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[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fc3211:
Thanks man

Quick question: If somebody had never rooted the device from stock and had accepted the OTA update to Lollipop would the firmware be upgraded as well? Or is it the same firmware that stays?

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What is HTC's major intention anyway to make it so difficult to achieve S-off? If it was a closed-source OS like Apple I would understand but it seems like they went out of their way to make this so extremely difficult (Based on all the posts I have read).

Its these same guys that left the OS at 4.4.2 without updates until most recently. They didnt want to "be bothered" to make the code for 4.4.3 or 4.4.4 but yet they want to brickwall any independent programmers that are trying to add value to their product and not even getting paid?

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This phone was designed from the ground up with built-in functional obsolence...... They stuff the battery so far deep to make it almost impossible to replace knowing full well that this would be the achille's heel to make the phones fit for disposal in the trash bin after the 1 year warranty had expired., after the battery would fail.

Its bad for the environment and a disturbing trend with modern day electronics. I will not be buying an M8 knowing what these crooks are up to. They spit in the face of their customers when they DESIGN a product to expire like a carton of milk
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny201281:
If you update a phone via official OTA updates the firmware will be updated as well as the rom.

This question has been asked more than once before and the answer quite simply is HTC really don't care if your device is s-on or s-off. You can even send your phone for warranty repair with s-off as long as the bootloader is Locked and the Software is stock and untampered with when they receive it they will repair the device according to your warranty. The Android OS is indeed open source and you do not need to have s-off to modify the OS all you need for that is an Unlocked Bootloader which as you probably know HTC offer as a free service :good:

So why do we have s-on and s-off? I hear you ask. There are two main reasons HTC supply phones with s-on.

Reason #1 - To safe guard them as a manufacturer, against false warranty claims. It's very difficult to do any pertinent damage to a phone that is s-on. As the major Partitions that house the devices firmware are protected by the s-on. With s-off you can if your not careful completely brick your device, and why should HTC honor the warranty in such a case. If everyone who gains s-off and flashes things wrecklesly and borks their device can just send for a replacement under warranty where would that leave HTC. They'd be bankrupt in a few years.

Reason #2 And as far as i can tell the main reason we have s-on. To sell more handsets HTC need to have supply contracts with all the major carriers (Orange, O2, H3G and T Mobile and so on) Carriers demand that these devices be supplied with s-on. Because with s-off we have the power to change the firmware. Completely rebranding or debranding a device without there permission or consent. The carriers don't like this so to keep them happy HTC supply there devices with s-on

And just to expand on this, The truth is although contrary to popular belief you do not need s-off to update your firmware. As long as you use HTC signed firmware from OTA updates and you relock your bootloader you can flash firmware UPDATES manually through fastboot.

The advantages of s-off are, You can flash firmware without relocking your bootloader. You can also downgrade firmware which is not possible with s-on, and you can flash customized firmware packages that aren't signed by HTC. Also you can change the CID and MID of your device allowing you to rebrand the phone. You can also sim unlock without a sim unlock code and many more wonderful things :)

I do agree that most electronic devices these days are designed to fail though. And in most cases it's normally cheaper to replace than to repair. Which I think is wrong. The electronic industry has become a bit of a throw away society and I think its somthing that should be more tightly regulated. :good:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Well see that is what you are missing. HTC distro is closed sourced. Sense is Closed sourced. Heck even android is closed sourced except for the AOSP project, and even some of those aspects are closed.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsA:
Sorry you had such a bad experience buying a used phone. I myself have both bought and sold used phones without any regrets to speak of.

My wife / Daughter / and Granddaughter are all using Samsung Note 2 phones I bought used without any problems (replaced one battery). I have bought and sold an M7 and 3 iPhones that all looked and worked flawlessly. I have also bought/sold an LG Optimous G that was in perfect working condition.

I guess it's just luck really ... the M7 I sold had the pink camera issue and I warned the buyer and they did not care at all.

As for the S-off issue I had best luck with hboot 1.54 and stock rooted 3.x software, ARHD 31.6 if i recall.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Well an hour of constant screen on that sounds about normal as screen on time for a full charge is about 4 hours give or take.

S-off is just a simple security set up. Too many users are flashing things (mind you HTC doesn't even want you doing that. Which is their right) and then messing something up and then returning it for the warranty. Which mind you is fraud but it doesn't stop people. Just look at the threads that people brick their device and then try and return it to stock so they don't have to pay for the repair. Sad really.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fc3211:
[MENTION=1140856]zelendel[/MENTION]: Thanks buddy =) You make me feel alot better now to know that the battery I am experiencing is not so terrible as I thought it was compared to other people's phones

To everyone in this thread I would like to thank you for your help and advice, in the end just paid the $25 to Sunshine and in less than 5 minutes I have the S-Off.

