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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ChongoDroid:
Yeah it's all good brotha, this phone is still so new who knows what went wrong... it was funny, ( prepare for rant ) last time I followed the debranding guide and I softbricked I got too impatient for a fix so I ripped it to bestbuy and gave em the ol' "I dunno it just turned off" story and exchanged it.. ran home rooted it and manually got rid of some of the bloat myself. Then I read your soft brick fix for dummies and got my balls back, so this time I try it and when I get to the recovery symbol I'm like "oh well I'll just open this RUU and.." then I find out it's windows only and that it'll take hours to set this up... so I'm screwed again!! I remembered that I still had my Gnex so I go to pop in the sim and remember I've got a micro sim now haha.. so I start making a home made sim adapter.

I just sliced my finger open trying to make a sim adapter and it's bleeding like a son of a *****... but hey... IT WORKS. :D I hope my pain can bring some humour to this board.

TL;DR: I've bled for this phone

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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
Atleast you can go back to best buy, I bought my phone outright, I have no swap options if I screw my phone. So I make sure it works before I do something to my phone (most of the time). Lol

... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ChongoDroid:
I bought my gnex off eBay and they voided my warranty right off the bat so I bought this in store for that reason, lol.

Well I've got a few options, should I leave my phone soft bricked until we have some way of restoring it via fast boot, should I find a windows friend or learn how to VM on my crappy Mac mini, or do I go back to best buy and play the same card and hope I can get away with it again (how many times can you even bring back a device in the first 30 days lol)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] zecstone:
Bestbuy sold you the phone outright? Tried my local bestbuy, only 3yr contract
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] equlizer:
Most wont sell outright but if you find the right person they will cause they dont know :) It still shows in the computer the price for buying outright.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
The people at best buy didn't even realize you could buy the phone outright and flat out said that you cant.

I came back to the best buy mobile store after purchasing the phone from a 'Rogers' (AML Communications) store (They were located in the same mall) and rub the reciept & phone in the guy's face, simply because he was lecturing me in the snootiest way possible before hand (and I cant stand that).

... delegated to a Nigerian prince. Send money.

Edit: Those of you who manage to get the problem of now booting to recovery only.

follow whats outlined in the link in the second post. but relock your bootloader prior or you will get "Unknown error [155]" returned in the ruu installer
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] PeterGuru:
Now Settings don't work ...

Thank you for this information; however, now I cannot get into my Settings. Everything else appears to still be working well, but it's impossible to get into Settings.

If I press on Settings, I get the following error message:

Unfortunately, the process com.android.settings has stopped

Yes, I double-checked all the files you said could be deleted. However, I did not delete them all. There are a few Rogers files I use, such as My Account, which allows me to get a quick up-date on my phone and data usage.

Any ideas?

Peter

P.S. This inability to go into Settings also seems to have slowed down the system somewhat.

Addendum: And I used Root Explorer, which shouldn't make a difference. I prefer Root over ES.

Addendum 2: Strangely enough, now that I can't get into Settings, I can't do a Settings>Storage to perform a Factory Reset. On a side issue, is there a way to get my phone back to stock Rogers? Do I simply download the Rogers RUU? If I do that, what do I need to do; put it in the root directory and change the file name to something like PJ83IMG? Any suggestions to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Addendum 3: Now I think I may have bricked my phone. I tried overwriting all the files again, and reboot. However, it will not boot. The boot process begins for about 10 seconds, and then I get simply a black screen. I think the unit then powers off. The only way to start it again is to hold the power button for about 5-10 seconds until the capacitive buttons flash about 6 times, and then the semi-boot process starts again; however, it quickly goes back to the black screen.

I tried doing a factory reset from the bootloader screen, but that accomplished nothing. The same thing happened. Any ideas on what I can do now?

Addendum 4: Well, I don't know what I did, but my phone is DOA. I returned it to Rogers and got a new one. Yes, I acted dumb. :) The most surprising thing was, when I first arrived, the guy took my phone and brought it to his manager. The manager had it for at least 15 minutes in another room. I'm thinking, oh crap, he's going to see the TAMPERED word on the bootloader screen. Anyway, after 15 minutes he came out and showed me the bootloader screen. He asked if I had anything important on the phone because he wanted to do a Factory Reset. I told him to go ahead, saying that I had copies of everything on Dropbox and on my laptop. He never saw the black TAMPERED at the top of the screen. Phew! Anyway, after about 30 minutes, I had a new phone. This time, though, I think I'll be a bit more careful.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ChongoDroid:
Lol don't worry.. I did it twice... in fact I'm in best buy parking lot right now killing time while rogers systems come back online.. lol twice.. I told em it was an app I downloaded that said my phone would go faster.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] PeterGuru:
Have a look at Addendum 4 in my previous reply ...

