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[One (M8) General] Fizou:
cannot access recovery: neither TWRP nor CWM

hi

I flashed TWRP using fastboot , and try to reboot in recovery but then nothing, the screen says: entering recovery, then goes back to fastboot, I can then choose Hboot, then the screen change and again I can choose recovery, But I never get to the TWRP start up screen.

I tried then to install it with the GOO manager, same thing. I also try to flash CWM, same thing. it flashes OK but 3ill not show recovery?

any idea on how to fix it?

Fizou.
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
Did you successfully install the OTA update yet? We need to know a bit more info so we can help.

Also, can you boot normally to your phone?
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Hi

The Bell OTA update installed OK after I flashed the stock recovery. The phone rebooted just fine. It is just I cannot get to recovery anymore. I used fastboot to flash TWRP and/or CWM, both get flashed OK in recovery, but NADA.. I also tried GOO manager to install TWRP. GOO download and suposedely install the recovery, but then nothing happens.

I also try to use ROM Manager to see if it could force the recovery to work. No results.

Not sure what to do. The phone is working, boots OK, the Bell OTA is installed, the bootloader is unlocked, and S-OFF, but I would very much to get back recovery and SU as I would lile to try other ROMs.

Ps. I tried to flash back the stock recovery again, but then when I try to use it the phone shows a phone with a red triangle and a "!".

Fizou
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
First, don't freak out about stock recovery and the ! I did the same yesterday but it turns out it is the expected result from stock recovery. You can get a menu by pressing power + vol up then switch to vol down. This is where you would have flashed the zip if you had it on sdcard or something.

For you recovery issue I'm not sure what else to say. You have bootloader unlocked and s-off so you can't get much better than that.

Did you use TWRP from their official site? You can follow this link

You could also try talking to someone on freenode channel #twrp

I hope you get it fixed.
[One (M8) General] exad:
sjeffrey is right, that triangle is normal. You then need to hold volume up and press power to get in. There's really no reason to go into stock recovery though as there's not much you can do with it.

As sjeffrey said, make sure you are downloading the right recovery. then, using fastboot:

fastboot flash recovery recoveryfilename.img

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot-bootloader

then select recovery from bootloader.
[One (M8) General] jasonzarko:
Would anyone happen to have the stock boot.img for telus? I guess maybe any other Canadian one will do. Having a hard time trying to install ota with elemental kernel installed.
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Hi guys

Many thanks

I finally got TWRP installed and I have SU. I probably was using the wrong TWRP version. The one I used successfully for my Bell HTC One M8 is, see link to the file download:

http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/m8/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.2-m8.img

Thanks again

Fizou
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
I can't until later today but you can probably use the one in the OTA zip file. There should be a firmware.zip and in there a boot.img.

Give that one a try.
[One (M8) General] jasonzarko:
That's a great idea! Thanks!! I'll give that a try when I get home.
[One (M8) General] jasonzarko:
So that was a no go... Same "/system/build.prop unexpected content" error pops up. I'm going to try and use the Rogers twrp backup and flash the boot and system in that, hopefully that'll do the trick.

I tried that and I got a bunch of errors!! lol! well I'm guessing something got changed in the build.prop, I don"t know what it is but I am going to try to find it by comparing other build.props of the M8. Maybe I'll find something there.

Tried that and still no success. Lesson is: Always make a nandroid backup! Guess it's off to custom rom land.
[One (M8) General] exad:
Sorry, I never made a nandroid or I would have shared. I'm not all too concerned with stock restoration.
[One (M8) General] jasonzarko:
That's okay, I'm running Android Revolution HD now and it's great!
[One (M8) General] exad:
Sweet! Glad you got things figured out! :D
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
I have root and s-off with htcdev and.twrp,
[One (M8) General] exad:
Ok.. :good:
[One (M8) General] jirald:
Anyone got their rogers m8 successfully s-off'd?
[One (M8) General] exad:
Yes, I've seen posts from people on Rogers who have.
[One (M8) General] xReaper7x:
I did! :D
[One (M8) General] LiquidPrince:
I have succesfully S-OFF'd my phone and fully converted it to a GPE. This guy on Youtube gives really good instructions on how to root, S-OFF and pretty much everything else you need to do, in really clear step by step instructions.

Here's a video of how to S-OFF your Roger's HTC One M8.

