OK guys, so I am a longtime HTC owner. I had the M8 when it came out, took a break in June, and now just picked up a GPE M8 so I could get full AT&T / T-Mobile support. As much as I like stock Android, I am missing Sense, so I would like to convert the original GPE M8 to Sense. I am S-Off and have an unlocked bootloader. Is it just a matter of following the same steps as a converted GPE M8 back to Sense? Flashing Firmware and then a ROM?
Thanks,
Y2J
this thread might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523
y2jdmbfan said:
OK guys, so I am a longtime HTC owner. I had the M8 when it came out, took a break in June, and now just picked up a GPE M8 so I could get full AT&T / T-Mobile support. As much as I like stock Android, I am missing Sense, so I would like to convert the original GPE M8 to Sense. I am S-Off and have an unlocked bootloader. Is it just a matter of following the same steps as a converted GPE M8 back to Sense? Flashing Firmware and then a ROM?
Thanks,
Y2J
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There are tutorials in the Android Development section
paul_viado said:
this thread might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523
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Thanks...And I should be able to go back to GPE if I want and return to new out of the box state by flashing the GPE RUU down the road?
y2jdmbfan said:
Thanks...And I should be able to go back to GPE if I want and return to new out of the box state by flashing the GPE RUU down the road?
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You are S-OFF, the world is yours.
It's that easy
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Hi!
Throughout the last few days I've found myself to be frustrated with the fact that I literally cannot get myself back to the stock sense 6 -
I'm currently running the google play edition software for the HTC One M8
Supercid 11111111
unlocked
Rooted
TWRP
Can someone please explain the exact process to get back to the stock rom.
Thank you!
ijbupdates said:
Hi!
Throughout the last few days I've found myself to be frustrated with the fact that I literally cannot get myself back to the stock sense 6 -
I'm currently running the google play edition software for the HTC One M8
Supercid 11111111
unlocked
Rooted
TWRP
Can someone please explain the exact process to get back to the stock rom.
Thank you!
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Did you flash the Google Edition rom that converted your phone into a GE phone or did you flash the ROM through a custom recovery? I did the ROM method and went back to my stock nandroid. however if you did the conversion method. you can't go back until the official RUU is released becasue the conversion method resizes the partitions which doesn't allow you to simply go back to stock without an RUU which as fasr as I know, there hasn't been a TMobile RUU released yet.
Hi all, while trying to update my att htc one m8 to 4.4.3 I messed it up and now it won't take any roms!!! I did a RUU and changed the cid to supercid. The only rom I was able to flash after trying all night w cyanogenmod 11. I'm glad I was able to do this but I need to install gpe or sense6 roms. I don't know what else to do! I would really appreciate someone helping me resolve this. I wanted to convert it to a developer edition by changing the cid and mid but everything failed. I'm doing the rooting on Mac OS X.
Please Help. How do I get it back to normal?
TIA
RicM68.
ricm68 said:
Hi all, while trying to update my att htc one m8 to 4.4.3 I messed it up and now it won't take any roms!!! I did a RUU and changed the cid to supercid. The only rom I was able to flash after trying all night w cyanogenmod 11. I'm glad I was able to do this but I need to install gpe or sense6 roms. I don't know what else to do! I would really appreciate somehone helping me resolve this. I wanted to convert it to a developer edition by changing the cid and mid but everything failed. I'm doing the rooting on Mac OS X.
Please Help. How do I get it back to normal?
TIA
RicM68.
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Follow the guide in the GPe RUU thread to go back to a Sense ROM (it's in post #2)
EddyOS said:
Follow the guide in the GPe RUU thread to go back to a Sense ROM (it's in post #2)
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But my phone originally a sense version not a gpe, I think I messed it up even further because now I can only stay in fastboot mode, it kicks me out of recovery!!!
Phone has been out a while now but still no developer edition RUU. I'm interested in converting by M8 (which is an AT&T variant previously converted to a GPE) to a developer edition version but don't want to do so until the RUU is released. Does anyone know HTC's typical time frame for releasing it? Is there any other fairly simple way to make this conversion from GPE to Developer Edition? Thanks.
Lol I need help with this too. I have SIM Unlocked BS_US002 and converted to GPE. The Dev RUU would be the closest to my phone and there is no 1540 firmwares posted so I can't get back to Sense.
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metaphz said:
Lol I need help with this too. I have SIM Unlocked BS_US002 and converted to GPE. The Dev RUU would be the closest to my phone and there is no 1540 firmwares posted so I can't get back to Sense.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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NextNexus said:
Phone has been out a while now but still no developer edition RUU. I'm interested in converting by M8 (which is an AT&T variant previously converted to a GPE) to a developer edition version but don't want to do so until the RUU is released. Does anyone know HTC's typical time frame for releasing it? Is there any other fairly simple way to make this conversion from GPE to Developer Edition? Thanks.
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There are a bunch of guides on this. All you have to do is flash the ota firmware, change mid/cid, and put developer nandroid and recovery on your phone. Obviously check/change mid/cid before flashing the firmware.zip.
an0ther said:
There are a bunch of guides on this. All you have to do is flash the ota firmware, change mid/cid, and put developer nandroid and recovery on your phone. Obviously check/change mid/cid before flashing the firmware.zip.
