[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan5001:
Hey NerdYoda,

Thanks for your response & your confirmation of the fastboot commands that I should be using

I'm about to try the firmware flash but I'm a little bit nervous becuase someone else mentioned bricking my phone, albeit that was by trying to flash the firmware through TWRP, so please could I ask one (or maybe 2-3) quick last question(s) before I do it?

I realise that the guides are there to be followed; I think I just had a bit of a meltdown with spending so long in front of the pc trying to undo my mistakes & really just making things worse, especially when I started getting problems with my device not responding to adb commands because it was "offline". Anyway, reading Vomer's guide, he says that I should:

- start by downloading the firmware that I want:

- in my case v2.22.401.5 (I presume it's okay to get the newest version, rather than sticking to v2.22.401.4 that the ARHD page says you need before flashing ARHD v10.2?) - If so, that's done but I'm not sure where to put it; Vomer's guide seems to suggest that it should be on my pc, so do I need to put it in my adb folder as Vomer's adb command "C:\adb\firmware.zip" would suggest? I currently have it on the device itself but also on my pc (Win 8.1) in the folder I've been running all my adb commands from, which is "C:\Users\Dan\.android" (that's just where I found my adb files in the first place). Once I'm confident it's in the right location, I'm ready to go except that I wouldn't mind knowing whether, if the firmware update doesn't work, will my phone then be bricked or will the original firmware remain in place?

- My other question, & I'm not sure it even matters, but as I'm following Vomer's guide to the letter now, he says that I should also run the command "fastboot getvar all", which, when I previously ran it, just sat at a "waiting for dvice" prompt & never moved. This time, it worked but on this line in Vomer's guide "(bootloader) version-main: 1.54.401.5 < This is your firmware version" in my command window, mine only says "INFOversion-main:"; there is no further information on my current firmware version - does this matter?? Given that my device seems to be functional, it must have a firmware, so I'm guessing not but at this point, I'd rather not guess.

That's it! I'm sorry for being such a pain but I don't want to screw anything up when I'm so close.

Thanks again & I hope you can answer those 2-3 questions, so that I can start enjoying my fully functional M8

---------- Post added at 10:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:24 AM ----------

Hey NerdYoda,

Thanks for your response & your confirmation of the fastboot commands that I should be using

I'm about to try the firmware flash but I'm a little bit nervous because someone else mentioned bricking my phone, albeit that was by trying to flash the firmware through TWRP, so please could I ask one (or maybe 2-3) quick last question(s) before I do it?

I realise that the guides are there to be followed; I think I just had a bit of a meltdown with spending so long in front of the pc trying to undo my mistakes & really just making things worse, especially when I started getting problems with my device not responding to adb commands because it was "offline". Anyway, reading Vomer's guide, he says that I should:

- start by downloading the firmware that I want:

- in my case v2.22.401.5 (I presume it's okay to get the newest version, rather than sticking to v2.22.401.4 that the ARHD page says you need before flashing ARHD v10.2?) - If so, that's done but I'm not sure where to put it; Vomer's guide seems to suggest that it should be on my pc, so do I need to put it in my adb folder as Vomer's adb command "C:\adb\firmware.zip" would suggest? I currently have it on the device itself but also on my pc (Win 8.1) in the folder I've been running all my adb commands from, which is "C:\Users\Dan\.android" (that's just where I found my adb files in the first place). Once I'm confident it's in the right location, I'm ready to go except that I wouldn't mind knowing whether, if the firmware update doesn't work, will my phone then be bricked or will the original firmware remain in place?

- My other question, & I'm not sure it even matters, but as I'm following Vomer's guide to the letter now, he says that I should also run the command "fastboot getvar all", which, when I previously ran it, just sat at a "waiting for dvice" prompt & never moved. This time, it worked but on this line in Vomer's guide "(bootloader) version-main: 1.54.401.5 < This is your firmware version" in my command window, mine only says "INFOversion-main:"; there is no further information on my current firmware version - does this matter?? Given that my device seems to be functional, it must have a firmware, so I'm guessing not but at this point, I'd rather not guess.

That's it! I'm sorry for being such a pain but I don't want to screw anything up when I'm so close.

Thanks again & I hope you can answer those 2-3 questions, so that I can start enjoying my fully functional M8