yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Well you probably only managed to reflashed your kernel using dd, as someone mentioned boot is the kernel not hboot. What version of hboot is on the new phone?

Also I'm not totally convinced the hboot is the culprit, are you sure your not missing an APN setting?
[HTC Desire 601] jjbadd385:
RIt's an Alltel phone, & I have a brand new one that is rooted, s-off, and working perfectly....as I stated, the only thing I did differently to the older one, is flashed a file that removed "TAMPERED" & "UNLOCKED" from the hboot screen....& I flashed one of jmz's stock roms, that was intended for a Sprint phone (not my Alltel phone) . So one of the 2 actions messed up mobile data. As far as Apn settings, I'm not sure, I didn't know you could manually change them on this phone. But this mobile data thing is racking my brain, because looking at all the strings from both phones, they look identical.

Oh, the new phone is hboot 2.21.0000

Old phone is hboot 2.20.5555
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
What ROM is currently on your old phone?

What are the baseband versions on each phone?

---------- Post added at 12:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:03 PM ----------

Also compare your APN settings. They're in settings - mobile data
[HTC Desire 601] jjbadd385:
on my old phone, I installed a backup that I had made from my new phone after I rooted it and s-off'd it....as I stated earlier, on my version of the phone, there is no option to see or change the apn settings...but my baseband version is 1.14.50.1024 .
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
yay

Kitkat update is out as of today... I'm on a Bell phone with a Telus ROM, so.. one of those two put out the update, lol

Verdict: stay on Jellybean. You gain nothing in this 'update' to Kitkat. (my opinion only of course!)
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Oh right CDMA doesn't use APN setting I guess.

Same baseband on both phones?

Is that hboot on post 1331 for the gsm version? I'm on mobile and can't search very well
[HTC Desire 601] jjbadd385:
I fixed it! There is a hidden menu on my phone by dialing ##778#...the mobile ip got changed, probably when I flashed the incompatible Rom, but something that simple!
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
HTC Desire 601 is back down to $179 on Virgin Mobile!:highfive:

Today only it seems

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/htc-desire-phone/features/
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Koodo also put out the update. Anyone apply it yet that was rooted? Did it break root?
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
upgrade

I don't think you *can* apply the update with root. I had to set everything back to stock (boot, recovery, and rom) before the update would install.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
wtf Telus. Don't you guys own koodo? Hurry it up already

--edit--

lol nevermind, downloading the telus update now, its saving to /sdcard/Download/OTA_ZARA_UL_K44_SENSE55_MR_TELUS_WWE_2.14.661.3-1.10.661.8_release_356327.zip
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
Stop making me jealous guys D:
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
We you able to root again
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Revered back to the telus ruu, I had deleted a bunch of system apps and didn't even bother trying to install the ota. Who cares if you loose root? As long as your s-off you can install twrp and get it to install root
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I'm not s-off, didn't see a need. I thought we would have to lock bootloader, install, unlock bootloader, etc, like every other HTC I've owned? If it's less trouble, great:thumbup:

My Samsung's were always easier to play with.
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
failing to install update

it keep saying it is a test drive, you can install up

rom:100 stock but i still s_off

and super cid
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
I'm trying, but having problems.

Bootloader is unlocked. Tried Rumrunner to get S-OFF so I could flash CWM recovery and then get root through that, but rumrunner is telling me I'm not rooted and my kernel is unstable.. it's hinting I need to install SU first (in other words, be rooted first). But I can't do that because flashing recovery with fastboot isn't working.

It's quite possible I'm doing this wrong.. I never wrote down the exact steps the first time I had to do this, and I only got things working by screwing around for a good solid day..
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I'm pretty sure you need to lock the bootloader again. I'm in no rush to update anyways
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
yup, I locked the bootloader again before updating to Kitkat. Now I'm trying to get root again after updating, so I've unlocked the bootloader.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
updating via the ota worked fine after running the telus 4.1.2 ruu and relocking the bootloader

after updating to 4.4.2 I jumped into fastboot and installed twrp via a 0P4EIMG.zip file. Bad news, the partition layout has changed so we'll need a new recovery.

