[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] 5m4r7ph0n36uru:
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Hello folks,

as for me such guides were really helpful in the past, I decided to do one on my own, to show you how to perform a full de-brand of your device. I did it with a European HTC 10, that has been branded with a specific german carrier CID, as well as SKU, to obtain a full fledged WWE version and thus receive OTA updates as soon as they hit the marked.

In many points I tried carrying together all that has been written prior to performing the de-branding. So there are in fact many things menitoned bekow which have already been written by others. Anyway I'll give the steps again in this tutorial as I think it is of importance to many that they can read the hole to do in one thread. But I advise everyone to read - at least - the threads I linked to, to understand everything in detail.

Please note that I will not accept any responsibility for possible occurring bricks. I can only confirm that this tutorial has been used by me, for my specific unit and all went successful.

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De-brand/convert to WWE using a Nandroid backup

De-brand/convert to WWE using a RUU.zip

De-brand/convert to US unlocked using a RUU.exe

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Knowledge of adb/fastboot

htc_fastboot and adb installed

GSM HTC 10

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07 RU_CID_FAIL: CID in android-info.txt does not match your phone’s CID

10 RU_MODELID_FAIL: MID in android-info.txt does not match your phone’s MID

12 SIGNATURE FAIL: phone expects an HTC signature and can't find one; or found a wrong one

22 RU_HEADER_ERROR: something wrong with your zip; check md5 of download

23 PARSING IMAGE FAIL: something wrong with the image within the zip

24 ANDROID-INFO FAIL: something wrong with android-info.txt within the zip

32 HEADER ERROR: the zip couldn't be read and unzipped properly; seems same as 22.

33 NOT KNOWN YET: might indicate hardware failure.

35 FAILED (remote: 35 RU_PARTITION_NOT_SUPPORT <PartitionName>): means you can’t flash an image in download mode, as it has to be done in bootloader mode.

41 WRONG MODEL ID: means the RUU is menat for a different device

42 WRONG CUSTOMER ID: means you got to swap CID first

90 PRE-UPDATE FAIL: means it only flashed aboot and you have to run the process again immediately to flash all other partitions. The htc_fastboot.exe now auto-reboots on Error 90!

99 UNKNOWN: usually indicates you are S-ON, but sometimes also recognizes other Security related issues.

130 WRONG MODEL ID: see 41

155 INDICATES DIFFERENT THINGS:

the need to relock bootloader; if S-ON

the RUU cannot be executed, because the software versions of ROM, Firmware and RUU aren't matching

170 CHECK USB: RUU won’t run because ADB isn't working properly

171 USB ERROR: happens all the time when the RUU reboots the phone to download mode. For some reason the device is losing its connection and making a RUU flash virtually impossible . There is an incompatibility between USB 3/3.1 and Fastboot/ADB, as well as an issue with Windows Device Detection on the newer Windows 10 builds.

171 USB ERROR FIX by [MENTION=1102297]Sneakyghost[/MENTION]:

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[MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] for his guide and PSA thread on rooting and S-OFF for the 10 found here and here

[MENTION=1162986]Captain_Throwback[/MENTION] for maintaining TWRP and his thread to be found here

[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] for developing and maintaining SuperSu and his thread found here

[MENTION=4470081]topjohnwu[/MENTION] for his Stock Backups/Recovery/OTA/RUU thread, found here

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Recent Changes/Additions

XDA:DevDB Information

[GUIDE] De-brand/convert the HTC 10 to WWE/US Unlocked | CID HTC__001/BS_US001, ROM for the HTC 10

Contributors

5m4r7ph0n36uru, all named in Credits section

ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat

ROM Firmware Required: 2.4x.xxx.x

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 2.41.401.4

Stable Release Date: 2017-03-01

Created 2017-03-11

Last Updated 2017-06-14