Check PMalready flashed the entire firmware, just needed the recovery.img if you could.
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Thanks :laugh:
Update hitting today or tomorrow! 1.54
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Drop the "2014-04-03--16-40-35 KOT49H release-keys" folder into a folder with your phone's serial number and not the uploader's serial number. The serial number starts with "FA..."
The file structure should be "/TWRP/BACKUPS/FA..../2014-04-03....."
Also, make sure you are selecting the right storage card in TWRP.
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Yup got it. I didn't know it had to be under my devices serial #.
The storage will be /sdcard/twrp/backups instead of /sdcard2/ in case anyone is wondering.
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So I restored /system from the TWRP stock backup and was able to take the OTA. After the OTA I downgraded hboot and flashed back to TWRP. All is well. :good:
Is the flashable s-off firmware zip coming, along with a rom flash? Or are you s-off people doing it different this time?
Captain_Throwback will probably get something posted when he has a chance.
I took the ota, and got the new hboot. I want to downgrade my hboot so I can remove the s-off and unlock sign
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If it worked before it should be no problem using the same one.
Just got it driving home from work not unlocked or anything yet,completely stock. Here's a screenshot.
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Should I take this OTA or unlock and root and everything first? Or will I still be able to root later on? Haven't had time to do it cuz I'm having surgery so I was going to wait till after my surgery to do everything.
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If you take the OTA your bootloader has to be locked.
Just got it driving home from work not unlocked or anything yet,completely stock. Here's a screenshot.
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Should I take this OTA or unlock and root and everything first? Or will I still be able to root later on? Haven't had time to do it cuz I'm having surgery so I was going to wait till after my surgery to do everything.
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If you plan on getting S-OFF I would wait, firewater may not work if you update.
As for unlocking and rooting you can do that anytime.
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Bootloader does not have to be relocked. You just need to have stock recovery and make sure you have all the system files that the OTA patches (which is a lot if you look in the OTA zip).
Once you update, just reinstall custom recovery and flash superuser to re-root as you did before.
If you are SOFF, then you stay SOFF. If you plan on getting SOFF, wait in case the exploit is patched in the update.
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Another thing I noticed with the update is that instead of fixing the home button to actually give us the option of being a menu button on longpress, they completely removed the home button option in settings/display and gestures.
So , and sorry if this sounds redundant;, If I'm s-off and I flash stock recovery, take the OTA update, re-flash custom recovery and superuser, I will stay s-off? do I also have to re-flash the custom hboot?
Yes. You stay S-OFF. Just make sure you didn't delete any system files that the OTA needs to patch. Otherwise, the update will quit because it's sees that the system has been modified. This is assuming you are still on the stock ODEX ROM.
You don't need to reflash the hexed edited hboot unless you want to remove the Red Text Warning (which I'm sure you do).
I was able to flash the stock system apps from twrp backup as I removed some stock apps, put the stock recovery on, update to sprint's new release, flash recovery, reflash busybox/su, flash the other mods I have (like exchange security off, sweep to sleep, no write protection, etc), get rid of the ugly red text, and am back to where I was with the extreme power saver and whatever other things Sprint "fixed". Thanks to all you devs and gurus! I just read, double/triple read, and go. So far so good!
Edit: Jumped the gun. My wifi won't turn on. I'll figure it out
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Wifi is working on my end. I didn't reflash the no-write protection mod since I wasn't sure if the kernel was updated and we need a kernel with init.d support for that mod. However, I my write protection is disabled still and I can modify stuff while I'm booted into the system. I'm not sure if its related to S-OFF or if the update just didn't contain an updated kernel.
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Here's the firmware, for the S-OFF folks: http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...ion-LATEST-1-54-651-8-OTA&p=299473#post299473
I still haven't gotten a stock ROM to build/flash successfully, but now that I have a good update-binary and updater-script, I think I should be able to throw one together that works (unless someone else gets to it first)13
FYI I posted a stock rooted here: http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?16276-SPRINT-ROM-M8WHL-Stock-Rooted-Base-1-54-651-83
This.
If you waited to root your phone until HTC was done with updating it, you'd have to wait around two years. As quick as the developers are with getting rooted versions of software updates out, there is no sense in waiting around.
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Once you are unlocked you don't updates anymore. You have to wait until one of the Dev's create a modified firmware update.
EDIT: Actually never do a OTA if you are S-Off. There may not be an exploit yet and will have to wait until there is to regain S-OFF.
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