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Restore Sprint HTC One M8 To Stock Firmware Using RUU

Android providing a lot of Custom support also sending a lot of devices to a stage called Brick, where your device done for, however, if your device is Soft brick, flashing official ROMs on it can solve this problem, but the only problem is that a brick device can be restored using the codes and flashing different images on the device using Command prompt. However, there are some cases in which a person has to install official ROM on his device jsut to get back all the performance and speed, because not all the Custom images and roms work as good as the official one. But not all the times an Official ROM is easy to find. But in this case of Sprint HTC One M8, you people are so lucky. You can restore your HTC One M8 with the RUU and this method is considered the best among all others.

Contents

Requirements:

  • An S-Off Device, if you are not S-Off, follow the link to do so: Link | Mirror
  • Download the RUU File: Link
  • Enable USB Debugging mode.
  • Install HTC USB Drivers: Link
  • Configure Fastbboot on your device: Link

Installation Process # 1:

  1. Download and Extract the RUU.zip file
  2. Now Connect your HTC One M8 to PC and open command prompt in the fastboot folder.
  3. Type: adb reboot bootloader to reboot your device in bootloader mode.
  4. Select Fastboot from bootloader mode.
  5. Now open command prompt in Fastboot folder again and this time type: fastboot oem writecid 11111111
  6. Now open the extracted RUU folder and run ARUWIZARD.exe as administrator.
  7. Now just click the update button and wait for it to restore your device

Installation Process # 2:

  1. Downlaod and rename the RUU.zip file to Firmware.zip file.
  2. Now Connect your HTC One M8 to PC and open command prompt in the fastboot folder.
  3. Type: adb reboot bootloader to reboot your device in bootloader mode.
  4. Select Fastboot from bootloader mode.
  5. Once the Black screen appears type the following: fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
  6. When the installation is done, type: fastboot reboot to reboot your device

Installation Process # 3:

  1. Format your MicroSD card to FAT32, using a Card-reader.
  2. Rename the RUU file to 0P6BIMG.zip.
  3. Copy the 0P6BIMG.zip to your sdcard.
  4. In teh bootloader mode, highlight HBOOT option and select it.
  5. Your device will automatically detect the RUU file and it’ll start the installation.
  6. Once done, reboot your device

 

This post was last modified on June 8, 2014 8:03 pm

Mohsin Raza

Mohsin is the veteran technology content writer at TechBeasts. Mohsin used to write about Android Custom ROMs and Recoveries.

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