Hey guys,
My HTC Desire HD was really easy to root and flash ROMs for. But my One X was terrible for it, the kernel needed to be flashed via adb every single time I wanted to flash a new ROM, and since we couldn't get S-Off, we needed to wait for HTC to upgrade our Hboot - we were completely unable to do it ourselves so that severely crippled ROM development.
Is the Xperia Z like this? How open is it?
noodlesfordaddy said:
Hey guys,
My HTC Desire HD was really easy to root and flash ROMs for. But my One X was terrible for it, the kernel needed to be flashed via adb every single time I wanted to flash a new ROM, and since we couldn't get S-Off, we needed to wait for HTC to upgrade our Hboot - we were completely unable to do it ourselves so that severely crippled ROM development.
Is the Xperia Z like this? How open is it?
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It's very easy with the XZ. Even flashing stock there's no need for rooting or unlocking the BL. I had HTC phones as well. And the HTC One X/XL was a let down in terms of rooting.
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As the title says, has anyone updated to ics, with a raider yet?
if so what rom did you use?
Thanks
I'm still work on it. To find wich room suit the best, just trial and error. But, if holiraider 4.o ready, I'h no doubt to used it as my daily Rom. Waiting for bananacakes finish his cake ;D
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finally S-OFF and running Dark Raider 1.2.
S-Off and running Dark Raider 1.2 also. Everything is running well. Didn't have to add any apn's in manually which I always find as a plus. Only other rom I tried so far was the ICS for HTC Holiday, installed nice and seemed very smooth. Using Kozmikkernal for the kernal with Dark Raider right now.
I just got this phone today traded it for a T-mobile Lg G2x and boy am I glad I got rid of that phone but before this phone was able to get S off was you still able to flash roms. I currently got the bootloader unlocked and ready to put cwm on it but do you really need S off I seen the method and a little nervous to try that procedure at the moment I usually try to read as much as possible before doing things I have also been rooting my phone's since the Mytouch 3G so I'm not new but not an expert neither.
you don't need s-off, if you have s-on you just have to fastboot the boot.img separately from a computer, then install the rest of the zip from recovery, S-off makes it possible to flash the rom's as one step through recovery.
I haven't bothered with s-off at this point, I don't feel like peeling the VOID sticker off to open the contact cover
Thanks I understand now but would you happen or any one on stock ics rom can help me with the things. First how do I change the short cuts on my lock screen I had a Mytouch 4G which ran sense so I remember all I had to do was go to personalize then display then lock screen style and choose setting when I find the lock screen I want and I could pick the short cut I wanted I some how put a app on my short cut screen I downloaded and it's completely useless and I can't figure out how I did or how to change it. Also where is the menu to download 3rd party apps when I try to download a app from astro file manager it takes me to the security screen if I remember correctly it was under manage apps.
jigajay said:
I just got this phone today traded it for a T-mobile Lg G2x and boy am I glad I got rid of that phone but before this phone was able to get S off was you still able to flash roms. I currently got the bootloader unlocked and ready to put cwm on it but do you really need S off I seen the method and a little nervous to try that procedure at the moment I usually try to read as much as possible before doing things I have also been rooting my phone's since the Mytouch 3G so I'm not new but not an expert neither.
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as long as u own VIVID, no need to S-OFF,
S-OFF woth for RAIDER user like me, coz we don't have ICS Official RUU right now.
if raider user wanna taste ICS, we need to S-OFF the device ^_^.
So i have Velocity which means i don't need S-OFF right?
First i understood it's just useful because you don't have to flash the kernel (i think kernel=boot.img ?!) separately?
Or is it just that S-OFF makes it possible to Update hboot without official Update?
Sorry, but i'm a little bit confused about all that. Really want to flash my Velocity but i want at least understand the basics and not just following step-by-step...
actually, i'm ittle bit confued too b4. simply like this, u'r runiing GB right now,then wanna get ICS, you don't need to S-OFF if u'r ROM have Officiall ICS RUU. u can flash custom ICS ROM with unlock bootloader and recovery installed.
