yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[One (M8s) General] voidzero:
Have I offended you? Oh I'm sorry.. ?

See, the thing is, I and other people already took the time to answer your question, even before you asked it. It's in the thread already. I don't see how a new answer would be more helpful, except that it would probably be more convenient for you because you wouldn't have to search for it.

Actually, the fact that you don't want to go back some pages/posts but instead refuse to do your own research, that is what I qualify as being rude. It's your phone and the answers are already there, so it's not that I don't want to answer your question, but just that I don't want to repeat the answers that have already been given. Especially when you ask it in such a demanding tone.

So in my opinion you will just have to consider the search button to be your "rite de passage."

If you want to be a part of this (or most other tech) communities, you'll have to form the same skill set as others: learn to search first and foremost. If you have something more specific to ask that has not yet been answered, feel free to ask.
[One (M8s) General] barak06:
Ok ok. I read.

I have to

- Copy the custom recovery into your internal storage. (twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img)

- Use the HTC_Fastboot.exe linked above and flash the recovery :

1. Is that correct ?

Questions, if you allow me :

2. i put twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img (at the root on my internal storage ?)

3. i plug my HTC (on) in my PC USB port with USB debugging

4. i type in dos window : htc_fastboot flash recovery {twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img}

5. And then nothing to do, just wait ? The M8s restart ?

6. And that's it, the phone is rooted ?

7. "When the phone is rooted in changes to the phone are reset on restart .. Strange" Still the same pb ?

N.B. Instead of htc-fastboot on my PC may i use fastboot mode on my htc ? home+vol down ?

THANK YOU
[One (M8s) General] hector2001:
Please read instructions, and questions/answers that have been already posted.

If not clear, read all posts starting from page 1 (I have read about 40 pages).

Barak : you talked about Cydia... there is no Cydia on Android :)

The procedure says : use "HTC_FASTBOOT.EXE"

And of course, the phone must be in fastboot mode first.

As for the command line, here are some example (the name of the image file may be different according to the version you have chosen to use) :

- if you have saved twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img in C:\TEMP, type :

htc_fastboot flash recovery C:\TEMP\twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img

- if you have saved twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img in C:\WHATSOEVER, type :

htc_fastboot flash recovery C:\WHATSOEVER\twrp-2.8.7.0-m8s-qlul.img
[One (M8s) General] DACATA:
...oO..

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[One (M8s) General] XUNILI:
Could some one please help me to. I read more than 10 pages from the start, but didn`t find the solution.

Here is my post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62466765&postcount=531

THX
[One (M8s) General] hasso96:
Has anyone News about a cyanogenmod Rom for the m8s ? :confused:
[One (M8s) General] jd1001:
Mentioned 2 pages back.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3142668
[One (M8s) General] hector2001:
I don't understand why some people are using Linux, Windows 1/2/3/4/5/6/9/10/11/12.... ??? to get problems related to software/drivers only and ask for solutions within 10 pages :)
[One (M8s) General] Kestrel81:
I was running Pandora for the last month or so with no issues. I just fancied a change so searched here and found an excellent how-to by VoidZero on how to revert to stock. The only thing I would suggest to add is that people need to be reminded to re-lock their bootloader and to make sure they are trying to flash the correct firmware for their device.

Are there any plans by somebody to make a custom kernel which supports under/over clocking? I can go 2 days between charges with moderate use, 3 days if I stay offline. If I could squeeze out another day, it would mean I don't have to carry a spare phone when I go camping.
[One (M8s) General] Ty5982:
i got mine yesterday

not been on here for along time,quite gutted there's no m8s thread yet,I'm far from a noob but I see on m8 u went to settings/power then turn on/of fastboot yet on the m8s that option isn't there,I've done the old trick(tap build 7 times) for developer options,but still no joy,anyone know where it's hiding? Thanks in advance
[One (M8s) General] jd1001:
Turn off the phone, hold volume down and power, when the screen comes on let go of the power button but keep the volume down pressed. You get a fastboot option then which you can select using the wol up and down buttons and the power button.
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
That option was removed on the M8 with Lollipop. The same likely applies for the M8S. Lollipop already starts up quickly due to how apps are cached so that option became unnecessary.
[One (M8s) General] DACATA:
Still there...don't know why you can't open it...

