yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
i really do love this thread. (insert michael jackson popcorn GIF here....)

2 options really:

1, wait for HTC - seeing as they have beejn classically slow with updates, this isn't a surprise, however thier OTA releases are usually bug free as a result.

2, flash [MENTION=1211160]HolyAngel[/MENTION] s rom. He has supplied rom and firmware. Yes its not completely stock however his tweaks are under the hood and add so much performance and stability, the guy is a wizard and this should be a no brainer for anyone desperate for android 5.

To sum up, - ITS DAMN USELESS bashing HTC due to broken "promises". delays happen in any walk of life. At my work i often get client reports delayed due to new info coming in at the last minute or because ironing out mistakes is needed. I cannot release a half completed/erronious report to the clients I deal with, My head will be on a spike.

HTC is damned if they do and damned if they don't it seems:

-Release a buggy rom early and get blasted because people can't use thier phones

-Release a proper rom late and bug free and get bl;asted as people didn't get thier update before samsung, sony etc. I'm guessing the OTAs for the aforementioned OEMS will not be nearly as stable as HTCs evental release.

I have seen this in the HOX forums regarding jellybean, the m7 forums regarding kitkat and now the same here.

relax and enjoy life people!!! your time will come, (BELEIVE ME - NONE OF YOU HAVE A CAT IN HELL'S CHANCE OF GETTING THIS OUT ANY EARLIER WITH MOANING ON HERE)

Yours will be the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

:p:D

(from an m8 user happily running sense 4.4.4 and drooling over how awesome it still is)
[One (M8) General] androidindian:
Ive tried all the Lollipop roms, but AICP nightlies are killin it!! get todays nightly build at http://dwnld.aicp-rom.com/?device=m8

super smoooooooth and stable, mind blown!!
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
The lack of an OTA isn't the issue... I can wait.

The repeated promises however are galling. Promises of updates, dates being thrown and missed and other devices receiving it. It just makes HTC look stupid. Mo needs to simply state 'it will be ready when it is ready' and end all comms until it is.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
Totally get you mate :) But i can see people suffering heart attacks at this rate. So thought i would point out the best temporary solution :p:D

I think these tweets from Mo need to be taken with a pinch of salt otherwise if people keep sticking to them, they will no doubt end up dissapointed.
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
It's the attitude I'm trying to go towards (but it's hard) and stop reading XDA or Twitter or G+ for updates and relax about the whole thing. Would be nice to be surprised one morning and have the OTA available for download.

I'm also pretty sure that HTC and/or Google decided to wait for the OTA and include the 5.0.1 fixes. I do think it's silly that Samsung has CrapWiz on L already being pushed and our GPE device can't get an update approved but the one thing we can do if we are that frustrated is talk with our wallets and not buy HTC anymore *IF* this is a big problem.

I know I wanted the Nexus 6 but not with a screen that size.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
:D;)
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
Don't ask me what it means, but it looks like an M7 test build is being tested at Google

https://twitter.com/LlabTooFeR/status/540491696006762497
[One (M8) General] danger12345:
If it's been tested that means m8 is already in testing
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
Looking at Llabtoofer's responses this is sense but obviously must be in the early testing phase

Now this is something for me to wet my knickers about ;)
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
I *sense* moisture! I hope HTC drops it's ugly dialer and keeps the stock one.
[One (M8) General] Captain_Throwback:
Does the stock one support WiFi Calling? It'd have to be modified for HTC to use it, so they'll probably stick with theirs. We know how much Sense is always integrated into the Android builds :rolleyes:.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
that would be good, i like the GPE dialler.

Good to see things are in the works :D:D
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
That's too bad, I really like the stock L dialer.

My biggest problems with L is that the camera is meh and for some reason, music sounds so much better on Sense.
[One (M8) General] LNJ:
I think that can be fixed by swapping out the Sense ADSP into the GPE firmware.
[One (M8) General] rusty-ragster:
could be a close to final "keeping my hopes up" :P as glaxy s5 has got the lollipop update
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
well it defo exists lol!!! ;)
[One (M8) General] Rouz.:
I certainly hope they don't rush things up with the sense version just because "Galaxy has got the lollipop update already"

We all want something that will be worth waiting for.
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
words of true "sense" ;)
[One (M8) General] 2shellbonus:
S5 Lollipop is OMG. Its horrific. Its laggy as hell and just looks plain awful mixing cues from gingerbread days and holo and material design.
[One (M8) General] Rouz.:
lol, why am I not surprised?
[One (M8) General] shasen1235:
Even it is predictable...

