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Hi all.
I have just received my HTC ONE X on ORANGE UK. I had it unlocked and works well with other networks.
Problem I have is:
1. How can I get rid of the ORANGE UK branding?
2. Revert the software to the ORIGINAL HTC ONE X Software?
I looked thru the Q&A and didn't really find the answer i was looking for. I am a newbie as i have always had the iPhone 4S.
I presume this involves changing the ROM? How?
A Step by step guide would be brilliant.
Thanks Kindly
I believe that you will need to unlock your Bootloader at HTCDev (which will void all warranty) and follow this thread. This will allow you to install any One X ROM you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592355
The latest stock HTC software is 1.28.401.9
bigyun2000 said:
Hi all.
I have just received my HTC ONE X on ORANGE UK. I had it unlocked and works well with other networks.
Problem I have is:
1. How can I get rid of the ORANGE UK branding?
2. Revert the software to the ORIGINAL HTC ONE X Software?
I looked thru the Q&A and didn't really find the answer i was looking for. I am a newbie as i have always had the iPhone 4S.
I presume this involves changing the ROM? How?
A Step by step guide would be brilliant.
Thanks Kindly
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Unlocking the bootloader, rooting, installing a custom recovery and flashing a custom (or official unbranded) ROM will get you where you need to be...
However, if you have never rooted a phone before this one isn't the best to start on. I would recommend waiting until some of the bugs have been ironed out, like charging in fastboot, the posibility of a one click root, or a fully s-offed process.
If you can be patient, (and the bloat isn't too bad - for Orange anyway) I would recommend waiting.
I had a rooted, s-off desire on Orange, have unlocked and s-offed a bunch of various HTC phones belonging to friends, but even I'm delaying for a while to see how development pans out.
I hate sense too.
@shrubz
Hi thanks. Well I got thru the Bootloader ok. Now I am on step 9 of the recovery. I am not sure which ROM to select in step 4?
UPDATED 13/4 Official Clockworkmod Touch Recovery 5.8.2.7
Can you help please?
I don't know which one to select as there is this one from http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
HTC One X (GSM) Download Recovery & Touch Recovery
I would recommend Android Revolution HD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562603
Version 3.1 is the latest build with sense. I ran ARHD on my Sensation and its very stable. I'll be running it once I'm sure my device is fault free.
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Hi i have downloaded Android Revolution HD What's next as I am lost now
Thanks
have you installed a custom recovery? if so move the downloaded ROM onto you one x, reboot into recovery, choose "install zip from sdcard". Then "choose zip" and point it at the zip of the rom you downloaded.
@f4flake.
All I have done so far is the unlocked the Bootloader.
Thanks
go to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592355
Go to the section on installing a recovery in the first post.
Follow that through.
bigyun2000 said:
@f4flake.
All I have done so far is the unlocked the Bootloader.
Thanks
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your next step is to flash custom recovery mate...once you flashed custom recovery go ahead and flash the rom of your choice. make sure you read the instructions on how to flash the rom and follow the guide carefully. let me know how you get on...
here you go mate watch the video below by the developer of VillainRom on our phone and he is forum moderator as well good guy and knows his stuff
bigyun2000 said:
Hi i have downloaded Android Revolution HD What's next as I am lost now
Thanks
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If you follow the link I posted in the 2nd post that will give you all the steps you need to prepare to flash a custom ROM, including the custom recovery image.
After that pick a ROM, I recommend ARHD, then follow the instructions in the ROM thread to flash the ROM.
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ha i need some help now i kinda noticed that in my bootloader i do not have any radio? any ideas?
flash stock recovery, fastboot oem lock, run ruu ?
f4flake said:
flash stock recovery, fastboot oem lock, run ruu ?
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ehh thing is i am on branded phone...anyways i still have my cid and well i just wait for my carrier to release an OTA and then i will revert back to stock and just update then. thanks guys
NoobTerminator said:
ehh thing is i am on branded phone...anyways i still have my cid and well i just wait for my carrier to release an OTA and then i will revert back to stock and just update then. thanks guys
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I thought if you unlocked your bootloader your CID was set to "none"?
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shrubz said:
I thought if you unlocked your bootloader your CID was set to "none"?