If you need to Root first, you can also check his channel out for that stuff.
[One (M8) General] exad:
I would never suggest leaving XDA for directions. Why? Most places do not properly distinguish between devices. For example, I'm trying to flash a rom for my M8 GSM and then accidentally flash for CDMA! Oh no! Bricked!?
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
so I have my SaskTel htc one m8 unlocked bootloader, s-off and rooted with twrp, and now I have a ota update and I don't have a stock recovery and don't know how to get one, also I don't want to lose my root but want the update
[One (M8) General] htc fan89:
I successfully got s off and changed cid to super cid of my telus m8 :)
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
Does anyone have a stock recovery for a sasktel htc one m8, or one that would work?
[One (M8) General] exad:
Extract recovery.img from the firmware.zip file which is inside the ota zip file and flash that. Bam stock recovery
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
Now to find where it's saved to in my phone
[One (M8) General] exad:
Downloads....
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
I apologize, I'm New to Android,came from apple
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Hi

I have a stock recovery, I used it to do the Bell OTA. Let me know if you still need it, and I will send you a dropbox link for the file. If you flash the stock recovery you will loose root. You will have to ref-flash TWRP to get root again. That is what happened to me.

Fizou
[One (M8) General] jirald:
no luck :(

Unlocked Bootloader + TWRP + Rooted + ViperROM...

no luck at S-OFF at all...everything works fine then end up with the whelp message
[One (M8) General] exad:
Sorry to hear
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
How do I extract.the.file? Windows doesn't.recognise.it
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
Try with 7zip
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
thank you everyone, found it, did stock recovery flash, then back to twrp recovery flash, still rooted, unlocked and s-off ;)
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
anyone have bell ruu stock recovery??

just in case for warranty
[One (M8) General] Snapperjacker:
Hi,

I'm having a problem with the HTC TV on my M8 (Telus). I'm with Shaw Direct and the "TV guide" that appears on my phone is not even close to the correct one from Shaw Direct. I don't know if this is an issue with HTC or Shaw. If anyone can offer any help with this it would be appreciated. Thanks.
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
Fizau said had one scroll up :)
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
thank you, totally missed that
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Red warning writing when booting an unlocked phone

Hi

Do any of you guys know a way to get rid of the red warning, at the bottom of the screen when an unlocked phone boots?

I know that there are instructions on how to remove it, it involves I think, replacing Hboot, but all the info is for the HTC M7.

Not the M8. Any idea?

On the whole scheme of things it is not really important, but would be cool if we could do it.

Thanks

Phones:

HTC M8: unlocked, rooted, SU, S-OFF, "Tempered" removed, ViperOne ROM, dot view case

HTC M7: unlocked, rooted, SU, S-OFF, CM11 ROM, carrier unlocked, will sell if interested

Nexus 5, stock KiKat ROM, carrier unlocked, will sell if interested,

Blackberry Z10, 32 gigs, carrier unlocked, will sell if interested, extra battery and charger

Iphone 5S, 64 gigs, sold

Iphone 5, 32 gigs, sold

Iphone 4, given to my wife
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
There's a thread detailing how to do it. You need s-off so you should be ok there. Sorry I don't have a link for you, posting from phone. Check the general forum or the Android development forum.
[One (M8) General] sk8rguy123:
Hello all that are reading this. Would anyone be able to send me a stock backup for Bell. I have the recovery, just a backup rom would be what I'm missing now. Thanks
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
yes i'm looking for stock backup for bell as well
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Thanks, I saw the thread, it is all for M7 phones, unless I am mistaken. I am just weary to brick the phone.

Fizou
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
hey

would i be able to get that bell RUU from you...btw which recovery was it too?
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Hi, I do not have the Bell RUU, just the stock recovery, I posted a link to the file a few messages up the list, the file is in a shared dropbox.

Fizou
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
Here's the M8 thread
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
so no one for bell m8 boot.img or anything dammit
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
A link has been.posted for a bell recovery, you have to scroll up
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
That's for stock recovery. Not the boot.img or RUU
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
Are you able to say pull that file from a ota update? I pulled my recovery file from that update
[One (M8) General] HashyV12:
Help getting back to Stock

Hi folks,

I am completely new to this whole rooting and custom rom, so apologize to the noob questions

I followed a guide and rooted my HTC M8 Rogers, installed twerp recovery, and flashed the GPE ROM. I don't think I made a backup before installing the custom rom though. Since I've had some problems with this ROM i wish to go back to stock (Sense 6).