/system didn't mount properly, however checking /proc/emmc I found the system partition and mounted it manually from adb, afterwords twrp successfully installed supersu. So I'm good to go for now.

new partition layout for zara_ul (gsm)

shell@zara:/ $ cat /proc/emmc
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] tonydd:
Sorry that was for zha0300, my fault for not quoting but I kept getting error.

mrplowdan - Glad your able to get recovery and up and running again. Please post a review of the update if you get a chance. Not sure if I'm doing it yet.

Phone feels good now.
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
Guess this would explain why I can't get root...

I try rooting from recovery and it throws up a bunch of cache errors saying 'not found' but it completes the 'root' even though it doesn't take.

Damn, I knew it was a bad idea to update, lol
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
I posted in the new device forum request thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354

Please thumbs up and reply below me to get admin attention. We badly need our own section.

sent with Tapatalk on a HTC Desire 601 zara_cl
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
sorry guys, big troube with update. it keep saying you can't install the update, bucause my phone is a testing drives

so i run the ruu for zara ul, however the problem didn't get solved

zara ul vodaphone Australia

ship s-off

super cid:11111111

100% stock rom\

stock recovery
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
You also need the proper hboot for your device placed back in I believe
[HTC Desire 601] kairi_zeroblade:
i have been reading back and it seems some of you got the OTA to Kitkat..can someone send me a boot.img for both Zara_UL and Zara_CL for the Kitkat OTA??so we can start rocking Kitkat.. :D
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
As soon as us U.S. users get the update I'll post my boot.img and the OTA zip.

Just to confirm, those who have applied the KitKat update, were you S-OFF when you updated? It sounds like that error about being a test device is complaining about that and I hope that's not the case.

Edit: Either that or it's complaining about SuperCID. I know it allows you to flash any RUU, but maybe the OTAs actually require the specific CID.
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
do you have the store hboot for zara ul
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
I might be able to find it.

What carrier and country are you?
[HTC Desire 601] Vency77:
Any idea if there would be problems if I manage to sideload an OTA from different carrier? [MENTION=4402223]mrplowdan[/MENTION] can you upload the update somewhere, you should be the only Zara_cl user who got it, if I'm not mistaken :)
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
htc desire 601 ul vodafone Australia

---------- Post added at 06:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 PM ----------

vodafone-Australia	cid:VODAP021

zara ul
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Why would anyone be messing around with supercid at this point?
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
does anyone have the ruu for vodafone-Australia zaraul

i consider the problem for me is flash the worry ruu(different country)

when you finish download the ota, it will check your phone cid.

if they are matched, you will success to intall the update,

otherwise you won't
[HTC Desire 601] rubejb:
This app apparently fixes the new Kitkat permissions:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

I haven't upgraded yet, but from what you all can tell, would this make the Desire work the same on 4.4 that it does on 4.2? I'm a little hesitant to upgrade, but I might if the fix is this easy.

---------- Post added at 03:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:00 PM ----------

Another question:

I've got a Virgin Mobile Desire 601. I've installed a custom recovery and rooted it. I tried getting S-off with both Rumrunner and Firewater, both failed and left me with "tampered" at the top of my boot screen.

When the OTA update comes through for 4.4 Kitkat, will it fail because of the changes I've made? If so, is there a way to do a complete system restore to go back to pure stock?

Thanks!
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
Yes, there's a way to return to pure stock. It's called an RUU and can be downloaded from my google drive (link is in my sig). :)
[HTC Desire 601] rubejb:
Fantastic, thanks!

I assume it's the the one that starts RUU_ZARA_CL, downloading now. Will this also fix the Tampered boot screen, or should I really not worry about that? And will this also put me back to a locked Bootloader?
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
Well, personally speaking, I set everything back to stock.. so I was S-ON when I updated. I don't think the phone will update unless everything is set back to stock, actually. That's why I had to do so.

