yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] ransz:
Correction : cant pick a diff tune to play as a ringtone... that a bug or i must reinstall the RUU rom ?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Are you trying to pick one off the sd card?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] ransz:
Settings ----> sounds -----> call notifucations. Pressing it does nothing
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
This is gonna sound stupid but is your volume either down or off? They will be greyed out if so...

?

I didn't do it....HTC did. Lol
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] ransz:
Lol. Naw mate. First time i encouter this
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Can you send a screen shot of your settings page where it doesn't work ?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Ok. It works on the phone I got the system dump from. Check the md5 of your download and run it again.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] ransz:
EDIT : good news ! :) , I just reflashed it using adb as u recommended in option 1 and it seems to work... sorry for the hussel and thanks for the help so far.

I just want to know, How close is this rom to the actual Verizon stock rom ?

Like , because you made the rom prerooted etc, does it mean it is still 100% reliable like the original rom we get with the phone out from the box ?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Yes. This is stock with nothing changed except for su being installed.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jax187:
Thank you for this. Saved me a few times. Works great! :thumbup:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
HELP!! I an doing this on a mac and getting this

Jays-MacBook:~ jayspencer$ fastboot oem rebootRUU

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 0

OKAY [ 0.021s]

finished. total time: 0.021s

Jays-MacBook:~ jayspencer$ fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip

error: cannot open '0P6BIMG.zip'
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Is the zip located in the same directory as your fastboot directory?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
View attachment 2733467
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
From your terminal prompt can you show me the output of the list command?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] sigshane:
I was having a similar problem. Did you check the md5 on your copy?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
after I type fastboot oem rebootRUU it goes to the htc logo on my phone so that seems to be working correctly.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
View attachment 2733477
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
List.....like the dir equivalent on Windows. Will show us the files listed in the current working directory....which according to previous snapshot should be "android"
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
yes sir I did
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
sorry.....View attachment 2733486
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Do a

Cd /users/jayspencer/desktop/android

And then try again
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
same results :crying:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Do you have an sd card handy?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
I do but have no way to transfer it to the sd card or I woulda done that and not bothered anyone........sorry. I have a 32 micro sd in the phone and the test rom I was running ate my internals so I have no os to boot on the phone :(
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
No old phone to use to load the sd?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] sigshane:
So you cannot access the sd card from your file explorer, and copy the file over that way?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
an iPhone 5 LMAO!!!!!!! I will just go buy a sd card slot adapter for my computer tomorrow and do that. I was just wondering if I was missing something.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] sigshane:
You can even use a camera just to copy the file over, can't you? Anything that has an sd card slot and a usb cable...
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
lmao I was in panic mode! Yes I do!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] sigshane:
That is a very good idea dude. For us android tinkerers, a microsd card adapter is a must have item.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Yeah I'm not sure about why it won't load and I don't have much Mac exp. If it's in the same directory as your fastboot/adb it should work. Not sure if you need to sudo to get it to fly. It's almost acting like it cannot read the file on your Mac...never even attempting to transfer.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
I really appreciate all your time! I will return to figuring this out and once I do I will send the steps so you can put a step by step on a mac if you want it.

Thanks again for everything!!!!!

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hmmmmm loading........no image or wrong image...................still doing stuff butttttttt
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Sd card must be formatted to fat32
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
it was but now its started unzipping and everything. All so far is ok excpet sbl1 which is bypass-s. At system and it's unzipping now.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Yep. All normal.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] sigshane:
So did it work? If so, how did you finally get it?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] redsox 98:
I ended up using my camera to get it onto my micro sd card. I still wanna figure out a way to push it though with a Mac.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] schnob:
Many thanks for this! It averted my crisis as I'm sure it has many other's.

One question: Do I need to reflash the new firmware? I'm a bit confused since my bootloader says it's still 1.55.605.2.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Nope. This is current.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] faruqster:
Just wanted to say thank you. This saved me from turning my M8 into a paperweight. Really appreciate it.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] MaverickCoast:
SOLUTIONS for Option 2

Get the same message as above.

I've tried putting the file 'OP6BIMG.zip' in the following two directories:

C\fastboot

C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\

Tried the "fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip" command after I opened the command window in each one of the directories.

My storage available on phone is 7.25gb. Everything happens as the instructions say until that command is entered.

UPDATE: I am attempting method two and it seems to be working. Still would like to know what went wrong with the first method!

********************************************

Using Option 2, Update 2: Had a few other obstacles when using 2nd method to install RUU.

- Apparently, RUU UNINSTALLS the recovery that was active on your phone, so don't bother going into the bootloader to put your phone into "recovery" (CWM or TWRP)!