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well when i got cid getter from market it gives me cid..also when i go into fastboot and use the command to read my cid it gives it to me
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Failure to comply with forum rules will result in an infraction and/or ban depending on severity of rule break.
Hi all. Well this morning i managed to flash the recovery file. Now stuck on final part of installation Need a factory HTC file i guess? and instructions to flash it. Appologies for the dumbness here, I am just recovering from a stroke so everything is hard work as it is difficult for me to understand. Thanks for your patience.
Any ideas please?
bigyun2000 said:
Hi all. Well this morning i tried to flash the recovery in cmd.
Here is the result.
I set phone to Flashboot
Then CMD Line then ENTER
C:\fastboot>fastboot flash recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.7-endeavoru
unknown partition 'recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.7-endeavoru'
error: cannot determine image filename for 'recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.7-end
eavoru'
C:\fastboot>
Any ideas please?
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Hi
Have you saved the recovery image in the fastboot folder on your computer with your fastboot files?
Try
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.7-endeavoru.img
Looks like you missed the word recovery from your command and omitted the file extension.
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just to add to that make sure it is on your C drive which is easier and make a fastboot folder with all the contents of it mate..then just follow the guide i PM'd you with
Does any one know How I can install JB? I have unlocked and installed custom room. I relocked the phone but can't return to stock as there is no ruu available for my software version. I have the ota update on my phone but when I try to install it doesn't work.
Ideas?
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Shelby5 said:
Does any one know How I can install JB? I have unlocked and installed custom room. I relocked the phone but can't return to stock as there is no ruu available for my software version. I have the ota update on my phone but when I try to install it doesn't work.
Ideas?
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you have to wait for the RUU or a Nandroid Backup of that stock rom
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you have to wait for the RUU or a Nandroid Backup of that stock rom
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I have been waitng close to 2 months already. Thanks for responding anyway. Is there any other alternative?
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There is a thread in here (it's quite new) somewhere on backups for different versions, which you might be able to install.
There is another thread on using an older RUU, extracting the ROM and boot.img, and installing them (I think).
Ultimately you want to get to 2.17, 2.18 was unofficial, so I suspect the OTA will only apply to 2.17.
Edit: I might be making that up, maybe 2.18 was official.
BenPope said:
There is a thread in here (it's quite new) somewhere on backups for different versions, which you might be able to install.
There is another thread on using an older RUU, extracting the ROM and boot.img, and installing them (I think).
Ultimately you want to get to 2.17, 2.18 was unofficial, so I suspect the OTA will only apply to 2.17.
Edit: I might be making that up, maybe 2.18 was official.
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I think The OTA is official, its from HTC and i downloaded to my phone ota. It was my phone that adviused me on the update The version is 3.18.751 on the update. Every time i try to load the update it goes to the fastboot screen and wont let me install the update.
2.18.751 is official, release not long after 2.17 OTA. It contained small fixes for taiwan chungwa's One X. If I am not wrong, it doesn't update hboot and recovery version, affecting ROM only.
For OP:-
Best options was using your nandroid backup.
OR
Grab the firmware.zip inside 3.14.751.20's OTA, then flash it like how they did to .401.
OR
There are a custom RUU that can help you convert your phone to taiwan unbranded CID (709) then receive 3.14.709.20 OTA. Your CID will change to HTC_621. You will need unlock bootloader for this method.
HebeGuess said:
2.18.751 is official, release not long after 2.17 OTA. It contained small fixes for taiwan chungwa's One X. If I am not wrong, it doesn't update hboot and recovery version, affecting ROM only.
For OP:-
Best options was using your nandroid backup.
OR
Grab the firmware.zip inside 3.14.751.20's OTA, then flash it like how they did to .401.
OR
There are a custom RUU that can help you convert your phone to taiwan unbranded CID (709) then receive 3.14.709.20 OTA. Your CID will change to HTC_621. You will need unlock bootloader for this method.
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Great thank for that info. That finally gives me something to try to make it work.
HebeGuess said:
Grab the firmware.zip inside 3.14.751.20's OTA, then flash it like how they did to .401.
