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Hi, I followed the guide"Rooting and Unbricking p930/p935/p936" for root the phone. But from step 5, I noticed problems like 4G LTE network that does not work (Can not use my data plan). So I use the LGMobile Support Tool to repair but unfortunately it causes a bootloop and I'm really frustrated because the phone belongs to my mother. I was so interested in this guide because I need to improve their phone by installing the root, but the ROM has become an AT&T and I can not go back and put a Bell ROM.I know we are in 2014 and that many people have dropped out this phone but my mother still use. I really need your help to restore the mother's cell and do not forget that I don't have recovery.
Thanks.
Look for the baseband n flash it.....always backup for saftey
Also CM 11 ROM 3.4 kernel by Miroslav is almoststable !!
You could try that for the newer features. I'm not a pro either either just experience
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Look For RC1 in his post if your going to try it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52430700
I'm talking about the Bell Stock ROM, not a custom ROM. I want a special file for the Canadian LGP930 and I don't have a backup. I just noticed that the ROM AT&T no longer allows texting, my mother will be angry against me, so please help me! I did not need this custom ROM.
Try if you could found something you needed here
hxxp://lg-phone-firmware.com/
I found this for stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619704
I don't know much about stock so I thought I'd give you another stable option
My god! Thank you for giving your links but I just fix the problem with the cell. I managed to get the Stock ROM using LGMobile Support Tool to update (I've done since I was on AT&T) and that's sure it will cause a bootloop. BUT I had to do a Factory Rest Hard to make a wipe of the Stock ROM (It removes all data from the phone but I made backups of SMS, Call logs and etc) and after that, the cell will restart and it works! Sorry if you could not help me fix the phone but you still helped me.
As long as I helped lol
Ever since I got my m9's I have been a flashing fool! I absolutely love it. But I recently learned a trick to improve my reception so I decided I would share.
I live in a city and my reception should always be 5 bars but ever since I got my phones I was only getting 3 bars max regardless of firmware or rom. I know because I have flashed them all. I have a developers edition and an AT&T edition m9 and both phones got the same reception.
well about a month ago I just wanted to try an experiment so I took my att m9 and changed the cid and mid to match a tmoble version. I then flashed the 1.32 firmware and then ran the tmobile Ruu. As a result I then had a stock t-mobile edition m9. But for the first time I had full bars for my reception!
Naturally I then flashed twrp and put a cutom rom back on it but I had the volte and wifi calling along with full bars reception. So put I that observation in the back of my mind and carried on with my business.
Well recently the tmobile update came out and I just flashed the firmware package that sneakyghost (thanks btw for your firmware files) put up and updated the custom rom I was on. But I noticed immediately afterwards my reception returned to 2-3 bars again. I really didn't care too much but then the rom I was using started acting funny. The developer decided to mess with the cpu cores on his update and in extreme power save mode over night it would eat 10% of my battery. And that is something I can't tolerate...
So, I decided to run the 1.32 tmobile (that's my carrier) RUU on my m9 and then accept the 2.7 ota. My reception then returned to 100%. after that I reflashed twrp and super su and restored all my data.
I told my wife about the reception and she wanted me to do the same on her phone (the dev edition) and so I did and got the same results....
So moral of this long post is that if you have poor reception than flashing an ruu for your carrier just might be the trick. This in return will save battery life.
If you decide to try it let me know if it worked. Thanks
This is the link with instructions on how to change your phone from one carrier to another. clsA gives instructions to convert ATT model to developer edition. But you can change your cid to whatever you carrier is and flash accordingly.
Tmobile cid= T-MOB010
At&T and develop edition cid can be found in the link. Also make sure your mid match the firmware you flash. Tmobile mid is 0PJA12000
bigp951 said:
Ever since I got my m9's I have been a flashing fool! I absolutely love it. But I recently learned a trick to improve my reception so I decided I would share.
I live in a city and my reception should always be 5 bars but ever since I got my phones I was only getting 3 bars max regardless of firmware or rom. I know because I have flashed them all. I have a developers edition and an AT&T edition m9 and both phones got the same reception.