-

After

installing RUU, rebooting, and then entering the bootloader, I opened the command window in my 'C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools' folder and followed the information in this link starting with #8: http://www.droidviews.com/root-achieve-s-off-and-install-cwm-twrp-on-verizon-htc-one-m8/2/. Be sure to change the command to include the name of the CWM or TWRP file that you are using!

After that, I was able to enter TWRP and install my backup file. I suppose it would work with CWM as well.

A

BIG

thanks to dottat

for your work on this. I'm just glad to find a way to erase old "junk" files on the internal card of the phone and start from scratch!!! After installing numerous ROMs, the 'ol phone gets QUITE cluttered!

Sorry if this is long winded, but hopefully it will help the few that run into this problem and are having problems installing RUU using Option #1! Cheers!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] tim.ton:
I agree! I accidentally overwritten a boot file when trying to flash a recovery and was stuck in a bootloop. I thought my phone was done for until I came across this thread. Thank you!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Actually....check the op. I gave you an optional ruu method to flash Twrp right back. A full ruu will always put a stock recovery back on your phone. So you made a lot of extra work on yourself ?

I'm glad to see people using this and figuring out different ways to skin the cat too!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] MaverickCoast:
Flashing recovery while in

Hmmm. After the '0P6BIMG' file was done installing using the bootloader, it said 'To Reboot, Press Power Button'. No other choice but to reboot and no opportunity to re-install a recovery. When I entered 'fastboot flash zip ruuM8_TWRP_2_7.zip' at that point in a command window, it said '<Waiting for device>'. It stopped there and would not go beyond that.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Another way to skin the cat..

Since this is rooted...install the app called flashify from the app store and use that to flash whatever recovery you would like. That's what I normally use. It will also let you backup stock recovery to your sd card.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Thanks a lot, OP. I got my M8 last week and was afraid to take the OTA in fear that it would patch a root/S-Off exploit, so I unlocked the bootloader and put a custom ROM on it (Clean ROM at the moment) ASAP in order to block the OTA. Well what are the odds that I should have taken the OTA before doing all that?! :p

So since there isn't any hboot/baseband .zip files available to install through custom recovery, I just did a backup in TWRP, rebooted back into the bootloader, followed directions in OP (including re-flashing the custom TWRP), and went straight back into TWRP in order to restore my backup. But it seems you cannot do an immediate restore after flashing this RUU file. When I tried, TWRP kept failing to wipe or restore the /data partition because it wasn't able to be mounted (or something to that effect). So I just rebooted into the /system partition in order to get into Android and make sure it installed properly; it did and I skipped the setup wizard and confirmed that I was on the current 1.55 build version.

Only then was I able to reboot back into recovery and restore my previous backup in recovery. You may have already hit on this in the thread, but I thought it was worth mentioning in OP or something.

Thanks!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
[MENTION=2657742]T4rd[/MENTION] did you do option 1 or 2 out of curiousity?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Option 1: used Fastboot RUU mode.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Word. Don't forget the data files zip I had in the op as well. Something told me you were an option one candidate. I suspect that a lot of the users needing to come here have somehow sporked something that only allows them option two. Trying to narrow that down.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Ahh, yes, of course I missed that. :o

Even though I didn't flash it though, I still have stickers in my photo editor. So should I bother with flashing that in recovery after the fact?

Thanks again!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
If you already restored a rom you probably restored /data as well...which would have the stickers. So it sounds like all is well.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Yeah, I figured that's what happened. Cool beans. :cool:

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Hmm, just noticed something though; I'm still getting the "Voice Roaming" notification/icon after updating to the new firmware/baseband. And according to the change log, it's supposed to "remove the roaming indicator icon displayed

on some HTC One M8 devices." This was half the reason for me to install this update because it was annoying me. I live and work in a "roaming" area, so I'd like to remove this notification somehow. Any ideas?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Does it go away when you aren't in the roaming area?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Evolutionmods:
Thank you for this, Yesterday i was porting and made a boo boo.... all is good now, thanks to you :good:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Well I rarely go outside a roaming area since I live and work in one. I Force Closed the phone app to get it to go away and it seemed to stay away all night, but it came back this morning. :(

I was hoping this new baseband would fix my Hotspot too since I'm running Clean Rom and it's based on this new update. But it didn't fix that either. I guess I'm just going to try wiping and re-installing the ROM now that I have this new firmware in the first place. It seems that it doesn't do much for you after the fact. Maybe it's because after I flashed the RUU, I restored the same ROM/system partition, which still has some hooks with the old firmware..? I have no idea.. just grasping for straws, heh.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
One of my m8s had that roaming bug. Nothing I did could make it go away. That was before the update and I returned it a couple days after launch. Try the stock Rom for a day or two and see how that goes. If you need a good backup app I posted one on my android file host. It's the HTC backup app and it works perfectly on this phone.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Thanks man. I'm considering swapping this phone out for another too because I'm getting some speaker pop at louder volumes and I don't think that's normal.

