Hello everyone,
I'm not new the whole rooting and installing recovery/kernel/roms. I've always had a Galaxy S phone. Though this is my first time having an HTC phone since the first ever android phone launched (G1).
I have the boot loader unlocked, I was just wondering what does s-off get me ? I can install TWRP and root it through the recovery, but after that it sometimes takes ~15 minutes for the phone to boot in, is that normal ?
Because of that, I went back to stock and left it that way. Firewater doesn't work with my phone. I also know I can sound incredibly cheap right about now, I don't want to pay $25 for s-off.
So where do I go to after unlocking the boot loader ? I want to use THIS ROM, but is it 100% necessary to have s-off ?
Thanks in advance.
My bootloader is unlocked and my phone rooted. I don't have S-Off. Follow the HTC steps to unlock the bootloader.
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I don't want to waste your time so I'll be frank. I was trying to flash a custom rom to my Wildfire S. Looking back I see that it was a gsm rom and now my phone is doing a 3-vibe and the screen won't function. Ive tried to boot into hboot but I still get a 3vibe and then nothing. Now I wanted to use the guide in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432425&page=19
But I get stuck at the very beginning. I don't know how to get to fastboot because when I try to access it I get only a 3-vibe. No five or seven vibes. Also my phone is currently unlocked through the htcdev ruu. It is also S-off as I was recently able to S-off the phone. So right now I don't know what to do. If you guys can help me I would be in debt to you.
So here's the deal. I have the T-MOB010 HTC one M8. I want to flash it to recovery so I can trade it in for a new phone at T Mobile (Either the Nexus 6 or the One M9.) I have S On, an unlocked boot loader and the tampered flag on the splash screen on startup. I am currently on Skydragon's latest One M8 Rom. I need to be able to get back to factory, remove the tampered warning on startup of the device, and if at all possible lock the boot loader and get the boot loader to show that it hasn't been tampered, unlocked, relocked, etc. If that's possible then that's great. I don't see them going into the boot loader at the T mobile store though. In any case, I've run the RUU and it always encounters an error and will not let me flash back to recoVery. I've also tried using some TWRP files to flash back and it will not let me. It won't let me run them from the restore option in the area where I go to flash a Rom. Now that all these new phones are out, I really want to upgrade but if I can't flash this back, that won't be happening. Any suggestions? I really need the help.
I'm assuming you mean, flash to STOCK. If so, you have to relock the bootloader FIRST then you can run the HTC RUU for T-Mobile and that will bring the phone back to Factory Stock. However, I have yet to see a case where a T-Mobile worker ever checks the phone, I have turned in two and my brother has turn in two also with custom ROM and recoveries... all they care about is that you turn in a phone period.
Hi,
So ive spent at least a total of 12hours on this phone trying to unlock it. - im only posting this, in the hope to spare a lot of other peoples time by sharing my experience and hoping to get some advice.
I have submitted an unlock via IMEI to 3 different servers to retrieve the factory unlock code, and all codes ive got are not unlocking the phone.
This phone belongs to a customer of mine, and had started into the venture of unlocking it alternatively as they wanted the phone unlocked some how, i had explained its possible with root and custom roms etc.
So i started my venture and have come to very little success.
I had downloaded TWRP recovery and unlocked bootloader, and once it was installed and flashed with fastboot, my phone would not turn on. - i had used HTC M8 files, and not HTC M8s files - i was stuck in M8 recovery. - i had used these files as any search for HTC M8s would fill up with just the M8 edition.
Endless playing with different combinations of buttons, just holding the power button for a long time got the phone to boot up. (if i left the phone off, and had it charging, the charging logo would show up on a "bootloop" and would not power up, back to the "bricked" mode it was in. -unplug charger and playing with combinations of buttons to get back on)
(If your in this state and panicking, dont panic, your phone is stuck in m8 recovery that i flashed and holding power should kick you out of it, make sure your usb isnt connected)
Enter fastboot mode holding volume down and power and flash htc m8s TWRP-recovery solved all issues with recovery loops and boot errors.
It took me a long time to find the M8s TWRP and recovery files, but on flashing them, my phone booted into M8s recovery and i was able to install SuperUser and root phone.
I was then at the situation of turning the S-On, to S-Off. - More problems.
