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[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
I'm just a dummy. I used Root Explorer and got to where I can see where I would add the permission but can't edit anything just view it.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
I use ES File Explorer, which does let you edit the files. Not sure about root explorer since I don't use it. That thread also mentions a few apps that will do the work for you - maybe just use one of those apps instead...
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
I got into where I can edit, press and hold on the folder you want pops up a menu. I guess from there just type in the command mentioned in the post and save it, then reboot.

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OK, I was able to edit the permissions and add the one in the thread you gave me the link to. I will install TB again and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for all the help. I don't do this often enough so I forget what I learned when I did all this stuff on my last phone.

Appreciate your patience
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
Well I was able to set TB to back up to ext sd but when I ran the back up it went to my internal storage and nothing on the ext sd card. I know I can move it from there to my ext sd but the app should do that automatically. Time to find another app besides TB.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Hmm - I was able to run backups to the external card after making that change and rebooting... Are you going into the preferences and setting the backup location to a folder on the external card?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
Yes, that's exactly what I did. I guess I can make a back up and move it to my sd card and at least I have a backup close to stock before I freeze/or remove any other apps. I just want to get rid of crap I don't use but don't want to mess up and not have a back up. Just a pain if I want to make future back ups with it.

I like it for freezing apps but also have tried The Debloater program Gatesjunior here on XDA has made and works pretty well for hiding apps and also removing without have another app installed on your phone, like TB.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Strange that it's not working for you - i had no issues running (and actually writing) backups to the external storage.... Did you actually select the "Filesystem Storage - Ext. SD card" entry when changing the backup location (instead of navigating to the external storage folder through the normal "Filesystem Storage" entry)? Not sure if that makes any difference though....

The "Backup Directory" location that shows up on the main screen is now "/sdcard2/TitaniumBackup".
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
When I open up where back ups are stored it was at emulated ect, Internal storage. Hit the back to get to Ext SD and it now show that it is writable but wouldn't let select it as a storage location until I created a folder. I created TitaniumBackup and then it let me select it. Did my back up and it was just on the internal, nothing on the ext sd.

I will post screen shots in a minute.

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OK, Stared from scratch and think I got it. After making the TB folder on my ext sd for my back up location I didn't reboot the app. My guess is that made it not accept the change.

This time after creating my back up folder I rebooted and did a backup of just my user apps for a test and they are on my ext sd. There is also a TitaniumBackup folder on my internal but when I hit properties it has 0 kb's, basically an empty folder. I guess that is normal to have the folder on the internal too, or if I delete it would it stay gone or show up evey time I back up.? Since its empty I guess it doesn't matter
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravercub:
Network issues

I can't seem to keep my cellular data on...anyone else have this problem? I can still make/receive text sand phone calls, but under the setting, mobile data will not stay turned on. i was able to get root up and going no problem.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Definitely have not heard of that issue... Are we talking about a MetroPCS 626s?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravercub:
Yeah, just got the phone and rooted it yesterday,. was working fine, then i deleted something i wasn't sure i should have, so redid a wipe of it using the recovery loader, reloaded everything and now it's happening and i haven't touched anything sense. the error msgs i were getting before are gone, but this issue has me a bit...nervous
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnomez:
HTC Desire 626s question

Hi guys

I'm gonna ask a really silly question (i hope).... Does rooting this phone get around the "SIM Lock" issue as well ?

I have a new HTC Desire 626s which is SIM locked. I would like to use another service provider, and was just wondering if rooting the device will "unlock" the phone ?

Thanks
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raving in the aurora:
Successfully Rooted

Can confirm that this method/strategy successfully roots, Virgin Mobile's HTC Desire 626 (white variant) android v5.1 :highfive::victory::fingers-crossed::laugh:

http ://i.imgur .com/nltP9zb.png

Here's an image that obviously won't appear as I'd like it to, since this is literally my first post; however, feel more than welcome to incorporate it into your first post, OP.

The guide was very useful as well, mostly fluid, but could use some more refining for the newbies' imho. Just like this is my first post, this was also my very first time ever doing any kind of phone modification. (guess it's not too different from rooting a wii via homebrew.) Some tips that I'd throw in is: 1. Noting that the "AdbWinApi.dll" file is located within the platform-tools folder which is also provided to you during the "Bootloader" unlock; 2. upon downloading the flash img and the SuperSu binaries, immediately transfer the binary .zip (whole folder) to your phones internal drive. This way you don't find yourself in the CyanogenMod, but without the binary because you had it mixed in the folder with recovery.img; 3. All that's truly needed in a C:\ folder for smooth operation is: adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, fastboot.exe, and the recovery.img.

