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[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judiver:
Hi Flex,

Thank you for your reaction and advice.

I bought this phone as a 2nd hand phone in 2017. I'm not using my mobile phone a lot. I'm old fashioned, I use my fixed phone and laptop. So I don't want to invest in a new (2nd hand) phone but am willing to invest some time to make my phone usable again and last as long as possible. If I can.

I made a back-up with HTC sync manager (never bothered to make back-ups before - there's not much on my phone... my contacts are on my sim card anyway). Later-on (after factory reset and trying to retrieve my back-up) I received a notification that HTC sync manager has stopped end 2020, so I'm going to delete that program. Don't like it away. I quickly got annoyed by it asking a code all the time, and not having my phone files simply accessible in File Explorer. I probably better should have made a back-up with Google Drive.

After the back-up I spent lots of time because the power button didn't work, for some reason... Finally got that fixed. I did a factory reset. First things: get rid of the French (I live in France but am Dutch and always have everything in English on my appliances) and French azerty keyboard and disable prediction dictionaries. Immediately I got a notification to install an English dictionary. Powering off/on helped to get the rid of the notification but for how long... as I've had that before. At first it repeatedly gave me the message that Google app unfortunately had stopped (I've seen that before too...). I tried powering off, delete cache, un/reinstall app etc. and in the end I don't know what did the trick but the app is working now. Better still, all seems to be working.

And you're right : the factory reset gives me about 8GB (despite all the annoying bloatware that I disabled immediately - they only eat power and space), enough to put my few useful apps on it again. Let's see if my phone stays powered or still continues to misbehave despite the extra gigabytes. For the moment I have high hopes.

So thanks a lot for your help/advice! I would have had a much bigger battle to fight if I'd have to unlock, root and flash it.

I really appreciate having forum like this where people are willing to help others (y)(y)(y).

Judith

(y)(y)(y)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FlexMcMurphy:
I'm glad my advice helped you Judith. But just to give you a heads up... that old phone will be a frustration for you due to being slow and gradually things just not working on it anymore. For instance, I have two gmail accounts but was only able to access one of them from the gmail app on my HTC... instead I had to use the Gmail website not the Gmail app to get to the other account. OK that's not a big sacrifice but really for small money you could have a phone that isn't frustrating and limited to use. Just my opinion.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judiver:
Yes I know. Of course it is outdated and more so with time. But I'm not frustrated by it not being able to do things, or as quickly as possible. I don't read my email on my phone. It's not synched. I never go on the internet with my phone, unless I travel. In fact I hate it to be in a society where everyone is looking on their phone all day, and thus not actually there and aware of their surroundings. I also hate the idea of the possibility that one could follow all my moves (but that unfortunately already happens with credit/bank cards, computers, street cameras etc.). Proof of my Covid vaccination is on paper, I don't want the app. We live in Orwell's Big Brother is watching you society, where data on you is collected everywhere without you knowing it. A whole social discussion, here is not the place... But society obliges you to have a mobile phone, if only to receive security codes by sms (from my bank when I'm doing my accounting...) or fill in a mobile phone n# on a form to sign up for something, even on official web pages. In fact I use my mobile phone when I'm obliged to, when prompted. I hardly ever use it by my own choice. I largely prefer fixed phones and computers. I would just want it to be reliable to do the few things I do need it for.

I'm just annoyed by the bloatware and updates of stuff I don't want/need but have no control over. I hate it when companies try to force things on me (like Facebook... next to the app itself the phone keeps installing Facebook for HTC Sense - I'm not on social media at all). And I'm frustrated because my phone misbehaves. It powered off again this morning :cry: when I deactivated an app I never use. In turning the phone on, I got stuck on the HTC screen. The battery drained. I got out of the boot loop but then the calendar stopped. And so on. It seems there's a problem other than the storage space, software instability or battery... Sometimes the battery really decreases fast, like something is in a loop. The phone may also power off long before the battery is at 0%. I already calibrated it several times over the past months.

I may have to buy another phone, but it feels like a waste of money for the use I make of it. I can think of a million things that would be much more useful and/or urgent to me (getting my cat the expensive surgery it needs for one thing). Let's see if it really continues to power off at the tiniest thing I do with it. If it only happens once ever so often I'm not buying another phone.

Thank Flex
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scragge:
I first have to say I had an M8 as my last phone and loved it, those were great phones. The M8 is one of the easyist phones to root.

1. Unlock the bootloader - careful to make backups before this step, when you do so it wipes the phone back to factory.

2. Using ADB flash Twrp

3. Reboot to Twerp and flash SU or Magisk

4. Happy dance, your phone is rooted and has a really nice custom recovery.

Seriously though, there are guides in the M8 forums which will take you step by step through the process.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judiver:
Hi Scragge,

Thank you for reacting.