So moral of this long post is that if you have poor reception than flashing an ruu for your carrier just might be the trick. This in return will save battery life.
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I noticed my reception also being worse than my Galaxy S5. In fact, when I woke up I found that my phone was roaming! I never had that issue with the S5. I found it strange. Wi-Fi signal also isn't as good as on the S5. I don't know if it's all the metal or the terrible Snapdragon 810.
I wish your method involved changing something in build.prop lol, that would be simpler and quicker. I'm on a custom ROM also, not by my own will but because I bought the phone like that, I have no idea how to go back to stock AT&T without root and to be able to accept OTAs. I am S-On right now.
Ramsey said:
I noticed my reception also being worse than my Galaxy S5. In fact, when I woke up I found that my phone was roaming! I never had that issue with the S5. I found it strange. Wi-Fi signal also isn't as good as on the S5. I don't know if it's all the metal or the terrible Snapdragon 810.
I wish your method involved changing something in build.prop lol, that would be simpler and quicker. I'm on a custom ROM also, not by my own will but because I bought the phone like that, I have no idea how to go back to stock AT&T without root and to be able to accept OTAs. I am S-On right now.
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There are a ton of excellent guides in the forum to either change ROMs or return to stock. I think you have to be s-off though. When I want to return to stock I just run an RUU. but remember to back up everything you want to keep because the phone will be completely wiped
bigp951 said:
There are a ton of excellent guides in the forum to either change ROMs or return to stock. I think you have to be s-off though. When I want to return to stock I just run an RUU. but remember to back up everything you want to keep because the phone will be completely wiped
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I can't find any good guide here for the M9. Weird huh? I've been here since 2008, read countless excellent guides for many phones, and let me tell you that in the past guides were clear and informative. Now all I see is people writing random text all over the place, no clear steps, and information isn't always updated. Probably younger people are writing them, no problem, but it's not helping me understand how to do it.
There's a guide that still says that HTC hasn't yet allowed the bootloader to be unlocked for the M9, and yet when you go there you realize that HTC allows us to unlock it now.
Anyways, my point is, I can't find a good guide, it's not that I'm being prideful, it's just that I have indeed searched and can't find a clear guide. I'm not sure if most assume we have to be S-off? In the past people used to mention "you have to be rooted, or unrooted, or unlocked bootloader, or S-on or S-off". Now it's not very clear so I'm confused, especially since those guides have so many links that I don't know what to download and each is 2GB. You're not the first to tell me that xda has many excellent guides without pointing me to one for the M9 haha.
I want a better reception among other things as it worries me that it was roaming out of nowhere and I'd love to go back to stock as I am not a fan of custom ROMs (except for on my 2010 Galaxy S1 lol).
I have to admit this is the most confusing phone when it comes to modding it or removing root to OTA.
I tried to run an RUU for AT&T latest Android 5.1 (when I was running stock 1.32) and it failed many times, even though I unrooted and locked bootloader. I miss the days of ODIN flashing in download mode =(.
I'm happy the ROM I'm using is stable but still.
Ramsey said:
I can't find any good guide here for the M9. Weird huh? I've been here since 2008, read countless excellent guides for many phones, and let me tell you that in the past guides were clear and informative. Now all I see is people writing random text all over the place, no clear steps, and information isn't always updated. Probably younger people are writing them, no problem, but it's not helping me understand how to do it.
There's a guide that still says that HTC hasn't yet allowed the bootloader to be unlocked for the M9, and yet when you go there you realize that HTC allows us to unlock it now.
Anyways, my point is, I can't find a good guide, it's not that I'm being prideful, it's just that I have indeed searched and can't find a clear guide. I'm not sure if most assume we have to be S-off? In the past people used to mention "you have to be rooted, or unrooted, or unlocked bootloader, or S-on or S-off". Now it's not very clear so I'm confused, especially since those guides have so many links that I don't know what to download and each is 2GB. You're not the first to tell me that xda has many excellent guides without pointing me to one for the M9 haha.
I want a better reception among other things as it worries me that it was roaming out of nowhere and I'd love to go back to stock as I am not a fan of custom ROMs (except for on my 2010 Galaxy S1 lol).
