So you came at XDA-Developers to find help? (Beginners Thread)

ManicStreetPreacher · Mar 27, 2013

Because you have the volume down button pressed at all times practically, when when you restart you enter recovery by default. Just go to fastboot reboot system and you're fine

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Mereltjeee said:
I have a problem and I'm new here, so I just reply in this topic. I'm sorry for my little English.

I have a HTC One S and I dropped it a few days ago, now the volume down button is dented and I can not use it anymore. Since you can still set te volume by pushing the volume up button and swipe the volume down, i thought it was ok.
Now I wanted to turn my phone off and this is what I've got:

*** LOCKED ***
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.15.0000
Radio-1.11.50.05.28
OpenDSP-v31.1.0.45.0815
eMMC-boot
Dec 14 2012, 17:10:57:-1

HBOOT

<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN. to next item
<POWER> to select item

FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
CLEAR STORAGE
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
SHOW BARCODE

Using the volume up button I can select one of the items, but pressing the powerbutton brings me nothing. I have no idea what to do or how I can fix this.

Please help!
I see this is the wrong topic but I am unable to delete this message, I'm sorry.

I forgot to quote

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mrinalutkarsh · Apr 4, 2013

Shasarak said:
Okay, then, I have a newbie question: can someone explain exactly what "S-Off" means?

In their devices, HTC have installed a sort of security check whose level is determined by S-OFF/S-ON. Essentially, this security level is a flag stored on the device’s radio that checks signature images for any firmware before it is allowed to be written to system memory. This hinders using any custom ROMs, splash images, recovery etc., and also restricts access to the NAND flash memory. However, when security level is set to S-OFF, the signature check is bypassed, allowing a user to upload custom firmware images, unsigned boot, recovery, splash and HBOOT images, as well as official firmware that has been modified, this enabling maximum customization of your HTC Android device.

Furthermore, S-OFF also reduces restrictions on accessing the NAND flash memory on the device, allowing all partitions (including /system) to be mounted in write mode while the operating system is booted.

berrywr · Apr 6, 2013

mrinalutkarsh said:
In their devices, HTC have installed a sort of security check whose level is determined by S-OFF/S-ON. Essentially, this security level is a flag stored on the device’s radio that checks signature images for any firmware before it is allowed to be written to system memory. This hinders using any custom ROMs, splash images, recovery etc., and also restricts access to the NAND flash memory. However, when security level is set to S-OFF, the signature check is bypassed, allowing a user to upload custom firmware images, unsigned boot, recovery, splash and HBOOT images, as well as official firmware that has been modified, this enabling maximum customization of your HTC Android device.

Furthermore, S-OFF also reduces restrictions on accessing the NAND flash memory on the device, allowing all partitions (including /system) to be mounted in write mode while the operating system is booted.

In other words, this setting allows developers to create and develop custom ROMs for this device, correct? My wife is a nurse practitioner and as loyal as I've been to Windows Mobile and Windows Phone platforms, there is simply no development being made in regards to medical applications on it and I've made the decision to buy her an Android device and leaning on the HTC One but not before I do my homework on it given I own in addition to my Titans (Eternity), also an HD2 that I currently have the NexusHD2 (CM10) Rom; thank you up front and I can't agree more with what the very first message in this thread spoke of. Take care!

dingluming1996 · Apr 7, 2013

thank

I am a little boy from China, I love xda, I need your help, can you help me?

Fallen Spartan · Apr 7, 2013

dingluming1996 said:
I am a little boy from China, I love xda, I need your help, can you help me?

Yes, but first you need to tell us your problem

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Kartikp84 · Apr 7, 2013

D.O.C said:
So you came at XDA-Developers to find help? Well, this is your thread!

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"

Hello new user and welcome to XDA-Developers. We are a developer’s forum, with the purpose of development. Our work can be used in several ways, and, we know that sometimes it could help you. So, in order to maintain our forums clean and properly organized maintaining a proper development environment while at the same time to give you a chance to join our forums we created this thread.

This thread is for sensible questions from new or inexpert users. If you think your question may be a little basic for a developer forum then this is the place to ask it.

Here you shall find an atmosphere free of prejudice, where we will try to help you in your problem, answer yourmost basic questions and aid you on troubleshooting your device. We know that learning all the technicalities takes time, however they are necessary in order to interact with us.

Bare in mind that we are not technical support, we do not work for any company or get paid to help, we are just independent developers gathered in a community called XDA-Developers. Therefore all we will do is guide you into troubleshooting your device yourself, but under no circumstance we are abided to do so.

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So very simple question, about the HTC one Gallery.
Can you remove the facebook/picasa album icon things from the gallery? i only like my own albums in gallery!

iKoyy · Apr 8, 2013

gallery

Kartikp84 said:
So very simple question, about the HTC one Gallery.
Can you remove the facebook/picasa album icon things from the gallery? i only like my own albums in gallery!

I've read this question many times today on this forum but could not find an answer yet.