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Can you please expand a little bit further on this or provide me a link? I'm in this exact same case with no luck just yet Thanks!
mudito said:
Can you please expand a little bit further on this or provide me a link? I'm in this exact same case with no luck just yet Thanks!
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Ok i have successfully upgraded. Mudito i used the tool here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604439
I flashed the recovery image off the OTA update. Im now in 3.14.751.20
I will say i made an error and luckily i didn't brick my phone.
Bacislly i followed the steps from the link above on the video placeing the the official images in the relevant folders instead of custom ones.
I didn't place the correct files on my SD so after doing perm root the phone was locked on a screen(never seen it before so dont know what to call it). Then i realised i hadn't put the files on sd luckily when i reset the phone it turned on and then i downloaded the update and it installed perefctly.
but the used the official recovery/ boot images etc.
android 4.1.1
sense 4+
baseband 5.1204.162.29
Hey, I got the EXACTLY same problem as you do - although I'm not using a custom rom, just messed abit with mine too much (CWM + root, something messed up so I can't update even going back to stock recovery), so can you please explain step by step what I should do to get the JB update?
Thanks alot!
(and will this make my phone able to get the next update if one will get out too? I mean - is it stock rom?)
noodlez04 said:
Hey, I got the EXACTLY same problem as you do - although I'm not using a custom rom, just messed abit with mine too much (CWM + root, something messed up so I can't update even going back to stock recovery), so can you please explain step by step what I should do to get the JB update?
Thanks alot!
(and will this make my phone able to get the next update if one will get out too? I mean - is it stock rom?)
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Ok do you have 2.18.751? If you have this version I can give you the update as I have it on pc. Its 3.14.751.20. I just have to work out how to upoad it to xda site.
I woulnt follow my steps exactly as I'm lucky I didn't damage my phone.
The up date has firmware.zip that contains boot.img, recovery.img etc. Follow the instructions Hansen toolkit video on the link. I flashed the HTC recovery and boot image. Then went to perm root my phone. It was on a screen I don't know what to call and was stuck there as I didn't flash other recoveries like cwm etc.. I then rebooted by power&vol and downoaded update again and it instaled. Note my phone automatically advised of the OTA if yours hasn't then there is something different.
I would highly recommend NOT to following my steps. Follow tookit video. That should get you there.
It is the official update from HTC so it should allow future updates.
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Thanks guys.
Finally I went the other way... I was trying so hard to do this that soon I realized that I will be getting a custom ROM in a matter of time. But I usually use Stocks Modded ROMs so I did this.
Relocked the boot loader.
Flashed Firmware.zip from the OTA 3.14.751 from OTA.ZIP file. My word here is USE THE FIRMWARE FOR YOUR CID!!! ONLY THAT ONE
Flashed CWM 5.8.4.0 Recovery (i had an old one).
Downloaded Custom ROM (tried 2 in two days so far. same procedure, ARHD and InserCoin)
Flashed Boot.img from that custom ROM.
Went to Recovery, install ZIP from SDcard. and Flashed the custom ROM.
Preety Neat I must say.
Enjoying performance from JB... Photo CAM is insanely FAST
Thanks to Everyone. XDA Is a great place to find info but it could be messy some times.
Shelby5 said:
Ok do you have 2.18.751? If you have this version I can give you the update as I have it on pc. Its 3.14.751.20. I just have to work out how to upoad it to xda site.
I woulnt follow my steps exactly as I'm lucky I didn't damage my phone.
The up date has firmware.zip that contains boot.img, recovery.img etc. Follow the instructions Hansen toolkit video on the link. I flashed the HTC recovery and boot image. Then went to perm root my phone. It was on a screen I don't know what to call and was stuck there as I didn't flash other recoveries like cwm etc.. I then rebooted by power&vol and downoaded update again and it instaled. Note my phone automatically advised of the OTA if yours hasn't then there is something different.
I would highly recommend NOT to following my steps. Follow tookit video. That should get you there.
It is the official update from HTC so it should allow future updates.
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Shelby5, Can you please send me the link to the video? and yes, that IS my version, and I've been notified of the update - but because of my modded rom couldn't install it.
JB requires a newer hboot, no? mine currently has 1.12, and I've understood that it requires 1.33, so does it cover that too?
