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Hey guys,
I've been searching but couldn't find anything that really helps with my problem. I bought an HTC One M8 last year, it was supposed to be unlocked from factory but when it arrived it turned out it was an unlocked AT&T model. Anyways so I tried to root the phone but it was already rooted and running a TWRP (I don't know how this happened as the phone was sealed when I got it) I have no problem with this but as the phone is rooted and doesn't have the stock recovery I can't get any OTA and I'm still in 4.4.2. I was wondering if any of you guys could help me update my device to stock 5.0.1 without flashing a custom ROM.
Thanks
rj.camargo said:
I've been searching but couldn't find anything that really helps with my problem. I bought an HTC One M8 last year, it was supposed to be unlocked from factory but when it arrived it turned out it was an unlocked AT&T model. Anyways so I tried to root the phone but it was already rooted and running a TWRP (I don't know how this happened as the phone was sealed when I got it) I have no problem with this but as the phone is rooted and doesn't have the stock recovery I can't get any OTA and I'm still in 4.4.2. I was wondering if any of you guys could help me update my device to stock 5.0.1 without flashing a custom ROM.
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First off, there is no stock 5.0.1 for the AT&T version yet. There isn't even a 4.4.4 released yes (although it might be anytime soon).
Further, you aren't going to receive any OTAs since you aren't connected to the AT&T network. Some folks not specifically familiar with AT&T will disagree, saying the OTAs will come over WiFi even if not connected to the specific carrier. But AT&T is pretty unique in this regard (well, maybe other carriers in the US do it too, but not WWE versions).
You can download an official RUU to upgrade to 4.4.3. Then wait for RUUs to be posted for 4.4.4 and/or 5.0.1. That is all you can do at this time without s-off. With s-off, you can convert to any version you want, and get official OTAs that way (such as convert to WWE version), or run the US Developer's Edition 5.0 RUU.
redpoint73 said:
First off, there is no stock 5.0.1 for the AT&T version yet. There isn't even a 4.4.4 released yes (although it might be anytime soon).
Further, you aren't going to receive any OTAs since you aren't connected to the AT&T network. Some folks not specifically familiar with AT&T will disagree, saying the OTAs will come over WiFi even if not connected to the specific carrier. But AT&T is pretty unique in this regard (well, maybe other carriers in the US do it too, but not WWE versions).
You can download an official RUU to upgrade to 4.4.3. Then wait for RUUs to be posted for 4.4.4 and/or 5.0.1. That is all you can do at this time without s-off. With s-off, you can convert to any version you want, and get official OTAs that way (such as convert to WWE version), or run the US Developer's Edition 5.0 RUU.
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Excuse me but what is WWE exactly? Ok so my two options are use sunshine to make my htc s-off and convert to another version or flash a custom rom with 5.0.1?
Thanks for your help.
rj.camargo said:
Excuse me but what is WWE exactly?
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World Wide English. Which doesn't really say much. Its the "international" version sold in Europe and other places.
rj.camargo said:
Ok so my two options are use sunshine to make my htc s-off and convert to another version or flash a custom rom with 5.0.1?
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Nope, your second option won't work. You need firmware on your phone that is compatible with 5.0.1, otherwise WiFi will be broken, and.or extreme long boot times (>10 minutes). And the only way to update your firmware is with s-off (until AT&T releases more updates).
So really, if you want to update now, your only option is s-off.
Ok dude, thanks for your help. I guess I'll have to s-off
rj.camargo said:
Ok dude, thanks for your help. I guess I'll have to s-off
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If you want to update now, that is what I suggest. I don't see LP coming to AT&T for another month at least, and it might be even longer than that (months). We're still waiting for 4.4.4.
Be sure to check bootloader and confirm if its s-on or s-off (says one or the other near the top of the hboot screen). Since it was already rooted and bootloader unlocked, who knows, you might have lucked out and gotten a phone that is already s-off as well.
Yeah and like you said if I'm not connected to the AT&T network I might never get the update so it is the only option. BTW I checked and it's S-On =(
Thanks for your help.