---------- Post added at 04:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:06 PM ----------

any smart person figure out how to get root with the new update? I realize there's problems due to partition changes, but is there a fix for that, and will that fix the root issue?
[HTC Desire 601] cheena:
HTC Desire 601 Low Volume After Kitkat Update

I received the Kitkat OTA update yesterday. I immediately noticed that the maximum volume through the speakers is much lower than before. This is very bad, as I am hearing impaired. Did anyone else notice the same problem? My phone is Canadian version (Fido), and was never rooted.
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Use this recovery

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8rz7rlmq2f2awjs/recovery kitkat.img
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
Holy cow, you're awesome! thanks man.. that did the trick :)
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Only changed partition in recovery. No problem :D
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Worked great! I was wondering why TB wouldn't create new backups to my microsd.

I'll upload the TELUS ota, it's over 600mb so where do you guys suggest?

TELUS is gsm not CDMA like someone suggested
[HTC Desire 601] rubejb:
Glad I could help, and glad to hear it actually works!

I'm in the US so I haven't seen the update yet. I've got a couple of questions if you don't mind.

Are there any downsides you've seen to upgrading to 4.4?

Would you mind sharing how you rooted 4.4? Was it the same method as with 4.2?

Thanks!
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Well I hate all manufacture "skins" so I generally try to get it as aosp as possible. On 4.1.2 you could uninstall HTC lock screen, run a setupwizzard activity and you'd have a nice aosp lock screen with widgets.

In KitKat the aosp lock screen widgets no longer work, there is no + screen to add new ones... So far anyways.

Installed SuperSU from an updated recovery
[HTC Desire 601] Vency77:
Google docs would be the best I think, thank you very much, still wondering however if I can manage to run it properly on my phone :confused:
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Don't you have a zara_cl? Telus is zara_ul
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Well since it's sense 5.5 you should be able to disable HTC blinkfeed

sent with Tapatalk on a HTC Desire 601 zara_cl
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Or install a new launcher altogether. Google experience launcher works great in 4.1.2 and 4.4.2.
[HTC Desire 601] Vency77:
Nope, I got european zara_ul and feel that the update wont be coming soon here :D
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Can someone confirm that the phone will still wake up to sound the alarm when powered off before I update.
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
Our phone will wake up from a powered off state for the alarm?:confused:
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Check your baseband version, if it's the same as the old TELUS ruu you should be good to go. Run the TELUS ruu and get the ota.

If not make a dd backup of your /dev/block radio as an img on your external sd, check /proc/emmc for the proper block name

Maybe we should start a new thread with radio backups

---------- Post added at 12:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 PM ----------

Telus 4.1.2 -> 4.4.2 OTA update

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzrP5DWIlpplbUNYWHd0OVZ0eGs/edit?usp=sharing

---------- Post added at 12:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:04 PM ----------

This should do it eh?

u0_a216@zara:/ $ su
root@zara:/ # grep radio /proc/emmc
mmcblk0p16: 02d00000 00000200 "radio"
mmcblk0p19: 007ffa00 00000200 "radio_config"
root@zara:/ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 of=/sdcard2/radio-telus-4.4.2.img
92160+0 records in
92160+0 records out
47185920 bytes transferred in 16.221 secs (2908940 bytes/sec)
root@zara:/ #

Maybe back up a few other partitions too, looking threw the ota zip it updates quite a few. I'm too use to nexus devices which generally only have the recovery, bootloader, radio, boot and system partitions touched during an ota
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Yup, my favorite feature:)
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
Just tried it and wow, it actually worked.

This is amazing.:laugh:

After turning off alarm it asks if I want to turn my phone off, keep on airplane mode or turn off airplane mode.

Thanks for informing me of this feature!:good:
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
You sure? It kind of gets confusing..

It's probably more correct to say that Telus (and Bell) use the HSPA+ standard (as established by the GSM group) but neither company operates a basic 2G GSM network. Telus, Bell and Rogers all transmit on some of the same frequencies, but only Rogers/Fido/Chatr use what is considered a 'GSM' network. Bell and Telus are primarily HSPA+, with CDMA covering the few percentage of people where there isn't HSPA+ service.

