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[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Luckily I got a nice, knowledgeable rep today. Whatever that last rep did last night really messed up our account, and this guy today had to fix it. But we FINALLY have both phones up and running, and didn't have to get the S6 a new SD card, thankfully. I think some CS reps are like US Customs agents. They think they are gods, and whatever whimsical thing they mandate is the law you must abide, even if they just made it up or don't know any better. I agree with hanging up and trying again, and would have done so today if need be. I just wanted things working. This has been a hassle of enormous magnitude compared to how easy it should have been, and I know most of it is just Verizon draconian orneriness. I think it is coming down to being fortunate enough to get a CS rep who is open minded and will listen, and then being good enough at telling the right tale so you can get them to do what you need done. Lots of ways that can be tripped up, and one ends up going nowhere.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE, AND TO THOSE WHO HELPED ME ACHIEVE IT!!

---------- Post added at 05:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:33 PM ----------

OK,

Now that all that Verizon activation drama is over. Phew.

On to questions relevant to following this guide. At the moment I was just looking at the Venom ROM install video, and noticed he says as he passes the download mode screen showing "UNLOCKED" that this is mandatory to flash a ROM.

It did say unlocked on mine, before I flashed the RUU package which converts the victim (er, HTC 10) into being Verizon compatible. After that, "LOCKED" re-appears at the top of the download mode screen. I've read so much over the process of doing this I can't remember, but I 'might' have seen somewhere that this is a deceptive indication showing once the HTC 10 is made Verizon compatible, and that the bootloader is really still unlocked? Can someone verify this for me? If it is really locked, then won't that prevent being able to flash ROMs?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] andybones:
Use your htcdev unlock token to re-unlock the bootloader
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Oh. I hadn't thought of that. I found a video online that outlines the part of the process after you get the token in the email, so I don't have to start all over again on the HTCdev website.

Unfortunately, lacking the "oem unlock" setting since being converted to Verizon, all I get when I try to use that token again is this:

C:\ADB>fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin

sending 'unlocktoken' (0 KB)...

OKAY [ 1.005s]

writing 'unlocktoken'...

(bootloader) flash unlocktoken

(bootloader) [KillSwitch] : /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/frp

(bootloader) [KillSwitch] Last Byte is 0X00, disable unlock

(bootloader) [KillSwitch] oem unlock Turn Off!

OKAY [ 0.015s]

finished. total time: 1.021s

Still locked. Is there a way to use fastboot to enable oem unlocking? (Lots of web posts say no, and this seems to be one of the reasons rooting a Verizon HTC 10 requires the mail in process.)

So, does that mean those of us who have completed this guide cannot flash any custom ROMs?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] andybones:
Try changing your CID from Verizon WWE to Super CID (I'd keep it Super CID as well, I have a Verizon variant and I am using Super CID 22222222) then you should be able to use use HTCdev to unlock again. Good job keeping the original token , most don't :good:

Verizon CID is blocked from HTC Dev (this is why we need to ship for S-OFF at the moment)

Set to super CID and try again.

fastboot oem writecid 22222222

You can set it to w.e, most common is 11111111, but 22222222 is what I suggest personally -- eitherway you will be Super CID and then it should work.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Here goes:

Nope. Still locked. But I see elsewhere online that this is supposed to let you flash a ROM regardless of carrier. So is it supposed to change the download mode screen to "Unlocked", or will it not do that, but still allow ROM flashing? I haven't actually tried to flash a ROM.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Should we take System Updates?

Powered mine on today and it shows a System update ready.....

All my past experience was that rooted devices do NOT want to take OTA updates as they would possibly break root on the device. But I thought I read somewhere along this Guide path that we CAN utilize OTA updates. Just want to make absolutely sure if it is safe to do this? if not, is there a procedure on this conversion to block OTA updates from appearing?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] andybones:
An OTA will never make you from S-OFF to S-ON.

Therefore if you are S-OFF you are perm rooted until you set it otherwise.

I'm really not much more help here as I didn't use this conversion and not very familiar.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rwc95:
You should be fine to do whatever you want, if your s off which you have to be for the conversion on the phone. When you ran sunshine it gives you the option to make it say unlocked or locked. The default setting is locked but the phone is still unlocked bootloader. Just get twrp on there flash away.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Thanks!

Is there a specific set of steps we need to do in order to take the OTA update, or can we just accept it as if the phone were totally stock? This situation is new for me, and I'm not having much luck finding these answers by searching the forum.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] andybones:
http://xdaforums.com/htc-10/how-to/guide-safely-set-bootloader-to-locked-t3386456

Post 1 should clear some things up. :good:

"HTC has made some changes into how the lock status are handled. The old methods are no longer safe, and can/will revert on you, or damage your device.

