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[One (M8) General] djr83:
So I actually received the real OTA today. Restored the stock recovery and tried to install the OTA. I get the error message that my maps.apk has unexpected contents. I have never modified it so I'm not sure what's wrong. Reading the thread I start to suspect that my root is the problem. Is it?
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
Yep. Had the exact same issue and had to reinstall stock non-rooted.
[One (M8) General] djr83:
Do I need to reinstall, I cannot just unroot?
[One (M8) General] pclewis:
Unroot

You will have to install stock recovery and unroot. I just got OTA Notice and tried to run, but did not work until I unrooted to SuperSU settings and find Full Unroot Option.

http://www.andromods.com/unroot-locking/how-to-att-htc-one-m8-unrooted-easily.html

When it finished I reinstalled SuperSU and then went back to Fastboot and installed TWRP. Just like a real phone should be. You should not have disturbed bootloader unlock or s=off if you had them.
[One (M8) General] djr83:
I tried SuperSU full unroot but the update still fails at maps.apk.
[One (M8) General] pclewis:
Not sure about that error. Maybe update Maps. Are you doing adb sideload or update OTA? I never got sideload to work, but did with OTA.
[One (M8) General] djr83:
Maps.apk in /system isn't affected by updates, so that won't help. I've tried both sideload and OTA (which really is the same thing since I try to sideload the same update).
[One (M8) General] pclewis:
Are you stock recovery? Have you unrooted? Is your CID GOOGL001?
[One (M8) General] djr83:
Stock recovery: Yes

Unrooted: I did full unroot in SuperSU and SuperSU is gone so I guess I'm unrooted now

GOOGL001: Yes
[One (M8) General] pclewis:
Again, gave up on sideload. But, maybe I should have stuck with it. If that is what you are doing, try clearing cache and look at the log to find another error. maps.apk could be BS.
[One (M8) General] djr83:
How do I reinstall stock?
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
Just reinstall the RUU (you can either use the 5.0.1 or go directly to 5.1) from here

If you want OTA's in the future, then make sure you use the unrooted RUU.
[One (M8) General] pclewis:
I take it you know how to use fastboot. Go here to get recovery:

http://www.andromods.com/download-files/htc-one-m8-stock-recovery-verizon-sprint-att-tmobile.html

Go to command window in fastboot, execute fastboot flash recovery "recoveryname.img"

When finished go back to twrp if you like and reroot using supersu.
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
That'll only give you stock recovery versus stock OS
[One (M8) General] djr83:
I really need root since I use it to activate the LED notifications. Will I have to go through this for every update in the future?
[One (M8) General] pclewis:
If you give up on the update to 5.1, you will need RUU which will probably be 4.4.3, You will then do several OTA's to get you where you want to be. You will also loose data which you may be able to restore with TWRP after all updates done with stock adb.
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
AFAIK, this is a new "feature" of Lollipop; As soon as root your device, you're modifying the system partition which will then cause any future OTA to fail. As such, you'll either need to do this for each upgrade going forward (and keep root) or simply remain unrooted.

No. Link I provided was for 5.1 RUU although they also have links for the older ones as well.
[One (M8) General] djr83:
When Charlton Heston finds out that he can't OTA with root: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0

So... root is a must for me. How do I update without loosing everything every time? What's the easiest way?
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
Your best bet is to go for a custom ROM (i highly recommend ARHD!). In most cases you'll be able to upgrade to the latest version without having to lose your data etc.
[One (M8) General] LlamaLord:
So i have an ATT M8 with GPE installed Rooted with TWRP installed.

Got the update notification. Should i update or just wait it out?

Tried to install but failed dude to having TWRP installed would i need to go to stock recovery?

Also to keep root seems that there is no way to keep it right now...
[One (M8) General] cavemanturk:
done manually everything seems to work just fine.

is there a changelog or anyone noticing any special changes?
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
Visually, only things I've noticed are the new dialer/contacts app and the addition on HTC Weather in the settings menu (along with Motion Launcher being moved further down)
[One (M8) General] cavemanturk:
HTC Weather option is for the dot view case right?
[One (M8) General] OctoberNexus:
Right

Sent from my Google Play Edition M8
[One (M8) General] Andrmgic:
my M8 is running extremely slowly at boot after applying this update.

edit -

I changed the CID to GOOGL001 as suggested a few posts back and re-applied the update manually and the phone is back to normal.