Hey guys,
I have a friend who has an unlocked M9 and earlier on I helped him root it by unlcoking bootloader, flashing twrp and supersu. He has recently told me that there has been an OTA update that keeps popping up on his phone and that this update will help with the camera and the overheating of the phone. I've been searching a lot through the forums but haven't found a tutorial/process on how to update and root. How can I do this?
MaRz0o said:
Hey guys,
I have a friend who has an unlocked M9 and earlier on I helped him root it by unlcoking bootloader, flashing twrp and supersu. He has recently told me that there has been an OTA update that keeps popping up on his phone and that this update will help with the camera and the overheating of the phone. I've been searching a lot through the forums but haven't found a tutorial/process on how to update and root. How can I do this?
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He may be getting an OTA notification, but the OTA will not work unless his phone is completely stock. What carrier is he on? There are RUUs for several that will update him safely (though they will wipe the phone), and then he can unlock and root the same way as before.
Alternatively, you can pay $25 to s-off with the Sunshine app and manually update the firmware, then flash a 5.1 rom. This approach is trickier but won't wipe the phone or unroot.
iElvis said:
He may be getting an OTA notification, but the OTA will not work unless his phone is completely stock. What carrier is he on? There are RUUs for several that will update him safely (though they will wipe the phone), and then he can unlock and root the same way as before.
Alternatively, you can pay $25 to s-off with the Sunshine app and manually update the firmware, then flash a 5.1 rom. This approach is trickier but won't wipe the phone or unroot.
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Its unlocked but he has it on AT&T carrier. I remember seeing a number saying 132.617.6 or something like that. We tried updating before by doing a factory reset on the phone amd then trying to update but the update always failed. Luckily we made a twrp backup and just restored that.
MaRz0o said:
Its unlocked but he has it on AT&T carrier. I remember seeing a number saying 132.617.6 or something like that. We tried updating before by doing a factory reset on the phone amd then trying to update but the update always failed. Luckily we made a twrp backup and just restored that.
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There is a RUU for 5.1 on AT&T. That would be the safest way to update if you don't want to s-off, but it will wipe the phone.
iElvis said:
There is a RUU for 5.1 on AT&T. That would be the safest way to update if you don't want to s-off, but it will wipe the phone.
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Awesome, where will I be able to find this RUU? I found a thread but I just see RUU updates for Europe, Asia, T-mobile, etc. No AT&T.
MaRz0o said:
Awesome, where will I be able to find this RUU? I found a thread but I just see RUU updates for Europe, Asia, T-mobile, etc. No AT&T.
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Argh, I'm wrong. It was Sprint that released the 5.1 RUU, not AT&T. But what you can do is relock, run the 1.32 RUU for AT&T, then take the OTA, which you can do safely at that point. Then just unlock again and root.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html#att
iElvis said:
Argh, I'm wrong. It was Sprint that released the 5.1 RUU, not AT&T. But what you can do is relock, run the 1.32 RUU for AT&T, then take the OTA, which you can do safely at that point. Then just unlock again and root.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html#att
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At&t definitely posted an ruu. I've run it many times and is on the HTC website.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m9-att/news/
jollywhitefoot said:
At&t definitely posted an ruu. I've run it many times and is on the HTC website.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m9-att/news/
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Thanks, I couldn't find it and it was driving me nuts.
iElvis said:
Thanks, I couldn't find it and it was driving me nuts.
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yeah, so weird. The latest rom column says 1.32 the download link is to the 1.32 exe but the "view" link under Details takes you to the news page I linked to where you can download the 2.6 exe
https://twitter.com/htc/status/768553476670496768
They update will come to the unlocked version first, followed by the M9 and the A9.
As someone with an S-Off'd Verizon 10, I will be able to get it when the unlocked update is out, right?
TJFadness said:
As someone with an S-Off'd Verizon 10, I will be able to get it when the unlocked update is out, right?
