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Error unmounting SYSTEM question

Getting this in Clockwork recovery after trying to get the Vanilla lock screen posted in the Dev section. I failed to type #exit before I disconnected the usb. When I went to hit unmount system I got this error. I've tried a nandroid backup from a week ago.. no go... gives me basically the same error.
My question is... can I reboot from this condition or what can I do to resolve this?
EDIT: Running the leaked 2.2 Stock rom if it makes a difference

rebooted without incident.. didn't brick. Hope this helps anyone else that get this error in clockwork.

if you are using adb shell, you have to cd / or just cd .. until you are back at the root directory, then it will allow you to unmount the /system... because it is still in use.

[Q] Shattered screen & backup (solved)

Hi everyone, for Christmas my screen was crushed by a car .
The screen is completely destroyed (both touch screen & display screen).
However the phone is booting, so I can put it in recovery mod (I rooted the phone and I have clockworkmod).
After many trials, I succeeded in having adb connecting to my phone in blind mode.
I did this:
Code:
adb mount /data
adb pull /data /a_backup_folder
adb mount /system
adb pull /system /another_backup_folder
... and copied back my SD to my computer. I plan to buy another Desire and to revert the instruction by issuing a push for the data & system. This is:
Code:
adb mount /data
adb push /a_backup_folder /data
adb mount /system
adb push /another_backup_folder /system
Will it work ? Or is the system in sync with the flashed firmware ?
Can I selectively push some of the folders (namely applications, and the whole data). I hope to get back my settings, contacts etc...
I'm afraid I cannot do a whole lot more, since I do everything in blind mode.
Any advice on this ?
Thank you !

Just make a nandroid, should be able to restore as long as you don't have a different screen version (AMOLED to SLCD) but not 100% sure.

TheGhost1233 said:
Just make a nandroid, should be able to restore as long as you don't have a different screen version (AMOLED to SLCD) but not 100% sure.
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Thank you for your suggestion.
Can I do it even if I do not have a screen ? I've tried to launch it but I fear it needs busybox (it says that it cannot find nc) and I think I do not have it (and don't know how to put it without the screen).
What are the supplementary steps that nandroid does ?

This is for CWM 2.5.0.7.
Sorry mist the part that you have to do everything blind, when in recovery press 5 times down on the volume rocker and then 2 times on the OJ let it sit for 10 min, should be done sooner but i don't know how to check if it's finished. After 10 min press once again on the OJ, your phone should reboot and in the Clockwork folder on the SD card should be a backup folder with a folder with the current date and time of the back up.

Unfortunately it did not work.
It did the steps as provided, and indeed the phone rebooted, but there is no clockworkmod folder on the sd card.
Is there any way to do a similar operation with adb ? This would be easier since when I'm in adb shell, I can type from the PC .

Try installing amon ra recovery. You should be able to do it. This is what the amon ra thread says:
Scripts available via adb :
* Nandroid v2.2.1 : enter "nandroid-mobile.sh" to start.
Explenation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3046976&postcount=1
I think that this is what you are looking for

Use the command below to find out what partitions each mtd is for (I don't remember)
cat /process/mtd
Then backup with
cat /dev/mtd/mtdx > /sdcard/mtd.img
(Replacing x with whatever number)
Get all the partitions you need, boot, cache, data and system. Then flash to your new phone from fastboot.
fastboot flash boot mtdx.img
You might want to get hold of a tool called unyaffs and take a look inside the images you make to check its all ok before you bin your old phone or send it back.