I saw a different behavior when the phone rebooted to apply the firmware than i did before I changed the CID (saw a green progress bar during the firmware flash), so I'm guessing that the firmware update that goes along with 4.4.3 doesn't get installed unless your phone has the GOOGL001 CID.

Mine was CWS__001 (AT&T M8)
[One (M8) General] juvezavala:
CID?

I haven't tweaked anything on CID (so it's still the AT&T CID) and the 4.4.3 update broke my wi-fi. It won't switch on. Does the CID needs to reflect Google? The 4.4.3 update installed just fine.
[One (M8) General] OctoberNexus:
Only it didn't, if you haven't changed the cid to GOOGL001 then you didn't get the kernel update.

Sent from my Google Play Edition M8
[One (M8) General] juvezavala:
Thanks man! I'll CID it and reflash.
[One (M8) General] randynguyen46:
I had the same problem as you but I'm stuck at the reapplying the update manually, not sure what to do. Mind explaining how you reflashed?
[One (M8) General] Huigie:
Answer was a few posts back...
[One (M8) General] BerndM14:
Naaaaaniiii?!?!? This is the 21st century, ain't nobody reading back a few posts anymore! :eek:

Yay for those that still do though :victory:
[One (M8) General] tliebeck:
Anyone here running 4.4.3 having trouble modifying /system? I'm the author of the SDFix app and have a user reporting he can't make his SD card writable using the app on an M8 GPE with 4.4.3. I don't have one of these devices myself. User is certain he has permanent root.

I thought I'd read that an upcoming Android release might be tweaking some SELinux stuff rendering /system unwritable except from recovery.

SDFix is just a trivial little app that edits your /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml file to allow write access to the SD card as was done in the "good old days" when WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission granted an app membership to the media_rw group, which is required to write to the SD card. The user reports that it appears to run successfully but the changes it is supposed to make are not persisted.

Thanks for any info!
[One (M8) General] wetxxx:
Yes I have a big problem with rw my systenm file. When some apz like Android Tuner try write do SD phone crash and reboot. I have 1.54.401.10 STOCK ROM, S-ON, unlock bootloader, supersus 1.94r4, I have "bad chip" emmc- 90014a48

I modyfied a permision.xml

<permission name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" >
<group gid="sdcard_r" />
<group gid="sdcard_rw" />
<group gid="media_rw" />
</permission>
[One (M8) General] supahdaniel:
Just confirming, I should disable xposed framework before the update, correct? Has anyone confirmed that it works on 4.4.3? I want to be safe!

Also, when I try to flash the zip in TWRP it keeps failing and saying error executing updater binary in zip...
[One (M8) General] mrRobinson:
Xposed works fine ive been on it for the past week. Flash with stock recovery not twrp.
[One (M8) General] supahdaniel:
After I flashed stock recovery, whenever I enter recovery I get a black screen...

EDIT

Needed to erase cache. Was able to install the update through stock recovery.
[One (M8) General] Slashdot123:
Does your front (selfie) camera work?

Mine stopped working after the update and everything is stock.
[One (M8) General] JWadle:
OTA & HTC Camera App

I'm waiting for OTA update for my M8 GPE, but want to know if this will enable use of the HTC camera app as an alternative to Google camera.

Anyone know?
[One (M8) General] EddyOS:
Yep all working fine, no issues at all
[One (M8) General] SpaceCadetWilliam:
I've read this thread multiple times but I just want to make sure I'm doing this right before I proceed.

I got the ota update the other day and am wondering if as long as I change my cid to the gpe cid and accept the ota everything will be OK?

or do I have to flash it in stock recovery?

this is my first Android, coming from iPhone. I have done tons of reading and converted my phone using the gpe ruu and haven't experienced an ota yet. I'm coming from jailbroken iPhones where ota kills your jailbreak so I'm a bit hesitant.

also does flashing this update from stock recovery wipe your phone?

thanks for the help everyone :)
[One (M8) General] micks_address:
Same issue here ota failed so downloaded and tried to flash via custom recovery. Also fails... Was rooted not any more.
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
Simply uprooting isn't enough; to obtain root initially, you modify your system partition. Unrooting removes the files and scripts, but doesn't undo the other system changes.

