yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] J_awn:
Thanks. Wasn't sure whether the 1.1.0 and 4.1.0 denotes different build versions or for different uses. I've read about zram on another ROM and a few other topics and how turning it off increases both performance and battery life. I'll give the no zram a go. Thanks again!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] enewman17:
I suppose it's all subjective but I flashed it a little while ago and the one with zram is smooth, everything is running great. Battery life so far is pretty awesome, seems to level out and sleep well.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Dan Tekle:
I think you may be spot on, I suspected it was a sim issue, but didn't have the problem with other roms. However, had tier 2 Verizon tech support reset my signal from their end and all seems to be working fine now. Perhaps it's a sim issue that's only affected by this ROM, I dunno... But I'm happy its fixed!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] enewman17:
That really doesn't surprise me. With this being a rom intended for GMS devices and how CDMA works vs. GSM... who knows what the reset does but I'm glad you got it sorted out. This info will indeed help others with the same issue. I'll make a note in the OP.

Let us know how it works over the course of a few days.

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Closing this thread and starting my own.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] EvoEryk:
Is anyone else experiencing high battery usage from the Google App and Google Play Services? It seems more apparent when I'm not constantly connected to WiFi.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] EvoEryk:
So I figured that the poor battery life was associated with the mobile radio active bug. I just installed this Xposed module. Has anyone tried it out to see if it helps with the mobile radio active bug for this rom?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] Milltac:
Sure, let me get home and get you the link. Around 6pm EST
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] EvoEryk:
I just got an update notification for L-MR1, can i just flash this update in twrp?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] andybones:
not if you're on Verizon.

check out this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-htc-one-m8/development/rom-vzw-stock-gpe-5-1-lmy47o-h9-t3212413
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cerius:
I have Android 4.4.4 can I just wipe and install ? Or do I need to do something else first. Thanks.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] andybones:
You'll want to flash the new firmware. 5.0.1

4.17.605.9

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62734094&postcount=2

Then flash ROM
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cerius:
ok so did everything on the othe page and it said it went without any errors but it still says android 4.4.4 shouldnt it say 5.1? or does it say that when you flash the other rom. sorry i havent done this in almost a year so i forget these things.. thanks again.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] andybones:
ROM will say what it's based on.

fastboot getvar all

That will confirm what you are on. :good:
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cerius:
Oh nice OK. So I should be good to go then?

Wipe in recovery and install rom? I did backup in recovery
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] andybones:
I can't see what your phone says, but if you say all went well - then you are good to go.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cerius:
Didn't work. Wiped clean and installed kept booting in bootloader and does not load anything. Tryed twice.. Any thoughts ?

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This fixing the fast boot problem for every one then? . mine is doing the same thing.. .. No spinning dots or anything just straight to fast boot.

also one of the links is bad, or are the same file?

thanks again.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] andybones:
Can't say you will need to get the Roms DEV an Logcat.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cerius:
How do I do that?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] enewman17:
This thread should be closed.

Please use this thread. Thank you.

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-htc-one-m8/development/rom-vzw-stock-gpe-5-1-lmy47o-h9-t3212413
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] andybones:
As mentioned this thread is dead. Please move over to the correct one.

As for Logcat flash ROM, then go into advanced in twrp - you'll see how to add the log to ur storage.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cntryby429:
I seem to remember the topic coming up but I haven't been able to locate it through search in this thread or the other handful I regularly follow around this forum. My phone shuts down when the battery reaches ~15% or so. I'm running the H9 build, latest vzw firmware, and it's happened on a clean flash as well as my exposed loaded up setup. I think I recall it being related to power saver and whether it's enabled/configured/something-or-other correctly. Maybe it had something to do with Verizon? I only vaguely remember the topic and didn't pay attention because I rarely let me phone get that low. Can someone point me towards the solution that I think has been found? Thanks.

Edit: Oh hell, this is the old thread. Sorry everybody for floating it back to life for no good reason.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
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Good deal brother! Glad it worked out for you. Keep me posted on how it performs for you guys.