D.O.C · Apr 9, 2013

Kartikp84 said:
So very simple question, about the HTC one Gallery.
Can you remove the facebook/picasa album icon things from the gallery? i only like my own albums in gallery!

Probably yes, either by removing the apps that link to the service or by removing the entries from a decompiled gallery.apk in its respective xml (or the methods from smali worst case scenario)

Simple answer yes, everything is possible, now even simpler, do not expect anyone to do it for you, try doing it yourself. Try looking at the HTC One predecesor's hacks (like the HTC One X+), It has already been done before

, then you can easily apply previously gathered knowledge into current devices, that is how I would do it.

Lucky Thirteen · Apr 10, 2013

Kartikp84 said:
So very simple question, about the HTC one Gallery.
Can you remove the facebook/picasa album icon things from the gallery? i only like my own albums in gallery!

Hi Kartikp84,

If you don't know this tool; ROM Cleaner have a look at it, you can not imagine how stripped a ROM can be! Also if your phone is rooted and already running a custom ROM, there are good chances this can be an available option into Aroma installer if the ROM support this function.

The best for now is to give some time for the phone to be available.

reddotsg · Apr 12, 2013

hi all.

I'm new to xda hopefully you guys can help me. I've just got a htc one and accidently flashed a random boot.img when rooting. everything works fine except the wifi, when i flash another boot.img, the wifi would be working but the receiver would not have any sound. my software version is 1.29.707.3.

Thanks in advance.

D.O.C · Apr 13, 2013

Flash a stock firmware and stock boot.img specifically made for your device. You can brick your device by flashing random stuff, be very careful with that.

reddotsg · Apr 13, 2013

D.O.C said:
Flash a stock firmware and stock boot.img specifically made for your device. You can brick your device by flashing random stuff, be very careful with that.

thanks for the reply! luckily only the receiver fails to work. would probably wait for 1.29.707 kernel?

D.O.C · Apr 14, 2013

Just flash the latest available for your device model right now, kernel/baseband/roms control cpu, display, battery etc, so I wouldnt wait much in a non optimized version since you are risking the integrity of your hardware.

DEARxHOPE · Apr 15, 2013

Hello everyone.
I'm new to xda. I'm french and there are very few things in my language on this phone, so I just get information here (sorry for my english .. ^^)
I do a lot of research to answer my questions, but I'm a little confused, if you could help me put all clear
I have a Htc One version 1.28.163.3, I want to update to the latest version (1.28.401.7 I think), what should I pay attention? The CID (what it is, how I find)?
An official stock rom installs as a Custom ROM? It is there a site to find the official ROM without using xda?

Thank you to whoever wants to help me

Napoleon_PhoneApart · Apr 15, 2013

DEARxHOPE said:
Hello everyone.
I'm new to xda. I'm french and there are very few things in my language on this phone, so I just get information here (sorry for my english .. ^^)
I do a lot of research to answer my questions, but I'm a little confused, if you could help me put all clear
I have a Htc One version 1.28.163.3, I want to update to the latest version (1.28.401.7 I think), what should I pay attention? The CID (what it is, how I find)?
An official stock rom installs as a Custom ROM? It is there a site to find the official ROM without using xda?

Thank you to whoever wants to help me

I don't have your answers, but your English is better than that of a lot of native speakers!

Boomchaos · Apr 16, 2013

External Libraries

This may be a bit technical for this thread, but I have a Python Library that I would like to use with my Java Android project. Is it possible for me to make API calls to the Python library from my Android app?

deathscthe · Apr 20, 2013

Hi,

Does anyone have the stock ruu for HTC__044(trying to remove root)? Can't seem to find it anywhere or is there an easier way to remove root?

Thanks

KidCarter93 · Apr 20, 2013

deathscthe said:
Hi,

Does anyone have the stock ruu for HTC__044(trying to remove root)? Can't seem to find it anywhere or is there an easier way to remove root?

Thanks

You can remove root access by flashing this stock ROM

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Lucky Thirteen · Apr 20, 2013

deathscthe said:
Hi,

Does anyone have the stock ruu for HTC__044(trying to remove root)? Can't seem to find it anywhere or is there an easier way to remove root?

Thanks

Hi deathscthe,

Are you still on the stock ROM? If yes simply open the SuperSu or Superuser application and locate the option for removing permanently the root. Follow the onscreen procedure and reboot. Unrooted.

To determine the exact RUU for your phone in fastboot mode at the prompt type >fastboot getvar version-main

e.g. of mine
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot getvar version-main
version-main: 1.29.661.5
finished. total time: 0.001s

This would be the number of my RUU, now look for your version-main, it could different from mine. If you need more help don't hesitate to ask.

deathscthe · Apr 20, 2013

KidCarter93 said:
You can remove root access by flashing this stock ROM

Sent from either my Nexus 7 or HTC One via XDA Premium

Thanks! So I just have to download the recovery and flash it?

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