yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
If WeakSauce isn't working you'll have to unlock via HTCDev and then flash a customer recovery/root package to get root :(
[One (M8) General] simes6600:
many thanks. I'll have a go with the M8 all in one toolkit on xda.
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
I really wouldn't use a toolkit IMO
[One (M8) General] simes6600:
what do you recommend?
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
To do it all manually - if anything at least you then learn what you're doing as toolkits have a habit of making people lazy ;)

It's just my personal opinion, though, so by all means use a toolkit if you wish :D
[One (M8) General] Stea1thmode:
I would use the old fashion way. Adb/fastboot . I can't fully trust toolkits. That's only my opinion.
[One (M8) General] elsworth1983:
Old fashioned way is the best
[One (M8) General] StuMcBill:
Yep, definitely do it manually via adb and fastboot. At least you know exactly what commands you are typing!
[One (M8) General] dachat:
Root & S-Off

Hi, Sorry to be a noob, is there a simple step by step guide for people like me to root, s-off and flash stock WWE on my sim locked HTC One M8
[One (M8) General] stuart0001:
Search, read, learn and read again. Avoid toolboxes, they will give you a false sense of security and you won't cope when things go wrong.
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
Got the phone from Vodafone UK.

Have unlocked, rooted and s-off with Super CID.

I wanted to convert to GPE and thanks to Graffixsync's work I now have it. including bootloader / stock GPE recovery and Google splash screens. The full GPE experience.I love it. The antutu score now beats the note 3 !

However a word of warning. At the moment it cannot be flashed back to sense rom as they have different partition sizes.

All is good unless the phone has a problem. Then I will be sat with faulty phone until the wizards here work it out lol.

But it is Good. Great work by Graffixsync :)
[One (M8) General] Kamran9558:
Can anyone please confirm if the payg HTC one offered by 3 is not locked to 3's network

never-mind, just found out that it is locked to 3 :(
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
Are you sure? Everything I've read states otherwise.
[One (M8) General] gaiden0000:
Even if it is locked, 3 now does free SIM unlock on all their phones. Even in contract.
[One (M8) General] linkisoc:
Picked up mine from Three on Saturday, works fine with my EE Sim. The only thing I found missing were the EE APNs, I had to enter the internet and mms settings manually. Anyone else had this problem ?

I have a three boot splash screen and no Three bloatware.
[One (M8) General] maverick1103:
GiffGaff deals

So I'm looking around currently for the cheapest deal on the m8 as I currently have the Note 3, only in month 2 of 24 month contract, I wish I waited longer! Anyway looking around the internet I see £33 free handset the cheapest deal, or £28 a month £129 for handset at CPW and they give you a £100 extra on your trade in value so I'd get £290 for my Note 3 so not bad!

However I've just come across these deals on Giff Gaff http://giffgaff.com/htc/htc-one-m8/phone-plans where if you pay £50 upfront and choose the £7.50 goodbag (which is cancellable after a month) then you only pay £21.98 a month, in total £565 which is pretty awesome! I'm not quite sure if there is anything I'm missing, the phone is unlocked too so I'll stick my o2 sim in it.......anyone else bought from Giff Gaff before?

EDIT:

Nevermind, I noticed it was a loan on the handset....
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
Three sell them unlocked on PAYG for £470, I think that's the cheapest in the UK atm
[One (M8) General] elsworth1983:
Hi guys & girls any chance you can help a friend of mine out on his great thread he has [MENTION=4252827]Mr Hofs[/MENTION] http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2701376 you never know when we might need something like this as we have all made boo boos :P
[One (M8) General] alwin006:
I just bought an M8 from three can I change the bootanimation without voiding warranty ?
[One (M8) General] jkr284:
How long did it take you to do all that? I got 3uk one and thinking the same.
[One (M8) General] maverick1103:
I got mine yesterday on the o2 refresh plan, I would like to know if it's possible yet to flash with unbranded firmware to get rid of o2 splash screen.
[One (M8) General] djkaija:
Blinkfeed settings

Hopefully this is in the right forum...

