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[Verizon HTC One (M8)] alibhatti:
Hi Guys and thanks for helping me and a very thanks to Member [MENTION=3472611]dottat[/MENTION] Who saved my M8 and bought it back to life after few hours or hard work. I was almost lost hope after I tried everything I knew. I done something stupid with my M8 and it got stuck on boot loader and was not able to do anything. So [MENTION=3472611]dottat[/MENTION] Not just fix everything for me but also update to 4.4.3 with s-off wooohooo. He is a genius so anyone who is having some big problems you can connect [MENTION=3472611]dottat[/MENTION] he is really friendly and helpful

Where are some pictures as proof
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
That sounds awesome.. [MENTION=3472611]dottat[/MENTION] is the fn man it sounds like from your post. :)

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I haven't tried that app out yet..I seen they were going to post in in the play store. Which is cool as they can update stuff without havinf to wait on a ota that involves the carrier which always takes forever.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] deadpixell:
Has anybody noticed significantly worse battery life since updating? I use to get through a day easily and now it's somewhat of a stretch. Last night I tried to the extreme power saving mode and it started at 23%, was out for two hours and sent/received 5 messages and when I was home it was down to 13%......
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] brholt6:
Do you have Better Battery Stats or anything like that so you can see what's draining your battery or keeping your phone awake? I haven't noticed much difference but it's only been a couple of days.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] deadpixell:
I'll download that and report back!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Peters64:
So I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but I can't post in the developers forum yet due to post restrictions. I flashed the new firmware on but when I boot into bootloader there is no firmware number listed next to "OS-" no 1.54.### or whatever it is now (602?). The phone is working fine otherwise. Is this a sign of something major wrong or did I forget a step somewhere?

Thanks.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
No your good. Nothing to worry bout. Normal now a days. Myself I think it has to due with no unlocking from htcdev as I did an mine is still there an my wife unlocked via exploit an hers isn't showing. I also heard it could be a twrp bug but you didn't miss nothing
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Peters64:
OK. That's good to hear! :highfive:

Thanks!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] mc_365:
Hi all,

I know we all like being on the cutting edge and all but I've been watching this thread and have a few questions but it really boils down to this.

Was it worth the hassle to get this update?

I have my phone setup with all my apps and such as I like. I have backups Titanium, HTC Backup, and Nandroid.

If I flash the firmware without the new stockish rom is there any bennefit?

Currently 1.55.605.2 stockish rom (only rooted and write protection disabled) with HK, Stock Browser, music channel, extreme power saving, ect.

If I dirty flash the new stockish rom over my current rom after first updating the FW will I need to redo all the tweeks mentioned above?

Any tangible differences after the update?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] just lou:
I haven't noticed any difference at all.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
There was no hassle to me at all..takes me a few mins to get set up...an if you clean flash a new Rom of course you will have to redo your tweaks if you dirty flash no but I don't recommend this.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kanpol:
good day all, I've been trying to put a stock recovery back on my phone and I keep getting cannot open "recovery.img"

I am currently s-off'd, rooted, unlocked bootloader. original stock rom, with hk and extreme power saver mode installed.

I've down everything all the guides said to do but I keep getting that message. Do I need to remove root 1st? None of

the guides said that, just install adb/fastboot, download stock recovery and in cmd type fastboot flash recovery (name of recovery file).img and like I said earlier after I do that I get cannot open "recovery.img" Also I have the phone in fastboot also.

I appreciate any help and want to thank everyone for all the help over the years.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dottat:
You have the recovery.img file in the same directory as your Fastboot/adb right?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kanpol:
yes I have it in the same directory :good:

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1st I need to apologize for posting my question in 2 different topics. I didn't get a response in the other topic for over 7 hrs. So I posted it in this one since it had more traffic. I apologize for not being more patient,

Dotat in the other topic were I posted this question, you said to use flashify app. should I still do it that way?

thanks for the help
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
Did you rename the file yourself before you fastboot?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kanpol:
1st I actually left it named as it was original "stock_recovery" and when that didn't work I changed it to just "recovery"

but when I typed out the command I always used the correct name.

here's my steps

I put the recovery in the adb/fastboot folder

then put the phone in fastboot mode

the open cmd with admin priv.

typed fastboot flash recovery (name of recovery).img

then hit enter

then I would get cannot open (name of recovery).img

I did type adb devices and phone showed up
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jsaxon2:
From the cmd prompt when you are in the adb\fastboot directory, type dir *.img and see what shows up. This will give the actual file name that you have. If nothing shows up, the file does not have the .img extension. From there I would just type dir and see what the name is.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kanpol:
it showed up and I tried it again and this time it worked, not sure why but at least it worked thanks
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kanpol:
got another question:D when I try to boot into stock recovery I get a picture of a phone with a red triangle and exclamation point

ok after doing so more research I found out this is normal for stock recovery. I tried to install the ota it started to install with the green bar and a quarter way through the picture of the phone with red triangle and red ! came up. Phone booted back up 5 min later and is working fine but the status showed update failed.

