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[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Well guys untill i can figure out how to unlock the zara_cl to work on gsm i will only be supporting it for cl users. unless UL kernel works on the CL, if so ill port sense 6... will be porting InsertCoin ( android 4.2.2 ) to the cl. just need to figure out what files are needed for CDMA to work.... wish me luck :)

edit : insertcoin 3.1-3 is no longer available. so i guess its time to make my own rom till 4.4.2 drops for cl users
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
I am still having the hardest time trying to get rumrunner s-off. Would someone with experience in doing this themselves kindly explain exactly what they've done? I have deleted HTC sync and antivirus software. Turned off the windows firewall and have my computer plugged into my modem; bypassing the firewall in my router. Both adb and fastboot are working properly. I would greatly appreciate any help.

I tried Firewater but it always hangs after the first pouring.
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
i had the same issue. somehow i got s-off when runnin rumrunner. boot into bootloader and check if its s-off. firewater doesn't support the HTC Desire 601
[HTC Desire 601] tonydd:
So go back then.

Didn't work for me until I installed HTC amaze driver. Coincidence? Probably.
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Where did you find this driver?

Edit: Better yet where do we find the driver for our phone. I don't think I have that installed on windows.
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
HTC sync manager is included a driver
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
So according to [MENTION=1862878]movers[/MENTION]i on Twitter, us zara_cl users will or should be getting 4.4.2 sense 5.5... But then again you have carriers that are sh*ty on updates.

If we do though that's the day I'll start our sense 6 journey. With a plate full of InsertCoin features :)
[HTC Desire 601] Akishima:
waw it's nice to have this news that we'll have another custom ROM, could you make one for Zara UL WWE (asia version) too? because we already have the kitkat update.
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
I could easily port it to your device since it's a gsm to gsm port , cdma will be a bit harder .... Just need a stock kitkat Rom from ul users

EDIT : If I do port it will be an open build on here. Until it's stable enough for it's own thread
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Can someone link me to a custom kernel(not JMZ, no write protection disabled)? I must have deleted it. Thanks
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
If your cl then here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6z4okmukdbi9on3/zara_cl_prod5.zip
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Is Koodo "HTC Desire 601" GSM??? if so ill buy it and work on sense 6 for UL users
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
Yup, it is! :)
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
You sure cause I read it's cdma too
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
If you read a couple of pages back, you'll see I've kind of..... messed up my phone, lol! Thankfully, [MENTION=4402223]mrplowdan[/MENTION]'s .WIN backup of the /system partition brought me back up and running.

My model is from Koodo, and rest assured, it is definitely the ZARA_UL model! :)
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Okay thanks... If someone can give me a stock kitkat Rom I can start insertcoin and have it to you guys by Wednesday
[HTC Desire 601] TopperCNC:
I know we have Telus' RUU available in 4.4.2 form within this thread..... not sure about the actual stock ROM though :(
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Didn't know there was a prod5, thank you.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
There is a system backup in my signature. I'd make a flashable ROM if I knew how

It's a 4.2.2 ruu but the ota, the stock kernel and the system backup all found in my signature should be all that's needed

Also Koodo is just another TELUS company so they're both definitely UL
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
I need a 4.4.2 Rom. And it has to have a system folder and boot.img within it
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
pull system zip it up and add it to your drive.

adb pull
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Yes as he said.

Use this command

adb pull /system

Then I just need 4.4.2 boot.img
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
its in his drive. lol I need some /system files for sound on jewel :P
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
I have, its in my google drive

Telus 4.4.2 /system backup (not flashable)/ZARA_UL_K44_SENSE55_MR_TELUS_WWE_2.14.661.3.tar.gz
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
thats a backup. just follow the instructions and do a system pull.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
*edited to sound like less of a *****

Now I see the confusion.