mercianary said:
Use the command below to find out what partitions each mtd is for (I don't remember)
cat /process/mtd
Then backup with
cat /dev/mtd/mtdx > /sdcard/mtd.img
(Replacing x with whatever number)
Get all the partitions you need, boot, cache, data and system. Then flash to your new phone from fastboot.
fastboot flash boot mtdx.img
You might want to get hold of a tool called unyaffs and take a look inside the images you make to check its all ok before you bin your old phone or send it back.
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Ok the first step worked, but unyaffs does not want to open my imgs.
The size are as follow:
Code:
3*145*728 boot.img
3*145*728 boot_ro.img
41*943*040 cache.img
41*943*040 cache_ro.img
655*360 misc.img
655*360 misc_ro.img
4*718*592 recovery.img
4*718*592 recovery_ro.img
262*144*000 system.img
262*144*000 system_ro.img
154*796*032 userdata.img
154*796*032 userdata_ro.img
which seems good (I also made images from the mtdXro). However I should be able to extract userdata and system from my understanding. I tried with unyaffs both on linux and on windows, on both I get a segmentation fault.
Do I have a way to verify that theses images are good ? I do not want to trash the new phone I will buy with a faulty image...

Flash the same rom from recovery on your new phone, then flash the data image from fastboot, if it works the first boot should take a while as it builds the cache. If it doesn't work just clear data and it wont have done any damage to your new phone.
You will have to zip the data image before you fastboot flash it because it's too big for fastboot to receive.
If you have s-off on your old phone I would flash amon-ra recovery from fastboot then use the nandroid script over adb.
As long as you don't try to flash the recovery you backed up I don't think there's any chance of damaging your new phone doing this.

Ok the final solution was to use the new phone (rooted and with clockworkmod) as a reference.
I did the same backup sequence on the two phones, and have been able to restore the backup on the new phone.
Thank you everyone for your help !

Glad you got it sorted...don't drop your phone under a car again.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Error when restoring Nandroid

Hi
I'm getting this error when I try to restore:
Code:
Error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via adb!
So I tried to restore it through adb.
But then I get this error message:
Code:
"error: unable to mount /system, aborting
/sdcard/nandroid/SH0CJPL05354/BCDAS-20110610-1442"
The thing is it worked the first time I tried it but it won't work anymore and since I've wiped, I can't boot up at all. I can only access Recovery and the Bootloader
I always wipe before restoring and for what it's worth, I had to restore in the first place because I flashed the Bravo Sense hboot.
I'm AmonRa 2.0.1
Alpharev S-Off

Seems like /system is not mounted? Try
Code:
adb remount
then have another go?

stringer7 said:
Seems like /system is not mounted? Try
Code:
adb remount
then have another go?
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Is that right after I load the adb shell?
If so I'm getting this when I do adb remount:
Code:
/sbin/sh: adb: not found
I think I'm doing it wrong.

Ok, try to get your PC to recognise your device using
Code:
adb devices
There is s good guide on installation and use here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879701

stringer7 said:
Ok, try to get your PC to recognise your device using
Code:
adb devices
There is s good guide on installation and use here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879701
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The phone is listed under adb devices and I have successfully located the nandroid on my sdcard using adb, it's just the restore fails as above. (Interestingly, it lists the phone under adb devices when I'm in Recovery but it won't do so when I'm in the bootloader screen.)
Anyway, this is what I'm getting with adb remount:
Code:
C:\>adb remount
remount failed: invalid argument
What would suggest from here?
Thanks for helping out, btw. It's very very much appreciated

Ok so you currently have s-off, RA recovery, access to bootloader and recovery, but no working rom and a nandroid backup that won't restore - that right?

stringer7 said:
Ok so you currently have s-off, RA recovery, access to bootloader and recovery, but no working rom and a nandroid backup that won't restore - that right?
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If it was me I would wipe everything (I know you did already but just to be sure) download fresh version of the rom to your sd via PC, insert in phone and flash it through recovery. That gets you a functioning phone at least!
Then work on the restore issue. The backup was made with the same version of RA that you are currently using I assume? I'm not sure where to go with it really, and hope someone with more knowledge will pitch in...!