I have to admit this is the most confusing phone when it comes to modding it or removing root to OTA.
I tried to run an RUU for AT&T latest Android 5.1 (when I was running stock 1.32) and it failed many times, even though I unrooted and locked bootloader. I miss the days of ODIN flashing in download mode =(.
I'm happy the ROM I'm using is stable but still.
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I can see where you think my guide has a lot of links, but all you need to do is determine what your phone is now and choose the correct link for your device. To figure out your current Firmware just reboot your phone to download mode and it tells your OS version right their.
now you know your version download the one your on now or a newer version and RUU back to stock, It's actually easier than Odin
Read my entire instructions to convert to developer edition and you'll see it's not all that hard.
S-off is a pretty vital step if you plan on flashing your phone much at all, and is well worth the $25 price. But it's not needed if you just want your AT&T phone back to stock. Just lock the bootloader (fastboot oem lock). and Run the RUU.exe and your done you have a stock phone.
If your worried about the modified status you'll have to pay for the s-off to remove it.
clsA said:
I can see where you think my guide has a lot of links, but all you need to do is determine what your phone is now and choose the correct link for your device. To figure out your current Firmware just reboot your phone to download mode and it tells your OS version right their.
now you know your version download the one your on now or a newer version and RUU back to stock, It's actually easier than Odin
Read my entire instructions to convert to developer edition and you'll see it's not all that hard.
S-off is a pretty vital step if you plan on flashing your phone much at all, and is well worth the $25 price. But it's not needed if you just want your AT&T phone back to stock. Just lock the bootloader (fastboot oem lock). and Run the RUU.exe and your done you have a stock phone.
If your worried about the modified status you'll have to pay for the s-off to remove it.
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Thanks for the answer. I saw yours a week ago and I skimmed through it and since it needs S-Off, I kept it for later. I have a question for you and I'll PM you if that's fine as I don't want to take over this thread.
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and is well worth the $25 price.
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S-off is only $25 now? Dang I paid 50 for each phone.
Ramsey said:
I have to admit this is the most confusing phone when it comes to modding it or removing root to OTA.
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cLSA is very knowledgeable on the m9. When I first made the swith from Samsung to HTC I didn't know jack. But in the past few months I have realized the m9 is the easiest phone to customize that I've ever owned. If cLSA can't help you (I'm sure he's a busy guy) than I'm sure I could. I'm moving and dont have internet yet (right now I'm typing from my phone) but I can always turn on my hotspot and lend a hand.
First thing I recommend doing is to make sure you're adb and fastboot are updated to the latest version. Also make sure you have ever all the right drivers installed.
I'd also recommend getting s-off. Just makes life easier knowing you can flash anything you want (including older firmware). And if a stock phone is what you want than you can turn it back on
If your adb is working then with you phone plugged in and USB debugging clicked open a command prompt (as administrator) and type adb devices. You should then look at Your phone and grant the phone adb privelages. Following that you should see your phones serial number on your pc.
If you see that adb is installed properly, if not then go back and install adb properly. Pm me if you want me to walk you through anything.
I have a problem with my HTC one M8 At&t (It's unlocked to any provider) it's also rooted so if you can help me either unroot it or add a ROM that would be so helpful.
Well the problem with my phone is.
1) It won't update to 6.0 its stuck on 5.0.2
2) ROMS won't install at all. Maybe because it doesn't have TWRP (I don't know where to get that)
3) The phone is S-on relocked and it says "This device has been tampered' then a warning
I asked HTC and they didn't help at all. I asked people that I know but they are IOS.
So this is the last resort. I was recommended by a friend to ask you wonderful people. I mean i have some knowledge but it don't have anyone to show me the ropes of how to do it. But please if you guys can help add link with steps.
Thank you and have a good day dudes.
PTP012 said:
I have a problem with my HTC one M8 At&t (It's unlocked to any provider) it's also rooted so if you can help me either unroot it or add a ROM that would be so helpful.
Well the problem with my phone is.