Yes its a nice phone although compared to the one I had before it (a Samsung Galaxy S SCL) I think the sound is of lesser quality (or has my hearing deteriorated since?) and the camera too. But other than that, I do like it. Like the looks of it too, though the metal is making it rather heavy (extra weight whilst hiking). I bought it when phones got bigger and bigger and the size of this phone still allowed me to put it in the pocket of my hiking pants. A very elegant hiking phone ;), for emergency calls only (as most of the time, no coverage in the mountains).

I did see the instructions at the top of this thread and in more detail on other pages on how to root. But my question to unlock/root actually was related to the fact that 1) if it still is possible to unlock and 2) I suspected that my phone's problems came from lack of storage space. A factory reset gave me enough storage but the phone still powered off be itself this morning. So it's not the lack of storage that is causing the problem. Rooting/flashing would let me get rid of the annoying bloatware, but since I now have enough space all those apps are less annoying (I had stripped my phone of all useful stuff because it was full of default crap).

So... software or hardware problem?

I will try to boot to safe mode. I read here (https://community.giffgaff.com/d/15536081-htc-one-m8-turning-itself-off) that if the problem doesn't (re)appear in safe mode, then it's probably caused by an app. After the factory reset the only 2 apps I put on it are WhatsApp and an app that I use to hike (enabling me to follow and record GPS trails etc.) with some onboard hiking maps. If those 2 apps are not the culprit, nor software updates, then unlocking/footing/flashing will most likely not solve anything because it's not software related. I don't think factory software can cause problems....? At least, that's my reasoning...

If it's hardware, the problem may be the battery, as it has acted strangely in the past (no power left whereas battery is not at 0% and sometimes draining real fast). And if it is a hardware problem than I'd better buy a new phone instead of spending money to repair this one.

So rooting (which for me would be 1st time, so scary) is not needed (I have enough storage space) cq. will not help (problem lies elsewhere), but I appreciate your thoughts.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scragge:
It should still be possible to unlock the boot loader, but it has been a long time since I've tried any thing with an M8. My last go-around was installing Linage17 and rooting with SU, it seemed to run fine.

Your battery may just be giving up or it may still be a software issue. Many of the apps on my M8 were not able to be updated when the developers stopped supporting A6. Could it be possible some of the stock software is still trying to do whatever background thing it does in normal operation and eating up battery because it can't connect to somewhere long gone? Just guessing. If you look at some of the de-bloating guides, the M8 came with a with a good compliment of bloatware. It is daunting to delve into rooting for the first time, but rooting and de-bloating or changing the ROM to something like linage17 might help. The reason I mention L17, it was the last ROM I flashed to one of my M8 phones before moving to a different device.

Good luck on whichever path you decide on.

Scragge
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judiver:
Hi Scragge,

Your suggestion that my problems may have something to do with updates is very interesting. As I said I had stripped every custom installed app (except WhatsApp and the hiking app), as there was no storage space left. Those 2 apps are actually also the only 2 I have re-installed. So the possibility of my problems coming from a custom installed app are fairly limited. As opposed to that there are a lot of default/bloatware apps and the idea of one (or more) of them looking for stuff that isn't there any longer sounds very plausible to me. It would explain that the battery drains sometimes really quickly. In that case rooting and flashing may indeed be useful and possibly worth a try: a clean ROM exempt of all those (to me) useless apps of which one or more may create my problems.

I do not know what Linage17 is (I saw somewhere that it's been updated to 17.1), i.e. in which way it differs/is better from other ROMs. At the top of this thread a link to TWRP, for custom recovery, is given (which leads to a page that's no longer there, but you can look up your device (and I suppose I would need "Primary Europe" and then twrp-3.0.0-0-m8.img). Not sure what to do with the files in the "Device tree". Then a link is given to SuperSU to root. But no ROM file is given. Now that I think of it, Redpoint73 was so kind as to help me to get a connection working again by using RUU a couple of years back. But I suppose that is the official ROM, not what I would need now.

It is curious that I gained 8GB by the factory reset. I wonder what were all those GB that the factory reset disposed off. Hidden cache (I regularly delete cache in apps, whenever I have a problem), temp files, memory dumps, logs?

Ah there's one thing I don't like about this phone: in doing a factory reset (and not using a back-up file to restore the very few things I had on it) my block list is gone. So now I get all these stupid messages again but it is not possible to simply open the message and add it to the block list. I need to go to the block list and add it there manually, thus remembering or noting the phone number. But in some cases there's no phone number but a name, and you cannot add text to the block list. It would have been much more simple to just press a button "add to blocked contacts" whilst in the the message. Oh well...

Thanks Scragge for your enlightening idea.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dRkBlooD:
Guys !!! It finally did work for me..

FIXXED !!

The trick for truly unlocking the bootloader and acces to flashing things like Recovery etc is to SELECT ONE M7 (instead of the real M8) from the HTCDev.com drop-menu, before starting the full procedure of Unlocking on their site.