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[One (M8s) General] Ty5982:
I got there in the end,the HTC_fastboot in the OP was the issue for me so I used another one I had instead,thanks for the tutorial,much appreciated
[One (M8s) General] ragg987:
Hi there, now that HTC have released a security patch for Android on this device, I tried to update using HTC software updates option and get an error relating to "build fingerprint" see screen image below (sorry cannot attach image to this post I do not have enough postings on this forum)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-RPEwbxRCltajU2VjJ3eDdXZUE

So I tried to download the Vodafone recovery from the original thread and apply that but it gives another error:

D:\android-sdk\_ra\htc1m8s\recovery_vodafone_uk_1.11.161.1>htc_fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
sending 'recovery' (30088 KB)... OKAY
writing 'recovery'... (bootloader) signature checking...
FAILsignature verify fail
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
Execution time is 4(s)

My device is OEM locked and vodafone UK, so pretty sure I have the right versions. Also MD5 hash on the image files is correct.

Any ideas?
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
Hi guys

I received the new ota 1.16

I flashed the stock recovery, (tried 1.03.401.11, 1.11.401.1 and 1.16.401.1)

I still get the same error

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pix4ryayelb519m/20150827_223458.jpg?dl=0

someone can help me plse...

tkx
[One (M8s) General] DACATA:
Not over recovery.. read first post..

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[One (M8s) General] ragg987:
I do not understand this - are you saying stock recovery cannot be applied to the device?
[One (M8s) General] WhiteListed:
Thanks a lot El-Conkistador for the clear post on how to root and flash a custom ROM. It is very clear and by following the steps and by using your brains, i'm sure everyone will be able to root/unlock/flash a custom rom for their device. I'm currently looking into porting CyanogenMod to the HTC One M8s but I don't have any experience with that, so it will take me some time before I have any progress. I do have programming experience (C, C++, Java etc.) so that will be allright.

Thanks again, and I will keep u guys updated :)

-- WhiteListed

---------- Post added at 02:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM ----------

I believe you can't flash a recovery if you have an OEM lock on your device. You need to OEM unlock the device in order to be able to flash a recovery.
[One (M8s) General] jd1001:
Hey, great news about porting CM. You might want to check out this guy who is trying to do the same. http://xdaforums.com/htc-one-m8/general/htc-m8s-cyanogenmod-t3142668/page4

He is becoming a dad so things are delayed a bit but this thread is for a CM port for the htc m8s so maybe we can all work together on it.
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
i tried 3 recoveries but always the same error

( error 7)

i am on stock unlocked
[One (M8s) General] WhiteListed:
Are u trying to flash a stock recovery or a custom recovery?

--WhiteListed
[One (M8s) General] Brightlenny:
[MENTION=975440]ullysse31[/MENTION] I get same error 7 trying to install new update in stock recovery I think its something to do with system partition been writable after flashing twrp so when revert back to stock recovery we get this error.

But I am not sure though just my 2 cents.
[One (M8s) General] Ty5982:
if I'm right,do you mean you have tried installing /applying ota on 3 different recovery versions,if so I also had the same issue,I got same ota yesterday,it failed for me on twrp & stock 1.16,I haven't had any joy yet but will try adb sideload when I get home
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
tried stock recovery and custom but error
[One (M8s) General] maciejst:
Where can I get RUU for this version? Not av on el-Conkistador's website... Or can I use a different RUU (I guess not).
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
OTA update failing

Same problem here.

Looking at my RUU it shows currently BUILNO: 1.11.401.2 CL531284 . when looking at the site from ruu.lalleman.net it show different versions for Europe.

HTC_EUROPE_1.03.401.11

HTC_EUROPE_1.11.401.01

HTC_EUROPE_1.16.401.01

Which one should I have? :confused: I'm Unlocked but still S-ON, Bought my phone carrier free running it with a Vodafone sim.

Second to be sure when I want to receive the OTA's from HTC and only want to remove some bloatware:crying: at the phone what is the best approach?