Guys let's admit 5.0 is laggy as well

Since 5.0.1 just fixed do many issues and has much better performance

I don't think it is smart for any OEM to rush out a 5.0 update and then blamed by their consumers

For me,if HTC pushes out the 5.0.1 earlier than others,we got a winner here

I'm running on 5.0.1 GPE here

Damn! That's such a huge different story from 5.0
[One (M8) General] Dadud:
i honestly havent noticed any kind of change between 5.0 and 5.0.1 i thought they only bug they fixed was the accidental factory reset one. runs smooth as could be, no issues.
[One (M8) General] toeterbaas:
Dark camera shots are really holding me back.

I love this skydragon but camera in dark is really blurred out :(
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
It's not the ROM or Android L, even stock 4.4.4 the GPE camera is pretty bad compared to Sense.
[One (M8) General] toeterbaas:
That sucks because i love GPE roms.

But with a blurred out camera it feels not good.

I took some pics today in daylight they look good.

But evening it is crying bad ...

Added a daylight pic it looks pretty good to me but sense camera looks better
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
Looks like a broken A HREF reference to me :)
[One (M8) General] toeterbaas:
I am sorry i am Dutch.

I dont understand what you mean
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
Your picture doesn't work.
[One (M8) General] toeterbaas:
Thats strange i see it on my pc
[One (M8) General] toeterbaas:
Do you see it now?
[One (M8) General] ShotSkydiver:
I wish the L Camera app worked with our device... I'm going to give the developer some info about our camera in the hopes that it could be supported
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
Not a single tweet from Moversi yesterday or today. I think he's done enough damage for now, maybe next tweet will be after the OTA starts to get pushed just so that he doesn't put his foot in his mouth again.
[One (M8) General] jrodsep:
I'm optimistic that they will start the OTA before the week of December 22nd. Most tech companies have an extended holiday period and I think Google is one of them.
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
Oh, missed this one posted at about 7:30pm eastern time

Mo ‏@moversi It's back in the lab for approval from Google. As soon as I hear, I'll let you know. Thanks!
[One (M8) General] badboy47:
Lol this guy never stops but I respect him for keeping us up to date.
[One (M8) General] danger12345:
Ready

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Ready Check out [MENTION=1862878]movers[/MENTION]i's Tweet: https://twitter.com/moversi/status/540683463506931712?s=09
[One (M8) General] otto888:
We finally have a date for the OTA. Tomorrow.
[One (M8) General] erapmicks:
Rejoiceeeee
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
YEAH!!!
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
5.1?

Hopefully 12est so I could get it at 9am lol
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
Who cares? It's 5.0.x
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
Don't care what you are referring to. But I'm going to assume.....me haha
[One (M8) General] Human Guinea Pig:
:victory: what time is it at htc sorry for noob question but it's 2:15am if it's only 15 min I will wait...
[One (M8) General] jrodsep:
I would assume 12pm west coast time (California) and 3pm east coast (New York).
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
Most likely
[One (M8) General] Sammydr10:
Now we wait for Sense Lollipop (which looks pretty sick IMO)!
[One (M8) General] rquinn19:
That's not nice...You know Nic2112 wanted to break the "news".

edit: All they needed was a general positive consensus from HolyAngels "leak". XDA was the soak test
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
gotta love free testers lol
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
I got that feeling
[One (M8) General] scifan:
Not sure if I care if they use us as a test bed... guys on here tend to find stuff I'd never think to try/test... in extremely short order...
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
yea its definitely not a bad thing, helps speed up the process
[One (M8) General] Nic2112:
I sure did but he beat me to it.
[One (M8) General] sapplegater:
Well looks like the M7 got their OTA tonight, can't wait till tomorrow!
[One (M8) General] cardozclive:
For m7 it just popped up. Our isn't far. Rejoys
[One (M8) General] SpaceCadetWilliam:
waiting here with my m8

my body is ready
[One (M8) General] Phascinate:
For everyone waiting to get it tonight. Go to sleep! :)

He said it won't come until noon tomorrow (3:00 EST) for us.
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
looks like the m8 is getting it already too according to someone on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2oc5jm/my_m8_is_downloading_the_ota_now/
[One (M8) General] DroidHelp101:
Someone is currently downloading and installing now :) Check the General thread
[One (M8) General] instigator008:
Confirmed. Downloading now
[One (M8) General] Phascinate:
On the M8???
[One (M8) General] instigator008:
M8 GPE yup
[One (M8) General] Dadud:
props to whoever captures the OTA first.
[One (M8) General] instigator008:
Where's it downloaded to?
[One (M8) General] Dadud:
Download aLogcat

When/if you see the notification that you have an update available -- stop everything and run the aLogcat app.