Just a heads up for all you guys that want mods. I only tried the lyapota mod pack and it flashed and worked. The only issue I had after flashing it was the T-CDMA 64 bug which I can fix if i'm allowed to port it over for us. I didn't try xposed or anything else so I don't know how the rom will react to it. Just remember that if you decide to flash any mods, you do so at your own risk.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dragontology:
Sorry I said I would test it last night. I'm a night guy, day sleeper. When I say Friday night, what I really mean is the wee hours of Saturday morning, i.e., now. Had to wait for a call from my wife. Then I use Titanium to backup, then make a nandroid backup. Now it's booting. I've got a stopwatch running, so I can tell you exactly how long the ROM takes to boot. I measured DH's ROM by looking at a digital clock, but that's not very accurate, since you haven't got seconds. 2:40:06 looks like 2:40, and then when it finishes at 2:48:55, you say 8 minutes, but it's closer to 9. Meanwhile, I'm looking at the spinning dots, and when I see it form the word "android" I'm gonna get ready to stop it when the welcome screen comes up. Coming up to 4 minutes now. Like I said before, I expect 8. I'll abandon hope at 12, and reboot to recovery at 15, if it comes to either. Five minutes in. This is from the white HTC screen with the red text. HBOOT, I guess. Seven minutes. Eight. Phone feels a little warm, but it's in a case. Nine minutes. Took the case off. It's not unusually warm. There's ten minutes. Phone isn't warm. MD5 matched, by the way. Downloaded from Mega. Not sure it matters where you download from, if the MD5 matches. Eleven minutes. I don't think this is going to boot on its own. EXT4 everything, running all stock firmware from 5.0.1. 12 minutes. DH's firmware fixes Wi-Fi, wouldn't help it boot. 13 minutes now. Clean flash: I wiped system, data, cache, and dalvik. Had ViperOne up there before, but that shouldn't matter. 14 minutes. Calling it a bust. Trying it with Buckmarble's Elite GPE kernel. Not sure if a kernel will fix an endless boot.

Just saw in the screenshots your ROM already comes with Buck's kernel. I will give it 10 minutes this time, then I'll wipe cache/dalvik and give it another 10. And that was a no go. Rebooted to recovery, wipe cache and dalvik. I am not confident this will work but it's worth a shot. Okay, wow, holy crap. I got Android is starting at 1:10. One minute ten seconds. 110 apps to optimize. I'm going to let the timer still run. The 1:10 is a guess. I never saw the dots morph into "android," it just went black and "Android is starting" came up. Haven't seen that behavior before on a ROM. It will be interesting to see how this thing boots. Five minutes in, 75/110. I defend Lollipop when people say it's slow, a battery drain, but what really rustles my jimmies with 5.0+ is the whole app optimizing thing. It's the whole ART thing, but I haven't seen a tangible improvement from it. 109/110, starting apps... Spinning dots again. Okay, that was unexpected. Seven minutes in. Call it 30 seconds of "W.T.F." so, about five and a half minutes of optimizing apps. And there's ten minutes. Calling this one a no-go for now.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
I appreciate the details of your experience. Someone mentioned that the Mega download gave them issues so I removed it from the download list. I updated the op with an androidfilehost link along with the google drive link. The rom does boot which a few users have reported a few posts back. Don't give up yet bro!! Everybody who has any interest in this rom deserves it! Maybe try downloading it from one of the other links. Don't forget your partitions need to be ext4. Report back.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dragontology:
I will. I ended up installing LiquidSmooth, and man, it's great. The problem with the AOSP-based ROMs (also e.g. CyanogenMod) was, at first, I mean around this time last year, the speakers sounded bad. I think HTC didn't release something for the Boomsound speakers. Only Sense and GPE ROMs sounded good. They've gotten a lot better.

Speaker issues aside, what's the difference between a stock GPE ROM, and an AOSP port with no tweaks, and update GApps? I think it's pretty trivial at that point. The GPE ROM will have some HTC code in it. Some have said it's merely Google-themed Sense, but I don't think that's correct. There's something about a good, working GPE ROM that feels right. Whereas at its best, an AOSP ROM will feel like a hack.