If Telus was GSM I wouldn't be able to use the Telus update ROM on Bell, because Bell has no GSM network (and I'm not roaming on the Rogers network).
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I'm s-on therefore I should only have to lock bootloader before updating.

Maybe we could contact spawn and just have him put links on the front page to info/posts we need.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
You're right, it is confusing.

Telus/Koodo is only hspa, pretty sure all CDMA and 2g service is gone now except for a few rare cases. Rogers/Fido provide fallback 2g. But I've always considered hspa kinda like gsm+ since gsm phones usually support hspa.

On Vancouver island they all share towers as well as have their own towers, the only exception is bell which only has a couple cdma towers on the island and lease all the hspa from Telus.

TL;DR Telus and Rogers Desire 601s are both zara_ul

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:53 PM ----------

S-Off already! It's a lot easier to fix a semi brick if your s-off. And there is no guarantee s-off will work in KitKat.

Also I forgot to mention you no longer have to delete /system/bin/hcheck while s-off/unlocked in KitKat
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
Telus and Bell share towers in some areas, even.. it's all very incestuous, lol I don't know why the Big 3 don't just merge into one company, it's not like they're really competing against each other anyhow... but at least Rogers has the ability to fall back to 2G, which is much more friendly on a phone's battery. For surfing the web,

3G and LTE are overkill anyhow, lol

I haven't actually heard of anyone getting the KK update OTA from Bell yet.. wonder if there will be anything different in it from the Telus one.
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Is Firewater preferred method now? I didn't now we can update with being s-off, I thought we had to go back to s-on.

My mistake
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Don't have to be s-on to update via ruu or ota, only need to have your bootloader re/locked

Firewater is just engineering hboot, you'd only need it to change your mid to run an ruu which has a different mid.

You want rumrunner to get s-off http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50468977&postcount=1013
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
does anyone kown the modelid for telus wwe zara UL

when install the ota update it need specific modelid

i flash this ruu(RUU_ZARA_UL_JB422_SENSE50_TELUS_WWE_1.10.661.8_Radio_1.21.40e.00.27_10.z08.40.4411L_release_336830_signed_2 )
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
mid: 0P4E23000

cid: TELUS001
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
Thanks man
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Also in case anyone needs to grab just the recovery, hboot or whatever from an ruu, ruuveal can decrypt the telus zara_ul ruu fine, you just have to set the device parameter to zara_cl
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Any reports of what's different on our device yet.

Sdk needs to get reinstall. Forgot to install after reformat, SOB:banghead:

Tomorrow I guess
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
anybody else have this pushed to their phone? I just got a notification that it needs to be updated but can't open it after updating. I'm on stock 4.2.2 still since virgin hasn't released the update yet.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htc.backup
[HTC Desire 601] sickday:
I picked up my phone to check and it was installing right then. I've got the update, and it's working as expected.
[HTC Desire 601] Obeezy562:
Has anyone tested the recovery yet ? I'm out of town and don't have my pc /:

Sent from my HTC Desire 601
[HTC Desire 601] SPSPaWn:
CWMRecovery for HTC Desire 601/Zara/315n

Download CWMRecovery_v6.0.3.7_Zara_PhilZ_v5.15.9

1. Go to bootloader and flash - fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

2. Copy clocworkmod folder in your sd for normal operation aromafm

@ Unjustified Dev - BIG THANK!
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Hi. Sd card is not working "error mounting / sdcard!" Big thanks for recovery :good:
[HTC Desire 601] SPSPaWn:
SD works fine) no errors, try again

root, mods, rom - http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=529355&view=findpost&p=27709545
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
I was able to use it just fine to install SuperSU. Only thing I noticed is the physical ext_sd is mounted as internal in cwm and the option for ext_sd in cwm does nothing.

/sdcard/

/mnt/sdcard/

/storage/sdcard0/

The above are all paths to the internal sd card.

While

/sdcard2/

/storage/ext_sd/

are paths to to the external/removable sd card.