Velocity and Vivid already announced have ICS RUU official, but not for RAIDER user.
to get ICS on Raider, we need to flash our current Gingerbread to Gingerbread RUU from provider such as AT&T, coz they already have ICS offcial Update. then Update it with Official ICS RUU from the same Provider.
* sorry for my bad english,
I am trying to work out whether to OTA update to ICS or go S-OFF, unlock and load a custom ROM.
I'm currently running locked BL, S-ON, Stock 2.3.5 (Sense 3.0) ROM.
I have read up on downgrading HBOOT to get S-OFF via revolutionary but I got HBOOT 2.01.0001 and haven't been able to find any thread saying whether tacoexploit works. I know if I OTA upgrade to ICS, and HBOOT 2.02.0000, I will only be able to unlock BL via HTCDEV and will not able to get full S-OFF until someone comes up with a method.
I have unlocked and flashed custom recovery/ROMs/Radios etc. on ZTE Blade, ZTE Skate, Motorola Atrix and HTC Desire (damn, I love 4Ext) without any problems but still consider myself a noob because, well you know, if you don't build your own ROMs...
I still have about a year or so on the warranty and custom ROMs always seem to have some kind of problem. So I just can't make my mind up as to what would be the right move.
Please, any info, suggestions or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
gandalf_grey91 said:
I am trying to work out whether to OTA update to ICS or go S-OFF, unlock and load a custom ROM.
I'm currently running locked BL, S-ON, Stock 2.3.5 (Sense 3.0) ROM.
I have read up on downgrading HBOOT to get S-OFF via revolutionary but I got HBOOT 2.01.0001 and haven't been able to find any thread saying whether tacoexploit works. I know if I OTA upgrade to ICS, and HBOOT 2.02.0000, I will only be able to unlock BL via HTCDEV and will not able to get full S-OFF until someone comes up with a method.
I have unlocked and flashed custom recovery/ROMs/Radios etc. on ZTE Blade, ZTE Skate, Motorola Atrix and HTC Desire (damn, I love 4Ext) without any problems but still consider myself a noob because, well you know, if you don't build your own ROMs...
I still have about a year or so on the warranty and custom ROMs always seem to have some kind of problem. So I just can't make my mind up as to what would be the right move.
Please, any info, suggestions or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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you can always try run this downgrader here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705913 i would s off now because there might not be another exploit found for a very long time. you can always install a stock rooted rom through recovery. theres a thread on the development thread. thats if you still want stock rom.
gandalf_grey91 said:
I am trying to work out whether to OTA update to ICS or go S-OFF, unlock and load a custom ROM.
I'm currently running locked BL, S-ON, Stock 2.3.5 (Sense 3.0) ROM.
I have read up on downgrading HBOOT to get S-OFF via revolutionary but I got HBOOT 2.01.0001 and haven't been able to find any thread saying whether tacoexploit works. I know if I OTA upgrade to ICS, and HBOOT 2.02.0000, I will only be able to unlock BL via HTCDEV and will not able to get full S-OFF until someone comes up with a method.
I have unlocked and flashed custom recovery/ROMs/Radios etc. on ZTE Blade, ZTE Skate, Motorola Atrix and HTC Desire (damn, I love 4Ext) without any problems but still consider myself a noob because, well you know, if you don't build your own ROMs...
I still have about a year or so on the warranty and custom ROMs always seem to have some kind of problem. So I just can't make my mind up as to what would be the right move.
Please, any info, suggestions or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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The script and tacoroot exploit still work with HBOOT 2.01.0001, so you should be good to go.
naathaanb96 said:
you can always try run this downgrader here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705913 i would s off now because there might not be another exploit found for a very long time. you can always install a stock rooted rom through recovery. theres a thread on the development thread. thats if you still want stock rom.
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Yeah, that is my fear, it may be a long time before an exploit is found for the latest HBOOT. I also figure that there will never be an official JB ROM update from HTC for the beloved Inc S. While I have maintain my warranty for as long as I have, it does feel like the right time to fully unlock. My Inc S has never given me any trouble at all, so I'm not worried about losing the warranty. I just love the phone and want to keep it working well for as long a possible. ROM-wise, I think ARHD looks stock enough to be super stable and tweaked enough to be nice and slick.