thank you in advance for any help
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] deadpixell:
Looks like the issue was the washington post app for some reason. Got that uninstalled and now have had 0 problems. Still kind of weird the issue came after the update. So far though the update is pretty bland and not exciting.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] kanpol:
ok all, I finally figured out how to get in recovery. I download the ota.zip and placed it in sd card and tried to install it in recovery.

It made it halfway thru install then aborted, this was the reason it gave "system/app/settings.apk" has unexpected contents. Any ideas what could be the unexpected content. thanks in advance

I have the hk mod installed and music channel, both of those show up in settings, do you think that could be the unexpected content?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] PioneerMonster:
Speed test I got after the radio update
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] brholt6:
Sounds like the M8 is getting a 4.4.4 update in the coming weeks. I would assume it includes Verizon.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
Good deal. Hope Vzw don't hold it up for a month lol
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] wileout:
No theyll hold hit up for 3 months
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] mc_365:
What would 4.4.4 add?

I thought they back merged all updates to 4.4.3 as it was just incremental mostly security fixes and such. Is this not accurate?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] vjg:
Hi All:

I have 2 HTC M8s on Verizon. Both are Rooted with S-Off. One already has 4.4.3 and the other still has 4.4.2

I flashed the 4.4.3 this morning firmware per this instruction set:

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download the 4.4.3 firmware zip here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712470028

Then put it in your adb platform-tools folder on your computer. Hold shift and Right click inside that folder, and hit "open command window here" Plug in your phone to computer.

Type in

adb devices (you should get a serial number saying your phone is connected)

adb reboot bootloader (will boot into fastboot mode)

type in:

fastboot oem rebootRUU (yes it's case sensitive)

It will reboot so all you see is an HTC logo, that's RUU mode.

now type in:

fastboot flash zip m8.443.firmware.zip (the exact name of the file you downloaded)

when it's done it will say OKAY at the end.

fastboot reboot. And your done. It's that easy.

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I received the OKAY message at the end, appears to have worked??

When I Reboot to Bootloader All looks OK:

HBOOT-3.18..0.000

RADIO-1.09.20.0702

OPENDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311

OS-2.21.605.2

Aug 7 2014,20:26:27.7797

However when I boot the phone into my stock rooted rom,

Go to Settings->About->Software Information:

Android Version – 4.4.2

Software Number – 1.55.605.2

So am I still running 4.4.2 / 1.55.605.2 per the per phone settings, or

2.21.605.2 per Bootloader settings??

I am guessing it didn't work??

Thanks for any help!!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] vjg:
Ran the whole process a 2nd time to see if it made any difference, flash completed OKAY but still same results as above
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] brholt6:
You're probably running a 4.4.2 rom. The boot loader should be correct (you've got the 4.4.3 firmware). Flash a 4.4.3 rom and what you see in "about phone" will change

Or in software information, scroll down and select baseband...in there you'll see the updated baseband information.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] vjg:
Possibly.....I have s-off, TWRP 2.8 Recovery & SuperSU for Root - All with the stock ROM.

I flashed the 24mb, fm8.443.firmware.zip.

Should I have flashed something else? Looking to Stay with Stock ROM for Now.

Thanks!

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Should I flash the Full OTA Update for Stock users? If so,

Should I flash with TWRP 2.8 Recovery, or forst flash back to stock recovery?

Just want to follow the right/ preferred sequence
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] brholt6:
If your bootloader is showing the updated firmware information then you're good to go. What your seeing in "about phone" is the rom information.

There is a stock 4.4.3 rom in the development section you can flash if you want.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] vjg:
Thanks for taking time to respond!!

Was hoping not to have to flash the ROM. If I did flash to the stock 4.4.3 rom, would this essentially reset the phone? Could I restore my nandroid WRP 2.8 Recovery backup that was made when running on the 4.4.2 rom?

I tried to just flash the OTAPkg.zip (See Below) but it failed

C:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem rebootRUU

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 0

OKAY [ 0.019s]

finished. total time: 0.019s

C:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash zip "C:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\OTAP

kg.zip"

target reported max download size of 1830612992 bytes

sending 'zip' (689616 KB)...

OKAY [ 24.586s]

writing 'zip'...

(bootloader) zip header checking...

(bootloader) zip info parsing...

