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[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
While I do have the commitment required, I wish to hold on to the warranty for at least some more time. :P

I do plan to visit a svc only, but I'm delaying it till the Lollipop update is pushed, that way I won't have to wipe the device twice. Or in case they push it to us (v 1.25.720.3 users) too. Saves me the time required.

I don't really know the CDMA rates, I never need that many calls. :eek: You do have a point though. The plan is amazing.

I purchased this device because the M8 was out of my budget. But I have no complains whatsoever. It's equally good for my needs. :D
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
You will only need to void the warranty in case of a bad flash. But even if you don't, the ruu will not trigger the tampered flag and you will still be able to go to the SVC to get their ruu flashed. In my case, I flashed the lollipop ruu and had to unlock the bootloader because the SVC update wouldn't work for me (higher base version)..

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] laudanumnt:
give me my lollipop

Hello , htc responds well to tweet can collectively make a tweet at a time , or start repost a tweet and comment , I think if they see a good amount of tweets that accurately gather and make faster , and can connect with the guys 4pda, how you like the idea ? if there will be interested in a personal email or twitter - tatulsh. And I start a new theme on xda <GIVE ME MY LOLLIPOP>
[HTC One E8] mietens:
Will we see update in April?
[HTC One E8] melquisedec:
That is the hope
[HTC One E8] kunalra:
One M7 started receiving Lollipop update in India and other Asian countries.

Source: Android Authority.:cool:

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] mietens:
Hopefully we r in next number
[HTC One E8] sepsep 21:
Any news about the update?
[HTC One E8] laudanumnt:
update for blenkfeed

Now I have a update for launcher. Looks great. I think update is coming)) I'm from yerevan, Armenia
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
It's Sense 7 style Launcher
[HTC One E8] sachin_1994:
No update available as of today but sense launcher is updated adding themes..that's a good addition..but as of lollipop update,no..
[HTC One E8] davo04:
Sense updated here in Australia today.Looks good.Cannot wait for Lollipop!!
[HTC One E8] tomxii:
Ok i also got the sense 7 update... But would anyone mind telling me how do I change themes? I mean if I go to settings and then personalize and then themes... Its the old ones and they don't work anymore... Sorry total noob here :p

EDIT: wait no got it... It was just tapping and holding on the screen LOL
[HTC One E8] kunalra:
Make a long press on your screen and their u go.

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
That long press, or there is now a Themes app in the app drawer too. ;)
[HTC One E8] davo04:
Check your software information. I received the sense update yesterday,but my version is still showing 6.0,even though it is a major upgrade.
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Its only Sense launcher update with Sense 7 "looks"

Not full sense 7 functionality
[HTC One E8] tomxii:
Ya i got it actually LOL

But ya man I really cant wait any longer for the major Lollipop update. Is there no official news about our device? I only hear news about M7 and M8.....
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
No there isn't any official news. HTC never posts official news about updates until they are rolling out for devices. Moreover, you hear about M8 or M7 only because they were under the 90 day period. Technically, our update should be rolled out in sometime now, since M8, M7 and B2 all have it. One can only wait.

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] jayesh:
I am simply getting rid of mine. The entire experience has not been good and I think I'll stay with the iPhone for the foreseeable future. I was hoping to get the m9, but given its sterling reviews I don't think so. Don't care for s6 either

Sent from my iPhone
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
It was only an update to Blinkfeed, which has now been renamed as Sense Home. Wasn't the Sense update, which won't come anytime soon.

The experience imo is quite good, yes obviously leaving out the being up to date part, which I expected purchasing a non flagship device. Good luck with your iThing. :)
[HTC One E8] jayesh:
The iPhone was bought for app tests (financial apps) along with a nexus 6 and note 4. I prefer HTC sense above them all, but this is just infuriating

Sent from my iPhone
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
For an up to date experience, I would have suggested you a flagship HTC device, like you went with Nexus and Samsung. The M8 was updated in Jan end itself. Nevertheless, I agree too, but not much can be done about it.

As far as the M9 is considered, I suggest you check out in hand experience too, along with the reviews. It's not really as bad as the reviewers are pitting it. In fact, it's quite an update. I would have taken a M8 too, was it not for my budget issues. (45-47k isn't student friendly, 32k I managed somehow). So I'll be using this for another 2 years.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2411840

This thread is a great one to follow for latest in hand views.