If there is any way to take advantage of both from recovery that would be great.
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Yes it works but it does not work exFAT. Even so, good job :good:
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
[MENTION=5135080]SPSPaWn[/MENTION] [MENTION=5209254]standak14[/MENTION] just curious, is your device zara_cl or zara_ul?
[HTC Desire 601] SPSPaWn:
(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.20.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.21.40e.00.27

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main:

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

(bootloader) meid:

(bootloader) product: zara_ul

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8930

(bootloader) modelid: 0P4E21000

(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__A48

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4255mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-1094738

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
Thanks. Looks like we need to get a stock backup going for the zara_cl. Trying to look into how to do that, but haven't figured out how without root. I know how once I have it, but no idea how to before. At least now that we can root getting the boot won't be an issue, it's down to getting the recovery.

Also, wonder if that makes a difference for that CWM that was posted. It was made using the partition info from zara_ul, wonder if that will cause issues with zara_cl users.
[HTC Desire 601] Akishima:
Could someone please give me a tutorial how to use this recovery?

Should we unlocked bootloader first or just flash it on fastboot?

Thanks
[HTC Desire 601] -Duir-:
Have to be unlocked, otherwise will result in "remote not allowed" error.
[HTC Desire 601] fabulous69:
hey

The UPDATE-SuperSU-1.86.zip is the root zip i guess?

How have you found the full rom you put on your website, and is it pre rooted?

Would mean that now we can restore our Desire 601 if anything goes wrong to system, deodex, build custom roms....Cool !

ty :good:
[HTC Desire 601] SPSPaWn:
Yes yes yes):victory:
[HTC Desire 601] Unjustified Dev:
Oh did I make you guys day? Haha I didn't know it had an internal sdcard glad your recovery works now. Please tell me what you changed I currently did not fully set it up. Also partitions aren't listed correctly you need to be in the block called by-name then types ls -l. It will then link all the partition names to the correct block number, I also need a system dump to start some real source with.
[HTC Desire 601] Obeezy562:
Is the recovery for the gsm version of the zara or cdma?

I have zara_cl (cdma)

Sent from my HTC Desire 601
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
This is Clockwork mod not TWRP correct?
[HTC Desire 601] Obeezy562:
It's CWM

[MENTION=4492889]-Duir-[/MENTION] did u flash the recovery spsp posted?

Sent from my HTC Desire 601
[HTC Desire 601] MameTozhio:
Could someone try rumrunner s-off?

http://rumrunner.us/downloads-2/

Try the universal version
[HTC Desire 601] Unjustified Dev:
No one can pull a system dump? That's all I need
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
cl and ul?

cl has nfc and is cdma only as far as I know, partition layouts may be a bit different I haven't really looked into it
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
I'm Koodo/Telus same as you. I was looking forward to s-off but will try tomorrow once files are installed on my computer , then

1. rumrunner,

2. lock bootloader

3. install update

4. unlock bootloader

5. Recovery.

6. Titanium backup

7. :beer:
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Sounds good, you might want to run the ruu after s-off and before you install the update. The update failed half way through when i was rooted. If your data partition is getting wiped due to the bootloader unlock you might as well.

There are a few data apps which will get wipped during the bootloader unlock. You can manually extract them from the ota if you want them, they moved ringtone trimmer and voice recorder over to system which is nice, the flashlight is the only user app that can't be found on the play store I believe.
[HTC Desire 601] jj411:
oh ok. I just realized its the backup & reset app in the settings menu.
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
Are contacts that are imported from Google still showing up stylized when full screen?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Yup
[HTC Desire 601] GPSSlovakia:
I have the same problem.

I am using PhilZ Touch 6, and I need to mount system, but it does not work.

Any other possibility to delete hccheck on system partition ???
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
This is the recovery I'm using

http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/217
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
hi guy.

please teach me how to change the model id .
[HTC Desire 601] GPSSlovakia:
Thanks. I have flashed TWRP recovery.

I have tried to mount system partition, but no success. Then I have tried to use TWRP File Manager in recovery, but cannot delete files in system/bin
[HTC Desire 601] zha0300:
how to changing mid

does anyone teach me the process to change the mid number?

please