Debranded my handset with a stock HTC ROM, and now instead of getting OTA updates earlier I get them later. The check for update box does absolutely nothing.
Can anyone help me ascertain why? Running 2.2.1 build 1.72.405.3
Or at least help me update.
Thanks,
Jake
How did you debrand? I also debranded my phone (was on T-mobile) by using a goldcard and using that to install a stock ROM but that wasn't enough. You'll need to change your phone's CID (an ID that determines which ROMs you can install - stock, Vodafone, T-Mobile etc), or SuperCID (install any ROM).
In order to do that, you will probably need to downgrade your ROM. Simply follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905003
After the downgrade, follow these steps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537
The author's Easy Radio Tool allows you to do various things (S-OFF, SimUnlock, SuperCID). The only thing you need to do to get the OTA is to perform the last command in the list on the application (Stock CID), although of course you can do all the other stuff as well.
I just simply did the Stock CID and immediately afterward could get the update notification. My previously T-Mobile Desire HD is now running the shiny new 2.3 update nicely.
How do I check whether I have SuperCID, as I followed this tutorial here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857444
So I *should* have it.
I debranded by following the above tutorial and installing a stock ROM which I downloaded from here.
According to this post,
Checking the device state:
- Go to the bootloader (turn fastboot off, turn off phone, hold vol- and power)
- If it says ACE PVT SHIP S-OFF in the first line, your device is Radio S-OFF
- If it says ACE PVT ENG S-OFF, you have ENG S-OFF, go to System info
- If system info CID is 11111111, your device is SuperCID
- And if you can verify either Radio S-OFF or SuperCID (and you did both), it worked fine and you have both of them
- You can check your original CID by going to radio tool folder with cmd and typing: "adb shell getprop ro.cid"
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Although SuperCID allows you to install RUUs from anywhere, I wonder if it would also prevent you from getting the OTA update. It's possible that, when you preform a check, the phone sends your CID to HTC's servers which see if your CID has an update, and a CID of 11111111 will never have. If all else fails, try setting your CID to the stock HTC one rather than SuperCID.
Ah I don't have ENG S-OFF, and when I go into FASTBOOT and select BOOTLOADER it returns me to the 'main menu', followed by a short period where everything is non responsive and a brief message flashed in green about a few files. Is this normal when attempting to access the BOOTLOADER menu with ENG S-OFF?
Yes that's normal. I believe the delay is the bootloader scanning the SD card for a firmware file.
So I can't check my SID?
To check it I have to get ENG S-OFF, and to get ENG S-OFF I have to permroot my phone, for which I have to flash back to a 1.32 build...
Also, if I flash back to 1.32 to permroot and S-OFF etc, and *then* I finally update OTA to the latest will that not remove my permroot and S-OFF like it did with the 1.72 OTA update? Would I have to install a full RUU rather than update? But then surely I can never update...
This confuses me.
If you update using the OTA, you will lose your root but you won't lose your S-OFF as far as I'm aware. According to the instructions on the One click Radio S-OFF tool, in order to revert back to stock you have to use the tool again to S-ON, which implies that S-OFF is retained between firmware updates.
So, if you permroot (downgrading to 1.32 if needs be) and then use the Radio S-OFF tool to set your CID to stock you should be able to get the OTA update and get future ones too.
*Edit* just looking at the instructions for the One Click tool, it looks like you can do a temproot if you just want to set the CID to stock.
Every time I run visionary and try to temproot it gets stuck on the plain black screen after the "attempting to temproot now". Have to press the home key (and wait) to back out of the app, any successive launches just take me straight back there.
Are you sure you've downgraded and running the 1.32.405.6 ROM? Have you got USB debugging enabled?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
I have UK unlocked unbranded HTC m8
I converted it to a gpe device using sakitechs guide on YouTube and the gpe ruu
I didn't make a note of my original cid but renamed my cid to googl001
I want to return my phone back to how it came
I want install stock sense rom
Put s on
Relock bootloader
My device is not rooted
Please help wme with some step by step instructions on how to go back to factory device
usmanmh_10 said:
I have UK unlocked unbranded HTC m8
I converted it to a gpe device using sakitechs guide on YouTube and the gpe ruu
I didn't make a note of my original cid but renamed my cid to googl001
I want to return my phone back to how it came
I want install stock sense rom
Put s on
Relock bootloader
My device is not rooted
Please help wme with some step by step instructions on how to go back to factory device
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Hi,
I can try to help a little bit.