But in the end it's your choice. Good luck again. :)
[HTC One E8] jayesh:
Oh I know. I have been doing this a long long time. I did it with windows phone in the early 2000s and earlier than that.

As for the m9, the processor does not bother me. The lackadaisical approach to the camera does. It's not exactly great news when a nexus device takes better shots

Sent from my iPhone
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
I really doubt if a Nexus is better, when the M9 is beating the iPhone 6 in camera comparisons. It's good. Definitely not Samsung level good, they have excellent cameras. The manual controls are a added bonus with any htc these days. Even this E8 camera is quite good imo. :D

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] sundayradio:
New theme tool is quite well done. Incorporating icon changes and color are going to piss off a lot of purists though. I can see a few of my friends looking for the rollback button already...

I like it very much
[HTC One E8] niufy:
lollipop update

Hi i use the custom rom ( BinDroid ONE E8 Sense 7 L 5.0.2 2.21.720.1 V2.1.1). What i have to do if i want to get my device ready for the official OTA of lollipop?
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
I have been using iPhones for the past 5 years and they were great. Until I really started USING my phone. The battery is a joke, the OS feels like the North Korean dictatorship.

With my HTC One E8, I'm quite happy. I don't care much for the updates. It is a daily driver and I'm on calls for at least 6 hours daily. The battery on this thing is very impressive and lasts an entire day. I charged my iPhone 5s thrice daily (with a smaller screen, weird, isn't it?). There were several other problems with the iPhone:

1. No SMS delivery reports (yes, I use text)

2. No File Management

3. Lack of sharing options (which they tried to fix in iOS 8 in a very terribly executed form)

4. Battery drain

5. Device overheating

6. Enforcing network modes that I should be choosing on my own if needed (cannot switch to 2G, etc.)

7. I needed to stay on 2G so that I could save battery, even with an 8GB 3G plan

The only good things in the iPhone is the backup management and the camera. Everything else plain sucks. People say iTunes is bad? It is not. It is the best backup utility you can ever find for a phone. Android devices are terrible at restoration of app data, especially games progression, etc. iPhones work flawlessly.

Anyway, getting back to the E8, just because it has slower updates, doesn't make the phone bad. It isn't bad at all. I think it is a great device. Which iPhone will give you dual SIM and dual network mode that actually works (CDMA and GSM). None.

The only problem I face with this phone is that the rubberised back is peeling. Apart from that, no complaints!
[HTC One E8] jayesh:
Just delete
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
Just trying to lure you away from the iPhone, that's all.. Not start a fight or anything..

Although, like Sony, every manufacturer should equip their users with enough ingredients to cook their own AOSP at least.. Some people can't 'afford' the Nexus (never thought I'd say that before, until Nexus 6 came out..) but wish to stay on the bleeding edge.. This is the only way to do that..
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
I'm using TitiniumBackup for years now, and saves all the data I need from "system" & "data" partitions.

With backup to phone,SD or cloud

Give it a go.

Together with HTC backup this will restore your phone a 100%
[HTC One E8] Aquaservice:
We're now in early april, any news of the lollipop update?
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Didn't you get the ota yet?
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
No OTA yet, here in India. Did you get it? :rolleyes:
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Nah, guess there is no news then... LoL
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
Haha. yes. That's the sad part, there is no news too! HTC is sucky at this. Updating other devices apart from the flagship. :confused:
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Better to wait a bit longer and get an updated ota then the one from m8

My guess is 5.0.2 and M8 got 5.01
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
I hope it's 5.0.2. Because our next update will probably come by the time we all switch phones. So it should be decent this time around. :P
[HTC One E8] william tanaya:
just got a news that another m8 (M8 for AT&T USA) is receiving OTA update to lollipop tomorrow.

I believe that it's the last m8 variant that haven't got the update.

so hopefully next is ours.
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
M7 OTA is also out.... So yes we would be next

Send via my CM 12 Gtab3
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
Butterfly 2 OTA is also out for the Taiwan region, last week itself.
[HTC One E8] iamsuperuser:
I've been following this thread all week and I'm really getting sick of this marketing tactics that HTC is trying to pull off .