1) It won't update to 6.0 its stuck on 5.0.2
2) ROMS won't install at all. Maybe because it doesn't have TWRP (I don't know where to get that)
3) The phone is S-on relocked and it says "This device has been tampered' then a warning
I asked HTC and they didn't help at all. I asked people that I know but they are IOS.
So this is the last resort. I was recommended by a friend to ask you wonderful people. I mean i have some knowledge but it don't have anyone to show me the ropes of how to do it. But please if you guys can help add link with steps.
Thank you and have a good day dudes.
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I'd suggest you watch this video to install TWRP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HWj_1KHbuY
And then I'd also recommend installing CM13 since it's really stable. It can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...m-cyanogenmod-13-0-nightlies-htc-one-t3256696
PTP012 said:
I have a problem with my HTC one M8 At&t (It's unlocked to any provider) it's also rooted so if you can help me either unroot it or add a ROM that would be so helpful.
Well the problem with my phone is.
1) It won't update to 6.0 its stuck on 5.0.2
2) ROMS won't install at all. Maybe because it doesn't have TWRP (I don't know where to get that)
3) The phone is S-on relocked and it says "This device has been tampered' then a warning
I asked HTC and they didn't help at all. I asked people that I know but they are IOS.
So this is the last resort. I was recommended by a friend to ask you wonderful people. I mean i have some knowledge but it don't have anyone to show me the ropes of how to do it. But please if you guys can help add link with steps.
Thank you and have a good day dudes.
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1. If it is AT&T, it won't update on non-AT&T network.
2. Unlock bootloader and install TWRP
3. The phone was unlocked before and now it is relocked.
Post fastboot getvar all without serial & imei no to confirm which device variant that you have and what to do with it.
Ragarianok said:
I'd suggest you watch this video to install TWRP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HWj_1KHbuY
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I would suggest the OP not follow that video. Followed literally, it will not only direct the OP to install a horribly obsolete version of TWRP, but also one that is not intended for his version of the M8. The "wlv" version TWRP in the video is for Verizon, and would install TWRP to the wrong partition, maybe even brick the phone. TWRP has since been updated and unified to identify the M8 version, and install on the proper partition accordingly; but such was not the case at the time the video was created.
This is one of the main reasons I don't recommend rooting by watching YouTube videos. They aren't detailed enough to point out all the nuances and potential pitfalls of the process. They just spoonfeed enough knowledge to you get you into big trouble, without any knowledge or skills to get you out of that hole.
Also, the random "root" website referenced in the video doesn't appear to have any downloadable files any longer, anyway. At least not that I can find, upon examination. So if the OP that route, they would have hit a dead end. I also personally don't recommend such "root" websites, as they almost always just steal content from XDA, without giving proper credit.
All the info the OP needs is right here on XDA. An excellent guide for unlocking the bootloader and installing custom recovery is here. Although the guide is dated (hard for anything for this phone to not be dated at this point - it is over 2 years old) and I have the following additional advice:
- HTC drivers on the guide are dated. But if you plug the phone into your PC, it should auto-install HTC Sync and the required drivers
- You can get TWRP right from the source here. I'm not sure if your existing firmware will play well with the latest version (TWRP 3.0.x), but I'm pretty sure version 2.8.7.0 will work well (and known to be very stable).
- Only need to follow the guide through "ROOTING YOUR DEVICE" Step 8, that is unlocking the bootloader and installing custom recovery (don't flash SuperSU). From there, get the desired custom ROM on the phone, boot into TWRP, backup the current stock ROM, then do default wipe (data, cache, Dalvik) in TWRP and flash the ROM.
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An alternative would be to flash the Marshmallow RUU to update to full stock image. But in order to do so, the OP will have to update to Marshmallow firmware (which requires some knowledge of using fastboot) and then run the Marshmallow RUU. The RUU in listed on my AT&T M8 Index thread here (along with a lot of other useful info), with the info/link for flashing firmware highlighted in red text.
Hi,
I am trying to unroot my HTC One M8 so that I can recover deleted numbers, SMS Texts etc. I'd never don't this before but successfully recovered data using GT Recovery on an old Samsung S3.
