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[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
OH yeah... of course... Nandroid backs up all of the apps.... OK.. Well I am all for flashing a stock ROM.

Now... my only problem is that I cannot find one. [Very sorry to ask all these questions... if I wasn't in such a hurry, I would leisurely research this stuff on my own]. But as said, since I am still a TMOB CID, I cannot use a generic ROM from the regular HTC One (M8) forum, correct???

And when I go to the HTC One (M8) T-Mobile forum, I see RUUs, Nandroids, radios, boot.imgs.... but no Stock ROMs.... I posted a question about where they might be in a thread I thought was appropriate at the T-Mobile M8 forum, but do you (or anyone reading this), know where I might find a 4.20.531 Stock Rom for TMO???

Again, my sincerest apologies for asking for all this spoon-feeding.... I would never ask these things if it wasn't bordering on an emergency (a job issue)....

EDIT: OK I found what I think is a TMO stock ROM... but this is a nomenclature issue, and I am not very adept at it... IS AN RUU the same as the STOCK FIRMWARE/ROM? I ask because the only time I ever used an RUU was when it was an exe windows file, and it wiped/reset my entire device....
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebobmannh:
ROM shouldn't care about your CID, tha'ts for firmware and all that. Any ROM that works on GSM will likely work for T-Mo.

An RUU will wipe your entire device.

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By the way I know you're in a rush, but rushing is how you make bigger mistakes. I'd try and borrow someone's phone for your important call so you can carefully do what you need to do and not brick your phone or lose all your data.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
When you restore a nandroid, you can select which partitions you do or don't want to restore, by checking or unchecking the boxes as desired. You can restore /system without restoring /data. Not sure, but I also believe the nandroids in the stock collection do not include /data partition backups.

Really, the main difference is getting the adb push path correct for a nandroid is a bit more complicated (but not impossible by any means) than a stock ROM.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Yes...wise words... But, I am really in an usual situation. Kinda of isolated at the moment.... but I will slow down nonetheless.

OK... In this HTC One (M8) generic forum, there is this thread/post...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51836733&postcount=4

It says it is a stock ROM zip for MAC users? What??? Why would there be a difference between a stock ROM for macintosh and windows??? This is really confusing me more than I ever anticipated.....:eek:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
If you want to save your internal storage data, the simplest way that I can see :

a) Install latest TWRP 2.8.5.0 where you can mount the Internal storage in MTP mode

b) Download the stock nandroid backup here : https://mega.co.nz/#!7JgQ2DJL!Ko33MVU49EyS__r7BqS3qYWFF02faKab19VkBYhI-F0

c) Transfer the extracted nandroid backup to your TWRP.BACKUP/SerialNo/folder

d) you can try to restore only partition part first or together with boot, so you have your data ... just do wipe dalvik & cache after restore system and restart
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
I get that... having restored many of my own created nandroid backups and later deleting them using Root Explorer... they were always in some weird folder name.... [If my phone would boot up, I would tell you!].

So since I am still stuck right now... because I for the life of me cannot find a Stock Rom for 4.20.531.4—do you know perhaps anything about where a nandroid must go? I am in the middle of researching it because I really want to get this fixed.... But, if you have any ideas, please let me know!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
See solution from cpv5 directly above yours. If you can mount internal storage in TWRP, you can easily just copy and paste the nandroid to the right location.

Path is: TWRP/BACKUPS/serialno/

Where "serialno" is your actual device serial number

Doing a quick search, I couldn't find the stock ROM (T_Mob US, LP) either. It seems like stock ROM zips are not posted as commonly as they used to be. So nandroid is your best bet.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Well I didn't know that..

I just had a crash course in ADB Intermediate Level. First I did adb pull /sdcard/ c:\storage\ which backed up my sdcard.

Then I pushed that stock Rom zip that was supposedly for "MAC" users (which makes NO sense whatsoever) to the SDcard (if you have any info on this ROM zip for MAC users only, please do tell).