I tell you if I knew it would be so difficult I would not have tried to do it on my own, it was not just to save the money.....I am usually really good with computer stuff so not sure where I went wrong but I did learn alot more about android.

And please excuse my furious tirade blaming HTC and the modern Chinese architecture......I just had to find a suitable target on which to vent my frustration and hatred....after all, someone must BE TO BLAME, right? LoL (other than me, Im just sayin)
[Samsung Gear 2] pieterdb:
Any one else had this issue? Only way to gain a response from the screen it needs to be rebooted , still remains connected with Gear Manager ..
[Samsung Gear 2] tonyd371:
Same here had the gear playing music then it froze on one part of the song rebooted itself cause nothing would work. This watch is still buggy like the last one just a few good features
[Samsung Gear 2] Breach:
My wife and I have Gear 2's. I have the Gear 2. She has the Gear 2 Neo. Neither of us have had any freezing.

We have had them a week and have not rebooted them once. Just curious though, how long did you run it before it froze? I know my cellphones typically get flaky after a period of time if I don't reboot them periodically..
[Samsung Gear 2] pieterdb:
Never never again, 2nd watch and still freezes and this one now only lasts 10.5 hours on full charge in standby... I'm going to go get my money back, what a joke.
[Samsung Gear 2] Helga Pataki:
sounds terrible!

my neo works perfectly

no freezing, good battery life and everything else works also fine

maybe you're just unlucky :S
[Samsung Gear 2] AppleofmyDroid:
I have had my gear 2 neo for 2 weeks I got a phone call today didn't answer it and like 20 min later when I went to check my watch for messages or the time my screen wouldn't work now I can't do anything my OS Is froze when I try and hold down the power button nothing happens soo I can't even turn the device off any suggestions? Gonna take back to ATT tomorrow and see of they can give me a new one or something
[Samsung Gear 2] AppleofmyDroid:
Update I pushed and held the power home button and held it for about 6 seconds and it rebooted itself and seems to be working fine for now
[Samsung Gear 2] v67t 890126:
Has anyone solved this problem with gear 2 r380?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tpan1983:
I mistakenly wiped the htc one m7 trying to install a rom based off kit kat I believe. Well, now I have no radios listed at all on the boot screen. I followed the tutorial on the forum for using fast boot to reflash the boot I believe. Process involved an older boot, which didn't flash with an error. I successfully flashed the latest 4.06 version of boot which was successful.

The thread went on to say I should start with the stock rom. Couldn't get it to load with adb side loader or fast boot flash zip name.zip. I have been able to successfully side load viper one, the latest version, and I have the latest version of terp as the recovery.

My problem is the phone will stay on no more than 15 sec. Before it reboots. I cannot see it in my computer although it shows up in device manager. I installed the latest driver from a thread on here.

Seems my options are fast boot and side loader, but I get a signed verification fail when I try to fast boot the radio , also taken from a radio thread here. I'm pretty sure I need s off which is the only thing left. Would this cause the phone to reboot continuously?

I'm tired of messing with it is it time to trash it or is this fixable? Thanks in advance and I'll give any info you guys need to help.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Sloth:
Latest Sprint Radio
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tpan1983:
from fastboot getvar

C:\Users\Tai\Desktop\HTC One Backup\Restore Data\Others>fastboot getvar all

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.56.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: N/A

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main:

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

(bootloader) serialno: FA3C4S903734

(bootloader) imei: 990004288501756

(bootloader) meid: 99000428850175

(bootloader) product: m7_wls

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064

(bootloader) modelid: PN0720000

(bootloader) cidnum: SPCS_001

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3796mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-4dab9d12

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

all: Done!

finished. total time: 0.040s

C:\Users\Tai\Desktop\HTC One Backup\Restore Data\Others>

I dont know if this helps or not.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tpan1983:
This is what I get from fastboot when I try to load the radio...

C:\Users\Tai\Desktop\HTC One Backup\Restore Data\Others>fastboot flash radio Rad

io_HTC.zip

sending 'radio' (18554 KB)...

OKAY [ 2.250s]

writing 'radio'...

(bootloader) signature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 5.500s

C:\Users\Tai\Desktop\HTC One Backup\Restore Data\Others>

This is where I was last night. After searching on the threads, it seems that flashing hboot is ok, but the radios cannot be flashed without S-OFF. At this point what are my options as far as getting this radio in.