Something like that has already happened to me twice. First, I was running low on sd space. Second, my recovery was corrupted somewhat: fixed by reflashing the same recovery. Hope this helps you in troubleshooting.

stringer7 said:
If it was me I would wipe everything (I know you did already but just to be sure) download fresh version of the rom to your sd via PC, insert in phone and flash it through recovery. That gets you a functioning phone at least!
Then work on the restore issue. The backup was made with the same version of RA that you are currently using I assume? I'm not sure where to go with it really, and hope someone with more knowledge will pitch in...!
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I managed to get it sorted. A guy on another forum mentioned this exact same solution. Which means props to you too.
Thanks for the help.

You are welcome!
Remember to pass it on and help where you can...

sak01 said:
I managed to get it sorted. A guy on another forum mentioned this exact same solution. Which means props to you too.
Thanks for the help.
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Post the solution here to help other people.

^^sorry I missed your post.
It's this solution posted by stringer7 earlier
stringer7 said:
If it was me I would wipe everything (I know you did already but just to be sure) download fresh version of the rom to your sd via PC, insert in phone and flash it through recovery. That gets you a functioning phone at least!
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Or as Rastaman over at AF put it:
if youve wiped, try and flash a new rom without restoring nand and see if it rebuilds the system partition
once done see if a nand restore will work (although it was done without ext :/)
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So basically, flashing a new rom rebuilds the system partition and then the nand restore works.

if so, would be usefull to restore without the boot.img from nandbackup.
never used nandbackup, i have ridden that was availaible through some advanced features from nand restore on amonRA
this is a point already raised early by someone named Brandall

[Q] CWM Bootloop w/ v5.8.2.0

Long story short im a newb, im sorry for creating a new thread but ive exhausted my efforts looking for a solution to the problem im having. When the problem occured i had restored my original cwm backup that i created when first rooting my phone. I then did a factory wipe and reinstalled cwm and flashed my recovery. I went to install cm9 4-4-12 and i got a pop up that firmware update was available i clicked update system now and got sent to cwm recovery. Every time since then i cannot reboot into the android os, pulling battery. It doesnt matter what i do, ive tried to use a flash recovery zip i found in another thread to exit boot loop. Ive also tried restoring my original back ups and my recent back ups. I have the android sdk installed but having trouble getting adb to work not sure if i should go about trying to fix the recovery or trying to restore phone to its original state either way i think i need to get adb working before i can do either one. Any help is appreciated and im sorry if im wasting your time.

Did you try wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, factory reset before flashing CM9?

Yes. The order i took was Wipe data/factory reset> Wipe cache partition> wipe dalvic cache> installed cm9 zip> installed gaps zip. still nothing got adb to work not doing much with it i know it has root access and when i got the state of the device it came up as unknown although im pretty sure im in recovery mode.

ok a few question and maybe a step by step to help you since i had a same promblem with a bad flash of CM9
1A. Can you boot into Recovery ? if not i can help you reflash your phone with the Kdz files took me forever to get it to work but i finilly found all the files needed.
1B. if it does boot into recovery run adb devices ... does it show the phone in recovery mode ? in the list.
If so then you can Download the following 6 files Dropbox Down link its not mine but was posted in another Nitro Recovery topic i will give credits once i re go threw the topic to see the poster
- recovery.img
- system.img
- baseband.img
- boot.img
- firmware.img
- pushall.bat
in your CWM recovery go to mounts or it may be under advanced and turn on usb mass storage and as long as all of those files are in your adb folder you can run the pushall.bat and it will place them on your sdcard.
After that turn off usb mass storage and run adb devices again to make sure you phone is still showing up. If so run these commands
Adb shell
****** notice the SU command isnt used here**** cant get super user in recovery but it will still let you run the commands and i can confirm it does work
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
dd if=/sdcard/firmware.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p27
dd if=/sdcard/baseband.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14
You won't be able to issue a reboot command, so just hold power down on your phone til it's off and hold the volume down button so that it comes back up in factory data reset mode. You will want to pull your sdcard at this time if you don't want your data erased.
Hit power twice and your phone should go through its reset process and (hopefully!) come back up in a working (and rooted) AT&T "stock" rom
if not then try to follow this for the CM9 Adb Drivers Wiki for CM adb drivers i know its a little work but it dose the trick then go back up to the previous step and try that to get to stock rooted
i dont think i left anything out but i can help with anything else i know if that doesnt get you back up and running.
Credits to ???? for the drop box link with the godly files for our nitro
and to Malnilion for his guide on unbricking the nitro