And then I did adb shell created a new folder in sdcard/TWRP/Backups/FA44VWM00543/ callled tmonanbackup

Then I downloaded the tmo TWRP nandroid backup, extracted it, and then pushed it to that newly created folder.... Apparently you cannot adb push a entire folder (with the folder itself) to the sdcard....so I had to make a new folder first.

I am going to try and flash that MAC only stock Rom zip (I cannot imagine what damage it could really do if I dirty flash it... if it is for Mac users, then it won't be compatible.... If that doesn't work, I will then do the nandroid restore as I was able to push all of the files in the tmo TWRP nandroid zip (after extracting them) to the new folder as stated above.

I am going to wait maybe 30 minutes to see if anyone knows if I should not flash that Mac only Stock ROM....
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Yeah, I have no idea what the "Mac user" zip is. I agree it doesn't make much sense. I tried to read more of the thread, and it didn't shed any light.

I'd just go ahead and restore the nandroid. You can always make a nandroid of your "current" setup, as it were, and you won't be any worse position than you are now. I know the ROM won't currently boot, but it will at least backup your current data partition.

Then restore the stock nandroid, just selecting boot and system, and it should "dirty" restore with your data intact.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
I am going to start drinking soon.... This is driving me nuts.

As I said above, I pushed the extracted nandroid files to /sdcard/TWRP/Backups/FXXXXXXX/NEWFOLDER.... and it seemed to move everything successfully, but when I look at the file manager in TWRP, it didn't move the files to TWRP/Backups/FXXXXXXX/NEWFOLDER...... It moves them to sdcard/storage/TWRP/Backups/FXXXXXXX/NEWFOLDER..

WTF???????????????????????????????????

I asked this question once before but no one seems to know.... what is emulated??? What is storage 0? What is storage legacy???? Anyway, now my nandroid files are in a location that does me no good whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!

OK... So I will try mounting internal storage. If I mount internal storage in TWRP (and it appears I can), what does this allow me to do, and where does it allow me to do it from??? It doesn't mount it on the windows system.... So what is the point of "mounting" internal storage???? I can already see internal storage with the file manager in TWRP.... Plus, there are no copy/paste functions in TWRP.

Can you please, please, please, please explain what you mean by "mounting" internal storage (I mean I know what you mean), but HOW does this benefit me??? WHere am I able to copy and paste files and folders?????
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Alright..... I have spent 11 hours on this now.... it is my fault for not having a backup, but jesus... why is this so complicated????

I guess since I now have backed up my internal storage, I will wipe and do a reset.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me how to do this with the least amount of work... I would prefer not having to relock my bootloader, which would then necessitate my having to get my FIFTH HTCDEV unlock token to unlock the bootloader again... and then re-root the phone... and the re-install all apps and settings, etc. et.c... which means I would be looking at least at another 4 hours of work.....

How can I do a restore of 4.20.531.4 with the least amount of undoing everything that I will ultimately have to do again.... I have resigned myself to resinstalling the 150 apps I will have to install... and then set up my desktop again.... EVERYTHING...

I am seriously going to get NEXUS next time... I cannot stand this bootloader locking hassle and the lack of any sd card....only internal storage.... so I end up losing everything if I just want to restore....

At least a extremely small consolation is that I have a backup of my internal storage... which saves me about 1 hour out of 5 (which is why I only now have four hours of work ahead of me... I did not sleep last night.. .. and I won't sleep tonight because I have work to do... THIS SUCKS!!!!!!! I am not going to have a functional telephone for at least another 2 hours... [I am waiting on people's input.... because I do not want to make any more slightly wrong decisions which might increase my time to restore this phone by another 3 or 4 hours!!]
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Well I ran a restore from TWRP, but I guess I didn't have a recovery factory restore image on my internal storage (why??? why did the OTA not leave a recovery factory restore image on my internal storage?).

So anyway, I now have lost all my data and it doesn't matter anymore how I deal with this because it has been 13 hours since I started something I thought would take 2 hours at the very most..