To look which CID would be the correct one we can check your MID first. After you got this I can help you find a corresponding stock backup and firmware, so you are stock regarding these things.
If we accomplished this, we can go remove the "Tempered" flag, lock bootloader again and at last go S-On if ou like to.
So first steps to take are.
1) connect the phone to pc and reboot to bootloader "adb reboot bootloader"
2) have a look if you are S-Off (should be so, as you were abled to change the CID)
3) in cmd enter the comand "fastboot getvar mid"
Tell me which MID it shows to you.
With this we can check which CID is the corresponding one and search for the correct backup and FW.
Hi
Bricked my old 16gb HTC One M8 - sending to HTC for repair tomorrow.
Ordered a replacement 32gb HTC One M8 from Hong Kong. It was billed as 'new' but on arrival it appears to be S-OFF but locked. Full bootloader details below:
*** LOCKED ***
M8_UL_CA PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-11111111
HBOOT-3.16.0.0000
RADIO-1.15.2133156.UA13G
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-1.54.401.5
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Mar 22 2014,00:53:32.16037
Whenever I try to update OTA, it tells me my phone is not stock and the update doesn't install. I just want to get the phone back to stock with the latest OTA firmware, nothing more. What would my best course of action be here?
I'm no expert but I did purchase a used M8 last week with similar status, which was able to return to (almost) stock.
First, I think your super cid (11111111) is stopping you from any OTA update. Change that to reflect your carrier.
If you are still not able to check for OTA update after that, you need to unlock the bootloader, install TWRP or CWM boot loader, and flash a backup of stock Rom from your carrier.
billyboy77 said:
Hi
Bricked my old 16gb HTC One M8 - sending to HTC for repair tomorrow.
Ordered a replacement 32gb HTC One M8 from Hong Kong. It was billed as 'new' but on arrival it appears to be S-OFF but locked. Full bootloader details below:
*** LOCKED ***
M8_UL_CA PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-11111111
HBOOT-3.16.0.0000
RADIO-1.15.2133156.UA13G
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-1.54.401.5
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Mar 22 2014,00:53:32.16037
Whenever I try to update OTA, it tells me my phone is not stock and the update doesn't install. I just want to get the phone back to stock with the latest OTA firmware, nothing more. What would my best course of action be here?
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M8_UL_CA. You are on AT&T, correct?
You can download the latest AT&T RUU here.
Download it onto your PC. Hook up your phone and open command prompt. Direct it to your ADB folder, then enter these commands.
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot rebootRUU waiting for it to boot after each command.
Then run the RUU download by double clicking on the download, and follow the prompts given.
You will have to run it twice. The first time will not install the whole package, the second time finishes the process. This is normal.
xunholyx said:
M8_UL_CA. You are on AT&T, correct?
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I'm not with AT&T. I bought the phone carrier unlocked - I use a Three mobile SIM. If the phone has been made S-OFF and carrier unlocked then I'd like to return it to a stock unlocked model if possible...
ikeny said:
I'm no expert but I did purchase a used M8 last week with similar status, which was able to return to (almost) stock.
First, I think your super cid (11111111) is stopping you from any OTA update. Change that to reflect your carrier.
If you are still not able to check for OTA update after that, you need to unlock the bootloader, install TWRP or CWM boot loader, and flash a backup of stock Rom from your carrier.
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Hi - I don't have a carrier - I bought the phone on its own, supposedly carrier unlocked, using an existing Three mobile SIM that I have.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a suitable SuperCID I could try?
Super cid (11111111) means you can flash any rom manually, but no OTA update.
If you want OTA updates, you either pick a carrier and use its cid, or use the GPE (Google play edition) cid. GPE means no HTC added stuffs, like sense 6.
Either way, Google for the cid numbers.
ikeny said:
Super cid (11111111) means you can flash any rom manually, but no OTA update.
If you want OTA updates, you either pick a carrier and use its cid, or use the GPE (Google play edition) cid. GPE means no HTC added stuffs, like sense 6.
Either way, Google for the cid numbers.
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My last phone was a stock HTC which I converted to GPE. I got fed up with the phone and tried to revert to stock, but messed up. While HTC fix that one I'm trying to update this replacement... getting a bit fed up with non stock HTC phones now to say the least!