Tried to repeat the process on my HTC One M8 on a UK network provider. Downloaded and installed squabbies HTC One M8 Toolkit v2.5.0.0. It auto updated (very handy) and off I went striking the "get unlock token code". The phone (which is connected) powers down for restart and I get an on screen message on PC saying it is "restarting into download mode".
From there that's it. It just hangs and nothing further happens.
I've read the point & purpose of this particular forum/thread. Are you able to offer any direction please on where I might find some help with this please?
Thanks.
android amatuer said:
Hi,
I am trying to unroot my HTC One M8 so that I can recover deleted numbers, SMS Texts etc. I'd never don't this before but successfully recovered data using GT Recovery on an old Samsung S3.
Tried to repeat the process on my HTC One M8 on a UK network provider. Downloaded and installed squabbies HTC One M8 Toolkit v2.5.0.0. It auto updated (very handy) and off I went striking the "get unlock token code". The phone (which is connected) powers down for restart and I get an on screen message on PC saying it is "restarting into download mode".
From there that's it. It just hangs and nothing further happens.
I've read the point & purpose of this particular forum/thread. Are you able to offer any direction please on where I might find some help with this please?
Thanks.
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You don't need an unlock token to unroot, and you don't need a toolkit. I usually suggest to never use toolkits.
Also, you aren't going to be able to retrieve deleted numbers and SMS texts by unrooting either, as far as I know.
If you need to unroot, go to the SuperSU app in your app drawer, select settings, then select full unroot. Super easy. No toolkit needed.
xunholyx said:
Also, you aren't going to be able to retrieve deleted numbers and SMS texts by unrooting either, as far as I know.
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I agree here (and with anything else xunholyx just posted), I don't see what unrooting has to do with recovering the mentioned data. Root enables more things, and doesn't typically limit much (exception is certain apps like banking and Pokémon Go, which don't allow root).
EDIT: I looked up GT Recovery, and it says "root required" for some features. So I'm confused what the OP is doing exactly.
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android amatuer said:
The phone (which is connected) powers down for restart and I get an on screen message on PC saying it is "restarting into download mode".
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This is slightly disconcerting to me, as this and other HTC phones do not have a "download mode".
Sure i've tried that but will give it another go
I do have SuperSu and have tried unrooting with that. But i'm sure before it lets me unroot it wants superuser or administrator rights before I can access settings. And from what I see, I appear unable to give it those rights so I'm not making much progress on that front.
But following your suggestion I will revisit that.
Thanks
xunholyx said:
You don't need an unlock token to unroot, and you don't need a toolkit. I usually suggest to never use toolkits.
Also, you aren't going to be able to retrieve deleted numbers and SMS texts by unrooting either, as far as I know.
If you need to unroot, go to the SuperSU app in your app drawer, select settings, then select full unroot. Super easy. No toolkit needed.
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Just trying to figure it all out
From my experience with the Samsung S3, when successfully unrooted I was able to recover deleted phone numbers and deleted sms texts using GT Recovery. This did require the device to be unrooted first. It was a few weeks back now but I'm sure is was Kingo Super Root that used to unroot that device.
On the HTC I have tried numerous root tools inc Kingroot, Kingo Super Root all to no avail and cannot seem to find a root tool that will simply unroot the device. Upon searching for further info and root tools i came across XDA Developers and the so called "sqaubbies Toolkit" which seems to suggest that it can unroot the HTC via a pc connection, so that is why I downloaded it and are trying it. But that doesn't seem to be working correctly either.
So apologies if I've made this difficult to understand but it really is this simple. I want to recover deleted numbers and texts on the HTC. Having successfully recovered deleted numbers and texts from the Samsung S3 using GT Recovery from an unrooted device I now want to repeat that process on the HTC. But right now I seem unable to root that device for an as yet unknown reason.
Any help anyone can give is appreciated.
Cheers
redpoint73 said:
I agree here (and with anything else xunholyx just posted), I don't see what unrooting has to do with recovering the mentioned data. Root enables more things, and doesn't typically limit much (exception is certain apps like banking and Pokmon Go, which don't allow root).