Send the log file to yourself via email (that's built into the app)

Look through the log file on your computer, searching for a URL

Try any URL's that you find on your computer's browser

When you find one that downloads a zip file, save the zip file to your computer

Shout from the rooftops, and share that URL

Then upload and mirror it somewhere

(stolen from another forum)

Looks like you're too far to do it. hopefully someone reads that before accepting and gets the OTA for us all.
[One (M8) General] sweetnsour:
This might help:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2270429
[One (M8) General] instigator008:
Already downloaded but not installed.
[One (M8) General] EagerestWolf:
For those wanting to download OTA: http://android.clients.google.com/p...WE_3.11.1700.5-2.12.1700.1_release_403384.zip
[One (M8) General] Rouz.:
Is there anyway to install this without root? I'm on unrooted stock 4.4.4. and no update available as of now
[One (M8) General] tschakk:
You should be able to flash it without root. As this image is signed with the original keys.. Just sideload it with adb..
[One (M8) General] sweetnsour:
Yes, I believe you can apply this update without root using the stock recovery.

Place the update on your sdcard and boot into the stock recovery through bootloader (after selecting recovery in bootloader, press vol. up + power).
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
yep, trying that right now
[One (M8) General] EagerestWolf:
Updated :)
[One (M8) General] cadialex:
Were you on true GPE or converted ?
[One (M8) General] Rouz.:
Did it work? I'm still downloading
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
yea it worked, just signed in
[One (M8) General] tschakk:
Seems some have problems with converted gpes...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2oc5jm/my_m8_is_downloading_the_ota_now/
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
make sure if you convert you change both your mid & cid & youll be fine
[One (M8) General] Dadud:
I've read AT&Ts have the same MID as GPE, i'll report back with findings after the update. (my CID is also GOOGL001)

Edit - Sucess. AT&T converts, make sure your CID is the one above and you should be good to go to use this OTA zip
[One (M8) General] Broodn:
It worked for me mine is converted didn't change the MID but I'm superCID
[One (M8) General] aznblade:
still waiting on the update on mine :(
[One (M8) General] pfriederichs:
Disregard this I figured it out -- thanks!
[One (M8) General] tschakk:
I also get an error. I changed my CID, but not the MID..

Recovery says something like this device has different release keys than the update..

Edit: I try to change the MID and will report back..
[One (M8) General] monkboy24:
manually updated to the official m8 lollipop 5.0.1 OTA and all is well. easy as pie as usual.
[One (M8) General] MistaBishi:
Silly me didn't backup the stock 5.0.1 recovery. Can someone upload it for me?
[One (M8) General] OriginalAuratic:
http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/76660446/file.html
[One (M8) General] Krepki:
I have converted gpe (RUU 4.4.4 with root). Downloaded ota and used flashify to send command for updating :) Everything went fine :)
[One (M8) General] Phascinate:
Got it on mine! It's a bit laggy, but nothing a custom kernel can't fix. http://i.imgur.com/phsAvQ3.png
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
Downloaded ota zip and flashed

Awesome
[One (M8) General] MistaBishi:
Champion! Thanks :)
[One (M8) General] EternalAndroid:
Can't s-off because sunshine doesn't currently support 4.4.4, please let me know when a ROM is available.
[One (M8) General] Phascinate:
Sound quality through headphones has improved DRASTICALLY. I have HiFiMan RE-400s and with this update now I can't tell the difference in sound quality between my computer and this phone.
[One (M8) General] androidindian:
can i flash the RUU if i am s-on? once its out ofcourse..