Will changing my CID to something like HTC__001 and rebooting risk bricking the phone?
My HTC M8 also has S-off, and I have no problem changing the cid to whatever I want with the toolkit on xda.
Running OTA updates, on the other hand, is more risky to me since I didn't know the history of my device. I chose to flash a nandroid backup via TWRP. (No RUU published from my carrier). Then I re-rooted the stock rom, retuned back to stock recovery, removed the "modified/tampered" status, and locked the boot loader. I left the S-off status, which is the only non-stock.
billyboy77 said:
My last phone was a stock HTC which I converted to GPE. I got fed up with the phone and tried to revert to stock, but messed up. While HTC fix that one I'm trying to update this replacement... getting a bit fed up with non stock HTC phones now to say the least!
Will changing my CID to something like HTC__001 and rebooting risk bricking the phone?
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The guy that sold me the phone suggested I flash this RUU to the phone. It appears to be a Brighstar US RUU... which just confuses me even more.
"i have find a way to fix your problem, its very simple, but requires your attention to the following details
follow what this link tells you
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/news/"
What did you ask from the seller? Was it just something "stock and unlocked"? The US rom quote was definitely stock. (Sim) unlocked or not is independent of the rom. Your phone could be locked/unlocked regardless of the rom you use.
All unmodified version from HTC are stock, including GPE. You need to first decide which carrier you want your phone to be "stock" for.
billyboy77 said:
The guy that sold me the phone suggested I flash this RUU to the phone. It appears to be a Brighstar US RUU... which just confuses me even more.
"i have find a way to fix your problem, its very simple, but requires your attention to the following details
follow what this link tells you
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/news/"
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I've just spoken to someone in HTC USA Customer services - the phone is formerly an AT&T contract phone. She told me that I'm better off returning the phone to the seller if I want regular OTA updates.
So either send it back and be without phone for a week or so, or try and return it to factory stock myself. Tricky one.
ikeny said:
What did you ask from the seller? Was it just something "stock and unlocked"? The US rom quote was definitely stock. (Sim) unlocked or not is independent of the rom. Your phone could be locked/unlocked regardless of the rom you use.
All unmodified version from HTC are stock, including GPE. You need to first decide which carrier you want your phone to be "stock" for.
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OK so in theory, I could change the CID to Three UK, and find a Three UK RUU and convert the phone into a stock unlocked three UK one that works with my sim...?
billyboy77 said:
OK so in theory, I could change the CID to Three UK, and find a Three UK RUU and convert the phone into a stock unlocked three UK one that works with my sim...?
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It looks like my best/safest option is installing the Developer edition RUU - but I am on a mac. Does anyone have the correct Zip file of this?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/news/
billyboy77 said:
It looks like my best/safest option is installing the Developer edition RUU - but I am on a mac. Does anyone have the correct Zip file of this?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/news/
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I don't think the ROM update exe will run in Mac. You'll need to find a Windows pc for this, or try virtual machine running Windows on your mac.
billyboy77 said:
It looks like my best/safest option is installing the Developer edition RUU - but I am on a mac. Does anyone have the correct Zip file of this?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/news/
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all the files you need to convert to DE are here >> https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=21320
This guide may be easier to convert to the DE as it used RUU. No custom recovery and s-off required.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/development/ruu-m8-developer-edition-sense-1-54-t2884777
billyboy77 said:
Hi
Bricked my old 16gb HTC One M8 - sending to HTC for repair tomorrow.
Ordered a replacement 32gb HTC One M8 from Hong Kong. It was billed as 'new' but on arrival it appears to be S-OFF but locked. Full bootloader details below:
*** LOCKED ***
M8_UL_CA PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-11111111
HBOOT-3.16.0.0000
RADIO-1.15.2133156.UA13G
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-1.54.401.5
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Mar 22 2014,00:53:32.16037
Whenever I try to update OTA, it tells me my phone is not stock and the update doesn't install. I just want to get the phone back to stock with the latest OTA firmware, nothing more. What would my best course of action be here?
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If you ordered it from Mainland region then most sellers do S Off there even if the phone is new but if you wanted S On you could have talked to the seller. It's trend over there before getting a new android phone almost 90% sellers sells S OFF and Rooted new devices in almost all major Smartphone brands.