I don't know what they are testing so much , Android 5.0. has already had its issues with pure Android phones like nexus etc.

So why don't they push the damn update out, let the users point out the bugs and then release a clean update addressing all bugs

This process of pushing updates slower and slower giving bull**** reasons about testing etc. is such a pathetic marketing tactic which I have seen only in the smartphone industry.

So what if there lollipop update tomorrow or a month from now it is still 5.0.2 which is natively buggy that is why there is a 5.1 which has multisim support natively and soon a 5.1.1 update from Google.

How long will those updates take to come to our phones and what bull**** reasons will there be left then to explain that delay.

We e8 users have waited long enough to get the update. I DEMAND a clean stable 5.1 update with sense 7 for my one e8 otherwise I don't want the unstable 5.0.2 because its only gonna give the satisfaction of downloading a much awaited update for while and then it's the same compromising buggy bull**** all over again.

Such kind of behavior of treating only the flagship devices with utmost care and leaving all the rest to time provokes users like me to boycott such kind of greedy industry . I paid good money to get this phone and it is as important as any other products the industry sells and the users buy.

WHERE THE **** IS MY UPDATE HTC ASSHOLES !!
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
I'm a programmer, and know how and what and why they are testing.

Some main framework components get rewritten by HTC to get you the correct feeling on your phone.

If you know HTC you need an Flagship to be first inline.

But HTC doesn't give you a crappy update.

I don't mind waiting for what they have in store.
[HTC One E8] kunalra:
So it's just not me who lost patience.

Xperia Z2 is receiving lollipop update in India.

I have to agree that HTC sucks when it comes to provide update but launcher update I must say is great work by HTC.:rolleyes:

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
lollipop update for dual sim E8 is available as of now,

at least here in Indonesia.
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
If you get the ota, first download it... Don't install yet.

Go to the download folder and copy the ota to your pc.

After that install it and share the saved file here on xda
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
ok will try, but it's 870.37 MB so it'll take some time to upload it.

---------- Post added 8th April 2015 at 12:08 AM ---------- Previous post was 7th April 2015 at 11:53 PM ----------

the file is

OTA_M8_ACE_DWGL_L50_SENSE60_MR_hTC_Asia_WWE_2.33.707.3_R-1.25.707.5_R_release_426776srbixvu3j4e8k38g

strange M8 ? the same with M8 ?
[HTC One E8] DEMONN:
we will be waiting...!:laugh:

"M8_ACE" - this is a E8, don't be afraid! ;)
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
The OTA File from HTC E8 Dual Sim (Indonesia)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByO5mgJLqGwVWjV2Uy14UlJ4R0E/view?usp=sharing
[HTC One E8] story:
Thanks for sharing. Let the rom modding begins!
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
Wow. This is good, HTC INDIA needs to buck up, and fast. I hope it's within this month at least. :P

Edit : Also, friend, kindly post some screenshots once you update, whether it's 5.0.2 or 5.0.1. And does it include the Eye Experience or not. Thanks a lot. :)
[HTC One E8] gamer1291:
I hope lollipop update will be available for users who didn't receive any OTA yet and still stuck on 1.25.720.3 version which i also have on my E8 Dual Sim and still says no software update available :crying:
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
it's 5.02

not sure about the eye experience, but there's split capture, photobooth, 360pan, etc
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
Use the RUU.. ;)
[HTC One E8] sepsep 21:
What about one E8 single sim(M8Sx) update?
[HTC One E8] gamer1291:
Sorry for the noob question but how to use RUU?.

Do i need to unlock boot? or do i need to root my phone?.

if possible can you provide step by stem instructions how to flash RUU and still recieve OTA? .

Thank You
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
1. Backup everything. This will wipe everything but the sd and restore the device to factory state

2. Rename ruu as 0PAJIMG.txt and copy to root of sd

3. Using MTP rename the file to 0PAJIMG.zip

4. Turn off the phone

5. Hold volume down and power till a white screen appears

6. Follow the instructions

Ensure that you have at least 60% battery.

You don't need unlock or s-off for this. In fact if you are s-on it is recommended that your boot loader be locked.

In case something goes wrong be prepared to unlock the boot loader and flash a working twrp backup which you can get in the Q&A section thread in the E8 sub forum.