To deal with this we added a feature to SunShine to allow you to pick your bootloader status.

On the HTC 10 S-OFF LOCKED will behave the same as S-OFF UNLOCKED in addition to having all the S-OFF perks. "
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Ok. Thanks!
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
So when in converted Verizon mode, we can pretty much just ignore download mode's screen listing of "LOCKED", and thus we could flash ROMs?

Does this affect taking OTA downloads at all, or is that another matter. I'm nervous about being the guinea pig for this OTA download notice I have today, and am hoping someone else will mention it is OK to take it, or even has taken it themselves and can tell us of any changes it brought.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] andybones:
Man, you are making this such a painful process. Just flash a ROM. Yes, ignore locked. Confirmed.

Next issue. Flash the latest firmware (for Verizon since you are on Verizon variant now) and then a ROM = no need for OTA.

Confirmed.

OTA = ROM + firmware.

Ignore the OTA.

The ROMs have been updated to the OTA base.

Enjoy root.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
Thank you !! I didn't mean to ne such a pain, but I am coming from a background in Android rooted devices where taking an OTA meant instant death (losing root and maybe no way to undo), and so we always did something to block OTA notifications. The methods used in this thread are totally new to me, and when one has no background in a topic, that can mean "anything seems possible". Anything being good or bad. As you know well, this whole process has been one of overcoming seemingly endless roadblocks for me. Toughest time I have ever had getting a phone rooted, unlocked, and activated.

Add to that a situation where instructions even presented as nice as in this guide are still scattered across multiple threads, and some of the information is less than clear to some of us. Like the OK to ignore "LOCKED" in the download mode. Perhaps that could be mentioned in the guide?

I've seen lots of posts over the years about bricked devices because people made mistakes or lacked key pieces of information. I don't want to join those ranks. :) Sometimes it is hard to find "yes and no" concrete answers, and this has been one of those times.

But, I am sorry if I was a pain, because it seems you have tried the most to help and answer my questions. So again, thank you VERY much!!! :) You have made it clear NOT to take the OTA, and to look at ROMs instead.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] andybones:
Wasn't calling you a pain. Just the process seems you are making it more difficult (considering pages 10-16 - almost half the thread, lol - have been basically just you and me answering questions, which is cool but I think you need to do some more research outside this thread) than it should be or others have had, but I understand wanting to be cautious. As well as a guide this is, there is always room for improvement, perhaps mention the OP and ask him to add to the guide along with any other things you may have caught.

Anyways, with hTC there really isn't a need to take an OTA... Unless you want to be like 100% stock with just root and no mods or Xposed, etc..

If you use a custom ROM, and I do suggest that as the selection is great and a ROM for all users can be found.

When an OTA comes, someone will take it for the "team" and pull the firmware and get the new ROM base for the Developer to update the ROM making it unnessary to worry about OTA.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoandroid:
We're good, my friend. No worries. :)

The reason I hammered on the OTA so much today is that the notification is pestering me, and I 'had' intended to install all my apps today. But if I needed to take a detour due to the OTA and would have ended up wiping everything or something, that time installing apps would have all been wasted. I would really like to disable that notification, if I'm not going to be using the OTA. I wasn't sure I could even use ROMs until today's answers from you good folks.

You're right about research outside this thread. I didn't know what all I should read going into this. But tonight I found dottat's thread "how to use a US unlocked model on VZW".

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-htc-10/how-to/vzw-how-to-unlocked-model-vzw-t3376743

It does answer several of the questions I posted here. Like the fact that you must have an ***already active*** nanoSIM to get the phone working on Verizon. That alone would have saved me tons of grief, had I known. Sorry I had not seen it before. I got focused on these 2 threads about rooting the 10 and should have looked further into other threads. I will suggest to this guide OP that he add a link to that thread near the beginning of the guide, as it would help others to find answers they might want while doing this conversion.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] KOAO:
Does anyone have the steps in order to revert the HTC 10 back into its original state once it becomes a "Verizon Variant?"
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] krazie1:
Great
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] psm321:
Has anyone successfully done this with a SIM-unlocked T-Mobile variant? I've seen at least 2 failures, but one of them was a non-SIM-unlocked phone. It should theoretically work as it's the same hardware, right? (Hopefully nobody minds my post being in 2 different threads... they're both relevant...)
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rickliu2000:
DOES A T-mobile version can be described as US Unlocked version??
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] aer0zer0:
No, they have their own ruu.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rickliu2000:
thx
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
SIM not working