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The script and tacoroot exploit still work with HBOOT 2.01.0001, so you should be good to go.
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Many Thanks for putting my mind at rest. That is what I needed to confirm before I started.
I did the downgrade from the latest ota and it worked perfectly
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Hello there
I ordered a 32GB HTC One which is coming in about an hour and since I had a HTC One X before, I know that installing ROMs and such isn't as easy as it is on my Samsung Galaxy SIII. I am pretty sure the CID of my HTC One is going to be HTC__J15 like the One X (since that's for the whole Middle East) and so I was wondering what the latest JellyBean is for my device? Is it 4.1.2 or 4.2.2? And speaking of which, I found this website posted on this forum:
http://bugsylawson.com/files/category/49-m7/
But unfortunately I don't understand that codes affiliated with regions and such and any help would be much appreciated.
The phone I ordered is slightly used, only for 4 days, and with local warranty but I would like to install (or re-install if there's no newer JellyBean) the software so I can set it up as a new phone, and I am guessing that's done using the RUU, correct? And if so, which one should I use? I would like to completely format the device and set it up from the start.
And one final thing, would someone be able to link me to an easy rooting guide? And do I get the unlock token using HTC's developer section of the website and use fastboot like I did with HTC One X?
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your time.
TarekElsakka said:
Hello there
I ordered a 32GB HTC One which is coming in about an hour and since I had a HTC One X before, I know that installing ROMs and such isn't as easy as it is on my Samsung Galaxy SIII. I am pretty sure the CID of my HTC One is going to be HTC__J15 like the One X (since that's for the whole Middle East) and so I was wondering what the latest JellyBean is for my device? Is it 4.1.2 or 4.2.2? And speaking of which, I found this website posted on this forum:
http://bugsylawson.com/files/category/49-m7/
But unfortunately I don't understand that codes affiliated with regions and such and any help would be much appreciated.
The phone I ordered is slightly used, only for 4 days, and with local warranty but I would like to install (or re-install if there's no newer JellyBean) the software so I can set it up as a new phone, and I am guessing that's done using the RUU, correct? And if so, which one should I use? I would like to completely format the device and set it up from the start.
And one final thing, would someone be able to link me to an easy rooting guide? And do I get the unlock token using HTC's developer section of the website and use fastboot like I did with HTC One X?
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your time.
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First of all I would just do a factory reset, assuming it is a factory default rom, and then leave it for a week or two to get used to it before going down the route of unlocking etc. Read through the One forums to learn all you can before customising.
There is a good guide here for unlocking, rooting, etc manually http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265618
A useful All-in-One toolkit to guide you through the process here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2183942
Look through the One Android Development forum and you will find several custom Roms available which would be suitable for the International Version of the One http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2119
You will need a custom rom as once rooted and unlocked you won't be able to use an RUU nor will you be able to get HTC or carrier OTA updates.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. I am going to use the phone as it is for a while and see how things work out. I would really like to install the bulletproof kernel which enables the HTC logo as a capacitive button because I am not liking the idea of the two buttons - I am just too used to having three.
The One is as easy to root and ROM as any other device. You DO NOT need to be concerned with the CID or RUU if you download Mikes stock 4.2.2 ROM. Its dead stock (with the option to root) and works without needing to change the CID or flash an RUU
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Yeah I have used Android Revolution HD on several devices before and it is the perfect ROM. I already unlocked the bootloader and am in the process of installing recovery as well as downloading and installing ARHD. I was able to locate the Bulletproof kernel which enables the HTC logo as a menu button and it seems like the installation is done from recovery, very simple, is that really the case or is there more to it?