edit: re-ran superoneclick for run and it worked! I should be good from here

Got everything to work. Wait spoke to soon tried to reinstall firmware update again got the same problem. oh well guess i should done fw update before installing cwm. Thanks for the help i should be able to repete this problem in the case of another brick... which just occured.

So after going through the process of unbricking my phone a second time my phone was rebooted into software update screen. Updating firmware then software and did not have to go through factory reset. Strange...

I pushed all images to my device via adb,but ota update gets an error when trying to install. At least its not bricked. Anyone know of another method?
Sent from my LG-P930 using XDA

lg nitro in recovery loop
toki, I tried your fix, but, it comes up /sdcard/boot.img is not found. any suggestions?

Tokie the dropbox links are not working

reverendyummypants said:
toki, I tried your fix, but, it comes up /sdcard/boot.img is not found. any suggestions?
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re push the img file back to the sdcard
adb push boot.img /sdcard/ make sure that he boot.img file is in the same folder as your adb and then try the dd command for it it happened to me once
EdwinXVS said:
Tokie the dropbox links are not working
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im uploading to my own dropbox bare with me ill posyt a live link as soon as it ready guys

cwm recovery loop
_Tokie, retried. still dd command cannot be done. file not found. The files ARE IN the adb folder. Not sure what else to do.

when you type adb push boot.img /sdcard/ what does it say ? i dont see why it will do the rest and not that one

dd: can't open sdcard\boot.img : no such file or directory

i was asking about when you pushed the boot.img to teh sdcard... if yyou want i can look at it threw teamviewer total up to you ... if you deside that pm me then info for it

Just take the SD card out and into your computer (assuming you have a card reader) and copy the files to it manually.

drumist said:
Just take the SD card out and into your computer (assuming you have a card reader) and copy the files to it manually.
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im going to assume that he is booting into CWM its thats the case with teh usb cable hooked to the computer he can turn on mass storage from the CWM and just tranfer it that way .. if he doesnt have a reader .. i just dont see why its not copying the boot image

I'm sorry. The files are on the sdcard. When it comes time for the dd command, i get that error which i recently posted.

If you're in CWM you have to ensure your sdcard is mounted. I have got caught up on this step as well lol

Thank you to all that helped! XDA is awesome! Everything is back to normal. It also helps to have the right / or \ lol

Help me recover HTC One X

I've searched for 3 hours and nothing helped so:
I have an international HTC One X Unlocked on HTCDev with S-ON :
ENDEAVORU PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.95.000
CID: HTC__032
MID: PJ4610000
I have installed ClockworkMod 5.8.4.0 and made a backup recovery 2 days ago from it before doing anything else.
and accidentally today i did these commands:
Wipe battery stats
Wipe Dalvik cache
wipe data/factory reset
and
format /cache
format /data
format /sdcard
format /system
Of course... after rebooting... NO MORE OS BOOT UP , it gets stuck at HTC Brilliant screen and stays forever.
First thing I did was to try to flash RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_HTC_Europe_1.29.401.11_Radio_1.1204.105.14_release_260491_signed.exe
didn't work! it says UNKNOWN ERROR (i think not the os it wants)
then i copied all the backup folders from my computer (the backup that i've made 2 days ago) on the sdcard partition which i can accesss from clockworkmod by mounting usb (and of course it was totally empty)
didn't wirk either.
How cand i put back my OS while I still have access to sdcard, bootloader and clockwork mod.
Please help me, I'm a dummy!