I want to go back to original everything but keep root. So go back to original recovery and run original Sense 6, where I would get OTA updates automatically.

Is this possible? Could anyone help me with this? I have no idea where to even start.

Thanks
[One (M8) General] exad:
You could start by reading. There is more than one thread on this subject.

The basic steps are:

Download a nandroid for your carrier here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2701376 restore it.

Reboot to recovery let recovery root your phone.

Flash stock recovery.
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2710735

i found this guide very helpful...too bad it wasn't for bell

---------- Post added at 11:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

also i DOA my device so did an exchange,

So i got my bell one, when i got home from work i'll make a nandroid backup of the BELL RUU
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Just restore the TWRP backup in OP and it's rooted stock backup created by me.
[One (M8) General] HashyV12:
So just to clarify, I would put the twrp recovery into my SD card and restore it? And in twrp would I choose restore or or smth else?

Also how would I install the original stock recovery?

Once again sorry for these questions. I know they must be simple. But I am clueless to all this. Just learning. Thanks
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
just follow these instructions Hashy

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2710735

you would flash stock recovery using fastboot

"fastboot flash recovery recoverystock.img"
[One (M8) General] exad:
Learn by reading. This information is all covered. Stop looking for the quick fix and do some reading. Give a man a fish...
[One (M8) General] LiquidPrince:
But if you actually looked at his channel, he makes very clear distinctions between which devices this will work on, and on which they won't. Plus he is getting all his files from XDA anyways, so it's just a good way to find all the proper files needed for the devices he is showing, all in one place.
[One (M8) General] exad:
I'm gonna start tagging you in Q&A posts when noobs who don't want to read follow a video and screw up their phones.
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
ViperOne M8 ROManybody?

Hi.

I flashed ViperOne M8 ROM. Did the OTA update. Spent a few hours tweaking the settings, installed a new dark Viper theme.

Everything worked perfectly. But (there is always a but.. No?) but, this morning I lost the Root privileges, i still got SU,according to the root checker app, but no Root.

I tried a lot of searches in the forums, I found a lot of links to the subject but could not find anything related to the ViperOne m8 Room and losing root. Did any of you have had a similar happening? If so what did you do?

As I could not find a solution I restored my previous rooted stock room, everything was then again fine. I am now again downloading the ViperOne M8 rom and flash it, and see if I have root access.

Will keep you posted.

Ta

Fizou
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
what's bells stock recovery ? what version is it

also i'm uploading the Bell RUU before the update if anyone wants it

btw FIZOU everyone says you had a dropbox link for the stock recovery, i've searched your porsts and you said you'd provide a link but you never did
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
as promised

here's my nandroid backup using TWRP for the BELL stock ROM before the update

https://mega.co.nz/#!nV53TTDK!WYqKKSwpOmsS9A6os9E7TfD6kY-j7fcm_dn6xQhzRF4
[One (M8) General] HashyV12:
Thank you,

So I followed these steps and got everything back to stock. My phone still says "Tampered" and "Unlocked" but I lost Root access. SuperSU is still installed however. All the search that i did on how to root again, uses the All in one Toolkit which installs a custom recovery as well. But i dont want a custom recovery.

I was wondering if there was any way I could gain root access without installing a custom recovery? Thanks
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
You can put your phone in fastboot and plug it in a computer. Then you can use fastboot command to reboot to custom recovery without installing it. The next time your reboot to recovery will be the stock recovery.
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
Do you have s-off?
[One (M8) General] SaHiLzZ:
What firmware was it? Can I post it in my restore to stock thread?

Would be great if you have a new TWRP backup after update...
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
Of course you can. Sorry don't have after update as I put twrp before the update.

Of course you can put in your thread.
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Hi

Sorry, I tought I posted the link to the stock recovery image. So here is the Drop Box link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fw057o2z3ng1aa3/stock.recovery.img

Flash it using Fastboot. You will LOOSE root, and will need to reinstall the custom recovery of your choice.

Hope this help.

Fizou
[One (M8) General] Fizou:
Harman Kardon Audio

Hi

I just flashed/installed the Harman Kardon conversion on my Bell M8 with the ViperOne M8 ROM.

