Friday, December 11, 2015

install android lollipop based resurrection remix custom rom on Htc one M8

Update your htc one m8 to latest version of android lollipop by flashing resurrection remix custom rom.Htc one m8 is one of the best looking device out there featuring a full metal body chasis.Its a full metal uni-body contruction sporting a 5 inch ful hd display which is protected by a corning gorilla 3 layer.There is a snapdragon 801 chipset powering the device which is a quadcore processor clocked at 2.3 ghz with adreno 330 Gpu.2gb ram module supports the processor with 16 or 32 gb internal storage options.
Primary camera on the device is a ultra pixel with 4mp maximum resolution while the secondary camera is 5Mp shooter.There is a non removable 2600 mah battery powering it and finally it runs on android  4.4 kitkat  with a custom htc sense 6.0 ui and is upgraded to lollipop recently.

If you re in search for lollipop custom roms for htc one m8 and could not find one then you are on right place in this post we will guide to install android lollipop based resurrection remix custom rom on htc one m8.

Why to go for a custom rom on Htc one m8?

  • Less bloatware: Usually Carrier variants comes with lot of bloatware and unwanted stuff.This might hinder performance a bit which might result in laggyness.Custom roms will have less bloatware or no bloatware at all as a result of which you will notice its performance is much better than on stock rom.
  • Better performance: Though performance can be increased by controlling cpu and Gpu  with root apps you might not achieve what you want.There is better scope for performance on custom roms as developers implements different mods to make it perfect.
  • Battery life: Battery life is always opposite to performance.Greater the performance least the battery life  you get.In order to get a balance one between them you have to go for custom roms. 
  • Better customization: Most of the apps with root access will work better on custom roms than on stock roms.For instance take xposed installer.It offers lot of modules for customization but will work perfectly on custom roms than on stock one.
prerequisites:
  • Backup:Backup all your data which includes apps,contacts,photos videos etc everything to computer or any cloud storage as flashing this resurrection remix on htc one m8 will erase data.
  • Battery: Charge your one m8 to at least 90% so that you wont encounter any battery related issues while flashing this.
  • Backup Efs partitions: Backup all your efs partition of your one m8 on current rom.If you loose signal you can just restore it back.
  • Lock Gps:Lock your gps position on your current rom.If you use this a lot then you have to lock it so that it could work even after flashing other roms.Its easy to lock gps .Turn on gps in settings and find your current location in google maps and now now have locked on to gps.
  • Custom recovery: You need a custom recovery installed on your one m8 .Without it you can not flash roms at all.
  • Downloads: Download resurrection remix one m8  custom rom and google apps if needed.Transfer them to internal storage.

Install resurrection remix custom rom on Htc one M8:
resurrection remix custom rom on Htc one M8
About resurrection:
This Resurrection remix  which your are about to Htc one m8 is based on android 5.1.1 lollipop and is based on cyanogenmod,slim,omni and original remix roms.So you can all the best features of other roms are included in this along with performance and a decent battery life.
Features:
  • Navigation bar tweaks: You can enable disable or navigation bar and also you can adjust the size of navigation bar.Navigation ring included toggles to in case of quick access just swipe from bottom of screen and you can access apps which you have set.
  • Status bar tweaks: Status bar has lot of tweaks which include a brightness slider.Slide in status bar to adjust brightness of the screen.Various tweaks are available to carrier label too like color and switch.Quick and smart pull down are also present.Battery icon too has tweaks.
  • Gesture anywhere: This basically lets to open any app at any time(while using other apps) with just a gesture.You have to set the gestures and use them.

  • Recent panel mods: Stock recent panel do not have an option to clear all the apps at once.In this rom you a button to clear apps and can even set the position of the button.
  • App circle Bar:Swiping from the left or right edges of the screen an app bar pops up and you can choose what app you want to launch.This is great way of multitasking.
  • Lock screen mods: This includes placing of 5 shortcuts on lock screen and also set targets for the slider.
  • Theme enigne: Theme engine is from the cyanogenmod rom which basically changes the look user interface from lock screen  to ring tones all the way up to boot animations.The speciality of the theme engine is the ability to choose individual elements of every theme you have installed.So you like the ring tones and wallpapers of one theme and icons of other theme then you can have them at a time.Just open the theme chooser and you will understand how to do it.
These are some of the features of the resurrection remix rom and you can explore more features by flashing this custom on  Htc one m8.

Flash resurrection remix using Twrp recovery: 

  1. Download resurrection remix  for htc one m8 and Gapps transfer it to sdcard or internal storage of device.
  2. Power of the device completely.
  3. Press volume up,volume down and power simultaneously and once you see boot loader screen release buttons.
  4. Using volume down as a navigation button move to recovery and click on power button to confirm action.
  5. Once you are in twrp backup existing rom first.It might about 5 minutes for backup to complete.
  6. Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache.You may not need to wipe system.
  7. Flash ROM and then gapps.
  8. Reboot to system.Wait at least 15 minutes for initial boot to complete and once done you can explore its features.
  9. If rom fails to boot press and hold power button for 15 seconds and it force shutdown.Reboot it to recovery and this wipe system too and flash rom again.
Once device boot up you will have android lollipop based resurrection remix rom on your htc one m8.If your facing any issues do leave a comment below.

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