Hi. I had my HTC One unlocked, S-Off, Rooted and I was running ViperOne Rom and everything was running fine but I wanted to return to 100% stock so I could get my 40GB Google Drive. But now I can't get S-Off again, i've unlocked my bootloader and i've tried to S-Off using Rumrunner and various other ways with cmd but it fails everytime. Has anyone else had this problem or am I missing something. Cheers Alex.
Hello,
I recently rooted my M8 and have run into difficulties trying to run the GPE 5.0.1 ROM. I have TWRP installed and have no issues installing the GPE Rom itself, however, when I try to use WIFI the radio doesnt turn on and is unresponsive. Doing a little research I found it was due to my old firmware. So I tried to install the newest Firmware from the thread on M8 Android Dev, but when I try to use the RUU and the FUU, my phone is not recognized by the software. I tried to flash via HBOOT and it just asks me to reset my phone and doesn't do anything. Since I was S-ON I made sure I was using the full firmware for all of the methods, but it wouldn't work. So I tried to S-OFF my phone to see if that would help, but Firewater has been discontinued and I can't get Sunshine to run on my rom, so I am unable to S-OFF. I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to how I could get my phone S-OFF as well as to the new firmware.
Thank you.
You have to be running a stock rom when you use Sunshine
Hello, I seem to have got myself into a fix and need to reach out to the M8 community for assistance. I purchased a lightly used HTC One M8 that appeared to be in near mint condition. The phone was unrooted, locked and S-On. Although, it did have the Harmen Kardon rom installed and it is not the HK model, which I found odd but nothing more. I verified that the phone could be added to the Sprint Network so all seemed good.
I immediately set about rooting it. I have owned a number of Galaxy phones and considered myself rather adept at rooting, loading new ROMs, updating firmware and troubleshooting in general. I would occasionally soft brick but I'd always fine a way out.
Rooting the HTC was just different enough that I skipped one critical step without realizing it an now I am stuck for the first time ever.
I used the HTC Dev site and the HTC All-In-One tool to unlock, root and install TWRP 2.8. Two things that I did not do, S-OFF and back-up my stock system image just in case. Now, while I have Viper 4.3.0 installed and running fine, and I can switch to at least one other ROM (Bare Bones 2.1), I seem to have no path to get back to a pure stock ROM if I need to do so. And that bothers me. =)
It seems from what I have read that using an RUU would be the easiest route however, that seems to be impossible from the S-ON position. I have tried Sunshine, but it refuses to work; giving errors something along the lines of it does not like my ROM load stock or something closer to stock. Which is why I tried Bare Bones. I looked at Firewater but it seems to have issues and is not really supported anymore. I have tried various command line scripts via miniADB but still nothing.
My understanding is that if I could get S-OFF, I could install the RUU and return to stock. I even tried flashing a stock nandroid BU but that did not work either.
I suppose I should not complain, it's not bricked and it has a cool ROM installed and I can activate it but I just hate that I made such a blunder and that I can't figure out how to fix it.
Any thoughts out there? Let me know if you need additional info. This is what my bootloader is showing.
Thanks in advance!
Software status: Modified
Unlocked
M8_WHL PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-3.19.0.0000
Radio-1.08.20.8916
OpenDSP-v46.2.2-00564-M8974_FP.0811
OS-
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Dec 2 2014,14:00:10.0
Running
ViperOneM8 4.3.0
Updated 1st March 2015
IgnatzMaus said:
Hello, I seem to have got myself into a fix and need to reach out to the M8 community for assistance. I purchased a lightly used HTC One M8 that appeared to be in near mint condition. The phone was unrooted, locked and S-On. Although, it did have the Harmen Kardon rom installed and it is not the HK model, which I found odd but nothing more. I verified that the phone could be added to the Sprint Network so all seemed good.
I immediately set about rooting it. I have owned a number of Galaxy phones and considered myself rather adept at rooting, loading new ROMs, updating firmware and troubleshooting in general. I would occasionally soft brick but I'd always fine a way out.
Rooting the HTC was just different enough that I skipped one critical step without realizing it an now I am stuck for the first time ever.
I used the HTC Dev site and the HTC All-In-One tool to unlock, root and install TWRP 2.8. Two things that I did not do, S-OFF and back-up my stock system image just in case. Now, while I have Viper 4.3.0 installed and running fine, and I can switch to at least one other ROM (Bare Bones 2.1), I seem to have no path to get back to a pure stock ROM if I need to do so. And that bothers me. =)
It seems from what I have read that using an RUU would be the easiest route however, that seems to be impossible from the S-ON position. I have tried Sunshine, but it refuses to work; giving errors something along the lines of it does not like my ROM load stock or something closer to stock. Which is why I tried Bare Bones. I looked at Firewater but it seems to have issues and is not really supported anymore. I have tried various command line scripts via miniADB but still nothing.
My understanding is that if I could get S-OFF, I could install the RUU and return to stock. I even tried flashing a stock nandroid BU but that did not work either.
I suppose I should not complain, it's not bricked and it has a cool ROM installed and I can activate it but I just hate that I made such a blunder and that I can't figure out how to fix it.
Any thoughts out there? Let me know if you need additional info. This is what my bootloader is showing.
Thanks in advance!
Software status: Modified
Unlocked
M8_WHL PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-3.19.0.0000
Radio-1.08.20.8916
OpenDSP-v46.2.2-00564-M8974_FP.0811
OS-
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Dec 2 2014,14:00:10.0
Running
ViperOneM8 4.3.0
Updated 1st March 2015
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Relock bootloader then run ruu will restore back to stock or just flash a stock rooted rom prolly easier
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joshuadub said:
Relock bootloader then run ruu will restore back to stock or just flash a stock rooted rom prolly easier
Sent from 27.5244° N, 99.4906° W
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From what I have read, relocking the bootloader with custom recovery, ROM or kernel will result in the phone not booting. Is that true? I am nervous about doing that and still not being able to successfully restore stock with an RUU. Though, again from what I have read, I should be able to re-unlock and put things back.
Every guide I am seeing says that getting back to stock is really only possible with S-Off and that there is no way to get to S-Off from Unlocked. So, I am feeling that I am out of luck.
IgnatzMaus said:
From what I have read, relocking the bootloader with custom recovery, ROM or kernel will result in the phone not booting. Is that true? I am nervous about doing that and still not being able to successfully restore stock with an RUU. Though, again from what I have read, I should be able to re-unlock and put things back.
Every guide I am seeing says that getting back to stock is really only possible with S-Off and that there is no way to get to S-Off from Unlocked. So, I am feeling that I am out of luck.
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The phone will still boot. Also, S-off is not necessary to get your phone back to stock. The entire point of a RUU would be lost if it only worked when S-off.
I'm not sure if there is only one kind of firmware and I only caught "firmware" as it flashed by during uninstall. I haven't got this far...up to now I've only flashed Roms and themes. Please help and I need it to be specific, step by step. I know it's a lot to ask.
Cid vzw_001 (with ATT SIM/service)
Hboot 1.57
Radio 1.13.41.0909
V32.120.247.0909
Been running viper 6.2
Stock: kitkat 4.4.2 sense 6
I can't afford another phone...
Ok so, I just unlocked the bootloader and rooted my HTC one M7 GPE (original, not converted). It's still S-ON but I think I can still flash roms right? I want to get the ARHD rom but I don't know if it's only for standard M7s or if it will work with my GPE M7...
Thanks in advance