Thanks!
about the ZIP file - is it the one that your device downloaded OTA to install? cause if so - I got that one. and if not - I'd appreciate if you can upload it even to dropbox or something for the day and tomorrow so I can download it
Noodlez I can do it for you later Today. Ill msg you later with details.
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Hi all,
I'm really out of touch with the scene so please go easy on me.
I rooted my European M9 a while ago and have TWRP recovery installed, S-On, Software version is 2.10.61.6, Baseband is 01.01_U11440601_83.06.50709G_F
The other day I got the Android 6.0 OTA update which I was not expecting as I was under the impression that since rooting (as has been the case with all my other Androids) OTAs would be disabled.
Just to see what would happen I accepted it, the device rebooted and of course loaded TWRP. So that's a no go.
Could someone please tell me what the best way of updating without having to lose all my data is?
S-off is the best and only way to save your data. Otherwise you need to go through the complex process of getting it back to official status.
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OK, what's the best way to get S-off? I see there's a $25 app some people are using, is there an alternative to that?
No alternative. Sunshine works great but be sure to read twice and press the button once..
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OK, thanks for the advice. So if I get S-OFF via Sunshine, what's next?
I have a full backup of my system before I rooted, can I not just flash back the stock recovery and then proceed with the OTA?
If not and I need to be S-OFF still then fine, just trying to understand why that is.
Thanks!
S-off just makes life easier for being able to run unsigned code. Like, unsigned roms will install.
If you flash the stock backup you still need to obtain official status to take the ota. This is known to bugger your phone if you get it wrong. S-off solves the buggered phones issue..
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OK, thanks for clarifying the info.
I'm now rooted, unlocked and s-off.
The backup of my recovery partition is "recovery.emmc.win", what's the process to flash that back to the phone and continue from there so I can accept the OTA?
Another thing - It's possible that I accepted another OTA since making that backup as I'm now on 2.10.61.6. I can't find a stock recovery for that version so does this affect the process?
Bump! Can anyone help me out here with the correct guide to follow please? Really don't want to mess this up!
Hi JonnyG1980, I am happy to help you but don't suppose you could upload your backup as I have been looking for it for ages?
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AirwolfUK said:
Hi JonnyG1980, I am happy to help you but don't suppose you could upload your backup as I have been looking for it for ages?
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My stock recovery backup? I'm not sure which version that is taken from as I'm pretty sure I accepted an OTA to get to the version I am on now.
Download the orange RUU.zip from here and place on your sdcard rename to 0PJAIMG.zip boot into download mode and it'll prompt you to flash make sure you backup all your data etc beforehand as this will wipe your device
liam_davenport said:
Download the orange RUU.zip from here and place on your sdcard rename to 0PJAIMG.zip boot into download mode and it'll prompt you to flash make sure you backup all your data etc beforehand as this will wipe your device
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I'm trying to update WITHOUT wiping my device. Hence going S-OFF.
liam_davenport said:
Download the orange RUU.zip from here and place on your sdcard rename to 0PJAIMG.zip boot into download mode and it'll prompt you to flash make sure you backup all your data etc beforehand as this will wipe your device
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Hi Liam, where / what RUU?
I am trying to get back to some release of stock to get the mm ota.
I think I have three choices?
1. Restore my 1.32.16.x backup and take the 2.10.61.x again then on to MM but I need stock 1.32.61.x recovery
2. Restore someone else's 2.10.61.x backup?
3. S-off
So if anyone has either 1 or 2 I would be very grateful.
Thanks -
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try to follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-m9/help/htc-one-m9-3-35-401-12-ruu-installer-t3318517
xyqtt said:
try to follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-m9/help/htc-one-m9-3-35-401-12-ruu-installer-t3318517
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Yes but I need the specific RUU first!
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Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but could anyone explain the benefits of S=Off again to me?
I've tried various RUU to update my phone and all have rejected the CID (ORANG001) so I've had no option than to use one with a matching base (x.x.61.x) to my existing rom. I was under the impression that the CID was made irrelevant or could be changed, but I can find no reference on how to go about this.
As I couldn't find my current RUU, or the latest MM release I had to go with 1.32.61.15, has this downgrade been permitted by being S-Off?