Its is a system pull. I created it myself with adb pull quite a while ago. I just tar/gzipped it instead of zipping it. I just renamed the folder to 'Telus 4.4.2 /system zip (not flashable)' to help avoid future confusion
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
ah I was looking at the wrong archive.
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Will start insertcoin for you guys tomorrow :)
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Think someone could build a new twrp? The best working one for kk doesn't have adb working properly
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
to make a flashable zip all you need to do is make a meta-inf dir for the updater script. I'm working on my device atm but once I fix hopefully what im trying to I can throw together a flashable zip. hey it might even be sense 6. the desire and evo look similar enough from what Im looking at.
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
I'm working on sense 6 too lol
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
xD im still working on the jewels though. I think this might fix up sound. btw we're no longer on that hackjob aosp kernel.
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
I know :) I read up on your thread a lot :)
[HTC Desire 601] Sinistertensai:
well im on hangouts if youre down to chat. ill help you, you help me?
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Okay xxminiwhooperxx@gmail.com
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Mind if I follow along on the hangout to learn some things?
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
i try to reboot the phone via terminal by typin "su" then and "reboot" it says not permitted! so i type "reboot -n" and "reboot -p" and it keeps sayin not permitted! i've tried different commands. ive changed permissions in es file explorer and also ive changed permissions in terminal by typin "mount -o remount,rw /system

chmod 755 /system/bin/reboot

mount -o remount,ro /system"

and ive clicked "fix permissions" in rom manager app and nothin helps. busybox is installed. my phone is s-off. i wanna rip my hair out. i believe this issue affects automateit app. any help would be greatly appreciated :confused:
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
Will those of us on the zara_cl receive the same treatment or are you waiting til' we get kitkat? Just curious and excited to see dev work going on again.
[HTC Desire 601] xXminiWHOOPERxX:
Depends on how cdma plays with sense 6
[HTC Desire 601] Kolma:
You fill me with hope mW :D
[HTC Desire 601] Akishima:
Do you have the prod5 for UL? cause now I'm still using the prod4 and it has random reboot a lot.
[HTC Desire 601] Hedied4me:
As far as I can tell the random reboots stopped with prod5. Hope there is one for ul users too.

Sent from my Virgin Mobile HTC Desire 601 zara_cl
[HTC Desire 601] ClockworkImpulse:
So, alas, I am switching phone to the Nexus5. Virgin has gotten on my last nerve. With work and stuff I can't make things in a quick time. However, I will help and keep on updating the Senseless Rom and keep on trying to get CM10 or Omnirom or anything AOSP running on this device. You guys are awesome, I'll keep in touch, and don't be afraid to ask for my help with anything!
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Here is prod 5 for Zara UL users :)
[HTC Desire 601] Akishima:
Eureka!!! thanks mate, appreciate it a lot.
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
HTC Blinkfeed

If anyone is thinking about trying the Blinkfeed app from a different source than Google Play to get around the 'this is incompatible with your device' that gets thrown up.. DON'T!

I saw that many people with other phones were trying it, so I figured what the heck... BIG mistake. Now I can't get into my phone.. keeps giving me 3 errors that I can only get past for 1 second before the same errors get thrown back up.

I have no idea why other people with other brands of phones are getting this to work, but it won't work on an HTC device.. wow.

Guess this is my opportunity to start with a fresh install, lol.

*MrPlowDan i see you have a Google Drive with 4.4.2's /system in a non-flashable .zip file.. if I can replace the entire /system directory that is installed with this one, my problems should be fixed, yes?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
No idea what installing "Blinkfeed app from a different source than Google Play" entails. If its just a user app replacing /system won't make a difference. If it modifies /system restoring /system should fix it. If it is a user app delete the apk from recovery.
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
It was a .zip file that I flashed that overwrote several apps, settings, etc. in /system. It was supposed to be the Sense 6 Blinkfeed app/launcher along with the other things needed for it to run (new Twitter, Weather, framework.. that kind of thing). Here's a link to it.. this is only for version 9.. there were other versions going up to 12 that I found..

http://androidnews.co.in/2014/04/05/install-blinkfeed-launcher-android-device/

Not sure how to write back the original files without overwriting everything else in the process, though.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
open the zip file and find which files it overwrites. DL my /system backup tar.gz and extract those same files. Copy them to a microsd and stick it in your phone.