FAILED (remote: 24 parsing android-info fail)

finished. total time: 25.252s
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] brholt6:
Kind of. You wipe dalvik, cache, and system and then flash the rom. You won't lose anything from your internal storage though. If you've backed up using HTC backup and you move on to a stock 4.4.3 rom it's a breeze to get everything the way you had it.

Here's a link to the stock 4.4.3 rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2874699
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] vjg:
Worked Great! Thanks!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] xsteven77x:
Have any other carriers gotten the update yet?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] mademan420:
Sprint has had it for a few weeks I believe
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] xs11e:
It's a contest to see which carrier sucks least! <G>

You make your choice and hope you can live with it.

I chose VZW (then known as Air Touch Cellular) and lived with it until I finally was unhappy enough to switch to T-Mobile. I really liked T-Mobile except they screwed me royally by selling me a plan that didn't exist and switching me to a more costly plan w/o my OK, that was sort of a black mark.... a year later I went back to VZW because I couldn't live with T-Mobile's lack of coverage in spots where I NEEDED coverage. WiFi Calling filled in to an extent but I really needed the coverage I have again with VZW so I made my choice and until someone can offer better coverage I'm staying with VZW.

YMMV as always.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
I have a hard time to believe the can break s-off an will never do so....anyways who with s-off would take ota why not just flash new firmware an updated ROM to get your ota?

I'm sure sunshine will work on the next update for those people getting phone on 4.4.3 I could be wrong just my guess.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] pball52998:
You know what I mean. If something does break root.... I know it doesn't break root or s-off.

Sent From My HTC One M8 Running Insert Coin. S-OFF.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] naturecannon:
At $25 a pop ....you know it will happen!!!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
Cheaper then java card I have used for my last 2 HTC phones since I get them on launch day there is no exploit then. I will gladly pay 25 if it works on the next HTC flagship for sure.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] naturecannon:
Never debated nor doubted the 25 donation, i painlessly purchssed without a doubt. just saying at 25$ a pop one woukd be crazy to pass up making a sunshinre update.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] rhodyvik:
Preface: I'm a n00b to this forum and XDA as a whole. I haven't had the need to ever join a forum...but this M8 is ridiculously awesome especially rooted & s-off. I'm running ViperOne v1.8 ROM is utilizing the 1.54 build and not the 1.55. It's not a big deal. But my question is, when VZW gives us their newest update by the end of the month, will I be able to upgrade my device to it? Or do I need to wait until someone on the Venom team uses it for their ROM? I'm very confused as to what I can and cannot do when the update comes out. If that's the case, nusense's latest ROM is built on 2.2x. Thank you for reading and I apologize if this is the incorrect place to post this.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
You are correct I see it being around for sometime to come....just to clear it up I wasn't saying anything bout you debate or doubting in my reply I was just saying cheaper then java card an I also agree with you 25 bucks a phone is well worth them to keep it going...well I sure hope.

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Here you go you need the stock recovery an a pure stock no mods or almost pure to take the OTA. I would recommend never take a ota(less you can't fastboot) cause if you can then wait till ota is broke down an made fastboot flashable firmware.zip either santod will post this an if he don't for some reason I will an add it to my thread for firmware that already exists which includes new hboot,radios,an other parts of firmware. Then all the Vzw ROMs will be updated to latest software from the ota. You r on viper so they r not Vzw base but the will still update an add the latest Vzw files need from ota. You can flash whatever radios that r out there...old ones new ones which ever ones work best for you. Nusense is a port of a stock 4.4.3 ROM that is based off another carrier an viper is 1.54 base cause its based off international.

Hope that cleared it up for you.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] rhodyvik:
[MENTION=5317224]Tigerstown[/MENTION] Thank you for the clarification. It most certainly clears things up for me! I will wait for the newest release of Viper which will have the VZW update whenever they decide to actually release it. You definitely answered all my questions and I appreciate it man. Thanks!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
Updating your firmware when that is posted is the part you want to flash I always recommend to flash the new firmware soon as the r live. Glad I could help you out.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] rhodyvik:
Okay so I have another question then...will I be able to flash the Viper update without creating a nandroid and/or right over the current setup I have? Thanks.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
They have ota zip you flash over your setup. But it would be crazy not to make a backup in recovery before doing this. As if something don't go or something happens you want to be able to restore to rt before update... Tip always backup before updating will save u from having to start all over.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] rhodyvik:
Thank you [MENTION=5317224]Tigerstown[/MENTION]
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Roefastford:
That sounds like what the greedy pigs at verizon are no doubt up to...

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If I lost root & s-off I would be like kiss my a** verizon you pissed me off for the last time and hello at&t. At&t is by far the better of two evils verizon being the ultimate evil...