I added a story to Addendum 4 in my previous reply. Have a look. :)

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ChongoDroid:
Hahaha that's jokes.. the chick at best buy briefly talked about sending it in for repair and my heart fluttered a few times.. also had a sinking feeling for some reason when they "switched imei" for some reason I kept thinking of the HTC dev site popping up and yelling "THIS MAN IS AN IMPOSTOR, BOO THIS MAN!!!"
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] PeterGuru:
Then the guy asked me ...

Finally, after all was said and done, and I had my new phone, the first guy, the one who took my phone to the manager, said, "Okay, now you can tell me what you did to the phone. I want to know so that I can do it, too." I kept up with the "stupid" act, and he smiled.

Peter
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] bongd:
My phone was purchased from a Wireless Communications third party Rogers dealer and I had always thought they were a full out Rogers store. I was scared but over the phone they said they could do a swap, same with the Social Media Reps and Technical Support.

I went to the store, they called DSG to get a confirmation number and it took about 10 minutes for them to find the return forms and make sure all their ducks were in a row. I made sure to keep my mouth shut and listen for anything such as returned equipment rejections or things which may void my warranty, but they said it just came down to physical damage and the liquid/water damage indicator.

Obviously both checked out and they confirmed "no surprise charges" so I walked out with a new device and a lot less anxiety. If I did get a charge down the line I'd just bring up the fact that I was never informed of any potential charges and I'm sure I could negotiate my way out of it. Worked in a call center for much longer than I'd like to confide but it's helped me to weasel my way into some nice retention rate plans and early upgrades, waived fees, etc. :D

Sorry for being off-topic. I ran this script with a bit of hesitation but it went through fine. Should remind people to set permissions though, because apps like Root Explorer don't do that automatically and that's what gave me a soft-brick. I flashed a Teg3 boot.img and recovery.img so RUUs wouldn't work to recover from soft-brick because it probably changed the internal identifications and flashed to a different partition. :(
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
I'll be attempting to get the same problems some of you have been getting tonight

I'll be intentionally wiping my phone and returning it to factory

Edit: I'm making a video instead, its easier. lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
Update... Now with video!

"Look, NO Soft-Brick Ma!"
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
/wrongbuttondeletethispost
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] NguyenHuu:
Please do a similar debrand for at&t if possible, thanks!!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dasilvetz:
Now that we have root on AT&T, would be great to have this as well!

TIA!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
I'll be working on a debrand tonight for you AT&T guy's.

It'll have its own thread.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Justjusten:
Just delete the apk in system?

So im on the at&t one x, can I just delete the apk's out of the /system/app file?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] godfirst:
You should just wait until the OP post this same mod for us AT&T users later today.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Justjusten:
Well I like to tinker and have nothing to do now so I decided to go ahead and do it and it worked... as far as apps go
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] godfirst:
I've just backed up with titanium and uninstalled the apps until we have cw so just in case anything goes wrong I can do a app restore.:D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
Updated with package for AT&T users.

procedure is the same, packages are different, and so are the xml's and build prop's within
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mzimmer88:
Thanks for your work on this! This will stop the wifi from auto-connecting to AT&T wifi, correct?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
Yep, Its using the htc wifi supplicant conf (which is what the rogers one uses)

It also has the wifi mods included.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] godfirst:
Thank's again, do you recommend re-enabling fastboot after?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
doesnt matter, I personally keep it off. Having fastboot on is the same premise as using 'hibernate' shut down on a windows pc instead of truly shutting down.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] godfirst:
Also I didn't do the reset/data wipe part but I still didn't get the missing system apps installed when replacing the system folder. How do I know if the camera and mms tweaks took affect?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mzimmer88:
Awesome! Would thank you again, but at my limit. Ha!;)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
The cam tweaks take effect after a hot/full reboot.

The mms changes wont take effect until the device reset.

Check to make sure by going into the message app > Menu > Settings >Multimedia Messages (MMS) > Maximum Message Size (values should be 300K, 600K, and 1M (Megabyte). If the values are still 100, 300 and 600 then you still have the old sizes.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
the default.xml in /system/customize/MNS are only parsed when the device is turned on for the first time (or after a device reset)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] godfirst:
Cool, I'm at my limit for thanks. I still have the old files for the mms, but I don't want to do data reset because I don't feel like backing up my internal sd card so I'll just wait until bootloader unlock and cwm to get the rest of the tweaks.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] voluptuary:
dont know if tjis has been posted yet but you have to change permissions to remove att_bootanimation.zip, otherwise super work!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] sassafras_:
So you're saying I can't use Flashlight or FM radio without wiping the phone?