Does that HTC backup app work as well as Titanium? If I get these things sorted out with a re-install of the stock ROM, I figured I would just save the TWRP backup onto my SD card and restore it on the new phone to have things back up in record time. I keep Titanium backups too just in case, but it can be a hassle in terms of causing stability/crashing issues (esp. if you restore system apps, which I try to avoid). But if that HTC backup works better, I'll definitely try it out.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
I haven't had any issues with HTC backup. Uses Google drive for space. Does e-mail accounts/texts/apps and even desktop layout.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] terrapin01:
s-off or not?

Can someone help me?

I did option 1 to RUU.

Now I want to get back to rooted, s-off and custom recovery.

When I installed weaksauce and ran it, it told me I was already rooted. Sure enough, supersu was still there. That surprised me because I thought the RUU would have gotten rid of it.

Then I went to do the s-off hack and when I get to the command

/data/local/tmp/firewater

nothing happens.

So I ask myself, am I s-off already? (This was something I didn't know, if the RUU would undo s-off). When I hold volume down and power on I don't get the bootloader menu. So I must not be s-off? But I can't get s-off because that firewater command never works.

What can I do?

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I just found that I can do adb reboot bootloader and that got me into the menu and shows me that I'm s-off. Still not sure why I can't access that menu with volume down & power. Anyway I'm restoring my backup.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] adavit:
The op states that this is prerooted so it makes sense that you are seeing superuser since you are rooted. Also, I don't think this will put you s-on, so that would also explain why firewater didn't do anything because you already have s-off. Someone correct me if I'm wrong that one.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] greatnesstx:
You are correct my good man
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] greatnesstx:
any chance we can get a RUU file no root, just incase we have to return the phone back to factory state
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
It's far easier to unroot this after flashing it. I have to have root in order to get the system image I used to make this.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] breakyosef:
After reading this thread 2 times I am trying to figure out the best way to get back to out of the box stock the fastboot way?? Sorry for the noon question.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] mehmetolgungun:
I used option 1, but i cant get ota updates.

What should i do to get updates?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
There is no ota beyond this one yet.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] breakyosef:
I tried step 2 and it worked one question I have is upon going back to stock was there a power saving option in the stock settings
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Not the extreme power saver on vzw yet.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] breakyosef:
What about regular power saving ?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
I don't see that yet here....although I believe there are threads on how to enable that. As soon as the m8 vzw gets an ota I will be updating this thread to include whatever is new.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jova33:
I can only get into fastboot. Recovery is jacked and does a hot reboot after three seconds. Is there anyway to preserve my internal memory?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Try flashing only the ruu mode recovery from ruu mode. Then see if your recovery works.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jova33:
I was able to use PhilZ to do an adb pull. As long as I didn't attempt to do anything with recovery it worked for that. Then I did the full wipe/restore to stock, put everything back to internal storage, reinstalled TWRP, and was able to restore a nandroid.

Sent from your mom's smartphone
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Sounds good. Glad u figured it out.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jova33:
I really wish I knew what I messed up to encounter that issue so I don't do it again though. Would flashing the wrong ROM mess up the recovery? Like if I accidentally hit Sprint instead of VZW in the aroma installer.

Sent from your mom's smartphone
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Possibly....though I think what happens more often with crack flashers is that they flash roms meant for their previous devices since those files are still on their sd card.

Best practice is to make a nandroid and keep all important files on your sd card as the ruu will not wipe that.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Ok, I'm back with another question/problem. I am bout to send my One M8 back for warranty replacement and want to return it back to the stock ROM/bootloader/recovery (following directions in this thread).

I flashed this RUU fine the first time. But now I'm getting this:

C:\Users\Username\Downloads\HTC\adb_fastboot_and_other_tools\adb_fastboot_and_other
_tools\Android>fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip
target reported max download size of 1830711296 bytes
load_file: could not allocate 1610682630 bytes
error: cannot load '0P6BIMG.zip': Not enough space

I have almost 20GBs left on internal storage. Will this not work if you're already on the latest RUU/hboot?