EDIT: I looked up GT Recovery, and it says "root required" for some features. So I'm confused what the OP is doing exactly.
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This is slightly disconcerting to me, as this and other HTC phones do not have a "download mode".
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I haven't seen such "unroot" methods work for this device. They never seem to completely remove all signs of root.
The only true method to unroot, is to restore a stock ROM, never rooted, such as a stock TWRP backup.
Instructions here, but don't restore data, otherwise your existing data will be wiped. Also, no need to restore stock recovery in your case.
For that matter, make a TWRP backup of your existing data, before you try any of this. To make sure you don't wipe it accidentally (and lose all your data), in the process.
Or, if you want to leave the phone rooted, but hide root, there is an Exposed module for that, which you might want to try.
redpoint73 said:
This is slightly disconcerting to me, as this and other HTC phones do not have a "download mode".
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Actually, the M9 and HTC10 both have download mode, but none earlier than the M9 afaik.
xunholyx said:
Actually, the M9 and HTC10 both have download mode, but none earlier than the M9 afaik.
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Good to know, thanks. I'm not qualified to speak of those more recent phones, as I'm obviously still stuck on my M8!
Moral of the story, the toolkit is trying to put the M8 into download mode, which it doesn't have such a mode.
redpoint73 said:
Good to know, thanks. I'm not qualified to speak of those more recent phones, as I'm obviously still stuck on my M8!
Moral of the story, the toolkit is trying to put the M8 into download mode, which it doesn't have such a mode.
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Yeah, and I don't understand why they bothered to change things like that. They also changed hboot to aboot, another head scratcher, lol.
You can change CID in download mode without booting to RUU mode now, and with the 10 you can change MID there too with a simple fastboot oem writemid *mid here*. That's a big convenience.
I'm going way OT here. Sorry.
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@android amatuer
I just googled squabbi (it's not called squabbies) toolkit, and it is built for the M9. You can't use that on the M8.
Who makes this stuff up?
xunholyx said:
Yeah, and I don't understand why they bothered to change things like that. They also changed hboot to aboot, another head scratcher, lol.
You can change CID in download mode without booting to RUU mode now, and with the 10 you can change MID there too with a simple fastboot oem writemid *mid here*. That's a big convenience.
I'm going way OT here. Sorry.
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@android amatuer
I just googled squabbi (it's not called squabbies) toolkit, and it is built for the M9. You can't use that on the M8.
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Thanks for that. The developer is Squabbi, you are correct. However within the program itself he/she refers to it as "Squabbies HTC One M8 Toolkit". Cant understand why someone would develop something for the HTC One M8, promote it as that but then it apparently not work on the HTC One M8. Its got M8 written all over it, and I found it here in this very forum.
Check it out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2694925
android amatuer said:
Thanks for that. The developer is Squabbi, you are correct. However within the program itself he/she refers to it as "Squabbies HTC One M8 Toolkit". Cant understand why someone would develop something for the HTC One M8, promote it as that but then it apparently not work on the HTC One M8. Its got M8 written all over it, and I found it here in this very forum.
Check it out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2694925
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When I googled it, I should have scrolled further down, or perhaps re-googled squabbi instead of sqaubbies. I just got M9 results.
Did you get unrooted? It's really fairly simple manually instead of using one click. If you haven't, reply here. And if you have :good:
xunholyx said:
When I googled it, I should have scrolled further down, or perhaps re-googled squabbi instead of sqaubbies. I just got M9 results.
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The confusion is understandable. I did see the M8 version toolkit when I Googled. But I did have to Google, as I don't recall this toolkit at all. Of the ones folks use, Hasoon seems to be the most common. Although, there was a good amount of traffic on the Squabbi thread (48 pages) at one time.
xunholyx said:
Did you get unrooted? It's really fairly simple manually instead of using one click.
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Fully agree here. From what I've seen on the forums, the toolkits can cause more problems than they fix.