If you didn't change your CID then being s-off enabled you to downgrade.
As a reference, I am still s-on and cannot downgrade to 1.32.x from 2.10.x
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AirwolfUK said:
If you didn't change your CID then being s-off enabled you to downgrade.
As a reference, I am still s-on and cannot downgrade to 1.32.x from 2.10.x
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Thanks, I think I get it now. Now just the question of whether to re-root or not remains.
Hi johnny did you achieve s-off? If so, how? Also, did you get to download and install the ota?
Hello guys, Ive just got new OTA (OTA_M8_QL_UL_M60_SENSE70_MR_HTC_Europe_2.20.401.1) for my m8s. But Iam rooted and have twrp installed, so decided to ask for someone to create a flashable zip for it, because I think Iam not only one who want to flash it. @smeejaytee @leather.face
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I can upload it to cloud if someone can make it
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jonke11 said:
Hello guys, Ive just got new OTA (OTA_M8_QL_UL_M60_SENSE70_MR_HTC_Europe_2.20.401.1) for my m8s. But Iam rooted and have twrp installed, so decided to ask for someone to create a flashable zip for it, because I think Iam not only one who want to flash it. @smeejaytee @leather.face
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I can make a firmware.zip for you, but you won't be able to flash one unless you are S-Off.
If you are S-Off, upload the OTA to the cloud and link me. I'll still have to find a M8s RUU to pull the firmware from for a base, but I'm pretty sure I know where to find one.
But be aware that I don't own the M8s model (just regular M8), so you will have to flash this untested and at your own risk.
xunholyx said:
I can make a firmware.zip for you, but you won't be able to flash one unless you are S-Off.
If you are S-Off, upload the OTA to the cloud and link me. I'll still have to find a M8s RUU to pull the firmware from for a base, but I'm pretty sure I know where to find one.
But be aware that I don't own the M8s model (just regular M8), so you will have to flash this untested and at your own risk.
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Hmm, iam S-on mate, because I didn't paid for unlocking my phone
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jonke11 said:
Hmm, iam S-on mate, because I didn't paid for unlocking my phone
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Well, if you are S-On, the only way to update is by official means.
You'll either have to:
1) S-Off and make or find a modified firmware.zip
2) find an RUU for the newest update, backup your stuff (RUU will wipe your phone), relock your bootloader, run the RUU, then unlock your bootloader again, reflash TWRP, etc....
3) restore a TWRP backup of the stock never rooted ROM, flash the stock recovery, and get the OTA to work that way.
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Well, if you are S-On, the only way to update is by official means.
You'll either have to:
1) S-Off and make or find a modified firmware.zip
2) find an RUU for the newest update, backup your stuff (RUU will wipe your phone), relock your bootloader, run the RUU, then unlock your bootloader again, reflash TWRP, etc....
3) restore a TWRP backup of the stock never rooted ROM, flash the stock recovery, and get the OTA to work that way.
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Hmm. So I cant flash stock recovery with s-on?
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jonke11 said:
Hmm. So I cant flash stock recovery with s-on?
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You can flash stock recovery with s-on. I think the problem is that OTA affects some other "protected" partitions (hboot, radio) that (with s-on) can only be modified with a signed (official HTC) zip, OTA, etc. So by putting the OTA in an unsigned zip, you've violated this requirement, and will get a signature fail. S-off bypasses this requirement.
That's my guess, anyway.
Thank you guys! I will try to flash stock recovery and flash ota, because HTC made this, so I think it should work for me
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Thank you guys! I will try to flash stock recovery and flash ota, because HTC made this, so I think it should work for me
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You need the stock, never rooted ROM (unroot doesn't work) otherwise the OTA will fail.
Not sure where you can find a stock TWRP backup for your version; if you didn't make one before rooting (and you always should).
Everything worked perfect, but like did you said, ota didn't worked
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So I've been trying the past couple weeks to root and flash my M9 (AT&T) to no avail. I have ADB, fastboot, sdk and the htc drivers installed on my computer. Thing is, moonshine keeps giving me an error after checking for updates, sunshine is unable to gain temproot, adb won't flash twrp because I have s-on, RUU updates keep failing and I can't get OTA updates to install. I'm on android 5.0.2 with firmware version 1.32.502.9 and did the HTC DEV process to unlock the bootloader. Any help will be much appreciated.
re-lock your bootloader with "fastboot oem lock" then you can run RUU and update it to latest firmware.