Thanks.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
Try a fastboot erase cache

If that doesn't work do you have an sd card to use ?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] T4rd:
Didn't work:

I have one somewhere.. not sure I can find it at the moment. Otherwise I only have my current 64GB card with all my data on it and using exFat file system. =\

Thanks a lot for the quick response. I was hoping you had e-mail notifications on. ;)

I'm about to do a factory wipe in recovery and will try again.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
So let me ask you this....can you do a factory reset from hboot and try the ruu after that?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
So i just got this phone from overseas it's on 4.4.2 baseband version I9505XXUFNBH, I need to get it unlocked but when I put my sim card in it from a different carrier i don't see any options come up for me to enter a unlock code? So I'm wondering if it's already unlocked but still when I have my sim card in it i don't get any signal bars whatsoever, only that circle which is crossed out i see there so anyone have any idea what might be wrong please
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stransky:
Hi

The baseband of your phone is GB/EE the same as mine. So it is possible that it is locked to EE or T-Mobile/Orange. Sorry I can't be of any real help.

Stransky
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
Omg!! That means my phone is useless?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
.

Also S4 I9505 service mode *#0011# is showing

Imei certi: NA

Can it be fixed.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joku1981:
Dial *#06# and tell me if ur IMEI is correct. If is correct, dial *#1234# and attach screenshot pls.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
IMEI is correct

Here's the screen shot
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nellisere:
Doesn't the icon at the top of that screenshot mean "No SIM Installed"?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
Yes but when I installed a sim card the sim icon is gone but still no service bars, just that round circle
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joku1981:
1. This version of that firmware is ok... but there is an update ready.

2. Log and sig in Sammobile.com.

3. And download the update: HERE.

4. Flash it through ODIN.

5. Tell me how it worked.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
OK thanks will give it a try, can i go ahead and flash even if I'm already on stock rooted rom?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
???? Can i?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorian2kx:
Any help?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAndroid12:
Yes
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Firedragonweb:
Greetings,

I'm kind of new to the rooting procedure, so I am having a few questions regarding that topic. I used chainfires method to root my S5 and it worked just great.

However,

1) I am no longer able to get updates Over The Air, which, as far as my research went, is unavoidable. Is this correct?

2) However, from what I read, I can still get updates via KIES, regardless of being rooted. Correct again?

3) If I decided to do that, my root access will be lost again. Correct again?

4) SuperSU Pro has a feature that it will try to protect root access during OTA updates. Will this (probably) work on these updates as well?

5) If I lost root due to an update - can I just repeat the same procedure with the same files chainfire provided to unlock root again or will this not work with the update generally?

Thanks for helping me out!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BLuFeNiX:
bump. I'd like some info on this as well.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koolboyztn:
1) yes

2) yes

3) yes

4) never know, may or may not work.

5) yes
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prot-:
im not sure about kies myself, i always find it faster and safer to use odin.

yeah u can always reflash chainfires root over the top of updates as long as its the right firmware ie. sm-g900x
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Firedragonweb:
Thanks for your help! It is much appreciated.

An additional question, though:

6) Is there an additional (ie more than just performing an Over The Air update unrooted) risc of loosing my data in the process?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koolboyztn:
in what process? if OTA update then No, but for any other flashs then Yes.
[G2 Accessories] Tejh:
I bought the ditztronic case a while back and have loved using it, but the only problem I have is that my skinomi screen protector peels up because of how close it is to the edge. Does anybody have a recommendation as to which screen protector to use with this case? I can't not have one haha
[G2 Accessories] Bobby_C:
Zagg's case friendly screen protector. Not cheap but well worth it.
[G2 Accessories] abhinav.tella:
Supershieldz is cheap, and lasting. Haven't gotten a single scratch on it.

I used a Zagg on my old G2, it felt better but got scratched somehow; a nice clean line across the screen, felt like a waste of $25. Supershieldz is cheaper ($2-4 depending on site) and you get a 6 pack so you have more than enough replacements. But it is more tedious to put on than the Zagg, even though the latter uses liquid install.
[G2 Accessories] detonation:
I just put an Xtremeguards protector on mine and am relatively happy. It's got that slight rubbery feel to it because it's the wet apply type, but it goes edge to edge (and actually sticks down) and looks perfectly smooth.

If you don't mind wet apply protectors, it's worth a try, especially because you can get two of them for a whopping $1.40 with free shipping after coupon XTREME90:

http://www.xtremeguard.com/LG-G2-AT-T-Version-ONLY-Screen-Protectors-p/lg0g20attxgrds.htm

Definitely do not get the dry apply one though...it's the plastic type and also goes edge to edge, but doesn't stick down. Mine peeled off within hours after catching on my pocket.
[G2 Accessories] rickyoon.vegas:
I hate sticky ones.

I have iloome FLEX, which is hard plastic that mimics conditions of tempered glass. It's not edge to edge, because it only folds one way, can't have edges "lift" the screen.

It is still holding on after a few months.
[Paranoid Android Q&A] demonr6:
On my Galaxy S2 I am running 4.4.2 beta 4 and since the last update the vibrate mode is gone from the phone. Was that recently removed?