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[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hybridpjt:
question about downgrading...

Hey all

I'm not a total noob in the sense that I've tinkered with roms and flashing on other phones, but I am a noob when it comes to the HTC one.

I'm on 3 mobile uk and recently got the 4.3 update which is all good and fine except for 2 points..

No more custom wallpaper on the lock screen

And no more t9 keyboard layout

The question is, can I downgrade back to 4.2.2 stock ?

I love the phone just the way it is but I really miss those features lol

I don't want to mod or use custom roms just revert back the official firmware.

Can't it be done? Can you fine gentlemen point me in the direction of a guide on here at all?

Thanks!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
If you know enough to install a custom ROM, you know enough to browse the Q&A section and answer simple questions. No need to reply just to say "okay". ;)

No can do, not without a very complex procedure. You can look for a custom ROM based on 4.2.2 (as lightly modified as possible--look here. Or you could install a custom dialer from the market and just deal with the lockscreen problem. To truly downgrade your stock ROM, I'm pretty sure you need to achieve S-Off, which is even more involved than unlocking the bootloader and rooting.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subash22:
Can any one please tell me why my thanks meter is not updating??

No matter how many thanks I give to people my thanks meter is staying at zero??
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exocetdj:
I have just thanksed you, thats how your meter goes up lol!!!! :good:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anfloyd:
Hi. I was in a similar situation. Comfortable with flashing Samsung devices but new to HTC. I have a HTC One which was Vodafone UK branded. In order to flash any stock rom on it this is what I did.:

1. Unlock bootloader via HTC Dev

2. Achieve S-Off with Rumrunner

3. I then changed my CID to HTC__001 (European Unlocked)

After this I flashed a stock RRU (RUU_M7_UL_JB_50_HTC_Europe_1.28.401.7_Radio_4A.13.3231.27_10.31.1131.05_release_310878_signed) which took me back to Android 4.1 then I did OTA update to 4.3. You could do this but not install the last OTA.

Achieving this was easier than it sound but I do urge you to read all instructions thoroughly. And then read again.

Hope this helps.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3alaawi:
It does, thats why there's get a super CID you can switch to which lets you flash any RUU you want. S-Off lets you downgrade to RUUs with the same CID though but lower firmware, you can't do that S-on.

---------- Post added at 11:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:25 PM ----------

This has it all.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2358738

---------- Post added at 11:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:40 PM ----------

I remember reading about a panorama360 app, I think somewhere in the arhd thread. It could be what you're talking about. Its supposed to look like the sense camera but with photosphere.

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The arhd rom thread has links to several beginner guides that go through everything step by step. And I use the wiki at the top of the page quite a bit when I see an undefined term that I don't understand.

But there's basically two levels you can go into, the first being unlocking the bootloader - which allows you to install custom roms and kernels freely and install root.

And then there's s-off and superCIDs with less obvious benefits.

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The thread you linked is for 100% stock - as in stock rom, recovery, locked bootloader, getting from s-off back to s-on and restoring your firmware and cid. Its mainly for people selling their device or sending it in for repairs.

What you seemingly want is a sense based rom and those are just roms you can download and flash in recovery. Although, you may want to flash a stock recovery too as that would allow you to get OTA updates that will update your firmware and stock rom. (custom ROMs don't change your firmware). You can find stock roms and recoveries around the forum quite easily.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caramelisedonion:
FM radio

Hi everyone,

Newbie question: once I've put a custom ROM on an HTC one, will the FM radio still work? If not, could I get it working again?

I have searched but couldn't find any relevant threads - please point me in the direction of some if there are any.

Thanks a lot!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] no0limit:
Bricked HTC One

I flashed my phone with RUU 1.20.401.1 rom, because TWRP wasn't working on my phone after last automatic update. Twrp freezed every time and had to switch the phone of to use it.

Now after trying to update the phone wont boot, abd device don't show a device anymore and I cant do anything with the phone. If I can get rom 2.24.401.8 in a exe file to try to get the phone working again will be very much appreciated
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qzcgd:
You didn't relock the bootloader. Make sure all is stock then relock then you'll be able to do the update.