or do i flash the firmware only incase im son
[One (M8) General] EagerestWolf:
Converted. I have an AT&T M8
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
I am currently on Sky Dragon 4.0.5 (5.0.0) waiting for the RUU instead of OTA, I use Viper4Android, seems like a must for me, the sound is pretty good with Poweramp but I noticed Boomsound simply doesn't even work on Sky Dragon with any music player, when you turn it on or off, it simply doesn't do anything like it used to on 4.4.4 for me, I'm guessing its either a pre release bug or a bug from Sky Dragon, so I hope it works correctly on the official 5.0.1.
[One (M8) General] EternalAndroid:
Not on T-Mobile 4.4.4, please if any way tell me how to get around it.
[One (M8) General] domol:
Good to hear. What ROM did you come from? I'm on Skydragon and I noticed that the audio quality and mic performance for video recording was not completely up to bar with 4.4.4 (both Sense and GPE Kit Kat). I'm hoping the official build remedies this!
[One (M8) General] Phascinate:
It sounds to me like a SkyDragon bug. Here on the stock OTA, I can turn BoomSound on and it seems to work everywhere. I usually leave it off though. I don't like BoomSound with headphones very much. ?
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
Sunshine worked for me on 4.4.4, I had 4.4.2 when I got the phone about 2 months ago and was stupid enough to let the phone OTA it self to 4.4.4, I couldn't S-OFF I thought but then Sunshine worked just fine.

I got my phone from Google Play Store btw, official no conversion, so I don't know if that makes any difference.
[One (M8) General] EternalAndroid:
Yeah that's exactly why, I have T-Mobile's M8 that's running Sense 4.4.4.
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
I usually don't use boomsound either but its weird it doesn't even work on my rom, I just wish V4A could work without root, I like root and all but backing up and reflashing new versions and resetting up my phone is getting exhausting, if V4A worked without root then I would stick with Stock OTA's with no root, in the past Root (for me) was a must have but in Lollipop with the new quick settings and all I really don't use any root features except V4A, V4A is a deal breaker for me.
[One (M8) General] Phascinate:
Yeah, I hate having to restart over again every time an update comes out. I was able to keep everything this time though. I was rooted before and had been using V4A for a while too. What I did is backup my system (only system and boot partitions) in TWRP just before I rooted. Then, when I was getting ready to update, I just restored the nandroid backup and then flashed the stock recovery, and the update came perfectly.

Now I just have to wait until TWRP comes out for 5.0.1 for this phone... Then I'll be rooted and happy again. :)
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
TWRP doesn't work for 5.0.1? I didn't think Android it self mattered sense TWRP is outside of Android, I flashed SD 5.0 on TWRP, on 5.0.0 now and TWRP works fine for flashing anything.
[One (M8) General] Krepki:
Yeah, what twrp has to android itself? Just go to fastboot and flash it :P
[One (M8) General] nuts77:
Hi everyone,

just wondering what's the best / safest way of getting root on clean 5.0.1 install? SuperSU 2.37 from custom recovery?

I know it might / will mostly break future OTAs but I still have to find out if I can live without root :)
[One (M8) General] Krepki:
It's only way bro :)
[One (M8) General] tschakk:
Wrong Recovery

I am apparently on a wrong recovery.

The update always complains, that I am not on ktu84p.h1. My 4.4.4 Rom is KTU84P.H1, but my stock recovery i installed after rooting is not..

The problem is that i cannot install the zip, as CWM Recovery apparently doesn't support encrypted file systems..

Can anyone provide the sock recovery for KTU84P.H1? Thanks a lot!
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
I have the OTA update here looking threw the zip file, it looks similar to a manual RUU file, when I mean manual I mean one you flash in Fastboot, not the .exe one that runs in Windows.

So my question is, it there a way to change some things and run this like a RUU in Fastboot? if not what's the usual ETA for a RUU release after an OTA release?
[One (M8) General] Slogstorm:
I'm getting error "mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc. 1/by-e/userdata at /data: Device or resource busy..

Converted GPE with CID 1111111 / GOOGL001 (tried both) and mid 0P6B17000.

Tried flashing from stock recovery and TWRP.

Any ideas?
[One (M8) General] exocetdj:
Happy days!!!!! :D:D
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
A skydragon "leak"

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I got the same error but still went through

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Cast screen doesn't work. At least for me

Maybe since its still not officially supported for m8?
[One (M8) General] BR7fan:
This what i had to do.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57269044&postcount=504
[One (M8) General] DroidHelp101:
Anyone that has flashed [MENTION=560986]skydragon[/MENTION] android L firmware. You need to re flash the 4.4.4 GPE firmware before the new 5.0 OTA will install. Otherwise you will get errors. Just my .02 hope it helps somebody!