I'm pretty happy with LS, but then again, I was pretty happy with the Sense ROM I was on. I don't come to XDA to find one daily driver that replaces the stock ROM. I come here to find out what all my phone can do, and to help others find out, too. I'll download your ROM again, from AFH this time. I don't think it will make a difference if the MD5 is the same, but what the hey, I'll try it anyway. Probably end up trying it tomorrow night. Once I get a ROM flashed, I like to give it a couple days to settle in. I'm getting hit kinda hard on the battery, but I expected that, and have a 10,000mAh power pack plus my charger, so, not worried.

Despite what I said, I'm not sure I want a plain stock rooted GPE ROM. I mean, I like things like quick pulldown, navbar long press, quick toggle reorganization. The things you take for granted running a ROM, the things you might get to thinking should be in the stock ROM by default... but aren't. But again, I'm not here to find a ROM I'll stick with. I'll test it again, probably tonight (early Sunday morning). Because for no real tangible reason, I want to try, as crazy as that sounds (and my wife keeps telling me).
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
I appreciate your honesty brother. Let me clarify my intentions with this rom. It goes back in time a little. My very first experience with android was back in the HTC Mogul days. There was something about running android on a phone that it didn't come on that blew me away. Even though there were bugs and issues I continued to use it as my daily. Fast forward a bit, out comes the Nexus One and T-mobile G2. Both were devices I wanted but couldn't get on my carrier at the time Sprint. Stock android appealed to me in a way that neither Sense or Touchwiz could. It was the light and quick feel of it. After owning a few Nexus devices without all of the skins and overlays OEMs were putting on there devices, I knew where my heart was.

Fast forward to now. Every device that I have owned to date, I have trimmed and sliced down their respective UI's and replaced them with as many stock android features as possible. No difference here with the M8. It's an awesome phone with sense and HTC has come a long way with it but, to me it still takes away from the potential of the hardware. So here comes this stock GPE/Nexus feeling rom. stock Android with HTC features. For me it was a no brainer. Tweaks and mods can be added to get the rom how you want it. Just none of the mods come preinstalled that you don't. Check out the rom size vs. any other rom besides AOSP roms and I think you'll see where I'm going with this.

I respect your opinion and I hope you enjoy the experience this rom delivers. I understand that stock android is not the answer for everyone but for some, it provides that experience of owning a nexus with out a nexus.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] TheNewNEXUS:
Just out of curiosity, has the stagefright exploit been taken care of in this ROM?
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
No it hasn't. I've been looking into ways to implement a fix for it. As far as I know only CM roms have the fix. I will update the rom if and when a fix is available.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cntryby429:
I use Textra which has a fix implemented.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] grislieber:
Wiped everything, latest everything vzw. Waited for android to come at end of boot, loads for about 2-3 seconds and reboots into bootloop. Tried this 3 times with same result.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
It's been confirmed by others that the rom boots and runs just fine. Maybe a have a look at some of the previous post. Not sure what other advice I can give you.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] cntryby429:
I don't know what could be different about our phones but here goes. I'm on DH's 5.1 firmware over the top of stock 5.0.1 firmware, regular (vzw) cid, twrp 2.8.7.0, ext4 for all partitions, wiped cache, dalvik, data, system, verified md5 and flashed. That's it. I've had no problems for 24+ hours. I'm quite happy with the Rom.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
Thanks for the positive feedback brother. Seems like everybody only wants to reply to bash. It's a stock rom . It doesn't require any jumping through hoops of fire to flash it. Keep me posted on how it's working out for you.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jsauder2:
I'm not sure why, but I had the same issues as others have stated. tried flashing 5 different times and it either never booted up, our as soon as it hit the welcome screen it rebooted and then never made it back. on the 6th try, it worked fine and everything has been fine since then.