Have you tried putting your phone in fastboot and working with the bootloader ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anfloyd:
i was advising him that he didn't have to install the latest OTA if he wanted to stay on 4.2. I installed 4.3 successfully. No need to relock the bootloader to receive OTA updates.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psycho693:
I converted my newly acquired htc one to the Google play edition. My question is can I flash any sense ROM the way it is or do I have to convert it back to sense. Or would it be better to convert it to a developer edition
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Converting to a GPe device just entails changing the CID and MID, right? I don't think 3rd party ROMs generally care about those IDs. Besides, you lose nothing by trying.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3alaawi:
Each ROM should say on the first post what doesn't work so it depends on the rom you're flashing. I've used the radio on custom roms though and I don't remember seeing a rom that didn't have the radio.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Oh, do the different HTC One variants have different radios?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3alaawi:
As far as I know they all have the same FM radio. We're talking about FM radio right?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
No. On these forums, "radio" usually refers to the firmware controlling the transmitting/receiving components (3G, telephone, maybe WiFi). Beyond that, I don't know as much as I'd like to. For instance, do Asian and International phones have the same radio? (They don't have quite the same LTE.) HTC ROMs can't contain a radio, besides RUUs. Do GPe and Developer Edition ROMs have different radios?

One reason I liked the Nexus 4 was that it had just one radio, among all editions and regions. Hard to mess up, no incompatibilities. Similarly, I dislike Samsung for the same reason. Samsung radios are often distributed separately, and there's no way to tell whether a given radio will work with a given ROM in a given region for a given cell provider.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3alaawi:
Right. The guy before you was asking specifically about the FM radio. And then you brought up radios and i got confused.

Anyway, yeah when i was on the nexus 4 these radios and bootloaders and such never occured to me. What i do know is that it is preferable that you flash the riggt radio based on your reason, im guessing because our carriers would be optimised on these official radios. some regions are compatible with each other, when i wanted to flash a stock RUU for my region (middle east) which doesnt exist, i was told to flash the european RUU as its "the same thing".

Im like you in that id like to know much more about these radios and compatibility issues between regions but as much as i search its really hard to come by useful information.

Theres an RUU list somewhere on these forums that links to a website with an RUU compatibility list for different CIDs, maybe you can check that, if the ruu fits your cid then i guess its radio and everytging else in the firmware is compatible with your device too.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EyesOfTheKing:
I get this on the NANDROID....

"FAILED (remote: 24 parsing android-info fail)".

or I get FAILED TOO MANY LINKS on the stock ZIP.

Oh and this is with the BS_US001 & SuperCID too. Suffering from the Stoopid Syndrome I completely failed to note down my stock CID.

Sorry for the late reply, but I was on vacation :cool:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pissflaps:
lol ironically enough, the radio is part of the software, usually controlling data and mobile network :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Please tell us EXACTLY what you did, from start to end. And also, please search the internet for that error message. There are a lot of results, so someone may have already solved it and explained it.

The stock .zip isn't flashed from recovery, it's flashed from fastboot. Are you sure you're using recovery?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EyesOfTheKing:
I installed this ROM on my phone. (http://htc-one.wonderhowto.com/how-...with-bootloader-recovery-ota-updates-0148068/) and following instructions changed my CID to "GOOGL001", unlocked my bootloader and S-Off using Rumrunner.

I found I did not like the this ROM experience so I started by downloading the following two files from HTCdev.

One

Brightstar US

WWE

RUU

3.4.10

v4.3	1,163,684,453

RUU 3.22.1540.1 Developer Edition

One

Brightstar US

WWE

zip

3.4.10

v4.3	1,160,623,373

3.22.1540.1 Developer Edition

Next I followed this guide to return to stock. (http://www.htc1guru.com/guides/return-stock-guide/)

I also tried using this guide (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40661815).

In ALL my tries I get...

-- "FAILED (remote: 24 parsing android-info fail)" or

-- some error about FAILED TOO MANY LINKS or

-- the RUU.exe crashes after putting my phone into RUU mode.

As I mentioned earlier I've tried the BS_US001 & SuperCID too. I've also tried with both locked & unlocked bootloader.

So far, HTC Customer Service is either telling me to retry my RUU downloads or forwarding my emails back to me... :mad: WTH!?

Thanks for helping out! :good:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
You still haven't said what you did in detail, so I see no clear mistake. If I were to guess, perhaps when you followed the second guide you tried to flash an archive file instead of unzipping it and restoring it as a backup. And when you tried the first method, you need your phone's bootloader to be LOCKED or RELOCKED to flash a the .zip file from HTC. And google your damn error messages, you're not the first person (or the tenth) that has had these problems. Good luck.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EyesOfTheKing:
I did try to flash the ZIP but then realised that I was supposed to unzip it and put it in the clockworkmods/backups/ folder which I did but CWM did not find the files. Next I put the files (and the ZIP too) in DOWNLOAD folder and neither TWRP nor CWM can find the files. I also tried both with a locked/unlocked bootloader.

Google-ing didn't help which is why I'm here looking for help.

Thanks!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Thanks for clarifying. And... good. I suspected the guide was wrong, but didn't say anything because nobody else said they had a problem.

