yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Desire 601] ClockworkImpulse:
No problem man! As for that AOSP Rom, well, I got the HTC One Sprint version of CyanogenMod (10.1) to flash (which took a bit) just getting stuck in a bootloop but I think I messed up where the partitions go, and I'm still working on getting the blobs from our phone into github for us.
[HTC Desire 601] ClockworkImpulse:
I'll try on the telus zip thing. Can't guarantee that it will boot or even flash.
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Considering where I am right now with all this, simply having the .ZIP would be an improvement!

Thanx :D

EDIT: Does anyone have an explanation as to why the different recoveries won't properly flash a ROM on my phone? This would at least give me a path to a solution...
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
Some news for us Virgin Mobile zara_cl users:

Sent a tweet to @moversi and it looks like our KitKat update is slated for 4/24.
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
nice. [emoji106]
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
Great to know!

Gonna put my phone back on stock since JMZ's rom keeps restarting on me.

I would have done stock earlier but i feared that 4.4 was right around corner and so it would be wasted effort.
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
I heard 4.4.2 uses less ram.. I usually average around 240 free. the best I've got was 340+. won't know for sure till 4/24 though. (using the NotiSysinfo app)
[HTC Desire 601] Vency77:
Just to inform ya, got the 4.4.2 here in europe, UL. It may have been out since some time, but havent cheched my brothers phone (mine's heavily moded, wont even download the update :D )
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
yea, the zara_ul update has been out for a month now. your on a stock rom? could factory reset then update. up to you though.
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
Does factory reset remove s-off? (i assume it resets your recovery and root)
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
I believe it just resets/wipes the data on your phone.
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
So what's the consensus for those that have updated to kitkat. Since we might not be able get s-off after the update, do we s-off before updating and put everything else on stock? Or can you not update with s-off?

I'm just wondering so I can prepare for 4/24/14 because I have not done s-off yet. Thanks

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[HTC Desire 601] ClockworkImpulse:
I would S-Off before the update, the KitKat update breaks it as [MENTION=3528711]TopperCNC[/MENTION] found out through an unfortunate mistake. It'll still update fine, just make sure you are on a stock rom.
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Yes. Follow ClockworkImpulse's tip and S-OFF before you update. I'm stuck waiting for the 4.4.2 RUU to appear and once it lands, I have no guarantee I'll be able to S-OFF.
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I was never s-off originally. Updated to 4.4.2 and lost the powered off alarm feature. I went back to 4.2.2 and won't be going back to 4.4.2. I decided to s-off yesterday with no issues once I updated my drivers.

Not sure what the appeal of kk is besides that it's new:p
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Awesome, 1 last question. When you say stock rom, will I just flash the stock odex rom that JMZ made for us?

Again thanks.

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I also am not to happy to hear that they removed that feature. Some of us rely on our phones alarm to wake up for work. I used to turn off my phone so that my alarm wouldn't go off and I could sleep in... really bad habit [emoji24]

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[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Immersive mode, less ram usage, emojii, new download/file manager.

Why not just turn on airplane mode when you go to bed? Mine drains less than 1% overnight if it's on airplane mode
[HTC Desire 601] Akishima:
Hey mate, I've decided to try your senseless ROM on my Zara UL, and I've being using it for 6 hours for now, and no problem at all, no random reboots, and it works flawlessly

Nice ROM mate! Keep developing! :laugh:
[HTC Desire 601] sompie2:
Do you have a branded phone because I live in Belgium and still no update for my unbranded zara

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[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Exactly, no real need to upgrade yet :p I'm surprised how nice the phone is now.

I did put my wife's back to KK, we use ours differently....no social media for me but I love my news feeds. I use flipboard only because blinkfeed wouldn't let me add - it does have this feature in kk though.

Btw, I use a windows phone launcher :eek:
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Out of curiosity...

Has anyone been able to S-OFF *after* OTA'ing to 4.4.2 ??

And those with Zara_UL, does your device have 3G AWS band (1700MHz) ?
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Here
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Hmmm... must boil down to firmware then.

Wind (an AWS carrier) sells this phone, and it's also the UL model, same as Telus/Koodo, so obviously, it must be capable of AWS reception on 3G, not only on LTE. I doubt they use different hardware.

We need a soft mod to enable 3G AWS :)

Thanx!
[HTC Desire 601] David Roid:
I have Desire 601 dual RUU for China Unicom, it cannot be flashed into India variant.