I did full wipes between each attempt and did everything the same. I honestly have no idea why it wouldn't work and then suddenly did.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] roaringcrown:
ROM installed and booted up completely in about 5 mins for me.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
I appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. Do you mind explaining any mods or anything that has been done to your phone that may have caused any issues?

I appreciate you trying out the rom. That's how it ended up working for myself also. I'm not sure what the difference if any between VZW M8s are. Stumped :eek: Please keep me updated on the performance or any issues that may arise if any.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jsauder2:
I'm on VZW. I've unlocked the boot loader and am super cid, latest VZW official firmware, nothing else. I came from cleanrom, and had DH's GPE for a long time before that until I got tired of all the extra stuff in it. I've never switched to f2fs.

I've probably tried almost every rom available over the last year that I've had a m8, and the only time I've seen the same thing was when I tried pulling the stock gpe rom and replacing the boot.img with elite and changing the build.prop (so basically what you've done here I think). if I could get it to boot, it would make it to the welcome screen and then immediately reboot, same as this. I'm still not sure why it ended up working after all the attempts, but I didn't change anything from one to the other, just kept trying a full wipe and flash again...
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
Weird! The only thing that differs is supercid. The elite kernel is the that used in the original rom that's linked in op. Other than that, no real major changes were made. I wanted to keep it as close to stock as possible. Only adding VZW support. I'm not good with logcats and all of that but maybe someone who is can take a look at someone's if they are having issues getting it to boot up. Other than that, I haven't had any issues or bugs with the rom at all. It's kind of sad that VZW didn't give us this option in the beginning.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] JMuldrow:
Just flashed this about an hour ago. Came from Digital Highs GPE 5.1 for VZW. Did a full wipe, initial boot took exactly 6 min 30 seconds. Restored my apps via TB and everything is fine so far!! Thanks bro! Was waiting for stock GPE for my M8!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] JMuldrow:
All my apps are re installed, rebooted and everything is clean and snappy! No lag like in Digital Highs ROM (although I believe that was a kernel issue) GPS, Bluetooth, Spotify run great! Gonna try to see if Xposed works next! Thanks again!!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] krazie1:
So to flash this rom you need to be coming from DH GPE 5.1 Rom.

I tried flashing from a sense & aosp rom but it would never get pass bootanimation. I flashed DH GPE Rom then went into twrp, wiped with the swipe button followed by flashed this rom and it booted within 5 minutes.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
That's Krazy! (see what I did there?). That's the only thing that we all have in common is that we all came DH's rom before flashing this one. That's what I find odd to cause in order to get this rom where I wanted it before release, I flashed it multiple times without incident. I'll take a lookin the original rom thread and see if any issues were posted.

Thank you guys for trying out the rom. Hopefully you enjoy the stock GPE experience
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] roaringcrown:
I actually came from loserskater's 5.1 GPE ROM. Perhaps coming from Sense or possibly CM seems to be the main issue here.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] dragontology:
I don't think anybody's bashed you or your ROM. Sorry if you felt that way. I personally appreciate everyone who contributes to the device I'm using, whether I use their ROM or not.

It's not actually a stock ROM, though. The GPE version of the HTC One M8 was only released outside the US, and has different partitions. It may be stock to the GPE M8, but for the American M8 and the International Sense-based M8, it's a port.

No ROM really requires jumping through hoops. That's just XDA culture. "Wipe then flash three times, do a rain dance, watch an episode of Stargate, then wipe and flash again and you're good to go!" No one really takes any of that seriously. With our phone we do have to go through a convoluted process to gain S-OFF, but once that's done, it's mostly straightforward.

Also, regarding your story; man, that's awesome. You sound a lot like me. I keep thinking plain old stock Android is what I want, like you, but then I get spoiled by a loaded AOSP or Sense ROM and I lose sight of that. For me though, while I also want a Nexus or a Nexus-like device, it's more like, I've flashed all these ROMs and I've been on the scary side of 'almost bricked' more than I'd like, and it's a little scary knowing that I can get there and safely come back, and I've been on the road and needed GPS or at a birthday party and needed my camera, and a ROM fails me when I need it... Makes me want to hang up my flashing hat and just get an iPhone. But that's scary, because they're so limiting. And Samsung, and now LG and maybe Motorola can match their camera, which was always the big point of an iPhone, that great iSight camera. And I just like Android better. So maybe I'd get a Nexus and just hang it up. But I know, Nexus phones have the biggest mod communities, so I'd end up getting sucked back into the game. Which all amounts to, I'm not done crack flashing.