So.... CAN someone please tell me how to reset this phone??? I realize I could download and run an RUU.exe, but even though I have my SD card backed up, I don't want to relock my bootloader.... it just adds another 30 minutes. and I am sick of going through this whole restore ===>>>> unlock through HTCDEV (FIVE TIMES IT WOULD BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), flash custom recovery, root, flash supersu, etc. etc. etc. Granted it is my fault this time as I didn't make a backup.... but please... I managed to get 2 hours of sleep... I am frazzled... I have to stay up through the whole night, and I now have to devote at least 2 hours of that to re-installing my apps, etc....

So please again, I IMPLORE someone more knowledgeable than me.... to explain to me how I can do a factory restore without relocking the bootloader.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
OR................. I don't need to do a restore if someone would EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT IS ENTAILED IN MOUNTING MY INTERNAL STORAGE IN TWRP...............

I know how to mount internal storage in TWRP, but I don;t know what to do at that point with the TWRP nandroid files, NOR do I know how to ensure that they end up in the correct directory, as I attempted earlier to push them through ADB and instead of ending up in sdcard/TWRP/Backups/FXXXXXXX/{NEWLYCREATEDFOLDER}/ they ended up for inexplicable reasons in sdcard/storage/TWRP/Backups/FXXXXXXX/{NEWLYCREATEDFOLDER}/ (SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME AS WELL AT THEIR CONVENIENCE).

I would be happy to go the nandroid route..... (I) I have the NANDROID files. (II) I know which folder they need to get to.....

BUT HOW DO I COPY THEM TO THAT FOLDER???????????????????????????????????
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
OR.............ALTERNATIVE NUMBER THREE......... IS IT POSSIBLE TO RUN THE OTA WITHOUT BOOTING THE SYSTEM.?????????????

I am just trying to think of ways to get stock rom on my phone without having to fully RESET the phone.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
AGAIN I KNOW THIS IS MY FAULT.... I ACCEPT COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY....

BUT I NEED A WORKING PHONE in the next few hours, and I am so high strung on red bulls trying to stay awake that I cannot think or read anymore...

PLEASE HELP ME.

PLEASE
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
HERE IS A GETVAR which I ran from FASTBOOT... IF THIS HELPS ANYONE:

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000

(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.23.213311491.05G

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: None

(bootloader) version-main: 4.20.531.4

(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF

(bootloader) serialno: FA44VWM00543

(bootloader) imei: ***************

(bootloader) imei2: Not Support

(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000

(bootloader) product: m8_ul

(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974

(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B13000

(bootloader) cidnum: T-MOB010

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: off

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: 06f11f5b

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckpv5:
I don't really understand your problem. I did mentioned in my first post here to use nandroid backup and TWRP 2.8.5.0.

I don't understand why you mentioned this, when I mentioned enable MTP

OK... So I will try mounting internal storage. If I mount internal storage in TWRP (and it appears I can), what does this allow me to do, and where does it allow me to do it from??? It doesn't mount it on the windows system.... So what is the point of "mounting" internal storage???? I can already see internal storage with the file manager in TWRP.... Plus, there are no copy/paste functions in TWRP.​

See this screenshots and hopefully you can understand them.

1. Select MOUNT

2. Enable MTP

3. You can open your Internal Storage on Windows

View attachment 3206267

then you can :

1. copy all your internal storage data/files to PC for backup

2. transfer the nandroid backup to its intended location

No need ADB push or whatever ... just simply copy/paste from TWRP to Windows vice versa.

For the last 11 hours you tried to fix your PC, why don't you just get maybe a 4GB MicroSD or a 4GB flash drive with OTG cable just to do the restore .. these are other options.

You should have solve your problem in 1 hour max.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
I realize I could have done that, but my situation did not allow this... (I did get in the mail today an awesome high-quality USB cable from monoprice which helps a lot... All manufacturers charging cables suck)

Anyway... I got impatient.... And so I managed to move all of these extracted nandroid files from the wrong directory (/sdcard/storage/TWRP/BACKUPS/FA44VWM00543/nan/) to the right directory (/sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/FA44VWM00543/nan/) all using the cp command from within adb shell. It was a pain in the ass... and I can't recall at the moment (but I am tired), but I am not sure if I had the option to restore data or not... If I could have avoided wiping data with the nandroid, then it was pretty dumb to run the factory restore from within TWRP 4 hours ago which did certainly wipe data.