Edit: Yes, M8_UL_CA is definitely (AT&T) What country do you belong to? If you're based in the US then just run official HTC AT&T RUU and you will be able to get OTA updates in the near future.
maheshpatel said:
If you ordered it from Mainland region then most sellers do S Off there even if the phone is new but if you wanted S On you could have talked to the seller. It's trend over there before getting a new android phone almost 90% sellers sells S OFF and Rooted new devices in almost all major Smartphone brands.
Edit: Yes, M8_UL_CA is definitely (AT&T) What country do you belong to? If you're based in the US then just run official HTC AT&T RUU and you will be able to get OTA updates in the near future.
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Actually, it is AT&T, T-Mob, plus Telus and Rogers (Canada, I'm on Telus).
I see he is unbranded(?) now. The first answer was assuming.
@billyboy77 Your radio version is WWE. Sorry I didn't notice that before.
Download the International WWE RUU here.
You will be able to flash this to get to stock since you are S Off and superCID. It will bring you up to the latest firmware. No need for OTAs. Back up anything that is important to you before running the RUU, because it will wipe your device.
hm... Seems like you guys are really trying your hardest to make this more difficult than it needs to be. Having S-OFF he can practically make his device any device he wants it to be, T-Mobile, AT&T, Unlocked, Developer Edition, surely any GSM based carrier/unlocked version.
What's the problem? Unlock Bootloader, Get a custom recovery, Get Root, Change your MID to the one you want, Change your CID to the one you want, Restore a backup for the one you chose, run OTA's...
"OMG I'm S-OFF and bought unlocked but I can't get OTA's because my phone WAS an AT&T and I'm not on AT&T I'm on Three"
:silly:
BerndM14 said:
hm... Seems like you guys are really trying your hardest to make this more difficult than it needs to be. Having S-OFF he can practically make his device any device he wants it to be, T-Mobile, AT&T, Unlocked, Developer Edition, surely any GSM based carrier/unlocked version.
What's the problem? Unlock Bootloader, Get a custom recovery, Get Root, Change your MID to the one you want, Change your CID to the one you want, Restore a backup for the one you chose, run OTA's...
"OMG I'm S-OFF and bought unlocked but I can't get OTA's because my phone WAS an AT&T and I'm not on AT&T I'm on Three"
:silly:
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After what happened with my last phone, I'd rather not muck about with unlocking, rooting or any of that balls. Just a stock OS with regular updates will do me just fine (until the new HTC comes out anyway)
Hey guys, I know there's a crazy amount of unrooting threads here and everywhere else on the internet, but the more I search the more confused I get. So here's my short situation and my few questions:
Got a T-mobile M8, rooted, S-On, Unlocked, Running S.ROM. I'm trying to do the Tmobile JUMP thing to get the new HTC 10, so I'm trying to unroot this as much as possible. I've found at least 7 different ways with different outcomes on how to do this, so here are my questions:
-I keep reading you can just flash the RUU with no other prerequisites and it'll take your phone back to stock (except for the "Relocked" status). Is this true?
-Follow up to previous question: has anyone had any experience with returning a Relocked phone to Tmobile for their JUMP plan? (Not warranty exchange, I feel they're more strict with that)
-Is the only way to change the Relocked status to Locked by going S-Off with Sunshine and doing all of the 8923479324 steps in order to erase all of the tampered flags?
-What is the BEST method with the BEST outcome to go back to full stock on the M8?
Thanks in advance!
TehAsher said:
-I keep reading you can just flash the RUU with no other prerequisites and it'll take your phone back to stock (except for the "Relocked" status). Is this true?
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The statement "no other prerequisites" is not specific enough. If you mean stock ROM and/or stock recovery (which folks sometimes think is needed to RUU), its true that neither are needed in order to RUU.
There are however some prerequisites:
1) PC required. Win7 and USB 2.0 for the best compatibility with RUU.
2) RUU needs to be intended for your version (CID and MID)
3) RUU version needs to be greater or equal to main version on the phone (this requirement is bypassed with s-off)
4) Relocked or locked bootloaded (this requirement also bypassed with s-off)
TehAsher said:
-Is the only way to change the Relocked status to Locked by going S-Off with Sunshine and doing all of the 8923479324 steps in order to erase all of the tampered flags?
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Correct.
TehAsher said:
-What is the BEST method with the BEST outcome to go back to full stock on the M8?
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T-Mob is not my carrier, and I know nothing of their Jump program. But in most cases, the best bet with returning a phone is to RUU to stock, and make the bootloader LOCKED. Return to s-on (after s-off) is probably not needed.