While setting up Blinkfeed on Sense 6, I stumbled upon some sliders that allowed you to set the ratio of news to social media (Facebook etc) that appeared on your Blinkfeed. I can't find it now. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks. Apologies if this is in the wrong forum.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
haha nice to see [MENTION=4252827]Mr Hofs[/MENTION] here!!! :)
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
My M8 is finally en route to me, should get it tomorrow, hope it's one of the ones that can be s-offed
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
If you are confident with adb/fastboot etc about 40 minutes.A lot depends whether firewater works for you or not and if so, how quickly. Some phones still aren't compatible (that may have changed in the last 24 hours)

One thing that has changed is that it is now possible to convert back to sense from the GPE.

Best of luck!
[One (M8) General] RossMacgill:
I was holding out for this till the end of the month, but just checked and its now £529.99 :(

Anyone know of any cheaper for sim free?
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
For that price buy the unbranded one for the same price from CPW/Phones4U
[One (M8) General] strikerdj2011:
3 are ****s they are fond of doing that prices should go down never go up lol

there logic htc one m8 529.99

htc one m7 549.99

backward or what lol
[One (M8) General] Chris_c81:
Not really. Less people will now want an M7 so increase its price to maximise profit on the few sales that will still go through for the M7.
[One (M8) General] strikerdj2011:
makes sense to them aye not to us tho older things get cheaper they get its way of life its like selling an iphone 3 for more than a 5s doesnt work like that imo its a rip off :laugh:
[One (M8) General] ToneyEricsson:
Anyone know when the 32GB HTC One M8 will be with us in the UK?
[One (M8) General] shaunhoop1981:
Bought mine from car phone warehouse unbranded £529 now rooted custom recovery and android revolution 5.0 Rom installed but I have not used s off what is the benefits
[One (M8) General] maverick1103:
Here you go let me help you with that question http://lmgtfy.com/?q=benefits+of+s-off+htc :laugh:
[One (M8) General] gfreek:
Like you I bought mine from carphone warehouse and it's rooted with custom recovery and have nandroid backups of both stock sense 1.54 rom and google play edition so that I can easily switch between both roms on the fly. mine is S-On as currently there isn't a mod to S-Off UK unbranded m8.

But I'm not bothered to get it S-Off unless I want to flash a radio or custom kernal etc...
[One (M8) General] shaunhoop1981:
Are you able to switch easily as I was under the impression that the gpe changed your partitions and you could not go back to stock sense
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
there is a 'fix' or rather a work around for it. (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708589) Thanks to Navalynt

Need SuperCID (11111111)

Flash 1.54.401.5 firmware from THIS thread

Flashed TWRP 2.7.0.4

Boot into TWRP

Go into Wipe menu

Select format data (you will have to type yes to confirm)

Reboot TWRP by going to the Reboot menu and selecting Recovery

Go back to main wipe menu

Select Advanced wipe and tick, Davik, System, Data, Cache

Flash a sense rom

Profit

A lot of people were getting the decryption password screen when trying to move back to sense. (me included)
[One (M8) General] strikerdj2011:
there is i am uk unbranded and i s offed other day :)
[One (M8) General] @home:
Any one bought from Amazon UK Gunmetal?

Perfect or problematic?

Just placed an order hopefully it'll be better than the 2 One's I bought last year they where both sunken power button.

Ta
[One (M8) General] gfreek:
Its the RUU GPE ROM that changes your partition and you can't change back to stock sense so instead I flashed this GPE version from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2706441

Is that with firewater S-Off method? Because I looked into that thread apparently the m8 with CID HTC__001 is not working at the moment or have i missed something?
[One (M8) General] strikerdj2011:
yes my cid was htc 001 now its super cid 11111111 with s off just took me a few goes to get it to work
[One (M8) General] RetroDude:
There appears to be differing internals even for same region phones, might as well give it a shot i suppose. I know some people have had success on that CID
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
Received my Three M8 today and luckily I could s-off
[One (M8) General] @home:
You guys who unlocking BL & Roming/S-offing your phones so soon, are you not concerned that if it developed a fault it then won't be repaired under warranty due to the Tamped flag showing.

I am just expecting one today from Amazon & am bit concerned about unlocking & roming so soon.
[One (M8) General] Nokiacrazi:
With s-off you can make it so it reads locked still. In fact with s-off you can remove any traces of ever having modified the phone.
[One (M8) General] @home:
Surely seeing the words S-Off in the menu is enough of a give away that you have tampered.