Hello,
I have a second hand AT&T htc one m8, and it is running kit kat right now. It obviously had superSU and it was probably rooted as well. When I talked to htc, they made me follow some steps and apparently my phone is "s-off". I went into SuperSU after some research online to unroot the phone, and ive succeeded, but the phone is still "s-off" and I think I need it to be s-on for me to get the marshmallow update. Ive looked everywhere online and I still can't find a solution. I don't have a PC and I want to do it locally on the phone. Does anybody know how to get everything back to the way it was out of the box, so that I can just simply update the phones operating system? This is the first time for me to use android and I'm not very used to the operating system.
It would be great if somebody can help me.
No need for s-off. Just find appropriate RUU or update zip for your model . Flash via bootlader(update.zip) if dnt want to use computer or run RUU via pc
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sonnu0100 said:
No need for s-off. Just find appropriate RUU or update zip for your model . Flash via bootlader(update.zip) if dnt want to use computer or run RUU via pc
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Will you be able to direct me through the process please? I'm new to android.
Without a PC is kind of hard to do things. It is not imposibble but you need someone to upload things for you.
Before someone can direct you further .. first thing that is important, are you in US and on AT&T network ?
If yes, maybe it is bit easier to help
If no, it's best to totally convert it to non-AT&T
I am not on at&t right now. I don't really want to mess with my phone too much too. I have a Mac is it possible with that without getting windows on it?
At least you have a Mac ... that's good enough but you have to get things done different way as the RUU supplied by HTC is in exe format.
Let's get to know your device first. Put the device to bootloader/fastboot mode and connect to PC. You need to post here fastboot getvar all result (without serial & imei no.)
For Mac (I don't have a Mac) .. I think the command in terminal is
./fastboot getvar all
hihaalex said:
I went into SuperSU after some research online to unroot the phone, and ive succeeded, but the phone is still "s-off" and I think I need it to be s-on for me to get the marshmallow update.
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You're guessing here, and guessing incorrectly. Good rule of thumb working with these devices: don't guess, or it will end poorly for you (possibly even a permanent brick). Only go by specific information and instructions from experienced users. As mentioned, s-off has nothing to do with getting OTA. There are several factors which may be causing you not to get the update:
1) The AT&T version (if its still configured as one, more on that later) will only OTA update when connected to the US AT&T network.
2) Even if you are connected to AT&T's network, you can only OTA update, if you have the proper stock never rooted ROM. Unrooting by removing SuperSU, or unroot option in SuperSU or similar, is not enough (you haven't been specific how you "unrooted"). You also need the proper stock recovery.
As ckpv5 touched upon, how to proceed depends on several factors, such as what carrier you are actually using. As it may be beneficial to "convert" to a non-AT&T version, which is not that hard to do since you are already s-off.
Also, a lot depends on the current status of the device, so do as directed by ckpv5 above, so we can get more info about the device. With s-off some modifications may already have been done to the device (like changing the carrier version). But we need to know the current status, before we can proceed.
As my one m8 is already got s-off, is there a way I can just get a zip file of the marshmallow update and go to the recovery, from phone storage part of the phone?
How can I find out the current status of the phone?
hihaalex said:
As my one m8 is already got s-off, is there a way I can just get a zip file of the marshmallow update and go to the recovery, from phone storage part of the phone?
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Nope, it doesn't work that way. If you are talking about OTA when you say "update" (and you really should be as specific as possible when posting), there is no way that would work. For several reasons: Marshmallow update would require you being on Lollipop (OTAs need to be installed sequentially, and you typically cannot skip an OTA). Also, you need be on the stock (never rooted) ROM and stock recovery. Also, the OTA checks the M8 version: carrier ID (CID) and model ID (MID), so you need to use the proper files for your MID/CID. Which is why were are asking for info about the current device status (which you have not provided).
If by "update" you mean RUU, it can be done (RUU does not need to be installed sequentially, you can go right from KitKat to Marshmallow). However, again the proper RUU depends on the current status (CID/MID) of the phone, plus what country you are in (which you didn't answer). Also, you can't run RUU from the phone's internal storage; although you can from an SD card.
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hihaalex said:
How can I find out the current status of the phone?
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ckpv5 already described how, in Post #6 above.
Although, you will need an adb/fastboot environment setup on your computer. And I'm not at all familiar with doing that on a Mac.