual query in phone settings).
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I'm not that familiar with the WWE updates, as its not my version. So I don't know of the .7 and .9 updates deployed to all folks in all regions that have the WWE version, etc. You might check with folks that know more about the WWE updates.
im new to all this.
im S-Off, and semi root, SuperSU doesn't really give half of my apps root acces for some reason.
i want to do a full reset to the phone (Return to 100% Stock)
i want just to clean it all out (which factor reset doesn't do that)
and update my softer from lolipop 5.0 to 5.1
i got HTC__621 (twiwan version)
software number 1.32.709.14
how to do all this? what i need to do?
(to flashout new TWRP2.8.7.0? then superSU 2.49 beta from the beginning?
and if i want to install Viper ROM, i need to do that after all?)
i hope to get explanation cuz i got lost on all the words (OTA - which i dont know yet lol, CID etc etc)
i got like 10 pages of guides open and yet i dont know what to do or what steps to follow.
As far as I know there is no RUU and no stock system backup for your firmware version. Nevertheless that's not a problem since you can always run RUUs that are newer than your firmware (even if you were S-ON you were able to do so). All you need to to is download the RUU.exe from here or here (it's actually the same file so it doesn't matter which link you choose). Then you need to boot to download mode and connect your phone with your pc. If you double click on the RUU.exe it may take some time till it starts but when it starts it will guide you through the rest of the process. During the flashing process your firmware will be updated to 1.36.709.3 but since you want update your firmware anyway I wouldn't consider this as an issue. Depending on your firewall and your antivirus software the RUU flashing might fail. If that's the case you should try again with disabled firewall and disabled antivirus software (I recommend disconnecting your pc from the internet before you do this).
Edit: Some vocabulary:
RUU = Rom Update Utility (a package leaked from HTC that can be used to get fully back to stock)
OTA (Update) = Over The Air Update (updates for your phone you can download via settings>about; some custom roms provide this feature, too)
CID = Customer ID (a combination of letters and numbers that tells you your phones country of origin and whether it is branded or not)
MID = Model ID (a combination of letters and numbers that identifies your phones model and its version; example: the international M9's MID is 0PJA10000 whereas the T-Mobile US version's MID is 0PJA12000)
Edit2: If you want to install the viper rom you don't need to root beforehand since that custom rom already is rooted.
Edit3: I just noticed that my signature isn't visible here. There is a newer version of TWRP at the end of the third post in this thread.
so if i install viper i just need to flash it in?
and what happen if i want to update to normal lolipap 5.1
cuz im at 5.0 and i always geting the update window and sick of it
want to update it alredy XD
The RUU is for restoring the ability of installing HTC's official OTAs. After you used the RUU you can update your phone using the OTA function in settings>about. After that you can reflash TWRP and install the viper rom. Since the viper rom is already rooted there is no need to flash supersu manually via TWRP.
I recommend you to read at least the whole first 3 posts in the TWRP thread I linked in my previous post. There you will find the information you need to create a backup of your stock system that is able to install future OTAs since the 2.10 firmware won't be the last one and you might face a similiar situation like this one in the future.
Edit: Although the RUU.exe will warn you, too: Using a RUU deletes all your data on the phone so back up everything that is important (contacts, messages, pictures, etc.).
Hi there,
This is my first thread here, so sorry if anything in this post is not correctly.
I got the following problem: I installed CM12.1 on my HTC One M8S (M8_QL_UL) but now i want to go back to stock. I bought the phone at Amazon (Germany) and it was sold as unbranded.
However when I tried to flash the stock firmware (from http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/one-m8s-general/make-custom-recovery-htc-one-m8s-t3114245) over Hboot it told me "wrong CID" and Large Image Fail.
Then I got myself the phone's CID and it came out that it was not the HTC Europe Version (I tried to install the Europe build with Android MM as I had that one before) but the T-Mobile-DE version.
So the problem is, that there is a firmware for the T-Mobile-DE one, but it is still Sense 6 with Lollipop and so I am not able to install that, since I already have had MM with sense 7 on that phone before.
Now I cannot find a MM build for the T-Mobile CID online.
Beside of that I created a Backup with TWRP before flashing CM12.1 but now TWRP does not recocnize that backup.
If possible I would prefer to install the Stock Rom "clean" because my backed up one was very buggy anyway.
So my question is, how can I get back to Stock? Is there any proper build to download? If not, is it possible to get S-Off for that phone, to change CID? Sunshine does not appear to be working for the M8S...
And if nothing like this works, how can I access my backup with TWRP?
Thank you so much, hopefully anyone could help me!
Cheers, Fietipaldi
Im in the same situation but for Vodafone. We need some updated RUUs on the site