Here's the link for reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2233665
Thanks
TarekElsakka said:
Yeah I have used Android Revolution HD on several devices before and it is the perfect ROM. I already unlocked the bootloader and am in the process of installing recovery as well as downloading and installing ARHD. I was able to locate the Bulletproof kernel which enables the HTC logo as a menu button and it seems like the installation is done from recovery, very simple, is that really the case or is there more to it?
Here's the link for reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2233665
Thanks
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Its easy to flash the kernel but beware as these kernels are not based on the newest or even second newest source so it will decrease performance slightly when you compare apples to apples
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Hey all!
I'm a new poster to the forums, but I've been lurking since 2010 with my Xperia X10 (rooted) as my first phone, moving onto the Acer Liquid MT (rooted, was a pain to do so however) and then to the HTC One.
I recently rooted my One. The issue I have at this moment however, is that now that the OTA for 4.3 including Sense 5 is available, I cannot install it, due to the rooted and unlocked BL on the phone. I do know how to relock the BL using fastboot, but I cannot find the appropriate RUU for the Rogers 4.1 ROM.
There are a few things I'm going to be asking for here, just out of curiousity.
First, does anyone have the Rogers RUU for the HTC One? I went onto the dev site, and unfortunately, there is no RUU file found
However, I did find the CRCs for both Rogers versions.
Secondly, lets say I just flash the Developer Edition ROM onto my Canadian device, will I still be able to use the carrier I am with (Rogers)?
Thirdly, if anyone knows of a Google Play Edition ROM for the One that has functional Zoe features, that'd probably solve all of my current minute post-rooting woes.
Much thanks!
m0nte:fingers-crossed:
Alright, well, the RUU for the Dev Edition is being downloaded as we speak, so if anyone would be able to give me some insight to my queries, that'd be swell. Either way, time for science!
So, firstly, this is my first time ever posting here, in fact I just registered 5 minutes ago.
I recently bought a HTC Desire 626g Dual Sim (NOT 626g+) and I'm getting very tired of android 4.4 and am very interested in either rooting or getting a custom ROM on my phone.
The problem is that I haven't found any reliable way to root my phone or any custom ROMs for my particular make and model.
Second problem is that I have never rooted or flashed a custom ROM onto an android device before, even though this is my third android phone.
So that's it, I'm interested in either rooting or getting a custom ROM, but I don't know where to even begin this endeavour. So if anyone can help me or even point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
Phone specs:
Android 4.4.2
Android security path level (if this is of any help): 2015-11-01
HTC Sense version 5.3
Kernel version 3.4.67
If there is anything else I need to provide in order to recieve some help, please let me know.
Thanks
Kharet said:
So, firstly, this is my first time ever posting here, in fact I just registered 5 minutes ago.
I recently bought a HTC Desire 626g Dual Sim (NOT 626g+) and I'm getting very tired of android 4.4 and am very interested in either rooting or getting a custom ROM on my phone.
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Hey man if you are simply looking to root try KingRoot, it worked on my friends HTC Desire 626. Dont think its available in PlayStore so just go to their web and download the apk file.
Kharet said:
So, firstly, this is my first time ever posting here, in fact I just registered 5 minutes ago.
I recently bought a HTC Desire 626g Dual Sim (NOT 626g+) and I'm getting very tired of android 4.4 and am very interested in either rooting or getting a custom ROM on my phone.
The problem is that I haven't found any reliable way to root my phone or any custom ROMs for my particular make and model.
Second problem is that I have never rooted or flashed a custom ROM onto an android device before, even though this is my third android phone.
So that's it, I'm interested in either rooting or getting a custom ROM, but I don't know where to even begin this endeavour. So if anyone can help me or even point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
Phone specs:
Android 4.4.2
Android security path level (if this is of any help): 2015-11-01
HTC Sense version 5.3
Kernel version 3.4.67
If there is anything else I need to provide in order to recieve some help, please let me know.
Thanks
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You would probably need to unlock your bootloader and pay sunshine $30 to make your device s-off so you can change your make and model (cid #) to a HTC desire 626s. Flash one of T-Mobile or Sprint RUU and update your software firmware.
I never had an s-off device so be cautious and do research before you blame me for a bricked device.