So I just restored the nandroid, flashed SuperSU, and it just booted up finally. Now I need to restore everything... And internal storage is intact even though I had made a backup of it using adb pull, so that saves me a few minutes.

I got caught without a nandroid backup once back in 2011 and had this same meltdown.... I guess I was overdue for a reminder to always have a current nandroid.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for your help!!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Too bad I wasn't around to help you last night (US East Coast time) as it looks like you went through a great degree of frustration! But glad to see you finally got it sorted out.

You

absolutely

have the option to deselect (not restore) data when restoring a nandroid in TWRP. I'm certain of this, as I verified within TWRP when I was trying to help you yesterday.

Also, I suggested making a nandroid of your "non-booting" setup back in Post #24. Yes, it would have backed up a non-functional ROM. But it also would have backed up your user data (/data) which you also could have used to restore your user data, even if you had wiped it.

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You're going to be mad at yourself when you hear this: but you do

not

need to ever RELOCK your bootloader when you have s-off. With s-off, the RUU will run with the bootloader UNLOCKED.

Sorry to say, you went through all those relocks and unlocks for no reason.

Lessons learned for another day, I suppose . . . .
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Thank you... I don't know who had told me this info previously... But when I did a restore to upgrade to Android L, I was told I needed to relock the bootloader before I could run the RUU. The other times I locked it was because I believed I needed a locked bootloader to get previous OTAs... I guess this is wrong as well. And everytime I relock it, I ultimately update or restore... then I lose root and the custom recovery, so I cannot use the fastboot method of unlocking the bootloader and have to go back to HTCDEV.

But thank you (and to everyone here) for putting up with my frustrations and kindly offering help and suggestions....:good:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syntropic:
Look at this post from a recent thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=59318340

Essentially it's saying you need a locked bootloader or any RUU will fail.

Is there a written authority on this? I'd really like to know when and if the bootloader needs to be locked
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Hofs:
RUU :

S-OFF does not need to be relocked

S-ON does need to be relocked

OTA VIA NANDROID BACKUP :

does not need a relocked bootloader

:)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
I specifically stated

with s-off

(guess I should have highlighted that phrase) you do not need to relock bootloader to run RUU.

S-off or s-on is the distinction here. S-off bypasses the requirement to relock the bootloader for RUU. With s-on, you need to relock the bootloader to RUU.

You never need to relock the bootloader to OTA, regardless of s-on or s-off. Relocked bootloader is simply not a requirement for OTA. Only requirements are stock ROM (no system files altered) and stock recovery. Root is okay, too (although you will almost always lose root after OTA).
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sherbibv:
Hey guys !

I've been having some problems with my phone, which is running stock unrooted GPE lollipop. My wifi keeps dropping, I mean it looks still connected, but there is no traffic. If i am playing a youtube video from 5 meters from my router, it randomly stops playing and starts buffering the video(even changing the resolution of the video to 240p). Like i had low signal(although I had 4/4 bars). And this extends to g+ not showing posts and pictures, web pages not loading, in a word, bad connection and/or really slow. I tried to do a speedtest and had under 1 mb/s down, although I was sitting a few meters from my router(sometimes it would be really inconsistent, like start with 40-50mb/s and start oscillating in high margins down to 1-2 mb/s). I only have this problem on lollipop, on stock kitkat it's perfect.

It there a way to solve this? I'm thinking of flashing the stock sense kitkat radio. Will that even work?

I tried the simple fix that was done on m7 when it was upgraded to kitkat - changing the wifi direct name of my device. I'm still testing if that worked.