Can you put your back up of nandroid to internal sd card of phone?
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

tomislav177 said:
Can you put your back up of nandroid to internal sd card of phone?
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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I can, but I don't know the path, correct path, All I have is the folder named exactly like this: 2012-07-26.05.13.13 with this files in it:
.android_secure.vfat.tar
boot.img
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar

mihaipricop82 said:
I can, but I don't know the path, correct path, All I have is the folder named exactly like this: 2012-07-26.05.13.13 with this files in it:
.android_secure.vfat.tar
boot.img
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar
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lol
if you know what you are doing with explorer then you just need to drop the folder 2012-07-26.05.13.13 in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
then restore your backup in recovery
i assume if you have done "format /sdcard and /system" then wondering why your phone wont boot, you are a dummy so i will write a dummy guide for you :laugh:
yeah, formatting /system is why it wont boot anymore
here are the things you need to do to get booting again
reboot into recovery
click on "mounts and storage"
click on "mount USB storage" at bottom
plug your phone into PC via USB cable
open up computer (assuming Windows) and open up your now blank /SDCARD
make a folder called "clockworkmod" (without quotes)
open this folder then make another one inside it called "backup"
copy your 2012-07-26.05.13.13 folder from your PC to the "backup" folder
click on "Unmount" on your phone
click on "+++++Go Back+++++"
click on "backup and restore"
click on "restore"
click on "2012-07-26.05.13.13"
click on "Yes - Restore"
once complete you should be fine and dandy again

I don't know what did you erase but inside zip you have boot.img which if you deleted somehow boot.img you can flash through adb shell. Don't ask me I don't know correct command line, but you can extract it and flash itbthrough phone. I will look for exact path for recovery zip file because i have root and nandroid back up and in next post I will give you my path.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

tomislav177 said:
I don't know what did you erase but inside zip you have boot.img which if you deleted somehow boot.img you can flash through adb shell. Don't ask me I don't know correct command line, but you can extract it and flash itbthrough phone. I will look for exact path for recovery zip file because i have root and nandroid back up and in next post I will give you my path.
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Path:
/mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
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bagofcrap24 said:
lol
if you know what you are doing with explorer then you just need to drop the folder 2012-07-26.05.13.13 in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
then restore your backup in recovery
i assume if you have done "format /sdcard and /system" then wondering why your phone wont boot, you are a dummy so i will write a dummy guide for you :laugh:
yeah, formatting /system is why it wont boot anymore
here are the things you need to do to get booting again
reboot into recovery
click on "mounts and storage"
click on "mount USB storage" at bottom
plug your phone into PC via USB cable
open up computer (assuming Windows) and open up your now blank /SDCARD
make a folder called "clockworkmod" (without quotes)
open this folder then make another one inside it called "backup"
copy your 2012-07-26.05.13.13 folder from your PC to the "backup" folder
click on "Unmount" on your phone
click on "+++++Go Back+++++"
click on "backup and restore"
click on "restore"
click on "2012-07-26.05.13.13"
click on "Yes - Restore"
once complete you should be fine and dandy again
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THANK YOU. especially for your patience. I got somehow desperate and didn't know how to do correctly these steps
God bless you.

Please Help
Ok, so I know I take first prize for noob/dummy of the year but I'm really hoping someone cane help.
I recently rooted my one x and tried to install Android Revolution custom rom. Got stuck in a bootloop. Managed to then flash Cyanogenmod 9 (trip's version) however had issues with bluetooth not working and random reboots. Thought i'd give Android revolution a go again but got stuck in bootloop.....again!!! So...in all my (lack of) infinite wisdom, I booted into recovery and proceeded to format everything thinking I could just drop Leedroid's rom onto the sd card and flash it from recovery.
Whilst I thought this would work, I now have no access to the sd card. I tried mounting usb mass storage and the sdcard in recovery so I could just drag and drop it frrom windows but got the following error "E: Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or di
So, after reading through some other threads, I discovered that you could just push the zip file using adb, however, when trying this I get the error: device not found.
When launching fastboot I get
SD Checking
Failed to open usb Master mode
Failed to open usb Master mode
loading HTCUpdatezipName image
Failed to open usb Master mode
Please plug off USB
Hope someone out there can help.