Btw, HTC Desire 626 seems to have some kind of built in brick solution, which I discovered after inadvertently bricking my phone in the attempt to bypass root detection via failing to figure out how to flash Xposed. I don't know if it was a soft or hard brick, but it definitely showed a nasty red error on my screen and all buttons were rendered useless. While I was researching solutions, I heard my message alerts going off and to my dismay the phone had repaired itself (after sitting there for about 3-5mins) and was back at my home screen as if nothing had even happen. :eek:

Big thanks again to [MENTION=6748972]hackvcs[/MENTION] for the strategy, [MENTION=1918414]mussio[/MENTION] for the binaries, [MENTION=972963]jtrosky[/MENTION] for taking all the bits and pieces of information and formulating them into a constructive step by step guide, and all the other xda members' who assisted in their own way with morsels of information. :fingers-crossed:
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandix:
The phone does not have a "built in anti brick solution" that red screen was the stock recovery, which will reboot itself after a few minutes, you were never bricked to begin with ;)
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Anyone know the best way to apply an OTA update after being unlocked and rooted? Do I have to relock the bootloader to apply an OTA update? I'm being overly cautious here since there isn't an RUU available for our phone yet. I may even just skip the OTA update for now completely... Phone works fine as it is! :)
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
By the way, I did "Live Chat" with HTC today and they told me that there is no RUU available for the MetroPCS 626s.... Just figured I'd ask them, just in case! :) I'm assuming that MetroPCS would say the same - they'd probably tell you to contact HTC... <sigh>. Drives me crazy that they don't release this kind of stuff with the phone.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Usernamusername:
What if you have no PC
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raving in the aurora:
Ooh.. Exciting! :laugh: How would it recover from a bootloop then? Many old sources have stated to use a CWM/TWRP, but there isn't one compatible with it (to my little, but growing knowledge).
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WManzo123:
So was this method confirmed to work with the regular desire 626? Is there anything different I have to do from the instructions provided on the original post? I would appreciate this clarification.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
A few AT&T 626 users have reported success using this method. Not 100% sure if non-AT&T 626 phones would also work, but I suspect that they would work just fine. What carrier is your 626 on? Also, are you running Android 5.x? I think the other users that reported success were already upgraded to 5.x as well.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WManzo123:
My carrier is att and I'm also running on 5.x so I will give it a try later today and post my results.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SleepinInCA:
Great walk through! Got stuck a bit (I'm a tad rusty), but figured it out and an now unlocked/rooted/debloatwared.

I do have a question about removing HTC services, as there are so many. I've been successful removing some of them, but am hesitant to pull sense and such without a backup image. Has anyone made a list of the system folders and apps they have SAFELY removed?

FYI I'm on MetroPCS.

Thanks!!
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Yeah, at this point you have to be careful since there is no way to do a Nandroid backup or to reload from an RUU - so if you remove the wrong thing and can't boot, you can really shoot yourself in the foot... Just be careful and only remove things that you know are safe for now - until we get an RUU from MetroPCS...
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrazeeb:
Cyanogen mod recovery installed but after that its not working. Whenever I press reocvery mode an error message comes for very short period of time and start menu reappairs instead of cyanogen recovery menu. At the same time I cannot recover or reinstall the stock recover in the HTC desire 626x
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5u4573:
This recovery is HTC Desire 626s and not for the HTC desire 626x double check that you have the device model