It did this auto reboot every 10-15 sec. the minute i flashed the improper rom. Again I've tried fixing with thread guidance on here for softbricking a Sprint device by flashing an ATT, etc. device.

Please help. Are there people you can call to undo damage like this or are you stuck fixing yourself?

Thanks
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Aldo101t:
if you are using fastboot the radio has to be an image file, not a zip, or a boot.img, or get a radio zip file and flash from recovery.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tpan1983:
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Woops typo. So, what I was doing was opening the .zip, and there are two files. A .inf I believe, and the image file (which Windows recognizes as such). I'm copying and pasting this file in the folder with the tools and fastbooting the .img with the command

fastboot devices

I see the phone serial and fastboot

fastboot flash radio radio.img

I get the error I posted before...

I would like to explore flashing from recovery. Given my situation is this possible? Also, do the stock ROMs, the RUU I believe, does it have the radio installed?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Aldo101t:
The link BD Posted here are flashable zips for recovery install
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] shubzk123:
CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 4.4 (KitKat), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

#include
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. Linked below is a package that has come from another Android project that restore the Google parts. CyanogenMod does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

DOWNLOAD

ROM https://www.dropbox.com/s/6g7y8ozgkgsn7uj/wp7.zip

gappshttp://goo.im/devs/BaNkS/GApps/4.4.2/4-16_GApps_Minimal_4.4.2_signed.zip

WHAT WORKS

everything works

KNOWN ISSUES

1.screenrecord does not work

2.FM Radio does not work (you can use SpiritFM, but I'm not providing support for any problem)

3.Stock browser does not use hardware acceleration (Please use Google Chrome)

4.Sometimes wake up causes music stutter

5.Does not work on 4.1 stock ROM's bootloader, please upgrade to 4.2 before flashing

6.launcher is a bit laggy.....i suggest launcher 7[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.tikuwarez.launcher3]

INSTALLATION

1.Make a backup!

2.If you were on CM 10.1 or a stock ROM prior to 4.2, upgrade to 4.2.

3.Install ClockworkMod recovery with SELinux support. Older CWM will result in a "status 7" error.

4.Install the ROM using ClockworkMod Recovery

5.Optionally install the Google Apps Addon

6.Wipe data if coming from stock

CHANGELOG

build 1

CREDITS

Biggest credit goes to [MENTION=3391555]pawt[/MENTION]ip for his rom. thanks bro for your rom and encouraging us.

also to play store and different Devs for their apps.
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] vinodr5371@xdaroms.co.in:
can u upload this to mediafire
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] shubzk123:
yeah sure....i ll do it tonight...when i get back home....
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] nar67:
DUAL SIM ?
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] shubzk123:
no it doesn't support dual sim yet!!!!!! tht ll come in build 2...
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] Manthan Gohil:
Whr is the link???/

Given link leads to my dropbox home.....
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] shubzk123:
sry dude!!!! i dnt knw hw did tht happen........well i hv updated the link
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] siddhu2199:
Hey isn't it based on cm11?? As cm11 has dual sim then why down doesn't it have?
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] Kishan14:
He must have not applied dual sim patch..
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] kmatta:
Is there any other link available ??? This link is not working properly......
[Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Android Development] Kishan14:
Is the OP active...?? U must apply the patch of msim... Den dual sim will work....
[Samsung Galaxy Core.] efrie.freeman:
hi friends. I want to experiment on my galaxy cores .. I want to ask how to put the files into a custom rom patch.diff I wanted to do something to a rom

I want to sample the input like this
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Forever Alone:
I have worked with some XOLO Q1100 folks and we have finally created Stock XOLO Q1100 backup. I was just viewing my FB account and then I got a message from Vallabh who gave me list of all partitions. After that I made a script to backup stock firmware for XOLO q1100 and he passed it to Gaurav because his ROM was much tweaked. Finally Gaurav uploaded the ROM and I am now posting it on XDA.

This is the first XOLO q1100 firmware release and I am proud to do so with my friends!

Credits:

ME: for making script and other things.

Vallabh: for trying this script and for endless testing.

Gaurav: for uploading the firmware!

Rohan: My brother who is awesome :silly:

Downloads:

Click here to download stock firmware of XOLO Q1100.​
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Rohan Taneja:
Great Work! My lonely brother :P :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Vipul Verma:
Nice work Forever Alone a.k.a Rohan Arya :3 :3
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mGforCe:
Nice work... would like to give credits to others also.

But then how to use thie stock firmware because our Customer Recovery doesn't work.

Also if Gaurav is on XDA, can you pls ask him to mention what all tweaks are on his stock ROM?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Forever Alone:
:D thanks!