For gapps, there is a thread for Desire 601 dual http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2599139, you can find CWM recovery from andreya108's post, then root and gapps.
[HTC Desire 601] Vency77:
The OTA name says ''Europe'' only, so I assume its not branded, except for one app from the carrier ..
[HTC Desire 601] sompie2:
Strange checked today but still nothing. I'm going to contact HTC tomorrow and ask why I still didn't receive the update. You would expect that unbranded phone's get the update before branded phone's
[HTC Desire 601] bunyan69:
I'm with Wind and still waiting for the KK update. I'm s-off and waiting. Any thing I can do to help?
[HTC Desire 601] Val D.:
KK ROM runs a little smoother, better memory management (more free RAM), some security improvements, some bloatware dumped, some bugs fixed, BlinkFeed custom feeds (much better and faster than Flipboard now IMHO), statusbar quick access custom shortcuts/order, home screen (launcher) change in settings, weather app updated, cloud print, etc.

I'm going to leave this phone stock. I see no need for custom ROM at the moment. No need to mess with something that is already working perfectly. The phone is not very popular, no wonder if it will be discontinued soon, hence most likely it will never get it's own XDA section and/or much developer interest. Again, for $150 there is nothing to complain about.
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Many thanx for the offer, however, I'm in need of the 4.4.2 Telus RUU (which doesn't exist yet).

I updated to KK through OTA and THEN attempted to S-OFF. I now have a brick with no OS installed and a different partition table, keeping me from being able to use currently available tools as well as ultimately still being S-ON.

Short story short, I'm knee deep in the stuff that usually hits the fan.

But thanx for the offer :)
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Don't hboot 0P4EIMG.zip flashes still work while s-on? if so you may be in luck
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Problem is that I need everything KK because of the different partition table from JB to KK, and I haven't been able to locate this file.

I'm a taker if you have it for Telus 4.4.2 :p
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I'll need to wait for kk ruu to update my one phone if I decide to. Every time it goes to install it just reboots in twrp. I'm sure it's something silly but, phone is set up perfectly anyways.......or maybe I'm compensating cause I'm stuck :D
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Download the kk ota and extract all the imgs from there
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
I had the KK OTA downloaded already and its contents extracted. There are no IMGs inside though. There are 2 other .ZIPs within (firmware.zip and recovery.zip), but both cannot be extracted, 7Zip says "Cannot open file ____ as archive".

Or maybe I'm handling the OTA the wrong way?

EDIT: OMG... first time 7Zip ever failed me! Tried Peazip and worked a treat :D Getting back to trying to revive this thing now!

EDIT2: Whatever I do, since I'm S-ON, when I try to "fastboot flash" hboot, I get the FAILED: Remote Not Allowed error :(
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Either you have a bad download or 7zip isn't working because of the 256 extra bytes warning unzip shows. Check the md5sum on your OTA zip. You only need firmware.zip, it has all the images included in recovery.zip anyway.

mrplow@mrplow-laptop:/tmp$ md5sum *.zip
c506e1bc3738ab37019d8264c1171d7a OTA_ZARA_UL_K44_SENSE55_MR_TELUS_WWE_2.14.661.3-1.10.661.8_release_356327.zip
b303b04678d004845769f93bcef70180 firmware.zip
mrplow@mrplow-laptop:/tmp$ unzip firmware.zip
Archive: firmware.zip
warning [firmware.zip]: 256 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
inflating: adsp.img
inflating: android-info.txt
inflating: boot.img
inflating: hboot_signedbyaa.img
inflating: radio.img
inflating: rcdata.img
inflating: recovery.img
inflating: rpm.img
inflating: tz.img
mrplow@mrplow-laptop:/tmp$ md5sum *.img
b17257f944be77098b6fac11eda90050 adsp.img
ad70ee4d1cc0791f0fee7f8433585cab boot.img
66f80bf35c962d2d9e77022a2345ce05 hboot_signedbyaa.img
7508ece2b37c1b602345febb4779b726 radio.img
8f0185704319321b94718fe733db5e43 rcdata.img
03a6badd6f9775a0b2f3f1f2ab4c6eb1 recovery.img
faa13c7ec1173467ca35f87ec9493660 rpm.img
cfef1bbea8348d491379d070caf2899c tz.img
mrplow@mrplow-laptop:/tmp$

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Here are a bunch of telus zips, imgs and such. Everything has been posted in this thread before, there is nothing new.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzrP5DWIlpplWkNROHh6Y3o4UHc
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Yeah I edited my last post to tell that PeaZip worked where 7Zip did not... First time it failed me!