Haven't tried, but I suspect the only way to do this without losing app data is to:

1. Backup data (either via tb or adb)

2. Restore to stock incl wipe

3. Undertake the upgrade

4. Root

5. Restore app data

It's painful, but it's the only way to upgrade I can think of.
[One (M8) General] boe323:
I think all the corresponding files should be put together in a non system folder/or folder than isn't checked on ota, create links to direct to the folder with files in it, surely this can be done?, so then your not touching any folder that's checked on ota
[One (M8) General] micks_address:
hmmm i;m not worried about root as i cant used it (Use GOOD for enterprise for work email and it wont work if rooted)

How can i do a wipe etc and reset on my ROM? Its a GPE Rom.. versus my 'STOCK' rom sense M8 etc..

I would have used sunshine originally to do all the bits it does... and applied an GPE rom.... the lollipop version I'm pretty sure i just flashed used custom recovery and it worked (i was rooted at the time if that makes any difference?)

Cheers,

Mick
[One (M8) General] sean.trinidade:
Yeah, I hate Good - it's the reason why I have had to stop rooting my devices! :p

Installing a GPE Rom is different to having GPE device. A ROM won't actually change your firmware, partitions etc. and therefore having a GPE OTA is useless as you would need to continue flashing Sense firmwares manually.

I posted a link a couple of pages back for the proper way to convert Sense device to GPE device (and how to do it to use OTA's in the future!)
[One (M8) General] micks_address:
ill have a look for your post.. i did a complete conversion to a GPE device.. not just a GPE rom.... the last OTA update applied no problems.. just this one fails to apply
[One (M8) General] LlamaLord:
Anyone got anything for this?!
[One (M8) General] shafez:
It has been said several times that the update will not work on rooted devices.
[One (M8) General] veneoth:
yesterday i recived two updates, one after another

LMY47O.H5 and LMY47O.H6

both near 25 MB but i dont know what they do

im in Poland btw, CID GOOGL001
[One (M8) General] adheesio:
Hello, what is your current MID ?
[One (M8) General] Roadrunner100:
Same here. Haven't a clue what these updates are about.
[One (M8) General] florynn2003:
I'm in Romania, didn't receive the OTA's. Can you upload here? Thanks.
[One (M8) General] olahj:
1st update

2nd update
[One (M8) General] Isotopes:
[MENTION=3423169]oldblue910[/MENTION]

Here is the latest full update link from Google -> click me

It's update from 3.11.1700.5 (LRX22C.H5 - L5.0.1) to 4.04.1700.6 (LMY47O.H6 - L5.1) ... the last two ota's are included :cool:
[One (M8) General] Petert87:
Is it possible to have a flashable zip for the 5.1 ROM?
[One (M8) General] Isotopes:
Do you mean a full 5.1 rom then use this one
[One (M8) General] Petert87:
I mean the little updates for that rom

Verstuurd van mijn HTC One_M8
[One (M8) General] oldblue910:
Thanks [MENTION=559855]Isotopes[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2835326]olahj[/MENTION] for the links. This was a strange one. There must have been some kind of major bugs for them to do incremental little fixes like this. Anyway, the first post has been updated. Thanks again!
[One (M8) General] MattSkeet:
am I just stupid?

im trying to flash this: LMY47O.H5 from LMY47O.H4

but it gives me an error in the sideload menu that system is busy WTF
[One (M8) General] sirio87s:
me too -_-'
[One (M8) General] adheesio:
I got also system busy error but it was about unmounting system after update if I understood right.

However, any ideas what these updates fix/improve ?
[One (M8) General] lavey112:
Hmm i did a flash to 5.0.1 and then received OTA to H6 right after ;) and I was worried that OTA stopped working for me :)
[One (M8) General] forever_lol:
same here ;)
[One (M8) General] msgfromside3:
I am getting that as well. Do you get it from stock recovery? I changed back to stock recovery and I don't get it any more, but update still fails because the update script sees something it doesn't like to see in /system (/system/lib/modules/adsprpc.ko). I have flashed pre-rooted RUU provided by graffixnyc.

I am pretty new to HTC and I am wondering if there is a way to get back to complete stock (unroot is okay). Nexus/Sammy devices are more straightforward..

Update: I've found the way. I didn't go through the recent posts enough on the other thread.

Update2: nope. I cannot flash ruu. It says, "Passed" but nothing is wiped and no change. Maybe it is because I flashed the same version but root vs pre-root.
[One (M8) General] bigwillie1:
I just received a stability update for android 5.1 L-MR1 (LMY470.H6 release-keys) on the HTC M8 GPE stock. (It seems it was already out for a while. Weird that I received it so late.)