I'm not dissing, just be precocious.
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
A small percentage of devices leave the factory s-off
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
You can set it back to S-ON once you're done ;)
[One (M8) General] GigabitEthernet:
So is the only way to unlock the bootloader through HTCDev?

Yours sincerely,

Alec Robertson.
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
Yes
[One (M8) General] stuart0001:
Yes, unless you have a Verizon model.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
so from what I gather, if your m8 is made in Taiwan, u can get s off and if its chinese you cant lol!!! :eek:
[One (M8) General] RossMacgill:
I see since the S-Off thread is now locked, this has turned into it. Come on read the S-off post and it says all you need to know.

Looking forward to my M8 in about a week or so, cant wait :)
[One (M8) General] @home:
Why has it been locked?

Do you have link to it?

Ta
[One (M8) General] RossMacgill:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708464

I would assume due to the constant speculation of what can and can't be S-OFF.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
Nope afaik mine was the first in a while lol, have you got link to said post? cos the op in the s off dev thread doesnt say alot.

I know if you got the whelp message as i did there is no chance as yet. So I am not speculating whether as to if I can get it working or not as I know i have more chance of giving birth to margaret thatcher tomorrow hahaha! i was merely curios whether it was the chinese models that had this limitation.

Also they must be up to something as they now have peace and quiet. :good::good::good:
[One (M8) General] strikerdj2011:
mines sh43 so made in shanghai which is in china and i s offed fine lol
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
and you are unbranded and CID HTC 001?

I got the fookin whelp message

i fookin give up lol! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
[One (M8) General] strikerdj2011:
yea lol took me a few goes to get it working tho
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
lol i may as well have a fat joint and try a few times later lol!!!!!

nothing better to do!!! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
[One (M8) General] Jump1ng:
If you get the whelp message no matter how many tries you do it wont work. If it doesn't give you the whelp message you have a chance and can keep trying.

I did the filecopy method to get mine to take, but be advised your brick chance is MUCH higher doing this and again if you get the whelp the filecopy wont help either.
[One (M8) General] zedmarcus:
Yup, I get the "whelp" message as well (O2 UK). I hope this thread stays up to date as I can't seem to find anywhere that says when Firewater is updated. And without knowing when Firewater is updated, there's no point to keep downloading it and trying again.
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
I got mine the other and got a good deal from carphone warehouse on the £100 trade in deal, so I bought a crappy £5 from work, got nothing on trade but due to the promotional offer still got £100 off the price, which was £149.99 so taking that down to £49.99 (plus the £5 I paid for the phone) my monthly deal is unlimited calls and texts and 5gb of 4/3g data. The phone is SIM unlocked as I went carphone warehouse and I've just sold my one x and got £130 from cex. So I'm pretty happy with that. Just need to get a invisibleshield protector now
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
Don't get a Zagg Invisible Shield, they're overpriced and not very good. There are much better options - Ultimate Shield are UK based and great value
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
I had a zagg on my one x and thought it was great but I will look at those too
[One (M8) General] elsworth1983:
You got a link :D

Sent from space
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
http://amzn.to/1jZzH6S

http://www.ultimateshield.co.uk/htc-one-m8-screen-protector/
[One (M8) General] sajibcy:
Anyone know abt 3 handsets? I got m8 but since I don't have another nano sim I can't und its lock our unlocked! Though they do have 3 splash screen.
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
I've read that they're all unlocked
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Full body is a bit overkill
[One (M8) General] Lord Morpheus:
I think the M8 is unlocked, but they unlock for free anyways.

http://www.three.co.uk/Support/Device_Unlock
[One (M8) General] dlau77:
£33 p/m?
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Yeah I thought I'd put that in my original post, what a Moran I am. Ha
[One (M8) General] xploitUK:
Hey all, rooted my OneM8 only to find Barclay's app won't work on rooted devices - anyone got a working fix?
[One (M8) General] dlau77:
haha dont wory about it buddy.

I'm very close to doing that deal too... which colour did you opt for?

I'm leaning towards the gold one, but I've heard it looks more dull copper than gold?

(is it the same finish as last years gold one?)
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Not sure how the gold one looks but to be honest I knew I didn't want that one, I went with the gun metal grey one which in my opinion is the best looking one
[One (M8) General] Stea1thmode:
There's no fix as of yet. Though there are people working on it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2577095&page=15
[One (M8) General] xploitUK:
Great, cheers for the reply ?
[One (M8) General] Stea1thmode:
No worries. That's the only reason my m8 is still unrooted at the mo.
[One (M8) General] xploitUK:
Wish I realised that first - ah well...
[One (M8) General] radicalisto:
I assume root cloak doesn't work any more then?