Good luck!

Sent from my iPad
[HTC One E8] Aquaservice:
Could be valid for single SIM version?
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
If you have the correct RUU, yes, the same steps would apply.

Sent from my iPad
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
For those who got the ota, once installed make a system dump for me so I got something to work with
[HTC One E8] DEMONN:
Hey,Dutch! You can work now with Indonesian ota 5.0?

And your finish product will be flashable for all devices e8?
[HTC One E8] gamer1291:
Thank You so much for the step by step instructions :) but can you suggest which RUU should i flash?.
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
http://xdaforums.com/one-e8/general/ruu-htc-one-e8-m8-ace-dwgl-m8sd-1-26-t3043266

This is for the India version
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
An ota is not anything I can fully work with. Except as it was for mine.

Give me a system dump from installed ota lollipop
[HTC One E8] DEMONN:
I can't give u dump from installed lollipop...ask that bakpau
[HTC One E8] ayushb01:
Sorry for a noob question but by SD u mean internal SD or external SD?:confused:
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
External. The RUU goes into the external SD. The Internal SD will get wiped after an RUU flash.
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
hello, not that i don't want to give the lollipop system dump, but I don't know how...
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Once your on lollipop and rooted, use root explorer to make a zip file from your "system" folder
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
that's the thing I don't know how to root it, hmmm.. let see if i can ask someone to provide the lollipop system dump...
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Flash a custom recovery via fastboot and flash the superSU.zip
[HTC One E8] Captain_Throwback:
Don't even have to do all that. Just fastboot boot TWRP, and from there adb will have root and system and be pulled over adb (it's probably better to pull it from there anyway). All you have to do is mount system in the Mount menu first.

That'll leave the ROM unrooted and stock recovery intact
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
[MENTION=1162986]Captain_Throwback[/MENTION] - Dude, any idea where we can get the required resources to build an AOSP from source. I have gone through the CM build guides and they seem to have some prebuilt stuff as well (at least for the M8). I have the kernel but no vendor tree. Plus it also talks about extracting blobs, which I can't do until I have a working CM build for my phone anyway.

Would really appreciate some help. I'm kind of lost right now.
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Shaky about update to HTC one e8 in India

I mailed HTC this morning regarding the status of the update for HTC one e8 dual sim in India. I received a long reply which was mostly apologetic , clearly stating that they will be 'unable to commit' to the update for the phone , due to 'hardware and software combinations '. This is one indication that either there will be a very long wait, or this phone will never receive an update even though its still an HTC one.
[HTC One E8] ayushb01:
Thats bogus cause I saw a post in which Desire 816 is stated to get lollipop update on 16th of April and confirmed by HTC's Mo Versi.Our device being yesteryear's "kind off" flagship is bound to get an update and well before 816.
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Well. I hope they do it. Currently no calls to the support center are being answered. What software version are you using ? I believe 1.25.720.3 is the one the phone originally came with
[HTC One E8] ayushb01:
Yup 1.25.720.3 it is.Even my bro is using the E8 and he has the same firmware.Thinking to flash 1.25.720.6 RUU.
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Yes. It us unlikely that 1.25.720.3 will get the OTA. or it just might.
[HTC One E8] ayushb01:
Can you tell how the experience has been with the lollipop update especially the battery life and responsiveness?
[HTC One E8] william tanaya:
and also about the memory usage. since android 5.0.x still have the memory leak problem

---------- Post added at 06:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:41 AM ----------

dude.. my software number is 1.10.707.1.. so that means mine won't get any update at all?
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Woah, 1.10? When did you buy the phone?
[HTC One E8] william tanaya:
Last year. around august or sept. I bought it in Malaysia, because at that time, they don't have it in Indonesia.

it's M8sX if it matters
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
I still don't know what m8sx or m8sd means :p however I bought it in India too in September. Don't know why the software number is so different. And yes desire 816 indeed is getting the update. It should come to e8. Eventually
[HTC One E8] Captain_Throwback:
Those blobs typically come from the stock ROM. So, look at the ones being pulled for M8 and try pulling the same files from your device.
[HTC One E8] william tanaya:
M8sX is single sim. I believe it's for vietnam, malaysia and/or singapore.

