Apps Lost After Unlocking Bootloader

[tewest86]

Be advised, that once you unlock the boot loader, you will loose the stock calculator and voice recorder. This isn't new for HTC. I just want people to know ahead of time. As of right now, there is nowhere to get those stock apps back.

 

[aviatordoc]

@Tewest, you are right about the calculator, however, I still have the voice recorder. Wish it was the other way around.

 

[Paul627g]

Suggestion. Look around and see if anyone has a system dump of the HTC One. This will usually have the stock wallpapers, ringtones, etc which most people are interested in but same time if it was a FULL system dump it also has the stock apps, etc

 

[obijohn]

There are four HTC apps installed on /data instead of /system (flashlight, calculator, ringtone trimmer, and sound/voice recorder). When unlocking the phone, the process completely wipes /data and so those four apps are deleted. However, most of the roms available now include them, for example Android Revolution HD and TrickDroid. If you don't want to install a custom rom, you can just extract those apps and install them manually, which is what I did at first. Look for "Flashlight.apk", "Calculator.apk", "HtcSoundRecorder.apk" and "HtcRingtoneTrimmer.apk" in the rom zip file.

The biggest complaint I have about the wipe that the unlocking process does, is that it wipes the sdcard. I mean, c'mon, is that really necessary?? I had made a Carbon backup of all my apps onto the sdcard, thinking they would be safe. Nope. Everything on it was wiped, including all the photos I had taken. The HTC dev unlock pages do say they are wiping all data ("for your protection", ha!), but they don't specifically mention the sdcard so I mistakenly thought "all data" was simply all *internal* data, and it was quite a shock when I found that all my backups and photos were gone. Oh well, I did it pretty early on so didn't lose too much. Live and learn.

 

[tewest86]

I fixed it. I found a HTC One custom Stock rom. The files are under data/preload. Make sure you unzip the file first or it won't let you copy/move files.

 

[Tower72]

I still have my calculator and my voice recorder..I never had the ringtone trimmer or the flashlight ones on my ATT 32gb

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

I still have my calculator and my voice recorder..I never had the ringtone trimmer or the flashlight ones on my ATT 32gb

Same here.

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[Michmeister]

Yes I unlocked and didn't lose any apps.

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[mstrblueskys]

You can find the apps you are missing and more if you search google. No worries!

 

[BiGsMiLeSKyLe]

Is flashlight app only availabe on the att version, since I'm on sprint and just searched with es file and didn't find any file named flashlight, i wish I can get that app since i miss it from my 3D days

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[deviant12no]

Posting this for anyone who wants the zip file for the missing apps after you unlock the bootloader..

[FIX] Restore original SD card / preload content (1.28.401.7) - xda-developers

May want to save this in case you ever want to go back to STOCK for warranty purposes..

 

[jonathan2677]

I never lost mine is it because I'm s_off prob shouldn't make a diff but I still have them

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[TarekElsakka]

I never lost either one and I was S-ON when I first unlocked the bootloader. Now I am S-OFF.

 

[ne0ne]

You don't lose the calculator or voice recorder app when unlocking through htc Dev.

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[Raymond Teruel]

thnx for the help, got my apps and more back

 

[uadissa]

I fixed it. I found a HTC One custom Stock rom. The files are under data/preload. Make sure you unzip the file first or it won't let you copy/move files.

Hi mate. Could you please let me know which ROM you downloaded and the android version you are running?
thanks
[Edit]Got it sorted by downloading a Stock ROM which matches the OS. The file could be found in in ROM zip and could be installed easily by opening it from the file explorer after copying the APKs to the internal memory.