So, I did this flash and followed all the steps and it boots up right. When I insert the SIM card it doesn't recognize that there is a SIM card in the slot. The SIM card is already activated from my last phone.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
Verizon sim? What was the issue that made you flash this? Did you factory reset afterwards?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
I have the unlocked HTC and I wanted it to work on verizon. I did not Factory reset. It had me run through the setup wizard again so I assumed it already factory reset.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
I would factory reset it and make sure it's on global for connectivity.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
I still dont have data after I factory reset it.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
Did you check your network selection?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
I did, I set the network preference to global. All versions of the HTC 10 have CDMA capability right?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
The unlocked does fully support it. So the next thing you might need to do is boot to fastboot and run the following commands

Fastboot erase modemst1

Fastboot erase modemst2
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
Still no mobile data
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
Does that sim still work in the other phone? Are you 100% sure the Verizon ruu flashed every piece. The other odd piece about what you said is that the Verizon ruu I have posted do NOT wipe. So flashing the ruu won't wipe anything..
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
Yes, it still works fine on my other phone. The Verizon RUU completed and I was able to hit the finish button on the installer.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
Run the ruu once more. It shouldn't wipe.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
I will be able to re-flash it later tonight. Should I take the SIM card out before I flash it?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
That shouldn't cause any issues.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
It keeps coming up with Error [170] USB connection. I have tried all of my USB ports.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
Use sd card method then.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
can I use the .exe file or does it have to be a system image?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dottat:
If you want to save yourself from re-downloading it you will need to browse to c:/Android/com. The ruu is called rom.zip. You will have to rename it to the appropriate ruu name which I believe is 2P6SIMG.zip for this phone.
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkspartan239:
This is an unlocked phone, but on ebay it says it was international. Would that have anything to do with it? I looked up a guide ( https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66750161&postcount=4) to convert it to the US Unlocked and I flashed that RUU onto the phone before flashing the Verizon RUU just to make sure. Would this have messed anything up in any way?
[Verizon HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] michaelbsheldon:
There's a chance the International does not have correct bands to work in North America.

Probly need the US Unlocked version, srry to say
[MTCB Software Development] chiefwigms:
I have a 256GB USB stick that has ~80GB of music on it - the stock media player has trouble reading it, but once the media library is scanned, jetAudio/Power Amp seem to work fine. The problem is after a power cycle or initial boot, the media library is lost, and it takes a while to rescan. Does anyone else have an issue with media libraries having to rescan on power/reboot? Any fixes?
[MTCB Software Development] notrhj:
Had the same issue

Added Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer Module

Can disable rescans

Now I can actually get at my HDU library
[MTCB Software Development] chiefwigms:
thanks! - i'll give that a try tomorrow
[MTCB Software Development] Psy87:
Did you solve it? How? Just disable automatic scans? I got the same issue with sd card
[MTCB Software Development] notrhj:
Disabled automatic scans so the media library is not constantly rebuilding on a restart.

I also just switched to Poweramp from jet audio

Power amp manages large sound (10k plus) libraries better
[MTCB Software Development] Psy87:
If I disable automatic scans, my media library is empty after boot. I use Sony Walkman. I know that Poweramp can use its own library, but I don't like that player... Hm big issue for me...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] bstrutton:
Picked up an S7 Edge off swappa. Love the device but having issues that I could use some input on asap as this may have to go back..

Had complaints of several missed calls sitting on my desk at home. Did some test calls myself to verify. Some go through some don't. Using signalcheck pro reveals - 100-105db which ain't great. My current S4, previous LG G4, Iphone 4 & 5s never had a problem receiving calls here in the house. Not a 5 bar location by any means but always worked.

Being a new device I thought maybe verify updates before open a case to send it back.. Based on info I found online, both the baseband and kernel appear to be behind a good bit (pic attached).

Saw a recommendation here to take it to samsung desk at Best Buy. Guy there at the counter wasn't too focused but when I explained and asked if he could flash it he seemed to know what I was talking about. Connected phone, prompted on phone screen for permission so I know it was trying to connect.. This is when it gets weird:

The guy asks me if it's been rooted (which of course doesn't exist yet as far as I can tell). Says his software won't flash it and is throwing an error something about "the binary system is different or tampered or something". Very strange. On boot I verify on the phone that knox isn't tripped and it shows 'official' version, etc.

Not sure where to go from here. Guy implied that if I sent it in that they'd reject it as tampered based on what his computer was saying..

Any suggestions before I try to return this thing, if I even can..