From recovery copy the original files from your microsd to /system and chmod them to match the other files.

Next time backup your /system from recovery before messing with zips
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
OK I got as far as everything copied over to SD and now I'm in TWRP with the file manager, and mounted system. I have no idea what chmod does except that it's for changing file permissions, but I've never used it before..

I'm guessing the file manager won't let me copy over a bunch of directories at once... because I don't see that option anywhere.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Yup, thats all chmod does, but its still important to do.

Which files are you fixing? I can check the permissions on my local files if you can't figure it out.

Forgot to mention you almost may need to chown them as well
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
there were an absurd amount of files that were replaced. basically if everything in /customize, /etc, /framework and /lib, plus htcgetstarted.apk, prism.apk, twitter.apk and weather.apk from /priv-app are replaced with the originals, the problem should be gone. Then again that is a large chunk of /system as it is so I don't know if it would just be easier to flash the stock system.img file.

if i can get into my phone and simply fix the 3 errors (basically freeze the 3 files that keep shutting down for whatever reason) or bypass them, that's allright with me, until I can get in and make a backup of things I don't want to lose, then I'll just do a complete wipe and use the backup to restore individual files and settings..
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
pretty much everything should be chmod 644 and owned by root.root. Good luck
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
I decided just to wipe everything and start over.. in the time already spent trying to fix the problem I could have been well on my way to already having reinstalled and reconfigured the stuff I was trying not to lose, lol...

Making backups is always something that I end up putting off.. and putting off... and inevitably that ends up catching up to me sometime down the line...
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
lol

Unfortunately your not the only one who puts off making a backup before it's too late, myself included.
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
allright it seems my phone is thoroughly borked now... can't downgrade to Jelly Bean, can't reinstall KitKat because it simply won't let me. All partitions are now formatted so everything is blank...

Bootloader is now relocked, because I thought that might be the reason the RUU wouldn't work. But nope, it still doesn't work...

Still S-off, I was rooted until I wiped all the partitions (TWRP still gives me the option to install SuperSU).

Not sure where to go from here, but I do know that my next phone will not be an HTC.

Yup, Mr.Plowdan if I had taken your advice with the backups a little earlier.. I wouldn't be having problems now... D'OH!
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
I have a twrp backup in my g drive. Your s-off so you'll be fine regardless
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
heh yeah I was lookin at that earlier... didn't occur to me to use it, though.. still unsure it will work, but hey I'll try that before I try something I found on a Russian website.. "rollback on JB 4.2.2 HTC Sense 5.0 for HBOOT 2.22 or for those who unsuccessfully updated to 4.4.2".. the RUU is in ZIP format and not EXE so it might come in handy someday, lol.. it's for zara UL but the radio would definitely have to be flashed with something more compatible..
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
You could also flash the firewater hboot and change your mainversion to jb's version (I can't remember off the top of my head) and run the ruu from my sig, its telus 4.2.2.
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
well the good news is that your TWRP backup flashed without incident, so I'm back in business. You sir are a god among men, and surely deserve a Golden Plow! thanks for the help!!

btw Google Drive file transfers can/sometimes go at a snail's pace, but I learned they can be sped up drastically (I was able to saturate my downstream connection, which is around 3.3 megabytes per second) using standalone IDM (Internet Download Manager) program - not the Chrome app for the browser. Just copy the download link and paste it into Internet Explorer (even if you're using a different browser), and make sure IDM is set up to autodetect whatever extension the file your are wanting to download has.

Google seems to have blocked IDM from working any other way with Drive, so that's the workaround. (I don't know about any other download accelerators, because that's the only one I use).
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
If i wanna downgrade to jb, i go in recovery and restore a stock rom correct?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Probably would be better to use the ruu since more than just /system files change from jb to kk. But as long as you have jb and kk backed up give it a shot.
[HTC Desire 601] Pankaj Rai:
help + :)

wich type of help u want
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
i dont know if its just me but id like to know if any1 else has the same issue. can u reboot the phone and reboot to recovery via terminal? the only thing that works is shutdown
[HTC Desire 601] Hipo the caos:
Sorry! This is a very old message, my 601 is yet rooted and tunned. So very thanks anyway!
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
works for me, gotta be root though. So type:

su
reboot

or

su
reboot recovery

I tested running stock Telus 4.4.2.