That's awesome and interesting. I got boot loops upon rebooting the latest (8/2?) DH GPE, but I also tried to fix GPS by moving a couple files into /system so... well, I'll try that. Do you think the DH GPE ROM needs to boot first? Or can I flash it, then swipe wipe, then just flash this? Reckon I'll try that first.

This isn't unprecedented... I wanna say there was a ROM before, and I think it was one of DH's, that needed GPE there before, so you had to flash over the last one or something. Or maybe I'm way off, but it seems familiar.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
I'm not even sure what or why his rom is needed for this to work. The only thing that is related is his 5.1 firmware. As far as the rom goes, not related or any parts used from his rom at all. So I'm at a loss there.

I just got this phone in December so I really can't remember back that far. I do remember trying his rom back then but having issues so I went back to a sense based rom. Continuing to try updated versions of his rom and the bugs made me want a stock GPE rom even more so out comes my port.

I don't remember the GPE M8 being an international phone I do remember it being for sale in the play store which tells me that it's for at&t and T-Mobile. Of course it can be used in the international market as long as the bands are supported. I may be way wrong in thinking that.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] krazie1:
I assume any GPE rom can be used to be the rom to flash from. Couple posts up it was mentioned that Dopplekanger GPE 5.1 was a rom that was flashed from to this rom.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jsauder2:
I wasn't on a GPE rom before this. I came from cleanrom.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] TheNewNEXUS:
I came from cyanogenmod though. I think you have to wipe cache, dalvik cache, system, and internal data. Well, that is what I did and it worked.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
All I did was the normal swipe to wipe in TWRP. That's it. I appreciate everyone's input. Trying to figure out how to make the transition to this rom as simple as possible
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] robocuff:
OK, I'll throw more confusion into the mix :) . Someone said they came from cleanrom. I'm on cleanrom 3.0 (4.4.4 rom). However, I'm running the lastest VZW firmware with the exception of the radio. Running the 4.4.4 radio. I did both the swipe to wipe and the advanced wipe, wiping it all. Something new in my case. Mine just booted right back into recovery. I know this isn't much help but I thought I'd post the results anyway. Going to play with it a bit (different firmware or what have you) and see if I can get it to boot without installing a GPE rom first. If I succeed, I'll post back with the results. Android can be a strange critter at times. :)
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
I thought about doing some testing myself. It's running too good for me right now. At this rate it'll have to give me a reason to wipe and start over.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] nawt:
Although I could not get this to boot, I just wanted to thank undarated for posting this. I was coming from Fluent ROM. I advance wiped and included internal storage. After walking away for like 15 minutes I came back to see if it had finally booted but had a blank screen with no response. Had to hold down volume and power for a while to get it to reboot. Let it try booting again and went like 20 minutes with colored dots still circling so I have given up for now. I will try it again another time when I have some more time to trouble shoot.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] elvtiv:
Thanks for this port. It is running great ATM. One issue I have is that "trusted faces" is not present in my smartlock options. This might be something I did while restoring a TiBu backup, but it happened so quickly I didn't check to see if it was there before restore and xposed, etc. Can someone confirm it would be there if I re-flashed this ROM? Or, does anyone know how to reinstall the smartlock api from "scratch"? Thanks Dev! This with Xposed GB is how Android should be!
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] undarated:
Thank for trying out my port. For smart lock, you must first set up a pin code then the smart lock menu will appear. Just tested this myself.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] elvtiv:
Sorry I wasn't more specific. I have Smart Lock set up already. But the "Trusted Faces" option is missing from my list. See screenshot.