Edit: Grab from Xposed repository and check, may get lucky :)

Sent from my ZX Spectrum +2 via an app or something..
[One (M8) General] Stea1thmode:
Barclays are always 1 step ahead and modders are playing catch up, the last version worked on rooted phones until they recently updated the app.
[One (M8) General] radicalisto:
Ah, I guess I should go back and bank with them again lol. My NatWest app works fine on rooted.. Security flaw maybe haha

Sent from my ZX Spectrum +2 via an app or something..
[One (M8) General] rocketpaul:
surely that is a good thing?
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
Co-op Banking app words on rooted :)
[One (M8) General] @home:
So does Natwest app - As it should.
[One (M8) General] elsworth1983:
Want to remove some apps etc good script here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2721617 just read the op ;)

Edit don't forget to :thumbup: [MENTION=2374587]Patrics83[/MENTION] & team

Sent from space
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
How would I find out if my m8 is unlocked/SIM free, I got it from carphone warehouse but just want to be sure that it is. It doesn't have any branding/General carrier crap
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
All CPW handsets are unbranded, but to double-check it should be running 1.54.401.5 if you go to Settings>About phone>Software information
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Yeah I'm running that version thank you
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
All devices from there are unlocked
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Cheers fastboot to check cid?
[One (M8) General] elsworth1983:
Fastboot to check cid ;) & the commands are also on this nice handy thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51536075

Sent from space
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Haha cheers the next question i to root or not. I've rooted my last two HTC devices but this one is a contract so I'm more undecided. But I love flashing roms
[One (M8) General] p70shooter:
Simples, root it :) Don't think I could cope with just a stock phone.
[One (M8) General] elsworth1983:
1st thing I did was unlock bootloader and root the beast & for now am running stock & using this kernel http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2705613

Sent from space
[One (M8) General] Michealtbh:
Same here. Unlocked bootloader, rooted, s-offed and flashed the GPE rom straight out of the box.
[One (M8) General] ToneyEricsson:
Unreal I asked HTC when will the 32GB HTC One M8 be coming to the UK market and even they don't know. I might get a Samsung Galaxy Note III instead at least 32GB internal is standard which phones should be these days for internal memory I think.
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Does this void the warranty like with the one x?
[One (M8) General] stuart0001:
It voids your warranty but in the UK we don't need it as we have the sales of goods act with the retailer not HTC.
[One (M8) General] maverick1103:
I've just moved from a Note 3 to this phone, yes it's nice to have 32gb internal storage but the rest of the pros for this device easily beat a couple of flaws.
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Anyone know if sky go app works with rooted device's yet?
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
Nope, and probably never will :(
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Sky have really dropped the ball with that one
[One (M8) General] ToneyEricsson:
What's your honest opinion about the Samsung Galaxy Note III compared to the HTC One M8? I'm having a hard time deciding between the two. It seems features galore with the Note III and I love that ability to multitask with different apps open something that can't be done on the HTC it appears. Other things that are important to me though is camera and the HTC does pull it off very well going by all those pictures taken with a HTC One M8 thread. How would you say the Note III camera compares? It seems to have similar features like the S5 and 4K video recording.
[One (M8) General] maverick1103:
My honest opinion, well I still really like the N3 the extra features are really good and do offer advantages, some are gimmicks and personally like air gestures being able to wave and answer a call on loud speaker whilst driving - just really handy. Most of the others as I said are gimmicks and I hardly used, turned them off to save battery. I wasn't that impressed with battery life on the N3, the N2 was better and the M8 is on par with the N3 from my 2 weeks usage so far... Standby on the m8 is better and given that the m8 has a 600mAh smaller battery it's pretty impressive!

As for the camera, I personally prefer the m8's mainly because I have a 7 month old who I can take fantastic photos of in any condition, night time ones mainly which come out so great! My N3 really struggled in low light, the flash was also really delayed on it and just made the portrait photos come out so bad it was a real disappointment. Also it was very rare I'd get a blur free image of my little one, the delay is more noticeable after using the m8.