I over explained it for everyone else's benefit, you obviously know what your doing since you restored the twrp without any silly questions.

**edit**

spoke too soon, reboot recovery just rebooted it back to android :/
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
It says not permitted when i type su reboot and su reboot recovery
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
su isn't the same as sudo, su switches the user to root so all your next commands are run as root. Typing exit switches back to the regular user.

you have to type su [ENTER] reboot [ENTER]
[HTC Desire 601] GPSSlovakia:
Is there any flashable .zip of kitkat ROM (4.4.2) for ZARA_UL ?

thankx.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
No, but there is a tar.gz backup of /system and boot.img of stock 4.4.2 in my signature
[HTC Desire 601] Pankaj Rai:
okk no problem

okkkk no porblem :):)
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
Yes thats wut i did. Ive changed permissions and nothin helps

UPDATE: same issue on custom rom
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
That's odd
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
I know its a nightmare. Ive tried everythin. Im out of options. Does anyone have stock rom rooted with s-off for zara-cl? Mine doesnt help
[HTC Desire 601] bijgu:
I need help please

Hi, I bought this handset a few weeks ago and upgraded it to 4.4.2. I'm on UL. Is there some way I can root and/or S-OFF because I've tried to search in this forum and there are way too many posts :( I'm not new to the whole rooting process and adb becuase I had a rooted HTC Explorer before so :good:
[HTC Desire 601] jjbadd385:
Hi all, I have the zara_cl, & have been rooted & s-off for a couple of months now, using firewater method for s-off. Here is my problem, I open Titanium Backup to restore a file, & it tells me my root privileges failed? Sure enough, I opened terminal and typed 'su' & it's somehow lost root? Does anybody know what might have happened & the easiest way to regain root? I'm still s-off. And my mind is so cluttered, looking through this thread to find out how to root again is really giving me headaches...please help me figure out how I may have lost root...
[HTC Desire 601] rubejb:
Disable/remove Connection Optimizer?!

I'm on a rooted stock 4.2.2 ROM. And I loathe the stupid connections optimizer.

I've got Wifi set to never sleep, so when I wake my phone up the wifi's on. But then it cuts out, switches to 3G/4G. Hangs there for a while before switching back to Wifi.

I've never had a device act like this in the past, so I can only imagine it's the connection optimizer doing it's (annoying!) thing.

I went into Titanium Backup and tried freezing it, but that didn't seem to fix the issue. Does anyone know of a solution to this other than installing a different ROM?

Thanks!
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
download and flash update-SuperSU-v1.94.zip in recovery. http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip

u use rumrunner to get s-off

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u used firewater to get s-off? it didnt work 4 me bec the phone wasn't supported. to root ur phone, flash update-SuperSU-v1.94.zip in recovery

http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.94.zip
[HTC Desire 601] easter6:
AOSP-style recent apps

Anyone found a way to make the AOSP-style 'recent apps' stick? Mine keeps reverting to the other style (which I personally find horrible).. am using Gravitybox as well as Sense 5 Toolbox, but the changes don't seem to stick when it comes to the recent apps function.
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Sense toolbox's implementation sticks fine for me
[HTC Desire 601] jjbadd385:
Ok friends, I have a problem that I've seen a few times, but can't seem to find the solution, now that I actually need it. Somehow, I was using TWRP recovery to do a factory reset, and something went horribly wrong. I deleted my OS & don't know how to fix this, as it's the 1st time it's happened to me...Can someone please lead me in the right direction. Thank you. ..
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
Flash stock rom via fastboot or flash it from sd card. Doin a factory reset doesnt delete os
[HTC Desire 601] jjbadd385:
I knew it was simple, but I'm used to complications. I had a stock_rooted ROM for Alltel that jmz made for me a couple months ago that flashed perfectly. I deleted the hcheck file & it fired it right back up! It was so easy & painless, it was scary..but thank you for the reminder..