Any way to deodex the apps and just install them to the /data/app partition?

sassafras
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] voluptuary:
I did a full reset data wipe and they still didn't show up...

EDIT: Also Transfer anndVoiceCommander didn't install as well. All of them can't be installed manually as well.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
they cant be installed manually because they're system apps (even if they were to be deodexed, like the ones i posted here)

check /system/app and see if they are indeed in there.

the att boot annimation can be deleted without issue (as others already have)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] voluptuary:
Yep the apps were all in /system/app just not installed.

I was able to delete the boot animation, I just had to set write permissions on the file before I could delete it. I just posted that as an FYI incase someone else had trouble.

Yes /system was mounted for writing.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] sassafras_:
Both the apk and the odex are in /system/app

Just not showing up in the launcher.

sassafras
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] meccanikal:
Oh-oh, I did a boo-boo. I followed all the steps except I did not disable fast boot. For the most part, everything seems to have worked out. However, fm radio doesn't show, neither does my skydive or flashlight apps.

One major thing though, and the reason why i'm posting is that my wifi shows "error" when I try and turn it on. Anyone have any ideas? Fixes?

I've since disabled fastboot and rebooted but still have the same problem.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] voluptuary:
Try starting over from the beginning but this time follow all the steps (fast boot off)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] meccanikal:
That didn't do anything. Anyone else?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] voluptuary:
Did you use the Rogers zip if you have a Rogers phone or the ATT zip if you have an ATT phone? Did you try a full reset/data wipe?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
start from the beginning beginning with an RUU (see post #2), reroot, then reapply.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] equlizer:
Noob question i guess. What are we supposed to run on the computer before turning on the phone? its a 577meg file that unzips into multiple files, or are you talking about a different file we run on the computer? This is about your noob guide you posted #2.

Why would i run an ATT ruu on a rogers phone in the first place?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] :
I just want the 1MB MMS :D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
its all defined in the mns/default.xml ... along with all the scenes, bookmarks, clock locations, initial location, news feeds listings, auto email settings, shortcuts, mms configs, initial wallpapers, additional wallpapers, weather city entries, stocks entries, browser ident... pretty much a giant config script for almost everything in the rom.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] meccanikal:
Don't wanna do all that work right now. I guess I'll wait for the BL unlock and hopefully cm9 or AOKP rom. :mad:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] buradd:
this seems to have bricked my phone

did all steps and now when reboot it goes to a icon with a phone and a red triangel with exclaimation mark.. help :(

phone not showing connectivity thru usb so i cant run RUU

seems i can access a recovery by pressing power and volume up once at this red triangle icon

still need help

yea this looks bricked..
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] eboelzner:
Just power down then go into fastboot usb... and run the RUU.

I did the same thing a half hour ago! LOL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] buradd:
how?

its in a boot loop, cant seem to power it off completely, then when i do, how to i get into fastboot?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
- Install HTC Sync (it installs the htc drivers)

- Hold down the power button for about 10 seconds (your capasitive buttons will flash 5 or 6 times and then they'll stop... let go of the power button.

- Hold down power and volume - at the same time for about 4 seconds and let go.

Now you're in the bootloader.

- Use the volume button to scroll down one step to fastboot, to enter its menu, press the power button once, it should now say "FASTBOOT" in red.

- Plug into your pc, and let the device install. Once it finishes installing the drivers, you'll see "FASTBOOT USB" (being this menu allows you to use all the fastboot commands...)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] buradd:
i see fastboot usb flash for a split second then it reboots immediately

cant get it to stick

holy crap i got it to stick by holding volume down for a second or so before pressing power

---------- Post added at 11:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 PM ----------

all is fixed, RUU installing now... i was about to email my boss (at&t store owner) asking for a new one lol

PHEW

---------- Post added at 11:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 PM ----------

im curious as to what caused this tho? i followed everything pretty closely
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
probably missed the first step. Or did the file replace, and delete files steps without a full reboot inbetween.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] buradd:
could also be because i tried some manual debranding with titanium backup before following steps?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
..... dunno, maybe.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] buradd:
happend again right now, happens after copy and pasting system into '/'

im using root explorer does that matter

i made / and system r/w before pasting...

each time i finish the paste and exit root explorer, trying to hold power to get the restart icon to appear, it reboots by itself and then gets stuck in that loop
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
maybe the zip you dl'd is corrupt and there's some corruption in the files... redownload them? (and try using es file explorer)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] holtenc:
I had the same problem and had to run the RUU 4 times before I didn't freeze mid-boot

if you're adding the optional ATT files (Transfer & VoiceCommander) to /system/app... try not doing that. Also, try using es File Explorer as mentioned in the OP and video. The process didn't work for me until I did these two things. I was using root explorer to begin with. I know using a different file manager sounds silly... and I don't really know if it made a difference, but better safe than sorry.