The issue is where the backups go. The folder (a correct backup folder location) is:

/data/media/clockworkmod/backup/WHATEVER-BACKUP-NAME

this is not the same as

/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/WHATEVER-BACKUP-NAME

You can place the unzipped folder using a root file explorer, or using the ADB shell (if you're comfortable with that). If you use the ADB shell, know that /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod is the same as /data/media/clockworkmod, except that you don't need to be root to create the directory or read/write data. (But this is only possible in ADB, apps won't see this directory.)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WallyMcFly01:
htc one root attempt gone wrong, need some help please

i have a google play HTC One, i was in the process of rooting my device, When it came down to flashing TWRP, I accidently flashed "openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-m7.img" instead of the latest version which is "openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.3-m7.img" This caused my touch screen to be unresponsive when in recovery. My question is how can i remove the older verion of TWRP and flash the newer version, so i can complete root. I already tried to flash the newer version over the older version, but i keep getting this error:

C:\Users\chefry\Desktop\OneDrivers_Fastboot\Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery ope

nrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.3-m7.img

target reported max download size of 1526722560 bytes

error: cannot load 'openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.3-m7.img': No error

i really need some guidance right now, im new to this and its really frustrating...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Energy4remix:
Doesn't change Google backup account to HTC

Hello,

I've got my first HTC and to be honest my first android phone just yesterday and i was immediately experiencing 1 problem, so i have been told to try some things, 1 of them was to do a backup/restore. While im new to android, I'm not stupid in total, so i figured out that its going to be pretty easy..:cyclops: The problem that i experienced while trying to backup my phone was that i was not able to change google account to HTC account, it just didnt change. :( I can only add new google account, no option to change it to HTC, plus even if i leave google account, lets say, lets try to backup on it, the problem nr 2 is that it doesn't have any button/setting to backup (despite "back up app data, wifi passwords and other settings to google servers"). Ok so when i lost my patience about not being able to change the account and manually back up my phone, i though, ok, there is this option its probably been backed up already. So i reset my phone and yeah, there is no any kind of back up.. :mad:The good thing is that i have this phone just since yesterday so i didnt had much stuff in it, but im sure it would be a problem in the future. :( Any help about how make this back up thing working? And on HTC account?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt95:
Never heard of Titanium Backup? :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Energy4remix:
i need to root my phone to use it. And as i mentioned before, i bought my phone just yesterday and yesterday was the first day that i was using android system, so im not really in a hurry to root my phone, specially because i have problem with my phone and most possibly i will have to ship it back to HTC :( so i need to make sure that i will still have warranty.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khixar27:
ok so im rooted on stock rom and also custom recovery but s-on

i want to flash a custom rom is s-off neccesarry ?

i want to remove the bloatware from stock rom but it always comes back after reboot

i want to know what is my cid or how can i go to complete stock etc please help

i read alot on forum but couldnt figure out please share any info u have or understood in this feild

iam currently on latest 4.3 rom updadated using htc ota and then bootloader unlocked and twrp recovery

please help i just want a stocl rom with bloatware removed

is there a way to get the apps like flashlight ? calculator restored on stock and also how to fix the purple haze thing in camera it disappears after taking the photo and is not in my photo iread stuff regarding people replacing there camera lens please tell me do i have to

thanks alot
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Indeed. The only thing that I can see going wrong is if you flash a recovery image that's too big and it overflows the partition, but I don't think that's possible--fastboot surely guards against that.

When people say "backup", they usually mean Titanium Backup or nandroid (CWM or TWRP). If you don't want to root, Helium Backup will do a poor and buggy imitation of what Titanium Backup does, and some things like SMS, WhatsApp, and call log can be backed up with apps (WhatsApp makes its own backup--the option is in settings). Make sure you copy all of /sdcard to your computer before wiping if you're not using a custom recovery.

You don't need s-off. Flashing a custom ROM requires unlocking the bootloader via htcdev.com. If you install a custom ROM, you will automatically be rooted (unless you choose a fully stock unrooted ROM). After that, you can freeze/disable or uninstall the apps you don't want. ROMs are listed here. And sorry, I don't know anything about camera problems. You can get back to stock by making a nandroid backup before you flash any ROM, then keeping it safe on your computer. You can find your CID by booting into fastboot and looking at the screen. I think it says the CID there. If not, type "fastboot getvar all" and look for CID. But flashing a custom ROM doesn't require changing (or knowing) your CID.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
Sort of a newbie ? GPE HTC One