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Yeah technically if your s-off your not supposed to be able to lose it but can never say never...
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] rhodyvik:
Verizon would lose a LOT of customers and they know it. They really can't afford to piss off anyone.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Roefastford:
Amen to that brother especially with at&t knocking at their back door. You know verizon is worried though as last fall their ceo said verizon prepaid would probably never get 4g and months later verizon prepaid added 4g lte data. I guess verizons attitude has changed because they realize when they piss people off they lose customers and it was hitting them in the wallet, also that is why they started matching at&t's pricing because they were losing too many customers to at&t. Before they became verizon they use to be a good company that cared about their customers that was when they were air touch cellular back when they were a descent company. I think they must have fired all the air touch employees and supervisors because verizon never learned anything from air touch cellular...
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] xsteven77x:
I wish Verizon would make some type of announcement about it.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
This will never happen s-off forever less you r one of those peeps for some unknown reason that r s-off but take ota instead of flashing firmware an updated ROM to get the ota yourself.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Roefastford:
Even flashing the firmware someone has to try it and everyone is worried if I try could I lose s-off. We all know what kind of company verizon is. The other carriers accept that we root, but verizon wants to stop us from being able to because they are the most greedy and controlling of them all.

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They wont because they will keep changing the date. Look at previous updates on other phones verizon kept changing the dates putting them off longer. I think verizon realizes it makes them look bad so they keep quiet about when the update will arrive.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
If that ever happens which it won't don't be the 1st to flash it an I have a firmware thread for this phone so if it happens to anyone it will be me lol. Which I'm not at all worried..also let's say for some crazy reason it does but it won't I would just use java card like I did on launch day an I would be s-off if not exploit is out of course.

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I seen that Vzw is going to skip 4.4.3 an go rt to 4.4.4 since its out already. I want to say I seen a leak of HTC timeline page
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Roefastford:
Oh of couse not lol. Everyone is asking did anyone try it yet lol. I wont ever be first lol. But someone could lose their s-off but no it wont be me, but I was just saying they might try it, would not put it past verizon. To me verizon is like the worst company that ever existed and I like what they were before as air touch cellular was a good company until they got corrupted.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
I myself came from Sprint. I was with them for like, 10 years, and Vzw is a way better company then they are. Yes, Vzw does not like unlocked phones on their network and they do all they can to stop it (unlike Sprint) but my day day to is much better with Vzw. I haven't seen 3g or 1x on VZW since I joined over a year ago and that is very nice. I agree however that Vzw does try to strong arm their customers, no doubt.

MOD EDIT
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] naturecannon:
I was with sprint as well and since the switch I now longer find myself saying "are you still there" from crappy coverage and dropped calls.

As for skipping the 4.4.3 and going to 4.4.4 rumor.... I heard it wasn't the case and 4.4.4 may be put to use on the next phone release from HTC but as it stands it's all rumors at this point
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] MajikUF:
I'm pretty sure I read that HTC said they weren't doing 4.4.4 at all and they incorporated those fixes into the 4.4.3. Then later an android L.

What disappoints me most is back in the day, we'd get all kinds of early firmware leaks and those have now seemingly completely dried up. I think we had the latest update for the rezound 3+ months before vzw released it. Miss those days but certainly appreciate HTC's desire to release updates within 90 days of Google's release.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Tigerstown:
I'll see if I can locate that HTC timeline where I seen this.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] xsteven77x:
It seemed that in general with android period there used to be ALOT more firmware leaks. Whether it be full RUUs or just a flashable zip. We at least used to get SOMETHING on the regular. Now we can't even get one RUU lol.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dragontology:
I heard it on HTC's Google+ page (so take that as you will) that HTC is going to bundle the fixes from 4.4.4 into 4.4.3 and that will be it from KitKat until L_____ comes out. Basically what MajikUF said. I can't find it on their Google+ page. But if you're a Plusser, they're a good page to follow. They interact somewhat. More than a lot of pages. Anyway, I'm thinking they might have said it in a comment. I skimmed the posts until May (before I bought it) and couldn't find it as a straight up top level post. Closest I got was the Android L_____ 90-day promise.

Like others have said, you can get 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 in ROMs. I just don't think they move right. AOSP and GPE, that is. I was a big fan of __________ on my last phone, but on the M8... I just go back to Sense. But that's just me. All the AOSPs should be up to 4.4.4; GPEs as well. The big Sense ROMs (InsertCoin and Viper) are on 4.4.3, I guess they got it ported from Sprint? But I just couldn't be happier with CleanROM and the H/K mod... so that's what I use. 4.4.2 and I'm not bothered.