Also nice to read that M is also coming to the M8. Source
[One (M8) General] Isotopes:
very late for you ... the LMY47O.H6 OTA is rolled out since the end of May :silly:
[One (M8) General] djr83:
I also received 5.1 L-MR1 today even though I'm already running 5.1. I installed it, expecting it to fail since I'm rooted but I believe it actually installed. But now I'm stuck in a boot loop, only seeing the colored dots animation. I can reboot with power + vol down + vol up to get into HTC Boot. Restarting the phone again gets me into the boot loop again.

What could I do?
[One (M8) General] wodzini:
same here, help :(
[One (M8) General] michaelduijkers:
I got the update as well, running skydragon gpe v5...when i want to install the update the phone goes into recovery (twrp) mode and shows the same error
[One (M8) General] naja_return:
I also got a bootloop here. Any ideas?
[One (M8) General] scifan:
Hmmm... first things first... Breathe... Assuming you guys have S-Off, things could be worse, but you should be able to recover.

Did you do the full conversion to GPE? or did you just flash the GPE rom on your "Sense" baseband M8? Can you get into TWRP? (power + volume up to reboot, then volume down to get to the boot loader, then launch recovery?!)
[One (M8) General] djr83:
I have done a full conversion and have s-off. I can get into recovery but I dont have TWRP, I have stock recovery (I get the dead Android guy).
[One (M8) General] scifan:
This happened to me when I tried to flash the upgrade to 5.0....

The stock recovery was flashed for you on the update...

To re-install TWRP, you'll want to reflash via fastboot... download the latest image if you don't already have it (and verify the md5 hash) , and boot your phone into the boot loader, then go into fastboot

then run "fastboot flash recovery <recovery.img>" where recovery.img is the name of your twrp image file...

That should at least get you back to TWRP, and then you should be able to restore your nandroid from your SD card... (you did have it on your SD card and not on your internal storage right?)

Also, I'd probably try restoring just the boot/system and see if you can keep your data... (uncheck data & secure data)... worst case is to restore the whole thing...

See how that works for you...
[One (M8) General] djr83:
I dont have nandroid at all...

So my only option is to flash the RUU and loose everything? It's not that bad, I got most of my stuff synced to different services.
[One (M8) General] scifan:
Have you flashed the TWRP image yet? have you verified if your "data" partition still has data on it? (you can ADB into your phone while booted into TWRP and take a look...) IF your data partition wasn't wiped, you should be able to make a nandroid backup of your phone as-is and have the data partition that could be restored... (remember you don't have to restore all of the partitions when doing a restore... actually, you don't have to do a full backup either...)

Take a look... worst case is you've successfully wiped your phone... it's better than feeling you have an expensive brick... right?
[One (M8) General] djr83:
I'm in TWRP now. How do I verify my data partition? If I use the file manager in TWRP I can at least see that all my apps in /sdcard. Does that mean it still has data on it?

Should I use Backup in TWRP, check Data and back up to an SD card?
[One (M8) General] scifan:
If you do a backup, it should show you how much data's being backed up... IF it's empty, the backup will go very quickly...
[One (M8) General] djr83:
It's backing up 2590 MB now. What's the next step? Flash RUU, flash TWRP again, and then restore the Data-backup?
[One (M8) General] karraz:
I'm stuck in the neverending boot as well :(

So I don't have a recovery at all, well I have a very old Titanium back up but I don't wanna use it and I don't mind about loosing my data, the problem is I dont remember how to reinstall de RUU exactly, is it like this??

fastboot oem rebootRUU

fastboot flash zip <fyle from my pc>

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot

I know I'm kinda dumb, I just want to use my phone again :( Can anybody tell me if I'm missing something?

By the way, How can I find the latest RUU GPE Rooted version? The one with this update. Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english. :o:o:D
[One (M8) General] djr83:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708589
[One (M8) General] karraz:
Thanks sir!!
[One (M8) General] djr83:
What's the difference between LMY47O.H4, LMY47O.H5 and LMY47O.H6? I can only find an RUU for H4.
[One (M8) General] 3lMghraby:
when I get bootloop I force restart with power + volume button it will open next time with android is upgrading message ;)
[One (M8) General] djr83:
Tried that several times, didn't work. After 2 hours of flying dots I gave up.