The tutorial i followed was suggesting to use firewater, and after endless rebooting and downloading SDK files etc, couldnt get S-OFF as i was getting error PID file format only. - HTC has patched this method - time to move on......... FIREWATER DOES NOT WORK.
I was trying to avoid the situation of paying any more to unlock, so giving up had turned to the Sunshine S-OFF tool. This costs $25, and is a simple android app to turn rooted devices from s-On to s-OFF. - I installed and downloaded it to find HTC M8s is not compatible.
A message to all HTC M8s Owners looking to unlock there device for Free, or as a last resort if factory unlock is not available. ---> As of this date, its not possible to turn S-OFF without a "javacard" which is a device to plug into sd slot and magically turns it off.... sorry. - Thus not possible to unlock via root.
If there is a solution, please do let me know, this phone has eaten me up. I have to go to the service provider and try get the code from them.
You talking about sim unlocking ? Even with s-off you can't just sim unlock it, even with a custom rom you can't just sim unlock it.
Firewater is offline now for over a year already and if sunshine isn't compatible there is just no (affordable) way to s-off.
All those methods are not working anymore. You really need a working code or help from the carrier.
Bootloader unlocking and running custom roms or rooted stock is totally different to carrier unlocking a device. And also would like to mention that the M8s is not very supported with custom roms. There are about 2 roms i know of.
And make absolutely sure that you know what you are doing and create a pure STOCK NANDROID BACKUP (one before you pushed root) so you are able to bring the device back to stock for future ota updates.
You can not update a rooted rom (also not a stock one) once rooted the system is changed and can't be undone so you definitely need a "never rooted stock rom"
And the needed files are easily to find actually because there is a dedicated thread here for the M8s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3114245
It been a long time.. Well maybe 3years since i been on xda. I still remember how to root and flash this n that n etc... But yesterday i wanted to get started on flashing my verizon m8 onto a rom. Yeah little complicated. I tried everything to unlock my bootloader i keep getting the 172 error. Still considered S-on, So i just left that alone and tried to go #oldschool. I tried to update using htc sync manager. But I had to leave and go to the store. Left this on the computer to finish updating. came back 20-30mins later its on a black htc screen with the green line across. So i thought it was just finished But my computer had been frozed for 10mins. (ive checked the time) but Now it gotten bricked. i can only boot into hboot... Fastboot... And ruu.. But not recovery... I Already downloaded the rom, and the latest twrp recovery on my pc. But im still s-on.. I really don't got time to start from scratch and just factory reset this.. And im no longer worried about my data and shxt because i know im eventually going to losed them anyway. So right now its on fastboot. My win7 detects it in fastboot usb. So where do i go from here? Anybody? No worries though :fingers-crossed: :angel:
You can't unlock the bootloader on the VZN version by HTCDev.com, you need to s-off by sunshine, then use sunshine to unlock the bootloader.
Unfortunately, sunshine requires a working OS. So first you'll need to RUU back to working stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-one-m8/general/official-ruu1-55-605-2-t2883845
After that, you will need to root (think kingroot is the mot common method) then you can load the sunshine app ($25 license) to s-off and unlock the bootloader: http://theroot.ninja/
Once the bootloader is unlocked, you can load custom recovery TWRP and flash a custom ROM.
But keep in mind, there are kernel differences between the VZN version and most other M8 versions. Meaning, you will need to either flash a ROM that explicitly states it supports the VZN M8; or you can flash other ROMs, but you will need the proper kernel.
You'll want to read up in the Verizon M8 forum section, as this version has some peculiarities, as I've mentioned: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-one-m8
hello
i attempted to unlock bootloader on my wife's old HTC M8 (Australian/Vodafone), i was able to unlock the bootloader, but had to do some serious trial and error to get a custom recovery installed, eventually got an older twrp loaded, but the phone just refused to boot into recovery.
i then relocked the bootloader (no S-OFF), and when i try and unlock he bootloader now, the phone attempts to boot into the recovery, and is failing...
i've been trying to find an RUU from somewhere, just to blat the phone back to an old state, and try again.
are there RUUs available anywhere? i dont' care if its not for the local carrier, i just want to get a basic android rom on the thing.
However, im curious if i need to s-off to do this (wasnt the case with my previous HTC)
help!
what an idiot, i assumed this was an htc One m8, it wasnt, its an m7... reposting in there ...