Enviado desde mi HTC Desire 626s mediante Tapatalk
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandix:
I found a fully working CWM for this device here on XDA, it's not obvious that the thread I got it from. I will try to find the link and repost, if I cant find that, I will post the recovery image ready for flashing.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
^^Thank you! That would be awesome and would allow the folks that are bricked to hopefully "un-brick" their phones (someone with a working phone could create a backup via recovery and then they could restore it via recovery).
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afbcamaro:
Have you tested the fully working cwm recovery.. If so can you please post it
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilbigdaddy2000:
My 626s is rooted and rolling great. There's an ota update available for our devices and I was wondering if I updated would I be able to re-root or will I even loose my root at all? I'm currently running 1.06.1550.7 software and the latest is 1.23.1550.3. Please some feedback.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talksickisil:
I downloaded the ota update from metro , go to about phone, and then system update to pull up the ota. but I'm rooted and when it prompts me to install it it reboots to recovery and does nothing . I assume with the stock recovery the update installs automatically.. Does anyone know how to install the ota with the cynogen recovery?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Be careful with the OTA - folks with the 626g are reporting bricked phones after applying the OTA (was released the same day as the OTA for the 626s). Personally, since everything is working just find on my 626s, I've been avoiding the OTA. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! :)
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilbigdaddy2000:
One last question about this. Has anyone successfully updated while in root without bricking on this device?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talksickisil:
I see where you're coming from jtrosky, maybe it's ocd for me but the "system update ready to install" notification is unclear able and driving me nuts lol .. I tried flashing a stock recovery .img I found here on xda but now I have no recovery at all. Oh well lol
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
The 626s stock recovery is posted in the OP of this thread. Try flashing it to get back to stock recovery.

Also, you can clear the notification by removing the downloaded OTA update manually - just delete the OTA update file in "/data/data/com.htc.updater/files". Plus, it will free up over 300MB of space! :) You can always download it again later. After you remove it, just reboot the phone and the OTA notification will be gone. Not sure about anyone else, but the only way I saw the OTA was to manually check for it - I was never notified of it automatically (although I checked for it manually on the day it was released - after someone with a 626g mentioned that got an OTA)...
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dismaelgm:
unlock device APK

Please send me the apk ¨unlock device¨ APK METRO PCS I need to unlock htc desire 626s, delete the app on my phone..

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Please send me the apk ¨unlock device¨ APK METRO PCS I need to unlock htc desire 626s, delete the app on my phone.. :):):):)
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talksickisil:
Thanks for the info.. But now I'm reluctant to install the update until somebody else confirms that it won't brick those of us who are rooted.. Also, before I downloaded the ota it was constantly popping up notifications to download it. That's actually why I went through the trouble of going to a friends house for WiFi. Metro needs to release the ruu for our phone already!

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I actually moved the ota .zip and moved it to another folder. Unfortunately, rebooting isn't removing the notification for me. Oh well
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talksickisil:
Disregard the last post. I copied the ota zip to my sdcard, when i thought I cut and pasted. I went back and deleted it from system files and now no notification. Thanks jtrosky. If anybody has downloaded the ota and can't find it, its in data/data/com.htc.updater/files

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I can also confirm that an app from playstore named "rashr" successfully flashed the cm recovery img from the first post back onto my device. This isn't going to work unless your rooted already. This is just in case anybody ends up damaging the cm recovery like I did and needs to reinstall it
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gingrbred:
Could someone here with the ota zip pm me a link so I can try and fix my 626s?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Here you go:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oo05gwkzoiti9c7/OTA_A32E_UL_L51_DESIRE_SENSE70_MetroPCS_US_1.23.1550.3_R4-1.06.1550.7_R_release_455103.zip?dl=0
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gingrbred:
Thank you very much for this but I unfortunately realize now this won't work without s-off since its signature isn't right.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain_Throwback:
Coming soon to a Desire 626s near you . . . TWRP!

Stay tuned . . .
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gingrbred:
I don't mean to sound impatient but do you have an ETA?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stacalicious:
error

I get error message when I try to flash the cyanogenmod recovery. Every time....
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
You're making the same mistake that an earlier member made (maybe my instructions aren't clear enough!).

You need to move the recovery.img file to the HTC626S directory - right now, the recovery image is in \HTC626S\RECOVERY\recovery.img" - it should be in "\HTC626S".

RIght now, the "RECOVERY" is actually a directory (folder) and not a file, which is why it's failing.

Hope that helps.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Why do you believe that you need S-OFF in order to flash an OTA update? I don't think that is the case. However, I do believe that you would need to remove root and use the stock recovery in order to apply it. Not 100% sure about that though.

Personally, I've been avoiding the update until we have a way to restore our phones to stock (via RUU or a custom recovery backup).

Too many folks having issues with the OTA update on other 626 models (bricked phones). With no way to get back to stock, you are basically SOL if the OTA screws up your phone. Just not worth the risk at this point unless you are having major issues with your phone.