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Can you direct me to a specific guide? Thanks.
NextNexus said:
Can you direct me to a specific guide? Thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2739571&page=3
scroll down a little, look for the big post
an0ther said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2739571&page=3
scroll down a little, look for the big post
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That's just the OTA update. How is a 110MB update going to wipe GPE and repartition the Device, and install Sense.
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Ive also gone back and forth with the GPE and SenseUI based setups. I would much rather have an RUU to re partition my device but the guide worked fairly well. I have never waitied this long for an RUU for an HTC device tho.
serialtoon said:
Ive also gone back and forth with the GPE and SenseUI based setups. I would much rather have an RUU to re partition my device but the guide worked fairly well. I have never waitied this long for an RUU for an HTC device tho.
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Right. Just seems a little strange that HTC hasn't released the official RUU yet.
I rooted my google play edition htc one m8 and flashed cm11 m9 to it a few days ago. I'm having a hard time finding instructions on how to restore this particular edition to full stock. If someone could help me find instructions or an ruu to flash I would appreciate it.
Thanks.
Brian2177 said:
I rooted my google play edition htc one m8 and flashed cm11 m9 to it a few days ago. I'm having a hard time finding instructions on how to restore this particular edition to full stock. If someone could help me find instructions or an ruu to flash I would appreciate it.
Thanks.
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Look around more next time: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523
EternalAndroid said:
Look around more next time: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523
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I own a m8 google play edition. I would like to restore it to the original google play edition software. The thread you linked is to take a carrier m8 back to a sense based ruu. In other words that thread, much like your post, is completely useless to me.
The following thread is meant to convert to GPE, so not sure if the RUU would also return you to stock GPE. But my guess, it should work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708589
My suggestion would be search the thread to see if its been discussed, and if not, ask it yourself in that thread.
Brian2177 said:
I own a m8 google play edition. I would like to restore it to the original google play edition software. The thread you linked is to take a carrier m8 back to a sense based ruu. In other words that thread, much like your post, is completely useless to me.
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Wrong link sorry fellas.
Did you ever figure this process out?? I wanted a tutorial for a u root, s-on, and bootloader lock.
hi guys. yesterday i unlocked my bootloader and rooted my m8. is a unbranded cid_332. i made a nandroid backup too.
no s-off yet. what i want is to change my ROM to another that is already at 4.4.4 version and can receive faster updates from htc, how can i do that?
another thing is my m8 doesnt connect to 4g network, but in the box it says that is 2600mhz compatible, if i change the radio will it work?
also i want to try viper and insertcoin roms but later i want to go back to stock but with another cid to receive faster updates.
thanks.
leandronb said:
hi guys. yesterday i unlocked my bootloader and rooted my m8. is a unbranded cid_332. i made a nandroid backup too.
no s-off yet. what i want is to change my ROM to another that is already at 4.4.4 version and can receive faster updates from htc, how can i do that?
another thing is my m8 doesnt connect to 4g network, but in the box it says that is 2600mhz compatible, if i change the radio will it work?
also i want to try viper and insertcoin roms but later i want to go back to stock but with another cid to receive faster updates.
thanks.
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Method to get fastest updates would probably be to s-off and fully convert to GPE.
When you say 4G, you mean HSPA or LTE?
Being able to get OTA is pretty different from being able to flash custom ROMs. Namely, you need custom recovery to flash custom ROMs. And you need to have a stock ROM and stock recovery to install OTAs. So flip-flopping back and forth is not that straightforward. I'd suggest picking one and sticking with it.
redpoint73 said:
Method to get fastest updates would probably be to s-off and fully convert to GPE.
When you say 4G, you mean HSPA or LTE?
Being able to get OTA is pretty different from being able to flash custom ROMs. Namely, you need custom recovery to flash custom ROMs. And you need to have a stock ROM and stock recovery to install OTAs. So flip-flopping back and forth is not that straightforward. I'd suggest picking one and sticking with it.
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i mean LTE. right now i just reverted to stock rom and stock kernel. my device is not possible to have s-off wven with sunshine.
i wanted to s-off, change my CID to another one like dev edition or international unlocked, change rom to unlocked edition and then flash stock recovery from unlocked to being able to receive OTA faster.
is like change my htc m8 variant from cid_332 to cid_001
leandronb said:
i mean LTE. right now i just reverted to stock rom and stock kernel. my device is not possible to have s-off wven with sunshine.
i wanted to s-off, change my CID to another one like dev edition or international unlocked, change rom to unlocked edition and then flash stock recovery from unlocked to being able to receive OTA faster.
is like change my htc m8 variant from cid_332 to cid_001
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Sunshine only works on the stock ROM, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.
xunholyx said:
Sunshine only works on the stock ROM, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.
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i was stock, just rooted. i think in version 3.0 will work. i was too excited to convert to gpe and try lollipop.
leandronb said:
i was stock, just rooted. i think in version 3.0 will work. i was too excited to convert to gpe and try lollipop.
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The GPE models won't be getting Lollipop for a couple of weeks, maybe a month or more.
It hasn't been pushed to the Nexus devices yet, either. Probably a a few days to a week or so for that.