Anyway I successfully flashed firmware.zip from rebootRUU it took some time and gave me a "successul" output a couple of times.

There is one problem however.

I still have no OS on my phone. Can I somehow slipstream the OTA into the older 4.2.2 RUU and do something with this contraption? Else, how do I get a ROM (any ROM at this point!) on this? I believe all current custom ROMs or remixes are 4.2.2...

Ideas?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
I guess I could revert back to complete stock and dump the system partition to an img
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
I'll take anything at this point, but all I have in return is my forever gratitude, for what it's worth...

Please don't do anything you don't want/need to do, but if it's not anything that bothers you, I'm all for it!

EDIT: I can now access stock recovery (VOL_DOWN + VOL_UP + PWR) and I have firmware.zip successfully flashed. Considering I may have access to a complete dump of /system courtesy of yourself, will I be missing anything else to complete the puzzle?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Well backing up a stock 4.4.2 system is something I've been meaning to do but I have a lot to do over the next couple days so it may be a while still.

that /system backup I posted should/could be all you need, make sure the permissions are preserved
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Wait, you already posted a dump of /system ????? I didn't see that one! Can you point me to it?

Also, I have spare phones so please take all the time you need, I'm in no hurry at all.

If I flash the IMG straight as is, will permissions be modified?

EDIT: Found your system dump! Have no clue how to use it however... (I'm on Windows7) It's in .TAR, so not flashable as-is. I can extract it fine, but then how to I push it to the phone? ADB push one by one? Copy to SD and from SD to /system?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Good question, not sure of the answer. You can push entire folders with adb but I'm not sure if the permissions would be preserved. Maybe try that then run fix permissions in recovery
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Process started, will keep thread updated!

EDIT: Files are sent alright via ADB, but they don't survive a reboot... Under the "Backup" option in TWRP, although I have transfered 1.6GB of stuff to /system, the backup size remains 0MB, which is confirmed with the File Manager within TWRP which shows an empty folder. The device somehow won't let me actually "write" to /system
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Have you tried many versions of twrp? Took a while to find one that actually worked for me.

I'd test by sending just a random file to /system and reboot to see if it's working before transferring an entire system backup

Generally /system is always writable from recovery regardless of s-on/off.
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
That's exactly what I did afterwards.

Tried TWRP 2.6.3.0, TWRP 2.7.0.0 and Philz Touch from this thread.

Tested like you mentioned, with a couple files. They don't survive. It's as if nothing gets written to the partition, although ADB reports no errors during transfer.

Do you know if stock recovery is ADB-enabled like the custom ones? I'll reflash firmware.zip tomorrow and try again. Bedtime for me now!

Thanx for the help :)
[HTC Desire 601] SPSPaWn:
have already CWM or TWRP recovery for 4.4.2 zara_ul?

OTA update could be useful

1. OTA_ZARA_UL_K44_SENSE55_MR_HTC_Europe_2.14.401.6

2. firmware_2.14.401.6.zip
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
I think I have all I need in terms of files to restore my phone to a working state. Flashing firmware.zip from the OTA worked, and I have a dump of /system provided by mrplowdan (thanx!)

What I'm missing, however, is a way to actually write to the system partition!

None of the current recoveries will allow me to. Only one I haven't tried is stock, but that's assuming it's ADB-enabled like custom ones.

Will try this when I get home from work.

If this doesn't work, then I'll really be out of options :(

Would be willing to wait for 4.4.2 RUU, but there's no guarantee we'll see one, so... fingers crossed!

Thanx everyone!