I'm not sure whether the software number really matter that much. surely hope not...

anyway. just need to be patient. It shouldn't be too long..
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Every model has his own last update number. This does not stand in the way of getting an ota to lollipop.

The ota checks if you have the latest update for your model and then install it
[HTC One E8] william tanaya:
nice. Thanks to clarify things up
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Yes, let's wait.
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
Sure I will! Thanks for that. I'm new to this..

Sent from my iPad
[HTC One E8] Aquaservice:
Mine (buyed in Spain) es 1.06.401.1 (single sim)

A lot of difference with yours. But when I try to update the phpne says that I'm updated
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Yes. That's exactly because they haven't pushed an OTA for our phone yet, at least in some parts of the world. Until then its gona keep saying that phone is up to date
[HTC One E8] davo04:
I also have the M8Sx version.Bought in Hong Kong in December.Software 1.10.709.1. Using in Australia.
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
here's what i do, before I update, I formatted then I update it,

and i can tell you for sure that the battery life and responsiveness is better.

memory leakage, it's been on (with out restarting) for more than 2 days, occasionally clear all running apps, and more or less has 1gb of free ram
[HTC One E8] hendrickchan:
Hi, what model would your E8 be? Thanks. M8sw?
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
I found mostly every file that the M8 device vendor tree has except the 'blobs' directory. That doesn't exist in my /system. Where do I get that?

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] Captain_Throwback:
That's just where the carrier-specific blobs are found (it's not a folder on the device). Look in the "gsm" folder and pull those additional files from your device as well.
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
I don't see a gsm directory there either. What s typically the location for this? Is it supposed to be in /system? Could it be that I don't have this since mine is a fully unlocked device (network unlocked I mean)?

Sent from my iPad
[HTC One E8] Captain_Throwback:
You're not understanding what I'm saying. You won't have a blobs folder on your device (as I just said). In the blobs folder in the vendor files, you should see 3 subfolders, which represent the 3 M8 variants. Based on the variant on which the ROM is being flashed, those additional files will be pulled in when the ROM is booted. You likely have a GSM device, so look in the GSM subfolder under blobs, and there are subfolders which represent folders that you do have on your device. Those are the additional files you need to pull.

If you look at the device files, you'll see a "releasetools" folder which uses the device model ID to identify which subfolder should be used when the device is booted.
[HTC One E8] buggerman:
I have a GSM/ CDMA + GSM device. But I think I get what you're saying. I need to pull these files from the /system partition. These files exist just like other files in the /system partition and the file extracting scripts just organise them in this way. I see that all the files within the blobs directory (for the M8) are present in my /system/bin and my /system/vendor/lib directories.
[HTC One E8] Captain_Throwback:
Exactly. You may need to pull in more files than just the ones in the GSM folder if your device is also CDMA. I'd take a look in the other two folders and see if any of those files are any different and if you also have them on your device.

You'll have to make sure that wherever you put them, that they're being copied from the proper folder to the correct location on the device, as represented in the make files at the top level of the vendor folder.

Additionally, in the device folder, in the "init" folder there will be some additional modifications you'll need to make to the device variant detection, as the E8 variants and model IDs differ from those of the M8. You'll also likely need to change some of CDMA properties that are getting mapped there and the other build.proper variables.
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
Try to follow this guide to setup

Once setup, youll need to make changes to fit E8

https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_m8
[HTC One E8] bakpau:
mine is M8Sd
[HTC One E8] DutchDanny:
For those who got the ota and installed it.....

Can you make and share a system dump
[HTC One E8] gondesh:
http://m.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_eye_is_getting_android_502_lollipop_update-news-11869.php

Desire Eye is getting a lollipop update with sense 6.55:banghead:
[HTC One E8] Silver.Shadow:
That is just plain bad reporting. It's still Sense 6. Only one version of Sense exists above 6, it's Sense 7 which is only on the new phones till now.

Sent from my HTC One_E8 dual sim
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
One e8 getting lollipop in hong Kong ?
[HTC One E8] tomxii:
I use the Hong Kong version which is single sim and it's M8Ss, I got the update yesterday and it's amazing! Loving it so far! :D
[HTC One E8] dhruvbajaj:
Great news ! :)