I was coming from a Motorola G 4G and loved the almost native Android and don't see much added value for Sense but i can live with it

regards

Rick
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
none of the RUU's work for me either, i really regret buying this phone when i could've waited like 3 weeks and bought a oneplus two for alot cheaper and alot faster and better.

---------- Post added at 02:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:21 PM ----------

And it doesn't look like El-Conkistador have been online lately so idk, maybe he have bought another phone and don't care about this one anymore
[One (M8s) General] DACATA:
Maybe...true

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[One (M8s) General] jd1001:
[MENTION=6800260]Alex-M8[/MENTION] I totally regret buying it too. Awful phone and very slippy in my hand. I'll be selling mine soon and getting a one plus also.
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
Well it's not that bad. We only need to sort out the versions and move on. Phone is great and I like it so far. New phone and directly we start hacking it:D

Patience is what we need
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
Yeah i can't sell mine i think since i'm using the pandora rom and can't use any ruu, but you can get a oneplus two pretty cheap from aliexpress so i might just trash this one.
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
Glad atleast you got a working phone, some of us didn't though because our had choppy scrolling and bad performance out of the box. And i can't really say the "Rom Hacking" development is getting anywhere, i mean it have been like 5 months or more since the phone came out and we haven't heard anything from El-Conkistador in months either, and cm11 and cm12 doesn't seem to be happening/or is developing but really really slow and probably won't be released until next year or later since we haven't heard anything from someone on the cyanogenmod port thread. i have certainly given up on this device, it's just a worthless device considering what phone you could get for the same price, for example you can get the note 4 for 3/4 of the same price and the note 4 is just so much better, or just get a oneplus one for half the price and you get a device with better specs, slimmer design, bigger screen.
[One (M8s) General] WhiteListed:
Well, instead of crying about the speed of the development, go ahead and try it yourself please. If the device is so worthless as you say it is, you should have considered that before you decided to buy it, not cry about it afterwards...
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
Oh excuse me? crying over development, you don't know what your talking about kid, i'm just pointing out that it's Htc's fault the phone lagged in the first place.

If you're going to insult me, atleast come up with something unoriginal that you don't see kids on youtube say everyday you foolish no-life loser.

Oh and the development isn't even going anywhere so your pointless trys to defend this thread is just dumb but no one expects more from a doofus like you, posting original insults, face it, the phone is just plain bad there's nothing good about it, not even the IR Blaster works anymore/or is decoded differently so it's really just a worthless piece of tech that shouldn't cost more than 200$
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
hello

have you tried with adb sideload ?
[One (M8s) General] WhiteListed:
OK kiddo.

--WhiteListed
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
Calling me a kid when i'm obviously older and wiser than you, you scum of the earth.
[One (M8s) General] WhiteListed:
Yeah, really wise if calling me names is all you are capable of... Well played my friend.
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
LOL really, i never said i were wise, i said i were wiser than you because you're obviously younger, and it's not like your any more capable cuz all you could come up with was so stupid and original, stop it kid, your not going to be getting anywhere with this idiotic arguement of yours, so stop already kid, we all know you're a sensitive brat, but you don't have to take out your anger in front of a computer.
[One (M8s) General] xunholyx:
Yes, an RUU flashes stock recovery. I don't see M8S on that list though, and have no idea if one is available.
[One (M8s) General] Idlekilla:
I think the M8s is the M8_QL_UL.
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
Someone should try building TWRP starting with the M9 (Hima) device files as a base. Replace the prebuilt kernel and dt.img with the ones extracted from your stock recovery. Grab any similar files in the recovery ramdisk and replace any of the ones in the M9 device files that have "hima" in the filename. That *should* work. The fstab looks about the same as well, so it may just be a matter of changing the information in the device tree to match your device and building.

---------- Post added at 10:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 AM ----------

I also don't see any model ID (MID) or customer ID (CID) information for this device posted anywhere. You'll need that in order to support multiple variants (if these exist). Otherwise, the output of fastboot getvar all while in download mode would still be helpful, as would build.prop details.
[One (M8s) General] tzutzu78:
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.0.U20410.1@50311
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 1.03.401.11
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) imei2: Not Support
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m8ql_ul
(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8939
(bootloader) modelid: 0PKV10000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__032
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: e2458936
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
(bootloader) mfg-name: 0001
all: Done!
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
DISCLAIMER: Try the below file AT YOUR OWN RISK. I do not own this device, so I have no way to test anything I'm building.