P.S.: Still very much open to ideas/suggestions btw! Do not hesitate!
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Anyone able to remove the lockscreen on KK? The one that makes you swipe up.
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
[MENTION=494185]LlabTooFeR[/MENTION] just tweeted this today. so I'm guessing someone besides zara_ul is getting their 4.4.2 updates today. (zara_ul received theirs about a month ago)
[HTC Desire 601] Val D.:
As a workaround I use Pattern Unlock + Lock phone after -> Immediatelly + Bypass lock screen on wake
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I don't use a lock screen at all so it was another reason I went back to 4.2.2. I just want to make sure before I upgrade again. If I figure out how that is.
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
Sadly that update has already happened, the ROM version in that tweet matches ZARA_UL Europe as in this post...
[HTC Desire 601] sompie2:
I checked my version is

1.10.401.8

So is the update for this version already out?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
anyone know how to make a system.img thats flashable from fastboot? from what I'm reading a dd backup won't work from fastboot.

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new sig (twrp backup is still in progress)
[HTC Desire 601] TheXaXo:
OK, I got the KitKat update. What do I need to do to install it without problems? Zara_UL, S-ON, Unlocked Bootloader, Rooted, Kairi's Kernel, Debloated. Thanks!
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
s-off first, then restore your stock backup. If you have no stock backup you may be stuck unless you want to switch to telus since its the only ul with an ruu
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
Hey there.. I'm not sure how much help I will be, but I'll give it a go.. keep in mind I'm well on my to inebriation and I didn't write anything down or save much in the way of files when I flashed my device. Anyhow.. as you can I took bits and pieces of your post that I thought I could address. The good news is that I have a Zara UL and am on Bell, so I'm your relative, lol. Soon after I bought my phone I attempted to unlock, S-OFF, and root. What a miserable experience, that. Made me long for my old Sony Xperia Ray... but enough about that. My point is, I managed allright by flashing

the file UU_ZARA_UL_JB422_SENSE50_TELUS_WWE_1.10.661.8_Radio_1.21.40e.00.27_10.z08.40.4411L_release_336830_signed_2.exe. (ran it on the PC with phone connected, presto chango, voila! done deal.)

I don't remember if i used the CWM recovery from philz or jmz (it was one of the two.. i wanna say jmz but i'm just not sure). I do remember it took a few attempts to flash a recovery that would work. I do know it was a touch-based and not key-based recovery, though.

The good news is that yes, what worked for me should also work for you. We have the same phones. You can indeed flash the same Telus ROM I did, and your phone *will* update OTA to KitKat once you ensure you are S-ON, locked, unrooted.. basically, your ROM has to be back to stock before the OTA update will install itself.

Also, SuperCID is *not* necessary. I never used it, and never had a problem. Still don't have one.

All those cache errors you're getting in CWM Recovery.. I had the same, until I installed the proper recovery. I had those errors after the OTA KitKat update installed and I tried flashing a proper KitKat recovery. It's a partition issue. The easy fix is to flash the proper recovery, in my case someone in this forum provided me with the proper recovery.. in this case it was TWRP based. Worked properly from the get-go. No further errors. ah.. found his post, here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51263162&postcount=1554

Anyhow.. not sure if I helped any, but there's all I can tell you.

I don't even know if you solved your problem, because I haven't read all the posts up to modern day yet, lol. Perhaps I didn't need to type this, heh.
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Can we run an RUU while s-off?

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[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
yes.

the fix has to do with freezing lockscreen-related files. I used Link2SD and for that purpose it works fine. There's likely other apps that can do the same thing too. As for what file to freeze... i couldn't tell you.. I just froze everything I felt was relevant, going by the filename.

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I get at least 380 megs free once everything is booted up and settled. With further twiddles I'm sure I could get past 400. I am, however, using things like LBE Security's autostart limiter functionality and Greenify as well as locked down/frozen apps (via App Quarantine, which definitely works compared to Link2SD's freeze method) and whatnot to achieve that. Also most of the Sense-related junk I've disabled. I use KK Launcher with Sense5 icon pack now instead of Sense/Prism launcher, etc.. Generally nothing on my phone runs unless I've allowed it to. add Ad-Away, WebGuard, LBE Privacy Space, noRoot Firewall, and nofrills CPU Control and there's a nicely secure, responsive, battery friendly, protected and secret phone.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
diddo

yes, it will allow it and you will remain s-off. Keep in mind if your s-off and your bootloader is unlocked running 4.2.2 will cause a bootloop. Either lock your bootloader or delete that file from twrp.. off the top of my head its /system/bin/hcheck
[HTC Desire 601] lowsum:
Would the Telus RUU work on a Virgin Mobile (Canada) Desire 601 UL?
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Ok well, back to square one I guess...