Not sure if the sound will be better but the installation went without an itch and the H+K audio showed up in settings.

Below if the title of the posting where you can grab the file: enable_hk_and_adsp_update.zip

Fully Working Harman / Kardon "conversion" for all HTC ONE M8 variants

Fizou
[One (M8) General] Sting3r.:
Can't connect to 3G/4G when using a Sense based ROM

Hey all,

I got a Rogers M8 (rooted and unlocked with htcdev, couldn't get it to achieve S-OFF) whenever I flash a sense based ROM(I tried ViperOne and ARHD) I can't connect to 3G/4G anymore, however GPE and stock ROM work just fine, any thoughts?
[One (M8) General] Qwest905:
You check if the APN settings are there
[One (M8) General] MAhtc:
S-off can be used with Firewater

---------- Post added at 07:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:24 PM ----------

Should say Firewater can be used to s-off
[One (M8) General] Sting3r.:
I did use Firewater, but my phone is one of those phones that Firewater just doesn't work on.
[One (M8) General] BrandonPrice31:
Does anyone have low signal/reception with LTE on their HTC M8? More specifically Rogers in Montreal?

I'm getting only 1 to 3 bars max of LTE in my house. On 4G I get mostly five bars!

Is my phone defective or is this the network?
[One (M8) General] Sting3r.:
I get 1-3 bars max of LTE in my house too,everyone else gets the same reception, so there's no need to worry, your phone is not defective.
[One (M8) General] exad:
On Telus I always only get 1 bar on lte in my apartment.
[One (M8) General] BrandonPrice31:
I have a weird issue when I am on low signal and I send a text message, the recipient gets it twice (even though I sent it once and it shows once on my phone).

I'm pretty sure this is attributed to my signal strength and my phone thinking that it didn't send and resending it.

Is this true?

I've reformatted etc so it's definitely not the ROM or Kernel. Im pretty sure I had it on my other phone too.
[One (M8) General] exad:
No, I've noticed this as well
[One (M8) General] BrandonPrice31:
Sorry, I just want to confirm.

You have had your text messages send once on your phone but your friends/recipient received them twice? Meaning it sent once on your phone and shows it as once, but the receiver got it twice?

Just want to confirm so please respond :)
[One (M8) General] exad:
Yes, and I've been on the receiving end as well. Only happens on low signal. I usually Switch to hspa+ when I get home to avoid it.
[One (M8) General] BrandonPrice31:
Sorry - one more time - I'm a bit OCD.

When you send a text in your default message application, it sends once on your phone, and shows once. But they get it twice?

This happens to you, correct!

Sorry for making you clarify, I just want to make sure we're describing the same thing!

BTW: You saved me yesterday when RUU stock Google! Thanks! Go habs go!
[One (M8) General] exad:
Correct and np. :thumbup:
[One (M8) General] BrandonPrice31:
I've enabled 3G on my M8 and it keeps going from H+ to 3G above the signal bar? Why?
[One (M8) General] exad:
It switches to h+ when data is actually being used and back to 3g on idle.
[One (M8) General] yeahitsgotahemii:
Hey, Current Telus customer, most recent firmware and software with Telus. Have twrp recovery, and root access. Just got WHELPED... SOB. lol. I am a long time galaxy user, so im not exactly sure what s-off is for, but I know I want it!
[One (M8) General] djmatt604:
New to HTC and Telus here. Just to confirm I can safely use the steps to unlock bootloader, S-OFF, flash recovery etc that I'm reading in this forum rather than the Tmo, ATT, etc forums? I'm wondering if it's like other carriers where u have to use the ATT roms if you're Telus vs. Rogers etc...

Thanks guys

Sent from an M8
[One (M8) General] exad:
All gsm variants will work. Just don't flash a cdma rom. And yes, bootloader unlock, rom flashing etc is the same.

The only gain from using a carrier based rom over others is if there are apps/tweaks added by that carrier that you can use specially that you could not use on another base.

I unlocked and flashed right away.. Literally but I don't think Telus has any special apps and tethering etc is not blocked so flash away my carrier brother.
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Something bad with my phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2740952
[One (M8) General] bobruels44:
If you don't know what it is then you probably don't want it.

Its security-off. It allows you to change things like the CID and MID that identify your carrier. Changing these allows you to change what OTA updates you get, including conversion to a google phone edition.