I have the HTC one on ATT and its a converted model by me, bootloader unlocked ,S-off and TWRP, I did the full conversion with the 1.54 bootloader. At present I am downloading the 4.4 Kit Kat from HTC Dev. for the WWE Google Edition. Am I going to get in trouble and brick if I choose to flash this ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
I don't have first hand experience with model-conversion or this type of flash, but I've never heard any evidence that the different editions have different hardware. I don't see what could go wrong, as long as you keep TWRP on the device and have backups stored on your computer. Obviously, everything has risks (phones can break on their own, without user misaction).
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
Well I don't know what did happen, I went ahead and flashed the OTA download from SD storage on the phone with TWRP and I guess it didn't work. It booted back but after the google lock boot screen , it went to a blue screen with dotted lines horizontal across the screen. I tried downloads from HTC dev, a few others from different forums and all had the same effects , it wouldn't boot to the OS from the blue screen. I did let it set for about a 1/2 hour maybe thinking it would take time to settle down but still didn't work. I guess I will have to wait for the OTA update on the phone to get it . Just trying to put a rush on it too fast .
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Did anybody flash the OTA with stock recovery? And do you have a non-OTA image you could flash from fastboot?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Energy4remix:
No, when i said backup this time i really mean a phone option BACK UP & RECOVERY. I want to try it at least once before leaving it behind and looking for other programs to do it.. To recover apps i think its pretty easy, what is more important for me is to recover all the settings, passwords and so on. :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
I am not that familiar with the GPE yet on this phone , I don't really know where the stock recovery is. When I go to the bootloader and reboot reccovery as with a custom recovery I get the android man laying on his back with a flap open and a X in it.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basv81:
How can I get my HTC One (GSM) (m7ul) back to the HTC firmware (Android 4.3 / Sense 5.5) with a possibility to update over the air? `

I don't care if my device won't have root access anymore (I want to give my device as a present to my parents). ;)

I currently have Cyanogen 10.1.3 installed (latest stable). I'm not sure which rom I have to install, because of the dozens of available roms for my device and I don't want to install version that does not work properly.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
Maybe a factory reset, which will reset the phone to factory out of the box, I am sure it will erase all data on the phone though. Or, maybe do a RUU which will reset to factory, Just make sure you have the right RUU for the phone
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basv81:
I don't think the factory reset will work anymore (see my previous thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2512105) :) Which RUU do I have to install? My device has S-on.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
I am not sure on the RUU with being S-On as mine has always been unlocked and S-Off since day one , this is the link in the XDA forums for the M7 shipped RUU'S though, maybe you can get the right one there

http://www.androidruu.com/index.php?developer=M7
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
Well I got it figured out and now have the Kit Kat Google edition on the HTC One on ATT. Now if I can figure out how to get the custom recovery TWRP back on as it was before I did the OTA update. I have tried the Hansoon's AOI, adb and nothing will install it. When I use adb to reboot to recovery all I get is the black google screen with the padlock at the bottom then have to use the power button to reboot. ADB says the phone is off line.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
You're thinking about this a little bit backwards. The techniques/programs I mentioned are very well understood and tested. The HTC backup thing that comes with the phone is the one you should be skeptical about. If you bought a computer that came with a web browser you've never heard of, would you trust that or would you trust the browsers everybody else uses?

Factory reset will not rewrite the phone's /system partition.

Find your CID (by booting into the bootloader and running "fastboot getvar all"). Search for that CID and find the appropriate RUU to install (either as a zip file or a .exe). If you can't find one, there are other ways, like finding a nandroid backup made from the target stock system.

The normal way to install a custom recovery is to make sure your bootloader is unlocked, then boot into fastboot, connect to USB, and run:

fastboot flash recovery path-to-recovery-image.img
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IgniteTheWorld:
Boot loop

So I decided to flash the Kitkat gpe rom on my HTC One today, I flashed it normally through CWM and when the flash finished it said that the zip will try to install a recovery on my phone, I declined that and now I'm stuck in a boot loop. I've gone into hboot and tried to access the CWM recovery so I can restore my phone, but every time I go into recovery it says "entering recovery..." for a second then the screen goes blank and it continues it's boot loop. I've tried to erase the cache with fastboot and I've re-flashed the recovery multiple times but that's still not helping. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated (This is my first android phone and I'm really scared that I messed it up for good please help)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Recovery is simple, and there's not that much that can go wrong. If it doesn't boot to recovery, you should try re-flashing the recovery image (using fastboot).
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IgniteTheWorld:
I've already tried that many times but it's still showing the "entering recovery" screen then it goes black and starts boot looping again
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leesumm:
I know that. I got CWM on it last night finally , this morning I managed to get TWRP installed correctly and working, but still having problems with superuser can't seem to get it to take and work , Root checker tells me its not rooted , TWRP flashes SU but its not there. This new 4.4 is something else as far as getting things to go right.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Try rooting with SuperSU, flashing this: http://download.chainfire.eu/370/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.80.zip

In my experience, SuperSU is the only su binary that actually works on the HTC One.