Someone want to see if this boots?

https://mega.nz/#!hll0xKgZ!64zvcQmduyJVdvE0OUnOx4BufbFq38-Eox2A6hvMTPs

MD5: f6c178bc51a4ed74c917631b9ecd1ffd

A recovery log would be helpful either way. If it boots and you can use the Advanced -> Copy Log to SD, great, otherwise, via adb using adb pull /tmp/recovery.log. If adb doesn't work, I might have to disable MTP for now (which I don't believe will be working anyway).
[One (M8s) General] El-Conkistador:
Hi Captain_Throwback, thanks you for your help. I try your Custom Recovery with this command : fastboot boot recovery.img, and it run succesful. I dump my system actually.
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
Can you please upload the recovery.log?
[One (M8s) General] El-Conkistador:
It's possible to send this in private ? Because because there my serial number etc. Thx
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
You could just delete the private info before you upload it . . .
[One (M8s) General] El-Conkistador:
http://pastebin.com/q5tVWN9H
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
Thanks!

Looks like there were still a few changes I needed to make (now done). Here are my device files, for building TWRP with Omni (android-5.1 tree):

https://github.com/CaptainThrowback/android_device_htc_m8ql

Hopefully this will be enough for someone to finish the job and maintain it going forward :).
[One (M8s) General] El-Conkistador:
Thank you very much !
[One (M8s) General] alexcanadair:
question

I have a question to ask because I did not understand the mechanism of a root:

but once we have a recovery that works to make the root just install the classic file "superSU.zip" through recovery? or serves another specific file zipped? who by permission of the root only file superSU.zip ???
[One (M8s) General] El-Conkistador:
Do you know where I can find on the deposit android_vendor_htc_m8ql ?
[One (M8s) General] Captain_Throwback:
Vendor files come from the device.
[One (M8s) General] Idlekilla:
Thx alot for this recovery! Seems to work perfectly with fastboot boot recovery.img
[One (M8s) General] xunholyx:
[MENTION=1162986]Captain_Throwback[/MENTION]

Didn't expect to see you here.

I was going to ask if you would be interested in helping these guys a while ago, but I didn't think you would be. You seemed really busy with Multi-ROM, and you don't own the device.

Thanks for stepping in.
[One (M8s) General] tzutzu78:
Well, it was worth a trip to the TWRP IRC channel :D Thanks a lot for this effort - booted for me also - can I assume it would be safe to flash this as recovery?
[One (M8s) General] Idlekilla:
I tried but get the same error as mentioned earlier.
[One (M8s) General] Dabman:
I'm trying to flash recovery ( this posted here ) but i have error message :/

Unlocked bootloader
[One (M8s) General] jd1001:
All this type of talk is really pointless. I'll be getting a new phone soo but I'll keep the m8s for any development or testing if it's ever needed. Let's get back on topic now.
[One (M8s) General] Alex-M8:
You replied to my post? he started the pointless arguement, if you could call it a arguement, probably not because all he did was fanboying over htc, so you tell him and not me you doofus :silly: , he's clearly the one arguing outside the topic.
[One (M8s) General] voidzero:
For those of you who want some more help to restore your M8s to stock, I have written a howto.

Read it here: [HELP THREAD] HTC One M8S - Back to Stock - HOWTO
[One (M8s) General] xunholyx:
You are on the stock ROM already, right?

Copy the OTA from your downloads folder to your PC, and open it with 7zip. Look for the firmware.zip and unzip it. The stock recovery.img is in there. Find it and place it into your fastboot folder.

Hook your phone up to your PC, get into ADB/fastboot and

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Then try to install the OTA again and it should work.
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
I will try this tonight, thanks your help is appreciated
[One (M8s) General] voidzero:
Actually I don't think this is correct.. I wonder if you [MENTION=975440]ullysse31[/MENTION] have flashed 1.16 from [MENTION=6701903]El-Conkistador[/MENTION]'s RUU collection. Because if you have, the OTA will not work. It will only work after you flash 1.11. I tested it today. I was on 1.16 originally and got the same error. Made backups, relocked my phone, re-installed 1.11 by following the procedure I wrote in my howto. Only then did OTA work and update.