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Yes
TJFadness said:
As someone with an S-Off'd Verizon 10, I will be able to get it when the unlocked update is out, right?
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I wouldnt update anything that isn't provided by Verizon if anything firmware based is needed. I'm sure it will be needed for N.
I'm sure custom roms will be updated pretty quick for us to use tough till Verizon steps it up, we are way behind.
Does S-ON telst001 count as unlocked/international? it isnt locked to telstra afaik
I updated my HTC 10 to the brand new 7.0. It seems either Google or HTC has totally broken the long pause conference call pin feature in android. (This is where you dial a number and a conference pin separated by a semi-colon like XXXXXXXXXX;XXXXX) The popup asking me if I want to send the Pin number disappears after about 3 or 4 seconds way before the "Beep" when i need to send the pin.
Total deal breaker for me, since I make conference calls ALL day and I'm not going to revert to writing pin numbers on my hand while i'm in the car so I can dial them at the beep.
I desperately need to go back to Android 6.0.
I have lots of flashing, unlocking, and custom rom experience, but this device has some strange quirks like breaking the radio if you decrypt the file system...
Do I just need to use an android 6.0 RUU?
Will there be any issues due to encryption, 7.0 firmware, or anything else I need to be careful of when downgrading?
I am wondering too about downgrading procedure...
I want to know if it is safe using ruu.
I want to convert my international Htc 10 to developer unlocked and flash ruu so I can receive the nougat it's just to try it out.
Can I reverse this?
Looking forward to that answer.
If you're s-off it should be ok I think. But without s-off, downgrading firmware using an official RUU is not possible
sardelisp said:
I am wondering too about downgrading procedure...
I want to know if it is safe using ruu.
I want to convert my international Htc 10 to developer unlocked and flash ruu so I can receive the nougat it's just to try it out.
Can I reverse this?
Looking forward to that answer.
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I was on Viper 3,5. I converted my cid-mid to us unlocked and installed latest US UNLOCKED MM RUU.exe successfuly. Then I checked the firmware and took the official OTA,upgraded to Nougat successfuly. So I guess you can have Nougat,too.
Now I am on Nougat US Unlocked S-off cid BS_US001 mid 2PS650000 . I am wondering if I could revert to MM with the RUU.exe I have. Do I have to change to Supercid or do anything else,or just the RUU.exe would do the trick?
ordeniz said:
I was on Viper 3,5. I converted my cid-mid to us unlocked and installed latest US UNLOCKED MM RUU.exe successfuly. Then I checked the firmware and took the official OTA,upgraded to Nougat successfuly. So I guess you can have Nougat,too.
Now I am on Nougat US Unlocked S-off cid BS_US001 mid 2PS650000 . I am wondering if I could revert to MM with the RUU.exe I have. Do I have to change to Supercid or do anything else,or just the RUU.exe would do the trick?
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I downgraded back to 6 from 7 with no issues
gillim74 said:
I downgraded back to 6 from 7 with no issues
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You were like me?
ordeniz said:
You were like me?
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Yeah
gillim74 said:
I downgraded back to 6 from 7 with no issues
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And when you say you downgraded..
Were you S-Off? (I'm not and since you said you were like ordeniz, I assume you were?)
Were you on the official 7 OTA (with firmware upgraded) or a custom rom built on 7 but without the firmware upgrade? (Again, if you were like ordeniz then you had the official OTA.)
I just wanted to be clear, and not make any assumptions.
x51 said:
And when you say you downgraded..
Were you S-Off? (I'm not and since you said you were like ordeniz, I assume you were?)
Were you on the official 7 OTA (with firmware upgraded) or a custom rom built on 7 but without the firmware upgrade? (Again, if you were like ordeniz then you had the official OTA.)
I just wanted to be clear, and not make any assumptions.