After that write a message and I'll help you with root, twrp, etc..
Thanks for the response. I'll get on it sometime this evening. All I'm concerned about is getting twrp installed so I can use it to flash a custom rom with su already installed and all the bloat are removed.
Donnie267 said:
Thanks for the response. I'll get on it sometime this evening. All I'm concerned about is getting twrp installed so I can use it to flash a custom rom with su already installed and all the bloat are removed.
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Yeah, but first you need to update the firmware to latest(nougat) because with 5.0.2 firmware you can flash only lollipop and maybe some marshmallow roms and I don't think you want an old rom.
Also you don't need S-OFF for root, twrp, custom roms, so don't buy it if you really don't need it.
That's the thing. Every time I've tried flashing twrp, adb spat an error saying that it couldn't because I have S-on.
Donnie267 said:
That's the thing. Every time I've tried flashing twrp, adb spat an error saying that it couldn't because I have S-on.
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Hmm that's weird, maybe you did something wrong.
You need to boot in download mode(download not bootloader) and do this command "fastboot flash recovery path/to/recovery.img" but first you need unlocked bootloader with htcdev.
Two important information:
A) The bootloader doesn't need to be locked or relocked for flashing a RUU on the M9. (Due to FRP I actually highly discourage everyone from relocking if you tinkered with this phone and don't know whether the RUU you want to flash is actually flashable on your phone. In other words, everytime you haven't already flashed the RUU successfully on your phone, before.)
B) You can't flash Nougat RUUs on a M9 with a non-Nougat firmware due to the different encryption keys.
Please take a look at the ReadMe thread if you need/are interested in more details.
Edit: And yes, that error always appears if you try to flash TWRP while the phone is booted to the bootloader.
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1: I did some poking around on other threads here and found that I need to go to marshmallow to be able to go to nougat. Only ruu I've been able to find is the Verizon version and I need the one for AT&T if any of you have a link to one.
2: all I need is to get twrp on my phone and I'll he gravy. If any of you know how or where to find the process of flashing twrp WITHOUT rooting. That would be great.
Have you read the ReadMe thread? It contains a huge collection of RUUs and instructions for flashing TWRP. BTW, rooting is never needed for flashing TWRP. It's the other way round. You need TWRP for being able to flash SuperSU or Magisk.
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Of course I have. Every last one of them says to use adb to flash twrp which 100% of the time says it failed because I have S-on as stated in my original post.
As mentioned before, that error occurs if you booted your phone to the bootloader instead of the download mode. Follow the instructions in the ReadMe thread and flash TWRP while your phone is booted to the download mode.
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Finally got twrp installed and flashed the rooted developer edition running lollipop. Problem now is when I try a ton running marshmallow or nougat, my phone boots directly to bootloader. Any ideas why?
Android M roms require firmware 3.x and Android N can be used on at least firmware 3.x but are recommended to be used on firmware 4.x.
If you use older firmware versions the roms won't boot as @lucyr03 explained in one of the first replies in this thread.
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Right. Now, would I be able to just jump right to the latest firmware, or do incremental updates and where can I get the necessary files?
The files are in the ReadMe thread.
You can jump to the latest 3.x firmware via a RUU. Due to the new encryption keys you can't use 4.x RUUs, though. You'll need to update from 3.x to 4.x via the software update function of the phone settings. Be aware that AT&T only let's you download updates for their branded phones if you own an AT&T sim card.
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I'm using rooted developer edition Ron and every time I try updating, I get a message saying that my phone has been modified and can't update and the only ruu files on the HTC site are for nougat.
You can't update that custom rom you're using because its rom base doesn't match your phone's firmware. That's why you face that error message.
As written before, read the ReadMe thread.
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I'm using rooted developer edition Ron and every time I try updating, I get a message saying that my phone has been modified and can't update and the only ruu files on the HTC site are for nougat.
Can you comment the link to the Readme?