Video was ok, tbh I mainly took photos, I did try the 4k but haven't got anything to play it back natively on and don't plan to get a 4k TV for a fair few years too, so 4k isn't important too me.

The multitasking feature on the N3 is cool but I really used it tbh. S-Pen is cool but again I didn't use it enough to justify it's features.

Anyway I hope this feedback helps.
[One (M8) General] ToneyEricsson:
Thanks for the feedback it's kind of confirmed what I was thinking about the cameras between the two and the HTC One M8 seems better. I have had a good go on them both but haven't had an opportunity to take night time photos with them.
[One (M8) General] maverick1103:
No worries, it would've been nice if it was a higher megapixel but higher megapixels doesn't instantly give you better photos!
[One (M8) General] ToneyEricsson:
The HTC One M8 photos seem better than the Note 3 going by the pictures taken with an M8 thread impressive having that depth option with the duel camera
[One (M8) General] exad:
Would someone be a lamb and upload the OTA zip file? I am trying to collect all the OTAs released.
[One (M8) General] RossMacgill:
Finally picked up my M8 today from CPW, all rooted, s off, as soon as I had taken it out the box and claimed my google drive upgrade. loving it :)
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
What is the super cid for the m8?
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
Same as all HTC ones - 11111111
[One (M8) General] Rotten Ross:
Damn was really hoping it was htc_001 oh well
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
HTC__001 is the CID for one of the EU unbranded handset (the one we get in the UK)
[One (M8) General] Doughnut:
Well mine arrives tomorrow, will post some high key shots of it over the weekend ;)
[One (M8) General] goofy gorilla:
unlocking code

hiya guys - just this minute bought a htc one m8...bloke said it was unlocked , but its locked to vodafone and asking for unlock code ?anyway i can unlock it myself with a code or is it a factory job?..seen a lot peeps on ebay unlocking this,anyone used anyone they recommend?..ta
[One (M8) General] RossMacgill:
take it back to the bloke but you could try to S Off it, and then unlock it, or pay someone/network to unlock it for you
[One (M8) General] radicalisto:
I dropped my N3 for an N5.. Originally I dropped my One for the N3. (really wish I hadn't though as I missed it far more than I thought I would)

Ordered from Vodafone earlier, coming tomorrow - Gunmetal grey :D --- You ditching the N3 then?
[One (M8) General] proeprnorf:
Does the M8 Google play edition comes in different variants ? Thinking about getting one but concerned about the networks supported (North America & rest of Europe )

Just like Nexus 5 did with D820/D821
[One (M8) General] jaythenut:
Alright buddy nice to see you here the one is really nice:D
[One (M8) General] Super Chimp:
Reminds me of so many Android phones where we only seem to get the 16GB versions.:(
[One (M8) General] pro4ever:
Did u get the one (m8) :D
[One (M8) General] Guitarfreak26:
Yeah I'm thinking of moving from the Note 3 to the one.. I've had this phone from launch day and I guess I'm a little bored now :p just hope the screen size isn't too much of a decrease as I've just sold my tablet :p
[One (M8) General] jaythenut:
I've come from n3 screen size isn't too bad at all it's nice to be able to have the phone in the pocket again lol
[One (M8) General] radicalisto:
Tbh I have appreciated the drop in screen size, being able to comfortably hold my phone in one hand is nice knowing I'm not gonna drop it haha - I got my Note pretty much around launch day also and I got bored :D
[One (M8) General] yvibes:
So can I get this at my local phones4u or carphonewarehouse...or will I have to go to the stores up in london?
[One (M8) General] Electronic Punk:
Went to CPW at 4pm for the launch and prizes and giveaways.

Only prize/giveaway seemed to be a football with a HTC logo on, so gave it a miss as he wanted us to do some football trick to win.

Not the kind of prizes I was expecting to be honest, infact this is the first HTC phone I have had for a while that didn't come with expensive headphones (although HTC no longer have a stake in beats), was hoping for something special by picking one up first -even with a contract £100 cashback is unimpressive compared to the Z2 pre-ordered.

None-the-less, I got my real prize - gunmetal m8 simfree.
[One (M8) General] jaythenut:
Phones4u have them in 50 stores i was told last night when I got mine
[One (M8) General] slybeans:
Yeah I got mine from CPW, had to get a picture taken, they said something about posting on twitter but I haven't seen any ha!