Not this error though

"mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc. 1/by-e/userdata at /data: Device or resource busy.."

I got the above error but it still successfully flashed :)
[One (M8) General] Krepki:
Easiest way, without pc need is download gpe ruu with root, flash via easy way (rename ruu 0P6BIMG.zip) restart to bootloader, wait till update is over, than download ota and flashify from play market, flash ota, be happy with lalipop :)
[One (M8) General] Slogstorm:
The next lines in the error is "Package expects build fingerprint of htc/m8_google/htc_m8: 4.4.4/KTU84P.H1/356549:user/release-keys or htc/m8_google/htc_m8:5.0.1/LRX22c.H5/434277:user/release-keys; this device has htc/htc_europe/htc_m8:4.4.2/KOT49H/325784.5:user/release-keys

Error executing updater binary in zip.

Am i missing an upgrade?
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
Grrr OTA still not showing for me in UK :(
[One (M8) General] cardozclive:
I am talking about Sense based ROM. Not the GPE ones.
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
If you check in 'about phone' under build number you will see the release keys. I used graffixnyc non rooted ruu and mine shows as KTU84P.H1 which if you look in the string (in red) is what it is expecting to find. What ruu did you come from?
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
I have one more question for tonight, when you get 5.0.1, how do you root the kernel it self? I know how to flash supersu and all but my understanding is on Lollipop you have to root the kernel as well now, does this mean at this very moment tonight there is no root for the official 5.0.1 yet sense there is not a rooted kernel available? or does newer versions of supersu zip include kernel modification?
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Andr...end-to-easy-rooting-decries-Chainfire_id62071

We await the mighty Chainfire's magic...

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Has anyone in the UK received an OTA yet? (I don't mean manually D/Ling the zip)
[One (M8) General] pokosik:
My phone is from UK, converted 10min ago with super cid but no OTA :(
[One (M8) General] Viper4713:
That sucks, looks like I will be waiting a little bit longer, without V4A its a deal breaker for me.
[One (M8) General] grentuu:
So you downloaded the zip and sideloaded?
[One (M8) General] tschakk:
I have also that error, But in about phone i see the correct version. Just my recovery is not.. Didn't find the correct recovery yet...
[One (M8) General] pokosik:
No, will wait couple of hours. If no OTA then will flash manually.
[One (M8) General] Lancerz:
Sunshine worked for me with a T-Mobile M8 running 4.4.4, you just need to be running a stockish rom like ARHD or something.
[One (M8) General] Ronaldo_9:
Lollipop on htc one m8 is great. The only thing that sucks is the camera app. If only the HTC sense app worked, it would be just perfect :)
[One (M8) General] farru503:
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/androi...-nexus-devices-followed-google-play-motorola good news hopefully this is true and we'll see android lollipop in first weeks of November !!:)
[One (M8) General] danger12345:
I still think we will get it in December
[One (M8) General] fix-this!:
not sense, it will be january or febuary id bet. also remember the m9 will launch in march will android L out of the box. gpe is slated to get L in the next few weeks.

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yup i know. i said id hope the dev can make it work with android L. if not its gonna suck for gpe and or stockish roms.
[One (M8) General] one-option:
I hope in the next update 5.0 Lollipop, HTC will change the black background color for the App drawer, user should have the right to choose any other color or use the screen wallpaper image.

as I hope we will be able to turn the hepatic feedback completely off, so there will be no vibration any where.
[One (M8) General] PunishedSnake:
When will Gpe devices get lollipop?
[One (M8) General] MistaBishi:
You know as much as we do, though it's usually a couple of weeks after Nexus devices.
[One (M8) General] jags_the1:
Some one needs to address these First world problems! How can HTC leave us without a option to change background colour. So maddening :banghead:
[One (M8) General] coolfx35:
I hope HTC can catch up with the android war with Samsung.
[One (M8) General] farru503:
Correction... Same day or just a few days after nexus devices get it...
[One (M8) General] dovah:
Nope, HTC M7 got 4.4 two weeks after the Nexus 5.
[One (M8) General] farru503:
I said that because my friend m8 gpe got it the next day....soooo..yeahh