Thanks ! :good:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs101:
If you've saved a radio.img or can find an original radio.img for your phone you can try to switch back to the old radio and see if there is any difference. radio shouldnt affect wifi, but it's worth a try since you can allways go back to the gpe radio.img using adb.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] extace:
I connected my phone with adb and I found a folder named init.mtk6252.rc. I think mtk6252 is the name of the chipset, because there is a company named mediatek that makes chipsets and the series of the chipsets are named like this... mtk6252,mtk6592,mtk6753 etc..... However huawei p6 contains hicilicon k3 chipset.. Many cheap china made phones contain mediatek chipset. is it possible that this phone is not original but a fake china made phone ?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] extace:
Problem solved. MTK6252 is a GSM/GPRS chipset not a cpu chipset. MediaTek MT6252 is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE SOC (system on a chip) for entry-level multimedia handsets. Also supports MP4 video recording and playback, and also incorporates a resistive touch-screen controller. Case closed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dozaj_Loster:
Guys, my phone's upper screen(like 80 pixels) is untouchable right now. I want to crop out that section and move down the status bar. I looked for resolution changer but they didn't help. Is there a section on build.prop to change that?
[Android Apps and Games] jasbinkarki:
Mod Edit : XDA does not condone stealing from developers any paid app, item or feature, which is what this is.
[Android Apps and Games] pomba:
vai 100% kaam garcha?
[Android Apps and Games] jasbinkarki:
WORKS 100%

i tested before posting and tried in many of my friends phone and i got succeed!;)
[Android Apps and Games] Baradan:
Thanks Jasbin Works Great worked in my device

Working 100% Try it and enjoy....
[Android Apps and Games] kaamlesh:
nexus5

worked on my device...good job :)
[Android Apps and Games] Darth:
While this isn't an actual warez app, it's still stealing and the same rules apply. Bypassing paid features or items is not allowed to be discussed here. Credits are usually warned or bought... So this applies here.

Thread closed.

Darth

Forum Moderator
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] empiricalisaac:
HI Guys,

Im a reasonable handy Techie, now i just refuse to pay the provider $25 to have my Alcatel Touch 5020a to be unlocked to use other SIM's either then vodafone.

How can i technically do this?

Is there a method i can break the code by flashing the firmware? Which website can i find the firmware from?

Please advise. Alcatel is not even listed in the XDA android models :(:crying:
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] vbsert:
Looking to output signal out of the phone into my USB DAC. It works with my current phone, quite well.

If I'm to buy this Find 7 I need to know that it will work first. Anybody have any experience with this?
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] jebulol:
If I remember correctly find7 doesn't support USB OTG at all. Someone can correct me if I remember wrong
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] coolriku:
The Find 7 supports OTG, but if it's supports a DAC, I don't know, I've only used for usb storage, keyboard and mouse.
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] jebulol:
My mistake. It was MHL then that was missing
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] vbsert:
I'll let you know if it works with my DAC, soon, as my phone is slated for delivery today.

MHL, what is that? Hi-rez video out to an external device?
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] jebulol:
Yup. Standard that allows HDMI output from usb port. I use it a lot with my tablet.
[Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro] saurabhpanchal:
I have samsung galaxy grand quattro and I want to know if I flash galaxy S3/Grand 's rom .....will it work?Bcoz there are no nice roms for quattro...if there is.suggest me most stable rom...
[Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro] Doom2015:
hi

here you can find your rom, just choose. (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2755643)

bye
[Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro] saurabhpanchal:
Yeah thats right but what about other mobile's rom ...?

I.e CM is not stable in quattro. So can i flash some other mobile's rom?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prioryjim:
I have Pipo S1 Pro

I want to use Bluetooth dongle.

I think I need to add a driver.

I understand Linux

Do I need

To root somehow

To load some form of custom ROM

To install busy box

Guidance please

Thanks Jim
[Galaxy Tab 3 Accessories] Ciex:
Hey guys!

I am wondering where to buy accessories table secure locked for my galaxy tab?

The reason is that I want to use it for my restaurant, but it's going to be locked on the physical table, so no customers can steal it.

Tried to google around, but couldn't find it! I am pretty sure it must exist somewhere on the net!

Hope someone could shed some light! :)