Oh, and flashlight and radio don't show up in app drawer as others have mentioned.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] buradd:
thanks a ton, feels good to know its not just my device lol, my thanks button is maxed out for the day - i've been helped alot lol

---------- Post added at 01:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:48 AM ----------

it works using es file explorer

also i did not paste the optional att files this time..

so im not sure which part of that fixed it, but .. its fixed.. thanks again :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
Still looking further into that.

Some will have problems. I had about a dozen rogers users have issues with it, but many more have no issues what-so-ever. The two who tested it for me for the at&t one x said they had no issues either. So it seems to be hit or miss. Root Explorer seems to pop up a lot in the issues cases though (possibly not setting permissions to 0644 properly, es does this by default when moving files, I'm not sure about root explorer though as I don't use it)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Essien:
Had the same issues others have had that resulted in needed to use the RUU. Basically from the looks of it if you use Root Explorer to overwrite the sytem files it's not doing something properly and causes the device to fail.

I ended up using ES File Exporer to Cut/Paste the new system content and root explorer to delete the files in the list because ES was having issues deleting for some reason.

Took a couple tries but all is good tho as others have mentioned none of the new apps in the /apps folder show up.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrjaydee82:
I'm on a one x with at&t....I followed your method all went well.....quick question since apps aren't disappearing and new apps aren't appearing...I'm guessing it's permission issues...how do I fix permissions? I tried terminal and did su command then fix_permissions but that didn't work. If I do a factory reset...will that fix permissions? Or should I go one by one and fix.manually? Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrjaydee82:
Can someone please help me out with permissions...I used root explorer yesterday and it's all jacked up lol...

I do know all the system apps are rw-r--r--

Please can I get the proper permissions for the following

/system

build

/system/customize/CID

default

/system/customize/MNS

default

/system/etc

hosts

media_profiles

/system/etc/wifi

apstacon

hostapd_default

WCNSS_com_cfg_default

wpa_supplicant
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] warri:
I did the same using ES File explorer. It seems that Nothing has really changed minus the physical build.prop and all the apps i deleted, and no att boot animation with annoying sound. However, ATT is still showing up in the status bar, and on the LockScreen.

New Apps did NOT show up in the app drawer, and i even went back to fix their permissions and after a reboot still no change.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
The changes of the notification bar, and the lock screen require some framework editing.... at&t did quite a bit more customizing that Rogers did. The rogers rom is pretty much vanilla htc wwe (even has extra libs for hardware b.o.m. variations).

The apk's and the framework jar's are for the most part the same (other than build timestamps/sig's)

There's two lib's that are there while not available in the rogers ruu, and they're specific to the at&t omadm apps.

Im working on the reason why the newer app's wont show.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] warri:
I assumed as much for the Branding in the framework, just wanted to confirm that's working as intended.

Let me know if you need me to test/dump anything, I'm at work so i'll have to use Term Emulator to grab stuff, but shouldn't be a problem.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrjaydee82:
So after moving everything to the AT&T version...should I ruu? Or leave it be? I don't see any problems at the moment so far..
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
I have all the files neccessary. Just finding breaks inbetween work to switch to the remote of my home machine without the client asking me what I'm doing. lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] JSLEnterprises:
leave it be until further notice.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] daitienshi:
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] daraj:
I did the ATT version and deleted the att files mentioned and everything is working fine so far. I had to factory reset because my WIFI wouldnt connect, but all is fine now except the WiFi-Hotspot app will not work keeps saying turning on. Not sure is its still connecting to att servers to authorize. Any thoughts ?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Gromet:
2 questions.

Should/Can we turn Fast Boot back on after debranding?

No way to get the AT&T logo out of the Drop down notification screen?

..Gromet
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Gromet:
Ummm so I just went to try and reactivate Fastboot and the option isn't anywhere to be found in my Setting pane anymore??? Did that meny go away with this debranding?

..Gromet
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] holtenc:
still there for me. I'm on ATT.

Settings -> Power, at the very bottom.