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I am s-off converted my htc 10 to us unlocked as its the verizon variant upgraded to nougat didnt reallly like it so i downgrade back to 1.96
Tarima said:
If you're s-off it should be ok I think. But without s-off, downgrading firmware using an official RUU is not possible
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gillim74 said:
I am s-off converted my htc 10 to us unlocked as its the verizon variant upgraded to nougat didnt reallly like it so i downgrade back to 1.96
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OK. Thanks to all.
Guess I need to S-Off. (I hope sunshine works on 7.0) or I'm pretty well screwed.
x51 said:
OK. Thanks to all.
Guess I need to S-Off. (I hope sunshine works on 7.0) or I'm pretty well screwed.
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As of now i dont think sunshine does
The sure thing I know is that you need to be rooted to be s-off. If sunshine will succeed you will know it when the sunshine app check your system. Download the app and before in app purchase a licence will tell you if you have successfull s off.
incallui.apk
Would someone be so kind as to upload a copy of InCallUI.apk from a 6.x Rom.
It's located in
/system/priv-app/InCallUI
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible for me to use the stock RUU to update to nougat on my htc one m9 rather than waiting for t-mobile to release a verified rom later in the year?
Yes u can. Just make sure that u are s-off and bootloader unlocked and then flash the dev edition ruu and u will get nougat.
Faisal0000 said:
Yes u can. Just make sure that u are s-off and bootloader unlocked and then flash the dev edition ruu and u will get nougat.
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Not quite. To flash the developer RUU on a T-Mobile branded M9, you'll need to change your MID & CID to match the SKU of the developer edition RUU. If you don't know about these acronyms, stop what you are doing and read up. The FAQ section of the M9 readme thread, question 9, walks you through converting GSM phones (like the T-Mobile version) to the developer edition.
Faisal0000 said:
Yes u can. Just make sure that u are s-off and bootloader unlocked and then flash the dev edition ruu and u will get nougat.
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Hi, And me I have htc one m9 sprint i can flash ruu nougat???
EKB8789 said:
Hi, And me I have htc one m9 sprint i can flash ruu nougat???
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Not until Sprint releases the Android Nougat update.
The only update the is currently available is for the developer edition of the M9, a GSM model. Sprint is a CDMA carrier and incompatible with GSM.
Thanks for clarifying.
And you cannot flash on sprint or cdma phones. The ruu is only for gsm phones.
computerslayer said:
Not quite. To flash the developer RUU on a T-Mobile branded M9, you'll need to change your MID & CID to match the SKU of the developer edition RUU. If you don't know about these acronyms, stop what you are doing and read up. The FAQ section of the M9 readme thread, question 9, walks you through converting GSM phones (like the T-Mobile version) to the developer edition.
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Thanks for linking me that. It also solved my question about why I was experiencing a bootloop, and gave me the method I had been searching for to crossflash
boredherobrine13 said:
Thanks for linking me that. It also solved my question about why I was experiencing a bootloop, and gave me the method I had been searching for to crossflash
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Wonderful! Always nice when we find a solution. Kudos go to Flippy498, who created that thread and updates it as things come out, and to the many XDA members who have contributed to it.
computerslayer said:
Wonderful! Always nice when we find a solution. Kudos go to Flippy498, who created that thread and updates it as things come out, and to the many XDA members who have contributed to it.
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Yup, now my next question is...how do i flash firmware v4...as I did CID/MID conversion to the Dev/Unlocked version, but now need the firmware, not just the RUU to flash
boredherobrine13 said:
Yup, now my next question is...how do i flash firmware v4...as I did CID/MID conversion to the Dev/Unlocked version, but now need the firmware, not just the RUU to flash
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RUUs have the firmware along with everything else. While I'm pretty sure there's a way to flash individual components (radio, firmware, et cetera), that is beyond me. I stick to using the RUUs, and recommend them heartily. The easiest method is the SD card method - outlined in that same post. You'll end up wiping your internal phone storage (so back up what you care about), but it'll get you to the latest and greatest for the M9.
computerslayer said:
RUUs have the firmware along with everything else. While I'm pretty sure there's a way to flash individual components (radio, firmware, et cetera), that is beyond me. I stick to using the RUUs, and recommend them heartily. The easiest method is the SD card method - outlined in that same post. You'll end up wiping your internal phone storage (so back up what you care about), but it'll get you to the latest and greatest for the M9.