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Actually I was in a hurry & told a lie! (Sorry)..I actually used romrunner. Thanks for catching that...
[HTC Desire 601] Rawrden:
So I followed this guide on how to get root to work on my phone but I got stuck after trying to install SuperSU 1.94.

I managed to get TWRP working and installed SuperSU but just before rebooting twrp gave me the warning: 'no os installed'. I ignored the warning and was my os was still there after I rebooted. However SuperSU was not installed. I couldn't find the app nor could I get busybox to work. So I tried to install the app again, twrp gave me the same warning and the still no root. This made me want to try a different version of SuperSU but for some reason my pc is unable to recognize my phone. I tried 2 different cables and usb ports.

Why can't my pc recognize my phone and why isn't SuperSU working?

Edit. Even though there isn't a usb connected, my phone keeps showing the 'USB connected' notification
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Recovery in link is for JB.

You android? JB or Kitkat?

If you have kitkat use this recovery for kitkat.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5uevvk5q26wuqi/recovery kitkat.img
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
You used a bad recovery. If twrp thinks you have no os installed its confusing your system partition for something elese, thats why supersu didn't install. I'd point you to the proper recovery but I don't have time to search this thread right now. Look through my previous posts in here and you'll find the kk version eventually.
[HTC Desire 601] Rawrden:
Thanks both of you, that explains a lot. Using kitkat.

I assume I have to use fastboot again to install this recovery. However, do I also have to uninstall/delete the other version of twrp? If so, how do I do this?
[HTC Desire 601] standak14:
Only flash this recovery for kitkat. Old recovery will be overwritten
[HTC Desire 601] Unjustified Dev:
How's it been going ? I was still waiting on the device I've been watching :)
[HTC Desire 601] kevy20:
So I downloaded the kitkat update this morning and tried to install it, but it goes into the custom recovery and it reboots and fails to install the update and it is not updated.

So if I flash the stock recovery everything should be ok right? I only rooted my phone and nothing else.

Does anyone have stock recovery voor zara ul? I don't want to go through all the posts to find it....
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
STOP! Before continuing make sure you have a working twrp backup!

Have you modified anything in /system? You've rooted and that's enough for the kk update to fail. I'd s-off first if you haven't yet.

The stock recovery is in my sig.
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
U don't need to get s-off
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
You don't need it, but it can save your phone from bricking if things go wrong.
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
How do u know? I dont think its possible if u update kk

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If u r on stock rom then u r good. Backup everythin to pc bec if u unlock the bootloader again, everything will be erased on internal storage and external sd card. Flash stock recovery then lock the bootloader then update kk. U will lose root if u update kk. If u wanna keep root, use supersu pro that allows u enable "ota survival mode (no guarantees)"
[HTC Desire 601] kevy20:
Shouldn't know what to modify in /system. Backup from before root is on my pc, I used the adb backup method. Can you give me the post with a tutorial with s-off for zara ul?
[HTC Desire 601] mrplowdan:
Looks like rumrunner changed their requirements a bit, follow these instructions and try the universal version and report back

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

Here is a possible scenario... During the ota update the hboot is updated, system is updating but fails half way through because you altered some file you forgot about. You flash twrp back. The twrp backup doesn't restore properly anymore and also wipes data (including your backup) during the factory reset because the partition layout has changed. Now it is not fully bricked but on the verge, most people would say running an ruu is the safest and easiest fix. An ruu restore would only be possible if you were s-off and at that point it would be impossible.

I highly recommend to any new tweakers of this phone to backup your system partition before modifying anything. And and soon as your rooted get s-off to allow hboot flashing in case anything goes horribly wrong.

Yup, all sounds good but I suggest removing root completely. I experienced a failed ota update by only having root with no other modifications to system. It's easy enough to get root back in kk with twrp
[HTC Desire 601] Child's Play:
Good to know. Im not familiar with ruu. Somebody has to teach me lol. I will remember that when i want to update kk