Yeah bro!!

Flash it by using this script: http://www.mediafire.com/download/32nt1n2yea9lq3i/Restore-Forever-Alone-XDA.rar
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mGforCe:
Thanks... so the steps are:

1) Connect phone in fastboot

2) Extract the zip file to a folder & copy the extracted files from this attachment over there

3) Run the .bat file

Can you confirm if this has been tested by someone?

Also any idea on what all are the improvement done by Gaurav?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Forever Alone:
100% tested and working. A person bricked his device n after using my firmware, it got fixed! :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mGforCe:
:good:

Any idea what has been updated by Gaurav? Is he on XDA, if you can just tag him in this post.

Also pls confirm the steps. Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Forever Alone:
see bro...add that .bat file n other extracted files in the folder which has all the images. Boot your device t bootloader and connect through USB. Execute my script to flash your device...then reboot..IDK What he has done. He has not modified much rom.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mGforCe:
Ok...clear :)

Sent from my Q1100
[Miscellaneous Android Development] caldent:
Any Developments?

With the kernal source code available is there anyway Kitkat my be included in Q 1100?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mGforCe:
The files helped me out today... Thanks.

Confirmed its working.

Just a pointer for someone looking for further guidance on how to use the files shared by OP.

1) Root into fastboot mode by pressing both Volume Up & Down keys along with Power key. You will boot into black screen

2) Open the script bat file

3) Now connect the phone via USB to PC and files will start copying

4) Once all files copied, take out battery, restart into recovery and wipe cache & data

5) Restart phone into normal mode
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Exclusiveyash:
Thanks a lot bro, Saved me from Bricked device!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spark2331995:
After flashing i pulled the battery and then rebooted the device it was on xolo logo for too long so i again removed battery and tried to reboot but now it doesnt boot or get in recovery or can be detected in fastboot

what to do?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rakeshkore:
After copying and loading recovery, i see a chinese recovery ....

HOW to wipe CACHE and data
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rnk4u:
Wifi Problem

I have flashed this room on my and my brother's mobile. Both the mobiles are working fine but unable to connect to my WiFi-router at the same time. :rolleyes: i am surprised to see that both the device have same MAC address.

So can anyone help me in this? :confused: i have flashed the stock firmware also but it doesn't helped me either. :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mujeeb1234:
xolo q1100 flashing problems

hi I am a user of xolo q1100. my phone is stuck on logo.i done factory reset but problem not solved.i tried qfil but the firmware doesnt contain firehouse mbn file.i tried emmc software download tool.but i gives error 0x0004005 while switching to download mode. i chaned cmw to e3 but it gives error signature verification.i wnat to back cmw how can i changed to another twrp.plz i want to my phone back to a condition.plz help me guys.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nocomp:
hi folks

i am expecting to get a z2 and i have few questions.

from what i ve understoud, if you want to root it, you need to unlock the bootloader, and if you want to unlock the bootloader, you need to backup TA partition first, but for perform this backup YOU NEED TO BE ROOT , and i have to admit that i am somehow lost :/

Any help around for solve my headache?

best regards
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwiftSmoke:
No headache, at the current time there's no root workaround. It's a catch 22 scenario you can't do 1 step without screwing up the next 1.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nocomp:
Hi [MENTION=4034054]SwiftSmoke[/MENTION] so it means you can t root z1 or z2?

Envoyé de mon GT-I9300 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hillbicks:
The whole deal is a bit confusing, yes ;)

The so called TA partition holds your DRM keys which give you access to DRM content. These are unique for each phone and a restore of the TA partition from a different phone would permanently brick your phone. If you restore your own TA partition however, the phone is locked again and your completely back to stock again, Sony won't be able to see that you've rooted it.

Now, in order to backup the TA partition, you need to have root access. In the past this was accomplished by an exploit, which gave you root access without wiping the TA partition. Therefore you could get root access, backup TA, flash a custom recovery, flash a custom ROM and if need be, flash your phone back to stock completely.

Hope that made things a bit clearer.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nocomp:
I just need to have root in the safest way once i have my z2, is the exploit still up?

Envoyé de mon GT-I9300 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hillbicks:
There is no exploit for the Z2 (yet) and no guarantee that there ever will be one. Right now, your only choice is to use this recovery which will wipe your TA partition permanently.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2702001
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nocomp:
damm, why all phones are not so easy to root as htc.....

what are fundamental changes in your daily use once you lost your drm ?

thxx for your time
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sathron:
Is it possible to downgrade the android OS to 4.2 or 4.3, root it and get back to the latest version?