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This worked great. I'm back to normal again.

But the update notification is showing again. What should I do with that?
[One (M8) General] scifan:
Excellent! Glad that helped!!!

Grab the H6 update from here:

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Did the instructions I gave above make sense? (Are you S-Off, was your phone a GPE conversion?)
[One (M8) General] djr83:
How do I flash that? Through TWRP? And will that work even though I'm rooted?
[One (M8) General] exist2resist:
No updates will work if you're rooted. You need to side load the updates via stock recovery.
[One (M8) General] duskdiyebiri:
why does this device haven't got update 5.1.1 ?? We bought GPE Edition for faster updates but it hasn't been updated for 2 months for 5.1.1
[One (M8) General] exist2resist:
Because the 5.1.1 update is strictly for nexus devices. Ave because Android M is the next confirmed update for the m8.
[One (M8) General] duskdiyebiri:
But we still have memory leak problem

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[One (M8) General] exist2resist:
Yeah lollipop ? was a bit of a failure.
[One (M8) General] hussainmushahid:
I unrooted my device as well as flashed the stock recovery via bootloader but the OTA still gave me an error.

If I try sideloading, it'll work right ? I'm completely stock.
[One (M8) General] exist2resist:
Yeah sideload it in stock recovery. Having said this, just because you unrooted does not mean all the files are gone.
[One (M8) General] scifan:
Flash this via TWRP... It's not the stock upgrade... It's more of a ROM installation...

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I'd ask [MENTION=1862878]movers[/MENTION]i on twitter... (HTC vp guy)

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If your system partition was altered at all, there's a good chance the stock updates will fail...

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I should mention that I'm currently running the H6 zip I posted the link to above... along with Lypota's mod pack (v8 works with H6) so I can have my Advanced Power Menu and % battery text... ;)
[One (M8) General] hussainmushahid:
All updated.

Thanks!
[One (M8) General] Misledz:
Yay for OTA, anyone had this successfully installed?
[One (M8) General] adeptustech:
Here is the RUU update for those who want to flash it to do things faster.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51650034
[One (M8) General] naja_return:
My M8 is fully RUU converted to GPe and rooted.

I got this 2 days ago and ended up with boot loop.

I suggest you sideload or use flashable zip instead.
[One (M8) General] exist2resist:
Incorrect, if you're rooted the OTA will fail always.
[One (M8) General] PiTT:
I'm the same way as the guy above, converted to GPE and rooted. I can't install any of these updates through TWRP. What can I do? I obviously can't do OTA.
[One (M8) General] LlamaLord:
So i have the ATT M8 and converted to GPE & rooted. I started to read up on the update from the last time i have posted but still just trying to find out if anyway as updated to the new update yet without wiping the device?
[One (M8) General] downwiththebanksters:
Sorry, I've only read the last 30 or so posts, no mention of the following. How is this ROM generally? Any bugs? Battery OK? Camera OK? I'm still on a sense 4.4.4 and can't decide to do this.
[One (M8) General] naja_return:
It used to fail until this only update that force me to bootloop. I know it always fail but I just give it a try, but didn't expect it to be a bootloop.

I ended up flash the flashable zip to recover my device that is all I mean. Did I say something wrong? Please correct me.
[One (M8) General] oldblue910:
There are some rumblings of a 5.1.1 update rolling out for the GPE M7 and M8. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but if it is, someone capture the URL before updating! :)
[One (M8) General] exist2resist:
Working great for me, camera takes great pictures.

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Do a data backup in twrp, flash non rooted ruu, update with the ota files, sign into Google account, install twrp, restore backup, flash stock recover (optional)
[One (M8) General] Vigz:
Though I can't tell if it is 5.1.1, there is confirmation from moversi at Twitter that an update is nearby in an effort to patch the Stagefright MMS vulnerability that's been taking storm. Whether if it is another revision to 5.1 like we had for the last two updates remains to be seen.
[One (M8) General] leandronb:
i already tried gpe three times, one in kitkat, two in lollipop. for me sense 4.4.3 is the best, and fastest. sense camera is miles better than google camera, battery on sense kitkat is much better than gpe.

i like the pure android looks but some stuff is annoying like new interruptions, the led blinking even in interruptions on none, also lollipop needs a reboot from time to time in both sense and gpe.

in kitkat sense camera is better, battery is better, rom is faster and smoother. i will only updata again for sense 7 next year unless i get another device.