Also - the OTA is NOT a full image - it's just a minor upgrade, so it will not revive a bricked phone anyway.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain_Throwback:
It's not polite to ask for ETAs - one of the less spoken but widely known rules here on XDA. It's considered rude. That being said, you can try this and see if it works for you.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stacalicious:
Thanks for your reply. I'll try again.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
I also have an OTA update available. Not going to do it as it bricked my last phone I had. Anyway to get rid of the notification ?

Update, as I am typing this I looked at my phone and it is downloading the update and I did not hit download.WTF. Hope it doesn't automatically install

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Ok my friend who has saved my but a few times. It downloaded and gives me a choice of install now or Install later. Haven't done anything yet. Can I choose install later and then find the file and delete it? I think I read that a couple of pages back but want to confirm.

Thanks
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Yes, you can say install later and then remove it per the instruction a few posts back. I did that and the notiification has never come back.

Make sure to reboot after removing the OTA .zip file (that will actually get rid of the notification).
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
I can't find the file. Using root explorer. It would be on the internal storage right? Although I search internal and external
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63729737
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
Shows no results when I search for it. Put it in exactly as it was it the link you posted. Almost seems like it's not there but I have the tap now to install every time I wake up my phone and it's in my notification bar. I really got to get to work so I will try later.

Thanks again for your help
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Try navigating to that location manually instead of searching for it. Strangely, it didn't show up when I searched for "*.zip" either, but I eventually found it in that location....
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
I found it. I did try to find it earlier but was looking in the wrong place I guess. Wasn't a zip file, should it have been? It was the udater file though, located exactly where you said and was created today. Deleted then rebooted and the message in my notification bar to "tap to install" is gone, phone works so I'm happy.

Thanks again !
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Hmm - mine as a .zip file that started with OTA and was a super long filename... Yours should have been the same name - very strange...
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gingrbred:
SUCCESS it boots to TWRP recovery. thank you so much this is an enormous help. I'm sorry if you thought i was being rude I'm just in a bit of a predicament and really needed a custom recovery to fix it
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Captain_Throwback:
No worries. If you get a chance, can you please go to Advanced -> Copy Log to SD, and then upload the log so I can verify everything is working properly? Thanks!
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Very nice! TWRP seems to work perfectly! I didn't actually run a backup yet, but from looking at the log, everything looks good to me! Thank you very much.

Now, if someone restored to factory defaults and ran a full backup from TWRP (all partitions) and then shared that backup, others should be able to use it to get their phones up and running again, correct (assuming they can flash TWRP and get into recovery)? Also, we should be able to use a backup from TWRP to restore our phones now if, for example, the OTA screws something up, correct?

Here is the recovery.log from my phone....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m707xik7uam1lf0/recovery.log?dl=0
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
Ok, so I just went and checked again and it looks like what I thought I deleted is still there or came back. I have attached a couple of screen shots of the files inside. Am I finding the right file?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
Well, you really didn't want/need to delete the entire "com.htc.updater" directory (folder), but it looks like it was just re-created anyway, so no harm done.

All that you really wanted to do was to delete the "OTA*.zip" file that was *in* that directory.

But like I said, no harm done - same result! :)
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
One more screen shot I forgot. This is the file I found the other screen shots are inside this file.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
So I should just leave the files that are in the updater folder that is still there?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
Just to confirm, here is what files are inside the updater folder. No zips inside any of them so I guess I just leave these? I haven't gotten any update notifications but didn't know if I should download it again (not install it) and try to find the zip to delete it, or am I over reacting?

Thanks again !!
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
No, you are fine the way you are. You can always download the OTA .zip file again when needed. The way you have things now is perfect. Basically, you just deleted EVERYTHING under the com.htc.updater directory, but no harm done - it recreated everything (except the OTA .zip file, which you don't want anyway).

So you are all set - same result, different execution! :)
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowender62:
Thanks really appreciate it and trying to take notes as you and other educate me.

I saw you put TWRP on. Anything special you need to do or do you just flash it to your phone? Not sure if it will interfere with CWM that;s on there from the root process.
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtrosky:
No problem - glad to help.

Regarding TWRP, I would go ahead and flash it - seems to be much better than the Cyanogenmod recovery that we have now (it's not really CWM - it's a very stripped down version of CWM). The TWRP recovery just overwrites it.

Boot into Download mode and use the same command that you used to flash the Cyanogenmod recovery:

fastboot flash recovery [TWRP_recovery_image_filename]