[ROM]BareBack RLS2.1 [9/22/2014][Not Quite Dead Yet]

[thoughtlesskyle]

Welcome to Bareback for the HTC One M8

What is this?
This is a Highly stripped down sense rom, designed to give the best of both worlds, a fully featured stock rom, but stripped of a lot of the HTC bloat that comes with it.

a short video tour of the rom

ROM Features
-2.16.654.4 HK base
- rooted
- busybox
- Insecure boot with init.d
- heavy debloat ( rom sits around 760mbs)
- prism, and blinkfeed social items removed (blinkfeed launcher can be installed from the play store but facebook and stuff won't work because the plugins are removed)
- moved a lot of the google apps to the /data partition
- added Launcher3 (from paranoid android 4.44)
- removed htc weather and replaced it with Genie Widget from Nexus 5
- removed world clock and replaced it with Deskclock from Nexus 5
- themed the systemUI a bit to give it a more AOSP vibe
- converted most of the audio files to mp3 to save a bunch of space
- removed most of the wallpapers
- added the stock GEL kitkat wallpaper (purpleish moutain one)
- APM no kid mode (thanks nfinitefx45)
- generic status bar icon with a bunch of stuff hidden

RLS 2
- further debloat (removed sense weather animations since the clock is gone)
- added the default notfication sounds back as flac so that sounds work right out of the box
- got rid of the google plus plugin that was causing the sense pack error from before
- removed sense calculator added in the stock android calculator
- added a 4th wallpaper that enables the 4th theme to be used (the darker one)
- updated a couple of the stock apps (adds space but, it's space that would have been used anyway)
- changed out email client, with google's email
- changed calendar with google calendar
- probably more

RLS 2.1
- Added all new wallpapers (made by me )
- Launcher3 now shows the proper sense apps on the homescreen (eg the messages, phone, and camera)
- updated some apps in /data (that was a little bit ago though)
- Fixed calendar sync (missing apk)
- probably not more

Future/todo
- a little more themeing
- change some app icons with their holo counterparts

Download RLS2.1

Download RLS2

Download RLS1

YOU MUST BE ON LATEST FIRMWARE WITH UPDATED HBOOT OR YOU WILL HAVE WEIRD BOOT ISSUES ALSO S-OFF IS PREFERRED THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING

Latest Firmware Downloads

OTA firmware
Modified firmware (recovery removed and no text in hboot credit nfinitefx45 s-off only)

And a Video Guide I made on how to flash the firmware zips

Bugs:
- Wifi calling in the app drawer gives a permissions error use it from the settings menu if you want to use it, i might look into a fix, but it's not really an issue for me)


Adding Some Sense apps back:
- Good News is HTC has been putting a lot of the HTC apps on the play store and you can install them again on this
- HTC service pack will be required, this is also available in the market install that then the apps of your choice


Q&A
Q: Will you post the apps you removed?
A: probably the social app plug ins i'll have a zip for, but as far as everything i pulled nope no plans
Q: Will you add this feature?
A: Nope this was something i did in my spare time
Q: I bricked my phone or didn't follow your instructions will you help
A: I'll give it a shot, but it will be on my time scale, and i'll probably make you feel bad for asking
Q: if i Threaten to go back to another rom will you listen to my requests?
A: Nope it will actually make me want to help you less


XDA:DevDB Information
Bareback, ROM for the Sprint HTC One (M8)

Contributors
thoughtlesskyle
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
Based On: Sense 6

Version Information
Status: Testing
Current Beta Version: RLS1
Beta Release Date: 2014-07-28

Created 2014-07-28
Last Updated 2014-09-22

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

mine

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

mine also

 

[carrilloevo]

Nice!!!!

 

[kenny8504]

Dude u are a one man wrecking crew

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

Dude u are a one man wrecking crew

Oh hey thanks,
Though I prefer the term
"Guy who gets really bored"

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[Registerforwhat]

Looks promising, if i go back to sense I need my HK audio, i take it this has that stripped out right?

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

Looks promising, if i go back to sense I need my HK audio, i take it this has that stripped out right?

Nope HK is still there, the status bar icon is turned off though

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[dandan2980]

Thank you I loved rocking bareback on my evo lte

 

[drlzanej]

Nice work kyle. Thanks

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[dandan2980]

Just flashed and this ROM is freaking awsome . so fast and clean so far. But I love the nice touches you did with the slight aosp theming like the navbar and pull down drag bar is on point. Is there anyway to get the Helvitca fonts back in the ROM . I know I could probably flash a font pack but it doesn't seem to change all the fonts like the native font changer in settings does. Great job!!!

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

Just flashed and this ROM is freaking awsome . so fast and clean so far. But I love the nice touches you did with the slight aosp theming like the navbar and pull down drag bar is on point. Is there anyway to get the Helvitca fonts back in the ROM . I know I could probably flash a font pack but it doesn't seem to change all the fonts like the native font changer in settings does. Great job!!!

I think I can get you the apk

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[dandan2980]

I think I can get you the apk

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That would be greatly appreciated

 

[dandan2980]

Think I found a minor bug if that's what you wanna call it chrome will not open going to delete it and install from play store and see what happens

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Nvrm I had to update it in play store der

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

Think I found a minor bug if that's what you wanna call it chrome will not open going to delete it and install from play store and see what happens

---------- Post added at 07:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:53 PM ----------

Nvrm I had to update it in play store der

Yeah play store should fix that, I'll try re adding the original chrome apk if I get to release 2

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[dandan2980]

Yeah play store should fix that, I'll try re adding the original chrome apk if I get to release 2

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Updating the app in play store fixed it had like 10 updates I forgot to do after flashing the ROM. This is like a Gpe/Sense Hybrid ROM still stoked.

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

Updating the app in play store fixed it had like 10 updates I forgot to do after flashing the ROM. This is like a Gpe/Sense Hybrid ROM still stoked.

Yeah I aimed for that, with HTC putting so much in the market its actually pretty awesome that you can add some stuff back, sense TV for example

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[dandan2980]

Yeah I aimed for that, with HTC putting so much in the market its actually pretty awesome that you can add some stuff back, sense TV for example

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Yes that is actually awesome cause you can just slim the ROM down and user has the choice to add it back. This baby is fast with all the sense stuff gone

 

[thoughtlesskyle]

Just flashed and this ROM is freaking awsome . so fast and clean so far. But I love the nice touches you did with the slight aosp theming like the navbar and pull down drag bar is on point. Is there anyway to get the Helvitca fonts back in the ROM . I know I could probably flash a font pack but it doesn't seem to change all the fonts like the native font changer in settings does. Great job!!!

I attached it down below, it's signed you just need to install it like any other apk

 

[Thisismyringtone]

So far loving this Rom quick and fast no issues at all so far ? only one thing would be nice unless I missed it would be to put the clear all in the recent menu. Definitely my new daily keep it up ?