This is a critical update by the way. It fixes the stagefright exploit.
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
To be sure I need to relock my phone and then flash the version you mentioned?

Does that mean is goes back to a clean phone?
[One (M8s) General] voidzero:
That's what I do mean that, yes, IFF you have flashed RUU version 1.16 previously.

1.16 is a release that HTC pulled back moments after making it available. No idea why.

But yes, I'm doing this myself now too: flashed 1.11, installed all of the updates, and now comes the longg process of restoring the apps, configuring other stuff etc. :rolleyes:
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
Got it, something to do tonight:rolleyes:
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
i 'am on stock 1.11 .401.2 ( installed RUU 1.03, ota 1.11.401.1, ota 1.11.104.2 , unlocked, restore apps etc...)

i already do that , (took 1.16 recovery from ota) but error
[One (M8s) General] hector2001:
Check that the CID of your device matches the ROM CID you want to flash.

To get CID from your HTC device, reboot in FASTBOOT mode, then type from MS-DOS PROMPT :

fastboot oem readcid

Example :

C:\adb>fastboot oem readcid

...

(bootloader) cid: HTC__031

OKAY [ 0.003s]

finished. total time: 0.004s
[One (M8s) General] xunholyx:
You can also use fastboot getvar cidnum. Just another option. Or fastboot getvar all to get all of the info for your phone and look for cidnum in that
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
Perhaps a silly question, what happens when I manually apply the OTA using the TWRP recovery from this forum?

Is this not easier?
[One (M8s) General] Ty5982:
E:missing bitmap oem_unlock_bg

(Code -1)

E:missing bitmap oem_unlock_bg_yes

(Code -1)

E:missing bitmap oem_unlock_bg_no

(Code -1)

Write host_mode success

handle_cota_install: No CW files. Skip cw installation.

you'll get this,I've had it a lot of times now & give up,I've tried every method & still no joy,this phone is good at making you feel like a noob again:p
[One (M8s) General] Rick Blom:
Success with OTA

Finally found the time,

Followed these steps:

1) flashed the HTC_Europe_1.11.401.1 Recovery

2) relocked my phone using htc_fastboot oem lock

3) Bootloader now shows relocked

4) downloaded directly from the website at my phone the 0PKVIMG_M8_QL_UL_L50_SENSE60_HTC_Europe_1.11.401.1_Radio_1.0.U20410.1%4050311_15.00_016_F_release_430101_signed renamed it according to the howto and verified the MD5 with the website -> OK

5) Copied the file to the SD-card using the filemanager (I didn't had the needle to remove the SD hope its ok this way) and verified the MD5 -> OK

6) Took the deep breath and rebooted the phone into fastboot:fingers-crossed:

7) After some error messages it started to ask me if I would like to update and after about 10 min. it booted into a fresh Android

8) Restored the HTC backup and it showed me the August OTA

9) OTA's installed like promised;) Currently running at version 1.16.401.10

10) Released my breath again

11) Currently installing my apps again..:highfive:

Thnx for your help
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
some news about my update...

relocked bootloader

install RUU 1.03

ota 1.11.401.01

ota 1.11.401.2

ota 1.16

unlocked again ... flash custom recovery.. flash superSu ...

re install all apps ...

All is OK, i hope next OTA will work :good:

thank you guys , keep in touch
[One (M8s) General] wurstherpes:
Where can i find the download Link to Ruu...and the firmware?
[One (M8s) General] ullysse31:
you can find it on the first page

http://ruu.lalleman.net/
[One (M8s) General] Ty5982:
Works perfectly now after a few trial & errors,I'm on Vodafone UK & can confirm that if u download Vodafone UK ruu & recovery u will also be able to receive & install ota's as I've just done it

thanks a lot for the tutorial's,can get back to theming it now:D
[One (M8s) General] tsimitsangaz:
have you noticed any difference with the latest ota except stagefright? I think that works smoother
[One (M8s) General] DACATA:
And root?

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