Here is the link to the version pic. Would appreciate if someone can confirm mine is behind on updates like I believe it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sgv6dqv4xwfgmyy/Screenshot_20160516-122211.png?dl=0

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] strangeprotocol:
Did you try samsung smart switch to manually update firmware
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] bstrutton:
Tried smart switch but it said it wasn't supported. Never used it before (used odin on previous phones) so maybe I'm just not understanding how it's supposed to work.

I also visited another Samsung counter at a different best buy today with the same results (incorrect binary reported by their software). Then I visited the local AT&T warranty center. The guy there was pretty cool (phone's on Cricket but he helped anyway) and he was able to flash it without any problem or odd messages. Baseband, kernel, versions & dates now appear correct: https://www.dropbox.com/s/09c6ts4y44quiph/s7osinfo.png?dl=0

Now just have to see if it has any impact on the poor reception I was getting in the house..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Shuthefrontdoor:
The same exact thing happened to me, thank God I was within my 14 days so I returned the phone and bought another from att, the Samsung people acknowledged this was a known issue with attt s7e, but yea samsung wasn't able to reflash the phobe either
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Clienterror:
I'd imagine you could get a new one under warranty if it's a known issue.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stomboli:
How to solve the problem : " Emergency Calls Only " ?????

Model: SM-G920I

Android version 5.1.1

Baseband: G920IDVU3DOJ6

Kernel 3.10.61-s6_UniKernel_v8-0002_rb

Build number: LMY47XG20IDVU3dOJ6

Please help me !!!!!!

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] SkVergil:
So I was surfing YouTube on my laptop when I got a notification on my phone for a "new" update.

When I read the description it said it would give me FM Radio functions and other stuff. I figured this update has been around for other owners for a while.

Charged my phone to 100%, clicked Intall Now, phone rebooted, android logo with the gears, loading bar going up, around 90ish percent the screen started looking funny. The phone then went pitch black, LED light went blue, phone flashed for a third of a second and went back to pitch black. It did this 3 times. Stayed pitch black for 5 mins so I disconnected and connected the charger and nothing. Not even battery percent. I tried to force reboot the phone DOWN + POWER and it flashes for half a second but goes back to pitch black. Tried to Hard Reset with Up + Home + Power for several seconds and it does nothing. Absolutely non-responsive.

Phone has been great since I first got it a month ago and after a small 100MB update it dies? Give me a break. :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] tavito05:
Reset the phone using the Samsung tools that are provided online
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] Dr. Fed:
Bummer man. Did you disable anything with Package Disabler before initializing the update?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] SkVergil:
No man, my phone was as it was out of the box :/

Custom launcher, theme from Samsung store and I hid some apps that I didn't use and that was it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answer] SkVergil:
I thought of that... but I decided to maybe take it to T-Mobile first. If I had root or something on this phone I would go and try anything by myself but considering my phone was as it was out of the box, I'll take it tomorrow first thing to T-Mobile.
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] artemisnishant:
Hi all,

I am getting a choppy video of WMV 9 series video files as well as other formats also on Windows Media Player 10.3 over Windows Mobile 6 , ROM Version 3.7.707.1 WWE. i tried using CorePlayer, DIVX and several other players but still video is choppy. I was using HP iPaq 6515b Windows Mobile 2003 SE (HTC beetles) and there the performance is quite good comparable to this.

Is it a problem of hardware or there are some settings needed for this?

Kindly advise me for this...

Cheers

Nish
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] samwise604:
hi there,

like the title says im trying to flash a different / older/ stock ROM to see if i can unlock the bootloader and or if anyone knows a way i can root my device without the bootloader that would be great too but i think ive expended all my options..... if you can help in any way that would be great! thank you

also i have flashtool downloaded but can not get it to work with my device just keeps saying my bootloader can not be officially unlocked ..... can it be unofficially unlocked?
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] fernando's here:
You have to use the Xperia M2 method to unlock the bootloader as there is still no official way.
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] Bigyellowbananas:
There are more than enough guides in other topics where you can read how to unlock your bootloader. First enter the service menu(*"*"service"*"*) and check is it is allowed on your device. If it says 'no' there is no way to unlock. Also if you can unlock don't forget to tick the box in developer options

For root you can afaik just install twrp for locked bootloaders and flash a root (supersu for example)
[Sony Xperia M4 Aqua] samwise604:
thanks guys ,

yes i have looked into the tutorials and cannot seem to make it work.

i tried the m2 method and nothing either ..... my bootloader says it cannot be unlocked but ive been reading and apparently there is a way to get around it .... ive successfully flashed different ROMS to try and gain root access too but with no luck :(

so i guess im asking if anyone has had luck with unclocking there "locked" bootloader on an m4 or if it is even possible at all?

any help is greatly appreciated