yorkieip said:
Ok, so I know I take first prize for noob/dummy of the year but I'm really hoping someone cane help.
I recently rooted my one x and tried to install Android Revolution custom rom. Got stuck in a bootloop. Managed to then flash Cyanogenmod 9 (trip's version) however had issues with bluetooth not working and random reboots. Thought i'd give Android revolution a go again but got stuck in bootloop.....again!!! So...in all my (lack of) infinite wisdom, I booted into recovery and proceeded to format everything thinking I could just drop Leedroid's rom onto the sd card and flash it from recovery.
Whilst I thought this would work, I now have no access to the sd card. I tried mounting usb mass storage and the sdcard in recovery so I could just drag and drop it frrom windows but got the following error "E: Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or di
So, after reading through some other threads, I discovered that you could just push the zip file using adb, however, when trying this I get the error: device not found.
When launching fastboot I get
SD Checking
Failed to open usb Master mode
Failed to open usb Master mode
loading HTCUpdatezipName image
Failed to open usb Master mode
Please plug off USB
Hope someone out there can help.
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Do you have the latst Recovery? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594819
If not, update to latest recovery and try to mount USB storage again.
Also you can try to use adb while you have the phone in recovery mode, not fastboot or hboot.
And, did you remember to flash the boot.img from fast boot after reflasnig the ROM? if not, that that is causing the bootloops.

ionut.micu said:
Do you have the latst Recovery? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1594819
If not, update to latest recovery and try to mount USB storage again.
Also you can try to use adb while you have the phone in recovery mode, not fastboot or hboot.
And, did you remember to flash the boot.img from fast boot after reflasnig the ROM? if not, that that is causing the bootloops.
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wow, thankyou so much.
That was a relatively easy solution and got be back in the game baby!!!
BTW I gotta say, I was pretty happy with my one x before but now... I think i'm in love.

Sorry if this is off topic but was unsure where else to post. Had issues with random rebooting after certain apps launched so scrapped leedroid and tried out modaco. All seemed fine but then I was getting a reboot every time I tried to access (play, set as a ring tone or even just play) mp3's so I did a full wipe reflash of Leedroid and the same thing happens, full reboot when tying to do anything with MP3s
please help
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app

Here is an alternative way without ruu
1-Mount usb in recovery
2-Copy this rom to sdcard
3-Factory reset
4-Flash rom
4-Start ruu and grab the rom.zip (you can find guides at xda for grabbing rom.zip)
5-Extract boot_signed.img and recovery.img
6-Execute fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img and fastboot flash recovery
recovery.img
7-Reboot and relock the bootloader
and now you don't need ruu and phone works well I tried this myself and it worked

Firstly, thanks for your sugggestion. One question though, won't relocking the bootloader also unroot the phone?
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app

I am in a similar problem with my htc one x. I tried to flash android revolution but recovery would always tell me this;
E:can't open /sdcard/Android_Revolution_HD-One_X_8.0.0,zip
(bad)
Installation aborted
I tried to restore a backup I made from the stock system, but it just reboots shortly after showing the wallpaper. I am a real noob here and I read about updating clockwork, my version is 5.8.2.7. I do not know how to do that since I can't mount usb storage from recovery...
I really would appreciate a guide that even squirrels could follow, please

Just come across this thread, and i would like to say:
ACCIDENTALLY MY ****
There is no way you can format your partitions accidentally lmao

My phone was stuck in bootloop for 4 days. I finally relocked the bootloader and flashed my RUU. Worked perfectly after that