[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bergsi:
My dumb and pretty sad story

Dear all,

I am (and I am pretty sure you hear that often ;)) a total n00b when it comes to rooting, S-Offing, custom ROMing.

Here is my sad story and I really hope, that you can and are willing to help me!

I have an HTC One M8 in my hands, which I used at my company until I bought it out.

There is a Simlock (Carrier A1 in Austria - CID: VODAP120). To get rid of this lock (and maybe of Facebook, Twitter etc.) was my goal...

As I am totally new to the field of Smartphone-manipulation on this "deep" level, I can admit, I was really blue-eyed and unstructured.

I just tried different tutorials - seemingly without any clue what I need todo.

For example, I thought in the beginning, it would be sufficient to download ADB and everything I was dreaming of could get real:

https://www.pocketpc.ch/htc-sensation-root-und-rom/145972-anleitung-simlock-entfernen.html

Then I realized, I need to root my phone...oops..

Afterwards I found something called Firewater, but I have not known that with my HBOOT 3.19 this thing is not working....

I needed to learn it the hard way, when this instrution just did not workout:

http://htc-one.wonderhowto.com/how-...-one-m8-install-custom-firmware-mods-0154461/

Then... a glimmer of light... I found the HTC One AIO Toolkit von Hasoon2000...really easy...exactly the thing I needed :)

Bootloader unlocked - check, flash TWRP - check, getting my CID - check, bringing "InsertCoin" on my phone - check?!?!

But that was not doing the trick, so I searched further and further.

Sunshine -> 25€ for being able to do something I didnt want to pay 50€ in the first place? Määä

Moonshine and rumrunner did not work...HBOOT 3.19 i guess...?!

After despair and self-hatred I read something called Goldcard... wow... did sound really easy and should at least get rid of that damn Simlock.

Yeah... I think I have a Goldcard now (featured by "SimpleGoldCard" from Nelfy or jamesjerss?), but it does not work.

After finishing crying because I whipped my stupid self to hard, I just wanted to get back to the start of everything and forget how hard I failed.

https://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860

I had a problem with my mainvar. as the adb request should just an empty line, but I think I found the correct version through my CID VODAP120...the MID should be 0P6B100000 - x.xx.166.x ...true or not!?!? I dont know.

I did every step and was really sure that this is the thing, I can handle... haha... downloading the ZIP, recovery, finding the backup folder, inserting the folder, wipe, flash the stock recovery and pressing "no, please do not root"...

Now we are in the world I am into right now...

Reboot and OTA checks where not possible, because my smartphone... it was staring at me with a black screen, laughting, spitting at my poor stupid head (justifiable).

I am able to get rid of this black screen when pressing power, volume up+down buttons. So I am able to get to the bootloader and recovery, but thats it...

How can I save my phone and maybe still get rid of the SIMlock + bloatware??

Oh dear Android wizards, please help this poor soul that wanted to be an apprentice of your high art! Laught about me, shout at me, but please help me!

Here are some more infos about my phone status...If I can offer you more, I dont know of, please let me know!

Softwarestatus: Modified

Unlocked

M8_UL PVT SHIP S-On

HBOOT-3.19.0.0000

RADIO-1.29.214500021.12G

OpenDSP-v51.2.2-00593-M8974_FO.1015

OS- (ja hier steht garnichts)

eMMC-boot 2048MB

Dec 1 2015, 16:44:33.0

TWRP Version ist 2.7.0.2

Thank you so much!

Cheers