Thanks for the info! I guess I'll be getting sunshine then and try to follow all of these guides. So if I S-off with sunshine, as long as I check my CID and MID (I got the RUU from the HTC website, but I'll double check it anyways), I can flash that and return to stock. And afterwards I can find a guide on how to reset the tampered flags and the Locked status?
TehAsher said:
And afterwards I can find a guide on how to reset the tampered flags and the Locked status?
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Yes, that is what I would suggest. Guide on how to make it LOCKED and remove TAMPERED:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708571
How I went back to stock
I was rooted and running custom ROMS, but when MM came out I wanted to make sure that my firmware/radio was updated. So for me this is what I did
- first I am s-on
- When I unlocked the bootloader, just before I installed TWRP, I made a copy of the recovery. Also I backed up my stock ROM. Both I kept
So to restore:
- I re-installed via TWRP, the stock ROM, and made sure that I didn't root it
- I re-installed the stock recovery
- rebooted and phone saw the MM upgrade and proceeded to upgrade.
If you don't have the recovery/stock ROM you will need to remember what version of android you were on when you overwrote the recovery with TWRP. If your firmware + recovery + OS do not match the update won't work.
-brad
redpoint73 said:
Yes, that is what I would suggest. Guide on how to make it LOCKED and remove TAMPERED:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708571
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Awesome, got my phone S-Off. I tried installing the RUU from the HTC website but I got an error and it failed, saying something about I'm using the wrong RUU. This is my CID and MID:
MID: 0P6B13000
CID: T-MOB010
I used this link to get my RUU:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html#tmobile
Am I doing something wrong?
TehAsher said:
I tried installing the RUU from the HTC website but I got an error and it failed, saying something about I'm using the wrong RUU. This is my CID and MID:
MID: 0P6B13000
CID: T-MOB010
I used this link to get my RUU:
http://www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html#tmobile
Am I doing something wrong?
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What error number? If 155 or 159, you can't RUU from LP to MM (this is a new requirement they added with MM). You either need to flash the 6.20.531.5 full stock firmware from here, then run the RUU again. Or run the T-Mobile LP RUU.
My HTC m8 is not getting updated and is showing the following message
Software Status Modified
Relocked
Mels _tunl Pvt Ship S-ON
HBOOT - 3.19.0.0000
RADIO- 1.22213311711.29G
OpenDSP-v42.2.2-00564-M8974-.0630
OS-1.80.720.1
eMMC boot 2048 MB'
oct 30 2014 ,13:26:54.0
PS: I have tried to relock the bootloader via downlaoding fastboot_adb and using the following commands (although I have never installed custom ROM on my phone).
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem writecid 11111111
fastboot reboot
I would like to return to the original HTc setting and update to Android 5.0 or whatever the latest update is available .
I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish with those commands.
1) Relocking the bootloader isn't necessary for OTA updates (although is needed for RUU). Relocked bootloader may make moving forward more difficult (depending on what solutions you try).
2) SuperCID 1111111 also isn't going to help your issue (so I don't know why you are trying to do it), and you can't do it with s-on.
3) Even if you haven't installed a custom ROM, its coming up as MODIFIED probably due to being rooted. You need to restore the stock ROM 1.80.720.1 (unrooting isn't enough) and stock recovery, to OTA. Alternately, you need the 1.80.720.1 RUU. I'm not too familiar with your variant, but in general, the steps I've described is what you need to do.
Read more, and see what you can learn about your variant. Because, it doesn't see like you have researched properly yet.
yogeshbhandari20 said:
My HTC m8 is not getting updated and is showing the following message
Relocked
OS-1.80.720.1
I would like to return to the original HTc setting and update to Android 5.0 or whatever the latest update is available .
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As @redpoint73 said, you make it harder when you relocked the bootloader.
Can you unlock it again ? If yes, you can do the following :
1. Install TWRP for M8 Eye - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62030698&postcount=144
2. Restore the 1.80.720.1 non-rooted nandroid backup
3. Install 4.30.720.4 stock recovery.img (I don't have 1.80.720.1 recovery.img)
4. Reboot then do multiple OTA up to the latest Marshmallow
Item 2 & 3 and How-To, check my thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860
I remember there's a RUU zip for your device ... have to recheck, will advise you tomorrow if it is needed.