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Really? I read that you couldn't use an RUU because verify key on firmware v1-3 is different from the one on v4, so you need v4 firmware to use a v4 RUU, which requires using a method. So I converted to dev/ATT/unlocked, flashed a v3 RUU I found online, and now I'm going to try to update to v4 which is apparently safer. If this fails, I'll try the RUU. After all, this is all vanilla to HTC so it should tell me if it won't work.
boredherobrine13 said:
Really? I read that you couldn't use an RUU because verify key on firmware v1-3 is different from the one on v4, so you need v4 firmware to use a v4 RUU, which requires using a method. So I converted to dev/ATT/unlocked, flashed a v3 RUU I found online, and now I'm going to try to update to v4 which is apparently safer. If this fails, I'll try the RUU. After all, this is all vanilla to HTC so it should tell me if it won't work.
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I'm pretty sure the issues about keys has to do with trying to downgrade. But that's above my knowledge level.
I know for sure that you can apply the Nougat RUU after the Marshmallow RUU without issue because I have done this myself.
computerslayer said:
I'm pretty sure the issues about keys has to do with trying to downgrade. But that's above my knowledge level.
I know for sure that you can apply the Nougat RUU after the Marshmallow RUU without issue because I have done this myself.
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Really? Well..I've already applied v3.0 and am going through all the updates. But Its certainly worth a try I suppose.
computerslayer said:
I'm pretty sure the issues about keys has to do with trying to downgrade. But that's above my knowledge level.
I know for sure that you can apply the Nougat RUU after the Marshmallow RUU without issue because I have done this myself.
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Just tried. Got an err.
boredherobrine13 said:
Just tried. Got an err.
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Are you trying to take OTA updates or using an RUU?
Also, what's the error message?
computerslayer said:
Are you trying to take OTA updates or using an RUU?
Also, what's the error message?
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Tried to use an RUU. Got a signature error of some sort. Can't remember the number. RN it is taking OTA updates smoothly. Now, it will either get to v4 eventually through the OTA updates, or it will cut off at the top of v3 (in which case I have done something horribly wrong). I will try to flash RUU after I get v4 through OTA, just for fun and for the sake of the community
Edit 1: v4 finally showed up through OTA. 2GB Downloading currently. Will still RUU to double check compatibility. Will post back with success or not.
Edit 2: v4 was successful, device convered to HIMAULATT. Now flashing the Dev RUU, which works. It didn't work on v3. Therefor I was correct, and RUU v3 -> v4 isn't compatible.
boredherobrine13 said:
Tried to use an RUU. Got a signature error of some sort. Can't remember the number. RN it is taking OTA updates smoothly. Now, it will either get to v4 eventually through the OTA updates, or it will cut off at the top of v3 (in which case I have done something horribly wrong). I will try to flash RUU after I get v4 through OTA, just for fun and for the sake of the community
Edit 1: v4 finally showed up through OTA. 2GB Downloading currently. Will still RUU to double check compatibility. Will post back with success or not.
Edit 2: v4 was successful, device convered to HIMAULATT. Now flashing the Dev RUU, which works. It didn't work on v3. Therefor I was correct, and RUU v3 -> v4 isn't compatible.
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Going from Marshmallow to Nougat is definitely possible (I've done it myself) - I'm not sure why your phone gave you such troubles. But in any case, I'm glad your phone is fully updated! Congratulations.
computerslayer said:
Going from Marshmallow to Nougat is definitely possible (I've done it myself) - I'm not sure why your phone gave you such troubles. But in any case, I'm glad your phone is fully updated! Congratulations.
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As I wrote before, was not successful with mine. I was not able to flash Su 2.79. How did that work for you.
Pls can you make a discription how to
Mine is S-on, is it neccessary first to s-off