Just simply FLASHING THE M7 Unlock_code.bin worked like a charm, after so many failed attempts !!!

Good luck <3
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Judiver:
dRkBlooD,

I shouldn't react as I'm not a guy (at least... the last time I checked I wasn't), but I wlll keep this in mind. Congrats for succeeding and thanks for sharing.

Judith
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evolutionallord:
Good.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] thedumbass:
When I got the phone ~9 months ago and rotation worked. I flashed CM13 and rotation stopped working. I figured it was the rom. It was annoying having to manually rotate photos and had to find a 3rd party program to rotate video... but I lived with it. But now I need it to actually work.

Flashed the new PE1 stock rom Friday. Rotation worked. But I had a few issues that ended up having me start over again. Then it stopped working.

Now after multiple multiple reflashes, factory wipes, complete wipes of system and all, flashing over and over, looking up and finding a ton of 'fixes' that I have tried. I still can't get it to work.

As it sits right now, it is the 100% stock flash from sammoble. Stock bootloader and all. Not rooted. Nothing fancy going on at all. And it doesn't work.

*#0*# shows the gyroscope as constantly reading all zeros.

Suggestions?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] thedumbass:
Nothing?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] dito33:
Download rotation app and click on auto.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.rotationlocker
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] thedumbass:
Yeah, that doesn't help either. Thanks though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] Cinomed:
Have you tried recalibrating the gyroscope ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 5] thedumbass:
I've done everything I could find to try. Recalibration was on that list. As was slamming the phone around.

All three sensor axis read zero all the time.
[General Topics] padawan:
Quick question not meant to trigger online debate...

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good audio bible for WM thats easy to navigate?

Would like to brush up on study via audio while I drive.

Cheers...
[General Topics] Rudegar:
depend on what you seek really

as in

THE BIBLE

or a guide

and if you want to have recorded audio of voice read to you

or a robitic voice reading text to you
[General Topics] padawan:
My apologies for being vague...

Audio recordings of standard english bible that is navigable on ppc.
[General Topics] Rudegar:
if it's just recoarding it's the same thing as music audio navigation
[General Topics] padawan:
My duh. You are exactly right.

Now I just need to find the audio tracks by book/verse or something.

UPDATE>>>

Got it... http://kjvmp3.com/kjvmp3.html

Gives me a good reason to upgrade my sd card to a larger size.

Thanks Rudegar.

May the force be with you. ;-)
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
First, all the credit goes to Dhananjay for he's tutorial and zhuhang for create this great app.

Disclaimer

Installing mods on your Android device may leave it non-functional or even soft-brick it. DroidOrigin will not be responsible if anything such happens. Recovering is easy however, and we will definitely help you.

Before You Begin

- To install V4A, you must have a rooted phone. If you haven’t rooted yet, you can check for your device in our Rooting section.

- Make sure no other audio mods are installed, like AudioFX. If there is, you will need to remove it completely. If you have problems doing so, use Titanium Backup for.

- Also, you must have BusyBox installed on your ROM. You can download it by clicking the link below. (You can try other busybox installer apps, but if you face issues while installing V4A drivers, you must install this one.)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.busybox&hl=fr

In case the driver installation fails – It seems like some manufacturer specific devices require SELinux status to be set as Permissive. You can use SELinuxModeChanger app to do the required. Thanks to our reader — Avip, for notifying this.

Steps to Install ViPER4Android on Marshmallow:

1. Go to the V4A website and download ViPER4Android FX, or direct link : http://www.mediafire.com/?ar5men9o5ar7inb

2. Move the downloaded ViPER4Android_FX_v2401_A4.x-A6.x.apk to the phone’s storage.

3. Make sure, you have enabled Unknown sources in Settings > Security.

4. Now, using a file manager (e.g Solid Explorer), install the apk manually, as you normally would do.

5. Once it has been installed, go to app drawer and run ViPER4Android FX.

6. When you will run the app for the first time, it will prompt you to install V4A drivers on your device, so tap on Yes. As soon as you tap, you will have to grant root permissions, so choose GRANT.

7. V4A app will automatically detect the system and install appropriate drivers for the mod to work properly, and upon completion, the following message will be displayed: ‘Driver installed, please reboot your device’. And now as advised, reboot your phone/tablet (I hope you know how to do that!).

8. When the device has rebooted, again launch ViPER4Android FX app.

9. Tap on the 3-dot menu button on the top-right of the app, and select Driver Status. It should display Status: Normal.

If the driver installation fails, read the last point of the ‘Prerequisites’.

10. Start using ViPER4Android now! Tweak the settings to best match your phone and output device. Are you using specific profiles for your phone? Post them below and share it with other users.