It also allows you to remove the tampered banner on your bootloader.

Unless you need to do one of these or plan to do these in the future, there is no reason to go s-off.
[One (M8) General] djmatt604:
Yeah no special apps at all. That's once of the reasons I stick with Telus.

Same with S off?

Sent from an M8
[One (M8) General] exad:
Same
[One (M8) General] diddle09:
Anyone can help me how to configure my APN setting after flashing a custom rom ?? :( i came from stock rom and do clean flash for ARHD 5.0

Btw my carrier is Rogers
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Check OP and Click Thanks. :p
[One (M8) General] diddle09:
nnixwhe Cooray

Thanks mate ! You already got my thanks .

One more question before i'am getting lte signal but now i just got the symbol "h" Which means hspa any idea why im not able to get lte signal again?
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
You are still getting LTE if you are using this APN, the reason might be that you ROM doesn't have LTE icon. So it displays it like H.

You can always check you speed using Speedtest app.
[One (M8) General] tobesedated:
I can't seem to get s-off...unlocked, TWRP installed, rooted and kernel flashed but firewater says no way in he**, and rumrunner has asked me to redo it twice now lol...literally asked me to restart, pray and run it again lol. At least it smell lovely and isn't skunky :P
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
Unfortunately the whelp message means it just won't work. In fact it won't even try so to not get your hopes up. Rumrunner is not meant for M8. I works for many others HTCs but not this one. As of now Firewater is the only known way to get s-off. Devices that can't s-off with Firewater will have to wait and hope a different exploit is found.
[One (M8) General] tobesedated:
Yeah I figured that with rumrunner but sometimes you just gotta try lol...it'll happen, it always does :fingers-crossed:
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
Don't get me wrong. I tried it too hoping for something :fingers-crossed:
[One (M8) General] exad:
Anyone here have a stock Telus nandroid by chance?
[One (M8) General] Blazeitup123:
Uploading now. I will post link when its ready.
[One (M8) General] djmatt604:
Many thanks! Been looking everywhere for stock kernel and recovery specific to TELUS001.

But have to ask the stupid question since I've been scouring with no evidence of the answer thus far - just to confirm my paranoia is or isn't justifiied here, there would be no issue flashing a stock Rogers kernel on a Telus phone would there?
[One (M8) General] exad:
no there wouldnt
[One (M8) General] Blazeitup123:
https://mega.co.nz/#!tBYiBBbY!RRSCxnKJbgyvuQUX71oFldQJW1h5D3xlOWTEBbGS73c

Let me know if it boots. I have not restored it yet. I see in the recovery threads that compressed backups can have problems restoring.
[One (M8) General] sk8rguy123:
I flashed the Rogers one onto my Bell before I found the Bell backup and have since gone back to the bell one. It may just be in my mind but I've been noticing that when I had Rogers on there my reception was significantly better.
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
After C, now Comes H. Disgusting!!
[One (M8) General] BrandonPrice31:
Who cares, just use a case. Aesthetics should be the least of your issues. If the phone is fully functioning it doesnt matter. If it really bothers you, buy a replacement back cover. So easy to do.

You should be ecstatic that you got a working one.
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Really??

Why HTC is bullying around saying BEST BUILT PHONE. :eek:
[One (M8) General] jags_the1:
There is nothing as perfect or best. Stop fooling yourself.

don't mean to provoke you .. but comm'on there is no guarantee to anything. Things wear out , fall apart , even the new stuff.

thats life. enjoy it.

or continue complaining and its never gonna stop.
[One (M8) General] htc fan89:
Did you contract HTC directly? This shouldn't be normal it's a 700 dollar phone..complain until this issue gets fixed
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Sorry, but I don't agree with you.

[MENTION=1830575]htc fan89[/MENTION]

Yes I did, they asked me to contact Rogers and Rogers said it's cosmetic so will not fall under warranty.
[One (M8) General] sjeffrey:
You seem to have very low expectations. What if you buy a new car and spoiler falls of on the first week? That's just part of life? :confused:
[One (M8) General] htc fan89:
Post those pictures @ HTC Canada on Twitter or Facebook or something...call them again and tell them Rogers isn't do anything
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Exactly my words. :good:
[One (M8) General] brar.arsh:
Will do that and update.