Custom recoveries won't let me write to the /system partition, files do transfer via ADB, but they're gone after a reboot. Probably because currently available recoveries aren't fully KK compatible, I dunno.

So I flashed firmware.zip again to get stock KK reocvery back, but sadly, it's not ADB-enabled, so once into stock recovery, I have no way to transfer the files over (no way that I know of, at least).

So, unless someone has an idea on how I can flash the /system dump mrplowdan provided thru stock recovery, I guess I'm stuck waiting for a 4.4.2 RUU that *may* never come.

:(
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
hmm not sure, whats your baseband version? search this thread to find what the telus one is and the booze is starting to hit so I'm almost useless

Your right, I just noticed adb doesn't work from recovery for me either. How about copy the recovery to the microsd and restore it that way. You might have to make a recovery to the microsd first to figure out where to copy it first.
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Good idea! Problem is, however, I need a custom recovery for that and so far, none have allowed me to write to the partitions, namely, /system. So even if I can make a backup to use as a template, I still won't be able to restore anything.

I have no clue why the custom recoveries deny me writing rights. :(

EDIT: I am adding this just to make sure everything's normal. Please feel free to spot things that would explain the mess I'm in (except that I have been a fool OTA'ing before S-OFF, lol)

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.22.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.26.40e.00.14

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 2.14.661.3

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON

(bootloader) serialno: ____________

(bootloader) imei: 35775__________

(bootloader) meid:

(bootloader) product: zara_ul

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8930

(bootloader) modelid: 0P4E23000

(bootloader) cidnum: TELUS001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4327mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-ae8bbb39

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

EDIT3: I also always get the following error in TWRP when attempting to access /system or /cache (trying again 2.7.0.0 right now)

"kernel does not have support for reading SELinux contexts"

EDIT4: [MENTION=4402223]mrplowdan[/MENTION] are you using TWRP 2.7.0.0 with 4.4.2, and got it to work? I can't, for the life of me, make it mount partitions.

EDIT5: Here's a cat proc/emmc output

dev: size erasesize name

mmcblk0p22: 000ffa00 00000200 "misc"

mmcblk0p34: 00fffe00 00000200 "recovery"

mmcblk0p33: 01000000 00000200 "boot"

mmcblk0p35: 71fffc00 00000200 "system"

mmcblk0p29: 00140200 00000200 "local"

mmcblk0p36: 0efffe00 00000200 "cache"

mmcblk0p37: 130000000 00000200 "userdata"

mmcblk0p25: 01400000 00000200 "devlog"

mmcblk0p27: 00040000 00000200 "pdata"

mmcblk0p30: 00010000 00000200 "extra"

mmcblk0p16: 02d00000 00000200 "radio"

mmcblk0p17: 00a00000 00000200 "adsp"

mmcblk0p15: 00100000 00000200 "dsps"

mmcblk0p18: 00500000 00000200 "wcnss"

mmcblk0p19: 007ffa00 00000200 "radio_config"

mmcblk0p23: 00400000 00000200 "modem_st1"

mmcblk0p24: 00400000 00000200 "modem_st2"

mmcblk0p32: 01fffc00 00000200 "reserve"

mmcblk0p28: 00004000 00000200 "control"
[HTC Desire 601] TheXaXo:
What does "switch to Telus" mean? If I "switch to Telus" will I be able to use my phone with Vivacom (which is my career)?
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Only recovery that worked for me in 4.2.2 was 2.6.3.0 The other ones wouldnt let me write to system either.

I am able to switch between 4.2.2 & 4.4.2 through twrp. Have you tried that?

Does the kk recovery also allow power off charging without the battery image playing?
[HTC Desire 601] TheXaXo:
I just found this - http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=529355&st=640#entry30731082

Can I do the steps without being S-OFF and will this revert back my stock kernel? And will I be able to install the OTA afterwards? I would appreciate any help!
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Can't do like you Tony, since I was dumb and did not S-OFF before OTA'ing to KK. So far, none of the custom recoveries allow me to write anything to partitions, except for /external_sd

:(
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I did this while I was s-on. That's how I go back between the two updates. I just went s-off a couple days ago. I was able to fix a system UI error thanks twrp provided by snowplowdan

That's the best I can offer, sorry.

Still can't remove lockscreen in KK without using no lock from playstore
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
You can't remove it in the select lockscreen from personalize on KitKat?