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
Here my setup for Shuttle+ and Headset Shure SE215 :

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] rYz11:
Status is Normal but two are not enabled. Is this correct? Not noticing an impact to audio throught my Sennheisers.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] vicky90:
I think you have to disable audio fx or music fx.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
Enable : no, is not good should be yes and processing : no is ok for me.

You should have Music FX or Audio FX remove like say Vicky90.

You can use Titanium Backup to completely remove it.

You absolutely must remove Audio tweaking stuff what is in your Rom.

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] rYz11:
I can't find any Music FX or Audio FX in app drawer, using Titanium or manually looking through data and priv-app folders. Weird. I'm running Overdrive 's MM ROM v. 9 and Beastmode 56.8 kernel. No other audio mods installed or enabled. I'll keep digging...
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] vicky90:
[MENTION=4229568]rYz11[/MENTION] then make sure busybox installed and change selinux mode to permissive if not set.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] rYz11:
Thanks. Yes, stericson busybox is installed and updated and I'm running a permissive kernel (Beastmode 56.8). I'm noticing slight gain so I'll keep playing with it and ignore the not enabled messages.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] rYz11:
Well, major "d'oh!" moment - was checking driver status with no music playing. :rolleyes: Thanks to [MENTION=4224060]stueycaster[/MENTION] for common sense suggestion.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
Well, what version of busybox do you install ? The one I give the link ? Because other don't work for me.

And Enable should be yes because if not ViPER4Android shouldn't work.

Maybe if you are any audio tweaking stuff in your phone/Rom it's kernel fault who use audio mod. And are you using Xposed ? Because that could be bad too.

But I don't know the ROM and kernel you are using so it's difficult to help.

I have for long time stay away of ViPER4Android because I was thinking it was another illusion of sound quality, but good install and well configure, WOW !

Sorry bro, can't help much.

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] rYz11:
Np, all is good now as long as I remember to check driver status when music is playing.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] rYz11:
I already had busybox installed, I made sure it was updated. FYI - I'm running Overdrive's MM Rom (T-Mobile Note 4) with Beastmode 56.8.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] dd98:
[MENTION=4699359]Vink67[/MENTION] I have tried this (Open Source Version) and it does everything for you (even if SELinux is enforcing) and is easier in my opinion
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
Thx bro, but don't have problem [emoji4]

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
Thx bro but I don't have problem [emoji4]

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
Nice ! Happy it will work.

Sent from my MotoG3 using Optimus-r12 on Ubertc RR Rom.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] coolizard:
That was the only way I could get it working for me. With the app of the OP, everything goes OK, and driver status enabled, etc., but it hasn't any effect in sound.

I have stock rom+kernel, but with exposed and gravity box.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Hedied4me:
A much easier way to install Viper is in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/viperaudio-viperatmos-3-8-sq-driver-t3289075

Just download Viper stock 5.4 zip, flash in recovery and voila! No need to mess with the selinux changer app or do anything else.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
It's not the same version but it work yes.

Sent with my MotoG3 from another galaxy !
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Hedied4me:
Its 2.4.0.1 which is the most up to date version of v4a. I was only suggesting it because you don't have to use selinux mode changer app, which is dangerous for security reasons. Not to mention the zip takes care of everything for you.
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Vink67:
It's not the original version ViPER4Android create by Zhuhang.

It's a modified version of it.

And if I read just it need selinux permissif and busybox too. And in many Rom like CM13 selinux is set to permissif.

But that's an another way to have ViPER4Android on your phone.

In that post I want to share this good tutorial I found and work perfectly for me.

That's it.

Sent with my MotoG3 from another galaxy !
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] Nicoledh93:
Please help, I'm stuck on boot. :(
[Moto G 2015 Themes and Apps] ashwin_ironman:
Not working on Asus Zenfone 2 laser

What should i do?

I disabled my fine audio equalizer app

But still system is not detecting viper!

Please help!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GhostTalon94:
Does anyone know of any possibly successful rooting methods for the ZTE Prestige N9132? It is running android 5.1.1 and I tried King Root but it said rooting failed. Is there anything else I can try?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] o.angeles:
Help and send the rom N9132 Please
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] Powell730:
So I know it's talked about in a few different places, mainly articles. But why is this not a major complaint forcing OnePlus to get it fixed? It's driving me insane... Any 1080p videos with 60fps just simply will not play in anything higher than 480p. I know some people are blaming YouTube but now I'm noticing it in my VUDU app as well... Cannot play ANY movie in HD or HDX... Or even download them in a higher quality. That's making me think it's the phone again for some reason.
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] duomatrix:
It's not OnePlus though. There are numerous topics on XDA having this sort of issue on numerous different phones. I personally had this problem but for some reason I can view 60fps videos on YouTube now after deleting the app's data and cache a couple of times and rebooting the phone.
[OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers] Powell730:
I'll give that a shot. It drives me absolutely insane. OCD.